Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 19, 1875, Page 3

== Al & e A [ [ WISCONSIN. Who Will Load the Next Republican Tickot in tho Badger State, Tho Thros Cunspicuocus Candie dates at Present for Governor. Yhe Errors of {he P'ast Not Likely to Ilo Rtepeated Next Fall, Harmony and Union Wil Give the Btate to the Ropublicana, Ludington-.-Bmith..-Sawyer. ' the Editor of The Chicago Tridbune? Mirwaukes, April 17.—1In a fow months moro fhere wifl bo a cal) for » Republican Stato Cou- rontion to nominato candidates for State oflices, 10 bo supported by tho party in November, in op- sositiun to Qov. Uytor aud his Reform asso- tiates, who ara now vontontedly drawing thelr mtious fcom tho public crib, ‘Tho renomination + Taglor and tho othots on_the Raform sldo i 1eanmed for tho reasons given at length in a o mer communieation to Tug Trisuxe, and to }b010 roasons may be added aoothor quite a8 po- teus in determining tho result, tu-wit; That a wery large majority of the Democratio pross of tha State are now in favor of that conrse, It {s, then, with tho pr. bable CGANDIDATES OF TUE REPUBLIOANS with which 1 have to deal oa the preseni occa- ston. There ia nothing that helpa to unite s political paity wore effeciuslly than a ressouable pros- puct of bolug difeatod at the polls; and this eoothing pauncos I8 Just now aforded froe of cost to the Ropublicans of Winconsin to cure thow uf all internal dissansions aud to biesl thoir ddivcerds, 1hoy are now out of power in the Btate, aud, 1f they loso the election next fall, thoy will bo in dnuger of loming it in tho great Dresicential yace nexi yoar; sud thatis a risk too mumantous ta be caroiessly (oken, for f might endavger tho perpotuisy of republican in- stitutlons, or, at least, be the firsc stop in om- brailivg the nation in anothor civil strife. It is tho ducy, thereforo, of all good Republicana to work for the anification aud harmony of theparty, to disrogaid past differonces, aud to make somo porsonal sacrificos to Insure victory. For o long & perfed the party has beon so overwholm- fugly strong that a pomination for o Btats ofice has boou equiva'ent to mn election, and hence certain sclfish and ambitious men fastened thom- Boives to it liko barnacles on s ahip's bottom, to mako the mast out of tha voyaze for themselvos withous regord to the consequences o tho party or tho peopla. And thus our Siato tlckets have been burdened with little fel'ons whe posscssed neither jersonal popularity with the people out- sldo of thair respective localltics, noc ability to 1lll accoptably the offices for which thoy iwere re- epectively named, and only socurod thiolr nomjua. 1icn by thoao questionable monns that are known toandarepracticed by the adroit and unscropcdous pulitician, Probubly it is the fate of every dom- innut party in this country Lo azgrogato to itaelf ali of 1o sulhicia of furtuua In politics, and at let—uo mutter how pire tho oigaulzation was 8t the outnot—to eiuk out of sieut beneath tha deua weight of what is pogularly termed *THE BUMMERL RLEMENT," It in theeo unconscior.aulo ruseals who make vol- dties u tiade that manasgo to got to ths frout, and, after being clotbed n a litt.e brief authority, thoy cut euch fantastic tricku Lefore high hea/en 85 L0 not enly muge tho angola biush, Lut todiu- }zu-t aud disheaiten tbe pooplo whom thoy dis- honur. If auy reader wislica to kuow procisely what 1 meant Ly tueseo romarkn, lot bim cone trurt tho londors of tho Ropublican party tu-da, itli its lendera jn 1500, when Lincoln, Ssware Chaao, Stunton, Sumnar, Houry Winter Davis, Guy. Andrew, Feseeuden, nnd obyor good and trus mew stood n# the expiaucuts of its creed, nud ax the rovrorcutatives of his policy. But {o Wikcomw'n, the yame of thess design ing men to neminato thomsolves hiaw baen checlied for & while by tbo defeat «f the pory, uud itd g rospects of victory uoxt fall will depmnl Jargcly upou tho confidoncd ot the jcople in tho nbility, mtopri:ye, and honesty of Its candidaics. T'o this compiexion bas it coine at Jaut, that mon do uot vote the Iiepublican tioket —-Thereforr, Without a why or whcrefore, Lut must bave & good rensou forso doiog, and ove of tho Lest rousouw Lant was ovor given au c'cetor fur sup; orting cortaln meu for offica is, that they aro thorourhly comgpetent, aud will honot aud adorn Lno poxitions for which they wre uamed by their businows qualiteations aud exulied churaciers, couclude, therofore, that tho-o will buuo **slate™ prepared Lefore hand by suybody Yor tho oesxt flnmlhlwnu Htate Couvention to adont ; tuat thore will ba na third- Tato followsstriving to get on to thoticket, bustat the delo~ates will sclect tho bost mon thov can llud.dl\‘nu r'm‘ u-%m aua ‘.Al\'Hnrm tunu:vm com- moud itnelf to tho goud judgment of tle pe of the Staie. o h, Bple .. o WHO WILL HEAD TUE TICKLT ? _Thia I a quostion chat in alrcady being froely discumsed by our politicians, aud tho availability ot candidatos s passing under roview. Up to tho prosent woment out threo namos havo Ennll [rammaml}‘ tamed tn conneet.on with the num- nation for Governor 04 tho Ilepnblican tluket, aud, those wio the Hon. Marrison Ludingron, tho ttesont ponular Mayor of tulselty ; the on. William E, Smuh, ais0 of this city: aud the lou. I'ulotus Bawyor, of Oshkoshk, Theso are nllgood men and true, and, if eithor of them (s nowiuated, the kot will bo wolt roprosonted by its hoad, ond in huw tho Reform candidate wil 1ind o (ormidable opponent. Just uow LUDINGTON SEEMA TO LAVE THE ISEIDE TRACK, and if the Couvention was hiold to-dav bo would undonbtedly ba the nomines ; but what will trau- spire butween this timo and August to tarn pube L sentiment Iu another direction, it is not worth whlle to conjacture. s popularity at home 1uny bo iuferred from the fact that Le hos thrice cairied this city fur Muvyor, 1n opposition to tho regulur nommce of the Democrate, when that party Losatod of 4,000 or 6,000 majority, Ile is B Waw sbout 60 yeurs of ago, and po1¥osscs many qualifications tuat will muke Liman availaulo and popuiar caudidate for Goyernor at the next eleatlons. In tho thiet place, he is paifectly froe trom all the jutluonces of tho tings aud cliques th.t tho rarty has fostered duifug the pass ton years, Ilo ‘wau oppoacd to Matt Catpenter's clection to tho United Biatos Benate six yeacs ago, and cordlalty supported Washburng ut be made that scure even wilh Matt's frionds lnst fall by running for Cougions in this district, and cajrylng in, on bl Lroad and araple suouldors, aix ‘of Carponter's metbors of the Legislature who would other. wiso Lave been dafoated. e is, consoquontly, r\wu‘lnr with Loth tha factious that separatod on ho Senatorial questivn. o is aleo a fine ropra- seutative of (ho \ncuatrial clesees of tha Biato, hoving worked Lis way up frome naked-haoded poverty, whon he fliet landed, ; v 1ho possersion of 8 fanunaw;“}: :h:,u ;fi " ciont to satisfy tho noeds and nz’mnlmlfl nu'n. " ,m" SE any 0 uig tine farm near this oty may ba Bomo of the choicest blooded lmc’k I.o’lw f:::: Ju the country, and which Lo has gatheied to- t’nlher from some ‘of the bost herds in the uited Hiutes, and without regard to the ex- ueo, ‘Lhera {u not one Grabger in o huudred liat bas as much money iuvesiod In land angd stock as Luaington, aud vory foware bettoy post- :d upoan ali nubfocts thatrelato tosgricnlture and elmuultum. than himself. If ho i elcoted avd will improve thie breed of ~politicians, he will do a good thiug for tho Stato, For these reasous “r.oughs to bo popalar in the rurai distriots, and o butfeotly successfal manner of conductiug \u' O\i aairy Las given the business portion of i v"m]mmuuny the utmont contfidence in ks abil- 1 fi 00k atier the intorests of the paople, it |mo‘um be called to fill the Execntiva oftics of Lty m“. While blutt old Hall* s ot an edus fo oan' Aud cAnnat wiile 8 meassgo that will hu‘txl': ol of "'r'.‘.f’u'xlf;lo‘i"“"’ nn«h‘l% u‘xco.hh: sayiug preclsely whal and the honesty te nm]:: all lmy Bayd, ;Ll::o? fl?:lili“t:t‘:d:fif elected Govarnor, the af- prciplen o fur ad ALl be rua on wirich_buaiiess H5d jsdleronce Lo vetreachiment and oconomy Mayor of this city, then th i ronson Lo rogret that the ‘nlpvouopllx'u: lll:x::l:“ll:.l‘: ftrages for tho highest fll«clll position in thelr . ANOTRES THING IN H1s yavon 3t present v, that nony of ¢! lh&ed Staton Benalo Joum'fl«'.‘r‘:{“".ifilf,‘:{l;.'.‘-'. comiuation with & jealoua ey, for jhe 1esvon tbat be would not ba in thelr way on (ne road to Wasblagion, Somakiow ihs Govermeraulp ' iy Wisoonsin, uniike that offige in most of tho other Rtatea, Las not proved to bo & etoppiug-stono to tho United Btatos Bonsts, and” excopt Gov. Dodge, who rorvad oneterm in the Henate, onr Uovarnora hava fafled to rasch (hat distination, sithough many of thom bavo chieriwhed a livaly hapo ;fin: that would bo thelr dastiny, Ludiug- ton's ambition srill bo eatisfled with™ the honor that tho Governorabip will confer, and with it he would 1esl from his [abora in the diroctlon of political prefarment. Nelther would hie he likoly to interfora with the slnction of Bonator, nor uae the poalion and in- fluence of Lis oflica to control it, but alow tho respective parties to manage thoir own caso in their own way, Another resson that wilt bo urgod for lus nomination, and oue that will have great wedght with tho Conventlon, Is, that here 1n this Congreasionnl Distelat, composed of threo af the mironpest Demacratie countios in the Ktato,—Milwaukoo, Ozaukee, and Washington.— which gavo ‘Iaylor i 1873 & wmajouty of over 11,000, Ludinglon reduced the majority over two-tuirde, when running against ane of the abloat and moat popular mon in the district, Tbin fact is not hikely to bo furgotion or jgnored by a convention of delogates representing o pacty out of power in the State, and who sre lu)khlx( for A wau ihat is able to load then out 0° the Wilicrneen of Dofost, and mhow them, from the Mountnin of Hope, & Laud of Promise ilowing with oflicisl mulle and housy, and full of prazneotive Post-Offices, *Io & recout convessation with a friond upon this wteesting quortion, Mr. Ludiugion stated hun witlingness to toko & hand in che contost next fall ageinat Tayior, provided tho nom:na- tlon comes to bim without cifort on e past, and pravided that tho balance of tho tickat ia cow- posed of strong and gau«l men. **If I qun at all," mart © Bluit O Hall,” 1t will ho tp beat, and I shall not run au tho ropresen‘ativa of any olique, or 1ing, or faction of the party, but as the pandidato of every Republioan {u tho Stato. Othoryisc count me out.” Bo he may be fairly considered a candidate for ;hs nomivsijon, with stron g probabilities in his avor. TUE HON. WILLIAM E. SMITH, of this city, a populatund wealthy metchant of the Brm of Bmith, Roun:dy & Oo,, 18 also often spoken of io counoction with tha Guvumoruhm‘bhut Lo wlll uot be likoly to s'low bis nawmo to bo pre- sented to the Coavention, it tho delsgates from this cisy and couuty should bio united in favor of Ar, Ludington, 1lo sarved four yuars as Htaty Treasurer to great accoptanco, and bae a large acqusintance with the prominout men throughout the Blate, who would profor hin nomiuat.ou to that of any other man. Your teaders will tecollect that Mr. Buwith was s candidate bofore tho Ropublican Conven- tion 1n 1873, nud recoived a vory tlsttering vote, cramung Mr, Washburn vory closs in tho raco, Ho wud his friouda woro nut” well sacisfied wich tho rosuit. T'hoy assertod thst the oficebolders, uuder {ko advice of buth the Unitod 8 atea Bon- ators, were aliogetlier too ofticious in dictating the nomination, in dofianco of tho wishes of n majority of the pouple, and their disapporntment doubleen induced many of them to absout thewm- gelves from the polls, aud thus oontsiuuted to tue dojoat of tho licket. Curiou-ly enough, altbough the Smith men wore Eiiter towards Washiburu's friends for the part thoy took in thy Guberoaturisl conteat, thoy all turved in to ns- siut fintbo defoat of Cacpontor, last wintor, snd cordiaify supp.riod Mr. Washbar for Banator, 1f 1t e ‘trua that thoy contribaiad to the over- throw of Washburn by not vminE in 1873, aud helped to put Mate lu'his littlo bed in 1875, It sooms as if all their wronga have besn reasona. bly avenged, and that they muat now ba ready to forgot tho past and o in "licartily mext fall for a0y man wuo may be nomluated.” If it is any componsuifon for aman who has been digap- poited in his bhopes for pohitical prefermont to sea cho nepitations of bis enomtes kuled by nu untimely froat, then 1t inay bo supposed that Mr. Smith has not wasted any etationery in writing letters of sympatuy and condolence to either Whaanbuzn or Carpenter. o lag borno the ro~ verses of buth of those genilemon with romaria- ule fortliude and sef-control, fur & sound Xe- r:‘lbllicmu ho fs, aud Lolds fast to the fwith al 14 Fover the right comes uppermost, And ever is Justics doue,” Mr. Smith Is of Scotch doscont, about 55 yoans of aye, a promineat and aciive membver of iho Baptist Church, and is jnet the aty'o of man that Lelpa to make political life tespactable. TILE MON. PHILETUS BAWYER. In tha nortloru portion of tho Btate, tha name at tho bhead of tus paragraph is oftenect heard In conneotion with the Ropublican nommation for Govarnor. This {e nataral enough, for tho reasou tuat r. Sawyer bau been their most con- pivuous mon for fifteon yoars, and lns merved thom ten yosru tn Congross with an abilty ana u‘hmi totheir intereats whioh leave no regrois bouind. If ho goos iuto tho noxt Stato Conven- ton to throw the dico for the mowjus- tlou for Guverfior 4 lard to tall which will “be lucky man, Theso two men are very much all<o io many reapects : Loth camo to the Stato poor ; both Lave made large forcanes in the lumber bauiness 3 both may La propeily classed amoug tho men who have risen; bouh ‘are mear the #amo age ; both are uncducated, in tho souss 1n which tno world undeiatands that tarm : and both havo been emiucntly successfut in life, and aro uoted for thoi¢ common kense and pincticat abitity., Emeraon ss=a iu h's quaiut way tha * Out of a pine log s Westorn man will whittle & Judroship, s seat in Cougrers, and a Foreigu Minsion ;" hero ~ are two Wiscon- Bin mon tuas haeo proved thia sphorivm to bo almoat literally tie, Sawyer's caraer in Cone aross, everythiug considercd, wea ono of tho moat romarkabls aud succosatol that the Listory of tha louse of Nopresontatives lus known siuco ‘ita oiganizanon, Duriog tue ton yoars that ho haa Lioid a eeat in that body, he hes never oscupled tho n:tontion of the Bpcakor and of tho Houao to exceed flve minpton at & time with ro- maris, aud yot ho was kno vn and acknonlodged 1o be ono of tha most olliciont, industrious, and {nfluontial memberw of the popular branch of Cougress, Ilo knaw evaiybody, helped every- body, was nover lhaer"; from “tho House, kopt thorougaly posted on the business, but mado no speechies, Naid & proiu.nentHenator to me once: *‘Bawyer is tho strougost man in Congreas, and has twico dous what no o:her msn hes beon ablo to do. ‘Twico he fiss reportod appropriation billa from tho Committes of Coni- motco amounting to over 25,000,000 in the ag- giegalo, and passed thom under s susponaton of tho rulos, without altoration or amendwont.” 1lis retiromont from Congross {a a soro loas to tue country and tho Stato, thatcaunot be readily supplicd, and his election as Governor wonld ba:dlv componsate for his abeence from Wash« ington. If ho wishes to entorthe liet for tho nom.nation—and on this subject T am ignorant 24 to his {utontiona—be will bo srrongly backed by hia frionds fn all parts of the Stato, aud, 1L selected for tho hord of tho tiokot, he wilt mako o vlirorous, and no doubt succeseful, campaign, 0 much for tho first namo on the Ilopuplioan tickot, whick, ss important aa it Is coacodod to be In calenlating the moana of success in a polit- 1cal cauvass, uust not be allowed to ontirely ovaralisdow = the subordinste places o the sama, With the frost scarcoly out of the ground, and the torpor of winter hardly thrawn off, the ofliclal fllea have not yet commonced buzzing, nor lave the political spidors beguu 1o splu thoir weba, Iut tue carly bird catchuu the worm, sud soon thoro will bs patziots enough anxious and willing to servo tfln(r country to nupply wny ressonable * demand; though, as utiggostad in the oulsat, thore will ba lous’ pushe ing for places on tho ticket than formorly, Neithor will the Ropublicana bo likely to make tho rame mistakes that thoy did two years ago,— the chiaf ono of which wasin uct allowing the Uormons a ropresantative upon the tiokat, con. trary to the custom of tho party {u this Btato over since it had an orgamzation. CATl. BOUULE iirét made his appearance in politioal life in this country in 1857, whon ho was nomin; for Lieutenunt-Guvernor oa the ticket with the lato A, W, Taniall, and ovor siuco that Hme the Gor- man Republicana have boon recoguized aud com- plimeuted by the State Oonveation, until two vears azo, wlion, Intho gonoral sorambla thag ensued for place, thoy w.ro eutiroly iguored. When the vutes wore couuted In November, ft was found {Lat 4he buildors hsd rojected the wrong stono, in lhmwmfz averboard “tue Ifon, Henry Baetz, the oandidato Lor Btate Trossurer, v au unflt man, with Lodington, it tho tor Lioutenaut-Goveruor, and hiow wull Lis oase Aliusirates tho old adsge of growiug vigorous aud majeatic onks from diminutive ucoros, Le bad just tortown, delogate, represonting the handful of lepubil cans tLat bad Lold to the true fuith in that Lot. bed of Bourbon Domocracy, I ramember the tall. slim figure; tho thoughtful, intoltigent, classio, distinctively Gorman face the massive hioad covared with rioh chestuut bairs the brosd forehead and tha inquisitive oyes, half-hidden by the gold-bowed spoctacieu ; tha o3quisita cholce of words whonaver hespoke, whether in German or English g the balf-hesitancy in the struggle with soe of our own tough idioww, ugfim vativo German accent that coverad our Jough English as the bloom covers the plum, Al “thls, snd a short body placed upon long legs which Mr, Nust made B0 much ont of durmg the last Frosi- dontinl cempaigu, Bchprz was a strangep ta slmoat avery delegata in ghe Conyention; aud, when Bhermain M. th, thou editor of the Dally Fres Demoorat, arose snd proposed his wamse o4 6 aandidath for tha second plase on the THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1875, Hcket, * Who in ha?" was the foquiry that went sround_the Aescmntly Chambor without an si- awer, Ruch & question would not ba sakod con- crrning Boourz now in any school-district 1u the Unite1 Btates; but thas waa sighteen years ago, and Fortuno's uncertain wheol Las taken many sn unogpscted whirl sinco then. Behurz was naminated at thas time, buc failsd of an elea- tion by & fow voten, and Randall barely esoayied dateat, e aftorwards removed to this city, whora he ougaged in the practica of Iaw, bt without succoss, and ha soon abandonel it to an- q.\izc fn jourasliem and politics, and m loth fields ho Lias boon quite sucsaselul, a4 the intollie gent roader e alroadv & varo, Tut Iam Wln(lurlnr into tha fogey domain of history, when Iahoulu Lu disussing THE BEFUBLICAN ERIORN OF TILE PART, and drawing thorefrom wisdom, consolation, and waining tor our guldauce in tha future, Lot ma consteiot a philoloxical bridga upon which 1 may oross back Lo tio shiore of tho prosent, aud cloko this long lotter by saving that i1t in not probabie that any of tho eandidates who wers beatzn with Qov, Wasthbuen fn 1873 will bo likely to bo pinced again upon the ticket this fall. Now men will La soloctal, fresh from the [llullln. each one ot whom will be n strength tustead of & burdon 10 the ticket,—and, forgetting tho thinga of thn st that tanded to disturb and diatract us, wa ahall closo up our ranks aud follow the good ald un{; oneo muro Lo victury. ho Rtopublicans of Wisconsin ara porfectly conxcions of the supremen necorsity of maintaine {nge tho mupremaoy of the paity at Washiugton, and of protecting overy interast that was put in Joopardy by tho iato rebotlion, They are awaro that tha spitit of saceanion (s uot vet dead In tuo Bauth, and thas it can only bo proveuted from breaking out into open violouce again by the face boing mads everywhers manifest that se, who oxtmguished the flames of clvil war, ara etill dotorunued * to form » mora petfect uninn, establish justice, insure domestic tranquilily, romote tho fiuneml welfare, and to securo thy “lll;ylh.lgl of liborty to ourselves and our pml.‘“- Yy T THE FIRST GUN. Exerclses Lanst Evening Prelim- inary to the Great Centen- nial Celebration, AT LEXINGTON. Lexiaotoy, Mass, April 18,—fha insugural exorcises of the groat Centonuial colebration properly began this ovening in the Town-Hall, fucludiug publio eervicos and a discourso by the Rev. Willlam Adsms, of New York. Music waa rendered by & large chorus and military band Tho ball was dense- 1y packed, and hundreds wore usable to gain admisslon. Tho excersises wera of o roligious order, aud excoodingly impiessive, and thoe ad- drogs of Mr. Adems wae listencd to with rapt eitention, After tho opeuivg performanco by tho Dmckton DBand, they withdrew to a mammoth tent & quarrer of o milo up the main straot, whare thov gavo s solaction of encred rlmmu. The tent was well filled, bundieds bav- ng como i on trans sud by privata canvev- suces, Tha finishing touchea have beon put upon the decorations, aud the whcla town {a one flutloving mass of flags, banuors, and sircamera, Every ancient land- mark 18 denoted, aud its counection with the historio ovents of the great duy tu-morrow to ba celebrated s ‘zhlnl,v marked Ly mottoes and in- criptiol The grand tont stauds at the rizht of a lo knoll on which the soveaty ombattled farmoers atood, and direoily apposits aro tho pross Loadnuarters. looated in n houso which datew its_orection previous to the 1tk of April, 1776, It is gaily decorated snd insoribed with tue warde, ** Ouo ot the original witlesses of tho battle of the 19th.” Tho day Las boco fino, tho ground was dry, and walke ing gond, Tho sir was chull, but otharwiso everythiag botokens a fine day for tae culminat- 1ag eatobration. AT CONOORD. Coxoono, Mass., April 18,—The services held in Unitsrian Ghurch thia morning wero attouded by tbo Presideat and party. Dutlog the day the parly drove’to tho historie points and in- epocted them 1t company with the Henm. L. R. Hoar, An {oformal reception was beld in tho afternoon, The President, in his move- ‘monts, was received without auy sign of popnlar ovation. Over 2,800 wtraugers wora in town to-day, and accommodations are alrea at o premium. Tho streets woro adorne with fupumerable flags, aod the decors- tive features of the colebration are mag- nificant, Alany private residencos are olabo- rately festooned with ovlors, A mammoth tant on the Provincisl parads ground 1s in readie ness for dinner, and sppropriataly ornamentod with mottoes nud banners, Tho srrangoments for to-morrow aro completo. AT BOSTON, Rostox, Apnl 18,—Contenuial services were held at © OId North Chureh " to-night. Hun- dreds woro unsble to rain admittance, The vuilding wal decoratod. and an the steeple were hung Ianterns commomorativo of the mignsl given Paal Rovo:o, Addrosses were mada Ly a son of old Saxton Nowman, the Hon. G. B. Loring, ex-Gov. liawlov, and other, Among those prosent wero Vice-Prosident Wilson, Gevige W. Childs, Jos. 1, Aawlov, Gen. Qoshiorn, and D), J. Morrell, of the Contennial OCommission, and members of the Phladelphia Council, who arrived to-dsy. FIRES. IN CHICAGO. The alarm from Box 40 at 8 o'clook yesterdsy mornieg was caused by fire in the two-story frame buildiog No. 778 Indiana svenue, owned Ly tho Michigan Cantral Raliroad Company, and accupled as & residence by Edward Joffrios. No sorious damage resulted, Tho cause of the Dblaze was an overheated stove, A firo 8aturday midnignt, at No. 187 Kinzie strost, McCormiok Duildiug, caused a loss of &800. Frauenknecht & Co., commission men, oc- r‘l:plan: the premises, A defective atove ocaused o fire, AT SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Gpecial Dispateh to The a0 Tribune, BronemisLp, 1L, April 18.—The stables bo- lovging'to O, I, Long, & baker iu the weat part of tho clty, wore burnod down ocarly this morn- fog, Tour horses, two baker's wagons, and athor Hke proporty, wero deetroved. The loss is not leea $1,600 or 2,000, and there is no insurance, AT ERIE, PA, Special Dispatch to Lhe Chicags Tribuns,. Eunig, Pa,, April 18.—The dwolling-house of Jolmn M. Pattorson burned last evening, Loss, $500. Insured in the Lancaster for Ml% — OBITUARY, OLEVELAND, 0., April 18,—Orlando Cutler, one of tho oldest rosidents of thin city, died this morulog, ayed 76, Hantroup, Conn,, April 19,—James Root, for- merly of Olevelaud, died Saturday, agod 88, He was ono of tho oldest living graduates of Yale Collego, and a ploneer sottlor in Obio. Cuxsten, N, Y., April 18,—Dr, Hortwell Care Yer, the great-granason of Gov, Carver, ona of tho' earliovi_sdvocatos of tho Facllo Nailroad, died in Pitwaford Friday nigat. et i ok e THE GRAY. Meueuin, April 18.—At a meatiog of ex-Con- fodarate voldiers last night, to oge for decs oratiug the gravos of Coufedoratea on the 22d of. May, a resofution was unanimoualy adonted ask- Ing ex-Federal soldiors to participate in the coromonies. _Among thoso present at tho mool lng waro ex-Presidont Jefforsou Davls, ex-Gov. a- :-lm G, Harrls, Gens. B. Collon Gresne and ordon, o AN S THE BLACK HILLS. Ouana, Nob,, April 18.—A company of caval ¥y, under command of Capt, Mix, srrived at Port Taramla to-day with tle Hasuoy's Deak miners, They iad & hard trip, and mporl much 30w and hugh waters, i st MAINE POLITICS. Avovara, Me., April 18.—A strong movament belug made througlont tho iate siuca the witidrawal of Gov. Dungle {o briug out Gen. eldon Connor for tho next lepublican candi- ts for Governor. —_— e THE WEATHER, ‘Wasmnorox, D. 0., Apnil 18.—For the Guit Btates, ‘lonuesyeo, (he Uhio Valloy, sud the Lake Rogioo, pastly cloudy weather and 1y risiy emporature, with goutheaut to sonthweat windsy and 1alling barometor during Mondsy night. B g The te Millare’ Assodistion nicets at Deu l[g‘l)n'-: sn‘:x: ’l'ue.erd'u. Thp s;ue-;lgn of shipments, aud that of Luyuranse, will be tus oblef topies of satlen. draped with ffags aud otherwise' RAILROAD NEWS, Report of the President of the Baltimore & Ohio, His Criticism of the Pennsylvania Road and Its Presidont, Stormy Meetlng of the Hondholders of lio Danyllle & Viucennes. Railroad Changes in Towa, THE BALTIMORE & OHIO, PRESIDENT GALRETT'S REPONT. At the last regulsr monthly meetiug of the Bosrd of Diraotors of the Baltimora & Obio Hallroad, held last Wednosday, Prosdent Uar- rett adirossed the Directors at somo longth vn the mubject of the great tailroad war, which Lo reviewed in full, defonding tho sction of the Daltimure & Onio and eniticlalog tuat of his onponents, In Lis opening remarks President Ciarrett congratu- lated lus colioagnoes In connaction with . the doalaration of the usual dividend upon tho *wpleudid aud aingularly eatisfaciory resalts of the hostilitios waged by the Peunsslvavia Itail- road Company agsiust this Compony;" aud shiowod thiat thoiacrease of the carninga of tho month of March, 1873, over that of tha sams month in 1874, amounted to §103,313,82 Tho rosults ehowed an fucreasn of revenue upon the mzm atom, notwhhstanding tho largely dimin- ished charge for paescogers, of 45 per cent ftom this source. The earninge of the Chicaga Division for March last wero also shown to be more than 50 per cent greator (hau for tho aamo month of the previous yesr. Yre:ident Garratt proceeded to siato tho res- eons whica {nduced the Baltlmore & Ohio Coum- pauy not to enter Inlo TUE BARATOOA AGREENLNT on tho oceasidn of \lo visit of Prewidents Van- derbilt, dowett, and Scott to Ualtimore, in November last, and which he &tated to thoss gentlumon in auxwer 1o their arguments in favor of his juimug tbo combinazion, In brief, there wero that, winlo tho comlination wonld tem- porarily, from the iucressed rates, swell tie earuipgn of tho companies in combiystion, yut such hustilo action geucrally ou tho part of tho publio would be induced ns would ‘moro thun couutorbalaucotbe temporary advautage,—a poiut In which the Prosideut of tho New York Ceutral Ttond ackuonlodged there lay much loree. Whi'a decliniug to becomo & member o1 tho comblua- ti0g, hia urgedgupon thie other Prosidents the viciousnoas of fast-freight hoce, tmpressivg his conviction that thoy weio vampires Lou {ho railway aystem whioh would iuteifero with tho maintenanca of 1easonabie action with regard 1o treigut rates. Ho slao agieod to tle sboliliun of commieeions on freights nnd ¢ azeengers, and to displacing middismen genorally. For s shott time aubsoguent 1o that oonfer- ence, tho goucral viows tuus agrecd upon wero cauried ont, but it scon becams appauout that tho faut-freight linea were vioatng thair agroe- mant, aud tlyt the bus.ness of the Biltimoro & OQbio Road was consaquentls sufferiny, capecial- 1y in the Eastetn citles, aud it was fiuaily COMPELLKD TO PROIEUT ITAELY, wheh it did by catablishiug tho 1ute trom Chi- cago to Dalumoro at 85 conts per 100 pounds, which proved s subject of preat disatinfaction to tho Noithern bues, and nnube?uenuy ledtos decteass of tha rates beyween Chicaga aud Bast- cru oities much Lolow thoso which bad besu je- quired oy the thseo Nuithetn liues durmg pre- oeding winters. Com,laiuis wore made by ofli- cers of the Lenneylvania Road regardivg tho Daltlmore & Ollo's raduced rates, and the l’mm Company domonatrated that the fast freight- linew of the Ponnwyivania Road were 1o fact the guilty parties, . As 8o lllustration of tho viown of tho Penn- sylvaula regarding the * brealking the agreoment,” Presidout Gariett subtniited corres spoudence botween tho Thurd Vice-I'roaident of the Penuaylvania Xoad, aud the Vice-I'zem- dent of the Dalimore & Qbio, in which the former aliuded to the rates charged by the Balti- more & Ohio Road ou petroleum as being & cut of 48 ceniw a bairel Lelow the Phuladeipbia's net Tuto, and o violation of the agreument, To this AL BUBWOL WAS scut, BLontog that when tho ads vauco on conl-ofl rates wos made from the oil- regious and Pittsburg to New York, Philadel- phia, and Baliiwore, they were vot consulted, and hod thoy boen thoy would bave exprestod the viowa now Lold, that thero s wolhing in tho stuation of tho coal-oil trade to cause the advance in the rates of {rauspcrtation. Tboy had mnot chabged their rates; and, when there had been nothing agrood to by the Balttmore & Ulio Com- paoy, thera could not basny violation of ou agrecment on its patt, Tho effect upon the tratfic of the road of the maiutonance of the mederate rates was cited by Preatdent Uarrott, who produced statistica show- -ing that the oxports of refined oil from Bakl- moro from Jan. 1 to March 29, 1875, wera b,025,~ b03 gallons, as compated with 840,722 gallous ox- poried lu the samo timo tlo year provious. Af- teralindiog bricily to the vastneeaof the increase of the coal-ofl bumness in Baltimore aadue to the moderate and judicious action of tho Dalti- more & Olio Compavy, President Garrott pro- cocded a8 followa: Aud this case fllustrates largely the tone and_clar. acter and resgonableness of {ne crilicum and hosttie action of the Pennsylyenia Iosd fowards the Laltl- & Ohfo Compuny. But tue Laltimore & gy witl ta_edmirable equipruent, ia sus rior ruads, il 18 effective lines o tho great cen. ires Of trade in the Boutlwest und Ihe West and the Nortliwest, in commanding simply that to which it ‘wan fairly enlitied from iis enterprise, became more and more an objoct of Jealous hoatility on_the part af 1ts competitors, Palpably tiey resolved that it must be controlled, and tho history of tho cave_showe lat the disunguisbed President of the Iennaylvania Hailroad Comyany was the volunteer to cantrol aud reduco to submission the Diltimoro & Ohfo Com- any, Like Din Quixote with tho winduulls, with Ell alngle spear he dJcternived to coutrol or demolishs the Haltimors & Obio Gompany | His bev- lute coulldence in achieving the proposed viclory ovi- dently induced tho representalives of the Now York Central and the New Yoik & Erlo to givo him all ke cower sudscupe be askad ; atd, gentlemun, what Lias en_the consequenca? 1s it hut known 'to sll that e chief point i the policy of {ho Laltimore & Oblo Company Lias beon 10 budld up tbe trade of Baltimora? And tufs chatapion of the Sarut Cogaombination has given to the Baltimore & Oufo Load Ly his course the moat_splendid success in all fis bintory in euabling it to accumplish fts grand object ] To punish the Baltl- anore & Objo Company, what courss did he adopt T Ho reduced the 7ater from Baitimors to tho Weat to one-half~and in some cases to much Jews thsu _oue-haif~the charges from Fulsdelplita sud Now York and Dosion to the samo eltice; sud ‘thus ho made tho Penusylvanis Rallrosd mpany, the spo.ial roprescutativa of tho City of Fhiladelhis, to ald directly tho Baltmore & Ohto Compauy to accompiish ihe leading object of ity pollcy with a succcsa thiut has attracied (b attention of ihe whole country | 1o has given to the opening of the Cbicsgo exteneion of the Haltimore & Ubto Koad s sdvertisement, a elgnificant couspicuousuces, aud e for il & power and preatigy aud fame for un- parallelod urcfuluces whick years of ite own elforts conld not Lave eifected | o has placed Leforo tho natfon the fuct that the Baltiwore & Ohlo Company hav lucs 80 commundivg o thelr intlusnce ttat the Penusylvania Iad, controlitug, as stated in the report of {is Lavestiguting Commition, 5,58 Inliss of rallway, represcuting capital of $98457,073.2% bos Leon compelled 10 subordinate itaelf and throw its whule power tuto bulldiug up the Clty of Haltimnore as the exponso of ity own City of Yhiladelyliia and otler Yastorn citiea ] Preaident Garrott then procooded to DRAW A CONTUAST botween the financial condition of tho Daltimora & Ohio aud the Pennsylvania Company, show- g that while the former Company bas only %143,000,000 of common and 3,000,000 of pra~ ferrod stock, the latter slows of stock alone 08,719,400, After alluding to tha ntnurd(nu-{ proceeding of tho Penn- sylvanis Hoad In - rofusing sccommodations upon the Camden & Ambe{hun for tho frelght and pussengor buaiuess of the Baltimore & Ublo Itoad, Fresideus Garretc as an illustiation of 1ho ability of thiat ine 4o comweto with its op- ponout drew & comparisou between two similar branches of both unes—thio Baltimoro & Potomag Noad, sod tho Washiogtou brauch of the Lalti- mora & Ohio Compauy, showiug that tha former, & BIURIO track ot of the beut character, Ia state 10 ropressnt & debt of more thau §8,000,000, wile the latter, which Is strictly & fliat-olass duouble-track road, is represouted by s capital of £1,650,000, Alinding to Tik GRNERAL RESULTE of tho xaiiroad war, Prosident Garrott sald: Every sxtificlal obetzuvtion placed 11 tho way of traf- #lo from the Balthuore & Okio uad to Puiladelphia Now Yark scrvéa to add busiuess 1o Baltiniors, ually iucreusas tie qrest sympathy sud suptiort Pennsylvanis Company may dq Trestdent Bentt Mtatea that hiv charge for terminal expenecs, viz: for the tranafara at New York, by putting ears an fin.ie botween dersay Uity and New York, of 6 eents por 100 pounds, *ls Tiat suMlctent to covct the actual cont e work done,” Tho Haltimore & Ohin Company b & a simflas trausfer porformed fn tlio Rume manur tveen Locuat Paine and Canton, and the actnal cos thin transfor i less than the half of ) per cent par # Prosident Garrett then atated that the battio bad hocomo not a fight of ono railroad aezinst snoter ona, bt & strugple to maintain the poli- oy of the Baitimoro & Qo Cumpany ageimst the cumbined power of the gresteat railwavs of tho continnnt, ronresenting an aggrozate capital of more than #500,000,000, and urged that the very fact thut the Laltimore & Ohio Railroad rep:c- aented o limited o capital, with aneh grand and effactive lines nnder its management, made vie- tory o it past cenain, Alter alluding o et struggles in which the road bad hinen ongaged, bo called upon the Di- rectars to senlinue the policy of preserving THI: INDEPENDENCR OF THE GOMPANY, and showed how a continuanve of toat poliey would not fail to advauce the interests of Lalti- more, In concluding bis rematks ko spoke s fol- ows Tresident feolt hias adSresned to mno the datement ibat bo beiicvos the reliway officris sil tha stock- bolders thiat tnuy Le injured will buld the Peoaident of tne Hialthnore aind Ohio Mallrad reajsnsiblo for this “yoifey of destsuction,” Whit 14 il * poiics of destruction?” Tho reduc- tlon of ratea S iithnore {o_one-balf the jrices charged in Philadelyhia and Now Yorkto Westeru uties origuated by Lim std coutimat by him, Other dith and reductlons followed from thix rause, re wtnbiory things,” aud 1ha Judgwents mien are governed by facin end nut by erroucouy o sortlous, 1f b vact raffiway systein which, legitiinat 1y ue flegiunately, aw beaa, bult up uf couticile Ly the Penurylvinta” Ratiread Company shall e bioken down by tha folly of ibess jrocesdiogs, listors whi record that the (ailures 4o pay on tho siock and Londe of the ronds involved, which I regret taautizly ate, will catine the ruln snd misery of tLousauds of Lelploss aud inuocent fuventors and vicitos, § skall fecl, with clear consciouce, thut the responsbility te with ', aud that the continuance of this siate of thlugs sea.u with the Prosident and Directorn of e Pennsylvania Road, end that no fart of that responsildlity, rainous 28 tho preults may Le 10 vast suteresis, attacties to the managern ¢f the Daltimoro sud Obio Raffroud Come 3. &Y tho conclusion of thoaddicss, romarka wera made "'fl the otber Directors susta:ning tao poli- o7 of the Company, and a resoiurion 488 unuti- mouely adopied appros the pelicy of the Company. ————— DANVILLE & VINCENNES, MEETISO OF TIZ LONDUOLDEBS, At a meeting of the first mortgage beudholders of the Chicago, Danville & Vinconues Railroad, held it Now Yerk last Wednesday, to receive the report of the Committee appcinted b a previous meeting to investigate the condi- tlon of tho road, there was pres. oot a fall attondance of the bondholdets from Now York, Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, Phi'adelphis, and othor Jarge citles, Mr. Jud- son, tho I'cesident, Mr, Teaney, the Vico-Presie cent of tho road, who, a8 was shown in Tux TRINCNE 8Om0 timo ago, aro accused of sppropri- ating 1t to themeelves, aud M. Foadick, cue of the two Justices, occupied conspicucas meats at tho meetiug; but tho othor Trustee, Mr, Fish, waa abaent, and was represented by bls son. Tho accused ofiicers, na the proceedings of tho mest- fug ahowed, bad uot attendod it without a strong backiug, ‘Lo meeting was called to order with Mr, 3. AL, Dennison, of Ibuadelpuis, auChairtan, aud tho firet businers doLo was the' reading by AMr. ¥, W. Hi dokoper, of the Invertizatiug "Com- miltee, a pamphilot whick, fo bicty-zeven print- ed pages, rot fortia tue resalta of the Commitioe’s labors. Tue repott was cotvoborated by the siate of aflairs in_counection with the road. which was sot forth in ‘Liie TRILUNE at the time Messrs, Hrmmond aud Irowu, tho licceivers, had becomo able to report progreas 1n their wori smong the archivesof therailrosd preserved in ite ofilces in thia city. During tho roading of certaln parts of the intarestiniyz documout, tho bondholders could not resint tho gloomy amile which 1svoluntaniiy stola over their fentures, and this was especully the casa when the glowing circulars Iseued Ly Judson and Taunoy 1n ald of tho salo of the lndinna bunds camo to bo rend. At the cod of the reading, Mr. Foudlck, oneof the Trustees, denied, nith excited gesticulations, that he bad ever signed & uupplementary mert- rege, and nsisted that it was bono of his busi- vess whether there were ouly 108 wiles of road for whict Lo had accopted o truat deed for 140, but, oo the tion bulzfi asked, ** What aro ‘Irubtees for #" Mr. Foadiel turned very rod in tho face, and 6at down spoedily, Tho ron of Ar. Iish, the other Trustee, tried to poraunde the meoting that his fathor's signa- ture on the 1ndisna Lond ciroular was not gouus~ iue, but eeveral gentlemen present showea tost they knew otherwise, aud the young gentleman alzo subsided, The report of the Committea wag ndooted, amid great confusion, by & large majonty, and tho confuwion increased to a row wlici a gentle- man arose and offered a_resolution cwbodyiug & voto of censure on the Trustees, aud n request of & rosignacdon of thoir charge, Tho backing of the oiticors fouglit tue paseago of 1he resolu- tion, which was finalty withdrawn by ita mover. After another fgh: permission was granted Mr. Fosdick's attoruey, Mr. Waiker, of this city, togive a statemont, which ho did, stativg that the “Trusteos of a rond hind ouly & passive trust, and oxplaining the messurca ho had taken in Clicsgo to have tho Road taken out of tho bands of Mossra. Brown and Hammoud and given to o0s of his own choosing. Mr, Huidokapor read o draft of an sgreement to b wigued by the bondhaldarw, in which they pledgo themselves to act in harmony, and em= wer & oummittee, to be appointed by the President, to portect a echeme for tho purchase. reorganization, aud operation of the Chicago, Danvilio & Viucenuea Xoad for tho benefit of tue houdholders, the Committee 1o employ counael aud ake full chargo, the bondholdeis sgreciug to pay an segessment, vot to exceed 1 per bond, to meet tho expenscs of any action that may be taken, Over thia tho fight waxoed long and Litterly. Tho frionds of tho otlicors plosded tho wikdom of delay and the .11y of raskinoss, ‘Thioy thonght tho document oughl to bo printed. A week would make no difforance. Evory possible plea was offered, with the evidout intoution of aining time, The boodholiery, on the other band, argued that immediate action was neces- aary ; that & weok would throw tho rond 1 tho hands of Judeon, Tenusy & Co, 'Two attempts wore mado to pass a resolutiou of censure on Mesara. Foedicks and Figh, but in the confasion uothing came of it. At length, a vote on the adoption of the agrecment was carried, the Chsirman atatiug that he wouid sunounce the comunttos next moring. Tho mosting theu adjowned. 1 the wmsintousuce of —_— MISCELLANEQUS, RAILROAD CHAMNGL. e Weat sud the Bouth, sne 10 sustuluing timory & Ohlo Liosd and s Oty of Balti uds of mutual interest axe being thus effoctively strengihesed, Ob- atruct the movement of Jovse elphia aud froighit be- tweon Ualtimore snd Phil Baltimoro and New York, aud those very pissongors stop st Baltl- uore, exumine jts advetlages s & markel, purchng tholr goods, svall cf the low frelgts from this clty, sud become ils customers aud cordial fifends. Auother contrast of evauomy of worklug seems fo show tho alility of the Dalthiore & Obio Company 0 mudsleln faalf ds a7 sempoltion Whish 1ka Special Disate (o The Chicago Tridune. Des Moixes, Ia, Apnl 18.—It le roported on good suthonty that the Olncago, Rock Istand & Paciflo Ratlroad Company contomplates an im- portant chango in its road. The Southwestern Drauch js to be extondod to Qukalooss ; thonco to Summaerset, on the Indianols Branch, in War- ren County; thence to thiu city, When that ls dong, tho line will be straightened trom diusca- tino to Davenport, ouiting off the right anglo to Milton, thus shortening the routs, This will give 8 botter, suorter, sud moro diroct routo to Councll Bluffs from Daveuport; and tho ex- [uul tratus will be run via Muscatine and Oska- ogus, instand of via lowa City and Grionelt, PUESIDENT ORANT PAYING HIS FALE Montion hau alteady boen iado of the Ineunvv tion sgalnst the New York, New Haven & lart- fard liosd to provent its issuing paxses. Among thoso caught were Prosideus Grans aud bis paity, on thelr way to Concord, Masy. Tho Now York Tiibune anyat Presldent Grant, accompanted Ly Vico-Prosident Wilson, Soctelaty Delany, Ueu, Uelknay, Gen, Jab- cock, Goorge W, Childs, Pustmanter Qenoral Jawell, the Comwitteo of tho Aussachusotts Legzisliuro sevt to mect the President, oud ofhers, left tae Grand Cootral Depot by the 10 a. m. exvcew tafn for Haridord, “in the drawlugefoom car, “dovornor Jewell,” provided _especlal thelr soconmodution, A'large numer of jersous st sambiad at tie dopot (b withess Liclr doparture. As Qou, Grant spproached the door to pass from tha walt. {ug-rooin 10 the care, the doorkesper prowptly stopped i and demended @ tlckola,” "There was su swke psuse, b d ony of the party weut back sud p ts, After leaving tho wailing-room the Pres{dent aud bie yarly were muct by dent Bishop, who accompanied thein to Maziford, 1THM. A. Alleo, of the Canada Bouthern, wtltes {rom Detrolt thas he has not yoi appointod s jocal ticket ngent for Chicago, Dut that nogotistions a1e in progress. Alr, Alleo 1 the Goneral West- o Passengor and Jioket Agent of tho Company. Tho wer between the Vaudalis kme snd the Ohio & Misstegippi continuas, aud ths Putiman Blnoping-Car Company reaping & goldon har- veut. ‘I'hree mouths Liave now elapsed sinca $ho &4 a Liead passouger rate botweou Cinclunaii sud 8t. Louls wus adopted, General Passenger Ageut Johnsou of the 1lli- e e —————— e e THE GREAT SCANDAL, The Eolf-Deprecation of Pickwiokian Binners, Fullerton ns a Cross-Examiner, FICEWICEIAN MNXERA—8ELP-DEPREOATION OVER- ation. . 7o the Kditor of The Churago Tribune; Wikl reapect to Mr. Boozhes's solf-aceusatory phraseclogy, it s nothing more than fuir to re- member thal it 18 quite the fanhion for good Curistiaus to mako a public corfession of thelr “sing" in tho superlativo mood, blus-perfect tense. Tle pliraacological habit of tha Cathalio penitoat we do mot kuow. Whethor tho lane guare of this confession 13 accurately in keaping with tho sius confossoed, we are not informed sucliis the Masonry of the confassionsl. IDut, if tie Cathollo cunfoeslonal Ik wutronnded by an impenctrable silence, no such vbatasle abstructa our approsch to tho place *wheto prayer Is wont to be made” by Protestant sinners. Wo find, npon entering there, that the confos- sion, whother ciothed in the phrsseology of tho Common I'rayor ook, or in the equally- familiar diction of oxteinpore worship, goes the whola longth of phrancological solf-aceusation. No terms aro too comprehicusive, and no figures £00 suggesuve, to describe the companctions of the maint during tho poroxism of confession. His langnaza would niggeat writhings and wre: lings of nothing leen than a Taocoon Cdercrip- tlou, but for the suspicion that they are de. migned o bo taken fu & Piocwichian sense, thos. or are they uot, to he no taken ? Wheo the koad Christian publiciy denounces himeelf for *thociof of einnoru,” or & * wrotch uudone,” or a *worthiors worm," {u prayer or hymn, is e to Lo understood b using the lan- guago of Literal experience, or of & Pickwickian piety ? When ho aeecribies hin spiritcal conntitu- tiow aw * fufl of pulrefying Fores™ (a grotesquo raisuse of the original worde, by the way), i ho epanking logically, or theologicatly, or only phisscologtcaly? Ia he, or Is he not, to ko taken at liis word by the police, whon, with closed eyes, and clasped hauds, and unctuous iulonation, ho appropristes the penitoutial plrascology of Kivg Dayid, who, wlilo bouging oo the rogged odge of dospoir on account of his murder snd adulters, accoeed bis mother of concaiving bim fn sin, and praged to be **delivered from tlood-guiiti- uess"'? Ought the language of Danid to be used | witbout tho remarso that suggested it? What ara wo to understand from this Oriontal phrase- ology at the popular coufonsfanat 2 As the pub- 1ic 14 taken into tho confidenco of tho peaitent, havo not ti:e public & right to koow? Are wo to infer adultery where tho phraceolozy used was onco that of ‘an adulterer, or murder whera it quoted from s turderer, or theft where 1t ofij naied with @ thief? Or, are wo to infer that, when 8 man gets upon his loge. or hiu kinooa, and bieaks forth n tha confersional aketoric of adulterers, muiderory, and thievos, it does ot cven tucinde hia #harp transactions in tezl eatate, or the “eoft things” he uns beon cuabled to decoy out of the unsuspoceting, but | that it is wmply tho hiturgical lickwickioniem (extomnore or read) of £n automatic piety ? When the good Christisn—say a good Curiatian office-Liotder—pub.ishica Limeolf, o such nu oc- caaton, ‘‘deverviug of dammnation,” 18 he no mote Bincere than tho hrsterical yonuz ladg is when she #ass she *liked to have dicd™ of mortification when #he failed at the npeliing-match? Does tho Pickwickian Chrise uan wake another specless of thosa who go up into the Templo to prav. * Gad bo merciful to mo a sinoer,” or * miseratle offcnder " 7. Pbarascee, sionors, snd Pickwicklsn sinners,— these three, Wheu **tho little boy of 6" was asked by Brother Hammond, * Are you a great siuner, pet?” the litlo boy of 6 replied, much to tho Aro | 3 hair,f¥hait gray, half tow.color, hanga to tho arid eoll of bis ecalp like club-moss on New Iampehire granito. As for the contour of s face, it is redeemed from heaviness only Ly ehinrp augles of tha skull at the cyen and the equare, hulldog chin, It 18 gray usually, but fu, ar tho nolse of dobato whon e himaclf s s enntributor, floods It with blood, and tha lewyer i half tho 1imo as red a3 tho witness whreo faclal culoring Lian boon conairned by as many commsntators into guilt, lnnooence, remorse, verplesity, grief, anger, indiguntion, Influenza, &nd overeatiup, Tha eyos are stiarp and restler: flitting everpsharo Inquinngly, but leoking ok of an imparalso, iron face, e crons-cxaminca Jitko Hahtoing, with » bitine, peremptory,. im- perative voico, but it does not look in tho least a1 if the square, stont man in black standing up had nnything to do with tne voice. For the mosy part ho might be s lay figuro with n sharp ear, and the end of a epeaking-trampat Romewhera among tho clothes. Thelay figurs faces to the window at tho risht. and the volos nsis 2 question, which Mr. Teeeher rightly infers (a meant for lim and ausscie. Defora tho last word of his auswer IS out tho Iny figure, with its nose’ polnted nt Judga® Netfson, has given mysterious birth to anoibor queation, Then it faces il jury-box, mnd snother question fomes apparently from ite right sar. i maelune takea on full luman semntlance, howevar, whon a hot fang fo ramad Letween crosu-examiner and wituees, ns often happens when Mr, Deechor {8 ¢ nz, Lawe | yors of a certnin aza are ganora'ly &loop-shoul- dered, Mr, Fullerton's ~hend 'Starts torwerd. when lie gots hiv sharp eyor on 6 point, ox1f ft wera about to talis lesva'of tno body, ‘“then he { Joolzs «quavcly and grimly at the wifrices, thangh - the grimness 1u tho reuitive riimness of fentuie, and by no reans dee to a chanee In exprospion, 158 ores look out wa it chey wasbod to ket aniy and 0 and wit i tho v iinesy’ lap, and tho heal fs ready to Lollow thew aod belng ita teeth nloug,—s fiard iron Lead and o jaw that leoka &4 18 3¢ would bite hatd. 'This s tha panlo- tulme merely, ‘Iha inicnso energy and maryole ond deitnoss and ra;idity of (ko oxamiva‘ion, varts' dry und unsends manner, wekes vomup, and the wituess loses fully audicuce. Jn it is just a8 much “fun” to hear My, fullerton aek ouestions as to hear AMr Diecher answor them, and tho duel in romothing the! s grect peoplo, distogardivg Mr. Evars’ pray 9. would williugiy * pay maoney to buy ti ets of admission to. Tho wiy alertuess n teeuraoy, and tho far-sighted cloaviess aa to the consaquouces of auy Gprarenily iso'ated prop- ositiou, ara a revelstion wholly unexpected from the putward appearauca of Lho Crce kcxaminer, Gireat things wro genorally oxpected of Alr. Beecher, aad an a witness bo fulfills tho expec- talion, The Lattlo gots holter av it goes on, and Blondsy promisca to be a ficld-day, A Clerienl Neandal of Move Elundred Yer thau Two Ago. Thio firet minirter in Swarnp Stepien Lecliler, n nou-conforming cl of the Church of Eugland, scttied in 161 Deptizsd the first chilil born i tho settlemont. Although Prince apeake of him s ' o man of forme in hin day, o geatlewan of much learning S 8 £0bavo given tho rulers of both Chwreh aud State muct: trovb'e, not cone forming to their ideaa of nuitiug tho two, tnd holding mora advanced idoss of bath sceial and roligious freedow, He was made o fresman in 1635, and bad a tract of land nted Lim., Ho wak the only minister until 1086, when hia loft and preached in maveral other placen nnhil he eotiled in amptor e waz much respected, and pr. i with & boli fey }hclir meoting-house, and 1cenfves aud, however, whicli 31r, Vachl who bl sutl Lagleud, el wun to A wif vere s, but donied told the wwomzn ke wonld dn, and com- 10 the twokiutrute Againet the womsy and ber A for slhandering hiin, Tao chureh itkowlso g with i, ho stitly denfed {t3 but roon after, when the Lord's Suprer was tu bo adwinisterad, by @fd voluntarily coufeer the atiempt. Tuln case gava both church and laity as much trouble ana wus probably as much tuiked about dolight of tha sxpert cross-questioner: elel” Then the expert ciors-quioner a the little boyof 6: **What aid you do that waa 80 wicked, my denr?" and tho lttle Lov | Iut the | of € rojoined's “I forget, sir™! expert crcas-questioner was not put out by thia unavangelical brenk 1o the cstechizm. Ifo turued 10 ull Lhe littte bove and girls of 6, 5, 4, 9, 2, and 1, and said: ** You eo. wy dear childron, this Jittle boy canmot romember &l of s wins, but, by Lis iuteligent anewere, he shows that ho fully undeistands tho plan of salvation,”—Drother Hamoiond's * plan of saivation,” 1f the little bay ot G does not coutinuo to forget hia sine, and does ~not lenrn how confess thore of other people tn tho . aceied- ited terminology of the Pickwiouian siunors, it will be no fault of Brother Haw- mond's **plan of ealvation. " For this s tho chlef foatute of thop.au: ‘Ihe man's own sins are forgotten, and ho is supplicdd with & formu- lated coufesaton of them, which, whethor is or- sginally referred to David's ** blood-guiltineas, ™ orJoho's ill-tempor, is the countorsign that is to admit little boys aud guls of G to Abralinm's bosom in the next werld, and Drothor Ham- mond's in this, = 1f Tweod snouldeverbe snfficientty * convert~ ed” to sym one of iHammoud's * covenaut- cards, " he would confess to all tho sfus in tho oa'slogue, except those for which ko ls nos on- ving all the modorn convenisnces of & peni- tentiary drawing-room. TFor what wo kouw to the contrary, indoed, he repeata (perhaps leads) the morniug snd ovening korvice every Bunday, and sings: ¢ How wo deservo tho deejost Liell,” with the nssurance sli the time that nover wan & * professing Clulutlan,” or a Pickwickian slnper, Ao unjusily nsed, 3lr. Boecher, it must bo remembered, in justi- tsing Lus penilential opistles, coufesses to hav- ing * uncousciously transferred tho atfectiona ™ of & frlond's wifa ** to himaelf,” ‘This certuivly is &or used to bo) au " uffense * of 80wmo MAgui- tudo, siuco it ling tho kamno evil effects, ay far o8 the home of the injured husband i concerned, an tha critoo of adaitory, And we may well bo- llove that & reasoually-conmcioutious preachior of the Gospel, who suddenly wales up to a realization of fuch an “offenss" ageinet an old friend and protege, would, if Le nccused himsolf st all, cmploy laugusge of & tolerably- trenchant kind. Indeed, wo do mot kuow that the *tormonts of the damved " would be t00 good for him: but theu we do not profuss to bo good Judges of what is considered about tho rthz thing in tha way of rotribution among + profeusors of religion ™ of 8o rrushing a school, Our_poiut i8, if exeuso may bo fouud for Mr. Baccher's thetoric of romorso, what aro woto ray to diction oqually Ortsutal snd no less self-nccusatory, in the public pravors and **oxporioncad” of those who would probas biy pro-ccato for elander the man who shoutd wako the accusation agatost thom in a newapa- ver? In fact, como to think of it, it would not bo a bad test uf this phinsealogy of Pickwickiay remorso to tako it out " of the mouth of an accoalug finuer. Let the acousor inforin the 'umble Unimb, or the devant Pock- #uill, or the penitoutial Pickwick (as the caso may be), that ho 18 0 * worthloas worm;" that hio {8 (morally apeaking) * full of putrefyiug sores;"” thut be “follows too muah tha devices and aesigng of lus own beart:" (bat Lo *‘Las douo thioso things which he ought not to bLave dano, and left undous {liosy thlugs which he ougbt to Lave douc™ (eapocially if ho fe a ifombler of Congress), J’ vthora {a no hoalth n him™ (Hnancial hesith; that he was ‘*‘conoosved iu siu, and brought forth iu iulquity " that lie ia & littlo too 1tels eiven to caveting his ucighbor's wife, not to eay hls neigubor's maid-servant (eapociaily if #ho {8 o good eook); that ke desarvea to ba hanged, or ot loast dawuod; and that 1t Is only bocauso human law is unwlieldy, and Divino law tardy, that he has not alruady bosn dropped into eyerlnsting cremstion through the trap of o wscaffold! Wo Lnow of mnothing that would bang your Plckelckiau siuner to bua lawyer's oftice, if not to his * plstols snd coffoo,"” anouor thsu & communication Jike $his, ovor o yespoutiblo sizuature, a la Francalse, in tho nawspapor. But if—to continye tha rnetorio of tbo ring—if the honorabla profossor of 10+ Ligion is ** yosponslblo for his words" of salf- accusation, aud If thoss words are serious, why should Amen stick {n his throst when thoy are recltod to tanically by one of tho unre. genorate? 0Ly Beuook. ——— FULLERTON, TOE OREAT CROSS-EXAMINER, New York Workd, April 11, The fame of Mr, Lullerion's cross-oxaming. in thwse early tiwes, us tho yrem'ncamlul of 10+ day, und was not ¢isposea of tnally for soveral {years, Winthrop contiuues: | Tue clurch, being maved with htd frac and tears, Uy forgave bizm uni cos nith Lim’ bnt, afer finding how senndal ™ | they touk’ ndvicu of other elders, aud, after long dce Lats sud wmuch pleadivg cud siandivg upon the chiuiciia. forgiving and. Iefck recaneled o him #a commuueatiig with Lim, ufter o Und oontesrad. ft, they proceeded to cant i vit, Ho vas off and on for s fong thme, anit wuen Lo diid’ reymed most pemde tent, 80 a8 the church were ready to hiave raceivid kim 1u agalp, Lo wonld fall back again, and &1 it Were e pent of Lls rapentauce, After twa vears' apitation about the matior,tha church being divided, thy matter was refeir.d to somo magistrates and ekicys, and be thele modiation Ita was reloased of his excommunie catiou, but not recalved to lus pastoc's guice. Notwithstanding these acandaly, Mr, I3, had tha bad teete to go on preaching in soveral places, and in 1644 tha peoplo of Exeter, bemg willing 10 give the old mau ouo more chance, **offered Lim 400 acres of jaud 1f ho would preach for themn three years, but tho Church interdicted.” v 1659, wheu 59 yaars old, ho married lus third wife, Mary, Soon after ho was finod £10 for not publishing hiy Iutentions to marrs. AMary Proviug to be an unrepentant Magdalen, he perie tionead for o divores the same year, Instoad of grauting which tuo Court ordered * tuat Ar. Hachiler and bis wifo abxll Tivo togetkor a3 mon and wifo, ne in this Court thiey have publicly professad to do," Soou nfter thin the Rtev. Mr, Nachiler ehook oft thu dust of bis fect and left tho junisdiction by returning to Lugland, where Lo married his fourth wife, being 00, Lis third wife still liviuz, Ldward Johuson, tus esrly poat, who lived in \\[’obuxu at tho tune, addressod €oma versca to hlma 3 Tlirough ocean targe Chrint brought thee far to feed His wandorimg tlock, with whoss word thou oft het taught § Thioe fuach thysoif, with others tio st neod ; Thy fowing famd 1o 10w ebb is Lrought, Mr. Bachilor diod at Hackuey, near Loudon, in 1060, at tha nge of 100 years,” 1o left a preat many chilaren,grandehildren and g1oat-grandohils dren i America, Lbouezor Webater, tue grands father of tLo Hon, Dauiel Webster, tuarnied Husannah Bachller of Hampton (where Nathaniol lived), in 1784, ao that it 1s uct improbuble that America's most profound and gifted 0on spraug from this stock. ——— Onlobrated Kobberies, Jehan Valtor, a French Journalist, relztew, apiopos of the robbery of tho Dudlcy disinunds, roveral ancedotes alout jowel robberics, Ho tells Low & speculatar presented report to tho directory, maiing out thatiba celobrated Churel of Lorotto contained 410,000,000 worih in diamonds, ete. Darras and Carnot informed Tlonaparie of tho fact; but tho young Goveral refused to march on tha placo, bocause he would Liavetaoxposo acorpaof 10,000, aud would proba- . bly find notling when ko got theie, Iutimo he did manure to eciza on tho church, and found thiat alt the diamouds biad bosn teplaced by gluss, [, Valtor ulio tells how the mothor of the Into Prenoh Kmooror, thoQueon Hortense, when she was joaving Framce aftor tha invasion by tho Allics, was stopred on tho higaroad by tho .\mflulu do Maubreul, who ecarchad bor carringa avd took away £20,000 worih of dis~ mondy, which bava nover siuce been honrd of. ‘Thia stoiy is all tho more remarkable as thoro was a great fnss mado about this Marquir do Maubrouil toward the close of the Second Em- ' pire, Ue had alawsnit with his wifo, snd an outery was raod agast tho Marquls coutinu- ing a'imembarof tho Logion of Honor, 1t then catme out that howsa oua of the Hoyalists who bad_aided tho Prussians to pull down the statuo to Napoloon from the top of tho column of Veu- dome, and that winle engaged in this uot be had tied an order of the Logion of Hanor to the tail of bix hioreo sud dragged It in the mud, Yot toward the end of thu relgn of ths Third Napo- Icon he wore s tod ribbon and was in recelpt of 8 Goveinment pension, o Friendship of o Dog and Parrot. Tho Virginia City (Nev,) €hronicle relates the follomng incidonts "+ Oapt, Hteuruy, real ostata agout, rosiding ub tho carier of D sud Catyon slroety, {8 the owuer of a flue Newfoundiand dog. 1lo Is nl80 the possessor of o lu{un groon parrot, whiok lu enid to be at lenst 70 years of aye. Within tho last faw mouths a vory ktrong attachmont bas sprung up betweeu those two creatures, and they are slmost inseparable, Thp parrot talks all duy long of tue dog, wud xeapns calling bim by nsmo whilo ho ie awsy, The doj HEOIME VOry Uneasy when the pariob is outaf, #ight, sud wauders ubout, evidoutly i an unhaf: 1V framo of mind. Ho bss lioked all the foa tions lins gouo over the laud, bug thoy look vory ossy In the dolug, During tho progress of ovonts, apart from his speclsl Lranch ot the work, ho works hard, watchiog overythlug over Lis oyo-glasscs In & quiet, tenaclous fashion, making coplous notos and counsulting the scrap- bookw, which do duty as a record, busily, and with & totally unrevealing face. His head looks nols Coutral Lias gono to Now Otleans to look after the condition of his Oowpsuy (o Cubs aud Mexioas liko iron. It is big, round, aud hard. A short, quizzical gray mustacho Lristles up undes bis nowe, and & tbim, ewllug crop of shosk ora oif one of tho parrot's wiugy, but stu tha Jattey scoma rathior to court bis stiango caredues, It is docldodly futeresting to wituess the mannor in whlch tue two 1lay together. The parrot ‘walks along the doy’s back, oyp op to tho tip of biw noso, when slio gravely pocks that wember aod as gravely walis back to the rear. This stately pramenado fé kept up ¢ ¢ houry, the pars ot il tho thue L'wnkmfl out its caniuo frisudy pauwe, sud lpflylml codeariog epithels to his, such as ¢ Obl you old bum Jackl' +Jack, yow rasosl !’ aud othera ywhich are mrumnuy burlod at o dog by the ucighbose’ oy’