The New York Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1875, Page 4

4 CHARLEY ROSS. A Possible’ Clew to the Child-—-He Is Said To Be Living. ae MYSTERIOUS AND STARTLING LETTER. The Boy Declared To Be in England and Well Cared For. WILL HE BE FOU Mr. Ross Despairing and Without Faith in the Confession. PmLaveLruta, Oct. 2, 1875, Early on the morning of the Sd of September Mr. Christian K. Ross, who 's unhappily famous as the father of Charley Ross, stopped at his place of business on his arrival from his home at Germantown, prepara, tory to attending the court where William H. Wester- velt’s trial for complicity in the abduction of his child had but just commenced. Among the letters lying un- opened on his desk was one in @ dirty envelope, It bore no date, but the outside, which was postmarked Philadelphia, was addressed to “Mr, Ross, 306 Markey ‘treet.’ As ho rend the ungrammatical and cramped scrawl there could be no wonder if the desponding father felt that his stolen child might be within his reach. ‘The words of this extraordinary letter were as fol. lows :— A STARTLING LeTreR. Mr. Ross. If you will find the address of william or Walter Baker, and fot me know through the paper yon shall have you (sic| son. Baker ts the only man who handy I will trust it in. You boy {a alive, but will take, time for to get him. Advertise for alter or William Baker, who wonce lived at George's Sta tion, 8. O, I think he isin Philadelphia. I want this thing set thed soon, for I um worried to deth ubout is I want to fea the country and I want you to have you boy, as our game is now gone up. I did not take him, but was to have a shair in the money. I kxtow where he is aud you shall have him 5 weeks—no sooner—and no money. Westervell don’t know where he is. Nor doos Mrs. Mosher. I am the oxL¥ one, I want to get out of it the best I can. Don't publish this, bat bold quiet and tind Baker. and be- eve me I hen you have found the address of Baker pus this in the pursnel eolumn of the Ledger. eof the 4 [have found him. jon't show this to the newspaper men, for I and I work fast now. I pity youmuch.” 1 THE HANDWRITING. ‘The handwriting was bold but scrawling and irregular, from appearances the work of a man unaccustomed to bandling the pen. The paper was large letter size, crumpled and soiled. PRELIMINARY INQUIRIES. Although scarcely daring to hope, of course Mr. Ross Tost no time in making inquiries for the man who, i, ‘was promised, should be the means of bringing to him his son. In the personal column of the Philadelphia Public Ledger of the 5th appeared the following :— WUE WALTER OR WILLIAM BAKER Lata OF George 's Station, 5. C., send me his address ? C.K. ROSS, 306 Market street. cs want it quiet, OF THE 4 He had looked through gazetteers and post office directories for the place called ‘“George’s Station” with- out success, and finally he went to the Western Union Telegraph Company’s offices, where he consulted one of the operators who is confidentially intrusted with all business relating to the Ross case He telegraphed to the Charleston office to know if there was any such office known. The answer came back :—‘‘George’s Sta- tion Is on the South Carolina Railroad, between here and Augusta, about forty miles from here Telegraph office there. Down on the tariff-book as ‘George’s Square.’ Thus much having been learned, the oper- ator at George’s Station was communicated with w know if any one bearing the name given in the myste- rious letter bad ever lived there and what was known ot. him. Word was returned that there had been a young man of that name there, and the operator clicked over ‘he wires that he would gather what further information ‘ne could and send it later. THE RESULT OF THR PERSONAL. The publication of the “personal,” brought to Mr. Roas’s store promptly next morning (the 6th), a young man, who said that his name was Walter T. Baker and that he bad lived at George’s Station, & C. He was a man of about twenty-four, sumburned, evidently one ‘ccustomed to labor with hts hands. He subsequently wid that bis occupation was that ofa carpenter. He was of stout build, light complexion and his appearance not that of the kind of men usually described as “‘wide- wake.” There had been inquiry for him, he said, and be was anxious to know what for. Mr. Ross did not ‘mediately explain to bim, but holding up the monymous letter at @ distance, so that he could tee the handwriting, but not the words, said:— “Do you recognize that handwriting “Why, tbat looks like Nelse Boothe’s,” he immedi- «ely replied. NRLSE BOOTHE. “Who Is Nelse Boothe?” demanded Mr. Ross. “Why, a.man who used to work with me down tn South Carolina, getting out barrel staves.” Further questioning brought out the facts tnat Boothe was trom the North; that he sought Baker out when ue was down there two years ago, as a fellow North- arner, and that Baker had procured him work. He | salled himself Nelson, or Nelse Boothe, and Baker did aot regard him as “straight” (his expression for imply- ing moral obliquity) He had been connected with @ circus company, he believed, ag a strolling mountebank, but was hard up and disrepatabie. He had proposed to Baker once to rob the village Postmaster at George’s Station, afd to plunder. This Baker dissuaded bim from, and shortly after thé fellow came North, after borrowing some | money from him, and be had’ never seen him since, It appeared that Boothe lef South Carolina about three months before the Charley Ross abduction YOU MUST FIND THAT MAN, Afer listening to this history Mr. Ross said, “You | must find that man. You owe it yourself and to me.” Then he showed him @ portion of the extraordle nary letter which mentioned his name, After tak- ing bis address, Mr. Ross dismissed his visitor, who promised to sid him at al) hazarde, ing day (the 7th) this “personal” appeared :— O= OF THE FOUR-I HAVE FOUND fis. ‘4 SECOND ANONYNOUS LETTER, Early on the foliowing mourning this letter, post | from idness marked “Philadelphia,” as beivre, was detiver: the self-accused kidnapper, showing that his or bis knowledge of the inetheiency of the police was great that be still dare¢ w remain in the city, uader their very noses :— My A osald have let me know his address throngh the Ielyer. I have everything rendy when I know where he is. ‘Let me know in the Star just his P , OF the name end cumber of the street. You can put it in the “Star- beam" column or tl ‘ersonal”’ column. You at jaying me, Hurry upandkeep quiet. Let your notice ve this wares ME or the number of the street. Fillthe blank with the name or uomber of the street or city. be closed to-mor- cow, for | must ‘thi an. rs @ full account to (Lim) but to no one else, So make haste. ve Accordingly in the Beening Star of that date there Appeared tue following personal :— . Waite Philadelphia. . This was received too late for classification, and was published only in the fifth edition of the paper, In an Obscure corner, lost among many others, so r, Ross bad great dificulty in finding it, Neverth Baker came to seo Mr. Ross early next morning to kuow why it had been published. Mr, Koss explained to him; but was mach surprised that ould have chanced to see it so soon when he bit served it and looked for \t, had the greatest difficulty in Dnding it, Baker said that the barkceper at his hotel Lad called bis attention to it Meantime word bad been received from South Caro- Jina that young Baker bad lived in George’s Station, Bid got married there, and ran away about nine months a. He had spent a few toontus there—tirst work! a. bis trade and afterward as country schoolmaster, his conduct there was looked into, and nothing objec- tionable was discovered, unless the fight from his wite be so considered. After leaving Mr. Ross at the door ot the Court of arver Sessions, where Weatervelt was being tri Sawer went to his hotel, and there be found aw iny bim the following startling and interesting ietter in tio hapdwriting of the man whom bo declared vo be Nelse the :— ELSE BOOTHE'S CONPRSSION. Maid If Me, Ross let me know where you was f would tell Baker. You have been arley Koss was, Sol wi « qvod friend to me and give m jood advice when we was ¥ 4 me vat of w scrape nod set me up for you will follow my advice yoo shall nor of finding Charley Koos, us I hada land in ug bie. 1 want You, and no one but you, to go. If you go. as T aay, you, nor Mr. Rows either, will 1 will know ail about it tf you go. CHARLKY HOSS LX ENGLAND. Uo firm to Liverpool, then go to Bradford. where between there and York. dnd mr oy family who now Is in there somewli Thare people calls (hem gipsies, but thare not gipsies. But thare cling with » wagon where I # You uinst go there very efuil, or you will not get him, my and overhaul every baud He is some in the hands ies you flad In Ue- share the | On the follow- | ® BAKER, NO. 1,019 MARKET STREET, | ‘on bad better travel as « ter he wae taken we al) cot ekeard and be was lef in my | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1875.—TRIPLK SHEET. ear. I did not want to kill him, as Bill mosher did, for I was in enough sin, and wanted to get out of what [was iu. But Tam not out of it yot, and L will never be coateuted until th Bey is home again. So for God's sake try your best to g ion, HOW TO FIND Him. His hair ts cnt all off close, his skin is dark from being in the sum, and bis front teet is oat, This family thinks fet my son. end I told them his mother ranted to get him and very careful not to let any body 1 BEVEL, dash would ve their doom, This family wes in York Stave when I gave it to them, man's namo is Gusto, and I beurd from him by letter in July or August, I forgot which, Mr. Ross and you is all 1 want to know anything about it, ‘This what I sign is not my name, but by it you will kn whol am. The fetter Lgot from Gusto, was rote at Brad. ford, aud he said be was going to New Bitlvon, by the way of NELS! ‘booTH ‘ork, ANOTHER STRANGR CIRCUMSTANCE. This was shown at once to Mr. Ross, —_ Its bold state- meuts seemed almost incredible, That this man should circumstantially confess one of the greatest crimes of the age at his Very door seemed past belief, Its own audacity seemed to contradict its truth, Another ex- traordinary circumstance, taken in connection with ‘owal, was then revealed by young Baker. He had never attached much importance io 16 before; but, from recent revelations, it was significant, Ou several occasions within the past four months he had been accosted in the street by some one, always & stranger, who would ask if his name was or, and if he had lived tn South Carolina Upon his answer- ing “yes” to both questions the man would quickly disappear, This had happened repeatedly, he said, and whenever he had been able to stop his ques- toner aud demand his reason for_wanting to kuow, the stranger would always refuse to ‘talk further, It’ w: aiways a diferent man who approached him, he de- clared, That day, he sald, he had seen Boothe in Wash- ington square, unobserved by him, he thought, and had followed bim to a drinking saloon, where he had Jost bis trail. SEXKING A PRRSONAL INTERVIEW, Mr Ross tunmediately prepared a ‘personal’ for the Evening Star, in presence of Baker, and signea it with bis name, as follows: — = Snfibould like a hane'e:pesponst tateoview with yom, This publication promptly brought the following re- sponse, addressed to young Baker:— NoT TO BE BovGUT. T seen your notice to-day in Star. I won't como and see you, You ure putting # job up on me. I won't more, so that ends it. You will find the I by the time you get this Twill be in York, probably}. Fo money. 1 oy Ww and York [meaning New ‘and you can’t cateh me inno succeed. Some detective bas ‘Do as Lay aud you wil have said is true, so help me trap. ‘4 yas put you up to this, God. ut You can't know any more if you see me, for I don't know. c ant to see mo only for to cop me, You will never see in. So goodby bye, I didn’t think you would wy at game after 1 told all. I am the only one who knows NELSE B, t where he ‘This was the work of the same hand, but it was more scrawied than the other letter and the latter poruon was so blotted as to be undecipherabie. A SINGULAR SUMMONS, On bis way home from work that evening young Baker was crossing Walnut street at the corner of Nineteenth street at dusk, He was hailed by aman accompanied by a woman, Both were entire strangers tohim. The man said:—This is Mr. Baker, formerly of South Carolina, I believe?" Mr. Baker replied, “iam, but as you have the ad- vantage of me, may I ask your name?” ‘The stranger answered, ‘‘It is not necessary for you to know. Somebody wishes to see you on business of importance w-morrow morning at the West Phila- deiphia depot, between seven and nine o'clock. Will you please make it convenient to be there?” Baker said he would, but wanted the name of the per- son, ‘the stranger told him that he would recognize the man at once when he saw him. He refused to answer any further questions, and be and his companion were soon lost in the crowd. Young Baker sent word to Mr. Ross, through his em- ployer on South street, and asked an uncle, who is em- ployed by E. 0. Eby & Co., wholosale grovers of No. 020 Market Lor bag 4 to go with him to the place of meet- img. His umcle did not arrive there antil half-past seven o'clock and was just too late Mr. 88 did not receive word in time to huve a detective on the spot, and the man of course escaped. While | Baker was looking for the one who had so mysteriously gummoned him, bis South Carolina acquaintance grasped his hand, saying, “I am the man who wants to see you.” Baker asked why he bad sent for him, and he answered that it was because he had been a friend to him when needed one and he was deter. mined not to tell his story to any oneelse. He then hurriedly repeated mainly what he had told Mr. Ross about the stolen child being alive and well and at the place in England which be had mentioned. He implied that he expected Baker to turn this information to account in @ pecuniary way, and that he had confided in him to show his gratitude Jor the kindness he had shown him, tor when Baker asked bim about the return of somo money he had advanced him, he intimated that he could make ‘a thing’’ out of the return of Charley Ross and pay bimseif several mes over. In the midst of the conversation the whistle blew and the train started. The man jumped aboard, bade him goodby, said something about going far away where it was useless to look for him, and was seen no more. YOUNG BAKER DISAPPRARS. Young Baker reported what had taken placo to Mr. Ross, and gave as good a description of the man as was able = Mr, Ross wold bim that he might wish further assistance from him, and not to change his address without letting bim know. On the 18th ult. young Baker told him that be was going into the country to utiend to a job of work at his trade, which might employ him all winter. He said that bis future address would be at a certain village not very far from Philadelphia, and that letters would reach him there. Mr. Ross has written to hun at the lace mentioned, but has had no reply, and young jaker has not been beard from since he left this city. In fact, his disappearance scems . td bo as complete as that of the self-accused villain who kept possession of Charley Ross, the most diligent search ror miles about the neighborhood of the village he went to failing to discover his whereabouts, Mr. Ross’ letter still re- maimed uncalled for at the Post Otlice om Saturday afternoon last, and in a day spent in waiking and riding through that part of the country I failed to strike his trail or bear any tidings of him. He has another uncle tm this city besides the one above alluded to—Mr. Byl- vester J. Baker, of the firm of Bnllitt & Crenshaw, druggists, on Arch street—but neither of them knows of his whereabouts, nor does his father, who is a farmer at a certain place not many miles away, unless he bus found out very recently, WHAT 18 THR TRUTH? Was Nelson Boothe, as he calls himself, one of the dastardiy scoundrels who abducted Charley Ross, and if #0 will he too be allowed to roam the country with im- punity, even after making a confession in writing? If not, why should he make such an accusation against himself and volunrily place acord around his own | anybody concerned in the crime, which is, indeed, a Violent supposition? If the young man to whom bi was 60 anxious to confess, but to whom, it seems, he did not tell any more than was contamed in his start- ling letter “to Mr. Roas, really does not | know any more about the case than he has | told, why should be also suddenly remove himseif | from communication with the stricken father of the | lost Doyt | These are goestions which cannot be anawered at this stage of this singular revelation, least. Ifthe theory that the whole affair ts a biaci | mailing job between the two men be considered, it 1s {ound that neither of them has asked for any money or any other advantage from the communications they have made. On the contrary, both are in embarruss- | ing postions. Altogether, it la @ remarkable adjunct to @ most remarkable crime, It seems tated that every- | thing connectod with the kidnapping of Charley Ross ebail be ewallowed up im a dark cloud of mystery. Whether the child be alive or dead, where tuow is if alive, whether Westervelt has told | all Mosher and Douglass, are questions no. nearer solutioa | now than they ever were, even since the searchin, able investigations in the recent trial of Westervelt. i WHAT MX, ROMS THINKS OV THB BTORY. | When I told Mr. Ross what I had learned regarding this uew development be was amazed that the HmRaLb should have heard of it, aud demanded to kuow how it | bad come out. Only four persons knew it, ho said, and he could not understand how it had been made public. He admitted, however, that its publication could do no harm, because he did hot attach much tmportance to the story of Boothe. He hardly thought {t worthy of investigation, aud had noteven written to Scotland Yard to put the London police on the track of the trav- ciling band in whose possession the child was said to be. Mr. Ross has since communicated with the Eng- lish police, bowever, bul 8 not sanguine of the result, His theory of the confession is that it was written 10 affect the Westorveit trial. It was true that the man had not tried to blackmail him, but he did noteee any | reason why this clew should’ be the rightone, Mr. Rogs did uot give what seemed to me as any strong logical reason for not attaching importance to the state- menta of the man, and he might have had | more faith in itthan he cared to say. He admitted that {t differed from other communications he had hud because the writer did not attempt to extort money. | He bas so many times been deceived by persons pro- fessing to have information of hia lost child’s where- abouts, and who afterward endeavored to blackmnail him | for varying amounts and in various ways, that he has | very naturally grown doubtful and suspicious, and is apt to treat all who come to him with the avowed ob. | ject of assisting him with watchfulness and distrust. | He thought Baker's ready idvatitication of the band- writing of the letter, bi lure to secure the arrest of | the man‘when he met him, his failure to follow bh ta Washington square and his own sudden | appearance, all very discouraging circumstances } Om the ‘other hand, however, when Mr. | Ross tried to find if the young man had any designs upon his purse, whether he wanted aay money {or assieting him to communicate with the writer of the letter, or whether he wanted to takea trip to England to look for the child, Baker's answers were always im the uegative, and be seemed hurt vw find that be should be in the Jeast suspected. But he seemed ALMOST DRSrarRING. | why” gata he, opening a desk and pointing to manuscript enough to till @ royal octavo volume, “there area hundred other just such statements Here are deluges of letters from people who know where my boy is and who will give him up tor acertain sum, Deter lives write to me to say that they have @ clew sure to to him; well-meaning, but ignorant peo- give improbable theories; crazy peo- write the most astounding nonsense; tualists send communications from the other p Spi w make |t a matter for practical joking, and black. Mailers try to turn it to profit im ingenious ways that | you amon would not dream of, and they want various ‘s, from afew dollars for travelling expenses to dsee me to the whole of the $2v, reward. i re three letters I have received within the last three days,” and he showed me three miserable, stupid scrawis—one {rom a Yankee lunatic, offering to get the boy for $100 a day for his time, a second claiming to possees Valuable information and a third irom ‘“® young | detective,” full of mysterious hints, A PITIARLE PICTURE. This |3 the story of the latest clew in the boldest and crueliest crime of the age, The greatest difficulty was ! neck, supposing the police to be capable of arresting | ‘hows, who was concerned in the crime besides | and | ‘ld, mischievous people are evem wicked enough to | a experienced in getting at the entire truth, but it can be vouched for as being accurate to the minutest particu. lar, When Captain Heins, the police official who has charge of the case, was questioned by me he cour- teously but firmly refused all information, and Mr. Ross has been the victim of such shameful attacks by newspapers that he was very loth to converse, It should not be a matter of surprise that the father does not venture to hope that his child can be restored to him in the manner described in these startling letters, This story is only one of fifty that have seemed almost as probable and that havo inspired him with hope for few brief days, only to end in a heart-sickening disappointment. The public never has known, and nev know, the terrible ex- periences through which this stricken man is strug- gling. Only a very few know how continuous and in- supportable is the burden he bears; how his Loc are ae poe, 5 time taken up with unrewarded wil, is impoverished means made the object of blackmail- ers’ greed;. his business ruined, himself r, his whole time given up to the hopeless search for his miss- ing boy; to hope against hope; to have a glimmer of light one day rod to be buried tn the darkness of de- spair the next; to see the worst side of human nature; to be called suddenly to take long and tiresome jour- neys, which end in nothing; to know no rest nor peaco; to suffer the tortures of unending suspense— these are some of the sufferings of this man, It is one of the most pitiful pictures in history. Nearly haifa million photographs and Kthographs of Charley Koss have been printed and distributed all over the civilized world, besides circulars innumerable, offer- ing a fortune fora reward. The police and even the civilians and consular agents of America, Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Spain, Italy and the world have lent their united efforta without success to find his child; yet he does not quite despair nor give up the search. lf this poor gentleman's dally experiences could ever be made known, if the true history of this crime and its results 18 ever written, it will be found that there is no better example of heroism in common life than Christian K, Ross, KINGS COUNTY POLITICS, THE MORE PROMINENT ASPIRANTS FOR THE LEADING OFFICES—CANDIDATES FOR THE GIFTS OF THE PEOPLE, With the fall of the leaf the season of fallen hopes of political aspirants for favor and emoluments of office sets in, Each succeeding return of that cycle wherein men are wont to indulge ambitious anticipation and to erect air castles presents an ever-increasing number of victims, It follows as a matter of course, therefore, that during this fall in Brooklyn we wil! have more dis- appointed aspirants for the positions of public servitors than heretofore. ‘‘Workingmen’s friends,” ‘reform candidates,” ‘taxpayers’ choices,” “poor men’s friends’ and other attractive office-seckers are tegin- ning to remind the voters that it is timo to “arouse,” to be “on deck” and to otherwise generally present a “solid fronv’ in the interests of the patriots who vie with each other in the efforts to obtain their suffrages, Four weeks from next Tuesday the great battle of the bal. Jot will be fought, Without the regular nomination it is worse than useless to run on any ticket. So much is con- ceded, Then it follows that the sappers and miners are delving beneath the surface, and he who can ex- plode the greatest mine of tufluence between now and the time of holding the nominating conventions will be foremost in the fight in which “the best man is sure to win.” It is not necessary to qualify tu that connec- tion what is meant by the best man. THE OFFICES TO BR FILLRD in Brooklyn are Mayor, Justices of the Peace in the Third, Fourth and Fifth districts; those of Sherif, Commis- sioners ot Charities in the First and Second districts; Supervisor-at-Large, two Justices of Sessions, Senators in the Second and Third districts; nine members of Assembly, twenty-five Aldermen and twenty-five Supervisors. The Mayoralty is, of course, a strong ob- jective point with the leaders of both parties, The candidates are, generally speaking, all strong men: The democrats, who promise this year to give the State ticket at least 15,000 majority in Kings county, are can_ vassing the names of Mr. Edward Rowe, General W. H. Slocum, Thomas H. Rodman, James Howell and Jobn W. Hunter, the present incumbent of that office. Their respective prospects with the Convention promise to stand, at present writing, in about the order in which they aré here named. Mr. Rowe, who Is @ merchant and a man of considerable means, 1s a life-long resident of Brooklyn. He has been Alderman and Chairman of the Democratic General Committee, and is said to be eligible in every respect as aman who would give strength and dignity to tht responsible office of Chief Magistrate of the third city of the Union. Gen- era! Slocum has an army record of fairrepute, Mr. Rod- man was appointed District Attorney by Governor Dix when the later removed Winchester Britton. He is a lawyer, and was one term Alderman of the Sixth ward. Mr. Howell was Supervisor of the Eleventh ward, The aalary of Mayor is $10,000 per annum. ‘The republicans urge the claims of ex-Comptroller Schroeder, Ripley Ropes and John F, Henry, respect- ively. The ex-Comptroller has a good record as finan- cial officer of the city, but he has never bad the happy faculty of making himself popular with “the boys.” ‘That is his misfortune. Aldertnan Ropes has an excel- lent reform record. Mr. Henry is said to be SLIGHTLY THIRD TERMISH tn disposition, a circumstance, strange to say, which is secret of strength with him among republican Custom | House employes, who will press his nomination to tho bitter end. He ig a personal friend of “His Excellency,’’ @ wholesale druggist by occupation. THE SHRINVALTY is the most hotly contested office in the political pool this year. The income {s, according to local tradition, | about $60,000. None seek the place but those who have been weighed in the balance and found not wanting. | ‘Thus it is that the office enjoys an immunity from what is commonly termed arush. It not unfrequently bap- pens that tis very Jact 18 a source of sore grievance to the leaders, who are at a loss to choose between the | powerful aspirants for that goal. It is so now. The | democratic candidates for the nomination are | John Delmar, Thomas F. Nevins and Thomas M. | Biley. For the past four years the for- | mer named gentleman, who holds the office of Justice of the Peace for the First district, has been urged for the office by his adherents of South Brook- | lyn. There is a rumor current, however, that ex-Reg- ister McLaughlin, better known as the ‘‘Boss,”’ is jeal- ous of the power and influence which Delmar wields, | and is not 60 warmly disposed toward him as he is 10 the other aspirants, Mr. Nevins, who is Chief En- | gineer of tho Fire Department, is very strongly advo- cated by his admirers for the office, which he would no | doubt ably Gil He has conducted ‘the working of the Fire Department ior the past five years in a most able | and efficient manner. Justice Riley, of the Third dis- trict, boasts of having more ward organizations laboring | to secure his normimation than any other “Richmond im | the fleid” He 1s also popular with his party, General | Dakin, of rifie team fame, is also spoken of. The’ republicans are discussing the claims of John Folk, Albert Dagget and the presentincumbent, Aras G. Williams, upon their choice for the pecroaggge or Sheriff It will be but an empty honor, however. | JUSTICES OF THR PRACK | in the Third district, a working position worth $4,500 per annum, the most prominent democratic candidate spoken of ts Mr. John Courtney, of the Twentieth ward, a clerk jn the Surrogate’s Office. The republi- | cans urge the names of Benjamin Moorehouse and Bichard Marin respectively for tue nomination. | In the Fourth district Justice Charies B. Elliott isa candidate for re-election on the democratic ticket. William Lynes, W. H. Lyons and Edward Van Vranken | are also spoken of in this connection. | In the Fifth district the candidates most prominent for Justice of the Peace are IL, A. Whitebill, ex-Cor- oner; Alderman Brown, of the Twenty-first ward, and the present incumbent, Justice Thomas Eames. Alder- man Petry, of the Sixteenth ward, and David Teese are mentioned by the republicans favorably. COMMISSIONSRS OF CHARITIES. In the First district Mr. Jobn Cunningham is a can- didate for re-election on the regular ticket of the de- mocracy. In the race for the nomination with him are Mr. Bernard Bogan (founder of St. Vincent’s Home for | Boys), Owen Meee; Richard G. Lalor, ex-Assemblyman; | Alderman Joseph wt, Third ward, and Dr. Thomas Henderson. Alderman Ropes is also spoken of iu that | connection. In the Second district, Dr. T. P. Norris would like to try another term, Alderman Shipman, of the Eleventh ward, is aiso urged for the office by the democrats, THE SENATORS will be, it ts conceded on all sides, John Coe, in the Second district, and John C, Jacobs in the Third. For Assembly, in the Firat district, the candidates | are John M. Claacy and Daniel Bradley, democrats, Second district—John R. Kennedy, democrat, | _ Third district—Micbael Coffey, democrat, and J. F, | Menare, Fepeeiam Fourth district—T. V. P. Talmadge, democrat, and Georgo Thomas, republican. | _ Fifth district—Charles B, Thoruton, republican, and James Ridgeway. Png disirictJobn Niery, republican, and George Vhite. Seventh district—Captain O'Keeffe, democrat, and Samuel Maddox, republican. | Eighth district—Bernard Silverman, democrat, and David Williams, republican, | Ninth district—Jobn MeGroarty, democrat. For the nomination of Supervisor-at-Large the can- didates are G, L. Fox, democrat, and Samuel Booth, re- | publican, | “The democratic primaries will be called by the Gen- | eral Committee on Tuesday evening next, and the con- *ventions will be held about the middie of the month, 80 the catnpaign will be “sbort, sharp and decisive.” ‘The | republican primarios will be beld October 6, NEWARK POLITI | The Democratic City Conveution was neid on Satur | day, Mr, Charles T, Henry presited. ‘The principal fight was upon the nomination tor Mayor, the leading candidate being Nehomiah Perry, tho present incum- bent, Andrew A, Smalley and Michael f, Kenny, Upon a ballot being taken Mr. Stalley was found to have | about a two-thirds vote and he wis subsequently de- | clared the unanifnous choice of the Convention, Will- | fam A. Scbtnidt was nominated for Tax Commissioner who stopped at his house when last in Brooklyn, aud is | | Edward Schickhaus for Water Commissioner, Georze Peters for Trustee of the Reform School and Messrs. M. J, O'Brien and Townsend Dusenbury for Surveyors of Highways. The Convention then, after listening to speeches, adjourned, Mr. Sranilap, the nomince for Mayor, is a man about sixty years of age, a native of New Jersey, and has long been identified with leading Onancial institutions, He served once in the State Logisiature, ran once but was defeated for State Senator, and ran six years ago for Mayor of Newark, but was defeated by Mayor Kicord, Last year bis name was prominently mentioned for Goverior on the democratic ticket. ‘On to-morrow the republicans hold their city conven- tion, The most prominent.names used in connoction with the Mayoralty nomifation are ex-Presideut of Counei] Ludlow and Alderman Yates, POLITICAL NOTES. Cassius M. Clay will make democratic speeches in Pennsylvania, There are twenty-one German papers in Iowa, Twenty of them support the democratic ticket, ‘Tho Boston Globe, Mr. Loring’s organ, says:— Mr, Rice is indeed a man every way worthy of the nomina- tion and eminently qualiied for the office of Gover- nor.’? ‘The colored men of Georgia have called a convention at Augusta, October 7, to consider what action, if any they ought to take with regard to the persecutions which they have suffered in connection with the recent “{nsurrection scare.’ ‘The Springfeld Republican thinks that in nominating Adams the republican party of Massachusetts would have lifted itself; that in nominating Loring it would have gone down, but that in nominating Rico it simply stands still—stays where it was, Ex-Governor Olden, of New Jersey, was attacked by paralysis last week, He is able to see his friends, but one side is entirely paralyzed, The ex-Governor is nearly eighty years of age, and it is feared he will bardly be able to survive this attack. Hon. Adin Thayer writes to the Worcester (Mass.) Gazette that he desired Mr. Adams for the republican nomination, ‘But,’ says he, “I labored from begin- ning to end, voting for Henry L, Pierce on every ballot with the hope that by delay the delegates might be har- monized upon Mr, Adams or Mr. Rice or that at an op- portune moment a bigh toned man like Mr. Pierce might be nominated by agreement of all parties, In the section of country around Missourt the St, Louis Globe- Democrat thinks that Mr. Kerr, of Indiana, bas the lead for the Speakership, He will get nearly, if not quite, all the Missouri members, and a majority of the Illinois members and every democrat from Indi- ana This, says the Globe-Democrat, leaves a slim chance for Sam Cox, who cannot start with his own delegation in his favor and will receive little support from the West. Sam Randall will be Kerr’s strongest opponent, and will be supported by some of the infla- tionists of the West, who are bent on the defeat of Kerr, With one or two exceptions the Missiouri mem - bers are inflationists, bat they seem to have a personal preference for Kerr. Mr. Kerr is in St. Louis. The Bayards of Delaware, says an exchange, may be regarded as one of the historical families of the coun- try. They are derived from one Nicholas Bayar French Huguenot, who came to America in 1647 with his brother-in-law, the, celebrated Peter Stuyvesant, | Duteh Governor of New York. Hamilton Fish and the present United States Senator Bayard are, therefore, remote connections. One hundred and twenty years after the arrival of Nicholas Bayard James Asheton | Bayard was born in Philadelphia, and died forty-etght years afterward, James A, Bayard was educated at Princeton College, studied Jaw in Philadelphia and went to Congress at the age of twenty-nine to support John Adams’ administration as a federalist. He was one of the men who boited the federal ticket and made Joffer- son President, and was rewarded for it by a re-election to the Senate in place of bis father-in-law, Bassett, [t was James A, Bayard, Sr., who assisted to make the ‘Treaty of Ghent, and two of his sons went to the United States Senate—Richard Bassett Bayard, who died in 1868, at the age of seventy-two, and James A. Bayard Jr., who succeeded his brother, after a lapse of twel years, ag United States Senator in 1851, serving eighteen | years at Washington, part of the time serving as chair- man of the Judiciary Committee. James a. Bayard, | Jr., resigned in favor of his sou, Thomas F., in 1869, | so that the Senatorship has been a family matter among the Bayards for the last seventy years, The present Senator 1s just forty seven years old, ts digni- fied, scholarly, industrious and highly esteemed. THE COURTS. WASHINGTON PLACE POLICE COURT. Before Judge Morgan. BAMPANT RUFFIANISM. Mr, William H. Green, of No. 37 West Thirteenth stroet, was on his way home about twelve o’clock on Saturday night when he was accosted by two men named George Harris and Thomas Nelson, alias “The Kid,’ who demanded that he should treat them to wine or fight. Mr. Green chose the latter alternative and pulled off his coat for that purpose. Harris ana Nelson commenced an attack on Mr. Green, and find- ing they were getting the worst of it, both drew pistols. Nelson fired two shots, one of which struck Mr, Green’s hat and the other lodged in a hall door near by. Harris snapped his pistol three times, but it fortunately failed to explode, Officer Hanlon, of the Fifteenth precinct, heard the report of Nelson's pistel, and are rived the scene of the affray in time to take both rutflans into custody. They» were arraigned before Judge Bixby yesterday morning, and were held in ‘$1,000 bail each to answer at General Sessions. | POLICE NOTE. James Welch wag arraigned before Judgo Kasmire at the Essex Market Police Court yesterday on a charge of | forcibly abstracting $150 from the vest sora of Rozzaro Duaro, of No. 93 Oliver sireet. Welch was | commitied in $500 bail to answer, COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. Scrmen Count —Cuawnins-—Ield by Judgo Law. on rence.—Court opens at ton A. M. First day's ' | Supreme Covrt—Gexera Texm—Held by Judg i motion calendar will be called at eleven A. M. Davis, Brady and Daniela —Non-enumerated motions —Nos. 1 to 68 inclusive. Preferred causes—Nos, 81 to 185 inclusive, Enumerated motions—Nos, 168 to 366 | inclusive. Scrremm Count—Srectat, Term—Held by Judge Van | Vorst.—Demurrers—Nos, 1 to 38 inclusive. Issues of law and fact—Nos. 51, 535, 838, 464, 401, 271, 149, 473, | 862, 424, 417, 607, 156, 403,'98, 121, 366, "328, . 646, 158, 413, 527, 445, 488, 422, 102, 213, 214, 133, 185, B27, 486, 545, 246, 168. Scrnawn, Covnr—Cmcvit.—Part 1—Held by, Judge Barrett,—Nos. 877, 1785, 1721, 1625, 1631, 1773, 1647, 1731, 1751, 1629, 1817, 1571, 1889, 1435, 1441) 1163, 1835, 1784 1603, 1449, 1583) 1417, 1761, 1535, 1337, Part 2— Nos.’ 1486,’ 1000, 2802, 1000%, 898, 1284, 1994, 1128, 846, 1176, 942, 2228, 6303, 1562, 1654," 2618,' 1248, '2838, '1408, 2952) 1454, 906%, 8134, 235, 1600, Scrreaz Covkt—Ciacurr—Part 3—Held by Judge Donohue.—Nos 2780, 8001, 3105, 831, 735, 949, 98: 1183, 8030, 1203, 1247, 1151, 689, 1822," 1859, 2788, 3115, | gile, 1303, 1621, 1601, 963, 2429, ‘1775, 1777, 2819, | | 213g) 1241, 55834, 8170, 673%, 674g, 675%, 529, 1259, | | 1275, 119,157, 1675, ‘14013, 1587," 1066, 1273, 1263, 1489, 943, 1443) 1231, 1509, 1661, 1437. Screxion Court—Triat Tens—Part 1—Held by Chief | Justice Monell —Nos. 675, 777, S11, 858, 866, 703, 861, Jal, 787, 1419, 1363, 625, '809, ‘635, '709. Svrsuion Covrr—Taia. Tenat—Port 2—Held by Judge Sedgwick.—Nos, 084, 722, 818, 86635, 874, 1110, | 1218, 672, 604, 788, 588, 814, 1272, 900, 454. , eRAL TRRM—Held by Judges | Friedman and Spier,—Nos. 1 to 65 inclusive, Appeals frotn orders—Nos, 1 to 16, tnelusive. Svrxmion Count—Sreciat Texu—Held by Judge Cur- tis. —Demurrers—Nos, 1 to 4, mclusive, Issues of fact— Nos, 1 to 44, inclusive. Common PL&a8s—GENERAL Tarm.—Adjourned for the term. Common Preas—Equity Trrm—Held by Judge Larro- more.—Nos, 1 to 71, inclusive. Common Pieas—Triat Team—Part 1—Held by Chief | Justice Daly.—Nos, 1431, 1950, 1656, 2516, 1146, 723, 1009, 739, 2504, 2511, 2685, 2464, 2484, 1207, 1208, | Cuan Piaas Raat: Tanx—Par pig *, Daly.—Noa 117 2 : A Sh 1080, 1443," 1408, 1474, 360, 1470, 1402) 2124, 1472, 2607, 1902, 1506, 1478, 1989, 1296, 2105, 2415, 2 CouRT—ThiaL Term—Part 1—Held by Jndge Alker.—Nos, 4143, 4144, 4603, 4021, 8159, 3153, 3505, | 4042, 4982, 4092,” 4898, Sali, 8975, asl. Park | 2-Held by Judge Joachimaen, —Nos. 4523, 4844, 4436, 4020, 2780, "4730, 4766, 4872, 4000, 4962, 8214, 404d, | 5080, 1008, 2282,’ Part 'S—Hold by Judge’ paniding.— | | Nos. 3073, 8300, 2410, 011, 30 27, 3858, 4776, | 2242, 2584,’ 053, 4050, 4977, 4808, 4757. Court oF GxNBRAL Sxssions—Held by City Judge Sutherland.—The People va William ‘Fitzsimmons, felonious assault; Same v% Jobn Sullivan, felonious assault; Same ya Thomas Lioyd, felonious assault; | | Same vé. John Kifer, felonious assault; Same vs. James | Onie, felonious assault; Same ys. John Murphy, burglary; Same va. Louis’ Wild, grand larceny; Same vs. Robert Hill, grand larceny; Bame va, James Haley, | grand larceny ;’ Same va, Luke Croker, assault and bat- | ¢ v8. Frank Rielly, petit latoeny; Same va. | tafford, petit larceny; Same vs, Mary Dieker, | grand larceny. t s = | but of a profound religious conviction. Court ov Uren axp Tenaiven—Held by Judgo Will iain ©. Barrett. —The People vs. Jobo Scannell, murde Same v8. Goorge Washington and John Sewell, turde Same vs. Bridget Kelly, murder; Same vs, Thomas Wilson, murder; Same vs. Joseph Ferango, marder; Same vs. Theodore Read, murder; Same vs. Thomas Callaghan, murder; Same va. Jacob Staderman, smur- dor, Sain’ vs. Henry Rix, murder; Same va, Samuel Murray and Anpio Jane Murray, murder; Samo va. John Kennedy, mansiaughter; Samo vs. John Bengts- son, manslaughter, Same ys, Thomas Sorrell, man- | slaughter. | they aro, by whatever orror hin CHRISTIAN UNITY. Rev. Adirondack Murray's New Church and Newspaper. BOSTON’S LAST SENSATION. The Initial Sermon of the Pastor in the Music Hall. Bostow, Oct, 3, 1875. Bostonians, or those of them who are progressive and modern in their theological and literary tastes, are now rejoicing over the dawn of a new era in both the realms of religion and literature, Their bright and shining light, the leader of the young and venerabie hosts, is none other than the Rev. W. H. H. Murray, probably one of the most popular young clergymen ever settled in Boston, as he is one of the most re- nowned tn the country, It is a year or more ago since internal dissensions of a creedy nature influenced him to resign his pastorate of the Park street church, in this city, Immediately after bis resignation a move- ment to establish a new Union church, with Mr, Mur. ray at its head, was conceived and carried forward by his most ardent admirers and supporters in the church from which he had just sev- ered his connection Tho result of all this was the sudden raising of funds for the erection of the largest church edifice in the United States, and within twelve months the sacred edifice will adorn the now vacant lot on the corner of Columbus avenue and Berk- ley street. When completed it is surmised that the current expenses will be about $18,000 or $20,000 per annum; but the large number of pews which it will contain will enable them to be disposed of at an insig- nificantly low figure, and thus the masses, or the mid- dling and poorer classes, can command the advantages of the Gospel at a price fully within their means, The idea is best illustrated by comparing {t with a news- paper of limited and one of Jarge circulation, Those who patronize the one of limited circulation have to pay an exorbitant price compared with those who buy a paper of world wide popularity and circulation, On this plan—evangelical also in its way—Rev. Mr, Marray proposes to scatter the Gospel among the Bostonians, Inasmuch as a year or so is required for the building of the new church edifice, it was decided that during the meantime the services should be held in the Music Hall, and the inittal sermon by tho distinguished pas- tor was preached there this morning to a large and mis- cellaneous congregation, MR. MURRAY'S SERMON. Mr. Murray’s text was selected from John, xvii., 21— “That they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me” In commencing he said that he proposed to speak on the general subject of Christian unity as sug- gested by the text, He then went on to say that at a time when, outwardly at least, the Church is broken up into fragments; when the followers of Jesus are designated by so many different hames that one might suppose all unity is lost; when theso names de- scribe sects that will barely tolerate, much less fellow- ship, one another; when churches are built by the help of partisan feeling and sectarian rivalry, it seems well that we should pause a moment and examine the causes which have led to these divisions in the family of God on earth, and ask ourselves whether we have not all of us gone far enough in the direction of separation, Wiil there be any unity left if we divide much more? Has not the hour come to concentrate rather than divorg to affiliate rather than antagonize? What ts the ou ness enjoined on His disciples by the Master just as He was to depart into heaven, and what are the divisions that are harmless, and what are those which are mis- chievous among His followers? Denominationalism will continue to exist because tt finds its occasion in the diversities of men’s dispositions and the wide differences of their early education. Thus men will worship God each after his own mode and habit and | be gainers thereby, but those who seek to make | denominatioualism mean more than this seek a moral impossibility. They are ongaged in an uphill work, and the hill grows steeper and the load they aro pushing heavier every year. The public opinion of tho age !s against them. The strong, practical commou sense of the people ts working away at the problem, and - ually but surely settling it. Tts verdict is never spoken in one sentence, at one time, in one spot or by one mies lt i# announced day by day, in various utterances, by many lips and in many places. This verdict is, that all Christian disciples, by whatever name known, are essentially one; that their rights and privileges | to all divine ordinances are the same; that as th t facts, both as they relate to the huinan or th side of man’s redemption, which underlie Christianity and give all its significance to it, are held in common by all disciples of Christ, all disciples stand in broth- erly anity and are to treat each other as brothers should, “Hence each church, — God’s house, 13 open to all God’s children; each pulpit that proclaims the Gospel of salvation is open to all who love to pro- claim it; each sacrament should be admiuistered to all who seek {ts holy consolation, and each and every soul who repents of sin and has faith in. the Saviour is, b; that experience, in full and actual fellowship with all souls of like experience, and cannot, without sin on part of those who do it, be excluded from such fellow- ship. vine MR, MURRAY'S POSITION. This we say not because it is novel doctrine, for we believe it is either openly or latently held by all who | are governed by Scripture in the formation of their ecclesiastical opinions, but because we as a church and | pastor are at a point of our undertaking when it is proper and indeed necessary for us to speak out and declare just what our position {a, lest the sacred cause we represent ehould suffer loss by the misrepresenta- ion of the ignorant. Let it be known, then, that we stand as pastor and people on the inspired Word of God, from which draw the rale of faith and practice as Christians; | that the words of Jesus the Christ, as recorded by | the four Evangelists, are held by us in especial love | and reverence as being the highest expression of | wisdom ever given by God Jo men; that the great facts taught therein of man’s sinfulness, and re- demption therefrom by faith in Christ through regener- ation, justification and sautification we cordially be- | lieve; that the terms of th: piritual salvation are two—repentance for sin of such a sort as leadeth to godliness of thought and act in the subject, and faith in Christ of such a sort as to incline the believer to do His will and to love God with a love that “‘casteth out tear; that all who declare that they have complied with these conditions of savation and are seeking to live as becometh such, are at once and gladly received as brothers and sisters in the Lord with us, be their education in and understanding of doctrinal ‘theology outside of what is embraced in the above state- ment what it may, for we hold that profound ignorance and misapprehension of technical theology, | and grossly erronoous views in regard to tt, may cbexist with such love for God and men and faith in Christ as guarantee to the soul salvation, and that no body of professed Christians have wright to exclude from the indorsement and help of their followsbip, of the privileges of the Sacraments, any who humbly’ re- gard themselves participants in the greut salvation, For tity years the Christian people of America have been praying for union. For fifty years God has been answering those prayers, until a body of union senti- ment has been accumulated, the volume and energy of | whose influence is felt all over Christendom. For half | a contury the Christians of New England have besought Christ, their Great Head, that His followers of all ae- j nominations might be one, as He and the Father are | one, For haif a century, we repeat, Christ has answered that prayor, ‘That answer wo propose to organize into a church, whose | ioundations shail ve laid by the hearty help of all, and whose ministrations shall be, from this day on, for the help and consolation of all. To the end that those who have beon praying may see before they die the em- | bodied #nswer to their petition standing before their eyes, and ali sceptics and scotfors may know that how- ever remote their azure summits may stand beyond | mortal ken, still the prayers of God’s saints aro heard on the hills of heaven, and answerea, too, by Him who sits King amid their everiasting surroundings. | ont to the loved. Love them all as Clirist loves them. Work with them as opportunity presents, without re- Hold no good thing buck. Share it with them, Be one with them. as Christ and the Father are one, What soul eee will be yours uf you db as your Lord bids you in the text, I do not flatter myself or you by imagining that we do any great thing here to-day; but I profoundly feet we do a good thing, and that is better. The bost fru of all endeavor is the addition it makes to the actor’ { is given to some to shine like stars the firmament; we aspire to no such elevation, wo dream of no such brilliancy. If we may only be faith- ful to our trust; if we may only be consecrated to our work, then shall the measure of our hope be full, and of our joy, too. We know not what agen Wo seek not to know. We know there is no future iw which God is not, That is enough. If we be hindered, disappointment with Him does not kill, If we bo prospered, prosperity with Him will not spoil. So whether Cite hindered or helped our hearts will rest on Emmanuei as a lower, whether shut or open, restv on its stem, THE SINGING. One of the striking features of these union services: will be the singing. Under the instruction and chargo of Professor Tourjee there is to be a choir of 300 voices to render the old chorals, and in addition to this thero will be a quartet, made up of the best vocal tal- ent to be secured in the country, and there will also be a liberal sprinkling of the old-time congregational sing- ing, and all of the three will blend in beautiful har- mony. Notwithstanding the remark may savor of Boston ogotiem, T will mention that the “big organ’ i also employed at pleasant advantage in rendering the hymns of praise which are to be @ distinguishing few ture in these union services. “THR GOLDEN RULE.’ But the indomitabie ta astor does not stop with bis pulpit labors ip behalf of Christianity. He will further attempt to evangelize the community through the Goklen Rule, anew, independent and re- ligious journal, the first number of which is to be issued some time during the current week. Mr. Mur- ray will bethe chief editor, and he promises that it shall be pure intone, varied in contents, scholarly, earnest, progressive and cheap. While it will make no leparture’’ in matters of Christian faith it will strike out a decidedly new line in which to conduct» religious paper. MOODY. A THEOLOGICAL FIREBRAND THROWN IN AMONG THE EVANGELIST’S LABORS—HETERODOXY AND APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION COMBINED IN ANTAG= ONISM—A SERMON ADDRESSED TO CHRISTIAN MOTHERS. Brartienoro, Vt., Oct, 3, 1875, The work of evangelization, as expounded and car- ried on by Mr. Moody, the celebrated Christian worker, is now and then mecting with a few obstacles up here in tho Connecticut Valley. It is not intended by this statement to represent that bis efforts in behalf of sal- vation have not been productive of much good, but simply to indicate the fact that those who disagree with him in his manner of dispensing the Gospel and exter- minating sin and impurity are daily becoming more bold and numerous, and as a consequence the commu- nity threatens to be divided into two classes, who may very properly bo denominated as the Moodyites and the anti-Moodyites, THE PEELING is probably more intense here than in Northfield, Mr, Moody’s home, where Mr, Sunderland, the Unitarian divine, preached such a criticising discourse two or three Sabbaths since, Ever since Mr. Moody com- menced his sermons in Northfield the attendants from Brattleboro have been yery numerous, ana the spirit of his theology proved quite contagious among them, Tocheck thisthe sermon of Mr. Sunderland, as re- ported in the HxRALD, has been republished in pam- phiet form and thousands of copies distributed all up ‘and down the valley, and next Sunday Mr. Sunderland himself will preach from a Brattleboro pulpit, pre- sumably forthe purpose of neutralizing any effect which may have been produced by an address which Mr, Moody made in the Town Hall this forenoon. Mr, Moody had decided that his discourses would be con- fined to Northfield until ho and Mr, Sankey com- menced their pilgrimage throughout the country; but the Christianity of the people up hero threatened to become so terribly perverted that he felt it bis duty to come to the rescue in response to the plaintive ap- peals of the principal members of the orthodox Bap- tist and Methodist churches, The Town Hall, a hand- some and spacious ediice, was secured and it was given out that Mr. Moody’s address was intended chiefly for the Christian workers in Brattleboro, or, {n other words, the prominent members of the three churches named. THR ISSUING OF TICKETS. To render the occasion more exclusive and distinctive Mr. Moody decided that only those hoiding tickets sbould be admitted, and that these tickets should be distributed by the leading members of the several churches, The adoption and carrying out of this plan has caused anything but entire satisiaction among the citizens, and the most prominent of them, as well as many active churchmen do not hesitate to DENOUNCE MR. MOODY in most unmeasured terms. They feel and express very frankly that the doctrine of free salvation, in spite of all the evangelist’s professions, 1s not a part of his creed, The hall was well filled by the ticket holders, but ere Was & notable absence of the leading citizens and nitariaus, Universalists, Episcopalians and Catho- L@#, there were scarcely any representatives, THE SERVICES, thongh commanding the closest attention and interest throughout, seemed to lack that magnetic charm which bas long been such a distinguishing feature of his dis- courses in Northfeld. It may have been that the evangelist wag laboring under indisposition, for when be had finished he expressed himself to be in such a nervous state of mind that he was obliged to decline the congratulations of those who had been moved by his powerful language After prayer and singing Mr. Moody read afew passages from Scripture, and then proceeded to instruct und enliven those whom he ad- dressed as his fellow Christian workers, THM DISCOURSR. If we work for God, he said, we must have pure hearts, for if our hearts are not pure our work will bo in vain and the world will call us hypocrites. Every child of God has a work to do, and if it is not per- formed the answer tnust be given at the bar of God. If every man should do what was assigned to him we should see such a revival in the United States as wag never known before, The pulpit and the people must ‘nite, and before such a righteous combination all the hosts of earth and hell will be swept away. The three ents which he wished to urge and inspire Chris- tian workers with were enthusiasm, love and sympa- thy. He liked to see a man as enthusiastic in God’s work as he would be im bis own busi- ness, Ho referred to the enthusiasm shown 1a the Roman wars andin our own waras instances where it accomplishod victory, and said that it was that same enthusiasin which was needed in Christian labor and not that stolid and cold inuifference which. was often observed. Love, too, should be bestowed, and the workers should go through the world with a smile and scatter affection alike among the young and the old. If we have lo ehind our words, they will barn down deep into the hardest heart, and our efforts in behalf of salvation wili rarely if ever bein vain. We must have sympathy also, for as Christ was moved with compas Bon, 80 Must we go to the outcasts with loving hearts and sympathy if we are w bring them up out of sm aud iniqaity. In closing, Mr. Moody urged that it was an exalted privilege to be a co-worker of Christ, and Le hoped that in the work before them, here in Brattleboro, their hearts would be opeved' and inspired by the Holy Ghost. The remarks of the evangelist, as before in- timated, absorbed the thoughtful incerest of his hearers throughout, and it is to be lamented that their effort to be weakened in consequence of the mistake which was made in discriminating in the matter of persons who should be admitted to hear him, In consequence of the criticisms which are made in every quarter it is not Likely that the error will be repeated. COLLECTING CUSTOMS DUTIES. The enforcement of the new system of collecting duties on passengers’ baggage 1s productive of much benefit to the revenue, The duties collected from the cabin passengers of the Scythia, of the Cunard line, was no less a sum than $6,000 in gold. The passengers of the Ethiopia, of the Anchor line, which recently ar- RELIGIOUS CONVICTION, ‘This church, then, whose initial service we hold to- day, amid the disadvantages imposed upon us by the jace in which we are compelled to meet, whose secu- | jar sights and associations we seek help of God to spiritualize, is born of no personal or ambitious plan, it comes to meet & want unmet by any existing organization, to fill piace among the religious and educational iorces of this city unfll to do a work wiich is to-day undon It antagonizes with no denomination, but rather seeks to co-operate with all If it shail receive additions | from sister churches, it will do go not because it will seek them, but because it is benofited by the same law of preference and aflinity as other bodies. It builds its hope of prosperity on the breadth of its plans, tho energy of {18 administration, the democracy of ie spirit, the devotion of its membership, the presence of the Holy Ghost, its love for man, ita loyalty wo Christ and the blessing of reg og God. My people—for from this hour you who worship here are such—mine by the election of your preference and the appointment of Providence—the one great, iumin- ous truth above us to-day i# the unity of ail who be- | lieve in the Lord Jesus, the Christ. They may not think as we think on a hundred points; they may be | diverse from us in education and mental claracterisiics, | which for the most part decide a man’s theolugical status; they may bold the truth in connection with forms of worship which mar rather than perfect faith; they may bo nigh or in foreign parts; they may even exclude us (rom their ywebip; but wherever red, still if they hold the great cardinal truths of Christiauity in reverence and seek to live pure, holy, upright lives, then are they our brethren, and as such we claim them now and here This, wo repeat, is the solar truth standing as the sun stands at midday in the heavens, ve men's heads, From it may there descend more aud more the needed light to illume our future path, Send forth your hearts, then, toward all these bound to vou by everlasting tloy, as’ love senda its thoughts , | thern through for a quarter of that sum, | be old smu, rived, paid $1,600 in gold. The declaration oath taken before a deputy collector by passengers is treated, as may be expected by some people, a8 a mere “Custom House oath ;’’ but others, who think more seriously of the penalty of perjury, swear to the truth. The oath is not allowed to be taken by steerage passengers, Deputy Collector Burton is of the opinion that when the steamers return to this port, on which | the declaration forms have been placed by the customs authorities, that, considerabte time will be saved, ag the passengers will e them filled up previous to ar- rival ia por, At the present moment these declara- tions have to be given to the passengers upon their ar- rival in port bere, and, consequently, much time 1s lost in filling them up, A Parisian modiste recently had to pay $691 for dresses she imported. Under the régime of the old “bi ring’ she would, perhaps, have got Some of the steerage passengers arriving in this port are alleged to Jers, Who prefer trying to pass their mer- chandise throagh Castle Garden instead of coming as cabin passengers and taking the cast iron oath, PARIS GREEN AGAIN. At half-past three o'clock yesterday morning Rudolph Raussodet, German, aged forty-tive years, entered the Beventeenth precinct station house and asked permis- sion to lie down, stating that he was sick. On being juestioned he sald that his wife resided at the corner of roome and Elizabeth streets; also that be had for- merly done business on KigHty-third street as a real eg- tate agent. He added that ho had taken ten cents’ worth of Paris green about two hours previous for the purpose of ending hia life, being ous of employment and discouraged and wishing to die, Police Surgcon Maclay was promptly summoned and ordered the man tw be removed to Bellevue Hospital, Hie condition te cousidered very critical,