The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1877, Page 6

OLD AND NEW The Churches Bid the Old Year Fare- well and Welcome the New. MESSAGES OF PEACE AND HOPE. Dr. Cotton Smith Points Out the Dangers of Popery. Is THERE A LAST DAY? Horological Landmarks Set Down by Brother Hepworth. FLOATING DOWN THE STREAM OF TINE, Wanted—A New Scroll of Mariyrs, by De Witt Taimage. RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR PLYMOUTH CHURCH. TRE HIGHER LIFE—ITS CONDITIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS—SERMON BY HENRY WARD BEECHER, Diagrams showing all the seats in I'lymouth church, ‘With the reut of each distinctiy marked, were placed 48 the pews of that edilice yesterday morning; and Mr. Beecher, before the sermon, announced that the Bnnual sale of seats will be held in the jecture room on the evening of Tuesday, January 9. For the text of his sermon yesterday Mr. Beecher fead the tollowing passage trom Romans:—"For yo bave not received tho spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we ory, Abba, Fatber., The Spirit itsely beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God; and if children then heirs; heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him | that we may be also glorilied together.’? There Was not tho slightest allusion made in the sermon to the close of the year. The preacher begun by citing the many recent discoveries in science und nacure as idence of the littieness of human knowledge in Fespect to subjects with which men are most famiuar, CONTRACTIVE CHRISTIANS. Mr. Beecher condemned the cusiom of certain Jans in conuinually telling men to beware and themselves. » he said, Was bot in accordance with the Gospel; for, among the aposties themselves, the certain characteristic of Christian experience was | its overflowing joy. In earthly matters, the man who does not know bis own mind is considered a fool, and why should What which is in worldiy matters considered folly be introduced into religion as an element of | Strength? But while Chrisuians might be and ought to _be certain of their estimate of truth aud love im the ‘Lord Jesus Christ, men might (eel certain that they are Christians and yet not be Christians, A mao Might jee! certain because of certain occlesiastical eon- ditions, but he may perform all the duuies iid down by the Church and not bave a valid title. Neither is theological evidence sufficient. A man may have theo- logical and ethical and ; hilosoptucal eviderce, and yet ‘we were told in the snirteenth chapter of Cormtniuns that if be bas not love ull these ure good for nothing, |. WHO ARK THEY Y Mr. Beecher described aclass of persons not un- known in his community tuose whose measure of their perfectnons is their sease of cunceit, They are Persons, ho suid, of overweening self-possession, pride, and they are very positive in their convictions. There is a torm of seil-esteem which is absulutely judicial in Fespect to right and wrong. There aro persous wuom youand Ihave met who, when they do anything which they ieel would be wrong in anybody else, feo: that because they do ititis right Some ol the most benevolent und sweoctest uatures the preacher had ever known were persons upon whom tue couviction bad scarcely dawned that they were very near to God iu such a seuse us to call themseives children of God. Others there were who rested in periect security, and Jooked down condescendingly upon common people, saying in sweet, bland tones, “Why, you can be just as good as 1 am if you will only” try.” It 18 the quimtessence ‘of pride, | Said the preacher, which people olten mistake for the witness of the spirit, I do not ask you, said Mr. Beecher, in conclusion, to take my taith; 1 do not ask ou to take my theology; Ido but ask you to jo my burch; Lonty ask inat you williove, Kindle up in your own souls this kingdom of God, in which dwelleth Fighteousness. If you have apy way to get to ittoat 1 know not of go by that way. If you have attempted 10 reach it and have failed, will you not try the method which we havoe ivevly altempied to show this morn- jug? Will you not try it asa practical experiment whether i is not for you to enter into that practical experience of the higner lite? . BROOKLYN TABERNACLE, SHE LESSONS AND ALLEVIATIONS OF THE BROOKLYN THEATRE FIRE—SERMON BY REY. 7. DE WITT TALMAGF. Yesterday forenoon Rey. T. De Witt Talmage preached beiore a congregation numbering about 5,000 people upon, the “Lessons and alleviations of tho Brooklyn Theatre tire,” The text was, ‘Prepare to meet thy God.”"—Amos, iv., 12, The reverend speaker Baid:—Passing along a street of one of our Western cities about three weeks ago | beard the newsboy, shout, “Great disaster in Brooklyn!” What? said 1; and alter I had heard some of the particulars in regard to the burning of the Brookiyn Theatre I unrolled the sheet, which | found like the = scroll of the prophet, written within and with- out with lamentation, mourning and woe. ‘1 | shall not to-day rake up the ashes of the dead, I shall Bot tear off the bandage from this awful barn—your eyes, your ears, your nerves have sven and heard and felt more than enough already; but it there be any healing salve for tho wound I would like to apply it, and if there be any lessons from the throne of God I would like to present them, with reference tothe account which every ministor, as well as every play actor, must render at last amid the burning theatre of a Durning world. Some persons in the review of this disaster have blamed the architects, some have blamed the play actors, some have blamea the fire marshals and some have blamed the owners of the theatre, ‘Th are = pther who swagger about telling what they would nave done it they bad been there. It is very easy 4 month alter, and a milo away from the scene of the dis- ot how you would have vet \nstead of spending your time in telling would have carried yourseit you hud better » your time in praising God that you were not pr fnd in trying to alleviate the distress of those about you. It broken leg to wik to nim about the carelessness b sbowed in slipping off a ladde: This 18 a time tor comfort and not for reprevension, The first ailey that where one perished three cul 4 ten bercavements there are the city, then (the fact tb while 0) © perished—the fact that Ought to made 6,000 congratulations, While we mourn for those wh ng aloud to God tor those who ause for anthems than for requiems. ith us poor mortals is that we brood over our calamitics while we bedw our deliverances, While there are so many who have hung funeral weeds over their door tet us praise tod that there were so many hands spared to twist | finas garlands, While | am im full sympaiby with those who would rear a monumentever the fon 1 call upon all vie fainiiies aod trienos of the to build a monument heaven high of grati tude to God th endures for second alleviation to this disaster 1 fod In the tac that all the public buildings in the country ar being brought under revere scrutiny. this Taveruaclo wos built a great many laughed becauvea we had so many aisles wud fo inany doorways, But vow we rejoice in this day ve twenty-tive aisies, and twenty-two door. that we ways, and eight 8 people may be dis cases, 80 that an aude of 5,000 rged irom this root Minutes. If architects make a mistake let ( Won the right side, We therefore Manic comuuttees in all our cities irom Ban cisco who are making rigid examinat gafent time to travel on a railroad track ts right atver a FaliruAd catastrophe, becwuse Of (he nereased vigiiance Of Conduciors and engineers, so 1D slbour pubue baiid- ange in this country jor the next ton » there will De increused sulety from inerensed trustecs. ‘The third alleviation the spea 10 the bistory of this country we bad w obaply there will never be anything bike itin thousand years There i# more chance that by lightuing or that you will b ‘ou will break your ig room than that ithe fact i meet ie ahi str ‘ rubaway horse or that down stairs to your d will guiler harm Wa pubic assemolage of “tne reiore, let there be no Hervousness, no ridiculous behavior, a8 though poopie ‘every mument something to bappeu. t, thut they might be deceiving | poor thing when a workinan lies with a | a When | hing Like | We naq a panic when we worshipped in the Academy e, Thousands of. people were alfrighted, ow slipped trom one part of the roof to panic im this bouse two or three ago, Why? A man pulled a window shutter. The calamuy hus brought a better uppreciuiion of the work of our fremen and po- licemen. The world admires’ murtyrs The speaker alluded to the’magatiicent: martyrdom of Charles Love and Patrick McKeon, the officers who perished at their posto! duty in the burning theatre, The firemen worked thirty-six hours without help, unit they al- most fell dead im their tracks, We wanta new seroll of martyrs, and on that seroll we want to pat the name of the engineer who kept bis band at the lever until the rail (rain dropped through the drawbridge; and the fireman, the stoker who stood at his post until the furnace was quenched in the cyclone; and the policeman who breasid the mob until be was riddled With the bullets of the rattians; and the dreman, at the conflagration of the dwelling house who appears atthe third story window, bringing out the little ebild, and having passed him ‘out to bis parents, fell back dead, never more prayer offered in the same space ol Ume as in those Ove or ten minutes at the Brooklyn Theatre. There were in thut house grievously sinful men and women who bad time only to make one outcry for pardoning mercy, and got it. We are calied upon to wake up trom our worldiiness and our sin and to seek Christ and prepare lor eternity. This calamity in of our city ought to results the | arousal, conviction, conversion and eterna! saivation | of abundred thousand souls, Mr. Talmage said that he understood that it was expected that he should somewhat address himselt to the theatrical prote-sion, He would preach a sermon to them very soon in the course of a series of sermons, Next Sabbath he would preach tothe newspaper profession, Ho would then preach to the theatrical, medical, legul aod cle: professions. ‘When I come to speak to the theatrical profession,” said Mr, ‘Talmage, “1 sball set myself right on some things. I have been grossly misrepre- sented (applause and hisses) as though Lbad made a wholesale denunciation of that profession, and I spall have understood just what 1 have saidand what 1 believe.’? CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. HOROLOGICAL ILANDMARKS—SERMON BY THE 0 » GLORGE H, HEPWORTH, Every seat in the Church of the Disciples was occu: | pred during the morning service yesterday. Mr. Hep- | worth preachea from the text found in tho twelfth chapter of Exodus, fourteenth verse:—‘tAnd this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it | a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye | shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever,” I have somewhere heard, said the pastor, that a fair princess fell asleep in her boat as she floated down one | of the streams of Greenland, and when she awoke she | found, to her great dismay, that the end of ber pearl necklace was loose and had fallen over the side of tho | boat, und that while she slept one after another of the | precious pearls had dropped into the stream and were | lost forever, I somebow think this story weil adapted | toourselves, We, too, are floatmg down the stream of | lite, and one by one the days, the weeks, ! the months and the years—all pearls of price- | less value—drop into the deep and we know | them no imore forever, I am wonderstruck | tha€ in heaven there is no record of time; that | | | | | | time is only one of the pecularfties of carthly exist- ence. With God everything is presont—there is no | past with Him He is the same yesterdy, to-day and | forever. With Him a thousand years--these are the words of Davia in one of his most tuspired moments— @ thousand years aro asa day when it is past, Mark the terrible earnestness of these words, How shall poor, feeble man consider the life of Him with whom a thousand years are but asa few brief hours? He, the speaker, had sat by a clock when all else was still as | tho grave, and listened to it# solemn, measured tick until pe became so nervous that he was compelied to stay the pendulum in its course. With every tick he kbew that another moment which he was unabie to call back had flown, Perhaps many of his hearers bad | known @ similar experience; peraaps they, too, had grown nervous under like circumstauces—recognizing the fact thut they could never go back, and knowing | that they were always being pushed along by a force they could not resist. But to one who was prepared to go tho knowledge of these facts had no terrors; be rather looks forward with eagerness | to the bour that takes nim home. We count time by hours, by days and weeks, not by months und years, Nor were years always of the same value. When in presperity time passed like a dream, but in the ‘days of sorrow” it dragged along, oh! how slew! Old Time seemed to have forgotten himself and gone to sivep, and each hour became an eternity. ve landmarks in life to designate the great chapters in one’s existence, aud itdida great | deal of good once ina while, at stated intervals, to get away from the shock of worldly aflairs und take an inventory of spiritual stock, and no one who had now tried it knew bow much sweet consolation there could be derived from gathering every once in a while around the family hearth auu, wild only those of the | family about, recall the tender mercies of God duriog the past months, The year just passed was unlike | wny of its predecessors, Each year had an | experience peculiarly 1s own, Death had visited many families m the. Chureh of the Disaipies during lethe just twelve months, but he rejoiced to say that in | most of these cuses be had not taken as much as ho had given. He (Death) wore the mask of terror, but alter all Lis hand was the band of a friend, He some- times frightened us by bis sudden appearance, but he could not hurt the Christian; and therefore when the pastor stood by the side ol one who was sleeping his jast long sleep he felt like ing, *‘Thank God, brother, you are sate I know; whether we are sate I know not.” In conclusion Mr. Hepworth urged his bearers to look at their accounts of the pust and gee how they stood with God—consider, 1 Uney were to pass away amid the shadows of tne approaching night, how they would meet the Father, jow would matters stand with them if they were suduenly transierred to the other shore? Such a thing was not impossivie; in proot of which be would point to the number of tatal accidents auring the past year to show how many had | gone home without a moment’s warning. On every hand were “dim, uncertain shapes that cheat the sight, and pitialls Jurked in shade along the ground.’” We inight tread the secret spring at any moment, and therefore he would urge his hearers to be ready; to cast all on Jesus, that they might be able to walk with a mapvly tread, conscious. that if the sudden spring Was lor them it would not take them unawares, Mr. Hepworth announced to his congregation that himself and lady would be at home to-day, between the hours of eieven A. M. and six P. M. MASONIC TEMPLE, A CENTENNIAL RETROSPECY—SERMON BY REV. 0. B. FROTHINGH: M, ‘A large congregation assembled in Masonic Temple yesterday morning. Without text or introduction Mr. Frothingham began bis discourse as follows:—The centennial has come and gone. It has begun and it hus ended, It bas given its promise and summed up its Judgments, It began with noise and uproar; it goes out, as ali years go out, in dead silence, Its promise was full; its issue 18 doubtful and in many res: gloomy. little. We hope for new prosperity, for reviving trade, for wealth and power, for readjustment of oid diflerences, we received, | it always is. | working covertly underground, nections, searcely ever showing its hand. The order of life consists of .hoping tor everything, not oxpecting anything, Every life is aimless, and yet every life in some respects is a suc- cess, We never hit tho mark, Wuat ambitions were jostered for this groat national day! Months betore its first sunbeams struck the planet the bistoriaas and | the chroniclers were abroad gathering up the crumbs It was weil to Of all that we dreamed of, nothing. $0 Providence goes by slow stages, making fine con- 1 | of wisdom and telling the great story of fortitude and endurance, of achieyementsand victory, How supertly the great forms loomed up irom the past! | splendid record of hope and achievements ; what sacri- floes, what disinterestedness, what consecration is de- a ideal hands, seem Of this great munrcipal disaster is in the Iact | Voted to poor hi 1. one death | rs in | AWAD WAY TO PROGRESS. In speaking of female suffrage Mr. Frothingham | suid it seemed unfair that the whole sex should be dis- | enfranchived, that their property should be taken and } used Without asking their advice, But what is to ve done’ As yet we bave only touched upon it We hot made an advance toward the solution Of 1. c, We huve noi analyzed i, We wave lott where we found them. Look at our civil ser- The first thing that any organization demands 8 to upp sks and trusts, to distrib oflives ‘ople Who are appo wo dom the household, p Tight people in the right places. There is no small State ip Europe that does pot pride upon doing so. What have we done im 100 years? It {less lo Say. ihe powers of caricature have not developed themselves to such an extent that an describe our civil service, [tis beyond ridt- 3 We buve reduced to a the power of patting wrong people into right 8, of puting | people preetecly where they do not belong, as though we were trying to doit, Do we wish a superimtendent | of Education’ We appoint aman who cannot write | bis name. ya Minister ina foreign court desired t A man is picked out who cannot even spcak the lon- ’ ‘of the nation to Which he is aceredived, A man age the affairs of the country, Look at our positical situation, Whata slough, what a morass itis, And js this (he Upshot of the 100 years of our experiment— the centennial, the year of rhetoric and boasting, | when we invited ail Co come aud see how magniticent yarey And after all this (rumpeting sich a show as Not that the election has been the closest one would be possible. Not that there are two candi- tor the natioual javor; that is not unlikely, Not ~. Not od 8 | tor, [tis none of these things we complain of, is that we know tbat the el with Iraud., Both parties have been facing euch other conscious of fraud, The only question ts wich has cheated the hardest, In closing, Mr. Frothingham anid, We, as a hation, had the satisfaction that wo had only really had but lity years to attain our present We hcpo everything; we receive | Of all that we expected, bow little have | What a | itselt | caunot manage his own affairs i# picked out to | It ed | prosperity. Wars had interrupted reflection and ne- cessarily retarded advapecment. FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. “OLD YEARS’—SERMON BY THE REY. DR. ARMITAGE. “Old Years’ was the subject of Dr. Armitage’ morning discourse, bis text being Deuteronomy, xxxil., 7, 1m part: Remember the days of old, con- sider the years of many generationy."” The days of the old year, said the pastor, are numbered, and when the sun sets to-night the year 1876 will die; it is even dying now and tho death struggle bas begun. It has been a year of note among us and in ournation, Some troubles we did not expect and some pleasures we did not anticipate have cometous, While the year bas not been ali we wished God has kept His promise at evory step, We must look upon the whele year as a gilt irom God, What shail we do with these old years? Shall we say, ‘Let them go, we can’t afford to look back; the future troables und trials, successes und pleasures, so let the old go and turn tw new.’? Shall we say that? Yes, that’s well said; but shall we let old iriends go in that way? When friends have been so good to us can we part with them so eastiy without base ingratitude? ‘These years have been gemval iriends, with harsh words bow and then ‘tia trae, bat Fae true Iriends ofttimes area little hursh, So these old years may have occa- sionaily been, but they seaitered more flowers than thistles, more moss than gravel. Tho old year has leit ao legacy of rich experience, Let us climb on jis shoulders, and resolve with all our strength to inake the year 1577 the best of our tives. Don’t mock the old year, The fuiure would be of little use to us it we blot out the past, would bo wo improve- | ment. I we take diced of the mistakes of the pst the coming year wil be filled with fewer blunders, I have no doubt that if the inner life of each of us were known | 1t would make a more enchanticg story than any novel ever written, ‘The value of the past lies just here By examining our inner selves and reviewing the adversi- vies and succesaes of 1876, and nobly endeavoring to master errors in the future, we will make 1877 whut it should be. The text givegue to understand that Moses called up the old years testily against the rebellion of bis people, “There is something startling 10 this view of our subject. The years nidden im the solitude of tbo grave are made to wheel round and return to become silent witnesses, Would you have them make such a record in your case as they did against the peoplo of Isrucl? Ob, what borror burst upon them when ‘the gaunt old years came to them with their records of | stupidity and gross idolatry, If the old years will | come to us in this way then we should be careful of the fidelity with which we dispose of the trusts God has given us. ‘Tho old years treat themseives no betier than they treat us, The picture of the old year is the picture of the man In it. The old year which dies to-night witnessed the death of many, What with l'urkish barbarity, the simoons of India, the Brooklyn Theatre, the gules ou the Scotch coast, the Montreal coavent and the recent Ashtabula hotror, there has deen a sad loss-of human hile, 11 we have eyes to learn lessons we can learn them every- where. Remember the old years. Carry Christ with you in the year tocome. Let that be the motto of all, and tho future will not be disastrous, CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION. SELF-CONFIDENCE—SERMON BY REY. DR BROOKS, At the Church of the Incarnation yesterday morning Dr, Brooks preached from the text of St. Paul's words | in Acts xxvi., 29—“I would to God that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost and altogether such as I am, except these bonda,”? Selt-assertion Dr, Brooks distinguished irom arro- gance and considered it as the duty of all, as thereby Christians helped others to Christ. Some- times self-ussertion ts agreeable, at other times | not manner of it that makes it disagreeable. Was St, Paul's assertion, that he wished all were like him, too much? If we desire to impress anything on others we must impress it on ourselves first, This is a dil- ferent thing from saying that one must be perfect be- fore he can advise others. 1t was not arrogance with St. Paul, he only said, “There is something in me which you can and ought to be.” Ouce let a man get a view of the broad and novle type of human life and he will try to get others to be like bim and to help him. Christ is tuis type. Noman can exhaust all the traits of Christian character—he needs others to him, A mao should be a Christian even if there were ho other Christians, but he should notrefrain from asserting himself and calling on others to belp him. He who tries to imitate Cbrist draws strength from the great fountain of life, and should wish all to be like him. Now wo mus‘ notice Paul’s limitation, “except these bonds.” Paul was a prisoner, aud the path in which he worked for Christ had brought bim into chains, To have avoided those bonds would have made him fulse to his principles, but he kuew that thoy were not necessarily the result ofalifetor Christ, ‘How many there are who have tried to put their chains on other men, who have thought that because they were persecuted others must be so too, Weare making ourselvea more than acall to Christ. We need to have more faith in our- selves and in other men, Faith will make Christians just as various as the different colors of light cred trom objects on which the same sunlight falls, Ono soul differs from every soul which meets 1%. = There is within’ us all a power which ought to be brought out to make the world better, There is one great typo oi life that we find now loaded with chains, now covered with riches; sometimes in ignorauce and sometimes in knowledge. History shows us the power of Christian- ity to exhibit this type. No persecution or ridicule has ever succeeded in keeping out anything in Christianity that ought to be brought out. ‘Timid and shrinking characters oi come out strong and assert them. selves for Christ, We have seen them bevowe active jor Christian life, My friends, it canuot be otherwise when maa icels that Christ 18 near him ana supporting him, The commonplace man can become original, the weak righteous, by that power. Youth can assert it- wel{ without being called arrogant; advancing age can assert itself without being culled self-sufficient. And so Christ has called us to assert ourscives because we are Hi rvantsand not because we think we are so great, He dislikes to see lives cevered with weeds, whether they be the humble weeds of timidity or the great, bold ones of arrogance and pride, He would plant us all over with seeds ta bring forth not oniy the lowly vine, but the great tree which will bring forth fruit and attract alto Him, Then we can say, ‘I would that you all were such as I am, except these bonds of sin and weakness which my own nature puts apon me.” The charity of life in 1t8 most perfect forms de- ponds on our being Christians PARK AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. Dr. Anderson, pastor of the First Buptist church, corner of Park avenue and Thirty-ninth street, preached an eloquent sermon to a numerous congregation yesterday morning. His words were adaptod to the season, and ho drew a lesson from the death of the old and the birth of the new year. Ho took bis text Psalms, cxliv., 4—‘'His days are as the dow that passeth away.” The spirit of the discourse was contained in the statemont that “man’s | earth life is unsubstantial, changing and brief.’ The | reverend gentleman showed !n an earnest and forcible | manoer the short and varying and unsatisfactory life of man in this world, The Madison avenue church at the same time held services in the chapel adjoining, Kev. Dr. Elder preaching. In the evening the churches were to have joint ser- vices, CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PATER- | NITY, THE RECORD OF THE YEAR—SERMON DR, CHAPIN. After an absence of two Sundays{rom his church, by reason of illness, Dr. Chapin resumed his accustomed place in the pulpit yesterday morning. The text chosen | was from Psaims, xc., 12—‘‘So teach us to num- | ber our days that we may apply our hearts unto wis- dom.”’ The verse was regarded as the keynote to the | entire psalm, at as indicating the right applica- tion of the conditions which the psalm unfolds, No passage of the Bible, said Dr. Chapin, is more flited to the season we have now reached—the last day of | the year, The psalm itself has been regaraed by many of the funeral hymn of the world; but its proper esti- mation je rather that ofa great life hymn, solemn as | life is solomn—like a great cathedral which biends all | aspects and various forms of life in one grand glance at | heaven, with the solemn taues of the organ roiling down throughout the whole grand service; it Is the | cothedral hymn of the world, with its solemn recital, its solemn juvts, finding an apphieauon ia all ages, and | telling the, story of the wearsome marches, the long days and nights in the wilderness, and the history of pilgrimage as told by Moses hom the angio ship of the psuin has been accredited. The text 1 be considered aw having & special process und a special purpose, as applied bo life, We may number our days, | not merely a8 80 many passing momenta, but namber | them in strict account, taking an account of our re. sources of Iie as a merchant would take ap account of | his money or goods at the close of a year, The text | applies to all clesses and all conditions of life. There | is no fittor time to stop to take an account of the trans. | actions and the resources of the year just fading iis record” of "pain and BY REY. away, carrying with | sorrow or its record of joy and bappir As the vld year wanes and, by God’s merey,we enier upon | anew one, itis a solemn duty that we take an account oi the report of the treasury within. Retorring to tho closing year Dr. Chapin looked back upon the events which Lave marked its progress, It | had been one of financial stagnation, business men were experiencing the “dry rot’ in their business pros- pects, commerce was strangely stitl, aud inen were | compiaining of the nardness of the times, while the political aspect o! aneertainty cast a shadow of gloom | | over the centennial, There bad been, and was | still, @ Very masquerade of evil in various forma; | there were wails of agony from the sea, where inen had gone down to its depths; itcame in the biast | of the storm, from the torn rewnants of the wreck, With its ghastiy spectacle of the frozen dead; and it me, even now, in the lurid light of the flames, iight- | ing up the scene of death wud disaster, amid | the snow and ice, But there was a heritage of trust in God to all, even to the sorrowing, | and tne woras of the Bible, “Lord, thou hast been our | dwelling place trom generation to generation.” never Itis not the degree of self-assertion, but the | | Lao beheve that the moral Cn ANOS Sn nee ee or eT NEW YORK HERALD, MUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1877. : came more forcibly in their application than at the present time. ‘Don’t eloso the year,” concluded Dr. Chapin, “with gloomy thoughts—each day carries its suilicieney of evil or of gloom. Tithe summing up of r lives be earthly koods and days have » Dat poorly number if the recor with God ana faith in His mercy 1 18 the count ofall The outlines of lite may pas the leat which withers and falls; but the true tian has a resource of his own, which stands always a8 the Christmas greens are emblematic at the altars, emblazoning upon the icy shield of winter the legend of perpetual summer, shat can never fade away. Let the words of the text stand out always asa pillar of fire, and hope that, as God permits to close one year, He may in His mercy and goodn: permit us to enter upon the Rew one, that the days may be num- bered according to the actual purposes of life, und wisdom follow as the reckoning 18 made,”” ALL SOULS’ CHURCH. THE LAST DAY—SERMON BY REV. DR. BELLOWS. Yesterday’s sunshine lit up the beautifully deco. rated church and happy faces of a large congregation gathered to hear Dr, Bellows talk of the Inst day of all years. Taking his text from Jobn, xt, 24, Dr. Bellows said;—Thero are several references in the New Testa ment, especially in the Gospel of St. Jobn, to ‘tho last day,” always carrying a certain loneliness of sugges tion aud involved in that mystic haze which hangs round the word of proptets and seers, us if their im- port were too broad and deep for Jefinition, and yet evidently intended to arouse thoughts of a final jucdg- ment al the close of all human affairs. It ts for that last day that we are all exhorted to prepare, When brought before the bar of Christ, the juige of quick and dead, we shall give an account of the things dono in the body, whether they be good or whether they be evil, Then, according to the principles of eternal jus- tice, clearly announced 1p His Gospel, we shalt hear the final verdict passed upon our earthly conduct, and in the presence of our fellow creatures, perhaps of an assembled unive flud ourselves classed with the sheep or the goats; called with that greatest of welcomes, “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you irom the foundation of the world,” or punished ‘with that most awful of rebufs, “Depari from me, ye cursed, Into everlasting tire prepared for the devil and his angels.” Such is the startling and solema imagery ol the New Testa- ment in connection with the jast day, 1 not pro- posing, my brethren, on this last day of the year to fill your imaginations with sensuous images of heaven and hell, with intoxicating thoughts ot the joys pre- pared for those thai love God and keep His commana- ments, or maddening suggestions of the woes that await the obstinate and habitual breakers of Gou’s laws |, and Christ’s precepts, 18 THERE A LAST DAY? Ido not expect any just day 1a the literal sonse of a final winding up ot buman affairs in the probate of eternity, a confronting of Christ in person ag our judge, a detailed summary of our offences in thought or deed as ina legal specification of criminal charges, an actual arraignment at a bur of judgment, and a declaration of acquittal or of cond ution to everlasting woe. But and spiritual issues of lilo are not less solemn and important, not less worthy of our attention, than if all these things were literally true. Beneath this awful and alarming phraseviogy, pictorial and rhotorical as it ig, there are eternal reulities the truch of which we need not go beyond this present life or our own breasts to see the posi- tive proot of, “The last day” has its echoes in the most private circle and heart. Here, within these sacred walls, consecrated to quietude and meditation; hero, in this sober and decorous assembly of worship- pers, are all tbe materials and all the accompaniments and realities of the last day’—God passing Judgment and executing sentence upon Hts creatures and sub- jects. Dr. Bellows closed by saying:—‘lf 1 bad ‘one only prayer to utter it sbould be this:—‘Holy God, leave me not in the power of my own si Abandon me not to my own blindness, Sparo not my shrink- ing flesh ; leave no hiding place for my follies, Washy me, though in the bitterness of gall, if only so I can be clean, Cructly me like my Master, if only so | may rise with Hum to tho true Knowledge ot Thy Father- hood, And so as this is the last wish and prayer ot this dying year, this last day, so may it be the cndiess prayer and longing of my soul in the last day of this mortal hife—in the glorious morning of that lust day which is to know no night and no to-morrow, because it 19 eternity itsell,’”? ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. THREE GREAT POINTS OF CHRIST'S TEACHING— SERMON BY THE REY. FATHER CURRAN. A large congregation was in attendance at St. Ste- phen’s church yesterday at the half-past ten o’clock mass. Rev, Father Curran preached the sermon, His text was from the Gospel according to St, Luke il, 34—"tAnd Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary, his mother, behold this child 8 set for the fall and rising again of many in Isracl; and for a sign which shall be spoken against.” We were still within the octave, he said, of that solemn tival which brings to the Christian mind many of the incidents of the Redeemer’s advent upon earth, and the Church took occasion to impress upon the Christian soul the fact that Christ came to save mankind. ‘hero woro prophecies in the old law which wero interpreted by the Jewish doctors, and they gave the signs of tia coming; — but anothor prophet said there was a sign which should ve contradicted. The philosophers of an ancient world were passing away; the precepts of the Jewish doc- tors no louger regulated men’s conduct, There were threo things which Christ taught mankind for their salvation, He told men that they must bow to the earth if they would be exalted to heaven; that they must have faith in Him and not follow the light of their own knowledge alone ; and, finally, that they must take up thetr cross und follow him to Calvary, ‘To-day in- stead of one single faith handed down from Jesas man in the pride of bis intellectual faculties bad invented new ones, and the hps of mapy even who sbould be uttering the praise of the Almighty were uttering blas- phemy instead, CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION. THE COMING CENTURY OF THE REPUBLIO— SERMON BY THE REY. DR. COTTON SMITH. Dr. John Cotton Smith yesterday delivered in this church what would have been his closing lecture in the series on “The Republic, Past and Present,’’ but for the tact that he was able only totreat with any degree of detail threo elements that enter into the stability and future prosperity of the Republic— namely, education, religion and the homogeneity of the different races that are now here, Temperance, politics and other elements he was able to name merely, and these he will treat of in an extra lecture next Sabbath, He showed in former lectures that there isadivine mission for this Repuolic, deduced largely from t nfluences that are over her and the possibilities before her, The uncertainty of futuro 18 always greatest when we apply it to individual life, and least when we apply it to the community or the nation. If we would gain assurances for tho luture we must look at the assurances of the past. The Doctor then reterred to the ancient civilizations of the Kast which have been gradually transferred to the West, and remarked that as the mission of the Kast was culture at of the West was religion, And the progress of civilizatio has been along one line and toward one Ithas always tended westward, and it finds its completion here among us. The stream of bistory belongs to our race, and should it be thought strange that the devel- opment of Gou’s great work should now be committed to our hands? We are living in the end of this civil- ization, There is nothing beyond for us or for the world, and it will be well for us and for the world if wo find our reat at the golden gates and on the shores of that ocean which is peace, Referring to the migra- tions of men westward, Dr, Smith remarked that tn migrations from our shores now are toward the shores from whence the migrations came, The time of preparation with us bas’ ceased. The mixture of the races here, he said. {8 heaithiul and only healthful. The blacks will gravitate more and more toward the Gulf States; the poor Indians will hardly bave a retonant lett at the end of the next century, so that for them the problem will then be solved. ' But it 1s for us to say whether we shall pur. sue the same policy of fraud, oppression and extermi- nation toward them that we have pursued tn the past. Tho presence of an interior and superior race in tho same territory i# always injurious to both, bat especi- ally to the inferior race, But we shall have here in this land what has never been known—a new and homogeneous race—a race tending toward one destiny, DANGER FROM THE PAPACY, Dr. Smith then enlarged on the elements of educa. tion and religion which are to accomplish this, and in the discussion be took the ground that the basis on | which our pablic schools were originally organized | would bave led us into troubie some had not the Papacy come to our shores, But now, he said, our chief davger is from this power, He maintained that religion and secular life cannot be divorced aud that religion shouid constitute one of the chief cares of the civil magistrate. If concessions must be made to the Papacy he would make them slowly. But he believed the encroachments of the Roman Church would tend to unite Protesutnts of all denominations ih resistance, The claims of that Chureh to be the educator of the young of the land he considered to be false and foreign, un-American and unbiblical, and nov to be submitted to under any guise or pretence. We should hold on to our public schools as they are until we shall have the power to make them religious institutions, The Doctor closed with Tennyson's beautilul lines to tho Old and New Year:— King out old belts, &e, ON THE WATCH. ASBURY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CONGREGATION WATCHING IN THE NEW YEAR. At the Asbury Methodist Episcopal church the congregation assembled at nino P. M. to watch the coming of 1877, Prayers were recited and appropria' hymns were sung by the members untilten P. M., at which hour the pastor, the Rev, Ur, J. A, Edmonds, preached on the Shortness: of Time,’? taking as his text 1, Corinthians, vi, 20, beginning “Brethren, the time 1s short”? He pointed out that the time of human Jife is short, even when the three score years aud ten of the Psulmist are reached, because of the amount ol work tor the glory of God and the welfare of men that bas to be done. He, thorefore, exhorted his hearers to seo to the good use they would make of their time now, as they were beginning a new division of their lives, | Prayors, exhortations and singing wero coutinged tll after midmiaht, sh DEATHS VIOLENCE. Records of the Coroners’ Office fer 1876. CRIME AND CASUALTY. The Suicides and Suffering of a Great City. Following ia the report of the Board of Coroners of New York for the year just ended, Its details afford a Spectacle both contemplative and appalling, It pre. ide of life which every day receives a passing , but ip this accumulated form is more than shocking, Such a page of the past, read in the merry dreain of a new year, constitutes one of those signifi- cant contrasts belonging to our world: — STO], | **goquiaceg “SLST “msoqiins Atediogiud ‘amouyan osvjuos awowanSeSzan! “wi ‘pup pune syuyuy | ‘paq Bl aromrom to cen mrocore | I} Piuidoao ‘uo; wooyng “BpIvoS Teepe OR Elansrccsmonmonel slept tiie | 4 ‘eSorpyng mMo041g | oy =; , ie. 8 £le- Iie ie oe hie te | sou | 3 edit A ANAT PN eyo | 2 | tit tetitit i jaa pav onssosoy | cero l Lye | ttt “sano murs A | 2 Soule Gaeid EERE aA (LL BT wrwewowwel ul sve oon sa]. . 3 ski remmnore | roerm | | co | ‘stands ‘nodopsawo sq | seeees-oy ‘edoors Blwowweccece oe! io ‘sims amo odie oy vy tear vI toomere | nomic! mene |-vaoro —sanmnoimy Stl mmreeo Secs! | eol | MOpUTN INO Bleed sone volt | moos nt ‘ssrei0 uo | Sd ete I *S)o0d to. 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Found dead at Bellevue Hospital, January 8 Stab wound of abdomen inflicted with a knife in the hands of Armin ‘Ling, at No. 27 Bayard street, ’ PY the Ist day of January, 1876; died January 7. ax, 17.—Knight, Mary, 25 years, Engiand, Found at Fourth precinct station house, January 11, 1876. Cause of death, hemorrhage from incised wound of throat, the result of an accidental tall into the basement (striking ugninst the glass Sts bet bead wheter No, 345 Water street, shoves e. prtytls ie ay y her husband, John Knight, Jax, 31.—Swith, Bridget, 33 years, Ireland. Found dead at hospital, No, 160 Chambers streot, Janu ery 26, Cause of death, “Bright's disease of the kidueys, complicated with phlebetis and pneu- monia and abortion,” the abortion being the re- sult of an injury received by w kick from her husband, Charies Smith, at No. 73 Cherry street, January 3, death iollowing January 26, Marcu 6.—Smith, Thomas F., 36 years, New York. Found dead at Bellevue Hospital, March 4 Com Pression of the brain to fracuure of Wo Skull, caused by a fall following a vbiow at the bands of John Mesherry, on Thirty-tourth sitect, near First avenue, March 3, 1876, Marcon 18.—Hammond, Ann, 40 years, Iroland, Found dead at No 2,114 Second avenue, March 18. Cause of death, injuries received on the J7th day of March, 1876, at the hands of one Thomas J. Bat- tel, inflicted by an axo or hatchet, Manon 20.—Malone, Bridget, 63 years, Jreland, Found dead at Bellevue Hospital, roh 16, Violence by either being stabbed or by being thrown or pasned down the cellar steps of No, 21 Spring street, rear, on the evening of March 12, 1876, andthe jury recommend that Alico Fitzgerald (the alleged prisoner, hore present) ve held tor trial betore a bigher courk Apnit 18,—Furrell, Joon, 65 years, Ireland, dead ay No. 519 West ‘I'wenty-cighth street, April 16, Cause of death, hemorrhage follow jug & pistol shot wound of the ch id wound having been produced by the discharge of a pis- tol in the hands of John Taeffe, at No. 519 West oo ee street, on the morning of April AprRit, 20.—Meltz, August, 42 years, Germany, Found dead at No, 68 Orchard street, April 14 Cause of death, injuries received irom one or several persons In the bouse No, 95 Henry street, Sun- day, April 9, and from the evidence taken the jury cannot determine who the parties were that i injury to the deceased. Prisoner in tho heid to bail to await action of tue Grand Found cai Jury, May L—Bennett, Joseph H., 38 yea‘ Found dead at Kleventh precinct 8 to the Morgue, April 28. Cause of death, inj ries received by a stab wound in the neck feted with a Knife at the bunds of one nan George Knight, on the 27th day of April, 1876, at the houge No, 205 Stanton street, Mar 9.—Carr, James, 14 years, England. Found dead No. 619 West Forty-first street, May 2. Cause iwjuries received on the l2ih day of 76, by a blow from a stone; but how or by whom the stone was thrown the jury are unable to determine. Ireland, Found dead be Fourteenth precinct station house, May Cause of deuth, compression of the braiu 21. from extravasation of Dloud upon the brain, due to injuries of the head received at the bands of somo person of persons to the jury unknown at No, 206 Grand Ug at May 21, and we consider Patrick Spelman and Martin Reynolds acces. sores, June 6.—Bell, Richard, 26 years, New York. Found dead as hospital No, i60 Chambers street, May 2% Cause of death, internal hemorrhage from astab wound of chest inflicted with a knife or some sharp imstrument in the bands of Jolin Kenan, at No, 262 Williaw street, May 21, 1876, Juym 8—Lawler, Frederick, 14 rs, New York, Found dead at Fitth preemct station house June Cause, internal hemorrhage, the result of a * stab wound of the chest, mflicted with a Knife in the hunds of Andrew Moore, at the corner of Huuson and Laight streets, June 2, 1376, June 14.—Stienl, Paiup, 34 yeurs, New Yor Found dead at Bollgvue Hospital June ¥. Causo, st wound of chest, said wound having been in- flieted by hin wi isa Biehl Hrom tne avi, — dence the jury consider that she inflicted the suid Wound tu sell-defence, Jexw 19.—Dodwell, Mary, 59 years, Ireland. Found dead at Beliovue Hospital May 20% Cause of death, shock from fracture of skull dae to Violence at the bands.of ber husband, James Dodweil, on of about May 27, at No. 413 bast Ninth street, Jury 5.—schroeder, William, 28 years, Germany. Found dead at Bellevue Hospital, June 28, , Cause of death, lucerstion of brain, due to injury in flicted with a stick 1m the haads of some person to the jury unknowo, im Union Square Park, oo the evening of Jane 25, und we cousi@er Jumed McGuire accessory to the act. We also reeom- mend that the Park Comussioners pluce a suite cieut pumber of officers or keepers.to proweeb the lives of citizens in Union Square Park, espo- oually at night, JuLY 7.—Piatzineki, Joseph, alias Lane, 18 years, Ger- many. Found dead at Bellevue Hospital, June 27. Cause of death, pistol suet wound of abd men, from a pistoi in the hands of Jobu Hudner, at No, 433 Kast Seventeeuth strect, Juoe 26, Whether said shooting was accidental or inten tional the jury, from the testimony, are unable to determine, Prisoner held to bail, JULY 8.—Dolan, Joba, 19 years, United States. Found 4t Bellevue Hospital; trom Twenty-seventh pre: ‘ause of death, stab wound of ed with a Knife at the hands of Michael Nolan, ulias “Rocks,” in Washington - street, bear Vesey street, June 30, 1876, ULY 12,—Smith, Jobn, 387 years, Ireland, Found a at No. 609 West Thirty-cighth street, July 7. Cause of death, compression of brain from trace. turo of skull, the result of « blow on the head with a cart rang in the hands of Robert Garrit in Thirty-eighth street, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, July 4, 1876, JuLy 22—Sonitf, Ferdimavd, 40 yenrs, Germany, Found dead at No. 849 second ‘avenue July 10, Cause af death, compression of brain duo ta pistol shot wound of vrain at the hacds of some porn Uaknowa to the jury, Opposite house No, 49 Socond avenue, July 4, 1876. Jory 22.—Hempie, John, 14 years, 6 months, New York. Found dead at Bellevue HospialJuly 10, > Cause of ceath, pistol shot wound of the bram at the hands of some person unknown to the Jury July 1, 1876, in Ywenty-ninth strept, neat i Firstavenue, Ded at Bellevue July 9 ULY 26,—! chara, 45 years, Ireland, Found dead at the Morgue, from the Seveatt precinct, July 22 Cause of death, Injuries received by a tall cuused by the throwing of a stone in the hands of one Thomas MeGuuxh, alias Thomas Smith, on the 2ist day of July, 1876, of the sidewalk op- : posite No, 82 Madigon street. ULY 27.—MoGiven, James, serge % Neevane 8, Kergeant of Found ond ut No ali Base Mak nd ead at No. 31934 Kast Nin street, July 25, Cause of death, pebeoatiis Be result of a stab wound of the left groin, intlieted with a knife in the nands of Henry King, on Soc- ond avenue, near Eighth street, July 13,” Ava, 16.—Trapiano, Payiv, 29 yeurs, italy. Found dead in hospital, No. 160 Chambers street, August 7. Cuuse of death, shock due to punctured {rac- ture of skuil, with laceration of brain substanes, the result of’ stab wound inflicted by a blade of & pals of alesors, in eg hands of Joan Lazieri, in d , Rear Wooster street, \- ing of August 6, 1876, Brnenienee Ava, 18 —McGuire, Ann, 40 years, Ireland, Found dead at No. 380 East Thirty-fth str , August 15, Cause of death, internal hemorrhage, with peritonitis, the resuit of stab wound of abdomen, wounding bowels, we believe at the hands of the prisoner, Francis McGuiro, at No, 330 Bast ‘Thirty-fith streot, on the night of Sunduy, Au- gust is, Died at Bellevue August 14, i Ava, 18—Monahan, Patrick, 34 years, Ireland, Found dead a: No. 25134 Kiabeth street, August 16, Cause of death, internal hemorrhage, typ re- suitof stab wounds by aknile in the bands of James Mulbearn, his stepsun, opposite No, 281 Elizabeth street, on (he 15th day of August, the said James Mujhearn acting in self-defence, and the jury exouerate him from all blame ia the matter. Supt. 8.—Weaver, William Thomas, 10 years, York, ‘Found doad at No, 3 West sittecsth street July 17, Cause of death, drowning while in bathing by being pushed under water by John Ackorson, alias ‘John Dunn,” at the foot ot West Thirteenth street on the 14th day of July. Sxpr, 9.—Coor!, Nicolo, 26 years, Italy. Found dead at hospital, No. 160 Chambers strcet, September 6, Cause of death, pistol shot wound, tired trom u pistol in the hanas of one Armand Baus, ‘ou the 27th day of August, at No 93 Greene Sreet, and the jury further find that Emil Ju ‘Was accessory to it, Sgr. 15. .-Weeks, Caleb D., 42 years, United States, Fount dead at No. 111 Kast 104th street, Septem. ber 1% Cause of death, stab wounds, .y a knile ihthe hands of Johu Spiciman, on the Tlth day ot September, 1876, at No, 1,890 Third aves nue, and we exonerate Louis Freise and Jotin Buuman from ali blame in the deadly assault. Sxpt. 15.—Seavoudy, Margaret, 60 years, England. Found dead abNo, 10 Gansevooft strest, Septem: ver 15. Cause of death, injuries received by a blow at the hands of one’ Daniel Bowne on the 14th of Septeimbor, 1876, ut No. 70 Gansevoort street, Serr. 20.—Kelly, Josephine, 24 years, New York. Found dead at No, 154 Baxter street, september 20, Cause of death, hemorrhage, due to stab wound penetrating right jung, the result of in. jury inflicted by a pair of scmsers in tbe hands) of David Heury Peterson at No, 168 Baxter street, September 20, 187, : Sert, 28.—Moore, Thomas, 19 yoars, Ireland. Found dead at No. 5 Vandewater ati tember 10, Cause br ‘death, hemorrhage, the result of stab wound of chest inflicted by a kaile in the hands ot Michaol McCarthy, at the corner of Pear! an Hague sireets, on the night of September 9, $76, Oct. 3.—Hayde, Patrick, 24 years, Ircland, Found dead at hospital No, 160 Chambers street, Sep- tember 27. Cause of death, iracture of skull, cuused by a blow trom an iron car coupling ab 1 the hands of Michact McGinn on the morning of September 3, 1876, at tue corner of Hudson and Luignt streeis. Lyons, Patrick, 20 years, Ireland. Found se of death, meuimgilis trom frac ture of skull, caused by being struck on the lead with a shovel in the hands of Daniel Sullivan on the corner of Bayard and Baxter streets, Sep- tember 25, 1876. Oct. 11—Gately, James, 40 years, Ircland, Found dead at Bellovue Hospital, September 30, Cause of death, peritonitis, [rom stab wound of abde- men inilicted witha kaile iu the bands some person to the jury unknown at No, 25 Marion sireet on tho nighs of september 23, Ocr. 24.—Kelly, John A,, 30 years, United States, Found dead st Sixth precinct station house, Octover 2i, Cause of death, hemorrhage from stab) wound inflicted with @ knue at the bands of Quimbo Appo, at the Howe hbodging House, No. 12 ‘Chatham equare, October 21, 1876, and from the evidence presenced we do not deem there was suflictent provocation given the prisoner to use the weapon in gell-delence. Ocr. 23 —Lane, Jeremiah, 32 years, Ireland. Found dead at No, 31 Washington street, October 10, Cause of death, tnjurtes received ina fight on the 4th day of Octobor, 1876, and tho jury find further that Dominick Banvon, Edward Maguire and Martin Drisken were parties to the light, Held to bail to await action ot Grand Jury, Oct. 25,—Blanc, Mary, 28 years, France. Found dead at Bellevue, October 12, 1876, Cause of death, pistol shot wound through the head at the bands of her husband, Julius Blane, on the Ist day of Octover, 1876, at No, 201 West I'hiriy-third street, reaulting in death at Bellevue Hospital, October , 1876. (Prisoner, immediately after shouting (and their child, committed suicide with 0 Wi ( Oct. 25,—Biane, Kmil, 3 years, 6 months, New York. Found dead at No, 201 West Thirty-third street, October 2, Cause of death, pistot shot wound through the bend at the hanus of bis father, Julins Blane, October 1, 1576, at No 201 Wes ‘Thirty-third street, Nov, 10.—Baldwin, John, 50 years, Jreland, Found dead at No. Pearl street, November 7, Cause ot death, fracture of the skallon the 6th day oi November, 1876, at the corner of Pearl streo} and Peck ship, but whether by aD accidental fi or a blow the jury are unablo to determin 1.—Maght, John, 23 years, Italy. Found di Hospital, 160 Chambers street, November use of death, injuries received on the 15 day ovOctober, 1876, by a party or parties ui known to (be jury. Nov, 17,—fitzsimmons, s Jonn, 32 years, Irelan Found dead at B , November 8, Cause of death, compression of the braia due to trac. ture of the supra orbital plate of the skull, the result of injuries inflicted by the point of au um- brelia in the hands of Richard O'Keefe during on altercation between the deceased, John Fitz simmons, Jeremiah Dynan and the said Richard O’Keele, and we are of opinion that the injunes were inilicted by Richard 0’Keete while acting im seli-defence and without any intent to do bodily harm, the altercation taking piade on the night of the 6th of November, at Forty-first street and hth avenue, death following at Bellevue Hospital November 8. 1876. Prisoner held to bail to await action of Grand Jary, Nov, 21 —Padden, Patrick, 54 years, Ireland, Found dead at Chainbers Street Hospital mnber 2h, Cause of death, pistol shot Wound of the chest, inflicted at the bands of some person to us un- known, November 20, 1876, 4—0'Brien, Daniel, $1 years, Ireland, Found doad at Charity Hospital Novouocr 27, Cause of death, injuries received by veins eiruck on the head by @ stoae at the hands oi ove Bell Gollez, in Mulberry = near Bayard street, October 24, 1376. 0 con der that ihe prisouer, Belli Gollez, acted in geli-delene: Dec. 15,—MeCarthy, John, 39 years, treland. Found si Theoden noaphal No. 160 Chambers street, Decem- ber 10, Cuuse of death, fracture ot skull caused by @ tall, by being pusbed down tue stairs of house No o¥ (thompson street, at tne hands of Donetti Ros# and Raptael Seraphino ‘on the 9th day of December, 1876, Dro. Dxo, 18,.—Gieagon, Jolin, 48 yexrs, Ireiand,’ Found dead at Roosevelt ) December ld Cause of death, imnjaries hands of Morumeér O'Connell, #t NO. 11 Madison streot, December 3, 18/6, resaiting In death at Roose- velt Hospital Decem bet t4 1876, avd we also ind thet Mauhew MeCaifrey and Joho Kiernan were gsories (0 the assadst, 27,—MeCabe, Hugh, years, Ireland, Found + at residence voruer Of Franklin aad Green. wich strects, December 27, 18i6. Cause of death, abscess of the brain foilowing fraciure ot akull received durig @ quarrel in West Dro. nt