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4 \ RELIGIOUS. INTELLIGENCE. Ministerial Movements— Chat by the Way. Religion—Synagogue Seience and r Worship. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. ‘rhe Rev. James M. Pullman will preach in the Church ef Our Savior this morning. Bishop Snow will explain the prophecy of the “Three Unclean Spirits—Mormonism, Jesuttism and Spiritual- ism as the Signs of the Times” to his Advent church in Medical College Hall. In, the Church of the Ascension this morning and afternoon Dr. John Cotton Smith will officiate and preach. ‘The Rev. R. 8, McArthur will minister at the usual Bours to-day for Calvary Baptist eburch. Dr. R. T. Hallock will speak to the Progressive Spir- (tualists this evening. Somebody wili contrast his own modesty and erudi- Hon with the “Mendacity and Ignorance of the New Yorx Hgratp’”’ tor the entertainment of the Fifth Universalis. church this morning. In Fourteenth street Presbyterian church the Rev. ¥. HL Marling will preach at the usual hours to-day. Rev, W. T. Sabine will preach morning andevening at Reformed Episcopal cburch. Twofold Basis of Persuasion” and ‘Jesus Utke Pertame Poured Forth” w!li be considered in tho Fith avenue Baptiss Church to-day by Rev, Dr. Armitage. “Christian Solicitade” and “The Foolish Builder” will reccive the attention of Rev. Mr. Rowell and the Free Baptist church to-day. “Paul's Glad Assurance’? and “Youth or Stormy Age” are themes on which Rev. J. 8. Kennard will ad~ dress the Pilgrim Baptist church to-day. This morning Rey. J. M. King will proach in St, John’s Methodist Episcopal church, and this evening Dr, Wilham Butler, of Mexico, will preach. Rev. 8. M. Hamilton will preach this morning and afternoon in the Scotch Presbyterian church. “Failures in Winning Men to Christ’? and ‘‘Launch- ing Out Into Deep Water” will be explained to the Laight street Baptist church to-day by Rev, H. W. Knapp, D. D. * «Thomas, tho Honest Doubter,” and “Neglect” will ome in for a share of thought from Rev. J. H. Light- bourn at Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal burch to-day. Rev, William B. Merritt will preach this morning and evening for the Sixth avenue Reformed charch. Rev. Wendell Prime, of the Observer, will preach ths morning and afternoon in Madison avenue Reformed eharch, Five services will be held to-day in St. Ignatius Prot- ‘estant Episcopal church, Dr. Ewer oficiating. “The World’s Conqueror” and ‘Responsibility of Knowing’ will command the attention of the Kev. W. H. Leavell and Stanton strect Baptist church to-day, Services at the usual hours to-day in St.Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal church, Rev, Dr. Morgan officiat- in; te the Tabernacle Baptist church the Rev. H. I. Morehouse, of Rochester, N. Y., will preach morning end evening. In the Thirty-fourth street Reformed church the Rev. EF. W. Hitcheock, of Paris, will preach in the morning and the Rev. Carlos Martyn in the evening. In West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church the Rev. E. N. White, D. D., ‘will mizister this morn- ing and evening. In the Fourth Presbyterian church the Rev. Joseph R. Kerr will preach this morning and evening on ‘‘Pro- fanity.”” “Genesis and Geology” and ‘Necromancy at Endor: Its Relation to Spiritualism” will be discussed before the Amerjcan Free church to-day by the Rev. ©. P. ¢ MoCarthy. “Tne Secret of the Lord’ and ‘Faith Consistent | ‘With Reason” will’ be considered by Rev. William Lloyd in Washingt square Methodist Episcopai eburch. In Asbury Methodist Episcopal charch the Rev. J. A. Edwards will pret this morning and afternoon. ‘The Spiritualists in Harvard Rooms to-day. will be | QAdrossed by Mrs. ©. F. Allyn. } All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church will be min- {stered unto to-day by Rev. Dr. Dunnell. At Spring Street Presbyterian church the Rev. A. E. Moment will preach this morning on ‘Works and Work.” In the morning, in Bleecker strect Universalist charch, | Uhe Rov. E. C. Sweetsor will speak about ‘Perseverance fn Religious Life,” and in tho evening will tell “A Tove Story” Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage will preach in the Brooklyn A Yabernacle at the usual hours to-day. |” ‘The consecration of Grace chapel will take placo | -to-morrow forenoon. | Preaching morning and evening 1m the Central Bap- | @ist church by Rev. J. D. Herr. | Dr. H. B. Chapin will preach this.morping and after. | goon in Canal street Presbyterian church. | Im the Church ‘of the Strangers Dr. Deéms will en- | eourage his hearers to ‘Hate Evil” this morning, and *| ‘will.address young Christians in the evening. The Church of the Advent will be sorved to-day by Rev. Joseph F. Jowite “The First Step in Spiritual Life’? will be pointed ont to-day by Rev. Chauncey Giles in the Swedenbor- gian church, A Rev. D. B. Jutten will preach in Sixteenth street Baptist-church to-day, “ Rev. J. J. Muir will preach in Macdougal strect Sburch dt the usual hours, In St, Mark’s Protestant Episcopal church this morning tho Rov. Dr/ Ryland will consider ‘God's Imago 1n Man, or Evolution In Theology,” and in the evening, “Toleration or Liberality in Religious Belief.”” Tho Rev. H. R. Nye will preach in the Clermont aves Bue Universalist church, Brooklyn, to-day on ‘Hold. Jog Fast to the Universalist Faith and Courch,”” Services will be held this evening in West Fifty-thira street Baptist church. “Religious Science and Scientific Religion’ will bo digcussed m the Charch of Humanity this evening, by T. C. Edwards, In the Church of the Holy Trinity Rev. S. H. Tyng, ill preach in the morning and Rev, 8 Rain- evening. Dr. Tyng will preach in the voning, and will address young converts there to-morrow evening, © In the Church of the Disciples of Christ the Rev. H. ~ ©. Brewer will preach this morning and evening. Tho Rev. George H. Hepworth will speak in the Churéh of tne Msciples this morning, on *'The'Chal lenge of St. Paul,” and this evening on ‘Jesus the only King.” ! CHAT BY THE WAY. Mr. Huxley insists that ho originated in a “geiatin- Ous mass.” Bat how that “mass” originated is a Question of philosgpny, not of science, and he there- fore declines to answer. We have not yet outgrown the forces of theso two lines of Mitton:— Nor love thy life, nor hate, but what thou liv’st Lave well; how long or short, permit to hea’ Ab punce of experience teaches a man more than a pound of advice, While we theoretically know that a knife blade is sharp we toy with it; but when by cut- + bing our Mgera the theory becomes a fact of conscious. fess wo use it more carefully. If your congregation nappens to be smail remem- ber what John Brown, of Haddington, once said :—"It ts as largo a congregation perhaps as you will want to wecount for at the day of judgment.” Learn to live frugally in your youth that you may | \ford to live independently in your old age. it is vesier to work whon-you are young than to beg when you are old. The hardest thing at any timo of lite is wo live on the charity of tnoso who wish yon were dead and out of the way. On Monday evening last Mr. Hux'ey most success. fally refuted the theories of that enunent geologist of the sixteenth century, Mr. John Milton. The some. what celebrated author of that “handbook for geolo- giste”’ called “Varadise Lost” was too much given to if pontameters and too Hittle observant of the pecu. Hartties of the cretaceous formation, aud hence the Petal destruction by modern science of what bas alway: been known as the “‘Miltonic theory” of the six days of creation. Once ina while, and only once in a while, we come across a conundram which deserves a placo nour memories and in our literature, Somebudy asked the other day, “When the day breaks where do the picces go?” and the answer was, “Why, they go into mo(ujraing, of course.” We are told by those who know that there are stars so far distant that it takes years for their light to reach the earth: If shey should be suddenly extinguishe: we should be unaware of the fact for as many years as might be required for the last rays before the great destruction toreach us. We might look up nightly anu see thy me old radiance as though nothing had happened. Jt js just so with great and holy lives, Lovg after they have gone out in the darkness of death they continue to exert an influence, and leave behind them a beauty and power which make itim- possible to conceive of them ag extinquished. It ts always interesting to note the effect which tho phenomena of nature produce on the minds of children, To a child this must seem a perlect wonder-world. His attempt to explain things Is very funny. Woe aro not at all surprised, however, at the little fellow who, on | boing usked what the clouds were, replied, “Why, they are the skin of the sky, all wrinkled up, of course,” and then added, “‘Ain’t they?” as though 1% were hardly possible that they could bo anything elsa It was a beautiful idea, too, which a five-year-old scien- tist expressed when he told his mother that ho guessed the stars were only the roots of the flowers which were growing im heaven, which roots had grown too deep down and come through. Certain crities of Biblical histery have expressed grave doubts about the authorship of the first chapter of Genesia, There are numerous reasons why it could | not have been written by Moses, and equally strong reasons why it could not have been written by any ono | else. Modern science, however, most worthily repro- | sented in the person of Sr. Huxley, has effected a com- | Promise among the aforesaid critics, und determined to attribute the whole thing to Jobn Milton. The poet is to be hereafter held personally responsible for the Biblical account of the creation, Whether this will affect the sale of “Paradise Lost’ among charch-going people, aud if so, to what extent, not even Mr. Huxley dare predict, We did not know before that the custom anywhere prevailed of making a sort of discount for cash among thoso who take up church collections. There is, how- | ever, in Breton a church where the beadle carries round the plate and gives a pinch of snuff to every one who drops a penny therein. When aman sneozes, therefore, it {# proof positive that he has contributed to the support of public worship. What a wonderful spectncle the ocean presents ja somo of her peculiar moods! Many and many a time we bave sat on the stern and watched tho silver wake of the vessel as she cut through the dark waters of the night. But the other evening the view from the Highlands must have been grand beyond expression. The flerce gale lashed tho waters into such tury that the whole Atlantic, as far as the eye could reach, seemed like a vast plain of changing snow drifts. The ships that scudded before the tem- pest floated on liquid silver, It was a fairy sceno which no pen can describe, The Young Men’s Christian Association has begun to settic. We do not refer to its bills, some of which may remain unpaid, but to its building, which has taken an odd notion to dig its own foundation alittle deeper. Even oar religious institutions are affected by tho visit of Mr, Huxley, and are illustrating the doctrine of “the survival of the fiitest.’’ It is suggested that the weight of Mr, Huxley’s ‘“‘argaments” have caused the above mentioned bullding to sink a little, 8ome of the Methodist ministers are getting excited over the question whether a poor man has any right toattend a rich man’s church. It has not been set- tled, and, probably, will not be for some timo to come. The theory of the Church is all right, but its practice is all wrong. If the stern truth must be told, the rich don’t want the poor in the same church with them- selves. This talk of having all clasees meet together is largely a figure of specch. The very foundation of fashionable public worship is wrong, if the intention is to bring the littlo and the great into the same edi- fice, The preacher must have a large satary, the choir must be very costly, the organist must ve a man of science, and tho sexton must be dressed in broadcloth. In order to meet these expenses the seats must be rented at a high rate, The poor man is at once excluded, Then the church 18 open only on Sun- day, and unless aman geta his religious food on that day he must starve all the week, Why not havo services every day instead of two grand exhibitions on Sunday, and then Jock up the building? Protestant- ism knows well enough how to satisfy the demands of aclass, but it has not yet learned how to “preach the gospol to every creature.” In 1675 tho Massachusetts Colony had very limited notions of the value of tobacco. One of its laws runs thus:—‘“It 18 enacted by the Court that any p’son or p’sons that shall be found smoaking Tobacco on the Lord’s day, going too or coming from the meetings, within two milos of the mecting house, shall pay twelve pence for every such default to the collonie’s use.” It used to be as dificult to pay largo salaries to min- faters as it is nowadays, In a book ot Blue laws we find this recommendation, dated 1662:—“The Court proposeth {t as a thing they judge would be very comendable and beneficiall to the towns where Provi- dence shall cast any whales it they should agree to sett apart some parte of every such fish or oyle forthe incouragement of anable and godly minister amongst them.”’ ‘This ‘‘incouragement” was to be derived, not from the hoarded earnings of the colonists, but from the chances of some stranded whale. The clerical in- come of those days must have had a curious tinge of uocertainty about it. SCIENCE AND RELIGION. To tax EpiTon or THe Heray:— Science and religton are in full accord and do sustain’ each other. Youare right. Professor Huxley is right in sustaining the Bible, for he only aitueks the Mil- tonian theory, though without objecting to its being tho true theory of the Bible, which it really is not. In your issue of September 16, 1874, yon rotmarked:. “The Issue is not madé between science and the vari- ous church systems or the varied interpretations of Scripture.” Ithink that alternative will havo to be expunged, for it’s exactly here that the difference and antagonisin lie. Its between science and tho inter- pretation put upon Scripture. The reverend and very celebrated Dr. Joseph P, Thomyson, formerly of the Brondway Tabernacle, New York, to whom, upon his retiring from the ministry from ill health, the congre- gation presented $50,000, and who is now deciphering Egyptian and other hicroglyphics jo the «Old = World, =was very antagonistic tothe, thon, new science of geology; for the present generation witnessed its birth, He would tien have annihilated sts visual development, because he then | conceived it militated against the Word of God. The tigures 4,004, with which the printer of the English ion of the Old Testament chose to precede the firet of Gonesis as the time which was to define “the beginming,’? but whien figures 4,004, of course, were no | portion whatever of the reveaied Word—this, with other fixed definitions which the commentators nad tortured into a lieralness of the verbiage in the par. Tating of ancient trauitions—caused Dr, Thonrpson and very many other learned pundits to au- tugonize geology as a mass of atbeistical theories, Dr. Thompson has, however, since wriite a work show ng conclusively the tuil record between Acience and reveuied religion, and has, Ltniuk, therein | produced the most convincing arguments, as far as the | hight withio him lay, to clear up the mists with which } Dr. ‘Thompson probably, — howe suil labors | under the belict as to’ the hiterainess instead Of the alegorical structure ot a large portion of tho Mosaic traditions as recorded his pre- vious conceptions hud covered the new acience. | in Genes:s, and would probably vory strongly uphold | the Miltonien theory, though vot altogether, Tim that great rexwintor of ait mundane things, has elimi: | Dated Knowledge, convinced these gentiemen that science per se cond be repudiated, and thut — possibiy some error might. exist in their construction of Seripture. says of creation might be years, centuries eons. So fur as to days of years, &c, | think the wisest do ali now come. ireat ovents move slowly. Few dared then to go lurther, Some, like pickets of the coming army, took more advanced ground, In the article to which I re- ferred in your issue of 16h September, 1874, you say, “The truth is there is By recouciliation bewweeu the Mosaic record and the by pothesis of movern geology.” Ob, yes, there is. But vou should have (may be meant ko lo have done) interiined between tue words tween" and “the? the words “the interpretations of, so as to have read, “ihe truth 18 there ts 0 reconcilia- tion betWeen the Interpretations of the Mosaic record and the hy is of modern geology.” ‘That is 8 uniortunately, very tra, though | Uuink we have made some progress in an Opposite direction, A communi: caiou in a subsequent issne of the HERALD to the date roverred to says, troly, “fhe Mosaic record is a pure allegory—an ailiegorical account of the beginning.” Webster says an “allegory ix a description of one thing wnuer the image of ‘another: a figurative dis- course, in which the prineipal sabject is deseribed by ne | another subject resembling it in ite properties and cir cumstaneons. Th principal © subje thus kept out of view, and we are ww ject the intentions of the writer by the | | renomblanoe of the secondary to the principal subject,’? ¢. HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1 Thus, divest ourselves of tho idea of an actual ‘‘tree,”” “ol the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of th garden"—of the gerpent “saith unto the woman, &c., &e, and entertain the matter ax it really 18 as an allegory, and we immediately begin to avravel the metaphor, and witness the elucidation of the great boon of a free will w man, whieh was conferred on him, and thus the knowledge wasimparted to bim of evil, See bow beaatifully the allegory in that ie written:—“And the Lord commanded the saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayst Dut of he tree of knowledge, ot good and (A Hebraism.—See Web- ee regard ma freely oat, evil, thou may’st pot ent"? ster) “tor the day that. out ewtest thereot thou shalt surely die." (Genesis xi, 16, 17.) Man at oneo sofered a moral death and was ashomed foe sinning, Ie wandered away trom the path of rectitude which his Father (Ged) | had allowed him to do, eo that thereby, by an experi- ence of the knowledge of good and evi, he (man) might to advance in knowledge and work ont his own ; e being, of higher order; a ¢ knowledge within bimself: obtam an experience derived from the working of his nd; be enabled to ask his Moker tor assistance ting evil, and thus ip a probationary state be fitted fora higher life, to be a companion of the gr 1Am, Abraham was'a friend of God, and we may all arrive at that excellence. WILLIAM COVENTRY H, WADDELL, SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP. THE JEWISH HOLIDAY SEASON—PREPARATION FOR THE DAY OF ATONEMENT—DISCOURSE BY REV. H. 8. JACOBS. ‘The Jewish holiday season being stiil In progress the synagogues are wel: filled at every service, This was the case with the synagogue in Thirty-fourth street yesterday. The Rov. H. 8, Jacobs preachod a sermon appropriate to the season, dwelling In his preparatory remarks especially upon the time jatervening between the New Year Day and the Day of Atonement, which occurs this week, Thoso intervening days are solemn | ones and are intenlted as a preparation for the Fast of Atonement, when the people are to make their peace with God and practically and personally apply the words of the text Proverbs, xxviii, 12—'*He that cover- ctu his sins shall not prosper; but whoso confess- eth and forsaketh them shail have mercy.” Ono of the greatest follies of mankind, Mr. Jacobs remarked, is selt-deeoption. Wo impose on ourselves mueh moro than on others, Wedisguise from ourselves the ex- tent of our derelictions of duty, and too often con- ceive that our sins are venial and not worthy of punish- ment. And thus we scomingly apologize and excuse ourselves for the commission of dveds at which our better judgment revolts. But let others commit tho same acts and we very readily condemti the evildoer and cust him from us. This self-deceit is a mistake— hay, it is worse, itis acrime. But wo are warned in the text not to cover up our sins, Lut to contess them. Wo do not ana caunot prosper in’ wrong domg, For a time all may seem to go well and pleasantly, but the season of darkness comes and the days draw nigh when conscience calls out in loudest tones, ‘Watch- man, what of the night?” and disaster and dismay follow and find us unprepared to meet eithor. We then roulize, as we cannot do now, the trath of the warning contained in the text, But let no man laugh to scorn the wise warning, nor place too great confidence in his own security and im- munity from peril, as if he only of all men were safe. But low often are wo deceived by the calm, which is merely the prelude to the storm that bursts upon our uncovered heads. We try to hide our sins trom id in doing 80 lay ourselves bare of wrath and judgment that is to follow. But the second purt of the text places within our reach A HAVEN OF NAPETY, Whoso confessoth and forsaketh his ging shall have mercy, By confession the overburdened heart is re- hieved and the first step is taken toward amendment of life, This was fully understood and enforced by the ancient rabbins, and it is hardly necessary to say now that this confession must be made to God. The Bible and Jewish tcaching discountenance confession to men, becanse the Supreme alone has the power of re- mitting sins. Yet this verbal confession, however re- quired by Jewish doctrinal instruction, becomes often- times another means of sell-deception. How many are very prolific in the acknowledgment of their sinful- ness in the set formulas of the liturgy! They beat their breasts with’ seeming contrition, and are loud in their vociferation of penitence and confession, but are no better to-morrow when it comes than they ace to-day or were yesterday, This i® because they ive so little heed to the warning of the text, Mr. jacobs then gave extracts from the rabbinical writers in explication of the text, and remarked that the for- suking of our evil ways, and not the mere formal or Iturgical acknowledgment of our sins, 18 what is re- quired of us, Let this be the lesson for us, said the preacher, in this time-honored and solemn season, and let us keep it well in mind—its duties, ite warnings, ite Tesponsibilities—that we do not observo these days theoretically but practically, assigning to each its proper part and duties. And especially Mr, Jacobs urged his congregation not to make their criminality greater by pretending to confess and yet continue in their sins, The text offers comfort and reazsurance to the sinner, and while it denounces his sins it points out the means for his escape. It bids him not to ve discouraged by any contemplation of the enormity of bis misdeeds, He must not say I have sinned too eevir i ‘oad to repentance ig too diiticult; 1 have offended the Lord too grievously to hope tor mercy! What! SHALL W% MEASURE GOD'S 10" by the plummet of naman judgment? Dare any ot us question bow far His compassions extend, or limit lim who has proclaimed himself the Lord God, merci- ful nod gractous, forgiving iniquity, transgression aud rm we sounded tho depths of His grace? or bave we #0 wide a knowledge of His forbearance and when it ceases as to be able to contradict Him and to hmit His power? No. And let us not think or act so foolishiy, in denying His merey we should be de- nying God. He is love, and we must not bring Him down from His exalted throue tu the level of human passion, Which we ahould do if we rejected idea of Tis all-embracing compassion, forgiveness and good- ness, Let us, then, said the speaker, listen to the oall of this seasun of preparation and penitence, and mako it and its blessings ours. Dolay not, but be instructed and warned of thd consequences of impenitence and perversity. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. * PRESBYTERIAN, The Presbytorian ministers of Philadelphia are greatly exercised because ono of their numbor, tho Rev. L. M. Colfelt, has boen found plagiarizing in the pulpit, This is go grave an offence that his brethren seek to have his pastoral relation with tho First church dissolyod, and some of them goeven so far as to ask for his deposition from the ministry. Mr. Colfelt in reply admits that in consequence of close reading of other men’s sermons he may have embodied thoir senti- ments ia his discourses, but that ho never uses their words to any great extent, A clerical committee have investigated the matter, but the puolic think there is alittle jealousy among them at the position Mr. Col- felt holds in his church and before the community. Rev. J. H. Turnbull, of Iowa, becomes pastor of the Pearl street Presbyterian church, Fali River, Mass, A former North Carolina slave has just been or- dained over the Church of the Covenant (colored Pres. byterian), at Wilkesbarre, Pa, His name is W. D, Robeson, Coming North with a Union captain at the close of the war he entered Lincoin University, Penn- syivania, and graduated from its academical and theo- logical departinents, ‘he Presbyterian papers aro warming up to a sharp attack on Mr. Vanorden, their Jate Brazilian mission- ary, He has been dismissed on the ground, as charged by tho Jnterior, of being a slaveholder, and, according to another authority, with having broken a’ promtso of marriage to a young Iady of Chicago, and settled the matter by a cash payment Poor Vat ‘It never rains but it pours.” Rev. Frank W. Townsend has accepted a call from the congregation of New Berlin, Conn., and arrange- ments were made for his installation on the 27th of thin, month, Rey, Jamos 8. Evans, D. D., of Brooklyn, been called to tho pee of the Woodsid Rev. Witham M. Ba resigned the charge of the Fourth Presbyterian church of Boston, BAPTIST. In 1830 there was buat one recognized Baptist in Movtreai—Mr. Muir. In 1860 there wos but one church ond about 120 children in sanday school In 1876 there are four churches and 1,300 children in Sunday school, Any one of throe of these churches to-day has ® larger congregation than the only one bad’ in 1860. What is trac of Montreal ts true of the whole Dominion. On the 28th Inst, Mr. Henry M. Sanders will be or- dained and installed pastor of the Baptist church at Youkers, where he has been preaching tor several montha, Tho colored Baptists are strong | ann, They | have fiity chureues, fofty-tour minist id thirty- seven licentiates, and 3,343 church members, They form a distinet association by themselves, Lust Thursday the Baptists o! Puiladelphia recog- nized a new gociety organized under the title of the Macedonian Baptist church. They namber flity members and have 340 tn the Sunday school. They own Church property valued‘at $4,500, Rev. N, B. Randall hus resigned at Vineland, N. J. i gone to a church in Providence, RK. 1. Rev. Charles Harris, of Ithaca, bak taken the temporary supply of tho church at Westfield, N. Y. Rev. L. J. Gross has recently baptized six converts into bis church at Romuins, N. Y., and Rey, HH. B. Waring (en at Mahopac Falis, N. Y. UNIVERS. The Rev. 8. Elis has been jately installed pastor of the Universalist Chureh of the Redeemer in Chicago, lil. . The corner stone of the new Univers: ter Memorral,’’ at Good Luck, N. Murray lirst bogan to preach Universalism, be laid next Thursday, The old charch ts in the baw of the Methodists, and ihe Universatists have no notion of giving up the ground where their Chureh was born to another denomination. ‘The Rev, J, H, Hartzell bas resigned bis parish at Middletown, Cona., owing to ill health of his family, and has accepted a call to Now Orleans, La., where te will commence his jabvors early In October, The 4ieneral Convention of Universaliets in the United States and Territories will be neld in Roches- ter, N. Y.. commencing October 18, The ersalists of Tilimots have eighty-five par. isles, nineteen ministers wad 1,348 churel: members. Their Sunday sehools number thuirt, id their Weachers oad The | of the Georgia, with » few men, roperty is $530,475, on which there is a debt or 135,100, They raised during the yesr, for all pur- Poses, $94,712, ROMAN CATHOLIC. In a public address vy priests of the diocese of Que- bec to tne Pope they declare that at present, and more than ever beiore, the Provinciul government is betier disposed to tho Cathohe religton, and to all Roman doctrines, than avy other government im the entire work, Father Beckx, Genera! of the Jesuits, 18 to be made 1 a Cardi to be eligible to the Popedom when the p perable incumbent of St, Peter's chair Vacates forever that exnblem of ceclesiastical authority apd power. The Catholics of Colesburg, Iowa, and of Lakeville, IL, are building new churches. The new Catholic church at South Amboy, N. J., was dedicated last Sunui It is said to. be the most beautiful church in the State. The Catholic Protectory at Bracebriage, Canada, is nearly completed, The new Geriman Roman Catholic church at Corry, Pa., will ve dedicated today by Bishop Mullen, The Catholics of Omans, Neb. are en'arging and beautifying their cathedral and bishop's house for the recepuon of Bishop O'Connor. Ed. Creighton ana his wife, both deceased, left $250,000 for tho establishment of a Cath. olie College, to be named after them, in Omaha. Cath- oles of the place purpose to add another quarter mil- hon to 11, A mission of two weeks’ duration, and which was very successiul in its results, closed at Lockport, N. Y., last Sunday, It was conducted by Passionists, from the monastery at Hoboken, N. J. The Rov. Henry Morland, B, A., Jate Church of Eng- lana curate of Middle Clayton, Bucks, England, has been received into the Catholic Church. Fifteen Sisters of Cuarity leit Dubuque, Lowa, lately, for MeGregor aod other tnissions. The Rev. M. 3. Fitzgerald has been transferred from Abington, Mass, to the Cathedral, Boston. Two hundred thousand, or nearly one-half the pop- ulation of Brooklyn, are Roman Catholics. METHODIST. Bishop Peck made a fraternal visit recently to the Methodist Protestant Conference, in session at Beile- view, near Alleghany, Pa., and was cordially received, and made an «duress to the Conference on fraternity. ‘The Cincinnati Conierence hus voted in favor of en- larging the basis of ropresentation in the General Gon- ference, thereby reducing the number of detegates, The Conterence Voted against changing the restrictive rules, 80 as to allow annual conferences to define their districts and appoint their presiding elders, The Detroit Conference has also voted against this change. Mrs. Van Cott, the evangolist, 1s to begin ber ro- ‘vival work 10 Dallas City, Texas, October 7. Rev. J. W. Lindsay,’ of the Boston University, reached this port irom Europe on Monday last, The Southern Methodist Church has established a Swedish mission at Austin, Texas, and the membership has been increased in a short time from five to ninety- one, A generous friend bas offered $60,000 toward the en- dowment of tho academy at East Greenwich, R. 1., on Condition that other iriends of that institution will pay off the present debt, about $30,000, ¢ fraternity movement between the colored Methodist Kpiscopal Church in America and the Zion Methouist Episcopal Church (also colored people) does not promise at present to bea suceoss. The bishups, through sheir respective church journals, say in sub: stance that they neither want fraternization nor or- ganic union. The Southern Methodists are raising money to build an orphanage at Suanghal, Chiua, They waut $1,000 by Christmas, EPISCOPALIAN. The fiftieth anniversary of the organization of St, John's Protestant Episoopal church, Brooklyn, will bo observed to-day. The Rey. T. 5. Pycott will deliver a historical discourse. Resignations of pastorates seem to bo In order at the time, The Rev. J, U. Tennept bas resigned St Paul’s, Princes George county, Maryland; Rey. Joba Muir, M. D., has resigned Grace church, Carthage, N. to take charge of Zion church, Pierrepont Manor, Parucker has resigned Christ church, . Y., and Rev. N. F. Patnam, St Luke's Albans, to take angiher charge at St. .; the Rev. Charles Ritter has resigned Prince George and Charies counties, Maryland, and Dr. John Fulton bas resigued his South: ern parish to take the rectorship of Christ eburch in this city. The Rev. Charles Lancaster Short, M. A., has been Appointed minister in charge o! tho’ chapel of Staats- burg, on Hudson, Dutchess county, N. Y. St John’s church, Richmood, Va, has just erected in its churchyard a Sunday schoo! building, which was opened las: Sunday for the first time. ‘The Rev. Benjamin F. Brown, rector of All Saints’ church, Baltimore, bas just resigned the charge of thi: ona take charge of St. Stephen’s church, Harris- burg, Pa. ‘The Rev. William Kirkus, formerly of this city, has organized a new parish just beyond the city limits of Balumore. [tis known asthe “Church of St. Michael and All Angels.” Services were began in June last and now the society is oularging its litt!e chapel to ac- commodate the peap THE COURTS. DECISIONS. SUPREME COURT—CHAMDENB, By Judge Lawrence. McKee vs. Chenery.—the findings in this case were signed and left with the clerk at Chambers on the 27th of April, 1876, SURROGATE'S COURT. Estate of George Killeop.—A decree was entered on the 15th day of July, 1875, disallowing to executor pay- ment amounting to $13,501 01, because no vouche: were produced; bat he was thereby allowed further time to produce and fi/l such vouchers. It appears by supplemontal report of Auditor that $4,119 60 of the Heme disa'lowed have since been duly vouched for and ullowed to tho executs Decree -eutered reducing tho amount still charged against executor for such dis- allowed payments, to the sum of $5,582 3L Amos Smothers,—Order that letters of administra- tion heretofore granted to Ann Magnan be revoked, and that letters of administration de bonis non be is- sued to Thomas EK. Porter upon executing tho usual bonds, with suretics to be approved by the Surrogate. Estate of Catharine Costello, a minor.—Order that the Union Trust Company pay to said Catharine Costello, out of junds on deposit with said company, to the credit of said minor, $6989 for her board and clothing. Joze Maria Iazo.—Foreign will admitted to probate upon exemplified copy thereof, and order cntered that Dotice be published for six months tn the Hvening Post and Register tor claims against said eztate, and of ap- plication for letters of administration with said will annexed, POLICE COURT NOTES. At tho Toinbs Police Court yesterday, before Justico Morgan, Thomas Hannigan, a glass blower, was held for trial on acharge of stealing a quantity’of jewelry and clothing, of the value of $28, the proporty of John B. Decker, of No. 318 Broome street, . Inthe Court of Spccial Sessions yesterday Philip Brady and Charles Cuff were found guilty of keeping a disorderly house at No. 175 Greene streot and finca ench $50. Joseph Johnston, an able-bodied man, with a dissi- pated face, was yesterday convicted in ‘the Court of Special Sessions of employing his daughter, aged eleven years, for mendicant purposes, and ued $50, Lydia Clarke, one of the ballet troupe at Robinson Hail, was orraigned before Justice Kasmiro charged with stealing $38 from Robert B, Thompson, a planter, living at Lexington, Ky., whom she had induced to ac- company her to her rooms in the Rochester House, No, 114 Bleecker street. At the Washington Place Poltco Court yesterday Witliam McGowan, of No. 33. Pike street, was held ior trial for stealing a watch and chain valued at 250 from the apartments of Nora Husbands, of No. 683 Green- Wich street, Gessima Van Harten, a German servant girl, resid- ing at No. 19 East Seventeenth street, was arrested by OMcer Keating, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, for sieni- ing clothing valued at $8i from Mr. Charies A. Dean, of No. 2 Wost Fifteenth street, by whom she was em: proyea, The property was found tn her possossion, and she was committed in dafauit of $2,000 bail. ARRIVAL OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW. Yestorday morning there arrived in this port seven oMcers and twenty-four of the crew of tho Panama Transit and Vacilic Matl Steamehip line’s vessel, the Georgia. The oMcers and several of the crew made their statements atier arrival to Mr. W. P. Clyde, Pres- ident of the above mentioned lines. In conversation subsequently with that gentleman he gave the follow. ing facts to’a Henao reporter The Georgia was wrecked in Juno near Sandy Po'nt, in the Strats of Magollan. The officers and crew remained on board her till the 20th of July, sulfering no hardship. They then left by English steainer for ma, leaving Captain Nickerson, the commander in charge of tho wreck. About 250 tons of curgo were saved in good oruer by a Chilian mon-of-war and taken to Sandy Powat. The Georgta lies on a table of smooth rock and has about eight feot of wator inher. The only hole that has been discovered w in tne engine room. She has weathered three om and has moved about forty feet, When the hole in her 16 repaired by the wrecking expedition on tho Wilmington and she is pumped out, she can float at spring tides, The Wiimingt 1d Rio Janeiro last Wednesday and will reach the scene of the disaster early in October. No wore periectly equipped wrecking expedition ever Jeft port than on the Wilmington, and if the Goorgia can be floated they have the men and the material on board to doit with, The weather in the Straits of Magellan is now becoming finer day by day, being the reverse of our weather here. Tho officers who have just arrived are the first, second and third eBees, the first and second engineers anil two others. POLICE CHANGES. At a moeting of the l’olice Board yosterday Sergeant Allen, of the Fifteenth precinct, was transterred to tho Twi th, and Sergeant Holbrow trom the Twentieth to the Fifteenth, Patrolman Dakon, of the Thirty- second, was transferred to the mounted squed; Hariy trom Twenty- frat to Kigith, and Rose from the Nine- teenth sub to the Twenty-tirst. ROBBING AN ALTAR. Margaret Shields, a destitnto, drunken, poor creature, was committéd for trial yesterday, ut the Fifty-seventh Street Court, for stealing two candietii¢ks from the altar of St. Agnes’ oh in Bast Forty-third strech, re sbo admitted ito charge, but said in excuse that she A Half Hour with a Gypsy ithe dividing lino between American and gypsy life, 876.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. NA GIST CAMP. Romance and Poetry Noms4 Life. of} UNVEILING THE MISTY FUTURE. Fortune Teller. THE CHILD OF THE STORM. Where is gypsy land? the curious reader will ask. Is it Bohemia or Egypt or Hungary? No; just vow ibis at Hanter’s Point or Dutch Kills; at least tor the purposes of this local sketch. Nota very romantic home this Hanter’s Point, is it? Nor is Dutch Kills, And yet a band of roving gypsies have struck their tents there, to tell fortunes and trade horses, as they say; to steal and plunder on the day of the explosion, when adjacent howes will be left deserted by their frightenod inmates, as somo of their suspicious neigh- bors declare. There is & strango fascination in this wayward, roaming, open air vagrant life, which recog- izes the azure vault of heaven as its onty shelter, tho glittering stars peeping trom the dusky, fleeting clouds as its only guide, and glorious aature, with its freshening, invigorating inspiration, as its only friend and companion, There is —_ some- thing woird and unfathomable about it to the dwotler of strong and brick prisons in the eity, and the gypsy would Janguish and die inthe gilded cago on the Fifth avenue as surely, if not as quickly, asin the infested cell in the Tombs. Theso children of naturo are, as it were, borne on the heaveuly breezes that are wafted on their way from the mountains, the sky and the sea; the morning sun nurtures them and brings thom to his warm breast; the umbrageous trees bend over them and fan them to sleep; the forest breezes and the flowers’ del'cious perfumes aro to them drink and food; and, if the Pantnetst be indeed right, and Nature be God, then these dusky, swarthy children of the forest can claim the closest communion with tho Deity--a community far closer than that of the fash- jonable attendant of parties and balls, whose clothes are cut in Poole’s latest style, and who would catch rheumatism and evory other ism in the first night of his gypsy encampment It fo, THE GYPSY ENCAMPMENT XEAR HUNTER‘’S POINT, or Dutch Kills, ts about three miles from the ferry. Striking from Vernon ayenue into Jackson avenue, and pursuing Jackson avenue for a distance of about two miles, you pass Sinnott's liquor saloon, and thence you come directly upon the encampment. It is a rather carious coincidence that a gin mill should be considering that these gypsics claim to be temperance men and to repudiate spirituous stimulants im every form. Right behind Sinnott’s saloon is quite an ex- tensive wood, and ina clearing, which is sufficiently near the avenue to afford even tho casunl passer by a presty good glimpse of gypsyland, a strange and pic- turesque sight strikes the eye, Here are several tents built in regular gypsy style (and far more efficiently, by the way, than any army tents you ever saw), some of them of canvas and others of cheap, heavy carpet, which gives the abode quite a homely, warm, comfortable aspect, Then there aro large gypsy carts standing about—houses on wheels, beautifully orna- mented on the outside and bristhng with comiort and convenience within, with a sitting room in front anda smooth, soft bed for a sleeping chamber bebiud. Theso veds look as inviting, as clean and neat as any bed in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and you can pleasantly imagine yourself drawn by a pair of stout borses over a smooth country road in a glittering starlt night, and dream jug of the magic and the wonders of gypsy witcherait, as the winds of the forest play over your travelling cot, Then think of sleeping in some stormy night in one of these pretty beds, the horses dashing bravely on through rain and wind, the rain pattering over your head and waking you occasionally with its dismal sound, These bedrooms on wheeis are fitted up with looking glasses and toilet cases, and even a Saratoga belle might manage to store away her comprehensive wardrobe within their capacious recesi “How mauy will this wagon accommodate of night?” I asked Mr, Wharton, tue chief of the band. “Oh! a good many,” said the strange man of powerful stature, with the deep, dark gypsy face and a Jewish hooked hose, and altogether an air of great shrewdness and wisdom in his “canny” features; “two wiil sleep in the bed and in the space in tho front tive or six can easily sit and dose away the night.” A PICTURESQUE BORNE. But to complete the picture A number of these dusky faced ehildren of nature lay lazily about as ‘hough they wero drinking in the warm rays of tho sun Which shone upon them. A few women, strange, iantastic looking creatures, all in picturesque rags aud tinsel, just as they look on the stage, were going about evidently in pursuit of some domestic arrangement. A cracking fire was built of twigs and a hugo teakettio was alreacy pufling forth its grateful steam, And tho children were playing about in the grass, and such children, with old flaring red neckerchiets, ap- parently come down to them from the time of Noah’s ark, through ail the suc- cessive generations of the gypsy tribe, cach wearer leaving new ragged edge and new fantastic twist im it; with spangled jackets of every imaginable color and of unsbape'y shape and breeches that dently were worn by their great grout grandiatrers as overcoats, and have gradually been reduced to ther prosent size and shape. That Is one of the beauties of ypsy dress—that every article of wear is a prized heir remains for ages in tho families, subser ing the uses of an overcoat to the grout grandiather; being clipped down to a coat by the grandfather, then transmogrified into a vest by the father, until the son now rejoices in its faded color but apparently undimin- ished warmth as covers for hisiegs. 10 complete this brief deseription—behind in the woods could be seen horses and mules, which to judge from their wild look, haye evidently adopted the weird apd fanciful spirit of their owners. A RESPRCTARLE GYPSY CHIRF. Mr. Wharton, the chief oi the band. received the writer with much old-fashioned cou nd readily gave an account of the number, the the origin, his- tory and present circumstances of his picturesque flock. Bai to any one who had seen gypsies in the Puszia of Hungary and in the wilds of Bohemia as the writer had it, was not necessary vo tall that these gypsies were of a very wild, modernized and, perhaps, adul- terated stamp; that they had been toned down from their pristiae wildness by many years of life in bard, matter-of-fact, practical America. Mr. Wharton, vbo ince, had been in the country tome rs. His mother was a gypsy, bin fat lis By trade he was an itinerant brazie but now he tradod horses and lived in perfect devotion to horseflesh. While he spoke he kept jingling a pocket full of coins, and the writer ts very much mis- taken if this gypsy chief bas not either avery respoct- able bank account for a roving ebild of nature or has not stowed «way some hoard of gold in some lonely spot under the earth. He and his comrades were scru- pulously clean for gypsies, and on that account alono the true Bobemian or Hungarian gypsy, who recognizes the live population in his long, black, unkempt hair as the first bond of brotherbhod, would probably eto extend to hia Long Island kinsman the right band of followsbip. UNMUSICAL GYPSIES. Another featuro in the trae European gypsy camp which was missing here was the evidence of that wild, passionate love of music which undy ingly glows, for instance, in the Hungarian gypsy’s bre: which accompanies him, like the Joad-star of bia existence, from his cradle to his grave. You can nevor visit the tent of a Hangarian gypsy without seeing with him his faithful life companion—his Hddle—irom whose strings he evokes those weird, strangely beaatiful and hoart- performed by Thomas’ sp! Uthat these English-American gypsies had but litle of that wild, Titanic nature of their Hungarian or Bobe- mian brothers; that they were bent on making money more than on soothing aud stilling their passionate hearts with melodies snatched from the innermost depths of love, hatred, baflied hope and black despair; melodies which sway the musical soul as the slender reed is swayed by a flerce, unrelenting gust of wind, “And what makes you live in these tonts tn the open air, when botels and comlortable inns are open to you ?”” the writer asked. “O, we are born to it, sit. in a monotonous, sing-# the wary loader repliod, hich had somo jt, tel; we in live im the open men all aro either iull blooded gypsies of bad gypsy fathors or mothers—the love of nature is ia their blood, Nothing can take it out, To reduce them to city lite would mako them 100 miserable to 1id,"’ “Do you intend that al! your children shall foliow this ite?” “Ah, no; 1 have several sons in San Francisco who are plumbers, rooiers, &c. ‘That's getting to be quite a out there,” t to have m: u fortune told.” Siep hero to thistent. She Whatever she says you may pou. She never yot made a mistake tn her Iie, It she tells you a good fortune you may believe 1 Your fortune 1s made then,” THE PORTON TELLER, He ted the writer to the first tent nearest Sinnott’s saloon, one so low that you had to & crouching or kneeling posture to remain and folds, There, young woman ol, por- re anu real gy pry beauty; bronze int whieh is ihe Warm san’s own glows but of strikingly impressive | straight, almost Grecian ; the lips rea, bright, sousuods; wh [seal aicamds dati aad witha ‘railed inaien indica. | Wo tana af nose res, bie ne 7 scence from recent illness, and lustrous black hair of rich aud luxurious growth. ‘Here, 1nd was the typical daughter of magic, the queen ol wisebery, the waile of the servant girl aud the pussie of the scientist. Thore wus something mesmerizing avout these deep, dark, mellow eyes, with their sols ond yet weird glance vent interrogatively upon her in- terlocutor as she wanted to read his mind, She was dressed in the picturesque garb of ber tribe, which bailles all attempis of desorption or judgment by the ordinary canons of the dressmek- er’s modern art, Elvira was gently nursing a wee litle infant, evl- dently new-born, whore tiny, squashed features alk ready showed the unmistakable gypsy cast, THE CHILD OF THE STORM. “When was this child bora?’ the writer asked, as he watched the expression of deep lovo with which she tenderly put thy babe aside and cast a lingering glance of watchiul fondness at it before settling herself for the interview. ‘Last Sunday night,” Elv plied, smilingly, & thot terrible storm. Oh, it nH awful storm!” She shuddered as she added, with one of those Ins. tous lashes vut of her de dark eyes, “1t was @ terrible storm, I$ brongh tent down and they thi | bad to build another one inside to protect me. and my ebiid.”” In giving the remarks of the gypsy fortune-teller if shoud be noted that her queer grammar and discon ected, jumbling syntax 18 not faithtully preserved. If it ware possible to 1ecover the peculiar flavor of her odd gypsy construction of Anglo-Saxon a verbatim re production of her linguage would perhaps be advisa but as that would materially impair the intetligibility of the conversation the w may be pardoned for tarn. ing her rather misty language mito clear and plain En lish, Her simple words called a vivid picture of that awful tempest on Sunday vight, which unroofed houses and uprooted majestic irees, of that carnival of the superhuman elements before her visitor's mind. Think of thattender intant, bora in that howling, Taging storm, in a frail tent which bends and yieldé under the furious lashings of the gale, as ho greets life with his first shrill and hopeful cry. Thivk of these dusky sons of the forest standing bravely up amid that awful tornado which swept everything betore it apd building the tent within the tent, so that tent should be torn down by the gale a should if the outside inner shelter cover the mother and her newborn baho! mmo of the infant, a girl, The name be mother explained, alter tho gera+ nd the idea bebind it were certainly tila’s life was to resemble the sweetness and fragrance and beauty of the geranium. YOUR FORTUNE ¥OR A DOLLAR. But now to the business of the interview, the telling of the writer's fortune. The gypsy was glyd to uuder- take the task “for a trifling sum.’” “Put the largestsum of money you possess in the paim of your lett hand,” said she, 10 that sume manote obous, sing-song tone which bas been previously al- luded to in describing tho leader of the band, When this was done, the writer naving to remain ia a kneeling posture to avoid Knocking bis head against the hickory sticks that supported the tenv’s ceiling, Elvira queried in the same, odd, semi-declamatory tone;— ‘Now, if I tell your fortune truly and faitnfully you will give me this dollar with a glad heart’? Mark tho yinesse of the gypsy. She had sald the “largest su,” which was a gentle hint that if you were uisposed to puta Oilty dollar bill in the palm of your left hand she would be pieased to consider it ‘a trifle” and not object to take it, The writer assented to her Jast query, and with that sho took the dolar and prudently put it imto her pocket, The cash principle of ‘payment im advance’* is not in exact consonance with the Tomance and poesy that breathed through ancient xy psy lite, but tt inay be supposed Lo be one of its “modera improvements,” “Now make three wishes,’ she said, carefully scrutinizing tho Hines of bis palm. Thegirl babe mean- while was good-naturedly looking at the performance, as if sho wanted to learn her future avocation. ‘This command being silently complied with shopros cecded to unveil the dim mystery of the unknown age unknowable. A LUCKY STAR, “You wore born under threo stars, Saturn, When you were born your evil star was in tho ascendant, but your good star has bees rising ever since. Have you had recent troubie in busin: 63??? ‘Tho gypsy evidently expected an affirmative auswer; but when tho writer answered ‘No’ she was by no monns disooncerted and glivly proceeded with another uery. iititave you bad lately trouble in your famity ?”” “Yes,’’ the writer responded for variety's sake, “Ah yes,” the gypsy exclaimed, as though abe had known all along that it was this and not the other trouble which was weighing on her interlocutor's mind, “Have you followed a death in your family lately ?”? No, | have not.” “Ab!” the gypsy responded, with the same expres- sion of relief (which meant to say “Ob, I have kuown it along. It’s all right. Lonly put the question for torm's sake’’), and she continued prophoticaily, “You will tollow a Wedding betore you will tu:low a death." She summoned an inspired expression to uer wan face 4s she delivered the Inst seutence, ‘A MGAMOUS OUTLOOK. “You do not think much of the ladies now, but there i# one that thinks of you and you wiil soon think: of ber.” (Wouldn’t the writer’s spouse be jealous if she knew that he actually contemplated ‘bigamy ?) “You are a gentleman whom the ladies have cost lar more than they have brought.’” Reminiscences of oyster stows, sodas, candies, ice creams, &c., required & candid assent to this painfully true statement “But you are a gentleman who will be decply loved yet, and who will love in return, You are a gentioman Who has ytudied deeply and well. Youare one who hates spite and malice, who would rather befriend a foe tuan injure a triend. You would never cheat any. body; you would always seek to do right by friend and {ce, you love the poor as well as the fich, you pity tho sick and protect the weak, you don’t care much for riches but riches will come to you, neverthe: less, You are a man who is fond of travelling and whe will yet visit every coruer of the globe; but in yout travels, teil me, have you met a dark’ complexined gentleman??? Instead of complexioned she naively said “com plected,’’ and put the question ina plaintive tone ag ‘she anucipated evil of that dusky traveller. ‘No, I haven't,” was the reply. She, as usual, was not in the least disconcerted, “Nor a light complected gentleman ?”’ she asked. “Nor even a light one.?” THK DARK COMPLECTED GENTLEMAN, “Well,” sho said, concealing her disappeintment at this second parry by a sinile of satisfied approval, “Well, you will soon mee: a dark eomplected gentler man; look out for him; don’t trast him for hfaven’s sakel”” This was sald in a tone of earnest appeal, which was so impressive that the writer, becoming alarmed, 1 mediately put his vand to bis pocket and turued round to see it any of her male companions were near by. Luckily it proved a false scare. It would require teo inuch to give all the gyp- sy’s prophecies, particularly ws she declined to repro- duce them faithfully in writing for less than $6—a sum she asked, not lor the trouble of writing, but because ‘40 it was all writ down” it would make the writer's good fortune ail the safer and stronger. She wound q by saymg:—“Although you despise riches, you wil ride in your carriage before the first of next year,’* “In a tne four-in-hand ¥” the writer asked, in whom Mr. Delancey Kate's Pelnam coach has cultivated a de- cided preference for a four-in-hand. **You,”’ she smiled approvingly, ‘ine fine, spiend! four-in-band. You wili have w fine lady by you all dressed in silk and diamonds, and God wi 38 you. T ext time you see me you willbe able ta give me a bigger prosent than you gave me to-day, God will bless you and all belonging to you. Amon.” WHO WILL WX PRESIDENT? And with that she looked up exuiting™\ as though she was delighted to have 60 truthiully acquitted her. sel! of her task, and the little baby seemed to look uj too, and to simile approvingly at the successfal \ssae the undertaking. “That’s very nico,” the writer sald; “I am very much obliged to you, indeed, Dut allow me to ask you Just one question. Who wiil be our next President, iilden or Hayes?” This was a puzzler, Elvira bad eviaently nots paid much attention to politics; did not know either name, and lad nover oven read the Timea’ cam supple. ment. But she was equal to the occasion. soon ag the character of both candidates had been explained to Ler she assumed a wise and prophetic air as though she had known ail about it all along and declared “Hayes will be the next President. It’s inh Ivs writ as plainly as possibie in his star, star is going down.” Poor Hewitt! Who would have thought tnat defeat ‘was #0 plainly written on the democratic banner? The writer left ber tont with another small donation and many expressions of gratitude (or the splendid fa. ture to which she had given him the gold ey. A few words more about the band. Taey namber about thirty-two or thirty-three according to their leader, and, strange to say, they belong to the regular Episcopal church, The child of the storm—as little Gerania may weil be called—will be formally christesed Gerania in accordance with the usages of the Church of England. ind was last at Woe! ag soon as the coid w or ete in they will go with the swallow and other migratory birds to the South, re they may still enjoy their native clement—sanshine, 4A MISSING STEAMSHIP, No little anxiety existe in shipping circles tn thie city with reference to the safety of the Havana steam. ship Liberty, which left that port ten days ago, sinde which no tidings havo been recoived of her. The City of Vera Cruz, of Alexandre’s Havana line, which leit Havana two days later, namely, on tho 16th inat., arrived in New York o1 ist did not see the missing cratt, Tho Liberty is commanded by Captain Lundberg, who has been in th Ne of the weil known ship- ping frm of Jat E. Ward & Co., having commanded the sailing vessels Topeka and Cardenas, and steamship Cuba (formerly the Fort Morgan), be- longing to sald firm. He has beon engaged for some thirty years im the Cuban trade, and bears reputation of being a most experienced shipmaster, WHAT THR OWNERS Bay. Mars, Jupiter and Last evoning a Hxnauo reporter called upon Mi is office at the foot of Wall street, whon he wiDg statement: — ‘© have no news of tho Liberty since sb Havana. I do not think she Is lost, but 1 thimk she bas become disabled. She has a strong frame and can sta: ny s#mouat of weather. You may remember the case of the ington, of Messrs, Clark & Seaman, which for New Oricans trom here, and of which, no news Te ceived for upward of three weeks, When was received trom the Bahamas that she had emoll island under sail, with damage I cannot consent to & gloom: fate for some time I do she has on board, T th , bat To the best of my beliet board, The Liberty She bos belonged to us tor about t ontha, and first ron to Santiago ae Cuba, She i worth about $00,000 and is only partially insured, the in this At A would say

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