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. othe truth is the evangelists have refused even the roy- * “angelic Life” in the evening. 4 ROIGOGS. INTELLIGENCE. Chat by the Way—Minis- terial Movements. Synagogue Worship—Mod- ern Pharaohs. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. The Rev. J. H. Lightbourne will preach in Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church this morning on | “Christ in the Midst of the Golden Candlesticks,” and | this evening on ‘‘An Infidel”? | ‘The Possibilities of a Christian Life’? will bo pre- sented by Rov. H. W. Knapp this morning, and “The | Sin Against the Holy Ghost’’ this evening, in Laight | street Baptist church, | In Stanton street Baptist church the Rev. W. H. Leavell will give ‘‘An Apostolic Exhortation” this morning, and will ask his hearers in the evening, “What Think Ye of Christ ?’’ ‘The Rey. P. S. Henson, D. D., of Philadelphia, will preach in the Tabernacle Baptist church this morning | and evening. i In the Central Baptist church the Rev. J, D, Herr ‘will preach at the usual hours to-day, The pulpit of the Fifty-third street Baptist church will be supplied this morning by Rev. D. B. Jutten and this evoning by Rev. N. McNanghtoa, ‘The Rev. Mr. Rowell wil! preach on ‘Justification’ in the Free Will Baptist church this morning. Preach. | ing service in the evening also. “The Woman of Samaria’ and “The Conversion of Saul of Tarsus’ will be cortsidered this morning and | evening in the Pilgrim Baptist church by the Rev. J, Spencer Kennard. In the Willett street Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. J. V. Saunders will preach this morning on the “Benedictions of Christianity qr What Religion Will Do for a Mau,’ and in the evening, this being the semi- centen: of the church’s toundation, he will consider “God's Voice to the Nation, the Church and the Sin- ner,” and give a half century sketch of the history and progress of the church, At Washington square Methodist Episcopal church the Rey, William Lloyd wil! preach this morning about “Christ in GethSemane” and this evening about the “Great Salvation.” | The Rev. W. P, Abbott will preach in St,‘ Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church at the regular hours to. day. This morning, in Allen street Methodist Episcopal church, the Rev. Charies E. Harris will discuss “The Wesleyan Doctrine of Christian Perfection’ and this evening ‘The Soul’s Invisible Attraction. ’” The Bedford street Praying Band, T. M. Sherwood, | teader, will conduct three services to-day in the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church, Samuel Halstead’s Praying Band will work in Lexing- ton avenue Methodist Episcopal cnurch to-day, Miss Willard, of Chicago, will speak in St John’s Methodist Episcopal church this evening on “The Right of the Stronger.” Dr. John Hall will preach the annual setmon before tho Young Men’s Association of the Fourth Presbyte- rian church this evening in that church edifice. In Allen street Presbyterian church the Rev. George ©. Phelps wil! preach this morning, and on the healing of Naaman this evening. The Rey. S. M. Hamilton will minister to the Scotch Presbyterian church this morning and afternoon, Prayer mectings are held daily in West Eleventh | Street Presbyterian church and Greene street Metho | dist Episcopal church (noon), and in the Collegiate Re- formed chureb, Fifth avenue and Forty eighth street {afternoon). i Tho Rev. J. A. Seitz speaks of “War as a Means of Culture” in Harlem Universalist church this evening. Yhe Rev. C. P, McCarthy will preach there in the | morning. | The Rev. FE. G. Brooks, D, D., will preach in the | Church of Our Saviour this morning and evening atthe | usual hours. In Bleecker street Universalist church the Rev. J. | A. Seitz will preach in the morning on “The Order of | the Divine Government in the Future as in the Pres- | ent World.” The Rev. C. P. McCarthy will preach on All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church will be min- Astored to this morning and evening by the Rev, W. N. Dunnell, “Popular Scepticism” will be discussed by the Rev. | W. T. Egbert this evening in the Wainwright Memorial ; Protestant Episcopal church. In the Church of the Holy Trinity, the Rev. J. W. | Bonham will preach tn the afternoon, and the Rev. S. HL Tyng, Jr., D. D., in the morning and at the people’s wervice in tho evening also. Bishop Snow invites everybody to the feast or *‘sup- per of the great God’? which he will spread in the Uni- versity chapel this afternoon, Mrs, Bullene will address the Progressive Spirituahsts this evening and Professor Bfittan this afternoon on the “Lunatics of Fashton,”” | The festival of St. Agnes will be celebrated in grand style this morning in Father McDonald's church Forty-third street and Lexington avenue Bishop Corrigan, of Newark, will preach the sermon. The Rev. George H. Hepworth will preach in the Church of the Disciples this morning on ‘God's Prov- idential Care of You,’? aud in the evening a sermon to young men on “Eating, Drinking, Dying’’—the whole of life? The Rev. Chauncey Giles will preach in the Sweden- borgian church this morning on “The Garden of Eden: | Whero It Was, What It Was and the Way of Retura | to IL” The Young Mon’s Christian Association of this city | will bold their anniversary to-morrow evening, in | Association Hall, when addrosses will be delivered by | Drs. Paxton, Foss and Elder. The Religio-Sclentifie Society will meet in Ecclesia ‘Hall this afternoon to hear:an address by Mr. Evans on “The Nature and Function of Religion,” and this evening am address by Mr. Henderson on his progress from a supernatural to a scientific religion. This afternoon William Cotter, of London, will un- mask Christianity and talk about ‘Justice and Love” in Latbam Hail, Brooklyn, E. D. In the First Reformed Episcopal church the Rev, W. T. Sabine will officiate and preach to-day at the usual | ours, Dr. Armitage will speak in the Fifth avenue Baptist | eburch this morning on “Balm in Gilead,” and this | evening on “The Greatness of Trifles." The Rev. Dr, Tuttle, of St. Luke's church, will preach in St. Ignatiua’ Protestant Episcopal church this morning, A conference of Spiritualists will be held in Harvard | Rooms this afternoon and evening. The Rev. S H. Piatt will preach in Fleet street Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, this morning tn defence of prayer miracles against the attacks of pic- tisticai scepticism, being a review of Rev. M. Buckley’s pamphlet on “Supposed Miracies,"” | Mr, 8 Prentice Mulford will lecture on his wand ings in England in Trenor’s new hall this evening. Lchop Coxe will preach a sermon in behalf of the Christian German Society in Calvary Protestant Epis- copel church this evening. The first annual report of the society will be read. The Rov. W. B, Merritt will preach im tho Sixth ave- “nue Reformed Dutch church to-day on “The Paralytie at Capernaum."’ CHAT BY THE WAY. Captain Boyton, of life proserver fame, is a Pedobap- | \flst, He believes in water very heartily, but not in immersion. Some very cynical people bave suggested that Moody ‘and Sankey are making money out of the revival; but | | | | | valty om the sale of their songs and hymns, Their re- sepectability is only equalied by their voluntary poverty. “They are afteresouls, not money. Ti issaid that the Temple of Solomon never had a mortgage on it, Very few churches in those days are bu!’ on that model ‘At the Centennial there will be quite a variety of | and bright She seems to have an opinion ( | the churches of the Pacific slope are sometin | prognosticate its future.”? | strengthen the foundations {s good service. | men. | speak up mantully; leave off speedily.’ | Oh NEW YORK pay therefor, It is sald that the tramps are all leaving | and who originated the Greene street and West Elev- | lately the city and expeet to settle in New York, where phil- anthropy is less discriminating. Not doctors of medicine, but doctors of divinity are | interest in the Groene street and West Eleventh street in demand in Michigan, A lady, filteen years an in- valid, arriving at the conclusion that she could be cured by prayer, engaged in that service, and in the course of a week was well enough to attend church. The M. D. doesn’t know what to make of the case, but confesses that the cure was not effected by medicine. Cases of sudden recovery are cropping out all over the country, and demand explanation, If it is not faith that cures whatis it? Even Tyndall must soon acknowledge that his prayer test is having practical application. The world ‘appears to be divided as to the merits of the two “p's,” pills and prayers ‘Under which king? Bezonian, speak, or die.” Gail Hamilton seems to be one of the “women who dal Like Nelson, she does not know what fear is. She takes especial delight in lecturing ministers, and woe be to the country parson or city pastor on whose track she geis, To say that she is impertinent would be ungaliant, and yet if she were a mau no adjective would better suit, Still, if her fireworks sometimes burn those who are too close to them they are very sparkling t what is denominated “a call” and looked upon as a very sol- emn thing, 18, after all, a pretty shrewd matter of bust- ness, Clerical ears must tingle when they bear such @ sentence as this, for example:— When he loaves that parish fur another he says that God has called him to another field of labor, and the dismissing council says, Amen, But all it really mei hat the peo- ple are tired of him, or he of them, God him to go just when the minister thinks, on the whole, he would rather go. That is not exactly the orthodox way to putthe case, Dut there is a taste of truth{ulness about the statement which commends {t, We can’t see the harm of ad- mitting that the clerical talent, like ability im any | other direction, has its prica Atany rate it is a cu- rious fact that the most gifted ministers—by what law we do not undertake to say—gravitate toward the | highest salaries, Why not? The East and West can shake hands. It seems that mented with cation, evide: large debt, Here foliows a form ly Suggested by a man who to subscribe liberally, and it may be regarded as his wail of retusal Ye dedicate this edifice to Thee, our Lord—a. ¢, we give it 10 Thee, subject to a mort gage of $190.000. We bequeath it to our children and to our children’s children, mortgage and all, with the hope that they will have both grace and money enough to pay the interest Preserve it, we pray, from fire and foreclosure, and make it abundantly useful in the community, subject, of course, to the aforesaid debt. Amen.” could recite the above with deep feeling and in sepul- chral tones, At the Church of tne Disciples Dr. Doremus talked to nearly 2,000 young men on Wednesday evening, It Alarge number of ministers in New York | | make the sign of the cross; but as instinctively and pas peen acknowledged and was a novel Sight to see a church filled with men, and | not a single, or married’ lady, for that present, The object of this series of lectures afford healthy entertainment and instrution to that | large class of men thatis aptto find its warmest wel- come in questionable places, Dr. Willard Parker, ina graceiul note announcing his illness and hig regret at | not being able to be present, said very tersel truly, “Show me the young men of a city and I will We might put the matter ineven another shape—thus, “Show me where your young men of twenty spend their evenings and 1” will tell you where they will be at forty.”’ The fate of the city rests on its young men; any effort, therefore, to As to who are young, and when ono gets too aged to be included in that category, we should say that any one hasa right ter, } to call himself’ a young man who is able and willing, as on Wednesday, to paddle through a rainstorm in order to hear such a lecture. It seems very curious to Northern eyes to sce in a New Orleans paper, dated Sunday morning, an an- nouncement of Bishop Haven’s services, and, close to it, an advertisement of a varieties troupe, with a cole- brated danseuse for the same evening. Such a com- mingling of events seems just a bit incongruous to our untrained vision, It is quite evident that the Puritan Fathers did not settle in Louisiana, Rey. Hyatt Smith carries a bundle of sharp arrows | with him when he goes into any gathering of clergy- His shots are “scattering,”” but they generall hitsome one, He bas a new translation of a verse o! Holy Writ which he commends to a certain class of | ministers:— Go ye into all the world (except an open communion pul- pit) and preach the Gospel to every creature (except such as ure found in an open communion meeting house), und lo! 1 am with you always (except that way), even uutothe end | of the world, Here is some wholesome advice about the length of sermons, It is from M. Mullois, chaplain to Napoleon TIL :—"Believe me—and I speak from experrence—the more you say the less will the hearers retain; the less you say the more they will profit. When a sermon is too long the end erases the middie and the middie the beginning,” Luther's maxim was, ‘Stand up cheerily; That was a model sermon by an’ old Yorkshire preacher, who de- scribed the little unpleasantness between David and Goliath so vividly that when the giant fell one of the auditors, who could restrain himself no longer, cried out, ‘Oif with bis head, Billy; of with his bead!’ We sometimes wonder that clergyman make so htue of their opportunities, for religion, if itis anything at all, is thoroughly incendiary work,”? 3 The new school of scientists say that they are neither | Christian nor anti-Christian, but simply extra-Chris- tian—that is, they stand outside. It must be a delight- ful position to occupy, ‘The revival makes its way into unexpected quarters sometimes, Asa result of the Greene sirect meetings & partner, the cashier, shipping clerk, porter and dra; may in one of the downtown establishments h: been converted. Now, if the partuer pays 100 cents on the doilar, if the cashier's books balance honestly, if the porter drops his adjectives when the corner of the box sudd hits an unseen knocks him over, and the drayman gets on without the | vigilance of Mr. Bergh, then give us more and more of the revival. Religion isa very eloquent thing in the chureh, but @ tough reality in business, When Moody } and Sankey get into the counting house the country ia safe. Tuesday, the 25th, will be the anniversary of the surprise which St Paul suffered when on his way to Damascus, On away, gave up his prejudices against the Gentiles, and began to preach with @ voice that was “ the word.” It will be very interesting to Henry Varley to read the various obituary notices that were published on the supposition of bis death. Few men enjoy the privilege of reading the compliments that are cut on | their own tombstones, Rev. Mr. Hepworth delivered a glowing eulogy on the evangelist at one of tho after- DOON meetings, expressing the hope that his hearers might die as Mr. Varley died, which hope, considering the fact that Mr. Varley did not die at all, will be heartily seconded. At the Moody aud Sankey gather- ing the entire congregation were requested to bow their | heads and pray that they might meet Mr. Varley again, which prayer may yet be answered without run- ning the risks of the other world, for Mr. Varley is convalescent and may posstbly soon revisit this cou try. The incident is a very curious one, and if it h its funny side we can afford toiaugh and ‘mai merry,’ for the good man who ‘was dead is aliv: again. The hardest people to find are ministers, They are home."’ Whether this mystic phrase i clerical consciece or on that of the “help,” is not for us to decide. We have a dim theory that if the clergy would shut themselves up with they would preach better. Moody knows men, while most ministers know books; and there’s the difference. And whata difference! It was once said of a Hugue- not clergyman, “He has two wonderful attribuies—he is Invisible all the week, and he is incomprehensible on Sundays” A knowledge of life rather than a knowl. edge of dogmas and theories ts an important element of success, The Galary has an essay on “Tho Ethics of the Household.’’ Our observation tells us that sucii things are not kept on hand in aay very large quantity. Most housebolds bave to get along without. Once in a while you come across a faintly in which the father is king, the mother queen and all the children loyalists of the most Joyal kind. As a general thing, however, the ethics of the household permit us to save all our sour temper, Our sharp criticisns and our grumbling for the lower circle, To the periect stranger we are polite, to our own children we are crabbed. When anything disagreeable happens in company we Say, witb a smile, “Oh, don’t speak of it, I pray you; it isa pleasure, not apain.”’ Bat let the same thing happen in the bosom of our family, and that bosom will soon | feel like a dynamite explosion. It is a curious fact that we save the worst things that are said ant! done for the home circle or for those whom we reaily love best. On the whole, human nature has its discouraging side. The Baptists are in a quandary Lament Be Jeffery They first invited him to read an essay, then a re- seinded the vote by which the invitation was given‘ then they rescinded the rescindmont, and after that they adjourned ina bigh state of healthy excitement. What was it all about? Was religion in imminent peri, that so much feeling was extibited? Was the ible to be burned in Chatham square and the churches in New York to be torn down by organized and all powerful heresy? What but these things could stir that whole company of clergymen to such @ pitch that sharp ejaculations and petty personalitics flew through the air arrows? Please dou’t get ex- cited, for the whole difficulty, the sharp controversy, mphatic adjectives, the fushed interjections when any one had the floor and tried to deliver his opinion, were all due to the fact that Dr. Jeffery said that if a Christian man who had not been immersed should sit at the Lord's table with hiny he would not call the sex. ton and bave him putoas That's the whole trouble in anutshell, Another meeting will be held to-morrow to settle the question as to whether it is a Baptist’s duty to go round jong the company and to say to all pot vouched for, “immersed?” and whether if one an- swers “Not baptized by water, but by the Spirit,” itis his duty to see that he is led gently to the chureh door ‘and {nvited to go home. It ts a ploasant thing to dwell together in unity, and these exhibitions of charity and good will must be very effective. UNION FOR PRAISE AND PRAYER, | pt pe igat aingiwe gn ae ‘The union praise and prayer meeting of churches in the Ninth ward will be beid in the Sixth a formed church this afternoon, o'clock. The Rev. Mr. Gregory, of Bedtord street Methodist Episcopal chureb, will lead the exercises, ‘The meeting tn his church last Sunday wat crowded = j49 both in the auditorium and in the lecture room, 90 that | Lm for nearly " | for there were two meetings going om at the same time, and even then there was not room for all who would get in {f they could. The exercises were in- creasingly interesting, because more persons partici- pated and the singing (Sankey’s hymns) was more gen- ‘Pius pictures” from Rome. Even the benevolence of Boston has s smack of shrewdness in it. ‘When a beggar presents himself the | kind hearted merchant fumbles in his veet pocket fora which entitles the holder to and the | eral, Should an overilow be experienced to-day the lecture room of Wasbington square Methodist Episco- J church, which is convenient, will be opened, bat formed church are fiked, Rot until both rooms in the Re! The youn: 18 to | and | enth street meetings, held a prelminary meeting for young men only in the Reformed church in Sixth ave- | nue. last night from eight to nine o'clock. The | meetings continues and every noontide those places | are crowded. During the week past a little band of | these brethren visiled the Presbyterian church at | Nyack, on the Hudson, and conducted meetings there | and lighted a fire which is burning still, They have gone to other places around New York, and always with good results, Eight persons are known to have been converted through the Sunday praise meetings, anf several scores through the daily noon meetings, and a great many non-churchgoers have been induced ; to attend church through them. Let there be a gen- eral rally to-day. MIRACULOUS CURE BY THE POPE. (Paris Correspondent of the New York Tablet.) The Courrier de Bruxelles gives the following account of a miracuious cure effected lately by His Holiness Pius IX. :— A religieuse of the Order of the Sacred Heart, | the Rev. Mother Julia N——, daughter of one of the most distinguished diplomats of Belgium, after violent ‘ous attack, had her right arm socom. pletely paralyzed that it had to be bandaged to board: for asupport, Her finger naila had become black, and | the bones of the fingers and elbow had become dis- placed and, as it were, dislocated. In vain had the medical men prescribed change of | air, At Vienna, whither she first betook herself, after- ward at Rome, where she arrived about the end of Sep- | | tember, the disease assumed even a more aggravated | | form, The sufferer, nevertheless, cherished a secret | hope that she would be cured, and through her being | at Rome, if she could but see the Pope, obtained an audience on October 19, His Holiness, at first sur- prised at the request for cure that had beeu made to him, und wishing too, perhaps, to try the faith of the in- valid, said to her, My daughter, I have not the gift of wi HERALD, SUNDAY, JA NU ba hymn Temperance Union, of Boston, has vo! ministerial terg| ce conference in Tees Mare; Allministers of the Gospel in New England will be int'ed. Various questions bearing upon the relation of th Church of Christ to temper- ance will be discussed, ax by eminent talent it is hoped, 4 St Peter's Lutheran chprcf> dcston, Pa, was dedi- cated last Sunday. Rev. F. W. Conray!, D. D., preached the dedicatory sermon, Last year sixty-one persons were added Jo the mem- bership of Clinton avenue Congregational roh, and death and dismissal took off forty-live, The present membership 1s 688, two-thirds of whom are females. ‘The amount collected for church and benevolent pur- poses was $20,950 76. ‘The Old South church, Boston, has just given $7,200 to foreign missions. This is sald to be the largest col- lection, with one exception, ever given by them. Anew South End Congregational church has constituted in Boston and Rey, H. M. Parsons recog- nized as pastor, The church bas some new features, mainly having refere: to the forms of worship. Mr. Parsons bas som: uliarities, He wants a sermon in the morni junday school with Bible classes to take the place of a second service, After a long struggle he introduced this plan into his old church at Springield. He wrecked his prosperity im the Union church, Boston, on that rock. He could not turn the Presbyterions from their old customs. ‘The illness of @ member of Mr. Moody's family re make it necessary for him to go to Florida, but he will expect to return in season to begin his labors in this city the Ist of February. SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP. CONGREGATION DARECH AMUNO—ANCIENT AND “ MODERN PHARAOHS COMPARED BY DR MENDES, ‘ miracles."’ But he immediately adaed, “Put your trust | in God, for nothing ts impossible to His mercy.” Then | the Pope became for an instant engaged in prayer; then | addressing tha invalid he said, “My daughter, have faith—that faith which moves mountains.” He several times repeated the same words to her, and baving asked her name he took occasion from it to insist anew on fatth, ‘St, Julia,’ he said, “gave her life for Jesus Christ, and she proved by her mar- | tyrdom how ardent was her faith’? Having then | taken the ring of the religious profession which the | invalid wore on her left hand he biessed it aud made her place it on the finger of her right hand, “At that | very instant,” the Rev. Mother Julia asserts, “1 "felt hfe return to the paralyzed part, and the blood resumed its circulation throughout the entire arm.’ The Pope then dade her | by the force of habit she was about to make it with | the left hand, “No, no; not lke that,’ said the Holy Father; ‘the sign of the cross must be made with the | right hand, the Catholic sign of the cross."’ This she | did a second time without the slightest hesitation, and | in a perfect manner. She was cured. On her return to the Villa Santa she was able to write, on the same day, a long letter of thanks to the Pope, MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. BAPTIST, The Rev. W. H. Pendleton, late of the Fifty-third street church, of this city, accepts the call of the Bap- tist church at Deep River, Conn. ‘The Rev. G. J. Genun accepts a call to the First Bap- tist.church (Graniteville), Staten Island. The West Hoboken Baptist church is enjoying en- | couraging prosperity under the lavors of its pastor, | Rey. F, E. Osborne, Since his settlement, a year since, | thirty-five have been added to the church, On Sunday the annual collection for the Baptist City | Mission wag taken at the Calvary church, It was a | noble effort, realizing $7,514 97. The Tabernacle ch of this city has given its pastor, Rev. J. 8, Hawthorne, a respite of four months from his pastoral work, and he soon leaves for the South in search of rest aud health, His illness has been long and severe. ‘At Central Falls, R. L, the church of which Rev. Preston Gurney 1s pas is “building a beautiful church edifice, and also a neat and commodious chapel’ for its mission Sabbath school, expetting that the two dedications will fall within the centennial year, At tho Berean church, Rev. L. G. Barrett pastor, four more recent converts were buptized Sabbath even- ing, all young men, two of them brothers and one the organist of the church. The Baptist church at Franktin, N. ¥., will rededi- | cate its house of worship on Wednesday next. j METHODIST, | Agood work of grace is in progress in the Dover | Methodist Episcopal church (Newark Conference), S. B. Rooney, pastor. | | | | projection and nearly | that day he threw his thunderbolts | eard round | fb, aud, if 60, whether the fd will lie on the | their abstractions less and go into the hurly-vurly more “ Re. | buried yesterday in Calvary Cemetery. A solemn mass from four to five At Forty-third street Methodist Episcopal chureb, in this city, thirty have recently professed conversion, | and twenty-two have united with the church within a | | month past | Rev. W. G. Browning, of Brooklyn (New York Con- | | ference), Whose health is not fully resiored, will leave | with bis family for Denver, Col, to-morrow. He bopes | to return tn time for the session of his conference: in | April. His family may remain longer, | Dr. John M. Vincent, the eilicient Secretary. of the | Sunday Schoo! Union of this city, is again at his post aiter a few weeks’ illness. Rev. J. W. B, Wood, of the New York Conference, having been appointed chaplain of the State Prison at Sing Sing, entered upon his duties last Sunday. One ot his predecessors—Dr. John Luckey, of Rollo, Mo.— whose recent death has been noticed, was the prison chaplain for many years. His affection for the village was go great thal bis remains are expected there ip a tew days for interment. The heaith of Mrs. Bishop Janes remains about the same as it was soon after her prostration. She suflers | lite pain, but is confined to her bed. The brain was | ; not affected by the sis, and her mental powers } have not at aby tinte suffered during her protracted | illgessy She is patiently awaiting the Master’s will. | | Br. bePuy will have pastoral charge of old John street church until the next session of the New York | | East Conference. The Free Tabernacle, HoboRen, which was organized | last spring, is @ hard working, prosperous charge. | | They have visited 1,000 families in that city, and have | | gathered a good congregation in their unique and beau- | | Ufal church edifice and 230 scholars into their Sunday school, some of the older of Whom have been converted | and added to the church. J. B. Brady pastor. | To-day Willett street Methoaist Episcopal church, | | New York, will celebrate the fiftieth year of its exist- ence, Its statistics during the half century show that 2,500 persons have been connected with its member- ship; that 4,500 couples have been married by its pas- tors, and 12,000 have been followed to the tomb. Its ! present membership numbers S40 and its present pas- | tor is Rev. J. V. Saunders, BPISCOPALIAN, ‘The Rov. Dr, Langdon, late of Geneva, Switzerland, | has received a cal! to Christ church, Cambridge, Mass., | the oldest parish in that town except one. | ‘The Rev. T. M. Riley, late of St Clement's, Phila- | deiphia, has been called to the rectorship of Holy | | Trinity, East Minneapolis, Minn. | The Rev. Dr, Paterson, of St, Paul's, St. Paul, Minn., | has been in feeble health for some time. The Rev. W. | R. Powell, of Leighton Academy, has been assisting in | | the services of the parish, | ‘The Rov. Charles Pelietreau has accepted a call to the rectorship of St. Matthew's church, Unadilla, Otse- go county, N, and willeater upon his duties the Ist of Februar; | The Rev. George J. Magiil, of Wickford, R. L, has | been elected rector of the Church of the Ascension, Fali River, Mass. : PRESBYTERIAN. The church at HoYand Patent, N. Y., have unant- mously invited the Rev. John McK. Brayton to suppi Yheir pulpit for a year, Mr, Brayton resigned his oad. tion in connection with the First National Bank ot Utica and a pplied to the presbytery of Utica for licensure, at their fall meeting, held in Westernville. He was most cheerfully hcensed, having passed an examination superior to: that passed by most theological students, The Rey, A. H. Cortiss has left bis charge at Lima, N._Y., and gone to Waterville to another church, | Kev. J.N. Freeman, lave of Peekskill, has accepted the call of the First Presbyterian church of Lockport, During the first year of the pastorate of Rev, J. K. Fowler, in Caledonia, N. Y., ninety-nine have been added Yo the membership, ninety-one of these om pro- fession. Eighty-two persons united with Dr. Cuyler's church, Brooklyn, within two months, The collection for re- ligious and benevolent. objects during the last year amounted to §20,10—the largest sum given for several years, There are 1,170 teachers and scholars in the | two Sunday schools, | RONAN CATHOLIC, Minor orders were conferred on Saturday, the 15th, in the Passionist Monastery, West Hoboken, upon Francis Bartholomew Carey, Anselm Carey, Nicholas 5 x Ward, Dominick McNamara and Jerome Marpby, he order of sub-deacon was conierred on George Basil, Stephen Reilly, Eugene Ryan, Clement Ambrose Halpin, Anthony McHenry and in, who on Sunday were ordained deacons, | ‘ather O'Connor, lataly attached to St, Joseph's church, Albany, N. ., bas been transterred to St. John’s church, East Albany. The Dominicau Fathers, Byrne, Bokel, Daly, Keogh | and Quinn, who opened the mission at Su Poter church, Brookiyn, on Sau January 9, are carrying | on the work with the best results and will close their labors to-day with the Papal benediction. The Rev. Joseph Muller, pastor of St Michael's church, Baltimore, is so low with lung disease that D0 ba of his recovery is entertained. ‘he Bishop of Buifalo has transterred Rev. V, Ritter, from Springville to St. Vincent aud St Nicholas eburches in Buffalo; Rev. M. Kirsh succeeds by or} Springfield; Rev. J. Fitzpatrick and Rev. ). J. y exchange missions; the former going w Akron, the latter to Suspension Bridge, Rev. Fr. Hamel ap- pointed assistant at Batavia, and Rev. F. Schueider as- | sistant at St, Bonilage church, Buffalo, from whieh the | German Orphan Asylum will be attended. ‘a distinguished nd at one time as~ Sistant pastor of St. Joseph's chureh, New York, was ' | | of requiem was celebrated over his remains in St. Joseph's church. Father Malone, of Sts Peter and Paul, preached the funeral sermon. A corresporident writing from Spring Valley, N. Y., complains that the Catholics there, who number over ‘souls, have Bo religious services im their litte two yoars. The vestments left by last pastor, Father Bruhey, are growing mouldy ‘ant of use, and the chureh itself will be in @ like | condition ere long unless some one takes band im. to- | break to them the bread of life. | will [let Israel go,” (Ex., v. | among | Years old they Jewish congregational polity does not compel the closing of synagogues and places of worship if there be no rabbi or minister to instruct the people. The Jew- ish theory is that they are all a nauon of priests, and any member of the congregation has a right to reaa and expound the law to his brethren. This right, how- ever, is exercised only by afew laymen whose ability in this line is recognized by their brethron. It is never done nor recognized promiscuously in fact, whatever the theory may be, There are in New York and in many other cities also Jewish congregations who have for years been debarred the services of regular minis- ters and among whom this kind of lay ministry performed. Out of the twenty-six synagogues in New York only seven have rabbies or ministers, The regular services are cviwucted by chasans, who may be members of the congregation, who volunteer for these occasions, or may be engaged on salary for a specific term. It will be seen, therefore, that many of the synagogues have no lectures or preaching services at all, or ifat all, at very long distances in time. Since the coming of Dr. Men- des (Forty-fourth street synagogue) among us he has tried in a measure to supply this lack of service by preaching occasionally for other congregations besides hisown, Yesteraay he lectured for the Congregation Darech Amuno, worsbipping in a hall in Sixth avenue, negr Greeuwich avenue, and gave them an interesting talk on ancient and modern Pharaohs, basing his re- marks on Moses’ demand on the Egyptian King for the release of the people of Israel and the latter’s command that the prophet should see his fuce no more, And during all this struggle between increasing power on the one hand and repeated demands on the other the people of Israel were oppressed more and more. While ‘the mater! were taken from them more work was required of them, Increase of labor, but DECREASE OF THE MEANS OF LABOR, A was the only answer to the demand of Moses. No wonder, then, that the peopie would not hearken to Moses for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage (Exodus, vi, 9). These things, said the Doctor, furnish the best ovidences of the authenticity ana inspiration of the Bible. It presents men as they are, and does not make angels of them, as the false semblance of truth does, The Doctor then called attention to some of the modern Pharaohs and oppressors, that the congrega- tion might learn jessons from them as their fathers did from the ancient Pharaoh. The first one that he intro- duced was the Pharaoh of money. When Moses toid Pharaoh that Adonai, the God of Israel, had sent him to demand the release of the people, the Midrasbim says Pharaoh looked over his list of gods of Egypt and of other nations, but found no such god on his list. Then it was that he turned to Moses and asked, “Who is-the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither 2) “What cities has your has he done?” And accord- | God taken in battle? What ARY 23, 1876.—TRIPLE or. Plymouth church, will take the supervision of | ing to the same tradition Moses answered Pharaoh in | the words of the psalm, ‘Before the mountains were | brought forth, orever the earth and the world were formed, even irom eternity to eternity, has Israel's God existed. He itis who bas made Egypt and its great river, His voice is heard in the storm and in the feeble ery of the new born infunt.”” Pharaoh again answered that he himself and his god had made Egypt and the Nile, and therefore he knew that Moses was uot speak- ing the truth, We have whole dynasties of such kings us to-day—Pharaohs of money, who, when the ministers of religion go to them and tell them that the Lord God of Israel is He who gives them life and health and al turn around and like their prototype of old declare that they are the authors of these things themselves. They live by themselves in a particular society and in unap- proachable seclusion. When a festival comes and they are invited to go to the house of God to serve Him they look over their and don’t find His name there—they expunged it long ago, and they excuse themselves from going because THEY DON'T KNOW THE LORD, who has given them rank and position and wealth and fortune. Then we have the Pharaohs of mind, of sei- ence, who pretend they know all about the constitu- eg of the planets and the relations of fand jo mat- er and man. These are 1 plain to the kings of science. Their creed is gperpewealy changing, What was true yesterday is false to-day, and what is false to-day will be true to-morrow—u! stable as water, excelling never. Judaism comes within the reach of those monarchs, and they can’t understand it; and with all the dignity ot a science five k, How long will we bow down before fa God whom we cannot seé, nor measure by a rule of inches and feet? Who is the Lord, say they, that you shou!d serve Him? We find i science no occasion for any such Being. It matters not to thuse Pharaohs that Judaism answers that He existed before they or their science were known or thought of, But behold how Hh, puny, while boasting of strength, they allare! When affliction and death come to their homes they cry, as did Pharaoh, I sinned; entreat the Lord for me. And when tl harden their hearts again and tell us to get from their presence and see their faces no more. And the synagogue sees them no more, nor does the minis- ter of religion autil they fall into the dark abyss of death, when they are glad enough to send for them. But until these high and mighty tyrants are burled to their doom it is not surprising that we who must bow to their tyranny should lose heart under their grinding labor, And when the ministers of religion come to us to tell us that there 1s a God we refuse to hear, from anguish of +spirit and cruel bondage. But courage, then, for release must come. You are not a tithe so badly oppressed, said the Doctor, az were the Israelites in Egypt. You an eat the fruit of your hands, We can’t all be mon- rehs; but we can all be happy, Who is ont ask he rabbies, but he who rejoices in his heart? Let us therefore pray that couteutment may be the crown and sbrone of Judaism. A NEW EVANGELIST. Mr. W. T. B Milliken, the President of the Flashing (Long Island) Excise Board, was, about two years ago, a very hard drinker, He is thoroughly reformed and has Jately taken a very active part in the religious services of the villag Last Sunday evening, by invitation of the pastor, delivered a discourse on **Christiantty’’ in the Baptist church, and he preaches to-night in the Congregational church. . He an eloquent advocate, It is rumored that he is to gi to preach the I. SEATS FOR ALL PASSENGERS. To TH® Eptror ov tee Hera! Is there no remedy for the infamous crowding of the in the last™Legislature to provide seats for all passen- gers in our city railroad cars? Itis aburning shame that a single day should pass without the most extreme panishment of the railroad presidents who own and manage the city roads. A_ bill should be introdueed at Albany—and passed unanimously—compelling ail rail- road companies to rail off the cars and furnish every gor with @ comtortabie seat. What sensible objection can there be to such a law? Surely none but the one offered by, the companies themselves “that it would not pay,” point is raised by the car owners they should be an- swered by referring to the hundreds of thousafids of dolla from cach passenger—while the war tax-lasted, the re- peal of which tax alone prevented the continuance of this outrageous swindle to the present day. If the present Legisiature has any care to strengthen the party in this Red nothing they could do would help them more than the passage of some effective measure to put the city railroads under su’ jou—and keep them there ANTI-MONOPOLY. NO HOPE FROM THE LEGISLATURE. New Yorx, Jan, 21, 1876. To tax Eprror ov tH® Axkatp:— Being one of the many unfortunates who are com- pelled to use the street cars to reach home I always read wich due thanks your suggestions to compel the street railway companies to give the much meeded accommoda- tion to their patrons—namely, a seat. The re ‘will pass no such law at all, owing to dae cowateces are a found to sel their vore orta piast or vile whlakey f nothing better can be obtained otherwise, This being » sorrow/ul fact, nothing remains for the suffering pub- lic to do than to petition the eer ede nine est champion of it shaped by al lass w to ride in the street cars you will use your power and D "'s Gospel Mission, Nor 38 ¥ N wyor's pel Mission, No. ‘andam stri | York, ia open every evening, and a spectal Pont bony | | given to the unconverted. | The Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn (Dr. Storrs, pastor), has adopted the Warren Street Mission oa priated $2,000 towara its savport this influence to reach the desired end without overreacn- ing the companies by unjust enactments. uch a law could be passed as you m |, in avery short apace of time you would see new styles of cars ade. ‘quate to the spirit of oF rogressive tima With i tegard for your generous aid, L rewalm your constant | amader. B ministers of religion do that they | city pest houses? Who smothered the bill introduced | and when this | filched from the people—five-sixths of a cent | SHEET. THE COURTS. The Receivership of the Mutual Benefit Savings Bank. Unsuccessful Effort to Re- move the Receiver. * teen | Liability for Possession of Coun- terfeit Money. An effort is being made to remove Mr. Aldrich from his position as receiver of the Mutual Benefit Savings Bank. A motion to this effect was made yesterday be- fore Judge Donohue, of the Supreme Court, the mov- ing parties being an executive committee appointed at meeting of the depositors, It was urged for the motion that Mr. Aldrich has been grossly negligent in conducting the affairs of the bank; that he is an in- competent officer; that he refused to allow an expert to examine the books for no other reason, a4 ts alleged, than to protect the officers and trustees of the institu- tion; that he examined, in 1873, several banks, and, among others, the Third Avenue Savings Bank, all of which have failed this report of the condition of the last named institution was incorrect in many par- ticulars, and that 1 og fact, unfit to hold the posi- tion, On behalf of Mr, Aldrich 1t was contended in reply that there are other creditors beside the depositors; that the plamtifls do not represent: al the depositors, and that two of the men appointed on the examining committee disaprove altogether of the Proceeding. He denies that be was appointed at the instance of the trustees, but says he knows his appoiwt- ment met the approval of the Bank Department He denies as broadly asthe charge was made that bis re- ports of the other banks were incorrect; that as to the report of the Third Avenue Bank, he was selected as one of the examiners, not on account of his knowledge of figures, but for his legal advice as to the validity of titles and ba haat = and that in a great measure he had to rely on the judgment of his associates as to the accounts. He denies all the charges in the complaint and says he is continually in receipt of communica- tions approving of his course, and when he has paid the fir ividend, to meet the most pressing wants of de- tors, he will have examination by an expert, and is perfectly willing that the Court should appoint such expert. ‘After hearing the argument Judge Don- NS Be aia rendered his decision denying the moti GENERAL MANK’S CASE. Tt was stated yesterday that a new indictment is to be framed } gainst General Mank, charging him with disturbing’ oe administration of justice, General Mank, hi , been a member of the Government Secret Service sau and Inspector of Customs, which posi- tions he sined, as stated, through the influence o¢ Senator § -ton, considerable interest has been felt in his two @ als on tbe cnarge of having in his possession counter it money with intent to defraud, At the first trial th@evidence was that he had agreed to sell the counterfeit mouey in question to one Porter, a govern- ment detective, who represented himself ‘to him as being a friend of Congdon, a counterfeiter, from whom it had been taken fb of ‘baving it de- stroyed as evidence agai: On that trial Judge Dittenhoefer, the counsel of General Mank, raised the point that to sell counterfeit money for the purpose of destruction was not selling it with intent to detraud. The jury, however, convicted Mank, for which he was liable to fifteen years’ imprisonment at hard labor. His counsel subsequently moved for a new trial before Judge Benedict, before whom the trial was had, on the ground that the Judge haderred in his ruling on the trial. After a deliberation of several months Judge Benedict acknowledged his error and nted a new trial This new trial commenced on last Tuesday and ended yesterday, On this new trial thé Judge ruled that, to convict the intent to defraud by circulating the money must be known, but left it tothe jury to determine from ali the facts whether Munk had ever such intent from the time he came in pose of such money until he gave it to Porter. udge Dittenhoefer, in. an elaborate argument lasting | several hours, contended, first, that on the evidence it | was not known that Mank ever had the money, and, second, if the jury believed he had, that no intent on ‘the part of Mank to circulate it wasknown. He fur- ther contended that the only offence for which Mank could be convicted was the offence of obstructing the administration of justive, punishable with six months’ imprisonment only, for which offence, however, he was * not indicted and not on trial, Assistant United States Attorney Foster coutended to the contrary in an able argument, The jury, after an absence of about three | hours, returned @ verdict of not guilty. Thus the case | stands at present. It remains to be seen whether a reat ereernag as rumored, will be found against Man THE WALKER DIVORCE SUIT. This divorce suit, in which Dr. Joseph Walker is plaintiff, was on the calendar of the Court of Common Pleas, Special Term, before Chief Justice Charles P. Daly yesterday, but upon motion of John B, Pet couasel for the defendant, the hearing was osepowed until next Tuesday. Mrs. Walker, it 18 said, will seck for an alimony of $30,000 per annum and counsel fees. This is $10,000 more than was originally asked for. If granted, this will be three times ES ter than has been paid for alimony to any party in this country, At the examination on Tuesday, Nathaniel Jarvis, Jr., who was appointed referee to ascertain the income of Dr. Walker from the sale of vinegar bitters, will submit his report, showing that during the past five years Dr. Walker's income has exceeded $100,000 per apnum, SUMMARY OF LAW CASES. Mr. John 1. Davenport yesterday took the oath of office as Clerk of the United States Circuit Court, m place of Mr, White, before Judge Blatchford, and en- tered upon the discharge of his duttes, His bondsmen are Jackson 8. Schultz and Jenkins Van Schaick, | Gardner and Joseph L Clifford brought suit against the Texas Land Company to restrain such directors of | the company as are interested pecuniarily in the Bra- zorian Improvement Company from voting upon the question of the purchase by the Texas Land Company of certain property of the Brazorian Improvement , Company, located in Texas and alleged to be worthless. | A temporary injunction, imposing such restraint, was | yesterday made permanent by Judge Sedgwick the | Superior Court. | ‘The motion made by the Fourth Nattonal Bank and others to vacate the proceedings in bankruptcy against | Duncan, Sherman & Co., and to vacate certain Cone | tions—the particulars of which have been published— | | came up for argument yesterday before Judge Blatch- ford in the United States District Court. Tho peti- tioners were represented by David Dudley Field and Field & Deyo; the petitioners in the involuntary bank- ruptey proceedings by Sherburne B. Eaton; Baring | Brothers & Co. by Joseph A. Choate, and Duncan, | Sherman & Co. by F. M. Bangs. On motion of the last named gentleman, a postponement for one week was granted to allow time to prepare a reply to the petition. DECISIONS. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. ke By Judge Barrett, Aborn ys. Wallace.—Motion denied and $10 costs Memorandum, Thomas D. Carpenter vs, Hannah F, Carpenter.—Ro- | port of retoree confirmed and decree of divorce granted. |“ Matter of Vilmeister.—Report of special guardian confirmed. ‘Cauldwell vs. Fayel—Motion denied with costs. | Memorandum, Guiterman vs. Honschel.—Referred to Charles H. Hildreth to take proofs as to the facts stated in the jion when the mo- | | a(lidavits and to report with hie op! tion can be brought upon two days’ notice. The af- fidavits are so very conflicting that I think the wit nesses ought to be cross-oxamined. Fitzgibbons va. Fitzgibbons. —A counsel fee of $50 is all that the Court cap ‘airly award, Memorandum SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. By Judge Sedgwick. Spofford vs. Texas Land Company ot al.—See memo- randum for counsel. Welsh, &a, vs. Robinson et al Motion granted. Opinion. By Judge Sanford. Boyens vs. Vilmar.—Motion granted. Referred to Mr. Henry W. Allen, to hear and determine; $10 costs of motion to abide the event, Goldberg vs, The Mayor, &c,; Schultz et al. vs. Kurtz; Stuart vs Lewis; Alfario vs. Davidson et al. ; Archer vs. Oceanic Steam Ni tion Company ; James vs. Rowe and Miller vs. Hall. Orders granted, COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS, SHADOWING SHOPLIFTERS, Mary Clark and Caroline Curtis, two young women of respectable appearance, were yesterday brought up in the Court of Special Sessions on a charge of shoplif- ing They looked penitent, and, in subdued tones, pleaded guilty. It appears that afew days ago they entered the fancy goods store of 8. Sulzberger, No. 201 Eighth avenue, and, after purchasing a small quantity of re lace, hurriedly left. They had gone only a gu moment or so when Mr. A. 8. B, Gwansen, the won intendens, missed a largo piece of valuable je at once wont im pursuit of them. He saw them entera and became and caused their arrest. was found in their ‘to six months’ im- prisonment, TOMBS POLICE COURT. Before Judge Bixby. BURGLARS FRUSTRATED, A few days agqyoha C, Grabam and Thomas Can- | Bomen, Michigan, drew hired two rooms om the second floor of No, 41 Hudson street, They occupied the apartments only ¢ few days, when the people in the house had their sus picions excited by hearing strange sounds during the ight ing from the bedroom of the new comers. The police were informed of the circumstance, and early yesterday morning Sergeant Bohme, of the Fifth recinct, accompanied by Detectives Hay and Hag: urst into the apartment, and found j er a pee Grabam lying apparently in innocent slumber on » bed, He also discovered that a hole, three feet square and nearly two feet deep, had been made in the wall dividing No, 42 Hudson street from An; Co.'s dry goods packing house, The men were jate cus- tod, and yesterday they were held in default of $1,000 bail each to answer for attempt to commit a burglary. WASHINGTON PLACE POLICE COURT. Before Judge Kilbreth. EMBEZZLEMENT. Joseph P. Shannon, residing at No, 258 West street, New York, was held in $1,000 for embezzlement. The complainant was H. Iskiyan, carpet dealer, No. 537 Eighth avenue, an prisoner was a clerk in bis em- poco rgmy iy collected $39 50 from a cus- tomer of the firm, Iskiyan, He further admitted receiving $78 on two other bill pecongr put = teagetor use. _—— disappeared from the store two weeks ago and wi found on Friday bya detective of the Ceutral Office at his sister’s residence, in Freehold, N. Jy He adthitted his guilt and was held in $1,000 to answer. STEALING FURS. Joseph Sweeney, of No. 126 West Twenty-sixth street, and John Denney, of No. 41 West Thirteenth street, were held in $2,000 each for stealing $150 worth of furs and wearing apparel from the house No. 127 West Twenty-sixth street. Sweeney claimed that he had nothing to do with the robbery, but on noticing the offered reward of $25 said he would see the “‘gang” and get the goods returned. The prisoners were ar- rested just as they were calling on Mrs. Williams to ar- range about the reward. On recognizing the detectives they attempted to run away, but were pursued and captured, The other parties are to be arrested. STEALING A HORSE. John McGuire, of No. 433 West Thirty-second street, was held in $1,500 to answer for stealing a bay horse, valued at $30, from Peter McVey, No, 533 West Thir- tieth street, VIOLATION OF THE LOTTERY LAW. On complaint of Officer Lefferts, of the Fifteenth precinct, James Lynch, of No, 47 South Fifth avenue, and Charles Sydney, of No. 16 Carmine street, were held in $1,000 bail each for violation of the Lottery law. THE EXCISE LAW. John Coyan, of No. 135 Seventh avenue; Henry Clay, of No. 612 Sixth avenue, and William Cannon, of No, 132 West Nineteenth street, gave bail in $100 each for violation of the Excise law. THE FRAUDULENT TICKET ACT, On complaint of Thomas S. Sandford, of No. 29 Broadway, S. Jarmulowsky, of No. 193 Canal street, was held in $1,500 to answer for violation of the fraud- ulent ticket act, The prisoner was charged with sell- ing a steerage ticket for $26, on a German line, to Charles Bentzon, of No. 316 Grand street, Jersey City, without being duly authorized to do so by the agents of the company. DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER, Elias Abrahams, aged about fifty years, was charged by Mrs, Josephine M. Cox, of No 66 West Washington place, with defamation of character. The complainant alleges that Abrahams, under the signatures of “Abo” and “Your Uncle,” sent letters to herself and to other persons with whom she was acquainted, which reflected upon her character. The prisoner's daughter, Emma, identified the letters as being in her father’s hand- writing. Detective Alexander Watson, of Jersey City, was examined, and the further examination into the case was postponed. The letters produced in court are unfit for publication. POLICE COURT NOTES. William H. Burke, clerk in an intelligence office, at No. 307 Fourth avenue, was fined $5 by Judge Murray, at the Fifty-seventh Street Police Court, for an assault on Catbarine Owens, whom ejected from his office because after paying the fee she claimed the right to Bit by the stove, Cathal Grif_n, servant, of No, 69 East Ninety. second street, was charged by her mistress, Sarah Finch, with stealing a tur sack worth $185, which Officer Clark found at a store in Third avenue, where she had pledged it for $1, She was held for trial by | Judge Smith, in the Harlem Police Court. BROOKLYN CROOKED WHISKEY. Yesterday Judge Benedict, of the United States Dis, trict Court, Brooklyn, rendered a decision in the case of the United States against Stephen J. Simmons, ‘The defendant was tried and convicted, for illicit distil ing, in that Court in the month of November, and has ever since been a prisonerin Raymond Street Jail - Motion for arrest of judgment was made last month, and Judge Benedict now de- cides that ‘the case involves questions of sufficient importance to induce him to direct a reargu- ment of the motion in order that these questions may be heard and determined ata Court when the Circuit Judge shall be present.’’ General B. F, Tracy 1's counsel for Simmons. The detendant isa well known politician of the Eastern District, Brooklyn, and has many warm and sympa thizing friends among the republicans in that section, UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Wasuineton, Jan 22, 1876 The following cases were argued in the United States Bupreme Court yesterday :— No, 645. United States vs. Ashfield—Appeal from the Court of Claims.—The question in this case is the con- struction of the acts of Congress fixing the pay of ‘watchmen in the public grounds. The claimant was employed in Reservation No. 2 of the public grounds from January, 1867, to May. 1870, under the Commis- sioner of Pablic wae oa while that office existed, and afterward under the Chict Engineer of the Army, in charge of those grounds. ‘The Court below decided that the act of fixed the salary at $900, and that act of ‘h, 1869, reducing certain salaries, did jot apply to this office or employment, because it was nota position under executive department. The government maintains that the intention of the act was that it should be applicable to the present case, submitted on the briefs. J. 8. Blair for government; Carlisle and McPherson for claimant. No, 710. Town of Elmwood vs. Morey—Error to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois.— ‘This was another action on municipal bonds issued i aid of (he Dixon, Peoria and Hannibal Railroad Com- pany, and the Court decided that the bonds having en placed upon the market for sale and purchased before maturity in the usual course of business, with- out notice of any defect in them, the holder was en- titled to recover. This ruling 1s assicned as error here, and it is said the bonds are not authorized by the State constitution. Case submitted on the printed briefs, ey Morrow and Johnson for plaintiffs 1 error; Wilson aud Perry for defendants. No. 754 Mead eval. vs, Pinyard—Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. — ‘This was a bill to embrace pee performance of a contract to sell real estate, located in the county of Performance was decreed and the actior assigned a8 error, because there were con- ditions as between others, which were to bo settied be- fore the deed was to be delivored, which were never fulfilled, Case submitted on the printed bri Bs. hese for appellants; Fitzgerald ees, No, 704 United States vs. Corliss Steam Engine Company—Appeal from the Court of Claims.—The ap- peliees recovered below $257,688, the amount of a cer- a for work done for the Bureau of Steam ment would provided by Congress. The government jats that the Court erred in the judgment, because subsequently to the making of the certificate the appellees Tequested to sur- render it for the purpose of a further examination of their claim and they refused todo it It is said the Court was wrong in its conclusion of law that the United States were bound by the settlement made. Case submitted on the briefs. 8. F. Phillips, Solicitor Genoral, for government; Joseph Casey for claimants ‘No, 668 Gilman and others vs. Illmois and Missis- sippl Telegraph Company, and one other case—Ap- from the Circuit Court for lowa—The question jn this case is whether in giving a mortgage or deed of trast on {ts property, tolls, income and franchises a railroad company may also incutnber its future earn- ings so that they are not liable to garnishee process by its judgment creditors. The company had so mort- gaged its revenues, and the Court below decided that it was competent for it to do sa, and that the judgment creditors were not entitled to the relief sought It is here Cy Jat the deed eo As) was never exer- cised, e trustees neve! jon, aud that it cannot, therefore, be madi aitable. to defeat ‘the rights of the appellants. Case submitted without argu- ment, J. 8. Richman and G. G. Wright for appeliants; J. D. Caton and William M. Evarts for appellees. No. 543 McManus, administratix, vs. O'Sullivan et al.—Error to the Supreme Court of California. —This is an action to recover possession ofa portion of what is known as “outside lands’ in the city of San Francisco; that is, lands outside of the charter boundary line of 1861, but within the limits of the city when the action was began. The plaintiff claimed th ion of her husband from July, 1854, to January, 1861, two time of his death; but admitted, for the purposes of the case, that the defendants had held clear, open and exclusive Possession for more than five years before the com- mencement of the action (1867) as against her and het redecessors and the estate of her deceased hus! it not as against the county. Nonsuit was gran! the statute of iimitations being held to bar the action, It is hore held that the estate having been in McMan- nus for the time stated the fact was evi in them, notwithstanding the wronj the defendants, who entered ‘rithout color of with knowledge of the McManus tit | secwe iy tee ¢ hovel pe no a ham, ‘am and denfeldt i; Coghtain wad Irwine for defendants SUPREMB COURT CALENDAR. Aunaxy, N. ¥., Jan. 22, 1876. The following 1s the Supreme Suh Gonatol Term Calendar for londay, Jan 24, 187 117, 128, 128, 1 137, a = Soee