Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-07
LATEST eTELEGRAMS.
NEW YORK.

---sufcfde of an Engiishn"n---Ss~
uuchcs OF snow---Mr. Sewarus
Movement the iccoerS~'
Nrw York, March 7.-Rev. DIR. Clarke
of the Asa street Presbyterian Church
lectured last evening upon the subject oil
the Bible in the public schools, made q
severe arraignment of the Roman catho-
lies. and asserted that the cause OF TINS
sectarian movement was that the
Papacy, which is growing weak IN
Europe, seeks renewed vigor ON our soil
He warned people of divine displeasure
in seeing Gods word banished from the
schools.
Rev. Hepworth, of the Church of the
Messiah, preached last evening on the same
subiect. Previous to the sermon, pen-
ton to the Legislature against sectarian
grants was circulated in the congrega-
ton for signatures. Mr.. Hepworth con-
sidered that we were on the verge OF a
revolution, whose results would be more
important than anything occurring IN
American history since the Declaration
of Independence He said that his prin-
ciple was his bottom dollar for the pub
lie schools, but not one cent for sectarlan
grants. :
Some further facts have transpired
relative to John George Harding, the
Englishman who committed suicide in
disreputable house on Twenty-seyenth
street on Thursday night. He was
man Of some literary character, and
author of a translation of Dante, copies
of which we're found in his room de
left England and came to- this countryin
consequence of domestic difficulties, and
souandered all his money in gambling.
Penniless and miserable, he ended all
with poison. Besfa6
Six inches of snow fell in the city last
night. The storm still continues.
A committee of the Democratic Cen
eral Committee and the King county del
egation held conference meeting on
Saturday, at which it was resolved to
abolish or materially modify all the Ar
bany commissioners in Brooklyn, as they
were undemocratic and expensive.
The Water Board, Fire Committee,
Health and Police Boards, will be first
recognized, and bill for that purpose
will probably pass the State Legislature
this week. .aia1 M 53ags
Secretary Seward attended church Eat
St. Paul s. with ex-Postmaster Wakeman,
of this city, yesterday morning. During
the day he received several calls, and IN
the evening dined privately with some
friends. To-day he win call formally on
the Common Council, in accordance with
an arrangement already made, and be re-
ceived in the Chamber of the Board OF
Assistant Aldermen. ~.
Meehan, of the Irish American, has
improved very much within the last few
days. His friends are quite hopeful OF
his ultimate recovery, t7oe 72 (
The ship Glad Tidings, from Glasgow,
for this city, which arrived last night,
had hard time of it between the gales
and fields of floating ice. She was
caught on the 9Th of February in ter
rife southwest gale and lost her foresail,
maipsall, foFesop. gallant-saili malntop-
maststaysail three jibs and cross
Jack from the yards; on the 18th, in lati-
tude 4sO 10 she ran into large field of
ice, with numerous little bergs. The
bergs closed up around her and smaller
masses Of ice crushed against her hull
Her progress seemed impossible ana
she was headed to the southeast, After
an hours sailing in this direction she
had cleared the ice Continuing on in
the same course she passed through
another field of heavy, broken masses,
with bergs in it forty feet high. She
forced Lsr way slowly through the bergs
so near, that her martingale was carried
away. Once through this field she ex-
nerienced no further trouble.