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Vnlftv. nnvisn. Smith. Ktaler. Riurdoii and Iuiim WILLIAM CHATFIELD BOOTH.

this epidemics, though we are too patriotio to credit tfro belief of such a course c'f condue WARD WORK. CENTENNIAL. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1878. Commencement at St. parties and one paper in Brooklyn have done gladly considerable statement and vindication.

He owes it to manliness and to his future emphasis in the reforming management' whioh must come over tho Republican party in this State, to refer in terms of suitable spirit to his own wrongs to night and not to talk away from the subject or seem to talk to it and evade doing so. Mr. Woodford has the floor. meeting of clergy in any number pf givn places for different hours in day, and candidates for matrimony could assemble in these? plaaea, and proceed ith ceremony needless delay. The crowd would be great and the company, if not a chosen one, would at least be an fctcrested one.

Ministers could reap a golden harvest by naming a reasonable fee, and could have the satisfaction as well, of knowing that they had made numberless people happy at least for. a time. Matrimonially inclined people, will seize any exouso for getting married, and no better opportunity has ever presented itself than this hundredth birthday of the nation. Thousands will take advantage of it, and thousands more might if ministers of the gospel and officials would signify their willingness to perform, their part of the work at a reasonably early hour in the day, so as to enable all who Moxn. aadltglatofl throng of parenia and friend.

iV wish a Ul 'the honsej JWhen the hour of commencement arrived the 3 folding dborS of "the mniln rnnm wertihrowS mot, when Wm Belli Keoly snd Miss Alms Btivers entered, and having first mide graceful obeisance to Bishop LoughUn, who waa seated In the foreground, took their places st the pianos and began the first number set down on tho programme, the TrnmnAt' tTkvnh a. iuo iuiim, prugrosseo, through the broad windows of tho extehsloli there en u.vw mmuB 01 oesutunl maidens, who in suo cessive couples advanced to greet their guests, pausing for a brief moment to pay reverential homage the dignified prelate who watched their oomlng with beam frig countenance and anarvitnn AA tv 1 4 young ladies of the Senior Class," foUowed by the inhlars snif t)in ml. n. i 1 u. IUU nmiJU aLio, iuu these succeeded the little darlings of the preparatory depaitments, arrayed In dainty costumes of whit and deUcate colors whioh set off their pretty faoes to a charm.

When aU were seated, the seniors around the sides of the musio room snd the juniors and Uttle ones In the adjoining apartment, the ohorus, "Crystal Cave," was sung by the Misses Minnie Garvey, Katie J. Pyburn, Emma J. Kearney, Fannie Pearoe, Mary F. Fagan, Amanda Nagel and Annie M. Dean, with piano accompaniment by Miss Lisale BUey.

Then came tho bestowal of OOLD MEDAL3 and premiums In tho first aoademla department, and ss the successful students were called up by Father O'Hare they knelt before the Bishop, who crowned them with beautiful floral wreaths, and hung about their snowy necks the prised emblem of their faithfulness and diligence. Thoso so honored were Misses Mary S. Mears, Lizzie A. BUey, Katie J. Pyburn, Emma J.

Carney and Nellie Murphy. Following this, premiums in the form of ELEGANT BOOKS were awarded to Josle Stouffer, Cecelia Orr, Anna McNulty, Mary Ryan, Ella Llnssen, AUco Quinn, BeUa Kloly Annio Nolan, Bebeoca Callahan, Alma Stivers, Bella Rose, Katlo Fagan, Maggie Walsh, Addle Dillon, Annie Doan, Mary Berard, Carrie North, Josle E. Carroll, Theresa La marche, liiia Higginbotbam, Marls Mattingly, Sarah Mitchell, Maggie Breon, Katie Hennessy, Mary T. O'Donohue, Vlotorla Murray, Mamie T. Hsggerty, Henrietta Wyatt, Annie Bracken, Adelaide Kooly aud Angels Byrne.

To this succeeded a piano solo nlcoly played by Mlsa Katlo Pyburn, a vocal duet by Miss Faunle Pearoe and Theresa Lamarche, and a piano trio "Le Petit Tambour" by the Misses Adelaide Keely, Lamaroho and Marie Mattingly, and then tho premiums in the Second Academlo and Preparatory Departments were conferred. In the AOADEMIO DEPARTMENT to BeUa Vega, Lizzie Bhlnd, Tulle Furey, Annie McCaffrey, Mary Davis, Ella Doran, Mamie Campbell, EUe Price, Lizzie Lamb, Mary A. Smith, LUlie O'Hara, Mary Callahan, Mary Wyatt, Blanche Berard, Julia Bracken, Minnie Pearoe, Anrdo Tazan. Mamie Ogg, Josle Mitchell, Katie O'BeiUy, Teresa Callahan, Mary Lahoy, Charlotte Higrlnbotham, Bertha Ford, Mary McVoy, Belinda Flynn, Maggie FarreU, Nollle Hayes, LlUlo Gord, Mary Page, Gardiner, Flora Arthur, Cecilia Browne, Mary Murphy, Lizzie Mo Entire, Mary Curran, Josle Vega, Charlotte O'Donohue, All oo Maher, Mamie Hagerty, Mamie Hanley, Irene Flynn and Mary Welpley. Tho Uttle misses In the PBEPABATOET DEPABTMENT upon whom premiums were bestowed wore BeUa Mitchell, Nanna Munagh, Gnssle Dowd, Nollle Wilkinson, Mamie Mutqueen, Mary Agnes Kelly, Dolls Sweetser, Louisa Murtsgh, Carrie Von Qlahn, Gertrude Bose, Lizzie Barry and Mamie Atwood.

Howards were also given to those who had been detained from school by reason of sickness or other good causo, as follows To Fannie Atwood, Mamie B. Hayes, Maggie Armstrong, Minnie Kelly, Frankle Orr, Annie Bolger, Amanda Nsgel, Lizzie Armstrong, NelUe Col Uns, AgnoB McKenzio, Lizzie Kelly, Minnie Moriarty) Mary E. MoOIoakey, Grade Duff, Katie MoDlvitt, and Mamie Rogers, The names of 'the following were read aa having entered the classes too late to compete for premiums Clara Bose, Mary Kavanagh, Elolse McGoo, Annlo Mc and Agues McGralty. For proficiency IN MUSIO, FRENCH AND DBAWINO, premiums wero awarded Katie J. Pyburn, Emma J.

Kearney, Josle M. Stouffer, Katlo Walsh, Alms Stevens, Fannie Pearoe, Carrie North, Rebocca CaUahan, Addle DaUon, Maggie Walsh, Katie Hennossy, Mamie T. Hagerty, Adelaide Keely, Muiio Collins, Lizzlo A. Riloy, Kate O'Neal, Mary F. Fagan, Minnie F.

Geary, Bella Keely, Josie E. Carroll, Annie MoNulty, Annie Dean, Theresa Lamarcho, Annlo Nolan, Amanda Nagel, Marie Mattingly, Mary A. Davis, Katie MoDlvitt and Genc vlevo Gardiner. For proficiency in BTOOKIMO DABNINO rewards wore bestowed on Mamie Hayes, Marie Mattingly, Addle Dillon, Bits Hlgglnbotham, EUa LIndsor, Mary Wyatt, Sarah Mitchell, Henrietta Wyatt, Mamie T. Hagerty, EUa Doran, Mary T.

O'Donohue, Lizzie Bhlnd, Mamie Ogg, Ella Price, Mary A. Callahan, Mary MoVey, BeUa Vena, Minnie CampheU, Teresa Callahan and Charlotte Vega. To Miss Bella Vega was given a handaomoly doco rated feather duster as a reward for being a neat Uttle housekeeper. Following these Miss Lizzie BUey played tho "Maglo Bell," the trio "Beautiful Moonlight" was aung by the Misses Pyburn, Lamarche and Quinu, and the Misses Pyburn, Stivers, Biley and CarroU played the "Invitation to the Danoa," for two pianos, and then auooeeded the reward of ACADEMIC HONOBS. Crowns were awarded in the first academlo department to Mary Began, Alma Stivers, Addle Ella Llnseer, Rita Hlgglnbotham, Bella Boas, Ann la Braoken, EUa Doran, Bebeoca CaUahan, AUco Quinn, Mary Borard, Theresa Lamarche, Mamie Hayes, Katie Fagan, Josle Carroll, Mary Davis and Mary Wyatt.

In the seoond academlo department the recipients were Adelaide Keely, Lizzie Bhlnd, Minnie Campbell, EUa Fries, Blanche Berard, Lillio Good, GeolUa Browne, Maria Pago, LlUlo Burns, Angela Byrne, Mary A. CaUahan, BeUa Vega, Minnie Ogg, Teresa CaUahan, Lucy McCabe, Annie Daly, Mary Murphy, Josie MitoheU, Katie O'BeUly, Genevieve Gardiner, NeUie Hayes, Julia Bracken, Maggie FarreU, Flora Arthur, Mamie Hanley and Josie Vega. While BeUa Mitchell, Mamie Murtagh and Mary Agnes Kelly were crowned for being good children. The exercises were concluded with the trio, "Home to Our Mountains," by the MIsbss Garvey, Quinn and Dean; "The Harp that Onoe Through Tara's Hills," nice playod by Miss CarroU; tho "Star Spangled Banner," Bung by the class; and the "Turkish March," for two pianos, by the Misses Fagan, Nagel, Llnssen and Hlgglnbotham, during whioh the young ladiee mado their exit, with similar oeremonios to those attending their entrance. KURDEBUiO THE INNOCENTS.

What the Society for tbe Prevention of Cruelty to Children is Distressing soones In a Baby Farm. A baby farm at a house in the rear of 321 East Twenty fifth street, New Tork, was broken up yesterday by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, on the complaint of Mrs. Elizabeth Clifford, of 123 West Twenty third street. Three women and six ohlldren were In a small and filthy apartment occupied by a Mrs. McCloekey.

One child lay In a cradle gasping. Another lay on two chairs, his neck, face and arms covered black with flies and too weak from want of nourishment to brush them away. Another baby lay whimpering on the floor by the stove. The files were preying upon a fourth who was lying on an unclean lounge. And two of the women held the other two children in their arms.

One half emptied nursing bottle contained all the food that the mistress had left for the babes, for Mrs. McCloekey was not at home. The three women In the room were servants out of employment who were living In the room while tboy were awaiting situations elsewhere. Offioer Gerner, of the Sooloty, and Officer Goldwalte, of the Twenty seoond street Station, found one Infant so near the point of death that they felt constrained to move it, cradle and all, into the open oourt in front of the house. lit shrunken lega were hardly larger than a man's finger.

It had the piJlor of dsth ud its breathing was painfully alow. The fresh sir revived (t. Oflloef Gomer pocketed the nursing bottle to use ss evidence, and then brought wine, milk and eggts, and made the famished Uttle ones a drink that gave them new life. He appointed a neighbor to care for the children over night, and then he set himself about the arrest, of Mrs. HoOloskey, He found her, yesterday, in a Second avenue car.

Upon the offioer returning to the house In Twenty fifth street only two babes remained tbero. The others had been taken away. Mrs. MoCloskey held one in her arms at the time of her arrest It was so weak from the want of nourishment that It could neither sit or stand. A woman in Houston street, the mother of one of the children, took her babe home, and a mother from Thirty fifth street carried hers to the foundling asylum.

The woman who bad been left to take care of the babes thoughtfully took the dying infant out of doors yesterday morn ins, and kept it in its cradle until evening. The ose other child that remained was left indoors, and there it lay all day. greatly strengthened by good food, but it was little better than a skeleton. Six weeks ago, Mra. Clifford says, It was a robust, rosy babe.

Before Justice Kilbreth Mrs. McCloekey said that she was uniformly kind to the babes, but that many that she received were very young, and "oould not be kept from falling." Jane Wluon, boarder with Mrs, HoOloskey, said that the woman frequently left the babes unattended, and that she took Mrs. BusseU's child by the heels and repp! 1U heodtaaainat tha floor, saying, the bastard 'It's paid for, any way," snd leaving onus tiny head a bump like a walnut. Clifford and Catharine Nanch corroborated this testimony In part. Justice Kilbreth held Mrs.

HoOloskey in $1,000 to await trial. A BINISTER'S TROUBLE. Tbe Rector of tbe Greonpoint Episcopal Church Does Not Find Favor With Ills consrregatton Because Be Will Not Allow Cbnrcb Fair and Strictly Enforces tbe Requirements of tbe Denomination. In the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ascension, in Kent, near TJtloa avenue, Oreenpolnt, It is said that there has been considerable discord, ever tines the Eev. T.

W. Haakhu was mode rector. II Is the only church of its denomination in a district of 35, 000 inhabitants, and the vestry thought that Mr. Hat sins should be able to Increase the congregation. Their dissatisfaction was increased by the exlstonoa of a large church debt, which was not decreased, and the Ideas he held of church poUty were of the strictest oharacter.

He forbade church fairs, and olosed an the avenues for pleasure or profit to the church. Complaint was mads to Bishop Little John, but nothing was done in the case. Hr.Hssklra disagreed with the vestrymen so much that at the Easter election they were turned out of office, and William Bourne, J. W. Holbron and others, who were with Mr.

Hsskins, were elected. MB. HABKT1J8' HSXT OTOXNBS was to forbid the Sunday School to join in (he Anniversary parade. Beosntly the ousted vestrymen demanded of the vestry 'elect to call a meeting of the wardens of the vestry to hear a statement of the grievances against the' rector. The meeting was held on Monday night, but when the dissenters were called upon individually to moke definite complaints they declared that they could not do so, aa the trouble existed in general discontent.

One os the complainants said thai he had helped to dislodge every rector that the church had had before Mr. Hsskins came, and he expected to help serve him in the same way. The meeting did not result la any ooneluslons, as no apedflc complaints were made. Tbs members who dissent from Mr, HatUns1 poUcy and actions art withholding their pew rent, hoping by this to cripple the chureb, but the vestrymen wlU coU upon them to settle st the end of the month. Should they fall in Ibis they wlU be refused a voioe lathe ctw Mgicwfei fti aw, Funeral SerMeea Over the Remains of tbe Martyr President's Friend An Infpreaclre Discourse by Rev.

Dr. Xbompstoa North Reformed Church. The earthly remains of William Chatfleld Booth, an old and rcspocted resident of Brooklyn, were buried In Cypress Hills Cometery from the North Reformed Church on Clermont avenue. At two o'olock the odifloe was comfortably filled by (he friends of the deceased, 'and at half past two ottoeX the remains, which wore, enclosed In a handsome, casket, were brought In, and placed In front of the ensnoel! A profusion of flowers, wrought mto crosses and crowns, the gifts of the.eoffln sod thsehancel. The foUowlng frlanda of the deooase'd acted as pU bearers Nicholas G.

Meuoke, William Demarast, Charles Q. Westlake, John Mack and William Woodward. On the casket was the Inscription William Chaxtield Booth, Died Jane 21, 1870, Aged 55 years. The services were opened with the singing by the choir of the beautiful snd lmpresslvo hymn, "Asleep in Jesus," the first verse of which la Asleep In Jesus, blessed sleep, From whioh none ever wake to weep, A calm and undisturbed repose, Unbroken by tho lost of foes." The burial service of the Presbyterian Church was then read, after which the Bev. Alexander B.

Thompson made some appropriate remarks upon THE LIFE AND OHABAOTBB OF THE DECEASED. He said that they could find much consolation in the fact that God pitied His children, though they oould not see it in tho bUnd, bitter impulsa o' their poor human Ufet but they could discern It in tho clear, decisive, righteous and absolutory sure life of God their Father. There cams a time when Gad's grace or pity did not see fit to interiors and prevent a result, and the result cornea and is one of pain and anguish and a heartbreak to men and though God would not prevent (he blow from falling, for reasons of bis own, yet Ho would have pity for thoso that are afflicted by. It and are mode to Buffer. When they pausod and thought of a man suoh as was the deceased, tboy would sec tho troth of what he had said.

God, In his Infinite wisdom, and for aomo wise and holy purpose of His own, had removed the deceased lu the fullness of his years away from bis relatives and friends and business companions. They oould not transcend tho emotions of the human heart so muoh as not to weep for their loss it was natural to mourn and to refuse to be comforted at suoh a bereavement. God knew that. He saw their sorrow and felt their grief yet whilo He would not undo tbe result, He woidd send them His Spirit to oomfort thotn. The dooeosed was a man of faith, who had lived in faith, who had died In faith, whose result was built in faith, and whose future was founded in faith.

They oould not get a olear view of death untU they got a vision ot faith. Death, to a good and righteous man, meant Boniowhera where God is a going away from the earthly and the low life into the sinoere and white Ught of God, In which He makes things stand forth as they aro. He koew that In tho first storms of grief which afflicted their hearts that thoy could not eee THB WISDOM OF OOD IN TAKING THE DE0EASBD AWAY, but when the storm was passed, and the calmness of a stUl, quiet but never 'ending sorrow had come, they would see that God had removed him from this sphere when he washripo for heaven. Ho beiievod that men wero removed from this world when their work in it waa ended, and that as Boon as God bbw another Jewol, cut bright and sparkling for His diadem, He sent forth His angels to bear it to Him. 8ometimcs it was a Uttle child, at other timoB a youth, and, as in the present caso, God did not call His servant till He had reached almost tho allotted time of man's Ufo, when he had eervod his God faithfully through many years of affliction, toil and worldly strlfos, strugglos and disappointments.

In conclusion he said that tho deceased had lived won, he lived true, he served God, he served his generation under the will of God he bad done his work, and had finished it ocoordlng to God's idea, and then he had left this world for a better, higher aud purer ono. Dr. Thompson then prayed, and Mr. C. Overton made a few remarks, touching upon HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE DEOEASED, whom bo had known from boyhood.

He extolled hla sterUng integrity, hla zeal for publio education aud warm interest in the progress of reUglon. He said tbat during his long acquaintance with the deceased ho had never heard ono single derogatory word spoken concerning him. The choir then Bong a dirge, after whioh ths friends and relatives took a last view of the remains. The paU bearers then carriod tbe casket to the hearse, which, followed by a long Une of carriages, proceeded to Cypress Hills, where the remains wore Interred in the family plot. Among the congregation wore ex Pollco Superintendent Folk, Sergeant Meeks and representatives from the Empire Stores, of which tho deooased was storekeeper for twelve years prior to his demise, having rcocived his appointment from President Lincoln, to whom ho had rendered a service which made him his friend up to the time of the asaasalnatlou.

CURRENT EVENTS. The Vermont Republican State Convention, at Montpeller yoaterday, nominated Hon. Horace Fairbanks for Governor, Colonel Bedfield Proctor for Lieutenant Governor and Hon. John Page for State Treasurer. William Thede, a German farmer, residing at Boston Corners, Erie County, was arrested Monday for outrageously assaulting his stepdaughter.

Yesterday he oommltted suicide by polBon. Tho Light Infantry, of Boston, and the Old Guard, of New York, yoatorday arrived at Charleston, 8. 0. They were received by the German Fusiliers and Washington Light Infantry, who conducted them to their hotel. The city wore a gala aspeot.

War between Turkey and Servia seems imminent, A dispatch from Belgrade states that Prince Milan will Join the army next Friday, and that on the foUowlng day a state of siege will bo decltred throughout Servia. The Servian oommlttee In Parts Is purchasing arms and enrolling recruits. Ths Turkish forces on tho Servian frontier and the flotiUa in the Danube are ready to begin hostiUtios at the signal. In the evont ot war, Austria and Russia will mass laroe armies on the Turkish frontiers. Prinoo Milan's ultimatum was rejected by the Porte.

A. report comes from Berlin to tho effort that the Bosnian insurgents have issued a manifesto declaring Prince Milan Sing of Bosnia. Sir Stafford Northcote, in the British House of Commons last night, denied that the Government had turnishod money, arms or stores to tho Turks, The motion of Mr. Henry Richards, asking for a revision of tho treaty betwoon Great Britain and China, was withdrawn last night in tho House of Commons, upon the Information that tbe Government would await the action of the United States, Franoe and Germany before moving In tbe matter. The Louisiana Republican State Convention met yesterday at New Orleans.

Hon. P. B. 8. Finchback was elected Chairman, which is regardod as a victory for the Warmoth faction.

Hailstones almost as large as cannon balls feU Saturday night at Murray Bay, Canada. William Kinsley, a local preacher of the Methodist Church at Providence, B. yesterday afternoon shot his wife and killed himself. Tho couple had Uved unhappily for some yoars. Tho examination of witnesses in tho cases of Thomas Munley and Charles McAlUster, Molly Ma gulro murderers, will begin to morrow at PottsvlUe, Pa.

The Republicans of the Eighteenth Illinois District, yesterday, nominated Benjamin L. Wiley for Congress. Messrs. Clark, McVittie, Whitelaw, Boyd, Monslea, MitoheU, Luke, Bae, Faton and Thorburn comprise the Sootoh Team for the international rlllo contost in this country. Several interesting papers were road yesterday bofore tho American Institute of Homeopathy, At Philadelphia.

Solomon Haskell's dwelling at Cumberland Mills, was dostroyod by fire yesterday. Lewis W. Wolfe, a prominent Baltimore wholesale grocer, dropped dead, yesterday, In his store, The 150th anniversary of the settlement of Kingston, Mas8 was celebrated yesterday with appropriate exercises. A flash of lightning, yesterday afternoon, knocked the large ball off the top of tho BoUatouo Church spire, in Fitchburg, and sent It flying through tho roof of Setb TurcheU's resldenoe. H.

Stanford, engineer of Engine No. 179, on the fast mail train, looked out of the cab window at a hot Journal near Port Byron, Monday. His head was struck by the pipe of a water tank and severed from the body, Mr. J. B.

Bowen, Conservative, and Chamberlain, Liberal, havo boon eleoted to the British Parliament. The international sculling race at London yesterday, between Joseph Honry Sader, champion of England, and Edward Trickett, champion of Australia, was won by the latter. In response to many applications from business men that Monday next bo made a legal hoUday, Governor Til don has decided tbat he has not the power. The Congressional inquiry into the expenditures on the New York Post Office, yestcrdsy examined several witnesses. Distrlot Attorney Bliss and Postmaster James testified that they urged the contractors to hurry the work because the lease of the old building Kta about expiring.

The stock of Cochran, McLean the suspendod New York dry goods merchants, was sold yesterday by order of tbe receiver. Good prloes were obtained. Princeton, N. was ablaze with patriotio enthusiasm yesterday, the occasion being the One Hundredth Anniversary of the battle fought there during the Revolution. Tbe celebration was very sucoessf ul and consisted of a military parade, speeches, a dinner and a grand illumination In the evening.

Many distinguished persona were present, among whom were Governor Bedle, ex Governor Joel Parker, Dr. John MoLeon and Dr. MoCosh. The oration was delivered by Bev. Joseph T.

Duryea, of this city. It was a splendid effort and eUdted warm applause and hoarty cheers. Letters of regret were read from Presidont Grant and Secretary Fish. The celebration of the Centennial Fourth in New York City will be a magnificent demonstration. Business wiU be generally suspended on both Monday and Tuesday.

Prizes were awarded yesterday at Yale, Amherst, Lafayette, Wesleyon, Bates snd Union CoUeges. Commencement exercises took place at Manhattan College, New York, snd the Sheffield Soientlflo School of New Haven, At Vasssr College the claea day exercises were conducted in ths institution, a thunder storm Interfering with the usual out door celebration. The young ladles wore very successful In the rendition of the programme. It is thought that the report of the Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs on the Win slow case wiU sustain the position of the Government in demanding the extradition of the forger. Judge McCunn's widow was fined $100 for contempt yoetorday by Judge Goepp, of the New York Marino Court.

She wo then released from custody. Hon. James O. Blaine and his family left Washington yesterday for Augusta, Me. He Is very UU A young man named Stewart, who waa drowned at Provldenoe, B.

Monday night, was a sou of Judge James Stewart, of Forfar, Bootland. J. A. Coleman, of Mltoholl, yesterday attempted to assassinate Bev. B.

A. Francis, a Baptiat Ha JM wrosttjlx on the pf oi otners. it. seems strange, however, thai pen end wojjin do deliberately take their lire ibjPw that within a week the "great Centennial anniversary grxns are to bo fired and all the people of the land, who are sane at the time, are to take part in the proceedings. Would be suioidoa should think it over, and deoide to put off their own murders until other people have done with their rejoicings.

And, perhaps, if they could be induced to postpone the work a little while, they might discover the world to be a better place to live in than they think it is now, and might buckle on their armor and try again. At all events, it is a poor time to and all who can should live to "hurrah for Amerioa" when its Bepublio's life is a oentury old. The Sanitary Committee of the New York Board of Health has issued an order relating to sunstroke, and gives some simple rules whereby it may be prevented, or at least checked, in its progress. As sunstroke rarely ocours the first hot day, but is usually the result of overheating for several or more consecutive days, it can in all cases be anticipated. The trouble in this section of the country is that people wear too heavy clothing, and from their hats to their boots cover their bodies too closely.

There ia really no need for it, and the dangers of sunstroke or nervous prostration in a less pronounced form should demand a change in this respect. The people of New Orleans suffor less with heat than those of New York and simply because the business of life there is to keop cooL No one rushes about through the burning sun to transact unimportant business, and no matter what the demand is the weather requires evenness of action and a quiet, easy going gait. If our people would avoid sunstroke and over heating they can easily do so by dressing in light clothing and by taking the world easy. It will not matter to others a year hence whether they walked or ran to the ferry yesterday, and it may make considerable difference to themselves at present. A notably sensible man who loves quiet and is willing the country should have it, recommends that instead of insanely firing off expensive fire crackers and endangering the lives and property of people, that every man, woman and child plant a tree on the Fourth.

He thinkB that the trees so planted would be worth in one hundred years $40,000,000. Perhaps it would be a question with a great many people where to plant a tree, or where to get the tree to plant it but whera there's a will there's a way, and if the people really want to plant trees, they could easily find a sapling or a last year's acorn and set it to growing. In the country this would be a far more praotical way of starting a good work than it would be in the city, but the suggestion, if it will decrease the number of fireworks in the least degree, should be widely circulated, and as promptly as the exigencies of the case demand. Mrs. Woodhull's prophetio vision of the future, at the Academy of Musio last night, seems to have been essentially a bird's eye view of the free love past.

The New Testament is not held in high estoom by "social "reformers," but there iB a verse describing how dogs return to their vomit, which they ought to ponder before going upon the lecture platform. It is the fashion with some rather stright laced people to speak of Mrs. Woodhull as a peculiarly disreputable apostle of the lust and affinity gospel, but we hold to another view. Mrs. Woodhull has been of real service to the conservative cause by showing without disguise what free love logically pursued leads to.

The mortality among little children, in the large oities, has oommeneed, and almost every week the list of victims inoreaseB. The frequent passing of funerals without hearses is one of the most noticeable reminders of this fact, while the sanitary reports show the actual number of innocents who succumb each week to the diseases incident to the season, bnt which need not exist and would not if the right kind of preventive was used in season. Many of the trees in the publio gardens in Washington are named after publio characters, and no little interest is expressed in the growth of those bearing the names of distin guished candidates for national favors. The tall stripling of a maple named before the time of the Cincinnati Convention, is dead, and several ohristened about that time are withering rapidly. A hearty looking oak has been set out in the Democratic plot, bearing the name of Tilden, and it is spreading its strong arms out to tho sun as if it meant to cover the ground in which it is before November next.

THE HEAT IN NEW YORK. Yesterday the Hottest of the Year A Number of Oases of Sunstroke, ana the Remedies for it 'Which the Board of Health Advise. The heat in New York yeBterdaf waa in tense. Everybody felt hot, and everybody felt disgust ingly uncomfortable. The sun shone with merciless glare all day long, and sank reluctantly out of eight bo low tho western horizon at his usual hour.

The aver age temporature during the day was eighty three de grees, getting up to ninety six degrees at three o'clock in the afternoon. This was far ahead of tho same day a year ago, the highest temperataro bolng aeventy evon degrees on June 37, 1876, It bad an uncommon effect upon the population and animals. Several horse and an innumerable number of doge were shot, as they had become useless or clangorous from the effects of the heat. A number of cases of sunstroke were reported, and as far as learned by the polios were as follows At half past eleven Hattle Byle, aged thirty, of No. 301 Seventh street, was overcome by the heat.

Sent to Bellevue. An unknown woman, aged about seventy, was sun struok at twenty minutes past two P. M. yesterday, on tho corner of First avenue and Twenty soveotb street. Sent to Bellevue.

About the same time Daniel Abesrn, aged twoaty eight, of No. 332 East Thirty fifth street, was eunstruck at Thirty ninth street and Second avenno. He was also sent to Bellevue Hospital. An unknown man, aged seventy, was found insensi ble at No. 619 Eas Slxtoenth street, suffering lrom the heat.

Sent to Belleva. Martha Seattle, aged seventy two, of No. Ninth avenue, was eunstruck on Monday and fell to tho sidewalk, fracturing her thigh. The shock caused her death yesterday. It has been deemed expedient by the Board of Health to iisue the EULES OP REMEDIES IS OASES OF SUKSTBOEK, which, after advising cool clothing, straw ht8, um breUaa, and the drinking of cool water to produce perspiration, proceeds to state If any one is overcome by the heat send Immediately for the nearest good pbyslclan.

While waiting for the physician give the person cool drinks of water, or oold black tea, or cold coffee, if able to swallow. If the akin Is hot and dry, sponge with or 'pour cold water over the body and limbs, and apply so the head podded ice, wrapped in a towel or other cloth. If thore Is no ice at hand keep cold cloth on the hosd and pour cold water on it as well as on the body. If the person Is pale, very faint, and pulse feeble, let him Inhale ammonia for a few aeconda, or give bun a teaspoon! nl of aromatic spirits of ammonia (hartshorn) In two table spooniful of water, with little sugar. A BRO0KLINITE MTJRDERBB.

Death of the Victim of the Union Square Atrocity The Worlc of If em York Ruffians. William Sohrieder, of No. 310 Devoe street, Eastern District, who was assaulted by a gang of roughs on Sunday morning in Union Square Park, New York, died of his Injuries last Bight in BtUevueJ Hospital. The victim, who was German baker, left; his homa on Saturday night to visit the theatre in Near York. Alter witnessing tho performance at the 014 Bowery, he drank In many of the east aide lager beer saloons until he was slightly intoxicated.

He then went to Union Square and lay down on one of the benches to sloop off the effeots of the beverage. Shortly before three o'clock a gang of six Eighteenth Ward roughs, led by a desperado named James MoGuire, came into the park In a drunken condition 10 BOB OB BEAT THS WBBTOBftS who were sleeping there. They awoke Schrisder, who attempted to resist them. One of the assailants ae la ed a sharp pointed garden stick and throat It into the an fortunate man's eye. It passed through the orbit, ant penetrated the head to depth of three laches entered the brain.

The wounded man cried for help, am the roughs hastily scattered Id all directions. OmXer ernes and Hanlon were attraoted to the spot by Schrleder's cries; they pursued the fugitives, and after a desperate struggle, succeeded In arresting MoGulre, who was subsequently identified as one of the pasty engaged in tbe perpetration of the outrage. He was looked up to await the result of the injuries, us Is still In custody. Sohrieaer was moved to Bellevue Hospital, where he soon became DXLTBIOUS WITH PAIN. He lingered In the greatest agony from Sunday morning until last night; at times he became so violent that it was found necessary to strap him to his cot.

An autopsy will probably develop the fact that death ensued from compression of the brain, caused by the stab wound of the orbit The victim's head was covered with cuts, and his faoe was also bruised. The police have not yet succtedM in arresting the other members of the gang, although they are making active efforts. An Inquest will be held in the ease. Marshal Mitchell and 3. C.

Turner were shot by a bone thief turned AOon, Monday night, BaaUngtoi W. JDr. Fulton at the Big Show. What He has Seen and Done Since Leaving Brooklyn. Correspondence of the Eagle.

PniLiDSXPHia, Jons 26, 1876. For the' third time I have visited the Con tenhlal Exposition and have atudiod somewhst this wonder of the world. It may be said to bo getting Into shape, Borne of tbe departments hive not yet boon arranged, but there was enough at the opening to occupy the attention for a month. There is enough now in Sight to fill up tho time of the student for the Summer. Bat a day will repay one.

It la for this reaton I write, hoping that hundreds of the youths of Brooklyn may arrange to go and visit ths Exposition If they cannot paas a night away from home. I understand there is an early tralo leaving at 6 A.M. and returning at 8 P. on which ono can go and return for two doUars. The fast train at and return at 4:, eorrtee one to and fro for four dollars.

Here within reach of one hundrod thousand people in Brooklyn la an exposition WOBTH MOBB THAN A TBIP TO HUBOPE, in which not only tho produoU and mechanical genius of all nations can be seen, but the dress, the manners and the customs can be wltnoasoa, and yet thousands of poor people wiU put Into a bonnet that which would carry an entire family there and back, and Imagine that the hard times caused them to deprive themselves of the advantages placed within reach of every well to do person In New York or Brooklyn. On my previous viflit I spoke of how desirable it was that churohos and ooietlos should go together, making ths trip take the place of a plonlo exourslon. I hope it may yet be done. For ths large class who deslro to enjoy the pleasure of a few days' sojourn, thero are many good hotels. It Is a patriotic duty rostlng upon the oltlsens of the Republic to avail themselves of the educational advantages of ths Centennial Exhibition.

COMMENCEMENT AT LEWIBDUBQ, PA. From Philadelphia we passed to LewlBburg, where tho University, under the control ot the Baptists, la situated. Hers Bev. Robert Lowery, D. cams as pastor and Professor from Brooklyn.

The town is delightfully situated on ths east bank of tho Susquehanna, about fifty mlloj distant from Hirrioburg. The oountry about itls rich, ths soonery is beautiful. Hills and mountains he up against the distant horlaon; no matter whioh way one looks a vaUoy teeming with wealth Is at the feet, while around is a village noted for oomfort snd thrift. The University Is In a prosperous oondltion. The Feoulty, at tho head of which Is Bov.

A. J. Loomis, LL.D., is composed of men whose scholarship is acknowledged, and whose influence in behalf of higher learning is a felt power In the State, The commencement proper opened on Sabbath, June 23, with a sermon In the morning from Bev. D. B.

Pearson, D.D., of Pittsburg, from the writer in the afternoon beforo the Soolety of Inquiry, and from Bev. O. D. Boardman, D. of Philadelphia, at night.

it was my first opportunity of hearing Dr. Pearson. It is not strange that he enjoys so extended a reputation as an orator. I havo seldom, It ever, heard his dis course equalod. His theme was, "Tho Blessings of Be.

tag Born at This Hour." It was a Centennial dis course. It reviewed God's dealings with us as a nation in the past, and pictured the possibilities within our roach within the near future. It was an Inspiring appeal to high ChrUtlan effort, and was well received. It is my purposo to have him repeat it in Brooklyn as a lecture or a sermon. Tbo sermon of Dr.

Boardman, la the evening, was marked with tho scholarship and culture, the critical analysis and the stylo for which he Is so famed in the world of letters and in tho ministry. As pastor of tho First Baptist Church in the City of Brotherly Love he holds a corresponding position, and is deservedly popular. This P. M. I go to Chicago, and anticipate the pleasure ol wltnossmg the commencement exeroisea of the University in that city.

It ia not only truo that this Is a very largo country and that a groat many peoplo live in it, but more and more am I impressed with the fact lhat in every part of it there are royal men and women at work for God and the right. Not only Is this true of our land, but of the world. TO BBTUBN TO TUB EXPOSITION again, I was Impressed with this fact as never before. Look st the Jspaneso and the Australian dopartmonts. They represent countries on the other aide of tho globe, and yet the eoonory, tho products of tholr looms, tho vcrduro and wealth to be found in, mine and field, tho buildings so large, proves tbat tbe race is one In origin, destiny and Interest.

We are part of a great brothorhood. We are being brought mto oontaot with eaoh other's wants and hopes, and the way is being pavod for the dlsenthrallment of mankind and the laboring la of ths millennium. Hoping that every reader may be permitted to enjoy the Centennial Exposition, I romain as ever, yours, Jubtim D. Fulioh. CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

Tbe Senate. A communication from the Secretary of War to the Sonata, announcing that rules had been prepared for the management of tho National Park oa the Island of Mackinaw, was reforrcd to the Military Oommlttee. A communication was also laid bofore the Senate from Yt. B. Stokely, Mayor of Philadelphia, requesting that ths document entitled "Administrators of the United States Government at ths Beginning of tho Second Oentury" bo brought to Philadelphia by a oommlttee of the two Houses for tbe purpose of being unveiled, and that a member or the oommlttee officiate as orator.

Referred to Oommittea oa PrlvUogea and Elections. Mr. Anthony R. from ths Committee on Printing, reported back tho letter of the Secretary ot the Treasury In reply to the resolution submitted by Mr. Davis In February last, transmitting a lengthy report showing the amount of balances due to the Government from public otBcors, since 1834, and the table without being printed, except a condensed report, accompanying the letter of the Secretary, which would be printed.

Mr. Anthony said muoh of it was of no Importance. In the long Hat he found the name ot Washington Irving mentioned aa a defaulter to the amount of throe cents. Anothor blub offioer was put down as a defaulter to the amount of ono cunt. He also found In tbs list the names of the Washington bankers, Corcoran Uiggs, and the English bankers.

Baring Brothers, and it was well known that thoy were not defaulters. Worse than that, the English Govermont ltsoU was put down as a dof aulter. It was about a matter whioh oocurrod in 1813, amounting to But the Secretory of State said he had no doubt it had been sottlsd long ago. Nevertheless It stood on the books of ths Treasury Departmont. Mr.

Morrlil, (Rep. He.) from tho Conference Oommlttee on tbe Legislative, Judicial and Executive Appropriation biU reported that the Oommittea had been unable to agree. He read the following The Commltteo of Conference on the part of the Senate wlU recommend concurrence with tho House in tbs exercise of its discretion In the reduo(lou of salaries, which are matters of appropriation simply, and insist upon the amendments of the Senate as a local obligation as to those salaries whioh have been estsblished by act9 of Congress. As to the reduction of the oivll list proposed by tho House tho Com ml teas will carefully rc examlne the bill with a view to concurrence In tho utmost reduction that oan be made consistent with the absoluto demands of the pubtio.servloe. To this the House replied as follows Tbat in reviewing any of the salaries of the clerks and omnloyes of tho departments, we should revlow all and make a general adjustment OT thosamo, having in view the work respectively performed, giving preference of exoeptlon from reduction tq all salaries or $1, 300 and under.

In the matter ef the pay of cforSa of' tno owereni graoes, me uouse snnminea tne i allowing proposition: That tho pay of clerks of Class 1 shall be $1,200 per annum; of Class $1,850 per annum of Olass 8, $1,660: of Class $1,700, and the pay ot aU chiefs of divisions in oil tho Auditor a1 omoes and Registers' offices, and other ohiojs of Uke grade, shalTbe $1, 800 per annum; the pay of ths chief of divlaloU oi the Controller's offices and like grades shaU be faJuOOper annum; ten per cent, reduction In all other except tho Secretary's, and those of $1,000 and under, A new conference was granted, and the Chair appointed Messrs. Morrill, of Maine, Allison, of Iowa, snd Norwood, of Georgia, members of tho Commit tee on the part of the Senate. The District Tax but was xead a third tuns and passed. The Senate went Into exeouUve session over ths House biU for the issue of coin. Tbe House.

Mr. Rusk, from the GommUteo on Invalid Pensions, reported a biU whioh provide that any person who has lost a limb the servico of the Unltea States shall receive every five rears an artificial limb. Parsed. Mr. Boone reported a bill providing ror the sale of tho Cherokee strip of land taJfansas.

Passed. BUIs wors remirtod bv Mr. WilshlretArk.l and others from the Committee on Indian Affairs, whioh were re forrsd to tho Committee of tho Whole, as follows Authorising the unoctaw nation to oammenos action In the Court of Claims to reoover the amount due by the United States under the treaty for tbe deposit of. certain Indian funds to be used by the Secretary' of the Treasury In payment of six per cent. United Btates nonas.

Abolishing the tribal relations or toe Miami Indians. For the relief of the Potawatamle Indians, Declarlns the oountry north of the NortUTIatte and esBt of ths Bummils of tho Big Horn Mountains, in Wyoming, open exploration ana seniemens. i The latter biU after dlscusa'an wont over without action. Mr. Payne.

Ohio,) Ohalrman of tho Select Committee, submitted a unanimous report exonerating George M. Adams, tbe Clerk ef the House, from all the charges against him In regard to reosivuig pecuniary consideration tor appoinunenw maae of nun. Aaeptea. Mr. Jones Ky.) eaUed ud as aSDedal oidar tbe biU authorizing the Washington, Cincinnati anor St.

Louis Railroad Company to ooastruct a narrow, gauge railroad from tide water on or near the Athtntla ucean to unioogo anaaei. liouis. were offered and adopted, among them one by Mr. Douslass. of VirElnla.

Providian that this oorpontloa shall not have authority to survey or locate its tins through any State until suoh State shaU, by legislative enactment, confer the power to do so. The but was then, on motion of Mr. Savage, of Ohio, referred to the Committee of the Whole. Mr. Banks Mars.) lntrodnofd a Joint resolution authorising the President to Invite the International Statistical Congress to hold its tenth session in the United Btates.

Beferred. The house then, at 3:30 p. adjourned. BUSINESS NOTICES. FOB HOT WEATHER.

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For oal.br a B. XUK e) firoadwas Tbe Local Republicans Getting Into JLine. Campaign Preparations bj the Bojs of tbe Ninth and Nineteenth. A regular meeting of the Ninth Ward Republicans waa held last evening at the hall corner of Bergen street and Flatbush avenue. About thirty were present: The President of the Association, Judge Cook, presided, and Mr.

Andrew Gregory acted as Secretary. The minutes of the last meeting were read and adopted. The Investigating Committee reported favorably on tlx names whioh had been submitted at the previous meeting in the application for membership. Mr. Andrew Gregory stated that he had coUected $79 for the benefit of too Club.

Mr, Gregory then oflered the foUowlng resolution Reiolvei, That the BopubUcans of tho Ninth Ward of the City ol Brooklyn hall with pride and deUght the fact that the late Convention at Cincinnati, although composed of gentlemen from all sections of our country and advocating different standard bearers for the pending election, permlttod none of theso considerations to override their patriotism, and their desire to enhance tho welfare of the party by a cordial union for that object. Rttotvtd, That we regard the nomination of Governor Butherford B. Hayes and Hon. William A. Wheeler for the offloes of President and Vice President of the United States as nominations eminently fit to bo made, combining strength and purity of personal character, true, tried and distinguished ability In public affairs, that la calculated to win tbe confidence of the poople and bound to achieve success.

Resolved, That the platform adopted by the Convention at Cincinnati meets with our moat hearty concurrence that in the declaration of. prinoiples it embodies and the candidates ohosen to maintain it, we rooognizo the expectations in our National Government of a good sound poUcy, coupled with on honest and capable administration. On motion, these were unanimously adopted, and then, on motion, tho Association adjournod as an association, and lormed into a Hayes and Wheeler Campaign Club. The foUowlng gentlemen were elected officers of the club President, Mr. Powell Vice Preeldont, M.

Fitzgerald Secretary, Andrew Gregory, Jr and Treasurer, William Bates. On motion, the Chair was authorized to appoint a' oommlttee of throe on rules and regulations. The Presidont appointed as suoli oommlttee Messrs. IadeU, Cook and Barber. On motion, the Chair was ordered to appoint a Finance Committee, which being done, tbs olub adjourned nntu the osll of the Chair.

A Quiet Session of tho Nineteenth Ward Republican Campaign Club. Liberal Contribution of the Sinews of War. An adjourned metting of the Ninteenth Ward Hayes and Wheeler Campaign Club was held last night at Union Hall, tho Presidont, Colonel A. D. Balrd, In the choir.

The minutes having been adopted, Mr. John F. Ames addressed the meeting relative to a cause for dissatisfaction he knew existed In tbo minds of oertaln Bepub cans of (ho word. He hod assisted In forming numerous campaign olube, and an experience of forty years led him to believe the organization of this club had been porfectod too much on the spur of the moment, and without duo notice to the Republicans of tho ward. It had been suggested to him, he said, and he wished It understood that it was not of hla own prompting, that a reorganization would tend to a more harmonious feeling bU round.

THS PEESfDENTlAI, CONTEST was sure to bo very close, and every voto was required that could be secured and if by a roconsideratloo and reorganization of tho olub after a general notice to tho voters of the ward all objection can bo removed, no harm could ensue. As to tho prcsont officers of tho uiud, Air. auiob saia none Dotter could be selected, and ho would insist in any event upon their rctontion. Mr. Daggett, on behalf of the Committee on a Wia wam, reported that no defloito conclusion had been arrived at, and more time was deBlrod, which was granted.

Several persons gave expression to thoir views as to the expediency of exnondintr 500 or morn on a wlu wam, tho moat of them favoring the hiring of a auita blo haU Instead. Mr. J. H. JeUors, Mr.

J. F. Ames and the Chairman woro of thoso thus inclined. Upon a motion by Mr. Daggott, the bylaws of the Ward Association were adopted for tho government of the Olub, but thlB action was eubsoquontly reconsidered and a set of leBS lengthy and more concise rules submitted by Mr.

Ames substituted. The Chairman announced as the Executive Committee of the Club Messrs. Jacob Bennett, Ernest A. Walter, Henry Hessler, Ambrose Snow, Albert Daggett and Ferdinand Meyer. As there was no other buelnoss offered, Mr.

G. W. Bungay was called on for a speech, which he declinod to Indulge In at length as the thermometer atood. Ho remarked, however, that It was necessary to unite their concentrated efforts, influence and means, and trustod that the oampaign would be ontirely free from MUD FLINGING AMD PBB8ONAI1 ABUSE on (he part of members. He also said it was a remarkable fact that the name of Hayes and Wheeler drow tho rank and file of the party the same as partioloa were drawn by.iho magnet, and tho evidences In overy direction point to ultimate success.

Major Karcher waa drawn Into making a few remarks, and when asked wbst would contribute to tbe oauso, Bald tho boyB might rely on blmforabox of partagas. He had anticipated a little fun and that he was disappointed he attributed it to tbe absonco of his triena ox am. zinaei. The Chair, after several names had been enrolled, called attention to tho necessity for a fair start financially, and his remlndor was responded to by subscriptions aggregating WOO. of which three quarters was contributed by Sheriff Daggett, General Catlln and Colonol L.

B. Stegmao, for loo each, An adjournment was then taken until Thursday evening ol next weak. WOODHULL. HerLectnre at tbe Academy "Prophetic Vision of the Future Destiny of tno World" Duties of Mothers to Children. Viotoria 0.

Woodhull lectured to about three hundred persons in the Academy of Musio last night, on "A Prophetio Vision of tho Future DosUny of the World." The fans In the audience movod as rapidly as the tongue of the locturess. Although the lecture had a fresh title, It was the same bundlo of WoodbuUisms that is made to do service the year round. She doalt largely on the "social question" and hii well worn periods on this topic wero without tbe pale of decent Journalism aa much as ever. In the audience were tho Bev. Dr.

Wild, Aldermen Fisher, Jennison, CottreU and Hill, and William Colt, Before the lecture, Tennle 0. Olaflin, with a quoen of tragedy air, altogether uncalled for, recited some man usorlpt rhyme, the oontlmont of which waa. "Truth crushed to earth," etc Mrs. Woodhull's daughter recited "The quaUty of mercy Is not strained, from tbe "Merchant of Venice." In beginning her lecture Mrs. Woodhull read as her text tbo 10th and 17th venes of tho third chapter of Corinthians.

She then said We are now nearing our Centennial birthday. Lot ns see if in reviewing the situation we can truthfully say that we are proud of the result of our work of ono hundred years and satis fled with it. In the financial, social, religious, Industrial and political world do we not find dissatisfaction, a lack of confidence and ANABOHV, CONFUSION AND DISMAY None are satisfied with the present condition of affairs. We have lost confidence in eaoh other and we no longer trust our brothers and sisters. Moneyod men are fearful of investing their money and merchants are afraid of trusting their patrons.

Wo naturally ask ourselveswthe question Is there any remedy, any hope for a bettor oondltion of things 1 The old is dying, it Is rotting away and the new Is about being ushered in. We, sa a poople, know that we have not Uved and acted rightly, and we apo beginning to realize the duty we have to perform. Our politics today are a disgrace from one end of the country to the other In this Nineteenth Century. In St. Louis they ore to day canvassing the morals of this man and that man, and they have hard work to got a man who Is moral enough to stand the test of oharacter four yoars.

AU that the politicians want is to get a man In the White House whom they can use as they have done for i the past twenty five or thirty years. Applause. The hearts of the masses have been stirred and they are waking up to the great truth that the people really elect no man. The men heretofore have had their say In all these matters, and they have not deigned to caU woman in. But now we must look for a change.

Tho most elegant, cultured and refined men! are according to women their positions. Now the better olass of people are thinking and daring to speak out loud, "Let ns have reform instead or a revolution come as soon as it.may." Until woman with hkb rmrxj and banotitz enters overy department of life there wUl bono change in the state of affairs. Our mothers have It In their power to cleanse this country of overy particle of corruption. A man born of a godlike, noble, ladylike mother carries that character with him throughout lif wherever he goes. As things are to day we find our penitentiaries and asylums crowded, drunkenness and prostitution running riot, and medical men making tho statement that there lsnt a sound man, woman or child Uvlng in this country.

Going along at this rate in twenty five years American blood will be wiped out. No wonder mothers ore Baying to themselves "We have a duty to perform, ana we will do It ralontlossly." The people today are Just what their mothers have made them. Yon ore rotting away with dlsoaso it entered every heart, and we must be cleanBed before we can Uve aright. The time has come to proclaim the entire truth. Mothers must awake and begin to think.

They must ask themselves whether they are fit to bear children. When the houses of refuge, the Jails, the Inssne and idiot asylums all over the country are filled, was this not a proper question Shall we usher In a new oentury with such demoralisation as exists at present 7 Ail that I desire Is that we as people think and think deeply. I want mothers to think, I wont overy young man before be makes a lewd expression to stop and think I wonder who I am Insulting now, mother or son 7 The boy Is WHAT HIS MOTHBB MAKES HIM. Ilwant mothers to understand this question, that whon their sons go out Into the world they oan say I have no fear of that boy for I brought him up to honor hla mother and do her reverence." The true native born man and woman would never speak dlsrespoctfuUy of a mother. When a man speaks disparagingly of his mother In law it Is because his wife does not respect her mother and the imparts her disrespect to her husband.

If I were to tell you the acenea which I have seen in my experience, and tho words which I have heard, yon wonld say that no truly Godlike man would speak disrespectfully of any woman. I have no respect for a man who does. The home where you have sprang from when you go out Into the world tells the whole story. Every mother should be the confidant and confessor of her children and every father ths same. I have no patience with mothers and fathers who say they cannot control their children.

From the very moment fathers and mothers respect their position, that moment they command the respect of their children. Our mothers havo to do with the very question which underlies our present anarohyiond confusion. Look st our daughter I To day they ore rushing Into marriage without a thought of THZ FBABFUL BESPONSIBIUTY whlch It brings, and so with our eons. You say that Mrs. Woodhnll does not believe in the sanctity ol marriage.

I say that it is false and that it is her defsmers who do not believe in Us sanctity. I believe In that sanctity of marriage that knows no divorce a CathoUo marriage. I believe that those people who marry with a true love in their hearts wiU never need a blackguard lawyer to divorce them (applause.) To day there are 00,000 young snd beautiful girls traveling the streets from seven until twelve at night, catching this and that young man, and there ore young men to catch, whereas if a young man was doing bis duty he would be at hit mother's side or engaged in tome wholesome occupation. Instead of abandoning Mmjlf to the demon of lust, in Congress to day we see the effect of mothers' bad training. There Is not a man is this room but what understands that ths Kepnblican party Is corrupt to the oore (mingled applause and hisses), and the other party is Just as bad (laughter and applause.) Could continued Mrs.

Woodhull, have tbe ears of all the mothers, In twenty five years from now there would not be a criminal institution on tbe face of ths earth. She spoke for about an hour on the social question," and closed with her prophetio vision of the future, in which the saw a Godlike race of men who had sprung from Dure and noble mothers, whose characters would bo Infused Into every department and plane of life. During the House investigation of the Milwaukee whisky trials in Washington yesterday, S. J. OonkUng testified that an effort was made to purchase votes for Matt.

Carpenter's re election to the Senate, but the Senator refused to be sleeted in such a manner, and declared If he was he would publish the foot to hfrtnaftohj4eat, A Pleasant Entertainment for the Parents and Prizes Conferred on tbe. Successful Students. The fifth annual commencement of St Patrick's Academy was celebrated with appropriate exercises yesterday afternoon and last evening, at the institution, op Kent avenue, near Myrtle. The large hall, where scholars and guests assembled, was richly decorated with red, white and blue bunting sod American flags. The primary and Intermediate departments had their exercises st half past two o'clock In the afternoon.

A very good showing was made by the youthful pupils. Their rendition of the extensive programme was highly creditable to themselves and their teachers. The exercises comprised a song, "Welcome Friends," by the school; recitation, "All Is For the O'BeiUy; dialogue, "James and John," M. Dunn and P. McQueen; caUsthenio song, "Here we Stand," fifth primary department; dialogue, "Chase After, an Unkind Word," T.

Hopkins and O. Downey; recitation, "The Centennial," F. Gallagher; song, "The Seasons," fourth primary department recitation, "Children's Bights," T. Dooley; eaUathenlc song, "The Farmer," fourth and fifth primary da departments dialogue, "Honest Jacob," O. Wise, M.

Joyce and J. Doollng; recitation, "The Green and Oold," M. Byrne focal solo, "God Bless My Boy at MoHale; recitation, "The Cobbler's T. Frith; violin solo, "Carnival of Vonloe," T. Reynolds; recitation, "Woodman Spare That Troe," T.

Lynch; dialogue, "Arthur Blob and Martin Lee," P. Kennedy and J. Kelly; reottation, "Warren to his Men," 0. Cunningham; song, Wrap the Flag Around Me, Boys," first, second and third primary departments; recitation, "diva Mo Three Grains of Corn, Mother," J. Ke hoe; dialogue, "Ignorance is Bliss," J.

Moehan, 0. M. McLaughlin and P. MoCabe; violin solo; "Martha," J. Boyle; "The Yankee Boys" (in costume), J.

O'Connor, T. Monahan, J. Brady and J. Brennan; recitation, "Invocation to Bain ia Summer," J. Doollng; radiation, "The Barber," E.

Finley; declamation, "Sheridan's Bide," J. Quiggan; recitatioo, "Centennial Ode," J. Hasset; dialogue, "Fractious Kan," J. MoNaUy and J. HoGlnley; recitations by Q.

Cullen, G. Cshill, J. Hernandez, G. McHuah, J. Hatpin, J.

Lynch, F. Downey and Benjamin Wright; song, "Good Bye," school. The performers wero warmly applauded by their friends, THH EVENING EXEBOIBES, were by the senior classes, and were conducted by Brother Jerome, Principal of the Academy. A throng of admiring spectators, numbering about two thousand, thronged the hall and frequently manifested their appreciation of the performance by enthusiastic applause. A lengthy and diversified programme was successfully rendered, aa follows: Overture, Grand March, "Bois Boudrant," Aoodamy Band; Centonnial song and chorus, "Yankee Minute Men," 400 voices; Essav, "Discoveries and Inventions," E.

M. Gannon; vocal boIo, "My Home by the Star Lighted Sea," M. G. Fhumery; Oar Nation's Flag, declamation, J. F.

Murphy; violin solo, "Bohemian Girl," G. S. Bits; "Is the Catholio Church Opposed (o CivU Liberty:" M. A. Conroy; vocal solo, "Kiilarney," E.

M. Gannon; Archbishop MoHale, 1). C. Fauss; violin solo, "Theme de Mereadante," T. P.

Boynolds; "The Exile," M. O. Flan nery; song and chorus, "When Grandpa was a Boy," 100 voices; declamation, "Address to the Survivors of the Battle or Bunker Hill," G. W. Locke; vocal solo, "Save the Boy," T.

A. Fitrpatrlck; deoUmation, "God Bless our Stars," C. F. Connelly; music. Medley of Ponular Airs, Baud.

"King Henry IV. at the Battle ol Shrewsbury" was rendered by M. A. Conroy, William Wright, P. J.

Dunn, J. Gibbons, J. Harr.son, C. McGuiro, M. Gannon, T.

Beynolds, M. McKonna, M. G. Fiannery, C. McClos key and E.

Oleary. The cOBtumes were good and the acting of some of the participants evinced careful preparation. Succeeding this piece J. J. Boyle recited "The Battle of Bunker Hill." Alter the entertalnmont prizes were awarded to P.

J. Dunn, M. A. Conroy, E. M.

Gannon, D. C. Fauss, C. McGulre, M. G.

Fiannery, Thomas P. Beynolds, J. J. Boyle, Kane, J. W.

Hanley, J. F. Memmer, P. J. Malone, J.

Campbell, A. Meehan, J. Quiggan, A. Mul doon, P. Carroll, J.

Harrison, J. Gunning, J. MoNaUy, J. Halpin and J. Feltermao.

Teachers and pupils were warmly congratulated by the visitors, at the closo of the oxercises, on the excellent condition of the Academy. The entertainment closed at a late hour. There are about 1,500 ohlldren attending this school, and there has been marked increase during the past year. The Brothers justly feel that they have one of the best and most successful educational Institutions In the city, and tboy oan look upon the approach of vaoatlon with muoh satisfaction. Closing; Exercises of tbe Female Department of St.

James' Scbool. The seventh annual reception and closing exeroisea of the Female Department, took place yesterday afternoon and evening at the Lyceum on Washington etreet, near Concord, and were attended by an audlenoe that filled the building to overflowing. The heat was doubly intense in the halL but It had no effect upon those who had gathered to witness the devoir of tho children. But the exercises were short in each case, and the audiences were dismissed early. THE MATINEE.

By an arrangement which bespoke the excellent good sense of the Slstors In charge of the school, the closing exercises were divldod Into au afternoon and evening performance, the former being for tbe Infant and Intermediate classes. In this way the little ones escaped the heat and weariness of the evening, their performance was more rounded and perfect, and they received a full shsre of attention. The afternoon performance opened at 8 P. with a welcome song from Danke, sung by the pupils of the Intermediate Department. They rendered it very handsomely.

Then came another vocal selection; this time by the Infant classes, the selection being White's "Birdie's Song." The graceful Utile ones, robed In gauzy white with brilliant ribbons, wore more like fairy birds than little humanities. They wero heartily applauded. The Misses Wsldon, McKeon, Kean, Far rell, Carr and Garvey then gave Biasell's "Fest March," and renderod it very acceptably. Tho next was a graceful little affair, The Flower Queen and Bird CaroL" It was given by pupils of the Primary Department and was well rendered. A farewell song by the pupils closed the exercises.

The programme was entirely musical, and was certainly more attractive than tho half lisped speeches which are so often heard upon occasions of this kind. Tbe Evening; Exercises Opened at 7 o'cloak, and commencing at that early hour, they wero all over ehortly after 9. The building was packed to overflowing, many people In the back of the hall standing upon chairs and settees to enable them to witness the exercises. The programme opened with Wrobleski's "Welcome Song," which was given by pupils of tho Grammar Department. Then came a fantasia from Oeaton by the Misses Cook, Manning, McClure, Loughrey, Fruln and MoKeon.

The selection was very well rendered. The medals and certificates were then awarded, after which came tho address to the graduates, answering to a salutatory, which was given by Miss Frances Grog son. It was a pleasant, graceful affair, and well delivered. It was followed by vocal chorus, Hall, This Day, Rejoice 1" from Oompana by the pupils. A valae de ooncert from Mattel was then given by the Misses MoQufllan, MoNamara, Boyle and Loughrey, and was interprets with grace and spirit A drama, "Tho Heroism of Faith," In one act, followed, the oast being: Misses MoNamara, Winters, Keenan, Vurtagh, Doolan, Nlckerson, Garrahan, McQuillan, Mullane; Boyle, Ctoldon, Elliott, Foster, Quinn, 0.

Mctfoiaani and Loughrey. Tho piece was very well rendered, each one bearing nor part perfectly and without halting or clashing. It dosed with a graceful and off eotlve tableau. Then same the ohiof feature of the evening's programme, two act drams, "THE CENTENNIAL." It has already been described in the Eaqlz. The first act occurs at tho close of the contest for liberty, and the retirement of Washington to private Ufa.

The oast of the first set was as follows: Genius of Liberty Mary MoNamara Mary E. Winters Katie Martagh Miss Alice Doorlan Minute Boyle Alios Foster General Ksnteomery General Kasciuako General IWtalb Thirteen original States. In this act Washington Is tendered the dictatorship of the cosntry and declines. Liberty makes a speech and the act closes with the vocal chorus, Columbia tho Gem at the Ocean." Each State was represented by a Uttle miss, robed in white, with a starry crown of blue and gold. The act closed with a tableau, and after the curtain feU a fantasia of national airs was played by the Misses Doolan, Keenan, Boyle and Quinn.

Between the first and seoond acts one hundred years are tuppeeed to have elapsed. Tho cost was as follows oxhius or uucbtt. states or innoH. tiubitobixs. ColnrnbU MlssAnnle rliokeraon rlouthVaisllna.

Miss Boole Ksenan It clossd with a vocal chorus, "Star Spanngled Banner," on was followed by an effective tableau; Miss Mary MoNamara, then delivered the valedictory address, and did it very gracefully. It was brief, but thosfhtf ul, weU considered and well expressed. The exercises then olosed with tho vocal chorus "Good By," front Verdi, by the pupils of the Grammar Department. The saadals presented were donated by friends of the school sad the graduating medals by Dr. Bodkin, Judge Walsh, Bobsrt Fnrey, Mrs.

Fltsgerald, Mrs. McLaughlin ana Mrs. Carroll. The medals for proficiency in mathematics were presented by two ladles, and a medal was also given byBev. P.

F. O'Hare for excellence In composition. The scholars who took part In the programme acquitted themselves with great credit. The dramas were well performed and the musio Interpreted with teste snd ability. Everything passed iff in the most suo oe liful manner, and in way that reflected great credit upn both teachers and pupils.

After the exercises six of the graduates went to the rasldtnce of Mrs. Joseph H. Winters, 99 Duffleld street, where a large number of their relatives and friends awaited them. A conation was servM and dancing and tinging were in order until late hour. Closing; Exercises of tbe Academy of tbe Visitation.

At tho intersection of Johnson and Pearl streets stands the House of the Bisters of the Visitation of tbs Blessed Virgin Mary, and It is here that they Coadact the young ladies' academy whioh ranks among the highest of Brooklyn's institutions of learning. For many, many years the Sisters have carried on their good work in this quaint, old fashioned house, with its high waned grounds, snd every year they have sent out from among their charges ripely cultured young ladles, fitted by education, by precept and example to take snd hold their places In th society of tbe world with honor to themselves and credit to the institution which to them is Alma Mater. Yesterday was one of the joy days of the Academy, for then occurred the annual distribution of premiums to those who by industry, application snd intelligent seal hsd attained to the high standard of qualifies tioaupon which the bestowal of rewaidi by the Sisters is dependent. The exercises were held In the musio room of the Academy, and In the presenoe of the Eight Bv. Bishop LoughUn, the gtT.tattwf feat turner, W9n, rgm Till Paper nwtm the sarajest Clrculn (lon ef any Evenine; "Paper Published in tne United States.

It value as an Advertising Medium is tberefore a p. parent Tne First Day of the Convention. The Convention did very well yesterday. Tho eitent to which we stated proceedings would go was reached and the customary adjournment took place till eleven A. M.

to day. The addresses of Mr. "Watterson, the temporary Oh airmail, and of General John A. Mo Clernand, tho Permanent Chairman of the Convention, were appropriate and commend ably brief. The addresses contained nothing that was striking, perhaps, but they were marked by discretion, and each Chairman fulfilled a gentleman's chief duty on such occasions, to be in good tasto.

Mr. Watterson dilated upon the reform mission of the Democratic party. General Mc Clernand exposed the evils which have made reforms necessary. We accord to Mr. Watterson a little more breadth, and would have preferred General McClernand to have attributed ti'fl ills he depicted to tho mistaken tendencies of the' Republican party, instead of loaving it to be implied that they wore the direct product of the malign desires of that party.

The inferential as well as the direct stigmatization of classes comprising a whole party, should be left to the irrationalistsof the other Bide. If tho masses of both organizations bo not rated equally patriotio, then is the country gone to the dogs, and then are both these party Conventions but helps to the destruction. Both parties wish equally well. Thore is a strife in each party between its lower and higher elements. The long incumbency of the Republican party has given its lower elements the upper hand, and they are entrenched in power.

Cincinnati accomplished the behests of those lower elements, though they were compelled to take up with instruments of the seoond grade, instead of the first. Thore were candidates at Cincinnati of three kinds: Those who, by their records could have sought reforms, those who by their strength could have bettered their records and sought reforms, and those who being indebted to the strong men for their nominations, would be putty in their hands, if they got it. Tho latter class of negative, weak, colorless and purposeless men were nominated. Their election would strengthen tho entrenchment of tho worse elements in their party. Hence the hope of reform or of men strong enough to give it, ended at Cincinnati.

Honco Mr. Hayes by his weakness and obligations would only aggravate the evils General MoClernand pictured. Both speeches would have been strouger had they denounced the dominant worst elements in the Republican party, conceded the patriotism of the party en masse, and exhibited the disabilities of tho voters of tho party as a wholo to do other than increase existing ills, because of the flabby fibre of their candidates this year. This is the fact and misfortune of our Republican fellow citizens this year. It is this prospect which the Democrats should improve on by the positive, vigorous, free and independent character of their ticket.

The motive to change parties resides only in such a ticket, and can be appealed to only by it. These speeches, with the formal report of all the Committees bnt tho Committee on Platform, comprised the proceedings proper of tho Convention. There were several tests of strength between Mr. Tilden's friends and his opponents. Tho former seemed rather to force the fighting with the confidence of victory and with the result of attaining it every time.

The seleotion of Messrs. Watterson and Mc Olernand was the selection of Tilden Democrats of pronounced earnestness. The selections of the Secretaries showed the same spirit; especially was that spirit prominent in the salutary dispensation with Mr. E. O.

Per rin who has apparently rendered himself as obnoxiouB to the reform spirit in the Convention as possible. Senator Wallace, of Ponn sylvrnia, made a motion to constitute the Committee on Credentials, before there had been any credentials formally handed in, to be referred to such a committee, and his motion was considered to be an anti Tilden "feeler," though why is not apparent at this distance. It was, however, significantly defeated "by a large The Convention evidently yielded to the sway of its own spirit and Tildenized, so to speak, everything which ocourred. Notably this feeling showed itself in the free punctuations the convention made in the extremely thin post adjournment talks of Messrs. Voor hecs and Cox.

The audience of delegates and citizens put in Tilden colons, semicolons and exclamation points, until the orators came to a period. During a loll in the proceedings a misplaced platform woman, a Mies Phebo Cozzons, was able to find the Convention in a mood of gallantry and mirth, and was permitted to speak a piece in favor of woman suffrage. As there can be nothing denominated reason or argurnont, except by tho use of the severest sarcasm or the most vacuous hyperbole, advanced in favor of such an ansexing and leveling heresy, Miss Cozzons is not to bo blamed for the weakness of her plea. It is the weakness of the proposition itself which paralyzes the plea. The double desire to voto and discourse, without the justification of necessity or of a tolerable cause, is the censurable thing in Miss Cozzons and her likes.

Her loquacious teakettle tea was followed by a long and barren written manifesto, signed by Mrs. H. B. Stanton, Mrs. Gage and the perennial Miss Anthony.

Wo suppose it must needs bo that such offenses come. The only unusual feature of the affair is that the married and unmarried old maids who are an equal reproach to rational spouses and spinsters and who would newly arrange the incidents to politics and matrimony, have discovered a fresh means of publicity, through the occurrence of men's conventions. The effect this will have on lessening the number aud lengthening the intervals between such conventions will be worth watching. Tho first thing in order from noon of Eastern time to day was) to be the platform, and then tho balloting. We hope to be able to lay a considerable, if not a complete, record of the Convention to day before our readers in our regular editions.

The prospects of suoce6s were very bright for Mr. Tilden early this morning, and up to the assembling of the Convention. It is extremely unlikely that anything can occur to mar those prospects, because it is certain that nothing ought to occur, and because for once in a Democratic Convention merit seems to be matched with a management equal to it. irir. Woodford Has the Floor.

Governor Woodford, in his speech to night, should frankly tell the proportions and true inwardness of the movement by which he was wrongfully deprived of the Vice Presidential nomination. It was a slight to Brooklyn. It was a violation of the agreement of New York. It was a reversal of the wishes of Ohio, Indiana, the North, West and the South. New York violated her pledge and changod her purpose because Mr.

Woodford inado a speech, in favor of the liberty to vote and of the divine right of bolting. That was the speech which lod to tho discovery of a way to defeat Blaine. The Wheeler nomination for Vice President showed the Conk liug men for their own selfish purposes playing into Mr. Blaine's friend's hands and victimizing Governor Woodford's ambition which lie had thrust upon nobody, but the desert and seemlineaa of which wegMecognized from all quarters. Tbe GoverajHsMigid not evade this subjeot.

He il MriFWlfffhi by treating it as a do; He should not seek to pa: it is not the Eaole's conl are ingenuous in the subject for Brooklyn every time and for Drool men every time, Bopublican or Democratic conclaves. Beside we seek to be as just in our commenU as we are fair in our reports for both sides, and this rude and unprovoked dirpensation with Governor Woodford at Cincinnati is a thing for Brooklyn resentment, irrespective of purty. The General is a Republican. He will therefore support the ticket. But he is a wan for whom Will the Brooklyn Presbytery Swap The Seventeenth for the Nineteenth Century The Brooklyn Presbytery has found one man of mettle.

A clergyman, Rev. Mr. Drenner, of a Western Presbytery, brought a letter of dismission to tho Brooklyn body and applied for admission to its numbers on the letter. The letter cortified to the moral, doc trinal and soholastio standing of the gentle man. It was a certificate of one Presbytery to another, each of equal standing and dignity and orthodoxy.

It showed the gentleman, for whom it was issued, to be the peer of any Pres byterian preacher in the land. Owing to causes which were explained by sickness and seques tration, the letter was not at once presented. When it was presented, an explanation was made of the delay which was honorable and satisfactory, and of the gentleman's status during the time. That made tbe letter as good as new, and entitled the holder of it to be considered a preacher in good and regular standing. Instead of manifesting a spirit of comity and correspondence, tho Brooklyn Presbytery went behind the certificate of its sister Presbytery and proposed to institute inquiries of its own into the faith and soundness of the ap plicant.

The validity and thoroughness of the credentials so to speak were not questioned, and could have been questioned by nobody. Tho Presbytery proceeded to treat the credentials as if they were really of none effect, and proposed to examine the applicant, as if he was a just converted heathen, or a recently transformed publican. This is the usual course of the Presbytery with every applicant; it is a course as odious as usual with the Brooklyn Presbytery, and as unusual, we believe, with other Presbyteries throughout the United States as it is usual with the Presbytery of Brooklyn. It sounds farcical and incredible, but it is true that Drs. Cuyler and Duryea when they came from New York, and Drs.

Talmage and Beid when they came from Philadelphia, were put through this course of inquisitorial sprouts, albeit their soundness was read and known and attested of all men. It is fair to snppose that when Dr. Van Dyke went to Tennessee ho was received without question on his credentials. It is fair to suppose that when he returned to the authority of the Brooklyn Presbytery, after a merely nominal absence, his sitting brethron of twenty years reinvestigated him solemnly and comically and formally, lest a change of climato had wrought a change of creed. While this examination is little more than a matter of form, it is far from evident that it is not a discourteous, unwise, invidious and ridiculous form, to bo much more honored in the breach than in the observance.

It is a reflection on sister Presbytorics. It is a singularity that is unfratcrnal. It is a Phari seeism, unconsciously such to be sure, but virtually a Phariseeism all the same. The gentleman referred to demurred to bocomo an examplo of the unnoighborliness of the Brooklyn Presbytery, aud we honor his spirit. He would be treated so in hardly any other judicatory of Presbyterianism.

His Western Presbytery would treat no Brooklyn creden tialed minister so. Ho refused to receive less courtesy hero than would be accorded him elsewhere. The Presbytery insisted, and he withdrew his papers. They were stiff, exclusive and unfllial, and they have lost their brother. An instance like this was needed, may be more will be, to enforce the nature and spirit and effect of this rule on the attention of tho Presbyterian and the general public.

We think it is a rule that should be resoinded. We think it is one of those things which separates the Presbytery from vivid interest and from a full measure of respect in its churches. We think it is an insistence without justification in its quality and fruits. It attracts neither the admiration nor imitation of co ordinate Christian bodies. It barely oxcites toleration with the thoughtful public.

It is calculated to inflate an artificial, disproportionate and obstructive power of a few essential but undeclared popes in Presbyterianism. It is inimical to tho hearty republican spirit and to the progressive majority elements in the body. It is of tho nature of equivocal welcomo and hardly disguised espionage and suspicion toward peers and brethren. It is a concession to a usage which, if it ever had any justification, lost it long ago. It is the ridiculous worshiping the antique oppressive.

It is the modern spirit of brothorhood prostrate before the otherwheres obsolete spirit of inquisitorial ness. The trivial extent to which the Presbytery carries its policy is intended to make it light while preserving it. It is really an admission that there is nothing in it. We think the predominant progressive element in tho Presby tory should abolish this rule forthwith. If that spirit whioh upholds it and exploits it tears in its passage, lot it tear.

It is time that the Nineteenth Century, and not the Seventeenth Century, ruled in tho Brooklyn Presbytery. Presbyterianism proposes to conquer the world, as all the other orders do for the matter of that. A band of comity, equality and fratornity Bhould bind its members in unity and recognition round the globe. The Brooklyn Presbytery should no longer put fellow Presbyters under such an implied ban as this rule is. The orthodox liberals aro by far the majority in the body.

Let the majority rise to tho height of its duty and opportunity, and modernize its system of recognition, in a way to harmonize this Presbytery with the others in the United States. It is time the obstructionists had as little influence on the procedure of Presbyterianism as they have in the actual reaping of the field, which is the world. Centennial Marriages. On the Fourth of July there will be more marriages than on any one day in the last hundred years. The time has been set apart for a long period, and anxious grooms and pretty brides have denied themselves an earlior union 6imply because of the fact that the day which is to be celebrated so soon is a day too full of memories and likely to bo too notable to be missed.

Patriotism will well up in every heart and make generous every nature. It will stir the breaste of the clergy as it will the souls of the moBt hardened among laymen, and the marriage bells will cost less than at any other time because there will be no need of any extra ringing. With a little stretch of the imagination the happy simpletons can believe that all tho hurrahs and banner waving are for their benefit, and that all the world has one wild with delight because they are going to bo married. Ministers will rise a trifle earlier that day, perhaps on account of the early ceremony they are to perform, but they will not be the losers thereby, for no slumbers will be disturbed. The man who can sleep through the Fourth of July evo night will not be the man who will read a marriage ceremony the next day he will he a deaf mute, and more than that, an idiot.

For all the world knows what we are to celebrate, and all animate and inanimate objects will be made in some way to feel the patriotism that is to be expressed through fire works. Brides will not lose their sleep over night because they are to be wed on the Fourth, and grooms need not wander far to find somebody to watch up with them to greet tho coming of the auspicious morn. Every body will be up, and gladness will sit so universally upon the brow of tho people that an immense degree of satisfaction will be felt by couples who would otherwiso feel a trifle bashful in expressing their own joyous emotions. The numbers of grooms and brides that will bo in the city at one time will greatly assist timid parties in getting through with the affair creditably. No wedding break, fasts will be needed, for people would not time to eat them if they were prepared, could not hear themselves speak din and uproar.

The economy thereforo commend it ana nsiue irom mo joyed cnmMcoaions as saving Of trouble'aUarOTOTjense, and an important conrideratroMtiranoae who know what the trouble attendanTopon a wedding is. It might be well to foggeri tht wish to go to the Centennial, and at reason able price, so as to permit people to practice economy in the matter. It is a serious con sideration to people nowadays to know how to get along double, and if at the outset of marriage it costs bo much, the timid fear their ability to meet the outlay, and decline. Now all this business of weddings needs reforming. and the practical, sensible folk who will do the most service to others will be those who intend to be independent of all social do mands, and go to the parson's or the Court House on the morning of the Fourth and get married in the republican style.

No oards, no crowd, no attendants, no nonsense, is the order of the hour with thoso who have postponed their marriages until the Fourth, and very much better will the ocoasion be enjoyed by them. And it will be a good day to begin to date happiness from, and a time from which, it is to be hoped, many will safely date it. The Serbs and tbe Tnrks. According to the latest dispatches from Europo, Servia has resolved to join its Herze govinian neighbors in war upon the Turks. This resolution is significant only in so far as it is indicative of Russian policy.

Unaided, tho Danubian principalities could not, if they took the field together, hope for ultimate success against the forces of the Ottoman Empire, decrepit and disorganized as the Constantinople administration undoubtedly is. Compared with Russia or Germany, Turkey is weak, but contrasted with any or all of her European dependenies, ahe is exceedingly strong. Tho Serbs understand this, and understanding would hardly take the field against the Sultan without some decided encouragement from St. Petersburg. It is Russian policy to weaken the hold of the Turks on the Danube, tho BlacS Sea and the Bosphorus.

This may bo accomplished by stirring up dissen sions calculated to secure tho gradual independence of the insurgonts. For tho present it is well known that Gortsckakoff would look with pleasure upon the formation of a minor Slavic confederation. Next to having absolute possession of the country, the Czar desires to have it under the dominion of sym pathetic neighbors, who, tics of race and religion would naturally draw to the empire of tho north for protection and counsel. That tho Serbs have resolved upon war, however, by no means justifies tho inference that the Russians intend to precipitate a great fight over the Eastern question. What the Russians are very likely to have agreed to ia that Prince Milan shall not lose anything by the contest, whilo it deponds upon his own skill and enterprise to determine how much he shnll gain.

On Russia's part the plan is doubtless to let the campaign proceed so long as tho Turks suffer reverses, but to intervene in favor of peace the moment the Sorbs suffer serious defeat. In fact, it looks as if Gortschakoff had determined upon the same game, on a small scale, that Napoleon de signed on a largo scale in the Prussio Austrian war, and which he played so badly. Napoleon was tho Mephistopheles of the campaign of 18G0. He expected that the Austrians would overcome the Prussians, and he hoped to gain territory on the Rhine by judiciously appearing upon the soene as arbitrator. The six weeks' campaign with its brilliant results, however, destroyed all his calculation.

Sadowa came so quickly on the heels of the declaration of hostilities that the French were not prepared to impose any conditions upon Bismarck, and when, at a later day, Napoleon tried to obtain a slice of German territory for the easy consent he gave to the expulsion of Austria from the North Confederation, the Prussian Chancellor told the French Minister very bluntly that so preposterous an arrange ment could not be thought of, and that if Napoleon wanted German territory he would have to take it with the sword. It is not, however, at all likely that the ar rangements of the Russian diplomat will so greatly miscarry in this instance. If he does not gain anything he cannot well suffer serious loss. To be sure, from ten to twenty thousand human beings may bo slaughtered in the game, but in an era of blood and iron that is of small moment. Of Servia as a factor in the contest, it need only be said that if left to her self, she could not keep ten thousand men in the field for three months.

The Serbs are a warlike people in the sense that most half civilized people aro warlike. As individuals, or in small companies, they fight desperately, but their army is of little value. On paper they have an army ono hundred thousand strong but how deceptive the figures are is evident from the fact that the total population of the State is less than thirteen hundred thousand. The English stand ing army is little, if any, more than a hundred thousand. In short, Servia is in this matter a mere puppet, and the jig to be danced will depend entirely upon the keen diplomat on the Gulf of Finland who pulls the strings.

A Beach Abomination. A filthier outrage than has been perpetra ted under the auspices of the New York offal and garbage contractors on that portion, of the public who seek fresh air and bathing facilities at Coney Island beach cannot be imagined. Tho persons whose business it is to dump the refuse matter of New York in the ocean have, it appears, for nearly a week past, been deliberately dropping load after load of it in the water at such time and distance as would insure the washing up of the whole noisome mess upon Coney Island beach at the point most largely patronized by the public. That this has not been done by accident or negligence is pretty clearly proven. Damaged somewhat by the reoent traveling facilities and the improved accommodations from the terminus of the steam railroad southward, a New York politician, whose house is on the northern extremity of the beach, has induced his unsavory friends of the Metropolis, it is said, to come in this shape to his assistance.

By strewing the at present popular part of the beaoh with garbage and decaying animals he hopes to drive the publio northward to the shades of his hostelrie. So vile a purpose and design as this can hardly be oharaoterizeoV The New York Quarantine Commissioners nave had their attention called to the abomination, and have promised to do what they can to abate, it. There ought to be no question as to stopping the outrage. It is clearly within the province of the Commissioners to stop it and if they cannot the United States authorities ought to send a gunboat to the scene without delay. The magnitude of the outrage is set forth in the following brief report submitted by Commissioner Stears The undersigned proceeded according to resolutions of the Board and made an Inspection of the garbage nuieanoo in the Iowai bar on Saturday, tho 24th and has the honor to report tho following On Saturday, the 3b, started from Fort Hamilton In the team launch Daniel McKeUar, at 3tf and overtook the team tug Ida L.

Tebo with four scows la tow that had been emptied of contents consisting of mnd evidently dredged from some part of our harbor. Prooeedlng further we overtook the a team tugs General Grant, W. Parks, Wm. Cheney, and these tugs were engaged in dumping at the lime we came up with them. They were not more than three quartara of mile from Coney Island beach, and as the time was about 4 P.

were actually dumping on the first of the flood tide, which, of carried all this refute matter to the beaoh. The stench waa Intolerable, and bo much of the offal and i ess producing it floated on the surface that we hsd to slow tho launch to prevent her wheel from fouling or being dogged. 'That this is an unmitigated outrage needs only to be seen and experienced to be fully appreciated, and that it is the duty of the State to put a stop to it In the future Is very apparent for walls the Commissioners of Quarantine Board, the city from pestilence by watching st its gates, It will not bare the desired effect unleei the nuisance la abated by compelling the captains of these tags to comply with the law and dump it at high water st the place designated. The beach along Coney Island was strewn for miles with floating garbage, whilo thousands of our citizens were waiting for an opportunity to bathe, whioh was not afforded by this presenoe of filth. All of which is respectfully submitted.

W. Ik B. Steabs, President Quarantine Commission. We have before referred to the suicide ma nia that seems to be sweeping over the country, and whioh really seems to increase as the time approaches for the Centennial celebration. It would appear at first sight that the near approach 3 7 1 oaool tb oattaai of.