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RELIGIOUS * INTELLIGENCE. Ministerial and Church ‘Movements. The _ Methodist Miracle— Correspondence. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY. ‘The Rey. Cyrus Pickett will preach In the Second Congregational church, Jersey City Heights, this morn- mg and evening. ‘ The Rey. Dr. Foss, President of Wesleyan Univer- sity, will preach in St, James’ Methodist Episcopal church, Harlem, this morning and evening, ‘Tho Roy. Alfred Taylor will tell ‘What It Is to Follow Christ” this morning and will speak about “The Luna- tie Turned Missionary” this evening in the Jersey City * Pabernacle, The Rey. R. S. Cameron, formerly of Grace Baptist church, will preach in Association Hall this evening. Mrs, H: M, Slocum will speak for the Spiritualists in Harvard Rooms this evening. All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church will be min- istered to to-day by Rev. W. N. Dunnell. At the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church the Rey. John Johns will preach this morning and evening. “The Mystery of Providence” and ‘Indecision’? will occupy the attention of Rey. W. H. Leavell in Stanton street Baptist church to-day, “The Coming Great Revival’? will be the subject of a discourse in the University chapel this afternoon, “The Sound in the Mulberry ‘rees” and “Echoes from Calvary” will be considered to-day in Washington square Methodist Episcopal church by Rev, William Lloyd. In the Church of Our Saviour the Rey. J. M. Pullman will preach to-day, as usual. ; In the Central Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. C. 8. Harrower will preach morning and ¢vening. The Rey. Dr, Thompson will preach at both services to-day in Christ church. The Rey. Dr. H. B. Chapin will preach in Canal street Presbyterian church this morning and afternoon, In the Church of the Disciples of Christ the Rey. D. R, Van guskirk will minister at the usual hours to-day. ‘The Rev. 8, 8. Hobbs, of Scotland, will preach in the Fourth Presbyterian church this morning and after- noon, Rev. W. T. Sabine will preaci) in the First Reformed Bpiscopal church this morning ana evening, Bisnop Cummins will give Bible expositions five evenings dur- Ing the week. Dr. Armitage will preach in the Fifth avenue Baptist church this morning and evening, In Calvary Baptist church the Rev. R, 8. MacArthur will preach at the usual hours to-day. “Revivals of Religion”? will be considered by Rev. Ry Heber Newton this morning in the Anthon Memorial church, Divine service will be conducted in the Church of the Resurrection to-day by Rev. Dr. Flagg. In St, Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal church the Rey. Dr, Ewer will officiate at the usual hours to-day. In the Baptist Mariners’ Temple the Rev. A. F. Perry will preach as usual to-day, English service will be conducted by Rey. Father Bjcrring in the Greek chapel this morning, The’Rev, A. P. Graves, evangelist, will preach and Mr. George S, Weeks will sing the Gospel to-day in the Fifty-third street Baptist church. In Lexington avenue Methodist Episcopal church the. Rev. J. W. Selleck will preach this morning and even- ing. “Paul and Apollos” will be considerod by Rev. H. D. Ganso this morning in the Madison avenue Reformed church, Rev. S, M. Hamilton will preach in the Scotch Pros- byterian chureb at the usual hours to-day. Rev. Charles E. Harris will preach in Allen strect Methodist Episcopal church this morning and evening. “Tho Time and Coming of Christ and the End of the World” will be considered by Rey. J. H. Lightbourn in Seventeonth street Methodist wpiscopal church this evening. The Rev, W. P, Abbott will preach in St, Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church to-day. Rev. J. M. King will minister to St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church this morning and evening, Rey. C. P, McCarthy, of Albany, will preach this morning on “The Guest Chamber,” and in the evening on ‘Hell, Where is Thy Victory,’ in Bleecker street Universalist church, * Rey. H. W. Knapp will preach in Laight street Bap- tist church this morning and evening. Rey. L, D. Fulton will preach in the’ Central Baptist church this morning and ovening. The Rev, Mr. Davenport will preach in St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal church at the usual hours to-day, In St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal church, the ‘usual services will be held to-day, “Spirit Power” will be illustrated-at a séance in‘Tam- many Hall, this evening, bi “The Lord our Banner,” and “The Lord, our Helper,’ will be Dr. J. B, Hawthorne’s subjects to-day, im the Tabernacle Baptist church, Mr, Lyman C. Howe will lecture for the Progressive Spiritualists at No, 55 West Thirty-third street, this morning and evening. CHAT BY THE WAY. Rov. Dr. Crosby, referring to medigal fees, says that if some doctors ever become knights, they will be knights of the Golden Fleece. Rev. Dr. Fulton, if wo may judge by his church troubles, baptizes all converts in hot water, It is pretty manifest that the New York clergy do not propose to give Moody and Sankey carte blanche If the evangelists will use the fire already kindled and watched by the pastors, well and good; but if they pro- pose to get up a blaze of their own, the pastors intend to throw cold water on the whole movement, We have always regarded death asa perfect spirit level; but in Philadelphia this statement 1s denied. Heury Jones, who was born alittle off color, bought a Jot in the Mount Moriah Cemotery. His money was as good as a white man’s, aud he was assured by the Superintendent that.when the time came he would be welcomed to a hospitable grave. ‘The idea of resting at Jast among white folks seems not to have been distaste- ful to Mr, Jones, and he shuffled of this mortal‘coil in the full expectation of having a headstone in Mount Moriah Cemetery, on which should be carved the average number of falsehoods* which adorn tho monuments of the dear departed of good society. But, alas! for human hopes, The funeral cortége was stopped at the gate and the mourners informed that it was not atall the proper thing for white and black to mingie in acommon dust; that the Philadelphians are ag particular after death as before and quite as exclue sive; that it would never do in this world, whateyor may happen in the next, for a colored sinner to lie down by the side of a white saint. Well, when the resurrection trump is sounded, Henry Jones, colored, aay bo all right, and it fs barely possible that he may flap his wings for a lofticr flight than that of some white folks; but for the present he must be conient with a grave in the cypress swamp, while the Superintendent ‘uses the money he paid for his lot to decorate the mounds of those who are indisputably white. Truly ‘the City of Brotherly Love isa delightful place to live in, but a dangerous place to die in. There is a class of people in Russia who delight in the significant title of Nihilists, They are supposed to be a religious as well as a socialistic sect, but their religion is no serious impediment to ungodly lives. We some- times think there aro Nihilists in the political circles of New York whose motto is, nothing for you and every- thing for me. It is suggested in religious circles that Rev. Dr. Ful- ton, who is the closest of close commanion Baptists, is suffering from ‘water on the brain.”” The ministers of Harlem are looking toward New Year's Day with a critical eye. They hope to abolish the canonical tipple which has rendered that day so attractive. They insist upon it that the man who makes 200 cails has no right to take 200 drinks, Their theory is that the ordinary North American caller is not iron-clad on the inside, This is a fact which has been hitherto contested, and which will even now be disputed, They propose to organize for the purpose of praying @ better state of things to the fromt, Tho beat - NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1875—QUINTUPLE SHEET. people In that distant section of the city will co-operate, and we may consider the wine cup as already broken. Cardinal McCloskey took possession of his title in the Church of Sancta Maria Supra Minervam Septem- ber 30, He is now a Prince of the Church. Mr. Beecher has been starring it among the White Mountains all suinmer, and Theodore Tilton has just entered on an autumnal engagement of the same character, Rey. Mr. Murray has unfurled to the religious breeze of lsoston the banner of his new enterprisc—no creeds, no formulas, and ‘only the four gospels. 1t strikes us that if his people believe anything they must have a creed, whether it is printed or not; as to the four gospels, if he sticks closely enough to them, and pro- poses to make the Boston people do the same, he will probably have his bands full, without touching the epistles, The picket guard of the coming revival has arrived. Mr. Weeks, who rivals Sankey in his effective render- ing of hymns, is flooded with invitations, and holds meetings three times a day. Messrs, Wetherloy and Holroyde, who were engaged in evangelistic work in Eng- land during the Moody dynasty, began their labors in Association Hall on Thursday evening. Biglon & Main will issue next week a compilation of the religious songs which haye lately stirred-the people ‘across the water. The great revival is likely to be, toa large extent, a musical revival. Preaching and sing- ing, when properly mingled, seem to be effectual in opening the road to glory. And why not? ‘The Unitarian clergyman of Northfield who preached against Moody and his wotk-says that while orthodoxy is immoral in its tendency it does not foliow that all orthodox people are bad, How fortunate! ‘A Baptist church in Cayuga county, New York, is in want of aaniister, First, he must be talented; sec- ond, he must be satisfied with $500 or $600 a year. A good bricklayer or carpenter can earn from $1,000 to $1,200 a year, but a talented minister must be satisfied with half thatsum, Brains are not worth much in Cayuga county. The law of supply and demand will settle the matter, however, in the long run. Poor pay’ poor preach, is as sure as tho law of gravitation. Nearly $15,000 were expended in printing the hand bilis and slips used in the revival meetings of London, Tt costs something to ex-press the whole truth, RELIGION AND FATALISM, ANSWER TO THE LETTER oF‘‘ LIBERALITIS.” To 71# Epiror or Tae Heranp:— I propose to reply, through the Sunday Herarp, to an article published, about two weeks since, by “Liber- alitis,” on Fatalism” It is there asserted that fatalistic doctrine is the direct result of religious teach- ings, which facts demonstrate not to be the case, but is the direct result of reasoning—a power which religion- ists do not recognize in conuection with Christianity, as fuith alone is the foundation of their Christian hope. From my stan“point of reasoning it will be readily seen that the doctrine of fatalism is far superior to what “Liberalitis” ungenerously calls the erroneous imagina- tion of man, As reasoning faculty exists through the same author by which man exists, and for the sole purpose of guiding him to correct conclusions, I fect that Iam bound to apply this mighty agent in such an importand conclusion as that of the destiny of man, though the bigot may reject my conclusions. I believe that it is generally admitted by what is termed Christian churches and their adherents that the crea- tion of all things, from beginning to everlasting, includ- ing conditions for all actions, not only spiritual, but doubtless meaning physical and intellectual, was and ever will be according to the foreknowledge of God, in which they necessarily admit the foreordination of all things, and thus the prearrangement for perfecting what was foreknown, a3 God could ouly foreknow what would come to pass, and nothing could come to pass ex- cept through the Almighty prearranged plans, thereby substantiating forcordination or “fatalism;? conso- quently all-acts, though they may be apparently wrong, are in accordance with the all wise design, Thus, as all acts must produce more or less good, either directly or indirectly, they are not absolute wrotgs, but variable degrees of’ goodness. Though it is extremely absurd to suppose that an all-wise power could create man with a design of making him eter- nally happy, with conditions compelling everlastin: misery; it is this absurdity of position that assume Christianity attempts to force upon what they term au all-wise merciful Being, though there is no name so odious as to fully express the infernality of such an act, but happily for human- ity therg is no such existing conditions, but as antipodal as eternal happiness and misery.’ In reply tothe subject of free moral agency, I will admit that as fur ay mundane life and the happiness of ian is concerned he is virtually free to all intents and pur- poso of humanity, but ‘comparatively, ike common business agents, he is limited to’ certain rules in compliance with the unknown plans of the great everliving Designer, the propelling power of all animate and inanimate things. While ‘Liberalitis” states that emergence makes the man he attempts to detract from its power by claiming that all the attributes and characteristics of man’s being are brought into play, whereby he has power to reject or accept the opportunity according to his own inclina- tion; seeming not to realize that all the attributes and characteristics of man are necessarily such as to incline him to act in compliance with the preafranged plans of God. With the same kind of perception he asserts that should man rest secure im the belief of destiny, making no effort, the greatest minds would slumber in obscurity; just as though destiny could allow of inac- tivity when the ail wise plan compels action. As all his remaining anti-fatalistic positions require the same re- ply, 1 will, in conclusion, state that, could he but realize the fact that in all the acts and omissions of actsof man that God created all the conditions that influence such acts and ornissions in direct compliance with the plan of foreordination, he possibly would abandon his inde- pendent man-power position, DL D. THE METHODIST MIRACLE—WHAT OF IT? To Tie Eprror or rus HwRaup:—~ ‘A great hallabaloo has been raised about tho cure of Rey. 8. A. Platt, of Brooklyn, of a Inmeness of long standing in one or both knees, The great questions are, Is he cured, or is he not? Is it a miracle, or is it not? Some say it is and others say it is not;so that the @ontroversy after all resolves itself into one of veracity between tho interested parties, Mr. Platt, in a pam- phiet published by him says, he was lame in one knee for twenty-five years and in both for three years pre- Coding a certain Sabbath in July, 1874, when a certain Jady at Ocean Grove laid her hands on his feeble knees and prayed for healing power, and he felt a toning up and condensation of strength about the weak members, and he has been able ever since to get along without canes or crutches, This is his version of the “mira- cle,” and who should know more about the relation of cause and offectin this case thanhe? It may scem ab- surd to say so, but there are a few ministerial brethren of his who do know more about the case than he. Rev, Mr. Buckley spent over two and a half hours, a couple of weeks ago, to prove, first of all, that the days of mir- acles had passed, and, therefore, that this cure could not have been many sense a miracle; secondly, that Mr, Platt was never lame, and, therefore, never needed cure and never was in fact cured; that on three several occasions, he (Piatt) preached or addressed conference gatherings and each time he walked up and down the pulpit or platform, from twenty-five to fifty minutes, and hence, in the next place, if he was lame at ail he was not as bad as he professed to be, and his cure, if it beacure, is simply the result of imagination, natural faith, superstition, latent strength, the concentration of the mind on the circulation, &., &c.; and last of all, itis such acureas he (Buckley) has effected over and over again aud can easily match at any time. This sort of reasoning was and is, of course, very logical, and, according to the nowspaper reports and comments it was endorsed by ninety-five per cent of those who heard the argument. If it be not a miracle, what is it? Ifitbe not an answer to prayer, what is it an answer to? Perhaps Messra, Buckley, Kettell & Co, will tell us, Butasa matter of consciousness and a question of veracity I for one am willing to believe in the testimony of Mr, Platt on this point rather than that of a score of men, min- isters or laymen, who have nothing but reason to put Against fact, and speculation against consciousness. Who can know more about the worth or worthlessness of his legs than the owner thereof? And who knows moro about the particular legs in question than the Rey. 8. H. Platt? He declared before his congregation last Sun- day that many a time he has had to creep upstairs to his bedroom, like a child, on hands and fect, 0 that th Weight of his body should not come on his feeble knees; that he has had to slide down the banister many a time reason, and had slept with a feather pillow between his Knees, lest they should strike one another, so sensitive were they, Now I ask, Who ever heard of the owner of 4 sound pair of legs “playing ‘possum’ with them after that fashion? The thing is too preposterous, except on the grounds and for the reasons suggested by Mr. Buckley— namely, that Mr. Platt is in an abnormal condition of mind; that he is unreliable, and is in a fair way to bring up at Flatbush or Bloomingdale or some other place where dementia is treated. If these charges be true Lam very much inclined to agree with Mr, Buck- ley that no lameness existed and no cure was ever eflocted, and that, of course, there is no miracle in the case, and for the reasons that neither God nor devil would gain much honor or glory -by a cure effected under such conditioys, cértainly not enough to reward the sao ud his Ling Last Monday another reverend preacher took up the defence of Mr, Platt before hig bretiiren and maintained the affirmative of the question in controversy—Is he cured or is he not? Is itamiracle or is it not? Facts are facts, Platt is cured, and it is for his critics to show how the th: if they don't accept his version it, He may rest sati fed, whil his brethren in tho ‘palpit” and” throu, 4 the press, in private and in public, utter their ae emas and significant cautions against the acceptance of its miraculous production. He hasa sound pair of legs now that are able to carry him up stairs down, and on his pastoral rounds wherever duty calls him. ‘This was not always the case, as he and many others, as reliable Witnesses us his detractors, can testify. When the lame’man, who sat at the gate of the Temp! in Jerusalem, was cured by the apostles, we are told that he entered into the temple walking and leaping and praising God, This is what Mr. Platt has done, Had this Jerusalem citizen and the Brooklyn minister like him gone to their homes and enjoyed their re- stored limbs and said nothing about it there would have been no trouble, It is the publication of the fact in the Temple or in the pamphlé¢t and press that has aroused the ire of the seeptics of to-day and of past ages. The great secret of opposition to this case as the result of divine interposition is the likeness that it is supposed to bear to Romish miracles, And for a good Methodist to admit that the latter are true is rank heresy. Hence ‘the Methodist miracle” is ignored or despised and its subject maligned and ridiculed, Why should it be deemed a thing incredible that the por force—concerning which Mr. Piatt discoursed last junday, and which he showed is within human co: trol—why should not this foree be able to produce re- sults as tangible as any other force in the universe? Tt is very manifest from’ the discussion of this theme by the Methodist clergy and by some of the religious press, in the spirit in which it has been received, that tho sceptical and natorialistic spirit of the, age iy aut Der. vasive and that the religious thought of the day Vitiated by it Beene MAYER TESTER, THE IRON-CLAD OATH—INFORMA- “TION WANTED. Here is a chance for some of our old New Yorkers or the members of the Historical Society to let light in upon a subject that is dark to one mind at least and doubtiess to many more, Looking at the complexion of New York politics and municipal rulers to-day very few would suppose or perhaps believe that such an oath was adininistered, as our correspondent states was, to city officers more than 160 years ago:— To Tue Eprror ov THe Herap:— In the year of 1714 or thereabouts an oath was issued and signed by all the Assistant Aldermen of the city of New York, also high constables, Recorder, Treasurer, Attorney-at-Law and many promment citizens, It was called the ‘Iron-clad Oath’? and the substance of which was “that in the sacrament of the Lord's Sup- per there was no transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, at or after the consecration thereof,” &c., also denouncing the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary ang any other saint, and the sacrijice of the mass as used in the Roman Church as superstitious. First, by whom was sald oath issued; second, for what purpose, and, third, for how long was it bindin, LEO REO. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, PRESBYTERIAN, The North Presbyterian church of this city is a model church in that it does not owe one dollar to any one and has just added $1,000 to its pastor's salary, Rey. 8. B, Rossiter is the lucky man, The Central Presbyterian church of this city has been so badly damaged by blasting in its neighborkood that the main walls will have to be rebuilt, and the so- ciety are now worshipping in their lecture room. Howard street Presbyterian church, San Francisco, is at loggerheads with its pastor, Dr. S, Woodbridge, and the Presbytery is trying to make peace between the contestants, The Noy, D. C. Niven, of West Town, Orango county, N. Y., will assuttié a new pastorate at Marlboro, N, Y., to-day. Rey. Dr. Dickey, of St. Louis, has been called to the pastorate of Calvary chureh, Philadelphia, Mr. Arnoy $, Biddle, licentiate, has accepted the call to the Cabin Hill United Presbyterian church, Delaware county, New York, and will be ordained and installed early this month, Roy. S. 8. White, pastor of the Tenth United Presby- terian church, Philadelphia, has been called to take the pastoral charge of the Seventh avenue United Preshy- terian church, this city. The Rev, T. Dwight Hunt, of Nunda, has accepted a call to the Presbyterian church at Sodus, and will as- sume his pastorate there at once, ; The Rev. P. B. Bonney bas resigned his charge at Ramapo, N. Y. The Rev. J. ©. Forsyth, of Geneva, N. ¥., has ac cepted the call of the Presbyterian church at Mont- gomery, N. Y., and will be installed there October 14, Rey. John Chambers, D. D., a prominent Presbyterian pastor of Philadelphia, died on the 22d ult,, aged sev- enty-cight years, He had been pastor of his church continuously for fifty years. Roy. F. A. Noble, D. D., late of Pittsburg, has re- moved to New Haven, Conh. The Foreign Mission treasury of the Presbyterian Chureh is at present $38,000, and by next April Will be $68,000 short, unles§ help comes largety and promptly. The receipts have fallen off greatly, so that the Mission Board has hardly been able to supply the losses by death or removal in the mission fleld. ‘The receipts tor 1875 will reach only $78,000, against $108,000 in 1873. ‘The Presbyterian Synod of New York ‘will begin its annual session in Poughkeepsie October 19, Dr, Booth, of this city, is the Moderator and will preach the synod- ical sermon, The Synod of New Jersey will also meet October 19, in Orange, N. J. This 1s one of the two largest Synods in the United States. ‘All the thirty-four Synods in the United States are to hold their annual meetings before the middie ot Novem- ber—almost all in October. The largost number of com- municants in any one Synod is 40,093; the smallest (in this country), 1,365. Tlie Synod of India has 554 com- municanis; the Synod of China, 1,137. ‘The largest number of ministers in one Synod is'359; the smallest number, 35, The Rey, Francis Marling, of Toronto, has been called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church in Second avenue and Fourteenth street, New York. BAPTIST, ‘The Seventh Day Baptists of the United States have opened a mission in England, Dong Gong, a Chinaman, was lately ordained in Oregon as a Baptist ininister, aiter due examination by a council of ministers, Soveral of his countrymen were present. He is to engage In missionary work. ‘The Baptist Weekly does not think Dr. Fulton pos- seases the qualities of a leader of Isracl, and the Baptist denomination, large and strong as it 18, cannot afford to make itself responsible for his sayings and doings, Itthinks he has done the denomination incalculable harm by his rash and uncharitable speeches, and assorta that his falling ia the fruitful causo of all bis troubles, and not, as his (riends would have us believe, his outspoken defense of close communion, ‘The New York State Baptist Convention will meet in Saratoga on the 26th inst. Tho North New Jersey Baptist Sunday School Con- vention will be held in Hamburg, N. J., next Wednes- day, and the anniversary of tho’ Central New Jersey Baptist Association, at Hopewell, on Tuesday next, Acouncil of Baptist ministers at Starucca, Pa, on the 15th of September, examined charges of immorality against the Rev. G, W. Howe, pastor of the church in that place, and, finding them’ true, deposed him from the Christian ministry, The Rev. Henry B. Warring, of tho Herkimer street church, Brooklyn, has notified that chureh of his resignation, His labérs will close there about Decem- e ber L. The Central Baptist charch, of this city, in Forty-sec- ond street, have unanimously called Rey. J. D. Herr, of Pittsburg, Pa., to be their pastor, The New Jersey Baptist State Convention will hold its forty-seveuth aunivorsary, October 25, at Piscata- way. The New York Southern Baptist Association will hold their fifth anniversary meeting in Trinity Baptist church, in this city, on Tuesday next, when Sunday school interests will be considered. The Missionary Union will hold its anniversary im the same piace on Wednesday evening. Mr. W. R. McKibbin, of Rochester Seminary, dained at Newark, Obio, on the lith of Sep apd is now under appointment as a missionary to China, Tho Rev. A. J. Wilcox, late pastor in Stepney, Conn., has accepted a, unanimous call to the pastorate of the Baptist chureh in Ticonderoga, N. Y. ‘The Third Baptist chureh of Providence, R, T., aro building a new house of worship, of brick, with brown stone trimmings, 80 by 100 feet, with a ‘tower on one corner, It is to surpass any church edifice in Provi- dence, and is to be dedicated free of debt, The Rey, 8. Siegfried, late of Newton, N. J., has be- come pastor of the Baptist church at Norristown, Pa, EPISCOPALIAN. Bishop Odenheimer has resumed his labors, The time assigned by his physicians for complete repose having ended he finas himself quite recovered from the ulness which had awakened serious apprehensions a Your ago. The Rey. Thomas R. List will enter upon the rector. ship of the Church of tho Redemption, Philadelphia, to-day. The Rev, Joseph N. Blanchard, of Greenwich, N. Y., hag been elocted rector of St. James’ parish, Fordham, was or- The Reformed Episcopalian upon St, John’s Protestant Episcopal Church, Ohicago, that its rector, Rev, Dr. H. N. Powers, has’ resigned, The church building is to be sold for debt and the soci- ety disbanded. the journal of the proccedings of the General Con. vehition of 1874 reports 41 dioceses, 8 missionary juris- dictions, 3,036 bishops and clergy, 598 lay readers, 333 candidates for orders, 76,089 {amiliés, 2,741 parishes, 282,359 communicants, 32,920 Sunday school teachers, 301,587 Sunday school scholars and $17,064,624 65 t religious contributions, The report covers thre years, 1871-74. ei The bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church will convene here on the 28th inst. to eleet missionary bishops for Africa and China und to receive the report of their Commigsioners to Mexico. ‘The standing @ommittee of the diocese of New York have given consent to the consecration of the Rey. Dr, Eccleston as Bishop of Lowa, The Rev, 1. McElroy, late assistant at St. Mary's, Brooklyn, has taken charge of St, Joln’s, Islip. The Rey. Clarence Buel, chaplain of St. John’s church, Dresden, arrived in New York last week, and will ree main through the month of October, The Rev. G. Henry Smith has resigned St, Paul's, Pleasant Valley, on account of his health. Bishop Wilkingon, the missionary bishop of Zululand, has applied to the provincial synod of Capewrwn for per- mission to resign his mission to the Zulus and to carry ‘on evangelistic work on the Zambesi, ave drawn so heavily Services of the Reformed Episcopal Church aro now conducted in Williamsburg, over the Kings County Bank, by the Rev, W. H. Reid, rector of the Church of the Incarnation, Brooklyn. We cau judge by the num- bers in attendance, and tho heartiness with which thoy entered into the services, a deep and pervasive interest im the movemant nravaila in the community, Mane have been looking with longing hearts for the inaugu- ration of these services, as the few nominally Low churches are gradually becoming assimilated to the High churches and the High rches have become ritualistic,.steps will soon be taken to effect a perma- nent organization, : ROMAN CATHOLICS, The Revs, P. J. Hennessy, of Iron Mountain, and P, P. Brady, of St. Louis, have returned from their sum- mer trip io Europe in improved healt!i The J. A. Walter, of 8t. Patrick's church, Balti- more, is spending a few weeks in Northern cities be- tween New York and Montreal for his health’s sake. The mission for colored people, recently held at Upper Marlboro, near Baltimore, has proved a great success in the numbers that attended and the interest manifested. Father Shuttelhoffer, of St, James’ church, Newark, has been appointed assistant pastor of St, Pius? church, East Nowark, of which Father Hogan 1s pastor. Father Funke, of St. Pius’ church, Fast Newark, has beon transferred to St. Henry's church, Elizabeth, as assistant to the venerable Father Lemke, 0. 8. B. ‘Tho corner stone of the new Roman Cathohe church; at Rosendale, Ulster county, N. Y., was laid last Sab- bath, Father O'Flaherty, formerly of Manhattanville, is the pastor of this new parish, ‘The difieulues between Bishop McCloskey, of Louis- ville, Ky., and Father Box have been transferred to Rome for adjustment, and a clerical correspondent of the New York Tablet think the priest and not the Bishop will be sustained, Rev. William Callan has returned from Europe to Seton Hall College after an absence of more than a year, His health is much improved, _, [wo churches were dedicated in Chicago on Sunday, September 19, and the event 1s noticod as showing the wonderful progress of Catholicism in that region. ‘The corner stone of the new St, Patrivk’s church at Hartford, Conn., was laid on Sunday, September 19, by the Vicar General of the diocese, Rey. Stephen Byrne, assisted by Rev, Fathers Hoban, of Newark, and Power, of Washington, have just cot cluded a very successful mission at the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Towanda, Pa. Father Damen is now giving a mission in the Cath: dral, Philadelphia, He is assisted by Fathers Niede Coughlin, Masselis, Zealand, Condon, Putten and sweer, all of the Society of Jesus, The Dominican Fathers from this city, Now Jersoy and the West are also giving a mission in St, Michael’s Roman Catholic church, Philadelphia, Rey. Father Sartoris, recently assistant pastor of St. Peter's church, Westernport, has been appointed pastor of the Catholic church in Lonaconing, to take the place of Rey. Father O’Brien, who has been placed in charge of the church in Barton. . Owing to the religious interest evoked by the mission and jubilee now in progress in the Cathedral and the churches of Philadelphia, the ecclesiastical conference ot the diocese has been postponed until October 19, The Rey. James T. Curran, D. D., a young priest lately ordained at Rome, has been appointed pasistant pastor of St. Stephen's, Dr. Curran is a native of Greenpoint, L. 1, and a graduate of St. Francie Xavier's College, mm thts city, and of the College of the Propa- ganda fide, in Romo, whither he was sent by Cardinal {then Archbishop) McCloskey, where he won the highest onors and graduated a D. D. Dr. Curran will preaeh his first sermon to-day, in the Church of St, Andrew. METHODIST. Bey. Dr. Alex. Martin has beeu elected President of Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind. Dr. Martin Las been President of the Virginia College tor eight years, He has accepted the new position, The Southwest German Conference reports 10,443 members, an increase of 487; 148 local preachers, an increase Of 2; 161 churches and 74 parsonages. Dr, Haywood has resigned his position of Sunday school secretary or tay wijthodist Eniscopal Chureh, South, Rev, W. G. E. Cunninggim, VJ. D., of the Hol sivi Conference, has been elected to fill the vacancy, Rey, John Blackstock, of Northwestern Indiana Con- ference, and Rev. Miller H. Nichels have been ap- ponies to the Methodist Episcopal miasion work, Bom- y, Bengal and Madras, by Bishop Harris, A’ new Asbury, Methodist Episcopal church at Des Moines, lowa, was dedicated last Sunday. The first Methe odist church at Bloomington, Ill., will be dedicated next Sunday by Bishop Ames, ‘At Oak Harbor, Kan., and North Toledo, Ohio, churches were dedicated Septem- ber 12 Wesley chapel, Pittsburg, was dedicated on Sunday last, Dr. F. S. De Hass ofliciating, St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church in this city, which has been undergoing extensive repairs and im: provements for some weeks past, will be reopened to- day. A social reunion of all former pastors and mem- bers of the old and present organization will be held there to-morrow evening, Roy. F..G. Rainey, of Troy Conference, has been ap- pointed to the charge of the Methodist- Episcopal church, at Rotterdam, N. Y., made vacant by the fuil- ure of the health of Rey. P. F, Youler, the late pastor, ‘There are 229 churches in the Central New York Con ference—estimated value, $1,800,000; 176 parsonages worth $385,000, and a church membership of 26,745. The Sunday school statistics show 879 sheools, 4,532 officers and teachers, with 26,287 scholars, Mrs. Van Cott is engaged to hold meetings every evening for four weeks, boginning on the first Sunday in October, in the First chureh, Yonkers, F, Hamlin, pastor, MISCELLANROUS. In Philadelphia there are fifty churches in which re- ligious services are held exclu: ly in the German lan- guage, the most of which are Protestant. Rey. Newinan Hall’s‘health has broken down, and by physician’s ordgr he is now living in Switzerland. ‘The Rev. Mr. Hoyt, a Congregationalist: minister, re- cently joined the Universalists at Bloomfield, Iowa, Rev. Dr. Falding, Principal of the Congregational Theological College at Rotherham, England, is now in this country en route around the world. ‘The religious interest in Boston and vicinity seems to justify a public series of religious meetings, A daily noonday sermon is to be preached for one week in the Music Hall, and a series of sermons on weekday even- ings are to be given at the Meonian. The preaching will be by emiment preachers of different denomina- tions. Rev. Thomas Williams, now passing his ninoty-sev- enth year in Providence with his son, Rey. N. W. Wil- liams, is the oldest living graduate of Yale Collego, Ho belonged to the class of 1500, The first union love feast of the Jersey City Method- ists will be held October 4, in St, Paul’s church. These services are participated in by about seventeen churches, The Massachusetts Sunday School Convention will be held at Springtield October 20 and 21, Rey. P. E. Kipp, the recent pastor of the Reformed church, of Fishkill, has steadily recovered from the se- rfous illness of the last winter, until he is now able to enter the pulpit and discharge its duues again, Itis stated that six priests have lately joied Signor Grassi’s Reformed congregation in Rome, Italy, and that one is the brother-in-law of the Pope’s Private Sec- retary, Outdoor services are held at Hackettstown Sunday evenings, trom the steps of the American House (hotel). : THE FROG TRADE, (Correspondence of the Troy Press.} 1 was out driving on Saturday anda few miles from hore found two men in a swamp by theeside of the road, who seemed to be crazy, to judge fron. their movements. I watched them from the carriage ze time, and, finally, made up my mind they wera aga! but low they could tind water enough to fish notimagine. Finally ied out lo them, “Whar are you doing thei ‘ome and seo,’ one of them shouted back. I hitched my horse and picked my way over the bogs to them, ‘They were catching frogs They would strike them with clubs where they could reach them, but the most of them ey caught with a wire “snare? They had a large — basketful, more than a hundred pounds, they said, and I guess they told the truth. One of ‘them said he made a good deal of money catching frogs tor the New York market. He said that in one month last season he eaught 1,600 pounds of dressed frogs, for which he got thirty cents a pound, making $480 for his month’s work. Part ot the time he had two boys to help him. Last week, near Hudson, he said he caught upward of 500 pounds and sold them for $160, or at an average of thirty-two cents a pound, These stories seemed to me incredible, and yet he assured me it was truth, He can clear twenty- eight cents a pound, he says, easily. He seemed to bo an honest man and, from the ese with which they caught the frogs, I was led to believe that he bad not stretched the truth much, if at all, A FLORIDA VOLCANO, [From the Semi-Tropical Monthly.) for many years past there has been noticed a column of smoke or steam rising from an impenetrable swamp a short distance from the gulf coast, in Waukulla county, Many attempts have been made to discover the cause, but thus fur no party bas been saccessful in penetrating to the location ‘in consequence of the character of the surroundin, Ashort time since Judge White and a party of gen- en in Leon and Gadsden counties formed an ex. edition to reach if possible the undiscovered wonder. hey started from St. Marks in a sailboat, and made their way eastward to the mouth of Pinhook Creek, One of the party in writing to the Sentinel says:— “The coast here is very singular, and suggests the presence of voleaniv action at some time in the remote past, We looked upon it as a favorable indication of the volcano we were in search of. The whole coast is a mass of rocks, One called the ‘Gray Mare,’ forms a natural bath house, walled in on all sides’ * * # ‘The bed of the river {sa mass of rock, and, two miles from its mouth, its whole volume is vomited up with immense force from the yawning jaws of a rifted rock, Hore the river proper terminates and thermcommences a series of siuks, which extend for twenty miles back, . MR. ROSS IN VERMONT, Tho Burlington (Vt) Free Press says that on Monday evening last Mr. Christian K, Ross, of Philadelphia, father of the long lost Charley Ross, was summoned to Burlington to identify a child supposed to be his boy. The chiki proved not to be his, however, and Mr. Ross went home on the nine o'clock train, again disap- winted. The facts m the case appear to be as jows:—Two persons, not claiming to be detecti one making an absurd masquerade in female dress, come to Burlington last week and ol under espionage the house of a Mr, Boyle, on North Bend street. Mr. Boyle removed there some months ago, bringing with him his seven hed old son, William Boyle, who is represented as wearing a marked resemblince to the photographs of Charley Ross. After shadowing the family for a few days the astute detective sont for Mr. Ross, with the result above stated, The Boyle boy is possessed of un- common musical abilities, and was to give a concert at City Hall, on Monday evening, but this was postponed on account of the affair, Mr, Ross went upon the stage, apologized to the few present for the trouble he ccasioned, hed occas! lowe i, er Master Boyle a ses aa of OUR NATIONAL CURRENCY. New Yor, Sept. 30, 1875, To tux Eorror or Tax Henarp:— , The course of your independent journal on the vital questions of the national currency, its expanston and the resumption of specie payments, is entitled to the approval of all who desire a return to a sound financial condition anda revival of the commercial, industrial and material interests of the country. e In the present state of the nation it is in the highest degree essential that correct views should be presented to the people in order to contribute to sound opinion, dispel the sophistries of those who would mislead them in regard to paper money and to the dangerous illusion that o “national debt is a national blessing,” E The dissemination of truth will do much in the com- ing Cougress to aid in the enactment of such just laws as will afford the best and most permanent relief to our country, Ihave no higher ambition than to unite in such laudable efforts. We have passed through a great revolution, find the result of that revolution is still in progress, ‘The changes demanding public attention are integrity in political positions—on this point all are agreed excopt those who are held together by the ‘cohesive power of public plunder”’—and also economy in the administra- tion of public affairs, As the people are learning the hard lessons of retrenchment and self-denial 80 must they exact from those holding official places tho samo rigid economy, But, above all existing issues, the present embarrassment of our financial and commercial interests demands se- rious and profound attention. Capital lies idle in the vaults of the banks and is offered at lower rates of in- terest than at any other period in the history of this continent, while multitudes of men and women, to an extent algo hitherto unparalleled, are presenting that «ssaddest sight on earth,” of being able and anxious to work, but unable to find work to do, The people are vitally interested in a return toa specie basia, The paper they now receive for services, daily toil and goveral business purposes is worth only eigh<y-Nve cents on the dollar through its depreciation to that extent below gold value, which they pay for nearly all the articles required for daily use, and by an expansion of the currtncy will be further lessened in value, No sophistry can long delude them, while a vigilant press penetrates the remotest part of the coun- try, into a belief tiat depreciated and inconyertible money is the best currency. The rebellion was procipitated on the country unex- pectedly to the party in power, who were slow and unwilling to comprehend its magnitude. While the North believed that the crisis would rapidly pass over the South mistakenly supposed the North would yield to its demands, The battle of Bull Run, when the capital itself was endangered, in part dissolved the illu- sion on both sides; but the financial errors which had tuken root were destined to be worked out to their logical results, To understand the “ature of the disease now preying upon the vitals of the country we must refer to {ts origin and trace its progress in the light thrown upon it by the decisive lessons of the past. At the extra session of Congress in July, 1861, it was simply indicated that, in view of the expocted brief duration of tho war, the government would make a loan of $150,000,009 in gold from the banks of New York, Boston and Philadelphia, Before the 17th ot November, in the same year, they had actually ad- vanced $146,000,000 in this form, and their system was so strong that after the last part of the loan had been nearly or quite paid the gold and silver in the banks, which had at the beginning been less than $60,000,000, was $42,009,000. The specie for a long time returned to the banks in the ordinary course of business, Even in the beginning of January, 1862, specie and paper money yet remained of equal value, At that date due sagacity and prudence would have prompted the instant adoption of a system of adequate taxation and other well considered and suitable measures of pro- viding for the expenditures of the wor. The govern- ment having by its own action * FORCED THE BANKS INTO SUSPENSION, authorized, on the 25th of February, 1862, a largo issue of “legal tender,” receivable ‘for all debts except du- ties on imports and interest on the public debt,” In these notes the distinction was, for the first time in history, made by a government between specie and its own paper, in diserediting its own currency by recog- nizing its inferiority to the precious metals, The gov- ernment, having fanned the fire of speculation by the terms of the original notes, which were exchangeable for United States six per cent bonds, withdrew even this right of redemption after July 1, 1863, and, more anxious to produce a seemingly low interest than to protect the people against an actual depreciation of the national securities, which reached the low rate of 85 cents on the dollar, made an Inglorious and sui- cidal effort to raise loans at five per cent. The cur- rency continued to be further inflated without any pro- vision for converting it into interest bearing bonds, until by the 30th of June, 1864, the natural fruits of the mistaken policy became palpable to its advocates, ‘Tife currency and other temporary loans amounted to aver $1,125,877,034, and at this crisis Mr. Chase, in despair, resigned the Secretaryship of the Treasury. The administration having created a market for gold, with a constant supply and demand, through paying in- terest on bonds in gold and refusing to receive its own notes in payment for duties on imports, the Congres- sional majority, by joint resolution, increased the pre- viously extravagant duties to the amount of fifty per cent on all articles, indiscriminately, for sixty-three days, ending with the 30th of June, 1864, Gold rose rapid: and cnormously; or, rather, fie eurreney correspond- ingly depreciated. Congress, alarmed, passed a “Gold hill,” approved June 17, 1864, with ‘the vain hope of prohibiting time contracts for the sale of gold. ‘The ill-advised step only added fuel to the -flame, Its result was a temporary closing of the Gold Room, leaving pur- chasers at the mercy of individual dealers; and next, a mania of speculation, during which gold reached {ts maximum of 285, the actual premium having more than doubled within about two months, The pernicious effects of these glaring violations of common sense and political economy were so immoe-. diately obvious that both acts were short-lived, the Gold vill being repealed fifteen days after its passage, Instead of wantonly diluting the currency and wil- fully diminishing its value g0 as to tempt purchasers of bonds, “floating the debt? nominally at par, but really far below it, a strong specie reserve should have been mointained and the paper dollar kept as nearly as possible at its par value. France is an example worthy of studying in this con nection. Throughout her recent great war her currency was never permitted to reach a discount of over two and a half per cent, whilo our “legal tender” is yet ata discount ranging from twelve to fifteen per cent, Our government borrowed and dissipated the specie held by the banks, and paid away its own instead of keeping a reserve, which would have kept up the value of our note circulation, Tho Secretary of the Treasury, with the hope of reducing interest, caused an immense depreciation of the currency and brought upon us a long train of disasters. His was the policy of selling bonds at one-half or one-third of “their face,” for the sake of saving one per cent interest. Compare this action with that of France, who, on the con- trary, arrested speculation by advancing the rate of interest through her banks, and kept down prices, thus encouraging exports and enabling her people to buy at fair prices, Her financial policy was the reverse Of ours aud the result was more propitious, ‘The practical example she now gives is that, by means ofan enlightened’ and moderately liberal commercial poe, and by promt eigs Oe Gl reserve of specie in her banks, she circulates, free of discount, a nomimally inconvertible paper currency to the amount of over $500,000,000, Although, owing to the unparalleled tural wealth of our country, the results of defyin the positive laws of political economy were long de layed, the time igtenygn J came when the speculation thus set afloat were subjected to the inevitable test of realizing money from them. The administration had transferred its financial agencies to men who had been foremost in advocating its sophistries. The lead- ing and most trusted advisers and co-operators of the government in its financial affairs became the most conspicuous speculators, The system signiticantly cul- minated tn the failure of the houses which had been most highly favored and trusted by the administration. A run for deposits almost i diately followed. The sixty banks of New York were liable for $200,000,000 to their depositors.. The bank loans throughout the United States far exceeded those of any other date, and the ratio of cash to deposits and circulation was then, as it had been for the two previous years, less than at any othor time during the lat forty years, In New York, within a little more than threo Weeks, tho “legal tenuer” reserve was reduced from $34,000,000 to less than $6,000,000. The securities on which the ‘call loans’ had been made became un- salable, except at ruinous prices. The reaction was 80 disastrous to the railroad interests that bonds to the amount of $667,028,689 were in dé it and considera- bly less than half of the railroad stocks in the wholo country paid dividends, entailing losses and ruin on multitades of innocent sufferers, The number of bank- rupteies in 1873, as also in 1874, exceeded that ever before known, except in 1861, the year when the memorable destruction of trade and capital was caused by the war, Some aro under the impression that the currency has already been very largely contracted. In support of this theory reforeiice is made to the temporary loans, certificates of indebtedness, &c., existing in 1965, and 15 elusive of over $41,000,000 of fractiona showing an increase of $78,000,000 since Too enM The oe © so redundant that during the past year, notwil ding the power to expand under existing laws, there has been a voluntary withdrawal of the circulation to the extent of about $15,000,000, In 1797 the Bank of England bogan, under authority of Parliament, to issue excessive amounts of notes, which the London merchants agreed to receive at par. Even this could not prevent their depreciation, In 1814 British “gold bill’ was passed, enacting that “the taking of gold coim at more than its value or bank notes at ess shall be deemed a misdemeanor.” It was as ineffectual as our own. The ‘notes remained below for nineteen years. At last the celebrated ‘Bullion Committee’? ‘was appointed by Parliament to ete ype the calami- tous condition of British financial irs. Its main conclusion was that “the country ought to be brought back with as much speed as is compatible With a wise caution to the original principle of cash payments at the option of the bi of bank notes.” The follow- ing i" 1oms Were regarded as incontrovertibly estab+ hed :-— “If gold is at 4 premium in poper the paper is redun+ dant and depreciated. The premium measures the de- ation, If the inferior curreney be removed the exchanges will be turned, the overflow will stop, and if any vacuum is created gold will flow in to supply it, “A better and a Worse currency cannot circulate together. ‘The worse wili drive out the better,” n eight years afterward the public had been in- structed by the logic of events, und, with few excep- tions, tho truth of the doctrines held by the committee was universally admitted, Robert Peel himself—al though he had held the opinions of the previous Par- liamentar} xpajority and voted with it—became one of the most distinguished advocates of the committee, France, Austria, the United States and other coun- tries have had kindred bitter experience from the do- preciation of their currency, ‘There is a great shrinkage in business, and no impor- tant revival can be expected until a new financial sys- tom which will deserve and receive public confidence is fairly begun. In proportion as there is a cry for intla- tion, capital, proverbially timid, seeks for safety, with- draws from ‘enterprise, and reluses to employ labor, Until the future financial policy of the government is permanently settled there will be no real revival of the commercial and general prosperity of the country. ‘Tho present time i8 the most opportune we have had since inflation began for making vigorous preparation for specie ts. The premium on gold nas been redyced by commercial causes, apart from legislation, from 1851; to twelve or seventeen per cent, thus indicating that the remaining steps to gold at a par rate with notes can gradually be sately retraced, by no oxtraordinary amount of statesmanship, provided it is sincere and persevering, Since the war began the circulating modium has increased three times as fast ag the population, In New York the accumulation of money and the low rate at which it may be had are un- precedented, Large exportations of grain to Europe from this side of the Atlan’ $ expected, Our im- ports have enorm shrank. The people them- selves are more thau usually free from debt; aud last, but not least, is the encouraging fact that their minds have been long and caretully prepared by an increasingly intelligent press, never be- take more than super! the government should authorize the purchase and can- ccllation of some moderate amount, say $1,000,000 per month of the legal tender notes, and authorize tne Secre- tary of the Treasury to sell five per cent bonds of the United States to provide funds for that object, the first great step would be taken toward. resumption without injury to the financial and business interests of the couutry. L vopose that the gato nna insthod of contraction shall Ge so gradual | that Congress can Lays no excuse for aga pitprvening, Rigid adherence to such a course wou 7 tertnination to return to a sound basis, ‘The absence of the inferior currency would be gradually supplied by the superior, the problem as to the mettiod of resump- tion would be solved, and the system work itsolf out by @ natural process, while individualss and the banks would have ample ime to prepare for a new condition of affairs, Business being thus adjusted upon the new basis, confidence would return, and with it prosperity would soon prevail, The act of January 14, 1875, should be modified in.conformity with this view,’ Very respecttully, ELWAH WARD. AMERICAN NEGROES IN ENGLAND. HOW A JUBILEE SINGER FOUND THAT HE WAs A FREEMAN FOR THREE MONTHS—SOCIAL DISTINCTION. T. J. London, one of the American Jubilee Singers now in England, writes to the Pittsburg Gazette as fol- lows :— Lhave never known practically the meaning of the word freedom in its highest sense but three months im my life, and though it is with shame for my own boasted land of freedom I say it, yet it is trie thas those three months have been spent in Great Britain, ‘And I now affirm that no black man, born and raised in the United States of America, can redlize what it is to be absolutely free, And I further assert that no black man in America can reahzo what he suffers, and what a depressing aud humihating influence his manhood and higher nature is under until ho is able torise above and breathe an atmosphere un- tainted by the deadly and polluting poison of American prejudice, Think what it would be to be able to go to any hotel, restaurant or confectionery, or any place of amusement, and not simply to be able to make Fone way ut the point of some saw, but to be abso- uutely welcomed—no better, but Just the same as any other man who pays his money--and then not to be stuck away in some hole or corner, lest some of tho other customers will see you and become indignant. be- cause a “niggers” money pays for just the sale as his does, and is just as gladly received! If it is possible, just Imagine what it 18 to be from home at meal time, ‘und without the slightest hesitation, walk into any res taurant or eating house, and vhat you want, with. out any one to make you fecl uncomfortable, and not ba compelled to walk by hatfadozen or more places m order to fiud some man who dares defy public opinion at the risk of his business by letting you have, in some secluded nook, wnat you want, and taking your money for it Ifyou go intoastore for goods the clerks da not all suddenly get too busy to wait upon you, and cast a significant smile at the one, who after all, is compelled to wait on you, or who happens to be just as willing to waiton you ag any one elso, ag if to say:—“Ah! you bave to wait on a nigger,” as is very often the case in America. If you enter a “bus” and there is no American (I mean white)'there is no one to draw up her dress least you Diack it, or turn up his nose or lock scornful at you, It for any reason you walk the streets with a white per- son of either sex, no one says, “Look at the nigger with a white person,” or looks upon the one with you as if henceforth they are to be regarded as lepers, Perhaps some will say that this is because we aro “Jubilee Singers.” If so, to such I would reply, I was a Jubilee Singer in America before I was in England, How diiferent was their treatment here. For throe weeks they sang in one of Mr. Moody's mectings. A hall had been built for him in the cast of London, with seatings for about 12,000. The choir consisted of abous 100 persons, Seats were assigned to us in front and nextto the stand. Every member of the choir re- ceived us with the utmost kindness, and instead of try. ing to insult us, they tried inevery conceivable way to make us feel welcome, and-near the closo of the serfes of meetings a tea was given for the stewards, officers | and choir, about 175 in ail; we were invited. We spent an hour or more socially with them before tea, then promiscuously the ladies and gentlemen coupled them- selves off, and arm in arm went ite the tentto par- take of the sumptuous repast provided for them, No two of the Jubilees sat together, and no one was there to insult or in any other way make us tec] unweleome, We were simply treated as any white people would have been under the same circumstances, Westopped one day in London, at a fine private Doarding house im Queen’s square. While we wero there, or rather the day we got there (for we were out at the time of which I now speak), a man from In- diana camo there and engaged board for himself and family. He sent his luggage and was to come himself the next day, But when they came the next morning we were just through with our morning devotions, and, of course, ali in the house. They walked in and saw us and walked out and left us; wenttwo doors below and sent for their traps. The iandiady did not know what on earth to think of such conduct. We knew; but, for our country’s sake, we were jamed to tell her. But had they known it they need not have gone, for we left in a couple of hours ourselves. On reaching the station (or depot, as you call it) we saw a tall man and woman, whom we suspected o! being Americans, Soon our suspicions were coulrmed when we saw him looking alter some ponderous tranks marked “Ky.” We resolved to have some fun at our friend, brother and fellow-citizen’s expense. So, ag there ‘are cleven of ts, we could pretty well havo one in each of the first class compartments of the train, and the last I saw of our good Ken- tucky brother he was hurriedly passing from one compartment to another, evidently look. ing for a first class compartment with- out an “infernal nigger.” Whether ho sue- ceeded or not I am unabl say, but | know we got to Edinburgh ‘just the same,” and We stoppud at Darling's Regent Hotel, a first class tomperance hotel, where may be seen floating from the flagstaff’ the Stars and Stripes in honor of our presence. Some of us have Deeu foolish enough to think that some of our. fellow countrymen, of Whom there are many in the city, feel like tearing it down when they come to learn for whom it is hoisted, and find that it 48 to do honor to negroes, A GOOD JOKE ON HAMILTON WARD, “Ex-Congressman Ward, of ‘Grand Old Alleghany,’ ” says the Elmira Gazette, “happened in the city yestor- day, and remaining over duriag the evening, in com- pany with a republican friend strolled up to the City Hall to see how things were at tho democratic caucus. The crowd was thick about the doors, and in the jam Mr. Ward became separated from his friend, Strug- jing alone in the crowa that surged and pressed about im, he neared the foot of the stairs leading to th where he was grabbed by three or four excited tic .pediers, who shouted in his haa yer ticket all right?’ The honorable gentioman from Alleghany was nota little tiken back at a salutation so warm aud familiar, but managed to reply, ‘L am not a voter, gentle- men.’ Instantly came the esa ‘That don’t make any difference. Har's yer ticket, put ‘er right in!’ ‘But,’ protested the ex-Congressman, ‘I’m a stranger in the city.’ ‘Oh, yes,’ was the nga, as ho wag shoved vigorously ahead, ‘We know you—you bojeng to that Humpty Dumpty troupe. It’s all right, old low; shove ‘er right in.’ Under these circumstances all, afterward funded. Theso were in no proper currency of the country. If they were they would simply prove that contraction on a vast seale can be rapidly made without injury to the people, the ic not haying takon place until eight years atterwat In 1860 the paper currency was $207,100,000, but m 1866 the outstanding circulation ‘had increased to 9648,360.000. and on July 1, 1875. to @727 Gao GRR ox. ly bl ntleman must i just to infer that the an r net reps rt to ‘reform’ on princt a Bard mauet te guess what kind ofa ballot the ex-Con- . tciresmnt rie tate to an he sessed by the ex-Congressman, say I reciated what be considered as ry SU ererncr hehe omer eames ®