Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 26, 1875, Page 2

L) ~ THE CHICAGO TRIBUN MONDAY, Pated abont Obrlst, and atill, everywhers, you would find it the samo! Ono word deecribes thom o}l : they are all oxplanations :—explans- ionn of a coriain disino nature supposed ta be joined with tho tunagity which was what juen saw of Christ. The naimple fact is, that, e soon mm the living momory of Jesns began to tade, and tho first nga of forvor and love caught from ITim bad away, mon began to wondor how a lifo ontwardly #a stmplo and_ Lomely . could bo s0 ‘muoh to the world, Chylstinnity was wpreading thon among Tleathien pooplen, famillar with “the’ idea of Irivine persona and- demigodssand rank npon rank of cmanations from iuvieible Deity. Among wnch idens it wad ouly too easy for men to think they had found the real esplanation of Christ's power. 1lowas one of theso Divino porsons, 1o was one of thora- emonsions-or ficarnations! Oneo tho mind of men started dn thae iraction thicro was no resting placel i~ ¢ wont in it tho smaller became they thonght they saw, and t.o v eamo divided! Dy three centu wtter Christ tho Chriatian world was divided into two groat canipn under Ariua and Athanasins, Arius holds ing that Clrist was a enboidinate being made by (lod, Athannsius contending that Chirist was not mado, but was from all cternity **tiod of God. Tesporatelyin earncst mon uuron'honnlmaerl]uus- tions! Dean Stanley teils how * sailors, miliern, aud travelors. saniy tho dispntad: doctrinon at their occupations or ou their journeys,” and ho quotes from Gregors of Nywsa the following quaint aceotut of the state of things at Coun- stantinople : Lvery corner, overy allsy: of the clty, was“full of these dlsctvsions,—tht sircets, the market-places, tho drapere, the monoy-changers, the victualers, Ank a Tran Do many Oboli: ho nnswers by dogmatizing ou “gentrated and ungencrated betnit” fuquira the pricoof bréad, and you are fold the Son i anbordi- ato to tho Fathier " Ask it tho buth i reaiy, sud you are told * tha Hon arose out of nothing 1" ‘And go for centuries nion went on, adding now dofinitions to try and got, at last, tho full state- pent of Christ’s exact relation to God; aud evory nddition bronght new hereeies, new con- troversics, aud theso wore divided into pottier and pottier busr-gplitting, on theologis horesics tho vory bames of which are nlmosi forgotten! Yot thero was not ono of those old controversics it stood in its timo for soino setual otriving of fimman souls to gotat what they faucled sould bo o clearer - thought of Christ. " But my powut-Is that the whole diraction of their thinking was wrong! Inatoad of gotting nearor to Him, they wero gotling furthor snd further away! And if this was thocaso with theso old controversiea sven when they wore at any rate living things efter thelr kind, how mucli moro must It bo to with the creeds ' which are merely theirold dry skelotous ? Tor vo it is, witt those creeds which I havo quoted as still uplicld, When thoy had life, it was of & poor misleading eort, Novw they havo not even life, The Nicono Crood was s ro- spectable reality once, whon its old-world phrasos had n meanhiig ovon to sailors, nud millers, and drapors. 1ut what menniug hase thoy now? Whint does tho ardinary Christian of the prescnt day understand as ho hears Christ solemnly pro- claimad to bo **God of God, light of light, Degotient not wade, boing of ono substanco with the Fatber”? L sny thoso tlungs gro & mero confieion now, a glittering screen of words that keeps mon Jooking iu o wrong direcs tion and shows them nothing. And men feol {t! Tven those who still repeat the old craedn aro not satisticd with thom. 'Thoey crave for some- thing living, belpful, and real. Onoof the sharac- torintic and hopeful featuros ef modern religious thonght I tho disliko of dwelling much on words, and more opintomg, Meu’ feel a4 Jobn Wesley put {t—that o string of oplnions no"1moro eon- etitne faith, than o string of beads couslituto tioliness. And now lot us turn from all thoso old attompts to make out what Christ was by arguments about tho inner mysterins of Ilia being, and lot us look 1o thie Gospela Lo seo what e was,in Hia actual risiblo life. What' n differenco thero is’at tho very first wsighit, The Creads are all mndo up of oxplana- tious and definitions, In the Qospols I find hatdly anvthing of explanation or definition, I'hat which the'Gospels are fall of 48, a Lifo | 1If yon only road them casually, still, it 18 an fm- pression vory distinet in its way they leavo upon you—tho impression of a life, glorified withn trango copsciousucss of God, and at the samo tims poing about doing good, with beantitul, teuder. loving kindness, and conatantis, on the way, nttering terchins of -deap wisdom about: God, and duty, and lite, When you go,near ta it, when you look care- ully into the Gorpels, when' you closely study thesu four accocnis “of Christ, tho featares of all this lcep talzlu‘: form, moro -nnd moro -vivid- Iy: Yon seo that lito a4 it come ontintothe pub- lic view, and want about from place to place for & for brief years, and; then' passed away. You weo tho surroundings of it—ihat Jewish people looking with intousits' of longing for'a great political - Mesniak, Amongat thown comes one who sy, “* 1 am Hel the spititof the Lord is ppon mo! Ho “hath -snointed me—(that is, simply mnde' mo Chrlst or Messial proach’ tho good tidings, to bring doliver- onco to captives, aud healiug to the broken-hearted, nnd sight to the blind!" Thare you have the key notoof all 1iis life,—tho coneciousness of thin great’ mirsion {0 mon. And in tho flnsgn!u you sco haw all' that camo ont in s life o homely, yot eojloving and kind, that it hoa taken a ‘curiona loid upon the hoart of theworld.' Yon haveno lonely prophet ¢ cry- ing 1n tho *wilderness” but ono living in tho thrang of tle world, open-oyed for naturs and for mau—for tha )lics, the ‘twitt=ring sparrowe, the springing corn, the women . grinding at their rude corn’ mill, the' laboring men _ loitering’ wbont " tho: market-place, ths flehormon: mending tholr —mots -along tho sliore—and gomoe wonderful litls~ word sbout them all, that links ‘them in with God's progonce and mon's salvation, nud that the world Lina nover forgotten, since! Yon seo tim golng nbout with ¥is fow choson followers ; you sco fim stopping hero ana-thore, teaching tho peo- plo; telling thom about this Kingdont of God Ila wanted them to believe in, trying to touch thom: with mots lappy trust toward ‘tho Heavenly Father, and moro pure and kind and helpfal waya with ‘onp another.' You sca how uot a gleam of human interest in the lifo about ‘Ilim eacaped Ilim: 'Tho'womian that had beon o sin- ner comes in as He reats at tablo-in 8imon tho Phariseo’s house, and stands behind “Him weop- g, ber heart tonched os It never lad been beforo ; aud Slmon’ ouly #ees o common’ siuner whorn he wouldn't have suffered to touch the bom of his gurmont: bt Jesus scea a penitont child of tha Hoavenly Fathor, sod Tots hier pour lior ointment on his feot, and wipo thom with' ter loug hiar, and bids er ** goin peace™ forhor faitls lath' saved Ler, ~Blud - Bartimweus site’ Legging by tho gato of Jericho, and through the: saiind of many feet Lio'hoary tnat Jesus of Naza- roth is passing Ly, and ‘lifts up his volce for merey. o might Liava'ealled till lio was honrae bofore bis nolghbore would have: douo nnyzmnfi but bid bim hold his peace ; but Jésus atops an calls Lim to Him, The mothers bring their littlo ones for & blesklng, and the Disciples would Lave* wout tnem away : **should tho great Messink bo: troublod with n Jot of childron coming about 3im#" Buc Jests calls thewm to Him, as tenderly as i making litcle children happy was tho only thing ITo Liad to think of, and takes them in His arme, with a word of " love which has mado this world a better place for littlo clildren ovor since, Theao are but just a gleamn or two of that light of love which shines out in all lis life! You muy totl mo that tLisis Lut one side of s life—1is lite us 1t faced townrds men; and that thero {s snother sido, 1lia lifs sa it faced taey ho- in reading the fired ehiapter of Clonosis, mean ta begin miracnlonsly and finls lielp of common ngencles, £o they read Moses, to bring into order, as whera the Apoatle, in & toxt already quotod, sags: bullded of soma miau, but 1Te that "builds oll thinga fs Gud.” This meanin also among the ploua nul the I have simply to say in cencral torma that the sibject matter must dotornunel Any IAngungo may mean, that the word * create” earries with {t the notion It s radically tho ‘“‘grow” or *incroawo. An nct which in lght, or the blow of 0 hammer, is foreign to the idos of crostion. Supposo the lustantaneous act to bo tho sanse of tho word, and after you bave road the first versa fu Genesin,— '+ In the hegmning God created the hieavous and tho carth,"—tho six days following aro as auperituous s six milhons of yoars, Thora is an act of creation by tho record which is citbor eginuing—rfollowed by choos, upbeavals, and all the ndvances up to now: or, the word faya' act. which may as cars’ nct, or a six-millon- nin act, as an act of six times twenty-four Lours, and bo none tho losu o creative act of God othor words, if the et of dividing the innd from tho water, for oxamplo, oceupied twonty-four full hours, and yob was a_cruative oct, yoit may conceive each minuto 1o ho a contury, and cach Lour a ropetition of ceuturics, nnd the full day ngreat eycle, and atill koep Just as closo to the Chiist's lifs has done all this, and atill con- through ages that did not or to ohieriah any it tiot do, then, f man hat tnisis the vory renl- Ephesians. for ho 8 wieh, “Thp 0 Tiess of God.” bo ablo to ander- lied by Panltothe might ba filled with all the ful s o n[ivt‘pr‘a {lcl::ixnvs word tha ve, out 1fin life with God. Tt is not Wo must como far nearer to But this ono thing scoms ad and claar on the faco of tha Now Teatament : that in Christ's closo wondorful lifo with God, just as much as in 1lie tender, s with mon, ho waa **leaving us an " that wo shonld trv to- follow in IHis eteps ! And it {8 this which gives such jmperish- abla valuo_to both thoro eloments of life which munko up the Christ of the Goopela | But {8 this ides of Obrist boing man, then, all ? —A0mo of FOU MAY EAY. uplifted to’s wonderful buight of Inapiration and authority, vob usture, still simply a maul Liave no word to sav, indoed, against any men or any church thinking ho was more than s man, s0 long ae they keop clearly fu viow tuat this thought of theirs Is meraly’ their explanatiot, their way of accoanting for tho life as it wns fived, and that this lifo, snd not their oxplana- tion of it, is tho thing to believo Iu s ot while thus, as you soe, adwui open to give such an explanati lifo, I canuot believe it is tle convinced thad the moro mon ns it wag, tho more thoy will vomo back 1lis simplo humanity ; this, but saylog that simply the same imprers wo kuow God nt all. It is the tinued dolug it 1 auch fniluence, Ho othora think, antd lovo, the vnat scroll ou which He writes Ilis 8ull further, It taf Ilia law, and Hid lntman_intelligoncs, goodness, tho thedtro ol Tn view of the and tho rolecmitggracoof God. groat salvation we aro moved to mug— “T'was groat o aveak thio world from navght Dut greater o rodeen, But if we meay Lo dishonor Nature in order to magnify tho Gonpet, wo havo missed tuo spitit of Job, of Paul, and Christ, who regard Nature ss n rovolation to hoathen nnd sxint, tho fit vest. nient of apirit, and all her ways as ubodionce to * the volen of the Lord!" The earth putting ou its vordure agaln, the map monntini to the branchen of the tress, snd the yonrning buds, aro yiolding to s maro ripple o tho bonndirss rea of Lifo, are ylelding to tho faintoat broath of the great Splrit” which moven on every formless void, and without whoko brooding our bodies had nover heen, and from whom uiow o our poor souls come urder and would only como to aco tl ity of Chrintianity, aud to look into that life with ansthing like tlio cagernces whieh horetofore voncentratod upon creeds, And 1 believe that this is tho 8 1 tho attitudo of thouglitful men 1t in ono of the marked endeayors {ons thouglt of the age, to gret back eds, to the vory Chrirs Himself, You seo iL in artists, poeld, Tho old creeds abont Clrist aro w's living thought, but aa they ata ju hollor boruty, aud that life fa for ever more the **light of tho all ITis naylngs ab * Yvery housa is 1ikely wo ehould do! CGod, ourselves, to us to ataud Lro: Dbas ita advoeates pirit that fu ris. ing! Iscoit} And niora particularly hehind the cre Juat as Mo lived! fading out of mei fade. tito old lifo appes 1 boltovo it is; man, GOD THE CREATOR. BERMON DY THE LY. ARTHUR SWAZEY. The Rov. Arthar Swazoy, pastor of tha Ash- 1and Avenuo Presbyterlan Church, proached as follows yestordny morniug, choosing for his Ono creation 13 mado for another. of Nature, I'aul eays, groans, travailiog in pain, waiting for tho manifcatation of tho sons of 'his llonwo is bullt that you and I m: 1taolf describos n si well bavo heon n Thou art wortlly, O Tord, to recelvo glary, Jonor, ntud power ; for Thou hast created il 't and for,Thy pleastirs they are and syere created,—is generation und tho renowing of the Holy (thost, I'he return of spring, the plowing, and woed-nowinig aud all tho sigus of Nuture, repeat and enforco the invitation of our Bible—to look for & now heaven and @ new carth ; and repeat and onforco the warning that destiny has ita sol- emn hour, and that I the eternnl ebb und flow our bopes may blossom or foraver pass nwvay. God 15 creator : the world is not ours ; wo are only tenants, and to Him must wo render an ac~ count of our atewardsbip. are not our own in body or souls livo or dia wo are the Lorl's, overy throb of our belng is known to Him, and overy tuterest of Jife is safo in Iis powerful and gracious hands, THE ADVENTISTS, CONFERENCE MEETING, The Advent Church follows in ita form of gov~ ernment rather closely aftor tho Methodist plan The Btato of Illinols is divided iuto » Northern and Bonthern Conforonce, hold- Tho Northern Conforenco i8, however, districted into smallor conferences, The Quarterly Confor- ouco of the DoKalb Confersnce huy heen holding Ita meelings sinco !nst Fridey at the Greon Street Tabernacle, botwoon Afadisou and Mon- roo strects. The meotings have boen devotional in their chavacter, no business comtng up for tho consideration of tho Confcreunce, gervicos yeutorday thoro wero presont Eidors D, Matthowson, Buchanan, Mich. § 8. W. Thurber, Wie.; E. Il Burrington, Gonoa 8.J. Mandel, Do Kalb, 1ll.; Frank Durran H. G. McCullough. of this city, Iu the morning Eidaer D. Matthowson preachod from tho text: * Not overy ono that suith unto mo Lord, Lord, shall anter into tho kingdom of Moaven ; but lio that dooth tho will of my Father which i in floayon,” tho ofternoon Eldor from Amos, Iv., Inthe ovening Eldor T II, Peter, itl, 11 ¢ Tho rovival of lifo after tho winter hins paesed away reealls us to the thought of God as Author At auch scasons L always wish to ray somothing, bo it more or less significant, abont tho groat joyful mystory. 1 offer o faw remarks thia morning on God ns ** Creator. 1tis vain to uudertako to separato roligion from naturo. It is aun overrsfining of things spiritual, which is out of all harmony with tho Dible. 1t s not onty truo that God is Croator,— that tha grass of spring and {raits of autumn are 1lis work,—but it is the port of religion to obsorva it avd to learn tho timaly lesson, ‘The firat obapter of our Biblo is an account of creation given for religious purposes. - The orlg- in of n stone, or a fish, or a world lias a religious Tho {dea of the fourth commandment is partly memorinl. It iy enforced by tho considor- atlon: *Ior in eix diys the Lord made Heaven, carih, tho sea, and all that in them s The great tido of sacred wpuy reaches ils hoight in rocalling the tiat & tho Almighty over chaos, and wind, and ses, smong tho mountains and David's psaims, tho propliccies of Teaiah. and Jeremiah abound In ascriptions of praino to the * Creator,” . The Now Tostament ndopts the.old habit of connecting God aud Naturo,—' Every houso is builded by some man, but He that boilt all Iu admiring tho goodness of God, Ho I8 called tho **faithful Creator.” boyond this comes another typo of thonght. Clirat is declared to bo tho right arm of the Al- . ‘The first chaptor of Jolin con- talnn exprese1ons no stronger than tha language of I'aul: * For by Lim (Uhnut) were all things created that are lu hoavon and that aro in the carth, visblo aud inwisible, . . . all things woro created by Him and for Him,” Jowieh culture knew nothing of eidereal days, of notations, nebulous worlds, of aqueous or ignoous rocks, or any other of the dicta of mod- eru science, but it did includo a recognition of Nature 18 sha appeared to thoughtful minds, and more especlally” it _included the {dea of God Yefore ail and the Muker of all, and using oll for Tho Biblo, somo affirm, teaches sclenco: and benco tho innumerablo entangle- ments of the ccclesinstical and tho scientific world, to th® groat and oft-repeated discomiltura of the ecclesisstica, The right diatinction is that tho Diblo doclaies tome of the phenomena of pature to bo accounted for in oue way or an- othor, tho record itself offering no’ theory, but recoguizing evory day a3 the work of God's hand, and everything as yet plastic by tho word ‘Tlio farmer tells you that his fleld, by tho blessiug of God, hos brought forth ‘I'he sctontific man roviews tho snmo 1 you that the earth is rich in limo “Tho former is tho religious ac- count. The Bible records tho occurronce, by tha powerof God, of days and nights, of months and yoars, of great Lil-storma and floods, enco, in review of the samo phenomona, tolla you of diurnal and annual rovolutions, of ovap~ orations, wir-currents, rapid condensations, and tho law of gravity. The fact or phonomenon in tho sanio to overybody, the samo in all ages, in all conditiona of culturo. Tha sclenco io changa- nble, deponds on tho meaning of toima or on the progress of knowledge. Sclence, thoreforo, the distinction wo make baing suficlontly ncou- rato for our purposo, is uot to be oxpocted in n book designed for all times and all grades of in- telligence, But certain traths of nature have great value for tho moral aud religious aspects Wo may look for thom, thorefore, in our Bible. It fa o prime questlod, Tw there o Gtod, or only nature? It is a prime question whethor God ba subject to nature, or naturo bo subject to God? 1s God only a great mau, moro skillful in maintainivg & coriuin con- trol of mature, or did Ho mako tho instrumonts of His power? Thewa and othor quostions nre anawered by tho Bibloas a teachor of natural ond If they do, what is it will make upon’ them fon that it did actually on those who were spoctatora anid com~ f1t? lero is the ounc thing thatit to mo thero {a no getting over: thal life, of il #o far mbove oa Tndevd, the notion of Indefinitely long periods was a familiar one to tha Hebrow mind, vory terms *evening and morning " in tho ac- which secms, a8 wo read ! count of croation seom to sladow the idea ordiunry nifo in ita wisdom and power that <f ut & bidden Godhead int for it,—that life, to thoso who actually witneased it, shio saw 1t at ila very ¢, who saw it not through tho dim glaes fect records, but ‘' faco to faco," never ted such a thought as thmt Ile was It (s ovident in reading the Gospels thot Jesus iraR nover clao but a man by those actually about Mim. Tridently His own kindred had vo idoa of any- thing moro, for wo read how they sen Him home, a8 ono besido himsolf1 tho disclples lind not, or Judas nover couid have betrayed, nor Potor denied, liim, Evidently the Jows could havo crucitled Him! this that, as goon as the doctrino of » superhu- man bisth, or Godhend fo Christ began to gain scceptauco, ono of: the points which we con~ stantly flud theologians sciting tuomsclves to oxplaln Is, why it liad not boeu mado kuown dur- iug Mis life. Alhannsius oxpresscd tho common explanation when Lo sad: All the Jews wera Ao firmly Afesriah was to be nothing more than a man liko them- sclves that the Apostles were oblized to use grest eation ju divuliug the docirine of tha proper divinity after-nges thoug! ncceesury to accutl terms that are used in tho ook of Daulel to Ubd biccanions. wo denoto periods altogether dilforont from a day You wilt find, by rofors iual rending in your polyuiot ‘two thonsaud and throe hiin. drod daya” arc so many *ovoniug-mornings," (Chap. viil,1 14-7), aud that tho vision is caited (Verse 26) an *‘ovening-morning " vision, Tu liko mamntior **tho sovonty weeks,” tho * three scoro and two_ wooks," and dividing ot terms of duration _altogetler measures of of the Jewa had everywhoro its ages, its * etor- nities,” and ao commonly that tho term ** this workl " is eimply this **age” or * oternity,” It waa the after and raw intorprotation of 2 now type of minds that shut up croation to & nargow lieral waok of 144 hours, ‘Thet o creation may bo a contlouons rather than an inatantancous acl, it is very importaut to undorstand. Somo of tho older interpreters ece in tho declaration wero made “by the word of God," aud in the flat, “ Lot thora bo light, and thore was light,” and in tho_ words of tho Pealmist, and it wan dono ; fast,” tha [natant oxerciso of tho somplole power of God. Hut thoro ia nothing iu the language {o wacrant such & conclusion. The lnognage {8 somotimes ecoufc, mometimes o tho coutrary, God {8 dectared to 6 tho croator of that which comos to pass ao- to ordinary Inws, and Is traced back Indofinite ‘periods, Yor oxamplo, it is written, ‘‘Remomber thy Croator.” This Jan~ guago is addressed to you. You begun to bo in But suppose that were not so. considerablo ¢ime God way shiaping you Insecret. Had fo ordnlned the fow months to Lo a8 many thousand yoars, nud bad he ehaped you in open day, the laws of Naturo doing tleir appoiuted work in tho sight of all men, Iie would command by an authority not less binding or Josa grand, ** Romember thy Creator.” Loavo out an oxception or two, and what men attempt to prove or disprove In order to Inval- dato our Bible or to quench devotion to Gad, is irrolovant, If it could bo ostablished with oor- taiuty that tho world waa alwaya what it now is, it would iu that caso imnpinge “on the Mosato ac- But aa matter of fact true selence polucs back to tho vory changes which tho Mosulo ac- flest to mttor. Adam and Eve of twonty-fonr hour. o rstar : ence to the mar, Dible, that tho of conferonces. {I:gr the ml‘lhfor.“kuu ug:_.h(;:- muilx;;:“: 1ng yently meotibgs. which meet quartorly. raitaded that thelr He commanded, Ive nmore curious ox- ting at a timo whov men acilons conception ifying Christ, said Somo of the fathors planation : Ignatius, I bind only got o8 far as a mir in thefr progress towards dol even of that, that it was couconled from tho dovil, nnd_subsequent writers took up tho idea 8 was vocossary, becauso il {his dovil had known of Christ’a deity he would o tho headsof tho Jowato o would have spoiled tho Thivk what ™ you important thing mighty power. and argued that thi b tho. t atthew, vil, 2L not have put it int b A, eruclfy 1, and & plan ‘of salvation. the oxplanation, “ Proparo to meot thy God." wroor preached from * Hooing then that all thess things shall 'ho dlssolved, what mannar of per- that the influenco whicli caused that wondrous sons ought yo to be in all holy couversation and dovelopment of Clrist's religion aud life, was this poraouat lifo of Jesus Obrist, ns Lo went about, for ail any ono know, a man among men, Lot thoso who will refoice ia somo fancied un- veilingof a fuller glory aftorsards, I do not think thore could bave boen a ronlly fuller gloryl Cortaluly tho one ovident thing i tuat that first influence, of the personai Josus, wastho noblest, purest, and most powerful thet tho buman heart 'I'lio sormons wore all onrnost appenls for in- cronsed godliness of living, and especially upon the peculiar doctrinal points ot the Advont belief, nor touch upon tho recont rievous disappolntment of o number of Advant- te. excopt in such lndirec: mode s by strong commont npon tho weucs that had so froquently wasted tho strongth of (ho church. mont upou tho failuro of Inst Monday was mado in tho Adeent Times of this weok, which is tho organ of the Advent Church in this portion of tho State, and tho pohey pcems to by handling & subjeot fraught with such bitterncss of fecling. Soveral of tho quondam followers of Thurman were among the nttendants on the It iw atated that Mr. Thurman {s stopping with friends in Wiscousin, but wlat his futore plans may be, or what determination ho has como to in rogard to last Mondny's digap- pointment, have nov beon mado known. ELSEWHERE, CATHOLIC CEREMONIES IN QUIXCY, TLL, Special wispateh ta The Chicdqo Tribune, Quixcy, Ill., Apnl 25,—The rites of confirma- tion woro administered at 8t. Bonifaco Chuirch in this city this morning by tho Tiov. Bishop Iialtes, Bishop of this Diocose. This afternoon o new Catholic cemotory adjoining the city was dodicated with imposing coromontes, conducted by Bishop Daltes, assisted bv tho resident vler- ry. 'Tho procersion numbored nbout 1,600, and tho ccremonias wera witnessed by 5,000 poople, EPIECOIAL ORDINATION. PurApELPiiA, April 45.—The Rov, Thomas A, Jagger, D. D., rector of tha Protestont nl Church of tho tioly ‘Irinity, in this 1 bo ordained Dishop of Southern Ohio on Wednosday, in tho sbove-nawed Church, ——————— LABOR ITEMS, INTIMIDATION. Specfal Dispateh to The Chyeado Tribune, Jouew, I, April 24.—~T'wo employes at the Steol Works in this cily, who wero discharged from tho service of the Compauy on Thuraday, their places being filled by tho Superintendent, made a Lorriblo assault upon tho now men to prevont them from working, coased work, the ottor, Johin Loiser, a respecta- blo Gorman, continued work, accomplices the rufilaus camo near creatiug n general mot. During the moleo Lelser rocoived # blow with o bar of iron which, it was supposed and generally roported, had murdered him. ile {8, however, rocovering, Tho assaultiug partiea have raada thelr escape, TROUBLES IN INDIANA. Special Dispatch to The Chicrya Tribune, Tenge Havre, Ind, April 25.—The striking miners in tho Clay County caal district are again bacoming turbulent, A bLand of thom to the number of 250 or moro are roaming about the conntry intimidating non-Union miners who are at work, and have boon succossful in stopping Bhooting alfraya are fro- Molly-Maguira notices warning alt minors now omployed to cease workin mon, aud aro pouted all over the dlstrl WHEELING NAIL-MAKERS, Waeermna, W. Va,, April 25, —At o meeting of nail-fooders yesterday, It wea decided that all foodors in the difforcut mills of thus city shounld siritte for threo-fifths, and maintain the utrike unti! tho prico demanded was granted, aud all tho feedors tuken back to their position. holpers' striko is nléo genoral. ENGLISH STRIKES Loxpox, April 21.—Tho colliory owners of Bouth Wales bave ngreed to opon thelr plts to the miuers. at a reduction of 16 porcant in I bave #hown you, thon, what tho craeds have mnde of Christ, and_I hava recalied to you, o8 well as my poor words can do, the image of tho Christ of tho Gospols, Doos there need mueh moro #aving, as to which of these two it concerns us to bolieve in, and study, sud love? Compars tleir fruits, through tho ages! Has it not - strock you- how thoso tiwo Clrists have always been working in the world? 'tho Chrixt of the Creeds has had the high place. s boon anthroned in churches and pricsthoods beforo solenca conld prove D removed, liko tho Troglodstes of the Upper Nilo. or Iika tho but-builders of tho Swiss Inlkes, or like tho tlat-head Iudians, it would at least seam to imperil tho commonls-roceived viow of the fall of man and his recovery by Jesus Christ, Bat aclence cannot prove any such theory of tho On the contrary, science, supposing it fluds, ono or another law true of plants and animals, finds, sud olmost universall acknowledges man to boan exceptinnal animnl, subject to Iaws of being peculiar to bimself. Othorwlso lot tho obscrvers of Nature conciuds upon ns many secondary agencies, that is to sy, 88 many nou-miraculoun a many nataral links connecl with the flirst atom, as tho casa in thoir judg- went muy require, and unless thoy give a loas potency to matter, which isnd unsclontiflons 1t {8 profano, the ssered recora does not forbld lierarchies, and held-up by 0 the mind of tho world. But the Cluist of tho (iospels hias never of Him, simply 4 1le wns, apart from any oxpla- notion of Him, tho thought of His loving, morei~ fut life, and of the things Ha spoko to men ubout, Liaa taken n ourious hold on mankind, has quictly dwelt in their hearts by faith, has gone abont with them, doing good1 controversies and persecutions, there hins gono on growing in men's Learts the thought of Chirist a9 1o lives forover in theso Gospola—thnt- simplo Christ-lifo abides stlil * tha same, yester- day, to-day, and for ever!" Which of these Lwo lias boon the real holper and Savior of tho uito died out! oncios, or upon as Lolow tho enrface of ng tho lnst result and conditions of*life. "This {a tho safo gronnd for the theologian and tho Ohnrch, safo because it is true, and safo bo- cause o doparture from truth brings a roproach not ooly on Christian learning, which i3 a small ut also on tho Bible ns tho word of God to tho world, and entangles the faith -and eun- dangors tho salvation of men. There {s no thoory of tho universothat has not been obliged to modity its conclusions, and thero probably nover will be. proves itaslf o far divine, that, recording phe- nomens which aro always truo, it does not idon- tity itsolt with any attainmonts, Inter, of the sclentiflo world, othera do not exhibit their usunl sagacity when thoy confound tradition and interpretation with tho documentary teachings of our religion. And, on the other hand, our divines who cliug to thu interpratations of our ago or another, as though whobver quoationed thom wero an encmy of & di- vine ravelation, imitate only [n & loss offcunsive spirit tho ecclostastic who darker time regardod the pondalum and tha tele- ustruments of sorcery, and tho open-oyed obaervord of God's works as tho cne- mles of mauklod, Qod is tho COreator. The story of that Christ of the Creeds through the ages lns_ beon one of ktrife, division, and 1t Lias ofton mado Christendom such aApectacle, that heathens could say these Christians hato one anotuer more than anything clee in the men, - otherwise noble and good, into shameful words nnd incxcusablo deeds! When men have got disputing huw to shape out: their Croed-Chtist, nothing scems to have boen too bad for them to eay and do! But have there cver been auy bitter contraver- sles or any peraevutions in mon's endeavors to como nearor tho Christ of the (ospola ? Have eople aver called each other ugly namos io try- ng to undenstand the moaning of the Sermon on the Mount 2 Havo they umprisoned oach othor arablo of the Good Bamat- itan? or burnt cach other for not being *sound” abont the Prodigal Son? While tho croeds havo: heen dividing men iu * envy, hetred, malico, and all unchoritabloness,” the otly witnesslug in mauy a-hesrt for **uuity, posce, and concord " ! ¥ And wo, ngain, it ¢ this Christ of the Gospols that we want 88 the Tescuer. that o-troo; earmest, loving study of Christ's thought s atil}, as in: tho pest, the way toabont tho 'jughest frath in religion. Some people doubt thia. They rogard suy secklog for thiy better indced than the tance of the old "creeds, but still, us only a* ng Intd a'dead and done-with past, ity' is to thefr thinking *played ‘out,” and nomo Ligher, absolute religion f4 totaka ts place. I eanmot think so! 1sce how theleading thinkers of tho day aro asdnft sbout even tho daopost renlitics of spiritusl lifo as soon as thoy loave their Christian position ; end as for those who avowedly disclaim Christianity for some higher. roligion, L nover look closely into that Theism I find it eimply Christianity with tbo label rubbed off, Wa vauuot cut ourselves oft’ from the groatoat toachoer of tho poat, I beliovo. that tho world is rostlers with tuo very kinde of’ doubt which uothing satisfies oxcopt the simple. apirit of ‘Chinat. Only lot us take caro that it ia: the splrit of Christ. Thers, again, comes in tho signiticance of thiu keeping to tho Christ of the Cospols, The fact 1s, there are numbers of thinga taught ay Clristiani tho day that Christ never tau Chirlst ever toach » word about ¢ & word nbout original slu? Where did o over. teach that maou can do nothing but sin, but, au tho samo time; that God will punish' Lim oter- nully if ho does anything but righteousnosy ? Ecionce bas a great valoo roligiously for tho sclontlfic, and for the world ot large In proportion a4 true scionco is wado popular. lurations in regard to natvro bave a universal val- ue. They bring in their testimony and moral posv- erearller,oxtend them more widely, putthem moro plainly, aud keop thom aloof from the patron or the eriticism of the difforent und often hosi schoold in tho sctentitio world. observo that when a ecientitic writer wishes to impugn tho veracity of tho eacred record bo iy quite likely to attribute to tho Bibla nomo theory which ignorance has imposed oo the record, and which the sdvancomoeut of lesining Las over« thrown. 'limo aud again, for oxaniple, has tho Masaic account of Creation been drawn out into a thseory, and then made the object of violent at- tack; whereas Moses, or the writer from whor be dorived the divinely-approvod tradition, puis forwand no theory at all, He simply records tha phonomena and tho chronological order it which ‘Tho Biblo dac- Dible, thoreforo, Alr. Draper and 1ndeed, you will for not believing the One of them n_a former and o With the ald of ospels Lave been qui- 1t thera bo a naturallem which is hastile to religion, there is on the other band a naturalism which bolongs to roligion,— which fostors raligion, nation between the two is thae groat problem of tho day in which wo live, tho problem which uothing but tho blindest fatuity can lead tho Chrtstian _divine to ignore. whother the Church be prelatical or Presbytorian, whother the dearces of God are pro-lapsavian or aub-lapsarian, whether Calvin or touchas mors nearly the truth of the Naw Testa- ment, whether the power of presching the Word comes by the laylug-on of hands or by the gift whother ono msthor Joba and Paul be better than anotler ; but, undorneath these questions and all othiers, is the groat quoation of fu tbe origin, the order, and 'he ago aska for o Even so echolarly and brilliant a writer as Prof. Draper, I am' sorty tosce, cannot keo) bimself: clear of n misconstruction which a tol- erabie aoquaintauce with Ilebrew loarning would Lo likely to avold, Acconding to him, the Beript- uroy teach that ** Ltho carth 1 an extonded lovel surfaco which Austaina the dome of the sky;" that ‘‘tho earth is the contre of tha umverss,” *“Sacred cosmozony,” ho say, ‘“‘rojects the “intervention of wecondory To maxe tha discrimi- thought of Clrist: 1t Is no longor doen not scruplo to the Mosalo account docs not ocoupy ituelf all mines but two. with any theory whatsoever of the shapo of the carth, nor any thoory of nor nny theory of the operal in the creation of the world, with tho great iden of the origin, the order of the stops iu the origin, and tho great Omnipo~ tent Movor in the origin of tha carih on which: ) of tho splrit of Gad cocentric univerue, |.reconciling James aul on of second cattaes it occuples itsolf :of a parsonal God the deatiny of the world, review of former opinlons, It puts forward its groat cross~quastioners to sift tho testimony of ‘I'ho court i4 moro august than mortal oyo eover toolred npon he- ‘fore. Asinall other cases, somo desire Lruth, and somo desire the old and bitherto accrodited wituosa, greatrasult the man who nas tasted of tho graco of Qud oan have no queastion. Novertholoss, meautimo o may bo wiso or unwiso, for him- #clf and for others, and mey porish ero khe bat- tlo Is concluded. ¢ of wisdom, because {t Is the part of It is true that rocorded facts or phenomena aro very likoly, fho recorder Limself being uttor- Iy ignorant of il thoorics, to shadow a theory, wlich shadowing may be perceived at once, or at lnter stago of knowledge, ‘This shadowivg s found {n the Mosalo rocord. And it, with other Beripturos, suggests tho roundness of the eorth, and indefinitoly-long poriods for ** days,” rathor than the fiat sarth and shiort poriods of* & lator and extra Iobrew cosmogony. tolline npheres” which Druper xcems to Jrogard: ty in the churches of discomfituro of an ht! When did o Trinlty? or 10,000 persans, mauy of whiom are kmown to b gentio. towards God, and was uplifted by the consclons- pess of God. Wo own this loftier uide of Christ's'lite’; wenote, too, that it ia this which ey acemed to mon in after agos aa having con- tained, to those who bLad' ears to hear intimationy of IMis veiled Divinity, Lot to us it {ntimation weooms quite differ- ent. We rofolco’ in all thoso loftiest utterances of Christ's relation’ to Qod, precisel, for this reason ;. beeanso thoy wors not the'indi- catlons of (od'coming down, but of humanity Nfted up; becanns they pro’ the witness of what’ glorlouy closences of life with God, what clear~ neas of insplration, ara possible to, and oncs in the world's history have bosn realized by, man | Does this’ Interrrétation of Christ's-lofty words' natonish yon? But It is 11{s own intorprotation.. 'Miere 18 not ono of thoso lofticst enyings of Ubrlst sbout Iiis own rolation to Uod, which Ho does not” alao use about M disciplos, to toach them also to-scek the same, Does Io claim * thso words I speak unto you I spoak not of Ay- pelf;” bear 1l elso, ny Ifo onvourngds’ Hia followers to look to Uod iu their min- jetry, and tho fitting” word should bo given them, “for,” ho says, ‘‘itis not yo that npeak Lt the Bpirit of your Pather iliai spoakath fn ou,” Does_ ilo epeak of the Bpint of tho ifluxer that dwelleth iu Himeel{—1o says also to thewm ** He dwolleth with you-and shall bo in you" Does Ho uiter that sublimest word of all, T and My Father ard one ¢ Listen to Him, iu His prayer, oud you find 1lim asking that it may be o with 1le dlsciples too; ** that thioy may Lo 0D®, VAU B3 WO ATOONE § 1in them and Thou in Me, that they may bo made porfect ln one. Do I misundersfand all this woy of speaking? Yot this iv thq véry woy in wlhioh Obrist’s aposties understood it all, Did not they take up thiy Isuguge which Christ bad used sbout Himuelf, sud find fu it tho token of what all Chiristiau hife might ronch up to? Why, whats waord la that * which Paul uses apout Chrst: “In Ilm dwelleth all the fullness of the Godberd bodily } Wo colder-blooded modenfis ore inclined to vay at Qrst sight, **that in o Word abont Jesus thay never counld bosaid' sbopt man.” Aud vo wo mught have thought, only we find the yery pamo / e wagos, "Tho strike of tho cotton operatives at Black- ‘Dburn bag ended. WILL RETURN TO WORK, Provioexce, B. L, April 24, {ves at Natick ad Avcdin, who are on a strike, Lave notified tho Suporintendonts that they will return to work on POLITICAL. LAPORTE, IND. apecial Dispatch to The Chicaqo Tyibutis, Laroure, Ind.,, Apnl 24 Nominating Conventlon, this aftornoon, placed tho following ticket in tho fleld: For Mayor, Bortimor Nya ; for City Clork, Conrad Beecher ; for Marehal, Jobn Ball ; for Troasuror, Herman for Assessor, Aloxandor [funut, Thoy fuel confidont of clocting evory candidato, but the Republicans are yet to hear from, FORT WAYNE, IND. Mpecial Dispateh ta The Chicavo Tridune, Fort Warxy, Iud., April 25.—Democratio pl- mary meotlugs were held horo lust avening in tho varlous wards for clolco of candidates for Council and dologatea to the City Conveution, which meots next Baturday nighs, The dolegates choson aro composad principally of ward bum- mera of the worat typo, with & smsli sprinkling of rosponeiblo citlzens. the Council aro sbout of tho nverage order of morit, Thore la litlo prospock of any opposi- tion to the regular Demooratic ticket, Whore dil Chrisg ever toach thoi Ilocame to #ave us, not by helping us to do God's will, but. by Himself beartog the punishmont and imput- ing to us hie merita? Mon sav to us that it is becausa we do not bellevo in Olrlat that we sebt our faces agoiust the doctrines, causo wo do bolleve in Ilim! Wo baeliove so deeply in Ilim, wo have so clear a conviction that He Himself taught Ilis-own religion as o meant men to receive it, that we csunot accept. an pars of 118 religior what Tle novor taught! op up these doctrines by quoting Job, or. Wo bolleve that oven theso quotationy are moslly misundorstandinge but, whether or not, wo astor 7 Wo valuo, moat deeply, what Curlat's spostles taught, yob after all; it thoy hnd been maked whothier they or Io bost understood and taughbt the Gospet, who can doubt what the auswer wouald Lave boen, Ho, in tho midst of the coufuslon of the various ays- turae that clain our. allogiance, we turn simply to tha- Clospels; wo try to see what Christ thought, what 1Te went about toaching, what He peemod auxious for wmen to belleve—and oh, ea cloarod away, and it Is opoful, practical raflgion d- wo balieve that, if churches would only' follow this rule,—Clrist Himeelf the teacher for Chylstiaus,—tho mistakes of their little systams would pass away and ceses to be, aud Oliristianity would become a new power smong men! T ank you, then, to help clear away tho Clrist of the Creeds, and to bring out with now lifo and power the simple Christ of the Goupela! that Jife beforo you as the grund Christian Even ss o shadow vaguo, neglected by tho teachors of Christianity, not triod to ba brought out, loft to take itw chance, through Byes when the Gospels wers hardly knowa to the comnibu people, yet that simple lifo hus beou & thought of power, & robuke to selflubinoss and unkinduess, and all things false and ovil; an encouragornent less holdiug to the oftort for human good, aud uucouquerablo By ita own wsilent powor » part of the Mosaio theory, {¢t would “puzzle trutb. is to reckon Sclonce nab as o dictator, but Indoed, tho most like i ¥ & true and loving handmaid of nlzo ull nguirers into Nature, whether Curier La Placo, tfugh Miller, Deaper, or others, beliovors aud unboliovors, as ploneers to clear away the foroats for the citizeuns of the heavenly king~ dom, tholr sueors and their * bigh disdain " bo- ing more than overbalancod by the contributious thoy wske to the world's kuowledge of tho ‘works of God, 1t I the part of wisdom aléo, boonuso it is the et of truth, to honor Naturs as the of God soundlng His praisos to the ends of u _unew string being a Bible reader to find, the crystallino: sphoros of anything voution of an accomplished diso who departed from tho natranomy which had .beon in voguo for meveral huudred years osgeutially tho Copernican, or acceptod theory of our time, It~ - deed I suspsot that it would task the most learn- ed to provo that the oseontisl fontures of satro- nomical knowlodge aro in any sonso the product of modorn invostiyatlon. ‘I'he Biblo does not offer any theory at all, and, therefore doos not dany any theory*whatovor winehs ineludes the ides of God aa Creator. ‘neithier afirms nor donica the operation of Itleaves » margin of time ho separating of tho oarth snd r $he production of vogetablo life, nud: the production of animals,—as loug as tne moat ambitious naturallst or aatronomer could desiro. luterposs ag many second causcs aa your luge- it you plouse, that tho: Valth, to rocog- RK, ha mill opera~: | Nay, 1t is be- or Isalah, or Paul. tho world, whoaver fiuds roater than Jubal Oain, or Mozarh; or s tho ieroglyph of tho Aimighty, whoover fluds a Rosetts Btone, or reads a lottor, belng groater than Champoliion or Rawlinson, ‘Thore aro four kindg of naturalism, nature without extra-mundane, of despatr. Hecond, Nature with God at the be- giuning, mold ng the finit and all-comprebonding #eod of all things, and then loaving tho univorso, Jess bald than tho other, but ecarcely leus fatal Nature, which is itself God, or pautholem; s simplo turn of tho auly makiug 1t different frowm tho ‘The Democratic of \heir real mesaln| auk, \What ssys tha necondnry causes, aute-mundaue, nuity can saggest ; ua! 1aud camo vut of the Egypt, or the country of the Lower Hississippl #ufiposo o winglo xet of ova for all the fuwls o 1o air, o singla spawn forall the flahies of tho soa, aud a slugle soed for oach of the atter-flora g: :::o :ufl:‘fld n;;lnmm [137 lglurvlll hfll roposs 3 iothor your theories fao, s saceed roconddnew nok A 80 loug as you recognizo God as the Creator, and the order in which creation sdvancod 2 Tormious vold to tha prinl mane . o0 o 1t any modification of this afirmation wore ro- quired, it would ba iu favor of what (8 commonly rogardod as truc as to the ori “Thoe word *crento” i3 one of muoh of the porploxi guoch » siple; happy, contradiot you | in the world, aud outside the world, and yet not ibo world, but the everliving God, God by mirsole, and working without miracte, ostab- lishiug tho oternal law, aud by the eternal law dolug Hlia nvr'u will in every star aud Jn every The natural world s tho ephore of the wuplritual, Jesus Christ is the groac ITigh Priout of Nature, It I our Bavior, born of Mary by the overslisdowing of tho Holy Glwst Juat ‘as” the formloss voul was ovor- whadowod, who struck Jight ot of darkuess, set tho sun in his plsce, aud clothed tho world with its first verdure; the mamo who drove back the winda by His word, and called the desd' from tho Ve, Naturo iy as the faco of Qod tous, Iti storehouse of tho iwmsges aud flxun: v.\;; The candiwdates for In of tho worlda Lioso mony words the meaning of whicl is detorminod largely by tho pracouception of the hearor or the roader. 1t may meun to mako not ovly the form but tho to “‘make out of nothing." thought ‘Tertutlian in the mecond contury, bo thought our great fathers, the Wostminsier di- vines, Aud go thought the Jesuits iu the lato woan to make instant- aud miraculously, and without the operation any of the comuon agoucics, Homany think . Who Dar of Houth Bend, Ind., Lave made ap- plication to Father Borrin, of Notro Damoe Uni- varuity, for the privilege of owploying the artlst Gregori to palot an ofl portralt of the Hon. ‘Fhomas B, Btautield, Judge of ths Clrourk Court, 1o bo hung Lo the Coust-ilouse in_thoir town. Fathor Horrin, after consulting Grogori, cons sented with tha oondition tuast the Bay scoept it 84 & prezeat from bim, Vatlcan Council, trust fu Qod! y altior Weatern connects o nnection, or shall Reaue bl Ly whic n i cars T eataaoumend anl of fhe Commouwesli, an & part of 2 jocd B tit davendent asaieim, {0 T operated in'ts Taied o Minsactumeitn and by s inbat excrlonced or 0 ol worlhiy e, an o clioapand rollani weoisy it nfeation Tetween oue eltien and {mene® Of o, Bikes nnd the Weat? 1€ woare malisfied 1q! o, B0 fiesl peaponltion to o adopled, 1w furilier 1o 1t couaty experieuce peavcs Ui, Whilatiog : puic (e lnveatigation bhis A favor f esisting methodn your g wero fiest allracted by he nrimber and roupemmiie! 6l petitiohers whio demanied n el ity 1 aftered for Tncorporating e Bowu e gy A0 3 FINANCIAL. A Glance at the Present Phaso of Mon- etary Affairs in Boston. Stagnation of legitimate Dnsiness, ant Rapid Incrense of Speculation. BOSTON, talway Trant Company, whi. T oy hieszo Spectal Dispatel to The Chicans Tridune, a lage numiier of ‘,;...fls‘.m.;, «x.!.‘"!.’d!.Ju".“’.‘.“r’n'"’ i . s emed Lo the Committes too Tt Bostox, April 25.—ho stagnation of busk~ | i'EL, Vo in it procisioie, 1 bo papbEortFoa, nrnns. t;llull tho consequont unusual large smonnt | the plrrmnllume:nnd wa lave choren mxh{é‘;«"rm =4 of capltal seoking hivoeatmant Las I meid n il mofo conservativo i ki ¥ ® d 8 peautlar | T ol oiern confrsed. hre mors il offect] on tho monoy-market, aud has cansed a Iargor Lueiness {n atocks thau at nny provious time since tho war. Paper of the right alamp ¢nn bo negotinted sl low ratew, aud 18 iy o + An avt to fnco S ke ok Cnm]mny.flw“h the Messachi.eiyy o, eniltler Ve s After peltcarningt (o provikians of fl purt coufiiiucn by 1oyt Hhat thin 11l sermty 28 16 several folud and deaorclt.n and 1 the sought for at 5 per cont. In somo Instanco, [ Ftute eaual fuctiitivs and enten for 1ram ol e 4 A gt £0ads, and provides thy . evon sitgle-named papor of good quality can bo 1unaltn FHaML Bitben . oymrt 1wy Taie }‘r’;flll{uw passed as low a4 @014 por cont, a vory nominal ough busiuesa to Duston, whick nhal?.‘ fua figuro for that elass, which is not in fayor ordie | geed e urons sunt that may b cltarged from S ing poiata ta the City of New York, 1 Sompte for ‘clioan W Feliabln (ranaporiation Ly Lo Blate, 110t to {ha City of:Boston aloyo, Whaly Tho escntial provtelna of this bill aro the o of a corporation with full power of manaup o2 tha principles_ret forth : 8 ine of ralway iy 1o 03 terckt of cheap iraoxportation, haviuy e 0 taugling allfauces with * colaxsal oFgnulaatingesy which, theough Ha own earnings, vhiall, year 1,7 redeem ita stack, until it 1y all extingulsiied, apj o Htato becumes thio sols owner of (hn propery ‘wiiy ! thin expenditura of ono dollac of o moncy o Ktato Treasury, or tho Insao of 3 Hiala bong therefore, with'no adder tazation o e eltisen, "% nm-mzno privato interents to_aubserve, tngyy the provistonn of {heir acta of Incorporation, the L) duty of |hcenrfl:nlnm offcr paylug oxjenees cent ta tio king fund, and § por Gent on 1110 do Al {hoy €30 to affard roliablo and cher (o neriation 1o thio people of Mamachuscts, auy dotig business with or through our State, il MICHIGAN ROADS OUTTING UNDzg Qnasp Iaripg, Mich., April 21.—mu:iurh fortnation of the cuttingof rates by tho Migy, ) Centeal, from Dotroit to this city, modificy ™ slatement of yesterday materially, Tates og both the Dotroit & Milwaukeo aud the yig, igan Contral to thin city bave Leon G0, 4 3. and 20 conts for firat, Aecond, third, and fop classes, A month or six wecks ngo, nat yey, 3 dny, n atounced, the Dotroft & Mivers: rodiicod o 40, ' 80, 20, nud 15 gy but Did not clalm to ent, i\‘ Michigan Contral sesterday cut docidedly, o dncing to 10 conts ‘por 100 for cach thy fiy: second, third, aud fourth clneres, making they all oqqual, tho spoctal ciass being b conts,—pyy, materiat roduction, indeed, Tho end iy nat,g PERSONAL, Svecial Dispateh to The Chicago Triduns, Kaxuag Caxy, Mo, April 26.—J. I, Locknyy Lias been appoiated Gonoral Ticket Agent of 1y Minsourd Kivor, Tort Scolt & Gulf Roas, yiy Allen Baurne, resigned, who goes to Dotrait 1y hecomo Parchasing Agont for tho Michigan (s tral and Groat Westorn, 11, H, Campbeil jaay Purchiasing Agont and Pavmaster for th \y sourl Itiver, Fort Hcott & Qulit. ITEMS, The Alchison, Topoka & Santa Fo Railrosd to Lo extended from Qraoada, Col., tho pres:; terminus, to West Las Animas, It is uuderstood tuat tho dificultios betwey tho Unlon Pacific Reilrond Company and iy Tannma Lailroad Qompauy b eat Lannums pavy hisvo beon smial)y It is rumored that tho Toledo, Walah § Westorn Kaliroad Intends runving its lina it Teorin from Pekin, n distance of 10 miles, Toy will givo tlo road auotlior Wostorn terminng. ‘The annnal statement of tho Kookuk & Dy Moines Itnitrond sbowsn most favorabls e in both freight and psssenger business. Ty mllqnlufi figures show tho earvings for the :l;}!x)"‘fbbl\lr“c? :A“ix 1870: Yaguenger cu $230,066.05; freight earning O12,850.14; kil Carnlogs, i thagn e SOLRYI M UNION PACIFIC AND KANSAS PACIFIC Rt ROADS, worlly, CGovérument honds sra vory flrm nt o furlhor ndvanco, and the investment is good. Mauy of our tax-escaping capltalists flud o po- enliar attrictton for Governmonts about this time, and Joans ou this claes of sccurities rap- wlly incronso an the 1stof Muy appronchey, Tho ndvance on stecks 50 far hs boen n healthy ane, and not so rapld, with raro oxceptions, ns to on- danger o sudden break. ‘Thoriss i prices i por- feetly natural under the circumstances, and the only wonder 18 that it could have beon so loug deferred. Bunk nhares went up during the weelk from %¢ of 1 to 7 per cent. Maunufacturing stocke romninod tho sante. Nailroad shares aro generally firm with s material improvoment in eoveral, Atchison & Topeka has takeu u start at last and gouo from 14to 19 almost at o juwp s Intor anles wera yaado at 18!ge, parties golling frocly. Durlington & Missourl bas ndvanced from 111 to 112, and Chicago, Darlington & Quiney from 118 to 114, Crucinuati & Bundusky Iias boan lively, and gained from 1185 to 1134 Michlgan Coutral {s dull at 74, Iailroad bonds genorally show more activity, Atchison & To- Pulm tirst 78 havo ndvanced from 72!{ to 70; nnd grants from 50 to 7414+ second hortgago from 3614 to 44, Harlford & Erio 7 Liave Loon vory nctive, and advanced from 28 to 80. Tho affairs of tho Cumpnu{ ara roportod to bo get- ting Into better condition, T'ic miving share markot has nssumed o tons of vigor aud n de- groo of actlve bitovancy not witnessed be- foro for years. ‘fho ovont of tho week wag tho " rapid advanco of Atlonex to | 28 from 8 in less than two weeks, Contral hag advanced to 80!, and an important improvomont at tho mino fs reported. Copper Falls hau ad- vanced from 9 to 18; Tranklin from 117 Lo 151¢; Natlonal fron 33 tc 41¢ 3 Dothorick from 18 {0 2; Tawablo from 74§ to 84¢; Quincy from U714 to 42; Ridgo from ()] to 8%] ; Star from 25 to 75, ond nearly all the low-priced stocks in like pro- portion. BLOOMINGTON AND NORMAL ITEMS, Speeial Diapateh to T'ha Chieago Trioune. Breourtaroy, I, Aptil 26,—Jobn O, Fullen- wider was arrested on Friday by Marshal I, R, Ttoo on application of the creaitors of tho bauk- rupt firm of R, C. Fullonwldor & Co., dry-goods merchants, now bankrupt., Complainauts scek to show that ho waa really & member of that firm. Ho was roleased on 31,000 hail, The dn{l Rooda storo of Cteorgo M. Hunter, at Normal, has beon closed by the Shoriff, SETTLEMENT WITH CREDITORS, Special Dispatoh to The Chicaqo Trivnne. Dunuque, In,, April 45,—Levi Strahl, tho do- fuulting merchant at Indepondonce, Buchanan County, Is., who flod to Kansas with intont to dofraud his creditors, and was thoro arrested, brought to Dubuqne, nnd lodged ln jail, hns at last compromised at tho rate of 40 conts ou_the dellar, and to pay all costs, Tho amount of his {ndebleduesn is about 825,000, hold principally by Dubuquo and Chicago parties, « RAILROAD NEWS, THE NORTHERN PACIFIO, At a mootiug of the Directora of tho Northern Paciflo Rallroad at Now Yoik City, I'riday after~ noon, Gen. Georgo W, Cnss tondoted his resigna~ tion as President of tho Rond, to take effect April 17, the dato of bis appointment s Recolver by Judge Shipman, Judge Rice, of Maine, will probably bo elscted to fill tho vacancy. Subsc- quently thoro was a mooting of the Bondholders' Comtnitteo, nttended by Johnston Livingatan, of Now York; William Windom; of Minnesotn; William McKnight, of Pittsburg; Gon, Stark, of Lowell; J. N, Hutchingon, of Philadelohia; and J. 3L Denigon, of Baltimora, Theeo gontlemen, wth ox-Gov. Coburn, constituto tho Committeo a8 now formed, - ‘The work of the mooting conalatod principally of an investigation of the licbilities aud axsots as furnished by the Company's roport, By those it appeared that tho assois consist of 550 miley of fimabied road, and over 10,000,080 of acres of iand, whilo thia ilablitios are mortgaged Londs to the smount of $30,000,000, stock to tho amount of $25,000,000, wiich way distributed 84 & premium to the bouds, sud o flon:lnsi dabt of loss than $700,000, of whick £500,000 is duo to tho Dircctors ofjthe road. Desides this thore 18 €2,600,000 of back intercst duo, which I8 un- classified, and which will probably bo relinquish- od by tho bondholders in their sottlomone of the present difilculty. After tho exumination of thelr roport, tho Committes discuesed with tho Company's ofiicers tho tinancinl diMcultics of the rond, amud thoe best way out of them. Threo plans_wore prominont among the many proposed : Tirat, to form an nssocin- tlon of bondholders that might bo strong enough to forecloso the mortgaga und buy iu tho road ; aocond, for the bondholders to oxcliango thoir bonds for preforred stook, lenving the complotad road clear of debt ad tho basia of & new sorios of loans, and then Jator to offcet o socond sxchanga -of bonds for thostock? " doaired ; third, to hald the road built and landu enrnod ny solo security for the bonde now out, to divide tho road to be construclod uto acetions of 256 miles, and to make wn issuo of Londs for each sootion, to be secured bfl that parioular soction ond tho lnnds earned through it, No declsive action lias as yet beon taken, New York Tribune, April 2t Tt is officially anuonuced that tho Unienh «ifio and Kansaa Pacific Rollrond Companiesi comoto o Larmonions arrangement. Forur oral days pant it has boon lnown in Wall uss that nogotiations werein progress betweaats Unton and Konsas Paclfic Companies, Thot sult of sn anuouncement to that effecimy to ndvanco tho pricc of Tausas It from 19 to 27, witt hoavy trausactions, Ve . day theso negotiations were comnloted, and v coutlict of intorcats which oxisted hetweea by Lwo corporations was adjusted on torms ut: {factory to both. Among tho points in the agrorment madewn the following: Tho Union Yacitie C agraoes to_mergoe its Colorado Contral Rulr idated corporation, of the uow company, which will be knoassl on the Konsas Yacifio Railroad —Comte:y witl bo held vomotime next woot, anda nuntz of the old Diroctora will retiro to_makomr !t Bldnoy Dillon, Jay Gould, James D, mith 0 vor Ames, of Boston, aud othors represeciy the Unton Pacific Company. Thae Union P abandans all the Oolorado traftic to tho cons dated companies snd tho latter rolinquish ez clafm to pro~rating, and to all tho Now-Jetii2 and other trafllo which doon nob naturalyrd the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Iobert L. G will remain President of the last named cozps: o o OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, New Yout, April 25.—Arrived, the O d Chester from Livorpool; tho Cornwall, ina Bristol, sud the Holland, from London. Queenstowy, April 25,—Arrlved, the sean® Idaho, from Now York. Trymovtis, April- 35, —Arrived, the sacs Frinin, from Now Yorl, ‘Tho Sul 173 GomAe Trom a recent lottor from Constantinep's # ho Providenco Journal we quotes “Ite counts which are given of tho riches whies 1% hoardod in the palace hava tho savor of i of tho Araliian Nights, Boyond doubt s m doal of wealth, in the form of diamonlt roclous utonew, is acoumulated thore, Theot cutatious display by the Shah of Persia of bt wealth in this direction, on the recent loif visitation with which hie favorod Europo, ¥ 'b" Jmown, Amonga profusion of jowcls & : porson, hie wau secustomed to wear capbein! § embrofdored with dismonds aud (astensisti § front with a brilliant of enormous size. 08 o occanion whien the Bultan was fo recoive biay hia guest, the grand staircasa and tho ,q!mm 1oading to tha nudience-room wero, inau Licipates of thoarrlval of tho Shah, ordered to b 4 with Leavy Bmyrmna Tugs studded all orer Il», diamounds, emoralds, and sapphires, 80 umw Toyal visltor was abliad ta trond under bt w tho evidences of groawnoess which Lo -.mu. hie head, Tho Sultan roceived bim, 08 bo 'réx rnd upon the staircasy, in o plain dress, wear ~| 14 nuual simple fez of seerlot cloth, aud ‘“n\il perdonal oruament of any kiud, A, nest 2 garoasm for a barbarinu, Any visitor “sl‘. stantinople can Frmuro & firoiaan from the 5 lime Porta to visit the imperisl mum“ o ut the old Seragllo, whero hio will see: mefl!m,‘I in jewal-atudded &rinkets, diamond-n ol mword-hilts, bolts, scabbards, horse gnmnnr‘ b caparisons, cups, vases, artiules olvl:.lfl_w"!m manship, and sloglo stonoa of tho lcmc!a arr] don twics over, A specimen of tho coBitv, this repository In tho form ofn golden hoied sot with preclous stones, and which wers M ly ® prosont from DPorsis, Is to bé am aur Contennlal oxhibition, It was o€ B, ocontributions of Turkoy to he ‘Vieop! position, Just now it i the mhlonm women of the hagem to mako costly PIST the Sultan, Theso prosontaaro wat lywn' ™ in tho diroction of the pational nrmm" " mother of the Sultan, wlo sooms to L fl:r bl?sltn‘m. lm(n ;ho f"l’m of “&'1:?,‘|§§3§~ Yozt stantial form of feminine bian il g0 pieaos of artilory hiave boen thus 0BT #” ad to wake up tho Hoyal favor. THE BOSTON & CHICAGO NOAD, ‘Tho Jolut Bpecial Committeo to whom was re- forred the petition of Edward Crano and others and Wiiliam M. Newhall and othors to bo incpr porated under the nnme of Doaton & Chicago Tallway Frust Company,. bave prosoniod the follawing report : Your Committes, sppreciating tho importance of the anbjoct refersed 1o by tho petitioners, hava occupled nuiol Hme i ligarIng tho avirlenco aiid arguincats of tlio numeraus parties appeatiu befure tlen, aud Lave exaniinod (Lo subjeat 1 relation to tho inierosls of {lio Sluto o8 carefully as they aro ablo to do, Mo than men of great fntelligunce, of large bueiness expericice, sud Ligh churacter, living {u different sectious of tie Htate, and ropresenilng ita various intcroits, Lave' unitad In urging that someibing should bo douo by (b Leg'ataturo, forthwith, to secure cheaper tranapor- tation boteen Massachustits and ths Wost, “Tlia report tien entors upon tho importanco of ches trausporialion to tho peoplo, and proceeds to say that tha great sywioms of rosds from Now York vis Albany and BuiTaln, and via Binghataton and Dunkrk to by Inkes aud Chicago, from Viilladelphia to Exo and tho lakes to Chicago, from Baltimore Lo the lakes and Obi- cayo, uru each coutrollod aud operated i tha_ futerests of uficr States (han Mossachusotis, Hoaching thelr saveral Bnhm of complotion, thoy at times ootipeto for the buslness of tho narthorn scotion of the Uninn, but usually combing on rates, ralsing or dimiuishing tlo tolls au they may at thelr plessura dolermine, Whiloour cominerce, tho hunduld of agrivulture. asul manufactures, i fust leaviug our woaportu for thuso of otler latos, aid ous soung men oud ailled arti sansare seckig and followlng tho growing domnnd: caused by tho inoreasa of buainees aud manufuglurcd fu othier sections, tho vast fonusge of frelght of this £330, 000 of manulaoturss prodiced last your iu Masea- chituotts, e b proviona yours, sought distant, aud cir- Cultons dvauues of transfiortation 3 bud oue meruhuits aro abliged, ot un expenss of wiilions of dollars uu- ally, toestablish and support branch houscaln othce soaboard cities i whioh 10 moet thele austonicra who ary dobiarrod from Viaiting \uschiusolis by (e Lighe or rtos d"“!“‘ for trausportation from the Wast to our chief city than to such other citios, "Tho report thon gives s ukutol of tho testimony pro- sented beforw the Committec, snd continucs by saylug {liat tio importance of ntilizlng, for the benedt of our monufaoliires, such eapty cars rolurning Weat, cau lardly Lo overcstimated ; nnd theso cunply card can only Lo provided by !ul'lllhl!lnlfflm shipplng of West A Fronch Lunatice i Tousroau onco Wroto: “1f it Iwr; ‘fi”u:-‘" axsury for you to hold out your thun! ] to canse the death of .an imuouse '!m a mandarin in China, whoso keir you Frg vy are you sure that yon would not d” thuinb?" 'This passago ons day i attontion of Hourl de Luarols, & N“‘gm v man of excollant family, but whoao MR, Ty crtl produots Lo out veaboard cliics, aud thu establish £ lis ford ? ‘with all quarters of b il, - Neithe litsle sifeoted by the logs Of host aimoras HOF anutastires ean BIIve 3::1»;.:e Wiie | thought, “It T coald stretch out mF 1 custumers, tho _sgriculturiuts, tirlve ulio; snd agvls Ealturo canuot thrivo unloes & cau fod chedp avenues to tho warket of tha world for ita aurplow products, {trough tho profitablo dixposul of which alous cau the aygrloulturist hava the nucans to obtain the products of commerce and mannfactures, The experienco of tliy world teuds to tho cauclusion that thy weany for socuring a successful competition betwoou radiwa; thirough Btate control of & comptlug o, After referriug to tho offects of Blate mansgemont {n otlier countries, tho report vays: In the cousldors- ton of the subject refurred to us, your Committes fiad at the threshold of the investigntion the question hall- the Tunnel llas of road rewain in the hauds of yrivato {nterests, tho inoritable result of which s itd ‘sbaorpiion kv the ndvereo iutcreok 20w contzulilug ous and that would bo enough to kill mf Bl‘:‘lm‘ counin, 1 phould becomo very rich: Weei] of Laliuotnation he extended bls "m"laflw phutognphmfhuulnnvnuudlmd. s Talet die, #0 that I may luberit.” mw%ub, WM‘ hw'uncle and cousin wero carriad of 107 oot fover, Within the lost six tnovti, ydse royod upon Laarois' oufooblod h.\lo‘l e b rmnglnau that ba pell cauod the jdad“ relatives, Lo hieard volcos frol uul b room calling, *Thou Lisst Rilled us % n Lot 1ra delivered Linusolt up 12 £ Jico nnd asked to bo execnteds o says 8g0 n An iasano avylui.