The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1876, Page 3

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Ministerial Movements—Churchly Changes. Chat by the Way—Synagogue Worship. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. The American Temperance Union will hold a service this afternoon in Cooper Union Hall, Dr. Lambert, Dr. Samson and others will speak. Rev. Fred. Bell will give a Christmas singing sermon this morning in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, and im the evening will discu: ‘ne Dangers of Pupu. jarity.” In All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church tho Rev. Dr. Dunnell wi!l preach this morning and evening. At the American Free church the Rev. C. P. McCarthy will speak about ‘Jesus as Babe and Child’? this morning and in the evening about ‘Trees Exer- Cising the Elective Franchise.’’ ‘Spiritualism will be discussed at Harvard Rooms this afternoon and evening. “The Advent of Christ”? will be considered by Rev. J. E. Searlesatthe Willett street Methodist Episcopal church this evening. “The Manger Babe”’ and “The Wondertul” will be presented by Dr. Armitage to the Fifth avenue Baptist church to-day. : 4 At Washington square Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. Wilziam Lloyd will preach concerning “Christ iu the Believer” and ‘Light Revealed by Christ” at the usual hours to-day, Dr. L. H King will occupy the pulpit of the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church this morning and evening. “Christmas Day” and ‘Paul at Athens” will be dis- cussed by Rev. A. H. Moment in Spring street church to-day. At Chickering Hall Rey. S. Colcord will preach in the morning and Rev. 8, H. Virgin in the evening. “Universalism and Common Senso” will be com- mingled this evening, in Bleecker street church, by Rev. E. C. Sweetser. In the Church of the Holy Trinity Rov. 8, H. Tyng, Jr, will preach morning and evening, and will deliver ashort address to-morrow morning. This evening's sermon will be the anniversary of the Tract Society. Tn the Church of Our Saviour Rev, J. M, Pullman will speak this evening on ‘A Succegsful Saviour.” Mr. A, Sullivan will address st James’ Total Absti- nence Society this evening on ‘‘The Echoes of the Song of Charity Heard by the Shepherds in Palestine on the First Christmas Eve.’’ Dr. Deems will preach ot the usual hours to-day in the Church of the Strangers. Mra, Schertz will speak ia the Christian Israelite sanctuary this morning. Dr. McVickar will preach in Christ church at tho usual hours today. Christmas services will be held there to-morrow. Rev. H. B. Chapin will preach in Canal street Pres- byterian church at the usual hours to-day. Christmas festival on Wednesday, E, V. Wilson will lecture for the progressive Spirit- nalists, at their hall, this morning and evening, Christ- was entertainment Monday evening. “God's Coristmas Gift’? and ‘Danger Ahead” will Yeo disc: din the Free Baptist Church tu-day by Rev. ¥. L. Rowoll. In the tree Episcopal Church of the Reconciliation the Rey. E. 8. Widdemer will preach this morning and evening. Rey. F. H. Marling will preach as usual to-day inthe Fourteenth street Presbyterian church, Preaching in Five Points Mission, No. 61 Park street, at the usual hours to-day, Christmas service to- morrow morning. The Rev, W. T. Sabine will preach in the Reformed Episcopal church this morning and evening. Rey. J. 8, Kennard will preach about ‘The Prodigal Son” this evening in Grace Baptist chureh. Kev. W. H. Gleason will preach/in Madison avenue Reformed Dutch church at the usual hours to-day. Or, Rambaut, of Brooklyn, will munister to the Pil- grim Baptist chureh to-day. “The Sin Offering’’ will bo made the subject of dis- cussion this evening by Rev. J. R. Kerr in tho Fourth Presbyterian church. “The Beauty of the Lordim His Temple’ will be revealed this morning by Rev. 4. W. Knapp and “Many be called, but few chos Laight street Baptist church. “The Christ Who Came in the Fulness of Time’? will be presented to St. James Methodist Episcopal church, Harlem, by Rev. W. R. Davis this morning. Rev. W. C. Webb, of England, will preach in the evening. Rev. W. H. Leavell will address Stanton street Baptist church this morning on ‘The Accredited Ex- ponent—His Manner,” and in the evening on ‘‘God’s Refusal Finat.” Rev, W. B. Merritt. will preach in Sixth avenue Re- lormed church this morning and evening. Rev. J. M. King will proach this morning in St. Jobn’s Methodist Episcopal church. Christmas Eve servico in the evening, Dr. Charles Fletcher will preach this evening, and Rev. J, H. Lightbourn this morning in Seventeenth Street Methodist Episcopal church. In St, Ignatius’ Protestant Episcopal church there will be the usual services to day and Christmas cele- bration to-morrow. Dr. John Cotton Smith will speak about “Political Corruption. and Party Strife and the Duty of Christian Men,” this afternoon in the Church of the Ascension, Rey. Carlos Martyn will preach in Thirty-fourth street Dutch Reformed church at the usual hours to-day. Rey. T. J. Backus, of Poughkeepsio, will preach in the Tabernacie Baptist church, New York, this morn- ing and evening. Professor Felix Adler will lectare in Standard Hall this morning on ‘‘Yule Time.” Rev. J. J. Miner will speak in Macdougal street Bap- tist church this morning on “Working tor Guod,” and this evening on ‘Christmas Joy.” Divine service wilt be held in the Russian chapel in the Slavonic language this morning. In St, Ann’s free church (Episcopal) the services to- day will be at the usual hours. In the Church of the Discipies Rev. George H. Hep- worth will speak about “Christ’s Glorious Coming” ‘this morning, and will give “A Christmas Talk”? in the evening. ‘The Rev. Mr. Jowett will preach this morning and Dr, Rylance this evening in St, Mark’s Protestant Episcopal churca. Christmas service to-morrow. The Rev. W. P, Abbott will preach in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church this morning, and in the evening Sabbath school exercises will be held, Dr. Thomas S, Preston will lecture this evening in St Ann's Roman Catholic church on ‘‘The Harmony of the Catholic Faith with (he Character of God.” Besides the usual Subbath services in St. Alban’s Protestant Episcopal church to-day there will be a midnight inass with sermon. A. L. Rawson will tell the origin and meaning of the Christmas festival to the Society of Humanity. The Rey, Chauncey Giles will preael in the Sweden borgian church to-day on “Human Redemption: What It Ia, and How Effected.” . CHAT BY THE WAY. Everybody 1s willing to wear a cross, but it must be of gold in order to be acceptable, An infidel is aman who lives under all the adyan- tages of Christianity and then ridicules the mother who nursed him. The man who, in these nipping and frosty days, do- sires to cultivate the Christmas season fittingly will do go both with his. beart and his pocketbook, If you would be profoundly bappy you can best achieve your object by trying to make some one clse happy. There is agreat deal of religion inthe world which 4s like that of the negro who was dangerously ill, “Do you forgive your worst enemy ”’ anid the minister, The darky’s eyes flashed a moment and then he said, with a sigh, “Yes, 1’) forgive him if I’m going to die; but if I’m goimg to get well let Lim look out for him. pelt,” ‘The liberty of conscience for which there is the largest demaud is like that which was attributed to the NEW YORK HERALD, suritans—viz., to worship God in their own way and to make everybody else do the same. Rev. Joseph Cook says that “existence after death is buts postulate of the psychologieal analysis of the soul” He seems to have n injured in the pbreno- logical bump of language. I+ is well to talk as simply a8 you can, because not every one carries a dictiouary in his pocket, Christmas is an appropriate season ‘in which to ox- press your gratitude for blessings received. But grati- tude can’t be all expressed in one day, and 80 it is bet- ter to Tet st extend from one Christmas ¢o another. It is well enough to be a Sunday Christian if you can’t be anything better. That one day may lessen the shadows that hang over the rest of the week. But to be an all the time Christian is better still If reiig- jon ts worth having at all then itis worth baving in the middle of the week as weil as on the first day. Another woman has been preaching in a Newark pul- pit and the church authorities have once more as- sumed the attitude of noly horror. The wasculino biped will not Brook @ rival He monopolizes the right to preach poor sermons and to draw a small sal- ary for the same. It occurs to us to ask some one, we hardly know whom, whether a woman who really can preach is not the al of a man who tries to preach, but fails? Still we advise the Synod to reprimand the offender and make him promise that he will never, no, never, do so again; for women are by nature ambi- tious, and if they once geta loothold nobody knows what will become of us men, Tho only rule is to crush out any and every attempt to usurp our masculine prerogatives, Cato, who wasa heathen, used to say that ‘every man must give an account not only of his labor, but also ot bis leisure’? According to this state- ment there is no vacation in the religious life. Now we plead for that numerous class which goes to church three times on Sunday, under the impression that during the week they can do as they please. They are very religioua on that day; mdeea, they are so extremoly punctilious in all ojservances of the ceremonial law that they excuse themselves for the rest of the week. They seem to think that if a fair average is struck between the worldliness of six days and the marvellous sanctimoniouspess of the one day tney will make a good showing. Itis to be hoped that the pagan Cato was in the wrong, otherwise there will be some trouble among Christians in the day of reckoning. Rev. H, R, Nye said in a late sermon that if Mr. Taimage had been in Brooklyn he would have told us that the souls of the 300 victims of the fire had gone straight to hell, and many of the orthodox ministers would have sustained him, He then proceeded to tell his hearers where he ,himself thought the victims bad gone, Yes, but Mr, Talmage wasn’t bere, and didn’t say anything of the kind, A man muat be badly pushed for a subject when he takes for his text what a brother minister did not say; besides, there is no law by which you can predict what the eccentric Brooklyn preacher will say on any subject or at any time, You can't judge a comet by planetary laws. Mr. Talmage Js agyrator, who defies every known rule of busin enterprise and pulpit eloquence, “What you want,” says Dr. Landis, “ia oxygen.’’ ‘That is the one panacea of all our ills, It isof medium weight and, therefore, occupies tho centre of a room. But what isa man to do if he is so tall that his head runs through it as a mountain’s summit piercing a cloud, and what are those short people to do who can’t reach up to it? Thank the Lord if you are just five feet ten, for then you can keep your head in the para- dise of oxyge: Oxygen is life, it is soul, it is imimor- tality. 1t is evident that the gas is escaping some- where, The misfortune ot the Rev. J. A. Bedient, of Mis- sourl, Wasainisfortune of name. If he could have borrowed the Celtic prefix and been known as J. A. O’Bedient he would never have fallen on trouble. Ho profeased to be able to cast out devils, but there was a pet one of his own which he refused to cast out. He insisted that all the women of his church should con- fess to him every crime in which they had been im- plicated, and the result was a general upbcaval of tho community. It is dangerous to tell all you know, sometimes, and it is equally dangerous to become the recipient of family secrets Mr. Bedient found it so when he dangled from the lower limbsof a troe, and when cut down just in time tosavo his life he contessed that he had, perhaps, been a little impradent and ex- Pressed great willingness to step down and out. There is something gravely funny about cemetery Mterature. The poetic effagions which are carved on headstones. are generalty she productfon of genius in the raw state. They are iull of teelimg and are un- doubtedly intended to convey the idea of :aconsolable grief, but there was no Lindley Murray and no rbym- ing dictionary near, and it is little to be wondered at that poetry written under such circumstances should Jack the unimportant clement of grammatical cor- rectness, We heard of a poor fellow, who buried tour wives, and who, atter the last funeral, concluded to put the four into one grave. The puzzle was to got a fitting epitaph, but indue time it was found. Re- member that bis first wife was named Hannah ana that she bad been dead so many yoars that he found some diffculty in gathering the remains, and you will then understand the pathos of the last line:— Stranger, pause and shed a tear, For Mary Ann hes buried here, Mingled in some mysterious manner With Laura, Jane, and probably Hanner, It issaid of King Boleslauy, of Poland, that when- ever he was about to engage in an important adven- tare he would take outa little picture of his father, which he always carried about his person, and say, “Dear father, { wish I may do nothing unworthy of thy name.’”’ It would do no harm if Christians were to adapt the incident to their own circumstances, That kind ol loyalty tncorporated into our religion and carefully practised would make a great change in our lives, Rehgious zéal in the pursuit of heresy may possibly be carried too far. A mother in a Methodist church of Connecticut determined to convince her gon of tho tryth of the doctrine df sanctification. The said son, however, avowed certain Unitarian proclivities, and expressed yrave doubts about the doctrine in question, at which the maternal ire and fire were at once aroused, and she proved that she did not understand the practical bearing of sanctiication, however sound she may have been on the theory, tor she at once proceeded to commit an assault and bat- tery which left the youth’s cheeks and teetn and nose in a very dilapidated condition, It may be dangerous to be a Unitarian in Connecticut, but it is equally un- fortunate to be “sanctified” in that purticular way, The Rev. Uriel Graves has tately been tried by a Lutheran synod nominally tor schism, but really for eccentricity. One witness said that Graves had been to him to consult ubout a new church. Its peculiarity was that each member was to be ‘pure in heart and pay ten centa a week.” Tho witness was evidently trom the rural districts, for he observed to Mr, Graves that he thought be might run his new church on the pure im heart platiorm, but as for the ten cents a week he thought that was asking too much. Another witness testified that the preacher once told him that he was sometimes so bappy ‘shat it made his teeth jingle,” which he considered a sensa- tional expression, and he therefore suggested to Mr. Graves that ho ought to go to a dentist at once, Tho gravest charge was made by a man who swore that he had himself, with bis own ears, heard the minister say that thore were ‘some people who ought to go through hole and then pull the whole in after them.” The Synod was a little bewildered at the character of the evidence, and alter a heated debate adjourned the case with the hope that it would ultimately settle itself After all there ts nothing balf #0 sweet in life as a hot tempered church quarrel, It is well enough for dogs to denght is barking and biting, for ’tis their nature to, but if Christians bave claws they ought to keep them covered up with the velvet of charity, SECRET CAUCUSING IN CHURCHES. New Jerany, Deo. 9, 1876. To rar Epiror oy rum HeRatp:— Every momber of the last Convention of the Prot- @staut Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Northern New Jersey who was present at the time will recall to mind that during the discussion of the proposed con- stitution and canons for the goverument of this dio- cea a clerical member of the Convention offered as an amendment to one of the canons, “That no printed tickets be allowed upon the floor of the Convention,” The amendment, though not adopted, was received with a general expression of approval as a just and tmely rebuke to an evil which developed in the old diocese to a startling degree, and which it was hoped and ‘believed would not be introduced to disturb tho harmony of the new diocese. This reasonable hope has been disappointed. To the deep sorrow of all good churchmen the same machinery appeared in the inst Convention, worked by the same bands and with the { ity must rest, name results as of old Many of the clergy and laity are becoming alarmed ut this state of things, General dissatisfaction is expressed ou all sides, and an ine creasing apprenension 1s arising as to the consequences that must inevitably follow this practice, At the last Coavention, whev the rule of order for the election ot officers was reached, suddenly, and to a large number present unexpectedly, printed tickets were pro- fusely circulated, which, as the sequel plainly Proved, were gotten up im secret caucus, print- ed and successfully engineered through by this very part It may possibly be said that others did the same thing. If so 1t would be no justification of the act, Th+ whole system as carried on iu this diocese is unjust to its mem! race to the Church and a dishonor to God, In the one case the writer knows it was done; if done in the other he 1s ignorant of the lact, ner could he learn upon the most cureful inquiry, nor does he believe that any caucus but that relerred to, witu its Jay co-operative branch, was held by any in connection with the last Convention difring its session, or at any other tim ‘This state of things 18 a biot upon the fair fame of our Church, and ap insult to the intelligence of our laity, many of whom have been her most liberal bet Seners, and have grown gray in her service. writer has been in the active ministry more thi quurter ofa century. He has no claim, taste, tal or ambition for any office in the Church save that of a rector of a parish, But he has rights with every other clergyman in the diocese, and the laity have rights which he and they feel have been grossly violated, first by afew clergymen in the diocese mecting to- gether tm secret caucus and transacting the business of the Convention unknown to pine-tenths of its mem- bers; and secondly, that these men, by their manipu- lativns in that caucus ip fulfilment of a threat pre- viously made, and against the known wishes ot the Church at targe, after having nominated themselves, effected the rejection from the Standing Committee and from the General Convention of one of the ablest and most distinguished jaymen in the dio- cese, simply because he declined when a member of the Standing Committee to concur in the election of a prominent ritualist to the office of a bishop. ‘One of the gentlemen elected by this caucus has con- demned, and others, it is believed, will, when they leary the facts, most emphatically condemn the whole proceeding. A If :n a political convention, with all the corrup- tion that attaches to political lite, a few of the d gates chosen should meet together in secret caucus, without the knowledge and to the exclusion of the other delegates, and nominate themselves for ottice a just indignation would be aroused against them, and Wiat must be thought when such regs | occur in the house of God and by clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church t ‘Let us suppose a case. A written call for a gecret caucus, signed by a clergyman vl (he diocese, 18 issued and sent to the faithiul few who im “the ring.’? ‘The place chosen for the caucus i the rectory of an- other clergyman who 1s thousands of miles away from home at the time and ignorapt of what 1s guing on. The time of meeting, the evening of the day preceding the Conventioa, The caucus ig heid and tickets pre- ured and given to one of their number to be printed, The morning following these clorgymen, arrayed in their surplices, enter the church, pass up the aisle in solemn proce! n, ZO into the sanciuary and tLere re- ccive and administer to the congregation devoutly as- sombled the consecrated elements of Christ’s boay and blood. Tho service over aud the con- gregation dismissed the time for the election of officers arrives, Suddenly these printed tickets, prepared in this secret caucus, are actively circulated, with mauy whisperings, 1n all directions; the names of the voters are quickly called by the secretary; a member of the Convention quickly proposes that the polis be closed, and the result announced by the tellers shows that the clergymen Who called the caucus, got up the tickets and nominated themselves are elected as faituful ser- vants to discharge the business of the house of God, and the rumor fluds currency that one of them 1s soon to be a candidate for the higher oilice of assistant bisbop of the diocese, Is st reasonable to suppose that jaymen us intelligent as those who represent the Church in this dioceso will continue to submit to this state of things? Many of these gentiemen bave given and are still giving liberally to the support of the Church and her, institutions. ‘bile they would not consent heir claims agseried on this ground, and have e for oflice, have nevertheless @ right to a full, fair and uncontrolled representation. They are able to judge tor themselves. They donot wish and will not have printed tickets, gotten up in secret caucus by the candidates themacives, put into their hands to vote when they come tv the Convention. Ove of the oldest and most muuificent laymen in the Chureb old the writer that he had ‘‘ceuged to take any interest In the Convention of this diocese, as ho found it ‘a packed body.’”? Another rome of men continue to moet in secret caucus, nominate themselves for office and control thi 1on8 I will not attend the Conven- tion nor contribute to any object in the Church outside of my own parish.” Otuers, again, think it unjust that missionaries, for whose support all the | parishes in the diocese are expected to contribute, shouid be placed in acondition of dependence upon, and congirained to vote for, those who secure their own nomination and election by such means, by whom the } missionaries are appointed and tunds for their support disbursed. There was a time in the history of the old diocese when the same cundition of things now ob- jected to os exiating in the new and under the samo ‘control forced the clergy and laity to form a separate and distinct missionary organization, That organiza- tion was merged into the Diocesan Board of Missions under the most solemn assurance that the practices complained of would be discontinued, and the rights of the clergy and laity throughout the diocese regarded. That compact, trustingly entered into and faithiully kept by the one party, haz been violated and disre- garded by the other. 1s it not time that this system of secret caucusing, seli-nomination, printed tickets and controlling votes, with tre long train of discredit able consequences which have followed in the pust and will, if conunued, follow in the future, be discontinued and forever settled in this diocese? If it bo not the spiritual life of the Church will wane, the channels of her revenue become dry and ber members sink into listless apathy and indiflerence; or, aroused in ber Tuajesty and strength to a sense of her dishonor, will bring forth 1m her travail such fruit as wiil vindi- cate ber honor and the glory of ber biessed Founder, to the dismay and coniusion of those by whom the wrong 1s perpetrated and upon whom the responsibil- GQ CHURCH ENTERPRISE IN CHICAGO. Between Twentieth et and Superior street, Chi- cago, a distance of nearly three miles through the heart of the city, there has not been a Presbyterian church for several years. Lately, bowover, (he Presbyterians have started ope on State street, near Fourteenth street, infwhatis known as the old Railroad chapel, one of the most attractive and convenient church buildings to be found in thecity. The build- ing has a front of three stories and a mansard roof and basement. The auditorium is in the rear, and is reached by ide rooms at first desig evel 8 now intended to use as a freo reading room aod the other as an inquiry avd prayer room, The second floor of the trout building has rooms suitable for various offices and 1s also used for an in- dustrial school, in which over 200 young giris are to sew, and great good is being done there every 5: jay by a vumber of excellent laay teach. ers, The third story is used for temperance lo rooms. The church and school room in the rear is a model. The pulpit is opposite the door, and behind it ia the organ, twenty feet high. On each side of the or- gan isu pair of winding stairs to the gallery. The room is sixty by ninety feet and will seat 1,000 persons. It is remarkably bright and picas- ant, lighted in the evening by eight chan- delicrs and in the day time by twenty windows in the side walls and fifty small windows im the clere-story. The roof and galleries are sup- ported by sixteen iron columns, The seats are of white ash and cherry, Every second seat has a rever- sible back, for Sandy school purposes. This building has been erected, and the financial support of the chapel and the Sunday school is secu! by tho First Presbyterian chureb. The chapel, in tact, is included in the organization of the ehurch, but the pastoral charge of that ficid is committed by them to Rev. Donald Fletcher, a member of the Chicago Presbytery , and formerly a member of the charch. CHURCHLY CHANGES. The Rev. ©. A. Koppernagel is building a $36,000 Catholic church, capable of accommodating 5,000, tor St. Lawrence parish, Harrisburg, Pa. His present so ciety, however, number only sixty families, but he hopes to gather in many others besides. The people have planned beyond their ability to pay, and now the pastor appeals to the outside world for aid. He pro- Poses to ‘chance’’ a building lot which he owns at $1 a chance and to say masses for contributors to this ob- ject as inducements to the benevolent. The Rev. J, J. Henneay, of Iron Mountain, Mo., is completing a fine church at Poplar Blufl, There are 540 monasteries and convents in Russia, the re of which amount al- together to $6,500,000, The cost of maintaining each monk or nun during one yeur averages $110. It is stated that the Kight Rev. Bishop Kyat Buffalo, N. Y., has purchased the great Centennial organ ior the Cathedral oi Builaio, The Episcopal Children’s Foid of this city maintained and cared for fitty-eight chilaren during this. year at ao saan, of $6,666. During the ten years of its existence it bas had 320 diff dren 10 its fold, on whom {t has expended has 100 to care’ for now. Bishop Potter mestie Mission Committee have issued facts connected with that int in which they say that, owing to the decrease in contributions and the debt of the Mission Board on January 1, 1877 ($63,000), they bave been compelled to postpone makin aby appropriations until the mind and will of the Charch on this matter can be known. Nine mission- ary bishops and 200 other missionaries are sustained by this commities, If the Church saya comimitice will do so, If the Church says ‘go on,”? then the committee will go as fast ay the fonds come to hand. The missionary receipts last ear were $290,000 and the disbarsem 451. During the current year three classes have been con- firmed in the Charch of the Holy ity (Rev. 8. H. Tyog, Jr.), bambering in the agg! 560 persons. ‘This 18 the largest number gathered into any Episco; church in the United Siates in one year, and they nearly all the ingathering from the gospel tent Vices last summer, and they are composed almost en- trely of working men and women. The Episcopal Church in the Dominion ot Canada closed the fiscal year with a missionary debt of $23,000 tor their domertic missions, and besides they borrowed $20,000 more to pay thé salaries due to date. Bishop Scarborough has issued an appeal to the diocese of New Jersey for aid to build « chareh at Ocean Beach, where land bas been donated on con- dition that the church shall be bait within two years, The Kpiscopali 8 vi Rosendale, N. Y., are birneay, Hey capable of seating 200 people. T! foady for use in a iow days, Ur. Hy Potter officialiy denies the report that Grace church has become a iree church or taken avy steps looking to thatead. bishops Bedell aud Jaggar have issued a joiat pastoral to the dioceses of Onio asking the churches in tneir jurisdictions to take up collections for the relief of widows and children of deceased ciergy: men on Christmas Doy and hereafter ou it Bishops pensar arkann and Hare have issued their ap- peal on behalf 0! the Centennial relief tund, asking for $75,000 extra contributicn to place the foreign, Gomes- tic and Lodian mission committees of the Church out of debt before the new year opens. Dr. A. I. Twing, of thie city, the secretary and xeneral agent of the Do- mestic Mission Committee, tells the Church tn a letter that his Mission Board is in debt nearly the amount bamed above, and that of the 2,800 parishes i the Church only 1675 contributed anything during the year to the domestic missionary work. He calculates tbat if the 280,000 communicants ana an equal pumber Of non-communicants would contribute only ten cents a week to (his cause the grand sum of $2,912,000 would be raised in the year, and that an average of two cents would give them $582,400 or as much as has been given by the whole Church for the general work of domestic missions during the last five years, The children of the Church have con- tributed through mite chests within seven years it the noble sum of $116,000. Grace cburch, Brook. lyn, haga guild, which, during the year just ended, disbursed $2,758 80, togecher with 11,927 rations, twenty-two loads of wood, medicines and metical at- tendavce, clothing and other necessaries to worthy poor of the parish and neighborhood. Its receipts were $301 less than its disbursemel ‘They ought to fo been more, [tis a worthy 0} ization, doing a noble work, ‘The Congregationalists have bad a little trouble in their camp at Greenwich, Conn, Nearly a year ago they excluded a member against whom charges had been made and proven, He appealed to the Cousocia- tion, which met at Stamford recently, and this vody, composed of representatives trom different churches, reversed the judgment ol the Greenwich church and gave the excluded brother a letter ot recommend: lo the Presbyterian church of Stamford. The wich chureh immediately protested against th sumption of power not delegated to the Consoc: and by 4 vote of 34 to 20 resolved to withdraw from the Fairfeid West Consociation, and dissolved their connection with it, The Second Valley Con- gregational church of West Orange, N, J., acting ou the advice of a council given a year ago, resolved to change tho location of their house of worshi ut ane other council recently held found that the Presbyter- jans are gathering a society im the new locatton, and they advised their brethren to disband if the Pr byterian church shall be found able to care for the en- tire field, This advice is given im the iuterest of Christian union. In Baptist circles it is feared that a further appeal to the courts in the Madison avenue churen case will be takea by the ousted society, Had not Mr. Kennard’s new church taken possession of tho Filty-third streot house the Madison avenue people might bave gono there. Dr. J. Stanford Hoime’s church (Trmity) has mae overtures to them. There was some talk that they would buy the elegant Reformed (Dutch) church on Madison avenue, recently ministered to by Dr. Ganse, now of St. Louis, but as the soctety worship- ping there have engaged the Rev. William Lloyd to supply them for onc year they are notlikely to disband or todispose of their house beiore the expiration of that period, And they may be then in such a condition that they shall not want to do either, ‘Tho successiul litigant in the Madison aveuuc church case is worse off now than he was belore he gained nis suit. He has practically ceased to bea Baptist, and now worships with Dr. Hali’s Prosby- terian church, and as no Baptist Congregation wants the church edifice 1t has beeu closed for the present. | Mr. Millbank 18 said to be scourmg the United States | and Great Britain for a popular mau to come and baiid | up a society for bis empty house. ‘ine Buptists of | 1876.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Gieason, 8 J., preached the spiritual retreat of ten days that always precedes the ordinations to the priesthood. The limited space of the semi- nary chapel was filied to its utmost capac. uty = =yesterday worniug as tho four candi dates for the priesthood entered the sanctuary, where the Bishop and a large number of priests from all parts of the country wereassembied After the recitation of the litauies the Bishop imposed his bands on the head of each candidate and every priest preseat in the Sanctuary followed his example. The candidates then prostrated themselves while the Bishop and clergy silently raised the rigbt hand toward heaven as a eign of Witnessing this ceremony of consecration, During the celebration of the mass the stole was placed about the neck of each candidate a type of sacerdotal power, and the chasublo was put upon their shoul- ders to signily the charity with which they aro to treat those who their guidance ip spiritual matters, After the simging of the ‘Veni Creator’’ the Bishop anointed the bands of each candiduve and caused them to ouch the sacred vessels of the altar, then taking the Blessed Sacrament, he build it before them, saying, “Receive the power to offer the sacritice of the mass to God, both for the living and the dead.’* When each one had recited the Aposties’ Creed as his formuia of faith, the Bishop again imposed bh hands on each head, saying, ‘Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive they ure forgiven ; whose sins you shall retain they are recained.’’ With hands clasped in those of the Bishop the new priests then nrised submission to the bishop of the di and bis successors; and then, giving them the k: peace, the pontificial benediction was bestowed, The otber lesser orders were given to the following gentle- men :— Were Ordained Dearons—Rev, Philip E. Ahern, Rev. Tobias Fitzpatrick, Rez. Jobu Mayer, Rev. Jobo B O'Hare and Rev. Michael Quinn, Diocese of New York; Rey, Richard Nagle, Archdiocese of Boston; Rev. JounJ, Hanlon and Rev. John Scanlon, Diocese of Albany. Were Ordained Sub-Deacons—Rev. William B. J. Boddy, Rev. Edward J, Byrnes, Rev. Patrick L. Con- nick, Rey. Bernard Duify, Rev. Joseph L. Hoey, Rev. Matthew Kahnen, Rev, Daniel J. MeCormiek, Kev. Thomas F. McGare, Rey. John Mayer, Rev. Michael J. Quinn and Rey, Daniel Ward, Archdiocese of New York; Rev, James J. Campbell, Kev. Timothy Danahy and Rev. James McNamara, Archdiocese of Boston; Rev. James Curtin, Rev, William Finneran, Rey, Jonn A, Hart, Rev. Thomas Hart and Kev. Jeremiah Heffernan, Diocese of Albany; Rey. Mathias J. Hargather, Rev. Joseph Honarick and Rev. Joseph Netzel, Diocese of Rochester; Rey, Edward Martin, Diocese of Spring- eld, Promoted to Minor Orde: diocese of Boston. To Clerical Tonsure—Mr. Thomas G. Dunphy, Mr. Witham A. Dunphy and Mr. Michael J. Henry, Arch- diocese of New York; Mr, Patrick Ahern, Diocese of Albany; Mr. Joseph \. Peltier, Diocese of Rochester; Mr. Henry A. 0’Kelly, Diocese of Portiand. Qwing to a change in the course of studies the greater number of ordinations will hereafier take place at Chrisimas instead of in June as heretofore, Eighty of the students belong to the Archdiocese of New York, and avout twenty-lour of these will gradu. ate next Christmas, MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. EPISCOPALIAN, Rey, R. W. Howes, Jr., has resigned his position as minister in chargo of St. Paul's eburch, Brooklyn. Rev. P. Williams has resigned the rectorship of the Church of the Messiah, Boston, Rev. A. K, Tortat -Mr. Daniel Splain, Arch- Chicago have a neat way of raising money for their theological schovis, When they need tunds favitations | Are sent out to 200 or 300 of the wealthiest and most hbera!l men in the city to discuss @ choice dinner and | the neeas of their institutions at the sawe time at one | of the city hotels, In tbis way they have aircady en- | dowed their seminary to the extent of $112,000, and on Thursday last (2ist) they had anoth«r reunion of a | similar kind at which several thousand do!lura more | were pledged. ‘There are rumors and suggestions that the Berean and Macdougal street Baptist churches are likely to unite and joru one body, They are both in the Ninth ward, are weak in numbers and are pretiy heavily in debt. These hard times press upon them and they can hardly pay current expenses. The Baptist City Mission witl be called upon to help them out of their present straits. The wealthier members have moved further up town, and the field of ther labors is now occupied mainly by the middle class, “Uncle John” Vassar, of the Tract House, hus been laboring as an evangelist with (then for a couple of weeks pasc and several conversions are reported, and alarge number of non-cburchgoers reached by’ per- sonal visitations and appeals, Peter Dwyer, the evangelist, it is said, will labor with the Berean eburch for a few woeks. The Pilgrim and South Bap. tist churches will not Unite, as it Was thought they would a few weeks ago, when Rey. Mr. Keuuard leit the former, They now propose each to hoe its own | row. Dr. H, W. Kuapp is likely to succeed Mr, Keu- | pard—be preached for the Pilgrims last Sabbath—and Dr. Osborne will continue to serve the South church, as he has dove successfully in the past’ The Bapiust church at Pittsion, Pa, celebrated its one hundredth anniversary last Thursday, 2ist. The toreigngicids have lately received a large accession of Christian workers, The Baptist Missionary Union has sent out eleveu for Burmab and South Africa, the Presbyterian Board six for India, Ctina and Japan, and the Metho- dist Society five for india. SYNAGOGUE WORSHIP. WHAT IS NEEDED FOR THE JOURNEY OF LIFE— ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN. Yesterday Dr, Mendes preached a sermon to young men in the Forty-fourth street synagogue, basing his remarks on Jacob’s visit to Pharaob, a8 recorded in Genesis, xivit., and the patriarch’s reply to the king’s inquiry concerning his age (verse 9)—“The days of the years of my pilgrimage are ono bundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the lifo of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.” A grand and inspiring ecene, he remarked, ts opened before our eyes im this parrative. And then, pietur- ing the scene describing the character of the groups of persons who may be supposed to have been assembled in the audience chamber of Pharaoh when the patriarch Jacob wus Introduced, the cares that bad pressed so heavy on the old map in the death of bis wife, and the sale of Joseph and the evil con- duct of his other sons in many respects Were por- trayed, Then the door was figuratively opened and the patriarch and king stood fuce to face, and the for- mer blessed the latter and uttered the words quoted above. A few weeks ago Dr. Mendes touched mildly on this subject, and was requested by members of his congregation to discuss the subject more in detail. He deemed this a good opportunity to give the young men some advice on their life start. Whatwas the lesson given in that Egyptian court that day? Jacob was tho first to talk of trials, diseases and troubles in life, and to speak of life as a journey, a pilgrimage. We needa very small outfit tor lite—food, clothing, a staff, pass- port and companions. To labor for bread to support the body 1s the drst law of nature; therefore, youn, men, said the Doctor, work. No more will manna fall frem heaven; uo more will God send quails to your doors for food. Trust not to the gen- erosity of mankind, but work. God sent forth man from Paradise and bade him labor. ‘The best possible make for hunself another by preventive of sin Is work. In tho sweat of thine own brow and not another's shalt thou cat bread. But let oung man be guarded against taking too much jor bis Journey. Don’t let your home be too upped to provide for you; don’t be like tho ho hoards up riches, ana when he dics he can’t take anything with him. THR YOUNG MAN'S OUTPIT, The next thibg the young man needs is clothing. The Scriptures say at all times let your white—emblem of glory, of purity, of inn spotless should our conduct be that not breath of suspicion should be beard agai you must not only provide for the journey, but for the ‘stopping places also, You can provide for those by deeds of kindness and love to others; by rende: good for evil and giving a kies toramiting. This th Jowliest of us can do, and thus meet King of Kin unabashed and = =—uncop- founded. Then the young man will need a stall, What is it that makes mi @ man siuk on the wayside but despair, and what is better than the staff of faith in God. ‘Push on your way, ior help is nigh; yea, though the ground bring forth thorns and thistles, for what better stall than faith and trust inGod? Theretore let faith be your staf, trim and unwavering, ior though you ik through the valley of the shadow of death you shall tear no evil, In the passport of thetraveller your name is set down, your description given and certaia not for your guidance on the way. Whatroad book shall the Israelite take with him? This book of the law shall not depart trom thy house all the days of thy life. Tnis is the pilgrim’s road book. 1t declares that ye shall be a kingdom of priests avd a holy na- tion, for wi ation i there that bas such statutes as are contained in thia book of the law? Happy are you to bave such a book; bappy ii, when you reach the last goal, you can say with David, ''1 have loved thy statutes, and thy commandments have been my song in the houso of my pilgrimage,” Then, finally, you need society. it is not good for a man to be alone, Solitude may do for hermits, but 4¢ (8 not the normal condition of man. But let your compauions be chosen for their sterling qualities, for firm faith and cheerfulness, and then journey with them, for you know not how long they will be with you. And if one jails and press on your journe: spirits of those who hsuve gone are now before the throne of God, who will send His ang bag ion you aud bring you to the jand of which the rd your God has spoken, Take also with you on your jourvey & quickened conscience, and let it be your guide, and whatever it bias you do, do it, for 1 is right, and avoid what it condemns, tor that is wrong. And thus with your staff and ciothing and food and pase rt and guide beok go forth on your journey of lite, and may God bring you all to your journey’s end in peace, A SOLEMN CEREMONY. SEMI-ANNUAL ORDINATION OF CATHOLIC PRIESTS AT THE TROY PROVINCIAL SEMINARY. The Right Rev, Francis McNeirny, D. D., Adminis. trator of the diocese of Albany, yesterday adminis. tered the solemn rite of ordination tv the Rev, Michae, Lane and Rev. Rdward F. Siattory, of New York City; the Rev. E F. J. Egan, of Boston, and Rev. Timothy C, Murphy of Rochester, Rev, Patrick has resigned at Calvary church, Conshonocken, Pa The resignations are reported also of Rev. William Munford ag assistant minister at Christ church, New Or- leans, La, ;of Dr. James Abercrombie, at Trinity church, Santa Barbara, Ual,, and the acceptance of the pulpit by Rev. H. Chetwood; of Rev. T, N, Morrison, Jr, at St Paul's, Pekin, LIL, and bis acceptance of Epiphany church, Chicago, and of Rev. George R. Upton, at New Iberia and Franklin, La, Acceptances of pastorates are reported by Rev. B. T. H, Maycock, of New Urloang, to Plaquemie, on the lower coast of the Mississippi; of Rev. G. Nelson, of Lexington, Va., to 8s. John’s church, Wytheville, Va; of Rev, A. E. Jobnson, as assistant rector of Christ church, Springticld, Mags., with charge of the Mission Church of the Goed Sbepherd aor the river; of Rev. W. Mitchell, of Middictown, Conn., to Rutland, Vt; of Rev, Mr. Stoddard, of Westville, Conn., to Watertown, Coun. ; of Rev, J, N. Stanger to Christ church, Cincinnati, and of Rev. W. Brittain to St. Paul’s, Greenville, and St. John’s, lonia, Mich. ‘The Rey. Francis Goodwin, of Hartiord, bas been ap- pointed Secretary and Treasurer ot the Church Scliol- arship society, of the Diocese of Connecticut, in place of the late Rey. C. R. Fisher, Tho Rev. T. R. B. Trotter has been appointed by the Bishop of Louisiana missionary at large. The Rev. Georve McCiellau Fiske was ivatituted rector of St | Mary’s church, at Castleton, Staten Island, last week. Bishops Potter and Scarborough officiated. Rev. N. | 8. Rulson bas removed from the aiocese of New Jer- sey wo Cleveland, Ohio, Kev. C. Dawson has left Calvary church, Columbia, Mo., and gone to St. Thomas’ chureb, Hanover, N. H., and Rev. R. Mar- shall bas resigned the rectorship of St. Thomas’ church, Whitemarsh, Pa, on account of ill heulth, and gone to Philadelphia'to rest a wile. Dr. Fulton, late rector of Christ church, New York city, has accepted a call to Milwaukee and $5,000 a year salary. METHODIST. Bishop Harris has appointed the Rev. De Loss Lull prosidiug elder of the Poughkeepsie district, The Rev. Air, Earl, the revivalist, wiil boid meetings in the Methodist Episcopal church at Carthage, Jeiler- son county, N. Y., this winter. Bishop Brown, of the African Methos Chureb, is about to visit Hayti to organ: ary work there. Rev. Dr. 0. H. Tiffany, of Chicago, has beon called to the pastorate of St. Paul's Method: Episcopal church, Fourth avenue aud Twonty-seeond strect, wis { city, and will be transterred trom the West in April. The Rev. John Krantz, Jr., has been appointed to supply the church at Waveriey, N place of the Kev, C. 8. Rymaa, tra Moines Conterence, ‘The Rev. R, H. Rust, of Greenwich, Conn., is now in Cincinvat: on a visit to his father. Dr. Wheeler, editor of tbe MelAodést, Is supplying bis pulpit during his abseuce. ‘The Rev. Professor W. N. Rice, of Wesleyan Uni- versity, Middletewo, Conn., has gone to the Bermuda Isiaods 1 search of speciinens of coral for the college museum. Hishop Andrews has arrived safely tn India, and will preside at the Mission Conterence in Bombay on Jan- uary 3, eg Dr. James Porter, of Brooklyn, is aiding Rev. L. $8. Walker in revival services in Johnstown, N. Y. In Callicoon (N. Y,) Methodist Episcopal church Rev. A. H. Haynes has received fifty persons on probation as iruits of a revival now in progress. ‘Miss Smiley has been holdiug a series of revival ser- vices in the Congregational charct of Rutland, V She 18 about beginning another series in the Episcopal cburch of Burlington. The Rev. Erastus Smith, of the Rocky Mountain Contereuce, is spending some th mong his trieuds in New Eng! and gives a most encouraging view of the work io t Episcopal a mission k Conference, in red to the Des PRESBYTERIAN, The Rev. James Marshall, ate of the Presbyterian church, Hoboken, N, J., has’ taken charge of the Le! auen chapel, one of the church organizations of the New York City Mission and Tract Society, in Columbia su The Rev. E P. Hammond is preaching to over 2,000 persons daliy in Philadelphia, and bas aiso held an open alr meeting, ‘Rey. Dr. Phuip Schaff sailed last week, incompany with Mrs. Schaffl, on atour in Europe, Kyypt and the Holy Land. Dr, Schaff has never yet visited Palestine, and his studies beng chiefly biblical he hopos to gain ositive advantages by personal observation in the Rivas of the Bile. Kev. Sheldon Jackson, whose district reaches from British America to Old Mexico, bas travelled in his missionary labors, since October laat, 31,666 miles, Rey. John 8. Robertson bas resigned his charge of the Presbyterian church at Sullivan, and has removed to Piqua. Rey. W. Brimm, recently of Tyler, Texas, takes charge of the church at Fort Worth. Correspondenis will please note tne change. The Key. br. J. 8. Evans, of Brooklyn, has accepted a call to Woudside church, Newark, N. and will be Installed there as pastor on the 24th inst Rev. J. 3. MacConneil, of the Presbytery of Alle- gheny, has been elect co-pastor (with Rev. Dr. Lea) of the Lawrenceville church, Presbytery of Pittsbur; ‘After nearly torty years’ faithial labors Rev. T. W, Howe has been succeeded in the pastorate of the church in Pataskala, Ohio, by Rev. Turner 8. Bailey. The church was organized in 1837 with nineteen members, and was Iiieraily in the woods. The people lived in their cabins, Mr, Howe ut first preached to them in ship, 125 communicants and about eighty fawilics in connection With his congregation, and the promise of a salary of $1,000, BAPTIST. Mr. R. B, Matthows, of Madison University, has been ordained and instalied pastor o1 the Baptist chorch at Port Byron, N, Y. The Charles Edwards has resigned his pastorate at Jamaica, L. L, and gone into secular business in New York. ‘The Rey, Warren Randolph, D. D,, bas been called to the pastorate or the First church of Iudiauapolis the Rev, D. A. Peck has accepted a cail to Grapesviiie, N. ¥.; Rev. 8. D. Woodson to Providence (R. 1.) South church; Rev. C. Townsend to Towlesville, N. Y.; Rev. G. D. Donney, of Throvpville, to Galway, N. ¥., and Rev. W. H. Marsvall to Elizabeth, N, J., where be has entered on bis pastoral labors with the Memorial Bap- tist church, The Rev. Alpheus Bray, late of the Protestant Metho- dist denomination at St Clair, Mich., has become a Baptist winister. The Rev, G. 8, Abbot, of Watertown, Masa, sailed York oo Saturday. He expects to accom- pany Ly. Philp Schaif on bis Siniatic and other trips. Two of our city pastors, Rev. Dr. Hulme and Rev. Halsey Moore, have been prostrated by sickness ior several weeks past. They are now recovering and way be expected soup to be in their pulpits, Mr. William G, Winters bas been ordained and in- Stalled pastor of the Baptist chureh at Kast Union, Pa. Rev. Dr. Garauer has taken the pastorate of tho First Baptist church of Clevel Obwo. Rev. R. D. Grant, of Athol, Mass, has taken a church at Johos- town, N. ¥., and Rey, @ K, Bunuell, of Wooubull, hus Kobe to Can) N.Y. v. J.V. Schofield has resigned his pastorate of Park avebac Baptist charch, 3t og for lack of support, und bas taken charge of the Fourth onuroh in the | S generous acm, i) same city. Rev. D. T. Morrill bas gone from St. Loui to Upper Alton, and taken charge of the Shurtieif Cole lege church, aod Dr. Yeaman hus resigned his pastoral oversight of the Third church of St. Louis, to devote Bas f more exciusively to his editorial and college uties, ROMAN CATHOLIC, The son of a Roman prince, nephew of a Cardinal Patrici) who holds (he next highest position to the Pope in the Roman Catholic Church, is now and has been tor thirty st in Washinge ton Territory, United States. er Gazzoll, of the Cwur d'Alene mission, aod the oldest whice settler ip that region Rev. Father O’Brien, assistant priest at St. Joho’s Cathohe chureh, Bangor, Me., has returned froma trip to Ireland. Mgr. Perené, Archbishop of New Orleans, after an absence of nearly two years, in France, Belgium and Italy, has just returned to this country, and is at thie time in bis episcopal city. He spent a few daysia New York before returning to the South, Rev. T. M. Killeen ts preparing to build a large and handsome church in St. Mary's parish, Bergen Point, The Rev, Father Van Den Dreissche, of Connor Creek, Mich., laiely received seven converts into the Catholic Chureh, Rev, James J. Fitzmaurice, late pastor of the Church of the Immaculato Conception, Allentown, Pa, has been transferred vo the pastoral charge of the Churen of the Sacred Heart, Pailadelphia. Kev. I. J, Johvston, pastor of St. Mary’s church, San Antonio, Texas, and who, during the recent ab- sence in Europe of Right Rev. Bishop Pellicer. a0 ably and salistxctorily pertormed the dues of admimstra- tor of the diocese, is now in Galveston on a conva lescence tour. ‘nbishop Bayley, of Baltimore, had designed to Bishop Corrigan, of Newark, to Rome, but @ sudden attack of an old trouble prevented, the Archbishop will spend the winter in Florida, Bishep Corrigan will probably not return to his diocese uptl the fall of 1877. MISCELLANEOUS. H, D. L, Webster 13 soon to retire from the Universalist ministry. Rev. Dr. Pond, of Bangor, Me., bas been preaching sixty-one years in that State, the Metropolitan (Episcopal), of Canada recently admitted (o the priesthood a candidate who had been a Roman Catholic priest and had completed his three years’ probation. Tne Kev. J. J. Austin, of Waterloo, lowa, has been appointed State Deputy of the Good Templars, Rev. J. A. Hoyt bas resig: his pastorate of the Universalist church at Belle Plain, lowa, Rev, Dr, Weaver, of Akron, Ohio, las accepted a call to Galos- burg Universalist church, Ill, The Rev. Jobn Lyon has resigned at Ware, Mass. A new parish has been organized at Sponcer Mass., under the name of the St, Paul’s Universahst Sooty. ‘The Rev, J, A. Seitz has resigned bis pastorate of the Harlem Universalist church. Tho Rev. J. M, Jobus, of the Canton Divinity Senool, has accepted a callto Hammond, N. xy, The Rey. @ F, Babbitt, of the same school, has accepted acallto Watertown, Rev, C. P, Nash has resigned at Rockland, Me, to accept a pastorate at Lowiston, Me, Mr. John Hutchins has been ordained and installed pastor of the Reformed churcn at Bronxville, N. Y. The Rev. Dr. Wells, of New York, has been installed pastor o} the Reformed church at Cato, N. Y. Mr, John Y, Allison, a licentiate of Concord Presbytery, has been ordained and installed pastor of Monroe an Trenton churches, Loutsiana, 5 Dr. John Hall acknowledges the receipt of $6 from Raleigh, N. C., for obje ed, The Rev. TWEED AND HIS GUESTS. THE PRISONER CONVERSING ABOUT HIS Mise FORTUNES—HIS TREATMENT AT VIGO—A GOOD JOKE ON HIS OPPONENTS—‘‘r KNOW NOTHING,”” In William M, Tweed’s coscy little sitting room at Ludiow Street Jail three persons were gathered on last Wednesday evening. A Lright tire was blazing, and all within the apartment was joy and peace—with, possi- bly, liquid accessories. The prisoner and his two Visitors were seated together at tho table in easy-going conversation, At this moment a knock was heard at the door, a card was handed in and instructions to show the new comer in followed. As this party (who for the sake of convenience may be called Jones) entered the sitting room Mr. Tweed arose {rom his seat at the table, and, protfering his band, said;— “Well, old fellow, how do youdo? Why hatn’s you been to see me before ”” Mr. Jones, after a friendly shake of the prisoner's hand, replied:—‘These ubiquitous gentlemen of the press are around so constantly that] thought I would wait until I could drop quietly in upon you.’’ “Lam glad to see you, very glad to see you. Pray sit down.” When the circle gain comfortably monded Mr. Jones inquired : Mr. Twoed, how bave they treated you during your absence f”” “Oh,’? responded tbe famous gentleman, ‘I got along all right until 1 reached that imfernal Vigo, 'o ‘wonder it is called tho p ot the Inquisition |’? “Why ??? asked air. Jones, “They put us in a little round cell in the bombproof of the fort, without a carpet, a table, a stool or a bed, and the only place on which we could sis down was tho sill of a dirly window which looked out upon the pa- Tad ound and was protected with nuge iron bars.’? ere did you sleep ?”” “We lay on the bare floor at first, until they were good enough to bring In « mattress. “How did you manage to pass uway the time?” Mr. Jones inquired. “Well, my companion, Mr. Hant, smoked pretty constantly, and tuough | never indulge myself, it gave me pleasure to see him do so. Now, he ts am inge- nious fellow, and devised the idea of cutting up some of the cigarette paper.aud with the aid of # lead pen- cil mauufacturing a set of dominoes, We spread out on the floor und piayed a good deal.” MK. TWRED'S LITTLE JOKR. “In connection with this matter,” continued Mr, Tweed, smilingly, ‘lil tell you alittle joke. You re- member they seized upou my baggage and toox it to Washington, This circumstance created a great deal of interest. The newspapers teemed with prog ive developments, and talked confidently that I began to tach myself that thoy really bad something om me at last.” The fat contributor to public interest here chuckied a littie at his recollection of the sportive event, and resumed vil, Buss and Fish and old Fatuer Tait With spectacles ou nose, proceeded, amid su; preaned excliemcnt, to pore over the contents of my agua At length they came upon a number of littie sips of tissue paper, about one inch long and half ap ick wide. They were dotted over with strange pencu marke, and made the bearts of the investigators beat fast with expectation, They settled intently down wo meaning of this mysterious c.pher. able reflection a new light broke in vpon the mind of Father Taft, and he suyyested with an air of disappointment that the suspicious objects were——dominoes! ‘Did you ever hear such —— nonsense??? With anbearty laugh Mr. Tweed drew some of the little papers from his coat pocket, and tue whole party me convulsed with mirth. THE RELEASE oF HUNT, When the fun had subsided Mr. Jones resamod com versation by tnqatring—“Why didn’t they bring Huns witb you?” “Fortunately,” answered the prisoner, ‘we fell into the hands not only of a gentleman, Hut a person of im. telligence—the Captain of the Franklin. He Hatened potently. to ‘Hunt's’ protest, in which he said he hud en kidnapped and brought on the ship; that he bad committed no offence, was an Americnu ciuzen, aod demanded the protection of the Frankiin’s com- mander, Thon, after hearing him through und con- sulting with his brother officers, the Capiuia sent ‘Hunt? ashore.” “Well, Uncle Bill,” said Mr. Jones, in a friendly Jashion, “the public seems to think we are to have some strange developments after the inauguration of we Governor. They expect some starting revela- pression. He gazed in a sad, thoughttal way upon the table before him, ws though the bitterest emotions filled his breast. Then, with uo effort to re- gain his former happy mvod, he said lacetiously :— “[ can open my mouth fora nice eutsieak in the morning; but——" turned) ‘my enem: mouth with a crowbar to compel m to the injury oi my old iriend: to say an: He added, 10 & pons aeterminative and painiul tone:—"'l kuow nuth- D, ‘This display of feeling on the part of the spearer m0 moved the whole party to pas ate sympinthy. To dissipate from the prisone smind the meng ye his great troubies a game of euchre was propoved, and after a little eocial ebat which followed some of the gentlemen retired, while others remained until the hour arrived for closing the prison. IN LOVE WITH HIS SISTER, [From the St, Louis Globe-Democrat, Dec, 21.] Down in Bloomf@eld, Davis county, lives a widow named Hagan, who mourns the Joss of two husbands, By one she bore a ron whose name is Charles Abbott, by the other she bore a daughter named Kila Hagan. She is an estimabie woman, and with motherly tender. ness sho raised her children, Together they lived, and wore warmly attached—indeed, uncommonly ‘so, Charles seemingly worshipped his Elia and Hnaily Pe- solved shq should be his wife. She, like @ true. hearted girl, scorned the proposition.” He then be- came Jealous of ber and would allow no young to visit her. He beewme dissolute and depraved, which acded more sorrow and trouble to his sister, Fur come he bas harassed her neurly to distraction, jong ago he wis suspected of attempt~ ing to poison, the tamily by paving arsenic in a custard. After — pine the son =6he)=0Ofwent) =6ointo—s the_—s eo with another sister, and they were not sick. others wore suddenly attacked with all the symptoms of arsenic poison, On Tue aring that bis sis- ter was to be married to became frantic and rush te er’s room by the trau- som over the door, Wheu be came ina policeman wag sent for, who arrived while Abbott was crawi through the (ransom, revolver in hand. Aboot some way escaped, aud that was the last beard of bit. It is probable he will turn up tn St. Louis, aa beknew his sister and her husbang proposed so. St. Lows alter their marriage. Ho is characver, aud will give them troable offer, Ii be will go out aud bang