The New York Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1875, Page 13

’ RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, Ministerialand Church Movements. Chat by the Way—Educa- tional Theories. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY The Rev. W. R. Alger will repeat his sermon this evening in the Church of the Messiah on “The Dis- tinctive Characteristics of Orthédoxy and Liberal Christ fanity.” The Rev. William Lloyd will preach a sermon to young men this evening in Washington square Method- {st Episcopal church on ‘Christ’s Wilderness Conflict and Its Analogies.” Dr. R. 8. Storrs, of Brooklyn, will preach the anni” versary sermon for the New York City Mission this evening in Dr. Hall’s Presbyterian Church. Subject, “City Evangelization. The Rey. J, Hyatt Smith will preach in Lee avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn, E. D., a sermon on “The Duties of a Christian Citizen,”” Drs. Booth, Ormiston and Hastings will take part in the installation of the Rey. Frank H. Marling as pastor of the Fourteenth street Presbyterian church this evening. Mr. Marling will preach in the morning. The Rev. David B. Jutten will preach a missionary vermon this morning in the Sixteenth street Baptist sburch, The Rev. W. H. Reid, who is named as the most probable canaidate for the episcopacy of the new Reformed Episcopal Church Synod of New York, will preach at the usual hours to-day in the Church of the {nearnation, Brooklyn. Drs. Hamilton, Newell and Burchard will participate ‘nm the installation services this evening of the Rev. James Latimer as pastor of the First Union Presby- terian church, in Eighty-sixth street and Lexington avenue, A Spiritual Conference will be held in Harvard Rooms this afternoon. “The Prayer Test’ will be considered this evening by the Kev. George 0. Phelps in Allen street Presby- terian church, The Rev. W. N. Dunnell will preach In All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church this morning and evening. At Stanton street Baptist church the Rev. W. H. Leavell will speak this morning on “The Co-operation of All Things for Good,” and this evening on “Faith.” At the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. John Johns will speak this morning about “The Christian Immovavie,’’ and this evening on “The Great Harvest,” Dr. Talmage will discuss ‘Public Iniquities” this morning in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, In the Bercan Buptist church the Rev. L, G. Barrett will preach this morning and baptize candidates this evening. In Bleecker street Universalist church the Rev. ©. P, McCarthy will refute Dr, Draper’s “Genesis and Geology,” and in the evening will reply to Dr. Tal- Mage’s second sermon ou “The Bible in the Schools.” The Roy. J. D, Herr will minister to the Central Baptist church this morning and evening as usual. “The Kingdom of Heaven in the Parables’? will be wonsidered in the Catholic Apostolic church this even- ing. The Rev. James M. Pullman. will preach in the Church of Our Saviour this morning and evening. The Rev, Dr. R. E. Terry will preach this morning and evening in the Charch of the Holy Apostles C. B. Lyon will lecture this morning and evening for the Progressive Spiritualists on “Death” and “Church and State in America.” Bishop Snow will talk about “The Judgment Dis- pensation” in the University chapel this afternoon. The Rev. J. D. Fulton, D. D., will preach im Fifty- third street Baptist church to-day. Dr. Armitage will preach in Fifth avenue Baptist sburch this morning on ‘Taking Sides” and this even- ing on “The Swellings of Jordan,” In Harlem Universalist church the Rev. J. A. Sietz will examine ‘*The Prodigal After His Return.” In the Pilgrim Baptist church the Rev. J. Spencer Kenaard will speak this morning about ‘The Nativity’s and this evening about “Inviting Voices.” Rev. W. H. Pendleton will preach in the East Baptist eburch this morning and evening. Rey. H. W. Knapp will preach in Laight street Bap- tivt church this morning on ‘Worldly Tribulation Neutralized in Corist,” and in the evening on ‘‘God’s Mercy to Those Who Visit Him.” The Rev. S. M. Hamilton will preach in the Scotch Presbyterian church this morning and afternoon. The Rey. J. H. Lightbourn will preach in Seventeenth Bircet Methodist Episcopal church this morning on “The Higher Life and Practice’ and this evening on “The Bibie. Bishop stevens, of Pennsylvania, will speak in behalf of the Church German Society, this evening, in the Church of St, Bartholomew, Madison avenue, The Rev. Charles E. Harris will preach in Allen street Methodist Episcopal church this evening on “The Millennium im the Near Future Declared by Prophecy and History.”” The Rev. Dr, M. 8, Hutton will occupy the pulpit of the Thirty-fourth street Reformed church this morning. The Rey, James M. King will preach in St, John’s Methodist Episcopal charch this morning on ‘Jesus and Mary,” and this evening on “The Religion and Morality of the Gospel Inseparable.”” St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church will be minis- Jered to to-day by the Rev. W. P. Abbott. “The True Foundation” and ‘Work for the Million” will be discussed in the Seventh street Methodist Epis- topal church to-day by Key. J. 8. Willis. ‘The Rey. Dr. Sampson will preach this morning in the Tabernacle Baptist church on “Christian Heirship and Unlimited Possession.” Dr, Simmons will preach this evening on ‘The Baptists in Their Early Struggle for Liberty.” Dr. Preston will deliver the closing lecture of the Advent courge in St. Ann’s Roman Catholic church this evening. Subject—‘‘The Holy Eucharist the Fountain of Light.” ‘The Rey. William Lioyd will preach this morning in ‘Washington square Methodist Episcopal chureb on “The Believer’s Security.”” In the Church of the Divine Paternity the Rev. Dr. Chapin will preach this morning and deliver an address this ning. g The Rey. W. R. Alger will give in the Church of the Messiah this morning the “History of the Weeping of Humanity.” ‘ Im the Church of the Holy Trinity the Rev. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., D. D., will preach this morning and evening. The Rev. J. W. Bonham will preach in the afternoon. Bankey’s hyinns will be sung in the people’s service in the evening. The Rev. H. Rr Nye, of Clermont avenue Universalist thurch, Brooklyn, will preach this morning on “The Wise Men and the Star in the East,’’ and this evening bn “Some of the Best Methods of Converting Unbe- levers to the Christian Faith and Life.” In the First Reformed Episcopal church the Rey. W. Y. Sabine will preach at the usual hours to-day. The Rev. C. C. Tiffany will oMet to-day im the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atonement. ‘Beliets of the Unbelievers” will be discussed be- ‘ore the Liberal Association this afternoon by H. B. Brown. The Rev. George H. Hepworth will speak this morn- ing inthe Church of the Disciples on “The Joy and Sadness of the Christian” and in the evening on “Making Christ our Example.”” In the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Messiah, Brooklyn, the Rey. Charles R. Baker will preach this morning on ‘The Bible in the Schools.”” Divine service in the Russian chapel to-day as usual, ‘The Rev. Chauncey Giles will deliver the last sermon of bis series on “Learning to Live Rightly,” in the Bwedenborgian church, Subject—‘‘How to Walk.”” CHAT BY THE WAY. Bishop Haven now says that he did not formally fenominate General Grant for the third term, but that he asked the audience to pray that he might be renom- Inated. The Bishop's conscience is evidently troubled, and is by no means a Haven of rest, There are parishes which are looking round for a “mart”? man to occupy their pulpit Ecclesiastical NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. history gives a definition of this adjective which is not generally known; @ “smart minister is one who makes the society smart for settling him. ‘The Church Jouraal, evidently the representative of high churchmen, is close on the heels ef “bishop” Haven. Now, when an Episcopalian puts the word bishop within quotation marks, he means that the man who bears the title does not belong to the Apos- tolic Church, but is only an outside barbarian who bas stolen the garments of respectability. And when the aforementioned churchman spells the word bishop with asmallb, you can almost see the scorn which curls on his lip. The difference between a capital B and a small b is infinite, and if you would know how grand a thing it ts to be a high official in the Church, you should hear a ritualist utter the word Bishop; and tf you would know just how 4 counterfeit bill ought to feel, just listen tothe supreme contempt with which he says “Methodist bishop.”” If we could only attend the fanerals of some of the world’s croakers we should be very happy. There are men living who never yet gave a full and free expres- sion of gratitude for anything. Over every blessing they cast the shadow of # gramble. If you say to them, ‘‘It is a beautiful day,’ they will answer, but —.”” If you say, “Are you well?” they “Very well, except —.” There are people—and they are not all outside the Church either—who seem to think it a criminal offence to be downright joyous, Long faces, sour hearts, gloomy views and religion can- not, in our judgment, be trained into a happy family, You can teach an anaconda and @ rabbit w lie down together, the rabbit outside the snake and not inside, but you can’t put religion and ty marging into the same heart’ Grumbling can’t stay if religion holds the prein, ises; and religion won’t stay if there’s much grumbling going on. ‘There is a fatal mania among Americans for organ- ization. If half a dozen men club together for any urpose whatever they begin with a ponderous consti- ution and @ long list of bylaws, 'e have known a great many usotul societies destroyed and buried under the bulk of their bylaws, anda great many others that Spent so much time in tinkering their constitutional machinery that they never ouce succeeded in getting up steam. ‘The best Christian work is done by the men and women who simply want to find something to do and who are im earnest about doing it, Constitu- tions and bylaws are the bugbears of little minds and a hands, ‘he three colored men who were hanged on Friday bi ged a relic of the old siave system. They had P| ues which the proudest and most gifted might juperb chests, in which the heart beat with the ularity of a Jurgensen watch and with the force of ‘engine, but they seemed to have no more moral nse than three great mastiffs. They talked of the details of the murder with an indifference which showed that they did not possess such a thing as nervous sensibility, and one of them, Ellis, said that although after the murder he expected to see the pediler in bi dreams, he bad not once been troubled that way. cant some clergyman find out what ought to be done with such people? To be sure they can be hanged when caught, but is that the best use to put them to? They are at best only animals with @ possible, but latent, moral nature. The Young Men’s Christian Association of the Bowery have issued meal tickets which can be had at the of $5 per 100, It is very kindof the Young Christian Association to furnish a meal for that 81 even if it is nothing more than oatmeal. to exterminate the tramps of the city will be for t! charitably disposed to buy those tickets, and when a hungry looking fellow who has not ‘tasted food for forty-eight hours, gir, and seven children at home ery- ing for bread, which’ almost breaks my heart, sir,” asks for a quarter, to be spent, generally, in lager beer, give him one of these tickets and he will slink away and perish of mortification, The Nation tells us that the only way to make the obsequies of a great man impressive is to have them short and prompt. True; but, nevertheless, a curious criticism on American living. We live so fast that the greatest statesman must have his eulogy pronounced within twenty-four hot of his death, because the memory of the people is treacherous, and they will soon be too busy 1 throwing their hats in the air and cheering the new and rising star to attend the funeral of the star that has set, Forty-eight hours after death @ man becomes an autiqual mummy, to which no interest whatever is attached, Professor Swing has at lust put his name im the list of those who have tried to accomplish impossibilities and failed. He has organized an “independent” church. Such movements as Professor Swing’s presume a large degree of eccentricity generally, and the congregation is likely to consist of the religious and Irreligious odds and ends of society, which rejoice for a while to be thrown together in'the rag bag of independency. When a man is so badly off that he can’t pull with anybody's team he is not very likely to dwell long in unity with that large cliss, each one of which keeps his own pri- vate hobby horse. Some people are rash beyond expre: adeplorabie instance. of speakers at the Ph .ladelpbia Church Con: cess of hopeful exuberance that may some time give rise to spontaneous combustion in the good man’s heart, suggested the n ot “a chair of common sense in our colleges.” The “chair” can be had without difficulty, and so great ts the desire of the public to have that rare piece of furniture that they would gladly pay any price for it, But who is to sitin it? ‘hat is, when the matter ‘assumes a grave shape. There are very many people who have heretofore felt that they possessed a competency who can’t affora to hire a pew in church, of who feel compelled to give their pew up from motives of economy. The times are giving an extra turn to the thumbscrew this winter, and, curiously enough, some of the men who are richest have the least ready money and, though willing to give, they let the contribution box’pass on. Just think of owning fifty or sixty lots on Fifth avenue just ww. That would indeed be poverty. When Mr. rancis, of Boston, was one day asked ior a donation, he replied, in tones full of tears, ‘Why, my dear sir, i have got $300,000 in the bank not drawing a cent of in- terest. I can't give to anything cr any one.” He was wo be pitred, poor man, We have almost wept over the poverty of some very rich men. Still, if we should ever become rightful owners of their kK accounts we should put a large round dollar on the plate, for once, at least, just to enjoy the novelty of the experience, Atthe personal solicitation of President McCosh, of Princeton Coliege, a Presbyterian merchant has given ion, aud here ts five billiard tables, to be placed im the college gym- nasium, Shades of Presbyterian dead! has it come to this? Ifthe statement be true it will have the effect of the last trump, and call whole generations from their sleeping dust to protest against such an innovation, Just think of the bare possibility of a French carrom game between the venerable ana ever to be venerated President of Princeton, and the equally learned and loved Crosby, of New York, with Dr. Hale as umpire. Well, it may'be funny, but it is a sensible thing todo, and Dr, McCosh will save bis young men from a great many femptations by having the billiard tables under control, The smile is irresist- ible when we think of Presbyterians handling the cue and listening with anything like pleasure to the rattling balls, but if the Church had the sturdy courage to cap- ture all the pleasures of society 1t would do as much good as a very large pile of sermons, Religious newspapers are beginning to call the atten- tion of the people to the fact that ‘no better missionary work can be done than by securing subscribers,” at $3 apiece, the missionary fund thus obtained being sent to the editor’s address, ‘The Eddys, of Spiritualistic notoriety, hat up their litte game: id started for the W: to find in pasture: affords, We have seen a great maay humbug: day, but none so thoroughly disgusting as this, and none which, from its general acceptation by men of sense and culture, makes us more suspicious of human na- ture, Weare ready to receive revelations, but not from a table which is as uncertain in its motions as a ’ dance, We believe in immortality, itcan be “demonstrated,” as was recently asserted, by a piano suspended in mid-air. The logic of fanaticism {s wonderful. A piano under a mad impulse up {rom the floor and. poises itself, there- fore the soul of man is immortal. This life is bad enough; but on, how much worse the other is, if what we hear is true,” “I want to be an angel, and with the angels stand,” has been sung very little tn respectable circles since our tables and chairs jan to ‘shake’? with spiritual chills and fever. It were “better to be a dog and bay the moon’? than such an immortal, CHRISTIAN UNION AND REVIVAL. Last Sunday we noticed the growth and success of the prayer meeting started im Greene street Methodist Episcopal church, and today wo chronicle a meeting which is indirectly an outgrowth of that. It is one also that illustrates how easily some men can accom. plish what to others seems difficult, A young man con- nected with that meeting in Greene street felt that it would be an excellent thing to get all the churches in a given district to unite together in a union prayer or praise service. The thought and feeling grew upon him so that it impelled him to visit the several pastors in the Ninth and a few in the Fifteenth ward, contiguous, to seek their cooperation. They, with great unanimity and heartiness entered into his project, and the first practical experiment will bo made to-day. Between four and five o’clock this after- noon Drs, Burchard, Page and Scott, Presby teria Lioyd, Gregory, Harrower and Ostrander, Methodists Bronner and Barrett, Baptists; Egbert, Episcopalian; Merritt and Van Houten, Reformed, and probably some others will assemble in Dr, Burchard’s church in Thir- teenth street, near Seventh avenue, together with such of their membership as can attend to pend the hour in prayer and praise, The Moody and Sankey hymns wil be sung if the people will bring their books with them, The Rey. Dr. Lloyd, of Washington square, will preside, and will sing’ the “Ninety and Nine.) Ad- dresses or remarks will be made by some oth men present, and Christian union will rece: practical illustration at least, If this experiment should prove a success similar meetings will doubtless be held alternately in other churches of the neighborhood, The young men’s meeting, which Mr. Hepworth farted in his church a couple of weeks ago, is provin a great success, Ladies are not allowed to’ ent ti the cohsequence of this prohibition, or the r this meoting, is that at the next communion se young men Will unite with the church. Revival new continues to come in from other quarters also, The Rev. ©, Miller has received 150 converts into Embury hodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn; the Rev. W. P, Estes has received thirty-five into the son Methodist Episcopal church of thi ¢ been converted {n Delaware avenue Baptist church, Wilmington, D ninety-nine have been received om provation in Con- ’ shobocken Methodiet Episcopal charch, Philadelph’ twenty-three at Scott, Pa; six last Sunday in Front street Methodist Episcopal ehurch, Philadelphia; in St. Paul’s Reformed church, Mount Pleasant, Pa, twenty-five have been received; to Goheenville Re- formed chureh, Pa, ten have been added, and to Manor Dave (Pa) Reformed church twent Pa.) Reformed Dutch church thirteen bave been add: ighteen have been taken in by the Baptist church at Coleraine, Pa., fruits of a revival in progress. The Pi ‘ian church at Port Jervis, N. Y. th ral revival there under the ministrations of Mra, Lowery, the converted act: has received thirty- eeven persons on profession of faith. The Presbyterian churcn at Bound Brook, N. J., has received twenty- one. The great revival at St. Paul’s Methodist Episca pal church at Baltimore has resulted im ninety con- versions. It 1s said to be without a let in an- nals of Baltimore Methodism. v. A. , Free- man has baptized thirty-three uring ‘4 month past Penfield, N, Y., ist church; twelve converts hav been added to Cheneyville Baptist church, N. J.; at Lumber Mills, Sullivan county, N. Y., where a Methodist society was organized , ® revival has been in progress fora fow weeks and thirty have been taken in on probation. In Nittany charge, Pean- sylvania, twenty-four persons have been received into the communion of the Reformed arch, At Ellendale (Wiimi: Conference) nine have been converted in McColley’s chapel and fifty have been seek- ing religion at Cokesbury; at Middietown, N. Y., Dr. ks, formerly of this city, has received fifty’con- tx A-revival in the Methodist church at West Ha- Mich., has resulted in fifty conversions. A wide- spread revival of Lage? is now in B ritees atJamaica, . 1. The Rey. C. Rhodes. baptized ten persons in his cburch in South Eighth street, Brooklyn, E, D., on Sun- day evening, About forty accessions to the Methodist chureh at Phoenix, Mich., have grown out of a revival which commenced several weeks since. Twenty-two pee were received into the Presbyterian church at nowlton, N. J., at the last communion; the Fifth Presbyterian church ot Siig. IL, received fourteen new members last Sunday. Last Sabbath thirty-four rsons united with the Presbyterian church at Green- eld, Ind., and twenty-six with the Presbyterian churca at Lewisville, Ind., ‘the fruits of @ revival in those laces. The results of a revival meeting at tafford Court House, Va, is about eight: converts, The Presbyterian church of Stami Conn, is enjoying a glorious work of grace. Special revival meetings have been held for two weeks past under the direction of Rev, Rufus 8, Underwood, of Brooklyn, The religious awakening is deep and widespri There have beon already as many as seventy-five inquirers, nearly all of whom entertain hope. An unusual proportion of the converts are young men; all classes, however, are Delng reached, in- cluding heads of families, Brother Underwood is a very discreet, judicious and successful evangelist. He is engaged to begin labor in the Park street church, Boston, at the close of the present month, Religious meetings for the special benefit of the po- lice force is one of the features of Christian effort in London, We need them in New York, CHRIST OUR SAVIOUR. To THe Eprror or tar HERALD:— * Tam rejoiced to witness so many evidences. of the revival’ of religion among us. The Church has been too sluggish, and the people out of the Church have Deen too indifferent to their own welfare, and it is well that this sluggishness and indifference should be broken up. That Christ should be made the central figure in this effort to save sinners fs another hopeful feature of the present revival, for He is the ‘way, the truth and the life; but it appears to me that to make men good, practical Christians, they should have a more definite idea ot the office of Christ’s mission than that He assumes all our Nabilities and frees us from all responsibilities for our conduct by the simple act om our part of asking Him to do so. To be saved by Christ is to be so thoroughly imbued and strengthened with His loving spirit as to enable us to overcome the temptations that surround us, John assures us that ‘every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God,” and “he that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love,” Here, then, Is the salvation by Christ, God is love. Christ in His life and death is the revelation of that love to man—is love persouitied. When our hearts are filled with love to God and our fellow man then Christ reigns in our hearts and we are saved by Him. And that loving influence may be so used as to draw other hearts within its charmed circle, diffusing its life and, warmth from heart to heart, and promoting such 8 cheerful spirit of peace and harmony and good will toward each other as. Me alford on earth @ foretaste of beaven. To seck a future heaven merely to avoid the torments of afuture hell, is buta miserable incentive to seek Christ; but to seek heaven here and now, that we may enjoy that wealth of love which lilts bove the sen- suality of our merely animal nature, is an effort worthy of the exalted faculties which place man on a plane so much above the level of the brute. To lean on Christ is not to attempt to heap on His shoulders the load of our daily transgressions, but to depend on His s cleanse us from sinful thoughts and sintul de: bring all the appetites and passions of our nature into sympathetic harmony with His own loving nature. s John assures us, God is love; and if, as Christ assures us, God dwells in heaven, then it follows that wherever. love is there 1s heaven, for God is love. If Jove is in our hearts heaven is there. If in our homes, heaven is there, And if heaven is love the want of it is hell; and the further we are from love the deeper we are in hell, even down to the lowest, from which Dayid Wag delivered. To trust to any other salvation by Christ than the saving influence of His loving spirit on our hearts is to come far short ot the true ideal; and if that salvation will ever be worth having it is worth having here and now. A great freshet ia better than no water, although great freshets often cause great mischief; but what we all most need is a per- petual flow into our thirsty souls of that living water ‘which springs up into everlasting life, 0. H MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. RPISCOPALIAN. While all other church missionary boards are in debt the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society, which recently held its anniversary in Philadelphia, reported its treasury entirely free from debt. Its re ceipts for the last fiscal year were $58,003, Its mis- sions on this Continent cover nineteen States and Mexico, The Rev. G. A. Redles, of Christ church, Philadel- phia, bas left the Episcopal ministry, and at his re- quest the Bishop has issued the canonical deposition. The Rey. Benjamin F. Miller has removed from Mill- brogk, Dutchess county, to Holley, Orleans county, New York. ‘The Rey. William M. Dame, of Norfolk, Va, will en- ter upon the rectorship of Christ chureb, Alexandria, to-day. The Rey. H. B, Ensworth has resigned the rectorship of Trinity church, Woloottville, Conn, Dr. Harris, of New Orleans, who was a confederate soldier, has been called to St. James Protestant Episco- pal church of Chicago, a church which was conspicuous during the war for the devotion of its pastor ana people to the Union cause, This is matched by Trinity Epis- copal eburch of New Orleans, which has cailed Rev. Dr. Thompson, of this city—and an outspoken, active, emphatic Unionist—to its pulpit. Mr. Samuel K. Wilson, a member and officer of St Michael’s church, Trenton, is building a handsome re- idence for Bishop Scarborough. It is nearly coinpleted, and he intends to present it free gift to the diocese, ‘A few days ago he presented the Educational Society for educating candidates for the ministry in the Epis- copal Church with $5,000, A neat parsonage has just been secured, largely through his efforts, for the rector of St, Michwel’s, the Rey. Mr. Neilson. Mr, Wilson in- tends to erect a chapel in the outskirts of Trenton, near bis own residence. ‘Tho Rev. William F. Fitch bas received a call to the rectorship of St, Mary’s church, Castleton, 8. 1. Bishop Cheney, ot the Reformed Episcopal Church, is spending the winter in Marietta, Ga, The Rev, ©. A Carey bas resigned his position as as- sistant to the rector of Christ chureh, Detroit, Mich. ‘Of the fitty Protestant Episcopal churches and chapeis in Missouri thirty-four have been built within the last seven years. Bishop Beckwith, of Georgia, is in this city attend- ing upon some sick members of his family who are spending the winter here, Rev, Dr. Eaton, rector of St, Clement's Episcopal church, preached bis twenty-fifth anniversary sermon last Sunday, There are now but seven families in the congregation who were in it when he was first settied there. METHODIST. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, held its quarterly meeting in the Book Concern on Thursday. The society havea score of women laboring in foreign mission fields, Bishop Andrews will dedicate a new Methodist Epis- copal church at Ottawa, lowa, to-day. The Bishop dedicated the new Methoaist Episco, church at Ma- quoketa, Iowa, December 12 The jast General Conference appointed an ecclesiast\- cal court of appeals which should hear and decide upon all questions of discipline between a minister and an Annual Conference, Such a court will in Spring. field, lil,, next Tuesday, over which Bishop Bowman will preside, to hear the appeals of Revs. ‘I. C. Wank- man, of the Central Illinois Conference; G. Cobb, of rn Indiana, and P. St. Clair, of Des Moines r Rey, William M’Kendree Walsh, of the Baltimore Conference, died at Hedgesville, W. Va, December 10, He was Gilling out the fortieth year of life in tne i ancy. Kev, J. Pugh, of the Detroit Conference, who has be en seriously ill, is now quite restored to health. Th ge salary of Methodist preachers in North Carolina is $585, Bishop Peck recently dedicated a new Methodist Episcopal chapel in New Haven, Conn., and laid the corner stone of another, Both chapels are the out growth of the City Missions, Rev, Nathan Hubbell, stor. Poor John Van Cleve, whose illness in St, Luke’s Hos- pital, in this city, we noticed last week, died and his remains were taken to bis home in Alton, Ill., the same week, The Doctor was a member of the Missionary Committee, but became ill om the second day of its session and did not recover. PRESBYTERIAN. The Observer, recording the resignation of Dr. Fulton as the Jatest and most important item of news fr Hanson place Baptist church, Brooktyn, readers that if the Doctor changes his mind before tho aver goes to press a postacr! staid Presbyterians take a deep interest in the movements of the erratic Bantist divine, ‘The most important back-set which the Assembly's overture on representation has yet received has come to it from the Presbytery of New York, the most intiu. ential and, the largest Presbytery in thi Union. The members of the Presbytery were almos unanimously against it, and none voted fori. Th Presbytery favored reduced representation, but be- lieved that tize change proposed would be exceedingly y! The Presbyterians at Milford, Otsego county, N. Y., have removed and reconstructed their church edifice, at _a cost of $5,000. The Rev. C. Burgess has removed from Panama to Silver Creek, N. Y. Rev. John De Witt has resigned his pastorate over the Central prea can eburch of Boston. He gives as the chief reason his need of rest and relief for a time from professional labors, so as to recruit his health. The Rev. £. G. Reed, of the Third Presbyterian church, Elizabeth, N. J., bas resigned to accept a charge in Bennington, Vi Dr. Joseph 7, Smith, D. D., has retired from the as- sociate editorship of the Presbyterian Weekly of Balti- more, Some anxiety is being felt in certain quarters at the searcity of ministers connected with the United Pres- byterian Church. Not only is 1t difficult to get sup- jes, but vacant churches are by no means easily filled up. ‘Liturgical worship has been introduced into the after- boon service 19 the Presbyterian Chureh of the Cove- a of this city, including the creed and responsive reading. BAPTIST. The Methodists having tasted a little of the bigotry of the Established Church bishops and clergy in the burial of their dead, it was the Baptists’ turn next. One of the oldest and most respected citizens of the town of Helston, Mr. Benj. Best, died recently, and after a short service in the church of which ho was an honored member his remains were vorne to the church- yard and lowered into their resting place im silence, for it would have been illegal for the minister who at- tended his dying bed to offer a few words of prayer at ‘the open grave in a consecrated churchyard. And yet there are those who would only too gladly keep auch a relic of barbarism on the statute books. The Rev. J, K. Allen entered upon the pastorate of the North Buptist chureh, Jersey City, last Sunday. A map of the Baptist associations in Georgia is being made, which gives the location of the churches and the Sunday schools, The late Rev. Dr. Hackett has left tho bulk of his valuable library to the Rochester (N. Y.) Theological Seminary. Within five years past nearly thirty pastoral changes have occurred in the Madison Baptist Association. This beats Methodist itinerancy. The latest epistie of Dr, Fulton is one tothe Ezam- iner and Chronicle in which he writes as a martyr for conscience sake. He came to Brooklyn to build up a cc People’s church and thinks he has succéeded. ne of the largest and most,commodious audience rooms of the denomination in the county has been built (and not paid for); and one of the largest congregations worshipping iu any Baptist sanctuary m New York or Brookiyn bas been gatherod there and over 200 be- Nevers have been baptized into the fellowship of the chureb. And yet ‘the preacher of righteousness” as the Doctor very meekly styles himself, was driven by a handful of deacons, just as Jonathan Edwards was driven out of Northampton, Mass., than a centur: . But the Doctor is happy again. The reorganized Clinton avenue and-Adelpni street church have called him to pastorate and has taken up its quarters for the present in the Clinton avenue Baptist chapel, and hence- forth peace will reign in Hanson place. Meantime tho pastors of Brooklyn will supply the pulpit of that dis- severed ehurch. Dr. Fulton will preach his farewell discourse there next Bua and the Sabbath following will begin his pastorate with she other soctety which starts with a membership of more than 100, The Calvary Baptist church, of Hopewell, N. J., bas revoked the license and withdrawn fellowship from Henry 8hipe. ‘The Rev, Mr, Gubelmann, pastor of the First German Baptist church, Philadelphia, who has been tll for a number of weeks past, is now able again to bein his pulpit. ROMAN CATHOLIC. The Archbishop of New Orleans has appointed Rev. H. Cujone, formerly pastor of the Church of the Resur- rection for Italians, {n that city, to Kennerville; Rev. ©. Jacquet has been trausferred from Washington to New Iberia, in the same diocese, and Rev, M. Le Cozic, of New Iberia, has been appointed chaplain of the Convent of Little Sisters for the Poor; Rev, P. M. Jonan has gone to Washington, La. After fifteen a of hard and faithful labor ina tough ‘ather Gleason has resigned his pastorate church, Brooklyn, where he has been suc- er Smith, of the Cathedral. Christians of New England have an idea that the Catholics are organized and determined to unite Church and State in this country and to have their Church govern the State by and by, and that the Prote: are organizing to compel the recognition of Christianity by the federal constitution and the Lib- eral Christians are to hold the balance of power, and they are advised to organize, too, to take a handin this conflict which they see impending. The battle ground, they say, 1s the public schools, and to confirm their idea they have invited Bishop McQuade, of Rochester, to address the Free Religious Association, on a Sabbath evening in February, on the school question from the Catholic standpoint, Mr. F. E, Abbott, of the Indez, is to follow with the ‘‘Liberal’’ views, and then some representative “orthodox” Protestant is to present his side, And thus, it is believed, the case will be fully understood, and free religion will be shown to merit, if it does not obtain, the first position. . Father Venuta, of Jersey City Heights, 1s reported as feeble in health. He has been pustor of St. Joseph's parish for nineteen years, in which time he has erected two churches and @brick schoolhouse. He was tor- merly a pastor in Brooklyn. ‘The Catholic pastors of Meinier and Corster, in Switz- erland, have been driven from their parishes and homes by persecution. And, when their people have remonstrated, the authorities have turned a deaf ear to them. Lagrange, Oldham county, Ohio, is building a neat little church, and will doubtless soon have a resident pwtor. It 1s at present attended from Shelbyville, The Dominicans opened a mission at St. Augustine’s church, Brooklyn, last Sunday, MISCELLANROUS. Dr. Joseph Parker, of London, knowing that several clergymen of the Established Church had offered to preach in Nonconformist churches, thought they did 80 with the knowleage if not the consent of the Bishop of London, and so wrote to the Zimes. But the Bishop issued a prompt and sharp reply, declaring that be was altogether on the other side of the house, Thereupon Dr. Parker responds in the same public manner that the Bishop has inthoted the greatest dishonor on the Non- conformist communions in his diocese and the Dr., who had been invited to exchange pulpits with those Estab- lished Church mintsters, absolutely refuses to do so under present circumstances, But he will do bis utmost to promote disestablishment, ‘he Young Men’s Christian Association, of Rochester, ., aided by the city pastors, bave rented a largo hall on Exchango street, which had graduated from an armory into a “variety theatre,” and have fitted it up for revival services for the masses. Ministers and lay- men will conduct the exercises from day to day under the supervision of efficient committees. Dr. Stratton, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has led off with three sermons. ‘The Unitarians, the Liberal Jewish con the Universalist church of Rochester, held a union service on Thanksgiving Day, the Universalist minister preaching in the Jewish synagogue. That is a specimen of denominational union, if not of Ubristian union, worthy of imitation, in the city of Pittsburg, Pa, Presbyterians have forty-four churches, Methodists ‘thirty-eight, Episco- palians twenty-mine. There are four colleges, threo theological seminaries and one university under control of Pedobaptist denominations, while the same denomi- nations publish in that city nine religious papers. The Rev, M. Saker, the African missionary, finds, to his great delight, that his version of the Scriptures is riectly understood by the natives to the south of the Bameroves. and its usefulness is therefore far béyond his expectations. A church in Kentucky has just sec and one of the members writ his services for the ensuing year at the salary of $100 and are looking forward for great blessings !’’ Dr. Tal- mage commends that pastor, in case he can be induced to | his present field ‘of labor, to some of the churches in this noighborhood who are trying fine strokes of economy on pastoral salary, A Ubristian colony is being formed in East Africa under the care of Rev. Mr. Price and his wife, Not only is it hoped, by bringi ans from Bombay and Nasik, to enlarge and nurture this colony ot Kisulidini, but ere long to carry the glad tidings of salvation into the interior and also that a settlement may bo formed for the reception of many and of those yet to be delivered from the untold horrors of African slavery. Dr. Zoudder's Central Congregational church, Brook- lyn, has 811 members and 1,065 children in the Sabbath school. Between forty and fitty persons are waiting to be received into membership next month, The in- come of the church from all sources during the year just closed was $29,635 29, all of which was expended for church and benevolent purposes, Mr. W. W. Kimmel, church in Webster, N. mosday last. The Rev, ©. L. Watt, of Cooperstown, N. Y., has ac- cepted the pastorate of the Universalist parish at Orange, Mass. A SINGULAR OMISSION. It fs not generally known that the articles of religion of the Protestant Episcopal Church do not contain « word on repentance, But such ig the fuct, Baptismal regeneration has of course superseded the necossity for the exporience, and for any reference to it, in the Church creed. This fact was made more potent than usual a few days ago, when Mr. Moody, preaching to one of his own audiences on repentance, remar! thi {t was a subject very much misunderstood by the m: of people. But in looking among,the creeds of the denominations for a detinition of the word he found one which perfectly satisied him. It is the best defini- tion, he declared, that he ever found on the subject outside of the Bible, Mr. Moody then read publicly the following article from the Reformed Episcopal Cuurch Prayer Book :: . tion, and ‘tor elect of the Universalist vy Was ordained there on Wed- ANCE, sd bY Scripture is a ch fect of the conviction of sin, wrought senso of remorse, or of he may have neither a change of mind toward God nor any true sorrow; but when he accepts © jour, then he ts a change of mind, and is in, por sinuer comes to Christ through 1 wud sorrowin, fi proportion as his 13 SMALLPOX. The Reception Hospital—Disregard of Sanitary Laws. HOW CASES ARE Great Need of a Change in the Present System of Conveying Patients to the Island. The people of this city have become go accustomed to the ineificiency aud mismanagement of the Health Department that the disclosure of one more instance of the utter disregard of ali sanitary laws by the officials of this Board will in no way surprise the public, It seems strange that officers charged with the care and maintenance of the public health, and the su- pervision and treatment of an important class of diseases, should establish or permit the continuance of the present system of collecting and transterring small- Pox cases and other forms of contagious diseaso from this city to Blackwell's Island, where the hospitais for these affections are located, Between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets, on the East River, stands what is known as the “Re. ception Hospital”” for smallpox patients, it being also used to a certain extent for contagious cases other than this disease, such asscarlatina, measles, diphtheria, &c. ; for at the time of the transfer of the Smallpox Hos- pital on Blackwell’s Island from the control of “DEVELOPED.” “the Commissioners of Charities and Correction to that of the Board of Health, one of the arrangements made was that the officials of the Health Board, in return for the free use of this reception “hospital,” should trans- fer to the Istand all cases of contagious disease sent to them by the Commission of Charities and Correction. Before entering into an explanation of the present mode of transferring patients laboring under smallpox from their homes to Blackwell’s Island we will first take a glance at the ‘hospital’ provided tor the recep- tion of these cases at Twenty-sixth street, ‘The building occupied for this purpose is a one-story frame structure, built on piles and surrounded by water, connecting with the dock front by @ small frame bridge of sufficient dimensions to permit the smallpox wegon to enter the building. Tne ‘hospital’ is divided into five compartments—two being used for male and female reception rooms, one as an apartment for fever cages, the remaining portion being devoted to the use of the people in charge. Running the entire length of the building is a wide passage, in which is kept, when not in service, the horses and wagon used for the re- moval of smallpox cases from their homes to this es- tablishment. An examination of the surroundings of the ‘hospi- tal’ reveals the important fact that the location is one ofthe most unhealthy in the city, for immediately beneath and around the building is being constantly deposited all the filth and: refuse from Bellevue Hospi- tal and the surrounding district, the sewers emptying their contents at this spot, At either side of the “hospital” and at the foot of Twenty-sixth and Twenty- seventh streets loug bulkheads have been erected, pro- jecting into the river, and consequently breaking the force of the tide at this place and preventing any action of the river on this accumulation of filth, A large amount of the worst forms of refuse matter is cou- stantly collecting at this place and immediately beneath and around the ‘‘bospital,”’ and the writer has been in- formed by @ gentleman who witnessed the cleaning aud dredging out of this place that the stulf removed was almost entirely composed of decomposing animal and vegetable refuse matter, the smell of which was almost unbearable, It seems strange that ofticials charged with the care of the public health and who ure sup- posed to be in some way familiar with sanitary laws and the effect of poisonous gases and emana- tions from sewage on the lives of even healthy people, should order the collection of sick and debili- tated people in a building erected over this pest hole, and not alone make this “‘bospital” a resting place for contagious cases, awaiting transfer to the Isiand, but retain these unfortunate people for a considerable time in this establishment, The present system of convey- ing cases of contagious diseases to Blackwell's Island is to wait until a full cargo is collected in the receiving hospital, and as there is but one trip a day made at five o'clock in the evening by the smailpox boat for the transfer of these cases, all patients arriving after that hour must remain in the hospital uutil the evening ot next day. This system of keeping the sick in thix es- tablishment for such a length of time after their re- moval from their homes is an outrage on every sense ‘of decency and humanity. A patient is removed from his home often in the height of hie disease, and at a most critical period he is placed in the smallpox ambulance aud conveyed to th: receiving “hospital,” but on reaching there finds that the boat has just left and will not make another trip tor twenty-four hours, He is then obliged to lie down on abed and remain in this establishment, soaking per- haps in dirty and disease-infected clothes, until the fol- lowing evening. Strange as it may seem to the public, itis much easier to obtain passage in one of the ocean Steamers, and these boats run as often as the smallpox bout does between this city and Blackwell land, It 18 claimed that a physician is attached to and in charge of this establishment, and that patients get as well taken care of in this piace as they would at the hospital on the Island. This is @ very weak argument tor any one familar with the way patients are treated and cared for in public charities, There is no responsible person in charge of this building, and, admitting that the people in charge of the reception “hospital” are as kind and considerate to the sick as such people usually 1 one fact is plain, th ju this building there are ns of treating these cases, no apothecary to supply medicines, no provision for cooking. ‘This building was simply constructed for and intended to be @ waiting house for the boat, and it was never meant to — and retain cases of contagious disease within its walls, The statement that a physician is in attendance at this ‘hospital’ may be true to the extent that he pays ‘one, or perhaps two, visits a day. Sull, he is not a resident of the establisiment, and is never in regular attendance during the night, consequently the patients are without proper medical supervision and care for the greater portion of the time they are retained in this place, and if we even admit, which is not the case, that patients in this establishment have proper medical uttendance, the question arises, what can the physician do, when he is unable to place the paticnt on any regular system of treatment, for within twenty-four hours his cases are removed trom their beds and obliged to finish their excursion to the Island, and, oftener than we imagine, their earthly journey, as this system cannot but greatly diminish a patient's chance of recovery ? Another question that presents itself in connection with this subject is, What right have the Board of Health officials to crowd together all kinds of couta- gior ease in one building? A child may be sent to this establishment sick with measles or scarlet fevor, aud while there contract the worst form of smallpox; for the plan of dividing the cases and retaining them in separate parts of the building looks well enough in theory, but it entirely fails when we come to put it in practice, and it is aquestion whether the health of of this city have the right to endanger the lives of a large number of people by bringing them within fluence of contagion and infection, be- cause & ‘in has been made between the two de- partments the city government as to which will have control of this hospital service. Cases are frequently im this reception “hospi- tal" ‘for “development,” according to the statement made by one of the parties in charge of tho establish- ment This simply means that @ case is brought to the “hospital” resembling smalipox, but which the officials are not certain of und cannot hed that itis the true disease, It may be a good many other things. So the case is kept in this place to “develop,” Now, should the case not prove the disease looked for, how much chance has the unfortunate ‘suspect’? of escap- ing infection and disease, surrounded as he almost con- stantly is by patients, some of them baving small- Pas and other contagious discases in their worst forms? ‘bis pian of “developing” cases at the reception ‘hos- pital’ practically means, if the pationt has not smail- pox we will give him every chance to getis The proper place for ‘‘deveioping’’ such cases is at the hos- pital on the Island, where special rooms should be set apart for this purpose, so that if a patient be found free from this loathsome affection he will in no way be placed within the focus of contagion. To prove the indifference of the powers that bo in re- gard to the death or recovery of the poor that are either compelled through poverty or the law to seek shelter im the smallpox hospital, the writer has scen these patients obliged to walk in the rain from the boat Janding on Blackwell's Island to the bospital, and this in the middle of winter. It may be urged that the Commissioners of Health are ignorant of many of the abuses carried on in th department over which they control and that they cannot be beld responsible for them. In connection with, this smallpox receiving “hospital? matter no such excuse can be offered. [t is a well Known fact to the officials of the Health Department that smallpox and other contagious diseases are retained in this es: tablishment for a considerable time. They also know that the transfer boat makes but one trip in four years, Some of the Board must know t “hospital”? ts built over a large and increasing bank of filth formed of the sewerage trom Bellevue Hospital and part of First avenue and adjoining streets, cannot be ignorant of the fact that “suspect” cases retained in this establishment, in tho midst of the worst forms of disease, for “development,” and, last of medical officials of the Board mast recognize that it does not improve a pationt’s chance of ry while laboring under disease to be kept in this “hospital” in dirty clothes for a considerable time, then again made leave his bed and be transferred to the hospital on the island. Like many other troubles connected with the man- agement of our pub arities and health matters, the excuse (or the present system of caring for ferring smallpox and other cases of contagious dis to the island ‘aut of money, It being too ox pensive to keep a boat ranning every hour for the transfer of these cases as fast as they artive at the re- ception house, a plan is useless, The Board of Health spends large sum of money ewch year for sani- tary purposes aud the prevention of disease, and th 1 goons of ti vity gel ray 3 little kanye] for it, for the sinple reason that the greater part of the tion is devoted to paying salaries, A and expen: sive body of men called the “Sanitary Police Squad,’* is kept up, the principal duty of these gentlemen being to serve examine ‘minor’ nuisances and draw their pay. This police squad is nothit ree of this city, the services o! ry well dispensed with and the money devoted to better and more useful purposes, such as the subject we have been considering. The present location of the reception ‘hospital’ is bad, not alone im a sanitary point of view, but also im rogard to the convenience of patients. The reception house should be constructed at some point above Forty- second street, which is nearly opposite the Smallpos Hospital on Blackwell's Island. A building should be erected at this point as a resting, vinen for patients awaiting transfer to the Island en & ‘email stam launch, provided with two or three beds, making s trip whenever a case arrived, would be suilicient for all pur- poses, Im this way @ large number of cases would never be collected together, except, portage, during the course of a severe epidemic, and ry extra boats could be used. Patients then taken from their homes could reach the hospital on the island within one hour from.their removal, escaping the effects of a second journey often in the height of their disease. Tho cost of this plan would be trifling cow- pared with the vast amount of suffering and er those unfortunate people laboring under co disease have now to undergo, If such @ plan i¢ not adopted by our health officials, then it becomes a se- rious question whether the relatives of # sick person are not justified in forcibly resivtin, the removal of the patient by the Board o Health—although the lw empowers the ffl- ciuls of this department to remove from their hogses people suilering under ‘contagious disease—till the jourd of Health is at least morally obliged to give @ patient the same chance of recovery and life he would have if left in his own house, and this they ¢an- not do under the present system. If some such plan is not adopted it would be much better to establish the smallpox and fever hospitals in this city. In every Jarge community, all over the World, such cases are treated in special hospitals with- iu the city lunits. If such hospitals were properly Constructed and removed a certain distance from eecu- houses and surrounded by high wats there could no possible danger to the public health from this source, aud if we consider the immense advantage such hospitals would be to the unfortunate poor of thit city, who are the principal applicants for treapment and relief from contagious diseases, it seems that auch «change is at least worthy of careful consideration, « This 18 @ question that the Board of Health should im. mediately iook iuto. The people are not entirely ignorant of the way in which the present system works, and it is careless and ‘good enough for phe soon systems of treating such questions that bave rought so much discredit aud shame on the Health Department and its management, A CHANCE FOR A CHRISTMAS GIFT. ‘The Morning Star Mission was established in 1868. by Dr. R, P, Perry anda band of devoted fellow laborers, It has a board of nine trustees, representing different evangelical denominations. In its Sunday school a1 other religious work it has shown itself worthy of the cordial sympathy and warm support of the Christlas public, The erection of its uew building on Twenty sixth street, near Seventh avenue, was a heavy burdes for it, and a threatened foreclosure came new wiping the enterprise out, The sum of $5,000 wa wanted, and in response to an urgent call fo help $3,000 was provided for two or thre weeks ago, The mission now as urgently calls tor th other $2,000, which will muke the Morning star happ) for New Year's if .the response is given. Some of the donations to this cause have been in sums of $500, and even more. Cannot four healthy and wealthy is. tians now be found who will carry this enter] through, and thus save the $25,000 of cas! years of hard work which bave been put into thi sion? TALMAGE SEVERE ON BEECHER. To ras Epiror or tak Hrraty:— In the discussion of the Bible in the schools questfoa it is well known that Dr, Talmage and Mr, Beechet take opposite sides, Both are men of note or notoriety in Brooklyn, and tt has been supposed up to this time that they were at least passably good friends, But I find this in Dr. Talmage’s last Sabbath sermon on the schools, which, it seems to me, is rather severe on Mr, Beecher, and gives for once Mr, Talmage’s inside opin jon of Mr, Beec! 's morality. ltis bad enough to be classed with atheists and infidels because Beecher differs with Talmage, but to be told in the same sen tence that only men of loose morals and loose religioa object to the reading of the Bible in the schools is toe bad. Here 1s the item as I clip it from a morning paper:—*They are only atheists and men of loose relig- Jon and loose morality who object to the reading of the Bible in the schools. s What does he m ? Does he believe Mr. Beeches guilty of immoralities as charged agaivst bim by Tilton and Moulton, and now very broadly intimated ‘a Mre. Moulton and Mr. West? Qui VivE. CLERICAL FISTICUFFS. The Rey. H. N. Wright, Methodist, and the Rev. Mr, Bocock, Baptist, of Bellmore, L. 1., are ina legal diff. culty, the former accusing the latter of committing ax assault and battery upon bim. Mr. Wright was for merly pastor of the Methodist church at Rockville Centre, but was displaced by the Conference, since which time he alternated between Bellmore and Mer. rick and preached to small congregations. He accused Mr. Bocock of desiring to supplant him in th of the Bellmore jolk. Last Sunday the two met at the depot, and, coming to words, Mr. Bocock’s right hand— quite by accident, as he alleges—came in contact with the lett lapel of Mr. Wright’s coat. The latter's was knocked off and be came near falling from platform. It 18 expected that the hearing of the case will be accompanied by some curious developments RUN OVER ACCIDENTS. Charles Fenge, of No. 845 Seventh strect, while at tempting to stop a runaway horse and truck, yesterday morning, at the corner of Franklin street and Broad way, was knocked down and run over, the wheelé assing over both his legs and severely injuring bim He was removed to the Chambers Street Hi Frederick Albrecht, residing at No, 13 Atwater street, accidentally fell from the platform of car No. 36 of th Fourth avenue live at Tryon row, yesterday, and war very severely injured, one of the wheels passing ove his left leg. The injured man was taken to the bers Street Hospital, and the driver, John Harnett, was arrested. Charles Rath, while driving a wagon on Cornelia street, yesterday, came in collision with @ lager beer wagon, driven by Frederick Beck, aud was thrown to the ground, receiving a severe scalp wound, Beck was arrested by the police of the Ninth precinct, and Rath was removed to the Chambers Street Hospital. STONEWALL JACKSON'S MOTHER, To tus Evitor ov Tus Heraro:— Your very full report of ceremonies at the im anguration of Foley’s statue to Steuewall Jackson a Richmond—a just tribute to a noble soldier—remind: me of alouely grave in the mountains of West Vir ginia which deserves some simple monument te com memorate the name and memory of a most exeellent Virginia matron—she who moulded aud directed the youthful mind that was to develop inte the man of master worth. On a recent visit to the Valley of the Upper Kanawha, or more properly of New River, above the Great Falla my attention was cafled to tho fact that the mother of Stonewall Jackson was buried near the Hawk’s Negt,’ and that the spot was almost undistinguishable A few days’ subsequently I visited the celebrated natural scene where the New River has cut deep through the rocky barriers, forming canyons equal to some described by Powell, prominent among which {s“Marshall’s Pillar” or the Hawk’s Nest, hanging high in mid-air, an object of great attraetion te all visitors to the romantic and rich mineral regions of West Virginia. I mot there Celonel William Tyree, at old style Virginian, who was full of local traditions aaé {nformation concerning the mineral wealth of the Kw nawba Valley, From this local chronicler | derived the facts of the death of General Jackson’s mothet and the place whore her remams now res, General Jackson's parents resided in Lewis county, | am acquainted with several members of the family, ia cluding a cousin with whom Thomas Jonathan (Stone. wail) speat much ot his time before goimg to Weat Point, The gentleman reierred to (now di stated to me that Thotwas visited him in Ritchie county immediately before receiving his appointment at West Point, and hoped that his cousin would advance means to purchase stock (young cattle) am@ that they would graze them on the ‘shaves These two persons very much resembled each “4 as was remarked by (hose who Knew them personally. Thomas J. lost his futher early, and bis mother mar- tied Mr. Blake B. Woodson, « lawyer of small and slender means, On the organization of Payette county the late Judge Duncan, of Clarksburg, appointed Woodson Clerk of the District Court of said county. The new clerk moved to “Mountain Cove,” a nook it the vast wilderness of the Gauley, New River Mountain region, and there soon aiter the mother of the great hero died avd les interred. Mountain Cove was the temporary seat of justice for Fayette, It is aow Fayetteville, south of New River, and was the scene of much skirmishing during the war, I inquired of Colonel Tryree (who owns the ground where repose the remains of the great Caj * mother) whether the spot could be identified? pled affirmatively, and now I have make through the Hkranp—vin, thi New York city raise funds to remove the remal more suitable resting place or erect over thi where they Now tic some memorial, cou name and circumstances, This simple tribute woul come ba do [ indies of the great city of New York. I trust this suggestion will be alone necessary to Insure jt# success, I would further suggest that the Heranp be mode the recipient of this (aad until properly applied, Four Vinw. Des. 18. 1878, . DBR