The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1878, Page 5

WINTER'S BLASTS. Forty-Eight Hours of Rain and High Wind. DAMAGE IN NEW YORK. Two Vessels Wrecked Near Cape Hatteras. EXTENT OF THE GALE Streams Flooded and Property Injured from Virginia to the Canadian Boundary. . From early morning until late last evening the rain fell with unrelenting severity and pitiless constancy, while the wind, which blew at from thirty- six to forty miles per hour, played fierce pranks with ‘unprotected headgear and unstanchioned umbrellas. The old adage has it, “It never rains but it pours,” which exactly describes yesterday's storm. Properly speaking, it cannot be said that it rained, for the water rushed about the streets in blinding sheets, and the unfortunate pedestrian who was com- pelled to be abroad was wrapped in them as in 8 mantle of outpouring clouds. Although tho Hxpaup Weather Bureau had determined the coming of the storm beyond dispute, or rather the meeting of two storms—for this ono, we are assured on the highest authority, was the union of two storm centres, one from the southwest and the other from the northwest—and though Monday was a fit Precursor to just such a carnival of the elements as : Yan riot all over the town yesterday, its fury was a surprise to most of us. Especially was it a surprise to those who were out late the night before, for about midnight the clouds seemed to be breaking away, although only sufficiently to realize for those at sea the opening stanza of Baysrd Taylor's “Storm ‘The clouds are scudding across the moon; A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has ewintry tune, the foam is flying free. ‘THR MISERIES OF THE STORM. ‘To the minds of such as godown to the sea in ships anything short of a hurricane on land passes for little more than a pretty stiff breeze. The landeman re- gards these things differently. Though he may mis- tuke a breeze for a storm he knows, at least if he is a ‘New Yorker, what a storm in Broadway is; but yes- terday’s tempest outdid the experiences of most of us. Umbrellas snapped as soon as they were opened, and turned themselves wrong side out in the most undignified manner. The loss in this kind of prop- erty—.f property it can be called, since it has been held by grave judges that to steal one is not lar- ceny—was immense, and many a wife last night met her husband with sad reproaches because he brought home broken the umbrella which he borrowed from her in the morning. But the people who managed to keep their umbrellas in position were after all worse off than those who lost them. As it was impossible to keep the umbrellas erect and steer male at the same time there were many dreadful collisions in Broadway, and every street corner was more dangerous than Hatteras or Kitty Hawk. In crossing the street the danger was greatly enhanced, tor while the colliding cratts were sheering off it was next to impossible to avoid being Tun down by the stages. To the man trying to pilot himselt down Broadway or around the corner it was small consolation to be told in the evening news- storm centre had already passed ithville, Cape Lookout and Kitty Hawk, where * northwesterly winds and clearing weather began to prevail. ‘To yet out of the gale was every man’s aspi- Fation, and ouly when they were fortunate enough to de housed did most people begin to enjoy the humors of the storm, Considerable damage was reported from different parts of the city and much inconvenience was caused on streets adjacent to the water fronts, A HERALD reporter, g umbrells and ulster,made the tour of Fulton and Ws markets in an oil- cloth coat and top boots, Cellars were flooded in | rat the high winds causing the tide to rise beyond the customary mark and overfiow them. In ‘West, Front and Water streets the occupants of base- ments were eet busy baling out water almost all the day, and even in Washington street there was damage to goods in stores which were not above high water mark, In the neighborhood of Coney Island considerable Gamage was done by the storm. HOUSES BLOWN DOWN, While the storm was at its height ‘yesterday after- Boon a loud crash alarmed the dwellers in the neigh- borhood of Sixth avenue and Fifty-second street, and it was feared at first that some tenanted buildings had been blown down and serious injury done to life orlimb. A mass of beamaand ‘brickwork lying across tne sidewalk in front of a row of new structures, how- ever, tended to quiet such fears and show where the harm had been done. It was a portion of the houses at Nos. 136 and 138 West Fifty-second street that had come down, and when the police reached the scene they learned that by a happy chance no one was passing at the time und that the edifices were unfinished and without inmates. The following was found to be the history of the row which was atfected by yesterday's accident:—A few months a: Charles Bodencamp, of No. 246 Kast vf street, arranged with a builder to erect five houses, extending from No. 136 to No. 146 Weat Fifty-second street. Those located at Nos. 140, 142, 144 and 146 were pushed through rapidly and aro now almost complete. Work on the other two languished, and when the recent rains began the two side and the rear wall were up and a portion of the front was built us high as the second story. ‘This sectiou of it was composed of fire brick, with copings of sandstone, the beams were adjusted and @ part of the root finished. During the storm the rains looseued the mortar and the masonry began to yield. Then when the high winds of yesterday an to blow. the whole front of the houses shook, and late in the afternoon it gave way before the blast and went down with a rumble like thunder. Part of the brickwork fell on the pavement, but most fell inward, driving down the wooden beams and bring- section of the roof with it. The exact damage done was not ascertained. DAMAGE TO A CHURCH. Shortly after this the roof of an unfinished build- ing in avenue A, between Eighty-first and Kighty- second streets, was blown off, and part of it fell on the frame Methodist Church on the southwest corner of avenue A and Eighty-second street. A damage of $1,500 was sustais ‘he walls of the building are nounced unsafe, and the Superintendent of Build- ft was notified. he west wall of a new building in process of eree- tion on 162d street, near Tenth avenue, was blown down by the wind yesterday morning, but did no one any bodily injury. IN THR LOWER BAY. The southeast wind and rain storm of yesterday ‘was unusually severe in the lower bay, where several vessels which were at anchor experienced a rough time in weathering the gale. The oyster sloops in Prince's Bay and those at anchor off Seguin’s Point *took shelter under Ward’s Point. Tho vessels along the east shore at anchor had a hard time holding to their anchors. The two Sandy Hook pilot boats, KE chantress and Pet, No. 9, were driven close in shore at Stapleton, but finally succecded in riding out the gale in safety, At the a of the storm it was very dif- i ane sland ferryboate to make their as. Between three and four o'clock yesterday afternoon the schooner Connecticut, of New York, while lyin; _ in the Bay, broke from her port anchor. She drift Central Railroad doe! here she col- » breaking away her boom, ling crashed thro and com- tely demolished the cabin of tho barge. © schooner continued toward the South dock, where a number of boatmen hastened to her as- sistance, James Welsh and George Munsey, two of the crew of the barge Taunton, of Massachusetts, who, with several others, were engaged in the effort to keep the vessel from crashing against the docks, say that when the schooner first drifted there was an old man on board, but that after she had been made fast to the South dock no trace of the man could be found and they believed that he had been washed overboard. Tho vessel is what is known 4s @ canal schooner und had just discharged a load of fish guano. As she lay it night rolling inst the side of the railroad dock the boatmen who hung around asserted their belief that she was so old that she would go to pieces before daylight. Upto alate hour no one appeared at the dock who could tell anything of her captain or le for the man who had disappeared before the schooner was secured. si DAMAGE AT CONEY ISLAND. ‘The rain storm and high tide which provailed yes- terday occasioned considerable excitement and some damage at Coney Island, The water in the creek was #0 much swollen that it overtiowed the surrounding ws, and at several points hed the track of the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad. ‘The tide swept over the old shell road, making it im- 4 ble wat pgs ~ va nai storm a with grea ‘ury along Manhattan and Brighton beaches, jing the Ocean Concourse Drive and washing up on the plateau infront of the Brighton lotwwl. Several of the planks which form the sea wall or bulkhead on the latter beach were torn away, and many of the bathing houses were damaged. Some damage was caused also to the small structures on the beach near Cable's, and from Paul Bauer's At- lantic Garden everything movable was swept away. Feltman’s Pavilion, Ryan's, Voorhees’ and ‘Tilyou's structures also suffered severely. Most of Norton's bathing houses were carried away and the dock was much injured, Several families living slong the NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER ll, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET, . banks of the creek, becoming alarmed for their safety, made a hasty exit from their frail habitations, taking with them such articles as they could carry. STRANDING OF THE BRIG WILLIAM MALLORY, dR, AND THE NOVA SCOTIAN BARK BELLE LEIGH, AT CAPE HAITTERAS—ALL HANDS SAVED, Wasuincrox, Dec. 10, 1978. ‘The signal service station at Cape Hatteras reports to the Chief Signal Officer as follows:—“The brig William Mallory, Jr., of Mystic, Coun., Captain ‘Thomas C, Forsyth, loaded with bone ash and horns, from Buenos Ayres, consigned to George F. Brown, of New York, and owned by C. H. Mallory & Co,, came ashore at half-past two o'clock this morning. Her crew of nine, all told, the Captain and his wife, aresaved. ‘Lhe vessel is of 329 tons burden, She has bilged and will probably prove a total wreck. She lies four miles south of the station, high and dry, head on. ‘The signal station at Cape Hatteras also reports as follows:—‘The barkantine Belle Keith, Captain Mc- Donald, of Nova Scotia, in ballast, is ashore eleven’ miles south of this station. All theerew are saved.” THE SCHOONER JANET 5. Wasutnaton, Dec. 10, 1878, The Signal Corps station at New London, Conn., reports to the Chief Signal Officer as follows:—‘‘the British schooner Janet 8., which went ashore Decem- ber 2, was brought into port this morning by the tug Relief, and will go on the marine ways for repuirs.”” HEAVY RAINS AND SWOLLEN RIVERS IN VIRGINIA. Ricumonp, Va., Dec. 10, 1878, Atelegram from Lynchburg reports heavy rains, and that the James River has risen eight feet and is still rising. North River, at Lexington, has risen five feet and is still rising. It was raining heavily at the latter place this afternoon, A pare, rain prevailed here last night and up to three P.M. to-day. A serious flood in the James River is probable. Norroxk, Va., Dec, 10, 1878, A heavy rain storm commenced in this section last night. ‘The fall of rain is very great, EFFECTS OF THE STORM IN DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA—HEAVY RAIN AND OVER- FLOWING STREAMS. [By TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Easr Stroupspura, Dec. 10, 1878. A heavy rain storm has prevailed here for the past twenty-four hours, accompanied by a strong south- east wind. All the streams in this locality have raised about eight feet since the morning, and seri- ous trouble is apprehended through this section of the country unless the storm ceases immediately. Winuramsport, Pa., Dec. 10, 1878, It has been raining continuously for the past forty-eight hours. ‘The west branch of the Susque- hanna River at this place is fourteen feet above low water mark, and is rising fifteen inches an hour. an Westport the banks are full and the water 1s still ing. Lycoming Oreck is very high, and some portions of Mewberry are reported under water. Maucu CuunK, Pa., Dec. 10, 1878. The Lehigh River is eight feet above low water mark and still rising. Reav1G, Pa., Dec, 10, 1878. The Schuylkill River, in consequence of recent rains, has risen five fect above low water mark. Un- less the rain continues 1 serious damage is appre- Locknavern, Pa., Dec, 10, 1878. It has been raining here since yesterday morning. The west branch at this point has been rising at the rate of nine inches per hour since noon, and ls now seven and a half fect above low water mark. A serious overflow is feared, Eagle Creek has overflowed its banks and is flooding the lower end of the city. Reports from Clearfield say the river is rising ten inches per hour. All the small streams are very high. At this hour (ten P. M.) it is raining hard. PorrsviLts, Deo. 10, 1878. No has been reported in this locality from the rain storm which has prevailed here since yes- terday, excopting temporary ‘stoppage of mining at several points consequence of the overflow of small streams. Should the rain continue mining operations will be interrupted. Scranton, Pa., Dec. 10, 1878, It has been raining steadily here for two days and the storm still continues. Advices from the sur- rounding country report the rivers and streams greatly swollen, and it is feared that serious damage will result from tioods, IN NEW JERSEY. The storm did considerable damage in the vicinity of Paterson, N.J. At Wyckoff this evening Jardine’s dam, a large structure, gave way to the pressure of the water, whieh rushed down with such force as to sweep away everything in its path. The Midland Railroad bridge, at Wortendyke, was destroyed and travel is suspended on that road. More washes are anticipated. The river was 80 swollen that the low points of round were completely covered. The water was jevel with the platform at the railroad depot, aud was within ag ga gp Oren, atts nite wba ous washes are yet re; , although it they cannot be averted. ne SEVERITY OF THE STORM ON THE JERSEY COAST. Lone Bnancu, Dec, 10, 1878, At noon to-day the rain storm which has con- tinued without cessation since Sunday night sud- denly changed into a gale. The wind, which was biowing from the east, increased gradually in velocity until three o'clock, when it blew a perfect tornado, It was accompanied by heavy rain and & dense mist. he life saving stations between Squan and Sandy Hook report that there have been no marine accidents, but the damage all along the southern shore by wind and rain is reported very great. Between this place and the Horseshoe the storm was the most severe. The only damage done was the cdrrying away of afew bathing houses, over- turning summer houses and flooding several fish- ermen’s huts at Sallaleo, near Seabright. The Sandy Hook boat made only one trip, at eight A. M. After that time it was too perilous to cross the bay, and all travel over the Southern Railroad between New York and Long Branch was suspended. South and Perth Amboy sutiered considerably by the waters of Raritan Bay, which flooded the buildings along the bay creek, Between Monmouth Beach and ‘Asbury Park huge patches of the ocean bluff have been washed away, and the beach is changed in many places. The uprooting of cedar trees, overturning of bath houses and the blowing down of fences is the only damage reported from Ocean Grove and Deal Beach, In the vicinity of Spring Lake and Slasaquan the storm toward night was most severe, it then having veered around to the southeast, ‘The force of the storm has biocked up the old inlet from the Squan River to the sea, but it also opened a new inlet, much broader and of greater depth than the old o and one in which coasting vessels of light draught can enter. To-night the wind is blow- i Dee gale from the southeast, but the rain has DAMAGE ALONG THE HUDSON—FORTY FEET OF RAILKOAD TRACK CARRIED AWAY. Povenkexrstr, N. ¥., Dec. 10, 1878. Aheavy southeast rain storm has prevailed along the Hudson since noon yesterday. To-day the tide was higher than it has been for years, and many piers and wharves were submerged. Passengers from the steamer Martin were landed in small boats, All the streams leading into the Hudson are swollen, In some places tho track of the Hudson River Railroad is submerged. Forty feet of the track is washed out, south of Garrison's, near Highland Station, and no train has come north of the break since a quarter to two o'clock P.M. to-day. A wreck- ing train and gangs of men have gone there, and ex- ct to get trains through midnight. Further lamage is feared irom the high water at two o'clock A. M. to-morrow. LATER REPORTS, A washout has also occurred near Peekskill, and the down track of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company is. disabled by high water. ‘The first Pacific express has been sent out ot New York over the Harlem road. ‘The New York special train, leaving here at 4:60 P. M., the way train leaving here at ten minutes to four P. M., and the half-past seven P. M. express, all bound south, are lying this side of Peeksville, and may not get through to-night. The next high water raat two A. M., but the water is now very high a lean cising. a he Be Wwashouts are re- ported sonth of here. No serious trouble is reported trom the north, RAILROAD PROPERTY NEAR UTICA DESTROYED. Urtca, N. ¥., Dee. 10, 1878, Heavy rain has fallen almost inoessantly during the past thirty-six hours and is still pouring. The Mohawk River is rising, but no damage has been re- Pag bn thus far. The Chenango River, at Sherburne, is higher than since 1865, allroad and other bridges in the valley are threatened. Some private property is damaged ‘and more is in danger, STREAMS OVERFIOWING NEAR PORT JERVIS— RAILROAD TRAVEL IMPEDED—A BRIDGE CAR- RIED AWAY, Pont Jenvis, N. ¥., Dec. 10, 1878, ‘The heavy rain which commenced falling yesterday morning still continues and is causing unprecedented fresheta in all streams in this vicinity, as well as ob- structing both railway and highway travel. The out- let of the reservoir of the Port Jervis Water Company is overflowing its banks and doing much damage to roperty. The Neversink River, et Cuddebackville, on the line of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, is overflowing its banks, cutting off travel to this ‘place, ‘Trains are losing time by running cautiously over the Delaware division of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad, but as yet there has been no serious detention. Bridge No, 2, which is one hundred fect long and thirty-two feet high, and situated near Stephens’ Point, on the Jef- ferson branch, was carried away late this afternoon. Unless the storm abates during the night great dam- age may be expected. THE LOWER PART OF ELMIRA UNDER WATER. Exatina, N. ¥., Dee. 10, 1878, It has rained here for the past twenty-four hours. The Chemung River is higher than it has been for years. Newtown Creek has overflowed its banks and the lower park of the city is under water, Hoffman Creek iq also overflowing, Much damage has been lone. A TRAIN RUNS INTO A FIPTY-POOT WASHOUT— NARROW ESCAPE OF THE ENGINEER. GRvENYIELD, Mass., Dec. 10, 1878. The extra freight train on the Troy and Greenfield Railroad ran into a fifty-foot washout this afternoon, at West Deerficld, and the locomo- tive and six cars went in, Had the train not been running slowly all of the cars would have gone in. George Field, the engineer, was seriously injured by striking @ tele- graph pole in jumping. The east bound express train, which was due at the scene of disaster a tew minutes later, would probably have goue into the washout with terrible results lad it not been antici- ated by the extra, West bound trains will be de- Jayed until ufter midnight. VERMONT ALSO SUFFERING FROM THE FLOOD— FALL OF A LARGE BUILDING. Buarrieporo, Dec. 10, 1878, One of the severest storms since the eventful flood of 1869 has prevailed since yesterday morn- ing,’ when it began with snow, continuing until nine P. M., when it changed to heavy rain, which continues with unabated fury. The Whetstone at the lower end of the village has rapidly risen until now the water is nearly as high as it was ever seen in this stream. Most of the inhabitants in that vicinity have been removed in boats, with portions of their personal effects, to places of safety. At the present time it is impossible to estimate the damage. A large three story building has fallen into the stream and is a total wreck. It is thought no lives were lost, though the building fell without warning. ‘The water is still rising. The rain continues without abatement, and the Connecticut River \is rising rapidly. No accounts have been received of the effects of the storm in the surrounding country. Great ex- citement prevails here. THE STREETS OF NORTHAMPTON, MASS., FLOODED. NorrHampron, Dec. 10, 1878. Snow fell for twelve hours Monday. It began rain- ing at nightfall Monday and still continues. The Mill River is higher than ever before, not except- ing the time of the great flood, Water is flowing into Maple street district and will flood fifty houses. An immense amount of damage would result from a further rise of three inches. Northampton dike is threatened. The water has backed into many house and factory cel- lars. The Northampton and New Hi Railroad track is washed away south of the town and travel is suspended. Welsh End iron bridge in Northampton has been swept away and three other bridges are in imminent danger. There are reports of great dam- age from points further up the river. ROUGH WEATHER OFF THE RHODE ISLAND COAST—THE YALL RIVER STEAMERS DE- LAYED. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. ] Newrorr, R. L, Dec. 10, 1878, A furious storm has raged here all day, and it shows no signs of abating at this writing. The steamer Bristol, Fall River line, came through from New York this morning, arriving about three hours late. The Old Colony went outside last night, but was obliged to Riser Wagon | to the heavy weather, and both boats are at this end of the route to-night. Owing to the severity of the storm neither of them will venture out eee Proviwenck, R. I., » 10, 1878. Asoutheast gale of uncommon severity, accom- panied by a heavy rain, prevailed here this afternoon, with the highest tide of the season. This evening the gale abated just in time to prevent a serious overflow ofthe docks. A large building on Carpenter strect, formerly Huntoon’s cigar factory, which was blocked up preparatory to removal, was wrecked by the wind; the loss is $3,000, THE COTTON CROP. Memruis, Tenn., Dec. 10, 1878, The Memphis Cotton Exchange report for Novem- ber, which embraces the districts of West Tennes- see, North Mississippi, North Arkansas and North Alabama, shows the following aggregate replies :— Weaturr.—Seventeen reports it never was better, 85 very favorable, 100 more favorable than last year. Prckinc.—The cotton crop is reported as being from 75 to 100 per cent gathered; average, 85 per cent harvested. Picking will be consummated pr the Sth to the 30th of December; average date, 14t! of December. Yieip.—Thirty-seven answers report a greater yield than last year; eighteen about the same, forty-seven less, the average being five per cent less than last ear. 7 Minxerma.—The crop is variously reported at from eight to seventy-five per cent sent to market at the close of November, the average being forty per cent. MrscRLLaNrous.—Sixty-six complain of serious damage by drought during the months of July, August and September which caused serious shedding of fruit and premature ripening. Nineteen report much damage by rains, which caused excessive growth of the plant and light fruitage. Much damage is re- ported by the ravages of the boll worm, Seventeen report the season as having been a good average or etter for all crops. Lanor.—Fighty-eight report laborers working well and their general morale good. Fourteen report them working moderately ‘well, Eleven, that the morale of the laborers is not good. Gatveston, Dec, 9, 1878. The Cotton Exchange crop report for November shows favorable weather for packing, consequently cotton is clear and of good quality. The average yield reportea is forty per cent larger in forty-one counties, the same in four, and twenty-five per cent less than last year in eleven counties. Seven-cighths of the crop has been gathered and sixty-six per cent marketed, BISHOP AND COBB. HOW THE PRINCIPAL OF A BRACE OF ALLEGED MURDERERS WILL TESTIFY. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Norwion, Conn., Dec. 10, 1878. William Maloney, whose term of imprisonment has expired for killing Kennedy, states that Bishop told him in jailhe should —, against Katie Cobb on the trial for Pgh her husband, which evidence would tend to convict her of murder. Then he will ‘be sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. FIRE ON BROADWAY. A fire was discovered last night on the fourth floor of the five story marble front building located at No, 581 Broadway, which was occupied, with several others, by W. 7. Low, who keeps an artificial flower factory, He sustained a loss of $2,000, which is covered by insurance, as is the $250 damage which was done by water to the American Clock Company's establishment on the first floor. The building is owned by Mr. Wilkes, whose loss of $1,000 is also covered, During the fire it was feared that the noise of the engines might create a commo- tion in Tony Pastor's Theatre, which adjoins the build- ing, opin Niblo’s Garden, which is exactly opposite. When it was found, however, that the fire could be easily controlled the audiences were not disturbed. MUNICIPAL NOTES, The Board of Aldermen yesterday laid over & reso- lution giving permission to the New York Elevated Railway and the Fordham and Morrisania Railroad companies to connect their roads by laying tracks over Harlem Bridge. The Commissioner of Public Works has been di- rected by the Common Council to notify the New York Elevated Railway Company to remove their staircases at Houston street and the Bowery and the stations at Ninth street and Third avenue, so that they will not discommode the sidewalks, Another proposition was yesterday submitted from the New York Steam Supply Company to the Alder- men asking for permission to make a trial of their system of steam heating in some | ano of the city. The Corporstion Counsel yesterday sent a com- munication {) the Aldermen, in which ho states that ® testcase is now onthe calendar of the Supreme Court, General Term, brought against the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad Company, as to the ower of the city to exact car license fees from the orse railroad corporations, — BRIEF LIBERTY, Lorenzo McCormick, the young man arrested in Newark # week ago on a warrant issued by Judge Meehan, of Jersey City, at the instance of Emma Wilson, who charged him with bigamy, was brought before Judge Knapp, inthe Hudson County Court, yesterday, upon @ habeas corpus, and discharged. MeCormick had not procecded far upon his way to the depot to take the train for Newark when he was accosted by a constable, who took him into custody Upon a warrant issued I, Judge Meehan on a charge of aduttery. He was taken back to his quarters in the County Jail; but the story of his rearrest pion | reached Judge Knapp he at once granted a secon writ of habeas corpus, returnable at ten A, M, toalay, THE MILLENNIUM COMING. HENRY SCHROEDER CLAIMS TO POSSESS A COM- MISSION PROM HEAVEN TO ESTABLISH A NEW RELIGION, If the predictions of Henry Schroeder, made at his residence, corner of Fifty-second street and Lexing- ton avenue, last evening, come true the millennium will soon dawn upon all mankind, or, if it does not, it will certainly not be the fault of Henry Schroeder, ex-music teacher, and now specially commissioned to establish “the Millennial Mother Church” and make a New Jerusalem out of New York. The weather was rather unpropitious last evening for the meeting which was to cnable Mr. Schroeder to vertect all his arrangements, but he confided his heavenly plans toa few members of the press, and quoted several lines from a long document that is to constitute “the platform” of the new Chur “Much darkness prevails, hence light must be show- ered upon mankind.” “The majority of the people live for mammon only, scandalize their parents after death, rob the grayes of others, while all of us daily pray ‘Thy kingdom come. The question to be answered is, Shall this world be made a paradise or a hell? The only way to secure happiness is to estab- lish the New Jerusalem, a paternal government, a common brotherhood, and the time of deliverance shall have come. HOW HE RECEIVED HIS COMMISSION. Mr. Schroeder,” asked the Henaup re- how did you huppen to lected by Provi- for this particular business ly experience began three years ago, sir, after I had passed twenty-tiye years of my life in darkness; I began to seek for the truth and found it. On Good Friday two years ago I was in a High Episcopal church, I had been there for over two hours on my knees, and I was in the uct of rising, when I was pressed upon my back as if to remain, [could not rise. My naine was called, ‘Schroeder! Schroeder!’ Again it was called with a voice of thunder. I looked around to see if anybody was there who knew me, but they were all strangers, and I remained upon my knees till three o'clock in communion with the Lord. Since then I have received almost daily ample evidence of the Lord's presence. I have been urged on by special inspiration for at least a year past to inaugurate the new movement. I have been made to understand that the coming of our Lord will not bon the body, but it will be # spiritual coming. The return of the Hebrews, as in the sixtieth chapter of Isaiah, has ‘been pointed out to me as being an event of the immediate future. I have most reluctantly taken this step to regencrate mankind, but considering the great unbelief all around ns and the diiferences of opinion that exist as to the truth of the Christian religion in the fundamental principles, I am enabled by the Holy Spirit to give light and instruction which shall con- vince the most doubting mind. I am beginning this great work single-handed, without assistance.” Mr. Schroeder then stated that the mission con- ferred upon him trom heaven would be made more generally known after the second preliminary meet- ing, to be held on Friday evening next. UNITARIAN CONVENTION. “No: rte OPENING EXERCISES LAST NIGHT—REV. DR. FREEMAN'S DISCOURSE ON THE TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE INTO MODERN EQUIVALEN'S, ‘The Unitarian Convention opened last night in the Church of the Messiah, corner of Park aye- nuo and Thirty-fourth street, Rev. Dr. KE. E. Hall pronouncing the opening prayer. Rev. Dr. James Freeman, of Boston, delivered an eloquent discourse on the “Translation of the Bible Into Moderu Equivalents,” taking his text from IL, Samuel, iii., 10, He suid the Jewish kingdom was a fact of politics—the translation of Isracl from the dynasty of Saul to that of David. Enoch was translated from this to a higher world, he suid, and the Bible was translated by be- ing tuken out of Hebrew and Greek into English in the time of King James, Since that time @ great deal has been learned about the Scriptures. A new translation of the Scriptures is now being pre- pared by eminent acholgrs of al! denominations in England and America, and if honestly done it will doubtless be universally received. The only text in the New Testament which seems positively to teach the Trinity will have to be left out, because the best scholars have long since agreed that it has no right tobe there. The passage where our Saviour is made to say, “These shall go away into everlasting punish- ment, and the hteous inte life eternal,"’ ought to read, “These shall go away into the suffering of eter- nity,” meaning the putferings and joys of the eternal world as distinguished from those of the temporal world. The Greek word, which is now translated, according to the whim of. the translators, seyenty times “damnation,” fourteen times ‘judg- ment’ and six times ‘“condemnation’’ will be ren- dered in a more uniform way. The word “hell,” in our English Bible, is the rendering of ' two wholly different Greeks words, one of which is used eleven times and the other twelve. ‘The only place where the Apostle Paul uses either word in any of his epistles, our translator made it not but the “grave’—‘O Death, where is thy sting! O Grave, where is thy victory!’ If the word A” ware ent rely omitted and another more cor- rect phrase substituted, it ought to be no great loss, since neither the Apostles Peter, Paul, or John nse this word in gospel or epistle. A’ new transla tion out of Greck into English will be an advantage, but a more important translation is that which takes the Bible out of the words of speech in Judea,in the first century into the American words of enth century. It is surprising wish phraseology of Sabbaths, justification, atonement, sacrifices, remission of sin, purification and the like; and this Jewish phraseol- ogy should be wiped away and & modern terminology substituted. But there is yet another translation of the Bible which we are capable of making for ourselves. It is the most useful of all translations, and without it the Bible is of very little value. It is to translate, not Hebrew or Greek words into English words, but Hebretw and Greck facts into English and American facts. It is to translate the men and the notions of the Bible into their modern equivalents. TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME. Rev. R. R. Shippin, of Boston, secretary of the Unitarian Society, announced the progranune for to- day. The Convention will assemble at ten o'clock under the presidency of Mr. Dorman B, Eaton, and Rev. Charles F. Dole, of Jamaica Plains, Mass., will read an essay on “Three Steps of Religious Progress.” At eleven o'clock there will be an extempore discussion on “‘The Work to Which Liber- als Are Called by the Exigencies of the Times.” marks on the subject aro expected from Rev. R. Shippin, Boston; Rev. Dr. E. H. Chapin, of New York Rev. Alonzo ¥, Abbott, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Re George Batchelor, Salem, Muss.; Rey. mandie, Portsmouth, N. H A Schermerhorn, Newport, RK. L At half-past one P, M, there will be a collation in the chapel, at half-past two a business meeting will be held, and at half-past seven a missionary meeting will assemble, ‘The geuoral subject of “Lhe Present Word of the Liberal Faith to the World” will be treated of by Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Rev. Minot J. Savage and Rev. John G. Brooks, all of Boston; Rev. Fielder Isracl, Salem, Mass; Rev. Samuel BR. Cat- throp, Syracuse, N, Y., and Rev. Dr. Heary W. Bel- jows, New York. ANOTHER SYNAGOGUE DISTURBED, SHEARITH ISRAEL PROPOSING TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF SHAARAI TEPHILAH—THE LADIES THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. The clectors of the congregation of Shearith Israel held a strictly private meeting last evening, at which some proposed changes in the ordinances and cus- toms of the Jowish service were discussed at length. There was a large attendance in the synagogue in Nineteenth street, near the corner of Fifth avenue, but a reporter of the Henatp was assured by Mr. Wolf, the secretary, that there was no lack of harmony. In the same breath he was refused admittance, Three members, whose names were withheld, had issued a call, os tensibly to obtain a consideration of certain points in chureh government merely disciplinary, but as there was a small perty in favor of making sweeping innovations it was expected that there would be au effort to test the sense of those present on this mooted subject. ‘The necessity of greater order in the synagogue on the day of worship had been felt by many, and the oneninent of the regulations in order to chock the irreverent tendency of certain members was earnestly urged. Those engnged in this movement are avowedly stanch orthodox, and do not wish to do anything that can change one jot or tittle the character of the ritual. Another party, however, desire to shorten the ritual so that the vices Willbe leas wearisome, ‘They alxo protess most perfect orthodoxy, Still another party ms to have been stimulated by the example of the congregation of Shaarai Tephilah, in Forty-fourth street, and is anxious to bring to # vote the question of the sexes sitting together at worship and also that of removing their head coverings. The policy of secresy was closely observed by the electors, the exact nature of what occurred could not be learned. It was claimed by certain mombers that no determinate action could be taken last night, as the radical ana referred acct ce not be made without changing the constitu of the synagogue, to do which would, reqnire a meeting called by two- thirds of the congregation. A ratification by another meeting would also be necessary. Whatever was done, therefore, was merely preliminary to further action. It was evident, however, from remarks let drop b; some of the would-be innovators that there is enoug! latent feeling in the congregation to cause a tolerably exciting contest before the questions which were raised last evening have been fully decided. There is no doubt that the young members are strongly en- listed on the side of reform, although it is asserted on the other hand that orthodoxy will command a very large a THE ELECTRIC. LIGHE An Authoritative Explanation of Edi- son’s Great Invention. INCANDESCENCE, Why the Secret Has Been So Carefully Guarded. PRODUCED BY A NEW GENERATOR. Mexio Pank, N. J., Dee. 10, 1878. After a careful examiniifion of Filidon’s clectric light, lasting several hours, during which all facilities were afforded me by the great inventor in person, I am enabled to give the readers of tho Henatp the only authoritative description of the same thus far published, Hitherto there have appeared at intervals in journals, scientific and popular, both in Europe and America, so-called descriptions of the light, some absurd in their variance from the truth, others approximating the real facts and one or two accurately hitting upon @ part of Edison's system; but none before the present haye received his sanction, Yet the facts which I now present do not comprise the light im all its details, as many parts of the system, which is exceedingly complex, are not yet sufliciently protected by patents to warrant the inventor in disclosing the same. ‘The great anxiety of the thousands of other inventors all over the world who are eagerly working on the subject of eiectric lighting to learn his plans has made Edison unusually secretive, and, while willing to give the public at large the benefit of whatever he has accomplished, he reels it necessary to his own protection to withhold the secrets of his inventions and discoveries until such time as all are properly secured by patents. Scarcely a day passes without witnessing somo anxious inguirers visiting Menlo Park = in the hope of learning some of the inventors’s plans, and letters and telegrams inquiring, suggesting and proposing with reference to the electric light arrive without number; but to all upto the present time that part of the laboratory containing the substance of the invention has been closed. Edison now, however, feels safe in acquainting the public with the contour of his system, AN ERRONEOUS IMPRESSION, First, it may be promised that the popular idea that Edison’s invention is embraced in one or two patents is exceedingly erroneous, Before it is absolutely complete it will probably be covered by thirty or per- haps forty patents. Our patent laws do not permit the embracing in one set of specifications all the de- tails of a complex plan—each disti: feature must be patented by itself. ‘This was the case with Edison’s stock telograph instrument, which, although *not nearly so complex as the electric light, is protected by forty patents. It was also the case with his auto- matic system of telegraphy, the patents covering which number forty-six. His quadruplex tele- graph, an apparatus a trifle in comparison with the electric light so far as minute details are con- cerned, required for all its parts eleven patents. The various parts of the system of his clectric lighting are probably as numerous und require as many patents for complete protection as did the system of lighting by gas, with its puri- fiers, gasometers, retorta and the hundred other appliauces’ all going to make up the entire pis. Among the appliances of the electrio light which will have to be secured before the light a8 an entirety can be explained are the improved dynamo machines, the regulators, condensers, switches and coolers, besides the different portions of the light’ proper and the various forms of conductors and lamps to mect the diversity in the wants of the consumers, When all these are completed—and not a day passes without a marked advanco toward their completion—the elec- tric light of the wizard of Menlo Park will be ready for inspection, criticism and use, but not before. IN THE LABORATORY. I saw the invention to-day under peculiarly favor- able circumstances. The drenching rain an ce tornado thut beat against aud almost rocked the lab- oratory had proved a boon to the inventor and his assistants in affording them a day of com ive rest trom the army of visitors that almost continually beset the wizard’s sanctum from Monday mornin; to Saturday night. Only one or two. brave the storm, and these were mild in their demands, in- sisting only on seeing the megaphone, tasimeter aud telephone, and graciously refraining from calling tor songs and recitations from the phonograph and from asking for a detailed history of the progress of the electric light from the beginning to the present timo. On this” account probably all the inmates were in good humor when I called. Mr. Griffin, the inventor's private secretary, was poring over a bateh of correspondence halt a foot high, while he peacefully indulged in a meerschaum, fill- ing the office with clouds of smoke. Mr. Batchelor, the chief assistant, was cheerily whistling over a lathe on which he was engaged. Edison himeelf was on the second floor of the laboratory, the picture of ease and content. Before him, on a table, were five or six of the lampa of his electric light, on which he had been recentiy working. The other members of the laboratory corps were enggaed in various occupations, All seemed happy in the fact that they could pursue their several occupations without in- terruption. “So two of your patents for the electric light have Washington?” began your cor- been allowed in respondent, explunatory of his visit. “That's what I hear,” replied the inventor, clearing away a pile of scientific books from a corner of the table to give more room to a few cells of a battery on the edge. “The publie?’ you will soon be ready to make the secret “Phat don’t necessarily follow,” said Mr. Edison, still arranging the battery. “Two patents don't amount to much when thirty or forty are necessar; Lam not yet advised which claims have been allowed. My solicitor informs me that the claims allowed are niunbers 156 and 162, but what particular points they pover I can't now s% Th atents pending?” © at the present time eleven The system, you know, is alittle on you have o' all means, 1 in patent Office. complex.” After some further preliminary conversation Edison accorded me the privilege of examining ini detwil the lamp and the other appliances going to make up the light, explaining the parts with a logical conciseness that brought out all im perfect clearness. 1 took down the points in detail and submitied the same to his inspection to insure accuracy. After re- vising and correcting the same, and in some places striking out parts as describing the invention too inuch in detail, he gave his approval. HOW THE LIGHT Is PRODUCED. ‘The light is produced by incandescence. The con- ductor, which is made incandescent by the electrical current passing through it, is a swall, curiously shaped apparatas, consisting of # high alloy of plati- num and iridium, which cannot be melted under 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit. A suifitient quan- tity of this metal is placed in each burner to give a light equal to that of a gas jet. De vices of exceeding simplicity, and, as repeated experi- ments have proved, of equal reliability, are con- nected with the | lamp. ‘They "surmount the apparent impossibility of regulating the strength of the light.” This lamp, when plased in the electric circuit in which a current citeulates is absolutely independent strength of the current. This Edison considers one of the vital features of the invention. Thus, if the regulator is act so that the light gives only, «ay, ten candle power, no increase in the strength of the cur- rent will increase its brilliancy. BACH LIGHT INDEPENDENT, Each light is independent of all others in the circuit. A thousand may be fed from the same con- ductor and the ogg Sage | Be all but one will have on that one, on claims, no wrceptible effect. Each lamp in the cirenit, means of the regulator, @ deseription of which Istter Edison for the present withholds, is allowed to draw from the central station Just snfti- cient current to supply itself, In lighting by incan- deseence the light is obtained by the resistance which the conductor in the lamp offers to the passage of the electric current. Henee any other resistance exterior to the lamp used therewith to regulate it requires a current in proportion to ifs resistance berg it gives no light. One of the main features of Edison's inven- tion consists in having all the resistance out- side of the main conductor produce light, consequently. there is maximum econom, Tue lamp devised by Edison is not merely a coil of incandescent metal, but a very peculiar arrangement of such motal whereby (by means of a discovery of his in connection with radiant energy) a much weaker current is made to generate a given light than if a simple spiral were used, and the con- siderable loss duc to the division of the light is com- pensated for, i INCANDESCENCE V8, CARBON, Tt has been acknowledged by nearly all electricians that lighting by ineandescence, ly in- candeseence of & metallic wire, offers less obstacle to the division of the electric ht than by any other method, and Edison 7 lieves it to be the only reliable method, because the light giving metal is an clectrical -‘constant” whose resistance can always be known and depended upon—# condition which is exceedingly esxential when y hundreds of lights must be supplied from one conductor. In the case of the electric aro between carbon rods, now so freely used, the resistance yaries at every instant, only from changes in the strength of the current, but from im- purities in the carbon, from air currents and from many other causes. On this account Mr. Edison claims ‘variable factors 90 coming in play in hundreds of lamps make it imponsible te calculate the strength ot the current or size of the conductors. It would be as dificult supplylug gas from one main where each burner varied from excessive limits with the rapidity of lightning. Besides in the ease of carbon points many hundreds reacting on each other canse such an unsteadiness in the light as to be unbearable. Lighting by incandescence Edison claims is free trom any of these defects, Since Edison ndertook the problem of lighting by incandescence many attempts have been made in the same direction, but owing either to a lack of knowledge or a misconception of the cost of electricity, the devices and improvements were such that 18 much current had to be supplied when the lamps were not light they were. loxs was in conseque: Edison's electric light may be Driefi in saying that the lamps used give a light by inean- descence of five, ten or fifteen candle power. ‘It gives off no deleterions gases, No consumption of material takes place and the proportion of heat to light is in- finitely less than that from a gus jet. THE SECRET ARCHIVES. Whether he will permit to be ngide public the speci- fleations of the claims for which patents have just been allowed Edison has not yet desided. Should deem it necessary for his protection for the subsequent patents hoe may under the Patent laws, file the specifications in the seerst archives of the Patent Office for a period sufficiently long to enable him to secure the necessary 3, Yesterday another specification for a British patent was sent by him to his patent solicitor, making the third protecting his light in Great Britain, LIGHT PROM ONE BATTERY. Th the course of his experiments on the electric light Edison mace the discovery that he could, by a certain combination in the form of the metal used in his lamp, secure suilicient light from the electricity generated from one cel! of battery to enable him toread by. The cell used was an ordinary one of Daniels’ battery. ‘Lo his surprise—tor he hardly ex- pected such a resnlt—the thin metal soon became « dull red, By changing torm again he produced a brighter red, and, after several other changes, he succeed in obtaining a glow which made it not at all dificult to read by the room being dark, Several of the laboratory hands examined the phenomenon with curiosity. It jemonstrate to Mr. Edison that he had hit upon the fori of metal to produce the best result. new feature in the system of the light as is hix improvement on dynamo machine ifications, for a patent for which Mr, Edison hap only just applied. summed up OBITUARY. EPHRAIM H, JENNEY. Ephraim H. Jenney, an old and well known reste dent of New York, who had been connectéd with the business department of the New York Tribune for more than a quarter of a century, died at his home yesterday. He was stricken with paralysis while crossing the City Hall Park about two weeks ago, and did not recover from its effects. In many relations he was known to a vast mum- ber of persons, and his manners and views were so eccentric that he was never forgotten by those who met him, For a great many years he acted as collector for the establishment with which he was connected and in that capacity made mapy acquaintances. His long silver hair he wore in a long cue extending down his back, and this, to- gether with a fine and strongly marked face, gave him a striking appearance and impressed his figure upon the minds of many who never knew his name. He was a native of Leicester, Vt., where he first saw the light in 1#08, and he graduated from the Middlebury College in 1831, He began life by teaching school and studying medi- cine at Saratoga, in this State, Later he removed to this city, where he concluded his medical studies and opened a classical school, which developed into the New York Institute, of which he was principal aa woll as prperiater. With the opening and improve- ment of the public schools its prosperity declined. Tn 1850 he ame connected with the , in which he was a stockholder at the time of his death, He never ceased, however, to take a deep interest in educational mutters, and never lost sight of his pupils, for many of whom he provided employment. For a long time he had a hobby, which was to mtroduce into schools the Works of standard authors to re- place the present reading books, which he termed the “‘scrap book” sertes. He projected such a series and tried to interest publishers in the scheme, even going so far as to translate himself some books from tha German. He was the seessor of @& fino library and was an earnest reader and student, especially in Shakespearian and classical literature. His taste in this respect was sometimes taken aivan- tage of by debtors upon whom he called in the in- terest of the newspaper with which he was con- nected, Some of the impecunious learned that slowly leadis the conversation from financial to literary topics he would chat pleasantly for an hour or two, and go away forgetting all about bis bills, He entertained the most profound respect for Horace Greeley, life and he possessed a fund of interesting reminiscences, ‘Throughout the anti-slavery agitation he was an m- tense and uctive abolitionist, and up to the hour of his death was a strong advocate the te causc. He cherished a deep interest in the collagen which he graduated, and always endeavored to any of ite graduates who came to New York. His house was always open to them, and from the younger ones his purse, his Counsel and his encour- agement were never withheld. y — JAMES HENRY MONAHAN, JUSTICE OF IRELAND. Chief Justice Monahan, whose death was yesterday announced by a cable despatch, was born at Portumna, county Galway, Ireland, in 1805, and had a brilliant university carcer at Trinity College, Dublin, where he gained the gold medal for physical science in 1823. He was called to the Irish Bar about 1828; became Qu Counsel and Solicitor General for Ireland in 1 Attorney General.for Ireland in 1847. His ise of the functions of that office during the memorable State prosecutions growing out of the troubles of 1M8 brought upon him the denunciations of the revolutionary party at home, but his conduct was highly approved b; Britixh government. He sat in Parliament Galway as a liberal from February to August, 1847, and inthe same year was sworn @ member of the Privy Council for Ireland. In 1850 he was elevated to tho post of Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas tor Ireland, His long administration of that office was unmarked by any noteworthy incident, i RIGHT HON, cum? = LORENZO A, SYKES. Lorenzo A, Sykes, un old and highly esteemed civil engineer, connected with various public works in New Jersey, died recently at his home, in Orange, aged seventy-two years. Mr. Sykes was born in 1806, at Springfield, Otsego county, N. ¥. When twenty years ot age he became assistant engineer in the construction of the Morsis Canal. Subse- quently he became —engineer-in-chief, Still later, for several years before 1843, he was chief en- gineer and superintendent of the New Jersey Rail- road. He next became joint lessee of the Morris Canal and after that acted as general superintendent of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company. In 1866 he went to live at Orange. In 1850 Princeton College made him a Master of Arts in recognition of his sem vices to practical science. He was one of the oldest motubers of the New Jersey Historical Society, and a devout Episcopalian. COUNT WYDENBRUCK, AUSTRIAN MINISTER, ‘The Austrian papers announce the death in Vienna, last month, of Count Wydenbruck, Chamberlain to the Emperor, and late Austrian Envoy in Washington, Count Wydenbruck was formerly Secretary to the Austrian Embassy in London, and was as well knowa in society as he was esteemed by all. His mission to America fell in the days of the unfortunate Mexicag expedition, and it was through him that the Austrian overmnent, becoming aware of the danger attending ¢ life of the Emperor Maximilian, was able to en tho sympathies of the American Republic in favor of the heroic Emperor, and secure to the House of Haps burg the consoling knowledge that, if the life of their illustrious relative could not be saved at effort was spared in the endeavor to obtain that end, AIME STANISLAS DARBLAY, FRENCH DEPUTY. M, Aimé Darblay, known as Darblay jeune, to dine tinguish him from his elder brother, the late Deputy F.N, A. Darblay, died recently at Corbeil, at the age of fe nl ed Ppa Me was born at Auvers, No- vember 29, 1 served as a volunteer under Ne poleon during the “hundred days” of 1815, became commander of a battalion of the National Guard, Mayor of Corbeil and Deputy in the Corps tif, He’ was @ wealthy corn "Loorehaas aot lier a Corbeil, and left an estate valued at 70,000,008, ¥. B. JENKINSON, FP. G. 8 ‘The death took place on November 18, at Bawtry, near Doncaster, England, of Mr. F. B. Jenkinson, F. G. 8., of Swinton, near Rotherham, who was very widely known throughout South Yor! Derbyshire and other mutning districts as & wivocate of the rights of the working miner, whom his loss will be keenly felt. The cause of was gustric fever, COLONEL MARSHAL HOWE, opened at No. 12 Leonard street last avening by Robert H. Bartholomee, the chief organiser of the main section. The section was styled “The First Assembly District Section,” and Jacob Kneisel was elected organizer, Carl Ernst secretary aad Kinkel treasurer. The feature of the ever, was the enrolment of the first munist in the country in the of hauded his red card of mem! On — nounced his intention of fo: a socialat Composed of colored citizens residing in this cite,