Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 1, 1875, Page 5

THE CNICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1875. THE CHURCH. prof. Swing Announcos that He Will Loave the Fourth Church, germon on the “ Duty of Christian Citizens” by the Rev, N, i Axtell, The Rev. Florence MoCarthy Ez- presses Himself on the Far- well Hall Qutrage. rbe Rav. N. I Taviin on “ The Perils of the Rour.” PROF. SWING'S DECISION m WILL LEAVE Tilk FOURTH cuiuncit. be Rov. David Sxing, pastor of the Fonrth preabyterian Church, terminnied tho nnmerons gors concerning Lis futnira aetion by mading, \t tkeclose of his eormon, the followiug com- aniestion : A Beroven CoxanroATion : During tho past (bree moothis our relations have boon disturbnd Amont daily by now rumors and new facts lndi- ating 80 approaching eud of onr tiea as pastor sdpeoplo. It han hitherto boen impossible for g0 to sddress to you any worde that might put mors to rest and cast any light upon the fu- tre. Neithior you nior I desirod to break uy, ag- Jistions of long stauding, aod poculinrly pleas- wot, snd oven sacred. 1t was human at Tenst in wall to await tho command of tho ceclesiastical wart that prosides over etich affairs, ond that wrppored to isano its decroos with suficlent swoapiness., At last thio conrs to which this So- ety ls smonablo bas formally expreseed ite bo- 1ef, ormathier ft8 hopo, that nfter tho closo of is year this churel will place itzelf Iu a posi- on feeh irrogular,—will find o pastor amoug the Tresbytonan clorgy in good otanding. Tho aes- on bas, neithor 28 n Bosston nor Ay individusls, widsoything to warrant the hopo or conviction epressed by the Preebytesy, but have waitod e timplo movemont of the Church law, Tn thts crisis tho Scarion bave, iu the hopo of ring tho relations mutually ploasant, urged mo taretusm to the Presbytorin brotherhood ; but s the moat procious thing to ono who hns dared yiodup to teach, is hin capitsl of truch and Kesn and his intelloctnal Mberty, the kind wisk afthe seseion could not for o moment bo enter- hined I would therafura apnounca to-day that caor beforo tho cloga of tho yoar 1 whall coaso resching to tho Fourth Prosbsterian Church, Ll; ‘duo the I'reshytery, composed for the most otof my own faithful friends, thut I should histen to confess thewr authority over this Jociats Asmy heart haa alwaya shown itseil unequal o tpesking abovo a whispor nuy words thiat \ect it deoply, this poparation will como with- it any farewoll sormon or any other words that ts near tho land of tears. As to tho 3 {riendships, somo of them will run wonder somo othor roof ; none of thom will 3 broken by any act of mine., In this matter itdriendeliip, I hove it witl not bo very uudigni- ldif Econfess hern that my mind recalls tho xog we ali used to sing in tho days of romauce odtendernoss : Here's » sigh for thoro who love me, Armile for thoso wlho bate, Bat thinking of the sacred duties of s minis- Weof Christ, & hotior liymn comos to memory : While lace wh seek or place wo shuz, Tie eoul finds happiness in none, But with our God 10 gude tho way "Tis equal joy to go or slay. Thongh I am nnablo to rise to the sublime flhla[ auch worda, thoir epirit will cheor me, J will soften tho' good-bye of your dovoted frand, Davip Bwina, D ) THE DUTY OF CHRISTIAN CITIZENS. SXIMON DY THE REV, X. It AXTELL. TheBav. N. I Axtell, pautor of Yark Avenus Mholist Chureh, proachod last eveniug on “The Duty of Christisn Citizens to Maintala tbs Existenco nad Splrit of Our Froo Institu- l«:l," taking aa his toxt : Ml:lc:l;i‘c'fl, multitudes in the valley of declaion.— Th propliot hea In view a timo whon tho har- Tt s ripe, tho proas {a full, tho vata overflow- kg, yet 8 timo of great wickedness, Ile socanll siong In the Valley of Jehoskaphat waiting for tition to bo propounced. Meforring o tho 16 contost s the vision in tho Apocalypso of All the nations in the Valloy of Armageddon. Mizy bave thought that nll Europesn powors voldbe gatherod into canflics ; porhaps fn Rome o Jerasalem, the conbro of Christisnity, whore Hawould bo slain and trath galn suoh advan- 4 as wonld haston tho pations to Christ, Judging by the logio of facts rather (lan by tho nliciostlons of fancy, tho Valloy of tho Missls- E3pi4a far more likely to be the scono where tho duioeesls to rise up with miglity instrumonts, dyet Lhoso ouly be safo whio stand iu tho faith W purily of tho gospol, and they bo finally vic- Horeis an jsland home amid the sona vatrnall tiden of travel aro strandod. I July, 1869, T entorod tho Amevican House, Deuver, fust oponod. I sball nover forget the ;“l Trofe, Brower and Whitooy, of Yalo Col- 68 ¥ero I ono part of tho ruom packing the % mathematical and satronomical fnetru- ;M'nh of French and hawe manafacture, for the U of Angust eclipse. Colors, Uniof of the my oMW u and drew out o rude "‘% Of the battle with tho Arapalioes, hu‘d the scalps of throe, and tho Utea bad Wflm yot thore must be a triumph cole- ity aud tho utscots wero tillad with warriora g for tho dauco. Travelors wora thoro ing ou, and Paris. 'Tho dexican with his Whip and many osths, the Califoruin {fuser, 424 tho creolo and haif-broed. Tho fi““"ln it sbout upon the trunks, and the \op Chincao (abor was in tho kitchou. ~Haro, mwflu. shall the gathering of tha natlons ba. hn“‘o Presents wuch s ploture continually, lvm"v As1t {s.1ho Lerdquartera of this Migsin Borylsy, with ita population of 16,000,000, pouttls vast fiold, with ite 7,000 milos of river Miox $0the Atlantic, 6,000 into the Gulf of I 18,000 Into the ' Missiasippl, 5,000 into e 0 making in il near 40,000 miles of i x'unlng o tho world, 18 an invitation to g O¥ery way. Tho invitstion is ao- e dwrh. Qupulluon tooreases 883 per cont w ooy . Weoara horo aot by accidont, and By » meaniugless horde. Vory distinct ‘m“uknowlwu-d to bu asaoclated with our st eTover epokieu, e Eoem to Liave boen mutwwark out the grand idess of indi- Atdagyi)s frocdom and faith. Those aro ideas oy h\m&} Nous can ook buck aver our history Bdap d yoars and fail to ses tunt God hag Re f ) d In'the 1 i S ™ oundiug and tho culture of M':“-I& Our founders hava como from ll”"l“‘uul. The Pulitinates from tho Rhine, ton B odists from Ireland, the Huguonots oy .‘;‘l_flt(e, the Puritaus aud Quakers from Yoy o 1 he Heoteh I'resbyterisus fiom the oy mbmwl. the Waldonges from Vledmont, kndof ‘vund togothor at luast by this common o fl;trcn n religlon. The momory of i Ih“;. ured for tho sake of religious freo- Bl hflpe- of eitstablishing that fresdow, o%m“" gloun atmospliore sronnd the early gy 4a Jobn Jay, the purest aodern ol fuld for “them: “You have O A8 We wre impatient of ok, destrons of ndopendency, but v o cAlumuion.” Thoy "ouly aakod m“nnxm aud free watitntions * dod moum‘ to break out of 1hs word, more I0goom for it” waid the Leydau Pro~ ore, - socdom ta worship God." wald Lord nueloty, A place for suaple yea aud nay in od wajuaty sud tnamfly “thou ' fur mid Ponn under tho elms, *An @ dostitute of ali lands,” waid Ogle- 8is with Wesley. ** Wa cannot ', atudy, or prayer.” Tha people Tod. Y Lo make laws, so thoy touk the ety o Ut they ahiould find time to make utiggy Yow strsago s ft that tho persecating K mrse el o e p Sionpold 6 glant in its plastio "m,x{‘:- Pope llli,xkl will d-lll auha YOy etweon Portu E:g":t But God aaid, Fortugl s bacishod ”“'lihlucn. Treupuusible for the Mriacy s fresh from the blood of the [ m%"d in though she ownsd 80 much 35 rees F W Y7ha tGr 1 a o oy 7 E il no plnnr here. susiained m w d herselt whixopolid Tho Pilgrimn at Plymouth fonght all Lsrdships. Tho 101 diad nway until in threo month, when they atond to son'the slipn roturn, thers waro twanty-oight men and woman aod Lventy-threo cuildron only left, ‘mnny wtill rick. Vet thov wora honest, anil they wore virtuons, and God a8 builded & nation from thom. In the Soull differont. In her first Fegmlature, ccaptod the Anglican religion. And, ovory Stato had in its charter a clauso that tho propagation of roligion was oo uuf ety « tas cettainly felt that nly by the noul ‘Tha nationn ahall be great and free, What a wonderful fact, tnoxplicabla on any othor_ ground than that' God rules, aud that Ametica i to bo tio land of personal and rolig- touw froadom, 18 it thut tho nations of progroxa to-daay nre dereended from tho frea-thongnt kida of tho German Roformation., Shn was thewr mother ; in her throes they wers born, Bhe was thoir eradia ; in hor storma thoy were rocked, andana Herealey they praw strong enough in thr erndlo to wrestlo with tho_oppressiva sor- pent of Romanlem. Bhio waa their priost, bap- tizing them in hor blood, Arranged on the side of tho aplrit of I'rotestant fren thonght are the Duteh Itopublic, England, the United States. Theao have the Instinctaof freedom, lnve of tearning, tho dekirsof the elovation of the many, tlie wnll-heing, and frco-thought, and frec-ox~ pregsion of all. Our #choola eamo from tho stmo apirit and clags. Tho Puritan John Knox Hrut advocated frea pehoold in thaOld Waorll, Our collegos and llim:el’nlms hava Leou founded by the non of dod. O publfe schonl aystem<whonen eamo IE7 The granid men tull of grand thonghts, inspired by tho grand thenica set bntoroe intolligzent freo- wou by the grand old Bible, camo over to thin howilvg wildornean, aud, lest their children should become savages ng the Indiane abont thors, or tvrants as thoso they had left behind thern, eatablished thesa littlo schools averywhero for all tho peoplo, Iliey wore blosand, scholarly mon, tbat knew tho Greex New Testatnont aa their motlior tongue, and transiated tho ilebrow Iible In thelr morninig dovotions with their fam- ily, Ulorious men, littlo did thoy forceast tha power of thees schoole, Littls did thev dream that theso khonid b mighty agencies fn destroys ing tao bigotry And persccution which bad nought {0 destroy {hem. Littie did thoy dream thag thoy shouid oxtond over all thi Iand, oven bovond the Allcphonfes. Into this Misairoippi Valloy, to tho shores of tho Western Occan, snd their light make plad the path of the pionoar, aud children's chiidren ariso to bless theiwr mem- ories! They did not plan It—ordrcam it—for, it arose quito naturally ‘oub of the very sphiit of thoir cvilization, % Nohody {8 to blame bocauso the American gnirit in tho spint of free perrousl inveatigation. Nobody 18 to ulame bocauso Protestuntisni, thinking, the Bible, and the overybods's schools ato bsud-in-hand. The snour of Ithuriel can't et in between them. 'Tho four are o joined tuat one won't live o glory and loavo the othora hohind. Wnore two or threo aro patvered to- gothor thoro will tho others bo in tho midst of 1hem. 1f ono Is banishod atl wiil go. Bt with thopo all other progrosn will come. ~ dust as tha Reformation braught back tho natione to power that embyacad {t—just ns Puritanism brought in a new Constitation to England—juat as Meth- odism broke hteraturo sway from anstocracy and soattared chesp Dbooks and tracts, and taught men, and womon, too, that they micht ail epeak and pray, and rawed up Biblo, I'ract, Missionary, aud Emancipatiou Socioties snd Sa dav-schoola—ao froe thought, frea Bibles, and {froo schools will always furnish tho skill to fore- wee aud tho power to Fru\uln for all commng noeds. Thils i8 & #pirit that will promote overy ioterest that Amorica, Truth, and God waot pro- toated. What iu nfraid of this spirit ought todio. Aud vome instituticns are afraid of it. Popery dissolves under the American spirit and frce iustitations, The Weslern Calholic says: ** Thoro aro ton muhons in America lost to tho Church who were born of Catbolic parents.” ‘I'wo-thirds of their Clinrch chitdren nro lost to their Church. Iicre must be a differont epitit quite in con- trast, This epirit expects tho fow to dictate, tho many to aervo with closed minds and mouths. A spirit that keops poor Iroland down, with ali hor bmvory,ugenuroh(t,v. and wit ; makes Franco @ poor, peited, proud,” and fretted child of im- Enl’m; and Bpain, grand once, forsakeu now. "his ppinit gpoko out in Napoleon whon o suid, T drond thron nowspapers moro than 30,000 bayooots.” Aund in the dylug Gregary, * Our proat ouomies liave camo in the gaslight, tole- graphs, railsonds, ond printiog-presses.® Tt ‘aponlis out in thecld Pio Nino very frequently of Iato, 88 whon ho gava tho eyllabus coudemmng all aitication and fuinklng 1ot Trom tho CLuroh: "I'his Roman apirit is exomplified in tho progress of Mexico aud Bouth America. The American upirit 18_exompiificd in North Americs, and i embodied in our inatitutions. The ona is scen in Bpaiu to-day; tho botter came in tho words of Washington: * Promoto than, as an object of primsry importance, insti- tutions for tho genoral diffusion of kuowledgo; in proportion 83 & Govornment gives forco t3 public opiufon, I8 it itaportant that publia opin- 1on whould be enlightoned.” ‘Tho botter thought come out, too, In {ho lengthy and cloquant nddress of our prosent Drendont, who ovidontly oxpects that our pablic sobools sbali bo continuod. In tho difforout classes of schools tho two dif- forvot spirita aro scon. Our Amoricaa schools soek to draw out the thinking power, sud you ind in them tho tough debate. In Catholic schools the object is to moworize. and iostead of original exoercise you listen to the reliearsal of a drama of tho Middle Aos. 'I'lo Amorican school fita for uko, tho slomun soeks Lo couserve. Tao American calls forth power for the futurs, the Itoman stifics tho iudependent thought, for she sags tho okl in botter, = The one fs an inupi+ ration: tho other crams with tho useloss, and cuts off {nvention and ardor and judividuality by cold represaion. Americans havo no business rllh Roman schoals, as Cathiolicabiave no delight 1 ou1B. It uaturally flows out of the American epirit that morality and religion should bs built uy and bulwarked as that schools shonld bo ostab- lished, Thore i to be frecdons in religion, but thero i8 to be roligion. 1o that is sz onemy to roligion is not o good Amerlean, Our past his- tory shows why wo hiavoe Deeu succeesaful and stropg, Wo lavo made the Lord God of Hosts our strongth, Wo are now msliod to g0 bsci upon our rocord and our powor. Bensualism, infidelity, atheism, would vault intothie Adminis- tralion.” Havo not all who havo read the history of tho past soon how the natiops that forgot God aro turned 1mto bell. Cuicago seems to Lo ruled by organized law- leswncss. Whilo spealing great wwelling words thoy promio liborty, thoy themselves aro the worvants of corruption, **for of whow a wan is oveorcomo of tho same i3 ho brooghs foto bond- ago."” Aro wo to bo ruled '.li; slavos to corTupe tion? Such naarocontent in thiyare by no pousi- bility Curistian citizona—nar epiritod Americuus, Our Constisution provides that **Congroas ahall mako no Iw respacting wn eatablishmont of religlon, or prohibiting the free exorcise thorouf,” Judgo Btory commenta ; ‘' The right of soci- ety or Governent to wterfers in mattoers of ro- ligion will Lapdly be cuutested Ly auy porsous who beliove that ploty, religion, aud wmurality ara intimatoly connected with tho well-twing of tho Btato, and indwpousablo to the adminfutrution ol civil justice, ‘lo promulgation of the groat doctriuos of roligion ; tho bomyy, aud atiributes, and Provideuce of ono Almighty Gods tho ra- #ponsibitity to Ilim for ull our uctions founded upon moral frecdow oud accountsbility ; a fu- ture stato of rowards uud pubishmeuts ; tho cut- tivation of all tho persoual aud bouevolent vir- tuos,—theso nover cau be a mattor of iudiffer- ence in anyjwell-ordored community. 1t iv indoed ditilenlt to conoetve how any oivilized society can woll oxist without thum, And, atall evonts, it 8 1mpastible for thoss who bolieve in thoe trath of Clitatisnity ws a divine rovelation to donbt thnt 1t i8 tho espocinl duty of Gavornmeont to fostor and oucourage it amoug ol citizons aud wubjecta. This is & poiut wholly distinet from that of the right of xmm judgmont in the umtters of ro- liglon snd of tho ireedum of public worship ac. conding to tho diotates of one's own conscienco,” . ThoAmarican vpirut, in a word, staudy fos Blan, Not for crownod hoads, nor the lusire of arts or orme, not for priosts or Presidents, not for tho willonaires of trade, or ployr, or counting-house, wot for ths childron of lnn favored fow, mot for any (jorgevus foym of matorialism in Klogdow or Republic, but for man as & race; for man in- stinics with quenchless cmotions sod imperist- oblo attributes of mind and soul,—tor mau as the hsir of immortality and etornul life. Lt waa for L that Jesus bowed his gracious biead and diod 4,000 yoars ago. Blowly Las this truth como forth, .that tho elomonts of nativual lifa and glory are the esmo as those of parsous! salvation which Ifeguistly proclsimed on the lulls of Judea. Yet thero in L0 otbor doctrine given under heaven smong men whereby man or nation can morally or politically bs saved, Our Govern. uieut {s wode for mon,—oot men for sho Govern- ment, Mau—thinkiug, saved, elevatod—is tho bewuving aud end of staisswanship that bopey loug to Lisve the coufidence of nion or the favor of God. Practical Chnstiauity iucludea our po- litical duties. Ihe way o do political duty s by racticsl Chbristisoity. To noglect oithor copardizes tho ovber, Resistancoto tyrants is obedionce to God. Neglect to preeervo the schoals, the hormes, the s, the Bible-stuay, the ballol-boxoe of Amencs, 8 to ain aguinet God sud dwmn ibe somipg millions, be disalioh to cnr dewnbey's cadl 1o be, tnaltars. God'welsim, Tho Kavior raid attond to both, T thiv natlon no fmyortance? Iahold multy. tudlea, multitaded 1 the Valioy of Docirion. A« w0 comn (o tha woas of tho conturs wa find that, purely by tho nogleet of tho sefigious aud well-to-do peoplo, somb of our cltted have lost tho American mpirit snd endangared their _prosperite 2 Bhall Chicagro folluw New York? freo prisona in Now York (8t morn than hor 210 seademies, with T 30,000 alndente, Ought we not to #ave tmon nstond of allowing great ovils to vver. whelm them, nod thon pruishine them at o VoKt an expensa 7 For 3 State Prisons, 67 Jailw, 5 roformatories, 6 penitentinries, and tho fock- ups, tho Btato pays Lialf as_much as for Ler ro- nownad gchoots, with 1,000,000 webolars, 18,000 teachers, mn 12,000 achool-hovres. Pravontion is bottor than puntshmant. To go to the election Tusaday is better than o mourn afterward, To carry forward & rovival that shall make Itibla Chrintisus, And lay the foundations for kobrioty and integrity e to'lay solid 10ck bo- neath tho futuro Republic. - Itis not necessary to-night that T refer to dangors Inovitablo if wo neglect Lo eara for thede ‘multitndos arouml un and on tho way to na. [ loave this to another ovoulng, “Nutia not the reward of saving the multitudes incentive enongh 2 Wo who ocenpy thee favored placon aro but tho Recoption Committee who axait the tho on-coming multitudes who pather hasa in Qoi's rood providenca to be freo, to Lo taught, to think, to worship God. 1t God haa given It to ua o decido tha Armo- geddon battle, we cannot be too diligant ar too wory, * Tor the dnz of tho Lord ianear (o tho valley of docision,’ —_— THE FARWELL HALL QUTRAGE, BERMON DY THP IRV, PLORENCE M'CARTUY. Tho Nov. Florenca McCarthy delivered a di courne at the Amity Baptist Church lzet oven. ing on the Healng mob of last Friday ovening, The toxt and sermon wera as follows @ Thou abialt not rteal,—Fzndes, 22., 15, Thero can be no doubt that it la jn bad taste for mivistors to preach palities, Thoy havon perfect right to do it, 80 far a3 tho public iy cons cerned. Dt it argoes & lamentable want of in- torast in the wolghtier mattors of eternity to woo o preachor of righteousnoss intreduce. without good cause, auck inteneely secular snbjocts into tho pulpit as eloctions, government, snd publio policy. But thoro can be no doubt, on the other Linnd, that public morain aro a I&%itimato subject of pulpit discourse, Neither can thero bo any doubt that it is proper for the preacher to dis- cuga morals in the concrele, aud comment on tho nctunl and specific sius of tho day. Ho lias for this tho sanction and esnmplo of prophets aud apostles, and of Jesus Chrint Him- wolf. And1if any great public vice or vin s inti- matels natociated with politics, that does not rx- emptit from palpit snimadsersion, any mero thau f 1t grew out of acience or literature. Tho truth is, overy conceivablo subject or event 1a ndmisgible into tho pulpit it it only Lo consid- orod puraly in its moral relations, and ot in tho light of policy or expodiency. It I sbould oc- cupy my time this eveniog In showing you that Keoley was a botter man for County Treasuror thon Hosing, tbat Lo was more experienced, and more honest, and more desorving, I should then be preaching politica, and bo prostitufing Ty position as a religions toachor. Dut if I take up oy timo in giving expression to tho Christian eentiment of this groat city coucurunx%n recont audsacious snd outrageous assault, by an un- godly and unscrupulous political leador, on tho pesco and wall-boing of thin much-sndunng community, then I am only doiug my duty a8 4 Chriutian ministor, And that ju oxactly what I propose to do. It is nnccnsnrf. In order to & duo sporeciation of the shameful scones of lnst Iriday ovening, to advert briofly to tho geueral state of corrup- fiun of tho Chicago City Govarument #nd poli- e, Gravger legislation nt Spriugfiold. Livery Iavgo city lu tho country, except ours, in iadopenduns of tho county in which it ia situated. ‘I'he State Leguelatures have conforred upon thera such chartor privilogos as aro ndapted to a crowdod community, containing Bo many of tho irrespous siblo and danperous claescs. Without this tndo pendenco of county interforence, and this spe- cial lecgislation, New York, Philadelphia, and Doaton could naver havo exlsted. Chicsgo, on tho other hand, is saddled with a doublo Govern- ment, ono of the county and ono of tho city, and hoth of them prescribod by the Logislsturo ot Springfield, composod of en who aro s ignorant of the needs of n groat city as a horso is of ostronomy. Tako two or threo sumples of tho ovil reaults of this unnatural legisiation, To begin with, there is no objection in tho country to serving writa by roading tbem. In tho country every man knows the Conatablo and Bhorif, tho magistrato and tho coart; every ono Lnows overy ono eles, and knowe all that goos on. But horoin the city, It is 3 monstrous out- rage. A strange man walks np lo you with papor in_bis hand, mumblos a_fow words, and walke off, Dofors you cau find out what it all means, judgmort has boen mven agaivst vou by default “for a round sum. lat all fforts to gob our country cousing to sllow us to make our writa servablo by copy bave proved unavailing. Agaln, jin_country plscos trial by fury boforo muagistrates is au excellent iostitution, bocauss thoro jurots aro wall known and rosponsible por- Bous, ~Therefore tho farmora at Springfleld fn- sist thot juries may bo called in mogistrates' courts in Chicago also, although here jurora are unkuown snd irrespansiblo porsous. and there. foro onsily corruptod. Tho canscquonce in that magiatratos’ Jurics in this city are in ovecy caso oaid for their verdict, = They are suromoned iu the gross, from tlhie noasest grog- gery, and to ounconrage the piactice of calliug Jurics, or in_consideration of & sma!l Aum paid the by the Coustable who summons them, iu- variably ronder a vordict for the party who calls for o jury, As tlus roquires tho coliusion of a Conatable, our, city Constables, with a fow hon orably excoptions, aro tno most ubandoned snd rapacious scoundrela in tho Stato. Aumd onr megistratod’ courtd il bocomo nothing mora than instrumouts of annoyanco and oppression, withoue ono singlo redesming advantage. Apain, ono Judgois cuough for one county ont in the coantry with o pupilation of 19,009, therefore tho Loglstaturo thiuks that sovon or oight Judgos are vnough for this county, with & popuiation of 300,000 or 400,000, Tho conse- quenco is that it you wish to sue a man for §300 you have to wait & yoar boforo your caugo can bo tried. Aud yot your broutl ia wastod shen you sppenl to vour country legislator for rolief, "Ho {8 dotormined that the city eball livo like tho country. Agaln, and this ia moro to the point, thora la no uso 1 ardering a registration of voles out in the country overy time s Couuty Clork or & Bherifl is 1o bo ecioctod. ‘L'nero Is nat muck at atako in such an oloction, there fu uot miuch excitoment, tho votorw ara all well known, aud thero are fuw tempiations to corrup- tion., ‘Therofors our country Logislature hus partially ropouled our wholesome liegistration act, and mude it unnocesaary that thore shonid Lo a registration in this city oither when only county otlicers are to bo alected. The result of this {8 that an honost olection in this city e al- most au fmpossibility, Onco moro, the country Logislature laa en- actod A genors! chartor for all sbo cities of Nli- nois, Or 80 wany of them 18 may chooxo to adopt it 'This charter suits PPearia and Elgin very well, but is entirely unfitted to tho wants of Chi- ca0,4 it opens tho loodgatas of ofiicial corrup- tion, Dut tho bad olasues of this city compeliod an oloction on this subject a fow months ago, oud, althouyh two-thirds of tho oitizons voted againet it, 140 bLallot-boxea were stulled, for want of proper ruarding ; and now wo aro sad- dled with tuis ridiculous charter, in sddition to our otler evils, ‘I'ho goueral resultof all this is almost uni- versal corruption. It is & wumiter of wincero Enda aud congratulation that our city Judgos ave uot Loan suspeotod in the lesat degice, But, with this oxception, the City Gevernment of Cbicago is undonbiodly tho moet corrupt in the country, Onoe way count ou his tingers all the oBicials in the county who do not tako taibes, and who hive on their seluries. Noarly every Jury that slls is tampored with, and ss to our Ciimjusl Court, po wman who had mouoy wus over known to come to frlur in it { and hardly ever doea a poor man, arsaigned beforo it, escupe couviction, Tho ringleader of the daugerons classos in the offort to eoize and plunder tho public troasury aud to vorrupt the wholo Govornment is Mr, A. Q. Teving, the Oppoanion candidate fur County Treasurer, This tin is a profeasiounl politicia of ihe worst étripe, and is himself ono of tho boldest aud oot uuscrupulous men shak ever cursed this eitv with biy presence. This com- wunity has not forgotten how, & fow monthe 8go, when the Comtmon Oouncil hsd undor con- wmderation the wubjeat of the fire limits, this sama ruiflan fotroded in the Counail Chembor with lus followers, sod uadertouk to taob the representativesof the peopls, aud to csrry out his wisbes by force of arma. Jf he Lad then boen arrested, indicted, and punished, we should have been spared tho disgraco of layt Friday eveniog. But the corruption is w0 general that such a prosecution is imposuible, Befors I refer to Mr. llesing's intest attempt o mob this city, I muat plainly disclaitn any in- tention to reflect on bis countrymen. AMr, Hes- Ing is ©o more like 8 German he s like s pulclod xa gsnileman. The Germans &s my Chicago id suffering nculeulably irom: special admiration. Take tham all in all, they are tho mout honnet, Industrions, fraal, poaces nble, contented peopln in the world. ‘funy al- wagH know ther rlzhta, and ara Lrave onongh to mamntain them ot all hszinds, hut thes are o wonwihilo peaple, and nover make foolish doe manda. Of all tha nats fitirn turt erosd to ont shoroy hey tnke ot naturally to our Institutions, And maka thy boal eitizens, Of wil proplo in tho world they are the Joast lilicly to Tivo & mob. And whou Mr, lemng inmulted American fren ppecch tha othar night, ho had for his retainers fow Germana, If 1 do not greatly mistake tha Germsns of this city, they will at onco repnrhiate Mr, Heding. as being in no Benss A ropregentative of therr tewper, principles, or purposee, On Tridav evening Iaat Mr. Hesing, at tho heat of o mob of cut-thronts snd gamblers, made auother domonstration against tho peace nnd reapactability of tinecity, fermit mo to explain to you Lriefly b thie scenrrad. Itis inown to you that the governmant of thiu county is committed Lo pifteen mon callod nmissioners, and that aus of the di- icen Cemtnissinnoth is to 1uzko provisian for eloctions. “Tlus they do Ly srrasging vro- cinets, and 8 pointing threa Judges of eloction for each procinct, whoxo duty 16 §s &0 provent fraudulent votiuz, Now, in makg provision for the eleztion uest Tueniay, theso Commine aioers havo introdused o ternibls and disgans- ful nnovation, That m to in ap- pointing U judzen they Lave | Fee ccted ~ men from only one political pat Now, this {3 not s bicech of law, L is'wimply the deoppiug of & timo-honored and praisewoithy custon. It bas | tho havit here tinin ont of mind to give both ides s chaaco o seo tho lallots connted. But the Conuty Commiss:oners in this fustance tako the ruepon. #ibility of srranging for tho counting of the Lal- 1oty by ono sido oniy. 'Tho ohject, of course, in to givo opportunition for fiaudulont voting auid fraudulent returns in favor of that ann s You may awk, Whv is ruch « deternined effory made ot this particalar tinie t corrapt tho bul- lot-Lox? The reas m i3 vbyi zis. AL tho eloction 0f Tuosday the people olev 4 Coauty Treasurer,’ And why, you suay kek, 14 thiz of 0 much more woment then tanl # Vo reavon for this may be peen down town, between ltandolph and Washiogton streots, and between LaSelle and Clark strects, llavo you mot rcen iho tent lolo that has” bLeen dug there? Within the next two years thero is to o built thoto 8 Coari-Hoaxe, “worth mitlions of dollars, and the Treaturer will haudio all of that roney. Tat you may aek, Why in that euch n Sesirabio duty? DBecausc hn hopes to be atlo to ctenl at least 2500,000 of the umount Loforo ho ratires from offica. ‘TLis 14 the repson thut Mr, Lesing deires this oftico. Tho salary of the porition would not buy lia cigars, Jut ho s over head and enrs m debt, and if he can havo the han- dlingg of ail the money e hupes ta pay Lis dulis £ad come ont wealtuy. ‘This also 1 the renson tuat the Comunssioners do not want apy yacty bat their own to inspect 1o elections. Lley know that tho Ouposition ficket cannoi bo olected but by frauduleut moaus, and that the STand will ba fupomeiblo i Luth jarties ors rep- 1erented amon tho judges of clection. Henca they tako tuo reeponsibility of altenng the but- orablo custom of otiervears, ‘Thoy sro not aftaid of Josing their reepectability, but they nro in martal foar of losing o baudling of tho peoplo’s monoy. Now, iu view of this snomalous and alarming situation of nffair, the Lusiticas 1aen of the city, the mon whoss earmngy ara to buid the Cous House or bo stolen by lesiog and bis gaug, de termined that, if it "wore possible, they would provent thia fearful robbory, Accordingly, they called o mceting of business mon, not of cand- dates for ofice, but of hohorable business e to dovitio means for thwarting the viliaimons pur- poses of the Coinmissioners, Tho meeting way hield at Farwell [all, undor Clirietian auspices, and was 8 good aud Boble one in itd sizo and ity materinl. Its business wny prosressing in tho mout eatinfactory mauner, when it was_inter- rupzed by tho cntrance of Mr. losing and an - furisted mob of his followels, who raised an up- roar, aykaulted tho platform. dragged io oseu. pots off it to tho floor, amd broke its furniturs to epliniors, You have all read tho shumefal particulars in tho papers, but I am_ informed by oyc-wituesses that the econo balled deacription. Of all the jmpudent aud rascally outragen evor porpetrated in this community this is the worsc. Ta_think tnata pareol of professional thieves and robbers whould Aoizo tha Governmont end tho Tressury, and that whon rospectablo citizens atlempt to protest nzainst it tho thieves should mab them und break up their mootingg! Aud to thinik that when an appeal was made Lo tho po- lico for protecton Lhiat it was unavailing ! I tell you, my. [iiends, wo are all dingraced by thesoe procoodingr. Unless romethini bo done 10 tes- tify our sbhorrenco to moboeracy, people will svold our city s they would a post-houee, And what was tho protext uuder which this disgracoful essaull was made? Why, Mr. Hes- iog said that he invaded Farwoll iiall and its viatform because his charsctor hod Leen ma- wmlod thore, and o hud a right to go thate ty dofeod it. Indoad! ‘fhen if you seuail o maw's character fu your parlor, Lo has & right to Lrek an and turn you oui, snd roply to_your comments! And 1f T aswail Mathodism in my pulpt, any Mothodist preacher Dias o night to turn me ont of my pulvit and an- swermo! This is fair ressonimy, but who will accapt thess inforencos? 1f I ulandor you, you bave your reuiety in s court of justico, O, if vou profer talking back, you can rout a hall and talk back to your huart’s tontent. Hut you have 10 nzht to deizo a hull which hiaw boen Fented to nassll you in, and occupy it for your defengs without consent. Tho truth Is, Mr. esiug's axcuso is 8 mera pretenso, \vhat ho meaut to do wus to capture that mooting and defent its object. Me kuow that, if tho meeting should vuve a success, Lo would prove o failure, aud 9 deliborate!y resolyed thas hie would mub and wzpol from the hall the merchants of Chicago, assembled for no othor purpose thau the protoc- tion of the ballot-box in an impurtaut election from wholesale fraud, Tho blamo and sbanie of this erime will atiach to him throngh lite, 1 conaider it my duty, as a teacher of religion and morality in this community, to i51d up theso nctors to your Christiau condemnatioo, aud to excito within you tho greatest possible indigua- tion, both at this invasion of our hvertics and nt the shnmelesy robbery which it was dexivnod 10 favitiike, 12 tha peopio uf this city cannot rent a hall and hoid a meeting for the ospression of their opinions oo asy public matter without being liablo to luterraption and eaplure by & mob'of (coplo who thiuk otuerwieo, then thoro 18 sn um& 10 all froe epecch aud 1reegovernmont ; W0 aro on tho road to auarchy aud slavery, 1t will Le s Bad day for Chicugo, fur it trado, and for its growth, and ity goo.l name, whou it comes to bo undsrstood that charactor and brans arn below par hero, sud that brute wircuil and shamele-d sudacity are the reguaut forcos of onr wocioty. — The thioves thotasclyos will thon #oon Lave nothing to t over ond stesl. Very fow peonlo realize, I think, tho serious and dreadful - wickeduess of otiieinl peculation. Wo easily neccelve the wickeduess of u poac man stealing & hum or plece of bacow, 1ut it is dinl- calt for us to fool 60 wuch virtuous 1wdignation at tho beJuwolod Treasurer who gots away with half a willion of dollars. Now, in my opiion, such a man 18 woree thou a murderer, and ought to bo exceuled fu sumo speeially shamoful aud paiutul auner. ¥or taxes, bo it remembored, do not cume aliogetlior, if at all, out of tho rich, 'The real-ostalo Ownor pays a tax, bus ho collucts from his tobant. And raiong tho ax only raikos the rent. I'ho mun whu keeps » gro- cery gety b tax out of hiy customers, und rais- iug his tax 14 simply raisiug the prico of every pound of sugar or tes that hia Loor customors uy. Theu, whon a Couuty Treusursr steals euough to buy himsoll n dtamond pin, or s wife a “flue shawl, or b8 fricuds s suppor, what does ho do? o wmmply squoczos hat much sugar, toa, wood, aud clot:os out of the poor pooplas of this cuuns 1y, And, 10 my mind, thera s vuthing ahinira- DLlo about this,” A man who lives 1o luxury sud sceumulates 8 fortuna by such moane tv au out- luw, and doserves tho mows violent and igno- wivioua death that a Legviature cun futlics and a plundercd poople exocut 1 counsel you, thoretore, as a Clirlstian minls- tor, as alover of poor, sufforing Lwanity, e & hater of tyianny aud opproesion, to uss your best sudeavors 10 save this city (rom A. C, Hen- ing on next Tuesday, 1 do not urge you to vote . for auy particulur pesaou ; 1 only uige you not to vate for him, und to uso all your might to dufeat Ins olection. Evorything that you hold dear may depoud upon it, for not anly your own mouoy, but your libertios, uro at kisko. This quoution Law rigon far out of tho rozian of politics. 1 awm no Republica wyeclf, Texpoct to v6to the Oppo- sition Heiat, alter I havo scrutched out Hewing'a uame, Lue Iwill not Jovg tran with sav party Lust upproves, or that does uot opouly disavow aud condeive, sich atrociouo assnults on dicous ¢y und oa 1100rty w Hesig has beew guilty of. 100 hot gay that you 810 above meddliug with politics. You wight just aa well aftect contompt- uoua iudifference as to whethor your fawily khall ba plundered or murdered. For that is oxectly what 1t comnes to at lael. And the tiwo will come when you will bu glad enough, uot to deyoslh your ballot, but to suoalder your muskot, ta pre. borvo your homes from the criminals and jaile birds whu lnvaded Furmell Hall last Fridsy night. I canuot close without referring to the fact that Chioako, whicl is sitch & corrupt city, s also 80 iufidol city, . ‘Turn it aud twisy 1t as you may, lofidelity and diehoucaty go togethar. Jesus Chyiat taught a love for men which, so far from parmitting bls followers to be robbers, soune seled sam £0 aubmit 10 robibery, and love thalr enemies. When men drift awas from iliy teach- ings, and aeqniro A eontemipt for His pereou. tuiey goneraliy (hanard i ratity, sl Tata overy apeeies of waltishn e and wick Perhajm I ourht to ssv that whenie madn up their minds to rieal, thes imodiately Atuack Chrintianit ino infdals, 1 Lave ua'l u vory unbaiuy feohing aomt CLi- cago iatgly. | am inciiued to think that its mus will procipitalo upun it kumo fearful scourgen, The sery Christana of this city are moro Iiko the rous of Belisl than they arc hke L k and 1o #ly Josus, And Islinll ba agreesbly inted if, at weme not distant dav, tho Altaiehity does not kend 18 through a hottor tire than He'did four viarm a2, It cannot bo that a ciry that Iias 5o wany privileges and siich glori- oun fossibilities, aud 1< you overran with erielty, rolbery, and rottenncss, can escaro tho corrac. tona of tho Al ity Tet us hope that God's wpint may be pour d ot on the backwliders thin winter, wid thad tha tone of the whole commu- nity way bealier 4 an | tmproved by a glonous revival of trua aod ni icligion, —— THE PERILS OF THE HOUR. ABLIERS ¥ THE BEV. 3, [h BAVLING Tl ev. N. F. Lavlin mpokn last osoning to & very Iargo aud intel hirll enruer of Clinten ax selected on bt subject, * Tl Patilaof the Hour, and the Duty of LEvery Good Gt Tues laz,™ o spolo without not the Contdie tien of Things ™ a4 his argumont. A Lrief ab- stract of Lin uddrern i appendod: Ile eaw no neutnal groand in tus {mpending contest, Thero wore but two mdes of the great question, —everyLiody was fur or aygcinst right- ©cous musicipal government. He did not mpenk for one party or another, for in politics, &3 in telizion, hie bad forgntten absolnte fealty, and wae fndepondent. 1o huew nosbing perscoaliy sbout the gentlemen who wero onpombiy Memng for Couuty Tremsurer, tut he Loow of Hesing, lug hist ambition, and rims, It weuld be far betler that tun city and county should reeaive a new vistation of the devouning fHauics than that tho Goverument ehould remain tn the Lands of eleincat that it had been cuntrolled by for weveral years, To continue it wonld bt to po.-oi thy moral, educa- tiznal, mnd cammercial intereet+ of the city, mako troperiy werhicw, wnd to grace Clicago in tue eses of the world, The fact bf ¢xcluding tho Bivlefrem theachooly, nbatractedly, did pot amount 1o auythin tho Tact that 1t was ths result of & demand of the tlueves, drunknrdy, aud tho Iowest element a 5 fmpertance 1At o tleman then P tho despicable bad ailaded. from the t ladics by mob nt draw tho conciusion that the cbjet of the losl- crs who wore attempting to porpetnate tl power and lay bands unon the County T1eraury was to uitimately introdues mto tie country tha hicennn of Germauy and tho proetisution of Franco, Ho theo took up the mpartance of maintain- ing the purity of tue ballol-box, which ho eaid Was now - peme threat- cped by the nprincipled clement of the citr. Tio ballot-box was tho eeat aud foundation of Lonext government, and if it was allowed to be currurted, a8 be bolioved it wap ar- ranged it should bo rether thuu that Hesiug should bo defeated. tho end was not yet. A pare stresin conld not powsbly flow from an impuro fountain, avd o corrapt Lallot-box in Chicago Tuosday woald bo felt throughout the length aund breadtl of the Tand, Tho net of Mr. Hesing in ottempting to bieak up the meotiug of tho merchants, added to the uabesrd of pro- ceeding in oppninting judges of oloction, satistied him that noihing wan tan desverate. too base, or viclent for the element headed by him secking furthor dominion sud power. e char- acterizod thio atiack ou the merchants’ meeting &8 evidenco of tho purpose of ths uugodly rifl- raff, and the action of thn olizo on the occasion 1o waid was a disgraco tiat was Jauded by thoss now engaged in watring on tho public fnterest. Ho daolt at length on tlin part of hisdiscourse, and took ocacusion 1n thoconrso of sn earncat ex- pasure of Hosmg's ambition and history t3 ask 15 CODRTOKALION 1 they Wero lu symnuthy with tho onsiaught attemptod iipon tho public : and, fol- lowing his qacry, ho coutendod that Whoover supported Les placcd bimself ulongside of the thicves and gawblers, headed by dhlo MeDonall (who, if Lo bad hia deeerts, would havo long eince beon in prisou), aud the ecouriuge snd serapings of the city. e wonld ba korrr to count for any of his flock nny euch surfound= ings, but bo Bpoke tho naied truth amd nothing more. Hesmng wes 8 arunken, bloated, anibi- toua infidel. who waa weckiug the allice of County Trewsurer, 83 ho wud limself in print, to yoy theretrom lis doLte, which he Lad no sympathy for. Tho speekor did not hold acy onmty toward him, but 1t was his pruciples that Lis would oppose. 1o hiad 6o prefercnce for any- one nu against bim individually, atd tad noather futerost in the rerult Taesday thau to ueo tho boet 1acn elected to oflice. Iio lwl 1o one to rocommend to the peoplos euflraye, but ho would vote a5 ho bad preacked. e would choose betwoen the threo ovils, and bad said what bo bad, not becauso e was disposed to Bpeak upou she subjoet, but becansa it waa his duty justas uch n8 it was to proclaim tho | nichnesa of God's Holy Word, The speaker coucluded by urging his hearers to atiend the polle Tuesday, and voto ogamnet mob-rule, wgast rings, ngainat corrantion, and for an Lonest adwimy- tratiou of city and county oflicers. 1lo wos nat in favor of “woman suffrage, but he wishoed that the coming clection could be loft to them, and Lo wonld have no fear of tho result. Ho ulljurcd thew, whilo they conld not voto thems 8elves, to woe that their husbands, sous, and frisuds did their duty,—that shey voted sund workod for the succesy of rivhteons government. A short conferenco meeting followed tho rove orond gontleman's addrosy. o which tho theme of the evening was the subject of prayer. PORT HURON VESSEL HEWS. Srecsal Diawated to The Clicagr Trioune, Pont Hraon, Mich., Oct. 81.—DowN—Props Holland, Antetopo and Dbares: &chrs D. 8. Austin, Mary Battle, Nevada, Elizabetls Jonos, Ewerald, Buntiso, C. A, King. Ur—Props Nebraska, Commodore, Wixp-Jlovan—Trops City of Duluth, Wenona, Vienna and congort, Tempoest and baiges ; schra Hattio Wells, J. 8. Austin, Richard Winslow, J. Q. Masten, Wost Side, J. B. Rico, J. 8, Miner, City of Qroon Day, Watortown, Elvira, Jo ?hl:]yfl!‘. Melvin 8, Bacon, W, IL Rouuds, Dun- ord. p—\Vest, fresh. WraTiten—~Cold, cloaring. AT Savp Beacy Haniok or RErrae—Tiops Furan City, Nebraska, Benton, Dean Richmoutd, Pavusic, Pacifie. Tradur and barge, Mary Pringlo and barges, Coflinbury and burges, Glasgow and barges. ‘Townsend aud consors, Forest City and soueart schru liarvest Quoen, Hopublic, and ttio, The barga E, T. Judd, which was ashore an Port Austin licot, tud was reseued by tho tug Winelow (which was upatle to tow her alonyside turough & beavy ses aud leit ut stchorage), is mow nearly shoro again, she haviug dreggod hier anchor, Bhould he bo boached agaiv, sho will prove o total loss. + 'The renoouer C, A, King, which was sshoro noar Old Mackiuaw, wea towed In to-night by the tug Prindivile, teaking somewhat. ‘The burge Belle Rtoveny arrived down to-day in the proyeller Antelope's tow, almost ontirely under water, po portion of her belog visiblo above water oxcert & small lpnt of lor rall aft and Ler cabln, the lumber only wustaining bor, TEMPERANCE. Svecial Dispaieh (o 1he Chicago Tridune. Brovx City, Ia., Oct. 31.—Mru. M, I, Degrer, who edits tho Chicago Crusader, doliverod an outdoor temporance lecture Lere this atternoon. An immenso crowd congregstod to hoar Ler, Sho was ationtively lstonod to and loudly spplauded, und at the close the audience joined 1u sminging the doxology, Bhe hlmkd this evening on the #amo subjoot at the First AL E. Church, which Waa denssly orowde P JOURNALISTIC. Srecral Dupateh (o The Chicaza Zribune, Drooxixaron, L., Oct. 31.—Tho Bloomiugton Pantagraph pioved into ita now building Butur- day, comer Washiugton aud Madlson sirools, which is porbaps ss tlue a buildiug us 1¥ oceu- pied by sny proviucial ’uurul fn the Weat. It three-story brick, of ueat design, siwple and yet caaato filsh, and basall tho counvoniencas for the proger perforumance of journalistio work. e BUFFALO WATER-WORKS. Boecial Dispatch to The Chicare Triduns, Burrare, Oct. 91.—The Buifalo Water-works tunne! under Nisgara River, which has bsen la course of coustruction (wo yeéars, was opsned h!‘a“t.:n inlet pier Baturdsy oight. Jactically cowplaios 8 groat works WASHINGTON. Tho Pres the inlons upon Cuban Troublouy Question. Ho Thinks the Continuance of Blood- shed to Bo Growing Insupportable, The Present Condition and Statloning of the Unlted States Navy, Light New Bloops of War Nearly Ready for Sailing Orders, Washod Postage Slamps---Gibson's Whitewash =Bill King Redivivus, THE CUBAN QUESTION, VIEWS OF THE PRESIDENT, Wasnmvaros, Oct. 31.—The dincuseion of tho Fpanish Cabinat's reply to what is called in tho late Madrid telogram, ** Iho Washington Note." haa reference to the unsettled fuestions between the two conntrien. The exact points of thia of- cial papar cannot ba ascertained, but they may Leinfeired from the views of tho President, which form tho bueis of tho instructious to Minister Cusbing, and which show that the Presdent regards tho ‘eivil disscnsions it Cuba, and ecapecially the esnguinary hostiliticy, as prolucing effects in the United States recondin gravity ouly to thage which ther prodieo in §;mn. The nltimate fssue of eventa in Ciba wili Lo its independence, bowevar tuat issuc may Le prodnced, whether by moans of negotiatious or as the reen't of military op- erations, or one of those uucspreted lucidents which 0 frequantly detarminn tho fate of nn- tione. Tho continnance of the insurrection grows day by day wote insupportable to the United States, and, whilo the sitention of thin Government fs fixed on Caba in tho interest of hamanits by the horrora of civil war provail- iug tuere, it cannot forboar to redecs that cua of glave labor in Cuba, and its ine the fechugs and iutercets of the ular. Kpasards lie at the foundation of all the calagitics which nov: aftlict the island ; but t'a.erv cannot lonz continuggin Cubs, cn- irened os that islaid is by coMnnitien of em- anciuated #laves in the other 1ndia Islands aud tho U'nited States. Tho Prerident han not been without hope that all thesn questions might be setzled by tho epontancous act of Spain her- wotl, #lin being more deeply iuterented in huch o eettlement (han all the rest of the world, Tho questinn, what decision tho T Staten khall make, in a verions and dilicult one, not to be determined whhout careful entimidors- tion_of its corplex eloments of domestin aud fureiga poliey, but the determination of which may at any moment bo forced npon ua by oceur- 1onces oither in Bpain or Cuba. Withal, the Tresident cunuot but rogard independenco and omencipehion 85 the ouly certain, aad evon the vecewsary, solution of the qaos- tion of Cuba, ~ and, ia bia mud all incidental questionm ' are quite eubor- dioate to theso, The P'resident does not me li- tato or desire tho auncxation of Cuba to the United States, but its efevation into an jude- pendent Republic of freemen, in harmocy with outselves aud with the other ropublics of "Amer- ies. Tho policy of the United States in refer- once to Caba {3 ono of expectancy, but with positive and final convictions as to the duty of the United Stases when the timo or emergency of mction shall arrive. i OUR NAVY. ITS PRESENT CONDITION, WasminoToy, Oct. 31,—The new sloops-of-war Alert, Aliinoce, Essex, Hsuger, Adams, Trenton, Huron, aud Euterprize, will soon bo resdy for sea, ond most of them will bo in service befora tho eud of tho year. The Trenton is mot yot Jaunched, butit le thought she will bo by the 5th of Decomber cext. The Alert is slrcady in commiseion, The Alliance, now at Philadel- phis, will Boon be pat in commission. Tho Rangor will, in a fow day, go to Philadelphia to gos hor o1 Tho Adams and Essex at Bos- ton, tho Enterprive at Portamouth, N, H,, and the Huren st Norfoll, Va., sre rapidly being propared for kea, and their offcers will soon ba orderod on board. It is thought tho Alert will Do ordered to the East Indiea to join our squad- rou in thudo wators. The othiors will bo ordered to join tho North Atlantic floet as fast sa they aro put in commiswion, and aa the vessels aro necded abroad they wili bo ordered from the North Atlautic to foreign statians, 1t is tho pol- icy of thie Socrotary of tho Navy to keop a large number of vessels in tho North Atlantio fleet, 80 a8 to relieve vewsels abroad from this station whon neeesasry, The Worceeter, at presont the fing-ship of that station, boiug vory old, will be ordorel to Nortolk a8 & ro- celving ship m placo of the New Hampebire, which vessel will bo sont to Port Ttoyal, 8, C,, nnnutnra-eh'l&z for tho North At- Inutic tleet.” Thie lartford, which receatly ro- turtoed home from au Awmiatio stution, will be the new flag-ship of the station. During tho troubles grofing out of thoe captiro of thp Virginius by e Spanish mau-of-war Tornado, our Guvern- ment sufferod great inconvonieucs on account of tie vory wosk conilition of our navy, but, since then, the Departmeut Las bLeen doing all in ity power, with the limited meana At its dispossl, to Luu the navy in s good condition, 8o that we may o ready 10r any cmorgency, Ihe iron-clads Mottauk, Mauhsttan, Baugus, Mahopse, Neu- tucket, Ajax, Cauouicus, Cateklll, Jason, Dicta- tor, aud otbars, are in a seagoing condition, aud, should occasion roquire, thay could be put in wervice m fivo days, — NOTES AND NEWS. WANIIED POSTAUE STAMDS, Brecta Disrateh to The Clitcagn Tribune, WAIRINGTON .+ Oct. 31.—In the report of tho Third Assistant Postmauster-Genoral for 1874 n paragraph occarred in allusion to lossea sus- taioed by tho Govornment from the illicit use of washed postago stamps, whicls, being publishied inall tha leading newspaers, ultimatoly tonud its wny to probably every village in tho laud. ‘The natural effect of such wide-spread publica- tion bias been to stimulate iudividual effore for remedsing the evil, and tho Dopattment has con- sequently been flooded with propositions to tuat ond. Many of these schiomes are ut- tealy absurd, A Jarge unumber, offerivg better claimas to attentgin, havo yes contuined somy objectionable featurd swhich would tonder thoir adoption impossible, whilo others are o claborato or oxpensive that their purchasy and n4a in tho 45,000 post-ofices of the country would noceseitata a xreater expondgiture of woney thna the muount of lows they aro wtended to proviut, Among the most plsusivle projects Jrosontod are the emuloyment of fugitive colors In the printing of postage stut]s, or of inaelible inky in canceling tho stamps vOW 1u use, bot there way be objections to the Brt of thowa propouitions, snd, Witk regard to the lattor, thera has baen po ditticuity in discovering solvents for most inka submutted, which rendered thotr removal from stamps a comparatively easy snd inoxpensive procesd. ort, the tostw and in- vestigations thus far wude, juvolving vast amount of tuny, labor, aud snuoyanco, have Leen productivo of no abaolutely good results, aud, ad it is probatilo that avy further exporis ment jn this direetion will prove equally futile, thio Departmant basdecided to olose the kubject, und to cousider no wore propositions 1n relation thereto. AN ABTIRTIC Jon, Information has beeu recoived hero in regard to tho courso of the Usage Commission, and its methods of oxamiuation shows that the whole uffair was o whitowssh of Agent Gibsou at the expenso of the Indian Commissiouers, The veruion of {18 reports furnished the press at the time trom tho Iudisn Ottico ewmplasized tho fact that tho Government had not lost snyibiog by tuo acts of Qibson which were complsiued of. ‘T'ue quibble throughout vko report that the money misnsed bolouged to Usages and uot ¢ thie Gavernment. MILL RING. 3 ‘Tho Hon, William 8. liiug has sonounced his intention to apcear aud be wworn in on the first day of the wession. At one fwe La wae unclined 10 await tho resuit of tho proceodings sgsinst Lim, but now be eays bo will bo ou Land with, the iutontlon of tarting oven with the rest, "Thus far, during tho recess, ho has drawa ray regularly. Certain of the parties to ti Pacitio Mail inveatigations last winter aro pre- parivg to force another iuquiry st the oponing of the next sesslon. Bowo uf thom w4801t thad Col. frwin bas divcovered notes aud papers which will eoable bim {o race much more of the fraud disby in Washington tban he did when out ou tho stand Hatob and his mfiy deolare that thay wili bs abla to psodaca & liss with the names of all the partira who received any portion of tho fund, eitWer dirnctly or indirectly. # (10 the Avinetited E're Wasnisatox, . C.. Oct. 81.~-Tho Asesistant +Troasurar at Now York has teon lostracted by tho Becretary of the Troasary toseft $2,000,000 of goid coitr daring the mofldi af Navembar, aa foliows: Five hundred thousaud dollara each Thursday. i e s MICHIGAN FINANCES. Spectal Diapateh to The Chicago Triduns. LassiNg, Mich., Ues. 31,—1he State debt, Oct. 30, 1375, was s follows Juterest-hoiriog. Non-ipterest-bear Total,.. Balanco _of cath i iho’ Siale Sopt 30, 17 Reveipta during tho month ending O 147 1al pirvaich ta Fae Chicage Tridune, Mich., Tho Hanlk Canal rec rlm fur 1535 guves the fullowing comparnuivo tas Lle Sometimes & call will not_glo s, Lresuse of the re liuttig of the tten th Giatnbuted to tho | tn ordinacs Tomo f1en of Lhe delieato ltlic air wa breatha is ‘L4 contltion produces dificuity of breathing, hocty g ot blsad, mate ter or phieata, Wually exuasistitg ti atrength of the patient, aud developih yery worious diseans, D, Jeyne's Lapectoraut acldom’ faud 15 10tnove thesa yiuptome, by Tolieving t ek ot al olstructing 1nstter, ard healinmg 8l porcu . Lleuriey, astam, and bronebitis, are likewise cnrad s this ‘standarc: remeds, aud e reputalion it has malntaved for 8o nany §eata ofiids the veat gustancy of i tacrit, __GENERAL NOLICES, TIMPORTANT TO PATRONS™ ERIE RAILWAY CORPARY. Change in Running Arranpgement of Pull- man ‘Phrouph Hotel, Draving-Room nnd Bleoping Conches, via Dae Railway, to Now York, commencing Monday, Nov. 1, 18756, Through tesivs from Caiesgo aud cesignmuent of foliows ¢ NING EXPRESS 9:1Ja, 0. Via the Ne Tand (trom Dopot. 100, 1. via Micutgan wis, $ivda, w, Via Luke Sbore & Mickivut Southern Ralle (Sunaya exeenta), Note York dafl 10 p, . brawin, troms Case i Erle 2 Kl G ta New 3oty via New Lo & Chicaigo Line, via evland, Tulliian Sleeping-Coselies from Dutroit (7 . 1m.) to Hornelivs o1 from Clovelard 0:70 b, m.), via As & 0. W, Baliway, throngh to New York, Pullcan witw Drwatug-Room Corache ion rudie, Risgars Dails, Buttalo, nu to New ¥ from Ruspens urnelisvilio 4 train from Chicagnan fatnrdass Tunz thrnngh, armiviee m fow York Sunday eveniugs.) EVENING EXPRESS (v, 1. vin Newe L & O - i 13 S an ey Arriving’ Sew York daily, vis Erie Raway, 6:15 8. m. Tullwau Hotel CouLer, alva Pullinan widn Drawing. Toown Eleping Coacken from Cld aza to New York, via New Erie & Chirago Line, vis Clevelrnl, (Thire couchies leave Claveland for Now York, wida Drawing: Iceping Coachen from Buspension bridge, Catsds (802 p, ), Balals (230 p. .), through to New York, 1G31T EXPRESS (Haturdags end Susdays excepted), 0:00 pi 1n, via Michtzan Cenfral Kaiiway, 20:20 p, . vin Lako Shoro & Michizan Soutbern Ralk war. Arrviing New York, vis Erle Taliman wile Drawing-Toom Si Sitspension Unidge, Cauoda ido (s p. 1.), and Bufe ful (120 p. m,), throagh to New York, yoTirougl tcketu at oflices of avove-ngmed Chlesgo ines, lway, 12:35 p, m. ning Coaches from OTIoE CONTRAGTORS, Dids are invited for the Lridgtnr and Piling on 36 milew of the HigomGeld, Owensburg & Bedford ltall. roul; elso for tho conktruction of & tunnel 1,600 fect Iong ‘on sald road, Ilaus anel specidcations of the ALOYe WOk can le seen at the Compeny's Office at Bloomteld, Green County, Tnd,, unul Wodnesday, Nov. 3, InT4. ARTILIT DANALE) Ganeral Manager 1 _HOUSEKEEPING GOODS. FLANNELS LIIL;EDNS, Housekeeping Goods, AT TEE Great West Ead Dry-Goods Honse, CARSON, PIRIE & CO,, HADISON & PEORIA-STS., Call special attention to tho largo, full assortments aud Low f'ricea I these Dopartmenta, LA TITNINL.SS, Inall the best makes of American and Forelgn mante facture, ull wolghta and qualities, from Hilk Gauze up to heavicat Bliaker prudee, Faucy litd aul Shirting Flannels (n Great Variety, kant Huw of Imported Embroidored Flannel e lawer, than last reaton’s prices; beminning 1,258 yard, Medicated Flaunols, Tled Blaker Flanoels,, Siiriing Flanuels, ete, Largo assortment of Dlanketw and Comfortablea, ILINIGN =, Bpecial Barys 1n Dleschod Table Damanks, from 60 8 yard uywarde, Brown Damasks and Lorm Dico, from 550 up. All Liuon Damask Nupkins, §1per Jdoz., and oqual Bargaing in belter grades, Bloachiod Huck Tuwela, 1214. 15, 20 and 2 Fuira Bargain in Daniaek ‘fowsis, ail Lien, at 18 and Zie, Rich Assortment of Fino Knotted Fringe Towals, Kitchen Toweling fu Great Variely, M}fimm frow $1 upj Spocial Bargatns in ¥ine Marsellles Quilta at $.70 and $4.00, 1t Pays toTrade on the West Side WHITS LEAD AND OIL, T OEICAGO WHITELEAD&OILCO. E. W, Blatehford, Irest. C. F, Gates, Beo. Manufsctusery and Dealers in White Lead, Zite, Linseed 01, Patty, Colors, Varuishes, Cottage Colars, Lubricating Cds, Brushes, And Painters’ Matevials genepally, WHOLESALE & RETALL, PureGoods a Specialty. All Goods Warrantod as Ropresonted. LARGE RETALL DEPARTIENT. Bpeolal Inducements to Buyera for Cashs If our goods cannot be obtained readily, sond your orders direct to ouraddress, and thoy will bo prompte 1y filled at tho lowest priocs. 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