Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 27, 1874, Page 4

4 | . THE CHICAGO DAI}.-Y TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1874 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TTANS OF SUPACRIPTION (PAYADLE 1N ADVANOR). LRt Parts of & year at the same rate, "o provent delay and mistakos, ba sare and give Iost Oftice addre tull, fncluding Stato and Count; Romittances may ba mads eltbier bydraft, axpress, Post Ofice order, or in rog!stered lotters, ab aur rlsk TERMS TO OITY AUBAORIDENS, Datly, delivered, Sunday ozcopted, 25 cente per weck. vered, Bunday {ncludad, 50 conts por woaks THE TRIBUNI COMPANY, son and Dearborn, Chleago, Tl Addron Corner TO:DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ER'S TIRATRE-Madls stroot, _hotwean s Btato. " Xngagomens of Maggis Mitoueil. " Paarl of Savoy." 810~ Halstod strost, botween Mad. H:nu':fln%fin.mn’zn Zoment of tha 'Vokes Family. Bolloaot the Kitohoa, ADPLPII THEATRE-Cornor, of Wabash svonue % arioty performance. Thn Bliak. A At e ot 1 Had Diokey.w Altarnoon and evoning. TATRI 218921 Wost Madison MO Bartormaas, - Yaite Utars, Ao, Hon: talubleay, sto. Altorncon and ovaning, N DULLDING-Lakeshoro, foot of Adsms O SloonNEit. A {ioriaga ad avening: 10 HALL-Olark streot, botween terncon aud evoning. ¥OREPAUGH'S OIROUS—Madtson street, oornerof Blizaboth, Aftornoon and evonly F e BUSINESS NOTICES. PR’ _OARD-‘ THR GREAT PRESHY. B O puvllostion ot th mork. liss boets dolayod a fow daxs for s purpose of adding thie roport of t2lo Committoo appolated to raconaider the vordiet, The Chitags Tribune, “Wednosdsy Morning, May 27, 1874. Calob Cushing's gonius for creating trouble ‘hias alroady beon displayod in Madrid, where he has given offonso by sfiliating with Figueras and Castelar and other distinguished mombers of the Opposition. This time Mr. Cusbing’s fault is pardonablo; it is simply an indiscretion for our Ministor to Spainto keop good company. e —— Seven mining companics havo united in legal proccedings with a view to canceling agree- monts botwoon thom and the Sutro Tunnel Qompany. The pluntiffs allego that tho Com- pany has totally failed to porform any part of ite contract, and that tho time for the comple- tion of tho tunnel long since expired. In another column wiil be found the full text of an opinion as to the constitutionslity of the “Wisconsin Railroed law rendered by Attorney- General Sloan, at the roquest of Gov. Taylor. The conclusion is that tho lowis valid. Mr. Carpontor manifestly contributed somothing for the information of the Attorney-General by his lettor to the Madison papers recontly publishod. James B. McKean has been roappointed Chief Juatico for Utah, His term expires next month. 1t is not an unkind prosumption that tho Presi~ dont continued him in office for the purposo of # vindieating ” his character =against the asporsions of the people of Utah. The Judge did not make a porfect record in the Mormon cages, but he has since established pretty clearly tho intogrity of his intentions. A corner in lard is anticipated in Now York. Prices for immediate detivery aro advancing xapidly, and 1t {e roported thatseveral prominent “hoar” firms aré already seriously crippled. ‘Weutern doalers afo belioved to be “‘long" of tho greator part of tho lard in this country. Gentlemon familiar with tho guileful practices of the trade will lay honvy odds that Obicago has had a finger in the deloctable pio which is now under discusslol Judge Drako is making himself conspicuous inthe Presbyterian Gonoral Assembly at 8t Louis. Ho is likely to become mors famous for ‘his acclesiastical connoctions than for his polit- ical and judicinl acts. Yesterday ho attempted to iostruoted the Assembly in parlinmentary eti- quotte, and for this purposo rambled off into reminiscencesof tho time when he was * 2 mom- bor of the highest logislative bodies in the land,” ‘The Assombly atood firm undor this severo re- proof, and snubbed Mr. Drake as though he ‘Were common cla) The Senate has paseed tho Contennial bill, witha proviso that the United States shall not ‘be lisble for any oxpenses attonding tho Exposi- tion. Mr. Kdmunds said tho bill was oquivalent to an invitation to dinner, with the roservation that each porson should pay his own footing. Bo it is, and foreign nations will doubtless avail themselves of the priviloge which all men enjoy of rojecting disngreeable invitatiops, Mr, Ed- | munds might have gons further, aud said that peeplo burdened with debt do not appear to good advantage in spreadivg sumptuous repasts for thoir neighbors' beneflt. Mr, Beck spoke yostordsy in the Lower Houso of Congress on the Sanborn ocontracts, Ho cleared bis bosom of the perilous stuff which Liss been lodging thero since the full extont of the iniquity and the Tronsury officials’ responsi- bllity for it bocome known, and in the operation gave the oxcellent Secrotary Rich- ardson many terrible knocks. Tho trouble ‘with Richardeon i8, according to Mr. Beclk, that he is merely honest. Honeuty is desirablo in one who controle the finances of o great nation, but % will not stand for intelligence and Tamiliarity with the duties of thoe office. A Becretaryshonld e competent as well s lonest, and this Mr. ‘Richardaon is nat. At the close of Mr, Beck's speech, the previous quostion was ordered, The House wants no moro of that kind of talk, It is too true for comfort. | The Chicago produce markets again tended downwards yoaterduy, excopt in wheat, and a good denl of proporty changed Lands, Mosy pork was aclive and 850 per brl lowor, closing at $17.00@17.05 cash, snd $17.25@17.80 soller July, Lord was quist and 5@10c per 100 1bs lower, closing nt 910,70 cash, and $10.86@10.87}¢@ 10.00 goller July. Meats were quiot aud easior, closing 8t 8{@034c for shoulders, 8370 for shiort 1iba, 9360 for short olear, and 103{@11}40 for swoot-piokled hama, Lake froights wore aotive and firmor, at 43¢0 for corn to Buffalo, High- wines waro less sctive and unchanged, at 0i)o per gallon, Flour was dull and woak, Whoat was active and a shado higher, closlng at 81,1834 @1.183{ cash, 81,18%¢ sollor Juno, 1,19 soller July, and 81,22 for Minnesota No, 2. Corn was qulte active and 13go lowor, closlng at 50lgo caah or seller June, and 57%¢o seller July, Osztn wore more notive and flrmeor, cleaing ab 4530 cash, and 44}gc sellor June, Tiyewasdull and 20 lower, at 98@90c, Barley was dull and oasler, at §1,60 for No. 2. On Baturday ovoning last thero wea {n storo In this olty 1,242,001 bu whent, 1,000,509 bu aora, 207,098 bu oata, 10,470 bu rye, and 62,808 bu baxloy, Hogs were sctive, with snlos olifefly at 35,25@6,80. Cattlo wers In good domand, and wora firm at the advanco ostab- livhed Mondny. Bhoop wore {nnotive, —_— Binco it became known that Attorney-Goneral ‘Willlams bought n laudaulot with park of the coutingont fund of his Departmont, a Oongros- sional Committoo hias beon making fuquirles as to tho mannor in which the balanco of it waa ox- ponded. Thoy find tont gross abusoa have ro- sultod in all the Dopartmonts from intrusting to thom bulk sums of monoy for indefinite purposos 3 but tho presont authorities aro only to blame for recoguizing and exnggerating bad customa which wore in existonce whon thoy assumed office; In tho opinion of tho Committeo, thoro Is room for groat roform in the aircotion of economy, The praoctico of giving presonts to alerks, of furnish- ing ruoms in extravagant stylo, and of using public proporty for private uscs, aro mildly rop- robated by tho Committeo. Tho report, ns & whole, convoys tho impression that the Commit- too dared not bo s communicative as they might, for fear of holpiug to sond * the party’ to everlasting smash, ‘We print in another column a letter from the Hon. John Wontworth on the proposed ropoal of tho land-tax. While agrooing in tho main with Tur TRinuNE's roagoniug and favoring its Dlan, Lo suggosts that the experiment bo tried of firat reponling tho tax on land actually under taxation. Tho objoction to such an oxperi- ment {8 twofold: (1) It contravencs .a wise provision of tho State Constitution which for- bids tho Yogislature roleasing any part of tho Btato from s falr proportion of taxation, and, therefore, (2) requires & con- stitutional amendmont. The proposition of Tie TRIDUNE, to ropesl the land-tax altogother, and substituto thorofor another moans of raising the revonue provided in the Coustitution, neithor takes awny the check against discrimination in taxes nor demands auy chango 1n the organic law of tho State. It fa not eafe to inaugurate any oxperiment which will throw the burden of taxation on one portion of the community to the rollef of another portion. The opportunity was given tosome of the County Commissionors yestordsy to explain away the suspicious circumstance of having paid Mr, Cushman $145,000 for the County Hospital sito, thouglh they might have bought the samo proporty for $180,000 from Mr, Baldwin one hour bofore. But it appears there is no explana- tion to bo made. Commissloner Jones, who sooms to have taken the purchase under his special protcction, makes tho point that Mr. Cushman took Cook County bonds, whilo Mr, Baldwin wanted monsy. But as Cook County bonds are in the market at 093§ buyer and 100 soller, wo think that Mr, Baldwin would have been satistled with thom, and that, aa Mr. COushman is & banker, ha can meke thom availa- ble for so much money. The ugly fact remaing thnt the County Commissioners paid one man #15,000 more for'a certain piece of property than thoy would pay another man ; and the in- forence is inevitable that some peculiar “influ- enco” was oxorted to induco thom thus flagrantly to throw away tho publio money. Just what that “influence” was, it would bo in torosting to know. An evening paper assumes that the County Board is dosirous of an investi~ gatlon; but, s all the members of tho Board who were pregent, with one exception, voted for the job, it is clear that somebody besides the County Commissioners should do the investi- gating, — e CIVIL RIGHTS AND BOCIAL XQUALITY, ‘The colored peoplo of the country are most in need of frionds who will teach thom self-govern- ment and self-relinnco. But such is not the charnoter of the friends they have in Congross. The Civil Rights bill, which Lins passed the Senato and which is now pending in the House, thoy un- doubtedly wish to see passed, thoy would have us beliove, in tho intorosts of the nogro. Tho bill is, howover, in direct conflict with theso in- tereats. It will kindlo anew in tho bremsts of the white peoplo of tho South, and of the North, for thet matter, o feeling of antipathy for them which was faet disappearing. The wbhito andthe colored populations of the South bavo boon gat- ting nlong together o grent deal better than any ono oxpected at the close. of. the War. Thoy havo been gradually accommodating themselvos to the now order of things. Tho horeditary fool- ings of the former against tha latter have beon dying out. It is to be feared that the Civil Rights bill witl revive them, Tho bill provides that all persons, whether citizens or not, shall bo entitled to tho equal ene Jjoyment of the accommodations and advantages of inng, publio convoyances on landand water, theatres, and othor places of public amusement ; slgo of common schiools and publie institutions of learning or bonevolenco supported in whole or in part by general taxation, and of cometorics so supported. The object of the bill is to placato the nogro voto and partly to effect the mingling of the two racos. It will not do what it is intendod, and will do what is not intended. As Mr. Homilton said in tho Senato, the passage of this bill may causo mischief, but wilt never bring about the mingling of the two racos, Boveral Senntors thought it inexpedient that mixed schools sliould bo established: that if colored childron were admitted into the same schools at the South as whito children, the lat« ter would not attend them, and tuat the result of enforclng the bill would, therofore, be to de- stroy tho™ public-school aystom in, the Bouth, Thelr views, howover, did not prevail, and the Lill wos passed by & majority of 10, There s no doubt that tho Senate made amiatake; that it underestimated tho atrongthof tho objection that the pnesage of tho bill would tond to broak wup the public-school systom. Tho coeducation of the ruces at presont is slnply impossible, Tho plan does not mean that colored nud white childron shall be edu- entod together in the public schools, 1t means thiat white children in the Bouth, at lonst, shall receive no publio education whatover ; and that such of thom 8 cannot bo sent by their parents to private schools shell receive no education at all. It monny that tho public schools South shall bo colored solicols, Xt menns that whore the white people in tho Bouth aroin s majority, not another public school ehall be erected, and that by degracs those ercotod sliall be turned to other uses, It tho white people oanuos, be- couse of thelr prejudicos or from other reasous, Lovo the benofit of thess achooly, thoy ave not goingg to tax themuclves to support thom in tho intorests of the negro population, ‘The colored poople themselvos, some of thom at all events, have uonue enough to question the polioy of this cooducation of tho races, In & discourss delivered Iately by W, B. Derriok, a colored olorgyman and pastor of the Third Btroat Mothodlst Ohurch of Rjchmond, ho sald From luformution reovlved, the Government mow contewplaton the yasunge of & bill in which tho coodus satlon ot the rsoex i3 {o be attampiod, How, X miy be — frowned atfly my own people, but regardiesn of frowna and connsquences, I will ey the moment much an on- actmont nppesra on {lio atatute book the public-achool system in the Bouth will recolvo s blow that will caudn itn death, anil no powor thin sids of Hoaven can infuro lifo into ita dead carcass, Then who will bo the loscrs, the blacka or the whites? Incod not tell you, That T loavo you lo anmwor and ponder over, I am anxlous for the days to como when casto will be abol- falied; Lutthe tenchings of 200 years cannot be for- Rotton In ten or twonty yoara, I will look forwnrd with gloomy auticipations {f such & Iawla passed, ‘Why, how long wonld such a systom ba maintained in the Mtoen ox-alave Btatea? Justas long as wonld bo required {0 go through the forma of law nouded to do- siroy it. Bomo bring tho lawfuluoss of thoe bill in queation; but all things Inwful aro not oxpediont. As 8 nogro, I am with you as far os consistency will allow mo, Thoro are to bo found in the Bouth over ono million of colored childron attonding achools, Are wo proparod to furnish means to continno their sducation ‘whion theao Blates refuse to impono taxation for achool purposcs, which they will aurely do? To the same ofeot {s what Sonntor Brownlow, who onght cortainly to undorstand the South, Las said: g My only hope for the future prospority of the col- ored poopl of Tenncanos conslsts in tho bollef that the masn of them will repudiale the abominable pro- grammo %0 ineolently put forth at Nashville, Let tiom remember thot thé faxes with which these schools aro supported aro contributed almost exclu- sivoly by tho white peaplo of the Btate—ihat tho mouoy does not come from the Foderal Government st Washington, Lot them yemember that thousands of tho proporty-holders of the State, of tho political party to which thoy aro in opposition; havo atded in eatablishing our present acliool system, and without tho support of thia class, in co-operation with tholr ‘white political assoclntes, 1t could not Lave Loen ese tablished, Let them also remember that it 1a not ques- tonasto whiethier wo will have mixed achools, but ‘whotlier we sliall have any m of publie instruc- tion at all. Forit s not in the power of forty Cone gresses to establish this mixed-achool aystem in Ten- nessoe, If the Civil Rights bill should poss without the mixod-school featurs being stricken out, tho wholo school fabric in Tennessco will at onco fall to the ground, 28 it will desorve to do, Then the expenses of the education of their children, if thoy are cdu- cated nt all, will bo borne by themselves, and not by thio whito peoplo, oa thoy noware, As {t passed the Benate, the Civil Rights bill had fontures bad onough, But we understand that an effort is to be made so to amend it as to give to the colored people an oqual footing with white folks, not only in omnibuses and steam- boats, but also in barber-shops and bath-rooms and wator-closots, While tho Houso is making these amondmonts, why does it not also give {hem tho equal rights in churches, prayer-moot- ings, lyceums, collegos, and the Temporanco Crusade? The bill is running itsolf intq on absurdity, if, indend, it was not an absurdity ab initio. Wo aro glad that tho bill mests with littlo favor in the House. It fs beat for both the whito and colored peopleit should bo defeated. It is time that tho Soutliorn whitos should find a fow friends in Congross. Tho negro has heon securod his political and loga! rights. His social atatus ho should bo allowed to achieve for himself. THE ‘‘S8HORT SESSIONS” OF CONGRESS, Bhall wo elect & Gongross and wait & yoar to have it ? That is tho question. If the practice was, 08 it should bo, to oloct » Congress and have it at onco, how absurd would weem tho proposition to eleot a Congross and wait & yoar. And yot it is just that sbsurd thing which we do. Tho custom, indood, has doscended to us trom the Fathers of the Republic, and thin year, eé in othor years, we enter upon n canvass for clections to Congroas with the certainty that our Congross-elect is to have no active oxistenco for ayear! Wo elect a Congress, on the Congres- sional issucs of the day, and—wait a year. Wo oloct & new Congress, while an old ons is yet to have the busicat and most important session of its torm. Wo go into the canvass blind, upon| the half-made records of Con- greasmen ; Wwo presumably ro-elect the good and do not (excopt sometimes) re-clect the bad; and then, having electod = new Cons gress, the old Congross comes togethor again, tho good and the bad, the ro-elected and the ro- Jjeoted, and—1we walt & year. If this pooplo was not already and had not been sll along doing this, would any Fathors of the Republic now pra- pose that wo doit? Would any modern states- man proposo it ? The question, thorefore, is : Shall we continus toelect » Congress and to wait & yoar? This questton properly comes up ot the threshold of nConxteaaionn,l canvass, end it deserves such influential consideration that it need nover come up again. We aro 40,000,000 of people, com- munieating now by telegraph and traveling by stenm ; o people with vast national intorests centered in Congress; and yet, in the olection and sssembling of Congress, wo puraue tho slow-going path first trod fu the stage-coach daysot the Ropublio, whon Baltimore was prao- tically farthor from the National Capital than Ban Francisco now is, 1t is surprising enough that we have followed this slow process 80 long. It will be surprising, indoed, if, having once aroused the poople's attoution to it, this custom should swrvive the presont year. Wo therefore urge that the people give thought to this matter, and, iu this yoar's election of Congressmen, in- siruct thieir representativen that the noxt eleo- tion muet bo followed by posseesion. “There is no politics about this, in the sense of an issue botween Republicans, Democrats, and Indo- pondents, but only the suggestion of what should be a common purpose, Thero is, indeed, manifest rosson why that purpose ought to be cordinlly indorsed and forwarded by all, It sooms tous that the yoar 1876 will bo an oxceptionally good year for the new plan to go Into effeat. In Novewmber, 1876, as now provided by a law of Congress to which savern! Statos (Ponnsylvania, ate.) have conformed their local oloctions, tho people inall the Btates will, for tho first time on one day, elect mombers of the House in the Forty-fifih Congress, That Novem. ber olection is also o bo tho Prosidential elec- tion, Lot tho Forty-fourth Congress, whoso mombers we are now about to eloot, and whose torm extouds from 1875 to 1877, bo formally in- structed, by resclutions of nominating convon- tions, that its term must bo shortened to bring in the succoeding Oongross when elected, This can only be dono by conatitutional amendmont, The shortening would, lowover, fall alono and ab once on the membors of tho House in the Forty-fourth Congress, Thereafter Congrossfonal porlods wowld begin and ond with Congressional elactions, in November oach second yoar. The Senato being a (so- called) pormanont body, in which comparatively fow personal chianges ocour at any ono time, tho term of Bonatora need not be disturbed, and tho Presidential term might properly continue to dato, a8 now, from tho Fourth of March, We should, indoed, rogret to soe this simplo propo- sition burdoued with an attompt to do too much, In the luterest of Cougrossional reform, which ia this yoar poonllatly the uppermost desire of the people, wo beliove this propasition emboilies s whole scheduls of reforms. Almost withons oxception in thewe ten yenry past, the really damning acts of Oougress—tho original and auocesslve stops fn Oredit-Mobllier legislation, the soveral schemes of subuldy plunder, the Nlary-grab) oo~iave been e work of tas ora, - oligible short sosslon, when ‘mombora wore olther as- surod alrondy of anothor torm or assured that the flecting momont was their last chiance. Ilow koonly do all good poople recall the sorambling scenes or read tho shamoful rocord of theso moro recont sliort sosslons, Lven now tho Contonnial job, Tom Heott's gigantio Toxna schomos, the beggatly impudonco of Northorn Paciflc managors, and all tho greater or losser plans of public robbery that hiave been broached in the prosent sosalon, aro kept out of tho can- 'vass for foar of the pooplo, and are resorvod for tho shork scaslon noxt wiuter, Whon wo shall Liave abolished this short secesion, made a unit of tho wlole Congresstonnl rocord, and decreod that Cougrossfonal perlods ghall bogin and end with Congrosalonal oleations, wo shall have laid an ax at the vory root of this treo of ovil. —— 'ATIVE CEURCH. The procoedings of the Genersl Conference of tho Methodist Churoh Bouth, which has boen in session 1n Louisville during the last weok or two, aro of more than ordinary intorost, sy thoy indicate vory consorvative tondenolos snd ado- termination to adhoere to tho nutiquated stand- arda of tho Churoh to tho vory lettor of tho Iay. "Tho discuesiona upon these connorvative propo- sitions have boen vory earnost and enthusinstio and tho votos vory declsive, Tho prinaipal stops taken by tho Conferonco to bring the Church baock to ite pristino standard of virtuo and reatore & Lenlthy disoipline ara thres innumber. TFirat, the Conforenco bas doblared, by an al- most unanimoua vote, that no person can bo o mombor of the Mothodist Church outh who mnkes, buys, eells, or uses intoxicating liquors, and ono of the most promineut members of the Conforence stated ko should voto for it evon if it oxpunged 60,000 namos from theroll of the Church, Thore was bordly a word uttored in favor of compromise. Thero was no discrimina- tion mado botweon formented and unformonted wine, Thore wore no sops thrown to the wealthy whisly-drinker or whisky-sfllor. Buyors, sell- manufacturors, snd drinkers were all classed in the sama category, sud tho ban was ‘pranounced upon all alike. Having sottled tho liquor quostion, the Cone foronce nddrossed itself to tho muslo question, and upon ¢his subject, like the former, thore was no hositation and no compromise. Thebrethren 8ot their fnoos like a flint against choirs, solo singing, and "operatic musio,” which torm in- cludes ovorything thatis not a long-metro hymn of Wesley or Watts, or a psalm of David set to tho musle known as * ponnyroyal.” The roverend iconoclasts even wont 80 far as to bonish organ interludes nand preludes, thus keeping tho organist down to tho simple sccompaniment of the tune. Having socomplished this much, and acting upon the principle that ono good turn deserves another, they then decided that the entiro charge of the music should be vested in tho minister. As uot one ministor in twenty knows anything about musio, tho result is rather dismal to eontemplate. This action banishos all the groat composers of musio, even the moat do- votlonal of them, and all really oxcellent music, fromthe chureh, The congregations must como down to the old fodder of Mear and Hebron and ‘Winduam, and thoy must do their own singing without 8o much a8 an organ interlude to givo them & cluo to tho koy. The soprano, and alto, and tonor, and bass must forsake their places behind the rod curtalns, and tho organist must inhabit the cholr-loft alone, and pass his time in playiog away at the same old dreary lingo every Bunday, leat *the ardor of the congroga- tion may.be cooled.” Thero was one clergyman in the Conforence, & musician and ardent lover of musio, who fought valiantly agsinat the proposition, but ke wes.2rushed out by sheer weight of numbers. Those two questions settled, dancing came next in order, and upon this question the metes and bounds wers fixed without meroy. No com- promise was sllowed. Even the danco which David performed bofora the Lord was ruled out. Not aven & stately minuot or the solemn rhythm of the Suaker dance was tolerated. Bays the address : Thelr multiplied and fnsidious forms are & soureo of perpotual temptation aud danger, and sre denounced Dy tho Word of God, and by that part of our general rules which farbids tho taking of such diversions aa cannot bo taken in tho namo of tho Lord Jesus, This denunciation 18 expliclt and comnproheusive, Amongst thoso {ndulgencies which cannot stand thosolomn test 48 themodern danco, both fn private and publio oxe Libitions, as utterly opposed to tho genus of Ohris. Uanity, Whon persisted in, 1t 16 a justifiable ground of action by tho church authorities, After reading the above, one is tempted to nsk what divorsion can be taken by the ascotics of the Methodist Oburch South ? Tt will bo hard upon the youthful members of the Church, but tho rule is a rigid one—no more dancing upon pain of oxcommunieation! An effort was also wmnde to rovive the old law of the Church, that tho femals members should not be allowed to wenr gold ernaments, foathers, or colors, or what Mr, Eggleaton styles *‘artificials,” In hig #*Circuit -Rider,” Upon this polnt, howaover, thero was no unanimity, most of the moembors of tho Conferonce evidontly heving o wholesome dread of the effect of such o measurs, and o sus- pioion that they might not receive a very Liearty welcome when they roturned home if thoy adopted them. The adoption of thesa stringent measures hiows that the Methodist Oluroh Bovth is far more pronounced in ita idoas of Methodism, and ore consorvative in preserving the antiquated tradition aud uscges, than the Olurch North. {6 will undoubtedly oreate a very docided sensa~ tion throughout the Bouth, and will provoke somo dlscussion in the locsl Conferonces nud churchos, but that the mensuros will bo very genorally onforced thore can be no doubt, oy Methodism in the Bouth prevails very largely among tho lowor and mora iguorant olasses, with whom the action of tho General Conferonce will bo 08 law and gospel. 'That tho Generat Confor- ence ia disposed to rigidly onforco discipline is alyo shown by the fact that it has detormined to make family worship and attendunce upon olaus- meotinga conditions of mombership, Thero are in tho Bouth 12,261 Alothodist churches and 2,000,249 memhory, so that Lheus meanures affect” o large percentage of the population, and, if thoy nocept thom without question, it may be ustoly inferred that it will be o long timo Lefors the union of tho Churches South and North is ro- storod, Presldent Grant has mado o sorlous blunder in espousing the causo of Bhopherd and his as- sociates on the Wasbiogton Board of Publle Works. He hss appoiuted to the oftice of OChiof Englueer, made vacant by tho romoval of Cluss, & man who ls in- as mnot bolug a resident of the Distriol, snd also because he i an aimy olflcor, ‘The removal of Oluss was, under the oircumstannus, s orror of judgment that tho people will be slow to forgive, The reason seolgned by the President for Lis action was that Oluss bed porjured: himselt, This wis & poor emsumplion; aRd wus the tho Prosidont had no right to meke. Tos- Himony takon by tho Investigating Commit- too yontordny fully corroborated tunt: part of Oluss’ tostimony which was most damaging to tho Bhophord intorest. Ono man, and & Bhop- Lord man, too, noknowledged that at 145 maot- tngs ‘of tho Board ot Publio Works Bhophiord waa the only membor prosont. Boforo tho in- vostigation s ondod, it will probably bo estab- lishod that Oluss Tost favor by tolling the truth in nnvarnished languago, if he Lad consented to commit perjury ho would havo given no of- fonse to his superiors in office THE OAUBE OF 'HE ARKANSAB REBELLION . It was railroad bonds, Those insecuritios, which have flecosd 8o many peopleand kopt so many roliglous papers in funds, wero at tho bot- tom of tha Brooks rovolt. Horo wa sco anothor proof of tho total depravity of everybody and ovorything conncoted with o raflroad! In 1868, tho Arkansns Logislature submitted to tho popular vote & law direoting the loan of Stato bonds at the rate of $10,000 per mile to railronds that hod had Govornment Iand-grauts, and to all others at the rate of $15,000 por mile, The people ratifled tho ennctmont. At loast the mon who counted tho votes said so, and as two-thirda of Arkausas was then disfranchised, thosnying wasporhaps a truc one. Tho Goveruor, the Booratary of Btato, and tho Commissioner of Intornal Improvements wore charged with tho execution of tho Iaw. Clayton was Gov- ernor. He was heavily interented in the Littlo Rock, Pino Bluffs & New Orleans and tho Mise slssippl, Ouachits & Red Rivor Rallronds, The two got 88,180,000, The first got $700,000 mora, m bonds, under aeecondlaw. Tho Arkansas Contral, which was, until vory recontly, under the coutrol of Senator Dorsoy, roceived €000,000. Of tho firat of the threo roads, 80 milos have been built; of the sccond, #0; of the third, 48. Nobody knows what hus beon done with the $4,780,000 of Stato bonds thoir monagers have rocelved. Thoy have fssued sn unknown quontity of firat-mortgage bonda and have received large county subscriptions besides. The manngore have grownrich. Olayton and Dorsoy have bought Senatorial seats, The roads have remained poverty-stricken. Under the law of 1868, tho railronds of Arkan- #a8 would have recolved 312,000,000, Those in which the *“men inside politica”—' thieves" would be a shorter way of putting this phrase— wero intorested got their share of the plundor at once. Tho claims of tho othors wera still in sboyance when Baxter was counted in as Gov- ernor, until the use made of the 5,000,000 of bonds alrendy issued had been investi~ gated. An attempt was mado by Olayton, Dorsoy & Co. to secure the passage of & law to agsume theso bonds and roliove the rail- ronds from all liabillty for thom. Baxter an- nounced that he wonld veto the bill, and 8o pro- vented its passage. The broach began. Two woeks before Brooks got his snap-judgment, the Prosident of Senator Dorsey’s railrond applied for $300,000 in bonds. He was prowmptly rofused. Brooks was intorviewed, and promised to let tho railroads plunder the State if their managers would let him rule tho State. The bargain was mado. Both partios to it dia their best to carry it out. But Louislana had been a warning to Presidont Grant. Tho oxpected Federal aid was withheld. DBrpoks, Clayton, Doxsoy, and the railronds weont down together. An amuging instance of the uncertainties of human memory, oven whon the witnesses de- sire to tell tho oxnot truth, occurred &b arecent trinl in Wisconsin. A Mr. Hunter was Commis- sionor to tako teatimony, and the parties to the controveray woro both present, and were namod Orton and Downer. During tho exemination, an angry eltercation tool place between Orton and Downer. It became important afterwards, in an action of slandor, to know the oxact words ugoed by Orton and Downor in & siuglo sontence by osch. Horois the way in which tho story wag told by the threo porsons prosent: HUNTER'S VERRION. Downer—Alr, Orton fs a protty man to talk_about parjm%—(a llum] who ia likely to go to State Prisou, hitt for perjury. Grton—Aud It dowt become M. Dawnor o talk to me—a wan who hias beon turned out of oflice a Deacon. in the Presbyteriau Ghurel, and who Ls going to LIl ONFON'S VEUSION, Downor—You nped not talk about perjury, Mr, Or- ton! You Luve Leen turnod out ss Deacon of the Presbyterian Cliurch, and, nccordiug to tlie doctrines of that Church, you will go to h—Il on that judguent of the churches against you | DOWNER'S VEBSION, Downer—For you, Mr, Ortou, to talk about porjury 18 ridiculous, Yon will go to State Prison for it, and T Jope to ses you therel Orton—Yoh hava been turned ont of office as Deacon of tle Presbytoriun Church, and will go to h—1l, and I liope lo se6 you thersl —— Superhuman wisdom must have inspired the men who devized this manifesto : READ TLIS AND CONSIDER. . DOWN WITH MONOPOLIES ALL ARCUND, Notico §u Uoroby givon, that thore will ba Taz- payers’ and Sshool-Dircctors Gonvention in Clinton, DoWitt County, IIl,, on Saturday, the 6th doy of Junc, 1874, for the purpose of considering tho chiool-feach” er#’ malardes, and reducing them toa mazimum with othor labor, Called by BLaxx VoTERH, 'Poo long liave we suffered from this grinding monopely of toachers. Their enormous salaries ought to be cut down * to n maximum with other labor.” A carpor might suggest that the * many votors" who originated this unmeaning phrose would do well to take & fow lessons in English from the woalthy tenchers, but this is anun- worthy eneor. Lot the salaries be reduced by all means, The sochool-houses might bo dii- tributed among tho farmera to bo used as barns, Thus the monopoly of toaching would be stopped, and evorybody would bo ignorant and Liappy. Ex-8enator William A. Richurdson, of Illinols, publishes in o Quincy paper tho reszons why, as & Domocrat, he cannot indorse the IPresidont’s veto of the Currency ball. Mr. Richsrdson says that the inflation proposcd by the bill was $44,000,000 ; thas in fact it was only 18,000,000, —tho othor 820,000,000 having alroady boou is- sued. Iio clalms that tho issus by tho Prosl- dont of the $26,000,000 was illogal, and posi- tively prohibitod by law ; this Currency bill pro- poeed to legalize not only that insue but an issuc of the whole 44,000,000, Tho Prosidont votood tho bill, thereby rotaining theusurped authority to issue or withdraw this sum of 44,000,000 from circulntion ot hia plonsuro. Mr, Iichard- son, regarding the fssue of any part of that so- cnliod resorvo an usurpation, cannot indorso s veto of o bill whereby Conugress sought to take away this assuned authority frowm the Prevident snd regulato ¢ issite by law. g oo S Thero it a Democratio newapaper in Indiana (tho Torra Inute Journal) that hay boeu positive- 1y apoplectic on the earraucy queation ever since the intlation bill was vetoed. No words could ba found to fitly donouncoe that infamous voto. But the rogular Domocratlc Oonventioa of the ueighborhood assembled ut Terre Hauce on the 22d 10st., and “whon they cawme to tho ourroncy question thoy resolved: That the Demooratio yarty now, as in the t, plodges ituelf to look ouly ofter tlie internots of th Peonle, and to this direclion we solamnly deolare thut the ourrency of tho country sbould Lo 80 rogulated that the Industry of every mou will be azaured & solid ‘Lasls and a just recompunso, Only this and nothing more, ekt e The Chioago Industrial Age has bsen exchang- ing complimonts with the Waukou (fowa) Stand- ard, saying: ‘Tho suthor of these attacks {6 an ex-priest, who, for reasons whioh he probably will not give, left the pulpit aud took to the press, ‘I'o this the lowa papor reaponde: That ia simply blackguardiag snd not argument, He rofused to make any mora loans | RELIGIOUS. Yesterday’s Proceedings in the Pres- bytorian Assembly at St Louis, The Proposed Consolidation of Boards Fully Dis- cussed. What Was Done in the General Assom- bly of the Cumberiand Pres- byterians. Olosing Proceedings in the Moth- odist Conference at Louisville. Resolutions Adopted Favoring a Union with tho Northern Church, The Dunkards Discnss tho Questlon of Beards, THE PRESBYTERIANS, Spactal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, TIE QENERAL ASGEMDBLY, 81, Lous, May 26.—Tho Assombly met at the usual hour, with a full house. Dr. Horrick Jolinson made & verbal report for tho Committeo on the Book of Pralse; the book will contain 1,000 hymna and tunes, and will be ready for nse in about throe montha. Dr. James Eolle, of San Francisco, opened the dlscussion on the regular order of tho day—con- solidation. o spoke the sentimonts of tho Pa- ciflo const. Thepaople of that const ware in favor of gomo consolidation, and thoy seck grostor efi- clonoy of tho Ohurch, not shrinkage. 'Thoy wora not in favor of giving controlling power to any Board, but wero auxious to continue and in- cranee tho officioncy of colporteurago, and tho Bunday-school depsrtments, They would rec- ommend that there bo five Boards, viz : Foreign Misslonn ; Home Missions, including Freadmon ; Church Erection; Educations), Support, and Rolief of tho Ministry ; and Publicstion. Dr. Eolls did not insist on his plan, but would be willing to support consolidation if ho could get 0o better plan. . . _ ANOTHER ADVOCATE OF CONSOLIDATION. Dr. Willimn C, Roberts, of Elizabeth, N, J., s membor of the Home Miasion Board, sup- ported consolidation and ijusisted that sus- tontation Homo Aissions ond Freodmon should all be mansged by omo Borxd, since these various objects wera all of tho samo general charactor. Ho stated that sustontation would not bave been able to do its work successfully but for the assistanco of Dra. Paxton aud John_Hull, of Now York, who were mombors of the Home Mission Board. He ox- pleined that there was friction between tho management of the Sustontation Committeo nnd the Board of HMome Missions. Tho Homo Mis- sions paid pastors 700 per annum, and the Sus- tontation Committee pnid $1,000 to pastors, Ho stated that forty-thres pastors loft tho Sus- tontation Committeo during the Isst yoar, nud came under the Homo Misslion Board. The marrow of hig speech was thut there was con- tinual collision, both in the raisiug and the dis- tribution of funds for Home Miusious, Freed- men, and_Sustontation, 88 they msro now or- rapged. Dr. Crosby, of Now York, followed Roborts in sustainfug consolidation. He con- tended that consolidation was not a morging, but & moro cousiatent grouping. NE ADROITLY REPLIED TO DI, MUSGRAVE, of Philadelphia, in his poiuts of yestorday, by seying that Lo (Crosby) wished all” tho Boards wero out of Now York and in Philadeldhia, or in 8t. Louis, in fact all the Now Yorkers insiated that did not caro about haviug the in New York, and thus very shrewdly partied all the sectional attacks of thoso opposing consolidation, but, nevertholess, the Homo Mission Board is in Now York, and will stay thero, Dr. Aikman, of Detroit, like Dr, Crosby, had boen n New Yorker for 200 years through his aucastora, and was in favor of oconsolidstion, but, In tho midst or a very patbatio spoach, was intorrupted by Dr. Hatflold, on tho platform, who announced o telegram for somobody, Aik- man stopped in disgust, T'ho Bov. kir. Roberton, of Rochestor, N, Y., opposed cousolidation bocause sustontation, or the support of the miuistry, should be kept couspiouously befors the churclios for their benevolonce, and, it it was put into the ‘Home Mission Board, evangelizing would ovor- alndow . sustontation, and that cause would radunlly die. Ho furthor threw out grave 5uubls as to tho onrnoytuoss of tho Home Mission Board's faith in sustontation, and theroforo thought they wonld not do justice to it, if it were transforred to that Board. OALLED TO ORDER, Ho wan interrupted promptly by Dr, Roberts, of Now Jorsey, and thia was vigorously protested against o8 on unfair inferenco, y Dr, Horrick Johuson, of Cayuga, N. Y., was strongly in favor of consohdation; he lnd always ™ agrood that the vanorable Dootor from Princeton wos a great man, and had agreed with bim on_all questions excopt when, sald Johnson, *I was at wator (Atwater) and he was at wino." Dr. Atwater showed much fesling over tho jost, and Jolnson spologized sotto voce. Dr. Johneon thought more money could bo raised by massing or bulkiug tho cally, and mak- ing ono grand appeal for evangolization, suston- tetion, and froodmon. He thought that the worl of making muskets was bottor done all at Bpringflold than it would bo if part was dono ab P&t:!burgh and partatSpringfleld. Bustentation hied been tried longenough to show that it should Lo classifled, Atter this spoaker there was a dooided dis- ‘position to SHUT OFF THE BMALL FRY that were detormined to take up the time of the Asgombly. A motion haviug been mude to como to a voto at ouce on Dr. Logan’s motion to strike sustontation out of the.sclieme of consolidation, Dr. W, L. Brockouridgo rose, and insisted that thera should be no choking off of spoakors, and that bo aspeoially weuted to Loar from his black ‘brethren on the Freedmen's Committoe transfer, and stigmatized the disposition of some to push mattors toa vote,ns o desive to makethe Assombly show indecent haate. At this romnvk, Judfa Drake npmnf; to his feot, and, shaking his lst rather pugilistically, maid 1t was not becoming in Dr. Brockonridge to remark of indecont hauto, - Moderator Crosby called Drake to order for porsonalitios in mentioning Dr. Breckenridgo's name, Drako said that ho had served in the most distinguished deliburative body in the United Btates, aud that he knew when Lo was using personalitios, * Dr. Crosby then administored A BEVERE BUT POLISHED REBUKE to Judge Drake, aud thet gentlemsn sub- sided, aftor le had, with i““ emphauis, told the Assombly how much he had suffered for tho Frosdmeu, sud bow much geatitudo they ouglt to feel for him, but did not, bacause of knowing his history. Bome wag whispered that some of Drake's pro-slavory speoches, delivered beforo the War, would bo mighty intoresting reuding now for Troodmen, It was then decided to taiko a voie on consolidation at 8 v'lock, after vhich docis- ion tho Mbdevator made a very toleraut speech. In tho rocoption of tho delogates frumn tho Froo Church of Scotland and the Prenbyterinn Church of Ireland, ho mnade tho bold asuortion that 8¢, Patrick was a thorough nud true Prou- byterian, aud o gloricus missionary, and thut tho Catholics had stolen his famo long enough, OUNSOLLUATION TRIUNFUANT, In the alternoon secusion, oftor some short spoechey, & volo way yencied on cousolidution, alter an nn)l)nnumum. Wus incorporated in tho sohome whioh provided that sastentution should hiaves spouial sooretary, aud that specisl collee— tions should bo taken tor it, and that the Homo Misslons proper should bavo the samo rulos au in tho managemont of tho hereloforo separate bodies, After thoso incorporntions, consolida- tion went through triumpuantly with a vary large majority, aud New Yorlk lad won the gume, Pllladelpbls uud tno other rural ~towns had their own way yeuterday, and at any time oould hiavo goiton the largest vote, but the Now York~ ors showed their taot and mettle to-day in such & maunor us to wmp]ntuly overwhelm the any amore than {t would be for u to wsk why Ay, | Urengers, Tho Fresdmon's Committas wus not funed buskeopd aad Jaft bis oreditoes fa the | addod to-day to the consolidation, but will pe i " l buyond all gaestion to-morvair, a8 'tke Revy Hy II. Garnot, the witty and scholarly colored ora- tor of Now York, aa woll a8 the moro prosy, the Rov. John Quincy Adams, of Houth Caroling, ropresent their colorod brothren ns olamorous for the chango, Uarnot fu decidedly s happy orator, and mado & good improsalon on tha Ase< sombly, [T the Asociated Press.) CONHOLIDATION. Br. Lovts, May 206.—'ho Prosbyterian Genoral Ansombly this morning resumed tha debato on congolidation. ‘Tho Rov, Dr, Folls, of 8an Franclaco, Cal, snid that the poople in Lis part of the country woro decldedly in favor of cpugolldation. Ila thought the guulomnl(on nnd Home Mission Boards could be united with good effect. Tho facilitios of the colportage work should bo in- croasod. Dr. Aikinon, of Detrolt, Mich,, agroed with what hnd boen #ald, though ho reprasonted no particulnr gection in_ rogard to missionary sala- ries, Ilo thought thero should be- s uniform syatom, inamnfinl tho present mode, whoro tho salary s fixed in one placo, and in anothor c‘]o- pends upon tho enprice of tho congropation. Tha cry of * contralization” ho did not fexr, bolioviug tlt tho dny wns past whon 16 could havo eny permanonco in tho Churel, Dr, Willinm O. Roberts, of Elizaboth, N, J.l. spoko In favor of_ the tnion of tho Bonrd of Suatentation and fhe Bozrd of fomo i\llnuinnsd which ne thought wore one worl, nud shonl bo togethor. 'Fhuro aro two or thrao points in which - thoy diffor,, but this could bo casily remedied. " Tho sustentation fund would hava failed long ngo, had it not booen for two gentlo- men on tho Board of Home Missions—tho Rov. Mr. Paxton and Joun Paxton, D, D. While thoy aro separated thoro is o friction, for tho rosson that boll departmonts svo the same. Unite thom, and this disappears. So with tho mission for tho freofmon. Thoy all should go together. Dr. Howard Crosby sald that it sustontation was brought into the Board of Home Missions, the iden wonld bo lost as regards contralization. It was o comparative idea. If thaoro was too much oontralization, thon diffusion, thon cen= tralization, it is n good thing. So tho word and tho changes rung on it sunply mean nothing. Bpeaking n6 a Now Yorker, bio snid that he, a3 woll as overy ministor in Now_York City, would be horrtily glad if every Board which is now lo~ caled in Now York City” woro out of it 'Thev wish they wero in Philadelphia, but most of all thoy wighod the Homo Doards wero in this grast city of tho Wost, and ho did not say this for **huncombo,”. The Rev. Mr. Groene, of Peoria, Iil,, waa op+ posod to the cousulidnt]nn of any two Bonrds. Tho Rev.'l. P. Huut, of the Presbytory of Lackawanua, the old apostle of temporauce, skched into overybody, Ho was against congoli= stion, for tho ressou that If auy Board hae:t onough to do now it would be everworked, eve't with the addition of n single othor Bourd, 1.0 romody against friction was alrendy provided, It was in tho I'resbytory, Dr. J. G. Roasor, of Topeks, Kan., wasin favor of the amendmant, and spolo eloquently con- corning the oarly acttlomont of tho Prosbytert Church In Xansas, Thera was no friction In eny deBmmanz thero, Dr, Robertson, of Rochester, N. Y., did not want suatoutation put in the hunds of the Boird of Maws Misslons. It would bo overshadoviod thera, end the Churcl couldjuot afford to sou so rent'n work neglected, Dr, Herrick oohinizon, author of the minority report, reported the samo in an able spesch. ‘There was an adventago in bulking causos, just a8 foreign missions aro bulkod. ~If the 15omo Misalous Board was on as grand & eale as tho other, it would Srmqmr iu tho samo dogreo. ‘I'he Rov. Fredericl B. Wotung, ot Pittsburgh, e soulor member from the I'rosbytery whero the Board of Iustruction iu located, did not wank any change made, and differad from Dr. Jokuson in~ thinklog that consolidation would sccura ccoromy, A lively dobele then ook placo on a motion that at &'o’clack this afternoon the debate vn tha question of sustentation and homo miisions ceaso, and tho question bs puton tho secoud item 1 tho minority report, Judge Drake offered an amendment that af half-pust 3 o'clack nll dobato ceato, and the Ase sombly volo ou the wholo quostion. Bevoral gontlomon objectad in strong torms to this procaeding, choking off the Presbytory. Tho Rev. Mr. Adams, a colored gon‘loman from South Carolius, oxpressed a wish tl:at tho severnl sous cf Xthiopia who wero prosent should be heard, Dr, William L. Breckenridge safd that it wan indocout in *“us mon who had occupied most of the time of tho Assombly {o thus attompt to cut off debate.” Judgo Dreke aid not think it bocoming in Dr. Brockenridge to sey what he did, The Moderator—I call Judge Drake to order. ‘There mnust be no personslities, Judgo Drake roplied that he had servedl in tito highet legislative bodies in tho country, and koow what a personality way, Ho woukl not ke persoual, but ko did not think it bocoring in any man to characterize & motion tonching the body as indecont. - Dr. Breckenridge was sorry, but he did not monu tho word fu any senso other than as tu- kind or unbacoming. The amendment of Judge Drake vas lost, and tho motion to take a vote on the (uestion of tnking sustentation out of tho Borrd of 1iomo issions at 8 o'clack this afternoon prevailod. Tho Rov. 8, J. Wilson, the Moderator, at this point delivered & vory touching addres, of wel- como to the four dolegates from Ncotland and Treland, presunting them with the minutes of the Assembly of 1873, - The debato was then resumed, and Dx, Booth, of Now York, tho Chalrman of the Conmittco ou Consolidation, arguod i favor of the majority veport, What le wanted was a_minimum of 81,000 for the ministry, 'Cho Home Mission Board ho would take out of New York aud plang it horo in this great city. ‘Tha Asserably then ook & racena, EVERING BEGSION, ‘The dabato on eongotidation waa resuraed. : 'Che Rev. Alox Scott, of the Synod of isouthern Towa, gavo somo facts it rogard to the work of sustontation in counection with home iissions, It was found to bo exponsive, and beaides, there ‘was tendonoy to immorality, He disliked to kay this but must lot out what he knew. Parties certifiy thoy can rmiso so much for o pastor, and ho is placed under sustentation, aud then it s diecovered that one-third of what s certifled can’t boraised. Thus there iy dis- lionesty, and therofore lie believed thoro should not be two Boards. ‘Ihe Rov. James M, Nawell, of Sac:amento, 8aid bis Prenbytery was in favor of a little con- solidation, but thoy did not_want the ioavd of Sustontatlon and miinistorial rolicf combned. 1f they vatad for consalidation of tho Board of Sus- tentation with auy other Bonrd, it should bo with tiie Home Missiona, The Rov, Willinw J. Essick, of Crawfordaville, Ind,, said that for cight years afior breakiug down in health heacted s a synodical rezordor of the Ilcmo Missions Colporteurnge, and other Boards, and had a knowledge of their workings, 'Pho sustentation plaun had notworked well among them. - If tho causos wero bulked as Dr. Johnson proposed, it would be better. Dr. Crosby may bave his bureaus, but_ha hoped they wonld Liear potbiug of them. Whers ho cams from the peoplo would give to the wholo houio work, sud, it o wise systom of consolidation word adopted, it would groatly incroaso the recaipts of the Church. The matter should be slmypiiticd. The Rev. Jamos Lewis, of Noosha, Kai,, said it wau » mistako whioh many had made tiat tho whole work of tho Home Misslon Bourd way ovangelical. The main work of Llomo ! lission i In supporting ministors and helpiug them to build up churches, IHo bolioved in sustentns tion, and that its principles should have been wrought in ita work. He did not want tho Homo Mission Board in 8t. Lovis, It shoutd be iu New York, noar the givers, because the mouoy it recoived wou greatly noeded. ‘Tho Rov. ¥, L. Nayh, of Bouthern Oalifornis, was in favor of tho congolidation of the Susfen- tation Board with the Donrd of ome Mir:ious. A voto was thon thon takon on Dr, Fagan's amendment, leaving out sustentation from the sosoud tem of tho miuority report, and the amendment way lost. Dr, Logan then offered another amendmont to- the secoud item, providing that tho Boaid of Home Missions “shall be divided into two depurtments,—Evangelical and SBustontalion,— with one seorctary for emch dopartwent, Ho explained the~ smondment in a briof sposch, in which ho said that hie four was that 1f tho Board of Hustentation was werged in the Home Misstons it would sink out of slyht, Dr. Booth offored an amoudmont ns & novt of cotapromise, providing thut home work bo divided juto two dopartment-missions of Hus- tentation, with a collector for onch, ile.m provious question was moved, and car- ried. Dr. Booth's amendment was adopted. ‘The main queaiion was thon put and carried, FRERDMEN'S MISBIONS, Tor the purposs of giving Dr. Gamett, of New York, s colored dologute, an oppuriunity to spoal, Dr. Logan movad tho adoption of tha nnull!lnn in tho minority report relating to frewd- weu, Dr, Garnott paid o did not & momont ndmit that tho Fresdmen's Commwitten originatod in tho spirit of casto, for thero was no cunto iu tho Tresbyterinn Churoh 80 for as he gould 560, und ho hud beon ministor during tho lust thirty yeurs, Lho committeo started from the Deovke sltles of the tiwnos, {unb s the Froedmen'y Uurend did, and ought to be abollahsd wow,