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NEW YORK CITY NEWS. PLYMOUTH CHURCH AND THE SLAVERY QUESTION. The Gas Monopoly. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Having some feeling in common with those who complain through your columns of the increased charge for light since the prlco was reduced, and to strengthen your hands 1n the position you have taken, I will add my own testimony in tho ease, which is in accordance with all others who have spoken except the last individual, who, from feelings of modesty, 110 doubt, withheld his name, while he became tho apologist for tho company. My bill for December was increased fifty per centover that of November, and was larger than any that I had before paid.

When 1 inquired the cause, I was told that the pressure on the mains was bo much increased that it blew through the pipes, and must be regulated by turning off the supply at the meter. My neighbor inquired tho reasons fur Ills charge, and was told that they had got some coal which wus not no good as usual, and that the gas was consequently lighter, and went through the pipes more rapidly, and with loss illuminating power. Now, whether I havo paid for extra blowing, which seems probable, or for poorer gas, which required greater consumption, or whether I havo been more extravaut than when it cost more nominally to use it, I cannot say Imt that the company are preparing themselves for a threatened competition Is certain and the fact of their large surplus is easily accounted for when the increase of charge on tho whole public for tho last month alone, would of itself make a largo amount and if there is any protlt at alt in the nianulacture, which from their report made to the Council appeared doubtful, their surplus must have increased very rapldlv, and except for coming events, would develop itself in another extra dividend of 25 per cent. When the New Company are started, perhaps the Old Company will find that one half of tho present price will pay them, as the defieiencv can at any timo he made up by extra blowing and the old bills filed by consumers will hereafter be referred to assliowiii" how capitalists may, in spite of remonstrance, speculate for years on apublic necessity, when they have neither legal restraint nor competition, and aro not obliged to mako uuy public statement of their transactions. g.

County Court. BEFOKEJUnOB GARRISON. The following notice is posted on the door of the County Judge's Chamber, being a polite hint to applicants for the diBCbargeof prisoners Every (application to tho County Court to remit a fine and discharge tho prisoner confined in jail for the non payment thereof, can only be made upon good cause shown, as required by statute upon affidavit, and will not otherwise be heard." City Court. THURSDAY EVENING, JAW. 20.

The Pro llata Question. The most important question before the Legislature at the present time is the demand tor a pro Tata freight bill to compel the railroads to carry freight within the State at the same rate per mile that it is carried for when coming from beyond the limits. Each side of the question has its advocates. The railroads say this policy would ruin their interests, and the newspapers of New York allege that it would ruiu the trade of that city, as it is necessary that freight should bo carried from Chicago to New York as cheap or cheaper than it can be carried from Chicago to Philadelphia or Baltimore, otherwise New York city cannot command the trade it does and maintain its commercial supremacy. Where the freight goes there will the Western and Southern merchants go, and to induce them to go to New York to purchase goods, they must be enabled to send their produce to that city as cheap as elsewhere, and have their merchandise taken back on similar terms.

They iheu travel to New York, and the railroads make on ttie merchant's fare for passage what they lose by transporting his produce and merchandise. The merchants of New York own the lines of railroad through the State, and it is argued that if the merchant of Buffalo has his rum, sugar and molasses delivered at a reasonable rate, it is none of his business if the roads of the Slate agree to carry the same articles gratis for their friends at Chicago. Tho merchants of the interior towns, on the other hand, argue that if the railroad is carrying freight at less than cost to the merchants of Chicago, it is done at the expense of the merchants of Buffalo, Rochester, and their business is destroyed by such an unfair competition that if goods were carried west of the State at paying prices, the merchants and producers in the interior of the State would pay so much les9 for transportation, and be benefitted as well as the New York city merchant. Neither would the A voice Is it loaded. (Laughter.) Mr.

T. It is not aud has done good work in Kansas, having been threejmonths in possession of John Brown. (Loud applause.) Now he did not ask Mr. Beecher or that Church to send out rifles to the Cherokees, but he did ask them to send out a strong word of testimony against the siu of Slavery, that men there might uot have any reproach to cast upon the Church. In the course of his remarks the speaker enda rored to show that Mr.

Beecher had changed his opinionou theslavery question. He quotedfrom Mr. Beecher writings iu 185G to show that he did notstand now where he did then. lie bad heard it asked in the ferry boats, in the cars, and iu the streets, "lias Mr. Beecher changed his opinions?" "Is he coming round?" He had always denied it, and believed that he had not changed until he heard Mr.

Beocher's remarks on Mouthy night. Mr. Beechcr took the floor to reply, and before doing so complimented Mr. Tilton ou tho ability which he displayed. He was glad to see tho young men of his church with courage and manliness enough to argue against even him when they believed him to be iii error.

It had always been his desire to form the character of his congregation so, and it pleased him to sco that he had been successful. He said he liked Mr. speech. The only fault he found was that it had nothing to do with the subject under discussion. But he liked it in the abstract for all that.

It reminded him of the man who on being elected captain of a militia company made a speech. On going home he consulted ttie partner by his side as to the effect of his oration. "Well," says she, with more fidelity than discretion, "I did not see that it had anything to do with the matter; it wasn't to the But," he asked again, "suppose it had been, to the point, what would you think of it?" Mr. Beecher assured the congregation that he had never changed his views upon Slavery, and did not suppose that he ever should change his grouud. He held that the fact of a mail's holdintr slaves was a prima J'aeUt evidence of his being a bad man but if a slaveholder will purse himself by a powerful desire to be free from his responsibility as a slave owner, he believed that it was his dutyto communicate with him.

He maintained that the American Board had kept pace with the times, and that it now stands upon such a Christian basis as ho was willing to stand bv. When the Choctaw Missionaries refused to teach an Ami Slavery Gospel, the Board cut them off; aud now the Cherokee Missionaries had promised to fulfill the instructions of the Board. For the last fifteen years, the American Board had been progressing had been drawing its bands tighter and tighter against the expediences of slavehold ing. He said that Mr. Tilton had not said one word of charity for the Board.

The Anti Slavery work of the North had lost by its intestine revolutions. The time had come when Anti Slavery people must prepare to be generous as a majority should be. What was the "doctrine in reference to the Union? The Garrisonians held that to testify against Slavery it was necessary to cut oil" connection with the Union and tho doctrine of his young friend was, that if that church would testily against Slavery, it could only do it by cutting off the American Board. He would not go out 01 the Church or out of the Union. He would remain in both that was the way to leaven the whole.

His aim had been to shape his doctrines not to satisfy a little party, but to take in the whole country. North, South, East and West. They might go in the new way for the purpose of gratifying a party; as for him, he would remain in the old war path, and be ready to hold communion with all good men whose faces were turned toward Jerusalem. While the Anti Slavery parties North were right in their principles and doctrines, yet outside there were great political parties who were more correct in their doctrines of Union. Mr.

Beecher said in conclusion that as it had been understood on the previous occasion that he said that a vbteafrainjt the American Board would List ov Patents. The following is a list of patents issued to citizens of this State from the United States Patent Office, for the week ending January 17, 1860 each bearing that date Jesse Battey, of noneoyo Falls, for machine for directing newspapers, Ac. Aute dated July 17, 1659. Geo. A.

Cox. of Brooklyn, for improvement in formers for bound fronts. Pearson Crosby, of Now York, for improvement hi filing saws. Valorus Drew, of New York, for improved shade fixture. JosSah P.

Fitch, of New York, for improved churn. Austin S. Hart, of Buffalo, for improvement in faucets. James Buchanan Henry, of New York, for improved method of riveting boiler plates. Jacob Hibbard, of Hermitage, for improved food water apparatus for steam boilers.

Adam Odell, of New York, for improvement in attaching thills to vehicles. Samuel J. Olmstead, of Bingbamton, for improved machine for manufacture of tin ware, Albert M. Smith, of Now York, for improvement in pocket match C. K.

Bellow of Senaca Falls, assigner to himself and Abraham Orvis, of Niagara City, for improvement in rope making machines. S. G. Crane, of Bochester, assignor to himself and Conrad B. Denny, of eamo place, for improvement iu friction sash supporters.

Frederick S. Otis, of Brooklyn, assignor to A. B. Chapman, of New York, for improved claBp for the ends of bustle hoops. Heibsues Thomas Mitchell, of Lansingburg, for Improved machine for finishing hnir brush handles.

Patented June 26, 1S59. Reissued January 17, 1860. The following is the list of patents issued to residents of this State for the week ending January 24 Jamc W. Peck, of Brooklyn, assignor to himself and Lemuel B. Uawxhurst of same place, for improved helical Bpring.

J. T. Allen of New York, for improved bed bottom. J). O.

Brown of New York, for improved churn. John II. Belter of New York, for improved bureau. E. J.

Cridgo of Troy, for improvement in cooking Btoves. George W. PIttmnn of Bushwick, assignor to himself and W'm C. Boone of same place, for improved machinery for laying rope. Joel B.

Haydcn of Easton, for improved boot and shoo sole. Joseph Kohnlo of New York, for improvement in piano action. W'mLoydof New York, for improvement in stereoscopic instruments. Hubert O. Mcldrum of Griffin Mills, and Amos B.

Pax Eon of East Hamburgh, for improved clothes wringer. William McCord of Sing Sing, for improvement in hay presses. William Hopkins Morris and Charles Liston Brown of New York, for improvement in repeating firearms. E. G.

Pomeroy of New York, assignor to J. B. and W. W. Cornell Co.

of New York, for improvement in refln ng and smelting iron. Adolph Eoda of Bochester, for improved bedstead fastening. John Eotix of New York, for improvement in manufacture of siccative oils. Francis Scott of Buffalo, for improvement in ditching machines. Jasper Van Wormer of Albany, for improvement in BtOVt 8.

L. J. Worden of Utica, for improved fastening for shoelaces. Calvin D. Wheeler of New York, for improved bolt punch.

Henry W. Henley of New York, assignor to Albert Palmer of Jersey City, for improved ventilating bedsteads. Wm Lewis of Brooklyn, assignor to M. J. Drummond of New improved method of attaching scabbards to belts.

Allen Lapham of Brooklyn, assignor to himself and C. A. Durgin of New York, for an improved stoam trap. JuhnE. Neill of the United States Navy, assignor to Charlei S.

Pomeroy of New York, for an Improved wrench. Joseph Steger of Matteawan, assignor to Jas. M. Frear of Peckskill, for improved device for attaching spirit levels to a square. Appointments by the Governor.

In the executivesession yesterday the following appointments were sent in to the Senate by the Governor Harbor Misters. Franklin Whiting and Hart L. Murray, of Brooklyn John S. Anable, of Hudson Kohert Murray, S. Benedict, A D.

Barber, Joseph Tinkham, Jas. E. Coulter, and R. Van "Valkenburg, of New York; Wm. Marsbell, of Kingston Alexander Schuitz, of Fishkill.

JFbrf Wardens. Martin Thatcher and Edmund B. Seaman, of New York Samuel P. Russell, of Hamilton, and Louis LounBbury, of Amsterdam Old Fallacies Broken Down The Resistless Progress of Truth. "Popvlw vult "The people love to be deceived," might havo been a true saying in tho days of Horace, but It is not so in this enlightened age.

Tho promptitude with which the sick, iu all parts of tho world have abandoned the old paliative mode of medical treatment, lor the expulsory system of Professor Holloway proves that the people can distinguish between mere suppression and radical cure, and that neither the prestige of professional position, nor the sententious dogmatism of the ritualists of the schools, can blind them to tho wonderful results of a new practice, which never makes tho mistake of killing the patient instead of the disease. In the United States, as in all other regions of tho earth, Holloway's remedies have popularized themselves. It is true that the victims or disease have been invited through the press to give them a trial; but is equally traotliat every trial has made new proselytes, and that every proselyte thus obtained has made a hundred more. Thoy have become the household medicines of nearly every family. Incredible aB such a statement mav seem, and unparalleled as Buch a result undoubtedly" is, they are verified, we understand, by the books of Professor Hollo way's establishment in New York.

In our crowded cities, where, at certain seasons, tho malaria exhaled by an almost vertical sun, is the prolific source of deadly epidemics; in the new settlements of tho West, where fever and ague, dysentery, and other diseases common to that region, prostrate the population of tho whole districts at once; and in tho swamps and bayous of the South, the Pills have saved the lives of thousands, while in cases of scrofula and cutaneous dl ooso, the Ointment is considered by all classes, and in all sections, indispensable to a thorough cure. These are facts, undenicd and unchallenged, and who will be hardy enough to question the vuluo of remedies fortified by such credentials? Boston Traveller. Destructive Incendiary Fire Several l'oor Families Homeless. About half past two o'clock this morning a fire broke out iu the stable, 205 West S4th street, occupied by Richard Farrell, M. W.

Patermoro, Wm. Farmer andW. C. Seaman, milkmen, all of whom had their horses, Bleighs, harness, burned up. Farrell's loss is $500, insured for $200; Paller moro's loss, $450, insured for $800; Farmer's loss $500, no insurance; Seaman's $500, insured for 125.

The lire extended to the brown stone house, No. 261 owned and occupied by James Savage damage to building $2,000, insured for 813,000 in Greenwich Insurance damage to furniture $3,000, insured in North River Insurance Co. The fire extended to a rear building also owned by Savage. It was entirely consumed it was worth about $700 and is insured in Greenwich Insurance Co. The building was occupied by a number of poor families who barely escaped with their lives without their clothes or anything else.

The building 204 West 35th street, a three story brick house owned and occupied by Mrs. Whiteside, was also considerably damaged insured in Knickerbocker Insurance Co. for $14,000 thence the flames connected to 265 West 34th street, U6cd as a plaining and moulding mill by F. Ellow loss $2,500 no insurance 207 was occupied also by Mr. Ellow as a dwelling was damaged to the extent of $500 uninsured 267 occupied by poor families and owned by Thomas McSorley was also considerably damaged by llre and water.

By the falling of a wall Sergeant Woolley, ot the 26th precinct, sustained severe injuries. The fire is supposed.to be the work of an incendiary. An Old Man Nearly Burked to Death. About six o'clock this morning officer Maher heard screams issuing from the house on the corner of 49th street and 11th avenue. On entering he found aged man lying on a bed to which fire had been communicated, and unable to help himself.

The old gentleman, it appears, was intoxicated, and on going to bed set fire to the clothing himself. Fire. About 4 o'clock this morning a fire broke out on the corner of 47th street and 11th avenue. Damage inconsiderable. Supposed to be purposely set on lire.

Another Dishosest Domestic Alice Mtley a domestic servant was arrested last night on complaint of her employer Mr. Cull, 15 Laurens st She had stolen several articles from the house some of which were found in her possession. Arson. Tcrrence Kavey is accused of setting fjro to his house in Southfleld, Richmond County. He was arretted on a bench warrant issued by Justice Roth, last night.

A New Dodge. Some of the pawnbrokers have recently started a new game by which to victimize speculators in tickets for articles pledged. It appears they get an accomplice to pledge iral vanized watches worth about $5 the kind sold by "Peter Funk" auctioneers for 835 or $40, as would appear on the ticket, but actually giving on them but the trifling amount of So or $6. The ticket holders thus acting in concert with the pawnbroker, start off in search of some one who will purchase the ticket by giving them a trifle more than the sum mentioned on the card. Purchasers of such tickets, knowiug that pawnbrokers seldom advance more than one fourth of whattbe article pledged is worth, think they have made a good speculation, but, after getting possession of the article, find themselves victimized.

The proceeds arc supposed to be divided between the pawnbroker and his accomplice. Several victims of this new game called at the Mayor's office yesterday, and made complaint against ono P. Fridenburg, a pawnbroker in Hudson street. A policeman was sent in search of the accused. The Cur Parks.

The expenss of keeping and improving the public Parks in this city, for the year past, as rep'orted to the Street Commissioner by Mr. Tom Byrnes, the Superintendent, was $27,389, of which amount a little more than half was devoted to Tompkins Square, though the improvements in that Park arc not yet quite completed. The Homicide tue Steamer Brooklyn. Coroner Hnzlewood of Staten Island has committed Charles C. Cooper, the Corporal of Marines of the United States steamer Brooklyn.

who stands charged with having caused the death of ueorge miter, a sailor, on board the ship, by cruel treatment, to await the action of the Grand Jury of Richmond county. Another Victim. Mrs. Tilley, one of the la dieB who was injured by the late accident on the Hudson River Railroad, died on Wednesday evening from the effects of the injuries received on that occasion. The Coroner was notified by the Railroad Company, and an inquest will be held by Coroner Gamble this morning.

Mrs. Tilley, since the accident, has been residing in the upper part of the city, but the exact location is not known. The inquest on the body of Mrs. Thomas W. Field will be continued to day at Tonkers by Coroner W.

H. Lawrence. 1 Important Arrest A Notorious Forger Captured His Mistress akd Slave in the Hands of the Police. One of the most important arrests lhat has been effected here for years was accomplished in the city Itat night by Detectives Wood and Schlem of the Philadelphia, and Officer Riddle of the Mayor's police. It appears that some three or four weeks siace a number of heavy forgeries were perpetrated on certain banks in Philadelphia and elsewhere, the aggregate amount of which, we are credibly assured, falls but little short of $100,000.

The authorities were promptly made aware of the fact, and after a good deal of trouble succeeded in ascertaining that an individual named James Buchanan, alias J. B. Ross, alias J. Scretched, was the principal in a majority of the forgeries reported. He left Philadelphia some time ago, and learuing on Saturday that he was stopping in this city, Officers Wood and Schlem were ordered hither with a warrant for his arrest.

Officer Riddle of Pittsburgh was instructed to find out where the fugitive stopped, and was not long in tracing him to one of our principal hotels, where, with bin mistress, and a nigger purchased some time ago at an expeuse of $2,000, ho was leading a life of ease aud luxury. "Kiddle, after learning all he cared to know, hurried back to the office, and, informing the detectives that he had discovered the whereabouts of tueir it was at once resolved to make the arrest. Visiting the hotel, they found the negro aud the lady in their room, apparently the happiest couple in the world. Both were placed under arrest, and the gentleman himself, making his appcaratice some time after, he, too, was taken into custody. The whole were then, with as little delay as possible, prepared for a journey east, and at a o'clock this morning were taken to the cars and hurried east as fast as i team could carry them.

The parties, it would appear, came to the city on ihe 2d of the present month, and have been stopping here since. Ross, tho principal, is a heavy built man, with huge black whiskers, and an appearance of undoubted respectability. Ho dressed elegantly, and was altogether as fine a specimen ofa solid, well to do gentleman as you could pick up anywhere. The negro, whose name is Robert Burnell alias Smith, was nearly white, and, like his master, dressed in the very pink of fashion. So littie African blood has he in his vein be was regarded as a white man at the hotel, and it was only after his arrest that the proprietor discovered that the individual on whom he had been lavishing such attentions for tho last two weeks was neither more or less than a slave.

His treated him at all times as his equal. They vUited the restaurants in company, played billiards together, and associated at all times on terms of perfect equality. The lady was, by all odds, the most Interesting of the three. Young and beautiful, she dressed in a stylo of magnificence that rendered her an object of general attention on tho streets, and made her the cynosure of every eye. Her crinoline was more expansive, her cloak of a newer cut, and her dress of richer material thau the most fabliionable of our city belles, and wherever she appeared she became the subject of the most unqualified admiration.

She. took her arrest very coolly, declaring, with a woman's devotion, that lie wired not for herself in the matter, but for liiBi whose. happiness was the nearest and dearest wish of her heart. Her name is given as Catha rine Ross, and it is believed she hails from the South. Notwithstanding tho number of forgeries attributed to P.oss, but very little money" was found with him when arrested, and nothing that would tend to implicate him in the offenses laid to his charge.

lie had hut $50 altogether, and part of that went to pay his bill at the hotel. Ho said that one. of his accomplices "peached" on him, and that it was through this that his connection with the matter was "discovered. At all events the officers state that they have a sure thing on hlni, and that his conviction on throe charges of forgery, at least, is certain. nttsburgh EwMng Chronicle, Jan.

23. Mr. Tilton make a cverc Speech ngaiust the Pastor and Injudiciously refers to Mr. Outside Engagements A Kansas Itifle on the Stand Mr. Beecher Carries the Vote, but Nothiug else Apparently.

Last evening the adjourned meoting of tho members of the Rev. Ileury Ward Beectier's con. gn gntiim was held in Plymouth Church. The object of the meeting, as our readers know, was to scale the question as to the disposition of the money collected annually for foreign missions. At the last meeting Mr.

Beechcr argued in favor of continuing the previous action of the church and dividing the annual collection between the American Board of Foreign Missions and the Home Missionary Society. The more zealous Anti Slavery members of the church are in favor of g'tviug the whole amount to the latter Association ou tho ground of its being thoroughly auti slavcry while the former is in complicity with slave" holders. Mr. Tiltou who favors this action had the floor to reply to Mr. Bcecher's argument on Monday night.

At half past seven o'clock over one thousand persons were present. The Moder. ator, Ilenry C. Bowen, occupied the chair, and called the meeting to order, awarding the l'oor, as previously agreed ou, to Mr. Tilton, who 011 a 'conding the platform was greeted with applause from his friends in the congregation.

Mr. Butcher asked leave to speak a word. He noticed ou last evening expressions of applause and disfavor. It seemed to him that a Church of Cl.ritt, gathered for the purpose of mutual con erence, ought not to couuteuaueo such expressions, which were barely tolerable in secular assemblies. Mr.

Tilton, as his wont when opportunity offers, pokc of Mr. Beecher iu extravagant terms of praise, and accounted it his greatest distinction to be known as the friend of such a m.tu. He remembered reading of a who proudly boasted that he had been the frieud of Sir Philip S3 dixy; and when Louis Kossuth referred to Charier Lamb us his friend, the old man stood rp and raised his hand saying that henceforth 110 man could honor him. He loved the pastor of 1 his church, and if be was here to night to speak opposition to him it was owing to the teachings lie had received while a member of this Church, now well uigh seven years. He was not one of ihofe who believed the King could do no wrong, nor did he believe in what seemed to be be ginning to be acquiesed in, that a pastor could do no wrung.

The question is not as to how the i ne hundred and fifty dollars here collected was to be disposed of. Cndetlieing this question was the complicity of the American Churche3 with slavery. To show how much the churches were responsible for it, he called their attention tg the following facts; There were 213,000 slaves owned by ministers aud members of the Methodist Church in the Presbyterian, Old and New, in the Baptist, in the Reformed Baptist, 100,000 (he did not think they ere much reformed;) Episcopalians, 88,000 and all other denominations, 50,000. He was glad that their church could not oe mentioned by name. Think of it, sir 000,000 human beings held in bondage by ministers and church members 000, CtO human beings for whom tho walls of the Chrhtiuu Church were only a prison.

He did not wondt that Albert Barnes said that slavery could not exist were it not for the American Church's toleration of it. And it must be.borne in mind that these slaveholders held these slaves on the plea that it was for the benefit of the slave. Mr. Beecher used an argument on Monday evening, something he was Etirpiu to hear. He supported the American Board because it was a venerable institutiou.

Why, sir, we have heard Mr. Beecher sayfroui this puipit that he would bow the knee to no institution because it wss venerable. The pastor has tolu us that in tne providence of Goo lie w.ts absent liom our auuual church nieetiujrs. He supposed that he (Mr. absent under the extraordinary dispensation of $100 per night.

The ways ol Providence are iudeed mysterious A gentleman (understood to be Air. Corning) callcu the gentleman to order. He could not sit quietly by aud hear the pastor spoken of iu this manner. A scene of great confusion followed this palp.t tile hit ol" Mr. Tiltou's.

The applause was loud and long continued, and was followed by which in turn was drowned by applause. There seemed a disposition among some of the audience to prevent Mr. T. from proceeding. He dropped this pan ol the subject, however, and continued: He thought that the most extraordinary part of Mr.

Bcecher's address was his advocacy of tue admission of slave holders into church communion. It could not be done until the church became broad enough to admit hetrodos denominations within it. A slave holder was a man and something more he had a slave attached to him. He would make the door to church fellowship so n.ir row that in entering, the slave should be rubbed off. He dealt very severely with Mr.

Bcecher's metaphysical distinction about the rinht or wrong of slavery cr se. It was a broad aud practical quo iiou. Before he would admit a slave owner on the terms proposed by Mr. Beecher, he a the bondsman himself if he was willingly in bonds. A man, he argued, could not be uuwil lingly a slave holder.

It be held negroes against his will he was man holder and not a slave holder. The missionaries dt lendeu the reception of Blave hoiders into the Church, and even wheu they did not express their intention not to live and die slaveholders. The tame, arguments that were used for the revival of the Slave trade, were used by the missionaries in relur iug to exercise discipline in the ouying and selling of slaves. The missionaries further, in bis report of '48, 6aid that "it was impossible to say that the buying and selliug of slaves should be unusually considered a disciplinary offence." The man who wrote that sentence was coinpli memcd by Mr. Beecher, who, the speaker be lievi rl, could not have been cognizant of the fier.s when he indorsed him.

But, what did the ird do at ibis meeting of 1848? They had procured the withdrawal of Dr. Blanchard's resolution con denmiug the institution ot SI iverv. Mr. Buceh er's brother and father had opposed that action, would Mr. Beecher now sustain it? Ia 1855 the Board lood on the Goodtvaler platform which Beecher indorsed, and yet hat favored colonization hich Mr.

Beecher did not favor. VVu.it kind ol a testimony was that against Slavery which only reiterated the General Assembly's act of ISIS. loutr since obsolete, and by no means sufficiently denouncing Slavery He would ask, what did the clause in the Go.vl water Platform mean when it forbid this political interference of the missionaries? Hid not Mr. Beecher repeatedly advocated the judicious influence of religion in politics? On Monday nb'iit Mr. Beecher had favored the Goodwater Platform forbidding politics in the pulpit, and on Tuesday night he said, "where you find a man who keeps ins religion and politics separate, his politics are the cream and his religion skim milk." (Great ai plaucT.) Mr.

Beecher might call thistheGood watei laiform: but the speaker would call it the milk and water platform. (Laughter.) Did Mr Bei bi know that the author of The South Hide 0 biavery was elected every year a member of the Prendential Committee? It was true tho American Board spread the gospel; but what kid of a gofpel was it? The American Board, Mr. Beecher kiys, is improving little bv little. Tuis reminded him of a story told by Mr. Little, tne publisher 01 the Living Atjt.

He had a bad le" Mid the doctor who was treating him for it, told him to use certain applications, and write to liiru as to the progress of his recovery Mr. Little wrote that if ho looked at it day by day he could he thought ni.lh a fliuht change forthe better; if he did not look at it lor a month he thought it was getting better, if fortlircc months he noticed improvement ho was sure. It is getting better he added, but will never be well in my day Aud this was the case wilb the American Board. It was improving but it will never be well in our day. It was said that the American Board bad no coiitrol over the Missionaries.

Could they not cut off their supplies end their connection with them Mr. Tilton referred to a map to show the position of the Indian Territory. Hn sal, I th it it contemplated by the slave power to admit this as Mavi territory. And should they nut remonstrate? bhoulil they not send a manly protest this Church against it? They remonstrated in H5'i when Knntai was in danger of being lost to freedom, the paste ir making every effort, to save it. He went around among bis routrrcatiou savin" "Give me 25.

Subscribe $25 to send twenty live rifles to Kansas." Ho hail a green b.v here the contents of which he would li'ko to exhibit to the audience. The bag in question was bunded up, and from it Mr. took one of the identical rifles which Plymouth church subscribed for. This was a signal for renewed manifestations of favor which the pastor and some members of the congregation vainly endeavored to still. This, Mr.

T. continued, is one of the rifles then subscribed, for BXFORZ JUDUK CULVHU. Clans Von Glahn agst. Arsamna II. faff.

Action for assault and battery. The Jury brought in a verdict of $90 in favor of plaintiff. John Johnsonagnt. IJenry y.Crmklin, Alram Inslee Stephen Conklin and John Juckmn. Action on a promissory note.

Defense usury. The complaint shows that on the 19th of August, 1S5T, Henry N. Coukiin, Abram Inslee and Stephen B. Conklin were partners in business by the Arm of Conklin, Inslee and mado a note for $605 02, payable to the order of John Jackson. That before the note became duo Jackson endorsed the note and transferred tho same to John S.

Brown, and tha said Brown, after the noto becamo due, transferred it to plaintiff. The note was duly presented for payment to defendants at the Brooklyn Bank, but as it was not paid, it was protested; Plaintiff therefore demands Judgment for the full amount of the note. The defense set up is that it waB an accommodation noto for which no consideration was given and defendants also allege that Brown negotiated the note, and that the same was cashed by plaintiff at a rate ofinterest amounting to one and a half per cent ptr month, or 18 per cent, per annum, which is usurious and contrary to law. Defendants thoreforo claim that the note should be declared void. Considerable evidence was taken, and tho case was submitted to the jury this morning, plaintiff's counsel contending in his argument that the note was an exchange noto and not an accommodation and even if an accommodation note, that the defendants were required by law to give notice that it was such.

THE COCRT KOOMS. The County Court chamber has been providod with new cocoa matting instead of the carpet formerly in use. The Court of Sessions room is undergoing in a similar pro CCSB. Police. Thbkw Stokes.

George Lockhnrt, a boy who would Are stones in Columbia streot, was sent to jail for 10 days. Another of the Gang. Edward Cassidy, aged 17, another of ihe Johnson gang of young burglars, was arrested last night by officer Foran, of the 8d, on a charge of breaking into the premises of Jerome Phillips, 62 Hoyt st. and stealing a buffalo robo uud blankets. The prisoner was remanded by usdee Com well for examination.

OrsKim) a Letter Mrs Iiamian, who resides at 27 Carroll was brought up this morning to answer a charge of opening and reading a letter directed to Mrs. Caroline Keel, who lives in tho same house. The letter was from Mrs. Reel's husband, who iB at aea, and was brought by the letter carrier on the 81 st or December. Mrs.

Hurman took so deep an interest in tho affairs of her neighbor that Bhe broke the seal and investigated the contents before handing it to Mrs. R. The examination was postponed until Monday. At it Aoain. George Bradshaw, an abreviatod speei men of humanity, who lives at 2 3 Front, waB brought this morning for the third lime on a charge of assault on Mrs.

Guerin, who lives in tho same house, and with whose family littlo George is eternally quarrelling. As they are an women, he thinks it is a safe proceeding; but sometimes when they are more than a match for him, he calls his big sister to help him, and Bhe too is now under bail to answer a charge of assault. There are two char es against George, To day ho was brought by constate blattcry before Justice Comwell for beating Mrs. Guerin, an elderly lady, with a broomstick. He was held to bail for examination.

Plaoairism. B. L. Morrison was brought before Justice Fox this morning, charged by Mr. Fitzpatrick with stealing a copy of the poetical works of Lord Byron.

Fitzpatrick keeps an auction store at No. 143 Grand st. E. 1. Mr.

Morrison being pleased with the volume in question, and being of a studious turn of mind, concluded that a perusal of it would bo both pleasant and profitable. Bo uot having the money to purchase he simply "borrowed" it, but unfortunately without first obtaining the owner's consent, who ignorantly construed the taking of it to a petty larceny, and had Morrison arrested. Justice Fox entertaining tho fallacious opinion that hooks were property, sent the would bo student to prison for rliteen days. Disokdeelt IIo csns. Angelina Both docs keep a disorderly house at No.

257 Grand street E. at least such ia the opinion of John Dougherty, who yesterday entered a complaint before Justice Fox to that effect, and this morning Mrs. Eoth was required to appear and answer the charge, whih she did asking till Thursday next to prepare herdefenco which was accordingly granted. Patrick Sharky, of No. 205 Giand street is no better than Angelina, in the opinion of Mr.

L. Brewer, who complains that Patrick's place is not just right, being as he alleges the resort of the Idle and vicious who disturb the serenity of that peaceful neighborhood. Justice Fz concluded that Pat's case might as well layovcrtlllThurs day and so ordered, first requiring both parties to give bonds for their appearance on that day. Assaults. Thomas Monaghan was sent to jail for 5 days for applying his knuckles and boots to the person of John Kelly.

Henry Clark and Augustus Donnelly, a couple of turbulent newsboys were brought before Justice Voorhios on a charge of assaulting Lester Berkelew another newsboy, more peaceably disposed, at the L. 1. K. It. dupot foot of Atlantic, street.

Donnelly gave oim a black eye, and Clark fired things at him. Donnelly was fined $5 or ten days in jail, Clark was bound over to'koep the peace. Thomas Fitzgerald was brought before Justice Voor hies on a charge of knocking Bernard Dolau down. It appeared that Dolan went into Fitzgerald's stable iu Dean aud using insulting and abusive language, which provoked the assault. In consideration thereof the Justice suspended sentence.

Jas. Mulone was held to explain why ho assaulted and ballered r. Patrick Peterson of 200 Columbia street with his list the other diy. Bow at A Baffle. The Widow Tierney keeps a crib in Hamiltun avenue, near Court street, and on Saturday night she had a raffle for a pair of sugar tongs and a coal fcuttle.

The fun was kept up till morning, when tho whiakey and other means of entertainment being exhausted, the company got up a nice little fight. Among Iheio were some orMrs. Tierny's friends from Now York, and the Brooklyn boys thought it would serve thom right to thrash them for riot staying in their own country. Nlra. T.

Interposed to suve her friends, when Borne of the company, ho thought it didn't matter who It was, so long as they licked somebody, pitched into her. and the venerable lady was seriously damaged, tihe mado a complaint against four of them, three of whom were arrested by officer O'Kourke and were brought up yesterday before Justice Comwell. Their names are John Gahau, James Martin, and Patrick Mahon, who were hold to ball for examination to day. Conclcdm) at Last. The examination of George W.

Lanibcrtson before Justice Cornwell on the charge of committing an unmentionable crime, with the particulars of which we did not Bee fit to disgust our readers, was Anally concluded yesterday, and tho accused was fully committed to await the action of tho Grand Jury. The case was to have been presented to that body to day, and bill will doubtless be found before they bring in their presentments to morrow. Whether the punishment provided by statute in this case will bo meted out as in another, and a similar case, In which the principal was a Coptaln Dean, remains to be acen. This Dean was son fenced to five years confinement in State Prison, and unsophisticated persons who might have taken any Interest in the matter, may suppose that lie is now serving out his sentence. The contrary is thu fact.

He ia free from nil restraint, and the matter is nearly forgotten, although it Is but a year since the nasty details of his crime were ventilated before the Court of Sessions. A Novel Cash. Some time ago Mr. GeorgoOrmond left Brooklvn for the benefit of his health or businen prospects, and left some furniture. In charge of his sistor in law.

She used to allow brother of Mr. Ormond to stay at the house while lie was out of employment, and ha took it into Ida head to make a raise on Ins brothor's furniture, and unknown to his sister in law, sold moat of the articles to second hand dealer in Myrtle avenue, turned Tintiley, audnhortly after went off to California. Mr Ormond returned to Brooklyn recently and found hit furiiltnre gone, and instituted a search for it. Ascertaining wheroit was. he got a search warrant from Justice Comw ell, and deputy Sheriff Morehouse, took possession of it Neither purtv then seemed disposed to take further proceedings.

Ormond offered to settle with Tinsley by poying him half the money be bad advanced. Tiiwloy refused the offer, and engaged Mr. Morris as counsel to defend Ids rights. Ormond engaged Mr. Pannonter'nnd both these loam cd gentlemen submitted to the Justice to decide whether there bad been a larceny committed and by whom.

Tito Justice mid he could not decide unless there win a case before him, and lie could lake Die testimony. Ths qura lion then arose ns to which Bide should bring "case." Mr. begin." Mr. Morris you begin." Mr. Pnrmcntcr, "Wo hare got tho goods, or at least the officer has, and that is all we want.

Hiipii.wu you replevin." Mr. MorrlB, "Wo slinlldo nothing of thu kind, we liiu nd to ho defendants." Ab it Is absolutely ncccwKir', however, to suit, that there should be 00m plainant, the case remains in statu quo, tat tho waul of that legal utceaslty. New York city merchant be injured by rivalry with other cities, because the railroads running from Philadelphia and Baltimore could not afford to carry freight west of their respective States at these ruinous rates, without doing the game thing as is done in New York, putting the difference upon the citizens of their own States, and thereby injuring their local trade, which is confessedly a paying one to the railroad, and a profitable one to the commercial city. New York city would always command the trade on account of its commercial facilities, and it being the market for all the produce of the country. The merchants of the interior would necessarily go where they sell their produce to purchase their supplies.

The fight against the railroads is a quarrel with windmills. The canals can never compete with them and hut for the accident of being owned by the state wouldhaveglven up the contest lous ago. Ikying aside the special argument in favor of the present arrangements of the roads, as calculated to bring the products of the west to N. Y. city, there is no sense in the attempt to compel them to carry freight on the pro rata principle.

It requires the same engines, cars, machinery, and hands to load a train at Syracuse and run it to Albany as to load it at Chicago and send it to the same city The only difference is the additional consumption of fuel, the running expenses and the use of the capital invested in constructing the road. But as long as the canals can be made a source of plunder to contractors and political influence to politicians they will be sustained by running the State in debt and fighting the railroads. A Gekekal Eailkoad kanchjsjs. A bill is now before the Legislature of a rather extraordinary nature, to give privilege to the Broadway Kailroad Company of this city to lay rails and establish railroad routes through any streets or thoroughfares in the counties of Kings or Queens, when the assent of the property owners on such thoroughfares shall be obtained. The present laws on city railroads lave been fonud inadequaco to the required purposes.

To obtaiu a grant irom the Legislature is too tedious, expensive and uncertain process the provisions of the general law are either cot understood or are too imperfect for the Common Council to do anything with safety. But this Broadway Railroad act seems to be an extraordinary measure. It virtually gives them a carte blanche to construct railroads wherever they may see fit, and virtually excludes all opposition. The property owners may object to their building a road in a certain street, but if this company does not, no one else can. If the liw was so amended as to give the same privilege to all railroad companies, that are now in existence, or may heretofore be formed, the right to use the streets on obtaining the consent of the property owners, then such a law containing the proper restrictions as to fare and accommodation, might work advantageously.

In its present shape, as tve understand it, the law merely gives the people the choice of granting the privilege of a thoroughfare to the Broadway Railroad Company, or doiti without a railroad and must necessarily cut off all the existing companies from extending their lines through any public thoroughfares not already granted to them, and the Broadway Railroad Company would become oce of the most stupendous monopolies cvor heard of. 1 Buncombe Rampant. In the U. S. Senate yesterday, Senator Wilson distinguished himself by a heroic and valorous speech, filled with thunderous inueudoes of "bloody struggles" and "general collisions, and the "slave power" and other things both horrible and awful.

Northern Senators, he said, do not intend to be intimidated and he would give notice that should they be assaulted on that floor with deadly intent, those assaults would be repelled and retaliated, by sons who will not dishonor fathers that fought at Bunker's Bill, and conquered at Saratoga. Bravo The North may, therefore, rest satisfied and feel safe and when Southerners coins to fulfil the prophecy of Mr. Seward and convert New York and Boston into slave marts, the brave Wilson will "repel and retaliate." But bravery is not to be monopolized by Mass. achusetts. In the House yesterday Mr.

Keitt of South Carolina deekred that the South was ready to drive hack the hordes of Northern miuious who might advance against her. She would inarch on, farther and farther South, gathering around her flag a civilization brighter than the sunbeams on the mountain. Bravo again. With Wilson to guard the rights of the North and Keitt to protect the South the country may be considered safe. In the House of Representatives yesterday a motion was made to expel the reporter of the Herald because in the Congressional report of that paper interpolation, were made at the close of remark3 such "Rger E.

Prior, the filthy liar and bully, here made no remarks Roger A. Pryor, the and beast from lie bemgn Mother of Presidents, was h'Xt The motion was not pressed and fell through. The interpolations in the Herald are intended a retaliation on Pryor for his attack, which wm both "filthy and beastly," cordly and ruffianly, not on the editor of the Bit aid, but his wife and family. What the House of Representatives should do is to restrain this slanderous propen itics of its own blackguard MtmberH mid refuse to listen to langutii rthe atmosphere of the ecurralitv pruSS. tllilt suc1' iljdoee'" w7v into i ot shom Iwi'cnM.

leits ed Whichtllu creudv admiiinn nf Bulrtirw success, lends t. a tttX vlW Pn or, which appear the ie t0 tally be t0" but the man who uses his posi iL" indulge in a beastly attack on he l' women or children should not exr'ect thatconHideratiou which is due to every doe not violate the dictates of mlim who outrage the immunities of private nor might as well undertake to fight a skLk Ottw of rosea, BttuuK ffltk tne be a vote of want of confidence in him; what he meant to say was tuat it the Church did not sustain the Board it would not sustain the ground he took. And the South well wonder what kind of a congregation it was that Henry Ward Beecher was not Anti Slavery enomrh to suit. Under the pressure of the previous question by the friends of the pastor a vote was taken on the question and the views of Mr. Beecher sustained.

Thi6 leaves the question where it was before the late excitement the annual collection to be divided between both Boards. The meeting then adjourned. At times during the meeting considerable excitement prevailed, and manifestations of assent and dissent Were indulged in, against the express desire of the Pastor and much to his annoyance. Though Mr. Tilton did not carry the vote, he fieemed curry everything else.

He bail the advantage over the Pastor in this, that the hitter's course was apologetic and cautious, while the former's was denunciatory and bold. The senti i roent of the Cbureh, so far as an outsider could judge, appeared to be for the most part on the extreme side, but a vote on that side would raise a question that could hardly be solved without pursuing a course which the Church cannot yet have contemplated. Singular Case or Suicide. We find iu the Boston Herald the particulars of a very remarkable case of suicide. That journal tells the story thus 4 Mr.

Wm. H. Parsons, whose mysterious disappearance from his home and friends in Lawrence has been fouud yesterday about nnonin one of the upper rooms of the Souh Boston Hotel, in Fourth street, he there hayin" committed suicide. The facts connected with melancholy event are these Ir. Parsons left his home on the 5th, and came to this city, aud made a short stop at the American House, since which his friends could obtain no clue to his whereabouts.

It seems, however, that after leaving tho hotel he proceeded to the hotel in South Boston, aud on calling for a room, was shown into room No. 10, in the upper story of the li puse. Here he remained a little while, when he left, and shortly afterwards returned, and, as was supposed, retired to rest. Next morning the chambermaid tried the door, but finding it locked, supposed it was unoccupied, and paid no attention to the circumstance. Day after day she found that lock still turned, and still continued to suppose that it had no occupant, and the clerk in the office had forgotten the circumstance of having let the apartment, also supposed it was vacant.

Yesterday noon, the clerk went to show another guest to room No. 10, and finding it si ill locked, placed the strangi in another apartment while he went to the i.fficc to get the key to No. 16. Not finding the key in the office, it flashed across his reeol lcc ioii that about a fortnight since, the room had been let to a young man whose departure he did Dot now seem to remember. The.

door was then burst ypen, and the body of young Parson 4 was found on the floor, in such a state as iu licated that life 2iad been extinct for several days. On an examination of the body il appeared that I uii ee ucep incisions nan oeen nude in the main artery of the right arm, and tic4h this, two par i tially empty bottles of laudanum were found by his Hdc. Notice of the event was given to the )ut mi. tha wo 1 11 ll UlOUlllUCS, It VKilS deemed useless to hold an inquest, n.nd body was delivered to his friends, to be taken to Lawrence to day. The deceased was a most amiable and worthy young man, formerly clerk of the Lawrence police court, and a brother of Colonel Thomas Parsons, representative from Lawrence.

He had been gloomy and depressed in spirits of late, but no cause at all adequate to the rash deed can be conjectured. He was twenty six years of age. John Mitchell, in his last letter to the New xork Irish A'cws; writing from Paris, December SO. mys: In Galignani's reading room, to which 1 frequently resort, is to be seen every day an old man of smaU stature, with a face of the keenest lmcllip'n re, a bald forehead and thin gray hair the brow is high and finely formed, nd the face, when not buried in the newspapers, rcyeals all the traits of delicate and gonial wit, which you are not astonished to recognize there when you have heard the name of the owner. It is no other than Father O'Mahouey, but by his old non de phitnc Father Prout the Paris correspondent of the London Globe; one of the most viciously anti Irish of London papers.

Indeed he Is not only correspondent, but one of the jriprictors of that paper It is singular to remark, by the way, that all the principal foreign correspondents of those London papers are Iri hnien. The solemn person who writes from Paris everyday to the TimcH is a certain Mr. O'Mcaghcr a p'erwa descended from the same Ti clan (I regret to i with the Thomas Francis' of that ilk, but having with him nothing else in nnmmon. The two predecessors of thii Mr. In the same office were also Irishmen so that the Froneh correspondence of the Timm tia hcen for many years furnished by writers of ti.

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