The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1879, Page 4

“THE GALLICAN CHURCH” | % The Anglican Protestant Episcopate Aid and Counsel Pere Hyacinthe. AN IMPORTANT INNOVATION. Letters from the Archbishop of Canter- bury and Primate of Scotland. LOYSON’S CHURCH IN PARIS. Panis, Jan, 11, 1879. ‘The announcement of the doctrine of infallibility has already been discussed throughout the world by ail sorts and conditions of men, and among other things it has been the means of bringing about the old Catholic movement in Germany, Switzerland, Mexico and other countries, Pére Hyacinthe, who has been virtually e his energetic protest #yainst this dogma, is once more permitted to return t» France—thanks to the present liberal government— and to begin work h Tu July last the Conven- tion held at Lambeth Palace, under the auspices of the Church sland, and presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury, took important ac- rds the old Catholic movement in Church, condemning this assump- re of Rome as criminal. its sympathy and help to the ations, churehes and individuals nst this position of Rome and sought liberty of conscience in maintaining the old faith. ‘Yo this Convention came many of the American bishops of th iscopal Church, including the Bishops of New York, Delaware, Ohio, Pennsyl- vania, Western New York, Nebraska, Pittsburg, Louisiana, Missouri and Long Island, After this Anglican council Pere Hyacinthe wrote to the Arch- bishop of Canterbury asking Episcopal protection and aid in the beginning of a Catholic reform work in France, explaining plainly that this aid was only to be temporary; that this Chureh, thus founded, would not be a Protestant or Anglican Church, but a French reformed Catholic Church with a liturgy of its own, which will be that of the old Gallican Church, ‘The idea and plan is to restore +o France what Pére Hyacinthe terms her old na- tional church, Upon the receipt of this letter of Pere Hyacinthe the Archbishop of Canterbury sent out the following letter to the different English and American bishops composing the cogumittee on this amatter :— THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S LET Yo THE ARcHEISHOPS AND BIsuops OF THE Commun- fORMED BY THE CoN ION OF Bixuors, of tion the as rn Roman tion of the and offering different ¢ who protested Lamberto Paracr, August 12, 1878, Haying received the enclosed ‘letter from Pére Loyson I am of opinion that the best mode ol providing the aid which he requests—beyond such iary help as can be supplied by the Auglo-Con- -is to refer Pere Hyacinthe Loyson to the guidance snd direction ot the Primus of the Beotch Episcopal Church. A. C, CANTUARIENSIS, This letter was sent to the Primate of Scotland, who wrote the Pére Hyacinthe as follows :-— COTCH PRIMATE’S LETTER, Heperrieny Hover, Sept. 25, 187M. J tnental Soviet: Iv ‘To the Rev, HyactytHe Loyson :— BEVEREND AND Deak Sik—I have been requested and authorized. by His Grace the Archbishop of Can- terbury and other members of the committee nomi- nated by the recent Lambeth Conterence to confer ‘with you on the subject of your letter of the 4th of August, addressed to His Grace as president of that committee seemed good to the members of that com th a view of obviating the ineon- lay which might arise from ving together its different mem- ‘and as the best mode of providing the afl re Seeking, to select one ot their nuinber might refer you for guidance and di- ling the traditional alliance and n Seot- reviving it rection. friendly relations which formerly existed betwe France and Scotland, the selection of a bishop as the medium — of dly relations and of establishi 4, an alliance between our ancient of your country ussociated with you in this religious movement, as it is pleasing to myselt. 7H I have before ny and I gather from it that those who are deting with you are seeking to accom: plsh is not the formation of some new Protestant tect, but the initiation of the reform both in doctrine und discipline of your own old Church of France, on the same primitive and catholte principles as those on Which the Church of England reformed itself in the sixteenth century, to reassert its rational inde- CH CHURCH. the Archbishop, swhich you and pendence and to ‘recover for it those _lib- erties and that freedom which have been rushed out by a foreign and unanthor- “1 usurpation. That to prevent such reform from degeneration into ecclesiastical revolution yon desire to be directed and governed by an suthor- tative episcopal ersight strong enough to keep out of the movement all upcatholic aud rationalistic elements, and that, failing to obtain such oversight und guidance from any one of your national bishops, you turn to the Anglican pate, asking trom it The recognition ot your mis your priests and laymen m: under one or ¥¢ able to coustitute mous eburch, TIMES ARE CHANGED. In ordinary times and under ordinary circumstances the Anglican Episcopate could have returned but one suswer to such a request. They would have been constrained to decline acceding to it as being in viola- of the canonical rule and order of the Catholic Church, that no bishop or priest of any oth ureh be placed provisionally shops tintil you may be ourselves # complete and auton- should exercise his functions in the diocese of apother bishop without the consent of toe bishop thereot, But the times are not ordinary ever since the agitation of the sixt tury has there been such « wide- spread vc r Which now works the preseut day. It is not, as then, limited to Europe, b tit is felt in all parts of the Attendant upon this religious movement as urisen a Wide spread gpirit of skepticism ntific doubt, which aims %t sapping the very foundations of the church of Christ. At such a mo- tas this, and und as these, gu cand diree « reverend sir, n have turned to (fe Anglican Epis- dl have asked and aid in the Y reumistan a prosming difticulties uw which you labor. ” ou alone in thus pk wid to the Anglican Episcopate. ‘Lhe fact the Lambeth nce that solemn vl been raised im many © smuinunities throughout the protests Christian the usurpations of the See of Rom novel doctrines promulgated by its authorit id against the that appeals had been made by them also for tervention of the Anglican Episcopate in diff similar to your own. Applf&ation from mex ©, churches thus circumstanced to bish the same bondage was felt by the Conterence to be psideration of the position of the Christian ities rendered hopeless by the ‘atican Council in any efforts to reform themselves unless aided from without, duty to be pursued by such ruggling brethren only the Dishops toward their more clear j INPALLADILITY Vs, RERORA. For their position is thix:—The demand which has Goon made and repeated for ceuturies by many of the lost eminent and taithtul adhe of Rome tor reform both “in head and members” hus at length been met, though it cannot be si- leneed, by the claim ot an authority assuming to it- self the prerogative of infallibility, which has de- creed that all the definitions of ‘doctrine no faith and morals by the Roman Pontiif are irreformable. This decree, being {rom its very nature vetrospective ag well as prospective, has forever closed the door against every eflort for reform by these churches or members of the I munion, wh ing against an authe utes of the Lord Jesus Christ and against je doctrines which have thority, are + gated by i velves in the who are retused all aid aud sympachy by their own bishops. is oe ANGLICAN BISHOPS MAY INTERFERE. fl mindful ot the ca LT have already re respect which ix due to the le Church order in the several provim Christendom. The general princ beth Conference aftirmed with special refer the churches of the Anglican Communion applies with equal force to the Catholic Charch every- where—namely, the legitimate action of ne tional churcties and the authority ot bishops in | their own dioceses, But this principle assumes the rightful liberty and independence ot national cnurches and theif bishops—a priviiege which is, however, entirely traversed by the present constitu. ton of the Chvireh of The application of tome, | | uts of the Uhureh | | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 187' those principles of Chureh order which are essential tor discipline in ordinary times are, however, sub- ject to modification or sispension where the neces ities of the Church demand the application of a principle of yet higher obligation. Hence we find from the teaching and practice of Some of the most emiuent fathers and bishops of the primitive church that whenever the faith was endangered by heresy or persecution, aud heretical bishops would ordain none bnt heretical clergy, they did not hesitate to act iu virtue of the ” commission | which the episcopate has received from Christ for the preservation of the faith and government of His Chur though contrary to the common rule of the Church, ‘They asked no dispensation from the Bishop of Rome or trom any other bishop, but as members of the one episcopate to which Christ hus intrusted the preser vation of the faith, and as Catholic Lishope of the universal Church’ they felt themselves bound in- dividually to exercise their episcopal power in any part of the world where the necessities of the Chure required it and the faith was endangered, PROCEEDING CAUTIOUSLY. It was in virtue of this great commission which the ¢ »pate has received from Christ for the pres- ervation of the faith and g \vernment of His Church, and tor the protection of those who should sufler for it, that the bishops of the Anglican Comiunion, cou- vened at Lambeth, authorize? a comiittee of their own number to ofter such help as they might need to those churches and Christian communities whi seeking to tree themselves from this intolerable yoke of Papal usurpation and from the compulsory aecept ance of novel and uncatholic doctrines, entoreed upon them by their own bishops, were striving to reform themselves on the model of the Primitive Church and should appeal to them for assistance. As mem- bers of a church thus circumstanced you and your brethren have availed yourselves of this offer and have ‘appealed to ‘that committee. AsI intimated to you at the comme cement of this lotter, the committee, in acknowledgment of your appeal, has authorized me to communicate with you, and hag referred you to me tor guidance and direc- tion, with the view of providing for you the aid which you need. I am prepared to undertake the work thus far entrusted to me, and by re your mission, based upon the principles sd im your letter and tendering to it a provisional oversight, to place you in position to conter with 1 officially On the details of the w engaged, You willreadily understand that it he impossible for us to pledge ourselves to the admin- istration of Epuscopal functions in your mission until we have had thw: opportunity of becoming acquainted with your proposed revised ritual, the order of forms'to be observed in the celebration of divine ser- vice and administration of the sucrament and othe sacred offices of the Church, “We do not demand,” to nse the language of the Conference—we do not demand a rigid uniformity,” nor, I would eda, would we desire to abridge in the slightest degree the lib- erty of a national ang Catholic Church to France, its own liturgy, and to decree its own rites and-cere- monies, but “les Orandi les Redendi;” and it, in compliauce with your request, we ure to admin- ister Episcopal “functions according to your ritual, we can do-so only in the event of that ritual, in its language amd ceremonies, containing nothing inconsistent with the Word of God, with che prin- ciples enunciated in our own formularies, with the prerogatives of the one Divine Head of the Church and ot the one Mediator between God and-men, the man Christ Jesus, Your proposed revision of your ritual on the basis of the primitive Gallican liturgy, adapted to your present necessities, woald seem to furnish the best assurance that your weformed lit- urgy will embody the principles which, you say, are common to us both, aud they reno’ ny dim. culty on this head. await tor turther commiunica- tion on this subject. If, as I hope may prove to be the case, we may be enabled to provide for you the provisional Episcopal superintendence which you desire, [trust and earnestly pray that, by the assistance ot the Holy Spirit of God, we nay be permitted to guide the movement as shall prevent the possible formation of any such schisms as those which resulted from the refusal on the part of the bishops to recognize and guide the great re- ligions movement of the sixteenth century—a guid- ance and recognition which were as earnestly de- sired by the reiorners of that day as they are now by yourself and by those who are’ co-operating with you, Lam happy to be able to ad@ that the Bishop of Edinburgh has, at my request, kindly consented to be associated with me in the future conduct of this work. Ibeg to subscribe myself, reverend and dear sir, very tuithfully yours in the Lord Jesus ¢ KOBERT, Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. THE NEW CHURCH BUILDING, Pére Hyacinthe accepted and wrote saying that he would forward the littrgy for approval, which he hasdone, Episcopal protection being thus obtained efforts were next made to have the sanction of the French government, for it must be.remembered that free worship is not yet tolerated inFrance, At last, however, the efforts ot Pere Hyacinthe were crowned with success and the Society of Catholic Reform im- mediately secured a large building, No. 7 Rue Roche- chouart, in the most populous part of Paris, and at this moment workmen are busily engaged in trans- forming it into what will be an attractive church, capable of holding over one thousand people. The movement has excited the greatest in- terest in England,. where subscriptions have been and are being made for the sup- port of Pere Hyascinthe and his church. ‘The numerous friends of the movement are waiting anxiously for the opening of the public services, which will probably begin toward the end of the month. Priests applying to assist are not wanting in numbers, but the quality often leayes much to de- sire, and Pére Hyacinthe will accept only those who are sound in faith and morals. Some of the higher clergy and it is said even bishops in the Roman Com- miunion are said to sympathize secretly with the movement. PERF HYACINTHE AND HI4 PAMILY. Pére Hyacinthe has changed very little in appear- ance and has lost none of his eloquence. He and his wife (au American lady well known for her charity and goodness of heart) and their little boy Paul, a tine little fellow, five years old, are living at Neuilly, just outside of the fortifications of the city, in a neat but plain little house, which stands in the middle of a garden, which in winter looks as if it would be very pretty in summer. IMPORTANCE OF THE MOVEMENT. ‘There seems to be a conspiracy of silence along the entire line of the clorical and free thinking press as to any necessity for religious reform, but when the church will be ready to be opened to the public and when the French press know of the movement great excitement is sure to be created, as, in the first places it is the first direct organized attack upon the Church of Rome that has ever been sanctioned by the author- ities, and, in the second place, because this is the first time in the history ot the Church of Englamd that such a step has been taken by it. THE BAGOT WILL AGAIN. (Dublin letter to the Pall Mall Gazette.) ‘The Bagot will case, which excited such genoral interest when tried last year in the Court of Probate, came on again in the Irish Court of Appeal, in the form of an attempt to overthrow the verdict of the jury establishing the legitimacy of Mrs, Bagot's child and declaring that Christopher Bagot was under an insane delusion in respect to bis son. It will be contended that the Judge (Warren) misdirected them as to this point of “delusion,” and Mr. Butt will be leading counsel on this occasion for Mrs, Bagot, Mr. Fitzgibbon having become since the last hearing lord justice, The propositions for redebating the question of the propriety of Judge Warren’s ditec- tion to the jury are formidable, He instructed them that if Christopher Neville Bagot labored under an “insane delusion” as to the paternity of his child, and in that state of mind disinherited him, they should find against the will; and the jury did so, the effect being to seenre the estate ud large property in money to the infant. Mr. Macdonough, Q. C., strongly im- peached Judge Warren's charge at the timo, and will now renew his argument against it, He will be re- plied to by Mr. Bu es the id acimnis- ready securea by card. The Jourt, as it entailed the pro- as amount of extraordinary Y-three days, and it is t take less than four days. n have already been im- re worth over sion to the es hearing in th nrense, £5,000 @ year, stituted is a strong one as to abilit, be pretty busy, having thirty appeals tor the tings. The Bagot case will be heard by the Lord Chancellor, the Chief Barou, Lord Justice Deasy and the Master of the Kolls. A FAST HOUND. [From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.} J. A, Ford, of Battle Creek, Mich., owns a heavy Duilt mastif hound, Business one day called him all village eight miles distant, and the dog accompanied him, On his return he got on board the train and did not dis- cover the absence of his dog until the train began moving, when he stepped to the back platform of the car and there saw that the hound had just started, ‘The dog overtook the train, but as the speed of the cars was coustantly quickeni deayors to jump on board were fruitless, train began to whix faster, and the dog quickened his pace, and until within @ mile or two ot this city kept up with the cars, which were going at the rate of eighteen miles per hour, He artived a fow inine nites after the cars, his feet core and blesding from contact with the splinters on the ties, having made the distance of ¢igat wiles in hail aa hour, , and to ordain orthodox men in such dioceses, | FRENCH POLITICS, WHEREIN THE REPUBLIC DIFFERS FROM ALI OTHER DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS——DEFEAT AT THE POLIS NOT ACCEPTED AS THE PEOPLE'S WILL. Pants, Jan. 10, 1879, The cable has conveyed to you the results of the Senatorial elections, and no doubt by this time you | have formed your own appreciations of them, appre- ciations that are probably quite as just and con- elusive as any that I can forward to you, tor the issues involved in them were so clearly defined and of such capital importance that you were as well able to decide upon their value as those imme- diately upon the spot, so true it is that the very atmosphere of such a struggle is apt to cloud the judgment of those who take part in it, Iam the more struck with the justice of this conclusion when I take up the English and Continental journals pub- lished outside of France. It would seem as if they alone bring to bear upon the events that are transpir- ing here the clearsightedness and calmness necessary to an impartial review of the situation. Neither the republican nor the reactionary journals of France seem tO possess an exact consciousness of the im- mensity of the revolution which has been effected by these elections and of the formidable consequences to whien it must lead, They involve in fact an entire change in the domestic and foreign policy of the country, as well as in the education, habits and ideas of its people, and admitting, as we Ameri- cans may be disposed to do, that these changes are excellent in themselves and constitute clements of strength and durability, they suggest 9 host of trials and difficulties in the future, arising not from the imprudence or corruption of the French republicans, as prognosticated by their adversaries, but from the jealousies and apprehensions of the Continental despots, to whom a model republic will be a per- petual menace. THE ENEMIVS OF PEACE, Be this as it may, there is one feature in the strug- gle which has just been brought to a close by these elections which cannot be too severely condemned, and that is the persistency with which the reaction. ary and ultramontane press continues to evoke those apprehensions. ‘There is no other country in the world perhaps where such a spectacle could be wit- nessed. Anywhere else such a defeat as that which the legitimist and Bonapartist parties have Just experienced would have been submitted to with resignation, if not with dignity, seeing that it is the vote of the nation that has inflicted it. Here the old unpatriotic spirit of the émgrés of the first French revolution manifests itself with as much bitterness and as much disregard of the national in- terests as it did when the privileged classes fied the country to swell the ranks of the invading armies of the cowlition, and there are no lengths to which the leaders of thesg factions are not prepared to go, so great are thei rage and mortification. It is to’ be hoped that the sagacfty and prudence which haye dis- tinguished the conduct of the republican party for the last eight years will preserve it from the mistakes in connection with their foreign policy on which their enemies count. These are the real dangers to which they will be exposed and not those questions of in- ternal policy upon which so much stress has been laid of late, and which are all pretty well settled in advance in’ the public mind, When M. Gambetta enunciated his so-called political programme at Romans he went no farther than he was justified in doing by the maturity of the questions upon which he touched, and have no doubt th the boldness with which he handled them’ had no small effect. upon the results of _ the Senatorial elections, There is nothing which awakens so much distrust in the French mind as vagueness of purpose in politics and upon this fact the reactionary organs had been basing all their attacks against the republican régime, No limits were placed to the revolutionary projects against religion and property, which were said to be in contempla- tion as soon aa a majority was obtained in the Upper Chamber, The speech at Romans dispelled these ap- prehensions, while at the same time it reassured those republicans who distrusted M. Gambetta’s so- called “opportunism,” and who feared that he would sacrifice to it most of his early convictions. That speech was no blunder, as many even of his own ad- herents affirmed, but was the result of careful reflec- tion and preparation. ‘THY. IMMEDIATE FRUITS OF THE VICTORY. As the republican majority in the Senate will be about sixty, it might be supposed from the me statement of the fact that the government will ha no difficulty in passing its measures through it. This is by no means certain. The men who constitute the new majority are for the most part landed pro- prietors, manufacturers or leading agriculturists, and I think it will be found, though agreed as to the maintenance of the existing institutions, that they will be as conservative as those of their colleagues of the Right, who arrogated that title ex- clusively to themselves. Should the governnent find it urged on too fast by the impatient majority of the Lower Chamber it will tind its point d'appui in this very fraction in the Senate, while on all questions of acknowledged policy it will always be able to count on its support. Thus, as re- gards the programme which the Ministry will an- nounce at the commencement of the session, it may fairly be assumed that it will have its full adhesion, ‘Then, too, on questions of organization it will give a purely party vote, There ix no doubt that one of the first manifestations of ita dispositionin this regard will be the removal of M. d'Andiffret-Pasquier from |. the Presidency of the ainber. His successor will probably be M. Martel, nan of large legislative exe perience, an admirable presiding officer and a thor- ough republican, THE MINISTRY. You will observe that two or three of the more ad- vanced republican organs are calling for a reconstitu- tion of the Ministry in order to get rid of some of its members who do not sympathize with their im- patience. To this fact may be traced the rumors of dissensions in the Cabinet which bave been current from time to time. I have reason to believe that there is no foundation whatever for such reports, The Cabinet is as much of a unit as it is pos- sible for such a body to be, and it will present itself to the Chambers with perfect confidence as to their sentiments in its regard. It is possible that in order to put an end to ali such misapprehensions M. Dufaure inay demand from both chambers a formal vote expressive of their satisfaction with the Ministry, to whose firm and consistent policy there iv no doubt the recent triumph of the republican party is mainly owing. It may be that he will demand this vote in another form—namely, on the programme of measures which the Cabinet is suid to be elaborating. In whichever way it is put, of one thing you may rest assured, pts § that is that it will be in the highest degree favor- able to the Ministry, which has done its whole duty to the country while maintaining its pledges to the republican party. BONAPARTIAT DEFEATS. Among the ‘surprises’ of the Senatorial elections, sa M. Gambetta calis them, certainly nothing has astonished people more m the manner in which the Bonapartista were ‘flattened out.” After all their bragging and bluster the result has been most humiliating, and what renders it still more mortity- ing to them is the fact that it has given the so much despisel legitimists au opportunity of crowing over them. -They were literally nowhere in the struggle, and what is worse there i# no accounting for the fact otherwise — than by the utter contempt into which they haye fallen as a political organization, It is not improbelip that the discredit which all this uttests will be injurious to the prospects of M. Paul de Cassagnac, who is now sevking re-clection at the hands of his old constitu- ents. Political like physical epidemics are infec- tious, and it would not be surprising if the electors ot Condom were to discover before the ballot comes off that the Third Empire is too long in coming. 1 do not attempt to outline the policy of the Left as now correetly reported, because it will have been developed and disclosed to you by the cable before this letter could possibly reach you, PREKK PROKECUTION, ‘The case of M. Challemel-Lacour, a member of the Senate and newly appointed Minister to Berne, ayainst Messrs. Maggiolo and Coguot, the editor and publisher ot La Nouvelle France, came up yesterday or hearing betore the Eighth Chamber of the Tribune Correctionnelle of the Seine. You will peovality remember that the journa: in question charged M, Chatlemel-Lacour with discreditable practices at play in a certain club house, from which, it stated, he was expelled. Now, as it turns out, M. Challemel-Lacour bas never played in his life and is not a member of any club. M. Gambetta appeared for M. Lacour, who is # leading republican, and made an eloquent speech in aggravation of damages, The Tri al sentenced the defendants to 2,000f. fine each, and to 10,W00f. damages jointly, ordering at the same time the in- sertion of the judgment in twenty journals, the cost of each insertion not to exceed duvt, alleged motive of the libel was to damaye M. Challemel- Lavour in the estimation of the diplomatic corpa, A very general feeling of satisfaction is expressed by the respectable portion of the Paris press at this judgment, A MURDEROUS DOCTOR. {From the New Orleans Times, Jan, 29.) A shooting affair occurred at Bay St, Louis on Mon- day which may result in the death ot worthy and esteemed citizen of that place. Dr, Latham had been attending to a patient in that place, as the story is told; but owing to carelessness and irregu- larities on bis part, Dr. Rhodes, a retired physician, was called in, This fact excited the anger ot Dr, Latham, and so yesterday morning he sought his revenge. Dr. Rhodes and his wite were passing in the street in front ot his house when Dr, Latham, from his yard, fired at him with» rifle. Dr. Rhodes was shot through the hand, the ball also passing through his hip and lodging in his back, near lus spine, The wound is considered a mortal one. As soon a6 the affair became known in the town the marshal went up to Latham's house to arrest him, He was told Latham was asleep. He coucinded not to disturb him, but ‘‘wonld come back later in the day.’"’ When he went back, later in the day, Latham ‘was not to be found, and has not been found since, HALF UNDERGROUND. A SQUALID HOME NEAB LITTLE NECK, LONG ISLAND, AND A HAPPY FAMILY THAT SUBSISTS MAINLY ON RUM AND TOBACCO—‘‘YOU CAN'T STARVE A FOSTER.” “Be it ever so humble,” there’s no place like the home of Thomas Foster and his family, near Little Neck, Long Island. At some distance from any other habitation, the mansion lies partially imbedded in the southern slope of a hill in the wooded out- skirts of the village. Approaching from the rear one would mistake it for a little icehouse, the peaked roof rising barely four feet above the snow covered ground, But this impression would be removed by the sight of a narrow streak of smoke creeping through a rusty pipe near the northern extremity of the roof and falling sluggishly about the walls, A heavy log resting against the boards at this end shows that there is no entrance here; but two or three steps will take one to the opposite extrem- ity of the building, where an opening some three feet high by thirty inches wide is diseoy- ered, Through this diminutive doorway, as a Henaxp rep@rter drew nigh to it yesterday, came sev- eral successive little clouds of grayish hue, indicating that some one within was enjoying 4 noontide smoke. As the reporter's eyes became accustomed to the gloom of the interior it was seen that the stem of the pipe was encircled with feminine lips, and that a woman's lungs were forcing the narcotic fumes into the atmosphere. THE FOSTER HOME, It was difficult to believe that one woman could live in so pitiable a dwelling, but it was harder still to realize that these narrow and foul scented walls afforded lodging, year in and yeer out, to six human beings. Its dimensions, as nearly as could be estimated by a practised eye, were as fol- lows:—Length, 10 feet and 6 inches; width, 8 feet: height of roof at peak, 6 feet; at sides, 2 feet. The wooden floor is two feet below the surface of the ground, on which rests the slanting roof of un- painted boards. Numerous little chinks admit a modicum of light and air—far too little for coolness in summer, but entirely too much for comfort in winter. But the inmates are thoroughly seasoned now and care nothing for either heat or cold. Their modest dwelling stands on the farm of William Cornell, not far distant from the house of his brother, John Henry, whose acres it adjoins. To the residence of the lat- ter the reporter found his way from the Little Neck Railroad station, partly by the direction of a rosy checked little boy whom he discovered playing on the top of a haystack near a hut by the road side, When first questioned as to the where- abonts of Mr. Cornell’s house, the youngster innocently responded “in Little Neck,” and wher more definite information was requested, said, “Ask some one and they'll tell yer.” Finally, he was in- duced to give a more satisfactory pe and Mr. Cor- nell was tound in the sitting room of his farm house surrounded by a numerous family. FAMILY HISTORY. While one of the little ones was looking for the paternal tippet and gloves, and an overshoe for Mr. Cornell's right foot, from which he had recently lopped a tov, the reporter gathered some points in regard to the history and character of the Foster family. ‘Tom's father, John—Easy Johnny,’ we used to cail him—went astray in a snow storm about twenty years ago, and died in the hollow, over ‘onder. He was drunk, and lost his way coming rom the tavern. He was a half-witted, stammering fellow, and used to go clamming and fishing every day of his life. His son John is just like him. Tom’s got more brait but he don’t get along any better. He’s hired several different shanties around here, in my recollection; but finally we built him the place he lives in now. “How is it that he keeps so poor. Is he a drinking 0; that’s the funny part of it. He’s a sober man himself, but his wife and children drink like fish, There’s hardly a day they're not rammy— every one of them, from the mother down.” ‘w many are there in the family?” “Well, altogether, they are six; but sometimes the; have some other poor devils with them, blacks ani whites all one to them.” Vhat do they live on?’ asked the reporter. tty much anything they can get. In summer e ‘fom works occasionnally for Mr, Cox and me and my brother Bill; but we have to get down there pretty, early in ‘the morning if. we want to get them for a day’s job. They spend all the time out of doors. When they have 2 little money they go down to the village and get a pint of rum and six packages of chewing tobacco—that’s one up It there’ nything over they buy a loaf of bread. ‘They care more for rum and tobacco than any- thing else. Kate—that’s Tom’s wife—was born in Flushing and has res ple relations; but she’s as low as she can be. Her tongue’s the worst Tever heard in English, and she outswears any man around these parts. They havea son named Luke, about twenty years old, and another named Tom, about fifteen. Then there's Liz; she’s about eight- een and wie at ten. “Tsu ve they things fom the neighboring farma “No, it’s a singular thing, but I don’t think they're dishonest. They might take a fence rail that didn’t belong to them, but that’s about all.” SUNDAY AT THE CABIN. ‘Thus informed as to the persons whom he was about to meet, the reporter set ont in company with his host and his host's son, @ young married man who lives with his wife at home. The walk lay across a farm formerly occupied bya merchant of this city after his failure for an enormous sum. From the base of a flagpole mot far from the house could be seen the towers and cables of the Brooklyn Bridge, some ten miles distant in a direct line, and the blue waters ot Jamaica Bay and the ocean, ut a greater dis- tance, were equally distinct. Arrived at the abode of the Fosters the younger Cornell called in to the smoking woman, “Well, Kate, how are you this morning?” “Well, we're pretty tolerable, Ben, We're all alive yet.” “Where's Tow ?”" “He hasn't got his shoes on yet; he'll bo out in a minute.” ‘The allotted time was spent by the reporter in an examination of the muddy portal of the shanty, in front of which were scattered several broken bits of household utensils, beyond use or repair. Soon the lord the manor stepped forth, arrayed in heavy black boots, decent trousers, torn waistcoat and dirty shirt. His beard is black, and his long hair of similar hue was crowned with a big black hat. After a few words about his inten- tion to appeal to the Poormaster for aid Tom walked off @ few paces with the elder Cornell, while the younger man remained with the reporter to interview the housewife, who was not only enjoying the solace of pipe, ‘but had # good sized quid of tobacco in her lett cheek. “Did,” the youngest daughter, also appeared with tobacco stained lips, and bits of tinfoil from exhausted packages of the weed strewed the floor of the shanty, “Liz” stood by the stove cooking sume corn cakes and pork and cabbage for dinner, and expressed an intention to go ‘down to the Bumble Bee's Nest” — # low tavern lilf mile away—to play a game of evehre. Her oldest brother, Luke, was there already ; but Tom, the younger one, got out a banjo minus two strings and said that he would stay home, as he had to work this week. This hopeful youn; was in his stocking feet and wore a female upper garment of cloth, When he had finished a big pipe he was smoking when inter- rupted by the arrival of visitors, he refilled it and handed it to his mother, hers having been pre- viously exhausted. Then, with Did’s assistance, he abused a little black pup, which shares the family home, until it snarled with rage. The furniture of the eabin prises a small table, two seats and a stove, and there are # few woil worn cooking Utensils scattered about the single apart- ment Which serves as bedroom, parlor, dining room and kitchen. Only along the middle of this room is it possible to stand erect, All hands sleep together on the floor, without bed or bedding other than a bundle of dirty rags. Such water as is used for dinily cooking and = semi-annual ablutions is fetched from asmall pond near-by. Yet, despite the imperfections of their desolate home, the famiiy t part of their living by taking is suid to be the happiest in Little Neck—they have everything to hope and nothing to as Mra, Foster remarked between her putts, hatover Where « wn't starve @ Foster. comes, you wouldn't har GEYSERS GONE TO SLEEP. [Front the Omaha (Neb.) Republican.) Perhaps nothing in our geology is more novel and interesting than the extinet geysers and hot springs of our State. We associate the presence of such phenomena with the Yeliowstone region. But there was a period which closed in geologically recent times, after having lasted for countless centuries, when geysers and hot springs were among the most common phenomens of the plains of Nebraska, Kanes and Dakota, The marks of their former presence are found occasionally along the Niobrara, on the Upper Loup, and especially atong the valley of the Republican and its tributaries, In 1868 1 found some extinct tubes of geysers on the Basile aud be- tween that stream and the north fork of the Elkhorn. In the summer of 1874, while examining a section of country becween the Platte and Frenchman's Fork, [ occasionally came across deposits of geyser ear and along the latter river. Afterward [ ved them between the Beaver and the Republican, and along the latter river to the west line of the State. 1 have recently had a conversation with Frank M. Dininney, of Tecumseh, who is well acquainted with the Republican region further east, and be- tween itand the Solomon. He reports the presence of mineral geyserite in countless places; also, of old funnel-tubes of geyser, some of which are exposed ie excavations occasionally in well shafts aud rings. 9,-TRIPLE SHEET. TALMAGES. SUBSCRIBERS | The Reverend Gentleman Rises to Ex- plain and Does So. IMIS MUCH READ DESPATCIIES Determined to Pay Off the Tabemacle Debt Somehow, Tt can hardly be called a tempest in a teapot be- cause the whole city of Brooklyn, press, pulpit and people, are in astate of social and ecclesiastical fer- mentation, the like of which is not often seen. The occasion is a discussion of church paying debts in general and the Talmage mode in particular, educed from sundry letters and documents published in the Henavp last week. Briefly put the case is this:—The Brooklyn ‘Tubernacle is a Presbyterian or- ganization, with pastor and trustees; also, as is customary, a debt, About a year ago, when the Chicago Kimball was here, raising cash by prayer and paying off debts for feeble churches, it occurred to Pastor Talmage that it would be a good idea and a still better fact to have the Tab- ernacle debt paid off. Letters were written, ser- mons preached, meetings held and social influences exerted to raise the large sum needed to pay off with. So far all right. But as time rolled on a disagreement concerning George W. Morgan occurred between the shepherd and the bell-wethers of the flock, in which the former got the better of the trustees, who rose in their might and in a body left the Tabernacle, Out of in- ternal complications grew the suit which was re- ported in full in the Hrranp last week, and a dis- closure of the following telegrams, concerning which Brooklyn is now in a fevered state:— Brooxtyn To Joun F. Tatmace, Entaw House, Balti + Whole community agitated abont foreclosure. Fever for debt raising high. “If your honse will subscribe $5,000 and. Mr, Hobbs the same, three others will do the same, and the thing isdoue. If you cannot the matter will not be under- ken, Itis to-night or nev ‘eh and exe. ph me immediately. Joux F. Tauace, Eutaw House, Baltimore: Will you and Mr. Hobbs allow me to pledge you each for $5.00, provided I make up to each of you, privately, the dilferchee between your subseriptions ‘and 5.000,” Telo- graph immediately. , DEWITT TALMAGE. Answer of John F. Talmage to above telegrams :— Bauriwone, Jan, 30, 1878, Rey T. DeWitt Tarmacr :— Cannot permit the course suggested. Frankness, earnest- ness and faith, without de , Will command success, tie z Do not telograph gain. as Hobbs and self ure used up now thinking and tulking over it, JOUN F. TALMAGE, SUNDAY IN THE TABERNACLE. An immense audience gathered to hear Dr. Tal- mage yesterday morning, filling the Tabernacle in every part and overflowing {nto the adjoining vestry. ‘The pastor appeared promptly and after the prelimi- nary services proceeded to draw a contrast between life in the city and life in the country. The sermon was rather dull and not to be compared in interest with the private discourse delivered to the HeraLp representative immediately after the close of the ser- vices. Inasmuch as it is but fair to assume that a clergy- man who draws between three thousand cnd four thousand people twice a week for ten consecutive years, to hear him preach, is likely to have some rea- son for whatever course he may pursue the HeraLp reporter followed the reverend gentieman into his little private room. There the Doctor was greeted by several of his constituents, on whom he beamed in a pastoral manner; by @ number of strangers, whom he greeted cordially; by » gentleman from Philadel- phia, who paid $25 for a seat, whom he shook heart- ily by the hand, and by Major General Corwin, his Jactotum aud other self. The Doctor wore a fine felt hat, a huge ulster and a smile to which sugar isa tart. He.was disposed to be facetious and reticent at first, but, as will be seen, he was serious enough when he got down to business, ‘ WHAT TALMAGE SAYS. “Now see here,” said he as the HeRatp reporter approached, “I am not to be interviewed. I have de- clined to say a word to all newspaper men. My law- yers and friends wish me to be silent, and silent I am.” “That's right; but as you have probably agood reason for all you have done it 18 difficult to fing any objection to saying so, isn’t it?” “Certainly. I would just as lieve go before my people to-day and read every one of those letters and telegrams. Why, they are ax simple as A BC.” “Why won't you give the Hrnatp the true inward- ness of them?’ “Lhave no objections, but my friends think I'd better not.” “Did you send the despatches to John F. Talmage? Are they genuine?” * Certainly I did, and they are ali right.” “How came you to telegraph to him in Baltimore, when he was @ Brooklynite?”’ “He went to Baltimore for his health.”” “Did you ask him to subscribe $5,000 and intend to make it up in some other way, or was it a part of the Kimball plan—a kind of decoy duck?” ware such a tremendous pumper, I may as well tell you. The Kimball plan is no better, different from any vtuer, It has no superiority over the Ives plan. Mr. Talmage was president of the old board of trustees, and I thought it would look well to have his name on the list, so I telegraphed some- thing like this:—‘Will you subseril that he couldn't afford it. Well, could he afford it? Is he a man of wealth? ‘Oh, yes. He could afford it well enough. Then I went to my wife and I wrote the cond message, in which I said that if he couldn't pay the whole of it I would make it up to him. ly wite was standing by me, and she said, ‘Do you feel as if you could aford to do that?’ I replied that 1 did feel so, and I meant it. You see, 1] was heart and soul in the desire of paying off our debt.” THE CONFIDENCE GAME. “Now, Doctor, you come to the point. It is evi- dent you believe what you did was right, but your enemies and some who are triendly think that this was a kind of subterfuge, a sort of —"" “Obtaining money under false pretence: “As it were, yer “Why, the thing is done every day “Do you mean to suy that if Mr. Talmage—by the way, is he a relative of yours?” “Yeu; a nephew.” “Well, do you mean to say that if be had permitted you to announce him as a subscriber you would have paid the $5,000 yourself 2” “That's it, exactly. Why, suppose your son is a member of aciub, and being unable to subscribe to some object comes to you. You say, ‘Subscribe and im meh have the money to pay for it.’ Isn't that fair and honest? That's the case exactly. I wanted to have the names of the old Board of Trustees on our subscription lists. I expected a number of five- thousand-doliar subscribers and these names would have helped us.” Were you friendly with Mr, Talmage?” “Very inuch so.” THE TRUK INWARDNESS, “Then there must have been some inside fact of whieh the public know nothing. What was it?” ne fact is simply this:—1he old trustees didn't like my action in regard to Mr. Morgan, our organ- dd when Tannounced that he was re-engayed I am told they got up and left the chureh; but you know in such acrowd as we have here a hundred might leave and no one be the wiaer. I have as good eyes as any man in Brooklyn, and I didn't know it. Now, they don’t appreciate Morgan. They don’t n derstand that we have a musician here whose name will be spoken hundreds of years from now as the leading organist of the world.” “What was their objection to Morgan on the | organ?” “Oh, they said he drank, but that's all pas ashamed of myself it man as long as t ead He re- 3 Long ago he did drink | dd gone, and T shold be to go back on » friend as ihe slightest hope of At this point Major General Corwin entered the arena. The Major General is the tallest, boldest, sbrewdest and most polite usher and major domo in Brooklyn, and that is saying a great deal where there are so many churches and all the ushers woar bou- tonnibres. vf helping him along and up. WHAT THE FACTOTUM BAYS, “Tho fact is," said he, “the Doctor is too mealy mouthed. Ttold him long ago that the other Tai- mage was a snake and a sneak, Ho said he didn't care, that his father had been of great service to him and that he should uever say a word against. him, Now these people are trying to settle this case in the newspapers, aud they rush there with private letters and telegrams; but what of it? What can they siiow? Nothing. We know what the indebtedness of our church is down to the 1th of February, and we have $4,000 above ital, 1 Doctor is altogether too kind aud charitable, That's what's the matter with hit ir, Talmage—Oh, Tdon't know about that, 1 Tabernacle is doin splendidly —better No one can be missec who leaves us in anger. Ishall never harbor i feeling nor say @ harsh word abont them. wise neu never write letters, but when # mi to his wife, his brother, his nephew he drops caution and says what he has to say freely, Mr. Talmage has imply violated confidence in publishing my tele- *, but there # nothing im them that candid men take exception to. “You sent that $5,000 telegram, then, in good faith?" “Yos; dated it Brooklyn, and the operator is meniber of my own onureh, That does'nt look ° though 1 wan doing anything I thought was wront, ‘But —-" “Well now see here, the Heratp is & great in- stitution, and I yery cheerfully tell the public through it that, in’ the first place, all this trouble and fuss grows out of the Morgan fight, in which I did what was kindest and best for one and all. In the second place, being sincerely anxious to get rid of church debt, I did my utmost to in- terest my leading people in the yood work. I was in earnest when Lasked John F. Talmage to subscribe $5,000, because I knew he could do it and I knew it would induce others to help too, Iwas equally in earnest when I tclegraphed him that I would make it up to him if he would let us have the influence of hie name, he being the president of the old Board of Trustees. His reply ‘was impertinent and filled me with astonishment, but, if I know my heart, I had no feeling against him, and I said ‘nothing of it. father helped me more than any other man, and I have the tenderest feelings toward him, and, indeed, bo a the beatae, ne tor éhis time kept off a swarm of beaming-eyed parishioners to whom he noo turned, and with whom, like the father of a large and inter: ested family, he affectionately walked away. The press of Brooklyn are greatly interested in the discussion. Letters pro and con are published in papers, and leaders are printed, thus far, in the inter- est of the Tabernacle pastor. STAGE AND PULPIT. THE REV. MR. FORRESTER DOES AGREE WITH MISS DICKINSON THAT THE PULPIT IS STUPID AT TIMES, Rev. J. E. Forrester, pastor of the Universalist Chureh of the Redeemer in Newark, N. J., preached yesterday on the subject of ‘“‘Hindrances to Preach- ing and the Relative Feeling of the Public Toward the Pulpit and the Stage.” ‘Watchman, what of the night?” was his text. The discourse was provoked by the recently uttered strictures on the lack of pulpit influence and efficiency by Miss Anna Dickinson in her Steinway Hall lecture. Instead of antagonizing the views of Miss Dickinson, as it was generally expected he would do, Dr. For- rester virtually yielded the laay all her points. He said, in opening:—From the earliest period in the administration of Christianity until the present time an unbroken chorus of complaint at the inefficiency of the pulpit runs down its history. An unbroken torrent runs down the literature of the Church at the stupidity and perverseness of the world, while the protest of weary listeners in the house of God dates back beyond the memory of modern generations, Perhaps tnere never was a time when such complaints were more prevalent than now; and the recent utterances of one of the most popular and able women before the American public, accusing the ministry of dulness, stupidity and want of influence, is only voicing the thoughts of an innumerable host of our people. The preachers begin their professional career inspired with visions of the days of Pentecost, but a ten years’ service must have been poe ae which has not left them saddened or even disheart- ened at the meagre results of their labors. As of men the clergy have less hope and that vitality which comes from hope and gratified expectation, than any other class in modern society. The com- too, were never more alive to the deficiencies in preaching than now, THE WHY AND WHEREYORE, The preacher then procceed to explain the reasons why the pulpit was open to the charges made. Tho chief one—and upon this the preacher laid the main stress—was the cold, dark, gloomy funereal pall of Calvinism which had so long oppressed and sur- rounded the Church, making sweet religion repugnant to humanity. In conclusion, Dr. Forrester said:— Now, the effectiveness of the drama and the stage and the interest and enthusiasm which they awaken is because of their appeals made in direct antagonism to the old theory of human nature and the our old idea of the justice of God. The stage speaks tothe human sentiments of an aver lite, and touches the feelings and thoughts that belong to such a life. If it were otherwise it would be pow- erless for good. Let a play celebrate vice, make its leading character a successful villain, teach that the human soul naturaily loves evil and hates good- ness, that a good lite is sorrowful and a bad life happy and joyous; in short, put into the dialogue and action of a play the same theology which tho preacher pre into prayer and sermon, and the stage would become as dull, tastelessand monotonous as the most fossilized pulpit in America. These old time errors have come to be associated in the common mind with preaching, and a sermon, even in a liberal church and imspired by modern thought and culture, must carry more or less the burdens and mistakes of those who have gone be- fore. There has been nowhere in this country a single generation of characteristic religious freedom in all its history. The cold, bigoted dogm tism of a creed has been put forth as the warm, free, liberal spirit of Christianity, though it resembled Christianity only as the dull, cold crust on the mountain's side a thousand years old, resembles the fire fluent lava as it issues from the lips of the crater. “Where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty,” said an apostle, and free dom is exsential to all spiritual growth. When the chief care of the ministry shall be the simple Gospel ot Christ, and not creeds and formulated theology, and its test of soundness in the faith a life in sym- pathy with practical everyday righteousness, there will ont inspiration in its labors und satisfaction in its results. HOPES OF HONDURAS. A NEW MARKET FOR AMERICAN TRADE—PRESW DENT DE SOTO'S GOVERNMENT. Dona Celestina de Soto, wife of the President of Honduras; Don Roderico Toledo, Commissary Gen- eral of that State; Don Enrique de Soto, brother of the President and Minister at Guatemala, and Dr, Fred C. Valentine, Surgeon General, have just arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Rumors of the growing im- portance of Honduras as a centre of commerce hav- ing been recently strengthened by the formation of an American company for the working of its mines, a representative of the Hrranp called on the party and obtained its views on the moral and material progress of the Republic. The belief was general that a new era has dawned for Honduras. Dr. Marco de Soto has in the two years of his Presidency brought her such peace and pros- verity as she never knew before. A young man of thirty-two, but of varied and brilliant accomplish- ments, he was called from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Guatemala to govern his native land, which, it is believed, he will probably rule for many years, His predecessor—Medina—whose nine years of power had diverted all foreign capital from the country, was put to death, and the new President at once declared war against the Jesuits, who were un- derstood to have been Medina’s chief supporters, drove them into the neighboring republica and turned their convents and churches into schools, post offices and other pub- lic oufldings. He then established a system of compulsory education, beginning with an admira- ble kindergarten and culminating in well planned universities, for which he teachers from the United States. He has instituted postal arrange- menta, constructed roads, reorganized the army, founded @ military politecnico, is building a mint, and has in every way fostered commerce and private enterprise, The United States has been his model thronghout, and the capital of the United States, after driving out the British capital which now dom- inates the country, he hopes, it is said, to attract into all his industries. THE SILVER MINES, The yast mines of Honduras, which are now worked by the t process, are known to be rich in silver tinged with gold, and in lead, zine and co} per, Dr. Valentine, who’ tae studied the subject, believes that fortunes could be extracted even trom the ore that has long since been thrown np from tho mines and abandoned, There is probably dormant wealth in every ars of Honduras, and the eyes of the mining world may yet turn thither as in the past they turned to California and Australia. Nono of the mines have been worked to any depth. The wretched old Spanish methods of washing, of “roasting,” of sending naked boys into the carth on notched poles, are still in force, and even in Guatemala there is only one mine where modern improvements have been introduced. however, a com: erected tine reduction works, well supplied ‘with all machinery, ovens, axaay office and mplete outfit of tools and implements, adding two steam engines for pumping out water, building dwelling houses for superintendent, doctor and ou- ineer, and raising $1,000,000 in a yery short time, ‘his is the notable mining company that Central has known since tho silver fleets of Spain sailed the seas, and the mine owners of Honduras, who still keep most of their mines under lock and key, and from the re- mainder extract fifty times less than machinery would yield them, rely on the capitalists of the United States to form companies in its likeness. So isolated is the region that sctence has done little to explore it; but experts believe that the heaviest de- posits of silver yet found will be laid open in these mountains, where natives willingly work for thirty prey day, + Ilpeen fathers worked betore them une der the Spanish rule. Apart trom the mines, President de Soto has been singularly successful in stimufating the tobacco tne dustry. “He hax brought cigar makers from Havana, tobacco growers from Cuba, and has lent every ad- tage of artto a naturally fertile soil. Coffee is not indigenon,s but its culture is spreading through the country. Covod and sugar are staple commod- ities. For all these industries the two thi ful are ready money and good roads, some plantations ‘water has to be conveyed for a — ~ ai For mule are from ucigalpa, the temporary metropolis, coast anenaeal sum of $24,000 fm paid But, given the ne cexsary capital, the President feela certain that every thing points to a great tutare for Honduras; that ex. ports will increase, modern improvements be intro. duced, agriculture extend, mines yield abundantly, and the government, by cultivating public instruc: tion and the arts of peace, will new and worthy ve) of citizens and establish the Republic's pros perity. vi