Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1874, Page 2

1THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1874, correspondont yostordey men wero just like Yoon counting hoads,"” au 10'bo Joss: was found boon supposed, declino llr:prml." Wl(t(ulnnn, dl that * Dr, Do Koyén “ino lay- thnt g and_ had 0 losa cortain of olection than bnd and would at tho Inst momont As tho gentleman in quostion is indgpondent of both parties, and lins forsomo weoks'boon **on tho fence,” I have thought tho worda worthy of noto, es uite contrary to tho goneral opinion rocluuy a8 thoy aro whicl vet- #lea Dr. Do Koven firmly In_tho Bishop's chalr. TIHE BEY, E, A, HOFEMAN, D, of Bt, Maric’s Chnrch, J;!r:ll‘t.ldulphln, 8] 3 considered tho comin, oandidato from outsido tho dlocesa of any promi- - nonco, and {t is botweon him and the ltev. Dr. Do Koven that the contest will lio, D, 16"y many Ho fa tho only The morits olaimed for Mr, Hoffman aro that he is a slaunch, sound Eplscopal churchman, free from # TRomanising " tondencion; that ho carries ont tho ordor of tho Church and DPrayer-Book with uncommon fidolity to tho orthodox forma; that he ia opposed to the *advanced " idens and practicoa of tho oxtromely * Iigh" Church, Hame Almnn‘xl!. and tol erant at the time, conciliatory 4 tbat by-exporicnce and tenching | ‘becarno liabitunted to every shado of min- fl?u’:‘l‘:l 5\'0{]‘:‘ and lnancunllnrly’fltlud for tho “wilds" of Wisconsin. Al argo number of ehurchmon aro forvently uuited in favor of this 1t Dr, Da Kovon rofuses to necapt o nomination, Dr, Hoffman i8 gouorally rogarded as tolorably sare of election. candidato. THE REY. DR, of St Poul's Olmreh, st by somo, but not ontbnsinstically, Ho conduct. He s of n family of childron light tho l{'um of any paront, His homo is a model of love, rofinemont, and tonder hay piness ; but the Doctor's health is gonorally ‘conaidered delicate, and he scems to havo drop~ ‘pod out of tho raco. Thoso who know him in- timatoly, howover, say he is tough cnough for tho hardost Iind of work, that ho is na capital walker, that ho takes daily exerciso with cass that many a man, apparontly morerobust, would ‘shrink from, and that lis has a long lifo of use- Tua Doctor is about tho {uluoss boforo him. ordinary height, sparely made, with 0y, .exprossion of countenance. He is plain, hair, & mild and ASTIL EY, in spoken of a8 a iaa *““modorate™ chnrchman, aud n mon of un- usual gontlongss, beauty of i married, ife, and purity of ) nmlp fathor that wonld do- Yy plucld earnest, calm, d thonghtful, and avoids oxtravagances of all kinds. Hiafy i osccedingly amiable, lovablo kinds. charactor stanced, hIa but, by dlsposition and eirenm- home possasscy attractious, and has .cloima upon him that offcctually diminish his ‘chances for the Bishopile, His most intimate frionds say that Lo hos no yearnings after tho mitre. Ho has many fricuds. I DI, LEWIS KRMPER, a man of extrnordinarily studious and refined charactor, the son of the lato aud venerated Bishop Kemper, is alao ayolwn of a8 a candidate, fa considered almost too studioun and rotired for tho nctive work of o Wisconsgin Bishop 3 but his experionce of the dutios of o Bishoprio under bis father, his intel- lectual powors, o tivatad tastes, and purity of Tifo, aro thonght too valuablo to ho thrown sway without “copate. not His chunces are slim, orsonally an active worker among the somo offort to rotain thom for the Epls- lowever, as ho la churches, romaining much at home. THE NEV, RUAI MILLEK THOMPSON has received the indorsement of mome. Ho pecms disposed of, however, by the following paragraph - of & lotter In the Sentinel, signed f Anon 3 Tho ey, Hugh Miller Thumpson, although a man of marked abillt ,R 1 ahould regard as eutirely unfitted for ‘the offics, and doubt_whetlier he would acceptit. He already bas, in Now York, what suits his sort of Dobeo- ‘mian spirit (if I mayeo coll {t) fur better than the dult rontfne of a Blshop's life. Ile kas Lia three Bundoy services (orowded), fs church paper, and his utug articles for different literary magaaines—work cnougl to ki)l ordinary men, but Just suited to his craving ‘for emplogment and literary excitement, s THE FEELING IN JANESVILLE. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune, JaxesviLie, Wie,, Feb. 9.—Considerable in- “tapeus is manifosted hero over the Convention o be'heldin Jilwaukoo this weck for the cleotion of nn Epimopal Bishop to succeed the late Bishop Arnitage. Tho delegates from this ‘county aro dividod a8 follows : All from Boloit .for DoKovon; Trinity Church, Janesville, two for Dr, Hoffan, of Philadelphis, one for Dr. Cole, of Nnshotals; Christ Church, all for Hoff- man. A caroful canvass of tho State, made by & loading clurchman of this city, :shows thirty-two clergymen for DeKoven, and , thirty-seven opposed, Hoffman being atrongest .opponont, Ho is supported by leading clorgy- men in Milwaukee, Oslkosh, Madigon, and -Jancavilla, Tha probabiliticn are that unlesa DeKoven's opponents unita upon s candidate ho will be eleoted. A ciroulsr was reccived hcrs to-day, signen by sevoral lesding Nnshotah Tro- fessors and Wisconsin clorgynien, saving {hat DeKoven, if clected, would adopt the Catholic ‘form of worship, and the result wonld be that half the Church would go over 0 Rome and the A lively time is expocted other half to Chenoy. “in Milwaukee, : — ¥OR DR. DE KOVEN, To the Editor of The L‘lxl’czga Trbune: Sin: Your correspondent, in hid flrst com. wunieation, vot only charged Dr. Do Koven with the crimo, while s minister at the altar of the Eplscopal Church, of holding and teaching Tran- “substantiation and tho Mass, but also of advo- cating Romish Confession and Absolution. Ho charged him with Loaring Romish confessions ‘in his own colloge, and striving to become o vagrant confessor for othor achaols in the West. -Ho also basely insinuated thet ho is desirons of confessing girls,—italcising the word, o a8 to produce a valgar and popular effect. Ho doos nll this, not 85 & true knight, with his name accompanying the oharges, and making himgelf responsible for such serious accusations, bat under mask aud cover. 18 NOT THIS COWARDLY ? In his sccond communication, of Bunday, he eays that ho s acquainted with Dr. Do Koven, nod perhaps onjoys bis hospitality, and thon cvangolically stabs Lis friend and host. Io de- clures that his acquaintance justifies him * in respecting Dr.Do Koven highly, both ns n gentlo. man and a scholar.” How can Dr, De Koven be & gentleman, and yet guilty of the basencus chinrged,—~thnt of trenson to his vows, his Churoh, and guilty of perjury also? “Your correspondent corrects his firat lotter by distinotly avowing that Lo does not attack Dr. De Xoven's personnl character; yet, before he closes, makes attacks of the vilest sort, But let us notice the chargen against the Doc- .tor,—of believing In 'Transubstantintion and the doctrine of the Masy, tho Romish und advauced Ritualisu, ‘Webster thus defiucs TRANGUBSTANTIATION ¢ **The doctrino held by Roman Catholics, that Contossional, 'tho bread und wine Iu tho enclurist is converted into the body and blood of Christ,” Webnter thus doflues Mass: *The consecra~ tion aud oblation of th Qatholic Churches," ‘Wobster thue deflnos Host: “ The consecrated wafer, beliaved to be the body in }ass is offorod aa a sacritics,*' The essence of I'ransubstantintion . consecration, by tho act of the priest, 0 Host, in the Romsan of Ohrist, which s, that, in the brend and wine ceate to exist, and bocome the of Christ, and that the wafor is the hody of Churist, Tho Counoll of ‘Tront thus dofines Transul- stantintion: “That, in the conaccration of bread 8nd wine, thero is nindo & conversion aud change of the whole substanco of the bresd into the substance of our Lord’s body, aud a change of ho wholo substauco of the wino into thab of Hiy go has beon fitly and prop- blood, the which chany ol termed Transubatantiation,” 'ho XXVIII, Article of the Eplscopal Clurch snys: “ Transubstantistion (or the chango of the sul tance of tho bread and wiue) in the BSupper of the Lord, camnat be proved by Holy Writ, &o. Your corrospondent presents but ane quotation in his article to prove that Dr. Ds Koven in any wiso holds what the Church of Rome and tho Church dofiue to bo Transabstantia- Episcopal “Tion, Th 1a garbled oxtract fails to prove it, and, in connoction with many othor utterancos, proves -just the opposite, Whatever peculiurity thore may be not only not Romish, but ANTAGONISTIO THERETO, Dr., Do Kovon, in his _corrospondence with Dr, Crail, uoys (p. 9) : in Dr. DeKoven's view, it is cortainly % No physical ehunge of the natural substances of tho bread and wine is pro- duced by tho consecration,” * ‘Ihoro is in the Tncherist no corporal FProsouce,” Agaiu, p. 20; o the eye of fuith He is upon tho altar; . . « «» and ‘squally to tho samo fath , to tho adoring sight o is_seon,— . i s ono thing ‘to touch Aguin faith," e s Tt 1le f Clirist with our hands,” another thing ‘to touch Iim Dby faith,’ It is ouo thing to soo Ilim, anothor thing to bohold Him by the udm’lnp; eight of faithy' , e is upon tho Altar,'" 3 consccration, the broad and wine remain {u their matural substuce, with all thelr physioal proper- ties and powers," Again, ho pays that, aftor con- the Holy gifts aro still * tho fruit of uucuu’anl 4l vine,” and “the ‘to tho oyo of fuith Agnin, p. 80 ead.” *After He doolares that ho boliovea fully i both an outward sign and an inward patt of the sncramont. Agnin and. sgaln he declaros that ho does not beliovo in Fransubatqntintion, and ho regarda it s calamuy to Ao nasart. Inhis Inst utterances, nlate leitor to Dr, Asbley and others, he says: ‘I bollove that presotico to be IK NO SENAL MATENIAL O CORPORAL, but apiritual, flmuglh nona the less ronl nud true Docauso splritual. 1 think it wouldbo idolatry, to bo abhorred by any Christisn man, to woruhip tiio matortal clements.” Withsuch eondld and explicit uttorances, who 1n thero that can heliove that Dr. Do Kovon has any aympathy with tho Romish doctrine of Tran- substantiation, ‘ Dr. Do Kovon aurum tohayo an abiding saneo: of God's universal and continuous prosonce, Honeo this confusion about hiw views. ~ Ho goas boyond many of ua in a realizing senso of God's nun:!msn.m{{n] :mlllnvcu thlufi [¢ s:l l; lfif‘»unt at theultar, o ]noverywhore, and ehould avery- wharo' Bo awormhipod, Wit Dishop Androwas. he oxclaims : Christ Himgelf. . . . . apart from and without the sscrament, whorever ho {4, i8 to Do worshiped. The Dootor bresks forth: “Whon I kneol in my closot, or wall nbroad, or kneel in_the Houso of God, whereso- ovor I may bo, Ho is, andavorywhere I can ndore Him s verily present in Iis Divine Na- ture. If one should say you run the risk of confounding Him with the air and space in which you localize Him, in tho room or clurch in which you approhend His Presonce, and theroforo arg in daugor of idolatry, I should answor, God is a Bpirit, and cannot ha con- foundod with matorinl things, and is in all things, and not of thom, and I worship Him ‘ in Splrfls nod in trath. " Told and reckleta must be the man who will now hnrl the javolin of the heresy of Trausub- stantintion agninst Dr. Do Koven | The equivalent, and in most cnaen 'THE IDENTICAL, VIEWS of the Sactament Lold by Dr. D Koven Liava bocn {aught, as tho Deon of the Court of Arches sald, by *“a loug roll of lustrious divines, who havo adorned our [the British] universities, and fought the good fight of the Churoh, from Rid- loy to Kebla; " such as tho sainted hlulmp drawes, tho groat Jeremy Taylor, Blshop Bav- aridge, Bishop Overall, Bishop Pearson, George Horbett, Diehop Korr, Donne, Sherlock, the Dishop of Salisbury, and Ridloy, and hundreds of such eminent prolntes aud divines who nover dreamed they wera Romanists, some of them martyrs of the faith, Your correspondent, by his theological blun- ders, would exclude from the Episcopate of Wiscousin-oven mdloi', and Pearson, and Korr, and_Lather, and Calvin, for they Teld views vastly more objectiounble to modern Protostant- ism than those of Dr. Do Koven. | THE CONFESSION OF FAITIL OF THE PRESOITERIAN cnuncu is a8 strong a8 the Dootor's views aa to the sac- aments, I mvito attontion to Chaptors xvii. and xviii, Ialso invito to anexamination of tho Dutch Confesston aud Leturgy, The Datch Confossion says: *‘ Wo orr not when we enythat what i eaton aud drunk by us is the proper and natural body and the proper blood of Christ. But the maner of our pariaking of the same is not by the mouth, but by the spirit through faith.” Tho Presbyterian Confession holds similar dootrine respecting the spiritnul way of partak- ing, and_spoaks of the **Sacramont of Christ's body and blood.” The same Confession furthor states that *“ The body and blood of Ohrist " are “igg really, but spiritually, prosent to tlie faithof '} boliovers in that ordinance as the elomonts them- welves” (Chapter xxix.). John Wesley and TIE RARLY METHODISTS excecded Dr, Do Kovon. Tyorman, the groat Mothodist suthor, in his recont work, styled *The Oxford Methodiats,” deolares that tho Methodists held ‘‘somothing approaching ¢ an outward saorifico offored thore- in;'" i, o, the Holy Sacrament, *Thoy moro than approved of tho mixture of water with the sncramental wine,” John Wesloy, a8 late na 1746, in a lettor to Mr. Hall, writes: ~ ** There s an outward priesthood, andcousequentlyan outwardeacrifice. . . . . We bellove thero is, and always was, in evory Chris- tian church, an outward priesthood ordained b; Jesus Christ, aud au outward sacrifice offors therein,” Ono of tho names given to tho early Mothod- i8ts waa that of Sncramentarians. Tho chargo agaiust Dr, De Koven about i THE CONFESSIONAL *hins mo more substanco,, He simply uees, inf the Exhortation to the Communion of the DPrayer-Book, tho worda: Lot him como to mo, or go 40 tome other min- ister of God's Word, and open Lis griof, that ho may receive such fidly counsol and advice a8 my tend toihe quioti nfi of his conecionce,” Ho maintaing thnt this should not bo a dead letter, He belioves in tho form of Absolution in the Prayer-Book, . and uses no other. So should overy faithful nlnr?ymnu of tho faithtul Church, 1f ‘mou viewod sin aud their sivs ns they ought, if thoy were deeply in earnest about tho salva- tion of their souls, there would be frequent occas siona for visita to their pastor, Dr. Do Koven does not toach that the people shiould gototheir clorgy when they can determino their own doubts. He does not tench that this i8 necousary to the Communion, and that men can forgive sins. His viows and practicos AUE ANTAGONISTIO to the Romish confessional. Webstor thus dofives * Auricutar Confession : The private and special confession of sing to s ?r!eat, for the purpose of obtaining his absolu- ion,—an imperutive duty in tho Church of Rome.” This Lr. Do Koven ulterly rejects. Horo is the Dootor's statement to tho Rey. Dr. Ashley and others: * I firmly hold that private .confession is noither necessary to tho confossion of sin, nor a necessary, prefiminary to the Holy Oommuuion, nor to be enforced wpon any ona. Indeed, I regard the voluntariness as an absolute necessity to ita over being of any uso to asin- Inden sonl.” Webstor thus doflnes ¢+ . BITUALIRM : ¢ Confidonco in more rites or external cere- monics,” The last chiarge that should be brought against Dr, De Koven, s0 remarked for Lis spir- itual nature and character, * i But, of what your correspondent means by advanced Ritualism, there is said to bo noue of it ut Racine College. Dr, De Koven uses tho Prayer-Book sccording to the ‘Canons and Ru- brics, If he inducea all to sing, and lustily; if he awakens oarnest and hoartfolt devotion; if he, uses symbolism to torch truth through the eyo,— itis all right, Symbolism is only to be con- demned when it tenches error. Ititteach peni- tence, faith, and hope, and charity, nnd love to God aud man, it is to be desired. If it teach Travsubstantiation, and pride, and exclusive- neas, and orror, it must bo condemned, Our Lutheran friend wonld drive the Ritualist out of the Church, The Church, which has wamily welcomed him and tho Oalyinist, cannat excludo the Ritualist, The Ritualists make mis- tnkes, and gomotimes wasto thoir enorgies on triflos, and ocoasionally are guilty of arror; but, in the main, thoy ave men trying to serve God, and to bring the Ohurch {0 s more charitable, unworldly, and devout condition, Let them bo enoouraged in their song-power, until ‘all the people praise God ; encouraged in their dovo- tion, zen), and charity to the poor, until Chris- tians hecome ono vast brotherhood, T invite tho attention of vour readers fo the -following, tuken from the "great work of Tyar- man, : A ON THE METHODISIS, JJuat insned : “The Oxford Mothodists, up to tho time of fhoir gou- eral dlspersion from that seat of learniuy, wero all (ox- cepling, perliaps, Whitoflold) Cliurch of Eugland faifir- altsls, "Thole mioral couduct ws most sxempliry, They wore studious, dovaut, self-denying, chariiabie, Thelr wtudy of tio Biblo gained thom thé, icknamos of “ Bible-higotw'’ nud ¢ Biblo-moths,” Every morne ing and evory eveniny, thoy spent au hour u° private prayer; and, turovigliobt tho doy, habltuited thoraselves to tho ao of efuculution, for fuimility, faith, hops and love, 'Thuy communicated at Chirst Obnreh oncs o weok, and porsuaded ail they could to attoud public Lruyers, sormone, and tacramonts, ‘Thoy wore cone. staut viaitors of the inmaten of te purlsbworkhouso, and of tho prisoners 1n the Castlos sud it wan the Jractico of allof thom to dispenuo i olarity all oy d, after providing for thols own neccsultics, Ty a1s0'obsuryed tho diselpling of tho Church of ugland {0 tho minutest, poluts 3 und woro serupulously wirict in practiciug tho Tubrias und conons, Livery Wednos- duy und Triilay they fastod, tastiug no foud whatevor A3 o'clock in tho afternnan, Though, porhups, thoy nover held tho doctrine of thie liumun’ uatura of tho Pivine Halvemor helug prosent In tho elomients of the Holy Bucrament, fhey bold somelhlug apmosching thie, und spoke of *an outward kacrlfics offorod theres in" Thoymore than spproved of Wio mixture of Wtor wllli tio saeramontal wino; and roliglously ab- served #aint doys, holiduys, sud Buturdeys, They maiutuined the dovirine of Apostalical siccesston, nug believod 1o onio hnd anthority to adminiater tho sacru- Tiouts who wes mot. eviscoally oxduined. Even in Georgls, Wesloy: excluded Dhigenters — from thy Ualy” Comunion, on {ho groynd that they had not” beon properly baptized, oud would him- solf baptizo ouly by smmoraton, wuloss tho child op person was in o \eeak atato of health, 'Ho also onforoed confeasion, pouence, und mortification aud, as fa youslble, carrlud fnto oxecution tho Apostalo Gonatl. utlouw.’ In shorl, with tlio excopiion of sucerdotal mullifnory, tho hurniug of inceuo, the wordhip of tho Yisgin, piayors for tis doud, aud tww or thrce otlur kindroi uporstitions, the Oxford Alotbodists wore tho [ fruth of Chilst i1 fta simpliclly and {ta mlfllfi, prodecossors of tlio prosent Ritunliutlo party in (he Church of England, May wo not fuduljzo hapo that what God did for the Oxford: Methadists Ho will do for thoso at the Jresont day who, iu aoit Fesposty, resomblo thow 7 ught we not to ray for this 7 _Indecd, has it not, to souie extent; een realized 7 Though tho leadera’ of the Oxford Tractariun movement havo unguestion- ably sorvid tho intorcats of tho Ohiurch of ltoms far niose tlian tho Inlerests of the Ohurch which aurtured fhom, yet {4 18 not n fact that rome 6f e hard-works ing Evangallonl clergy of thio Ulurels of England, now #o nuccesntitlly employed in tho ppread of truthy begon thole Olirintini lifo an” tio Osxford Mothodlstd began fholen? Anitfs it wrong to prayeefully cherish {he expectation that, {n meroy o mankindj othors will be brought to the ssmo_convictionn? The Church, tho mtlon, and {he world neod thofe sarmestnoss, aili- gonce, self-denjnl, and dovotion, et them Iay salde tole ‘Popinh folilen und protontions, and embrace tha ond o Tnst soma of thom may, undor God, necoplish'n work ns great nndas blessod oA wan nccomplished by Wealsy and his ¢ Holy Olub,” I do not know Dr. Do Koven. I have nover sogn him, But his onomles have convinced mo that thero fs i . WORK, FAITI, AND LOVE I¥ RIM, Droad humanity, groat epirituality, and overflow- ing charity ; that he is n goentloman, s scholar, and of exccutivo ability ; that he will nover prcm;l n’:ulh{r. Iml; l:nv;p ‘lmni w«ark for Bl!.elu- way Hall, and popular applauge, sud morasalary: it o will i work at homer s 4o it y 1 do not sympathize with the viows of Dr. De Koven, but I fool that the timo hay como Lo quit quarreling about ‘mero words, and go to work in earnost to bloss our race, 'AIR PrAY. ———— AGAINST DR, DB KOVEN. To the Editor of The Chicago Tritime: Sm: Ontho2let of Octobor, 1871, Dr. Do Kovon ia roported to have publicly stnted his views of the Lord's Buppar in the following words: ‘I believe tho real, sctual prosence of our Lord, nnder the form of bread and wino, upon tho altars of our churchos. I mysolf adoro, and would, if i wera nacessary, orjmy duty, teach my peoplo to adore Christ present in the ele- monts under tho form of broad and wine.” This is plain statement, eneily understood, and to be admired for its esndor; but, in his lottor this weel to Dr. T.ocke on the samo sub- joct, he has depnrted from his plainness, and ° MYSTIFED THE MATTER CONSIDERADLY. Ho nppears to me now to fall back on some special phaao of that anoxplainable tonot, *‘Con- substantiation,” deolaring that ho holds what Dr. Puroy and other mon hold and have hold,~nover roferting to tho Scriptures as an authority, or as iving light on tho subject. If elected Bighop, no oubt ho will fulfill Lis view of his duty by ador- ing and - toaching the poople to adore as above stated ; but will not bis election, combined with the recent actions of & majority of the Bishops, (patronizing churches fult of thie and other deadly errors) open tho eves of multitudes of Protestant Episcopat Churchmen, and cauio thom toask themsclves, Am Ion the Lord's Bide? Yen, even to feel the necossity of ' taking uj tho Croas,” and following Him who is worsh! pus *in ppiricand in truth?"~ Respeotfully yours, Ax_FpracorAr ORuRou-COMXUNICANT oF Fonry YrAns' BTANDING, Qneaco, Feb, T, 1874, - THE CURRENCY QUESTION. WHAT DO T IERE ? Important Letter by Dr. O, O. P. Clark, of Oswego. To the Editor of the Oswega Palleditim . Sin: The tiusncisl problem of the dny is two- fold: (1) How shall we gt back to spacie pay- ment? and (2) How can we bestow upon our paper-currency the facnlty of obedienca to tho law of demand and supply? Its solution is the study of the Prasidont and his Uabinet, of Con- groes, and Boards of Trade and Commoerecinl Convontions all over the country, and, indeed, to somo extent, of almoat every man who cares. cither for tho honorof the nation or for the snfoty of his private business, A class of men, it {8 true, are Iately making thomselves hoard who think that the first ques- tion is of no importance, or at least need not be considered ot prosent. They hold that » prom- 180 to poy, if only it is mado by euch a Govern- ment as ours, will never really need to be re- doomed—oxcopt by anmother promise to poy. Gold and silver they regard ns antiquated and, onporfuons elements in tho exchianges of $he world, whose former function can now he well” discharged by an ; EVERLASTING ROUND OF I, 0. U'S, S These financlers do not merit to be argued with. They stiow themsolves equally ignorant of tho fixst elements of political economy, aud rogard- lcsa of all the lossons of commercial history in, this and Other ‘countries. Thelr propor placess In tho comlpnny of the two historic echoolhoys who, shat Into a oloset by their teacher for pun- ishment oue aofternoon, mado 5 apiece swap- ping jnckets with each other, Spacie-payment, it is abvious, must begin, nat witfi the peoplo, nor with the banka, bat withthe United Btates Treasury. Near four years ego, Congress plodged its faith *to make provision b the carliest practicable moment for the re- demption of the United Statos notes in coin.” Tho conscience: of the nation, deemiug that the. lapsc of 80 long a period of peace and genoral rospority ought to have farnished o * practica- Elu moment " for at least : DEGINNING TO PERFORM this golemn promiso, is beoomlug snxious about tho matter, and a littlo ashameds It desires to seo this pledgo rodoemed, fo_ges tho financial honor of the nation again erosted,'the stability of prudent business atrengshencd, and the re- ‘wards of honest industry mado more certain, It wanta to have epecio - payment resumed by the Trensury,—not 85 at o time in silver, ns by the iast devico of ugh- functionaries of tho Ropui» lic; npt in half or other smaller portion, as hog been ofton propased iu Congress and olsewhoro, not temporarily, but permancently and totally. Lepislation will of course he required for this; for it Is certain that our paper-imonay wilt nevar, by the mexre force of the public credit, reach .. TIUE SPECIE-STANDALD, Naver in the historyof tho world have the poper-isines of any Government beon waith their face in specie specio was provided to re- deem them, ‘We cannot pay specie now simply because wo have not got enough of it. Wa have £400,000,- 000 worth of outstanding promises to pay on do- mand, and only 840,000,000 to 850,000,000 of hard monoy in the Treasury to meet them with, Wo might begin epecic-payments with: this sum, but we. oertn.hll{ could not continue it long, even if wo shonld collect all public dnes in gold and silver. Btarting with $100,000,000, we might go on well Lmnual‘: in quiet times; but nnthiz:fi loss than twice that sum would make us ready to mobet thoso ' ¥INANCIAL CONVULSIONS that, two or ihree tiwes in every generation, soize npon the commerce of the world. Probably thore is no mzn who will sea the way clenr to collccting this surplus of 200,000, 000 into tho Treasury. To undertako it is forbid- don by true economy, by the naturnl and res- gonable impatience of the people in tho mattar of toxation, and, moro potently still, by those necensitios of pnflg and expediencics of poli- tica which now subjoct to their requivemonts every measure of public poliey. It this be true; it follows that we can roturn to specio Y‘lymuuts only by reducing the our- roucy obligations of the Treasury. Like tho smbarraseed trador whose nusets aro abundant, but whose cush in hand is a little deficient, we must got timo on tho demands that rrana ue, Wao must withdraw greonbacke from clroulation 1Y FUNDING THEN on such most favorablo terms ss our croditors will aceapt, \ Al thix is eimple onougl, and it hus boen aaid many timos before, No intelligent man doubt that it iy what we must como to bofore wo Eh]l:l“ 860 any form of national paper as good 28 gold, oroover, this withdrawal of groenbacks from circulation is groutly to he desired, becauso, so loug as tho Troasury bad a paper-currency out, tho quantity of such curroncy must be nuhjenl to the detormination of Cougress. This is wmost objectionable state of things; because (1) no Congress ovor hes boen, or ever will bo, wike cnough to know how much cwrrenoy is reslly needod ;3 and (2) bocause tho leaving “this quoa~ tion to Congross s to oultivate alike the do- bauchment of Congross and the iusecurity of busiuoss, But this is contraction, and at that word a considerablo part of the businows-world crics aloud. Must that ery bo heeded ? Not 80, No doubt contraction woula diminish spuculative sotivity ; but thero never Law been, and never will bo, & tima whon that rosnlt would not attend it, or wiien enterprising mon will not ABK YO MOBE MONEY, oven though at the exponse of the peoplo and of publio credit. It was a memorable saying of Andrew Jookaon, that those who trada on bor- Towed cupltal ought to broak. Without going so far a8 that, it may safoly be hold that t| 0y whose businoss-suceess dopends on the vontlu- uod bnukrnrtuy of the uation and the {rredeema~ bility of the money of the people, have no olaim ugau the public for md, If thora I8 suythin that does mnot noed ou- couragomont in this country, -it is whai is called onterpriso, Every ymu-h misplacos and wastes on {nflnite amount of labor and capital, Not seldom it Is a more appeal to obauce, or a veckless discount of tho future, and often it is an utter ' contldence " gawme, played tpon the poople. Man: sous In 1, o HIONEST COMMENOR AND UBEFUL INDUNTRY of the natfon.will never suffor in cunsequonce ot aretutn fo spocie-paymont, whatover coutrace tlon of thio ourroncy may attond It. But tho quontion of contraction needa not in woll-honded city had had lea- . fact to bo consldered, for tho withdrawal of groonhbncks can ho accompanied with sich_pro- _vislon for tho oxslnalou of the Natlonal Bank aurrorioy 8 will 1T tho vold. or at lenat Tully ro» apond o tho notual wants of tho business of the country, This brings us to the quostion whother the Govornment should troubla itself ot nll about n papor-ourrenoy for olroulation among the poople in making the exchanges of uvorydnt‘s business, ‘Those who &natwer the .question In the nogativo, rogarding hard money as o eufllciont currency, ignore a fact 28 wide an modern olvilization. lglfim‘-nm‘mncy 18 losy a devico then a growth. It bas como .into univoraal use beenuse, for o thousand purposos, it is far more convenlent, as well as chooper, than a motnllic curroncy, Whate evor Goyernment may - do, Society will havo it, For tho law to forbjd it would bo vain, unless it ghould also refuse its ald in tho collection of dnbtal m% indeed, vamn ovon thon. To let it alono Is to hond ovor tho iguorsnt and thought- Toss n8 holpless victims to tho devices of unscru- pulous cunning,—rofusing thom that protection {from fraud which ia n duty of Hocloty only sac- ond 1o importanco to their protoction agalnst violonco. Tt only remains for Government to authorizo and regulate it, nud placa it on A BECURE BASIS. 1t is gonerally conceded, sud will be taken for anied hore, that what is known as the Now ork system of banking, though in some ro- epects imporfect, covered tho three cesentinl Erinclpluu of o sound papor-curroncy: (1) It nsed that currency on tho publio credit ; (2) it made its issuc freoto all under certain con- ditions, thus enabling its voluma to vary, not at tho discretion of a Logislature, but in obedienca fo tho domanda of business ; (8) it provided for its redomption, not only nt the counter from which it was issued, but also at the commorcinl centro whoro it would most accumulate, and wharo, thorefore, its rendy conversion fnto me- tallic currenoy would moat promote tha publia convenience. A whole goneration of financlal wisdom lins added nothing to this plan, savo only to sug- Rost that 1t {8 botter that our paper-ourroncy should be NATIONAL, AND NOT LOCAL, in its authorization and basis, sinco thus alons cau it ba national in its oredit. All elso that is good in tho planof our present national currency was borrowed from tho New York system. It is oot nusnd ta do more hore than to ~ botter some of tho details of that plan. ‘Without further prefaco, and without eriticis- {ng other devices for the correction of our pres- sont monetary diffoultios, I will now set forth my own, ot groonbacks be mado EXCUANGEADLE FOR GOVERNMENT TONDS, or, %m-hnps better, for perpetual annuitios, ab thia best ratq that Congross may judgo to bo p siblo. A 4 per cent rato of intercst, or a corre- sponding annuily, possossing tho adyantages which itia hore proposed to give these securi- ties, would, probably, bo now’ 'rrnutl.cnhlo sud, porhaps, ovenn Jower rate, Tho offered rate could, of courso, bo chatiged for a lower whon- over found possible. Let the holdors of all classes of Govorument-bonds now out bo en- titled to oxchanjo thom for bonds or annuities of this same sort, and carrying the ssme following privilego, viz: i Lot fim Lioldarg, on dopositing them with the Comptroller of the Currancy, or other designat- ed public functionary, in the amount of not less. than 100,000 or otber oxpodient sum, bo enti- tled to receive therefrom for issue and cirenla- H:ln 7‘5 per cent (or, perhaps, 80) of their par valuo in OURRENCY NOTES from tho Priuting Bureau of tho Governmont, congpicuonsly engraved, as now, with the firm fls the individual or corporation that receives o, Lat theso notes on thoir face bo made payablo on domand at par in specie by the baukors that recoiva and issue thom, not only at_their coun- ter, which might be locatad in Montana or Alaska, but slso at somo designated agency in the nearest-af the great commorcial centras of tho country—New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, Boston, New Qrleans. Thus far I follow, substantially, the Now Yorlk froc-banking systoem, But, if these notea aro not redeemod, e WHAT T{EN ? . ‘L'o meot thia uwa{‘u possible emergency, no bot- ter way has beou thus far dovised than to tlrow the defaulting banker into bankruptey at the firat default, and close up the business, sending all his curroncy to his treasury for redemplion, This g, in nubstnnce[ the New York mothod and our present Natlonal method, The rosult has beon, and on that plan musi always be, that every now and then comes r genoral” suspension of spocie-payments by banks, without or with the mncoial “authorization or condonement of Legislotures, and involving wide-sprond dig- turbance of businoss and bankruptoy nmoug tho peoplo. This rigid rule not only makes banking Ewenhma. but, thoreforo, necessarily makes anking accommodations always dear, slike to :hs grlanc damage of capital and the hindrance of ndustry. Thlnryln)nrluns dofect of that othorswise ad- mirable system I propose to correct in tho fol- lowing maoner ; VWhenever any part of the issues of a National Bank, as here provided for, shall be refused re- demption, either at its own counter or by its ap- pointed agent in some commercial centre, let it by senl to_the Bureau of the Treasury that holds ils pledged securitics, and let enough of them, AND No nonE, be sold to NEDEEM TIHE DEPAULTED PAPER and to pay the reasonadle expenses and cosfs of the defaull, and let the business of the bank go on. ‘This is my device for making specle-payment fax easier for banks, and theretoro more cortain for those who hold "their notes, than it has heroto- fore boon mado. I claim a patent for the con- trivance. 1 would, moraover, tempor tho despotism ovon of this rulo by providing (1) that, ywhen tho sell- ing price at anction of thesd plodged obligations of the Governmeut should fall Lelow, say 90 or cent of par, their furthor sale and the urther redomption of the dofanlted {‘mpcr should be postponad for thirty days in the in- stanco alike of the banker aud of finaucinl stoadiness, Such delny, thus provided for by Iaw, and therofore matter of easy anticipation, could never, it is bolioved, work sorious injury or embarrassment to the holders of the dishon- ored notes, would tend to moderato the violenco of ponics, and would at tho same time greatly cheapen uand disombarrass the usoful functions of bunking, It istbbe romombered thal what is needed is not so much the instant, AS THE CERTAIN | convertibility of whe curroncy. The delay, more- over, would give time for tho reserves of tho world to come to the resouo of avy transient embarragsment of our fuancial condition, I would also provide (2) that, whonover, after tho above delny, the selling value at auction of theao stocks should fall below the percontage at ‘which the Govornment had mado thom u basis for tha issuo of curroncy to baulors, their sale ghould go on, but that™ that defleiency of price should bo MADE UP BY GOVERNMENT ITSELY, and not by the defaulting bauk,—thus making tho Government the gnarantor to the bauker of tho vaine of its bonds to the extont to which it liad made thom a basis for tho iseue of ourrency, Per conra, it should be ordercd, ns o atim- ulns to due preparation for tho redemption of their paper, that unkers should nat bo allowed to pul again upon the market, by tho doposit of now bonds, their dishonored notes, Epecio-phyniont by banks, thus secured, could foil only when the credit of tho nation should fall, sud in the presouco of theso groav convule slons which put all provision and “provision at deflanco, When this happens, all. credits’ havoe slready glven out, wampum and cowries aro as - good a circuluting medium as_any other, finane olal chnos hae returned, and Divine Providonce and the furtive stocking are the only safe bank- ors that romain, It is boliovod that this devico solves tho prob- lom of I0W TO MAKE BANKS BEDEEM, with all promptnesy, the currenoy that they is« &ue, nud yat not Lo either in daily danger of de- atruction, or obliged, as our State banks were, and a8 now aro oven tho colosgal and strong. founded Banlks of Eufhnd ond Francs, toinvoke at.evory great fluaucial convulsion the interfer- ouee aud aid of Government, With tho introduction of this system, the prea- ont furthor restraints and suporvision of bank- ing might advantagoously bo withdrawn, Lot Dbank-oflicers bo held to » striot oriminal yaa}mu- sibility for fraud, and lot stockholdors be held ta full peonniary linbility for all the obligations of their bauk; “but beyond this let them conduok their busivess an they please. Lot tho bank loan to whom it likes ; ot it pay intorcst on de- posita ornot; lot it keep on hiand a reserve, or not keop o raserve. Tho currency will be seoure, and stockholdors, nfiumxmlou, and tho monoy- niarket may #nfely bo loft to TAKE OARE O THEMNSELVES, Bo moy depositors, whon guardoed as above, Tha mattor of taking caro of money is a subject for maturs considoration, not of suddon aut, liko ro- coiving pay Saturday night or making cfmngo of 8 96 noto with the butcher, o who bas had the forethought to save may eafely be trusted to tako cnra of his wavings, - In order to bring dOwa aa far ss, possible the rato of Inborest on tho class of bonds here pro- vided for, nnd ta promoto tha notivity. and enso |- of husinoss and a low rate of intercat amang tho pnn}fln by the fros organization and full oot~ potition of cn‘ulm in baoke, the special taxes of ol kinds which aro now lqviod on bauking, and whicl, for tho most part, bnnkers pass over to tho people with n good commission added, ANOULD BE REMOVED, 5 lonving it an tho samo footing iwith all othor mantoriond business, Though this construotion of our finances will undoubtedly moderato, it is not ox~ noctod " that it " will altogothor proven panica, The cred!t-afatom is an oasontial part of modern avilizntlon, nor can it fafl to oxtond and multiply itsolf In proportion fo the aprond of trnde, the growth oF enterpriso, and tho ovor-widening _subdivision of labor, solong a8 we trush each other, we shall ovory now and then got rearod abouf onr sconrities, Thus from timo” to timo will arise, commorcial revulslons and endden disturbauces of industry. ‘['ho most that Govornmont cau do in this bohale I to socuro us from the bdrood of disnators that arg hatohed by an irredeemnble eurrency. If wo aro to roturn to mpeale-payment at all, this mothod of doing it will b fonud tobe . ', CONBISTENT WITIC TRUE ECONOXY. Undor it, in the firat placo, tho Treasury will not bo obligad to gather and keop oo hond, in ordor to resume, sn idlo surplus of not loss than $160,000,000 in gold, ns {s proposed in the late messagoof Gov, DIx, and as will cortainly bo necessary if wo aro to undertake and maintain speclo paymeont with $400,000,000 of groenbacks outatauding. In thenoxt placo, this roatoration of national solvonoy canld not fail so to ratse our credit that wo should speedily bo ablo to ro- fund our wholo £2,000,000,000 of national dobt at arato of intorost at leust fpor cout, aud probably 2 por cont, lower than what we now pay. Tho credit of this country ought to bo as good as that of Gront Britain, To theso advantages is to bo ndded tho solid value of an ESUAPE FROM THE TOLITIOAL DEDAUCHERY that necessarily attonds having tho volume of ourrenoy dependont, s it now 18, on _tho verdict of politics, conxed, or farced, or boughit by specu- lution and self-sooking. Or, if it is thought so dosirable to cconomize by floating a non-interost bcmng dobt, it enn bo” doue consistontly with orfect solvency snd noquestlonable oredit by he {ssno of tax-ocertiticates, recoivable for nil public duties, excopt duties ondimparts, and pay- nblo on all domehtio oxpenditures of the Govorn~ mont thnt may ba contracted for after the dnto of the nuthorization of such cortificatos, but not redeomablo in specie. Bus this by tho way, and moroely a6 o SUGGESTION TO PENURIOUS PATRIOTISM, Tho prosentation of theso viewa at this time in morely a caveat, o rccroation, and an instinet. 1t thero be any ound and sclontific principlos of finance, they havo as little chanco of an ap- prociative recoption in an_American Congress, at tha presont time, ng the Principin of Newton would "have in au idiot asylum, or the Bermon on the Mount in’ a don of thiovos. Italy or Bpain is moro likely . to returnto spcaie-pay- monts within tho next ton years than we are, - I vonturo the prediction that not till Republican~ ism in this country.is reconstructed by the adoption of somo betier way than tho prescnt of ostablishing public-authorily, willithe peoplo sce again a8 good ‘o curroncy a8 Azarinh O, Flngg and Abijah Mann dovised for them forty years ago. Q. PG Oswxao, N, Y., Jan, 16, 1674, THE LIQUOR LAW, Decision of the Supreme Court in the Lavin Case. Questions Which May Properly Be Put to Jurors, ‘We give horewith the decision of tho Supreme Court in the cnse of Michael Lavin'v. The Pooplo, which was carriod up from this county, The opinion, which is written by Mr. Justtco Cralg, is as follows ; At the October term of the Criminal Court of Coalc ‘County an indiotment was found by tho Grand Jury sgainst Miohael Lavin for selling intoxioating liquors to o person who was in the babit of gettiug intoxivated. At the January term,.1873, of tho Conrt, n trial was had before a jury, and the defondaut found guilty. In selocting o jury-to try the cause in thoe Orimival Court, the dofendant propounded to ench juror called the following questions : 1. Ara you n member of & temperanos soclety ? 2. Aro you connccted with any society or lengue organtzed for tho purpose of prosecuting n cortain class of peoplo undor what ia called the New Temperance law of tho State ; or have you evor contributed any funds for such a purposs ? The Peopls, by the Stato’s Attornoy, objected to the jurors answering the questions, and tho Court sustained tho objection, nod would nob pormit the jurors to answer, and to tuis ruling of the Court tha dofendant objectod. ' 1t is the policy of our laws to afford each and overy porson who may have a cauge for trinl in our courts o fair and 1mpartial trigl. 'Chis can ouly be done by having the mind of each juror Who sits to pas-judgment upon the life, liberty, or rights of a suitor eutiraly froe from biss or projudice. Inorder to determiuo whethor the porson who may be called a8 s juror possesses the necesvary qualitications, whether his mind is free from prejudico or bias, the suitor has the right to asl him quostions; the answer to which may tend to ghow. ~Hamoy bs challonged for causo to dieclose a ftato of facts from which tho suitor mny gee propor to roject such juror per- emptorily. In casa of the Commonywealth v. Egan ok al, 4th Gray, pago 18, which was an_indictment for Leing common sellors of spirituous liquors, Egau, before his cause was;opened to.the jury, inquired if any members of tho: panel belonged to the Carson League, and one answered that ha Wag o memmber of nnillhenguo; that, as he under- stood it, the abject of the- Socioty was to prose- cute lYmamm for violation of the Liquor law, so called ; that asscssments wero mado upan men~ bers for the pnrpose of carrying out the objects of tho Soclety; that they had paid one assoss- mont, sud expected to puy moro ; that thore was nothing in the existenco of this membership to provent his giving o foir and impartial vordict according to the evidonce. ‘The defendant ob- jectod to the juryman, but tho Court overtuled tho objection and allowed hiwm to remain in the panol. The sppollata. court, in deciding the case, said: Wo deem it to be ourdaty to say that, in our Judgment, tho mombers of, uny assoctstion of men ‘combiniug for the purpose of cuforcing or withstand. ing tho oxecation of a particular law, and binding themsclves to coutribute monvy-for such purpose, cunnot be beld to bo {ndifferent, und therefora ought ni0t to Lo permitted to all us ,lllm!‘l in the trink of the cause in whick tho question Is whether the defendant shall bo found guilty of violating thal Inw, In the cuse of the Peoplo v. Roges of al., 5 Cal} 847, the Buprome Court of California, in'n_ooso analogous, held substantislly as did the Court in Mavsachusotts, We uro not, howevor, in thia case, called upon to decldo whether an alirmative answer to tho questions propounded to the jurors would havo Loen ground of chaliengo for cause. The ques. tious were nsked with " viow to call out faoty upon which to base o poremptary challengo, aud for this purpoeo thoy wora proper, aud should havo beon suswerod. That the rofusnl of the Court to permit the quostions asked to bo avswered was orror, for which tho judgment ehould bo rovarcd tliero can be no doubt, - Brooks v, Brown, 36 Ill,, 405, Birroll v. Ryan, 28 I1l,, 666, 1t cannot ba said tho cause was tried by Jury such s is contemplated by law, Tho othor quostlons raised in the case aro sottled by tho case of McCutehoon v. ‘o Peaple, declded at the preseut term, For the error in- dicated, tho judgment will bo roversed and the cnuso romandod, Iu this MoCutchoon caso, referred to in the preceding deoision, tho dofendunt was indictod for unlawlully selling lquor to & minor without tho consont of his purents, Tho case was tried in tho County Qourt and n motion made to quash tho indictment, ou the ground it did not aver the agonsed know the porson to whom ha sold liquor was & miner. Tho action of the Court in averruling the motion It uesigned for orrar, but tho Bupromo Court sustains tho lower tribunal, holding ik is the duty of tho soller to goo thnt the porson to whom Lo solls 18 authorizod to buy, It & man way gometimes sufler ponaltics when ho knd no Intontion ta violate tho law, it ls an- #wored that this iv ona of the risks . incident to tho businoes, aud, recelving tho omolumants, must niso take tho hazards, Judges Walker and MeAlnsterdissent, belloving that gulty knowledgo must bo pravon on the trinl, oven It not averred in tho iudictment, SR M R A, FAST TIME, 8ax_ Fravcaco, Fob, 0.—Tho China Traue-Fae oific Steamsbip Company's steawmeor Vasco Di Gama anived lost night about miduight, elghtoon daye and twenty-threo aud a half hours from Yokeliama, the fastost tlme betwaen these ports on record. RAILROAD NEWS, . Possible Strike of LocomoTve | Engineers. Special Session This Month to Consid~ * or the Questiom, Speech of - Willlam B. Ogden on {ho Charleston & Chidago Road, .= - The Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Radlroad Bridge at - Quincy. Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of tlie Philadelphia & Erie Company, Miscellaneous' Jtoms Ahont Western . Ronds, - + THE RAILROAD-ENGINBERS. . - Tho ciroular,of’ Grand €hlof Engincor Wilson to tho Brothorhood of Locomotive Engincers, in regard to o now strike, has.aaused quite & com- motion among ratlway officinls, as well as nmong tho locomotive engincora thomeelves. The cir- cular was sent to: enchulodge with atriot {nutruc- tions to keop it socrot, and nat lot tho purports thercof be known ta the genoral publicor to.rail- roud officiala, A TIAITOR. IN THE CANP, Btill, ona of the engincera tarned'traltor totho Union, and gava tho documont to the Superin- tendent of . Lis road, from whom Tus Tnmune reoelved the- copy published s fow'days sgo, When tha documont first appeared, but fow could believa that Mr. Wilson was capabla of ‘west would seem playing such a gamo, until some prominent rail- rond men took the trouble to laok into Mr, Wil- son’s former nels, when thoy found thab, the oircular wag exactly in conmsonauce his former documents, ~ There is no longor ony doubt that, " umless the promature publication of the matter in Tue Trinuxe lng spoiled tho plans of the enginecrs, thero will ba A GENERAL BTRIKE -of locomotive engingers, when railroad. trafiio-is at 1ts best. On the 26thof this month a specal eoaeion of tho Brotharhood of Locomotive En- gineers will ba held at Cloveland, 0., for the purposs of zlec:(d[n§:J what action im, bost. to be talion in regard Lo this matter, as the following notico in tho lnat issuo of the Zocomotive En- gincers' Journal, which is pubdished by 3lr, Wil- 8on, will show : ey et SPEOIAL SESHION, : Notices have been gaut to all subdivisions, Inform. ing them that & pecial seasion of the Grand Tntern - tional Diviaion of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fi . gincers will b held in tho City of Cleveluna, 0., Feb, 6, 1874, Dolegates that woro elocted Jst Soptembor niold their oflico for ono year, New divislons organ- 120 during tho year can “clect o delegato to ropresent them at any spocial seralon, = Delegntes repreeenting odd numbered Divisions will etop at tho Weddell Houss, Thoso cven num- Lered Divisions will atop at the Forest Clty House. Tho Convontion will ba held {n Temperanco Hell, Mo, 184 Buperior atrect, Divisions or Dolegates fafling to receive the regular -notica will nccopt tlis a8 a legal notice, and nct accord- ' ingly. “Evidonily tho ifo of tha Drothorhiood dspends upon the action of this Convention, and it i3 hopoed tBat overy Division will bo represcnfed. y Onanvxs. WiLgox, G, O, E. It will be observed that this notico is vory carefully worded, and no mention-of tho strike ia made, but every ono roading tho last para- groph of tho sbave nolico. muat becoms con- vinced that the Convention haos been called for the purpose of onsidering the 5 Al aa]IEITY OF A STRIEE, 52 espacially fince the words about the lifo of tho DBrotherhdod depending upon tho action of the Convention -agroa 8o~ exactly with s simi. Inr phrase, in tho ecircular. © The dole- gatos havo had ovor B -month's time to carofully gonsider tho question, aud all of them will come inatructod by thoir respootive lodges. Had tho quostion not been 80 prematurely pub- lished in Tue Tnivuxe, & strike would undoubt- edly have beon_deolded upon, sait was the in- tention of the Brothorhood to take everybody by surpriso and thus carry thoir point. But o8 tho .matter has now bocome public, and is discussed by all tho railroad officialain tho cauntry, whoaro now preparing agninst surprleo and danger, thero remains gomo doubt whether tho Brotherhood will dare to throw down the gauntlot at this time, and, in the words of Chief-Engincor Wil- son, endanger the lifo and exislouco of tho orgonization, ¥ —— . OUHICAGO AND CEARLESTON. Tho Hon. William B, Ogdon, of this city, do- livercd a highly interosting addrees, a fow days ngo, bofore the Spartauburg & .Asheville Rnil- vond Associotion, sbowing the advantages to Charleaton and tho South from a difect railrond connoction with the great West. 4 MR, 0GDEN'S REMAUKS ‘were aa follows : On belng futroduced by Mr. A, 0, Kaufman to tho Association, the 1o, Mr, Ogden eald that lio Lind left Now York o kettle in Qbicago in 163, In 1634 Chica- o was incorporated oa a villago, and in 1837 aa n city, 1ts irat radlrond, tho Golens, now Chiesgo & Northe ‘weatarn, wan begun in 1847, extendod foriy-two miles to Egin'tn 1880, and divided 160 por cent of Qividonds from that time {o 1856, inclusive, It has now fftes or ‘more regulsr rulroads centering there,0f these ronds he had boen fnstrumental in building 2,000 miles, While 'hid 108n0s in those roads, produced by tho detormination to ofTect olose and throtgh connections, had been im- mense, threatenivg at timoes his fortunes, thcse vory lostes hod “been tho means of bis suee cess; for, the couneolion cnco fluished, he B 4 hg oljsiness epring - up which ' en- ianced tha valuo of Lfs property to fabuloua’ fgures, Look what & perfect rallssy systom hus dono for Chicogo. In 1844 that city lind 4,000 juhnbltenta s it now numbora 400,000, Tho exports of 1878 aro stated to be §40,020,000, Thia transportation centering up~ on the Punnsylvanin Rallroad, from Pitisburgh to Now York, about 450 mtlos, has euabled thnt road to enrn, during tho past year, §3,000,000, or $70,000 por milo 3 and thia New York Contrul & Hudson Kiver Raflroad, name lougth, hina carged over $20,000,000, This groat fucrease of transportation,production and growth in tho West has boon occasioned, fn lerge part, by immijrae tion, Tilinols lins been bislt up by imemlgrtion. . Ta foroign immigration orriving ot Custlo Garden, Now York, sooking » residonco in fho Northwostorn Statos ia estimated to carry $200 per capita, Thecountry west of Chicago and Lako Alichigan, including tho Btuto of Tilinols, Increased by 250,000 people a year, accarding to the Governmont consua, fram 1830 to 1600, ami about tno same or moro from 1630 to 1870, If thts numbor aversged $200 per capita, &t Is equal to 250,000,000 per annum_bronght fnto tho country m- Bublly, and of thls sum 90 por ceut laapent witkia six monthis affer ils arrival {n establishing farms nod otlier enterprisus, The twolve Nortlwestern Slates, snd the uppor valley of the Missiasippl, northwest of tha Oblo RNiver, including the Blato of Misaourl, in- creascd from 1840 to 1850 about 350,000 people per ane num; from 1850 to 1800, 400,000 per annumn; from 1880 {0 1670, 450,000 per 'annim, ‘This annual addi- tion, nveraging’ $200 per capits, and thoy probably brought more, umounted to $90,000,0005 ond to this sourco s matuly attributable tho wondorful incrensn 1o papulation, wedith, production and growth of tho orihweat, A . ‘Thia gigantio devélopment hins at last utterly over- Toaded all means of transportation to tho seaboard, and o West and Northwost aro now anxlously secking o solution of {ts difiiculty, They would gladly welcome mmy councetton ko the pronosed foad via Sparlaniiurg and Ashovills to Oharleston, ot any cliy of tho Sl Atlantio States to recelve and ship their surplus pro- dution, snd glad ta recolvo yorns to exchunge, 1 1l ity of Chrlatn could open an offelent thoroughfarw dircot through Ofucinnati snd Loufsvillo fo 8¢, Louls and Obileago, Its offoct would bo promptly to open ono or more Lues of steamghips from Clinrles- ton to Europe, As soon as thia can bo accomplished, then immigration. from Europe would seelt theso Lues, ua tho port of Churleston {s nevor obstruuted with ice, The immigrunts arriving lera ‘Would, au la the cate everywhers olso, lacata Iargo) along {he lino of this rosd In Bouth Oarolina, an; Jolnta beyond In tlote movemants Westward, “Fharo s oo roudon wity tho prospority, of the countsy aloug tholine of this road, with its '6: 3 ne poll. and climate, should not cqual thut af simjlar routes batwoon Northe ern cfties and the West, Why, theu, shauld not the populntion of Ohtrleston incroana from 60,000 to 200~ 000 ar 500,000 Thta would follow os a natural corie soquoneo, The Northwost is now ready to sook this port, ot only au nn outlel for tuoir surplus_prodice, and & ollof fram the oxivting ditliculties of promph transportation, but a8 a dolightful winter resort for thoir poople, sud the further cousiderativn that this port 48 alicays opon, aud thls xosd wil atcuys bo roo rom snow and {ce, I tho City of Ghuvlosten, with alt fls deprosstons following tho war and tho panic; was to o bouded for |lu smount sufiolent to scoure this iupartaut ponnec~ tlon with the Northwost, and tho proceods of theso bonda coukt, under akiliful eugineors _and bonest aud able mansgument, bo economically and widely oxpend- ed in tho coustruction of such au svenue, It would probably bo the moat ofticiont method for ita practieal Tollel from i1s prront despondoncy, and for tha oy hancement of the valuo of ity proparly, and tho en- largement of its busingss intercets, ‘% A not undors such A meand of harbor of Chinrleston and the cities of the grent Norths interconrao hotwoen tho fmportant’ toma to bo undoubtedly wieo, — PHILADELPHIA & ERIE, Snectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Priuapcrrnia, Pa,, Fob., 8.—Tho stoclhofds era-of the Philadelphis and Lile Railrond held thelr annunl meoting this morning in the Ponne sylvania Tailrond ‘Bulldiug, ‘of Fourth streot, below Walmit. Mayor Btackloy, roprosenting tho interests of. the city, presided, Goorgo P, Littla actihg as Bocrotary, Hozel Wilson Trrenident of the Company, read the annual roe norty whiclishowed thas during 1873 the recaipts wero §8,842,067,30 ;. the exponditnros, $9,413,« 810,845 ‘net carnings, #4 ,766,30, o decronss from ~ the year 1873 of A $108,085.67. This decroase was attributed to'the incronsed prico of coal, ,the rebuilding of 109.cars, tha nocessity of putting much of .the old track In re- pair, the panio, tho building of many portions of now'rand, and varjous; other eéauscs which wora détailad nt groat length in theroport. Considorable dlscussion followed, A motlon wos made by Georgo Earl that tho roport be Erlntnd‘-ud distributed smong the stockholdera ofore tho 18th inat., and that when tho meatiny wdjowr it Bo convoned on the 24th inst. stocktholder, stated that in 1860 tho carne ihgs' of tho. Compavy wore &950,000 ; now they are b @498,000, with nn increnso of 600,000 bnsiness, Ho thought it strango that, whilo the business of the road in cronsed, tho racoipte diminishod. Tho matter was ultimatoly reforred toa committes of olovon, nono of thom to bo manngers. A'lively intore aliango-of’ peraonalities followed, when, on mo- ton ofJ." H." Simpuen, tho meeting took a recoss, At 3 alolook p. m. the mooting was agatmcatled toordor; whon the following Managers wera clogtod:' W. H. Wilaon, J. Edzar Thompeot, Wistar Morris, Strickland Snons, Josoph A, Gase kill, Josiah Bacon, A. Dorbyshire, John M, Konnedy, Samuel G. ompeon, J. Alexandex Bimpson.. L MISCELLANEQUS, THE DALTIMORE & OTO. : 'The: Beltimoro & Ohlo. Rallrond Company is making stronuous efforts to scouro from the Bouth Side Park Commissionora tho privilege ta lny their. track through. South Park, when thoy will.act & Inrge numbdr of men to work to coms plote their road from Centraton, 0., to this city, which will give them a continuous air-lino from hero to Baltimore. Thoyhavo just established & steomboat line between that city and Now York, not beivg able to ship l.hcfr freight ‘over thio Penvsylvanian Road, owing to the fight oxisting batweon . thess two lines, To havom continuous line' by rail fram this city to Now Yorl, tho managers of the Bultimore & Ohia Tailrond Liave undor consideration n projoct ta construct a naw lino under tho freo raitrond lawe of’Now Jersey. Tho nnderstanning is that the roundis to conmect with tho Philadelphin, Wils mington & Baltimoro Railrond at Philadolphia and the North Pennsylvania lino, wsing tho tracks of tho lntter ‘as far as Doyloston, in that Stata, striling off direotly to Flemington, N, J., where connection will Do mnde with the Contral Railroad of Now Jersoy, and thonca to Now York, Tho distance by tho proposed route will be 90 miles, and thaeanitnl to baok tha construction is ready to bo subsc « A gocrot confarence of offieinla represenvi,.s he North Ponnsylvania, the Contral Railruag. >r New Jersoy, and the Bal timore & Obio Railroid Corpanics wag hold ro-, cently, and & resolution passed to construct this rand, which is designed to aifeat the interests of the Penusylvania Company. TQLEDO, WARBAW & PEORIA, As wns announced in o special dispatch ta Tue TRIBUNE yestorday morning, the Tole*», Warsaw & Peoria Railroad has gfifl\lll\!d pays mentof interost on-its bonds, and has, there fore, pnesed juto the Lands. of Mossrs, Jamea T. Becor aud Willlam Tracy,.of Now York, tha Trustees under the mortgago bonds. On the 3d of February they appointed John M. Nowoll, Pregident .of the Illinois Central Railrond, ag their agent to oporate the rond, nnd that abla railrond monager’ has accepted the - position nud made o thorough exemination of the lina ond its resdurces. Ho fonnd it in vory fair condis tion, but sadly in noed of additional capital with which to purchase tho necessary- equipmonts ta make tho rond equal to any other cros ling |Ln tho Stata, 5 It runs from Reoluk, Ia., to Warsaw, In., enst through Peorin to the Ilinois State line at Sheldon, connecting with the Pan-ITandle Road for Logansport .and Oincinnali, and wrill- un. doubtedly become a valuable property under tha tmanagemont of Mr. Newell, who hag appointod R. Verman, of New York, as manager, snd Wills inm B, Krhgor, tho latd Vico-President of the rond, Superintendent, TIE ILLINOIS CENTBAL. The Illinols Central Railroad Company has agreed to pyrchase annually for five years 3200, 000 of the Missisaippi Oentral- and tho New Osloans, Jnckson & Groat Northern Companios® bonds, issued for the purpose of improving thoso and completing the oxtension to Cairo, Thoholdors of these bonds lave gxrnpoued ta oxchanga tho whole issue (86,000,000), bearing 7 por cont intercst for- an equal amount of Illinois. Central - 6 por cont sterlng ban and . the. - offer has been ageopted by tho Illinois Contral. The Oentml has now moraly & trifliug bonded dobt, 50 that theso new bonds will bo among tha best possitle securitios; and wilt doubtless sell woll in En- land, whore most.of- tha Illinois Contral stock 8 iold. Thoe Company will receive yearly 2420+ 000 from the Southosn Companies, aud pay ot £800,000° yeorly- a8 intereat on the purchasa money, 80-that it will make o - clean profls of 120,000 annually on the operation. TIE ORXAT WESTERN OF MINNZSOTA, The Grost Western Railway Company of Minnesota, the articles of incorporation of which wero filed with the Secretary of State a few days ago, wiltinclude_capitalists of St Louis, Phije doiphis, Now York, Albany, Montreal, nud Toronto, some of whom are already intorcated l?» Jarge investmonts in the railway system of Minnesota, Thero is cnough capital plodged to securo the completion’ of " the proposed 10ad, which is from Brainord' to Mankato, with a branch from Little Talls to the westem boundary of the State between Big -Stono anml Traverso Lakes. Tho organization has rosultel from the oporations. of Mr. I. R. Delano las fall, in which, reprosenting tho original stock ol tho Bt. Paul & Pacifie. branch lino from St. Fanl to Bank Ranids, ho sought ta obtain posseasion of tho extension lino from Sauk Napds te Brainerd, offering to tale the line without thy land-grant, and to poy for that part of tho road- bed which had been constructed; tho bondhold: ors who have ' poegession- of the extension Jinoy not boing in condition, ar else not willing, to no- gotiate. g . DESSEMNER STECL RAILS. Bersemer atecl rails are now manufactured by oight establishmonts in the United States, pro- ducing 150,000 tons annually, which will soon be incronsed to 200,000 tons, E The first Beesemer rail was rolled at the Vie torin Iron Works, England, and laid on the Jid. land Railway at Darby, whoro traflic was heavs ost, early lu 1857. Tius rail Inated until June §, 1878, having lived sixteen years and carriedn | total trafiia in. that timo of probabla 1.252, 000 .trains 'and 1,252,000 detached enginey and tendore. It is claimed that an iron rail wonld prolably have lnsted not more than sy months in that place, so that the steel-rail was oquivalent to thirty-two iren onos, THE BRIDGE AT QUINGY. The plana for the proposod now bridgo aver the anaiflumxx at Quincy, Ilk, bave becn pres pared by the American Bndgs Company. at Chi' cage. It.is to be o double-deck bridge, witk railroad-track below: and highway above.” There will bo o draw-span of 300 foet, One fised apat 250 taot, tho other “fixed spans Deing 160 feof each, and tho whola length of tho bridgo aboul 2,400 feot. i CINCINNATI, WADASIZ & MICIIOAN. Track Ling been laid on the extenwon of the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Railroad, from Wabash, Ind,, southesst to larion, adistancs of ahont 20 miloh, This road will Lo ready for travel, and _traing will bogin runniog in & fow At Marion connection is mada with tha dnys, B Cc*umbus, Chicogo & Indiaua Central Railroad. MILIGAN CENTDAL, Tho earnings of tiie main lino of the Micl Central Railrond during the month of Jatuary, 1874, wore 9655,700.10, againat 970,836,110 dcr+ ing {ho same month iu 1673, belug o gain of 176,872.00, g e Nirs, Ohic¥ Justicee % o the Editar of the Nswo York Sun : Birs In your isauo of Saturday lnat I obsorved some speotilations copied from a_Louisville ya- por in relation to Mra. Obiof Justica Waity, which, from porsonal acquaintance with that lady of some yonrs' standing, Iam happy to do able to pronounco unjust, “, with & highly Mra, Waito {8 n truo woman, cultivated mind, and hoart devold of all snek bishinoss, full ct‘_ tio milk of huumnan Kinduoss, more roady to give than to rocelve favors, wao ono who Boeks to do those littlo kindnonwe which do 8o much to ondear thoso with yvhow sho may bo associated. Bho is domestio 1 Ler Labits, not ovar foud ot display,. dyossos wll without ostontation, and iy a klud fioud, a g wifo, and'a sterling mather, taud that such a movement would ‘be couslderod B eacktodhas o SckoRebin. St Grevants UAY Vi b Luumumnmm are-ablo to wako {0 accowplish My word for it, she willuot tho ladi Washington or elsawhiare no dmll)uul‘)emn;?t\nl | Fxa, % 7% B