The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1877, Page 6

] ] : ; ) j PILOTING THE SOUL SSE ORE Yesterday’s Sermons in New York and Brooklyn. ts THE WAY TO SALYATION Fellowship in Christ—His Priesthood — Old in Doing Good. Pe SS TALMAGE ON JOURNALISTS. meal A Hard Lot in This World, Nobody Caring Where They Go in the Next. | creme Gtemenipceee A HARD ROAD TO JORDAN, ; TRIALS AND ‘TEMPTATIONS OF NEWSPAPER MEN—SERMON BY DB. TALMAGE AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. Jt may be welT vo state tbat there fs snow upon the root of this building, solemnly said the Rev, Mr. Talmage to bis congregation in the Brooklyn Taber. nacle yesterday, just before nis sermon. ‘The eyes of all in the building swept the trescoed ceiling in startled i inquiring glances. Some of it may slide off dur- ing the sorvice, added the preacher, and I warn you not to be frightened. The congregation drew a Jong breath, and the pastor announced the hymn, “Stand up for Josus,”” during the singing of which a large portion of them remained seated. The pastor then stated that he was about to preach the first of a series of sermons to the professions, This mora- ing, said he, 1 am goivg to preach to the theatri- cal—every eye was at once turued upon Mr. Talmage himself, No, I mean to the newspaper prolession, Yhe looks were shifted to the reporters who were en- gaged in taking notes, With the excepticn of these ubiquitous individuals there was noticed only one gen- Veman connected with the daily press in the house, yet Mr. Talmage throughout his discourse continually nddressed his exhortations to ‘ye wen of the press,” much alter the tashion of the aspiring editor in Pick- wick, who, in his political speech, addresses two boys and a girl with a baby, as “ye men of Eatenswill” NO MEAN IN NEWSPAPERS, The text of the sermon was the description of the two baskets of figs seen by the Prophet Jeremiah in bis vision, the figs in tho one being very good, and thosejin the other very bad, How like this ia, said the preacher, to the periodicals and newspapers of jhe day, about which I am going to speak, ‘There aro only two kinds of newspapers, the one good and very rood, aud the other bud and very bad, A newspaper may start with an undecided character; but after it | has been going many years everybody finds out just what it is, and it is very good or very bad. The one paper is the embodiment of news, of light, of virtue; the foe of crime, the delectation of elevated taste, the mightiest agency on earth for making the world bet- ter, Tho other paper is a brigand amid moral forces; t 18 @ beslimer of reputation; it is tho right irm of death and hell; {t is the mightiest agency in the aniverse for making the world worse aud battling the sause of God, ‘The oue is an angel of intelligence and | virtue, the other a tiend of darkness. Between the | archangel and the tury is to be fought the great battle which 1s to decide the fate of the world. If you have any doubt as to which is to be the victor, ask the prophecies, ask God. ‘This battle 18 to be fought, Mr. Talmage said, not with swords, but steel pens; not with bullets, but with types; not with cannon, but with Hoe’s ten-cylinder presses; and the Sumters and Moultries and Puluskis and Gibraltars of the conflict are to be the editorial and reportorial rooms oi our great newspaper establishments, “Men of the press, he added, under God you are | to decide whether the human race spall be saved or lost. God has put more stupendous responsibility upon-you than upon any other class of persons, and is there aby doubt about my being right Lbis morning in Addressing myself especially to you? Mr. Talmage dwelt lor a few minutes upon the long strides “your rolession’” had tukeu since the aay when Peter Schaeffer invented cust metal types, and the fact of two books being lound alike was ascribed to witchcratt. The press and the telegraph, he said, have gone down into the same great harvest field to reap; and the telegraph says to the Dewspaper, ‘I will reap while you bind;?’ and the iron teeth of the telegraph are set down atone cnd pf the Larvest tield and sweep cleur across, andthe journalist gathers up the sheavds and sets dows one sheaf op the breaklast table’ in th ape of A morning newspaper, and another on the tea table in the shape of an alternoon newspaper, And that man who neither reads nor takesa newspaper would ut the great Centennial Exbibition have been a greater curi- bsity toan the big engine, (Laughter.) FORLOKN EDITORS AND KEPORTERS. this which you have gained in position a ce, men of the press, how many ‘ords of sympathy do’ you get during the course of a ate Not ven, How mauy sermons of practical f elplulness for your profession are preached during the twelve montus? Not one. How wany words of zxeorition and dennuciation and hypercriticism do Viol ee that same length of time? About 10,000, Henty of abuse, bUL no sympathy. ‘The bardsuips ul the type setter, the foreman, the proof-reader, the publisber, the ediior and tbe re- porter were severally described by the preacher, wuo suid he had been im positions where he could see these thtugs trom year to year, and so had determined to preach u sermon upon tuem, One of the great trials bt the newspaper profession, he said, Was that its members were compelied Lo see more of ihe shams of ile world than any other profession, ‘Through every hewspaper office, day after day, said he, go ail the weakuesses of the world—ail the vanities that waut to be puiled, all the revenges that want to be reaped, ull the mistakes that want to be cor- rected, ail the dull speakers who want to be Wought eloquent, all the meauness that wants to get 118 wares noticed gratis in the editorial column in order lo save the tax of the adverusing column, all the men who want to be set right whe never we Tight, ull he crack. brained palosophers with stories us jong as their hair and as gloomy as their finger | batis in mourning Decause berelt of soap—(iaughter)— ali the bores who come to stay five minutes, but Wik five hours. Through the editoriai and reportorial tcomes ail the follies aud shams ol the world ure seen day aller day, and te tempiasion is to belleve neither n God, man nor wom It is no surprise to me hat in your profession (bere are some sceptical men— (only Wonder (hat you believe any thing, THK ROOT OF ALL RVI Anotber trial of the newspaper profession, the rev- rend gentleman said, Was inadequate compensation. *here were no harder Worked people upon the earth han the newspaper men ol Lis couutry, The public tad no idea of the (oil and exbaustion of the news. paper press. They grumbled at paying five cents for a or instead of three, or, paying turee, think they Ltonly Wo pay one, Whiea lew newspaper pro- tors bad become fich the Vast majority of news- aper people in tuis day had to struggic tor a hveli Pobd, aod if amid their hardships aud oxasperations | ton, NEW YORK -HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1877. is the iact that none soem to care tor their souls. They feel bitterly about it, although they laugh about it, People sometimes laugh loujest when they feel worst, They are expected to gather up religious pro- ceedings and to make comment upon them in t editorial columos. But who expects them to be saved? For ail the sermons they phon ph and all the doc- tri they expound 16 the editorial columns, who preach to reporters aud editors? 1 say they feel itterly om this subject, and I know of 1 speak, Well, my (rienda, we will all soon get through writin, and printing and reading the re, What theo Our iife 1s a book—our years are the chaplers, our months the paragraphs, our days the sentences, doubts tbe interrogation points, our learning quotation marks, our attempts at display dashes, death, the period; eternity, the peroration, Ob, God! where shall we spend it? Have you heard the news, more startling than any found i the newspaper journals of the last two weeks? It is the tidings that man is lost. Have you beard the latest news, coming this day trom the throne of God? Lightning carries trom the gate the pews, the glorious pews, het tb 18 pardon for ali, Set it up 1p douple-leaded columns and direct it to the whole race, Put it in packages on the express brill is with submarine telegraph to Good news, good news to all! I bring you tiaings of great joy, which shall be to all people.” CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. OUR FELLOWSHIP WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH CHRIST. The Church of the Disciples (rechristened the Madi- son avenue Church of the Disciples) yesterday morn- ing had, for that church, a very slim congregation, but, considering the state of the weather, quite a large one. It being the first Sunday in the month the ordinance of the Lord's Supper was administered, Sixteen new members were admitted, to whom Mr, Hepworth gave his usual broad and liberal invitation, The preacher selected his text from the first epistle of Jobu, i., 3— “And truly our fellowship 1 with the Fatber and with His Son Jesus Christ.” The proacher began his dis- course by saying he had recently learned a very curi- ous and interesting fact in connection with the manu- facture of watches in Switzerland—that it seldom happens that all the parts of a watch are made under one roof, that they 46 not have manofactories there as we do in America, that the different parts are made in the humble cottages of the villagers and then brought to the general superintendent, and he and his workmen put them each in its place, The watch is thus formed, The value of the watch thus depends, not upon the honesty of one man, but upon the faitb- fulness and skill of many, The preacher said he con- sidered this a type of the onship which we bear to the plan which God is trying to work out, We are told by the sacred writers that He did not give the same work to all; that He hath given to men to be apostles; and it is their divine privilege to stuna on the mountain top and speak such cloquent words as shall make all men listen, and to seal their apostic- ship by the solemn glory and dreadiul agony of = martyrdom. It is given’ sto others to be human teachers and to stand in awe of the many tT dere throughout Christendom, and speak the trutB to aching hcarts, and, jt were, to stand besiae Jacob's well and drop the bucket of galyation and draw up the waters ot lite. The weary passer by may drink and be filled and go on his jour- hey praising God tor Hi odness to him. He has giveo it to others to be merchants, mechanics and to labor op the bench of the artisas, and He demands of him as truly as He does of the apostie uster faithtul- ness to bis task, howevor varrow and appareutly in- signiticant that task may be, In the day of general judgment, when we sball all appear beiore the critical ‘eyes of His justice, He will put together, one by one, all the thousands ot pieces of His great plan, piece to piece, color to color, and if avy one ip the uni- verse has been unfaithful God will know it. He said we wore beginning to recognize that we are different parts of the same great army, but having one Leader, We had been fixtiting over theological dog- mas; wo had put theology first and piety next; wo had condemned any man who could not took us we looked; we had been uncharituble, ungentie, and we | had all sought the same favors trom God, but notin precisely the same way. Years ago the depomipations were like adrop of quicksilver which bad fallen on the pavement and broken itself into a thousand small drops, but now the whole of the Christian churci are like these thousand drops of quicksilver and are brought together in God’s band, and they, being oi a like nature and having a tendeucy tow- ard each otber, come together ugai and make one great glorious drop for the Lord. He could not understand, how it was that men could be so zealous and one-sided; that, having the power, they aro changed to despots 1n matters ot reli- gion, Me supposed that not only the Catholics in the Middle Ages, but our Puritan fathers believed im their inmoat hearts that unless a man accepted the Bible in just their way they would be damned toall eternity, ‘We had, he said, been standing, as it were, on the rim of the theological wheel, aud had opposed every one who did not stand by our side; but by the force of the Holy spirit, under whose dispensation we are living, we bud peen gradually moving {rom our position on the rim along the road of the several spokes toward the hub, and the time was not far distant, he hoped, when we shall stand around the hub. ‘Out on the rim you havo theology, said ho; *‘at the hub you have religion. ”? ST. STEPHEN’S CHURCH. THE WAY TO SALVATION—SERMON BY R&Y. DR. M’GLYNN. ‘A large congregation filled St. Stephen’s church, in Twonty-eighth street, at the half-past ten o’clock ser- vice yesterday morning. High mass was celebrated by Rev. Father McCauley. The discourse was deliv- ered by Rev. Dr. McGlynn, pastor of the church, He read the gospel of the day—St Luke, il., 42— “And when be was twelve years old they went up to Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast.” This gospel details the disappearance of the Saviour for three days, after which Ho was found by | His parents in the Tomple discussing with the learned | doctors. The reverend preacher delivered an elo- quent sermon from the lessons Jaid down in this part of the Scriptures, Christ had taught us the true way | to salvation and we should follow in His footsteps, The “Star of Buthlehem” shed out for us the lights of faith, aod, like the wise men who hastened to honor the ‘Messiah on the vight of His birth, we, too, | should turn toward the heavenly beacon, These wise men had travelled by oue road amd returned by | another. The path of visitors to the holy shrine was surrounded by ditficulties, tribulations | and temptations. It was beset with passion and sin. lo turning Lomeward the road was clear aud straight; it had been mapped out for us by the Savivgr, aud we could not go astray if we followed His directions im- plicitly. The speaker then forcibly exhorted his hear- ers to pursue thig straight course, so that they might be rewarded in the world to come. The pomps and the vanities ef this empty world might pass away, but | it we followed under the lights thrown out to us by the “Star of Beth.ehem’’ wo need uot fear for the future. When the child of twelve years was found in the Tem- ple and questioned to His absence, He answered bout “His Father's business.” The salutary lesson. We, tuo, should be “about our Father's business.” We snould not allow the vanities and follies of the world to interfere with our duuies in this respect. In obeying our parents | here upon earth we only carried out the mandate of our | Father in heaven. We were bound to obey, no mattor how hard or unreasonable seemed to be tho order ven tous, Dr, MoGlynn dwelt at length upon the: jeading points, and concluded with tho expression of hope that the congregation might profit by the word: so beautifully expressed in the gospel which be had read for their instruction, MASONIC TEMPLE. THE PESSIMIST AND OPTIMIST—SERMON BY | REV. JOHN WEISS. In the absence of Mr. Frothingham, who has gono to Boston to attend a meeting of the Free Religious | Association, of which be is President, the pulpit was filled yesterday morning by Rev. John Weiss, of Bos- ‘The speaker said two distinct theories concern- ing the good and ovil in this world had provailed ever since human observation resulted in reflection: one that everything ts a bud as it cun be; the other, that all isfor the best, Each theory liad a great number Mey Sometimes wrote things thi their circumstauces should mitigate the offence. An Ober great (ria of the profession was the diseased ap- {the public unhealthy ined You » the newspaper press, said Mr. lalmage, or giving such prominence W murders and scandals, Do you sup: pose (hat so mauy papers would give prominence to | these things i th did not demand it People | take bold 0! 4, and if there are no runaway | mateh 4,20 corruption of men in high por | fition, th he paper 18 suockingly dull night!” 4 is One Of the trials of uewspaper nich su this country toat the people demand moral slush instead of intelio Now you are sn nt man, continued the Prewcher, addressing ysiruct member of his | church, and when a er comes into your bands | and you open it aud there are three columns of splen- | didly written editorials recommending some moral sentiment or evolvi jentite theory, and in the next coiumn there 16 a miserable contempudile di- | Li aghter.) You “Wei that 1s | vorce case, which do you read lirst’ Uip into the editorial long euough to dvly written,” but you read the divor case from the at primer type at its top to the noupareil at the | ‘om, and then you ask your wile if she has read it, | Laughter.) Lt is only a case of supply and demand, spaper men are hot fools; they Know what you | want wou they give it to you, So long as there is an iniquitous deimaud there will be an iniquitous supply. | Jam no apologist fora debauched newspaper, but 1 | Want to divide the responsibility between those who print and those who read. WASTR OF NERVOUS PORCH. The temptation tv drink alcoholic stimulants was | get down as another trial ol the profession. This wus | faused by the great drafts made upon the nervous force of its members in making the specches of biun- dering politicians read right in pring although every gontence as spoken was a catastrophe to the English Jangusge; in doing killing midnight work; in sitting | im crowded audicnce rooms or in poisonous court | rooms. Horace had told the speaker, in the | house of the latter, that the reason be was such @ strong temperance wcvocate was because he bad seon 80 Many o/ bis companions go down under the temp- tation, My brothers of the press, said Mr, Tale mage, what you cunnot do without stunulant God does not want you to do, There is no hall-way for literary people between teetotaliam and yy. Your pre ional success, your domestica your eterbal salvation, will depend upon your esr In regard to artificial stimulus. ABANDONED SOULE. Another trial of Wis profession, said the preacl | dubious storics were told, whose baleful influence was of followers of those whose temperaments corre- sponded with its beliefs, The temporament of wwi- light when morbid things were introduced as relish- ful topics of conversation—when all kinds of only dispelied by morning hight, and the opposite tem- perament of gladness and sunshine were each believers in She LWo contrasting theories—pessimism and op: tmism., In every epoch there had been a mingling of the two shades. This contrast seemed to be pecu- har to the earto on which we lived. In alluding'to the doctrine of the millennium the speaker said it had been propagated with all the avgurd opinions and machinery poesibie to buman thonght, ‘The New lestament was saturated with these Oriental notions, It pervaded all Chris's ideas, = Nothing was of any par. treular because the world was coming to Live only for the day was forth to His followers, and if cloak also, ap the doctrine set oUF cout is asked for give the borrower your How preposterous, said Mr. Weiss, would world’s social transactions become if It attempted to follow this advice! In the present moral state it re- quired a directly opposite line of action. We invited cares on purpose to make bliss more positive and self. asserting. Bach in bisown way had his pessimis. cries (or sell-encouragemunt and reassurance. FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. WHAT IT I8 TO BE OLD IN DOING GOOD—sER- MON BY THE REV. DR. ARMITAGE, Rev. Dr. Armitage yesterday moraing, at the Fitth avenve Baptist church, preached bis annual sermon to | pastors | Brauner (a son of the former). | five received the hand ot fellowsnip, Jong lost but now refound son Joseph, who had brought bim into the presence! the King. This com versution then ensued, and Jacob in answering the question stated that bis days werefew, They werey indeed, few compared with those of his ancestors whose years were numbered by centuries. . The duration of human life had already in his time greatly diminished, and it is still more lessened pow, Inthe time of the Psalmist three score and | tem was the rage; now it is but a littie over thirty years. The causo of this is not so much the th of the old as the death of the young, and itis the utterance of humanity that came from the aged patriarch, “Few and evil are the days of my pilgrim- age.” There is cause for deep anxiety as we ask, how portion of our allotted life has passed away and bow much remains, and especially when the light of the Gospel shines upon us and causes us to regard period of probation, of preparation 18 tocome, The work that we leave bed, Then we feel resp bility of the question, ‘*How old art Old men tell us that time seems not to them outh, b go regard years, ‘‘My days are few.”' thon? as it did io the time of and said af the end of 1 The schoolboy, as he looks forward to the future, thinks time crawls ata snail’s pace; the aged [ead as be looks back on the past, feels that 1t speeds with pidity, Thore is one danger and sour from id <einpt—the danger of death for it. Manis not to be re- bis years. Some men are older in character aud experience than others, Some men live more in a single year than others ina whole lifetime. In each one’s stence may be found some more for them than the rest of the entire 111 are swift hours in life—strong, rushing hours, that do the work of years. Dr. Armitage claborated this idea at considerable length. The great event in a man’s life 18 the experience of God’s love and the devotion to His service, He is oldest in our race who 1s wisest in the knowledge of God. A man that bas not been con- verted to God has not begun to live atall, The wicked in may be old without a ray Jus be ola without a wrinkle. courts present us pictures of young mon who aro patriarchs in age in wickedness, “How old art thou?” That is, said the preacher, bow bave you filled up your life? What bave eh done for God or your fellow men ? Men often say that it they hud their lite to live over how differentiy they would do, Theu why not begin now With the earnestness of action, the consecration of love and fidelity to God, titling up the biank that stares you in the face unfilled? The question of activity, goodness and fidelity is one in your own hand, In the matter of being good, doing good and fulfilling the mission appointed you by your Creator, it 1s Impossible tor you to die young if you go will it, ST. LUKE'S CHURCH, THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST—SERMON BY THE REY. MR. BUTTS. Rey. Mr. Butts preached yesterday at St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal church, Forty-Urst street, near Seventh avenue. The subject of his ¢iscourse was the priesthood of Christ, and it was based on the seventh chapter of the Fpistle of Paul to the Hebrows, twenty-sixth verse—‘For such a high priest became us, who 1s boly, barmlegs, undefiled, separate trom sianers and made higher than the heavens.” He con- sidered, in the first instance, the positioa which Christ occupied among men. All tho churacteristics of his life, be said, had been discussed with pers- picuity and precision, yet save with those who re- ceived the Bible as tho Word of God His position among men remained as unsolved as ever. He then considered the position which Christ occupied in the priesthood, and in this connection presented a brief review or history of the Jewish priesthood, ¢escrib- ing with some detail the digmity and office of the High Priest. It should be recollected, on the othor hand, he said, that when Christ came among men the Church which He represented was really poor, The Lord Jesus bad nothing which could attract the eyo with its splendor, but yet He could say to the Jews, “You have no templés, you bave no sacrifices, you havo no priesthood.” The teaching of Paul was that He was the only High Priest, und that everything was summed up in (he words, Jesus Christ, Christ wasa priest according to the order of Melchisedeck, to whom even Abraham, the father of the Aaronio or Levitical priesthood, paid tithes. Melchise- deck was, therefore, greater than Abraham or any of bis descendants, and so also was Christ, of whom Melchisedeck was the type. Men said that Christ could pot be a priest, because He was descenied from the tribe of Judah, not of Leyi; but St, Paul taught that it wasgreater to have an appointment direct from heaven than to have merely inherited the sacred office. In the same chapter of Paul the statement was set forth that the Aaronic priesthood was continually dying, whereas the priesthood of Christ was perpetual and unchanging. It was eternal as God Himself, Again, the Aaronic priesthood had failed 10 its pur- pose, which was to relieve trom tho penalty of sin and from the power of sin, Iteould remove the penalty, but it could go no further, 1¢ could lft the sword which was suspended over the mun’s bead, but it could not take the wickedness from out his heart, Jesus alone could wash one white as suow, The preacher next considered the attributes of Christ—*holy, harm- less, undetiled, separate {rom sinners and made highor than the heavens—pointing out tho perfection in which these several qualities were embodied in Christ, and, in conclusion, exported bis hearers to put their trust in Corist as the great High Priest, to go forth among the lowly of the ewrth and to fear no defilement from the contact so long a8 they discharged their duty in the true spirit of Christians. THE NORTH BAPTIST CHUBCH, AN INTERESTING ANNIVERSARY. The fiftieth anniversary of the North Baptist church, corner of Christopher and Bedford streets, took place yesterday, andthe services, which were of a most interesting character, were held in the chureb. The decorations were very boautiful, and all round tie walls were the hames: of the who have officiated in the church since its foundation. The nawes were surrounded by evergreens and illuminated with gas jets. Messrs. | LeForge, Demott & Glover did tho work of decoration. The pastors’ names ure Revs. Gibbs, Bruner, Wheat, Jackson, Adams, Remington, Osgood, Cleghorn and In the morning the pas- tor, Rey. John J. Braner, preached the historical sermon, reviewiug the church and its doings since its foundation half a century ago. In the afternoon turee candidutes were baptized and In the evening a service of song took place, at which many of Sankey’s hymns were sung. Prayer was offered up by Rey, Dr. J. Dowling, Scripture reading by the pastor, and addresses by several of the members. A beauti- jul bourd Bibie was presented to the pastor by Mr. William M. Glover, on behalf of tho Sunday school, of ‘which he is superintendent, . THE WEEK OF UNITED PRAYER. The Weok of United Prayer, which takes place every year, commenced yesterday and will be contin- ued until next Sunday, services being held each day. Yosterday sorviceswhich were unusually solemn and im- pressive were held in the Madison equare Presbyterian church; the sermons were on “Christian Fellow. ahip.” Monday they will be on ‘Thanksgiving and Confession ;’’ Tuesday, **Prayer;’? Wednesd, P for families and the unconverted ;’’ Thursai and statesmen ;” Fi * Saturday, “For observan the Sabbath.’? To-day’s services will be held in Dr. Hepworth’s church. THE STRUGGLING MISSIONS, The Church of the Holy Communion, on the corner | of Twentieth street and Kighth avenue, was crowded | to the doors last evening, the occasion being the an- service, Insi the chancel were Rev. Drs. Lawrence, Twyng aud Potter, Rey. Mr, Mou- Fat and Bishop Riley (iishop elect of Mexico). Rev. Dr, Lawrence, the rector, read the lesson, and the Rev, Dr. Twyng addressed the congreyation, Ho Said that on account of the great depression in busi- ness the position of the Domestic Commitice was very embarrassing. It had, however, paid the salaries of ite missionaries up to the Ist of January, but was unable to pledge any salaries for the present There were nine missionary bishops aud twenty: nual missionary hop Riley and Rev. Dr, Potter al dresses on missionary work and the necessity for its support, SPIRITUALISM CRYSTALIZING. The Society of Progressive Spiritualists mects every Sunday, morning and evening, at Republican Hall, Thirty-third street and Broadway. Yesterday the foatures of the day were the addrosses of the ‘trance speaker,” Lyman C, Howo, Why Mr, Howe is callod a ‘‘trance speaker” did not appear, for be was wide awake during the delivery of his lecturoa So many of the members of the Progressive Spiritual- ists had gone to Commodore Vanderbilt's funeral that the audience was comparatively small, but it was at- tentive and appreciative. Under spiritual influence Mr. Howe selected as a text for his morning sermon line trom # hymn which had just been sung, ‘Nearer, my God, to Thee.” Mr. Howe treated the mattor in much the same manner as any orthodox Chris- tian minister might have done, He said the great question among all men was how to approach God aud (his question Was receiving attention trom all peopie ere agreed that ot every grade of life, Ail religions their aim was to approach God, they it within the limits of their tenets Art savanis sought the sam peculiar method of accom object. No matter what one’s conception ol God was, they were agreed in acknowledging their common dependence on a supreme intelligence. the aged, taking bis text froin the eighth verse of the forty-seventh chapter of Genesis—"And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, ‘How old art thou?’ These worde, he said, it seems formed the inquiry of a proud and pow. erful monareh to a very old man, and @ poor shepherd at that. Jacob pate 4 the question, and then biessed the King. Is might have been supposed that the greater would have blessed the lesser, instead o¢ which Jacob blessed Pharaoh. This was a vory signifi, cant fact, Jacob had come to Egypt to live with big ‘His idea, or rather the idea which he was inspired to speak, Was that it Was lirst necessary to make a keen | analysis of ourselves and of human nature and thus approach God tutellectually, As the second step ho laid down ap awakening of moral and spiritual emo- tons—this to be obtained by a careful cul ion of haman society ber the society of good spirit friends trom the world above, This course, as- sisted by the quickening inflyence of spirits in order that the man might be made ripe for the reception of @reat truths, enabled the mortal to make # near ap- proach to God, The evening sermon was woll attertigd, BOUCICAULT ON FIRE, WALLACK'’S THEATRE FIREPROOF—A SALAMAN- DER BECEIPT—A SHOWER BATH FOR INSUR- ANCE COMPANIES—HE EXTINGUISHES THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE, THE FIRE DE- PARTMENT AND THE BUILDING COMMIS- BIONERS, To ras Evitor oy THE Herat The entire stock of the hanging scenery at Waliack’: Theatre has been rendered Groproof, comprehending the whole of the woodwork and canvas suspenced above the stage. Our next proceeding will be to in” sure the carpenter's floor and all the drums and shafis in the machine loft. Then we go to the stage itself and to the machinery in the cellar bolow the stage, to the dressing rooms, offices, partitions, studwork and ail of which will be rendered fireproof be.’ tore the end of the current month. This includes erything inflammable within the building behind the cartain. Atthe first opportunity when the theatre can be closed the ceiling, staircases, flooring and offices in the front of the house will be subjected to the same process. When completed the Comniission- ers of the Fire Department and Buildings will bein. vited to teat the result and will be requested to give a certificate according to their Anding. ‘The above statement is mado in view of editorial re- marks in a New York journal that managers were not taking steps to protect the public. Mr. Wallack has Jost no time and spared no expense in the matier, and as ho wishes that other managors may benefit by our experiments (indeed many have already applied for information on the subject), will you allow us to ex- plain the very sitaple and Inexponsive process? A better may be found hereafter, but the following an- swers its purposs:—Take tungstate of soda, costing about twenty-five cents a poun issolve one bucket. tul of the salt in seven bucketiuls of hot water; steep or thoroughly saturate the canvas, rope or wood in this solution for an hour. Let the material dry. Take solution of siltcate of soda, costing about forty cents; dilute it with water in the same proportion; add white- Every one of these is sive to the danger of fre, and the ‘slightest Appearance or indication of peril they ‘go Disregarding limb or life they fling them- selves upon 1 once tocrush it out, Thus every one is a fireman, and many incipient calamities have been prevented by this watchiul activity. But the moment official extinguishers are placed in the theatre, whose business 0 attend to fires, dependence will be placed on them alone, man will run from the fire instead of toward it, ald before the firemen can climb to where 8 the theatre will be in flames. If there be jegisiative action in the matter let it be decisive and simple. The present season termi: nates in June. Let no theatre be permitted to ope: its doors in September untfl the Fire Depariment has given its certificate that such theatre is practically fire- Proof in ali its parts. Let that eeruticate hang in the public entrance of tbe theatre and ve mdorsed every three months by the Comuotasioners, who should make 4 quarterly examination and proot of ali new material introduced into the buildin, If any-such should be $100 and 8 suspend bis certificate, which will disappet place, and the public will know what that me will be no,tres. The bulk of the spectators, feeling thoroughly assured of the nnpossibility of danger, will fear panic more than fire, and a theatre might become a sale refuge frem danger, instead of a fruittul source of it, Yours, DION BOUCICAULT, THE PERSONATOR OF CHRIST. HIS LIFE IN THE MADHOUSE-—HIS FELLOW LUNATICS DEEPLY INTERESTED IN HIS CAREER—SANE VIEWS OF THE INSANE, 1 was not a little surprised on visiting the Asylum for the Insane at Trenton, N. J., to-day to find the adven- tur nd mysterious disappearance of Joho C. Daudt, the Messiah personator, the principal topic of conversa- tion among the demented inmates. Comment on the strange case by people of the world was only natural, but that It should be discussed, argued and talked over by the poor unfortunates was a condition of affairs I hardly expected. Passing through the various corri. dors of the institution my attention was attracted to the number of HxRaLps lying on the tables in differ- ent places. “Do the patients read much of the doings of the outside world?’ I asked Dr, Britton, who accom- panied me. “Yes, Indeed,’ he replied, “they take a lively inter- est as arule in matters outside, and we encourage eping such as artists usually employ in priming their scenes, thus making a thin whitewash. Apply this whitewash over the material. When dry it will be found to be firoproot, In treating old scenery already painted lot the saine process be carried out on the back of the same; but a final coat of size should be added or the silicate is Hable to fall off in white powder. There ure other agents besides the tungstate and silicate that perform the same offices. Dr. Doremus, who takes an earnest and kind interest im our efforts, suggests the phosphate of ammonia, It has been tried and gives very remarkable results. It has this advan. tage, that it requires only one process. This drug, however, is more expensive than the other two, but ‘we are negotiating with the chemical manufacturers to ascertain if a low grado of this salt cannot be made, 80 as to bring it into uso. In 1862 [ advocated in a correspondence 1n the Lon- don Times the introduction of a series of perforated pipes, fixed underneath the carpenter’s floor above the stage. This floor, commonly called the gridiron, ex- tends over the entire scenarium trom wall to wall and from the curtain tothe back. Itis simply a floor of joists on the mato girders under tho roof, and it is oc- \cupied with the lifting machinery. The joists are used as beams, to whichall the banging scenery is suspended. Under each joist I suggested two iron perforated pipes, making from seventy to ono hundred rows of pipes in all. This system is traversed by three two-inch mains, which connect a trough running en- tircly round the walls of the theatre and fixed to the inside, resting on the girders, Tho water contained in the trough will be kept {rom freezing by the heat of the house, and such a trough will contain 10,000 gal. lons, W! discharged into the matns it transforms the stage in its entire length and breadth into one va: shower bath. The water visits not only the spot where tho fre may be, but it iso 6deluges every part of the scenery and material so as to render the spread of the fire impossible. A similar process of piping connected with the same trough may be fixed to the joists underneath the stage The levors .con- trolling the shower should be soven in number—two in the flies above, right aud lefttof tho stago; two on the stage and two tn the cellar similarly placed, and one at the stage door to be used in extremis. When this sug- estion was made I was suluced with a showerbath ridicule, It may be said now that if the contents of a theatre be thoroughly Greproof there can be uo necd of water to extinguish what caunot burn. Still, if such precautions tend to give the public an extra feeling of security the cost or the superfiuity of the arrangements should not be considered. There is another advantage involved in the adoption ot such precautions The premium demanded by insurance offices for insuring theatres varies from three to four per cent, paren Theatre pays $3,000 represents a cupiti ¥ t in the building about 5,000 superticial yards of combu: therefore Mr. Wallack pays $10 yard ce. Our process insures it for jess than five cents. When thus secured from fire the in- surance companies should groatly reduce their rates, and if they aemur I would advise theatres, lyceums, music halls aod all such places to form a mutual insur- ance association lor themselves, provided with special conditions und regulations applicable to their needs, inspected by their own officers, to insure sucn regul: tions being carried out. The Goversor of the State of | New York hog drawn the attention of tho Legislature to the advisability of — special legisiation to oblige manager ot theatres to provide extra and better means ot egress. The municipality of Boston has recently issued a set of orders so arbitrary that oue of the theatres in that city haa closed its doors, the imposed alterations on the builaing requiring ab expenditure of over $20,000. I enter a respectiul protest against these proceedings, and declare (hem to be as vain and useless as they are unjust. 1 speak from experience of thirty-fi years 10 a theatre, devoting an urduous life to that one study. There 1s not a board, or a nail, or a brick, ora rope 1m such buildings that is not an old acquaintance, T speak as a civil enyincer and arebitect by education, and clatin honestly and without vanity to know what 1 am dealing with and talking about when I state that neither legislatures nur muuicipalities ror fire departments nor building commissioners have knowleuge or experience in theatrical structures, 1 es differ essentially in construction and fur- niture trom all other buildings. Their exposure to risk by fire is different and peculiar. ‘so-called h have been recommended for adop- re trivial, Will stouter staircases or wider doors prevent panies or tend to do so? Have they reduced the measure of calamity during a panic? We have abundant evidence to the contrary. Fifteen years ago 1 warned the officials in London that their attention to staircases and dourways was a precaution as silly as locking the stable door alter the horaé was roed them that the banging scenery ade Hreproot, or some day a iearfal acci- dent would occur. And it has occurred, And it will occur again, And then officials will be convened and scratch their heads over it, aad suggest another | door to be opened, another ladder to bo fixed outside, an inaccessibe window, an additional fireman to be put on, and another squirt introduced where its jets cannot reach its object. It tall vain, Do let us begin at the beginning instoad of beginning at the ond, and render fires in theatres impossible. Aliow me to mention and endeavor to dispose of some o1 the lavor- ite remedies recommended by the departments :— L Anironcurtain, There was one in the Boston Theatre. Lt required two lev it down, It bas been condemned. There w: fire broke out on instantly twisted into shreds by tho blaze, sheet ol iron, forty feet square, fire it becomes red hot in a moment, radiating the fire When opposed to ft 18 intended to check; it crumples up and warps like paper. The wire gauze cur- tain resists the flome for a still shorter time, Let m plain the proc and progress of such a tire as that in the Brooklyn Theatre, and how, once started, the conflagration must be an explosion of flame almost mstantaneous. There is above the stage, atthe height of fifty feet, the skeloton floor abo mentioned, called “the gridiron.”’ To these joists slung the banging scenery, depending like leaves iv a book, the cloths hanging side by side, a few inches apart. Over the gridiron are the bollow wooden drums and shafts used for lifting. Beneath all this acencry, and sometimes Hiited into the middle ot it, the border lights. These are Bix rows of gas- Ivghts, six fect apart, each containing about fifty ers. The heat generated by these lights is, intense, and is constantly rising through hanging stuff, passing up through the gridiron floor, heating the intricate masses of wood, rope and canvas, disposed tn the best manner to receive ita dying powers, hen, by accident, thig hot matoriai catches fire it is need+ lese to explain the rapidity with whieh the whole burste into one blaze. The ropes that tic the scenes to the joists above give way in @ minute, and the flaming masses fall on the stage, spreading to the scenery be- low and turning the whole area into one blazing fur- mine It may be Jeft to common sense to de’ how long 4 sheet of tron as thin as paper wou fire, Another inconvenience in an iron curta! that, the moment it is descending, the spectators would undorstand its object and it would be a cue for ‘® panic, Another proposed remedy ts to build up the pros- cenium wall to the roof, cutting off ali communication above between the auditoriom and the scenarium, lt as been shown that tho tire doca not remain aloft, but js necessarily precipitated on tho stage, and the curtain opening affords it access to the front. & Thut a hose pip ‘8 ready in tho flies of a theatre, I answer t! ging scent ‘@ 80 comn- pact that no Jet of water could reach effectually a fire generated in the middie of the pack; that the supply of water 1s always more or jess unoertain; that two men would ve required to remain aloft in the. very heart of danger, one to pump, the other to direct the hose, and they would kpow that their only escape is a tortucus Iaduer way. This remedy appears to be a weak wy. 4. That firemen be appointed to each theatre to act in case of accident. This precaution, which Grete them to a certain extent, as it proves beneticial, LUNATIC MEMOKE Several of the New York papers daily reach here, and they are read with avidity, but the story which has taken tho deepest hold upon them of late is that about Daudt, They all remember him well, and thor conversation about him is almost as gptional as that hoard without the building. ‘Look,™ said he, “at that group; they are now discussing the subject.” A motley assemblage of lunatics were standing at one of the windows engaged !n earnest conversation, A little follow, whose particular hallucination consisted in be- lieving that snakes always occupied his bed, was the principal spokesman, and appeared to deeply feel for the misfortunes of his late companion. MAD PHILOSOPHERS, “I really pity him,” ne was heard to say, ‘He was alway kind map, but he used to act strangely. He would have been better off had he remained here, I used to think when he prayed so frequently and preached to us that he was insane, and now | am sure of it, Ab, poor Daudt,” he feelingly added, “1 sym- pathize with you in your delusion.” Anosher pitiable creature, who firmly believed him- self to be George Washington, and thought that tho food served by his attenaunts Was manna from heaven, was less charitable, Said he:—‘l don’t sympathize with bim atall, He deserved his misfortunes. Any crazy to imagine himseif Christ, Ho should have more sense.’? ‘ ‘THE DEVELOPMENT OF 118 DELUSION. Daudt was admitted to the institution on the 16th of January, 1876, upon application of the Bridgeton au- thoriues, bis hallucination that he was the Son of God being at the time strongly marked. For a long time after his admittance his only comfort was the Bible, which be read by day and night When at last he began to mingle with tho other patients he neg- lected the Holy Book and took to preaching. His m was gentle and b jaments on Fouigions topics oftentimes brilhantly | ¥ his unlortunate companions o8 were inclined to pro- fanity he was particularly severe, warning them ot juture punishment, but to those who pra; he was full of tenderness. ‘‘I asked him once,’? said the phy- sician who attended him, “why it was, if he was really Christ, that he suffered himself to romain shut up here?” He answered tbat it bad not yet been re- vealed to him. HE REFUSES FOOD. One day Daudt astonished his keeper by refusing food, Every eflort to make him eat was unavailing, and for three days no nourisoment passed his lips. Becoming alarmed that he would die of starvation Dr. Britton finally calied upon bim, mach tube in hand, to force food down his throat, ‘It ts no use, Doctor,” said he, ‘1 will not ros aud you need not be alarmed about my dymg, for I am immortal. Before re- sorting to violence the octor determined to try the effect ot reason, and thus addressed him:— “Now, Daudt, you ‘believe . yourself to -be the Messiab, but I am convinced thut it Is only a delusion on your part, You have been reading whe Bible mach of late, whieh accounts for it, To reluse food is a very foolish thing, not permit a mao to live without eating, and I, as your physician, must insist upon your taking nourishment, Should you reluse 1 will be compelled to resort to foree. Daudt listened attentively, and aiter some little meditation replied rationally enough, ‘Well, Doctor, [ don’t know but you aro right. I will eat,”’ and he fell on the proffered victuals like afamished wolf. HE BECOMES A TAILOR. When Dandt had been in the institution about three months it was concluded to put him in the tailorip; department, and here ho distwguished himselt by at tention te business and ability in bis trado until, be- coming ill, 1t was found necessary to take him from labor, 1t was particularly noticeable that bodily illness always liad a tendenoy to dispel his illusion. During the last few months of bis stay im the asy- lum his health continued to declive bic A and his hallucination disappeared altogether. When, there- @ letter was received from his dauzbter Irene, twent, Who lived in Bethlehem, Pa, king for Superintendent Ward beileved was welhenough to be liberated, A few days she called, and Daudt bade goouby to all and accom. panied her home on tho 16th of last month, HIS LIBERATION. On the 20th ult. the asylum autnorities learned by letter that he had disappeared from his family, For his mysterious disappearance in Staten Island they are ui ja to account. Hewas nota man, Dr. Britton thought, who would commit surciae, even when most insane, unioss possibly he believed bis ‘‘Father” com- mandeé him so to d ~~ BEGGARS. Among the great problems of society difficult to be solvod,”? said the Rov. Dr. Eddy yesterday, at the Stanton street Baptist church, ‘is, ‘What shall wo do with the be; 1’ In Europe they iniest every street and demand alms with an insolence indicative of their opinion that they bave a right to claim help from their better dressed fellow me Here 1m our own couvtry it is getting to be equally as bad, anda great number of these beggars have reduced their trade to a science and in consequence become wealthy. Not all are otf this class. Many of them are forced by cruel neces- sity to stoop to such a humiliating expedieut of main- ining their lives, William 8. Astor always gavo to ery beggar that approached him, saying that if among every ten unworthy recipients there was one deserving one he would I tisfled.”” TESTING RAILROAD BRIDGES. The engineers of the Erio Railway are out on the road making @ thorough oxamination of all the bridges, of which there is a large number, in order to discover if there are any defects that might causo an accident, The authorities of the New York Central and Hudson River Kailroad have also issued orders tor testing and examining every bridge on the line bo tween New York and Buffalo, Nearly are made of iron, the wooden ones baving been ge erally abandoned after the New Hamburg disaster tive years ago. The principal wooden bridge is about a mile above Peekskill. FIRST DISTRICT TAMMANYITES, The General Committee of tho First Assembly Dis- trict met at No, 49 Laight street last evening for per- maneat organization, and elected the following officers for the yoar 1877:—President, P. G. Duffy; Vice P donts, Edward Burke and James P. Wilson; Secre' ries, John Kenneday and Patrick T. Carney’; Treasu- rer, Douis Keenan; delegates to Committee on Organi- zation, Nicholas Muller, Edward Cabiill, Patrick Kerrin, James He y and Denis Quinn, ENDING IN SMOKE. Information received in this city trom the Interna} Revenue Departmont, indicates that the petition of the starving cigar makers, to abolish the license sys- tem, 1# not likely to be favorably considered. Nearly 1,000 cigar makers are now unomployed, for the reason that they are unable to procure liconsea, Tho license feo is $10, but every man obtaining @ license is re quired to furnish a bondsman in the sum of $600, who is Hablo to this amount should tho man licensed fall to pay taxes or attompt to defraud the goverament For every man employed by a manutacturer, ao ad- ditional bond of $100 is required, ‘This law cripples the industry so far as the workmen are concerned, and they compelled to work for big manulacturers, At the present time they can obtain no employment, and they are unable to make ci; t home and sell them on account of this lat They ask that a stamp be placed on each cigar made in lieu of a hice’ ‘The internal revenue authorities oppose this system as entailing a vast amount of labor, being more costly and at the same time offering poor protection sight appears to be reasonable, would be attonded, [ fear, with mischievous results, At present every holo and’ corner o! a theatre is filled with work Ps carpenters, ges men, ty men, supers, dresser! pilcers, actors—upward o| 100 persons are on duty, to the government against fraud. Tho large manufac. turers in this city also object to the latter system, for although the license and bond req ments may work rdebips to a few men, the present method they com sider ‘the most satisfaciory. ‘The laws of natuge will | BRENT SURRENDERED. The Louisville Forger in Custody of the United States Authorities. DEPARTURE FOR KENTUCKY LAST NIGHT. tie eter History of His Crime and the Extradition Questions Arising from It. SPEEA TE 5 Charles Brent, the Louisville forger, arrived yester~ day in the steamer Parthia, of the Cunard live, Ho was looking well aud seemed to enjoy good health, notwithstanding tbe bad weather experienced during the voyage. He was brought over im chargoof Dee tective Shore, of the London police, who was madea special United Stutes Marshal for the oceasion, Oa bis arrival he was at once deliverea over to a special agent commissioned by Governor McCreary, of Ken- tucky, who took bim back to that State last night, MR. CHARLES INNIS INTRODUCED, AHeraup reporter boarded the Parthia yesterday morning as she pussed Quarantine, and so bis surprise was iuformed that there was no such person as Charles Brent on board. Detective Shore was aleo unknown. One of the passengers, however, boro the name of Mr. Shore, and the reporter procyeded to interview him on the subject of Brent’s arrest. Mr. Shore coolly denied all knowledge of any such individual, and positively refused any information on tie sub- ject, saying, with a gruff British accent, that “people in his country were not accustomed to being interviewed.” The passenger list of the’ Parthia was next examined, It only showed one passenger whose surname was Charles. This was Mr. Charles Ionis, from Kentucky. On further investigation it was found that Mr. Innis (?) had a berth in the stateroom occu- piod by Mr. Shore. Struck with this coincidence, the reporter accosted Mr. Charles Innis and found that he was really the long expected prisoner. Charles Brent, not wishing to undergo the shame of a public acknowledgment of his captivity belore tho other cabin passengers, had rogistered bis name as Charles Innis. He was liked by all on board on ac- count of bis good manners and agreeable conversation, His fellow travellers nicknamed him ‘Kentucky,’ and he was generally known by the latter name, No one suspected his real character until Saturday night after the pilot had boarded the ship, whon it leaked out that an extradited prisoner was on bowrd; but very few know who was the man or for what offence he was brought over. Brent is a young man, twenty-three years of ago, and very light complexioned, He bas light curly hair, ight mustache and blue cyes, and is altogether of a very prepossessing appearance, He worea dark suit, light cap and blue overcoat, He was standing among a group of passe.gers near the door of the smoking room when the reporter approached him. Dhivining at once the object of thg visit, he walked away a few paces from the others and answered freely all the questions that were put to him. WHAT BRENT SAYS OF HIMSELF. “On my release last June I entered the Sixteonth Lancers,” said he. ‘I joined asa private, having no commission, as it is very difficult to obtain them ip England. 1 was stationed at Canterbury. I made ne attempt to get away, I met with an accident to my Jeg and was confined to the hospital at the time of my arrest on December 4. I think the sur- render is under the old treaty, that is to the best of my knowledge. I was taken to Bow stroct with greut secrecy and arraigned before Sir James Ingraham in bis private room, The Eughsh officers endeavored to keep my arrest very quiet I was not up before the Court inthe regular manner and they tried to keep it out of the papers, I wrete to one of my friends connected with the American News Agency, and he came c.wn and spread around the fact of my arrest. I was sent to the House of Detention for sev- enteen days: I mude no defence and dia not employ any counsel, The papers that had been brought over for me beiore hud been returned to America, My case was heard ou the strength of the old affidavits.’? Mr, Brent then stated that nearly ail the money he bad taken had been returned to the bauk, They were only about $500 short. Hoe had with him 2),185f, equal to $6,500; £56 in English money, and $11 96 in United States movey, This was all returned. INTERNATIONAL COURTESIES. “L suppose my surrender was a matter of comity, pespararory to the framing of a new treaty, asin thi weed case,” he resumed. ‘I do not know what Gl position will be made of me, but 1 hear that ne ste; have been taken by the bank in the matter.” “How did you like England” asked the reporter. “Ido not like England as well as America,”’ co! tinued Mr. Brent. ‘‘Lwas in jail from the 101 of March until the 19th of June—four montns of impris- onment on the other side. Then I was locked up twenty-two days this last time—eighteen days in the House of Detention and tour in a police station.” Then, smiling sadly, he added, ‘This 18 & protty way to return to one’s native country, isn’t it?” The now thoroughly obsequivus datcctive hero ap- proached and gave the reporter some few facts, which the latter had learned already, A boat steamed along- side the Parthia, bringing several detectives, Among them was Mr. Ralph Shéldon, of Frankfort, Ky., who had been commissioned as a special agent tor the State by Governor McCreary to take charge of Brent, All the necassary papers bad been made oul, and the transfer of the prisoner was accomplished in a few moments. The vessel had by this time been secured to the dock, and Churies Brent, acvompapied by Mr. Sheldon, lett the steamer. They remained at Jersey City until six o’clock, when they departed on the Pennsylvania Railroad truin en route for Kentucky. HISTORY OF HIS CRIME. On Thursday, February 24, 1876, Brent, who was bookkeeper in the Falls City Tovacco Bauk, wrote on a regularly madejout check the name of the Merchants’ of New York and fillell 16 uy) for $15,000, as il tn latter bank bad been drawn upon forthatamount. He then presented it for collection to the Kentucky Bank, ot Louisville, and received $7,400 in cash und a check against bis own bank for the balance. He took the train for New York, where he purchased a bill of ex- change for 29,186 irancs and a ticket to Liverpool on the Inman steamer City of Richmond, He travelied under the name of Clarence Kivers, and was arrested immediately on the arrival of the steamer ut Queens. town on March 6, After a short examination by thi magistrates there he was remanded <0 London prepara. tory to extradition At the Bow street Police Court, the solicitor of tho London Bunkers’ Association appeared on March 10 tn behaifot the Falls Lity Tobacco Bank to prosecute him. A Scotiand Yard detective testified that the prisoner had admitted his guilt. Brent was then re- manded to await the necessary papers. ‘THK EXTRADITION QUESTION. A difficulty here urose with regard to Brent's ex- tradition that ended ina rupture of the negotiations, In 1842 the Ashburton treaty between the United ‘States and England had been adopted. It provided for the surrendering in either country of prisoners who bad committed murder, forgery and other crimes. In 1870 the British government demurred 10 the pro- visions of the treaty, and an act of Parliament was passed altering the terms of the treaty, One of theee alterations consisted in the proviso thas a prisoner when extradited should be tried tor no other crimo than that upon ,which his extradition was bused. Secretary Fish claimed on the part of the United States that no act of Parliament could change the treaty. It paving been framed by mutual consent, he claimed that mutaal consent of the two governments could alone change its terms, The case of Winslow, the Boston torger was the first one tbat brought this point into dispute, The Engtish government demanded that the United States should guarantee that Winsiow’s trial would only be for the crime charged, The same demand was made in Brent's case. These requirements were in both cases tmmedi- ately refused, and the Briuan government, on May I, informed the American Legation ‘hat Brent would be ise ‘ged, This was done on June A New York Getective had been sent over to England to take charge of the prisoner, but was obliged to return without him. He recovered, however, ull the money stolen to within a few dollars, This property was restorea to the bank on the resurn of the detective, Negotiations Were then broken off between Eugland and the United States until the early part ot December. Then the English government thought better of their action, be 1d down from the position that bad been assuined, and agreed to issue warrants for the vrrost of Brent, Winslow and Grey. Breot was rearrested under tho old treaty, oo new demand having been made for bim by the United States, and was returned by sbe English government in the oustody of an English detective, tone THE SHINNECOCK KELIEF, Mapison Avenve, Conyen Fivty Seventn Stren, New York, Jan. 6, 1877, "| To rae Eviton oy THe HenaLy:— Allow me to acknowledge through your columns the following receipts in aid of the Shinnecock Indiang made sufferera by the shipwreck of the Circassian ;— Theodore Ruosevelt, $25; Avening Post, $5; E. B., $10; W. A. C, Stamford, $1; A. C, Brooks, $10; 1. A. Roosevelt, $25; Mra, L. A, Blackwell, $25; B. L. Hare weil, $25; “Niantic,” $ Fitth Avenue,’’ $6; J, J. ayer $00; C, V, 8, Roosevelt, New Jersey, $25. Total, lo addition I would report cash sent by Mr. 8: $15, and subseripiions from rontlemes compete with Northern Pacific Railroad, $55, making a grand total of $277. BL. HARSELL, P. 8.—By telegraph I learn the following name | bodies bave been found:—David Beek, Frank Buon, George Cuffeo, Warren Uufteo, Lowls 1.00, m ler, Bogert