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and water, and have an armed patrol outside THE AMATEUR LUNATIC. BWSINKSH NOTICES. RELIGIOUS. ashes alone, and placed in tho proper plaoe for removal. Seeing two barrels instead of one, the ash men when they came Blong, seemed so enraged that instead" of emptying them in their wagons thay lifted them ud Mil) 3aolt4.t 4tin An tl.n 11 available for a place of worship, is reportod to havo been an entire success at Bloomington, Illinois.

The Pantograph of that city thus describes howaoourt room was arranged in order to remove tho echoes that any intoxicated person does damage to the person or property or another, tho injured party may recover tho amount of damage, to an amount not exceeding $1,000, from too one who sold the liquor or from his sureties. William Anderson, whose expertaess in the use of chemicals by obliterating all traces of endorsements on a letter of cred't, were referred to reoently in this column, is getting into wator of still more tropical temperature. The leiter was for $5,000, and when Anderson was arrested at Savannah, bad already been used for several times thai sum. His real name is said To be Cohen, and he now awaits extradition to be tried at Montreal. In tho meantime, Brown Brothers are seeking to identify as the person who forged papers on their Liverpool house.

Henry Clews Co. will prosecute him in Montreal, for obtaining $4,000 under false pretenses against a draft of their London house. Dr. Ernhardt, the New York ohemist, was formerly connected with tho ohemical department of the Bank of England, in London, and thinks that Cohen wan once sent up in that country for several years on a charge of forgery. Bill Lucas and Ned Harris, colored, were hanged at Columbia, 8.

for murders committed defensible things the reporter reveals render the institution more terrible, by being tolerable, and give to its management that immunity which a plausible glossingj of heinous, but not very extraordinary, facts can insure. Let us look into the particulars a little. The price Mr. Chambers paid for Board was $20 a week. That price will secure a person board at the Fifth avenue, Aster, Metropolitan, Mansion, St.

Nicholas, or any other first class hotel in Brooklyn or New York. They charge "by rates" mora than that, and "by the day" much more. But given a bachelor who wants to make his permanent home at any of these plaoes, and he can get board and comfortable quarters at the rate of pay Ms. Chambers paid per week at this asylum. The only equivalent he got for the money was a room for whioh he would not have to pay $2 a week in Brooklyn, tho door.

It is by no means the least signifi cant sign of this changed state of affairs that the pending meeting of the Emperors of Kussia, Germany, and Austria attracts very little attention in tha high schools of statecraft. Fifty years ago, when a second roturn of Napoleon was on the pos sible tapis, such a meeting of the Emperors would have set all tie cabinets (including their own) by the ears, and couriers would have flown hither and thither with cypher dispatches, hurriedly interviewing English charges affaires at the dead of night, to report the result at French charges d'affaires at breakfast. The newspapers would be full of ominous suggestions, sorse of them would be "warned," and then suppressed out of hand. The parlors of the State Secretaries' wives would be fall of curious gossipping people, whispering andanecdoting, and above all, lying. The army bulletins would be meagre, obscure, and watched with the eyes of the lynx, and should tie head of a department go abroad for a week or two, the gravest European complications would be angured on the instant.

But we have changed all that. The Prime Minister of England is no longer a lord or a duke, but plain William E. Gladstone. In France they have given up the pomp of Empiricism (which is a good phrase for theNapo Ieanic idea) and taken to snuffy little Adolphe Thiers, who has the voice of an angel and the appearance of a secondhand clothes dealer. All over the world, in fact, diplomacy is at a discount.

Nations arrange their affairs more on the cash system than was their wont. Tkey pay their way, and are afraid to look no neighbor in the face. And so it is that the three Emperors may meet and part, and still the funds not feel it. The Metis Disaster. Without accepting the theory that accidents, like some diseases, are epidemic, it may be said that periodically the community is shocked by some fearful calamity which the general publio views in the light of an unpre ventible "acoident." Of this class is the dis aster to the Metis yesterday, on Long Island Sound.

Suddenly, we are startled by the report of a collision or an explosion, then oomes the confirmation, and the news that perhaps seventy lives have been lost. For a time a very brief time the consideration of the wholesale loss of human life swallows up all else, and then well, some thing else oo curs, somebody is nominated for Governor, a new singer arrives, a murder occurs, and we cease to take an active interest in the collision or explosion, and remember it only as a sad "accident." The sinking of the Metis will die away from our minds in preoisely this way, unless the attention of the public can be bo forcibly drawn to it, and to the lessons taught by it, as to render a reform in some particulars of steam navigation imperative, and the chances of such calamities fewer. Unfortunately, thia is a very difficult task. As a philosophic principle, the Baying of one human life is of far more importance than the election of Grant or Greeley to the Presidency, but the people are not philosophic; and tha political campaign appears to swallow np all considerations which do not bear upon it. Nothing but a calamity absolutely gigantic will arrest publio attention so far as to create an overwhelming public sentiment in affairs purely social, while the maelstrom of political prejudice seethes and bubbles over the entire country.

Nevertheless, the Metis disaster is pregnant with suggestion which should not be disregarded at any time. The terrible story of the sufferings of tke hundred and fifty human beings who were on board of that ill fated steamer sufferings which are not depicted anywhere faithfully in history, and can find their parallel only in the fiction of literature ought not to be passed over and forgotten while it is possible to turn them to the account of improvement and reform. It seems that the storm of Thursday evening, whose violence every citizen of Brooklyn will remember, found the propeller Metis struggling against the angry waters of the Sound, and enveloped in a thick fog. Whether the Captain of the steamer continued his course at full speed during this fog, is not at this moment ascertained, but it is known that such a proceeding would be regarded as by no means uncommon under similar circumstances. But at all events the progress of the propeller was suddenly arrested by a collision; the bowsprit of a schooner had passed clear through her side.

The captain, bending the mate down to ascertain what injury had been sustained, put about, and chased the vessel with which the collision had occurred, a proceeding which, in a fog. which he describes as so thick that nothing but a light could be seen a few yards ahead, was unwarrantable, criminal and insane. Finding that he could not "sight" the schooner, the captain again headed the Metis for her destination, and in a few minutes after found taat she wai rapidly filling, and must sink. Having committed one act of folly, the captain did his best to repair its effects by heroism worthy of Curtiua himself. After seeing the passengers provided for as best the accommodations of the vessel allowed, he remained on deck until the last moment, and then, clutching a spar, threw himself into the dark waters of the Sound.

Meanwhile, the hundred and fifty passengers were struggling for dear life in little knots in the lifeboats, on the hurricane deck (which haply parted from the hull, and so Bared many lives), on bales of cotton, or simply encased in life preservers, and fighting the waves inch by inch. Morning broke upon the straggling company, muoh thinner than when the sun went down. Here and there some brave spirit had given out, some tiny hand (for there were children, too, in the wreck) had lost its hold, some faint woman had grown nerveless with long suffering and had silently slipped into a watery grave. The eager, despairing eyes of the survivors were gladdened now by the sight of shore, but in reaching it this last mile of their crushing, involuntary pilgrimage many more were desti jed to lose their lives. For, the furious surf cavght up and snapped their puny raft, hurling its pieces back at them as though in imperial disdain.

Those who did escape that night rack which came roll ing up ragged and brown," were landed torn and nnde upon the sand of Watch Hill, more dead than alive. And to day, in many a house hold of the land, the women sit weeping and wringing their hands for those who will never come back to the town. Surely such a piteous tale of suffering should awaken all our energies, and not stop short when it has merely excited our sympathies Only the other day the magnificent Bristol, which gbdes grandly down the East Eiver as though scorning the utmost possible fury of the elements, had a narrow escape from just such a calamity, while report says that last night the Thetis, another propeller of the line to which the Metis belonged, also met with a collision in the Sound. These facts must open the eyes of travelers to the danger; which the Sound washes to their very doors. What is the preventive of such results as this accident entailed? In the first place, it should be insisted upon that the Sound steam ers, like the ocean steamers, should be built in compartments, so tiiat in case of the staving in of one, the others will float.

This is a simple plan, and must be effeotive. It is stated to day that Senator Sprague is determined to build a fleet of side wheel steamers for Sound navigation. If he will adopt the oompart ment plan he will initiate a reform in inland navigation which tha occasional fury of tho Sound and other inland seas, not only warrants but demands. For the rest, a plentiful supply of life boats and life preservers, and the strictest possible test of efficiency, caution, and courage, applied to all who would become officere of Buch vessels, ia the only guarantee on which at present the traveling publio can insist. Among the maniacs.

The abstract of the second nrfcinln nrinnf Bloomingdale Asylum, which we publish to npriannA nmnncr the maniacs. That it ravAfila less detailed atrocity than the reader might at first expect, redounds to the truthful ss of the narration. rue abuses it unfolds are not harrowing and sensational. They are of a more everyday, common place character. In thatrespeot, they are even more condemning than if tortures, starvation and extortions were proved, and for this reason Excessive and pronounced wrongs would have razed the place long ago.

Those steady, continuous, slightly ASK YOUR DRUGGIST lor DR. FOWLER'S COMPOUND BXTBAOT. made entirely ol vegetable mattor, contains no minerals morouzT, and whilo It ouros Sorofalo, Kidneri and Bladdor, ond ii a puriSor of tbe blood, leaves no worse dlssaso behind. It hIa it goes, druggist It. au5 1M MWAF WHITE'S SPECIALTY FOR DYSPEPSIA JOHM F.

HBHBT. 8 College pi, N. T. Prico 1 bot Be. auH lm TuFATn.

THE OlfLY HOUSE IN BROOKLYN roa OBNTLBMBS'S HHOK TIBS ffABMBLL'S Ml FULTON STBBJff (Hear Ooneord We have the bestgopdsln Sfilrte, Hosiery, Qlovai bntwemakoMEOKWHAB A SPBOIALTt. CALL AND SBH OUIt STOCK. sel6 tfSTulF 931 Fulton street, near the Bank ABOUND THE EARTH PBBEY DAVIS' PAIN KILLflB, lito tho oloctrfc wires, has almost girdled the earth. For yoari it has been used in the East Indies and China. In Africa, BuroDe.

and South America, and at home In the Tnitod States, it may bo found iu overy druggist's store. It is a specific for most disposes. au27 StTuThS GAS FIXTUKES, CLOOK8, BRONZKS, AND FANCY GOOD ARMSTRONG A BLACKBIN, 223 FULTON ST, and cor. COURT and UXION STS mh 7 ly ThSATn DR. FOWLER'S COMPOUND EXTRACT I a specific for Sorofula, Constipation of tho Bowols.

Dis eases of tho Klduoj and Bladder, 3jphilii and Liver Complaint. Its salo hai extondod over the wboU countryy and itis universally acknowledged to bo tho best raodicino. for Buch diseases evor offorod to tho publio. For solo br every druggist in Brooklyn. anS ISt STuATIi SEE FOR YOURSELVES.

The lowest pricod goods aro lullom tlm rl.mrmi psoiallj Is this true In crockerj and Messrs BORKB 555 Falton St. soil tha bnnt.ir.. lowest markat rates. WHITE'S SPECIALTY For dyspepsia Dossestes a tonic, healing and invtcnrMins influenco on the digestive organs, net to bo found in anf other preparg iion. WHY The etoro of McsBsre.

JOHNSON SARGKNT, No. 307 Fulton street, is crowded by oar ladies In search of new and serviceable dry goodB. Their eholvos aro filled with all the new styles of goods, whether for dress or other purposes. Their "housekeeping" department is supplied with tbe befit makes of goods ia the market, and at the most moderate pricei. LET US BE THANKFUL 1 The fruit crop has been eiceptfonallr Urge thia leasoa en this continent.

From England complaints come that tho reverse is the fact but from every quarter of ourootmtry tho news eomeg. that never heforo vrAra tho Rnmmranrt Fall fruits bo plentiful or dolicious. Tills ii good news or our popto because where fruits abound, thoro tho system becomes healthful. The Spaniards have a proverb that fruit's golden in tho morning, silver at noon, and leed at night, but in our latitude it seems to be always wholesome. The season of berrieiii past, but our housekeepers are now busy in canning peaches, crab apples, pears, plumbs, aud quinces.

There are com para tivoly very few fruits preserved, the bulk of our population seom ins to prefer the former plan of canning. Tho house of K. W. N1CHOLLS, cor. of Falton and Pineapple sts, li supplied with every requisite for this branch of ho so keeping.

Not only has he In stock tho various makers of fruit jars, but enamelled and brass praBorvinz keitloi which aro offered at the very lowest prices. The number of jars sold is every adjunct necessary for tho preservation of fruits is supplied atonoeand sent to his customers' houses. SCHOOL On next Monday our children will take up once more their walk to tbe Bchool houses of our city. It is a right merry sight to see a Bchool disbanded in July. How the youngsters rejoice in the prospect of green tields, of seaside romps and of a general happy do nothtngaess which tho holidays premise How eagerly after tho vacation, when their country visits aro ended, or tho charm of city liberty hasvauished from very ennui of the six long Summer weeks, do these same children seek tho old school house, recuperated in health and spirits, and enter happily and boisterously upon the new season of study See the boys with their books Btrapped tightly together and lung ovor their shoulders, and the pretty lunch box grasped under their arms running along by the side of sweet little girls with tbeir lunch baskets.

It make" a fathor happy. W. NICHOLLS, cor. of Fulton and Pineapple sts, has all varieties of lonch boxes and baskets, and bosk straps, which he offers to the cltions at very roodrrate prices. 40 DROPS OF COKSTITUTION WATER cuss DIABETES, GRAVEL, GLBBT, A Prescription by an Hminsnt Pnysiclan.

FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS CATJTIOIT. ParUea purchasing WHITE'S SFKOIALTY FOR DTP PBPBIA expecting to find it a bererage containing alcohol, like the vile "Bitten" advarblsad (vrhteh only aggravate the disease and bring on othsrs) will bo disappointed. It is a medfeina oarsfullj compounded om soientirlo principles, taken in toaspoonful doses, and has Droved to be tho oaly cure for the disease over brought forward. Por sale bj all dmgglsta. H.

G. WHITB, Proprietor. 107 Washington street, Boston. Prioe $1 par bottle. anSl its WHITE'S SPECIALTY FOR DYSPEPSIA.

This is not a new preparation to be tried aud found wanting. It has been prescribed dally for yoars by an eminont physician with great success. It is not advertised to cure all tho ills that flesh is heir to, but it is warranted to cure Dyspepsia in its most obstinate form, roliuf being always obtained from its first uso, and a permanent cure effected when properly continued. SYMPTOMS OF DYSPEPSIA arQ loss of appetite, hoartburn, constipation, hoadaohe, dizziness, sleeplessness and low spirits. Unless checked it BTirely affects the mind as well as the body, and unfits one for the duties of lifo in a short time.

Theso are nil removed by tho uso of the Specialty. For sale in New York by JOHN F. HK.NRY, 8 College plaoe. Prepared only by H. G.

WHITE, 107 Washington st, Boston. Prico $1 per bottle. au24 ui WHY DESPAIR Your case may bo considered lnourable, but is it sot Havo you investigated relative to the virtues of JW. URN'S HYDRASTIS COMPOUND, la kidney and urinary complaints and woaknessos, Its power ovor dlsoaso would seem almost inoredibta were it not that thousands attest to ita great merit. Ohronle diseases of many yeara' standing yield to it like magio.

We thsrofore advise ynu try it before oiving up your oase hopeless. Depot 41 Liberty nt, N. Y. Sold by druggists. POLITICAL.

A FULL AND COMPLETE ASSORT inentof POLITlCAI, GOODS. NEW HKLMET TRANSPARENCY. TORCHES. FLAGS, LANTERNS, KXCKLSIOR FIREWORKS, BADGES, io. Large Stock.

DETWILLER, STRRKT A auM WTnSctTu 9 Doy st. Now Yurk. A NN1N POLITICAL FLAGS FOB THE CAMPAIGN. Corner of Fulton and William sts, N. Y.

tu6 lmTuTliAS ANEW LINE OF POLITICAL GOODS. IN EVERY YARLOTT. FIREWORKS. FLAGS. LANTERNS, TOROHB6.

BADGES, UNIFORMS, 4o 4o. JOSEPH B. PFRDY, SS and 34 Maiden Lane, New York. ESTABLISHED 1S43. aulOtfSTuiTh MEETING OF THE JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRATIC CLUB of tho Sixth Ward wiU be leld at the rooms nf the IRS Cnlnmhia street, nn MONDAY EVENING.

September 1372, 8 o'cloc for the election of delegates to tlio General Coniniiiije. Bv order. JARVIS 1 LP AT 1C President. CONSTITUTION CLUB A REGULAR meeting of tbe mombers of CONSTITUTION CLUB will he held on MONDAY EVENING, September 3, at 8 o'clock. Pmnctual attendance is requested.

ANDREW WALSH, President. WM. A. Fewtt, Soo. an30 3t SOl'IOG TO THE DEMOCRATIC ELECTORS OF THE TWELFTH WARD A inry Election will ho held at the house of JOHN C1IL I1ANH.

5M) Smith st, coraor of Grand, on MONDAY EVENING, September 2, for tho purjose of olect ing Delegates to the JeTersouiau Democratic General Committee. Allgood Dumociats aro inviied io attend. Pollsopen irom 7 t'll 9 o'clock. Hv order of Ward As relation. GUSTAVUS KRUGBR.

Secretary, aul'l 2t' ALLY I RALLY FIFTH WAKD ON DECK THE CHARLES O'BRIEN ASSOCIATION Will have a aid GREELEY AMD BROWN BANNER RAISING, At tho corner of Tillary and st, SATURDAY EVENING, August 31, 18.2. A find band of mnsio will bo in attendance Hon. JOHN C. JACOBS. Hon.

SAMUEL MORRIS, Gon. CROSS. And other eminent speakers will address the ineoiiug. COME ONE! COME ALL KS riHB MEMBERS OF THE TWELFTH I IWARD DANIEL O'RIKLLY DEMOCRATIC CLUB areall requeued to bo In attendance on TUESDAY NIGHT, the Sd inst, at tbo cor. ef Hamilton av.

and Nehon st, Mr. COLLINS'. By order ,1 AS. President, nPWEJSTlE'i'H WARD JEFFERSONIAN I DEMOCRATIC CLUB. The Primary Election will behold on MONDAY EVENING next, for tho oloctiou of soven delegates to tbo JelTurtioninn General Commit toe.

Polls will be opened from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock, at Thomas Tolan's, Fultou av, corner nf Adelphi st. DAVID T. LYNCH, Vice Pro ident. THE DEMOCRATIC REFOAM GENERAL COMMITTEE OF THE COUNTY OF KINGS will hold their tirst regular Fall meeting at the COLLEGK GRAMMAR SCHOOL ROOMS. No.

200 Joralomon corner of Court Bt, oyer tho Drug stAre. on TUESDAY EVENING. September 3, 1872, at So'clock. In pnnmance. of tbo ninth artiolo of the constitution, the ward assooia tionsare required to choose, on Monday noxt, tho second day of September, 1872, ono delegate from each Election.

District in the county to sorve on the General Committee fortheonsuingyear. au31 St THOMAS F. BOURKE, Chairman. JiliiTliTIUU IIUSOKXS. CLIFTON HOUSE.

CATSKILL Mountains, N. is open for tho Fall season has beon extensively patronized this Summer; magnificent vittws, pure mountain air, good tishing and hunting terms $10 to. Sl5 por woek; carriages moet boats and cars atCatskilL Address E. F. HAINES.

P. CatakUl, N. Y. auiS St1 "DAY VIEW HOUSE, OANARSIE, L. I.

JARYIS 4 SMITH, Proprietors. MEALS SERVED AT ALL 1IO UBS, From 6 A. M. to 10 P. M.

for Vlshlng and Soiling Parttos always in attendance Superior accommodation for permanent and Transient Roarders. jy6 tISTuATh pROSPECT PARK HOTEL, OATSKILL.N. Y. Lugo now house, 250 foot elovatlon, with extonilvo grounds of somo 17 acres, on tho Hudson River. Monn tain air, sconcry unsnrpassed in tho world.

Pleasure grounds extended and improved. Tho hotel has flrst olosa accommodations for SOO ox 400 guosts, acooaslblo by boats and oars. Addroas, JOHN BREASTED, Oatakill, OHELTEK ISLAND HOTEL A PLEAS "SmmiSJ A commodious hotel lias bo built by the bhelter Island Grovo and Camp Meeting Association, and is now opon to tho publio Experienced porsos have boon employed to take oharga" of the same, aud terms are mado aa reasonable as gnml service will admit. The property of the company comprises about SOO acres dirootl opposite to liroentwrt. given it on account of the fine view it affords.

The drives on the Island aro ploasant. The facilities for bathing, boating and sailiue unsurpassed, while tho waters about tho Island abound in fish, supplying, as they do, tno New York market with Ita choicest varieties. The oompany have bnilt a tine steamboat wharf, at whioh the New York stearoors, .1. B. Schuyler, Captain Edwards, and Escort, Captain O.

H. Clark, from Saybrook and Now London. land daily. A regular ferry, controlled by the company, oon neota tho Islaud with Greeroport, a mil" diswnt. from whioh placo thore are two dally trains and from New York by the Long Island Railroad.

au9 VtTACCABUC HOUSE. LAKE ACCA buo, Qolden's Brldgo, Westchester County. Pf. will open June ii. M.

MKAB, Proprietor, je81( ii ir uimouy uroaktng both barrels and scattering the Anhna nva ti.n sidewalk. I have Been the men do thorr work in a slovenly and negligent manner before; but this la tha first time 1 have been subjooted to such outraaoous treatmenr. The thing oould not happen in Now York, where Hie police have supervision over street cleaning and over the ash and garbage oarts. I must say that since the police have had charge of this business, the Bt oets have been clean and all the refuse and sweepings from the stores in my neighborhood are promptly removed Give the police of Brooklyn charge of this business and I venture to say householders will not ba subject above cuuuuct as related Unless these ashman haye some constant supervision over them, such as police, for instance, they will f'7 VlmB 8nd S.5n?y oitizens ch I presume twenty five cents would in every instance secure the faithful performance of their duties but as I pay foe tMs work in my taxes, which are high enough in all IruTKAM AVKNUE. THE OLD DUTCH CHURCH.

First Places of Worship on Long IslaHd and in Brooklyn. History onto Early mi SociellesProm 1654 to 1872 Tne Building on Joraieion street. The successor of the first church in Brooklyn is tho Tirst Reformed Ciurch, on Jeralemon Btreet, near Court. It is a churoh of modern times, bu; l.i hi tory carrJes one baok to tho old Dutch days, when the EIBST 0HUBCH OH LONG ISLAND was built, in 1654. Previous to thit limn tha ttw on the wesle end of Long Island were dependent Hp on tho City of Now Amsterdam, afterward New York, for all their religious as well as civil priviegos.

In the year named Governor Stuwesant for thn nivil au thority governed the Churoh dcsignsted Dominie Megapolensis, ol New Amsterdam, and John Snedicor and John Strykor, commissioners to superintend the oicLwou oi a cnurch edifice at Midwout, (now Flat bush) and tho inhabitants of Breucklen (Brooklyn) and Amersfoort (Flatlands) were ordered to "assist in cutting and hauling of wood" for the ohuroh building. icn was, to ne in the form of a cross, 28x60, and twelve feet between the beams, and tho roar to be usod as a dwelling for tho minlatnr nrt bio fmii Tho people of Breuckolen, who then PLATED SECOND FlnnT.B to the Midwonters, were willing to help in the erection of the church propor, but objected to work on tho minister houso, but their objections were overruled by the Governor. TLo building was not entirely finished for several years, but was used as a house of worship tho following year. Governor Stuwesant on thn fith nr a. gust, 1655, designated Eev.

Theodorus Tolhemus, a descendant of an ancient and highly respectable famUj of the Netherlands, to tako charge of the now church, and ordored tho inhabitants of the en.mtrv for the purpose of deciding whether they approved of ma 10 nx ais salary, which they did at guiidors (about H16) per year, to be raised by tax. Tho peoplo of Breuclolou do not seem to have been satisfied with tbo of affairs, and objected to contributing any staled sum toward tho dominie's salary. Thoy argued that ho was the regular pastor at Midwout only, and that they did not have tbe benefit of his miuittr.t'ons to any considorable extent; that when he did como to Dreuckelcn ho had bo little timo that ho dc A PBATEB INSTEAD OP A SEBMON that they did not so much object to him personally as vu iuo ai. a'jgoment, ana that they wero not ablo to cont.iouto GOO guilders. But their protest waB overruled, and t'jo tax directed to bo levisd.

Iu was to bo paid either in wampum (beads representing money) or in form produce. It was not unlit the Gove 'nmeni, however, bad given a peremptory order for its collec tion, that it was paid. Dominie Polheniui afterward officiated at Breuckelen, as lime and opportunity permitted, until 1600, when the peoplo of that village petitioned to be to havo a minister of thoirown and their petition being granted by tho Govornor, they extended a call to Eov. Solyns, a young nv'n islcr then in Hoiland. Tho call was accepted and Bev.

Mr. Selyns bicamo THE F1BST MINISTEB IN BBETJCKELEN. Ho was installed on tho 7th of Sopto nbc: 1G50. Tho population the p'ico at the time was 134 peraons in 31 famines, and tho boandarioa of tho new dom ale's charge included "the ferry," "the and "Gowanus," in addition to the village proper, which was then located about whore Tolton and sirce; now meet. Tho congregation met in a barn, tjt at once coinmoired the erection of a place of worsb'p.

Tho being poor, they wore required to pay on'y 300 ga'Ulora per year for the support of their dominie, Governor Stuyvctaut paying 21D moro in consideration of Mr, Seyjs' preaching at i "hi3 bowery, a piaco of recreation and pleasure," every Sunday afternoon. Six hundred guilders were alco pa.J from 6ome sourco iu Holland, probably a missionary fund. He resided in New Amsterdam, during the first of his ministry at least. He was an earnest, ablo man, and under hie ministrations tho ohurch membership inoreasod to 52 communicants. The next year, 1061, (ne Dutch West India Company presented the people of Brouckelen with a bell for their church, which might also be usod, in time of danger, to call the country pooplj thereabout togother.

Dominie Selyns labored faithfully a paBtor until 1604, when bo roturnod to Holland. In 1682 ho came again to this country, and settled as pastor of tho church of New Amsterdam, whioh position ho retained to tbo timo of his deth. After tho return of Dominie Selyns to Holland Dominie Polhemus again took charge of Iho church hero in connection wi tho other ohurches. It was duriDg his ministry, in 16o6, that THE PIBET CHCECH IN BEEUC5ELEN was completed. It stood in tbs middle of the highway, now Fulton street, near Lawrence It was built on the walls of an old 6toce fort which had been conttructcd in earlier days for protection against the Indians.

This church remained in just a century, being pulled down in 1766, but another was constructed on the same siie. There is no to be found of the first, but the second cue, whic! was probably like the first, only larger, i3 described as being "a largo squaro cdifico, with colid and very thick walls, plastered and whitewashed on every side up to tho oaves, tho roof a to a poai in the centre, capped with an open belfi in which hung a small, Bharp toncd bell, brought from Holland. The interior was plain, dark and veiy gloomy, so that in Summer one could not fico to road ia it after four o'clock in tbe afternoon, by reasou of Its smalt windows. Thcco wero Bix or eight feet above tho floor, and filled with stained glass lighti from Hol'and, rop rc.enting vines loadod with flowers." ThTO was no fence or enclosure around the church, and the roadway ran on each sido of it. AFiEB THE DEATH OP DOMINIE POLHEMT7S, the pu'pit of the Breuckelen Church was filled ty vaiious mir'stcrs, in connection with tho churches of tho ther villages.

There were Eev. Casparus Van Zur en, Bev. Rodolphus Van Varick who preached from 1681 to 1679 Kev. Wilheimua Lupardus, who preached until 1702 Bev. Earnardus freeman, and Kev.

Vincentius Antonides, who, with their parishionors, engaged in a ccntest as to which Bhouid have charge of the joint cburcbes, and after several years of wrangling, agreed to divide the work between them, whioh they did to advantage of themselves and bono It to their parishioners. Both of them resided at Flalbush. Dominio Freeman died in 1742, and Dominie Antonides two year3 later. Then followed Bev. Jchnnes Aron deus, whose record was not a good one Rev.

Antonius CurteuiUB, who was a good man, and preached until 1766; Pev. Johannes C. r.ube an ablo bat somewhat unprincipled man, and Bev. Ulplanus Van Sinderen, who officiated jointly. The former was superseded and the latter reslgred, on account of old ago, in 1784.

With them, the European Dutch ministry ceased in Kings County. In 175, Eev. Martinus Schoonmakor, of Rochester, ULler County, was called to tho pastorate of the churches of the county, end Bev. Peter Lowe as his colleague. Tha former officiated in the Dutch language, and the latter in the English.

Thoy preached by turns in the different churches. Dominie Sohoon maker died in 1824. aged 87 years, 61 of whioh had been spent in the ministry. Dominie Lowe died in 1818. It was in 1802, however, that tbe ohurch at Brooklyn which name had by this time been Anglicised had its FIRST BEOULAR MINISTEB, that is, one who devoted himsolf to that one ohuroh.

It was Eev. J. B. Johnson, an able and eloquent man, but bo died the second year of his ministry here. After this BeY.

Peter LoWe preached again. In 1E06, lev. Selah S. Woodhull, only son of a Now York merchant, was installed as pastor. The following year the old church on tbo highway was deserted for a bolter oue, erected near the site of tbe present ohurch, on Joralonion Btreet, thon a lano.

The new church cost $13,745. It was dedicated December 23, 1307, Bev. Dr. Livingston preaching tho sormon. Bev.

Mr. Woodhull romamod pastor until when he re moved to New Bri'uswick, but diod the next year. It was about tbe lime of the commencement of the ministrations of Rev. Mr. Woodhull, that Brooklyn commenced to advanoe, and to begin the mai'Oh of in provement which has sinco lod it to the front ranks or great cities.

The old Dutch spirit, which requlrod a century to do what a yankee would do in ton years, was superseded by the American spirit. The long lino of Dutch dominoes gave placo to American minis ters of latent and eloquence, and the old gloomy atono church to more cheerful, comfortable structure. Key. Ebenezor Mason was pastor from 1826 to 1828, and wjs followed b7 Kev. Peter J.

Bouse, who re mained pastor until bis death in 1832. In 1833 Rev. Maurioo W. Dwight was installed as pastor. Tho next year, in May, tbe corner stone of the PBEBBNT OnrmCH EDIFICE and it waa oonsooratod May 7, 1835.

Mr. Dwight resigned in 18T5, after preaching 22 years in tbe same ohuroh. The Bev. A. P.

Van Gteson preached four years, and Bev. A. A. Wlllelt five years. ThopreBont pastor, Rev.

Jos. Kimball, was installed November 21, 1865. He was formerly a Presbyterian minister, but tbe two denominations aro so muoh alike that he has probably not undergone any very ma terial change. He is an earnest, forcible preaoher, and is well liked. The ohuroh, lecture room, and parsonage, oooupy an acre of ground or more, and any one who looks at tbis ground with a business air, cannot but think what an eligible ste it would be for a Post Offlco building, for court rooms or offices.

It is a quotHon how long the old church will withstand tho advance ef buBrmss improvements. A very stately, solid looking building it is, Btanding alone among tho building which mark more distinctly the advanoe of Brooklyn in the aoale of Importance, but even as Its prodeoossor stood in the highway and had to be removed, ao probably will this church give place to buildings for business purposes, audita congregation go up higher up town, of course. Hugh Marra was arraigned before Justice Carpenter in Philadelphia yesterday and held ia boil of $10,000, to answer at the next term of the Court of Quarter Sessions upon obarges of assault and battery ol Aldwiuftu Moaiuuin, who. intent to kw, were beard in it Monday wo took some observations in the Court room, for tno purpose of ascertaining the effects pro uucea dj me wires etrelcnod aoross the room ror benefitting the acoustio properties of the same. Most of our readers are aware that it has Uthorto been a suojector remark, and noticod by every one, that it is almost impossible to hear distinctly in the body of tbo Oourt room what was sold in an ordinary tone of voloe within tho bar.

This it now remedied. Mt. W. S. Oarlock suggested that the stretohing of small wires at a propel height, and at suitable distances, would be of great benefit.

This was tried, and the effect proves to be a vast improvement. Wo entered tha room Monday, while Mr. Ewlng was addressing the jury in an ordinary and easy conversational tons of voice, and found no difficulty in distinctly hearing overy word. Wo tried in various places, from tho remote oornari to the centre, and found it about the same. It appears to bo a aucoeaa.

The theory is that the wires, although so small as to be nardly visible, break tho sound waves, and proven! 5ho reverberation which baa hitherto boon the chief obBtaole and annoyance to listenora. Only three or four wires crossing the room each way produoe tbis improvement. DIAMONDS TBUMPS. The Jndcncndrai affects ignoranco of the meaning of an expression used by tho Pacific, a Congregational Journal in San Francisco, where It says Wo aro afflicted with a new oxcitemont. This time diamonds aro trumps and rubies are the right bower." The Independent says What can this mean We have looked all through Dexter's and Punchard's Manuals of Congregationalism, and they throw no light on theso singular terms.

They must refer to some ecclesiastical usage which lias Bprung up on the Pacific coast. CATHOLIC OONFIBMATION AT ISLIP. Tho little village of Islip, on the South Side Bailroad, has a Catholic Church in which, on Sunday last, over fifty boys and girls received tho Saorament of Confirmation from Bishop Laughtin. The servioes were shared by the pastor, Bev. J.

J. Crowley. THE COMET AND POPULAR OBEDULITY. The Baptist Examiner disousses the question of popular oredulity sb exemplified in the apprehension which It is believed was felt by a large number of peo plo of the prospective collision of tbe earth wltb Phan tamour's comet. The Examiner says that "the larg est Known or tbeso celestial wanderers, condensed in our atmosphere, could be shut into an ordinary snuff box, with room to spare." While there is much to laugh at in such credulity, the Examiner proceeds to show that it bas a melancholy side also.

In this aspect of it, readers aro informed that tho same oredulity has "hurled thousands into modern Spiritualism," has given victims to "the Millerite folly," the preten sionB of Popery, and the plaything mummeries of its echo, Bitualism." The finds tho antldnto for this credulity in "a practical faith in the inspired wuru uia mu overruling proviaonce of tho ovor Uvunr OETHSEMANE BAPTIST CHURCH. During the past summer the pastor of tho above najed church in this oity has remained at his post. and a worm religiouB feeling is reportod as existing. The congregations hove been large for two months past. Thirty or forty members havo been added to tho church and baptisms havo occurred for threo Sun days past.

THE PEESS UNFAIB TO CATHOLICS. The Hostou Pilot comments with emphasis upon the treatment which (he nearly six millions of Catholics iu this country recoive from the daily press whon speak ing of them as a body or upon Catholic questions. Tho Wot sayH We aro to be Bneered at wlien convenient rirficnlart at pleasure, maligned and misrepresented perpetually. lo uu, uun wiinug ui luuse ouscuro sneets ia smaller towns, who deem it thoir Interest to vlllify Catholicity, but of the so called leading journals in nnr large cities, who claim to give their readers a large portion of whom are CaUiolics fair and impartial accounts of the various events of the day. So unreliable have the daily papora become in their cable dispatches and articles upon Catholic matters, tht nj person of ordinary intelligence among Catholics presumes to give thorn credence.

And wo protest that tbo continual publication of such trash is an insult to tbo whole Catholic community andal'bel upon fair journalism. There is a lino field open for a daily journal in this country that will give Catiiol'cs a fair and impartial bearing, or that WiU have raaulineos enough to take a stand and not condemn them without hearing a word upon their side of the question. SERVICES AT THE TABEBNACLE. The resumption of sorvice at the Tabernacle will not be affected by the absence of the pastor. Rov.

Prof. Chapman, the assistant Pastor, will preach during tomorrow. It is confidently expected the Greece on which Eev. Dr. Talmage is a passenger, will arrive to morrow morning, in which esse he will look in on his peoplo at tho night sorvice.

Tho Sunday School and tbe Bible will be resumed to morrow. KISSING AT CAMP MEETING. A Methodist remonstrates with the Independent tar a comment recently made on scones at a camp mooting in Maine where tho brethren and sisters threw the arms around each others necks, and kissed each other. With somo apparent deaingenuousness the Methodist correspondent remarks "My mother and sister havo many times in publio thrown their arms around my neck and kissed me. To this the Independent answers If any man wants to be kissed in canro meeting hv hin mother and sicter, we do not know that we shall object.

Itis purely a question of tasto. Most men. we imagine, prefer to practico such osculatory ondear ments in private; and it is a serious question whether a meeting for the promstion of holiness which encour agoB such violations of true delicacy is, on the whelo, to bo encouraged. That can hardly be a fall salva tion" whioh does not save men from making fools of tbemse'ves. There was, however, nothing in the rc pet which wo quoted to indicate that theso greetings were confined to relatives, and wo havo no roa3cn to beiieve that thoy wore.

The paragraph has been widely published, and we have seen no contradictiou or explanation of it. And, lost our good Methodist brother Bhouid think that our judgment in this matter was dictated by hostility to Methodism, wo quote this comment of tho Christian Advocate upon the report in question Wo suspect that somo of our readers will be nre pared to say that such a statement, if false, is a vile slander, for which tbe writer and publisher deserve to bo mulcted in heavy damages. But what if it 17. substantially true That which is 6lander when untrue cannot bo otherwise than Bcandaloua if true. men alternative must wo accept? Perhaps neither entirely, but a little of each.

SUSTAINING OHABrXY BY FAITH. As having an indiroot bearing upon the quostion suggested in Professor Tyndale's proposition to make a scientific tost of tbe officacy of prayer, the fol'owing paragraph from tho London Court Journal is not without interest: Mr. Ouorrier has established a home for riaqtitutn children in Glasgow, that is supported entirely by voluntary contributions. Thoro is no reserve fund or bo queBt of any kind for its support. It is maintained, as the ravens were fed iu the wilderness, from day to day.

And although it bas several times been in strait! from the lack of unds, it has always been ablo to null through without tbo slightest curtailment of oful nesB or etticiency. Ono day lately, however, Mr Quarrier found that contributions iu money and kind had not been comim? in witn their wonted adequacy, and he made arrangements for tbe boys and girlB to unite in prayer that God would put into tne nearts 01 some unrlsuan menus to send them sufficient to relieve their wants and annrchen tions. They were abundantly satisfied, for in the course of tho next three days, necessaries to tha value of nearly 80 were sent iu. Mr. Quarrier's Homo i siiently but certainly doing a groat work, and it meriiT the warmest support of all who aro interested in tho amelioration of the bard lot of our gutter childrci.

and tho social and moral improvomont of the community at large. In Bristol a similar institution exiBts ami flourishes with all respect wo use the words "on the same business principles." The speculative and the matter of fact are supplied herewith witn a littie nm to CL aca. THE OHUBC OF THE HOLY OBOSS, PLATBUSH. Tho corner stone of this new ohuroh, which is to bo under tho pastoral direction of tho Eev. Father Doher ty, will be laid to morrow at half past four o'clock P.

M. Bishop Louhliu will perform the ceremony, and will doliver a sermon. The Flatbush avenue cars lead to tho place, and there should be a largo attendance present. PLYMOUTH CHUBCH. The choir of Plymouth Churoh is about to rosumo its regular rehearsals, and an opportunity is now offered to good singers to secure free; Bitiings in tho church by joining tho choir.

PERSONAL. PoMEnOT. Rev. C. S.

Poineroy, pastor of tho Ross street Presbyterian Churoh, accompanied by Mrs. Ponioroy, will Boon return from Europe, proposing to sail for home on tbe Bteamer of tbo 3th proximo. The pulpit of his church will bo occupied to morrow by Bev. J. M.

GibBon, an ablo olorgyman from Montreal. YELLOW FETEE. What tbo Ilcalth Officer of tbo Fort Says. A rumor having been circulated that a ves sel infected with yellow fever had arrived at Quarantine yesterday, from Central America, and renewed apprehensions on account of that disease having arisen at Staten Island, Dr. Vanderpoel, the Health Offlcor of the port, has made the following statement in rcforsnco to the matter "I havo not hoard that any Bhins have come in with disoase on board sinco the arrival of the Johann Frederick.

In case thero should arrive any vessel with yel iow lover on ooara 1 win certainly not conceal it irom tbe public. I have hoard that at Carthagena the inhabitants havo been strickon down with tho disoase since tho 1st of July, and that some forty deaths have taken place a day but the American Consul, Mr. Hanna borgh, 1b exerting himsolf to prevent the diseaBe spreading to tho American shipping. It is usual to nave yellow lever spasmouicany iu uentru, Aiuuncu, Havana and West Indios. Wo keep a good lookout at this lime of the yoar for all vessels from tbcao ports.

Wo are nlunvs nrnimred. and there is now accommo dation for over 200 patients at West Bank Hospital, bo that In ony caso none would bo permitted nearer the city. Dr. McCartnoy has charge of tho lowor bay, and thero is no fear that my vessel with disease on board will get up to Upper Quarantine. Tho peoplo hero may havo no annrohcnBiou of dancer.

At tlio presont time nothing could be moro favorablo than tbe state of things in tho lowor bay. The peoplo of Staton Island are endeave ring to havo the quarantlno station re moved to the lower bay, but it is impracticable, and even tho pilots have petitioned against it. The Numancia bas not loft yet, altbough hor orew are convalescent. It is not my business to order her away, but I will not portnit her to approach nearer the city. Tho officers on board seom satisfied with their location.

Tbey get frosh provisions on board overy day. No application has boen mado to mo yet asking for permission to go to sea. The Johann Frederick, which arrived with two mon tbe only partleB on board stricken down with yellow fever left to day. I gave permission, and a crow accustomed to working in a tropical climate, was taken on board. She put to sea, and will tako a northern passage to Stettin.

ThiB vessel had six deaths on board before Bhe got to this port. There aro now no vcbscIb in the lower bay except tho Numancia. In the upper bay thore are vessels which eamo from infected norts and are discharging their cargoes. Among them tho United States mail steamer, Columbia, from Havana, Nono of these had any oasoB of yellow fovcr. Strict watch will bo kept by the quarantine officers, and all vessels will be boarded in the lower bay.

Bead Tbis. Gbaepenbero Dysentery Syrup, for tha euro of diarrhea, cholera morbus, dysentery, and all 00m plaints of the bowels, has never failed in a single lnstaneo, and has boon usod for ovor 25 yoars. Sold by druggists. GRABIKKBlino 189 William rt, N. Y.

jo2 SU Perfectly Safe in all Cases. Mbs. "VViN8low's Soothing Syrup, for nil diseases of children, suoh at toothing, wind ooUo, (fto.ilsa safe, roliable and harmloss remedy. Dr. O.

W. Holmes And many distinguished men reoommend Wuitcome's Asthma. Remedy. mechanical Tinkering Cannot arrest the decomposition of the teeth. Nothing wMl do this but that pure distnfeotant and preservative whioh, undor tho name of Sozodokt, haj be.

oomo pl of the toilet throughout the world, What is Said bj the Press and Done in tfie Churches. Misquoting Scripture Who are Catholics Pel lowship With Pnltarians A New Religions Sect How to Cure an Echoing Church Othor miscel laneous and Personal Hatter. A correspondent Y. of one of the religious papers wishes to be informed where about in the Bible he oan find the text "None to mo leit nor make afraid." He asserts that tho editor of the journal he writes to recently used that expression, The editor replies If X. Y.

Z. will ten us where or when we ever inti mated that such a sentence is in the Bible, we will give ana verse, ne nas marked it as a quota it WI, aid not He haa b60n searching the Bible for no i uiu uui. many laminar pmeses are supposed to have theft origin in the Bible that are not in the good book, but the phrases are good and wo love to use wcui. xao lonowmg may be useful to prevent MISQUOTATION'S FEOM SOBIPTTBE "uoq tempers the wind to the Bhorn Iamb." From Sterna's Sentimental Journey to Itoly. Compare Isaiah xxvi.

8. "In tho midst of life we are in death." From the Burial Service; and this, originally, from a hymn of Luther. "Bread and wine which the Lord hath commanded to be received." From the English Catechism. "Not to bo wiso above what Is written." iu ooripmre. mat the Spirit would go from heart to heart as oil from vessel to vessel." Not in TbJ niau is merciful to his 5SSt scriptural form is, "A righteous man regarded the life of his boast" Pror.

xii 10 "A "A i born in a dT In Isaiah it ,1 uaiion oe oorn at once? Ixvl. 8. As iron sharponeth iron, bo doth 8 onanance of his friend." "Iron sharpenetb so a man Bharpeneth tho countenance of "That be wh0 ny roan "That mav hnt i "Owe no man any thing but love." "Owo no man any iiiiug, uui iu love one anotner." Rom. xii. 8.

"Prone to Bin as the sparks fly upward." "Born to trouble as the sparks fly upward." v. 7. "Exalted to heaven In jjuiuiui ju.viiege. noi in me in Die. Eve was not Adam's helpmate, but merely a hcln meet fnr Mm nor was Absalom's long hair, of which ha was so piuuu, iuo lumrumbus oi nis destruction bis head and not the hair upon it, having boon caught in the uuuguo vi wo ireu.

4 SU1I1UU1 xvul. WHO ABE NOT CATHOLICS. In the oourse of editorial comment upon a comma nication to tho Independent from Munioh, and pur porting to bo from a Catholic, the Tablet this woek remarks that the artiole never was or could have been written by a Catholic. The says: Whatever individuals may protend, the public understand by Catholio one who is a member of tbe Church in communion with the See of Borne, and who recognizee the authority of tho Boman Pontiff as tho Vicar of Christ or. earth, and it gives and will give the uwuoiuiiu ucuer.

xne common Benso or mankind refuses to recognize as Catholic any declarod by the Boman Pqntiff to bo in horesy or schism, and serered rum communion. We know nothing meaner or moro fraudulent than the persistent effort of tbe sectarian upon their ignorant and credulous publio such mm as tho ex Pero Hyacinth, Dollinger, Friedorick, Michaud and their associates, who resist the authority of tbo vuiuuuc iinurcu, ami can meinseives ola catuolicB. They are no moro Catholics than was Satan nno nf tho seraphim aftor ho robolled and was cast out of neaven. FELLOWSHIP WITH DNITABIASS. In a half column editorial upon tho subject of min isterial fellowship with tho Unitarians, tho Evangelist says "Certainly the minister of Christ is at liborty to preach tho Qospol wherover ho can find an audience.

Ho may do it in a Unitarian pulpit, on a stump, or in a playhouse, provided he does not compromise his character or opinions by the implied endorsement of what is false or vicious." But in accepting an invitation to a Unitarian pulpit the question arises, "Can he in con sistency with, and fidelity to, his convictions reciprocate that courtesy?" In anBwer to this the Bvangelist remarks We are far from Bayine there mav not be oxcontional cases when this is permissible. Unitarianism is of many Bhades, and in some instances there aro clergymen within its pale who do not properly belong there. When men like these of tha Bta mp of Coolidge, Gage, Bishop Huntington are personally known to bo evangelical in their sympathies, their testimony to the truth as they accept it, may be such as thousands would listen to with profit and delight. "The indiscriminate exchange of pulpits on the part of the Orthodox with tho Unitarians," the Beanjelist remarks, was fought out half a century sinco and established lines of divison which indicated thai tho Orthodox had no sympathy for what they were forced to considor 'another and it attracted attention to tho real points in controversy. The result was that many wavering minds discerned that these points wero vital, and became more intelligent adherents to tho Orthodox standards." Tho Evangelist concludes But the Unitarianism of to dav ban nnt avnn fhn mo derate homogeneousnesB of that of the earlier period.

It fellowships men who approach nearer to Lord Herbert or Theodcro Parker than Dr. Channing. The very namo is abused as a caver for Deism or Free Rc'i gion, and the reasons for refusing to be compromised by any implied approval or countenance nf It. ava stronger now than they ever were before. SLUM LITEBATUBE IN THE LIBB ABIES.

Tho Church Journal has an editorial upon "Slum" literature and the Public Libraries, and presents some facta with moral inferences deduciblo thorefrom. It is ascertained that the great maaa of books read aro novels, most of them novels, too, unknown e7en by namo to cultivated people that where Thaokeray is for once, Mrs. Carolino Leo Hentz is vrantod ton timos, and while fifteen persons are inquiring for Dickons seventy six ask for Mrs. E. D.

E. N. Southworth, Tho Journal is not surprised at this. It remarks We havo been busy teaching people to read for a couple of generations. Moil grown up Americans can read.

But what shall they read? Iixaetly that, wa answer, which they can understand. The ability to rend is good as far as it goes. But it is only a and not much moro than a mechanical meauB. It has not educated the individual very far. His tasto is uncultivated, coarse and common, his intellect low, his reasoning power very small, his mental faculties, apart from tbe business ho is engaged in, at loose ends generally.

Therefore, when he takes a book he wants a story, and a common, plain, easily told story, that makes no draft on hiB attention, and diverts his thought and amuses him for the time. The effect of having taught several millions peoplo to read, and not yet to think, is not to set thorn all at studying history or science, poetry or criticism. To enjoy Shakspcare requires culture. To read Addison ovu, a certain intellectual training. Evou Walter Soott and Thackeray write for people who have somo taste and power of appreciation.

But who shall write for the mass of tho uncultured, for the groat army of people who can "read, write and cypher?" The librarians answer tho question, continues the Journal, in part, but not entire, and then it refers to another class Beside these libraries, wo havo circulating libraries, dea1ing altogether in the cheapest sort of novels and to supplement these, we havo "the dimo novel" and its kindred, and finally "tho Btory paper," of which tho Ledger is tho type. Who writes all this stuff Is it written at all, or merely spun out of hashed dictionary Is Sylvanus Cobb, for instance, the name of a man with a brain, or the namo of a machine that grinds out Btories Is there an "Oliver Optio" really alive, in a house, eating breskfasts and dining human or is that tho name of a haudmill with a crank, which a small boy turns till tho stories drop out to order? It is but fair to say that tho stuff is not in itself vicious. It outrages no decencies and panders to no bad passions. Tho lowest claBS of literature is, in this respect, better than the next above it. Sylvanus Cobb is innocent compared to Miss Braddon, and a dimo novel never shocks the moralities like the Englishwoman who calls herself "Ouida." Tbe Journal says the way to get rid of this rubbish is to educate the publio taate above it.

As matters are it thinks the oharacter of tho reading drawn from publio libraries "should teaoh us a Utile modesty," for "it is not a thing, certainly, to bo proud of." The article closes with the following paragraph: It would be also well if tho character of that raiding should bo taken slightly into account by the enthusiastic gentlemen, clerical and lay, who have been advocating Ibe opening of such libraries on Sundays. And it would be also well if it should occur to those concerned to examine their Sunday schools, and sco what a macs the meanest of all tho trash of the jneit literature has been emptied unknown to them in their libraries. CATHOLIO CHUBCH BIOHTS AT THIS REFORM SCHOOL. In further reference, this week, to tho troubles at tbo House of Refuge, on Randall's Island, tbo Review thinks that there are abundant indieations that the verdict of the Commissioners will present another job of whitewashing. Alluding to anothor phase of tho subject the Review has the following: The Independent warns Catholics that thoy may go a triflo too far in their attempts to "embarrass the workings of a moBt oxcollent institution," and says the Methodists and Baptists might justly olaim the same rights as tho Churcb.

Well, who hinders 1 If there i arything in tlie management of tho House that uujust lv violates the conscience of any Methodist or Bapt'st criminal, we should think well of tho sects which claim them if they interfered to protect them. But we Insist that if our children, from a want of proper instruction, have fallen into sin, thero is no reason why they should be forced to commit additional ones. And that is what thoy are being weekly forced to do by tho "unseots rian" and humane Managers of tbe Houso of Refuge, all whitewashing to the contrary notwithstanding. SUNDAY IN NEW ORLEANS. The Church Journal (Episcopalian) publishes an account of a Sunday festival at New Orleans, embracing horse races and base ball, from the Morning Star and Catholic Messenger of that city, and makes the follow ing comment Devotions for the day having been said a Romanist can ongago in business or sport for the remainder of tbe Lord's day.

And even horse and foot racing and games are not unsuitable for that holy season. Americans, if Borne is to furnish their religion, must bid an everlasting farewell to qulot and peaceful Sundays. A NEW RELIGIOUS SECT. A religious community calling themselves "Amoin ans," all Germans, and numbering about 1,500 persons, have settled upon a purohase of 30,000 acros of land in Iowa, and havo already entered upon various purBuits and occupations. An exchange says of them All property is held in common, and tho affairs of tho eociety are managed by fifteen trustees, or fathors, as thoy aro called.

Each person is allowed to draw a certain amount from the co operative store yoarly, and no member is given any wages or auy money for personal expenses. Meetings aro held every day for religious services. In addition to thirty thousand acres of farming laud, tho society own largo flour and woollen mills on the Des Moines rlvor. They manufacture a line quality of yarns and flannel in oolors, which stand hifth in the market. The Amanians are noted for their honesty and fair dealing, and ate muoh respected by their neighbors.

Marriage is not encouraged, though it is not forbidden, and as the community is not receiving any new mombers, it will probably, in time, die out. DEATH OF A CATHOLIC JOURNALIST. Tbo Freeman's Journal gives a blograpteal skatoh of Mr. Jean Melohior Du Lac, Count of Montvert, who died early in the present month, aged sixty seven years. For twenty flvo years past he has boon a Oath olio journalist, and on the editorial staff of L'Uni vers, in Paris.

In early life he studied for the priest hood, and Bpent some yean at a later period in the quiet and study of the oloietor. When returned to the Univer; in 1848, it was "to live in tho world but not of it." His affeotionate biographer and daily companion for more then a quarter of a century, Louis Venillot, editor in chiaf of L'Univers, from whoso more extended artiole the Journal makes its sketch, thus refers to his later days Even when better oiroumstanoes put moro of this world's goods at his disposal, he would not change his way of life. To the end, he lived in a poor chamber, with most of his personal effeols in a trunk, oxcept a small supply of well selected books, useful to him In his caUiiig. And so diod this gallant soldier of the Cross noble by a long lino of anoeBtors, but nobler by hiB own aobievings. Gentle in bis birth and by his training, but, from youth up.

severe with himself, and not only professing, but following and carrying the Cross. HOW TO CURE AN EOHOIN9 OHUKOH. The difficulty of combining elaborate and beautiful architecture in church dittoes, with seating oapaoity for largo audienoes so that each individual oan distinctly hear, tbe speaker at tha desk, has baon a problem of long standing. The simple plan to obviate defective acousMo properties in atuilding for seoular purposes which would osrtainljr appear to bo equally What a Sane Man Saw in Insane Asylum. an fflB flELLS, TES BEDS, MB FOOD, TBS ATffiilDAMB TRgATMBM BMT8B.

The Tribune's reporter begins to day the story of what ho saw at Bloomingdale, His first pa per naa to ao with tho proceedings preparatory to his confinement in the ABylum. The second describes that part of the establishment set apart for dangerous patients. After the amateur lunatic's friends had left him at the Asylum he expressed a desire to rest, and was allowed to lie down until supper time, when he waB provided with a cup of tea. a small roll, and bread with out butter. He returned to his couoh and slept until nine o'olock, when he wbb awakened and taken to his room.

THE The apartment was most uninviting. The coU was not more than eight foot in width by ten in length, and absolutely without furniture, save a cot of straw. It was only faintly illuminated by the dull light from the hall. The bleak walls and the grating on the windows gave to the cheerless quarters the repulsiveness of tho dreariest of prisons. No means was ever resorted to by those vested with the power of imprisonment which proved so effectual in breaking the will, de troylng tho hope, or inspiring madness, as confinement in a room the walls or caiiing of which aro unbroken by any object Not a picture, nor even a nail from which at some timo past one might have depended, adorned the waUs.

The door was devoid of a knob, and the reporter never fu'ly realized before what an essential accompaniment the latter was to the former. Tho window was opposite the door end directly above the head of the bed, bo that the night air blew iu on the face of tho sleopor. Tho floor had been recently scrubbed, and the patient discovered, when he removed his shoes, that it was still slightly damp. The odor of ohlorido of lime which bad been mingled with the water was so strong in the cell as to make the quarters almost unteaible, and to give the reporter a violent headache. Toe attendant, Townsend, stood by and I'stenod with perfect indifference to tho appeal for a room which did not smell so frightfully.

He stood by until the reporter had removed everything, ave his drawerB and undershirt, and then bidding him "good night," withdrew to the hall toper form another most thorough searob. Townsend, on ono occasion, opened tho door, and, with tho patient's shirt in his hand, inquired regarding the absent spira' i otting. The reporter is thus explicit in describing tho final searching of his clothing in order to show how utterly at tho mercy of the employes of the institution a person is without money, penoil, or paper. A NIGHT OF HOBBOB. All tho other occupants of the Ha'l had retired prior to the entrance of the reporter.

The heavy door was shut and locked, leaving hi alone in tho cell. The bed was hard and unconirortable. Tho odor of chloride of lime, as haB boen romarked, was almost sliiling. Though tired and sleopy, ho found it impossible to reconcile himself to the straugo surroundings for somo time. He had dropped off into a dose, however, wlien he was suddenly awakened by a demoniac yell which ohlllcd and for the moment thor oualy unnervod ond frightenod him, so un: and so piercing was the agonized cry.

In tho first few bewildered moments which fol'owed, ho could not avcid tho conviction that tho scream proceeded fro some ono in the same apartment, and that a maniac had by some means gained admission. Tho light from the starR was barely sufficient to render the window discernible, and the porlion of the cell toward the door was in shade. After a very short interval, however, the wild unearthly scream rang out in the night and the reporter having by this time collocted his scattered senses, discovered that it proceeded from a ctll of the basement below him. The maniac could then be distinctly heard at the grating of hiB window hissing and groaning. After showing tho cheorlessness of tho rooms in which patients pass the day thero are not even comfortable chairs for thorn to sit in the roporter describes A maniac's MOENIKO MEAL.

The breakfast bell is in ovory instance rung several roiaulcs before tho doors aro thrown open, and by the time tho patients are permitted to enter tho eating rorni tho more nervous are worried and impatient over the delay. The room was a long apartment, lurnished with two rough wooden tables, such as are common in the eeueralitv of kitchens, but larger. At that table sat perhaps twolvo or fourteen patients, under the care of attendants Young and Loenecker the former a burly Hibernian and tho latter a portly German. The provisions were brought already cooked from the other building, and tho breakfast was pro pared by unceremoniously huddling together on each plate a Bmail allowance of meat, two boiled potatoes in tneir skins, some sliced tomaloss, biead, and a small piece of butter. The coffee, with only a trace of milk or sugar, was doled out in large White slop bowls.

To tho ranorter.who in ly aaied for sugar and milk, the answer was returned bj Townsend that all the milk and sugar good for Mm was already in tho coffee. From thia man ho did not at any timo or unaer any circum stances receive oven tke simplest courtesy. The knivcT and forka warn evi dently seldom cleaned, tho handles and blades alike greasy and sticky, in the same or worse condition than those found in tho cueapost midnight lunch stal's of jc uiton marxei or rnnung House square. The breakfast waB finished, and emereinz into tho hall thn no. tients betook themselves to pacing the floor, reclining on the benches, or standing silent'v asainat thnumli The long hour3 till dinunor time wore paztod in thoroughly studying tho attendants and patients, without uiaaiuy mauy uuvunccs lowara acquaintance.

The newspapor taken on the hall arrived iu tho forenoon, "i lujjuitoi tuuiu uu, i uuiui a sigm oi ir, so in THE CHAMBEEM AID MAN. Instead of attending to the care of the rooms, the attendants ia the Lodge givo them in charire of a half. wilted fellow, who performs the with gre.it piide and evident satisfaction. He has a bad reputation for ferocity among the patients of Hall and mi i iu uypuau mm. it was uiaiea taat no naa severely bitten a man ia thefaoa who had in some way or other exasperated him.

He is al'owed bv t.Ua nt. tendantB to intmde bis pre enco at any aad all tiineo uyuu uuj puuuut, ima enters tue rooms without any ceremony. He is a thoroughly incompetent and unii person to be intrusted with even the cara of I'm mnma On tho night of Friday, August 10, this man placed oui oko uu mo lopurter cot, wnicn were damp, if a patient lies down upon his bed, and leaves to go to dinner or to get a drink, when ho returns ho u3UaP iiuuo ujb ucu uauiou yxvuixi preparatory to maKmg up anew. A OASE OJ BBUTALITY. An old roan, gray, paired, and said to bo Wind, confined in the wing of the building, and after ail had finished, brought into the dining room and fed, was most barbarously treated on August 17.

The attendant, who was either Carr or Townsond, tho reporter is net ceitain which, hurried the old man across the hall and into the door; but upon his stopping as if not certain what to do, he waa rudely thrust backward into a chair, and, before he had recovorod from the shock which a fall of that kind would give to a man of his lnnrmity, he was struck by the attendant with his open hand first on one side and then on the other of his face. Tho blows ware inflicted with ovory evidence of passion on the part of tho attendant the cause for his passion being perhaps (although the reporter could not distinguish the wordB of tho old man) that the patient had attempted to protest against the rudeness to an infirm old man. A wretched idiot who is confined at night in the room of tho extonsion looking out on a small balcony (oo diagram) was turned out into this wire covered cage in a state of utter nudity on August 16. Here ho was left with nothing to shelter him from tho wind or the sun. ATTENDANTS' HABITS AND LANGUAGE.

A poor idiot who lives in Hall XIII, but dines in the ccnuuon room of the two bails and is known by the ap pe'Jaticn of "Baby," was repeatodly ill treated. Ho appears not to bo possessed of sufficient mental power to know when to como to dinner or how to oonduct himee f. His walk from tho upper hall to the dinner table is a journey always mndo with hesitancy and a.t rnionypauBes. He waB generally urged forward by Loenecuer, and on ono occasion, wlien "Baby' hes it. ted moro than usual, this attcudont arose, and, seizing the utterly absent minded boy by the shoulder, liteialiy tirew him across tho dining room, past tho ond of the table, and bumped him down on his bench.

The poor fellow uttered not a word of remonstrance and the attendant, at tno otner end of tho tabb lauilied at bewilderment. As tto attendant in cuarga of "Baby' evidently under tood that his idiocy wa3 as cribableto h5B vioiouB practices, lie appealed deter mined to communicate the facts to everyone in tbe room, through his fillhy and ob.ceno Jokes, oft ro peatod, and apparently always relished by his companions of the Eamo hall. A CHILDISH ENGLISHMAN. The case of an old Englishman, who has fallen into childishness, is worthy of lalion. Ho has been in this country nearly forty years, bat his conversation, which ia qaito di connecied, is o' his naiivo landl Although he forgets his and every circumstance connecied with his arrival in this country, he is vory tenacious about his name.

Tfc's fact is improved by the caterer, Wilkins, as means ol auioying and vexicg the harmless old man. Wi'k'ns Beldoni loses an opportunity to address him a namo ellher totally rr si: htly wrong. This would at once provoke a rep' from tho old mam that his name waB Tnis would bo denied, and tho disoussion resu'ted in thoroughly and painfully exciting and exasperating tho old man. An inmate of tho "Lodge," as it is called, Is not loss deprived of his liberties than a convict ia Sing Sing. Alttioush it is an institution at which eaoh boarder or his friends pay a fix sum per weeek, he is denied a host of minor which would all tend to qu'ethis mind, and the refusal of which undoubtedly aggravates his disease.

THE BEDS are, as a rule, cleanly, but they are hard "and out of character in an instil jtion of tne b.iasted character of Blomingdale, and which charges hotel prioes. Many of the sheets from tne old Noiv York Hospital are worn to Bhreds. There is a BATH TUB which the patients are allowed to cleanse themselves, but it is frequently in such a filthy ooudidon thut many of tho patients would prefer a straight jacket in preference to taking a bath thoroin. The officious patient, mentioned before, who to materially lightens tho labors of tho attendants, was seen to throw the filthiest slops iuto this batu tub. There is NO BEADING MATTEB accessible to the patteutB of Hall XI, except by the permission of the doctor.

TnB is equivalent to non ac" mission of papers or books. Dr. Burrill, on twoBop arate occasions, on the floor of Hall XI, promised thai a newspaper should be Bent to tho reporter, who wos in no wise counterfeiting insonHy at the time, but when he was aftorward spoken to on the subject, admitted that he had nut the sUghtc intention of fulfilling bis promise for, said he We novor order pa pors for a patient unle a their 'friends diroot." As a proof that the patients aro fed on 8HOET BATIONS, the attendants, in addition to hiding away a share of 'he fruit sent on one occasion for dessert, usually helped themselves to a large quantity of every edible. It is next to impossible, the" reporter was informed, by one of the most trtutiroruiy patients in the lodge" to get IETIEBS OUT TO FBDSNDS. Tho patient confined there never has the slightest certainty that his epistles havo ovsr been oommitted to the postman.

After his removal to the quieter wards tno reporter thoroughly tested thia point. While all those who chew tobacco aro furnished wltb. "the weed," the unfortunate smokers aro compelled to entirely forego their only luxury. No newspapers or books are furnished on the halls of either branch of tho lodge. Thero was NOT A CLOCK OB TIMEPIECE exposed anywhere so that it could bo seen by tho patients.

Their only record of time ws the bells at the other building. On Hall XI the refrigerator containing the ICB WATEB is under look and key in the olothos room, and whenever a patient wants a drink bo must either put up with the warm water at the hydrant, or hunt up an attendant, who will, as soon as convenient to himself, open the door for htm. NUISANCES. Bow tbe Removal of Asbeai from Sidewalks is IVenfloctcd. To tht Editor of the Brooklyn Eagit Your paper is always open to complaints from citizens.

I have one to maso againnfc the ash collectors, and hope, by plaoing tho matter before the public, to persuade the proper oity officer to apply the remedy. Last week my servant placed tho ash barrel on the sidewalk at the uennl nna i nlnne. There wera in the barrel, in addition to tbe ashes, two pieces of uncus ana nau an elbow of a stove pipe. Tne asn men came along and utterly refused to move tho contents. There tbo barrel rematrmii fnrH.nbovs to upset and scatter the contents for a The servant finally placed the contents baok in the barrel.

By the time the week had. expired, (mother barrolwB flUeflwith SATURDAY EVENING. AUGUST 31. Thia Paper baa tke Largest (Xroula i Clou of ftny ETenlnar Paper Published In the fruited States. Ita Value as an AaTertiaine; McdiuEt la tbersfere ap.

parent. An of misrepresentation and Slander. The New York Timet is the ableit paper in the country which sees fit to devote its columns to "a thick and thin support" of General Grunt's administration. It so happens that the journalistic relations between the Eagle and the Times are especially friendly, and the two journals are usually in accord, except when mere party issues divide them. A qucslion of public morals, or a question of publio policy, apart from the partisan conflicts of (he hour, would, in nine cases in ten be measured by each journal by the same standard of right and wrong.

The Times has seen fit to turn itself into a mere campaign sheet. For months (he Times will cease to be a newspaper. Its editorial columns are almost exclusively devoted to partisan harangues in General Grant's interest, and to misrepresentation of those who are politically opposed to him. Criticism of the party wielding the powers of government fair and legitimate opposition to it are the main, if not the sole guarantees, for the publio interest and the public liberties in all countries in which the people claim the right to govern themselves. The Timet has no patience with such criticism it has no tolerance for such opposition, We do not desire to insinuate that the Times has no precedent for its course, or that now and for the first time in our history, the Times presents the spectacle of a great metropolitan journal, turning itself into the mere organ of a party, and conducting a political campaign as if all its future depended on the result of it.

But the Timet has so recently, and with so much advantage to itself and to the public, tested a contrary course, and secured so much prestige iu consequence of it, that those who looked to it to lead in establishing a class of journals in thia country which would treat parties on their merits, and dare to be independent of them, are more disappointed by the Times than with those journals which have never had the opportunity which tha Times has flung away. Take, as a sample, an argument by which the Times expects to influence intelligent men the opening paragraph of ita leaders in today's issue Fersonal Blander of tho President, and misrepresentations, alternately bold and crafty, of his Administration, are the main dependence of who, Tinder various forme of Tammanjism, are endeavoring to displace the Repubhcan Party from power. Bat these men have sense enough to know for it does not require much sense to know that the more inte'ligent and sober minded volerc, in whoso ranks the Republicans and Democrats whom it is necessary to win to tho Bupport of Mr. Greeley are to be found, demand, as a motive to political action, something else than that supplied by abuse and falsehood. We submit to the Times that a mere change of names would make this argument just as applicable in defence of Tweed, while Tweed's official conduct was under public consideration, as it is a defence of Grant to day.

Nay, we are satisfied we could match, with an accuracy which would surprise the Times, this i tyle of argument from any one of the Tammany journals which a year ago eonsid ered that Mr. Tweed was "personally landered," and "misrepresented" by "bold and crafty" advocate of the Republican party, who were at the time, as was alleged, endeavoring to injure the political organization of which Mr. Tweed was so bright and so costly an ornament. Let U3 examine a few of the objections urged against Gen. Grant's re eleo tion, which are so summarily disposed of by the limes as "personal slanders." It can hardly be called an accusation say that General Grant has not either by education, by the habits of his life, or by the bent of his mind, acquired any aptitude for the performance of the duties of a great civic officer.

He is a soldier. The time has come for returning to the methods of peace in the administration of this government, and this alone, would be a sufficient reason for a change in the administration. The vast addition made to the nuraber of civil officers in the service of the Government, since the war the important and complicated duties involvedin collecting a revenue of hundreds of millions per annum for the support of the Government, has turned public attention to tho absolute necessity of reforming a civil service system, whioh was initiated when the sight of a tax collector in this country was rarer than that of a ghost. General Gvant claims to be in favor of civil service reform. It is notorious that he has appointed corrupt men to office, and that in the face of their known venality, and, indeed, in very many cases apparently because of it, ha has retained them in office, or dismissed them, as iu the case of Tom Murphy, with a certificate of character.

Does the Times want the proof of this, or is the history of Tom Murphy, in New York, of Clark, in Texas, of Casey, in Now Orleans, sufficiently familiar to it? It is notorious that the patronage of the Governm.nt has been nsed by the President as if the public treasure was a fund at his disposal for rewarding men to whom he considers himself to be under obligations, because he has profltted by their gifts, or because they havo claims of relationship upon him. This is a mere statement of fact, and is as far removed from "misrepresentation" as any fact can be. It is confessed on all hands that the Southern States are being plundered and impoverished under a system of management in direct antagonism to the principles on which our government is based. It is certain that the Administration has sustained, both morally and physically, those who bto plundering the South. Every scallywag and carpet bagging rascal in the South is an advocate of Grant's re election, for these men look to his success as to their only hope for perpetrating their villainous rule.

This, we are satisfied, is not misiepresentation. It is susceptible of proof that our form of Government is in danger while it is entrusted to Grant's hands, surrounded, as he is, by bold and unscrupulous advisers. It is notori i ous that under their advice self government is allowed to exist but in name in Beveralof the States of this Union. It has passed into history that at their instigation the Supreme Court was packed and disgraced. It is known that t'aey have as Bailed the independence of the legislative branch of the government, and that the most illustrious Senator of the Republican party was attacked only because he exercised the rights of his great office.

It cannot be denied, although the Times has recently mnde the attempt, that the President used all his personal influence and all the powers of this office, one year and a half ago, to wrest from Congress a law which placed the liberties of the people at his "discretion," that under that law he sought power not merely to use the regular r.rmy but to raise armies to enforce military rulo in the South at his "discretion." It is not his fault if he has not the power today to suspend the writ of habeas corpus at hie "discretion," in every part of the Union, and to make the Presidential election a farce and a fraud. That he was prevented from doing so, is due to the coalition then effeoted between Democrats and Eepublicans. Though it, the country will be rescued from the perils which surround it, and the intelligent men of both parties will not be diverted from their purpose by the logic on which the Tammany thieves relied, and whioh ought to be as foreign to the columns of the New York Times as to those of any other journal in the country. Tho meeting of tho Emperors. The fine old days of TallejranoMan diplomacy are gone, and gone forever.

Europe ii no longer tho field for carpet knights. Wore the sinister Fouche to reappear upon the stage of European affairs to morrow, no more notice would be taken of him and his snuffbox, than would be attracted by Queen Anne in the Bowery. The workingman, that bett noir of tie old world cabinets, has put his mighty fist into pelitics, and combinations ts control the world are no longer made in boudoirs by degagt ministers, who sit in their dressing gowns, smoke cigarettes, sip sugar last Spring. The examination of Dr. Herman, in tha Schoeppe trial, at Carlisle, occupied considerable timo and waB concluded yesterday morning.

He was one of the attending phystciaus of Mies Steineoke, a prominent witness of the prosecuting counsel, and it is stated that his crosc examination completely destroyed his testimony. Dr. Bonrod, employed by Prof. Aiken, in February, 1809, to removo Miss Stein ecke's Btomach, testified, yesterday, to the appearanco of the body at the post mortem, held at tha University of Baltimore. His testimony was in exhaustive detai', respecting the manner of dissection and the condition in which the parts wero found.

The oounsel for tho prisoner, by cross examination, sought to show that the post mortem was not properly conducted, and the Doctor's testimony waa most thoroughly sifted. His cross examination will bo resumed to day. Governor Parker, of New Jeney, has ordered an official investigation into the alleged outrages at the Soldiers' Children's Home, at Trenton, N. J. Mr.

Probasco is to be brought to trial for whipping a child six years old with a lash, and with a violence that tha blows oould bo heard nearly forty rods. Young Kingsland, the Jersey City defaulting bank waB yesterday bailed by his father. His statements are said to be very frank and full, and exhibit a great degree of sorrow. It is understood that tho officers of the bank sympathize with him, and are reluctant to prosecute. Statements are published whioh throw some light upon the presumed motive young Uppercuo might have had for the alleged murder of his aunt, Mrs.

Wheat, at Baltimore. It is now assorted that she had at different timei made two or throo wills, revoking them again, and it is thoorited that thi nephow supposed that tho last one made, willing most of her property to him, was unsatisfactory to her and liable to be served as the others had boen. The will, however, Jias been found and loaves him tho bulk of her property. Queen Victoria has sent Stanloy a snuffbox and a loiter from "Granville" accompanies The s. b.

is of gold and set with brilliants. This is a matter for Noe to look after, and therefore no matter. The daily bulletin from Geneva is of absorbing interest. It tells us that the Commissioners had a session and adjourned. Mike Sandford, the sporting man and hotel keeper, who was shot by his son Melville, at Morris town, J.

on Wednesday, died Thursday night. Dr. Charles W. Selden, a suspected abor tionitt in Amity street, Now York, was arrested yesterday. Several people were injured in New York yesterday by a runaway horse, which started from Third avenue and Twonty flf th street, and was finally cught at Grand street and the Bowery.

The man Osborn, arrested at Clermont, the other day with a mover's wagon which contained five dead bodies, was hanged by the citizens. His firs i story was, that one Joseph Williams had paid him $7C0 to conceal the bodies that the family were murdered in Holton, Kansas, on their way from Minnesota. Tho deceased persons were two mon, one woman and two small children. It was afterward learned that Osborn lied, and he made another confossion. He said his real name was Tanzey that he lived at Mt.

Ayr, Iowa that on the 15th instant he met them returning from Kansas to Minnesota and at their solicitation he joined them. Ho then confessed in detail how he murdered them the following Sunday night. His only motive was to possess himself of their property. OPINION OF LOCAL JOURNALS. Railroad Progress.

Concerning the contemplated opening of the Long Island Central Bailroad and tke Hempstead and Bay Ridge Bailroad, the Whitestone Herald Bays Hempstead will soon be included amoncr the numer ous towns and villages of Queens County, which enjoy iuuu uuu irequeut iravei wim tne metropolis ana in this knowledge we find its people awakoning to the fact that a more progressive policy must be adopted ia crder to receive a share of that large and constantly increasing number of people who are annually seeking iiuines un xjong jeiana. The Inquirer, a paper published in the village most closely concerned in the projectod improvement, says: It is quite apparent that the old time want of enterprise that has been so long a drawback to the rapid growth of this village, muBt give way to a liberal and most progressive policy. The influx of a new element in thiB particular, controlled by proper considerations of economy, that must not, howover, degensrate into absolute LtingincsB, will give now life and impetus to improvement, rapidly increase the valuei of nroDertv. add to our population, and give us additional influ ence ana power. Low Bents for Workingmen.

One favorable result of the railroad im provements rocently completed and in course of completion is indicated by the Whitestone Herald zaoa houses, cheap rents, and oomfortable homes for work in gmen: Tne efficient railroad service whioh is now enjoyed by Queens County hss not only added largolyto tbo resident population iu affording accessible and con ven'ent suburban homes for the business men of New York, but a new lifo has been given to local businecs iutc Tho working opulation is being increased in tho establishment of factories and other mercantile enterprises, and, whilo tie greatest efiorts are being irade to meet the demand for houses for tho wealthier porlion of this increasing population, we hear of but liU'e rovlsion being made to moot the necessities of tl'O workingman. Much attention baa been given to the subject recently, ly tho county press, and there is a fixed opinion that capitalists can in thia way find a largo field for safe and profitable investment. In the few cases whoio bonneB of three or fourronma. rflnolno in nvir frnm $1,000 to $3,000, havo boen built, and offered on easy ti niis, they have met with ready sale, and paid a fair Ilium un me amount invesiea. It describes several olasaee of economical and con venient buildings in Whitestone Two of the smallest size are now well nnrier wav and present really a very inviting appearance.

They have a frontage of 13f feet and aro 20 feet deep. The first floor is divided into two rooms, each about 13 by 10 feet, intended to bo used as kitchen and sitting loom. Tbry will be nicely finished off and conveniences can be addod as required. The entrance to the second floor is from the kitchen. are two bedrooms similar in Bizo to the rooms on the first floor.

At the moderate prico, and on the easy terms, atwnich the houses are offered, of course allths "modern conveniences" cannot ba expected, but sufficient is provided to make tho hnusna vnrv nnmfnrt. able and thoroughly adapted for what they intended. Cisterns and necessary outhouses aro included. This house with lot of around, 20 by 100 fert. is offered for $800, and tho terms are made to suit the purchaser.

Other houses, a little larger, 32 feet, contain five rooiao; tho first floor wi'l follow the same plan as the emallost houses, but upstairs will bo threo bedrooms. This house, uuo mi, ui grjuuu, win do onereu at At soon as these are comnleted. ton houses. 1R hv 91 feet, will be built. Theso aro intended tolnnhaivr class of house altogether.

They will oontain five rooms, each larger than any in the otbor hou the kitchen wiU be provided with pump, sink and oth 7 conveniences and the trimmings and fittings througt out wiU bo much superior. They will bo sold a plot of land 88 by 100 feet for $1,500. During the coming Spring will be built larger and bettor houses rang ing as high as $2,500 or $3,000 each, Premature Railroads. It is possible to overdo railroad enterprise. Perhaps tie rural Long Islandors are in no danger of excess in that direction, but premature railroads are eomotimes attemptod in the cities.

The E. D. Times thinks it has discovered two precipitate undertakings of this kind The pioneer who establishes himself bsvond tha beaten track of civilization does not expect turnpikes and ferries, churches and court houses to spring up about him. Ho must wait until the progress of events overtake him. and must endure without murmuring the deprivations and inconveniences incident to his isolation.

So it is not with some of our street railroads, whoso managers hare unwisely selected a nor paylng route, and still expect patronage when thero is no patronage for them. Take THE NOBTH SECOND STBEET, for instance, which runs to and across Bushwick avo nue, and hae a transfer to the Lutheran Cemetery, when passengers wish to proceed bo far. It has not been a remunerative enterprise from the outset, simply becauso there is not sufficient number of passengers along its line. People who live in the vicinity of Bushwick avenue prefer walking to the ferries, iu pleasant weather, to riding in old and dirty cars drawn by fceblo and broken down horses. In tho event of a storm, people are not very particular about locomotion long as thoy escape a drenching.

And furthermore, it is tno way fares that bring iu the profit and not those going to the end of the route, sinco the seat that is occupied half a dosen times during a trip produces more than that with a permanent occupant. The rush that for an hour or two morning and evenlngis accommodated, is not sufficiently large to compensate for the emptiness in tho middle of the day. Herein, then, is the trouble with tbo North Second street road, and until that avonue is widened and improved there is no remedy for It. THE NOSTB'AND AVENUE ROAD lain the same category. Ita terminus at thePeniteutiary might aB well be at the North Polo.

The route is not one that ia proliflo in paBBengers. The residents along it who need transportation are few, and belong to tbo morning and evening class. Commencing with limited or insufficient means tho management has been correspondingly poor and unsatisfactory. Whatever prestige tho road had in tbo outset gradually disappeared with the paint on the cars, and is now not to be discovered. The attempt to rcEcue It from its dinglnesB and poverty by obauging the route, and intruding on the rights of people who have paid for tbeir quiet and seclusion, wiH in tho ond prove futile.

Pubbc necessity, or enough of it to pay expenses on these suburban roads, has not yet grown up, and it may be that another decade will pass before it does. Meanwhile they aro simply an infliction, and aro ever in somebody's way whon there is no room for them. LONft ISLAND. Cbntbai Bails ad. Two new passenger cars for tho Central Railroad arrived at Hunter's Poln yesterday, from Springfield, Mass, A Station House Robbed.

The Station House of the Second Preoinot of Long Island Oity has been robbed of $25. Queens County Coubt. The Fall term (Judge Armstrong presiding) or this Court will begin on Monday. Eesioned. Mr.

Fargo has resigned his position as Postmaster of Vf oodsids. Feom New Yobk to Boston. The opening of tho new route between Hew York and Boston has been postponed until September Esoased Pb.isonebs. Honora Sullivan and Hannah Williatns were captured by the Long Island police. They bad escaped from BlaclsweU'i Island, and food that intrinsically did not cost per week, and which can be had in boarding houses of a class that furnish that sort of fodder for $4, from Sunday to Sunday.

The rest of the $20, or the $13, ostensibly went for medical and moral treatment. The medical treatment was one dose of quinine and four interrogatories from a doctor that received a sane man as crazy, which interrogatories wore always "Well, how do you feel?" The moral treatment comprised the removal of all his clothes, the theft of a collar button, the refusal of printed matter and writing materials, the supplying him with damp sheets, the saturation of his room with chloride of lime and soap suds, and the quar tering him amidhowlinglunatics. Vfe mustnot forget to say that the deputy keeper once offered to play him a game of Seven up. In Chambers' case these things for the time he was there amounted to petty larceny. In the aggregate cases of all the prisoners they amount to grand larceny and to getting money under false pretences.

Superadd to these, solitude, no chance for exercise or diversion, the visits of stupid keepers and herding at the table with raving patient3, waited upon by attendants who alternated violence with smutty and unreportable stories, and the reader can easily determine whether asylum life is calculated to produce rather than cure lunacy. We need hardly say that the price paid entitles patients to luxuries. It is over $1,000 a year. For that sum a man can live at a first class hotel two grown up children can be maintained for a year at a first class boarding school, with medical and moral treatment, as well as washing towels and church sittings, with other cognate comforts thrown in. The facts as reported by Mr.

Chambers show habitual swindling, occasion al cruelty, continuous neglect, and a man agement partaking of the worst char acteristics of a tenement boarding house and a county jail. If sub sequent developments improve the state of things, we will be gratified and surprised. It is best while the inquiry is "on to dwell upon the facts. The tendency immediately to preach the reforms they call for will divert attention from the damning disclosures, and lead the inculpated to become the loudest mouthed for "a better law as to lunacy. Let us stick to facts now, and agitate for reforms before the next Legislature.

Kefigioas Review. The usual Saturday review of the religious press and the record of things doing and to be done in the churches is printed in to day's Eagle and has an average share of in terest. The religions editors as well as the ministers take a Summer vacation, and the chairs of the former like the pulpits of the lat ter are filled by substitutes. There is this difference, however, that while the pastor at the watering place cannot preaoh to his congregation in the city, the out of town journalist can write for his readers. Perhaps the church newspapers do not lose so much in interest during the dull season as do the church sermons.

One of the topics considered this week ore the misquotations from the Bible, often seen in print and heard in speech, and into which clergymen themselves have been known to lapse. The dangerous Unitarians engage the attention of the Evangelist, and that orthodox sheet sounds a note of caution against imprudent exchanging of pulpits with them. To make the warning duly impressive the Ecangeliii should have set forth more at length the frightful consequences likely to flow from snoh exchanges. The Episcopalian Church Journal protests against the wretched trash constituting a large part of the popular biterature of the day. If secular critics did their duty religions censors would have less cause of complaint in this regard.

Several re'igious journals are discuss ing the propriety or impropriety of kiBsing at cahipmeeting." Down in Maine, it is al leged, certain brethren and sisters under pressure of the excitement of the services, indulged freely in embracing and osculation. Some of the Methodist papers indignantly deny the statement. A correspondent of another paper defends the demonstration, saying that his mother and sister have often thrown their arms about him and kis3ed him in public. This is an evasion. What might be proper for mothers and sons and sisters and brothers to do might be quite improper for people not so related to do.

The question is forced upon were these demonstrative Maine persons conned Dd by blood relationship, or were they only brethren and sisters in a spiritual sense 1 It seems a now religiouB sect has established in Iowa. Their views of marriage are somewhat vague, they neither encouraging nor prohibiting marriage. But as they are honest and make excellent flannol they may accomplish some good in the world. These are a few of many matters considered in the week's religious review. Of local news concerning churches and preachers we shall presently have more than we have had for several months past.

The vacation is nearly ended. People and pastors are coming home. Pews will presently be filled with their famil iar occupants. The country clergyman, who has been stimulated by contact with the life of a great city, will go bock to his rural parish and the regular minister will resume work Renewed activity may then be looked for in the affairs which supply material for our Saturday rel'giouB review. NEWS SBMMART.

Mr. Beecher has received an invitation to attend a family celebration on the 17th of September, at Woodbury, the golden wodding of Mr. and Mrs. Bradford J. Hall.

Included in the five generations expected to meei at the old homestead is the mother of Mrs. Hull, Mrs. O. phany Teeple, who still lives at the age of ouo hundred. Mrs.

Keed resides at 422 West Nineteenth strcot, New Tori. On Thursday night, her huBband's brother, Thomai, while passing through the hallway slipped and fell to the floor. Mrs. Reed wai in her sitting room at the time, and tho door being open sjw the performance. It struok her as very ludicrous and sho laughed heirtily.

Thomas was angry and shot at her twice with a wheezy old revolver but didn't hit her. Ho was arrested and committed in default of bail. The way of the seller of obseene literature is hard, eounsel for E. M. Grandon, lately doing bueinesB in Liberty street New York, yesterday appealed to V.

S. Commissioner Osborn, for a reduction of his client's bail to $2,000. Grandon 1b charged with Bonding vulgar and obsoene pub'ioations through the mail. Counsel olaimod that was more bail evon thai had hitherto been demanded in similar cases. His client was confined In Lud'ow Street Jail, because his bail was so high.

Grandon said on his own behalf that he had been warned by a friend that the warrant was out for his arrest, but he told that friend thai he was doing a legitimate business, and lie had no dread ol tho oonsequences. He sold all kinds of ivory goods and sporting literature. He had a family to support, and his business needed his personal attention. His word was good and he was an innocent man. The Commissioner asked him why some of the friends he hadalladed.to as endorsing did not come forward, Grandon supposed it was on account of the disgraceful nature of the charge against him.

The Commissioner told Mm that ha had had opportunity to vindicate himself and to tell his legitimate buu'ness, bat had rejected it. The oase was now closed. Grandon was held to await the action of tho Grand Jury, and his bail was not leduced. Conviction on this offense will lead to a fine of $500. The latest and most profound depth of sin been discovered by James Deoonrcey, If the allegations are true.

Ho was baggage master in Castle Garden, and was yesterday charged with stealing the clothing of emigrants. Judge Hogan held him in default of bail of The new license law in Connecticut, to go into operation September 15th, is of a stringent character. These are its distinguishing features: Upon the recommendation of the seleot men of any town, the County Commissioners may give annual licenses to sell liquor, tha fee being from $100 to $500. Ample sureties are required. A town may forbid its select men from recommending any percon for a license) and thus prevent the sale of liquor in the town.

Persons selling without license are snbjeot to fine and imprisonment. The sale of intoxicating drinks to minors is prohibited undor penalties. If any ono knowingly Bells liquor to any drunkard, or to a husband or wife, after receiving notice from either husband or wife not to sell to the other, or to any poroon already intoxioa ted, he may be punished by fine or imprisonment, if.