Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1875, Page 2

oprresson, Invariably nalst that the n capital ack and peraonal property ba collected an_ Wern hiro= wiled by law, and that tho time for the collection of laxes on real eatatn Lo extended to the 1et of tctober D each years anil WHERPAS, 'Beveral billa bave heen already pretentad ta tho Itouna and refcrred to {ho Comunitee on Reve tiwte polnfing n this direction, foward relief there- fore, b it Peroleed, By fhe Touse of Renrcsentatives, that the Committes on Hevenue be requeated to immerdiately ex1ming iulo the naceasity of enacting sicls a law ao to axtend the time for the coliection of taxes on resl ea- (ate to the 1at of October In rach year, and, If found to 10 & fearibln law, report to the House a suficfent bill 15 afforl tho deafred object at the earijcat | racticable motmout, AXOTIER IMMODLST DILL. 0f tho bilis itrodnced in tho Houso to-day, that of Dutise, of Gook, relating to borse-ral- ronds will Lo of most interest to Chicavoane, 1t -provides that auy company * heretofora incor- orated under special act, or that way horeafter he incorported nnder tho (aneral Ingorporation act, for tho purposo of coustructiug, eperating, or maintaining " avy dummy or horse-ratlroad, *may enter unon and approj riato any property nece:eary for tho construction, maintalnance, and oporation” of i lmes: and ‘‘may, subjoct to tho provisiona of this act, loeato aud rvonstrnet its road upon, across, and over any toad, atreet, or alley "' in any eity in Lhis Stato, *uin’ such manper 8as dot ~ to obstruct thoe public uee of the eame,” which is the only **provision " of tho act limiting tho nght of such compapies as to laying track on streots and alleys. Procjvely what lmucru aro granted by theso provisions of the bill (which are all thero is of it), and what {8 1ho bearing of tho same, ia 8 question for Chicago Iawyers cognizant of the schiemo iu tl - interest of which tho bill is uf- fered, To an ordingry obyerver, the niet of it scems Lo Lo to authorize eny stiect-railroad rowpany, now or hereafier fncorporated, to lay trucks anywhera it pleas TOWS: TIONS. Niehefl to-day intreduced 1 tho llodee n bill derigued to glve some remblauee of decency to tho town elections, by providing that tho julges +hall be appointed iu tho saine manner 24 are Judges of BHtate olections, NON-TRANSFER OF TICKETA, “Tho bill for the snppression of railroan-ticket ecalpers (by muking 1¢ unlawful for any perron to rell tickels without written certfficates of an- thority 50 to do 1ewued by tho rond ovor which tho ticketa nro sold) waa to-day ordered to a sccond reading in the Sonnte. THE DEVIL'S DUL. Whother thiabs tha * worat Legislaturo that over mat I 1inols,” or not, cortain it juthut the Ilouse, of which that Las Leen said, ia not the ost britant in any respoct, Aftor listcning day after day to tho vanid oratory and coarse 1giloranco thore mamfeat, mud studving the per- formancesand personnel of tho body, no one of averago expericues woull be Juble to set it down ay Jikely to wet the lnke afire, or for other remarsable porformanco unless ‘ol ludicious sort. But, for tho pnst week, tho eaving graco that at ail times seems extonted in bohalt of all Ropublican institutions in ths land would appear to have reached ovon unto the Ifouse. ‘Lho absurd proposition to doubly tax capitalloaned from abroad for invests ment i this State hias been hopelessly dofeats od; the Htato echool-book project, which in- volven both o nuisauce aud 8 Job, lias met tho sate fat0; and nobody opposes tho Chicago bills bo musa they are Chicago billy, 'Fhere 18 so littlo & its credit that letit Lo recurded—tho House progresues, —— A CRITICAL REVIEW. WIUAT 1A BEEN ACCOMPLISHED, Bnectal Correnpondence of The Chicage I'vibune, SrniNoriery, 1L, March 6.—Tho dispatches snnounce that the Legislaturca of Minnceots, ‘Wiscousin, and Indinua have adjourned, and their mombora roturued home, and yot the Tili- nofs Legistature lingors on, every day adding to tho bulk of legislation it has laid out for itself, and every day getding farther and farther trom the poiut where it couid creditably adjourn sine die, A DISTINGUISUED DEMOCRAT'H OPINION. Ou Thursduy o distinguished citizen of South- ora Llinois was in tho city, in attendunce upon the United Btates Court, Ie paid o vislt to the Capitol, and peat out ono session on tho floor of the Houee. After udjournment, he said: * For forty yeara I hsve beou o citizen of IHinoky, and five times & wmember of the Lower House, During all those years there has no been a session of the Logis- Tature but what [ have been preseut ablonst a portion of the time. I romoember distinetly that ou many occasions greak foars wers cxprossed that persanal rancor and party spirit would nullify all efforts on the patt of intelligent and eaunervativa members to secure propor and needed leglslation, But after o fow bursts of buncombo aud clap-trap local prejudices, tho Geueral Aesembly alwvnys sottled down to work, and st last the people bad little emuke for compliaut. The Legirlature of 'GJ is the only exception, and it is outitled to somo charity, as tho peculiar cirenme #tances of Llie War oxercined grout intluence on ity mombers. ‘To-day, however, I muat confess that my heart has been saddencd; and if to theso men the people have commitied their truste, I must say, aub NELP THN PROPLE! To one, ke myxclf, accustomed to legislative badiex, it s painfuliy evidont that the House in wofully deficient in that parliamentacy learnmg and gouernl ability which are essontinlly necos- wary in o legislative boidy, To be frank, sir, I give it aa my unprejudiced opinion thnt, takion s & whole, it is the most Jncom- polent House evor mssembled In tho Btato— incompateut to tho oxtent of absolute worthless- ness, Xam a Domocrat, sir, but my fealty to party never caueed mo (o forget what was duo tho poople at lurge. Tho Opposition now con- trolling the lower branch of tho Logislaturo s o dirgraco to the namo of Domocruey, unda most dirgusting upology for everyshing that savors of Teform, Day after day, for elght weeks, tho samo scenes—only variod occasionally as to the oriyg- inator—have occurred during tho geasions of the House, 1f Dives could bave wot wator, 1t iy likely Lio would havo bocome reconciled to hioll it Haines, and Merritt, ani Hopking can only Ket up o Jamboreo in tho 1ouso ot ench session, they nro supremely happy, and relish with a koon 2cest tho pandamonium which inovitably follows, UTTERLY INCOMUETENT, On ‘Thureday alternoon a party of distinguish- ed geutlemen of the State, in attendance upon tha United States Court, met in tho lobby of the Houee. ‘I'wo or three of tho leading members ot tho House wers nlso present. Huid one of the lultor: ** Goutlemon, it {8 o humilisting con- feesion to make, but I do so, basing wy opinion on former legivlativo experionco and withiout tho shiplitent reforenice o the political situation. The Ilouse is In uo sonsa compotont to grasp auy of tho issuem of tho hour : it is incomputent * to haydlo the rovenue question; it is incoms potent to haudle the transportation quess tion; under tho lead of Bueakor Iaiues the wajonty of the louse I8 detrmined to no dwarf tho uppropriatious as 0 creato & dias kraceful dgficicney which the noxt General Ase ucmblfr must provido for. Eight weous of valu- #ble tino Los slroady been cousumed In the ono direction of fusing Lugether tho incongruous ele- wents of tue Opposition. No legislation for tho pevple bay beou performed, and now the lead- iug wen of tho Opposition adunt ‘:rlvnlulr to we that four or #ix Wweoks moro will be absolute. ly nocessary to carry out the programme agrood apon by the Opposition.'* Androw Ashion, of Winuobago ; P, D, Baiter, uf flondorson; Dr, Jobnsoo, of Mation 1 Fose tur Turner, of Jo Davieea; A. C, Nellson, of Wiltismaon,— a1l rospectable and substautial citizaus at home, sud Indepondent Iteform momwbers of thoe House,—hLave in the last two weeks ropeatedly declare:d that they had no hope of tho Logislature doing anything for the pove [\lo. and thut if thoy got safely away trom Epriuge el this lime nothing woul to come back again, AN INDEVENDENT-REFORM BENATOR DISGUSTED. Beuator Parish, of Baline County, Chawrmas of tho Sonato Comnitles on Appropuiatiouy, has at last found Limuwelt w victim of the Casoy-Haiuea« Tourbon consplrucy agaiuet the houor aud char- ity of the Hiate, Those two men, Casey iu the Seuate, sud Halues ia the Houwe, three weoks 850, 1soued thelr edict to the Oppouition moem- bers of the deneral Assembly, and n, caucus was calied. At that caucus theso two nen, holdlng the whip-bund, forced the Opnosition 10 agree (0 » proe gramme whick, if carried out, would sbolish the State Boaid of Rallway Cowmnissioners, cnipplo for years to come each 0f our noble elecmonynury Instituti ud ju offect dostroy all the good aunualy derived from the Devuttment of Publio lustraction, Hatherthan boa party to such & dise raceful record, Bonator Parisl opeuly declared Liat, 80 00n a8 he cculd get bis Comuttes tocon- widor what bills hind already been referred to it, hie would pack up uls truuk, go howe, aud re- wmain there, 'F'o keep him from carrylug out this threat, the Bourbou mewbers—a Insjority—of* tho Committee rogularly absented themssives f1om its sessions, btill determined lodo what was right, Scuator Parish came into open Benato and -fud the President of thoe Benate Lo incrcase the over induce thew namber of members of the Committee na that ho conld got & quorum. Since thon ho has labored aaniduously with his pauty frionds, but to nopur- 0%0, Enm- TUEY MAY TXPECT FROM TRL FARMERA, - 1n Jannarv tho State Farmers' Assoclution mot hern fy spnneteld. Witieed ¢, Flagg, Gen. VY, . Andereon, Juhn 11, Biyant, Lawrence, Smith, Hooton, Booue, and, ludeed, all tho sopresenta- tivo men of the Farmers' wovement n linois, wero present. Amang other questions carefully considerad aud digested was the ono touching the worz dona by tho Railway and Warahionsa Commindioncia, 1t was the unammons opinion —#0 voted—that tho Commission bad alrendy dono & good woik, aml tho Legislnturo wam — requested to con- tinun the Commission, and aid it by all necdful leginlation. Tho State CGrange P." of IH. took #ubstantially tho same pusition. In the face of this molemniy-oxpressod convietion. and by an open fusalt to tho leaders and votors of tha Reform movement of Illmois, Speatier Haines tins been diligently ongaged i lendlnig the Tte- form momberas {nto the emizacen of the rallway lobbe, The Indepantdent-Reform membors of tha Hiouee nro alroads committed to tho propo- Altion to Kill the Tloard of Rajinay und Ware- house Commissinners by refusing to apy ropriate the motey nece 0 carty fLon, o T TUIUMPHANT, V& Bt to-dav a crowning farca of this ao-calted Lieforn Leeislaturo, The Tteform party of IHlinoia 4 1 many waye committed to tho canso of temporance, Nearly every Indo- pemlont-Neforn niember of the IHoueo was olocted on & tomporance platform, and statdy pledzed to lis constituonts to aintatn the pros- ont Liquor Inw, But a ropeal of that Jaw was one of thio questions which entered into the trace made between tho lourbon Democravis and Speaker Huineg, One of ‘tho parliamentsry utagen occurred to-Uav on the Liquor inw, which tho Ropublivaus soupht to take advantage of on finding that there wers maoy absonteos smong tho Opposition. By ono of the grossest viola- tions of patliamentary law, Speaker Huines gave the whinky-toving Opposition timo aud oppor- tunity to broak a quornm aud then adjonrned tho Hovsa tn tha Face of sixty-sight lepublican and Independent-Rtoform members' protest. For the prosent, Bourbon Deniorracy and wineky aro trismplant, the peoplo aro disgraced, and—but the oud ia not yot, 'Thavk God, thewe is atri- bunal whtoh {8 yot left topass judpn upon the Indopondent-lleform Hourion Democratio Legialaturo of 1874, A Loogrsu-0x. —————e OTHER STATES, INDIANA, FINAL ADJOURNMENT, Special Dispalch to The Clieado Trikune. Inptasavorts, Inud,, March G.—Owling to fall- uro to agreo by tho two Housea on tho Feo and Salary bill, the Ifouse Conferetice Committon refowing to accept any offers of comprotniee, tho sossion expired without the passage of tho Rovenuo or Appropriation bill, ‘The Goreruor will not call & speclal nceston. ey THE DIBAUREEMENT, ¥ Svectal Disvatch to The Uhicaan Tridune. Inptaxavons, ‘Tud,, March 7.—1ha Legisla- ture closed its legislativo sosslon betwoen 12 and 1 d'clock last night, aftor a continuous session since morning.s Under the Constitution, Satur- day wng the lust day to poss bills, althonzh tha body can wit to-morrow for all pur- poses other than that. In the Seunte, much of the morsing was passed in an offort to suspend the coustitutional rules and paga tho bill cutting down the fees of tho Auditor of State, which had been stoten from the louao files, Tho Dotocrats refueed to al- low the bill to Lo passed, and the Republicans proposed to amttempt it at every opportuni- ty. It soon became evident that tho ro- oult would be the failure of the Rovenuo aml Appropriation Dbills, but the Democrats adnerod to their position, Tho two Ilouscs wero at disagrocment on the L'eo and Salary bill, an the Temperanco bill, and on the Lill to raiae rovenue. The Bonato conferees, at nearly 12 o'clock, roported tho rofusal of the Iouso conferees to ogreo to any sort of o Feo Lill, =and Huomphroy, Dom- aceat, declared bis opinlon that tho louse did not want nuy Feo and Balary bill. The louso rofusod to accept the Senate cone ferocs' smenamont tacking on the Btate Au- ditor’s bill, and, when tho report was mudo tu the Henate, tho Republicans exprensed a willing- ness o moet tho House half way, but doclined to be dictated to in all thiugs, Peoding & call on the motion to receds from 1ts position on the Feo biil, tho Licutenant-Goveruor declared the Seuats functus oflicio, and that no act passcd would be valid, Al the nnportaut billa wero thus lost,— tho Revenuo bill, tho Temparance bill, the Foo and Balary bul, sud many others, ‘Iho digngresmont on the Revonuo LIl was this : The Democratic IHouee, in_accordenca with the party platform, reported a 5-cont lovy, canfessedlv not more than a third enough to de+ fray tho oxpenses of tha State, A provision was attachod to thio Lill for o temnporary loan by the Btatn ofticers, Tho Nepublicans in the Sensto struck this out, desirivg & lovy large enough to prevent the Btato from runping debt. 'Tho House refused, its purposo being to gompel the Mepublicans in tho Benatoe to take tho 1espoumibility of increasing tho levy, Tuls thoy dechned. announcing a willingnoss, how- evyer, to vota for any levy that tho party in pow~ er fn the Lower Houso would pay they needod. In tihis shape, the soseion expired. Tha Gayv- oruor was on thoe floor of tho House, and, to- gother with the Democratie leaders, wan USTEDLY OVERWHELXMED when the news of the Neuate adjournment reach- ad them. They kad thought tho Benate would back down in tho tiuel moment, leaving them tke lmrzy glory and sdvantaga of & low lovy to go nto tho noxt cunvass nith, Lut the Ropublicans declned to pull chestnuts out of the fire for tho Doucrata, and tho Goveruor to-day was COMPELLED TO CALL A BPECIAL HESSION, which will mesc Tuosday marning at 11 o'clook. T.ast night ho #aid to me that thero would bo no special seasion of this Legislature beforo tho nux: Presidential election, but he Lad to come ta it THE MOST IMPONTANT BILLS that becama Iaws wors, roquiring suits on prom- waory notes to bo brought In the county whero the wakor resides; incorporating tho Btate Horticultarnl Hoclety; for kwsessment of cor- purate proporty at tho same rato as tho propecty of private tiras ; continulug tho offico of Coun- ty Superintondent; for tho appointment of oficial. court rojiortors; for one insano asylum at Indienspolin; repealing the gravel rond sesesstnent law ; continuing the Stato geo- logieal survey; for the organization of Htate and Digtrics ‘Granges; extending the timo for Tailroads to complate their lines, in coses whero aid haa boen voted, lo live yoars; for the re- moval of county ofticlals ' for intoxi- catlon; reducing tho prico of the Bupremo Court lteport to &3 per volume: for appeal in eason of suits for sppointment of Recolvers ; lmiting the power of 'Lownshi ‘Lrustoes to teontiset debts without the suthoris ty of Commfssioners’; wllowing Criminal Judgen 0 18aue writy of huhioas corpus, TUE FEELING, The Lajdshmra sdjoutned wmid great excite- ment, and its action by boowu the themo of talk oyerywhere to-dav. ‘Ihe Domocrats fool very bitter, but the Republicaus soom confident that thoiraction will bo sustained whon it is undor~ 8t00d, WISCONSIN, A BEVIEW OF THE LATE AESSION OF THE LEQISCA- TURE. From Our Own Lorrempandent, Manisox, Wis., March 6.—~1he Wisconein Leg- iulatare of 1875, which met Lore Wodneuday, Jau, 13, adjourned to-day, after a sesalon of 83 days, flve shorter than tuat of tho Roform Legislature of 1874, and shorter than any bofore hald sinco tho Btate was orgaulzed, ozcopit that of the winter of 1850, which was outy 84 dayu loug,~—tho next shortest vession, of 1857, baving been 64 daya Jong, Otbor Legislatures have uat from 58 days, two or thrue years, up to 112 {u two sesaions 1 1861 ; 129 ln threo sesslons iu 1803; 125 iu two wesslons tn 1850, and ous in 18583 181 in two sevsions lu 1853, Tho sdjournment of Ihe Logislature, when mowbers gouerally remained to tho end, aud business was trausactod up to tho last day, when complimentary resolutions aud specchios woro thio ordor of the day, in the clusiug Lours, used to be quite an wteretivg oceasion, aud was witnessed Ly mauy citizens, Of late yeaes, when the pas- s3ge of bills ju cut Off two Or thiree duyn before adjournmens, and only small aquad of Holous arg present to close out tho concorn, the windig up af tho Leglslature Is a very tame affuir, Thiy Legislature, liko tho lust, to use a slang phirase, fairly ** poterod out,” There were but fow wem- Lorw’of citlier ouso fu tue city this forcuoon, sud alarge proportion of thods wanted to * go bowa ™ on traius leaviug about noon ; so they wtale & warch on titwo by sowe wockory with the Bonate und Assembly clucks, by which thoy wero about au bour faster than other time-ploces, aud, when thoyindicated the nesrapprosch of 4o'clack (the hour tixod for adjournmeut), it wss ouly about 11, Tho Seuato sdjouraed without any THIS CHICAGO TRIBUNK: MONDAY, MARCH 8§, 18756. rnecntnuon to their deeerving oflicars, or aven ho customary resolutions of thatks for fatthful service, Licut,-Ciov. I'arker, in clostng his egc- ond, nnd provably lsat, sesslon as & prestding oficer of the Benata (jn_which capacity all con- code o haa faiehfully ondeavored to dischargo fils duties fairly amd ), ade some focling 1emnaiks prior to dectaring tho Sooato sdjonrned #ino die, referning to bis endeavors to bo courtos ons, impartial, and fust o hiw ealinga ¢ expresa- ing thinnka to Senatora for forbearanco with his mistakes, and for the kind treatment ho had rocoivod from membars, oficera, and amplovas of tho Henate, aud reportars ; oud, among otler things, sald: The acta of thin Teglalaturs hnve Lecome a partof the history of aur Htate, aud will recciva approvel or ceuaure as they il prove to be heneflelal or delrl- mental (o (ho Interast of ita peoplo, The soasion b been the sliortest known {u many years, and it has been noted for questlons of unustal intereat aud Jin- pertance, which huva liad o Lo mot and aettled, Not- Withatanding you lave differod widely upon some of those gneations, an nunanal degreo of conrtery and K{mfly fr('l(ng has prevallsl during the most exciting Reustions, v Tha menorfea of fho many friendahips I have hers formed 1 aball cheriah throtigh Jifo, Ihope you may all reach your houies safely ; tnas you wiil Always bo suecersful In all landavle undertukings, and that wo miay oftens meek an wo gass along Ww's patlway, and at 1ast teyoud tha river, In tho Assombly, tho complimentary resolu- tions Tad boon pasnod beforoband s Spoakor 1lorn hiad gono homo on account of sickness lu his_family, and haa delegated to Mr, Slarp, of Walworth, the duty of closing tho scaslon. as Hflmnkur pro tem, and ho declarcd tho Aesombly adjourncd in a fow unsentimoutal words, This Legislature has Leon composed chietly of wall-meaning men of moderato ability, aud Y geeon hands " in leglslation. There wero fow men of marked talent n etther House, - moro in ]mmumou, porliaps, on the Opposition than tho lepubllcan sido. There wete no partlean con- tosts, and vory littio {mrl ¢ focling shown. Tho wisdom of solecting Fred W, Tlorn as 8peakor of the Assombly w48 abundautly domountrated by tho ndmirablo manner “iu. which hLe checharsed tho duties of that position, and indi- eations that no other Republican would bave given anything like n3 good eatisIuction. Leas business was presonted to the attontion of tho Lopixlaturo than iu_any sesslon for some tie, ‘Cha Clerl's books ehasw aa follows: | Senate, | Assomblv, Petitions prosented.soussies J o g 60 Tesolutions.... ¥ 20 [ Joint resolutiony,, 2 18 Memorlals to Couj K ] Bills introducod. 20| 497 Action on tho buslucas prosented was rotarded Dby tho Senatorfal question, which wos the en- roselug tople till it way settled, on tho 3d of "obruaty, by the clection of the Hon, Angua Cameron ‘over Matt II, Carpenter, alter a° coutest unprecedented in tho his- tory of iho Stale, Tho first &ct passed was publisbed 4an. 27, Asis almoat ine variably tha canc, measures wero postponed from time to time, till they bad to e put thraugh with o rosh in tha latier days, with no opportunity for deliborate examination and con- elderation. Thero wero 169 billa disposed of Ly the Senato in {te lagt throo working days; and Auslatant-Secretary Cadwallader informs me that 160 acti~—two-fifihs of all passed-~wera doposited in the Secrctary of Stata’s ollico on tho 5t and Gth, OF tho acts passed, the following ia a com- parativo statement : 187 Fs.a T of 14 1 Memortals to Congreas. nl W 1 Theso scts includo soveral affecting railways (notably ono elightly modifying for tho better the Potter law); somo fmportant cducationsl wensures ; largo _appropriations, chictly neces- Bary oucs for Siato institutions: and a large uumber of local and unimportant measures, Of special moeasnred aod poculinr features of this soesion, mention must bo doterred, But four acts passed Iaflod to recelve the Ex- ecutivo approval. Two—opuo amending tho charter of tho Hparta Gas-Light Com- pauy, snd ono authorizivg improvement of “mtreots in Bpring Green—wora votoed on constitutional ~ grounds, na contrary to tho nmoudments rostricting local logielation, Loth vctaes wore sustained, = Tho Goveruor res talned two acts In his posseeston ti)l after the Loglelaturo adjourned, and they this falied to bocotno lawa, ~ Onoof theso was Ditl 407 A,—a oill which, it weas allegod, directed a -largo patt of tho raliroad-licenss money to pay interest on local raitroad aid bonds,—the ill whioh tho Benate rocousiiored, and tho Assombly, rofusiug its rerury, requested the Governor not to sign it. 'Tho othor bill waa 387 A. which attempted to nmend the Reviked Statutes relative to laying out highwaya on town and willago lines, but would havo beon inoperative because of au error {n dosignating a differont chap- ter and section from the ono which it wns intended to amond. T'ho Governor and his t'rivate’Secrotary kept thom- &elves well bookod up ou meawures bofors tha Loywlaturo, ond #o wera ablo to act promptly and underatandingly on thom, though an avas Jancho foll on them fu the last daye of tho sce #lon, Tho Governor made tho Enu Claire pao- Blc hinppy last mght by signing their Chlp;nwu olls Improvement biil; but tho Chippewa Lalls falks propose to enjoin it in tho courts, and res now tho fight by an’ agitation for repeal in the uoxt Legslature, Prus, —— MICHICAN. THE UPPED PENINSULA, Spectal Dixpateh to The Chicava Tridune, Laxsixa, Mich,, March 6.—The members of tho Houso from tho Upper Ieniusula have ox- tended an invitation to their fellow-members of the Leglaturo %o tako part in sn excursion ta the Upper Peninsula, leaving Chicago on Augnst 18, and being sccompsnied by 8. 8. Cobb, Rail~ road Commussioner, tiov. Dagley, other Btate ofticor, Bcuators, and Congressmen, aud fnviteq Kuasts, Pasaes will be fsaued to all, and arrunge. 1outs will bo mado so that tho paity cou viait the minea of copver, iron, and silver, the Stato quarrics, and fishing grounds. TAXATION OF CUURCIE PROPERTY. A petition bemng resejved this mormng pro- tosting agoloet the taxation of chwich proporty, some discussion was had upon the question. Ar. Briggs, of Keut, thought that church prope erty ought to bo taxed as woll as othor property, aud Mr. Daly, of Wayne, opposod it. Tho peti- tlons nre largely fu_favor of it, but tho Housa bas not yet whown deojsively how it utands on tho question, It uoona likely that the Legislas turo is in favor of Lue meavure, MISCELLANEQUS, Tho House Committee on Education to-day anuounced that they could not agree on the il 1o repeat the act croating the oflice of Couuty Buperintendent of Hcliools, The bill was placed on tho general ordor, aud was mads the spacial ordor for Thursday, March 11, at 7:30 p, m, It seoms probable that the Legislature will flunlly conclude to amend the existing law exe tonsively, 80 a8 to hiavo some controllng power ovor the County Buperintendont, ‘C'he Houne Comuwittocy on (ho Unfversity and Normal Sctool reported agaiust the bill, forbide ding tho Btate Treasurer to pay any money to thy Univeruity unless Lomoopathic” professora of medicino are appointed, and slso against the establishmont of a department of dentiassy there, Botn bills wore tabled. ‘The Htata Tressurer aonounced that unma. tured Btate bondd to the amount of 52,000 had been bought up eiuce tho passago of tha law for that purposo this moselon, ‘I'he premium paid was §3,318.14. ‘fho Houato Judiciary Commit tue reported infavorot psylng K. B, Gilbert, “Lrustee, £31,443.40, the balance due for improv~ ing tho nnvigation of the Muskogon Itiver, The wlnm was roforred to tho Committes of the hole, ‘I'he Houso, in Committes of the Whole, agreed to th bill amonding the act regulating the fur- uinhing of dead bodios for divsection. It pro« vides that Buperintendents of alwe-houses aud yrisons shall furnish the University of Michigsn, when reqred, tho dead budics of porsons who would bave to bo buried at the public oxpenso, and ehall receive §15 iu each casa for bozing ao propuring for ebipmont, Yroforonce must al. ‘ways bo given to the orders of tho Univoreity. ‘'be Benato thiu afternoon requested the House to yeturn the bill orgauizing a uew Judicial Cir- oult, the Twonty-tirst, it bolug shown that the proposed ciwoult had but 26,000 people, aud 2mnld contitute the mmalleat cirouit by farin be State, ‘Phe Honate Committes on Public Iealth re- rted favorsbly a bill to establish a Loard of Ledical Ceusors, but not fucluding tho matter of midwifery, which funot to be coutsalled by the Board, "I'he Bonato passod the bill to pay the military called out to suppregs s miners' ziot in Mar- quette and Moutcalmt Counties; also a bill for thorelicf of reformstory institutious, sod de- tachin, "mwliyl from Bcliooloratt County and attaching it to IMarquette County, e KANSAS, CLOBING PROCEEDINGS, Hoectal Dupatch to The Chizaza Tridune, Toreka, Kan,, March 6.—Tho Logislature has extended ity time of adjourument to Monday worning, toawalt tho Goveruor's aotion on & large number of bills passed and sent to him within tho last forty-oight hours. About half of tho wembezs wout home to-day, but enougli re- waln in thelr scats £2 keep tho machine [ mo- tiou, As was gonerally anticipated. the mepsurea for tho roliof of the grasslopper sutferors falled -ent tho effect on ncoount of tho refussl of thoBenato to recodo from ita detérmination to vote no modney for auch purpote, coxcont as s loan o bo gopald to the Btate by tho, coune ties rocoiviug the ald. Thore . ls very peseral feellng of ahamo amony all clagaen of peoplo over tho fact that tho Legialature aa- Journs withont fl\mlgn cent to tho destitute ettlorn, when thoro is uearly £100,000 of svail- ablo funds fi the Btate Treasury, Tho Mircolinucous Appropristion bill waa ‘finally paseed at & lato lour last night, with slight amendimontsy aluo tho bill to pay the ax- rnnnu of last suniwer's mlitia campaign against he tndians, Mont of the bills reduc'ng feea of connty of- fleors swera pushed through, but billa telating to rallroads woro all smothered in committoe. Rk S i SOUTH CAROLINA, ' TUE ATATL TREARUKER. CianLestoy, 8. C., March 7.—DBoth branches of tho Legislature Lavo adopted resolutions for tho appointmont of s commitico to propare an addross to ths Qavernor, demanding thio temoval of Buato Trensurcr Cordono for allegod irreguiar- itien in tho oxecution of tho law for funding tho Stnto debt. The T'reasurcr donics the charges, and an {nvoatigation will take place. i e ot THE PULPIT The Rev. N. F. Ravlin Leaves tho Baptist Church, His Reasons for This Serious Step. Why He Is Opposetd to Denome Inntionalism. The Bov. Mr. Hutchineon on Protestantism in Merico, Bishop Whitehouse Memorial Church. THE REV, N. Fi RAVLIN, His Renaons for I‘,cn\'llnx the Baptiat Denomt« nation, Tho Rav. N. F. Ravlin presachod at tho Templo DBaptist Church last evemng, from tho foxt: ** Aud thoro stall bo one fold and oue shep- herd." Bomo weeks ngo it was aunounced in thess columna that Mr, Ravlin was on tho eve of quitting tho Maptist denomination, and his sermon lnst ovoning was tho fulfillment of the aunouncomont. 1lo spoke an follows: T'he wordsof my text ars a prophetio utteranco from tho }ips of our Lord Jesus Chbrlst, who s both the foundation and hoad of Hlis Church, concerning tho unity of the faith and the com- pleto onences of His peoplo, that should uliti- mately obtain in onr world ero the miselon of 1lis Gospol should be fully accomplished among mon. Ho predicates tha Lellef of the world at large {n the divinlty of His mission on tho visible one- nees which should exiat among all Ilis bolleviug chilldren ; and, although 1leo foresaw that un- liappy divisions would come, when His peoplo would Le suudered and aeparated by sectioual strife, and party spirit, and denominationpl bar- riers, yet, In view of this etale of things, 110 prays *¢That thoy all may bo one, a8 thou, Father, art in Mo, avd I fo Thee; that thoy may he one in Us, that the worid may bo- liovo that Thou hast sont Mo." Ho ofton per- wmits what Ho docs not ordain; and the fact that Ho Lias atlowod thego divisions to come, and thieeo denominations to oxist, I8 no argumont that their oxistence is according to Ilis purposo, or o harmony with Lis will, Ho has ovorrulad them for good, a8 ho ofton doos evils and {lls In other forms; and He has also ** Numbered their daye and set o bound they way not pass.” Clirist satabllshed [Tls "Kingdom long before any of these sects were born, and Ie will por- patuate it on earth a thousand finarl ofior they shall oll have pussed avay. The signe of tho timos clearly indleato the Lord's comiug, and in the xame proportion do they evideuco tho pass- Ing away of the scits and tho ovortbirow of de- nominational supremacy, The walls that divide God's uoogle, W bico ave bullt of tho adamautive stones of bigotty and the cement of prejudice and misundorstandiog, are belug slowly but surely taken down ?’enr aftor year, ‘Tho whito- wash of hypocrisy Is wearlng ‘off, and closo in- spection reveals tho fact that tho atones are crumbling, that tho sement I8 relaxlng, and that cre long the last bairier will be razed to tho foundation. God Is turaiug the atteation of Tlis neople in tho direction of union as nover be- fore. Ilo is leading thom to fecl the hollow notlingness of wectarion strife, and the empti- noys of denominatioual pride. Ho s showing thom that, with all their paity zeal, and expend- iture of wenith, and educational ad7antages. thoy are failing to reach tho maeses s tho churchon now exist. Tho great world of man- kind for whom Jesus diod nover croes tho thresh- old of our sanctuaries, and thoy aro au far from towng brought under the inflnetco of the Gospel ou though they were o the most benighted ronlms of hoathonlsm. Thoy stand aloof, ap- palled at the strifes and divislons amoog God'n cople, and through the wide ravge of publlic ourpalism tho question is belng discussod as to whether Christiamty s, after all, a failure, If its misslon wero to ond 10 the proeont atato of things, it might woll bo adjudged a fallure. Tho sdvent of its Founder was heralded by the zong of augela, *‘Peaco on earth, cfitmd-vwm to men." ** Dohold wo bLring you glad tldings of rmz 07, for unto you is born this day, in the city of Da. vid, n Bavior, which {s Christ the Lord." IIo waa styled tho Prince of Peace, and Ilia Ring- dom was to bo tho Kingdom of Penco, s diuulv!cu wera to bo kuown by the love they sbould manifest toward eacls ocher, and by tho good-will thoy should bear toward thelr fellow- men. Thess wore to bo the distivgulshing: traita by which they should be **Luown an heard of all men, ‘that they had been with Curiat, and bad learned of Hun.” Men should say of thom, ' Behold, how theso brothrou Jove ona another."” . Lut, alas, what s painful contrast the presont attitudo of the churcnes present! How diffor- roducod! Tho commana was, “Let your light so shine before men that others, sceing your good works, may bo glorify your I'ather who is lu Tleaven," tho light shives but dimly, If at all, and, amwid tho moral darkness that overbanga the Zian of God, day by day, men blasphemo that worthy pamo becauso of ‘the ovil worka which thoy sco among professed Christiana. 1 say God i apon- Ing tho oyes of his pooplo to uce theso things, Ho ia leading many of them to feol that the spirit of sectarlunism Is cating up all the virtues of tho Cbristisn character, And Lo I8 waying, ** Comg out {from among them, aud be Jo eoparate, and touch nct tho unclean thing, and I will recoive you, and bo a Father unto yon, and ye shall’be my soos and daughtors, saith the Lord Almighty.” Hoctarlanism fs au uaolean thing, and tho seeds of it.were, in my aphilon, sown by Satas Mmsolf, hoplug that (Lo barvost would be reaped in the dostruction of Christianity In the world. Dut, it {8 eald, 1t {8 impossiblo to do away with the sccts, and unite atl God's peoplo in any ope faith, Nothing s Impossible with God., What Ho wills, must snrely como to pass, What Mo purposes Ho is able to perform, 1o willa His lmoplo sholl be one. lio purposes to executo {in will, o says, In the langusge of my toxt, * There shall bo one fold and ono shopherd." Denomiuatlonallsm atands in the way of the execution of that purposo. Boctarlapism lfta its puny arm, sud eays it shiall not bo per- formed ! eeo divislons shall bo perpotuated in deflance of the eternal decres by which God wills to gather Hla people in one fold, and un- der the care of oo Bhophord, The dovil of dl~ vision will dle only aftor & fearful struggle. Dub die he must A cortalu Preabyterian minlster of mnote sud r-ldn 1wtiuence epeaky upon this question as fol- lowa ¢ Firat, sectarian dlvislons are unscriptural and false, for the Chiurch of God {s esscutially one sud fudivisit ble, embracing all bellovers of overy nute, Becondly, they sre wroug sud pernicious; no part of our Clristisuity, but wholly forelyn toit; no work of God st all, but the work of man snd tha devil, heuca & sauding reprusch (o Christlanity and' s great Liudersuce 10 its progress, It follows, lird. Iy, that tho cause of church unlon & nnu‘ grounded {u tho everlaating trutb, and (heseforo § must provail, Now, what is (he graud object almed at? \What is the rnfillauf‘hlb Lo frieuds of union 1 Aore unton meutivgs, such as those now belug beld in ourcity? Au occaafonal gathering of Cbristlans of diffezent sects at ke Lord's table, thus doclaring that tbey sgrea in ihe grest easentials, and diering ouly i ihinge of comyaratively small fmportance; &m going from that tutle to susert thelr poculiar sing ud sibbolctus, aud hold tothelr soparate denomil- uatiopal juteresis us Armly and stubboruly as ever? No! Thocauseof church union 14 not satisfied with any such Wuperficlal, Lot-way work,~a mers lopping off of soma of the topmot twigs, while the root s uutouched ; & llulln*ol the Lurt of the poople slighily, Union meetings, bowover pleassut and profit- able, aro vnly s movement in ihe right diroction, but not ' the e The tbiog sought for by the frionds of unlog {s mothing less thau the ultimate Lreaking down of tho division-walls themselves, and & nristisne of the different or uader oo uow name sud polity, Iu reconstruction, brivging O 8tots togetl ofber words, the burylog tha polnts of difference ont of aight, deep down heyond the Peach of fucthar controversy, and tho meellug of Clristisns ou the brond baxis of the ermantial f-ll)':‘ which all hold: aliko: with tiberty In reterancs to all tho non.ersen- tisls of foith and practice, This, I ray, object—notling leas than one udme, titd that nanio Chmtisy, In (ho place of tho many ntues by which Chrfatiand are now deaignated, Noblo utteraucen from a noblo man | ‘Therefors tho diviston of Cod'a famlly Into autngonlatio sccts amounts {o sclism in tho body of Christ, and presents, not a symmetrical and’ boautiful, But s mangled aud unscomly, form of Chrialianity to tho world. 'Iho Savior's bride nlmell’l in tattored and filthy gorments, tather thau in tho queenly robes of “lior Leanti- ful apparel. Scctanianisin magnifies sinall inat- totn knto things of vast imporianco, and it often inthe rama ratio dwarfa and bolittles tho all- ersentinls of tho Cliristian roligion into matters of inferfor moment, Every one of the now ex. fsting pocts has como into beoing upon soma comparativoly insignificant doemas quito out- sido of tho vital truths of Curist's dospel § and the ecotarian lifo has bean nourished, nnd tho zoal fannod to & flamo, by exaitiy thore dogtmas to thoir highoat posaible imports ance, and warring with overy other diviston of God's peoplo in their propagation and dofenan, Intho oxact proportion in which the tires of goctarian controversy havo raged, tho light of tho Chuistain roligion bhas beon dimmed. Tho annihiiation to-day of all the issues and dogmas whioh divide God's peoplo: tho absolute blot- ting out of all tho points of differonce botween the varlous secta; and tho overthrow of all ex- Inting orgauizations, would, fn 1ts rolations to the canse of Christ, bo like the paesing away of dark ond angry clouds from off the disk of tho smifing moon or the sbining tun, ‘Theso conflicting and irreconcilable'diMoronces among the churchies are in na sonee of vital im- poitanco; aud uot only aro they by ho moans conducive to tho highest possible efliciency in thu service of God, but are a positive hinderauco toit. The bonutics of the Christiau character are bidden boneath the quarrels of tho churchos, nud the atrongth of Zion iu fritterod awny by the trifes about words, to no rmm, that have marked to & great extent the history of evory de- vomination. The great bond of sgruement be twoen tho sects, viz, : snlvation through taith in our Lord Josus Christ, and rogeneratian by tho epirit of God, Ia tramplod uuder foot m the heatod discussions by whick tho inforior mattera of sectariamsm aro made to scom sneumnly im- portant, 'Those thinga which mako for war, and which engender atrife, " aro the tbings nost studied, whilo thosa which make for neaco and thosp whoreby all may bo ediflod nro most negloctod. OF course each Roct claims to be the Church, and that particular featurs which digtiuguishes it from othors s tho great uudis- covered trutl which, if evory other sect would but embrace truth wonld teinmpls, and the King- dom come at onco, Tho n«stlnm are confldent that thoy bave tho truth, and that in tho timo to comoall will bo Baptists, Asto whother they aro righit and hold the wholo of truil, and noth- ing but the trutl, {a not_even a dobatablo ques- thie ultimate tion, hey know they aro right, and their assumption should bo. granted without controversy, Tho Lord hang given thom Ilis trath, and dolegated to thom #pecial powers to regulate His Ohureh, and de- fend tho purity of ilis ordinances. They sct upon tuo liypothesis that God has commisrloned them to oxcludo nine-tontus of tho Lord's ro- doamed ones from any participation in_tho sup- per by which thoy wounld remomber Him who dicd for them, Tt whoro von make baptiem in any form or sense the condition of church merm- bership, and where yon make that baptism a pre- roquiaito to tho Lord’s Supper, you uvavoldably ond logically mako tho mere outer form of baptism of moro importance than mgunemlon itself. Baptism ot most can unl{ 0 Baid to Lo the slgn of a wscal, whilo regencra- tion 18 tho soal iteolf. Aod yoi upon tho hypothosis that baptism is and must bo o presequisite to the Lord's Supper, you admit 8uch on moy have nothing Luttho outer sign, whilo you refuse such as have the inner seal of regeneration. In othor words, unworthy porsona are sdmitted to the supper becauss thoy have beon baptized into ¢ho Churab, whils God's own redoemed childron aro oxcluded becauso thoy bave ot beon baptized—thus logieally makiug baptism a moro vital test of church felluwshlp than the work of tho Holy Bplrit in tho regenora- tion of tho heart. Ot course, vory woll understand the Baptist argument on this ueslion, aud in tho strict senso of the term, the chargo of closo communion {8 no more ap- plicable to them than to any church that re- quires baptism in any form as & proroquisite to tie Lord's Buppor, Tho Bantiats are no more confident that tbey havoe the truth in ita fuliness than s everyother sect that thoy bave it. Eact denomioation ro Rards itecif sa right, and all others wrong. And each holda on to its points of difforenco with groator tonacity than tho{ dn tho great esson- tials of tho faith, IlencoI do not by any meaus regard donominationalism and * Christian- ity as interclangeabls torms. Hoctarian- ism oftoner _ crucifies Christ than it onthronos Mim. It oftener pervorts than it publishes tho truth, and sometimos, in the blind zeal of jts bigatry,it would sooner souls would be damoed than have them saved outside of its proscribed rules of faith, It fs narrow, ar- bitrary, selfleh, and despotio. Give any existing soct unlimited power, and it wonld burn as here- Lica all that would presama to opposo tho dogmns of its fnith, 'T'he atrength of each denomination 18 largely oxpended in making proeclytes to its own particular boliof, and often, when they are mado, thoy aro teu-fold more the childien of liell than bofora the Church took thom ta Laud,” Sece tarianiem is thus auntaponistio to Chrlst and destructive of tho unity of the faith, Thero aro men in our churohcs who aro bigoted sco- tarians, and orthodox according to tho creed, who nre moro fit to be members of tho Btate's I'rison at Jollet than thoy are to bolong to the Churels of Christ. Tho bittereas partisans in the Church know the loast of the real eascntial principles of Christianity, Cbris. tianity with them is not a mattor of principle, but of convenience ; and its most sacred elements sro often prostituted to porzonal ng;irnnulzo- ment and the gratificatlon of denowinational prido and valn glory. Pomp, ana show, and worldly grandour, and cold oxclusiveness, and unfeeling soltlslness hold empira In far too many of tha gects, ‘They are the inoxorablo law of octarlan lifo, and without them that lifo would end 1n specdy death ; soctarian lifo fattony on that which impoverizhos the Christian, and rows mighty suil powerful upon elomonts that n the sawme }xropnrtiun wenken and anfeobio the truo Christlan spirit within it, As a goneral rulo, the mora popular and the more powerful a sact boconies, tho moro does soctarianism super- cede Clirjatlanity. As tuo ono Tx ows the otber dles out, and vico veren, Onoe thingis truo: Obristanity muet ex- tinguish sectarlanism, or soctarianism will most assuredly extinguish Christiapity, Thoy are of opposito’ epirits, irroconcilable and {nbarmo- nious, and oue or the other of them must die. ‘Ihie Ringdom of God caunot como 1bta ita come plate fullnces, aud these mu'rlnp‘zl sectys live, Come 1t muat, and come it will, and every apirit oxcept love to Qod and love ta our follow-men must bo exorciscd and driven out. Not a singla !muy namo will surviye the coming extiuction of he sects; Obriet will Lo all sud io all, The otorual namo will bo that alone by which tho wholo family in Ileaven and oo earth eliall be callod. Nonae shall say: I am of P'aul, aud I of Apollus, and I of Cephas, aud 1of Joln the Daptist, and I of Roger Willlams, and I of Wose and 1 of Calvin, and § of Luther, aud I of this soct, and I of that, etc,, but each and sil sball 1am of Christ,” and for Cbrist, aud in Christ, . Dut bow 18 this to be done ? By cultivating a lave for Christ that risca abova tho love for meo, party, or sect, Ou what basis can the various ordes of Christisns unite? As myfriend Carey, whom I have quoted, remarks, **on the essen- tial faith,” nJmu whicliall Christian people are sgreod, and who ars divided only ou the wioor oteeteras of denuminntional belfef ; it fu mllillll principla the fricnds of unlon propose to unile, As & good Baptist Deacon remarked to me tho other day, ** Hold the all esseutinls of the faith with a Uim and tightened grasp, but the looser Eou I.xolni all mlnor matters the botter,” Bays o, 3 just as woon commune with & Presbyteriau ay pray with him." large uuwber of the "most promie nent Heptist minlsters in this country hold the vame views, From the autipodes of secterian bigotry leading men of all sects are coming to- ward Christ aud towards each otbor, Thoy will eoon have rluuud tho fcobergy futo the open sca, suod striko hands fn the mid-ocean of God's love aud the Gospol fulluess, Chriet will be {he Gospol, regeneration by the Holy Hpirit the ef. fect produced, nud porfect lovo the grace snd Dloasure enjoyed. By rogeneratlon we came foto the kingdom of our Lord Josuy Christ é and by it aT6 we num- bered with Ood's redeemed famlly, “To as many a8 received Him, to thom gave He power to becowe sons of Uod, even to those that be- lleve in Hls namo, which were born uot of blood, or the will of wan, bub of (God Regenerstion is Uod's sesl, and any wutorprotativn of Jaws, any coustruction of o mm.u:mf or suy systew of faith or practice, which declines to reoguize that weal ianotbing short of rebelllon agaivst God, find & supversion of thw burmony of His Kiug- o, Hlence it Is sald, ** Grieve not tho Holy Bplrit of Ood, whereby ye sre scalod unto tho day of redemption.” The seal of regeneration is ac- compauied by the autbority and power of God glving to ite Lappy possessor fres acooss to all the Yflvllegse and immunities of the Kingdom of Heavon, ovon to thio ** holiest of lolios,"” and tha throne and dominion of Jeauns and it should by the eamn autliority entitie all the mombera of God'a family, redocined by tho bluod of Jesus, to the comununion of salnts and all tha privie loges of the Church of Clirist ou earth, It alould, In mv opinion, he the only condition of church-memborship, oven as it Iy the only con- dition of Bouslip in tho famlly of " CGod, Ahat which makes ua eons and dauphters of tho Lord Almighty ought to make us brethren and sittors of our Loid Jesua Christy aund that by which wa enter Hcaven ligolf should bo our passport ta the Clunich of God, *“which I8 tho pitlar snd ground of tha truth.” 'The kingdoms are but one, *'Lho whale family in Hoavon snd earth ” are named after Christ. and s Christ I ono, a9 aro His family;indivisible. Iio has nol maoy, but oo bride ; ho haa 1ot many, but ono Clinrch. llence tho Bavior's prayar: ™ * Neither pmr T for thena alano, but for them slso who shall bellevo on Me through their word, that thoy all mayhe one in Us, as Thou, Father, a1t in Me, and 1 in Theo; that they may Lo ouc in Us, Ihlt‘thn world niay believo that Ihou bast scnt o Whilo I at froo o admit that, theoretically, tho Daplist conatruction of tho relation of tho ordinanges mny bo correct, yot Iam tired of o more theory, howevor saund, whilo the welghtior mattora of tho law, " judimant, wmoroy, and teuth,” aro trampled undor foot with impunity ovon by tho ordained expoundois of the creed, The cotawand to lovo one anathior jemncd from the samn source 18 tho command (o ba baptized ; and, winle a neglect of tho ono may ba disobedie euco, the violation of tho othor is murdor. “Thia {g My commandment, that yo love ono nnother as T'have loved you” Agaln, “I com- mand you (hat ye love ono nuotber ;" *Whoso- ovor hateth bis' brothor is o murderer, avd yo know that 1io murderor binth etornal lite abiding inhim.” Aud yot the ohurolies have sny ntim- ber of much “crimiuals in full fellowabip among Lhem. You eco, tho theory may bo all right, but the practice in abomin- wblo. I have long felt fmpressed that thoro s something radically srong in our church polity, The meuatcmo doea uot lical the pationt. Mon aro none the botter for subscrib- ing to tho tonets of their gect. Thoir Jives are unaffectod for good by tho process ‘Tlioro I no moco honer among nany of thom than thero is amoug pamblory and thioves. Your good nnmo is not a8 safo in thoir hands an your purse would bomna faro-bank, Thoir religion s nothing moio than o sounding bross and a tinkling cym- bal. Warldly sacictios outsidesbide in compara- tivo peaca when contrasted with tho strfo and divislon ofton scen inside tho churclies, A tree fa known by s frait,” lhenco by their fruits ye sball Lkuow them." “A good treo caunot bring forth avil fruit.” A corrupt trea bringeth forth ovil fruft. Now, a systom which is of God cannot bring forth tha fruita of ovil. T? sectarinnism waa of God, its frolt wonld evidenca it; they ust be good ; they could not be evil. Iut thoy ara ovil; therofore the treo is corrupt, and tho Bystom I not of God. = ‘Thieso thinga hinve had much to do with con- vincing mo that the wholo matler of scets, and croeds, and denominationa s, to say- the least, o misconception of the divine plau, and that wo have got to solvo the problom of reachivg the mazxos with tho Gospel by eomo other means, Ilence, tho position 1 take to-night fa no sudden departure or %insty step. I believe Christ londotb mo out. 1 would have mo onov think that I am acluated in my prosent oourso by any poreonsl griovances with my brethren, nor by any ill-nsaga recoivod ab their hands. How much of thin hos fallan to my lot, Bome of you know, My burdons havo beon hoavy and crushing, almost beyond endur- ancg, and the treatmont recetved from somo of my brethron haa been eruol sud unjust iu the oxtremo, but I do not regard any of theso things ng of themuelves sffording sufliciout grounds for the stop I now take in withdrawivg from the do- nominationg with which I huve afiliatod for a quartor of a contury, aud in whose ministry I Liavo preachad tho Qospel for wome twenty-three years. Somo of my brothron dislike very much to bavo ma leavo tho Baptist donomination, and havo ondeavorod to persuade ma Lo reconsidor my action and abide by the ship. I shounld bo very sorry, indecd, to do ansthing that should prieva thoso brothron whom I love Jas I lave my vory life, and in whoso vroicasions of friond- ship and good-will I hava tho fullest confidonce. Noither do I wishi to fool that 1 tho time to como any barsier will bo placed betwoon them and mo ; ‘Lecause in Jesus and Ijs Gospol wo moet, wiintevor our church relotions, And I foel astured 3 that 1y, Ewuun: attituda will alienato the friendship of lnf' teal friond on onrth ; but if it docs, it must, tize no friend- ship inapired by party zesl, and built on soctar- 1an dogmns. Thore Ia not tho thoneandth part of a gratn of Christinn charity in such love, for it turns to bitier hatred under tho slightost provocation, Tired of war and atrife, and fully convincodthal it ia the duty of supromeallagiance to Clrist to comeo out, and by separuto from soctarian organizations, I do it, I ghall have no war with my brothron, nor with. tho Baptist denomination. [ shall bave no con- trovorsy with any of thoe socts, but sball strive to cultivate the princlples of charity and brothor- ly lova everywhero among all God'a people. And, while I am catholie in my spirtt, and broad In my views of truth, I have no sympatny with the ao-called liberaliam of tho ago, but shall cliug with an undying grasp to the great cardinal doo- trines of Cheistianity. ‘To foed tho redzemed ana preack Christ to poor dyini( glnnots Is my miesion. 1 fallowshlp any and all who may wien to join handa and unito on tho main issnes of tho Qospel to ald in this great work, If my church proporty s saved, it will be in tho intorcats of n pure and an untramaled Christianity. If thero are enough who love Christ abave party ar sect to sava it ay a placo for troe Christisu worabip, Gospel sers vice, and Bible readings, God's namo b praiscd, It not, tis weill Lloid the cornor-stone of this edifico in the namo of the living Qod, and over it, aud around it, aud within it I hava wopt and prayed with my poor, but dearly-beloved, brethren ;" and, wers T to preach withiu its wally to-night for the Iast time on carth, I havo no_rapioaches to heap upon myself for the work I Lave done here, If others think that in this ontorpriss I have brought an_evorlasting ahame and disgraco ou the Baptist denomination, Lcaunot help it. They will bavo to think so, I have thought it best to placo both myaelt .and my enterprisre whore mneither ~ shall be in timo to come either m disgracs or a bone af contention in the denominationsl counsels. It has been said that I proposo to atart a now soct, thus adding anoter to tho alioady too greuf number of socts, I auswer, By no means. 1do not propose to rocoguize auy sect, as such, but to recogmre Chriutians overywhere an Clris- tians simply, and s Lrothron "in Christ Josus, Baptfzed sectarianism I mball not rogard only 1 o far 8a I can 00 Christ in it. “If any man iave not the spirit of Christ, ho Is nono of his,” though ho bo baptized » hundred thnes. Jf e have that apirit ho 1s Clrist's, though bhe be not baptized st all, s to whon, or liow, or by whom, he glall e baptized, I leaveto bis own couscienco and hls God. 'The Holy 8pirit {s ubla to load Ilis peoplo into all truth, and whatever Is tho_truth in rola. tion to tho onlinances of the Qospe! will bo clearly understood aud readily smbraced when you offco dethrono superstition sud produd&ue. ‘Thers will bo no teme’ then fo seek to dofend. Choro will be nooo then seeking to ma’ o prose- Iytes Lo any particular sact, vainly supposing that gain is godliness, Thero will ba no tomptation then to multiply members by a loose and supere ficia) procoss, Froe from all pet thoorles and vtoreotyped messutes, tho Gowpel will then be ut slmply upoun Ite marits as an instrumontality Fo save, and Chrlst and 11is one Church will meot & dylug world face to faco on Gospel plaina: Wuile Ho unfolds te glory of 1Ls Oyluy palus, Foraver telling, yot untol Just {0 50 far as thia principlo provails, tho existing socts diminigh, When any one local chureh dropa fta namdo and its denomiuational featurca, and plauts flucll on tho stmple Goepel of Ctulat, the work is 8o far sccompliph- ed, When all the churchos in nn{ one city, viliage, or town unito on this (Iulm Pplan, Bac- tarianism ceayes to exist n that place. No new sect s formed, whilo the old onos have passed away, leaving ouoor two strong aud effectivo Chirstian congrogationd instead of a balf-dozen woak, siokly seatarinu Inatitutions, Suppoae " this plan to be carried ont, for in- auce, in the City of Chicago, ‘Ihon denome {uationallsm would be at an ‘end ‘fu this city, You would speak of tlie church at Onlcago, eni- bracing all God's people f desigoated by nume bers, a first, second, third: or by any other usme, 88 Calvary, Tomple, Zion, or Tabernacle; or by the usme of tho avenus upou which located, the same as now. Union Paik Churob, instead of Unlon Park Congregational Church Ceatenary Churoh, instead of Contonary M, X, Charch ; Michigan Avenuo Oburch, instead of Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, This woald bo aroturn to the old custom as it was in the days of the Apostles, when it was eaid by the Bpirit—* The church at Erhalul; the church at Bwyrus 1' the church at Pliisdelplua {,tha churon st Bardlay the church st Colosss,” eto. Who over read aoything about the Baptist Church at Corinthi ; or the Presbyterian Church at Jerusa. lom? ‘Ihess names woro uuknown. Thewe sects did not exsst. Thoy are sl of compara- tively modera origin, Théy are in uo way, shape, OF manuer & necessity to tho mamtenauco or the mqggrlty af the Christian seligion, but & posi- vo bindersnce bo it When those eeagioting denominations which Jolin torms *‘the cition of (ho g £all, thon shall Go's peoplo cono e i the faith and the knowledgo of the Hon of g ucto a porfact man, unio tho ncasnre ulm ataturo of tho fullnois of Clria, ot fjor 14 o bo abfn to compretond with al cainiy vl tho breadth aud Tongth, tie dopth ud josL and to kuow tho lavo Of Chrt, whi s nowledgo, that yo mi o Nile a lll]l‘nxns%'nflcdl’ g ) 1wkl g td I gave somo Apostios Provhols, and wome Fvangelints .:!fll :om, Eu_unm and toachors, for tho Pporfecting of “ aints, for the work of tho ministry, for :“ sityitg of “tho body fnot o s Clulel. “That wo_Licuceforth o gl ! childron, tossea (o and fro and enrried annffl“ ovory wind of dootiluo, by tho wleight of yo! and eunning arateluoss whoreby (hoy lig 1y wo to docelvay ht, wpealdg (o Sl n foyg, pad &row tp into L1k I all thinga which n e oven Chiist; from whom the whu|n\mxly r“ Jolnad togethor and-compacted by thag n|.‘. 4 avory Joint eupplicth, according to the effecty a workliigz in tho messnra of avery part .,l,,k"‘" incrondo of the body unto the edifying of It:xh inlova, Now nuto Dim that In bl ty oSt coeding abundaatly above All that wy think, nccording to tho powor that wor I ns,—unto Him bo glory In the Ohurely, by Chrt-n Jesus, throughout all ages, world wl(hn\l!nnd! Now, i conclusion, I wonld reeapiy ! = " . Il the nnh‘yl:[} ula givo tho nrgumont in the smallest |nmihlunc::|l ynuas First, ropontance toward Uods secgny faltn tawnrd onr Lord Josus Ghriat; third, rs. genoration by tha Holy Bpitlt, by wiicl wo g come childron of God and holrs witly Clitig} fg tho loaven of inhoritance. Now, horowy h"a $ho familv of God with Cheint Josus oy g a8 clder Lirothor, Wada not propose to Tognly, govern, or control this family, bit,with tho o Bplrit to *lcad uuto all “truth." the Tosa of Chist to constrain o all obedlonce, ang ¥ Lonor of God 1o inspira Lo falthtul sorvice, iy family will get on vory woll. Tho children wi lovo ono another, They will lve in poace ; (hy whillabor in Liarmony} thoy will foliow Gy honor Gad, nnd blexs tha world, ** whey u,'ufi ehall bo ouo fold and ono shepherd," . ——— PROTESTANTISM IN MEXICO, Adaross by the tev. Mr. Tho Ltpv. Mr, Hutehinson, & Protestant my, slonary of Mosico, dolivered an addross on sy status of tho reformed falth In tho eopy of tho DNontezumas at the First * Lreaby, terino Church loat ovening. Tho spoaker iy not, as was oxpected, go {nto any of the detaty relative to tho recont massacro of Protestanta ]y Mexlco, but confluad himselt to n gonoral atjy; upon the Papacy aud the power o tho Roman Church, quating liboraliy froy Ravelation to eliow that Romo wns tho Babyln referred to in such seathing Soriptural Xnnzu‘lgl His worda waro florco and norvous, but his g, courso rather lacked conucction, and was Partisng in its toné, Of courso, tho roverend gentlemy folt greatly irritated over tho brutal and unfas tifiable conduct of tho Mexican buteher, butky eontimont, gonorally: consldered, wWero rate caleulated lo provoke bittorness of focling iy this community. Ita pictures of Mesirg Catholiciam might havo beon truo enon, but in a conntry sud Ina clty where thereay {bousande of Catholics who condemn tho strec. tios of Moxico aa thoy condemn the doviliiy of tho Inquisition, Mr. Hutehinson's romsy woro iil-timed. lIe waid that tho Papacy was tha preat enemy which all trae Christiaus liad to fleht; that gy marof Christ should Lo waged against it totiy bitter oud; that tho confliet mipht Vo shir, sharp, and docisive, but that tho banoerq Protostantiem should bo Lorna through Mexlsy and through alt Papal countrics, whatorer ty effort might cost In blood aud treasure, Ile drow o very black picture of tho atateet tho poopla in Mexico, and said that their L tility to libernl reforms almost renched a mry, Soveral hundrods of the tirst ladies of the Cir of Baxico bad lgned a circular in whisy thoy bonnd . themsolvos. not to reco #on, busbaud, father, or brother, if any cr of thom ever did aught to ausist in ubolishisy tho progeription of the Protestant religion ands! tho Dible. Againet tho Intter Lok, Moxicand wera quite Litter, and burned it when over thoy. conld lay their bauds upan i, Ew their own cdition thoy did not aliow to get it the hauds of tho common pooplo, for fearasy ’zlimpuo of tho truth might reach their s Thoy wero sunk in 8 bigotod burbarism wbiy nathing less than Protustant instruction vzl reform, At the some time, lo dilis guished’ batwoon Individuals and the syren Tho latter was the common cnemy, shonld.be batiled agalnst.. - Thoe causo teatantism in Mexlco was advancing, and it blaod of tho martyrs woul:l bo, ns aver, thase! of "tho Churcl, “Ifo would return to that ez try within & fow weoks, and would bear wi Lim tho aysuranco that tho American Protestiny would do gl that Jay in tlieir power to prevest the flog of Christ from belug borus 1o the e beyoud the Rio Grande, The Catholio Church was bold and offensin. It bad Ity justrumouts in overy land, and itajre tensions wero drnn’lnf upoy it fho wratbel welghty States, . Tho Pope assumed a temponl na well'as s spiritual infaihibility, Lut the il of the Vatican ‘Lad beon somowbat bumble nlnco Franco, the right arm of ity power, ¥ crushed to carth, But nos- tho munster ¥id soven Licods and with ton borus, motaphoricly spealiing, was Leglnning Lo rosumo s suciet arrogance, and the mutterings of tho comizt storm wero befug Lieatd sll ovor. Turopo, At angol was flyiug through the clouds holimein bis hands an orcn book, and that was the vs § which was to jllumine the world and desiroyib erfors of tho 'apncy, b The Roman Church bad brought Into itaeer vice Lewildering mystery, and hod subsiitoiel for the commandmentas of God tho commwk ments of mou, It rejeotad the seconil commid ment, rolative to graven . fmagos, althoughitre tuined the commandment ‘having rofereacetd ona God. It prohilited the eatiug of feslmat on cortain days, aud all this had becn feretoldis tho Sorjvtures, y Clirist called the Church Hin bride, but i p8 Roman Chiurch hadt bocowe the scarlet womts= the harlot of Dabylon, having comnutted fors K cation with things of the world, Tho period of her deatruction wos npproachiug, and all Drocestants should bostir thomselves, gind £ their loiug, 50 to spcak, to do .battle with it common onemy. 110 thanked ‘God that the Rl were great stutesmen, (n many countrics, ¥ were prepared to lend tho way fn the g orusado, " ; e WHITEHOUSE MEMORIAL CHURCH. Liret Sorvices Yestorday Morning ‘The now Episcopal parlshs, tho mombersel g whioh tneot In what {s kiown sy tho Whitehost Momorial Church, called’sa fu honor of the st £ Ismented Bishop Whitehouso, held thelr fnt servica yostorday morning Ip Murray Clapth @ Indiana avonuo, near Thirtioth streot. The oo gregation waa quite large, couslderiog (he ha B that the organization fs recont, Tho parish o bscangratulated upon secaring an excollont o8 totto ohoir undor the loadorship of Mr. Georst Clark, tuo organfat, compo3ed of Ar C. 1 Boker, bass ; Ar. Enos Brawn, tonor; o King, soprano ; and Miss Burdick, alto. ‘Tho openlng ovorturs, by Mr, Clark, wa¥ mirably execnted. Tho Voulto, -Glora Fi% Gloria, Excolsis, aad Banodicite, by the e woro ,oxcaedlngly beautiful, The offerto “ Angols over biight and falr,” by M. W was yory impreasivo. . At tho’ close of tho regular mornlng Fo™ the Rev. Herbort V. Bmythe, Rootof the pagish; nddressed hls congregation i ¢ few briot but woll choson romarks, dfd whiob he congratulatod them that God hed F in thoir heatts the desiro to ald in emhh&hfl k tho parish, and had enabled’ them to !Wm successfully tho diftlcultios thoy met with 8¢ B outsot, Lo wald that morning they felt b 8 nowly-wedded couple, who had got some oot b nnd wanted 1o ; two or thies weoka 880 i had no place In which to most for wond but now thoy' had this chapel much was E“ to be accomplisliod, 4 pouncing .that the ofertory of the mo! ped would bo devoted towards tha noce:2dfy o pouses in establishing tho parish, tho llmm Oushman, President of tho Btauding Com™ 7o of tho Dioceso of 1llinols, deliverad the roie taking for bis toxt tho third verso of Bt. i *HBoluved, when I gave all dihigence 0 IIntchinyon, tho clogo of the scrmon thore was s short neas meoting, after which tho congregations disininaod Wi tho beuodiciian, . e——— ABROAD, < VAULEY, Few Yorw, March 7.—Hanry Varles, Evln‘:;: Lvangeliat, from London, proachod thls c;; ta acongrogation of about 7.000 pwple.m course %d which hkgn"lm::‘: ufi :‘;3:“;;‘; aokt ing carried on 10 Englan: 1 which be aid were attended with great sust