Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 4, 1873, Page 2

WASHINGTON. The Resumption of Specie- Payments. Arrival of the German-Silver Man--- Whats Hali-a-Dollar Amongst One'? Tho Bank is hut tho Guinea’s Stamp, Richardson's tho Man for o’ That. Nitrate of Silver Currancy. T'rom Our Own Correspondent, WasinaToy, Oct, 29, 1873, “Now, don't you dono gone hoard it, I tell you, John Henry! Now, don't you done gonn‘ hoard dat silvor! Juss you tako it home an show it to your fader, au’ don lay it ont in per- simmons; fo' tho Scorumtory says yo' must pub *om In suckumlation " 80 quotl: tho groat bosa~watchman ns he gave & rilver quartor to his boy this forenoon, on the steps of tho Tronsury. *1foard it?" says tho boy; *what do yo' menn P “Don't you done gono hideit. It's give yo', boy-a, to resto’ confidence.” *' How kin I?" “\Why," says old Ouffy, scratching his spec- taclos with his thumb, ' why — ah, give it pway!"” Tho old man went back {o his scat in the big Treasury pile, blowing vory bard, ag if his fall duty had beon discharged. Following him in, wo bohold a scono navel and somorwhat peculiar, A sign was stuck up, to the offect thint ino clorks would be paid $3 odd ina hundred, and wore oxpected to keop it moving. It was especially givon, n8 the placard explained, to add to tho fecling of confidence, sud familiarize tho public with the novelty of itself, if I may so express it. THE BOENE. Two small sacks, about of the eizo of salt- DLags, such as used to soll for 25 conts whon I was in Lhe grocery-business and tho tariff was down, stood on the marble counter of tho Trons- ury. Guarding these littlo sacke wero soveral stalwart policomen looking Gog and Magog ab you, a4 if thoy wore Yeomen-Warders of tho Dritlsh rogalin, There was n kind of foolish laok about tho clorks iuside tho long glass bar, and they wero reciprocated by tho ocrowd. of Idlers in front. Tho very recipients of the noney looked ridiouloulous receiving it, and the Paying Teller was flusterod. 'I'his was the ro- sumption of spocie-payments which Richardson, tho Secrotery, had cntered upon immediatoly on being _impressed by President Grant's viows, The Recretary bad aunounced it in an official circular, and thero had been a8 much stir thore- about ns the poet mada in announcing his bucea- neer character in * Rokeby:" Columbia liesrd {t through Ler Btates, Aud opened wido her silver gates; Rich Mexico it had passed tlrough, ‘Aud racked tho aplondors of Peru, Tho vroom in which this perfoimance was go- ing ou is the great whow-room of the Tronsury Building, lined with polished marbles in yarie- gated colors, and adorned with scregns and fur- nitnre of rosewoad, Since William E. Chandler lad his pame cut in tho marble walls under Tugh McCulloght's, there has boon no such con- temptible burlesque on tho Public Trensury of a grent country. — Richardson himeelf folt the farce upon him, and slipped away to his inner sanctum, MERRIMENT. Lnst night tho bar-rooms had signs stuck up to this effect: *‘Confidenco Restorors. Trya Bhandygaf. Five ceats in spocie given to every caller at tho bar, on condition that ho keeps it moving." 5 It appeared by the evening-report that fifty persons in the United States had roceived 35 npicee. This is just §0-40,000,000 or 1-800,000 of the population. As Gen. Grant expects & evinrouu perty to cloct him long enough to vin- icito his poliey, he will require just 20,000 torms of four yoars each'to resumo in, Probab- 1y by tho end of that poriod, if ko begins now und is n good student, ho will havo someo idens on finauce. DBut the public opinion of his most obtuse supporters was oxpressed in a nowspapor~ oflice yesterday, when an old fellow who hos three sons in oftice said : & “ never expected to own up to it, but thore's some dorned fools around tho head of our Gov- erument.” ; RICHARDSON AND DOUTWELL. The prosent Becretary of the ‘Treasury is by no means the smallest potato in the Cabinet, ulthough e would bo the smallest Baulk-Pre deiit you evor saw ; but the mighty responsibili- tics of his oflico dwarf him lower than a rotired peanut-merchaut Loside the Bank of England. A little Probate Judge,and not good at that, par- ticularty, in the Villago of Cambridge, Mnss,, he Iind but one connection in this world with Fed- orul bueiness. Ho gave abed and a brenkfast, whon ho enme up that way, to George 8, Bout- well, who rewarded him with a place in the Trensnry. When DBoutwoll, at his irade of politician, passed up to {nat Sonato whero }m hnd delivored his Hole-in-the-Sky ora- tion, Lo had tho - respoct for his Iate offico to press that Richardson be put init. The Probate Judgo of a small village, by the mero chanco of asgociation with a’ popular politician, is thus the First Lord of tho Treasury of o natlon with nearly 2800.000,000 of currency, and which énjoys the confidonce of Europe to the oxtant of ;R1,500,000,000 of gold Iuvestments, IIas Mr.” Richardson ever writlon a chaptor on Tinaneo, or been quoted amoug tho solid mon of Touton a8 a grent private autliority on _bullion, coinngoe, or political economy? Yet thora he Hita, nmhodyins_filf;h Life Below Stairs; and the only piece of dignified work Lo has done is to suggeat forone of the official organs that his tomerity for this slop grew out of a too-forward belief In President Grant's positious rocently enunciated, 5 This is_apparent by the story of the man's Lnmble lifo, and by thie clerical .docility with svhich Lo lenps to carry out the Prosident’s jum- lo of ideus, ... TO_LOOK TFON, hie igan old #lark of court, or more respectable ughor to & banking house, such us Abraham Now- Jand. Nowland was made n ¢lorle in the Bank of England in 1728, erd it took him thirty-four yenrs to becoms Cisader, which oflico ho filled thivty-fivo years, -und acquired & fortuno of §G50,000 1n “the course of sixty years' feithful sorvice, 1t is relatod that, for tiwouty-five yoars, hio nover lept outsido of thoBank. 'Pwonfy-five years of sleopin the Treseury might do some- thing for tho present Secrotary ; but, as the mat- tor stands, it would bo cheaper to pay him the £650,000 iu advance, all iu coin, and dischargo him,—with inatroctions not to board it. Noth- ing, however, is adapted to make men hoard money lko futile and foolish farces as all Rick- ardson's have been, from buylug bonds aud iesuing silver down to breaking the Tuws of Con- sgress and satting naldo tho decraes of Lho Unitod States Comte, If he remuing In the ought to declare that it lace so long, Congress. {‘ms no confidence in hig eapacity, as soon ns it meets, and ask tho Prosi- dout to communicate his reasons for appointing Lim. If tho roarous bo us good assowe of the Previdont's rocont compositions on the. monoy- question, wo shull have eutertainmont. I may dd that THE PSEUDONYMS ot comp of tho leading Treasury officials, glven around fown, “indicato them prelty well, ~ Mr. Richardson iy called * that fellow ;' Mr, Spin- nor is called *good old Foo-foo;” Mr. Kuox ‘goes b{ the namo of '*Miss Nancy ;" Douglas, Comamissioner of Revenuo, ia * Jhry Doug," “I'ho Auditors sre utmlllufi politicians, put into pigeon-holes of oflico to keop them warm ; and thao Asslstant Secretary, Bawyer, is & South Caro- liva carpet-bagger, who ulinost dignifies Rich- ardson by being next in suceession, A'gULLOCH, Dy tho way, has beon here. 110 imputes the fall of the house of Jay Cooke to Mr, Cooke's pride of faith in the Northern Pacific Road, by which he began to buy ita bonds back in ordor 1o kee) np their standard in tho market. BeCullocl thinka the rond got to bo o Bort of mothar-in-law which bossed the house that contained her, al- thaugh sho might have been et ontsida without making ony very violont scandal. Ilo eays ho saw tbat the task was mnearly dono when the Tiabitability of the land-grant was genernlly dis bolloved, This I got from ono who talked with Liw, DRIGADIER-GENERAL, The appointmont of Lieut,-Col, George Orook to the lijr&gmliamhl maae vhcant by Philip 8L, Qeoryo Cooke's retirement Iy proper in visw of the fact that no person einge My War Las beon THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1873 80 constnntly notive, 80 wholly original in his mothod of warfaro, nnd so successful, ns Crook. Il 1a nn Indian campaignor oqual to -old Arhuckle ar Jucknon, and with moduaty equal to Lis welf-reliance, Gon. Orook, whilo courting Misg Daily, of Maryland, now his wife, lndpod at her father's hourg : and Lis present ) evin-law eamo m, took bitn out of bed, viedd him tnroneh tho garveison and p W Cunberland, Tlo was sooun oxehanged, ever, and finiciod up ik earcer nobly umios Shoridan, Philip St. Qeorge Coolo, whom he vapluoes, in o vetoran ofticer, with o carcor rench- iug buek to tho duys of Caiucs, Scott, Riploy, and Brown, I1OYT, BPRAGUE a CO, The lato Ohifef Justice aiod bofore the tronbled days hnd como upon his curroncy, His Trustos, Hnry D. Cooke, haw fatled ; and both his sona- in-Inw, Bpraguo and Hoyt, appear to have joined the samo. llsE‘ Bpraguo is prabably tho greatost manufacturer who over camo to tha Senato, and that js not saying much, Ifo onuncinted the cowardice of holf-n-million, and proved it whon Brown & Ives, his onomies, uuu;:ht tho other dny to pross ‘him_down. Dpnicl J. Morrell, of tho Osmbrin Iron-Works, Pennsylvanin, tho groat- st iron-rollor and tho nnrrowest-mindod man I ovor saw, also prerented tho miscrics of tho tariff-polioy h[\\' shutting up his shops before any- body eleo, ~Thoro ia sympathy for Bprague, but nono, that I have heard of, for Morroll, Now, whora is Kelloy? 1Te nover lind anough eapital to fail on, eithor in tho head or tho pockot. Amongst them thoy stimulatad this conntry ba- yond the bounds of prudenco, mado the Iand- grant systom prolong o market for their high- priced iron, dobauchod the morals of public men to bo go-botwaons in the business, and, at the brink of wintar, * the only protocted laborer in :lm world" fluds Limsel? like the poot in au- umn : ‘When rigo the gusty winds; tho loaves Race fugitive nud lont; And gaunt tho landacapcs desolato Took fu the tooth of frost, Garn, THE BIG SANDY RAILROAD. Iow Wall Streot Magnntes Made n Catspow of Gen, J. €. Rreckinridgos Lexington (Ky.) Correspondent of the Cincinnati En- quirer. A moro barefaced swindlo than this Big Saudy Rallrond onterprise was porhaps nover porpes trated upon a confiding people. A few unprin- cipled speculators in Now York, by rosson of their connection with the Chesaposke & Ohio Railroad, succeedod in making the citizens of Loxington boliove that a lino of railrond would Lo built from Elizabothtown through Lexington to tho mouth of the Big Sandy River, to connect with the Choesapeake & Ohio Road, if we would subscribo $250,000 of stock, Tho sharpers know that some one infinential with the peo- I)lo would have to be employod 0 convinco them of the vast bon- ofits to bo derived from the projected enterpriso, The man selected for the purpono was Gon. John 0. Breckiuridge, tho most mnguificont groon- horn in Keutucky to-day. Tho General, with o verdancy that I.supposo waa ono of the cesential quolifications of the Presidont of the Llizabeth-~ town, Lexington & Big Bandy Railroad, assured his fellow-citizons that ho had every confidence iu the intogrity aud financial ability of the New' Yorkors who promised to build the road, Theso {follows in tho background had subscribed $2,- 500,000. The General was cortain that it was n Dboua fide subscription, M. Ifuntington, Prosi- dont of the Clesupeske & Ohlo Company, ot~ sured Geon. Breckinridgo'that such was the caso, and the Goueral assurod the people. Hunting- ton pulled the wires and the Goneral danced; latterly bis heart may not bave been in the ex- erciso, but he went through the motions. "The result of Gon., DBreckinridge's offorts was that the City of Lexington aud County of Fay- otto gave him half-a-million dollars uncondition- ally. Poor mmnj; tho mouey was given on his “account, but I don’t belleve he received o dollar of it morothan his salary as Dresidont of the new Company. Clark County gave and Mont-~ gomory gave liberally, The road was buill dis- tance of thirty milos—from' Loxmgton to tho littlo town of Mount Sterling. Thero it has stopped with ono end n nir. The cost of build- ing that section was less than balf-n-million, I'ho sbarpers collected nenrly a million and pock- eted the difference. Now thoy hayo just succeed- edin mortgaging the wholo road for £8,000,000, and tho stack which was given to tho pooplo in return for the tax has been blown to the four winds., But the funniest thing is yot to bo told, Col, Hart Gibson, of the Loxington Press, went to New York to investigato mattors. Ho saw . Mr. Huntington. o sslted why tho subsgeription of two and o balf millions had not been paid. Mr. Huntington replied that rajl- roads wore not built in that way. *Who sub- seribed tho mouey?” asked ™ Col. Gibson. 3¢ Phillips"‘ snid Huntiogton, **And who is Phillips? " * A moneyed man hero in the city,” waa the roply. Col. Gibson, l.umln{; his head, sow, laughing, ot his desk, a tall clork, with a pen bohind his ear, and the Colonel waa powor- fully impressed with the idea that that was Phiflips.. At any rato, ho could not find any- body but Huntingtor who knew who Phillips was, Gon. Breckivridge bns not yot been in- vited to hunt him up. Poorgentleman'! he had not been propared for partuorship in such rag- cality. ; Tho fact that e was an iunocent party to o huge frand, which mainly by his efforts was erpetrated upon his own poople, sickenad Eim in body and mind, and now he bhas but just risen from 'a sick-bed, 'shadow of his fTormor self, but still the idol of tho poople. But he must bave nothiug more to do with railroads if he would maintain his placo in pube lic esteem, THE IOWA ELECTION. o the Editor of The Chicago T'ribune : 8in : I'he courso of the peoploof Iowa at the October election has not & littlo puzzled the po- litica! wire-pullers. In countics like Lee and Dubuque, whore Domocratic Ringd have been na corrupt and odious a8 those of the Republi- cnn party in other countics, & revolution has og- curred,—they sonding Ropresentatives to the Legislature of the opposite party, Whether Donnis Cooloy, Harlan's old Commissioner of Indian Affairs ot Washington, will prove to be any real improvement over ‘the Democrats who hove preceded bim in the Liegislature from Du- buque, remains to bo seen. ' Though tho Repub- licnup have always - been 1in a minority ju that county, and wore moro Anti-Mouopoly than the full-biooded Anti's thomselves, since tho clection Mr. Cooloy is snid to have come out as 2 Repub-. lican, and sunounced bis inleution to act with that party nt DesMoines this winter, It1s_to bo Loped that tho lossons of this clec- tion wilt not bo lost on tho déminant party. Carponter bocamo one of the early Grangers, and proved himuolf o thorough-paced demagoguo, stumping the State and being all thivgs to al mon. Valo, Lis upynnom, seoms.to have been perfectly crushed in advance by the 70,000 majority of 1872, IIo uover accopted his nomi- nation in ' apy public manner, or appeared in publio to plead his cause, and that of tho masseg whoso represontative hie was for the timo being. IInd Vale taken tho stump, as Grimes did in . 1854; aud gone befora thie pooplo, us ho ought to linve done, thero is very littlo doubt now but the result would have been vory differont, ny it is, Carpontor and the Republionu-Iling have gota rielily-merited rebulie, which will not atop where it now is. lowa, —— PUNISHMENT OF INCENDIARISM. BunrinaTon, Ia,, Oct, 29, 1873, T the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: 81z : Beeing In your paper yestorday an ac- count of the oxtousive firo in Cunustots, N, Y., can I enlist your poworful pen in bolielf of the greatest curno that now aflliots our conntry: the fires, but more especinlly thoso caused by incondinrios, Duily I read an account of flvos, and too ofton the paper simply remarks, * It was tho work of an Incendlary.”” And 8o it goes on, sud _to au extont that it does in no othor country. For the pregont, Wo may not obtmn fire-proof buildings, and wo cannot éntivoly provont iires, But can- not we at least try and diminish thoso canscd by incendinries 7 With our presont lnx enforce- ment of Inw in any cage, it is no wonder they at prosent are not doterrad in that respeot. Will it not pay well to have laws passed of the most suvera and sure charnotor, for tho punish- ment of those guilty of thiy great crimo ? If wo do not hang thom for it, at lenst make the punishment imlyduuumuut for lifo, with tho corininty of no pardon by the Governor. Would it not be wall 'to warm up Alaske by making it an espooal ponal eottloment to soud thieno fire-preasing guntlomen to? Upon o lottor I sent to the Catifornia Farmer upon the * destruction of our timber,” the editor remarked that, if my ideas were carrled out, it would bo worth millions to our country; it re- sulted in tho passage of tho * Forcsi-Culture pot.” If thut “idos was worth millious, I feel that tho passago of some such stringent law as I saggest would bo worth tous of millions in ro- ducing the pumbers of fires In our most fires silligtod couptry, Most respectfully, J. Heneaak Oantzn, TILTON-BEECHER. Trial of the Former Beforo the Plymouth-Church Court, Tio Requests Doecher to Mako Chargos, but Beechor Nays Ilo Has Nouo to Muke. Tilton’s Name Stricken from the Roll of Mombership. From the New York Trivune, Nov. 1. Tho stated mnnthls Lield at Plymouth Churol lnst eveuing nsaumed tho sumlhus and exolting aspect which many had drended—the rovival of a scandal which, It had been hoped, was buried forever. Bofore the special meeting was callod to ordor, a contost wns hod on the question of oxcluding all but mombers, but the motion was lost. At thia timo the Iargo hall wns nom{llu!cly filled with poople, and in "tho curlous gallory or balcony at tho sido o orowd of expoctant faces appoared. Tho first thing dono was the nomi- nation and eloction of Mr. Raymond ns Moder- ator, Ho called at onco for tho roport of tho Exawmining Comnmittee, who have boon consider- ing Thoodoro Tilton's relations to the Church, Tho roport was road by JMr. Halliday, s follows BrooxrLYN, Oct, 21, 18 ‘Tho Rev, B, P, HALLIDAY : At 8 meeting of tho Ex- amining Commitico of Plymouth Church, held last c;fllflnfi, tho followlng preamble and resolution wero adopted's Wngneas, Obarges woro presented to ihis Com- ml:‘luu by William' ¥, West againet Theodoro Tillon 3 aud, WHEREAS, A Spoclal Committeo having boen ap~ pointed Ly the Committce to walt upon Mr, Tilton with referenco to sald charges, raid Tilton, on the evoning of Oct, 6, mnde nuswor tothat Specfal Commit= tee in thieso words: 1 hinvo not for nearly four yoara paat been nn at- tendant of Plymouth Chureh, nor have I conaldered myeclf o membor of it, nud Idonot now, nor docs the pastor considor moa membor ;s aud I do not hold mysolf smonablo toits jurisdictlon innny moumer wiintover ;7 and ‘Wirnzas, The satd Thoodoro Tilion, in reply to a commnication addrossed fo bim by tho Olurfz of this Commitce, which commynication, with n copy of tha charyes preferred_againat im by Willlsm T, Weat, ‘wero put futo the hande of sald Tilton on Oct, 17 inat,, and s request mado to him that he should snswer tho #ame by Oct, 23 inat., says, inn Jetter nddresscd fo tho clork of this Committac, nndor dato of Oct 222 * It ia about four years since I termiuated all connoction with the church, and am not now o member thereof ; theroforo, the docuinent addressed to mo in that ca- pacity I cannot receive;” and, ‘Witenzas, It thus appears that . Theodoro Tilton, n member of this church, hins sbandoned his conncetion ‘with tho church by prolonged absenco from all its sorvicos and ordinances ; thereforo, Riesolved, That th1s Committeo rocommend to- tho church that tho namoe of Theodore Tilton bo struck from the roll of membersliip of tlie church, 8a pro~ vited for by Rule No, 7 cf tho Manusl. E, W, TaLsacE, Olerk of Exocutivo Committee, Mr. Whitoe promptly moved tho nccoptanco of tho m{mrt by nflopzlu;{ the recommendation. W. I West—By Rulo No. 7 the nceused cannot be removed in that way, but must bo duly sorved with potico of time and placo of henriug, and bo allowed an opportunity to defend himrelf, I zrlah to any 1 proforred chargos against Mr. Til- on— The Moderator interrupted to inquire if it was a point of ordor ngainat the reception, A, Mr. Weet—No, sir. I wirh to offer a substi- tuto for that resolution, and to malke o fow ro.’ morks. I mado these charges only four months ago againat Mr. Tilton for cireulatin fi[r. Shearman and others—I rise ordor. The point of order whon stated was, that tho charges woro tho proporty of the Lxamining Committee, and conld not be madoe in a busingss mecting, The Chair ruled the point of order 2“!“ takon, and Mr. West sinply read his substi- uto : Retolred, That tho Church instruct the Examining Committeo to at once appoint o thne and place for the hiearing of the case ugainst Mr, Tilton, aud to_report £o tho Ghureh on tlie evensug of Nov, 7 (noxt Friday), Jtesolved, ‘That when this meeting adjourn it meot on Friday cvening next, immediately after the prayeis meeting, Tho Modorator declarad this resolution objec- tionable according to Pailianrentary rules, and suggestod o batter way to clothe its meaniug, The piovious question was suddenly moved, aud nlter some cowmplicntion had resultod tho substi- tute was lost. At thin moment Mr, Tilton, who hiad been sitting in the left-hand corner neur tho door, whilo bis accuser, Mr. West, sat in the body of the hall, came forward with theso words : “ Mr. Cheirman, I bog the courtosy of the house whilo I read a brief statement.” It was moved that be bo heard, and with some oppopition car~ ried. Mr. Tilton said ; LADIES AND GENTLEMEY : Twenty years ago I joined this Ohurch, and many of tho mosl precions memo- rics of wy lifo cluster about theso walls, Four years ago I caused iy membersbip, nor huve I ever been, from that thne until to-night, once under this roof, etiring from Plymouth Cluirelt T did nat gak for the ‘orasure of my numo from the roll, beenugo the clroum- atances yere such that I could not publicly state them without wounding the feelings of others besides my-~ self, During theno years of my absonco a story his filled the land, m\'urlllglt like u mist, that I have slun- dered tho minister of this Chureh, Tho spenker was interrupted by cries from two or three of “ Ordor!” * Order!” Mr. Shear- men stated tho point of ordor to be that there *wn8 no question of slander heforo them, Tho Moderator decided that Mr, Tilton was in order, and the Intter resumed ; Last summer, Mr, Beecher published aa explicit elinrge in the Brooklyn Kugle exompting me from {his injustice, Notwitbstanding this public document in ‘my behalf, o committeo of thin church by its nction Lias given rise to fnjurious statemonts in ‘the publio press that my claim’ of nov-membership I8 mado by mo in order to avoid my just respouslbiity to the church 86 a membor. I therefora come hero to-nfght not from any obligation of membership, sinco I am not o membor, and not examined by any commitee, for no committee has examiued me, but of my freo will, prompied by my sclf-respect, and & a matter vital to my life, nnd I ondor to say fu Mr, Beochers presenco, surrdunded hero by hia frionds, tliat if T vo slnudered bim 1 nm ready to answer for it to tho mun whom I hovo slaudered.. If, therefore, the mitse ister of tlua church las anything wlhereot to accusp me, let him now speak, and I shall ‘snswer, a8 God 8 my Judgo, At tho conclusion of Mr. Tilton's statement &' profound silence ensued, whict was broken hy iho businoss-lito voico of tho Moderator, who called the question of an smondment before the houso. Mr, West tried to gaiu o hepring, and o momber moved that ko bo heard. = This was fol- Towed by short and perplexing rush of points of order, amendments to amondments, until tho ucation was fually attled flatls by faying it on tho table, in which thero wag a'heavy aflirmative voto. Mr, Hawa created sHomo amuscment by his _porsistency in inquiring Low the members could kuow In such n crowd whether the voicos wore those of legilimnto voters, Mr., McKay. snid, good-hwmoredly: *I shonld like to know whothor brothor Haws thinks ho has got into & ballot-box atufling distiict? " 'Fhis way followed by n great laugh ot M, Ilawa' oxpense, nud o yotortod sbarply: ‘I don't answer blackguard romarks, for I"profess to be n gentleman}”, Mora discnission then ensued. I M, Edgorton—As I undorstand tho question Doforo s now, it is the original recommendation brought in by the Lxamining Committeo, I wish to speal'in opposition tothat motion, und for sovoral rensons, My firat s that £ thank this an opportunity to test the question whothor n man cau’ walk lulq n chiurch and ont of it of his own frec will. When ho comos in it requiros two Eo—n point of parties to tho transnction—tho man to make his application, the church to recolve it,—and when ho goes out choro must also boe two parties. I cluim that if we pass this resolution, it s n pro- cedont which Is contrary to all the procodents of the past ; I clnim that from the vory fact of Mr, Tiltou's sbsenting himeolf from the church in the past fow yours ho should bo disclplined in the proper “maunor, I objeot to tho amondment for unother ronson ; although tho question I8 not bofore us, it is known to overy membor that chnrges are proforred ; it 8 Imown that when wo pass tuin rosolution wo are in spirit violatiug Rule 4 of our church, Tha accusor hns some rights in this chureh as well 08 the acoused ; aud does the Lxamining Come- mittoa como In hore and eay that, in tho faco of this Rulo 4, tha recusor hind norights 7 As wo lhave tha lovo of Plymouth Churelr in our hoarts, a8 wo hopo for its kuccess in tha futuro as in tho past, Jet us bo carotul how we establish n prece- dent of gag-law, for nmngfh you may stop na hora to-uight, there nre thosd of us who wish to know the truth, and who know that charges hiavo beon established nnd that thoy can be sus- tained, [Groat applauso.] Mr, Duryen roplied at some longth in favor of tho resolution, Tho Chaivmnn utiered n defonug of hig own conduet of the meeting which would seom to bo assniled by the romarks ahout * gag- law,” Then Mr, Beccher camo forward, stepped upon the platform, and said ¢ REMANKS OF MIt, REEONER. T don't proposo to discuss the question of membere ship on the grovnd on which it stunds in this purticu- Jur justunco, Whon I cama to Plymouth Church Icame from n Presbyteriun Ohurch, a highly organized_one, §u which tho eession s substuntlally s judiclal body, orgunized for purpodcs of Judiclal procedura, 'Llie Congregationul Chureh 1s 1h most unorganized of all Oburches in the world ko for us scclestusticul machine- 1y 16 concerned, anl it relive, In its vory uplrlt and na- taro, upon moral fufiueuco ratlier thon” upon cccledt= sutical authority, It koon Locawe apparent that there wna Lo bo n Iargs momborahilp of this churel, and tha quieation eame lnto 1ny tofnd, What ball bo_tho motli~ od or policy of thia church 7' Bhall It bo n cliureh that shall undoftake to mnka Rerntiny in dotall of tho life of Jtw mmembern, and ahul iattempt tofollow up iy alles fiation n referanco to auy mun's morality tn life ] Sinll t undertake tho careof all Its members in all flio dotndl of tholr Jifo, or sholl it bo & large educating brothorhond 7 T el mot tell you whnt view T fook of it My preaching froln (ho beginning (0 thix hone G the wit- nesn of thio view I took of the naly=: of vhurch ore nfzatlon s Ot §t fn not n_ close_crganization—this Congregational Oumrch—liko Lpiscopalinn, with rulen and regulations minuto nor 16 it ko o Presby~ terian Church, nor 18 it like mouy of {hio Now Englond Congregational churchies, 1t never haa beon, ¥rom tho very beginning of it {hera were Lwo principlos that Wero prominent, ‘Tho first waa that tho door of cn- Lrnnca to tho eliirel ahould bo na Iacgo ns Iimanity and fhint. tho door of emission from tho church should lo just ns largo aa noceasary, Aud thon the general ublio eontimont of thio Oburch, the aocial inflitonco of ts membera, and tho instructing of tho pulpit, have been rolled pon to promote morallty, order, and unity, That wo havo succeoded to 'sn_exfraor- dinary ~ dogroo you yoursclven nra witnessos, I dotirmined that this ohirch should not bo & churc abovo all others, that had any enthusinem for i pline, Tho oxamplo of hndreds and thousands of churchoa bave borno witness, and for rensons {hat are obvlous that tho continual aftompt to bring up mom-~ bora by discipline, neithor docs good 1o tha mombors nor to tho church, but fs tho most destruotive both to tho ono and to tho other. Now, in regard to this ohurch, onoof the earliest changes mado in ita Inwa was tho making of dismission from thio church casior, _Any one desiring to go from tho chureh by fetter hnd but to ask i, and tho next day tho chiurch was o fasuo tho lettor, ' It was tomaka it eany and prompt, Moro than thiat. Considering that tho chinrch liad no powor. o _compel the aitend= nnco of witnesses, bolng no better than a common town meotings’ considoring that such ® body wos_most unflt fo go into trials of mombera whero roputation and hoppiness turned upon ntquity, tho Church was not o it body for such & _purposo a8 tbat. In consequenco of sud throughmy intiuonca o sdopted » policy tho vory ovorso of stickling for rales, for whenover o caso como up, whero it was al. leged'that porsons od gone wrong aud it was looked into, and thia caso turned out to bo s camo that would turn tho Church from its great Goapel work, tho Ex- amining Commilteo Linvo gono again and again to tho porson accured, and adyised him to quiotly withdraw from tho Cliurch, and from an_inveatigntion that would bo painful'to him in any ovent, _This js tho Deat mothod fn which to conduct & Gongregationul Cluirch like this, That 1s, thereforo, tho application of this rulo in tha caao wo havo boforo us, _ Mr, Tilton Tos been nbscnt for four years, Ithns not bon for tho sako of oxcualng himeclf, or ovading any process, or avoliling any proper responsibility, To my porsonal knowledgo bio wus absent beeaso ho believed that his rolation o the Churcl had beon sop~ arated by bis own nct, It cannot havo been regular, but it was valid, Tno Roman Oburch liolds that & child eanuot dio snd go to Heavon without it bo bnp- tized, ozcopt that & go to purgatory, and yot rregular Dbaptism Is allowed to bo valid, Persons honestly be- Jloving thomeclves to bo married nro considered mar- rled, if thoy show good Intention in tho matter. For four yoars past Mr. Tilton hus not been prosent at suy of our eclngs, You have known it and never pro- tested againat it in any meeting or Rochal gathering, 1With tho distinet imowledgo that for nearly four years ho Lind nswumed tho position of & man that had withe drawy, from tho Oliurel, you biavo permitted it fo go on. It is substantially 4 sanction of his action; and zow to go back of yolr own aotfon, for o sako of drawing into tho Oiiurch troublesome caso of disci~ plin, 1 neither wiso nor according to the spirit and administration of this Chureb, 1 desiro ta say further that T don't bellove that Mr. Tilton hos desirad fn avy way whataver to shirk his proper respousthility or to avold orto evada any proper chargo that might bo mado by tho Ohurch, . Ho nsks if T have nny chaigo to mako agaiust him, I huve nonol Whatever diffcrences havo been botween us Lavo been amicably adjustod ; and, 8o far as T am cone ceraed, buried; 80 far 08 ho i concerned, buried, X fiavo no chiarges, ‘This wholo muttor has hot been with my cousent, " ‘This wholo maiter ias beon ngainst my Judgement, ‘T have snid to tho broteren who wero terostad fn 1, bt wiio have acted siucoroly and one gatly, I balleve, *ou whl anly, to tako up this mattor, 0 Church, nnd reach o stop tho projor_business of polnd at which you ean do nothing, You will ond just - ‘where you began, and I hold it not to be wise, not to o called for, certainly not to be, according fo my Juagenent, tho matter of the Church.” That which I Dield from {ho beginning T hold still, * [Appluuse.] After Mr, Beochor's statement the businoss ot tho 1ncoting becamo involved in inextricable confusion. There had boen an amendment offored striking out all after tho word “re- solved” in the rerolution, and substitutivg #that the Olerk be directed to correct the roll in nceordanco with the recommondations of the Committes ;" and now members began question- ing how thoir votes would nflcct tho main ques- tion. The Moderator, to make tho mattor clear, atated, * Tho main question now is tho paul]lng amendmont to tho amendment, togother witl the amendmont so amended, together with the first question soamended.” This crented laugh- ter, and finally, after much voting sud attompts at ‘simplitication, the original redolution of the Examining Committee was adopted, aud the meotiug adjourned. A Triple Silver Wedding. AMansfield, O, (Oct. 30), Correspondence qf the Cinein~ nati Commereinl, An oxtrnordinary silver wedding was colebrat- od this week at tho residence of Mr. E. D. Lind~ sey, of thix city, Thoreunion was one of more than ordinary iutorest, for various rensons, T'ho partics thus celebrating the twenty-fifth noni- versary of their marringo wore Mr. and Mis, E. D. Lindsey, of Lhis city; Mr. nnd Mra. Otho Willet, of DBryan, Ohio, and . Mr. and Mrs, Jamos Havous, of Urbaua, Ohio. g “'hoy wore married at as nearly the eame mo- ment a8 possible, nt Marion, Ohfo, and_togother made their wedding tour, accompanied by their various bridal nttendante, mnl(lu&; a largo party. Upon their roturn they séparated, with tho mi- tual understanding that if all wore living at the oxpiration of twenty-fivo years thoy would cele- brato their silver-wedding togother. Thero was o tingo of sndnoss in this arrangement, for it was but reasonable to suppose that the Inpse of two and a helf decades would bring eerions changes to somo of tho number, at least, of so large a party. As tho years rolled on, and each trod & goparato lifo-path, tho friends lost sight of cnch other; but tho promised reunion was mnol forgotton. Then rose the query in the mindg of each ono, Wore tho other partios still living? A thorough search was made, and the result was this triplo silvor wod- ding. Their bridal attendauts, as well as the ofliciating ministors, are, strange to say, all liv- ing, but wero too widely scattered to bo gathored together again, ) A large company was asgembled af tho rosi- dence of My, Lindsoy to witness the reunion of theso long sovered frionds, . During _the ovening wo learnod that oach couple bad the same number of children, sud but ono girlin the wholo number. Aftor rofreshments hind’ been sorved, ono of the ““brides” rond a brief but appropriate od- dress, in which phe thunked God forthe oxtraor- dinary privilego of such s rounion, and closed Il:]y extending the invitation of Mr, and Mrs, nvens to meot the ontiro party at the celobra- tion of their golden wedding af thoir rosidonco t\vo.nly-flvn yoars hence, 7l —_—— Private Smuggling at New Yorlk. - Jyow the New Yorh Graphic. A loading retailer aud.. importor #ays that the ‘merchants of Now York are suffering nore from tho m]ild Inorenso of smuggling thun from the fluancial crisis and all other oouses combined, A vossel recontly arrived from a French uun‘ Jinving 100 passengors, whoso aggrogato amoun of buggu};u was over 100 tons, on whioh not one dollar of duty was paid. If the law hind beon enforced, not less than §100,000 revenue would probably have been realized, - I'ho reporter was roforred to tho heads of - otlior houses for n con- firmntion of this chiarge. " Ono_importor. stnied that hio know of a vossel on which 68 casos of costly foroign goods werae passed by the Customs Houeo officiats, The n\‘urnfin duty gollectod way unilerstood to bo about $400 from onoh ship— only & emnll porcentaga of the amount to which the Govornment was entitled, A rotailor nnd importor told, in illustration, of a wealthy lndy in this city who, t.-liht years ngo, hud u danghtor marrled, for whoso bridel troussonu his house ro- colved £3,600, Anotber daughter in the samo family was married, this fall, for whoso outfit tho firm roceived 8500—the balanco of hor ward- robo Laving boen abtained from Paris without tho pn{mout of duty, "It was statod that thore are Indlos who n\'m?' summor tako tho measurca and the monoey of their frionds and make a voy- ngo to Iuropo, where their drossca avo pure chased and mndoe up, and then smuggled back to Now York. Theso morchants say they have ap- {wn'lud to the Government authoritios from timo 0 timo for protection, but without avall, —_—— Running upon Fire. From the Sub-T'rovical amnblesin the Land of the Lvlmnupuryt. Whbilo I stood looking quictly about me, says Nicholus Llko, u rush was mndo to tho contro of tho grounds, whorn ® crowd soon nssembled, Tilgs of wood woro burning, which, in about an hour, beeamo a bod of live embers, I'wo nudo moeu, haviug long-Landled rakos, were engaged in otting out the unburnt pleces of wood and dis- ribuling the ombers overa square of about twenty-livo foot, An oxcavation was mado on ono side, about n fobt deop and six square, iu oloso proximity to the bed of em- bors, and filled Wwith water, During thia raking weveral poople were cmployed dashing water ovor tho mon to provont thelr boing georclied by tha I.\Qnt,whieh was intolerable even whore I stood, Evorything being pronounced rendy by tho priost” who superintonded the wholo, musio was Loard in the distanco, aud s procession moved along the grausy plain, pro- ceded by men bearing upon thoir shouldors a small Y ntform, on which was an jmago dressod In Indlan costumo, loaded with jowelry. ‘Lhey camo on in silonco and halted near the burning wmaes, Prosontly auother similar procession ad- vancod from tho opposito side and facea the fixat. A¢ n glven signal an old man, with only & oloth round his loins, bearing a child in hia arms, stopped into * the . square, and mlked unllinchingly ncrosg tha glowin; led of ombers, Thico vmuu} mon followod, and thon s dozon rushod fu and ran ncross, stope })ing for n momont tocool their feet in the trench Mol with water. T'ho conloitionn, rereeching, and yolling of those Inttor wore torriblo, and L turned nway sick nt henrt from the sight. This part of therites is enlled thinnery, or walliing upon fire. 1t scomed to mo literally the old worship of Moloch rovived, nnd anytliing moro heathonigh and devilish I cannot {mngino, Btrango to say, tho Indinus porsiut {hat thoy do not got burnt, For at least o month proviously thoy undorgo sovere fasts, tnking lttle excopt rico and milk; do not ovon touch greaso or animal food ; {xrny incosnnntly, got tho pricat's bluuslng, and Lhen walk fearlosaly over the burn- ing ombers, Thoy eny it is only thoso who have eaton forbidden food (cspocinlly ealt fiuh), got. drunk, or committed somo unropented sin, who got burnt, —_— JOHN IN THE SOUTH. The Chincse on the Plantations of Louisinnn. D, Dennett in New Orlcans Times, Inquiries haye lately beon mada through the columns of o Now Orloans ?oumn} in regard to the success of Chinose Inbor In the sugar parish- o8 of Louisiana. Bu ':i::nuonu woro made in tho samo article that it might bonofit the plantors if lnrge numbers wore brouglt to the plantations of this Btate. We do not know what satisfaction Chinamon aro giving in '78, but we havo soma facts nbout thom na laborors in '71, Dr. Kittredgo brought fourteen Chinamon from Cuba to his plantation on tho Lafourche, in 1808 or '60, They worked vory well for nwfxflu. but wore slow and weak, Thoy at length becamo almont worthless ; would not work ; stole overything thoy could put their hands on ; made an aseault on the managoer with thoir shenth-knives—would have Lilled him Lut for the intervontion of & faithful negro with a pix-shooter, Thoy wore all driven from tho plantation, After this ovor 200 Ohinamon wero brought from China to this Stato; 115 wero sout to o plantation on the Lafourcho, and forly were laced on one plantation, and lwunty on anothor, Yn the parsh ot 'Perrobone, Tho 115 did well for a whilo, but at length a portion ran away ; others gave much_trouble, and wo think thero aro nono loft on_tha planiation af thio prosont timo. It cost $230a houd lo Lring them from China, but they can bo brought to tho Stato for a much lowaer price. ‘T'he proprictor of the Millaudon plantation, near New Orleans, brought 141 Chinamon from Californin through the agency of ono Cum Wing, or Kim Wing, as it is goniotimos written, It cost about 812,000 to bring thent to the plantation and start them to work. 'l‘ha% had not beou at work many weoks whon Oum Wing mado his appearanco on tho planta- tion. When the Chinamen lLeard of it, thoy mado o move in a mass on the house, captured Cum Wing, took him to their quartors, tool away his hat, cont, and boots, and it was thought they would Iiill hitn, The plauter, agent, over- seer, and negroos could have no influcuce in re- strafning tho wrath of tho pigtails, Thoy had tosend for tho city Euhco, who subdued them with their clubs aud throntened thom with six- ehooters, Tho causo of tho muss was that the Chinamon wero dissatisfled with their contract, and demanded that Cum Wing and the planter should obange it. At another time the overseer was compolled to shoot one of them, wounding him in the aim. The whole body of thom, armed with knives, clubs, axes, and “biudgoons, pursued him to the plantor's house, domnnded his blood, and could not be reserained by any onc, Thoy aro snid to have been tho most dinbolical crowd that ever agsombled in and srouud New Otleans. Their oyes and countensuces were liko thoso of incar- nate flonds. They were detormined to search tho houso in spite of the planter, but the over- seer_eacapod to Groton, aud never camo back again. The ngout of the plantation said thoy wera the most venal, thioving, trifling laborers be over suw, Tifty of them went to work for the chiof contractor at the Penitentiary, and wero aftor- ward discnarged; forly ran away, twouty-fiva went to work for & planter up the coast, and oitlior ran away or were discharged. Thero aro none on the Millaudon plantation now, Fifty Chinamen were employed on a planta- tion above Plaquemine. They all ran away. A plantey bolow New Orleans employed & largo number. They camo up to the city to complain of bud trentmeut, and gave thoir employer n rent don) of trouble. Thoy were factious, aud ird to minngo. Another planter paid fifty or sixly Chinamen €96 amonth in gold. ‘'hey and their omployor wero nll dissatisile On a planivtion, near Plurlnumlnn, fifty-thres Chinamen were emplosod. Thoy all ran away. Ono planter, below Plaquenino, who bad & gtout, resolute overscor, who treated them roughly, and made tNe pigtails afraid of lim, ot along pretty well witly them, aud they did gutknr for him™ than these people did for auy other planters, B Forty employed by ono planter, * T rrobonne Parisls, eithor ran away or woro ¢ h ed; and twenty-flve, cmployed” by auothu. .uter, be- came Bo dangerons that he had to snoot and kill one and wound another, and tho gang lft him. A gang of theso Celestinls was employed on the Leche, below Centroville, at 26 & month in gold, thoy furnishing their own food. Tho over- #eor informed us that ho was disgusted with them ; that they were mean and unreliable In- Lorord. Twonty of these men wore employed by & planter above Franklin, on the Teche. L'hoy did wall for awhile, butatlength all of them ran away. Tlmfi have generally had the name of bein, unfaithfal, clanish, sordid, slow, and wealk, an liave in all the instances wo havo heard of dis- appointed their employors sadly. Most of the Chinanion who were on planta- tions in 1870 and 1871, we think, have gous to tho cities nnd villages to hunt_up light and crsy work, and to tho North and Wost, and to Cali- fornin. Wo can henr of none on the Lafourche or in Terrebonne, though sowe plantors may yet employ thom. > g “'hoy may lLave reformed pince 1871, and may Dbo doing well on o dozen plantatiohs in the State, but we have no information’to that effect. Ouo plantor onco snid ho wished thero wero o million of thom {n the State. Wo think a mill- ion would seal the doom of Louisiang, and we would thon sink to rise no more. . MISCELLANEOUS. An American neronnut, named Wells, is an- nounced for a balloon trip from Vieuna to the United States by way of Asia and the Pacitio Oconn, * - —Ilard times an Alabamn, according to a Bouthern papor that says : + Sowa convummate geoundiel, on Friday night, exhumed the cornor- stono of tho now eolored chureh at Opeliks und extructod therofrom & ¥1 bill." # ~Tho colorod Baptists of tho Bouthern States havo raeolved to practice * foot wshing " us a tolien of humanity and love for ono snothor, ‘Whatover the object, tho rosult will probably bo ‘veneficial: ‘I'hio tamily of one Mrs, Sanborn, of Tilton,” N. I, havo furnished matoriul for the vital sta- tisticinn's rotloction by eating 726 home-mado pics since Janunry last,—145 n*llocn,—nml surviving, — Tiftoon hundred skilled mechanics "—think of that—wandoring about Boston streots to-dny with nothiug to do. 8o sny the Young 3fen's Clirintian Assoclation, and ;xfil\tly refor tho fact, not only to the pania and slintting off of mills in othior oitios, but to tho slackening of work in tho burnt district,—Boston Transcript, ~An athlotic Skowhegan girl kickod an unfa- yored suitor down somo steop siairs, tho olher night, and injured him so thut for two days his life was dospaired of. —1In describing a trial in oourt a Now Orloans rovorter says of the defoudants : ** During tho recital both domons oceasionally smiled in a hollish, sarcastic way.” —he former lnudlord of Miss Mink, tho Loro- ineof thorocont homicido triul at Bockland, Mo, lias prosontod to tho town authorltios a littfe biil for damages to tho mptnfluu of his proporty, in- oluding theitom: *Tor murdor nml.l disgraco in tho liouso, $10," —T'rof, Hayden has dlecoyored 197 differont Kinds of grasshoppers in tho Yollowstono rogion. Indoed, the only kind of ’;muulmmmr that the Professor fails to report from the country of tromondous springs is tho base-ball player,.— New York World, —Whon you writo to tho Bhah, etiquotte ro- quires that you profaco your remarks with the fullo\vlus: rigmarolos "o the mont soreno, most highly placed and wlsost Caliph, the nbounding in graco and in friondship ; {ruo a8 no othor 18 tome, the Schah Nassr-cd-Din, bo the firit word of my friondly writing ; a rev- eront grooting." —Nobert Bixbury dled on the 230 inst., in the Town of Leary, Jefforaon County, N. Y., a1 tho ugo of 110 yeurs, 1Mr, Bixbury had acquired & greut repntation as » huntor on John Brown's tract, in Northern New York, where ho had slain ovor 2,200 deor. Whon past 80 years of ago ho mot with an accident which ocessitated tho amputation of one of his logs, and ho assistod the country dootor to perform the oporation without {liuching, Tho funeral was attendoed by soveral of Mr. Bixbury's childron botwoou 80 and 00 yeara of ago. —According to Baron von Richthofen, who travelod over Oblua durlng the years 18(8.'73, that country hea the richest conl minos in'tho world, and, ‘morcovor, lnborers rondy to work them at tho low prico of from 12 to 15 cants por dny, and knowing not what it {s to strike; o long ns rats nro plenty and mlico aro served occa- slonnlly _as an oxtra holiday dish, One of theeo conl-fiolds i1 sald to cover. 100,000 squaro mlleni and, if the, Baron Is correot, (irent Brilatn wil have less apprehonsion concorning tho giving out of ity conl, s —It rony be rcfnrdnd 0w one of tho signa of the times” that tailors who formaorly nxufi:zd to trust and blushed to bo paid, nro bLocomivg far less nccommodaling. * Sovoral of the most rom{nont of tho trade in Boston “have agroed o publish in two of tho daily papers tho names and rostdences of thoir customors who do not pay promptly.” This floomy cataloguo 18 to np« pour about the 1at of November, nnd will add auothor to the deprossing influencos of that low~ spirited month, It is hard to pay for pautaloons which have boen worn out ; it will bo harder not to bo able to buy any finnlnlonnu at all, —'“Wo had in our Londs yostorday,” enys La France, “a vory curiona photograph, beiug the lmru'n(f of n Russian who had juat arrived in Pards, brought by tho dircctor of ‘n theatro at 8t. Petorsburg, Hig head s that of o Bootch tor- rior, with o regular snout, long, silky Lair, and ondant ears, ~ As to tho rest of the body, it is hat of au ordinary man. Tho voico is porfactly human ; ho converses well, and is not dovold of intolligence, 'I'ho monstor i married, and has a child, which ho has brought with him, aflicted with the eamo deformity, though in & rathor loss morkoed mannor, _The face is moro natural, the bair is scanly, and tho ears are shortor than thoso of the fathor. Theso two phonomonna wora digcovered in tho onvirons of Nijui-Nov- gorod.” —The bats are so thick at Yorktown, Va., that ovoning church aervices aro iumrrup‘nd by the minister dodging, —Nonr Webstor, §[nsa., recontly, a man wns run over and his head cut off. 'The singular part xox:' l.yhll: cnao lifldudt the lmgd tl!:n’h be found. It ay have rolled down & bank, or do FUD off Wit 1, but 1t 1y Toag, - (oE0 P8y bavo —The Bmithsonian Institution, Washington, has rocotved Capt. Jack's hond, “Sight-soors," enye tho Washington Chronicle, *alwaya sto) about ton minutes to look at it in going thmng?x tho avimal’ gurlositics.” —An aceldout occurred in Boston lnst Bunday which Jeremy Taylor might liave mentioned in his ** Holy Dying.” Mra. Iooper, 93 yoars old, united with tho Congregntional Church nt a speeial communion beld st bor house, 8ho has 84 descendants, —* Brown Bogs," whose numo had almost died out of the anuals of modorn warfare, has been awakoned from mere oblivion by the pecullar requircmonts of the Ashantee War, Bupplics of tho antiquated woapon with the flint lock are being sent out to 8ir Garnot Wolseloy, as being beat ndapted to the nse of his faithful allies, the TFanteo warriors. —In &ll tho annexed torritory of Bonton thoro ia no pot moro guitablo for o graud park thon tho Bussoy farm in West Roxbury. This oatate, which comprises 400 acros of hill'snd valloy and woodlaud, 18 now tho Em erty of Hnrvard Col- loge, and was boqueathad to the institution as n foundation for an agriculturel school. Thus far it hins proved an elephant_on the hands of the collogo, and ns it may be disposed of for public purposos, the monoy it would bring would be of moroe uso to tho collego thnn the land, The os- tnte is easy of access from tho city, belng near the Forest Hills station on the Providence Road, and wide boulovards could ensily be built, con- necting it with overy portion of tho city. It i more central than any othor unoccupied proporty of equal extont within tho city, limits.—Boston Correspondence of Springfleld Union. —A slory is told of a Tormor momber of the Miesouri Logiulature whoso reputation was far from spotlous, that lo obsented himself for o while, undor the plea of sickuess, and shortly altor bad his death anuounced, Theroupon tho Logisleture pnssed tho usual resolutions of con- dolenco, sonio of the wily membor's bittorest on- omics culogized their ‘‘doparted friend's exnlted charnctor and high moral worth,” and tho noxt dny ho reappeared in bis soat with tho rosolu- tions and onlogies nently pasted in his memo- rondum book a8 a roceipt in full for the paat, and o lotter of crodit for the future. g ] Adventures of n Burglar. From the Vallejo (Cal,) Independence of Oct, T, A man tried to burglarizo the houge of n Mr. Bmith, residing in the neighborhaod of the rail- rond-{rack, Sundoy night, Lut was successfully foiled in tho attompt. "It scems that the follow forced on ontrance through tha back kitchen door, by prying off tho hasp, about 11:30 o'clock, soon after the occupants of the honse bad re- tired. The burglar, aftor getting into the kitch- en, commonced \rnlfdng around the room, Mr. Smith, who Lad not yet gona to sloap, heard tho fellow, but kept quiet. In a few momonts more tho * burglar. ontered the hall which lends directly to the slecping-apartment, About this ~ time Smith bad gotton out of bed, and, arming himsolf with o boot- Jjnck aud one of hiia lieavy boots, awaited the ap- preach of the other, 1t was a8 durk as tar, and 04 soon a8 tho man came within striking distance, o let fly at bim with his bootjaclk, hitting him ovor tho head. Tho fellow beat a hasty rotrent, but not fast coough to cecape the Leavy boot, which was thrown aftor him. ‘When he got into the Litchon he didn't know which way to turn, as Lio Iind closed the door when Lo came in, Ba- fore ho knew whore Lo was, o lad fallen ovor tho stove, knocking hnlf-z-dozen ‘ten~ kottles nud pots off with him. This croated such & torrible din that Smith thought four or five burglara wero in his kitchen, and was afreid to follow, Lucky for the othor that ho did, for ho had become 80 demoralized by the Inll that ho waen't worth o cont for fighting, Getting on his feet again, ho struck for tho door wildly, and this time came in contact with & rockivg-chalr, and he foll head over heels into o tub of water, His eplnsling and floundering around in the tub of water terrified Smith moro than cver, and he began to think his house was posseseed of dovils, The man at last found the door, nnd.jumP{ng down the steps, ho ran across tho yard like lightning, ond this timo rushed into a small hen-coop, which ho knocked over, and killed revernl of the small hons, What bhap- penod to lum after this no_one knows. Suflico it, ho has not shown himself around those parts since. 3 e = Proposed Wholenale 1rish Emigrae tion, The Livérpool pnpers mention that Mr. P, O'Leary, who had just returned from Ireland, whillior he was delegnted on a tour of inspection by the English Agricultpral Taborers' Union, Iind received’ o lotter from Nr. P. J, Johnson, tho Honorary Scerotary of the Itish Agricultum\ Laborers’ Union, in which tlie writor saya: “ At our monthly moeting it was rosolved that, inthe ovent of tho Government failing to introduco a comprohonsive measure dealing with the waste lands of Ireland, I boempowered to proceed to Amorica and have an intorview with the authori- tics thero, with the object of our initinting an cinigration. en masso to the Westorn and Pacifio Btates. Of ‘courve, I fool deeply that it should bo neceseary for us to loave ‘our native land ; but what couldIdo? All faith hero ia lost in political platitudes, and little loft in our publio meon, - I struggled hard, but the Irish lgboror will nct remontn & slave by the Shannon while thero is n chanco ot his becoming a freoman in a people's land. T had to accopt tho office, Lut I rin consoled that I am to havo. tho assistanco of ona whoso serviees I shall not soon forget. You wero choson tonccompany me. Wil you ?- Yes, Iknow you will give your sorvices toremove our brothers from slavery. I bLavo had many convoraations with membors of the constabula- ry. Do you think tho Awerican Government would refuse them ns eottlers with us in tho United States? On recoipt of yourlstter Istull go to work to mature our schomo. If woaro do- nied o homa in Ireland, we can build up a nation in Amerioa,” The proposal of the Ivish Unfon has beeu acceptod by Mr, O'Leary, —_———————— The Wine Orop Frem the Buriington (lowa) Harck-Eye, Nov,1, Tho barvesting of grapes in this vicinity is over, and tho now wino brs hoou prossed out. Conversation with a faw of the principal grow- ors, yostorday, vovealed s rather unfortunsto stato of affairs, 'Fhe Catawba crop is moarly a & comploto futlura, 'This is awiug to the sovori- ty of the weathor last wintor, the majority of tho vinos having boen killed, Many of our vino- yards on our uurmnndhlf hills, which in formor years yiolded sovoral thousand f“““"“ of Ca- tawbn wine, did nat this yenr yield half as many huudred, In somo of the vinoysrds tho vincs woro buried and purtinlly protected during the wintor, aud_as o consequenco thoy yiolded robably half & crop. Prominent Fonl.um of tho uew Cutawbs wine g its ve superfor quality, The “long- continuod prought of tho summor developed tha higheat oxcollencios of the grape, nud lio wino is vory #woot aud strong, Our dealors aro bo. ginning to think that this climsto I8 not sulted to Catawhaa, Of the Concord, tha averago yiold was fully two-thirds of the usual orop. Growars of this grapo biava beon moro fortunate than thoy anticl- patod, and niany of thom enmo ont of the season with largo profits, though not us large as In formor yenrd, ‘Tho quality ot the grapes was vory good, and a superior Wino manufacturad, The J:ricn of wine romains firm at high rates, and bids falr to continue so, in view of the gen- oral docronse iu tho amount of new wine mado this souson, and ita superior quality, Mauy of tho growers sold thelr grapes, not retaining (hun for manufacture Into wino, tainad wore vory good. —_—— THE TRANSPORTATION PROBLE(. An Ad an from Josinh Quincy=-Tho Andictment Against the Rallronds RRehearsed=-Oongress Cnllod on to Protect the Peoples=i Government Rativrond Comunisslon Propone Ixpodiency of Nuationnl Highways, Bosrox, Oct, 20,—~Tho following nddress han been issned by Josiah Quinoy, Prestdont of the Amorican Ohenp Tmun‘]wrlnflun Associntion : In tho month of Mny, 1878, dologates from sovoral Btatos mot in Now Yorlk for tho purposo of forming an_Amorican Choap Transportation Association, Tho organization was offected by the olection of & Prosidont, Becrotary, and Traasurer, togothor with Vice-Presidonts from tho povoral States roprosonted. It was voted that a moeling of the oflicora or dologntos of tha sovoral Btato Associntions then oxisting, to- fiomor with thoso of any other Biato Aesociation hnt might bo formed, ‘should bo held in Wash- ington " in tho month of January, 1874, wag olso voted that an " address should bo proparod and published, sot- ting forth the camglnlnts agninat tho man- ngomont of somo of the railronds, togother with suggentions of mensures that might tond to re- liave tho people of unduo exactions, and facili« tnto transportation botweon tho _differont Btates, As the rosidencos of tho gontlenton ap- oluted to preparo the address were too distant 0 _pormit “their Emrnonnl conference, it wns thought' host that they should submit their views to tho President of tho Association, who was authorlzed to present, their genoral drift to the {muplo when issuing the call for tho January meoting. As tho nddross has not boon pubmit- tad to tho other mombors of the Commitieo tho Chairman {8 alouo responsible for the form it has taken, ‘Tho subject should not be appronched without s gratoful nackuowledgmont of the blessings which tho railrond has conferred upon otr country, Of all the mighty powors that are so n\rldly changing the faco of the world, this ! inkes proemiuence ns an educator and civilizor. This mighty interest hns nbeorbed the largest cape italists,themostactivo minds, andthomost gifted projoctors of our time, Much monoy has beon made by it, and a gruat pnrb of that monoy has boen honestly and honorably enrncd, Enter< and tho pricos ob~ ' prising cnpitnlists who took great risks, ~ far-sighted men of business who gAve vigorous thmqiht to the inlor~ nal development of their country hnve mado largo fortunes, and have richly do- servad them, 'Ihioy lLave provided tho peoplo with & most valuable sorvant, But tho time has como whon it is evident that this cxccllont ser- vant is capablo of becoming_ a most tyrannical master. Wo aro- threatencd with the curse of epecinl rights, special privilogoes, special fayors, special powors, and the monopolies of cliques and rings. An imperium in impetio, controtled Dy tho ableat oxecutives that monoy can pur~ chago, ncte with peculinr advantnge uuder a }mpnlnr governmont. 1f that eternal vig- lance, which has been called the Frlcn of liberty, s not _exorcised; f on oggressivo powor i3 not boldly met * and rostrainod by wiso and ressonable legisla- tion, wa arc inviting those bad and Iawlees rem= edics which aro too often worge than tho injus~ tice thoy assail. Amnnfi the many charges that have been proferred against the maungers of Amorican railronds, the montion of a fow will bo sufliciont for the purposes of this nddress, Mr. Rufuy Ilntch, in his cirenlar upon * Frouds in Railroad Managemont,” offers statoments to show that at the time of his publication the watoring of the stock of the Hudson River and tho New York Contral Railroads amounted to 267,576,700, which oxceedod tho capital actually paid in by $7.368,400, o lile~ wise asserts that tho watering in the Cloveland, Painosvillo & Ashtabula, tho Buffalo & Lric, and the Clevoland 'oledo, together with the ox- cess of naw capital over old, nmounted to 220,- 065,870 ; and this wateringof the Lake Shoro, added to that of the Hudson River & New York Coutral, amounted to 977,044,770, equaling §79,000 » milo for tho wholo distance from Chi- cago to Now York, aud spnying on ovory mile an annual dividend of 86,325, Alr, Georgo O. Joncs, ot a racont hearing bo- ' foro tho Congreesional Committeo on Trauspor~ tation, corroborates theso statemennts, and estis mates that Now York pays £10,000,000 a year on watored stoclt, It 18 nlto charged agaiust some of tho manegers of the groat lines of railroad that, while Congress bus granted immonso tracts | of land in order to reducs the cost of_roads and tho fares for transportation, means have boen eomployed to sopmrate tho railroads from these grauts for the purposo of dishonestly appropriat- ing theso benefits. Railroads thus favored by tho Government have boen coustructed at great cost, through the issuo of bonds, and thon leased to lines of which their managors hnd the control. Ringa Lave thue obtnined posses. sion of Iand and shores at nomiual prices. and have imposed upon -the people such taxes ss their directors might chooso ta lovy, It is charged that whilo our several States have ¢ grouted charlors authorizing railroad corporas tions to take the land of any citizens, and to issue slinres tor the construction of their roads, and permitting them to collect a Jiboral interest for all monoys invested, sharcs have beon insued gratuitously to stockholders, with the view of exacting intorest upon fictitious values; and algo that oflicers and influentinl sbaroholders who have been intorested in oxpress companies, mineral land companies, and othor associntions, liave cnused poculior priviloges to bo given to such bodies, onabling them to gain: unjust ad- vantages over all othors who depend upon rail-,, road transportation for the transaction of their business. It is nlso nesorted that accommoda- tion haa been refused to those who Lave mnde themselves obnoxious by oxposing the unjust proceedings above specified, and that shippers of merehandise not in favor with inner rings have been denied feir opportunities for compe-~ tition. | Finally, it is alleged thnt no action of individ- uals is capable of resisting corporations wiclding the vast powers and bucked by the immouse wenlth placed at the dispoanl of Taflroad man- agers, Itisulleged that somo of theee man: ors havo alrerdy packed conventions, bribed R omislators, and i lidizd Tudges, mud lava obtnined, through corrupt means, an influence subyersive of the rights of tho veoplo, aud most perilous to llo]inblic:m institutions, Tho Chcn‘x 'ransportation Associntion nske that these chargen, brought by responsiblo ci zons against the managers of railroads, bo tho) on(fhly inyostigated. ~Wo assert that it is the right and duty of Congress to iuquirc how ita Tibernl grants of land bavo beon appropriated. Tlicy woro granted to givo Lemporary credit to cortnin railroad corporations, and to constitute s einking fund which would ultimately pay off debts contracted in the copstruction of roads. They were grantod, in tho interest of tho country, to roduco rates .of trausportation to tho cost of maintaining the ronds. Bhould it be found that thioso grants, covoring an arca greater than many of our Btates, have been obtained nnder falso protensos, and used for private aggrandizement, wo nsl that thoy b reclnimed from those who unjustly hold them in possession. Our several States have surrondered the priv lepo of righting thoir own wrongs upon the un« dorstanding that Congress will do it for thom. "'he railroad power of the State of New York, for instanco, may lovy for the benefit of watered stock tho catimated tax of .10 cents per bushel upon corn and wheat, and the farnjors of the Went “and the citizens of - New Iu- gland have no romedy excopt: through the action of the General Government. For this reason wa ave forced to psk Congress for.a thorough invostigation .of the measures that havo boon adopted to effect tho Interchanga of produots among our States—nicasures thut aro alloged to Luve destroyed the vuluo of tha production of ono section, and to have increayod Lo cost of the nococuarics af lifo in another, Wao ek for o mornus,vh invostigation into specinl contracts mado for the transportation of freight and possongers that Dbave givon tho contractors advantages over thoir follow-citizens, - Wo aslt Congresd to congidor whether it be not oxpedient to mako cortain laws for tho regu~ Intion of railroads, in order to moot such wrongs and ovort such dangors as an investigation may Dring to light ; and whother it bo ot oxpediont ocroate o pormancnt Railread Commission, with power,upon rubsiantisl complaints, to pre| for gcrm)ns and papors, to lay injunctions, aud to abato violations of the lawd. Hailrosd man: gors, a8 common carriers, should bo res quired by law to givo no privilegos to ono oustomor abovo “another wundor similar circwmatances, All dovintions In prico from {ho published schicdule made to companios or ' (o ndividuels ehould be duly recorded in books open at all times to thoe inspoction of the Itaile rond Commission, as woll as to citizons who mulke proper application to examino thom, 1t is proposiod to ask Congress to considor tho oxpedionoy of oalablishing nntional rnilronds or enuals for the purposo m}'cnnylug froight bo. tween distant Btates nud the seaboard, or to requira oxisting vonds to diaw cmw for individuals or compuuien at fixod rates, Dut it is unnecessury furthor to auticlpato tho nction of the mooting of tho Asaociaf ion, which iy heroby ealled to meat at Washington on Wednon- day, tho 1ith duy of January, 1874, AL this monting delegatos from all kindred Htato organs izntions uro invitod Lo appear. Jostan Quisoy, Prosfdent of tho Amerlean Cheap Trunaportution Ase woelntl Boston, Oct, 21, 1873,