Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1873, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1873. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TRALIA OF SUBACRITTION (PATADLR TV ADYANOR) j S30) i B 1 Parta of & yone st the samo rate. To groront delay and mistakes, bo suro and givo Post ©fico nddress in full, including State and County, Romittances may bo mado ofthor by deist, oxpross, Post Ofiice ordor, or in rogiaterod lotters, at our rlsk, TENMS TO CITY AUNBCRILERA, Datly, dolivored, Bunday excoptod, 55 conte por waoks Duily, dolivord, Bunday tncluded, 50 conts por wook, Addross THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Coruer Madteon and Denrborn-ata,, Ohieago, Til, TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, QLOBR TIHEATRE-Dosplatnos atroot pon, and Washington, _Kogsgoment of “Tohard 11,1 1 ACADEMY OF MUSIO~Halstod atroot, botwoon Mad- faon, aud Atunroe, “Engagement of tho Thompson urlosque Troupo. ** Mephisto, hatwoen Mad. L. 0. King, HOOLRY'S THEATRE—Randolph street, between Qlark xhd LaSialla.” Strakotah Juglish' Gpora Troups. * Luota," 'VIORKER'S THRATRE—Madison stroot, botween BD d'm“;,' lfllfiasuw. Kngagoment of tta, ¢t Old on: ‘ ) oty hobwsen M 3 ~HOUSE-Monmo_stro Draor an iato, Hieage o+ im0 Works Woa dors." Minstrolsy and comioalities, DR, KATN'S MUSEUM OF ANATOMY-Olark stroot, botwoen ind Mouroo, —— BUSINESS NOTICES. NO MOTHER HAS DISOIHIARGED HER DUTY TO in pur opinion, until ‘sho hns B e owolle of Jtes. Winatow's Hoothing Byrup. ey 1t, mothora; try it now. “77i DREAD OF TIRE IN A HOTEL DRUARS ‘onjoyment of tho best accommudation. i 1t wort in 20 ol peatatod. from Wro A3 now hotel tn Now ho Windsor "—and this os 1t offors to gucats. {ronly ane of tho niny The Chitagy Tiibune, Monday Morning, Decombor 8, 1873, Tho Right Rov. Willlam Edmond Armitage. D. D, died yostorday in New. York. Bislop Armitage was the eighty-socond in the succes- sion of Bishops in the American Church. Ilo +waa consecratod Assistant Bishop of Wisconsin, Doe. 6, 1866, and succcodod to tho Bishopris on the death of Bishop Kemper, Mny 24, 1870. e iTho supromacy of Chicago in tho provielon trado is shown very forcibly in the fact that the nutnber of Liogs packoed hero during the present packing seagon, up to this time, is 639,249, The number packed in tho cities of Cincinnati, ‘$t. Louis, Louisyillo, &3 Milwaukos added to- gothor 18 695,217, Tho four citios named have ‘packed 65,768 moro than Clicago alono. Tho ‘number of hogs handled in Chicago is much fargor rolativoly than the number packed. Both Oincinnati and Milwaukeo packers have heen Iargoly supplied from this market. * The English papers contain full reports of the procoodings in the French Assombly relative to .tho prolongation of President MacMahon's torm, end the full text of the bill which was proposed by tho majority of tho Committes of Fiftoon It provides that the term shall be continued fivo years, that bis powers shall bo excreised upon the proscnt conditions until the passago of the ‘constitutioudl laws, and that the first article of tho bill, prolonging his torm, shiall be embodied in tho orgenio lnws, but shall not possesd & con- ‘stitutionsl character until after tho lawa have “Yioen votad. ——— . The Virginius, it is authoritativoly stated from {@Washington, will bo delivered to this Govern- ynent within ton days, As, according to nuthori- ‘tativo statements from the same sourco, sho was to hzvo been delivercd threo daya ago, poople oro nat lberty to Dbeliove or disbefove this letor announcemont. Tho surrender will take placo by daylight in some Cuban port to s United States man-of-war. Tho surviving crew and paseongers will bo taken 10 Santiago do Cubi to bo given up, Nothing now is kuown with rogard to Cuban fooling. Cnpt. Jovellar, at Jast accounts, had not heard of his own reported rexignation. Capt. Surmont, of the Ville du Havro, is not placed in any bettor position then at firat by the lutor ovidence concorning his conduct. Thoso of the ecrew who.wero taken off by the Looch Farn eftor tho collision have arrived at Ply- mouth. They report that tho Captain and his ,Bocond Mate betook themselves, afier the col- Yision, to tho Loch Earn, and did nothing to ss: sist in the roscuc of the sailors or passongers. If, added to this, it should bo proved that the disnster was, a8 is suspected, duo to his careless- ners, the Captain's position will be worso than tlnt of the commandors of the Atlantic and City of Washington, The officers and crow of the Ville du Huyro seem genorally to have been disgracoful cownrds, Thero ia a gloomy prospect in Ohio that noarly evory county officer.in Butler County has been ‘defrauding it by drawing illegal foos: Somo "montls sinco, Gen. Codman, tho formor Auditor .of State, was appointed to examine into the financial affaizs of the county, and roport their ‘condition. Ife has just rompleled his work, and fllnds that the Auditor of tho countylins drawn grom tho Tronsury for threo gnd a half yoars' ‘norvices tho sum of £85,302, which is $19,400 Jnoro than he is entitled to. Ho has also dis- ‘covored that every othor oflicor of this gounty has been doing the aamo thing, the total dofal- cation amounting to upwarda of $50,000, Huv- ing been thus successful, the County Commis- ;sioners havo rotained Mr..Codman, ahd have su- ,thorized him to malic & senrching invostigation of the accounts of all the county ofilcers for the Just ten yoars, which hus created avory gonoral fooling of uneasiness, —eee e . Tho Btate Troasurer of Wisconsin roports u.u;t Btate as boing practically out of debt, Tho Btate proper owes to its own gducationsl fund £2,203,900, and to outelders only £18,100, which Intter sum it is ready to pay on demand, The ourrent oxponses of the State Governmont for 1holast fiscal your wero £1,708,023, and tho re- coipts for tho same time $1,774,668, Undor the | Iaw of tho Btate, all reilroadspay a license feo of 8 por cont of their grous earnings into the . Troasury in llou of Tho Becrotsry of Stato recommends that thia law bo changoed,” snd that the rallronds bo roquired to pay taxes on the valuo of their prop- prty at tho samo rato ns privato individuals, ‘I'ho rate of taxation in Wisconsin is 2.23 por cont. At this rato he eatimatos that the railroads would’ e required to pay nearly 12 por cent of their groau enrnings, Lho Bocrotary docs not aoom to consider that railraad stooks and bonds aro nsually adjudged parsonsl proporty, taxable nf tho place where the pwner resides, e —— The Chicago produco markets wero generally pxeited on Saturdsy, with more doing at p highor range of pricos. Moas pork was sctive, and 20@ 250 por brl higher, closing st $14.00 cauh, and £14.05@14.70 sollor Fobruary, Lard was active pud uearly &0 per Ib highor, olosing at 7o .| uses taxes, cash, and $8.023¢@8.06 sollor February. Moats wore quiet and }¢o higlor, at 43¢0 for shouldors, 034@03{o tor short riba, 6}¢o for short cloar, all boxed, and 8}¢@Digo for sweot plelled hama. Highwines wore quiot and firm, at 806 por gal- lon. Drossod hogs woro qulot and 'stronger, at £3,10@5.80 por 100 ihs. Flour was quict and strong ot @5.L0@B.76 for good spring oxtras. ‘Whoant wns moro active, and 2¢o highor, closing at $1.103¢ casb, and ‘£1.11}¢ sollor January. Corn was active and 20 higher, cloolng at 404(@ 4930 cash, and 493¢o sollor January. Oats woro quiot and 1@1}(o higher, closing at 373de. Ityo was more activo, aud 1@20 bhigher, closing at 760, Barloy wae quictand stoady at $1.46@1.40 for No, 2, and $1.04@1.05 for No, 8. Hogs woro in brisk domand at Go advance, closlng firm at #4.25@4.60. Onttlo and sheop wero quiet and unchanged. - It is vory ovidont that tho navy men have do- tormined that tho Spanish war-vessel Arapiles shall not loavo the Brooklyn navy-yard until tho Virginiue i3 surrendorod or the Ouban compli- eation defimtely eottled. Of course thore Is nothing official in the dotention of this veseel, snd tho Government has no diroct responsibility forit. Tor sevoral days, though the Spanieh ‘officors wore oxcoedivgly anxious to get their ship out, the flood-gates of the navy-yard were roported ont of order, and thoy could not go. On Saturday, a coal-barge, with 200 tons of coal, was. gunk dircotly in front of tho flood-gates, and now it is roported that all hands are so busy at tho navy-yard that mon onunot be spared to got tho conl-barge out of the way. Thereis no doubt but that the jnavy poople who are doing this think it is vory * smart,” anda good many other peoplo are probably of tho same mind. As amattor of faot, it is small business, and looks 88 though our navy people fear that, 1f the Ara- pilos gota away, sho can whip our whole navy. It this troatment goos on in such & way as to make it apparent that tho Spanish man-of-war is dotained intentionally, tho Governmont ought to interforo and put » stop to it THE GOVERNMENT AND THE BANES. Tho recommendntions of the Prosident and Becretary of tho Treasury on the subjoot of bauking and curroncy are caloulatod to add con~ fusion to tho mind of the average Congrosman, and to confirm him in hia evidont purpose to do nothing whatover. In point of faot, tho averago Congrossman i3 & moral coward, tho aim of ‘whoso offloial oxlstence ia to avoid offending his constituonts on tho ono hand and tho Executivo on the othor. In'the olden time, when the quoations he had to deal with wore mainly those of slavery and armod robellin, he had o comfortable time, becsuse he was ' roason- ably suro of his standing-ground, It was not really necessary for him to make any mis- takes. All ho lLad to do was to go strong for ihe principles of his party. But a timo hns «come when tho party haa no principles applica~ Dblo to the most important questions of the day. And that is not tho worst of it. Theso quostions rolate to a subject which the average Congross- man knows nothing about, and which he regards 08 a bore. To him, therefore, & controversy on the currency question i like & duol in tho dark, Accustomed to rogard every publio question from the standpoint of Ego, ‘and to cast every voto with roferouce to tho noxt election, ho finds himself in & quandary, uncortain what will bo the effcob of any particular vole ho may give. Tho only thing ho is tolernbly suro.of is, that If ho does nothing at-all he will nob befvery much blamod. Ho looks upon the existing cur- roncy very much as Presidont Graut views tho proposed oxpedition up tho AmazZon River in search of .our lost commorco : if it docpu't do much good it won’t do much harm, But thore is a growl in tho agrienltural dis- tricts at. which tho average Congroesman has alrondy pricked up his ears. It has been mooted at various Farmers’ Copventions that the Na- tional Banks aro making large profits from their right to issue currency ; that tho thing must bo stoppod; and that tho profits accruing from such currency issuc should inure to the Gov- crnment éxclusively, This growl is ono which the averago Congrossman ia bound to heod, and it becomes him to know somothing about the quastion befors the next campaign tumbles him out of his geat. Granting that the ocurrency quostion in its length and brendth is o compli- cnted one, thoro are, novertholoss, some prin- ciplos conneoted with it whioh aro excoedingly plain, not to know which is inoxcusablo oven in tho rawest product .of the caucus. Itoughtto ba known, for instance, that the purpose and objeot of currency is to sifect tho oxchange of propprty and services among men—that it is one of the tools and- instrumonts - which -society Jtp acoomplish this~ end, though not the most important ono. which society employs, In civilized countries, thp bulk of the oxchanges aro effected by mesans of bank checks, drafts, and bills of axohange,~—that is to 80y, goods in largo quantitios aro exchanged for oach othor, tho buyors and sellers by wholesalo using no curroncy, or very littlo, but sottling _their transactions with cheoks, drafts, ete,, which arein turn bplanced againet each other at clear- ing-homses. It is only whon we ronoh retail transactions that currenoy comes into play., To pay wages, to sottlo grpcer's bills, to .buy wheat from the -farmor's ~wagon, to cmry in ono's pocket . when ' traveling, to trans- act tho bysigess - of .. sparsely settled dlatricts,—thase are, in & roprosentative. sonso, tho uses and tho solo uses of ourrenov, It fol- lows that & cortain amount of currenpy will always bo nooded for theso purposes ; that this particular amount, whatover it bo, can bo kept ot par with gold withou$ gefually rodeomivg & dollar of it; thnt any excess of this amount will, if redocmable, flow to the radeoming pojnt just a8 an excoss of juck-planes, ovor and aboyo the wants of carponters, would flow to a point where they could be sold for something that was wantod ; that any excoss of this amount, it not redecomable, will dopreciato ; that this dopraciation will bo expressed in the prices of commoditiop, including the commodity gold. Inasmuch ap ¢he existing currency is de- prociated, it Is porfectly certain that no more ot it in tho aggregato is needed, agd that the only effoct of issuing imore will Lo to inflate prices and work injustice botweon mon, gince all pricos will not riso simultaneously or equally. TFrom all this it will appoar that a cortain amount of currency (greonbacks or bank-notes, or both) can bo kept afloat without dopreclation, and that whatever agonoy iusues it cau always borrow that amount of mouey from the publi without inoreat, It is cortainly a fair question to ask whothor that ngenoy shiould not bo the Qovernment. The £14,000,000 storling which tho Dank of England is allowed to issue without any r.!poulu rosorvo was tho ostimated amount pf ourrency which Ingland required st sll times for those business trpusactions for which cure roncy ia thoro employed. It happened also to Bank at that time. Tho Governmont pays no Interest to tho Bank on this dobt of 544,000,000, and doos not intond to pay tho principal. Thera- foro, to all intonts nnd purposos, the Govern- mont reaps the advaningo of that portion of tho curroncy which is always aflont,—at all ovonts to tho oxtent of £14,000,000. It is tho real issuo, although it omploys tho Bank as its agont, Thore are, indeed, objections to invest- ing our Government with such functions,—ob- Jections both political and financial. The finan-~ clel objoction is, that tho Govornmont has no machinory for issuing moro ourrency at thoso soasons of tho yoar when more is required. Bpoolo redomption would bo an indispensable roquisito, and this would bo all the provision nocessary for rotiring the eurplus whon not nooded. But tho only satisfactory mothod of 1ssuing currenoy, whon groator nmount {a re- quired, is to discount commoreial paper. Thisis a function which Governmenteannot succosafully porform, and tho proposod convortible-bond procoss i8 a poor substitute for it, belog ham- pored always by an inflexible rato of intorest. It this difficulty can bo surmounted, thon on a epecio basis thoro would be no cconomioal ob- jootions to tho Govornmoent assuming tho eox- clusivo privilego of issuing eurroncy; and it ia moro than likely that the displacoment of tho National Bank notes would causo tho groonbucka to appraclato to par by glving thom that much wider ficld of employment. But if tho attompt is mado to fesue & greonback for ovory bank- noto rotired, wo shiall remain in the slough of Irrodeomable paper as beforo. THE PRESIDENT'S SALARY, Amorican writers and orators have always found a ataple tople for eriticiem in the official pousion systom of Groat Britain, That s forty- socond cousin of tho Queen's, or a remoto de- scondant of Georgo IIL.'s butler, or & lucky dog to whom the namo of Wollington or Marlborough has como down, should bo entitled to n share of the public moneya wrestdd from the earnings of tho pooplo, Lias struck tho domocratic American mind as suporlatively vicious. Tho dotormina- tion of tho Bpocial Committeo on tho Ropeal of the Balary bill, howover, leaves it an open ques- tion whother the peoplo of this country have not somothing of tho esme sort in their own beautiful system. The outlines of tho bill which is to be roported for tho ropeal of the salary-grab show that it has been framed with tho oxpross purpose of socur- ing to Gen, Grant tho $25,000 oxtra pay voted to him by the last Congress, tho sentignént of the pooplo to the contrary notwithstanding. In tho opinion of tho majority of this Commlt- too, who prosumablly ropresont the majority in tho Houso, Gon, Grant ought to receive $50,000 ayoarin those hard times for the services ho rondors the poople. Thoe sum of £50,000is & fortuno. Its posscssion, proporly invested, as- sures a largo family all tho comforts and many of tho luxuries of lite. It can bo invested in bonds sund mortgages of absoluto’ security at tho not profit of €5,000 n yonr. It will carry on o business of $2560,000 a yoar, and afford, asido from the profit it earns, employ- ment to o ecore of mon. It is what thousands of oducated men toil for asthe result of con- sciontious and laborious lives, and then do mot attain. It would furnish tho means of sup- port for G600 familics during the hard wintor coming wupon us, who will actunlly suffor for want of proper sheltor, fuel, and clothing, Yo, in theso times, when evory individual fools tho necossity of economy moro than over beforo, when tho President himselt rocommonds rotronchmont in publio worka, and whon tho ‘Government must con- tomplate ‘tho ecmergency of issuing now bonds to pay tho interest on the dobt it nalready owes, the majority in Congress, through their Committee, decide that the Prosi- dont ought to receive this sum of $50,000s year, —just twico as much as Lincoln received for gorvices in compaison with which the services of any subsequont Presidens have beon insig- nifieant, Thero scems to have been no discussion in the Committes on the authority of Congress to restora the Prosident’s enlary to what it was be- fore tho increase. Wo have alrendy examined this foature. The Constitution says that the Prosidont's pay shall not bo increased or dimin- ishod during the period for which he was eloct- od. Gon. Grant's pay was ineroased during the period for which ho had beon elected, though not for his firat torm. Itwas the purpose of tho Constitution on the ono hand to provent Con- gress from subjugating tho President by decrens- ing bis salary, aud on tho othor hand to provent tho President from making uso of his patronage to securo the incresse of his own pay. Both Congross and the Prosidont were in the po- sition to do those things at tho time whon his pay was incroasod, because it wes during tho period for which he was elocted. The increaso in his caso was, thereforo, a violation of both tho epirit and tho lotter of the Constitution. Though tha Committee recommend, in doference to publio sentiment, tho ropenl of tho inoronss’ in the pay of tho Vico-Prosident, which incronse was only $2,600, thoy desire that tho Presidont’s incronse, which was ton times that amonat, be sllowed to remain, It will be bard to convince the pooplo that it ia right to take away tho Vice- President’s $2,600 increaso and loavo tho Presi- dont's 826,000 incronso alono. N ANOTHER MILLION, Tho time was when & million of dollars waa ro- garded a8 a large sum of money. The two-mill 4% vith which the Stato of Illinois bogan to pay oft her long-noglgeted dobt did not produce for many yoars & millidn of dollpra, Until Iata yonrs, & robbery or defalcation to the amoupt of a milt- fon’ of dollars was an unheard-of affair, fiow, ofligial dopredators steal by tho ‘million and its fraotionsl pprts, Poss Twood and his partnors took fittean or oightcon miljions, Oakes Amoa and his partnors pocketed twanty-seyen millions, and all over tho country there is & gonersl offort among public oficors to roach as near theso figures ap thoy can. In this way tho publio mind has become 8o famlliarized with largoe sums of moncy, that, even in the matter of taxos, tho onormous incroase of to-day fallp to astound anyhody a8 it ought, A caso in point s the lovy of taxoa for Btate purposes in Illinois *{ for 1879, Tho Qonstitution prohibita tho lovy of puy fax for Biatp purposes in excoss of tha auonny puthorizod by tho Liogielature at its pro- coding sosslon, Tho Rovonuo law divocts that, whon tho equalized valustion of proporty shall Lave boon mado, the Auditor, Govornor, aud Trossuror shall computo tho rate. nocossary to produce tho * ncl amount™ of rovonuo author- ized to bo collectod by tho Logislature. Tho Loginlaturo euactod that thero should bo ralspd by taxation on the valuation of 1879, for Btato purpagos, the Aum of 1,000,000 for school fund and $2,400,000 for ravonue fund, making an ag- grogate tax of $8,600,000. The lawinthiumatter & f0ol, nood not orr thoroin, It Is to bo assumed that tho Auditor and Tronsuror and dovornor &ro oqual to tho task of computing whet rato per cont will produoe $3,500,000 upon & given valua- tion ; at loant, no ploa of ignorauco or mistake has boon offéred in their bolialf as yot. But the Anditor hns cortified to tho County Olorks to ox- tond tho rato of tax on a porcontago of 9-10 of A mill for seliool purposes, and 2 mills and 7-10 of amill for ravenue. Theso rates, upon an nggra- gato nssossment of $1,341,018,046, produco, na compared with tho sums authorlzod by law, sa followa : Authorized Amountef Freessaf Tevente, levy, tn’y. $1,000,000 $1,207,451.75 $ 27,451,75 Ttovonuo fund,,. 2,600,000 5,042,355.23 "1,122,366.28 Total........$3,600,000 $4,820,800,08 $1,329,800,08 The Auditor lina omitted to stuto by what au- thority. hio has added 1,800,000 to the gross lovy sauthorizod by law; and bo maintaina a profound ellonco aa to the purposo for which ho bas added 1,122,365, or over 45 por cont, to tho lovy for gonoral revonuo purpogos, L'ko Rovenuo law of 1872 oxpresaly limits him to mratoof tax that will produce the * not amount* of tax designat- od by the Logislature. Wo have ondeavored to sliow that tho Auditor has lovied this additional tax of ovor oloven lundred thousand dollars to pay (out of tho State Treasury) tho intorest on Behool fund. tho rallrond Londs issued by cortain towns, cit- ios, and counties, and that in 8o dolng ho has excoodod his Inwful authority. Thesoe bonds are puroely local debts, as much so a5 the dobt of the City of Ohicago, and tho Conatitution pro- hibits tno uso of any monoy ralsod by Btato tax- ation for any purposo whatever, unloss spacific- aliy appropriated by the Logislature. Now horo is an arbitrary addition of 45 por cont made to tho legally-suthorized lovy for tax purposes ; this excoasive lovy is over $1,100,000, and the Auditor, in defiance of law and of tho public interests, has Issued his warrant for its collection. Of courso, no one doubts that this sddition to tho authorized levy ia to pay tho intorest on tho railrond-aid debts owed by cor- tain towns and counties. And now comes tho farthor information that the Auditor bas, in addition to the $4,820,806.98 lovied for school and rovonue purposes (when only ©3,500,000 waa authorized by law), cortificd to somo 800 communitieo—oitien, towns, and oounties—a spooial rato of tax, to bo lovied and colloctod on the property of those communitics, to pay tho intorost on thoso railroad-nid bonds. In addi- tion to this, thore is abont Lalf a million of dollars, proviously collected, in tho Btate Troas- ury applicable to tho same fund. . A8 noar a5 wo can compuio from the reported list of thoso bonds and their varying ratesof’ in- torest, tho annual intorest on thom amounts to $1,038,000. To meot this intorest, the Auditor has lovied s special tax on each community for tho amount .of interost on its dobt, the aggrogate exceoding ©1,000,000, aud has lovied upon tho Binte ab largo an- other tax of ©1,122,000 for tho samo pur- pose. 'This is drawing it protly heavy. If the interost on these dobts amount, in round numbers, to $1,000,000 o year, why docs the Auditor lavy a tax of £2,200,000 to maot it ? Wo call the attontion of the towns and counties that owe this debt to tho faol that the Auditor has already taxod thom in the goneral lovy to pay tho intorest on these bonds, and that the lavy of the spocial tax is a duplication of tho othor—the collection of two yoars' interest at ono time. Is tho oxtra million lovied to pay the prinoipal ? THE. PENNSYLVANIA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. The recent advorse docision of the Supromo Court of Pennusylvauia, touching tho ordinanco which was propared by the Constitutional Con- vention to submit the new Constitution to the poople, whether it be in accordance with Iaw or not, is a decision in the interests of corrnpt governmont, and gives the notorious City Ring of Philadelpbia a fresh leaso of power, and an opportunity to intrench themeolves in their po- gition eo strongly that hereaftoer it will be moro difficutt than ever to dislodge them, The ordi- nanco contained cortain provisions which wore calenlated to offset ihe infamous Registry law in Philadelphin, and, by making the Convention itsolf the canvassers of tho returns, socure an liongst count of the votes. The Ring woll know that if the ordinance was submitted to the peo- ple it wonld be carried by an immonse majority, rogardloss of parly, as tho majority ‘of tho Domocrats wwere in its favor, and every reputable Ropublican papor in the Biate gavo it hoarty support. Evon the 80,000 fraudulent votes, which tho Ring can cast in Philapelphin by means of its falso registry, world not have ondangerod it Oi tho dther hand, compotent judgos have cstimated that evon making allow- ances for those, it would bo earried by 100,000 ma~ jorily in tlie Btate, The. Ring therofore made a bold stand ageinst this measure, which, it adopt- od, would oust them procipitately from tholr placos, rofused to recognizo it,-and propared a petition to the Bupremo Court for an injuuction declaring the ordinanco null and void. A deols- ion has beon given to this effect, upon the ground that tho Constitutional Conyention had no juria- diction in the matter, but had usurped logjsla~ tivo authority and ignored the genoral statutos of tho Stato. T'his decision is a sovare blow at the hopoes of the Roform Party, which fancied it al- ready bad the opportunity in its hands to clean out the corruptions of the Ring, and which had at loast the warfant of procedeiit to supposo that the Conatitutional Convontion 'was compo- tent to carry its work into praotioal oporation. On this polut the Now York Nation says: *In 1867, soventy-eight Constitutions had been sub- mitted to tho poople for their approval, and tho Convention itself ordered and regulated the man- perof tho submission in sixty-three inatances out ‘of the wholp pumber. In sbont onc-hal? of thess instancoes, tho action of tho Convontion was pro- seribed eithor by the Btato Constitution or by tho originating atatuto, but in the othor inatances there was no suoh direction, and the Copvontion agsumed tho authorjty to bo lodged in itwelf s an oxisting cloment of its exinienco and functions,” In'this case, the Bupromo Courk of Pennsylvania has stopped In and onjoinodtho ‘Convontion from ‘assuming any suthority, snd thus the Imgplu, who croated the Convention and inspired its worlk, sva dobarrod from conflrming that work ; and, worae (han this, the door of escapo from tho oppression of the corrupt Blug 18 shut in thoir faces, For tho present, at loast, thoreforo, tho condition of tha poople of Toun- pylvauia ja slmply this: Thoy aro provented from roviasing thoir own Constitution, Thoy aro he law-making power without the powor to emry out fhalx Tawe, Astho Nation snys, Constitution-framing and Gopstitytion-oatablishing ar0 not branches of tho loglslative funotjop, and as tho notfon, at first sowewhat dimly concoived, has boon gradually doveloped and perfectd, 1ho peoplo have ro- tained those fundamental procosscs of goverument in tholr own bauds, utrusting the prolimivary work to their diroct agouts choson for that specifio object, but rosorving to thomeclyos the flual and abavluto volco I {10 act of adoption, It 19 n wmistake, iu analyzing this perfoctod syatom, to regard thio Convontion as o mers committeo omployed to prepara a schomo of governs raont and submit the samo to tho Legislaturo, Its ro- port s to the poople, who aro itn ouly suporiors, The thoory which wo thus roject might easlly ronder the rovinton of Blata Constitution tmposaible, oxcopt by a rovolution,” Notwithstanding the fact that, not only in Ponnnylvanin but fn the othor Biates, the rule hina beon that tho Conventlon hna'tho power to proacribo tho manner of submitting tho Conati- tution to tho people, to whom alono it is ac~ conntable, the poople of Pennaylvania havo now, according to tho decision of tho Court, got to go to the Logialaturo to havo their sovoreignty roo- ognized, This will bo done soonor or lator ; but, monnwhile, thoy must continuo to be at tho mproy of arganizod corruption, which will gain now strongth. In this rospect, as wo stated at tho outsot, tho declsion of the Supremo Court, whother it was sound Iaw or nat, ia in tho direct intoroats of dishonesty and bad governmont. —— Tho Golden Age prints a suggestion, made by ono of its contributors, that & National Relief Fund be cstablished in this country, with & branch In overy Inrgo city, which shall be hold for tho immodiato rolie? of sufferors from plaguo, firo, or tornado which may como upon any city or section of the coun- try. © Tho suggestion 18 made bo- causo, nmotwithstanding tho prompt and gonorous rosponses made to tho appoals ot Ohi- cago, Boston, and Memphis in the timo of thoir aflliction, the dolay in forwarding tho ald fre- quontly dotracted from its value, It is proposed to gustain tho fund by an annual collection taken on the firet day of every yoar 1n ail tho churchea of the country, While this plan haa probably boon recommended in s spirit of gonerosity, it ought not to bo earried out. Tho cases of Ohi- cago, Boston, and Momphis have already shown that the relief will bo promptly foriheoming whenever the necessity for it arisea. Tho oxist~ onco of a fund of $1,000,000 would not only boa loss and an oxpenso, but it would bo a standing tomptation to corrupt practicos, of which wo al- ready have onough in this country, and it would havo tho offact of stopping all contributions by the goneral public, which aro now spontancous, and may alwaya bo deponded on in case of any sorious cwlamity. The Roportof the Chief of the Burcau of Life- Saving Servide to the Seorotary of tho Treasury shows somo intercsting facts. There are mow tlirco stations dovoted to this humane business, ono on tho cosat of Capo Cod, the second on tho coasts of Rhode Island and Loug Island, and tho third on tho const of Now Jorsoy, The number of wrecks which have ocourred since tho Iast pamed report upon the coasts where stations. aro ostablished wns 82, Tho num- ber of lives imperiled was 235, and of theso but one was lost, which shows a high stato of efticioncy in tho working of the systom. Tho total amount of proporty imporiled was $892,230, of which £581,201 was saved, The system has been so successful that contracts hnve been made for the construction of 21 new stationa on tho New England coast and the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina. NOTES AND OPINION. Bovoral bills havo been presented in the Scnato and Hout logkiug {o tho repeal of Lo back-pay lav, sl there {8 some_danger of confusion, Some aceln to imogino that tho eutiro bill can bo repealed, which la snerror, That part rolating to tho Presldent’s salary cannot; nnd it is thought that the increaso proposed for the' Cabinet and othor ofilcers, whoso dutles ara continuous, should not bo ropealed. Tho back-pay fentura of Congresslonal salariea is pecilinrly obnox fous, but it has been drawn ; and what i3 to Lo done? The foregoing, from & truly loyal organ, the Pittsburgh Gazeltdy rocalls irrosistibly a ques- tion of very similar wording aud oxactly identi~ cal meaning agked by that dietinguished atates- man, “Boss” Twoed. *Well, what are you going to do about it " was Tweed's form of put- ting it; and President Grant, through his party- pross, soys: “‘ Tho salary cannot bo changed during my form of oftico; aud what s to be done 2" Epnnkqu of tho Ordoer of Patrons of Husband- 1y, tho Minnerpolia Zvibune (Adminiatration) Boy8: + It may flourish for many yoars,—we hopo it will; but the rock on which it will fanl split will probably 1o personal dishonesty, It will uliimately bo betrayeil and driven to ruin by men who join it far selfah pur- poscs and their own enrichment, Vigilanco will bs thie prico of Its wnfoty, ' Just aa saon 2 it provides for high salaries ani Jargo commissions, it will bo'in peril, It is #ud, but not wingular, that, whon'dema~ gogues fail to effect an entrance into tho Uranges, they fall to donouncing the Order, and vow that it will bo shorklived.—Carroll County (TL.) Gazelte. —Grant &till Iabors under tha hallueination that ho i8 o Civil-Servico Reformer.—Zerre Haute (Ind,) Gazelte, L —The Presidont, in his messago, dwells at longth upon the financlal troubles of the coun- try, and tho effects of tho panio. If ho roully has the good of the people at heart in this re- spoct, he caunot prove it moro offectually than by returning his back-pay. Will hodoit?, Wo fear not,—S!. Joseph (Mo.) Gazelte, —Torio and Rolicson in tho Navy, Belknap in the War, aud Richardson and Sawyer in tho Troasury Departmonts; wero bad onough, but Willinma in tho seat of ‘Jobn. Murshall iy simply oxecrablo. Wo haye. but little hope that tho Senato will roject tnis nomination, If it should not, it is well that tho.country knows thatno Civil Borvice reform can.bo oxpectod from tho Itopublican party.—New Orleans Picayune. —Novw that the Ropublicana have u two-thirds voto in Congress; the party will bo compelled to shoulder overything in the way of unwiso logis- Intion, and. will also win credit to itsclf for all th good that is accomplishod.—Galena Gazetle, —A judicions appointment to this position, it is trus, wasnot to bo expooted, but that fho judicin} robes of tho groat Marshall,, Tanoy, aud Chaso would ever mantle the pigmy propottions of such a man a8 George M. Willinmng was cer~ tainly smong the unlooked-for ovents, even in thoso days of Grantism. Yet, this appointmont i only Grantism magnified, but magnitied almost insnflotably,—Madison Democral. . 1 —1Tlo Now York Z'ribune demands that Sen- ator Carpontor shall make a clearor doninl of the Long liranch scandal than Las yot appesred. It “also clnims that he is not a fit ‘man to preside oven tomporarily over the deliberatious of tho Bonato, And wo are not sure but tho Z'ribunc is right in both reapects,—ZXochester Democrat (Re- pullican). § —When we rond the meseages of Prosidont Grant, wo aro lod Lo boliove lip oarnestly desires to reform tho Civil Service, and that Congross is somehow an impasgablo barrior in his way. But whon we tyrn to the acts of tho Presidont, . wo find that he has not tho lonst idoa of carrying out tho roform Thero fa not tho slightest” ob- stuclo in his way, if lio ohookos, IIe has but- to sny to this man o, and ho gooth ; and to that man Come, and ho comoth, It the Civll Bervice iu not properly filled, it is his own fault. ~What does Lie mean, then, by his woarisome platitudou? ~—dAlbany Arqus, —-Mr.'ih:ukg, of Kentucky, has touched the queation of tho compensation of the Prosidont on the raw, Mo proposes Lo withhold the ullow- ances hithorto voted for tho White Iouse, on tho ground that the Preaidont’s salary hus lLeon mado suficiont to ‘cover his cxpensos. I'he point I woll takon. Wo sball epo how the sal- nry-grab ropoglors danco up to tho work.—0in- oinnati Commercial, e Brutnl Outragc. From the Mills County (Iu.) Journal, Deo, 4. 1t woll nuthontieated reports from that focality are to bo holioved, the Conduotors on tho Kanuna Gity, Bt. dosoph & Counicil Blulla Nailvond have adopted 6 newmothod of lotling thoir passengora off at ‘I'rador's Point, the flrst station south of Counei! Bluls, At loast 8 ngw mothiod yas pub in_oporation on Bunday avoning of lukt weak, A Mr. ITurdman, of that placo, gob on the train Bt Counoll Blufts to go_to Lrador’s Poiut, The (onduotor eamo around in duo season to collack biu favo, but said Lo could not utop at that sin- tion, a4 the Buperintowdent ot tho road was on board. Mr, 11, naiil Lo wonld havo to atop, and stepped out on the piatform and attomptod to pull” thio boll-rope, whon the Conduotor or Lmkmnml ou thio ifstant atruck him a blow in tho faso, and lmooked him off the train, Wo Joara thut ha was found in an insonsible condi- tion by Mr. Bavutow, who took him Lo hls home. What & shame it s that brutos should act as cowwon varriord, l THE PULPIT. The Death of Mrs, Goodwin and Hor Children, Sermon by Profi Swing at Me- Vicker’s, Tho Toss of tho Ville du Tavre, Sermon by the Rev. J. E, Forrester, of the Church of the Redecmer, The Reformed Episcopal Churoh, Sermon by the Rev. Charles Edward Cheney on the New Departure. Dedication of Unity Church--- Sermon by Dr. Furness. Episcopal Services in tlie Method- ist Church Bloclk, THE LOVED AND LOST. Bermon by Prof. Swing nt McVicker’s The- atre, Yostorday morning Prof. Swing preached to &n immenee audionco ¢ MoVicker's, His text was: ‘ Hera wo liave no continuing city, but we sook ono to come,” Tho sormon, which was in momory of Mrs, Dan Goodwin and koer childron, lost m the Villo du Havro, was as follows : Tho word *‘city” ombodies so much of all that is groat and beautiful in lifo, that I shall consider it a8 a torm ombracing all human achiovoments and qualitios of greatest worth. In tho world's citles have always boon gathered tho arts, the scioncos, the religions, the philos- ophios,tho cducation, and refinement of the race, bocauso in them are the riches that can support tho arts and the muititude that can admire, and encourage, and enjoy. The country’s solitudo may possess peculiar forms of valuo—a value for & poot, or a droamer, or a devotee; but of man's ‘widest life, most useful and most happy, the city 1a tho causo and tho arena. It brings the causo to the Jawyer, the audienco to fhe lecturer, and tho pooplo to the orator, and the library to all. - Tho city preparos tho canvas for tho pointer, the public taste that croates tho demand, the gold that can purchaso tho picture, and the homo having a wall large enough, or good enough, upon which to place it, and cultivatod friends enough to admire it, Thus all the formsof thought and erudition find in the idea of city the best conditiona of their life, and thus a city becomes the place whoro all tho pathe of mon moot. Por this rea- sou, Hoavon is called a city, and for this roason, also, our toxt introducos tho torm ns bearing within itsolf all that is valuable in man. We havo no continuing city here,—no abiding love, wisdom, or art, or joy, or friendship, or friends, This grandour of the idea of a city, 88 & placo where tho world's greatnoss has aiwaye 'gntharnd, and then the oqually ovident fact that all this grandour is of briof duration, compel reason to oxpeet & city to come which shall con- tinue in pgreatness and duration. To my mind, nothing moro powerfully argues o life beyond this than the failuro of ideals hero, Earth gives us only fragmonts of humanity, fragments of mind, fragments of honrt, fragmonts of charity, love, and virtuo, and, instead of being o world, is only a haudful of seeds, out of which a full-blown world might grow, but hasuot yot.grown. Wo havo all boen accustomed to infer a future life from the phenomenon of unfinished justice seon hero. ‘Whon, wo demand, Is the differenco to become manifest betwoon tho murderor and his victim, botweon tho unjust and the honorable? But the works of justico are no more unfinished than are the works of love, and study, and humanity, and bappiness. Man comes only to the border of these forms of being and action, and then dion, wishing to go forward in friondehip and thought, and benevolonce and happiness. Tho discord botweon theso ideals and the extornal facts is great nand porpotual. Thero is eearcely @ valuable cloment in human lifo that i3 not slain in its yory youth in this arona of man, Tho pursuitof knowledgo tormivates in the suneet of a brief day,tho friouds gother around us soon to disperse, Lome is built up that the loved ones may hbe carried from its chambors to the tomb, and that the vino may wither upon tho wall ; and prayors are whispered in the morning and eveniug, that solence may wondor whetlior any answor over came to the heart from its God, 'Thus, in. tho economy of earth, nll that is noblo lifta its head only to bs stricken down, as though the pleasuro of destruction wore the Diviue reason of croation, as though death wero an exouse for nvnl(iug lifo, The discord betwoen fact and ideal is not so groat in tho domain of man as in the domaiu of God. VWith earth alono as our witness, tho proposition commionly _held, as to the nmature of God, “almost wholly fails. If tho rolations of Uod to tho lLuman family terminate at man's gravo, there are fow facts upon which to baso that grand dofinition of Gad, found in some oroeds—*that He is a Spirit, almighty, most wiso, most Loly, most just, mos merciful and graclous, loug suffermg, and abundant in goodness aud fruth.” Tho suffor- ings of childron, the feeling of thowo tender flowers iu the first hour of spring, tho otornal hush of their loved voicos by disesso or by the ocean-wave rising highor thun a mothor's arms wan reach, this spectacle’ alone will erase tho dofinitions of .God. a8 .fast as the world can write them, If the meaning of tho pad ovent i all gathorad up in the ovent itsolf, I'he murderor in tho play may wish - . Tho assassiuation *j% Qould trammol up the vousoquence aud catch “ With his surccass success, ¥ but; away from crimo, out in tho bright world of life and roligious bolicf, it is esuontial - that earth * trammol nat up tho consoquouce,” but that it open up » world boyond, whoro tho ides of God may falfill its promincof being all-wiso and all-mercitul. Heavon is no more a need of man than of God, It iy demanded not by the soul of man ou]{; which wishos to paes _out of sin and gorrow, but by tho name of our Crantor, who equally must desiro and_dosign to pass oub of the cloud of injustice, 'Chero is woudorful signitlcanco in thoso worda of the prayer, “ Our Fathor which art in Heavon," for i ia the feoling that God Is unveiling Ilis glory in some place away from oarth ; that thorols a distaut land where the dream of Infinito lovo is bolng on- aoted In roality ; it s tho assumption of such a 1logvon that furnishes reason with tho ides of Father, aud supplomonts tho want of ovidouco hero, llenson asks for Moavon thus, not on nccount of man, but on account of the fdoa of Cod. 'That moasureloss thought which wao call God, cannot draw ita form nor jts orodibllity from'the narvow horizon of this star, but ‘rigos up out of immortality, in whose yoars all tho wins and onigmas of ocarth fado as apoty upon tho sun, Our God i Himaelf tho gift of man's gravo, bacauso all human definitions of i, all “love of Mim, all hymns to Ifiw, aro fouuded, nol only upon what'God has beon, liut chiofly upon what Io will bo in the heroafier. 1t you will mark €ho hymmns and soliloquies of the soul, you will percoive thut 1t roads tho char- aotor of Johovali not uFuu tho puges of qarth, bt upon tho walls and gatoways “and flogra of tho world to come,” Tlo’ Christian bohglds lis shilning shove aud his God away from this life, Lecauso tho shining shore glyes hima God which thin shoro has too much eloud to produce, 'I'ha “Bweot oldsnrrayed in living groon wnd wavos of dolight,”" aro the paradise whish alone can woave branolies immortal enough, and holy onough, for the home of the .Ali-Meraiful One, Daute found the flaor of carth coverod with Lhorns, and lunoum]inrg with the sorenms of wild whoro they cau be renched onl of mon, and tho air heonme voeal with the songa and joys of tho anints, not becnuse man nucfis stoh & realm; buc beeaiso the idon of God ftsolf conies hot up from earth, but down from tho ng- sumption of a henven, ~Iloaven in, thoroloro, n?t tho slmplo rofuge, but tho blessod ovidonco of & God, ‘Wanderful, theraforo, is tho funotion of tho bolief in a cantiouing city, awny from tho din of theso cition that erumblo and full 1 In it roposos the solution of nll onigmas of human lifn, and upon it dopouds tho character of God, Ionvon {8 the monrca of tho dofinition of ‘God—tho only soil that can grow Lhe bloseed {den., In tho lundequacy of carths argumont may bo fouud an explavation of those who have limited tholr thought nnd ronson to only things of enrth that can be \mlFllukl and moasured. In ordor to renal tho best faith in God, it is necessary for tho mind to go whore God is, or can: bo, and cortafuly the over-morciful, over-blassed Ono, in not to Do found in matorinl things, a8 richly ag in the soul, nor in tho cloudy days of oarth, s readily a3 upon tho assumod flolds of the lifo to come. Reason las meny paths, Thero are somo truths which it may roach by mathematical forms, but there aro truths which will not come from their concoalment unless renson seok thom with all affection aud hopo., Tho present glory of America has not come from exnct intufincln ltko tho minda of Mr, Buokle or Btuart Mill Theso could not havo laid tho foundations of a now empiro, Nol the reason that devised this Repnblic, and which fought for it, was a roason full of ailaction, and garlanded with hopo, God made the soul, and if Ifo has Plncod some Idaag b ly by the heart of love, and tho spirit of happlnoss, [ot,us cansont, and eck the love and hopo that will clothoe with roality a lifo hoyond. lLotus take our stand by a shoro which'alone ean explain tho existonce of man, and can Aocure for uo any beliof in & Honvenly Fathor. If tho yoars which a man lives horo aro ouly the morning of an olernal lifo, then ean we forgive tho hours that bring sorrow and tho tomb whore our loved one's sloop; aud, if our Maker, clothed with mystary Loro, and moving about our homes in dark” pow- er, rather than infinite lovo, is destined at tha tomb to bocome trausformed into » mont loving Bavior, then may wo count tho passing days as uo- worthy in their griefs to e compared with Heays on's “*axccoding and atornal woight of glory.” Aud thia is the only explanation passiblo to iy heart of tho awful phenomona which wo wit- ness horo, Out of a Henven to which the virtu- ous shall at Inst como, out of a Heaven which gl\'na us the iden of & Father and Bavior, comen hio only explanation of Lumanity that cun givo man any morals for his lifo, any lofty ideal for bia education, nny consolntion in sorrow, auy flowors for hia tomb, To believe in & Bupromo Being without boliovingin man's immortalit; Beoms uttorly impossiblo, for this makes Gol the author of a world which is nothing olse than & gront comotory ; the authorof a lovo that musl weop, of frionds that must part, of little chil. dron plucked from thoir mothera® bosoms by dig. oago or by the waves of the midnight sea. With. out a a future city, the idea of Gud faila. The poot snys : Al that tread ‘The gloho aro but a handful to tho tribos That slumbor in ita bosom, Tho venerabld woods, rivera that move in majouty, and the complainiug brooks "That moke tho meadows grean, and ponred zoand il Old Ocoan's gray and metancholy wuste, Aro but the soletnn decoratious all Of the great tomb of man, In order to boifeve in & Divine Father, it ia nocessary that reason dony Ilim to bo the owner of ouly a vast tomb, andaftirm that the tomb is a placo where the duse reposes, from which the apltit has flod. Death is & gatoway decoratad with immortal flowers, not on account of mau, but on account of his Oreator. In order that all may alwaya live in the ton- dornees of friendship, and in the ponsivo hopa which a realization of death brings, and in that soborness of reason which springs from this final golemnity, o tondor wisdomn keops varying tho circumstances of theose sad hours that’ the mind may each day kueol in a deoper concoption of the cortainty and nearness of the mystery. Wa canuot seo that which is far away, As wo learn of love only whon we_lova thie” natura or thia friend, 8o we learn of denth only whon tha tosings of timo hava cast his cold wavo near our own foot, And if the grave ia tbo portel through which tho mind seos tho destiny of mau, and the truo charactor of God, it moy be only a divine wisdom that brings our travels Ao near the iron gate that wo cane not but look through and boyond. We may exe pect & perpotusl chinngo of the time aud mode of doath, and a moving of othors’ frienda to onr fiionds, until at last tho over-threstoning cloud shnall burst ovor our own flosh aud hear:, ‘When the ocenn beeamo the tomb of thoge whom wo love, death stood 8o near us that e soom ta fepl bis * freozing kiss.” 1t is out of such au atmosphers as these ro- flections make for us, retlections that man aud God nro only understood when wo assumo a futurs lifo, o glowing atmosphore worthy of God aud man, that wo prefer to look and weo that veesel kinking in the ocoan, carrying down with it a friond whom huudreds of yon know aud loved, aud beautiful childrea whose joy and smilo many of you have scen. Lat us climb to such o hoight that those whoeoem to have sunk in tho sea may, like the soitiug sun, bo seon to Lavo {(rms uct into it, but boyond it. Whon we remember tho culture, and benevolence, and deep religious nature of Mra. Goodyin, and tho Divino imaga upon the facos of the group of children that sunk that night, lot us uot defame tho spirit of man nor the character of Him whom little chul- dren call thoir Father in Heaven, by fosle ing that the silent occan was anything elso to them than » messengor botwoon earth and Heaven, saying, ** Come back, yo children of God." It was tho oponing gato of tho new city, -Have wo not nh etcaped from the crushing holief in a blind fate ? 1Ias onr Clris- tinn faith not yet led us fully away from tho dark power which was wont in classic timoes to pursuc mortals, and even the gods, with & clond of worrow unmerited and unroadablo? Have wo not yot cscaped this blindfolded fury, aud coma into the presouce of & reasonable God, whose wisdomn is above our wisdom, whoso goodnesa is nbove our goodness, and whoso love is tenderer thau our own ? - Let us wholly oxpel tho doctrino of Fate from our mind. Fatodid not plan the creation of such a mother, such a friend, and send her for bonsts, but whou his feet appronched the divine Brudonco In heuven, the floor of the now world yeara whero charity, or friendship, or religion Called. Fato didnot paint tho oyo and ook, and crento tho porpotual smilo, and suggess tho evoning prayera of thoso childven, If it ia intolligence in_ man that makes the mighty changes of oarth, in art, and scionco, and educs- tion, that makos tho dosort becomo a city, it must be intolligenco that offects tho changoes back of man, that faehioned the human form aud soul ; and bonce wisdom, tho personal in- tolligenco, that stood by the cradle of man stands also by his donth, whether it comes in tho quict homo or in the mournful soa. [ do not Leliove in any stroam that is declared to riso higher than ita fountaiun ; honee 1 do not be~ liovo that the apirit of man was produced by something less than itself, When & graud hunman roul, with its blessed childven prossed against the heart, sinks in nud- oconn, it 18 onsy to fool that there wns a Deing near, greater than the soul and groater than tho ocann. T'he good-byos hers, whon hor tears foll upon the fucos of her frionds and ler heart faltored and nlmost desived - to turn back, tho baste 10 go, if go sho must, with & group of friends, the transfor from a steamer destined to safoty to ono doomad to eross _the sea no moro, would, in tho duys of claesio Gracee, havo booh incidont ouough'to-mnka the_gentle woman the conforsed victim of that dark Power which knew nothing of justice, but which moved in & mingled character of storm aud God ; but, uns dor tho moro rutional light of the Christian leounphy, & porsounl God, an jnfinite human« {ko sonl, out of which flowed long ago what affoction thoro is “in tho luman heart, was noar that compang, filling the farowells with & strango sudness, and making tho soa whispor each mght * ‘Thoy will not como bpck.” God waa theio, Thoro is nothing in such a death upon tho soa aud of such a being, and of such cluldron, that intimates tho absence or the cru- alty of God. Tho son has always boon tho ome biem of the Infinite Ono, Its oxpunnao, its sol« omn dopths, its power in storm, its smilo in ponce, ity uncousing motion, as though au infl- nito soul woro undor it, its voleo, which tle poot BOyH, All'tlirough the wintry storm and summor'a calm Ttiscs and falls in everlnsting peilm, " . hins nlways boon to man o whisper of the Doity. Audl, avou of God's love it hus been the favorite emblom, for thers Is nothing unrcow upon its glorfous fnco, and it is always flashing somio- whore with tho splondor of tho sun, blost with a porpotual morning and noon and ovening, play- ng upon_somo of s onstern or wostorn shores, Ity joy is slways upon its co\rn- tensueo, A8 ° ftd - wavo wnshos Wi fih equal softnces an leland or & coutinont, flows in a gult-stroam or newtles in tho cloft of o ravk, and murmura ag swoet musfe around tho Loat nf o fishorman as for the vogal bark of & Ciear, 50 the Divino love pours all nround {ho intolligent world, forgotting neithor tho hour wheu the soul m%u cos nor thosad hour whoa iv dies, "I'hio son A glorlous mirror whero the Almighty form Olasues Itecif in tempent; fn 6l time, Ol or convulaud, i breoze, or gule, or atorm, Teing the poto o 41 tho torrll clini, ! Dark-loaviug, boundios, sudloss, wiid sublime, The huage of Eternity, - ] ocamo all, pioturod over with tho good aotious LMo bo suddenly awakenod at miduleht, to find