Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 2, 1873, Page 2

A J QUEBEC. Demolition of Historie Struc- tures. Proposed lmxirofinmnt of tho Marbor, in Ordor to Securo the -Urain. Trado of the West, A Hubbub in Roman Catholic Circlos--- Disaase---Navigationes Immigration, Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tridune, QUEpEo, Conads, April 23, 1873, Tho American tourist who will in futuro yoars vislt Quebeo, with the hope of thoro viowing tho imemorials of s historlo past, and tho romains of sn older civilization than that which is trans- forming the once fablod Wost, will bo DOOMED TO DISAPTOINTMENT. Ho may sao the grim, gray walls encircling tho Uppor Town, the bastions and gabions bohind which tho armles of Franco bado for long yoars doflance to the hosts of England; he may wan- dor through the endless corridors of tho Bom- inary, look on tho spot whore Montealm was buriod, or whore Pere Emnemond Masse suf- forod martyrdom; ho may pass undor tho aliadow of tho mysterious Chien d'Or; but tho massivo gaton which havo #0 ofton rolled back the tide of invasion and shut out the clamors of xobellion aro gono, historlo honses have dis- appoearad, stroots famous in Canndion logondary lore HAVE NEEN SWEPT AWAY, and o1l In obodionce to a spirit of changs which #eems to bo avimating the poople. Only o fow yoara ago, Proacott Gato, at tho hoad of Aloun- tain Hill, fsmous for tho ropulso to Benodiot Arnold on thenight of tho 31at of Docombor, 1775, was domollehed in obodionce to the demands of commerco. St. Lovis Gato, au intogral portion of the Fronckonceinte, camo down a littlo later; ond now vandalism Lins beon noarly eatisfiod at tho dorolition of Hopo and Palaco Gates, within the paat wook. Itis afiirmod, in pallin- tion of this mthless desiruction of momorials which mado Quobee a sort of Mecea in tho eyos of Amorican pllgrims, that the trado of tho oity suffered through tho . obstruction offored by tho time-honored portals. ~ Possibly wood and hay cartd wero somowhat bothorod, but tho loss oo- casioned was but trifiing, and tho annual valuo of tho now *im;rovements” will bo easily countoed in units on tho fingore. It might bo supposed that, so much having been accomplished by the iconoclnsts, o rest would biave beon taken, But, so far from the ““improvors” being content, a project is on foot for TEARING DOWN TILE WALLS ALTOGETHER, Gracious a8 the: Minister of Public Works has ‘boon in his capncity of Acting Ministor of Mili- tin and Dofénco, in grauting powers of dostruc- tion to the corporation of Mayor, Alder- mon, and Councilors, who rulo tho desti- nies of this smocient city, I am induced to think he will hardly dore accedo to such an ovtrageous proposition, for a mutiny would be the result, ‘The demolitions which Diwve taken place may bo traced to a very simplo motivo—jobbery. Good building-stono 35 bo- coming searco ot Quebee, Laviug to bo trana- port: from Cape Rougo. The gatos and _ fortifications aro — constructed of oxcollont _ matorial. The portnor of Alderman John Hearn is a contractor namod Piton, who has some henvy contracts on hand for whioh ho noods stone. o offers to domolish the gntes for tho value of the stono, to take down tho walls upon the same torms, «nd the corporation, on tho penny-wise-pound-foolish principle, agrees to doprive Quebec of its main attractions to satisfy tho demauds of jobbin, corporation-contractors and veual Aldermon an Councilors, Thoro is ono VERY EXCELLENT PROPOSITION on foot : to construct o boulovard sround tho battlorents and ramparts, which will overlook tho 8t, Charlea Valloy and $ha 8t. Lawrenco Ba- sin. Tho walls must bo lowored to breest height for this purposs, and, if Lo plau Lo carriod out, © splendid drive will bo afforded, with sn unoh- structed viow of tho finest aconory of tho Conti-~ nent. Tho morchants of Quebee, 88 ropresented by tho Board of Trade, huvo & measure beforo Par- Jinmont for the roorganizstion of tho Quoboo lénrbor Compmission. 'Cho maiu object sought is the TMPROVEMENT OF THE HARBOR, swhich soroly needs it. Tho now Boord will, in tho event of the mensure being sauctionad, obtain trom the Goverument a loan of $500,000, and, with this monoy, moat oxtonsive improvo- ments can bo carried out. Tho mercantile mind of Quebec Lias nt last beon made to comprehond that tho groat staplo trade—that of lumbor—ia passing away from tho port, nud that new linos ust b oncoursged. Lha q\ragauudemnuator Dreadstuff, tho success which —Montreal Lne attninod o8 ® graiu-shipping port, and the immonse profts being reapad from forwarding, have stimulated ‘the moro progressive—that in to say, the younger morchants ; and it I8 from the knowladgo of theso facts that tho improvemonts of tho harbor are mainly uou?ht. It ia well luown, thoy say, that grain can bo shipped from Chicago to the sonboard, via Quebee, 1 cont per bushel chonpor than by way of Monlreal, becauso chargos are saved by bLringiug barges dircctly to Quoboo; pllotaga and ofher ducs aro cacapod, Thoro- soro, with facilities in their favor for carrylug on this 'trado, they urgo the constructlon of Wharves ond docks, and the formation of A PORWALDING COMPANY, & withample capital forthe carrying on of thetrado, is tho project of tho hour. Tho deopening of Loke Bt. Potor—s work which tho pooplo of Montreal claim a8 particularly their own—will but holpto bonofit Quoboe if her merchants sot onorgotically about builling up & grain- trade with the Groat West, Tho ouo great ob- stacls in the way of introducing anything new in Queboc ig tho ‘calm iudifforonce of tho timber intorest, and the influcnce oxercisod by it over our banking institutions, In a month or so, money will be dearcr at the banke,—indeed, slmost unconio-at-ablo at any price, —hecauso it will be locked up in advauces upon timbor, This rado hna beon built up ut the EXPENSE OF EVERY OTHER INTLREST of this portion of tho Provinco of Quobec, and »f this city in particular, whilo the profits of tha mmoeusa trado, fustoad of doing any gonornl g0od, have inveriably boon taken by the fortu- Dato robbors of Canadisu forests fo Ingland, thoro to b spent in unlimitod oxtravagance, ‘T'ho controllers of that interost bavo ovor ntead~ ily set tholr faces againat any improvemonts, ox- copt those by whicls thoy woro dircetly benoflted, —aud with t00 muc #ucoeks. e Wintor is gradually relasiug bis hold upon ug. Tho §t. Lawrence, for halt 1t6 oxpanso opposite tho city, is OLEAR oF 108, and steamboats are regularly vlyln[i. It isn curions sight to watch stoumers and sliffs dart- ing about in_tho river, on the one hand, and passengers and teams straggling scrosy tho pro- mL:]riuun romeindor of tho icc-bridge, on the othor, Tho Archbishop of tho Province has returned from Rome, and tho ovent crentos not a little HUBBUL 1IN LELIGIOUS CIRCLEH, A florco conflict how loug raged botwoen two partios in the Roman Uatholic Church in Quobeo, ~the Ultramontaues, ns roprosontod by Lhe Bishop of Montreal and the Josuils, and the Liberals, roprosonted by tho Arolibishop, whoso Boat {8 Quoboo, His Graco went to Ronw to lay tho mattor boforo the Pope, bocauso tho assaults of the Ultramontanes, and tho mode of warefaro adoptod by them in the F'ronch Romnu Catholic prosa,—tho Nowveav, Monde and the Frano Parleur, of Montreal,—were subvorsive of ‘Archioplicopat authority, and dostructive of tho iyfinonco of the Chureh. Tho pot object of the llramontanos 15 to bo permitted to found a +Univeraity of their own, in opposition to that of Laval, tho rocognized thoological sohiool of tho Province, The bill way thrown out by tho Iast Parliament, and now His Hollnogs the Popo bas docided mgainst them, It m ly b imagined t tho rosult of nt‘l'mmrz’fliulo; of “the Archbishop producos a profound impresslon in the roligious world, DISEASE, ‘That singularly-fatal disoase, corebro-spinal- meningitis has mado its flp\mmncu, n uallg- Tiant form, in tile part of tho country, and ja giving no littlo troublo to tho medical’ faculty compuratively unacquaintod with it. Bmall-pox and scarlot-fover wrought disastrous ravagos during tho past two yoars, and It 1a to b hoped that tho new terror will not attain groat propor- . $ions, "Tho wrelvhod snuitary arrangomonts, aud -t and;-with the firat™ atonmors, nomo tho uttor diarogard-of rulea for the prosorvation: ‘of hoalth on:the part of the peoplo, make Quobbo » oamplng-ground: for contnglpus | dia- - oagod, Lo opening of tho seanon'of " .7 7' N NAVIOATION 4 18 onrnently looked for, Large numbora of voa- gols aro roportod from the English ports for Quobae, and thore {8 every prospeot of tho sen- son being n favorablo ono, as tho rates Are high and tho domand livoly. Active offorts havo boen made in Great Brifain, duriug tho yonr, to promoto dnte oy i IMMIGRATION TO OANAUA, " 5,000 imml- granta for Ontario aro looked for, Now and im- ¥rovod arrangomonts are boing made nt Levis for the rocoption of tho strangors. 'The dis- g{uo(ul digelosuren of tho Hollo invostigation in ontrenl, whore tho Govornmont Agont was proven qumy of transforming tho Home into o sort of hiarom, may interfore with Fronch fmmi- ation but thore will cortalnly bo o largo in- ow from tho British Inlands. In Gormany, the offorigof Ganadinn ngonte havenot boon crownod with much success, 'I'he Govornmont took them inband, and_showod them thst the pooplo woro not to bo soduced into_immigration if Lismarck know himself, which ho thought ho did. Gon, MoAdams, roprosonting tho Enuigration Bocloty of Alsnco-Lorraino, i8 horo uow, troating wit tho Govornmont for the cossion of o tract of land upon which to setiloa colony from the coded provinoes, Wit tho opouing of tho soacon of navigation, and tho flooding of the port with foroignors, will commonca tho exciting poriod of tho yoar, ot lonst if tho usual summer . BEION OF TERNOR can_do anything in the way of adding to the livoliness of tho placo. Tho trightful utrocities of Inst summor forcod upon the Govornmont the introduction of & mensuro_for tho euppression of tho crimping system. What ite goneral fon- turos may bo 1 cannot soy ; but it is to bo Loped that it wlll be thorough énough to romove from Quoboo a foul blot which has long disgraced it. 3, LESTER. AMERICAN JOURNALISM. An Address by Mr, Henry Watter= son, Editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Delivered Before the Endiann Press-Convention, at Indian- apolis, May 1, 1873, 1t will not bo considored irrelovant, I trust, it standing in tho prosonco of an _nssociation of oditors, Iproclaim a long-chorished and woll- defined boliet in sociotios which gulld them- solves upon the noblo principle of mutual ad- miration; nor will you chiifgo mo with' sn ox- coss of loyolty if Tadd that, whilst respecting tuom the moro the largor and the stronger thoy bocomo, I em by no means indifforont to tholr advantages whore they arp not 8o impos- ing and numorous, but happen to bo roduced within the' compasa of quadrilatoral lines. Be- causo my frionds, all considorable emi- nenco springs in A& messure out of that which s called ~ in ‘common lifo tho. co-oporativa systom, We are.living In an epoch not of miracles but of mochanics; of multitudinous soclal, “eciontifie, aud profes- sional comploxitios; aud instend of its boing true that aman of parts gotd on fastor ond. fares bettor without nsaistanco and en- couragement, tho roverse is true, One mind alds snothier; ono hand holds up auother ; ono hoart cheors another; and, ag a man Is really an ablo man, the greater nced and uso ho has for his mupports, for that rosorved force, without which battles could nover bo won, nor groat edifices construcled, nor political organisms sot in mo- tion, mor newspapors mado up and fssucd. Neithor is this {ndispensablo holp purely muscu- lar and artificial; it is ofton spiritualistio and artificial, illastrating the homoly adago that “iwo hends aro bottor than one, though one be o shoop's liead.” Mon of goniug have in all times sought aseociation and moved in clustors. Thero was the Shokspearcan cluster: thoro was tho cluster which collected itself about the figure of old Sam Jolinson; and thoro is in our day and country o notable cluster circling aronnd Agassiz and giviog to Boaton tho title of tho Modorn Athens; n mutual admiration socloty which Holmes has boldly avowed and dofonded, ‘but which wants for no dofonse, boing amost natural and roasonable brotherhood of oete, wits, and statesmon. This socioty has Poon roprosanted in courts, in Sonatos, and in Cabinets, and its members, scarcely more by tho spocial gifts of onch than by tho honost help and appreciation of all, are known throughout tho world. You remomber that the lion in the fable, who was shiown s picture of ono of his race I [ngi rostrate bencath the foot of o triumphani Diman animal, obsorved, in his facotious, loonine way, that the situation would bo reversod it o lion, inatoad of & mortal, hed beon tho artist. Novw it is given tho Journalist to bo at onco the lion and the artist, a creator and a critlo ; to do- })icl his own profoseion ; to control and magnifs t: to write it up, na tho saying goos ; and, deapite somo delinquencies and disfiguremonts in his conduct, he has used this advantage #0_inoessantly ‘snd so slillfully that jour- nalism has como to be, what® it was not whon ho firat gavo out tho ooncoit—** a veritablo Fourth Batato.” The froedom of tho pross, obtained 8t length oven moro geourely by the victories It is sechioving over dependence snd subsidy than by tho lior= ality of the lawa which guarnnteo it, is a ort of popular religion ; snd 80 truly js our journallsm realizing tho protty common-placos with which it once, In the deya of its bondago wud gloom, cousolod Itsel?, so thoroughly ia it coming to re~ flect the thoughts, tho customs, and tho man- nors of the ago, and to bo aotunlly, and not fig- uratively g map of busy life, Ita fuctuations and its vast concerns,” thot thoughtful people, paraphrasing the race- course epigram of Randolph of Roanoke, are beginning {0 agk, if the press controls the coun- try, who controls tho press ? LITERATURE AND JOURNALISX, I am fully persuadod that, take it for all and all, tho journaliem of America is tho very best in tho wosld, It is a completo suswor to tho auciont eneor of tho Cocknoys touching our Books, for it Is, in truth, our litorature. I donot mean to disparage Longfollow, and Whittior, and Lowell, Motloy, and Bancroft; and I hopo I shall not bo suspeoted of secking to stoal a titu- lar distinction for our craft at the oxponse of our greatest bumorist, if I declare that tho morn- ing paper ia tho only sutoerat of tho breakfast- table. Whon I considor tho Iabor and the loarn- ing that aro devated to books which will Lo for- tunatoif thoy got oight or ton thousnud readors, and obsorvo the incronsing audioncos which are Euthadng about tho pross, L mourn in silence ut in sorrow at tho slght ' of auch mon ns Brot Marte, Josquin _Miller, sud Mark Twain tlirowlog thomsélves sway, and I ro- joice, aud am oxcoodiugly glad In {ho unlvation to . journalism ‘and the world of a soul 8o precious as that of John fay, Bad- inago nsido, my sorlous meaning ia that overy age haa its intorprotor; thoro was the ago of tho drama ; thoro was tho ago of the pamphlot; there waas tho ago of tho novel. This is tho age of the nowspapor. As Congrevo and Sheridau Wero, 88 Dickens and Thackoray woro, tho journalist may bo, and partly is already; & wian in whom & pub- i ntorost, gront oF Logs hocording fo bl goaius, ia taken ; a man who, loving his follow-mon, Lt it in Lis power to be loved by thom, Thoprocoss is vorysimplo, To bo_ kindly, honost, foarloss, capablo, that 18 a)l; and I namo kindlihess first bocauso if & nowspnpor would bo Popn]m- it must, lke an individual, carry o ploasant na- peet; it must be: aminble and nuprotentious; &ponking tho lsugusgo and wooring tho Labill moats of tho peaplo bono of thoir bone and fleah of their flosh, & sincoro ay woll as an ef- tactive doliveror of their thoughts, wishos, and fancies, 1f Bhakspearo lived in our time, con- coiving him to Liavo boon n robust, blithe, and Tioarty porson ; coucelving him £o huvo boen what wo undorstand by nn ablo porkon and an ablo-bodled, and, withal, & most gay and fostive porson, 1 tako leave to doubt whother ho would nd tho dramu the bost vohiole for his overflowing wisdom, his exuborant wit, humor, and fancy, lls amazing nclivity ; and 1 wonder that & man of such varied aud’ largo resourcos, of such vigorous, currout, and racy faculties na Dion Boueteault should bo comparatively u poor man, wandering about the world and \vrfilu lays, when ho might be, had ho bent himsol! 5-\!! way, the editor of the London Limes. TIE ENGLIST PRESS. 1 do not name the London ZYmes ay 8 flrat- rata oxamplo of first-olass jonrnalism. There Is no journal of the first clnts In London. Iam not able to eay what tho Zimes may have boou in tho daya of Mr. Kinglako's somowhiat apooli- ?phnl, shrowd, idlo olergyman, who wmado it his uty 10 loiter I‘WM places of cormon resort and " ¢ indifforontialism. find onb what pooplo thought upoh tho pricipay pubjocts of tho timo. _Tho pross’ of Lovidon {s, ond hna bbon, sines I boeamo ncquaintod with *it, n protontions jumble of Incomplotibnb} vory: pollslied and vory dull; rominding one of !thoso olaborate dramntio composlitions ‘whicli aro said - to be wrilton for tho elosot. THE ANEMOAN YRESS, It oan bo aid of tho Amorican press, on the othor hand, just as Thackeray and Talno have #ald of tho \\'rmn(;u of enry IMalding, that tho oloth {s nono of th might bo botter ohoson; intlood, that tho com- r(m¥ makas but & sraall show of courtliness, and n ofton yulgar aud fll-mannorod; but, on the whole, thot it has p jovisl, happy faoulty of utnnamF by tho wonk nud rchlnun% {ho strong, of ratirizing tho wiakod, oxposing -tho baso, do- tooting tho falso, and ohooring the unfortutate, which conld ouly como ‘to & prows Whoso roott aro nonrinhed by n-froo soll, and whoso groat boughs, spronding out widor and thicker, sheltor #_froo peoplo. 3 FLNSONAL JOURNALISL Wo hiavo heard o denl of lnto yonrs about por- gonal journalism, Intho pross of Amorics, wo ‘must hoeds havo an abundance of porsonal jour- nalism; it is an “‘[’l“’“d“i" to our conditlon as woll s’ a rosult of our charactor. During our civil war, it waa romarked by foroign_officera of oxperionco who had como here toobaorvo tho progros of milltary ovonts that individunl valor and oxplolts not meroly count for mioro with s than thoy do with European armics, but that they aro roquired by our soldlery, who keep n closo watch on thoir loaders, 'I'hls ls & Ropubli- ocan habit, and, as far as oditors aro coucornod, it is rondéred tho more serutinizing and movita- bloby & comparative smallucss of our towns, wliich aro not llrsu onough to afford conceal- mont to an individunl occupying a consplouous Tocal placo. Thoso who road & nowspaper aro tty suro to find out who it is that cdits it; horo Is no possiblo oscapo; the mon's simple comings in ud goings out will discover him ; and just as ho liappens to Le o pordon of oxcoptionnl charactor or charaotoristics i8 ko likely to bo marked and talked of, until, Deing Proscnuy vory well known, and, having Tiimuol? olaigotl Wit Wil ThO Virtuos auil nil the offonson of s Journal, Lo s, involuutarily, a poreousl jouralut, 1€'y0u will but considar it or o moment, you will agroo with mo thnt Jamos Gordon Bonnott was s personnl in his fournal- {sm, throwing as many of his pooullaritios into it, n8 ornco Greoloy ; they sufforod in Lind and sl dogroo;, but Lot ‘aftor thoir fashion woro kuown, Torsonalty kuown, and noithor eould or dosired to hido himself. Evon Mr. Grooloy's succossor, though ecarcely warm in his seat, and b oxcoptiounlly young and rotiring mon, {8 fa- miliarly known by namo and countenauco to tho gront body of Amorican ronders; nud I confess thuat, considoring tho case from this standpoint, T am unablo to 6oo how mon liko Marblo, Dana, Towlos, White, and Holstond, flling thé Dlacos they do, could, no matter how ardontly thoy might wish it, cnvelop thomaolyes ju tho mgutury ‘which surrounds the work-a-day drudgo whio forgos thundorbolts for the London Ténics. Nor doos this seom to mo a thing to bo desired cither by tho journalist or by his roadora, Bo- cnminF ‘modaaty and_self-denial, joinod to abao- lute disintorestodness in tho public sorvico, aro all that should bo sought; becauso the vur{v - turo of the journalist’s vooation obligos him to bo o man of action, to bo in tho midst of affairs, if not nrnrt of thom, to bo ready, rosolato, ani Pmmm\ ly informed—qualities not to bo found n tho recingo or the dummy. Whon T sy that the journalist must bo o man of action, I do not monn that ho should ook oftice. Mfon In thelr places ore the men who stand, and tho functions of tho g)olhlcirm and tho Jour- nnlist aro totnll{ difforont. Porgounlism i only objcctionablo whon it becomes physically blatant orabsurd and degonorates into mero childish vauity or idiotic concolt. It is considored, and it {5, n most onobling and admirablo quallty, when it eausos Morton and Schwrz to detach them- solvos fyom tho rost in ordor that thoy moy toll nilllions of thoir countrymen what they think on this question and on thnt. Tho journalist does not, in his most porsonnl moments, display him- solf half so much ay theso, and, whilst ho is to bo warned against using his great vohicle to the moro tickling of his own vauity, hoe ia surcly not t0 bo blamed for going in at th frout door, in- stend of creoping round by way of the back alloy, nor stigmatized for holding his hend up in tho'faco of all the world, non sibi, scd loti geni- tum se eredere mundo. THE PRESS WITHOUT A JISTORY OR JURISPRU- DENCE. This principle, fairly construed and carried out, underlics another, and tho most imporlant o thio unwoon forocs in journalism—tho senso of responsibility. Tho businoss of ~conducting nowspapors {s only just_ bogiuning to bo recog= nized ns_ & profossion, e \nw, enginooring, or liyaio; but it is yot nort of common, unfonood Dy eitibliahod Palos, ond markea by nono of thoua procedonta which mako its follow-toilors so vonorablo and go rovared. It it o onco without o jurisprudence and a history. I have hoen rending Mr. Hudson's recont book with interest and attontion, and nothing that it contains has strucl mo with greater forco than tho goneral snggestion which it convojs of what it doca not contuin ; somo thoory of journalistic praotico. ‘That must indeed bo o barron fleld of ‘pooula- tion which furnishes so fow abstract idons fo o man of such large experionce ns tho biographor of tho _Amorican pross. Isupposo all of you know tho editor of tho Cincinoott Commercial, and thab moat of you know tho editor of TuE OuroAGo TRIBUNE ; you will ngrece with mo that an osssy on journgliem from eithor would Lo valuable, becauso cach hos illustratod tho profession of journaliem by distinguished wuccossos. But, don't_you soo that tho very uality which las mado thom what thoy ara, shnts them up Jiko oystors? Schurz cally this 1 oxplain it _in this way, that, whon thoy camo {0 tho front, frivolous gar- vulity and mawkish gush woro in fho nacondant ; “mf fought agaiust” prurioncy in themsolyos as woll a8 in thoir ordor, ovorcoming it in them- solyes. With n robusfuous solf-taught splrit, which was keon end dotoctive, flushing upon & sham ond lghtig up o cheat with o eouliar upocion of now-fashioued, mirthful sincority, truth-sooking and truth-telling, they resolved to maintain in thoir ]Gfl.\liu iutorcourse the simple, colloquinl tono which is common to_privato oxprossions of opinion; and, by practising thia solf-ropros- slon, thoy, vory naturally, wont to tho oxtremo of it. Thor orrod mnmlflim dogree, and in _the right diroction ; but, whilet it may bo said of thom that E'en thelr frailtics lean to virtuo's side, Iwish they could bo induced to spoak ont as Medill spoko out in this vory placo o Joas o two aince, and as lioid spoke ong in Now York not 8o long ago, ond a8 L am trying vory inadoquatoly to spoak out on this accasion, townrd the ostablish- niont of #oma general, if 1ot 8omA apocial, con= coption of n systom by which wo not moroly got our daily broad, but which I am suro the groator number of us are interested in advancing, in purifying, in olevating amouvhn profossions and in the ropute of mon. With this in mind, I aposk of tho rosponsibility which prousos upon every ncwepaper vondictor; and I shall apoak contldently and oarnestly, beoauso, having somo tasto for invuufigntinfi the causes of things, &od having had considerablo oxperience in the experimental Yn!t of our vooation, I am entisfled that in journalism a8 ju ovory conceivablo aphero of life, tho foundation of succoss is crodit. What i it that mukes you trust your monoy in o nank? Confidonco in its mavsgomont, What iu it that makos you rally around o favorite party lendor? Confldenco that ho lnows mora u} the selonce of governmont ; that ho is & bottor rep- rosontative of your peculiar notions, and that he is to ba roliod on with groater nssurance than his compotitor. You do not wish your baukor and politician to exchange their placos. Tho banker might got on but poorly in E“bm life, and tho politician would, in all likolihood, scarcoly got on at all a8 » practical financior, Apply this rule of fitnoss to tho pross, What is it ThaY tho peopla want of & nowspaper? Notso much tho seienco of banking and govornment, o8 tho raw matorial, 1ho facts, out of which' thoy may con- slruct n ruds, popular seionce, which tho solon- tists thomselves must consult. Thoy want to fool, first, of all, that 1t is relinbio ; thaf it is une Lought Dy sordid intoroats, and unsoducad b mssions und prejudices, which tho unexoitor ioart of onr botter naturs scorotly tolls us rro unjust. I do not sny that racy, rockloss writing, Do 'it nevor so wrongful, in unntiraotive. It cor- tainly ploasos our wordo side ; it tlattors a com- bativism mora or loss common to all mon, But it caunot hold its own, sud novor has Lold its own, when brought #to_compotition withs up- right, painstuking, sensiblo, and informed writ- m{,v, supportod by thoso ordinary mochanical ap- pliancer which ave fudisponsable to the commer- clal encoean of nowspapers, Of conrse the axiom of nowapaper succoss in netd, As action is said to bo to oratory, 80 is curroncy to journalism, But what _sdort of nows, what sort of ourronoy? I auswor, trustworthy information,. of xomo uso, interest, sud import, recent cnough to bo given fo tho publio for the first timey and, it commonted upon, to upon. I do not bofievo it to bo the misslon of journalism to flsh in tho sowors for soandal and loitor up and down the world in quost of ?‘"’“‘"' F'hore are many things not fit to bo told hat may amuso or disgust tho filll-'"fl. There aro_many* othor things tho tolling of which might briog & roguo to bia desorts, In cases of this sort what are wo to do? THE BESPONAIDILITIES OF JOURNALIAM, Lot ug tuko an enmfl)lo. One of my roporters comon in Into at night, and eays, broathlessly, 0 clontiont, ind thnt tho dislios” , thd wifo bf a fashlonablo up-towri I &m ovorjoyed, of conrso—L mo: \{:l'o ly_averjoyed—for, though this panie anler ia iy nul(ihlgpg_ and_ liyos in & much grandor _house thnii© mino, though he rofuped Dbub yestorday to allow me to ovoroheok -my _doposlt,” I-entertnin no-gmdgo ngninsthim. ~ Lam siniply rojolcod that to-mor-, row's isaue of tho Jouricr-Journal fn to go out with o first-olasn sonsation. It comos out no- cordliigly with tho startling dlsclosurs that Mr. Bo-nnd-ro has dluz:ynunma that hio ‘was Jast soon at the dopot in Jofforsonville, with Mro, So-and- BO , tliat thoro hina hoon a good doal of seandel in rotlgions, arlstberatio, and banking: ciralod..tor somo timo, nbout Mr, Ho-and-so's business habita and bl unforlunato Intimagy with By, So-aug-. 80 ; that porsons bost noqualnted with him never doubtod him to bo at honrt a villain; and, finally, that at tho lato hour at which'.we writo,” hiu tnmll{ boing Pmfiontly sont away, in ordor to facilifato his diabolleal purposo, and his coshior not boing within ronch of our reportors, wo musb rofor tho full partieulsrs of this horrible and lamontablo affair uniil ‘Cour next issuc.” ~ Woll, ‘noxt day comes, and what doon 3t disolono? It disclogos in tho first place, that ‘our reportor hns pisked up otio of thoso rumors which now. and. then tnko comploto, though happily only briof, posaca- slon of tho Atroots. o know that wo lind no Iovo for Mir, So-and-ro, and ho colorod and sub- stantiatad Lifs story ; 10b us any ho boliovod in it. Tho facts oro simply that Mr, So-and-so has one to Clucinnati with Mra, So-and-so, who'is l,llsl!l.flr; and ail tho rest is falso. g Thoro i8 & fight or a Hbel suit. 3 You will sny ot onco thai thin is an extreme onso ;. unlikely to ocour whero ordinary prudonce waa omployed ; impossible to occur’in a woll- rogulatod, ‘discrectly-handled newspapor office. 1 admit fb; but w iy ? Bocauso of tho prom- inonco and Influonco of tho partios supposed to Do involved. But it Is not at all improbablo, nay, it is common, whoro they aro less consplouous and potentinl; whera thoy huxapnn to bo poor, obscuro, work-peoplo charged with crimo, and having scanty menna of right~ ing thomsclvos, 'Mha law prosumon_ a man 6" Lo innocont untll ko in proved to bo uilty, Tho pross, not morely usurping tho unctions of tho law In arraigning & man whom thio constablo has no warrant to arrost, goos still farthor, and nesumos Lim, prima lnufi7, to bo quilly. * Aftor many wooke;1f tho'caso of tho ac- ousod coma to trlal, 'ho ia acquitted; the Iaw makos him sn Lionost man; but thoro is the nowspapor which has condemuod bim, and can- not, with a dozon rotractions, oraso tho impros- sion loft and tho damage done by a gingle para- graph, . 255 TS NEWSPAPER AS IT WAS, © Five and thirty yoars ago thoso idoas .would . probubly have beon stoutly donied Ly tho most colobrated of -our journnlists, and oroe cor- tainly contradicted ‘by tho _odftorial. practico of tho period. Curious and_comical poriod! whon Richard Bmith woro unbocoming réundabouts and, -William - Hydo instituted tho black art of eolling_nowsprjiors on tho. banks of thio Ohio; whon Walter Haldoman_ kept books for Goorgo D, Prontico; whon Josoph Modill pullod a pross at Clovoland; whan AL D, Pottor wheol-barrow= od the forms of his paper through tho streots;. whon Groeloy, Raymond, and_Honnuott wora ob- scuro, and tho _pross (i,-\ormud itaolf in tha por- sona Of half & hundrod forgotton worthios, Who wroto florco. housonce, and fought. dusls, and hickupod Fourth-of-Fuly orations ovory day in £ho yoor in oxcooding bad grammar. Journalism in'thoso days was o sort of inobrious knight- errantry, o big joko, -considorably drunken’ and blooil-stained, Now and then I turn back toit and contemplato, it, and whenavok X do #o I be~ gin to choke up botweon a lnufih and a cry; it was 80 funny, it was so lragiol Ihayo hfltfv ths advantage, aud I may say the Lsppiness, to bo intimatoly nesociatad with o great man of thenow school of ’i‘numnllum, and the vory. groatost mon of the -old” echool, and to mark, by’ comparison, tho . idons and tho mothiods of “loth. = Tho = comparison, instructive in itaolf, shows tho changas which haye como iulo tho lifo of tho Amoerican pross within a quarter of o contury, In tho oldtimo the jo 8t wos & moro pleyer, strutting and frotting his hour upon the stage, Mmli x;XI\rk by command of hig liogo lord, tho party loader: Ho was about aa much in carnost in his rolo of *‘ organist ” ps Mr. Booth is in his role of Richelion or Hamlet ; that in, it suited him and _ha_nflnrw.l himself to it. Ho waa the politielais uquira’mad tho, pariy's hnolt—nioglooted or ‘téwarded according to_tho eaprico of his maator, That was Prontico. With all his gifts—his wit, sagnclty, and conrago— Prontico lived tha lifo of a slavo. Renlizing tho fact always, ho only realized tho causo toward tho end. " Haldoman, on tho othor band, sob out in lifo ut o difforont gait ; ho was golf-roliant,” s singular compound of modasty, industry, and ambition ; ho wont *'slow,” and trusling to hiu own neceasarily orudo resourcos and idags,” tho idous and tho Yesourcos of o Xllouuur, ho bogan and fought just ns Alodill ' nd Pottor did, n good fght with vartisan and subsi- dized journaliem, winning it in tho lgng run, ns & matéer of courso. Whilst I rojoico in tho go- nius of Prentico, and pm dolighted by it, proud of the mark he made for usall, I cannot find words strong cnough to urge tho self-ropression, tho paticnt and sobor industry, the horoism of Potter, Modill, aud Haldoman. I had nover flat- terod mysolf with tho notion of how much I knoyw about the practical handling of & newspa- per bofore I bocame tlio companion of Prontico, und I had novor the conceit so thoroughly taken out of mo aswhen I 0 tho companion of Haldeman. I do not say that Horaco \s not be & better tratined Journalist to-dsy than Jo- geph Medill, who trained himself from tho round floor and fought upward againstodds and imo. I am sure that Murat Halstead isan abler. oditor than his prodocassor, who was a horo and aman of gonius. What I'd0 eay,and ntoan to im- prossuponyau, st whon Fatior, Kaldoman and Sledill bogan to "ovolve the mystory of modern journalism out of the inner consciousness, tho problem was ‘more blank and tho future less assured than tho yroblum and tho future aro to you in the work of emancipating the pross—tho Gountry pross—(rom It prosont thraldom; for T should waste the timo wo spond in coming horo, and should poorly acquit mysclf of the privilogo of spauking ont in maceting vhicl you Laeo kind- 1y allowed ‘mo, it I should lot tho oceasion pusa with o fow glittoring gonoralitios touching jour- nalism at largo, and a protty.phraso or two about our greater journalists, Tho xnrpdso of my coming, ite Jogical import ond matk, is that woelly, ‘provincisl or county journalism which i8 0 largoly, 5o rospoctably, and 60 intolligontly roprosontod’ Liore, ~ Tha grentor journals tuko caro of thomsolves, Tho pgréater {eumnlisla, whetner they bo good or wise, creditablo or unwor- thy, are ablo to mako a figure in the world, In any event thoy are fow in numbor. If journal- ism aver is roformod—if it evor realize thoideal I have beon sketehing in outline—its reformation must embraco the country press and outor into tho home-spun no less than tho imported fabrio of tho profession. THE COUNTY PRESS, 1 have thrown ont, gonerally, the principlos of oonduct and entorprise_which 'Luvo givon birth to the Indepondont Press, that is to tho sal(- suataining, non-partisan pross—io that pross which is 60ught to bo run in the publio interest, which protonds to bo oontrolled by 1ts legitimate ownors, and not by & oliquo or ring of politicians, which looks for its support oxclusively to tho bo fairly commonted” Jecplo wblen salion solaly on pubilo apinion for ta good-will Just s It rolics on ovonty, and its roprosontativo chiaractor as u popular ntorprotor aud mouth-picco, for its viudication. If you will considor thoso principlos carefally, if you will sepnrato thom minutoly from thoir abstrack set- ting nnd apply thom to tho_ovors-day conditions that surround your lifo and Iebor, you will find thorm not moroly adaptablo, but comprohonsive and infalliblo, Thoro are in this State of Indisna, living in villages, and passing comparatively obsoura livos, profosslonal mon of real ominenco and eulturo—lawyors and doctors who, transplanted to o lnrgor flold, would make o figure in tho world. ‘I'welve or fourtoon yoars 8go there way o young studont at Torro Hauto unlonored and unlmown, who roso to a national distinction, still keeping his boautiful but out-of-the-way dwoll- ing placo, Ocuup‘y)ug 10 firnnt oficlal place, ho uli;nnllzud his gonips as & ploador and politician alf over tho country ; aud now, though dofeated and gone into rotirenient, Lo is porhaps atrongor than ovor ho waa, witli s hottor futuro, Five-and- twonty yoars ago, at Bouth Bond, anothor oqually obseurs young man bogau a career which was po~ oulinrly “clstibguishod and brillinnt, carrying him froui the oflice of & umuli{ nowspaper into tho National Congross, to tho hond of this, and lually up to tho socond_placo within the gitt of the Amorican people. Voorheos and Colfux wera both village mon ; thelr lot was cast in un intorior Btat; yet onch' of thom oarved out of fortune o placo for himeelf, Both becumo natlenal intluoncos, Turn sway to Now Lnge land; tako nots of tho trim littlo olty of Spring- flold, in Masanchusotts—moraly a larga village, You will find tharo & newspaper more praised, abusoed, aud quoted than any othor nowspapor in America. Sam Bowles has_simply dono, in his way, what Dan Voorloes and Behuyler Onlfax did in {fmlr way—that is, boing & man of paris, ?a n thoy aso, 3 aduptod bimscit to. his altiation lite) iP5 mudo thia bost of Nimuolf by dolng 1aithtul, consclontlous work in tho sphoro where- 1 e Tot v caat._ o saono I8 opon to. ovory Han; only the oanty journallst has a_ bottor, hito may bualnosa rolations, disoarding all * favors,” and malritaliing firmly ‘n acalo of advortising rates ' adjwited npon formed,] : 2o % -’ - TR DATTLE DEFORE TRE PRESA, " Irmalght go on ondlossly with tho many inei- donts which belong to tho matter of nowspupor - indopondence; and-are inovitably auggeated b, Ab. . You will not chargo mo with presumption, hope, beeauso I have sketclied tho characlor of & Jourualism whioh I do not_protend to. realizo In'my own practices, onrnostlyas I am wodded to tho theorios™ in, whioh 1t 18 construoted, and Lhomngmy.nulbullovn it to bo tho journalism of tho futire, I have had some opportunitios, to teat tho offioacy and valuo of myillll of tho Lints whioh I have beon: throwing out hero in .tlmo of Knncu and in timo of war, and it Is my unqualified opinion that, wiclded with prudenco, Jjustiocs, and truthfulnoas, having tho right on its Bide, and boing handled with ordinary compasuro sure aud ekill, the press i, ns tho old saying, puty it, ¥ mightior than tho sword.” But to bo naighty, it must bo freo, and to. bo froo, it must Lo wolf-suatnining and self-rospecting, Thoro'is » groat fight boforo us for liberty ; a fight as old s tho hilla, Tho fight of the poor sgainst tho rich tho fight of tho woak against tlio strong; {ho fight of the poople agninst tho corporations. The corporations Just mow liold the vauntago ground. ' They bogan by corrupting the nows- l)l]’wl‘fl; and thoy havo gone so fast and so far hat thoy are nbio ot last to buy up Logislaturos, to command tho sorvicos of onpablo and astuta politicians; and oven to shapo the consse of par- tioa. Tho pooplo nre bocoming aroused, aud, bo- ing arousod, thoy look around thom for woapous of dofonse. . Thus auuklng tho monna of war, thoy havo taken hold of tho press ns tho mosi warllko gnginory within tholr ronch, and, it it bo truo that tho pross controls tho country, It is bo- causo tho {mupln. controlling the 1t in tholr Intorest, supporting it with s’ resorve ‘power of public opinion, . The silly old notlon of * writing down to tho peoplo " Is oxploded. Tho tho $ruc value of tho adryice por- Dpross, angage {-offort now i to writo and aok up to tho poopla; for tho peoplo, in the nggrogato, aro wisor an ‘purer than any ono man, ovon tl\ough that ono ‘man should bo tho editor of & nawspaper. I maka no ploa“for tlot sort of indopondont Journalism which reprosonts tho capricos of n singlo editor and piqued'4tuclt on its immunity from obligations ;of evary sort. 1 kuow v woll that partios aro essontinl to.ropublics, nn that organization is csscntinl to parties, Iamw ‘myaolf n good party man, but X am not 86 good a party man aa Lo accopt tho theory that politics ia wlrf that o partisan line, like o military line of Diittfo, should divide mo from my nolghbors who diffor froni me in points of fact or in tho con- struction whioh o mutually places upon eivil questions, and which requires mo to tell les, boar malico, and Lo guilty of all uncharitable: ness in ordor that ono Ect of ‘gontlomen shall hold ofiico and anothor sot to bo kopt.out of offico. say, and in usiog tho first porson - singular T mean to ‘bo undorstood s eponking for overy editor who s satisfied with his businoss, that I want no ofico; that T hovo & bottor oftice alrondy thon X can Topo to 5o if T'do my duly; nnd, that, there foro, fairly roprosenting the ideas which-group thomsolves from natural cuuses about s cortain ?uh\t in our political fleld of action, I stand for hom in tholr truths and not in their falsohoods; {| I atand for thom as thoy aro just and not asthoy aro moroly solflsh, stratogle, or passionato, run- nh:fiintn oxc08308, And excunh\i tlioir _errors with wantonness and wronga, I belioye I atand whoro the pooplo, who govomo all I.hovo aud who make mo all I am, would have mo stand, a8 & journalist, for, In tho long run, tho peoplo ard protty sure to find out whether a nowspapor iawhimelcaland occontrio, BlmlepmtnnuouuAnd individunlizod, or whethor, guided by modosty but inspired by csrestness, it is & mouth-pioco of that yearning for public honesty, good naturo and foir-play, which” are charncteristio of our. Iaughter-loving, brave-hoarted American gonius. : . THE EMANCIPATION OF THE PRESS. - Pray do_not think I am striking too high. Those.aro but simplo and cagy lessons in human nature, tho sonrce and rosourco, thobuttross aud tho boll-tower of {oumnlls\n and o froo P_rcus. They sro attainable by the smallest journalist of tho _amallost villago, and not until thoy aro Joarnod, aad well learned, by tho lesser %nnmnb iata of the country, canwo hopo for that journal- fsm which, ideal niow, i destined to win the fight ot tho peoplo againat tho corporations ; to sub- atitato n national and populer_spirié against pioro domagogism and party spirit ; and, if such bo God's providouco, to ostablish that Univoreal Tiopublio which, based on'universal intelligence, i to bring us poaco on corth and good will among men. Lmancipate tho pross from its thralldom to Mammon by makiug it self-sustain- ing! Bind it wilh books of stoal tothe servled of tho Ennp)ul Acknowledge no maotor oxcopt -that of which you your- Bolvos aro. componont parts —'o Board of which you aro membors—n Cabinot of which you aro ministera—tho mastorship of publio opinlon. 1t is tho only sorvice that gives plonty of pay and honest é)ny; it is tho only” servico of whiclt o man may bo proud and in which. Lio msy fool happy. Throw off tho old execrable badgo, faded and tattoredond worn-eaton by it dise honormg momories and_inacriptions, for that othor badgo, that insiguia_of rank and inde- pondenco, which saya: I am no man's dog. I am o man among men, The root aboye mo is my own. This threshold is mino; and, holding no commission but that twhick, sont from Honvon, makes me a spokesman for my follow- mon, and having 1o weapons oxcept & hondful of typos, I am able to dofy the world that pro- posos unbidden, to cross it, boing supportod by a0 army, numerous and powerfa), whick is roady to rally at & moment's notico for the dofonso_of itsolf, which is my dofense.” I boliove in thal Bort of journelism, and I beliova that that sort of jowrnalism will come to bo belioved in by evory maa who odita and reads a newspapor. —_— e PLYMOUTH, IND, Prynovr, Ind., April 28, 1873, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribunie: 8in: Plymouth s ono of -tho most thriving towns in Northorn Indiana. Bituated in tho lioart of & flno agricultural rogion, with tho transportation facilities or two first-claga rail- ronds and s third in process of oraction, boing tho county-sost of Afarshall Qounty, ond having an enterprising and public-apirited clasa of men for citizons, wo possoes stroug olements of per- manont prospority. Plymouth is ambitious. Claiming o population of 2,500, sho,. ou Friday Tast, cast off hor villago swaddling “clothes, and donned the offlcial robos of & juvenilo city. At & municipal olection on that day. tho leading isBuo boing villago or city, hor citizons, 'by & Inrgo mojority, decidod in favor of & city organ- {zation, The Demacrat, of this placo, has inaugurated an unique fonture in country journalism. It hag alogal, n modical, aud an ecducational dopart- mont in its columne, presided over, rospeotively, which affects not to be purchased or intimidatod,” by & lawyer, a physician, and a school-oxaminor, - Pho lumber Intorost of this county is of “con- sldorablo importance. Black-waluut timbor nbounds in the surrounding country, especially in the noighborhood of Argos. Of tho valuo of this spocios of lumber, some idea may be formed | from the fact that ovor $100 is ofton paid for o umsln tree. T'rado hore Is sufforing at prosont from tho effects of o mud-ombargo,—tho fnrmors, who aro the Efluolpll-unummum of Plymouth mer- chants, belng unablo to como to town, owlng to tho wrotchod oondilion of- the " dirt-ronds, rou- dored almost impusaablo by tho rocent profrastod raine. - - : = "Dita bulk of lastyear's crop 1u atill in the hands of producers, througl this part of Tndiana, who Liave beon hiolding o in tho Lope of an advanco in prices. > “ J, AL s HOW TO GET RID OF THE MODOCS. v the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Bm: Your drticla in Lhursday's’ TRIDUNE on Tho Modog Blaughter " will moot the approval of overy right-tliinking rondor ; and it ought to turn tho attention of the Government towards tho bost mothod of oxtorminating theso demons in human shape. . The ponco-policy, in tho minds of all but idiota oud lunatics, is played out. Almost as futilo and Inoffcctual au tho polley of sending agninst tho Indinns raw troops, unacquainted with their method of fighting. Buch reconnols- sances in forco na that Iatoly attemptod in tho Lava-Bods are as foolish g can bo imegined, "Tho only way to fight Indinus to ndvantago is to nso Tndian stratogy ; and tho men who can do this oMectunlly arc to be fonnad in sufticlent num- bors in almost evary mining town in - Oualifornia, ‘Lot tho Governmont, thon, lot out tho job of oxtorminating tho Modoos, by contract, to Call- forniany, Thoro aro plonty of the old plonoors there who would undortalo the jobat n tithe of tho prosont cont, and who would, moreover, do it 0 offootunlly that not & smglo buck Modoo avonld bo loft alive, aftor two months, to tell the distinotion of hisrace. . —_— ~Tho Trustoos of tho Cornell (N, Y,) Univer- sity huvo ncceptod a gift tendored’ by n gentle- beouso an almost untilled, fleld for tho plauting and roaping of o plontoous harvest, [(NIr, %-fiman disoussed ably tho importance of uowepapers bolug indopondont In all tholr man, whosoe name I8 not yot publioly “announced, of tho aumn of $30,000 for the eudowment of a rnllglonu’luntmah‘p, to bo hold by omineut clore gywon of tho yarious denominations, 1873, = | LIBERAL CHRISTIANITY. : Sccénd Day’s Sesslon of the Unitarian i - - Conferences- ‘"Work of thé Dénomination in the West. t Opposition to Reading tho Bible in the Public Schools, Amendments to tho ‘Constitution---Elec- tion of Officors, ' MORNING SESSION. The seconil meoting of the Wostorn Confor- onco of Unitarinn Churchos waa held yoaterday ot the Fourth Unitarian Obiireb, corner of Thirticth stroot and Prairie’ ayenue, commenc- ing at 0 o'look in tho morning. Tho Prosidont, Mr. D. L, Bhoroy, was In tho cair. Owing, doubtless to tho disagroonble weathor, tho at- tondnnee was not so large ns that of tho precod- ing doy. "Tho mooting was opened by dovotional | oxor- olses, led by tho Rov. Charles Noyos, of Cin- clonafl, . o WONK OF THT CONFERENCE. Tho Rev. J, H. Hoywood, of Loulsvillo, then dolivorod an‘osany on “Tho Wostorn Confor- enco and Its Work.” Ho bolloved that the an- nual mootings 'of the body impartod strongth to thé denomination, and widely extendod tho, circlo of ita influence. Tho QGoneral Conforonco was undoubtedly & woll or- ganizod institution, and activoin Ohristian work, Its powor, howover, was folt more st tho Enst than nt tho Wost, It was too far romovad from tho Iatter section to have tho propor offect on ita Unitarlan inhabitants. Tho Westorn Confor- onco ought to bo mado tho National Conference for tho Wost, and if every Liboral. Ohriatian or- ganization within its jurlsdiction would send dolegates, and if the generalattondance would bo increased, tho rosult to the Church would bobon- oficinl in & marked degreo, Ho did not favor the iden of outting loose from the National Confor- anco, or in separating the funds of tho two ln- atitutions. .- A DISCUBSION FOLLOWED 4 on tho points prosented. in the ossay, the spoochos being limited to ton minutes cach. Mr. IL. F, Bond, of Tolodo, asked : *Shall tho ‘Weatorn Oonforonce live? Bhall {t bo rovived 7" Ho deaired that it should live, in order thot the bottor organized churches of the Tast might bo shaywn how much thoir brothren in tho West stood in nood of tholr nesintance. Ho oxplained tho differonco in tho mombership of Unitarian soolotios in tho two soctions, and contonded that the Wontorn Unitarizns hod many obstaclea thrown in their way by tho misundoratunding of " their faith by thoso who strayod awsy from othor bellota. Tho Rov: 8. 8. Hunting, of Indianapolis, ob- jectod to that portion of” tho casay which sot forth tho opinion that tho Unitarian faith had docreased, instoad of increased, in momborship. Buch was niot} the caso. Sovoral vigorous socle- tios had” beon organizad durlnfi tho past yoar, and_woro now in s fouriwhing condition, In’ Kansng, porticulatly, tho bolief had takon strong hold. Contral and Southorn Illinois con- tainod » gront many more Unitarians than thoy did o yost ago. In' Iows, aldo, tha movemout was Yrogressing favorably; as ' tho local confor- enco roports showed. 2 Tho Itov. Mr, Shippon sajd he had no word of discouragoment_to offer any porson who was striving to do Unitarinn work, and trusted that 1o ono would bo discouraged by tho words of n doubting brother. Had ho allowed himsolf to listen to tho disconrnging words of othors, ho would not zow bo o ministor, When did o Con- forenco in tho West contain 50 mnny prom- inont ministors as, tho present omo, or %0 many intarcatod layman? Was thia discournging ? Did ¢his show that the donom- ination was losing strongth numsrlcnll{? It the rich churchos of Ohicago can bo mado v pay tholr ehoro toward Westurn issionary Jabor, fho Bant will soon show that they appreclato the offort being made in this comparatively now oountry, and will do tholr shore toward assisting tho strugglors, If the Wostorn people would only undoratand this question, thore would bo lons discouraging talk East and West, TESOLUTIONS. The following rosolutions, with roferenco to tho essny, wora presontod by tho Rov. Robert Taird Oollior : Resolved, Tuat, considoriny money in the Tressury of the soclation, oud tho small oxpoctation of socuring from tho churélcs any consldarablo or adequato sum (urtior thia yoar, it ia the judgmont of thia Conferonce that tlio Western Bocretary bo instructed to give Lis atten- tion to tho polnts of principal importance, and to open 10 new flolds of Jabor for the present which may need 240, cxeopt special provision bo mado by this Confer~ eah for that purposo {n connootion with tho A, U &, Resolve ‘hat no- minister-of a stalnod moral rocord will undor any clreumstanoes bo sustainod by this Conference in any portion of its misalonary field, dtsoleed, That o Socratary bo tnstructod to glve 1fs wholo ' timo and caro to tho misslonary fiold, ac- cording to the sonso of the first rosolution, évmg ouly auch portion of Lufs timo to Indionapolis ns hio gives to othior paints of importance noeding Lis ald. i ‘Resolzed, That & committes of five be appointed b thia conforoneo to_ act §n conjunction with the A, U, A, ad that no action for tho A, U, A, bo_ presentod to hat body without the provious action and roco:amen- dation of thia committeo, . FUBTIIER DISOUSSION, . Mr. Collior said tho Western Conforonce was ot morely a body for the Lenring of osaaya; it Biad an important practleal work to do, with rof- ‘eronco to the condition of tho churches of which it was composed. Hia church, and evory othor church {n the oity, would do what was_right, but Bio would not give monoy to churches where wrong doctrines wore proached. " Mr. 3. B. Young, of Marion, Tows, snid that Uanitarians, in order to most the coming domand, must grapple with truth in all its forms, The orthmgx churches had -uttorly failed to rench husiness mon, thoso who read and think for themsolyes. o moot this want in his own town fourtoon mon organized su undonominationnl gocioty on the 18th of Fobruary, 1871, The suc- 088 with which they 1iad met proved- the bono- ficinl results of earneat Iabor, "Plig Ttov. Robert Collyor sald he did not feol 2 bit disheartonod about the Woutern work, nnd Lo know as much about it s any other man cast of tho Rooky Mountning, Ho was discour- agod about one thing, howevor, that 80 many dollars bad to bs collected togother befora tho Gorpol could bo imparted, This should not ba g0, Tlo was willing to heip struggling sociotion 1 ovary possiblo way, and to that end he thonght that n ohonp woekly or monthly publication shonld be publishod for tho bonoflt of thoso who liavo no pastor. the'smml amount of crican Unitarian As- "Tho Tov. Mr, Shippon sald that, it M. Coltyor | ™ would furnish the sermons, thoy would bo pab- lishod, Mr. Collyor continuad, apunmug in_favor of the resolutions, and advising tho Rev, Mr. Hunt- ing to pay less attention to Indianapolis and moro to the country sociation. * Tho Rev. Mr. Wendte, whito favoring tho gen- oral upirit of the rosolufions, opposod $hio plac- iug of so much power in the proposed Commit- too of Five, A socioty conld not bo pravontod from clioosing such n paskor ns thoy ARW fit; The Rov. Mr. Forbush, of Cloveland, called attontion to an amendmont to the Constitution prasentod ot the last mooting, providing for tho sppointmont of an Exeoutive Commit- too, composed of ono from osch local Confor- orice. - He thought that thoro was no nocoulli for muitiplying ofiicors, as that Commitiao coul do the work of tho Committeo of Five with moro satisfaotion to tho donomination at largo. It was_obout time for the Conferences to conso Lolng dobnlniuociouos, and to do somo practi- cal work for tho benellt of Liboral Olristianity, I'ho Rov. Clinrles No{ou said o way 0] osed to tho np‘mlntmont of the Committen of 1° K’n, it it was to havo any more than advisory powors, nud if 1t was to havo authority to intorfers with tho work of the Amorigsu Unitarian Association, ‘Phe gentlomnan spoke rather warmly on tho sub- Joot of monoy, The Rov. Robert Laird Collior sald ho was willing to chango the number of tho Committeo. 110 ropoatod his asaortion that ho would not givo mouey whoro his hoart could not follow. As long a8 he was o momber of a Conferonce Lo would advocate his own views and be consstont; lll;] l'm an obstacle whoro Lo could not cairy his olnt. "Tio Rov. Mr. Forbush sald (¢ tat was tho ‘brothor's feeling it would bo more gontlomanly for him to withdraw from tho Conforenco. Mr. Collier uaid ho would do so if it waa tho wish of the mnjum{. The Rov. Mr, Millor and novoral othor rover- end gontleman deprocated tho turn which the dsoussion hed takon, aud Aunouuged tlat it way last rowolution fu tho worles, aud moved -hm aarnont wish of thoir soclotios thnt tho * Wentern Conforonce should livo, and bo n Lar- rmonfous body. Tho Olair “announced tho following Commit- tao on Nominations’s T following Gommit Tontnd o ot Tholer. Mo.ra, Harbust, ‘Tho.Ttov. Nohort Laird Collior withdraw the adoption of tho othor four, i On motiom, tho ravolutions tho Businons Committen, > "o Toforred to + o Conferenco thon adjournod for lunch, AFTERNOON SESSION. Upon {ho ronsgombling of the mooting, nt “haltipnst 3 o'clock, tho Tov. J. O, Losracd, of 8t. Louls, delivored an eesay on “The Biblo in our Pullio Schaols,” o aald {t was_ oxtramaly difffoult to dotormino whothior our Gov- ornmont is roliglous or gecular, Tho Ianguago of tho difforent Coustitutlons, tho dacistons of tho courts, and tho ednduct of the rulers woro contradictory and ambignous concornin roligion. 1t was also’ difiicult to dotermine if was the intent of the Constitution to fix a relig~ ious cbaractor upon tho publio rchools, Tho common nchool systom undoubtedly had fta arigin in the Chrislian Church, Tho Reforma- tlon gavo it its flret gront impuiso, aud:the Puri~ tans fostored it. Among tho latter the chief ob- ot of learning to read was thnt tho Biblo might o road. Tho Puritan achool, therefore, could onsily bo Imagined. In tha soparation of rolig- fous from mecular fnatitutlons, tho schools went with tho Stato, and the only mark now loft that thoro 18 nnfi‘hlng religious nbout tho public schiool, wan tho reading of n fow vorses from the Biblo, Thoso who beliovo in the union of Church and Stato woro ondenvoring to bring sbout a constitutional recognition of an avan, uE ical religion, and continio tho Biblo in %lm schools, Such o uso of the Bible had resolved itsolt_into & rito, a roligiona worship, which wag but littlo undorstood by the scholar, aud which tho tonchors woro but littlo abla to ox~ plain, Only by cossing to bo roligions ean_tho common achools censo to bo moctarian, Tha ronding of tho Biblo was undoubtedly a scctarian Imw\lee, which croatea partisan atrife. Had the Qua Loon slrunuounly urged in many of the Emmlnunt cities, tho Catholics would nave ro- olled almost unanimously, and thus ihe school systom would havo boen matorinlly ln?urud. In 8t. Lonis, tho mchools wera complotely soonlar, tho Diblo was novor rond, and, cortainly, tho sehiolars were ns moral g8 thoso of any othor ., Tho layw of ovolution, when thoroughly understood, will disrupt the union of Church pnd Btato, and froo tho schools from tho rastraints of roliglon, It was known now that sectarian cdu- cation produced nothing but mediocrity, Bocial morals should bo ivouleated in thé public; roligious thoorios should be confined to tho church and to the homso, From such o system 2‘3:;“““‘ progress and high mental culture will 0. : DISOUBSTON. Dr. Bollows naid tho ossey wan a remarkably clear and sound composition. I wrs from no disrespect to the Diblo, from no decrcase of in- - torest in tho grent subject of religion, that Uni- tarians wero anxious to remove tho Bible from tho publio achools, It was bocanea thoy desired to savo the sacred book and religlon from tho turmoil of soctarianism that they mought to bring about tho change. In tho days of supor- stitions bollef it waa doubtlens n good thing for tho Btato and the schools to bo undor the control of tho Clurch, but, in thoso daya of froodom of thought, such o 'Goversmont could not be thought of for n moniont, Tho Rev, Mr. Wendte moved the adoption of tho following : = ? WiEneas, According to Amoritan principles, tho rovinco of the Church shall bo kept soparato from hat of tho Siato; and, . Wugness, Scenlar fistriction belongs to the State and roliglos fnstruction to tho Chiureh ; therefore, Teesolved, Thnt & fa noithor swiso nor Just 1o enforco tlio roading of tho Blblo in tho publlo schools, Adoptod unsnimously. "y The Rov. Mr. Haywood prosented tho follow- ing, which ealled out congiderable discussion : Reesolved, Thint we heartily wolcomo to our fellowship thoso rethiren Who represent hero Iudependent Lile oral Churches, Cliristiats Unfon Churches, and other roliglous asaoolations uot connccted with our organizas o, Resalved, "That tho Chinir appoint a committo of two 10 confer with thoso brethron, and oxtond to them our gympaths, and to seck posriblo melbols of co-opora- tion In 1ho great work of Liberal Chriatisnity. A gontleman said that one indepondont mllfi~ {oniat biad left tho Conferonco bacause Lie thought could not (i«i hiearing. Tho rosolutions wore adopted. TIUSENESS COMMITTER REPONT. Tho Rev, Robort Laird Collior presented tfo following es the roport of the Business Commit- teo on E‘E\u resolutions reforrod to them during the morniug sosaion : i i i ot ve i, cunbidaring tho small amoun| e TR e o e Einoricas Unitarian Assos clition, and the small oxpactation of recolving from tho churchios any considerabla or adoquate sum during tuln yoar, 1t 18 tho judgment of this Conforgnce thiat thio Wostorn Socrotary Lo nstructed by tho A, U. A. to givo hia attention 1o tho polnts of prinelpil fiapore tanco, ond to opon no now flold of labor for l{m prescnt Fhict may med afd, excopt spoolal provigion bo mads Dy {his Conforonco’ for that purpose, in connection ith tho A, U, A, . Hesolved, That no mintater of s stained moral rocord will, undot sny circomstances, Lo sustained by thin Conteronco iu any portion of its misslonary fleld, Tho resolutiona were sdopted. AN AMENDMENT TO TUE CONSTITUTION, making the Exocutivo Committoo connint of at IToast ono delogato from each Local Conference, who, in connection with other officers of ‘tlia ‘Westorn Conforoneo, shall constituto s Board of Dircotors, who shnll iave charge of the work of tho Conforence, was adopted. Tho Rov. Robort Collyor offered s resolution amonding tho Constitation so a8 to make'tha titlo ‘of tho Confarence . The Western Oon- foronce of Unitarian sod other Ohristian Churohes,” 'Tho matter will bo acted upon at tho noxt Gonforonce. 2MECELLANEODS, Tho Chair appointed the Roy. Messra, Wondto and Beaver to confer with the delegatos from In- dopondent Lilioral Churches, and to oxtond to them the sympathy of the Cuntorence. Tho Rev. Mr. Forbush offerod the following, which was adopted Resolved, That Local Conforences bo requested to co- oporate with and roport to tho Western Conference in Tugard to all matters of anissionary work. Tesolved, That (ho Western Confercnce authorizes and instriicts fis Doard of Dircctors to advino and co= operato witl tho Execntivo Commitice of the American Unifarian Assoclation in regard to all matters of mis- slonary work, i accordanco with {ho reaolution passed Dy tho Excoutive Comrnittea of tha A, U, A,, Bept, 9, 1872, and accopted by this Conferauco, The Rov. Mr. Brigham moved that the next Conferonce bo hold in 8t, Lows at such time a8 tho Exceutive Committos may dotermine. A dologato Trom Genosco moyod, ad an amond- ment, that tho Conferonco be held at tuch tima and placo s the Bosrd of Diroctors 1. y direct. Tho Rov. Mr. Vickors offeted an amendment to the mmondmaont, that the Conferonco be held in §t. Louis during the last weok of April, 1874, Adopted. Volas of thanks were Jms“d to the frionds of T.ivorz! Christianity, and to tho clorgyman who dolivered the sormon af tho opening of tho Coune forenco. y OFTICERS. Tho Committeo on Nominations mado the fal-' lowing roport, which was uuanimously adopted : Prssident—D. Y.. Shioroy, Olleaga, | Vico Prestiente—, 3, Bagley, Detrott s J, M, Hey- ‘wood, Louivillo, Recoriling Secretary—T, L. Hosmer, Quingy, 3 Corresponding Secretary—8. 8. Huntivg, Indlanspos Treasurer—D, P, Moulton, Chicago, Directors—Rabert Cullyer, Ohieago ‘Wizconutn 3 Nathiantol “Sssver, Western arned, Missourl Vallo Oljo ", B, Forbusl, Lako Eric, “ Dreachers for 1674=Thomas Vickers, Clucinnat! alternate, Krodertok Frolhingham, Buffalo, The abovo gontlemen wero eloctod without o dissonting voico. g - Tho Rov. Mr. Forbush moved that tho Rov, Mosars, Oolll'ar and Soaver bo appoiuted delo- atas to tho Tabornaclo Convention in Towa dur ones, sud J. L, Ji Tiinols ng tho summor. Adopted. 2 The Conforence then sang s hymn snd ade owned. : L BOOIAL SLSSION. In the ovoning » social session was held nf the Fourth Churcl, which wos attended hy most of tho dologates ud o larga numboer of laymon. Friendly convorsation, disoussions on doctriunl points, aud a supper Wero the features of tho occauion. 2 —_— One Day’s Sulcldes in Paris. ‘Thor ro no fower than oight suicidos fn ono day in Pavis lately. A lady in the Ruo do ln Pu})&nh}m strangled "hersolf with n cord at 8 o'clook in the morning, leaving every one in ignoranco of tho causo of hor fatal determination, At thosamo hour s man procipitated himsolf from the Ansterlitz bridge into the Soine. A printor- followoed Liy example lator on in the aftornoon, Thou a young man adopted the strange mothdd of throwing himself’ uuder the foot of omnibus Lorsos, and was, of conrse, mortally injurod, Two casen of donth by des liberato suffooation took place, one being by a young man crossod in Jove, * Tho saddeat of tho eight doatha was, hbwovor, that of two girls, {nuug and poor, who, aftor dancing all night al bo ball of the Tarisian *Tlorist,” ngreed uiotly to put an end to their existence, Ono of theso,” Angeliquo Lachemy, diod for tho yery simplo ronson that aho was tired of lito. Tha other, Eugonio Hardy, oommitted sulcido from chingrin oaused by disappomtineat in loyo, Both thowo glla wore Quly 36 yonta old ; Charics Noyes, -