The New York Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1876, Page 8

— > — PULPIT DISCOURSES. Eastertide is the Scason for the Dispelling of Doubts. PUT YOUR TRUST IN GOD | Not on Account of What You Are But of What He Is. ST. PAUL THE PLATO OF THE GOSPEL, Why Good Presbyterians Are the Strongest Supporters of Free Government. , CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. HE GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST—SERMON BY THR REY. MR. HEPWORTH. The Church of the Disciples was, as usual, well fillea | yesterday morning. i | | Mr. Hepworth preached a very earnest sermon, con- Binuing the same subject which he treated on the pre- ious Sabbath—the Holy Ghost. His text was from John, xiv., 16—And I will pray the father, and He shall give you another comforter, that he may abide with you forever.” 1 must reiterate what I said last Sunday, that I never approach this most marvellous Of subjects—the presence of the Holy Ghost in this ‘world—without great intellectual trepidation and a feeling of large personal responsibility, and I pray God to use me this morning that I may give you not the ; Fesult 9¢ my own thinking on this matter, but rather ; the truth as it comes from Him, and may my words | fall upon you, not with the authority of | human reasoning, but with the authority of | God’s approval. The bu race has lived, | 80 far, which God has manifested himself to man in peculiar | and miraculous ways, and cach manifestation of Him- sclf has been a proot of His kindness and pity toward | as, and of His desire that we should all find our way out | | | under throc dispensations, in each one of | of the darkness, to trust in Him, The first dispensa- | tion was that of Moses. The human race was 1u its in- fancy, and the Vid Testament is little more than 4 PICTCRE HOOK, revealing God’s will to the human heart. In the centro of that effurt we seo the rugged top of Sinai, above it awful cloud which was inhabited by God himself Little wonder that Moses, cowing down from imme- diate communion with the Father, should have had such aglory upon his countenance that it was necessary to put ona vell belore he could administer the office of | priest in the tabeFnacle. Little wonder that the people who heard the voice asked Moses to request God to withdraw himself—the sound was too much for them to bear. But that dispensation closed when that wonderful star stopped above LBeth- | lehem and the godchild was laid in the | manger. ‘This was a dispensation for full grown mon, for men who had been educated so that they were able to receive of larger and better thiugs than the world had ever dreamed of And so we have in the dispensa- Hon of Christ a pattern which we are bidden to follow. We are to walk in Christ’s footsteps, and if we obey His commands nover lose sight of His face, then | through the darkness into the light beyond, and we shall ard of our fuith in the world that awaig us. nid the Sorrows of lite, we can be in perfect rest aud security if we trust in Him. But Jesus Hin to depart, He went to hea’ we throne He had abdicated, and I would fain believe that since Jesus reseated Hime: n the thron: THE UPPER JERUS. Heaven has been more lenient toward our shortcomings; bus He uttered before His departure the words of the | bext—“And I will pray the father, and he shall give you | another comforter, that he may abide with you for- ever.” Then we are jiving in the third and last dis. pensation, the highest dispensation, THE DISPENSATION OP FAITH in God's immediate presence in our hearts and in our lives. The tirstand second have come and gone, the last is here and we are living under tts privileges. Oh, that we were not so blind and shortsighted that we could uaderstand und appreciate that God 1s here to-day | as He was present in Jerusalem in the olden time! Goa is here, ready to listen to our petitions and ready | to help us immediately upon the utterance of our re- Quest, if our request is uttered in faith; or 1 He sees it to refrain from giving He throws the blessed light of the “reason why” 1m our pathway, God never yet Jost a battle; no human Ite was ever yet a failure that was canducted under the guid- ance ot Heaven. We fail because we stand at the door | and do not say “Come in” when the Holy Spirit knocks, | y attention—aud let me dott in all loving kindness—to an expression, the reason of which 1 thimk you will see at on “The spirit whom the | world cannot receive.” Then, brethren, 1t is true, that after all the sacrifice God has made for us there are some who are not under the covenanted power of the Holy Spirit, There may be sowe here who hardly know what lam talking about when I speak of the | rivileges a Christian enjoys. 1 hope uot. Are you jetting life shp trom your grasp Let mo teil you | once for all that it is wot God’s fault if you are not } wholly happy. God’s throne casts no shadow. It is only worldjiness that makes shadow, and thongh the burden you carry may be heavy, yet remember that When the Holy Spirit is in your heart, somehow it takes hall the burden off. Oh, my brethren, remember that the worldly can know nothing of the granaeur and beauty of that heart appre- ciation that comes of the Holy Spirit. May we live a ener and ever for the kingdom of Jesus Christ our ord. i | | THE REVIVAL, The revival is still im progress, aud meetings are to be | held every evening during Unis week, as they were last, On Thursday evening a mass praise necting will be held, at which the Hippodron All are invited to these meetings, but especially thos who have no church relationship. MASONIC TEMPLE. REY. 0. B. FROTHINGHAM’S IDEA OF THR NATURAL MAN CONTRASTED WITH THAT oF ORTHODOX’ DIVINES. y ‘The services at the above place of worship were tonducted yesterday morning by Rev. O. B. Frothing- | bam. The congregation was large, respectable and at- | tentive, The music was well rendered by a quartet of mfore than average merit, Extracts trom the Old ‘Testament and the Chinese sacred books were read by the officiating clergyman. The sermon, unpreceded by any text, wasa covert attack upon the received notions of orthodox theology with reyard to the nat. ural man. The preacher began by adverting to the lat that the word “nature” is one of vague and loose import; but under the teachings of science we are get ling to define natare as the aggregate of all actual patural facts, or phenomena, which take place in the ‘world as far as ascertained, all of wich are the subject of scientitic inveetigation. When used by religious people the word ‘nature’ assumes a totally different meaning, and stands for the impulses, appetites, in stincts and cravings of unorganized humanity, as con- trasted with what 1s eupernatura’, The natural and pernatural are mere terms of distinction, simply showing different states of exisience, Paul was the author of the true and proper definition of “natural” im the case of man. He distinguished him into THR CARNAL MAN, who is the mere product of physical organization under the laws of physica! appetite; in other words, the destial man, who consults nothing but his own im: Mediate desires, with a body fail of passions, born in sin and doomed to death: the spiritual man, who is the precise reverse of the former—one who lives by and for principles, whose nature responds to what i good and true; who lives tor the good of whe workd~is Above temptation, and soars wloit im the regions of ideal perfection: the natural man, who, wulike the carnal man, hives in the world judiciously, wisely, prudently, is a man of common sense, who puts Uhings well together and pieces out life properly, cousulting no hereafter, but hving sepiently ip aud for the days as they come and gu. Mis hence pertectiy clear ‘hat in are three distinct types: the bestial Janu and the natural man. Orindic ategelshed man simply into wo ty aul's ikea there the spirivuat Christanity bad | mak apd natural man one and the » the departed evangelist Moody bad aon of the patural man, as painted by the theologians, is a f, undeveloped, degraded type. Such © siander on humanity could not last, and the reaction ca beaded by Jean Jacques Rousseau, whose portraiture of ural man was a total real of the above But Rousseau «new no more avout nature than a rely saved the word “uature” trom being mire, aud, in doing this, bud given the tidews, These Kivas have come down itutors of Rous- wead. But we are more realistic. re, with us, 18 hut a vision of a dreain, bul a thing; passion with UF; means blood and bove und ihre, Some people et! us ib to Nature aiid to obey her laws. They really do hot Unders.and what ‘pature’”’ means, and Use the word simply us contrasted with what is artificial. ‘ Bathe oe they fay. But the preacher sec gp “iogetber avd ough Bot to bu separated; that , | trom additional experience und from the development | of the buman miad, | of great multitudes find men living interiorly, so our | never | But walk on, he said; | exes NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, what is called Art and its results, whether in man or in the products of the human mind, is merely the forces of Nature used forthe perfecting of Nature herself. Art simply takes Nature and shows what sbe would be according to her own perfeeted laws. This assumption was illustrated by the marked difference produced by cultivation between the witd flower and one subjected to culture. A ship, said the preacher, whether she sinksor tloats, equally obeys natural laws The growth of plants and’ their decay are both alike natu: The rushing stream inay divide continents and an architect may bri the stream over, He offends not against natural laws, he merely uses them. Various simular illustrations apposite the subject in hand were given, A painter wi 3 us a view without per- spective pamts naturally, but urt is bere al lutely essential to a reproduction of nature, The speaker went op to contend that many of the supposed artificialities of society were nat- ural, just as society itself was natural. Art must be distinguished from artifice, m which the jaws of nature were sinned against, as is evident in the fashionable lady’s hut, and the trailing skirt, whieh sweeps up all the dirt on the street upon the person of the wearer. This sharp and unexpected sally visibly aifectod the risible nerves of the audience. The preacher then contended that if art, as understood in his sermon, were excluded trom the notion of vature, the instinets of the peaceable citizen and the rafflan Were equally natural, and that juils, penitentiaries und ail the repressive appliances of moder socievy were quite unnatural. Man, concluded the speaker, 1s most natural when he takes the crade forces of mature and Stamps upon them the character of hie cwn divinity. The natural man is the perfect man, We have had men perfect on. the spiritual plane, the intellectual plane and the moral plane, but one, gerfect upon all these together the world bas never yet ston and is still awaiting. A very bricf application of what had been said to the daily life of his hearers brought the reverend gentieman’s remarks to a close, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. ME, BERCHER ON THE QUALITY OF GOD'S LOVE. ‘The names of thirty-two ladies and twenty-one gen- tlomen who willon Sanday next join Plymouth churca either by letter or upon profession of faith, were read by Mr, Beecher yestertay from the platform. He an- | nounced that such of the new members as believed in { the necessity of immersion would be baptized in that | form on next Sunday mght. The form in which a per- son was baptized, he said, made no difference if the ecremony were accompanied with faith. ‘These words, from the fifth chapter of Romans, formed the text of the sermon:—For when we were yot without strength, in due time Christ died for tho ungodly. For searecly for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth bis love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him, For if, when we were enemics, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being recon- ciled, we shall be saved by his life.” We are not used, Mr, Beecher said, to this interior aad | chological thinking which abounded in Paul, He is the Plato of the Gospel, and though he had the | special marks of mationality, and although the time, element or the spirit of the age was upon him—and they make themselves manifest in the record—yet, as he took tor his unit the qualities of the mind of man and the mind of God, and as these remain substantially the same 1n every generation of the world, the writings of Paul are as fresh and strong to-day us the hour in which they were made—stronger, because wo have thrown upon them all the illumination which comes One of the reasona of the: ob- scurity of bis argumentative writings lies in the tact that he is arguing upon things $0 interior—things to | which we come not by power of thinking, but by the force of loving. And as we seldom, if over, in the face tocthods of reasoning und our powers of analogy aro very few, xo with ug but very little way and furnish us with few spiritual letters to read them. But this pas- sage, though Very protound, may be very obvious, It results in this—the certainty of every man’s salvation who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ, because Christ saves him out of reasons which he tn’ His own natu See how it is stated. Whtnu we were yet without strepgth—spiritual strength—in due time Christ died jor the ungodly, That takes in the circuit of the whole world and all periods of ume. It takes in uni- versal humanity in its spiritual weakness and wicked- ness, And it is tor the sake of men dead in trespasses and sip and because they Were dead in trespasses rnd sin that Christ died. There are many men that are rigorously right and just Who are far from bemg sym- netic or exciting sympathy in us, A just man 13 ays admirable, but not always lovable; but men do DI POR THEIR ADMIRATION, { while thousands of men have thrown away their lives | for love. just man is passive, the good man 1s active, Very few persons will die for a merely abstract | good person, one Who has not hved in sympathetic communion with them; but God died for us, whoare in- ; Anitely beneath Him, infinitely Jar from being lovable or excelient, infinitely removed from clinging affection for Him. While we were yet sinnors—enemies—He died tor us In close contrast to that thought is put this, If will do so much in dying for us how much Moré will he doliving, “For if, when we were enemies, we Were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, how much wore, being reconctled, we , shall be eaved by his life.”’ The nature o1 God is such that those who are utterly undeserving and giniul may put | the utmost trust in Him—not an account of what they | are, but of what He is, There nas been a disagreeavio | way of stating this, It bas been the trouble with a greut deal of our theology that it bas been moulded in the bard schools of inteliect and come to us in the bare bones, Suppose I should relate the marriage of a | young nd & maiden thas:— “An eager and im- petuons young mau came to town, and seeing a fair virgin he dashed in through all the aflections of father and mother und dragged her away, and the father and mother never had them avy wore, except in an indi- rect way,”’ You state the story at one end and it is a mean trick; you state it at the other end and it is bounty. So some people say, “Man can do anything good; tere is nothing on earth that is going to help you but God's will’? And everybody says, or at least feels, ‘I won't | Goa’s accept; but on the whole would rather do it than go to > hell,” ’ So they take God as one thing better thun bell, | Really the whole purpose and compass of God’s govern- ernment and the royal wish of His heart are to nelp weakness, to cleanse impurity and redeem spiritaal bondage. j Mr. Beecher compared the position and feelings of | some people to the joy a weary traveller through a | newly settled country feels when ascending a hill ho | espies a light before him. As be travels ou, however, | he descends into « dell and the light 19 lost for a time. nud by you will ascend another | | | | height ana’ the light will dawn again close at hand. Many persons stand spiritually still. because they tave no hope, no joy; but go forward, go forward, and the succor shall come. Doubt and gloom and the indolence that comes by reason of them are the most dangerous agencies in the world. Will the mother forget the enild | who is born to her’ She may forget it, but “I wil not forget it,”? saith the Lord of Hosts, ! i ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. { CHRIST THE GOOD SHEPHERD—SERMON BY THE REY, FATHER FARRELLY. The services at the Cathedral yesterday were, as usual, solemn and impressive. The great edifice was crowded to the doors, Cheerful as was the weather, it seomed as if the vast congregation surged into the church for religion's sake alone, “Rain or shine,” as the saying goes, evidently makes little difference in re- gard to the attendance at the Cathedral. The officiating | clergyman was the Rev, Father Kane. After the first goapel the Rev. Father Farretly, of St, Peter's church, preached a plain yet eloquens sermon, taking bis text from St. Jolin, x, T1—Tam the good shepherd: the | good shepherd giveth his lile tor the sheep.” The rev ba gent! man gave a beautiful ilustration of the jowing the great care the loving Saviour had for | His fold, The sermon was a complete picture of the straying sheep es representing the sinner, the vigil- ance, generosity and the b Almighty, in again taking ito the fold the penitent human being. The reverend preacher urged upon te essity of abiding by the laws of ing admitted into that fold, out- of which no soul could be saved. He dwoites- | pecially on the goodness of the Saviour, His sacrifices | jor mankind, and finally invited the congregation to enter into that for tspint of love for the Redeemer | whieh the words of the Gospel suggested. It would be ptional if the music at the Cathedral were not in ance with the surroundings, It is invariably grand and suggestive and never tails to create the de- sired impression—that of contributing to the solemniiy of the oceasion. The mass periormed yesterday was by Mereadante, in G minor, Under the direction of Pro- | fessor Gustavus Schmitz—a thorough musician in every sense of the term—the magniticent work was artisti- cally interpreted. At the offertory Mine, Bredeili “Salve Regina” « su sung Lagivli’s with that exquisite method (hat never fails, under any circumstances, to en- Mat attention, and with a sw #8 and artistic Unish that did ample justice to the composition, — Subs quently thore were sung the “O Salutaris,”’ arranged trom Haydn, The services termiuated shortly after iweive o clock. hailing j . BERNARD'S CHURCH. CHRIST'S PROMISE TO 18 CHURCH—SERMON BY THE REV. FATHER REARDON, There was a large congregation at the Roman Cath. ole chareh of St, Bernard, m West Fourteanth street, yesterday, at the high mags, which was celebrated by nD, O'Kelly. Rey, John Reardon preached the sermon, but before doing so read several announce: ments, among them a@ statement of the money ox. pended for the reliet of the poor in St, Bernard's parish by th aference of the Society of St Vincent de Paul und the Ladies’ Sewing Society from December i, | 1875, to Mareh $1, 1876 The receipts from various sources—collections, donations, &¢,.—amounied to | $1,582 44, and the expenditures to $2,514 ws, showing | an excess of expenditures over recone of G4! 79. ‘The Kev, Mr. Reardon wok the text of his sermon | yesterday from Joba x. 1s—"t am the good Shep. | herd; the good svepberd giveth bis ie tor tie sheep.” | He —Christ hes always kept bis word to man, and when He said He was the cood Shepherd He meunt He | shottld aiways (ook aiter His Charea and His people, Since the days of Fever He was always with His Church in all its trials and tribusations; in {ts glories and in its | Let him whois tempted by evil consider the ek | Lenenf, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. | up for the | perience of the delights te . | olutign,” taking his text from Josbua, v | sentative repudhcan government triumpha Even in its worst persecations Christ was I al wite it hike the good brought a deespoctitins are For the three centuries uo- death by thousands for the taith, Christ was always with His Church, and brought her out triumphant after wee “ long sui me. oe _ Neng ages jowing, Up e present time, though assailed by enemies from without and by ene- mies from within, Christ has kept His promise to look alter His Church, and to-day she is Lo 184 and | brighter than ever. Though the Pope bas lost bis tem- | poral possessions, ih Bismarck has tried to drive God’s ministers out of Europe, though the infidels and heretics aro combining throughout the work to upset the religion of Christ, never was there so =omuch = faith among God's children and pover was the representative of Christ on earth— the Pope of Rome—looked up to with so much love and ‘And he is a glorious old Pope. He has lived to a mpe old age, has passed the “years of Peter,” and it must be that Christ is keeping him for something great—some great work which will redound to the glory and triumph of His Church. The reverend | reacher closed with «n exhortation to all present who | ad not fultilled their Easter duties to do 80 at once and come within the fold of which Christ was the | Shepherd, i TRINITY CHURCH. i EASYERTIDE A SEASON FOR THE DISPELLING OF DOUBTS AND ANXIETIES. At Trinity church the’Rev, Dr. Dix preached yester- day. The text was taken from-John, xxi., 4—‘But | When the morning was now come Jesus stood on the | shore, but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.” Eastertide, the preacher said, speaks to the heart of man as no other season does, because the spirit of man ig then ready to receive truth, Tho human rt has ever had a feeling after immortality that no changes, no worriment or Jaughter has ever driven away. At this beautiful season, when the carth renews its ver- dure and the vegetable and animal world seems to re- Joice, man too 18 ready to receive the promise of the | resurrection, All nature testifies to the Word, and this | voice about us is augmented by the testimony of the | ages that have gone before. Naturally we look for pictures of rare beauty in the Gospel when speaking of this great subject of the resurrection. And we find that in the last two cbapters of John, All he! mystic and inexplicably beautiful with the mysteries of another life. It seems to relate to a day begun which would me end. kong Fhe onagry Ble ee. | issed 0 = aposties uring tl forty ys Ay the wilderness, The preacher = dwelt upon the coming of the mormng when Jesua stood ou the shore, but the disciples knew not that | it was Jesus. The morning bour was itself symbolic of | the passing from darkness into light. The morning hour is the time for new aspirations, for prayerful | thoughts for the commencement of good works. The | sick and weary rejoice at its coming; to the seafaring | voyager passing through THK MISTS AND DANGERS OY THE SIGHT tt is most welcome, for it Urings the saving sunlight | with it, Who has not seen with rapture the glories of | the coming morn in this beautiful season’ The preacher pictured in poctic language the charms of a spring morning in the East, and described the totling | fishers un the Lake of Galilee tossing tu their boats and | with their nets disturbing the placid waters,” Here was another symbol—this one indicating the way in which | man, the only blot upon God's fair footstool, disturbs the tranquil waters of hfe, The fishers toiled away | perseveringly tor very little reward, and while they » | totled and tossed upon the waters Jesus stood upon the | shore, but they knew not tbat it was Jesus, In this | circumstance ihere may be comfort for many who are in douvt, Confined to the narrow duties of their daily fife, many are plagued with depressing fears and doubts that should be absent from the Christian heart and mind. These they should banish now, for in this text they have a pledge of that ot fone. of the Scriptures, I know that my Redeemer liveth and that ‘on the last day he shall stand again upon the earth. ?” CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. THE SEVEN CAPITAL SINS AND THE FOUR CAR- DINAL VIRTUKS—SERMON BY REV. DR. Al- GER. An cloquent and impressive sermon was preached yesterday morning atthe Church of the Messiah by | Rey. Dr. Alger, the pastor. His text was Romans xii, | 21, “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.’? He said:—What can be worse, than pride, what more frightful than anger? what more detestable than envy? what so mean as covetousness, stifling every generous impulse? what can be 0 detiling as heentiousness, undermining the soul’s: puro strength? what so lost as the glutton’s abasement to appetite? what’ more detestabl than sloth, losing the splendid opportunities of lif These arc the great sins, To these can be traced ali the | forms of transgression. Now they barst forth iu out- | rageous violence, apd now they are moro quiet, but with scarcely lexs evil effects. ride, anger, envy, covetousness, licentiousnes#, gluttony and sloth — DEVILISH COHORTS, these of the capital sina, They ure the most hideor and injurious that can be conceived. How ruined by them—how many are their fetter: how few are wholly free from them! Where shall we find one whose soul is not disfigured by their repulsive tracing? Mavy a man addicied to them walks tho streets erect and sits unabashed in church, Dut to every pure man the flimsy veil easily secn through. Let us all fling off the garb of the capital sins, putting on jnstead the garb of enfranchised souls—the wedding garments of heaven. Now, let us look at THR CARDINAL VIRTCES, Justice, pradence, temperance and fortitude, They | #tand sentinels ut the outermost corners of the heari. Temperance keeps the body clean and strong; justice gives to every man his due; prudence makes us leave | ho means untried to secure our best well being; forti- | tude enables us to forsake ease and pleasure for toil | and pain. There are other virtues which at first might | seem entitled to higher rank. The tour cardinal virtues engender faith, hope and love, As a!l human evil pro- ceeds from the seven capital sins, so all human good flows from the four cardinal virtues. In the sublime shapes of reform they march on. They inspire patriotic sonsto lay their hves on the altar of their country, Tho cardinal virtues—what aseraphic band! The essence of these virtues is the loveliness of duty. They are attri- | butes of the soul, which clothe all things we should aspire to possess, Only a few scem capable of the PASSION OP SPIRITUAL PERFECTION. | Such ore the genuine chivalry of heaven and | the cardinal virtues the radiant’ livery they w of the oppotite good. Let there be no tampering, no dallying. When aliured by sin pause and think of God. There is profound wisdom in the Gospel charge—over- come evil with good. If we could look ints ‘he soul and see the battle waged there we wi ccnvulsively ery out, “Be not overcome by evil.” Duy and night in solitude and in public, the conflict goes on. Many of bright genius and briliiant prospects have succumbed | to evil and to-day live behind prison bars, or are fugl- Lives trom justice, or fill iguoble graves. To avoid such an end watch, aspire, enter into alliance with the forces of righteousness, The assaults of sin will then be vain, The soul of such, when it mounts to the celestial world, will be attended by his guardian angel, who will call out at the golden gate, ‘Lot him in, for he has over. | come evil with good.” CHURCH OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL THE PETITION OF THE LORD'S PRAYER—SER- | MON BY FATHER ARGUEPEZ. Atthe French charch in West Twenty-third street yesterday morning there was a full congregation. The princtpal altar was covered with flowers and «nam. | bor of lights illaminated the sanctuary, It had been | expected that Her Majesty, the Empress of Brazil, | | would be present at the service, as on the previous Sunday, dut neither she nor any of her suite put in an | appearance. Seats bad been prepared for the imperial | party within the sanctuary, immediately in front of the Virgin's altar, The music at the mass was an old com. position of Mariano Reig, which had not been given at this charch ia a number of years. The singing was excellent. The choir consists of Mrs. Jennie Goodwin Lunt, soprano; Miss Lebros, contralto; Mr. Gardner, tenor; Mr. Tourot, basso, the organist being Mr. Ge H. Gomuere. The celebrant of the mass was the Rev. Father Father Arguepez, The preacher made tho subject his divcourse the familiar petition in the Lord's Prayor;—'Give us this day our aaily bread” He e: plained the meaning of the words aod proceeded speak of that bread asked for by which oar bodies are | sustrined and the spiritual bread asked for by which our is are nourixted. In speaking of the former he jn naa earnest appeal to the wealthy to give freely to the poor Who aro in peed of ne. cossaries of life. Tt was, he said, jerrible sight to see on strong = man, and willing to work and having a starving family around | him suffering from want of food. Those who helped such sufferers were doing the will of heaven and laying selves 4 rich reward. In regard to the | spiritnal bread, be satd that none but those who had he soul which come with the reception of the blessed sacrament could form any | idea as to bow refreshing and nourishing was the bread of heaven. It brought the peace of God to the heat and joys that unknown except irom itself, a1 was the consummation of all that we could bope for here below, sought of God to give as ‘the greatest of blessings, we were seeking for the communion of Christ with of souls by means of the sacrament which, m His love for maa, He instituted, SCOTCH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. PRESBYTERIANISM IN ACCORD WITH THE PRIN+ CIPLES OF FREE GOVERNMENT—SERMON BY DR. BREED. } Yesterday morning Dr. Breed preached at the Scotch | Presbyterian church on “Presvyterianism and the Rev- | 4. He -aid | that, from its peculiar organziation and the principles put forward most prominently as expovents of its teachings, the Presbyterian Church assimilates more than auy other to the form and pure system of repre- The free states of liverty was so sacredly When, then, we asked for this, we be- or ancient times, in which | host of the enemy. guarded, and in which the inalienable rights of msn to independence of thought and action were acknowl- edgod, resembled in the strictness of their government and the admirable simplicity of their legal code this Presbyterian Chureh, which has always bad members imbued with a love of freedom and hearts strong enough to brave oppression in pursuit of it, From its foundation Presbyterian- ‘sm bas been liarly eaverse to tyrants, and bas always Beason yar was aggressive in rulers aud likely to tufringe individual rights, The teach- ings of the Church have so moulded the minds of its members as to inspire ic them an invincible devotion to treedom of thought, ‘and a will to maintain it at apy ‘Shue eee eA iat teanakes tea tha th vney’ ci who have impress upon > times lived in, was Admiral Coligni’s heroic wie, Charlotte Delaval, William the Silent, James Melville and John Knox bimself. Asin otner lands Presbyterianism has tended to create and perpetuate a love of treo govern- ment; in ourcwp country it has been particulariy active in effecting sucha result, The Presbyterian Church was among the tirst to take public part in the | trife had been ended and ( Revolution, and, when th peace was restored to newly-born nation, e Genera) Assembly of t communion appointed & committee to tender congratulatory address to General Washington, which is this day. At tbe Continental Congress the only clergy- man who ‘sat in the body was Dr. John Witherspoon, the Presbyterian President of the Ce e of New Jersey. He was a man of distinguishea ability, ardent patriotism and a mind capable of grasping the momen- j tous importance of the issues then at stake and of aid- ing by his counsel and i pol san the attainment of in dependance, While the Kevolationary movement was still in sts incipiercy he threw the whole weight of his personal interest and that of his corel ists in favor of the Declaration, and of organizing the colunies into @ republic. With the exception of the New England Puritans Presbyterians did more to bring about the formation of our goverpment tuun any other people, and during its later history they have generally re- mained steadfast in sapporting it. The reverend speaker then stated that ft is the inten- tion of the Presbyterians of the country to commemo- rato (hese historic facts by the creation of a monument im honor of the first distinguished patriot of their sect, Dr. John Witherspoon, which will be unveiled during ; the Centennial exercises at Philadelphia, and in the presence of the Presbyterian General Assembly. THE WIDOW VAN COTT. GIDEON, DAVID AND GOLIATH DRAMATIZED— REMARKABLE SCENES IN A BROOKLYN CHURCH. At the Warren Street Metnodist Episcopal church, | Brooklyn, yesterday, Mra. Van Cott concluded her evangelical labors for the present. ing service the chureh was crowded by an expectant congregation. AS& text the lady selected the twelfth verse of the sixth chapter of Paul’s first epistie to Timothy, as follow: Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also | called-and hast protessed a good profession before many witnesses,” At the commencement of her discourse sho illustrated | the need for an entire absorptiég of the mind and heart in any work in order to develop fully the strength of the individual to fulfil its requirements by describing her own passion when a little girl to be a soldier as her father was, The story in itself was simple; but the manner of the lady in describing her yearnings and when telling hor mother that sho would like when dead | to be laid out, enfolded in the Stars and Stripes, and | buried with the honors of war, wrought up her hearers greatly, causing them, male and female, to shout “Glory to God!’? “Bless tho Lord!” and “Hallelujah!” The story told and the shoutings ended, she then apphed it immediatery to the conditions of those who work for Jesus and bring wandering souls within His fold, and again, sho the: with equally telling effect, described her change {rom desire to be a soldier and die for her country on the ficid of battie to, if possible, a still stronger desire to servo the Lord effectively. She depicted the sufferings through which she passed in reaching her widowhood and the joy she experienced in coming out through her | grief to the soal gladdening service of God so power- fully that scarcely a amgle person remained quietly seated, and fully one-third of the people gave loud and long-continued shouts, blessing the name of Jesus, She followed then with a description of the light whieh Gideon made; gathering his forces on the field, sending back the timid, and, ‘nally, bringing for- ward the gallant few who remained, armed with pitchers containing only lighted candles in one hand und trampets in the other, inarching them against the But, remarkably powerful dramatic descriptions of the the though ber above - events were, which was also ness of a full and perfect faith in God. For a closing scene she brought out the viant Goliath so perfectly that be seemed visible to her hearers, as did'David and Saul, before the giant was slain, She then pictured David gathering the smooth stones for bis sling, went forward with him to meet Goliath, had him piace a stone in bis sling while Goliath really ' was thundering forth his contempt for the stripling, then, with a gesticulation that was perfect, the sling was swung round ond round, and the stone hurled against the forchead of the giant, who fell prone, So Aitelike her description of the scene, that when David went forward to - Goliath. and, taking his sword, severed his head from his body, nearly every breast in the building gave forth a sigh of rehef, and immediately afterward there followed a shouting still more vocilerous than any that had been given betore. When she bad concluded and quiet had been restored the poe bowed converts were invited to the front to remain and speak with her ufier the others of the audience had departed. About 200 youths remained id communed with ber, These, it must bo under- ood, were only such of the converts as proposed to unite'with the Warren street church, not those of other churches who have made protession of religion. Mrv. Van Cott goes to Davenport, lowa, to continue her work, A NEW AMBASSADOR. The steamship Scythia, of the Cunard line, due in this -port to-morrow, brings among her passengers Count Carl Lewenhaupt, the new Swedish and Nor- wogian Minister to Washington. Count Lewenbaupt | succeeds the late Minister Olaf Stencrson, appointed Minister to Washington on the 13th of October, 1870¢ and who died at Paris ou phe 9th of Decemver last, Count Lewenhaupt was born in 1835, and early en- tered into the diplomatic service of his country. He ‘was attaché at Puris from September 6, 1858, and was transferred with the same position to the London Em- basey in 1859, but did not remain there long, being re- called on July 13, 1859, to enter the Forciga Office at Stockholm, On December 20, 1862, he was appointed Secretary of Legation at St Petersburg, and acted several times | there as Chargé d’Aflaires. in the absence of ‘the Minister. From 1866 to 1869 he was attached to the ‘Political Department’ at Stockholm. From July till October, 1870, he was Chargé d’Affaires at London, after which he re- turned to stockholm became chief of the Cons Department, which attached to tho Foreign Office. In 1871 he was transferred to Vienna, and remained there for upward of a year. then returned to Stockholm and was made Cabinet Secretary in the Foreign Office, which post he held till appointed Minis- ter to Washington, Among the wecorations he bears may be mentioned those of Kmght of the Order of Nordstjernan (North Star), Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog (Danish), Knight of the Order of St. Stanislaus, second class (Russian), and Commander of the Order of Leo- pold of Austria, ‘the Minister is highly considered in diplomatic it = Upon arry Bors, the Consul General of Sweden this city. JOHN NORRIS’ LITTLE TROUBLE. Sergeant Sheridan, of the Twelfth precinct police, Brooklyn, arrested John Norris on Saturday night last on a charge of feloniously assaulting Joshua Wormald, Norris, who is a rooler, is accused of striking the com- ploinant on the head with a hammer, He says that he called at Wormald’s store, on Fulton avenue, to collect a sinall sum’ of money due him, and while talking they quarreliea and a scufile ensued, Norris denies that he ' had a hammer 1m his hand at all, but says the injured man fell against the corner of a shelf. TIRED OF LIFE. Michael Murphy attempted to commit suicide about eight o'clock yesterday morning, at his residence, No, 278 High street, Brooklyn, by cuttang his throat and wnat with a common table kmife. Murphy was tem? porarily insane from the eflests of inflammation and erysipelas in the head. He has beon out of employment for a Jong time and his family are in destitute circam- stances, The wounded man was romoyed to the City Hospital. He ts twenty-eight years of age and a na- tuve of Ireland. ROBBERIES IN BROOKLYN. ‘The residence of Mr. John Carpenter, No. 127 Duf- field street, was broken into yesterday and robbed of a quantity of wearing apparel. ‘The ‘awelling house of Peter Lyster, No, 895 Myrtle avenue, was robbed of jewelry to the value of $197. Avan early hoor Josterday morning four men, who ave their vames as Witham and Jobn MeGiven, Frank rrigan and Jobn Clancy, were for burglari- ousiy entering the house of Mr. A. Farley, No. 111 Graham ave: ‘They were locked up to answer. A‘ BAD SHOT. While endeavoring to shout a dog, at the corner of Broome and Wooster streets, yesterday afternoon, Officer Wail, of the Eighth precinct, shot sell im heed Jeg, inflicting a severo wound, The dog es- ca | FIRE IN THE LEDGER BUILDING. Shortly beforetwelve o’clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in the press room of the New York Ledger building, No. 25 Spruce street. The engines were promptly on hand and flames were ex- MAY 1, 1876,-WITH SUPPLEMENT. _ During the morn- greatest was the last, | in’ illustration of the effective- | A PASTOR EJECTED, A Universalist Pastor Wants To Be “‘Arbitrated.” A CURIOUS SCENE. An intensely dramatic scene was enacted yesterday morning in the Bleecker street Universalist church, } Coming as it did, unexpectediy, it created all the more | excitement The circumstances wnich led to it were | these:—In September last Mr. Sweetser, the regular pastor, by reason of ill health, was compelled to travel abroad. The church en- tered into negotiations with Rey. Charles P. Me- Carthy, an English clergyman, and they resulted in his being engaged under cortain conditionsas temporary pastor of the churea, a position which he up tll yester- day continued to fll The usual preliminary exercises having been gone through with, Mr. McCarthy said that there could not be found any better creed than the hymn that had just been sung, “Ashamed of Jesus.” Christ, be said, had Himself been a witness to life alter | death in the fact of the resurrection, and as Christ | must have told the truth there could be no uncertainty avout a future life. The preacher's voice was trem- bing, and it was evident that he was making an in- | tense effort to control himself as he said:—*Physically | to-day I have but little strength, as I have beea robbed ot my sleep for several nights in sitting up with a sick child, * This will probably be the last time, with the exception of this evening, that I will have an opporta- nity to address this congrogation, and I want to say thatas lam but human there may be many things for which I ought to ask your } But understand me that I dg not ask | forgiveness for wilful wrong, for I am not conscious of | having committed any, @ peculiar one that 1 am compelled to speak the truth | boldly. Mr, McCarthy then boldly asserted that this was the third church he has been pastor of since ho embraced Universalism, and that in each he bad found th® skel | eton of infidelity bidden away in a cupboard He | charged them with fostering it, and claimed that in no other denomination was there leas excuse for !t, In a | passionate manner he appealed to them to preserve | their creed if they hoped for God's blessing on the church, ‘ A CHURCH ON EVERY CORNER. In regard to the probability of his getting another | church, he told them how, when he first came to this country, he, on one Sunday morning, went into the streets of Philadelphia and preached to a congregation of 1,500, ‘There isacongregation for mo on every street corner. pel. Ihave not chosen any text this morning other | thin the creed of your own church, and I charge you | again solemply to be truo t6 it, I hold the skeleton by | the throat and I am not-the man to let go of it.” Mr, McCarthy then read the creed by articles, commenting | as ho went along. He said some in the congregation were | dissatisfied only because of his doctrinal preaching, ‘So help me God,”? said he, ‘for nothing else.”” You are im~ patient of doctrinal teaching. You are pected and } charged with fostering iniidelity and it is your own fault, There are y other things 1 could point out to you but my time ts limited so 1 will read the state- ment betore referred to:— MR. M’CARTYY’S STATEMENT. As various apes pense have gained credence concerning my withdrawal trom the temporary pastor- ship of this church before the return oi its regular pastor trom Europe, a sense of duty to myself and the courch impels mv to make the following statement of facts:—I entered intd an engagement with this church | in September of last year, through its Board of Trustees, to become tts pastor at an annual salary of $2,400 until the return of its regular passor from Europe, which was expected in this year and about Easter, but it was alleged at my interview with the board that the particular date of his return in the next year would -entirely depend upon the state of his heaiin and the progress he was ablo to make in his journey. It was also agreed that in the event of my accepting a cail to Pecome a permanent pastor to another cuurch I should be permitied to leave before the time named. On the faith of this engagement I removed my family and household turniture from Albany to my present reai- dence, at a cost of over $200, This expense, supposing “geney of the regular pastor's return, cally reduced my salary to $2,200, is $800 han the salary of the reguiar pastor. slatement as many have supposed 1 was in receipt of the same salary as thut which tue absent pastor had been receiving. Six weeks ago the chuirman of the Board of | Trustees announced to me that the board had deter- mined to discontinue my services. I remonstratedt with him and, as tar as 1 could, for | was taken by suar- prise, L pointed out the injustice of such a course, After he had further consulted with the boaid it came to a peremptory decision that my official connection with the church should cease on the last day of April. 1 was informed that this uecision was fixed and final and that the reason for it was not in any degree of a personal nature toward me, but simply in the interests | of the church and because some persons (no names | having been given) threatened the bourd that they would pot retake (heir sittings from the Ist of May if [ continued to ofliciate, I never could find out whether these threats had artstn {rom tndividual members of | the board whom I knew to be decidediy antagonistic to the detinite position which I nad taken in the palpit and at the Conference meetings and 10 private conver- sation with the members of the church on the verities of the Christain religion or from members of the s0- ciety outside the Board of Trustees. Butl had fully satisfied myself from tacts within my own knowledge that the actual reason of my dismissal by the board, (tor I can call it by no other name, and 1 ACCKPT THE PERSONAL REPROACH it brings, wih the cause of its infliction attached), | wi because of the decided and positive tone of my teaching in my sermons on “The Inspiration ot the Seriptares,” “fhe Bible and “the School Question,” ‘fhe Degenerate Character of Commercial Enterprise,” “The Divine Nature of Christ,” “The ‘Truth of the Bible Miracles,” and my openly avowed opinion that no man, however pure end moral in bis lie, who doubted or discredited the fact of Christ’s resurrection and the existence of a future life after death was a fit teacher within any Christian church; and nere I take my stand, an its consequences to me or mine, even though I were to stand alone, and yet Lam not alone, for God is with me, Having satis- jied myself that the- determination of the Hoard was intlexible 1 declined then, as I do now, violent collision, and, therefore, in ovedience to its auth this day’s services would close my public ministrations as the pastor bere. I regret that this obedience rendered to the ecclesiastical authority of this church im tne management of its public services should have been construed into a consent on my part to the injustice inflicted upon me. It was rot in the smailosi degree consent, but om my part sub- mission, with decided protest against tnjustice and compujsion on the part of the Board in the + exercise of its jurisdiction over the conduct of these services. On learning that at least one member of the Board bad stated that my dismissal was because the | people required tt on accountof my preaching | at once demanded a meeting of the society for the purpose | of setting the whole question. This demand was re. specttully submitted a tortnight ago and suvsequently rendered in writing. It bas been under tne considera- tion of the trastees and they have deferred action upon | it ARRITRATION, SUGGESTED, Since then, under the wise and experienced advice of &@ prominent brother minister, and tn the interests of a peacetul solution of the difficulty, | have submitted as a substitate for a society meeting tne foll ing propusi- , tion, namely, that the whole question of disagreement | should te submitted to the arbitration of threo | brethren, to be appointed outside of the conflicting parties and m the following method:—One by the Board, one by myrel!. and these lo appoint one more as rt of arbitration, the decision of which should be final and binding upon all concerned. | ‘The inquiry would then become a simple one, and could be reduced substantially to the following points of investigation | L Am J, as 1 contend, takin; | rangement made wi nd since last September ipso facto Jegal pustor of this church? UL, Has the Board of Trustees jurisdiction - according to the society’s con#titution summararily to disiniss me as pastor without the sanction of the society ? TIL If the Board possesses this authority, has it been exercised justly and iu accordance with the agreement entereg sme by Speuarttes concerned ? . Finally, what compensation, if any, is the pastor Sugtly enuitied to receive? ibe n closing this ment ire tt to be particular; | understood that it thdrawing from the Pubite reid | ese of my oificial duties in this charch to-day, ander compulsion, 1 atm simply, in the interests of pence and ' under protest, submitting to the exercise of af author. ity which claims the right to close these church di | if it thinks proper; [assert that bon prin dfewry willing to continue these duties, if permitt this act of sab- missiva on part is without prejudice to my right. ful ana ju: Jacto w Soong | of this chu jow and receiving ‘as such salary. believe Tam entitied to my salary sor the baiance of the year, according to the terms of ment, or until such time as the Rev. K. Sweetser re-enter the charge be surrendered, and which I claim rightiully belongs to me until his return or until such time as (he society (whose voice has not yet been | heard on thit matter) may, wih due regard to my just cluims, discontinue my services. Duty to myself, my wile, the family elfime of my little together with the palpable crueity under my special circum- stances of summurily cutting me from all income as @ pastor, and at such a season, with the taint of on- | explained dismission upon my professional character, | Tenders this explanation and protest imperative. | The eniy alleged canse for this course of action on | the part of the Board of Trustces is the threats of & few unnamed persons to discontinuo their | pew senso of «delicacy = and into account the ar- Position given mo jor the time being the pardon, | But my position now is such | Woe is me if Ido not preach the Gos- | my time here bad been tor twelve months, which wus | the engagement made with me, subject to the contin- | jority andunder | protest, I delivered the notice required of me—that | claims as the oni; or pao | Be, omy ‘pastor ipso ili a i : é Es ven, Fenbigeed pep hss fm pe send ab we made to ee ts print fn the See ser ears of this church havo in their ‘m out tome, Had I been guilty of even a serious fnult in the work of my ministry these labors and fices would have entitled me to kinder and treat lam, the truths of our Church, I say solemnly I have yet to meet that man whose Jor this great causo have been greater than mine, and hag? oa) Fen eee Paul tor my model, I say with him, ‘ ‘and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed tor evermore, knoweth thatl lie not’? Truth and my conscience compel me to drag forth the skeleton ia Ube cupboard. 1 have now served three churches and I nave found it im each one. ‘The reading of the statement created the most pro- found impression, and after the services little kuots gathered on the church steps and on the side’ ere, tor fuliy an hour, the various phases of the dit+ ficulty were excitedly discussed, Surremy Courr—Cuamusrg—Held by Judge Law. rence.—Court opens at 10A. M.—First Monday’s Mo- tion Calendar wil! be called at 11 A. M. Supreme Court—GexsraL Texu—Held by Judges Davis, Brady and Daniels—Non-enamerated mo- tions—Nos. 1 to 47 inclusive. Prelerred, causes, Nos. | 55 to 102 inclusive, Enumerated motions, Nos. 117 to 143, 143g to 155, 15534 to 160, 160}¢ to 178, 17835 te 283 inclusive. SUPREME COURT—SPRCIAL TeRM—Held by Judge Lar. remore—Demurrers—Nos, 1 to 13 inclusive. Law and fact—Nos. 183 to 196 inclusive, 412, 97, 96, 230, 361 818, 355, 369, 375, 371 406, 410,"411, 415, 419 420, 421, 423, 426, 32, 214, 198, 324, 40, 398, 93, 409, | Surakme Court—cixcoit—rart 1—Held by Judge Donchue.—Nos. 2847, 1059, bod 847, 1495, 1350, 1387, 1445, 1489, 1493, 2859, 1159, 2737, 2301, 357, 1111, 1399, ), 2331, 2833, 2334, 2335, 1389, 633, 1377, 1487, 1391, 1475, 1425, 1399. 142555, 1509, 1611, 1513, 1515, 151934, 1521, 1625, 1631, 1533, 1637, 1545,’ 1549," Pare'2—Held by Judge Bar: Tout. —Nos. 124, 182 1026 54, Stasi ta0, aoe. 1404, 1423, Be, sre, 210, 2, "4808, 1368, 2848, 1320, 69%, 1011, 1436, 1437, 226, 2480, 860, 055, og aot isbn 138 TiBplil, 1800, 2489, 5, B01, 1185 35, ida, 0%, das, 1201, 80754, 023%, "2416, 950, 2860, 691, | Soperton Cocrt—Grxeral Tarw—Hela by Judges Sedgwick and Speir.—Appeals from orders—Nos. 1 to | 9, inclusive. General calendar—Nos, 1 to 32, inctue sive. Surerion Court—Srxcia, Teru.—Held by Judge Monell. —Demurrers—Nos. 1 to 7, inclusive, issues of | tact—Nouw. 1 to 37, inclusive, SupeRion Covurt—Tntat Teru—Part 1—Hold by Jud, Curtis, —Nos. 1045, 1046, 1047, 86, 899, 1017, 1018, 1 905, 787, 1050, 1048, O70, luds, 1 Part 2—Hela by Judge Santord.—Nos. 207, 889, 788, 650, 950, 1037, 954, 973, 897. 2036, 956, 1807, 957, $58, 838, 722, 968. Cocrt_ or Common KNERAL TerM—Held by Judges Daly, Robinson and Van Brunt. —Appeais irom orders and motions—Nos. 1 to .14, inclusive. New 1s- sues—Nos, 15 to 29a, inclusive. Appeals from this Court | ahd referees’ reports—Nos. 30 to 51, imelusive, New issues—Nos, 52 10 55, 55a, 56 to 72, inclusive. Appeala from Marine Court—Nos. 73 to 90, inclusive. Appeals trom District Courts—Nos, 91 to 128, inclusive. New issues—Nos, 129 to 177, inclusive. Court or Common Pieas—Equiry Teru—Held by | Juage J. F. Daly,—Nos 1 to 21, inclusive, | Courr of Common Pieas—TkiaL Teru—Part 1 —Helu_ by Te? 1s, Gee ne 1999, jist 1534, 1784, 1 6 by 152254, 1267, 1038, 2114 1811,” 175142, 1693, 95644, Tan 706, 2079, 1507, 1007, 1860, 1718, 859, 2076, 1211, 955, 958! 177, 696, 369, 1939, 1930, 61, 2008, 1848, 2071, 1 2071, 1693, 2447, 1608, ‘Part 2.—Adjourned until Tuesday, May 2, at ten o'clock A. M. Marine Covrnt—Triat. Term—Part 1—Held by Judge “sSheridan,—Nos. 3261, 8360, 2360, 8110, 4013, 4065, 4067, 4089, 4071, 4072, 4079, 3984, 3044, 6704. Part 2—. Held by Judge Goepp.—Nos, 2780, 7258, 677%, 599, 5271, + 3481, 3440, 3044, 3942, 9749, 6534, 6400, 6352, 6353, 1358, 581, 2624, 4061, 5341, 2810, 1816, 3480, 4038, 4048, 4081, 32, 4084, 4085, 4087, 4090, ‘4094, 4097, 4099, Sox fag Shoe Susu, diay ise 41s ated, $185) 413m 4123, 4125, 412 131, 4 i aa? oa, tide, wii 4142. Bart $—Held b; oo ‘Alker.—Nos. 7835, 6792, 5784, 6224, 4956, 7296, 687. 6940, 6817, 2719, 2441, 6600, 4663, 5788, 5792. Court OF GeNukal Sussions—Held by Judge Suther- land—The People vs, Lizzie Murpby and James McDonald, robbery; Same vs. Murtin Burke, rape; Same vs. James Harrison, burglary ; justav, Schroder, Charles Magam and James Brewster, burglary ; Same vs. James Leddy, grand larceny; Lous — Strauss, grand — larceny; Same vs, George Miller, potit larceny; Samo vs. Fauyin Desire, assault and battery; Same vs. John Bruce, assault and battery, 4 | WASHINGTON PLACE POLICE COURT, Before Judge Kilbreth, SHOOTING AFFRAY. Joseph Johnson and Henry Bischoff, both residing at No. 70 Ninth avenue, quarrelled on Saturday night about a woman named Annie. It resulted in Johnson firing.a pisto! at Bishoff, the ball inflicting a siight wound on the latter’s right arm. Johuson was held in $2,000 to answer, CARELESS USE OF FIREARMS. Renry Cummings was held in $500 for pointing a loaded pistol at William Glenn, of No. 643 Broadway, while the latter was in Reilly’s oyater-ealuon, corner Broadway and Bleecker street. GRAND LARCENY. Eugene McKenna, of No. 555 West Thirtieth street, and Thomas Printy, of No 426 West Thigty-second street, were held in $1,000 each for stealing a silk dress and other property, valued at $25 30, trom Edward Puice, ot No, 304 Tenth avenue. FELONIOUS ASSAULT. Jobn O’Brien, of No. 635 Canal street, was held in $1,000 for assaulting Alexander McAllister, ot No, 61 Bank street, and pointing @ loaded pistol at him. O'Brien was prevented from firing by the appearance of Roundsmau Creeden, of the Eighth precinct. Tho prisoner claimed that he was assaulted by McAllister and another man and drew his pistol to frighten them, ‘POLICE COURT NOTES. At the Tombs Police Court yesterday William Beyer ‘was beid to auswer for breaking into the premises No, 126 Saffolk strect and stealing therefrom a set of har ness, of the value of GIVEN UP BY THE BIVER. Yesterday morning Officer Bower, of the Ninth pro- cinct, found the body of am unknown man in the water at pier No. 63 North River, The deceased is about forty years of age, black hair and whiskers, biué shirt and jacket, black vest and dark pantaloons, The Cord- nor was notified and the body was sent to the Another body was found at toe toot of Tweoty-fith Btreet, North River, about thirty-five years of age, blue pea jacket, black vest, dark striped pantaloons, whito shirt, buttoned gaiters, blue socks and sandy whiskers and mustache. The body was removed to the Morgue and the Coroner notified. Subsequently the body was identified as that of Solon Glaser, of No. 431 Seventh avenue, who committed | suicide March 30. * AN ESCAPED CONVICT CAUGHT. Detective Zundt, of the Brooklyn Central Office, ar- | rested William Pickles, the notorious English horse | thief, in Philadelphia on Saturday night. The prisoner ‘was sentenced upou conviction of horse stealing in the Kings County Court of Sessions, by Judge Moore, about one year ago, for a term of five years’ imprison- ment in the Penitentiary. As he was well ochaved and an excellent man about the stable Warden Shevlin as- signed Picktes to duty there. Thisegave him the privi- lege of driving down rooklyn at times, cnn the temptation to avail himseif of the opportanity to escape was to about two months ago. ph February last active search has been mate for him For the fature he will labor in the shee shop at the Penitentiary. A BATTLE IN THE PARK. At noon yesterday there were gathered in the City Hail Yark a motiey group of tramps, whoso features i | Two old veterans in the tramp business, whoin the rural districts had met and quarrelled, again mot, and after the exchange of hostile greetings they adjourned to the sidewalk in front of the brown stone building to “have it out,” as one ot them said, They wero fol- lowed by about a dozen of the fraternity to seo fair play, Tramp No, 1 struck out from the showl- der, missed his mark, and by tramp No 2 was fent to grass over the chain bs 4 TS Park from the sidewalk, bag up = came to time a8 & rose, ont to be knocked down, picked up vy his associates. In the th: round Noe gave No, 2a stinger under the ear, and » 1 (CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGRJ COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. @ Same vs. Jenny Hawkins, grand larceny plainly showed that they belonged to the vagrant class