The New York Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1875, Page 10

10 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENC Ministerial Movements Chats by the Way. Revival Progress—Plain Talk for Those Who Need It What the Reformed Episco- pal Church Is Doing. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY Dr. John M, Reid, Revs. W. R. Davis and S. H. Platt will occupy the pulpit of South Second street Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, E. D., to-day, on the occa- sion of Its reopening after extensive improvements have deen made. Dra. Dashiell and Reid, of this city, will preach to- day in York street Metwodist Episcopal church, Brook lyn, in célebration of the semi-centenpial of that church’s existence, A love feast will be held in the afternoon. The Rey. J. V. Saunders will preach in Willett street Methodist Episcopal church (near Grand street) this morning ou “A Word to the Weary” and this evening on “The Herald of Redemption.” The ninth anniversary of the Children’s Fold will be colobrated this evewing by asermon delivered by Dr. W. A Huntington tm St, Bartholemew’s Protestant Episcopal church—subject, “The Religion ‘of Child- wood." In De Kalb avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brook! ng, the Rev. 8, H. Platt will preach, and in the aft n Dr. Joba M, Reid and Rev. J. Hyatt Smith will address the Sabbath School Mis- sionary Society ‘The Rev, ©. Sievers-Barton, D. D., of Norfolk, Va, will address the Church German Society in Christ charch this evening. Dr, Talmage will coutinue bis discussion of the re- tention of expulsion of the Bible in the public schools this morning in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The Rev. William Lioyd will say something this morning about ‘Song of God,” and this evening about “A Tried Stone,” In Al) Saints’ piscopal church the Rev. W..N. Dupnell will oMiciate and preach to-day at the usual hours. “Trumpet Blowing” and will be diecussed to d i ton street Baptist church. At the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal charch to-day the Rev. Jobu Johws will discuss the doctrine of _o''The Recognition of Friends tn Heaven.” To morrow | evening a union love feast of four cnurches near by will be held in Twenty-fourth stress Methodist Episco- pal church, In Sieecker street Untversalist church the Rev. C. P. McCarthy will talk about “Moses and Mirah’? this morning and about Dr. Talmage’s last Sabbath morn- jug’s sermon on the schoo! question in the evening. The Rev. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., D. D., will preach in the Church of the Holy Trinity this morning and at the People’s service in the evening. Kev. J. W. Bonham ‘Will preach in the afternoon, The Rey. J. M. Pullman will offer his hearers in the Church of Our Saviour this morning some “Help for Bard Times.” Sermon in the evening also. In Canal street Presbyterian church the Rev. H. B. Chapin will preach this morning and afternoon, as usual ©. B. Lynn will address the Progressive Spiritualists this morning on ‘The Practical Side of Spiritual Themes,” and in the evening on ‘The Public School Question. The Rev. Arthur Sloan, of Danbury, Conn., will officiate in the Church of the Holy Aposties at the usual Bours to-day. ‘The Rev. J. D. Herr will preach this morning and evening in the Central Baptist church. Mr. Herr will be formally installed pastor of this church in the after- boon. , this mor Protesta “A Perfect Atonement” y. W, H, Leavell in Stan Calvary Baptist charch will be instructed by Rev. | RS, MacArthar this morning on the folly of “Hewing Out Broken Cisterns,” and this evening on “The Wed- ding Garment.” Tho Rev. Joseph R. Kerr will preach at the usum hours to-day in the Fourth Presbyterian church, and on Tuesday evening he will be installed pastor of the church. “A Heart Full of Arrows” will be presented by Dr. Armitage this morning in Fifth avenue Baptist ecburch, and in the evening he will ask his hearers, individu ally, “Is It Well With Thee?” Revival meetings dor. ‘ng the week in union with the Church of the Holy Trinity. Presching as usual to-day in the Harlem Universalist eburch, Bishop Snow will consider the prophecy which declares that “The scattered children of God are to be gathered in one perfect Church,” this afternoon in the University chapel. The Rev. W. H. Pendleton will preach this morning and evening in the East Baptist church, “The Gate Ajar’’ will be opened this evening in Allen street Prosbyterian church by the Rev. George 0. Phelps. “Phe Burning Up of this Barth, the General Jnag- ment and the Home of the Saints’? will be the com- | prehensive theme for discussion by Kev. Charles K. Harris this evening at Allen street Methodist Episcopal eburch, The Rev. S. M. Hamilton will minister to the Scotch Presbyterian church at the usual hours to-day. The Brooklyn Sunday School Union will be addressed to-morrow evening in Hanson place Methodist Episcopal church by Rev. Dr. Talmage and Rev. J. Hyatt Smith. Rev. W. P. Abbott will preach in St. Luke’s Metho- dist Episcopal church this morning and evening, “The Service of Christ and its Compensation” will be considerea this morning by Rev. H. W. Knapp in the Laight street Baptist church, and “The Last, the Best and the Only Successful Resolve” in the evening. The Rev. Dr. William Adams will preach in the Madi- son avenue Reformed church this morning. “The Love of God tn the Saivation of the Wo will be presented this evening by Rev. J. S. Wi the Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church. tor Vinton, of Wisconsin, will speak on temperance in ‘he morning. The Rev. W. B. Merritt will minister to the Sixth avenue Reformed church this morning and evening. Dr, Rogers, in the South Reformed ebureh th morning, will discuss the relations of “Congress and ‘the Charch,”” The Rev. Dr. Fulton will preach in the Tabernacte Baptist church this morning on “The Immovable Foundation” ahd in the evening on “Constraining Love.” The Rey, A. W. Lightbourn will preach in Seven teenth street Methodist Episeopal church this morning and Rev. George F, Kettell, D. D., Protestant Episco pal, in the evening. Services in the Chureh of the Epiphany as asual to- Bena. day. The Rev, U, T, Tracey will officiate. The Rev, W, T. Sabine will preach this morning and evening in the First Reformed scopal church, Divine service In tHe Greek clapel this morning in English. In St. Ignatiua’ Protestant Episconal church, this morning, the Rev, Dr, Ewer will officiate, and in the evening Rev, Dr. Gallandet, Mr. Sankey’s goxpel songs will be sung this evening at tho people's service im the Church of the Holy Trinity. A conference of Spirit Rooms this afternoon and lista will be held ta Harvard ning. | The Very Rev. Thos. 8. Preston, D. D., will deliver sermons, in St. Ann’s | the third in bis series of Ad Protestant Epweopal church, this evening Subject, “The Holy Eucharist the Fountain of Lite,”” Rev, Henry A. Brann, D. D., of Washington Hoights, ‘will deliver a sermon this evening on the Immaculate Soneeption dt 8, Michael's church, Jersey City, The Rev. Chauncey Giles (Swedenborgian) continues his series of discourses on ‘Learning To Do Well.” Special subject Mr to-day, ‘How to Speak.” CHATS BY THE WAY. If it is permiteed to laymen to express an opinion (90 religious sutjects we should Uke Jo may thak there is REW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. ‘oo mucn agnity in New York churches for an honest and thorough revival, Lavender kids are bad things for a wrestling match, @ Some of the papers are discussing the elocution of ‘the pulpit, So far as we have observed there is no such thing as elocution in that particular spot to dis- cuss. When we want to bear good reading we go to the ‘theatre; and when we need an iliustration of all the worst mannerisms combined we listen to a clergyman reading abymn. The Bible isn't much of a book if you judge by the way in which most clergymen read it, Read properly it ought to start tears, but read with a draw! it starts only a yawn, Ministers, as a general rule, are the worst elocutionists in the community. Rev. Mr. Savage, a promising Unitarian minister of Boston, has made an attack om orthodoxy which renders his name appropriate. His logic is peculiar. He loves orthodox men, but hates their principles. We always thought that men were the result of their principles, bat here is a problem for theological nut- crackers, How canasystem be false and the men who represent it trae? Ay, there's the rub, gentlo Savage. The example of Moody and Sankey seems to be contagious, In India the Christian natives have formed a “Kurrapucker Singing Society.” Kurrapucker isan ideal name for a whistling organization, and will probably be borrowed by the ambitfous youth in our Sunday schools. This Hindoo society haw been very successful in spite of its name in holding neighborhood meetings, and its members have many hopeful con- versions as the result of Kurrapuckering. Dr. Parker, of London, whom those of the Alliance will affectionately remember, has said 80 many bright things in his day that they ought to be compiled in a volume, with the title, “Star Dust.” He has been in- yited to preach in tho Established Church; but, on looking over the act of uniformity, finds that the cul- prit who is guilty of such an offence 1s liable to suffer “three months’ imprisonment tn the common jail,” and sends to the inviting clergyman a response to the effect that as he never takes a winter vacation he must decline the invitation. Mr, Smyth, an Englishman, has written a book upon “Tbe Bibie and Evolution,” in which we find a very curious argument against Universalism, and an equally curious statement concerning Calvinism. The latter is the doctrine of the ‘survival of the fittest,’’ applied to sonls The former cannot be true, because it teach “the survival of everybody—the fit ‘and unfit alike.” Darwin and Calvin pitch their voices by the same tun- mg-fork. After that Mr. Darwin ought to become a good conservative orthodox church member, and the bard things which have been hurled at him trom the pulpit require an apology. Rev. J. M. Buckley has written a very interesting book on “Christians and the Theatre.” He proves conclusively, to himself at least, that no professor of religion ought to attend the theatre, Well, it is a pity that Shakespeare was ever written, and still we some- times think that if ministers would drono less and de- liver themselves more according to the rules of the dramatic art they would enliven their services and not detract from their dignity. To our mmd the drama is Just as really demanded by human nature for its rec! ‘ation as churches are for tts education. The theatres of this city constitute a very important vent for the pent- up nervous energy of the people, and if ministers would contro! the theatres instead of denouncing them they would do more to save the young thau they can at present conceiya, ‘The revival meetings in Philadelphia have been seri- ously affected by the weather. Kt is avery singular fact tbat religion seems to make @ man porous, and even a light shower percolates to his inner parts aud nyeg bim a cold. It is equally curious that the theatre r the opera has Precisely the. opposite effect, and seems to enamel aman go thaf even @ driving storm ean do him no harm. So many colds and other troubles caused by dampness have, in the distant past, of course, been caught at church on rainy days that people have become wise and stay at homa Besides, fan operatic cold, if it is ever taken, yields at once to medicine; this, at any rate ts the popular idea’ while a religious cold—this, too, is a popular prejudice—is of Bo serious @ nature that no one ought to venture to church when the clouds are threatening. The Inde ent this week is warm and tender in its words of farewell to Dr. Puiton. It certaiuly gives himavery bandsome liftout of his old and into his cd Rede EM, 2 not give fh: Kwhat objectionable; indeed, it would faturaliy be 80 to a man of the Doctor’s nervous and gisitive temperament, but tbe fact is very apparent that the J thinks that almost any eid of Ia- bor is more desirable than Brooklyn, It speaks of the Doctor's ‘eccentric manners, his oceanic resources of gush and hie Fultonic ideas of veracity."? Rhetoric can } ho further go. After that he will have to mount one ot his own tidal waves and float off to more pacific shores, Dr. Talmage 1s given to excessive profanity. He be- came very much excited last Sunday morning. and said:—“Pat the Bible out of the schools? By the strength of the eternal God, it shall never be done!” When a man’s head is as hot as that a celd water ban- dage is a good thing. The reverend teacher who gavo utterance to such a sentence could commit any crime and be discharged on the ground of emotional insanity. A Journal has the first of @ series of artic on * ulsive Retigion.” By astretch of the imagin- ation we suppose that reference is made to the present revival movement. The author is quite rightin de- pouncing tbat nervous excitation which has sometimes passed under the name of religion. The consequences would be very serious, for instance, if we should be Visited by that epidemic which prevailed throughout the West, known as “the jerks.” Think of the atter confusion that would ensue If one of Mr. Moody’s 10,000 fudiences should be taken in this way simultaneously, ‘The apparent difference between such a state of things, in whieh each man would be striking toward his neigh- bor, but not at him, and a first class riot would be very slight. These dewonstrations seldom occur except in country 3, where there is plenty of room. But there is little need to anticipate sacha calamity. We have not seen the first nervous twitch yet, not even ‘among tho clergy, aud however badly the people may be affected by and by, they are now g0 cool that Moody and Sankey find it difficult to get up steam enough to the wheels going. Methodist grows facetious over the report that Mr. Stanley has converted King Mtesa, and can hardly control its editorial risibles because this work has been dune. not through the ordinary channels of a white necktie and a grave D. D., but by a layman in the em- joy of asecular paper. Mr. Staniey’s successes have Poee regarded with commendation by most of the re- ligious press, which Las happily lost sight of tne means im the fact of couversion. Mr. Stanley did not start out with any express instructions to preach the Gospel, bat to Gnd the soarces of rivers and the latitude and longitude of mountains; but it it should bappen to ' come in bis way to speak a word, though a layman, and ibly am unconverted one at that, for the religion in which he was educated, does the Methodist think there iw any jal harm init? Stanley has travelled all réund i sources ofthe Nile and taught King Mtesa the Ten Commandments, neither of which facts will do any séFious \njury to the ordinary North American Christian, io our judgwpent, ‘Dr. Pendleton, who ts oft of those Baptists who have water on the brain, says that if by accident he shoyid | find himself in an ordaining council in which a Pedo- Baptist was sitting, be ‘would certainly withdraw,” ae jai stamp do when they shuille off | this mortal coil? They won't be bappy in heaven, be- | it i aid “there shall be no more sea,” and if so, can be no immersion, and as for a gentle rain in at wouldn't do, because that would be equiv- prinkling,”’ which is a theological abomina- tion, No, they can’t go to heaven, that is evident, | because there is no water there, and they won’t care to go to the other place, though they ougiit not to ob- Jeet, because people in that section would be all Baptists if they could, The only chance for these mal- | contents that we can see is the introduction of purga- tory into their creed, not so much as a theological dog- ma as a geographical fact and pace of popular resort, | Dr. Talmage has an organ of hopefulness which will | make bis cranium valuable to the phrenologysts after he has finished his work in the flesh. He beging an edito- | rial by the assertion that “We need a second deluge.” What will mi | We hasten to our wardrobe to look over our stock of | | umbrellas, when it suddenly occars to us that the | Doctor tsa very funny mau, and that by deluge he doesn't m to f to water in the most dist | but to something else. He then predicts that said deluge comes whole navons will literaily be con: verted in # then gives play, we may say somewhat free pl to bis imagination, the ample | storehouse whence he takes many of hia weightiest | facts, and says that by and by we shall have sach tele- grams as these flashed over the wires:—‘China born unto God; Engiand and india saved; Greenland re- deemed."”’ It was rather cool to include Green. land, Now. that these peoples will all uitimately come to our faith we cannot doubt, but inn’t ita prevty heavy | day’s work to bring India and Eugiand in at once? ur hands, why be in would Dr Whiie there i so much time on gnch a terri urry about it? mage do if the world sbould be , | sensible to hear him pre Th tor had better put the date of that floc a8 far a# he can, for self- protection is one of the first laws of nature. THE REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH. ‘Tho progress of the Reformed Episcopal Church un der very serious obstacles and hindrances of divers: kinds nas been something rather remarkable, and shows if such results-can show that it mects a felt want of the people. Im Desmiber, 1873, it had only eight @ergymen, including Bishop Cummins and not a single congregation. Now it has (ifty congregations and more than that number of ministers. One characteristic of the Reformed Kpiscopalians 1s that they do their work quietly and unostentatiously. Its policy is, however, none the less aggressive because its voice is not heard ‘on the streets. In accordance with the eanons of the Chareb six parishes constitute a synodical jurisdiction, and may proceed to elect a bishop, to be coulirmed by the next General Council, Already Chicago and vicinity bave formed a synod and elected Bishop Cheney. Phila delphia has also the complement of Wh , churches and of the church tm Willia number ts completed so t it New York can constitute her jurisdiction and elect a bishop. The wisdom of the Reformed Ej mencing their formative work # of the Union, placopalia # 8 in com- In the three greatest This t# tho dominant ides of the radiate the power thas shail purify or putrefy tho whole 1 If the Reformed Episcopalians will concentrate ir money and onerges in those cities and centres their success in the past will be butasa drop in a oucket to that which awaits thern in the fature, Their first bishop aud founder was originally a Methodist, aud some the more enthustasti of their number this vicinity favor the calling oo for Seth synodical Jurisdicuon in bishop | are centres of influence for good of bad, and from them from that Charch, so as to insptre them with zeal and animation and givo them an impulse that shall be felt years hence. The Reformed Episcopalians might find such a man among the Methodist ministry bere, ae whom are growing weary of the itinerancy, y in its relation to city pastorates. changing time will soon be here and it might be well for the Reformed Episcopalians to cast about during the next three months in qnest of the man they want. This young Church deserves the success that it has had against almost insuperable difficulties with which it has had to contend. Called into being at tho beginning of this present gigantic financial crisis it bas compelled to struggle with poverty. Meoting with a well organized hostility in the Church whence she sprung, anda latent but de seated opposition from almost all the other old estal lished churches, she has had+to labor for a foothold. Let her ministers and people be patient and prayerful and both these obstacles will be removed, and the Re- formed Episcopal Church will then stand for all time, PROGRESS OF THE REVIVAL. GLEANINGS FROM FAR AND NEAR—WHERE ARE MOODY'S BROOKLYN CONVERTS? Without any great noise or flourish of trumpets the work of revival advances steadily in and around New York and throughout different parts of the country. Very much of it ts done and cagried forward by lay- men, A few weeks ago wo gave statistics of the revivul up to that time. We have additional figures and facts to presens to-day, One of the quictest and most suc- cessful revival meetings tn this city is held in Greene street Methodist Episcopal church, The neighborhood ofthat church had become so un-Methodistic and 80 given to commerce that some time ago s union was effected between the Greene street and Duano churches, and the union awaited tho legal sanction which the conference could give it, When Messra, Moody and Sankey came to Brooklyn, and Christians here and there were starting noonday prayer meetings, a few merchants’ clerks in Canal and the streets around hired the lecture room of Greene street church in which to hold sach meetings for one week. On the opening day sixteen young men entered and engaged in prayer for one hour, The number doubled the next day, and has gone on increasing ever since until the place 1s too strait now to hold all who would participate, And yet the meetings have not been once advertised in the papers, But the young man who carry it on pass the word around from store to store and place to place, and hundreds go there who rarely attend ordinary church services, Ministers have nothing to do with the meetings, They are led in turn by merchants, CLEKKS, PORTERS, MECHANICS and others im every cailing and trade, and all contro- versial subjects are ruthlessly turned adrift. The re- marks, experiences and prayors are necessarily brief, and the variety thus Introduced necessarily imparts in: terest and vitality to i, From a dozen to a score of non-Christian professing men stand up in the meetings daily to ask the prayers of Chistians for them- selves, and a great many havo been converted through the influence of tho meetings. Sankoy’s hymns are sung, and a Brooklyn genuo- man leads the singing. There are seldom more than a dozen or twenty ladies present; but an effort ts to be made to induce the shop girls and saleswomen of the vicinity who can toattend the meetings, This notice may serve as an invitation to them to attend and an assurance to them of a hearty Christian welcome. The fame of these meetings, thus noiselessly begun and continued, has reached distant places, and to-morrow, by re: qnest, a half nour will be spentin prayer for the churches of Newark and Passaic, N. J., which are ro- ported as being nearly in the condition in which Jesus Christ found Lazarus of Bethany when he called him forth from pbe-tornb. To-morrow also a volunteer cominities of young men from Greene street will go over to Carmel chapel, in thg Bowery, to start the ro- vival fire on that side of the city. The revival meetings in Dr, Tyng’s and Dr. Ar- mitage’s churches, which have been continued during the past week, will be united this week and be held in the Church of the Holy Trinity, where special sermons will be preached every evening on revival work in New York, Nearly all the Methodist churches on the east side of the city aro con- ducting revival meetings, and once a week a union love- feast fs held alternately in one or other of the contigu- ous churches. The churches on the west side havo taken up this feature, and to-morrow evening such a union service will be held in 'wenty-fourth street Metho- dist Episcopal church. The influence of song in relig- fous meetings is becoming more fully recognized than it has been for many a day, and a portion of the prayer meeting service in very y of the churches is now devoted to singing, Ia Fourth street Methodist Epix copal church, when Rev. Mr. Lloyd devotes half an hour to song, the crowds who gather can’t find stand. ing accommodation even. In Willett street church, also, when Rev, Mr. Saunders leads, very much the same condition of things is seen. And often during the singing of some hymn or sacred song penitents rise for prayers or seek the altars of the churches IN QUEST OF FORGIVENESS. In Brooklyn there is a pretty thorough shaking among the dry bones, But this shaking seems to be in inverse ratio to the churches’ nearness to the Rink. It is by many believed that that the churches contiguous to the Rink would be and”are greatly benefited y Mr. Moody’s meetings, But we under- stand that Dr. Talmage, in whose tabernacle two datly meetings were held, will take in just four new members, caught in Mr, Moody’s net, “The Rev, W. R. Davis, pastor of Simpson Methodist Episcopal church, where all Mr. Moody's inquiry meetings were held, will take im just two, one of them being Bradiaugh’s 1nfidel pupil, out of whose conversion so much revival capital has been made, We have not beard how many Dr. Thomp- son bas taken in or will take in, and Dr. Cuyler will receive half a dozen or 80. The Rev. Mr. Bowdish will take i four, but the great bulk of the converts aro gone—who knows whither? During the first week of Mr. Moody’ meetings in Brooklyn 500 converts were reportea; wo would be giad to know what church or churches have received a tenth of this number. In Fleet street Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, the ©. Steele has a very gracious work going on. Forty-iive bave united with the church during the last five weeks, and several went forward lor prayers on last Sabbath night Johnson streot, Carroll ¥ place and De Kalb avenue are also enjoying the blessing of reviving grace. At the last named church on Friday night a reckless, hard drinking man, who had not, ao- cording to bis ‘own confession, been inside a church thirty times in that number of years, ralated his expe- rience very touchingly. He went to Moody’s meetings in Simpson church and was convicted, but his re- ligious impressions soon wore off and ho was as bad as ever anti last Friday week, when he went to a revival prayer meeting in Do Kalb avenue and was there converted, In Embury Methodist Epis- copal chureb, Brooklyn, the Rev. Charles i, Miller has a resivai work going forward every evening, which bas already added 125 to the church, and last Sunday even- ing 100 persons rose for prayer.’ A religious revival 18 also in progress in the Churgh of the Strangers in this city, aud at the last Conférence of THN BAPTIST PASTORS HERB they reported for the month of November 40 ndditions by baptism. The National Baptist of Philadelphia bas «gleaned among if@ constituents 481 additions by bap- tiem daring the past five or six weeks, In Franklin, Pa, the Rov. Frederick Rvang, formerly of this city, baptized 18 during November, among them Congress- man Kgbort; in Sharpsville, Pa, Mr. Hile took in 7; In ¥iatwoods, Pa, Mr. Patton received 19; !n Holmesburg, Pa., 25 have united with the Baptist Church and in Olivet, Pa, 15; in Baptiststown, Pa, 20 have professed faith;' in’ Boardman chapel, ‘Philadelphia, 11 have’ been baptized and in Bérean Baptist church, same city, 5, In Glenn's Falis, N. Y., 70 con- verts were reported in the Baptist charch, and In the Second church, Harlem, New York, Rev. Halsey Moore bas taken in S converts. Among the Bapti and Chambersburg, Pa., revival influences aro very jargely felt. The Third Presbyterian church of Chester, Pa, bas received an addition of 100 converts and the work continues, In the Pennsylvania Milltary Acad- emy, near that place, meetings have been held for the last two months and 60 cadets have professed conver- sion, Swartswood Methodist Episcopal church, New J received 34 converts up to December 1; Stockport | Methodist Episcopal church, New Jersey, 20; Markors | Methodist Episcopal church, 20, and in ‘other places rin numbers, And thus tho work goes forward out noise or tumult. THE CHILDREN’S FOLD. Nine years ago the Episcopalians of this city opened | an orphanage under the titlo of the Children’s Fold, For some time the institution was located in East Fifty- eighth street, near First avenue, but for two years or | more it haa been im Sixtieth street, near Lexington | avenue This evening its ninth anniversary will be | celebrated in St, Bartholomew's church, Madison avo- | nue, where Dr. W. R. Huntington will preach a sermon | on “The Religion of Childhood.” During the nine | years of ite existence it has cared for 397 children, 48 | of them being maintained and educated during the cur- rent year, The ount of oney expended in the work of the fold the present year | 26, being $20 less than the receipts, During the ary of its existence the managers have expended $41,876. They have separate for fifty five children, av rarely allow tworto sleep in one bed. When acht & parent that parent is required to do his or her suare toward the support ofthechild. And by an act { the Legislature the managers have the power to place out any 4 over ten years of age who has been tn the Fold six months and for whose support the parent bas not paid one-half the cost to the institution. They bave the same authority i regard to children ander ten years who have been in the Fold twelve montha A faihor, in good health, who cannot pay §4or $50 month for bis ‘ld, having no other claims apon him, | thy of being ® parent. He certainly ‘or pauperizing bit child. All the ohik | dren who can ve received are eent to the pablic schools, while te fest and the newly admitted are duly ine | structed by a teacher in the b only has occurred among those who had been three months in the Fold daring the nine years of its operations, clading the new membors the ve been three deathe during that period. Many of the protégés of the Fold arefrom the public institutions on the islands, The managers aro secking an amendmont to the Schoo! law, by which the Board of Education shall be permitted 16 rend teachers to al] the benevolent inetitutions for chil- | dren in the city. This, tt ia supposed, would remove the stigma of sectarianism which attaches to so many of them. MINISTERIAL MOVEMEN’ ROMAN CATHOLIC. The death is announced in Normandy, France, re- cently of the Rey. Julian B. Dujarie, formerly and for many years a professor in St. Charles College, Howard county, Maryland, ja the forty-third year of his age ‘He belonged to the Order of St Sulpice and was con- nected with St Mary’s Seminary, Balwmore, also. About five year ago be was transferred to France, and at the time of his death was chaplain in a hos- pital The Carmelite monks who recently emigrated from Germany to Paterson, N. J., are erecting a very fne monastery at Stony Road, The dimensions are 34x72 feet, two stories high, imcluding chapel, living and school rooms, It will be built of brick, Gothic in style, and will cost about $10,000. Other buildings will be erected hereafter as wings to this one as they sball be needed, A very successful mission has just been concluded tn Chatham village, N, ¥. (of which the Rov. J. J. Mori- arty is pastor), by the Rev. Fathers Beaudevin and Flynn, of St. John’s College, Fordham, N. Y¥. The Jesuit missionaries recently closed very snc- cessful mission at Archibald, Pa, and are now giving one at Matteawan, N. Y. The Passionists’ mission at St, Louis, Ma, which closed recently, gave twenty converts (rom Yrotestant- ism tothe eburch there. The same fathers are now giving missions in Benton, Wis. One of the finest religious edifices in the State of Ver- mont ig the Roman Catholic church at Rutland, erected by Rev, Father Boylan at a cost of $120,000, In Bur- lington Vicar General Lynch Is erecting a convent for the Sisters of Mercy. Rev. P. O’Carroll has built a very neat church at Fairhaven at a cost of $45,000, Rev. P. Cunningham, pastor of Middlebury, has in- vested about the same amount in a similarmanner in Vergennes, and Rey. Henry Lane, of Brattleborough, has his hands full in providing school accommodation for the youthful portion ot his flock who wero expelled from the public schools a year ago for abseuce on a cbureb festival. The new church for the Redemptorist Fathers at Boston Highlands is to be 200 feet long Mm 75 feet wide, with walls 65 fect high, Jt will seat 1,800 per- sons when completed and is estimated to cost $200,000, It will be one of the finest churches in New Engiond. In the diocese of Fort Wayne, Ind., new churches are being built at Fowler, Benton county, frame; at Decatur, brick; at Logansport, brick; at SL Anthony’s, * Benton county, and Albion, Noble county, frame; at Chesterton and at Roanoke, brick; at Bluffton,’ Gi- rardet’s Settlement and Tipton, framo; at New Haven, brick, and at Remington and Bremen, frame, As an evidence of the rapid decadence of Protestant ism in St. Louis, the Waichman of that city reports that while nearly 200,000 people live east of Tenth street, whore fifteen years ago there wero thirteen Protestant churches there Js not to-day one. One was turned into a livery stable, another was’ converted into 8 low theatre, still another is now an auction hous fourth is a mammoth second hand furniture store, others have been torn down, while one has been bought by the Italians for a Catholic church, The Protestant poor have no churches, neither have they preachers, The Catholic Review ‘rejoices that the Franciscans, to whom is largely due the discovery of this continen! are building a new church at Boston which shail affor seat room for 600 persons. This Order has grown won- derfully of late in America BAPTIST, There are three white aud two, colored Baptist churches in Hampton Court House, Va, to accommo- date its 3009. aoe. One of the latter is said to number 1,900 church members, so that the other four are left with a mere corporal’s guard. The Rev. 0. A. Moffat, recently a minister in the inal connection with the First cnurey, Loci ye, as Pastor was found to be a hindrance oon most re St Os vacant pupit, wl after thirty-four thtul service, be resigned @ year ago, Rev. Joho N. Pree man succeeds him. The Rev. E. M. Kellogg, of Bricksburg, N. J., has ene ee of the Presbyterian church at Hammon- in, N. J. Rev. W. H. Andrews, of the Seventh United Prosby- terian church, Pittsburg, bas received @ call to the wefer, D. Ke Nesbild han accepted the cal to the Haz We abit bas aoc} 0 Bazle- wood Presbyterian church of Pittsburg. Week the Second Reformed Presbyterian church , having previously accepted the resignation son, who had served them thirty-6ix iy M, Somerville, of Cincinnatt, a of $2,600 a year. Tho Se00 po pee for ioe ae his full salary St the rate of pve dt 5 Guring the itis Six months aud $1,000 a year Mrs. Stowart, of Ohio, the woll the well Known Jeader in the temperance crusade in the spring of 1874, has decided to sail for England tho latter ‘month to begin fp a veces in that country. junday Professor Swing severed ‘his conn with the Fourth Presbyterian church of Chicago, ean is now proposed to rent one of the theatres of that city for his future use, The propriety of holding Sunday concerts by tho churches 18 considerably discussed in Chicago. The discussion grew out of the fact that the Michigan ave- nue Baptist church has had such, one of the regular services giving way for it, Sacred musio {s used, but Loni jg an admission feo, and the object is to make oney. Mr. Moody is expected In Chicago about the begin- ning of the new year, to assist in the dedication of his new church, A century ago tho Congregationalists were largely in advance of all other denominations in the United States; Methodists were hardly known by namo. Now Methodists aro the largest organization in the land, One hundred ago the more important religious bodies wero reckoned in the following order: —Congregationalist, Baptist, Church of England, Pres- byterians, Lutherans, German Roformed, Dutch Re- formed, and the Roman Catholics; in 180, by Metho- dists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Chris- tian, Lut Congrogationalists, and the Protestant Episcopal, In 1777 the number of churches was less than 960; by the census of 1870 the number was 72,000. Churches have multipled nearly thirty-seven fold; pop- Last of this of Dr. A. ulation, eleven fold. In 1870 religious societies owned 000,000 worth of property. The most extraordinary increase has been among Roman Catholics. The Rev. Chauncey Giles, pastor of the Sweden- borgian, or New Church Society, in East Thirty-ffth street, was, while on a recent visit to Europe, presented with a silver salver by his co-religionists in Loudon as a testimonial ofaffection and respect. The salver bears the following inscription:—'*Presented to the Rev. Chauncey Giles, from the members of the Camden Road Society of the New Chureb, asa token of their esteom and as a memento of his visit to England, London, Oct, 1, 1876,” REVIVAL WORK IN NEW YORK OITY. ‘Tho following correspondence has been furnished for publication :— Rev. Tuomas Arauraan, D. D. Daan By Having heard that you have prepared a course of lectures on revivals of religion to be deliv- ered. to your congregation, wo respectfully request that you will favorably consider an invitation to give them in connection with the union preaching services of the uptown noon prayer meeting in the church on Madi- son avenue, coruer Forty-second street. Freewitl connection, has become pastor of the Baptist church at East Birmingham, Pa, The female members of the Baptist churches in Chicago have taken up the Bible in the schools ques- tion with a great deal of earnestness and are holding meetings here and there among the churches and de- manding the fall restoration of tho good book to the schools. The Baptist ministers of the city are divided on the question of its exclusion or reteation. The ts of North Carolina have 100,000 mem- bers, white and colored; 750 churches and 450 minis- ters, Thirty-six students for the ministry are in their seminaries. Last week a new Baptist church was dedicated at St. Johnsbury, Vt The plot of ground on which the church stood Was given to them by Mr. Faller, one of the celebrated firm of organ builders, who also pre- sented an clegant organ for the use of the society. There are 10,000 Baptists in Florida and only one self- supporting church. So writes the pastor of that church, who complains of the support given to him. The Rev. G. K. Allen enters on his labora with tho North church, Jersey City, to-day. The Ctinton avenve Baptist church, Trenton, N. J., will soon dedicate a fine stone edifice for worship. The Brookiyn Baptist Social Union will hold a cen- tennial mass meeting in the First church, on Pierrepont street, next Thursday afternoon. METHODIST, The gental and versatile bishop, Gilbert Haven, ts re- ceiving from his brethren and the church pews on every side the piper’s wages—“more kicks than ba’pence,”” He has written an article for the press to prove that the Methodist Episcopacy is In the r lar apostolic succession {rom Paul, through Titus, Eras- mus, Wesley and thence downward. e editor of the Christian Advocate demolished the good bishop’s theory by publishing an essay of his (the editor’s), written as jong ago as 1544 Then the real apostolic successors of the Awerican church’? have looked into the mat ter and discovered that the Methodist “succession” is “sham episcopacy” which is worso than none at all, Is would never do to have two “regular” suc- cessions in one country. Now an Eptscopal confrere of Bishop Haven's is so delighted with his new ex- altation by the timely discovery of the Bishop, that he es to sell cheaply ‘Powell on the Apostolical Buc- cession,” which had been @ text book with him, and other works in that line, and take bis brother Haven’s article in lieu of all But while all those brethren are tearing their hair‘over this matter, Bishop Haven pre- sides ata Wowan’s Suffrage Association meeting in New York, leaving, as one of his critics declures, “his high vocation and consorting with infidels and free- thinkers to bring about a questionable ‘reform.’” So the plot thickons around the Bishop, and he ts advised to go on an ordination tour among the British ‘Wesieyans and show them the advantages of apostolical succession. Will he go? Rey. J, Van Cleve, of the General Missionary Com- mittee, who has been for some time ill at St. Luke’s Hospital, in this city, is still very low. His wife is with hitn and he is tenderly cared for. A fow weeks ago the Christian Advocate of this city published an article derogatory to the holiness move- ment which the Rev. John. Inskip is leading on. That entleman took it up asa personal matter and sailed Into Dr. Curry, who, gave for his official relation to the paper named,’ was innocent of any knowledge of or participation in tho article. But be now accepts the fall responsibility, and utters some very plain and pungent truths to Brother luskip, who, though not a bad man, says and does bad things’ And his present Holiness Associational schemo Dr. Curry thinks means another secession from the Methodist Episcopal Church and is a violation of ministerial vows and subversion of church unity. Sh Ae eXvonth anniversary of the Missionary So- ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be beld in Indianapolis, commencing on Saturday next. Rev. 8. 9. Craven, under appointment of the Method- jst Episcopal Misstonary Society to Mexico, will sail from New Orleans Jai ee 1 for his post of labor, Mr. Craven is an alumnus of the Boston Theological School. Rev, 8. W. Seiberts, a graduate of the samo institution, {ealso under appointment for the same mission, and will sail carly in tho spring. ‘A great love feast, in which six Methodist Episcopal churches are to unite, 1s to be held in old John street church to-morrow evening. ‘Sunday, November 28, was devoted to tho interests of missions in this city, and collections were taken up in the churches, twenty-one of which report an aggre- gate sum of $6,576 62 thus raised, RPISCOPALIAN. ‘Tho Abbé Michaud has very little faith In the work of the Bonn Conference. They began at the wrong end, and ho go advises the readers of the Churchman, Thero are, the Abbé says, about fifteen questions of differ. ence between the Protestants, Anghoans, Orthodox and Old Catholics, and these separatists wish to uvite apon the faith and teachings of the undivided Church. In- stead, however, of going to the writings of the Greek and Latin fathers to ascertain what they taught daring the first five centaries the conference goes to a father ‘of the eighth century, and hope, by conceding a potnt of faith to one Church, to obtain from it @ concession ‘of some other point, Bo that when their work is done in this way none but thomselves will be satisfled. The ‘AbbG Michaud says the writings of thoze fathers aro contained iu 146 volumes, and he proposes that each of the four Christian bodies named above appoint sixteen or seventoen of their ablest doctors, who shall study throe volumes a year, and give the teachings of the fathers upon the fifteen points in dispute, In this way within three years @ true basis of union can be ob- ‘tained, Rev. Jon P. Lundy, rector of the Charch of the Holy Aposties, corner of Ninth avenue and Twenty- eighth street, has resigned. 0 Rey. Spencer 8 Roche has entered upon the reo- torahip of St. Mark’s charch, Brooklyn, The Rey. Hogh Miller Thompson, D. D,, of this etty, has accepted a call to Trinity church, New Orleans, La The Rev. A. Blonner bey) has been elected rector of Stephen’s charch, New York city. be) Nestry of ie? Clement's church, Philadetphia, have clected the Rev, Oliver 8. Prescott to the rector- abip, Mr. Prescott is one of the Fathers of the Order of #t John the Evangelist, and is now residing at tho rineipal house of the order at Cowley-8t, John, Eng- finds and several weeks must clapse before bis accept ance or declination can be received. The Rev.Irving McElroy has accepted an olection to the Church of the Cross, Ticonderoga, Essex county, Anew missionary Ley 4 has been formed in St. Paul’s Memorial church at Tompktneville, The Key. & W. Bayres, of Bellevilla, N. J., has re- signed the rectorsbip of Christ church. ‘he Rev. J. A, Denniston has resigned his rectorship at Roselle, N. J. bi ‘Noxt Wednesday Dr. Brown, of Cohoes, N. ¥., Bishop cloct of Fond-du-Lac, will be consecrated by’ Bishop Powter, of this city, other bishops assisting, Bishop Welles, of Wisconsin, will Preach the consecration ser- mon, Dr, Brown has resigned his charge at Oohoes. PRESBYTERIAN. ‘Tho Thirteenth street Presbytorian congregation (Dr. 8. D. Burchard’s) are arranging to hold afar, It will, of course, be conducted on Christian principles and for Christian uses, Tho pulpit furniture has been In use for these twenty years, and tt is proposed to renow it to correspond with the improvements effected or con- mplated elsewhere. “Ohthe ‘20th inat, the Rev. George C. Yeisloy, of Bal- timore, will be Le eg pastor of the Presbyterian charch at Hudson, 4 by Edward P. Payson, pastor of the First Union Presbyterian church, in Kighty-sixth street, near Third ‘avenue, bas been called to the Presbyterian eburch at Ansonia, Conn. Hey. ‘Wwahans ©, Wisner, D, D., bas severed his nom Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., Winfred Hall, Albert D, Vail, ©. V. Fiteb, J, Spencer Kennard, 8. W. Stobbins, Georgo H. Hepworth, B, J. Gardner, R. M. McBurney, ¥. W. Butler, & B aed, Robert E. Buteman, all, E, Whitney, Alexander Lylo, William Pleated, E. ¥, Remitgton, Edmond Bleecker. ‘THE INVITATION ACCEPTED. No. 2 Wusr Forry-sixta Srreer, ra To Messrs, Sraruzn H. Tyxa, Jn, ‘ann Oren: Deak BRETHREN—Your favor of this date is received. Allow me in reply to say that I do most cheorfully com- ply with your requost, in the hope that some little help may be afforded thereby in promoting the work of Goa in this city. If it meets with your approval, I will devote the evenings of next week to the delivery of the following lectures on revival work in New York city, name Monday—L “Tho Need of This Work in'This City Tuesday—IL “Wo Must Mect Bailure Here Without Earnest individual Work.” Wednesday—IIL “The Sort of Preaching and Prayer Needed for Success.” ‘Thursday—IV, “What Sabbath School Teachers Can Do in this Work.”” Friday—V. “Howto Labor Successfully with Anxious Bouls. Yours affectionately, THOMAS ARMITAGE. CHURCH AND STATE. BISHOP GIBBONS, OF RICHMOND, ON THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, Ricumonp, Deo. 10, 1875. ‘The Right Rev. James Gibbons, Bishop of the Catholic diocese of Richmond and Vicar Apostolic of North’ Carolina, was called upon by the Hsranp correspond- ent this evening, to obtain his views in regard to the recommendations of President Grant tn his laxt Messago concerning the school question and the taxation of Church property. Tho distinguished prelate was found at the bishopric, and he received the Heratp corre- spondent with the utmost courtesy, While he hada decided objection to the publication of his views, he nevertheless was free to give them, and stated he did not wish to obtrude his opinions on the public. ConresronpentT—What is your opinion of the recom- mendation in regard to schools? The Bissor—The constitutional amendment regard. ing the school question, recommended by President Grant, if carried out, would reduce our American Re- publicto the condition of things existing in pagan Rome. Inthe old Roman Empire the individual was absorbed by the State, which was a political Jugger- naut, crushing under its wheels all personal liberty. In those days the citizen bud no individuality, but was counted only ag @ part and parcel of shat vast and complicated machinery called the State. The most crushing of all despotisms is that of a centralized gov- ernment. It ts the idol beforo which the citizen must offer in sacrifice his personal liberty as well as bis parental rights over his children, for tho government, in assuming the education of the child usurps the place of the father and robs him of his most sacred privilege—that of directing the training of bis offspring. And what beeomes of lib- erty when tt is lost in the individual and tn the family ? | Tt ie to that personal freedom (which always involves personal responsibility and personal energy) that we are chiefly indebted a& a nation, The general govern- ment bas no more right to dictate to the father when and where and how be must educato his children than it has to prescribe bis food or the shape of his clothes. Those who advocate this system of centralization are slavishly imitating the most absolute sys tems of government in Continental Kurope. be- sides, if popular education 1s wrested from the family and tho State, and placed in the hands of the federal government, of whatever political party, it will give the administration an overwhelming patron- c, which would destroy all balance of power and ro- Gide ‘minorities to @ mere cipbor Nor do I see how paganism and religion can both be simultaneously ex- cluded from the schools as the Presiaent Lope for if an education excludes all religion it 1s necessarily pagan, there being no medinm between the two terms “Counearoxnast—I would like to know what you think of the recommendation to tax Church property ? ‘The Bisuop—To tax Charch property and charitable inetitations is putting @ premium on infidelity and avarice, and makes religion and philanthropy odious by imposing @ penalty on those who maintain Chris- tianity and support cbaritable houses, The inevitable result of such taxation would be to cripple tho éburches, increase the burden of the State by making jt the almoner of those poor who are now maintained by private benevolence. As an example, tho Catholic Church educates in Richmond alone 1,000 children, and feeds and clothes eighty-six orphans ‘and aged people, The education and support of these ‘would cost the city annually at least $39,000, and tho Amount expended by the other denominations for works of charity would no doubt swell these figures to jormous extent, "1S conclusion the Bishop expressed his belief that the Amertcan people would never be found advocating or even indorsing such novel legislation. THE OCEAN FEBRY. Kight steamers sailed yesterday from this port for Europe—namely, the New Labrador, for Havro; the Queen, America, Erin, Victoria, City of Berlin, Adri. atic and Switzerland, Nono of these took out # large number of passengers. Many of tho steamers which have beon employed daring the summer and fall will be withdrawn during the winter, Of the Cunard line and Parthia will contiae to run through the cold sea gon, and an equal number from Boston, while fourteen will be idle, The Herman, America, Oder, Sailer, Mo- sel and Necker, of the North German Lloyds line, will be kept in comission, while thirteen will be with- drawn wll epring. The Anchor line, whtch has been. running twonty-eight steamers, will continue to use’ then efi, and wHl soon aller the Alsatia In the In- man Hine its fall number of twelve steamers continue torun. Of the National line, ono steamer is to sail each week for Queenstown and Liverpool, and one di- reet for London each fortnight. The Pereire, of the French line, will take the place of the Amérique, and gail hence on Christmas Day. OCEAN STEAMSHIP RACING. Captain James Kennedy and Chief Engineer William Campbell, of the steamship City of Berlin, have each been presented with a magnificent gold enrouometer, duly inserfbed by Caird & Co., the builders of the above mentioned steamship, 1n commemoration of their mak- ing, two months ago, en said veasel, the quickest runs on record across thé Atlantio—via,, from Queenstown to Sandy Hook in seven days, eightoon hours, two min- ‘tes, moan time; and apon their return passage from the Bothnia, Abyssinia, Algeria, Java, Russia, China [ FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Stocks Dull—Prices Barely Steady. GOLD 114 1-2 A 114 8-8. Government Bonds and Investment Securities Generally Firm—Money on Call 6 and 6 Per Cent. RAILWAY SECURITIES STEADY Was Sraznr, Sarvrpay, Deo U—6 P, u} Six moro ‘‘weary, stale, flat and unprofitable days’? Were closed up at gong sound this aftornoon at the: Stock Exchange. Six more days to be added to thed weeks of past dulness, Saturday is seldom fraught with financial events of! any great moment, and to-day hag been no exception: to the rule, To employ @ nautical phrase, there has: scarcely been breeze enough to give steerago way to! the market, and stock vessels lay inert with flapping, sails, ‘ike painted ships upon a painted. ocean,” The Lake Shore comedy was performed! again to-day, as it has been for days past, and all the strength of the original com- pany was in tho cast, In liew of something: better, it is, perhaps, wise on the part of the manag- ers to keep it so persistently before the public, for it is nearly the only piece that possesses any attractions to the eyo that has speculation tn it; yet the performance 4g, growing wearisome, and a familiarity with the dramatis persone, their mannerisms, contortions and tricks has measurably allayed the public interest at ono time felt, As a paying speculation it is a doubtfal success, whens expenses are scarcely balanced by receipts, and com-, missions and interest eat @ serious hole into the money taken in at the doors, A very consider-' able activity marked tho course of the stock early in the day, and tho price was run up chiefly by the young operator, who, by matched orders andi Apparent transactions, succeeded in keeping things from falling into torpidity. As we have remarked! before, It ig an casy matter enough to advance tho price of a stock by persistent buying, but it is a thousand times more difficult to market it abi ® profit, A thousand times more difficult just now: than for years back, since of outside purchasers theret are absolutely none, and short sellers src few and far‘ between. These two classes farm the market upon +which the bull speculator deponds to unload his stock, and {t will bo apparent to tho most untutored reader! that, in the absence of these elements, the task must\ be a difoult one indeod. ‘That the entire stock market {s under the control oy few prominent operators and that prices are mado to advance or recede, according to thelr épse dizit, with- out reference to outside influences, can be readily proved by inquiry of the many old-fashioned, conserv- ative commission houses which do not and for months' past have pot been paying their current expenses, As for the brokers proper, the “pad: shavers’ of the: board, their condition is becoming a most serious one. Few of them are making a bare living, and thé little store of money putaside in past prosperous times for rainy day is melting slowly but surely away. There: are even many cases of actual want, and wore it not that brokers appear to be gifted with a vitality and in- nate cheerfulness that soems peculiar to them, asa class, the floor of the Stock Exchange would be con-- verted into a veritable slough of despond. As we have bad occaston previously to remark, there are more reasons than one to which may be attributa- dle this lamentable condition of affairs, but probably the greatest of them all may be summed up in these: two syllablea—Jay Goubt. ‘Thoro is no love lost between him and the broker fra ternity, and when the day of reckoning comes—as as_ suredly {t will come—thero will be some old scores tc settle that will tax his ingenuity to the utmost. The street being absolutely void of gossip or ramors of any @escriptton, a simple record of prices and transactions will be all we can offer to the reader, ‘Tho fluctuations in the active stocks have been aw follows:—Western Union, 163% a 16% 0763s; Pacifio! Mail, 40% 40% @ 40% a 405; Lake Shore, 61% a 62 = 61%; Michigan Central, 613g; Union Pacifo, TT @ 18 a 17 a 7736; Erie, 16% a 16%; Northwest, 803¢ a 40% 2.4034; do. preferred, 5644 0 66% 0 6634; St Paul, 8644 0 96% 086%; do. preferred, 66% 0684 m 66% a 064; Ohio and Mississippi, 173g; Hannibal and St Joseph, 22% o 223¢ 0224 022%; do, preferred, 29 a 28% a 283¢; Central and Hudson, 105% a 100; Pacific of Missouri, 12; Kansas Pacific, 13; Kansas and Texas, 734 a 73; Wabash, 4% 44%; St. Louis and Iron Mountain, 16% 216% 91634; Chicago and Rock Island, 1047, and Ilinois Central, 9634. THR TOTAL TRANSACTIONS of the day were for 75,600 shares, distributed among the active stocks as follows:—New York Central and Hudson, 600; Erie, 1,900; Lake Shore, 26,800; Cleve- land and Pittsburg, 200; Northwestern, 12,050; do, preferred, 4,800; Rock Island, 100; Pacific Mail, 8,900; St, Paul, 800; do. preferred, 2,100; Obios, 100; Western Union, 8,500; Wabash, 700; Union Pacific, 1,500; C., ©, Cand L, 2,400 OPENING, HIGHEST AND LOWEST. ‘Tho following table shows the opening, highest and. lowest prices of the day :— Opening. Highest. Lowest, . ithe 106 105% + 183% 13334 13343 coves 16% 16% 1635 61s, 62 615 ‘Wabash. .. + 4% 4% Northwestern..... vee 80) 40% 392%, Northwestern preferred... 66. 56% 56% Rock Island Ils 104y 10476 104% ittsburg.. + 90 90 90 4 Milwaukee En. ee 36% 3624 Mil. and St. Paal preferred 606% 66% 66% Obio and Mississipp!. 11% Wig 114 New Jersoy Central 1046 10434 nd Westera, .. 119% 119% 119% + DM 78 1 . Kis oe we Wostern Union. we TOG 70% % Atlantic and Pacific Tel... 18% 18% 18% Pacige Mail. 40% 40% 40:4 Papaina.. 125 125) ADVANCE AND DECLINE, The changes in closing prices since yesterday aro as. follows — Decuxe.—Atlantic and Pacific Tolegraph, %; Michigan Central, 54; Erie, %; Ohio and Mississippi, % 5 Pacific,of Missouri, 4; St. Paul, 3¢; proferred, 3 ; Dis- trict of Columbia 3.06 bonds, 1; gold, 3. ‘Apvasce.—Hannibal and &t.’Sosepn, ; Lake Shore, ; Northwestern, \; preferred, 3 ; Quicksilver, 4 5 kk Island, %; Toledo and Wabash, }; New Jersey Central, i. ‘Srationany,—Contral and Hudgon, Delaware, Lacka~ wanna and Western, Harlem, Panama, Union Pacilic and Western Union, CLOSING PRICKS—8 P.M. Mila [ racine matt... SUP pt. 00% West Un Tei oat 59 Atl & Pac Tel... 40% 0 78% & a 18! is* f, 24 b M -. < ad Pepereeereeree a ry T THE MONEY MARKET. Money on call, afier lending up to 7 per cent, ended at 6, with free offerings. The rates on commercial paper are unchanged, Foreign exchange closed quiet and steady at 4.84 04.84, for bankers’ 60 days sterling, and 488 94.88% for demand, ‘The rates of bank discount to-day for New York ox- change tn the cities named wore as follows:—Ciacin- nati firmer at $1 per $1,000 discount; St Louis, $1 000 discount. mah 4¢nR GOLD MARKET, Gold opened at 1i4}¢ and closed at 114%, all the sales of the day having beon at these figures. The rates paid for carrying were 1, 1M, 3, 23, 8 and 4 per cent OPERATIONS OF THE GOLD RXCHANGR BANK. Bandy Hook to Queensiown, jn secu days, diteen hours forty-eight minuies, wean Wine balances. .. $1,646,766 gout “ond 2191318 oes + 28,768,000 CLEARING HOUSE STATEMENT. Ourretiey exchanges + $68,991,87 Currency balances 8,704,140 Gold exchan| 8,697, J Gold Valances 3,188, 7(