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EDUCATIONAL. Anniversary - Week at An. dover. The Theological Seminary, Lhillips. Academy, .and Abbott Ko~ nalo Seminary. Shorlin Theological - Sciingry'Tho ;Ap-] Jproaching JDedication of ,Conn- ¢il _IHall. Tyventieth Annual; Commencement,of .St Glara Academy, Sinsinaya :Mound, Wis. Examination of Pupils at 8t. Jaseph’s Academy, Kankakes, Il Andover. \Correapondence of The Chicago Tribune. T Apoven,, Mass,, July 7, 1674, Tho nnme of Andover awdkens intorosting as- sociation in tho minds of many of your roaders, Ot tho 1,700 young apostlos of Congrogation= alism who have goro foith hence duly grad- Jratod in.tho full conrso of Calvinistlo thoology a8 taught in tho oldost -Thoological Seminary in tho United States ; of tho thousands of students graduated, ungraduated, or oxpolled, .from Phillips Acsdemy, since, In 1778, its founders signed i coustitution of a * school for tho purpose of instrucling youth, not only. in English nd Latin grammar, . . . but more especially to loarn’ them tho groat end and roal business of living;" ‘and’of tho hosts of nlunnm whose Dbluo ribbons and gilt-odged essny-papers hnve fluttered on exhibition-days till this, the forty- sixth annivoreary of Abbott Female Sominary,— * honorable names not a fow " are rockoned among tho subseribora to Tie Onroaco TrnuNE in'thio Norkhwest, and notablo reprogentativos in Chicago ciroles, roligions, educational, litorary, businoss, and social. Now thnt the exorcisca of graduation of those three ingtitutions hiavo boon brought together +| and ho-Mary Prico Collor: Ghapel, in.ad- taridnto, opoupy, tho, ,..mplf on An- k, and also {u toldrating’ on tho oir. thoologleal -Ubrary books pro- “Unitarian Associntion,” Tho truth is, the Andover I'rofosaors, aud thoir compears, tho Chisago Nentors of Presbytorianism, are MEN OF BROAD OULTURE, tho aweep of*whoso §lafon srGuud Lho horlzon of" |~ truth, ns compared with that of sone mon's mon- tal optics, Is like the power of your great Donr- -born Obsarvators. telosoopo. to that .of .Dr. Pat.. ton's spoctnclo-lpngos, ¢ i Beldes tlio nddrasa ot Dr, Poabody, boforo the! Yarlor Tiotorinl - Rosniys o erors o Bourcos and . Grounds .ol Ev{unucn thet aro Common to Sclonce and to Christinne: ity,"—thore ;was, .on Bunday, ~tho Baceslaur-) aifo " discorss’ 5t P yéhn}:ul"y‘%:‘” tho Ttov. B. I, Horrick, | of j Boston, ,on *Tho Lifo and Charactof of Dr. Kirk," an osenys at tho: 1] Alumnimooting, onWeducaday, by tho Koy, A. 1L, Llumb, of Boston, and tho e, Dr. 0. 1, Lan-, +| phoar, of Boyerly, on. tho,quastion: *Do.tho :| propor development” of our ! lonominational poli~ t{ and the spiritunl good of our chinrchios ronder ik desirnblo to-favor o syatom of lay-pronching 7" The United Bocloties—tho *Portor Rhctorical " * Inquiry™—hid "%~ brilliaut programmo .onTyesdsy oyoulng. JMusio. by tho *Lockhart,” aid orations on *‘Congrogationa, Tast : an Prosent ;" 8t. Paul tho Second ;" * The Pres. ont Spiritunl Forcos Adaquato to the Convorsion ! of tho World;" *:Coleridga ns o Poct,” ¥ ‘e ordor, of oxorcises of TIE GRADUATING, CLASR, | vhich numbiored® twonty-one mombers, was as -followa' (intersporsod withi ' music) s ** Tsraol's God s Yorson:" ' Tho -Rolationa . of .Bulan, to Juman 8in, s Disclosed in u{,o Now Teatament,” Edward P, Wheolor, Boloit, Wia.; *Tho Adapta- AAfon of Truth to tho Constitntion of the Mh.\dL" *Dootrinal Tlioology thaBafoguard of the Preach- o “Whyls tho Virgin Mary Worshiped?”: #Tho Btole Rule of Lifo ;" “Tho Preaching of .Christ in dapan ;" “/'he Province.of Imagina-: _tion in Porsuasion ; "*f Christ-Work, and Its In- flizence on tho Ministry of the Futuro,” ‘Thoe Jnpanucse student regiatored. in the Spe-. clal Courso,” Neo-Simn, Yodo, has studiod eight’ cury fn_thia oountry, and ia 5 gradunto of Am-| _herst College. Ho intmigrated to, Amorien when! 4t was a capital cilme to loave Japan, aud was: condomned to death for thio offonse. Ho was, howevyer; pardoned when the Japanoso .Lnvoys ‘woro in tho United States, .and talken ,for tholr ntorproter. Ho .will yoturn as a migsionary to ‘his native land,—tho 176th mssioynry sent from Ahe Tueolngica‘ Sominary to heathou-lands,” ' * Tho sombro gravity .and black-conted dignity of Thursday's anniversaries contrasted strikingly with the shimmer of muslivs and ' e (-AND-WIIITE TYRANNY " .of Wadngaday, whon .the young ludios of tho Acadomy " walked up the sisles in proces- sion, "oné by’ one, to & slow march of Aho organ-muslo, ;and filed into ‘tho ro~ _eorved “soats, & hnundred or more as falr, and’ modacst, .and futelligont young women .as DMaséachuselts ean .dla{: ny. Noticoabla to a .Chicngo resident is 'tho “alr of repose and and inoluded within tho spnco of the last ten days of Juno and firat of July, . ? # ANNIVERSARY-WEER " is more than evgr & phrase of prognant signifl cance {o tho Andover student,—“Thoolog.,” ** Academy-Boy," or *Fem,-Sem.,""—ns woll ns to tho ** Profs.," Trusteos, Preceptreszos, Mat- roys, Proctors of the * Ifalls,” ‘‘ Commons,” “ Clubs,” ote,, of “Tho Institutions,” and to tho wholo category of boarding-house-kagpors, . book-sgellors, livery-stablors, ** butchers, bakers, and csudlestick-makers,” who gain or loso n living in their sorvice. The lotter are busy foot~ ing up thoir figures, and cetimating thelr *fn- cidentals " and “‘oxtras," o incompreheusiblo to debtor and so clear to croditor, as standing for Ahoughfulugss which those girls have, woll bo- fitting tho ** classio halls™ and “pacred places,” ‘algo tho ago to which ilicy coutinno thoir studios,—tho nyorago ago of tho graduating ‘clags boing 21 years. Tho injunction, * Lot your womon keep silenco in the churchos,” is, (a8 far ay sho girls go, Mternily obeyed at Ando- yor; for their graduating lexercisos are all with- in tho Acndemy Hull, nid they only sppear in _tho cluireh to ing—when, it is truo, they malic o good deal of vory pleasant noiso—and to receive their \liglamnr .although, judging from e cvanys ot tho ITall,—in which sorhe bright things wero anid “about **T'he Balic Law Do- fented,” *Distraotod by Advice,” and But Tian,"—it ‘was ovidont the ghls had cnough Ao "oy, ond sbundant abilily to esy it, at 4 propor timo ‘aud plnco;" and that somo of them where quorying as to whore and when those * proprictios” aro limited, Prof. Clarke brokon chiiin, boot-blacked tidies, Lnife-hacked ohiics, tobecco-smoked ceilings, robbed orch- urds, spavined horses, decapltated chickons, or, at lcnst, inl-bospattered carpots, keroseus- olled table-covers, and dogs-cared dictionnties,— tho accopted concomitants of the boy'’s ““learning the great aud ropl busingsa of living ;" or tlio wildor misdomeanors of tho girl's peuoil-acrib- Dled walls, croquet-worn lawns, pickle-stoalings, and molasses-candy scrapes. The youtbs and maidens, moanyhile, aro’ contempluting their dress-coats, white waistconts, and button-helo bouquats, or discussing the myatories of musling Xid-slippors, and sashes, biaving their photo- grapls tnken, filling their putograph-books and albums, planning their programumen, cramming for oxnminations, ransacking loxicous, enoyclo- pedias,and postical seloctions, in the interests of Balutatory and Valedictory, rehoarsing tho de- butesand colloquics’ destined to ‘dellght thieir wondering parents by their extemporanoous clo- uonce and impromptu ropartoe, aud thinking, Enaugh it all, that this is, - ©7 % AFrER ALL, A PRETTY G0OD PLACE,"— this old town thoy are'so soon to loave, as they suthetically repeat, *forever,” ‘and which thoy ann—by tho boy's “cursed” and the girl's ‘‘horrid "—go often maliened 8_old-fogyish, dul), » prison and penitentiary, Ilow faii an smiling now secs tho'face of Alma Mater, that, in'thoe light of scanty rations, and pea-coffee, and strict * disciplive, *looked erst so grim and !cm\‘lmfi. Tho theological student—who used, in dignity, to look'on from afar ot"the juvenilities of the younglings, and, in serona self-satisfaotion, con- srast their cruditios, and sentimoutalisms, and bombist, with the profound philosophy, correcs logic, and chaste rhetorie, which himsolf moan- while was spouting to the babblings of Shaw- shin's stroam, tho ripples of Pomp's Pond, or tho'solitudos of Sunset Rock, in anticipation of, tho August days whien bo should declaim thom 10 tho ‘son of upturned facos in Old South's honerod walls—has now come down from tho Licights of his isolation, and deigns to contributo his iite of thought at the snme fenut, although not until the *‘lust grent day” theroof. ‘Tho Thiltips Academy anniversaries occurred Juno 19 to 28, inclusivo ;*the Abbolt Academy, June 29 to July 1; the Thoological Saminary, June 29 to July 4, OF ALL THE *‘ PERFEOT DAYS" whicl, Mr. Lowell tells us, *como in June,” nond - wos ever, a8 it wscomed, ‘‘so rare” a8 gome of {hose ' that bave broken over Andover Hill in this Anniver~ ary-Woek of *74, Tho lawus never could have looked grooner, or tho clm-nrchos moro minstor nud cathedral lko; the skies never could kave Seen bluor or the orioles sung swestor; tho reighboring hills nover could have shown fairer ind_more "smilingly picturesque, dotted with stacks of now-mown hay and their ombousing %03 the distant mountains never could have iftod grandor'outlines on tho horizon ; tho sun- iet-skies nover been niore gorgeonsly suggestive of thé * Gates Ajar” to the imngination which 208 dvawn its fugpiration frowmn thoso scenos; the moonlight-shadows nevor moro solemnly in- rillug to the meditations and snincly raptures of “"Tho Btill Hour” which bus made the name of Prof, Austin Pholps sy much ~a household- word in Audover homes as_that of the populur sutlioress,” bisdaughtor, 1lizaboth Stuast. Ono who hiss beou ubsent ovon for u fow yoars from Andover anniversaries MARKE MANY CUANGES, What must Lo tho momories atirred in tho minds of thoso whita-halrea representativos of former gondrations, somo of whom still drng thoir trombliug stops to the time-houorad festi- “f” Within tho remembrance of us in middle lite, the frescoed and Nower-adorned church way tho grent, uncouth, blank, and bare ** meoting- Lioute;" the * Locklinre Socloty sougs,” thia ** fid- dled und sung " Prolis of * Watls' Seleot,” by the *‘pmish-choir;" instead of Prof, Chur- - chiil's incomparable clocutiouary training, wo hed tho nussl twaug and drouo of tha conventional orthodox prench- ipg tone; and, in ‘placo of tho intolligent, quick, keer, critising, creed-indifforent, and par~ chanca skoptical audience of to-day, iuteilect sharponeti by perlodical aud daily press, was tho * atolid, pationt, reverent, nud crodalous, or the hair-splitting, dogma-worshiping, though withnl prarerful und pious congregation of tha faithful, il Joforamg reypeotfully to Systomatie Theology nud the oxpounders therof, 1t must havo scomed to somoof the Eldors in Inracl au'innovation indicative of the decline, 1¢ NOT THE ICUABOD-DEPARTURE, of the former glory, wheu tho *‘1louso of God ™ pchioed to **applause,” and that of the dovtriney “of the Uul(u(fnn A. I, Tenbody, of bercticul Cambridge, by men who huve ‘*¢subscribed a eolomn doclaration of their faith"” in the doe. urines of the Gospol ag *‘summurlly oxpressed in vho Westmingter Assembly’s Shortor Cuto- chiswn,” und “to mafutuin snd inculeato the Christion faith as thus oxir.reed, . o . in opposition, not “only to_Atic-st’ and 'Inidels, bt to Jows, Mobuinmeduuy, Arians, [elagius, Autinomiaus, Armilvlaus, Sovinians, Unitarians, nnd Universuliats, and to ull other "heresies and orrors, anciont ormodern, which may bo opposed to the Gospel of Christ or hazardous to the sonls of mun,” ‘What botter roturn could Chicago make for ity obligations to Andover than to sond o mis- sionury to this dogeneruto mothor, aud try if the youthful zoal which met with such discourage- onta in its labors with Prof, Bwing and Pattgron .Boolyo, of Amhorst, presontod the diplomns to seventeon graduates, one of whoin'l note aw from Pepria, IlL,—Miss Xelon "Dartlott. ITe also made an address,—a cogent statoment of tho capacity and claims of ‘woman for i M'A HIGHER EDUCATION,” and o gracoful plea for her bettor culture. Ho snyd tho day fa _gone by when {ho un{a{ straing for & womai 'to loarn is * Ifnsto to tho Wedding," aud * Hush, My Babo.” Baautiful and grecious as theso are, there are othera important and in- Bpiring. * While the processiop marchéd out in twolines, each preceded by two malo nshers with thoir batous and badges, thoroe was oppore Lunity to rioto the tastofal yob simplo stylo of tha guly' dress, and tho graceful individuality of their adornmonts and uatural flowoers,—u’ ro- freshing reliof from the samoncss and mouotony which characterizes o slavish obedlenco to fashion’s artiicialitios aud eaprices, Ane dover s fortunato in the Irincipalship of its Girls' Academy,—the Misties Mokenn piving it a tono of womunly dignity u keeping with ite_avolont and "honorablo as- ‘wocintions, ana tho old-school couriesies of tho réverad woman, its ' founder, whoso benigunut faco siniles down, from tho gilt framo on tho schoolroom-wall, on the happy young givls blessed by her baneficence. It is a sagacity born of ux‘mlluqcu that gota the crowd of A¢ademy boys woll exhibited, grad- ' uated, and enfo out of town, Leforo .tho * Kem, Sem.” annivorsaries. Their vacation is a sigual for & littlo reliof Irom the DANGEROUS .IIANDKERCHICF-FLIRTATIONS, and clandestine smiles, whispors, nudhill_at-v.foux. 'which o much vex gunrdian eldors’ rightoous Bouls, and whosé stolen sweets aro s0° much moro {uviting to tho pervorsitios of youth than the “allowed " and *pormitted " Wadneaday evening *‘call” and ‘“couversation.” Tho few tried and trusted, who remain for seryice, aro admirable for climbing step-lnddera, langing = baskots of flowers, bringiy, chizirg, distributing Programmes, g applauso at the right time, Itadiant in brdgo- ribbous, buttonbolo roses, loiuon-colored kids, and ' 'white' cravats, they scom to share in the vanities supposed to be peculiatly fominiue, Indocd, judging from tho outcroppings of an under-stratum of “mnn s o processionist,” marshal, and usher, oneis tompted to inguiro what might bave been if our I'uritpn ancestors had ot juaugarated, and enfor ‘bayonot, pillory, and stock, & ** dress-roform,"” which cut off thio ringlets, ruflles, and “ bravery " of volvet Inco, fepthors, gold, gilvor, and goms, of the “mala ™ sdornings. 7 T'ho oxhibitions of Phillips Academy always rocall tho faithful yot storn friend and disci- plinarian of tho Loys who so many. years mads DPhillips Academy a powor iuthe land,— “oyoLE gar" ¥ a8 ho was known ; & namoe of **terrorto tho evil- doors,” aud ““ proise to thowe thut do well;” Bomuel H. Taylor, LL. D., an_eminont clagsical student and pudron of clussical tearning. Ilo foll at his post of duty, *faithful unto death.” ‘Wit the co-oparation of Mr. Gga;i;o Taylor, son of the late Iate lamented Principal,"the present Privcipal and his able corps of assistants keop the school fully up to the old standard, aud make improvemants suited to tho progross of modern thought. It souds forth this vear thirty-threo groduates, who, in their Parting Ode, have supg: Wheu stormy billawa round ua roll, Upou life's troubled uea, Wolll tirn to memory’s elisrished pago, And, Phillips, think of thee, Triday moruipg, the olm-embowored streets thot echiood to tho atraius of music aud march of proceesions, aro cumlpnrnuvulv desorted, Evorybody i glad itis all ovor. Ounlya few dtrangors lingor to wander about and gazo at tho objects of intorest, Conspicuons ou tho Hom- loury grounds is tho now library binlding, BREOHIN HALL, built by the mnuiflconce of Messrs, John and Poter Smith, eud John Dove, resi- dents of the town, and named from their uative town in Bcotlnnd, whero also they havo erected an Andover Hail. Thoy bave alko endowed a Memoriul Hall to the memory of the soldiers of Andover who fell in tho Civil War, and have mado other donatious, oxcoeding in all $100,000, Self-mnado men themsoives, rich man- ufacturers, thoy Laye shown u genorous snd noble uppreciation of tho valuo of lotters, An- dover has beon fortunate in the liborahty of hor citizons, Bosldes various minor hulls, librarios, and other xuhliu Luildings founded by privato donution, there 18 the Punchard Freo 8ohool for both sexen, established by the will aund tosta- went of tho gentioman whoso name it boury, bo- queathing &76,000 for tho purpose., Though a coiymuulcant of the Episcopal Oburch, ho mado tho school unscetarian, and_placed it under the governmeont equully of Congregutional and HChurgh” Trusteos, The strangor looks with intorest on thio stone houso formerly the resi- doncg of MRS, MANRIZT NEECHER BTOWE and her husbund, Prof, Colvin E, Btowo; “and the rosldent rocalls the quaint sppoarance of the eccentria “Prof.," with Bis longs whito beard, which—as tho story wony —ho liad vowed not to cut Lill the Fugitivé-Slio layy was repealod, In tho chapol burying-ground, nmong {he statoly and Puritunlo uiarble mons montd excoted fn'memory of” the veverond Pro- tossors, aud the ** Loly toxts " commomorative of thelr virtues aud thoso of thelr liousoholds, wo rogard with sud Interest the graceful crosy nnd its brief Grook motto, ** Christ is Al " placcd by aLrs, Btowo over tho rosting-place of (o idolized #on, whouo sndden death by drowning brought s shadow on tho happy houe, and whose memory would flud its ardor dumponed by the obduracy of the Mov. Profs, Xdwards A, Park, Johp L. Wayjoy, Austin Phelps, Egbert O. Bmyth, J, Menry Thaver,— that ig to say," the mou who parzliolod the esebaunatical criine (of presching cnjled forth tho mothor’s lament, ¢ Only a Your,” But, if we wero to Hogor among the associutions suggostod by thosa marbles, aud swnmon up the goucrationy tha are dusy iu the buryiug-grounds ndovor, and North Andover, the oprlioat- ; gottled parisl, wo should como bngk to courtior :and onvalior of tho time,of Charl 6, and ; Puritan . who ', foraook the ]\Pnlla -of English caatlon.for. the wilda of ** yo Morrimnck Plautao yon, ; ‘Iho houso whore Iam writing was tho rosi- douco of f T, FINGT WOMAN-TOET IN AMERICA - and hor' husband, Gov. Bimon Dradutreot, the friond of \Vln!hru(u and tracos still are visiblo of the site.of-an older-louno,-built-in 1646, - hut .burned to tho ground . in 1660, , A ** Iistory of Andover," writien: boforo' Chicpgo's firat houso waa built, given.somo itoms in rogard to tho cus~ toms of ifs poople, nnd, nmong othors, ono of Jdntorest _to"" ' emporance ‘peopla:” It Aftor funerals, it was’ customnry to' perve *sirong drink, 3r. Phillips, in 1720, In & sorinon disnp- proves of the practice ns nshifable to-the ocen« sion, and obeorves that regpnalable gicoply in Hos- “fon bad . agreed to “offer’ no, sttang. drink nt . funorals,”" Noto the itzlics (yourcorrespondant’s) a4 affordipg ovidonceo of tho parson’s shrowdnoss in"dealivg with tho problem of practical cthics . which poiploxed lis rural parish: Tho argu- .miene, ‘tIn Boston—ihe véspeclable people.” o Vigel eqndo.” R - T D Oboerlin Theologicnl Sominary. Correspondence of The Chicaga Tribtine, _OpEntay, July 10, 1674, ,Tho fortioth anniversary of tho Oberlin Thoo- Jloglcal Sominary is to. bo. tho oceasion ,of appro- priate public oxorcisos, markod, by the.complas *tion and dedication.of CGUNOIL MALT, _tho , flnest building evor.doyotad exolusivoly to tho uses of tho Nominary. - Tho exerolses will conglst of an . historical ;ukolch of- the building, -y Prof. Mend ; briof spooches nnd. nddrosses Ly Alumbi and other frionds; tho prayer of dodien- tion by :Dr. ‘Morgan; and. o collation. in tho, .rooms of tho Hall :In counoctipn :with thoso oxorclsos,ftho Thoologieal Institute. will open on Weduesdny ovening, July 29, and close on Fri- | day afternoon, July, 3 f It is oxpocfod. that. tho following gontlomon .xill present papors at tho, spestons of the Insti- tuto :-Tho Rovs. 8. G Lep, of Cloveland; R. G ;Hutcbins, of Columbus ;- Dr, Zachary-Bddy, of Detroit; .and Profy., C. M. Mond, of Andover, . and J. L. Danials, of Olivat. Tho following, aro | somo of tho topics that.wili bo disoussed: Dr. Bushnoll's - * Forgivenass and Law ;" *T'axation of - Church-Proporty;” ‘¢ Bible-Rovislon;” and ' The Organizéd Union of-Roliglous Seots,” ‘Tho Commeticoment of tho Sominary. will ocour I'ri- dny ovoning, tho graduating olass. numbering sven, On tho followln _dn¥, Saturday, jhvg.T, tho Hall will bo dodivated. In .view of.tho.im- portines of. this occasion,—marking, . ag it does, & new doparture on tha part of the Sominary to- ‘ward movo distinctivo worlt, and promining, .ng it seoms, a wider sphoro of usofulnoss and groat- or success in [ts relations to tho wants of the +Northwost,—it would bo woll, porhaps, to notico e roloct a1 iy s frst suggentod in 0 projoct of - Vi tho un?ing of 1870, mld“wna “fully dotormined upon in tho rutumn of tho samo yoar. “'Tho original plan was devised by Profa. Moad and Ellis. . Tho architoot 18 Waltor Blytue Clove- | I dq Innd, ‘Fho firat -subscriptious were mado by J, -1, Willlston, Northampton, Mass.,.and. tho: Hon, @, W. Williams, New Loudou, Coon,, of .§500 onch, At the time of tho LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE, 85,000 bind been soourod. “This. intorosting ser- vico was performod by. the National Council.of Cougrogational Churchos, assombled at Obarlin in )&zvmuhur, -1871, .ab - which timo .addrosses wore dolivered by Presidout Fairchild, tho Ion, Jomes Monroo, b, o Rov, Dr. Wolcott, of Glovoland, Con, 0. O..Howard, and.tho ‘Rev, -Dra, Butterficld and-Budington,—~tla last-namoed gontioman boing Moderator of the Council, By rosolution of the Couucil, it was recommended ““that tho sum of {£50,000 bo.raised for tho orac- .tion of the T'heologioal Building ; and that, in commomoration of the founding .in this placo, on.tho principle of fellowship, of & pormanout organization of our churches, ns n symbol of “their unity, {ho cdifica bo sppropriatoly named Gouncil Hall.” 'Tho Lrustecs afterwards adopted the uame recommendod. In:tho Wintor following thio laying of .the cornor-stono, about $9,000 .was subscribed in Now England, and daring tho noxt wintor noarly the samo amount,—thus making o total subscription. of £18,000 from New England, The remainder of {hoabout. 830,000 subseribod . has como wmaluly from frionds"in Ohio, . It will .require nanrly 60,000 to fiuish und furnish tho building, 'Sho utmost care and economy have beon.exorcised in tho outlay of funds, .and tho axpense has fallon Delow the nréhftoct’s' estimutes, L'bo DBuilding Committes may bo credited with this suving, o6 they have curelndly watched all.tho detuils of construotion. ¥ HOME OF “LIE. LARGEST DONORS haye beon 8. H, Sheldon, Cloveland, $1,500; Ez- ra Farnaworth, Boston ; Amos C. Bristow, Provi- denco ; tho Rev. Dr. Cincraft, Gambier, and sav- eral others, &1,000 each. In addition,.sums rang- ing froni $100 to $500 have boen contributed :by individuals in differens scctions of tho country, Churches in Ohio, Weatern New York, and some of tho Enstorn States, have appropriated colloc~ tions; and many persons have given .smaller sums than those named, TUE NUILDING is situated nenr tho First Churel, directly front- ing tho centro of tho Colloge Park, and in full yiew of the Park aud tho Colloge buildings. _Its loeation iy very commanding, and the Hall -presonts o fino appoarance in approachin, the vlllnfio from any direction. Tho length of the building is 101 feet, and ita width 70 feot. Tho basoment furnishes room for the hoating apparatus. The firat story contnins the clinpel (48 by 86 feet), threo loature-raoms (twa 80 feot, and the third 24 feot square), a reforonce-libra~ ry, and reading-room, ~ The sccoud, tlurd, and fourth stories ars approprinted to students’ pri. vate roomw,—fourtoen study-rooms in each. Thore will boaccommodations for sixty students. T'he rooms aro maiuly square fu foim, each hav- ‘ing two windows, and all with a sunuy oxposuro, there being no rooms on the northsido. The bedrooms will be separated from the main rooms by folding doors or o curtained arol, ‘Unless tho number of students should become largar than it is in puy other Theological School of this denomination in the country, tho build- ing will answor TUE ENTIRE NEEDS OF TIE BEMINARY. It is snfo to nasert that the building is inferlor to no othor of its kind iu tho country. Oberlia may justly bo proud of this beautitul structure, and tho friends of tho Seminary may feel on- couraged that now, siueo hor wants ate so nmplfi provided for, Alma Mater starts out anew witl the promiso of still gronter success aud widex intiuenco. DBrewsox. St. Olara Acadomy. Spectal Correspondence oy The Chicago Tribune, HAzEL GREEN, Wis,, July 9, 1874, Time, Wednesday, July 83 place, St. Olara Acndomy, Sinsinawa Monud ; object, tho writing up of tho twentioth annual commencemeut exrcisos of tho institution just nmmed, - Tho pupily of tho echool filo gracefully upon tho stage, to tho inspiring music of piancs and Larps, Thoy number MONE TIAX A KUNDRED, and very plousing thoy are to leok at, against a backgroupd of rich-colofed drapery, tastofully set off by wroaths and bouquets of fair and fro- grant flowexs, It is romarked that the girls aro dressed with the utmost stmplicity, A black skirt sud o whito Swisy walst—und that's all. No jowelry, no suporilnous finery, no ridioulous ribbons, Roses thore are, but they aroin the cheels of the maidous ; aud diamonds, too, but brighter and more alluriug far than tho cost- lient geras that evor mortal jowelor old, ''hese folks have good houlth, you soe, and conse- quontly thoy bave bright eyes aud clear com- ploxions, ond _can afford o Bpnear in publio miuus tho traditional truck and iriukot clements of the fominine wardrobo, Thoe Indian_gir], Wihaki Lo Batto, spezks tho Balutatory, Wikinki i3 coming out stran tintel- loctuully, Bho stands accessit i * Christian Dootrine,” and gots first premiums for profl cioncy in composition and other things, Aftor the * Opeuning Chorus,” sung br all the pupily, and nn air fiom * La Dame Blanucho,” played on six pinuos by eighteen of thg Min- 10ns, tho introductory addresy wau dolivered by Miss M, 'L'rennor, of Towa, Miss Tronnor spolie in o naturally ousy and improssive manner, Iler rich_black hair wos worn looso, aud set off to pood advantugs hor fresh wud beautiful faco, Il‘ho addross was applauded ns its morits do- o a0 sslo —pood sl k usic and muslo,—good musio, you know,— and now Miss 11, Nuity, of Wisconsin, ’ QLTS UEL DIPLOMA. Bho iu the only graduate, and syerybody soping to tuke an unusuol intorest In tho lady, Iler drony in wome xich fabrlo of & croamy lno; sud |- Lor domennor is atately and dignified. Tho Minions are haviug it out with the Junlorg now, sud an agreeable snicker i touched off all over the house. 'Cho way these yotuug persous honvo philelogical and rhotorical brickbats nt ench ofimr would wake oven * Old Cockeyq gosp and staro. Now and then the Minjons gof n ono with their left bolow the bolt, muking the Junlors double up in a gort of a sickly way ¢ and anon tho ovor-confidont Blinfons got” thelr deay littlo hoads in chuncory, uud thon the Juwiors Luve thingy according to their own liking for g while, Progontly {ho tido of bettlo tarns:agaln ;* nmlr ) Loy wng ploug, Migg M ot “,'!“".“"f “Tho Littlo ;011 »Waman " escégdingly. \ell, nor was tho plano~ nccomponimont . by Migs Julln Rotchfort, of Ggelena, of unythiug Jike a modlacro charactor, LAUNELS YOI PROFICIENCY IN BTUDILS wero awardod to Missos L. Hinckloy, M. 8pillane, B.Brohany, M, 0'Connor, 1L, I, Colgan, nifd"J5.* i Kavanaugh, :Tho * Beputlos of Bollsario ™ wora: mado scnsiblo’ to ~avery caltlvatod ear-by eix . young-Indias oporatiug on.as.mauy grand pinnos, . . Moro oxcellpnt voonl_and {nstiumontal mysio 16 norved up, and thew Miss B, - Nalty givos the valedictory.” It fa an affecting little spooch, and *Mins Nalty's flue eyos swim' in teats” during its dolivery. " “The last song, * Yr Prego; O Padro +Eterno," was ndmirab)y rendered. -'Beforo tho honors aro conferred , and - tho romiums distributed, an able and oloquant ad- drees Is-dolivered by I'ather John Irolaud, of 8t Taul, Minn, * Now tho Grand March and Finalo, and tho ox- ercigos aro closod, LET US DRIVE TUROUGILTHE WOODS, strotohiug away wostward from tho Acadomy bullding. " Peopla to the right of . us, poople to tho loft of us, peoplo bobiud us, and' people be- foro -us, Farm-wagons, ' buggies, landaus, Daroucligs, and apiritlous old pluga with blankets uhng od upon theire bagks. “Phera 18 eating and -drivking, ' aud chatting, and ‘love-making, all conducted in,a way quita inspiriug to look upon, ' By tho timo tho comet conics.out again thoso Eopplu-\vill pll have vanished to their sovera) ofnes. Thoy will go to:bed complotely l@f;gm.l out, but, befora they-fall aslepp, *they will ra- solvo that theeo 8t, Olara comnioncement oxer- cigen are junt a Jittlo-nhoad of any.similar ontor- tainment kuown to the dwollers of tho Missis- sippi Vailoy, ~Gus, +8t, Joseplhds Acndemy, « Correspangeyge of The Chicago Lyibune. ‘WarakRa; Iroquols Co.; IIL July 9; 1874, . Bt. Jospph's' Acadpmy, at Kanknkee, under the dircotion of the Reverond Sistors of the Congroga- | tion de Notro, Dawmo, whoso.Mothor-ITouso « is-in Moptreal, Ganads, rankszmongst tho education- al ostablishments of -tho highest order. The . Englisl, Fronch, ;and Gorman langusges aro : tought with, equal. advautage, Tho cousso of .studyris; divided 1nto- throo parts: :First, tho Ordinary courso, which lasts flve years; sccond, tho Buporior course, which lasts two years;, and third, tho Sclontifio courso, which aldo Insts two years, and which must bo . followed by young Jo- «dios wishing to take thoir-degreos. “Towards -the -end of -tho threo ontiro dnys wero devoted -EXAMINATION OF THE PUPILS, :A numbor of frionds of- education - wero -pros- -ant, and inverrogated thom, :All gave entiro sat- iafaotion - by their perfect- self-posscssion, -and «their thorough " knowledge -of - the branches lagt - month, ‘to -tho on .which ithoy were examined. Tho ox- amination was .a . brilliant | one, -and, ‘I .must ey, to :tho Lonor of-the - Bisters.aud of ‘tho - pupile, that I have - nevor assistod at ono which gave mo moro satis- «Aaction, -Inmy opinion, 8t. Joseph’s Academy ia ona-of -the bost inetitutionsin tho country, and “Iam not alono of this conviction. :Msny: of- tho +flrst familics of Ohicngo and olsawliere think .08 o, “I'his Inatitution, though of -recont origin,: re~ coives all tho marks of encoursgemont - merited by tho zealous and -untiring-efforts of the 00d Bisters .under whoso direction it 3 placod. This oncouragoment -is _such that -tha ologant and spncious puilding up to this time occupled by tho pupils must shortly bo onlarged to meot the numerous de- mands for admission-which are daily made to tho -Lindy Buperioress of tho establishment, T'ho examiuation of -which I.have.alroady spoken was .olosed by .n .musioal aund dramatient ontertainment, which took placo on tho oveninj of .tho 80th = .of June. ‘The music, singing, English and French dramne, addresses, &c., &e., deeply. intorested tho large -and apprecintivo -nudienco in. stiond- ance. -One song in partioular, * Tho.Cuckoo,"” «was groatly admired, - TIE DISTRIUTION OF PREMIUMS mndo moro than ono heart beat high with joy. A number of tho-pupils were erowned. It will not, porhnps, 'bo out of place ‘to -name thoso™ who .menited tho first honors - of thoir .respoctive classos : . Missos'Julia ‘Morteng and Lona -Loring, -of -Xankakee, roceived tho silver medal,—honor of tho firat degreo in the Buperior courso, Misses Ida Kondy and *Mario L, Martin, of Kankakeo; Nettio :Durkeo, of -Bureks, Kau, ;. Corinne ‘Matr, of -Bt, Auno, “ITho Rose,” lLonor of tho second degra in tho -Buperior course, ‘*Tho Rosobud," bonor of .tho fifth .year of tho Ordi- biary course, was bostowed on Misses Allic *M. Cross, of Chicago; Maggio Brown, of Ohe- Lanso; -Lizzio Kirby, of ~Momenco; Jounio Thompson, Mary Lavery, Rosio Broden, and Mary Riely, of Kankakeo. ' #'I'io Closed - Roso- bud,™honor of -tho fourth year of the Ordinary courso, on DMisses Ella Linohan, of ' Chebanso’; Lottie Stratton, of Momenco; :Delia Morig- setto, of Labend ; Josophino Fagnin and Maggio O'Bullivan, of Kankakeo, *''Iho -Bonquet of Tlowers,” honor of.the third year of {ho courac, was awardoed to Misses Delphino Poitras and Tmma Schoenhofen, of Chicago ; Halon Thy- fault, Loa Boauchamp, and Caroline Roth, -of Kankakeo, Although tho entertainment lasted over threo -hours, and tho woather was extremely warm, no ono -dreamod of flnding it too loug; and, when it was onded, every one soomad'to rogrot that it did not last fongar. A Fuiexp or EDUCATION, —_— What Baltimore flas Proved About. the Fourth of July. ZLrom the Haltimore Sun, A theory isuever of much yalue until ox- perience proves its feasibility, It is held m thaory thut the Fourth of July might bo colo- brated without firoworks or “their consequont .contlagrations aud accidents, :Baltimoro has now ‘domonstrated the truth of that theory. T'ho authoritios of that city issued an order some woaks ago prohibitiug both the eslo and uso of fireworks within tho city limits, and they rigidly enforced the ordor. Tho resull was that ** not ona aceidont or offense, fatal or otherwise, oc- curred from tho uso of firo-arms,” and thoro was was not a single firo in tho city on July 4, except & trifling one caused by children plaving with matchos, Tho abaonco'of the usnal Fourthe.of July exoltemeont led many persons -to leave¥ho city and apond the day in the country or down tha bay, and tho numbor of such oxXcnvsionsts: wag, 08 aconsequence, unusually largs. 'Cho onforeemont of the ordinance againet the use of firoworks and_fire-arms wna thus made doubly beneticinl, It protooted tho lives and proper- ties of citizons, and led to regroations which in ;:lmfi'l cuses muat havo proved Lenoficial to the calth of the oxoursiomsts, posamials e Froduction of Gold and Silver, A late report on tho mineral productlons of the Pucitic Blopo shows thut the total yield of tho lust twonty-fivo yoars hes boon 1,683,641~ 034, and to this immense sum California atono contributed throo-fourths, or 81.004,019,003, nearly all of which is in gold. Nevada is cred- itod with Luviug yiclded over $221,000,000 in silvor and gold, while Utab, though roputed to abound in mineral wealth, has thus far producod only eome &25,000,000, for her nines have but rocontly attracted the attention of oapitaliats, who now work them iu s proper mannor, Colorado sooms to beat Utab, having produced some 80,000,000, whilo the united yield of Washington Torritory and Oregon was bnt littlo over $25,000,000, Bince tho exoitemont caused by the discovery of gold hus died out, and min- ing is systematlonlly carvied on, tho production hins steadily luncronsed, 1In 1878, the actual yield of tho Pucifte Slope was $80,487,436; whoreas for (ho yenr 1872 it was only 70,236,414, which shiows & gaiu of about 14 por eont. ‘o wereaso it mostly in sllver, and maets, thoroforo, the un. usually groat demsud which has lately Leon mndo for this motal. Englaud sccuros tho lurger part of tho production, Poland?’s New Sedition Law. Frons Harper's Weekly, Tt mny foirly bo said that the Republioan press has suved the Ropublican party from the yery sorious orrors into which tha lesders would hnve preoipitated it, und has saved it by the most indepondent and rigorous censuro, and warning, and appoal. Tho law which was aftar all passed, and which authorizos tho trial in Washington or o newspapar for hibol published anywhere in the country, 18 aimed at this iudopondonoe, and will racoll upon the party that passed it 1t in sald to bo meunt as & bar to licenso, not to liberty, But that plea 18 as old as tyranny, 'The law will not constrain tho iudopondonce of suvore criti- cism, but it will wonnd its authors as the alion aud sedition laws emote tho old Foderalists, Fintehed by the San, o roni the Indanaoliv News, Potor Dadd, Y miles noith of the oity, while Yoplanting corn some time ago, picked up o hen's ogg iu tho controe of o 20 aere fold, which v o throw in front of tha plow and loft it coy- etod with onrth, Lust weok, plowing at the sume point, ho hoacd a *oheop, choep,” and found, upon oxaminetion, that the egg bad latchod by the warmeh of tho suu, snd the chiokon was slive and partly out of the sholl, Tho Little follow was faken to two house, and it the “t;unu," “oholarn," and othor complaints doecsn't wroetlo him o doath, will yol live to work luto poople, {TREASON ‘UNMASKED. A Tertible Tempest in a Small Tea-Pot, Forged .Credentials .and Trai- torous ‘Pionics. ‘The ‘Workingmen Renouncs the Formers' Party, {The 'Delegates 'Expldin that ‘They Were iToo IGreen to Do Anything «at Springfield. How ito .Allny Reportorial .Jonl- ousy. 1\Evor sinco tho Workingmen'a:party-of Tilinols 23708 organized by the Communists of this oity 1they liavo tried toifind somo-llics ottsido of tho city, through whoso aid they might sucooed in coming .to power, aud .mako this city the El- dorado for .workingmen, " When the Farmors + hiold thoir Convention on the 10th of Juno last, tho:Workingmen's - party was fpvited to attond, ond, consoquontly, dologates woro oleoted and sont to, Springflold. "Whon the dolegation loft this city they were confldent ‘thoy had found a congoninl ally, ‘and that.the' political 'millen- nium -of the : Communists aud Boclalists in ‘this city bad at length arrived, and the “leadors woro .nlroady .proparing for a first-olugy +Cliicaga Commune, with Klings or Zimbel -t dts ‘hond. -But thoy camo -to Spriugfield, they saw, nnd:they loft disgusted. Their domands‘to ‘sm- body planks in tho platform in ‘favar of the .workingmen woro ontirely 1gnored, snd ot a :Blnglo . concession was-made \to them. In fact, they woro troatod like boys by tho farmers, who hod no othor uso for them than'to got their votes. Of coursg, -tho high -hopoes of tho londers wors shattored by this end ‘failure, and discord aud atrifo . commenced meking thelr appearanco.in thoir ranks, Thg original Bimon Pures placed .the blamo ontiroly upon.the shoulders QP sundry politieal bummers, who managed to becomo .membors :of tho party, while tho .lattor Ioid the .fault on tho »incoudlufitondnnolon of the original Communist -lendors, tho result of which was that the whole cdifico of Communism and Soclallsm which had - been orected with a0 much caro commonced shak~ ing, and gavo signs of falling to pieces. Among tho dolegates to Sprivgfold wore Joseph Groen- hut ond Guido Methua, who, although working hard for tho Commucistic causo over since tho movement began, were suspected of haying -BABTERED AWAY TUE INTERESTS.OF THE PARTY . for porsonal ends. . Considerable bad feoling haa been . mavifested towards them ever sinco they returned, and not only wero they themuelves tabooed, but nlso thoso who had anything to do with sending them to Springfield, 8o it como to .pass . that oven tha preat ecissors-grinder, Karl Klings, tha editor of.{he Vorbofe, hua lately beon undor a cloud beeause ho had authorized Groen~ hut-to. attond the Convention, though Klings avers that ho morely sent bim ns a xeportor for his papor, aud not 48 a dologato. A convention was to have bLoon .hold two wooks ago, but failed, bocauso tho political fraction undor tho -leaderahip of Nelke arrgnged a tho plenio on samo day, and, it i averrod, for tho vory. purpose | of spoiling tho Convention, knowing that Gresn- hut and “Methua would bo roughly handled. Nelke not only BUCCEEDED IN BPOILING THE CONVENTION,— only sbout twenty mombers making their ap- posrance,—but tho ‘;Icuin also turnod out o com- plote failure, thera being a defict of sbout 9150, although some unknawn friend of tho Oppressel workiugmen Ldd kindly donnted the sum of §250 for it, “Vongeance was sworn for this treacher~ ous act, and at the next meoting of Section 7, to which-Nelke belonged, he was uaceremonidusly KICRED OUT OF THE PARTY. Yostordsy the long-talked off convention for the :purposo of seitfing the Springfield affuir cama off at the BDohonuau Turuer all, about 200 dologates boiug present. Bir. Christian Krauso was elocted Chairman, ond Mr. Honry 8teiu netod as Seerotary. ‘Tho firat question that came up way WHETHER REPORTENS BNOULD BE ADMITTED to the Convention, they having boon . heretoforo, strictly oxcluded. ~ ‘Aftor n lengthy and heated ‘debato, & mnjority was found in favor of ‘the re- porters, and thoy wero consoquently notified to come into the hall, with tho admonition to tell. 1o lics, and make tho report as favorablo s pos- siblo, or olse they would be treated to a doso at tho next mosting, Just as the Chairman was calling for the report .| 'corrupt manuers of other partics. of tho dolegates toSpringfield, TU REPORTER OF TIE STAATS-ZEITONG mnda his appearance, and no sooner was le rec- ognized than the cheoks of sevoral of the dele- gates grow palo, and, with staring oyos, tho serenmed, ** For God's sake turn hfm out ; ho'll toll a pack of lics about us,” and- thore came an acho from all parts aZ s hall, **Kiok him out," **Xick ‘him ont.” The roporter did not scare much, aud coolly took out his paper and com- menced taking ‘notos, whercupon some omno moved that all the roportera bo kicked out, to Ivmvnnt Jealousy among them. A long debate fol~ lowed this motion, some being in faver of giving thom the grand bounco, whilo othors thought that thoy should be allowad to romain, and etill others were in favor of having them romoved to the gallery, 8o a8 not to contaminate the puro and virtuous workingmen, and make liarsout of them, Mattors Jooked vary biue for the reporters for somo time, unril Mr. Auguat Arnold came to their roscuo, and in & pnthetic speech showed thom thut reportors wera A NECEESARY EVIL, oud that they had nothing to fesr from them, * Let them lio about us as much &s they pleaso,” Losnid, ‘*the truth will eventuelly provail, aud wo will bo groater men than ever,” ir. Zimbel nlgo put in a good word for {lia lopartors, succeeding in pacifying the wrath of tha terriflod crowd. Finally, it was deocided to xot tho roporters alone, and go on with business, AR, ARNOLD, ono of tha delogates to tho Springfield Oonvon- tiou, enid it would be foolishness to say much about tha Farmers' platform, Although” ho dud not think when he loft that tlm{" could got a plat. form to suit them, still ho hnd hoped that -some concessions would bo mado to them. Thoy had doue all in thoir powor to convinco the Farmors of the l{uslino of thoir course, but without avail, Had they beon more experionced in polis ties, mor would Lave boon-accomplishiod, but, ns it wan, tho dologation wore too much 'dividod among themselves. If they had known more about politics thay would mnot huva allowod Groenhut and Methue to managoe the Olicago dolegation. I'hoy allowed Methua to be appointod on tho Committeo on Credon- tials, thinkiug thut his oxperionce -might nid thom, Lolieving thut ho would act futropidly, but thoy ware fonrfully mistaken in tho mau, MR, HUDECK, another dolegato, said that the .romnrks of the' Emvimm speatier voutninod about all that was to o suid, Thoy woro too green. Tho noxt time thoy would lnow moro, and aot difforontly, ‘Lhero was where the main weakness of working- mon lay ; they bed to progrosy politioally. NIt MAULIFY, who hiadaleo been a_momber of tho delogation, eald ho bnd found tho Convention ecomposad of the samo mutorial »s other conven- tions—notbing but old _party hacka, e then deroribod the proceedings of the Con- vention, and showed how thoy wers outwitted by tho waly trickstora, 1{e did not thinlk the Work- ingmon's party should alitiate with any particu- lar politionl organization, beonuse all the {mrllcu wore rotten and corrupt, and none wonld sdopt platforms that wers progroasive onough this yoar, but uoxt yoar thoy wonlil succeed in got- ting platforms muek more radicalthan thoy woro now droaming of. During the coming wintor peoplo will begin to reason, and they would find ont tho wrang of theso laws. o did not think it best to unito with tho Farmers this fall, but anoh man shonld aot ad ho doemed. best, MR, THORESIARK enid that the delegatos woro mercly sent to Springfiold to promulgata thair idens amony the country population, = That thoy had necoms plishied so Jittlo waa duo to tho fact that thoy ware yob too groon, Thore was only one point in tho Farmers' pintform which had anything in comwmou with thodden of the workingmon, and that was the plunk nmomu%th:\t tho prosent contract systom was wrong, bocause i1 led to corruption, 'Thoy sould not powsibly uuite with any of the prosent political partios, hecauso nono of them would make any concossions to workingmen, All tho politica! plutforms wore meroly gottoun up to rob tho poople aud oppres thom, whilo tho Workingmen's pur? wanted houosty aswmd oqual nghts for aoll, Ho lovg as the lurge and wiall farmors inade conimon cantso, they conld hof join thom; but rhon tho small farmers hnd founid out that the Istko farmors woro. living, a8 the capitailsta Jvero, upon tho poor workingmon, then the timo hud ntrived to mako common eausos Ito thon Rovorely consurod the soctions that had ‘ylvnn credontinly to Mothus aud Groouhut, Thoy might have Just Ll“ well sent gopd and trite work- Inginen, who had nothing but the workingmen's Intorest at Lonrt, Croonhut was nothing but n camenon politician, who roproscuted nothing bnt limnolf and Mothua, It was abont timo thnt tho maek was torn from ihe facos mon, and that they wors shown In thoir truo colors, ''hoy wero iraitors and falsifiors, and Liad nothing fn common with tho party. [Grent applauso.] 1 tho platform ndoptod sy Bpeh enid the form adopted at Bpringfleld was no pluttorm at all, ‘nbd p\mrhlngmmnn z\mnld liave nuthlnf: to do with it, He would thoroforo move that all political connections with the Farmers L Lroken off, and that nocoalition bo mado with any political party. Boveral othor spenltors apoke against . coalition, and fnatly Mr. Zimbel's motion wag uanimously adopted, ‘Iho Chalrmau thon stated that tho noxt thing {’n arder would bo tho oloction of five new mom- or to ¥ of thesa THE OENTRAL COMMITTEE, Mr. Thorsmark statod that lio had boon a mem- Ber of the Commities, bt was compolled to're- slgn on account of iIf Loalth, Mo mado thess: romarks to dispol the impression that he retired becnugo Lo vas 80 much dbused. 1o was confl- dent ho had dono_his duty, although Lo was not always appreclatod. Mr. Kllngs thought that tho ont{re Committeo was worthless, aud that thoy all should rosign to givo new men n chauco, If tho old committeo remainod longor In powet, the existenco of tho: party was in poril, Mossrs, Hshnman and Hudeck, mombors' of tho Committes, dofonded thomsolves from Br. Klings' sttack, and thoy both folt. #orely ngeriovod at boing thus acoused of neglect of duty. Tho main troublo was that ine' dividual mombots had ncted too indopondantly, and tho mombors of the too did mot flnd out what. was going on, Thoy know nothing of the pionie two* Wooks I‘FD' nvr of the aetioh taken by tho varl- ousscotious, Doth Mossrw. Hudeck and Hahne ‘man resigued their positiohs. Mr. Hudeok moved tha the old committee bio dischargod, aud that s now one bo elouted,at: once, Mr. Zimbol aleo wis in favor of ah immodinte clection, as thoy might not auccesd in gotting another such crowd togother. A Mr, Klings thoughs that tho election shoutd! bo deforrad for two wooksto give sactions ' chaneg to instruct thoir delogates, Mr, Thorsmark moved that & conventlon bo' hold two weoks from date, aud that all the eoc- tions bo notified tb send delegates, tho Contral Commitiee to select {imo and ploco of meoting. Aftor some furthor debato, Mr, Thorsmark's motlon was adopted. KICE THES OUT, Mr, Orst Introduced tho following resolntion ¢ Jtdsalved, That Joe Gresnliut and Guido AMethun bo Klekod out of the Workinginen's party, bocauso their credontiale weto forged, Mr, Kilngs moved ns an amondmont that an inventigation committeo bo appointed to oxam- ino into the matter, Mr, Hahoman said that tho mattor had boon exnmined; thora was no doubt that the credon- tinls of Greonhat wore forged, ¢ Klings hoped the matter would bo looked into calmly and ddliberately, and the nccused given a chanoo Lo viudicate thomeolves, It was true ho Lad sent Groenhut to Springtlald, not as & dela- goto, but as & reporter of tho Vorbole, Anold gray-hoaded workingman thought the other delegates should also be consured for al- lowing themselves to be bamboozled by such porsons as Mothua and Greephut, Mr. Arnold said bo folt it Lis duty to explain to his {fellow-workingmen the mattor undor dis- ougsion, 'Theso two mon were sont to Bprivg- flold for the good of the party [derisivo laugh- ter], and, if they throw out these two mon, tley might turn out ll tho rost. [*That's s0."] It tonty of tho party Jasd boon at Springiield at that time, they would havoe qh‘nn erodentinls to thom all, if tuoy had found is to be of auy ad- vantago to thom. [Sonsation,] M, ‘Thorsmark falt very bad becauso the pro- vious epeaker had mado euch an outrageous spocch. A wrong had boon committed, und somo action should boe takon, A workingman with an unpronounceabls namo wantod to know what the two miserable sinuora had done. Ho wanted somo light ou the ques- tion whother thoy tvoro traitors or not, [Klingé— “That's tone."] ‘Another workingman said that thoy must not allow thomsolves to be swindled, Their party was better than othor parties, und no corruption should be allowed to make headway nmong thom, [Apmum,al -Mr, Btabl moved that tho Contral Committes notify the scotious to which these two bo- louged, and that they bo requested to invosti- gato thoe mattor, ‘Mr. Stalil's motion was adopted, Mr. Thorsmark,for tho benofit of tho party, would draw theattention of tho meeting to thie porniolous syatem of giving FORGED PAPERS to mombers of the party. ‘I'hoy shonld not, like fools, call overything good that was laid befora them, but they should go forward, aud nctinn straight and fearless way, and not imitate tho Rathor than do that, thoy should erect aund stand on barri- cadod than allow corruption sod fraud within tho party. s Mr, Lehman said that noarly all the working- mon in the city wero :idle, and many of thom knew not whero to got their daily bread, The party was talking o Ereu: deal [goveral volces, “Dryup "], but nothing of any account was done. ‘Thoy should call a large public meot- g, and TELL TIE CAPITALISTS AND CONTRACTONS what was what, Something had to be done, and that very soon. . Mr, Hudeck stated that thoro frae a lettor in tho hands of the Becretary, which that gontle- man shonld road to the Convention, The Bearetary siated ‘that thiore was s lettor from Mr., Nelke in his possession, which, boing direated to the Contral Tommittos, he did not thiuk proper to go bofore tho Convention. On motlon, it way deoldedthat tho letter b rond. The Booratary then rend the lsttor. Mr. Nolko asked to Do ‘taken back ogein on the ‘bosom of tho Workingman's party, promising to bo s good man heroattor, and do no more naughty thiugs, The pienic, Lor which ho had rocoived 8o much blume, was his privato affair, and tho party had nothing to do with it, Ho had promisod to turn -over tho surplus to.the party it thero was mny, aud ha would give an account in'n fow days. The lotter way reforrod baclk to‘the Contral Committeo, as the Convention was poworless in tho matter, The mocting then adjourned. - Medioval Porsecutions of tho Fewws, The Jewish T'imes, in tho courso of an {ntorest- ing bListorionl -scconut, says that'the Jows, ap- parently possossed by o stroug tasto for wander- ivg, or an inmatiablo ldvo of gain, planted thoir unstendy colounies in all the Westorn na- tlons, and ‘sought humbly o -Lospitality that waa nover shown, Evorywhero thoy wero ra- calved with avorsion and disgust, The dark- skinned aud alion race, spenking an Orfontal language thet no Buropean could master, and govorned 'by oustoms of nontness and -pro- prioty that soomed to ‘Goth and Yun an ox- caes of ‘fastidiousness, unwurlike and highly oducated, woro mot evorywhore by au unva- rying cruclty and scorn. In Gormany tho: wore roduced to o peculiar Yorm of slavery. Jow was not a porson, but a thing, » chattol, aud o wall. The Emporor took posession of tho Oriental strangors s his own poculinr liorit- ago. They wero ‘his bondemen, Ho protocted thom whon ho wos able and plundered thewn whon ho wanted mouney., Yot thoy #oon grow numerons nnd wealthy in the citios along the Ithine, and arousod the envy of their Christian nolghbors by an ovmunuo which thoy sometimes fnonutlously displnyod, They wore forced or probnbly Emlormd, to live apart in n quartor of tho -oity by themeolyes. Thoy founded thelr synagogues and built thelr sohool-housos amidst conscless dangers, ‘Il ignorant prieats followed thom with mnlodictions, aud the still moro igno- raut popalace flpol!m] thom with stones and boat and puinmoled thom at will. Accomplished and giftad rabbis wora.ofton looked upon as magi- cians, The Jews' quarter scemed to the barbarguj Germous & contrs of mystorions and tonrlur deads, It was sileved that the Jows wore in tho babit of stor~:g tho host from the altar iu order to mook onco mora at the crucitixjon with socret ritos, or that thoy euticed away Chilstinn children to stab them “with sharp knivos nud sacnitive thom in o frightful coromony, Wlien a ohill struyod away in tho German or Italian oitios the Christian mothor at once fancied that it hind heen lured into tho Jewish quarter to ba put to doath. Tho Jows wore all supposed to bo acquaintod yith magio, and capable of wonving dark gpells that brought disoaso and decay, mis- fortune and shamo, to Ohristinu households, Yot thoy wero wondorfully prosperous, awd mifiht have outlived their” eatly unFupulnruy had not a sudden wave of religious fanaticism awopt awny what littlo humanity and intal llieuca bad yet sprung up among the European nutions, 'Lhe -preaching of tho Crnsades turned back the courds of ,humen progress for 400 yours, 'Whe puusion for bloodeliod and for barbarous oruclty rovive undar the Intntical cloquonce of go c8 :n prolatos, Tho Roman ?)Imruh tnuuhg1 that I a8 no orimo to kill a horetin or an infidol, and it had never pausod 4o oxoluda the Jow from ita human inculeatons, % Thou ghalt not kill,” s Thou elalt not stenl," woro .orasod from the Daocaloaue, and-tho-wil - and-orvel: throngw; dis solute and Iufamous, that gathorod umfur tha bannors of the Crous madb thelr flkst osunya in rohhur{ and bloodshed among the_ wonlthy and cultivatod” Jowisli colonion on thio Lanks of tha Mogclle' and tho Rhino, Thoy burat into the Jowish quartors: they snoked the rich louses, sud _ drove tlicir * wrololied: {nmates Lo suicido and dentl: Fair women stabbed thiome solyes in Monts and Troves: Husbauds: firsg Commit-* killed thelt wives and then thomsolvon, Tk Rbilno flontad. thiok witl tho commms ot dored: Jows:: Rich with spoil mud drunion.with liconno, the crusnders’ ewept. on, oarrying do- vastntion to all the- Jowlish sottlbmonts-through which the; Emmml in Higary and Austria, and at Inst porished thomsolves: in conntloss nume bors, in unutterablo torments of thirst nud huns ger, disenso, labor, by tho darts of ihe Barncens and the lintred of mhukind. Nor'was‘tli second army, undor. Baldwin, tho chivalry of tho ago, mora nierelfnl, When Jerusnleni foll thioy mnas Racrod all tho Jews: mon, women, ond: childron, whom they fouud In the oity, aud with-tears of jur knolt bofora tho Holy" Bopalohre; Yot they might have Leard, in the lull of thoir fanaticiem, tho-thundors of Slval and tholr- own condemuns tion utterod from tho flaming mount, —_— A BEAUTIFUL CHROMO. Mrs. Snoolks Washing thie Olifldrony From the El Pato (1iL.) Journal, It the-roligious proes goty ‘aliead. of-tho It Paso Journal wo givo it fair warning that it -Toust got up on ith spino, Weo havo stood the **Bloeping: Chierubs, by the Ohristian Union » wo linvo gnzod on-tho pleturo-of wall-oyed virtua withh whioh Brothor Talmngo ropea in subscrib- ors from tho tural districts” unmoved, but when thio' Cliristlan ab' Work sends us o pictureof two soro-cyed dogs watching throo merino lambg, and wants ug torruy thom 20 for it, thon, indoed, the freo spitit of an Amorlean‘clt{zed iu aroused’ Wo want it distinotly undorstood that we axe in tho chromo business ourselves, Horoaftor, overy subscriber that tnkos tho E1 Paro Journal wili récaive & beantiful ehromo, ontitlod"" Mrs: Bnookts Washing tha Chlldron.® 1t is ono of thoso beautiful homo piotures that ‘nt'orice appeal- totho fondest and holiest nffec. tions of the heart. Every man who soos it will at once * Worlld hd word a boy ngain,” when boing washed and gotting sonp in his oyeH wag ono of the regular Butiday aflictions noxt to tha catochism, Iu the foroground is Mrs: Snooks, 15 0 tuby; and:ono'of thig orphaus is struggling in ,the water. Tho- artiet: lias-seized upou-the mo= meut when the iufint has jnst opened Jus montl . for a prolonged wolo, but fir dextorously checked by mothor's swabbing Lis voica with o sponge. The menmer in which a* stronm-of "goapy wator I8 reprosented running dowa fito {fio titckin's right oye s vory finely done, In tho other oyais thrown all the added emotion of pent-up griof and * gorrow thal Imows'no tanguo.” ~ Wo dofy nuy mian to seq | thia Elcmm without boirg stirred to-hia inmost ‘dopths. Mra. Bnooke' face s o study. It in . such an oxprossion of motlierlylove, housowifes 1y zeal, aiid beautiful'devotion’ to'duty that can bo likoned to uothing oxcopt tiiat scen upon the face of our mothiors on washi-days aud at Louses . clorning timoa, Threo of the childron have: already boen |- wastied. Their rony countenances, bright- with oxuborant health, linvg boon furthor loights | enod’ by tho art of the llmnor, who has depicted thom suffering with colds n8 one result of tholy Laths, At the samo time, their comploxion forms ari’ agroeablo contrast to the throo bo hind the tub who have not yot bathod, ‘Chis ig finely doud, and'coot a-world'of'labor, The wholo-forms an _agraeablo-contrast to-tht ?Mml chiorubs seut out by tho religlous pross, t in's domostic scone, full'of holy joy, andtrane quilizod by n gweet and dream-like penco. In ordor to convoy the idon that even in sg perfoct a homo as this sorrow must entor, the artist ling- deplcted: one of the-children suffor ing with the moasles. The way in which the measles blotches-aro stnigiling Withtho dirt on his noso, having captured tho lnst-namod ory (N is ouo of tho swecetest' things In‘tho clu‘omnfi.um that hiae ever beon presonted. ‘Wo aro now propered to furnish theao chro mos to evory subscriber'of tho El Paso Jouindl. Wo appond o few cortifleates from’ promiuent ine dividuals : A A 2% “True to life, Tho very atmospliors smolls'of soap."—Ilenry IPard Beecher. **I assure you, o my honor,-that the' chromo is g0 natural "that onp: of my clildren actually 3?\11 Lt the measles from looking at it."—Zn utler. “ Rtominds mo of the limo when' they usod te wash me, now muny, many yetirs ago,"—Susan B. Anthony. *8end mo 16,000 dozen of your chromos ! Washing thie Childron.' Wo waiit to'offer them 48 proniiuma.”"—Christian at Work. “It shows domestic misery in tho highos dogreo. No woman ought to be allowed-to have soveuw childran."— Vicloria Woodhull, We trust theso Lostimonials aro sufficient: Wi could appond many thousands; but wo'forbear, Now lot the honest magyos show their approcia- tion of avt by coming up antl taking the'Journal e 2 A Rteminiscence of the Papal Zounves Tho Lord-Cuief Justice of Eugland aud o spe- cinl jury bavo recontly been coucernod with ¢ curious suit brought by " u Folish Count,” Bord ziuski, to recovor £2,500 from'a Mr. Lloyd, the sawmo being tho roward which he wag to recoiv( for serving for two years in_the Papal Zouaves ad Llovd's substituto, Bordzineki's story was g curious one, woll illustrating the actual caroor. of the capagity for fletion, of that largo clasuin Lon. don known as Polish rofugees. Ho was s Polish nobleman, bad sorved in tho Russiau amy, taker part in an insurrection, hud a fatlior a Stberiar oxilo, had fought in forty-two buttles, beon wounded twice, *‘once behind,” taken prisonot by tho Russione four times; and. once whila imprigoned in Warsaw hid sucked the blood of rats for drink. This is the outline of his story; the dotalls roven! wondorful capneity for dimo- novel-writing, When ho arrived in Rome ns Taoforo her Lloyd’s substituto, he didu'c fiud any -Meer's commigsion ag ho expocted, but, on” the con- trury; found the zonaves “a strango lot,” was robbed, got_sick, &c., occasioually receiving monoy from Lloyd, Ilo finally got back to Lon= don, .whon, after recoiving mors dole from Lloyd, £148 in all, ho sued for the romaindor. Lloyd's story, ot tho othor lisnd, i & still bete tor iliustration of tho way a zéalons Welshman oan sling his monoy. Lloyd, whose origina namo was Hiod, was o wealthy 'Catholic, Wwho in. tercstod himeelf in obtaining recruits for tha Pope, and who asked his tailora to sond him mon, wa suppose bocause London tailors came {n con- tnat with “'noedy gontlomen.” ‘‘He told young Dovick," (Dovick & Millor wero the tailors) # who wasa tall, stiapping follow, that it would o much bottor for Lim to go to ltome and fight than stand bebind tho oounter. Ho said ho should like to, vory much, but, as he was nu only child, ko did "not liko to go.,” Then Ly bheard through n gontleman whose name onded' in ski, of this othor fellow, with a similar pat- rouymical sattachmont, and mnde an appoint- mont with bim “at the Stafford Olub.” ~ Lloyd donica thint hie agroad to kive him £2,600,0r hired him for g subatitute, and, ns the stern Cookburn inquirod, it novor ocourrdd to him that he wag violating the laws of Encland, ‘'This was snid with o gigglo, to which the Lord Chief-Justice further romarked thut * it was nolaughing mat- tor.” Llo{d went himself for six months' ser- vico, about the time of the Ecumenical Counoil, *thinking thoro might bo s row.” He * was the only Welshmau in the rogiment, and wished ta Horve for tho honor of Walos,” Verdict for do- foudant, without conts. — Parisian Eugllsh, Ono constantly moots moat lidicrous examplea of the sort of English thess Frenchmen spouls whon they try, andl it would ba diflicult to imag- ino anything funnior than somo of the English one goes on French bills of fure, unlexs possibly it woro the Fronch which I Laye from timo to time read on tho Dills of farein our Wostorn hotols. I shall navor forgot tho amazement with whicl, at the Neil liouso in Columbus, 0., I onco read on tho bill of fare, * Pommels de tarr o la waiter d’hotel,” which I found meant simply stewed potntoes (Pommes do lerre a la mailre d'hofel), ~ Phere 18 o nowspaper boro callod the Moniteur des Estrangers, which hus all tho nd- vertisemonts on its” firat pugo printed in tho English lsuguago ; and its blunders aro so astonlehiig that ono can hardly boliove the ovidonco of one's eyes in roadng them, Oue man anuotnces himeolf as & *‘shirtmaker, pro- fosror of out,"” sud olaims tokeop & ‘‘shirt toro,” You havo_to study u littlo boforo taking in the fact that it is & shirt-storo bo wmoans. Another man claims to bo a “doaler in handkorchief, flannels, wost, aud trousor.” And hore i an advortidemont which is worth olipping in its entirety: i . 2 ROGRESS OF TIE DENTAIRE, TEETH AND P teofh support without hook or goring kevping to - ilie by tho prosvion of the air. VERGRUGGIE, Denthut Patoutol, of Magoaty the iing of Delylum, &y boulevard Tolssonniore, those tootli, support. had {hé advantaga of not foe! this month, ey dont give no- cenhity to the extraction of the raclno aud cometa support the mornly teeth, *(Success warranted), 1 shall not laugh at tho bill-of-fare Fronch of Westorn hotols after his.—Wirl Sykes' Parle Correspondance of the Utica Heraldy

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