The New York Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1876, Page 15

~ | dhis evening, in the Catholig Apostolic church. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, —_-—— . Chat by the Way--Ministe- rial Movements. ‘Methodist © Conferences—Transac- tions Yesterday. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. —————— In St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. George 8. Hare, D. D., will preach this morning, and Roy, C. D. Foss, D. D., this evening, In Stanton street Baptist church the Rev. W. H. Leavell will preach this morning on ‘Regeneration Once, Conversion Thriee;” and inthe evening on “A Bible Reading. % Sermons will be preached at both services to day in Bt. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal eburch, Rev. Dr. ‘Morgan, rector. Dr, Stevenson, of Dublin, will oceupy the pulpit of the Scotch Presbyterian church this morning and Rev, ‘8, M. Hamilton in the afternoon, Dr. Miley, of Madison, N. J., and Dr. Chapman, of Bt Paul’schurch, will preachin St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church to-day, Rev. J. B. Hawthorne will preach this morning in the Tabernacle Baptist church on ‘‘Conceit and Its Cor ces,’? and this evening on ‘What Shall Wo Do to Please God.” - “How to Strengthen aChurch” will be explainod this morning by Rev. W. D. Nicholas, in Spring strees Preabyterian church. ‘Tho Rev. L. J. Stowe and the Rev. R. P. Christopher will occupy the pulpit of the Allen street Methodist Eptecopal church to-day. This evening the Rev. George 0. Phelps will ask Allen street Presbyterian church ‘What Shall the Har- ‘vost Bo?’ r ‘The Bible readings for Iadigs will be continued this ‘week, as last, in the Church of the Holy Trinity, by Misses Logan and Beard. “Worship” will be considered this morning by Rev, P. C. McCarthy in tho Bleecker street Universalist whurch. In the evening the question to be answered ts “The Wicked Punished—No Escape—How? When? Where?” In tho Protestant Episcopal church of the Advent the Rev, J. F. Jewitt will minister this morning and Bvening. Inthe Church of Our Saviour Rev. James M. Pull- man will proach this morning and Rey. A Gunnison this evening. ‘The Rev. W. M. Dunneil will minister to All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church to-day, as usual. Services ag usual to-day in the Protestant Episcopal Phurch of the Heavenly Rest, “What a Young Woman Can Do Under Difficultics” will be told in the Central. Baptist church this evening by Rev. J. D. Herr, =~ There will be services in the church of the Holy frintty every day and evening this week except Sat arday. Rev, 8. H, Tyng, Jr., will preach there this Worning and cvoning, Dr. John Lord will lecture in the Thirteenth street Presbyterian church this evening on “Solomon,” &nd Dr. Burchard will preach this morning on “The Sacred. Chest and Its Contents.”” Rev. Dr, Sanvson will speak in Association Hall this dvening, ‘ In the church of the Holy Apostles the Rev. BE. Backus will minister to-day at the usual hours. Dr. Armitage will speak about ‘The Acceptable Wear” and “Peter on the Sea’’ in the Fifth avenue Baptist churoh, Rey. J. A. Seitz will preach this morning and even- g, and Rev. J. M. Pullman on Tuesday ovening, in lem Universalist church. ‘4 Services mm the Hippodrome this week. in the order of the foast week. Mrs, Bullene will spall Republican Hall this even- on the ‘Phenomenal Age of Spiritualism and its hetio Results,"” ‘The Ninth ward prayer meeting is hold overy day at hoon in the Presbyterian chyrch in West Eleventh Breet, Mra, Stoddart gives spirit séances this evening in the painsirel hall, Broadway and Twenty-ninth street. Rev. J. 8S. Kennard will preach in the Pilgrim Bap- Met charch this morning and evoning at the usual hours. Rev, W. B. Merritt will minister to tho Sixth avenue Reformed church at the usual hours to-day. Dra. John Cotton Smith and C. N. Sime will address he Brooklyn Sunday School Union to-morrow evening fm Hanson place Methodist Episcopal church. ; The Rev. Dr. William Adams will preach tn Madison avenue Reformed church this morning. Rev. James Gardner wi)! preach in the Brick Presby- rian church this morning and afternoon. Ss The Religio-Scientific Society will be addressed in Belence Hall this aiternoon by G, L. Henderson on “How to be Saved,” ana this evening by H. B. Brown on “Whatever is is Right.” Rov, S. H. Tyng, Jr., will preach this morning and Syening in the Church of tho” Holy Trinity, Sankey’s fiymans are used. Young men’s prayer meeting at half. past six o'clock this evening. In the First Refqrmed Episcopal chutch the Rev. W. BR Sabine will preach morning anievening. At the tommunion service on Thursday evening Dr. Deems will deliver an address. ~ The Rev. George Howell will conduct Reformod Episcopal services, at No. 29 East Twenty-ninth atrcet, * this morning and evening. Professor Wayland will lecture for, Spiritists at fwenty-ihird Street Opera House this evening. A lecture on “The Sixth Seal, or the Dawn of the Day of Wrath,’’ will be given by Rev. W. W. Androws, ‘The ‘Stabat Mater” will be chantod In tho Church ‘St Mary the Virgin this evening;.“‘high sorvice” ig morning. ‘The Rev. J. B. Fiagg will preach at both services to- @ ay tn Christ church, Protestant Episcopal. In 8t. Alban’s Protestant Episcopal church the Rev. DB. W. Morrill, rector, there will be three services to- Gay and a variety ofthem during the week, Rev. Chauncey Giles will preach on “Increase of Faith’ in the Swedenborgian church this morning. ‘The Rev. J. W. Einshaw and Rev, B. F. Millard, will Ve preach in the Mariners’ church to-day. On Thursday evening the Baptist Sunday School Poachers’ Association will mect in Calvary Baptist phurch and be addressed by President Robinson, of Brown Univorsity, on “The Relation of the Sunday Pohoo! (o the Pulpit.” Rov. R. 3, MacArthur will also Address the association. Dr. Ewor will preach this morning and evoning fn Bt Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal church. Special bervices will bo held in this church during tho week. “The Rev. D. B, Jutten will speak in the Sixteonth Baptist church this morning about “Sick Persons Brought to the Great Physician,” and im the evening on “Bowing and Reaping.” Im the Church of the Discipics this morning the Rev. Beorge H. Hepworth will speak about “Tho Authority , bf the Sibie,” and in the evening about “The Open and ‘Baut Door.” Peter Dwyer has removed his gospel mission to No. Ji West Third street (old Amity), whero he will hold peligious services at the usual hours to-day, and those greking salvation are invited thither, Sankoy's hymns bro sang. e ‘The Rev. Mr. Brouner will lead the Ninth ward meet- jug in West Eleventh street Presbyterian church this n, at four o'clock. A similar meeting will be beld in tho Tabernacle Baptist church, Second avenue. Mr, Marchmont, of England, will preach in the mis- f hall, No, 40 Baxter street, this afternoon at half- three, and im the evening im the old Chatham Theatre, There is no collection taken at cither as the service is designed forthe non-church going poor pane t CHAT THE WAY. @ Unless you icarn to your temper it will very goon learn to control you {You con vory easily do im five minutes what you it bard to undo In as many years, is Frothingham says of Thomas Paine that though @rank ‘more brandy than would now be deemed "’ ho was nevertheless one of the world's bene. How mach brandy cam & man take and still ‘Be “deemed dignified?” Tom raine used to drink Dimself tnto a state of beastly intoxication, and to do it repeatedly. He may have been calumniated, as Mr. Frothingbam suggests, but not on this particular point, He wase drenkard and an infidel; yet he finds an apologist in this reverond proacher. ‘There is many a “promising young man”’ who never kopt his promises, ‘The impression that there is ‘9 neutral territory in Feligion iss great mistake. dollar bill must be either genuine or counterfeit; it can’t be both, Money can buy a great many things which a man doesn’t want, and some things that he does want. But tt can’t buy friends, and bappiness is never so!d over the counter. What you need most must be given to you by God, not bought with coin. The dry goods merchants are completely demoralized by the hard times, They tell us, with very lugubrious faces, that it takes at least ten mills to make a simple cont, Under these circumstances it is» not strange that church contributions are running very low. If your habits are expensive when you are young, they are apt to be simply pensive when you are old. ‘The ruling vice of the Japancse is intemperance. The hational product, rice, is to Japan what rye is to the Americans, On certain festivals the harems are closed to the men, and the houris atp their saki until all jealousies are drowned in a common oblivion. Two things prove that all men have sprung from the same stock, viz —tho whiskey at night and the headache in the morning. . Harvard College can no longer be called tho strong- hold of Now England Unitarianism. It has threo re- ligious socioties whose conditions of membership are thoroughly Calvimistic. The last graduating class num- bered 148, of which only thirty-nine wore Unitarians. Conservatism is gradually bringing the institution back to the motto on its shiold, Pro Christo et Ecclesia, Mr. Moody's suggestion about inquiry meetings is being generally geted upon. Several clergymon give an invitation after every service to those who are in doubt to meet them for conference. Tho perfunctory character of church work is giving way to greater earnostness, Mr. Moody has done good work in wak- ing up the sleopy pulpit, Dublin sent over to the Hippodrome Convention two genial and gi/ted clergymen in Messrs. Fletcher and Stephenson. They report the revival work still in Progress across the water with as much enthusiasm as whon tho evangelibts werethere. Tho clergy of New York have got the reins in theirown hands now, and if they have the zeal and unity of Dublin and Glasgow Satan will have Spoor time of it for many a month to come, Allover of the curious, who has an over-sanguine temperament, {s searching tor the envelope on which St, Paul’s Epistle was sent to the Corinthians He does not care for the envelope itself, but wants to add @ rare postage stamp to his collection. Ideas of the namerical value of a man and his wife seem to vary according to circumstances, which may possibly be tmagined, but which cannot be described. .| The twain aro always one—that seems to be univer- sally conceded—but whether the man or the woman constitutes the major and controlling element of that solemn unit is the vexed question, One gentleman, whose experiences were undoubtedly peculiar, openly asserted that he and his wife Were not one but ten. When asked to explain the puzzle, ho replied that he represented his wife and himself in Arabic figures— thus, 10. His wife was a solid and undeniablo unit, while ho represonted the cipher. . The Princeton boys seem to be given to practical jokes. During the hour of recitation, while the’grave President is questioning ‘sho -class, torpedoes unex- pectedly explode, This may givo emphasis to tho ro- marks made, but does not add materially to the in. formation of the students. Boys will be boys, but President MoCosh will probably soon attract the atten- tion of the class to that part of the Book of Proverbs which intimates that a young man’s chances in life are increased by a liberal uso of the rod, and then proceed to illustrate 1, , Think of a man of genius like St Amant summing up the whole of life in these bad verses, A wit, a man of mark, he got little out of his years, perhaps because he put little into them. It is the story not of one life, but of many :— Upon a faggot seats ipe in Ti ine ny. pero aA vg a wall, My heart sinks in me, down my eyelids fail, As all alone I think on life’s eclipee. Meantime the horb in ashes sinks and dies; ‘Then to its sadness back my spirit flies, And the old troubles still rise up behind. Live upon hope and smoke your pipo, all’s on It means the same when life is ‘and donc; Ono ia but smoke, the other is but wind. We prefer Mr. Moody’s philosophy to that, Your estimate of life depends more én what you chooso to give to others than on’ what you get from them. The most gratetal people are not those who keep most, but those who impart most, This is one of the paradoxes of religion. While Mr. Moody is preaching to hosts, lesser re- vival lights are shining on hundreds and scores. Peter Dwyer has gone into the lower part of the city, and, like a Methodist of the early days, has bared his arm and gone to work. The converts are among the poor; butasoul isa soul, whether ragged or wealthy. Tho shortest way to retrenchment in the expenses of the police force is to sustain tho little missions, Old Boisrobert died as he had lived, with an excuse on his fips. He sent for his confeasor, to whom tho dying man said, sadly, “Do not think of Boisrobert liv- ing, but of Boisrobert dying.” This looked a bit like Tepentance, but it was not deep. The confessor said, “God has pardoned greater sinners than you.” “He has indeed,” was the reply. ‘The Abbe dé Vil- larceaux, for instance’’—he had jast lost monoy at play with him—‘‘is doubtless a greater sinner than I, out I hope God will pardon him.” ‘Ono of the tadies at his bedside sald, “Monsieur, con- trition is a great virtue.” “It ts, madame," he replied; ‘‘I wish It you with all my heart.” Hits last words were, ‘I should be content to be on as good terms with our Lord as I have been with Car- dinal Richelieu." Ho left a joke, a sharp repartee, bebind, and ox- pired. It 18 not alwaya the excessive grief that lasts longest, When the mourper over the dear departed rends the air and tears her hair and tries to leap {nto the grave, the spasm, though acute, is apt to leave the patient calm and quietly on the lookout Eligible opportuni- ties will not pass unchallenged, and the faneralbaked meats will serve the marriage tables, We have known persons to Lave their cry out at the grave and their lookout immediately after, Restitution is a good evidence of conversion. It takes a large amount of religion to save a who tries to serve the Lord and keep bis plunder at the same time, Either the plunder or the Lord must be given up, because the latter has nover yet beon known to make any compromise with the former. Some people seem to be laboring ander the impression that, though they use illegitimate means to get money, if they give one-tenth to the Lord it will permit them full enjoyment of the nine-tenths, ‘Such a statement seems to be faulty tn logic and false in fact, A poor fellow, who had been entirely oblivious to the difference between meum and tuum, and whose theory Of life seemed to be that overything was his that be could roach, was arrested by those whe differed from him ja this opinion and put into durance vile, He was evidently of a thoughtful turn of mind and came to the conclusion thathe might possibly havo made a mistake in his way of reasoning, for when an officer looked into bis coll and said, ‘The law allows every man counsel; who will you have?” he looked up, with a bland smile, and replied, “Well, I think Moedy and Sankey could give me better counsel than any eng else." ‘The ways of Spiritualists are sometimes very dark. It is fannily told of Mra. Hardy, who has @ troupe of eclestial sculptors at her command, who Work in par- affine a3 $4 per hour, that one evening, while on her way to a private stance, something dropped from her lap to the floor of the carriage, It was a curious cola- eldence that on that particular evening the aagels found it impossible to produce an entire hand, but did exhibit a pretty fair assortment of Ongers and thumps, which looked as though they had ween broken off ome model, [+ is not quite fair, perhaps, to conclude that the mysterious something that Gropped in the carriage was the whole, of which these fingors were » part, but human nature is apt to jamp at a conclusion when ithasa @gr On another occasion, jastas the usual bucket of par- ‘sffine was being covered, that tho spirits might work in the dark, a sceptie who was assisting, dropped into it a halt pound of biuing, Still, whon the hand was pro. daced, it was a8 white asever. The angels had gone to the botiom of the bucket, so said the discomfited Medium. because the blaing was « non-conductor, How curious! Andon whata slender thread hangs the great doctrine of our immortality. A great many Precious truths are taught by Spiritualism, and tilue- trated by paraffine, bells, tambourirfés and banjos. This nineteonth contary is 9 wonderful period to liye Brooklyn still hugs her clerical excitement with a Pertinacity worthy of a better cause. The majority in last woek’s Congregational Convention decided to co-, operate with the Advisory Council’s Committee of Five in tho attempt to run the scandal to barrowand then dig 8 oug, A very important minority regard the Ad- vigory Council as usurpation of authority, and not only decline to act on any committee, but withdraw altogether from the convention. Drs. Storrs, Buding- ton and Taylor have practically taken position outside the denomination until this whole matter falls into com- petent hands, It is a very serious defection, and there ‘must be something wrong somewhero or those i. men would not care to take so decided a stand. Where is the ‘truth? MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. wETHoDisT, Dr. Lovick Piorce, the oldest Methodist preacher in the South, though feeble in health, expects to be able to attend the General Conteronce of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore next month as fraternal Gelegate from the Church South. He. still proaches with all the mental vigor of earlier years, Last month the Methodist Episcopal church at Lan- singburg, N. Y., recoived 210 persons into its fold, of whom 185 were recent converts, Since March 11 State street Methodist Episcopal church, Troy, N. ¥., bas had 250 converts added on probation. Rev. John Good, who has been in this country for some monthe in the interests of the Embury Memorial ehurch, Ireland, left New York for Queenstown on Saturday. Tho evening before he Was presented with asetof ‘“Whedon’s Commentaries” by friends in this city, Cutehoguo Methodist Episcopal church, Long Island, has cnlargod its parsonage and church ‘building at a cost of $2,600, and has had a revival im which nearly 100 have been converted. On the*North Long Isiand district of the Fast Con- ference 387 have-deen added tothe churches an full members and 1,660 as probationers. On the South dis- trict 1,500 have been so added. Among the largest missionary subscriptions reported to the New York Bast Conference are $2,000 from St, Jobn’s church, $1,400 from Sands street, $1,175 from Pacific street and $1,000 from Washington streot eburch, Brooklyn, and $2,240 from Stamford church, Connecticut, . The Rev. L. N. Beaudry, of the Troy Conferenco, 18 about to unite with the Montreal Conference and to engagoin French mission work in that city, where Father Chiniquy is meeting with sach remarkable suc- cess that 2,600 French Canadians bave forsaken Ro- manism and become Protestants within the last eight- een months. . The Methodists of Baltimore and vicinity are trying to raige a centennial fund of $30,000 for Randolph Macon College, * at Pittstown, Pa,, 100 persons have lately boon Converted, and all but three baye united with the Methodist Kpiscopal church. At*®Middlehope, North Newburg, 120 have been converted, and all save ton have united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Barrost, The Rey. E. Love has resigned the pastorate of Sher- man avenue church, Newark, N. J., and Rey, E. K. Fuller has accepted the pastorate of the Baptist church at Dover, Fourteen wore added to the Baptist church in Orange, N, J., last Sunday, by baptism, and fifteen to the Bap- tist church at Flushing, L. I, The Baptist church et Lansingburg, N. Y., has added by baptism thirty.two persons since January; twelve have been added at Burrsville, N. J., and to tho First Baptist charch at Rahway twenty-five. The Bergen Baptist church of Jersey City has unani- mously called the Rove S, W. Folj@mbo, of Malden, ‘Mass., to their pulpit, He preached for them recently with much acceptance, The Connecticut Baptists have raised $25,000 toward their proposod Centennial Fund of $100,000, beside several large subscriptions which are promised. The Rev, Galusha Anderson last Sunday resigned his eageaeis: of the Strong place Baptist church, Brook- lyn, to accept a call to Chicago, The state of his wile’s heaith compels a change. Rev. ©, ¥. Swaa has tendered his rosignation as pas. tor of the Bowdoin square ist charch, Boston, ‘The rovival in New Britain, Conn., has been of re- markable power, Over 100 have been baptized. The good work in New Brunswick, N. J., resulted in large additions to the First and Remson avenue churches, On Lord’s Day about sixty were received by Dr. Smith into the fellowship of ‘The labors of tho Rev. RK. B. Kel avenue church, Brooklyn, are very added to th: m bers hi large and the Sunday Mi ool constantly 1n- Just Sow the “City of Churches,” so far’as the Bap- ws asad deficiency of pastors. vacant pulpits, with no immediate rs to supply them. They yp mg avenue, Hanson piace, rinity, 4 Fifth ‘churen, Who are the \fidates are not *‘fow.’? EPISCOPALIAN, The Stanging Committee of the diocese of Michigan have declihed to admit Mr. A. W. Mann, an officient deat mute lay reader, as a candidate fer holy orders on the ground that the canons of the Charch do not authorize the admission of a person so far incapaci- tated from general work as such a person must necessarily be. An Episcopal brotherhood has been incorporated by the Virginia Legislature for the assistance of families of doceased clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church in that diocese. They may acquire and hold Mr rty not to exceed $200,000 in value. Though the Astors worship at St. Bartholomew’ church, 1n Madison avenue, and the congregation considered wealthy, it yet aliows a heavy debt to reat ba) its property, wi it could readily pay off if it woul id. The vestry of St Paul's, Petersburg, have called coming men ¢ Rey. Theodore Reed, of urg, Va., to the assistant Fae § of that church, io tho charge of th: Church of the Good Sbheph ja Blandford, where a romising missionar, vetke decision in the Ror. id. 18 offered. Mr, Keots’ case in Eng- Jand is more far-reaching in its effects than was antict- ‘ted at the time. The ‘‘parishioners,’’ who have been red tho co-ownors of the churchya aro talking ot the ownership of tho buildings, and Mr. Ushorne Morgan’s bill in Parliamont to make the former as- sumption a legal fact, though defeated, is halled by the dissevters as af entering Wedge toward disestablich- ment, and for the samo reason 18 camel by the Epis- copal Church. There are 10,000° churcliyardg in Jand where the Ai service only | and but 619 public cemeteries; in Wales there are 788 church- js and only 21 cemeteries. ‘The Rev. beg W. Hinkle has resigned as assistant oft. "s, Newburg, and minister in charge of St. George’s cl 1, and has gone to Oxford, Engtand. PRESBYTERIAN. Rov. James Marshall, pastor of the First Presby- terian church of Hobokon, has resigned on account of ilness. The effort now being made here to hang Thomas Paine’ ture in the Cen- tennial gallery ees geo men ol the American Revolution. It quotes ot his beastly drunken- ness, and, while admit tho great services tbat he rendered to the infant Republic, yet thinks tho moral senso of the nation would be biurred by any such honor conferred on him. A casual count by the Inferior of reports from thirty-six eburches an aggregate admission of 2, (bers at their last commynions, This 18 average nine members to éach church. The increase of the membership of the Pres- y bytoran Charch will, doubtless, be larger for the year categ Apt 1 than ever before in any one year. , Rev. Dr, Calhoun, who has spent man; of an eminently devoted and useful lifeasa onary in Syria, was greeted ts large company ol geotiemen, who ‘m bad long esteemed iy and for his work's sake, on week. The: jon Was on the invita- tion and at the residence of his col classmate, Dr. Ls. Kary ea ogg many of the resideot alumni of Williams, from Mr. Bryant down, and Td ply ed well known professors, secretaries, di business mon, Fifty-five persons were received into the Brick Pres- wera chareh fes- of Rochestor last Sunday, on pro: of faith and@ fourteen by letter. Thoy are the frait of a recent revival there. + The vote of the Presbyteries upon the question of ical represen Synod! A, tation is thus far‘—In favor, 19; on Boiban ebapel, baie ninety persons have been reoesty converted; in tl ‘Nori Presbyterian church, of this city, forty-five have united on protes- sion aud sixteen by letter; in Union chureh, Newburg, eighty were Nasi Sunday, and in the Presby. terian chareb, Londonderry, N. H., twenty have beon Feceived and more to follow. © ROMAN CATHOLIC. sake armada ites Satin tt in 7 | Its rec nye for em rents the Church of the Immaculate Coenen. New York, and now ot the Charch ofthe immacalate Con- N. ¥., is rapidly recovering trom Bonnington by Kev. at Bata N.Y. Pov. Father Mullane 3° the pastoral o Secred Heart Rook Cit; Falls N.Y. The Dominican Fathers Byrnes, Bokel, Daly, Quinn and McKenna have eon’ giriog a very successful mission in St, Paul’s ehurch, Brooklyn. e Redempe> en gg ‘@ mission im the Cathedral in Boston on in The Tite Sisters of the Poor ot Brooklyn warn tho eharitable against unauthorized fomales who are én- gaged iu collecting, as they state, to aid the Sisters im Febuilding the Home for the The Sisters call the on the benevolent and will gratofully ac- cept the smalicst donation. MINCRLLANBOUS. ‘The London Jewish Chronicle, in discussing the {llogical Position of Protestant Christians in denying the mira- — the Catholic Church while accepting those re- in the New fostament, declares that ‘nothing but an::ther reform, ending in an approach in the diree- tion of Judaism can gave Protestantism; and tno Sooner this new reform be undertaken {ho better chance will Protestantisin have to preserve itself. If it delays much longer it be too late, It may inthe intorvathave lost some of its loading mings, and there May not be suficient carnestness, spirituality and in- higy yt dig ahaha the aoe peas = 1 1 lectable writer in an |prscopal periodical classifies certain deadly aos en are eval to the “pects.” As for instance, pride is the distinguishing Seg totes ged of Methodism, avarice or covetousness of hers, is tho root evil of Congregationaliam, sloth of Presbyterianism, anger and hatred of the Es- tablishment: sin of the Baptists andsoon, And inst these giant sins “the Catholic Chureb”’ (meauing his own) is struggling mightily. The Interior (Chicago) advises young men not to marry girls who have bird sealps in their hats, unloss they are willing to be bald-headed and broken-heartod early m matrimonial life, Dr. S. Wells Williams, of Utica, Years the Secretary of the American ation in China, and a master of the Chinose tohgue, has accepted a Rew professorship of Chinese lan; e and literature in Yale Coliege—the first protessorship of the kind establishod in this country. 4 Tho Rev. Mr. Bidwell has accepted a call to the pul- pit made vacant by the expulsion of Mr, Glendenning rom Westminster Presbyterian church, Jersey City. ‘An effort was mado by adherents of the latter to setup an independent congregation, but the attempt was% fatlure. METHODIST CONFERENCES, - NEW YORK EAST CONFERENCE PROCERDINGS YESTERDAY. In the transaction of business yestorday in this Con- ference it was announced that the subscription started last year for,Brother Gothard amounted to $673, which was paid to him. Dr, Rust addressed the Con- ference in the interest of the Freodmen’s Ald Society and the education of the colored people, In view of the fact that efforts bave been made and havo reeently been set on foot to indace the next General Conference to change the boundaries of this Confer- ence by adding to It a slice of Connecticut now within the jurisdiction of the Providemco Conferonco, Mt. Buckley offered a resolution, which was adopted, that it is the sense of the Conference that Bo change shoula bo mado in ita boundaries, This ‘movement would doubtless be offty prelimi- mary to throwing that part of this city which now belongs to the East Conference into the Now York Conterenco. ' Efforts in this direction have been frequently made and defeated heretofore. The report of the committec on the Freedmen’s Aid Society by res- olution requested the presiding clders to sce that, tho sums appropriated to this jo be taken up in the several charges of the Conference. The report was adopted. In some churches the.ofMfcial boards refuse toallow this and other collections to be taken up, and ‘Rev, G. L.. Taylor asked what the duty of a pastor is in such casos, The Bishop did not feel disposed to pass upon it, and a brother of the Conference stiggested to pray for said officials. The Conference then clooted Dr, M. L. Scud- der its fifth delegate to the Genoral Conference, by a vote of 144 out of 199, The reserves will be olected to- morrow. The annual report of the Wesleyan Uni- versity was presented and roferred to the appropriate comiuittee, Tho Conference was addressed on tho sub- ject by Drs Foss, the President of the University, It appears that the institution has 32,000 worth of real state, buildings, library, ‘ap- paratus, &c., but that $141,000 of its assets only aro reductive, the income from which i# about 10,000. 1k receives from other souroes about $12,000 more; 80 that there isadeficiency of $26,000 on the current expenses, It has 176 students this year, but has aecommodatton for 309. It has received seventy- four new students this year, a number larger than it bas bad for many years. It has a mortgage debt of $60,000 and © floxting debt of $22,500, and it is pt to raise $500,000 as an endow- ment fund in this centennial yoar. The New York East Conference contains Ofty-six graduates of Wes- leyaw University, and ils chiet dopendenco is on this Conference. Revs. Jamos Kay, of Westchestor; 8. Weston, Parkville, L. I.; Allen Nixon, Greonpoint; Albert ‘A. Lathbury, of Norwalk, Conn., and D. F Pierce, of South Britain, Cono,, were clected to locat deacons’ orders. Messrs. Coburn, Blakeman and Bound, not having before the proper com- mittecs for oxat were not elected. Reva, Charles E. Miller, Lindsay Parker, E. Watt, F, M. Hal- lock, George Filmor, James Robinson, W. F. Markwick, D. McMullen, TT. W. Bethel, a 2 ene George A. Parkington, L. W. Holmes, William Brown and Joseph B, Shepherd were elected to elders’ orders, All of these gentlemen will be ordained to-day. Mr. Markinck’s case was recon- sidered from the previous day’s action, and ho was ad- mitted into full connection, with the understanding that he should receive a certificate of location or take an appointment, He intends to return to England, and may not como back hore again. -Aa there is a large class of young men applying for admis- sion ‘to tho Conference on trial, it was re. solved that the Conference should sit with closed doors on Tucaday morning to examioe candidates. This motion was discussed pro and con be- fore it was adopted, but in view of the herd thiugs that were said about a young brother on Friday this ‘was deemed the wisost action to take in futuro eaaca. Only those for whom places can be found will be ad- mitted, and the Conference having satisfied itself in secret touching tho gifts, graces and use- fulness of the candidates, will, in open session, recommend such of them ax it’ is satisfied with and can find places for to be received. Tho anniversary of the Ladios and Pastors’ Union was held in Simpson Mothodi: iscopal charch in tho afternoon, and drosees wore made by Rey. J. W. Barobart, p: endo by Miss Almira Losor, Sra. Wittonmoyer, Rev, W. Steele and Rev, W. McAlister, N. Y., for many THE NEW YORE CONFERENCE. At the morning session of the New York Methodist Episcopal Conference the Rev. Bishop Randolph S&S Foster presided. The morning hours were occupied by animated discussions of the majority and minority ro- ports on the subject of the appointment or election of prosiaing elders, Tho minority report, recom- mending that the presiding elders be appointed by the bishops, was voted down, and the majority report, giv- ing a recommendation to the General Conferenco to meet in Baltimore in May, “that the pres- ent mothod of the appointment: of presiding elders be changed, and that sach olders be hereafter elected by the conferences, was adopted by a vote of 96 to 87. Durink the cession the gallerios of the church were crowded with ladies, After the introduc, tion of visitors from otber conferences, who were warmly received, Dr, Hurst, President of the DREW THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, addressed the Conference. He said that th at Madison was but nine yoars old, but it ing ate: Namer'caily it has tho largest vum- of students of any Methodist institution in America. jog to financial failores the endowment fund had been crippled and tho officers looked fo the ministers of - oprgeneepe to reor; ane hem Linen Petar pane resulting in the ure of endowment nol e reddealy, tar the officers of the institution had ted it daring ch dpe four months, All of tes are represent in scholarships, notably the Or the England States by, st: the Mid by ity P 2 souutorn tates een idle iis, the Southern seven- Me i Western by pine, <4 Paciflo y five, and foreign countries, including Can- ada, France, Mongolia, Macedonfa, &c., by nine, mak- 126 students, The students recoived aro those recommended Ls the churches, The speaker Bot to send to Madison Gospel of Christ. The arches alone,” Concerni oe eas eee shout the world, then appointed Menara. Patt’ Re Brown Dasen as a Committee on All ordored t to tho after tho usaal hour prayer. Rast, the of tho Bureau of the Methodist | She meaguivede of he h yng Tor ita bene Shishop Fosuer with an having the same olyert. This morning; at pel tavorvecte char the Bishop wi thle which the new deacon will be ordained, “AUS fohn's chureh in the evening there wili be au ordination of NEW YORK AMRALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 9,\1876.—QUINTUPLE SHEET. PERILS OF EMIGRANTS, ilanaboy has been tranaterred rom | The Terrible Outrages of Run- ners and Forwarders. Establishment of the Commissioners of Emigration. Leading Members and Importance of Their Work. Six Million Six Hundred Thousand Emi- grants Landed in This City. The history of omigration to this port bofore the creation of the Board of Commissioners, in 1847, is lttle else than a record of rdbberies and outrages that would disgrace the most dograded savages on the earth. Wo know little of the innor facts about omigra- tion in tho sixteenth and soventeonth centuries beyond the colonization of Virginia, tho landing of the Pilgrims andthe settlement of Oglethorpe’s people in Goorgia, Under the Dutch, omigrants were cncouraged by grants ofland and the assuranoe of perfoct religious tolera- tion; yet one or two ships in = year brought all who chose tocome, From the settlement of New Amster- dam (New York) to its surrender to the English—1623 to 1664—the Dutch emigrants could not have beon 6,000 in all? Under tho English colonial governmont little was done to induce emigration, The only official attempt was in 1709-10, when 3,000 Protestant Palatines wero sent here at the exponse of the British government, The experiment wasa failure, Tho English wanted servants and subjects, the omigrants wanted freedom, and this handful of resolute Protestants sowed the first seeds of the Revolution that came sixty yoars later. During all the eighteenth century oimgration was very slow, and the arrival of Afty or a hundred fauilies in a body was an event to be wondered at for years, Phil- adelp! sa larger town than New York, and at- tracted a greater number of o:nigrants, SELLING EMIGRANTS AT AUCTION—HITE SLAVERY, There was, also, from the earliest setttements down far into the presont century, a system of selling emi- grants that’ was very little better than nogro slavery. Most of those who came here were Yery poor people, too poor to pay their passagk; and to meet the obligations incurred for transportation and support thoy were regularly sold into temporary servi- tude to tho person who would give the highest price por year for them. Old people, crippies and othera not able-bodied were siow of salo; but hoalthy parents and children and youths of both sexes tound a roady market. at good prices.’ When parenta diced on the voyage the children were sold for a term long enough to pay not only their own passage but that of the dead also, Adults usually had to serve from three to six “years, children above ten servod tili they became of. ago, and younger children were given away to masters who would board and ciothethom. All these persons were known as “indentured gervante,” and were ad- vertised when they fan away in the samo manner as black slavos or horses, Now and then ono of those “servants” stumbled updn good fortune. Catherine Welsenberg, a penniloss orphan, arrived at New York and was sold to Alexander and Herman Philips, farm- ers in the Mohawk Vatley, Sho soon became the belle of the settioment and was courted by a great many rural lovers, none of whom, however, wore rich enough’ to buy .her—that is, pay for the time she had yot toservo. One day tho famous William Johnson, the Indian agent, and the most influ. ential man in that part of tho colony, chamced to see her, and resolved tu make her his wife. In: ehar- acteristic way hoe offerod one of tho Philipsos £5 for tho girl's time, ut thesame time promising him a sound thrashing if he refused to part with her. Philips knew that Bill Johnson would keep his word, took the monoy and handed over Kate, who became Mra. John- son, and an oxcelicnt wife and neighbor. Johnson was knighted, and tho poor Dutch girl bocame ‘my tady.” HOW RMIGRANTS WERE PLUNDERED, Tho first law for the benofit of emigrants was an act of Congress in 1819 rogulating their treatment on ship- board, and it is only since tho passage of that act, which went into offgct on the Ist day of October, that we have complete Btatistios of arrivals. As to the treatment of emigrants, Commissioner Kapp says:— “With rare exceptions they were robbed and plundered from the day of departure by almost every one with whom thoy came in contact. They woro treated worse than beasts and less for slaves. Thero seemod to be a secrot con@piracy on the part of all concerned in dealing with emigrants, to’ feeco and pluck thom without mercy, and pags tl from hand to hand as long as anything could be made oat of them. They were virtually holpless againat any sort of impo- sition or fraud, The thous: who died or were kitlod on the voyage were thrown into the ocean with as little ceremony as old sacks or broken tools.’? The emigration up to 1829 was light, not more than 4,000 & year up to 1824, and about 12,000 to 1829. But nearly all who came were very poor, and not seldom wero taken from tho ship direct tothe Almshouse, To Protect the city against this expense the ‘Passenger act’ of 1824 was passed by the Legisiature of New York, by which shipmasters wero required to give bonds beforo the Mayor, not excoeding $860 for cach alien passenger, to !udemnity the city in case any pas- senger should become a charge upon the public. This law not only secured no indemnity, but was open to flagrant abuse, Therefore, a change was atead of bonds a commutation foo of not or moro than $10 for the Aldermon made an investigation, exposed the clerk and got back—not accent. Of course the commutation money was really paid by the omi- grant. Another famous institutton ‘of the time must be re- ferred to—' ’s Poorbouse and Hospital, ia North Sixth street, Williamsburg. Tapscott ai other packet agents in Europe wWero sending over anybody and everybody who could pay their pasengo, with lavish promiso of situations; but on ar. rival ry f found the situations story faise, Then they were induced to work for the shipowners for thoir and were sent to this private poorhouse and set to grading strects. They wore fed on rotten meat, ship's grease and worse stuff, and when too weak to work oven this disgusting food was withheld. Public indignation was aroused, and the holo was investigated. The report was simply horrible. This hospital was one of the immediate causes of the effort to establish the Emigrant Commies! The bonding and commuting business had proved an cntire failure, BOARDING HOUSES, RUNNERS TICKET SWIXDLERS, The {pefficiency of tho laws in existence for the regulation of emigrants has been shown; but their suf- on that head wero trifling in comparison with Jected "at the. hi Aa 8 Bong ec ands of irresponsible le, rticulart; those Temorseless cutthroats and — we = rupners ig Rm house eepel al encourag: My ighly re- syoctapie”” Peanel and steamboat forwarders, Wo need not dwell long upon this branch of our subject, since the people most | see romember with toler- able clearneas tho ininmous abuses practised by these confederated villains. Tho most widely known, if not the worst Of tho runners, was Goorge , better known as “‘One-eyed Daley,” system to the Legislative nit Daley subsequently became a Custom House officer, and about a year ago, while apparently in good health, dropped from his chair at dinnor and instantly expired. Let us not forget to say that nearly every swindle Perpetrated upon strangers in the way of ovérchargo for board and cartage, of undervaluing toreign gold and paring, for it in wi and cometimes counterfolt ills, of | Hicketd to the West, of if 3 # tes d : i fi if Hf 5 5 a HE i 4 : F these nefarious 4 were committed by the rumners, but the shipping esate eels ay and rail." roads shared the profits with them {n @ greater or lesser degree. Bverybody was aware fur what these rua- #4, bus neither to interfere with them. Now and ‘as made by one of the victiins, but for « ainsed with the law and the language of tbe he m ip. the emi; ree: his meney back Was by the quickest route sent West. Thus these runpe: for yoare infested the lower parts of the city, and by their moans, rocklessness, prodi; 1 political inltuence controlled the eleetions a & powerful voice in 9 State capital, not been for thelr objectio the law routing the Commissioners of Emigration would have passod two or three years sooner. Kvan tho Commissioners were unablo to do away with these leechos 80 long as they had no ‘hk the runners could be excluded. rations of there creatu ‘al hundred of them tion of them f o nized at San Francisco, whi old business of defrauding aud wrished in the flibusser expaditions ta merica, In the days ot which wo lave had eulininated, These it was only by igeation were enabled to take from them the sources of plunder. ven in theirexamination beforo the committee of the Assembly they found {¢ unnecessary to conceal amy of their frauds They openly and boldly avowed and testified to their own depravity. THR BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION, Thoso frauds assumea such gigantic proportions in 1845-46 that several cminent citizens undertook to se- cure legislative remedy. Prominent in this work were Thurlow Weed, Archbishop Hughes, Leopold Bior- wirth, Robert B. Mintura and Andrew Carrigan. They were stoutly opposed not only by the runners but by most of the city officials, led by George H. Purser, Comptroller Ewen and several oillcers of the Alms- house, with John Van Buren as their counsel, On tho 22d of March, 1347, a mass mecting was held in the Broadway Tabornacle, Charles O’Conor tp tho chair. After much opposition from the opponents of reform Tesolutions of the right sort were adopted, and Mr. Carrigan went to Albany to urge the pro; xd bill, sed, and the Emigration Commission w created May 6, 1847, Tho first Commissioners were Gultan C. Verplanck, James Boorman, Jacob Harvey, Robert B, Mingjurn, William F. Havomeycr and David C. Colden. Mr. Weed and Mr. Carrigan had made sep- erate lists of namos for Commissioners, and, singularly enough, it appeared, on comparison, that they were ilentical, except that Weed bad named Carrigan, and Carrigan had been too modest to name himsolf, but suggested Harvey. ‘ A year later Mr. Carrigan suc- ceeded Mayor Havemeyer in the Board, and was an ao- out twelve years. Mr. Havomoyer was the Pres! t in 1847, thon Mr, Verplanck bad the chair for twenty-three years, until he died, we beliovo, Richard O'Gorman presided in 1871-72, succeeded by Henry C. Huribut in 1873, and flually, George J. For- rest tn 1875-76, We lack space to rehoarse tho work of the commis- sion. Under’ tho able Superintendonts, Bernard Cag- serly, Joun A. Kennedy and others, the strangers knocking at our gates were protected from robbery, assisted on their way, given omployment, narse when sick and cared for with Christian philanthropy, Tho noble heapitals on Ward’a, Island, the Emigrant Refuge, the Bureau of Cor- respondence, tho Labor Bureau, tho honest ex- change of moncy, ‘the transfer direct from ships to rallway trains, are the leading features and venefits that the Board provided for emigrante—features s0 valuable and important that Castio Garden soon be- came known all over Europo as the Emigrants’ Mecca— the harbor of seourity where thoy would find friends, and fair dealing. The Commissioners have been, almost’ withoat exception, trustworthy and ablo men, Be- sides those named, we note the Mayors of New York Brooklyn and the Presidents of the Irish and German Benevolent societics for the time bdeing, Cyrus Curtis, Abraham R. Lawrence, John KE, Devlin, Charles H. Marshall, Kline Hicks, James Kelly, George W. Blunt, Calcd. Barstow, John A. Kea- nedy, Elijah F. Purdy, Rdwin D. Morgan, Joho P. Cuming, Gustavus Schwab, Wilson G. Hunt, A. A. Low, Frederick 8 Winston, Cyrus H. Loutrel, Isaac T. Smith, Frederick Kapp, Patrick McElroy, Emanuel B. Hart, teaao Bell, Jamos W. Husted, Henry L. Hoguet, Andreas Willmanp, George Starr, Dantet Maujer, Georgo W. Quintard dnd Edmund Stephenson, ARRIVALS AT NEW YORK VOR VIPTY-SIxX TRARS. It was not until the law of 1819 that records wore made of passengers arriving from foreign countries, It is reckoved that about 250,000 aliens had arrived at all ports from tho peace of 1783totnat date, From October 1, 1819, to the estnblishmont of the commis. sion, May 6, 1847, tho total uumbor of aliens at all hye, porte and coming over the Canadian and Moxt- can borders was 1,485,700, and, adding the 250,000, 1,735,700. Of those there arrived at New York the following numbers :— ALIENS ARRIVED AT HRW YORK FROM OCTOBER 1, 1819, To may 6, 1947. Year Eniing 604 Dec, 31, 1834,. Dec, 31, 1835, . Dec. 31, 1836. swindling, and some Mexico and Central tive member fo Total...... Halt of the 260,0¢0. Total, 1783 0 1847... .0..0ssseeeesevesees es +] 003,56T From the date of the establishment of the com: mission emigration rapidly increasea for seven year then fell off greatly, especially daring the rebellion,) then, for eleven years, rose to a high rate, aud finally. a deciine began in 1874, a1 till continues, with a prospect of less than 75,000 arrivals for 1876, againat 204,581 only four years ago: ALIENS LANDED UNDER THE CARR OF THR COMMIBSION- BRa OF EMIGRATION MAY 5, 1847, to Manca 1, 1876. Year. Year. Aliens. Aliens: Total to New 76,306 York ........6,590,127 185,844 To tho wholo 190,296 country to 1 382 1870. .04.6++4. 7,808,869 To New York to 242,731 1870 ....+6.. 5,570,744 yer into our country 71 per cont on the agerage have landed at Now York city. When- ever the influx has beon very great we have landed mearer 80 cent. A word ato Rationality and we shall close:—Ireland owas, until a fow Veni first in numbers; but Ger- many 18 now ahead, and, count kindred or Teutoni¢ races, very considerably ahead. We give tho totals to all the United States trom 1820 to 1870, both years in- clusive, and the number landed at New York from 1876: May 5, 1847, to January 1, a = New Tork ‘847-1875, qi