The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1876, Page 5

“ METHODISM. —_—_->——— Celebration of Its Centennial in North Carolina, RESULTS OF A HUNDRED YEARS OF LABOR The Spirit and Work of Wesley and of Loyola Contrasted. ADDRESS OF COLONEL WALTER CLARK. Wesley’s Influence in the Old and New Worlds. Raveion, March 21, 1876, ‘Tho martial Ignatius Loyola was atrue antetype of the equally enthusiastie and militant John Wesley. In tho career of each of these founders of complex and far reaching hierarchies, as well as in the history of their great societies, there are many historic parallels, It ts a fact worthy of note that the Praying Club of the Wesleys at Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1729, which was the germ of Methodism, was preceded precisely 200 years by the similar association of Loyola, Peter Faber and Francis Xavior at the College of St. Barbara, in the University of Paris. The “spiritual exercises” of the Company of Jesus corresponds, as closely as could be expected from the distance in time of the two eras, to the Scriptural readings, godly converse and devout prayer of the pious English students. Both are alike ascetic in character, mystically emotional, and indefi- nitein aim. Each institution, in tts development, bad much of the military element of eompact and effective organization, and of strict subordination so one recognized superior, and they were character- \zed by the samo intense missionary spimt and apos- tolic fervor, The itinerancy of the Wesleyans was but a counterpart of the Jesuit vow of “perpetual travel,” The two societies were based upon the doc- trine of obedience, animated by the same generous enthusiasm, and closely held in hand, each by a sin- plo master mind. Noither was instituted as a new sect, butas anally and COADJUTOR OF THE CHURCH. Far from anything like a schismatic impulse, each was inspirea with a burning zeal for the propagation of the accepted faith, One hundred years ago there were but three Metho- dist circuit riders in North Carolina, The roll of the clergy now exceeds’ 200, while the emall band of laymen has expanded to a mighty army. Methodism is ow, numeri- tally, the leading denomination in the State. The meagre and seattered Sunday schools ofa century ago have matured into great and floarishing seminaries of learning, such as Trinity College, near High s’oint, and the Wesleyan Female College at Murfreesboro. The 683 lay members of 1776 have grown in 1876 to ‘that number of congregations. To Rev. L, 8 Burkhead, D. D., pastor of the Eden- ton street Methodist Episcopal church in this city, is due the honor of conceiving the idea of commemorating ‘THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF A CENTURY so rich in fruits and so full of promise for the future. In answer to his summons the ‘thundering legion” of Methodism has come up grandly and an overflowing multitude attended the opening exercises of the festi- val to-day at Metropolitan Hall. The hall was a pic- sure of vernal and floral beauty, All about the platform and along the galleries, around the pillars and at- tached to every possible point d’appwi, were huge wreaths and festoons of evergreens. These adorn- ments were not only profusely bestowed wherever they could be made to stick, but their variety in style and composition was almost bewildering. Tho peren- nial laure! was everywhere wedded to the forest cedar, the box and holly kissed each other and the dark green ivy twined lovingly about the bright, hard arbor vita. Btrewn over all, and relieving the otherwise monotony of color, were myriad flowers contributed from the conservatories and outdoor parterres of the Raleigh ladies, These adornments constituted, in fact, a huge bouquet. Emblazoned here and there were the mot- toes and rallying cries ot Methodism. Over the plat- form, in large golden characters, was this legend :— aeeeee. WELCOME. 1876. : eee: 1776. reeveneenese: Promptly at the designated hour the great Wesleyan ‘Mass meeting was called to order. THE EXERCISES OF THE DAY ti opened with prayer by Rev. Junius P. Moore, Presid- ing Elder of the Metropolitan district of the North Carolina Conference, after which the vast congregation joined in singing the grand old hymn “Coronation;”’ prayer was then offered by Rey. E, A. Yates, Presiding Elder of the Newbern district. The great mass meet- Ing was then organized by electing Bishop McTyeire president, with bishops Marvin and Doggett associate presidents. All the presiding elders of the North Carolina Conference present were made vice presidents; Rey, Frank L. Reid, of Louisburg, was appointed secre- lary. The “Address of Welcome” was then pronounced by Colonel Walter Clark, as tollows ;—- COLONEL CLARK’S ADDRESS. A little over two centuries ana a baifago a humble monk of the Oraer of St. Au, bended knees up Pilate’ in Rome, beard, as he though great mis- 10m. Seven years later he nailed his theses on the door of the church at Wittenberg, lt was the call to arms, Europe woke from ages of priesterait and the Reformation began. Forty years saw the utmost neste and the beginning of its retreats. Luther himeeif died in the conviction, as he sadly de- tlared, that a revival of religion could not last longer in one generation. The Reformation was more an mpt to overthrow the organte system and ye abases of the Papac; than an evangelical revival of the spiritual lite of the Church, Hence its early loss power. It is not from the Reformation, then, that we can date. When John Wesley—ciarum et veneralile numen—appeared, not re- ligion only, but morality was at its lowest ebb both in Great Britain and on the Continent. Such current testimony of the writers of the degradation, tho immorality, the mfdelity of was all-pervading. 11 reached all classes and black: alike the palace and the hovel. To use the languay the historian, “The immorality of the times in the onan Socteny rolu- e From the yen, of Agen! iy 2 Me scevstonne <f jod, proceeded the great religious movement whic micas 80 largely our common Protestantism, and which is destined to aflect it still more profoundly. In the language of an emment member of the Church of En “it is trom the labors of Wesley and trom the year 1739 that the religious e bow current must date iis commencement.’’ Then was made the fleclaration of independence from all rites and creeds favo as aids to faih, Thon it was that anism began to assume as its cardinal principle that tho puritication of the individual man, pursued im bis tn- dividual freedom and on the responsibility of bis indi- vidual conscien js the characteristic design of it was the beginning of principles, has ever re- reeption of mained their incarnation, The remarkable man who was the divine instrument, chosen like David trom the masses of the to ©01 ‘bors and in the organization showed that he understood that his mission was to & masses; and he founded his Church upon a catholic basis, His labors were simply stupendous, His writings would fill library; bis travels averaged an. o Miles down to bis seventieth year; and at this rate be equatied the cirenit of the globe in every Bix years; three and four at daily, He del Prted in ti 1g an average of fifteen per week, He attracted tl Jargest audiences of modern times, sometimes number- ing over 30,000 ‘His genius for government,” aoe “was notinferiwr to that of liche- There was a mil coolness about him tn times of danger that ali beboiders, Ho was a name- sake and possibly a kinsman of the greatest captain of the Knglish race; he who ri * far away, inst the myriads of A: Cfitived with his tery few mud won, and against whose sombre lines the flery France toamed themselves away. John Wesley, in the estimate of competent critics, possessed a greater mili- tary genius than be, His immense capacity tor labor, his wonderfal aptitude tor organization, marked him fora leader amopg men. But his most marvetions conception was THR ITINRRANT SYSTEM. It was the born soldie: and organizer who conceived onsets of that des! Ht was a stroke of gouins; unicss, indeed, we say © it wae a revelation of Providence. iho itinerapcy is cssentiaily a mili ization. The tary world contains nothing else like it. Thore are no prec- edents for it, The only institution that even slightly resembles it i8 that founded by ignatius ner that attained such powor that it was ead, * of Jesus 1s a sword whose handle Isat Rome and whose point is everywhere," Diflering ‘roi Jesuitism, even | Whitefield was the foremost pulpit orator of moderna | shore, | Temarkable adaptation, to our country just as it was in its organization and in its success, world bas seen no other triumphs like those achieved by it, Working to east and west it began by evangelizing Great Britain and Ireland, 1t thea carried (he mis- fionary standards of Methodism to the Continent of Europe, to Africa, to the East Indies on the one hand and on the other to the West 1 So Cansda and. tbe { United States, whence, on either hand, its pioneers and advance guards have penetrated the islands of the | Australasian seas, and at the antipodes have joined tne links of the chain of Christian labors and Chris- tan charity which encircles the whole earth, Mr. Wesley threw pimself against the general demor- | alization of bis times, without reputation, without | money, with no resource but the soul within bim and | God above. He devoved all the great energies of his Jong lite, in spite of obloquy and derision, iur what he | devmed the highest good of bis species. Groat intel- | lectually, great morally, great poyaically, he died in the eighty-eighth year of his age and the sixty-lifth of | his ministry, at the head of a compact host of 550 thousands of local preachegs and more than | itinerants, 140,000 members. Great Brithin has erected a statue to him in her new House of Par- | hament, but he bas achieved a fame in this lite more extenstve than the English language and in the life to come a reward which only etermity can | measure. «The great men who have founded physical empires bave left them to fall as soon as the hand that moulded and made them was withdrawn, But Wesley’ empire, founded in the souls and the hearts of mea, 8 With every year, As a celebrated historian has said;—“Of the few names whose influence will be po- tent, millions, perhaps myriads, of years hence, should the globe endure so long, is that of John Wes- ley. ‘WESLBT'S COADJUTORS. Time fails me to speak of bis jutors—those early itinerants whose labors and whose cheerfully en- countered dangers have never been surpassed by man. times, Coke, another of them, was the first Protes- tant bishop whose feet ever trod the soil of the New World, After episcopally organizing the Church in this country and committing the trust to Asbury; after evangelizing the West Indies and trav 1g Great and Ireland; after originating and systematiz- ing the missionary work of Methodism, he died at sea, on his way to bear the Gospel to the vast couniry which ha known no missionary since St, Thom: a which had lately been wrested irom barbaric rule by Clive, He sleeps beneath the ocean—a fitting tomb for | one whose flery zeal, like its waves, reached to every ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, our circuit, created by the Baltimore ‘Conference of that vear and of indefinite proportions, embracing the Carolinas, was all of Methodism within this State. By A provideptial provision the itinerancy came, with ite | needed. The American Revolution made this country the gathering place of the nations, No other system could have prevented its relap-e into infidelity. There was no State Church. The harvest was plentiful; the Teapers were few, At this juncture Methodism came forward with a machinery adapted to tae work. Essen- tially missionary and propagandist, it sent its itin- erants into every nook and corner of the land. It preached through them the Word to thousands who could have been reached in no other way, These hardy men kept pace with the march of immigration, if not ahead of it, They raised the church spire where the smoke of the wigwam hed hardly disappeared, Their zeal rising to religious chivalry, their devotion to their work, their disregard of case, rendered them the most self-sacriticing, laborious and practically suc- cessful body of men tu Ul nnais of the world. To the Charch militant they have been what the Tenth Legion was to Ca@sar; what the Uld Guard was to Napoleon—a solid lance bead of iron tempered in tho of battle— or rather, like the famous Persian corps, known as the “Jmmortals,” in which one no sooner fell than an- other took his place. ‘fhe itinerants forded crecks, swum rivers, slept in forests, fearless of red man or savage beast— Unconquered lords of pleasure and of pain, No dangers fright them and no labors tire. Beneath the dome of a world-kavwn building in London lie the bones of the architect whose genius formed the edifice. To kings and lords and heroes on either band rise monuments carved with eulogies, On the unadorned slab over the resting place of the archi- tect are inscribed these words:— eereeenoeeee eocene ne. Ors You week his monataent. ook above you. Gecotreceace AOLLOLLORNOLOIELE LOTS LEDEDE LODE TELE LO LES) jut long alter the towers of St. Paul's have crumbled | to their primal dust, the answer to him who seeks | Wesley’s memorial pillar will be—‘Look around you and behold 1.” His monument in North Carolina is ‘this, that when a century ago one circuit, just organ- ized, was the possibility, to-day more than 100 circuits, more than 200 itinerants, more than 300 local preach- ers and nearly 80,000 communicants arise, a living re- ality to tell of Methodism. Nor is this all, There are | in North Carolina over 800 Methodist Sunday schools, with over 6,000 teachers, training nearly 50,000 chil- dren to take our places as we pass on. ithin the Jimits of the State are jour conierence colleges, seventy parsonages and 800 churches. Strike out what Method- ism is avd has been in North Carolina, and the past and present of the Site would be dark indeed. In the wilds of Africa, in the jungles of Asia, amid } the spicy breezes of the far-off island world the foids ot our missionary flag have floated, and wherever it has gone there has gone with it our Church’s triumphal or itential hymns. More truly than the drumbeats of ngiand, the lyrics of Charles Wesley have BNCIRCLED THE WORLD } and added to the glories of earth the triamphs of heaven. They have been more devoutly committed to memory and oftener repeated from the cradle to the deathbed than any otver nus in the language, Such is our Church. Pull down her pillars, shake down ber tower, and the clock of the world would go back ten centuries. In another hundred years a second centennial of Methodism will, in the providence of God, be held in the city of Raleigh. Times, manners, even governments may have changed, State and county lines may have van- ished, ‘ust more than bog inhabitants may replace the leigh of to-day. chance world will bave grown wiser und better. Another and an abler speaker will address another and a larger aud enee. But wi fF be the commemoration, whatever its surroundn in the name of the representatives of the Methodist Church assembled now and here | ask him to say that on this occasion I made the deciaration | that Methodism was oa this day in fall vigor; that it | had kept the faith unspotteds that its usefuiness was | undiminished ; that its organization was still preserved, aud that it was arousing itself to a more active energy and a yet stronger trust for the achievement of those | reat results for the cause of Christ which, now dimly foreseen by us, that audience in 1976 will witness, why should I speak of war in the presonce of Agamemnon? I see belore me three of our distin. | guished bishops, whose addresses during our memorial — week will cover every phase of our ecclesiastical work and set forth fittingly the glorious episodes of tory. They will speak to you of the founders progressive steps of Methodism, of its revival annals and of the struggies and spiritual vieiortes of our carly backwoods pioneers, My task 18 done. To those of you who have left your homes to visit us I am commissioned by the Methodists and by the citizens of Raleigh to bid you a sincere and hearty welcome to our city and to the hospitalities of all our people, The address of weloome was responded to by Bishop McTyeire, of Tennessee, The audience thon united in | singing Bishop Ken's doxology, and a benediction was pronounced by Bishop Doggett, of Richmond. ADDITIONAL EXERCISKS, Atthree P, M. the two Methodist churches of the city were thronged with eager listeners to eloquent and able sermons, The mass meeting reconvened at | Metropolitan Hall to-night, when Kev. H. N, McTyeire, Bishop of Tennessee, delivered an interesting dis. | course on “Methodism and Its Founders.” Remarks upon the same topic wero also made by other gent mon. The city is full of strangers, but the ope banded and warm-hearted hospitality of Raleigh makes room for all, NEW YORK DISTRICT CONFERENCE. SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND CHURCH LAWS—CHRIS- TIANITY PART OF THE COMMON LAW OF THIS | STATE—BLASPHEMERS MAY BE PUNISHED. | This Conference held two, sessions yesterday and closed up its business about five o'clock. Its next meeting will be held in Sing Sing six months hence, After adm rable address of Bishop Foster, on Mon- day evening, on the progress of Methodism, the Con- ference tendered him a vote of thanks. Bishop Simpson was expected to be present yesterday and ad- dress the Conference last night, but he failed to come, and hence the earlier adjournment. After the transac- tion of some routine business the Rev. M. 8. Terry, pastor of the Eighteenth street Methodist Episcopal church, read an able essay on the questions, “Why do so few children attend the proaching of the Word?” and ‘Why are so few adults in owt Sunday schools?” In answering the first question he believed long | and duil sermons are the chief cause, Ho | did not advocate special sermons to children, because that whieh is Interesting and intelligible to the average class of adults will be #0 to the average class of children. And the stories that will interest | the one will also interest the other. Another reason | for the non-attendance of children is the number of meetings they have to attond on the Sabbath. If there | aro two sessions of the Sunday school they must | spend three or more hours in one room, and i is too | stay to preaching also t. Another reason is Joose actions and practices of churchgoers who act from impulse and not trom auty, and go to church whon they please. Such irregular habits are ineyitabio | in large cities when we have 20 many Sabbath mect- | ings and the people choose between them, not caring to | attend all, Christian parents are especially to biame | in this matter, fhe Sunday school can never take the | ace of tho home, and should not be expected or | allowed to do go by any patent. Parental example is the mightiest of teachers. In answering the second { question Mr. Terry deemed two sessions of Sunday | school, togethor with the preaching and prayer meeting’ / On the Sabbath, too great a stramm on the time of a great many adaits. Besides, the Sunday school m reyarded ag an independent affair, ond not asa part and parcel of the church. When cur young men grow up they Jook for offices in the school of promotion as sratend and if they cannot be thas provided for they depart an go eisemucre, He had THE RECORD OF OSE SCHOOL, which showed threo superinienients, five secretaries, a usical director and three librarians, The system of Drizes Mr, Terry considered an evil of great magnitude, to it in motive and object, It surpasses jt | Bit le that a uniform heur ought to be adopted for holding the session ia ail #chools—from two to half- past three o'clock P, M. The true object of the session should be the study of the Scriptures. A better class Of teachers should be secured. If discipline cannot be enforced it ix better to let children play on the street rather than in the church on the Sabbath day. Every- thing that does not tend tothe true purpose of the schvel should be exciuded and there should be as little as possible to do with prizes and rewards, It would be weil to separate the library irom the Sunday | school ant to have a church library open on a week evening, and the best mon and women tm the church should take an interest in the school. As few officers as possible should be chosen—superintendent and secretary, he thought, would be quite enough. All expenses tor the schvol shouid be provided for as light and fuel are provided. A praise session of half an hour, Defore the moruing preaching service, Mr. Terry thought, would be a good thing. Judge £. L. Fancher read an essay in the afternoon on the law as related to religious corporations. Ho | Sprinap diy religious societtes differ trom others in the eye of the law. In regard to the election of trustees, church mombers of both sexes and* members of congregations havea right to vole, provided they | contribute to the current expenses of the church, And basket collections come within the meaning of contri butions, In Brooklyn, however, members of the church or may vote, Trustees cannot legally mo gage church pr ty without the consent of the ma. y of the church members, nor can they sell without the consent of the church and the civil courts, Trustees who refose statedly to attend the church meet'ngs cease to hold office, and their places may be declared vacant. But if they attend the church meetings they may absent themselves from the oficial meetin; nd yet hold office until a fresh election should give rel @ trustees have charge of the tempo- Talities of a church, but they must hold all funds for the use of the particul: hurch by which they are elected. y cannot divert {t to any otber purpose. When they sign a bond or mortgage on the church property they become personally responsible. The proper way to nya such legal documents is by the cor- porate name of the society, with John Doe, President. TRUSTRES MUST DE MEMBERS of the church or society in which they hold office, and when they lose their membership for any cause they lose their office also, Previous to the act of 1876 a congregation might change its name and denomination without any regard to those with whom 1t affitiated, and could take the church property with it, But this capnot be done now without the consent of a court of equity. In this State and Pennsylvania and some other States Christianity is part of the common law, and it is an offence against tho Jaw to profane the name of God of Jesus Christ, or to spook against the Holy Scriptures. Jurisprudence is beld to embrace things divine as well as secular. Judge Fancher was re- uested to furnish a copy of his essay for publication and rs, Crawford and Wheatley were appointed a com- mittee to publish, ENTERING THE CLOISTER. SEVEN YOUNG LADIES RECEIVE THE WHITE VEIL AND THREE OTHERS MAKE THEIR SOl- EMN VOWS AT THE GOOD SHEPHERD CON- VENT. Yesterday was another red letter day in the annals of the Good Shepherd nuns, and one ever to be re- mombered by the ten happy participants in the coro- mony. As this is the season of Lent, when all relig- jous communities observe a more rigid rule than at other times, the number of guests was limited to tho immediate relatives of the postulants and novices w ho were to be clothed aud make their profession, At nine o’clock the convent bell announced the ap- proach of the procession, the chanters intoned the hymn “ Avo Maris Stella,” and the Rev, Father Du- thales, vested in surplice, stole and cope, stood within the altar grating to receive the postulates as tho Su- perioress and her assistants ted them for- ward, At the end of the hymn the rever- end father offered a prayer asking the God of charity to enable all there assombled’ and espectaily the community which is consecrated to “Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd,” to do all their works in the spirit of charity. The candles wero then blessed and given to each postulant, with the admonition to receive it as a symbol of the celestial light to which Jesus Christ calls those favored souls | who withdraw from the world so as to serve Him moro perfectly inthe cloister. The postulants having been seated Lear the grate the reverend father addressed them, a8 well as the three novices, upon the act they were about to perform, and bade them consider weil the importance of so grave a step as the attempt to withdraw from home and friends and all the attractions of the world to devote every thogght, word and deed to the entire service of God. He pictured in glowing terms the love of God and tho cliarity which must animate those souls who scek to save the lost, lift up the fallen and guide the penitent in the path of virtue, and assured his hearers that the same God who had inspired this laudable desire will also supply grace for its complete and perfect accomplishment. He then intoned the “Vent Creator Spiritus; the choir continued the hymn while the postulants approached the grate and knelt there, the Superioress and her as- sistants remaining near them, while the officiant | asked of each what she aired. The reply was, “‘T soiieit the habit of this holy house, the favor to be tried in the practice of the Christian virtues and the observance of the holy constitutions. One thi! have asked of the Lord, and will never cease to « ‘Him, 1, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days ot my life.” The officiating priest blessed God lor having inspired them to take the Lord for an gs age Logg: orden by tree ig ey pen of e Hol pi whic! ‘8, ‘Forget thy people aud the Howe of thy fathers, that thoa mayest Sraw upon thee the favorable looks of thy heavenly Spouse’? Being asked if they persevered in this demand they replied that they did, and boped by tne grace of God to be faithful to the end, The officiant offered a prayer, and the alants retired to exchange their bridal dresses of soft cashmere for the white serge habit of the religions, and the fleecy illusion —yeil and orange wreath for tho white linen guimp | and veil. The priest blessed the habits, the sister sacristare carried them away, and while the choir sung the Psaim, “How lovely are thy taber- nacles, O Lord oj husts,”’ the belts, scapulars, veils and rosaries were also blessed, and the postuiants, having returned clothed in the habit and loose linon ‘veil, they approached the altar singtu spised tue Kingdom of this world an “I have de- all the vam splendors of the age, for the love of the Lord Jesus | Christ.” The choir replied, “Whom I have known, whom I haye loved, in whom I have believed and to whom I have consecrated myself.”’ The postulants re- lied, “I have chosen to be the last in the house of our Lord Jesus Christ’? The officiant then prayed the Lord to keep their coming in and their going out and to keep them purified through His grace. The scapular was then given to cach one as au emblem of the sweet le yoke of J Christ, who has said, “Leara of me to be meek avd humble of heart and you shali find rest to your souls."’ The veil was then | given asthe 7 bey of that modesty and purity which characterize the spouse who withdraws her eyes from the attractions of the world to ix them on God and wishes to be hidden in Christ, .The rosary marks de- Yotion and consecration tothe modest Virgin Mother, whe kept and treasured the sayings of her divine Son, and pondered them in her heart. The long, white choir mantle was then laid on the shoulders of each one, as atype of her having jomed that innum- pot, whithersoever he gooth ;”” @now namo was given to each, because romined that they who overcome the devil, in and self shall rece: from Him a new name asa mark of victory, The recipents of this promise were Miss Margaret Hannigan, in religion Sister Mary of St. | Miss Kate Healy, Sister Mary of St. Priscilla; Miss Theresa Hickey, Sister Mary Miss Cnthorine Keon, Sister Mary of Si. Miss Anne Baxter, Sister Mary of St. Thomas Aquinas ; Miss Ann Gillooty, Sister M. of St. Emelda, and Miss Mary Coll, Sinter the officiant had propounced the biessing upon these they retired to their places in the choir, and the three | Bovices who had compicted the full term of their novi- ate approached the altar to make their vows. The oifictant began by asking what (hey desired, and they replied that they Wished the favor of dweiling im the house of the Lord all the days of their lives, and to make their religious profession in the congregation of “Our Lady of Coarity of the Good Shepherd."’ The offtciant then carefully questioned them as to their fi- noss for this life, their knowledge of the rules and ob- servances, the extent of the vows and obligasions they wished to assume, aud their courage to practise tho engagements imposed upon those who vow poverty, chastity and obedience to the Lord. The answers being smisiactory, he then asked the Supertoress if she, with her sister religious, consonted to receivo these candidates for profession. She replied in the affirmative, The officiant then bade them accomplish what they had resolved upon, the choir sung tho anthem, “I will offer my vows to the Lord before all His people; I will consecrate myself to Him at the enirance of Histemple.”” During this time the novices koelt directly before the altar, and at the close Aniicm each one read sevarately written vow, Each moviee then the vow which will be preserved tn the convout during her life, and bo iced im ber hands atdeath, The choir then sung the Psalm, ‘The Lord hear thee in tho nt then offered a prayer, blessed tho veils warts, and giving the latter bade the sis- the example of that woble Virgin who is the model of all virtues, The black veils were the placed upon the heads of they sang the anthem, “Th here stall 1 dwelt, for l have chosen it,” then gave thom a suitable exbortation. was withdrawn and the officiant sisters arise from the hades of deat selves with the light of Jesus Chri The officiant When whe pail jo the prostrate wad clothe them- giving to ca One as she arose a lighted candle, to which they re- | sponded, “The Lord is my light and my satvation; whom shall I tear onea crucifix, bidding ber glory in that alone, and they replied, “God forbid that I should glory in’ any- thing but the cross of our Lord Jesus Ghrist, by which the world ix ernciiled to me and Ito the world.” The Ofliciant thon blessed them, bidding them go in In peace ; and then mtoned the “Te Deum," which the choir sung while the Mistress of Novices conducted ber choir of ten to the Superioress, who gave them the kiss of co, which they conveyed to the other religious. Prose Who were professed are: —Sister M. of the Heart, Miss Kolb; Sister M. of St. Dominic, Mise Kiely, and Sister M. of St. Hyaciuthe, Miss ity: whose happiness it is to “fol. | ot St. Lucie, As soon as | The officiant then gaye to cach | MOODY AND SANKEY. ‘The asual crowds attended the Hippodrome incetings at noon, four P. M. and eight P. M. yesterday. There was a goodly attendance of workingmen at tho noon- day meeting, and the inquiry rooms wero well | attended. My, Moody was surrounded with a number | of ministers, among them Rev. Dr. Ormiston, Rev. Dr. Hepworth and Rev. Dr. Kirkpatrick. Rev. Dr. | Ormiston has been quite constant in his attendance at | these meetings recently, and aided Mr. Moody very much | in his work, His prayers are very effective, aud his | short discourses are to the point and seem to touch the hearts of his audience. Rev. Dr. Hepworth, as usual, | read the requests ior prayer from numerous sisters and mothers for their brothers and sons and from wives for their husbands that they might be brought to Christ, Mr. Moody spoke on the subject of “Un- behet.”” In the afternoon meeting, at which 6,000 people subject was “The Holy Ghost, the plained the personality of the Holy necessary it was to call on Him if the sinner demied God’s spirit to pervade ‘him and havo that peace and joy which all thofe who wish to accept Christ should have. In fact, every one who was converted was converted by the power of the Holy Ghost. Mr. ymn, “Come holy spirit hi ing the Madison avenue hall was fill in Overflow meeting in the Fourth avenue hall. y to his usual custom Mr, Moody did not repeat the sermon of the afternoon, but took bis text from the fifth chapter of Second Kings, and told the st Haman, the leper, who was cured by dipping seven times ja the waters of the Jordan. He told itina homely, taking way, and made the Bible parratrve | quite familiar vo his hearers, After the meeting there was, as usual, a large crowd in the inquiry rooms, anda young men's meeting, which lasted tll ten o'clock, SALE OF A CHURCH, It is announced that the Greene street Methodist Episcopal church, on Greene street, above Broome, has been sold for business purposes for $100,000, | | | Three years ago $175,000 was offered for the samo prop- | erty; but, owing to the opposition of a trustee, the offer was refused, The first Sunday in April wiil bo the last Sunday on which the builaing, which is more than forty years old, will bo used as a chureh, second Sunday in April the congregation will move into the Washington square Reformed Dutch church. REAL E yesterday at the Exchange Saicsroom attracted a | greater attendance, in point of numbers, than usual. Several of the sales which were expected to take place were either adjourned or withdrawn, but the property that was put up went off at very fair prices, The fol- lowing sales were held : A. H. Muilor & Son sold by public auction the four story brick tenement house, with Jot 22.2x75, No. 49 Stanton street, south side, betwoen Forsyth and Eld- ridge streets, togethor with the premises No, 51 Stan- ton street, adjoining above, embracing a lot of samo size, with a three story and basement brick house upon the front thereof, and a four story and basement brick Nouse in rear, tor $26,950, to Thomas Gill. Also, similar sale, the three story and basoment brick house, with lot 20x100, No. 987 DeKalb avenue, be- tween’ Lewis and Stuyvesant avenues, Brooklyn, for $6,525, to Jeremiah Pangbora. ichard V. Harnett sold by public auction the two six story and bagemont brick stores and dwellings, With plot 46.2x56.6 (rear line 50.4 feot), Nos. 260 and 262 Broome street, northwest corner of Orchard street, for $17,400 over a. mortgage of $25,000 to Francis O'Neil. Also Supreme Court foreclosure sale, A. F. Kirchens, reteree, a house, with lot 19.9x77, on Lexington avenue, southwest corner of Twenty-eighth street, for $20,600 to Richard Berry, Also, Supreme Court foreclosure sale, 5. M. Morehouse, referee, Jour lots, 25x100.5, ou East Sixty-third street, south sido, 100 feet east of Madison avenue, for $20,000 over a mort of $20,100, to Isaac Innes. KE. H. Ludiow & Co. sold, by Supreme Court fore- closure decreo, Moses Ely, referee, three — lots, h 256x100, on Fast Eighuicth street,’ north side, 250 feet wost of.Third avenue, for $9,240, to Jobn Pullman. Blackwell, Riker & Wilkins sold, by Supreme Conrt foreclosure decree, A. Beale, referee, two lots, each 25x100,11, on West 106th street, north side, 3560 foot west of Ninth avenue, for $4,800, to Henry £, Merriam, the plaintitl. remises No. 86 Sheriff street, between Stanton and ivington streets, comprising one lot 25x100, with a | two story basement and attic frame house m front and four story brick house in rear, for $8,500, to Her- man Armnstice. Also, similar gale, the following Brookiyn property:—One three story and basement brick house, with lot 224x100, No. 277 Ewen street, between Devoe and Ainslie streets, for $8,450, to Mr. Gilmore; one cot! with lot 256x100, No, 79 Devoe street, near Leonard, for $1,450, to same purchaser as Jast; one twoand a half story brick house, with lot 25x100, No, 496 North Second street, ' between Drick stable with Jot 25x100, street, adjoining above, for $8,450, Haibert, deceased ; five lots situated on Central avenue, corner of Woodbine street, for $475 each, to W. Hu: Dem; two lots on corner of Bvergreen avenue and Wood- Dine street, for $610 each; and tour lots on corner of jway and Shaffer street, for $990 each, to Mr. DWELLINGS RECENTLY SOLD. Tho three story and basement brick house and lot 23x98.9, on the south side of Twenty-second street, 118.6-feet East of Sixth avenue, sold for $20,000; the three story and basement brick house and lot 21. 10x80, on Lexington avenue, 4.2 fect south of Twenty-ninth street, sold for $21,250; the house and lot #4.6x50, Nos. 47 and 49 Grand street, on the southwest corner of South Fitth avenue, sold for $18,000, and the four story brick tencment house and jot 26x92, on the south side of Seventeenth street, 313 feet cast of av- enue B, sold for $18,000. | } TRANSYERS OF HEAL ESTATE. | 46th st, na, 272.6 ft. 6 of 10th ay., 242x100: Denis Horgan and wife to Alexander 8, Kaliske 25.5 0 8, of both 9t., 25x79 5 $23,500 Maed wag! | 100.8; 2d st., m. 8, 108 ft, eof Sth w | “Tuckor and wife to William M: Silkman. see Nom, -| | Alien st., w. 8. 170 (t. s, of Grand st., 25x876; Henry | wife to A. King Jordon SHth st, 5. &, 100 ft. eof stl Kariske nnd wife to Deni Oft. w.ot LOth ay., 50%200. 10 in and wile to Frederick Folr. corner 100th st., 50.11x105.2¢ 11th av., « 6. corner 100% #t., same propert Michel aud wife to Philip Henn. 5th st., & &, 196 Mt. 6. of Bd av., & ‘same a 10th av. , 25.1 fe. ford to William ee Noble | 145th vt, m8, 975 18, @. of Willis w ward) ; Fraceis F. Baugman and wife w Richard Tattersall. 117th st Dor 2th Wer 2Bth at Francis & &, $25 ft. w, of sth ay., same rt L. Wandell to Karab E. Wessels ©. 0 propert of te wh 4 1 | "A, Cauldwell and wife to IGN st. 8%, 125 Me. of 7 Williem A. Onuldwell and of Tine ©. Bish 475 STth st... 8, to Williwm "A, hh st. = ‘xecutors) to John ¥, Byrne; n., 200 ft @. of 11th ay., 26x10" in av., corner of Sth #t., 4X100 (id ward) ; Treanor to Peter Lawh n. &, 200M, @. of TI Klin av. corns of Sth s mw lens to 3. Treanor BA av., w. 8, 77.5-10%207.5-LOxirre, Froderick Smyth (referee) to ward F. de Lan- cey (execntor) « re 7,800 Areularins place, n. ener of Gerrard av. (irrern- lar); Frederick Smyth (referee) 10 Kdward ¥, do Laneey (exeentor)....... seceeeeceeseseee 10,000 Samonos, Eliza A., to Insurance Com- pany, & % 41nt #6. Cooper, James and wike, to raie, Park aah Mo Muraal Life oth lye rarignere B24 West at. j " Tattersall, Richard, to Franc 146th st., @. Willis av. (2d is iy, James and heirs, to Elizabeth Witlock ay. and 145th st. ht Noble, William and 10H st. 8. of 45th, Same to same, w. 9 of loth an, Patrlek, to Aug’ Oth av., b Lexington av... of 8th at rman PK: and wife and a ye ie ard HW. Owe w. cor. of 2a others, and 44th ‘i The large number of sales advertised to be made | Jere. Johnson, Jr, sold by public auction, the | | others. On the | | enced by any unworthy consideration, frankly that the frst year I eame hero I did allt could | | also, executor’s sale, to close estate of Augastas D. | | pretty live corpse to-day, | fused to so rey Ewen street and Grabam avenue, and one two story | No, 498 North Second | to W. Hubert; | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1876.—TKIPLE SHEET. THE STATE CAPITAL Defence of the Railroad Committee Against Corruption, WEST, THE INCORRUPTIBLE. 'He Says He Is Not a Rural Member. MR, WORTH IN HIS NATIVE TONGUE | Important Statements by Dr. Vanderpoel. ALnany, March 21, 1876, Those members of the Railroad Committce who wore charged by “One Who Knows’? with being in the ring of the committee, and who were not present Jast evening, made the doad ‘No Seat, No Fare" billa Mr. West, the chairman, was the first member to rise to a question of privi- lege. Ho said that he bad read a statement in the Henao which contended that the | Railroad Committee had “bartered away their honor” for money in _ reporting adversely on the “No Seat No Faro’ bill and certain Ho denied that the committee had taken a dollar, directly or indirectly, to influence their action, “Lhaye,” said he, ‘been a member of this House for five years, and I never allowed my vote to bo influ 1 will say to encourage the lobby to como and see me for no other reason on earth than to see how it was done, FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS BEFORE BREAKFAST, “They used to come to my room at the Delavan before breakfast, and D’ve had them to offer me to go Tor acortain bil.” The House was apparently much amused over this frank statement and iaughed quite heartily. West added, after order was restored, *But 1 always tola thom that l bad money enough before I came here, and that if I couldf’t get along without getting paid by the lobby I'd go home and sell all my mills at once. No lobbyman has it to say that he could influence mo by money or any other consideration, 1 suppose that when the Speaker ap- pointed the chairman of the Railroad Committee he had confidence in me. I know that when he told mo not feel like accepting until I had consulted some of my friends, Said one of then to me, “Can you afford to take that place and come out of that committee an honest man?’’ I replied, ‘I can,’ and so far as lay in my power nothing dishonest woula be done by that committee: Now, the Henratp has put me down asa rural member. I have a great respect for the H&RALD and its correspon for all the other correspondents, but they do get mis- taken once in awhile like other people. I’ve been put down, I say, asa rural member, yet I go to New York three or four times a week on business, as much of’ my business is dono there, and 1 know something about the city and the accommodations of city railroad cars, I came to the conclusion that tho bill, if passed, would be impossible to enforce, that it would. be impracticable. I beliove that a measure that is not for the benefit of the people is a dead letter. You can’t enforce it. The committee believed, as I believed con- scientiously, that this No Seat No Faro bill when it was frst introduced was an imopracti- cable bill, and though we considered the bill faithfully and honestly there was but one opinion about it, The only. remedy for the overcrowding of the cars is rapid trausit, Now, as to our report on this bill. Ifthere had been A HUNDRED MILLION OF DOLLARS put ap to geta favorable report on that bill, and I don't elaim to be bonester than other people, and I think the Railroad Committee are as honest as the rest of this House, | beheve the committee would have re- rt. Mr, West then went on tooxplain how he had told Wenzel on Friday, when he heara that he was to ‘© & reconsideration of the vote on the | committee's report, that he would do all he could to have qhe time extended before the adjournment that day 80 that the motion could be made, He then sent up to the Clerk's desk a Jetter, which he asked to have sometimes worked, The letter was read. It was signed by “One Who Knows What Is Going Onin the Railroad Committes.”” It was addressed to the superintendent oe hcanee company, and called his attention to a 11 salaer county, which provides for a reduction of the fare on the road, stating that the Railroad Committeo were determined to report the bill, and that, if it ever got before the Houso, 1 would be certain to pass, The writer of the letter then added that the Superintendent, if be desired to make the bill certain of defcat in the ould call upon Mr. Charles Edwards. Kdwards is a notorious lobbyist here). Wha made this letter rather important as a guage ot the wi re lobby manages to accomplish their objects is, os Mr. West stated, that 1 3 im the same hand- writing as a bill handed some timo ago to a member, which he refused to introduce, and whéeh ts now in the possession of Mr. West, The party who handed this bill to the members is a man named Briggs, a crony of Edwards, and who, with Edwards, was hauled up somo | time ago by she Strahan Investigating Committee, Mr. West, without stating the fact, left the House to draw of the letter, who excused himself tor not signing his name, because bo was “an attach® of the As- sembly’'—which he is not ‘Supposing,’ said Mr. West, in closiog his remarks, ‘that the Superintendent of that road had gone to Edwards and paid him to ‘fix’ the Railroad Commitjee, and the bill shoald be reported adversely by the committee, what would he have thought, innocent of the whole transaction as the committee might be? Why, that the committeo had been bought, That is one of the ways of the lobby, know I'm right, they can talk as. they please,” A SHAT AND NO SEAT. Jowed Mr. West in detending the comrnittes. I fully indorse, said he, all the remarks of Mr West except that which refers to the $100,000,000. He added that he bad voted to report the bill adversely conscton- Yet he did not believe that rapid transit was the only remedy for the evercrowding of the cars, for ho thought some discrimination could bo made between a seatand no seat. When Mr. Rowen had bis say, the members who wore anxious for an adjournment to go to dinner, as it ‘was then just the regular hour of adjournment, came to the conclusion that the privileged question business was over tor the day. Bui Mr. West, who had so cun- ningly mapaged ov Friday to get Betts to yield the floor to him on the promise that he would ‘renew Betts’ motion, but dia not, considered that he too should be heard, as Mit. WORTH RELATES TIS RXPRRIENCE. Mr, Worth gave a very good explanation of bis own ignorance of the aflairs generally by confessing that ho had not bad bis attention called to tne Herano over fame time paid a high compliment to the intelligence of his conatituents by Claiming once upon a time that when most all the papers im the State and all the papers in his district were against him tained in his lite, while last year, when he was somi- nated 8 both parties and all the papers were tavor- able to him, he was elected by a majority of only 88, ‘the State ticket of his party receiving a majority of 2,600, This, in the opinion of Mr. Worth, showed that the newspapers were only beneficial to'a man when they opposed him; but, in the opinion of a good many eople, it is proot largest’ majority he ever received in his lile his constituents did not know him so well as they aid when he only gota majority of eighty-eight. Even a certificate of good character from the politicians of both parties wod the praises of tho editors in his district ‘wore powerless to convince the voters jast fall that he had changed for the better since the time when all the papers wore all against him. Doubt- less his constituents have come to the conclusion that what the papers had then said about him wos the truth after all, Mr. Worth showed conclusively that he reads the newspapers very seldom, for to prove that HeRALD was inconsistent in Its rete ences to the committes, because its regular correspo! dent bad stated that Mr. Baldwin had voted against th Verse report, Whereas a communication to the paper id Baldwin was one of the ring. If Mr. Baldwin ob- ined @ hitic credit for the way he was declared vo have voted it was given to him on the strength of three members of the committee ted said he did vote seen the report, one of the three being Mr. Baldwin imself. WORTH IN HIS NATIVE TONGUE. Mr, Worth, after making a queer exhibition of him- self us an orator Who not only despised newspapers but in the past to bring about bis political annihilation there would not now be enongh of him left to tell of his own death whieh it may be stated has been a great mis- fortune thus far to tue Eastern division of Brooklyn. THE COMMITTRE'S INCONSISTRNCIES, Now that the Railroad Committee have all told their little story, it may not be out of place jast bere to ask why, if they considered the “No Seat No Fare” bill in its Criginal sbupo wo utterly impracticable, that no that he intended to appoint me I answered that I aid | P there, and | hich, he said, would show how the lobby | t had been introduced by Mr. Taylor, of Rens- | its own.inference, which was that Briggs was the writer | entiomen, but talk as-the newspapers will, so long as | Mr, Rowen, another member of the committee, fol- thously because he deemed itan impracticable measure. | street | was a member of the Railroad Committee. | two or three times daring the past year, aud at the | ho was elvcted by tho largest majority he ever ob- | | jastewhat it amounts to, positive that when he got the | ba to Lindley Murray and his teachings into the bargain, got off the followin fear nO NeoRepaper,’’ they hev made a grent mony men and hey womade n great many; dooring war Wey made a great many generals but tvery ed | when it came to action, Eny man who ive built up without the aid of a naosepaper is noman. He is & paper man.” Then Mr, Worth remarked with great gusto that if it had been in the po of the press 5 in the committee to make it ticable? They all claim that they gave it full consideration, yet even Mr. Power, who confesses that some discrimination ought io be made be- tween a seat and no seat, did not im ¢om- mittee offer to modity the’ bill even to that extent, Certainly, if his idea had been adopted and the bill ao reported as to compel the companies to earry or half fare, or something less than full fare, passen- gers who can get no seats on the cars, it would have beeu something of a gain for the travelling public; for such a law would force the companies to put on more cars, ae the more seats they would provide the greater attempt was made pe would be the fares. But oh no! This would have been a damage to those — “accommodat- ing public servants” as one of the committee calls the railroad companies and therefore the best way pot to damage them, in the opinion of the com- mittee, was to let them do as they have been doing for years—just as they please, Indeed judging from the Way some of the members of committee talk now one would think that all a committee has to do is to be for or against a bill us awhole, and that it is notits pro- Vince to amenda bill, Supposing this ‘No Seat, No Fare” bill had been treated as the Park bili has been, | Would there not have been some good result? | That bill was reported from the Committee on Cities favorably in @ ain shape. The members did not | Uke it, and sent it back to the committee with instruc- Hons to report within three di What did Mr. Fish’s committee do—take it for granted the bill was im- practicable and report it unfavorably? By no means. They reported an entirely new bill, which didaway with the impracticable features of the original, and the result is it met with general satisfaction and is now awaiting its third reading. There is only one conclusion to arrive at now concerning the railroad committeo, Either they are too stupid to know what to do when they get a bill into their hands they do not like as a whole, yet which, judiciously amended, could be made | a worthy measure, or that there isa certain class of bills which the committee teel bound nog to amond for fear, if amended at all, there would be no excuse left | for reporting them adversely. I leave every one to judge for himself who has watched the manauyrings over the Killian bill for the past month where the weakness of the committee lic: QUARANTINE. SRG-SUSTAINING, Dr. Vanderpoel, the Health Om ppeared before | the Assembly Committee on Commer and Naviga- | tion, which has under consideration the project of making Quarantine self-sustaining, if possible, In 1s74, the Doctor said, his entire fees amounted to $40,000, and $30,000 last year. He said | $6 "50 ‘was charged for _ boarding foreign vessols and $3, $2 and $1 for coasting ; tis branch of Quarantine brought him | about $700 every month; for fumigating vessels car- trying more than 100 steerage passengers he charged $50; vaccinations brought about $400, and $10,000 was the total receipts for fumigating vessels; for eyance to Ward's Island he charged $30, and to Blackwell's Island; he believed Quaran- 0 tme conld be run at a cost of $50,000; jit is not likely that the Committee on | Commerce and Navigation will take any action on the Head Money bill before it, since the courts have decided that the “head money” is an unlawful tax on the steamship companies. What the Emigrauon Com- mission will now do for a living is a mystery. THK SUPPLY BILL is to be discussed in the Assembly as a special order next Thursday morning. An effort is to be made to have it pass both houses befofo the close of the present month with the view of compelling the Governor to return it signed as a whole or with his vetoes as to the ires of the Dill he docs not approve before the final adjournment. He is obliged under the constitu: tion to return any bill he does not approve, with hia | reasons for his disapproval, within ten day’ after ite passage. Under the amendments to the constitution he has the power to veto separately items in the Sup- ly bill while approving others, So if the bill is sent vo him, say two or three weeks before the final ad- journment, the majority will have a chance to dis- ‘agree with bis item vetoes, which they would not hava it it was passed as of old, only a few daya | before the adjournment. The belief is general now that the adjournment will not take place before the 26th of April. There isno trath in tho story that he two houses will hold over untll after the 4th of , 80 that by the Senate being in session when the | harbormasters’ terms expire, these worthies, who are republicans, may be saved, for the very good reason that the terms of all the present harbor- masters, but one expired last month. It is not likely, if it was neoessary to save the poor man, that tho Senate would hold over for his sake, no matter what benelit he is to the party as a wirepuller. IMPROVEMKST OF FOURTH AVENUE, Senator Bixby introduced a bill authorizing the Comptroller to issue bonds for an amount not exceed- ing $250,000 for the improvement of Fourth avenuo, between Sixty-seventh and Ninety-sixth streets, EX-GOVERNOR DIX AN REGENT. Ex-Governor Dix is mentioned as successor to Pros- per M. Wetmore as Regent of the University. COMMON SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS. In the Senate this evening the bill to provide for ant- formity of text books in common schools was dis- cussed at length. Prince opposed it on the grounds that it afforded an Co eae 4 for vast corruption, and ho thought it would be very improper to allow any board, as proposed, to designate the books to be used. The dul was laid over for further consideration, THE COMMISSIONER OF JURORS. Mr. Bixby’s bill providing for a board to appoint a | commissioner of jurors in New York city was mp in | Cominittee of the Whole. Mr. Gerard moved to in- sort the words “at the expiration of the teri of office of the present Commissioner of Jurors.” Mr. Bixby | explained that the bill was intended to settle a dispute and litigation between two pergons who claimed the office. Progress was reported without action being | taken on Baaden’s motion, THE COURT OF GENKRAL SESSIONS. The bill to provide for the payment of the oMfcers of | the Court of General Sessions, Part 2, was ordered to | a third reading. CONFIRMATION OF A DEMOCRAT, | ‘The Senate unanimously confirmed the nomination | of William H. Henderson tor Judge of the Eighth Ju. dicial district, in place of George D. Lamont, deceased, | The republicans of the Senay are evidently better dis- ed to confirm the nomination of a straightout democrat than of a republican who asserts independ- enee of judgment and leaves his party for good and suificient reasons, Southworth, whose personal fitness for the position was admitted on all hands, was rejected because he became a liberal republican. This was his sole offence in the eyes of the republican Sen tors. The Governor might have been under | delusion that he was offering a sort of compromise nomination when he sent in the name of Southworth, bat he must be relieved of that now, and will under- tand in future that a prononneed democrat is far more acceptable to republican tastes than a half-and-half fol- lower of either party. DISPRANCIISED METHODIST PREACHERS. Mr. Emerson has been informed that there are 1,500 Methodist ministers in thi& State who are practically disfranchised by reason of having no settled piace of | residence. Their cireuit duties fromm year to year never allow them time to stay long enough in any one by to acquire the necessary residence qualification voter. To meet this stato of affairs he offered in the Senate the following amondments to the constitution :— Resolved, (if the Assembly concur), That section 2, ar- ticle 2, of the constitution be amended as follows :—Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years who have beon acitizen for ten days and am inhabitant of this St oue your next preceding an el i for the Inst four «resident of the county, and fur the Inst thirty da; nt of the election district in which he may offer | yote, shall be entitled to vote at elect in the election district of which he | shall at. the time be nm resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are, of © may be elected by tha jons whieh may be submitted rovided that in time of war no service of the State or of the ‘he deprived ‘h election dis- and upén all qi 6 of the people, the actual military ates, in the army or navy thereot, of h vy reason of his absence from | trict, and provided that no mini nation shail be deprived of hi co made in nd the Legislature » in whieh and the tin wer of any religious denomi- by ronson wf amy chance Karge of his irinisterial wer to d place "at whic! Bnd vote rs the such tively resi . The rosolutions wore Inid on the table under the rule, A STATE BOARD OF AUDIT. Owing to the constitutional amendments the Legia Jature has no longer any power in ite committees te claims against the State. Over six weeks ago Senator Price introduced a bill to create a State Board | of Audit, for the apo. of considering all claime against the State. To-day it was discussed at some length and ordered to a third reading, amended by the Comptroller, Secro- tary of State State Treasurer (in place of Attorney. constitute the Boat nd providing that it shall be the duty of the Attorney neral to appear at each sitting of the Board of Andit lor the purpose of roting the interests of the State, and he shall have authority to subpana witnesses on behalt of the State in reference to such claims and ac- counts, and requiring the Board to report evidence as well as conclusions on the claims before them to the | Logisiaturo, THE STATE PRINTING. There has been « great deal of talk abont the State printing contract and the Se Committee of the Assembly have been Wrying their level best to find out ‘he result of their labors i« shown in the report they submitted to the Assembly this morning, and which is signed by all the members of the committee, asking for a new contract, LEGISLATIVE NOTES. Mr. Starbuck contemplates devolving a heavy job on the county clerks and registers of the State ina bill providing that these officials shall furnish the Secre- | tary of State with a statoment of all the mortgages of roles on their books from the year 1855 to There ie still a chance thst the Judge of the Court ot | Feecg wn cate yeh rays ch neem 4 Kew Fork, may be alio u en out of the Appro- re will be again ‘iiscussod 08 Porn bill, The subj ‘huraday. MR. SCHLAMOWITZ EXPLAINS, To tus Fron ov The Henatn:— An article appeared in the Henatp this morning which so grossly misrepresented the facts in regard t¢ an action of false imprisonment brought against me by one F. Davall, that 1 desire an immediate correction, It is true that euch an action has been commenced and that an order of arrest was granted. The amount of ball, however, was fixed at $300, instead of $3, and instead of being imprisoned ia default of bal I was free to go Upon my owD recognizance until this morn. ing, when | promptly deposited with the Sheriff the amount of the bail, ‘The arrest of Duvall, a fow weeks ago, on which this action 1s based, was occasioned b; his giving me a check in @ fictitious name for goods sold, Yours, respectfully, EMANUEL H. SCHLAMOWITZ, New Yona, March 21, 1876, ROBBING A POLICEMAN, eee Adams, of the Fourth precinct, is minus An unterrified tbicf stole them from of his tesidence, No, 171 First avenug — coat and the