The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1875, Page 3

MR. MOODY’S WORK. The Evangelist in Brooklyn and New York. INCREASING INTEREST DEVELOPED. THE MORNING PRAYER MEETING, Mr. Talmage’s Tabernacle yesterday morning was not £0 denscly crowded as on several recent occasions, only the lower part being filled, while the gallery remained nearly empty, Mr. Moody, at the opening of the exer- cises, read a very large number of requests for prayers, twenty being from cities and towns for eburches, seventy from mothers for wayward children, thirty from loving sisters for brothers on the downward road and many for vacksliders that they might be brought back into the way of godliness, After a prayer Mr, Moody annoanced ‘Praise’? as the subject of his dis- tourse, and read the 146th and 147th Psalms, which ex- aortallto praise the Maker and Ruler of all things, David praised the Lord while he was in this life; now | be praises Him near the throne on high. If we hope | for salvation we should praise Him, Except the human heart all things praise Him. We should all praise Him this morning and look to him for the full measure of blessing. Mr. Moody then offereda short prayer, when | the congregation joined in singing the Lid hym Oh, happy day, that fixed my choice. Several persons stated cases’ of conversion as the fruits of the several services. Among others, Rey, W. C. Steele, of the Fleet street Methodist church, said seventeen young penitents in his church on Sunday bud found peace. Rev. Mr. Parker led in pri shanking God for His merciful work. Further r of experience, ‘prayers and singing followed, the entire meeting showing signs of deep feeling and thankful- acss for the degree of success which has rewarded the Mlorts of the revivalists. The churches of South Brooklyn are making ar- fangements to hold a union prayer meeting every morning, at half-past seven o'clock, in one of their thurches, to commence on Monday, ‘November 22. A conference committee was held on Saturday evening, | In the First place Methodist Episcopal church, Kev. W. N. Jones, pastor, and it was there resolved it was ex: | dient to bold one. There will be another meeting | hiseevening, November 16, in the lecture room of the | South Congregational church, when the pastors and delegates from cach church will make the final arrange- ments, EVENING MEETING Ait THE RINK. Something more than the usual crowd assembled in the Rink last evening—6,000 tickets were given out for | the onagmecting, The time was occupied, as is the Keneral custom before the commencement of the meet- ing, im the singing of hymns by the choir. Among those on the platform were Bishop Foster and Mr, Hill- man, of Troy, N. ¥., compiler of the “ Revivalist”’ and President of the Round Lake Camp Meeting Associa- | tion, ‘The meeting was opened by the singing of the b2d hymn, Oh, think of the home over there, Mr. Moody, after a prayer by Dr. Parmly, gave out the | notices for the week and expressed his satisfaction at | the new set of faces before him. Mr. Sankey then sang the 17t hyin, Kuocking, knocking, who is there? after which Mr. Moody read a few verses from the fourteenth chapter of Luke, then offered an earnest prayer that this week might be the mightiest of thar | work in Brooklyn, which petition was indorsed by hearty “Amens” all over the building. alr, Sankey kang as asolo the eigbty-first. hymn, Mr. Moody sur- passed any of his previous efforts last night; his ear- bestness was felt by every one of his hearers, and hun- dreds were affected to tears. He began bis remarks by saying:—I want to call your attention this evening to one clause in the passage I have read to you, “I pray thee have me excused.” ‘Those three men invited to the feast wanted to be excused; it says, | “They all with one consent began to make | excuses.” Did you ever stop to think what | uid take place sf God should siy, “Twill take away | ail that want to be excused.’ If that should take place to-morrow I should have a shm night. Ishould preach to empty aecord they began to make excuses,” and they have | kept it ki pretty weilever since. They have a great | many children living to-day. Bear in amd they were | hot invited to anything disagreeable; they were not in- vited to go to the Kink aud hear some stammering preacher. They were invited to a royal feast, I have got a royal feast here to-night for you, and you are in- vited by the King of Kings. He wants you all there; udience tomorrow urs, “With one | He invites every one in all the univers It is to a feast und it is a king that in- vites us, and He wants us to come. He dou’t mock you by inviting you and then not giving ry the power tocome. You can come if you will. at “They all, with one accord, began to make ex- cuses,”” If aman prepares a feast they all hasten to | come, but if God prepares a toast excuses rain in, It I should get off this pulpit and ask taat lady why she don’t accept God she would h an excuse OS THE END oF Wine ‘ToSGUE. If one were not there Satan would put one there; that is What he has been doing for 6,000 years, Adam’s ex- cuse was, “It is this woman’ that thou gavest me;” laying the blame on God. You cannot exhaust the excuses; put let me say you can tie them all up in a bundle and label them lies, Look at these three men ud see What their excuse was, The first says, “I have bought some land and must go to see it’—a ypood business | man would say, “Why did he not see it belore he | bought it?” It was not that he was afraid some one would step in ahoad of him, but “I must go and look ait.” Strange exeu eh supper Ume is no time | to look at land; you want light to examine land. The cond said, “Well, | have bougnt five yoke of oxen | and I must go and prove them”? Why did he not prove them when he bought them’ Another down- Tight lie, “They all with one accord began to make * they did not have them; they had to make The third man had married a wife and could not (Laughter.) Why not take the wife along—a come, newly married wile would like to go to a feast—or else, Mf she would not come, leave her atbome? But you fee on the face of these excuses that they were meant to ease the conscience. Some of you smile at these excuses, but have you anything better to oiler Y Fighteen hundred years have rolled away; have men | grown any wiser? I think not. I never have found one single excuse better than these three men gave, Lt is easy enough to laugh at them, but I honestly think our excuses a great deal worse than those, The great- est excuse is the Bible, and of all the sceptics and juiidels there is not one who reads it | through; they read a chapter bere and there and say ‘it is all dark and mysterious, and condemn the whole book. People are very guarded about giv- ing opinions of men’s books, but they are very {reo to condemn this book. A man must be born of God be- fore he can understand godly things, There is one thing you understand—that you’ have sinned, and you know God is the friend of sinners, Take Him for a friend aud you will begin to understand it, Suppose L should ask iy little boy, six years old, if he had Jearned how to read and write and spell, and ho should say, “Why, papa, 1 have been all day trying to learn a, b, ©,” andl should say, “I'll uke you out of that school, you dow’t icarn anything,” you would say, | “Moody, you have gone clean mad.” ‘That is | about the way men reason and talk about | the Bible, it will take us all eternity | to know about God, Let me say, if there is any sceptic here who gives that as an excuse he will not appear at the marriage supper of the Lord, and give that as an excuse you will never give it atthe throne of God, We see that it is a mighty power when meu take it up with all their hearts. Some make the | excuse of tale proiessors in religion. They don’t want to associate with hypocrite. What is that to you? ‘This 18 an individual matter. “Because there are liypo- rites in the Church ts no reason for your not coming. If you really do not want to associate with hypocrite you had better come to God, because they will not be at the marriage supper of the Lamb. We don't ask you to follow us; you might tind a great many | flaws in our characters, but you can find no tlaw | in our Head and Redeemer, who went up on high, God is pure and spotless, and there is no reason why you should not believe in Him, Some say itis a hard thing to be a Christian, hundreds say that the devil 18 an easy master and’ the Lord is a hard one: God commands us to do what we cannot do, and then | punishes us eternally for not doing tt. Do you believe | that? Satan never invented such a lie us that. Seo | what Scripture says:--"My yoke is easy and iny bur | den is light.’’ Scripture says:—'The way of the trans. | ressor is hard.”’ Do you believe the Scriptures? | Don’t go out of this Rink saying the devil is an easy Master and God is a hard one. Ask those who have SERVED NOTH MASTERS. I have served both ters, and I testify that the devil has been a hard master; but I have been in the service of Christ for twenty years, and God is a delight ful wnd easy master, and i olfer Him to you to-night, | Those of you who know, is God a bard master? (A Unanimous “No” from the congregation.) This night change masters, This wight accept the invitation. | Come this night, and thefe is not a power on earch nor in hell that can keep you from Him, On! prodigal, | return, Oh! wanderer, come home. After a fow seconds of silent prayer Mr. Sankey broke | the intense silence by beginning to sing, in an unutter- | ably plaintive voice, “Come Home, Come Home," After he hud sung one verse Mr, Moody’ was obliged to stop Lim. The ellect was so great on the audience that many sobbed aloud. Roig Moody then brought the meeting to an abrupt close, THE REVIVALISTS IN GOTHAM. While Moody and Sankey and tho evangelical clergy- men of the City of Churches have been waging @ re- Jentloss war against sin and Satan, and gathering souls to the vineyard of the Lord, our own resident clerg men have net been idle, Feeling the need of an awakening on this side of the East River, a number of Pastors have decided upoa paving the way for the toming of the evangelists in January by preliminary labor, by interesting iukewarm Christians in the com- dna revival, aud thus organizing an army of lay workers NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1875—TRIP to supplement the proposed labors of Messrs. Moody | and with the progress of the missions there he has and Sankey, These revivalists go from Brooklyn to Philadel; the end of this week, and will not begin the acti work in this city until the first week in January. The pastors, therefore, propose to spend the churches of Rev. Dr. Tyng, Jr., and Rev. Dr. Hep- worth, with a view of getting up @ rell- gious fervor among the people, or, in other words, preparing the way for the harvest that the evangelists are expected to reap. Tire first of these meetings took place yesterday at noon, at the churches named, Several thousand tickets had been distributed announcing the prayer meetings and permitting the holders thereof to enter the church corner of Madison avenue and Forty-second street, by the side door, be- fore a quarter to twelve, when the doors would be ‘thrown open for the general public. Half an hour be- fore noon the crowd, eager for admission, was very large, but good order was maintained and the com- modious edifice was quickly filled in every part. In- side were Messrs. J. Carlies Lawrence, Charles R. Stirling, W. J. Sinclair, William Buckingham and other active ushers, who provided seats for the ladies largely composing the audience, The crowd had learned that Moody and Sankey were to appear for the first time in this city at this meeting, and there was considerable pushing to secure seats near the pulpit. On the plat- | form were the pastor of the Holy Trinigy, Rev. Stephen | Hi, Tyug, Jr; Rev. Howard Crosby, Rev, Dr. Ormiston, Rev, Dr, A. 8, Robinson, Rev, Dr. Ludlow, Re: Dr. Zabriskie, of Connecticr Rev. G, Plauy, Key. Drs. Anderson and Armit Rev. G. 7 Gray, Rev, Dr, Irving, Rev, Dr. W. H. Taylor, Rev. Dr. Booth, and Mr, Weeks, one of the assistants’ of Moody and Sankey. ‘There’ were also upon the platform | large number. of lady members of this and sister churches, TNE PROCERDINGS OPENED by Mr, Weeks giving out the thirty-sixth hymn of the Moody and Sankey collection, beginning with the words, “I hear the Saviour say,” ‘This was tollowed by hymn No, 3, beginning—I miss Thee every hour.’’ The vast audience of saints and sinners who filled the galleries and the body of the chureh followed Mr, Weeks in the hymn with much | mittee to be presented to the G fervor, and when Mr. Wee id, “Now, friends, sing the chorus just as softly as you can,” their voices fell to a Jow pitch and the efiect was very impressive. ‘Then followed, “ need Thee every hour, :nost gracious Lord,” in which the congregation genorally joined. When this hymn had been sung Mr, Weeks moved away from the organ and Mr. Sankey took his place. The audience was quick to notice this change, aud arose in their seats and eagerly bent forward or stood on tiptoe to catch a glimpse of the man who, as Hyatt Smith expresses it, “melts the wax for Moody to allix the seal,”’ Some were 80 eager in their desire that for the moment forgetting they were in a house of worship and notin a theatre, they stood up on the seats to overlook the heads that rose in front of them, Dr, Howard Crosby then led in an earnest supplication to God to incline the hearts of his hearers to the reception of the truth; to pour out His holy spirit upon the masses who know not God, and to bless the work of the evangelists, ‘ prayer ended, Mr. Moody sung alone with marked eflect the hymn (No, 120)—‘Hark, the voice of Jesus erying.”” Mr. Moody then arose, and after scanning the sembled worshippers he made an earnest adaress, sceming Conscious that an occasion of unusual moment had drawn him to the first etty of the land—the digging editice which he and Mr. Sankey hope to help erect here; and yet he bore himself im the same mod- upassuming though decided and — earnest way which has marked his course in Brooklyn and in Great Britain. He wes stmply in eurnesi, and the barden of ail his several speeches was work and work, He pointed out that any success which might have at- tended his work was mostly due to the inquiry mect- ings, and he powerfully impressed on those assembled the importance of establishing these meetings, Bible readings, &c. He told many snecdotes of earnest labor doue by ladies in England, who, declining all invita- tions to parties and social gatherings, Bible in hand, entered into the work of the inquiry meetings, and labored for months in the interest of the Master. EH. particularly impressed upon the ladies of the congrega tion the necessity for ACTIVE WORK AND CONSTANT VIGILANCE in the saving of siuners, and declared that more good was done in the inquiry meetings in London than all other efforts on the part of himself and bis associates, | He instanced the case of one woman—a lady of tashion— who, ignoring all. her social engagements, was instrumental in the conversion of 150 ’ souls in four months, and declared that he believed there | were many in New York who could do as much for Jesus. He characterized such work as a luxury; it was certainly a luxury to Jead souls to Christ, and ho did not think there is an angel in heaven who would not rejoice to come down here this winter and help to Jead souls to the Saviour, He did not like to see_per- sous 1 the inquiry room without the Bible. ‘Lhe Word of God was all sufficient, and much could be reading it in the inquiry meetings. He concluded by expressing the hope that when they begin their labors in this city they will find oy orkers to go out with the Bible in hand to work in Chri&t’s vineyard. Mr. Sankey then sung “Ninety and Nine” in his best sty.e, to the evident appreciation of the audience. Eloquent addresses were made by Rev. Dr. Crosby, Rey, Dr. Tyng, Rev. Dr. Armitage and Rev. Dr. W. I! Taylor and others, urging the Christian people of the city to gather daily in their meetings and endeavor to | bring the sinners ‘under the influence of divine grace. After the singing of other hymns and a prayer by Mr. Moody the proceedings closed, Dr, Tyng then invited all persons willing to join in the labor of the evening meeting to go forward and record their ames. Quite a number of ladies and gentiomen did so, while han- dreds lingered about the aisles until the last of the clergymen had passed trom the platform to the street. The hoonday prayer meetings will be continued every day for some time, beginning ut twelve o'clock and con- tinuing tll one o’¢lock, in Dr. Tyng’s church, THE OVERFLOW MEETING. Those who could not obtain admittance to the Church of the Holy Trinity filled the Church of the Disciples, There Mr. Needham, the Irish evangelist, Rev. Mr. Hepworth, pastor of the church, and A. C. Arnold, As- sistant Pastor Steel, of Brooklyn, and Rey, Mr. Boss, also of Brooklyn, made addresses.” The singing was led by Mr. George Weeks, Mr. E, S, Cummings presiding at the organ. ‘The visitors to the meeting, as they alighted from the car Imes converging at the Grand Central depot, were reminded by the following legends painted upon the fence opposite the depot. An artist was at noon en- gaged upon the work, and when the services began he unished ail but the word “saying,” after “faithful”? ;— OOELELOLELE DELL DOLE DDLE DOLE DOLED EIDE: g LET US PRAY. HE UPTOWN NOON PRAYER MERTING is now held in the church on Madison avenue, cor- ner of Forty-second street, EVERY DAY, From 12 to 1 o'clock, ALL ARE INVITED. COME. Even if you can spend only a part of the Hour with us. OL ELELE LE IOLTELONE TELE DELETE LETOLE DEDEDE LE DELO: 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 OONOLE TEL ORE TELE DOLOLEDDIDLETE DE EOE PONOLE DEEL What must I do to be saved ? 2 Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall bez 3 saved and thy house. 3 P| ‘Acts. 16 chapter, verse SL. 3 3 This isa fathtul QL AOIO LOLOL ELE DEOL LL LEEELE LE OOLOOOLILT OO PETOEE The work inaugurated yesterday is likely to bear its fruit, It will be conducted by the leading clergymen of the city without the aid of the evangelists, who remain in Brooklyn during this week and open in Philadelphia on Sunday next. METHODIST MISSIONS. BISHOP FOSTER ON THE IDEAL CHRISTIAN AND AN EMASCULATED PREACHERS ARRAIGNED-—-APPROPRIATIONS TO FOREIGN MISSIONS. Pursuant to adjournment the General Missionary Committee met with the Methodist preachers yesterday morning in Washington square Methodist Episcopal church, and the united company, together with a number of friends present, was addressed by Bishops Janes, Foster and Simpson, Bishop Janes merely made a few introductory remarks touching the im- | portance of the denominations’ missions at home and abroad, Bishop Foster being called out spoke m gen- eral terms, not so much about missions, though that was the underlying thought of his remarks, as about the conversion of the world, which he believes to be the problem of the Chureh to-day. This work, he said, must be done by the Church, God is always ready, and a3 ready to-day as ever, and the question is simply, How shall we educe the power of God for this end, the Church being the medium by which He shall accomplish this work? In speaking of ideal Chris- tians, he asked the question “WHAT 18 AN IDRAL CHRISTIAN f”” One that, according to Christ's standard, will be Potential in this world, Most of our preaching isto please the people for an hour and to beguile the hour pleasantly, Some there are who seek to get souls to Christ, to get meu saved, and there they rest. But those souls must be developed; they must grow, and tt 's the duty of the pulpit to Help them, Uhat they may grow {nto such a character that Christ can say itis such as He wants, They must be devoted, and grow- ing out of their devotion they will love the prayer meeting, the class meeting and the public worship of the congregation, They will fuxuriate in all these, But there we make another mistake. We think reli- giow is a thing to luxuriate on, and we are content if we ean enjoy ourselves and “get happy’ in these means of grace A great many think this is the highest ting to be attained, Wo make a great mistake, It weakens the power of the Church all the | way along the line of its activities But what is the true exponent ot the religion of Jesus Christ? It is that which begins as T have tndicated and doseribed and all the means of grace—not tn long prayers or loud shouts or excitemonts. The service of God consists in obedience to His commandments, And. in propertion as aman grows into Christ he becomes the ideal Christian that God wants, All by energies are concentrated in doing the will of God ow the earth, Now, when we become thoroughly Christian, thoroughly lke Christ, our lives bound up in His lif Thave the maximum power of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh, and not tll then, Bishop Simpson addressed the meeting on the condi- tion and prospects of the missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Northern and Central Burope and lialy, which sections the Bushop bas recently visited, ne by * GOSPEL — METHODIST | | same us it had last year, which | The Hunt | the intervening time in daily union prayer meetings at | “ | to India, Bul; | faith: | ing his election for a third term, | tive for this agitation on the part of his enemies, but | opinion of the Attorney been greatly pleased. The meeting adjourned there- r. APTERNOON SESSION, At two o'clock the General Missionary Committee met at No. 805 Broadway, Bishop Merrill presiding. Dr. the devotions, The committee appointed to consider the condition, fuancially and otherwise, of the Chinese missions in Calitornia, reported in favor of #iving $10,284 gold to that work, as against $7,500 last year and $12,100 asked for this year. But with this sum Dr. Gibson will be obliged to drop one of his con- verted native missionaries who bas been laboring with great success. In view of this the Doctor made a pro- osition to the committee to transfer its mission ip North China tothe province of Canton, whence all the emigrants to Culifornia come, Ceutral China received $9,430, East China (Foochoo) $13,560, North China $11,478, “These sums represented reduc- tions in Fast and North China and an increase in Cen- tral China. Atter a long discussion on the appropria- tion to Germany and Switzerland, whose claim was presented for $24,400, but, in view of the finances, that mission received $23,000. ' The mission of Denmark got $8,892, which was an increase of $1,892 from the sum given last year, ® brother in Copenhagen of debt, and he is to be retired, Norway got $12,000. the same as last year, and Sweden $24,600, a reduction of $7,500 on last year's appropria- tic ‘The India Conference asked for $90,000, $27,000 more than it had last year; $33,500 of this amount goes for salaties, $6,296 for native evangelists who travel about the country without pastoral charge, preaching everywhere. Schools take $9,000, and for church building. interest, taxes, rent, &c. “and extension of the work other large sums were asked. But the mission- ary secretaries asked for $63,016 for this work, the sum was grant Cawnpore school tor English speaking chil dren asked for $10,000 to aid it in developing a hative ministry and Christian population in India, ‘The school was founded a year or two ago by the Ln- dia Conference, and all Uhat it expected from the Missionary Society was the services of a pringipal. But this year they have failed to receive the aid im India which they liad anticipated, and hence applied here, A motion to grant the school $5,000 was voted down, The missions in Bombay, Bengal'and Madras received $500 for transfers of one or two men from this country aria got $8,000, the same as. last This fimshed the appropriations tor the day ‘The’ Sec retaries were then appointed a committee to prepare the quadrennial report of the General Missionary Com- meets in Baltimore next June. Adjourned till 9:30 A, M, to-day, REFORMED CHURCH PASTORS. The pastors of the Dutch Reformed Church or New York and vicinity (German) held their regular monthly session at the German Evangelical church, in Houston street, yesterday. Brooklyn, Astoria, Jersey City, Bergen Point, Union Hill and New York were repre- sented, CHSARISM IN A NEW PHASE. A THIRD TERM ORGAN. [From the Washington Sunday Chronicle.} Here we are again in precisely a condition similar to that in which the republican party was placed eight and four yearsago, It needs to be saved. It can only win a great victory ou the personal merits of its candi- date for President. It could not win with General | Sherman, because his Roman Catholic identities are tor the placing of the foundation stones of the spiritual | against him, It cannot nominate Sheridan, because his foreign birth excludes him, It has not got a civilian who could carry Pennsylvania, Ohio or New York. Charies*Francis Adams is the ‘only civilian who has anything like a clear record and # personal or historical prestige to help in case he were nominated; but he could arouse no enthusiasm, and would be as dead a weight to carry as was Judge Pershing, the democratic candidate for ernor of Pennsylvania, There is no escape from this view of the question of electing a President, and the masses of the republican party, no longer alfrighted with the absurd ery of ‘surism, are now looking to Grant as contidentiy as they ever regarded him. In- deed, the democracy in Ohio and Pennsylvania actu- ally made a third t n issue against the republicans: but it failed to excite the repugnance it was calculated it would arouse, while without a doubt the position of Grant on the educational question aided the republican party in securing victory. Governor Hayes, after the campaign was over in Ohio, stated in the Executive Mansion, in Harrisburg, Pa., while a guest of Gov ernor Hartranft, that the educational question had iven the republicaus the victory im the Buckeye State. “Tt was Grant who made that question a republican issue in & speech delivered a few weeks previous tu the Ohio election, Such is our view of the aspects of the Presidential election as the nomination of a candidate concerns the republican party. So far as the President is concerned we have no interest beyond that of adhering faithfully to the truth of history and of bearing testimony to the Iness with which he has discharged all the duties his countrymen have devolved upon him, For the rest ‘we are quite willing to let the future take care of itseif THE THIRD TERM KNAVERY AND FOLLY. [From the Evening Post.] Some of the pretended friends of President Grant are uniting with some of his avowed enemies to make the remainder ot his period of service as distasteful to the public and as unpleasant to himself as possible by urg- ‘There may be a mo- the course of his friends in foreing him into a position irritating to the last degree to the people of the country can be explained only upon the theory of the slavish subserviency of a personal parasite or upon that of the desperation of a professed politician. The Washington Sunday Chronicle 1s reported by a telegraphic despatch to have published an article “de- cluring that Grant is the only man in the country who can save the republican party, and favoring him’ for a third time.” The States whic have been carried in this year’s elections by the republicans have been car- ried by narrow majorities. The republican majority of the votes cast in all the States which have held elee- tions this year is significantly small. The major would have been the other way if the republican con- ventions had pot, with singuiar unanimity, declare against the third term. If the President \ intelli- gently careful ot republican interests or his own he would find a way of silencing some of his friends who are knavish or ivolish, or both, CANVASSING THE RETURNS. AN OPINION SOLICITED FROM ATTORNEY GF! ERAL PRATT AS TO MARINE COURT JUS- TICES—PROTEST AGAINST THE ELECTION OF JAMES W. GERARD, The County Canvassers yesterday continued their routine duties of revising the election returns, Some slight errors case the inspectors were sent for. the slightest consequence in any of the districts in the figures published im- mediately after election, The vote between, Robin- son and Cudlip, for Alderman in the Eighth Senato- rial district, is very close, both candidates up to the present claiming an election. THM MARINE COURT JUSTICES. Alderman Blessing presented the following reso- Intions yesterday, which were laid over for further consideration Resolved, That the communication ot protest of Hu Coleman, attorney, &e., in regard to th Justice ul thé Marine Court referred to the hiv opinion there: |, That the opi ted as to the ©: No changes of f the City of New Daniel Pratt, Attorney Gen- be it further he Attorney Get lity of that Aw fh to the M und. to extend the jurisdic 2, 1870, being chapter S82 of the ction of t be it further. quests that tho by him on the 7th inst., before ew York into one act said Court,” passed M laws of thit veur, whi additional justices of s Resolved, That this Rourd y ral be furnish point herein suggested, on Weduosday, the eight o'clock P. THE SEVENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. The following protest was received from Mr. Laim- | beer, republican candidate for Senator in the Seventh | | district: No. 19 Manson Avexuy, i York, Nov. 1. : To tH Hovonanie Board ov SuruKvisons ov tHe Cire AND County oF New York :— Gexriese jersigned hereby protests ayainst counting an at the late election for James W, Gerard for Senator in the Seventh Senatoginl district, reason that Mr, ¢ within one hundred day vious to such election an officer under the city government oiticer, and was and is, therefore, a sehoui tthe eighth sec of the Stat ry respectfully, y not eligible to the office of ars WILLIAM LAIMBEER, The same decision rendered in the protest against counting Marine Court justices’ ballots was given in this instance—that the duties of the Board are minis- terial and uot judicial; they are compelled to canvass all votes cust for candidates at the election, ‘The canvassing of the Nineteenth ward was com- Senator. V pleted shortly before nine o'clock in the evening and | the Board adjourned ull Us morning, The final statement will probably be made on Thursday after- noon. SCANDAL. John W. Taylor, a Newark lawyer, who was named a Commissioner to take the testimony of Joseph Richards, in the case of Joseph Loader, indicted for perjury, yesterday notified Loader’s counsel that he declined to act, He recommended Mr, John White- bead for the position, annonnced his determination to prosecute the indict- ment against Loader as soon as is consistent with his other duties, Mr, Marean, counsel for Loader, threatens, if his client is brought to trial, to call Theodore Tilton, Mr. and Mrs. Moulton, Henry ©. Bowen, Mrs, Brad: shaw and others who are yet unknown, but whose tes- tumony will be very important, Kev. William Lves Budington, pastor of the Clinton enue Congregational chureh, said yesterday that be mma C, Moulton would be justified in rt thought Mrs, calling @ coune the difliculties between herself and Mr. Beecher, He thought such a council would be called, and that it would be an ex parte council, as Plymouth church would refuse to join the call, ‘The reverend gentieman said most emphaucally that Plymouth chureh had for- feited the right of fellowship by its action in dropping from the roll book the name of Airs, Moulton, But $300 of this amount goes to reheve | were discovered, and in each | ¢ been developed so far | fs | canvassing of the | article of | District Attorney Britton has | il of Congregational churches to settie | PANAMA STRAMSIIP AND RAILROAD COMPANY, STATEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT—ITS PROJECT AND PROSPECTS, Yesterday a Heratp reporter called upon Trenor W. Park, President of the Panama Railroad Company, and had Jong conversation With him in relation to that company’s proposed new line of steamers between | New York and San Francisco, In response to the in- | | terrogatories on this subject Mr, Park said substan- tially as follo ‘That the Panama Railroad Company had determined to put on g line of steamers as soon as the vessels could be purchased or built to make such a line between New York and San Francisco in con- nection with the road seross the isthmus: There is no question, under the charter of the company, of its right and power to do this The Panama company is not disposed to put on this line in opposition to the Pacifle Mail Steam- ship Company or the Union Pacific Railroad, because it | believes that there is business via the Panama Railroad for the line that they may put on and the Pacitle Mail | Steamship Company. In 1874* there wore over $0,000 | tons of freight carried by the overland road, over 60,000 | tous by the Pacific Mail and 700,000 tons around the Horn; therefore the Pacific Mail and the proposed new line would each have a full supply of freight by taking, undoubtedly, a portion of that which is carried round the Horn; so there would be bosiness for both lines = without ~— entering = into’ any ruinous opposition. The Panama Railroad Company intend to run their steamers in connectic with their railroad across the isthmus without dpposi- tion to the Pacific Mail or the Union Pacific Railroad, They believe (the Panama Ratiroad Company) that there is business enough for both steamship lines, | while at the sume time it will greatly increase the earn- | ings of the Panwa road, because the road, imstead of | | carrying the freight of one line, will then curry that of | two. The company’s immediate reason for putting on this me is because the Union Pacitle Company have control of the Pacitic Mail Company, and therefore con- trol the entire trailic of freight and passengers be- | tween New York and San Francisco, The company | believe that the line between New York and-San Frau- | cisco Via the istlimus should be in one interest and under | one mangement, instead of both lines being conirolied | by the managers of the Union Pacitic Railroad as they are at present, The Panama Company say that freight can be taken by the isthinus route in less time than it has usually been carried by the overland roud, In reply to the question, ‘Are you certain that your line of steamers will pay the stocktolders of Lhe Pau- 1a Railroad Company ?” Mr. Park said:—We are cer- tain that the steamers will pay for themselves in ten years, and at the same time increase the dividends to | the stockholders at least twelve per cent. We know | from our books what have been the earnings of the | Pacitic Mail steamships between New York and San Francisco for every trip during the iast five year we also know what their expenses have b therefore know that the estimates made by our commit- tee with regard to the net earnings of our ships are below what we have a right to expect. ‘The Panama Rasiroad, with its facilities, can operate a tine of steamers be- | tween New York and San Francisco at a saving of | $10,000 a month over any other steamship tine, as it has its own wharves at Aspinwall and Panama, machine shops at Aspmwall, steam tugs and launches in Panama Bay, and everything else needed, so that the company | wall be at no expense in starting and operating their line other than that incurred by the actual cost of tfe steamers.’? | Mr. Park said, inanswer to the question as to whether there was any division of sentiment in the Board about putting on this line, that on every vote touching the propriety of its creation the ayes and nays being called | HOt a negatiye was recorded, and he had no doubt that every mem@er of the Bourd agreed with him that the new line would be tor the best interests of the Panama Railroad Company. “WHO ARE THE noARD?”? s Mr. Park said that the Board was composed of th following gentlemen:—Cominodore ©. K, Garrison, G. Frauckiyn, of the rd hue; Jobn M. Burke John R, Marshall, Hon, John P. ‘Jones, of Ne jeneral H. H. Baxster, of New York Thompson, President of the First’ National Bank; Franklin Chandler, President of the National M ics’ Banking Association of New York €, Calhoun, President of the Fourth National ew York; George N. Forrest; Frank Work, firm of Work, Strong & Co.; General J. G. McCullough and | Trenor W, Park. In reply to the question, “How much stock in the Panama iiulroad Company do these g tlemen represent?”’ Mr. Park said:—'*Phey own and Fepregent over one-half of the eutire capital stock he of the company, which is $7,000,000, and | they bave no doubt that in taking ‘their ac tion whereby this line of steamers is to be puton they are serving their own and fellow stock- | holders’ best imterests.’” Touching the rumor that the directors of the Panaina Railroad Company are largely “short” of the Pacitic Mail stock Mr. Park remarked that he had conversed with the different members of the Board of Directors on that subject and did not be- lieve that any one of them was short of a share of Pacific Mail stock; that he himself had been | both long and short, but atthe present time was not in- terested in the stock either way. ‘The question, “To what extent are the pablic to be benefited by this new line?” elicited the following from Mr. Park:—“The Panama Railroad Company, owning its own ships, can transport freight ata proilt | to San ¥ramcisco or from that place to New York at a price less than it can be ty ‘Omaha before it reaches tye Union And witha through ime under the control of the Panama | ailroad Company freights could never be unreason- ab This bas been demonstrated by the histories of the companies.” | | | | THE THIRD AVENUE SAVINGS BANK, MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE OF THIRTEEN— | | | RERORT OF MR. ALGERNON 8 SULLIVAN. The committee of thirteen who were appointed at | the meeting of the Third Avenue Savings Bank depos- | jtors, in Glass Hall, in East Thirty-fourth street, on Fri- | day night, assembled at No, 208 Third avenue last even- ing, to hear the report of Mr. Algernon S. Sullivan, who | Wag retained as counsel to look after the interests of the | depositors before Judge Westbrook, at Kingston, last | Saturday. Mr, Edward Mallon occupied the chair, and about half-past eight Mr. Sullivan entered the room. | He was warmly welcomed by the committee, and he at | once commenced to give his hearers a detailed account | of the proceedings at Kingston, Mr. Sullivan said | that, in compliance with their directions, he made a | motion for the removal the present receiver, He met there Mr. Hunn, the | counsel for the trustees of the bank; Mr. Fitch, the counsel for the other committee; , Assistant Attorney General Fairchild and a young lawyer named Stern, | who was acting for Mr. Holmes and who intented to present a petition to the Judge asking that Mr, Holmes be appointed receiver suould another than William 8, Carman be appointed, Mr, Sullivan informed His Honor, Judge Westbrook, of the circumstances under | which’ he was appointed and showed = him | the ailidavits of several of his clicnts representing di | posits of $60,000, asking that Carman be removed, and uiso a general complaint, signed by others represenung $400,000, as to the present incumbent's general unlit | ness and the distrust of his custodianship existing | among those so signing. He further suited to the Judge that though there were 8,000 deposital depositors on the books the real number of actual ¢ positors having money in the bank was but 4,000, and in three out of four of these this distrust of Mr, Carman existed. Nearly all were people who | had deposited all they had im ihe bank, and be hoped | the Court would not take away the power from him to demand a new receiver. As to Mr. Carn ivate | character he had nothing to sav against i, Lt was cer- | tain, however, that the bank ollicers knew of the insol- | vency of the institution a year before ‘ts final collapse, and William S$. Carman, who was then secretary, signed the annexed report, issued January 23, 1875, | stating that there was a surplus of $9,000 in’ the bank. | It was further claimed that Mr. Carman was re-elected | by the bank party with the intention of giving undue | | preierence to a tew, | | Mr. Fowler then said that he was willing that a good, | trustworthy man from New York, reliable aud capable, should be appoi Mr. Peet, of the firm of Miller | & Peet, received an aflidavit of the Chairman setuing | forth ‘the cause of the failure of the bank | which extended many years back, long betore he had | anything to do with it, and that ft was not till Mareh | | 1, 1875, that te knew of its actual condition, He | signed the report in good faith, and neither he nor the oificers of the bank knew it was insolvent, | Judge Westbrook, after hearing some further argu- ment from Mr. Hunn and others, took the papers and | Suid he would give « decision in the early part of next week. |" Before the meotin: of Wiiliam S$, Carman, | uirned the chairman, Mr. Mailor, stated that ssary papers would remain in the rooms No. 203 Third avenue for a week, to allow the depositors an opportunity to sign the power of at- torney. BOWLING VINGS BANK. JUDGE HOGAN DENIES THAT HE HAS BREN LOWED TO WITHDRAW HIS DEVosrts. | Judge Edward Hogan yesterday afternoon absolutely denied, tow Hexatp reporter, the statement that he | | | AL~ was indifferent to the immediate settlement of the affairs of the Bowling Green Savings Bank, He said | he has received from the bank no more of his deposits than the regular thirty-five per cent which has been paid to cach of the depositors. He stated, also, that he | | tad on several occasions approached both | the receiver of the bank himself and his lawyer for the purpose of arranging for a fual | settlement, but had been put off with the statement that there could be no fina) settlement until several land suits now pending against Walter Roach and others had been decided in the courts, “i know also,’ sald | Judge Hogan, “that Messrs, White and Fox have dove | | the same thing, and that they have also dove all in | | their power to reduce the fees paid to lawyers, 1 am | ready to do anything honorable that will eifect a final | settlement, and I would got iff could take one cent of my twoney if 16 do so would be detrimental to sue in- terest of auy other depositor.” LE SHEET. | posits in associations or companies kuown as provident | that the averag | laxable capital and.deposits $50,000,000 less than Maine, | jnoings, Cyrille missing twice and Joe only making 1. | the steamer City of Waco, | Matthews were the local authorities before whom the | | troleum put up in tin cans and packed in boxes; he was | | the INTERNAL REVENUE, SUPPLEMENTAL SIONER REPORT OF THE COMMIS- TAXES UPON BANKS AND BANKERS— THE QUESTION OF THE TAXATION OF SAVINGS INSTITUTIONS, Wasnivetow, Nov. 15, 1875. The following report of the taxation upon the capital, deposits and circulation of banks and bankers appears | 8 a supplement to the report of the Commissioner of | Internal Revenue:— National banks pay taxes to the Treasurer of the United States in the mouths of January and July of one-half of one per cent each half year upon their de~ posits and the same rate each half year ou the average amount of their capital stock beyond the amount in- | vested in United Sta onda. ‘These taxes are collected by the Treasurer and constitute no part of the internal revenue, Since the organization of national banks the amount reulized from these sources up to the close of the ast | liscal year has becn $64,989,276 46, the amount realized | during the last tiseal year having been $7,270,758 40. ‘The amount paid by the national banks on deposits | alone during the period of their existence up to June | 30, 1875, is $30,018,028 12, while the amount paid | during the last fiscal’ year 18 $8,427,576 31. Other taxes | on banks and backers, not national, are collected under | the Internal Revenue law The persons, fir and mstitutions» thus taxed — embrac srporated or other bank, and every yp company laving a place of Dusiuess Where credits are opened by the deposit or collection of money or cur- rency subject to be paid or remitted upon draft, check or order, or Where money is advanced or loaned on stocks, bonds, bullion, bills of exchange, or promis notes are received for discount or for sale, taxes consist of one-tweuty-fourth (1-24) of one per | cent each mouth on the capital employed by these | banks and bankers beyond the average amount in- | vested in United States bouds; of one-twelfth (1-12) of | one per cent each month upon'the average umount of | circulation issued by them, and an additional tax of obe-sixth (1-6) of One percent each month upon the ge amount of such circulation issued beyond the amount of ninety (90) per cent of the capital of the | wnk, association, company or person, THY DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS BANKS. Thave been thus particular in ~ your attention laws regulating taxes upon national banks and upon banks not national, and upon bankers, for the purpose of presenting forcibly the exemptions on de- posits im savings banks. It’ is provided that the de- to institutions, savings banks, saving lunds or savings in- stitutions having no capital stock and domg no other business than receiving deposits to be. loaned or in- vested for the sole beugiit of parties depositing without protit or compensation to the association or company, shail be exempt from tax on so much of their deposits as Ubey have invested in secu: of the United States, and on all deposits not execeding $2,000 made im the name of any one person, Congress by the act of | June 18, i874, extended this exemption from taxation to deposits in such institutions as wero then istence doing business only as savings banks and nized as such by the laws of their respective States or by Congress. ‘The exemption from taxation was to be the same as with deposits in savings mstitutions having no capital, although im fact they bad a capital | stock or bona for the additional security of the deposit- ors; in face the law authorized a dividend of eight per cent on the stock in providing that the excess of proiits above this dividend should be divided among the de- positors, and, besides, provided that interest at the rate of not less than 435 per cent be paid im all | cases to depositors, to be made good if accessory trom | capital stock. ‘This ts the present condition of the Jaw. Internal Revenue act of June 30, 1864, exempted avings banks trom all taxation where they had no cap- ital stock, and confined their business to receiving and | loaning deposits for the benefit of depositors only, doing | no other business of banking. The act of March 3, 1Sd5, struck out the exemption and, of course, left say- ings banks linbie to taxation upon their depositors, But Congress on the 14th of July, 1866, again having the subject under consideration, subje to taxation ail deposits in provident institatidns, savings banks and savings institutions where the deposits made by any | one person amounted to $500 or upward. By the existing law, as seen, the deposits made by any one person are hot liable to tax unless they exceed $2,000, and this exemption, instead of be Ing contined to savings banks having no capital stock | and doing no banking business, is now, by recent legis- | lation extended to classes of institutions bearing kin dred names, baving capital stock and making divi dends. The [ruits of this legislation are seen m the ap- pended table, which exhibits capital and deposits held by banks and bankers other than national in May, 1875, regate average amount of the same during ths previous in the several States and Ter- taxable under the Internal Revenue laws, and the percentage of the taxable amounts reported for said’ six monthe as compared with the total amounts held during May last, It will be observed from the footings of this table that the average amount of capital held by these banks and | brokers (not national) in May, L was $200,916,098 5 mount of their deposits in the same month was $1,346,014,818; that the total capital and deposits in the same month was $1,546,330,911, while tho amount of the taxable capital and deposits of these banks and bankers during said six months was on!y | $780,404 76, or little more than three-fourths of a mili- ion of dollars, while the amount of actual capital and deposits of these same institutions was in round num- bers $1,546,000,000. a CURIOUS SHOWING. j It willalso be apparent at a gla how unequally | this taxation is distributed among the States. Thus | upon a given amount of capital and deposits the tax on | California as compared with Massachusetts is as ten to | one, and Michigan, as compared with the same State, | ag sixteen to one; on Virginia, as compared with Ver- | mont, five to one. The city ef New York, possessing | New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Comnee- | licut combined, pays a tax three umes as great as these | States, while these same States, having capital and de. | posits three times as great as California, pay about one | half the tax thereon that ts paid by California, I present these figures for your consideration and for such use ag you deem proper in your report. to Con- gress, aud With this single remark :—That if deposits in these so-called savings’ institutions are thought a | proper subject for exemption from taxation where they | are employed with such protitable results it were bet- | ter to return to the rule adopted by Congress in 18¢ where deposits made by any oue person in excess of $500 were suljected to taxation, THE STEAMER CITY OF WACO. | OIL ON BOARD THE ILL-FATED VESSEL—THE | UNITED STATES INSPECTORS OF STEAMBOATS MAKE AN INVESTIGATION, A brief investigation was had yesterday at the office | of the United States Steamboat Inspectors, No. 23 Pine street, The inquiry had for its object that of ascer- | taining ifany inflammable cargo had been shipped on | Inspectors Simonson and | examination of witnesses was conducted. The testi- | mony is to be submitted to Mr, Addison Low, Super- vising Inspector, who was absent in Albany yesterday, but is expected home to-day. Stevedore Holmes, being sworn, said:—I was engaged | in stowing away the cargo of the City of Waco when she last went to sea from New York; there was refined pe- not positive as. tothe number, but judged that there must have been about 300 cases; could not stato how | they were marked; only knew that it was kerosene oil; it was stowed forward on the upper part of the deck; there was some that the captain said he would ship aft to the extreme end to trim the ship; we took a portion of this oil in the morning, and every bit of that was | stowed forward abaft the wMndlass on the maindeck; | less than halfof it remained on deck until the ship | was loaded, when the captain said he would put it aft to trim the ship; this oil was atleast 100 feet away from ony fire; the oil was all stowed away properly betore the ship went to sea; the witness knew of no other eargo of an inflammable nature that went on oard that vessel; none of this oil was stowed below | the main deck; there was not one barrol of kerosene on board of that stip. FOREMAN RATHPORD'S TESTIMONY, The second and Inst witness examined was Thomas Rathford, foreman for the stevedore loading the Wav. Rathford’s deposition was taken and recorded by au oiticer in the Steamboat ‘Inspector's office, and as the document is in itself a model one it is given intact and without comment, Here at ii ‘There was relined petroloum shipped on this steamer; it was either kerosene or refined petroleum; [ cannot tell how it wasmarced 1 do not look at the marke; it wae put up | in tin cans, covered with wooden boxes; this was stowe abatt the windlass, on the forward main deck; part was stowed there; the balance was stowed aft, on main deck, by ‘aptuin; this was all stowed in its respective place prior tothe ship sailing that ovening; Leannot tell how many cases thera were, but there was about, in the best of my {idgment, 260 vases) thera was no oll in barrels taken on vourd in this cargo; £ know of no other freight of an intlam- able character taken on board; this oll was stowed over 100 wet from any fire; there was none stowed between decks or Delow; this was all sfowed on deck, forward and aft: [had charge of the gang of men who stowed the cases, and if au: dangerous nature was stowed below f would hat known tt; wil this oil was stowed ait and forward; there w ye in the wangways; this was stowed against the rail and as itcould not shit; Lhave been in this twonty years. THe PRNALTY. The penalty which wn iniringement of the law carries With 1 1 a fine of not less than $1,000 nor moro than $10,000; one baif to the informer. ery captain, engineer, pilot, or other person employed on any steamboat or vessel, by whose iis- conduct, negligence, or mattention to his duties on such vessel, the life of any person is destroyed, and every owner, inspector, oF other public officer, through whose fraud, connivance, misconduct, or violation of law. the life of any person is destroyed, shall be deemed guilty of mansliughter, and, upon conviction thereof before any cireuit court of the United States, shall be sentenced to confinement at hard labor fora period of not more than ten years, thing of THE PALETTE. The first art reception of tho Palette Club was held yesterday evening. This club has been established about six years and has oceupted its present butiding for the Jast twelve months, There are now 280 mem. bers and the wumber 18 constantly juereasing. The recoption Was & very brilliaat wilair, and at the close members vf the club partook of # boantilul colla KNIGHTS OF | Maurice Daly and A. } together. | shots in the tenth tmning, making a rap of | game standing 129 to 81 1m bis favor. Ef THE BILLIARD EXPERTS OPENING OF THE NATIONAL TOURNAMENT— GAMES BETWEEN THE DION BROTHERS AND DALY AND RUDOLPHE. ‘The “grand national billiard tournament” was opened last evening at the Tammany Wigwam. The main ball, where the Democratic Presidential Convention of 1968 was held, was made use of for the occasion, and seats were so arranged in raised tiers for the accommodation of the spectators as to make the table upon which the games were played the centre of a great square, from the sides of which every one present had an upinter- | rupted view of the players, THR LADIKS, A raised platform, nicely carpeted, which ran along the northerly wall of the room, and on which were two rows of comfortable chairs, was especially reserved for ladies and their gentlemen eseorts, ‘There was a large number of the fair sex present, who appeared to taxa considerable interest in the game, apd as the best of order prevailed and me smoking was allowed they apparently had a thoroughly enjoyable evening of it, The hall was splendidly lighted. There was a very large number of billiard experts om the floor of the house, and the galleries were pretty well tilled, though not what may be called crowded. The first game of the evening was played by Cyrille and Joseph Dion and the second contest was betweem Y Radviphe. The games were 300 points, F carrows, Itmay be mentioned here that the sum of $3,500 has been subscribed for prizea by a tew well known gentlemen in the city, and they are to be divided into four, the first $1,500, the second $1,000, the third $650 and the fourth THE GAME BETWEEN THE DIONS. ‘The game between the Dions began precisely at « quarter past eight o'clock, Cyrille won the lead ané made only one im the first inning, Joe following witt the sume.” In the second inning, however, he made 18 by splendid piay In the third inning Cyrille se- cured but 4, while Joe made a fine run of 22, missing by ashp of the cue when he had an easy shot to make, Jn the fourth inning Cyrille made 7 and J8e scored @ zero, the balls being hard to get at. Cyrille at this stage went lo work with a will and closed his fifth inning atter some very delicate playing, mosth in the corners of the table, where he kept the balls well together, with a score of 31. Joe followed with an thus making the game stand a Lie after twenty minutes! play, the score ol cach standing 4400 44, In the next inning Cyrille scored 9 and Joc made abad miss op aa easy shot. Cyrilte, tinding the balls well as hand, played ‘with’ great steadiness and skill, making 20 before being compelled to tke a round: the-table shot. However, even when the balls did yet badly scattered he seemed to have quite at much control over them as when they were in an easy position, and after accomplishing some really splendi¢ shots he missed, afler making his fortieth point in the inning. Joe could only get 15 out of the next two im nings, and in the ninth and tenth Cyrille sco nothing, Joe also getting a zero to his credit m the ninth, though making 3 in the tenth, Cyrille had ALEAD OF at this time, which in the eleventh inning he improved by superb play to 75, making a run of dl.” This kind of Dusiness did uot seem to be relished by Joe, who took his coat off, as his brother had done long before, and walked up to the table as though he meaut to puil down lead of 751m very quick order, ut the balls bad been left scattered” by Cyrille, and though Joe made a splendid attempt’ to count he failed and had to give way again to Cyrille, who, seeming to grow steadier in his play, made a run of 25. In trying to make another point the red ball and that of his op- ponent got strung close al@ng the lower left band cor- ner, with his own right behind them, so that be had to take a “back track” shot from the upper cushion, He failed to count, and Joe managed to get 3 out of the bunch, Cyrilie following in the pext Inning with arun of 11, made by excellent play. Joe only made 4 after this score, but Cyrille, luckier in the four- teenth inuing, secured 15, The halls were left badly for Joe, but he got 5 of a count out of them, Cyrille missing twice in succession, once by a miss cue and another time by downright carelessness im trying to make an easy carrom when the balls were close THE PLAY LAGS, The play began to lag. at this stage, the two players frequently missing easy shots, Joc only making ten with the ba nestled handily in a corner of the table; areckless massé shot being the cause of the disaster. He made up tor this handsomely, however, in the next inning, where, by a series of beautiful shots, he ran 48, ‘Tho game at this, the eighteenth innin; stood, Cyrille 196, Joe 10; the Jatter having gain only ig points on the former from the tenth inning. ‘THE FINAL STRUGGLE, In the twenticth inning Cyriile made 11 and 18 in the next. Joe seemed to have exhausted himself after his run of 48 in the eighteenth inning, and bad a placed to his credit in the three following innings, “3 got warmed up in the twenty-second inning and made 33, missing by an hair a easy shot. In the twenty-tourth inning Joe made two splendid shots which brought down the house, both being draw shots requiring the taking of three cushions, and from one end of the table tothe other to make the carroms, and closed ie inn ing with 18, the score of the game then standing 237 for Cyrille to 192 for Joe. Cyriile made 43 in the next i: ning, leaving him Cog f 20 to rup out, Joe got 32 in the following :nning by hard work, ‘The two players got somewhat nervous in the next twe Cyrille, however, got the balls under controt im the twenty-eighth inning and ran 12, haying 8 to go. The players made 2 each im the next inning, Joe maki in the twenty-ninth, Cyrille ran the game out in thirtieth inning. The following is the SUMMARY, Game commenced, 8:15 P. M.; finished, 10 P.M. Mfr, Cyrille Dion won the lead and made’ the following . 1, 4, 7, 31, 9, 40, 3, 0, 0, 41, 25, 11, 15, 0, , 4, 4, 3, hi, 18, 6, o, 0, 43, 0, 0, 12; 2, edoa Highest runs, 43, 41, 40; average, 10, Mr, Joseph’ Dion followed with the annexed score:—2, 2, 3, 0, 3, 0, 3, 4, 5, 1, 7, 10, 48, 0, 0, 1, '2,' 8-25." Highest rung, THR RUDOLPHR-DALY GAME. The game between Rudolphe and Daly was the next in order, und as there Was buta brief intermission but few of the spectators left the ball, If anything there was ® larger assemblage in the galleries as well as on the floor of the house than ear- lier in the evening. The ladies, in their cosey | coigne of vantage, made no effort to leave, the first gamo between the lio apparently baving inereased their interest to see the second. The game was begun at a quarter past ten, Rudolph winning the lead. He missed in his first attempt to count, Daly making 6.in bis trial, He, however, failed to count in the next three innit but made 17 in the fiith and 11 in the sixth inning, thea followed with 1 and % more duck’s eggs. Radolphe was alinost equally unfortunate,as at the ninth inning his score stood 35 to his opponent’s 2 Daly seemed to be in good trim, but at tirst’ he was a lite too anxious, aud though he made some very. bg 6, he counted at times too much On one shot, without taking into consideration what he would leave for himself as a result of the “break.” He played quickly, while at first Rudolphe deliberated over a difficult shot more than was agreeable to the non-patient portion of the — spectators, Daly, in the eleventh inning, made a fine ran of and Kudolphe followed this up with a run of 34, whieb he made by delicate nursing. ‘The balls finally bécom- ing trozen, he had to separate them and missed. In the seventeenth inning Duly got the balls in a nursing mood, and scored splendidly 41 before missing, the In the nineteenth inning he warmed to his work earnestly, showing re- markabie skill and judgment in bringing the balls to- gether, even though to do so he had more than onee to play round the table at great risk, and closed it with the magnificent ron of 124 The game was, to all in. tents and purposes, Daly’s after this, as his score stood 258 to Radolphe’s 4, and he had got into superb play- ing mood, he having the most perfect control of balls, and which was almost as good as his nerves, In the inning Daly ran the game out, ‘The following is THE SCORR:— Daly—5, 0, 0, 0, 17, 11, 1, 0, 0, 16, 10, 22, 3 2 2, 0, 41, 0, 124, 3, 2i, 9 0, 0, '14—300. Average, 12. i Rudolphe—0, 4, 0, 0, 10, 7, 9 2 3, 2, 0, 0, 84, 0,1, 0, 9 2, 1, 1, 0, 32, 0, 0, 8125, Time of game, 1. 35m. TO-DAY’S ENTERTAINMENT, the tournament will be re- sumed. Sexton and Slosson will play the first game and Joo Dion and Maurice Daly the second, In the evening there will also be two games—one between Cyrille Dion and Slosson and the other between Ru- dolphe and Garnier. This afternoon, at tw BURNED BY BENZLNE, EXTENSIVE FIRE IN MURRAY STREET—THB CARELESSNESS OF WORKMEN--THE DAMAGE THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. Afire broke out yesterday atternoon, shortly after five o'clock, at Nos. 13 and 15 Murray street, on the filth floor, occupied by Messrs, Schumaker & Ettlinger, Lithographers, who also occupy the third and fourth fvors. The fire was caused by the friction of the rollers of one of the presses, which were being at the time washed by one of the workmen with benzine, and which suddenly burst into a blaze, consuming a large quantity of the stock and material on hand be- fove the flames could be subdued. There were in attendance some = six_—ssteam fire en gines ant two book and ladder companies, together with the insurance patrol It was, however, bot unlil nearly six o'clock that the fire was got under, ‘The loss to Messrs. Schumaker & Kttlinger is said te amount to fully $25,000, whieh is covered by insurance: The second’ tour of the same building is oeeapied by ‘T. Morton, scale manufacturer, who suffers to the ex tont of $400, Messrs, Wissell, Weller & Mullett, auc Uoncers, who vecnpy the tirst floor of No. 15, sulfor te the extent of $2,000, and Lengtics Bros. om the frst floor of No, 13, estimute their loss at $1,500. The building ts damaged about $8,000; Fully ered by insurance, Captain Suandors, of the Twenty-seventh precinet, with @ init detail of officers, wa ily on hand and rem dered effective aid to the iremen in keeping back the crowd. The lire caused the stoppage of wil the Broad. way, Sixth, Seventh aud Bighth avenue cars causing areal jacuuveulence to passengers