Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 10, 1875, Page 3

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE THE PULPIT. fho Rev. 0. H. W. Stocking’s Impressions of the. Bouth, gesults of tho War and tho Blis- tovernment which Fol lowed, gondition of the Episcopal Ohurch in Louiziana Tho Rev, Mr. Bain Replles to Brooke Horford's Bormon Anniversary of the nailroad Missiona=- The Rev. Jacob Post. WO WEEKS IN THE SOUTH, LECTURE MY TNE HEY. C, ). W, BTOUKING, The Dov. Dr. Rtocking lectured lank n\'nnln'g st the Church of tho Kplphany, iaking as his sabject, * Twvo Weoka in the Boutn." Ho spoko s follows: 5 The cathollcity of tho Clroh finda expression, pot only in ercods, but in commou rolntions of social life, Tho familiar slory of the clover peathion fabulist, *Ventrom it membra," aud througgh which tho slave taught his mastor the hecessity of corporala umty, and tho aubstantial Mentity of human intersts, was but a hoathen puess at the same truth in ita tullor dovelop- ment by Bt. Panl in s later age. ‘Lhio Clurch snd tho world hiavo mntagoniam enough to Luny {ba pen of tho moralist, and Al the heart of tho Cristisn, but thero are mundry principlos on which, ns common ground, thoy meot to organize thelr rospoctive forces. Tney both find lo isaln~ tion, whother of space or feoling, sn onomy to developmont, and wo tho one apreads tho white wings of peaceful commorce, aud drops an an- ¢hor in accustomad waters, whilo thoe othor san- dals tho misslonary's foot for a vouturo on boathien moil. Back of all dovelopment of rail- sy systoms, comuercial troatics, and facilitated Itercourso with tho various Lrancles of tho buman family, lies Lho one trath of the power of frioudly sud fratornsl nesociation in the re- spoctive dopartments of trade, politics, and rligion, A villagor, whoso littlo world has beett bounded by the hills aud tracs that bave gleddonod bis daysnnd sontinclod his nights, en bardly cscapa being narrow-miuded ; cosmopolitan, _who bas been browned by (o suos of other lmds, and Dbas hold convorso with tho men nnd thingd that clvilization overywhero calls hor own, will pmbnhlr havo _ bLreadth of judgment snd eatholiclty of faeling and opinion. A largo pro< portion Of tho wmintakes thut alicnate, or tho more poitivo enmitios that wntagonize, mem: bera of @ commgu hutan family, or even the enne branch of that fawily; would Lave boon impountble o the most ordinary acquaintauce, not to eny friendehip. 'This is peculiurly truo of our own baloved but tubappy country, whose bonsted unien has some limcs ecome; to be lttle moie than an involuntary allisnce of potty princlpaliticd. Booinl habity, pohitical opiujons, aud relgious convictions aro 1 pocitliarly sectional as if wo were members of opposite homispheres, Tha compurative freo- dom ot nvorage Westorh lifo scomna but liconre fothe Now Englander educated in tha sovers eebool of a rigid conventionality. Olimutic mflu- encea and focal tradition aro connocted with such {diosyncinsies, that tho dwellers by the Great Laken aro as different in temporanioht and habit from tho dwellers by tho Gult, as tho grain and the cotton that #pring up to bless their labors. Languare is almost o differont thing in somo parts of our country, and a printed page some- times gives auother menviug than tiat which In lodged 1n the eate worda wihen utiored by o sym- pathetio voice, DBorn in Now Eupland, and' by 1o moaus disposcd to bartor our birthright, wo are, novortholess, iudobted to ile cartior spirit for some of tho graveat misconcoptions that over distorted human judgment. LIb is within tho memory of evoen our early manhood thut the Groat West was commouly charactorizol as a sectlon where groat tlnift waw matchied by aa groat rudeness, nnd by a sort of sewni-barbariem; that promised adventurars mouey, but not cl- tare Llutgrewomp-nlInbnlounflmenalous.nnd rough gisnts whose tooth-picks wera buwio knives,—n soction, in short, whoso reoplo wora litle botlor than sn aggregation of womadic trives, To our earlior fancy the Houth also scotned o wondetfully beautiful country " whera only man was vile”: whosa white cotton fields sod groen cano brakes, snd fragrant orangoe grovea were hoavy with tho groaos nud curscs of tha victims of an” unwiliing and Inhumdn bon- dage, but never sweet with tho muslo of prayor; where an Unclo Tom was found in evory nearo slave, and aLiegroa in evory master, aud only ono Eva bad beep given to mako the manaclos losa Elllmg sud degrading; o country where n uman soul wis of 1688 account thau the carcass of the poor old horso thet foll yostordsy utider hin hmf. and as draggod withoue. tho stracts of tha city to swoll the acoumulatiug rofuse) whera sauls wore born into and died out of tho world without knowing how felt the toucl: of o pitying band, or how sounnded the volce of Chtistinn feaching. Lducated in tho school of Clay, the disciplos of Van Buren aud l'uik suentod tous to liave somo myeterious stlinity to Burr wod Amold, aud wo were quietly informed that thoir political beliefs were incondistent with good moral char- scter, Accustomed to the sovere standard and dolluitlons of tho moting-houso, it was not etraugo that wa belioved clinrchmon donied tho nocesaity of vital piety: that thoy waro Jtoman- Ieta in disgulse, and Luat they could nol.xdvc Christlan burialto a doceasod nelglhibor, Lilled by a falling building, beeauso the Yrayor-Book contained mo prayer for & Lrokeu leg! Tho same haoits of oducation sont us Jsat a Roman Catholle church with fleet foot aud bated broath, for within Itu walls wero mys- tertos and nbowinations too doop for oven im- agination, aud thae gloow of ita uplified cross soomod like tho waving of a spediral hand.calling to judgment | fut time, sesocation, Kud edtiea- tion ohanged all this, Roman Catholios and Cai- viuista havo found ontrance to Varadise, nnd hough Cotton Mather ouoe quite doulted tho eflicaoy of tho clonusng blood of tho Hoo of Uod fn tho cuse of Churchmon, tho Father's mansiona hiavo been opoued to m host of their Yoty desoondauta who loved woll to chant the Y)mul old ercods of Catholie Christondum. emocracy and Republieanism aro neither aufli- flfi?“y absurd to ciulm an absolute monopoly of virtuo, The Went 3a not zolicitaus for the intolligont aympathy of the Miest, since tho latter no lougar Borts a monopoiy of sulture, blood, sud Ktatcss wanship, Masuachusctts snd Caroliua have boon exchanging bravest pona for falrest daughtors, and aro haudiog down to the gonerations yet ta came auch s famuiy heritage as shall be a'glory aud a joy foraver. And in sll this chauge of seotiment wa are discovenng a mitigation of seo- Lional autagonivma, We Liave loarned that mon could not be brought together, even in the rudo ‘shock of war, without discovering very much that distance and prejudice lisd concealed. ‘This ¥as one of the incidental fruity of our late fra- Hroal xtrifo, bhat fmon ke t0-know and) thore. 'tors, to love, each other better, and to find more identity of intorest than all tho previous fyours of smillng pesce had beon able. to tesch om. Those of us who hava hud tha opportu- ity of travel, or who Lave becu st the paius ta 1 Sbiain reljable information, have learncd how Blavery could exist among a people uusurpassed tor their culture, ploty, peuiality, and hospitalis ty, and our Southorn brethren are glad to ac- nowledge as large hisre of corresponding Yirtueu among ourselves as alxensonablo modouty could claun. Bus, aftar all, our own country s s Elent unexplared Jaud to vast numbers of in- telligent folks, and never did the nced of friend- Iy acqualntance seem more imperatlvo, War loft & more horrld aud enduring record st the Bouth than most of wé can uuderstand without l-‘mng the actual’sceno, aud misrulo Las inten- sitied uafl rolonged tho wisery of ita people, un- l but llitle 48 found among them to mnke tle present endurablo or the futura hopeful. ur recont vidlt amoug thom hag given us a more intelligont Ides of their actual conition, 8 causo and ity yomedy, than js Ukely to bo &slued from newepaper articles whoso authors Yiew mon and things through politioal mpectacloy. Wa aball, thex, sttompt this oveniug as brief And mimple pa accouut 8¢ we may of that wisun. daystood aud misrcprosented r:npxq, who spoak he apme langusge sad are called by the wawo “fi'flwm besusy of the Houth have tho’ nasod Into s provérh. Ita sunny aklies, and aliny Lroath, and floral woalth hiave detatned tho font of the tourint, snd enhiated mora olo- quent nnd graphie pens than ours can hopn to ho. Whataver la neceavary for man's sustonta- tion aud comtort Nalure has brought to iheir very doors, and in_ sbhundanen, ‘The aced mulis plies eanity sud rapldiy in the furrow, apiendil forents of magnificant trees, and coal-bada of unlimited m:pplr guarantey an abihdanes of fuel, whila the basor amd soma of tha wnore pracious metals nro gathsen o rieh stora neac by 1o tempt tho cupulity and atimtlatn tho ine dustey of man, And ynt the Sotthern panplo Arn vory poot, Vonr yoars of clvil war laft anch wicck and rnin as the many years muce have Locn poworlces to ratriove, and although the slow mareh of lnprovemont or business, and domentie neceynitien, have removod many of the mionnnents of men's panion, enoush yomans to tell of tho utrito ond the sgouy thad wado ko dark a pago it otir countey’s histoty, Yot fnay look in .otica bright eyew, now falnd and dim with watehing and _weeping for thoss who went o the Latile and whoao fatuiliar foot- fall has novor sitce bean henrd at the duor, and lu_tha promaturoly gray hair yon sy Nde evidencos of tho wima cate aud sorrow ma” havo come o likoimannar to otr own Northern lomes, ‘I'ho kearred foundation atotion of ohrelise atill topeat with muto eloguenco tho bistory of that bld-timo wickednozs thut ‘*broko dawn the earved work thersot swith dxen and’ hummaors,” and tha seattersd remuants of large and devout flocks, and & fow faithful and Impoverished slicphords, are hard by tha ruins to tell atorles of & violonce that cainat yol stay ftu band from lie altars of tho Most igh. Itusinos uncortaintion have compolledcitizena 1o woik at arm's longth for the comuion necesnl- Lies of Jita, nnd whero otico stood thé geniis of Lrade beckoning on to fortine, are tow anipty warshouses ou which goems to Le written the epitaph of cominaiclal prnuporll{‘. Tlooda have cumplated whntaver seemod to bo neecsvary to au aosolnte poverly, and, 1n Lonismana capacials Iy, tolol destruction of flold and produce has brouglit aufferinga littlo apprecinted by us stho liave beau looking acroua tliesa fortiie prairied and pagaing under tho shadows of our tall aad burstlog granaties. Bue chiof amnong the misories of our Bouthern brethren, aud connectod with them os thoir ohicient cauee, ia the political misrule undar which thoy bave groaned and wufferad for the pnat fow years, Ourrendyand cordial accoms Lo il classes snd couditions of met, and the wubstitution of honost and Christian wotive for political and partiaan Prlncln!el, give us o falr insight into thie actnal condition of “things, and ona which jurtifios the use of ssvere Iauguage, Nowhiero could wo lind auy other than the most fotvent aspirations for & sottled and enduring peade, and e beliavo that Houthern ambition proposck to jtanif no hlyhcr flight than that of tho right aud bleseing of gelf-goverument. Whila wo lidve nothing to esy, or do, coucorning ike reasona tor the atthinde uf the Goneral Govorn- mont tho pnst ten years, it I8, wo conceive, & rizht and o duty to narrate aclual facls am ox- phining present ovouts, Tlio diefranchisotnont of n large proportion of the white population, and the alierod rolatiovs of mastor nad slaye, ‘made cxceptional Jegislation a positive necossity, But 1to tvar of races camo to repoat the horrors at Ban Domingo, and no freah altempt sgainst tho tionoral Govarnmont waa found to bo aither nieditated or poseiblo, Tho now flag had been fought wuter, and for, with a zoal a8 houest as it waii miataken nnd inoffcotun), and tho old flagy was welcamod with a sincoro affeclion, Tho untorttictod Intimacy between tho maatots and wervanty of tlie same fawily, and which gooor- ated.q real affoction littla undorstood lu our own domostiv teonomy; tho mutunl sttzchments that thus br - vue the most valued of all domes< tio tradition.: and tho maderation of thoir 1ato masters, sil guvo promi:e of B reasonably #atisfactory solution of the Southern prollem, Bomowhat unex 1ctedly, however, many of the mora capabla negiooa justified thie prodiotion of fheir hiboratora by evidencing an intelligent ap- precintion of their real futorests, A swarm of hungry palitieal advouturera from the North had settied, and for a long timo fattoned, on Lhe. most favared portions of the Bouth, filing its oftices, shaping its logivlation, sod stealng its aubstance, Thoirnaisy and vehomont prolesta~ tious of friendship, and protection woh tho negro'a hoart,—and what wns of fat groater cousequencs lila vote,—and when thia had beon socurod in the intoresta of domatognoy, the poor negro soon lenrned to shom bio tnuat look whon wicknoes, poverty, or doath cams,~-to Lis otd mester, it hecould Lo foynd. A gontle- au in Florida, and another ju Missisalppl, botl formerly planters, gaye us a most vivid, thongh painfal, plotaro of the methods resortod toin cortain local clections, A long line of negroos was formod, ballots wero placed in their hands by tho political candidate hlmsolf, ond then the glory of Aworican citizenabip hind Btrauge dofini- ion a8 the sable cltizens dropped inta tha sacred Dallot-box tho bity of printéd paper which thay could not road, Komne of theso vory votors soon aftor appealed to their late moslors—and auc- cogsfuily, too—for relicf in distresn, and raveal- ed the existenco of o leaguo dflicored by whito thioves and including every nogro in the town- ship, aud whose rules made iv dangerous to life and limb to voto any, other titkel than tho ona provided them, Naturally cuough, the eolored people, In time, proposcd to tost the sincerity of thelr over-zeal- ous {riends by demandiug a sbare of the oflicos, and places liad to'bs provided for many of them, If popular suffrage bover eufforaed 86 doop » dogradation ay whon tho ballot was placed inthe hands of those who wero but a fow removo from barbaristn, what sball wo say of tho orimival absudity of Alling “loginlative halla oaud courts of justioe with mon who wero s iguorant of law and government and lnufinn:o anaclild of six yearn ! Whon we visited tho Louislana Legisiaiure two years.sinoe, nsgro sentinols gusrdod tha outer door, netro door- keopera admitted tho vivitor to tho legisiativo chanibers, negros, many of whom had been i the “*' ealnbooss ® for tho oommission of odious crimes, amd the most 1espoctable of whom had no higher antecodonts thou thoss of snloon-waiters, uat. in tho soat of law-mukers, aud ouo of the promivent ofiicials of tho Stato Lind learned hin statosmavship Lehind ilie bar of a river rteamer | Tho result of all this was simply inovitablo, Tho ignorance aud plisbility of the nogro, always Instinctively alive to patron- age and deeply affocted by a sliow of friendli- neay, offered 8 stauding temptation to overy un« thmlplud politician that had ecuds to mervo. ‘rand, corzuptiok, sud misrulo, soon stalled boldly fn under the cover of recopstruc- tion,” Noedleus offices wore crosted, thathungry politiclans mqfht bo fod, and propetty stolen by moana of fegat flotion, Compulsory labor belug dono awsy with, and the fsculty of ac- quinitivonoess bnlnq‘ Lut littlo developed v the colored man, tho highoat stimulus to Iabor fa ofton found fn absolute dally needs, ond whou thoao are supplied he lapscs into a condl- tiun of abeolute judolonce, ~ All tlus cannot but paralyzo l“.{ woll-ordored indusiry, and dofost, tho beat-lald sgnicultural plan, Wa neod not be surprisod, thou, to loars that as uegro labor ouly conld ba utllized n the production of tho great staples, and 281t could Do so littlo rolied ou by the plunler evon to gathorin the ripoted crop, the Iatter beoamo discouraged. Property now became comparatively uuprolltable, bocause partlally nupraductive, changoed Lands at Luta fraction of its value. In niany [hetances it wan eold for the cnormous taxes which opprossion aud foreigu legislation had leviod, and mon and women accustomed to all the arta and elegancios of refined aoclal life woro Jaft poor and niined ‘boyond possiblo recovery. And this is, In substanco, the sadition of the Southorn people to-day. Yoo, in purso, they are almost sy poor lu apirit, Penied, in some plaoes, the right of salf-governweut, wtripped of their substanco by uurrlnclpled legixlation, without the means ta revive or tho encourage- mont to continue their industrial pursuits, wus- pectod of lingering disloywlty, and tho victims of peipotual misropresontation, bpw do thoy not call for onr_forvent Cbristian mympathy? In spite of tho sltegationa of puliticians, we beliove no more peacoful people can. be found to.day than in Louisiana snd, Arkausas, Rufianiem’there is, but under control. And in no portion of thoso Hiates did we find evidenco of oue-fourth as much tascality aud corruption on the part of thelr own citlzons sa mogts us on every Land in our awn cu{ of Chicago, Tho relations of the white'and cofored poople are, on the whols, most smioablo, and will continue éo, In eo far aé tho Iatter are immolested by politicians, No rights ot thalr newiy-acquired citizanslip will ba con~ teatod, but public ofiices will be chcorfolly shared with them |, onl{r:ummun-nnnn and decency are vesnooled in thelr solection. What tho Houth, and enspeclally Louisians, needs 14, aot forcs bills, bLub peacs, {ndustry, and lese taxation. —Ho- curity in the receipt aud eujoyment of ths fruits of one's labor 5 not ouly & stimulus, it is tho sbsolute prorequisite to genoral industry snd frugality, ¥ew are willing to produce” what others are to consume, sud men will not work hard for suything more than mero nocoasitios whou tyrauiiical ‘violonco is likely to tear it from them. Ju Alabawa property hisa boan taxed 4 per cent, and In Louiuiana it bias Lad to carry a burdon of $11-100 per cent. _Vicksburg oom- lsins that Ler muoioipal debs bLns boon crestod 1 alx yoars from ¥13,000 to 81,400,000, aud that all 610 hiay to shiow for it is a fow Lun- dred yards of Xlcholson pavement. Now Orloans bids Ler alster take what uncortain comfort sha can in the fact that she herself has §2,000,000 in matured obligations. Even af the fow commare cial and finaucial contros, wonoy is VOry Rcarce, and such logal expowients as car-tickots and cor- porstion werip ora reeorted to for currenoy. hns of all this is tho dircot roauls of . MONDAY, MAY 10, 1875. istration of government, feandulont olottiona, cotrupt ofticlaly, and consequont sxsraordinary deprogsion of proparty valuen, Cloraly talated b "(hin in tho tomplation to, and commirmion of, crime. In vety many cnaca the negroen have had such schooling from nuprineinted whites tiat, I the meal diutricts, and wwharo the weak arm of an tneflictont aw can~ not reach tham, thev have Loeome sifaply tnso- totit, s have leangirared many A relgn Of tors ror, No law ntiate aeainut vagiancy, and ntoal- d1ng, the well known nad inuata propensaty of the nogro, {8 visited willi no dis;zeace when tho whites are the anfferern, A brother clergymen toid mo that mans negroen, whode roligion is ahioily seusiaous (when le{ bnvn muy at all), had beon ‘.',n(lwlwl Into thé Roman Catholio Chuteelt, amd Hiat durlng tio two or three waeke Inmadiately precading their Easter Communlon, the ownura of movalle propristy—eypucially of Lmullr_:', mate, and vigotables—wora obfiged to oep avervthing under strictont guard fost 1t no Htolen, 'Fha plantation and tho chickon-ronst yiolded up $hotr keauly troasutes to theso halit- ual thiaved, and the eanfoasinnal ptoud opett to rolteva the acoomnmnlaiing coteionce, The vonerable nnd holoved Bishop of Louis~ fona testifien st “the fact Iz been atratieely withhield that before ths melancholy tragedy In Grant 1'attels, 6o deeply depiotod by our atsizenn, the negroes had rashod to arms, whole families of tho whito community had hoen frluhtened from their Homes by jusultitg forays and throdts of ostermination( Home oscapig serops tho river, aud ottiors to the woodsi—one dear child, to my own knowledge, having per- inbotl from cold and exposure in tho forest, nnd anotlier, slroady dead and Iaid oud for burial was madly lung into the pubke streot,” Anoibor clorgvinan [u o country patish teatifies that tho dehtriction of the whife face hadl bdon opohly Pmahimml 4 that atmont thy whols negro pupn- atlon had hean nrmed ; that tha towns of Natch- {tochor, Alogandrin, and Pinevillo had boon soe Jectad for wacking aud Luruing, and that only the ooy of God scomel at ono tima loft for thelr dofenfo. Theso facts provo a deliberato conmpiracy against {he poace of tha dountry by the vory men who cry fot its pnoiahe mont, They inake the othcrwisa peacable ne- gro discontontod with lus lot, assute him that #ha #apremucy of thie white race menns his own roturn to slavery, aud diligently st himn ot va- rtiance with his former masters, whoao iuterests aro ansurodly his onn, And, in ol this mischiaf, edacation and re- linlon are suffering. During the pest year tho Diooese of Louimana supvorted but one clergy- man outalg tha City of New Orleans. A fow Inborard indead went lither and thither to break the Bread of Lifo to hungry souls in thet benns tiful and promining vinoyard, but oven this was mado posaibls only through tho Christian Jiv- erality of s lady of Now York City, Whole con- quntlouu had soateored, and “‘of the [atr nauty of Zion nothing remained but an emyly sauctuary and & diginhorited péople,” For tlio firet timo in its history the Diocedo foll Iar bo- hiud in ita spiritual race, and 1 many places the Church was scarcoly n visible ono, At & missiou- ary meeting held In New OrloAns, aud which wo had the honor of addressing, ouo epeaker, a clergyman, said that hin daughter, o girf of 14 eary, hind never yet scon an Episcopal church, ler father had baen, and sttll was, s misslonary al largo, and hia rural homoe conld afford no such luxury au a clurel, nor gould ho find the mouny to take bis family to & communicy that conld boast one. From another brotlier wo learned that recontly ho had dlscoverad that the altar- cloth in his onco comfortablo church was being eaton by moths, and, calling to him a lady com: municant, otico wealthy and in the enjoyment of all that high position could briug, ho asked hor to take it homo and fold it up in camphor. She staumored out wilh pamnful hesitation nnd con- fuslon of face that she would gladly do sotno- thing for tho church, but thatthe camphor wonld eost 15 cents, and sbo Lnow not whero to obtaln it. Auothier brothor stated that, at tho conclusion of his Good Fiydny eorvice, bo ob- servad thoe oyes of a noble ludy communicant rod ‘with werping, and. to his urgent inquiry tor the rorson of hier svicant sarrow, sha replied that ft had boen the desire of lor hoart to span tha churoh rail with o simplo piuc arch for the Enstor_decorations, 1t would cost §1.50, and whe had eatned tho sum by making dresses for negroes, but sho hud boon disappointed ia hor. puy, and could now do notbiog in honor of hor crucified and risen Lord, = Her Ttoetor loaned het tho money, mnd on Easter moruing tho gloriv, + flowers with whioh Naturo seents to spoll out for thot peoplo hier blessod law of compensation wero Bpatning the altar in & booutiful bow of promise to heavy hoaris. Thehop Wilmor told us of bolng entortalned by one of bis conntry clergy nt o tablo whoso only provision was a loaf of brond aund a gliss of witer, and hie aums up the moral, material, and spuitunl condition of the rural porilon of bis Diocese in theso graphic words: * Of Zion it muy bo truly sald, *the wholo head i sick and tho whole heart faiut.’" 1t i# timo, whon & country has arrived at this condition, whon it 1s no longor able to mamntan &chools Ior its young, uor charches lo be a refuge for & torrowing people, nor priosts to weep be- tween tho parish and the nitar, and to make in- tercession for them in the day of their calamity, —it Is time for ouo charged with my reaponsie bility to apenkout, AStatofllustriousinbistory, utirivolled fu it resources, intense in -ila submission to Fedaral suthority, is reduced to shano and bankruptey,. Over ita smplo dotnain, or ths Insgor pordion of it, the oye rangea hopes lensly for soma object to braak the monotony of auffering. omey dilapidated andt desorted, fiotds stretching far and wido uncultivated ss s Libyan desot, ** schools . suspouded, churches closod, sud, wheu oponod, half the congroration left to guard thoir property and homes from spoliation,"—such is tho spectacle! Ton yeara of coustant suffering, followiug closo upon the hardships of tho War, lava made a jcaple, naturslly imipetuous, thoughtful and calm, slow to anger, and tolerant of wrongs which would roiiso alinost any other community to ray- olution, regardless of conmequences, And so wo conclude. our le¢turo, a8 wo bégan, by aeylug that; in our Liumbio judgment, tho Houtheru pooplo aro entirely msundemtood by a lorgo proportion of their Northorn brethron. ‘I'iey nceept tho repults of the War without mon- tal resorvation, Thoy are the (reuds of tho negro, sud kuow better than we can that, ae thoy need bim, 80 e nono tho lesa noods them. Lo n sincera acknowleagmont of the supromacy of tho Fedoral (3overnmont thoy add tho desire nud the ability «to admivister their own local govern. wouls, maintaining l’écncu and dm'rounlug Jus- tice to all men withou Lmrtllllly. 'hioy are not s Iazy poople, meokiug to” eat the broad onrned by tho swaat of black Lrows, but aro ag anxlous for productive industry s wo are, To us who have seen mon in formorly higlisocial and professional station, aud women who stione in eplendor na quoons of rofined circles, now en- gaged in manual labor for thelr daily hread,— oven thoso wonton, mark you, plowing and sow- ing in tho finld |—who have acon a busy poople along the watorcourscs of Florida, among tho nilnes of Alabama, in the forests of Misaluaippl aud over tho_bosntiful fiolds of Loulsisus, all striving for thoawcot returus of honest labor,—to us who havo socu all thi, tho allogation of o distiuguishied Senntor that in a rocont Southorn towa ho could not find one whito. man at work seowd vory strango roading, 1t iy due to truth that the stntomont in (lunuuon bo branded av o dofiberate untruth, wuttered manifostly for un- worthy purposos, and a gross oaricature of a dis« hoartaned and wrouged peoplo, ‘Wiatover their past orrors, or In what degres they must hold themsolves rosponsibla for thoir presens misfortunes, it la nos aur provines {o iu- aulre or dikcuss. We ara insisting {n our Con-~ grouslonal logistation that thoy shall bo in theory what we would Lsve them bo fn fact—our broth- ery, in country, race, and sympatuy, sud not alieus or enomios. d the Apostlo hay bidden us “Love the brotherhood.”" Ho far na wo Oburchmsn ars concerued, it cannot bo that wa shall pray for **all sorts and couditions of men," aud then closo our Leatts and eyes to the suffor« inga of those who are bound, mo many of them, to us by tho strong bond of = common houselhold of - faith., Their sorrowa should bo onr sarrows, aud their wooplug romon- strances should excite ua to tha effort of aliaping » just tB“b““ opinton, * Tho eyo canuot say unto tho hsnd, 1 have wo mecd of theo; nor again tho hoad to the foot, { have no need of u. N uch more those members of tho ly whic om to bo more feoblo are neces~ pary. 'Lhe North cannot do without the South, and the prospority of the Church in Lonisiana {a tlis prosperity of thio sante Church fu linold. The hope .of eduostion, of domestia virtue, of good citizenslup,tand of pure roliglon, i con- noctod with those"complox ralations*which tha CUsucssian and African racea boar to each otber, and all the traditions of the gnl but ssrongthen tho judications of the pressut 1o the assurance that the original and natural ocoupants of the soil tho only ones who can successfully work outtheabove problomae, While wearegiviug s few shiousand dollars yoarly to Christianiza Africs, somoeoforr countrymen are spending millions to Afrioanizo Amorics, Wo guthior our cougrogs- tions, aud placo our mosk fervid speakers iu 1ho & bancel, and soud the ll'nnd old Lymn of [{eber from lip to lip of the falthful, and when the 1t~ sionary spini 18 fanned o & lame by thess ploys methods the alins-basin makes tho cirouit of the ows, ‘snd—our dutv is donol 1s it done? sve not the 4,000,000 of blscks in our country brought sn Africa to oilr yery doout whosa children are sl helploss, and depeudent fn al- mont everything that constitutos au intslligont mankoad? And kave we uo volce to lift ns g that soltishness of unycrupulous men which makos of theso poor croaturos political jaor- chandisa? Wiy, the very bost end moat wooe onleal dinponitlon of our I-'archn Misnlonary fund wonld be, s wacannot helpr thinking, to #ewd the Chureh jn hor strongth and boauty through aud over the Gulf Htatos, nad the inovitablo remult would e a npsddy inrenss of ihidlligent Ohirinstistiity, anda courequens decrense fn Ignoranco, derditution, and erima, The bopo of $he Houth 18 not in poli- ticiany aud forca billa, but In an enlightaned pub- lle opimol. One sdiotimed in loid to supnose that the South cannot_ be vieited without instlt, and probably violence, should they ciaim the privilepe of frio.upesch. The best auswer o elich an fmputation sgaina eatholio nnity 14 ta wy hoartily, ** Go South,” moet its Loapitable pounlé, who will gladiy ahare their lant crust nith & courloown gueat; read for yonissived the evi- tleucos of their luyalty; maek their kindlinoss to tho negro § it with them in thoir churchen, and Witners their Leadtiral davotioh ; and if. bocausa theo oro hnman and high-#pititerl, And lovers of thotr traditions and tneir firewides, {hey shiall speak of ther woes In the language of roeoni- uant, think it uothing slraugo. Qur taak 14 done, Wa Isnve propossd to our- nelven the work of doing what we could to shape public opinlon by relating what our evew have nedn and aur eara heard, Our reflcctlons can- nub pussibly hava any politieal mignificance, aavae in the diroctinn of rosd Uvionisin, On that plat- foim wo sland to-day, as wo stood during tho bloody years of war; and, bocauno of that, wo It our Voics for sucli monaurcs as shisll tmako roal Union possible aud casy, I'ho Bouth neoda and desires guu- and protection, not only by, bt against, Govormnent, We are not unmindfal of har fanits, but wo coms to-night to plead only hor virtuos, Already aa wo preach tho sky soums to bo brichtening,” 3fen of all creeds, Achools, and political baliefs, are beginuing to vio with encu other i Yioir efforth to do thew brothren Justico, aud togymngage their gratitudo and respect, God minled tho day whon wa shall sgnin have s unlted atul happy cotntry, when lafil.lelity and ignorance, idieneas aud vice, shall bs our only foes, aud & common Church fuld Llack sud wulte lo ber foud materhal embraca, ———— THE DOCTRINE OF FUTURE PUNISH. iENT. A CHEED WITH MEAT AND MARROW. The Rov. J. \V, Bain proachod vesterday morn- ihg At the Unitod Predhyterian Churel, cornor of Monroe and Laflin streots, taking na lils text My thoughts ute not your (houghte.—traiah, le., Last Babbath ovening I apoke of men dog- malizing o8 10 wuat God can ana cnnot do, should and should uot do, To dogiuntize ia to dinim authority znd bellof for a proposition on tho mero assertion that it {s true, Aud infidels, and npostles of what in called the Liberal Faith, aro very liberal fn charging tipon the Church and dvangelicol ministers this offensa of dogmatiz- g, 8o far from this, tonchers of tho Bible ag the infallitle Word of Truth nocither densud faithan nor obedionce to auy proposition with- out giving the very highest autbority for it, namely, tho sulhority of God Iimeelf, Such teachors nak yoi to believe and obey noth- ing on their baro *Ipso dixit.” Dut a finer #pecimon of sheer dogmatiam Is reldom found than in Mr. Herford's sormou at Hooley's Thea- alré last Babbatl ovenibg, Mr. Brooke Herford says for Gad to enffor the sinnor to bo etornally misorablo s unjust. We sslk, how do you kuow, Mr. ——? Cun you comprebiond what It is right for tisa infinite, wivo, holy, and just One to do? Mr, I1. uays common sonse deciden it is unjust, Gather any numbor of criminala together, and the gredter tho number the more common will b thelr soiire, that to punieh thom adequately i uujust. I Mr, Herford roeans tunt this is the common Bende of all the rabellious against God, both dovila and men, it may bo truo it is ther Judgment but if be means it {a the common scnss of all wiko boings, it i8 far from true; it is moro correatly Herford sonse only. Agaln, Mr. lerford says, “1It is not possiblo for man in the briof period of threa score and {en yoars to ain snfliciently Lo Jeopardize Lis soul for ‘aternity!” ‘Lhis is anotber Herfortl dogma, Did he over, by oxact mathematical enlculation, loarn just how miich 8 mag can sln in soventy years ? Thon by tho #amo prooees did ho nicely adjust an oxacily adoquate and righteous penalty toit? If tho earth should deviate tho amnliost degroe from the orbit God bias given har can bo {1lerford) tell us the exteut of tho material fuin? Mach loas, whon man, the intolligent creature, by sin, willfully rushed out of tho aplicra of love and dbedienco, tan he toll us how Iar it sbatterod the harmouy of tho univeree, what auarchy and discord 1t produced, aud moanure for us the extont of the moral ruin 7 Wo know that, actording to human law and the finite scnse of justice, man in five mDun- tites can comnit sin coough to forfeit his hberty for ninety-uine vears, or to forfeit his lifey then moy it not ba possilio thac in soventy years he could commit min ounongh, in God's estimato, to make him oternal- ly wiscrablo? God's thoughts of slu may differ from Mr. Horford's, ahd God's thoughts of jns- tico may differ from his. In {hat case wiose thoughts aro most lkely to be the truth 7 Snppose a msn hero fins guilt enongh on him to muke him tmserable, and, without wasling by faith in tho blood of Josus, ho rocs down to the crava and Into the world beyoud, unless tho man hlmnnl( can wosh it oul in tho Btyx, or (od lias promisod to_wash it owsy In the Jordan of deatls, can Mr, Uorford ‘give us aoy proof that the guilt and mivery doos not contiina " the woxt worll? And i tt dods, Why not forevor 7 If n man has a bod- tly dleawe uot in on hit hero, sud does not get it'cured, it coutinues to trouble him a8 long as 1o Jives ; thon why should not a soul disoase continua a4 long au tho sout livos ? Buch an as- woition is slmply & Herford, tweupported, dog- i, A[inln, Mr. Herford says, ** Christ nover spoke of future punishment s never-onding.” ‘Yho twenty-tifth ohapter of Matthew and tho forty-sixth verso Is not tho only piaco Ho speaks of it, hut s language there sounds very much a8 If Ho roferred to somathing that was never- ouding, **These stiall go away into eveilesting (Liolasis) punishment; but the rightoous juto Ife ‘eternal.’” The honest, shwple-mindod, common-sense reader cnllnlnliv should ardoned if from this langusgo ho nforred that Chrit thought Hiw peoplo liad nn otornal life, and thoso who were not had an everlasting punishment. Howoever plain Christ's specch may Do, oo men have a marsolous faculty for misundoretauding or explatmng it away. Eithor Ho did not mean what 118 sald, or o diduot kuow what o was saying, or lle was only using the snperatitious lorrars of tha age to impross Ilis Learers, or Iio was mistaken. Oan wo oxplain this strange pervoisity better than in Clrist's words to tho Jows: ** Why do yo nok undorstand my speoch ? Lecauso yo cane ot hoar my word. And bogauso I tall you tho truth yo belleva Mo not.” Whon they diffor in thought which ia moes likoly to think "the truth, Ha or AMr. Horford # Mr. Herford dogmatically tella us that Moll is etting smaller aud smaller, but qnotos from Ir, Spurgeou to aliotr that the fesrful oreed of Hell ja still bolleved. Well, we could fsin Lope that smallor would suflics, but the eouduet of tha world at presont would rathior load a rational an to bolievo that Xell was enlarging itsalf, Aud if Mr. Merford s anxious to kuow tho truth, e can find out that very many beeides 3Mr. Bpurgeon bolloven thiu foarful creod. All who believe ths Dible to be inspired Truth, tho-Infallible word of Qud, believe this ctoed, arnd_thank thors are yst many thou- vands wbo have not bowed tha Lknos to Usaal. They do not cleim to com- proheud the meaning of the * boltomloss pit,” the “undying worm,”" or ‘ nnquenchable lire,” but they beliovo ite oxistence bosause God Fays It, ‘They balioye it, not because thoy aom- prelieud tho demerit &od ruln af aln, or the clalma of intinite justice, but bovauso it 1s God' thonght of rmll .punivhment, It yuay ba that some of Christ's ministers do not ofton preach this droad truth hocause it e so cloarly rovenled, and 0 in harmony with a just and wiso comiucn sonse 48 not to require if, sud bocauss it 4 mot by any mesns the privcipal pubjoct and burden® of thoir Gospol com- mission. There wars othory, perhaps, who claim to bLe 'ambassadors_ for Cbrist, and to kuow tho terrors of the Lord, yot keep silent concorning thom from s craven foar of the inddel suesr and ealumny, or the liug seutl- mmontal gush and Habby, beneless charity of the day. Dut tho neglect of cowardly teachers to declare the terror of {he Lord will not abate oun whit their foxrfulness, or chango the truth of God's thoughta, Truth is truth, whotber men know it or romsin ignotant, whethor thoy bellovo it or dishelleve It, "And the falthful preaching of this droad truth might savo oven the tlithy de- bauclies, the.very loarued polite moralist snd intidet, l;\d goma vitarians from making their hode there. God's thouglita conceraing our guilt snd de- uerit way for the prosent be, ko chastening, not Joyous, but griovous, yot like that will work out the peacoabls fruits of righteoustoes n those who are rightly moved thereby to mooept doliv- ersuce. The meglectoto preach tho wterper trutbs and strong mcat axd marrow virtues of God's word ma, goly account for the bhumau devioos {n religlon, the flabby worality aud un- principled rascality of tho prosent day. Instead of men immovably resting tu the foarof ‘the oternal God, atzong in & revacoucs aud.loyalty to ilis Truth, sussained by s high seuso of jus- tico and orrepce for wrouk-daiug, aund nobls, branquil faith in nghtsousnses that mskes them calm, hrave, sloadfest, and trastworthy, wo are raislug up A goneration whose charan ter 14 & composition of impulse, fancy, nantimenta! symnathy and fond conceit, without ant deep or “all-deflnod convittion or strength- enttip princiflea.—& careleed, nittvelrss charace ter, that csnnot bo rolied on_fn the day of trial, cithiar for Hotinaty or conrage. Tu rehigion, in- strad of awakening the doad of dormant henrt with tha simple alnétele thonghta of (e, thets in s kind ol noctical, mnzical, eathatio, palvanio apulianeo Lo the norves and tympantm by winely tanomotions ara delizhtfully stimuiated, fid tan- dernewe, and pity, and reif-lovo, and hope, and Joy, gnwh forth With mingled tears aud smiles, and thin fs s groal awakening from i and wrath to loly fear and tho righteons- nesnof lifo! Inatead of prerentinu tho trno (oid 1oveated i inflatibto Juatice, ‘2 constming fire” againat win, there is now iatcl mnoro frojuently prosented tha eharactor of an indalgent, ovor- fond old fathor, whoro yight arm is paleied by a foolluh 1t for the ignorant, guilty gamboly of s childeon, A lioly, reverentisl fear of Gnd uned to bo a power over tho hearta of mon and of noclety, but now the common teaching is fear nothing,” fear {8 slavish and coward!y, and the colmon bonst now among men ia that they afe delivered from fear; Lut thetruth is they fear ahnost everything : they sro afraul .of ono an- ollier, sfraill of eommercial panica, afraid of loxsos, afruld of poverty. afeaic of the weather and all the elements, frmd of micke nesn and Puamencn, uf tho creatures ol theit Imagination, afraid of death and the daoril with o simvish. cravenly fear | Canting off the fear of (o, thoy hiavo fallen under tho feac of ton thousand fonts | 11 was onco thanght most important Lo teach God's thoushit, that ** Exeept ve repent ve shail perish,” “ for podiy sorraw workotlt repentance to axivation )" tut'now wo bear, Ovlr Lehbre, tove, bope, and bury the past out of mind, To heva a roated faith i rowa distinelive partionlar truthe wom ouco thought Lo ben virtus ; but naw 1t is only popnlar ta baliave nnthing in par- ticular, but to beltuve eversthing in a universal, general sort of a war, ln-flu:\wl‘ of a rrufanmi reverofi¢o only for the gnod awd true, von must uow oultivate & gukling pity for evory- one, good or " bad, tmo or faise. Unswerving alleginnica o principles was onca thought highly commendable, bus now el eration id demande?] for everything, however ab- snrd, tlithy, aud pernicions, ~ To have principles that would not bend and eonvictions nu_ueep thor could not Lo shaken, was once thought to bio the strength of & tan's character, but now they ara regarded only as stiffuoss and ridien- fous bigctrv, Christiaus wers onon taught o iva accordlug to Divina Iaw, but now they arg " pally tnught to live spiritnal nnpulas and wpontantety ! It used to be a virina 'to abhor the murderer and compassionata his widowed nnd orphianed vietims, bul now it in s gread vir- tuo to pity the murderor, and sl of jue- tice to sentenee Lim to prison for life, and pardon hix ont in fivo ‘yeare. And tho strangat argament azatnet eapital nunirhimont in, (hat then tho criminal cannot Lo pardoned back into nociety. Iustead of ferding man on the fear of God, ard reverence for His truth, hiatred of rin, ponishment of transgresslon, faith in Divive doctrines, & love of law and jus- tice, they are now prineipally fed on gu<iog Hhenevolence, tender love, wentimental compas- sion, fanciful hopes, and free universal mercy. Aud what is tho ecunsequence? ‘Ihe wholo character fa feehle in warp and woof, and the tazturo #olt and loore as woolen threadw, the bony frame-worl and sinewy fibre is Jacking, und only fatty, fably Senls loft, and men are much wore like emuty mill-bags than miiars in soclety. Homa men think human thought is wuflicient to nourish tho life and feed the dtronyth of sould, and 4,000 yeurs of the history af the heathen wozld 4 not enoughi to convince them of their error. Take two souls, feed one af them on the great, true, pare, strongthenng meat of God's thoughits, aud it wili becunes hio the mountain oak, the pulm tree and tho cedar; feed tho otber ou the best of era humnan thought, nud it will bo like the gonrd-vino; or if ho Lecomen high and great it will ouly bo Ligh and great fn cruelty and crime. Tools may make o mock at sin, men mav donounce aw i otry inflexible principls, nod jeor nttho boilsf n tho juatice, wrath, and putisiments of God as suporstitions fears, vet this will not pive aocioty and our nation from moral leprosy and ruinous collapse. In two previous dircourses T showed God's thoushts of man's clavacter, condition, and danger,—that Ho thourtht ¢vory Indtividnal of tho numan race was giiity of transgrcesing His law, and was exnoned to its rizhteons ponalty, bad sinned and como sbort of Tiis glory, aud by #in had become dopraved and unhsppy, and that unless same ouc iuterposed this wretcuud cotdition must neccessarily vud naturally cou- tinmo and become endiess misery under the in. flictionn of Diviue justice, Aud now wo propose to fuquire, Iims God thouclits of morcy to- ward _our guilte and uuhappy race? Aud, blersod Lo Hls name, we' can snawer voof And thowo thoughts aro very differ- ont from human thoughts, and ms bhigh aliove thom g the hi~aven is. above the eartn. flin ginclous thoughts toward us cannot be reckoned up in order ; if I would declare and ancak of them, *they aro morothan can ba numberod,” savg tho Tsulniist, Abs kind of introductory preparatory step wo lmve God re- vunllur to us Ui thought that mwan cannot save himeelf. The Divino thought is very clearly oz~ preased that, it man ls saved, bls Creator must bring the malvation, It has ever boen tho thonght of conceited, proud man that he could savo filmsclf, that tio conld not posaivly bo in 80 bad a condition, but that Lo could briug lum- aolf out of It, eithior by wikdom, or learning, or sitepgth, or prowess, or good works, or roforma- tion, or pennice, or facriticos, or gifts, o briby or law-keeping, or in_eomo other way! 8o in- fatuated has mankiud been with this foliv that, although braided 1u & mortar with a pestlo, L foolishness would not depart from him, Iis desire and endeavor has not been so much to anvo himsolf from sin and sfufulness s to vava Limeelf from misery, fear, aud torment, aud cendless have baon lils devicos und most patuful and costly bls labors and sacritices for this por- pose, and aro so yet, but they aro alt and over will bo vain and hurtfal, And mau nover will accops the gift of salvation until cared of thia folly; he ouly who is conscionaly Lolpless and broight to despair of self or human help will sccopt the ealvation of the Lord. Thereforo God oxprevscn Hie thoughts of man's holpless- nees in the platnest latiguage and mont torciblo figurad, Asin Jounal, *Salvationisof the Lord.”" 1In Ezokiel man s compated to g vow-born jufant cast out 1ato the open old, Can it eave itsell, or In nuy possible ‘manner help iteelf? Can there bo a figure of moro utfer helplessnces? Yel such i man before Uod. Yon might as well expect tho lifeless body lving erumbling in tho gruve to ralse 1taoll up, rimke off Its grave-gar- mouts, s0d walk tha enrth i hife and strengtls, a8 to oxpect tho sinfully-dond soul to restoro to itsclt spiritual life, salke oft the ccremonta of mora! deatls, and rotur: to a'lifo of holy, hap- py activity. It s under tho power of spiritual duath, aod must 8o contmng forover, unlews soms ono interposa whu is ablo to give lifo. Qathor togethor all tho wisest mep of oarth, gathor togethor the best and holiost of oarth, Jey them employ all their,wi-dom, all thelr prayers, dorvices, offorings, doingw, and learninig, unitodly employ all $hoir power aud works, Yot they caunot give lifo, hotiness, and Lappiness to a singlo soul. Then, bellov: gi this truth, wo aro roadv to ask, How does God think man ean bo eaved? Aud, hearing, Lappy shall we be it wo belloy d come under the power of God's alvation, s MISCELLANEOUS: THE BAILIOAD MISSION, The oightecnth.auviversary of the Railroad Cbapel Sunday-school was held yoatorday after- naou at the school on State streot, near Thir- teonth, tho room bolug crowvded with those who wished to patticipate in tho oxercises, The ohair wau taken by J, IT. Btearns, tha re~ tirng Buperintendont, who hss bLeld ‘ofice for +tho past six years. The .apeniug oxercises of the ocoasion in- ¢luded reading of the Boriptures, prayer, aud cougregatioual singing, after which the oficers of thg school for tho eusuipg year were introduced, as followa: Suporiutondont, O, Af, Henderson; Aselstant-Superintendonts, I, T, Doyla, Caryl \'munfi, A.‘A. Dewoy) Librariauy, 11, Murss .(?. H. Low, IL Stowsrd 3 Beorelary, L. P, Whitelload; Tressuror, O. I, Carocay. A happy conclusion was provided totho sn- nual moeting of the Hunday-schiool in the wedding of . Mr, Thojues hmls aud AMiss Agnes Cltovs, which was porformed by the Ilov, Mr, Kemp, who concluded the marringo ceremony with appropriste yemurks, which. scemed to ba relizhied by all the uumarrled presont. ‘Ilie congrogration of tho Noble Straet Holland Prosbyterian Otiurch conveved Wodnosday even- g tu accordance with the rulea of the Presby- teriau Cuurch to tako into cousideration tio resiznation of thoir pastor, tho Itev. Jacob Lost, D. ., who lately recoived a renawod oalt from Milwaukee, hly former teld of lsbor, aud unanimously adoptod the foltow resolutiouys Waxnzas, Wo have learued that our blssed paator Bau rocedv renawed cull from hie former flald of labor 1 Milwaukse, Wis, ; and 3 Wukazas, The Hoy, Jacob Post bas, during twa years past, ministered 1 to the wania, spiritual - moral, of lils cougreyatlan, i & wanwic weriling and commandiug the fove und gratitude of ail whoso prave LD D R i et th s ooogregation AEX: b ntatrativn Ium':'m- thahy douled in Buubemsy sad our chinrch bnflding has heen grestly enlarged nnd beautl- fied, and ir, notwitkttandtig {Re unfavorabia cireum- #ances of fio times, ina florrialilog condition ; and Wakaras, Wa conslder that thifs departure would bo A girext eslannty (o aur ehtroh aud organization, aui wiille wa ouiieliler thelr rouewed call & well merited compiiment baatowed upon & worthy man, yot welf- ;;,rm::?:lon Inoneof the great Iswh of Natdre; theto- Jeentled, That wa firmly, {Tough fn the spirit of Chrlatian charity, rafaes t6 tacept (b raeighation of onr ptor, the Lev, Jaob Foat, and wa refums (o sever the ticd that Mol him to us and ng to hit A% our ru(nr,lrlr‘.nl #od_couneellar ; that wo rorognizg fir m n faithful waicher i Wia walla of Zion, aud 8 iigent and honees warker [n ti1s vinn the Lord, RO on With hid labord it or the feft, falfill the movementa no wall began untid i auall be manifestly Uok's wiil that we must part, At the satan timo and place the rosignati cx-fustico Jolm Van't Wond wav rccnfir":lt.m:-}?: from the cammencement of #1ld elrureh has beon A very astivo aod faitbful ‘Frustes, and is now on tha polnd of Jeaving tho city, NONTH AIDE IERAELITTS, A meeting of Sorth Side Israslitew wan held at the North Bide Turnos-11all yenzerday altornnon, for tire purporo of organizing tho North Chicago Hebrew Cotigrezaidou. The meeting was well ntiended, and forty momboers joined the ormanis zatinm, After trausscling Lome prelinriuary bunineas the follosing oflicers were slocied ¢ Lrerident—Sanel Uisekanf, VierPres aeiit—=Slichael Coben, 4 reamnrrr—L'Ltiip Welnrob, Kppotayp—Tseoh David, ' T'ruatees—M, Kronlerg, 8, Wedl, and Jacob Giekaul, Comnmittecs on Iiy-Laws, Sorvice, Grounds, Dnildings. cle., wera alto appaintod. ‘'he meating &1 lonrned to ineet “egain 4¢ tho ©8119 place two weoks from dato, e ELSEWHERE., USATARIAN, Bnestal Dliapateh ta Tie Chicaga Tribune, Gravp liavex, Mich, May 9.—The Unitarian Baclety was organized this evening by the aloc~ tion of tho following officers: Preachor, tha Lev. 3. 1L Houghton ; Clork, Iir. E. I', Cume« miugn : 'Freasurer, Georgs Stickuey : Trustoes, tus Hon. Diwight Cutler; W, C. Suelden, J. B, Wait. (i, W. A, Smith, aud Dauiel Gale, Forty- fivo poraons signed the articles. CcATAOL Sreeial Ineraten to The Chicano Trisune, Misnwarkne, May .—A mceting of Catbolic nocleticy was held to-day to receive the I'apal tlelognies expontad here the coming week ta ine vest Binbiop Henni with the Archbhishopric, when varjons cummittess were appointed, and ad- Jouramant had to to-morraw évening, whon the arrangenmionts will be aninpleted, naw erian church, on Fifth avenae and Pifty- Uret street, wav dedicated to-aay, - THE DAN BRTANT BENEFIT. Mr.Dan O'flars's debut e & theatrical man- agor last evening wae #o emplatic o snccess that, shuuld he ba reported as resigning his civic oftico for it, no ono onght to affec the least sur- priee. Terbiaps tho mollve of the performance had & great doal to do with tho erowd; perhiaps the performauce jtse wag an obfect wuli the msny; perhaps the novelly of o Sunday thoattcal entertainment with s tinge of variety in it had something to do with thn nmtter. Whatever i was, tho house was Jamined, and tho camp-chair abomination wan ovoked, Tho perfortuanco wan jusercaung | apart from its object, aa indicating the character of an andienco hkoly to bo called out by 3 Buoday programmne. It was mized, nw might hive bisen expectod. There were many of the best ctizens, Gerwan and ‘wative boru; a fow Israel:tos, and 8 Jarge uumber of peoplo who find Sunday tholr only “day off " and vacation fromn the caros of tho “kitelien or fabors of tho lanndry. But in poiut of ontbtsiasm and genoral apyroval of things, it was nover surpasacd, Tho il ol)cucd with the laughablo farco e Littlo “Toddickiu” ylayel sl enticely by tho talented Mneder family. 3L, Maodor _played Amanthir, snd hor iwo sous. Fred aud Frank, Jrownsmith and Lit- tepop, white Mrs, Pred Maeder appeated as Aimic Babicombe, Mr. Fiaok Pierce, wlio hax thooght Leiter of it awd returned to the city, played Barnaly Labicombe. With on euthuxias tic sndienco 1t 18 neadloss to aay that tho laugh- ter was ceanelasu from the nse of the eurialn to itw fail, and that with such comjpetout perfurm- ors, ils ruccess was ufly morited, ism Emily Soldens, who oventpied o proseenium box, ad volnutoered 10 sing *The Mustrel Boy," aud way received with bearty plaudits, Tho pretty Lallad wus rendered with fecling and good tnste, and took tho houso by storm. The audignco was not satistied with un eucore, and would doabtless have latened sa loug an Mled Soldeno “would have per- mitted. ~ Tho fourth act of *Camille™ wos tho fragment of the legitimate cuosen to do the honors of th:evening. 'The leading parts were taken by Mr, Frank Piorcy and 3liss Lonlo Lord. Wi net was vory fuirly plased, and more than plesend the audiesnee, who 1usisted on calls ing out the players, _ Mr. Billy Itice, with Lattlo Mne, in their abanrd burnt-cork farce, ** Tho Myxtorions Btrangor,' fairly woaried their sudl- cuce with laughiter, and wero called boefors the curtaln. The outertainment closed with & mu- sical melange by Mosers. Kayne, Bunidge, Fred- oricks, Gomlwillie, aud others, TIE LIEDEIERANZ CONCERT. The tenth and last conzort of the scason of tho Liederkrauz Socioty was givon laat vvening at tho North Side Turper Hall, a very large andi- ence iu awtenanuce, including a groat many Awericans, Ao concort opencd with the over- taza to ** Oberon " which was finely plaved, Mr: 1%, Wirtdehorek kangtho ** Pro peecatia” yraud aria for bows from Ilossini's * Siabat diater,” which lie sang vory fairly, but nob with tho power of vuleo which it requires. Tho Licderkranz clorus ssug the battle hyma from Wagner's ** Lienzi,” which waa given at tho last concert and repeated Iaxt eveming by genoral request, Mr. Eaward Schunltze singing the tecitative. It a8 oveonly sung throughaut, and pleasod the aue dicueo B0 well that it waa oucored. + The sudante wovement from Mo- zart's magnificent *Jupiter Symphony” wae roudered by tho orchestra in capital style, ‘Tho Hocioty sttompted to siug the difii- cuit **Taunhuurer” chorus, and did not succoed na woll as it did in tho iirst chorus. The or- chestra played the opaning march too slowiy, and kopt poor tite throughout, while the choiua saug mich too fast st times, It was not toba expected that n comparatively swall chorng could give the nuwmnbier with the offoct that it re- quired, and benco the audience was nat duiap- poiuted. In the second part of the programme Miss Rosrotti wang tho graud aris from ** Oberon,” “Qcoan, thou mighty monster ™ in which sho sliouted so0 wucn oy to pain the andienco at tlmes. 'Thuocouvert clasad with tha fourth ast of Verdi's *'Ernank” with Mixs Iomotsl and Mesera. Schultze aud Koch fn tho cast, and was nuccosefally given. Next yoar tho concorta will probably ba private, to which the members of tho Bocicty ouly will bo admittod, sud proubably two or throo grand gonsorty which will "be open to the publie, —_———— BLACK HILLS, ‘The Stonx Rescrvation Dofinod-—In- vaston by \White Pcople Wil Not 150 Pormitted,s Wasmixarox, D, O, May 7.—Tho following létter, wrilton by Secrotary Dolano to-day in re- Iation to the Dlack Hills country, Is slf-cxplan- atorys DrvanzuEnT or Tk Ixtrnton, WasmNatoy, D, 0., Bay 7, 1875—51u: Your lottur of tho let just,, give i the Department information that you have au ex- pedition organtzing for the purposs of goiug futu the iold Tugtonuof Dakota aud Wyoming us eon 21 fho Quvermnont will porwit you 10 slart, f4 hefure o, "To neveral intersogatorics therein coutained wisy be auvwured aa followe, viz, : The Governument con nelth. ur permit nor forbld you and your mflr 10 Ho to Cliey- untio sud Rawlina, ou the Unlon Vaclfie Katlroad, or olsowhiere ju the Uniled Blatus whers by law you are entitled to go, You canniot ba permitted by suthority of the United States {0 euter any Indian toreitory, and pulllo nutice 10 this eilect has been so frequently given as scarculy titluu of this ufortaution, The Bloux Lich 1 infer you are desirous uf cuter- jug, nisy Le substantlally detined thus : Jie southern buundary iu the northery bouudary of the Biate of Ne- brasks, its eastern boundary is the Missouri Itiver, ils northeru bounidary is the 48ih parailel of lititude, i Wostery baumiary b the sastern boundary of Wysilug and purt of Dukols, extending uorths to the édih par- allel of latitude, L am not al expreas an opinien in regard fo the ruspects of extinguivhing by treaty the tighls of Tidita to the terrtory abore dvecribed. = Nof ean [ wy what disposition the Quverumeut will make of auy to which the Indfan titlo sy be ex- trritory tingulshied by the propussd nvyotiations to which you nl er, Tl gluux ¥flurfllldn is guaraiteed b er, Y solwnu troaty tothe Hlous Nation, sud auy luvasion of 4 by Whits poople, untl the present tmaty 18 raflfied, {8 une lawful wud canuos by perultiol, I am, sir, very re- Afully your obedlunt servant, wpectfully you. Q. Drraxo, Bacrelary, To alr, D, K, ALLEN, Doston, Muad, el gt OBITUARY. Mearius, May 0.—Marslall B Smallser, for the past four years oity editor of the Avalanche, dled lsst mbs of consumption, His remalns were forwarded ¢o Indianapolis fog lutemand. STANDING ARMIES, Fourthh Letter of KEx.-Socrotary MceCullochs The Deht of Franee ah Unknown Quiane . tllyssclts Fnerénse Under Evety Form of Governments An Enormous Dobt the Natoral Produst of & Standing Army, —— To the Editor of the New Fork Tridunes Loxuoy, Aoril 17, 1876.—In a provious letter 1 spoko of the debt of France as beiBg 14eges than fhat of any othér nation, Ithas beon stated by Ligh authority that tho exact smonit of the débt of France is nnkuown. It ia veryeertain that ng intoiligent atatomont hias boon publivhed giving tha precieo character aud extort of her indobtods Lo, It is curzently roported that not long aga* ® high official in the Fronch Ministry of ]‘hmuca‘ remarked that '*thore was mot & gingio mun in Franco who could tel tho exact slato of {ho National dobt. Ehourl is known, howover, to justify tiio siata- went that It {a not only fn ifa charge upon sho Ktate, by tho higher Intareat it boars, but also in nominal smount, considernbly larger than the dabt of Groat Britaw ; and I3 Is_inioresting to nodice with what rapidity and under what cireume £tances it has grown to” 1ts presoat magnitude. Omitting all roferonco to its incroase aud Bueti- atious iu esslinr years, wo tiud thal at the close of tho Firsl Ewpiro—as Napoleon mada fieavy raquisitions upon the Statos which ha bad van- uished—it atnountedouly to 2350,000,000. Whiia tha reatored Hourbons were i power it wag doubled. Luring thie Orloaus reign it was con- #lderably increaged, and in 1813, at the com- moneement of the Second Repubile, it had rison to £020,000,000. The Ropublic added $%00,000,« €19 to it, and tuo Kecond Empire some $1,600,- V0,U00 moro, At tho outbreak of tho Tranco- German War it amounted to shout $2,700,000,+ 000, and by the ctpenses of that war aud the pavment of tho indemnity it was raised, includ. iug ail clagses of indebtedness, to aa amount more than equal to twico the preaent dobt ol tha United Btatos, 1t will he nuziced that & large part of this in. creare was during the existenco of tho Sccond Limnpire; when Frauce was engagod iu na vary oxpenyive wars, and whan tha country wasin 2 coulition of vnezampled prosperity. years of profound peace, when the n come was mcrensmr with amazing rapl national debt was increas.ne witl almost oqnal rapidity. Deticits wore constantly occarring sl times when the Treasury racoinis ouglit to have hieen larpoly tu eeess of the putlic expenditures. T'o an American who thoroughiy spproves the Awmecrican pulicy it secins utieriy aatoanding thal France, whorg finances ms other reqests have besn managed with smgular ability, should bave . pennitted her debt to grow aa it has grown, whot no uncontrolleble causes fur extrasrdinary expounca ezisted, aud when the zoneral condis tion of tho eouniry was unmsnaily prosnerons The explanation can only Do found in tha fag hat France, when not engaged in war, ha been, a8 slin is mow, preparing for war, aud that all bor previous existing Govern igents, whother monarchical, imperial, ot repuvlican, have laciked tho nerve & ratwe by taxation the rovenues which law been raquired to cover necessary and unneces sary exponditirer, ‘Thd present Governmnent hias made w good start in tho right direction ; wehetuer or 1ot it has tho stan to stand up ageinss thounpormlurity which tigh taces dre b0re to pr.duco, remama ta bysecn. ‘The s'anding arwy has baen at the lottom of ol the financial troubles in FPranee, asd it in her standing army and the stending ormiea of otler couuiries that meuace tha pasce of Europo. It i4 an wleurd supposiiion that thess large aid mieaddy facreasing arme- ien ars neceawary to preserve tho peaco. Nationd are aubject to tho same influ~ utice as aro thio individualy that composa them, Liversbody kinows that it is tho armed man who isthe dangetons and sxgrersive man, and thut in all conuaunities tn which srms are earried, the law is coustandy siolated, if, indead, vio« lanco doea not Lecomo euperior Lo law, It i tho incressing armies of the leadinz military powers ol Euy)pu wbhich make the publio mind hero sud * clgewhero gonsiive and npprahensive, ‘Theso armles sro not creatod for the predorvation of the peacoy they nre the proparations for warj; thoy mean war, aud notinug elss. Germaoy, the groat mile itary power of Enropa, not only muintains a very large and thoroughly drilied regniar army, Dut sho has surolled wil Lier ablo-bodiud men, of all clusses and conmlifione, in what may bo called o weil-tramed muilitin. Francs is ttompting the samo thug; and is it to Lo supposed xim Qer- many will wait untyl. Frauce considers herselt sirong eaough to assume the offeusive before she striics ngain at Ler old cnemy? Is France arming without tho (ntanffon of astemypting the yecovory of tho provinces she had ro- coutly lost? Aro Liussa and Austria increas- ing their anmics simply to protect”ihoir own territory from Invasion? The large aud fn- croasiug armics of Coutiuental nations aro not only menacing the peace of Liurope, but Lhoy ara nflpmsmu; the pcu[lllu with taxea, and check: iy the grawth of natious by withdrawing.mile lious of mou from productve iudustry. Wora tho armics which afe now in preparation for war gisbanded, thers wonld Ue 1o breaches of tho jpuscs between natious, and thera would wpoedily be nu patioust ‘debts. A period of poace i3 especinlly meeded by France, and she would luave that peace if shediabandedherarmy. **'Fhe Empiro is peace," was tho romurx of the Third Napolovn, Whata Dlesatng it would bo to France, and Lo civiliza- tion evorywhere, if whe would now way, *The Ilopublio is peave,” and vonify tho saying by foi lowing the examplo wot by tho Umitod States ab the closo of tho lato eivtl war! Ifsho ehoulddo #0 shie nould shame overy European uation o doing tho same, France {8 a rich country, Lut thers 18 o lwit to her wealth, ¥he bus high finavcial credst, but there must be uventually an oud of her alility to borrow. United Cor= many, unless her stronglih should be distracted l?;ot'nlommxlml queations, which I8 wot probe able,—for whou tho test is sppliod it will be found that Cstholic Gerunus aro mors German thaa Catholio—United Uorinany, with ler, free- dom frow debt, aud Lor full wilitary chest; her Iarger population, sud the groater submission to discipline of her citizen soldiors, milt always be more thon & mateh for Prance in war. Franco, iudeod, baw ovorythivg to lugo sod wothe ing to wain by another contest with Gor- 14any. As o militar tion sho is nob equal to | (lermany, but sho is suponior to Germany in tho oxesllenco of her soil, the vasioty of its produc. tions, and in the taste, the skill, knd reflnement of ber peoplo, “I'he aimy of France ehould be to oxuvel all unkiond in the urta of puace. 'Fhis sho now dues (0 & great oxtent, and siie would do so 1o & still greater dogreo If sho would forget her trinmphs under the groat Corslcan, and ges over tha delusion which she judulges that she must beeome agaiu tho great war power of Europe, An Amurican on this sido of the Atlautia finds thiat theio lv ;uch to bo leared from the older ustious, but he 8604 nathing to Jewsen Lis regard for liis 0wu country, or to shake his belief thut a magniticont futuro ks beforo it; and tucro 8 dity, the uulllinihu rofers to witu wore ilication and prido than the facte that the Umited titatoa Lavo no standing army snd are paying $helr dabs, Very truly yours, ol McCurraou, Pk PR SUICIDE, Mrurms, May 9.—Tha Appeal’s HollySprings, M1un,, spocinl says thie body of W, . Duncan, of Dittaburg, who was put off the train thers on the train there ou tho st iust., on acoount of the deraugemont of his mind, and who oscaped from big guard as mentioned in theso dispatohes, was fuuufl lying iu the Braneh 0 milas south of . there on Iridsy nlght, His cismonds and mauey woto still on bis persou. LovmvieLe, K., May 9,—Tho man who cow- mitted swicido yestorday has been found to L¢ Goorge Duering, of Jinclunati, who kopt soveral bar-rooms in that city, e cawe down on a mail-boat Thursday lsat, and made au unsuos cessful attempt at sulads by Jumpiug ovesboard, but was rescued by tha watchnan, duecial Dnapatch (o Tha Ciucago Tridbune, MiLwaugke, May 0.—Slmon Mastonbraenk was fouud at 0 @'clock this worniog wandering about u Laru-yard 1o the ‘Town of Ursnville, His wiud~ }Tm wad ovored, Ho cut his throat on Oiting's rm and evcaped. \Whon found howas 2 mil distant, and stll slive, e waa taken to ¥ fiuuuly Haspital and is expocted to die Ik a fa! ours, A CORPSE FOUND. &pectal Dupalch b Thy Chicasn Trivuna, Prousa, IIl, AMsy 0.—The body of a man wag discovered floating fn the river opposite the clty abont 4 o’clock this unm-rmcvr:i 'Tho‘ggn;uet ‘rn umwonoed, the body dragked fu, me ‘nuulou. Owing w’flu Al?-cumpcsed ltlln“z{ tbe {:m!y. 1t coald uot be fully identitied, bus there is scarcaly suy doubs that 1t 18 Wiliam D, Kar, of ¥l laso, who was drowned hore aboul ‘{uu weeks ago, The jury roturned o verdiol a2 sook dealal death by diowuiag .