The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1877, Page 6

5 » RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Ministerial Movements— Chat By the Way. SYNAGOGUE WOBSHIP—BRVIVAL OP HEBREW LEARNING. ——_—+-—— PROGRAMME OF SERVICES. “Every Man a Builaer” will be proven this ev: a dy Rev. J, B. Searles, in Willets Strees Methodist Epis- topal Chure. The Rev.* Carlos Martyn wil) tel! “The Story of Nevuchadnezzar” to Thirty-iourth Street Reformed Church this evening. Dr, W. N. Dunnell will minister to All Saints Protes- ‘tant Episcopal Church to-day at the usual hours. “a Sure Way Outof Trouble” will be made known this morning by Rev. Fred Bell in the Academy of “Music, Brooklyn “Woman's Power” will be demon- SBtraved in the evening. “The Prodigal’s Brother” and ‘The Baptist Confer- ence on Heathen Damnation” will be analyzed and criticised to-day by Rev. ©. P, McCarthy im the Amert- can Froe Church. At Thirty-seventb Street Methoatst Episcopal Church the new pastor, Rev. C. £, Corner, will begin bie min- istry to-day, preaching morning and evening. The Rev, Samuel Coicord will preach thia morning ana the Rov, William Lioyd this afternoon in Chicker- ing Hab. At Howard Rooms the Spirttuatiste will hold meet- tngs this alternoon and evening. Mra, Brigham will entertain another society in Republican Hall, Rev, J. M. King wili begin bis pastorate at Washing- Jngton Square Methodist Episcopal Church thia morn- Ing. ‘The Rev, John Johns will continue his ministry at the Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church, proaching morning aud evening as betoretime, The Rev. Dr. Samson will addr the Amorican Temperance Union this alternoon in Cooper Institute Hal. Mrs, Gates, Mrs Gritith and Mra Pollock will take part in the exercises, “Thy Kingdom Come’ and “Spirits in Prison” will be considered at the usual hours to-day by the Rov. E. C. Swee! and Bleecker Street Universalist Church, Dr. J. D, Fulton wilt preach im the Centennial Bap- fist Church, Brooklyn, on “The Nation’s Trust; Shal It Bo Betrayed?” and “A Manly Christianity the Hope of the Future,” to-day, at the usual bours. Dr. Deems will preach in the Church of the Stran- gers thts mornmg and evening. ‘A Bird's Nest—Jehovah’s Palpit,”” and “Abraham Dfering Isaac,” will be discussed to-day by Rev. Dr. Armitage in Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, The Free Episcopal Cnurch of the Reconciliation will have the ministrations of the Rev. E. 8, Widdemer to-day. Bishop Fellowes will hold an ordination service this morning in the First Reformed Episcopal Churcb, The Rev. W. T, Sabine will preach im the evening, Next Babbath services will be held in their new church edi- Occ on Mudison avenue and Fifty-fitth street. C. J. Fowler, evangelist, will preach in the Free Bapust Church this morning and evening aud every eveulng during the week. In Grace Baptist Church the Rev. J, 8. Kennard will minister to day at the usual hours and also Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings. “The Evanescent and the Permanent’? will be dis- Cussed this morning by Rev. William Lloyd, and “Wreck and Rescue”? in the eventng, in Madison Ave- nue Relurmed Church, On Thursday evening the in- Btailation of Mr, Lioyd in this pastorate will take Place. Preaching in Laight Street Baptist Church this morn- wg by Rev. Jonatban Baston, and in she evening by Rev. Dr. H, W. Knapp. Dr. Isaac Wescott will preach in West Forty-eignth Bireet Church this morning on “How Much Owest Thou to My Lord?” and in the evening to young men bp *Covetousnes: “tbe Lovers of Zion’? in the Central Baptist Churoh Will be encouraged this morning by Rev. J. D, Herr, and ‘The Prosperity of Those Who Love Zion’ will bo Assured by him in the evening. In St. Mark’s Protestant Episcopal Church the Rev. J. T. Waiden will preach this morning, and Rov, Fred K. Courtney in the evening. In St. Stephen’s Church the Rev. a, B, Hart will minister at the usual hours to-day, The Sabbath school anniversary of the Sixth Avenue Retormed Church will be held this evening, when ud- dresses will be delivered by Revs. George Smyth aad W. B. Merritt aud Mr. J. D. Reid. . “Holy Fear’’ will be considered this evening by Dr. Ewer in >t. Ignatius Protestant Episcopal Churen, The Rev, A. H. Moment wil preach in Spring Street Presbyterian Church this moruing on “A Crown Lost and Restored,’ and in the eveing lecture on “Wire Pulling and Divine Grace.” In Stanton Street Baptist Church the Rev. 8 & Burrows, late Methodist minister, will preach at the usual bours to-day, “Conditions of Successtal Christian Effort” will be Jaid down this morning by Rev. Rovert B, Hull in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. ‘'Paal’s Great Theme’ ‘Will be discussed in the evening. Bishop Huntington, of Central New York, will preach fm Grace Church this alternoon the second anniversary Sermon of the Church Gerimun Society. Services will be held in the Kussian-Greek Chapel this morning, the Rev, N. Bjerring officiating. At Anthon Memorial Church the Rev. R. Heber Newton will preach this morning, and in the evening will give the third of the series on “A Natural View of the Life to Come.” At Masonic Temple this morning Mr, Frothingham will speak of “The Irregularities in Human Con- ditions,” and in the afternoon on “The Bible Doctrine of the Fall” In the Charch of the Disciples of Christ the Rev. D. R. Van Buskirk will preach this morning and evening, The Rev. Samuel Earp will minister to St Audrew’s Protestant Episcopal Church at the usual hours to-day, “Why We Believe the Bible”? will be told the Church of the Discipics this moraing by Rev, George H. Hep- worth, D. D. ‘The Blind Receive Their Sight”? will bo explained and enlarged upon this evening. “Messages from God to Men—the Figurative and the Real’ will be distinguished this morning by Rev. W. B. Alger in the Church of the Messiah. “The Doctrine of Eterna! Damnation—Can It Be Trae?” will be dis cussed by Mr. Algor in the evening. The Rev. D. B. Jutven will preach in the sixteenth Baptist Church this moruing on “City Mission Work,” and this evening on ‘The Transfiguration.” CHAT BY THE WAY. ‘The man whose only rule is that of expediency will find it just as easy to be dishonest under some circum. Stances as to be honest under others If you have beard a man make great professions tn | the prayer meeting, and are still doubtful about bis e@baracter, you can settie the matter beyond a perad- ‘venture by trading horses with him. That is the last erucial test to which a man is subjected belore he Peaches perfection. 1 @ man can restrain bis speech when a wasp lichis on his cheek and beging to investigate his cuticle he 1s tm a ft irame of mind wo sing “1 want to be an angel." The Russian Bear holds one of its paws out to shake bands wth England, and bes the claws well covered with velvet, but the claws of the other paw are being Sharpened to a fine point, and when the spring opens jo Southern Turkey will have to roost bigh or there will be troubie. Stanley is the John the Baptist of the missionary gnterprise of ihe next generation. He 1s discovering the hoathon who are to be converted the momenta few bome quarrels can be settled, and is opening up a Pine Geld for the Christiano Church to win fresh laurels . The other day a couple got married whose aggregate ages were 150 years. {ho gailant groom of 76 kissed biushing bride of 72 with all the romantic ardor of th, The chances are that they will spend th ymoon in heaven, How many people there are in the world who are 80 pressed by business that they can never Gnd time to keep the commandments And how many who are 60 jer to press on to future tri- Qmphe that they forget all about the paymont of their bomcst debts, Human nature ts sometimes very dis gouraging. Descons are undoubtedly « great belp to the pastor. 1 did the boy who said, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1877—QUINTUPLE SHEET. They are ap important clement of church enterprise, ‘but sometimes they are fearfully huroan, if ‘to err” is avy proof of their humanity. One of them recently rose in bis place and in the most sepuichral voice ao- bounced the death of u prominent member of the church, The sience which ensued was cmburrassing iu the extreme; but what was the astonishment of the meeting wneo he again rose slowly and said, “Brethren, let as sing ‘Praise God from whom all biessings flow,’ ”? Thursday, the 26th inst, will bo a great day ip the West, The Governor of Minnesota has set it apart a a day for special prayer Yor the anpthilation of the grasshoppers, who come punctually and make sbort work with the crops. We had a dim feeling, as wo read this recommendation, that the old farmer wae right who, on being asked to pray for rain, said—“No, 1 can’t pray for rain unul the wind changes.” Still it will dono harm tor the people of Minnesota to be foundon their knees, It may hoip them to bear an affliction which they may not be able to prevent How many brave men and fair women there are tn the world who go to the theatre and weep profusoly over she dramatic sorrows which are bound to end in & bappy marriage, but woo would never dream of going into the second story back of a tenement house to give evon acold potato to a starving family. Ono may be very tender hearted at the scenic representations of agony and at the same time very stony hearted over the sad reality. Logic 1s a very delightful exercise, and tends to men- tal discipline and development, Still at is not accord. ing to the syllogistic rales, as taid down by Whateley, to prove thut Moses must have been a civil engineer because he 18 said to have “surveyed the promised land.” Neither would it be safeto conclude that a woman isa widow because she “sits up for ber late husband;” nor, yet, that an auctioneer, who lately “knocked down’’ a couple of elephants, 1s the strongest: man of the century. Nothing {a so beautiful as the devotion of a mother. Wo have heard of a maternal parent, whose tender off- spring adds to the family coffers by his industry in tho bootblucking business, who every morning since she atiended Mr, Moody’s mectings bas roused her boy from his dreams by singing over bis slumbering inno- cence the sweet strains of the hyma, “Arise, and shine”? A great deal depends on the way in which an id ts expressed, When Deacon B——— brought home a nice tat turkey for which he had raffied late one Satur- day evening his good wite said, ‘John, where did you get that turkey?’’ If he had told the exact truth, that he bad bought a lottery tickot and won the bird, she would vot have slept a wink all night. She would bave thought that Joba, tn nls old age, bad taken to evil courses, But when bo smiled and said, **My dear, | the Shakers gave it to me,” she closed her eyes 1n sweet slocp, and yet with a reproachtul feeling that she bad ever allowed her denominational fervor to run away wit her; for, after all, the Shakers wero a very generous and deserving people, Sometimes we get a satisfactory definition out of the dictionary and sometimes we get it from practical life, What 1s responsibility? Put all the wise ones together and they could not convey the idea more foroibly than Boys has two ‘spenders, so's to keep their pantaioons up, When one button comes off, why, there’s a good deal of ‘eponsibility on the other button, that’s all.’” I: ig undoubtedly true that religion dces tone down the wild clements of a man’s nature, and it 1s perfectly natural that a converted man should boast of what he could do if ho were not kept back by his religious principles, When some rowdies were telling of the victory they had won an old man, who bad impatiently hoard it all, broke out with, “Boys, I'd be wiilin’ to put up even that Deacon Dan’! Brown, unrestrained by grace, could whip any man in tho State.” As it was, however, Deacon Dan‘! wasas meck as a lamb, and looked as though he would retire hastily but in good order from aay trouble. Filial affection glitters like diamond dast and is as valuable. Filial affection mixed with selfishness is lke diamona dust mixed with broken bits of glass, and is worth less. We have heard of a man whoee aged mother was bitten by a neigbbor’s dog, and who deliv- ered himeelf thas:—*I will certainly kill that dog, be- cuuse ho has disavied my aged mother, A man can have but one mother, and mino bas only a few years left and that bite has laid her up so she can’t bring in the wood or fetch water from the well or make herself aseful in any way. At the very best I could have expected her to do these things only a few years more, and pow I have lost even thaw The dog sball die’? Such unparalleled affecuon is worthy of all commendation. In these Jatser days aman may make bis will, but he can't bave his way. Between the taneral of the millionaire and the widow stand the hungry lawyers, who aie ready to provo that the deceased was unduly influenced by the wife of his bosom aud that the prop- erty ought to be given toa fith cousin whom nobody ever heard of or who has been manufactured for tho occasivn, of equally ready to prove that the deceased had been crazy trom his earliest infancy and that the widow bas spent a lifetiine in robbing him of bis rights and bis property. They have a whole library to show that they themselves aro tho only ngntful heirs of all the reai estate and ready cash of which any apd every man diew possessed. Legal advice bas be- come a luxury in which few can afford to indulge, ‘The average man loses bis bead ina panic, He be- comes crazed by the presence o/ danger, and resorts to expedients which we sbould laugh at if we were not compelied to shudder at them, The St, Louis fire only adds another illustration of this gad fuck One man leaped trom a four stoty window and landed a shape- Jess mass in the street, Another made a rope out of his bed sheets, ard slipped down only to dangie at its end, at least seventy-tive teet irom the ground, We once heard of a woman who carelully lowered a Spitz dog from am incredible height and then jumped out after him, and of a man who let the cradle down by a rope,and then in his frenzy threw the baby into the street below. The horrors of these terrible conflagra- tions might be greatly lessened by a liitie cool biood and a littie calm couruge. 1n these days not even the most solemn subjects are exempt from the atiacks of the punstor, It would seem thatthe grave shuuid be gravely treated, and ‘that the scythe of Time should awaken very serious thoughts, but tho puasier never allows his wit to be limited, and never joses a chance to exercise bis gift, A poor fellow who drove bimseif into a consumption by hard drinking and drove ais old companions crazy by his resounding cough at last fell a victim to his evil babits, The wit of the coterie looked at him, and while tear dropped on his cheek said, sadly, “Well, Vm sorry tor poor Joba, for that’s the worst coilia epell be ever had.” FASHIONABLE CHURCHES AND POOR. To tne Eprrox ov Tix Heratp:— Poverty docs sius out the poor from our fashionable churches, ‘J. R.” notwithstanding, That the poor and the rich lave equal mghts undor the consutation of a THE church 18 very pretty in theory, but is 1s so in fact? | Let us examine, A poor man, iily clad, musters cour- age sufficient to enter @ fashionable churcn He is | permitted to stand in the alsie untilthe time bas ex- pired for the fashionable elect to put in an appearance. Yhe sexton then begins to Gil up the vacant seats, but he 18 sure to select tho better dressed of tho standing part of the congregation first, tor who of tne seiect pewholders would care to sit noxt an ill dressed per- fou, even in the house of God? Finally the poor per- bon 18 squeezed into some Obscure Corner Where, i! the better fecling of loss of seit respect will permit him, ho may father afew of the gospel crumbs which \hose for Woum (he tense 18 spread may shuke off trom their suining silks aud glossy broaaclotts. Again, al! poor persous Whu have wot sunk so low in the social xcale us 10 have no destre to eater a church | SLi retain some Of tue finer fevlings Of our vature. fey may Wave once been as lavured of the world’s govus as the most javored now, Thoy may have prayed their tplunt prayer at the knee Of a saintiy mother in & Mansion ura puluce, and a ura of fortune’s wheel may buve brought them | to what they are, Now, ia tbe tasmionavie churca us {ree to these as it 1s (0 the lushionabies? "J. 1? will say, “Yes, certainly; why nov?’ { would ask "J. K.’? ut bimsel! in ther place, Let his wealth be swept from him, ies the troops of friends who courted pot him bat his riebes desert him, let his once immaculate threadbare, and thea Jet pim tell me (however good a Christian be once wus) if he bow feels in his innermost soul that the fashionable church is a iree to hita as to hia more fortunate brov Lot him not prate of rea Who nevor foit ® wouud we DELTA. MINISTERIAL MOVEMEN'S, uuTmopist. As & rosult of the revivai now progressing in Wosley Chapel, in this city, forty-seven have aiready united witb the eburch At South Bond, Ind., the home of Schuyler Colfax, there have bi and at Hanover, N. Y., 50, In all those places revival meetings are still in progress. At Hanover Street Methodist Episeopa!l Church, Bal- timore, ufty souls have been couverted and united with the church, It is said that there is not a church in Baltimore city where souls have not been converted this year, The aggregate ia believed to number 600. In a circuit of torty miles from Dwight, Ill., a corre- spondont reports the recent accossions in sixteen charges at 990, and in every charge the work is sttll Progressing. In the town named 200 conversions are reported ag the result of ten weeks’ union meetings there. The Methodists have special wrinkle in their “Church Extension Annual,” a pamphiet embracing 186 large sized pages, which includes the eleventh an- nual report of the Board of Church Extension of the Methopist Episcopal Church, During the eleven years of the socicty’s existence it has collected and dis- bursed $1,052,996 64, and it has received $265,210 13 as a permanent loan tund, of which sam, however, $120,600 bas been given subject to the payment of life annuities. The treasurer reports Lis receipts for 1876 ab $115,486 67, of which sum $57,683 59 was given outright to ald churches in building, and $27,350 was jent fur the same purpose. The society is dotting the South and West with churches at the rate of two per day 1p ordipary years. ‘The annual renting of the pewa of the Metropolitan Church, Wusbingion, D. C., bas produced about ten thousand doliars, Tuis will meet all the necessary penses ol the church for the ensuing year a pre- ots @ good showing, though less than the amouat of former years, when it was the. President's church. ‘St. PauPs and Elizabeth Avenue Methodist Episcopal churches, Elizabeth. N. J., have formally cousvlidaied, under the name of st Jumes’ Church, and bought the Broad Street Baptist Church. A new board of trustees has been elected, and uniou worship was held there lass Sunday for Wwe first time, Rev. Henry W. Warren has been transferred from York Conference to that of Philadelphia, Hi been stationed at the Arch Street Methouist Kpiscopai Church, He bas been tor three years at St Joln’s Caureb, Bedtord avenue, Brovklyn. Rev, I. 7, Everett, late pastor of the Lutheran General Synod cougregation tb Dayton, Ohio, has been received by the Metnodist Conference of Philadelphia 8 a minister in the Methodist Church. Mr. Everett was formerly a local preacher to the Methodist Epis- copal ( hurch 10 this city and was also for inany years coucected with the press of New York. He has bad « very succeseful career as a Lutheran minister in New York State and in the Weat RPISCOPALIAN, The Rev. Dr. Spencer bi. Rice, rector of Grace Church, Jersey City, N. J., bas returned from Europe, ‘The Rev. P. M. Meade (grandson or nephew of Bishop Meuae) has just resigned his position uy assistant of Corist Church and minister in charge of Holy Lluno- cents’ parish, Baltimore, Rev. Philips Brooks, of Trinity Church, Boston, goes abroud in June for a tew months ot’ rest und recreation alter the excessive labors of the past low ears, % The Rev, Charles W. Quick, of the diocese of Penn- sylvania, bas resigned the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church to join the Retorined Episcopalians, The Rev, Thomas B. Fogy hus resizovu the rector. hip of St. Luke’s Churen, South Glastonbury, Conp., and gone to Brooklyn, sume Stato. ‘The Rev. John H. Drumm, D. D., wno ta slowly re- covering trom very severe tilness, has’ resigned whe rectorspip of St. Mark’s, New Britaip, Conn., and gone to Philadelphia, ‘The Bishop of Pittsburg has formally deposed from the ministry of the Church Percival Beokeit, pres- byter. Rev. G. D. E. Mortimer has resigned the rectorship of Christ Church, Savannab, Ga,, to tuke effect May 1, ‘and accepted a unanimous call to St, Mark’s, Grand Raps, Mich., to enter opon bis datics in that rectorship on the first Sunday in May, The Rev. Richard Ellerby hus been transferred to lowa by letters dimixsory from the ecclesiastical authority oi Maryland, and bas entered upon duty as rector of St. Thomas’ Church, Sioux City, ‘The Rey. Heury F. Alien hus accepted the rectorship of the Cuurch of the Messiah, Bostun, Mass, The new Protestant Episcopal Church at Clinton, Conn., will bo opened for divine service next Wodpes- day, 18th inst, ROMAN CATHOLIC The Freeman’s Journal ol yesterday contains over broe columns of obituaries of recently deceased eccio- tics of te Chur There 19 the Rev. J. B, Duity, of New Urleang, La. ; Rov. J. H. Smith, 8. J., of Pb: delphia; the Very Rev. Bonaventura Koller, Provincial of the Order of St. Francis at Utica; Brother Courad, of the Congregation of the Most Holy Kedeemer, Puila- delphia; Mur. Nardi, Secretary of the Holy Congre; tion of Bishops and Regulars of Rome, Italy, and Mgr. Guerriu, Bishop of Laugres, who died very suddenly. The Right Rev, F. X. Leray, D. D,, Bishop-elect of Natopitoches, La, it is said, will be ecrated by His Eminence Cardipal de Saint Marc, Archbishop of Rennes, Father O'Keefe, of Callan, Ireland, whose name was #0 prominent im litigation with Irish bishops, has made submiscion, and is now in the Trappist Monastery ut Mount Meilury. The Rev. John Bapst, S.J., of the Church of the Ime maculate Conception, Boston, hus, at the request of Right Rev. Bishop Hendricken, gone to Providence to tuke churge of a parigh there. Fathor Bapst will, ut the close of the scholastic yeur, be foliowed by other fathers of the same Order. Ho will be succeeded in the Church of the Immaculate Conception by Rev. A. Peters, 8. J., of St, Mary’s, Boston, whose place will bo supplied by Rev. C,H. Fulmer, 8. J., of Worcester, M ass, Father Heonessey’s new chureh at Poplar Bluff, Mo,, is completed, und will be dedicated by the Vicar General in a tew Weeks, ‘The Most Rev. Dr, MacCarthy, Bishop of Cloyne, Ire- Jana, bas called the Rev. P, Sheahan, C. G., Plymouth, England, to the curacy ut Mallow, in tho place of thy Rev. J. Lynch, who has been appomted administrator of the parish of Giountbane. Rev. J. Barton, C, . has been appointed wa professorship in St. Colman’ College, Fermoy. Most Rev, James F. Wood, D. D., Archbishop of Philadelphia, saile tor Rome on April 26. ‘The consocration of Dr. Hannan as Archbishop of Halitax will take place on Sunday, tho 291b inst, or on Tuvsday, May 1, the feast of 8s. Philip and James. ‘The corner stone o! the new Cathedral on Farming: ton avenue, Hartiord, Conn., will be laid, with appro- priate ceremonies, by Bishop Galberry, ou Sunday, the Several other bishops will take part mm the ceremonies, During the year 1876 there died in the United States 1 bishop, 89 priests aud 74 members of the religious orders, BAPTIST, The Hyde Park Uhurch buve secured, after some un- certainty, Rev. Dr. Eday, of the Tabernacle Church, of Boston, as pastor. He had at the same time uuder advisement a call to Mancnester, N. H., but Hyde Park is uearer Boston, aod succeeds, The Tabernucle Church, it 18 suid, 18 the next tuing toa failure, and unless taken up and held by the wealthier churches will pass out of the denomination, A Boston correspondent of the Ezaminer and Chronicle says that there seems just now to be a sort of sad laiality altending Bapuist churches in tbat city. 'Yhe old First Church bas voted to unite with Shawmut Avenue, and, if this move i$ mude, there are two cuurches lost within a yeur at the West End, and no practical gai elsewhere, The Rev, G. F. Heudrickson, after three yeara and seven months pastorate at Port Murray, N. J., bas accepted o cail from the Baptist Church at Fairview, Bergen county, N. J., and entered upon bis labors, it being bis third pastorate with that church. A chapel isto be erected tu Wanusworth, London, for tne congregation gatuered by Messrs, Charles and Thomas Spurgeon, sons of the great preacher. The people are very poor and the undertaking 13 peculiarly of a mission character, |. ASwiss Buptige church came from their own land Jast spring aud are locaced about wine miles trom Port laud, Oregon, ‘The little colony numbers about sixty souls They were surprised to tind thousands of churches in the United Stutes holding views like those they baa reached 1p their study of the Bible, Rev. Dr. BR. J. Adu bow in the egbth year ot bis | pastorate of the 5 G4 Baptist Cuurch of Holyoke, Mass,, bas been inviied to the Main Sireet Baptist Chareb, of Worceste! Rev. James H, fuyior, formerly ot Lake Forest, IIL, having supphed the Baptist Cuurch at Rome, N. Y., for 81x mouths, bas been unanimously elecied ' pustor, ata salary of $2,600 and parsonage, Philadeiphia bus more Bapust churches than any | other city m the wori, Lonuon excepred; but on the tesumony of the National Baptist they de absolutely Hothing for city missions. ‘The number of Baptist churches tn the United King- dom # 2,671, with 1,913 pastors and 266,797 members. Tne Sunday schools connected with the denominxtion on taetr roils 348,750 schola. The number of ely # 3,476, With Sitting uccomimodations tor 935,015 persons. g PRESBYTERIAN. A writer {u the Olserver suggests “a visiting pros- bytery” to go from cuureh lo ehuren within ite bounds questioning the pastors and sessions as to the spiritual and lnanciai condition of the socieves, He thinks Ubut afier the first visit tue laziest chureh would $0 besur themseives that the several venevo: Jens boards of the Presbyterian Church would not Jong have cause to cofipiain of depleted treasuries, Fourth Aveuue Presbyverjan “Chureh, this eny, 18 @ hoble giver to the benevolences o shommation, Tuy gifts last year amounted to $1 , NOL tuaiud> ing $7,009 33 paid in for the building tund of Hope Chapel, one of ite missions since LSTL. Its aggregate ile: tor BIX years reach the handsome fuure of $90,104 71, Thie 18 distinct from local church support. But Dr. Hall's church sarpasses this tiverality, It $30,000, Its annual collection tor fureign missions, receutly taken, amounted to $35,000, Its coi for domestic missions since last Sepiember reach over $30,000, In the fice of such priucely giving no one cau reasonably object to their worshipping 1 & butia- ing which has cost nearly $1,000,000, Since the Presbyterius, Methouwts and Bapuats have expressed Wemselves in opposition to women preaching, (he Chrisian at Work sazgests the addiuon Of one Word to Rowwns x., 14, 0 thatit sisal) read— “How shail (hey beheve in him of woom they bave noi heard! and how shall they hear without a ‘muie’ preacher?" Ouivet dission Church York City Mission) bas L101 | | has given within a year to Chrisiian oojects over i | | im connection with the New ad receuily an accession of Ahirty-three new members, of Which nineteen wo from the Sabvath ecuook The good work at vb chapel is still going ou, silently but with mach power. Dr, Jubn Hall's chureb in this city 18 making ap en- deavor wo pay off ts debt of $200,000, A lew gentie- mon have contrivuted $100,000 to start the subscrip- tion, i parish meeting was held in Westfield, N. J., on tho 3d inst, to elect Dew trastoes aud hear the report ot the old officers, The amount due for unpai | pew renis lust fiscal year Was reported $1,528 77. 1 debledness for tho year, $2,019 61, unpaid M | Henry Hosford received tue highest vote for trustee, 60 conversions; at Lewes, Dei, 60, | except Jacov Freach aud L. V. Clark, who were | elected, each receiving twenty-nine votes, The at- tendance was very phon being only about forty, in- ‘stead of 200 or 300 formerly. Kev. M 0, up for consideration, wi MISCELLANEOUS, The suspension of the Rev, C, P. McCarthy by the New York Sta Fellowship and Disct- without trial More than two years ago a similar committee In Penn- syivania suspended the Rev. Mr, Cumpbell, who was then pastor at Susquehanna Depot, and to this day bave not given him a reason thorefor, And the Gev- eral Convention ot Universalists has virtually jucorsed | their action by refusing to investigate unless Mr. Campbell presents an appeal. The judicial sentence does not seem to affect Mr. McCarthy very much, If ministers can be made and unmade at the beck of committee the Churen will not take long to perce! that it can get along without ministers or committe The . A. P. Putnam, D. D., of Brooklyn, has de- clined a pressing invitation to take churge of the Uni- tarian Church in Quincy, Mase., and his church has \p- crevsed his salary to mos, ‘The number of lay preachers connected with Spurgeon’s chureh is 125 The whole number of eburch inembers is 4,851. Rey. Dr. Bartol a Sunday or two ago eclebrated the fortieth anniversary of hig settlement over the West Unitarian Church, Boston, and report bas it that ho is now to resign his charge and @ younger take his place. The average length of pastorates in the Congre- gational Church 1s trom four to five years, The longest at of Dr, Leonard Withington, which was one years; there ure sixty of over twenty. forty-one over thirty, twenty-eight over thirty-{ve, seventeen over forty, seven Over forty-five and s1x of ity and over, according to the latest denominational statistics HOUSE LEPROSY. DISCOURSH BY BEV. MR, MENDES IN THE FORTY-YOURTH STREET SYNAGOGUE YESTEB- DaY, Rev. Mr, Mendes delivered a lecture yesterday morn- ‘pg at the Forty-fourth Street Synagogue on the “Leprosy of the House,” strongly advocating congre- gational singing as acure. He began hie discourse by sayini Many and forcible objections are often made to the open reading of the Bible. Passages which certainly do present, apparently, an objection- able connection, are triumphantly poiuted to, and the question is put, ‘Would you like your sister or your daughter to read them?’ Of course the answer ex- pected is, ‘No.’ Should wo not, then, eraso such por- tions and publish an amended edition, revised to suit the fastidious taste of the nineteenth century? With ali duo delerence for others moral sensibilities I yet would apswer no, aud in support of the negative let. me adduce a tow practical statements, First, the Bible, a history of mankind, the oldest and most rola. bio history, Was uot written for babes, The Bibie plain and unvarnished statement of events which happenea among men. The Bible as a true history cannot exclude the bad deeds of men, Second, al- though partly unfitted for the young, the Bible in its entirety 18 not unfitted for mon and women. Answer = this question, ‘Did ever man or woman learn anything deleterious frum the Bibley? On, fie! upon this nineteenth century Poritanism which object not #0 much to the things themselves ag to the mention of their names, No man ever learned anything dograding trom the Bible; the moral depravity derived from prinied books ts from quite another kind of literature. In ging the history of pati nto the hands of youth ail the objectionable parts are lelt out and only the good told; aud so abridgincots, sacred and secular, are profera- ble for the impression of the young, These are my ideas on the Biblo:—For children, the abridged Bibi tor grown persona, the entire Bible; tur publio-per sal, in tho origimal; lor private reading, 11 the ver- Bacular. POLIOM RKOULATIONS. This httle discussion has been called forth by the contents of to-uay’s lesson, which muy be described 4s Sauitary police regulations of the Mosaic code, Three y: ago we devoted some attention to t plague of leprosy im the house, and intend to tuke $1 game topic as our text. 1 would ask attention to tne chilling tungas, the chilling leprosy of the hous Unlortunately we shall not bave to go far toiud a house go infected. Strange to say, these buildings are on the incresse, Years ago, when religion aud re- liglous practices kept the housy aglow, it was warm und bealthtul; small trace” of chilling leprosy there; but ‘turn to # modern —how different it is there! How fow ure tho ediction is known and practised, how few the houses where the tabie toils (bere is anything to distinguish this ai from the cold business days! You see it in the faces of the in- mates. Lile i@ an unceasing round of lubor tor taem; you gve the evil conscquences in the absence of all hobly senuments—ay, aod deeper ure the evil conse- quenecs ; you sev them tn the air of disrespect among all the memovers of the house. Children revel against thegr paronts, and there appearoth o plague in that hoWbe ; misery mentioned every hour, Gou’s name not once # month, except in a curse. A'plague is in that house, uli because God's worsiip is not there, Gop's HOUSE. Let us turn to anotuer house, larger in dimensions, more pretentious in architectural design, but just as much defaced by the foul flagers of cold, ‘Need I guy I meun, alas! must { say 1 mean the house of worship? ‘Yho brilitance of ceremony cannot avert the eye of the observer trom these stains, You see it in the coldness that roigas throughout the service, Is that the proper sentimeat ior the house of God. Friends, let us hourken to the warning and suggest a remedy. Tho house 13 diseased; cure it, It i cold; warm it, One remedy | remind you of. The most poweriul adjunct to congregational worship is not the organ, not the service, but congregational singing, where the whole commuaity anites in singing the praises of the living God. I have suggested, you bave not tried it; why will you pot try 14? No matter if some of you are pot muzically endowed. Let me see who will be the first among you (o set a good example, ana I wi!l toll you what will be your reward. Not ony here will there be increased devotion, but your children will become famiiar with the singivg, and through loving that will jove the Synagogue,” REVIVAL OF HEBREW LEARNING. To tax Eprror ov THE Hera s— A movement is taking place among the Jews which will prove of great intereat not only to them but to the communities of other creeds as weil—namely, for the revival of Hebrew learning. The higher literature of the Jews ia a vast field for study and research? ut the same time affording pleasure and profit to the superficial reuder, Tho preservation of the Jews is undeniably due, ina measure, to their faithial adberence to their host traditions and to their firmoess in the cultivation of Hebrew science—notably, rabbinical science. They bave always been remarkable for their deep reverence forscholarabip. During the thousands of yoars thatthey have beeu persecuted by one nation or another the study of their law and their science and the education of their young nave ever beco conspicuous and never noglected. On the emigration of the Jews to tbis country they formed settioments and smali communi tes, and commenced building synagogues and temples, the present number of these edillces bearing amplo testimony to their carnestness in keeping tuemseives true to their religion, Their next consideration was the consolidatiou of their material position, which gave them no opportunity for educating their young und has compelied them tnus far to import their rabbis nd teachers from Europe. During the last few years nest eflorts bave been made to establisu a Jewish | Semimary tu this country. Fitteon yeurs ago Tempie Emauu-Kl, of this cy, endeavored to found such ay institution, bat the project proved pre- mature wud failed, Having made up their minus to Lave native tipisters tor their cougregations und not tw rely ou Europe for this importaut desideratam the | Temple Emanu-El tounded uw Theological Aid Somety, the ait of which was to send young meu to Europe to prepare aud ut themselves lor Uiimy tie important and Tespousible position of minister, ‘This did pot answer, | principally because the young meu sent were | of toy tender age and insufficiently prepared, | The Jews, ver, are alive to their needs and have not allowed the matter to rest | Foremosi, then, among the workers came a congre- | gation from the West, and, under tue able and energetic | loadurstip of Dr. Wise, a Union and Coliege was esiabe lished to Uinciunan, Ob, where vow thirty students are being prepared for ‘the Jewish minictry. Last your another atiempt Was madu in New York te found wsimiiar instiiauen., his, on account of depression im bosiness uns the great logses susiaimed by some of the most weulthy umoug Jews, was portpoued ull & More favorabig Ue. Temple Etnanu-Et bus again come Ww the trout. Kev. Dr. Gothen, minister of the Temple, oifered a plan tor opening a proper school in which to give the Jewish youth the opportunity of becoming vetter acquainted with the truths of their | religion aud the grandeur of their lnerature. Dr. Gott heu’s plan was at once acted upon, aud a School bas | been opened ior Luestudy of the Hebrew language aud Iiterature for wil who [ike to avail \hemsetves of it Twenty-iive pupils have already jotwed, and the au- Wuorttics aulisipate that a muco larger number will ere long take advantage of the great boon offered them, ‘There 1s more of this Work going On io Ubis city than most people are aware, Cut have been tormed at the Young Mea’s Hebrew Association, and are ander the supervision of Drs, Goitheil and Mendes, while the Hebrew Free School Association on the east side gives Hebrew education to 60 children. In all thy larger cities Of tne Union prepar.tory classes have been established for the stuuy of Hebrew iiteraure. In Chicago, by the energy of the learned and zealous | reobi, be, Konier;in St Louis, Louisville, Rochester y other places, schools, under efficient and teachers, are in full operation. A sight ripple of a destractive tendency on the gen- orally placid surtace of Judaism, which may misiead any to suppose that there exists any desire on tho part of the Jews to abandon their old foundations, must ve looked Upon as merely a momentary disturbance, the only effvet of which must ve to open the eyes of the Jews to the danger they ran by uliowrng the in- troduction of any movement which cun only bring with it dissension and discord. There is no doubt but that ere long institutions will bo established by which the literary labors of Karopean scholars, which have atiracted so much attention aod gained so much ip fluence oo Christian seb: ‘sin Kurope, will be warmly seconded by suniiar endeavors to this country. ISKABLITE | | Health Bonrd Figures on Our Death Bate Caleulated to Mislead. DEDUCTIONS FROM A FALSE BASIS. How Epidemics Originate in Large Cities. $10,000 Vretty good tor bard / OVERCROWDING AND UNCLEANLINESS, The Evils of Defective Drainage and Soil Saturation ENFORCE THE SANITARY LAWS, The attention of the peoplo has lately been drawn to the condition of the public bealth and sanitary con- dition of the city by the repeated complaints from all quarters iv relation to the oppressive and disgusting condition of the sireeta. This is due to the’accumula- tion of refuse flith and decaying garbage, the emaua- tions from which are not alone offensive to the sen: of smell, but also prove.to be a grave source of disease and danger to the health of the community. While the Department of Health is not directly responsible for tho present dangerous condition of the streets, the Street Cleaning Bureau being charged with the work of cleaning them, still, with the ample power and au- thority that the bealth officials of this city are vested, it would bo an easy matter for them to remedy this outrage on public decency by compelling the Street Cleaning Department to keep the public thor- oughfares in a good condition as an absolute necessity for the provection of the bealth of the community. HEALTH BOARD FIGURES. In a recent statement made by the officials of the Health Department an attompt was made to prove that in New York the death rate was much lower than fn nearly ali the large cities either iu this country or in Europe. In order to prove this much to bo desired sanitary result the mortality for the past quarter was taken as @ basis for calculating the present yearly death rave. There having been 6,002 deaths within this period, and the population being estimated at 1,077,223, wrate of mortality of 22.28 per 1,000 was obtained for the entire year No one is bottor aware than the gen- Ueman who prepared this statement for the Health Board that it is incorrect and not @ trae exhibit of the present rate of mortality for this city tor the following reasons:—In tho first place, the three months just passed have proved to be unusally healthy, thanke to the extremely tine weather, consequently the past quar- ter is not a correct or just.basis to make such a calcu- lation; secondly, tt is a well known tact that cun be easily proved trom the reports of the Board of Health that the excessive doath rate from zymotio diseases 1s always from about July to October. This is in keeping with the experience of every phystejan in the city. The Eleventh ward haga death rate of from 35 to 40 per 1,000 (yearly rate) during the heated term, while 'n the winter months the rate 1s seldom or never below 26 or 23 per 1,000, At pago 236 of the lust Heaith Report the following statement is ma More than half the inhabitants are living at such @ disadvantage a8 rospecis ther domicile und their social stute that they are comparatively incapable of resistance to the local causes of disease, aud during tbe hottest and the coldest periods of the yeur the more unbealtutul quarvers become excessively peril- ous Lo great numbers of toeir residents, The special insulubrity of these limited districts of anoleaniiness nd overcrowding is shown by the fact that childron under tive years of age perish at the rate of 250 to 300 per 1,000 (yearly rato) during the ten or twelve hot weeks. * From the foregoing extracts from the official reports it will be at onee seen how absurd it is to draw any estimate as to the annual death rate from the returns of three months, particularly when the period selected gives a mach amaller-rate of mortality than either the third or fourth quarters of the year, It can bardly be disguised that this last statement of the Board of Health has been made in order to in- duce the public to believe that the mortality io this city 1s mock jess than it really is, and that, thanks to the vigilunce and ceaseless activity of the Healto offi- cials, New York is one of the healthiest cities in the world, SOURCES OF DISKASR Ithas been repeatedly urged by the Henanp that muoh of the disease aud sickness that affects this city is to @ Very great extent preventuble provided the proper means and precautions are adopted. Recent discoveries in reition to the causes ana production of disease place every sanitary oilicer charged with the protection of tue puvilic bealta in @ pesition not aloue to successtuliy combat diseugo, but also to pre- vent its oryin, lt ts a well recugnized and accepted fact that the emanations from urains aod sewers, the vvercrowding of human beings in buiid- ings that exclude all possibility of their enjoying pure air or light, the accumulation of all kinda of ith and Tefuse matier in the streets, particularly in the poorer quarters of tue city, ure productive of the most dav- gerous and contagious forms of discaso, and that Where Such sources of disease and danger to the cum. munity exist 1 cannot be expected that the mortality will be iow or the sanitary condition lavorabie to health. If this city these great sources of disease have existed for many yeurs without any atiempt being made ior their removal beyoud the passage of laws that were nevor enforced und the publication of costly reports on the subject These iuctors in the production of disease are the overcrowding of te ement houses, bad house druiuage that permits the poisoning of the air by emanativns trom waste and Bewer bipes, and the Worso than useless system of street wowerlng that is in existence in noarly all parts of the city. OVERCROWDING OF TRNEMENTS, The overcrowdiug oO! Lew ts bas always proved ono of the greatest sources of disease io this © ‘he mortality arising {rom this cause, particularly among young ciiildren during tue summer months, reaches to bearly seventy-five per cemt of the total death rate, This can ve readily Uuderstved when we consider the condition of the atmosphere in these dweilings on a hot day in July or August, the air joaded with ali the Impurities generated by close hodily contuct, tbe ex- ulations of carvouic aed trom the lungs und the poi sonous emanations from deiecuve Louse druwins, Tho | elfect of such an atmosphere 1s to produce a general bivod potsoummy, destructive to health and lie, This poiwun, us Shukespeare telis us,— Whose effect Holds such an enmity with the bivvd of man, That, swilt as quic througlt ‘Tuo havural nileys of the body, And with # sui rit doth posse And curd, ike exer droppings inty milk, The thin aud wholesome vive Food kept in the poisonous air of such butidings in turu vecumes rapidly poisonous aud exeris 1s de- structive imfiueLcy oa the beaith of the mhabitants. ‘Yhis is particularly the caso with miik, the priucipul food of young chiidreu, which, when kept in a tainted atmosphere, becomes ‘rapidly’ bad und dangerous to heuith as a food. In the coustruction of the tenement houses of this city litte or no regard is paid to venti- lauon ofr hght Hundreds of bumun beings w crowded (ogetuer, living under conditions that a: most destructive, both in a moral us well as a physical point of view. Laws have been passed to remedy th great source of epidemic disease, but no effurt is ev laude to enforce’them. In a report made to the “International Penitentiary Cougress’ on the suvject of “overcrowding” tho fol- lowing occurs '— “Lt need Lot be said thatwith overcrowding such as this there 18 aiways disease and, as auturaily, crime, Ii sows pestilence ana Urgeds every species of criminal habits, From the 15,000 tenement houses comes sev- enty-three per ceut of the moctality of our popalution, Hite douvt as much as uinety per ceot of against property and person, Pow giris up to majority in such dens as exis mm tho First, 51xth, Eleventh and Seveuteeatu warae and be Viriuuus; few boys cab Have sucit places as homes and hot be Lieves and Vugabonds, In such pens typuus and cholera wili alwuys be rile, aud the death rave Teach 118 most terrible maximum, Overcrowding 13 the ove greut mistortune of New York; wiinout 1 we uid be the hewltniest large cily yn Ube world, aud a great proportion of the crimes whicn disgrace our Civilization be Dipped in the vud. While (his con- tinues us it does now there is no possibility of & thorough Sanitary, moral or religivus, reiorm 1 our ‘worst wards,” DEFECTIVE DRAINAGR, Apother great source of disease aod unhealthfulness 48 the detective und worse than useless system of street drainage, This is particularly the cage in the lower purt of the wily, Where, owing to the sewers be- ing Jala in Mavy places lower thaw bigh Water mark, there i a constant soi! saturation whieb 1, productive of | a jarge amount of disease of the maarial type. U | Somme complete change is inady i ihe sewerage system of this city im a lite wine paris of New York will prove so unhealthy, owiny to the malarial poison cou- erated from ths source, baat it will be found almost uninhabitable, Wherever there ts soil saturation will be found dis- ase, and When it i# considered that in many portions of the city the street sewers er piy their contents into the surrounding ground, thus vermitting the escape of pOiRONOUS gases, 1b Will De seen how active a boUrce Of epidemic disease and danger to the healh of New York this defective and insificiont system of sewer- age proves, PREVENTABLE DISRASER. One of the best sunitarians in thie country has re- | “Complaint Bock." tS be in any betier sanitary condition than it i# at pres eui, and the useless waste Of over one-quarier of a million dollars a year for beaith purposes, the half of which 12 spent io salaries, should be stopped, Not a year goes by bi Legisiaiure passes laws for better protection of the public health and givin mereased powers to the Board of Health, yet with all this ample power apd authority no atteinpt is ever made to remsve the principal sources of our uohealtn- Julnoss, Laws are on the statute books providi against the overcrowding of tenement houses, an against their improper coustruotion, yet no one ever ‘cams of enforcing them. SWINDLING HACKMEN. 4 STATEMENT BY MARSHAL KEZLLY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RIDING PUBLIC—AN EASE MODE OF HAVING YOUK WRONGS REDBESSED, Why do so many people allow themselves to be swin- dled by hackmen? is a question that may fairly be asked in view of the cemplaints of backmen’s extor tions which uppear now and then in the Heratv’a The subject being investigated yesterday it became manifest at once that the main reason why these complaints continue is that they are bot addressed tothe proper authority, who is vested with the power of punishing abusive or swindling hack- men—namely, the Mayor's Marshal, Mr. Jobn Tyler Kelly. This gentleman ts the mighty potentate whe rules with absolute sceptre over the unruly bend of backmen, anda complaint having once been made ané been Juirly established the guilty Jehu does, indeed, tremble whon he is brought before bis awful and terror inspiring presence, Mr Kelly, who may be found every day at his office in the City Hall, cays that some- how or other he receives very {ew complaints indeed, although be is atall times ready and glad to redress any grievances that may be brought before him. AN EXCELLENT PLAY, His principle of adjusting the cases that are brov; to his notice, he says, is this:—Whenever itis shown that a hackmap has swindied a * even out of half a doliar, he compels the impostor to return not only the extortionate amount but the whole sum ro ceived. Cases occur occasionally in which the driver charged $2 60 while he was ouly entitled by law to $2, and the complainants in these cases recovered the whole amount of their fare. In uggravated cases Mr, Kelly revokes the hacktman’s license altogether, “I suppose Thave drives about forty men out of the business,” said ho; ‘and! believe the hackmen of New York to- day are a better set of men than they ever were be fore, The trouble is that so few people who are im posed upon prefer complaints at this office; bat many probably are ignorant of the fact that this step ts ald that 1s necessury tn order to obtain redress.” THE “LINS BALLS” Mr. Kelly, being questioned in regard to the recent let ter of ‘Maria’? in our “Complaint Book,” said thas, owing to the immense number of carrsages required at the Academy balls, the “line system’? haa to be adopted, Wero all sorts of private carriages allowed to draw up before the Academy toward the close of tne ball the coulusion would be endlesa According to this system, however, hackney coaches that hud been thoroughly inspected by the police were provided tn a tine, so thal any couple issuing from the Academy could procure # carriago witnout delay, Nevertheless, “Maria,” & the wanted to have ber private coach, could leave it Im Irving placo, above Fifteenth to one of the ofticers, could bave 14 called at of the vall irom its waiting place, If ‘Mart ” had to pay $3 she was certainly swindled unless four persons occupied the coach, The rates On these ‘tine balla” were these:—§$2 10r oue or two passengers to any Piace south of Fifty-ninth etreet, and wity cents for euch additional passeay REDUCK THE RATRS, Mr. Kelly gave it us his opinion that the present rates as 11Xed vy tho last ordinance were altozeuber toe high. Twat ordiuance was vetoed by Mayor Wickham, but the Aldermen passed it over his veto. [ts greatest fuult was tbat 1t provided the same raies for one horse cubs us for two horse coaches, ‘The tari! now pro- posed by Mr. Kelly 18:—¥or ono horse cave, ofty Cents for the first mile and twenty-live cents every ud tional mile lor one or more passengers; tor two horse couches $1 for the frat mile unu twenty-vo cents every additional mile ior one or more passongers. The hackmen would probably at first ovject to tuis tara? as being too low, but witer & short time they would tind 18 promoted their owntaterestis, Even now the legal rates were olten disregarded in the sharp competition und (he anxiety to “make a ving,” and hackmen when Durgaioed with by their putrous olten wok less toan they were sirictly allowed by law. ‘T.mes were terrt- bly hard with ali of them, lor people could not afford te Flue at the present rates TAKE THK NUMBER OF THE CAB! In the interest of Lue readers of tue HugaLp and the puviic at iurge it may be stated here tuat every licensed couch or cab is provided with legal safeguurde inienued to protect the strunger ugainst imposition, At the back ol the inside of every Vebicle the passen- will Hud the wuraber of the cuaca, the card of the driver ana tho priuted rates of legal tare, Now the first thing every one who t# not thoroughly tamitias with the legal rates should do 1s to look ut tbe number of the vehicle, Which is fastened in large, conspicuous figures at the back oO: tis bead, 11 the driver demanus ab extortionate lure let the passeuger simply inform him tbat he wiil complain at the Marsbul’s office, where the driver, if he persists in bis Impust- tion, will Joris the whole amount of bis ture. The driver will taen preter to take bis legal tare und be satisiicu with it, Mursual does not ouly « enlorce the letter of the ordinance, but sees that a spirit of fairness and open-bandew ucaling 1s observea by the huckmen: Take, tor imatance, this case ip which the driver was technically 1 the right, but waa yet compelled to disgorge bail the amount of bis tare for unjust und disingenuous conduc: AN UNDERUANDED CABMAN PUNISHED, A poor lady the oiver day huiied a cabman at the Chambers street jerry, and, telliug bim that she could aiforu w pay but little, askea uw much he would charge ber to drive wer to her home in Kust Kighteenth sireet, Ho told her in a very reussuring tono that 16 Woulu not cost her much aud when sho arrived at ber home he demanded $2 The pvor lady said sho had tuought he wouid take her home tor $1, but she paid the amount Thedriver, berg cross-examined by the Marshal, substantialiy admitted that the reason why he wid not tell her that 11 would cust bor $2 was shat he believed she would not then have engaged bim, but got intoacar, Upon this showing the Marshal com- polled him tv pay the diflerenco—$i although $2 was vuiy the amouut of the Jegal tare for the distance Tho Mirshal ulso rebuked him for this deceicful and improper mode of doing busin the duty of every hackman to plainly stat when usked to di It may be added here that it 1s ab ways best ‘to make a bargar a order to avoid dispute, OUR CABMEN’S DODGERS. An amusing chapter might easily be written on ali the ingenious dodges and sharp devices by which our Jebus succecd in trapping the unwary, Who does not know the story of tue stranger who ar. Tived at tue Grand Central Depot, and, desiring to ga vo the Grand Union Hotel (which is on whe oppoate side of the street), was driven up Madison avenue te 100(h street, then back down Filth avenue to within a dozen paces of the spot Le had started trom? Or the SUil more laughable expericace uf two young men beat on a night's spree Who nad arrived at a certain house, And, seeing wu Cad, desired to go to the very place tn frout of which they stood, and were driven all over town unui they finully alighted, when one of them declared he believed his wus the very same place the: slurted from, aud votu were so tickled by the driver's clever dodge that they laughingly paid bim tne $5 demanued by bim ana treated him to a drink! Such cases ure fare, but they are nevertheless to be kuardod against, us ure the more ordinary and com. mouplace mudes of swindling which are suilictenauy known to Henaup readers, Mucu trouble arises from poeple engaging Carriages Qt the ferries upon the su- citation Of unlicensed runners, of **backers,” as they fre called in the professional lingo. ‘These may be easily recognized by the absence of the license budge from their coais, and people who desire to avoid difll- culties should reso utely set their faces against their persistent solicnations, Gomplatnts need not neces- sarily be made personally to Marshal Kelly, Even @ postal card giving the number of the culpable gressor Will receive attention, although the presen of the complaruant 18, Of course, preferavie. ‘Nobody, ”” says the Marshal, ved ve swindied who will only take tue slight trouvie of making a complain.” THE TWEED COMPROMISE, Steadily, day by day, the preparations for the re lease of William M. Twoed go om Precisely when they will be completed no one—not even his counse— can tell; bubitis intimated that but a very fow days more will be spent by the iWustrious prisoner in Lud low Street Jutl, It ts, of course, possible that whea all 1s ready on Mr. Tweed’s side and tho proposition it submitted to the prosecution the Attorney General or bis representative may decline the bargain, Tus, however, is unlikely aud 19 not con. sidered possible by the trends of the impris- oned = **oss,”” and does not enter into their calculations atall, It ts suid that Mr. Tweed is con- vinced that any bitch im the present negotiations, caused by trick oF evasion On his purl, would work irre- parable injury to his cause, and probably prevent hie ever being liberated, Consequently he is moi, to stick to the bargain be now famous Jeter to Charles HOF, aNd Will, besidos giving up all his property, lend himseit to tho purifoation of tue Legislature and whe Judiciary vy exposing tne corrupt men in elther who were controlled by tne old “Ring.” Many gentlemen who figured prominentiy beiore the public in the days when Tweed Was in the genith of ls power have lately bought travelling suits, and several have been seen poring over atiases, The progress ot tl “Oust Jono D, Townsend, i Carefully keps ion to the public ti 'y will provably come tnt envouncement that an order irom Attornuy Ga us been" tusued for the release of w made by tho prisoner of Mr. counsel seers everyt ot «i Gi