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GOSPEL LIGHT. Sermons by Clergymen in Various Churches Yesterday. MAN’S SPIRIT. Father Hogan on the Neces- sity of Penance. MA PROFIT AND LOSS. The Last Sunday of the Au- tumnal Rush. oo CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. GOD WILL KEEP HIS COVENANT—SERMON BY MR. HEPWORTH, Mr, Hepworth preached yesterday morning to an | usually large congregation from the tex, Genesis xvil,7—"‘And I will establish my covenant between | me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their gener: Mong, for an everlasting covenant, to bea God unto Whee and to thy seed alter thee.’’ It ts the notable prerogative of man to hold communion with big Creator, it is acommunion that approaches fellow, ship and suggests spiritual friend! and intimacy. A man has the power to work with God, to work for | God and to borrow energy from God with which to ac- | complish the task. We stand alone in the order of ereation, completely isolated from any influence which might come up to us from the brute creation. Our heritage is not trom beiow: it cometh down from above, It is not the earth that teaches os God 1s our schoolmaster; it is not | from that which is low or base or mean that we et our power: it is drawn from Him who is eternal, und who so loved us that Hoe sent His only Son into \he world to tell us the story of that love. We are, then, so godlike in our natures since the Almighty bath put His fingor on our body and mind and spirit What the end which God hath in view respocting us is the end we ought to have in view, though it may lerd through vemptution and trial and suffering. Man's bappiness is in God, and nowhere else. He who puts | his hand upward in faith that tho angeis will take hold of is receives inconceivable strength, boundless hap- piness, fathomless joy, which the world cannot give, aad which THE WORLD CANNOT TAKE AWAY. Now, in reading history I have come across one or ‘wo facts which are very iuteresting, Which as a spir- Itual impulse we ought to meditate upon and rec T tind God has made two covenants with the bu Face; that he.has c erated with men on two sepu- Tate occasions; that be not only manifested Himself, showiog His presence in an tndubitable way, holding communion by word of mouth with men, but He has also made a compact which mvolves our wellare in this life and which has to do with our weal when the cur- tain falls upon the present and we stand in tho midst of the future. The first was a failure—may I dare to gay it? Nota failure on His part, but on ours; and the jast compact is not yet a success, except bere and there iu Curis- Man b Ob, that it might be a success the wi Upray to God that His spirit may yer r the world like a tidal wave, drowning out id filling is (ull of power and joy and the conscivusness of purity. fhe second covenuot was made with Moses on the top of Sinai. It was a compact of obedience; the laws were written on sione; but that was broken too; that could not be kept. It was not Kept by the Israelites; it if not kept by you to-day. ‘We cannot get on on the ground of a covenant of work; It ts impossible to succeed in that direction. We either wot't or cannot keep ine law, ‘There is somewhero fearfui twigs in our nature. The Ten Commandments which ware thungered forth irom Simal are broken in yoar and if you coud wina title.to heaven by Hinple obedience to those laws you would lose your litle on the instant, and you would confess your eutire Boworthiness to cross the golden threshold of the golden city, And so up to the time of Christ the Co:npact that demanded obedience on the part of man was atailure. It never succeeded, and if we are to be Gaved we must be saved on other grounds, Look at the other covenant When Jesus came he put asentence into literature which stands alone, the MYSTERY OF SCIENCE and the problem of religion—“Believe-on m shall be saved.” I tuink that sentence in the literature of the worid. ef; it 18 an assertion that seems to bave the authority of God behind it, 0 bieesed Lord, what to believe on Thee? It seorfsto mea new way fias been opencd through the darkness of night rigut ‘on the ruins of the old compact of work. A revelation bascome down iniivitely more hopeful God has proven His love for us; He bus stretched out His and to iit us out of the gloom of mid- Bight’ Faith is our hope—taith im our best friend, faith in God, faith in the Holy spirit. When I look at the compAct graven in stone | look upon what is as ih of my Hesh, but wheo | look on the other | look the eternal spirit of things. I cannot look on the cross w:thout looking through 1t, and I see the great Baviour rising higher and higher andéat last taking His Place on the right hand of God. When tue command comes {rom God simply to obey your heart grows cold, but when God looks down and says, “My children, i lave thee; keep your eye fixed on me. Open your beart and understand me; do Just as! tell you aod all will be well,” then I seem to be iifted up above ordinary buman nature; the spirit of God takes pos- Fesvion of me, and there is a gweet and blessed cum- munior between me and all things holy, for that is the priceless gi't of the second covenant of God—the cove- nant of arith Look \ the covenant. What does God say? If you will hav faitu in me, if you will try to obey me, I will be your God, Whatis it to be agoato you? ' A god fu a being who protects; then God must be your pro- tector. A god is a being who preserves; then God must be your preserver. A god isa being who exer- watchful providence over ali the details ot our God promises He will be all that to you, But do not Christians saffer sometimes’ Yos, Goa does not make a compact to iociude what you cali good fortune; but God says that the true end of life is bappiness, and if God y will be happy. The world promises and kee po promise. What the lends and takes back ag: gives. God’s covenant is a sure one; it gives a clear litle to everything. The compact made with Moses God stands ready to mako with you. I would shat you Might appreciate this fact. God wants to make the compact with you now. If only you will trust in Jesus Christ you will secure yourselves against all future contingencies, So long as you fail to give alie- giance to the right King you are against Him. If you ‘© outofthe Church you ure in danger, Are you ide and op God’s side, or outside and on the Devil's je’ This is a serious question, aud involves your Oh, brethren, let your footsteps bend ‘4 Come into the Church ot Christ, for He od it with His own hands, and whoever be- heveth shall be saved. It 18 the promise of God. : MASONIC TEMPLE, THR SPIRIT IN MAN—SERMON BY REY. 0, B. FROTHINGHAM. Rev. Mr. Frothingham delivered an eloquent dis- course yesterday morning in Masonic Temple upon the spirit in man. The object of this discourse, said the speaker, is to show that there 1s something worthy ef being culled a spiritual nature in man. The word spirit is one of those vague words that mean inuch or little with different men and women, it means an element, a principle. it only God gives Ho u hereafter. In com u It means breach, | which to most people suggests the propelling power by which man is related 10 in- visible creatures But however regarded it is Considered as a distinct force or principle by virtue of which » man is « member of the ideal or spiritual uni- | versa tis the power of reasoning, by virtue of | which be is immortal; by wirich on eurth he may live | a large, grand existence. This spirit is supposea to be not A person and yet personal, It is spokeu of as deing in the body and as leaving the body when man | fie §=This view bas passed out of popular regard. Chere are several things against i, In the tirst place, | Are troubled by physiological objections. We can- not flud any seach thing with our most perfect intra. ments; we searched for it, but in vain, There eannot be such a principle, That argument is nos | Hrong, for what woi can penetrat prin- ciple?’ What rstrument ever can investigate | iY «6 Tf) there be such) principle in man ©! necessity it 1s not yet reached. We are on the out- ekirts ay yet of vur conjecture; it bas pot yeu Feuched thé point (0 say what organization can or can- If we should say it cannot ve sound, that is different trom sxying it iy not there, The Sweden- borgians hotd beory that the spirit ip inan is man, Mau is a spiritual being. The spirit does uot dweilia the form; iis the form. The body 1s the means of communication. Turouga tho body the man becomes visible, but the man is not the body, There are ob- Jections to this view —naindly, that be find this spiritual form in the outward form, A juding to the difference between man and the animal creavon the speaker said:—The spirit is not universal in man- kind. Every creature that walks on two feet and holds his head high is ot by that fact a spiritual nature, It obensugh that one should be outwardiy a man, There are people who seem to have no spiritual nature whatever, gut regard ail the attrrbutes of a spiritual mature as Visionary, superstitious dr ay be possible that one of of being, these capacities may ped, but as far as can be seen they are devoid of aspiritual nature. They arc creatures of organiza- at, and thero are others whose animaiism is so sup- | Limbs weak and unsteady, we pressed that we almost lose sight of m altogether. Look at the difference between Judas Iscariot and Jesus—the man pieces of silver Now what is this spiritual nature ? sigh Of spirituality? Lt is mot intellect. Lutellect is not spirituality. Knowledge is wot spiritu- ality, Power that is in iself is pot spirituality. Raphael covered the walls of houses and temples and acres of camvas with his most giorious forms ot beauty—forms $0 majestic im their grandeur that generations of men stand enwra we and wonder be- fore them. They se such heig! it, such mature to de cribe, ‘This is not spiritually; for suppose 1 w us it bas been believed to be true, possibly was true, thu Raph: although onderful arust, Was a mau with no robust principles of if man who lived an illegal lite, except as regarded hii art; aluxuriantly scitish man, would you say be was spiritual? Take Beethoven, who wasa miracle of musical geniu: was a morbid and morose creature, liviag by timself (he was not that, but suppose that he was), would you al? that his art made bim spiritual? aman who one in creative art; } & man who could write dramas without end. What’ of it” Suppose (we know nothing of Shakespeare) bim to have been an idle, strolling actor; suppose bim to huve been a man who was bad in pri- vate life, would you say he was spiritual minded? That oll the gerius represented in those piays of his were evidence that he had the spiritin him! There muy have been wore spirit ip the bamblest of tis ers, Neither is the xpirit evident by devotional ardor, Here, ali over the world, are people straining every nerve to send the Bible into every part of the universe, to bring people into their church and accept This i¢ not spiritual mindedness. 1t be the reverse, It may be pride of power, pride of iniluence, pride of opinion. How much spirituality is there in that? Tho element of spirituality is human, It as the bumay element that is the nce of 1, The power of devotion to some large interest—the power to lose all thought of | | seit in the thought of others—this is spirituanty, and always recognized ag such, Huuility, meekness, gen- tleness, cvarity, love and torgiveness—this is spirit- uaiity, Two things in this society of ours seem to be im- portant, One, that men should belicve they are not clodé; that they are pot heterogeneous formalities aut of the dust of the ground, to return to it again, Men have the capacity at least for something better and higher. Another thing is also important, that i should not associate these spiritual elements with « thing so mean as dogmatism or sectarixnisi with anything 8 emotion; with anything that as knowledge necessarily does or must It is a buman reality. Woare spiritual in proportion as we are men and women, We are unspiriu@® in proportion as we forget what itisto be men and women, Let us remember that, No strain irom heaven will wake us into prayer if the solemn music of our bumamity atirs us not, No spirits will long beckon us upward If spirit of 5, patience, sympathy, faith aud hope in owi rts do not lend us their invisible hand. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. THE LAST SUNDAY OF THE ‘‘CEN‘TENNIAL RUSH” —MRB. BERCHER ON JUSTIFICATION. Yestorday was announced to be the last Sunday on which Mr, Beechor’s people would retrain trom hear- fog bim preach in order to give the many strangers now in this city a chavee to bear the great preacher; and the crowd about the doors an hour before they were opened bore ample testimony to the desire of that class to take advantago of the opportunity. Betore the service began much comment was current among the 3,000 persons fortunate enough to gain admission about the plaing of the edifice; but when Mr, Beecher bad taken bis seat their attention was turned to him, and when, under the sympathetic touch of Colonel H. C. Kiag the big organ rolled forth a pmo- lude to the opening anthem, and the fine voices of Miss Lasar, Mr. Werrenroth and Mr, Heary Camp, assisted by the volunteer choir, un- Ger the direction of the latter, filled the buiiding with harmonious sound: buzz of conversation was hushed, and thereafter the congregation were as de+ Vout as the regular flock could nave b Mr. Beecher read, beiore the sermon, the names of a num- ber of persons who wiil join the church, by letter or profession ct faith, on Sunday next, He proceeded to thank his people tor making the sacrifice of remaining away for three Sabbaths {rom their places to accom- modate strangers. Next Sunday, ne jd, the usual system ot things will be resumed. There were, how. 8 500 seats for visitors, and many families abit of making room im their pews when those seats proved insuiticrent, MR, BERCHER’S SERMON. From the sixth chap! : chose the text of hi doing service as to tl to men; knowing that whatsoever good thing any than dvcth the same shall be receive of the Lord, whether he ve bond or slave.” Allthe way through the Vid Testa- ment, he eald, right living is the theme, and though ‘here was now and then a flash of light that haa re- spect to the life to come, yet during all the centuries Eat men treated of the measure of the Old Testament the measure of the life to come was not employed in instruction, nor as jalty or @ reward; but the laws of God by which tight fiving im this world turns out perity and by which wrong living turns out ad- sacred thomes of the Old the New Testament was fouud. from work, and men _ belicved they only had piety work was not of much consequence, It was'a question betwoen personul in- fluence on the one side and institutional influence on the other, and he who adopted the new lite and tho new impuise would find a far better way of right living opened up. When we come to the actions of dally life it was wrong to say that aman could not be SUSTIFIRD BY WORKS, The text contradicted that statemect. The economies a ai that if crowd within. cathedral souls, If they could pot do good in lile they could not do good atall A soldier would be foolish to assert that he could not be brave in battle, but was courageous if permitted torun away. “Where your dutlesare every said the preacher, **there Is to be your r anywhere.” Mr, Beecher held that morality Ubrough the conduct of life, through the spirit of the Lord, and in the education of a true Christian man- bood, aud that it 1s placed in the ordinai nditions 1 Ideally the conditions form the conditions which should d velop manhood 1n them; but considering humanity weak and trangibie, it was found that matter of tact men are tempted perpetually by their affairs toward a low line of living. So that while bard work was meant to be a means of grace it did not prove to be so. Men were born on different planes of strength and ca pacity, and these should place them in relations to- ward each other which should tend to elevate their good qualities, but in reality PRIDE TOOK THE PLACE OF ASPIRATION and rivalry that of affection. Onoof the benefits of the family was that it furnished a wholesume and numerous chance for the exercise of power, which every man loved. Speaking of love Mr. Beecher said it was like weil digging. Some men found it within a very few feet of the gurface and it lasted them through the rainy sea- som, but the moment summer drought came it dried up.’ Some again found it as nen dig wells in a rock. It was a long task, but when they had once gained it it was for life—torever, Ja illustrating another point of his subject Mr. Beecher, quoting the words ‘Slaves, be obedient,” &c., asked whether the sons and brothers of bis hear. ers bad not during the war fougbt under unworthy and incompetent officers, and yet fought on, knowing they wero carrying out the will of the commander-in-chict expressed through those officers. Just in that spint mi ould bear all thesis of this life, knowing that whatever wrong is inflicted upon thom by therr fellow men there is One above ruling all, CHICKERING HALL, PROFIT AND LOSS—SERMON BY BEV. SAMUEL COLCcoRD, Chickering Hall was filled yesterday morning by a large and seiect number of people, who assembled to attend the divine service which for some weeks past has been held there. The singing, both the choruses and the solos, was excellent. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Samuel Colcord, from Mark, viil., 36—“For Joye his own soul?” It is difficult, began the preacher, | tor men living, as we do, in the turmoil of business, amid its oumerous excitements and allurements, 10 stop and give « carelul considerauon to the momentous question of the vast amount @ xive to the things of this world and to the we bestow upon our next lite, of to-day will acknowledge all the gre saving thelr souls, Now, mass of | truths, ax weil as the necessity of and yet they will mot act up to this conviction. | to take an every day view of this, how unbusiness-like is such a course! A wise man before embarking upon Any enterprise first estimates the costs, the risks and the profit to be gamed. This most momentous ques- tion, however, of ‘profit and loss’’ between this world and the world to come which Christ puts in the text most men hardly stop to cousider, and if, perc! they do think over it their mode of life ja quite con- trary to its teaching, Their whoie aim is the world, YY it, to possess 1h ess the world! How futile the attempt, how lit. tle ue we get of it! Our heads are getting gray, our begin to breathe with @iMouity, and what have we gamed! Satisiaction? No. AleXander had conquered the whole world and he wept that there was oot auother ove left tu be sub- dued. Sovomon, on the pinnacie of lame and glory and p ed oat, “O vauity of vanities, all is vanity.” ‘The soul is too great a thing, its c: are (Oo Immense Lo be satistied by the empty trilles o! this world, Goa made it tur Himself ana He alow tisty it, We might pursue happiness as much as we we might gain ail we desire, and still we will not sited, still we will not be auppy. ides, even if We should yet ail wo wantin this world, 1\ Would be a very insecure possession. When I give a great price fora thing + must bo for some- thing that Leau Koop, What does the world give us, after all our weary lavors, our sicepless nights and fe. fh days of business ? Only a gr What is the soul? A deing capable of the highest Joy and the profoundest woe; how appalling its cx cities! What shail be iis futore? Seo God's extim ot it He gave Mis own Son to recover it, wno i, aside His robes of royalty and the crown of beaven, ana came down to di cross, Realizing world? Listen to ¢ x oot voice of Jesus ;—'Give it to suppose you read that (his Leethoven | the play of motives in all hu. | | | me.”” Whatever keeps you from call, be it ambition, love of pleasure, lo love of ease—that is the price of your soul. price which Satan bids. Does it dese: attention be- side the magnanimous offer which Christ makes, an eternity of bliss and felicity, a never-ending presence in bis company! [ose everything then, cast away everything, but donot lose your own soul, Give no heed tothe seductions of the tempter who promises you the world and its happiness, which is motbing compared with the value of the soul, and is so inse- cure, Dut come to Jesus, He will not deceive you, He will pot cast you away, Take Him at His word and you will be saved. | OLD JOHN ST, METHODIST CHURCH. | | hands of | Feit nim to be AND VERSARY OF THE DEDICATION OF THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH IN AMERICA— SERMON BY REV. JOHN M. REID, D, D, Yesterday the anniversary of the dedication of ¢! first Methodist church in America on the “old ground” in John street was celebrated in the plain, informal manner of the denomination, the recogni- tion of the day finding expression only in the historic sermon preached by ‘Rev. John M. Reid, D. D., wo tound bis text for the occasion in Romans, xi., 19, 20, 2i—Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. Well, because of uu- belief they were broken off, and thou standest py faith, Be not high-minded, but fear, For if God spared not the natural branches, tage heed lest He spare not thee”? In, ag it were, his introduction to his historic discourse the clergyman noted the fa that many of the heathen de: were represented as entirely quiescent, and that many of those who hung their belief on beathen deities became absorbed by that same quiescence. Uur God, however, was every- Where active; and we must be like Him. To enlist the favor of God we must work incessantly. God,whether in His cure for the fruits and the flowers of the earth, evidence of His great cure for us shown in earthly ; things. But in His care for our salvation He had placed us where we were to act in consociation with Him, and in that He bad shown how wonderiuily we bad been honored by being made laborers together with God, A colaborer was the position held by the minister of God op earth, apd tneretore was ita very grave disgrace to be dismissed from the work to which the minister bad been ussigned. The disgrace of a fail from the ministerial position not because tho «minister: of God was placed on equality with his Master, but because even the in t is Master was bonored as was & chisel of the great ‘sculptor, the brush of the gre paiater or the pen with which Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. All were honored, So, too, were they, the ministers of Goa, gloritied by tue fact that they were colaporers with the rand the Son, and therefore the moro honorable tife work tho gredter was the fail when a fall from grace occurred. In work for the benefit of man “GOD BXCELLED MAN RVERY TIMM,”? and the salvation of man was His greatest work. The sacrifice of Christ, His Son, in order that we might be raised (rom our {alito an inheritance in heaven was ‘he reason why we 6o exalied His name, and there was 80 much of dignity in being a tellow worker with God, In furiher consideration of a full trom grace in the ministry bo held that the extent of the lull depended greatly upon the extent of the good wuich the minister might have done had he continued true to hia position as a teacher in tbe Church, His hearers would remember that God had singied out the few to teach and be the instrument by which the many might be saved, and that Christ chose for His disciples only ‘And since the earliost teaching of religion to the present God had observed the same rule as when Luther, in Germany, and Wesley in England and Irelaud, were chosen to do the needed work of refor- mation. The fall of a minister was grievously when a great minister put ot Delilah, He was shorn of bi and his usefulness destroyed; and even the great fell there was an assurance ‘that God would supply their places. When Moses passed away there was a possibly etill better Joshua sent im bis place, and when Judas fell his place was vastly more than Milled. It must be under- Stood that when unworthy candlesticks were removed the light was not extinguished. The: lett the assurance that the work of salvation was to be accom- plished, and that the crown would be given to those in the ministry who deserved it. Ages had passed since Judah was set aside by God ® ruling teacher and the piace occupied by Rome; since then Rome bad fallen until the condition of that Church was very properly exemplified by tho feediencss of the old man in the chair at Rome. Years followed the rise of Romauism in tne Church, and thea, commencing in England, it was found that the Puritanism of « Cromweil lollowed, and Wesleyanism was boro, Then, when the luxuriance in wrong, and when the cold, unemotional Puritanism was found in- suflicient for the salvation of the people, Wesley arose, ‘and the people who not a people. God-serving multitude. He then passed in rapid review what the Wesleyan Methodist church bad done, not only in England, lro- land, Scotland and America, but throughout the world, ‘When Methodisin was favored by God voth the head and heart of man were sick and needed restoration to health and sprength. Wesley and his foliowers came with the new doctrine, by which emotional religion was recognized and taught abd its great truth bad been finding root in agreatly increasing oumber of souls every year. In the great change which nad taken place in the wider spread of religious truths, pure and simple, since the days when the Romish Cuurch wes triumphant, be cl that it bad been the foremost worker, He recited its work in the Reformation, in ery Work and in temperance work; fective missionary work in nearly all desirable regards, and in conclusion called upon those of the tirst dedicated church in America to stand by their Charch and its doctrines, be- lieving it to be the Church best adapted to the salva- tion of man throughout the world. CHURCH OF THE TABERNACLE, TRIBUTE TO THE LATE BISHOP JANES—REV, DR. FOWLER'S EULOGY. The Free Tabernacle church, in Thirty-fourth street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues, was crowded yesterday alternoon, the occasion being a memorial sergice to the late Bishop KE. S. Janes, under the aus- pices of the New York City Church Extension and Mis- sionary Society, of which he was vice president at the time of his death, ‘The services were opened by sing- ing the hymn commencing, ‘*Lo, round the throne a glorious band.” Prayer, was followed by a voluntary by the choir, the reading of portions of the Scripture and the singing of another hymn. The Rey. Dr. C. & Fowler delivered tho memorial addross. {t was a brilliant eulogy of the talents, character and life work of the dead Bishop and was listened to with almost breathless attention througbout. Dr. Fowler said:— “1 do not intend to take any text other than the occa- sion which has brought us together. ‘ihe great Napo- leon, while crossing the Alps, saw an old peasant woman hastening through the mountains. ‘Whither are you weuing to this sharp morning ‘To yonder pass to see the Emperor,’ she said. ‘What bave you gained with him’ more than with the Bourbons? Have you not exchanged one despot ior another?’ The woman thought a momont and said, ‘The Bourbons were tke rulers of the rich and powertul; Napoloou is our ruler,’ We are here to-day as the Missionary Society of the City of New York to pay a tribute of gratetul remembrance to the cherished und honcred dead, because Bishop Jan wus the bishop of the common people. With a scholarsbip that made him at home in the company of the iearned philosophical, with tastes that could revel in the re- finements of a select few. urces sufficient to make these varied advanta; ight ana not a bur- den, he still remained in bis convictions, in bis havits, jn his Lome, io his sympathies and in bis affections the brother of the laborer and the friend of ihe poor. The calendar history of Edward Storer Janes is very simpie. He was bori April, A.D. 1807, in Sheftield, Berkshire county, Mass; taught school and studied Jaw trom 1824 to 1830; ordained deacon tn 1 elder in 1834; came trom Philaaelphia to Mulverr: street as pastor tm 1839, was elected Financial Seere. tary of the American Bible socioty iu 1340, electe bishop in 1844, died September 18, 1876. Upon this simple outiine was buiit one of the richest and grand a | est lives im the history of the Corisiian Church, The what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and | ¢lements out of whieb Bishop Janes’ greatness was constructed were simple and exsily apprehended. For simplicity a3 well sas tur—aectt racy we will divide them ito two general clasees, Vim :—His gilts and bis acquirements. Let us pince reason at the tieud of the list, not that it was marked above other gifts, but It joruws a basis on which ovber and mightier faculties ed. Ho had reason tn its best development. He was oot in the work of stating results. He contined ‘his preparation enietly to seeking the most direct and authoritative Statement of its convictions, Everything was reduced to the dead level of tact, What possibilities of art slumbered in his tich and powerful nature we oan hever knuw in this world, for tnis received not the slightest atiention, Twelve times he passed within the sound of Niagura’s roar beiore he turned aside to seo its beauty and majesty, Five timep he passed within a few moments of Baden Baden, but never tarricd to visit this retr of tourist The sentimental poet may look upon thi a8 an evidence ot iD al steriticy, but it sense of the race that Mveis th citicm cultivates the continen’ frames (he governments, pianis the republics « founds the civilization of the world, ‘Those who knew hin best were most certain of his practical judgment. The most conspicuous element of his mind was his common sense, and with this supreme gilt he could plead in the hovel of tne poor man or cue cabin of the pioneer, sO vhat the unlettered and uncultivasod brother, and he couid persuade in the palaces o1 princes anvil those Who Were rulers by birth, holurs by rer habit, bit a peer and bowed in acknowledgment of bis greatness, fle worked as one who kiew that taturo ages were his, and that, holding ali he could get, he mast wllimately get all he desired. He wil be known jor many geuerations #8 the ‘common sense Bishop of Methodism.’ We wextare brought face vo face with his eonscienee, This was cicar, delicate, scripvarally trained and absolute in authoriiy. He was a man ot convictions; le moved under Divine authority; bis PUIPIE Was 4 throue; he received and Velieved ana de- clared the truth. 0 holy «mbiguity about tis weach- ing. His conseiei convictions were supreme, e musthere This ts a royal di or in His providing for man, brought to us the highest | NEW YORK HERALD, . MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1876.— ITH SUPPLEMENT. Profane history ww full of its bloody movem Saintly souls bave eried out agaivet it, bat, lke gilt of agency, it is necessary in forming the greatest character, and, like that, it is exposed to abu Indolent souls who have nt to put forth a manly effort cause cloak their laziness under a pretence of piety and excuse their worthlessness on the ground of being saved from this worlc, God torbid that | should hin- der or annoy the feeblest saint, but ! mustsay that! bave no patience with—indeed 1 cannot find language to express my contempt and loathing for the shilt- | less, nerveiess mass of pulp, without grip, without | courage, without heroism, without a great, ail-master- | ing purpose, who pretends to bea man and claims to be wsaint, and in this world of agonizing inten: Hes, with an Infinity of want within us and an inunlty of pain beneath us and an infinity of fulness } before , poised in the vortex of theso due infinities and turn the frown of sanctimonious hy- pocrisy apon the heroic soul that dares to hear the cry of the Master, ‘Agonize to enter in.’ Bishop Janes flery, uncompromising ambition, that but conscience. He shouteg, ‘I mean near the throne as Paul,’ and he pushed this oO and night, year in and year out; and would to God that a tnousand young preachers in the Church to-day would take up Uns mantle and inbale wb irit and emulate this ambition! They would take world for Christ in this century. Turning from bis warrior qualities, let us consider one of the | more winsome elements of his nature—bis affection. ‘This was a tide of tenderness flowing through the rocky channel of his rugged nature. Loving God, whom he had not seen, be loved tie kind, wuom he had seen. Had he no other gift he would have loved bis | way up to greatness. His love of bis kina was n0 sel{- Ish destreto serve his own ends born of a prudent phi- losophy. Springing (rom a divine fountain it fiited down upon the rest of bis character as though it had grown upon him. It was quietyundemonatrative and genuine, He a ests with mpathy acted im his decision like a tather, His will was most absolute, This kept nim up to the line the time, Externally the most irregu- travelling at all hours and in all sea- | sons, sleeping by chance aod eating by acei- | j dent, he was nevertheless held invariably by | the power of bis wili to the greatest regularity and rigid system. He wasa machine; a divine machine, like that im ancient prophetic vision, wheels within wheels and all full of eyes vital, growing, flashing, moving. forever propelled by a steady, resistless, om: nipotel ®anctified will. His constant communion with God him enduring patience, Any view of Bishop Janes’ character that did not emphasizo bis living, constant, victorious faith, would fail to present him as he was. He walked with God. His faith was indeed thi bata ol things hoped for and the evi- derce of things not seen, Whatever else was neglected his devotion and prayer were always attended to with scrupulous care, Another marxed charac- teristic was his economy of power. He | never made himself conspicuous in board meetings or | conferences until the moment he thought something was going wrong. So long as things were going right he remaiued quiet. He was au orator of superior part think, ble to trace and reveal the hidden re- | Intions of truth, a writer of great ability, a statesman measufed by the wisdom of his administration, an organizer handiing with ease the sysiem of super: tendencies that coustitute Methodist polity. He wasa 1 1m every essential and an administrator working em that depends upon moral power for its con- ‘inuance. As a bisbop he was a model whose ciose imitation will perpetuate Methodist polity tor many generations.” ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, THE NECESSITY OF PENANCE—SERMON BY REV. FATHER HOGAN. There was a very large attendance at the Cathedral yesterday, the weather being everything that could be desired, Tne officiating clergyman at last mass the Rev. Father Kane, and the surroundings were, as usual, solemn and impressive. ‘Rev. Father Hogan preached the sermon, taking his text from the gospel of the day, Matthew, xviii, 23-25—‘‘One was brought to him that owed him ten thousand talents,” 4c The revereud gentieman explained that in the person of the servant mentioned in the parable who was 80 deeply indebted to his master were represented not only great sinners, but man- Kind im general. The design of the paruble was to make every oue sensible of the obligation to remit or pardon others who were indebted to him. If the Almighty treated mankind according to the rigor of His justice He hada right to eharge us with infinite faults, After alluding 1o the many was committed, the reverend p: beneath such s weighty debt Christians had no retuge but to fly for succor to the clemency of God, and* con- fiding whoily in Hie guodness, nope to move Him to mercy. ln referring to the promise made by the servant mentioned in the Gospel, ‘‘Have patience and 1 will pay thee all," the reverend gentleman said that in practising the penance required for the payment of their debts Christians did not relinquish their dependence on the mercy of God, since they relied principaily on he aid of Mis grace for the performance of it. The 3 our debts, but that we should o ties of paying them which God puts into our hauds, as wagshe case with the servant refusing to remit the ‘Inconsiderable debt which his fellow servant owed him. We wore surrounded by temptation and dangers and with evil spirits striving to destroy us, We re- peatedly offend God, yet when difficulties arise one must appeal to Him for mercy, If we bave the misfortune to tall into sin, there is the consolation of looking to the Almighty, who never turned a deat ear to the repentant. We must do by our fellow men by, and not follow the example of servant who was handed over to tor- ture, the fate ofall who followed the way of the foolish man who met with such prompt and well morited punishment The mass performed waa hy Merca- | dante, in G minor, Professor Gustavus Senmitz presid- ie “A the organ. The work was most ereditably pro- juce . A DESTITUTE HERO. To tax Epitor or tHe HERAL On the 7th of October, 1859, the British steamship Connaught, 4,000 tons, sprung a leak, which gained upon her so rapidly that by the next morning the water had extinguised ber engine fires, leaving her coffin for 601 human beings, sinking slowly but surely in a heavysea. In this condition, and while 150 miles from Boston harbor, fire (whieh had been smouldering for some days unknown) burst out and doubled the chances of death. She was an iron ship, and soon her sides became so hot that they hissed and steamed as sho rolled d r and deeper. There was a race between iirc aud water tor all those lives, and do the best they could the boats would not be able to save ‘@ third of them from one death or the other. bs The American brig Minnie Sehaeter, 198 tons, Cap- tain John Wilson, saw the blazing, sinking steamer, ‘and bore down to her assistance. So slow and dificult was the labor of getting the passengers into and out of the boats that only 200 could be trans- ferred to the brig before sundown. Then Jobn Wilson said:—‘‘It is s horrible afair to see the the sun going down and so many people yet on board the wreck, settling down and burning up. I will ao all in my power to save them.” He nobly kept his word. AS good a sailor as he was @ man, he came down to leewara of the wreck, made tast to her, and before midnight the last man on her deck—the Captain—hbad passed into safety. Try to picture it A great ocean sicamer, with water pouring in from without to fill strict sense of tne term philosophical or logical His | work in the pulpit and on the platiorm was rather the | ber up, ‘and fire roaring within to burn her dow over 400 lives in the balance! might have been her last aod sunk what hope for th sink just then. Jobn Wilson leit her ‘and landed his priceless cargo sate at ton," In recognition of his courage, pinta good Seamanship the British government gave him a gold watch and chalo, The company to which the Con- naught belonged presented hin with $1,500. Boston added a silver service, ani medals, testimonials and subscriptions in plenty came in, Nor were his crew forgotten im the general enthusiasm. Then came the war. Some sums granted to him were withheld, property in which he had invested his Any lurch she made @ bad rolled over IMMORTALITY. THE THEORY OF REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS TREATED BY PROFESSOR FELIX ADLER. Yesterday morning Professor Adior addressed & large audience on the above subject in Standard Hall, He began—Why is it that bad men live and prosper, see their homes peaceful and the! ith inerease, while the good are ofteu oppressed and the righteous downfallen? The one dies sated with every manner of delight, the other with an embittered spirit in the thought of never having tasted happiness. Yet they Sleep together in the dust, The problem of the dis- Parity between virtue and happiness, that has so often engaged the attention of thoughtful minds, loses none of its pungent point when viewed in the light of our own lives and surroundings. We see the same contrast between merit and actual reward exhibited on every side. Here it is the ignorant and unscrupulous politician who outstrips the states- man in the race for honor and position; here it ts the quick success of sham worth that marks the slow, painstaking efforts of bonest inquiry; here some ignorant knave {s lolling in wealth and squandering his ill-gotten gains in foibles, while modest merit shrinks in corners. The qualities that might adorn the race are ofippled and the native royalty of talent plays courtier to the kings and princes of lucre. In vi of such experiences, and feeling tho justice of the universe impregnated by the existing order of things, men have taken refuge in the thought of compensation and constructed an ideal hereafter in which what- ‘ever is wrong here shail be righted, tn which the Inst shail be first,and every human being receive its tinal reward of punishment or telicity. It was among tho ancient Greeks that the philosopher Epicurus was the first to advance the proposition that all virtue is an enlightened self-interest. The same view has in mod- ern times been frequently adopted and extolied. says Epicurus, “is the only true end and -purpose of our lives.’ In tho garden in which he taught was inscribed the motto:—‘‘Stranger, here may here dwells enjoymont—life’s highest The speaker, in a well constructed argument, here owed the folly of this principle, and said that Epi- curus himeelf, » man of (ine tastes and fastidious habits, shrank (rom the very coarseness of the passions, and counselled on his part the virtues of moderation, friendship and benevolence. Not because he recog- nized them of superior value, but because he perceived those were tho oniy pleasures, The thought of com- ‘ensation in the hereafter | the urgency of re- form in the here. Christ rs the poor to the Kingdom to come for of their present misery, and to that Kingdom the poor called; while of the rich man it a rich man enter into the Kingdom of Heav: ts so we should congratulate’ Baxter street on its pov erty; we should form institutions and societies rather to relieve the rich of their richesthan the poor of their distresses, CAPTAIN G. W. SMITH'S FUNERAL. The funeral of the late Captain George William Smith took place yesterday from his family residence, No. 109 West Twenty-third street. The neighborhood was crowded with a throng of friends of the deceased, who bad gathered together . to pay a last tribute of respect tothe remains of their old and cherished associate. 1n pursuance to company orders tho members of H company of the Seventh regiment, lately commanded by Captain Smith, met at their armory at noon yea- terday, in citizens’ dress, and proceeded to his late residence. A general invitation to the regiment to at- tend im citizens’ di also issued by Colonel Emmons Clark and a large representation was present, each member wearing on bis arm the usual insignia of mourning, Tne veterans and ex-members were also present in numbers. The members of Atlantic Lodge, F, and A. M., of which the dec ‘d was Past Grand Master, met at their rooms and came in a body to at- tend the funeral. It way the request of the family that there should be no escort of any kind, so the triends and associates who bad come for that purpose, afier taking a last farewell, of the des quietly persed. The casket containing the remains was stationed in the parlor and surrounded by beautiful devicesin flowers, the tributes of the friends and comrades of deceased. A béautiful white floral monument stood at the bead of the casket, a Tegimental fatigue cap resting at the base, and to the leit a large stieid bearing in the centre the regimental Monogram, surrounded with the motto “Pro Patria et Gloria. The burial service of 4 Episcopal Chureb was read bythe Rev. Dr, Lawrence, af the Chureh of the Holy Communion. The friends and relatives took their jast aad leave of veteran, and the body was borne to the h some of the members of biscompany. T! were then taken to the iamily cemetery at Kimgs- bridge for interment, THE KELSEY TRAGEDY. The impression which has gone abroad that at the recent teri of the Circuit Cours tor Suffolk county, on, motion of District Attorney Wickham, a nolle progequi was entered in the cases of Rudolph and Royal Sam- ‘mis, indicted for complicity in the murder of Charles G. Kelsey, ts incorrect. The facts are these:—Mr. Wickbam stated to the Court that in bis opinion the detendants were not guilty of the crime. He had been advised by General Bariow in April last to na prosequi entered, but did not then wish to take thi sponsibility, us the cage was not properly in bis hands. Since then, however, Attorney General had com- the case to him, and be felt that be could not go | with any certainty of conviction. If a nolie prdsequi was entered now a new indictment could be found at any time, when new evidence might warrant it; but af the indictment went to trial and an acquittal should result, no iurtner pr img could be taken, no matter what eviuence might be discovered. Jud, Barnard, however, viewed too’ matter differently and advised that tho case be brought to trial, that the ac- cused might be relieved trom the odium of having tho indictment remain any longer. He consulted with his on the bench, and the unanimous conclusion ' have the benetit of Judge Dykman’s erder made in April, that the defendants be discharged on their own recognizance, and Mr. Wickham concluded to accept the proposition, Judge Barnard accordingly directed on order to be entered releasing the bail, and discharg- ing the defendants on their recognizance in the sum of $1,000 cach, no proceeding to be taken against them, except after sixteen days’ notice, A MURDEROUS ASSAULT. Johan Kleehn, aged thirty, residing at the corner of Twenty-seventh street and Tenth avenue, and em- ployed in a lumbor yard at Twonty-second street and Eleventh avefiue, was arrested yesterday in Hoboken by Polive Officer Gerken for committing s murderous assault upen Charlies Schuhmaker, a boy, of No. 72 Court street, Hoboken. It appears that the prisoner and a friend had been on board the Hamburg steamer lying at the foot of Thira street, and when they reached udson street some boys called them names, upon this Kleebn caught young Schubmaker and struck him with a heavy whitethorn stick on with all his toree. raised the remaining portion to strike the poor boy again, The brutal assailant is over six feet high, and wounded boy is a puny lad of thirteen, T! oner was held by Recorder Bohnstedt for examina. tion, The boy remains in a very critical condition. UNACCOUNTABLE SAVAGERY. James Jenkins, No. 536 Eloventh avenue, had the temerity on Saturday night to refuse treating William Flynn, No. 433 West Forty-sixth street, and Thomas Loe, No. 544, West Forty-sixth street, to drinks, The result was disastrous to bim, going within an ace of costing him his lite By « sudden and unexpected | movement Fiynn seized Jenkins around the body, pinioning his arms by his side, Lee then stabbed bim money was captured or destroyed. By whicn side? | Whon I state that he is sixty-four yea , is dis. abled by failing eyesight from following his profession, that his wife is a coulirmed invalid, that his testi- monial rifts have been soid or lettin pi for bread and that this once self-reliant and always brave and true man is utterly destitute, is 1 worth while to ask? When he made fast tothe burning Connaught he said nothing about politics, Humanity has no jfol- ities. Shall we noi paraphrase his own words and say, “This is aborribfe affair, to see the sun going down upon the wreck with so much food yet on board. We will do all in our power to he! P him.”’ Before | make an appea! abroad for this afflicted hero it 1s only fair that bis countrymen should be given the opportunity (I m: say the privi'ege) of assisting him. His re 0, 340 Franklin street, New Orleans, and subscriptions may be to Mrs. Hill, No. 306 Baronne sir Mr. Creevy, corner Upion and Carondelet, or to A. De FONBLANQUE, No. 13 Carondeiet street, New Orleans, SMOTHERED IN BED. About nine o’cloek yesterday morning Thomas Lani- gan, of Ne, 204 Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn, was found dead in bed by his daughter. It appears that the de- ceased, who leaves a wife and several children, re- turned to his home ata late hour on jurday night, being under the intlueuce of liquor. He compelled bis wite to sleep in an unoceupied room and was last seen alive at five o'clock. When the body was found it was lying on the face, on apillow, and bleeding from the mouth. Coroner Simms was notified to hold an in- quest on the body. — AN OLD MAN ROBBED. Thomas Stanton’s rooms, No. 307 East Twenty- fourth street, wi forcibiy entered on Friday night last by thieves, who stole about $150 worth of wenr- ing apparel and $60 in cash, From the description given by Stanton of the thieves Otlicer Handy, of the Kighieenth precinct, arrested John Reddington, of No. 260 Kast Twenty-fourth street, and being tully dentitied at the Filty-seventh Sweet: Police Court erday, he was committed for trial in detauit of $2,000 bail. Stanton concealed the loss of the money fromm his wile, fearing that she might take it to heart too much, and compiained that now im bis old days he twice in the back with # knife, after which both fled. They were subsequently arrested by Officer Lebnhards, Twenty-second precinct, and were heid at the Fifty- seventh Street Court to await the result of Jenkins’ injuries. He was unable to come to court the ‘wounds are not considered fatal. A DOG'S FUNERAL. {From the Cleveland Plaindealer, Oct. 27.) There is sorrow too deep for utterance at No. 37 Burton street, west side. Mr. John Kay lives at No. 87 Burton street. A few days ago Mr. John Kay owned a lovely pup of diminutive stature. It was small, but onjimminy! It wasa pup tull of promise. But the pup isno more. Right opposite the residence of Mr. Jobn Kay is the headquarters of a Tilden club. Mr, Jobn Kay’s cunning little p took the contract of barking down that club, and couldn't deliver. Its poor little throat gave out, and on Tharsday, at four o'clock A. M., the dog was gathered to its fathers, When it lookod as though the jig was up tor ‘ay's pap Mr. Kay rushed around to the medical its for relief; but none of the medical scientists d to think that their practice lay in that direc- So the pup passed peacejully away. Mr. Kay determined to give Fido @ nice funeral. So he bought a beautitul child's coffin, painted white, for which he paid $20; gd +) bought a rough outside box for the coilin tor avured Fido in an white silk, with a splendid red silk oversbirt. Dress, the undertaker, furnished all these, The samily formed w tuneral cavalcad r, Monroe ‘pass through t ‘was mortal of th nd moved mourpiuliy out ry. As they were about to tf the cometory with al that y and stops with streaming eyes sprinkling cart, Fido will be planted Mr. Kay's back yard this evening. The (riends of the family and several distinguished citizens have been invited ‘to come and weep with the bereaved family and partake of thefuneral baked monte, Mr. Kay has invested handsomely in whiskey and beer, and 1s devermined to drown, the uttermost depths of good was lett complotely destitute, was bung. UPPER MISSOURI IN THE SIOUX RAIDING IN THE JUDITH BASIN— DANGEROUS OUTLOOK ON THE NORTHERI BOUNDABY. {From tne Helena (M. T.) Independent, Oct, 19.} Sun River, M. T., Oct. 16, 187 It was reported here yesterday that the Sioux bad wiped out thirty lodges of River Crows im the Judith Basin, The news was brought by some Nez Perces, and, in consequence, they have given up the idea of going south of the Missouri; they intend going on the Marias instead and joim the Piegana to strengthen themselves, The Sioux have also killed two Gros Ventres near the mouth of Beaver Creek, about seventy mules fromm Benton, ‘ The Crows, Gros Ventres, Piegans and Bloods are now our skirmish line, and ‘n @ short time they will be driven in or will jointhe enemy. It will be impos- stble for these Indians to make any reasonable resist- ance against the Sioux, as they have no means of re. newing their supply of ammunition on account of the order against the trade of it, The River Crows num- ber about 250 lodges, and wil! average four mente the lodge, and inhabit the country around the Judith and Bear's Paw mountains—all within seventy-five ora hundred miles of Fort Benton. They are disposed to be iriendly to the whites, and are well armed with the government needle gun and Win- chester carbines. They are good horsemen and take the best care of their stock. The Gros Ventres inhabit the same country as phe Crows, but often extend north ot the Milk River country and the Marias, They ber over 250 lodges and were very powerful until the measies and smallpox killed thom off, in 1866-7 and 1869-70. They are friendly with the Crows, and-equally well armed and mounted, Both tribes are at war with . the Sioux and band together for defensive purposes, The Assiniboins range sometimes through the Crow and Gros Ventres territory, but more generally farther east and north, taking in the lower portion of Milk River, Wolf Point and the Cypress and Wood mountains. These Indians are poor but numer ous, have but few horses and are poorly armed They are forced to be friendly with the Crows and Gros Ventr they often meet on the same hunting grount a is no good feeling existing between them, as ind Gros Ventres kn ‘that the Assimibo! ate with the Sioux. There are also several bands of Assiniboins who reside in the British possessions and who seldom come south of the boundary tine—only for the purpose of stealing. Among those northern Assiniboins find the Crees, who extend from the Cypress and Wood mountains op the south, to the main Saskatehewan on the the Qui Appelle lakes on the wast and the Rocky Moun- tains on the west. This tribe is very numerous and are friendly to all whites travelling with a British fog. They e no love for anything American except their horses, goods and provisions. It has bees the policy of the Hudson Bay Company t¢ make those Indians hato the sight of ap American. The Crecs and Assiniboins have inter. married considerably, and may be counted friends ready to make common war against their e1 ies, Inthe mountains and along the foothills of Bow River there are about sixty lodges of Assiniboins, commonly called “Stonies’’ by the Hudson Bay Company. Th: are very peaceable, and have had a hard lifeof it un! the past two years, when they made peace with the Blackfeet, and are allowed by them to go to the plains for buffalo, The Bluckioet proper inhabit the country abont Elk River, Bow Riverand Porcupine Tail Moun- tains, They number between 300 and 400 lodges; have been very poorly armed until the last your or have been arming steadily with the Winchester carbine, and in a yeart armed and mounted as any Indians on the plains. They were at war with the Crees ana Aasiniboins untila year or so ago, With the Blackteet we find forty or fitty lodges of Sar-Sees whe speak a language of their own. But little is known about these Indians—none appear to know from whence they come. They are very quies and hard working Indians. The principal CHIRFS OF THE BLACKFERT are Urow Foot, Eagie Rib, Old Sun and eeria } Rab- Dit, To the south of the Blackteot comes the Blow bumbering over 300 lodges, having many so-call chiefs, among whom we find the Hind Bull, Red Crow, Medicine San, Old Sun, Blackfoot Uld Woman, Many ‘Spotted Horses, Threo Bears, The Father of all Children, Rainy Chief, Eagle Head and many others. The Bloods are well armed and have some excejient horses. Their young men arethe finest jooking In- dians on the plains and pride themselves on thelt dress and arms. They speak the Blackfeet lan; and many of them have Blackfeet women for ‘wive They inhabit the country from Bow River south to the Marias, extending east from the main chain to the ‘Wood Mountains, and often as far north as the “Hang” on Elk river. This tribe is capable of doing gres: damage should they declare war against the waites. It was they who KILLED TI yy, atthe mouth of the Marias, tw. ton, in 1865. At present they the whites as their friends and will remain so unless the Sioux will influence them to the contrary. They love war for the sake of the excitement and spoil, and tt makes but little difference to them who they war upon, providing NGRVINE AXD BURROWS miles from they can the best of 1%. Many of them were quite anxious to take the field against the Sioux last sum- mer, das they are fine shots on horseback ey would do well, Among the Bloods there live sixty lodges of North Piegans, under the lead is Bad Boy, Crow Eagle Chief, Rea Crow and Gray (had Thea Indians are similar to the Bloods, speak th om language, are armed tne same and are as eager t0 com mence war op any one as the Bloods are. ‘The South P: 8 occupy the Marias, Milk River, Sweet Grass Hills, Birch and Badger creeks, and ofter as far north as the Belly and Lost rivers, Chin ant Green lakes. They number over 300 lodges, and ar the best mounted Indians among the plaim tribes le, with a lew exceptions, , and it is questionable if the; They have committed more depredations in Montan: than all Mg Poemie as an B. is WF it cannot je charged e. Pregans, the Bloods as well as the Blackfeet assisted in the work. A war party of eight or ten would start from Bow River, out of a Biackieet camp, come south to a Blood camp on any, River, get ten or twelve re- cruits and come on the Cut Bank or the Marias, fad a Piegan ne and swell the party to fifty or sixty. \e were supposed to bé the most f the tribes and had where good hauls coald be made. After the raid Piegans went to the Blood camp and horses in ecg for their portion of the The Bloods got Blackfeet horses for their own and the Piegans’ share, and the Blackfeet turned them over to the Hudson Bay Company and were encouraged to Tepeat these trips as often as possible, A WOMAN WHIPPED IN VIRGINIA, [From the Washington (D. 0.) Star, Oct, 28.) Mary Brown, a South Washington alley ranger and Kleptomaniac, with skin the color her name indicates, last week extended the feild of her operations to Alex- andria, where she was caught shoplifting and takea before a magistrate, who, finding the charge sustained, sentenced her to receive thirty lashes at the whipping post, The officer whose duty it is to carry the sentence into effect administered twenty of the lashes and turned her loose, directing her to come back to the city on the 10th of November to recetve the remaining ten lashes. On ber way to the boat to leave town Of cer James Smitn mgs oc yee: 5 er el her to this cit recovered sony pertamery a other = articier from pa domicile, in an alley in South Wash- ington, which she bad stolen in Alexandria. Agais enjoining upon her to return on the 10th for the re- maining lasnos, he Jett her, but Mary bas no intention of obeying the admonition, This is a regular practice of the Alexandria autborities, and that community ts troubled with a jess oumber of thieves ef the puuy class thao any city in tbe country, The whipping post” there 1s nothing more than the prison doors the cells, to which the culprits are tied, mak! them form what the offieers jocularly call * engies,” and receive a portion of the Btripes named in thei! sentences, when they are tarned out with orders t return ons fixed day for the balance. Not one ha ever been known to return to the city. THE OLD, OLD STORY. Nearly a month ago a handsome Italian girl, name¢ Valeria Acerbi, left her home in New Orleana Hes brother, Salvatore Acerbi, by constant inquiry became convinced that she had left the Crescent City with Frenchman, named Laurent Pascalis, « musisian, for- merly engaged as @ baritone singer in the Aimée French Opera Troupe. Mile Acerbi was ninetess years old and of prepossossing appearance, Pas- calis was forty-fve yearn old and married, The girl, on leaving home, had taken with her $200 belonging to her brother, who came to this city and reported the facts to Superintendent Walling. Detec- tive Tessaro, of the Second precinct Coury squad, owing to bis extensive acquaintance among the Ger- man and Frenen population of the city, tailed to eat He fessor of music, who subseq child and then committed suicide, at nis residence 10 West Thirty-third street. Heat ouce began inquiries ainong the foreign musiciana residing in the city, and after @ great deal of trouble learned that Pascalia was @ paid member of the choir of St Francis Xavier's charch, in West Sixteenth street. By watcbing the chbureh he‘ succeeded tn - Pascalis to his residence in Twenty- eighth § street, near Fifth avenue, Having discovered Pascalis’ residence, Detective Tessare catied on Governor Tilden and requested him to sige the warrant of extradition for the arrest of tho girl. The Governor, on being informed of the tacts in the case, evinced the utmost interest in the matter, and mot only granted the extradition warrant, but per- sonally endeavored to assist Detective Tessaro in the [CONTINUED ON NINTH PAG@EI ~ -