Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 14, 1875, Page 1

WILSON BROS, VOLUME 28, GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, SHIRTS! ordor, of the bost fabrios in E:o. Full lines in_stock of our own manufaoture. 'Wo are preparod to make Bhirts to ordor in oight ‘hours, whon necossary. B. F. ALLEN. More Facts in Regard to the Great Western ' ¢ Financier.* Statemont of Stevens and Blen- nerhassett, His Late New York Partners, MEN'S FURNISHERS, 67 & 69 Washington-st., Chicago, Pike's Opern Honse, Cincinnatl, PIANOS. STEINWAY UPRIGHT ~ PIANOS Aro acknowledged to bo tho most desirable Pianos for the parlor or drawing-room. Over five hun- dred in use in Chicago and vicin- ity, cach and overy one of which nhas given the mast unqualified sat- isfaction. LYON & HEALY, Genoral Agents for the Northwest, State and Monroe-sts, ICE. JUT YOUR TCE FROM THE OLD REITABLE - Red Wagons, 15 5. f A W0, 1 I, DELIVERED DAILY, FOR 80O cots. Per Weels. AR, WILLARD & FINANCIAL. The First National Gold Bank OF BAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 2,000,000 GOLD, GED. F. JIOOPER. SAMULL HORT. They Declare that Allen llas Been as False to Them as to tho Public. How He Borrowed $958,000 from Them, and Now Tries to Re- pudiate the Debt, The Money Obtained to Help the Cook Counly Bank, and Used for Speculative Purposes. Facts About the Great Mort- gage---Allen’s False Oath Respecting It. Some Figures Relative to Allen’s Al- leged Speculative Losses—A Nico Little Total of 11,420,000, Tho Qreat “ Financler » Charged with " Stock and Graln Gambling, False- hood, Fraud, and Perjury. To“llu Zditor of The Chicago Tribune and The Pud- o+ New Yonx, Jano 10.~Wo soldom ses Tnx Omroago TRIBUNE here, and saw B. T, Allen's card of tho 31at of May only when a kind friend eont It tous. It was cold when it reachod us, and wa muat ask excuso for auaweriug it after such dolay. Wo havo but liitle to say of tha very evident offort to Liavs tho publia belleve ua responaible for tho exposurc of Ar, Allon i your issuo of Baturday, the 20ih of BMay, Though we cannot clalm that roaponeibliity, we do not mce what difference that makos, §f tho articlo be true, ‘Wo bave much to sy, howover, of tho malig- nant insinuations and sasscrtions in that card (8lst of May), and wo desiro to take some sd- vantago of tho confessions of Mr. Allen thorein, The exposure (20th of Alsy) is wonderful in the mass of trath it Las unosrthed, but it has not thoroughly exposed B. F. Allen, We fancy wo could Lave directed tho public attention to the ‘wholo truth, but we could not havo douo it with 8o ablo a pon. 'Wo are scarcely sbls to par- ticulatizo, In such an article as this, la what wo wonld differ from your eorrespondont; but we bog to say that most ho mtatos about Mr. Allon is truo; and that Alr. Allen's card is not truo, mdrolt as it is in its purposo to withdraw sttontion from Al- lon's wrong-doing. As hio haa ecen fit to throat- en us, wo trust this atatemant will afford excusa to him to hold ns suMiclently respansible. ‘Wo wore tho partoors of B. F. Allen in the firm of Allen, Btephens & Co. o We wore the stronunous defenders of Mr. Al len's good namo; rosolute in our faith in his woalty, and {n the aolvonoy of tho Cook County Bank. Wobhad tho ropeated assurances of Allou quite up to tho time of hix faituce, 8o hiad tho publio. Mr. Allen advortised a card about the Cook County Baok op tho 19th of Jan- uary (tho day ho falled) : ** I can assure doposit- ot that 00 loss can oocur to thom, their payment being orly a question of time.” And a weok later, on tho 27th of January, he stated in the publio papers: * My resources far oxceed my liabilitios of every desoription.” o beliovad thoss true st that time, They arc now provon wholly falsa; and, of all from whom 3. Allen and the Cook County Bank drow funds, we have sbowa our faith by furnish- ing moro money than all the others combined. ‘What was the Cook County Banktous? Wo owned not & dollar of its stock, and it was not doing business with us; we had never mado ‘money through it ; in a word wa were joined to it by no sttachment but thatof our partoer, Il F. Allen, Prior to October, 1874, it did not owe us a dollar, and bad no sccount with us. .On the 10th of January, 1875 (that is, in thros monthe and nlneteon days), it owed us €956,000,—all at the solicitation of said Allen. Auad now comes this miserablo, false maa, ju & card to the public, dealing in insinuations ofaaots ot such questionablo charactor, to which he bas been inatigatod by hls partnors, that he who did thos acts in to be noar white in public eatimation compared with them. The individual acts aro not mentioned,—they are insinuated in general torms. We caunot, consequontly, eay this act Is {alse, and that ; aud, by proof and witnoss, brand Dut wo do say the whole ia Jalso ; and wo oty this man to.polat out oue qnestionablo ack or transaction which wo ap- proved of or advised. Wa ask each business.-man {o refoct upon the iojury that would come to him from the printed publio insinustion of wrong by any unsorupu- lous person. No matter Low false or how fool- ish the accusatton, if nmot bravded with denlal, 1t will obtaln & currenoy thas may prove fruitful of vast troubls, A fong lfe of scrupulous uprightooss may not be able to survive it, Wo have such an unscrupulous insinuation to deal with. Wo have kopt very freo or the publio priuts, suffering wrong with such posaible pa- tience as we could ; but we find this man livesby impunity ; that be will not down; sud we trust tbat the reapectable publio will soquit us here- sfter if we troubls the nowspapars, for we shall 1, Co WOOLWORTH. CORRESPONDENTS. wUNDON,.....DARING BIOTIIERS & CO. CHANTERED MERCANTILE RANK OF INDIA, LONDON, AND OHINA, -BLACKSTONI NATIONAL DANK. (JFIRST NATIONAL BANK. ions attendod to and prompt returns made at the fawost markol rates of Exchanee. STEAM APPARATUS. JOHN DAVIS & CO., STEAM Heating and Ventlating Apparatn, WROUGHT-IRON PIPE AND FITTINGS, REOPENED AT 75 & T7 Michigan-st. CEMENT SIDEWALKS. “SIDEWALKS.” e Great Reduction in Prices. d the Portland O t Pavin gSuaudatye this g lly'(ln%whanr- within the city Ymiia) ‘!\Xll‘)\l"l patent Levalad bluck walk, i two 0o'ors, lamigntform, Choa 3 Iysbas I thiskowes, Lot Sraniz: fl:r(t.-pln.ln, Inalu“r from hirtoon 13) llrllwnnila) anta por square fost. Publle parks, ehurohes, court. 10050 BJUALO! d Liall floors dons in ‘eolors by special o1 cLs takea for work at any distancs from tuwn, and competent thy We use naone but the bast 0., J. Wigiancit. e 8. LAWN MOWERS. ‘MORE 28.000! ¥ LA i Vorttann Carn LTLAND LT, Managor, foom 10, 114 THAN I ! ELPHIA MOWERS! Bushy Glmgm. Ligatert and st Durabla, 20.00. 10+ 1, 834,00, LS Ry woen iGN 228 ?!i IH MORRIS, “"&”“"t}‘ifl‘fu"&u? s o T ' 280 WTATE BTREET; CHIOAGO, W, B,—Hewure of Worthless Imitations BUSINESS CARDS. WILLIAM M, DEE, +_ DRALER IN VITRIFIED SBWBER PIPH AND BEWERAGE MATERIALH, Fraoklin_snd_Adams-ats. Ohioago. - A Rushing Business. 'a Auction Roams, Nos. 8 and 8 aat {120 Pinane & 00l l‘i‘n ALY ANOK MOLE MO ou New aod Hecond-hand Oarpat o5 Chamber, S Aud Diniog oo sad Ofoe FUR: iy Grossries, hie fin th ab him whe I Jood G robandls il for LOW. | point the fingor of truth a ‘whonever he kA e '&}::-,_A:}J:'ut'lufi:;;;lflVAT' BALE W | oallg our names fn question. ALLEN'S CONTESSION, ‘We would take up ihis oard of confession, dated the Blat of Msy. Read over once (as the publio reads & nowspaper), the effoct ia good. It is adroit, soemingly manly, and s like the Pprotest of an injured man. But, if Le bo not an injured man, if all that you said about bim on the 29th of May bo true, and if (contrary to the card) none of thoso statemonts are false, what then about tula card ? » In it he says of himselts * Imay betom- pelled to confess many transactions which I can- notdefond.™ 1 Lave dono many things which aubject mo to dssorved censure.” Alno, ho spesks of unfustifiablo sots * that I bave dono” aa compared with * other uojustis fiable acts never dage." It matters oot st prosent how he cama to do —___ _VINEGAR, PRUSSING'S WHITE VINEG AR UnRe AMTRENGT! AP Y FOR BALL. FRERZERS, REFRIGERATORS. Doa's buy your Toe Oreara Fraw hare seen ilon Y WHT| HINTAIN, ¥ *iea finfl‘ifi?-‘\'}d’rflfifiwfiwfixflxl. TOhS, feo Bulzesthe bast tn vaes them, ho uays—* I have doge them,"-snd then LAUNDRY, sigus * B F. Allon." MUNGER'S Wo will beliovo him. - He doos not claim to bave dooe one act, but *many”—twice ¥ many "—qh\u-tlnmbll sotsjand 3ot aix, he wonld havethe public believe your arti- cle of the 3%th of May cogtaivs of b “many,” It cad scasgaly u""mfl"fl'm pu;l.l: LAUNDRY. ‘gmmou 18 Mihigaaet. | 19 CHICAGO, hereatior rometmbars his nenortiona that he done wrong; and wa would point to tha hu posaibility that, in & card of defonse, he may bave wordod hin oonfeasions with some slight favor to himself. Horeaftor wo will call this card of the 81st of May *Alion’s Confesmon,” 1T8' ADROITHENN. Ponitence lplp\:‘lll to a noblo feoling in every hoart. Wo all would may, ““1f & man ba traly penitent, he onght to bo forgiven.” Thers in common chlm( and meroy in that_proponition, and ** wo do alf hopo for morey.” Dut, if » man connterleits penitance, how then ? Any ano familiar with Mr. Allon will know that ho nover wrote that card. 1t was written for bita. Penitenco Is written in it vory carefully, 1ia lawyer wroto it. '*1 havo dono many things which aubjoct mo to dosorved consnrs.” 1 shall aubmit mithout one word of retort,” “‘howover low tho general oatimato of my conduct will ba," This appesla kindly to all, But, if this ba writton for the publis eye, and it be tho foil for Just a Iittle rovenga:,as, for in- ntanco, thero bo added to it by Allen,—about sume other mon,—**It will now become my duty to placo them beforo tho ,mbllc. that, however low tho genoral eatimate of my conduct (il ba, that of thoirs will bo lower,"—how about this listlo lingering Old Adam, -thls willingnoss to besmirch Limscif if ho may but besmirch othors ? Whero Is tbat swest epirit of sarrow that makes renitonca beautiful, ‘bocauss pure from envy. malive, rovongo ? 8ir, it {8 not hero. This is the countorfoit ; this man, that formorly was solfish, cruel, and crafty, is lo-day tho same. Again, peottonce. I may bo compelled to confess many transactions which I cannot de- fond.” T.ot us quory thin. Does he mean by **compollod " that ho won't if ho can Lielp {t? DECELT OF IT. Hosays: “Thuse who now show my private lettors, and thua romove from me tha obligation to treat theiis a8 macrod.” e would havo tho public beliave that hio bad been most honorable, most serupulous, livlding our privato lotters sa- crod. But this is not mo, Lvery lotter whlch active malico could torture into an Instrumont of damago to us has been loug since shown, He travoled nearly a thousand nilos oncs to show some of them.” It was last Fobrusry. Ilo callod upon ono gentloman to show him & pri- vata lotter writton by one of us, in.which wo snoko harahly of that gantloman, 1€ was writ- tenat a timo of disappointmeut because that gontleman had recallod a Inrgo sum of money unoxpectedly. We wanted the money solely to holp Mr. Allen, aud for nonosd of ours. Honco wa wroto Allen of it, and, in our feoling for him, allowed ournelves n disappolutment that apoko al.rnngl{. It hia always scomod to us that any othor than an absorbentiv-nolfish man would have bold that letter sacrod. No! e conld oatrango & friend fromus; so Lo unsed it last Fobruaty. One ank waa Instigated to suo va to collect a draft of tho Cook County Bank on the American Lxchange Bank, New York. Thoir lawyor wattod on us jn March with tha copy of our private por- nonal lottors to I, I, Allen. Calling the writer of it asldoe, ha boggea him to read the letter, and thon sssurcd bim wo bad bottor pay their claun ugnu:c tho Cook County Lank, \ao Lavo not Again, wo £old papor with the {ndorsemant of tha Cook County Bank. Tho makor of tho PR lmr {ailed, and “some of tho purchasors went West to sce him. Allon was In tho gentleman's outer offico when thoy called. As s00n as oproe- tunity affordod, he hiad an interviow with them, oxbibited anothior lotter written Ly onoof u which the purchinsers woro given to nndcmzn wonld warrant them in suing us to rocover tho amount. e lind & call fzom them on thoir ro- tumn, but thoy did not suc. Wo bave had tho nawe of a gentleman men- tioued to us, to whom Allen Las shown all ocr Erlvnlo Iottors, and who wpoaks of them. Wa car of ono contateing allusion to the ** Heathen -Chinee.” Wa coufcss wo cannot oxplain it without the lotter, for wo have no copy of it. ‘There was ono mau in Now York with whom Allen kuew wo two hiad an 0'd lawsuit, supposed to have mado bitternosa, IHore was sn onomy, ho thougbt, who ‘would be glad to be regalad. Tho last day of February was Bundsy, Allen was biding jo New Jersey, but bo waa safo from wrlt ‘orsorvico {n Now York on Bunday, He crossed the rivor to New York—Thluk you to sco hia partnors, who bad boen for more than a month sending him mossage aftor mosssge to cote to thom, and Liad roccived his writton sc- knowledgment of thoso memssges? Nal ho passed thom by, and wout a great distanco to soo this supposed enemy, in whom Lo hoped to find 8 sympatbotio reador of private lotiers, sud a sympathotic hoaror of falso stories. Ho mades mistake. Wo suroly neod not go on. His protonse that bo has treatod privats lottors as saorod is an at- tompt to deceive, It is unfortunato for Lis peni- tenco, but it s so, . Monz, In thia card, na usnal sives his failare, ho at- tacks, shroatens, and chargos ns pordonaily with wiong-doing; but now, for the first simo, he geuerously inoludos himuolf. e writoa: I nuay bio compollod $0 confess many transactions which I eaunot defend, but none which wora nut dono with tho_ full \mowlodqa. approval, and advice of those formor partuers. **1 have dono mauy things which subject mo to desorved consure.” Aud agatn: Thows men havo approved of all that I bava done, and Envu ,Advisod othor unjustiliable acts novor one." . Ploass note that, In every Instance, he had our advice, appraval, aud full knawledge, first. Nolo furlhor, that, not content with all that, wo evan wero 80 proliflo in wickednoss .that wo advised other unjustiflablo scts which ho was no: evil enough ta do, ‘This is what ho wishoa to have the public Leliove. . Noto tho words *None,— not due; " and *all,"—no exceptious ;—not ouo single inatanco of wroog for wiich he csn be hold solely rospousible, ~Wo wora 5o mack worse than hio *“that, howovor low the geueral esti mato of my conduct will bo, that of thoirs will bo lower " (wo aro quoting Mr, Allen). If it would not soom trivial, wa might use tio simile of & whining unhnulbo‘x caught in wrong-dolug, who, in foar of tho rod, with ready. toars and quick Inveution, points to liis fellow and sobs outt **1lo mado ma do it,” Altuough theus statomentn aro fatso, wo wonld ask you fo coueidor their probabili 3r., Allen is noar & yooru of are: ho should know right from wrong: you will doubtloss think it poeaible that ho bias a will of his own. Ho did business in Clitcago aud Doaboinee; wo did businoss In Now York, He_ is uow accusod of doing wrong in Chiongo and DosAoiues. o would bave you believe that, fu avery emorgency that drove him to wrong, he had timo to explain his case and counsel with his partnors, a thousaud miles off, —never acting fu suy instance of wrong until he got thoir adyice and approval, When, to make good & brokon trust,. he bore rowed of tho Cook Uounty National Lank moro than was legal, ke would have you baliave it bl Now York partners’ fault, Whon b loat inonoy in graln speoulations, and thon took moro from the bauk, You are Lo sup- pose hiw Noa York partners advised both. Whoen Lo sworo to falao bank-statemonts to bLide hls defalcations, he wanta you Lo think we advined tho perjure, ‘When he utiored fraudulent gas-bonds, and aseured tho pariles ho Luaw them to be good, Locauss ho hiad signed them, be would, in some way, liave you consider ua reaponaiblo, When Lo was committing fraud aftar fraud to supply tho mouoy for Lis necossitios, whon he waa docolving every one, right and laft, to obs tain monoy, s ways, pray bolieve **nono" of thoso weio done without *tho full kuowledgs, approval, aud advice," of your humble servauts. ad ¢o onamored wers we of wrong and do- coit, that you are to underatand that we mug- Reatod the vory deceita and frauds under whose falio protouscd wa oursolves advancod him, for tho Cook Couuty Bank, 3U58,000. REYORM, Bir, wo would lavo you reform yourcourts, Mr, Allen apeaks of & ¢purpose manifost to thoss who kuow the facts,’ “AP;vorm-pnudenun liny boon used with the hope that it will projudica my righta lu penaing hitigatiou, Ho does nos complimout your courts. We have a bottor opluion of them oureslves, and bava faith that thoy will do justice without fear or favor, YOI TUK PRLENT. . And now, sir, wo must quit thls card for the prosont. Wo could poiut to other thiugs 1o it; wo aduit that wo should not suspeot Mr. Allen as liablo to skulk in mnlnx" any statoment; wo norfoctly beliove ho would sign his name to a faldo statemeut; nay, sir, wa bolievo bim even worge than that. 'Wo noeded not his sssurance, We owo him somoe return for confessing that ho haa been a wrong-door many timea and oft, In leaving this card, we wouid agala asert that thera nover was an uudofehaible transaotion or unjustifiablo act of Mr. Allou's that wy advissd orapproved of. Wo disolsim all responmbillty for his wroug-doiug, and we doty him, or an; one slae, ta ausert with truth tho contrary, mugl leas sstablish it! @ Homn SIS, 0 man who fs not & A0 0AL 657 We ever decolveds . We lnvite aticnion 10 owr oousne ia this matier of B. F. Allan's fallure. When, on tho 10th of January [aat, ho failed, we wero holding large deposits, and wera doing ono of the Iargeat private banking businosses {uthe City of Now York, Wo at once advised ol our cor- reapondentn that thin failure would not produce ours, aad that ws could par all; wo in vited thons who wero fearful to draw on us at oucs. Tho Chicago Times, Lowever, palilished s dinpatch that we ha falled, which was uttorly untrue, This dispatch was copied through the West, It did uninuch horm. Mr. Allen had a morbid doefro for publio statamont, and, at so Pmnl o distance, wo were convenisnt peaplo to ay tho blame of his own wrong-doing npon. Ho, inatead of tellmg of his unfortunate epecula- tious, and of the fearful sums of money he had lost therain, bo [nminuated In indeflnite wass that hla New York partners wore to Llama. If you will look back at the Chicage and Des Lloinen pavors in January and Fotruary Inet, you will notlcs how apendily bia reachen thisline of action, Of course, many withdrew (iéir depomts, and finatly, finding them growing moro malicious, and thiat sttachimonts were boing brought agaivat, his fntercat in onr firm, we draw chockn and paid off our romalning depositors dollar for doilar. On the 10th of January, Mr. Allen. our senior partner, failed ; and, ou tho 2ist of January, wo were ready Lo pay ali our depcnits in cash. Vo owad othera for Jonns negocisted by us to eupply the Cook County Baok with eash s but he had negotinted those loans without concealment of thoir purpose, and tiioy wem 'amply secwred 3 atifl, wo s all tho partics, and they heartily approved of our course, W wero porfoctly open. We may say with soma foeling that thoso partios aro miwongat our warmast frienda to-dav. Mr. Editor, wo polat with pride to a mercantila career whero thoro is not one sorrowing famity, one injured firm, ono ruined bank., Ior the two New York partners of B. F. Allon, wo may say: In all onr career wa havo novor fatled ; have nover boen dincredited ; hava nover csused loases 1o others | have never beon membors of auy firm that has not paid ite debts in full. No just claim existn snainstus that wa are not prepared to-dny to pay in full on presen- tation, 'Nalives of this coantry, prond of it and its groatucas, wa feol cortain’of that fair ploy which popular fosling always ‘gives to nll when tha tenth {8 roally known. ‘I'o tho multitudo of bankorsin tho Grast Woat wo n“pell to judge us as brother-bankers should, by themselvos. “Would you wot foel proud to bava dolivered up your truat parfact on such no. tico? And Lavo we not acquitied onrsolvos on- orably 2 Wae claim, if suy judgment bo mado of us, that wo Lo fudged by flus our own record, and not by the indefinito sccusationsof au onomy. No mon have been more relactant thaa our- solves to appear in print. Boven timen has Mr, Allen anpearod tn print over his signature,—ov- ery time sssatling us diractly orindirectly, Onco, beeides, at s public mooting, fu his prescnce and at bis request, bis lawyers spoke, and, in spoaking. assailed us, The Westorn nowapapors Tublished interviers nnd oditorials agatost us, Finally, on tho 1st of Mareh, Alr. Alicn, drivon to fury by our silones, awaro ta a libel, porjuring bimseif; aud, on the ith of March, this most ma~ licious, wicked, aud untruthful thing was pro- cutod to bo publighod in all the New York pa- pery, and waa spéedily ropubtishod througbout all tho land. Then, for the firet timo, wo made reply. Mr. Editor, worefor you to your own paper of March 8 and March 10 for that reply. It. was truo in every particalar, sna was n most moderate and temporato statement of griovous wronga done usby avd Allen. And now, eir, when you very properly chooso to pibe 118l » statoment of what vour rteporior Las dis- covered, wo arc again aguniled by n malicions, threatening card, which the writer liones by in-, sinuntion willdo barm to us, even thongh he BocA BO faras to own himeelf ciimina), that he mav call us bis confoderates. Ve owa it to our- wolvea to oxplsin hum a little. EXPOBUBE OF ALLEX, Mr. Editor, this mnn 16 fall of persistent de- coit, On tho18th of January ho published s - uotico at the Cook County Bank door, sayiog : 1 can nasnre depositors that no loss can ocour'to them,—thelr payiaont belvgz onlya queation of tima, (Siguod) H, F, AuLrx, Prosident, According to tho prosent banit suthorities, he on that day omed the Cook Couaty National Dank 1,260,000 (over one and' s quarter mill. ione), whicl'does not inciudo Lfs, }iabllity on bis stock. Atthe time of falluro, by Allen's published varbal sccount— 3 Tho doposita were, Capital.ceesan 090,000 Tatal,.,. . osoneee 31,000,000 Not much loft for depositors,if Allen, Stophons & Co, biad not furnished $950,000 in good, solid cash,—taking part seourity in the bank's aacot, and the balance of gocurity in Allen's mortgngo. On the 22d of January, 1875, be publishud ovoer his signaturo, in the Des Moines Slate Jieq- teler, “*A prudent- moderation on the part of &ll interestod in my eatalo will cnable me to save nll from tho possibility of loss.” But, on the 10ih of April the State Journal of Des Molues published Mr, Alloa's lotter dated the Gtk of Aprtl, eaying that if allowed to macago bis own assats, Lo could pay his homs creditors 25 conts on thio dollar, g1 threo annual inatal- menta (provided ho could satisfatorily adjust other claima agaioat him). Thoss ¢wo stutenients wi!l not adjnat. Nolther wiil this, publisbed over bis, siguature on tho 20th of Janunry: My rosourcos far oxoeod my liabllitiea of every desoription," TOE MOUTOAGE, On tha 224 of January ho writes In the Stafe Register, over his signatnro: Whon the facts about tho groat mortgago are presented, it will appesr that tho very means by whibh I sought to rescue tho Cook” County Bk from embar- rassmont (and which, but for had faith on the part of others, would havo ancceoded) bave baon used to precipitate jta ausponsion, sy woll as to ‘ufi'mfi o Aonmy my poreonal credit and my ostato. % Naturally, on this and Allen's vorbal assur- ances, the Stale Leader »aid, on the 23d of Janu- arv: 4 Tho mortgage mnda Jat November to Allen, Btephens & Co,, of which the aboveisa copy, Is tho fonstrament upon which Mr, Alten was to have roceived tho amount specified thero- In. This biolp he never got, and, if Lo had, the Cock County Bank would not have gons into liquidation.” Mr, Allen stated to a reporter this morning that e never know of the intontion of tho Now York house to record the mortgaso, un- 411t camo to him yestorday that the iustrument was on filo in the Rocorder's oftico.” Jan, 26, over his sigoaturo: ¢ The much- talked-of mortgngo was intonded as a pr vledge, exproacivg my witlingnoss to mortgags all my roal proporty 88 scourity for fulure ad- vanoey and ullimale balances, “The utter disre- gard of tlus arravgomoot on their pars dofeated the vory purpose .for which I. was oxecuted."” *If my sssociates, in their mistakon zeal to rhwthll papor upon record, have indulged in ha dolusion that it was executed for any pur- poso o1 ‘coveriug up,' or glving tho house of Allen, Btophens & Co. any pricrity as a ereditor in the ovent of my not being ablo to meot my obligations, then they bave certa muslntor- proted my purpoas in its oxeocutio! Fob, 5, at the meoting of croditors at Dos Moines, Mr.' Allen roquested hia nttoruey to mako a statement | and, In Allon's prosence, tho lawyor spoaks of whiat he calls **the so-oallod mortgage,” saying: ** A claim has Leen prosent- ed for a littla less than & million of dollars, aud s mortgsge spread upon the records hero and olsewhore, claimed to have boon jexecutod for that amount, Mr, Allen has a good aud logiti- mato dofonse agaipst it." Anothior of his Iawyers eald in the same meet- ing, hui’nn& in Allen'apresouce, * There is pond- {ug in the Cirouit Court of the United Btates n bill io chancery, filsd to forecloso s mortgago uron all his real estato, aud covering a claim of 900,000 fr, Allen claims that thera is not any foundation for any such claim.” *' He rogards it 83 & question of time, limx:l’. to determine that this liabllity doea not oxiat." Uu the 8th of Maruh, Allerf, solemnly under oath, *donios that he on the 18th day of No- vember, ), 1874, or st auy othor time, exe- cuted snd deliverod to Allen, Btephens & Ca., a firm dojog businoss in ths City of New York, a doed of mortgagoe,” eto. All this haa been prblisbed in tha publio priuts, and at intervals, uulil poople think : First—That, though sometbiog was exeouted, it was not,a mortgegy, aud not moant as & mor gaco. . Scoond—It wos exccuted under promiss of money-lelp, bu that Allen never got that holp, Zhird—LTlat ity record was & clandostine act, done in bad faith. And tho man responaible for all this way of thinking is B, ¥, Allen,—the man of alt men who kuow tho truth, sud who deliberately liod, When kLa firss did 0, we doubt not he expocted weo never wonld besr of ib; but, h&v{u%&lflnn 8O, it bas clung to him, sud be has had to toll more, and flually Lo has ywora to it Finst, . ‘The mortgage is Tery good proof of fla pur e ¢ £300,000 .wxum-un-mqm.miu, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1875, by may of mortgage, snd an secority for such advances, 8l my roal eslate, of every kind and dfacription, an wheresoever oituated, (8igned) D, P, ALLEN, And, aftor that signaturo, Mr. Allen went to tho oflice of & Notary in an adjscont atroet, and there, in the prescuco of third parties, ackaow]- odged that ho ozceuted that papor as o mort- ann: and tho oflicial certificato (s attached that 0" “acknowledged that ho oxecnted tho same for lhaApnrpona therein mantionod.” Mr, Allen nuvor hias had_any donbt about that paper being o mortgage. When tha timo comes, tho proof of this will be overwholming. srcoxn, Did he get the advances? It was aesertod that, if bo had reccived them, the Cook Connty Bank would bavo beon saved. 1o ia renpousiblo for that. Let us try the document again: ' [ haroby acknowledge tho recoipt of £165,476.88 of advances to tho Cook County Natfonal Bank of Chicago, for tny acconnt.” All signed, sealed, and ackvowledged solemnly befors s Notary. Do you think he aid not know? ‘Ihe day that document 8 ezecuted, we had advancad just 8165476.68] whd he know it, snd scknowlodged it in that paper, and Iutendad to acknowlodge it, When the Cook County Bank failed, we bad advancod 253,000 abova ali ropayment’s and na, wheo men pay money and take vouchers, they ata able to farnish trrofragable proof of figures, 80, klr, wo ato pitnated, All the idea of maarp practico mast vanlsh, The poor pooplo of Jowa, ruined by Allen's bankruptey, causo ua real sor- row, We ase In 6o way the caune of tholr suffer- ing. Money was actually advanced upon this mortgago; but, inslead of boing applied to sob~ tlo tho just dobls of tho banker, the deposita which wero tho expesiona of porsonal confl- dence in Allou's houor, it was used by him to support the losses of hia gambling in grain-core noia aud stock-speculadion, not one of which wera known to us until afterh e fafled. When tho Bank Examivor t:ok chargo of tho Cook County National Dank after izs failure, b found its sccounts in contuslon ¢ ko found our account upon ita books incorroctly kout, £nd ha catmn to New York to compare ond unravel. Wo Ravo him the fulleat dotalia, and, with a pationco and ncutoness that speak highly of his talent, ho weut from bauk to bauk, and traced traneaction aftor trangaction, and finally returned to us and said : 1 have traced overy doflar, I find you bavo told the truth. I flud that the Cook County Bank did rocelvo the monoy you claim to Lava patd for it ; and i must pay you the compliment that. whereas [ came Lero with & mind s:rongly profudiced againat you by Allen. T find “you to bavo bocn tho mon fnjured, I sbull tell this to all who havo tho right to know.” THIRD, Whan, ofter the futlure on the 19th, B, F. Allen left Culcngu on the morning of tha 20th of Japuary for Dos Moines, hie knew that that mortgage was rocordod in Chicago on the 19:h, e knew who had it for record, and hie espostol that thiat person was ou his way to Doy Moinea to record it thero, 1o kuow ho (Allen) hiad ro- coived ths monoy on it, even beyond the agreo- mont: nod ho knew that tho Cook County Banlk bnd not failed becauss of auy arrangement mado a8 to that paper. lle know on’ Baturday, the 16th, thot tho affars of tho Cook County Bank threntened s " deaotution ; and ho called others into consulta- tion and had legal couusel. Amongst othor things that he called attentlon to was this vory mortgage, and tho fact that it would bo ro- corded.. Ho producad & copy of it. flo desired to anticipato it by tho conveyauce of Lis houso in Chicago, and by a declaration of trust as to othor Chicago property; and ho did antiespata it by recording such popers on the following busineen day (Monday, the 13th). ‘Wheo ho nrrived at Des Moiues. on the 21st of January, at 8 o'clock {o the morniug, h ebad no settled plan of actton with which to meet his croditora thoro, Hla waa drifting ; bo had rushod thoro bocauss it seemed to give him somo wol- como,—ite tolograws were friondly and cordial, But, when tho city en masse turned out to meet him at that unacasonable hour; when the Mayor of tho city led the way, srm in arm with Allen ; when ovory volce trombled with sympathy, and evory.exprossion wau that of confidence and support, it was moroe than Allen bad dared to hopo. This man knew Liow far ho was rutnod ; koow what Lo Liad taken from the Cook County Bank ; know he was mortgagod ; know all ho bad donu ; yet Lopo rovived that Lo conld still carry on the appoatance of & man of weaith. Tiio most gonerous cxprossioad wero uttered, Doa Moines nien of substanco said: ** All I have imfor galo on Fraak Allou's sccuntios.” Auothier: My place in for sale to anv ono who ean pnyulur Hin certificatos of doposit on Allen. Another: * AMr. Allen Is good enough secunty for mo mow, 88 Lio bas been ever since I hava been in bueinets in Los Moinos,” Others cashed his certiticatos of deposit. It was printed : Over haif a million of capital waa represented by the parsona present; and, as ono of the most solld among tho moneyed men retarked, * Every cont of 1t would, 1f necessary, o put up an backing for Frank Allen," A promtiént buinesa mau entored the Lauk, * Well, Mr, Allen, if you'll come back to Dea Molnes to live, we'll staud right up to you in the future s we have io the part, Wo'll glve you our notes, and, when thoy como dito, If we can't pay them, wo' will 5dd the tn- fereat right on and give you others,” ‘Thiosa uttorancos desarve honor ; thoy are no- ble; aud for such frienda a man might bo will- iug todie. Alleu knew that it all was founded on the fafth which one of thom oxprossed; * | am_ontirely satistiod with Mr. Allow’s solvency and integrity; and bo know that both solvency and integrity wero gono ; but hs was tompted to boltevo that” might be hidden. Wa do not wish ::1 copvey tho tmprossion that he wos a far-sight- 0. Those utterances wera not ¢old when the newa that Allon had given s mortgaga on all his real eatata to hia Now York partners begauto beclrcu- lated. The rocords showed it. Mon did not kuox what to think. Itstared some of his speeches in tho face ; it struck at both tua solveroy and his Integrity, Sowo said : ** Have you heard 7 ife has tortgagod his proporty to hip own tirm, Iu it ull right @ Others, * Ha has borrowed money on Lis real estato, What lias hie left " Tp appeasa both, ho bad o say, Ho had ot mortgaged hia property; aod. 1é had, but had oot got the money he soumed $o acknowledge 1n the paper,—it waa void. Why, then, wan it recorded ? 11t pariners had mado s mistake; he had no ides thoy would record it, It was & wyth, No ononood fearit, It would spoedily ba caucelad. He would soo it made right, And thou lie sont to us tolegrama of entroaty, begging us to reply lmmodiately; and that, 1f talion off tha records, ho could go right on With hin banking at Des Moines, b Buta ly\ng apirit wad his master, and it gave no timo, " The curious askod quostions; thelr good will was tho breath of Lia nustrils, and thoy must Liavo shiow of roady answor, Soot all that clty aaw in hlm was & wronged man; if his New York partuets had advanced tho monoy the paper callod for, tho Cook Cotmty Bank would Lave been saved! ‘Then he went to thae publio records, aud cancelod the mortgage He hiad made on hin Frnpuny and could now eay, *1t s all right,” ‘h\'lng done us a wrong, hiereaftor ho will nevar orgive us, Wo think womay loavo it to tho publie to trace the thing on until, not daring to scknonl=dge hin falsohiood, Lio fnally takes tho falso onth of tho Bth of March., How much bettor would it hiaye been for him, how much bappicr would ho bo :o—dlky,dllud he owned the truth when first e1upla rrRyoRY, Of Mr, Allen’s complaint, to which he swore cn tho 18t of March, aud which wia circulated through_all the papers Liast aud Weat, North either nterested or that rensonably might V/ The Blurges corn cornar (for = Sturges” wa [ aretold (o read Allen ")~lons repiried w‘/ €iriried o iy as Cu al Lowa on $200,000 New York Stata L, Truat Btock will Le., Loea in Ca; ds Bouthern' consiriciion There aro other that ntiould be ndded to thiv amount ; but those wil show that ho wasa :mld #poculator, not henltating at enormous vsn. urex, \Vo_su assored that tho (n'uu(lgnllon of Mr, Allon's personal aitairs sliowa ti at, whon bhis houso at Do Molnes was built aud furntalied. all Allen wan worth waa then invosted im that houso ; all thereat was roally what ho owed to his depoeitora aud othors, e cunfoes that this t;ronuy astonishen us, Bat wo think it s most mportaat statemout to creditors, and, trua or zot‘.’lms. will aud to dovelop truth, aud should be uowra. And now, sir, wa foar wo ought to close. Wo havo not exhaustal the mubjoct, Wo know much more of this man; and, if we have noed, and you wiil grant us' your pationce, wo may have to roplyto lum again, o tnay even, at +otoo future time, publish samo ot his letters, which be scoms grestly to fear, and which are the vouchers of our uprightness, ond, st tho £ame tima, tho accounts 1 his own Land which be _gave us of himself. Sayto thuse Isttors, ‘*Ile wan a bankrapt at the time Lo wrota tn, aud & defaniter to the Cook County Iank,” aml the indellble writing stands immediately furth ou every pago: faleo! false! falwe!l Wo doubt not it would bs » curious etady to alf to traco tlus mau's character, his coormons noltisbiese, aud the extraordinary capacity for resarding the property of others s by right his. 1l has a ca- pacity for public favor; but, when in danger, ho would prefor that ofhers bo wrecked and Lo eaved. lo his desporation to save to himself public favor, Lo bas not Lomtsted to deal witis tho charncters of othors falsely, Ttenpectimly yours, WiLLza A, Sreruess, 1, BresNenuasserT, —— EDUCATIONAL: ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 8pectal Dispatch to The Chicago 1ribure. Brooxixaroy, Iil., Juns 12.—Commencemant woek of tho Illinois Weeleyan Univoreity Legins to-morrow with class-moeting and baccalauruato eermon (o Amio Chapel. Bermon by I'resident Fallows, Monday eveuing will oocur the anmi- versary of tho Womsn's Educational Asmocia- tion, at which Mra. Bars Hackott Stevenson, of Chicago, will delivor an address. This evoning, on the Campus of Wosloyan University, wore hetd the exercisos of Class LA Prosident’s address by Samuel VanPett Ivy; tton, T. Stotling, “Alma Mater”; oration Hosworth, “Class History”: ¢ Franc Cummivg; **Class I'rophecy,” A. C. Mason, Special napatch to The Chicaio Tribunc, Drooyssutox, Ik, June 18.—To-day, at the Amio Chanel, in tho Wesloyan Univoreity, the annual class-meoting was held n tho forenoon. This wflernoon L. Fallows, tho Preeideut, preached tho bucealauresto sernon, an ablo pule pit address, in which ho took occasion to say £omo parting words to tho students, e baving resigned tho Preatdency to accept tho pastorato of tho Mathiodist Roformed Church at Chicago. To-night Bishop Androws, of the Methodist Church, preaciied tho annual surmon. SHEFFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Srectal Dinpateh Lo Tns Chicago Tribune, Buzrricup, Bureau Co., 1ll., June 12.—This has been an oventful day to the people of our town, and one in which almoat overybody inter- ented in schools b participated. The occasion waa tho tonth mnniversary and reunion of the past sud prosent toschers and pupils of thoSuef- field schools, of which 3r. J. A. Mere:r {s Priu~ cipal. The occanlon was made moro interosting by tho presenco of Mr. H. 8. Ensign, of the Chtcazo Alttance, who nddrossed s Iargo and ap~ rociative andionco on somo of the important acts concerning thoe nse we make of our tino of to-da7. The wholo affair concluded by n rocop- tion given by the teacliors in the various dopart- ments, ut whick Mr. lorcer was prosented a vory handsoms picture by the pupils, to which he ro- aponded in au approcistive manner. Geod musia wae furnished by the Snefield Glos Club, both afternoon and evening. IOWA UNIVERSITY. &pectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, aud Bouth, with headings tolllog of Low we Lad wronged him, wo wish (0" say & very fow words, It.wasa hbol aud falso; was awora to by L The caga has been dismlissed here by Llw atts neva, Tho lawyor who drow it, wo beliave, loarned sftorwards momo of the truth, Cerlain partios discovorod indubitable evidonca th when Lo took that oath, Lie kuow diffarcntly, It was & most malicious thing, and ciredlated ovorgwhero, We prooume the larm it did us will never bo ontirel7 done away with in (ke minds of many who 1ead tho obiurges, but may nover vee tho dofonso, p 114 LOBSES, Ia all that Lias boon wniten up to thls time about Mr, Allon, no one has over unocarthod whore the money weot to.” That s, above ell other things, the'key of the pouition, Befero Ar, Allou's failure, we hoard ruwmors of specula tiona i grain, roal estato, ste. Whonover thess came to us from & correadondent, wo always wrote Allon, e aliraya donied sny spocalation, Up to the timo of bis fallure, wo never knew Lo Lisd_a spoculation, oxcopt in Rock lsland Rail. raad atook, soma years boforo, Binco the failure of the Cook Uuuuty Bank, wo leary that the in- vostigatious theio mod at Des Moines bave un- earthod mm( things, Wo have becn told tLat Lo lout heavlly in two grain-wpaculations, We bava'lieard for the firut time of & vory disastrous stock-speculation conductea after the Chicego fire. All kuow that the Cook County Lank stock ina tolal loss. We caunot vouch for the tiguses ©Of bia lowses, but we mll‘filu them ss they weve Kivea (o us, and ey come from partles Towa Crry, June 12.—The commoncement ex- erciites of the Iowa Stata University begins hera on the 24th Inst., snd cloaca on tho 30th inat. Itlsexpocted that a Iarge ropresentation of prominent persons frowm all parts of tho Stato will bo in attendance. LOST IN A FATHOMLESS QUAGMIRE. A Woman nnd Child Buried Alive, Correarondence Atlanta Herald, Powzrrox, Gi,, May 15.—In Boggs County, on tho road leading from Marahalville to Fru. wick. and 10 miles from the former town, ro- sides & yell-to-do farmer by the namo of Myrup, His amidble and loved wife early aftor break- fast had taken hor fufant child, about 18 months old, 1o hor arms, and gone off in search of a flos sud favorite milch-cow. On coming homo from tho tleld to his dioner, Mr. M, learned that Lis wifo and swoot little prattior had not mado their sppearsuce, Al- most frantio with fear and oxcitoment for their saloty, knowlng that a vory large bear Liad boon Scon 1o thy ewamp near by ouly a fow daya ho- foro, lio put out immodiately in scarch of the minsiug onen, All the hired mon aud women on the place follawed, and, each taking a differout direction, the wholo country was rnnsacked for sovoral nlles around. The neighbors, also, as the 8ad news reached thom, jolncd in tha search., Tha sun was just about mukivg bolind the westeru bills whou tho niworable husband was returning up o small branch that had its source at s pring, and as he was still anxionsly butole most Lopclassly looking in overy direction, whila passing slovg lie dedoried in & pateh of luxuriaut rrnn. ina warah o fow paces off, something iko a plece of gingham. e stood Lorrified and motlonless fur & moment or two aud his hoart alnost stopped pulsaung as tho thought rushed tohis fronzied brain that the objoct ho uaw might be b wifo's bouoet, and that botls ke and his dmllng boy might bo buried m tho fathomloss quagmira over the centre of which Iny this rolic, Approachiug to within a safe distance of this miry pit he discovered tho grasa turned down- ward aud sho surface of the glough Lrokon smil dopresned, sbowing that womd liviog Lody bad {allen fu and boca stragglivg groatly to got out. Yery soon one of tho neighbors and two of the {freedmen belongling to the farm cams up, lr, M. bsd alresdy osplored to the dopth of NUMBER 294, THE PULPIT. The Rev. Brooke: Herford on the Modern Refor- mation, - It Will Involve Freo Inquiry, Open Speaking, and Brotherhood, Sumner Ellis on the Relation of Religion and Morals, The Rev. Thomas Guard at Centenary Church. E - MODERN REFORMATIONS, SENYON DY TUE LEV. LROOKE BERFORD, The Rev. Brooke Herford preached nt ths Church of tha Mossinh last ovoning, electing *'Modorn Iteformations™ as his thomo, His toxt wan: Forgetting those things which are! behind, and reach. .".ffii.”,f';’.‘;‘,i"{u". thoee thlugs which are before,~Putle Ho xpoke cs followa : Taul usod theso words of his own personel life. This was the spirit of onward, never-reste ing endeavor in which ho strovs for that high ninrk of Christian lifo, whioh he nover falt as it hn‘ had “apprehendod,™ {, 0., 1aid Liold of or at- tained, but to which Le atill kept pressing on, But tho sawo spirit worka in Christian soclety a8 in the Individual Cbriatian, Christian o~ ciely, whorever 1t s st ol living, 1 hannted by tho scnee of something bt ter, powsiblo,—better than 1t has yot attained, No soouer Las socicty atininod to ons holgut, mostly by Lard airugglivg and olimbing,—ng sooner hinyo peonle, tired of change, begun to congratulate thomaelves that tuoy oan at last *‘rest aud be thankful," than eomo roatleas apiris discovora that thero is a bigher station sthll to bo attainod ; maiies it tho business of life to shiow his compantons what a poor low placa it is, after all, that they bava got to; and takes up the old k"md’ ** Ariso aud dopart, for this is not 1y rost.” This tondoncs In visibte throughout tho wholo area of human actions and 1nstitations,—politi- cal, social, religious. Bat it is in rogard to it, ag 1t touches rougion, that 1have to sponk of it, What fu social ‘aud politioal ~ matters wa onoak of a3 *‘Roforms' in reiigion wo ealf *‘ Iieformationa"; and it js of thig genoral tendoney towards rome sirangor, truer, inore halprul working cut of tha religions lits, aud of the formy which it s apt to take, and of tho form which §t should take, that I have It~ terls been baving somo thoughts whioh £ want “to put bofore you. I am mightily stracic by the indicatious which aro appearing, day by day, In every quarter of the roligious world of the feeling that it is timo tho churches of Cbrist took another goad, brave step forward, Dut £ cabuot help being struck, ot tha samo time, b; tio poor, imid, half-lieartod way In which thiy feoling iu grooted, and in which the restlosancss it awskeus is mot, by thoea who slioald load it on aud give it form aud saobstance, It seems to meo that the movemonts which- ato trumpoting thomuelves abrosd as *reform. ors" ara mont of them moro nibblings at ref- ormation, what I alwaya foel iuclinet to call +'one-horso reformations,” that can hold very few, and carry pooplo no way at all, but leava things just whera they-wora; and T think thera is m word wants mayiog for meating the whola matior in a utrunlier. Loartier fastion, with a more living frost in tbo power of truth, and n broader brotherbood with sll who ssom honeatly and earacstly seoking it. Let mo tirat of all speak to you of the need of reformation, as it is ehowing itwelf in mlmost overy directiou. You kuow for 800 yeara now %o Linvo baen living on that great reformation of Luther's timo, Well, it was & grand reforma- tion! Idonot think thore ever waa s nobler, or mors liviog, of more life-giving movement' in tho religioua history of mauking, oxcept that 008 movament which stands uttorly alono in s loftinesn and In ita power—the work of Jesns Clrist Timsolf,. Tho Reformation Just et freo the buman soul smin, 8ot it freo, faco to faco with the Bible, epirit to spirit with God, Liko &l Lyman movewents, it put its atrong points too siygnply,—ns, for instauce, in making foo pmuch 49f the mere lettors of tho ible, and proaching Justitication by Faith, an if that was tho wholo Bolution of the problewm of salvation, Iiowaver, it was a graud life-giving, live-restoring movement, | Tho worat of it is, that the Protestant world, a4 1 whole, Lias boen Jiviug on it ever since. In. #tead of carryiug on its principley, the churches have boen trying to crystallize aud perpetuste sty resulta. That which Luther and Calviu got to {in the working out of their new privciples of religious life) an bsen held up, not as an e couragumont 0 go on further, but as a signal of whers to stop. " Calviuistls Trinitarisnism " became the raligion of tha Reformed Charchen, aud they havo never been ablo to got quite away from it! It baa been varicd a httle horo aud thore,—the stiffest Calvinism has evaporated out of {t,—but etill it has baen hold to au » mort of sacrod thing,—aa, e8pe~ cially, tho boon obtaiued by tha Reformation,— and oven those who Lavo diverged from It have mostly triod to make out that they Lave gono yery littla from it, that they Lold substantlally tho'wame thing, And you kuow what that thiug is: One God, In thros persona; man, originally mado perfoot, but fallen in Adat, lug.‘lnx' siuce, ruined, ihcapable of good, coming into tho world doomed alresdy to holl; tha wholo thlng mapped ont biard aud fast—just two olasscs in this world, the couvertod nud the nnconvert- ed—just two classesin the next world, the aaved aud tho damoed. Noshadings off of character or destiny, no middle couditiou: ust tha two states, tho two places, and Jesus tho one onty bridge from the ono to the other; and that nos by our love to Joaus, but Ilia hnvlnz mystioally wuflored instead of us, That 1a about tho Chiristisulty resched by the Roformatiou. And s groat improvoment, thas, upon tha Chrlstianlty of tho Y'apsoy! Better, by far the @ible, howuver stralued by the idea of a_vorbal inuplration, than tim Chirch with tbis Dible kept from the peopls, and lefs mold~ ering on the monastery slielves| Detter by far tho trowendons spiritual realities of & heaven and holt with which no priest would meddte, than tho washod-out torrorism of » “pargatory from which men could be brought out by indui- gonces! You; I fully admit that the Chbristisnity roachod by the Reformation wana great (mproye- mont upon what had gono before ; and, espe- clally, an it was lutoruretod by the great ro- his arm in the mure, but found no furthor traces of tho unfortunate nnoa. A polo 12 or 16 fet loug was now obtalued and mont down ity fuil length, bul neither could anything be felt mor tuo bottem toucheil. Another rad, longor than the flret, was then fastened to it, and the game examination made with a liko result, Auy further attempt to resover tho doad Lodios was thorofore doeined usoloss, It was accordingly docided to deeist ; and the party, which had by this ume fucreasad to thirty-fivo or forty rh sy, all eet out for thelr respoctive homen, juss s tho pall of uight bogan to wrap tho sarth in darkness. Al this juncturothie state of Br. J.'s wmind, who liad Lo bo oarrivd away bl' forco, oan botter Dbe imagived than described. [fis agonizing cries and groaus woro pltoous, indeed, and most pain. ful to hear. I'hls gusgmire bad been known to all the occu- anls of the farn from its earlicss wostlomant, ut navor till thon was any coucoption formed of its immensa depth, F'ufl thisly foet of it bnd boen mounded, yet ita lowast part, it any it bas, 18 4till to bo ascsitained. Tho mean diametor of the pit proper, for some 15 foct down, is about 33¢ foot. e DUBUQUE EXCURSIONISTS. Byecial Dispatch to T'hs Chicagn Tribiune, Dusugue, s, Juue 13,—An oxcursion party, cowposad of soveral of our mout prominent clth- zous with tholr wives aud daughtory, beaded Ly Trealdent J, K, Graves, of the River Railroads, leavo for Falrbault, Miun,, at 4:30 to-morrow moruing, (o remaly sbseut about & week, The arty travel by apo o ls formors 1n their deadly varucsiness, it was s wighty improvemout, but it was ouly m stage on the way to truth, oud 16 was & f‘"" thing for tho olurches to have goue on iving upon ever siuco. And my polut is that tho time Lms come when the churches cannot liva on it any longor. It a20ms to ma thet there I8 a gonoral drifting away from it. Thero i not a singlo point in it that Is Leid as it usad to ba hold. Even whero tho old phirasos are still used, men put uow moaniugs of thelr own into thom, Evyou whoro the old doctrines are atill professod- 1y rotained, men do not like them very much jo= nistod upon, Thoy still keep up boere sud there tho plrussd about * the Trinlsy,"—Fathor, Son, sud Holy Ghost,—vach God,—and yet not threq Gody, but ouly ono ; but if you go aud tston ta tuo proscbing and praying almoss everywhers, it is juut Qod as the leavenly Father whom thn’y r;allvmnddxcus, and bold up bofore men's thoughta, ‘Lhoy still talkk abont man's ruined nature, ‘¢ thio fall of wan,” etc., but thoy do not believe It a8 thoy used to do. Thoy soiten it down a0 a general dwolling upon mau's aciaal siofuine which is all truo enoughybut thoy uey very little about Lis boing incapablv of apythiog but s ‘I'wenty yoars sgo L heard a guod broihor pray, * Savo us, Lord, vave us; we can's do saythiog to sava ourselves, and we won's try 1" Lut my orthodox friends whom I maked about that didut Jike it even then, and naw all tho strougoat, maniloat pieachers of the day preach trylg, trviug, alost a4 much as we ultasiaun do!. l‘ae{ still talk fo o gonoral way, sbout heaven and bell, but they do not preach’ Loll os the fathiors usod to do; the congregations would not stand Is, Wby, even in Eu, clergyman says fairly and squarely, even the most notorious singer, that he iy wona to hell, and refusea 10 5oad the burlal-sezvice wards of