Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1874, Page 6

6 ~ VHE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1874--TWELVE PAGERS. = = a = = = = { po portunity arrivod, na itd{d on tho 7th innt., vory tho Shoriff, and, conacquently, was takon ’ Howard. Ils wifo was a witnogs, Sho described ) Morgue, snd alt sorta of dovicos wo fh 0D ER N ¢ H IVALRY, slight grounda pais doomod nn oxcuse for ‘going Node an if at mene ant: at é a Facer A R 06 y ES GA LL E RY. the scone, and donicd that Howard wos tho mur- | rosorted to for the purposo of galning peer spent a ene tho ha estan . tay huntlog niggors, A fow hundred moro or tosa | {imo was s prisoner ‘in’ jail and. guarded doror of Johnyon. Sho sald Howard's namowne | on outrauco, At 1 o'clock in tho after- | ti# not tholr provinces to diacuss gront uoots Wand Queer Exhibitions of It Lately at the South, Continued Attacks of White Boys upon Colored School-Girls. History of the Schools in New Orleans. Thelr Unexampled Prosperity Sud- denly Checked. A Special Investigation of the Facts of the Vicksburg Massacre, The Colored Offico-Holders Hounded Down by White-Leaguers, {nnocence of the Murdered Blacks» The “Chivalry”? at Work. The Congressional Committee to Go South at Once, LOUISIANA. TNE NEW ORLEANS KCHOOL MUDDLE, Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, New Ontzans, Dec. 18.—The school war was rosumed this morning. An immoneo crowd as- gomblod in front of the lowor girls’ High School and demanded tho exclusion of six colored gitla who wero overlooked whon twenty-odd word jected from the school on the occnston of tho raid two days ngo. Tho crowd of mon aud boys was ao threatening and demonstrative that tho tonchors dismissed tho school. Large crowds aggombled also in front of St. Philip's School, whore thoro are cighty or ninety colored scholars, Most of the colored children lind romaincd at Pome to-day, apprehending trouble, but such aa Wore presont wore waited on and ORDERED TO LEAVE, ‘or there would be traublo. Upon this tho color- ed boys packed wp their books and left, and tho school wns dismizsed, Other echools woro visit- ed gud tho colored acholara ojected in like man- nor. In their zeal to do thoir work thoronghly tho mob bas, in goma instanco, ejected white chil~ ‘drou, mistaking thon for colored, on necount of thoir dark: complexion and curly hair, and OVERLOOKED SOME CIULDREN OF COLORED NLOOD, Socause thoy wore whito, and had nv divtiuguisl- ing marke. {ine schools of this city have been mixed since 4871. hero aro between 7,000 and 8,000 colored thildren in this city attonding the schools, sud ‘of this number about 1,200 aro in what aro called Shite or mixod choot } the balanco aro in puro- Ty colored schools. ‘Tho avhoola wero never #0 “Moll attended or 60 prosperous as they hava boon this sear, and no trouble has ever taken placo in cosiaequonce of their boing mixed until since the insurtection of last Soptomber. TUERE ARE 15,167 mone Poviis tn the public schools of the State this year than any ono provious, and 6,000 more in the city. Phoro ave 72,900 pupila in the Stata, of which 46,000 aro colored. : ‘ho tronble now oxisting isnot the fault of the school officers or Stato officers. It is tho sonaon of tho your for regular graduation, and it ig tho ondonyor of tho toxchors to prepare the pupils to advance as rapldly a8 posntble, as tho numnber of scholars sent to the High School de- tormines tho grado of their achool, ‘Tho colored itls seat to the High School wero eont thera in ho sama manner and at tho samo timo as tho whito childron, and the tencnersof tho High Behool wero required to examino them as to fit- ness, If they had heen found deficient in quali- Hcations, thoy would have beon returned tolower schools, ‘Tho Democratic papers COMPLIMENT THE DNOyS HIGHLY upon the gullantry of their conduct, but, of * course, they could’ not carry the thing with xo high a’ hand if they woro not backed by tho whito peoplo of tho city. Ib is known by the State anthorilics that, if thoy wero to attompt to arrest tho boys and put a stop to thoir capors, it would precipitite a conflict which thoy desiro to avoid. ‘Tho Bulletin this ovoning advisos the ot boys that they had potter lot tho mat- ter rest for the present, and await tho action of the School Board, which meets to-night, ‘Tho Board is poworloss to order tha: schools shall no longer bo mixot, os tho law erenting tho Board provides that there enall not bo separate school, and the State Coustitu- tion, inthe bill of rights, expressly probibits them. ho matter will probably o lett for tho Legislature, which meots tho first Monday in January. ‘MUCIT ANXIETY 18 FELT among Tepublicanus here about a young man named Van Duzen, from White Pining, N.Y, who for two or threo years hus beon tosohing schiool in Natchitochos Parish. ois a Ropub- Ties, and was drivou out of tho parish at tho game time ag tho Republican officials. Ho tostified before the Returning Board against the Democrats, and has ginco been nrrosted on an absurd ‘chargo of stealing o cow, and was taken from tho city for Natchitoches, Inst evon- ing. ths friends fear that Lo has mado himsolf ao objectioutblo to the Damocrats of that scotion that ho will bo made away with. QUEER MISTAKES. Bome of the colored pupils driven from tho echools wera children belonging to the fumilios of somo of our most respected citizens, In ono cago tho daughter of gontloman who claims high position in the McEnery.Govornmout was ejected after a vigorous protost on her part. In anothor, the ehiidron of nmun for years rominent ‘in the newspaper business of New Brrcans was excluded. This ovoning tho Providont of tho School Board, Dibblo, and Supt. Boothby, iesued auotica stating that in consoquonco of tho oxcitement thoy wont bo compelled to closo the schools, Thoy will not bo opened till altor tho holidays, THE ALTURNING BOARD, f ‘Tho Returning Board is in executive seaiion, It is understood that thoy haye decided Carroll Parish in favor of Gla, and against Bonham, tho Domocratio claimant, ‘St. Heloua and Sabino are the patishes yet to be pasacd upon vy tho Re- tnrning Board, ‘Thore wore olected in the city 82 Demoorats and $ Republicans to tho Mousa, {To the Astneiated Peas) CONGHUASIONAL INVESTIGATION. Wasurvutos, D.C. Dac, 18.—In the Mouse to-day, G. F, Hoar offored a resolution permit fing the Committee on tho Condition of the South to proceed citnor ay n committes or sub- committes to Louisiana to make invevtigations, Adopted, —-—— MISSISSIPPI, ‘TY. RECENT TROUDLES IN VICKSNUNG, Special Disnateh (0 The Chicado Tribune. Sr. Louis, Mo. Dec. 18.—A epecial ta the Ze- publican from Memphis gives tho following re- garding tho gituation in Missiesippi, ‘ho recont troubles in Vickabury have grown out of tho Burning deairo on tho part of somo of tho Demo- cratic politiciana for the possession of the ofiicas of tho Stato, with the concomitant lonvos ant fisbos, ‘tho Bourhons in Warren County went into tho campalgn with a complate and thorough 1y-armed organization lust full, for the opon aud avowed purpose of carrying (ho Vicksburg mnni- cipal olection. ‘hoy Wore strong in numbara, aud woll armed and oquipped, and thoy nevom: plished their purpose with but little difticulty Thoy overuwed, Crightencd, and THREATENED THE COLONLD BEPUDLICANS and kept them from putting in an sppowrance at tho polla, ‘They even anceeeded in forcing n amall number t cast their ballote for the White- ‘Leaguo candidates. Not having occasion to ung negraad at this partfoulur time, u-- armed hosts rested upon their Inurels, But from tho date of thoir original victory the members of tho Leaguo have have beon almont dying to do gomething that thoy call patrlutle, aud it ap- pours from tho sequol thut patriotism in tholr diotonary moans tho Killing of pbiack manors Yankeo, Hence, when the op- in oxlatonco woutd mako no difference, Tho fact inthat the Whito Leaguo was thoroughly or- ganized for tho clty canvass Ina fall, and, if wo are to cfodit tho nowspapors roprosouting tholr sontimonts, thoy regrottod that on that dato thoro was no opportunity or oxcttse offered to anor 4 FEW NEGNOLS, As soon as thoy had fully rocovared from tho quasi-intoxication producod by tho oquivocal but ovidout successin tho munlelpal atection, and aftor thoy had for a timo riddon tho hikgh horeo, discharged tho colored drayman, conch man, police, and portors, and supplied thoir places with roprosontatlyos of tho proud Cau- alan raco, It wae determined upon tv oust aomo of tho colorod connty oftcials, whoso places and emolumonts thoy coveted. ‘Choy bad carriod tho clly, ly not entry to county & "hoy hind only prepared tho way for thia by urging, during tho Stato canvass, upon the people of Warron County to TURN TWEIR DAOKS UPON ALL WHITE REPUDLI- CANS, and olect none but their own color to those cov- eted Postion, Tho colored poopie, wnablo; to seo through this intqutty, had unfortunately not been ab careful as thoy should in making thelr nomtnationa. Tho bottor chanco, (thus thought tho willy White-Leaguors) for us to croato trouble ond dissonaion whon tho timo come. ‘Iho Important person to supplant now was tho Sherif (Voter Crosby). Thoy attacked him through what they supposed his woakost pont, his oMleinl bond, whieh was vory largo, Agerogating $100,000, It took them but s shor tune to compol avory white citizen who had bo- come one of his bondsmen te withdraw bisnanie, ‘Chia thoy boliovod would RENDEN Ti ENTING LAST of suroties of tio offect, contonding that undor tho statutes, if ono security withdrow, the ontiro Lond wag vitiated, and n nosy ono would Lave to bo eupnlied, ana that, too, within tho short tine of twouty days. Crosby, after much hard labor, whero tho fooling was so high against him from tho failuro of his first bond, succeeded in gotting np anothor, as good a bond as ts given by any of tho Domocratio Sboriffs in thio Btato, although « maajority of tha suroties word only able to qualify for _ amall amounts, thus requiring » largo immbor of stira~ tic fo malo up tho amount. ‘This bond was duly approved by tho Board of Suporvisors, ‘This was not oxactly in accordance with tho hopos of tho color lino leaguos, But thelr offon- uive mengutes wora not uot yet oxhanstod. Tho lenge took anothor tack, and commoncei tho work of ANNESTING THE GENTLEMEN who had in dotianco of their order become the Sheriff's bondsmen, charging thom with baving committed porjury by takiug the customary oath of suficioncy os 4 suroty, But this foll through. At lenst it failed to accomplish tho purposo, tho parties boing discharged upon oxainination, aud the bond still stauding ap- proved, and the Shoriff atill performing tho du- ties of his afites, Tho old trick of compolling a bondsman to withdraw lind to bo rosorted to again; thus, as they claimed, onco moro ronder- ing mngatory tho romnining surotioy, although tho man withdrawing was only holdon on tho boud in the aum of 21,000, and while tho bond had beon purposoly mado £5,000 or $6,000 largor than ronulved by Inv, in cago of tho occurrence of somo attch otnorgency aa this, ‘Tho Board of Supervisors wore AGAIN OALLED TOGETHER for tho twentieth tinie to look after tho Sheriff's bond, Looking apon tho surotics 18 ainplo, even without the $1,000 taken off, aud knowing tho reu! object of the attack upon tho suflicionvy of the bond was for tho purpose of compolling the Shoriff to rosign, that body very properly refused to require n new bond of tho Shorif. Again tho Loagno failed. But about this timo it becamo tho duty of each membor of tho Board of Supor- visors to seloct a cortnin number of mou from hia diatrict to servo as Grand Jurors at tho ap- proachig ‘term of the court. ‘Tho names thus fogally clioson not happening to anit tho INTERESTS AND DESIRES OF THE LEAGUENS, thoy, with uplifted horawhip in hand, compelled twoof tho Suporvisora to aubstitice certain mombore of their Longue organization for tho porsons alroady fixed upon for Grand Jurors, and in this waya Grand Jucy was impanole composed of a number of White Leaguera and sevoral colored mon, who from fear wero com- polled to act with thom, This auguat body as- sembled oarly in November, and aftor soveral weeks arduous endeavor failod to fudovens reasonable shadow of excuao for bringing fan indictmont against tho Shoriff. Thoy did, however, indict tho Cbancory Cloris and an ox- Cirenit Clerk, and very probably for good caugo, But the Shoris stilt BTOOD IN THEIR PATH, seomingly as firmly fixed in his place as when they bogan tho war upon him, ‘Tho bond effort had failed ; tho indictment effort had not been moto aticcossint; the Suporvisora would not, and the White Leagno Graud Jury could not, ra- mova Crosby. In this diro distress tho Leagua was advised by tho Vicksburg Jerald to hold a nimes-mooting in tho Op- ora-Houso, under tho guiso of tho ‘Tag-payors’ Convention, It was held, ‘The editor of the Herald, among othera, counseled the sand. ing of & committco to the Court-House demand- ing of tho Sheriff that ho resign, give up his of- jico, and step down and out, Somo gonsiblo man nrged thnt logn! mensures had not bean exhaust= ed, and a resolution of a very throatening chiar- acter wns softened eomewhat, but a committes was dent. ‘Tho Shoriff was tho oaly oflicer found in the Court-louso WHOSE PLACE WAS WANTED, by tho Opora-Honse Convention, He was spoken with, and the buainces of the Committe mado mown, Ho asked what charges they had to prefer against him, ‘Tho Chairman informed him thoy wero ouly instructed to demand his im- mediate resignation ond abdication. Hoe ro- fused ‘ha Commitco returned, and tho } editor of tho /ferald, 8 roported in his own columns, made speech, in which he said, in eubstance, that there woro accasiona When deflanco of Iatr bocamo the purest patriot- ism, Ho was in favor of using ayy means to compel the Shoriff to stop out. Othors wore nl- most equally hoated in tholr romarke, and tho upshot of the matter was that the meting wont 28 A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE to tho Court-Hougo to compel the obdurato of- ficera to resign. It waa mildly suggosted that it might be dangerous for him to refuso thia invi- tation as ho had tofused tho smaller dolegation from the game gource, Hanging was plaiuly in their eyo, au pistols wore in thoir bolts, Thoro wera about GU0 persons in tho Committcs. It was powerful. In tho midst of the cries of “Hang him!" “Kill bim!” Mr, Crosby folt convtrained, to sanyo himself from instant mor- tyrdom, to sign whatever document bis cnemica might prepare for him. A rovignation—rathor an abdication,—was written out, aud, IN FEAR OF INSTANT DEATH if ho refused, ho signed it, Still bolioving that jis life way no longor gato thor, he joft Vicke- Burg and camo. to Jackson. Loforo leaving, howayer, he notified the Judge then Holling a session of his court that his resignation had hoen oxtorted from him, and that he withdrow it. Arriving in Jackson, Mx, Crosby called upon Gov, Ames for aid in executing tho laws of his county, ‘Tho Governor asked hum if he had ex- hausted tho powor giver him under the utatutea in ondenyoring to retain hiv position. Io replied that ho had imado no defense, and that ho had strrendored Lily offico without sttompting to call upon tho byatanders to assist him in hig omorgoucy. It was then cuggested that he had better return to his county and to his office, and make ‘A DEMAND FOR POSSESSION, and, if rofusod, to make n call upon the byatand- ors, tnking a record of thoir naines, to support him in the oxcentlon of the lawa of tho Stato of Mleatealppl, and if thoy rofusod he aliquid report tho fact, with tho names of tho parties 80 refusing to respond to his call for nm pORHO, = a8 provided by nw, | to the Judge in opon court on the following Mon- day morning, to which timo the Court had ad- Journed for want of a Shorlif to excouto ite order. It wats eeniieutly expected tho Judgo would issue a capias for tho olfendors and bring thom bofore the bar of the Court, ‘Thin, as wil rendily bo ween, wae the propor and logal way to ‘ot the matter upou the record, and thon, lind fis jeuh provented the Court from trying tho of- fonders and bringing thom to justice, the Judgo could have very judiolously adjourned his court and reported or appealod to higher authority for help. Tho Sheriff did roturn to Vieksburg, but before doing #0 he wrola and publibied a onrd directed to the people of Warren County, axaur- ing tham that HIB WESIONATION WAB FORCED from him, and informing thom that ho was the still logal Shoritf. In tho samo card ho slvo aallod upon tho paople to help him In tho dia~ charge of hia dutics ag Shorif. ‘Tho publication obtaiued vireulatton by Sunday, Oth inst, and Was read out iu noarly all of the colorod oburches in the county on that sige Not fully understanding the purport of tho Sherlil’s eall for help, quite « number of them atarted Lo town on Monday morning, and the crowd incroused we it neared tho alty to some 200 or $00, & dozen or fo of Whom ‘oro armod with bird-guns aud otha With plg.uls, When neur Viekwburg tho by armod Tenguers, Tho Bhoriif told him to ordor ovorybady to go home and remain thero, "Tho lendor roturnod to his party, and while ox- plaiving to thom tho state of affairs, tho loader ofgho White League fores put the question to his mon, “Sball wo ndvanco and fro?” All yotad “yos," and simultaucously commoncod advancing, firing, anc RILLING A LANGE NUMBER of dofoncoloss colored mon and wouuding many mora, ‘Iho colorot people on othor ronds, learn Ing of tho disturbance, started atso for town to soe what was tho matter, aud whon noar Grant and Pomborton ptaco woro attackod by a body of White-Loaguors, and fifty-throo of thoir numbor toft dead upon tho sacred spot to toll the tale of of dnstardly cowardice. Of conrao, many woro wounded. Not a White-Longuor was shot. It jag boon thus far impossible to obtain tho names of thoso killed and wounded, As noar os wo can loarn horo, tho colored :non were almost un- armad, and ‘WERE SHOT IN COLD DLOOD. During tho Aamo day (Monday) sovoral colored mon wor killod, aud othora’ woundod, on the stroats of Vicksburg, without cause or provoca- tion, Othora were required to take off their pels othors, still, to knool on tho stroet to mombere of tho mob ; ohurchos woro dleturbod, and congrogations compolled to disperao. ‘Turoo attompts wore made noxt day to bang Orosby, but all were thwarted by revolute. parties who opposed auch oxtromo monsitres. ‘Tho Govornor, d{netead of at onco calling upon the Government for aid, very properly ontlod E AN EXTRAORDINARY BUSSION OF THB LEGISEATORE to take action in the mattor, and it is oxpoctod that that body, on tho 17th, whon it convenes, ‘or vory goon thoroaftor, will join with tho Ex- ecutive in a call upon tho Presidont for troops to put down tho mob and bring ite puiity murdor- ots to punishmont, Without ontoring nny further into particulars, and to sim up, tho troubles in tho City of Vickaburg aro but tho first stops foward the killing and driving out of tho State all prominent Hopublicaby: by tho White Loaguo. Tho latter want tho oflices, and, botioving thoy nover will bo abloto contro} thom through tho ballot, thoy nro dotormined to take ‘Possi:sB10N OF THEM DY DRUTD FORO. Tho United States must givo prompt assistance to the Stato Administration or the State will soon presont a scono of anarchy nnd bloodshed. Tuinga cannot Jong romain.as thoy sro. ‘Tho will, 1fn0 holpiahnd, soon become very much worse. Ao the Assoctated Preta.d AN INCIDENT OF THE SNYDER'A BLUFF FIGHT. Vioxsnuna, Miss., Doo. 18,—Two uogroos ou- gagod in tho Snyder's Blu fight wore brought to the city to-day on a warrant for the murdor of A negro named Jamon Grog, Ono of the prison- ors, Silas Olivor, admitted that ho shot Gray undor ordera from Jeff Tuckor, who wae o prominent man in the Blick Longuo, who fooms not to havo had avy mili- tary command, Ho stated that ho had Kilied tho man, but was sworn to oboy tho ofl+ eors, and when Tucker told him to kd il Gray ho {aed bis gun, fired, and killed him instantly, o nogro charged Gray with giving tho whitos ‘an intimation of tho propoand attaoit on Vicks~ burg and rofasing to join thom against tho whites, Oliver snys ho heard this stated by tho Joadors of his aquad before the order was given. him to shoot. ‘ho aftidavita chargo Oliver with malicious and willful murdor, and fof Lucker oy beng an accessory. ‘Thoy ‘await exannnation boforo ‘Squire Mann on Wednenday, PROCEEDINGS IN THE LYOISLATUNE, Jacnsoy, Mien, Doc. 18.—Tho Sonate commit- too to whom was yoferrod the Governor's meos- sngo presented majority and minority roports to- day. ‘Tho majority raport ombodied a rosolution urgently calling on tho Prosidont of tho Unitod States for troops to suppress insurrection and provent futuro occurrences of liko nature, Iho minority roport ° diametrically ops poses tho conclusions of tho majority. What- aver circumstances may hnvo demanied Fedoral intorforonco, cortainly thero is now no necewnity for United Statos troops, unloss to assist in car tying tho apocial olection ordered in Warren by tho Supervisors. ‘Pho majority roport was ndopted. Tho Touso passed o resolution, appointing. n committeo to investigate tho Vieksbury affair, and appropriating $5,000 to pay tho expenses of tho Committoo. Ench Hongo will pans tho other's rosolution, ‘Lhe speeches of the nogro mombors in tho discussion of tho resolutions woro of a vindictive and libelous nature, Tho Legislaturo will adjourn to-morrow. REPORTS RECEIVED IN WASIINGTON. ‘Wasminaron, Deo. 18,—Attornoy-General Will- jams is beginning to receivo roturna, regarding tho troubles in Mississippl, and aifalra aro re- ported to boina deplorablo condition, At tho city election in Colambus on tho 8th of Decom~- Bor much intimidation was wacd, ond many as gaulte wera mado, Numbers wore ‘discharged fron employmet for voting the Republican ticket, FOREIGN. GERMANY. ‘ VOTE OF CONFIDENOE IN prestanord Bert, Dec. 18—In tho Relchatag to-day, during tho consideration of tho sppropriations for tho Foroign Offic, Horr Windhorst opposcd the grant for the secret eorvico, and moved to utrike itout. Horr Benningston ropliod that tho motion was simply an attsck on Princo Bis- marcel, in whose porson tho Ultramontanos un- ccasingly and bittorly asgailod tho German Em~- pire aud untional policy. Ho avkod that tho coichatag pass a vote of confidonco in tho Ohan- collor by rejecting tho motion to cancel the grunt for tho secrot sorvico, A division took Inco, aud Horr Windhorst’s motion was defeated [ya voto of 71 yous to. 199 nays. Benux, Dec. 18.—Prineo Bismarck onterod the Reichstag immediately aftor tho yoto on Horr Windhorat’s motion was announcod. ——-+— ASIA MINOR, AN APPALLING FAMINE, ConsraNTiINozLE, Dec. 18,—-Lhe Levant Herald publishes accounts of tho famino in Asia’ Minor, and gays the prospect is appalling. —————— THE WISCONSIN LAND-GRANT. Special Divatch to The Chicago Tribune. Mavisos, Wis., Dec, 18,—A final conclusion by the Governor in tha St. Croix and Superior Land-Grant mattor bas not been promulgated, but it is undorstood ho has decided to grant tho claim of tho Madison & Vortago Railrond Com- pany, conflicting with tho North Wisconsmn, and to iasua to the intter Company patents for 400 sections of land for 40 completed miles of tho road under tha terms of tho act of 180. Cor- tifleates of the completion of tho Madison & Portage Railroad will also be givon. OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, New York, Deo, 18,—Arrivod—Steamship Porain, from Havre. Lonnon, Deo, 18,—Steamships Clty of Ant- worp and italy, from Now York, havo arrived out, ———— WILL RESUME OPERATIONS, Faut Riven, Mass,, Doo. 18,—It ia expected that tho mills ‘will start up again on full time on tho Ist of January, but on a furthor redaction of 10 por cont in the wages of the operatives, GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. A man in Washington was recontly orrosted for hicking » fifty-vollar dog. A Toxas jury recontly rotirod from tho court. room long cuough to write a verdict of “not guilty,” at which tho accusod was so rojoicod that te told the jury to '* go down to the grocery and holp themsclyas,” for whieh the Judgo flued him 350, A qnoor caso Ia roportod from Donvor, Col, A man got drunk, stole bia own trunk, and hid it, Ho compluined of tho theft, tho property was ro~ covored, and he was mado tho prosecuting wit- ness, ‘tho Iudgo, being in a quandary how to traat do novel a case, docided that the thiof was not accountablo for bia acts. Tho Yronch Academy. of Scionco, it is ane nounced, are about to consider tho propricty of adopting the moridiun of Greenwich, which is already recognized by the other nations of tho Coutitiont, in Hou of thatof Paris, ‘ha morid- ian would touch tho ronch soil at ‘Trouville, and, In the evont of tho Goverumont sanction ing the change, 4 column would bo oruvted on tho spot. Homo of the Counecticnt people aro complain- ing bitterly again of tho way panpors aro im- paged pon tho towns of the Htato through the law of Massachusotts by whiok poor porsous rox colvo passed over tho ruilroads, ‘Thoy aro care ried a far a8 the tate lino, whore thoir faro is domande?, Sud, if thoy don't pay, they aro put off the train, and of course become a charge to the town whore they happen to be left, Iu tho Frouch papers thore isa tragio history ofamagplo, If was o grout favorito of tho butchor who owned it; but n boy who had (yo- eaived natiga” and wat to leave in a short time, taught tho bird to say, “It's cow's ment." Those party wero TALCED BY A HOY Ol ATMED LEAGUENE and ordorod bask, ‘Tho leador of tho mon from tho country avked thet he bo pormittod to #00 provoking words ib pronouncod wheneyor tho Pitcher showol to 1s customora Lia prottlcat cuts, and tho juyanito Ingo thus compollsd that butohor to murder his favorite, 1 Free Exhibition of It to | Readers of “The ‘tribune,.” Included in It Are Somo Pic. tures of Jonest Men. Mr. Morton, the Alleged Grain- Bribor, Is Coming To- Day. He Has Beenl Surrendered to the Mlinois Officers. Princo Sam Rindskopf Found Guilty of Dofrauding tho Rovenus. Poor Charlie Ross Is Still Miss- ing---Fruitless Search for Him, ° Scones at the Morgue Whero the Dead Burglars Lay. BY TELEGRAPH. THE RINDRKOPF OASE, Spectral Dusnatch to Phe Chicago Tribune. Mapisox, Wis,, Doc, 18.—Tho trial of the caso of Rindskopf et.al. for conspiracy to defraud tho United States revenue, which has occuplod tho lust ton days, was concluded to-night. Tho day was ocoupled with threo closing argu- monts,—P. L. Spooner and H. D, Orton for tho defonse, and Agsistant Duistrict-Attornoy Mc- Konnoy for the prosccution, Tho ‘ablo Inwyore for tho dofenso Inbored hard to show thit no conspiracy was proved, but admitted that illicit Liguwines bad been made by the partios in- Aictod, but it was claimod that the offense was a minor ono; that it was imposaible to manu- facture spirits ot profit in strict com- plianco with tho Jaws; that illicit manu- facturo was genoral, and was winked ab for tho bonofit of the rovenuo; that almost ov- ersbody evaded taxes og far na posalblo; that this was 6 political prosocution to punish Rindy- hopf for going into the Reform party, etc. Somo yory wingitiar aud contradictory positions wero taken, dudgo Orton was quite laudatory of Rindskopf, comparing him to Schurz as a Tte- former, nnd was impassioned in bis eloquence. Mr. BMoKenney vory clearly and coolly roplied to the argument of tho defenso, and stated tho guration on which the jury wore called to pass. ho chnego of Judgo Ioplting wax long, and wan not fnighod till aftor 6 o'clock. 1t ombraced erv- oral instructions asked by defonso, but, on tho wholo, ivas regarded as favorable to the proxccit- tion. Hosaid, to show conspiracy in manufac turing and romoving spirits without paying tho Government tax thereon, as charged, it was not neecssiry to prove an Rien Agreemont, but that oach did their part with Rogors oroach other to accomplish a common illogal purpose,—Muellor in illicit distMing, Rondskol in recciving Micit hignwinos, and Bull in conniving thoroat, Oao or moro might bo found guilty, whilo thero was reasonable doubt ay to the others. ‘Tho tes- timony of an accomplico was credita- blo “if not impeached, capocially if any part was corroborated: yot, was to bo ro- ceived with caution, Spozint woight was to bo givon to the omlasion to prosont the books or ac- counts, by which statomonts showlug tho pur- chnsa of illicit spirits could hava beon dieproved. Tho jury, after boing ont’ about two hours, part of tha timo spent at supper, found Samuol Rindskopf, of Milwaukeo, rectilier and doalor in apirits: Storekeeper alt, and Distiller Muellor, of Middloton, guilty of conspiracy to defraud tho United States revenue, Iti said tho first bal~ lot stood 11 to 1 for conviction. ‘Iho ponalty is from $1,000 to 910,000 fine, aud not oxcoeding two yonrs’ imprisonment, Prince Sum was cou- siderably overcomo by tho vordict. A motion was mado for a rohouring, but no timo was fixed for tho argument, The parties, in tho moan- timo, aro still out on bail, MORTON DELIVERED UP. Special Disnatch to The Chicane fribune, Invranaro1is, Ind., Deo, 18.—Tne hearing of the appeal in tho Morton-Rey oxtradition caso tool placo this afternoon before the Supromo Court. ‘Tho attornoys for Morton attempted to dolay the cago, but it was finally submitted with- outargument, the Court taking tho citation of tho authoritios from tho soveral attorneys, Af- tor an hour or two of doliberation tho Contt, through Justico Downey, roudorod tho following decision : ‘This {a an appeal from the judgment of tho Olreutt Gout na labors corpus ate, ‘ho appoliant washheld fn custody by virtuo of a warrant tusued by the Governor of the State upon a requisition by the Governar of tha State of Illinois, On consideration of the caso in tho Clreuit Court, tho appellant was romanded to tho custody of {io officer having him in charge, Tho papora in tho caso copled into the record slow that tho appellant is charged in itinols with o crime whloh fg noither troison uor folouy, tut is fa ‘misdemeanor punishable by a fino not oxceeding $4,000, and the queatfon, aud the only question mado by’ tho appollant, 1g, whothor the cago $8 ono coming Srithta the Constitution and laws of tho United States rotative to tho surrender or extradition of fugitives from justice fleeing from ono Stato to another, Does tho act charged come Within the meaning of the word eriino, a3 uscd in tho Constitution of tho United Statos, Art, 4, Sec. 22° Wo havo oxamiued tho question thua presented with such caro os the time and clroumstances allow, and havo come to the con- clusion that tho act charged is serio within tho moaning of the Constitution and Inve of (he Taited ates, Aumbor of authorities are cited in enpport of tho decision, and the judgmeut of tho Latay- otto Court is aifirmed, with conta, ‘Tho parties started for Chicago to-night. Tho Supreme Court has adjourned until aftor the holidays, Sheol Dispatch to The Chicagu Tribuns, Larayettz, Ind., Doo. 18, -Lhis ovoning Mosuenger Ray received tho following tolegram from Goy. Hendricka: Ispranarouts, Dec, 19, ToD, A. Ray, fayette: nha adtatnro Goutt sustains, Judgo Vinton's decls- fon, Thera {no further restraiut upon yout in ox- eouting tho process, (Sigued) CHARGED WITH OUTRAGING A OIILD, Sheciat Dianateh to Mhe Chicaaa Tribune, Sonixariery, Ill, Deo, 18—Col, James MM. Bearduloy and Dr. John Swoony, ‘Trustees of the Soldiors’ Orphans’ Homo, aro ongaged to-day in proseouting a. case which, if truo as charged, id ono of peculiar attroclty. A little girl, Gorty Morrow, an orphan and child of a soldior, was recontly admitted to the Homo from this city, whoro glo ‘resided, oon after hor arrival thera sho mado a statement which reached tha Suporintendont, Mra, Ohr, that bo- foro leaving this citya Mr, Audorson, a photog~ saphér, enticed her into his gallery and thoro forcibly violutod her porgon. ‘Lho 'lrusteos to- day onused the arrest of Anderson, and, won the testimony of the Jittle girl, who is leas than 14 yenrs old, hie waa bound over to anawor to tho hoxt terin of tho court, Andorson douics tuat he sed force to accomplish the rain of tho girl, but saute the fact that ho lad illicit intorcoursa with hor. THE ANTI-MOTHER-IN-LAW GASE. Sheciat Dispateh to Phe Chicago Tribune, Inpuaxavotts, Doo, 18,—In the Stout-Taggart damngo caso, the euit againgt tho mothor-tu-law for $40,000 for the atlountiou of tho wife's af- fovtion, an incident ocourred this morning of hitorest, A colored man uamod Thomas Branch forelbly onterod Mrs. Laggart’s houso, whore the wifo is working, and attomptad to take Lor qway, throatening to out her to piqzes if sho Lox (fled in the ease. ‘ho dofenso bad him braught into court and plicod on tho stand, and ep- deavored to prove that he bad noon hired to ito as ho bag done by nia, Mr, Stout, He toutl- fled very unwillingly, but porsistod that ho bad not boon influenced or employed by any one, It fa hardly possible that the man would have shown ao much intorost m tho sult on his own account, 5 TH DES MOINES TRAGEDY. Bpeottt Dispiteh to The chicaso Tribune. Day Mowes, la, Dec. 18—Lha Coronor'a {n- quest way rogumod to-day on tho henging of ‘Tnoxas A, HeNpnioxs, Charles Honry Howard Nolaon, son of Admiral Nolaon, No. 240 Adolph strect, Brooklyn, N.Y. Howard loft a statement, writton the night bo- foro ha waa hung, in whioh ho donios lis gitlt of tho murdors chargod against him, ASBHOOTING DOCTOR, Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Rooxronp, Uh, Deo. 18—William Jones, a spiritual physician, living nt Roscoo, in this county, pald Roolford a visit, becamo drunk, got into a row with Charlos Holmor, of this city, and tried to shoot him. Tho socond shot gave Holmer a slight flosh wound in thogroin, Jonos was arrested aud is now in Jn, Jones is a tronblesomo fellow, anc it is said has bad trouble with his wifo, re ‘TWO MEN FATALLY SHOT. Mousroare, I. T., Dev. 18.—Shoriff Josoph Yann, while allempting to arrest a notorious outlaw named Coorgo Simmons, yostorday, noar Webber's Falla, Chorokos Nation, was shot through tho abdomen, Aftor boing shot, thu Shoriff drow o royolver and shot Simmons through tho arm, and again through the groin, whon Simntons surrendored and bogged for his life. Toth nion sro futally injured. ‘hoy wero both Chorokeos. HIGUWAY ROBNERY. Pirrsnuna, Pa., Doc, 18,—Last ovoning about Bo'olock, na James Craft, a peddlor of produco, was returning homo from market, and while driving slong tho Porrssvillo road, neor tho plneo whoro Wahi was recontly murdered, ho waa sot tipon by threo highwaymon, robbed, aud hudly beaten, No clow yot to the ‘perpotrators ‘of tho decd. STILE UNARRESTED. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicaan Tribune. Buvrrros, Int, Deo, 18.—Houry Shitleman, who shot and kiticd Lov! Forman two or threo daya aincog is will at Jargo, all offorts for his ap prohension having proved futile, Thoro js ittlo doubt, hawovor, that the ofttcers will finally euc- coed in securing his arrost, MURDERER REPRIEVED, SAN Fraxotsco, Deo, 18,—John Murphy, tho murderer of McCallum in May ast, who was to hinve boon executed nt Carson, Nov., to-day, ina ‘boon respited by the Governor of that State un- til the 2ith inst. Thore was conpidorablo exeltc- ment amoung tho largo crowd that had assomblod to witness the oxcoution whon the roprioyo was anuounced. RAILROAD TIOKKTS STOLL Boston, Dee. 18.—Tho Boston & Lowell and Eastorn Railroad Companies are looking for por- sons who aro stealing their pasaongor ticket, ‘The Cormor estimate their losses within the past fow months at 856,000, Ono man hns been fined for recoiving Uckets from conductors. JUSTIFIABLE fONIOIDE, New Yons, Dev. 18,—The jury in the inquest ovor tho bodies of the burgtara who woro shot at Day Ridgo, Long Island, carly on Monday morn- ing last, find that tho Killing was perfectly justi- fiablo, aud commend tho mon who did tho shooting. THE WEISE ARSON TRIAL. Special Dispatch ta Lhe Chicana Pridune, MstavavKer, Wis., Dee, 18.—Tho Weise arson trial is inereaaing in interest. All the insuranca agonts concerned testified to-day. ‘Ibe prosecu- tion will close to-morrow. A $7,000 ROBBERY. Hamurox, Ont., Dee, 18.—Burglars entered the residened of Androw Pottio, a farmer, neat Port Nelson, !nst night, and stolo $7,000. Se CHARLIE ROSS. FRUITLESS SEARCH FOR THE BOY. From tha New York: Vinca, Dee, It. Tho efforts mado by Supt, Walling and his officers to divcover the whereabouts of tho kidnapped boy, Charies Browater Ross, wore not attonded by any success yesterday. On Tuesday night the Suporintondont requosted Mrs. Mosher, wifo of *Dill” Moshor, to call at his residonco, No. $11 East Nineteonth strect. Mra, Mosher aid 60, and spoke freoly to the Supt, rogarding the case. Sinco Supt. intondent Walling discovered that Moshor and Douglasa wero the abductors of Charlio Rows, Mrs, Moshor has beon under tho surveillance, night and day, of somo ono of Supt, Walling's dotectives, Sho neyer communicated with her husband, and from tho constant watch kopt on hor, not the slightest clow was obtainod rogarding tho whereabouts of hor husband, Douglass, or tho stolen boy. The conforenco with tho Superintendont on Wednosday night confirmed tho opinions proviously entor- tained by that official, that Mrs. Mogher did not know tho whoreabouts of Charlio Roas, and was not inken into the contidence of her hueband to thatoxtont, Sho accounted for hor remaining in tho house in Monroo strect, above Second streot, Pailndelphis, by stating that sho dail; oxpeoted to bo confined, and that her tat child, which eho bad with bor, was born in tho Monroa stroot housc on tho 19th of July Inst, Mea, Mosher not ouly blamed ber unfortunate bus- band for abducting Charlic Rosa, but willingly offered to assist the Superintondent in every way in her power to recover the stolen boy. During the timo that Mra. Mosher was in con- pultation with Supt, Walling, an erratic repro wontative of a morning journal called at tho Su- jorimtendont's hougso and asked to sco Mr, Wat ling. Ho informed tho Suporintondont that bo had received positive information that Charlio TRoss was concealed in the Superintondont’s house, and that he wanted to be antisfied on tho point, This was adopting tho Superintendent's tactics with s vongeauco. Supt. Walling enjoyed the joko, and jaughed heartily, Ifo finally as- sured the entorprising journsilat that thoro wns ‘no necessity for “turning over” bis house, as the boy was not there, Just at this momont tho seute oar of the Suporintendent diacerned the fact that Mrs. Mosher'a baby was about bogin- ning to cryin an adjoining room, and rapidly bowod tho reportor out of the houss. “Ab,” said tho Saporintondent, yostorday, with a sigh of roliof, ‘if ho over heard Mrs, Mosher’s baby ery Iwas pou, Mo'd havo sworn Charlio Rosa was in my back parior.” From tho information rocolved from Mrs. Mosher on ‘Tunsday evening, Supt. Walling or- dored Detective Silleck to go toa olty womo dis- tance from hore and soarch a suspected house. Dotoctive Sileck loft this city lato on Tuceday night, and yestorday telegraphed tho Suporin- tendont from the city alluded to: Nothing hore, Will come back by noxt train, SULLEoR, Dotective Silleck yosterday aftorncon ro- turned, and roported to the Superintendent in roferonce to tho result} of his oxpedition. Supt. Walllug will not make public ot pros- ont the vamo of the poraon Siltook followed, or the city to which o went, a8 ho intonds to havo the mattor moro fully invostigated, Some days ngo tho Superintondont recelvod information from citizous rosiaing in Weatport, Conn, tlatan old aman and woman, living alono ona sinall island in tho Sound, o Low milos from ‘Woutport, rofusod to allow any one to go on the iuland, and that thoy wore suspected of boing tho custodians of Charlio Ross, ‘ho Suporintend- ent on ‘fuesday sont Ollicors Doylo and Lawlor, formerly of tho River Polico, to soarch tha island. _ They returnod yostorday afternoon, and roported that, havit procurod ‘avgistanco {rom the Connecticut ofticials, they soarched tho island and houso thoroughly, but could not find any- thing snepicions, ‘Chey also seported that whon ongaged in looking for Moshor and Douglnes in a Btoam-lnunch a month ago, they visited and aearchod the sno isinud. ‘Tho question of offering a reward and immu- nity from punishment to any person producing: the stolon boy having boon agitated, Supt. Wall- ing said that it should bo first ascortuined in what State the boy was held, and thon fet tho authoritios of that Stato issuo the proclamation of rowatd and immuuity, othorwiso tho authori~ ties of this Stato might lesnio the roward and the boy be “turned up” in Philodelphia, aud the party having the boy bo proscouted by the Ponn- -nylvanln atthoritiod, Youtorduy afternoon tho uporintondont issued further iustruccions to all o detectives cngayed on tho cago, and informed a Times roportor taut he Ly no means dospuired of guecovs in his search for Chariio oss, SCENES AT THE BROOKLYN MORGUH. AN day yostorday curions crowds sought ad- mission to the Morguo to view tho bodies of the dead burglars, Ho great wan tho throng at ono timo in tho building that tho koys of a crows- door loading to the vault whore tho bodtos aro kept woro abstractod from the lock without the knowlodgo of the keeper, When Mr, McQuiro discovered tho loss of the keys bo oxpotled all tho slyht-seors from tho building, aud thoronftor admitted only those who wore provided with por- ita from ono of the Coronora. ‘Tho crowd. continued to ovoupy tho aidowalk in front of tho noon a oman about 95 yoara of ago, of full fentures, and drossed in a completo sult of black, mado application to Heo the bodies. Bho had a child § months old in hor arms, aud ‘wag accompanted by tho sister-in-law of Moshor, anda tall, thin man, wonring o black mustncho. Keoper McGuire, from tho description ivon by tho dotectives, recognized tho woman in black a8 tho wifeof Moshor. Tho visitora tvero adinitted at onco, Mosher'a widow, for such sho proyod to be, waa pate, and appenred to be vory much. oxoltod. After entering the building sho passod tho baby tohor alatorluelay, and naked inn nory= ous way to bo show ntho bodies. Tho unfortunate wotnan was in all probability morally conviacod that hor husband lay dead in the yanit, but aho was ovidently hoping against hone that thera might havo beon somo mistako, Bho was taken down atairs, and the caver was removed from Morhar's taco, Aé tho first glance of tho dond man's fontutos eho utterod a ploreing ecream, aud, thtawiug horaelf on tho body, Kissod it paastonately. Tho agony of tho griof-stricken Wife moved tho fcolings of tho attendants avon, who aro almost daily wituoseos of similar scones, With difioulty tho poor woman was removed from tho body, and led tp-stairs to the keopor's oliice, Up to this timo no questions bad_beon ankod her, but whon Mr. McGuiro inquired a8 to hor rolationehip to the dead man eho admitted that sho was Mosher's wifo, and declared hor in- tontion of giving him adecent burial, Othor quostions sho was provonted from answering by the tall manwhoaccompaniod hor, Mo said that any questions it might be nocesunry’ for hor to answer, ho would answer (if he anawered at all) to tha Coroner. Nono of tho New York or Brook- lyn detectivas woro prosont during Mra. Moshor's visit, aud sho rofused, by tho advice of the man Yho'uecompantod Ter to ery whats elie lived. Bho agked if sho contd sco tho body again to-day, aud was informed that sho could. Shortly after tho viait of Mrs, Moshor, 4 man asked for ad~ mittance to the Morguo, who boro such a strong resomblanco to the older of tho two dead burg lor that Keopor McGuiro at onco recognized lim aga brother of Mosher, Tho man at first denied his relationship, but afterward admitted thatho waa Mosher'’a brother. Ho was much affected when shown tho remains of tho dond man, but, beyond stating bis relationship, ro- {used to answer any queetions whatover, 18 THI OILD DEAD? From the New York Sun, Dec. 17, Cant, Hodden, the Philadelphia police, and tho Now York detectives cling to the hopo that: a# thoro is vo motive for the further conconl- mont of tho child, he will soon bo returned, They profess to be confident that ho is still alive, but, among othor dotectives, tho opinion is gaining ground that tho child i dead. The yery fact of lnck of motivo for further conceal- ment, they say, tends to etrengthon this view, which the character, habits, and methods of theft of Moshor makes still more probable. Thoy argue that itis little in keeping with such a person to keep such evidence of crimo as astolon boy whon ho know that tha polico woro on his track. Thoy deom it much moro probabio that whon tho pursuit became hot Moshor tool the Ind into tho calnn of his sloop and guvo bim short shrift aud quick burial mm tho wators of the arbor, ‘Tho dotectives' soarch ia now difected to find- ing tho friends of the dend burglars and tracing their movemonts for tho past alz months, Adatective who is not on the caso says that Moshor was hired to kiduap the child bya woman living thou in Philadelphia. Soon after the ab- duction tho woman qiit that city and ie now living.on ‘Twenty-xarenth streot. Io enya that ‘Mosher ealtod upon her thero and endeavored to collect his hiro, but was turned out with threat of exposura, Mr, J. W. Lowia, Charloy Ross’ unclo, says that he oxpects to boar of the recovery of tho child within twonty-four hours. Ho belicves that Supt. Walling and tho detectives know whoro tho child {s, and will bo able to rostoro him to his parents. Tt ia said that tha doath of Mosher and Doug- lag will prevont tho polico from gotting tho tompting ransom should thoy find the boy, a8 tho Mayor of Philadolphia mado the payment of tho money conditional on conviction of tho kid- nappers, SERMONS IN SECULAR NEWSPAPERS, Eatincy of tho Arguments Acrinst such Publication—The Good Thatis Done by Giving Wide Circulation to Wople Thoughts-Verbatim Reports Ya. Synopyea, To the Euvtor of Phs Chicago Tribune: Sin: ‘Cho question has beon mooted of print- Ing sermons in “ecculnr nowspapers.”” ‘no Now York Evening Post takes ground against it, al loging that tho provalenco of the practico indi- catos a degenerate piety and o vitiated (aste. A sonsitive spirit cannot but bo shocked at this “sandwiching” of tho most solomn and sacred subjects of consideration betweon the reports of scandat-suits avd police-news. Moreovor, tho effect on sermons is bad, Thoy deal loss with doctrines than formorly, more with moral aud social quostions,—are lecturos rathor than scr- mons, Sneh is the argumont, fairly stated. Whether, if rogarded as conclusivo, it would have woght with the avorage editor of " secular nowspapors,” nood not bo considored. WHAT 18 IT WonTIr ag an argument? ‘ry it in another form: Poatry—tha toudorest, most impouuionad uttor- ence of exalted souls—is sandwivhed into the catalogue of crim and chicanery.. Alongside the Beccher-Lilton scandal aud tho boy-murdor- er trial, wo rend the * Parting of Hoctor aud An- dromacho,” or— Asiinplo child that lightly draws its breattt, , Anu feels life fu every ‘Munb, what can IP tmow of death 7 Ts old Homor degraded, Mr. Bryant's chasto English sulliod, the author of “ Wo Are Sovon” put to tho blush, becanse cach bas beon invoked to thrust in upon the digcordanoa or tho mouo- tono of mortal misery sstrain, aatray note, of tho immortal harmonies? Again: do Mfr, Emor- gon, Lowell,—ovon tho gontlo Quakor bard, or tho most rotiring Woman-poot,—unito loas eoulfully, loss loyally to tho “heavenly muso ” because thoir words aro destincd to como out from the dainty, fair-typed, gilt-edged, vollum-bound page, into tho ill-smolling, dirt-thumbed, nows-hawked. daily papor? Would poets tho world ovor bo glad if stop wore put to tho practice, and honcoforth their names and verses wore to bo found only under tho seal of publishers having “‘oxclusivo right to print"? Would it oven bo amatter of mutual conrratulation of publisher and poot from a business pointof wow, and sorvo to run up the editions to the tonth thou- sand? Or would tho apiit of pootry in tho world gain. in intensity and doptls in’ propar- tion to tho diminished diufusion of tho postio words ? Bo ulso, I boliovo, IP 18 NOT TRUE - that the atandard of sermons is lowered by thelr insertion in. secular newspapers. A ailnlster duos not writo a * poorer gormon—poorer in all tho cloments that aro vital to human souls—bo- causo ho belicves his sormon is destined to make its prpaal to 10,000 instead of 100 souls. It is no hindrauco to oaro- ful and candid thinking, and judicious, woll-con- sidered speech, thut such speech aud ‘thonght aro to go, for what thoy aro worth, to whom thoy niay concern, on tho wings of the morning nows- paper, instead of being shut up within tho nar- row limits of sectarian and pxrooilul projudico, submitted only to the tests of partiul aud biasod criticlam. ‘But this printing for tho publio eyo destroys tho senso of privacy, of familiar aud intimato convorso, which ought to exist betwoon pastor and pooplo, and prevents thoxe direct, personal, and practical appsnla which aro so olfective and valuable, Such reasoning loses forco in this day of ruitwaya, and steambouts, and croad-ravalit- tions, hon padtora change continonts with tho years, and people churches with tho Sundays. Rouldos, tho pulpit is nol naw, aud uover was, tho place fur slippors and undross, or for out tuin-locturey. ‘Iho sermons that are too familiar, aud diteut, and poraouul, for priut, woutd MUTTER NEVER WAVE WEEN BPOKEN, Bormona, properly Ho called, aro deszued to imeot wants common to humanity, and aro of world-wido application, thongh growing out of and suggestod, porhaps, by the writer's knpwl- odgo of individual nouds. ‘The Sormon, on tho Atount, or at tho grave of Lazarus, or tho para blo of the Prodigal Son, wore probably not Jess usvful and holptul to thoir Jowish hearory ‘bo- eanso of thulr adaptation to universal hunianity 5 and Paul on Mars “Hill would doubliews havo proached just as boldly (¢ ho caulid hava foresoen. that his words wera to sound dowa tho axed, Why, thon, should 9 Chapin, a Collyer, a Pow- ors, a Swing, bo In danger of doterluration traw, thin fact of widentag atudtoncos ? Toy will bo tomplod, Hays tho objector, to yiold to the popular darand for sonsutionalism, or more rhetorival display, or ¢o disouus gront anoral questions; and how a_proachor who ilinle tatén tho sacred modela can holp touching Ach probloma; and how a thinking man rn tong thinking met, and in the universe of a thin W ing God, ts to waik along with oyes, aud ears, sua mouth, slut to ovarrthing which bos not [3acn formutated in the creed of fila sect, or preser toed by his chureh’a rubrics, I meroly say that 1 do not bellave facts will justify tho nasertion - Hist sormon-printing tends to senentionalism or f a lve Hisatories, ike epi eat with tho truo ru g is ETTER KNOWN AND AP! than wo avo apt to think. NOATED ‘Kio domand for tho best in roligion an¢él tn rhetoric is not, porhnps, #0 vory far ‘Tonad wo supply, Talmago’s popularity to tho contra x ye Even the doar peoplo are not wo fond of ch ait a8 Homo suppliors finoy. : But the sermon-rondors—thoas whono dona 6 d creates tho sotmon-column in tho eeonlar new 9 te paper—aro probably not tho lenst diweriminath 1 of the community. Nor ia their domaud dictats entirely by s apirit of gossip and curiosity abo. a & rotigious (?) quarrols,‘or oven wholly by the {+ nocont and lawful doaira to know what is goir 4; on in the world of roligious thought ; althoug ii theno are juat as muck within tho scope of the: nowspaper au is information coucerning polities: hitorature, art, Bcionvo, ote. Tho man of limite 1. puro and moave of information, shut up to - 1, small library, and romote from or without rolis' 5. for's public reading-room, welcomes the choice o sxcerpts which his journalist’s scissors furnis a trom files of oxchanges ond roviow-matorial, uc 6 alinply na bits of gossip, but for ‘HE NENTAL YONIO THEY ATE, tho breath of puro, invigorating, bracing mora { atmosphoro,—the bpariling wino of thonght, Evon though tho breath in but a whiff, and tho. dranght soon quafted, ho fecls tho better for it, So Ttako it to boin regard to sermous, Coun try miniatora, tired of tho gound of thoir own yolcos, and country cougragationa, moro tired. still, must find a refreshment now and then in their Monday nowspaper, with soma atirrin thought and. word of ono having tho “gift of tongues,” In cities, too, many conacientious ehutch-goora rarely hoar a sermon; for, a Charles Lamb says, “hore ara books which aro uo books,"—dictionaries, almannes, ct0.,—80 there aro xermons—and sermaue. Le the news paper ean give one that is a eotmon onco in & while ‘to some so is) oun Monday, it may do good sorvico in tho way of supplement 4 conntoracting, Sunday's. pe ne Feng But thia briuga mo to 2 point which, 1 think, is not unworthy of noto by thoso Interested in the alles of oiltorship, an of momont to ser- mon-Wwritors, a8 it certainly is to sermon 5 moar ly jon-roadure, ‘THE QUESTIONABLE MORALITY of hashing up (if 1 may bo pardoned tho oxpros- eion) a gort of compound or mixturo of the preacher's and tho roporter's idons, or, ns it nue ally turns ont, no intelligible ideas at all, ‘What thore may bes correct, aud, for teere purpoxes of information, eatisfuctory, roport of a dise course given in tho words of anothor, 1 do not deny, Indeed, I think it is somothing admira~ blo—tho quickness with which soma apt aud tralned roportora will ecizo, and the clearness with which thoy will state, the leading thoughts: of a gormov, and put the sum and substance of ils ideas into a dozen lines, moro or less, Still, such reports ro, after all, only skeletons, or, at beat, bodies, Tack? ing the ilavor of’ individuality, the soul, whieh lurks under and lies in an author's pecu- liar atylo and modo of oxpresnion, and refuses to lend itsolf to any other form of words, Such xoports, thorofore,—models though thoy bo of thoir kind,-—-are valuable mainly from_tho lower standpoint of ‘religious nows ;” and sormony in secular nowspapors might justly bo charyod with s dotoriorativg and dissipating influoncs if they woro alwayu aud only to bo had at second hand, Tho wants of sermon-readers and tho intorests of sermon-writera are, I think, bottor served by vorbatim roports of occasional timely, ablo discoureos, than by stated synopdes or aura maries of many sermons that havo noither point nor portinoncy, aud whose solo claim to appear in print is tho gratification of constituency cagor to seo its ministor's name montioned. ‘90 recognize and discriminnto in favor of a Sermon,—literature propor, apart from and highor than mere technical and thoologisal ox- portnces; to gratify and stimulate tho popular tasto for the bust in this as in othor dopartmeuts of thought,—-is, it ssoms to me, ono of ‘THE APPROPRIATE OFFICES of n high-toned journal, That tho goneral spirit nnd tono of & nowspaper aro incongruous ‘with tho sontiments of s pure literature; that tho germon-column should bo a robuko to tha flippancy, riboldry, or profanity of tho column beside it,—is not ‘the worse for tho sormon, or any proof that itis an interloper, unloss we aro propared to admit that immorality and vice aro to drivo from tho field roligion and virtuo, and to bogin the work by banishing thom from the secular nowspapor, 8.1L, B. +. MISCELLANEOUS, Journeymon tailors in Chinn receive 2 conts por day. ABt. Louis varicty theatre Fomalo Brothors ” as tho reigning ounces The jonsation. ’ It cost n Danvor sport 243 to cut off the pig | tail ornament of s Colostini residont in that city, A flock of sparrows got on a grain-cor nt Bos- gen und rodo to Concord, where thoy have sot- ted. A man, not 45 years old yot, gat liconsa to marry bis fifth wifo, last wook, at Bollofon- taine, O. Austria refuses to dolivar up an Archbishop who ig “ wautod” by the Prussian, police, under tho Habitual Criminals act," A wealthy citizen of New York Stato main- toine, at his own oxpense, an orphan-ayluin containing sovonty-five childron, ‘An Arkanead grocor has boon sent to tho Pen- itontiary for six youre for shooting n mun who « gopt helping bimeelt to the erackors.” Tuoro are eight motats—indium, vanadinm, rutheniam, rhodium, palladium, uranium, osmi- ‘um, aud iridium—moro valuable than gold. AGraud Jury down in ‘Toxas has roported Grand Juries 12 gonoral to boa humbug aud & nuixanco, aud wants to have thom abolished. An inereaso in the number of divorces in En- gland is attributed to higher wages. Poor people paula not previously gave cnough monoy to pay jawyors. Sinco the "billof particulars” was grantod, Brooklyn grocers aro getting to bo a little mora accurate, ‘hey now soll beana by the dozon.— Brooklyn Argus. A Chinego sorvant in San Francisco, by way of rovengo upon his mistross, broke with a pair of pincors n pieco out of the edge of avery dish in a valuable dinnot-set. Somo of tho leading thoatrea in Gormany pro- pose to put a ston to tho syntom of recalls, and of throwing bouqueta and wreaths on the stayo, during tho progress of an opera of play. ‘Tho Paris polico has forbiddon tho uso of cer- tain strecta to peoplo with yolocipedes, and commanded thut in all others thoy tust carry botls by day, liko eloighs, aud a Isntorn at nignt. Ata recont “chooso fair in England, tho Tudge devided that American factories cannot produce ehceso aqual to tho best checso made in Vngland, although thoy succussfully compet with tho medium qualitios. ‘'Yhe horse-abambles of Parle auppliad the pub- oduring tho third quarter of tho present yoar with nourly 690,000 poundla of meat, tho rosulé of tho wlaughter of 1535 horses, mules, and Assee, Even a Ponnaylvania hangman may show what is convontionally known as taste" in hie pro- Teavion, Ie emooths tha pathway of tho cane demned wrotch to tho grave by decorating tho noose with o biuo ail ribbon, A guost ata hotol in Lewiston, Mo. foarful of thioves, plavod hls monoy in the too of his ‘boot, and forgetful, placed bis boots ontsido his door to bo blacked. It may woom atrango, but ho got that monoy again at the ofiice, Ata funorat in Springvale, N. ¥,, lately while tho bearers wore about to lower tho cofiln into tho gravo, tho earth caved undor tha foot of ono of thom, who foll in with tho cofin over him. After considorablo hard work he was Hborated, jnore demoralized than burt, ‘Tho Alvany Penitentiary will mako # clear profit this year of about $20,000. Drisonors from many of the interior counties, and soma United Staton convicts, aro sont thore, and tho paymont of their board covors the cont of feod- Ing thom, A shrowd mgnagomont of tholr labor imntkes the Institution » good investment for the tnx-payors of Albany County, A. Naltimore corn doctor announces thos husbands ean take their wives tu bis ofleo, aud while he is skilfully oxtracting tho good mutrons’ corns and soothing their bunions, tha husbands can solaco thumsolyes with wild ducxs, part ridges, phounanta, fresh fish, sallewater oystory, aud dinmond-back torrapins, An agont of tho Mnssachusotts Bonrd of Tloalth Ia traveling on tho raltroads of thut State tenting tho mr in tho cats, moro partioninrly ia the smoking-cars. Ho carrios a palr of botlowa and wsmall vial, partly filled with o fluld, Suto Which tho air is forced with tha bellows, nud sub soqnently itis anulyzod and tho impuritios sey BYALG