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JUBtBtul. jHe that is filthy will be filthy lull." men of the theatrloai profession to whom these words may oome, and men of all ocoUpatiotu and professions orepare eternlky. After the Urst ordeal of; death passed there will be a ceoond ordeaL and that will be the judgment. On that day the audience will be a raater audfenoa than all tbe people that were ever gathered In Covent Garden and the Haymarket and Goodman's Fields aud Drury Lane. It will bo an innumerable audience.

The footlights will be a burning earth, a burning aea. The thunders of that day will be the. i orchestra. The tragedy will be the rising of the righteous and the overthrow of the wicked. The cloa lng soane will ba the dlnrmininn nf th tr.

MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1877. reduce him to merely the scholar, the gentleman and the Christian, and you still hare him a living and exceptional force in the soene of his labors. If Max Mullor bs correct that missions are the index of a churoh's vitality, there ia no more living churoh to day than the English Church and Its branches. Many who do not 'belong to brer fold are the most eager to welcome her bishops and clergymen State, but also on account of the like wrong contemplated against all the States. It is frankly deolnred that usurpation is to be inflicted on Louisiana, because the succoss" of the elected candidates there would help tho success of the elected candidates at Washington, in February.

An embruted President has been convinced by his cronies that the cause of Nicholls being the oaus of Tilden must be ened the peace of the State oxcepttho attempt made to defraud the majority out of their rights? All that the carpet baggers have ever asked is that the Administration shall keep the people of the South down while they oheat them, and this is precisely what has been done, and will oontinue to be done as long as the people stand it. Chandler's expectation is almost as good as would be that of the con I federate of a piokpocket who could under The Bishop of Jlaryland was struck with paralysis, riday. Mr. Alexander H. Stephens is very ill, having had another hemorrhage of the lunge.

The Earl of Dunraven, of Ireland, is in New York. He liai bean traveling in the West. The Western Union Telegraph Company has reduced its rates on and after to day to all parts. The Fourth National Bank of New York has reduced Its capital from $5,000,000 to $3,750,000. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh call their infant daughter Victoria Hellta.

Rev. E. H. Hopkins, of St. Johnsbury, has beau arrested on a charge of forgery.

The piotures from the Johnston collection have bean presented to Boston Art mourn. A Sunday fox hunt was enjoyed by a party of sportsmen at Union Hill, Netv Jersey, yesterday. The hunt took place in Secauous meadows. Mrs. Elizabeth Onkes Smith lectured on Temperance yesterday afternoon before the American Temperance Union, in Eighth street, New York, The Rev.

William Gray, pastor of the Baptist Church In Ljxinjton, is aocusad of rifling the collection boxes. The Troy Curling Club won a victory Saturday over the New York Caledonian Club by a sooro of 50 to 23. The alleged Holyoke abortionist, Luke K. Blair, was oommltted to jail at Amherst, Saturday In default of $6,000 bail. The Old Guard of New York will give a reception at the Academy of Music next Thursday evening.

Tbe affair promises to be a great aucoeas. A fire at Scranton, Saturday morning resulted in a loss of $100,000 worth of property. The library of the Y. M. C.

A. was destroyed. The Legislature of Ohio has ordered an Investigation into the onuses of the breaking down of tho bridge at Ashtabula. The Bureau of Incumbrances are busily on gagod in New York clearing tho sidewalks of such ob structions as soap boxes, ash barrels aud fancy goods stands. Tho failure of W.

I. C. M. Young, produce ojmmlssion merchants, of 119 Reade stroot, New York, is announood. Their liabilities are stated as being small.

The Augusta (Ga.) ootton factory made in tho laat six months of the year a two per cent, dividend and 110,901 yards of gon.ls, chiefly adaprod to and iu tendod for Southern consumption. The wife of Judge Maynard, of Minnesota, was burned to doath while visiting her daughtor in tho Vlllago of Hillsdale, N. yesterday morning. Her clothiug accidentally caught fire from a stove. Chief Justice Daly will deliver the annual address bofora the Geographical 8ooioty tomorrow evenlug, at Chlciering Hall, oa "The Geographical Work of the World in 1876." The Portland, Board of Trade passed roaolutlons, Saturday, memorializing Congress to nogo liato a now reciprocity treaty; also against tho proposed levy of head money on Immigrants.

The production of pig iron in the United States in 187G was 3.030,000 tons, the amount being nearly 200,000 loss than the production of tho preceding year. Ex District Attorney Charles G. Fisher, recently convicted of abstracting court papers from the oilloo ot the Clark of tho Court, has boon pardoned by tha President. The two hundredth anniversary of Spinoza's death occurs on tha 21at of February. M.

Ernest Benon is to lecture on the event at the Hague at that time. A grand celebration is to be mado. The ice gorge in. the Ohio River has entailed heavy losaes this seaaon. It has been general from Pittsburg to Cairo.

A great number of ooal boats and barges havo beon doatroyed. The loss from tho bursting of tho gorge is estimated at $3,000,000. The Kev. Dr. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, delivered the first two of his leoturas on "Preaohing" in tho Lyman Beeoher course to tha students in the Yale Theological Seminary, on the afternoons of Thursday and Friday last.

The Bussian frigate Svetland, commanded by tha Grand Duke Alexis, arrivod at Norfolk Saturday. The Grand Duke Oonatantuie la also on board the Svetland. He is eighteen years of aga, and is the son of tha Emptor's brother Constantino. Senator Key, of Tennessee, withdraws from the Senatorial oonttit In that State. He rofugea to en gaga In a scramble for a position so exalted as that of Senator of the United Statos." It is likely that Wm.

B. Bate, a former Confederate Genoral, will bo elootod. The residence of Mr. J. A.

May, of No. 100 Second avonuo, Now York, was ontored by burglars on Friday afternoon while the family were ia the second story, and $5,000 worth of Jewelry and other articles were stolen. The Co operative Employment Bureau of the Bowery Branoh of the Young Man's Christian Association, of New York, are doing a good work this Winter. Unemployed people with good roforoncoB orowd its rooms overy day. Charles Fisher, son of ex Judge Fisher, who was pardoned on Saturday by tha Presidont, having been recently convicted by the Supreme Court of the aot of stealing important papers from the office of the District Attorney, has been taken to tho Asylum for the Insane.

The late gale on the British coast, which visited that region on the last day of tho old year sad the first of the new. was extremely destructive. Houses were inundated, piers and bridges carried away, and railway aoauuuulcatiou was stopped to a considerable exteut. The annual meeting of the Century Club wae held Saturday evening, when officers for the onsu lng year wore elected. William Cullen Bryant was chosen President; Gilbert M.

Spier and D. Huntington Vice Presidents; Augustus afoDonougb, Seoretary, and Charles Collins, Treasurer. The Prince and Princess of Wales are to visit the Duko and Duoheas of Manchester on tha 18th. Great preparations are being made for their rocoption. The Duko and Duchcsa ara tho parents In law of Lady Mandovllle, the young Cuban lady of Now York whoso marriage waB oejebrated in New York early In the Fall.

The Conservative tax payers, of South Carolina ara paying their contribution! to the agents of the Hampton Government. Before tho ond of the month every Conservative taxpayer in tho oouuty will have paid all indebtedness of thiB kind, a thing hitherto unparalleled in the history of tha Stato, and particularly slnoa tbo war. General Crook and his command have returned to Fort Fetterruan. Several officers of tho command, inoluding General JoBeph J. Reynolds, Colonel of the Third Cavalry and Senior Colonel Cavalry, and Captain Alexander Moore, of the Third Cavalry, will be tried for oowardico and disobodlenea of orders in tho Big Horn Expedition.

A libel was filed Saturday (aud attachment placed) by John Maguire, of this city, owner of the steamer Montgomery, against the stoamer Sominole, now lying at Boston, to recover $55,000 to $00,000 damages for tbe loss of the Montgomery by collision with the Somluole as already rep irted. The oharge la that tho accldont was oaused by ncgligonco on the part of the commander of the Seminole. A run was commenced on the savings bank at Fishkill Saturday, which, it was believed, would bo largely inoreased to day. The bank officers aro oonfllent they can uieot demands promptly. It is stated that ovar drafts on the National Bauk at ihat plaoe amount, in several iustancoa, to from $10,000 to $18,000 In all, tho overdrafta amount from $70,000 to $130,000.

Dotectives who have beon working up a serios of freight train robborios ou the Chicago aud Northwestern Itaiiroad, near Ames, Iowa, have found that owing to tho long, steop grade thieves ran alongside, brokeVho looka with hammora and threw off the goods while the trains wero in motion. Tho detectives Ingratiated thomselveB with tho thieves and claim to have frustrated a diabolical scheme to ditch, sat on Aro and rob passenger train. A hoavy snowfall, extending over a large section of MisBiitippl, is ona of tha strange experiences of the people of that region at this tuna. It is the first storm of the kind known in the memory of man, and tho people do not understand it. The snow Ues twenty inches doep on a leval.

Tha suffering everywhere in consequence is intense. The Yazoo River Is gorged and completely blooked with ice for some miles above Greenwood in that State. It is denied that Cardinal McCloskey is going to Europe, a trip in his present state of health being deemed an impossibility. Neither is Rev. Dr.

Mo Glyun, of St. Stephen's Churoh, New York, to be made a Btahop, as roported. B2V. Father O'Farrell, paator of St. Peter's, New York, is to be mads a Bishop.

He has been nominated both as Bishop Coadjutor to tho Archbishop of Toronto and as Bishop of Counoll Bluffs, Iowa. It is not known who will succeed hi.n as pastor of St. Peter's. Miss Anna Woodworth, a wealthy lady of Norwioh, committed suicide Saturday night by banging herself in the attio of her house. Her father and herself lived alone, and the latter was tbs victim of disappointed love.

She had been engaged to be married to a worthy suitor, but her father had interfered, and for several years had kept her almost a prisoner In her own home. She was forty years of age, a benevolent and noble woman. Frederick Krick, a Gorman, aged siity ono, living at No. 121 Forsyth street, New York, fired Bev eral shots at his wife and son, on Saturday night, and was struck several times by his son, sged twenty years, In return. The weapon used by the eon was an ax and the injuries done tha old man will prove fatal.

The son Is In the Tombs waiting ths result. The father waa said to be of a quarrelsome disposition and was drinking at tbe time. Mr. Jamas B. Cunningham, formerly a prominent member of the Cotton Exchange, died on Saturday, An informal msetlog of tha members of the Exchange was held Saturday afternoon, when resolutions highly oulogizlng the deceased, and recommending that a committee of fourteen be appointed to attend tho funeral at White Plains to morrow wore passed.

The resolutions were adopted unanimously, and the Committee was appointed, with Ur. M. V. Fieldins as Chairman. A meetine: of workinemen was nem in irt Tompkins square, New York, Saturday night, (the nn i nlia.l and adopted mVeraary Ol tllO UllUUU.vj reaolutions to ths effect Ihat the worHlngmen in.

mining district, of Penn.ylvn. r. subjected to tho most shameful and infamous tratment by their em Dloyors The rtion that an organisation known a. Solly Quires exists iu the mining district, of that State for the purpose of asiassluatton waa denounced as false.and the meeting protested against the further execution of men whos eonviction was secured on the testimony of a spy in tu mployment of the ooal corporations. Thoworklngmeu uude further resolutions of a Uko kind, all aoing to prove that there is a large clans ot men lu New York wUoas misfortunes as worklncmen does not keep thorn from taking an Intorest In the aSaits of taeir fellow man In othor places An Interesting Letter from tha Oldest Long Island Town, What Kind of Men and What Kind of Man ners and Methods Pounded and Stiff Bale the Place Where the Fated Steamer Circassian Went to Pieces Matters for Historians and for Readers who Want to Know How Characteristic Long Island is Outside of Brooklyn.

Special Correspondence of th xjggle. SouTHAKPioit, L. January 12. The already described burial of the Ul fated voyauers upon th ntsamor Circassian and ths already notiood loss of life among the Aborigines here who tried to avo that hip', freight of humanity recalls to mind the lost of the ship Robert Milton, when twenty throe of the orew wert frosen to death In the rigging, their arms extending aa reaching for that help that never came. Tho dead of that vessel He eide by side In the village oametsry of nuihampton, with a monument to their memories, whioh relatat th sad manner of their untimely death.

A SKETCH OF THIS TOWN eannot fall to Intorest every orulous and cultivated reader. It Is the most easterly on the Island, situated on the southern branch, and includes Montsuk and Gardiner's Island. It la rarely that a calm sea Is seea at tfontauk. The town was settlsd In 1619 by thirty families from some towns In Msssachssetts. Prior to tbe settlement arrangements had been made for obtaining title from ths Indians.

The chiefs were Psy gratssuck, Saoham of Manhassott; Wyandaoh, 8ohem of Mountaontt omomotau, Saohem of Choroake, and Saohem of Shinnecock, Those accepting title on behalf of the settlers were the Worshipful Theophlius Eaton, Governor of the Colour of Now Haven, and the Worshipful Edward Hopkins, Governor of the Colony of Conneotlout. The consideration received by tho Saohems for tno thlrds of all the land that Is now embraood in the town, wn twenty coots, twenty four hatchets, twenty four knives, twenty looking glasses, and ono hundrod muxes. It was stipu lated that the Sachems ware to hava the right to bunt In tha woods, and to dsh in tbs creeks, and to have the fins and tails of whaloa that might be oaat up by the tea. They also reserved tho right to fish for sheila to make wampum. If in obasing a dear it should tako to tbo water and bo killed by the English, they ware to take the body, aud tha Indian the akin.

Tho town was first named Maidstone. THB FIERCE NAURAGANSF.TT8. NIneorsft, Saohem of Narragauaett, nrar upon the kloutaak tribe, and killed many of the braves. Thoy wore compelled to take shelter lu the settlement, and for the kind treatment and protection axtendad to them, they bestowed upon the Battlers what was then called Montaukett, and now Montauk. This they had for a reservation, however, and it Is still enjoyed by thoir posterity, of whom but few remain and soaroe ly one of full blood.

The treachery of tha Indian nature over two hundred yoars ago, found its counterpart in the treachery of Captain Jack, in tho lava beds, and loaves no doubt that it Is lnate with the unolvilisod uf the raoe. While tho Montauk Saohem was at Block Island with most of his warriors, they were surprised by tbo Narragansott tribe, who promised to spare their lives if they would lay down thoir arms. Thoy had no sooner done this than they were set up and butohered, only one of thslr number escaping alive to taU the awful story. Tho Sachem was reserved tor speolal torture and met a horrid death. Hewa oompollod to walk naked over fiat rocks on the tops of whioh fires were kept burning.

INBIAK GRATITUDE. Ninigret, Chief of the Norragansotta, known also by the namca of Janems, Kinnioraf and Neuekunt, had a violent hatred of the Uontauks for rof using to join in a plot to murdor the whites, and for preventing tho Intended massaore by warning the English. Captain ardiner's memoranda of this opooh in the history of the sottlers, says "Waiandance, the Long Island Sachem, told me that as all the plots of the Marragansetts had been diloov ored, thoy now oonoludod to lot tha English alone until they had destroyed Uncos, the Mohegan Chief, and himself. Then, with the assistance of tbe Mohawks and the Indians beyond tha Dutob, they would easily destroy us, every man and mother's son. It was bs Ueved that the Dutch suppllod the Indian with arms to make war upon the English.

In 1880, on the death of Wyaodaneb, his widow, called tha Squaw Saohem, and his son, united In a deed of oonflrmatlon to tho original purchasers of Mohawk, "from sea to sea, and from the eastermoBt parts thereof to the bounds of Eaathampton," and for the consideration of ona hundred pounds, to be paid in ten installments "in Indian corn or good wampum, at alx to a penny," The principle trouble existing among the people was suits for slander, in which damagoB were limited to five pounds, Ia 1658 it was provided "Whoever shaU raise up a falsa witness against any man to testify that which is wrong, It BhaU ba done unto him as ha had thought to have dona unto bis neighbor, ovon to tha taking away of life, limb or. member." For atriklng a peraon ths fine waa ten shillings, and for wounding to the extent of disabling a fellow, the asaallant waB obliged to pay all costs and for tha timo lost In nursing the wound. No man was allowed to sell more than halt a pint of liquor at any one Urns, and then it must be divided up betwetn four mon. No man was permitted to sell a dog to an Indian, under penalty of ten shillings fine. Half of ths inhabitants of the town were compelled to oarry arms to ohuroh on the Sabbath, with four charges of powder and shot.

To prevent disturbances among the Indians, it was made unlawful to sell liquor to any Indian in excess of two drama at a time. The buslnoss of ths Indiana waa that of boat whaling, and it ras so profitable that ths English took to it, and an ordinance require every clttsen to keep watoh a oertaln length of time for tha approach of whales. A law was In foroe in 1683, tusking it a ponol offense for any person to sell any gun, sword, load or powder to an Indian. They beaame so dangerous at one time that a patrol had to bs established to prevent a gurprlso and masiaoro. The guard was authorized to shoot any Indian refusing to sup render on the third ohallenge.

It was this fear of sudden attack that made the people carry thalr arms to churoh. THE OHUItOH HI8TOBT. The flret ohuroh waa erected in the town in 1653. It was twenty six feat iquaro, and oovered with lhaton. The second ohuroh was buUt on 1678 and the third whioh is still in use was erected in 1717.

The interior has been so remodeled ss to romove all of its ancient appearance. Tha fourth minister stationed in ths town waa Itov. Lyman Beecher, who was born at Gull ford, 1773. He located in this town in ITa; and remained until 1810. The house in which he Ured and the pulpit of hlB church aro among the ouriooitlea of the plaos.

John Howard Payno, ths author of "home, swebt home," was born here and the houso in wbloh his father lived, and he after him, It still standing. Clinton Academy was established by the father of John Howard Payne, who enjoyed a groat reputation for learning, in 178S. On the oxtremo point or Is the light house, eroctod by tha Oovernment in 1795, and at an oxpense of twenty five thousand dollars, In 1837 Mrs. Blgour ncy, while eojourning there, wroto tho following Unas, descriptive of the groat light: "CTitima Tlmlet of this ancient isle. Against whoBo breast the everlasting aurgo Long traveling on, and ominous of wrath, Forovor beats.

Thou lift'st an eye to UgUt Unto tbe vexed and atorm tostod mariner, Quidlng him Bafely to hia home again. So teaoh us, 'mid our own sore ills, to wear The crown of meroy, and with changelOBS eye look up) to hoaven." AN EPISODE OP AAT10N BTJBB, Three quarters of a oentury ago Aaron Burr figured In a law suit In this village, the like of whioh la probably not rocordod In tho history of Jurisprudence, It is related that a peddler entered the town, sick with the measles, and tha next Sabbath attended divine wor ship. When the fact became known to the people storm of Indignation arose and the peddtor was paraded upon a rail and occasionally plunged into the numerous ponds along the route. Aaron Burr sued his assailants and received a vordlot for one thousand dollars, despite tho faot that ninety persons diod from tho measles bofora tha termination of the suit. Gardiner's Island forms part of this town, and muoh might bo writton about it.

It was here that the only treasure ever positively known to have beon burled by tbo notorious freebooter, Captain Kldd, was found. Tbe treasure was worth thouaandB of dollars. And now tn the quietude of this plaoo, almost as quiet aa the tomb itself, repose the bodits of those lost from the Clrosaslan until summoned forth to ths general judgment. Kuif. BUSINESS NOTICES.

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Beecher Makes Some Pertinent Ob servations on the Subject of Christian Work. Mr. Talmage preached yesterday morning to the theatrical profession, the discourse being the second of a series addressed to the different professions. The Tabernacle was crowded by art audience of over 8,000 people. A number of representatives of the theatrical profession were among the vase throng.

The preacher'! text wax: "And oertaln mon of the chiefs of Asia which were hia friends, sent unto him, desiring that he would not adventure himself into the theatre," whioh refers to Paul at Ephoaus. After describing the theatre of aoolent times, and explaining Paul's desire to go into that theatre in Ephosuo to preach Christ to the people and Vindicate the causa of truth and righteousness. Mr. Talmage continued as oUows Indeed, I do not know any place more appropriate for the preaohing of tbe Gospel than these pa'aoes of art. fjhrist says, "Go into all tho world and preaoh my Gospel." That means proaoh it everywhere.

No place too good for it. No place too bad for It. I never had a better time in my life in proolalming Christ to the people than one nifjht In Chestnut Btreet Theotro, Philadelphia, at the Invitation of the owner of the theatre, and under the auspices of tha Young Men'a Christian Assooiatlon' of that city. We bejrah tha eor vlco by a prayor meeting in the green room, and we oonaluded the sarvice by an inquiry meeting in which cores of souls started out for Iioavon, afterward joining the different ohurches of the city. Old Burton's Thoatre, in New York, waB never put to a grander pur Soso than when iu 1897, during the grsat rsvlval tho oora wore thrown opoa (or rolijioua assemblaKos, and hundreds of souls found that their birthplaeo, and on one occasion tha servioe of the main audience was overpowered by tho Christian songs that oame rolling uo from the barroom, where onoo man doatroyed their bodies aud souls with strong drink.

Aud until the ministry shall ba lnvitad to preaoh in all these palaces of art, tha best thing we can do is as far aa possible to Imitate Paul the apostlo and adventure ourselves into the thoatre so far as to preach to those who attend upon it, and to those who act upon its stage, and to all the employes of the Institution. "But," says some aro tho last man in the world to proaoa to too theatrical profession sincti you are their avowed enemy. Before I get through this morning I will show you whether or not I am tnoir onoiay. Three or four yo'irs ago I proachod throa or four sermons on the character and oonditlou of tho average Amarioan thoatre. What I thouubt aud folt then, 1 thinlc aud feol now; but my uttorancaa wero very muoh MISINTEBPBETED AND MISREPRESENTED.

I novor mado any wholesale aud indiscriminate assault upon tho theatrical profession, I acknowledged thou as I acknowledge now mat thoro la as much genius in that profession as in any other possiblo profession; that there are men and women in that profession who aro as pure and honest aa in any other profession; that tha characteristic of many of them has bom gon erosity, and I said other things in that direction but tho reports in the newspapers did not give that irt of my sermons, while they gave those pirts that wero entirely critical and ooodcainatary of cha thaatro and of the profession. That omission not from any desire to miBroprejent mo, but I suppose from tho crowiod stato of the oliiraus of the nowdpapors at that tiur One sermon was ascribed to mo, not ona word of which did I preaoh, and I have this fact authenticated that in one of the newspaper offloOJ of tho country, on Sunday afternoon, the question was asked Where is Taimage's sermon on thti theatre Tho answer was that, the geatlemoh who went over to phonograph tho sermon met with an accident, and ho did not net to tho Tabornaole, and so we have not roceivod it." Well," said one in the office, You go down and find out what tho text was." A mossenger wont and found out what the lext was and oame back, and In that oilioe, my aerm was writton out I Latigiiter, and by a man who had never seen mo making mo the too of all kinds of amusements, representing me aa the denouncer of all the men and women of tho theatrical profession, without any oxception, as profligate aud abandoned. Well, you say, "Why didn't you oorroct tho impression Oh, I HEVBB HUNT LIBS I have so many things to do i hava not ((ma for that work, and It is vory annoying, very exasperating and very unsuccessful busiuass to hunt lias. Mr work is to proclaim tha holy counsel of God and I try to do It, and I leave the result with tho Lord, and I find the plan workB woll. Wo must, however, at this point of the discourse, acknowledge that there li an everlasting war between the ohuroh and tho playoouso.

Tou do not like tho church. We do not like the theatre. Bnt there Is a common ground upon which wa may meet to da7, as immortal men and women, with souls to be saved or lost, for whom there iB a Cbriet ready to lift every burden and hoal every wound and save every aoul. Him I declare unto you to day. I aak that tho members of the theatrloai profession, whether present to day, or after a while reading these worls, oome immediately, and unconditionally surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ aa their personal Savior, and I make the request on two grounds.

First, because of tho vast amount of usefulness you might wield for Christ. It seams to me that the entire courae of the world's history would hava boon changed if the men and women who have given themselves to the world's theatrical entertainment had given themselves to positive Christian work. It was tbe dramatio element sanctinod I say the dramatic olemenl sanctified, in Robert Hall and Thomas Chalniors and George SVMtellild that made them the Irresistible and all con querlog instruments of righteousnoss. If Haekett and Edmund Kean and John Kemble aud George Fredcriok Cook and Junius Booth and Garrluk and their contem porles of the stage bad given thomselvea to tho positive aervioo or the Lord Jesus Christ, thiB would havo boon a far different world from what it is. If the Davenports and the Broughams and the Wallacks and the Kdwin Booths of to day, would some night at the close of their performance come out at tho foot lights and say to the people "Ladles and gentlomen, from thiB time I begin tho especial servioe of the Lord Jesus Christ I give myself In private and in public to His cause I am to be Hia for timo and for oternity," it would revolutionize the two cities it would SAVE THB WOULD "Oh," you Bay, "now you aro talking about an impossibility.

You know very well that there is Buoh a prejudice against our profession that If wa should oome and knock at the door of a Christian ohurch, we would be scouted and drivon back." Groat miatokp. vrnon Bponoer H. Cun atuppjd from the burning thoatre in Richmond, December 21, 1811, and stopped Into tho pulpit of the Baptist denomination, he was rapturously welcomed, and I ask what impression that man ever made aa a play actor compared with the influence with whioh he thrilled Christendom when the great tragedian had become the great apostle, not of the Baptist denomluatiau alone, but of the whole church I ask then, In tho name of God, that the dramatio talent of the world ahango its profession. I aBk that you give to God your heart, your hand, your head, your foot, your powet of impersonation, your grip over the human heart, your oapaoity to aubdue and transport and electrify great aasem blaeB. Admitting, aa you will, that it is every one's duty to put to the grandest possible use every faculty that God gives man, I ask you to come and throw yourselv into the stupendous work of preparing men and women for an unending eternity.

Garrick, the actor, and Whitefleld, the preacher, were contemporaries were friends and admirers. Garrlek said he would give a thousand guineas for the oapaoity to use the exclamation as George Whitefleld used It. The triumph of the one was in Drury Lane Theatre. The triumph of the other was on Mooresflelds Commons, where thousands of souls under hie ministry orled out for God. From the door of eternity, which man looka back upon the pleasanter retrospect I aak you to deoide this matter as you will wish you had decided it, after the ourtain has fallen upon the last aot of the tragedy of the world's oxlBtenoe.

I put this request for your surrender to the Lord God, alio on the ground of your own happinoas and lafety. There is no peace for any occupation or rjro fession without OhriBt. Your profession is no exception. The hunaa in tha Hayinarket Thoatre, and in Covent Garden, and in Goodmau'a Fields, and In the Iioyal Theatre of London, could not give poaca to Mrs. Siddons, and Thomas Batterton, and Edmund Kean, and Macrcady.

The world may laugh at the farce, but the comedian finds it A VERY SERIOUS BUSINESS. LiBtonj In hia day, had more power to move the mirth of an audience than any other man. Ha went one day to Dr. Abernethy, saying, "Oh, Doctor, I am eo low spirited oant you oure me Dr. Abernothy did not know it was Liston, tho comedian, who had oome as a patient, and he said to him: "Pooh, pooh I am not the man you want to see.

Don't oomB and Bee a doctor go and see Liston two doses would oure a madman." Alas for Liston he might euro others, but he oould not cure bimsolf. I tell you that without God there is no happiness and no permanent good cheer. At the wave of the orohes tra baton, when the muaio rises and the chandeliers gleam, Bnd the pliy goes on plunging toward the catastrophe, it does not seem as if you had any disquietude at all but there are times of heart achoa aud exasperation and disappointment for you, are there not? Do you not fe.el it? A great London actor went Into tha madhouse for life becauio by some unfortunate 6troke of a sword he lost his wig in tho play of "Hamlet," and the guffaw of tho audlouce utterly frenzied him. Beside all the other annoyances and' disturbances and erasp rations of your inc. mere is tho question of Uvolihood, and you know that in your profession it i a very preoarious thing.

Sometimes you are flush with money. Then a favorite troupe cornea along and ahoves you off tha sta.o. Hush hush said tho French aotrass to tho manager as he conduotod her from the theatre to her oarriage. ''HuBh don't you lot my coachman hear that you have given me only eighteea hundred francs a year when I give him twenty four hundred!" Sometimes you have gone from the theatre, when in the play you wore robed andgarlanded and coronatted like a queen, to a house where TBI STBUOGIiE FOB BREAD IS AWFUL. Now, I ask you to oome out and try the oomiorta of the old fashioned religion of Jesus Christ.

you say, In order to do that I should have to give up uiy profeselon. My brother, my sister, decide ono question at a time. First give your heart to tho Lord, aud then docide this other quoatlon. You will be able to decide it better then. You will have God to help you to decide it." When I was three or four reara ago preaching on (ho oandition.

oj the "Svera'e American theatre, there were several play actresses who oame to my house and said: "We would like to become Christians, if you oould only And for us some othor occupation," I ssid to them what I Bay to you, and any who may hear me to day, that no one ever becomes a Christian until he or ahe is willing to oome in thiB pint and say Lord, Jesns, I take Thee now anyhow. Oome weal or woe, prosperity or privation, comfortable home or almshouse, I take Theo anyhow." It was in that spirit that the poor girl wrota the memorable hymn whioh you all kuow, after she hud been turned out from her father's house, because he was an Infidel and ahe was determined to be a Christian, whan she aat down and wrote in her banishment these words Jesus, I my orois have taken, All to leave, and follow Thee flaked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou from hen do my all shall be. Perish every fond ambition, All I've hoped, or wished, or known Yet how rich Is my condition, God and Heaven are still my own." A ORAOK AT YANDEBBILT. But let me say that God lets noue bs shelterless and hungry who come In that spirit. She shall havo tha omnipotent God for her friend, and all tho armed hosts of Heaven wUl ba her Bworn allies.

That poor girl will ba richer than A. T. Stewart and William B. ABtor and Cornelius Vanderbllt, and all the other rioh men of the earth who have made this world their God, in their dying moment saying a tow nioe religious things so as to help the minister through with his fuueral sermon Supprassed laughter. Oh, my frlonda, your safety, your happiness and your ruefulness depend upon your coming out and taking your stand for Christ.

BeaTde that, after the four acta have been gone through with infanoy, youth, manhood, old age and you oome to the fifth act, the last act, the oatastrophe, the death hour what then 1 I know not what may be the shifting scene of tha act, whether palace or garret, or whether the footlights may be guttering festivities or the dim candles of destitution; but this I know, it will be a momentous hour. Enter, the King of Terrors, with all his courtiers of pain and sioknesi and bereavement. Exeunt, all the pleasures and advantages and onjoymeuts of this life. WHILE IN THE GB.IAT BROOKLYN IHHATBK DISASTER we were all warned to prepare for eternity, it seems to mo that it was an especial call to the theatrical profession, in tba'death of Clauds Burroughs and Harry Murdoch the'tw'o brilliant dramatists. Ah they had but little time to prepare for eternity that night, when tho play of "The Two Orphana" waB exchanged for a scone whioh mado many orphans.

What difference does it make to them now, whether the audience that aat before them that night were pleased or displeased with their acting? What difference does it make now to Macready whether the Astor plaoo Opera House greeted him with a storm of stones, or whether ho was carried on" on the shoulders of tho exultant people What difference does it make to Edwin Forrest whether the crltloa liked or disliked his Richard or his Gladiator, or hid King Lear, or his Metamora, or bis Shylcck. When we have gone out of this world, if our life haB been a failure, no olapplng onoore will ever bring us back to ro enaot it. Tho oharacter we have In our last moment will be our oharacter all through eternity. "As the tree fallcth, eo It must lie." He that Is boly wul ba holy still. He that is unjust will be un This Paper baa nc largest circular lion of any Evening Paper Published In (he United Simon.

It value as an Advertising medium Is therefore tip. parent. I the Presidential Imbroglio tbe ISe sult of a Conspiracy There would be vary much fairer hopes of a just and satisfactory settlement of the Pres deutial difficulty, if it were uot for the fact that it is quite as dangerous for Chandler, Cameron, Morton fc to stop just where they are as to push on their scheme of inaugurating Hayes to its final conclusion. A very considerable number of the patriots at Washington who are fighting for Hayes are fighting at the same time to keep themselves from going to the Penitentiary. Chandler and Cameron in high offlioial positions are quite different personages from what they would be as private oitizens, with the power in the hands of Samuel J.

Tildon, to examine the books," and to trace baok the conspiracy to cheat him out of the Presidency to its origin. The Eagle has more than once stated that, before the closing of the investigation of the Presidential embroilment, ovidenoo would be pregontedTo snow that the scheme to count in Hayes, if possible, was devised in advance of tho election, and that immediately following the account of the final result in the closely contoBted Statos of tho North and West dc torniiumg how much fraudulent work was needed orders were given from Washington to put the job through at all hazards. Chandler, at once a Member of the Cabinet, and the official head of the pnrty, as Chairman of the National believed to bo at the same time tho leader in a conspiracy to secure the announcement of a fraudulent result of a national election. On Saturduy Chandler was sum nionocl before a Committee of the House of Representatives, and with the results stated below. Wo give the vniying statements made through the nowspapors, so that our readers may be in a position to judge what the real facts are From the Times Chandler's Metropolitan organ.) Washington, Jan.

34. Recent developments seem to oouurnj tbe reports prev.dont at tbe Capital, that both Democrats and Republicans have copies of telegrams sent South and to Oregon by controlllug politicians, pending tho canvass of iho votes of tho dlsputod States. These copies were obtained from sources other than the regular channels, but exactly in what manner is left to conjecture. Although thoy cannot be used aa evidence, nor being authenticated, they afford tbe basis of interrogation by investigating committees, and have been the moans of obtaining information from witnesses who havo knowlodgo of their contents. Surprise ia expressed that tho Committee on the Powers, Privileges and Duties of tho Houo, now engaged in tho investigation of private matters, oonnected with the Kiectoral vote South should not only sit with closed doors, but impose an obligation on the members of the oommitt3e not to communicate to other parties information concerning the character of tho testimony taken.

On Saturday, when Chandler wits before them, notwithstanding the caution, tbe drift of tho inquiries and replies relative to telegrams from him to Governor Stearns, of Florida, pending the count of the Electoral vote in that State, were ascertained and telegraphed from her last nlgbt. The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, howovor, also inquiring into tho subjoot of tho Electoral votes, open their oomnilttoe room to reporters, thus affording the means ot acquainting the public with the proceeding in a consecutivo and trustworthy form. An effort will bo made at the next mooting of the Houbo Committee to open tho doors to the press. The questions whioh Secretary chandler refused to answer ocfore the Committee on the Powers and Privileges of tho House, yesterday, wore such as referred principally to the subjoct of communications between himself and the President, and ichich are regarded by the Secretary as confidential. If "Zack" is free to determine where his character as a political leader ends, and that of Cabinet oitieer begins, the country will receive very little information from him.

His occupation of the two positions was scandalous from the first; the partisan advantages to be derived from it were, however, apparent always, and Chandler proposes, if he can, to make them very clear now. From tho Tribune Thick and Thin Republican. The Committee examined Secretary Chandler, yesterday, in his capacity of Chairman of thu Republican National Committee, in tho hope that they could extort some confession from him as to his correspondence and diBpatohes that would serve their purpose. Tney had him upon the witness stand for about half an hour without milking any points, until finally he was asked whether he had sent any dispatches to Florida, South Carolina or Louisiana stating that troops would be furnished if required. Mr.

Chandlor replied that if hi had 4itit such dispatches he had stated that troops would be sent if needed to prevent a disturbance of tho peace. He was then asked If, in case such chs patohos had been sent by him, it was on his motion or under his direction or by tbe advice of another person. JJr. Chandler aatd that the Committee meant to examine him in a dual capacity aa Chairman of the National Committee and aa a member of President Grant's Cabinet, and that tbey wero evidently more anxious to get at Cabinet secrets than to discover how he had conducted the business of the Committee. He thereore declined to answer the question.

The Chairman inquired if ho would liko any tirna to tho matter. He replied tiiat ho would. Ho was then asked when it would be convenient for birn to oome again, and he said next Wednesday, whereupon the examination closed. Mr. Chandler is reported to have said, he left tha Capitol, that lie did not care much what the Committee took him for, provided they did not take him for a fool; and that if they imagined he had cent any telegrams that he would be afraid to have produced, they would find thomselvos greatly mistaken.

Speaking upon the subject to day he and that lie did not know what bogus dispatches might have been sent icith its name signed to tlicit in fact be bad heard of several BUcb diapatchua cent, ae ha behoved by Democrats in order to lay the foundation of charges against him, but that during tho whole of tha canvass he had uovor considered the telegraph as a medium for confidential communications, but had looked upon dispatches exactly in the light of postal cards, Mr. Hewitt had several timea atated in the presence of Republican members of Congress that he was convinced that, shortly after the eleotion. Chandler tent to the. Governors uf South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana a dispatch to the effect that they must hold their States fur Bayrs and Wheeler, and that all the money and 'troops needed would be furnished them. A copy of this dispatch, it is understood, was put into Mr.

Hewitt's hands very soon after it was filed. Mr. Chaudler declared to day that no suoh dispatch had ever been sent by him, r.nd if sent by anybody with his name signed, it was a forgery. This veralon of what occurred is doubtless furnished by Chandler nimself. Mr.

Chandler is Secretary of the Interior. With the disposition of troops his department has nothing whatever to do; with their disposition as Chairman of the Republican Committej he had, doubtless, great deal to do. That the Democrats should forge Chandler's name to dispatches averse to their own interest is an invention quite worthy of this stupid and reckless partisan. This probably indicates the line of defense upon which he proposes to rely. The subterfuge foreshadowed is ridiculous.

The States referred to, following tho dispatches in question, were claimed by their no called Governors by preposterously large majorities the fictitious olaims made wore designedto deceive the Democrats and to assure them that they wore so badly beaten that it was not worth their while to pay any attention to tho count of the ballots. In this way Kellogg, Chamberlain and Stearns hoped to secure the opportunity of carrying out their schomes in comparative privacy. How woefully they were disappointed is known to all. Chandler's henchmen had to do the evil work expected of them under the eyes of the whole country. All newspaper readors will remember that Chamberlain claimed, two days after the election, that his majority in South Carolina was over seven thousand; Kellogg hit upon exactly the same figures for Louisiana, while Stearns claimed that he had carried Florida by twenty five hundred.

Up to the time Chandler's dispatch had been received by Stearns there wns not a man in Florida who did not concede that State to Tilden. Chandler's demands were oarried out to the latter his promises were quite as faithfully oxecuted. The three States were claimed for Hayes, and money, political managers and troops were sent to each of them to try to make their claims good. The cause and the effect follow in direct and natural sequence. The evidence of the plot is plain and uniform.

All these three Governors lied, and lied in response to orders from Washington. Chamberlain was concadedly defeated in South Carolina the Democratic majority iu Louisiana on the face of the returns on which Kellogg could alone, at the time, base his estimate is admitted on all sides to bo over eight thousand. Stearns has since accepted his own defeat, and has got out with the unanimous approval of his constituents. From tho World Democratic. Washington, January 14.

Tha examination of Zach Chandler before the Committee on the Power of the House in Counting the Electoral Vote veatorday has excited to day a keen and widespread iutcrcat over the probable contingency of his arraignment as a coutumacious witness. Chandler refused, as stated in last night'B dispatches to tha World, to answer tho question as to whom he conferred with before telegraphing Governor SteariiB that troopi would be ordered to protet him in counting the vote of Florida. Ho was given till Wednesday next to decide finally whether he will answer or not. Ho iniormed the eonituittoo all oiuvunicationa which ho made to tho President were pnvileged, and that ho could not divUlRe even made by him in his unofficial position as Chairman of tbe National Republican Committee. The decided that Mr.

Chmdlor ought to answer according to tho rules of evidence. They have laid a proper foundation by showing that thoy have positive knowledge of tin telt nrauiH which be sent to Governor Ktearus, and it is most probable that thej will compel him to answer or report him to the House for lmpris inenl for contempt. From this dispatch It seems that Chandler admitted that he did promise at least one of the Governors of tho throe States that he would have armod assistance in couutiug the vote of Florida for himself and for Hayes. Chandler's explanation, as given by tho Tribune correspondent, is that ho promised no more than that Federal troops would be sent to Florida, "to keep the peace." What threat their everlasting nomas nf or Then the footlights will go out and the spectacle will Ha Anfaff I Plymouth Churcb How Pan) Preached Cbrlat. Mr.

Beecher yesterday morning seleoted his text irom tbe flrst chapter of the Philipplans, from the fifteenth to tho eighteenth verso. He referred to Paul's doolaratlon, made while in a Bomau prison, that lie rejoiced that Chriit was preached, whether in pretense or truth. Paul wob an old man, and his career had bean, beyond that of all the other apoatles put tonother, full of experiences. While in prison word was brought him how the work went on without, and also the news that in Rome there were preaohora traduolng him. Paul's pride was Immense, and as grace lies ou top and nature under it, to strike through grace and hit original nature was generally easy, bo that Borne upheaval of anger might have been expected at this announcement that the very mon whom ho taught to pjjeach ware calling nlm an impostor.

But there was only joy ihat tho Gospel was preaohed evident in hia reply and all the vi too apoeuee mere was to be found not one sign, of conceit. He cared not what han of hlmaelf, so that the work went on and iu that it waa ovideut ho was unlike many ministers of our own day, who idontify themselves with the oauso or truth and righteousness rather than hold thom eeivea as instruments of it, so that tuey feel as aolici toUB about tho Gospel as a mother doos about tho flrst baby, sad everything must be thought of and everything must ba done, and nobody can do it but she But while mothers caring for tho ninth or babe got over that ministers don't, and it becomes stronger and stronger with them to the end. So that you.wlll flndjiioary hoaded mlniaterB, Bald Mr. Beecher, good mon, who have so identified ihomeelvos with correct view of tha Gospel that they fool that if they should die thoy don't know what tho Lord would do for another, forgetting that God could use up others as Ho did them, and that Ho could do the work better without if they wero not in the way. THESE MEN WERE LIKE GRAPEVINES that olaaped a trollla, and then said, "What will this trellis do when wo are taken away from It?" Paul, tho man of all others who might hava been axpootod to ory, What will tho churches do v.

houl am gone?" did not do bo. The men whom ho was told ware speaking ill of him were preaching in ono aonse, a falso gospjl, that is they were preaching a historical cjurmt with a malign eplrlt. Ho man oould preaoh Christ by idoas, by theology, or philosophy, or logic. Paul manifested himself in all those subtle elomeuts of taste aud beauty, all those higher elements that do not conform themBelves to logic. Christ must be preached aa artists proaoh, by beauty; aa niuaiclana proaoh, by subtle sounds, marching in cohorts.

OhriBt must be preached partly by ideas, partly by will, partly by learning, partly by emotive powor, partly by dispositional powor. Men who attempted to preaoh Christ in a malignant spirit wore compared to one who should attempt to point out tho boauttos of an alabaster vase, turning it about with muddy hauds. TUo words of the toxt, expressing Joy that tho gosbol Bhoull be preaohed iu any form, Mr. Beoohor thought should be put over tha door of every theological iu tho accurate truth and exaotitu Jo ai to the latitudes and longitudOB of eternity aro known, ani froah observations oro taken every day of the Sun of Righteousness where they oan give tho time of the aes to a miuute, and where every one fe3ls bound to preach to all classes that enter them. "Here ia tho way walk in it, aud turn neither to the right nor tha left." When told of THE SLANDEBS OF THE PREACHERS Paul might have said, "God will rule it all for the bMt," or ho might have said, arter tho fashion of many good people of tha proaent day, hops thoy will do some good, but I fear," or he might have said to tho oliurohos, "Ah, you cannot expect I will have fellowship with any such men as they it does not become me." Ail these havo been expected, but it was too early in thu history of Christianity to havo them they are tho products of a much later period.

Oh, don't you think, said Air. Beecher, if heresy was thus troatod in modern times it would be a little better 1 Don'c y.ju think the hounds of love would be a Utile belter to run down heresy than the hounds of theology How piteous it is to seo tho ministers of Christ grow jealous and suspioious as thoy grow old And how beautiful it is to see men as they grow old grow mollow and bsautif ul and sweet I ihero was no man who in hi day was a more vehement theologian than old Dr. Alexander, of precious memory of Princeton, and yet when he lay dying and his later years had boon breathing in that very spirit he said, "Of all the things that I havo known aud taught, there are only two that remain by me and one that I am a Blnner, aud the other that Christ died to save sinners." These two truths he held one personal to himself and tho other personal to God and all tho rest did not ooncern him as it were fell off. Mr. Beecher went on to condemn those who would bring a brother up for letting a woman preaoh, for letting a theologian, LIKE PBOFESSOB SWING), preach for letting men who are just as good as they and just as slnoero have a free course and leaving God to bear witness whioh Is tho fruit sower and which not.

How painful, he said, it is to soe men who did not know the diiferenoo between conscientiousness and combatlveness and who pray a great deal that they may be Justified in bitterness a great deal How painful it is to eee a man oarry around the Lord Jesus Christ just aa a eandlestiok oarrlea a candle The light shines on all Bides, but not a ray of It affects the oandiestick, and when the candle burns out tho sooket does not care; but la just ready for anothor. How painful it Is to seo a man spend fifty years preaching Christ and never get in his garments one partiole of tho Bweet incenee of the divine nature. It is an awful thing to be a miniBter of Christ unless a man is a Christian. It is an awful thing for a man to be a Christian and to preaoh a Christ of contention and strife, with a yoke and a burdon which does not grow easier. Paul is not the apostle of any uucu mon.

TheBcr.R. B. Snowdon, Formerly a Presbyterian Minister, Admitted to the Order of tne Priesthood In tne P. E. Cliurch.

In St. John's Protestant Episcopal Churoh, on St. JohnB place, near Seventh avenue, tho Right Rev. Biahop Littlojohn yesterday morning ordained the Rev. Robert B.

Snowden to tho offlco of the priesthood, Mr, Snowden was formerly a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Connecticut, and was ordained doacon in the Protestant KplBoopal Church about a Tear ago. SInoo that time ho has been officiating in a email Episcopal ohurch at Fort Hamilton. Ho Is about forty years of ago and a gentleman of hue attainments. St. John's Church originally occupied the venerable edifies which stood on tho site of tho unfortunate Brooklyn Thoatre.

The new building was erected about six years ago. It is a small olegant gothio structure, with one of the handsomest parsonages in the city attached. Tha interior of the ohuroh is ohaste and elegant. Yesterday it retained its Christmas adornments, and on the oommunion table was an array of exquisite floral adornments. THB SERMON.

After thonsualmornlngprayor, the pastor.the Rev. T. S.Pycott.preached an appropriate und oloquent sermon. He selected as his text the tenth verse or tho eleventh chapter of St. Matthew's gospel: "Behold I sond my messenger bof oro thy face, whioh Bhall prepare thy way before thee." As John tho Baptist prepared tha way for Christ's flrst coming, so, the preaoher sold, the ministers of the gospel prepared the way for Christ's second oomlng.

For tbo first five hundred yoars of the Christian age their holy mother, tho Chui'oh of England, had an existence separate altogether from the Roman church. It had Its regularly and apostolic ally appointed bishops, priests and deaojna. and it was from that ohurch, aud not from tho Church of Rome that the bishop aud olergy of the later English Church received their ordination. Then the the Roman Church oxtended to England, ond many of its unauthorized novelties wero iutroduood thoro. In the Sixteenth Centuries the English Churoh rose on her dignity and asserted her right to be a branoh of tho Catholic Apostolio Oaurob.

The ohuroh did not destroy any apostolio dootrlue or ordinance, but reformed her teachings and usages. She rejected what had come In with tbo Human usurpation, and freod herself from tho abuses which had been introduced. She wont back to tho teaohingB and ordinauoos of ihe early English Church. She Bent the pure miniBtora of the gospel to evety part of the world, and from the ohurch of England and the Bister church of Scotland tha Protestant Episcopal churoh of Amerioa derived HER ECCLESIASTICAL LINEAOK. Her ministers had roceivod ordination through Archbishop Sheldon, and so they traced their lineage up to the apostolio ago.

From thlaldivine authority thoy derived their right to administer the ordinances of the Gospel, and to proclaim the truth as It is in Jesus. What a solemn graudour that thought gave to suoh a servioe as they were then engaged iu. Although their ohuroh claimed thiB apostolic dignity and authority, the preaoher said, sho uuohurchod no one and passed no judgmei.t on other religious bodies. She prayed in her liturgy for "all who prjfosB and call themselves Christians," This heaven ordained ministry in which their church rejoiced, was dlroctly couuooted wit tho judgment seat, and was designed to ssouro their acceptance there. If thou, tho rosponBibility of the hearer was so great, how great must be that of tho miniater.

He, too, must give acoouut of nil stewardship. THE ADDRESS TO THB CANDIDATE. Turning toward tho candidate who stood up clad in a plain surphco, tho revorend preacher ssid: "My dear brother, you have come hero to day to be invested after the manner of apostolio usage with the sacred oilloo of tho priesthood. You are not a novioo, having been engaged lor years in another body of Christian believers in preaching the Gospel. While in sympathy with the progress of the age our ohurch ia nevertheless conservative in all Its movements.

You will no doubt adjust yourself with wisdom to tha now order of things. Strive not to preaoh yourself or your own opinions, but Uhrist and yourself tho Borvant and not tie master. Lot your life and oonduot be iu keoplug with that Christian spirit wulcb characterizes me excellent and godly people from whom you oome. Pursuing your work in this spirit God will blods you and givo you seaU to your ministry and souls for a crown of rejoicing." A hymn was sung and the Bishop seitcd himself on the pulpit side of the altar. The Kev.

Mr. Pycoit thou presented tho candidate to tho Bishop, saying "Rev erond Father in God, I present unto you this person present to be admitted to the order of priesthood." The Bftrvlao proceeded in the prescribed form, tho Bishop and attendant preBbyters, of whom there were throe laying their hands on the head of the oandidate. At the conclusion of the service the Bishop, clergy, newly ordalnod priest and congregation united In the Lord'B Supper. Theatres and Dancing Sermon by Dr. Nye.

Hev. H. R. the Universalist Church, Clermont avenue, preaohed last evening upon tho theatre. Ho held that dramas might as well be aotcd aa read.

All these amusements were as good as recreations, but bad, If made of the first importance. There were' many theatrical plaoards unfit to be Been ou the Btreets, and it often happened when a play was otherwise good, some unseenly phrase was thrown Into it to please depraved spectators. Mr. Nyo thought that it was not good for young men to be habitual attendants upon theatres. Beside being expensive, it bad a tendency toward drinking.

He favored the holding of theatrical performances In the day time. Play was not the life: the undertone of life should be aerioua. In the course of his remarks, the preacher alluded dancing which he Bald, need not be tabooed by religious persons, except round dances which were evil in their tendency. ALONG THE HEDITEBRA.NEAS. The French shore of the Mediterranean divides into two distinct parts, which oiler a Btrango contrast to eaoh other.

From Genoa to Marseilles all is life and beauty "all the world" goes thither for pleasure or health. From Marseilles tho coast of Srain ono finds everywhere solitude and desolation. Tha latter region was at one time highly prosperous, but it haa been entirely changed by the immense quantities of and and mud brought down by tho rivers. Nirbonno, in the time of the Romans, oommunloated directly with the sea. It had its lagoon like Venice, and a deep canal affordod pasiage to heavy merohant uhlps and tho triremes of the Imperial fleet.

Tho lagoon is now blocked up, and commerce, wealth and activity are all gone. Aries wa anothor very Important city: it had two ports, lilre Alexandria, and woa so rich and powerful that a poet of tne Fourth Century spoke of it aa the "Rome of the Gauts." The Bhone, with its annual sovonteou millions cubic metros of sediments, has been its ruin. So with other ollies; but while thoy have becomo ssparat ed from tbe Boa, agriculture 1b gradually taking possession of the land won from the water, and the vine and olive may yet restore a part of the ancient prosperity. The stranding of the unfortunate steamship L'Amerique shows that the stoutest fabrio may be ruined by the guilt or incompetonoe of. the pilot In charge, it is to be hoped that tha French steamer is the only vessel of that name which tho preBen year will wltneaa In ruins.

The name is omiuously suggestive. in distant settlements of semi olvilization. The word "gentleman" alone expresses a stiong power for good. The man who is worthy' of so high a title is necessarily a Christian in spirit, and hence a just man, a good adviser, a 'man of progressive ideas and vigorous work and a peacemaker. Who can measure the influence Of such a Bishop as Reginald Heber, whose name is remembered whenever his inspiring missionary hymn is.

auug Well has Thackeray written of in the Pour Georges when comparing the true gentlemen of England with the "first gentleman of Europe," the padded fop who wore the crown. The successors ojf Hober in the See of Calcutta'have been worthy of tho Elijah's mantle he bequeathed to them. How dear to the old pupils of Marlborough School is the name of George Lynoh Cotton, who, when he had held the bishopric but a few years, perished in the Ganges. His lectures on Socrates and other topics of philoBophio interest delighted the native as well as the English literati. And now we have a delightful pioture drawn by Lord Northbrook, late Viceroy of India, of the late Bishop Milman who was Bishop Cotton's successor.

At the meeting held at Oxford to found the See of Lahore in memory of the Bishop who fell a victim to his too arduous work, Earl Northbrook, as reported by the London Times, described the way in which Bishop Milman influenced all olasses of the community his tenderness to and consideration for the Government chaplains; his friendly relations to missionaries of all denominations, who worked side by side with him. He mentioned that ono of the most affectionate lettora ou his death was from a Prosbyierian missionary. Ho described the effact of his oxanipls on general Euronein society, on members of tho Civil Sorvioa, whom ho knew how to interest both by his conversation and his sermons, whioh wero adapted to men of the highest intelligence on of tho army, among whom his iafliunco was constantly acknowledged on common soldiersffor whose good ho labored hoartily; on the plantors and non official olasses, as for Instance In Assam. With regard to the natives of ludia ho ahowod hlB zeal by mastorlng aovcral of their languages. He could preach in Hindustani, Bongall and Hindi.

He knew enough of Porsian, Arabic and Sanskrit to quota from ena literature ot those languages. Ho frequently doliverod lectures on philosophical and religious subjects which wore well attended by natives. He was glau to collect men of all classes and nations about him. At his evening parties at Oal outta you met loaders of Bocioty, both European and native, lawyers, antlquanos, scholars, whom he knew how to attraot aud how to interest, seconded in this, as in nil othor efforts, by a sislor who was tho partner ot his Indian life. The testimony borne by nativca of the regret for hia death was most atriklng.

Ono of tho mo3t onlighteiod Princes, tho Maharajah of Jey pore, oxprossod to Miss Milman In a feeliug letter his unaffeotod sorrow at this ovont. buoh relations woro of value oven to tho Government, sa evoryiuing tending to draw classos togethor was, especially when under tho guidance of one not absolutely of tho governing order. Here was a model Bishop indeed; one who might justify the statement of St. Paul that if a man desireth the office of a bishop ho desireth a good work. Dr.

Dollinger and other historians have testified to the advantages of British rule in India. Certainly if that rulo carries with it such beneficent and civilizing influences as these, it has a raison d'etre as well as a bright promise in the future. If these are the gifts that the Empress of India sends her native subjects, thoy may feel glad of their allegiance to Englands Queen. Progress, culture, good will, science aud wisdom these are the things that accompany salvation" and make the feot of our evangelists wolcome on the distant hills. The natives must be conciliated to Christianity even if they do not embrace it under such missionaries as Bishop Milman.

The Church of England is a State Church in India, though for so vast a harvest the laborers are few. The metropolitan of Calcutta roflects the institutions of his own country and the spirit of its sovereign and people. Well might the native princes sit at the feet of such a man aud woll might the ex Viceroy say that suoh a Bishop was a strong support to British rule. Nor is the portrait of good Bishop Milman, to whose memory his Alma Mater is about to found another Indian See, without companionship. Many other prelates in many lands have shared his spirit, and possessed like graces and accomplishments.

Some of them have won the martyr's crown and some still live. Charles Perry, who but recently resigned the diocese of Melbourne, was Senior Wran8leT nf bis yor, yt when Melbourne was a straggling village preaohed cheerfully from the stump of a tree. Selwyn, now Bishop of Lichfield, learned the New Zealand language on his voyage to be its bishop. And chief of all, John Coleridge Patteson gave up the learned ease of an Oxford Fellowship to teach the savages of the Isles of therPapifio. He fell at last by the arrows of those he had befriended fell, pierced with five wounds, the stigmata of Christ.

Surely, bishops are not the useless drones our modern Newlights would depict them, and surely there have been found more than ten righteous in the Anglo Saxon race. La Page, the murderer of the young school girl, Josie Langmaid, in the woods near Pembroke, New Hampshire, in October, 1875, and who was convicted the 19th of January last, is to be hanged on Friday next at Concord. The law of New Hampshire entitles a murderer to one year's imprisonment after conviction, iu order that every opportunity may be given him for proving his innocence, and this probation La Page has enjoyed. Not, however, with any pleasing results, for he has failed to convince anybody that he was wrongly accused, or that tho murder of the girl was not his work. La Page was a Canadian wood cutter and was convicted despite every opposition which wos afforded him of exonorating himself.

The trial created the greatest excitement in Pembroke and Concord, the people thereof making it a matter of individual interest, and the approaching event which is to close the tragedy, promises to be a scene of importance to all the locality roundabout that region of the State. The reason why "Zach" Chandler was chosen as Chairman of the Republican National Committee begins to be perooived. It was because as Secretary of the Interior he could first make the Administration the right wing of the campaign, as he did, and secondly because when his corruptions were inquired into, he could retreat behind his privilege as a Cabinet Officer and refuse to answer questions. This he did on Saturday, when he made his conduct of the part of his duties as Secretary of the Interior, and, as a Cabinet officer, refused to be questioned," The telegrams Zach sent South after the election to tha Returning Board managers convict him of corruption, conspiracy and recourses to fraud and force of tho most flagrant character. It remains to be seen first, whether his pitiful pettifoggery will shield him; and, secondly, whether it will shield his dispatches.

No sooner does any progress to a plan get reported than all the Returning Board organs, beginning with the Times, "jump on it." The conspirators have no other plan than for Ferry to "proclaim Hayes." It might as well be understood that if Ferry undertakes to do anything of this kind, he will himself be "proclaimed" in the manner customary among Sheriffs when they open Courts for the trial of criminals. A Kentucky man has answered in a very common sense way the question, "What is the injured husband to do." His bride having eloped, he punished her by promptly marrying a better looking woman. If this remedy be fully considered, be found to be superior in most respects to suicide, murder, or a suit for damages. It was singularly forgotten by all the press that for yaara Mr. Bennett was the ohampion pigeon shooter in the United States, and that then only a professional.

Captain Paine, just a little surpassed him. That would hava, if borne in mind, made calculations on hia probable marksmanship a good dsal truer and more Intelligent than thoy wore, The chances aro ten to twelve that as to his reported oxcesses Mr. Bennett has been much lied about. The crime of health, wealth and independence has been the breeder of mueh ignorant assumption and much sheer mendacity about him and his habita. The true inwardness of tho Schroeder reforms is this: Tho Republicans want single Hoada of Commissions because they already have General Slocum at the head of City Works and General Jourdan at the head ol the Polioe.

II Adams and Fowler and Pyburn and Hurd can ba lseis. lated out of office, Slocum and Jourdan would have a nice time next Fall politloalizlng tho City Works and the Police for what they call reform. That la the milk iu the coconut. For real reform, Mayor Schroeder and General Slooum have the same kind of interest that a oannibal has in a cook book, Topics of Interest Looked from the Citizens' Standpoint. Bow Shall tne Theatre be Reformed To the Editor of ihe Brooklyn Eagls When, upon any questions of morals those who are looked upon as our teachers are divided, as Is the case with the clergy in tho question of the drama, It would be presumptuous for a layman to olalm in faillDUlty and to say the rights lay hers or there and in tho few lines that will follow, I trust you will look in vain to find that whioh would put the writer out of the pale of salvation, if judged from tho standpoint of those who oppose or those who defend the theatre.

This muoh all will admit that wbatover data may be made for the drams per ae the manner la which it ia presented to the pablio is, as a rule, open to objection. Even thOBO plays whose professed end is to tooch wholesome moral lessons, and the balance of whose Influence, when Justly weighed, is for good, often, and jwo axe sorry to say, usually contain words and sontences, actions, hints and suggestions that those most careless of the moral effect of the play will concede are not conducive to tha improvement of the auaicors. A question not yot fully settled is. whether dramatic representations ore a natural or artificial want of the human mind and, if natural, if they should bs restricted to such lisht works ae merely amuse, or it instruction and improvement should be oombined therewith. Tha fact that they exist and are reoeivod with a relish by a large portion of the community, while not a conclusive answer to the first nart nf tho question, is sufficiently so to warrant us in tho belief that until there is a groator change in human nature than the laat few thousand yaara have shown, it seams highly probable that this demand will continue.

What, tbcu, oan bo done There is a olass, a large ono, tha writer among tho number, who aay "Improve tha thoatre havo uo playa produced that will 6hook tho dolicaoy of tho moat iastldious. tho senBoa of the moat esthotical, or tho morals ot the most puritanical aud let it be dono at ouco," i When we aonlv. as has been dona baforo. to ths man i agera, their reply is verv oourtooua. "Should hn must huppy to co operate in this as In any othor good work "'gu rogaru ior mo ooat interests ana wonare or the community.

Wo wiah it were utuorwiao, but the truth Is there ia but ono or two tlilncr fnr An please the publlo or shut up shop. Wo beilevo tho piaja iu ursi class meaires, ana we are sorry to bj obbgod to bclievo it, ara, as a rulo, iu advauoe of the averajio honoaty aud morality of tho audiences, and that while we should be glad to load faster toward a higher sphere of aotlon, wo truly thiuk a groatjr strain wuuiu ureas, ina leading string, nut, aa we said be loro, wo auau uo very glad to oo oporato with you iu any practioal way." We turn to tho press "Our offloe Is to inform tha publio of tho events of tho day, to lay bofora it what is being done, nothing oxtanuaung, and sotting down naught in malice. We report the doiuga of tha poli tloiau and tha olergymau, tne oourl room and tho tuoa tce, tha luctura hall, the po ll room aud the Biard of Brokers, tho good and bad ovorywhere. Should we endeavor to write down all the evil wo soe, oura would ba a task greater than Sisyphus undertook or llarculos accomplished. But we aro tho servants of the public, and as BUch shall bo vory glad to co operate, 4c." Our next appeal is to tha olargy.

If wa take a recent article iu Kir. BeecUer'a Christian Onion as aaawor, we niuflt not expoct muoh direct aid from that souroe. Summed up in a few words that article says tho pulpit has all it cau do to aid reformations more dlroctiy iu its line, and leaves the reformation of tho thoatre to the goou sense of the publio, Slill the pulpit, if uot directly, will be a mighty help in the matter. Does it not Sunday after Sunday hutl its anathemas against all evils. There ia not sin of commisBion or ouiUaion that dooj not receive seve.e reproof, whioh if batter heeded would make tho labor of improving the drama much lighter.

Tho pulpit is doing much in us way to olovate the standard of morals whioh in its lessons must of nooss slty elevate the theatre moro, we believe, in this way working at the substratum; than when it turns ssido to uiako direot attack upon managers, aotora or theatre goers. Thore 1b one more olass to whioh we will appoal with hope of more auooess that is tho Amateur Dramatic as tho leading one in our own city and probably in the world, we will addross our remarks directly to the Amaranth Will you not aid in the niattor by setting before your friends only suoh playa as all can approve 7 You have au opportunity not enjoyed by tha regular profession. You are not depaudent upon either the plaudits or ths pursos of your audienoes for support, and are untlrely at liberty to ohoose for your representations Buoh playB as In your conscienoos you believe will bonoQt as well as amuse them. If there are not such plays at hand SB you can approve, we know thero is sufficient talent at your command to oonacruct them. We await your roply, not in word', but iu deeds.

You havo already wou tha approbation of your fellow oltisens and you have deserved it, and this will greatly ancourago you iu any laudable undertaking. You can in this way, if you will, earn an ouviablejreputation that will ba ln vuluablo to your dramatio corps, to your aooloty and to your membors individually. Will you do it 7 Augustus. Governor Hubbard To Hit Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Your artiole in Thursday's Eagle, in commenting upon the able messago of Govomor Hubbard to tho Connecticut Legislature, statod that "he became known to the country as a Kepublloan Congressman." ThiB statement is an error, for tha Governor, with whom I am well acauaimed, has always been of strict Democratic faith. During the late oivll war ho was an outspoken and fearloss war Democrat, and at times was obliged to Bustain these men and measures sus tsiuod and supported alike by war Demoorsta aud Ito publioans.

For years he has boon recognized us one of the ablest advooates at the bar in New England, and he has often conduotod important causes before the. United States Supreme Court. Often baa he represented the City of Hartford in tho lower brunch of the Legislature, and some of the beat laws in its legislation have been framed by him. He was for many yeara the District Attorney for Hartford County, but bis large and lucrative praotloe finally compelled him to resign that position. In 1857 hs was the Domocratlo candidate for Congress but was defeated by a small majority by Ezra Clark, Jr.

Ton years after he was again tho candidate of the Demooraoy and was electe by a large majority over Colonel Honry C. Doming, an able orator and who was also a wjr Democrat supported by the Republicans. Iu 1873 he was induced to beoome the standard bearor of the Democraoy for the Governorship against the Hon. HiirehiU) Jewell, attorward Minister to RusbIo and Postmaster General, but was defeated. He has also been tho oandidate of this party for a seat In the United States Senate, but as tho Legislature was Republican was not elected.

His eleotion to hiB present position a few weeks ago is well known to tho publio. Governor Hubbard is a profound politloal thinker of deep convlotlons, and while conservative in his views, yet firm In what he believes to bo right. That he will make one of tho best of the many able Governors Connecticut has had, his politloal opponents already oonoede. He Is quiet and unostontatious in manner, not anxious for position, but when convinced that his publio services are needed, will not shirk from ths duty. I have no doubt that aa he becomes known to the oountry, his services will ba demanded by his follow countrymen In a higher sphere than that he at present occupies and in his efforts to restore this Government to the simplicity and purity of the Fathers, President Tildon will have no abler supporter than Governor Hubbard of Connecticut.

Chaeleb S. Enbiok. Rapid Transit. To the Editor qf the Brooklyn Eagle: As a constant reader of your valuable paper, I have notioed reoently there has boon no agitation ot rapid transit in Brooklyn. We hava in tho City of Brooklyn a sufficient area of spaos, ah graded and laid out, for a population of half a million, not ooouplad, and the drawbaok is tbe want of rapid transit or moans of getting homo from New York at a roaaonable hour.

I am informed that the Bridge 1b to be completed two years from next July. If Buoh ia the aot, would It not bo advisable to open Fiatbo.au. avenue immediately to the terminus of the Bridge, which will oonBume most of the abovo time. My views would be to build a road similar to the Vanderbllt out, at Forty aeoond street, running it through Flatbush avonuo to Flatbush and Coney Island a branch at Atlantio avenue, running to East Now York bIbo, one at Fifth avenue, running to Fort Hamilton. There can be no objection to the above localities, ae tho property would be very muoh enhanced in value immediately upon the oompletlon of tho road.

Other branohea would be required for tho Eastern District, which I will leave for others to BUggeat. To build the road tha bonds should be guaranteed by the oicy to pay a divideud of five per cent, per annum. Tho road should be managed by flvo gentlernou (not politloianB), appointed by tho Mayor of tho city. B. William Winslow Bonnott on Van derbilt.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Style In justice, please allow me to call the attention of the puoUo to tho atatemont I made regarding Commodore Vanderbilt's caBe. some months slnee: First The autopsy reveals that, as I then Baid, and as I told Mr. WHUani Vanderbllt and tho family, my spirit frieudsaald his hold out for years if properly magnetioally treated and not druggod to death. Seoond The spirits iu Juno told me be would die In September if not magnetized. On the 8th of Oo tober hia doctors thought he would pass on.

Ninety days thereafter the propheoy was fulfilled. As I be iiovo it would havo been in September, bad the frightened doctors not uaed magnetism again, whioh as tbe Commodore was one mm among a million, only one modiura probably of the same number oould have eup nliod him with the needed nervous force. Mrs. Vlo toria Woodhull told me in Juno that he would live through 1876. Yours for the truth, William Winblow Binhett.

Thanks to Mr. Oeecber and member of Hia Congregation To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eajle: Please allow me space in your valuable paper to return my moat slnoero thanks to Henry W. Beooher for his prompt assistance in the case or a poor Cathollo family, the particulars of this case I will not mention. My object is only to thank him. Also Mrs.

Lewis and Mrs. Pratt, members of hisoburob, for their kindness to this poor family these ladles deserve great praise. Their kindness to the poor is well known in this city. Many a desolate home tney have made happy. They onjoy Ufa with all Its pleasures, but they have never forgotton the noor, not like some of our rioh misers who glory in their riches and care not for the poor.

Mr. Beecher and these ladles ought to be an example for some of onr ladies to follow. The goodness of their hearts smiles on their faces. Brooklyn may feel prond while wetiavoa minister like Henry Ward Beeoher. His army of Christian believers are constantly increasing.

He has won tho viotory. Triumphed over tbe unjust mn that tried to pull him down aa low as themselves. They will nevor see that day. God haa given him courage to boar with It all. And now his sood works and his good name shall be everlasting.

B. W. Points of Mourning; Etiquettes To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Before the calamity of the Brooklyn Theatre passes out of memory, I ask space in your paper to protest against the very poor taste and Judgment displayed by the keeper of the county and olty buildings or whoever was reiponilble in keeping the flags flying at half mast for thirty days and nights In memory of the dead, the only exoiuo for this violation of ussge and what is proper that can be offered is lgnoranoe, and and if the custodian of the city's flags does not know that whenever and for whatever reason tbey are hoisted tbey should always be lowered at sunset, and they should never be kept flying after the remains of the dead, in whoBe memory they have been displayed at half i mast, are under ground, it is high time that ho was Informed of the fact. There are no exception! to these two rnteB, and yet we are often annoyed and our Bense ot the proprieties shocked to see the City Hall covered with bunting at midnight I The fact that nearly one thousand dollars worth of bunting was destroyed during those thirty days and nights of wind and storm would not beso important if it had been displayed In a proper and usual way. I am Induced to hand yuu this by the oommants of a large number of oar oitizens who aftsr the burial were repeatedly asking "Why are the flags not or "What ass ia responsible for keeping flags flying after sunaet, and in a northeast snow storm Perhaps you who are supposed to know slmost everything can enlighten the Community.

Building Inspection. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle Please allow me to ask through the Eagle tho following question Of what use is the laspoetion of public buildings now going on. as regards safety Is it to let the public know which buildings are safe, or is it conduotod with a view of competing owners to make such alterations as tbe Oommitte i est 1 havo noticed in the published rep it several of the publlo scboolhousos have been do i insTTe, particularly No. 7 on York street, but no1 ling that fact no menttou was made of tbt ia u.or at tha meeting of the Board of Education. Wake up these old fogies; this Is a matter which concerns us all.

Taxpayeb, Fifth. Ward. When a woman blushes aud weeps can she be said to raise a hue aud ory stamped out, and that the cause of Packard being the cause of Hayes must be put through now by bayonets, as the direot cause of Hayes himself must be put through by bayonets in March. The fullness of significance thus given by the "organs" to the Louisiana policy mast be very clearly and very calmly appreciated by the oountry. "It means business," and it must be taken at its meaning.

There is no doubt of the election of Mr. Nicholls as Governor of Louisiana. It is not too much to say that those who affeot to doubt it know that they really have no doubt about it at all. In this number, its information, its Intelligence and the miserably oxcusatory woy in whioh tho Times treats the case, require it to be included. The people of the State, of both parties, have all but unanimously admitted and recognized the election and administration of Mr.

Nicholls. They are paying taxes universally to his administration, and paying them spontaneously, even while the pretender maintains himself in isolated and contempt secured safety "in the State "House." On Saturday the main part of the "Legislature" of Paokard deserted him, and just as his regime was falling to pieoes of its own falsehood and corruption, without a blow being struck at it, the President is reported to have ordered the Government to be bayo notted out and the usurpation to be bayonetted in again, on tho annouuoed assumption that to do otherwise "will help Tilden." A President who can thus be turned against himself aud a Presidency which can thus be turned against the people, by the arts and companionable agencies which a set of schemers are addicted to and capable of, render "the United Statos question" of even more importance than the "Louisiano "question," and the present Administration a subject of decidedly greater importance than the political comploxion of the next one. An Executive who can be saved neither from himself nor his friends seems to be bent on requiring the country to save itself from both. Rev. Dr.

Hall on Dueling. Rev. Dr. Hall, pastor of Holy Trinity Church, preached on dueling yesterday. Taking for his text the words, Whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood bo shed," he held that the duelist defies the laws of God and commits an outrage upon society, in that he willfully assails human lifo and to the extent of his power brings into contempt the legal methods established for the reparation of wrong and the enforcement of justice between man and man.

The Bennett May affair seems to have suggested rather than formed tho object of the reverend gentleman's observations. Not what those young men did, but the monstrous conceptions of honor and duty whioh led to their action, and which have so often disgraced civilization, were the subjects of his entirely agree with him when ho says that a duel (likely to become a precedent or tending to keep alive a barbarous system) "is not only a violation of the law and an offense against the morals of the coni munity, but it is a real public calamity as real a calamity as the Brooklyn fire or the breaking of the bridge at Ashtabula." Tho code of honor, preposterously named, is based on tho assumption that gentlemen are at liberty to shed human blood whenever their passions are moved, without regard to the tribunal of justic3 estab.ished in the community for the redress of injuries. Its tendency is to brand with cowardice whoever may decline, a bra vadoe's challenge to fight, or refusing to acquiesce in the doctrine that a ruffian's sword or an assassin's pistol is a better adjudicator of what becomes a man than any judge acting under the civil statutes which have been formed by the slowly gathered wisdom of the ages to protect tho weak against the strong ond hold the turbulent in check. If this code were assented to, the man who would not take the risk of having a bullet put in his brain or a rapier blade in his heart whenever a ruffian chose to outrage his feelings or abuse his person would be without redress. The peaceable citizen who may be slandered or knooked down must, according to this code of honor, suffer meekly, or giva the aggrooaor a prearranged opportunity to shoot or stab him.

Some centuries ago, when every man bore arms, and when the assumption was justified that every man was expert in the use of them and when the gloss of ohivalry but half concealed the essential barbarism of feudal government, the duello may have been defensible but in these times when the assumption is that swords and pistols are strange to the citizens' hands, we should by encouraging the duelist set a premium upon the acts of the blackleg. It is clear that if indulgence be given to the assumption that it is cowardice to rely upon the law of the land for protection and redress, Blackstone and Kent must give way to the fencing mastor and the shooting gallery instructor. What, it may be asked, are men like Mr. Bennett to do when a fellow like May takes it upon himself to assault and beat them in public? Let them go to law. That this answer should awaken an incredulous smile upon any face is evidence enough that the code of honor and kindred pestilential notions control the imagination of many.

We do, however, believe that Mr. Bennett would have acted more ra I tionally had ho turned his assailant over to the police than he did by giving him an opportunity to add murder to his first offense. Society would have been much better served by the spectable of Mr May in the Tombs working out a term for assault and battery in the company of common felons and social vermin than by the figure he was permitted to cut in Delaware. Honor consists in keeping obligations either expressed or understood. Every man living under the dominion of law is in honor bound to abide by the law, and the duelist in that he tramples this obligation under foot is as far from honor as the highwayman or the maker of counterfeit currency.

The snake that bit the husbandman who warmed it into lifo at his hearth, is a very good type of tho man who, accepting the protection of socioty in every respect that suits his purpose, proceeds at his convenience to bring contempt upon the spirit of civd law. Moreover, the dueling code is essentially base, in that it tends to make the weak the prey of the strong a tendency which no man of true honor ever has or ever will, approve of. English Missionary Bishops. The Anglican communion, of which our own Episcopal Church may be counted as a member, since its prelates, not less than those of the British Colonies, take part in the Pan Anglican Synods at Lambeth, is in nothing more remarkable than in its missionary spirit and enterprises. Turn to what quarter of the globe we will, we are pretty sure to come in contact with an English missionary bishop.

At Sierra Leone or Cape Town, in New Zealand and Australia, iu India and the West Indies, iu Vancouver's Island and Rupert's Land, the English speaking traveler will hear the same melodious litanies that have been dear to England sinoe Cranmor and his colleagues shaped and oollated them. We, of Long Island and the "City of Churohes," owe so great a debt of gratitude to the English Church and its "Society for the Propagation "of the Gospel in Foreign Parts," that no apology is needed for referring to its operations in other portions of the world. One hundred and seventy five years ago an English Church missionary wrote of his countrymen on Long Island that "many of them had no "religion, but were like wild and adds that "there is no Church of Englondinall "Long Island, nor in all that great continent, "of New York Province, except at New York "Town," The next year, however, we find an English rector of Queens County, and three jears after churches and pastors at Hempstead and Jamaica, while Bibles, prayer books and chalices were donated to these and other neighboring churches by "good Queen "Auue" iu 1700. The missionary spirit thus indicated has never slept, and whatever we may think of the vast sums of money that are annually spent upon missions, or of the importance of the ecclesiastical results accomplished through them, no thinking man can fail to see that they do vast good iu the way of civilization. Take array frum the Auglioan prelate bis claim to tho apostolio succession deny if you please, tho validity of his ministerial title take to remain conveniently at hand in order that he might trip up to a policeman, if necessary, to seoure the escape of bis "pal," From the Herald, Ind.j The Republicans aro irritable over tho examination of Mr.

Chandler, and threaten to haul up iu their turn tha Cnoirman of tho Democratic National Committee, who, as ho was not a Cabinet offloer nor oven a United States marshal, would have no official privileges, and it is to be hoped would spoak out like a man. Tha Com mittee are said to bo in no hurry with Mr. Chand. ler, as there are witnesses on tha way from Florida to testify about tolograms to and from Governor Stearns. What thotr testimony will show oannot of course be accurately known until thoy 1 arrive.

Soma friends of Mr. Chandler ssy that ha should either have refused to answer any question as a Cabinet officer, or that, having answered some, ho should have replied unhesitatingly to all that wero asked. This would certainly simplify matters a good deal, and it is hoped here that ho will make up nil miud to Bpeak out and that the Committee will hereafter sit with open doors. Recalcitrant witnesses are at a discount here this Winter. Everybody wanta to know about everything and la the Senate Committee on the Orezon business Senator Keriian has shown a good and popular example Dy warning ail Hesitating witnesses cast cuey muse speak out and tell all thoy know, as this is not a matter about which he means to protect them.

If either purty has dona wrong he wants it to appear. Secretary Chandler Is usually so free spoken a man that ha will doubtless, before the matter is closed, submit himself to a more thorough examination; but he probably regrets that he became, while a Cabinet officer, Chairman of the Republican Committee. If he docs not, a considerable part of the Republican does on various aoooufits. By all mefins 1st the Chairman of the National Democratic Committee bo plaoed upon tho stand. The cuso at issue is of momentous oonoeru, and tho pooplo will insist upon the facts, for they do not want a President whose society oven would bo avoided by self respecting men, because he would be a President through fraud.

Let all the facts come out at once, for sooner or lator their disclosure will bo inevitable. For our own part wt aro sathtied that "a part "of the Republican party uot ouly regret" that Chandler attempted to fill two incompatible positions, but they rogrot his existoncs. i Tho ItopubHcan party bids fair to die at his 1 hands, and not with decency either. If tho big job of counting in a President had to be commenced aain, we aro sure that Chandlor would uot be permitted to undertake it. A President Turned Upon Himself A.

Presidency Turned Upon the Pcople During the whole of last week, the assurances wore explicit from Washington City that the President would not interfere between tho rival governments of Louisiana. He himself interviewed abundantly ond clearly to that effect to the representative of the Associated Pross. He did likewise to the correspondents of not a few newspapers. On Thursday last the Eagle was moved bluntly to say that If Grant has promised not to recognise Packard he will recognize Taokard. If he has promised not to use troops he wif? use troops." The interpretation of General Grant as dreams are interpreted" by oon traries," has been warranted by a long course of vindication which he has furnished to that rule.

It proves not to have been wrong iu this instance. The last revelation of the President as a promise breaker is, however, of much more importance in itself than on account of any agreement it reveals with his uniform policy in that respect. It is all but officially reported in the JT: York Times, the Administration and Returning Board, organ, that he will, to day interfore against Nicholls and for Packard with iroops in Louisiana, and that he will rcimpose and enforce on the people of Louisiana the usurpation which the Returning Board has "declared" in that State. The lan guage of the Times in making this authorized announcement is as follows The President has very proporly deoidod to delay his recognition of the regular Government of Louisiana no longer. The moderation which he ha3 hitherto shown has bsen misinterpreted and abusod.

Democratic leaders havo been advising the pretender Nich oIIb to Betas the Stato House and to oarry his revolutionary proooodings to the groatest possible length, aud this in the avowed interest of Mr. Tildon, who would be glad to tako possession of tho United States Government in the same way, if he dared to do so. Tho President has concluded that matters havo gone quite far enough to require definite Instructions to General Augur, and those hava accordingly been given. It remain! to be seen how thoy will be received by Nicholls and the White Leaguers but as to this there is not much doubt. There is insensibly a style and flavor of Mexico about this announcement to which, we suppose, American readers are becoming suitably accustomed.

The States which made and make the Federal Government tnuBt be "recognized" by their oreature or down they go. Moreover, neither the Senate nor the Representatives nor the Supreme Court of tha States United have any part or lot in this "recognition." It devolves only and wholly on the President or on those who "run" him and it devolves not even on any law or any policy uniformly and clearly controlling that President, but on the whim or notion or resolve or temper he may form or that may be formed within him. The Times itself either lacks or discards the wit to make out any semblance of a cause, a case or a pretext for this interference. Somebody is assorted to have "misinterpreted or abused" Grant's prior polioy of non interference. "Democratic leaders," not named, have boen "advising" Govoruor Nicholls, in terms not stated, to seize the State House in "the avowed intorest of "Mr.

Tilden." "Hence definite instructions "have boen given to General Angur." Now, a reader who is both "green" and constitutional might ask, "What official concern has Presi dent Grant iu what mokes or mars the 'interest' either of Mr. Tilden or Mr. Hayes It could also by any such reader be reasonably concluded (1) That Governor Nicholls, having repudiated auy intention of seizing tho State House, should not be held guilty of intending to do so, in the face of no attempt to do so and in the face of absolute orders not to do so. (2) That if Grant or tbe Times had any such orders or advices between NichollB and "Democratic leaders," the words would be given and the names would be given, and (3) that in the absence of these things the assertions are false, while if they were all true thoy do not constitute any reason or justification or pretence for the President to prejudge a case, now under the decision alike of Congress aud tho Judiciary. The dispatch from Washington on which the Times bases the editorial we have quoted is as fat witted as tho editorial itself.

Speaking of this mythical "advice," the correspondent reveals himself either as a romancer or a telegram thief iu saying that One prominent Democratic Senator from a Western State has been particularly con spicuoue iu giving advice of this kind. He has been in constant telegraphic communi cation with Nicholls, and no later than yes terday sent him ft dispatch in which he counseled him to take forcible possession of the State House, and dislodge the lawful Government. Iu giving this counsel the Senator stated that such action on Vie part of the Nicholls clique could not fail to strength en the cause of Mr. Tilden." The words italicized, whether by the blunder or purpose of the correspondent, as clearly commit the President to the Hayes conspiracy as words can do it. They undoubtedly reveal the potontial appeal which was brought to bear upon the mind of Grant, in the condition in which that mind was found, or to which it was brought, by those who applied the pressure to tho President yesterday.

A quiet statement by the Associated Press unintentionally casts full light upon the agents and process that were effective with Grant yesterday. Tho statement is thfs Secretary Chandler and Senator Cameron called on the President yesterday. The Times correspondent to whom we have referred, states that the President reached his conclusion after consultation with a number of Senators, Hon. E. W.

Stoughton and a number of other well known consti tutional lawyers. The rest goes without saying, and tho country can be trusted to hold responsible those who effected the debauch ment of the Executive office, yesterday, as shown to day in the declaration of a policy of cruelty and injustice, so fell and foul as the one toward Louisiana. Tho fato of being governed by an Executive who cannot govern himself, or through a cabal which administers tho Presidency through tho vices and infirmities of the President, seems to be one that bears the hardest on Louisiana of any of the States of the Union. Coupled however, with this intended overthrow of that State, is the announcement that by tho samo policy of filtering law through appetite is the disputed Presidency question to bo decided by force, for aud by the conspirators who have engaged to oount in and install the defeated candidate. The cause of Louisiana, therefore, becomes the cause of tho Union, not merely on account of tho wrong done that i.