Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 28, 1873, Page 5

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1873. T T e e e oo 7] THANKS GIVEN Yestorday Very Generally Ob- sorved as & Holiday. (Continued from the Seoond Page.) for thio Rontan of old to say Civis Romanus sum, it 1y cortainly a greator honor to ssy, I am s Amorican citizen, 8. Our nstionnl prosperity onlls for gyynllmdn. . What harvosts isvo been gathorod! “The nea- gous have roliod by with plenty in tholr laps. A fwnorul condition of praspority of ull classon of ndustry was n{mlmn of au oxlating, in spite of tho late financ! 4, Individun}, domostlo, and epecial mercies. Theso could mxfy ‘Do known by each_porson who Lind recoived thom, but no one could, fot a mo- mont, dony that thoy had beon many in number to ench one proacut. In conclusion, Mr. Gulick said that when Solo- mon had finished tho Tomple, and the Ark of the Covonan was brought honte, the Yuomu kapt & Thankegiving Day, 1t was & genuinothanksgiv- ing, and tho Bingors led the peoplo in thotr sacred ] dopression. songn, An thoy wora bymuing the chorun, * For Mo is good, for His morcy endurgth forover,” tho 'Tomplo was flllod with o cloud of glory so rront that the pricsts could not stand to ministor Cy reasou of the cloud. Would that thore might bo auch & display of that glory in our land to-day, that this Thanksgiving Day might bo long mem= orablo in {ts blessed rosults, and tho world ba led to o,clmnwm\gn that it was good to give thanks unto the Lord. L) ' UNITY CHURCH. ' The Itev. MlRobert Collyer on ¢ 'The ‘T'rue Ground for Thanksgiving,?® Tho Rov. Robert Collyor preached a Lhanks- alving sormon yestorday forcnoon at Unity Church, thero beiug o largo congrogation in at- tendunce, Tho Doctor took for his toxt Mabak- Kuk, third chaptor, cightconth verso: *I will rojotco iu the Lord, Iwilljoy in the God of my salvation,” end satd : Thanksgiving Dsy comos thia year in the most clondy timo our nation has known sinco tho end of the war and the doath of Prosidont Lincoln., Wenro fooling the chills of panio, and aro not suro it will not be succoeded by the fover of warwitl its consequont misery auddeath, ‘Wo have had to witness things dona at the scat of Government within thoe yoar that have made us wonder what we aro comiug to in working out before the world this problem of solf-govern- ment for which wo have alroady givon our best blood, while in the groat contrea of commerca some of the men who stood highest in general honor have gone down, with multitudes of leasor Boto, and at lasy mon in quiot conutry places, tho fostuesses, in any country, of nn undisturbed tranquility, there has been ell this yoar n rest- losa rattlo of indignaut romonstrancos from tho tillers of the soil. We Liave had Lo witness also this year, in their fuli measure, tho fruits of private rnd porsonal sin. I am not sure that any year in our history has witnesged #o many crimes, or erimes of & desper dyo, from tho falure and shame of trust- ed mon, to cruol murders dono by thoso who were bound together by ties of blood, or for rovenge of real or fancied injuries, or for lust of plunder. Tum whoro wo will, in truth, we turn to a trouble, and mmight easily if wo wore all 80 minded count our- ®olvos a8 mon in o marsh who have lost their bearings, with darkness coming on and & storm. And if this wore tho wholo truth about theso aapocts and outlooks of our life, it scoms to mo that thoy might woll make it impossible to cole- brate a renl Thanksgiving, bocause our condition could only bo mot by that which used to bo ehad- owed forth in o fost-day. It is true that we have garnored again vast harvosts, by methods that mako tho burdons of labor lighter than thoy ‘have ever beon for the same amount of produco since tho world stood, so that in this mansion of our Fatlior's house thoro {4 bread snough and to spare, It ia also truo that, oxcept for the plague at & for pointain the Bouth, for which the wholo Land was stimed with & besutifal pity, thero has Dboon health {a all our borders, quite above the average. Neithor has any great disaster lika that which came Qvor our own fair city two yoars ago, and then tho year aftor over Boston, orushed the hnsa out of any great communily, or evon tried and failed, ag was tho caso hore and thers. That noble littlo eity of Portland on the Pacifs, sus- tainod & blow hich, for hor sizo, was au foarful my that grhioh tho world belisved had erippled this young giant of the lakes, But Portland Ingtantly showed us another asmoct of the splen- did life tho old Bastoru stock ia drawing ont of its new conditions on the other shore. She rose calmly a8 a young god out of the smoko and flamo, toolt 1o the whole scene of hor disaster, did not gubmit tolor fate for a dsy, but grapplo with it a4 her great sistors, Chieago and Boston, had done, eo that when wo warched her wo hear, thoold prophets crying ngain from afar: ** Though thou passest throngh tho fire, the flames shall 1ot gather upon thea.” ‘This haa been the tenor of the year in those thin%d {for which wo are exhosted by our Chief 'Mfii girate to hold Thonkegiving; health, wealth, peaco, plenty, and freedom from any overwlielning calamity which challenges the pity aud catls for the succor of the world. And X do not envy the man who can weigh theso things at their truo value ana not feel like keoping Thanksgiving with his wholo Liosrt, Liet ug maka what uso of thom we may, they aro the gifts of God's goodness. Wo can turn them to & noble use, or we can use them as the prodi~ ga! used his portion. All the esmo the sun shines and the rain falls, the plague is stayed aud the dogs of war chamned by a divino de- termination, whick we must trace, if we aro wise this day, fo the Land and heart of God. Poace und war bolong to him; leo has given us percs, plonly, and famine; Le has giv- en ua plonty ; {ifo and denth; ho has given us life. “And n8 wo can traco mattor back to o shoreless desolation of whirling atoms, and then forward to this day on which we meet ot the ond ol a yoar of blansing, and fail entiroly to sccount for a wheat-car, or an apple, or a ro4e ; when weo eay nature aud forget to say Gou, ag if we called tho body the man, witlout tho soul, 8o when wo make thess providences simply so many sequen- cos of an sternal order without sceing ‘and feel- Ing God in tho heart of that order, and sy poace bas come this year, and plenty,health,and life a8 the effect of causcu t00 ramato an yek for human ken, without feeling that God wai thore thon, 15 hero now, sud ling alwaya been everywhore watching his work with an {bfinite brooding care 18 on our finito side tho mother watches tho opening promiso of Ler child—wben we louve this loving thought of Gad out of the sum of our thankeglving we staud on « plane far lower -than that of tho poorest soldier in Lhe armics of Napoleon, who could novor bo made to bolieve that the flory which made them sll shout for Joy should not be tracod upward and upward antil it wag brought home floally to tho contra of their lovo snd pride. Onco sure that jnutice, truth and purlty are revolationa of tho lifo of God to-day, end that tho embadiment of thoss principles muet Lo the bigh dostiuy of a grost fron nation like our, and 1he inuermost renson of all why God huy dealt with us wo that our history Las come to boan world's wondor, wo have the clew to tho two things that remain for mo to touch, tho right snd wrong of the troublea which tomper our thonkngiving to-day, and the reasons for thauk- fulnoss which will remain forever, if we meot them lfko men. ‘Thoro is a anro ground of truth, juatico, and purity on which we can reat iu this impanding trouble with Spain, I am not, as you Lknow, Pesco man at ull hozavde. I think tho timo comen now and then when tlie Prince of Puace bimself brings not penco any longer, but n sword; whon lio staudy at the head of is Iron- nden and csios, “ Ho that both o sword, let hiw ol his cont and buy one” Such a timo wo have seen—wo may spo it again—Dbut touting this orlsis to whicki we have como by the }n-nmmleu of justice, truth, and purty, that ime 1a not yet, "It flrat teoling of indighation whioli sweps over our lund st tho news of the awift butchery was o just and noblo robuke to the butchern, Worgould not have done that deed—neither could our kinsmen of Anglo-Suxe on utook anywhero, undor aimilar provacation, It was only possiblo to o natlon which waa the laul Lo como out of tho hlack shadow of the Inquisition, and whioh alter- naton utill Lotweon u mass ond a bullfight. But as the mattor atands up to this daie wo cannot elrike the tivet blow withour forfeiting tho right to win tho fight. It must bo kepc olear nt all hozardd from this elamor of mon wao ‘want to rluugn the nation futo war on the ol Jedburgh principle of henging your wnn firs and trying him afterwnds, There are intorna- tional tribuuals now, und lawn to sty praceait- Sogs un tilnstions who wisk to do right oan pre- sont tholr claims and make tholr ploa. And haonost men must soa ihat o _test of tho spivit of our natlon lles to-day, not in war, bub in Justice, trath and phrity. Onona nide the temptatlon lies precisoly with the wicked King who watted Naboth's vinoyard, You remombor the story—the Iing wanted {t bocause it lny handy to his Louso and would mako o splondid gardon—to grow horbs in, ho nald—and ho would give tho worth of it in monoy. But the owner would not aell tho land at any prico beenusoe it was [ho inhoritanco of hls fathors, And thon tho ovil gonlus of the King egged him on to lo in the mamo of his Go ngainet tho ownor of the Innd, to orush tho life ont of him and take it by main force, and tho thing wne done. ~ It is oxactly tho thing the ovflgnuhm of our nation wants to do to-day, We bave failod so far to pob tho laud for our gardon of herbs (tobacco mainly), and this fa (ho ehanco to plungo two nations into war, to crush tho ownors of Cubn, a8 we shionld sooner or later, sud to briug down tho old retribution, **In his son's daya Lwill bring evil upon his honso.” Thero ia no Juatica or truth or purity in this hankering nfter Cuba. Tt would ba n doubtful qutestion if wo ought to talo It if Bpain offorod it as s froo glft, for wo havo alrendy wore_nioral marahes than we oan drain, Whon an Eastortt Klnghcnu fiud no othor way to burt a man, ho_gives him an_clophant. Bpain might woll tako hor rovango on us by giv= ing ua Cuba, DBut'thoro is one moro reason why wa ought to moot this quostion on the platforin I have lnid down. Mr, Bucklo nuid, many yours ago, that Lhero was glo\vlnF up In Bpain en cloment of on- lightoned ropublicanism such 28 is to be found nowhere olso in Europe, 'That cloment lina now grown great enough to hold tho reins of govern- mout, and wise onough to put them into the handa_of Castalar, ono of tho noblost mou bevond all quostion on the earth, TFor the salo of that infant republic and tho man at tho head of it this nation should chain up the reatloss and 1.'|roady cloments which wonld rush us into o conilict, and insiat on tho ntmost for~ Besranco consistent with our manlood, Amari- cn jg tho foster-motlor of the infant republie— I havo 1o business to say that tho incumbonts of all the thrones in Buropo would llke to moo it dio, bacaure I knot nothing about the way thoy fool—~thoy bavo not told me. Dubsll tho mon in tho world who hato and fear o ropublican - form of governmont, whorever thoy sre, would bo glad Lo sog that ehild of promiso siain to- morrow, snd nothing on ocarth or in hell would pleaso them o' much a8 to sce us do it, The true Amorican of to-day has somothing elso to do—he has to caro for it a it it wora tho fruit of our own body, while this Horod seoks to slay ib. This is our Punl on this Thauksglving, and if wo quit ourselyos like men, as I betiave wo shall, it will bo our joy and the joy of our childron pfter us, that wo stood {fast this day by tho oternal virtues of Justice, Truth, aud Purity. & ———— 8T. PAUL'S CEURCH, Semi-Dedicatory Excrciscs Yestorday Forcnoons=Severnl Short Addresscss Bervices wora held, yesterday, in tho Sunday- school room of tho naw and elegaut church of the 8t, Paul's Society, This church is situated on Michigan avenuo ncar Sixteenth streot, and is not yot comploted. Whon finished, it will Lo ono of tho finost structures in the city. Tho sorvices yeaterday were held in the basemont, a8 the uppor room {¢ not finished sud were of o somi-Thanksgiving and somi-dodicatory nature, although the formal dedication of the church will not take place for some time to comb. The oxercises bogan with prayer by the Rev. Mr, Ryder, pastor of thosociety. Thon tho eame gontloman made o short address, fitting for the occasion, snd spoke vory foelingly of tho causo 8t. Paul’s had for boing thankfal at this time, and much moro of spocial interost to those sd- dropsod. Aftor this the Rev, Nr. Start, of Mas- snchusetts, and the Rov. Dr, Forroster, of tho Church of the Rodoomor in thia city, mado o fow informal and happy remarks, suitablo to the oocasion, whick wero attentively listoned to by all prosont. Although this was the firat ser- vice held in tho churoh, yet, as there were no formal discoursos, tho substance only of them is given. UNIVERSITY _PLACE BAPTIAT CHUROH, Sermon by Dr. Josso B, Thomas—0b- servation of the English OCustom of Romombering the Foor. The Michigan Avenue Baptiat Church, by invi- tation, met with the University Place Church, and listoned to s very interosting discourse by Dr. Thomas. The sormon was interspersed with soveral anecdotes, and waa a discourso whioh, though more than once causing an sudiblo smile that might lave added’a doopor scowl to tho face of & Paritan had ho dropped in, yet will bo romemberad longer by far than many an offort bristling with points and impregnablo in Calvin- istic theology. The followiug abstract will hard~ Iy givo nn ndequate idoa of the genility and huwor of tho sormon itself: Tho toxt solectod was from the 28th chapter of Acts, 15th vorse: ** And from thouce, whon tho Drothron heard of us, thoy camo to meot us as far ay Apii-Forum and the thres tavorns ; whom when Paul saw ho thanked God aud took cour- age.” Tho last time ho was calledto proacha Thauks giving sormon was over the ashes of = dovas- tated city, and now it is over a financial difficul- ty, and he thought tho same text would bo ap- propriate. The best way to moasure’ two ob- Jjects is by using fthe samo yardstick, aud tho samo toxt will bo a similar way to compnare tho condition of affairs now and then. It would bo hardly right to say that the pmulo 18 a8 causo of rejoleing,” but 1t toets the thanksgiving of s pooplo. Any one oan give thanks when evorything {a pleasant and times are onsy. Now, in rogard to Paul's thaokegiv- ing, it was just aftor a long soa voyago, and any one who cau givo thanke aftor ho haa termi- nated such a voyago must bo of & good tempors- ment. Paul had not landed at a plossant place. The Campague of Rome 8 o wide, flat marab, siokly and noxious with malarions vapora, Nor werae thoso who camo to meot him such as to causo pertionlar joy. Thoy were poor mechan- ics, and brought no gold or plato. Bat this small eircumnstanco was suflicient to mako him ‘ourst forth in thanks, and it is n good thing to Do of such & disposition, David, whon bo was not dluposed to rejolce in iy hloss ‘ings, was ncoustomod to consider the lttlo things, and by addivg them to- gother made even tho potty blessings scom groat. Tho Puritaus, landing on the blenk ruek in poverty aud isolation, looked at thoir blese~ inga, If any ono should tako & piece of paper and poneil, and count his morcles, bo will alwaya find ocuse (o thank God. Most of ugatlast came to ocoupy a speca of ground six feet by two,~thera nve a fow excoptions, —~aud around us tho Infinite oxpause of the world, Tho dlsposi- tion of Tiff, ono of the characters in Mra, Btowe's novels, iy Pnrtiux\lnny to be dosired. Vrhen tho tira Tur had mudo wont out, ho folt thanktul taat tho wood wos lett, and that o Lind eujoyed the fivo for o littlo whilo ; and when tha baie “burst which had containod his corn, ho thanked God that it nd given way at that point, boonuuo 14 ad alweys beca the weakest, snd now Lo could mend it twico as strong us before, Whan the city was burned, it was consitiored it would take jlveyoars to robuild icat all liko it way, and now it is & mattor of rojoicing that &0 suon it lias been ko wagulticontly rubuiit, 'Tho workl han bosu eugaged tor agesin lostning thut Kiugs were uot made t subdue mon, nor to wipo them ont an flgiros on & iete whot it ewited them. At tho tino of tho former discourso ou this toxt, corporatious wern ving and ramifying i throughiout tho lud, ovorawing ull, and 1uliug fntend of porving the peoplo; nnd now they hava boen struck o heuvy blow, though wo havo suliored, (oo, with them,” In tho lste clection it wis obsorvablo that the parly ties ave not wo stroug, aud that partios do not couquer becnnso thoy have lived tong, and this la & niatter of ro- Joicing, Anothor el Js thet the pooplo of the reat city of thiolaud have glvou vont to their glaounlnnt ot the power of corruption, and, though & toar may Lo droppod for the wmay, yor tho powor of vico s, t0 & cortaln dogzee, Lrolgon, On thio other band, therois ovo thing wh.oh soows to bo growing, not exuotly vieht, It ay soom hord for the hachelors, bat that does not ultor tho fuot, and that i a tondouey to wuke the man or woman, instead of the fumlly, tho unle, In tho Puriten days th lnud wos divided into parts, and the bucholors, like clphers, wers loft out, Tho innovation, howsvor, iy m’owlnfi vary slowrly, und it i4 to bo hoped will nok oproud widoly, o trueted that the luritan utyle Fumla continne n lictlo longor—at lonut whilo o ived, Tinally, Panl thanked God and took courage. When soldiers_go iuto Lutile thoy go with shoat- ing nud joy, It gives life aud buoyauoy, ‘Lhere are some mon who seom Inolined to bo bralkes in tho world, and they woar out tho soonest. man who ean go through ifolvith moat buoynney, onn go the happleat, Lo world to day s botter, moro advancod,—tho march of tho nation is on- ward, and for this lob us thank God and take courngo. 'I'io norvioos wora concludad with singing tho natioual hymn ‘* My Country, ‘s of 'Thoo.” The old English oustom; on Thanks- giving Day wis observed In hLoving & tablo, which was placed noar the door, on whicl was got ivo lonvos, two flshes, a oruiso of oil, and gomo menl, emblomatio of theBavior's food- ingg the multitude, and also an a romindor of tha duty of giving to the poor. On tho tablo wasa nheot of papor, with the worda: ‘Knond tho wator nnr.ft 1o 1noal with the hand of kinduoss, and sweotan with tho ofl of wild honoy, Pro- nonted to the church for their kind considorn- tlon for God's poor and_ the Godloss _poor, from Mrs, Barab Gutler, La Porto, Ind., and a stranger at lhi' gaton.” ''he omblom is a fitting one. and doubly 8o just al present, whon such & large number of” poor are out of employment, it U. P. CONGREGATIONAL OHEURCH. Unusually ®lecnsant Scrvicos Yestors day Forenoon-=iiriof Addross by the Ieve Dre Llelmors I'ho sorvicon in tho Union Park Congrogation- al Church wore of an unusualiy plessant doscrip- tion. ‘I'hachoir randared soveral beautiful se- lections from tho oratorlos, Miss Lowls singing n golo in splendid style. Louis Falk playod ono or two morcoaus, the effect of hia playing boing grontly onhanced by the bell attachmont rocont- Iy ndded to the organ, and which was trlod for tho firet timo in public, at the Thaukegiving sor- vico, in tho popular ploco “The Monastory Dolls.” At tho conclusion of tho sorvice tho Rov. Dr. Ielmor made & brief address suitablo to the ocension. Ha said he would not take time to dis- ouss the partioular thome of Thankegiving, but would simply montion o few points in connec- tlon with it. There are soveral noteworihy fnats wo tlosely connected with tho occasion that thoy cannot bo ovorlooked. Ono of theseis the abundant harvest which Lias boon garnored this yoar, a result which all must fec], ia the work of the divino Ono who rules over all, The fact of this result of the fortilo eoil and goneral climate with which wo are blessed ia & basis of thanksgiving. Wo are a nation of farmors. ‘Cho proacher reforred to the farmors’ movement at present in progross and copsiderod it worthy of woll wishes of its only rosult wna sn elova- tion of the profession of agriculture, if it suc- ceoded in nlking the boys as willing to bocomo formers a8 bankers, o roforred to the panio, nnd said that since the last week of Boptamber pooplo soom to have becomefuncommonly poor, ond this in tho faco of nn sbundant harvest. DBusiness has boon checked, money romoved from tho markot, large businoss and manufac- turing firma have susponded operstions, and distross hos caat its shadow over the poople, and thoy have viowed it with foar and trembling, and yot there has been no famine, Tho widespread foor is folt much more by fome than others, The reason for thia fear ia s lack of faith, ono in another, without which business cannot be succossfully carried on, and without which a good feoling cannot be regsined, One thing worthy of note is the fact that while the people havo lost faith with oue anothor, they have re- tained thoir faith in United Statos notes. Had wo such & rulo a8 that of France, or of Spain, whero the ono uncortain thing is the Govern- mont, the result would have beon vory different. The pronoher roforred to tho cloud of war which, during the past fow days, havo boen trying to lift its dark form over the Bouthern horizon, ' In this many pooplo think thoy soo an antidote to the panie, but it is not a bonofit when one ovil routs another, Hodid not doprecate tho natural indignation of tho nation, but would hnvo boen ashamod of it had no such oxpression of feoling bacn made at the inhuman act which had cslled forth the universal cry for roparation. But ho thankod God that humanity bad pre- vailod, and hoped that the affair could be entis- fastorlly sottlad by arbitration, Ilo sbowed the reasons which should give additional woight to the argumonts of tho poncoful solution of the diflouity by arbitration, doaliog with forco upon the faot of the struggle youug Bpain is making to cerry out the repuilican Institutions so dearly chorished in this land, With rogard to Chicago, bo sald we now rojoice na city brightor, battor aud largor than that of & year ago, He touched with bocoming dolicacy upun the prosent civic political position,” Many will romombor tho recont elaction ‘am a erueado in which they wero worated, tho voico of the peoplo speaking” against (heir viows inan unmistakable manner. He knew thors wero mauy who considered tho result of tho clection as ushariog in an ern of retrogression ; Dut ho Loped for tho best from the now party. It ofton happons that people who assume tho responsibility of oflice turn out more respectable thnu they ovor were before. It ouly remaius o wive tham & fair show, and not loso faith ju o hanpy result. Ho concludod his very pleasant addraes by urging his hoarers to have faith in four things—in God, in mau, in truth, and in rightoousnoss. With a firm faith fixed iu those the light of God's countonance will shine on all homes bright as & sunbeam in & summer sky. — PARK AVENUE M. E. CHURCH., Wnion Services of Prosbyterian and Meothodist Churchess«Scrmon by the I2ev. Dr. Swozeys The Ashland Avonuo and Eighth Presbyterian Oburchies, and the Park Avenua and Westorn Avonue Mothodiet Churchos united in holiday servicos at tho Parlc Avenuo Ohurch, the Rov. Arthur Swazey, D, D,, pastor of tho Ashlaud Avounuo Olurch, officiating. Tho Rev, Mr, Reid, of the Elghth Presbytorian Church, read tho Seriptures, the Rev, Mr, Youker, of tho Western Avenuo Oburoh, offered the prayer, and the Rov. Dr. Daniels, of tho Vark Avenuo Church, read the morning lesson. The congregation was large, nud, during tho delivery of the sor- mon by the TNev. Arthur Bwazoy, gave profound attontion, Ho took for his text: * And tho poor have tho Gospol preschod unto thom," Matt, 12:5, and anid: When Joln the Baptist was in prison, ho scut two of bis disci- ples to Josus with the question, *'Art thou he that shonld come #" Jesus answerad, * (o show John theso things which you do bear and sce the blind recelvo thelr sight, the lamo walk, the lopors are cleansed, the douf henr, tho dead aro zaised, and tho poor have tho Gospel preachod uato them,” One of tho signs of a truo Gospel is, that ft isa proached to the poor. Prophecy antcipatod & QGospel for the poor. The Church was originally from the poar, The world is to bo recovered by maklng the out- Iay of loveand labor primarily upon the poor. ‘Chis in God's plan, Que reason for it is to koop the bLalanco of God'a meray, The poor are forced to toll, They lack tho refincmoents aud the reliof of luxury and oven eompotence. Thoy bave lons human love lavished wpon thom. Iu honlth, they keep soul aud body togetnior by daily earnings, In uicknoas, thore is no ironme, no broud, no physician. 16 s to show that thore nro offsots to i hard lot, That the good Word of God comes to them, full of benediction, full of hopo, ‘Clo rich bava Lruad und liverics, the poor hive hiungor and rags, Tho Gospol for this world unkes the balance, 'Tho poor are ox- posed to peculine temptations, Mivunihropy, dishonesty, thamclossuoes, wre nbyssos 1410 wiuel poverty crowda men. A ternble nathing iv s tarriblo ‘temptation, Out of povorty thu feeblo cumo up as mouslors, Oug of poverly tho strong como np wlmost sublimo, * Poverty,” suys Vietor 1lugo, * Is u vrucible iuto which destiny casts o man whonover she deswen a sconndret or a demicgod.” Tho Gospel mukes them domi-gods, Lhe preschor auid, wuon 1 ros a cloar, sonud, sweot mind in w poor man, I iy I would litto to kizs your feot nnd go briug ull tlie wotld to kao one of Gud's slect, “I'ho npoaker took the ground thu! tho Gusflm! I | cowld reach the yich only through the poor, | the Church comes to bo i piero socular soclety, and loses ull the droma of godiilicsy when 1t iu not omphasizad that the Goupel Lulongs to the oo, 4 I'ho grand yeanon whythe Gospallu tha Gospol to tho pucr i thut it i3 "tha true remoly for tho wretolieduees of tho world, Baup-houses aud Lonpitals only mitigato, snd do nat cwio, Pwo wonion bocormo hiunolesn walls Juu are gendiog ana to the Houso of Aforoy, , Industry, tempot- o, putiene, solf-renpcof, fidolity, tho fear of God, thoro break up the gencatogy 0f wrotohsd- noss, Bluaw u taun how nieh ho i8 worth {u (ha uight of Loaven, that thore 18 hopo for him, devinn kelp for Lim, and you have givon hing o loverage, Lha caues of povorty amung tho godiy uso nporadie, 'U'ho reverend sposkor heto ebowed that {n convertlug tho poor you till up the uothior apyss.s0 thas thors iu lows A ! bottom of soctety, | dopth for auy mau to fall, though ho fall to tho 1o alag ehowad that londing minds como up ont of tho dopths, nud that, par~ Heularly for our nation, tho future los in tho Troads and hoarts of tho childron of the poor. Ho olosod by urging that the floods of graco should wator tho roots of socioty, and not iho top brauches only ; that noclety ba lifted, not by the rafters and dome, bub by tho foundation; that the flre be Lkindlod under the cauldron, and uot undor the conducting. plpon that wind around the walls and run through tho elips of the great tomplo of human lifo, It fo botter, said Lo, to plant a vino than to bostow a bunch of grapes, Civon uul-; of cold sator only overy day nud you shall not lose your roward. But dig o woll and tho caravaua of coming gonorations shiall blees you forover. ) AT THE SYNAGOGUE. Eloquont Address to the Assemblod Congregation by the Reve Dr. Machals Thankeglving norvicon wore held yostordsy morning at 11 o'clock at the Synagogue, corner of Peck court and Wabash avenue. Tho Rov, Dr. M. Machal delivered the sermon, Io began by esylng that st tho timo (hoir fora- fathors lived i thoir own land, aud agriculture was their =spocisl accupation, tho lnw made it & duty of overy Israelite, whon o bad gathered the produce of tho soil, to take tho first of overything and Iny it on tho altar of lie Lord, with tho confessiont O Lord God, 1 confoss that all I posacas cama from Thino bo- nign hand, A wandoring Syrian was my fathor, who went down to Bgypt and mojourncd thore with a fawily fow in numbor, but bacame theroa natlon, great, mighty, aud numorous. And tho Egyptiaus treated us ill, and afllictod us, and leid upon us hard labor. And wo cried unto tho Etornal, tho God of our fathors, and the Lord heard our voices, and looked on our aflliction and no trouble aud our oppression, and with & mighty hand e brought us forth out of Egypt, brought us into thia placo, snd gave unto us this land, s land flowing with milk and honey." Involuntarily this confossion of old Inrael came to his mind on this occasion, pointing at the merey of tho Lord, at this day which has been sot apart to givo thanka to God for all the bone- fita bestowad during the past year. Hove thoy saw 1o bounds of oxclusion, no partition walls that had boon erectod to separato ono man from another on account of religion, but the eall for tho observanca of this day had boon directed to all, And whon they thankfully lifted up tholr voicos to Him for tho thousands of benofits bestowed upon thom, their firast thought on such occssions must always bo the power and morcy of God they had oxporienced in everything, from the origin_of tholr history until® this day. or a long time they had beon but wandering strangers, opprossod and afilicted, but through the moroy of Goa they were now enjoying froc- dom and indopendetce. For centurles, hated and persecuted, through trizls and tribulation, they now finally liad arrived in aland of freedom, flowing mith millc aud houoy, This day ha nothing to do_ with scctarianism, and placos thom whoro thoy do not appoar as Israclitos, that ia 8y n party, which looks only for its own intoreats, trying to follow its porsonal aims and choosing a peouliar way loading to its own hap- Elueu hiere below, and to ite own heaven eyond the grave; but rather as Amvricans £a froo cltizons of a freo eountry, and as active mombors of this grent community, By opening tho history of bygouo ages, orof the present timo, thoy could clearly measuro tho civilized coudltion of different nations from tho relation in which thoey stood to tho Israclitos. Arbitrary violenco always sppears in tho porsccution of their unbiappy bretbren, fanaticlam slways looked for nourishment in their religious soil. Ourso and poverty stigmatized the country from which the Jews wore n, for everywhere the orsaoution for religious idens goos always band n Liand with an opprossion of right sud justico, and love and kindnoss toward their broth- ren is always connected with liborality and humanity, Thereforo not they alone, but the whole civilized world had causa to litt up their thankfal hoaits to the Lord that the time has Kuuod when roligion formed a forch in tha auds of fanatica to destroy the brilliant diadem for which thoy had lost their national independ- enee, and which shone beforo thom in gloomy nights, 'The timo had pnesod when they looked with indiffetenca at the wos or woal of thocoun- try wheroin thoy had found s safe refuge. 'Wo- day thoy counted among tho most onterprisin and public-spirited citizens, who wers at al timos to lay tho little they hava on the altar of thoeir adopted country and’ mourn in its misfor- lstune and rejoire in its happinoss. —_——— NINTH PRESBYTERIAN OHURCH. Thanksgiving . Services Yesterday KorenoouesSermon by the Reve . MIcHiaig. - The Nioth Preabytorian Ohureh, on Ellis ava- nuoe, was the scone of a large meeting, assom- Dled to listen to the Rev, D, McKaig. His toxt was found in 1 Thessaloniups, 3-9, and road as follows: *‘ For what thanks can wo ronder to God sgain for you, for all the joy wherowith wa joy for your askes boforo God." The roverond gontloman wont on to show by Seriptural exam- plea that gratitude to God was not beat exhib- ited by ouy suddon emotion of gratitude, but by & wise improvemont of tho powors and bleas- ings which Ho bostowed upon us, It wasonly in wiso and ueoful activity that the soul found po rmanent enjoymont. Thomoat vigorous growth and abiding strength of tho goul was roalized by ever ronching ofter somothing now,—by a con- stant secking after truth and righteousness, The mind ehould secl after montal woalth, and any neglect or abugo of intolleotual powsr was crim- inel ingratitudo to God. The mind should not be confusoed by dosultory and fragmontary read- ing of all kinds, but shiould ba trained to stondy lubits of though, sud stored with well-digested kuowledge, Unbappily, meutal culture waoy noglected by those who preferrod to spond their leisure hours on cardn, Dbilliards, whisky, and othor forms of dissipation. This wes o lamentable waste of soul fores. Tho intele loctual powers of man wore tho gift of God, and 00 one could claim to Lo even tolorably religioun who earolessly or willfully sllowed them to fall mio decay, Tho bost expression of gratitude that conld bo givon was tho praper use and oxer- ciso of the intellectual powers in sequiring knowledgo. As moral bolnga, men should keep their innate sonso of right and wyong clesr and well deilued, and not sllow it to be clouded or confused. Men allowed worldly cares to disturb snd dorken their moral’ porceptions. In thelr haste to get rich, men frequently forgot what was right. 'Thoy found it ensy to * Litch on their oconeclences to a thriviog speculation, and Loe] it running in tho oily_groove of w‘lf-lntorcn, From, and plessure,” * ¥en have baon knowu 0 got on such n Load of steam as to drivo straight through the thunder-cloud of {he Daca- Ioguo, clour across tho 0id Tentament Dispeusa- tion and ths Now srlump up to tho very gatos of hell, in thoir mad chase for place, power, and monoy.” Many of the standards of businoss, political, and oclul couduct slant from the per- pendicular, Mon nold old Bourbon aud Lraudy und nover once thonght they woro vonding nn nr- ticio that, moro than any other, helpod to feod tho ulnicownys of erime, poverty, sud death, Othern went luto the lottory businoss, amd acted na ir stratogy and dextorily woro the fincut busiuen, qualitics, Others got up “coruers” to boggar and rain hundreds, Thesa smon could reanou coviectly on the abstract priuciples of trulh, right, and duty, sud yat thoy perverled, minap- phied, or wholly neglceted thent under tho pres- sve of deeply-tuoted oustom, or wore hurrled along on th rushing torreut of eolf-lutorest, Blon should remawaber that “no man liveth for himuolf,” but that sll are mutually depond- ont, Man wos in tho world to do geod as woll 28 to reesive good, Hocviety wns o school of mental holp, an oxchiangs of uwoful sud rocip- roeat houoilis, Men sbould be osreful in thoir own noty, for tho rako of athora a3 woll as for thomselves, Men should live upright and puro liveu, for, by o doing, they give coustant piaise to Qod, In ghor', true thunklilness coumists In muling all nalure @ trausubstantlation of God' voul” prowonco, and all our keoular and so- cizl duties, all our joys aud sorrows, s sort of communion-table, S TRINITY EPISCOPAL OHUROH, Short Addresy to the Congregntion by thiu kBuve Ldwasrd Sulliva, The congrogation of vimty Lipiscapal Church mot yosterday worning; ub their tomportry pluca of worship, In Murtine's Hal), corner of Indinun avonuo und Twonty-gcoond wiroot, Owing to tho lack of & suitablo place for servicos of a wmore ceremoulous charaoter, only the usual 5 morning sorvicos took place, followed hy n short addres by tho Reotor, the Rov. Hdward Bullivan, D, D, Mr. Sullivan spoko of the many blossings for which wo lad ronson to ho grateful for tho past year throughont tho country, and partienlarly in Chicago, 1w die- courso wan short, timely, and well delivored, and the congrogation wera dismissed to their respoec- tivo fironidos and dinner tablew, with w bolter up- proelation of tholr Makor's bounty and & kinder fooling toward nll thair follow-mait. “Chis congregation hopo to got inlo thelr now chapel o wonle from next Sunday, whore varvicas will thereattor bo hold until the complotion of the chinreh edifico itnolf, g ELSIEWHIZRIE. AT TUE NATIONAL OAPITOL, Svecial Disvutch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasnarox, D, 0., Nov. 27.—Thankagiving Day was vory gonorally obsorved here, pubhic and privato business weo suspouded, and the churchies wero all opon. Dr. Tlffauy, who preachos iu tho Motropolitan Ohureh, which s tho Prosidont's place of woralip, is sald to have beon oxeeodingly bappy in & comparison of tho charucters of thoso throo grent mon — Washington, Lincoln aud Grant, whioh Lo~ took * occaslon to make in tho cottrso of his sormon, 'The comparison ro- {lectod particularly upon Prosidont Grant, while tho morits of tho other two gontlomen wore no- ticad in o mannar truly geatifylng to all vonera- ting patriots. Dr. Tiffany 18 ono of tho candi- datos for Ohaplaln of the Sonato. NEW YORK. New Yorg, Nov, 27.—Thanksgiving was ob- gerved horo to-day by a genorsl suspeusion of Dbusiness. 'The customary religlous exerciues, and tho usual liborality toward the le==tes of charitablo inatitutions, tho newsboys and boot- Dblacks, Dispatches from all poluts stato that o day lias boon ponerally obeervod. JVANIA, Speeial Dispatch to The Ulieago Tridune, Prrrspung, Pa., Nov. 27.—Thanksgiving Day was gonerally and appropriataly obsorved horo. busluoss was entirely suspendad, and services wore held in noarly all tho churchos, whora col- loctions for the suffering poor of tho citios of Alloghony and Pictsburgh woro taken up. In the morning, the Duqueane Groys paraded ; and this afternoon tho Firo Department was roviow- ed by the Fire Commission and City Council. The qum‘mem in the Jail and tho inmates of the g&r: table Institutions wore treated to a good or. ILLINOIS. Spectat Disvatoh to The Chicago Tribune, Avroy, Ilt,, Nov. 27.—Lhanksgiving Day has boeu vory genorally obsorved here. Lho Rov. D. West preached ‘the Thauksgiving sermon at tho Baptist Churoh, the differeut congrogations attonding, thoro belug no services at tho othier churehios in the city. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tvibune. LaBavre, Iil., Nov, 27.—The State nnd Na- tional day of Thanksgiving was observed in this oity aftor the usual mannor, The bank, the dry goods stores, jewolry stores, and many othor placos of business Lave beon kept closod throughont tho day; and rnl.\cflonu servicos wero Liold at tho now Mothodist Episcopal OChurch. Appearancos for the last two or threo days have indicated vory f:unuml proparation for fesating, whatevor may linve boon the popular disposition rogarding thankfulness for State and National blessings. ‘WIBCONSIN. Speetal Dispatch lo The Chicago Tribune, Foxn pu Lac, Wis., Nov, 27.—Thanksgiving wag finnomly obgorved in this oity to-dsy. The sloighing I oxcollent. Speeial Dispatch tn The Chicago Tribune, Mapisox, VWis, Nov. 27,—I'lankegiviog Day was universally obsorved by tho suspension of businoss, attendanco at tho churches, and social fostivitica. At alarge union servico, participat- ed in by soveral congrogotions, the Tiev, L. Y. Hays, tho Presbyterinn pastor, slluded to tho wrar-talk, and sovercly protosted against a rosort to arms_to sottle the controversy with Bpain. ‘T'ho soldiors’ orplians at their Home bad a sump- tuous dinner, including thirty turkeys, and they will have a hop this n\'ongug. OWA, Spectal Dispateh to T'he Chicago Tribune, DavexronT, In, Nov.27.—Thauksgiving Day was observed In thia city by s general suspen- sion of business, all county and city ofiicos, Lanks and places of business boing closed. Tha courts sdjourned over till Friday, and the schools susponded, Spectat Dispateh to The Chicage Tribune. MoGnegon, In, Nov. 27.—Thavksgiving was obsorved in our nhy by & goneral susponsion of business, Contributions wore takon by different churches for the roliof of tho sufferera in Osceols and Lyons Countica, MISSOURI, Br, Louis, Nov. 27.—Ta-day Lhas been gener- erally obaarvad 5 o holiday, aud in mauner mora rosembling New England atylo than on any pre- vious Thankegiving Doy. Iuaslngas was_almont ontirely suspended, and gorvices in the Protost~ snt Churches were vory Igaxmml. EENTUCKY, LovisviLre, Nov. 27.—Thanksgiving Day was nover boforo #o generally obsorved in this city. All tho stores woro closed, and business coased entirely. Religlous meotings of various congro~ gationa wero hold thronghout tho city, and appro- priato sermons wore preached, OALIFORNIA, Ban Franoisco, Noy. 27.—Lhanksgiving Day was generally obuerved. FIRES. Xa Ohicago. The slarm of firo from Box 276, at 0 o'clock 1ast night, was occasloned by the discovery of firo in a two-story framo buildng, No. 263 West ‘Washington street. Tha fire oviginated from an overnoatod stove in tho millinery store of Mrs, Kirk, located on the first floor of the building, The hionsa was owned sud occupied in Fm by W. J. Highley, whoso loss was 2500; insuved for 700 i the Pacific, The millinery stock waa damnged 1o the extent of 2200; Insured for 1,600 in tho St. Paul Company, ‘The alarm of fire from Box 809, at 11 o'clock laet night, was caused by a small fire in a build- ing' ocoupied by A. Walsh, No., 604 Mitcholl otroot. Lous, £25, In Salem, 0,5 Kous, 830,000, Speeiul Dinputeh to The Chicago T'ribune, Saumy, 0., Nov. 27.—A firo hore at 9 o'clock this morning dostroyod tho throe-story brick block of Lesso, Vornon & Young. Tho loss on the building and contents iu aboat £80,000; ine surance, 920,000, in various companios, Iound«rlouse ot the Contral Pacific fnilrond Destroyed—Nine Locomos tives and Nine Cnrs Burned. 8ay Fraxcisco, Nov. 97.—A dispatch from Roukliv, Placer County, Oal., states that tlug morning tho round-house of the Contral Pacifie Railroad Company at that place was buned with nine lucomotives and about the sameuum- ber of cara, Tho town narrowly oscaped de- struotion also. n Battimoro; KLoaa, 840,000 Barrvone, dd., Nov, 37.—The rash faotory aud pluning mill of Wilsou & Bon burned this moruing, Tho loas s $10,0005 insuranes, 20,000, ————— A REMARKABLE RAID, A youug countryman named Jamos Wolf, Jr., from Ottumsra, Iowu, arrived i the city yoator- day, and, having notod tho fact that the day waa boiug obuorved u tha ity ad o Loliduy, declded to dofor attontion to business und dip iuto the plensuros of Chicago, His firet indulgence was to gat gloriously tight, und, by repeating tho doses that had placed i in this coudltion, he remaived oblivious to passiug events during thoe groster portion of the diy. During the afternoon ko wandored " into a Louso of prostitution on Clivton streot, kopt by Lizzie Moore, whera ho remnined wnti} duske, whou Ly’ had hecoms quite sobor. An oxamination of his monoy left him in the durk,us to the whoreabouts of B160, sud, under the bollof that it had been slolon from lim by o pirl numed Ginee Davis, while iu the houso relorred to, he reported tho malter to Bergt. who ordared the house raided at 12 st night, Lho raid rosulted in the eap- ture of twenty-one intuntes, hmh\diu;f tue mis- trees and a numbol of well-known citlzens, 'he prisonors wore oll suxiously awsiting -at tho ulon Btroot Hiativn for the voming of Justice f!oully to Lail them outat1 o'clock this morne ng. -— FIATINMONIAL, Spectal Diaputsh to Lhe Mavsos, Wia, Nov. 27,—8, M, Fas 3 of the uditory of tho Madison Jemoerat, wey wmarcded to 3iss Flovenco Taylor, duughier of he Govornor-glpot, ab hiy yosldenes, 1 wiles onat of tids oity, Tha wedding was qaict_ famlly aftalr, The luppy couple l:ft for Chivagu, thono tor Wunhington ou u Lridal duny, FERSONAL Invranavorss, Ind,, Hov, 84,~18, I, Bulgrove, the weil known journshi-t, foverly oditor of the Daily Jowrnal, Wan teyiously iujured to-dey by s f£all syom tho Btate-1louse wiopa, CAPT. ERY, OF THE VIRG:N US. His Barbarity at the Oapturo of Fort 8t Oharles, ow Hio Fired on Browaing Unlon Soldiers and Saitois, How Col. G. N. Fitch, of indiana, Re- garded the Matter. Fry’s Bullets, Fired in Violation of the Usages of War, Find Thelr Mark at Santingo do Cuba. Retribution After Eleven Years. The following account of the capture of Fort Bt. Charlos, in which Capt. Iry, the Iate com- mandor of the Virginius, took & prominont part and acquirod an uncnvisblo notoriety, was writ~ ton by Mr. W. L. Tawcolto, thon war-corro- spondent of tho Missouri Demacrat, snd now finaucial editor of Wux Cutcaco 'Inioune, In Putnsm's “ Rebellion-Record,”—a work which was intonded to ombraco the most sucoinot and comprohionsive account of each action dur- ing the war,—this is tho only unofiicial account of tho capture of Fort 8t. Charles: Mearenia, June 10, 1802, Tho gunboat Conestoga aud trausport Jacob Mussuiman havo just sirivod from Whito:Iiiver, and bring tho uows of the capture of Fort Bt. Charlos on that rivor by tho gunboats of tha oxpedition winch loft liero on Friday last. Tho floot conoiated of the gunboats Mound City (fiag- slip), Bt Louis, Conestoga, and, Loxington, and tho transports Now National, White Cloud, snd Jacob Mussulman, having on _board tho Horty- sixth Tndiana Roglmout, ia command of Gol, & N. Fiteh, Ou Snturday l1ast the flect reachied themouth of ‘Whito River, and on Monday, the 16th, bogan to ascond tho atream. On Tuesday morning sbout 7 o'clock, boing within two miles of tho supposcd locality of tho fort, and the Mound City boing in advauce, Capt. Kilty bogan shelling tho woods on oach &ido of thio river aa thoy moved up, in order to cover the Iandiug of Col. Fitol's troops from tho transports, Tho landing was effected a littlo over a mile bolow tho fort, on tho southe wosb bank of the xiver, The fort, situatod on » ridge about 76 fect in holght, which runa noatly ‘pusalel with, and about 200 foot baclk from, the southwest bank of the river, was not completed, having only broast- works for two of tho batteries, but no worka fer tho dofense of tho rear. The upper battory of two 42-pounders was on the front of the ridge whero it putsin oloso to tho river; theso two guus bad boon tho armament of the gun- boat Pouchartrain, which tho rebols iad sunk so o8 to obstruct tho channel of the river imme- diatoly abresst of tho battery. Two transports had nlso been susk closa to_her, one of which had on her pilot Lhouso “Eliza G.” 'Tho battery on tho point of ths ridge was manned Uy the former crow of the TPouchartrain, Tho lower battery, composed of five 12-pound fleld-pieces, was about 900 foot furthor down stroaw, where the ridge was fur- thor from tho stream ; and tho wholo place was in commaud of Capt. Fry, the formor come mandor of tho Poucbartrain, and who was onco a Lioutenant in the Unitod States Navy. At nbout half-past 8, whon tho Mourid City sp- Fronullud within loss than a milo, tho firat, or ower, battory oponed fire upon hor." This wag the firat indication of tho exact location of the bat- tories, as they hnd beon concesled by tho heavy timbor in the intervoning bottom land, which was only cloared along the river's edgo and at. oup or two other places, 8o as to give the guns of the battories s cloar range. ‘The Mound City immediately moved up and dolivered soveral broadsides, and, leaving tho Bt. Louis and Can«nmgn ongagod, passod on up to ongngo the upper bnttory, whioh had now opened fire. The fight bad lastod sbout thirt; minutes after the firing beoamo genoral on bot] slden, and tho lower battery of field-pieces woro nearly siloncod, when a 42-pound shot from the upper batto struok the Mouund City on the port side, near the sccond gun from the bow, passiog through tho casemate, killing filve or six mon and knocking & large holo in the steam drum. Instautly the hot ateam burst out in donse vol- umes, filling tho ongins-reom, gun-room, and pilot-house, snd scalding 125 porsons. W ‘Tho dluieks of the poor fellows contined botween docks in the acalding vapor woro said to be hoartronding beyoud description, Many wora iontently sufocated, but all who wero able groped thoir way to the ports and jumpoed into tho rivor, aud a inituto after tho explosion fity or sixty of thom wero strugeling in the water. ‘I'he Conostoga immediatoly camo up and sont out two boats to pick them up. One of the Mound Oity’s boats was also launched by Mas- ter's Mato Simmos Brown, one of the fow ofti~ cers who was not seriously hurt, During this timo both gunboats and the small boats wero drifting down the rivor, As tho Mound City drifted nonr the sliore, noor the lower battory, & sortie was mnde from tha battery, which some supposed to bo an attempt ou the part of the on- emy to board the Mound City, but whioh after- wards proved to bo for the purpose of firing on the scalded mon in tho river, which the prisonors say thoy did at the command of Capt. Ty ltio flold-piecos of thie lower battery wors also tuned upon tho boats that were pioking up the wound- ad, aud n twolve-pound shict knocked nway the bowa of one of the Cousstoga's boats. Khny waro hit bitha Aring, aud sunk beforo the boats could reaoh thew, aud only 27 out of the Mouwd Oity’s crew of 180 ausworad to thoir names at the ealling of the roll, and were all that eacapod unburt, Anothior singular acoldent now ocourred; Tho Mound City's starkoard broadside guuns had beon loaded just boforo the shot struck the steam- arum, and hind not been flred since; but, nearly lalf-an-bour afterward, one of the wounded gui- nora had become entavgled in the lanyard which is attachiod to the lock of tho gun, aad, in big writhing witls tho pain, fired the gun, Tho ball took effect on the Now National, which had laud- od her troops end come up to tho rescuo of the Monnd City, The ball struck her behind the wheel, aud, ranging forward, out off the stonm- pipe, 'immedintely digabling Lor, end slightly um\hi[nf tho Hocond Enginoer, Col, Fitel, who kad now gainod the summit of the yidgo a short distance below the lower bat- tory, fearing that one of tho othor gunboata might meot with su accident similar to tha Mound Olty's, signaled the gunboats to ceano firing, aud that he would storm tlo bat- torles, The gunboats nccordingly censed firing, and, nfter making considerablo of a dotour, the Forty-siztl attacked the batterios in the rear, delivering their firo aa thoy came up, cbniging over tho guns and k“"nr\ the gunners at their posts. Tho Robels Tought stubbornly, askiug no uartor, ‘and rocelving none from tho mon of the Fon{-uixth, who woro anraged at tho das~ tardly flring upon tho holples wen in tho river, Only two of those who wore in the battery were talou prisonors; tho rost were killed, The In~ dizna troops thon oamo over tho brow of tho rldge, anddown into the woodod bottom-land next the river, fu pursuit of those who had boen firing on tho Mouud City’s crew; the Rebels re- treating rapidly up tho bank of tho river,—the Forty-sixth tiving on them as they iled, killing tho greator portion of them. In tho flight, Capt. Fry, their commandor, was wounded by o ball in tho baos, was onpl.ured, aud {3 now a prisoner on board tho Conestogs. Tho Robol loss in Lilled fu not kuown, but must bave Included tho greator portiou of thoir forco, a8 Wo huve only thiely prisonors, and only a fow Rro kuown to huve escapod, Opinfona differ also as to tho numbcer ot the Robols,—eome setting it as high &8 600, and snylug that Col. Fitoh' cstimato of 160 reforred only to tho guuboat crow who mnnned tho upper battory, Col. Fiteh, in his repoit, esys that tho casual- tlos in lis rogiment aro unfmportaut, being ouly tive or six slightly woundod, But for the ons uhot whiel: burst the Mound City's steam-drum, thera would not bayebeen A mun burt on tho {loet, 88 not a eingle shot that struck the gun- boals Gld sny damago whatevor, excopt that, No ono wan hurt ou either of {ua gunbosts, and nono_of the trousports wera ntruok exoopt the New Nutlonal Ly the accldemal sbot from tho Sloumd (.‘lt{. Col. Fitoh waa 8o oxaaperatod at tho murdere ouw firo thut had boen panred upon tho roalded meu who woio slrugyhng in tho watae thut, whon o e ouboard zso Coudslosa, whore Col, Fry wan a privoaer, ho raproachod bim bits torly for Lis whuman conduct In givitg the arder, and asked him to compara his owir onne duet with our coureo tower.d theln ouly ton dnys hofora st Momphis, whou o tho nmall bosts Felaaging to tho nesvest of our Louts Wery sead out to holp vave tie drowning ocar of their Funboad Gen, Lovelt, o told biia (hut being & prisoner was now his protcotion s but, i jise ticu weio dono hug, he would Lo lmnfimg tothe uearuet tree Lefure nigbt, Fry at trat denied that ho bad givon the ordor; but, on heing cons fronted with some of his uwn mon, who porsiated hhmwiu(z that ho Lind givon the ordor, Lo becamo silont, I wm indebted for many particulars of tho nttln to Bimmes 18, Brown, Haster's Mato of tho Mound Clty, who eamo up on the Conostogn with « the body of his brothor. Afr. Brown wid ono of tho fow who were mnot (oo budly ealdod to Jannch one of the Mound City'u lnats, tosave thoso who were drowning, Uo soon had the boat full of disabled men, wio paiddied and_driftod bor as woll as thoy could toward tho Conestogn,—thoe balls spattering m the wator all sbout them as thoy went, nnd occasionally oitiling woma poor follow, who would afule to riso no moro. A largo sholl borab withln twonty fect of thom, but fortunntely did not huirt tho boat or any ono in It. Oue of tho snllors of the Mound Oity, wiosa namo {s Jones, s mentioned na having sbown oxtraordinary * ondurance. o was pavtially senlded by the steam on tho Mound City, aud loaped out of ono of the poris into the river. Whilo he was swimming around, endeavoriug to ot Lo komo of the boats, ho revotved threo gun- shot-wounds,—one in the log, ouo in_the shoulder, and ono In the back ; but Lo still kept afloat, and, boing unablo to got noar suy of tho boats, and having_drifted bolow tho gunboats 8t. Louis ond Conesiogs, ho awam to tho Loxington, nunrl{ halt n mile, was taken on board, nud Is gotiing well, Almoat all who waro badly realded have sincs died, ‘Lhirty-five of them died on the way up, on the Concstogn nnd Muesulman, nnd - sroro buried near Island 67. Eight mora wors dead when tho boats arrived at Memphis ; aud the en- tite numbor of the Mound City's dead is not far from 125, I givo you beloyr a list of tho officors of tho Mound Clty, and nofe against osch namo whether unhurt, wounded, or dead. I was una- Lle to got a list of the crow : Capt, A, II, Kilty, badly sealded, but will rocover, Firat Master Cyrus Doininy, unlinrt, Hocond Muster Willism Har!, drowned, Third Mastor John Kinsoy, sealded to death, Tourth Master James Scoville, scalded to death, Master’s Mato Houry It, Brown, sealded to death, Master’s Mato Bimmea I, Brown, slightly sealded, Paymaster Jolin M, Guay, wealded o douth, Surgeon George Jouos, badly scaldod, but will ros covor, Olfof Engineer John Oox, sealded to doath, Bacond Evgincer (was not on board). Third Engiucer —— MeAflce, scalded to death, Pourth Eugineor Goorgo Holliuguworth, scalded t¢ death, Pilot Olinrlen Young, sealdod o death, Pifot Joseph Nixou, of Moemphis, scalded to death, Carpenter — Manuing, ulightly acalded, Gunnor Thoman Mokiray, sighily hurt, Armorer Lowls Stovousoen, uulurt, James Kennedy, ono of the regulsr pilots of tho Mound City, was not on board, hinving lefl to bring tho captured steamor Clara Dolson up. to Momphis, _'ho damago to the hound Clty it ‘but slight, and cou be ropaired in haif a doy, A now crow will bo sont down immediatoly to man hor, and sho will continuo with the expedition, which will proceod farthor up White River, THE HOOSAC TUNNEL. A Tole Mado Through the Base of the Hoosac Mountain, The Event Celebrated by the People of North Adams and Invited Guests. Speeial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribuns, NorTit Avaxs, Mass,, Nov. 27.—Thoro is a hole through the baso of tho Hoosas Mountain from tho oast to tho wost ond. At thirtoon min- utes past 3 to-day, the fiual connection of tho Leadings of tho Hoosso Tunnol was made. At about half-past 1 o'clock, Big Sam, who has cliarge of tho work of londing the drill-holea with nitro-glycorine, sot about this task, There wero twolve holea from the contral shaft, oaol twolve foot doop, and theso woro londod each with ) EIGNT FEET OF NITRO-GLYOERINE, There wero ns many moro holgs on tho other sido, but they wero not &0 heavily chargad. This charging occupled about half an hour, and at 2 o'clock the wires had boen connectod an: Dig ‘Sam had retired from tho hoading, but it wag about 8 o'clock whon tho eignsl \as sont forward to fire tho blast. A PICTUBESQUE BOENE, a8 tho spoctators stood awalting tho great ex- plosion, Thero was n party of students from Willisms Colege, perhaps ten journalists, o acore of visitors who wera only curious, and tho reat wore miners, ‘Thero wag great tying on of hats, which might be blown away, and much stuling of oara with cotton to doaden tho sound. Matchos wero got in rondiness to rolight the lampa that wero to be oxtinguished. \Jl).mn tho Dblast was mado all rushed forward with & yoll and chiecr, and the intervening dis- tance of 1,200 fcet was quickly mado. 1ho miners, who Lad dotormined that 3r. Shanloy should bo THE FIRST AN THROUGH, wore guarding it closoly. A lino was formed on citlier sldo, and Mr.Bhanley and the 1lon, Robert Johnkon, Chairman of the Tunncl Committeo for the' presont yenr, marchod botweon tho two linos of cheoring miuors and visitors. Au tho breach Ar, Shanley foll back and pushed Mr. Johnson through ahoad of him. Horo fol- lowed the invited visitors, aud aftorwards the miners, Tt waa decidedly THE OPENING MADE was about flve feot square. T'ho breach was di- rectly in tho contre, At presont tho lines havo not been run, but tho veriations, it any, from the two straight lines aro uxtromely slight, Tho only colebration in which the poople of Adams indulged was tho sending of a baud to tho weat shatt, WIIAT THE WORK 1148 00ST, In the construction of this great work forty=~ threo livos biava boon loat, as_fallowa: DBy pro- mature explosions, 27, viz.: by nitro-glycerine, 103 by common powder, 8; by gisut powdar, 4; by aualine, 7; by oxplosions of tho nitgo-glycor- ino magnzines, 4, viz.: 8at tho west oud and 1 ab tho contral shaft; by Ifll‘lu{: down tha contral sbaft, 93 killed by rock falling from the roof and othor accidonts, 8; drowned in tho Drick arch et the wost ond, Oct. 1, 1869, 1. Itis estimated that the rook inkon from the tunnol and the contral shat: would mako a por- feotly solid cube with a sido of 285 fset, thus covering an acro and one-quarter of land, with s pile 236 feat high, ———— CANADA. Re-Election of the Now Oabiner Mombers, COonnwary, Nov. 27.—D. A, Macdonald, Post- :xlul!ar-uauum, has been re-electod by acolama- lon. i ART I} GALESBURG. Speetal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. Garrspuno,, 111, Nov, 27.—Lho attendanco at the Fine-Art Exposition, a4 auticipated, hiss beon groater to-day than at any timo Loforo. Somo tLousand peoplo have been in attendanco, and among thom many from abroad. This ingures tho ~success of tho undortaking, aa for a8 flnauces sro coucerned, Tlat tho affair {8 a succoss in _other reppocts none can doubt who hnve attendod tho Exposition duciog tuo loat two days, Tho diss play in tho various depariments 1s oxcollont, aud ull, with & fow oxcoptions, aro worthy of Lolng mentioned. Tho Lxpovilion remains opon for the rost of thia wook, and will bo deolared o suo- Efnut}'y all who liavo oon prosont during any of 0 time, — SEIZED. Ch DISTILLERY Speotal Dispatol to 7 DavENprokT, la., Nov, ¥ I1. Nissloy, at Cawancho, . wag on_ youter- day solzed bfi the United Btuces Marshal, for violation of tho rovenue laws, and the proprlotor way arrestod and jailed, SPECIAL NOTIUES $250,000 ! #1060,0001 550,000 $25,000! $17,500! Are only & faw of tho prizos to ho given away at tho Tourth Geand Uit Qoneert, at Loulaville, on tho 8d day of Doaan.bor noxt, Ju addition to thess larys furtuuos, which will eusloh tickot-ioldors, thore are Ton Gifts of $10,000 Each | "Chirty @ifts of #5,000 Eaoh | Tifty Gifts of 2,000 Eachi | And » still lszger numbor 63 of sumllor prizos, tho whale gatting HAEO,000!8 “Tlokots must by puvshazsd this weok, ANl (nformatisy of 1y funansy suhews van bo ad of thy dhieagy Agunty, T e WATTS & GO, N 47 AV Blosk, carsar LaSalle nd Randololi-sta.