The New York Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1876, Page 4

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Preparations for Moody--Syn- agogue Worship. Ministerial Movements--- Chat by the Way. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. “Phe Rev. H. W. Knapp will preach in Laight street Baptist church this morning, on ‘‘K Christ's Commandments,” and this eveni State Worse than the First.’ At Willett street Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. J. L. Gilder will preach in the morning, and the pastor, B “The Hem of His Garment.” Mr. Saunders will preach tn York street church, Brooklyn, in the morning. | | | | i | Parables and the Reason the Lord Gives for Speaking ia Them.” CHAT BY THE WAY. Every genuine revival is the result of spontaneous generation. If it comes of itself it can be trusted, but if it has to be bolstered up by resolutions, passed after debate, you may as well wait “foramore convenient season. ”” It ts not regarded as good taste to use the word “devil” even in theological conversation, It has an unpleas- ant sound, and seems to point to future prospects with too much vividness’) Whenever you have occa- sion to speak of the benignant gentleman referred to, call him the Superintendent of Cremation, whose office is down below, Religion is a beautiful thing when you get it unadul- terated, Some people have a great deal more than they think they have, and others a great deal less than they profess to have. Itis something that comes of itself, like the blush of the rose, and can’t be painted on. We heard the other day of a woman who spanked her two children for coming home from the revival meeting without having “got’’’ religion, and the inci- dent seemed a fair criticism on the mechanical ele- ment in some revivals. Ministers’ sons are not proverbial for their docility, J. V. Saunders, will preach in the evening on | put are generally a little rapid in motion, This anom- aly began with the sons of Eli, about 1,165 years before Christ, and bas coutinued without a break ever since. ‘This morning in the Tabernacle Baptist church the | The average, however, is very well maintained, accord- Rev. J. D. Fulton, D. D., will preach a patriotic sermon on “The Beginnings of Liberty in the Bible,” “The Manhood of Jesus” and “The Thief’s Request and Christ's Response’? will be considered by Rey. W. Hi. Leavell ip Stanton street Baptist churen. Dr. Armitage will speak about “The Syrophenician ‘Woman’’ this morning in the Fifth avenu® Baptist church, and this evening will answer the question, “Am La Wait?” | In Seventeenth street Methodist Fry pal church the Rev. J. H. Lightbourn will dissect ‘‘An Infidel” this evening for his audience. Rev. W. H. Thomas will preach in the morning. In All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church the Rey. W..N. Dunnell will preach at the usual hours to-day. The Rev, William Lloyd will talk about ‘Broken ing to the theory of Mr. Buckle. Ministers are alto- | gether too good and their sous are altogether too bad; thus, if they should be aggregated, there would be | found sufficient virtue for two very fair lives, and possi- | vei { | t t Cisterns” this morning and about ‘The Pillars of the | Pemple of Truth’ this evening in Washington square | Methodist Episcopal church. At the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church the Rey. John Johns will preach to-day on “The Lost Joy.” The Rev. George 0. Phelps will direct his Presbyter- tan church in Allen street this evening to “The Great Physician.” “Popular Scepticism” will be discussed by Rev. W. f. Egbert in the Church of St, John the Evangelist this evening. “David and Goliath, or Faith and Unbelief,”” will be bly enough of the other element to keep both from saints. ‘The Methodists have been getting excited over the | condition of our almshouses, They have come across some ugly facts in the way of careless nurses, who forget to give their patients medicine, and of drunken and quarrelsome nurses, whose patients are found dead | through neglect. The Methodist says that the Randall's Island foundling institutions are ‘‘a great deal worse than Catholic protectories,’’ The reason is obvious, When the Catholics care to found an institution they | care to look after it and see that the original intention ried out, When Protestants found an institution Jay the corner stone and then let the whole thing take care of itself, A Catholic asylum that should ad- minister its affairs with one-half the eriminal neglect of the Randall's Island institutions would—but such a supposition is impossible, for whatever else may be said of them the Catholics are peculiarly faithiul to such trusts as these. ‘The treatment which Bishop Haven has received since his political escapade in Boston ought to be a warning to the clergy. Some of the papers have spelled his title with a sinall b, hoping by this crushing sarcasm to is | penetrate to the quick; but the reverend gentleman | seems to be pachydermatous, and such barbs pny glance off without wounding. Others familiarly call him “Gil,” an abbreviation of his first name, and as- sume toward him a certain camaraderie which must make him hope that he will not be judged by the com- pany in which he is found. The Southern journals have fairly touched the boiling point in their tropical tontrasted this morning by Rev. L. G. Barrett betore | fervor of expression, The English tongue is deplorably the Berean Baptist church. Dr. tn the evening. Bishop Snow will warn his congregation of “The Coming Crash’ this afternoon in the University chapel. The Rev. C. P. McCarthy will preach in Bleecker street Universalist church this morning on ‘Jesus Cempted of the Devil,” and this evening on “The Re- pentance of Judas.” In the Church of the Holy Trinity the Rev. S. H. Tyng, Jr., D. D., will preach at the people's service jhis evening; also im the morning. Rev. J. W. Bonham will preach in the afternoon. The Rev. George Stuart Campbell will preach ih Breenoe street Presbyterian church this morning and pfernoon. atton preaches there | deficient in the flery adjectives which they are im- patient to hurl, Their criticisms, though lacking some- What in smooth courtesy, are sufficiently pungent and forcible to make the Bishop wish that he bad either bridled his tongue on that memorable occasion, or else died in bis sary infancy. Ne sutor ultra crepidam \s a good motto, It means, when freely translated, that third term politics are not the arena in which clergy- men can show their talents to best advantage. Jolin Trumbull, a poet of the Jast century, anticipated Bishop Haven’s fate in these lines :— But as some muskets so contrive it As oft so miss the mark they drive at, And, though weil aimed at duck or plover, Beat wide, and kick their owners over. A daily prayer meeting is held in an upper back room of a tenement house, A score or so are invited, and compose probably tho worst dressed audience in the city. Yet they sing in tune, but pray in such bad grammar and such a good spirit’ that we are led to In ‘the Church'Or our Saviour the Rev. J. M. Pull. | Wonder whether rhetoric has as muob, to do with an | man will preach this morning and evening. eptable prayer as we have heretofore supposed. er Dwyer, who leads the meeting, is not much of a “How Shall the Masses be Reached!” will be an- | preacher, to be sure; but when you remember that a Hwered this morning by Rev. Mr. Rowell in tho Free Will Baptist church, “The Soul's Cry After God? will bo considered this evening. The Rev, R. W. Clark, D, D,, of Albany, will preach few months ago he was at the tail end of a minstrel troupe, and that every night or two he managed to get the whole neighborhood into a row, then Pever, with lus calin, subdued speech, seems to be really eloquent, We may kuow that tho revival has arrived when we ; find such a meeting in such a place, and it must be bis Contennial discourse in Lafayette place Reformed | protty nearly time tor tho Hippodrome tobe ready for thurch this morning. Subject—‘‘The Relation of Re- | Moody and Sankey. ligion to Our Civil Liberty.” Rev. D. J. Sheehy,, of Brooklyn, will Dr, Jeffrey, a prominent member of the Baptist Pas- | tors’ Associulion, is taking his turn at a hot water lecture this | bath. He 1s apparently an open communionist, but of | tvoning in St, Vincent Ferrer’s church, New York, on | @ Very mild pattern, for he goes ouly so far as to say The Church and the Republic.” In Harlem Universalist church the Rev. J. A. Seitz Will lecture on “High Prices” this evening, Mrs. Bullono will address the Progressive Spiritualists This morning at No, 55 West Thirty-third street. tvening Professor Brittan will speak of ‘The Lunatics ‘f Speculation.” | of being ofl-color, and a¢ that he would not prohibit an untmmersed Christian irom sitting at the Lord’s table. Still he is suspected minittee of eleven have been appointed to examine and catechise him and find out how deep the heresy runs. There seems to be the ut- | most freedom in some churches to think just as you | This | are,told to and very little charity for any bonest think- ing’ of your own. So goes the world. Mr. Murray told the Boston twinisters, assembled for the purpose of hearing his paper, the other day, that “Christ’s Temptation” and “To-morrow Too Late” | the best haggbook for a clergyman is the Bible. This will be discussed in Pilgrim Baptist church to-day by | 18 somewhat novel, but stil! good advice. Rev. J, Spencer Kennard, The Rev. W. B. Merritt will preach in the Sixth ave- nue Union Reformed church this evening on ‘The Ser- vice of Christ—What!” Rev. James M. King will preach at’ the usual hours to-day in St. John’s Methodist Episcopal chureh, The Rey. Charles E. Harris will preach in the Allen streot Methodist Episcopal church evening. Subject for evening Friends in Heaven.”? ‘The Recognition of this morning and | Preachers are apt to presuppose on the part of the hearers an in- timate acquaintance with Biblical topics, and so wander vaguely through the realms of glittering generalities. ‘They will do mere good when they come to the not very complimentary conclusion that reading the Bible is very nearly a lost art, and then begin to tell the people what it is all about and what it is all for, and what it enjoins as duty. Blazing rhetoric is very well tn its piace, and we have felt, when wo have listened to splendid sentences, ina ‘shiver all over, as though a centipede were running upand down our spinal column, but a simple sermon, backed and illustrated by a noble 1 | character, is ater all as satisfactory, as peacefully and | deliciously satisfactory, asthe jingle of gold in the Dr. William Adams will preach in Madison avenue | pocket, honestly earned. Reformed church this morning. Rev. 8. M, Hamilton will preach In the Scotch Pres: Dyterian church this morning and afternoon. Here at any rate is a practical result of the revival, In Gloucester, Mass., the religious interest has culmi- nated in a temperance society made up mostly of sailors, When religiou grapples with the Gloucester fishermen The Rev. W. P. Abbott will minister to St. Luke's | it has a hard work, bata noble one, before it There is Methodist Episcopal chureh at the usual hours to-day. The Rev. George McCampbell will officiate in Spring street Presbyterian church to-day, as usual. Rev, 8. H. Platt will preach in Do Kalbavenue Metho- ist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, Presiding Elder Sing in the evening. a@peak in Fleet street Methodist Episcopal church in the evening in review of Rev. J. M. Buckley's pamphiet on Supposed Miracles’? The Rev. David B. Jutten will preach this morning ‘end evening in the Sixteenth street Baptist church. The Rov. George H. Hepworth will preach in the ‘Church of the Disciples this evening on the words, this morning, and | Cumming an Mr. Platt will | “Not by bread alone,”’ and this morning on “The Cove- | no more courageous class of men in America than theso coarse-fisted but oftentimes large-hearted men, who run | side of this division a room seating 8,000 people, or | that | outgrowth is a noonday meeting started at the begin- | | it is inquired into and acted upon separately. the risks of a winter’s gale on the Banks for the sake | of codtish. school of mackerel, then we shall sit at the feet of Dr. 4 read the prophecie: one of the noblest signs of the times, how- e that the soft side of Jack Tar’s heart has been touched, If there is any one thing more delightful than another it is achurch quarrel, There are several iast- ing Denetits resulting from it, to wit:—First, those who are pondering on the daty of joiming theschurch are enabled to make up their minds at once—not to do it; second, the non-church goers, those who are eternally hunting round to find @ good excuse to stay at home, discover one in the bickerings and contro- versies of the elect, and third, infidelity, which ts like world. Ith mant of Grace.” On Wednesday evening, in this ‘be vulture poanies es carcass from afar, enjoys a es Se rapes rare feast. It is such a dignified business to be engaged jehuroh, Dr. Willard Parker will deliver the first of @ | in when one set. of wardens take the locks on chs series of lectures, to young mon alone, on “Tho Temp- tations and Dangers of City Life.” Rév. Dr. Ewer will officiate to-day at the several ser- ; vices in St. Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal church. Professor George P. Clarke will address the Spiritual Investigating Society this evening. in Macpherson Hall, on “Voices irom the Cannibal Islands." Rey. D. M. McCaffray wil! preach at the usual hoars to-day in the Chureh of Our Saviour. “Types of Christian Character’ is tho subject of a lecture to be delivered in Cooper Institute this evening by Rev. Father Ducey Sankey’s Goepel songs will be sung at the peoples? | Service in the Church of the Holy Trimty this evening. In the First Reformed Episcopal church the Rev. A. D, Vail, of the Methodist Episcopal churca, wil! preach church doors and put new ones on so that the rector’s key won't tit, and the other set of wardens take the new locks off and put tbe old ones on again so that the rector’s key will fit. Religion flies through the win- dows in spite of the stained glass when the officers have a wrestling match in the chureh. A counterfeit ten dollar bill has a certain precarious value in dis. When the revival succeeds in gotting its | | seine around thom, as they delight to get it around a honest bands, for some poor fool may be found who | willtake tt for genuine money, but a qnarrelsome | religion carries its counterfeit character on its face and is worse than worthless, Mr, Frovhingham is certainly an original thinker. | He told his people last Sunday inorning that they ought to have great respect for infidels because they are men of moral courage—i, ¢, they say what they think when it is very unpopular to think so. This reminds us of the man who killed his father, and when asked by the judge what be had to say, replied, “I hope Your Honor Will not be hard on me, for you know I’m a poor orphan." Infidelity sits on the limb of the tree, saws the limb off, and then when it comes tumbling to the in the morning, and Rey. W. T. Sabine, rector, in the (Soret claims our admiration for moral courage, Mr. evening. Aservice of sacred song will be conducted in St. | feeling, emotion and the poetic Paul's church, Hoboken, this evening. The Second Reform Episcopal church meets now in the chapel of the Home tor the Friendless, where the Rev. George Howell will officiate this morning and evening. rothingham also says that he belongs to a school of infidels who recognize in the Ives imagination, se. They do not pray, they aspire, Al, yes, thoy ai | i beyond praying, | like common folk; but then they can aspire, and that | must be a great privilege. Whether they do this three times a day, when the rest of the world is saying grace, or whether they have set times when they peculiarly aspire, or whether they aspire ail the time, is not yet known. Neitner is it exactiy known what it is to as- In the Church of the Divine Paternity the Rev. Dr, | pire, whether it acts On the muscular or nervous sys- Chapin will preach this morning and deliver an extem- pore address in the evening. Preaching this morning as usual in Plimpton Hall for | the Fifth Universalist Societ, Rev, Dr. Mickels preaches at the usual hours to-day in the East Baptist church. G. L. Henderson will prove to a demonstration this morning for the Religio-Bcientific Soci in Ecclesia Hall, that “The Religion of Science is the Catholic Re- Gigion,” and William Cotter, of London, will prove in evening that “The Religion of Science is More Con- ductive to Happiness than the Chri: ‘The phenomena and philosophy of Spiritualism will ‘de digcusied in Harvard Rooms this afternoon ana evoning. The Rey. Fathey Bjerring will conduct services in Ahe Greek chapel to-day im the English language, To- morrow be is to lectuF@ dy invitation, before St Mark's Guild, Grace church (iyotestant Episcopal), ‘Newark, N. J.. on “The Oriental Church and Its Rela- tions to Other Religious Bodies."’ * The Rev, J. H. Eccleston, of Philadelphia (who de- clined the lowa episcopate), will preach in St. An- \drew's Protestant Episcopal church, Richmond, Staten [stand this morning. He has been tendered tho rec. itorship of the church, He is a brother of Dr. Eccle. on, of $t. Jobn’s charch, Clifton. | Next Wednesday evening the spirits are to talk ao. \dibly for @ destitute family, in Republican Hall, theoagh the medigmsbip of Mrs. H. Wilson. tar. Chacncey Giles will discourse in the Sweden- orem Courch, vais morning, on “The Nature of | | amg win, or whether it helps the digestive organs or i brain stimulant, AM this matter is obscare, and until itis more definitely settled the average man will con- clude that there is very little difference, in a religious point of view, between aspiration and perspiration, Henry Wainwright, the murderer recently nanged, had been in earlier years a church member, president of a Young Men’s Christian Assocation and an honored And respected citizen. From all this he fell. Some Weak-minded folk will try to sneer at religion because of these facts; but, after all, was it his religion that lost bim and led him astray, or something else? It Seems to us that the trouble was that he had religion, or ele © Cowper seems to which a ther never idu't keep it after he did get it. ood preac both of language and action, will ponder on it, it will | do them good service. A harlequin may attract the | crowd for ime, but simple, straighttorward manliness of direction and bearing pF, surest reputation after all. Be writes;— Would I describe « preacher such as P; Were be om earth would hear, appro Paul should himself direct ime. 1 wor His master bays Sod draw from bi ™ I would ¢: Tn Gl in language plain, ‘decent, solemn, chaste anes And natural in sure: much impressed fitmbott, be conscioes of his awhel, charge, that the flock be (eeds look ‘as well becomes guilty men. A messenger of grace PREPARATIONS FOR MOODY. MATERIAL, MUSICAL AND INSTRUCTIVE—THE HIPPODROME TO BE READY IN A WEEK. Just ag Messrs. Moody and Sankey are in the height of their interesting labors in Philadelphia, and the crowds who wait on their ministry are constantly in- known the materials out of | | creasing, they must break off and come to New York, where the committee are making extensive prepara- tions for their reception. These preparations are of three kinds—material, musical and instructive. The Hippodrome is so far advanced that the writer, who saw it yesterday, was informed that it will be ready in & Week or so, The vast arena in the centra, where the chariot and horse races were run, and which gave to the building the name of Hippodrome, is floored over, and thus several thousand seats are adJed to the num- ber formerly confined to the galleries. But such an audience as would fill a hall so vast as this would be beyond the effective reach of the voice of | any man. And for the purpose of making the services | more efficient the great building will be cut into two large rooms by two partition walls, twenty feet apart, through the midst of the halls. This will leave on each 16,000 in all. In the centre, and ranning through the pene into each auditorium, is the platform, and by doors connecting the rooms it is the work of a mo- ment only to pass from one platform to the other— from the presence of one audience to that of another. By this arrangement—the audiences being twenty feet apart—the sound will not interfere with the enjoyment of two services at the same ti and the evangelists will, both of them, come into contact with both classes of hearers, saints and sinners, every day, and whatever 18 1n the words spoken or sung by | either will be equally enjoyed by the audiences in both | of these halls of assembly. The space of 20 feet in | width by 200 in length between these rooms will be utilized for committee rooms and vestries, so that ail the conveniences of a well furnished church edifice will | be combined under one roof. Care is being taken not | to disarrange the permanent fixtures of the building. The Committee of Arrangements meets dally at the office, on the Twenty-sixth street side of the building. ‘The musical preparations consist of a large choir of volunteer singers from the several churches of the city, some of whom are even now rehearsing one or two evenings in the week to be ready to take part in the | grand hallelujah chorus that is to fill this immense | building with praise, ‘The Moody and Sankey bymns | are, however, so familiar to the masses now | they ‘are sung and whistled on tho streets and form an important element in many of our church services. Mr. Sankey’s singing is ove of the acknowledged forces mm this revival work, And it is at once a privilege and duty of those Christians to whom God has given voices, and skill in using them, to concentrate their talents to this work as they have opportunity. But with two large congregations to be ministered to every day at the same time it is expected that a goodly number of inquirers will need instruction from day to day, Hence the pastors and churches of the city are working ip accord, training Christian workers to oper- ate among such persons. Every church will contribute its quota of men and women to go into the highways and byways of the city, le the outlying m tudes who rarely come to the place of preaching and prayer, and with gentle force will compel them to como in,” An invitation will be given, again and again, to every accessible person within reasonable dis- tance of the Hippodrome to hear the Gospel. The missionary agencies of the city will be employed to bring the glad tidings into the homes of those who cannot go out to hear, and by every suitable exertion the offer of eternal life by Christ will be carried to all the neglected souls in this great metropolis. Dr, Or- miston’s church has been filled every Tuesday and Thursday evening for the past two weeks with such Christian men and women as design to engage in this work, and they have been instructed by Drs, Tyng, Ormiston, Booth, Hall, Taylor, rege Hepworth and Tucker how to meet objections and doubts that naturally fll the inquirer’s mind, During the current week or ten days Drs, King, Vail, Hastings, Anderson, Crosby and ~ MacArthur will continue those instruc- tions. Next Wednesday and Thursday a Christian conven- | tion is to be held in Philadelphia, over which Mr. Moody will preside, and kindred topics wall be consia- ered, UNION PRAISE AND PRAYER MEETING. ‘The fifth of the very successful union series of prayer and praise meetings which were started by Mr, Edgar Baker in Dr, Burchard’s church, and which have alter- nated with other churches, will be held to-day in the Bedford street Methodist Episcopal chureb, from four to five o'clock. The Rev, Dr. Burchard will preside, and ifthe people take part as they did last Sunday in Mr. Bronner’s North Baptist church only good can re- sult from it, A quarter of an hour before the time the church was crowded, and an overflow meeting was organized im the lecture room, which was also filled, and people then went away for want of room. This in an outgrowth of the Greene street noonday prayer meeting. But another ning of this month in Rey. Mr. Page’s church in West Eleventh street, and which grows more and more in- teresting with its continuance. This week the follow- ing named pastors of churches in the vicinity will lead the meetings daily in ordor:—Rev. Messrs, Gregory, Methodist; Bronner, Baptist; Lloyd, Methodist; Dr. Burchard,’ Presbyterian; Harrower, Methodist,’ and Merritt, Reformed, To-morrow young men trom the Greene street meeting will be present and take part in the services. The Greene street meeting loses none of | iis interest, but rather increases in numbers and in- terest the more its branches multiply. Last week evidence was presented {rom Bethel and South Nor- waik, Conn., of a waking up of the churches in those places by the fire canght here. The Eighth ward pas- tors have also-organized Sunday alternoon union ser- vices, and Jast Sabbath the first meeting was held in the Spring street Presbyterian church and was a grand success, A similar meeting will be held to-day in the Laight street Baptist church. The pastors of the Six- teenth ward are also moving in the matter to provide similar meetings tor their peop! id the Oblristian young men of those churches are consulting about hav- | ing a Saturday night meeting, between cight and nine | o'clock, for young men only.’ Thus the revival work spreads before Mr. Moody comes at all, and without any inspiration from his preaching or from Mr. San- key’s singing. BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S AID SOCIETY. This society, located at No. 61 Poplar street, has been nine years in existence. Mr. Dwight Johnson is its President and Mr. W. W. Wickes, Treasurer and Mr. R. D. Douglass, Superintendent. It aims to prevent vagrancy and crime, and each case that comes before | The | following are some of the results of the society’s opera- tions since it began work September 1, 1866, to Novem- ber 1, 1875:—5,075 children bave been placed in good homes; 8,076 boys have been taken in from the streets; | 4,702 girls have been taught the sewing machine; 10,869 articles of clothing distributed to children; ‘841,071 lodgings furnished to street boys; 826,854 meals fur- nished to the hungry; $36,419 57 received from boys in part payment for food and shelter. Hard times make more work for the society and compel it to ask every friend to help it through these days which bear so hardly on the homeless and needy. Five dollars will instruct three girls on the sewing machine; $10 will provide a boy with lodging, food and instruction in the society’s evening School lor one month; $16 will send a boy toahome in the West; $100 will provide for a boy’a year and furnish him a home, Strcly no charity can be more practical than this Let wealthy Brook- lynites read, jearn and inwardly digest and empty their pockets in its treasury. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, BPISCOPALIAN The Bishop of Winchester, England, thinks ne well instructed churchman can attend the services of other | communions, for if bis own Church is not the true | ecburch then she ts a usurper and impostor in Eng- | land. The Vicar of Richmond had refused an invitation | to attend the dedication of a Nonconformist church in his neighborhood, which narrow minded act his bishop approved. The Rey. P. Wroth has resigned the rectorship of | Kingston parts, Mathews county, Va., and gone to | Baltimore, Md. ee The Rey. Mr. Irish, of Holland Patent, has organized a now Episcopal mission in Trenton, Central New York diocese, where services are held on Fridays and oc casionally. It isto be known as Calvary chapel. The | jociety now worships in a rented room, St. Paul’s Gatld, Trinity parish, have opened a res- taurant and lodging rooms for menand women at No. 140 Leonard street, corner of Centre. In this work the ild_ wishes to provide for the deserving poor and at the same time to give no encouragement wo tramps and vagavonds. BAPTIST. The Bidlica! Recorder, organ of the Baptists of North Carolina, in several items relating to the colored peo- ple, in every instance speaks of them as “ne; i straws which show which way the wind blows. It evi- dently does not consider negroes men when it refuses | Sens the common appellation of people or colored cople, 5 Pemhe Baptists of Centreville, Hillsboro, NX. B., dedi- cated a new church last Sunday. At Homewood, Jewell county, Kansas., the Rev, James H. Lathrop, missionary, has gathered Ofty-six converts into the Baptist church and then became pas- tor, still operating a@ missionary im other parts. A revival ii ipringfeld, N, thered fourteen into the Baptist church th lL oO Sabbaths. In Mitchell, Ind., nimeteen, and in First Elgin church, Pollett River Section, N. sixteen. Rev. H, A. Todd bas resigned at East Cameron, N. Y., and gone to Hedgesville, Steuben county, N. Y. ‘Pho Baptist church in Cherokee, lowa,’ has with- drawn the band of fellowship from it bs ite wastor, | Rev, KN. Jencks, for uct “inconsistent with Christian character and mi rial Standing." Newburg, N. Y., has been stirred up by the labors os the Rev. A. P. wes, who was invited there by the’ Young Men’s Christian Association, aided by Mr. w. Ps ifiman, an effective singer. Mr. Graves bas | preached jo the different churches and the number of | inquirers very large. At the close of one sermon aoout I ent into the inquiry rooms, and on anotber occasiol The work 1s still going on. | Last Sunday six converts were baptized in the Cen- | tral church, Syracuse. | At Candor, twenty-four have been baptized. At Mannsville, N, Y., thirty-five conversions are re ported; at Bradford village, twenty-seven; at Boone- ville, seven, At Rownyton (Norwalk), , oine have been recently baptized; at Perkinsville, Vt, eight Dr. Goodspeed resigned his pastorate of ‘the Second | ! | | ebureh, Chicago, last Sunday, Baptist Ministers’ Conference of this city, ashamed of their basty discourtesy toward Dr. Joffrey, have reconsidered their eaten sue eaters the matter to a committee of eleven for consi jon. Plymouth Baptist church of this city has disbanded. Their church is now Catholic property. Rev. Dr. Mikels, formerly of the Sixteenth street Baptist church, has acce; call to the pastoral over- sight of the Kast Baptist church. He commences his labors with manifestations of much religious interest, PRESBYTERIAN. The Presbyterian church in Chester, Orange county, N. Y., last commanion Sabbath received 30 recen| converts to tts membership. At Fountain Green, IIL, 17 have been added. ‘Tne Scotch Presbyterian church, Chicago, Ifl., the Rev, James McLaughlin’s, received 22 new members at their recent com: munion. Nineteen new names have been added to the Presbyterian church, Rochester, Mich.; at Talledega, Cherokeo Presbytery, 31; at Westminster church, Dan- dridge, Tenn., 16; at La Crosse, Wis., 100; at Wythe- ville, Va, 15; at Howard Presbyterian church, San Francisco, at Shelbyville, Ky , 26 tothe Presby- terian church, South, and 14 to ‘tho Northern Pres- byterian church; at Mount Zion Presbytery, Mo, 32. Wi 1d a Bisa Fonines ty i i ie. K are the tle aus o 0 in Louisville, Ky., tiie of 200 new members to one Presbyterian church and 100 to another, besides smaller gains to others. Fifteen members have been received lately to the Seventh Presbyterian church of Indianapolis, Ind., and 20 persons into the Ninth Presbyterian church of the same city. The Scotch Presbyterian church of Chicago received 22 new members at their last com- munion. Dr. Hall, of this city, thinks topical preaching is a doubttul method of sustaining religious interest in the churches; that it promotes competitive preaching, which in abomination, and it is a mit e im prac- There are, he adds, enough of ecclésiastical gyp- sies already—people who go round and hear all the men who Nave something ‘interesting.’ The worst instructed Christians are heya f just those who pone almost everybody and are of little use to any- ody. The Twelfth street Reformed church, Brooklyn (Rev. U, D. Gulick, pastor), received twenty-two persons on profession and sixteen by certificate at its last com- munion, ROMAN CATHOLIC, Rev. Dr. Freel has ordered that henceforward, at three o'clock every Friday, the bell of St. Charles’ Ro. man Catbolie chureh, Brooklyn, will be rung im honor of the Passion of Christ, The practice of saying five Paters and Aves at this hour in honor of the Passion is enriched with many indulgences, The Rey, Henry J. Fimmer has been transferred from St. Paul’s church, Brooklyn, to St. Benedict's. The Rev. Dr, Loughran, who was ordained in Rome last immer, has been appointed to the vacancy thus occa- sioned in St. Paul's. The roof of the new cathedral at Fifth avenue and Fiftieth street is almost completed, and a beauti- ful gold-tipped cross stands on ‘the cast end. Within thirty ‘ss the workmen will commence their labors insi: he great edifice. Money for carry- ing on the work is pouring in [rom all parts of the city, Every Catholic congregation is expected to contribute from $700 to $3,000 this year, It issaid that the Car- dinal has promises of aid trom capitalists also, and there is no doubt that the work will now be pushed for- ward to a basty completion. Five Dominican Fatners open a mission of two weeks. in St. Peter’s church, South Brooklyn, Rev. Father Fransioli, pastor, to-day. Rev. Charles J. Gallagher, late a professor in Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmittsburg, Md., has been ap- pointed assistant pastor of the Church of the Assump- tion, Brooklyn. Bishop Gross, of Savannah, has been making a very short visit to New York. His elegant cathedral is to be dedicated on the last aay of April, being Sunday and the Feast of St, Catharine of Sienna, Rev, Father Barry, pastor of the Rossville Roman Catholic church, Staten Island, is seriously ill, at his residence, from gastric afection, a violent attack of which occurred two weeks ago. METHODIST. Bishop Peck will dedicate a new church at Moriah, Plattsburg district, N. ¥. Conference noxt Thursday. Rev. 8. P. Craver and wife, of ToWa, and Miss Ogeden, of Springfield, Ohio, have gone as missionaries to Mexico, ‘The formor go as assistants to Dr. Butler, the Jatigr a8 réprésentative of the Woman’s Foreign’ Mis- sionary Society. Rey. J. D. Brown, missionary in India, whose health is failing, will leave that country for this next month. In St. Mark’s church, Rockville Centre, 60 souls have found the Saviour recently; in Bayshore Methodist cburch, 17; in Carbondale, Pa., 40; in Chester, Orange county, N.Y., 71; at Parkersburg, W. Va, 60 have oe the church; in Sugar Loaf, N. Y., 20 have been a The statistics of the Free Methodist Church are, 9 conferences, 255 preachers, 10,000 members, 225 Sunday Schools, 8,000 scholars, church property to the amount = rental and 2 seminaries, The Church was formed in The meeting held at Ryland chapel, Washington, D. C., bas resulted in about 40 conversions The Fourth street charge, Washington, D. ©. reports 140 conversions as the result of their reyival. At the Union church, in the same city, 40, and at Laural End, 20. On the Potomac district, Washington Conterence, there have been over 800 converts, In Salisbury church, New York, 60 bave found the Saviour. Rey. Dr, Lewis R. Dunn, of Newark Conference, has withdrawn from the National Camp Meeting Associa- tion. He retains the same interest in the great ques- ton, butis not fully satisfied with allthe men and meas- ures in that association. MISCRLLANROUS. There are in Mexico 125 Protestant congregations, 11 churebes, 99 halls of worship—$139,000 is the probable value of church property—28 free day schools, 23 night schools, 2 orphanages, 2 theological seminaries, 6 presses employed in the publication of religious litera- ture, 6 religious periodicals, 122 agents employed; $100,000 was spent last year in carrying on the Gospel wor! The receipts of the American Board have fallen off $31,000 during the first quarter of its current fiscal year. ‘A young Norwegian, who was converted at one of the earlier meetings held by Messrs. Moody and Sankey in England, has returned to Norway and started a Sunday school, the first ever opened in the nortnern part of that country. The little seed thus planted may yet be- come a great harvest, New Yorkers who spend their summers at Cornwall will be interested in learning that a remarkable revival has been in progress for the past three wecks at the new chapel at Cornwall landing. The chapel 1s crowded nightly, the services commencing at seven o’clock and continuing until midnight The results, so far, have deen twenty-five hopefui conversions. SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP. NINETEENTH STREET SYNAGOGUE—DISCOURSE BY REV. MR. JACOBS. A large part of the book of Exodus, sald Mr. Jacobs, yesterday, points to an important era in the Abrahamic history. It opens with a graphic detail of the people of Israel in the land of Egypt and the redemption which was about to take place, Their physical thral- dom and their no less mental and spiritual degrada- tion had begun to Increase, and God sought to bring forth from servitude to liberty—from this bondage which haa so turned them away from the truth; so that Jewish tradition bas it that all the tribes except that of Levi had become as degonerate as the Egyptians themselves. If you place your best man amid vicious surroundings you will make him eventually as bad as his surroundings. How often do see this illustrated in oar daily experience. Even so was it with the children of Israel, for the lawg of nature cannot be changed ; for, with all their instructions about God being surrounded by the heathenism of Egypt they soon be- come as corrupt as their oppressors. 1t was not merely | physical bondage that they suffered, but mentat and moral also, And the Lord always measures means by the end to be accomplished. And now Moses, having passed forty years in the wilderness, stands before tho mount of God.and there beholds a wonderful sight—a bush burning but not consumed. And as he approached he heard the voice of God bidding him go to Egypt and demand of the King the release of his people. his atriotism burns within him. He who had slain an ‘gyptian.for smitinga Hebrew; he who would have delivered Israel doubtless by military force had they understood him, is now called to berate them and to fulfil that mission wo which he had been dedicated. “I am the Lord God of thy fathers, of Abi Isaac ahd Jacob’? (Exodus, In; 6), was 4 reminder of God to him herald mission was a divine Seeannd would uccessful. It gives us said Mr, pone rf ork eee ot ae Gob TO UB STILL patie. fo nattife, through revelation and through hamai encies, We ate often asked, Why is it that the voice of God no longer 5] to mén as it did in the days? This inquiry is made with a seemi triumph, as {1 18 were unanswerable, pro- hetic jadgment is no longer needed and is no longer ex- Preised it does not follow that God does not and cannot speak to us. Mr. Jacobs illustrated by referring to the voice of God being heard by many in the driving storm and in the zephyr's gentle blow, In the quiet fow of the brooklet and in the mighty roar of the sea, in His kind- ness to all creation and in His judgments upon the children of men, The heavens declare His glory and the firmament showeth His handy work. Day unto day uttereth and =o night) = unto night showeth knowledge. There is no voice that may be heard and yet their melody fills the mountains, And it js as true to-day as it was when God spoke to Moses out of the bush that burned and was not consumed that God speaks to us still through nature, This bush was, according to tradition, atborn bush, and it has been likened to Israel under persecution and oppression—burning but bot consumed. The voice of God speaks through re’ We can’t turn to a page without seeing the testimeny of it and without hearing the voice of God. Its to men from pole to pole, and it is] Am that I Am; I eball be that I shall be. It speaks of his power and id says, ‘1am with them in this calam- be in every other. lam He that hath 4 that shall exist to all eternity."’ We hear that voice in every page of Bible history still proclaiming to e son of Israel, “I am the God of thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob," and the portion of scripture from which the text has been selected demonstrates that God's voice and means pr ‘cela throughout the universe, And thus we that GOD SPOKE TO ISRARL BY MOSES with three distinct signs, He cast the rod on the earth and it became a serpent. Now the rod was an ancient symbol of authority and power, and its conversion to a serpent symbolized from that moment the crushing of serpent worship, of which Egypt was the most con- spicuous adherent and propagator. The second sign was thrusting the leprous band into the bosom and dr: ing it forth white as snow. In this there was a les- son concerning the condemnation of the moral leprosy of Isracl because of their surroundings. And the Midrash says this moral leprosy is evil 5 ng, lying and falsehood. Those are the moral lazars in world, and these are the habits that make as moral lepers, and for which we shall be shy There can be no crime viler tn the this of detraction and slander and evil C mp last sign was to take the water of the Nile ant cast on the ground and turn it into blood. And the lesson thereof is this:—That the best and most important of God can be diverted to the worst uses. The Nile was the free life of Egypt and that river became the means of a scourge to Egypt, to teach us that these things may be made the means of our punishment. We are prone to blame our fathers for not hearing and heeding the word of God, while we repeat the old, old story and will not ourselves hearken to the voice that to us until it calls to us through musfor- tune or oppression. But otherwise it falls unheeded on ourears. We do listen sometimes when death comes to the household; then we are ready to do our duty. But let us not wait until death drives us. Lot us act wisely while to-day is ours and recognize the yoice of God and bow ourselves to his commands. And let us recognize the presence of God in our homes and in all our works. And let the voice of Jove and mercy by which we are called back to his loving arms speak to us in the words of the text—“I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, the God*of Isaac and the God of Jacob’’—and give us confidence in his sight. ORDINATION OF PASSIONISTS. A very impressive spectacle was witnessed yesterday morning at the Passionist Monastery, West Hoboken. Bishop Corrigan conferred minor orders on Francis Farrelly, Bartholomew , Anselm Carey, Nicholas Ward, Felix Ward, Dominick McNamara and Jerome Murphy. The order of sub-deacon was conferred on George Basil, Stephen Reilly, Eugene Ryan, Clement Finnegan, Ambrose Halpin, Anthony McHenry and Mark Maislin. The ceremonies will be continued to-day. ORDINATION OF DEACONS. The ceremony of ordination took place at the West Hoboken (N. J.) Monastery yesterday. The following persons were admitted to minor orders;:—F. Farrelly, Bartholomew Carey, Anselm Carey, Nicholas Ward, Felix Ward, Jerome ape po and Dominick McNamara. The scb-deacons ordained were Stephen Keeley, George Basle, Bageos Ryan and Ambrose Halpin. A Pontifical mass will be ceiébrated this morning in the monastery by the Right Rey. Bishop Corrigan. THE DYNAMITE HORROR. A SUBMARINE FUSE FOUND IN THOMASSEN'S TRUNK AT THE FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL. Recollections of Thomassen, the infamous projector of the flendish dynamite plot, were revived at Police Headquarters yesterday in an unlooked for manner. Shortly after one o’clock P. M. a well dressed man called at the office of Superintendent Walling and re- quested a private audience. This being granted, the stranger took from his pocket a letter bearing the post mark “Dresden, Germany,” which he said he had just received by mail. It was written by Mrs, Thomassen, the wife of the,suicide, at present in Dresden, and con- tained a request that the trunk of her late husband, which was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in this city, be forwarded to her. The trank was left at that hotel by Thomassen when he was last In this city, The letter also contained the baggage check for the same. The stranger explained that he was an acquaintance of Mrs. Thomassen, but thought it nis duty to notity the police before he complied with her request, in order that the trunk might | be examined. He further said that he did dt wish his name to be connected in any way with the terrible affair at the present time, as he was merely a past friend of the widow of the deceased Thomassen, having known her in years gone by; and, while he was anxious to do all in his power to subserve the interests of justice in the matter, he would not, unless compelled, give his name publicly. He had hesitated as under. taking the task, but wishing to serve his former friend he concluded to set aside his prejudices and carry out her request. He also declined to have the letter made public under present circumstances, but agreed, if upon, to deliver it up to the proper authorities, After hearing his story Superintendemt Walling sum- moned before him Dective McNamara, of the Central Office, and after communicating to him full details of what he had learned, directed him to pro- ceed forthwith to the Fifth Avenue Hotel and carefully and fully investigate all the details of the case, including the searching of the trunk and the ex- amination of its contents. Thus instructed, the deteo- tive took the check and straightway proceeded to the hotel. Arriving there he presented the check to the baggage clerk, who, unconscious of the importance of the officer's mission, and ignorant of the terrible con- nections that it might have had in the past with the fearful tragedy at Bremerhaven, mechanically delivered it to the officer in return for the check. Having the trunk in his possession, proceeded in pursuance of his instructions to institute @ thorough and careful examination of it and its con- tents. ln appearance the trank was one such as is commonly used by the ordinary traveller. There were no extra fastenings upon it, and nothing about it that would in any Way attract attention. 1t was of medium size and had evidently seen service on steamboats and railroad trains. The detective not having the key broke the lock. The trunk’s contents presented superficially a most in- nocent appearance, The trunk was a little more than half filled, apparently with clothing. The first article removed was @ coat, somewhat worn. Tho pockets jamara now were searched but found to be empty, Next camo other articles of outer and under wear, which, after close examination, were found, like the coat, to contain notht suspicious about them. As layer after layer of clothing was pet upon the floor and nothing was discover ing in any way upon the horror enacted at Bremer- haven, the detective wastocauping, convinced that his visit was fruitless, when suddenly he beheld coiled up in the bottom of the trunka strange and suspicious articl In formation it resembled q piece of small rope.about the diameter of an ordinary lead pencil. He ing itout the detective uncoiled it and found it to e A SUBMARINE PUSE ten feet in length. It was made of brownish gutta percha, hollow in the centre through its entire length, the etre gg being filled with powder. It looked like section of insulated telegraph wire, such as ts fre- quently seen im telegraph offices. Finding noghing else of o suspicious character in the trunk the officer took his departure for tho Central Office, taking with him the fuse. He delivered the same to Supermtondent Walling, and it was exam- ined by many curious eyes. The fuse now remains locked up in the Central Office awaiting any further de- yelopments which may result from its finding. ‘The trunk and clothing were delivered over to the friend of Thomassen’s widow, who agreed with the Su- | perintendent to hold himself in readiness for any tur- ther inquiries if called upon. PHOTOGRAPHING SOUND. Professor Brackett, of Princeton College, lectured at Cooper Institute, in the free course, last evening, on photography. The lecture was brief, most of the time allotted being consumed in experiments, which, though Interesting In consideration of the results shown, were not explained at sufficient length to be fully appreci- ated by a popular audience. Before proceeding to the subject proj the lecturer continued over some portion of a recent discourse on music, Exhibiting a dissected organ pipe, he showed how mu- sical sounds are created by the action of air u; she sharp edge of a board, and the effect of iparially ’m- prisoning a definite quantity of air. Organ pipes are josed and open, the air escaping in the one case sound an octave lower than the other. An- tration was given by drawing a violin bow on ge of & motailic bell shaped vessel resting on a pedestal. The sound created in this was greatly po fasten by applying a tube close to the edge of the bell. Two large tuning forks, set on boxes contain- ing equal quantities of air, were next experimented upon, . The violin bow was drawn along the edges of one fork, which gave forth a considerable volume of es Stopping that fork with the hand, it wad found that the other fork, which had not laa ork aga ook dhe Nob fn tar we ori faintly. Harpopy was ijlustrated by experiments of nine tuning Werks of different piteh, in the experi- blended to show the union of different notes succeeding experiisent was an effort to show the f waves of sound, as given out by musica) instruments, by the aid of photography and the stereo; On a screen were shown the effect of vibrations, producing eccentric ‘pes, in illustration of the effects of the displacement and motion caused by condensations and rarefactions. BUSINESS FAILURES. Messrs. E. 8, Munroe & Co., one of the oldest bank- ing firms on the street, doing business at No. 1 Broad street, were yesterday compelled to suspend payments on account of the sudden rise in Lake Shore and Mich- fgan Central stocks. Mr. Munroe stated toa Heratp reporter that the suspension was very unexpected. He would pot say whether he would go on with the busi- ness or not He was nota iarge dealer in stocks, and | the amounts closed out were small, About 1,500 | sh: mostly of Lake Shore and Pacific Mail, were “bought in’ for the firm under the rules of the Ex- | change. The failure of Charles R. Townsend & Co., liquor dealers, of No. 163 West street, whose assignment vo | Gersham B. Smith was noted im yesterday s Herat, 4s not as serious as at first supposed, Their liabilities | are generally believed not to exceed $10,000. { Phyliky & Co., tatlors, of No. 760 Broadway, have as- | signed to Leon S. Keller, john Kavanagh has also assigned to Jonn G. Cary. Henry Rosenthal, brushes, at No. 257 Pearl street, who failed a few weeks ago, has made an offer to com- hen with bis creditors at twenty percent, His abilities amount to $63,561 54, while the actual value of his assets is placed at $24,166 88. About forty of the creditors are willing to accept his proposition, the remainder hold out , twenty-five per cent, which | they believe memes | pay. Itis unde ord it ‘se negotiati fai ukrupte: a com! sition will be taken taunedieialy. ott A meeting of the creditors of Henry Jul hair goods, No. 301 Canal street, was held at the office of John Fitch, Register in Bankruptey, at No, 345 Broad- A statement was presented his liabrl- to be $14,766 and the assets $2,686. offer was made for acomposition atten cents on the doliar, cash. Of the twenty-eight creditors resent aX but the od, slight latver the Anents which souid was admirabl: ents upon wi + 4 one accepted the proposition. touched at all, continued to | mals, The off THE HARVEST QUEEN. ee BEASONS FOR THINKING THE ADBIATIC OOIe LIDED WITH HER—THE STATEMENT OF HER OWNERS AND OF A MEMBER OF THE STEAM- ER's CREW, The story of the Harvest Queen disaster continues to excite much attention. There is now no doubt in the mind of Mr, Lamson, of the firm of ©. H. Mar- shall & Co., owners of the missing craft, that sho was Tun nto and sunk by the Adriatic, though tho officers of the steamer flatly deny that anything of the kind occurred, The latter admit, however, that they nearly collided with @ vessel in the Irish Channel on the morning of the 31st ult, but hold that but little dam- age was done ber, and that the unknown ship sailed away without asking for assistance. Nothing further is expected to be heard by the owners of the mis- sing ship untess, of course, something more is found which will be additional circumstantial evidence of her fate, They fix the time and probable where- abouts in the Irish Channel of the vessel so clearly at the point where the Adriatic had her “trifling” ex- perience that there ts no chance Of any other suppo- sition than that the latter met the former, even if she did not cut her down and drown all on board. They do not believe that she and the lost Cape Comorin could have been in collision, as the date of the latter leaving Liverpool and the Harvest Queen departing for Queenstown were so far apart it ip deemed impossible. All that is known of the Cape Comorin in New York is that she was an iron ship of about 1,200 tons, and commanded by Captain Haswell, On Dadeaber 29, Trad following news was published im the London journals :— “Captain ocr of the steam-tug Great Emperor, reports having towed out the Cape Comorin, hence for Bombay, and left her at half-past one P. M. on tho 26th inst., six miles south-southwest of Tuskar, Wind southwest; {resh breeze.’ ‘The loss of the Cape Comorin was thus telegraphed to BALD :— igen “LiveRPoon, Jan. We Uotim “The English ship Cape Coumrin, which left this po afew phe cs for Bombay, has been wrecked on the Irish coast. The crew numbered twenty-eight, some of whom were drowned.” The friends of the White Star line, on the other hand, claim that as both the Harvest Queen and Cape Com~- orin were wrecked on or near the Irish coast, there i@ some chance of the two having come together after Adriatic accident, That is to say, they hold that, there being a strong breeze blowing directly up the Channel against the Cape Comorin, she may have mot the miss ing Queen. There is but ‘little probability of this, how- ever, and the strongest point that bears against it ie that in the report of the wreck of the Comorin no men- tion is made of acollision, Mr, Lamson fails to seo that any attention should be given this phaso of the case, CAPTAIN JENNINGS’ REPORT, The Adriatic sailed early yesterday morning for Liv- erpool, but on Friday evening there was held on board a “collision investigation meeting,’ all the officers being present. The proceedings, of course, have not transpired, but it is alleged that a full understanding as to the character of the pe to be made to the Board of Trade and other English authorities was then deter- mined upon, That this meeting was held there can be no aps & ‘An investigation in Liverpool will of course clearly bring out these and other facts now difficult to reconcile, and it is to be hoped the result wilt be the complete exoneration of Captain Jennings and his fet- low officerstfrom all blame, Mr. Cortis racy, Og ceived a letter from a steerage passenger of the atic on her Jate trip, one George A. Davis, wheroin he denies that any collision occurred, and is willing to tes- tify to the fact. On the other hand, the following mis- sive was ‘yesterday received at the HkRaup oflice, Sepa wtb ei ei A SAILOR’S ACCOUNT. Sreausmp AvktaTic, New Yous, Jan. 14, 1876, To tae Epiror ov THs HxRap:— On the last from Liverpool the watch below was awakened by tho steamer running into a ship off Moyne Heads, coast of Ireland. The watch got on deck as soon as possible without being called. The steamers engines were making full steam astern; I saw a ship with fore and maintopgaliant sails set, showing her green side light; the steamer’s engines were kept re- versed until she was about one mile from the djsabled ship, perhaps a little more; hands cut Nos 7 and 8 boats’ lashing ready tor launching; second officer or- dered the boatswain to let every thing stand, for he was going forward to look at the disabled ship; six bells struck, and directly after cries of help were heard from several voices in the water, on the starboard side; all hands ran for Nos. 7and 8 boats, as the order was then given to lower them. Ten minutes or more passed before No. 7 was in the water, owing to its being the weather boat, and as fast as all hands could swing it outboard the motion of the steamer would again swing it in. During this interval the steamer was moving ahead; of the time the engines were moving in this way 1 am not certain, but the Yoices on our starboard beam were soon lost astern ; the steamer used no night signa! patent lights to burn on the water, no life belts or buoys, and yet an armful thrown overboard with a patent night light might have saved many hves, for the ship was a large one, bound eastward, up Channel. Then the boats would have known exactly where to pull; they wei haps, as twice the length of the steamer, which sult moving abead all the while. When gone less than an houra om burned Ke our deck dion return, 80 these were hoisted up, w! Adriatic pene a on her passage to this port. Betore we lost sight of the disabled ship one oi the seamen spoke to the chief officer, saying that the light was settling down in the water. The chtef’s reply was, “It’s none of your business; mind your own affairs.” The man said no more. Soon the light disappeared. ‘These things I saw. What I learned trom the man on the lookoat ts that the disabled ship hailed the steamer in English, but recerved no answer, and when the ship was first sighted her light was from one to two points on the steamer’s starboard bow. There were three en on the lookout at the ba two of whom are still on board; one has left her, The wind was on the steamers port bow at the time, blowing fresh from west to southwest. The writer can be found if wanted, Respectfully, ONE OF THE ADRIATIO’S CREW. VASSAR COLLEGE ALUMNZE. A very important association was formed at tho St. Denis Hotel yesterday afternoon, where upward of sixty ladies, alumnw of Vassar College, met at one o’clock. It 1s styled the “Vassar Alumu@ Association of the City of New York and its Vi .” At the time above designated the ladies sat down to lunch in th pent parlor saloon of the St. Denis, known as Taylor’s saloon. Mr. Gilson had provided an excel- lent repast and decorated the rooms most tastefully. The Laer! iphone represented classes as far back as that | of 1867, and among the guests were Professors Raymond, | Breslin, Backus and Cooley, besides the resident physt- | cian, Dr. Webster, aady, maneuver of the profession. After lunch, which, by the way, was a strictly private affair, Professors Raymond and Backus made brief ad- dresses commending the object of the new organiza- tion, to further the interests of Vassar and to aid in furnishing a good education to indigent students, The ladies heartily entered Into the spirit of the project and many of them delivered their views upon it. to their native modesty, however, no names were made public. DARTMOUTH ALUMNI, The Alumni! Association of Dartmouth College will | hold tts annual festival at Delmonico’s on Weanesday | evening next, at six o'clock. A very lorena of distinguished graduates is antici, Richard | Kimball, the well known author, will preside, | FATHER DUCEY'’S LECTURE. Rev. Thomas J. Ducey will lecture at Cooper Institute to-night before the members of St Michacl’s Lyceum upon “Types of Christian Character.’’ The proceeds are to be devoted to the rental of larger quarters and for the purchase of books, &c., for that useful institution. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. | During the year 1875 the American Society for they | Prevention of Cruelty to Animals prosecuted 810 cases of ctuelty, During the year the agents were called upon to destroy 1,164 horses and mules, The ambu- | lances of the society removed from the streets 176 dis- | abled animals, The officers investigated over 1,200 complaints, and the evils complained of were remedied without — pee Page Living seoulen. lated dog and coe! wore brok: | Por ‘of bulldogs apd birds seized. ‘Fhe work abo | menfloned only includes this city and coumty, Brook- | lyn, Staten Island and subarbs of New York. pranetes rent niente BROOKLYN'S ANIMALS CARED FOR.* The Brooklyn branch of the Soctety for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals has now fully organized for work. An office bas been opened at No, 199 Joralemon Street, and ® subseription book is open for the enrol- ment of new members. The initiation fee is $5. Mr. orge William Johnson, superintendent and secre- sar ‘will be found in the office daily from nine A. M. 1 M. to recetve complaints of cruelty to ant- cers are:—President, Jobo 5 ts, ex Mayor Hunter, Samuel McLean, J, jussejl, John Greenwood, Henry E, Nesmit us B. Masters; Chairman of the Exocutive Committe, Horace B. Claflin; agents, F. 0, Ciark, Charles Crissey and William D. Nyse. BOOKS RECEIVED. \ “The History of Creation.” By Ernst Haeckel. 2vola New York: D. Appleton & Co. areas amare Light” By Dr. Eugene Lommel. Now Pillow of Stones." By Rev, Frank Sewall. Phile- ‘Ly Co, res icheline.” By Mme. Eugene Bersier, New York: B. York “The Darton & Co. Pale Dearest Foo.” By Mrs. Alexander, New York: Henry Holt & Co. “The Cotton States in the Spring and Summer of 1875." By Charles Nordnofl. |New York: D. Appleton & Co, ior, the Planter of the Isle of France.” By Alexander Dumas, Philadelphia: 7. B. Peverson & “Cousia Caroli: by Mrs, Henry Wood. ia: TB, hers.