Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 9, 1875, Page 2

TIE CITICAGO TRIBUN b Bat thero Is one marked and charactoristic dif- ference hetween their reapective thouphta, 88 they look nipon death, Hoth cling to hife, both recoll from the awfnl sbadow thal sits at tho yortal of the giave. Bt the Jow clings to lifo becaneo e can here knew, and lave, aud praire God ; he hates death, bacauro {hero ha Ia cut off fram' God, forgotten of tLshand. Tho lroek clinga 2o lifo bocauso it Is 1ifa. hocanso tho ann 18 braght, aud thoro is much animal and renaiblo enfoymont; he haten doath, bacauns with death all s oarllily pleasures are extingnished, Tho thonght of God is fax from him, tho thonght of tho world only i8 in his hoart.” But, aa for tho Jow, *atthough the next world ia itsolf shroud- ed 1 darknoss, sud aliliough thicre i8 no positive 1ovelntion concerning futuro happinesa for tho goud and futuro misery for tho wickod, vot foith, ever and snon, asrorts her right aa the evidenco of things not econ, tha confldent ns- suranco of things hoped for. 'The hopo of tha nghtoona is not altogether hidden from their eyen, hke tho doom of the wicked. Nol whatever doubt and darkpesa might reat upon the mave; bowever, at timen, tho Jowish bo- liever mighit suriok {o vaguo terror from death and the aucortaintien boyond death, yet ho who could say ‘O God, Thou srt my God,” had tho wilneed within himeelf that neithor death nor ol conld pluck him out of tho band of God.” Yo, a dutare life isoverywhera in tho O1d Teata ment to him who can look bono ath tho surface. 1t lurka in overy word whict expresecs n sonse of porsonal rolation to God. 1t breathes in ov- ers prager of faith, It s tho lifo of ovary hyma in"which tho sonl lifts iteolf on winga of light and love to the Throne of the Eternal. We seo rearon, thon, to corroct our firet improssion. Iie- fore you canexpungo (his doctrine from the pages of Old Testamont Revelation you must deny tho reality of avery sspiration after truth, and holiness, nnd parity, You must nseert that God is the God of tho doad, not of the liviug ; in a word, you must assort the empire of umvir- sl death,—for all who live, live nnto Iim. Wo may in part account for tho lack of powilive Atatement in tho O1d Testament on this unpar- tant doctrine by recollocting the mothod by which tho Jew reachad bis concinuions. A8 al- ready indicatod, it was not by force of reasoning be persusded himeelf. Itis was not the loge of the rehoolg, but the grauder_logie of tho heart ; it wan o thonght which wns feli out, rather than romnoned out, Henco wo find the great truth implicd rather than pxpressod, Our Master him- nolf givos us the clow by which to disccver tho Intent foree of Old Tertament doctrine, when, in in argument with the 8adducees 1ia appeals,not to any of tho particular texts which wo lavo al- ready quoted as baving direct beariug upon this themo, but to tho genoral principle which under- Jiew n ptatement apparently of no relative furen, God, Ho dcclnrcn‘ s the God of the living. 1f1lo Lo tho Patriarchs’ Qod, then the Patrinechs hiva. Wo dinmiss our surprise with respect to the Divine silenoe in tho Old Testamcut by the fur- ther thought that God is in no Lissto wuh Jlis tewchings., Other doctrines bestdea shis of im- wortality have sppeared in gradual roselations and in siiccesivo developments,—for example, thie method of the Divino oxistenca and tho doc- trine of the Trinity,~and wo vaonturo tho nsser- tion that, while womay consider the sum of Tievelation to be comploto, thero oro yot gorm thongbts in this word which Lavo not {uily Ulos- rvmad ; thero aro yot doctrines which are, in- doed, fnlly snd potontially prosont in tho Seiip- tua, tut which the Church in ecoming ages is to wnderatand, and to sxpross much moro cloarly than sho js abln Lo express or to undorstand tham at the preseut day, and among them mny bo this very doctrine of tho immortality of the suul! But a finn) thought as to the ul)unrnnl. ig= noiunce of Iuraol fnthis matter may Lolp us,—aud tht concerns thoir taissiou asa poople. This was plv to prepare the way for the setting up of 1o Kingdom of God npon the carth. Ileaven sud s futunty boyond deatl had no immodiato connection with their #pecin) destiny, which way work in time and for timo. Honce thero was no Jositivo rovelation coucerning imwortality, God given all that is noodod of knowledgo or strength 1o His people, but only that. 7o s uot alwaye Iyrodianl of Hin gifta; theso Ho imparts accord- ug to human necessities, and particularly sc- cording to human appreciation of the sawe, But let ua now turn to the light of the Gospol, Wa comoe to the Christian Chureh, whoue doetiny cmbraces both Hoaven snd earth. Wo may, er- Ba, expoct a corrosponding enlargement in the ivine Ravelation, Lifo and incurruption witl hiero bo brought to light, Is it s0# Wo bave left ourseives too brief a mowont to state tho glorious truths to which wo have Loro ap- proached. Wo mnat content ourselves with tearcoly moro than asunplo exposition of tho declaration of the toxt, What Curist bas brought to Light in the Gosyel, wo Luve seen was Lot al- togother unknown to the sunts of old, but bero it may be discerncd moro clearls. Life, eternal hite, endloss joy, and divinity ot existence, Legun on oaith in all thoko who Liave tho Son ; consum- mited fu the endiess experience of eternity in those who go out from tho pres- euce of God sud the TLamb forovermore, but vervo Lhim day and night in Mis boly temple. * Incorruption,"— anew destiny mado kuown for tbis corruptiblo body. No longer must wo do- enise it; it is the templo of tho Holy Ghout.” No longer mast. wo despiwo it; it shall rise narnin, & glorivus bady,—not a tabornaclo, o feail tent, but n honse oternal in tho Leaveos, which shall bo the endutiug hebitation of tho immortal spint. Man o bis entirety, body nd soul, ro- doumed by Jesus Christ, “sball” bacomo the blossod possossor of a perfect fmmortality, * Jucauso I live, yo sbiall live also whero Iam.” Tha proof of thisis not only tho word of Him who caunot lio, it is also tho bistorical fact of tho resurrcction of Jesus Cbrist, Man, 1o the poreon of Christ, has rison; we therofore koow itisnot an impoeeibility that man ehould rise, Hero ia tho second Adam,—pot the living sonl, but the quickeving epirit, tho victor ovor deatls. Dut more than this: Ho is our bend; with Him ars L peoplo, as mombers of His body, toraver united. **Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood,"—whoso in full faith accepts me,— “hath oternal life, and I will raiso bim up at the last day.,” Thus are lifo aud incorruption Dranght to Jight in the Goapel. Thin, then, s the destiny mado kaown to man in thia rovelation of God, declared whepsvor tho highit of the glorious Gospel o Jesun Chirist has thined. What addod dignity and sacroduess aro nttached to human naturo by tho kunowledae of these two facts, nowhero clearly revealed ex- cept through our Divino Savior. Theso two fucts that man, in his spintual nature, may, even Lera on oarth, dwoll in God, and God in him— may hicre become partaker of tho Divino naturo; may here have etornal llfo, the lifo that is lives In eternity—and a8 to Lis physical existenco is ponsesssd of a bodily organization overlastingly, thougl not unchiangably, joined to his conscions soal. That the whole man 18 the object of tho Divinn love and rodemptive grace ; thut Lls pron- out, s two-fald being, tho muterial and the 1« material in union, i tis normal condition, a cundition which death may, in somo measuro, luterrupt, but which the resurraction witl causy to bo rosunied after 8 modilied manuer, indecd, and oue mury glerious to the redecwed of tho Tord, yet in & manoer of which the presont method of existence will provo a porfect typo. T'riends, havo thesa facts no wora than a apoc~ ulative intorest to us who are called to pass through this earthly expericnce ? 1a it nothiug tu us to know tho uature of oar being and our destlny? Truly, we thivk they may teach us to live moro soberly and righteously in the midat of this wicked generation, thau wonld they who should bo ignoraut of such trmth, Sball we not learn to usonore carefally and religiously that body whicn is the germ, at loast, of an immortal body. Ior the sako of the importance which God bimeclf bhsa attached theroto, shall we not seak Lo use its momboers as fustruments of rightoousness unto God? And #ball auy of us chooso to rojoct the comnanlen- tions of that grace by which we mmy be born Aguin 10 our spiritual bamgf ? Bhall wo, whosa pussiblo destiny {8 union in joy and sympathy with the Eternal Fathor, choose to s0 assimilate ourselves to that which ho hates, that we must inavitably be rejected from i annnm? ‘Wero we like the boasts that perish, then, per- hinps, we mu{‘m bo permitted to eay, '* Let us eat aud driuk, for to-morrow wo dio "y but it wo are to stand before the judement-scat of Christ, to give an account of tho deeds done in tho body; if etoralty in to bo our bon it timo is our opportunily in whichta_glorify our God and blees our fellow-men, thon lot as, {n n- tense earnestuers, with humulity in view of the pust, with faith in the saving power of the Son of God, in bstrod of all evil, fullll each us xafusion, Ciod will rendor to overy mau accord- ing to his deeds. * Lo bun who, by patient con- tinusace in well-doing, kecks for glory, howor, sud incorruption, etorual life,” Tlus is thy dos- tiny, Boe thou fail not! God help tueo, ANDREW JOHNSON. PBERMON DY TUE BEV. Dil. ¥ALLOWS, The Rev. Dr. Fallows, pastor of Ht. Paul's Toformed Episcopal Church, yesterday svening preached & momorisl sermon of ex-Prosieent Jolinson, choosing for his text: 1f the ron be blunt, and he Qo not whet the edge, then must be put to more strougth: but wisdow 1 Jeutitable to disect.—Eecienastics, 5., 10, After explaining the oxact meaniug of the ext, he coutinued s follows ¢ 1t was my privilege, s few yoars ago, to ad. dress sn sudicnco of students st oue of the largest colleges in the West. A gentloman pro- oceded mo the evenlug befora with an eloquen: uod claborats locture, in which he argued thas from virulent calumny, muet novor enter polities, Who, ho enid, that cared angthing fir his ropntation, would ever be silling to bocordy Presfdont of the United Btates, and run thy foarful gauntlot that awaited him. The solomn, deliberato, nrgont ndvice ho gave them' was never to touch polities. I could not concelve of advico mora erroneous and pernicious, and thoroforo etranuously main. tained that the Important duty of entering po- litleal lifo, or of actively ongaging in politieal mattora, devolved upon tho very best man the Stato conld produco,—a dnty from which they could not ho absolved by any consideration of moro persounl easo or regard for mere pereonal roputation. 1 contendad that tho true iiles was to lead a lifo of purity, honoaty, and integrity in private, 80 that no chargo of & want of those conld bo mado whou that Lfo camo tc bo ecannod and oxposed to publie view; then, enter upon the dutles of whatever offize thoy might rocolive nt tho hands of the peoplo io tho continunl exerciso of theso fundamontal virtues, I clalmed that the services rondetod the public by ench men would bo appreciated, sooner or Iatler, to thelr full extent, and tho verdict would lo passed by that publie, * Woll to aco Johnton elovated to oflico in thn Btate of Tennernro or in'tho nation an fu would be to tho Iatter to rco Dradlaugl Jiftod to tho Dritikh Theone, To ~ dwell agnin and again upon lis hmmblo origin, and (from tho standpoint of lua nppuxmn!? hig moe nial booupation, waa to givo thio standard io the hreoze, aronnl which every batile muat gather, and throngh which every victory masdt bo won. He could not let that flag trail 1 tho dust, Ho naver would lot it droop, - He wan met by bittor- ¢at georn and upmensured contempt, Peut-n fury and overtlowing fury he encountero |, Taunts and 'm"im' sarcagms concoining his low-breeding and illiterate character wero mav- agely hurled at him, ftut ho gave ** measure for mossaro.” Thay nover could overtop lum. Holad the answer that biul Lord Thurlow, whom, in many rempects, ho greatly resembled, miado to the Duke of Grafton, when the latter, who was s descendant of ono of tho mis- troseen of Charles 1L, taunted Thurlow in tho Houso of Lords with being of ignable birth, Mo rang outin reply: * My Lords, I can say and I will kny, that ana Peer of Parlisment, as Bpeaker of ths Ilight 1lonorabls Iouse, as Keeper of the Groat Seal, as Lord High Ohan- cellor of England, nay, even 1n that chrracter alone, fn which the nobls Buke wonld think itan affront to be considered, but winel cliavacter none enn deny mo—as 8 toan, I am at this tino as nuich respected as the proudest Peer I now look down uoon on,”” Fixtug his done, good and faithful eorvant." 1 am etrong In this faivh yet. Aa a Christian minister, belioving that tho saints are to rule tho earth—saints, who aro Christ 8 men, ns well as etatesmon, who, while prosirato bee foro God in humility nand prayer, yet stand beforo mon In the unbenaing ercctness of o manly, uniaroished righteousncss, which makes all meanuoss, and trickery, and dishon- enty crouch before It and skulk from its pres- enco; I say, bolioving tbat such eafota are to milo tho enrth, Iam urgent that they should begin to enter upon their heritago of power, and inaugutate s millonnivm whose consnmma- tion and coronation shall be, *'The kingdoms of this world havo becomo tho kingdoms of our Lord and of hia Christ.” Dut I do not conceal tho fact that he who tronds tho patbway of politica wmust tread s thorny path, eveu if roses lia in the way, Domorthencs in one of his fiery plulis pica, rald, “The lifo of private men s securo and freo from trouble nnd danger, whilo that of atatesmon is otposed to szandal and misfortune, full of trials and bardships evory dav,” Shakspeare echoes tho samo thonght: 0, hard conditlon, twin horn with greatnese, Subjncted to the breath of every funll At jufinite hearts’ easo must Kangs ueglect At privato men eujoy, T supposo no man altempts to deny tho stato mont which Mr. Johneon miedo at Nasbville, soon after his nomination a8 Vice-I'resident, that **lio had not sought the position aseigned bim by the National Convention, Nots mun al tho fand can truthfully eay that T have asked him to uso lis inflnonce in my behalt in that body, for tho position nesignod mo or for any | otber. On the contrary, I havo avoided the candidacy. But, whilo I have not nought it, atill being conferred upon mo uneought, Lappreciate it the moto highly. _ Being conferred upon me witliout roticitation I ehall oot declino it. Come weal or woo, success or deteat, wink or nwim, survive or perisl, I sceept the mnomination on principlo, be tho ronécquences whnt they nay," The essontial trathfulvess, hovesty, and biuro- fem of the man g'cam and glow in thewe words, Thoy ara worthy of being * written with n pen of iron grawm and tad in inty rock;" wotlhy of Demg writton in lottors of guld on imperishablo tablets and hung in evory schoot-room, and can- cus-room, aud council-room, and conrt-rvom. and legislative ball in thoe Jand. Age, sud in tho White IToute too, Mr. Lincotn aud Mr, Jolinson woro bora in the Soutb, the one in Kentucky, tho other 1 Ten- neeseo. Dota sprang from the lolns of the com- monest of the common people. Bath were men of himited education in tha technical goase of the terin. No diploma of school, academy, or collego did either have. A yoar's istruction of tho rudest knd, from 8 tu 20. comprised tho schiooling of Lincoln. Jobneon bad learned to road bofore marrisge, but his wifo bad to teach him to srito and uiphur. In their mental make up thero was much eimi- larity, Both had o clear, vivid | buve been too timid, conception of the truth to bo seen or the end 10 bu attainad, and both alwed to realizo it, with the dircctness of a bullot #out wtrnizht to the mark. Both had & fine and finent command of racy, idiomatic Eoglish, Lincoln, howover, ex- celling Johusou in felicity aud tinish o expros- sion, Doth werp awkward 1n their mannors, couscionsly not porfoetly at homo tn tho parlors or the receptions of the Whita Honse, botraying the effects of the influences aud surroundings of their ehildbood and youth. Lincolo was proverblally fond of etaries, somo of which occaslonally bordersd on tho profane and touched the gross. Johuson was givon to energotle language, not alway fit for oars polite. "Ik firut, howover, possorsed au funate delicacy and refinoment which tho othor cotd ot claim. The battics the Iatter hnd to fight ngainst pove crty, against social position, againat political enomles, seemed to have acarifled proatly tho finer foelings of his nature. And yet, though coatser-grained than Lincoln, though bearing tho cotor nand tlavor of & society genorations bahind the civilization in which™ Lincalu's maturer yeats were sjont, it 18 the testimony of thoso who knew both meu woll, that impuiity was as far removed from onu ad the other ; that tho lovo of n good story with a point to it which loft tho ono on debatable, it not on dangerous, gronud, and thelove of strony Ianguage which marred tha apeech of othor,must be ranked as foibies and not os vicea, story and language being tho play of the tomperament upon the surface of the being, nod not the up- whootini of tho temper or iarost chnractor. DBut whethor regarded s foiblea or vices, tho exceamve loogth to which Mr. Lincola somce times went wo caunot belp condemning, and for profanity, howover thougbtless, habituul, or sporadie, no pulpit or teacher of morals, whothor Orthodox or Hetorodos, in sermon or lect1re, ought ta apolagize, whether uttored by s Wash- ington or a Jackson, With many of our public mon who have not the plea that the friends of tho ex-I'resdent mako for him, profanity is a glaring fanle. Ity ungentlomanly aod unnecossary, 'Tho command- ment agaivst it has pot beoo ropoaled. ** 'The Lord will not hold tin guiltless,” whaover ho may be, *that takoth His vomo fu vain,” In many respects tho two wmen were dissimilar, ‘Tho cne bad the prudent courago, which not only would not court dangers, but avolds them, even &t the sacrifica of personat feoling, for the pub- o good; the other would nover avold a dsnger under any publio or privato prossuro, Androw Johuson would never hava gono in disguise to \Washington to be inaugerated President, ot 1f & woeping, imploring nution biad goue down on its knocs bofore him todoso. 1le wonld hiave sum- moned an oxtempora guard, losded thom with weapons of ofouse, armod himsell to tho teolh, put limwelf At their Lead, and dared all the wmoba and organized bands of assasxins in tho country to do their worst, It would seem in his case as if the ancient fable wero true, that all tho spint aud strength of tho onemics alain in battls passed into the heart aud hand of the alayer, Tho atrength of the political foes slain by s tight Land appeared to tucreaso his own. " Do- fout was victory, ‘To bo down was to ba ap. 1o did not approach secossion with a kid-coy- ered haud, nor with the button-hole touch of a rupersuuuatod removstrauce; Lut with the oints rimmed with iron bo struck it ss tho rawny Eutellus fu Virgll buried the cestus full iu the forebead of the ox befors him, and laid it yuivering at the altar's front, 1le thought it a Fruz weaknoss that he nover scomed williug to lot the world futget that he wes s tailor. No Talbots, Bedfords, Howards, or Dovonshires of the OW World were prouder of thelr coat of arinw, or their family escatcheous, than ha was of ueedlo and thread and tailor's goose. Aud o bad thoright to bo. We at tho North id not tully comprehond the significance of the fact, and of his ulugiuu in the fact, ‘I'ho main issuo petwcon the North and Bouth n the une bappy coutest that divided them was uot elavory, for siayery ftsolf was an effect of & causo, aud not tho ‘cause itself, oxcept in tho senko of a proximato csuse. 1t was a contest of ocivilization, it was & warfaro Lotweun a talso un-American arlstocracy aud she true Democracy of the American people, 1t was a etrugile be- tween tho lords of land and monuy aud the the laboring ciassos of the uatlon, Aristoeratic England grasped the idea moro cloarly and forcibly than mavy of our awa lesders of {{wnh. ern thought, Engllshmen, in whoso veiuy flowed the thin, bluo blood of the pivk of no- bility, in uubroken curnuel from the Con- «quest, who Javished their sympuily upou the r!uuthnm cause, did not sauction the sin of slsvery. Boma of their immudiate ancestors had played & noble and u mowmoruble part in wiriking off tho shackles from the limby of 400,000 British elaves, wud bal help wwoell the chorus of general kratalation that no slave could live on Brtish soth. Nay, theve very sympathizers would bhave keenly reveuted it as an 1mputation upon their Englisk sud Obristian honor, if they had boen charged with being the siders_and sbettors of + this wum of all villauiea. But tbey pympa. thized, ss su aristocratio class, with our aristo- young mea of iutelligence, spirit, and enter-/) cratic class, It way au sbocking b0 mfl-mn. £xise, i thoy valusd poace of imnjud sod freedom | tios and aa humiliabing to the nride’al dhe laiar burning raze upen thy urturoed faces of his mristocratic npponents, Andrew Johnson conld 58y, ** As tailor, village Alderman, Mayor, Glove oruor, Sanator, Vice-'residont, and Prosident,— as & man, I am as much respocted as tho proud est-born person I now 1ook down upon,"” In his epeech at Naahville, Juve 16, 1861, ho eald: * Thisn aristocracy has boen the bano of tho Siave Btates, Nor ains the North beon wholly fros from its enrwo. [t ia a clasa which I havo always forced to ro- spoct me, for 1 hiavo evor eet it at dotinnre, Tho thupoct of tho hovest, intellizont, and industri- ous clnns I have endeavored to win by my con- dngt as s man, Octeof tho chiof clemonte of :his rebeilion 1 the opponition of the slave aris- tooracy to boruled by men who bave arisen from ihe ranks of tho peoplo. This nristocracy hated Mr. Lincoln bocause he was of hunble onigin—a sail-splitter in early life, One of them, the private secrotary of Yoweil Cobb, enid to me one dav, ator a long conversation, **We peovle of tho Sonth will hot submit to bo governed by 8 man who has come up from the ranks of tho common peonle as Abo Lincoln hes.” Ea uttored the epsontial feelng aud splrit of this Bouthern Hobellion. Now it has just occurred to me, 1f this atistocracy is ro violantly opposod to being roverned by Mr. Lincoln, what in the name of tonncienca will 1t do with Linculn and Johuson ? 1 profoundly beliovo that God i8 in History,— 1 its minutest evonta aud in 1ts mixhticst deeds. There was a Providence in bringing theso two men together,—tnen of tho peonle, men from Stave Htates, eelf-educated, self-roliant men, mon of sterling integnity,—to direct tho affuirs of this vast Republio in the moat ctitieal period of ita hfe. Itrevea'ed tho fact that mon could govern without the adventitious advantages of noble birth and the poliak of the schools, and is n standing rebuko to that fear that hesitales et to rav, ‘Tho poople can govorn themaelves. ho gravito firmness Lo possossed, combined with bis unthnehing Loroim, mado him mastor | of the eituation in denliag with the rebellious portion of bl own State. o wieldod the forcos of that conchition of moclety ont of which ho aprang with most tromondous energy, and by an imperial audacity of a will which ho bhad never learned to rextrain, kept the surging elements under control, He was the mau for the pluce, Had ho possesred mora relluement, ha might Hed be posscased moro Jearuing ho might havo Leou Loo covmervaliva, Une great fault was the too freo uso of thore powers of invectivo with which ho waa _spocially endowod, aud which had beon oultivated through hiy wholo political ltfe. Sut it 18 a fanls bolong- ing tn naarly thio whole of our politieal press. The strongest and most unsavory adjectivos aro aved in inveighing against the mero opinioue or views of opponents, A personal, rancorous elo- ment is miniled in the discussion of purelv po- htical questions. Langusge which should be em- 'unyud only when somo Rrest morsl Wroog a8 boen committed 1 employed on the most trivial occanions. Tho puvlic become uscd to this indiseriminate word-slashing, sad oxpoct that any man, no mattor how good Lo may bo, if ho tills any place of jmportanceln popular os- timation, must bo, metaphoniesily, cat uo, Many & publio sinner gets up a reputation for martyr- dom whon he Las received his just desorts at the bands of tho press, becuuse B0 mauny ublic sainis have been unjustly treated. Wo neod a stricl economy of inveciive, and thus provont tlus noble and needod art from degenerating iuto s moro “ dauce of words." ‘I'no religions preps js not & whit bohind tho secular -press 10 its profuse prodigality of ex- pression. 1t editora and correspondents nesd to learn by hoart, and lumllcu what they loarn, $t. Jamow’ declaration, 1f auy man awmong vou seonueth to be religious, and bridloth not hig tonguo, that man's religion is vain." Teay it 1/l seriousnoss, o revival of religion among thoso unportaut leaders of roligious opinion i ona of thio ereat neods of the Cuureh, Thote iy & time when indignaot, pasaionnte in- woctive s needed, and that1s in tho uuveiling of palitical dishonesty aud tho disclosure of moral turpntude, Let every publio ollicor understand that bo is on trinl, that bo i watched by Argun eyes, Lot iim know that bo will Le promptiy bold up to the scorn and contomypit of men, if ho willfully violate his wolemn trust, ‘Tho best of men 10 ofticial Life ueed to know this. Tho poot wrote ¢ It in tho most difiicult of tankn to keep Uoiglita whivh tho aoul Is compoteut 1o gsin, It scoms as though it was tho mont diffcult of taska for public mon to keop tho hoights which tho morality of private 1ifo requirea thom to tread. Let invective bo aparingly employed, Florco and tlory weio tho sontences writtou againat Mr. Johnsun when he arrayed himuself ngamst Con- grens aud tho majority of the natiou. Ile was Lo ve consiznea to * everlasting infamy.” He way & *‘traitor of tho deepedt dve.” The hasly words cannot bo recalled. But tho hand of frioudship was strotched out to him fu his eubsequent lite b{ mon wha wroto Lho sentences of 1l And cordial words have fullen from lips which wouid have pro- nounced a traitor's doom, Wo cannot 0o cores fully weigh our language in speaking of vthers, Montal defocts muat nover bo oxsggorated fnto moral delinquencios, Mr, Juhnson had a supromo welf-confldenco, Sthat iron atiiog to which all Loarts vibrato,” Only those who fully vibrated in unison with that ever-wounding string did ho wish to keep about him, Ilenco his falluro as o atatesman of tho highest order. No mun who is molding the po'itizal thongnts of tins gencration, and tho next, and tho noxt Leyoud tbat, will refuso to Jistou to the potent volce of I'ublic Opinion. Ho will not histeu to its voico a8 that of an Omnl[m- tent power. Dut ho will hoed it and wield tho power for his conntry's good, 1t was Mr, Joln- son's misfortune to cousider political truth to bo Iu a wtraight line, but It was io tho Identical line i which ho was wnlklnf. Ho wonld not listen to advice uutil ho bad firat givon the advice Lo wished to hear. All tho counsels, therefore, which he received were tho result of eolfe soliloquies. ' His self-assortion way surpassngly sullime, but oftentimes thers was buta ston from the sublimo to the ridiculous. Ho main- tnined his firraness at tho oxponso of Ly politi- zal conslatetiey, * Ile had vot tho wide knowledge of mon and oveuts, nor tho patience and insight necessary $o make him a distiuguished leader. He could ontrol meu In a limited ares of iutluenco 7 y . tho overpoweriug furco of his tndlncmlmnd. wassive montality, e ad not the eubtlo magnetimn of ‘character which reaches menat ths remotont clcumstan- tes, As the Londou T'inies savs, he i sn expo- uent ** of theatroug and wonk points of the Amor- jeau social and political systome.” 3lacaulsy illugtrates what tho Times lueans by our weak oints, 1o wrato in 1857 lo Henry r(nndnll. of New York: *“I have long beon sonvinced thab nstitutions purely demooratio ust sooner or Iater destroy liberty, or civiliza- tiou, or both, The day will come whon, In tho Btata of Now York, a multitudo of peopls, uona of whom had moro thau Lelf & weal for breaks fast or expocty to huve more than balf a dinuer, will choosa a Legislature, Is it possivle to doubt what sort of a Logisiature will be choson ? Your Countitution iy all sail aud no anchor,” ‘Ihe wpeaker thou cited thly quotation from Macaulsy iu explanation of tho idea that tho only tlang wrony with Amarican politica fu tho eyoy of |go Euglish was tho fact that the Qov- ernmant was run by an indiscriminate borde of uneducatod people, and that the onlv ameliors- tion of this evil was found in the public schouls, which wore everywhore cousidered the Yll“““um of American rights and fibertios, ettor, iofioitely better, tho buriv, blufl hf- worda sud pungent interjectiona with whict hia convurkation was often interlarded and which we o much doprecato and doplore, thau the sanctimonious caut of crafty Beualors who, lo tha deop diegrace o the Christian nawe, ** steal Ing the livery of iieaven to sorve tho Dovil v, addiessed Buuday-schools, sud Liblo mestings, and cburel meotingy, and yot wish unulusbing effroutery bought their way to placo and powers We uesd tho mouutsiu brouze of bus Louesly, liko that of tho uplaud ranges of bis van Teunousce Lowmo, to sweop through the foul foud wulr with which tho lowlauds of our politics i¢ rank aud heavy. Wao uecd It incarnated to misaand dilve out with V with commanding biv of cords or & whin of acorplons the mouny ehinngers from tho Al ning tompio of our liliertine, wha have mads ol _this 1louse of (3ol & don of thiaven, Mr. Lincoln sdmuable summed up tho Amer- fean syarom as a Governmont of tha peoply, by the poaple, for the paaple, and no man main- tainea and defanded that truth moro vigorousty aud ruccessfully than Androw Johnson. Lot us omulats s manly virtues, And mav God grant that this Ameriean peoplo shall be & peopla loving rightoousiiess, & peopls -whoso Uod {8 the Lurd. —_— MIRACLES, BERMON BY TOR REV. FLORENCE M'CARTHY. Tho Hov, Florenco MeCarthy preached a ser- mon last evening at tho Amity Church on * Mirscles.” Lie took nahis text the followlug words : § Ahd tho feigna shall follaw them {hat bellovo: in my name shall they cant ont devils: fhey shiali apesk Ll Bw onguet; thiey Mhiall take \ip erpenta : and {0 they drink any deadly ibing 1t shail not harm them; they sb il iny bands on thesick, and thoy shall recaror: —Mar. , xvi. 17, 18, One of the foatnros of tho presant agois s contompt for the Christian mirncles. The Dnko of Argyle's book on **Tho Reign of Law"Is a faithful and accurato sxponont of the latest thiuking. Tho world of iutolleck bas fallon desperately in lovo with gravitation, coheslon, nnd eapiilary attraction, with the composi- tion and rceolution of forces, with tho correlation sud couvsorvation of forces; with light, bieat, and cloctifelty, What cannot be acconnted for by those facts nud laws I8 uow almost univorsally rojected as in- credible aud absurd, at least, in religlon. Lvery- thing must bo dono up in philososhical red tapo, or fitted to the Procrustonn bed of natural plnloa- ophy. Not only tho history, bt even tha doce trines of Christianity, aro tried by tho standard of natural law, Notounly Is the resurrection of Chriut dorided as impansible, but the divine ro- roneration of the human soul, and tho divine atonement for buman sln,arc now disearded by n rationalistio age, which substitutes for them such chianges of character as Aro consisient with the ordinary and recoguized Inwa of mind. With this tondonoy of things I bave littte or no symi- pathy ; and I eball mako somo retarks on thia general subject which, I hope, will lcssen Ita power over tho winds of those who hear wmo also, And in discussing miracles tha vory first thing to ba obsersod is that wo aro very poorly quali- flod to idontify a miracle. Wo langh at tho poor savago who rogarda mu eclipso of thopunasa mitacle, and folicitato ouraelves on tho progress of scionce which Iins resolved that pheuomonon into an ordinary and natural event. And tho losson drawn from this barbarous ignoranco is, in many minds, that all roported miracles aro {llusions, But the argument is two-odged, and cuta 88 much ono way as auothior. [f on the ono band it warne us that many apparent suraclos may bo brought down to tho lovel of nalural Inwa, it suggests just as forcibly, in the other dircction, that natural laws may, for all wo know, riso to tho level of wlat aro now called mirncles. For o mirnclo, bo it romemberod, ia n varinblo qnantity. Any phonomenon is A miracloto us which could not have hoen prodaced by the laws of Naturo as wo understand them, Dut our knowledzo of the laws of Nature in constantly advancing, snd the puroly natural is every day pushing ite boundaries farther and fatthior into tho region of tho supernatural. We lsugh at tho savago who wns alarmed by an echpro, but it mav be that wo in turn may becomo objects of derision to a future age for our incredulity con- cotming mitncles, Not long ago mind-roadimg and pecond-sight vero universally regarded oy sithor chierical or mirdculous. But we are nt last cornering pschychical facta so closely that wo nlready bogin to fesl that we can class thesa wonders with the tolcecope and tho telegraph. Within another cehtury tho maddening mystery of Spiritualism will no longer astonish as, but will be relegated, with chomiatry and music, to the school-clullron, 'To my mind it is apparent that, {n this view of tho caso. therg mover hes beou a miracle and nover will be, ‘I'lis lnws of Nature, which means nothing less than * tha law of the Tord, is por- ‘feet," Thero ia nothing that tho Almicuty evor wishes to do that 1o cunld not do without ovor- riding Ilis own lawa, If n miraclo bo some- thing done in contowmpt of the laws of Nalure, thew, in my judmmnent, Christ never performed ono, and nono a1c chronicled i the Bible. Ido not believo that the Redeemer wrought a mira- clo when Ho turned thn water into swiue, or wallkad upon the sey, any moro than we do whon wo maka a loaf of broad or drive o naid, Thnt fu to say, tho laws of Nature were no moro violated in His most stupendous miraclo thau thoy ars in the most ordinary oceurroncos of our tiven, IHis works appear to us miraoulons of cotirse, but it ia bocauso we asre as ignorant of tho lnws undger which they woie porformod s a eavago is of thotelegraph. Bul o Ravago way be mado to comprobend the tolegraph, nnd we aluo may yet bo able to_compreuand tho laws of mind aud matter according to which Josus opened tho eyos of Lartlmaus and raised Lazarus, Indeed, with tho Bible 1o our bands and with a Clristian expeoriciice, wo may be eaid o under- staud this, in s mossure, alrendy. Wo bave only to supposo that the moral laws of the uviverso aro as much abovo tho mental ns the mental aro abovo tho physical, and the ystory is solved. When a mau wosmorizes & buman subject, 80 that tho thoughts and will of the two persons sre identical, this is something iufluitely nighor and more woudertnl than :oml{mnllou or gravitation. Audif, when o soul s all atlawe with religious ardor, and is in full rapport with ita Malker, it can exert a power still mora wonder- ful, then miracles are clominuted from Lumusn thought, % Aud this i8 nnquestionably the true theory of wiracles, A man's miud possesses pawers in- finltely loftior than lus muscles, and his soul possosscs powera infinitely loftier than his miod ; and theso powers of bia soul are no more supernatural than those of his mudcles. 1t is not avery mind that is capable of mind-roading, nor overy soul perhajathat is capable of miracu- lous power. And both mind and soul must be caltivated bofors thoy evinco this powar, and both of them ovines 1t not uniformly but ea- priciously, Now, I contend that™ just n proportion to the strength of A man's religious mnature, he poracssea tho latent power of working what wmro called miraclos, Andif ous has the roquisite depth of reliplons unature, then -his actual power to work so-called miracles will be in proportion to bis actual piety, 1f thia Is 8o bacause a devout apirit invites tho Holy Hpirit, then tho theory ia botter still, for it accords wtrictlv with the Senp- tures, to which all miracles, oven those of Christ himeelf, sre attributed to the Holy Bpint, And thua religious people may bo compared to the houses of o groat clty, a faw of which are higher than the rest, aud wore exposed to the lightuing which slumbers in the bosom of every passing cloud ; while one perbaps has a spire which never fails to draw down tho thundorbolt. For my part, I finnly boliove that these laws apply to overy human soul that over lived, Jisug of Nazaroth towersd so far abovo all other wen that all power waa lven him in heaven and earth, ana ho was the Hou of God; and with hin 10 other human bolug can bo compared. Bus [ doubt not that he hoaled tho sick and raiscd tha doad on the eame priucipie that Aowos divided tho Ied Hea, and Ell]jlh ralsed tho Buuna- mite's child, and Vater healed the oripple. 1f it bo sald that Peter and Pani possessed miraculous power only through and from Chriat, it {s also trua that they learned or caught all their Lok« noss from him too, and that they did not receive their power through the medium of thoir hole noss who can sflirm ? . 1 muat, then, clasa myeelf among those who belloye that the toxt ia & veritable prowlse, and that if 1t is not in daily fulfillmens it {8 becanse of the corraption aud dogusucracy of the Cliris- tlan Oburch. Its wonderfal yromise Js not ne essartly applicable to to every nominal Ohristisn, uor even to every langud and half-hearted be- liever. 1t expreseos rather what is possible and tnable in the Christian {ife ‘than what (s uni- versal. It boldly asserts that the proper form of tho Christisu life is that mn which tho laws of wind and matter are sumetimes dominated and ovorridden by the laws of spirit. But it does not aflirm that this is necessarily tho attainment of every Cluistian, It was not” mo in the days of Chnit, and it never wiil be ro, _Lut that the promise of tho text has been virs tunlly fulfilled all bistory, from the day of Paul down to thio present time, attests. With regard to the first century, the Pauline epiattes ure am- Ple evidence of the plentifut existonce of mirac- ulous power in the pnmitive churchies. With thiose records ecolesiastical history makes con- nection, aud sseures us that for 800 yearn after Christ, tho gifs of hoaling and other charisms were quite cownmon smong Christlan belevery, It was only when Chnstiauity (ell into a corrupm tion from which it hias not yet recavero itufll. that theso phenomens almost entirely crased. Aud yot they have nover ceased altogether st any thine, Thero aro Chrisiland a plenty to-dsy who live in nirsculous jutercourse with suotlier world. They ezperiouco mimcles in devotion, and behiold miracles in providenco. Lot me give you oue or two Wiustrations of shls, oue of which roccurred o great while sgo, sud the otbor of which fell uuder wy own obwervation Fecoutly Alost of you are acquainted with she characier MONDAY AUGUST 9, 1875. of that colebrated Enelish proacher and philans throplust, Howland 101 Tt is related of him that bio ones had . romarkalio dtoam, fu which ho savr a Jowly but and ita lowly ocenpant praye ing for a moreel of food to wava him from star- vation. ‘Tho dream was so vivid and thrillly that he awoka. Tt on falliog anlaop, he hal tho rama dresm, and ho nwoko agam., A third timo lio foll aslcop, dreamed of tho samo sceno, and awoko In great perturbiation of mind. 'I'his though it sran mid-winter and s blinding #now- storm was jrovmling, ho nwakoned hin corch. man, had his earnage hitehed, got tojether & hampor of prov.~lonn, amd set ot for the relinf of the wuknosn peraon, without knawina whither hawont, The horaon worn atandoned to their own inclination, and after n long nnd disconrag- ing juntrnes brought the godly mau to the very bt of which hs hiad droamt. juat in tims to roxcue the aged, praying, yerlshing geenpant from starvation, Tako another instance : On yesterday a Iady about 0 years of age, who ohco did a largo and flourishing bumuocss on Wabssh sveuue, srd was roubed of all sho had, aud turned ou the world without a penny, and who in her agony of wmind tamed ta Goid, And Jind 8 most sstoninhing religions expericuce, eamo into my ofiico, as sho snnd, from & Divine lupulse, to relato hor atory. At that verv moment 1 wns doeply oxerciaed about this eermon, aud longiug for no illustra- tion, 1 cannot tell yon nll that ehie told mo; but #ie intormed mo, with the nost unsected humility, that ahe had boen ovor since tho sub- Jeot of mirnculons guidanco, and had been. rathor to her inconvonisuco than otheriwisn, en- dowed with tho power of liea'ing diseases, She srinhed advico s to hier duty in tho premiras, bt rhowed an evident inclination to concenl hiar AUt aud roturn to the busiacss in swluch slie was lornerly sugaged, And hera I can bat call attontion to tho ro- markable fact that, whilo tho cnomios of tho Christian religion anoovunco with eatiafaction that modorn education has driven niracies out of oxsstonco, the bohaef 1o mirscles, and tho oo- currenco of allegod wiracley, never woro 80 rifo as now, Mr, Lecicy has writton a book of sinei- Tar loarniug, giving the bistory of the decline and final oxtinetion of the lieaof the miraculous in tho buman wind. But he reminds ua of tho man, at the time of tha Mlood, who protested that it was not much of a rain, 1o bogius his volumen with an nccount of tha tise and fall of witclieralt, a3 thn vory chimax of superstition. But I havo weon three neeounts of thu oxistenco of witcheratt, in tho Chicago panors, within aa many montby, And itis o most eingular fact that” Mr. Lecky makes no montivn of mad- orn fpiritanlism, Tho truth s, the human ~ mind never was 0 oxercired abont the miraculous sinco the dayw of the Witch of Endor as it iu nt the prewont time. Thoro 18 bardly a newspaper published which does wot mako mentiun of somo Btranyge ovent which In inoxplicable acenrdimig to au; known natural laws; sud the phenomena calle Bpiritualism, tho reality of somo of which can- vot bo disputed, aro as plentiful as leaves, Iaxm woro and moro convineod tho lougor I live that the Founder of Christiamty nover de- signod that the mitaclos of lis own day should ba the :‘\mn’y from which all snbsequont gouor- stinns should digg the evidences of the trath of s seiigion; but that overy age, and ovory Chriatian, should have a mwiraculous experirnce confirmatory of nll that tho Gospels nairate, The life of Christ aimply reveslod to man the method of commnnicutiog with 1leaven, and drawiug down tho powers of tho henvenly world, Any human being who will 1ix his mind on Jesus, nnd Imitato bim, will, to n greater or lovs degron, share in his omnlpotence. No onn will ever closo- Iy approach Him, aud very fow could approach oven Hia Apostics in thewr miraculung powers, but no elmld of QGod m my bumble that ho may wot havo supernatural Chtistinn experiencen if ho bows himself to tho crosn of Josus, and stilves to imitato him, A short time ago tha navon was doeoply stirred by thio hopo thae Koely had discoveied somo now furee in mattor by which stenm was to be super- seded, and all our ludusiries earried on without price. That hopo has proved doelusivo. DBut there are possibilitios In every humnn soul com- pared with which Kaely's alloged motor is wosknees and simplicity. Tho groat Molor which propols the plaucts has a shaft running directly through the humblest Christinn heart. Thera is only needed tho akill to throw the Spiritual band ovor the whool in order to harnoss omul; otouco and tnako 1t subservicut to all the resl and bost intaresta of overy loviog boliover in the Lord Jesus Christ, " —_— ELSEWHERE, DEECHER'S BERMON, Twry Mountary Hoose, N. H., Aug. 8.—Tho firut of the Rov, Heury Ward Doecher's vacation sermona was delivored to o very lurge audienco. He detined morality and spirituslity, avowed bis baehef in the impoztanco of both, discussod their relative values, and declared the lattor a8 woll as tho fosmeor to bo indisponnable to salvation, A CORNLR-HTONE LAID. Spectal Disvaten o Phe Chrcaao Tribune, Fort Wavyg, Ind,, Aug, B.—To-duy, at New Haven, 6 milos east, tho corner-stono of tho new Cathollo Church boing aerccted ut a cost of 75,000, was laid with imposing ceromo nles by Bishiop Dwengor, of this Diocoss, nsmisted by number of priests. Bovoral thousand poop'o wero lu attondance. An excursion train contsin- ing ftteen loaded cars went from thid city, Portable s Beer Powdor?? Pull Mald Gazette, An evil future is impartinlly preparing forboth tho avostles of tuo Permissive bill andthe great public-house Interost itsolf. Sclenco, with ity wonted sbsouco of projudice, Ims just dealt each sido of tho question a knock-down blow. A Frankfort jouronl roports that a choimist of that city bas lstoly given & publio oxlnbitiun of bis ability to maie delicious boor ot n momont's potico out of nothiug bLut & snsll quantity of browish powder aod a pail of wator, It is sald that certamn oxports presout-—somo of thom browers themselves—could not distinguish be- tweon tho boverage thus mada on the vpot and that drawn from tho oribodox cask, The new boer-powder can be sold at 5 pouce an ounco, and 1 ounco is sufticient to produco s galion of boer. At thisrate a glass of nlo will cost about a farthing, Avd the process iu sosimple! Tuko some pars, cold water, put tha powder into it, atir well, and tho beer is roadv. Tho inventor, moreavet, declares that by s slighe changoe lu bis ingradicnts Lo can altor tho quality of tha beor and produco suy kind that may Lo desired, Short- Iy, tlierefors, a groat rovolution may bo expect- od, With & fow grams of liass in one pocket sud a pinch or two of Ind and Coopo in tha othier, tho thirsty but not oven bona fide trav- eler of tho future will caliny muka for the ncars est pump and thoro contontoy dring confusion alike to Sir, Wilfrld Lumson and to the licovsed victualer, TR ©1a Soldlers? Storios, Bororal powder-begrimed veterans gathorod in o certain polico slation the other ovening, says the Loulsville Courier-sournal, to koep out of tho raln for 8 fow ‘minutes, and while there dis- ocussod the lato war, « I romember,” says one, **that & bullet pass- od oloar through George (ay's pody aud nover idled him." *T recollect,” nald another, * that a ball lodgod in Bill Passon's Jung aud novor was talen out, but he lived.” 1" smd a third, “kuow woll when the doo- tors thought faarv Hill's lifo wos gone up as & l:mllnluu'l ymluml withit an inch of bis beart, but o lived.” *Jako yohnson's head was plarced by s ball, and ha lived,” exclaimed the lsat man but ona, These rowsrks produced considerablo surprise and exctied speech frowm all save a tall, slim, and uloopy individual, who waitod $ill s compan- fous concluded, and then drawled, in piping so. conte s **'Thoso fellows was s hittle tougts, I al- low; but Jin Joues, who At aside of mo, was shot lfl tho neck so that lus lhead jise hung by the skiu." ++ Groat hoavena!” ojaculatod oll; **you don't mean Lo asy ne lived, do you?" «Ob, no't ke died,"” drawled slim and sleepy. CablesRuising, Philadelphia Ledyer, A Yankea skippor bas been trying his hand at cable-raising. The masler of a schooner wliich recently mrnved at Gloucester, Mlass,, from the fluhing-banks, reports that one dsy last woek, atter he had been at anchor, ho attempted to raiua the anchor and found momething Leavy at- tached toit. Tho crew neaved and tugged at the windlaas for tiva hours, whun they concluded to *t1st her hang till next moruing."” ‘They wup- poecd thoy had got hold of a submariuc cablo, aud woro Tigiug a contrivance to cut off their onsin csble, which held tho anchor, when the submarine csblo parted and loft them free. Upon weighing tho auchor it was found that tho eable had caughit over eue fluke and Lisd cut cous siderably into1t; ‘[his (s waid to be thethud time the Freuch cable has been mumilarly bauled np. We thus bave from this vessel an suuounce- mont that the French cable has parted, which is the tirst anuouncement of the fack made to the publie. If fi is true, the Fronch authonties seem (o have been actuated by prudovdo last weok, whon they wero reporting stock fluctua- tlou aud dlsaster to the Direct Cable Company, ::':lm montlon this accidont 10 0a0 of thoic own oa. time ho aroso and dressed himsolf, and, ale- |- - THE CROPS. The Flood-Panicin Indinns Grad- unlly Subsiding, The Total Loss, Though Groat, Not so Hch as It Was Reckoned, Sonday«Harvesting In tho Wheat-Flelds of Minnesofa. Tho Watet of the Mississippi All Running to One End, INDIANA, Brectal Dispateh to {'he Chienan Tridune, Tenng Havre, lud, Aug, 7.—pho inundated diatrict 18 comprisod chiefly in the valley of tho Wabssh River, bogiuning about 25 miles above Lalayetto, and extonding m\lm mouth of the Wabasli, For that distance, the bottoms from 1 to 2milos fu width slong the river, weto over~ flowed, the water throe daga sinco belng from 2 to 12 feet deep, from which it j8 now receding. A careful estimate, based on a comparison of ro- porta received by (Lo rallway compatiea whose lines traverso this region, and which agroo with tho reports from othor roliablo sources, and s coulirmed by my own obgorvations, shows that the naren of tho bottom lands fnundatod is Letweon 450 and 500 square miles, Of tuis, not to oxceed 200 was under cultivation, Tte cropa haro bave beon totally dostioyed. much of tho growiug corn having been swapt away, whilo tho rest !fn loft Tuineid, Reckovlug (ifty bushols to tho acro ns tho probable crop of the overflowed bottoms un- der cultivation, the loss exceeds 8,000,000 busli~ cls. Besides, tho overtlow of tho tributae ried of tho Wabash bas couked o loss of about, as wnoarly B8 can Lo estimaled, a quarter mors, which wou!d muke an Bggrogato of 10,000,000 bushels. ‘“The figurcs look big, but tha fact in that thote are no two of the counties which sufforod in waich tho area under cultivation is not equal, or greatsr, than that of the fuundated strip slong the Wabash and its tributaries. Thero has been grent ox- aggeralion of the damage to the low-lands not Ivibg on tha Wabash or its tributasies. This wag, & few days slnco, estimated as eqnal to 50 per cont of the entire crop of Countral and Southern Indinna. ‘The panio 18 now subsiding, and tho better estiantes placo the damnge at not mora than 26 por cont of the crop of Contral and Bondiern Indina, Extensivo ln;lulrv and aid through conslderable portious of the district satinfy mo that 10 por cont would ba too great an estimato. Tho late cool weathor has had n favorable cffect, and 1ts mare thau likoly tho crop returns fro.n theao low lands wilt show but & cowmparatively trifling domage, Graiu which wae fn the shack when tho forty-days’ raju set 10 18 found to hiuve beou dnmaged “lesa than wns estimated, tho loss being but from 10 to 15 por ceut of the crop, inetead of 40, as firut roported. The total lows, nccording to the roports recelved from overy quarter, wiil he at least tully offset by tho crop yiokl genoraily, which, unless further disaster accor on tue funds that eecaped the tlood, will be [ully equal to that of the best years, whilo tho area uter oultivation 18 greater than aver befure, Lho acro- age, accolding to some cstimutes, being 10 per cont morw than that of last year, ‘Lhis, Lowover, In ]m)lmbly au over-ostimate. The uamage to the oat crop is estimated at from 90 to 40 per cent, tho former flgure beine moro nm\rlg accurato, ‘Tho Wabanli is falling rapridly at all points nbove thin city, and has rouched 1ts oxtreme height, it Is bolioved, ot Vincennes. Lhore have been no rana for tho past six or seven days, ‘Lhe water-courses are rapidly emptying thou eelves, Completo rmitrond communication will Lo restored within a few days, vxcept one or two now rouds, and the provalling fouo is more chicerful. Evansvriuie, Ind, Aug, 7.—Trains havo sus- uded on the Evansville & Clocinnati Railroad y reanon of breaks occarioned Dby high water in tho Wiito sud Wabash Rivers, Tenne Havte, Ind, Aug, 7,~Tho breaks and (Inmnfiu in tho Vandalin line have been ropmired, and ail teatus will run rozularly withous transfer, begioning to-morrow night. Tho Ohio & Muse siasippi Bond haa lost its Wasbash Liver trostla n]-immm Vincennes. ‘I'bo back-water from the Wabash is over tho Evansvillo Itnilrond tencl, south of Oaktown, breaking communication, Tho Wabash has falion 2 feot, and now has 23 foet abcye low-water warlk, Tho Evansville, Terre Haute & Cuicago Rtail- road will tun trains botween here snd Dauville, 1It,, rogularly on Mooduy, and will go through without transfer on Tuésday, Tho wosther ia pow favorable, and farmers are hopeful of suve ing hall of their crop, MINNESOTA. Special Dispateh (a The Clicngo Tribune, LACnosee. Wis., Ang, 8.—~Tho following crop roport is mado from the telograms rocotved to- day from different points throughout Bouthern Mionerota; Delavan, Farobault County, reports barvestivg well under way; wheat ilue; prospocts of an aversgo of frow 25 to 30 bashels to tho acre, Corn Lackward, and, without rain soon, not sn ayerago crop. Alden and Albert Los, Frooborn County, report harvesting well commoncod. Wheat cousidorably above aver- ago; Loavy crop, with acarcoly a poor fiald in thoe county, Darlsy averagos well. Coru looks well, but is backward, Dexter, Mower Qunuty, repotts the wheat barvest as commenced ; best and yield the largest over ralsed, but nIttlo out aa yot. Corn looks woll. Fountaiy, Rushford, and Chatfleld, in F I'moro County, roport not much dnmaga bv thy lato storm, Oata and barley mostly out, with a average crop and quahty. Wheat harvest com monced ; conmiderably wbove aa averago crop, Cern coming out good, but backwaid, Houston, Houston Cuunty, roports the whest harvest in full blagt; beavy crop ; much above thu avorage, Corn dowg very well. Littlp barloy, Iu soveral localitiea mnchines are buing run to-day (8ua- dav), the farmers taking advautage of the fluo weathar, IOWA, NEBRASKA, AND DAKOTA. Bpecral Dupatch to The Clicago Iribune. Cepan Rarios, Ia, ‘Aug. 7.—Tho Iowa Rail- road Land Company lain receipt of addstional information to-day concerning the crops witbin the limits of its graut and vicimty, which showa thatJu Northoastorn Nobraska tho wheat crop will be good, avoraging 16 busbels per acro, and in Boutheru Dukota aud Northwostera Lowa it will be still bolter, being considerably abovo the average vield. 1'ho yietd of vate in somo locali- ties will bo enormous, and x)l that s necesunry to produce a buge corn crop 18 s fow woeks of warm, dry weatber. . Ouana, Nob., Aug. T.—Reports from polnts aloug the hine of the Union Pacific to-day say thie wind Lisy beon blowing hard frum the neith for three days. Immouse clouds of grasyhop- pors are flylng south aloug the llue from Eim Crook cost as far ss Bilvor Crook, witha fow cloar utreaks. At Willow Isiand they have com- menced on tho corn, haviog already doue conmd- erable dawago, At most points but fow bave alighted and little damago {s done, THE MISSISBIPPL Cargo, Ill., Aug. 8.,—The rivor reached 45 feot 2 inchea yeatorday afterucon. It bas boen elowly recediog slnce, and has fallen an inch snd a quarter. A beavy dnfs has boen passiug all day. Mexpms, Aug, 8.—The river continuea tosles steadily at this point, and haa risen au Inch dur- iny the past twonty-four bours. Capt. Crane, of tho Uello of Memphls, reportod a cravasso formed at Wilka' plantation st Donaldson's Point, juat abovo Ialand No. 10, ov Friday uight, which ‘swept over that plautatiou, contslning about 8,000 acros, and thenco to 8t. Francls Vale loy. Ths doubtless caueod the river to come to stand bore yestorduy, and uot the orevasus at Bradley's, a4 flist supposed. A larger volume of waler s now runuing througn Bt, Francis River, which will afford relief to the plantatione on the uumslgm eide to Helona, but greatly incroases tha danger on tho Arkaneas sido, aud planters on that shore botween hoie and Helena are working on lovess in the jear to protoct thelr lands from the inundstion tbroatened from that direction. Tho water now sl aenm throshior (& now intervies ne the gatg, sliraven, aud fuln bhe farmetsapreenblesur, pied A tha viehl, feom 15 to 50 bunanim o tho me . s far as threahed, (£ will ave-nzs 20 bushi gy g, ncie, Anfantne throshod, (b f broncht fy g ) sold AL L5 10 €14, Corn, oats and ,muml nra Dioking aplendid, a0 mish o it e, ) no macket for tho iatter, Tliers aro but fy Apples and no neaches: it other fruitn ang e, rios nre plontiful, and find a poodmariet. £ KANSAS, Lraveswontit, Xau,, Aug, 7,—The Teceny henavy rainn throughons this section have oy, jured coru or other grain to anvextont. My, rumorn are atloat that wheat hna beon ruiued iy ths sliock, but they nro groundicsa, CANADA. OrrAwa, Can,, Aug, 8.—1Teavy rainm veaty, day broke down aud damnged thoumands of flolds of graln in this vleinity, CRIMI. MASSACRED BY CONVICTS. LouvtaviLLe, Aug. 7.—Somo weeks sincs a articie feom & Now Orloans papor was oxtensiry, Iy published tLroughout the country Lo thap. fect that the erow of the schooner Florida, whjey sniled for Callfornis from Now Orleans in 1y and wro supposad to hiavo_hoen lost with all ¢y bonrd, nad been discovered on au island in th, Southeru Pacific bv an Englieh vessel which Jy) been drivon #ither by contluued Btormy, T, crew atated that tho Florida hind been wreeqq ou this unnbabited {stnnd - twentye, vears ago, ami that in tho inlovy they had not seen n buman face. They declined, howover, to leave the irland, hariy, catablished thomaolvos in cowrarative comtyr The narrativo ls eald Lo havoerented o ey sonkalion among tho aurviviug relatives of {1y crow, and an oflort wan stated to bo on foof 1y wman 8 vosrol which shiould visi thoe islaud. The Courier-Journal will publish an inte, viow with & gentloman_sho was Livivg in Vapy, a0, Clull, in 1849, 1lo statos that tho Fmjy put luto Port Fumine, at that time a Clyiyy vonal nettlomont ; that the convicts buarde) lior, maesacrod all of tho erow except n you: man named Mareum, and mado sail fo tho muin land, On her way sho wy reeaplured by & Chilian war vese| and brought into Valparaiwo, where tho Courier. Journal's infurmaut gol the above daiaily fioy Mareumn's own lips. Marcum's parents, who apy still living In Verssillos, Kv., procceded to Caj. fornia whero tho nonsoon after diod of emall-py at Placerville, in that State, 'The Dritish steune Thetes hind first seen tho Florida alter her ey turo by the conviots, and gave the informmticy to the Chilian authoritics v hich lod them tn seq out the vessel shich brought her back into por, A rovolution was in progress fn Chili at by timo, and the records of the ovent may b los, but the tuil dotails were on tho lu:-lma[: of thy Thetes, which tnav bo oxamined in tho oflleg ¢t the Uritish Admiraity. FORRESTER AND THE NATHAN MURDER. Svecial Disvalch to The Chicaao Trioune, Br. Louts, Aug, 8.—Certain parties here, why aro 10 a position to know something positive concerning the truth of Billy Forrestor's utate. mont, pudblished in a Chicago papor, prououac tho wholo thing to Lo a tissuo of falsebood, thy #ole object of which s (o ovable him 1 fwt out of tho Jollet prison. Forreste is woll known here amoug the roughs, and ity Crooky und Crossmen, several of waom profery to bo, and doubtiess aio, 10 porsesnion of facly wineh show that Forreslor's statement is fale from beginulug toend. lled Ried Kagan, rofeired to by Iorroster, is John the doteclive, upon whoso evideuca tha Diebuscn gang of countorfeiters wero senl to the Fenitennary, and, 08 a *fly cop,” 1w tooked upon sa thy shorpest in tho Socrot Borvico. Lacan was never involved in the robbery of the United States Ex. pross, @y roptesented by Forroater, end wag mover charged with tho ciime, sl though Torrestor ways ho was convietw and pent up ton years forit. ‘' Littla Dave," aling Dave Cutnmings, whom, Farrester says, Ls mot in Lowsville, wus 1o $t. Louis at the time cierted 1o, o8 was also Larnoy Aaten, whon Forreater roprosonts to bhuvo been geut to Now Yok to negotiate wih Kelso. Thoso who know Forioster allegs that his alitse of Allon, of whaoso gang bo was s membor, is influenced by hila desire to ourry fa vor with the Pinkerton detectivos, ns two of them woro beatau by the Allous for arresting Forrestor at tho houso, Furiester was givea awny to Enran {u Now Orleans, but ha wan seut BWay on o secret sorvico oxpedition bolure tha capture was accomplisaed. JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE. &pectal Dispaten to 'he Chicanv T'ribune, IxpIANAvOLIS, Aug, B.—Joseph S. Able, a clerh {n tho employ of 11, L., Beaham. a music-deales of thin city, was fatally injured yestorday in s affray with tho driver of a delvery-wagan, a co- gro named Bandy Wakofield. Ably, who was a Kentuckian, had concoived 8 strong dislile fo tho negro, anf treatod him abusivaly, Yestordsy wmorning be assnutted the negro, who, in seli-defenss, oaueef his arrest, As the stable, [n wmou Wakeflsil kept his Lorues, 18 situaced oo Able's lot, M Boubaw doomed it prudout fo mend \Wate flold out o do hin work earllet than usual, (1] that he might avold meating Ablo. Tha latter, fearning of this, Larclad home, when Wazefield mude bis apuearsuco and aswantted bim with s club, Tie negro rotreated uto the stable, aud pulled the door to, but was unsblo to fasten It. Ablo opeped tho door snd renew- od the attack, when Wakoflekl, In welf- defense struck him over tho bead with a pieco of #tove-wood, fractnring the skull, from thoel- ds 4 suchios below the flood of the past epring, and 3 foot 4 iuches bolow tho great flood of '67, Wasurvarox, D, 0., Aug. T.—ihe Misaiaaippl will tiso slowly bolow Celro, Tt hay probably reached its minimum Lsight at this statfon, The break reported 18 miles above Memphis, ou the Arkansas eide, will diminish tho danger below. MICHICAN, Spectat Correspondence of The Chicago Tridune. Lawsing, Mich., Aug. 7.—It bas beeo vory dry Liore durjug tlie lxst two or threo weeks, which has boon favorable to weouring the wheat crop, s In s0mo locations iy bad » tendeosy to yuat. 1t ta now lowory, with a proapech of saln. The foots of which bo died dusing the nighe. PETE M'CARTHEY AS A LETTER-WRITER. Austin (lezas) Siatesmun, Whea J, P, McCartnoy, the natorious counnter- foltor, was ln jail fn thls ity few months g0, be borrowed 83 trom Doaputy-Sherid Pendley, which monoy was to ba pald by tho United Stites Marshal, who, a¢ that time, had some funus o MeCartnoy's io hls baade, Thae follow.ng ia s lottor from McCuriney upoa tha subjeoe Pavyes Housr, Catoaao, July 23, 1875.—3r, Jav'e, Aua'tn, trzus.—~DrEas Hiu ! 1 bave' forgot your pams bat I have not forgot vour kinduces, Please fud 1o clo o1 £, If Mr, Pernel) haanot payed you what 1 owel you when I Litt, keep tils stun, aud }f he tas psid 30 4 givathis to tho inmates of ‘your boar ling bo. J. P, MoCauTser. MeCartnoy Is ono of tho grendout rascala tbis conn’rv iy avor praduced, Lut, with all that, b «» highetoned and grateful, HRUTAL REVENGE, Bpectal Dupatch to T Cioane Tribune. Dunvque, Ia, Aug. 8.—Fatloy, » umall ni- road station in Dubujue Coonty, which turncd out s first-class murder lase wook, has beon die graced with another drunken row whlol ozeurred th s alteruoon, A German farmor namod Foliusy from noar Dyersville, got ou & spres with oud Jawmes Graco, of Farley, After diluking ther quarreled and camo to blows, Uiaco comnng ol gocoud boat, After Follus had s.arced Lomé Uraco assaultod him from behind with n rock, knocked bim down, aud kicked and beat him bad- Iy 1f not tatally. A physician has beou cutiod o attend Feltus, who lies insousible, Graco s uéu &4 largo, no oue having entercd complalul® FALL FROM ORACE. Bvectal Diapateh to The Chicage Tribune. Br. Paut, Miup., Aug. 7.—At Union Centrs, Wis,, A. B, Doolittle, a preachor or exhortor (& some small denomination clalining the Methoditt name, was arraigned to-dsy fur aduliery wit bis vieco, oo complalot of Lis nephow, and coufes: sion of the nloce. Thoe nophow says he found tho old man, whio 14 80 yoars old, under the girlt bed. Doolittle lina resided at Elroy tnenty year and has acoumulated considerable property s bullt up a large church socioty. A FATAL FIST-BLOW. Spsctal Diaputch fo The Chicado Triduns Pirtsuuno, Pa., Aug, 8,—0n Baturday nighh 1o s druukoq fight st Furnaces' Tavern, in Mifj flin Township, Allogheny County, David W Thomas wes fatled by Willism Jeukins, wbo struck him on the noad with bis flst, Jeukst waa arrested aud 18 1 jmt here, JAIL-BREAKING, Bweotal Diapaten to The Chicaga Tridund. Mraus, Miok,, Aug, B.—Last nlght aboub half- past § tho prisovers, five in number, conflued 18 the Oceana County Jui! at llatt, broko jail 82 il eucaned, Twu of thom bave boon rocaphur aud sgaln jodged o Jai THE POSS, Nuw Youx, Aug. 8,—Forwsl notice of su 8P peal from tue docision of Judgo DBarrctt, refus ing to vacate the order of arrest or reduca {4 bail of ‘Tweed, was tlod Baturday, MURDER, Caso, Aug. 8,—Jacob Tutter, an enginoer of the parrgw-gaugo railzoad who was recantly l”,‘" by ludson, dled to-day. Tha masdoses 4 )