Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 7, 1875, Page 1

icage Dailp Teibune, — VOLUME 28. CARRIAGES. CHICAGO, SUNDAY RCH 7, 1875.—8§ SILVERWARE. BET. & 00 COLE G0, ORIGINAL AND ONLY MINERS OF SPECIAL EXHIBITION: (o Y (1] CARRIAGES. SEASOIN OF 1876. DURING THE WEEK BEGINNING MONDAY, MARCH 8, WE SHALL MAKE A SPECIAL EXHIBITION AT OUR WAREROODIS, FIFTH-AV. AND FOURTEENTH-ST., Of the entire 'production of our Factory during the Winter months, comprising Carrisges in styles now fashionable in LONDON AND PARIS, together with a large variety of lighter vehicles, suited to our own Rosds and Parks, including the * Brewster Wagon,” the STANDARD FOR QUALITY, in all weights, for pleasure driving or speed. For the convenience of visitors, the lower floors of our Building will, during the weelk, be devoted solely to the display of Sample Carrisges, representing duplicates in course of construction, and ready to finish to order in any colors desired. ‘We beg to assure our customers in Chicago that this exhibition will surpass in attractiveness and value any similar display ever be- . fore made by a single firm---EVERY VEHICLE OFFERED BEING THE RESULT OF SPECIATL EFFORT TO MAKE IT A FIT REP- RESENTATIVE OF.ITS CLASS, IN BEAUTY OF DESIGN AND EXCELLENCE OF WOREMANSHIP---and that & visit to NEW YORK during its continuance will amply reward those contemplat- s ing the purchase t_)f Carriages during the season. In order to prasewB an unbroken displasy during the week, all Carriages purchased, of which we have no duplicates finished, will e held for delivery until the close of the Exhibition. Our revised list of prices may be had on application. BREWSTER & CO., of Broome-st., Fifth-av. and Fourteenth-st. * FAUTORY, Broadway end Forty-seventh-st, NEW YORK, ‘WATCHES. JEWELRY, &o. . HYMAN, (LATE WENDELL & HYMAN,) No.235 WABASH-AY,, CORNER JACKSON-8T. Having received all my Imported Goods, and those from the Eastern manufactories, I can now display one of the choicest selections of goods in my line ever brought to this market, comprising an endless variety of DIAMONDS, CORAT, CAMEO, and GOLD JEWELRY, BTERLING SILVERWARE, WATCHES, of sll kinds and de- soriptions, FRENCH CLOCKS, ELEGANT SILVER-PLATED GOODS, &c., &c. My numerous friends and patrons, snd the public in géneral, are cor- dially invited for inspection. REAL ESTATE, Newark, Almeda Co., Bay of San Francisco, Cal. i braces 4,000 acres of ety ot mater, clisata, Worivaliod, aven, B mre M o e etk s CAliformis for maca: factertes, AUCTION SALE, April 17, 1875. hdmhnudmh[alng‘l,fir% apply by telegraph or o CEAS. [R. PETERS, Manager, No. 405 1-2 Californin-st., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. HOUSES. Burgaios n all parta of the city. New twostory and tuement Houses, all MODERN IMPROVEMENTS, €40 and vpwards. Elecant residences on Calumotav., ez moathly payments, at a sacrifice. LOTS. Cheap sad o torms ta smit purchasers. JACOB C. MAGILL, %7 Clark-st, TO RENT. CLOTHING: TETHE GOLDEN EAGLE Clothing Store, 138 Madison and 144 Clarkests, Will open on Wednesday, the 10th inst., and offer to the PUB- LIC, at retail, 2 new and fresh stock of CLOTHING for MEN AND BOYS. ‘We_ manufacture our goods and shall offer them at whole- sale prices for CASH, thus sav- ing the consumer one profit. All goods marked in plain fig- ures, and no deviation. FINANCIAL. THE STATE SAVINGS INSTITOTION, 80 and 82 LaSalle-st., Ohicago, ‘THE OLDEST AND LARGEST SAVINGS BANK fl\ THE NORTHWEST. Paid Up Capital. .$500,000 Surplus Fund.. . 70,000 Deposits, Three and One-Half Millions. Business exclusively that of a Savings Bank. Interest paid ou Deposits at the rate of & per eeat por annum, compounded half-yoarly. Boventeen seers of successfal businoss. Drafts in sums to suit o3 il the principal olties in Europs. . SPENOER, President. i DR. D. 5. SMITH, Vice-Prosident. A, D. GUILD, Cashier. C. G- BULKLEY, Aas't Cashier. JOSIAH H. REED, INO.20 N.ASSATU-8T., NEW YORK. Money fo Loan on Chicago Real Estate. Apply direct or throogh Mossrs. HITCHCOOK & DOPEE, Attorness, Portiand ook, Chicago. ‘First-cleas facilitios for FINANCIAL NEGOTIATIONS in LONDON. $3,000 to Loan 3 OR 5 TEARS AT MARKET RATES. POTWIN & CORBY. 142 Dearborn-st. FOR RENT. Store and basement No. 148 South State-st., at low price. s for sale cheap. J. M. MARSHALL, Real Estate & Renting Agency, 97 South Clark-st. TO RENT. Five-story and basement build- ing, 50x90 feet, at southeast corner Market and Monroe-sts., at nominal price to good tenant. POTWIN & CORBY. FOR RENT. ATYa8 224 Dock at Twentr.socond-st. Bridge, West Elde, 255 fast river front by $10 teat deen, flz&‘mflmm e A fie oo oF ol Xard. ol o JOiN RO L TR Satmsst, LAUNDRY. AMUNGER’S Laundry, ,fimqnmn. 136 Michigac-t., 19 Weed 8 and 8 1-2 Per Cent. oney te loan on best city dwlling-house property. A. 8. PALMER, JR., Rooms 16 and 17, No. 94 Washington-st. MONEY TO LO On improved Chicago real eatato. A few first-olnss loans co. J. D HARVEY, can ba piacsd at ence. DGALVEY, LIBRARY. READERS WILL FIND ALL THE NEW AND IN- TERESTING BOOKS AT COBB'S LIBRARY, 36 MONROE-ST. FOR SALHE. HOTEL. Tho entirs stock, 5ood will, sad £xtures of & fnoly-par, sng second clags Howel, Sttmallon senizsy g o Bh of bosrders. ‘caany icvestment. _Apply to e u?"'fl‘l‘: a. SAJEPSg;‘:"& CO., Beel Eatate Aguncr, 14 LaBallest., Otla Biock. $6.00 PER TON, PELIVERED. CATUTIOIN! ‘Whereas, we have found that certain par- ties are offering our XX Shawnes Coal, and are delivering an inferior qualty, we request the public to report such cases at our Gen- eral Office, where we will investigate the same. By next week we will publish the names of all the responsible dealers who have our Coal for sale. ORDERS RECEIVED AT GENERAL OFFICE, 88 Washington-st., AND AT BRANCH OFFICTS,! B. &0, Team Track, foot of Water-st,, south- east of B. & 0. Freight Depot. 288 Archer-av. Cor. Twenty-seventh-st. and Cottage Grove-av. Corner Twenty-uinth and State-sts. HAMTLTON, HARDER & HAFER. HILLSIDECOAL AND TRON G0. OF PENNSYLVANIA. HARD COAL Delivered in large or small amounts to any part of the city, at low-" est market rates. F. M. WHITEHOURE, MINERS’ AGENT, 19 Chamber of Commerce. DOCKS—Indiana-st, Bridge, and Twenty-second: MILLINERY. Removal! D WEBSTER (0. WILL OPEN THEIR Retail Millinery Stock AT THEIR NEW STORE, No.107 State-st., MONDAY, MARCH 8, SPRING MILLINERY! Mrs. E. J. HOPSON ‘Has just rotarned from the IMPORTERS' CPENINGS, NEW YORK, with a full stock of the late importations of CHOICE SPRING GOODS! 64 East Washington-st., NEAR STATE. MILLINERY! MME, GELINRAU, 244 Wabash-ar., takes ploasure in announcing that she will return from New York about 1he 16tb with & Large and beautiful assortment of Alilli- nery; also, that sho has secnrod MRS. MOORE to take charge of the Trimmi rtment, who will be please her friends and pairo: FIRM CHANGES. DISSOL.UTION. otlee is hereby glven that the partuership heretofore existing botween Jerkins & Holmes, is this day dissolved by mutual consent, and all debts against sald tirm will be liquidated by W. A. Jenkins, to whom all claime due them will be paid. W. A, JENKINS, J. A, HOLMES, In retiring from the Clifton Houss, T return thanks to ‘my friends for past favors, and ask for my successor, Col. W. A. Jenkins, their continued patronsge. Chicego, Feb. 2, 18%5. J. A. HOLMES. SPECIAL NOTICE. Having this day assumed the sole proprie- torship of the Hotel known as the Clifton House, it will be my endeavor to maintain and merit the former high character of the house, With unsurpassed location, good rooms, and general zttention, I shall try to ‘make my house a home, not only to travelers and families visiting the city fora few days, butalso to permanent guests. WILTON A.JENEINS. Chicago, March 2, 175, DISSOLUTION. CHICAGO, March 6, 1875, Notice is harsby given that the copartaership lately ex- isting between us under the firm name of Black & Com- pany Is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. Jamos F. McNames withdrawing; the business of the late firm Deing continued by the Jats members, Jeremiah E. Black and Joremy Weston, undor the old firm name, and at the old stand i Boon, Iows, or elsawhere. Al scconnts aad claims in favor of and against the late firm will be col- lected and paid by either Jeromish E. Black or Jeromy Westan, who alono have authority tosign the lato firm's ‘Bame. (Signed) JAMES F. McNAMER, DISSOLUTION. The firm of Hale, Ayor & Co. is this day dissolved by ‘mutual consent. Accounts and claims for and agalnst ibe firm may be adjusted and liquidated by cither of the e e Ve AT L & SONS. - (Sipacd) BANCE Ad1erd N Rvkk, B O AVER. €. W. HALE, . B, HALE, P. B. A" CC’E“R}I‘N March, 1875. REMOVALS. REMOVAL. JAS. 2. DALTON & 00, HAVE REMOVED TO 192 & 194 State-st. REMOVAL. 1have removed my office ta 24 W ASHINGTON-ST. JOHN W. MARSH. Money to loan on Real Fstate urity. CATARRH CURE. NCATAfiRH. «BREREND'S PATENT CATARRH OIGAR," BREREND'S PATENT CATARRE S astize rommots. - Eottalp %N 5, G We: Lake-siy O B W Ve ovieta Kauie. Silver Table Ware HAMILTON, ROWE & GO0, 99 STATEST., | CORNER WASHINGTON, Announce the arrival of extensive invoices, com- prising unique, .artistic designs in Tea Sets, Urns, Waiters, Ice Sets, Baskets, Knives, Forks, Spoons, etc. Also fresh new combi- nationsin cases for Wed- ding Gifts PIANOS ARD ORGANS. STEINWAYS HATCALISS FIMS Are universally conceded to be the Standard Piano of the world ; are sought to be imitated by nearly all makers of Europe and America; are regularly exported to Eirope and other parts of the civilized world, in large and con stantly increasing numbers; are used when- ever attainable, snd recommended by tho leading artists it both hemispheres, and have received the highest honora ever awarded to any piano manufacturers m the warld. BURDETT ORGATS ! The Model Regd Organs of America! These Instrumonts heve attained s populari- e ty unporalloled in the sonals of the Organ trade. The inventor, Mr. Burdett, has de- voted over & ?u&rwr of a cantury to tho im- provement of Reed Organs; beginning with the recd bocrd itself, he hay added original device to device, 30 modifying its ordinary form and developing its latent riches as to bring_the Burdett up to its presentunap- proachable standard of excellence, &~ Tlustrated Catnlogues of the various Pianos @nd Burdett Or- Y. M LYOW General North NE%?%IEI?E% PARLR OREANS Organ dealers throughout the West and Northwest will best serve thesr interest by sending for our mew price lists of NE STYLES before purchasing for the Spring trade. GEO.WOODS & CO., SOUTHWEST GORNER STATE AND MONROE-STS,, (OPPOSITE PALMER HOUSE), CHICAGO. MERCHANT TAILORING. Spriz?fitock 0f Imported Woolens is now complete, to which your attention is invited. WM. H. GRUBEY, 107 SOUTH CLARK-RT, METHODIST CHURCH BLOCK. BUSINESS CARDS: WILLIAL . BeA PREDBRICE K. BOWES Haviag formed a copartnorship under the firm name of EGAN & BOWES, Aso prepared to £l ord Tron, Steel, Nails, BEEh Sappiier: and Hosrs Foviorags. o6 shortnoiice: Haring been with the finn of S. D. Kimbark and their ‘predecessors for. respoctively, nine snd fifteen years, we feel fully qualified to give entiro_satisfaction to all who may favor ue with thelr orders. Soliciting the atroRsge of ihe trade, we are yours, &c.. EGCAN KBOWES 38 DEARBORN-ST-, (Opposite Tremont Houss.) E. D. ELIOTT, Carpenteor d Builder, 66 PEARSON-ST,, CEICAGO, TLL. Store and Offi 3 o Stars aad Offics Work a specialty. Jobbiog promptly RAILROAD TICKET BROKERS, 97 CLARK-ST. Wo buy and sell at yory best rates. J. O'NEILL, JR. £CO. styles of Stoinws: gans mailed freo AMUSEMENTS. SUNDAY HUSIOAL FESTIVAL TO-NIGHT. Admisslonto all parts of Theatro only 25cts.Seo announcements, R WANTED. WANTED. Tha services of a compoteat SOLICITOR for the HANHATTAN LIFE ING. GO, OF NEW YORK. Rl roap e, Apply, with TEEN PAGES. RELIGIOUS NEWS. The Sins of the Fathers Shall Be Visited upon the Chil- dren, How the Lay Preacher Re- gards the Text, What Dr. De Koven’s Friends Think -of His Chances, Why Iowa Voted for Him---An Tlinois Precedent. The Rev. Dr. Rudder on the Personal Qualifications of Bishops. Reply to the Letter of Dr. Cuashman on Dr. De Hoven. a Election of Presbyterian ¥1d. ers for Limited Terms. Hammond, the Revivalist, at Work Among the Children. The Religious Press on Divine and . Worldly Affairs, Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad. Sunday Services., THE LAY PREACHER. SEVENTH DISCOURSE. “ #ar T the Lord thy God am a jeslons God, visiting tho iniquity of tue fathers upon “tho children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,” No man liveth to himself, and the law of en- tailment which is expressed in our text is as io- ovitable as the law of gravitation, and none of us can evade it, or prevent the conscquences of our gius being visited npon our descendants. ~The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are sot on edge,”isa truth which we see demonstrated on every hand, but, like many other truths, it is ansceptible of distor- tion and misinterpretation, and, with all due respect to the opinions of the fathers and -some theologians of the present day, wo ‘must-wholly dissent from the constructiom thst- |- the passages quoted tcach the doctrine of infant dampation,—a doctrine 8o abhorrent that we question very much whether anybody ever really belioves it, notwithstanding it was so long one of the tests of orthodoxy, asit used to be for believers to doclare that they were perfectly willing to be damned eternally, if it was for the glory of God, No doubt the persons who made this declaration were, after a certain manner, sincere; but it is questionable if they un- derstood fully what they subscribed to In an old New England Church, founded by on aucestor of the Lay Preacher, for more® than fifty years every candidate for sdmission was asked, and answered affirmatively, this ques- tion: “Ifit isfor the glory of God, are you willing to be damned forever and ever?” It would be hardly polite to say that every one of the scores and hundreds who during that half- century were admitted to the fellowship and communion of that Church lied. They did not. They were honest and sincere; and, having been taught from ochildhood that the chief end of man was to glority God, they paturally accopted the proposition that, it they could accomplish this great ob- ject by submitting to everlasting torturs, they should cheerfully do so. And so they ssid yes without comprehending the full import of the fearful answer. And we venture the opinion that no Paritan mother, who ever saw a loved child pass away, believed the doctrine of infant damnation. The true maternal instinct will out- weigh all the crecda that have ever been formu- lated, and yet it istrue that thesinsof the fathers are visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation not only, but much longer, but not in the sense which was formerly almost universally, and now exceptionally understood. We do not approhend that the declaration that the penalty for the father's transgressions being visited upon the children means that, if we blas- pheme, or lio, or steal, or violate auy, or all, the commands of the decalogue, our children’s children will be held morally accountable for the sin, or that they will be affected by i, except 1n 80 far as they inherit our moral deformities. 1t is 8 woll-established fact that moral, as well as physical characteristics, are transmitted to succeeding generations. * Like begets like” is undoubtedly trae mentally and morally, altbough not alwaya ss palpable a3 in o physical senss. And yet we think there was never a greater falsi- ty expressed in few words than in the old ortho- dox couplet— In Adam's fall Wo sinned all ; and, however much we msy regret or suffer from the results of that unfortunate apple transaction of our illostrious ancestors, we do not believe that we are to be held morally accountable for it. We have heard staunch old Puritans stoutly ‘maintain that every child of Adsm was equally guilty with him, and bt it was as much Gur ~duty to Topent of that first sin as it js that we repent our own individual trans- gressions. No man is responsible for the acci- dent of his birth; that is & matter upon which vone of ns were consulted or exercised any choice, The children of a drupkard, a con- sumptive, or & lunatic may have life-long oc- casion to_regret their unfortunate parentage, aud it is juat here that we find the iilustration of the truth of our text. The parent, by pur- sning a'vicious courss of life, contracts disease, which is transmitted to his posterity., They suf~ fer from the consequonces of their ancestor’s sins, but are neitber cafpable or responsible morally, It is their misfortune, and not their fault, that t.!:e_yt possess diseased bodiés and depraved ap- etites. ki One of the most marked instances of the truth of oar text is to be found in the history of the Sandwich Islauds, whose Sovereign was rocently the guest of Chicago. When Capt. Cook dis- covered the Hawaiian gronp the population was eatimated at 400,000. gl’a\r it is leas than 60,000, and is rapidly dwinaling; snd intelligent ob- servers predict that in fifty years there will not be 1,000 pure KEanakas left Tho cause is well understood. The sailors of Cook, in their unrestrained interconrse with the native women, introduced syphilis, anditiss well-establishad fact that the small remnant left are almost withont exception suffering from the effects of the poison communicated to their an- cestors. Scrofuls, conmsumption, or leprosy is well nigh universal, and probably two more gen- eratious will close the history of that race. Mod- ern history dacs pot farnish a more pal- ingtance of the imevitable. un- Isw that, the sins of the wpon ” the children. paple._ s changeable. focrs are visited ™ An habitual drankard may have children who do not suffer from a craving appetite for strong drink, but the chances are ten to ono that this abnormal desire for stimulus will be transmitted; and, if it does not appear in the first succeeding eneration, it may in the second, third, or fourth. ‘The same is true af hereditary insanity. Phy- sicians in charge of insane hospitals will tell yon that, in the vast majority of cases, the malady can be_traced tly to a tainted ancesury. And thus, all throogh » loog liss of ills which affict humanity, ~we find that “the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on sdge.” What is true in this matter in respect to individ- uals and families is als0 true of nations. Qur own country furnishes an illustration. The founders of our Ropublic were guilty of & most grievous errar, and most risvously hisvo their successors suffered for it. 1t ia quite a common thing for superficial observers to say that North- ern Abolitionists and Southern fire-eaters cansed our late civil War, but the wruth is, they only precipitated whaf was sure to come. The fathers, in laying the foundation of our Govern- ment, placed antagonistic elements, in the hope that, by the occasional daubing with untempered mortar u the form of compromiscs snd mutual concessions, they could perpetuate an edifice resting uoon two principles which were diamet- rically opposod to each other. The seeds of the ‘*uresistible conflict” wero planted, and had taken root, long before the davs of Garrison, Leriah Green, Gerrit Smith, John Brown, or Horace Greeley on one side, or Jeff Davis, Rob- ert Toombs, W. L. Yancey, and others, on the opposite side. Whils we honor and revere the memory of the fathers of our Republic, we cannot close our eves to the fact that our four yewrs’ civil war, with its terrible cost of blood and treasure, and which draped in mourning nearly every household North and Sonth, was the re- salt of a well-meant istention of our fathers to ish what was in the natare of things an ility. Bad precedents, like curees and young chickens, are sure to come home to roost. No natural law was ever violated and the penalty escaped. The iaw is irrevocable and irreversi- ble, and never outiaws. Te may perchance ee- cape, but the debt halds good against our chil- dx:_u, and will ultimately ge collected with inter- est. The object of all sermonizers shonld be $o in- culeate wholesome lessons. The lesson which I wish to impress upon my hearers this morning is this: That we all owe & solemn duty to_posterity, and thas if we, by vicious habits and indulgances, iwupair our moral and physical stamins, our sios will be visited ‘upon our children to the third and fousth gener- ation. The ambition of most parents (znd it is a landable one) i8 to provide a competency for their children; but, my friends, they havo a high- er and holier claim uponus. The rightful i heritance of every child is a sound and vigorons constitution, unimpaired by the vices and ex- cesses of his parents. No man or woman who is broken down by disesse, inherited, or eontracted through thoir own sin, has a right to eotail the curse upon posterity. I am awaro that in saying thia I may be accnsed of favoring the doctrine of “Stirpiculture.” Notso. Those who advocate that doctrine, from Woodhull to Beecher, have doubtlesa seen nnd comprehended the grest ovils of transmitted mental, moral, and physical disease, and have adopted that vagary =a a pos- | sible remeds. We have all seen an appalling statement which has been going the rounds of the papers, of o woman imbecile and_diseased who some seventy yoars ago lived in oue of the river counties of New York, and who bad eeveral illegitimate children, and that her descendants have numbered about 100, all of them paupers, criminals, or idiots. Certatnly the common- wealth ha a right (by law if necessay) to pro- tect itself against the propagation of such vicious elements. Lot us close by a perscnal application of the truth—and each one for bimself and herself de- termine that in so far as it is posabla we will leave as a legacy to our children a sound physic- al constitution aud an example of true living and moral probity, o that future generations shall not curse our memory a8 baving been the cause of their suffering and disgrace. e e DR. DE KOVEN. o THE PRESENT STATE OF THE VOTZ. Tha Episcopal Standing Committees which were heard from yesterdsy on the question of Dr. De Eoven's confirmation were those of the Diocese of Pennsyivania, Michigan, and Dela- ware, all of which voted against the consecru- tion of the Bishop-elect. The following liat of those of the forty-five Dioceses whose Standing Committeos have passed mpon the qnestion of Dr. De Koven's confirmation, showing exectly bow the vote at presont stonds, will be looked upon a8 highly edifying Sunday reading by those ‘who opposed the Bishop-eleci at the late Con- vention : Yeas. Naye. Towa, Central New York, Wisconsin, Virginta, Albany, Texaa, Bfaine, Binnesota, Blissouri, Indians, }fiumm.m’ o nis, ‘eatral Pennoylvas Nebraska. Loussina, neylvania, Michigan, Delaware, In view of this somowhat unexpected resnlt of the deliberations of the Standing Committee, & TRIBUNE reporter called yesterdsy afternoon upon Mr. W. F. Whitehouse, and had a conversa- tion with him on the subject, asfollows : Reporter—r. Whitehouse, I see that in the struggle before the Standing Committees tho Low Charch party stands ac present three abead. This is rather s matter of surprise to Dr. De Eoven's fricnds, is it not ? Mr. Whitehouse—I can bardly eay ivis. With the exception of Mfichigan, which we considered doubtful, the vote has gone pretty much as we expected. Pennsylvania and Delaware are both pronoancedly Low-Church, and there was never any donbt as to what their vote could be, but I confees we aro a littlo disappointed in Afichigan. Reporter—To what will you attribute the fact of the Bishop-eiedt’s rejection if such a thing should happen ? Mr. Whitehouse—To the gross misrepresenta~ tions of the Church Journal a Low-Church organ published in New York by the Rev. Dr. ‘Thompeov, formerly & minister in"this city. Reporter—Is the Low-Church party workiog nguiu?ut Dr. De Eoven in the Standing Commit- tees Mr. Whitelionse—They are workiog earnestty against De Koven aud in support of Jagger in the Standing Committees. Oh, that Jaggeris a mill-stone round our necks. If De Kovenisre- m:ed it will be through Jagger's rapniog with Reporter—What are Dr. Jaggers’ chances ? Afr. Whitehouse—He will pull through suc- cessfully, 1 have no doubt. Reporter—Ang Dr. De Koven ? Mr. Whitchouse—I am satisfied that he will gain a clear majority of the Standing Commit- tees. We have all along anticipated that twenty of the Standing Committees would prove advesss 1o the Bishop-elect, and I think that the resulc will show that estimate to have beea corzect. Reporter—Then out of the twenty-six Com- mittees stlll to be heard from you aaticipate oaly nine will reject Dr. De Koven ? o Mr. Whitehouse—That is what we apticipate. BISHOP DOANE. Bishop Doane, of Albany, has written » letter about the Episcopal pastoral of 1871, in which he defines bis o%n position and defends Bishop De Koven. In relerence to the letter be de- clares that he is not responsible for any state- ment in it that condemns ** a4 an untenable and unlawful opinion in the Charch.” such ¢ Euchar- istic Adoratiop.” as Dr. De Koven maintained, in the last General Convention, his right to hold as 2 personal_opinion; but that he has never beid or taught Encbanstic adoration, even a8 an opin- jon of his own, in the sense in which it i8 com- moaly underste and in some rare instances held and practiced. **Nor have i ever held that private confession to s priest was to be taught or used except as_the English Church allows it, when other prescribed means had been reeorted to and failed.” Of Dr. De Koven he nads that in bhis soundness in the faith and sufficieacy of learning he has as fall confidence as he has ad- ‘miration for the dignity and_devotedness of bis character, and the rare ability and attractive- Dess of the man. Bishop Doane is the highest of the prasent Bishope, and is a son of the late Bishop G. W. Doage, of New Jersey, and a ‘brother of Vicar-Genersl Doase, of the Roman -Catholic Diocese of Newark. AN ILLINOIY PRECEDENT. The Church Journa. of New York, has the following coocerning the power of Standing Committees to rejoct & Bishop : A curfous illustration of the present attitude of the erentency, snd s iovision to o5 Chorss te o "\ con- sider whether the House & Deputies or the Standing Committoss bave any riglt to go behina Diocesan tes~ NUMBER 196. timonials fo a Bistop-elect, i5 found n a little bit of ‘history 50 very recent that we woadar it has been fore eotten e0 completely in Iliaol, itle over two years ago North Caralina proposed ta'elect an Aswistant Bishop, and asked the eonsent of ¢ Di to that end. Every Diocese, we belisve, consonted except Tiinoist Tho Standing Committee of ILinois Tetused consent, 2nd ostentatiously and pubicly published its rausons. ‘Those rsasons were founded o such an amazing mis— interpretation of the Constitution and canons, that they were left to [llinois alone to act upon. ‘The Dioceses consented fo_the proposed Assistant to Bishop Atkinson, and in due time North Carolina elected by a large majority ils present Assiitant Bishop. Thers were Do protests, Do guestions of doubtful doctrine, the elected Bishop was amiaol:, de- Joted, unimpeachidle, sud o heasty choice of tha oceae, And yet the Standing Committes of Illinois went be- hind the papers, behind tha cholce of North Carolina, Dehind the act of its Convention, and on the oth day of September, 1373, refused consent to Bistop Ly- man's consecration'! - And condescended, 35 far 3a the public ia informed, to give no reason ! No one disputed, we beliove, the right of the Stand- ing Commiites to refase consent, for the present Ilii- nofa doctrine had not then been invented, This is exactly eightcen months ago. The legal obility and learning that guided Ilinois then, guides berstill, Pity it has 5o short a momory ! Ta that which was right for the Sading Committes of Illinois wrong for all other Standing Committses, forever bereafter? s The same paper, speaking of Dr. Da Koven, says: The general Church {s interested in the broad un« derlying question how the Church, whose Bishops dirst, and Goneral Convention second, have pat Ler on. Tocord aguinst, Eucharistic Adorstion 3 3 deadly error perilous to the souls of men,” can mabage o make a Bishop of the geatlemsn whosa notoriety resta upoa bis preaching, bolding, and ostentatiously pro- elaiming, this very * error,”and yet lay claim to any right thereafter to guide men in ways spiritnal. While we are far from holding our owan the Church mfallible, we surely may expect it, and wo are very certain the commaunity expocts it, to show some regard—as much, at lessi, 8 a private Wouid show—to conmstency and coherance of action, 200 to the common sense of mankind, THE VOTE OF I0WA. To the Editor of The Chicage Lricure: Caucigo, March 6.—The question is very fro- quently asked, *How came lowa to go over to the High Church, aod give hor voto for Dra. Seymour and De Koven? She did both. Tkrze of her four clecical deputies to the General Con- vention voted for Saymozr, and a majority of her Btanding Committee have voted for De Koven.” I will try very briefly to answer the question. g Iowa has not gone over to High Church or Ritualism. This will be proved a: the next nual Convention in May. Certsin parishes g the last Convention thonght their own mumisters should go to the General Convention. Ono such had not been in the Diocese more than two yeas: s record, with two others in that Convention, has not been satisfactory to the Diocese. Tuo Standiog Committee, electad at the annual Con- vention for convenicnce, has usually boan—: Tsjority—resiaents of Davenport. Thisarrange- ment hos all baen very well wheu only tha ordinary business devolviog on Standing Com- mittees required action. No such responsibilicy as that mow resting on these gentlemen could have been anticipated. 1t has o bappenod that ouse of the elerical members of this body remoy- ed from the Diocese during the summsr. This created & vacency the epecial Con- vention in December could not Hll. His place remained vacant _ whem action was called for in the case of Dr. Ds Koven. Another, a lay member, was detained from home at'the timomost needed. His vote would most certsinly have been against Dr. Do Koven, 3 well as the clerical member removed. But for this there would have beena tie, and the vote of Iowa would have been lost to the Bishop- elect of Illinois. It maybo safe to predict that 10 such thing will ba likely again to cocar. The laity at least will see that Standing Committees and Deputies ta the Goneral Convention Wil uot again_betray their trnst. Tho elections in the two Dioceses of Wisconsin and Illinois show pretty clearly thac the clorgy arenot to be trusted ith this question of Ritnaliam. ‘This explanation seems due to the friands of Towa, East and West, who have been grioved over this ** new departure” from tha teachings of the late Bishop Lee, whose heart was sadly tried at the evidences of Ritualistic tendencics among the clergy of the Church at large. Asto Dr. De Koven, the Bishop said to the writer in July last, that **he. almost regretted Wisconsin bad not clected him, for then the Bus] joutd have defeated him.” This, he repeatéd, have cartainly been the resalt.” In the letter of Dr. Cushman, in this morning’s. TRIBUSE, he assumes thai the Bishops and Standing Commttees do not yet undersiand Dr. De Koven or the meaning of the English lan- guage. I am sorry to see that he has such a poor opinion of their utelligenc, or their competency t0 judge of Dr. De Koven's own open and delib- erately-avowed opinions, reiterated tima and agun. I am half-inctined to the opinion that the obtuseness is on tho part of his advocates, whose petsonal estcem completely ovetsaadows his orrors of doctrizal soundness in the faith of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 1t #sams quite possible that that * trip to Ra~ cino” has had a dsmaging effect on the prospects of the *St. Paul of the American Church.” His triends are evidently alarmed. PRESCTTER. —_— PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS OF A BISHOP, CAX THE CONVESTION OF ETANDING COMMITIEES CONSIDER THEM ? 4 ” The following 18 & letter written to s layman of this Diocese by tho Rev. William Rudder, D, D.. Rector of St. Stephen's Church, Pluladelphia, on the legal right of the General Convention and of the several Standing Commistees to con~ sider the personal qualifications of a Bishop- elect, and to assent to, or refuse to assent to, ms consectation. Although the sabject has beea already discussed to some extent, yet the recog- pized ability of Dr. Rudder warranta the publi~ cation of his argument, which is as follows : PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 15.—Dran Sta: Your lstierof the 12th inst, reached me a day or two ago. In this letter you inform me that, * Amorg other crguments used,” in the lato Special Convention of the Diocese of Iilinols, *to effect the election of Dr. De Koven was thia: fhat hiaapeech in the General Gonvention mi- isfied you.” In ropiy, I would simply eay that T was not satis- fied with the satement concerning Eucharistis Doc- trine made by Dr. De Koven in tbe late General Con- vention. Itwas mot a statement which I could ac- cept. But.asIthen understood it,—for I have not seen the stenographic report of the debstes,—it was & considerabls modufication of his views as expressed in. the General Canvention of 1871 This fact, or sup- posed fact, T was glad to and it gave mo great pleasare publicly to cail attention to 1, and to express my own gratification concerning it. In regard to the general subject matter of fyour letter, permit ms to make the following observations : The position asumed by the malority, or alleged ‘majority, of the Conventiun of tte Diocese of Ilinoia in regard tothe case of Dr. Stymour, and_ovidently with the purposo of sffecting, if possible, tho case of Dr. Do Koven, is, in my judgment, WHOLLY UNTESADLE. Their *interpretation of the Church's law, and their denial, under that int tion, of the >ight of the General Convention, and, “ during its rocess,” of the mm’_fi Comumittees of the several Diocesed. to con- sider the personal ualifcations of s Blabop-slect and, should the result of such consideration be ua- satiafactory, to refuss their conseat to hia c onsecra~ tion, are, i #ay tho lesst, now doctrinea in tha Chi ‘Our most larned canonists scom ncver to bave heard of them, 1t will not be nocessary, in this discussion, to inqaira ‘what was the rule or practice of the Early Churcn inm the election and _confirmation of Blahops: to coter 1nto the controvarsy touching the * Kaf 1" 1n Acte, xv. 23 ; or to detarmine the precise weight and author. ity allowed 10 the voice of the lafty in Episcopsl cleo. tions. Witkout doubt, the final confirmation rested with the Provincial Synod composed of the Archbishop and the Bishiops of his Province. But 1t scema squally certain that the pawer of the peopls in determining the chace of & Blaliop Was very great ; 5o great indoed that it sometimes ran out into Violence aud open €umult. ‘They bad a * proper sutfrage ” in the election of the Blshop, 20d, whatever might be the power or suthority the Provincial Syn0d, no Bishop could be_cbtraded upon them without their consent, Scholars differ, ltis true, concerning the precise extentand limltations of this suthority, and 26 to tha mode in wiich, in_diffez- ent timea and places, it was exercised; but tno broxd fact seems 0 bo well settled, “ that” —ss Bingbam, with his usual jodiclousness, has stated it~ thera was 0o one univérsal, upaltcrable rule observed fn all times and places about this matter, but tho_proctice varied according to the iffesent ex/gences and circum- stances of the Cpurch.” Evidently, thea, the election or confrmation of & Bishop—rescrving always the final decision to the Episcopal College of the Province —are ot such matters of fundameatal principle 3 to ‘make the rules or customs of the Eacly Charch, what ever these may be determined o have been, binding uponall Churches o all ages. Bather they ars to ba gmafl among those :.;mzl which ft il:;méniy with proper power of each partic burch to arrange and determine for {tself. Now, there are Lo D‘KfWO TIEWS which may be taken of the General Convention. We may regard it as the Lighest Council of a National Church, or we may regard it as » Provinclal Synod. —the whole Church in tho United States being lnoked Tpom 83 forming one Province. This last, if | mistaka not, is the view taken Ly Mr. Murray Hoffman. T eitbor cane, if the Church has allowed 1o tha Isity a representatios in this National Council or Provinaist Syrod, and, os 8 consequence, voice in determing concerning the ftness or non-fitness for the Episcopats of & Blahop-elect, 1§ Bas dons cnly what, in. ita jast