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THE CHURCHES. repeated. It is obvious that this praotioe con THE: HIE BILL irMliIi)it)Hilji had frequently called on Misa with the bill Miss Dearborn did not pay, and wrote that unless the 50 wan paid, he.would sond Bomo of tho notes to Bell's wife Doll didn't scare worth a cent, and the roaotioii of Crawford's littlo boomoraug has brought it unpleasantly home. He gave bail for future examination. He hod already sent a large installment of the notes he improvements, and if they could bo impressed with that fact ho thought they would favor it.

Mr. Cuth'n said that, as Mr. Musoly had remarked, the opposition arose from tho fact that people wero unwilling to increase tho bonded debt of the "city. Oho of the mot powerful elements of tho opposition was a newspaper, which he always read with a groat deal of pleasure Ho alluded, of course, to the Eaglk. Somo articles had appeared there ogainBt tho bill, and thoy had drawn out several suggestions, and while he gave the directors and managers of that paper every possible credit for fairnuaa, he often thought if they would look at tho importance of the bill with reference to the health of the people of the Twenty necond Ward and the growth of tbat section of the city, they would somewhat moderate their opposition.

They needed the sewors in order to keep their familiea in good health aud promote tho growth of tbat section of tho city, and asked no favors, but simply fair play. Tbe meeting then adjourned. brown churoh with ite squaro belfry, up whoao time mellowed sides tho ivy is climbing thickly and tenderly seems indeed to mark a haven of refugo. Tho war of tho great thoroughfare 13 afar off and the poaco of a cloister seems to encircle the ancient pile. There is nothing sensational or dazzling about tho church.

Tetthe eye rests with pleasure on the soft brown of its walls and tho dark green of tho leaveB which are fondly twining a fibrouB mesh about it. The entrance in neither grand nor capacious, and the voati ilulo gives but spaso room. Within tho church is plain but substantial as it ia without. A gallery circumscribes it and is as full of oarnoat attention as tho crowded pews. Perhopa seven hundjod or eight hundred people are listening to tho common sense preaching of the pastor.

Above the entrance is the organ loft, with the moderate ohoir, and just opposite this is the preacher's desk, affectionately garlanded with flowers. The pastor is a short, thickset, earnest mau, with the fair and florid Anglo Saxon face. His shoul dere are broad and his frame sturdy. Ho soema to postcsa plenty of vital force, and spoaks with a ringing voice, which tells of good physical health and much heartiness. Mr.

Wayland Hoyt ia about thirty five years of age, and time has not left all tho marks of his flight which might be looked for at such a period of life. Four years ago the proachor came from Cincinnati to assume hia proaout pastorate. In thoso four years he haa succeeded In clinching the affections of a very large and moro than usually intelligent congregation. But it is whisporod that their pastor wilt iiccspt the call which invites him to Pierrepont streot, and there is much sorrowful anticipation of his departure in consequence. Sinco Mr.

Hoyt has been in oharge of tho Strong Place Church it is said that his hearers have doubled in number, and every indication of au haa followed hia earnest and effectual ministration i. men and tilings of the world, tho strength of tho Religious Press might become as conspicuous as its weakness now is. In this view of examples of critical inefficiency have been grouped interests that may be thought incongruous, but such a view is inevitable to the daily Press and so far as their relation to criticism is concerned, the statesman, the author, the musician, tha actor, and the preacher stand on common ground. The Effect of the Millenium on Newspapers. According to Dr.

Gumming the seventh vial is being poured out, and the Millenium is at the door. It behooves everybody to accept the approaching situation, and to consider the effect it will have upon his "special calling." That period of prophecy, ratified by other revelation, and in the opinion of many "assisted" by contemporaneous events, will have considerable influence on newspapers. Journalism is the only interest of which it is directly intimated, the Millenium will assume incidental control. "Then will the 'devil' be chained a thousand years." No editor, reporter, or printer can specially object to that. The 'dev counterpanes of snowy whiteness, and pillows edged with double ruffles and cotton laces and how, whon fafely nestled in these Huffy heights, the question arcso as to who should descend to put out the candla which stood flariug on the table bolow them, and whether it was pussible for any one so doing to cUmb up again in the dark.

Fortunately tho smiling hostess appreciated the situation, and returned in time to bid them good night and carry off the candle. The gentlemen flnishod thoir cigars, and such as preferred it look a night cap, ruffled with mint and sugar, and then retired to their respective dreams. Another well written ond ably illustrated artiole that by Allan D. Brown on "Naval Architecture, Post and Present." More' ambitions and "weighty" but duller than is Edward Howland's article entitlod "Tho Social Palaco at Guise," ho gives a very minute aocount of M. Godin's Familistere the most practical attempt yet made to effect a union between the interests of labor and thoso of capital.

Bufus Home "historicisis" Tammany, but all that can be profitably written has been, about that Society. The Drawer this number is unwont edly excellont, and tho "departments" are also well sustained. "The Editor's Easy Chair" department gossips engagingly about White House and "Spheres." Robert and William Chamber. Scribner, Armstrong Co. have just published Tbe Memoir of Robert Chambers, with autobiographical notes by WiUiam Chambers, his brother.

The volume is remarkably well written. The style is trenchant, terf graphic. One is brought into confidential relationship with the family at tho start, and kept thoroin all through. The pructical sermon, of overcoming difficulties, which the book preaches without trying, mik.a it most valuable. A story within tho story is the exhibition of the intercourse between the House and th.i authors whom it published.

Tho reader also gathers fair idea of the rise and progress of cheap (and go id) literature in Scotland. Of Wm. Chambers we learn that ho was born at Peebles, on the Upper Tweed, ICtli April, 1800. His anccBtors had lived thore from a time whereof the memory of mau muneth not to the contrary. Hifi father was "thriftless a "ne'er do woll hi mother was managing editor of the embryo publisher, and of the whole establishment.

William speaks of tlw union as "ill fated," but it was a happy family aud, Scotch like, the parents controlled the children vigorously. Both the boys were born with a curious blemish, thus told by William We were sent into the world with six fingers ou each hand, and six toes on each foot. By the neighbors, an I understand, thiB was thought particularly lucky but it proved anything but lucky ft ono of us. In my own case, the redundant members were easily removed, leaving scarcely a trace of their presence; but in ti caeoofBobert the rcstUt was very different. The supernumerary toes on the outside of the foot wero attached to, or forming part of, tho metatarsal boned, and were so badly amputated as to leave delicate protuberances calculated to be a torment for life.

Tho unfortunate circumstance, by producing a certain degree of lameness and difficulty in wanting, no doubt exerted a permanent influence over my brother's habits and feelings. Indisposed to indulge in the boisterous oxe: cisc of other boys, studious, docile in temperament, and excelling in mental qualifications he shot ahead of me in all matters of education. Though dissimilar in various ways, we, however, associated together from our earliest years. It almost seemed as if a difference of tastes and aptitudes produced a degree of mutual reliance and co operation. With a more practical and exigeant tone of mind than Robert, I might possibly have made a decent progress at school, had my teachers at all sympathized with me.

As it happened, I look back upon my school experience with anything but satisfaction. The boyB had a hard time of it at school. Knowl ege through the back was the practice of instruction iu those days. An impression made by a teacher on two boys which thoy never forgot, is introduced directly enough by Wifliam, who says that, "With clothes iu disorder, they were laid acroBs a long desk like table, the rise of which in the middle offered that degree of convexity which was favorable to the application of the tawse. Kicking and screaming, they suffered the humiliating and the school was forthwith dismissed for the day." It is hardly a compensation to learn that such things were quite common.

Poverty soon drove the Chambers to Edinburgh. There Johu had been at school for some time, and in 1813 William became apprenticed to John Sutherland for a bookseller. His pay was $1 a week. He supported himself and saved money on it. Further family misfortunes soon drove Robert to take a position, the same as William, under Mr.

Sutherland. In 1819 William finished his apprenticeship. He was hired to help au auction veys a very imperfect notion of the local ec clesiastical situation. The churches that are not crowded, the ministers who are not sensa tional remain unnoticed. At the same time they form an important part of the Sunday life of the city.

Some of these less familiar churches and preachers are briefly mentioned in another part of this paper. Ex Speaker Alvord moved on Saturday that the Legislature adjourn sine die April 1. He added as a reason "so that we all may make fools of ourselves." It takes some bodies to appreciate a reason, particularly when it assumes the form of a self estimate. The Assembly agreed to the motion, and the reason, too. But the Senate is unlikely to concur; thorefore "the third house" yet has hope.

We understand that a seven foot gentleman, local to Brooklyn, has been playing the role of Heathen Chinee, with eminent success, in our citv clubs and social circles. Not to the extent of waxing his fingers, or stocking his sleeves, which are very long but if rumor be correct, he is, in a double sense, the man for anybody's money who plays with him. He plays by the card, and four jacks never undo him. Now that with the Spring has come the "spotted fever," the health authorities, still in possession of extraordinary powers, cannot do better than to direct the proper officers to clear out and fill up the garbage gutters in Brooklyn. Along Furman street and in Jackson's Hollow alone, the number of such pest holes is legion.

Every gutter of the kind contains about enough spotted fever to satisfy the most ambitious undertaker in Brooklyn. The New York Times yesterday hinted that the editor of the Nation had been taking up arms against a sea of judicial evils under the assumed name of James Monroe. That makes no difference. The only important thing in it is the Monroe doctrine in the intances sound This week's Nation may be expected to make a quietus of the Times with a bare Godkin. Mr.

William Richardson is credited with more interest in Myrtle avenue than that thoroughfare appreciates. We hope the credit is unjust, for Atlantic avenue, the Twenty second Ward, the Aldermen, and the personal duties of the Republican State Committee, not to speak of the General Committee of this County (of which it is always best not to speak to ears' polite), are presumed to absorb a sufficient amount of that remarkable man's energies. The Senate is playing the mischief with the Seventy's charter for New York. All of which is suggestive of the changes which will be wrought in the Seventy five's charter for Brooklyn, if it ever reaches the Senate's real consideration. Where there's a will like John Jackson's there ought to be a way of getting over it.

If newspaper usage governed public interest, the spread of the New York diilies yesterday over the Cambridge and Oxford boat race had been enough to rouse their readers to a mania for rowing matches. But public interest governs, or should, newspaper usage. Public interest as to that race, there was none. The display made over it was an imposition on subscribers. No p.urt of it was more of an imposition than the ten columns of re of former races and the republication of the old Harvard Oxford map from Mortlake to Fu'ney.

The Aldermen make a demonstration or order the Corporation Counsel to, every onee and a while, on the city railroads. They generally come down," but for the benefit of the public, not the politicians. Not long ago thirty new cars were secured. Sixteen have been secured this time. It pays to keep up these raids, in the form of resolutions.

Ex Secretary Seward is preparing for the press an account of his voyage around the world. Doubtless tho book will be interesting but after all the literary field of travel has been very thoroughly worked, and circumnavigation has become comparatively easy and frequent and therefore has lost its former novelty. The adventures and observations of Seward in the political world would command more attention. While the public is tired of waiting for T. W.

's autobiography and wearied with H. cotemporary personal quarrels, the senior partner in the old firm of Seward, Weed Greeley might create a sensation with his reminiscences if he would frankly tell all he knows about politics. And his "synopsis" of the past forty years might be supplemented with "probabilities" of the coming campaign. A curious item appears in the list of claims submiUed to the New York Board of Audit on Saturday "expenses incurred at funeral of James Watson, late County Auditor, $1,085." The old maxim, "de moriuis," often covers a multitude of sins; but it has not prevented general recognition of the fact that Watson wi's an active agent in the operations of tho Ring. He cost the city such vast sums while living that this mortuary bill seems adding insult to injury.

If Watson's figures had been buried with him, the Ring could well have afforded to pay all the funeral expenses of the L'te Auditor. A Herald correspondent, upon the not unim p3achablo authority of that paper, is in danger of or has met death already in consequence of a persistent effort to interview Mr. Lowery, the bandit loyalist of North Carolina, who has betaken himself with many other half breeds to the Dismal Swamp, where they make matters very lively. Mr. Lbwery's method of demonstrating against interviews, will not, it is to be hoped, command large imitation.

Were the correspondent not more valuable as a victim than as a victor to the Herald, it would exercise its mysterious influence to get martial law declared against the gang. Being niulattoes and negroes, however, they are too dear to the Administration to be treated with severity. The affair cannot, in spite of all the double leaded brevier of the Herald, be presented to Grant in the proper color to enlist his inter ence. The lecture in behalf of the Mechanics' Library Fund was pecuniarily successful on Friday night. But the enterprise ought to receive gifts of good books from all who can afford them.

An apprentice's leisure who has no books is chiefly devoted to the mastication of tobacco and the expectoration of profanity. Whereas an ajjprentice with a book is an interesting and improvable subject, on the high road to a master's position. It is better to develope Boss Mechanics than Boss Tweeds. NEWS SUMMARY. On Saturday two Paris editors settled a little difficulty, M.

Rogart, of the Fayx, Riving himself aud M. liichardet, of the Coreairc, infinite satisfaction by disarranging tho internal economy of Uichardet's chest. The second note of Earl Granville to this Government tho London Obntrucr says is long, moat friendly, and conciliatory, but does not proposo to submit the matter of consequential damages to the Genevan Board of Arbitration. In fact, it ia something as was said once of a prominent Chenango County lawyer who remarked, "Gentlemen, I am open to conviction, but I never yield my point." The House of Lords has adjourned over the Easter holidays, to April 8, and the House of Commons will to morrow adjourn to the same date. England's Queen invites the criticisms of the world on the Sunday iravoling question.

She yesterday started for Berlin, expecting to arrive at Paris at 2 o'clock this morning. The steamer Great Republic, from Hong Eong, January 23, has arrived at San Francisco. Her advices report a Winter of oxtromo severity on tho Chinese and Japanese coasts. The revolt in Manilla of the native troops has been suppressed, but, the prisons wore full. The steamer Suwanado was lost on the rocks near Foochow.

All hands Baved. The explosion of a locomotive on the Michigan Central Railroad on Saturday last mussed up the engineer some, but not fatally. No one else was hurt. A high wall fell on the site of Lill's brewery in the North Division of Chicago. Tho site of the brewery can be restored, and six men who wore injured will recover, but tho seventh man will dio.

Another abortionist goes to prison three years, doubtlesB to make soap, or wait on the table, or perform some other light duties calculated to soothe tho spirits of men of that stamp. Every prison seems to have a soft place for first class scoundrels. Dr. W. A.

Hudson, of St. Louis, convicted in St. Louis on Saturday, of manslaughter in the second degree, for procuring an abortion on Ann E. MagUl, was sentoncod to three years' imprisonment, A shocking case of accidental shooting occurred near Otis, on Saturday. One Clark shot and killed his married sister, agod twenty three, and wounded her daughter, aged Bix.

The child's arm will be amputated. Two men were arrested in the act of atoning a passenger train on the Belleville and Southern Illinois Bailroad. While being searched one of them drew a knifo and stabbed the City Marshal, and the latter had the kindness to shoot the fellow dead on the spot. The Bailroad Company has been annoyed by a gang of this class of men for some time past. The Baltimore Gazette changes ownership tc day, having been sold to Wm.

H. Welsh, lata proprietor of tho Philadelphia Age, and Harry Taylor and William H. Carpenter of Baltimore. The sub Judiciary Committee upon the Register's office examined Mr. Higginbottom.

He testified to exorbitant oharges for Bearohes, but said thero was a reform undor the present Register. Witness believed there were many lawyere who would make complaints, but for fear of having their business slighted hereaftor in the Register's office. Thomas Crawford was before JusKoe Dow ling, in New York, on Saturday, charged with attempting to extort money from J. W. Bell, a tailor at 172 Fifth avenue.

Crawford ia a Sixth avenue morobant, at 4191 He rented an apartment to Miss who left suddenly, owing him 850. Among her effects were found, Crawford says, numerous notes signed "J.W. So Crawford inclosed samples to Mr, Bell, who, he says, Ecclesiastical Vignettes. AIU'HITKt CONGBKOATIOWAL, AHD PAS TOKAIi PICTUKr.S. Church of the Messiah.

Like a good many excellent Christian'), the Church of tho Messiah, situated at the corner of Clermont and Greene avenues, beneath a rather plain and unassuming outsido ooncoals a bright and harmonious interior. Tho front of the edifice is solidly built of brown stone, while the sides and back are composed of painted brick. The stylo of architecture is composite. Tne congregation ia Episcopal. Tho edifice is capable of seating about 1,300 persons, and is usually well filled with a slightly aristocratic body of worshipers.

The walls and roof of tho interior are painted in rather gaudy colors, the effect of which upon the eye, when the gas ia light, is rather irritating. Behind the desk, where the rector stands, the Lord's Prayer and two other lengthy Scriptural quotations are presonted to tho eye of the congregation in shinning blue and gold. I ho seats are all finely cushioned, and have a docidodly easy and inviting air. Tho Binging for the congregation is done by a pleasant voiced quartette, evidently under oxccllcnt management. Tho organ accompanying them is full and sweet toned.

Officiating in the capacity of rector here for a number of years past has been tho Bev. Dr. Duane, one of tho ablest theologians in the State. Ho preached last night on "The Christian Yoke." His treatment of tho subject was characteristic, and had to it the one weakness to which tho Doctor is liable, to wit, too much of rigid philosophical analysis. He speakB clearly, has a line voice and a commanduig presence, but he treats the subjoct matter as if ho wore speaking to a crass in logic s.

Vi. congregation. It roiy be, however, that the Doctor, who has got a quick eye, has arrived at conclusion that this lathe style or preaching required by htopeo ple. He is about 45 years of age, but looks still fresh and capable of doing effective work for half a century to come. First Presbyterian Church.

The edifice of this congregation is situated in Henry streot, near Clark. It is of dark brown stone, with a square, low tower in the centre. The interior is very plain, the seats and pulpit being of black walnut, the walls and ceiling of rough plaster in imitation of stone. No paint or fresco of any sort is to be aeen. There are about two hundred and twenty five pews, including the galleries, which will seat, comfortably, eleven hundred persons, while fifteen hundred can be crowded into it.

The congregation is composed of a class of people above the average, socially, the greater po' tion living on the "Heights." A quartette choir furniahea the music, which is two thirda congregational that 1b, two hymns of every throe are expected to bo sung by choir and congregation combined, the third ouo by the choir alone. Bobinsou'a "Songs of the Sanctuary" is tho standard book of hymns used. The paetor, Rev. Norman Seaver, D. camo to this city about three years since from Rutland, where ho had preached for some time.

He originally practised law in Boston, MasB. Mr. Seaver is but thirty seven years of age, a very fluent and pleasant speaker, and uses no manuscript. He preaches in a black silk gown. He is a liberal thinker and talker, small in stature, with a very intellectual cast of countenance His sermon yesterday morning was upon the SBeond and third verses of the third chapter of Luke.

Services are held morning and afternoon, and prayer meetings on Tuesday and Friday evenings. The list of actual members of the Church is now boiug amended, but is somewhere between flvo and seven hundred. North Reformed Church. The North reformed Church, situated at the corner of Myrtle and Clermont avenues, is externally a plain, unpretentious, but docidodly comfortable looking building, suggesting to the philosophical observer a very marked resemblance to the plain but sturdy Christians who orecled it. Internally, however, the aspect is materially altered tho walls and roof are finely painted and frescoed in colors that at once relieve the eye and appeal to the sonao of the beautiful.

It is almost impossible to assign tho decoration to our peculiar school of art, for in its various parts it bears a touch of all. The graceful pillars that uphold tho gallery and roof are not unsuggestive of the old Corinthian, while the airy tracery that flows from them across tho coiling has a touch of the old Gothic iu it. Tho whole, however, has been so clearly managed that an impression of unity is conveyed to the spectator. The arrangement of the seats and pulpit or rather rostrum is also equally good. The preacher may be easily seen, aud without difficulty heard from any part of the house.

The seats are all cushioned, and the lloor covered with a neat though not expensive carpet. The seating capacity of the edifice is about The gentleman who fillJ tho pulpit of this exceedingly pleasaut place of worship is the Eev. W. T. Euyard a young man (not over thirty two), with plenty of life in him and an apparent enthusiasm for the labor in which is engaged.

His presence in tho pulpit is agreeable; his stature is decidedly above the averago his complexion, naturally dark, rendered more so by a nnutache and chin whiskors, while his voico has a fullness of tone that speaks volumes for the breadth of his chest and the strength ol ms lungs. j.ue principal caarac teristics in his style of preaching arc simply strength and directness of address, lie spends but little time on the introduction, wastes few ttowers of rhetoric on what might be called the framework of his discourso, but descends at once and with vigor to the BUbject, and unfolds it with a regularity always agreeable to a logical mind. His sermon yesterday morning could hardly be considered as representative of the man the Superintendent of the Suuuay School eoimected with the church had died but three days before and the disccurse naturally took color from that ovont. His observations, however, upon the importance of time, the lesson of death, and the inspiration of Christian hope were both comforting and philosophical. Altogether Mr.

Euyard is one of the most finished and effective preachers in the Evangelical pulpit of the city. The singing of thin is done by a volunteer choir, who by a littlo painful study might improve their execution considerably. Washington Street M. E. Church.

This is one of the oldest church edifices in Brooklyn, having been erected forty years since, in 1832, the great "Cholera year." It stands on Washington street, near Tillary, is built of brick, and of vory plain exterior. The interior is of the old timo order, unpretending in the extreme, a little fresco adorning tho ceiling, and the rear of the pulpit, only. The pewa aro old fashioned, about two hundred in numbor, and will comfortably accommodate twelve hundred persons, whilo the church will hold fifteen hundred when crowded. The congregation is composed largely of the middle classes, and a flourishing Sabbath School is attached to the Church. The singing is strictly congregational, the choir being led by a lady MiSB Buckalcw.

Tho Rev. Charles E. Harris, converted Hebrew, has been the pastor for three years, but leaves ou the 10th of April next. He ia a short, thick set gentleman, with full dark beard, and the unmistakable Hebrew cast of countenance. His age is thirty eight.

Ho was pastor of tho Norfolk street M. E. Church of New York City before coming to this church. His text last evening was tho fifth vorae of the 8Gth Psalm. Mr.

Harris is a pleasant speaker, and a remarkably earnest one. Services arc held in the churoh morning and evening, aud the seats are all froo at all times. The attendance is much larger at the morning than at the ovening services, as many of the members are old persons and live some distance from their place of worship. Tho church numbers between throe and i'cur hundred members. Rev.

Mr. Hcpworth lectures in tho church tin's evening, on "Follies and Foibles," for tho benefit of tho Womon's Foreign Missionary Society. St. Charles Borronieo. The church of St.

Charles Borromeo is situated in Sidney place, and although uniinishod, having only been built a few years, is an imposing structure. Tho readers of the Eagle well roniomber tho burning of the old Sidnoy Place Church (of which Dr. Pise had been pastor) soon after Dr. Freel had become pastor, and how energetically both pastor and congregation workod for tho erection of tho new church, which is capable of accommodating somo twonty livo hundred personB. The Rev, Dr.

Freel, the pastor, is a man of handsome and dignified presonco, and in a groat favorite with his congregation. So much so, that iu any improvement which he proposos to make ho is zealously seconded by them, and the cougrogatiou being of tho richer class of Roman CatholiCB, thero is no delay in having it done. The great expense attending the erection of the church has prevented its interior completion and ornamontatiou in the manner designod up to the present time, but tliore is no doubt that tho same zeal which has heretofore animated the congregation will accomplish tho work in a Bhort timo. The music of tho church has always beeu of a high order, and formerly tho church had the reputation of having tho host music of any Roman Catholic Church iu Brooklyn, but lat torly one or two other churches havo rivalled, if not surpassed it, in the rendering of tho music, and tho taste displayed in tho selection. Professor Hoffman, tho organist, is ambitious, and has probably tho best roportoiro of masses of any church in the city, but his choir is not evonly balanced.

Madamo Do Lussan, the soprano, was formerly a great favorite with cho cougrogatiou, and has a voice of wide rangii aud woll cultivated, and Mr. Charles Lockwood, the teuor, is very effective. HiB voice, although not of a very hoavy calibre, has a clear, ringing tone, which ia very effective both iu solo singing and cnoruses. Tho contralto and base are not quite so good. The sermon yesterday was preached by tho Bev.

Dr. Freel, the pastor, tho subject being, of course, tha proper celebration of Palm Sunday aud the lesson.) which the story of tho triumphant entry of the Saviour into Jerusalem and His subsequent sutfering and death taught to the contemplative Christian mind. St. Paul's iioiiiun Catholic Church. This church, which is one of the most widely kuown Roman Catholic Churches in this city, is situated on tho corner of Court and Congress streets.

In its exterior appearunco it is a plain, unpretentious brick building, looking more like a Congrogatioual church thau a Itoman Catholic tomple, but once inside, tho visitor finds a marvellous change. Tho interior of tho church is covered with beautiful frescoes representing all tho symbols and emblems of the church, aud in the centre of the coiling is represented The all seeing Eye" looking down on the congregation. Thou thero is tho magnificent marble alt.n the gift of Mrs. O'Hara, which has been described in the Eaolk, and the splendid copy of Murillo's Immaculate Conception over it. The former pastor of the chin ch, the Rev.

Father Snol ler, was a German, aud passionably fond of mtisic, and ather Maguire, tho present paator, has followed iu his footsteps a musical suiihb. For this reason tho music at St. Paul's has always been of a high ordor, but never so high as at uresout. Madam Clark, the soprano, is a thorough musician, and being a Catuolio and thoroughly mniorstamlilig Um service, sings with a feeling aud fervor, whicli is not ofion found. Miss Iistollo A.

Murtagh, tho contralto, has a rich and powerful voico, skillfully cultivated. She is a thorough musician and reads at sight any composition put bofoio hor. Mr. Chas. John, tho tenor, haa a magniucout voico, and Bing3 tho upper iu tho chest voico with oaae; and Horr Kramer, tho basso, is a finished artist, with a voico mellow and plocsaut Mr.

Wolf makes a very accop lablo organist. Father Maguire, the pastor of the church is a member of a family whioh gavo to tho world a largo number ofclorgymou, and among others tho pastor of tho Cathedral in Jay street years before Brooklyn was mado a BiBuopric. Ho ia ournest, firm and persoTcriug, in his efforts for tho improvement of everything connected with hiB Church, aud is now engagod in raising money for tho complete adornment of tho interior. Tho sermon yosterday was ou tho subjoct of tho proper celobration of tho festival of Palm Sunday, and was very impressive. Second Unitarian Church.

This churoh is situated at the corner of Clinton and Congress streets. It is constructed of brick, coverod with plastio ccmout of a light gray color, and is of tho shape of a cross and of tho gothio stylo of architecture. Wore it not for a small atoeple at the back part of the building, and stained glass windows, it would readily be miatakou for a private residence. The interior ia handBome but not showy. Tho walls are light, almost whito and the pews of blaok walnut.

That part representing tho arms of tho oross is considerably broador than the other portion. Tho pulpit, which is of oval form fills tho space at the hoad ot tho cross. Tho choir, organist and organ aro contained in a compartment to tho loft of the pulpit, and tho members of tho ohoir, a quartetto, who do all tho singing for the congregation, stand at soparato oponinga, presenting tho appearance of living portraits iu fraraos. Tho muBic is good, and tho ohoir produeo some artistic offecta by chanting in a low tono, as if at a distanoe, being, meanwhile, invisiblo to the congregation. Tho churoh will scat about 400 persons, and is well attended by a wealthy class of pooplo.

Yesterday morning Kev. O. B. Frothingham, of New York, preached. Ho is a moBt effectivo and interesting speaker.

His subject was Faith." In tho ovening Rev. J. W. Chadwick, tho pastor, preached on "Good Society," showing what roally oon Btitutcd it and ita onnobling influences. Mr.

Chadwick is about 30 years of age, exceedingly plain in in dress aud manner, and his dolivory, although somewhat dolorous, is rendered forcible by the dear arguments he uses. He was formerly a shoemaker, and has raised hirmelf to his preaont position by faithful study with a clear head and strong will. Strong Place Baptist Church. Up the bowery and graceful channel called Clinton street there la sure to ebb and flow on every Sunday whioh cornea in with mild air and a blue Bk7 a kaloldoacopio tide of ohurch goers and promenaders. Up one side tho gay and chattering procession strings along, with only brief intervals from the first clang of bells to the soft hush after service.

On the other a croBs current Bets the other way and Btreams babbling ly parallel with its counterpart over tho way. Drifting up tho channel and carefully navigating through the maze of shallops and three deckers under all sail standing "up town," tho craft bound for Strong place Church brings up with a round turn at a creek called Dcgraw street. A goodly number of vessels, whereof the weaker are certainly the most picturesque, leave the main channel also, and steer directly to a substantial but plain structure, which stands liko a weather beaten light house at the entrance of the placid little harbor called Strong place. The quiet Sunday air seems born in this tranquil bay of briok and mortar and young shrubberies, whioh seoms unexplored by tho raucous peddler or the echoing grocery wagon. Thero is a balmy stillness even in wintry weather here and the Meeting of Property Owners of the Twenty second Ward.

Addresses by Assemblyman Moslcy, Alderman Richardson, Gardner Cutting and Others. THE RESOLUTIONS. APDOintment of a Committee to Bo to Aliany and Urge tbe Passage of tlie Bill. In the advertising columns of last Saturday's Eagle, an invitation was extended to "All who feel interested in the question of sowers in that portion of Brooklyn lying between Middle street, Hamilton avonue and Baltic street, to moet at Military Hall, Fifth avenue, corner of Ninth street, and say whether they desire tho passage of tho Bill now before the Legislature." It was also intimated that there was "not a minute to be lost in this important matter." Shortly before eight o'clock on Saturday evouing a re porter of the Eagle put in an appearance at Military Hall, and found a tolerably large attendance present. Among those in attendance wero Hon.

W. W. Mosely, Aid. Kichardson, ex Aid. Van Brunt, Aloxander Colwoll, E.

D. Hawkins, S. B. Dutchor, and about two hundred and fifty others, property owners in the Twenty gecoud Ward. Copies of the following PETITION had been in circulation during the previous day, and had received about three hundred signatures.

"7b the Senate of the State of New York: The undersigned, owners of property and residents in the district to be affected thereby, respectfully, but earnestly, petition your Honorable Body for the speedy passage of the bill, heretofore passed by tho Assembly, to provide for tbe construction of sewers in that portion of the City of Brooklyn, lying between Prospect avenue, Hamilton avenue ana Baltic street, unmecuateiy oeiow Prospect Park. We havo borne our full Bhare in the ex penses and responsibility incurred for other sections of the city, our property is heavily assessed for a park, which is maimy a luxury, wnue we are Bunermg ror tne great necessity of city life thorough drainage. Malarious fevers and other epidemics are in our midst, and regard for the lives of ourselves and thoBe dear to us compels ub to cry out to you for this measure of relief," In a conversation, with Beveral of the property owners, before the meeting was called to order, Alderman Bichardson stated that the cost of the sosvera would have to be assessed upon the property benefitted, and the Assessments id with three years. He Baid it was understood that the Seaators would be willing to pass the bill just as soon as they were notified that tho property ownors were desirous that thoy "should do so. Hhortlv after eight o'clock Alderman Bichardson call ed the meeting to order, and on motion ex Alderman James A.

Van Brant was elected Chairman, and Supervisor Biohards was appointed to act as Secretary. Mr. Van Brunt on taking the Chair said tho meeting had been called for the purpose of using their influence in favor of tho passage of THE BILL authorizing the issuing of bonds to provide for the payment of sowers which it was desirable to have built in certain streets of tho Twenty second Ward. As HON. w.

w. was present, he thought it would be advisable that he Bhould address the meeting, in order that they might understand the nature of the bill. Aid. Bichardson moved that Mr. Mosely report tho condition of the bill which had passed the Assembly.

The motion was carried, and Mr. Mosely said Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens of the Twenty second Ward Tho amount of seworage bonds, as you are well aware, which is allowed to be issued, is limited to two millions of dollars, and that amouut is entirely outstanding. That is to say, there have been no collections, or nOne of any considerable importance, made, and consequently the last year or two, when we have been to the Water Board on soveral occasions to ask that this district should be sewored, we wore told that tbey could not sewer this district, as they were not authorised to issue any more bonds. But last yoar the people of the Eighteenth and Twenty iirst Wards had special acts passed to provide for the building of sewers iu their section of tho city, there was also a special act ior the sewerage of the HUDSON AVENUE DISTRICT, and therefore this creation of oura is no innovation at all.

The bill is very carefully drawn. It is not mandatory or obligatory to build sowers under thia bill, for tho Common Council have first to authorize the Water Board to do the work and so, although it may pass tho Legislature, the Common Council have still to say whether it shall be douo or not. I say this much, be caupc I have never iutroduced uuy bill calculated to increase either the taxation or the bonded debt of the City of Brooklyn, and I nover intend to do so. But bo cause these sewers were asked for, I introduced tbo bill, and also had that clause inserted providing that it should firbt receive the assent of the Common Council. I think IT PASSED THE HOUSE Bix weeks ago, aud is now before the Committoo on Cities in the Senate.

I have appeared beforo that Committee, but in consequence of tho absence of Senator Perry, uotbiug could bo done with it. I have conversed with Senator Mmphy in regard to it, aud although ho is net iu favor of increasing the bonded debt of the city, he is in favor of this bill. Senator Perry feels that he is in an embarrassing position, as ho knows that legislation of this kind may bo usod against him in some other parts of the city, but ho will do the bec he can with tho bill, and tho host ho can for tho best interests of the city. I have never received any objections to this bill, either beforo it was introduced, or whtfiit was befo. the Assembly, and if there aie any persons here who are opposed to it, I hope they will have no backwardness in saying so.

It is A GBEAT DRAWBACK to this section of tho city, this want of sowers. In tho Twenty first Ward there were 900 houses put up during iho last year, whilo in this ward thore were but 200. If you undertake to sell a lot, tho name of Gjwanus and the fever and ague district is thrown up against you. It seems to me that one great reason for this has been, first, tho number of low lots and secondly, tho lack of sewers and these low lotB can nover be properly fitted up and drained until we build the sowers, md I hold that within three years after wo have built these powers, the increasou taxable value of the property will more than repay the cost of tbo sewers. Applause.

You must bear iu miud that we shall be assessed for tho cobI of THE THIBD AVENUE SEWEB, within about one year, and that it will be of no use to us unless wo get the cross sewers built. Thoso have been tbo reasons which have induced mo to favor the bill, but, as I said before, if thore is any division of opinion in regard to it, I shall have nothing to do with it. It is sid that wo are asking a great favor of tho other sections of tho city, but tho people of tho Eighteenth and Twenty first Wards, and those living in tho Hudson aveuuo section of tho city havo special acts passed for thoir boL'olit, and wo may go fuuher thau that, aud see that the cost of the Atlantic avenue Improvement and of the Watlabout Improvement were puc upon the city at large. i trust that if you tiro substantially united; that you, by your action here, will show that you only ask for what you are perfectly willing to pay for as soon as it can bo done. I bolieve that this should bo ono of tho most populous districts of the city.

I hoar a great deal said about rapid trarsit, both iu this city and in New York, but if wo can got all these vacant lots built up, wo Hball attract a vory largo population; whereas now wo only get the stoppings ovor from other districts, or thoso wh' do not care to go out in a sleeping car to East New York, and other outlying districts. Laughter and applause. Aid. Bichardson moved that a committee of five be appointed to draft resolutions expressive of tho viows of the meeting. He hoped there would be such au expression of opinion as would enable the Committee to act intelligently.

While iho city was with most WASTEFUL PIIODIGALITY expending $500,000 a year for the iniprovemont of Prospect Park, ho thought it was a most niggardly policy which objected to tho loan of $Qt)1QQtf for tho se werage of that district. An old gentleman, whose name could not be ascertained, said ho thought it would bo hotter to get at tho views of tho property owners boforo taking auy action in tho matter. He, as a taxpayor, thought it was rather premature. A gentlemam occupying a sido seat said, I would like to ask this old gentleman if ho insinuates that this crowd of respectable citizens do not own any property in this Ward Old Gentleman Not at all. Mr.

Irving related hia experience in digging cesspools, 25 feet deep, and finding them filled with water tho next morning, although no rain had fallen during the night. Tho cellars of a numbor of houses he had put up on Sixth avenue were always flooded, and the Secretary (Supervisor Bichards) could corroborate what had been said, because he had sold him one of the houses. After thirty three years experience, as a builder, he was convinced that the TWENTY SECOND WARD COULD NOT BE IMPROVED until sewers were built, and ho would not put up another house there until that was done, even if he got the lots for nothing. The question was then put on Aid. Richardson's motion to appoint a Committee of Fivo to draft resolutions.

The old gentleman who had hinted at premature action voted in the negative, but every one else voted in tho affirmative. The Chairman appointed as such Committee Aid. Bichardson, ex Aid. T. V.

P. Talmage, A. C. Squiro, M. Olson, and ox Supervisor McGrath.

During the absence of the Committee, Mr. Gardner Cutting delivered a long speech. After speaking of tho sewers built by the ancient Romans, he said it was unjust for people to take tho ground that they wished the Twenty second Ward to be sewered at tho expense of other sections of the city they had paid their proportion of expenses incurred for soworing other wards, and as Mr. Mosely said thoy hud but the maiu sewer thero, and that would not be of any use unless the connections, or cross sewers were built. The people of the Twenty second Ward were losing in every way in consequence of not having their streets properly sewored, and main rial fevers would continue to afflict them just as long as thoy wero without proper drainage.

He knew they could pay the interest upon $500,0000, or $300,000 worth of bondB, because their proporty would rise in value at least ten per cent, just as soon as they had a complete system of drainage. Applause. THE RESOLUTION'S. Aid. Richardson on behalf of tho Committee, ax poinled for the purpose, reported as follows Whereas, A bill is now pending boforo the Senate of this State which authorizes the prompt completion of sewers in that portion of the City of Brooklyn lyiug between Prospect and Hamilton avonuos aud Baltic street, and which to accomplish that end, provides for the loan of the credit of the city to tho extent of not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, and Whereas, Medical science and daily oxperienco unite to prove that thorough drainage, by the construction of sowers, is essential to the healthfuluess of any locality, and especially so in the conditions incident to city life.

And Wliereaa, This portion of the City of Brooklyn has hitherto and always promptly borne its share of the municipal burdens, taxation and debt for the benefit of other sections of tho city. Resolved, That we are in favor of the passage of the bUl now before the Senate, providing for the construction of sewers in this locality, and wo ask our feUow oitizens to aid us with the help whioh we need, as we have always been and are now ready to Btand by them. Iteaolved, That we are willing that all necessary provisions should be inserted in tho proposed law, to secure the prompt payment of tho cost of the sowers at the earliest possible time after the completion of tho work, by tho property which is benefitted. Resolved, That wo ask this action and loan to be authorize a by tho Legislature, bocauso thero is no other modo in whioh tiie ond proposed cau be secured, and tho health of oursolvos and families protected from the ravages of thoso malarious fevers which always prevail in theundrained portions of tho city, and which aro ospeciaUy threatouiug at the present time. Resolved, That it is no answer to our appeal for tho construction of sewors to point out that Third street, Fourth avenue, and tho Gowanus Canal have recoived aid from the city.

Our cry for bread" will nover bo Batisiled with the "atones" of Fourth avonuo and Third street. Resolved, That wo respectfully but earnestly urge our Senators, Hon. Hcury C. Murphy, and Hon, John C. Berry, to secure at once tho passage of tho bill wo need, we know they have the power to do so, and wo rely on them to oxerciBo it.

Resolved, That wo thank Hon. Wm. W. Moaoly for his prompt introduction and advocacy of this bill, and his colleague who sustained him by jasbiug ii, but especially tho Hon. Charles B.

Mortou, of tho Eastern District of tho city, for the aid which ho so kindly and promptly rendered us in this matter. Resolved, That we also thank Aldermen Jacob I. Ber geu and his colleagues who sustained him for the resolution which ho proposed and tbe Common Council adopted, asking for the passage of thiB bill, which wo deem eo vital to the hoalth and prosperity of this part of Brooklyn. Resolved, That a Committee of twelve bo appointed by the "Chair to proceed to Albany noit week, and urgo the prompt reporting and paBsage of the proposed sot. Respectfully submitted by A.

C. Squire, Wm. Riouabdson, Franoib MoGbath, Turns Talmage, Mad tin Olbeh. On motion of Mr. Dutcher, tho resolutions were adopted unanimously.

Aid. Richardson spoke briefly respecting the importance of sewers as compared with pavements. Hide walks, gas ond water, and on tho conclusion of his remarks the Chairman appointed the following committee of twelve to proceed to Albany and urge the passage of the bill T. V. P.

Talmadgo, A. O. Squire, H. LanBdale, D. D.

Bonnett, W. Hemstreet, Judge Dol mar, Francis McGrath, Supervisor Richards, James Irwin, A. B. Bichardson, Gardner Cutting and D. C.

Daniels. In answer to a question from Mr. Hemstreet, Mr. Moseley said THE OPPOSITION TO THE BILL was a general feeling throughout the city againBt increasing tho bonded dobt. Other sections realized that the city was largely in debt, and did not feel the necessity for tho improvement of the Twontj' socoud Ward, but if it was proporly placod boforo i ho representatives of the city, he thought thoy would bo in favor of it.

It was one that went out of tho ordinary course of found to Mrs. Bell, with what result is not known. Mr. BcU denies tho authorship of tho notes, and will pay no bills but his own. The Judiciary Investigating Committee on Saturday examined Frank P.

Blair, Chief Justice In graham, John E. Devlin, Abraham Steinhart, A. L. Brown, J. H.

Strahan, Wm. A. Beach and J. C. Bush noil.

Those witnesses all gave testimony respecting Judge Barnard's conduct, rulings, decisions, etc. The sub Judiciary Committee, appointed to investigate the affairs of tho County Clerk's office heard testimony Saturday evening from Mr. DaviB, of Davis Park, Bedder Van Dyke, ond Charles E. Loew, County Clerk. Thest witnesB said the clerks in the office wore paid by the County, the searchers were paid by the County Clerk from fees recoived for searching.

Beside those feos witness received a salary. In December, 1847, the County Clerk's salary was fixed at $3,000. The expense of running tho office was paid by the County. The oxpensos of tho Searching Dopartmont were $20,000 to $25,000 a year. Those the witness paid.

Witness could not state the fees he had received for two or three years past, but would be glad to take $25,000 for them after all exponsos were paid. The murder of the Chevalier de Bianco, in Brussels, Belgium, in October last, tho loss of a large amount of railway stooks and seouritios, and tho subsequent firing of tho house, was suspected to be the work of JoBeph Stupp, who disappeared about that time ond is still absent. Carl Vogt, now in the Tombs, is suspected of being Joseph Stupp, and witnesses competent to the purposo will ondoavor to fix the idonty or tho non identity to day. The Pacific Mail investigation has been discontinued, counsel agreoing that nothing naughty had been proved against the Company. As this is a sort of oasis in the investigation business the Mail should havo a long credit mark.

John Gray and Patrick Green and Michael Monahan were in a saloon at the corner of Thirtieth street and First avenue, New York, on the evening of the fourth inst. They all left together, but half an hour later Green came back with dress disordered and stained with blood. He said that Gray had fallen and hurt himself, and in assisting to raise him he (Green) got the blood on himself. But Gray has not been seen since that night. He lived at 279 Avenue A.

Green and Manahan were also missing till laBt night, when they were arrested aud locked up. Both deny being in Gray's company on the evening he was last seen. The Herald's Dismal Swamp correspondent in the jaws of tho Lowory gang of outlows, who has been just on the verge of being chewed up fine for a week past, was in especial peril on Saturday two perils in fact. He was afraid he would die from being compelled to drink their "infernal whisky," and Madams Lowery says when last seen he was being taken off to the woodB by two men, who were sullen in their looks and evidently meant to exterminate him. Palm Sunday was attended with unusually impressive religious observances in the Catholic and Episcopal Churches of New York.

Master Justus Dunn, aged 1G, who stabbed a keeper, Samuel Calvert, fatally, resulting in death, in the House of Refuge on Randall's iBland, was fjound guilty in a preliminary examination, and held to await the action of a Orand Jury. Minister Curtin has been granted a leave of absence with permission to come home. The Tribune says it is reported that he is opposed to General Grant's renornina'ion and when he gets here will resign and go upon the political war path in Pennsylvania. The Conference Committee to examine the charges against Rev. Dr.

Huston, will proceed with their labors this week. CHURCH MUSIC. Coming Changes in Clioirs. It is at this time that most of the Roman Catholic aud Episcopal churches make changes ia the personnel of their choirs and arrangements for the music in tho churchea daring the ensuing year. From present appearances, thero will bo little recon Btmction, but what there is will be of the most radical character.

The following are a few of the changes which will be mado in the principal choirs of the city episcopal Churches CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. The present choir in this Church consists of Miss L. Hommedieu, soprano, Miss Dowd, contralto, Mr. "Whit taker, tenor, and Mr. Brown, base.

Tho tenor and base ore both about to lecve, and Miss Dowd has an offer from another church, but has not decided whether she will accept it or not. The trustees of tho Church are anxious to engage a good teuor and baso. In ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CHUECH, which is situated ou the corner of Lafayette avenue and St. James place, it is expected that there will be an entire change mado in the choir, but nothing decisive has been arranged as yet.

The congregation of THE CHUECH OF THE REDEEMER, on tho corner of Fourth avenue and Pacific street, have engaged Mr. William Adams as organist, and will havo a quartette choir. Mr. Adams ia spoken of as an organist cf considerable ability. Baptist.

STRONG PLACE. The present choir of this church has Eugene Clark as tenor, J. M. Wilder as basso, and Miss Bennett as contralto, under Mr. Parkinson as organist.

Messrs. Clark and Wilder havo been engaged to go to Dr. Cay ler's church on Lafayette avenue, and Mr. Murlin, tho well known chorus leader, comes to tho church with a chorus of his own training. Miss Bronson, formorly a favorite contralto at this church, and Mrs.

Butman who has recently boon Binging at St. Ann's on the Heights, come to this church iu May next. ST. ann's on the heights. Mr.

J. Lorctz, tho organist of St. Ann's on the Heights, is reported to havo sent in his resignation an organist of the church, but it has not been accopted, and the rumor is that it mil not bo. Mr. Lorotz is enthusiastic iu his devotion to music, and don't liko to bo trammeled in any way.

As a chorus trainer he has been very successful, and his leaving the church would be a loea which would be folt by tho congregation. In TRINITY CHURCH the present probabilities are that no change will be made. The present tonor and base will be retained, but it ia not so certain whethor Miss Mitchell, the soprano, or Mrs. Stetson, tho contralto, may not accept engagements in other churches. Unitarian.

CHURCH OF THE SAVIOUR. In this church, formerly known as Dr. Farley's, there will be no change mado in the choir. The present choir has been engaged in tho church for some years, and works so well that the congregation desire no change. Tho choir consists of Mrs.

Tenney, (formerly Mrs. Abbott) soprano Mrs. Crane, alto Herman MethfUBsel, tenor, and Fred Steins, basso. ST. JAMES CHURCH.

Mr. and Mrs. Comstock, who have been singing in this church for the past year, are to leavo in May, but they have not as yet mado any engagement with any other church. Presbyterian WESTMINSTER CHURCH. Mr.

Albert the popular organist of this church, has sent in hia resignation as organist and choir lr aster, but it has not yet been accopted. No other changes have been mado so far. Congrc Rationalist. CLINTON AVENUE CONGREGATIONAL. The congregation of this church have mado up thoir miuds to have more congregational singing, and have employed Mr.

Beard as precentor from the first of May next. Mm. Christian still remains as organist, but overtures have been mado, we understand, by a member of the Music Commilteo to a well known organist in this city, to take the position, and it is possible that he may accept. The quartette choir will still be retained, but whether any changes will be mado will, of course, depend ou the selection of the organist. In THE ELM PLACE CHURCH, (formerly Dr.

Bartlett'a), it ia understood that tho entire choir will be changed. Misa Sogur is tho present soprano, and Mr. Murlin tho tonor. PLYMOUTH CHUr.CH. The only change mado in tho choir of Plymouth Church, so far as known, is tho engagement of Miss Lszar as soprano.

She is said to bo a fine artist, with an excellent voice. ISoinan Catholic Cfcurches. ST. PAUf8. In St.

Paul's Itoman Catholic ohurch, in Court sOront, there will bo no chango made in tho personnel of tho choir, so far ns we can learn. The present choir, con si: ting of Madame Clark, soprano, Miss Estollo A. Mur tagh, contralto, Mr. Jalm tenor, and Herr Cramer, bafso, have been singing in tho church for some four years past, and is considorod one of the best choirs in the city. During the past yoar they havo, beside au extensive repertoire of previously imblishod masses, produced noarly a dozon now composition, and at Il.e tor they will sing a new and vory brilliant mass by Genera.

OHUECH OF OUB LADY OF MEBCY. Prof. Cortada, tho organist of this ohuroh, is making arrangements to produce Glorza'o Grand Mass. Tho choir here is mostly volunteer, and so of course, unlo by the option of the singers themselves, there will be no changes made. Madame G.

Moore is the soprano, Miss Farroll alto, Mr. E. B. Cadley tenor, Mr. F.

H. Ballon baritone, and Mr. Wm. Young basso. Mr.

Cortada is training a chorus from tho Harmonic Society to sing tho choruses in the Mass, and ho oxpccls that tho rendering of it will be quito a success. STAR OF THESEA. The choir of this Church is, as it has always been, a volunteer choir, and Mr. Hoyt, the organist, will do the best he can with the material at his command. The building has the best acoustio properties of any church in the city, and it is a pity that tho congregation don't get better music than they havo had for years.

ST. petee's. So far as known, thero will be no ohange made in tho present choir of this Ohurch. The present ohoir consists of Miss Annie Early, soprano, Miss PooIq, cou tralto, Mr. Evans, tonor, and Mr.

Furey, baso, all under tho direction of Mr. William Drosslor, organist. ST. Patrick's. Miss Ballon, the soprano in this church, haB resigned, and no other has as yet been engagod iu hor place.

Signor Morrisono is the organist, and Mr. Lawronoo basso. When a new paator ia appointed there will possibly bo a reorganization of the ohoir. In THE CATHEDRAL, in Jay street, Mrs. Shreick will still oontinuo to preside at tho organ.

MIbs Fay, tho formor contralto, haa left, and a new contralto with an oxoellent voioe, whoao name our reporter could not ascertain, has boon engaged. Madame Kornan and tho reat of tho ohoir remain. Tho choir of tho Church of ST. CHARLES BOBROMEO will remain the same. Madame Do formerly a great favorite with the congregation, is soprano Chas.

Lockwood makes a popular tenor, and Mrs. Jaokaon is contralto. Prof Hoffman ia the organist, and proposes to produce some brilliant mualo at Easter. st. Augustine's OHunoH.

The choir of this ohuroh consists of Misa Shanahan, soprano Miss CHara, contralto Mr. Everett, tenor and Mr. CHara, basso. Mr. Mellville is the organist.

As the sorrices of tho Bingers are voluntary, no ohange will bo made. CHUBCH OF THE ASSUMPTION. No change will be made in the choir of this ohuroh, which consists of Madame Gull, soprano Miss Mooney, contralto Mr. Kaufman, tonor, and Mr. Alvense, basso.

Mr. Louis Belle, tho organiat of tho ohuroh, has occupied tho position for nearly thirty years, probably longer than any organist in the city has hold a similar situation. st. Joseph's chueoh. The only change which haB been made is in the soprano role.

Madame Blanchard has roBlgnod and Miss Lami haa taken her place aa soprano. The rest of the ohoir remain the same. MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 25. This Paper 5ias the Largest Circulation ol any Evening Paper Published in tne United States. Its Value as an Advertising medium is therefore apparent.

The Eagle in New Type. The Eagle to day is printed on new type. Tho old familiar face of the paper is fresher than it was on Saturday, but it is in all other respects unchanged. The Eagle has long been conceded to be, typographically, a model of neatness and elegance. In its general make up there has been no change in the appearance of the paper from the first number issued to the present embracing a poriod of over thirty two years.

In its advertising department the Eagle has steadily adhered to two rules never to publish an advertisement offensive in its terms or immoral in its purpose, and never to use any type larger than that in which the humblest advertisement is set up. By the observance of the former rule we believe we have aided in conserving the public morals, and in making the Eagle more welcome where it has ita strongest hold by the hearths and firesides of the good people of this city. By resolutely refusing to disfigure. our advertising pages with large type, the Eagle has preserved the uniformity and neat jess which distinguish it. It has placed all adversers on the same terms, and has secured for each in turn the advantage which clearness, compactness and neatness give.

The New York Herald and the Eagle are, we believe, the only two papers in this section which have steadily refused all pecuniary inducements to turn their advertising pages into handbills repelling instead of inviting those who have occasion to consult what may be termed the indices of the wants and wishes of the two great cities in which these journals are published. That both papers have, after all, best consulted the interest of advertisers is evident from tho fact that their advertising patronage exceeds beyonds all comparison that of their cotemporaries. The Eagle differs from the Herald in closing its columns to a class of advertisments which no head of a family would willingly see come under the notice of those intrusted to his care. At the desk of the Eaole tens of thousands dollars have been refused rather than violate, in this regard, the rule which the Eagle has laid down for itself. Tho Eagle has been for years, in point of circulation, at the head of the Evening Papers of the counliy.

It is, probably, under the necessity of renewing its type oftener than any other journal in the Union. The morning papers have an interval between their publication and the closing of their news columns. The opportunity is given them to have their pages stereotyped. Up to the moment of its publication, news is pouring into the office of an evening paper. Every moment of time is valuable, and there is no opportunity for stereotyping its pages.

At a large outlay its type must be frequently renewed. The Eagle's circulation never has been so large as it is at present, and it never beforo was increasing so steadily md so rapidly. Although the Eagle's convictions on any subject, fairly challenging criticism from a secular journal, has never been doubtful, its readers have never been divided by political or party lines. The margin wl 'eh separate good citizens has never been narrower than it is at present, and the Eagle never more fairly reflected, than it docs to day, the public sentiment of Brooklyn, in its desires to support and secure good and honest government. There have been few great newspaper establishments in which fewer changes have occurred than in the Eagle.

Those connected with it have spent the best years of their manhood in its service, and have it grow from humble beginnings to bo the first of the public journals of its class. We are sure that the Eagle to day will be regarded with a feeling akin to pride by every old Brooklynite, for Brooklyn can claim to have, in the Eagle, a newspaper second in no respect to any other published in this or any other countrv. I lxempt irom Criticssnu. Tho world perhaps was never more critical than it now is. The age is skeptical of the good and prompt to detect aud expose the bad.

Large freedom of expression has impaired veneration, and men and things once regarded with superstitious awe, are now considered and attacked without hesitation or reverence. This temper of the time is disclosed iu the chief organ of opinion, the Press. Journalism is no respecter of persons. It does not shrink from speaking ill of dignitaries, and public men mid bodies are bundled with an independence that often becomes recklessness. Yet, while political criticism is as comprehensive and minute as could be desired, criticism of some matters conventionally recognized as its objects was probably never less effective.

For example, literary criticism has lost much of its force and value. Now and then we have a flashing review," after the old manner of the Atheneum or in the later style of the titi trday but usually the Press is content with mere book notices" that serve publishers' purposes as well as advertisements. Musical criticism rests at a still lower level. The capture of all the newspapers of New York by an operatic management during the past year is sufficient proof of the statement. A few years ago the critics of the same city were divided into a Philharmonic party and an anti Philharmonic party and the members of the latter made no concealment of the fact that their sympathies were controlled by so petty a consideration as the inadequate supply of reserved seats.

At the lowest level of all lies dramatic criticism. A specialty that oilers opportunity for the inoet acute ana'yBis, the profoundest phil ocophy, and the niceci taste, and which has heretofore engaged the attention of tho most cultivated minds and the most brilliant writers, seems to have fallen into the hands of men who aim at little more than the production of preliminary puff and post performance praise. "Where a worthier ambition exists it is crushed by some fatal influence, and New York critics who exalt the ideal draina and commend a purer stage have only the most tender treatment for an actual ''Black Crook" or "Lalla Bookh." The attentive reader of the New York Press becomes more credulous of the rumor ihat the names of critics of first class journals appear on the salary lists of leading theatres. And so, in this critical age, interests which commonly regarded as critical subjects, literature, art, music, and tho stage, escape criticism. Of course there are exceptions to the rule and the evident relish with which a genuine, bold, and vigorous critique is read makes it surprising that such critiques are not more frequent, and that the pleasure and edification of the public are not consulted rather than the interest and prejudices of an individual or an establishment.

Another class is singularly exempt from criticism the preachers. In a past age, indeed, the mere suggestion that the minister of the gospel was a legitimate critical topic would have been held preposterous but times have changed. The minister has come to be in and of the world. Secular contact of the secular side of his profession with eecnlar affairs is getting more and more clear and constant. It would seem logical that he should also bo subjected to criticism, but he is not.

It would be correct to say that he does not receive it in a valuable shape. Criticism of a certain kind he gets in abundance. His sermon is "picked to pieces" during the congregation's walk home. His personal appearaLce and characteristics, his positive mannerisms, his possible weaknesses are exhausted in dinner or tea table conversation. But this private criticism is unavailable to bun.

The preacher more than any other man is denied the stimulus of discriminating mention and wholecome censureof public criticism; and perhaps no man needs it more. Such criticism would natural ly be expected from the Keligious Press yet tie Keligious Press is the last place you shall find it. It is indeed somewhat difficult to guess what useful purpose that department of journalism serves. Some of tho so called religious newspapers are purely personal organs. Their sole pretext for existing is to advertise and profit an individual to keep a popular preacher before the public.

To that end every page is tho reflection of himself or his family or his friends. Other of the so called religious newspapers are purely sectarian organs, seeing and caring for nothing outside their narrow denominational lines. In none of the so called religions newspapers is there any effort at criticism on the men, the institutions, the societies, the churches they are assumed and pretend to represent. Instead of this you shall find feeble mention of the fact that Hev. A is preaching "with much acceptance" here or that Bev.

is "beloved by his people" there or that the "pastoral ministrations" of Rev. have been vaguely but "greatly blessed" yonder. If the pulpit be not emasculated of all fibre and vitality, it is not tho fault of the co called religious newspapers. If for complimentary platitudes it would substitute manly, candid, honest criticism on preacher and church, such as secular journalism affords THE MTERARY FIELD. Br' i ne Arts The term variously applied.

In this instance, it relates to literature, rather than love. Two ladies, howevcr.havo to do with the referenco provoked, despite the fact that it is literature, not lovo, which provokes it. 7'Yne Arts is tho name of a monthly publication over in New York. That publication was obviously intended for abnoat exclusive circulation in Brooklyn, because its Bub title is "a journal of the polite world." That world docs not exist, ut least iu New York. Mr.

Greoley's manners and expletives aro proof of that assertion. It does exist in Brooklyn, at least in the opinion of Brooklyn, and bucIi complacency will cany conviction to all minds capable of resisting tho weightier arguments in favor of the claim. Of this "jcurunl of the polite world" Hiss Laura Keeue and Mrs. Emma Webb Nivert, announce themselves as the Editors. We are glad to start with that they do not announce themselves as "editresses." Of all the false words, that is the most affeoted and intolerable.

The monthly of which they assume control is the most thoughtful and reasonable effort yet made to represent a constituency which ha3 had the impudent and brain lees misrepresentation of tho "Society Journals" for too long a time. The topics discussed and the way in which they aro treated appeal to the luxurious leisure of tho many thousand Amorican ladies and gentlemen who do not care for parties or politics; or who if they do, also desire light reading that is not inelegant, and social writing that is not so insipid as a theatrical paper on the one hand, or so bilious as the dyspeptic dailies, on the ether. An examination of the contents of the first number wll bear out this praise. Before making that examination, we want to state that the paper, the type, and tho illustrations of the magazine aro anomalously excellent. The paper is thick and firm to the feeling, yet as pure as snow and soft as satin.

The type iB large, distinct and faultless. The execution of the illustrations is equal to tho execution of thoso of tho London Graphic; in design, variety, and choice of subject, the illustrations are inferior to none submitted in wood to American observation. Those of this number include, among others, a vory elegant reproduction of Bartolozzi's Lodona, In a soft, silver, stream dissolving." The nymph admirably portrayed constitutes the foreground effect. As a form study, and as a posture picture, tho figure is excellent. The background of gladj aud forest is not below tho high requirements of tho theme.

A large, lighter picture is the interior of a ball room at social flood tide. It complements a serial tale begun in this number, and is exceptionally effectivo in that it portrays men and women as we see them in life, and in that it also exactly accords with tho character sketches in the story. The letter press of Fine Arts is carefully written up. The articles are many, brief and suggestive. For a suitable and engaging salutatory, we have "The Origin and Divisions of Art." This introduction is followed by a consideration in rapid order of "Sculpture." "Art at the Breakfast Table," "Painting and Poetry," "The Philosophy of Manners," "English Painters," "The Treasures of New York," "Themes for Painters," "The Drama." Then are given exhibitions from various local, representative points of the condition of ait, feshion, and society throughout the country.

In these are given many facts, and reflections which are taseful and interesting. Throughout the number is also interspersed a good deal of original poetry and fiction of moro than avorage merit. A poam which btrikes vory pleasantly is hereunder appended "DELIGHTFUL THIRTY TWO. by n. w.

wniOHx. Most poe's sing of sweet sixteen As if that age would do I sing a sweeter, riucr age Delightful thivty two The of beauty rounded out As plump as auy pcjuh, And quite as tempting too, when not Too far alove our reach I siug the ago of wit and grace, And sweet, enchanting wiles Of faces sparkling o'er with miith, And full of dimpling smiles Of eyes that look into your own As if they'd look you through And set you crazy by thoir depth At charming thirty two I sing the graces cf the mind That years alono impart, Or, what is moro attractive still, The graces of tho heart The virtues that improve by ago, As generous wines will do, That flash far less at sweet sixteeu Than sparkling thirty two I sing of beauty unadorned, Of native grace and art Of love that wins aud captivates The mind as well as heart I fling of Cupid open eyed, Not blind and bandaged too. Who, when he wingB his brightest shaft, Aims well at thirty two. I sing of woman's crowning dross The virtues that she wears With moro becoming grace and art As she improves in years I sing the sweetest, ripest age That man o'er had in view Whon seeking happiness for life Tho age of thirty two I sing the sweetest tune of life For beauty held in store, And doubly sweet as "sweet sixteen," As two and two make four The fact is, figures cannot lio, And this plain truth is true, Exactly tiro times sweet sixteeu Makes one swoot thirty two I sing the glorious honeymoon That lasts from year to yeur, And always grows moro honey sweet As Autumn leaves appear; I sing tho heart that's always youug, Whatevor timo may do To nip its fragranco in tho bud At glorious thirty two I sing the littlo archer boy, With eyes as roguish bright As when ho left the skies abovo And closed tho gates of light When Venus bandaged his eyes, And bade tfie boy adieu, Lest ho should find a bcavtm on earth In charms of thirty two I sing, iu fine, tho Paphian queen, Whose chariot drawn by dove, Whito wing'd aud pure, would ovor seem To typify our ioves Loves that approved by Heaven's own law, And all that Heaven holds true, Shall make our sweethearts and our wives Both one at thirty two Let England sing God save tho Kiug," Or Quoon," as it may be I sing a nobler sontimeut For xroud America God save our swcctheivrts aud our wives, All loving, good and true, And we will keep our honor bright" For thoui at tfiiriy two I From what we have stated of Eine Arts it is evident that its present conductors are able to occupy a field which has long awaited the thrusting in of just such a sickle as they wield. Wo hope the magazine wiU continue at its preseut standard.

The temptation to lower that standard will be great. Special aud snobbish interests will strive to commend themselves to its columns. If they are repelled on sight, the publication will make for itself a popular and worthy place in the refined homes of American ladie3 and gentlemen. I Harper's or April. Harper's Magazine for April is full of decidedly readable articles.

Thero is, as usual, nothing to offend. There i3 a good deal to instruct and much more to please. Harpers used to have a habit of putting their poorest articles first and "floating" them with artful and attractive pictures. Of late mouths and not ab2y for this number, the good wine is brought out at tho first. It is also adorned with elegant illustrations.

The paper is by Moncure D. Conway, and is his second one on Munich and its rich art treasures. The leading engraving, a portrait of Kaulbach, is very excellent. To use slang, Mr. Conway appears to have been no sluuch in Muuich.

Ho has mado much of it and made it charmingly. His visit to Kaulbach himself is very pleasiugly written. He thus describes it A VISIT TO KAULBA0H. Having an introduction to Kaulbach, I visited him iu hia beautiful homo in Obergaiton street. The houso is architecturally magnificent, and surrounded by a pleasant park.

He was seated in tho portico, enjuying the cuol of tho oveniug, when arrived, and wuiauned me very cordially. Surrounded by his graceful wife and beautiful daughters, the old man was himself a picture. Ho is a thorough German in appearance, has a full rounded forehead, clear handsome features, a strong beardless chin, a sensitive mouth, umibscured by the muptache. I have called him an old man, but one could hardly guess Iuh age. His hair is not yet gray, tho large frame iB yet full of vitality, and the eye has tbe sparkle of youth.

Tho room in which wo sat was adorned with ougraviugs of his picture from tho lifo and works of Goethe. I had just como from Oberam mergau, and he gave me a charming account of his visit thero some thirty years before. Tho Passion Play had, ho thought, lost its simplicity and its barbaric flavor since so many English dilettanti had been visiting aud criticizing it. "Whon I saw it, theie wero a series of moving pictures, presented with inteuso rebgious feeling, invested with radiant colors, and gazed upon by the peasants with a Bileut fervor which was shared by all. Tho very homeliness of the acting rendered it more impressive, because moro real.

And theso traits, ith tho grandeur of Nature around us tho Bolemu mountains with their snow, tho riBiug sun, the trees, the birds made together a memorable picture." (I remember having thought, when looking upon one of Kaulbach'e sacred pictures, that he had beeu somo what influenced by tho Ober ammergau tableaux, unless, indeed they had been taking hints from him. I could well uu Btand, after this visit, that Kaulbach's influence had been to a largo oxtont duo to his personal presence and quick personal sympathies. Every student and lover of art he welcomes to his atelier, aud converses kindly with aU. This ia the more romarkablo from tho fact that his mind is always burgeoning with now ideas. Whilo he was conversing I uaw his fingers at work, as with an invisible pencil.

I mentioned this to ono of his most mtimate friends, and he said: "You are are right. Kaulbach's mind is very instant conceiving now ideas, and his dreams aro of artistic images. He passes his leisure hours sketching auch thoughts, and thero are now a vast number of such things in his house. These sketches Kaulbach will leave behind him and will be among tho most valuable treasures of art." Mr. Conway's paper also contains a vory pleasing reference to David Noal, tho American artist.

Married to Ainmullor's daughter, Mr. Neal adheres to Munich for reasons of affection as as art, aud his career in "the City of tho Littlo Monk" has boon such as not only his friends, but all Americans fond of seeing their countrymen abroad eminent in thoir professions, might desiro. Mr. "Porte Crayon" resumes his Southern pon and pencil sketches. Whon ho bogan ton or twelve years ago, they wore vory popular and effective.

Thoso woro tho days when tho Monthly espoused tho sentiments and interests of tho South, and saw institutions and society down there with impressions which havo been blotted out of evorything but memory. The writer is a clover artist and an agrceablo autttor but if his paper is a tentative effort to rehabilitate tho status he mado for himself and tho maguziuo iu the days that aro no mere, wo will bo curious to soo how the South will ro citrccate but will uot take odds on Porto Crayon's surccss. A flavor of Tang syne is ovor the fallowing extract THE MOUNTAIN TAVERN. Wo aro now in Hampshire County, and a fow miles further brings us to Slane's Cross Roads, whore Fah's tavern promises a comfortable Bholtor for tho night. Tho tavern is a plain log houso, with a double porch all along tbe front a regular drovor's stand not ovor inviting externally, but with an air of rustio neatness within, which, with tho motherly greeting and heu like aspect of tho landlady, promise a comfortable entertainment to Buch travelers as are wise enough not to be over fastidious.

Tho advent of such a party as ours was, iudeed, no common occurrence in theso parts, aud tho comely Cochin China matron ussod and cackled around in a manner which sot the houso astir. The negroes scampered, chickenB Bquawked. dogs barked, cows bellowed, pigs squealed, tho cat got hor head in tho cream jug, and all tho rustic neighborhood gavo tokens of unusual exoite mont. Tho Bupper was worthy of the hubbub, and was honored to the satisfaction of the hostess, who poured out coffeo and apologies with simultaneous fluency. Tho coffee a milder beverage than is usually served under that title stimulated no one unduly, so that whon madam camo round with her tallow candles, no one objected.

Tho ladies, as Dick irreverently remarked, went to rooBt uncommonly oarly, and were all lodged together in ono room. I daro Bay thore is no impropriety in our picturing to ourselvos how thoy climbed up by tho aid of high backed chairs, and with a bounco disappeared in tho downy depths of their foathor beds, suffocating undor fringed and tuf tod Plymouth Church. Mr. Beecher preached to the custoaiary throng yesterday morning, on tho uao of imagin ition as an aid to spiritual life. Tho most noteworthy passage in tho dkcourse was the following "Greenwood i'b made of india rubber to me.

I never look down into the grave but I rebound in imagination to the heaven above. I never look at the regimental march, the most touching of aU marches, the long array of children's funerals and of children's graves, without seeing the mothers, tho fathers, tho nurses who have nursed them, tho lovo that was around them, tho prettiuess that infantile tenderness engraves so tenderly upon the human heart." The Academy Services. The Academy of Music was crowded last night with an audience eager to hear the Bermon of Dr. Chapin, the celebrated Universalist preachers of New York. His BUbject was "Faith in OhriBt." The introductory services were conducted by Eev.

Mr. Powors. SPORTS AND PASTIMES. Baso Ball. Hints on Batting.

Base ball is no longer a mere game for fun and exercise only, though, of course, it in as much available for those simple objects aa ever but the rules have been so much improved, and so much has been done to afford a field for the full development of all the manly attributes of pluck, endurance, nerve, activity, and courage in the practice of the game, that it 1b time that rules should be laid down calculated also to develop the mental powers requisite to fully oicel in the game, as have been in regard to the physical powers. Let ub see, then, what a pUyer haa to atudy in his mind as to what he has to do when he takes bat in hand to assume tho offenBivo in a cou teEt for the palm of superiority. Of course his main object is to score a run but there ia something to be considered beside the mere fact of obtainiug the run, and that is to Becure it with the least fatigue. If the batsman hits the ball over the heads of the out flelders, ho gets hia run at once, but at what cost "Why, at the oxpenEO of running one hundred and twenty yards at hia utmost speed, tho result being that he arrives home out of breath, and ontirely unfit for further play without rest. If this were continued by each player, in each inning the result would be that the strongest nine would be broken down before they had got half through the came.

Now. if this stvle of battinn is enrrpnt. innnn caae, it is in all; but it is not skillful batting at all, for it is specially characteristic of the least skillful class of players in the wholo fraternity, the "muffins;" for this class of batsraeu can hit balls for home runs just as well as first nine players can. Again, too, given a party of muscular men, with long heavy bats, aud a lively, elastic ball, and the game they play is simply a contest as to which can make the most home runs from heavy hitting, while in such games skillful fielding which is the attractive featuro of basoball ia of but littlo account. The science of batting, in fact, lies in that skillful use of the bat which yiold3 the batsmun his first baBO without any extra effort in running.

In order to attain this result, howuvor. he mut must bring his brains into play so as to outwit his opponents, by sendiug tho ball to tho field with as little expenditure of force as necessary, but in such a manner as to render it nearly impossible for the fielders to field it either on the fly, or to return it in time to put players out ou the bases. Suppose each player of the nine were to Beciire his bane on his bit every time ho went to the bat, the result would be that Jive runs would be scored, and three men would be on tho buaei when the ninth man was at tbe bat aud these runs. moreover, would have boon obtained without any fa tigue, ana eacu man at tne ciose 01 tne muiug wuuia bo as ready for fielding as if he had not run a baao. But suppose, instead, that the first five players had scored home runs from lung hits to the outer field, no more runs would have been scored than in tue fir3t instance but instead, however, there would have been five nieu half uecd up by their violent running, aud so fatigued as to be unfit to go to the field without a good rest.

But it is unnecessary to argue the question further sufiice it to say that the fraternity in gouoral now reccgnizc that style of batting which secures tho first base by "cloan" hits the greatest number of as too only true criterion ol sKUllul aud scientific xay a tho bat. Aquatic. The Yachting and Kacing Season of 1872, The coming scapun of aquatic sports bids fair to bo the Hirst briiiiaut yet known. The Yacht Cluba of the country aro preparing for a grand campaign, and the rowing at sori aliens anticipate the busiest time they nave yei nau tms coming summer, in rowing circles, the great Oxford and Cambridge boat race haa been the inaugural ovent of the season, the Buccess of the Cambridge crew iu the contest of Saturday being recorded, the time of the run being 21 minutes and 14 seconds. which, under the circumstances of rowing in a snow storm, was equal to tne oest time yet made.

The success of the Cambridge crew adds greatly to the interest taken in tho University contests, inasmuch aB it takes away from the prestige of almost unenviable triumph which had been won by the Oxford boat near Here on this side the water unusual interest is being taken in our own college club boat races, and great efforts will be made to make the annual contest between the Harvard and Yale crews more than ordinarily exciting. The various college boat crews aro only awaiting the opening of their rivers to commence their customary course of training. A featuro of the season's events will be the grand amateur regattas, which are to take placo in Philadelphia and Washington. Our Brooklyn boat clubs ought to do represented in ootn. THE PAINTER'S STKIKE.

Non Society Men Good Workers 2o the Editor of the Eagle; I would like to reply to S. Corrigan, and to Lodge 2, of the Painters. I would simply dismiss Mr. C. without comment only that he admits that he is one of those who are willing to work as ho says for from to $2, or whatever the bosses have a mind to give them? Now if he is a life long painter aB he pretends, what business has he to work alongside a man who will work for such wages, and moreover if he is in the habit of working ou first class work, I doubt if he can prove a singlo instance whero a in uctical man worked last year or this for any such sum.

In reply to the statement of Lodge 2, that there are not thirty men at work to day who aro capable of commanding journeyman's wages, I would simply state, that in tho shop where I am at prt seut there are six non societv men who are as capable of doing as much, and aa good, if not better work than Corrigan or the majority of Lndgo 2. To the generous public as "life long painter" puts it, i wouia state mat tno society men nad struck tor ntty cents more a day they would have got it, but I bi lieve that the workman is worthy of his hire. A Constant Beadeh. Bosses asid Society ITIeiit To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle; I take the liberty of informing the public through your columns, of the following facts: Mr. Bshr, of 71 State street, informed mo that he has made a contract with a boss paiater of thi3 city, and that afterward he returned and said he could not fulfill bis contract for the same amount on account of tne painters' strike the amount claimod by was $10 more, so that ho could employ society men to do tne work.

Mr. Bohr complied with his wishes, and told him to employ society men. I called at tho house and found two boys and two men, none of them boiug society men, nor do I believo paiutera. Thoy told me they were getting $2 per day. In justice to tho painters ou striKe, tall your attention to tnia tact.

M. K. 2 )6 Bergen street, Brooklyn. Wlsal JSC oss Unas to Say To the Editor vf the llrooklyn Eagle "When a controversy arises between capital and labor, the popular mind as indicated through the press is generally in sympathy with the latter, except they cause reaction by intemperate action. Having myself been a workingman, I feel some interest in their rights, if their demands are backed by reason.

Circumstances luive forced mo into tho unhappy position of employer, consequently a participant in tho present quarrel betwixt painters and their bosses. As you have opeued your columns to the men, would you please hear what a boss has to say in reply to your correspondent from Canarsie. He states that painters only work six montbs iu the year this is only true of that class of wor kmeu usually most noisy about rights and wrongs. Good men get about ten month's work in the year, as wo generally find it to our interest to retain good workmen iu our emply ready for emergencies. In tho busy season we, like every trade having busy and dull seasons, are obliged to take on extra help, such extra help usually being inferior workmen who perfectly understand that they will not be regained longer than the necessities of our business demand.

Your correspondent Bays, we take every advantage of "short without giving the public any benefit. Competition is so great in our trades that wo havo mostly to give estimates for work, necessity making us figure as closely aa possible in order to get a job, and vory often we suffer moat from bad weather or Bhori days. Where we can charge "day's work is generally work for our regular customers, who. wishLjg good work havo confidence in us that wo will do it. And iu such cases it is clearly not our interest to charge one day's wages for half a day's work.

Tho groat misfortune in all strikes is tho presumption thui bosses are naturally the enemies of workmen. I have oacupiod both positions and know such is not the case. As good faithtul mechanics will generally get fair remuncr and justice, while poor, unroliablo workmen must 1)3 subject to tho laws of supply r.nd demand governing every trade. It is not tho employer's fault that he cannot keep more help, because selA' praservation demands that his outlay must not exceed his income. My experiences are that strikes uovor advauco tho striker's interest.

Men must learn that as thoy cannot bo made moral by legislation, neither can thoy control supply and demand by resolutions and strikes. I. ior one, am willing to let my men work as few houra as my necessities and theirs will allow, providing wo have a mutual understanding as to the value of an hour's work. Any action to force a different result ram i in tho end overreach itself, as emoioyers will surely use tho means at present u.2d by employe i when change of season turnB tha tables in their favor, and in the end nothing will bo gained by oither. Yours, GeohoeBdbn.

GENERAL SL0CUSI. From the World. One of the bravest actual soldiers of the civil war, Sherman's choice lieutenant, is now a Democratic member of the House of Bepresontatives from this neighborhood. In a speech tho other day. General Slocum thus referred to some of his fellow soldiers "If a citizon would pay his respects to the Chief Mag istrate ho must first pass in review at tho White House before three or four brigadier generals.

If wo dosire to negotiate for the purchase of an island in the sea, the negotiation must bo cairied on by a brigadier general. If the merchants of New York wish storage for their goods they mutt go to a colonel of tho staff. Wo can hardly pass a bill through Congress without the aid of a field officer." He then added "For tho good of tho country, and particularly for tho good of the army, I would in this respect gladly see a return to old customs. I believo a majority of our officers sympathize with me in this desire, and the fow who seek preferment by becoming violent partisan would do well to boar it in mind that while military mon hold positions for life, a political party in our country can at bt st hold power but for a fow briof yoars. The military gtutlcmon who, by reason of their zaal in behalf of a pLltlcul party, are basking iu tho sunshine of official favor, should remember that Though the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceeding hen tho poet's pulverizing process begins, how vory flue powder will be Porter and company The 'Sands Deo" is the title of a now song composed by Mr.

Horatio C. King, of this city, which hes been sung by Misa Sterling, at soveral concerts, atd been loudly applauded. It iB a simple, plaintive melody, well adapted for a contralto voice. Tho mueic la prefaced by a Ukeiicns of Misa Sterling, for whom the song was written. Tho "Sands Deo" meets with a ready Bale.

On Friday night last the Parepa opera went to Newark to perform Zampa." Tho Ojpera House was filled, and the orchestra was rung up when it was found that all the orohestral music had been left behind at the Brooklyn Academy. Of course an opera performance was out of the question without the orchestral music, and bo a messenger was dispatched to tblB city for it. He reached here at 9 P. M. In the interim the audionee became impatient, and finally tho management did what they ehould have done at first, that is, they offered to return the money or to give an extemporized concert.

About half left and half remained, and a concert cloBed the visit of the troupe to Newark. A London paper lately referred to Lizst's concerts in fiat as follows "Tho constant changes of key, tho sudden variations hi the tempi, the unexpected points from the tutiiat the eternal running ovor tho keys, the awkward intervals, tho showers of ootavos, tho jumps from recitatives into air, and vice versa, constitute a complete charivari il" undoubtedly deserves it. He is principally extant in the imagination of those outsiders who are certain that they know all about newspapers. No publishing establishment contains any person whose duties have a diabolical designation. Yet poets, novelists and pater familias frequently commiserate compositors and amaze editors by remarking the pranks and premising the existence of the printer's devil." By all means let that time arrive (it cannot come too soon), when the imaginary imp will be laid.

He never excited in us aught but a respect for the credulity of those who believe in bis identity, and inasmuch as he is an impalpable and fictitious devil after all, there can be no harm in the idea of his being put in limbo for a thousand years. Let him be chained. There are links enough of circumstantial evidence concerning him. They ought to be utilized in chaining the invisible being they have fabricated out of hand. Judged by its own complacency and by the deference with which it is treated by those who are afraid of it, the press is infallible.

We will not quarrel with such an assumption. It is a wicked world, and the spectacle of anything perfect, or esteeming itself perfect, is reassuring. Being perfect or being presumed perfect, then, journalism may reasonably be expected to derive a sympathetic effect from the Millenium. There is perfection, and perfection. And there are grades even in that superlative excellence.

One perfection dif ferefh from another perfection, as one newspaper from another newspaper in circulation. We can predicate "Progress" even of the per fect. It is not an unwarrantable conclusion that the Eastern Abraham, if he sees the Western Abraham in Paridise at all, can go him better. By this rule of expanding perfection. newspapers, of course, will emerge from the Millenium better than they will go into it, albeit they enter it immaculate.

This result, which comprises "a bettering of the best" will not bo retarded by the sure disappearance of several persons and things that, if anything can, disturb the spiritual serenity of the scribes. We will regard with undisguised satisfaction, for instance, the abatement of the be ing who wri; es to our "valuable and largely cir culated journal The Millenium will have been worth waiting for all these centuries of sin, if it will only improve or eliminate that abominable being. Equally obnoxious is the surprised subscriber who is always "grieved and astonished to find" such and such views "given a place" in a journal "he has read from the fust date of its issue." We confidently rely on the Millennium to dispose of all these im promptu editors who feel certain they know how to conduct a paper better than those who are trained to the work. The poetasters will not vex us in the good time coming. The old maids on the shady side of fifty will not inundate unoffending sanctums with their emorons and defective rhymes addressed, in the spirit of a vain but life long hope, to my husband." No lines will then "be suggested" to anybody by the sad death of an infant who died of apple dumplings.

Nor will any one want to know if the police authorities are aware, Train, Woodhull, Demosthenes, John Fiske, "laborreform," "the higher education for woman," frauds," pig iron, protection, and all such ills will be no more. It won't make much difference who is President. Church fairs won't want any encouragement." We have a lively hope that ennons will not be reported a shrewd suspicion that none will be delivered at all. Nor will editor quarrel with editor. The Millenium will bring with it the common sense idea that such business as blackening one's brethren befits attorneys and other small fry, and is unworthy the high calling of the priests of literature.

There will be no. strikes in those days. The Eight Hour question will be lost in the thousand years' question. It will be a great time, however, for editors with an antiquarian turn of mind. The exact estimate of Mr.

Greeley's expletives in frequency and efficiency will be possible. The Herald's African correspondent will be properly "located." Sweeney's Hotel and the Equator, of which latter none will speak disrespectfully at present are rival claimants of that remarkable man. "Eli Perkins" will be even more out of humor than are bis letters to the Commcrtiil. Reporters won't have to do lectures," receptions, and other bores. All the Eagle's pungent paragraphs will be properly credited by exchanges.

There will be no historical havoc made of the Washingtonian hatchet. The M'llenial Tribune will absolutely know something about fanning. It will be immaterial where the Editor of the Times was born. Indeed, the period of perfectibility will be such a sweet boon to newspapers, that the recitation of its benefits would exceed all tolerable space. A few of those benefits have been told off.

They are but earnest of the good that still shall be. Not less by their preparedness for it, than by their estate of ecstasy in it, newspaper men can well wish for the Millenium. Other vocations may be shattered by it. Our own can but be consoled and clarified. Nor will the adequate narration and proper "enforcement" of the blessings then in vogue and of the richer ones in reserve, be a task unworthy the ambition and highest genius of the journalism of the golden age.

SHonse Numbering. When the Common Council, after years of investigation and experiment, procured the renumbering of tho houses and lots of the city on paper, one step was taken toward harmonizing the confusion that had been continually getting worse confounded. It was an important gain to have a consecutive and coherent plan of numbering, so that figures should not unexpectedly repeat themselves on the same street, and identical numerals attach to buildings at opposite ends of a and reappear in the middle. But that was only a single step in tho right direction. When the correct numbers were put on a map they were merely made available.

To make them practically useful it was necessary that they should also be put on the houses. There were two ways of accomplishing this second step. One was for the Common Council to direct its officers to put them on. Whatever objections might be urged against this method it at least had this advantage, that the work could have been promptly and accurately done. Another way was to permit owners and occupants to put the numbers on the houses.

There is a choice as to the style and placing of the figures. The plain kind and the common position would not satisfy every householder. This and other arguments supported the second method. It is obvious that whichever plan the Common Council adopted ought to have been promptly and thoroughly enforced. Since the owners and occupants were permitted to place the numbers they should be compelled to do so.

Many have obeyed the ordinance, but enough have refused compliance with its terms to occasion much inconvenience. If only themselves suffered from the neglect thero would be little to be said but the public also suffers. One inaccurate number may be a false guide for an entire block, while a single unnumbered house is to the same extent a popular perplexity. There is another cause of confusion. Many houses bear two numbers the new and the old.

As the directory for the year will soon be compiled there is no longer any excuse for this. It is time the whole business of house numbering were satisfactorily concluded. The several articles, published in another part of this paper, in relation to cerebro spinal meningitis, or spotted fovor, aro of such intor est that it is unneeesfary to do more than call attention to them. The disease is so rare in its occurrence that its features are as curious as those of a new one, while the alleged fatality of its results has mado it a startling sensation. From cases and interviews ekewhere reported it would seem that the fatality is not so alarming as at first supposed.

The statements of physicians and the communications from medical correspondents set forth the nature'and origin of the disease, the method of treatment, and the practicability of arresting it. The Monday Press has of late given considerable attention to religions affairs, but the reports although ample have offered a limited view of the church interests of the city. The sermons of a few popular preachers have been printed week after week, and the old story of overflowing congregations has been steadily sale of books. Soon his brother joined him. The auction aeller became pleased with the boys.

He loaned them money enough to start business. Thoy were soon conducting a small but lucrative trade. ChambirA Journal was published by them iu 1832. Chambers' Encyclopaedia was begun iu 1839 and finished in Of the two brothers, Robert wrote tho better, and Williajn was tbo better mau of business. The course of tho two brothers together is, in general, well kuowu.

How they labored houurably for themselves and their era is a part of our modern history of English literature. We have alluded to the insight given us tho literary habits of authors. The light thrown on th habits of Sir Walter Leigh Hunt, and the like, is not tiw least entertaining part of the volume. But as the familiar story of great men of a nation great iu the virtue and in the antipathies, as a record of a square, up lull, triumphant fight against poverty, the volume is uvj. readable and valuable.

THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' FUND. An OJd fireman's Argument tor Sac IVcw Association. To tlic Editor of the Brooklyn Eayle Several articles have recently appeared in your valuable journal in favor of aud )eil to the proposed change iu the management of that uolile charity, generally known as tho Fire Department or Widows' and Orphans' Fund, some of which have teen exceedingly perse in their teuor, but uouo of hioh. iu my opinion, touch upou the strong poiuts of the controversy or 6tate tho maiu reasons why the change of management is dcBired or made necessary. Whilo I desire, in this commuuication, to avoid all personal reflections, I feel called upou to express tho opinion that under all the circumstaucea of tho caao, as I know them to exist, air.

Ayiuar was fully aud completely justiued in his reply to tho paper read by Mr Slcwey, aud by him hauded to your reporter for nubli catiou. The writer hereof haa for a loug poriod of years more or less prominently connected with the manag. ment of said charitable fuud, aud continues to feel a lively interest in its welfare, knowing, as he does, tho relief and beuetits it has dispensed, and may continue to dispense, under proper control. Hy reasons, Mr Editor, for ADVOCATING THE PASSAGE OF THE SXLl. under discussion, and now pending in tho Assembly, are briefly That the Board of Trustees, as at preseut constituted, is a close corporation, in the most objectionable sense of the term, tight," as Mr.

Fiuu ta ectiouely expresses it) responsible to uo persons or organizations whatevor, themselves tilling all vacancies iu their own body, without consulting in auy mauner tbe wishes of the great body of exempt tiremen, whoso funds tbey, by a mere aeeideut, control that the 11 jard is uuwieldly in numbers, consisting of thirty four members, aud much difficulty is experienced iu obtaining a majority or quorum to transact business that they are not pcsseed uf business abilities or (jualilica tieiia necessary to allci property control aud miu ago a capital of this magnitude that they, with very tew exceptions, were selected und appjimcd trustees for a very tiillerent pui pose aud object. This tund was instituted many ye.irs sinco by a number of the very best eitii tbo th. of llrooklyn, but few i win are now living, and until a new eiiment wao introduced, was fostered, cured for, ccutrolhd aud wisely aud judieiou. ly dop ed by tho best and moft leii esentalive memiM rs of the old volunteer department. In these GOOD OLD TIMES the law governing this fund provided that each un pany du.

organised f. the extinguishment of tiros should anuually elect two members to a Hoard of Hop rcseutatnes, aud also nominate for appointment by said lii prer.entatives a suitable person as trustee instances are in record where the Uprese. Uatives tiave refused to appoint the trustee ho Humiliated, and those where companies not viu within their own mtmbei siiip, men of snov. character aud st.iuding, have nocu'uated as trustees, representative members of other companies. Under this state of lungs, the fond was well managed aud increased rupidtv but, alas in an evil moment the Legislature enacted a law, nrovid ingfor the apiiointmeut by the trustees of rivo tiro wardens, at a miserable stipend of three hundred dollars each per annum.

After a few years so great was tha strife for these contemptible positions, that the best members of tho Board were completely disgusted therewith, and on morn than one occasion their annual report to the Representatives, entreated said Board to beieiieved from what had become to them au odious task, by reason of the unseemly strife engendered thereby, and in consequence the verv apparont change in the character of their membership, was working a serious injury to their usefulness aa trustees ot the nind. But other counsel prevailed, they were rot rolioved from the odious duty, and matters continued to grow wctmi and worse, until in 18:, or '07 tho climax was fairly reached by the enactment of a uew law uy the Legislature, which eslatlished A SOET OP BUILDING HUEF.AU, with a superintendent at io0, a clerk at and live or seveu inspectors at each. What was under tho old law strife now became a perfect clamor for these various positions, aud instead of trustees being nominated for their suitableness to manage ehtr 1 tablc fund, they wero selected with iecial referenco ti lavr.rmg tho appointment of Bomo one or ni.i of th ninny hungry applicants for theso sinecures as thev were then thought to be. This, Mr. Kditor, was the stato of things oxistius; at the time of tho appointment of tho present Bjard or Ti ut tecs.

Is further comment necessarv The similar fuud in the City of New York has ir many years been managed cry successfully by a i tr 1 of nine trustees, formorly appointed by tne lio re sentatives; but since ihe "introduction of a paid i 'iru Dtpartmetit by the Exempt firemen's Assoeiat: which was incorporated for that purpose, an that privilege or duty freely delegated to them bv the Legislature in exactly the same mauner as is" now asked by tho cx of Urooklvn. Is there anything improper or unreasonable in thus ssk at the hands of the Legislature a simple voice iu the selection of the persons entrusted with the management and control of the funds which clearly an I unquestionably belong to me, and the other exempt nien of tho Western District, who have complied with certain rules? Whero, Mr. Editor, is the "dirty job" spoken 1 am informed and believe that of the thirty four members of tiie preseut Board, at least twonty of them, arn petty ward oliticians and placeholders about tho Ilab and Court House, and that of tho four or five va vancies which have occurred, every one rf them been filled by the same description of persons. This fuud uow amounts to between EIGHTY AND NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS, a sum almost equal to tho capital of many of the fire and lifo insurance companies, and banks of tho state Look, Mr. Kditor, over tho names of tho thirty four menibera of said Board, and see how many of thorn yuu would entrust as directors in either a bank or insur auco company of which you were a stockholder then you will not bo Burpriaed that in common with tho great bulk of ex flromen, fcol distrust of tho present management, and humbly ask from our representatives at Albany a voice in the management of our funds a simple boon, which has been grantod to our fellow firemen in the City of New York.

It is perhaps unnecessary to add that it is designed to embraco within the Association proposed to be incorporated, oU ox merabers of tho tho old volunteor do pai tinent, of reputable character, the persons named in the bill being but a nucleus or starting point. BaOOBXYK. Tne Ninth and its Colonel A Private Vindicates and Eulogizes tbe Lute FisU. To the Editor of the Eagle I noticed in the Eagle a roport of an interview between Htokes, the mnrdorer of ColonolFi aud ono of your reporters. With tho oniorpriso that prompted you to Bet forth the opinions of tho wretched man in your columns, I do not quarrel, whatever mar be my condemnation of your taste in striking, with aU tho forco of your poworf ul weapon, against the character of tho mau so foully murdorod.

Tho one point iu Stokes' wild train of assertions that I do take oxcoptii to is this: Lie stales that Colonel Fisk paid for tho uniforms of tho Ninth Ucginient, ami by this means st curcd the affection and adherence of the organization This is false. When Colonel Fisk assumed eommanci he found the regiment without a full dress uniform With hiB usual liberality ho advanced tho money for tho purchase of tho coBtly auits. This was done in ordor that the wholo regiment might bo uniformed simultaneously. It was not a gift it was only a loan aud each mau repaid tho Colonel tho actual cost of his uniform at an oarly day. The Colouol did not buy tho esteem of his mon ho won it by hia frank manly, generous and impulsivo character.

As for tfi hint that tho rogiment was beiug traiuod and eottah under control as a defoudor of tho Erie buildings the charge is too ridiculous for serious consideration' Tho Ninth ltegiiuent has its own record to look baok upon with pride. It exis.ed gloriously beforo Colonel Fisk took command now that he iB no longer at its hoad it jjus mt iimuuiii iiitc iu ui nmj as glOTlOUslV It's a great mistake that Colonel Fisk supported tho' Ninth Regiment it waB the Ninth Koginieut that sunnortod Colonel Fisk aud stUl comWs to support hKen ory with IcelingB of admiration mingled with an ardent hatred for the dastard murderer, who, ftom Ui cosv cell, thrown out his venom upon its escutcheon Iu conclusion this man Stokes, your articles caUs for public and Journalistic forbearance wanU you to "put yourself iu his placo." Indeed Worn I or any other mau of medium financial resource ti really find myself iu his place, what should I expect but short shrift and a speedy hanging Does the alternately boasttiil and whining murderer anticipate tuts justice? Not he. He knows the power of hA mouov A Private ix the Nbiii. Boston is huppy. Strauss, the groat waltz composer, has accopted au invitation.

To the Jublloa of courso thoy don't invito to anything else in Boston now. En jiaaeemf, Miss Kellogg has consoutcd to i. Also Lowoll Mason, now of New Jersey. We Would Say to Every Mother WLo lias a suffering child, go at onee and pro euro a bottlo of Mns. WmBLOw'a Sootbinu SYnur..