Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 26, 1875, Page 1

| Che @hicano VOLUME 29. EADOUARTERS nr BOSTON TO Putnam (LOTHING-HOUSE, 131 & 133 Clark-st., ARE:z "SELL GOODS AT Mamuiaciurers PRICES, ABWE WISE T0 CLOSE OUT OUR SURPLUS STOCK, ill Stip Goods Daily,” WITH THIS IDVANTAGE NO OTHER HOUSE IN THE CITY cAaAN WHPETE WITH US. PUTNAM (lothing-House, AND 117 MADISON-ST. FURS. ~ SAVE MONEY BY BUYING YOUR FPURS Both Ladies’ and Ohildron’s, at J BREWSTER'S. - Hia Blook {s the Best. His Prices the Loweat, FINANCIAL. ~er... FINANCIAL. TAZARUS SILVERMAN, Ohamber of Commerae, Ohioago, 4naces MONEY am Produce, Tieal Eatats, Clty Cor Yiien, 1ad Runta, Exclisngs for asle on sl pacts of DENTISTRY. TEETH. b7 D43 §20 and $30 when you the beat folt S of teeth at DAL, McOHER! ::v’lunar';‘d- ‘The finest 3 2 mont fugy “,Mml;mm-umhmuu. ‘Corner Clark. s FURNAQES, AR e oo e NRARANAS R THERE 18 GREAT ECONOMY In using ilie Tubular Furnsce, and goe, or_send Ulakort. e Bava 13 sises Farasdonstid dof Siopos, ‘Tha Harria improved A Hot Alx Ts tbe BEST, snd we warrant xxt TIRE satisfaction. BANGBBROS, siaia Call sud e, Yoa Hurei-ais. THANKSGIVING How the Day Was Observed in Chicago and Elsewhore, Union Services During the Morn- ing in Various Churches. The Rev. L. T. Cliamherlain Explains Why We Should Be Thankful, The Recent Election, and the Duty of Every Citizen. Drs. Fallows and Goodwin and Maoj. Whittle Deliver Addresses, Scenos in the County Hospital and at the Orphan Asylums, The Newsboys Foast on the Contri- butions of Their Friends, The Congregation of Olivet Chureh Try- ing to Pay O Their Debt. The fnmates of the Jail an Exception to the Jollity of the Day. How They Cclebrated Through- out the Country, With ous ead oxception, Thankegiving Day passed off quielly and happily in Chicago. Tho weather was perfact daring tho forencon and a portion of the sfternoon, and the etrests wero fitled with people enjoying the wolcomo holidsy, The goneral foatures of the day, {ucluding tho mors prominent religious services, scones at tho cliazitablo inatitutions, ete., are given below. e RELIGIOUS SERYVICES. THE NORTH SIDE. SERVICE AT THZ FOURTH PRESUYTERIAN CHUACH. ‘Tho Graco Methodiat, the New Eugland Con- Rregational, and the Fourth Presbyterisn Churchos held s union Thanksgiviug servico yes- tordsy morning in the last-named church, cornor ot Rush and Buperior atreets. Prof, Swing con- ducted the sorvico, which, boyond the neual Thanksgiving hymns, had no special features. The congregation was the largeet ever seen within tho wallaof the church. Tho scrmon, which was preached by Dr. Chismborlain, of ths Now Epgland Church, was s follows : Ho took for hintext: to His There is a logond which tolle us how once, in tho land of Lydis, famine held fierce sway, and day by day men dled of hungor. Yet whon it came, at last,—eo the atory ruos,—that tho liv- iog might eat but once in two days, there wero found bravé sonls who cried with dauntlces gleo, *On those days, then, when food must be fore. gone. we will playsuch gamos that we forget our pain,” And 80 to them, 'tis aid, We owe The trumpets, d bells which mirth To-day, and g et e nudv/gad They tirst wero born, Ana there is a story—not logend—which tolls how once a band of humble men and women ‘cronsed an ocean, braving wintry storms and the horrora of an unknown snd desolate shore; how thoy facod savage foo and still more savage want; how in less than = twelvomonith half their number were in the grave, the eix or seven sble survivors sowing with corn the burisl ground iteslf, that the enemy might not read the record of their losses; and how, to unavolnted eyes, it must have seomed that in the future too thero was only pain and death., Yet how, even in each bour of anguish, they proclaimed a servie of publio praise, and met to render thanks for morcies sent of Heaven! Inheritors of thoae laat, as well as of the firat, are we, my frieads, and I trust that in all our Liearta to-day thers is that which puta us in sym- pathy with the summons to joy and thaokas, And this I say, although I remember that thers are those to whom this anniverearv brings sad thoughta, I koow, indeed, that mot even a » single year might roll withont the disappoint- ment of plana and the blighting of fond desires. ‘There arc desolato homas which & year szo were gluL Circles of family snd companionship are roken, and soow-flakes have alroady whitenod the graves which the summer-fiowors had scarce- ly time to cover. The shipe of hope havo sailed boyond the wetling-sun, and- the heart grows sick with waiting ; or they have been sig- nalod in wreok and reported back in utter loss, Iu lire's hushed and desert places the tears aro falling ail the faster, becauss the time of re- {.olclug bas come, and the contrast seoms too ltter. Burely, thes, it s mot for mo to call to-dsy with simply checry voice. T shall bs pardoned i, in tho preseucs of som: who are here, thoro creeps into my tone s troi ulous tenderness. Uod deal gently with the wearied, afilictea ones, nor lot the prevalling cheer strike discords in the soul's awest pmaim. Yoa, may charity’s mioistrations reach to-day he poor and depraved, and to the homos of want and crimo some evangel of pisy onter in. Yot the summons of tnls day is 'to joy and thanks, aod I countit blessed that to my heart there comes, at timew, just suchacall. [am sure it {s well for us, now ana thon, to gon together to the mountain-tops of life, and look from thence for the thioge of blessing, Is it not true that when, from such a vantage-ground, we take olear note of the path by which we our- eclves havo bean led, we must own abundant reason for rejoicing ? From such pointa of out- look is it nat dls ble, and to the eys of sight, that thers Is ** & ranbow round sbout the throns™? In thaupper air of the hills does not even the afMioted soul breathe assurances of s lnfln&_:.mdncu which sll tha while was guld- iog? ere, whore the light is pure and serene may not even {earfulll eyes gatch glimpees nl that Providence which, t0 bim who loves and truats, ' makes all thioga work for good"? I venture, then, to ask each one to whom either tho l‘{mxa'kon or printed word may reach to join mo, firat of all, in thaoks for individusl bless- fogsl flomlhlnfnughw me that it were most benefliting both ocoasion and to tl actusl facts of life that s with one voice and from one heart we sbould send up the tribote of our own dirsct rojoicing. Because God has been gracious to us one by one; becauss for us e Lias averted calamities and tempered afilic- tlo becaude He has put such multiplied favors in our oup of lifs, snd sustalned us in drinkipg the occasional bitter draughts; be- cauae Ho haa helped us to grow fnto something vew of worth aud powor; because, in ahort, to us Ile haa been good, and only good, and that continually ; we are oonstrained to' hlsss and magoily His name. Anthoso whoia their owu experisnces have tasked God's mercios, we msy n‘l onter His gatos with thanksgiviog and His courta with praise.” Bat, my frierds, as we tune our hearts to the hour, we find them thrilling to Indeed, thounand the welfars of the community, In hat in tlus p AYS 1t st bave coms to year, evon nhared i results whic brought abont by common upheld by common consont. Not quite pos~ sible, I judge, can it have been that we have gono our wav and not known that our own well- ning was bound up with the well-heing of our fellow-men, Of couras time wss when meclu- siveness of thought and life might bo cherishod ; for then socioty was hatd!y more than the aggra- Ration of Indopendent particies. fo the laat event, the necersitien of tho jndividnal are con- Hioed to the things which he himealf might sup® ply. Ina mort of savage, Ishmaslite fasbion, oach ona defled tha reat, and wrapped himself iu his unconcern, But tho dawn of trug civilization was tho dawn of a differont life. In the very multiplicity of goucral wanta thore was a hond of general unlon. It st hlwlg and on most matter-of-fact considerations, became mn sc- kuowledged truth that what was of individunl momont was of common moment; and that what, in turn, afected tho many waa not of in- difference to any individual, At lesst, in the relations and inter-rolsiions of modera life, wo realizo that to himself no man either liveth or dioth, Bo tuat on grouuds farthest removed from spiritual wo mav, if need ho, onforce the fact of a connectlon botwen our wolfars and the welfars of the public. Why, oven any fine lady in her boudoir, and he who compiains tuat his rost ia disturbed by some criumpled leaf in Lis bed of roses, must acknowledgo that they too aro part of a greater wholo. 'The deliglits of even their pampored sxistonce must be hsld as dependent on the woal and will of thoas who sur- tound them. Certainly, with the mulutode surg- ing about us In the coufluence and cancourss of & great city liko his, wo are compelled to ses that ho blessioga which havo hoon vouchrafod to us_individually aro bleasings which could have boen ours only as they prevailed in tha wider circles. Lot us, thereforo, presont to God to-day our fervent thanka that {n tho city snd the regions round about tharo has hoon “suck measure of ofug. Lot us, for our own sakos, be roy- orontly glad that pestilenco bas uot prevailed in tho abodes of the people at large; that tho sea- sons biave brought totue farmer auch roturns of tho soil § that mutaal contidence haa to such do- greo buoyed up the interasta of trade; that tho claima of good order havo mot with such popu- Iar respoct ; that tho sanctioas of law Linve been 80 widoly hoeded; that tho noeds of education Lave becn fo genorally regarded : that the sanc- titica of roligton bave boen 8o raversntly ob- served; and, in genoral, that such prosperity has boen grauted to tho interasts of tho whole com munity, Icould trust, indeod, that in the im- pulso wwhich does not stop to remainbor peraonal advantage, wo miglit, at this hour, be grateful for tho Llcssingn which on any side of ua have cheered tho hearta of our folluw-men. For such things it bocomes us to ronder thanke! Morcover, the propriaties of thia place and timo bear, I tako it. uudoubtod roference to tho national prosperity, We cannot mest biore with out tho remembranco that the coll which con- vones us boars tho sign manual of tho nation, 1t ig, in truth, one of the Lour's most plassant eflections that throughout theso United Statos citizens ars now reaponding to the summous. Tho aweet-tonod balla of the North, sud the South, and the East, aud the Wost, have soundod, Tho dwollers on tho mountsins and on tho plaius; by the Inkes and by the gulf; and along tho sliores ot eithor ocoan’; have givon obedient beed. In half a score of Iangusgea pronounced by lips once foreign, but nuw of the common country, tho national thaoks are at thls moment uttered, With argan noles aud hymos of joythe great land-wide anthem nacends, liko tho praise which went up from Istacl's hosts when tho ark and tomplo wore on tho sacred mount. It is well, accordingly, that wo lot miud aad Loart ex- and to national cousidorations, aud that we find o & uation's welfaro ono inspiration of our re- Joicing. And herein, though I know not what tuay conatitute your tirst ocension for joy, I am sure that vou will heartily unite with mo in my gratitude for the very fact of an undivided na- tion! Yoarshave paswed, yat I am compolled tore- coll tho time when our thanksgivings were in tho minor key of eupplication, and whon our praise was for the fact that not yot had hope of tho Republic quito aied fu our breasts, It some- times snews but yeatorday that in the midat of tumult and stiifo wo knelt beforothe Gud of battles. 1closs mv ayes, and thers como tho momories of cloud, and storm, and wild dismay, Again thera is the tread of armies, and again tho oarth tremblea at tho thundors of war. Iiow, thon, I inquire, shall we who have suchn past forgot to-dny that e aro aroscucd peaple? How shall there fall to boa doop and salemn shrill as thought of the Government still holding away over the whole national territory, and tha flag floating from every hill and on overy plan? 1 admit that I focl like sending up somse special note of praise, when I remember the woercy which kept us from being ront iu twain, Aud especially, my boarors, do I rejolce ina nation undissevared, whon I see_siuch tokens that the Urion is coming to bo & Union in reali- ty, and not meroly iu vame. For I acknowiedgo that at times, oven sioco the close of Lostilitios in the fleld, I have tremblod for the natioual safety. It 1aa fact that whon I saw tho original guanimity of tho Governmont spoiled by tho unworthiness of thora who, in tho restored States, obtained the places of exeoutive power; whon I saw the Boath given over, iu the all- important. period of reconstruction, to Btate sdministrations. such, for the worst part, a8 conld havo bgen suatained among no people eave at tho bsyonet's polnt; whenI saw tho miitions of freedmen intrusted with mighty pra- rozatives of which thoy did not 8o much a8 com- prehond. the propor use; wheu Isaw the strifo of iaces threatening to succeed ths strite of soc- tions, and the strifo of sactions changed in ooly tho arens aud methoda of its exprossion ; I felt that hardly bad wa scen the beglonwmg of tho end, 1 batod uot one jot of my faith cuat the Republio‘would survive, vet I did trombio at the way in which it wopeared that we must walk. 1 drosded tue desert {n which, for at least one Reneration, it seomed that wo should be obhiged to wander befote we reachod tae Canasn of our hopes. DBut to-day [ am comforted, ‘Lo-day I neod not climb tho far-off hsightsof faith in or der to soa tho smignaof s bottor era, Already our Bouth tastes the fruits of worthier govern« ment, and enmitios vanish in tho prosence of riglits guarantesd snd duties enforced. Alroady our freodmen bave beon 1natructed by thoe exer. clso of the franchise, and they and thoeirohildron hiava been learners in tho great sohool of equal- ity befors the law., Already our North moves to tho impulss of a larger, more patient good-wlll, and from oue end of tuo lund to tho other there is kindled a naw dovotion to theGovernmont and the flag. I hailthe omon. I we:coma the assurance. An Mecklonburg suswers back to Lexington, and Charioaton to Bunker Hill, I read the proph - eoy of good. 'fo my eyos the future of tua country grows bright with each day's anprosch to the bigh Centennial hoor, and I wait confi- dently for tho era of absolute, heartfelt reunion, Aud ona othier national cousideration is there which in tho gratitude of this ‘Chanksgiving-day may hold s foremnat placo. Oae, at least, which Llovo to belleve Lss suMiclent basis to warrant our recounting it na s gmund of epacial joy, I re- fer to what I judge to bo the return of the natiou toward wayaof hanosty and Lbonor, [aoe, indeod, how much still remains to be sccomphised. Isen too, how vanable and tentative 1 the effort thus far made. Now a splendid fighe and conquest, and now the acquisscenas in some flazrant wrong! IHero ailstug ammst fraud, and the smivng of it as with the vengeaace of Omuipo- tence, and thero the toleration of dishonesty scarcely lesa foul. Warniog progress and refluent rippleal Yet I sm suro that, on tha whole, tho march and the tide advanco. Asneverof late, the peaple, I think, are putting themuelves in battlo array, aod determining that in national affaits thore shall be cloanuess of band, even if oat oleanness of heart. Is it not an occasion of thankfuloess to God? Daoen it hot bespeak our forvont rejoicing aud our ferveut, hopetul prayer? Aye, when we look back, does it not seom that tho ameudment oame not a moment too soon ? Does it not soem thas another decade liko the last would have well-nigh completed our nationsl unsoundness and shatne? Of course we can assign tbe spocisl cause, Not by any meaus the flrat time in history is if that war, with {ts fincideutal license, 8 wroughi the depravation of uatioual iorals, 0% the firss timo ia it that in tho seetblog of tha elo- mants the lower constituouts have been brought to the surface | - Yet, for all that, the crisiawas none the Jess imminent, and the shame nooe the Minieter Ylavipotentisry dabbling and for & conulderation puttiug doubtful stocks on & toreigu market ! Oue who, a little while ago, was the almost successful cau- didate for the highost ofice in the gift of the Americsn people, beggaring thousands of the peassntry of & sister mation with his worthless bonds of a bogus rallroad! Benators sud flepresentatives en. riohing themselves by means of their own legia. lative sots, A candidate for the Governorship of & sovereign Siate aaserting that he would buy iato office, and actually doing it! A United s in other besn offort and ‘whatscever 18 approved of God. Btaten Juige clhiiming to relationabip to lnfluence ns then de Our great mousved corporations thresteningthe nosaibllity of a government by aud for the pen- plo just by the force of their money! Practical warfaie on the direct issus of colleating Ltho cun- toms and the reveuus; on the ona hand, men and women of mtanding virtually perjuring themselvos to cacaps legal duties ; and, on the other hand, Government spien lavying black- msil where thiera waa no intention of frand ! Municipaiities given over to rings of thieves, and soclety at laree runniog riot in the ways of spoculation sud display! 'The nation slaggering, &t lsst, uodor the mcumula- tiou of diagrace. and tha fonndations cof a good (Jovernment threatoned with overthrow ! Here again, therefore, may not our thankfulness at the tokens of reform be enhancod by the con- sideration tnat tuo reform I8 vothing less than a rescue 2 For my own past, I rejoica to-day ovar the nation checked in hor tremendous drift toward dishoncaty, oven as I rejoica over Lier salvation from dismembormont " and intostino ainife. 1 do bollova that even in the crisis of our perll the standard of roformation has been sot up. I have the faith that the American peo- ple, ioapired of God. and lad by here and thoro s truaty loader, will go on in the crusade of lhion- onty “uutil Hrivua uusaundnons, and corporate failures, and municipsl eorraption, aud govern- montal rottenness, shall give piace to that aplon- did righteousnces whereon may be bullt a na- tion's abiding weifare. And ro the record of our roasons for forvent thankagiving might be Indotinitely proiunzed. Dud tuo time allow, Tahonid be giad indeed to recotint somo of the hopoful signs.to bo ween in tuat rtill Iarger sky which overarches tho world. Istould not doom it inappropriats to refer to thoue international movements which, though sooming at first to bo far away from our concein, aro in reality of conecquence to svery poople and to overy jndividual. The world's prevailing peace; tho gouoral progress in wu{u of philau- thropic effort ; tho success of Christinnity in lieathen lands; tho great enlarging of civifiza- Hon's bounds. Thene are results which might bo summoned to augmont ourreverent rejoicing. But the bour passes, and in the few moments which you still may lend me, I wish to direct your stteotfon to certain abli- gations which rest on yon aa citizens of a com- munity aud » nation so signally blossed of God. You koow there is an inapired word concerning the very goodness of God leading ug to ropent- ance. Asuurodly, then, it will not bo a violent transter of thonght if we lot the welfars which in alresdy oura enkindls us to search for the {lutura mothods aud messuro of our peraonal uty. 1 certainly seod hnve no lesitancy in sug- gosting, at thim point, aud as the primary con- sidoration, that wlhiatover wo recounize to-dav 83 an occasion of parsonal thankegiving should bo mado an inapiration toward porsonal perfec- tion. . As the rocipients of tho Divine bounty. we ought to return the offering of an endeavor to pleass our Benofactor, Wo aro gathcrod here in public, joyful wership. Yet we kuow, on an ingtant's reiloction, tho Ho whom we worahip will scarcely bo pleased if our morvice ends lu naught but rejoicing. Wo know full well that, aa He looks into’heart and lifo, e will wish to find thero tho ovidance of our gratefulnese, Wea can nlmost hear Ilim mayving, ** I'have blessed My eople in basket and store; [ havacoriched them n mind, body, and estate; 1 have male the ont- goinga of both their morning and thoir even. 1o0g8 to rejoico. And nos°l loug to seo them be- coming wiiat My favored ones should be, 1 long to seathem, individuslly, putting ou tho porson- al virtues which prove them to ba 3y grateful ohildren.” Let us, then, in this glad hour, re- consocrate oursolvos, in our private life, to Let uns go from this placo resolvod to carry to tho hone, and to the relations of domestic and so- cial friondship, somo new worthiness of being. Let thavkfuluess Lt ua above all harduoss and solflshucss, into the fairer realms of gentleness and love. Lot the boautyof joy earry us on to the bosuty of holiness, and the garmonts of praise be transfigurad upon us into tho gsrments of asplration for all that is personally praise- worthy. And yet, the moment we consider the issues of duty, wo 1ind ouraclves borne to wider rela- tions, ~ As our Dblossinga are moen to ombrace community and nation, it dawos on us that our obligation must bs equally large. As ws walk the upward and shiniug path of thanusziving, we behold the vision of acrvica expanding to broader and broader horizons. It Ia here, how- over, that we have pecd to admoniah oursclves againat a fatal inconsistoncy betweew perception and act, Tho argument is “cloar, but the prac- tical conclualon ia oftan espacially faslty, Those who personally and positively emulate sll private virtnos aro not lufrequently lndifersnt to more public demands, Inthelr vory whitenoss sad carofuloess of life shey shrink from the rudor, moro open struggles. Sometimos, in honest discourngomant at thelr fll-sucosss, thoy think thoy mav lawfully dovoyy thewselves to woas iy simply thoir own concorn. As & vonsequonce, thoy gradually yleld to the prevailing tendency sthich makea goodaesa sesk repose, and culture instez on aeclusion, and enterpriss prefer private investnents. And B0, a8 a furthor o ssquounce, the coatrol of public affairs passos largoly into the hande of those who are in every wav unworlhy. They who deem puphie Iife arena for ssifieh aggrandizement and pouitions of publio trust the opportuuity for poraonal plunder, ars suffered to carry into effect thelr base idens. Whilo, meantime, the gowned and slipperad Gallio sits by his firsside and hopes that there will be peace, at lesat in his dsy sod generation, Now against all this, and 10 the namo of » duty which appeala to blosstogs enjoved, I come to-day to protest. aa an amnbassador for tho publio weifars, aud for righteousness, and for Ourist, I entroat you to hald vour reistions to the community snd the State 10 different estenm, L ek you to hearkon and oboy, even as it iy writtoa that ** 3 obey ia better than sacrifice, aud to hearzen than the fat ot rams," Ihavo spoken of & duty which appeals to blessings enfoyed, bat you will parlon ms though I find that [ cannot rest until I havo put tho claims of pnblw?})lmol aitizens on a vet deoper foandation, Tho trath 1 that was do not touch the ground thought, until wo parceive that ia doslug with watters of tho commun:ty and the Stato, wa ura dealing with matters which aro more thano pradential. Beliave 11, m{ hearers. when you have td do with tho rolations of cluzenship, you liavo to do with wlat is saoied. You know, for oxample, that the ark of old was made with bumsu bands. Out of gold minod from tue rocke they. fashioned it. Ounting artifioers wrought it with theic utmosi okill, Yot noae the Joss tho pattora of it was givon in the mount when God spoke taco to faco with His sorvant, Orver it the cloud of God's prosonce rested, aud from botween itw soulptured cherubim gleamed the tokons of the divine indwelling, Even so lot it be understood, once for all, that organized society, government, is not of merely human origio. It was provided for 1n ono of the divinaly-implantel necessitios of mankiud. Iomanity cannot oxist without it. Do not misuoderatand me, I do not say that it ts somo particular form of goverument which ia glven of Giod, for I hold that the divine right of ropublica ia not neoessarily a whit sujrior to tho divine right of i jugs. It s the governmont as governmunt that 1s of sacred origin, and 1t is that pnmanli whioh Lias sacred right. Tue spo- cisl form ia the result ot oxperieuco, and shosld ba determined by tue greatest good of the grent- ot numbor. Heuce, and nevertheloss, thore is the most diroct relation botweon each God-fear- fng soul and the government under which no fives. Buch son! need not etop to compute re- o may sultant advautages and dissdvantages, know, in the* ver will not hold him gultiesa unlesa b with oarnest, raveront care, thst which (Jod Himsalf h i ed. flo may be perfectly assurcd, at the very outset, that ono part of hisbotitting, appointed life is to be in connaction with public affaira. Ho may percoiva, boyond a peradventure, that no possible oxcuse can fntorveno betweon him aad a devoted inter- est in the political welfare of the commuuity and pation. And this especially when it occurs thatthe form of goverumeut, &y with us, is of the popular wort. Hero the appeal taxes distinctive shape and comes to evory door, ‘Fhe very theory of our Republic ju the theory that, undor certain genersl restrictioon, oach cltizen shall havo the right of the franchise. Ho e made & Bovereiga : wingled aut; crowned with ludividusl preroga- tiva. llers, then, you may dopend upon it, tho Judgo of all the earth will call him to account if hoe prove reniss, He caunot hidesuch s tale out a8 that, sud oscape the chiargo of irrever- once, ‘Ao obligation goes down to the vory ground-work ot lifa, It rests ou the wsoreduess of government, snd tho accountability of the ! n‘rv‘xd\ul soul. But listen now, I pray you, to this further word, Let me remind you that, in fact, it Is not temporarily safe to negloct the duties of entightensd citizenship, Note this, that the Btate creates, or perhaps I should ssy consti- tutos, the atmosphiere which all must breathio; CHICAGO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1875. R0 that if that atmnaphere {a noisome it to injure avery eiti; A isonous atrangle lifo. “Take tho interests of morals an ous ulustration. It stands—does it uot—as fomething which all may ses tbat the Hiate shares with the Church the guardisnahip of thone intorests. For inasmnch a8 tho State holds the external control snd is the observed of all ubaarvers, it muat follow tuat, according &s thersin 1ight principies ara recoived or rejected, thoso principlos are edvanced or ra. tarded in ail their applicatiou, Perchance snmo one may think to let punhie, political morality tako its owa course, and Atill keop his friends and childron uobarmed, ldla thonght! The contamiuation will reach both him and bin. The spectacle of infamy in undisturiel power ang place will soonor or lster break down aven pri- vate futegrity. You cannot leave public alfairs to the manngoment of the corrupt without takse iug fn comwmon life the fraits of sach degoner. acy. 13 nasured that it you sow to tho wind of Rovernmantal feithlesanoss, you will reap to the whirlwind of uaivereal vice. Havas judicionu roviower, spoaking of events which are within our momory, ‘*Ten yeara of such administration will teach conntless thouaands leesousof villainy which they wili never forget; will flll imsginae tiona with poseibilities of successful erime which will never disappear: and, what is worst of all, will make gaod goverument by purs and upriglht mou room to & Iarger and largor propor- tion of the people a dim and impossiblo 1leal.” And, moreover, the same grea: law of canso and efloct in oqually clear, good friends, did wo Litt abserve, with rofereico to even matotial progperity, I know that somstimes tho 0or man deema that Ls mnst treasuro i earnings, snd the rich man his £aina. and can indulge i uo activo participstion in tho aflaira which belong to broad citizenstup, Even tus hallot-box mag bo tampored with, sud tho safozuarde of tho eloctive franchiso itsolf may be overtbrown, yot the would-ba selish and tunfty refrain from persoosl interest in political coatestal 1 moan no disrerpoct, yot tho fool- ish bird which hides hor heal 1 the sand and Inaves all hor body exposed wera inflnitely wiser ! I tell you that it isone of God's lsws, inoxorable, immutablo, that oven material prospority must bo butle, for any permanent success. on politicat good order and soundusess. Like everything elso which abidas, 1t must have foandation of holy lasr. Uninstracted citizons may think otherwiss, snd crafty rulors wav eucourago the thought. But the ond will prove them in the wrongz. Bit you, my hearer, at your firesido when luwlers- ness is trinmphaot at the caucus and the polis; linger to count your bonds and stocks when tho right is calling on you to lend your citizen in. flusnco to itk support ; and contlnuo to do it, and you will wako ero long to flud that you have 1o firerido and that your woalth lias been }.huk- ed from your greedy grasp. All may be fair on the surfsce, but underooath they are kindling the volcano, and uncbaming the basom of do- atruction. Do you not remomber that when the denyoradoen wero nt the Lieigbt of their power in New York the apologist for indifferenco would point vou to the parksand public buildings, nover 80 woll kopt, and suggost that things were not as bad as thoy might bo? But now the mask hay fallen, and an indignant people smarta under the burden of tagation which that past mingovern- mont makes needful, and which generationa of ecouomy will scarce reinove, Or look back. if you will. at miore distant history. So early &y the early doys of Romo, ron will find theaapirants for the scoptre flattering the people in their un- concern, and sssunng them thst all would bo woll 8o long na they wore permitted to rule in thoir own 1mpioun way. Tley gave the pecqlo the Coliseum, with ita capacity for 80,000 bohold- ery, sud its hecatombs of human and bestial v c- tima, Yot in dus time cawe Alsrio and his Gozhs, and tho imperial city, despite its pro- tendod guardians, was eacked liko corn banding low to tho uicklo. And how was it, I ask, that for #o Jong o time the Nagoleonio dynasty con- tinued to mslosd Fraoco? Why, tho magnifi- cent ples was: **Whutif Paris {3 plunged into boundless debt! 1s it not mado the mout beau- titul city of Earope? What it profligacy roigoa at court, and thanoo has eaton its way to tho na- tion's heart! Isnot brosd 2 wous the loaf 7'~ aud for a while that stoppad the murmurs. But in the epeedy end’they had Bedan ; ths Emperor a prisoner, an exile; and Prussia ang the Com- mune vieing with oach other in the destruction of evon la belle Paris! Aud all this 18 vory seriona to you and me, It tolis now that there is nothing which makes oven proporty Bafe and permanent matorial pros- penity possible, oxcapt the oternal vigilance of the citizous, and their mosing to it that public affairs are righteously sdministersd. Nor can that vigilaot ocare bo delegated. Itis for you. It is for me. The decision by ballot isliko pasa- ing judgment on each soul. Ons counts ono, and if the right lacks numbers, the quostion comea searchiugly bome, Was your voto thero? Nay more, Did you, as it Iay witnin your power, persuado your fellow.men 1o cast thoir influence on the rightoous side ? Ob, you mav bo sure that there is nothing in which your ustranafors- blo responeibility ts more clear than {a your re. Iation to tho franchise and the common political welfare ia this American Republic. I began my thought v hope and thankfalness, Jet mo end it in the aame glad epirit. For not yot is it too lato to redeem the time, I kuow ou are totd that free gavernmont isatill on trial. You are mournfulls told that in great citios tno exporiment has proved a fallure. The trial, in 80w senso I admit,—the failure I deny. The ap- parently fatal dofact basonly bosu becauss those who ought to havo boon astive in the defanse of right have heen ioactive: only because those who wero citizens wore gutrue to their citizen- slip. I romomber that one of my eatecmed fol- low-citizeas said, not long since: 1t witl not do to asaert that a eystem would bo ?“‘L it good citizona will do their part, wheo it i3 an ascer- tained political fact that they will not. Admit st ougo, rather, shat the systom is inadequste.’ But des;ite the ndmonition I'still cling to_the adoquaoy of our system. Fornot yot, asI be- liave, has it becoms an ** sscertaived fact " that ood men will not gmiclplh w public political ife. Too long havo thay beon negligent. vut they will yet awake. "Ilook confidently to see them taking their place again in ths thickest of thg fighit. Ilook to sce them vindi- cating the system under which thoy live, by ful- filling the duties with which they are charged. Evon in our groat cittea they shall bo found at primary, caucus, couventiou, snd poil, and by thoir presence there the success of popular gov. ernmont shisll be eatablished in the signt of the worla. Thov ehall como forth to teach political leadors that the citizon's first fealty 13 to purity and righteonsness, and thas the party that would win must put {tself, nod keep itself, n harmony with that underatanding! 1, for ons, am mnot ready to take counsel of despur. Nay! To my wight the 2 Jocund day Btands tiptos on the distant mouatain-tors, and I expeot 10 witnesa the full-orbed sun., Wo shall yet meet to rejoice over tue ropublio es- tablisbed on tirmer and tirmer foundations, and our public Life at last mado strong and sweot. t the past are falling. Evon pesk, there lio in state ln the rutunds of pito! the mortal remains of ouo of the foremoat and best. Hia lifo of harculean toil sod of splendid achisvement is ended. A nation panses in her thanksgiviog to pay to his her tearful tributs. Yor anon the prais r suwmes its full chorus. ~ For, though the might fall, God reigns. Though the caplains are atricken, the ailizsn army abides. rincipes mortales, Republics wmtoroa.” Princes are mor- ta), tho Republiv s enduring ! In God ls oor trust, and unto Him we still return our thanks. 1. JAMES CHURON, Thanksgiving worvicos were hold yesterdav moratog in 8t, James Cnurch, cornerof Cassand Huron streots. Tho usuatorder of oxercises was observed, differing ouly from tho regular Bunday services by the introduction of a few exira musi- cal selections. The congregation was not as large as might have besn expected, consdering the announcoment of the excellent musical pro- gramme, which is as followa Duet, ** As i'ants tho Ta Urgen Postludo, Fugue ‘I'ho music was under the direction of U. A. Haveus, tho organist, whots to be complimentod upon Lis choice selactions, the duet by basso aud alto being particularly agreeable, ‘I'ne Rev., Bamucl H. Harris, the lector, deliv- ored tho morning sermon from the texs, ** 1o careth for you." In coming to church he bopod that they hiad como iu a genuiue spirit of thank- fuluoss and uot from curiotity, or to hosr what the minister would bave to say on local or na- tional quextions of politics, but rather to givo prase tor the bounteous blessiugs bestowed during the peat year in protection and pros- perity, for preservation and advaucewment. He rejoloed in Thanksgiving as & fit time for the people of this great country Lo return thanks to the ity for the bensfita of the past Laily @fihmmm | that the day was ushered in lon from the of the Gavern. mont, and not by a mimpla suapension of trade by the business-mon. It shonld havo boan & day for the gathoring of ‘s scatternd family—porhaps the only such gathering in the year—and r day when all dissanrions and family ‘strife sliould ho smoothed over by the influencoof & common faeling of gratituda. [t should have beon a day of a prand symphony of praise frum evory liviug eresture, e, Harris spoke at length on ths doctrine of matetialiam, of ths bumbora of persons willing to believa tha new and arronenus doctrioes, and reasonod on tho fallacies displased in the com- position of now creeds. 1le roferred ta the abe servanco of Thanksgiving as o proof of continu- ance in_the true falth of tho forefathera, and rojalced that it wan ao. In s Lesutitul descrip- tiva and pootic passage he epoke of man drawing the lightning from ths clonds and chaining it to hin service. All the modero improvements wers Providences of 3an, and fiom God, Bkeptics had objected to the bolisf iu spocial Pruviiences on the ground that Goa's law would not ba changed or suspended. Phyaical lawa had benn sunpended by akul and intelligence to ot- tain & demired roeult ; 1f God couli not bave suspended Hin lawa, man wan superior in baing 8bioto do it for Him,—s suporionty not Yot kua xingly attributed to man by any skentic. "In conclusion, a'l wars to give thanks to Him from whom wero all thinge. THE WEST SIDE. SERVICEA IN TUL THIRD PLEADYTERIAN CHORCH. A union Thaultsgiving sorvice was beld in the Third Presbytertan Chareh, corner of Carpenter aod Washingtoo wtreets, yeaterduy forouoon, uns der tho joint ministratious of tho Rova. Mesars. Gondwin, Fallows, and Eradebaw, and Maj. Whittle, Tho attendauca was Iarge, aud the servicen interesting, After the mugiog of an apnropriato vcluntary by tha quartet chioir, the Reov. 3r. Goodwin, In the temporary abeeuce of the pastor, askod the Diviue Llessing, and an- nounced the forty-second hyma, * Praise yo the Lord beforo Jehovaly vful Turone,” ote, ‘The Rev. Mr. Bradshaw read from the tures the 111th Pealm, and offered prayer, con- voying thanks to God ror Iiis mercies and bleas- inge. After tho singing of the seveuty-fourth hyma, tho Hev. Dr, Faliows delivered a brief sddress. 1Is eaid e belicved this Thankngiviog survice a New Kngland iustitution, and the pearcet ho could como to being a Now Englaudor vwas an Old Englasder. To mako up an Englishwan it required Daviat, Sax- oa, and Norman bloyd, and to make a trie-born American it took 8 true-born Enclishman. Eut tobe in avery sense s truo Americau one must not contine himeolf to Now Logiand, but he must seo the whole of the groat nation-to form on adequato fden of GGod's powor nod s work. Ha spoke elojuently of the dav a8 a fenst of thaukagiving and praise _throughout the Jopmb- lic, and gave thanks to th. Giver of all goud for thie bountiful harvest of the past season, We Lad been exewpt from peatilence, and cxompt {rom tho scourge of war, a4l by offored thavis for the purification of cur politics, It had been n bad year for crooked whisky, nnd La hoped the next would bs much worse. Wo could and wo would govern vuraelves, and for theso bleesings our beartyg thanks to God wore due. Thay were oiog to offer up their thanksgiving that morn- ng, and they wero gomg to pather around the festal Loard,” Father, muther, children, —and loved ones would be there, and somo from the East and West, per- haps. and otuers from tue Nortu and South, What joy filled the heart that morning! God waa calliag all together to jorn in the greas re- joicing. The revival spirit was to kweep tho country from ths Atlantic to the Pacific, and the prodigals would all return. Tho olojuent, earn- est, aud mincero lingnage aund mavner of the spoaker made his address tho chiof feature of tho kervico. Jnj. Whittle was tho next speskor, and o taiked rapidiy and smoothiy, and evidenily as- tonisbed bus hoarsrs more than lus predecessnr had done. e praduced a small Bible, and said ho had been looking over 1t to seo whers Thanks. giving Day origzinated. and found that it was not 1o New England: it had come from the Jews,~— from their Feast of Tabervacies, and Now Logisnd had sdopted it. But in viow of the exclusion of the Bible from the Enbuu schools, hs could uot gee that wo ad much to return thanks for, Our glory that day was in the living God. and they had come topother as a comvany of Christiaus to thank Hlim anl to praise Eia ‘name, All those Thavksgiving proclamations did not bring them together, and if there was anything that God wanted to come to llim it was the broken and oontrito heart. Ile showod by Seripture refor- onces that the ancient Hobrews bad given thanks in like mauner as the Christisu of to.day. The Listory of the Feast of the Tabernacle, on the Bovouth tonth, wa4 to be found in tha twenty~ third chapter af Loviticus, and agaiu in the twenty-minth chapter of Numbers tho sacrifices and thauksgivings of the Jews on ths comple- tion of Holomon's Tomple were moutioned. Builocks, rams, lambs, and gosts wers offered as sacrificos, and tho paople gave thanis and praiecd the Lozd. Just in proportion as Wo woro bolievers, so wa should give thanke, It ‘was a redeemed poople that God wanted to thank Him, and not an unredeemed. Aram, in the third chapter of Ezru it waa told bow the Jows kopt the Fosst of tho Tabernacle, and thers was singing and joy. Tao fouudation of God's ypir- itual temole waa being laid that day, and ths npealkier ssid the peoplu should give thanka and be glad. Christ was to roign here,—~He was uot through with this earth, and {1e would reign i it. Ho hiad spoien twico betore on the eamo plat- form, while the counlry was plunged ln war. Six years ago Moody came, and he had not beon appreciated in this city as he snould have been. od was using him in the great revival at Phil- adolphis, and he hoped that God would more and more auointbim with power and intluenao. Thetr prayera had boen answered, and he thauked Goil for it. We did no: appreciate thoe }mmr of the Holy Ghost in D, Moody. After thanking Qod for all [1is bleasings, the gontleman retired, ‘The 636th hymn was sung, and Dr., Goodwin, pastor of the First Congregational Cunreh, camo forward. lle mald there wasa profound mignification 1n praise,—moro than wo attached toit. He had fiund in the Scripiures a deacrip. tion of the dedication of tue Templsof Solomon, reforred to by Drother Whittlo, and 500 or 600 singeru robed ju wuite, and a8 many players on insttumente, had united in praiwng God. That vory pratso part had caused a floot of light to go into the Temple, and had caused the priests to stop. ‘The word Jew meant thauks, Wo wera kcoping up a form of a festival destituta of tho conception which God bad of it, There wore men at tho Lrad of our graat secular four- nals who sconted tho Idea of religionin theState, and who said it was importinent to put the Bibls inthe schiools, and would next tryto prevent prayer in Congross. \What, ho eaid, was our petty 100 years compared with the 1,000 of the ancient Homans sud Greeks, for whoae history wo had eves to turn up the saod aud the gravestones? 'Chore , wero never such warllks proparations as at tho present time, aod pever such debt. ‘Ibo newapapers had proven to ugtho necessity of a ravival d Christinuity shodld spread wider and wider apd doeper and deopor. \ould to God, b sald, that Chuistinnily might come into ail echemen of aggrandizement, with the exception of crooked whiskv, The tidal wave of the Philadelplta and Brooklyn revivala was coming, and he hoped it would ‘spread until 1t extondod over the whole tand. Aftor & handsoma collectlon had been taken up, tbo services ware closed with prayer and the einging of the last verse of the Natlooal hymn and tha two Last of tho old Miesionary bymu. THE SOUTH SIDS. BEKYICES AT TRINITY CHURCH. ‘fhe Methodist Episcopal churches of the Bouth Side neld & union Theuksgivivg wervice yesterdsy mornlog in the Trlvity M. E, Church, on Iudians avenue, near Twouty-fourth atreet. Tho discourse was dolivered Ly Dr. Jewott, of thie First Church, from the following text : Otlier men labored, and yo aro euterad into thelr tabors,—John, fu., 38, Onco & yoar Christians camo to church at the call ot the Executive of the Goveromeut, aud tho congregations wore made up by roproeouta- tious, by proxy, und the members camo ua cit zous, 'Yho custom reated ou the fact of our inward lifo that reveronce of God aud of country naturally grew up together Thero was s nat- ural relation between pattiotism aud love of country. Patriotism was love of the rights snd bapplness of the country as secured by the oationsl institutions. Love of God epravg trom s like source. The Church, iu the War of the Rebellion, wss the achool of a lofty patriotism £ 5 NUMBER 93, rer & = 4 dred tha natton's flolds with gl = orv, Tens & bands of Curiatian younn rss mant ong o« anddle for their country, and taa pies ‘oration bad entered into their laboys, TUAt suggesicd the thought containad in the text.—tho inberitance reccived fiom tho Phst, 2ud the duties of ita posseeaion 1mposed oiy the otopls of tho presont day. The bigh clviliza. Yion, the peace, the rapid progrosa of the pres- ent time, were the inberitancos rocoived irom the past. Ciwiiization eniarged lifo; by ity Cilouls, 1t3 wteam-engiues, it priating-p.o:sea aud toegiaphy, it enabled the world of tr-day ta live in tao presouce of all tho hast mon of to-day, The mze of tie planet had been reduced by tels- Rraphy and raiironds, ag the tolcscope hiad re. Juced tiie di-tauce from tho carth to tho stars. Nazions wera funt beginoing to fosl the truth u. tered 1,3)) veira ngo, that all mou wore but ona nation. An International Congress was po.siole only 8t the pressut timo. Cbrist wonld bs crowned ths groat prophot, s ile had bsen crowned the Prinze of Pesco. Tho vredsnt gen- eratiou inborite | tha whole result of the world's pant labors. Warriora, poets, toachors, and acle outists long pince dend ' were working for the world of to-day by tno tesuits they had socom- plished, Theraca to-day etood in tho world's great Liarvest, fitled to 1cap o great barvest for ;.:‘a future, on which they bad bestowsd no bor, That was the plan of Providenca by which the Worid's great labor was to be accompllshed, snd each goueration was to transmit muinstuing to ©each succoading one. HSometimes & generation 1efuced to do itn duty, then the marcis of lifo etopued, aud it wan tho duty of tha greatost, minds to correct tust evil. Just as civihization enlarged life, 1t praciically leugtioned lifo, by ©oaabling it Lo gathor 1 more knowledge, Wo lve fu aeeds, not years e mont Mven Wit thinks 1auss, L'en uoliest, acie thie best. How duli aud prosy must hife have been with- Oul newapapera to read. As citizens of the Aerican peoplo, the preseut guasration bad 3 wouderful work to do. It niust koep eniarged tho thought of {ho rural mections, and civize sud cemont tho massen of the citios. Wha: a number of teachors were einployod to teach the citldren in tho schools, and thoir number must be increasod to elfoct any mdvas No greater work had over boen Poopde. With toan tmnyled prayers L 2-mGrTow they ocial ud palis thomd _pruver porerful by aun the country, and wast endeavor to have all the 1 forces put 1n Larmony with The best oducated snd mos: nd, tho greal armica the foio- most Keiont wore in harmony with Christiani- ty. The Eughsh lauguoge, the most thoraughly pervaded with ity spinit,ewas also in hermony with it. Dy eatering that vast field with tho spinit of Jarge benovolouce, each ono waild mago his life besutiful, a psalm of thauke- Fiving to 1l who hwt called Lim fron darsooss 1nto His marvelous ligut. — o CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS, AT THE COUNTY HOSPITAL. GLMERAL JCBILATION, Thanksgiving Day wo 530 oneis in tho lives of the inmazes at the above iustitition. About 190 persond nre taiken caro of there, but cach ons was of the opinion thint ho had enjoyed a regu- Iar old-seylo Thanksgiving dinuer. and would not regret it iu tho loast if such a holiday wero only o} down in the calendar moro than once n year, This 18 not iutended as a retloction upon the or- dinary table d'hoto at the hospital. It s be- lioved no complaints havo becn mato on tha ecore. Dut yesterday was an oxtra day evers- where. and tho Warlen of tho hospital was not Lehind tho maungers of our cliartable institu. tioos in providing for tha wants of hia boarders, Each ward was neatly doa- orated with flowers, hanging in festoons from the wally, with moitoes in verious designs and colurs, and, inons or two casoe, with banners. Unlike most sick rooms, tho warda were light aud cacery, the warm rays of the sun beanuug in at tho windows, to the de- light of manya wan and pale-faced man and woman. Thero was a tablo in each ward bounti- tully spread with good things, soma of them the gifts of friends of tho hospital, includiog Dr. Powell and Dr. JMiller. In the culinary depart- meut were presented scones of the moat lively cliaracter, The whole process of proparing tur~ koys, chickons, and other viands for the tables was intrusted to the sawo nitists who have of. ficiated in thut capacity in the hospital for years, aud who ought to know, and of courso do koow, Just how to got up Thaukegiving diunera. Nearly overybody was happy except a poor fellow away up iu tho third rtory who wasin the 1aut stages of dehrium sremenn, Thero be lay, now muttieriug some uoiutelligible jarzon, now Rroamng, now raviug, sud quivering snd shak- ng 1o overy limb, ‘lue Wardeu told the roporter thut ho had bess picied up ou the streets, whore lio biad been wandering, nud that whoo found bia Hugers wera frozen until thoy aro uow as plack ascosl. The biack marks under the oyes, tho suuken obicoks, aud tha wastod form of a onca- powerful may, ull told & sorrowlful tule. ‘Ihe Keueral happincss of the paticuss was io cheor- ingcoutrast to tlus scens of woe. During tho day several fricods of the institution called to see the putiouts aad to manifent their interest in tho work, amung whom were Dr, Miller, Col. Carry, aud Supt. Rickey. HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS. TLEASULES OF THE CHILLREN, At this inatitution affurs were managed on oven o latgor scale, Tuere aro about 230 1o mates at this place,—womon, giris, snd litils children,—~who are recelved sud takon care of until homes can bo provided for them, Many of the children aro adopted 1nto well-to-do fami- lics, while the girls attend an industeial school at the Hume, and are there fitted for judependent pesitions in life. Tho old folks do not often lesve tho home, bu: romain tiere dumng the rest of their lives. Mra. Eliza W, Dowman, ed- itress of tha flome Visitor, showed the reportar tbrongh thoe institution, Tlis lady has special clarge of tho little ones, {5 whom she 13 much cndeared. While look. ing iuo the nursery, one of the little girls came up briskly snd said: * Please, Mrs, Boamau, can I have my wax doll?" *Yes* answered the kind-beariod lady, *after a hitle while,” sod off tho little one went, sppareutly eatisfiad. But the wax doll *aftor o whils " waz not the wax doll just then, and, after a fow mo- wonty, slio renvwed her application, and at last was made a8 bappy by getting possession of t| identical dull as sho would lhiave been to flud gold nugget, aud probably bappier. Six tabloa were sot ' the dining-room, and loaded with overything thav kiod friends could think of. Amoug thuse who dunated arucles for ths tables aud sutns of mouey wero Mrs, Goarge 1L Latlu, Mis. Willismn R. Gould, Alrs, Edwaié Ely, Mrs, Dr. Isham, Tucker & Sherman, of toe Travet 1louse, who sout s wagon-load of pro- visions, Mrs. G. I’ Gore, Mrs. H. Z, Cujyor, Mrs, A. B. Mookor, Mru. A. W. Landiu, Mra, William R, Smith, Mrs, H. M. Sherwood, Mra, J. W. Idell, Mru. J. 8. Duolap, and otbors. 3Mru, J. Grant, the Matron, worked away with ontorprising vigor to make tho aliair a succeas. In tho afterucon the llome was viuted by say- eral frionds, but thoro wero uo spesches or any. thing to tndicate that tha thing had Leen gotten up ou the programme style. Everythiug wasin tormal, and all the better for being so. y persons who bad formerly beon in the lostitu. thm, aud who are now struggling along trylag to keep house for thumselves, had siau 'S vilutiune to by prosont, snd Lot ow, availed themsvives of the privilega, After dioyer tha 1ittlo fullis adjoucued to the readlvg-rodm and sang movoral lavorite songs, beiug led by the ITuduatrial chiolr. There was aleo siuging in the oveniog, aod then the little folks retired to lve over the happy memorios of tho day in their dreaw. THE ORPHAN ASYLUM. A FERTAL DAY, . Iere tho Matron, Alrs, Harrlot C. Bigelow, re- ceived she reportor, aud conducted bim through tho various departments. Thors are quito number of boys and girls fu this place, but tho boys sre in the wajority. 1o the nursery waa pro- sented & pleasaunt sceme, About twenty-three babies of ull aizes, good-looking, bad-looking, aud indifferent-lookiog, were playivg away o bigh glee, and Laving & perfoctly rollicklog time. Friends of the iostitution bad besa par tloularly kind in remombering the asylum, and several donations of turkeys, chickens, plcs,