The New York Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1877, Page 8

“PLEASING THE SPIRIE The Worship of God as Preached in Our Pulpits Yesterday. MORTIFYING THE FLESH. The Philosophy of Fasting —Subduing the Animal. MORAL AND SPIRITUAL DYSPEPSIA. —-—__— Shadow and Substance in Religion-—Old and New -Paganism. ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. NE SPIRIT OF THE LENTEN SEASON—SERMON BY THE REV. DR. M'GLYNN. AtSt, Stephen’s Church, Twenty-eighth street, yes- terday morning the high mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father McCready, The spacious editlee was filled with worshippers. So fine was the weather that the opportunity for the ladies to display stylish dress was evidently availed of, the pews along the contre Aisic prosenting fashion in all the brilliancy of spring time. The sermon was preached by the Rov. Dr. McGlynn, She sudject being an exhortation founded upon the gospel and the epistle of the mass of tho day, Tho gospel tells us, said tho preacher, of the Saviour’s pre. diction of “his sufferings and death and resurrection, and this approaching season of Lent is meant to commemorate these sufferings and death that we may contemplate with prolit the Saviour’s messago to men and that we, too, may rise into a state of sanctity. Jesus was on His way to Jerusatem when He uttered the prophecy, and when ‘He was near to Jericho He was met by the blind man, who cried out “Jesus, son of David, have tnercy on me.”’ Those who were with Jesus rebuked the blind iran for so crying out, but he only eried out the louder. And his prayer was granted. iu the confidence the blind man evinced and in our Lord’s commanding him to be brought to Him we could find instruction jor our. _ delves. CHRIST'S EARTHLY MISSION, ‘There was a mystical signilicance in the Saviour’s turing of this man in response to the repented cries for merey. ‘The mission Christ was to cure the world’s spiritual blindness, In accomplishing this He works through His ministers, But not vuly to His chosen ministers is this werk intrusted—every Christian = man and — woman las aporcin that ministry which brings in the bind pues tw the Saviour that they may obtain tho enlight- ruwent tu love as they ought the Lord their God. Let hy not be unwilling to be brought to Him, Let us cach in our proper sphere be the loving messengers of His jove, in the hope that He may lay His bands on the heads of those who are brought to Him, and tonch their eyes, that they may see. The charity we do to vibers we ao to ourselves, We tind in the blind man the type of human nature, the figure of that intellec- Jual bimuuess to ilumine which was Christ's mission, | lt was for this He came on carth to div. The blood of the New Testament was shed for man’s redetnpuon into. tho light of sanctity, und not again would the voice of the Lord be heard until He would demand a strict account Irom all of us in return tor His death. His passion introduces eflectually His message to men, for in it He offered up a sacrifice tor men. Atmere speculative Knowledge of God 15 not Butlicient to save us. A strong love of truth leads to the knowledge of God, and it was to bring us to this knowledge that Christ offered Himseit up. The charity mentioned by St. Haul in tne epistic of the mass 1s a sublime expression of truth and the love of the good, Rud in this isthe love oi God. Truth and good are in pur minds separate, but they are ono and the same in God, This season of Lent which is approacning 1s one especially adapted to meditation on the irath of our holy religion, Because of this dual nature of ours we Dave got to discipline our bodies, chastise ourselves und deny ourselves gratifications, so that our bearts May embrace moro tully the aspirations which lead us to the love of our Father and Him atone. THK PHILOSOPHY O¥ PASTING. Thisis the philosophy ot fasting, that we keep the | ody in subjection to reason. It is entirely proper that the body should be tho siave of the spirit, to bo controlled by it and guided by it in its dictates, for God Hitneell has written the lawon every hoart. lo ns i{rpronching holy season we should guard against every ‘danger from our an-mal nature, ao that we may preserve upimpaired our spiritual sanctity. then resolve to obey the laws laid down by Hoiy Mother Church in this commemorative time of our Sav- for’s sufforings acd death, Let us not permit Him to walk in our midst and pass us by without our exciaim- Ing with the poor blind man meu tioned in the gospel “Jesus, Son ot David, have mercy on me’? The Rev. Dr. McGlynn read the Cardinal Archbishop's letter of Lenten regulations, Whicu was in every way timilar to that issued last year, and for some | years previous. Special Lenten services will be held im this epurch every Sunday, Tuesdoy and Friday evenings, suitable discourses being delivered on Sundays aod nment will be given in the to-morrow evening for the benefit of St, Stephen's Orphan Home tor children. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. THE SHADOW AND THE SUBSTANCK OF RE- LIGION—SERMON BY REV. MR. HEPWORTH, Mr. Hepworth preached toa congregation that was larger Ephesians ni. 8—“Unto me, who am less than the least pt uli saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Curist.’” Let ux, Due reason why Maul was regarded go highly in heaven, | te said, is that he thought so little of -himselt. He refers io hix own unworthiness on three separate occa- none; on apostles; a second time he calls himself the greatest of sivners, and declares that ii God can save him there inast be hope for every one elec, and in this chapter he Epeai.s of himsell ag Jess than the least of all the saint God can use a man best when that man thinks hi unworthy to be used. If one 13 emptied of sell then God vhs him. In order to play upon the flute you must see that the flute is perivetly cmpty—avy intra tour Will be a serious impediment to the tune y jesire tu produce, So, when God would speak through us, or would use us version of inen, either vy means of our lips or hives, we must be suro to empty ourselves ot all pride and all jove of self and all consciousness of power except that power which 1s the Iree gift of Him, And [ bave noticed, brethren,” that those who are nearest to God most compietely Abaee themsely There 1s conceit and pride among men and on tho earth, but with the apgels there is humility; with the | archangels there is seltabasement. The higher up we tand the p er Loan ideal spiritual exevilence the jess we think of ourseives avd the more we depend | upon Him who hatn given os the golden promise that | He will never desert, will never torsuke us, THE FA TRUK, If you will find m rigee, © man who thinks bimselt righteous enough to cross the line between Hie and heaven, a man who believes he never vreaks one of God's Jaws, | will show you aman whose real epiritual power and insight ts at the very lowest ebb, Who bas grasped the suadow ol holinéss and lives under the delusion that Le possesses 1s suvstance, If, on the ovber hi you will Gnd mea rou! that bends in body and 1, mn thought and purpose, before the throne of God—a soul that thinks so litte of itself that it exclaims, constantly, that it is worthy only of condemnation, and yet a soul that aspires and bangers and thirsts to be more worthy of Him whu died on the cross—1 wili show you one which bas un- fonsciously been lifted up to a sublimer height of knowledge and iaith and transiigured until its gare ments are white as the driven snow, We bave little reason to be other than humble, It Js poor policy tu indulge in anything ike pride over apy achievements that may bave fallen to our low The only value of anecesses lies in the fact that they Encourage us to further work Yes, it is tras that we have little cause to treet from pride in the pri of the Alinigi is poor policy Whea you are climbing the ragged sides Dr the Alps, Whose top, snow-capped, pierces the | tlonds, fo stand stiiion your journey and look back | Into the valley and say to. yourselt, 1 come.” By doiwg that you ctim of a delusion and fail into back when you Judge of y things you’ b roper estimute of your own strength, but turn your Bick'on the valley that lics at your feet and. 100k to the mountain summit and meneure the length of the Journey that still es before you, and then remember that tino is short and your strength but litte, We wre apt to do what Paul never did—compare ourselves with euch other and then to think too highly of ourselves, it is only teil The Senptures us wie shall | be exalted at turiously enon; Wr You cannot have wings y strong to carry | you up to the stars while yo Weighted down by pride, Lut when you become lish, by emprying yoursell of yoursell then the broad pinion of your jain wilt be strong enongh to bear you up wil you catch a glimpse of heaven itset, io not compare youraeives With your neighbors; robe way be Very white i the twilight, butat vit In tue eupshine aud jet ft pour its yu you Will #ee munya spol yen ne yar robe mity look spotless to y parison with your neighbor's, bug itis polled, tna comparison with that of our Master, Man's po- vue who has broken the laws of God and them wilfaily, isin the dust We have no | ding of Christ, | they brok Awalat to siand crect oxcept at the bi | of the greatest statesmen, orators, autbors, men ot even than usual, yesterday morning, from | ho speaks of himself as the leust of the | | human Saviour, We can’t approach the Divine pres- | | say, he continued, that a man who is hard and un- | . NEW YORK and it we die in th: lect of the known Jaws ot God, willally putting away His invitation oft repeated, we take the most awful responsibility that ever came within human reach. And if we will only go to God He will give us all we can bold and stands ready to give more. God 1s no mise, Ho will give us In the presen time peace and joy, and im the time to come ie everlasting, MASONIC TEMPLE. PAGANISM, OLD AND NEW—SERMON BY BEY. 0, B, FROTHINGHAM, My subject, said Mr, Frothingham yesterday morn- ing, is ‘Paganism, Old and New.” Taking up the other day a volume written in opposition to the aoc trine of evolution, I w: ruck with the fact that the writer's chief apprehensions seem to be for those who believe in the doctrine of evolution, in that it led to Paganism. Poganism seemea to be hisaread, It was ia his mind associated with sensuatism, materialism, coarseness and indelicacy in thought and lite, Pagan- 1smn is the bugbear of a great many people. It is, then, proper to ask what 18 paganism? A question which I propose to answer. The word “pagan’’ comes from a Lat word which means a village. Pagans were vil- lagers, at that time when the villages were widely seperated, They were a simplo, unaffected people, and poganism was the religion of this people—that 1s, the religion of villagers. ‘There 1s another word synony- mous with pagan-—ihe word ‘heathen. ”? The heathen people lived on a heath, and wore there- fore of a lower order, you would suppose, than the villagers; und yet by one of those nonson- sical inconsistencies of language the word “heathen” is described as a higher kind of paganism. Thus Plato and Socrates, the philosophers, are heathen; the multitude are pagan, Paganism 1s the worship of na- ture, pure and undisguised; nature not studied; pa- ture as it appeared to the eye and car, They did not speculate about it They had no instruments by which they could investigate it, They took it for what it | seemed to be—a living thing, We beneve that 1 is | a hving thing, but these villagers did not reason ub itas we do, They simply felt this presence and woi vertul power in the world, It to them life and it was to them creative, The impressive part of pature, as they apprehended it, wag a lile-giving power. They did not stand in an attitude of awe and wor. ship. They took things as they were. They saw na- ture was a power of lie, ‘They put thé seed im the ground, knowing nothing vl the processes ot nature, ‘The rainy fell, the dews descended upoa the suriuce of tbe carth where the germ lay the green sprout, then the delicate tlo 8, the bush, the vegetuble, the fruit, and it mystery, they sunply saw the earth auswer to the power of the sunbeutas. They saw this reproduct power going on im nature, abd they worshipped it, ‘Yheir worship was a worship of pacore, an overtlow- ing, exuberant worsuip. They worslipped the terres. trial Venus in ail her forms of beauty. Lt was wild, Let us coutess It was indeticate, course, Was it only | that? Shall we listen to the Christian orators wae | paint paganism in its darkest colors und say tbat is the doctrine that Christianity has superseded ? WHAT WOULD PLATO SAY? Suppose some pnitosopher like Vato should appear in our Christiun crvihzation? le would go umong the negroes of the South culling themsvlyes Christians and see them practising charms and ineentations tull of the superstitions at the old paganisin, He would go | among the Romun Catholics and see them pi themselves boiore the altar, worshipping. itn Heving in the efficucy of holy water und velieving they Were saved sro peraition by counting 80 many veuds, He would attend some revival meeting of the orthodox Chrisuans and hear the minister ume after ume Preach the power of the blood that was shed 2,000 years ago, Suppose he were to say, fhis is Chris- Uentry?—the Worstip ot the African, the idie wor- ship ot the Catholics, the popular superstiiion of the orthodox Christians. Wouid it be fair? It Piato shoala appeur he would find the surine of the terrestrial Venus recognized by reputable people, the temple of Bacchus erceted at every corner, He would seo vice, quite us grent as was practised in any | heathen ¢ here in New York, He would see men high im position in official trast steabng trom the poor, undermining the weak, beating down the de- jenceless, He would see whiskey ring, Ladian ring— rings without number made by people high in position, who are leagued tog ney for them selves at the expense of those whom they wre engaged to serve, What would Socrates suy 10 this’ Would he say “This 18 Christianity 1” A SOME OLD PAGANS. The speaker claimed for Paganiem some of the noblest churacters, Socrates, the emtvent ethical scientist, Was a pagan, Hiato, the princo of specu- lative philosophy, wax & pagan; Sencea, the great suint, sweet, educated und tender, Whom Christians have tried to claim on the ground that seach. wisdom could not be obtained except through the study of the writings of tho Apostle Paul, was a pagan; Cicero, one letters, of the race; one of the groatest minds, one of tne profoundest thinkers, was a Pagan, ‘ihese mou in their day speot their whole time in redeeming pagan- ism from 11s errors and superstitions, They were the Tegenerators of their age. PAGAN YET? Allour best ideas ocume from them. The popular vices vl their tine, the crimes of the great and the Ii- tle, they pronvuuced unworthy of human nature. It | wus bey, who Uxed we term = ‘anmatural” upon the worst vico of human kind, Art is all = pagan. = The art of Greece, the great art of tne world, the art which our artists are ali stadying to-day, is pagan through and through. | The great art of tiuly, the revival ot Jearning, was | pagan, Mr, Frothingham remarked further that paganism was quite as much a new thing as it was an ola, Lt was pot a question of time. They had persua- sions; we have convictions, ‘They dreuined; we have | found, ‘They longed; we have demonstrated, The hew paganisin had 18 indeheate side. Men were not redeeined yet, Tbe unital was nov driven out, Stull it remained true that ¢ men and women would do cour.e things—the ovscene'would be ovscene. 1: | could not be helped. Paganisin was just ax conspicu- | | ous im modern society as it was belore. Tbe ness and indelicucy were us bad, if not worse, to- day than mm the old paganism, because then they knew no better. They were frank and outspoken, To those people nothing was impure, because they con- trasted it with nothing that was betier. ‘The lower pa- | gunism thinks and feels the sume thing now, but it was | affected, meretricions, Unctean and disgusting, because | it knew better, sin had its grand | forms. To say that pug: SUOUS Was sin | ply slander, Paganisin was the friend ot intelligence, | purity, goodness and virtue. Tho speakcr closed by saying tbat the worsoip of nature, in all tte action, 1n the whole range of its sweep, was beauttiul in its rev- erence iot tho creative power, whose seat 1s in the bosom of God, whose voice 1s the muste of the world. | BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. THE DOCTRINE OF UNSELFI4HNESS—SERMON BY | THE REY. DR. HYATT SMITH, The congregation in the Tabernacle Baptist church, Brooklyn, yesterday morning, were surprised on sembhing to find the pastor’s chair occupied by the | | Rev. Dr. Hyatt Smith, of Brooklyn, The mystery | was so6n solved by the Intter clergyman, who read a | note from Mr. Talmage stating that he would be un- | able to conduct the services on account of sickness in his family. His sermon to commercial travellers will | not be preached until next Sundny, At the usual pointin the services Dr. Smith arose and preached a sermon un “Religion and the Happi- ness it affords,” ‘The human side of our Saviours character, said he, is the most interesting. We need a enco—(od is too far ofl. The doctrine of unselishness | that Christ preached is above all others. It presents | to us the clements of true happiness, The first of these elements 14 to inink and care for others, We should not be — look- ing out for our own good alone, 1 don't mean to | feeling for others will be blamed by God fordemanding | one hundred cents ona dotlar; but 1 do mewn to say that a person who bas that spirit has other traits which will carry bim down, A mnan who has po re. gad for society of mordlity has other things about Tim wine will drag hin down, A great many are not happy in religion. It $4 because they have too inuch Ww.eat und tog little to do. There is 8 mofal and a spiritual dyspepsia as dangerous as the poysical one. We have a great deal of practical Catborcism in our We do too litte They say they came hero ‘od, but that 1s not all.” We came bere to do thing. Don't delegate your charities to societies strumentalities that cat up all they get in | iicers, bat go and perform them yourselt, bappier in this life if we did that. IL | ehorch In thts city to-day I would have a mis. | ry lor the express purpose of finding out cases of | For this | ston puysical suffering which should bo releved, I would select a Woman, one thau was not very plous, who could sleep well nights and didn’t have the dys. pepsia—not 1 koow the difference between that and relygion, she could carry the gozpel to everybody, Try this plan of charity, Be,ood and earnest. Let sumo hoase be full of Joy becanse you havo entered it. ALL SOULS’ CHURCH. BPINITUAL EQUALITY—SFRMON BY REY. DR. RELIOWS, The underlying thought of the sermon preached by the pastor, Dr. Beliows, at this church, yesterday | morning, Was the wile separation of humanity, not | so mach by geographical distances as by intellectial and social distinctions, | Alter spewking of the differ- ence between men separated by wide stretches of land and sea, be considered at length the more vital differ. ences which exist between members of the same political and Cbrvstian body, All. great cities, he said, are, divided into sections and quarters, ‘Tho educated, refined and wealthy settle in one neigh. | Lorbood, the mechanics and tradespeople in another, while in other quarters the depraved and the poorer classes of society cluster together, The wider tho | reparation the more decisive its moral effects, Many fastidious people live in elties tho greater part of which is toto them an unknown land. What do tho | aristocratic ladies of New York know of thet «i ters living in tho Bowory or in Rivingtow sircer This segregation of cinsses con 10 pass | by referring to events in daily fo. A merchant ex- | cause man was made for God. No m | should be thanktul for this great gilt, and at the same who had the dyspepsia and didn't | 4 | Mr Piumotee made an address of welcome, He said HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1877.—WITH on natural instincts. Providence has not suffered any capricious logislation in this matter, The law of gravi- tation is as active in the social aed religious as im the material world. Intellectual differences, the needs of existence and other causes determine tho i ft Rey fon. Christianity says, however, pony eeae oh bis “ ‘fae useful classification, this law is not the best law of our Iie The Charch, speakii for Christianity, declares that all men are eqnal, ‘all broth. ers of ono divine family. So says the American con- tution, Sa say also the idealists of allages. Yet ublime theory 1s hard to work out im practice, How men have despaired of the education and training common people can be read in the niuries tbat are past. The proble: been the control of these men, tl dreaded in State. tb liberty by which they bave rOsR obtained of emancipation isthe history of the world. There 1s a growing fechng that economic and material laws aro not the only laws, There are unrevealed sources of power in the genuine love of man as man. All obsta- must eventually sink before this overmas:ering tion of the method of its best ex- pression 18 the probiem before the world to-day. low can the intelligence of the educated be best brought to the help of the ignurant? The answer to this and kindred questions is found in the sentiment of humanity, Th reat human soul hns seen its brother inan in all times and under all circumstances, | and recognized its brotherhood. This divine sentiment | is tbe secret of ull effective education ; it 1 the insp: tion of all true preaching. When it animates the breasts of the world's teachers tho problem 1s solved and the gulf bridged, TABERNACLE METHODIST CHURCH. THE PALM TREE A SYMBOL OF THE CHURCH— SERMON BY REV. CHARLES GREEN. Rev, J. Johns, being indisposea yesterday morning, placed at the disposal of Rev. Charles Groen, a colored clergyman from Melroso and tormerly a slave, the pulpit of the Free Tabernacle Methodist church, West Thirty-fourth street. Taking for his. text the twel(th verso of the ninety-second Psalm, he said:—1 neea not tax your patience with arguments to prove that this 1s the Word of God. tis the word of the Lord, for we read that all Scripture was written by inspira- tion, The palm tree of which we are told in our text is asymbol of Christianity. The tree outwardly is a beautiful tree, and besides being used fora variety of useful purposes it lives a thousand years, And now, what of this pum tree when we apply it to Chris- cles feel tanity? The rghteous shall flourisu lke it. They ive: this world of sorrow, and they live among people who do not belong to the Loru’ Jesus, they have a great promise made them—-they shal! flourish, Chrisuianity ix the beauty of the world; it ia the salt of the earth; itis the saving r ot the world; and although the world has been attacked by superstition and idolatry, 1 never gives in, by reason of the hoy spirit at the Lord. The palm tree is a long-lived tree, So are Christians. They never aie, ‘The house in which we live to this world we move out of and Jive in God and pever dic, Once tho Methodists were few in | number, but when Wesley started the tire in the old | country it found its way to America, and wo were he happier for it. For the Methoutets to-dus— at L regurd them superior to wny other evs cuuse 1 think thein the nearest Some people believe that it 18 not in keeping Jor women to pre: pablie, bat In the Methodist prayer meetung the prayers are said by those upon whom tno spirit. of God descends, After services a colloction was taken up for Mr. Green, whose church im Melrose has become financially ein- barrassed. ny not thi gelical seat—I love, bi to the apostolic chore! PLYMOUTH CHURCH. THE BEAUTY OF FAITH IN GOD—SERMON BY REY. DR, ROBINSON, OF TROY. Rey. Dr. Robingon, of Troy, N. ¥., occupied tho Plymouth pulpit yesterday, owing to the absence of Mr. Beecher in West, Tho audieuce, of course, was not og largo as usual, but the edifice wes well filled, Tho reverend doctor took occasion in his prayer to remember Mr, Beecher. The discourse was on tho value of fuith, and the text, James il, 14, “Can faith save him ?’? Faith, sald the minister, was aver; dificult thing to define.» It could only be de- Boned by iNustration, and he proceeded to illustrate it amines the market reports tu the morning paper, and on the strength of them buys or sells. Ho has conf- dence in the correctness of the inform.tion, That is faith; that isthe kind of faith our Heavenly Father | wants the believer to. havo in Him and iis promises. he wants us to have the same faith in Him that a child does in the word of a parent | 8 never deceived It, How olten do we wear alittle | y, “My lather suid so, and my father knows?" the Kind of trust that God wants His children ein Hin, Itis not enough, however, to huve The devil bad saith, but not faith tor ealvatio That ix not enough, God terror, and sent His sin is faith, You say you believe in God. saw min in the toi's of sin and Son to vpen a way for him to come out of it. before God an abominable thing, and your faith is af no account if its not all sufficient to enable you to rive above it, Oue of the sins that God most abe, hors is.the s1n-of Ure hoart—atack of love toward God, He wants you to love Him as your chid joves you; to approach Him with the sume filial trust that your ebitd comes to you to seek the falfiiment of a promise. God sometimes speaks to His chvidren with chustenings. Is your faith snch that) yon con kiss. the rod your Heavenly Father lays upon you? You want the tmith that will enable you to obey Godin the fire, You want that fuith that recognizes the right of Godto command. It is im- portant ovr faith should be the tuith that saver, and not the faith of devits, The minister itlustrated the desire of God to save man by picturing a sovoren summoning before him a guilty subject aod ofering him a free pardon because of his dvep love for the of- fender. All that 1s mecossary is to accept the pardon ot the Lord Jesas Corisi. Sin in man ts unnatural bee can have a nobler purpose than living for God, Wiren his faith is placed in G sus leads himon, He may be at the toot of the altar stairs that pint the way to God, and tremble, out if his faith 1 like that of your litle child he will develop spiritually, There is power in Jevus Christ, if we only exercise faith, to lilt a man into the hizh lands where he may walk’ confidingly next to | his Redcemer, ST. CECILIA’S CHURCH. MORAL BLINDNESS—SERMON BLY REV. FLABERTY. The services at this church yesterday at tho high mass wero of an interesting nature, tho music particu- larly being of a character appropriate to the church of which St. Cecilia 1s the patroness, she being noted in- the Roman calendar as the patron saint of music. In addition to the regular choir of this church, which is an excelent one, Mr. Henry Brandeis, the tenor, at | FATHER sisted im the singing of the mass, which was Generalli’s, in’ ©, The soprano, Mrs, Eady; contralto, Miss Atkinson; — baritone, | Mr. David Kennedy, were in good voice, and with Mr. A. J. Davis at the organ the performance | was excollent, Mr. Brandeis sang “Cujus Animam,” from Roseini’s it Mater”? Rov. Hugh Flaherty, the pastor of dt. Cecilia's, preached from the gospel of the duy, reading from the twenty-eighth chapter of St. Luke, “Lord, that I may sec.’” Alter detailing at length what a great viessing Irom God to tan is the sense of sight, and explaining to bis congregation why they time have great sympathy for their Jetlow beimgs un- fortunate enongh to oe deprived therzof, he drew « comparison between those without the benefitof physi- 1 vision and those deprived of the moral vision, en deavoring to Impress upon their mings that the Jat were by for ip yroater need of enlightenment, Tho physical blindness of the body and sho intellectual Dlindneas of the heathen are far tern to bo deplored than the deliberate and sel!-induced moral blindness of | those who protess Christianity and ignore its precepts, ST. MARY'S STAR OF THE SEA, ADMONITIONS ON THE OBSERVANCE OF LENT— REMARKS OF REV. FATHER M'GUIRE. Tho regulations for Lent were read in all the Catho- He churches of the diocese of Brooklyn yesterday, At the principal service at St. Mary’s Star of tle Sea, Rev. Father MoGuire, assistant pastor of St. Mary's, spoke briefly and impressively upon =the necessity for the proper observance of tho forty days of penance and fasting, which begins on Ast Wednesday. He said it is too frequently the cage that peuple pay but slight attention to the | ptof the Church in this regard, Nevertholos: rist has said, ‘He who will not hear the Chure be hike unto the heathen and the publiew eats in that church were now vacant wh the regu:ations lor Lent—tor the season ot fa prayer. I they had profitably availed them: thoir Jaet opportunity to salts y God for their the due periormance of the requirements of His Church, Hs bad they reaped their reward. ‘Remember, man, thou art but dust, and onto aust thou mast return,” were the words which should be borne constantly in | the mind, that we may the better serve God and prac- tice tho self-denial preseribed for our guidance. if wo da so wo shall enjoy a glorious Easter, in the co: jous- ness that though this may be the last Lent we may reo ‘on earth, it will have been spent in the service of God. BROTHER M'AULEY'S MISSION. THUR NEW WATER STREKT HOUSE OPFNED FOR SERVICES YESTERDAY, The now mission house, at 316 Water street, un- der the direction of Brother McAuley and wife, was opened to the publis yesterday, under the most favor. able auspices, ‘There wero three services, morning, afternoon and evening, and the hall was packed at each, at tho afternoon and evening service, particu- larly, when thero was not even stand nz room. In the afternoon the services opened with the singing of several of Moody and Sankey’s hymns, which were given with great vim by the whole congre- gation, Mrs, Whittemore presiding at the organ, Rev. that the old house was ful) of blessed memories on ac- by tho operation of well known laws. The tendency of these laws ia useful in the main, They are tounded count of the numbers of conversions that had oeen 2 converts, ge if and praving in the Water Sircet Mirsion. oe ln ene: . Pathetic story hpi od ns come to the mi jon four years wree! Jbow Jesus by the exhorta- and béen brought to kuow Jesus ons of Brother McAuley. Atthe conclusion of tue meoting Brother McAuley roid he wished to say a few words concerning the pew building, Ail the money that had been subecribed for it had been given by atew persons and there wus now $500 debt on it, He ni that as many 4 possible would come forward and give wh y could. He wished that Commodore Vi it had come’ down to the Water Street Mission before he died, and perhaps when he raw the great work the Lord was doing in Water street it would have opened his heart, He related an incident that happened Fourth of July night, when so! disorderly buys attempted to drown the iog with the sound of firecrackers, but the congrezation just set to work and sang so loud that noise of the cruckera ceased. and the devil was cheated out of bis fun. ST. FRANCIS XAVIER'S CHURCH. SBRMON BY REV. FATHER WHITE, 8 J. ‘High mass was celebrated at the church of theJesmt Fathers yesterday by Rev. Father O’Connor, and at the gospel Rev. Father White preached a sermon on the subject of the Gospel of the day (Quinquagesima Sunday), taken from st, Luke, xviii. Iho preucher, referring to the prophesy made by the Redeemer to His disciples about His approaching passion and death, arew inany valuable lessons from it. Each one, he said, Das a cross to bear at timer, and the Divine exam pie shown us should bo suflicient encour eur it not only with patieuce but even with cl revs, The faith of the blind man whocried ont with such Implicit confidence, son of Duvid, have mercy on me,"’ was ulso beld up as an example to be treasured by every follower of the Gospel. lr, Wilhum Berge olliciated as organist, and bis chor. sang Mereudante’s three part mags with devotvonal expression and marked effect. Thecolebrapt read the regulations for Leut and announced that a collection woula be taken up next Sunday for the parochial schools, WIDOW VAN COTT. A CRUSH AT THE COOPER INSTITUTE—AN ELO- QUENT TEMPERANCE DISCOURSE BY THE FaA- MOUS FEMALE REVIVALIST. ‘Tho hall at the Cooper Institute was crowded yester- day afternoon on tho occasion of the exercises of the American Temperance Union, The great card whieh attracted such a lurge attendance was an announce: | | letting so many othe ment that the Widow Van Gott would anake ber ap, peurance upon the platiorm and edily the audience | with one of her sensational revivalist discourses, One- halt of (be assemblage was composed of ladies. When tho fair and poudervas widow made her appearance, | leaning upon the arm of President Gibbs, there was | loud clapping of datuty bands and stamping of male | | leet, The ‘oratress’? was enveloped im 4 capacious tur cloak, which, upon takipg # seat on the platform she threw gracofully back from ber well rounded suoulders, . The lady was attired quitesimply in black, | without ornaments of any description, THE DISCOURSE. When prayer had been offered up by Rev, Messrs, | Ostrander and Curey, aud 4 short address delivered by Mr. Gibbs, the Widow Van Cott came to the trontof the stage, She commenced by asking the audience to sing two verses of the bymn commenemg ‘All hail the power of Jesus’ name,” When (uis request had been complied with the laay at once entered into the very spirit of her temperance discourse. Asn speci- men of female oratury i certuinly tar excesded any elfort. litherto made vy ‘the celebrated wowen of our tine who have hiherto reaped laurels on the Amerioan platiotm, She commenced | by asserung that the Christian home was the great rricr against intemperance. “Give mo,” she , “a home where Curist reigns, aud [ will give you home where the imtexica'ing cup is unknown.” ail the trouple as te inter lay ou tue shoulders and at the di wd Christians, She would like to eee nember turving the wine of their cellars, aud then returm might come. 1 was our fashionable wine bibbers that were sending down 60,000 souls to hell every yeur. ‘Iberr influence had a far more damagiug effect than the ireaks ot the lowly and besovied jnebriatcs. The cloquent wiaow handled the — cumsellers~ w.thout gioves, She — castl- quted the fashionable and exclusive gociety whiew admitted them to there pat.ors simply Denuse they were rich, “If you look at these riches,’ she remarked, with telhoag emphn: striking the desk in trontot her, you wil find them revkiug with bigoa, They aro bedewed with the tears of the wife and toe daughter; they wring sorrow irom tue hearts of the mother, | ivathe ther business as 1 Jouthe the gimy serpents. There is no manhood among them, [pity sucu specimens ot humanity Mrs. Van Coit nest deseribed ner visits to New Orleans and the success of her missionary cfortaein tbat locality, Her picture ot temperance gathermys and the terrible scenes wtinessed 1 the Crescent City m connection with theso, revsvalx moved mbuny ot her ndience to tears, Ste cstimated that 60, persous perisne this country yenrt: the result of in- tempera they were vamned and went down to eternal might. The speaker then took holdof tho Alerican tag which bang 1 front of the plationm and cried :— Long nay it wave, O'er the land of the ree and the home of the brave. She wanted to see the time whon these lines could be quoteu with truth, There was no freedom ju tbe iry while it was ruled, by the influcnes of whisk see the time when, in truth y ‘y might bo called “the Jand of the fre She exhorted every one of the angience to buckle on their armor in oraer tw liberate thousands of their teliow citizens trom the slavery of rum, Let them work unul there came along the jines the cry of victory from all sectious of the jand. We have 409 miles of rum shops in the country and possibly 4,000,000 of drunkards, Jt would probably take Dinety days for (bis vast army to #3 a given point she begged of her hearers to arise, in the strength of God, und do all they could to d> away withthe great evil. Mrs. Van Cott uleo de- nounced the practico ot ministers in giving wine to church members through the sacramental cup. she called this “the cup of the devil.’ Had it not been Jor intemperance the police force of this city would be ample at 500 members; Low it took 2,000 to keep the Pp d, therefore, to D peace, ‘The discourse was interspersed with well told and ing anecdotes, causing trequent application of havdkerchiets to the ¢; among the ladies, The tat- ented widow concludes by giving the pledge ot tem perance to at least two-thirds of the audience, who stood up inthe ball with right hands ifted over their heads, The scene at this tine was dramatic, THE FATE OF WILLIE WALLACE, On December 6, 1875, w well dressed couple called at No, 137 Thirty-ninth street, Gowanus, the residence ot Mrs, Elizabeth Mooney, a respectable matron, who had advertised her services as wet nurse, The visitors, who gave their names as James and Mary Wallace and their habitation as No, 53 West Twenty third street, Now York, loft a handrome malo intant with Mrs, Mooney to be taken care of tilt called for, The com- pensation ngreed upon for tho services of tho hurse was $12 por month, “Willie” being given as tho name of the cmild. Betore taking their depariuro Mr. and Mrs, Wailace told the "se. to write to them through the Brooxtyn Post Office. A month passed by, but the promized board moncy was not lorthcomipg. Two letters were feceivea from the mother of the child, but no money, and two works ago littio Wilhe Walinco was consigned to the Kings County Baby Ward, where ho now Ix, Effort 1s being made by tho police to xsceriain tho whereabouts of the missing parents. SAVED BY A COLORADO CONDUCTOR. A VENERABLE WOMAN WALKS ACROSS THE GREAT PLAINS AND 18 FINALLY DISABLED. [From the Denver (Col) Tribuno, Feb, 7.] When the Denver Pacific trai arrived In Cheyenne Monday afvernoon the conductor was informed that an aged lady, with her son, had started early in the duy with the intention of walking to Denver and that they seemed to be objects of charity. Conductor Farmer kept a lookout on the returning train, and when thirty miles south of Cheyenne discovered the old lady and her boy sitting on the end of the ties of tho track, ‘The train was stopped and a free ride offered to this city. Ittock buta moment to discover that the old lady was not only pearly blind from constant looking upon the snow, but her tramp and privations had ren- | dered her so feeble that she had to be lifted Into the car, | Unquestionably another night’s exposure would have snapped the thread of life, and doubtless the boy would have meta similar fate, So soon as ashort rest was had the woman, whoso name was Mri Miller, a widow aged fifty-eigae y thizing passengers and (rainmen tho story of their The details woula make interesting and thriing reading. Six weeks wgo the twain started froin Randolph county, Indiana, to walk to this cry to tL gome reintives iiving inthe vicinity. The litte money with which they commenced tbis tramp of over ot 1,200 intles was soon gor the benevolen: people along the roate wus their only stay. N the entire diatance was mado on foot, and through t show-storms and Fovercet weather, save an occasional rie of =& Wagon, and much less often the arsistanco § renuered by enerous hanu- eat omen, who wero met on the Union Pacific Road, thu conductors always refusing to give a heiping hand. Thus they plodded along until picked up onthe Denver Pacific, without money and with very sount clothing. ‘The old indy had # bunch of ga don seeds, however, which she had brought all t wi she dul not beneve good reods conld be of t 4 so fur irom civilization. A puree of $10, mado up on tho tain, made vne need good, and at the depot in (his city they parted with thove who had proved their only friends on tho route, blessing, without stint, the generous givers, The lady said sho hada wealthy daughter in Oalioruia, but was unwilling her condition should be made known to her, and #0 rod tho dangers of tho trip and stared atarvatn made thorein, ond he hoped God would biees the now successfully in the face, SUPPLEMENT. ——$— THE DESTITUTE. THE ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETIES AND TRE WAY THEY DO THEIR WORK. The St. Vincent de Paul societies heave isbored very hard this winter to keep pace with the calle from the poor families who have been well nigh reduced to star vation for many months past, There are thirty-three Of these societies, or “conferences,” as they are cailed, in the city, and the total of membership about 1,000, It is plan that th order to attend to the duties incumbent on membership, there 1.000 gentle men must have Jevoted time, mosey, and labor this | winter im relieving the wants of the poor, There societies are all attached to Cathone churches m the city, and a leading canon of ibe organization that no publicity shall be given tothe cherity thet may be bestowed, and especially that the names of the re- cipients shall be kept an secret as possible, In the downtown wards the strain upon the tands ef the socigties has been continuous and heavy during the may be readily understood, and away op town the same draw upon the soteties seems to have been going ou. A ikkaLD reporter visited the conference counecied with the eharet of St. Lawrence, East Righty-fourth street, oe Friday aw there how tbere suctetios pet v around the room, 6 avd ton ready for distritatien, pluined tho m lows:—Every begs 1s held und applications are received, These ap- pheations are placed in the hands 0° the vniturs, whe call at the honies ut the petitioners and ave exactly what 18 needed. There are printed garde with amounts bated thereon, varying Irom reveRty-tive cents to #2, the Visitors distribute these as they deem a> ble, On ning thone whe have | ceived those cal cume te the school ’ and present them, and if | choose to take four or tea to the at the card, they can then and there g ‘unt if they iced of groceries another card for the ainount named, which 18 good at cortain deaig- nated stores, The president stated that nearly all Wwe appheants are famihes, the fathers In whieh are out of | work. The deotitution, be satd, whieh bas so tar thes winter prevailed among tos class is something jeartul tocontempiate He further stated that this sooty relieves not a fow lamilies who but a short time ago were very weil oll. UIs and peopie sked lo come 10 The Sisters who have chai receive the relict tor quiet way is the needed ‘ ‘Yuis conierence alone had on Fricay evening 199 Dames on ts books, but It hax been reveving tempo: rarily a far larger number of applicants, It received $50u of the excme Moneys during the winter, but as it Costs $200 a week tu give the relet absolute needed in the parish, the burden of the poor bas tailen chiefly onthe members themselver, ‘Ihe total evived by all the St, Vincent de Pi excise inoney this season wa was handed over by the ticular Councit of the St, V by that vody apportioned to the several socievies in accordanse with the requirements of cach, as appeared Irom the respective montuly reports. REV. DR. TYNG, JR.'S, HUMANITY-—SENSIBLE WAY OF BRINGING PEOPLE TO HESB GOOD ADVICE—-SUPPER BEFORE PRAYER. Tne Rev Dr. Tyng, Jr., is one ot those hard, earnest workers in religion who advances with bo?d strides to inect the wants of lis tellow-beings, While he caa be tncoretical and pathetic, and very eloquent, when he plea: he still invariably keeps to the stern wide of lite, louking sensibly to the worid around him as it is, and not as it might be. An example of this practical sort of Christianity he exbibits every Sunday and ‘Tuesdoy evening, m connection with his church on Forty-secund street it 1s to be presumed, from the aduirable wea which hedbas elubora to working or- der, that he bas Nttle faith in talking temperance to men with empty stomachs, or preaching to them sermons white the Hunger pangs are stinging them. And hence ibis, no doubt, that he adopted the principle of making tnore whem he would convert into righteous ways tel sutisiied a little with the world around tuem vefore usking them to be happy and contented, ‘This was manitest yesterd.y afternoon when, at five o’sluck, ubout 500 men crowded intu the basement hall of the chureh to attend w temperance meeting, all of them ¢ that before the hour sed tor Dr. Tyng's enirg sermun in the church they would all have partaken of ui 1 -PREACHING AND PRACTISING, ‘This supper 1a the sea upon Whe Tyng has been working to got 500 young men every Sunday evening to ultenu a temperance ime. ting and to hsten to a ser- mon, Most of those present last evening were young | men belonging to the working clases, very mauy of them baying the appearance oF Clerks out of employ- mowt. “ihe tentperunce meeting was conducted by the ssistant pastor ui the cuureh, Rev. Mr. tHumpstone, | The supper, which consisted of sundwiches, bread aud | butter, coffee, ten and apple sav erved in roow adjoiming that in wnich the meeting was hel und all woo were present were abundantiy supplied. ‘The prayer meeting and supper coatinued unut half- | past seven o'clock, when the servicu in the church | vegan. on Tuesdoy evenings about 150 women generally are Present ut a prayer meeting which Is beld in the chapel, and after this meeting 1s concluded ali the pur ticipants descend to the basement and are served with an excellent supper. The temperance mecungs a hedd under the auspices of the Andrew and Pili Socrety, of which Rev, Mr. Hampstone is presi 4 and the women’s prayer meetings uoder the care of the Mary and Martha Society, buth of which organiza- tons aro connected with Dr. Tyng’s church, Tho ex- pense of the suppers is borne by tne Kev. Dr. Tyng himself, ond this is the second season he hus been shus quietly but effectively secking to draw young men to the peacetul church aisies on Sunday eveuings, ASSOCIATION OF THE EAST SIDE POOR, To tue Epitor oy Tae Herany:— Since my last acknowledgment of February 31 have received the following sums for the east side poor:— ‘A friend tu the poor, $10; for the east etde pour, $5; acburchman, $10; 1. B, (lorthe cast side poor), $3; B., $2; total, $32. Previously acknowledged, $195 20; total, $227 20, It 18 natural to think that as the weather 13 fait there shout not be so much euflermg among the poor, but never during any week did vo many call ou me for belpus there uid during last week, und that not by professionat Loggars, out by rospect- ‘able people, who are un the verze uf starvation, The nomver ot Iumilies visited by me up tothe present time is 1,341, and relief bas been extended to over 6,364 persons. Donations may be rent to the Rev. DP. M. MCCAFFREY, No, 658 Lexington avenue, Fesrcary 10, 1877. CHARITY COAL, Tho letter published in tho Hwrato some days ago concerning the pricos paid for coul by St. Jobn’s Gattd and Mr. Wiswall’s rejoinder have created quitea breeze among the coal dealers and otters. Tho tollow- ing letters to the Herat» are samples of the way the original coal controversy 18 looked upon :— New York, Feb, 6, 1877. To tax Epitor or tne Hera! ‘Allow me to suggest to the master of St. John’s Guild that he makes a very great mistake im confining his purchases to “red ash’? coul, the best of which Is very Intle if any more desirabie than good free burning white ush. ‘This I Know from ten years’ experience mn the business, and it is a matter of wonder to me that +o many New Yorkers cling to the old-fashioned preju- dice on the subject. The result o/ tis that moro red ash is sold in the city of New York alone than ts mined in the whole of the coal region. Schuyikilt coal, even of the tree-burning varieties (whether white or red ash) 18 rather more lasting than Wilkesbarry or Pitts ton, and ts thereiore u little more desiragle at the same price, I doubt, however, whether it can ve bought as cheaply of a reitabio dl the last named coaly can be bought at the yards of the companies which mine them, Coal kept under cover absorbs jcss moisture, and therefore weighs one per cent lighter than coal kept out oi doors, It 18 u mistake, however, to sup: pose that it burns better. PHILADELPHIA, AN OFFER TO MR, WISWAl New York, Feb, 6, 1877, To tng Epitor or Tht Heap: Wo hve noticed the communications of Alvah Wis- wall, Master oi st. John’s wid, and VR, P. Rn obarity coal,’ and as the former calls tor ye of any responsible party who wil deliver it at less price \uan $6 2: we now offer to deliver the best coal ever mined, er red or white ash, upon the following terms-—viz., ome ton lota nt $4 75, one-hait ton lots at $2 50, one-quarter ton lots at $1 40. This offer is made not with a view to prott but toaid tho cause of w noble charity, Respect- fully, VANDERHOOF & COMPANY, AXOSHER OFFER. 6, 1877. New York, Fel To thm Epitor or rin HRKAaLy:— In your paper of yesterday under the above caption I find that you very generously advertised the prices ot coal uf the Wilkesbarre anu Vonnsy\ ‘ania Coal com- panies for the information of St. Joba's Guild, Wish- ing to Jurther indorm the Gaild as to the price of i Tenctose a card of pricos tor the Delaware, 1 waona and Western Katlroad Company's Scranton conl, which I bave gold for the past twelve years, aud whioh in the ostimution of the trade 1s ite best cout from the Lackuwanna rogion, f’rices:—= 1; ona, $4 25; chestnut, WW, delivered on sidewalk About exita charge, Comparatively the prices aro as follows :— j Witkesbarre, Pittston, Scranton, Chestnut. $43) $4 0 Stovo.. 4 60 475 430 425 janey brand” of red ash conl as Skidmoro & Sons to the Guild thut sold by M resold it for for $626, “I charge the same for three months past. GFORGE H, PENYMAN, AND THT ANOTHER. MARTIN TUPPER EULOGIZES THE SOUTH. {Prom the Charieston (3. C.) News ana Courter, Feb. &) The foltowing Ode “so the South” was written Inst eveotng by the dictingaished author ead handed to us We take mach pleasure in presenting det cor arouse and your trials, Mlandered aud piuuder-d and crushed to 018 daet Dearing advernity > btiten at vials, Vatient in courage and stromg in good trent You fonvint tor Liberty rather than Slavery! Well mich you wink to be quit of thet Hh, But you were sold te political k@awery: Menu'd by “ws splat vibe weal 5 And vou rejmee to ace slavery banished, While the tres servant ‘well as vefore, Confident thoagh mans tarianes have pamiehed, Roun te recov Fall rien os af yore! Doubtless there had be=n some hardships and cracities, evil and rare, and truly the jewel "te — “er rane were your weal toheritence, vowed Korn with your children and grown ae a as mame Hat Peak asm riends of dependents all aa 1 to mae and Urve to your trust, Ma nervant thus mutually reaving Double reward uf the good amd she Just t Generous Somberners | | whe address roa sted with too many betief im your sims Cuanceston, Feb, 8, 1877, MARTIN F, TUPPER THE VERMONT MURDERERS, {From the Boston Journal, Feb. 10.) Wixpson, Vt, Feb, 9, 1878, The principal topic of discussion im this viemny at the presc:nt time ts the approacbing trial of Edwin PF. Hayden, who 1s now in the State Prison, tor the mur- der of his wife lust September, and the atiempred murder of Mr, Brigham, (he busbaod of Mrs, Hayden's sister, Conflicting and in some instances most absurd stories have been started as to how Hayden woald plead betore the Court when arraigned for the erime witn which he stands charged. Your correspondent visited Hayden yesterday afternoon in bis cell, aad converved with him for nearly aa hoer, I foued Bay- den sick in bed, and he looked like aman to the test stages of consumption, and he seemed te be in @ wretched frame of mp THe INTERVIBW. 1 remarked to Hayden ‘i the report bed guned considerable circulation all over the State thet he was going to make a stubborn defence on the ground of insanity, brought about by excessive driok, The prisover 3 tell you what I pi get belore ihe Cours and am asked to pl load not guilty. hot propose to oller any defence, tur the revsua that have not had the meuns to have couasel, It te true the State hus given me two of the ablest lawyers inthe State, but L hace not seen them; they have uot bees hear inv to consult me, nor do 1 know what they have Deen doing im my benall, aguinst any pea other than t} 1do not remember any! which [stand chargen, Beside what a pressure 1s vrought against ine, tu procure witaceses a trial C could prove to world that Lam not the villain I am here to-day tor safe-kceping. | propose to 4ake whatever sentence the Court may impore me. with the Conviction that | am able to bear with it, and T tel yon right bere | propose to ofer 4 plea of ‘not guilty,’ aud shall protest against anybody offering @ defence of insanity brought aboat by excessive drink. ”' Hayden spoke with seeming carnestness ie re spect. Inreply to my query whether he would be able to attend the trial xct fur Luesday, and my telling hor that Peputy Sherif Gallup was at Windsor to take hii to Lrasburgn on satarday, he replied, **¥es, I shall gv. Isball got Lhave to be taken on my bed, No- body shatl ray Lam piaying sick, T knows [ do, and I shail go if 1 die.” L leit Hayden, and passing the second cell below, No. 14, the one whero Miles was kept for sae keeping @ year ago, while awatting trial, | was greeted s jookivg toward the grated ‘Good day, Mr. —,’ and | door saw the face of JONN PY. PHATK, THR CONDEMNED MURDERER, sentenced tv be hanxed on the 6th of Apel, Paate put | his right band through the bar: shook b wih me. He spoko tu a tremulous v¢ and was undow y laboring uoder great mental sgony, He seid be Innocent of the crime for which he was to be exe- cuted, [told pim that L ieared there was no hope tor him, He realized the tate which awaited bim, and , “Yos, and the time is growing very short tor me ‘olive, 1 not Know until day belore yesterday the Governor could not commute my sentence or par- don me; that it took tho action of the Legisiatura The only action the Governor could take would be a ree rieve.”? Phair spoke for Some moments regarding his pist career, When I told him that | pad only an hour pre- viously reau bis death warrant, wuich was in the hands of Sberiff Stimson for his execution, the tears trickled down big cheeks, and he then more than ever Lotore realized @ doom which awaited bim. He passes his time in soittary confinement and reeds the Teilgious buoks given him, — rhe execution wil at Private ag possible, Already numerous applications lor tickets have begun tv come to the 5 few will be issued besides those grv 4 of the press, and these GRAVELS, THK WRATHERSFIELD MURDERER, arrived at one o’clock yerterday ard was tom hie oldquarters, He is very weak and fearlully downcest im spirits. It will bo some timo vetore Gravelin will be able to periorm any labor. Windsor prinon is just now holding @ larger number of prisoners than ever betore, and the Warden tells me that in the next for night thero will be a large number of new comers arrive from the courts nuw in session. A ROBBERS’ DEN BROKEN UP. [From the Wilmington (N, C.) Star, Feb, 8.) Officer N. Carr, with a small posse of met nt ou, on Tuesday toa place called Thornbary, on the North. east River, about five miles above this ety, on prop- erty belonging to Dr, J. T. Schonwald, to broak ape den of thieves, which were making the place their headquarters, Upon appronebing the rendezvous of the robbers, which was found to be a group of some half a dozen huts, arranged after the style of an Iodtay Village, and situated on the side of the river in quite @ romantic spot, the male representatives of the gang, having got a glimpse of tho officers, hastily fled to the swamp. Thoir retreat was discovered by the officers, who started in pursuit, and finally succeeded in cape turing one of the party, who proved to bethe notorious George Brown, alias George Poisson, a thief by pro- fezsion aud an escaped convict from the penitentiary. roh was then made anda newly slaughterea was found, und an abundance of pork, sulted down, A lot of clothing was large number of tools were found m the differents hats, and cach one contained :rom tour to five axes, Four of the jattor were discovered in a house whieh bad been deserted. = Alter Poisson had been captured another of the party’ voluntecred as a with and made affidavit to the offect tbat t eel was stolen and slaughtered on Sunday morning last, before day, but he could not tell to whom it belonged, though ho helped to bring it in. Ho also stated that tho hogs had neen shot und stolen various tim Vovrson was lodged in the quard house and will bave @ hearing beiore Justice Gardner on Saturday, morning at ton o'el We learn that there are quite a number of these thievisi dens within a short distance of tne city. One of theso 1s at what is known as the “Young plac on the Northonst River, not tar irom the bluff! botween the ond Potter piantations. Here the now notorious Alonzo Fivi, alias Tom Johnson, has & hut where he has been wont to take retug er one of his thieving expeditiona The hut, whieh usa fonce around 11, aits at the back of the enclosure, witht large open space in front, The gato has some high slats projecting above it, to one of which a siring 18 e w beet beca New York, Feb. 5, 1877. To ran Eprron oF Toe Heravy:— fow days In my communication to you of a I xi > su Joba's Gulld, offered to the poor tor attached and Jending into the building, where, in the centre of the room, it is fastened tu a cow bell, being arranged in such ® manner that when the gato @ (CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGRY