Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1872, Page 5

! THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1872. 5 A WINTER’S TALE. A Reminiscence of War Times ---A Story of ’82. a Boy in Blue Paid his Hotel Bill, and the Calamitieg J - that Followed, How [3 A New Light on the Old Song, “If I Had a Donkey.” In the ealy days of the war for the Union, when the fiags finshed ont all over our city like apple blossoms, and the boys in blue esm? tramping through Chicago on their way to Be front, there was & spirit of generous loylty afloat in community that knew zo boundsRor _stint. Citizens gnzed with moist eyes 2nd “Bwelling hearts as tie long lines went meching throngh Chicago streets, from depot & depot, ‘bright and brave in new uniforms, witl barrels and bayonets that had never known piwder nor gore; trappings unsoiled by camp lie, and un- scathed in the rainof battle. .Andwhen news ‘began to pour back of advance movments, and Teconnoitres in force, and picket mooting, and iron-clad gunboats, and then tie horizon of news sent up the muffled :lmnflem of Pittsburgh Landing, and SpY and Island Number Ten, the feeling Wtensified, and waited to expend itself ag it did when the first inistalments of war-worn soldier loys came strag- gling out from the theatre of #ar. They were wounded, ragged, but there Was & ‘beauty in wound, and rags. We would put in & fragment of Latin on tho subject of his very besuty of dying, or doing the next thog to it, in the ser- vice of the country, but the types would proba~ bly spoil it,—types that ne'uaefl on every day newspaper work take so nikindly to the classica. “ But back came the stra:glers, andone of them got into comfortable qurters in a city hotel,— we lezve its name to besuessed. Ee‘ was not & beauty to look upon, eve in tho light of the Latin proverb. He ws foot-gore, raggod, and had army shces 8o brly run-down at the heel that you might see a kock away that he had no stockings, which gavsyou all the better chance to discover the poor chafed and swollen fest that were parting #ith such luxuries as socks for the sake of he dear old flag. He was ‘gaunt and holloweyed, and his unkempt hair ‘and beard-fringec cheeks thin and sallow with swamp fever an¢ night-work in .the trenches. He was not loply in that unwholesome com- ‘penionship the mglected soldier finds his closest. ~-friends. When he shambled up Leake street the fine-tooth comts in the druggists’ windows fairly danced in their cases. Poor fellow ! no carpet night was he, He paused before the hotel referred to, and looked in upon the fat and well-fed merchants and patentright sellers, sitting in comfortable post prand’al ease. He paused and went in, and &cored his name broadly on the registér. Now, Richard Winters was mine host, a generous fel- low, asahost should be, with s heart so large that, at times, it sets his head well back upon his shoulders, and men actually deemed him growing corpulent, Bat it is all heart after all. Richard looked wupon his guest. He did not need to take down his Bible and read about the rewards of sttending to the sick and hungry stranger. But helooked at the torn and tattered blue, and while he looked his heart swelled until you might swear he was carrying a bass-drum. So the soldier was washed and put to bed, and cared for, and slept, With no one to steal his grnel, and make off with his little delicacies. And, being of hardy constitution, and only needing a little care and kindness—shed a tear for the poor feliows who, lacking only this littls, came back never more—our soldier presently rose, found thet kindly hands had sent tidiness and . cleanliness throngh his garments, which he donned, and for three days made martial havoc 8t Richard's table among beans, and bacon, and ham, and huge slabs of beef, and stacks of but- tered toast, until one small waiter, of farm ante- cedents, averred that it seemed like tending & thresher, snd he feared he should, some day, be dravn bodily into the machine. Then our soldier seemed to have & relapse, and came into the hotel private office with every symptom of strong colic. It was remorse that nad got hold of his liver, for he was _an honest " fellow zfter 1, and compunctions rend such men sorely. Some men get through life without at- tecks of this kind and die in their beds to go un- der lring tombstones, but all the religious de- nominations are sgreed that the pensl colio * must come. Tts duration is all they quarrel about. Richard sat in his private office, sud to him came in our soldier with & grimace we have shown you was of the soul, but Dick thought it was of the body, and proposed & laudanum cock- tail, ora cholagogue smash. Tho military man would nono of it, but came boldlyup to tho breach of confession just as he and his Wiscon- &in brothers had ecrambled up to the flame-yom- iting lines of rebeldom. “Bir, I a1 a rascal.” Richard rubbed his left ear, and wondored whether it was a case of spoons or rummaging the bureau drawers of the other boarders. Yeg sir, I am a durned rascal, and that's the short of it. I've been living here and eating you . out of houss and home, and I have not got a cent of money after all.” Richard rubbed his right ear, and let the mili- tary man proceed, now he was well started down 'the healthy slope that leads to the salubrious vale of humilistion. He had had the inn-keep- .er's experience of dead-bests. He had sat with - unflinching eye when the clerk locked up avalise full of bricks, while the owner sneaked away with bis thred shirte, tvo pairs of pantaloons, and his hair-brush stowed about him, But here wes & boy in blue. What was to be done in this case, but to hear the end. “J was sick and going:nme tomy old mother in Walworth County. t you see I did not look [ike that when I came from home, and I thonght I must come in 2nd get rested or I'd_frighten the old lady to death. And you treated me so well, I have stayed, and heré's a bill run up, and not ared to pay for it. And I'm ablasted rasc: and you can just kick me into the street. Buf if T can go back to the front this very afternoon, [ wou't go home st all, for you see they wan me dowx there.” And here Liis oye ehone, and the colot distilled out of Dick's supplies came back to hié cheel, (alas that human valor s0 much depends on beans and beef, and bacon,) and his chest swelled, and Dick’s shirt bosom grew more and more protub- erant, and the two hearts beat the manly Te- veille that valor and gexmmaity Tmnow so waell, Then outspoke Richard: © Go, my good fel- low; you den’t owe thishouse a cent. d bless sou. “Glad youcame—." Then thero was a guackle in Richard's throst, and hoe and the soldier looked at one another through that lens which strong erotion is prone to set on manly evelashes when tho heartis all right. * John (thisto the clerk, who looked in_through a pig- eon-hole), give Mr. — his bill recoipted, and bring down his baggage. He Btarts for Lonis- ille to-night.” “ Bat he has no baggage.” “Well, then, by thunder (Uncle Toby's ro- sording sngel gave the expletive a mark of ad- K ZlirBtion), £0 to the steward and get him some, and set him up strong.” Tho soldier looked three inches taller, and filled out his frayed but furbished nniform until Fou would be proud ‘o lead a thousand such men fn battle, unless you preferred to let the Lord go before, and you behind. By George, T'll never forget this. Tl pay you'if I ever come back; m‘f by Christopher, T'll send yon something from the South. Lots of things lying round. What will I send you?” # Oh, well, send me & — jackass.” ‘Words of fate. The_soldier went South that afternoon, go loaded down with delicacies and solids fi:‘ he felt like & Sanitary Commission in ove volume, for the women of the hotel, heaven bless them, availed themselves of the directness® * of the situation, and loaded him with slippers, and pincushions, and Havelocks, and & dressing- gown, and marmalado, and Leiceatershire sauce, andhehad to leave behind a bath-tub and a rocking-chair after all, for in those days it was usual for private soldiers returning to the lines to be limited to one thousand pounds of hand baggage. And 8o he went a little light. Months passed away. The garden blossoms of June ripened into the yellow eucnmbers of eptember, and battles were fought and won fellows that came unwillingly to Chicago from the South were gotting uncomfortably thick in the prison barracks of Camp Donglas. And still no word from the sbsent Wisconsin boy,— and rio present from the South, which cxpecta- tion, by the way, never lingered in Richard’s generous heart ‘at all, because it never entered there. Ono Ssptember evening, just as Cicads was beginnirg to sing his vesper hymn among the leafy boughs of Wabash avenue, the guests and lonrgers on the Lake street frontof the hotel vhere this veracions narrativo is laid, were discussing their cigars and the situstion ab the front, and whether in the pending batile the 'rebels would bo whipped or the cid flag get a set-back, there came & noise frou the quiet ehadows between the tall blocks ofsower Lake street. It brought every man to b feet. It sonnded like a horse laugh done by s first-class locomotive; like a watchman’s attle a couple of thousand times magnified ; like & steam-driven buzz-saw at work at a rail- road axle. * He-ah-he-ah-he-ah-haw-hee-haw-hee- haw.” Out of the gloom of the despening crepuscule (consult Webster, and never use the common word twilight again in elegant writing) emerged an awe-struck railway menial, Lolding on, with grim despair, to a couple of rods of tether, at the remoter end of which followed a diminutive jackass, his majestic ears towering above his thin deck frame like the twin smoke-stacks of a Hudson River tug-boat. ‘¢ He-ak-he-ah—" (our trusty pencil bresks). s Richard, unmindful of fate bearing dewnupon him, gazed with the rest, s the tall ears came to a halt before the hotel-entrance, and the dimin- utive carcass below fairly swayed with their ‘motion. “Is Mr. Winters here? If he is, I've got & Jjackass for him.” The donkey's next bray was lost in a pretty fair human imitation of his notes,—such is the pover of numbers,—and the donkey stood teth- ered to a hitching-ring, while eighteen dollars’ {reight-charges were discussed and disposed of. There was no mistake in the bill of lading. This was the soldier boy’s consignment of the exact gedge hemade in parting. Asinus had come to ischarge the hotel-bill. And now the narrative must assuie s con- densed style, enforced by the necessities of the case. Why harrow up the minds of unsuspect- ing readers, ignorant of the extent of the calam- ity a jackess of country-breoding naturally becomes in & many-peopled_neighborhood, by the infliction werepress. ~Stabled the first night on_State street, at thecorner of Adams, t jackass’ voice harassed Richard's ears atthe hotel, five blocks away, like a guilty conscience, while tho stablemen’ fairly grew giddy with wrath, and ghed curses which had Asinus been clothed with them as with & garment, he would havebeen utterly unconscious of the thwacks that gove & livoly trade in now pitchforks next morn- ing to the hardware dealer over the way. Then the jackass was taken to & barn near the Homo of the Friendless, where his night-song so stirred up the children and feeble old iadies that his and their notes rose heavenward and spread into the air, and showered down upon the hapless city » geyser of wails, and groans, and shrieks, and he-havws, until it seemed asif the nether world or Camp Douglas had broken loose. Three more stables were tried, and more and more homesick grew the Southern pet translated to our Northern clime. He seem- ed to gain power by practice, and actually shook on his hoofs with the increasing power of his notes, until & new and forcible Eermty grew to the fignre about & homesick party maling an ass of himeelf. Finally, when Asinus disturbed a Common Couxcil meeting held to a late hour and fairly deafenedintoadjournment by this don- key, shelteredfor thatnight onlyasa special fayor in Charley Stokes’ gtable, on an alley adjoining the Court House Square,—not the first timo tho voice of an unstayed ags has disturbed the Al- dermen in session,—it became a city matter, and not to be borne longer. 8o Richard took his Southern pledge of remembrance home to his private summer residence above the Catholic Cemetery. The night that followed will never be forgotten in that peaceful and sequestered bourne. Richard’s ;uan swore the next morn- ing that the shingles were starting on the barn T00f, that the ripening fruit was shaken from the ~ orchard ‘trees, that he feared to he should upset-tombatones “and opening graves. ing for the next g forcibly the g of the handle, the absurd donkey had kicked him in the stom- ch. For two weoks moro the donkey changed his country quarters. He was sold twice, to come back in threo davs with freight charges. He was taken to DuPage County, to Boone, to Woodford, and came beck like many a_ travelled 228 before him, simply an ass as before, Then a venturesome' farmer ic Fond du Lac Oounty, whoread an advertisement ‘s souND Jjackaes for sele,” unconscions how much was hidden in_the qualifying phsase, sent for tho animal, whigh was ghipped the vory mext day. The Northwestern Freight, Wisconsin Division, never left the city in better trim. For a few miles Asinus wag quiet. He was a little hoarse from extra vocalization in & frantic North Side teemster's barn the night previons. All went smoothly until erossing a heavy embankment near the Fox River junction,—the Nomesia that never fails, after all, toovertsko jackasses as well 28 men,—came post andovertook him. Heraised himself, and bent his ears double against the top of the car, and then, cabined, cribled, con- fined as he was, he lifted his ssinino soul into his last bray. It was ome too much. The strong freight car swayed and reeled, left the track, rolled over down the bank, and, when they came_to free the wreck, Asinds was dead. Yet his last bray, it s averred by super- stitions_brakemen, still haunts the~ hilis of Crystal Lake a8 an echo, heard after dark when the rumbling wheels wake up the din of the deep cuts, and the donkey's lament together. The news came back to Chicago, and having verified it by seeing a fragment & fow feet long of his lost donkey's ear, ‘ Richard was himself ngain,” Sioco thon he hus been kind to many boys in blue, and they have gone away gladdened Dy his hearty welcome, but he never again sug- gested a donkey as legal-tender for a hotel bill. And when, remembering the name of the brave Walworth County boy, whose only fault was faithfulness to & rah Ppromise, he saw his name among the killed in & emall gkirmish in Alabama, who but he paid & tribute to the soldier’s mem- ory by sending $50 to the soldier's mother in Wisconsin? Bo ends our narrative of generos- ity, and bravery, and fidelity, and it is not the geiume a jackass has come in and marred t] look over the cemefery fence lest see el oy An 0ld Lawsuit. TWashington Corresvondence of the Cincinnati Timea. _ Yourfellow-citizen, Judge William Johnston, is here laoking after the Piatt claims—No. 2,205 in the Court of Claims. The case 28 it now standsis in the name of Hannsh Grandin, administratrix of John H. Piatt, against the United States. Abram 8, Piatt had three sons, John H. Piatt, Benjamin M, Piatt, Abram S. Piatt, and two daughters, Hannsh C. Grandin and Naney Dunn. Abram 8. Piatt and Hannah C. Grandin are the only survivors. John H., Piatt, the ancestor of the claimant, had been Commissary of the Northwestern Army from the beginning of the war of 1812 up to the 26th of January, 1814, swhen he became & contractor for supplies. At this time he had in his bands a balance of the Commissariat fund amounting to §46,112.56. In January, 1814, he contracted with the Gov- ernment to furnish rations to the Northwestern Army for one yesr at the rate of 20 cents per ration, the Government to furnish him from time to time with means to purchase these sup- plies—to be accounted for on settlement, which ‘was to be made eyery three months. In January, 1815, after oxpending the’ $46,- 112.56 in his hands, and_sll the other means furnished him by the Government, thore was atill due him over §200,000, and Lis drafts on the Government for over 140,000 were under protest for want of funds in the Treasury to pay them, Meanwhile the gold and silver in tho Tressury was gone, and the Treasury notes were ata henv%vdmupnné—womn still, the enemy had captured nahu:‘gitan, and burned the Capitol. the banks had suspended, and the country s flooded with irredeemable’ papor. Currency yent down and provisions went up, £ill rations contracted for at twentycents could not be bought for less than forty-five cents. _ InDecember, 1814, Mr. Pintt went to Wash- ington to surrender his contract, and, in com- pacy with the late Judge John McL.ean, went to r. Monroe, Acting Secretary of Wer, and ex- {rssssfl his’ determination to give up his con- ract. Mr. Monroe appealed to his patriotism not to desert his country in the hour of its peril, and assured him it he_would go on and furnich the supplies he should be_indemnified for any loss he might sustain in 8o doing. Mr. Piatt kept on till the close of the war, sup- plying the army at a cost of 45 centa per ratio. The claim is for the difference between the price contracted for, 20 cents per ration, and the price paid, 45 cents ' per ration. What the claim amounts o in the aggregate is not exactl stated, but will be sometiing less than a fnnrfl:; of a million. Judge Johnston's effort, when in print, will read liko a work of fiction. It will bo a most in- teresting chapter of early times, —Auburn wants to eroct a statue of Beward in Beward Park. New York ehould have moved our flag was further Bouth, and the poor | long sgo to put one up in Central Park. THE CENSUS. Religion and Occupation. From the New York World. 3 It has already been mentioned in commenting on the census that the gix New England States with & white population of 8,445,043 have but 5,421 churches, while the &ix Southern States upon the Atlantic, with & white population of 8,450,903, or virtually the same, have 11,567 churches'; but_spart from this amazing revela- tion there are otlier items of interesting ecclesi- astical information to be gethered from the re- port. The population of the thirty-seven States 18 83,115,641, and the total number of churches for this mullitnde is 62,522, with 21,395,542 sit~ tings, leaying 16,720,095 of our peoplo apparent- 1y unprovided for. The truth is, however, that t%e population of ten years of sge and over amounts to 27,899,535, which leaves but 6,503,993 ersons of church age, so to speak, who conld d no accommodation should every man, wom- an, and 10-year old child in the Union bo simul- taneously moved of & bright Sundsy morning to attend religious worship. Still that as many as 6,503,993 persons, or about one-sixth of our en- tire population, have no church accommodation, i8 & pregnant réflection for divinos. _The aggre- gate value of the church 1praperty i8 9349,619,- 780. For the current fiscal year the expenses of the United States Government, exclusive of tha enormous payments of interest on the public dobt, are £173,495,015.55, or about one-half the entire value_of all the church property of the Union. So monstrous i8 the extrava- gance of the Government that in two years, were there no other means of revenue but church property, we would be 40,000,000 of heathen, without a church to our name. In the Territories and the District of Columbia thera are 560 churches, with 269,520 gittings, and a church proporty worth 4,863,601 Coming to particular denominations, the disciples of Wesley and Wintefield tower, in point of numbers, above all ; the Baptists come next, the Presbyterians next, then the Catholics, the Christians (or Campbollites), the Lutherans, the Congregationalists, the Episcopalians, an the German Reformed, in the order named. Tho number of churches of these and some other less prominent denominations in 1870, 1860, and 1850 are as follows : ———Chatrches—— T1g70, 1800, 1850. 21,337 19,883 13,300 13,962 12160 9,563 TOTL G406 4838 3800 2550 1,2 2302 2063 815 2776 218 1,291 2715 238 175 2601 215 1,450 1,145 616 341 662 6 2 602 664 530 310 264 245 m 24 16 152 i Ed The several rates of increase or decresse for the two decades are as follows: 188 Methodist Baptist 1870-70, It will be seen that none of these denomina~ tions, except the Xformon and Unitarian, main- tain in the last census decade tho rate of in- crense shown in the one prior. The falling off in the case of the Methodists, the leading de- nomination in point of numbers in the country, is particularly great.—as notable, in fact, as tho portentous growth of Mormonism. The wealth ;1! the leading denominations compares as fol- ows: Denomination, Methodist Value, 69,854,121 60,985,066 53,205,250 ,608,1 36,514,549 25,089,693 It is & comforting deduction from tho census that, while we may not build as many churchos in proportion 2s we onco did, they are overy way mora costly and respectable-looking edifices. The plain brick Ebenezer secms giving way to a more ornate structure. The number of churches in 1870 is not yet double the number in 1850, but the value of church property now is four times greater than it was twenty years ago. Coming to tho subjact of avocation, the cen- sus treats us to some rare imaginings. Its dry figures body forth before us 12,335,172 men and women, boys and girls, working away for doar life at every imaginable occupation tho country through. Two-thirds of the pop- ulation of the United States are droues, secording to the census, for whom tho other third toils. How it toils can only be scen in its bewildering comploteness in tho sorricd columns of the census report, but hero and there a fact—sometimes pathetic, sometimes ‘humorous, but always suggestive—appears even to tho hasty glance. One-lalf of the entire working populition is engaged in agricultural pursuits, and of the 2,885,996 agricultaral labor- ers 873,332 aré women, the brawny helpmates of the Scandinavizn seitlers of tho Northwest or the Southern negress who has not yet laid down the ehovel and tho hos to disport et the heels of her sooty lord 1n the halls of legislation. Among othor curious svacations we find forty-fivo fomalo stock-herders (how savago o - call- ing none know but those who have seen the Texas * cow-boy” @ash like lightning hero and there through droves of half-wild cattle like s.dragonina chnx'gll?, 6 imale approntices to Darbers, 24 womeu dentists, femala hostlers, 2 fomale professional hunters and trappers, 5 she- lawyers, 525 she-physicians and surgeons, 67 fo- male clergymen, 2 women scavengers, 7 female cextons, 10 female *canalmen,” 196 women draymen, 1 female pilot, 6 female guano labor- ers, 4 sho-gas-stoliers, 33 women gunsmiths, 7 fomale gunpowder makers, and 16 female ship- Tiggors, Among the men appear 2,512,664 agri- cultural Iaborers, 2,995,030 farmers and plantars, 1,046 florists, 22,756 barbers, 43,807 clergymen, 40,781 lawyers (an _ecclesiastical preponderance sufficient to koep the legal mind down), 61,858 physicians, 1,976 undertakers, 1,144 Rextons 141,774 blacksmiths, 161,485 shoemakers, 152,061 miners, and g0 0n by the army corps ad “injiui- um., Churches, 1,357 06 —_—— The Strengti of a Fother’s Love. The almost superhuman strength and courago of women under circumatances of grest peril, or when the maternal instinct is ronsed to the ut- most for the praservation of their offspring, has been recently exemplified in s most extradrdi- nary manner at Segano, & small village south of Milan. A child of 4 yoars, playing nesr an old well but carelessly covered over, went too nesr the insecure edge, and, before an elder sister could reach lher, was precipitated to tho bottom. The frightened child ran ecream- ing to her mothor with the fenrful nows. The latier, a workwoman in tho factory, stood for a moment as if paralyzed, when, ag if realizing the full danger of her little one, in- stantaneously flew across tho court, and tith her eyes fixed upon the water below, pellid, mute, teoth hard sot together, sho thought only of rescuing her child, and, clutching the old coping of the well, let herself down from stone to stone until ehe reachod the water, where an innor row of stonos geve hor s footing. The littlo one hod caught by its clothing to this jagged wall, and the brave woman, reaching far over, firmly grasped the child, and lifting it freo, held it safo above water with one hand, while with the other she steadied herself against the damp, slippery wall. In tho mesntime the alarm had been given, and the workmen who had come to the rescus Jot down ropss to which the woman was to at- tach herself and child. But this was impossible to eccomplish without letting go of the child. The poor woman could not again bear the terror of losing her baby for an instant, and with & look of baffled, hopoless despair thrown upon thoso who waited breathlessly for the result, was about to resign herself to her awful fate, when & sudden grasping of the rope below gave renewed courzge to the spectators. The undaunted woman had made another effort for life, and successfully. Slowly lifting the child to Ler mouth, she had taken in her testh & por- tion of the dress and safely held it, until she made fast the rope to each. This communicated to the people zbove, a shout went up, as one ‘more fearless than thé rest, 8t the risk of his own life, went down to the rescue of motherand child, which he sccomplished by intrepid cool- ness and undaunted courage, amid the hearty bravos of the men, and the half-frenzied, hys. terical shrieks of the women. The Troubadour of 0ld. The average troubadour thought far more of amusing his sudiencs than of improving it. Far from being a moral teacher, he Was, in mine casos out of ton, just the reverse—being very much more of an acrobat and a buffloon _than of a poet. In this respect he glid much less at- tention to the counsels of Vidal, Nat de Mous, sud Roeymond de Miravels than to those of Giraud Calanso, who concludes an elab- orate lecturo to Lis comrades in this way: ‘“Learn to pley on tho tabor and the cymbals, to ;opare nino Instrumonts with ten cords, 'to Landlo tho many ged fiddlo, to strike the Larp and the guitar, to blow the flute, and to vonirive a dancs tiat shall suit the notes of the bagpipe. Learnalso to throw and catch little balls ong&le points of kmives, to play tricks with bas- kets, toimitatethe chirrpof birds, and to jump through four hoops.” The practico of these fiddling and juggling tricks degraded the profession—s _thing that was greatly de- plored by high-minded trouvers. One of this class, Girand Riquier, of Narbonne, petitioned Alfonso el Babio to exercise his authority in reatoring the gay science to its pristine dignity. Asa meaus thereto, Giraud suggested the publcation of an edict in which the poets, the singers of poetry, and the buffoons shonld be classified apart. Alfonso made no_sttempt to effect this arrangement; porbaps he saw that it luy beyond his power; nor did any other Prince accopt tho task from whence hé shrank. So, until Provence cessed te be the land of song, the name troubadour continued to confound the man of original gonius and exalted sentiment with - tho merest stroller. This is not the lace for an examination of the canses that ron- lered the occupation of the jongleur so profita- ble as it really proved. We must content our- selves with remarking thiat the Provencals of all grades were entlasiasts in their admira- tion of song, and liberal to excess in their reward of gingers. Mouey, clothes, jew- els, and horses were_scatfored in ' profu- sion among them, [Posts and pensions too, were to be won by proficiency in the gay science. And there is one instance on record wherein a 1“‘7'1“; estate was given for a single compogition. Tarsudet de Flassans purt the manor the name of which he bore from Foulqet do Ponteves for o piece entitled “In- structions to Secure One Against the Treacheries of Love."—Cornhill. * THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE. What It Will Be in the Future, From the New York Tribune, Dec. 23. THE TRIBUNE. The affairs of the Tribune Association have been the subject of much unprofitsble discus- sion recently in the newspapers, and of various idle gossip for which thero was little fonndation in fact. Itis mow proper to state, however, that, as the result of certzin intrigues and out- side’ efforts to gain control of tho paper, and vrest it from the purpose to which our late chief devoted it, some chmfi::huva taken place in the proprietorship, and s Iarge majority of the stock is to-day permanently concentrated in the hands of Mr. Greeley's chosen editorial associates,— men whom he trained for this particular duty, to whom be intrusted the manage- ment of his journal in the gravest emergencies, whom he honorad with the confi- dence of his thoughts and wishes, and whose purpose it now is to continue the work from shich he was so suddenly called sway. Their ambition is to male the Tribune of the future what Horace Greeley would have made it if God had spared him,—sa" frank and fearless news- ‘paper, devoted fo the best interests of the whole country ; ppending its energies and resources freely in the collaction of news; keeping its readors informed of the course of ovents, tho currents of opinion at home and abroad, the progress of science and the useful aris; speaking its mind freely on all questions of pub- lic concern; detesting neutrality in politics 28 the rofuge of the woak-minded and tho timid, but keoping its indopendence as the best title to honor and usefulness. How far our achievement must fall short of our endeavor, missing every hour the strength of that incom- parable advocate whom we have lost, none can realize more fully than ourselves. But we have atloast this qualification for our work, that wo have canght something of his spirit and learned to know his purpose. e That purpose, a8 he formally announced it in his latest writings for these columns, was to make his journal more thoronghly than ever tho honest and unfettered champion of Republi- canism, Reconciliation, and Pesce. To the complete effacement of the scara of war, and the restoration of brotherhood between the Tong-separated sections of our country, he de- voted the last labors of his life; and, though one of the means by which he hoped to accom- plish this result bronght um personal dissp- ointment, he believed, even in the bitterest Eonr of defeat, that the good cause in which he Epont himself liad been_strengthened during tho contest, and he trusted in its spoedy triumph. It was no gelfish ambition which led him into the Liberal movement. He had been fighting all his life for the ideas which gave birth to the Cincinnati Convention. Peaco, Self-Govern- mont, Official Purity, the Ono-Term Principlo, were always cardinal doctrines of his political creed. He was so hearty and consistent a Civil Service Reformer that, two . years ago, ho peremptorily suppressed an able article written for tho ediforial page of this pailerbyao con- spicuons a_political theorift se Thomas Went- worth Higginson, because 1t indirectly opposed substantially the samo scheme of reform which the President has since accepted from his Com- missioners and promised to_enforce. He in- sisted upon the One-Term Principle as the best safoguard against party corruption, from his first appearance in political life to the end of his carcer. He never surrendered his belief in Protection to Home Industry; but, recognizing that, in the oxisting condition of —public affairs, it could not be the vital issne of & Na- tional contest, he demanded that it should be a7ain, 28 it had 80 ofton boen before, & matter of toleration, not the shibboleth of party ortho- doxy. He nover vexed himeelf with schemes for the nomination at Cincinnati, and ha always assented to the justice of the view which his nearest cditorial pssociate consistently urged upon him till within a fortnight of the Cincin- nati Convention, thathe was an immeasurably greater man a8 editor of the Trilune than ho could be as President. But ho took a deep con- cern in the framing of the platform; snd, when the principles of his whole career were formu- htns in those admirable resolutions, ho beliaved that he eaw the beginning of a movement which would purify and rejuvenate the Republican party, ‘ond throngh it give peaco, hap- piness, aud prosperity to the land. His formal nomination by the Democrats at Baltimore was carried, sgainst ' his wishes, on the judgment—perhaps mistaken—of his noar friends. He deplored what ho deemed an unfortunate error, and took the earliest op- ortunity of protesting that he was nolessa Eepublic.’.\n than ever before. That his life-long enemics had accepted at last the faith which ho had preached for thirty years, that the old Pro- Slavery party had come to profess the docirine of equal rights, the old Secessionists to declaro the perpetuity of the Union, the Rebol South to sequiesce in the consequences of the War, tak- ing gracofully alike its blessingsand itaburdens, this was the crowning achievement of bis honor- able life; thus, and not the personal glory of the nomination, was what he looked upon as his oat roward. It certainly never ontered is mind that just as his sdversaries bad leurned to adopt his principles, ho himself should abandon them. Neither was it his idea that tho Tribune should bo in the future any less troly a Re- publican psper than it had beon in the past. He, spesking through its columns, had beon tho earliest, the most earaest, and most power- ful apostlo of the Republican pasty, 3o, moro than any other, might be called its founder. It hed taken from him many of its nobleet charac- teristics, it most benificent aims, iis wisest policy. Buthe valued it for its prineiples, not for its offices. He never hesitated to withstand its caucuses and conventions when they subor- dinated the support of party fizrinciples to the ambition_of party leaders. He nevor allowed the Tribune to become the organ of aselfish clique, or even of the Administra- tion he most respected, -and whenever he de- tected an attompt to drag & great patriotic or- anization at the heols 0f & faction of place- untors, he raised his indignant voice in pro- test, nover stopping to count the cost to him- gelf. So would he still have done had he been permitted to remain. He would have made the Tribune still the defender of that true Republi- canism to which the country owes its present ‘prospority,—the Republicanism which in adver- sity was fired with genorous impulses and lofty designs, and the spirit of heroic patienco, and sacrifice, and hope. So far ns an Administration remained true to this ideal party, it might de- pend upon his cordial friendship. But Republi- canism alwayscamo first in his mind; the Ad- miné:ztra.tinn, whatever it might be, camo after- war z 3 In taking up the unfinished tack which fell from his hands & fow wepks ago, we happily have the men whom he brought around him, the facil- ities which ho accumulatod, and means so ample that when, a few days since, over half & million of dollars wwas paid for the bare control of the Paper, we, knowing the worth of what Mr, Grae- oy had built up, bid higher and bonght it back. Making sllowance for the fact that the Tribuneis ractically without improved real estate, this in- icatesby far the highest price everpzid foranows- paper on this continent,—aprice groater, we may saywithoutoffence, than any other journsl ontie continent, with the exception of the Herald, could be expected to command. Buthenceforth thero is no price whatever with which any stranger can buy it,—itis beyond resch. So fortified, we purpose continuing our old battle against Injustice 4nd Ignorance under the seme Belpthiqw banner which ' Horace Grecley up- held go stoutly and so long, and on the samo policy of candid independonce which it was one of his Iatest acts to reaffirm over his qwn signature in these columns, Nafurally we shall prefer to support, as far'as possible, an Administration which ~professes the party | namo. Buch 'an Administration will receivo | l:from us o frank and cordial approval of every action performed in accordance with its and our principles. But the Tribune is nobody’s official advocate. It has no excuses to offer for the Louisiana crime ;.it denounces the Credit Mo- bilier scandal, and abhors the degradation of the Civil Service. When Ropublican leaders are guilty of oppression, fraud, bribery, or any other species of wrong or folly, we shall not spere them becsuse they ars Republicans. No party sympathics_are strong enough to over- come our independence or muzzle our honestut~ teranca. 2 ‘With these few words of explanation, the as- sociates and disciples of Horace Greeley, sensi- ble of their insbility to 8l his place, bu strongthened by his teachings and onconraged by his example, take up the burden of his life. Vo other pledge need bo asked of them save thatin the patriotism of their aims and the honesty of their methods, they ghall strive to copy the illustrious carear of their leader. They purpose continuing, so far ag strength and timo may be given them, the works which he began, and winning, yot more largely, if it may be, for the great journal which ho has loft, untimely, to his associates, the respect and attachment of the same clesses of enlightened and liberal men and women who have beenits friends thronghso many years, Thoy are resolved that this shall be the same Tiribune which_fought so bravely for Human Freedom, for Equal Rights, for the Canse of the Poor, for the Advancement of the Humble, for the Education of the Ignorant, for the Succor of the Homeless; which made itself tho laboring man's guide, the scholars compan- ion, the welcome visitor at the farm fireside. Sympathizing with all liberal and benevolent en- terprises, pushing forward whatever advances the culture and prosperity of our country, tond- ing naturally to the party which has boen identi- fiod most closely with the progress and glory of the Union, but at war with abuses wherever they may bo found, it shall be, what from this day we formally style it at_the head of the edi- torial columns, “The Tribune, Founded by Horeco Greeley.” VICTORIA C. WOODHULL. Mer Denunciation of ¢ Moral Cowar= dice and Modern EIypocrisy.”? From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, 15, Woodhull dickinguishad thia city Dy et firat appearance before the public since her re- lease from—as she terms it, aftor the manner of her friend, Cteorgo Francis Train—‘a modern Bestile.” The lecture was somewhat excitedly introduced by the proliminary announcement of the agent that Governor Clatlin and other emi- nently respectable persons had influenced Mr. Peck to refuse Mrs. Woodhull the use of the Bos- ton Music Hall, although eho had eagaged it for Monday evening, and had spent monoy in 80 ad- vertising it. Tho fever of the niwa Was BppAr- ent enough in tho lecturer's nervous mauner as ehe camo mpon the stage, dressed simply and ulotly in black ik, am began, in & voice ren- St singularly pathetic by the continual inflec- tion of the head tones, and with a rapid, eager, magnetic manner, the recital of her wrongs and her intents. She came, she said, on & chenge of venue from the United States Courts and the public press, to the court of the peopls, a court higher than 21l others, and which creates all others, and presented the case for thodefence, knowing that justice reigns where intrigue cannot_enter nor money corrupt. She thus announced her lecture 88 & special pleading in her own behalf. Bhe steted that Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly was started with the avowed purpose of proposing a totally new social system, and recalled the gen- erous and flattering reception they first met, honeyed over with such phrases as the fas- cinating financiers,” the future princesses of Erie,” ‘‘Commodore Venderbilt's proteges;” and then traced how the current changed as they advocated the new steps, one by one, until they were “political harlequins,” humbugs,” * pub- lic nuisances,” oven ‘‘prostitutes,” * harlots,” “blackmailers,” etc, Itis war of the press, Mrs, ‘Woodhull claimed, that has brought them into disrepute; and she calmly inquired whether the press could prove a certain specific actof black- mailing or of prostitution against them; and thon remarked as calmly that editors who bave charged them with the crime for which they are arraigned will be proceeded against legally un- logs they retract. From this little resume, Mrs. Woodhull glided into direct defence of the purity of their pur- oees, confeseing to the advocacy of free love,” gut claiming that that had nothing to do either with their sexuality -or _ spirituality. Passing with exceeding plainness of speech and not =& little sarcastic power, she stated their ‘‘horrible and revolting social theory” to be that womsn shonld be emancipated from sexual slavery—that is, that the social systom should be so amended that no woman would ever even be tempted, much less compelled, to barter her sex sither for & perms- neat homs or for temporary support. Meantime they demand equality of right and of responsi- bility for both soxes, and claim that, so long as tho loss of virginity isheld to be a disgrace to upmarried women, it should also equally dis- co unmarried men ; if the mothers of chil- en bora out of the wedlock are ostracised, so should their fathers share the same fato; it o life of prostitution is wrong for the womsn, so must it also bo for the man; if women are inspected and re- corded under contagious disease acts, so should ‘men who associate With them be also inspected and recorded. On looking upon it from the standpoint of man, if the man dobauches be per- mitted tho enlre¢ of rospectablo mocioty, so should the woman with whom he associates ; and it he be permitted to move in such circles, and to marry its daughters, so must she also be permitted o do tho eamo and marry ita sons ; and, having married, be equally as Tespactable as thomen who havo merried the daughters : and they claim that public theatres, hotels, end resding-rooms, where men are admitted unques- tioned aund without a certificate of character from their ministers, should elso be open to women upon the same terms. This, the speaker averred, is the limit of their domands for women; and she challenged the production of a single sentence of theirs to Justify the press's accusation that they had urged prostitution and promiscuous sexual in- tercourse. The press had built & solid wall of sham morality and barefaced hypocrisy between them and the people. the§ sought to reach, so that no landlord in New York would rent them @ house save such as had been used for prosti- tution; no boarding-house, and fow hotels of firsk and second class, was open to them, their office intrigued away from them, their children turned out of every privato school, and their names a by-word and s reproach on the tongue of those who knew them not. This state of affairs, Mrs. Woodhull avowed, provoked the onslaught in their paper on revered reputations which lias re- cently made tho sistors infamous. That - publi- cation was intended to burst the barrier which shut them out from the public; tho most terrifio resources at their command, which had been al- most providentially committed to their care for is emergency,were necossary, and were unhes- itntingly used. The ponderous bombshell was Inunched, and the explosion startled the whole ‘world from its lethargy, snd caused it to stand terrified or appalled, Then followed = detailed, satirical account of the way they were entrapped into arrest on the ciroumstantial chargo of defiling the mail with obscene literzture ; and of the course the prose- cution took throu§h the United States Courts; attempting to lond the caso with a proposition to vindicat the reputation of one of the purest and best citizens ; denying the investigation to see if there were probable ‘cause to hold the de- fendants and committing them to jail to await trial, which may be put off one, two, or more years, ns tho Court ploases. And, asks Mrs. Woodhull, if the suits that have been instituted, both ' the United States and State Courts, are mercly to obiain justico, whencs, let it bo ssked, comes the necessity for the prosecuting witness in one caso to feet obliged to spend ahundred thousand dollars to securo the conviction of the defend- ants 7 and in the othor to be backed up by & quarter of & million, and the determination’ of individuals to E\u’nue them to tho death ¢ With somewhat amusing inconsequence, the speaker dropped into queries and speculations : Do thq people remembor a certain Convention, held at Cincinnati, not long since, for the ex- press Exu'paso of devising ways and means ta se- cure the injection of Godinto the Constliution, and who were the promoters of the scheme 7 and that the plaintiffs, ujon tho other extreme, have Iaborad ¢ seotire the injection of the whole qupj,s into the Constitution? Do they remem- or tho persecntions of the Mormons, instigated by that portion of tho Protestant Church ta which the President balongs? Do they remem- ber the untiring efforts of the churches to secure the re-vlection of Geners| Grant, and that since his re-election hew quietly his friends are broaching nct only the ide of a third term, but even of alifetima? Put this and that togather, and then pitt them all with the fact that the Goyernment aecured the passage of an act, under whiok any recalcitrant public jour: nal may be suppressed, and the peo- ple may bogin to catch glimpses of what' all thesethingsmean. Thoy mean tha dictatorship, if not, indded, tho empire, built upon God, sad in the Conatitation and General Grant a3 his earthly vicegorent. Tho plaintifs may bs callel ingane, as it is gently in some quariers that thoy are; thoy may ba conslgned to an asylam, for which plots ara now being concooted; but forall that thoy will continus to exerciss the right of {free speech, to publish a free jour- nal, and to sttack hypocrisy, even when en- throned on the high seat of the synagogue; and if the people will permit them to be crushed out for doing ‘these things, then they are, indeed, unworthy of liberty; then, indeed, do thoy de- serve to have the iron heel of religious despot- ism again placed upon their necks. The succeeding vindication of the alleged ob- scenity of the suppressed number of the Wood- hull & Claflin peper, by parallelisms from the Bible, was after the common fashion of every sort of faith, or want of faith, and was, toput it mildly, not of an improving or s decorous na- ture. Mrs. Woodhull would warn society against the licentions, and especially the libidinous clergyman, 700 of which class; she extravagantly remarked, wore, to-day, in this country under disgrace from crimes Of sexual origin. They hold that it is more honorable, andthat they who profess it are less dangeroms to society, to be an habitue of Green street than to steal into houses of assigna- tion, double-veiled, under cover of the night, and, at the same time, be long-faced, praying Christians and loud-mouthed denouncers of prostitution. The people do not wonder that they who live in the neighborhood of stagnant ools of water and decaying vegetable matter EBTB fever and ague. But they do not wonder that so many have moral fever and ague, and would wonder still more if it were known how many have dumb moral ague. Nor should this be construed into justification of public prosti- tution, for it is not that by auy mesns. _But it does mean that, whatever a person really is, it is best for himself and society to be known 28 ihat, and not as something else; which ha is not. It will be remombered that Christ said, “ There is nothing accret that shall not be mads known; nothing hidden that shall not be reveaied.” Do Christians—does Plymouth Church believe that ? Mrs. Woodhull closed her appeal to the é)eo- plo with tho gage of defiance, notifying Com- stock, Plymouth Church, Government & Co., that the ofi'f sworn-ont, rotten social system will b torn down, plank by plenl- timber after tim- ber, until place is given to s new, true, and beeatifal system, based upon freedom, equality, sand justice to all—to women as well a8 men ; the results of which can be nothing else than physical health, intellectual honesty, and moral purity. The Weekly shall live and bo devoted to this purpose ; or, if it be crushed, the in- domitable two will travel over the country from extrems to extreme, speaking in the streets if debarred from halls—but speaking, at all events. Stop t'heiz press, perhaps ; but their tongues, never! AN IRON CHURCH BURHNED. The Brookiyn Tabernacle in Euins, From the New York Tribune, Dec. 23, The Brooklyn Tabernacle, the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage's church, situsted in Schermerhorn street, near Third avenue, was burned yesterday morning. The fire was first discovered at abont 9:30 2. m., by the assistant sexton, in the flue at the sontheast corner of the front vestibule of the church. He immediately rang the bell, while the sexton started for the house of Mr. Corwin, one of the trustees, opposite the church. These, with others who had run in, began to fight the firo with pails of water and a small hose, but the flames increased and worked mp rapidly. They then set about removing things from the church, carrying out the books, cush- jons, stools, and nearly everything portable, As far as could be learned no word was sent to the Fire Department for somse time, and it was nearly hal an hour efter the discovery of the fire before the alarm was sounded from the City Hall. Inafew minutes s steam fire-engine ar- rived, followed quickly by others, and Eoon soven streams were brought to bear mpon the front of the building, and five upon the rear. Upon the arrival of the firemen, the fire was still confined to the vestibule, but in & few min- utes, with grest rapidity, the flames burst into the auditori ren up the wall, and along the ceiling, and the whole interior was soon enveloped. Tho windows being mainly . in the upper walls, the firemen _could cnly bring streams to bear directly on's smsll portion of the burning building through the few which opened on the roofs of the single-storied corner wings. The effect of these stroams was slight, however, and the fire- men were only able to confine the flames to the interior. The roof fell in early, and the flames Tose through the opening with great fierconess 50 that serious apprehensions were entertained for some time of their spreading with the wind and causing mn excensive conflagration. This was happily averted, however, by the exortions of the firemen, who kept the ncighbering build- ings saturated with water. The walls, too, aided materially in confining the fire to the interior, standing firm for a considerable time. The fire raged here, however, almost uncheck- ed for a long time, the strerms directed upon it from above through the front windows appear- ing to hato yery 1ittle effect, and the flamas raj idly fastening upon everything combustible which the firemen were uneble to reach. The timbers, a5 they caught fire, gave way, and let the wall fall piece by piece, tlie bell-tower going first, atabout 10:30 &. m., and other portions of the front following soon after. While the fire- men in front were throwing water into the building from sbove, the flamos began to creep rapidly nlonirtha ceiling of the southwestern wing, ‘and threatened to engulf the men who were at work upon the roof. Men shomt- ed to them, “Come down,” but they remained at their post. me of ths lines of hose was soon bronght down, and s stream was directed upon the lower part of the building. This was done first throngh the front windows, but to so little advantage that the door opening into the western passage was bmtkendijl:lmd té:o hose taken Efiida. Here the water good service, quickly oxtinguishin tho flames and saving tha to0f. 50 ot ot above worked away without danger. This elso onabled the firemen to reach the fire below, where they did good service, The flames were driven back gradually, end a stream was bronght to bear upon- the interjor with excellent effeot. By 11:30 8. m. the fite was mnder pretty good control, aod the work of extinguishing it proceeded rapidly. Portions of the wall, which wre still standing, were then pulled down to afford access to the burning timbers, and the wreck of the structure was thus completed. Dur- ing the afternoon, the fire still mo‘idered, and soveral streams were kept plag’ing on_the ruins until it was complotely quenched. The inflam- mable nature of the building and the peculiar mothod of its constsuction rendered the task of the firemen a difficult one, however, andit early became evident that they could not gave it from complete destruction. The air was bitterly cold and the men suffered considerably, when not in immediate conflict with the fire. Many were completely drenched with water, which quickly 1roze on their clothing. Mr. Randall, who was sexton of tho church when the Tabernacle was built, described to the Teporter tho construclion of the flues, They were square, and constructed of thin zinc; in- side of these were round sheet iron pipos for couveving the smoke and The zine flues were cesed in wood, on which the corrugated iron was fastened. If the iron pipes became disjointed or bent 80 a8 to come fn. contact with the zine, there was nothing toprevent'the wood- work from catching fire when the furnaces were nnAder tu%l blast. gentleman gtanding near told the reporter that at the time of buliding the chutch trope. 8als wera invited for constructing the flues, and the contract was given to the lowest bidder. One of the defeated applicants said ta him, when the terms were made public, that they could not be safely built for the smount named, and that there would be & firo in that church 8some time. The Tabernacle was completed in September two yeara ago. It was comstructed with & wooden frame, sheathed within and withont with corrugated iron, and portions filled in with brick.” A golid brick wall formed the reer, The main part was nearly circular, with_small, low wings at either corner in front, and an orna- mental projection forming the main vestibule. The external appearance of the structurs was uniqe for a church, but rather attractive. The auditorium was very lirge, and, with tho gallar- ies, waa capable of seating shoni 3,000 persons, with standing room for 500 more. All the intor- nal fittings, including s number of sirong col- umng, wers of inflammable matarial, and served woll £5 feed the flames; in fact, there appears to have been very littls about tha building that did not burn roadily, except the ‘shell, twhich protected rather than hindered the fire. The cnmg!qtn_dastru_cfic.n in less than an hour of an iron building excited no little comment among membors of the congregation and spec- tators-generally. One gentloman remarked that it was just like & sheei-iron stove filled with kindlings. The appearance of the ruins showed that thera were very few bricks between tha in- terior and exterior Wwalls, the space being almoat entirely filled up with wooden joiats an beams, which burned like tinder in a strong draft. The organ, which was buili for the first Ros- ton Jubileo i 1969, was destroyed. Itis said to have cost ariginally $25,000, but was purchased by Xir, Talmage's congregation for 37,000. Vari- oas alterations, however, were found Te0essary, and were made st an oxpense of $5,000. The changes wero gupervisad by George W. Morgan, the organist. The organ did not gontain a very groat variety of stops, but they were of great force, so that it was considered, the most ‘power- ful organ in the country. The fow solo stops on tha swell organ were of a remarkably fine quali~ L 38 t give full acopa to ty, and the mechanical ArTangementy were such the player, allowing him the entire range, from ths loudest stop combins« tions to the very softest, by the moving of & sin- §le pedsl. The organ was built by Mr. Hook, of oston, and, at the time it was nsed at the Jubi~ lee, was blown by three hydranlic pressuze en= ines. It was insured for $15,000. Mr. Morgan lost & valuable collection of music, which he can= not replace. The loss i estimated by Mr. Rowan, clerk of the church, at about $75.000 on the building and furniture ; insurance, $45,000. A Tribune reporter called on the Rev. Mr. Tal~ mage, yesterdsy afternoon, at No. 287 Quincy street, to obtain information of the plans of his congregation for the fature. M. Talmage was very cheerful and communicative on the subject. He said, in reply to an inqnig;“ “Well! Itsgoneupina fot of fire, like Elijah. It is quite s loss to us, but we shali rebuild at once on the same spot, and probably in the same style. We shall worship to-night at Plymoutn Church, and if my people and Mr. Beacher's all coms we shall have a crowd. Bo= fore the church was half burned, we received an invitation from Mr. Beecher and his Trustees to use their church in the evenings until we conld rebuild. We had an informal meeting of: Trustees in the old church, and before the. seryice in Plymouth Church was tkrongh they had received a reply thatwe would use their church that evening, at least. We also received an offer of Dr. es’s and Dr._ Cuyler's churches, and half a dozen others. We hope, however, to get the Acsdemy of Music until wo shall be able to rebuild, for both morning and evening service, and a Committeo was authore ized at once to make negotiations. The Academy is one of the best buildings now in the city for, the purpose, but is not equal to our church, which inall its arrangements was unsurpassed. Miss Charlotte Cushman, who read in it a short time ago, and all speakera who have tried it, have expressod tho opinion that it could not have been improved in its aconstic properties. ordinary conversational tone reached every person in the house, in which 4,000 peopla could be and frequently were packed.” Mr. Talmage was asked if he thought corru~ %ated iron would be used in this new building., o replied that he thought so. The fact was, his opinion, that nothing was proof sgainst fire., He had recently come from Chicago, and thera! e heard of stone buildings melting like wax be~ fore the flames. However the fire in the Taber~ nacle may have originated, he thought its fata would have been the same if it had been built oft wood or stone. The style of the church ms; have seemed eccentric to ontsiders, but he lik it. Amanis ?Ieaserl, or ought to be, with the earance of his own wife, whatever otherm of her. Soit was with him and hia peopley in their opinion of their honse of worship. its arrangements were harmonions and cone ducive to sociability ; everything was in circles.. He thought the new house would be nearly & fac simile of the old. —Judge D. B. DeLand, senior member of the, firm of D. B. DeLand & Co., of the Fairpork Chemical Works, Fairport, N. Y., died Dec. 22, of pleurc-pneumonis with effusion. —3Mrs. Freeman, an old lady living at Crocke ery, a little place near Grand Haven, Mich., waa sifting in her arm chair sewing Tnesday Aftare. noon. A rifle in an sdjacent bed-room wag somehow shaken from its place, and, falling, tha ball passed through s parition into the sitting room, piercing a tablo in the way, and finally lodged in the old ledy’s head. She lived only, two hours after the accident. SPECIAL NOTICES. The Centaur Liniment—Has curcd—does care, and will care mores cases of rhoumatism—stiff joints, swell. ings and lameness upon man and beasty in ono day than all other articles haven ina hundred yoars. Onesas: ‘I have. not held a pen in saven months—now T, amall right.” Another that, **tha Contaur Liniment cured a frightfa} bura without ascar;" another, ‘It SN KewTATpro restored to use a hopelcasly lame horse, worth 8400, etoe, Try it once. It is a wonderful thing, Children Cry for Pitcher’s C: toria. Itregulates the etomach, cures wind collo causes nataral eleop. Je a substitute for castor ofl. MUSICAL, PIANOS, OfDECKER BROS., New York, and othem P first-class manufacturers, i Store and Warehouse, 455 Wabash-ay. H, CLAUSSENIUS & (0., General Agents for the State of Tlinois. HMason & Hamlin Orean Co 281 Wabzsh-ay., Van B 1-8t, CIRCULAR. Organs to rent, A TR GENERAL NOTICES. TAXES. OrFICE OF, ] eax%owrgpcfiflfi:, ‘mc.c'.'al‘.nx‘gff '} Notico is hereby gisen that the Warrants for tho collecs; tlon of Btate and County Taxes for the year 872, aro nows in the hands of Town Collectors, Pasment may be mada. 88 follows: North Chicago—To John B. Walsh, at 129 North, Clarkst. Sonth Chicago—To J. WV. Tappan, at 161 LaSalle-s Wost Chlcags-To' 4. L. Sovassa: Hovm o Sfatonior 5 Hall, coraor Randolph and Haisteasts. " Hyido Park—To Jamos F. EIr: at 141 - Lako—To Daniel Buarcky, at 136 Tagaiis s *t togicoro—To Andrew O. Butler, at 143 West Washing A Lake View—! Lague Viow—Ta Martla Van Alles, at Roam 16, No. 16X Eransion—To Hanry Oakes, at Evanst k J &, Tl S P T AR Bon 0 ElectiozL Notice. Notico {3 horeby given that thero will be a meeting of: tho stockholders of the Morchaats' Savings Loan &: Trust Company, at their office, in the city of Chicago, om, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1573, betweon the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 13 o'clock m., for tho eloction of elaven Trastece, to serve during the ensulng year, snd for the transctions of such other business as mey come before the masting. CHARLES HENROTIN, Casbler. NOTICH. The Town Collectors of all the towns off Cook County, have returned their books for State and County Taxes for 1871, to the County Collector (emst wing of old Court. House). Tax-psyers who have not paid, and- wish to save costs, must pay at onoe, . J. 8. RUMSEY, County Coilector. INOTICE. Tho nnnual meting of_tho steckitaess ot she B anoual mesting of tho stockholdors of the. City Railvay Company, for the elaction ot a Bosrd of B zectors, will be heldat thio offico of the Compasy, on, Taesday, Jaz. 7, 1815, botwoon (ho Boura et apay wofos P-m. 5 F- JOHNSON, Sasemoioek THE CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK CHoAGo, Doe. 14, 187 Tho annusl mesting of the Stockholabre of thls onk {for the elaction of Directors for the onsuin, year, will ba Beld ot tup Banking ofce, oo Tuaeday. 160 T4 Ty 0k 2 1673, botween the hgarao o 3. 306 BANGER, Geabter. MISCELLANEOTUS. Asbestos Felting Company. Tho best and most durabla BOILER AND PIPE COVERING In nse. Specis] Qualitles—ist, i3 a saving of i et Gogitlentu, hass oAy to 0 per nonduflamyhility snd non-conducting qualitics:” Ath, 1ia floxibility and powar of contraction and. expanaion. b ts porfoct Doatness In appesrancor. O, B GOFTER: its pare Qeneral Agont, &1 North Wellsst., Chicago, GIVEN AWAY. Que pound of tho finest new carrants is_presentod to evory purchasor of one BoUEd of oar tos dieig Chrenie and Now Year. ~ Our & teas axo incaunliod la this ciop CHICH T TR Cosib ANy’ = 35 Bluo Jalandav, HOLIDAY CHROMO, Splendid Holiday Chromo, MOTHER IS GUT, Givon to each customer of the GREAT ATLANTIC & AGIFIC TEA CO., 1§ Vest “washi . Fetaty-mconiat. o o Wahiagones I8 FTURNITURE. B s seio eSS EFurniture. JOHN KRATUS, 19 B 3 gu bmfz“wah:h;afl“: o A 1873, and to devots Bl R b e ps Wit PR SO R AL e nead prices,