TI1E DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, APIUL 2, 1870. G our nsxaazoua cofiuxai?. JlOIiE ROOMS INOVli CUURC1IES. Time was when a church edifice was consid ered amply furnished with all needful accommo dation! if It had, In addition to a main audience-room, another and smaller, designed for tho double purpose of 8uuJay-8chool and prayer-meeting, a small room with a gallery for an infant class, and several class-rooms. But of late years, as tho working and social power of the Church has gradually devclopod, the want of additional rooms has been felt, and this want, we are happy to say, is supplied in many of onr best churches. Our Sunday Schools need better accommoda tions than they have usually had. Tho church conscience ought not to be satisfied with putting living children for two hours every Sunday in a depth of earth where only the dead should bo placed; yet there are under many of our churches just such dark, miserable holes in the ground, as deep as graves, aid almost as damp. They are considered good enough for the children. The Sunday School rooms should bo as cheerful and pleasant as they can be made. Wo do not plead ler extravagant adornment of art, yet they onght to be attractive. By all means, let them be above ground. We heartily wish that not Another church might be bnilt with a basement underground, even to the depth of a foot. There onght also to be rooms for adult classes and for infant classes, the latter with galleries; and all rooms, largo and small, should bo well ventilated. The complaint is often mado that "there are not nights enough in the week" for all the meetings that are necessary for church purposes. This difficulty arises in many places from the fact that every week three or four evenings are taken up with class meetings. Now, we caunot make any more nights in a week than the orthodox seven which our ancestors have banded down to us, but we might make more class-rooms, so that all tho classes, even in a largo church, need not occupy more than two evenings in each week. With the help of Sun day, these surely ought to suffice, and thus a night or two might be gained during the week for othor purposes. HUIUiUAKY OK CIIUUCU NEWS. KriSCOPAL. The Episcopalians are opening chnrch reading-rooms in Boston. They hope to secure a building at an expense of $40,000. Trinity Churoh, Mew York, gives an annual donation to several hurches, enabling them to remain where they arc, and thUB securing oppor tunities for worship to down-town residents. The Kav. S. 11. 'J yng, Jr.'s, church lately took up a co.itributloti Of about $8000 in aid of the House of the Evangelist, ft new theological school to educate youug men to preach the Gospel to the negiected in New York city. This is said to be tho largest collection ever taken up in an Episcopal church in this country. A correspondent of the Churchman says that at Asbeville, N. C, efforts are beiug made to estabifh, a Thcologicul Training School where there are now three students. The only minister who has ever maintained a permanent location in the mountaius of Western North Carolina is Kev. Jarvis Buxton, there being ro other parish priest west of the Blue Kidgo. Ho has been there twenty years. The Hartford Churchman says: -"There Is an Episcopal mission in Bait Lake City composed of Bishop Tutth and two devoted clergymen. They have for three years occupied a Held aban doned by every other Christian minister who has attempted missionary work there. Now this mission numbers nearly 100 communicants, with aSabtath tchool of 13) pupils, and has contributed fc'JOOO to the work there in tho three years. Three young men, sous of Mormons, are under instruction lor the ministry." Kev. Colin C. Tate, rector of St. Paul's Church, Columbus, Ohio, iu a note dated Feb ruary 28, informed Bishop Mcllvalue "that the snrpliced choir and processional singing in St. Paul's Chnrch were discontinued on Sunday, January 2, 1870." This communication having been laid before the Bunding committee, mat body adopted the following resolution, whereby Mr. Tate s standing Is restored: Resolved, That inasmuch as the Rev. C. C. Tate has olllcially notilled the bishop of the diocese of the discontinuance of the objectionable practices in St. Paul's Church, Columbus, and (or which he, the Kev. C. C. Tute, was preseuted for trial, the Stand ing Committee withdraw the presentment. METHODIST. On tho Vineland (N. 3. Seminary, $30,000 have been expended, and $3,000 more will bo required to complete it. The Rev. John Lickinson, brother of tho celebrated Miss Anna Dickinson, is at present supplying tho pnlpit;of the church in uuutord, Conn. Ho is a very popular preacher. The Christian Advocate reports tho voto among the clergy on the lay-delegation ques tion. Forty-one conferences cast 3357 votes, of which 2718 are for and 639 against lay delegates more than four to one. A Methodist Episcopal church has been erected in Fultohoa, in Bulgaria, bordering on the Black Sea. It numbers twenty-oue mem bers, and is the first Methodist church ever built in Russia. Tho Baltimore Methodist Conference ap pointed a delegation to visit tho confercuce of Southern Methodists, in session at the samo time and place; but tho latter declining to re ceive the delegates in their official capacity, they withdrew. The largest contribution ever made in one year in money to any religious or benevolent society was made last year (1800) to the Mis sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, namely, $018,230 til. This is an ad vance of $20,004-1)3 over the preceding year (1868). During the recent session of the Kentucky Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, two members of the conference were Invited to E reach in the Methodist Episcopal Church onth, which they did, and several of the ministers of that Church w ere introduced to the conference. Tho largest salary paid last year in the Lexington (Ky.) Colored Conference was $500; the smallest $8 75. The Methodist for March 20 reports the vote on Lay Delegation thus far as 3320 for and 845 against. Total, 4105. This includes the vote of fifty-ona conferences, and gives the required three-fourths vote, and 1 to spare. The Advocate sums up 3194 clerical votes ts far in favor and 818 against lay delegation. It reckons that the remaining votes will make a total w 4440 for and 1003 against it, which would mVe 90 negative votes In excess of tho one-quartei necessary to defeat the measure. We BOtice tuvt the New England Conference has just glveu a negative vote considerably stronger vuan iu "euessed by the Advocate, It is certain that Ure is great doubt whether the measure will r. adopted. Its strongest opposition comes in t.e Eastern Conferences that are vet to vote. The Methodist papers fl still ncrACrd rlla- cussing the reports of the Bo.fc Committee, and the official papers are earnejjy ftim8lng tho Baltimore Conference for sustain jjrt Lanauaa and Dr. Sllcer, ana voting a want confidence in tne Bunaaytnoi (society, uuue. tne nnan. Cial managemcjfl oi sir. uoouenougn, ne of tne parties lmplicatoapy tne minority or iu uook Committee. Alt H. Vincent, of the fc.naay School Society, tifl come out In a card stro.,,iy defending hisxoTleague. Zion's llerald strong y advocates the position of roost of the outsiders that the matter be reinvestigated before a com mittee of practical business men. BAPTIST. In the Now York Independent the Rev. J. Hyatt Smith denies the report that he had re signed the pastorate of Lee Avenue Baptist Chnrch in Brooklyn, N. Y., and come out for pen communion. The Kev. Dr. Jeffery has just completed the first year of Lis pastorate over tho Ninth Street Church, Cincinnati. Ohio, during which one hundred and fifty-four new members have been received. Tho Rev. Mr. Walsh, a recent Congrega tional minister, was immersed by tho Rev. Dr. Fish, of tho Academy Street Baptist Church, Newark, New Jersey, lately. The Louisiana Jlaptist tells of an incendiary who lately set on fire a Baptist church in that State, but who first piously removes the Bible and hymn book, putting them on a log out of reach of the fire. Dayton, Ohio, has been visited by a gracious outpouring of tho Holy Spirit. The pastor of the Wayne Street Church has baptized eighty eight converts since the meetings began, and at the First Church flfty-elght have been baptized. The work is still In progress. The Baptist Church in Paris would not bo allowed to immerse their converts in the Seine, or In public anywhere. As their place of wor ship will not admit a baptistery, they aro ob liged, in baptizing n convert, to bring in a large box for the purpose. The Baptist papers show different degrees of opposition to open communion. The tlpare Hour, of San Francisco, is a little semi-monthly sheet, edited by Dr. Sawtclle, and earnestly lu favor of the measure. The Watchman and Re flector, of Boston, tho ablest paper in the de nomination, and tho Journal and Messenger, of Cincinnati, aro both temperately opposed to the measure; but do not hesitate to acknowledge those who favor it as sonnd Baptists, and some times insert their communications on the sub ject. The Examiner and Chronicle, of New York, is bitterly opposed to it, and never gives the other side a hearing. Tho less able papers of Chicago and Philadelphia are satisfied with giving denominational news, without attempting to mould denominational sentiment. Then we have such Western and Southern papers as the Baptist, of Memphis, which would not even allow an exchange with or any recognition of unimmersed ministers. Independent. PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. Willis Lord, D. D.,of the Northwestern Seminary, has been elected President of Wooster University, Ohio. The Presbyterian Board of Education has received 8000 candidates for the ministry since its organization. Rev. W. M. Cunningham, D. D.. recently elected President of the Oglethorpe College, Georgia, died at Lagrange, on tho 10th ultimo, of pneumonia. Tho number of students now in Union Theo logical Seminary is thirty-five equal to that of its palmiest days. The present year is spoken of as a highly prosperous one in all respects. The Rev. Hugh McKelvcy, of Centralis, 111., has withdrawn from the Western Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian General Syuod and Joined tho Presbytery of Alton. The Cumberland Presbyterian Chnrch has a membership of 140,000, and now enters on tho sixtieth year of its history. It is considered more settled in its operations and fixed in cha racter than at any previous time. The New York Observer says that on a recent Sunday Rev. Dr. Hall administered tho communion to eleven or twelve hundred com municants In his church both pows and aisles being crow fled. The 1' v. Kingsbury, after being pastor of the 1 ! . . ilan church, Putnam, Ohio, for thirty years,' has tendered his resignation, in consequence of his advanced age and increasing infirmities. His resignation was declined, as tho congregation desire his pastoral relation to con tinue lor life, and propose employing an assistant. A very interesting qncstlou to those who support our benevolent societies is that opened by a correspondent of tho Evangelist, who be lieves ihat not only should the several boards of the two Presbyterian bodies be consolidated, as has been contemplated, but that this ought to be carried so much further as to merge the half-dozen boards into two or three. He says that the mission work of the Church properly divides itself into domestic and foreign, and that two societies are enough to take it all. Ilo sees no reason why there should bo a separate church-erection department, when this can as well as not be attended to by tho secretaries of tho Board of Domestic Missions, who are in intimate correspondence with the churches that need such aid. At most, it should be a bureau in that office. So there is no reason why tho freedmen should bo set up into a scnarato department, or why the Domes tic Board, with a proper supply of clerks, could not also attend to the education department, or to the colportage branch of the Board of Publi cation, which is, in fact, tho only function of that board which it is proper for an ecclesiasti cal body to attempt. Tho only really strong argument for the multiplication of societies is that thus it is supposed more money will be contributed. Besides the large Presbyterian bodies in this country in which we include the reunited Presbyterian Church, the Cumberland Presbyte rians, the Southern Presbyterians, and the United Presbyterians there aro numerous smaller bodies, mainly of Scotch origin, which refused to join In the combination wuicn lormea the United Presbyterian body. There are the Old Side Reformed or Covenanter Church, with 80 ministers and 80 churches; tho New Side Reformed or Covenanter, which had a little while ago 55 ministers and 60 churches, but which has been split into two by the expulsion of Mr. George II. Stuart: the Associate Reformed Synod of tho South, with 08 ministers; the Associate Synod of North America, with 13 ministers; and the Associate Reformed Synod of New York, with 11 ministers. This mates 7 scotcn rresuy- terian bodies. Besides these are the Declaration and Testimony Presbyterians of Missouri, and a small body of Old School Presbyterians In the same reclon that reiuse to go into tne union To these should be added another faction, lately organized in Charleston, . J., whose numa we do not know. This elves us a total, so fur as known, of 13 Presbyterian Churches. LUTHERAN. The Lutheran Visitor says, speaking of de nomlnatlonal interests in the South: "The Southern Church is not now a missionary church. It has not a single missionary, lhe Southern Church must ere long be without pastors: it has not a single theological student. " The Xcandinacen has a weekly circulation of about 8000 copies. The Lutheran Observer says: "As there are sixteen Scandinavian jour nals in America, this will give some lcioa or tne Scandinavians as a reading people. REFORMED CI1URCU. Rev. J. II. Wagner, late a pastor of tho German Reformed Church in Pittsburg, has seceded to the Roman Catholics. On the 3d inst. he was "baptized" nnd confirmed by Romish Driest in Lancaster. Pa. St. John's German Reformed Church, West Philadelphia, recently voted to transfer their comrrcnation and property to the Presbyterians The Messenger says that legal and ecclesiastical measures have been taken to prevent it. CATHOLIC. Bishop Strossmayer has caused great excite' ment in the (Kcumenlcal Council by proposing that tho entire concurrence ot the fcplapocate bo necessary for the definition ot an article oi lalth It Is said that tho Pope refuses to receive lu the council a delegate ot tho l rencu Uovernment It is said that scarcely was the breath out of the body of the Into Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons before the Pope telegraphed to the Em ueror. recommending the appointment as his successor of a man who was an Ultramontanist. The Emperor telegraphed back bis regret at limner unable to accommodate the Holy h ather h had already appointed M. do GonoullhiP, who is said to be a man of profound erudition in ecclesiastical history. Tlm position of Dr. Dolllngerand thollberal 'Jatholics is a chief topic of discussion in the rman press. An address of thanks to blin signed by 150 names in Cologne, .Including the Mghest civil and municipal officers, a ma jority of the Court of Appeals, as well as the urlncip.ig and teachers of the higher schools. It is opetly threatened that the adoption of tho dogma of Uifulllbility will be the occasion of a secession mt less memorable than that of Luther. FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFE THE LAST GHEAT FIRE CALVESTOn. ircrring's Safes illl night in Every Instance. FULL. PARTICULARS. ONE. (ULVKSTOS.Ten.n, Miircli 1,170. Moteri. HMinwn, Fahuf.i, A Sukiimas, New York: Dear Sirs: It Rivet us pleasure to add our tostinonial as to tli I ire proof qualities of four Safes to tuo many which you bave already. OUR PATENT CHAMPION RAFft, whioh we pur. chased from yon thirteen years airo, was oponed on tho morning after the lira (which iocurrrt no the night of February 23, dost roy net some of our finest brick build -intra), to OUR ENTIRE SATISFACTION, our books and pipers netng in almost as good condition as when thny were placed therein, notwithstanding the intonsa beat to wkicb the Safe bad been subjected. The locks answered readily to the keys. Respectfully, etc, 8HAOKKLFORD. BROWN & OO. NUMBER TWO. Galveston, Texas. March 1. 1870. Messrs. Herbino, Fahiiel A Bheiiman, New York : Dear Birs: The Bre which occurred during the nigbt of the ffitd ultimo destroyed the brick building in wbioh we had our office. The fia'e in onr nee was one of jour PATENT CHAM PIONS, so jnatly oelebrated ; it foil from the second story on its face, among Coal Oil aad Turpentine, which was still burning when we andertaok to open it THIR Tif SIX HOURS af tor the fire ; it had, therefore, duriag that time been snhjeotod to a most INTENSE 11KAT ; much to onr surprise, we opened it with the key and found our books, papers, etc, in R KM ARK. A BL 1 GOOD ORDER, We are Ratified from the test to whioh our Safe was pat that YOUR PATENT SAFES ARK PEEFKRAIiLK TO ALL OTHERS for resisting the action of Fire. Bospectf ully yours, B UKNETT WALL. NUMBER THREE. Oai.vcrton, Texas, March 1, 187). BTessTS. 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' CEOBUK H. B. ULKB xy E A V E R & CO., Ropa and Twins Manufacturer, and Dealeu in Hemp and Ship Chandlery. No. 29 N. WATER fit.. No. 88 NORTH WHARVES lllui Palladelpuia. CITY ORDINANCE?. pOVMON COUNCIL OF PHILAUEL- v rillA. Clkiir'r Office, Office, ) ir, 1870. j u adopted by rot l'lilladuf- 1'IIII.APET.riIIA, Marcu In ncoordanco with a resolution me i,uiiiuion council 01 tue tnv oi l lilladoi' idiia on Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of March, 1870, the annexed bill, entitled ''Ati Ordiimnre to authorize a loan for tho erection of a bridge across the river Schuylkill nt Fair mount," is hereby published for jiublic lufor inntlou. JOHN ECKSTEIN, Clerk of Common Council. AN OKDIN ANC E To Amhorlzo a Loan for the Erection of a Hrlogo across the Illver tichuylkill at Fair iiioniit. fection 1. Tho Select and Common Conncila of tho city of Philadelphia do ordain, ihat tho Mayor of Philadelphia bo and ho Is hereby au thorized to borrow, at not legs than par, on tho credit of the city corporation, from time to time, ueh unms of money as may bo necessary to pay for the construction and erection of a bridge over the river Schuylkill at Fainnount, not exceeding in the whole the stuu of eevon hundred thousand dollars, for which interest not to exceed tho rato of six per cent. rcr an num shall be paid, half-yearlv, on tho tlrst davs of January and July, at tho ollico of tho City Treasurer. The principal of said loan shall bo payable and paid nt tho explruiion of thirty years from the date of the came, and not before, without the concent of the holders thereof; and ccrtiQ eotes therefor, In tho usual form of certificates of city loan, shall be Issued in such amounts as the lenders may require, but not for auy frac tional part of one hundred dollars, or, if re quired, in amounts of ilvo hundred or ono thou sand dollars; and it shall be expressed in said certificates that the said loan therein mentioned, nnd the interest thereof, aro payable free from all taxes. Section 2. Whenever any loan shall bo mado by virtue thereof, there shall be, by force of this ordinance, annually appropriated, out of tho income of tho corporate estatws and from tho sum rained by taxation, a sum sufficient to pay tho interest on said certificates; and the fur ther sum of three-tenths of one per centum oa the par value of such certificates so issued, shall be appropriated quarterly out of said in come and taxes to a sinking fund, which fund and its accumulations are hereby especially pledged for the redemption and paymeut of said certificates. RESOLUTION T() PUBLISH A LOAN BILL. Resolved, That the Clerk of Common Coun cil be authorized to publish in two daily news papers of this city, daily for two weeks, the ordinance presented to the Common Council on Thursday, March 24, 1870, entitled "An ordi nance to authorize a loan for the erection of a bridge across the river Schuylkill at Falr mouDt." And the said clork, at the stated meet ing of Councils, after the expiration of four weeks from the first day of said publication, shall present to this Council one of each of said newspapers for every day in which the some shall be made. 3 20 2 It COMMON COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA. Clehk's Office, PniLADKLrniA, Feb. 4, 1870. In accordance with a Resolution adopted by the Common Couuell of tho City of Philadel phia, on Thursday, the third day of February, 1870, the annexed bill, entitled "an ordinance To create a loan for the building of a bridge over the River Schuylkill, at South street, and for the payment of ground rents and mortgages," is hereby published for public in formation. JOHN ECKSTEIN, Clerk of Common CounclL AN ORDINANCE TO CREATE A LOAN FOR THE BUILDING OF A BRIDGE. OVER THE RIVER SCHUYLKILL ATSOUTII STREET, AND FOR THE PAYMENT OF GROUND RENTS AND MORTGAGES. Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Mayor of Philadelphia be and he is horeby authorized to "borrow, at not less than par, on the credit of the city, from time to time, ono million five hundred thousand dollars,. to be ap plied as follows, viz.; First. For the" building of a bridge over the River Schuylkill at South, street, eight hundred thousand dollars. Second. For the payment of ground rents and mort gages, seven hundred thousand dollars, for which interest not to exceed the rate of six per cent, per annum shall bo paid half yearly on the first days of January and July, at tho ofllco of tho City Treasurer. The principal of the said loan shall be payable and paid at the expiration of thirty years from the date of the same, and not before, without the consent of tbe holders thereof; and the certificates therefor, in the usual form of the certificates ot the City Loan, shall be issued in such amounts as the lenders may require, but not for any fractional part of one hundred or one thousand dollars; aud it shall be expressed in said certificates that tbe loan therein mentioned, and the interest thereof, are payable free from all taxes. Section 2. Whenever any loan shall bo made by virtue thereof, there shall be, by force of this ordinance, annually appropriated out of tbe income of the corporate estates, and from tho sum raised by taxation, a sum sulllelent to pay the interest on said certificates; and the further sum of three-tenths of one per centum on tbe par value of such certificates so issued shall be appropriated quarterly out of said in come and taxes to a sinking fund, which fund nnd its accumulations are hereby especially pledged for the redemption and payment of said certificates. IESOLUTI0N TO PUBLISH A LOAN l- BILL. Resolved, That the Clerk of Common Council bo authorized to publish in two daily news papers of this city, daily for four weeks, the ordinance presented to Common Council oa Thursday, February 3, 1870, entitled "An ordi nance to create a loan for the building of a bridge over the river Schuylkill, at South street, and for the payment of ground-rents and mort gages." And the said Clerk, at the stated meet ing of Councils after said publication, shall pre sent to this Council ono of each of said news papers for every day in which the same shall nave been made. 3 25 241 PROPOSALS. N OTICE TO CONTRACTORS. The Western Maryland Railroad Company havinar secured the aid of the city of Baltimore, will soon, be In funds sufficient to complete the road from Pipe Creek Bridge to Ilafterstown, and will receive Proposals until 9th April for all the unUulshod Gra ding and Brid glngr on the uncompleted section, the work on which has been suspended for a year. Payments made In cash for all work done. Tho work on tbe'Oraduatton, Masonry, an I Super structure of Brldgt s will amount to about SiOO.ooo. For all Information as to the present condition of the work to be done, apply to W. BOLLMAN, President, 8 88 6W No. 84 N. HOLLIDAYJjtreet. MEDICAL. TVTElV DISCOVERY.-ELIXIR J. V. BER- 1 MARD TOMBTHKNIOUB. ANTI.nvuPKPTIO. 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