The New York Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1877, Page 13

~ RBLIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, Ministerial Movements—- Chat by the Way. Synagogue Worship—Churehly Changes. re PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. Lyman, Howe will address the Spiritualists in Republican Hail this morning and evening. ‘The Rey. William Lioyd will preach in Madison ave- nue Reformed church this moruing on ‘The Gain of Lous.” In the atsernoon Rev, W. H. Gloason will Preach ou ‘Tho Divine Witness to Christ.’” ‘The Rev. H. B, Trevor, of Oswogo, will preach this morning and evening in the Pilgrim Baptist church. ‘The Sixth avenue Reformed church will have the ministrations of Rev. W. B, Merritt at the usual hours ‘to-day, Inthe Church of the Holy Trinity the Rev. 8. H. ‘Tyng, Jr., will preach morning and evening. Three @ervices will be hela on Ash Wednesday and dally ser- vices during Lent, Dr. C. H. Fowler, of tho Christian Advocate, will ad- dregs the Brooklyn Sunday School Union in Latayette |venue church to-morrow evening on “Moses and Ehjab.” Dr. John Hall will preach this evening ‘in tho Har- lem Proabyterian church, Rey. J, D. Herr will preach morning and evening in the Central Baptist church, The Hamden (Conu.) Methodist Episcopal church Will be dedicated to-day by Dr. Sims, of Brooklyn; Rev. H. Aston, of Parkville, L. L, and Rev. J. 8. Haugh, pastor, . Kev. J. J. Muir will preach in Macdougal streets Bap- tst chureb at the usual hours to-day. ‘The uew McAuloy mission, at No, 316 Water street, Will be dedicated to-day vy Drs, Ormiston, Taylor, Booth and other city pastora. ‘The Rev. Dr. Spaulding, Biahop-elect ot Peoria, will tecture iu the Rotfan Catholic church Star of the Sea this evening on “‘A ‘Trip Through Ireland in 1876,”” The Rev. Dr. Knapp will preach in the Laight street Baptist church this morning and evening. Revival services wiil be, held in Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church to-day. Rev. J. H. Light- bourne will preach this evening on ‘The Death of the Binner.”” " 1n St. Stephen’s Protestant Episcopal charch the Rev, A. B, Hart will officiate and preach at the usual hours to-day. De Ewer will preach in St, Ignatiue’ Protestant Episcopal church to-day as usual. ‘ St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church will receive the ministrations of Rey. James M. King to-day, mora- ing and evening. The Madison avenue Baptist church will hold re- ligious services in their chapel this morning. Dr. a. 8, Patton will preach. : “The Accusation” will be discussed in Thirty-fourth Btreet Retormed church this evening by Rev. Carlos Martyn, who will preach also in the morning. Rev. E, G. Taylor, D. D., of Providence, R, 1, will Preach in the Tabernacie-Baptist church this morn- ing and evening, Rev. E. N. White, D. D., will minster to the West Twenty-third street Presbyterian church to-day as usual, ‘The Spiritualists, in Harvard Rooms, this e' ening, will be addressed by Mrs. Amanda. At Washington square Methodist Episcopal church fhe Rev. Dr. Crawiord will preach this morning, and iw the evening Rev, Willam Lloyd will speak about “The Delustve Way.” The A. J. Palmer wiil preach a memorial ser- mop in Kighty-sixth street Methodist Episcopal church, bhis moron a the life of the late Jacob Dunn, At Willett street Methodist Episcopal ehurch the Rev. J, E. Searies will preach this evening on “The Present Gou’s Time to S#ve Men.” ‘Tu-day will complete a year of the Rey. Fred Bell’s enterprise in founding an independent Methodist church in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, He will, therefore, speak this morning about “The Past Year tnd Oar Future Prospects’? and this evening on “Lar; and Small Hearted People, ’’ In the American Free church the Rev. Charles P. McCarthy will speak this morning of “Love in Bleas- Ing”? and this evening of “Spirit Communion,” Mrs. Van Cott will address the American Temperance Union in the Cooper Institute Hail tins afternoon, At the Free Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal church the Rev. Jobn Johns will dyscuss the questions, “Who (rt Thou, oh, Great Mountain?” and Who Is That Knocking at the Door?” to-day. At Chickering. Hall the Rev. L, Smith Hobart will Preach this morning and the Rev, C. C, Tiffany this avening. The Rev. Dr. Dunnell will preach at the usual hours bo-day at All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church. “Popular Scepticism’? in ouo of its phases will be discussed tu Graco chapel this evening by Rev. W. T. Egbert, The Rey. Chauncey Giles will preach in the Sweden- porgian church this evening on “Spiritual Resurrec- tion.’’ He will preach in the morning also, “The Law a Schoolmaster to Bring Us to Christ’ and “Religion in Business Affairs’ are tho themes that Rey. KE. C, Sweetser will discuss to-day in the Bleecker street Universalist church. In the Church of the Heavenly Rest the Rov. Dr. Dix will preach ou Wednesday evening in behalf of ‘ne House of Mercy. Services to-day at the usual boars, In Christ church the Rev. Dr, McVickar will officiate md preach morning and eveaing. The Church of the Advent will be ministered to to- flay by Rey. Joseph F. Jowitt, rector. Rey. William M. Baker, of Bostdu, is to preach in the Church of tho Strangers this morning and ovening. Dr, Landis will inquire 1m Science Hall this evening, “What Has Religion Done to Improve the Race?”’ In the First Reformed Episcopal chureh tho Rev. C. D. Kellogg, of the Reformed church, Passaic, N. J., will preach. Divine service on Ash Wednesday morn- Ing also. “Unseen Realities made Visible’ in Filth Avenue Baptist Church this morning vy Rev. Dr. Armitage, who in the evening will inquire “Where is the Guest Chamber?” Iu the Free Episcopal Church of the Reconciliation the Rev, E. A. Widdeman will preach at the usual boura. The Rev, Leon Pong will preach as usual in the French Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Bpirtt. Rev. ©. E, Blake will occupy the pulpit of the Free | Baptist church to-day, and also every evening during | je week, In Grace Baptist church the Rev. J, 8, Kennard will sider “The Blessing of Sonship” this morning and | Nijah’s Challenge” this evening. | ihe Rev. George H. Hepworth will speak to the eh of the Disciples this morning on “The Power the Gospel,” and tnis evening on “A Law of Suc- | tess.” ‘'o-morrow evening he will deliver bis tourth reopticon lecture on the Hoiy Land, | The Rey, D. B. Jutton will preach in the ®ixteenth Mreet Baptist charch to-day as usual, CHAT BY THE WAY. ery man in turn falls; but not every man can above his mistakes and press on, ihe world’s rule 1s, You are wise it you think as I fo; but very unwise to think otherwise, ‘Wolton once said of Time—Wisdom walks before it, Opportunity waiks with it, and Repentance walks be+ bind it. , A poor dervish holding a skuli in his hand said to | the King, “Sire, lam trying to ind out whether vhis belonged toa king like you orto a miserable wretch ike myself, and | can’t do it,” “Revenge is tike a boomerang, Although fora time it Wes in the direction in which it is huried tt takes a sudden curve, and, returning, bits your own head the teaviest biow of all, ‘dhe editor of the Zndex complains of the criticism of fhomas s/aive which his lately been called torth, and aus Wat this is “Wniair, because ib (the /ndez) ale ways “relers respeotiully to the founder of the Chris. ian retgion.”” If he reters to the Lord without in. pling Him, then we ought to drop a Jaurel leaf on the | | heaven, why it | Which 1s more important? A thoughtful and theo- logical Teuton onee said in tones of horror, ‘He be- heves in nodings. He does not believe in Gott nor in ter tuyfel. Now when a man does not believe in Gott, dar he tah; but when he docs not beliove in ter tuyiel, ver ish he?” 1t 1s @ Hittle remarkable that Moses, who insisted that all the people of Israc! should obey the Com- mandments, is the only man in the world who ever broke thom all at one time. Perhaps this is the reason why Mr. Huxley is trying to dethrone bim and put John Milton in his place, To the ordimary American clerical mind there is something just @ bit incongruous in the English ad- Vertigements of sermons tor sale. One dealur in this pawnbroker’s theology asserts that he will pay cash for any manuscript sermons which are “original and modern’ and which have ‘a thoroughly good Church tone”? When we have listened to some sermons wo have thought it inust be nearly as nard for the minis- ter to preach them as for the people to hear them, but when you add to this duplex burden the fact that those very sermons are lithographic copies of some original which was written for just ten shillings by a broken down literary hack, and that the clergyman bought them and palmed them of as his own because he was busy during the we on # Oshing or hunting tour, then the camel’s back is broken entirely, It may be a curious preferenee, but still a congregation does prefer to hear a poor original sermon to a siolen better one, In tho former case they go quietly to sleep, undor the impression that the clergyman is honest but torribly dull, and in the latter case they fool as though they bad heen swicdled, On tho wholo itissator to be both original and dull than tobe briltiant with borrowed brains and fireworks, ‘There ia at least one mutter on which the Protestants and Catholics agree. Suther Burke said, the other day, that there are ‘‘a great many people who-deem to be ashamed of what they ought to prize most, They go out toa dinner party, but they don’t dare to make the sign of the cross as a kind of grace for fear they might be n.’? Agroat many people have just enough of religion to make them cowards. They might live for years tp society, and it would never find out that, they had anything like religion about them, and for the best ot reasons, itis like a bottle of medicine which they carry in their pockets for tear of a sudden attack of disease, but which they eonceal un- til they are in dauger, Then, however,’they are glad evough to pall it out, and they don’t caro who sees it, if it will only save them for just that once, The tenderest instance of a parishioners solicitude is that of an old lady who sent fora dissenting clergy- man to come and admintater to her son, who was dying of typhus fever, because she would not allow her own pastor to subject himself to the contagion, She wouldn’t risk him with a bad case of typhus, but as for the dissenter, {t wouldn’t do much harm it he wero to be carried of. Asan illustration of party bias and christian charity beautifully intermingled, that is, so intermingled that the charity couldn’t be discovered, itwtands pre-eminent, It 13 not otten permitted to mortais to kill two such birds, charity and « clergy- man, with ono stone, Don't be selfs in your prayers, Alter you have asked for everything you want.yourself, and more too, Just say a kindly word for some one else. A pious Planter owned @ negro in connection with another man for whom he felta bit of carnal hatred. He took a sweet revenge, bowever, by praying, “0 Lord, be pleased to bless my hulf of Pompey.” What would be- come of his half of Pompey if the other man’s half should happen to die never entered his head or beart, hi We have heard no story which better illustrates the power of faith than the following:—An old colored | preacher once told his congregation that whatever God told him to do bo would do whether it appeared to him to be reasonable or no ‘Why, brethren,”’ said he, *‘if the Bible tell me to jump troo a stone wall I’m gwine to jump at it. Going troo it ‘longs to God, but Jumpin’ at it ‘longs to mo.” A great many prayers are patterned after that of the little boy who wanted a sled and was told to mention the fact in his devotions and to believe that his peti- tion would be heard. Hv did so in these words:— “Now [lay me down to sleep I want a sied; I pray the Lord my soul to keep, | want a cutter.” He showed his faith in bis own petition the next morning whea he waw a sled which bis grandfather had brought after hearing bis prayer, by sayihg, “Well, now, where in the worlu did that sled come trot anyhow.” A great many grown up children have just that kind of faith in their own prayers, ‘The Consistory of the Dutch Church seems to occupy an uncomfortable position. A self-elected and sell-per- petuated vody, they are in danger of becoming arbitrary. They have tried tobribe Dr. Ludlow to leave bis church, and since he 1s not open to offers of that kind they threaten to pull bim up by the roots, His church simply say, ‘We love our pastor, and would like to have you give tho reasons for removal.’? Since, bow- ever, it is impossible to give what one doesn’t posseas, the Consistory shakes its wise head and prepares tor battle, It seemsa little hard that the fossiliferous remuins of an extinct species should have the power to dictate to the new liie of a new age. The people of New York delight im fair play, and. they have a right to demand that the representatives of the old and re- vered Dutch Church shall meet any and overy issue with strong tacts and sound judgment, Rev. Dr. Inglis has studied the Polynesian character for many years. ‘He says, “It is easier to get these people to pray and sing bymos than to be trutpfal and honest."’ There are some fow suggestions ot this Poly- nesian peculiarity in America even, Lip religion is very fine, bat practical religion ia very difficult. It is one ‘thing to get into a state of costacy at the prayer meeting, and apother thing to smile pleasantly when you hit your head against an unexpected cornor in the dark, Wecan “Hold the Fort” on Sunday, but when We try to tell the truth and at the same timg trade horses religion seems to be about the toughest thing we evr got bold of, ‘The Methodists have been talking about prayer at one of their conierences. They listened tu a learned essay on tho subject, in which the words of our peti, tioa were likened to the grains of giant powder or tho cans of dynamite and nitroeglycerine with which the rocks of infidelity are blown to atpms. To theo- rize about this subject is well enough when ono has leisure, but we have a very practical question to which we should like an answer from eithor the clergy or the laity :—Why do you pray so very curnestly jor a thing, and then, when the prayer is over, cool down as thoagh it were a mere matter of form, and you never expected to getany answer? We have uttonded the Epis- copal service, and heard the whole congregation re- peat what is called tho Lord’s Prayer, a part of which pleads that “Thy kingdom may come and Thy will be done,” when, if the truth were known, those very people would not have God’s will dono on the earth With exact justice for balf their fortunes, They prayed the prayer a4.a beautiful form, but they never expected that God would pay any attention to it, nelther would they have Him answer it for the world, Dr. Murray says that if he were unmarried he would rather take for wile an amiable sinner than a snap- ping-tempered saint. There seems to be ao error in labelling the bottles here, If a person 1s really a snap- wus ready to believe in the fortieth, had been sprinkled and rmimersed and bad her name on every church book in the land, ‘To snarl and snup, to whine and bite, aud then to declare that you uro on the ruad to indicates the sheerest hypocrisy, Hasty and ill-tempered words are genuine devils’ batt, und if you habitually use them you simply swal- low tho hook wiich will bring you to net, nonsense to speak of religion aga creed; it is a lifo, stretch from thy earth to the moon won't save you, Tae Baptist ministers in conference seem to be worship, The singiog 1s apt to be too operatic to suit some, and ts more intended to show olf the choir than to carry out the spirit of the sermon, great travail of soul lest in the general rivairy the choir gallery should attract more attention than the pulpit, There is only one law that applies here, and that is an everlasting one, Jt is this, that merit always wins, If the choir can sing better than tho minister can preach theu the sulary ought to be paid to tire choir, and the minister ought to keep still avout the matter, men believo what they say, and say whas they believe, let them be in downright darnest, aud go to work to save souls us they would work to save drowning man, and all the choirs im Christendom couidn’s create a diversion from the one object. A red hot pulpit makes the people forget that there is @ choir, but aduil sermon makes the people look beyond their brow of Tow Paine, That is bis idea of a guid pro que, por we should never think of pinning the word saint to | her back, even if she behoved tho vbirty-nine articies, | Ib is all | aod if your life ts all wrong a creed that would | greatly exercised over the various services in public | They are in | Heat the pulpit to white heat, let clergy. | CHURCHLY CHANGES. Presbyterian frateruiiy docs not make as much headway inthe South as Methodist fraternity does, While the Northern Presbyteriaus have offered to treat with their Southern brethren on terms of perfect equality the latter declare that this would require what in the nature of the case is impossible. Hence some ot the most prowiment men in the Presbyterian Church North and South very treely admit that the end of the world will come before good and wiso men will consent to any other terms than those of periect equality and reciprocity. The Southerners think that their North- ern brethren should apologizo for the bard things said against slavery and theinselves as upholdersof it Tho latter believe they spoke only the truth according to the Scriptures and refuse to apologize. But they are Willing to let the past be buried and to meet and greet One another henceforth as brethren in the Lord, And this we conceive to be the true spirit of traternity. Im the city of St. Louis one of tho , largest churches, ministered to by the Rev. Dr, Brookes, has been for several years standing aloof from the Northern and Southern Presbyierians as an independent organization. It had formerly been enrolled in the Southern Presbytery, but recently de- sired to enter the Northern, There were .some Persons in the church whose sympathies were with the South, and when the effort was made early last year to enter the Northern ranks they were found to be such a respectable minority that it was thought best to maintain their independence a little longer Tuther than cause a breach in the body by avy precipi- tate action of the majority, ‘Tue leaven of traternity worked well in the meantime, and a few weeks ago the chureb, by an almost unauimous vote, resolved to unite Jortunes with the Northern Church, ‘They did noe 6 (0 [AKO This achon, DUL the steadfast rotusal of the Southern Presbytery to gran letters dimiseory orto drop the church trom its roll cdmpeiied Dr. Brookes und his congregation, thougli they had been fr covers) yours independent, to withdraw tuus tor. mally, The Brick church of this city sustains a mission at a Cost of abut $5,000 u yeur; and two Sundays ago, after a sermou by Lr, Bevan, that amount was raised jor the mission for 1877. The targest Presvyteriau Sunday schoul in tue United States is that of Dr, Nicoll’s church in >t Louig, which numbers 1,585 children, | De, Nites hag 870 wembers in bis charcn iw York, Vu., | | And last year they contributed for benevolent and | church purposes $7,500, or about $625 per month, 1 An old Bupuist quarrel in Coutosville church, Pena. Sylvania, hus jusi been settled. A Rev. 5, 0, Wood had | | been received on an irregular church letter from West | chester church, Penbsyivyunia, In his new charge he taught the doctrines of the Plymouth brethren and thereby caused dissension ib the chuceh, sv that while @ majority large cuough to continue bim as ‘supply? existed the minority was suiticieutly strong fo prevent his election tu tho pastorate, The rights aud leelings of the winority having been thus igaored or trampled upon by the majority, the former asked for a ‘muiual council,” but this was refused py the fatter, An “advisory council’? was then called by vhe minority, and that council bas just given auch advice that the two parties in Coatesville church uniting have returned Mr. Wood's i which gave it and have instructed the deacons to annul the contract by which he wus enguged to supply the pulpit. Only a tew months ago'Mr. Van Meter was in the United States begging tor aid for bis missions in Rome, He received pledges und promises of money to be sent him by Octover, But he Writes duletully in December j trom toe “Erernal City’? to say that be had not re- ceived the much needed contributions, and urging the contributors to pay promptly, for if they don’t pay he must perish, Unless help comes from some quarter, be says, be shall be tin the citadel of the toe without $1 1m one month.” Mrs. Lydia A., widow of the lato Dr. Knowlton, mis- sionary of the Baptist church at Ningpo, China, has returned to America, aud is now in Philauelphia, where sho will spend the winter. Tho Rev. J. B. Simmons, of Brooklyn, sends a strange tale to the National Baptist. six tye ago, he says, acolored man, nawed George W. Dallas, came irom Vermont to New York, seexing admission to some institution of jearning for treedwe He wout from, one hotel to another in this big city, Je Was an Utter stranger, and though he had money to pay bis way no one would give him lodging becuuse be was black. He walked our streets ali wight, aud the next day Dr, Simmons picked him up and’ cared for him, and then sent bin to Marylund Seminary. He was a Christian young mun, aod alter "spending three years in the seminary and then teaching school und doing mission work in Virginia and Maryland fur two and a halt years, he went as a missionary to his own people among the Indians in the Indian Territory. The col- ored people there pumber vetween 10,000 and 15,000, aud yet they bave not a single colored teacher or preacher, nor a mission scitool or missionary, except two or thi who have been uppointed lately, and one of these can not tell one letter from another and the others can barely read. Mr. Dallas 1s now laboring as | preacher and teacher, travelling among the different village: for and stations, and he appeals most urgently jonaries to assist bim. There is grit im that # man Which will make itsell telt some day, ‘The Broadway Baptist church, of Louisville, Ky., ap. pears tu have tad a rather hard time of it. [twas organ- ized 1 1870.and bad great difficuity in getting a pustor, Une Was finally secured. Then it was discovered that the church walls were not safe, and they. bud to be pulled down and rebuilt ata cost of $20,000, Nest, the pastor resigned. Aiter whilo Dr, Barrows was installed Iu his place, The aext trouble came in the shape of tire, which destroyed the church and all the sermons of the pastor, The church has now been re- built, the pastor hus replaced bis lost sermons and he has ulgo come successfully out of a controversy yrow- ing out of his participation in a communion service in a Campbellite church. The Methodists have bought the property of the Broad street Baptist church, Klizabetn, N. J., and will Teopen it for their own denominational use. The Kap- tists have lost about $50,000 by that investment. The Methodists vow offer their old church for sale, and thi Baptists, if they do not disband, will probabiy buy it and worship in it, They are to meet to-morrow night to ascertaiy whether they 4b OF Cannot raise $5,000 to make the purcbase. They would probably nayvo Joined Mr. Gessier’s church had he not lately con- domped so earnestly the Young Men’s Christian Association, with Which so many of them ure connected. The Methodists of Aurora, JIL, bave | & seminary property vatued at $75,000, for’ which they ure now canvassing Chicago to raise $10,000 to lace the institution, as they say, in the front rank. u Syracuse, N. Y., the Methodists havea faculty num. bering eleven professors, but DO eudowed pro.essu! ship, and they, too, are looking for a few large gilts in | this direction. ‘The institution was tounded a iew years ago by Dr. (uow Bishop) Jesse T, Peck, who was called from ils presidency to ibe episcopacy. He has given it about $70,000, {here are in tue university at present 160 studenis, 8,000 volumes ip the library, | grounds and buildings: valued at $800,000, anda per: | manent invested und productive fund of $250,000, yielding an annual income of $20,000, The tuition fees amount to $4,000. The pub. lishing house of the Methodist Episcopal Church South is jn debt $119,540 81; but there are sums dus it which, | they can be collected, will reduco this amount about 000, This is partly owing to the deprectation of | values and the reduction of rents ior their new build- ing which has lett them in their present plight. ‘The Church at large wil now have to lend a hand to liquidate this debt. E1even Methodist Protestant conferences huve voted in favor of the convention which will meet next year to consummate the union of the Methodist and Methodist Protestant churches. The auniversarios of tho Tract Society and the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Kpiscopat Church will be held in Chicago, [1L, to-day and to-morrow. The* Rev, 8. M. Cooper, a et hus orgunized a new Methodist Episcopal ¢ r Twenty-secoud and Norris streets, Philadelphia. The Judependent editor knows of a Methodist prayer mooting ut which one brotber sald he thanked God Chat none ot ois family wero among the killed in the Brooklyn calamuy, tor | he bai po doubt that all of those who had perished were in hei, At this another brother arose and said tbat, it he had to die, be would rather go trom the theatre tbav trow the prayer mecting at whieh | such sentiments were uttered. Aud 80 would we. | Methodism im the Unued States 1s the most ex; sive form of Christiauity. [t cust per member. The last Goneral Cun’ additioual burden on the Church with the local pastors nd presiding eld amount raised jor puatoral support, Thus every church nus | now to pay for the services of three pastors, two of | | Whom they may never see nor bear, und whose ser. | see HOVER reach them except iu the general economy | Church. No wonder that the people ure ersing | ous under the bardens. Lt coats three and a bulf | per inemoer to maintain the bishops, | | in the aggregate salary of the three pastors—local, | | district and general—bave been heret« | book agents, but the last General the Church to the tall extent of the deticiencies. Tho Chureh South has just opened a pew church, 24x36 | leet, at Jossup’s Cut, Me. Tt cost $1,090. In St. Louis there are twenty-aine Catholic churehes | | and a coleze, Where the siudiex are superiniended by | twenty Jesuit protessors, French, Belgian and Ameri | can. ‘Ihe Siswers of the Bac | themselves at Marysviite, a suburo of St, Louis, a con- Vont whict 18 said to be a real paluee, to which no tn stitution of the same kind in Eurupe can be compared, Among its inmates ure several nuns Who have fed | from tho persecutions in Germany, The Carisuan | Brothers ure preparing to butid a new acadomy in Cow Brihane, St. Lou, ironting on the St, Charles Rock Toud, on a lot comprising about Mity acres. ‘The butld- | ing will be in the Kon style, with a high dome sur- mod. ting the centre, with pavilion roofs on exch end. The extent of cost will be £600,000 The present academy on Kighth and Graviot streets,'St Louis, will be sold. Bisuop Tuigg 1 engaged in a lawsuit wi J. Sintth, who claims $4,280 as balance due tor services us secretary und collector of the Episcopal resi affidavit of the defence sets forth that tbe piaivtifl hus | not only received ull duo him but also $590 more than | due, and thut defendant holds receipts and paid checks establishing the statement, A priest of tho Arehdio- cese of Cincinnati gives the following rules for tincing | the Catholic popuiation of a parish, und says that they | have been veriled by the experience of Futher Wenin- | ger and other distinguished missionaries:—1, The | number of marriages (mixed marriages counted as oue- balt) maltiplied by ‘The number of baptiéms | multiplied by oineteen and five por cent deducted from the prodast; 3. Add the above results, and one | haif their sum gives their population most accurately, MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. PRESBYTERIAN, The Third Presbyterian church of Chicago are in the midst of such a revival that thoir church and chapel overflows every evening, aud hundreds cannot gain en- tedium tothe Te Deum, trance, This church is about to purchase the building | matter of | on one Bide, apd taking their stand o@ the broad plat Heart have vaiit ior | owned by St, Jobn’s Protestant Episcopal Society, | whieh, with a few repairs and improvements, will seat 2,700 people. ‘The Eighth Presbyterian church of Chicago bave called to their pulpit the Rev, William A, Chicester. of Altoona, Pa., ut a salary of $3,500 a year. Mr. Chices- ter bas been five years in Altoona, doing a good work, ‘The Rev. Charles C. Hall, of Newburg, is the goming man as pastor of the First Presbyterian oburch of Brooklyn, whose pulpit was lately vacated by Dr. Seaver. He will preach for that church to-day. The Presbyterian congregation at Watkins, N. Y., bave engaged the Rev. Milton Waldo, D, D., to supply their pulpit. The Rev. C. S. Vincent has resigned his pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Turin, N. Y., to take charge of a Congregational church at St, Clairsville, N. Y. EPISCOPALIAN, ‘The Reformed Episcopahans havo just organized’a ‘Dew parish in St. Louis, St. Mark’s, with 40 members and 4 local paper says that in addition to the 400 or More additions to the cenomination in that city there are contipuul accessions irom the old church; so that the new enterprise hus started on its career with every Prospect of success, 4izb churctism bas started a daily celebration of the Lord’s Supper iu St. Pauls cuthedral, London, ‘The service ts said to be xo hkoa daily mass ina Roman Cuthohe church that only pore Judges can distinguish she difference uside from the use of the vernacular in the celebration, Tho Episcopalians of Virginia have a neat chapel nearly fizished on “the Heights’ of Stafford, near Fredericksburg, Va. They expect to dedicate it in a very short time, Tue Rey, Kdward L, Stoddara, of York, Pa, has been called to the rectorship of St Jonn'a churen, Jersey City. The Canadian House of Bishops, at their recent meeting, unanimously agreed to recommend to tho Synoda of Montreal and Ontario the formation of a new | diocese, having the city of Ottawa as its centre. They alno agreed upon the expediency of holding a second Lambeth Conterence m 1878, ROMAN CATHOLIC. Father Fortune, who has been taking a rest in St, Louis, bas returned to bis charge of St. Dominte’s church, Baltimore, Mer. ‘Chatard, rector of the American College at Xome, is returning to this couatry to recruit bis shat- tered bouith. His futher lives in Baltimore, and ne will go thither to rest, The Nnglish misston to the colored people of the South, whose headquarters are at Millbiil College, London, has already sent tothia country ten priests as mis-iobaries, Five of them are stationed iu Bultt- more, two in Charlosion, 5. U., ‘Wo in Marlborough, Ma., and ove iv Lousville, Ky. The Roman Catuoiics have in British America tour archbishops, twenty-tive vishops, 1,646 priests, 3,139 parish schuols, aug 1,882,000 commubicants. Bishop Loughtin, of Brookiyu, bas issued a circular | to bis Clergy and diocese'on (heir proper observanve of | the Popo’s Jubilee next May, } The extra collection taken last month in the churches } af the diocese of Newark, N. J., for the Protectory aud | House of the Good Shepherd, amounts to $7,890. The amount for the seminary collection 1s $5,091. The Rev, James Murphy, lately ordained, bas gone to the scene of ots future missions, viz, Southwest Georgia, BAPTIST. Rey. Charles H. Harris, dormerly ap Ithaca dry gouds merchant, has been installed ag pastor of the Westileld, N. J., Baptist church, The Bapt of Marathon, N. Y., will dedicate a new church 1 that place next ‘Tuesday. ‘Tho Rev. J. W. Megan, a Methodist minister at White Pigoon, Mich., hus joined the Buptists and taken | & pastorate ut Concord, ih thut State, | Yhe Baptists are workmg up etithusiasm on the mission question as woll as others, and on Thursday next they will hold a missionary convention at Oue- onta, N. ¥., in which tho different aspeets of that great theme will be discussed and the outlook tor the fuqure taken. ‘Tho Rey. Dr. Hagae has been invited by the Shaw- mut avenue church, Boston, to supply their pulpit until thy can got a pastor, The Rev, W. B. Harris has taken charge of the chureh at Ludingtonville, N.Y. Dr. Bridgeman, of Albany, has declined a call'to the vacaut Madison’ay- enue (Millbank) Baptist church, in this city. Rev. G. E. Merrill, of Springileld, removes to the First church tn Salem, Mass, CONGREGATIONAL, The Congregation! church us Alton, IL, have called us their pastor the Rev, GC. Adains, of Hills- Doro, Il, Their late pustor, tev. KR, West, bas gone ipto the mission work in Missouri, Rey. C. H. Everest. of tho Poritan church, Brook- lyn, has been compelled to yield to the tnuucial pres- sure and give up h.s church’ here to accopt unother in Chicago, Tho Puritad church is in the Sheritt’s hands under foreclosure of a mortgage of $40,000, This the second church building within a imonth that has been sold in Brookiyn tor debt. Mr. Everest will succeed the Rev, W. A. Bartlett, who was formerly a pastor in Brooxiyn, Three weeks ago a woman’s meeting was organized | in the Chareh of the Disciples, ts members now reach seventy-five und over, It meets in the chapel every Thursday afternoon, and the mothers and sisters and wives pray tor their unconverted husbands, brothers and sons. A young meu’s mecting is also carried on very successfully in that church, and under the reorganized programme the ‘‘disciples” have en- tered on a career of prosperity. The stereopticun lec- sures of Dr. Hepworth ou tho Holy Land are very | popular and remauerative toward removing the church debt. They nave already paid off the organo debt of $5,000, Murnopist. | The Methodists of Lewiston, Me., have dedicated a | eburch, treo of debt, by raising $16,000 on the day of | dedication. A Missionary mass moeting is to be held in Vhiladel- phia next Tuesday und the two following days. Bishop Simpsdn, the missiouary secretaries, and others are to deliver addresses, ‘Trinity Church, Newburg, N. Y. took up a missionary collection last Sabbath amount. dng to $2,300, which sum is nearly $1,400 more than they rulsed last year. Mrs, Van Cott began a series of rovival meetings 1D Sixty-tirst street Methodist Episcopal cburen, this city, on Thursday evening, which will be continued to- day ‘and through the week. ov. W. C, Steele, of Brooklyn, bas been selected to deliver the annual address beiure the Suifolk County Ree cra Society, at Orient, L. L, on Washington’s birthday. Bishop Kavanaugh, of tho Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who has been conined to hia room for several weeks, is much better. TEMPLE EMANUEL. Dr. Gotthie! preached to a large and fashionable con- gregation yesterday tnorning from the text Zachariah, viil., 13—-"And it shall come to pass that in the same degree as you havo been accursed among the nations, the house of Judah and the house of Israel, so will I | reward you and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but | Jet your bands be strong.” *‘To-day,” said the pastor, | “I Intended to peak to you converning the dispersion | of the children of israel, with tho view of showing how that prophetic utterance which I have chogon tor my | text bas become fuliiled,” Atter showing thatin an- cient times tistory was the fundimai of the Church and the state, the Doctor remarked that the Jews have received a juirer treatinent and the judgment bas been revised and the verdict now reudered might be summed up in the text, “As you were acurse ye shall be a blessing’? He continued 4t this hour, when Turkey 1s passing through a supreme crisis, hor toes are many, her {riends are f and tar between. When all ber sins are neld up to the scorn of the World let ua not wegioct an opportunity of remembering the good sto has done in former days—the goud she ts duing now—ail the bitter accusa- tious nowithstunding, We disclaim emphatically all | intentions of pailmtiog Bulgarian atrocities; no lan. | guage 1s strong enough to express our horror at these | and our pity lor the victins, and we surely are the | very pevple to wnderstund the just mdignation of Cristianos when they learn chat their own Christianity | was the only erime oi which the Lglgarians were guilty, THE BULGARIANS CRITICISED, Is t# but natural that they shoud ioug and pray for the overthrow of the power that supports: her | turone by soldiers of the Bushi-Buzouk, vut | they wil pot ve so one sided as to shut their eyes to the ‘attrocities committed on the Jews at this very moment, by the so-culled (we will do our | friends that justice) Chri ‘poverometts of Rou- | mania and Servia. These a@ésfecities aro the imo: culpable because they are Gb practised uoder w prexsure of the exigencies of Wprtare, but in cold blood, | conceived and decreed in the council chambers w: suuctivued deloreband by the government of the State, J will not darken this hour of Worship, I will not harass | your hearts with taiesof the horrors our unotfend- | | ing brethren suffor at the hands of their tyrants | will only express the | both Jew and Christian wit in the liberty apd justice leave their creeds in the principalities; 1 hope that form of our common humanity, declare with oue v horrors shail ve @ bell othe vietory Ol the Cross at any cost and in any im Lot them, therefore, pot be vifended if we teil them (hat to the matter of religious lverty those dependencies of Turkey which have the right of sep: arate legisiation—as Routoania and Servia, with whom their sympathy goes—are bebind, and pave been so at all times. The wretehed victims of the Spanish Inquisition, | where did they find wretuge? With the exception of | Holland, that quickly percoived the enormous advan tage these refugees secured ber in her struggle with Spain, there was not a Christan country in Europe that would allow them to take shelter in the most burreu part of land of even to bury their dead wives and children, The chen newly founded Empire of the Mohammedan Turks alone received them—nay, wel comed them! You may trace the influence of the Jews trom Alexandria, the super Queen of the Meai- werranean Sea, in ancient—to Pariv, London and New York in modern—times, I 1usi8s ow the fact that the dispersed Jews were us much an accession of resources to thoir various homes ae were the Huguenots, the Puritans or the Parsees, whow another wing of tho Molammedans, ices wise i 80 Who conquered Turkey, drove irom thew ih, THR HCGURNOTS, PURITANS AND PARARES, All these ure held in deserved respect. No one dreams of asking them whether they would not preter to return to the land of their forefathers; yet the date of their oxpatriation scems bat a8 yesterday com pared with the time when the Jow frat pitched bis ont in a foreign land. Impartial history will vindtcate the character ot the children of Israel, and then their dispersion must re- dound to their honor and cease to be cited asa proof Of their 1mpenitence and rejection, and as oppressive discrimination a 1s them. ‘Au indusirious, thrilty, sober, peaceful and, ae a | | | | | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1877—QUADRUPLE SHEET. rule, kindly disposea class of people ure no eurse, y are a blessing to ony country of community, aad deserve vo bad names. 0 us lor what we are! we have any problems of our own to work out suffer Bs to do so. Our mental activity, our religious aspira- Mons have had and still bave their mission m the world. Certainly we Look back to Jerusalem or Palestine do; bus only with the reverence whic raves of our departed loved oves. But our life, our fibora, our hopes, our aspirations ure not in the grave- yard. They embrace the busy, striving, generation of the living, they extend as zation extends her benign ruie, and prepares the way for the time when redemption shall be perfected and peace be the portion of a regenerated worid. REGULATIONS FOR LENT. ‘The following regulations concerning the keeping of Lenten season will ‘be read io all Roman Catholic churches to-day by direction of Cardinai McCloskey ;— 1. All the week days of Lens frou Ash Wedne Easter Sunday are fast days of precept, on one ineal, she allow Fs moderate collation in the event 2. The prece) Ing implies also that of wbst from the two oftesl meats ut, by dispensation: the ase of flesh ment i allowed in this divcese wt the principal ‘on Mondays, Tuesdays aud Thursdays of Lent. with the e: ception of Holy Thursday. ither fast nor abstinence to be observed on struggling far as civil i 4 [is pot allowed to use Osh with flesh ineat at the same meni in Lent. 5, There js no hibition to use exce, butter or cheese, provided ‘the ‘rules of quuutity prescribed by the lage ae mM cr iu prepa . 7. The Chureh excuses one iT Ing fish, vegetables, de, oblization of fasting (out Laustine or Lube taining their growth : four ing i ‘he pabile Ith, shore who religious @xercises during churches of this city, to commence eac! Dust seven o'clock, will be :— Monday in the Church of the Nativity, Assumption man), St. Michael's, st. Anthony's Mary Mazdaten’s (German.) On Tuesday in st. James, St. Jos t Paul's (French), St. Jolin ihe Evangelixt's, Holy St. Gabriel's, the Immaculate Conception, Our Lady o! rows and St, Cecilia's, ‘On Wednesday in Bt. Peters, Most Holy Redvemer (Gers nan), St. ‘ancis of Axsissium (German), st. Navi y vid age, Lent in the eventag at halt. Andrew's, St. Alphonsus noceuts, St. rman), Man in Pit Jom; st. fw the Epiphany, sn: Joseph's (German 5 THE LENTEN SEASON IN BROOKLYN, | To-day the regulations tor the observance of the | Catholics of the diovego of Brooklyn during the Lente seuson wiil be read tn all the churshes of that faith. | ‘The regulations do not differ in any respect trom those govertiing the Catholics of this diocese, Religious ex- ercises will bo held in the Lollowing churches on the | 'he services are to commence at seven o'clock P, M., on Tuesday, at St. Mary’s Star of the Sea, St, An- thony's, Anne’s, St. Jobo the Baptist’s, 54, Paul's, Nicholas’, Church of the Nativity, Church of the Sacred Heart, Transiyuration, ‘ On Wednesday, at St, Cnarles’, Church of the As- sumption, 3%. Joseph’s, Holy Trinity, Immaculate Con coption, Visitation, Our Lady of Victory, Our Lady ot | Mercy, St. Stephen’s, FE anes of 3t, Leonard, of Port Maarice; St 8 On ‘Thursday, at St, James’, St, Peter and St, Paul's, St. John’s, St, Boniface’s, St. Peter's, St. Francis’, Su nd St. Benedict's, St. Patrick’s, St. Vincent dg Paul's, d'a, St. Alpbonsua’, St. Cecil and St. Teresu’s, day, a St. Louis’, st, Hei St Francis of Sale AN OMELETTE MATINEE, MI8S CORSON GIVES AN OMELETTE MATINEE aT THE COOKING SCHOOL—YIVE HUNDRED APOSTLES OF GOOD COOKING ALREADY GAINED—A NATIONAL COOKING SCHOOL 1 BE ESCABLISHED. ' An ‘omelette matinge’’ was tho great attraction at the Cooking School, at No. $ St, Mark's place, yester- day afternoon, fifteen or eighteen women, evidently belonging to the most intelligent, although not the most fashionable class of New York matrons and housekeepers, While the fashionable ladies were promenading on Broud- way in the joyous sunshine these conscientious wives wore glad to bour the confinement of a kitchen in order to improve their husbands’ dinners. The bill of fare consisted of mock turtie soup, boiled bass, dla maitre d‘hotel, with potatoes; roast quail stuffed, and omelettes (ham, oyster, Parmesan cheese, mushrooms, fine herbs and - pre: two hours aud a half The kitchen in the base- ment, where it was given, is spacious and exceedingly well adapted to its presont use, and tho fair scholars were ~ seated at “a long table, each arwed with paper and pene and diligently taking notes of Miss Corson’s instrac- ons. Miss Corson, a rather buxom, iresh-faced lady who wears glasses, stood beside Monsieur Pallas, the “artist,” and explained his deft manipulations of the food articles in au easy, pleasant and chatty style. Very olten there were colloquial interruptions, One of the aud.tors, for instance, desired to kuow whether small ora large calf’s head made the best mock turtle soup, to which the cook curtly replied, “Small are de vest.’” CHAMPAGNE IN GREEN TURTLE sour, Then there was unmitigated astonishment when Monsieur Paliaa declared that after the mock turtle soup was finished a pint of mixed brandy and wine was a palatable addition, and that, in grand dinners, 18 was not a bad idea to round off the greon turtie soup betore serving it with a bottle of chainpagne, “That ain’t @ temperance soup,” exclaimed one of the pupils who was evidently somewhat shocked at the idea of drinking champagne in ber green turtle soup, Then the question came up whether sherry or Ma- deira was best tor mock turtle, aud Miss Corson sagely decided it in favor vf the sherry, ~The Madeira you buy is only sherry, after all,’ said sho, who evidently knows the tricks of the grocers, ‘Is only sherry with a Madeira-like favor! nit, IVs almost impos- j@ to procure genuine Madeira now,” “Phey say thero is pone,’? auother woman chimed 1, SHH DORS NOT LIKE ONIONS, ‘The onion stuffing of the roast quails nse to the Plaiutive inquiries of # lady whether sue really must use onion, She evidently did not tke to pertume ber- solf with the potent frugrauce of that vegetable, with- vut Which no thorough French vr lealian gourmand Can prepare 4 dinner to his taste, There was ouly ove man present at the lesson, and there was quite ® Litter as lis decp sonorous voice broke in upon th male squeaking with the por- tentous query, “What oniomdo you prefer, Miss Cor- soot’? “fhe red onion,’ she replied readily, and an-ex- pression of glad relief stole aver bis troudied tev. 11¢ was evidently “going for’? the red onion bencetorth, The greatest interest centred in the ax kinds of omeiettes mado by the cook uoder Miss Corson's su- pervision, As they came outa delicate, dark golden color, pectutors cried, Ou," smacked their lips ad presently tasted them again and again until the: siowly but surely disappeared. Soyer, the great Freacl cook, Wus right wheu be asked, “Who. Is there wuo can make @ periect omelette?” Gur New York society womeh may wei periect themselves in the art of mak- lug Omeleties When they Lave before them the bright example of the bowutiul Duchess of Murlborvugh, who irequently boasted that she inade omeletios better than any woman iu Euglaod, and that she tad so spoiled the great Duke that ho could not eat omelettes made by bands other than hers. HARDING’? OYSTERS. Wiss Corson’s omelette opera was introduced by oyster overture, wheu usked whether she “bearded” oysters, Miss Corson, who, like many others of her #ex, hag no objection w boards, declured that the process of *veurding’” oysters (cutting off thelr dark lirsute iringe) was po- cular to England, and ehe did not seem to be willing to ibtroduce (ls anti-beard practice into this country, NECESSITY OF REVORM IN COOKRRY, It would be impossible m (he present vriel space to 4 matings, that ts being done Miss Corson has now taug York for three years, am that avout 500 women have attended her classes daring that period, How much illness, indigestion, biliousness and avtend- wnt Inwery have these 400 aposties of waolesome cook. ing bot averted. in the homes of New York? Perhaps the most interesting statistics that could be furnished at the present time would be of the number of persons nuallv killed by hot bread, heavy dough, buckwheat d Indiau cakes (us hot and therelore us indigestible b carbonaceous pie crusts (whic in the country aro often eaten twice or three times a day), impertectly cured bam and bacon, underdone veal, aad that most dangerous of all teat dishes, raw or balf raw pork’ Tako any of these items and you may see daily illustrations of their perfect reality in nu waothe of tho restaurants and boarding house: as well ag in many private houses of this city, How many of the pale, wan, sallow faces of the unheaithy complexions and of the sickly figures we see about in our streets ure bot attributed to the bad cooking and worse dict? Dr. Granville, the celevrated English necessity of ” In London, where that over the Ni noble woman, Lady Bark School of the highest in other Kuropean capitals, the great importance of diflusing a knowledge of the rales of wholesome cook- ing bas already been appreciated, and the th far distant when a d he bealth of wan- 198 Corson sald yeater- keep a teach cooking, As Gay bo the writer, “L look upon cookery 88 ao art just in, in his 1 look upon patnting or sculpture.” Fors Clavigera,” ineists that every girl on bis Natuoual Model Farm shail be taugis we feel for the | | im the combination, Annunciation, Church of All | The matingo was attended by about | 3) The lesson lasted abous | “a eof the atientive pupils | : is not 'y fomalo college and seminary to ‘to cuok exquisitely ;’’ but Lady Barker, in Kugland, goes sil) iurther, and de- Clares that every boy should kuow the ‘rudiments of j Whvlesome cookery. it is cortaiu thas it Lady Bare ker's were carried out un unspeakable amount of suffering would be saved tothe human race, Fi the Great killed himself by eating sweetmeats and pastries; but how many of our American Stenoes ot & Vicious diel, rendered ‘ih mons deeeene of a vi et, reni till more iclous cooking t ig A NATIONAL COOKING SCHOOL, Mfss Corson announced yesterday that » somewdat similar to the National School of Cooking 1a | England wus on toot here. prominent women of Gruce and St Mark’s churches mad been enlisted in this enterprise, and under their management a school wi which would alford to the svg. 14 be opened spoorer classes of iris the epport@nity to Ot themselves us competent and artistic cooks. The price of a series of twelve lessons will be $5, and of a si lesson fifty cepts. It 18 carnestly to be hoped that this project may be attended with the largest possible measure of success. THE COAL COMBINATION. ul ,, 4 DENIAL OF PRESIDENT KNIGHTS PREDIC- TION—WHAT THE PRESIDENTS OP THE COAL COMPANIES SAY---NO NEW ASSOCIATION POs- SIBLE AT PRESENT—~ASA PACKER THE LION IN THE WAY—THE SITUATION IN PHILADEL- PHIA, : Puapeirata, Feb. 9, 1833. ‘The statement made ny Mr. Knight, President of the New Jersey Central Railroad Company, at the stock | holders’ ineoting on Tuesday, that the coa! combina. | tion qould.certainly be re-formed within a week, bas | made quite a stir among those interested and rendered it epropos that an inquiry should be made trom the Proper sources as to the likelihood of Mr, Kaight’s Prediction coming to pase, Wath this object, there. fore, the HxkaLp correspondent has called upon the | officers of the great coal roads and thier dependents | and wiso a number of prominent miaing operators, | IN a suTsemit, ‘The Information gleaned—to sum up the matter ina few words—makes |t cvident that Mr, Knight bus been premature in his assertions, and that at present no Bow combination is pos#ible, for two reasons—trat, on account of the emphatic refusal of Asa -Packer, whose consent, as the controller of the great Lebigh 2" | coul carrying company, is necessary; und second, | because of the general distrust of euch other felt by the directors of the six great companics to be included No matter how strong the in- clination to take means to better their condition, | Wese two reasons will, forthe present ut least, op- crate to prevent another association of the greut rival | Poads. NO COMBINATION FORMING, The facts seem to be substantially these: that no | Mecting has been held here or anywhere else for the reorganization of the combination; that while the ope- raiors in the Lehigh region have signed an agreement | | to limit production the presidente of all the coal com- pitnies have refused to accept any agreement ou a basis of co-operation other than the one signed by Mr. Packer Hmiting production; that while tne ratiroad officers all naturally desire to bring about a returu to prosperity they differ as to the expediency of the combination, Mr, Packer, who controla the Lebigh Valley Railroad Company, being firmly ontrenched against it, and Mr. Gowan, President of the Reading road, also in opposition, while some of the other man- of this read aro iu tavor, All the informal con- | erences and negotiations between tpe railroads and wl operators have, therctore, been withoht result since the dissolution of the old combination, aud mat- tere remain in statu quo. ‘OFFICIAL DENIALS. All the railroad officials and operators visited di plored the condition of the coal trade, and said, gen- erally, that ruin Was threatening almost all the coal interests, from the miner to the carrier; but none o: | them saw any immediate prospect of anew combina. tfon, wad, as 1 have intimated above, many of them condemned it asa means to the end they all desire, oo account of the unfairness which the old ‘syndicate’! worked toward some of the parties to it. THK RRADING RAILROAD, The Philadelphia aud Reading Railroad, it has bees asserted, would be the first to enter u uew combina. lion, haviag-been the greatest sufferer by the break-up of the old ove, Mr. Gowan, the President of the com- | paoy, oe. au emphatic denial when waited upon, Hesaid, “No proposition bas been made te this company for entering inw a new combina Hon, aud it pot wt all likely thus it any shonid be made to us we should accept It, in view of our ex with the last’? As to what this ex- perience ib explained that he bad eutored the old ,combivation with the intention of Ormly udberiug to the rales tor the regulation’ of the trade, to which all the parties to the contract agreed, but svon found that the Reading Railroad Company ‘was being “‘swindied right along,”’ as another oficial of the road put it, by other companies in the combine tion shipping ip larger quantities than the rules allowed und underselling the other parties. This was douq mainly, tt 1s asserted, by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, of which Mr. Packer 1s president, but shit gentieman has always assorted in his own defence that he bad not made any agreement in writing to abide by the rules in question. THK LNHIGH VALLEY RoaD, At the office of the Lebigh Valley road Lloyd Chamberlain, treasurer of this company, denied all kaoowledge of the reported combination, From what was leurued at this office, however, it is evident thas Mr. Packer 1s willing to euter into » compact for a limit of the period of production of coal, but aot as te the price at which 1 ts to be sold. One of she directors substantially admitted this, subsequently, while deny ig any intention of forming a vew combivation, Later ta the day the President of this road, himself, Mr. ker, was found. He said that not only was there nv foundation for the story that a meet as been held, but that tho present state of th gotiations dues not promise any immediate agreement between the companies, personally, would got sign any compact regulating urbitrarily the price of coal. THE DELAWARK, LACKAWANNA AND WESTERN. Mr. Sloan, President of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Ratiroud Company, was as emphatic as Mr, Packer in deciaring against the proposed combi. | nation, He said very decidedly, “No wore coal com. | binations for m: us experience, be said, bad been and bis road had suffered by the last Reading bad. ing obtained the above official the predictions Mr. Koight, the Hekaco correspundent sought the President of the Central Railroad ot New Jersey tor the purpose of learning if possivie upon what ground he based his belief in the speedy formation of the comb:mation, At the PI delphia office of the distinguished raflroad manager, however, the information was giveu that Mr. Knight was io New York, and no oppurtunity, therefore, pre. | sented itsel! tor getting further light irom him on this important subject. AMONG THE OPERATORS, The operators and officers of coal companies koow no more of the alleged new combination than they bad seen in Mr. Knight's speech. Tue President of | one company, speaking of the aiuation, suid that in | spite of Mr, Gowan and Mr, Sloan declaring against | the combination he thought they would bowh jorn if | Mr. Packer would sigu an agreement to abide by the rules of the jomt board. This ho suys he will not do, and this will preventa new association, A STARTLING SHOWING. The Philadelphia inquirer this morning prints the following interesting table showing the depreciation | coal company stock by the present condition of affairs, although it must be remombered that it is Lewin Aine jn vaiues everywhere causes :— | ‘The loss to the holders of stocks and bonds of tho a hich dissolu: n by the following ca | fully provared statement k capital of the Pit doiph.a and Reading amounts to $34,277,000, ral the Delaware and Hudson Canal Uonpairy, $20, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail | ge $23,200,009. the Lehigh Valley, Kallroua Company, 1,082,000; "the Ci from political and other epcenral Relieved | ot ta oe, 000,000; the Peunsylvania Coat Company, §5,0uu,! tices of ou year ayo to the prevent + Sto 13! Oe a ei ‘aud W. RB. i. ¢ ) from, to 1. aud Rudsun Canal (par value $100) from “125 te 8 Pounsylvania Coal ipar value 8100) from, . > bo 220 wo tion ia the value of bonds bas nut been gem: Mi pa gh ja sume. instances -hag been quite The De #0 marked, bul )h ve jo sever to 50 yee! nver anouery {as ¢ in value of Roading shares Is over alley, over $10,.00,000; iu Delm er $13,000,000; in Central of New OU; in Delaware, Lackawanna and 09.900, and in Peuusylvauia Cont, Jersey. over 8 Western, over ® $2,754,000, The | depreeiation of tal is much over $10 mT eral boliet that the | t contin it these great companion du not organize for the p their property. | A DESERVING , INSTITUTION, ‘Tho Night Refuge, lately organized in Tenth street, corner ot avenue D, im doing an excellent work in af foralng shelter and the opportunity of secking employ. ment to deserving and homeless persons of both sexes, ‘The number of nightly applicants average ofer 200, the men being greatly in excess of the women. They are allowed to return for five consecutive nights while seek in; or for a longer torm in special cases, at the aeeetion of the superintendent atribuuons of cast off clothing are much needed for aistribution among theye destituve men Fad women, und may be sent to tho Retoge, corner of tb street and avonue D, addressed to Henry E, Seilew, Honsraay Secretary Night Refago Associa' ; OF packages gladly be sent tor ou notice being given. A bamber of more desorving lod ap a. ve obtained situation® au while at the Refuge. will, ib is hoped, be able © support themuelves for the Tatars. ene