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might commit. Kord Caxovs, anothor Ostholio Poer, writing on the samo subject, thinks that vhilo tho Pope might uot puraue the same pol- loy to Quoon Vieronta that was adoptod agalnst Queon Etazanetm, “there is no telling what rdict might bo issued by tho author ot tho Sylin- bug," 1o agds that an cdiot tending to destroy. n Catholio's alleginnce to his Governmont would placo bim 1n o dilomma, compelling him aither torebol or riuk oteronl damuation. Lord Ca- Movs, lilio Lord Actoy, Intimates that Lo would be d—d first. No wonder that the Catholio prous thunks Loy aro bad spocimons of Catholie Poors. Py Under tho tyranny and despotism of n decay- ing wmonnrchical systom, the oxpenditure for xoyal yorks nnd palaced and othor public institu- tions, Including buildimgs, should of course bo uuch groator than that of a groat and glorious Ropublie, where economy and simplicity aro tho provailing chinractoristics, Tho Now York Tribe wune bink bacn comparing thoe annusl oxpendituro in tho United States and Englaud, In tho lattor ovortaxed and down-troddon country the ontiro exponditiro of the Governmont was ss.u9u,uno_ including public buildings, ambassadors' rouj- dences abroad, lurbors of refue, & nationnl thankegiving, and wany other miscellansous items, TFor tho fiscal yoar cnding Juno 80, 1874, tho oxponditures on privato bufldings alono ju tho United Btates wora $12,000,000. - For the presont year thoro aro forty nppropri- ations, auging from §5,000 to $1,944.27 for pub- Mo buildings. Thocost of maintaluing the vast nnd extravngant palacos of tho Royal family in Yugland amounts to £41,662, raieed, of course, by cruclty and oppression. This includes the curront oxpouees of tho Ilouses of Parliamont, Congrers appropriatos an oqual sum, §225,000, “for fael, light, and water, and miscellaneons ftoms required by janitors and firomen in the .proper care of tho public buildings under the control of tho Trensury,” §o far, tho economy eoems to be ou tho othor side. When it is duly considored that the American exponditurcs do not {ucludo the Executive munsion, nor the Cnp- itol nor Congressional furniture, nor public grounds at Washington, the simplicity aud ccon- omy of our Government had best bo dismissed out of hoaring. e —— After it recent conflict with the Church, Italy i8 beginning to show hor strongth in the digui- ficd and graceful conduct of the late olections, aud thoe triumph of the Goverumeut by a very comfortablo majority. The full returns show this majority to bo botween 80 and 100 out of somo 500 members, This victory is ibat of moderation, aconomy, order, and respect for os- tablished wstitutions, and tho mannor of its nc- complishment is a8 admirable a8 tho gain made by tho Government, Tho English press points out ne one of the causes of this gratifying state of affairg tho fact that Italy hns not yot hind to face tbo monstrous rospousibility of universal suflrago ; that tho logal voters do uot number wore than 500,000, and that they aromostly Inrge tox-payors, and mon of inteliigenco and culture. 1t is this circumstance that hos freed Italy from tho bondago of tho Chureh, atid has concontrated tho wisdom and strength of the country upon tho solution of tho delicate probloms of the past fif- teon years, und made tho nation what it is to- day. Contrastivg tho managoment of Italian affairs wito those of Fraoco aud Spain under far Jess trying difticulties, the wenkness and blun- ders of tho Intter throw into greater prominonco tho digoity aud stateamaushlip of the formor. Until Mr. Jaxes 8yow, of Contralin, 1Il., Wrote to tho Democrat of that village, tho suecu- lent qunil was nerociated rathor with tho stomach tuan with tho heart, Ilo says that for n mau to say quails eat chintz-bugs is “‘only a pretense to develop what is in a man's heart,” and thero- fore. a fortiori, not to develop what {sin aquail's Btomach, And then comes this touching essay on tho cphemeral nature of that julcy bird: * Thaey belong to one man no mora than to an- other, They are transiont, To-day they may bo ou my farm; to-morrow on my neighbor's, nnd tho voxt day on ancthor.” Think of the perfidy of the quuil, and thon agreo with Mr. 8xow, “that the man who forbids his neighbor to shoot quail on his premises shows the tyrnnny of hisheart. The queil ig on mdex to his heart.” vidently such a perron is {it for trenson's atrat~ eiems and spoils, It tells what aman would doif hobad tho power,” It nlso tells that if Ar, Svow bos a farmat all, the quails do not find it as rich sud prodoctive as other poople's farms, and fight shy of it. ———— As might havo been expected, a Papal Bull hins boen burled ot GuapstoNe, His Holinoss eays the ox-Promior had * suddenly come for- ward lilo & viper aseniling tho bark of St. Potor.” It theaged gentlemuu's infallibility oxtonds to natural htstory, modera unturaliets have made o sorions omirsion, Piratical tendencies upon tho kigh seas have not hitherto been ascribed to the viper. I Holincss rocently called T¥NDALL & ** gpiritual pirate,” Now ho implios that Grap- ETONE {8 & *! piratical sos-gerpent.” Are thess higlily-nautical figures of speech handed down Apostolicel succession from the sen-faring kaint whoee succersor is Pro NoNo? Are they perquigites of tho Papal oflico 7 —_— i Tho infection has spread over the border. A committeo of the Canudian Parlinment is in- vestigetiug Mr. RyKcrt, & momber. It las £hown that ho has been paid Jarge sums as fees for “profossional Eervices in drafting private billa” subsequently advocated by him; that the CGreat Westorn Rallway Company paid him £1,000 to change Lis views on a cortain subjeet, und that other little cases of bribery bave in- cluded Mr. Rysent. The Anti-BoTLeR bill, which presgod the House Tuesdny, probibiting tho em- ployment of Senators aud Represontatives ag at- tornoys in suits against the Govornment, might, with somo degreo of force, bo passed by tho Cauadian Parlisment also, e The Baltimore ministors appoar to be in a very doplorablo condition. On last Baturday night tho Ilov. Danizy BodrMER, pastor of the Chris- tian Church, road in publio a statement accusing the Rov, ALpert N, GiLnenT, pastor of another Chrristian Church, of gross immoralities and gen- aral nuministerial conduet. Ar, GILBERT'S pansh- fonern wore present in force, and enlivened the rather singular procoodings by Informing tho Tov, Bowan, ot stated intervals, that ho was a0 Infunous liar, and by throwing in othor un- complimentary running ecriticiems. Judged by tho charactor of the procoedings, the title of the 1o churohizs scoms to bo & misnomer, Venus only knows what eho missed by the Chicago fire, Dut for that calamity, astronomera from s TRInoxz otlice would havo ssaisted at hor tronsit, —{utedo Commercial, 'Tho sbove paragraph was ovidently writton nnder a misapproliension of the facts, Just be- foro tho firo of 1871 an offort was made to so~ cute the roprescntation of the Cbicago Astrae nomical Soctoty in the work advertod to, and that would haveinvolved tha raising of a subsoription fund, If Tae ‘RIBUNE had dosired to be ropre- sentod in someof the oxpeditions, no outalde sssistance would have boon DOCOHBALY. —_— ROBBERY OF EXPRESS.CARS. WaTanxa, XL, Doo, 10, 1876, 2% the Editorof The Chicuyo Trtbun Bt In viow of tho frequont robberies of ox- presa-trains, would It not bo well to bave all ox- prevs-cars on tho principal routos lined with bouler-plate fron; have no doora excopt the side doors ; have the doors provided with vory strong fastoninga; bave four orfive loop-holes in the sides and onds, provided with stroug iron slidos; hiave no foot or band rails around the cars, and Jot the mossengors bo well suppliod ' with orme sud ammunition? Whon tho train ‘was in motion, it would be safe to throw open tho doors, a8 o one could gain access to the oar without coming down from the roof, whioh could bo easlly prevented. A man thus pro- tectad and provided for could batfilo suy gang, unless supplicd with cannon. The amouut in- volved In o fow such robbories as thaton tho Kanses Pacitio of £40,000, and the Qront Woste era ol §46,000, would arrango thoso ours as sug- geuted, wudsaye mruy » vajuable lifo benides, ¥, Durozx, eal VIRGINIA. The Oity of Riochmond---The Oapitol, and Its Statuary, Business of tho Place—Its Immense Slave- Traflic Beforo the War. The Great Natural Resources of the State. Its mmenso Coal-Ficids and Irou-Oro Deposits. Spectal Correspondence of The ago T'ribune. . Ricnyoxn, Va,, Dec, 11, 1874, The City of ttichmond a sn excoedingly-iuter- enting placo,—interesling on aceount of its long and varfed history, its many celobratod men, ity ‘monuments of art, and boeause of 1ts own bennty, and tho aurpassing beanty of the graud natural goonery in tho midst of which itin ituated. 'To one who has long lived in Chicago, wheoro thore iy Bearcely s hill Iarger than the dimen- sions of & plug-bat, oxcopt thoso made by the hand of man, the situntion of Iticlunond 8 very striking. Itis situated on a sories of hills and dnles, I arrived in ‘the city by night, stopping st Ford's Hotel, ou Broad stroot, u central thoraugh- faro whoreon nro located most of the rotail- shops of tha city. After lunch, Iwont out to tako n stroll, the woatber belug dolightrully bracing. Looking enstiward down Broad street, I thought the long lines of pas-lghts must reach to tho final abyss and laet Jumpling-olt placo. It is like looking down owne of the etrcels of Cincmnatt from Mt Auburn or Wadnut Hills. Tho fact of Richmoud being thus silunted has the offect of making iz, to considorablo extont, a weries of towns, rather than & metropohtan unity. Each considorable Lull hasits shops for the sulo of grocerios, pro- vistons, und tho ordinaty necesmtics of lifo; and its inhabitants do not necossanly have to go to sny other pnrt of the city, Lence, stroot-railwayy hero aro not lurgely putronized. Excopt in the moruing and evening, when workingmon and the ecmn- ployes of shops wud jobbing-housey are going to and returnivg from thewr duties, tho ems huve very few pussengers. I have observed moro empty strect-carg horo than I evor saw Ia any other eity, This s largoly due, I thiuk, to the cnuue hero stated, though othor mattors, of which I ghall presontly spcuk, doubtless have much to do with it. THE CAPITOL, Tho State-Tlouse of Virginia, located in o ceartenl part of the city, is a ‘:luiu buiiding. Tho front, which faces Jnmes River, is o large por- tico, upprtad by plain pilacs. Ll i tio unly attempt ut architeciuro in tho wholo structure. All tho rest fs smplo muson-work. Within, in the contro of a square whoso walls roach to the top of tho huildmfi. is the fumous statuo of Wasbington, of which thero i4 u copy in old Representative Ilull at Washington. " Tho Senato and Assemnbly Chambors are plain and 10t vary spacious rooms, ‘U'ho State Library is i uncommonly-good und oxtensive collection of books, 'Tho walls are ndornod with portraits of tho Governors sod other celobrated men of Vir- inin, from tha onrliest times down to Gov, Walier. Many of theso ure by distinguishod artists, and somo of thom are as good portiaits ay painter ever drow. 'Uho Library is to mo the most intoresting part of Richmond, Tho Capitol-grouuds are quite oxtensive, cm- bracing £ho spaco of slx or cight blooks. huir chief orumment is un equestrian statuc of Wash- ington. The pedestal of this monument is of grunito, with projecting portions, upon which uro statuos of Heury, Marshall, Mason, Joifer- gon, and other illustrious Virginians, Above all, on an immenso block of solid grapfte,© is o fine, epwited statuo of Washington, mounted on an impossible borse. The statues are all in bronze, aud are bappily and spiritedly oxeccuted. But the best atatue in Richmond—and the best I have seon in America—ig thut of Honry Clay, in marble, whica stands ot about o block's distance toward tho river from tho statue of Washington, 'iis roally splondid, speaking work of art, bas beon slightly injured by ac- cident or vandalism, the hands Loing sadly mu- tilated. I think its rescoratfon is duo to Clay, to the artist, aud to Richmond, if restoration bo poasible. Occupying & corner of the Capitol-grounds is tho Governot’s mansion,—a plain, roomy struc- turo of two storioy, built io the olden time, long #go. Within, it 1u Tashioned, a8 I think, in c3- cellont taste. Tho wood-work about tho door- ways and windows is catved quite elaborato- Iy, and, though all is plain whi tho effect is very plensing, ‘Tho old etyle, as compared with tho wodern taste for glare, and glittor, aud brass knobs, and hidoous nnxturos of paints and varnishos, is bere.eratityingly lilustrated. I stand by * The Fatbors.” ~ The recoption-room of Virginia's Governor, rewmnining ag it was made at tho be- giung of the century, is handsomer, though smallor, thanthe famous East Room of our ixacutive Mansion, which is yearly refurbished and * ndorned,”—cach successive year witness- iug sowe new defority. TIR DUSINESS OF BICIIMOND, The War prostrated, for tho period of its con- tinnanco, the principnl busivess-intorosts of Richmond, Though trade is unow beiter here thau it hos boon siuce tho beginnwng of the War, uearly fiftoon yenrs ago, it Las not yet reached thut activity which provailed for a few years pre- viously to and embracing the yenr 1860, Nor should it bo forgotton thus the atost branon of business which formerly prevailed here has been utterly destroyed, I ean bestillustrato this Dy un incident of my own visit : 1 was standing, the other morning, in front of the Kxehange Hotel, which, with Ballard's,— with which 1t is conuected by an archway acrose the streot,—is very much tho largest hostelry in tho city, when nn nequaintanco frem Washing- ton, formorly a citizen of Richmond, camo up. inquired presontly # How' it hap- poned ~ that ~this, tho lamrgost hotel i Richmond, was clhucked away down biero, 1n an out-of-the-way nnd uninteresting partof tho city?” ¢ 'That question,” said ho, “conclusively shows that you never wero in TRiclinond before the War, Down yonder"— pointing threo or four or moro blocks away— “nsed to bo tho slave-maris, I forget just how many thero were, but thura were sovernl, An boforo tho War, the great trade of Richmond was the slave-trado. Lhis hotel was tho most couveniont to the slave-auctious; and that is why it is hero,” One of the delegates to tho Transportation Convention from Now York uftorwards said to mo eubstantially this: “I was nover in Rich- mond but onco before, and that was early in 1860, Inover shall forger my surprise aud astonishe ment at tho maguitudo of the trade in slaves, I went down to an nuctivu-#ale one mormmg. “Lhere were vory mauy buyers. Somo tweuty or thirty slaves wero soon kmocked down, at prices raoging from §1,000 to ©1,800, Thon tho crowd loft for auother sale, where the samo seoues wora onacted; thon to another. I thus witnested the salo of moro than a hune ared sluves, of various agos and of both soxas, It waa tho saddest spoctuclo wy oyes ever be- held.” And tho toars fairly started ns he recountod thowo faols, and the mumory of the sctnal ocourrence passod vividly across luy mind, ‘Theso simplo meidonts of my visit well itlus- trato the fact, Richinond was furmorly tho great sluye-market of the wholoSouth, Hero were con- stantly brought vast numbors of poor_humen poings, mostly * brad ™ in Virginia, Plunters and thelragents wors nlways here in jarge nume bera from all the wovre Aouthorn portions of the couutry. Ownors of the sluyos, from all parts of Virginia, and from borderibg Biates, wore always here u chargo of thely !* property” for salo, My friond saw more than a hundred sold n couplo of hours on n single morning. The prico doubtless averaged €1,200 n sluve, There, then, wae u businoss of It is n low £120,000, aud the dai’ not half done. oatimato to placa tho old slave-trade of Rich- mond ut $60,000,000 & yeur. All this was sud- denly und totally oblitorated by the War, With this vast trado in slaves, thero grow up, as of courao, cortan commercial usagos and bobity which unfitted men engaged in this businoss from uuccou!ull{ ongaging {n other enterprisos. But, oven it this bod not beon ko, it must bo reooltected that not ounly was our domostic slave-trado abolished by the War, but all the ** proporty " upon which 1t {s bused was at once wiped out of existonco. Let us imagine for a momont that all the grain-crops of tho Northweat ara totully rulued by suddon blight, Lot us imagine thut this should oceur sucoss- sively for w gorles of yonrs, How tromendous would bo tho dieaster to Chicago. Just this, in effeot, has ocourred in Iuchmond, Cun wo wonder that it hau talen yours to recover from osuch a prostration ; that cowplote recovery haa not even yot ocourrod ¥ Novertlicless, the alsvo-mmts wero not tho THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1874, ‘ —_—_——————— e % only business-contres of Richmond. Hero have bean, for many voars, somo of tho most extun- o tlouring-mllls of tho country, Hero oro tho ‘frodegar Iton-Works, winoli are known through- out Clirlsiondom, Iforo ls the wpringipal contro of the Amorican tobacco-trnde, Iloro sie o numbor of important manufaoturing eatablish- monts benldes tnoso Just namod. lioto fs tho oastern tominus of n fine cannl, extonding far into tho intorior, Tho Jawen Rivor i navigable to this place for large stonmurs. A railway now cobneets the clty with tho Oluo ‘Rivor. Otbpr raflways fivo conveniont connoctiony in il dircations. 'Phero aro in the viemity of Tlchmoud oxtonsivo quarrios, yielding grout quantities of oxcollout granito. ‘Lhns Iy tho rocle with which tho new Btats Depnrtment at Washington 8 belug built, Tho falls of the Jamon Rivor at Lhis place givo consfunt aud un- aurparged wator-power, Theso and othor con- moteinl and manutacturing facilitlos niko Richmond an important business-contre. Men aro coustanely directing their enorgies to now entorprisen ; and it is kafo Lo prediet Lthat all the effacts of the prostiation produced hy tho War will soon bave paswed nway, aud the city tuke l:osulon in business far bighor than could possi- Iy bavo beon nchlaved under Slavery. Tt would ho impossible, iowevoer, to got n cor- rect viow of Richmond without somo knowl-dio of tho Stato at large. And as Virginin Is less o moro roptoeentativo of nll tho wauts of the Southern States, what I shall hero say portainy, in renlity, to a question of national mportunco, namoly 1 the practical relinbilitation of the pros- verity of the Bouth. Lei us, thon, tako a rapid gluuce at tho situation in old VIRGINIA, Ihavo not roferrod tothe former domestic slave-trado of Richmond with any, tbo loast, do- slgn of bringing up old unplensuntuessos, On the contrary, my objoct i8 to nvite the nttention of tho cou brough Tue Cutoado TRILUNE, to tho rornnrkable fact, that, though Virglma is ong of the oldest States historicaily, sho is ono of the newest in tho dovelopment of or matavial resourees, In this rospect, Iows isuen older Btate than the Od Domiuion, Sluve-lnbor, which s over, in the long run, most oxpensive, exhansted the eoll of a consid- erablo portion of Virgloia, ‘Lho 1nisingof alnves beeame the great intorest of tho State. Tho ro- cupotation ot ita soil and the davelopment of its mineral resourced were aimost utterly noglocted. Auothor lnmentable fact grow out of the old- time situntion: 'Tho boys of tho Biate woro not trajped up in soy knowledge of nkilled labor. Too many of ~ them owy now bo found in ~ tho , townw, louiing around on store-bozos, **chowing” plug tobneco energotieally, and waiting an invitation to tnke o drink, DBut there is o vast demt of manhood in tho old Commouwaalth; thero nre muny men of great talents, practioal sonso, and progressiva spirit. Theno are doing nll (hey ean to direct capital and entorpriso to the devels opmont of the 1eally great matural resourcos of the State. COAL AND INON. It ia o fact not gencrally known that tho ro- sourcos {u iron ure unsurpassed, Tho same 1 truo as to conl,—Western Virginia buh{f inely ed. * Within this imperial domain ot~Virginia, sald a seioutilic gentleman before tho Legisla~ turo, some threo years ago; *‘lie, almost un- Tmown to tho outsiide world, and not fully appre- cmted by their owners, vastor flolds of conl and iron than all Eug]nud—-flan, than all Europe— contnina; and whicl at no distant poriod, will attract hither millions of mouoy and entorprising thousnnds of peoplo to nid in tho restoration of thio Old Do- munion toa foremost rauk nmonget the Stutos of tho Unfon.” This is not at nll overdrawn, There oro not loxs than six distinot and quite oxtousive coul-fields iu tha region under discus- #on, Thescara: 1, The Riclunond conl-ficld, 160 to 180 square milos in oxtant, containiog rich coal; but, on nccount of frequency of * faulte,” mines are not ln\'armhk' prolitable. 2, 'Tho Piedmont coal-fleld, on tho of cousiderablo locul valuo, 8, Who Dan River conl-fleld, _wsimilar tho Piod- mont, with coal cqual to Cumber- Innd, mud some of ‘it somi-nuthracite. 4, Tho New Rivar coal-flold, embracing the old- ost conl formution o our Concinent; but tho conl is not easily mined in largo quentitios. 5. The Cumberland coul-fiold, & lnrge portion of which lies in Virginia and West Virginin, 6. The Kanawha conl-tlelds, heing part of tho great Allogheny coal-fleld, which is tho moat ex- tensive ouo on tho globe,—covering large por- tious of Pennsylvatin, Ohlo, Maryland, Vir- ginin, West Virginia, Kentucky, Teunuesseo, Georgln, and Alabama, About 16,000 squara miles of this conl-fleld, whoso doposits are the richest in the world, e in Wost Vitginia aud Virginia, Wo have the' suthority of o Goy- erumont Geologicnl Report for the statement that ' The coal-fiolds of the Kanawha rogion are superior to thoss of Great Dritain or Penusylva- nin. They aro regarded by emmant men as the finest depoeit of coal in tho world,” 'The coals are of vavious kindg, some of them being excel- Ient for emolting iron-ore. The canncl-coul of this rogton is excoedingly rich in oil; and in quantity it Is simply immenso. Such 18 a_ brief outline sccount of tho vast rogources of Vir- ginia {n conl nlone. But tho resources of the old Stato in “fron are even greater. I believe that the iron-oro depos- its of Virginia aro the richest of auy in the world, in an oqual extent of country, ~They lin thick in all the monntain-ranges through which New River, from its sources in North Carolina, cuts its way to its junction with the Guuloy, in the conl-regrion of the Allegheuies. Then, all through Virginia, from llnrgm-'a Torry south- westwardly along' tho Blue Ridge Rango, thero are kuown to bo vast deposits of iron- oro, kuown to geologists as the hydrated poroxides of iron, and which are not stratified with tho limestones or slates where thoy oxist, but occur in irrogular masses ; hero in unusual abundance, The wounderful extont of these de- posity, whether in the Now River region or along tha Bluo Ridge, is nviversally ackuowledged by seiontitic mon who have examined tho country, It was rewmarked by ono of them, in o pamphiot piblished gomo ~throo years ugo, that *Tho enormous = valus “of the British and the Peunsylvania conl-mines is mainly owing to their uvailobility in the manufacturo of iron; and I skall now procood to show that Virginia's suporlority in coal-fields is no mora striking thau it iy in tho possossion of the best and most extousive iron-oro deposits in the civil- ized world, This {s a swoopiny aseertion, but it is bused upon kuown facte, established npon the mout iudisputable authority.” This statowment, 08 I learn from o study of Geologicul Surveys, is not overdruwn. But this is not all : Virgininia is not only sur- passingly rich io coal and iron, but possesses ulso ulmost exhaustless atores of granite, not excelled for building purposes. 'This grent source of wealth was almost totally nog- leeted till sinco tho War. Tlho Stutois coursod by many rivers and streams, affording wator- power for manufacturing purposes in nll por- tions of the State. Thoroaro vnst oxtents of forests, to supply great quantities of lumberand timber, The Valloy of tho Shenandoah is rich in soil, and most dolightfully beuutiful in seenory. ‘The Valloy of Virginia is another groav agricnlturalrogion, Nowhero in oue coun- try can grapes aud froits generally Lo more uuccessfully cultivated. They are almost wholly noglectod. Buch is Virgivia, It was acenrately describod Dy Gov. Kempaor, the other day, us *I'he oldest and vewat, the richest aud poorast, of the States of the Union.” As it i in Virginis, so it ix, wizh difference of dograe, in othor States of the Buoath, Thoy have grent natural resources, but their people nre proutrated through thg effects of Blavery and the War, Thelr situation, their commorcinl rehubilitation, 18 now . prossing problem for statesmanship, which cannot, in the iutoresu of tho prospority of the wholo country, bo too speedily solved, POLILICS AND COLORED TEOPLE. T shall eay but a fow words about politica tn Virgivia, **Thoy are mixed,” There1s no Dom- ocratic party in tho State. I have talked with mauy leading men of (ke Conaorvative party, aud find that thoy have moro contidenco in tho Ite- pablican party than in the Democratic, Thoy ngico thnt, the more they kuow of the truly rop- resoutulive mon of the Republican porty, the more thoy liko them ; and with thaso thoy would liko to join in somo practical schomo for tho routorution of Southorn prosperity. ‘Fhay admit that they have not rocoived soveral Northorn mon of somoe notoriaty into Lheir socioty or con- fidonco, but it hag beon bocauxo theso mon wore “gealawnys,” not beeause they were Northern men. And I guess the samo men would have boen treutod i ubout tho sume way by tho de- cont peoplo of Chieago. This {8 certain, that Oonacryatives and Ropublioans of Virgiuin aro united and earnout for a gouoral aystem of inter- nalimprovements by the oder:l Governmont, If Mr, Bmith, the prosont Nopublican Ropresenta- tivo in Congress Nom Richmond, had boon re- nomiunted, ho wonld bave boen elected, A man whom in éhlcnxo vyou would call 2 ** bummer" was nowminated, and was very properly bouten, The colored Fenplo oxpress w good deal of dwsatisfuction with the Republican party, After mucli fuquiry, I found out tho causs, All their suvings s1aca tho War wero loat in tho failuro ot the Froodmun's Bavings Bauk, They looked upon this aa a Ropublican institution, and, ruined by its failure, muny of thun turnad apoinet the Pxn-ty oud voted tho Conservativo tickot av the nat eleotion, 1 aoncludo with anying that, i wise oounaels, and_plucky, hionest sotion, provail with tho Re- publlcauy, they can soou maka the Old Dowlnion & Nupublican 8tata, 14 to ppomatiox, IOWA. Troublos of the “ Opposition” ia the Hawkeye State. An Effort to Revive tho Old-Lino Democracy. lohn P. Irish Again Outmaneuvres the Hunkers, And a Lively ¢ Dimmycratie Shin- day ” Is the Conscquonce, Spectal Corrz=wyndence of The Chicago Tribuns, Towa Crry, Doo, 11, 1874, Alas for tho political Opposition of Iowal - Ita oarger #inco the assuult upon the life of tha Federal Union, in 1861, has boon A TEMPESTUOUS ONE, Ithas assumed, withio that time, ns many lives s the ont 18 enid to have, and as many alinses ns tho Bendors. Bourbon Domocracy aud tho * Lost Causo went to the wall together, arm in arm, at Appo- matox Court-Ilouse, Notwithstanding this san- guivary arbitramont, the hydra-headed Domoo- racy haw maflo aonual offorts to drag itaell from tha '‘Iagt ditoh,” undor various guises, in this Stato. Soon after tho *‘litlo aMair ac Appomntox,” in 1865, 1t sought lifo by conhtion with a fow soldiora of mixed nntocedents, who had dono some kid-glova sorvico in tho rear of tho Union army, A Stato ticket was solootod in opposition to that of tho Republicaus, with Col. Thomas H. Beuston, Jr., for Govornor, This was sugar-coated and labeled **Boldiors’ Ticket.” It camo withinsome Jifty thousand votes of succoss. Tho supar- couting was too thin, And so it bas contiuued to present its slimy eaionss bofora tho peopla from that day to this, undor n sickly, cownrdly dise guiso. Of courao, its open movements wern 1mde by proxy ; snd it has novor hind anv ditii culty in seouring & fow worn-out, discontonted oftlco-vackers in tho Republican party, who wero ready to do tho dirty wortk required of themy for tho moat uncgrtnin consideration imagiuable,— an office. ' No ghost evor imagined iteolt 8o positively o living reality as did tho Democracy ia 1872, when it assumad the rolo of Liberal Republicanism, with Ioraco Groeloy as its lendor, Wuat o hu- miliating ORAWLING IN THE DUST that must Lmvo been for tho old Bourbons! Imagino tho Ropublican party, wero it out of power, uniting with a fow disaffected Demo- crats, sud marshaling its forcos under tho ban- ner and leaderghip of Robort Toombs | Again, in 1873, this samo Democtacy thought they saw u **mare’s uest” in the Grange organ- fzatfon, but failed to capture it for political pur- posos. Howaver, a political orgavization was formed, which was eupEnsed to bo in harmony with tho abjects of tho Graugers. This new political orgamzation—** Anti-Monopoly”—enllod & Stato Couvention and ftuvited all who wore opposod to the Administration to unito with 1. Of coursq, it was tho easiess thing in tho world for tho Domocrnoy to unite with tho * Auti- Monopoliste.” Allit had to do was to simply chango its name. Tlus it had dono so ofteu that it was no.troublo at nll. After it had followed the lendership of Horaca Greelay, it was, and is, repared to ndopt auy platform, and follow any eadership, if it can got into political power, Aguin, this year, the Demacracy indorsed the Auti-Monopoly movemont, nud a platform writ. ten by ox-Gov. Stous,—who, by the way, had loug Bought a soat in Congross né & Ropublican, but ra yot has not reached 1t. _With such forces at therr back s Gov, Stone, J, B. Grinuell, and Keatluy, with & fow lessor lights ecattered over the Stato, they imngined tho political reina of tho State wore withuu their certan grusp, ‘Thoy waore 80 sure in tho outsot, even, that ths Chair~ man of the last Democratic State Central Com- nll‘hmo—tho last in name, I mesn—pronounced the TTTER DEATH AND FOSITIVE DURTAL of tho old carcass, Democracy, at the State Con, vention in June lust, at which thoy selected their Anti-Mononoly Stato ticket, As usual, the people dovided, by nearly liirly thousand major- iy, that the Anti-Monopolisty, alas Bourbon Domoceracy, couldn't have the roius of State. And thus it has been for tho last twenty years, TFor twelvo or fourteen yoars the Demoernc) has presoated itself each yoar bofore tho peoplo of this Btato, with o new name. It has prosti- tuted ita olf-respect, crawlod in the dust, and enton of the hollowness of its folly, ¢ han played the cowardly dopendent,—afraid to pre- 8oy {tscll 1 its true, houost light,—ssnrined to maintam its_ old purty-namo, which Jefforson and Jnckson made houorablo and strong before the. Amarican people, in ad- winistering the Government, and maiutaining o National Union, to grow stronger and greaster in the hands of pnutnrit{. 14 it & wonder that thoy are ashamed of the old name, sinco TIIEY DISHONORED 1T, and, in tho days of their power, sought to do- stroy our noblo freo Republic, which the gonerations of o century bave strengthened and ounobled, until to-duy it is rovered by all tho nations of the world, and standsn fixod oxemplification of the wisdom and virtuo of o cultured, Christian, uud patriotic people ? Long years of an ignonunious policy, pursued by & contiolling clement of the Demooratic party, governed rathor by a sordid, seltish desire for politicnl success aud powor than by that nobler prompting of humun aetion,—principle; o policy, too, which hny brought to thom uou only their regular annual defeat, but also failure to challonge common respect oven, from not only their political oppounents, bub from the mora conscientious and honest portion of thoir own purty,—have awakened o detorminatiou to reorgunizo their old love, especiully sinca their Inst dodua—Anti-Monopoly—received suoli & tor- riblo donth-blow last Octobor, They seo no othor course; they have exhausted every dodga which their gonius can conceivo, Among thoue who huve munifestod the most oarnest oudeavor to abjure the old Democratic namo and organization™ is the Chairman of the lml’t" distmotiva Democratic State Contral Com- mitteo, Jouy P, TRISH. It wos ho who ro fervently pronounced the funeral vration at tho Anti-Monopoly State Con- vention lugt June. It washe, ug ity ofticial orean, who then said thut tha decensed had long simve outlived its period of usefulness, bad duve ity worl,,ond 1t was woll that 1t should go to 1ts re- ward, Biace the lato eloctionw, tho old Democratio londers think they seo uncceer in tho future; that tho old purty bus beon budly neglected, and allowed 10 be buried alive; that it must bo ex- humed. Ioncs n council was catled, and mot in this city on the 2d inat., to detormine who should onll 4 Btate Coavention, Mr. J, P, Irish, Chair- man of tho last distinctivo Domocratio State Central Commitice, assumed to have Lk author- ll?'; but this was dewtod by the Dubnguoe Jerald, Ottumwa Demecral, and other prominent Domocratio journals, and politi- cinng w8 woll, They snid that Irsh had tukon o too prominent hand v tho death und burinl of tho party to bo ullowed (o talko the lend i ita resurroction. It was dosired that Mr, Ham, of tho Dubuque Herald, a3 the Iown momber of tho Natlonal Democratio Executivo Commitioo, shonld eall tuo proposed State Convention, It has boou ucged that Mr, Irish has been too much tho master gonius in manipulating tho paity through all of its varlous chnngos and dodges i uamos and platformy, when alive, to bo placed in ohiarge of its ghost, . But Lrish is too wily to bo thus thrown ovorboard, He thorefors calls o coungil, nt his own town, mainly mombers of tho old Democratle Committoo of which ho way Olairman, FOI CONBULTATION, Awong these gentiomen wore D, O, Finch, of Dos Moinos ; Ed Unmpbell, of Fairtield ; Wise- man, of tho Washington Gazeita; D, N, TRichard- 8an, of tho Davenport Democrat ; Willlamson, of Indinota, and Goorge Paul, of this city, AMr, Tweh wad mude Chalrman, Wherenpou & reso- Tution was offerod by My, Campboil requesting tho Ohalrmon of tho last Domooratic, Liboral- Nopublican, and Anu-Monopollst Stato Cou- tral Committoes—Nessrs, Irlab, Xeatloy, aud Weart—to eall o Biale Con- vontlon of tho **Opposition” on tho 15th of Juno mext. ‘Che !)ropnuiuau to call a Couvontion of the ' Oppesltion” was warmly op- posod by Mewsrs, Finch aud Williamson, Thoy proposed ‘Lo rnorganize the Domoeratic pard) undor ity thne-honured nume;" und AMr, Finol aftored an umondwent, that Mr, Ham call a Stato Couveutlon * to reorganize tho Domoeratio party,” 'The wsmoundment wns_voted down i wheroupon the Chalrman, My, Finoh, rosigned and rotlred. Mr, Rlchardson, of tho Duvouport Democral, waa theroupun electod Olalrman, ‘Tho le;muluon to call a Convontion of tho * Op- pouitiun™ TWAS TIHEY BUSTAINED,— Irish, Richnrduon, and Oumipuoll, voting for ft. It iy well known that thoso last named gontles mon figured conapicuously in tha Groeloy and Anti-Mouopoltat movomenty, An usual, Trish ‘has aguin stolon & march on the Tinch olomont, of tho parly, DBut, whouthis “body-snateling"” Convention meets in June nest, u lively time may bo expectod, as to whother thoy aro to reorgenizo tho old Dewmncratio Jnrty, or orgaulie * auothor mougrul fraud.” T'ho “frionds ‘of the *Opposition* movement insist {t muat bo thus to hold tho Rtopublican ole- mont which eo-operated with them in the Gracloy and Anti-Monopoly movemaents,—Stono, Qrinnall, Koatloy ot al. ‘Ihe Finch sido of ting coutroversy sald, " Lot tho Republienn element 80 to h—I15 wo want nonc but tho simon-pura old Domacrnoy.” This littlo oxbibition of bad biood over a corpsa doesn't look in good taste to & Clulstian peoplo, - Iowover, [t hias Just lonked out, nud thero lind bettnr bo nothing said about it Tho Democratie prors of tho stnty, with a fow nxu(v)lhmn. liko tho Davenport Dem tho J’vess of this clty, condemn tho * tion ™ form of the eall, and ara having A LIVELY TILT among thomsolvos, whoroupon tha Press of this clty, * Opponitian,” chastises thom suvorely. Irish by assumed the leadorshin of tho Demo- oratlo forcen m this Btato,: through ull of their varioits changon aud alinses, aud ho purposes to rotain it, 1 tivo boon somowbat historiea), Iam awarn, in my wandsrings after tho Domoceratie party in Town for tho past fourtoon yemwrs, Dut very much of what I havo said concerning thut party in this Stato will apply, more_or losy, to it in otbor Btates, Ic 'Is woll that its b tory ba skotched oceasionnily, innsmuch ns - Rtepublicans have joined in griv- ing it a lhttle brief prostige In cortniu localitios, for & purpose,~ie n ywilter meaus to sicken the mo})ln of Lie manaerin which that party wonld udmunis*er tho affaive of tho Gov- ernmont shoulid It ones ot conwrol, I am painad to notico an uncallod-for, and un- tiwely criticinm, inarecent letter toue Tuinuxe from Dey Motnes, of tha Modienl Dopurimen’ of tho Biate University, Tho Legislatuve of Towa has, on mote than one ocousion; thoronghly ratitied the establisiunent of the Medical Do- partment by the Board of Rogouts, So the threat of your correspondent, that ** Tho Logis- lature will probably, mext wintor, conclude it cna got along witbout any Medical Dopartmant atall, is s wasto of words. The Bonrd of Lto- gouty has the eoutrol as to whethor tho Depurt- ment sball wnstruet in tho ** Rogular " or * Ir- rogular " gystom, Caen Capxtus, PERSONA ITOTEL ARRIVALS. @rand Pacific—Col, E, V. Preston, Hartford ; E, 8. aud J. O, Alvord, Indinuapolis ; Thad. C. Pound, Chippewa F'alls ; A, L. Rlosecrans, New York : B. G. Partridgo, New York; D, Templo- ton, Milwankee ; Goorge F. Roberts, Boston ; J, W. Loug, Baltimore; 1. M. Mayo, Bouton, « « . Palmer House—J. T, Matthowson, Ilam- ilton, Novada ; Janes Putnam, Burlington ; A, J. Smith, IHoelona, Montana; DB, F. Potty, Vir- ginia City, Montnua; C. L. Reynolds, Toledo ; Georgo 1. Hammond, Dotroit ; Jobu Chadwick, Madmon; A, J. Spears, Deuver; W. B. Brooks, Charleston. , . . Sherman House—E. 8. Joyco, Now York; O, D, Sommors, 8an Frauclsco; J. A, C. Moro, Pittsburg; 11, T. Stock, L'oledo: D. ‘Walkor, Dotroit: L. Hill, Boston ; J. B. Wilkin- gon, Troy; A, IHailstono, England; W, Pastor, Now York; John Guenter, Bustou, ', . . Tre- mont House—F. J. Viescher, Now Yorl; Charles 8. Bush, Bpringlleld; B. D, West, Cincinuati; Joln W, Porter, Town City; Jon G. Daggolt, Boston: Willlawn E. Lyon, Now Haven; A, B, Flemiug, Fairmouut, ELSEWIIRRE. New Onceass, Deo. 12.—Capt. V, B. Brrrauco, late master of the stonmer DB, L. Hodye, long and favorably known in connegoction with the Upper Coust trade na mastor of soveral stenm- era within the pust twonty years, died yesterday, aged b5, 0. 0. Chatfleld, of Now Ifavon, Conu., oditor of the Yale Courant, will bo nenocinted with Thomas W, Bicinell, of Rhodo Island, in the managemont of tho New England Journal of Education, to Lo published at Bostou. Tho lunatic Charles E. Pickott, whoso offonse wa that he claimed, i open court, to ho entitled o u weat on the Bupromo Banch af Californiu, hina Inin in in prison now thete many months ; and the San Francidco pupers ars boginming to tall about it. When Kalnkaun was at Mere Istand, thoe Valla- Jo Chronicls tells, cignra_wore handed around among his party, but the King romarked thab it wag ‘' not & question of cigars but of a mnteh," Thoroupon o younzster who wus standing near drow a lucifer from bin vost pocket, ignited it on tho seat of his trowsers, aud held it up to the Royal cigar as nonchaluntly as if it had been that of another scamp of his own dimensious. That ig the surest way to light o mateh, thoy Bay.~—~San Lrancisco Alle —— CHANGE IR THE BuSION BDOK-TRADE. Correspandence of Tiie Chicaso Trabune, Bostoy, Doz 9, 1674, Nolittlo surprisa was caused by the aunounce- ment in the wmorning-papers that uwuotitor chauge had taken place in the publishing-houso of James R. Osgood & Co. : that My, Cluvk bad retived, to join L. Prang & Co., and hind taken with him Walter Smith's Drawing-Books and the publications belonging to Ait-Bducstion. The simplo history of the matcer is as follows: Ev- erybody knows that for the lnab year a strong, steady eoffort bna boon muking to infroduco Smith's systom of Drawing into tho schools of the principal cities, and has met with romarkablo success, Mr. Clark has mauaged the matter, ably and persistontly, and the public has only occasion to thank him for it. Natu- rally Mr. Clark has becoms much inter- csted in the whole subject of Art-Edueation, and ready to wolcomo any overtures to co-operate with him iu prometing it. TFortu- nately, Mr. Prang, the noted chromo-lithograph- or, had been olnborating a serics of color-plates which carry the system of Walter Bmith into a higher dopartmeut of disciptino aund culture, fornung s perfect supploment to that system, Of courae ho and Mr. Clark conferred about the mutusl relation of their work, and naturallv they tound it advisablo to work together. Aund that 8 all of ib. Br. Clark joina the fiim of Prang & Co., and continues his efforts to procuro the general uso of D'rof, Smitl's system; and, with the aid of 3Mr, Smirh to map out the advanced conrsos, and that of Mr, Prang to supply tho nocos- sary books, bLe lopes to wsecurs for Amorica & moro systematic, thoiougb, and complote course of Art-Educution thaun any Buropoan country wow has, [t must he regarded us especinily fortunato that just now wo baye a man lke Mr. Prang, with porcoption to 0o what is nooded to promoto Art-Edueation, with courage uud energy to inenr the expenso im- volved w1 supplying it, sod with mechumenl fa- cilition for doing tné miost effectivaly, and—as tuoso who haye soon his color-plates 2ll ngroo— with remarkable artistio succesy. Mr, Prang, of course, hopos to make moncy out of it; but ho is too lutellizent aud consciontions n lover of Art to make monoy undor fulso protensoy, As for Opgood & Co., Lhe rotivemont aof Mr, Clark makes no difforence with their businoss, oxcept to diminish it bv the mmomnt of the Drawing-Bookd, Tho propor business of the house, the publication of books, will bo abso- intely uuchansed, unless tho reliof affordad by the absence of the Drawing-Books shall onabls thom to pay more undivided nttoution to litera- ture. Of gourso, the heliotypo procoss remeing with Osgood & Co., und—I may add—s vver- crowdod with orders, . Il prico paid fur Bmith's Drawiog-Tooks bna vot boen mude publio, but it i underatood to bo vory large. Aud tho wholo of it will doubtloss ba traneformed into such bookdas Osgood & O, have pubhsboed during the fouy years nince the prosent flrm and name saccoeded Ticknor & Fields, and Fiolds, Osgood & Co., whose mom- ory is bonored among lovers of good literature, and whoso traditions are worthily regardod, und therr usoful sorvica to tho cause of lobtors con- tinued and enlarged, by Jumos R, Osgood & sCcn. S — DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS, Prrrevune, Dee 10,—~Tho Alleghony County Demooratio mombers of tho Leglslature-cleet, togethor with oue Btate Sonator, mot In caucus yosterday aftarnoon,. Tho Ilon, James P, Darr, edltor of the Pittsburg Fost, recoived tho unanimous indorsoment of tha delogation for United Btatea ~ Bonator, L i understood, however, that aftor complimenting My, Barr as their fivat chaico, the delogution will thou voto salidly for the Hon, William A, Wallaco, of Olenrfleld County. Bamuol I, Pattorson, of Alloghony County, Wwas iudoraed for Bpoaker of the uuxt Houwe, STEPPING QUT. The Reve Mr. Gordon Tonders n Poremplory Resignation. IHis Reasons for Doing So. Yestordny morning the Iov, John Gordon, pastor of tho Wostern Avenio Daptist Ohurch, tondored to his congrogation, who wore vory fully roprosonied on tho ocenufon, his resigna- tion, After pronching from Galatinus, 114, 3r. Gordon said ¢ Frionds, tho ronson I have for ronding {his pa- o to-tay fs this: L 18 quito Lupo.blo to got largo charch moeting during the week, 'Ihore aro muui; who aro 84 omployed that they cannot como, [t iy also Impoumble to got outsiduis to Dbe prosout oxcopt at Bunday worvice, I am, thecoforo, anxions thut thero iay bo no bad fnie prossion on the minds of thosa here fn regael to this, Llhave writton [u a ldad, Chvlstian spirit, that Is lutended 1o wouud no one, 1 have nob had timo to mvo 1t that caratul diotion whioh I should brve desired, but you munt know tuat [ Lave been 8o busy during tho past woek that ovory minuto of my tine was occupied, I will now road it: TUE NESIGNATION, Citigan ; Ththa Wertern Avenun Baptinl Ghansies > 200 19 1814 Duty to Dl LINETHAEN AND BISTEW 1N Crintsr 3 caugn of thia fnterusts of our beloved chiutreh aud the Chirlst demandn o fow worda frow mo- ot this presout Jerlod f our ghueeh's Lislors, by way' of rofrenbing Lo meniory of nany, 10 explafu my o position, and to provent, if pussible, any misunderstanding in the mlits of thowa not cofveraant with the facts, 04 tho Lagt Sabibaths i Junuary, 1909, L began my lahors o this fleld, 1t Iy ot ‘saylug ton much when Luflirm that no paator wud peoplo Word ever mora tutted L wolinve boon {0 olinost wix yoars, God Law sfignally Bleused Lo laborn of Hia pooplo, . Ou the 4sh of kst April I tendured the followlg renlguation us’ pastor of this clinren ¢ Alr. Gordon hero rond a copy of tho resigna. tlou thon hauded 10 the churel, sud procvedad ; I tully oxpected then to havo left, henee mads m: roulguatlon * peromptory 37 L w1 vry g bk newsetnooting of Lo churc (Uio Ingest over beld 1 our liatory), the followiiug roport wai prosetted : the Weetern Avenna Hipiiit Clurch, ; Yoir Advikory Gommitteo woitid repectfully ro- port that wo liave idven the roslgmtion of Brather Gordon a earcful auwl_ prayerful study, In luoking bick o our history, 1dentitiod #o clowely s pastor uni| pooplo for moro than five uars, with 1o difforonce of faits und practies, tho chuirel 1 numbers steadily - cruasiig under hls minisiry, tho evidoueos of (rhwth I Gurfutfan zeal fu ol ths dopartments b tho chureh, wo aro nloaally growlng In rico, wo feel that tha ne. tica o the catireh wmand tht o wtill emain witi us; that wits fall contidonco I Brothor Gordon as n Laktor st o Cuclstian 1nun, wo feol hut dfiferentos of opnfon Letween mutual mombers should ot bo al- towed tu fupale his wsofulucas to this church. + Jecaolved, ‘That tho reslgnation ba aid o tio tablo for one month, aud tint, wisn thesmeoting adjourns, 1t adjourns untll the first Monday fu May.” Thie resolution wun o amended s (0 ot tho resigna~ tion o over indefluitely, and tho report of tha Conie mittee was adoptod snutimously, Belloviug the chircl to hnve wcted honestly in this voto, sud_boltg peratinded by tho ndvice of those whoso Judgtaout T could trust tial tho guod of the churcli aud tho cato of Clirlet domanded by remaine it pastor, 1 consented to ullosg§ i realguation to bo lufd ever Siutetnitely. I did uo? withdray it, AWith full confidenice in tho elnirel’s ution, I reaunie od my beloved work with frosh antasodt, wd willlug to labor’ o for years 1o'come und to uld cach i reap- g, 8 in tho hust, ricl hurvests on tho precloun tieud of Ghristiun toll and promino 3 but ty xpoctations wera of short dutation 3 for, to'tny : PAINTUL KURPRIRE, Tlearnod at o smosting of tho advisory Committa, Subbath, May 11, thit du the Sunday Tones of that (uto ' article Had appeated from n * prominent wiembor of our ehureh,” relleeting serlouly on tha aftuirs of our boloved' Ziom, AC that meoting two brethiron fliemed 3, 3. W, Goodupoed 88 the nitisor of wadd arttele, but 1 weurcd tho Gomumitico thue 1 woilld do nottiing toward denying wuy statcwmont, but wonld loolt to tho chtireh for protection, 3 fuh Wore required, Aftor touding {lto urtlete’ vorbsred to, T foit 1 {roubie for 1 ld ot bollovo ay. bruthrea eipabis of tho DEEP-LAID TREACHERY which It chargod upon thom 3 but on my visiting Mr, Goodspeed, to 1ot only elaimed autliorip, but re- attirmed tht the ehurch lad decefvod me: that whilo poiicy demunded wy staying for s time, thely fuward dosire was that Iwhould loave; that dlu resolutlons “carefn'ly studid by tho brethren opposed to my comse ! were not prompted ns thoy proposd to be, by uttachment of my ministry, but were adoptod us A 1EMPORARY EXPLEDIENT to {ido overs surfoun danger until cirenmstwices slonld enablo thom to accept my resignation without laylug the churel open to resloctlon, Tasked 3, Goodepeed why ho did not thien apply for lottess, Hia N])li' ‘was that o wus advise | to hold on, amd if T dld ot lenve tho ehureh ho and athers cotiid tuko their lotters to sonu othor church. You will readily weo that, whilo the avticlo which I pisced before the church Nov, 25, bat way refoctod, was culenlated to o mu the greatest injury, and wag, i€ true, worthy tho Pen or tungio of = A MONAL ABIARSTY, it d1d not become wy dhly Iy make iny roply. I thero- fore looked to tho church for defouuc, bu for six months I liavo looked I valn, If tho statomeuts wero true, you could not deny thom § if fulse, Chiristian and covenant obligations de- wnnded o doutil ; your honor us well 3 mito was tar- nlshed und dingraced, Tha chureh b clready In possession of nomo fuct ro- ording Mr, Goodsyeed's cake, belugz buforo tho Dea— cous? meotfing. Many weelts aga two Daucom wera appointed to visit Mr. Goodspoed, owing to his absont~ g bhns=elf from all our meetings, sud i many ways viotating W4 covonunt with (he chureh aud pastor, While that Committea was uwder nppolntmout, but had not (for lack of opportunity) performed its work, writlen request was prosented ut n Deacons! mreilug from Nir, Goodspeed, usking loiters fo uelf and family to unite with tho Fourth Biptist Chureli of this city, Che<e tho coitid ant Lo Mr. Goodapoad, Tito Committeo of two was discuarged, and tho entiva Loard appotnted Lo perforim tho work, 1 totd the Dea cons plinly §f they vozomm nded letters, und the church grated {le same, tud 1o apology tlied und received tor the lotter of May 11, 1 WOULD LEAVI: THE CURGI, Two weeks after {hat maozting the Doicons reporte:d tho result of thelr visit, They thonght hlr. G, shiowd gee mysulf at a deacons’ meeting, 1o which T ¥ “\What good will that d>? You say ko b churges agufust me, and T havo goue twice to weo him regarding bis chirch relitions,” Then tho rezom- that o bo geanted On my heing uekod whit I wouid do in thy wnatier, Tadd: “ 1 promino you 1ot 10 object to the el voting lotlers of dlsmlmion.” Tho request wis presvnted to the church, 'Tho letiors wera granuted, and fu keopug with tny word, T told_them their voto fandd meverad the relation of pastor nnd people. Many Decimu trothiod beeatiko of (i, 1iid wt o recond ing that evoulug reavived o call a special mooting of tho chureh to * RECONSIDER TIR YOTI, Two church meetings woro cal.ed, nt both of which tho pastor's position was fuly kuown, Tho chircd refukd to reconsider il action or recall tho letiers, thue, in my judgmont, suatainirg Mr, Goodapead, sud of couran i only poasiblo conras loft for 1o to aceent 18 to tender my rosiguntion ap pastor of thfs elngel, I duing s paruilt o o, romova all Ulamo rou th Doacuns of the church ; they agsure mo had thoy known 1 objocted to the leftors belug granted they woaid nover have recommonded the churen to grant the «amo, Ifany bisno {0 to bo attwehod, it is totho ontire churels for rofusing to reconsider 'Its vote after fully kuowing the circumstunces of the cuuo, 1 uesd ot reassuro you of my deap lovo for this dear chir.l, vut duty to tho ctiureh nud fustico to my own Chwi tiau eharactor demund (his resignation, which T puinfuily, yot poremplorily, teuder, 10 take olte -t Juw, 21, 1875, Traying God'i richest Liessiug to rert on thid people, I aw yours in Christ, Jonx danpos, Menars, Iven und E. W, Caso, who have Dencons in tho chureh, handed their rosi vons to the Chureh Clerls, Mr, Bird, at tho cou- clusion of tho forenoon sor After tho pervieo was over a ‘T'inuns reporter had a conversution with the leading pentlomun of tho ohureh, DIACON E. 3, IVEY, who explained to hitm sovoral talnga in connection with tho resiynation of the pastor which hal not. yot bean mado known, One pomt upon which T dwelt very farvantly was tho fuct that all the Doacons and all the congrogation were in per- feot hatmony with thoir pantor, aud that the suddon culmination af tho tronblo iv ns much a muttor of surpriso ax regrot to thomnll, As tho wifa of the Deacon put 1t: % A largo mnjority of the geutlomon nud all tha ladies waut Mr, Gordon to remsin, and will get him to do wo if pomsible” With rogard o tho uestion of granting Mrv, Goodspeed's lottors of :lnsmimml. the Deucon knid_thet bofore leaving ot hiy trip to Canton, I1l, Mr. Gordon positive- 1y stated llmt Lo had no objeetion to the lotters Doing granted, that on tho ather hand bo recom- mondod it Whon at tho meoting of tho eliurch oalled to cousider the question, it wns decided to prant Mr, Goodspood Lis papors, aud Mr, Gordon #nid that his rosignation would follow g n nutu- rul consoquence, rhe Docons reminded him of his recommendation, but that did uot aiter Lis decision, ‘Thore i3 no doubt that the sourco of tho trouble was_tho trinl of tha descoudant of tho QGernldines, Florence MeCartby. 1t uppears that M. Gordon busied himuelt incireulating o little pupor callod the ** Oriout," in which tho oditor consirzued to etornal shame, under u blavk coltin Douding, tho nuwes of all these Bapiie clorgy- meon who had votod against McOuwrthy, and olevatod to everlesting glory, amid n enlaxy of atutd, all who had supporte:l the Gorzldine, It i not lknown yst whothor the resiguation will result In n soverance of thoe conncckion botwoon Mr, Gordon und his congrogation, sud us Lho present Dorcons have resigned en munso, 1t {a not {mprobablo that auothor reconciliation may rostoro tho fit‘md fooling with whichi thoy Lavo worked togother for gix yoars past. Not Powonods Dr. Corlion, s Fronoh payelcian, hing just come to tho conolusion thut tho oldest son of Fruncld 1, died of ssute phouniouls, brouglit ou by drink- (53 Ing oold water shon ho wns hot. And yet mord than 800 ianru ago the unfortunato cup-bearor of tho Danpbly was fitet put ‘to {ho tortuie, and Lhon dr 1 and quartorod, for having polnoyed tho Prinea, The Daupdun hind been plasing nk tenms ag Tyonn, end, being vory hiot, fold Su- bustian Moireenceali to hand lim o drink of wae ter, which ho drank off, As ho at onco nickoned and diad th atp-honrer way supposarl, nt the ine stigation of Gharlos V., (0 luve ndministorod pomon, o wa tortirorl, aod, of conurss, oot~ faunod nnything roquired of lum, naning Lwo of the hlllp(u’ul‘:fl(ll}nul’ulu un having hoon hin ace complicos. Trom n raport of n_Commitlen of Phymeinns who oxamined tho hody, Dr. Corlion uays that tho Daunhin parishod througl his own ;mpnrm’lnmx‘ :““tlllm thuy romoved a woight of griominy from the momory of Solinti - cuccoll, who Ia entiroty rolymhllll.ll.r?d. s el FOREIGN. Tho Arrest of Deputics to tho Reiche stag Declarved Inndmissibies Reported Denth of the Spanish Gen, Loma. GERMANY, THI ARREST OF DEPUTIRS. Brnrax, Deo, 10.—~In the Reichstar yosterdav, Tlerr Lankor catled Altoution to tho arrost ot Merr Mnjunke, s moember of that body, and moved that the Committeo on Stending Orders roport ns woon as possiblo if the arresta of Doputios during the sossion are admis. sible, nud, if 8o, how ihey can ovontunlly bo avoldod. The motion was unavimously adopted. The Committeo snbacquently decided G the arreal of Horr Mojonka was {nadmise ibla, and rocommunded that the Reichstag do- mand bis fmmedints lhoration, WILL RE Tha Mintnter of Justico. De Loonhart, intendis to resign ob nzconnt af 1ll-henith, VOR ABRNIM'S TRIAL, The Court trying Count Von Arnim was in gecrot Rassion two bours yescorday, when the most fmvortant documonts which beon withhaeld from iho public wern rond. ‘I'ho prosozution guve warnls that nuy person who published or eauned to b publishod theso decumsnts, wonld bo considored gmilty of hieh treaon, Baron Molstoin will ¢ostifv Monday moruing, ond coungol will hozin thoir argumant {n tho aftor- noon, Tl vevdict will probably bo. postponod until uoxt wook, Il BaxTANDER, Dao, o vesaals have hoon wreolod off this port, and eight livos logi, any. noMA, Toxnoy, Dee. 5:30 8, n,—T'he correrpond. ent of tho Daily Newes az Bayonno telographa that roport i in ciroulatlon that Gen. Laus hns died of wounds roceived ‘in tho lnst batth with tho Carliniy, butidispatehies trom San Solnstinu, tho Goneral's headquariors, loave the report un- conflrinad. grams from Carlise sources 8- sorg tiab ke was kiiled on the field, FRANCE, CONUIATULATED, Panis, Dec. 18.—At o meoting of tho Depatics of tho Loft, un eddress to M. Osear do Lafayatte waa adopted, congratulating him on the flattor- ing communicationn he had recontly rocoived frowm oitizous of the United States. GREAT . BRITAIN, PARLIAMENT. Loxpoy, Dee. 13.—~I'arliament will reasasmble on the Gth of Fobruary. 21183 corysn, T.oxnoy, Dee. 1: 0 a, m.—Tho Bishoy London has prohibited Dishop Colonso preaching in this dioceno. — ———— THE WEATHER. . Wasmingrox, D. 0., Doe, 14.—For the Noril- west wud the Unper Take Reaian, el ing und decidedly colder weazl vens winds, and high barome! mg to eastorly and southerly in tuo Missouri Valley, of rom LOCAL ONSERVATIONS, Cloudy. Caoudy, Clomdy. Clondy, Lt, rain Eecansba F, T, Ligyt raln, Cloudy, \PHIC BREVITIZS, The Towa State Grange hes adjourned rino die. Tho Grange will hicneslortis consist of 109 wembers, Drof. TJudd, who attempted to welk 500 miles in New York in six duys uad a balt, 1siled on the 909¢ha 1l Tho DexMoines City Councll han elected two delogates 10 roprosent thak sy at the Honnopin Canil Convention, James McClelend, a carpenter, feli from n renitolding on the depol buinking at Brightwoed, Ind,ard was fatally Lurt, erushing his scuil, o lived near Madison, Tud, Tis4 Waitnoy's atatus of Samnuol Adums, to bo plae-d o the gullery at Wasiogton, lns been cotploted nt Buston in plastor, and will be shipped to Romo 10 ho copled in marbie. o Dopo hns confarred the Oxdor of 8t. Greg- ory on Mr, Goorge Peror Alosander Hoaly, in roc- opnition of - tho- urtist's morit a+ shown in tho reeent portrms hie has painiod of His Holiness, 1t way sunounced vostorday that the Catholie Bisbop uf the Milwaulkeo d:ozose will declure by elovation to the Arvohoishopric on the 27c¢h of tliks mouth, and thut the event will bo colebratod with unuaust splendor. "o Sanitary Inepeotor at Milwaukeo Saturdny roported tht’ avrangements lave been made whoreby tho nuininces cansed by the distillerion every siunner will bo romedied, * e iy now - yegtigating the dofeotive veutilation of the pub- o rehools, Tho papers of Cincinuati aro stirring up tho baby-farming business. A Dr, Tomlinson has & l)lnna of that kind in one of tho euburbs, The nfunts dlo off very fast,—ton in the inst y ar out of tho tinrty taken in, ing them is ouly &6 o week, The Illinols State Tair will bo get up again 0 ho bl of at the Jannary seasion of the Suato Board of Agrionlture, which meatu in Spring ioll, A sumber of citlas, it i3 understood, have alvendy ontoved tho lists, in- cluding Bpriugtield, Poovin, Decatur, aud Qun- oy, Serfous alinrges havo beon presented to tho City Conno.l of Towa City, In., nguivut Matfett, Ciev Marsbal, and ho has resigned, Willimm Chalfant, Kopublican, hns boen elected his suo- cossor. ‘Tho oceasion produced mueh bad blood of u partisan natare, but no one was killed. Motfett ia n Dowmoctut. Whilo n man nemed Baldwin, 1iving fo the Town of Loauington, Mich,, was absent in the T'ho churge yor keop- g North Wools, limbering, his wifo alopod with one Dy, Calvin Abram, The husband, “loarning of his wifa's infldelity, eama home, and found tho guilly pae occupying the sume room ut a lotel nt Mason, The Doctor eecaped, and tho woman 18 in jal . pinsiidhat LR ESORTS B RESOR VIOTORIA MTOTEY, Wi ROYAL -3, PURPETS, Troprintor, idcoss 4 TIDG R WOODE OOs 3 iroad ey, ptosnioes 6all Giory ty wuok ST, AUGUSTING HOTEIL, S0, AUGUSTINE, FLA. This favorlto Housa s boay eulargod and refurntslied an s 0w ousn f0z (1) FuEaption o wkiate, 2(). Buds Walue Hatis i o Lova addad, B VL 3001 Propristar E Bt Auguatie, 1, dsvas )