The New York Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1875, Page 7

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1875,—QU ADRUPLE SHEET. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, Ministerial Movements and Chats by the Way. Revival News and_ Statis- tics—Correspondence. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. ‘The Rev. William T. Fitch, of Brooklyn, will preach in St Mary’s chureb, Castleton, 8. L., to-day. Rev. D. B. Jutten will preach a memorial sermon this morning on the late Vico President in the Sixteenth ‘street Baptist church, ‘Tho Rev. A. A. Brown, C. §. P., will begin a series of advent sermons in the Church of St, Paul the Apostle this afternoon. ‘Tho Very Rev. Thomas S, Preston, 0. D., will begin a series of advent sermons !n St. Ann’s church this even- ing. Subject—‘‘The Certainty of the Real Presence,” Bishop Janes will preach this moruing in Lexington avenue Methodist Episcopal church, ‘The Rev. 8. M. Hamilton will minister this morning and afternoon in the Scotch Presbyterian church. “The World Gained But the Soul Lost” will be con- sidered this evening by Rev. J. H. Lightbourn in Seven- teenth street Methodist Episcopal church. Jn St. Ignatius’ church during Advent a special course of Sunday evening sermons will be delivered by Drs. A B, Hart, Muleahy, Gallaudet'and Rylance, Dr. Ewer will ofliciate to-day, “The Young Ruler’’ will be examined this evening in the Sixth avenne Reformed church by Rev. W. B, Mer- ritt, “The Ministry of Temptation’? will be presented in the Baptist Tabernacle this morning by Rev, H. W. Knapp. Dr. Fulton, of Brooklyn, will preach there in tbe evening. ’ Rev. George H. Corey will preach in the Thirtieth street Methodist Episcopal church at the usual hours to-day. Dr. John N, Gallaher will lead the services in Zion Protestant Episcopal church to-day and preach morn- ing and afternoon, “Cunningly Devised Fables”? will be exposed this morning in the Seventh strect Methodist Episcopal church by Rev. J. 8. Willis, Rey. B. F. Price, of Mary- Jand, will preach in the evening. Rey. J. B, Smith, D. D., of Geneva, will preach in the Fifty-third street Baptist church this morning and evening. Rey. Elon Foster wil! preach this morning and Dr. J. H. Vincent this evening in Allen street Methodist Episcopal chureb. In Allen street Presbyterian church the Rev. George O. Phelps wil) this evening show what it is tobe “Sayed.” At Stanton street Baptist church the Rev. W. H Leavell will speak of ‘‘Paul—a Criticism,” in the morn- ing, and deliver a missionary address in the evening. The Rey. William Lloyd will urge the Washington square Methodist Episcopal church this morning to “Compel Them to Come In,” and this evening will glance at “Christ Stilling the Storm.” All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal cburch will be min istered unto to-day at the usual hours by the Rev. Wm. N, Dunneil, Dr. West will lecture for the Progressive Spiritualists this morning tn their hall in Thirty-third street, near Broadway. Mr. Mansfield and Mrs, Young will enter- tain the society in the evening. “Mary” and “The Crucifixion” wilt occupy the attention of Rev. John Johns and the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church to-day at the usual hours. “Love and Its Most Essential Qualities’? will be con- sidered by Rev. ©. P. McCarthy in Bleecker strect Universalist church this morning. ‘Ilusions tn the Character of the Present and Fature Life” will be pre- wented in the evening. Inthe Church of the Holy Trinity the Rev. 3. H. ‘Tyng, Jr., D. D., will preach morning and evening The Rev. J. D. Horr will preach in the Central Bap- tist church this morning and evening. Dr. Doems is to preach to-day at the usual hours in the Charch of the Strangers. Jn Calvary Baptist church the Rev. R. 8S. MacArthur will preach this morning and evening. “Gideon’s Fleece’ and “Touched Hearts” will be commented upon to-day in the Fifth Avenue Baptist thurch by Rey. Dr. Armitage. In the Universalist church, Harlem, Rev. J. A. Seitz will preach morning and evening. Bishop Snow will preach in the University chapel this afternoon on ‘The Great Day of God which Has Begun; What Will the End Be?” Dr. Jos. F. Elder will preach this morning in Madison avenue Baptist churclr, and this evening, associated with Mr. H. M. Saunders, will address the Missionary Society. Rev. H. D. Ganse will preach as usua) to-day in Madi. éon avenue Reformed church. Rev. W. P. Abbott will preach this morning and ‘evening in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church, Dr. George F, Seymour will minister in St. Chrysos- tom’s church this evening. Rev. James M. King will draw ‘Lessons from the Life of Henry Wilson” this eveuing for St. John’s Me- thodist Episcopal church, Dr. Talmage will speak in the Tabernacle, Brooklyn, this morning on the “Life and Labors of the late Vico President Wilson.” The Rey. Alfred Taylor, of the Christian at Work, will preach in the Bergen avenue Baptist church, Jer- sey City, this morning on “Closing Scenes of the Life of Christ,” and this evening on “The Risen Saviour.”” The Rey. George H. Hepworth will give a Bible read- ing this morning in the Church of the Disciples on “Progress in the Christian Life,” and this evening will preach on “Nothing but Christ’? In the Church of the Atonement the Rev, ©, ©. Tif- fany will officiate and preach to-day at the usual bours, “A Cheerful Religion vs. A Gloomy One”’ will be pre- sented for acceptance this morning in the Church of the Mossiah by Rev. W. R. Alger, In the evening he will continue his lectures on the poets, Rev. H. B. Chapin will preach this morning and af- ternoon in Canal street Presbyterian church. Auniyersary exercises of Jane street Methodist Epis- copal Sunday School to-morrow evening. Rev. Dr, Chapin will preach this morning in the Church of the Divine Paternity and adaress the congre- gation at vesper service, At Plimpton Hall in the morning and Brevoort Hall in the evening the Fifth Universalist Society will hoid their Sabbath services, A Spiritualist Conference will be held in the Harvard Rooms this afternoon and evening. In connection with the uptown noon prayer meetizg in the Church of the Holy Trinity there will be union Preaching services there every evening this week, except Saturday. Revs, C. H. Payson, Kennard, Min- gins, Fred, Bell and John Johns will fll up the week. Mr, Sankey’s Gospel hymns are sung at these dervices, Sankey’s popular solos are introduced as congrega- tion singing at Benjamin Albro’s meetings for prayer and testimonies, West Thirty sixth street, Fridays, seven P.M. Books furnished, All welcome, The Rev. Henry Anderson will deliver a lecture in Cooper Institute this evening on ‘England and Rome’’ fn aid of St. Joseph’s cathedral at Columbus, Ohio, CHAT BY THE WAY. ‘The revival movement in Brooklyn has gone to sleep aud in New York it has never been thoroughly awake. The Baptists are claiming the Prince of Wales, on the ground that he took eight fire engines with him to India, Some people can see nothing but water works, it is a pity to quarrel with charitable associations just as the call is being made for funds, and just as the winter is coming on; still when there is a heavy deficit at i8 natural to put an interrogation point near it, Itis poor consolation to fecl, whon one happens to havea Kenerous impulse, that it costs just sixty-seven cents out of the hundred you are willing to give to get the other thirty-three into the home of deserving poverty. There are #0 many hungry secretaries that the tender- foin of charity is all eaten up and only the bones given ‘W the poor. The Church of the Messiah has been offered for sale ‘Wo the Baptists, It has endured hard fortune for the just few yours, but it expects now that its troubles will soon be over. It is reported that somebody has pecn pipying for jhe ebvrch.ayd |) seoms vngplo ty | own. | perhaps the people are more emotional, or pear the stram, That person, whoever ne may be, eannot be approached by any financial proposition with the hope of altering the tone of his petitions, and he utterly refuses to move out of town. So the congro- gation {s driven to the wall and has coneluded to sell. Some cburlish people are beginning tosay that Brooklyn hag not had the Lord’s revival after all, but only Moody and Sankey’s. The proof 1s to be found in the fact that when Moody and Sankey went to Phila- detphia, although the Lord remained, the revival had an attack of general debility, and now lies at the last as SP. pus do the hopes we hed ta ft touch ground, And meselves to pieces, Mr. W. J. Bishop has been looking after the interes! of Spiritualists of He has given especial attention to the litte 6 of mnaterjalization in which the Eddy family are adepts, and thinks he has discovered the trap door through which the spirits come and go. He insists that without exception these spirits come up and not down, and proposes to teil the public in a let- ter, with diagrams, how that particular folding door between the two worlds is worked at $2 a show, jonalism, a8 an organized method, seem: ig through an ordeal. Does it mean that every one shall do as he pleases, whether he wants to Or not, or does it mean that every gne shall do right? Is there any tribunal which is not merely spect 18 @ system of associated looseness? License is thing, and every man ought to have a little as personal property, but too much of it constitutes idio(t)syncrasy that angurs fll for the body that indulges it. The Methodist bishops have bad a grand gathering in Boston. They werea splendid looking set of men, and ought to be proud to belong to a denomination that is not afraid to roll ite sleeves up and use the Desom in places which mere popalarity, with its kid gloves and gold headed cane, never visits. The Metho- dists are an honest folk because they don’t care where they go if only they go to work. One of tbe most remarkable things in the character of Henry Wilson was something he did not do. He did not go back on his religion when he went into public life. He changed his name when he left his boynood behind, but when he left the shoemaker’s bench he took his religion with him. Politics and purity don’t often join hands, but they were on intimate terms (not third terms) with each other in the dead and honored statesman’s hfe, If all the money in Massachusetts should be dis- tributed each man, woman and child would have $1,500, This fact, discovered * recent statistics, seems to be poor consolation to those who are vainly waiting forthe aforementioned distmbution, but who are uni to buy a loaf on their prospective wealth, lt always seemed to us very unsatisfactory to divide the aggregate funds in this imaginative sort of way, and to remind the poor man of what he would have if men should do what they never intend to do. Not even Micawber could wring & smile out of such a prospect. Every week we hear of the saddest kind of ‘acci- dents’’ trom unloaded guns. Talking about the matter does no good. After thislet it be made a criminal offence to have.an unloaded gun on one’s premises, lot it become the normal condition of firearms to have at least one cartridge in them, and then if we happen to make a mistake and think’ it loaded when it is empty our thouglitiessness will not result in a funeral. It was certainly a very gracefal act, that of Dr. Adams, to invite the theological students to a recep- tion. This contact of venerated and ant age with early manhood ought to stir ambition The trouble, however, is that Dr. Adams, who bas the respect and love of # whole city behind’ him, knows so much that he knows nothing and is sweet and bumble, while the young gebtlemen who sport a white cravat for the first time know so little that they know everything. Every graduate of the theological school is under the impres- sion that al) that is wanting im the religious world to | make things absolutely perfect is hig personal pres- ence; but anless he dies young he wakes up to the gad conviction that he bas been imistaken in the man, that thongh the world is evidently waiting for somebody the coming man’s initials are, unfortunately, not like his It will do the students good to shake Dr. Adams? hand once ina while even if it does tax their conde- scension to its utmost. New York has suffered loss in the retusal of Dr. Storrs to accept the call to the Brick church. Our sorrow, however, is some one’s else gladness. Richard, Storrs is one of the best pulpit orators in this country, and withal @ gentleman of the old school. Alwat teous, always true and always cloquent, he is a reliab! and conservative force. Well, it makes little difference whether it thunders bere or across the river; the air gets cleared all the same, Mr. Moody’s meetings in Philadelphia are so far a great success, That isa eulogy that could hardly be cut on the tomb of the movement in Brooklyn. Per- haps there are more hands to help him now, or per- haps, if not more in number, they ure more ready; or perhaps— well, anything. The fact is, the revival is satistied with itself in our neighbor city, while here it sank away and died of unexplained exhaustion, At Wellesley College an Episcopalian preached to the students, and after the sermon administered the com- munion.’ ‘There were some Baptists present, who could ‘not permit themselves to sit the Lord’s table with those not immersed, and they were therefore in a ter- rible quandary. They refused to partake, however, but confess to having felt iilat ease, It was certainly inexcusable to put these gentlemen in a position where they were really compelled to choose between the Lord and their denominational peculiarities. Water, water everywhere, is their motto. They must: be lineally descended from the Flood, and ought to take a peculiar satisfaction in the fact that their ancestors had for once all the water they wanted. There isa record somewhere that in the hereafter there is to be only one table, and we are a little curious to know whether the Baptists intend to petition for a private room, or whether they expect to sit down with all the glad com- pany. If the latter, why not begin now, and if the former, there is a little the publican which ought to be read before the petition Men of the world sometimes ask clergymen very is written, funny questions, and black broadcloth finds it difficult | to answer tho Scotch plaid. The Bible says that the poor have the Gospel proached to them, but the remark was intended, doubtless, to apply outside the city limits of NewYork, No, we are inistaken; the poor do have the Gospel preached to them; but then its a poor Gospel to suit their circumstances. The rich have religion done up in rose leaves, while the poor take it home in a brown paper buudle. There are not half a dozen churches in the city where a poor man would be welcomed, unless it be the Catholic churches. That is the’ only form of religion which has no respect for the difference bewween rags and silks, Protestantism introduces the element of cash into {ts religious system. It graduates its clerical talent to the financial capacity of the congregation, If they are rich then they can be treated to the latest novelty in the way of religious eloquence; but if they are poor they must take what comes and be satisied. We have magnificent churches for magnificent people, and mission churches to remind these tenement hou: folk that they are made out of very common clay. This Christianity of the pocketbook is one of the disastrous signs of the times. It indicates a human estimate of souls which will bardiy be ratified up above. The business man looks on this state of things and con- a that all worldliness is not confined to him, after all. Well, it was a delightful Thanksgiving, after all. Even November forgot herself for a day, and smiled as sweetly as May. All over the country the festal board was spread, and the boys and girls camo to the old homestead, bringing their children of the second and third generation. We would have liked to unroof the houses of the country and takea peep at the conti- nental hilarity which resounded from Atlantic to Pa- cific, We are a constitutionally tired sort of people, wearing our nervous systems outside our overcoats, and a breathing space of a day gives us a chance to take a sip of our boyhood, and does us good. We aro apt to joke a great deal about Thanksgiving, and to say that the chief reason for giving thanks is in the fact that we have lived through it; that we haye consumed the cunning but diabolical in- ventions of the cook, and are still able to pass the un- dertaker’s without a premonitive twinge ora feeling that he is looking after us Mopefully; but, still, itis a kindly sort of day, in which we meet at the round table of family reunion and after a while get our des- sert. We shake hands with the old folks, without once wondering how the estate will cut up some aay, not exactly Thanksgiving, and we go back to the harly. burly with a slight digestive interruption, perhaps, but with a warm feeling about the heart. 1 r in the whole, we like it, but think once a year is as often as we can prudently indulge in it. ENGLISH EPISCOPAL BIGOTRY, To tx Epitor or TH HeRALD;— Very considerable interest was shown by the English papers in a recent case in which the Protestant Estab- lished Church exhibited herself in her true colors of intolerance, But more recently a fine squabble, termi- nating in an assault, occurred at the grave scene of a deceased judge; and in a still later case the rector of a parish refused to permit the title of “reverend” to be applied, on the tombstone of bis wife, to a Wesleyan minister. The Ecclesiastical Court and tribunal of ap- peal supported the rector, who was left master of tho Situation. Encouraged by this protection to the al- mighty power of the established clergy the Vicar of Mardsen, in Yorkshire, has been practising bigotry to a Dragging who is an esteemed citizen of New York, r, David Hoyle, connected with the publishing trade here, anent the tombstone of his father. Hoyle desired to place thereon the Christian wish, ‘Regui- escat in pace,” although neither he nor his father ever were Catholics, but both were stanch and active mem- bers of the village church whose rector first and diocesan afterward refused the innocent request. Nearly all the religious papers published in this city and vicinity have noticed and commented upon this case, and very many of the religious and secular papers of England e also noticed it, Punch has made it the subject of singing caricature, in which it declares that— Bishop, rector, presbyter and Allnetin of late industtlourly sngtged In giving Charity, Paul's crowning gift, ‘The tautost tether or the shortest shrift, Of the Bishop's prohibition the same caricaturist says his Cold dilemma stops the wa To all who hope, as to the few who Pray ‘or any grace beyond the ken of th r ‘This overneer of the Church doctares Presets und y wishes are ns bad ay prayers hed above th the spirit of a part Has fown whither? Who may say? The English press seems to be unanimous in the opinion that the Bishop’s and rector’s conduct was both unwise and arbitrary, The Huddersfield Kzaminer, the Manchester Guardian, North British Mail, London Observer, all agree that Mr. Hoyle had precedent and right in his favor. And certain members of the legal profession cite cages jn which substantially the prin- ciple involved here has been decided against the prel- atical pretensions, These cases multiplying so greatly of Jate have aroused the hostility of dissent to such an extent that two Congregational ministers have re- copy resjaned Lueir paxkorates Lo devote phemselves tg fF im portal itinerating in Great Britain, preaching against the Ea- tablishment and arousing public opinion in behalf of disestablishment, And they are but the yanguard of & Boek Cone will be engaged in this work within a decade But is it a Protestant dogma, as the Bishop of Ripon declares, “that the tate of the departed is fixed the moment after death?’ 1s death, then, the great arbi- ter of human destiny? It has’ always seemed to me that death was a negation apd powerlese as an agent. fer #6 for human weal or woe Character and life i ave looked upon, and, from my reading of the Scrip- tures believed to be the final arbiter of human destiny. ‘hat is there fixed or fixible in death that it should be made the great bugbear of the Church and the world? ‘The Bishop undertakes to settle and define the faith of “all true Protestants’ as to the future state of the dead. The faithful, he says, don’t need our prayers, and lost souls could not be benefited by them, Now the Scriptures were written by Jews, and it was and 18 ind this day a dogma of Judaism that prayers for the lead are effectual. And in this faith they are offered up by Israelites all over the world, And poe pe in the Bible are prayers for the dead pronibited, and nowhere in that book is the dogma of the fixedness of the human soul at death, or, as the eee Reh it, “the moment after death’ taught I know I'll be referred to the narrative of Dives and Lazarus, as teaching that doctrine, But that narrative as a whole teaches that the future state of the rich man was fixed by the moral character he bore in his lifetime, and not by the coming of death to him. Who that reads Paul’s life does not believe that his future state was fixed long before death set his spirit free, And death as a fact to bim had scarcely any more to do with determiping bis after condition than the last meal he ate had. While I have little or no sympathy with the Universalist theory of the future state, I have less for Dr. Bickersteth’s. ‘There is a shadow of excuse in the Bible for the Universaiist’s yiow; there is none for the prelate’s. ‘COSMOS. REVIVAL STATISTICS, ‘The revival spirit seems to be spreading itself all over the country without much regard to the presence or absence of Messrs. Moody and Sankey. ur religious exchanges give ample evidence of this progress, and accompany this evidence in many mstances with sta- tistics of the converts gathered into the churches, Among these we find the Darien (N. Y,) Baptists took in seven last Sunday, and they expect as many moro today. In Goshen, Philadelphia, thirty-two were added to the Baptist Charch last Sunday, and as the revival’ meetings were continued during the week, others wero expected to be received to-day, Prayer meetings have been held in nearly all the Baptist churches in this city for the last two weeks, besides a union afternoon prayer meeting alternating among the churches, ‘The results have been steadily increasing, and twos and threes and half dozens have been bap tized in each. Among the Southern Methodists a great revival has been progressing for some weeks in the Valley of Vir- Binia, and at Kabietown ninety converts are reported and the work 1s increasing in every direction, At Mount Crawford, Va, there were fifty-nine conversions and at Bridgewater, Va, thirty-four, A meeting has Just closed at Camden, S. ©., with fifty-four conver- sions, A great revival has been in progress four weeks at Shelbyvillo, Ind., under the direction of the Young Men’s Christian Association, Over 100 persons have beep converted, At Bridesburg, N. J., fifty-six bay professed conversion. At Grace church there have been ‘about fifty converted. At Conshohocken, Pa., there have been eighty-four professed conversions in two weeks, In six weeks there bave been ninety-six, which tg equal to the entire membership of the church. New City Charge, N. J., forty seekers and thirty conve sions the first week of extra meetings, One hundred have thus far asked for prayers. Insome of the Washington, D. G., Methodist Episcopal churches the following results are reported:—Union, eighty conversions; Ry- land, sixty; Kast Washington (Navy Yard), 100; Grace, forty; Mount Zion, twenty; Spenceville (Montgomer: county), sixty; Bik Ridge, lity. At Edinburgh Hill, Troy Conference, fifty have professed conversion ag the first fruits of the good work. At Ripton, Vt., 100 have been brought to Christ. For the past two weeks the pastor, Rev. W. P. Estes, has been building revival se: vices in Allen street church, aided by Rey. 0. W. Adams, of the New England Conference. About forty have pro- fessed conversion, and the work is extending. At Frankford, Philadelphia Conference, a revival work is in progress, The church was organized in June last, with ninety-cight members. Now there are 135. At Potter's Hill, Troy Conference, forty have found the Saviour in'a work still in prog: ress, At Axeline School House, Hillsborough Charge, Va, twenty-five have found Christ; and still they come, ‘The work has spread into the Lutheran church, ‘At King’s Creek and Miles’ River Neck, Md., copior ‘spiritual outpourings have taken place. ’ At the former place fifty-four and at the latter thirty-two mames have been enrolied. A revival of great interest and power has been in progress for five weeks at Phillipsbui Central Pennsylvania, at which to date 101 is have found Jesus and tbe Chureb is greatly quickened Tho _Rev. Harlan Page Welton, for several years pastor of the Presbyterian church of Hasting, Minn, at the urgent request of many brethren, lately resigned his church to engage in the work of an evangelist. He bo- ee his labors about a month ago at Le Seur, Minn. e blessing came at once and many were hopefully converted; all the evangelical churches of the place joined in the meetings, and the like blessing has never been known in that region before, THE WORK OF CHRISTIAN UNION. Efforts have been made heretofore among Protestant denominations to effect some sort of visible unity, whereby they could remove the reproach that rests upon them in contrast with the Roman Catholic Church, These efforts have been only partly suocess- ful. The Presbyterians are trying to unite their scat- tored families, the Methodists theirs, and the Anglicans and Old Catholics and Orientai Catholics have moved in the same direction, but they all remain about where they were before, And now a fresh effort is being put forth by the Oriental Greek Church through its repre- sentative in this city to awaken enthusiasm on this subject. Not that the Orthodox Greek Catholics seek a union merely with the Old Catholics and Angli but with Christians of all denominations. The Ve Nicholas Bjerring, priest of the Russian chapel in this has lately preached some sermons on doctrines and ceremonies of his Chureb, and on Tuesday evening he will deliver a Jecture in Association Hall on “ Oriental Chureh and Its Friendly Relations to Other Religious Bodies,’? Several of the religious papers this week call attention to this movement and give {it their countenance, and many of the leading ministers of the different denom- inations have expressed not only their willingness to be present on the occasion, but their desire to hear the views of a Groek priest on this subject. Mr. Bjerring will not merely give his own views, but will represent the views and feelings and longings of some of the best men in civil and ecclesiastical life in Russia on this im- portant theme. Ono of the Grand Dukes of that Empire is the president of a society for the advancement of substantial unity between the different Christian churches and denominations, and the longing for this end is as widespread and earnest there as it is here, When ministers and churches learn to exchange and in- terchange pulpit and Christian courtesies wo shall be a step nearer to Christian union than we are at present, But every step in this direction should be hailed with delight, MISSIONARY REINFORCEMENTS. Nine Methodist missionaries aro now under ap- pointment for foreign fields, or started yesterday for their futuro homes. One—Rev. J. B, Wood, lately ordained—goes to South America to reinforce the mission at Rosario, One goes to Bulgaria, four to Bombay, Bengal and Madras, and two for the India Conference mission work. The wives of two of the mis, sionaries already in India are also go{ng out, and one o, the outgoing missionaries leaves his family in Amer- ica. Four of the ministers aro unmarried. This rein- forcement is only a part of that for which the mis- sionaries abroad have been long pleading as impera tively required, And yet, as they go, they draw upon an almost exhausted treasury already heavily in debt. The four who to Bombay, Bengal and Madras will, however, after their arrival, bo no further expense to the Missionary Society. Cheney, of John street church, this city, who goes to a self-supporting church im Nynee-Tal, will be of no further expense to the so- ciety. The Rev. George H. McGrew, who has just been ordained at Drew Seminary, and Rev, F. G. Davis, of Kvauston Theological School, both go to India. They wero to have sailed yesterday from this port for their respective fields. Miss Lucilla Green, M. D., of Pen- ningtom, N. J., a graduate of the Philadelphia College e of Medicine, ig to goout at the same time with others to of Miss Swain, M. D.. who isin charge of the | ‘at Bareilly, India. Mise Swai is in failing health and is returning home to this coun- try. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society has sent out about a dozen female missionaries to India and China during the year. To-morrow this society will open « grand bazaar in Masonic Hall, Sixth avenue, to raise funds for their missionary operations, chiefly for the erection of a hospital inChina’ The New York and many of the Brooklyn churches have contributed to furnish it, It will present several unique attractions and missionary curiosities and antiquities and will be well worthy a visit, MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. BAPTIST, A Mexican Baptist mission socicty has Deen organ. ized at Monterey, It bas sixty members, It wante money and hopes soon to employ one missionary, The Rev. T. A. K. Gessler is to present a paper to the Baptist pastors’ meeting to-morrow on the ordination of ministers, Some of the pastors think that the apostolic injunction concerning the sudden laying on of hands hag not been strictly observed. ‘The Rey, Mr. Wright, a Baptist evangolist, of London, is ready for the emergency. He has made a movablo baptistry, which he carries around in the tont in which he preaches, Recently he baptized forty persons in it, The Rey. N. B. Thompson, late of Nyack, N. Y., was Installed as pastor of the Baptist church, Melrose, Mass., on Tuesday evening last The Willis street Baptist church, Paterson, N. J., has oxigued a call to the Rey, Mr, Guirey to dil the place Ka of the Rey, S. J. & tion of one year. ‘The Rev. Joseph Burnett, of New Hartford, Conn, has received and accepted a unanimous call from the Baptist chureh of Bedford, N. ¥. The Rey. Edward Love is now pastor of Sherman avenue church, Newark, N. J. The Rev. T. R. Howlett, late pastor of the Second Baptist church of Plainfleld, N. J., has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Central Baptist church of Tren- ton. Mr, Howlett was formerly pastor of this church The Indies of the Baptist churches of New York city will hold a fair for the ‘Home for the Aged” (male and female), at Irving Hall, commencing to-morrow and closing December 4 The Rev. John Humpstone of Manayunk bas been called to Spruce street Baptist church, Philadelphia A correspondent informs the Examiner and Chronicle that Henry Varley, the English evangelist who was here Jast spring, received for bis few weeks’ labor in Boston $1,000. One reason why the ministers of New York did not countenance and support Mr. Varley was this vena) tendency of his, METHODIST. In the apportionments of the missionary money to be raised next year the committee recently appointed by the General Missionary Committee have asked the New York and New York East conferences, whose ter- ritory embraces this city and Brooklyn, to raise $47,000 each; New England Conference i asked for $28,000, Now Jersey for $22,500, Philadelphia for $55 000, Pitts- burg for $33,000, Newark Conference for $22,500, Cen- tral New York $20,000, Northern New York $17,500, Western New York’ $17,500, Baltimore $40,000, Cincinnati $26,000, Troy $28,000, Providence Confer: gnoo, $14,700, Central Pennsylvania $23,000, Illinois $22,000, Rock River $19,000, and Northern Indiana and Northern Ohio $13,000 each, Of the aggregate the conferences east of the Alleghanies aud north of the Potomac are asked for $404,350—nearly one-half of the whole sum required. New York State alone is ex- pected to contribute $149,000. The Methodist advises mimsters to keep their fine sermons for a generation that will rest better. Tho present church congregations are composed largely of brain workers, who have no time to give to the philo- Sophical theories and ideas of the preachers, but if they are approached on their spiritual side success will certainly result. Fine music, like fine sermons, should algo be laid aside, and choral song should take its place. The Rev. Charles £. Glover, of Hempstead, who has been at death’s door with typhoid fever, 1s slowly but surely recovering and is expected to be’ able to resuine werk before conterence. Rey. Goorge Wilkinson, of Western New York Con- ference, has been seriously ijl for a few weeks past, but is improving. At the late’annual meeting of the Ocean Grove As- sociation a donation of lots and $1,000 in money was. made to the new church in process of erection near the entrance to the camp ground, J. D, Blain, pastor of Roseville church, Newark, who das been ill for the past two months, is now rapidly recovering. Mrs, Van Cott has been laboring for some days in the First Methodist church of Somerville with marked suc- cess (W. C. High, pastor), She is now conducting the noon Preyer mevtings at tho Metonaon, Boston. ‘The Rey. W. J. Parkinson nas closed his seminary at Greenvoro, N.C., and has been transferred to the New, England Conférence and stationed at Shelburn Falls, Mass, Rev. J. 1, Taft, of Wilmington Conference, has re- turned from his tour in Europe in excellent health. PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. Lawrence P. Cummings, of the Presbytery of New York, is to be installed pastor of the Potts’ Memo- rial church at Morrisania on Tuesday next, Mr. Roderick Terry has been ordained and installed tor of the Second Presbyterian church at Peekskill, pp, WHO has veen allowed a vaca ._Y. ‘The Presbyterians of Newark, N. J., are completing a house of worship, which they expect to have ready for dedication about Christmas. ‘Rev. Dr. Craighead bas accepted the office of Finan- cial Secretary of the Presbyterian Historical Socicty. ‘This important institution has an invaluable library of books and papers illustrating the |iWstory of the Church, and they are liable to be burned at any time. The Brick church, Rochester, N. Y., will commemo- rate the fiftieth anniversary of their organization and the thirty-fifth of the pastorate of Rev. Dr. Shaw to- day Charles Cuthbert Hall has accepted the call to the Union church, Newburg, N, Y., and he is to be ordamed December 2. The Rev. S. 8. White, pastor of the Tenth United Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, has declined ube call to the Seventh avenue church, New York. Rev. R. T. Wylie has resigned his charge of the First United Presbyterian church of Brooklyn, &. D. KPISCOPALIAN. The Churchman, which does not favor revivals, says the system of revivals is often almost ag false and cer- tainly not as honest asthe Koran. The latter requires something to be done, but the former substitutes emotion for doing. The Rev. John Robertson having left the Episcopal Church and joined the Reformed Episcopalians the Bishops of Massachusetts, in whose diocese ho officiated, bas gone through the formulity of deposing him from the ministry. ‘A mission opened in the Town Hall of Arlington, Mass., last month, has now become self supporting. ‘The fo ad AS Florida has opened a successtul mis- sionat Key West among the colored people and now cails for funds to carry it on. There are 200 colored communicants there and a congregation of 300, and the school house in which they worship has become too lumited to accommodate them. Rey. F. W. Winslow, of Minersville, Pa, has been elected rector of St. James’ church, Washington. Rev. A.B. Atkins, D. D., of St. Jonn’s church, Georgetown, has accepted a call to Yonkers, N. Y., and will resign his charge on the 30th inst. ‘The Rev. John H. Ely, formerly of St. Mary’s church, Hillsboro, Ohio, has taken charge of some missionary work under Bishop Joga in Southern Obio. ‘The Rev. George 8. Baker, rector of the Church of the Epiphany, in Rochester, has accepted a call to St James’ church, Batavia, N. 'Y. ‘The Rev. Dr. Perry, Secretary of the House of Dep ties, has returned froin Europe, and {8m good health his home in Geneva, N. Y. The Rev. H. N. Powers, D.D., of Chicago, has accepted ‘the call to the rectorship of Christ church, Bridgeport, Conn. The Rev. F, A. Shoup has been elected rector of Grace parish, Waterford, N. Y. ‘The consecration of the Rev. Dr. McLaren as Bishop of Iiinois will probably take place early in December. Owing to the infirmities of Presiding Bishop Smith Bishop McCoskry will act as consecrator, and with peculiar appropriateness, he baving ordained Dr. McLaren both deacon and priest. It is designed to make the consecration a memorable event in the his- tory of the Episcopal Church of the Northwest, ROMAN CATHOLIC, Rev. Dr. Field, of the Hvangelist, now travelling in Italy, considers it a proof of the decline of that coun- try under the a. of a foreign yoke—of the par- alysis of her intellectual as well as her political life— that she has produced no name eq to those of Dante, Michael Angelo, Savonarda in 400 years. Rev. Bather Potsgeiser, S. J., is giving mission at the German Chureh of the Holy Trinity Pinladelphia, Rey. Hubert Shick, pastor. ‘The jubiiee and forty hours’ devotion will begin in the Church of St. Joseph, Baltimore, to-day. A grand altar has been erected and a large amount of beautiful statuary, lately received from France by Rev. Dr. Cha- pelle, will be used to add to the splendor and interest of the occasion * Rev. Father Kerns, of St Michael's church, Balti- more, bas been transferred to the archdiocese of St, Louis. His place at St. Michael’s bas been fliled by Rey. Father Arrant. MISCELLANROUS. Some 300 of the Young Men's Christian Associations have failed within recent date. One lesson which these failures wach is that voluntary superintendence cannot long be depended upon. A new translation of the Bible by Miss Julia BE. Smith, of Glosienbury, Conn., is to be published by a | Hartiord firm. Miss Smith is said to be the first person who ever made a complete translation of the Scriptures without aid, The trustees of the Hartford Theological Institute have elected the Rev. W. S, Carr, pastor of Cambridge- | port, Mass, to the Chair of Systematic Theology, mado vacant by the death of Dr. Vermilye. He will not, however, begin his duties in the seminary until next September. Dr. Horrick, of South Hadley, is the acting Professor of Theology this year, Atthe last meoting of the Congregational General Association of Illinois twenty churches were reported as needing ministers. The Spring Valley Reformed church is very ancient. It had a comfortable house of worship, but ‘wanted a better one. An ambitious house was erected, burdened with a debt too heavy for the society to carry.. So tho Rev. Richard DeWitt has preached his farewell sermon and the house is closed. ‘There are about fifty-two Hebrew ministers, sixty-six Jewish physicians and surgeons and some 104 gentle- men who practice law and are Israelites residing at Present in the city of Now York. The church at East Derry, N. H., after a three Mmontha’ trial of the substitution of the Bible sorvico for the morning sermon—4, ¢, having the Sabbath school in the morning and preaching tn the afternoon— have gone back to the old order of things, having two sermon: Rev. H. M. Parsons, of Boston, has received a unani- mous call to the pastorate of the Congregational church atSt. John, NB risa Tho Rey, Wiliam Ferris has resigned as publishing agent of the Reformed (Dutch) church, and Mr. Richard Brinckerhoff has been Appointed in his stead. ‘The Congregational ministers of Connecticut are dis- cussing the propriety of liturgical worship In their churches, Some of them want it and some don’t, The old folks are opposed to it KILLED BY A RUNAWAY TEAM, On the 18th inst,, as the laborers who had been at work laying a sewer in 110th street wero going homo, the team attached to the stone cart, driven by Michael Connell, a lad of seventeen years, took fright at somo object, and, becoming unmanageable, dashed along 110th street until they ran into a track, driven by William Bowers, a man seventy years old. The pole of Connell’s track strack Bowers in the back and knocked him of his vehicle, He diced on Friday, and yester- day an Inquest was held b@gore Coroner Woltman. The Jury found “That William Bower came to his death by injuries accidentally received by beng knocked down by @ runaway team, ariven by Michael Connell, at 110th street and Sixth avenue, and we recommend that the Police Commissioners station larger force of officers on the boulevards at the time the mon leave olf their work, to prevent reckless driving, and wo also request | the proper authorities to prevent boys under the age of twenty-one yon wi driving teams for lie | Worka yoars fro! ving i bhe BLACKWELL'S ISLAND ABUSES. Some Ugly Affairs Investigated by | a Herald Reporter. The Horrors of the Dark Cells and the | Case of Emma Brown. Light Weight in Beef and How It | Was Covered Up. So many charges of misinanagement in some of the | institutions on Blackwell’s Island have from time to | tume reached the HeraLp from persons who had been | prisoners for minor offences, such as disorderly con- duct or intoxication, and from others, tnat a few days | Ago acaroiul reporter was detailed to visit the island | and make as full investigation as possible, Among the churges made was the inefficiency of some of the wardens and physicians, an utter Jack of aiscipline, the existence of “rings” among wardens, keepers and other offictaly to deceive the Commissioners and under- mine other officers who had the confidence of the commission, misappropriation of the property of the city by the manufacture of shoes, &c., for officials, the permitting of prisoners to stcal clothing and other Property, maltreatment of prisoners and inmates, the unnecessary confinement of persons in dark cells and the abuse of an insane woman. These were a few of the charges; but another was a serious one against an official at the head of one of the institutions, AN INSANE WOMAN'S DARK CELL EXPERIENCE. Among the many cases of maltreatment of petty prisoners is that of Emma Brown, alias Brooks, an in- sane woman. She was—we speak in the past tense be- cause it Is believed she is dead—a Hebrew girl, who on | the 26th of last May was committed by a justice for dis- orderly conduct Shoe was received at the Workhouse May 27; on tho Slst of May, for changing her tally with the view of being discharged as another person entitle | to leave the Island, she was locked up in a dark ceil | by Deputy Superintendent McDonald. There, tho records show, sho was kept for thirty-two hours and twenty-five minutes. All the keepers and other inmates who were questioned by the writer agree that when sho was received she was apparently in robust health, On tho 8d of June for another minor infringement of tho rules, using abusive language to Dr. Allen, who had been called to treat her, she was again locked in a dark coll for thirty-two hours. Out of this dark cell she camo it is alleged, so ill that she could not speak or walk: She was removed to another cell, occupied by the dgctor’s runner, being carried there by the humane matron, Mrs. Barker. This lady states that the woman was very sick and speechless, She was ‘kept in the Workhouse two days in this condition and then sent to the Charity Hospital, There Dr. Kitchen, chief surgeon found her suffering from hysteria and speechless. He attributed her inability to speak to hysteria, She mado signs that she could write, and attempted to do so, but the doctor reports her writing was incoherent. Enough was made out to learn that she had before been an in- mate of the Lunatic Asylum. Dr, Kitchen declared that he gave her case careful attention, and his diagnosta was that she was insane. He accordingly went before Judge Joachimsen and made affidavit to her insanity, and then transferred her to the Insane Asylum, where she was received about the middie of June. Dr. Kitchen stated on Monday last that there was no doubt of her insanity when received at the Charity Hospital, yet an examination of the record in the Lunatic Asy- lum has the entry, ‘Improper subject.” The record in this asylum shows that she was suffering from melan- cholia, that her utterances were incoherent, that she would sit and wring her hands and otherwise betray signs of some severe mental disorder. Dr, Parsons, the physician of this institution, was absent, so an op- portunity was not afforded him to explain why a woman entered as an unfit subject was kept in the institution from about the middle of June until the 14th of Sep- tember, when she “eloped,” as the books show, This term “eloped” is a convenient way of accounting for the disappearance of inmates of the institutions on the islands whose absence cannot be accounted for. The clerk in charge of the books on being asked why a woman, an “unfit subject,” was kept for about three months, stated he supposed Dr. Parsons did 80 to ip- vestigate her case more fully. He reports that she escaped from the hall in Pavilion E, to which she had been transferred, and as ber dress was found on the river bank she was put down as ‘‘elo) ” There aro those on the Island, who believe, on the contrary, that the woman did not elope, but divested herself of her dress, and, jumping into the river, died a victim of con- finement in adark cell, in the first place, and gross neg- Jigence on the part of her keepers in the pavilion, who permitted her escape, in the second place. A POOR HUNCHBACK’S SUICIDE. In connection with the Emma Brown case the facts of the tragic death ofa clerk in the Workhouse was | given the writer. In that institution was an activo little hunchback, named McKenzie, who kept the | records relating to emigrants. His only misfortune seemed to be an immoderate love for opium. One day the editor of a leading daily received an anonymous note reading something like this:— ‘There is heil to pay in the Workhouse. Send a reporter to investigate it, and especially the Emma Brown case. A reporter was sent and began an investigation ; but he met with such difficulty in getting at the facts which the writer has given about this poor demented woman and was so systematically imposed upon that he aban- doned the inquiry. He thoughtlessly left in one of tho offices the above note, which was found, and the officials, determined to discover the man who wouid } dare give anything to the press about irregularities, compared it with the writing of a number of clerks and keepers. They selected the poor little hunchback ‘as the guilty one. He was discharged from his place. ‘The disgrace of nis discharge so weighed upon him that he went to an hotel in New Jersey, took potson. and now fills a suicide’s grave. It the poor fellow rested under a false charge. “THIS DISGRACEPUL 1088 BY STRALING,’? In the institutions there are ugly reports circulated of a laxity of discipline and the lows of the property of the commission by stealing on the part of the inmates. Among those institutions where such losses have oc- curred are the Penitentiary and Workhouse. There aro on file at the Eleventh street office of the commission evidence ot this stealing, which the writer has seen, and there are witnesses living, fortunately, who can verify them, In the latter institution when Mr. Kean, the veteran wardon, was able to be on duty and exer: cise personal supervision of all the details, there was excellent discipline and little orno leakage, Last spring Keeper McDonald was transferred from the Peniten- tary and made to ge A to Mr. Kean. The warden still ig the virtual bead, but McDonald is the active one, ‘To show how recklessly the property was lost in June, here 18 @ report of the June clothing return ander the item of “inspected and condemned :”— qh and Proper _ Cost of Article. Condemned, No. erage Proj Bodticks. + 10 “ sepals Sheets 6 6 ( 6 6 -_ Pillow ticks... Mu - ti Summer pantalooons, 63 40 to 60 sia Jackets 100 10 or 12 about $200 ‘Winter pantaloont 35 or 40 2 5 30 or 40 v5 16 or 20 123 | Petticoats .. 12 to 15 23 | Chemises. - 218 Total A caicula' o a ing, it is believed, will show that they will foot up for | the month of June about $1,025. The practice always | has been to have the clothing counted and compared | with the issues to see thatall is correct. If any are | missing it is easily accounted for by putting the arti- | cles umler the convenient head of ‘inspected and | condemned.” Mr, Kean, being ill, was off duty from April until July. Before he signed the above viwy of course, his deputy must have inspected it, and bad ho compared it, the writer did on Monday, with the re- ports for May and July, he would hayo at once detected the fraud of such entries, as the reports for these months show the items condemned ag ‘n about tho ratio given in the third column in the above table. Fortunately a person in the Eleventh street office de- tected the matter and there was a protest. On the re- turn for the month the following was written in pencil. ‘The initials represented by “T. C.” and B.” it is be- lieved are intended for Messrs, Cox and Brennan, Returned to Superintendent of Workhouse, with request that a report be sent to this Board why the officers in au: thority allowed this disgracetul loss. t occur by steal also th ers and their excuse, tr of the ol Whether this protest ever left the Eleventh stroet office the writer is unable to & bat be did learn that Mr. Brennan promised to investigate in person. As no changes have been made {n the personne of the Work- house staff since, with the exception of the poor little innocent hunchback, probably the deputy warden or some one else bas been abie to convince the commis- sion that nobody steals there, and that the articles were worn out of Were on the persons who escaped. The search of the archives of the Eleventh street office and the Workhouse did not result in unearthing any of the Superintendent, x ation on the part Kvery prisoner on his discharge is supposed to be | striyped of corporation clothing and given those in | which he entered. The public ought to know whether the prixoners tave been allowed to steal or whether | some officer has been twking them from the Island, © Uhis judyrsement BLOGt stealiue anotuer entry | OW quite Certain that | ments’ nas deen on these clothing otra! Office in Kleventh street, FRAUDULENT WKIGHTS OF HERP. 2 The Commission ‘eacontract with a firm t supply all the meat for the prisoners avd inmates for five and a quarter cents per pound for the poorer qual ity, and twelve and a half cents per pound for the hos pitais aud asylums, How they can afford to do so a these prices bas long puzzled those who know the privé paid. It is notorious that cases have been reported t¢ the Commissioners by heads of institutions that the weight of the beef short, yet it is doubtful whether Mr. Hedden, the a ntant wt the Central Office, bas docked the contractors, At the Twenty-sixth stree! dock all the meat is received, inspected, weighed and receipted for, by a paid officer of the departwwent. A Jor “1088 Dy €10] reports to the Mr. Brewer formerly performed this duty, but he wat removed and another appointed. ‘The reporter is assured that last summer @ good dea of decayed meat was discovered by the butchers at the institutions and thrown inte the river. Aiter tt if weighed and inspected at the Twenty-sixth street dock the beef is cut up and divided into quantities required by the various institutions. These are then weighed and acard attached to each, with the mame of the institution to which it is sent and the exact weight, If is the duty of the heads of these imstitutions to hava the meat re-weighed on its arrival, so as to detect any discrepancy or possible collusion between the con- tractor and the inspector as to weight. Some of theso officers have done so, and others have neglected 1% at times, One Warden reports that some days lus quan- tity is short, at another a littie over, so that in the course of a month his accounts coime out about even. Tn January iast there arrived at the Central Olllce a re- port from the Workhouse of shorts, and the account was returned uncertified to, owing to its incorrectness, by Warden Kean. Bot before relerring to the subse- quent action here i the deficiency each day, the | weight on the intervening days being correct and ocea- | sionally a few pounds over, | January 15, 1875, | January 23, 1875, January 26, 1875, January 27, 187 January 29, 18 February 1, 18’ February 2 18: short ‘Total pounds deficent.... oe ABT Multiply by five and one-quarter cents, and the total value of deficency is $23 u. ‘There are about six institutions that consume daily aa much beef as the Workhouse. It the same rates of lous by light weight is experienced in these the loss is in round numbers $144 every fifteen days or $2,406 per year in round numbers. One would think that if this instance of light weigh! so glaringly apparens, ever came to the knowledge ol the Commissioners they would commend the official who refused to certify it, Whether they will now learn for the first time the fact or not itis safe to say that some timo after the rejected statement was sent by Mr. Hedden to the Warden and Mr. Kean §) it this: time. Itis probable that he took the return of the paper to him after he had repudiated it as a bintto attach his signature. When these figures were culied to the attention of Mr. Brennan and Mr. Headen Hd on the days named Work- house by mistake in handling had gone to another institation, and Mr. Brennan called the writer's atven- | tien to the report of a case in point. Itis not the in- tention of this article to intimate that the Commission- ers would for a moment countenance any rascality in weight or quality, but it is quite evident that no such errors should occur. If the discrepancy can be shown to be the result of errors, it is owing perbaps to a lack of discipline of subordinates, who should have their wits sharpened. In September of the present year @ report reached the Central Otfice from the Warden of one of the institutions that six quurts of condensed milk d against the institution by the New York Condensed Milk Company had not been received, hence he declined to certify its correctness. Mr. Hedden wrote, as near as the writer can now remember, that the company claimed they bad Brewer's receipt for it, that it had probably gone to sume other institution and please certify to it, us it was too small « matter to make a fuss aboft. Whether the efficial complied with this hint the reporter is unable to learn. A STATEMENT OF MISAPPLIED PROPERTY. The reporter has come into possession of informa tion that more than one person on the island has been employed by his superior officers in making shoes and repairing from department leather for them and their friends. Fortanately, two of these shoemakers are not convicts, whose statements Mr. Bailey is al- ways go loth to even investigate. One of them de- clares that while he was employed in the shoe shop of an {Institution he manufactured from corporation Jeather two pairs of shoes for the head of the institu~ tion, and he professes to be willing to testify. These shoes were made during the past summer in the shop, it is alleged. ‘The man in charge of a shoe shop on the island hi kept the following record of work done by order ot hi superior for himself and friends, including the Warden of another institution. The original, in his own hand- writing, is in the possession of the writer, and, uniess tho man is intimidated, he is willing to testify before any constituted authority. Here is his record:— October 26—Half soles one pair men’s shoes, October 30—Half soles one pair men’s shoes. November 11—Made one pair morocco slippers with heavy soles. ‘*Rep, November 3—One patr girls shocs, rep. and send to his room. ‘*Rep. November 4—Two pairs men’s shoes for Mr. —., by his, the —’s order. *Rep. November 2—One pair gurl *This 1s supposed to mean “repaired.” It is not at all unlikely that the parties charged with having this work executed will attempt to cverce the parties into adenial, but it isas well ior thom to leave that alone. There are others who know of the transactions, It would be weil for them, too, not to charge innocent parties with giving information to reporters after tho | case of the poor hunchback clerk and his tragic end. ‘There are many other trregularitics that the reporter is Jnvestigating that are not touched upun here but are de- ferred fur a more fitting time. DARK CELLS IN THE WORKHOUSE. The best evidence of the unnecessary severity of the | deputy of the Workhouse is found in a comparison of | the number of unfortunates contined by him and Wi den Kean in dark cells for minor offences. An exami nation of the complaint book shows that in Uctober, 1874, Mr. Kean, who maintained excellent discipline, only confined thirty-seven persons, while Mr. McDpnaid in October last locked up 100. It is bis duty to enter every such confinement in the complamt book, yet in the case of three at least he did not do so. On the last Saturday in May Ellen Shea, Sarah J. How- | ard, colored, alias *Topsey,” and Magyte Reiley were returned from Hart’s Island for refusing to work. On Sunday, they ail agree, and othor witnesses will confirm them, they were locked in dark cells. On the foliowing day Shea was released; the other two were kept con- fined in the dark cell until the following Thursd: Yet no entry was made. About the same day Anu E win, a demented woman, was locked up in a dark cell and kept there for four days. To maintain discipline ts sometimes necessary, but there is no occasion tor a se- vere term of conilnement for petty violations of rules, CONCLUBIONS. That there is much demoralization on the island is quite evident, and it is possible that there is somo in= subordination to the authority of Deputy Warden Me- Donald, yet the reporter faildd to find any conspiracy existing against him. No\,oue ot the oill in the Workhouse uttered 1 word against him; butin every other imstitution visited the officiais spoke of Warden Kean a8 an excellent official, who {llness was universally regretted, and his deputy asa pompous, overbearing man, who is not fit for the position he hol they say, through the influence of Warden Fox with one or more of the Commissioners, It ts vory difficult to see how the present laxity of dis: cipline, irregularitios in doing business, and leakage of property are to be stopped unless by more vigilance or the part of the commission. Mr. Cox, it is said, rarely ever seen on the islands, while Mr. Bailey’: time is nearly all taken op at the Central Office. The active supervision of many thousands, there(ore, fallt upon Mr, Brennan, who by a daily visit cannot detect and punish negligent officers and investigate grievances, Mr. Brennan does # vast amountoi work, bat he cannot be everywhere at the same time, and consequently there 18 urgent necessity for a genera! superintendent of all the institutions and the employment of detectives te watch keepers as well as other officials. The Commis sioners should not shut themselves out from all the prisoners, and leave the wardens to investigate com piaints. Every prisoner, even a confirmed criminal, should have an opportunity to be personally heard by 4 commissioner if he has not confidence tn the wardens, ‘This is shown in the case of the man whose clothing has been made away with. Every custodian of prop. erty of prisoners should be compelled to make an in- ventory of such property on turning it over to a suc Contor-who would verity its correctness and, roceipting for it, become responsibie therefor, The Commis | sioners, and especially Mr. Brennan, express a desire te investigate all complaints and rectify them belore ther¢ is necessity for exposure in the public press, but as hé was informed yesterday such exposures as are given above do good by convincing derilect officers that th press can't be muzzled, and thus stimulating them t¢ more active vigilance, THE LAST SPANISH OUTRAGE. News was received in this city yesterday that Fede rico P, Montes, @ naturalized American citizen, of No, 69 Beckman street, who bad been arrested in the month of October last in Cuba, by the Spanish authorities and banished to the Isle of Pines, had been released and allowed to retarn to Havana, Mr. Montes was taken prisoner at St Nicolas, near Guines, where he was living with his bride, at the residence of his father, on suspicion of being in sympathy with the Cuban rebels, Several bundred of the wealthiest Oubans were arrested at the same time The matter was brought to the attention of Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, whi eral Hall on thi prisoners were t hoes for Mr. ——. in an infamous manner, having vo sleep in the open air, to a large extent, with no bigs sey 01 and Sues to eat [aod with their hands, no knives, forks or spoons being given them. As’ may be expected they suffered greatly, When Montes reached Havana after his releaso he called at the nnd of the Captain General, and was told by his ne tical secretary that if he would for- swear his allegiance to the United States he might ro main in Cuba, otherwise he would bo banished at the expiration of & month. Montes said he would not dq 0, and will consequently have to leave the island at the end of that time MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY. At the monthly meeting of the New York Medico Legal Society at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue, on y evening next, 30th inst., the President elect, jor Frank Hastings Hamilton, will deliver hid inaugural address, and Clark Bell, the retiring Pres deus, will also sveake