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{ { t A 2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JANUAKY 1y, 130, deify it; but ho uttars suggeative dicts which sllure tho orofonndost intellect, and yet lio within tho reach of a child by meana of familiar mwmnnn and simplicity of btatement, With Cutist there comas now clement—ihio lova of humanity—into the problem of the ad- vanco of civilization, o himsoif takes notico of chitdran, hoala tho rick, snd succors the poor. Hinwhoto life (a8 process uf cducation to his disciplea and the world. Henco tho gentun of Chmulnh{ might reasonably ho ozpeeted ‘to show Itsel? in philanthropy of overy eort, and $0 result in soms permanens advanco and prog- resn among mankind. The child was to Chrlat thoe citizen of tho ond- ing Klugdom, Ifonco thochild bocomen an im- portant part of avilization so soon as Chris- tlanity affects national lifo, But mark that tho early Christlana wero Alngu- 1atly narrow in their denlinga with atl education. Thoir mental culture wan 1nferior, and not until 813, when the Edict of 3ilan hiad been promule gated by Constantine in their favor, do thoy come to the truo sutface of woclety. I'rovlously thoy hnvo becu In catacombs both litorally aud figuratively, Wunt books thsy writo sro to beg tho world's [:ardon snd apolopizo for their very oxfstenco, L'rom’ this dale, howover, they ‘begin to be a power. Roman luxury hay now run dta conrgo. Greok philorophy has ‘aoma to a And conclugion on the ekopucnl sygtom of Pyrrio of Elis, Aud although tho Neo-Ulatouism of Alaxe andrin bad tho offcct of colering theology with n rmloscpma tinge, tho shwpler and more hieasty muguage of Christ continuntly makes itself foli, It may ho eerfonsly questioned whotber thiy philosophy and its philosophio statowent have not becn a snara of the Dovil for the Choreh, F'rne Christiauity containg tho highest form of philoscpnic thought. Accordiug to Augustine's nccount of his fichool-daya In hla confersions, wo find rollgion clnet among topies to Lo studied. Thin way doubtloss tho cane generally in il places, For tho Roman Empizo, by Linding diforout nation- alities Leneath tno yolie of one govertnent, gavo o hint of tho puemnilitics of our modern clvillzatiou,—which 1y o comnion tactor in many diverse States, pnd nuder nany adwinietiations, Forco nas theu Lthe bond ; 1t is now thought. Tho dark ages follow inevitably upen tho sob- stitntion of tho kprt ol weeiesinatisni for that of Chyist. Tho rorression of freo niuiry, tio demaud for fmplicit fzith enit the eentrul of tio Joonp by no theceratio power, dwarfc tnd sinted tho lunaan inteffeet. But tho Crusadus ¢ the bomndsof knowledyze, and the tical of Gregerz'aintrodaciion of eqLibucy ia to plo sud Ly mind 60 pro- paro the way for e 1 u 1 Guo tima, Clivalry Gad minetsolsy 1 fuil uf pioty, Whio cycio LI roaatces weopaeting haog Arluur, Troveivaio, avd Trirtram, of Lyanosgo, di keep ihe rehetots element w view, Aod tho Minnesingeus, Waisher der Vog 8 notably Thus, though tae uuud i3 m derk 1 botvLow ketpiig o hitio fhre with: Al ol nod the upiril, vaucee, liko the right of eanetuary 4 o1 Gisd. shiow a rille of Lho tiuo Bt yet, naud cuelog all tg timo, no thir edueation. The @ fuctor v avilian- aticn of religion Wo tuva droppzd ail othor coutinenls and neticus esceps’ Lus t 0; can. Ameiry thers Kuropanis 0uo can expect bo trus progeees in fraly or tor thoy aro eduto ; por in (he Lemunuly, for atis overrun with Aloslonia; nor 1 Fraues aud Exngland, for tho ouo s involons andthe otaer ceursos but wo may looi foritju Giermnny, which lica alout tho centre. 1t wizht sivo” Lo profitable toin- quire whut relaton the Waldenves b to tio duop religious lifo of Geanauy, sud whae ofiioct Teaction spritet the fugusition and :cueimn- braues of Avelard may have pradneed, In 1511, Luther Lub Vielicd aicwe end corgos buck disgnatod. And i ihe arcing of uis miny all over Lurops isseen the power ol 1o Jlufonoation. It 18 frow the Bibla that Luther ol Lty inceutive o wdividual thonght. Leis to Calvin that tho French Laugasge 1 indebtod for iu ikt strong fashicning 1:to” o Vevicl of ¥ool ud deop opion. 1n Logland Wycie's Bille docs wmuck lur literatur: A Mclanes thon hoproved,the Lriesis L= s yubemm Jargely comumented upon by nard, awl which fo decidedly intlucutial in our osu cduestionat Institutions. Lut to Mactin Luther wu ore indabted for an eloquout plea iu velalf of fros Clrintian schodls —a tose aiguificavt title. That the elemens of roligion was constdered necevsary 1o one cau deny who remembers tho oducation without a spark of godliness or ovon moraly ubout it which prevailod in tho days of Lorouso i M- dicl, Machiavelll hitoself dues not vesuplo to show what dovils Wera sant forth by it to pisgue tho world. Says Joho Locko: Virtue is basder toboe got than "o kuonicdge of tho worid, mul if lost i u young man is voldom reaoverod.” iut ey, like a great wany iamodern thinkers, denied tho' connegtiun between thought ond life— kuowlodge nnd virtuo, ‘We now Loginto seo croopiog up n soirit of todividualism—a craving for peraanal liborty for self-government. (This bus, tu var day, yro- duced Ganbaldi, Hugo, and Custelar—hot to mention John Urighe, Fhmusoll, Aren, aud our loug hist of statomnoen, Jud by Lo namo of_ Lin- coli) Fouduiists hus altogcethar brokea down. Trce cities have had o remarkable listory, Gone ova under Calvin has hecomo o 1odol Lepubtic. And as a tegitiwate resull wa flnd civibization edvancivg along 1he hine of the best education, A'his [8 in the wake of carnost persoual religion, aud it is not fouud L2 trevires tho unrcformed onntrias, such s Spuia, Fumee, or Lialy, but ‘o sticl vloraly to ity best terntors : Geitany, Eollund, and Gireat Britain, "Thin progress {s pttepded te tha Bilde, Lnthe £1's trauslation hus fixed thio tGerman Jangunge. Lo tho earitor Buglish verswons have done u:tet 0 Lo Bawo v omatatin haw boen the foo Tho HITR080 L0 16- i Jlomaniss all the + aducation and hberty roeotl, (i teeoil earnen the Vilgrims to Plymonth afier Jubn Nobinson hod been diiven from beroaby (o Holknd. Toe New Fnzinod conats cutanty and Puritans—ilo more southern Sintes by Loman Cathoties nud Cavaliers. Dewocrney and frecdom camo witly tho Pilgrivin—chstocracy and slavory watl tho Carvaliors. Hencs wo mnight expoct the cotwmon- #chioal pyrtem to boloug 10 the North mors osjie- cially and paticalarly,” Ot thu South wo mighs safelv prodict tha opposita, I'ha Novthern edt- cation end the Northorn civilization ars barod— apito of all Blue Lass—upon tha by it of Cnly- Hamity we found in the Lible, The wealthuer Bouthierners wora largoly-—1f bot geucraily—ed- ucated in tho Hurth and the poorer ciazses lofs to1zrorance, Ay Leing u free country, Romaniem in free to take up its ahbode note, deasin—althongh they Lave bean baumbied from eyery osher na- thon for yoliical und wocial intrigues— to plot aud mehemo In Btaten. tntelligonce beng in thew way, iboy orect as B religious body thewr oan colleges aud sehools, 'Lhuy clamor for & divis- lon of tho ecliool fuud, Thcy mako & convoniont pointof congeienco pyaiust thu proviously-un- queatlonod nae of the Lible in the sehaols, 'Ibus the book whick created our civilization by porpetusting tho woras and teachugs of Chrint has Joft—~ns Meurico hay admirabiy shown ~tho Sermon on tho Monnt to be the charter of liberiy to Christendom, and ita incentive sud eocial morality, That this is not sociansn, e eifect upon statuie luw, nnd upon lifo, nature, nrt, sceinl, and pohtieal cconomy, snd private action will eamly prove. Ugon theso toachiugs wre built the ouly ;oad things the Romauivis can offer for the benetit of the world—their humane iustitutions. Upon them also aro placed all schiools, colleges, and reformatorics destgned in all civilized uations o prayent vicg, to fuenl- cata virtuo, and to muke intelligent citizous, Juichter says tho wpirit of oo age and nation worky {uceenautly on the child, snd that this is Lis firat toschior, * Theretore clvilization—whose oot is Chufetinnity, which grows out of the Bible —in the first and chief teachier of the child, o ihat Locke's idoa that a chuld should ently jearn 1o jdos of God, and to say somo ** plaip sud short forms of jiayer,” mosts ity respunse hy the intluence of civitization in proseryiog tho Babosth, preventing “crimes sgainst socioty,” and encouraging us in a course of right liviug, And as scliouls kre now falt 10 be easential, the cbild is offercd, and sometimes compulied $0 Fo- ceive, tho cducation whichshail wako Lim agood cluzen, Iu viewof sl] theea facts, It might be argued, First—Thst to put sbeolute Litle instruction out of the schools 14 noé only the grogscet in- gratituds, the weakost paiteriug with elo- meuts destructive to liberty. Second—Yuns this soligicos Instroction can ba socured ju peefact conformity with freedom on ho part of all classes favorablo to our form of RBepublican Goverument, Third—Tuat. Romanets, Jews, Infidelv, aud the like, being eitber belund the preeent statny of cividization or actually Luetilo to 1k, &re not 0 bo fostored n tbeir apposition or digzunteas, A4 p prrnioit 107 tho mecutity guarautosd by iy Guvernmont, thetr taxen can bo demauded ind colfcesed, aud thoy noed not ba required to seud their ehildren 10 be inatructed, uniees they - please, ot Liours when Mible knowicdge 1s to Lo - given fo the echoal, [This prineiple, by tho way, flunfl; l]u Ireland, according to buperintendant arurid. Fourth—That [t s worse than ridleulous ta preveut Christian wen sud wonen—who come riso tbe yuurtn[wmun of thy Lest teachony » th d~from joapiriug thoir scholare with ma), oopsoiemce, pusity, ad religiva from iho samo soures whonce they themsolvna have drawn thom. ~And now that “to know tho Bibla ia an osontial i all pood odnention, ft1a stu- picity, or maliclousness, or infidelity, to under~ {aka to purgo out all traces of %, Fifth—'Ihat theso freo scnaola furniol pere Tiaps tho only opportunity to mako tho ibie s tamiliar book, or its worda familiar wordy, aud that it is, thereforo, nnciiistion to tho atronyent neusio to dirplace it Sirlh—That nrong argnments for displicing it the following aro to bo disregarded @ a. Homauist conscience—becanse_ that londa to Sncucnn. bigotry, wtolarnnge, suporstitivn, aud meutal dlavery, b. Taxation without eomponsation—becauas thero is smnlo compensation ; all inlaed thatn repubtican form of government dare offer it Jt is to be poroanent, A e, 'Lhis notfunctory aud trivinl roading of tho Bible—beeauna in most caves this statemont 18 s tho tonchier. Aud alaw Lecauso it is wigo rawiliarizo tho echolara’ ears with passages n which tho wholo of our adncationsl Aystom beon dedaced, Tho Goldon Rule, tho Lord'a yar, and the Sormon on Lo Mount are not in KOO Moctarian. Seventii—That tho man who wonld munrder my form of freo governmeut, or steal by fo:ce ar fraud my hiterty, bas co right fo clam the im- muntty to murdor,aud atoal kv o noral censo any moro than in & phyeical ove, Ifenca the oppo- neut of the DBible, it favored by n lover of the Ihble, 13 in the Rosition of o felon abotted by an honoet mab and laughing in his slcove at tho fu- nocont eredulity of hin dupe. . Kighth—That the relation of our polities to il thoso olemonts which mav bo called dangarous 1 yery closo, and demsnds vigorous sttention. Ta educata withont any inatruction in morality ix to mako crimivala. And tha Government is compolled by tha Iaw of self-praservation not only to ad all azoncies for good, but Lo tinmple out ait fneipiout demonetralionn in tho dirsotton af political suptoancy by sny hostils eloment, Lhis nostile “elemeut—allicd” with tho lowest, miost fgnorant, aud wnost’ malieablo portious of soziety—is Lo Roman Catimlic Church. It #eci:s to control oducation—or to stunt it—in e own intereat, Iu desterously flatters Amecni- cana with the idea that thny know o groat desl and onzlt to Lo hroad aud gondrous, wherens they waally know vory lit1ic on thero subjects, undd therr bronduess and gensroaty aro ouly otis or naimeu for whaliowsess aud sillncs, The original thosis exs anded o tiis papor may thon Lo rectatod as fulluwin: Firal—NModern civilization [4 tho direet product ianity. Second—Yiducation 13 o ceotral elament in clvilization. Flard—Clnintianity, thorefore, ehould bo por- pesnated in edaeation, it 0:¢or 1o seeuro to eivils 12ation anl incontive L0 | 1uross. Fouria—~Tho Hiblo is the imals of Chriatianity, and the public school {8 tho Lou: ropresentative of popular eduestion. ‘Therofors the lble should oot 1aorely Lo tolarated in tho schools, but 1t should bo kept thoro in order Lo pravent confusion of thought. rotrogression, wud tho fiual abundonmant of thy syaiem. Fiyth—Xomamsm, wildelits, ete., buing ene- mics of civihzation, thould bo put down and kept down, and the man who allows them the 8aMO righizy with truth tolds tiuth very cheaply. Strth—A Liepablic—being tho froost and higli- ost form of self-guvotnmont—has tho righs of seif-picecrvaticn, aud etould neo 16 by proparing nfollieens, loynl cisizeny, nod proventng liostile encreacinent upon auy part of ths msthods cwployed to thfs ond, CRIVINAL NEWS, To-Morrow Set for the Trial of Laudtis, the Vineland Murderer, A Reviow of the Canses which Led to tho Deieat of Carrath. Account of the Ghoullsh Descerailon of a Cemelery In Pluo Bluffy Avk, THE LANDIS MURDER TRIAL, Corromuudince Netw ) ek Tridens, ViseLaxn, No J, Jdun, 6,—Next Tuceday has beon appointed by Judgo Reed for tho Leginning of the trial of Charlos K. Landis for shooting Uil Carruth. Distriet-Attoruey Tosglaud will bo asmated in tho proscoution by Attornay-Gon- oral Ynnatta and L. Newcomb. ‘Theroe is a rumor that thoro will Lo anothor counsol; who hofs is kopt secrot. In tho dotense tho following-named wifl appear: Vico-Chancellor Williamson, Bea- jawin H, Drowster, William A, Houso, Edwin M. Tarner, Jamos H, Nixon, and 3lossrs, Pattor & Nixop. Tho witnesses employod on Carruth's paper will ogreo in ihoir teslimony s to tho. shooting, and the fact thac no wonis assed betwwoon the two men prior to (k. Tho F..w;m far tho defendaut declino ta discinss tho lino of thicir defense. A brief roview of thocaon way tnterest pOme pereous, Amoung the early scttlers of Vineland woro a fos7 mou keon-sighited onough to seo thnt Alr, Landuw’ plau for popatating tho $ract would be succeesful, ‘Iliey were men of means, Aud #ouglit to fuvest money and shiaro tho proaperity which wauld roon como from tho perrousl Iabor, tact, &sd entocprisa of Vinalsud's founder. ‘They wanted {o buy lands, buila ou thew, sot out shade-trees, all Lutugs complying with the etipulauons oxacted of actual solilers,—and, i fact, speoulnta upon tho value of 1be land. ‘o thiy plan tho founder would not consent, thloking that speculstora would prevens the placo becoming a roal eottios meut, Hia action in refuring to permit rpoou- Iation of couiro mnvle the mou moentioned un- fricadly, 1hey complained of tyreuay, and used their Intinsuea to create ~ opposition. Doubtleas tharo were waay scitlors who had, or felt tuey had, just cause to com- plaiu, It would Lave brou strange, indeed, 1t soe Lad not beou cauglbt I tho comphcaicd muchinosy of Landiy' plans and recoived a mevero pinching, Many iuvested in Innds who had not” the least kuowiodze of agr.cullure. and therefove lost monoy. Othors, again, iovested ell tha mouey thoy fiad, nod baving no worklog capital, aftor o desporato strugglo wero compelled to soll tuoir land. The digappointed ouey, thoss who expoctad nbnnd- aut retaras withont bard work, sud those who really bad eomothing (o complun of, formed 8o opposition thas waged warfaro conatantly with Mr. Loodis, Thia was tho origla of the Indopandent party, and_ from it tho charges agmnt Visoland? Vit them Vineload was a prodigions lio tho advertiscments about it woro s ; tho agenta of Mr. Loudls woro liats, and all of Sl S deverved tho hatredof the community. Tho main ".'OOD‘({:‘"& ANKEY. * | body of nattlcrs stood by tho founder, believiog that lus advertlsements and operations alono conld wako tho ottiomont a success, o mueh power had beon given him by the law of tho Hiato that his domards wero complicd with als most us 1f 1o bad boen ciosen thonbeoluto rulor. 1u Jocal pulitics lio wam dictutor, und mado his wiklies veapected, 1o had but to withdraw his advyortizomeuts, close up his ofico, sud hopeless disnscer would bofall tue town. ‘Iiis courso he ceclared Lo would adopt if eny rival oftico was supportad. Drosding thia, tiio citizons drove from the place a firm Wha nindo tho uttompt, But tbis condition of affairs conld noz last, As simo passed, Lavdls’ powor waued, As the slroam of vow-comers poured in, o siream of tho early sottlers poured out, earrying with chom nu they doparted that sonso of utter and entira dopondonco upon Tandis which charactenzod thw first yoars of tho settlomont. Year by year Vinelaud grew, and the continunl c¢hnuge of populstion bad legsenod thosenay of dopendonco 10 mucks thad the Indopendent party was m the ascendant. As 8 party, its objcct waa to socura possoesion of tho local gavernmont, and whatever charges it inado mnow apainst Landis were of o public and pobitte e mature. Mo further ther objuct the Independent nowspaper was ataried os the oxponout of $heir viows. A wriser in 8 rocently= published magazivo statcs that br. Carruth waa “imported" for the purposo_of abuaing Mr. Landis, This i o wmistako. For some timo Carroth bsd boon & quict, »e*™niy-known sotiler, occasionally coming hetoru .- pabtls in on article in ko Independent.™ 1t wad in 1871 that ho bocawo part propriotor and its uditor, At this ttwo thera was no il fecling betweon tho two mon, of & petsoual nature At least, nud it is claumed there would have bLoew .none had Mr. TLondis shown o demiro to Lo friendly. ft {8 true ho advortlsed oxteusivoly o Mr. Carmtl's paper, but Leyonid that refused to recoguize buu 1o publie cr_private. Dhat tins galied fum, Curruth uc‘mmrlo«!gofl to the writor of this lettor, and it Lad ftsjutluenos 1u the strugglo which soon be- pan. Erocisoly what was the queslion which lod to tho personal quarral between thew {8 not clear, Oucof tho connso! in the cans ssys, **1 know that Landis' oumnity begau in the fact that Usreuth dlatly refused to” publish some very solt- laudutory erticlos that Laudis wroto and sent in for Jnmuminu.” Others assert that becauss Landio could not compel the Jndependent to do his wiil, Lo thersforo romoved hiy ad- vortfsements, 133 tho cause what 1t may, it is cortain that nfter sho advertiiemonts wero urdar. od ont, Carruth heyan amoiling Landis. Tho head Linca of Tandis' ccfumun of adverisiasnty, +T'o All Wanting Earms,” ato,, wero loit staud. {ng, and tho column iilled with ** Lamontations " uf & poreounl clatactor, In nll tho articles af- torwaid publishod Ly Landis, regarding Vinoe land, tho osistonce of the Indrpendent as & Vine- Iaud journal was lgnored, and evory iufluenco he could coutrol was empioyod to break down i atauding and destroy its cireulation. Liko mauy men who bloave power in tho use of ridicule, Carruth neither understood tho loglt- imnte nco of this weapon, nor the nature of o wouns 1t makes, VWook aftor wook tho ool umng of the Independend woro filled with auti- cley abnsiug, deniding, mocking, taunting, and villfying s foo, Londly' courtslp, lis mar- riago, Wis wito, bis child, bis domestlc affaira, everything about him fu fact, sorved us subjeets for Carrutn's sidioule. s pen nover flagged, and articles from othor pous were wolcomo it they ooly etabbed Landis; nothing wes too personal, nothing too msgvers. As spokosiann of tha Independont party, ho intoruuxed (he personal quarrel with® party questions, and wrote for liin party na i be alone Frvapzroniy, Jan, 9.—Tbo oody and Sane Loy meotingd to-duy wero well nttonded, At tho 8 a. . wervico 5,000 porseny wora presonts At thio afternoon and ovening services the bullding was packed. Tho ofternoon servico twas for wamen, aud tho evening servica for won. 1o the mormag Mr. oody spoke upon Grace.’, aud fu tho altemoon aud ovesing preached # sermon ou “Tho Lovo of God, and What Ha 1iid for 1ty Clildien,” ghowing how Ifo come- tiwed punishes them becaussof His love for them. Tha uquiry-rooms waze crowdod, and the preatest pesgibla interoat fs mamfestod In tho S E{.SZWHERE. LI3UOT JULAREN, Speciat Isusten to T'he Chican Tyihine, Urprortenn, Lk, Jan. 0,—Bishop McLaron mnkes on episcopal vivitation to this pamal, ar- riviug bera to.morrow ovoning. He holdn a ro- ception at tho residence of Judgo Treat Lo-mor- row pight, and.on Tuosday, prosides over a querterly mestiag of tha Diocesan Board of Dlissions. . ZLOOMLIGTON Nrww, Syctal Dapech L The Chusas Trviene, Jrooimores, I, Jan, 9.—Judge Jolm E, MeCluan, who for over ity yoar bad beon active. Iy engogod i Sumday-nchool wosic, nud hearly fotty years of that timo in Ubloomington, res rigned to-duy as Superintendent of the Meiho- dist Lpecopa! Church school, nud was succeedod by Capt. Frank J. Fitzwithant, Congiderable excitoment rud some Indignation viay excited by Dr, Hobls, pastur of the Clisine tinu Chueely, who, iu o eetmon, nttacked tha Con- tenniel Asaociatian, Who are preparing to give invitaliona to s leapsyear bull at tho Asliloy Houeo, Dz, Hobbs invelghod cloquontly szainut Ganciog in geaoral, and this ball in particular, Autbe Ceuteouwal .Associution is composod of tha loading ladios of mose of the churches of tha city, his words g giraighe to the howos of the best psopte. MADISON, WIR atshi fu Fhe Uhicata Tribuns, 5 o Jutl, v.~Duwing thoe week of prayer larga union inoctiugs hiave besn held bora uightly, undthe frate:nal feoling of ear- nestnosu and intereat shown has been rematka- ble. Despito the vary bad weather, the largest churet wan woll fiffed nt tho uuion meeting of the Cungrogational, Uresbyterian, Baptist, aud SInthoatst congrogatious, oddrosasd by theie asture, Lo mcelings 8o (0 be kept up this weel, and Whittlo and_liles aro expouted to tpend ness week horo, Tho prospects of a ro- vival of roliglon bero aro rogarded botter than vy befozo, Gove Counor's Messnges Aunusta, Ma, Jan, G.~Tho following is an nbstract of Gov, Connor's niossege, which vias dehivered to tho Legishitwie this afterncon @ ‘Tho Londed debt af tho Stawo, Jan, 1, 1875, was £7,088,403. It is now $5,949,400. Tho prosent not Indeltedness of the State, deducting the sinking funds, i €5,272,638.28, Tho Bank Ix- aminer roportd &ixty-four aavioga bLauks in op- cration in tho Htate, 'Lhe deposlis for tho yoar onding Nov. 30, 1575, amountedto €32,083,814,28, an fnereaso of 21.021,550.65, The only romafn- ing Statu bouds not finally disposed of aro 81,781 ucros of vettling Jands uncold, and 142,- 067 scres for which cortificaten havo been given to #ottlers. Tlo railioade in tho Biate aro said to bo in sn sraproved snd excollont condition. Onc hundred sud eovonty-five foreign and do- nestic Insurauce companies Liad authonty to do businees tn the $2ato dorlng tho past year. I'bo Htata Prison baw bovn vo far affected by tho proetration of budiuces that the oxcess of ex- cnditure ovor incoms has been €6,700. ‘Tho 'raytecs of thin State Callezo of Agriculture ree port s year of gralifying sucoess, aud msk for additioun! busldieers, “Tho Caltego Liss 115 wtue dents. The Governor dlscusses tio agriculinral Intorcsts of tho Btate, aud refora ln warn: ters totio various esturos, awoug which aro the bect-sugar wdustty and cheeso mAnufacturo, Sizteen thousand dollas will be noeded thi year far the Notarm Schiool, which led 142 in- nsted, Btops ehould bo takon toward the linite ation, by law, of city and town fudebtedness aud taxatiot. The Centounial 18 comnionded, snd thoGovornor kuys that Maine bas u fixed conolu- alon upou she subject of the Prohibitory lew and it auccess, The louso docided tho matt #aaty, izlving tha seats aecupiod b of Bolgrave, llepublican, and roteated and warned hun without efioct ; oease bis tirado ho wonld not, Nelentloss ridionle mes Landls at every polat. It pursned b to Bue Tops ; it tormontod tho family Lie had laft be- Inud § it groctod Lim whon horeturned; it joerod at i mithin the shadow of his homo ; 1t moctied b bis familv digtressen; it tauuted limopas *“weeteh " who was ueek\n;; to pat his wife in o mad-housa; sud thera it MGHM. Landia mought Lis foo, pistol 1 tand, wated for his appouning, and ghot biw dowa, DESECRATION OF A HEBREW CEMETERY, Ceereapadence American leraslite, Prye Doy, Atk., Deo. 20,—Ou the evening or night of tho th inst. ome hounds in humun form euterod the Hebrew Cemetery of Iino Dlutf and committed all the devsstation that was in tueir power, Tho monumenta to the numbor of sbout sevonty-fivo were overturncd, and two- thirds of thow broken to stoms, tho foot-alones torn out, the shrubbery and flowors planted on the graves of tha dead by their sor- of contestod David dolder, . Hanlon, of Watarville, 'Domocrat, to' 11, ¥, Wrnam, Demo- | FOIIE rolatives —wero uprooted, tho ciat, ond Nathawiel Meador, Nopullican, loth | 6raves thomselvos trampled upon eud Lrauches, fo conventlou, thon fifled tho vacancy ( detiled, sad finally an attenipt 10 the Firet Beuatorial District by the elootion of U. U, Brackett ae_Hanator. Iu the aftornoon in foint eouvention, €. J, Chadboarne way olected Hocretary of Ktata ; L. A, Emory, Attoruey-ten- eral, aud J. ¥, Ctlloy, Adjutaut-Gonoral, was made to flro m Iavgo piue treo stauding within the inclowuie, in order to burn what littte she villaius wore unable to v.umu{. (Priug the pame of this placo sud Stata in large capitaly, lent peopie wnould thiuk 1 am writing frow somo provinse of Turkey or Morocoo, aud not from the civibzed Biate of Arkansas,) Many will duabitless bellove thin eutent t0 be exage gerated, aud, fearing this, I visited the como~ texy youterdsy, tha kindnesa of Mr, Louls Alt- Leimor having placed a buggy 88 my dispossl. The ground s » oleanug adjoining iba other cometories of this commuuity, sud lyiog i & toreat of biack osk aud puo, somswhiat off the r0ad atrd vory solitary, put tho spot is not with- out patural beauty, aud Its very lonoluees, and the solomu milouoe that reigns exveps when thy wind sighs through the piue trecs, add to the borror with which wo view tho desoorated rest- ing-place of the dead, Yvory heal-stons, oze, copt & fow which bave Leen repiaced, lylng on tho ground broken into fragmoula, aud showivy tracea of such dehibsrution that we ors fuorced to bLeliove that i was the aot of & number of men, Bioues woighing two buudred weight heve beeu Ufted Louily out of e ground ; s sbalt. erected to the memory of o wother of A. E, Xesakland, of Memplus, sad — e A Practical Use of Dogu, Ouktand (Cal) News, It {8 o fact perhars not generally known thal thoro ld & firm dolng busivess in Ban Fraociseo who purchase tho thousands of dogs alaughlor- od by the Pound Master of that city, or shat may hiavo boen otherwise killed, for which they poy 40 conta cachi, ‘Tho cricassca are convesod to theic manufactury at South Ban Fraucisco, where tho wkins rre removed aud sold ¢o the tan- nories, the hinir taken off snd resnld to plaster- ers, tho bido $anned, made 110 gloves, and sold in the marka The denuded carcass is thon thrown into o huge catdron nud boiled until tug boses are essily soparatod from tho fleah, when ihey ato ground 10 8 fluo powder aud uked to clanify sugsr, T oll that risus to the vurfuce of tho butlivg muss is vkimniod of sud maufac- tured tutw ood liver oil, mud tho rewaiuder is ugod £o7 the purpose of Iattwuing boge, ‘ coastituted it. ilis personal aud political friendu. welghing a ton or morg, has bacn throtrn dovm snid broken aftor is foll. Of the shrubboery and flowera thore remaing Mflmfll(f & vontiga except what hes withorod and éramplod undorfoot, T solitary pine tbnt Lins boon mcorehed, nshien fio nf fta foot and the adjacent 8, fit typo of tho dosolation that relgus over tho silnnt city of tho dead, Tho outrago waw discovered on Fridavg on Raturdar four ohildron—throa bovs and n girl— confosged (0 having committed the aot, “That thin is a paitey plot to vcresn tho actnal porpo- trators 1o 8a00 man dan doubt, 'Tho ohildren aro nll under the ngo of logal accountability, tho aldo it being a boy of leas than 12 yoara of ago,— # precocions young viltain, a line from thocradia, e not to bo beltered nnder oath,—and of the other (hroe, none are more_than 8 years old, Tho oidest boy, Edward West, ran away from homo noms woeks agzd, snd haa been living with & mau_ eallod Iawlay, ono of whote xons {a amoug the alloged culprits, but 80 very soung that he caonot aven bo ox- ambod befaro o Grond Jury, Now e ars to bo- liovo that thess infants ontored & burial-ground ot night, Iiftod, maved, and destroyad stones weighing from & hundred weight to s tom, up- roated shrubhery, and finally tired a pina tron, with no fost.gation but & puro spirit of mischief, ‘To this thoro ¢an bo bnt ong oxpianation : Theie story from beginniog to and fs o deliberato lio, which thoy have Loen taught by roio, and which they thomselvos would contradict it thoy coutd bo placed on a witness-stand, In tho' Town Couucil 1t was loft for a colored gentloman to make tho motion to tako nction in this mal- tor. Mr. Ford. HMarris, formeziy tho slave of an Ismnalite, I3 the second of his raco in this titato who bins placed us undar obligations, tho Jew- ish mombora fealing that the non-Jewish patt of tho Counch shiould be loft to tako up tho matier. Jlowever, on the motion of Mr. Harris, tho Mayor wea instruciad to oifer n raward of $1,000 for tha discovory of tho criminafs. Tho cougro- gatlon offers another $1,000, raised by sub- scriptions from tho Jewlal citizoos at large, aod D'unl B'ith Lodge offors 100, 1t 168 8160 ox- pocted that the Governor of tho Btate will add somothizng. A COLORED DISTURBANCE, Bpecral Dupateh to The Chieags T'ridune, ERansas Crry, Mo, Jan, 9,—A foarful fight took place among o Jot of drunken noyroea and whites ab & negro ball in Ilarlom. oppoaite Kao- #as City, at an oatly hour this morning, Pistols and razors wera drawn, and much bad blood was spiltod. Aftor tho fight fnaldo the houso, & mob followod tho men across ¢ho Missouri Rivor bridygs, and, just alftor mnchlui tho Kansaa City sidy, oue of the nsgroes was Iut on tho bhead by a large rock, and bis skull crushed, o was picked up by & policoman and taken to tho sta- tion-houss, whoro ho now lies in au lnsonsible condition. Tie cannot live more than an hour or two longor, ALLEGED EMDEZZ LEMENT, Special Dispateh to the Chicasa Lridune. Broosixatoyn, Iil, Jan. 9.—E. 8. Youog, who for somo tima wan sgont of the Remington Mas chino Compsuy st Dfoomiugton, and who was removod by the Company some months ago, was arrestod l1ast night in this city upon the order ot C. M. Dally, (eneral Agens of the Remington Coinpauy, upon a charge of embezzling hotween $2,000 nnd $3,000, alicgod to bave becn paid ta him for tho Company by its patrons. Young wos formerly a studont at tho Norioal, and after- wards a doctor at Hudson and thu Postmastar at Miuior, o gave boads fu tho sam of $5,000, and will hava an oxumination to-morrosw, PEDIGREE OF THE QREAT-BEND VICTIM, special Dipaleh o The Cheaqo “Ayivune. Inpranarouts, Jao. 9.—Uoeorgo J. dMarsball, who was recontly nsgnulted sud nearly killed at Qreat Bond, Kou,, waa formorly & farmor, re- siding nesr Aloxandria, In this Sislo, snd not Andereon, a3 tolographed from Knosas. Lo was in good repute there, bat, for nomo unex- thained” reavon, suddenis loft i Decomber, leavtug dobts unpald amounting to 81,600, Ylis porsonal property has bron attached. His wifo accompanied him a part of tho way on his Jouruey, but zeturned homo o week ago. BRUTALLY STABRED. Svectal Diepateh L Ths Chicago Tridune. Ispiavavows, Ind., Jan. 9,—During a danco at Now Dranawick, Boono County, Fridsy night, Bamuol Boleker quarreled with a man named Adney. ‘Lho formor knocked the latter down, when ho rore, and, seizing Dolcher by the head, stabbod bim in the sbdomon, alimost disomborat- lug lin. Adooy escaped. 1 HE EniE CANAL SUITS, Specral Inapatch ta The Chicaco Tridune, Borrato, N. Y., Jap, 0.—Tho teial of the Hon. Goorge D, Lord for bribory deaws noar tho closo. 'flio evidencois sl in and the mume ming up_cominéncod o-morrow. IFiva yearain fltn‘xu&n Trison may bs Lia pusishment §f con- victed, THE WRECKED ORPHEUS. Sax Fraxcrsco, Jan, 9.—Tho oxamination of Capt. Bawyer, on acharge of wrocking the Or- phous, resultad in his dlachargo, —_— A NEW DEVICE FOR TWEED. Tweed’s Attorneys and fwecdds Monunmon ASK thut ANl the fartice ipatora In thoe Ringz-vpoil Except ‘Wweed Ho Compollod to Bofundse. Eho City, Colinlys Aftornoy=-Goners uiy Gorporation Counsvdy dnckson B, Schultz, und ethers, Made Dezond. nuis. New Yort Triduns, Jan, 8, A suit has boen \ogun by Fiold & Doys, the attornoys of Mr. William M. Tweed, in the nama ot Cuarlen Dovllo,—ivhoss bouds for the appaar- anco of Tweed for tdal on criminal indletmons havo boon forfsitod focontly,—against the city, tho county, the Attomnoy-Gonoral, the Carpors- tion Counsel, Jackso) 8. Bohultz,John I, Keyner, AudrowJ,Gorvoy, Rijhard D.Counolly, nud James . Ingoreoll. Tho eiit {8 bronght under Ohapter 16 of the lawa of 12, which providos thas *all officers, ngenta, compleslonors, and other por mons, acting for or on Lolalf of any county, town, or municipal &rmunan ia this Btato, and oach and ovory one them, may be proaecuted, snd au actioh or jetlons may be maintained agsinst thom to prevent waste or {njury to any property, fuud, or eiiate of such county, town, or muuicipal corporston, by any poreon reslding in such cuanty, tows, or muuicipal corporation, acsussod for aud Jisblo to pay taxes thereln, or who has paid taxes theroin within one ysar pre- viona to the commessomont of any such action or actions.” 'Tho aci:ben provides that it shall ot tako away thenght of motion from (he county, town, or mup.cipal corporation, The complaiot in the suit recitos th r. Dov- }in L boan A tax-poyor for 25 yoars; that “John 1L Koyser, Andwow ). Garvey, Richard D. Con- pully, Inaas 1. iugesoll, togothor vilh James \awon, horetoforo and in or about the year outered into p conspiraoy to defraud the County of Now Yorlj aud tho Mayor, Aldormen, and Cowmonalty of the City of New York, by bricatiog and pro@ring pavment of pretended olaims sgainst the ofy aud the connty, such pro- tended olaims to be jonutimes wholly falve, and Rumatimes groanly gl fraudulently oxaggernt- ¢d." Tho complain(adda t d conapiraoy, as the plaintifr i luforuind aud beiivos, various pretended claits, soo of them ths sald county, sod athers sgulasd the satd Mayhr, Aldermen, sad Commousity, wero, by the said cnalirators, or some of thus in the tuterest of olhers, fojricated, aud pobmond thersof procursd from the triuries of the sald county, snd ©f tho waid city ruu;um;. amaunting to_suversl millions of dollars frok eacli, Upan the discovery of th said {rauds, whih discovery ook Dlace in be surmer and autumwol 1571, it bocame the duby of the Bourd of Bifervisors of tho County of New York, and of)the Mayor, Aldermen, - snd Goumonally ot the Oty of Now'York, and ot b proper_unicors (o mak)sll lawgul efforts, by ault or otharwits, 10 abtain Hititution to the reamurios of the sald county and ciyf reepeotively of sll onay snd Property of which tholuld county aud city hed boeu 0 dafrauded as atorcefll, and such duty Liss cuntiie ued {0 this doy, apd aticontiunes, Tuo ofiices of Atthmney-Gunoral Fafrchild ana Whitney—two of the de- . forth, and thefr authority to the frauds aganst the Tho compinalut then pro- sud dutios in rogayf city wro explainod, osads as fallows : tandiug the Do clvll a:tlon or pu forwed and bellaves, L es Lorviuburore aut foril, je:ution, ¢ the plaind b5 lu- ever Leca coinmenced agal 1In the year 1813, as Uoves, au saslgnivent was wals by ne dr dofndant Jackson 6, f » large amuunt of propert; ndaut, Joba 11, Keyeor, b 1y hults, in truat, to ccliset snd onoy, and pay the same to the said oounty or £ity i the mid money and priparty 10 fraudal which saslgnnieat was Roosptad by thie aaid Heh and be kas roceived @ farge smouni of moRey wa« yroperty therarndar, bt has pald over nothing to the T county or itys ‘Lho recovory of §348,012.82 from tho Wataon ettato fu then presonisd. o cotuplaiut adds ¢ Ad (he pIAIRLEY 1o fuformed aud betlases, tan sl Kogaer, Onryey, and In l rsobl have it adrsftta: d navowad o ditfreent legal procoedinga that thoy par- telpated an sl fraudutent acts an aforevatd, or mor s altuom; but althaugh anch admivaons trore Xaown te tha odieers whona ety it was to ks, nn notlon of auy kind gxcept aa {i thin compiaint taentioned hine e faken by thein, or nny of e, egainnt tho el nons _niaklng th admissions and avowals aforean Tha negie:t tocall the rald Balluita {0 socaunt, and nelect fo prosecuts each and wil of the coustdrators and tho ombwalon to oltatn remtitution from them or thelr catuten of the money "z propesty ro frandulently oblatucd as aforesatd, has boen owing, a3 the piatkiT ia informed and hetfevas, to the gross neglect of theralid city aud thie raid coubity, and the proper adleer, whozs duty ft a8 {0 provevuts tho alaima of eacl, anid ta coliuston Betweon the st oficers, or soms of tha, thio #alil couspirators or their repreantatives, Unleas tho aald corporations and the proper oficers whors duty it 10 to proseents the sati claim, and to vrocnre raatitie tion an aforenald, aro competied speedily to prosecuts the st conrpirntars, and usa oll ewsonahin diikzencs to_abtain restitiiton to fho trens of he uabil conaty and aity rexp.atively, thers iy il it nent danger of neveral nfillous Loing lost to the sald county andlo Mamideity, . 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Wherefara the phaiati¥ demants Judgment, 1, That the rajil Batrd o Supervisors of the Caunty of fiew York, the mabt Sayor, and_Come moualty of 'tho City of New Yeek, nul afl olticers whosa duty it Is ta proccute the ead clainta sl 1o catieo reaiffution as aforesald, Lo by fujunciion pros vented from delug or Auki 0¥ raste or fngnry to any praperty, fua; T entala of the suid eounty and 1ho satd city, nnd rosteatned from giving any releasa or discharga o any of the rald conapiratoss, or ony exonuration of thelr cafates respectively, or makini Any agrecmont or compromikn with thota, or toy af them, otcopt under tha dicection of the Court, IL'That & Leosiver b sppointod of all tho st claims ogainst (ko sald conepizatora for money or roporty wo fraudulently obtalued on ufarenald, and of Ali derusnds agaiaat thera by Foason of tho said frauds or uny of thom, 111, That the sald Roceivor or the rald ofcer may required to prosccule thn said conspirators aud thetr sald estatos, sud audesvor by sll Liwfal moins Lo abtain rostitution to the tresauries of the said coun- &y aud aity roapectively of all money and propesty 8o traudulently obtsined a3 aforesaid, 1V, That the ofticers whoao duty it was to prosceuts tho aald clsime, and who have been guilty of such neglect and coliuslon sa sfaressid, Lo reyuired ta muke wooil to the sakl counly and ity respoctively all waata or injury don or suffered by them to_tho proporty funds or estato of tho asid county and the #atd city, and all Joss whizh may havo beon ozcasioned by tholr default, nd all monoy nnd property which thioy mighs baye obtainod for tho sald county or city. 'Chis complaint is vorifiad by Mr. Doviin, and was servod yostorday on tho Magor DR, BAMUEY G, HOWE. Denth of 'This Eminent Mnu—Cutiine of liis Varied Experionceos and Uses ful Kxistonco. Epecial Lispatels to I'he Chicogo Trivune. Dostox, Jan, 9.—Dr, Samuol G- Hawedled at noon te-day of softoning of tha braln, Iio had boon failing for tho past few wooks, aud his death was oxpected at Any moment, Ho was born in this city in 1801 Ilo was graduated at Brown Univowsity in bis 218t yoor, and dovoted the noxt $hireo yenrs to tho study of modicino. In 1524 ho wont to Groeco, nad Joinod the Greck army as surgoon, During tho memorsblo atrugglo for Indepon- donco, when Gropes was orocted fnto o scparate kingdom, ho orgaaized o ro gular surgical dorv- ice, {u which he hold tho chief placo. Tho famine which tollowed the wor induced him to vloit this country to solicit supplies, with which ba roturned, and, establishing dopots fu Creoco, poraonally superintondoed tholr distmbutlon. Ife custablished w» colony on the Istbmus of Corintl, but, having con- tracted o malarious fover, was compalled to Isavo tho country in the spring of 1830, naviug spout noarly slx years in tho service of the Qrecks. Journeying through 8witzorland, ha arrived 1 Paris at tho breakiog ont of the rovo- Intion of July, and was in closo rolations with Loafsyotto during thar time of passion ana poril. 1t was aleo Lils fortune to ba in Brussels at tho outbreak of the rovolution thore. In tho autunin of 1831 ho roturnod to his native city. Tho Institution for the Blfud in Doston was then projoated, and Dr. Howo accepted tho Prosidoney, ~ Ilo numodiately visited Europo ayain to observe sod study the most approved methods of treating shono afilicted \rith u fues of sight, and while thoro allied hinelf with tho Tolish Committeo, thon fn Paris, of which ho was medo Prosdont. Ho poreonatly undartouk to convoy fundsy to a Polisl dotachmont that bad crossed fnto Prussis, was deiected, arrested, mnd shrown iuto prison by tho Prossian muthorities, but rolensod at tho ond of nix weaks, whou ho roturned bomo, sud, in 1842, opaned Perluua’ Loatitution for tho Diind io South Boston. o invented the mothod of printing in raisod lottors, wrate many reposta aud egsays on the education of the blind, and ninda oxtonsive tours through ths Btated of the Bouth and Weas, ‘The education of Laura Dridgeman, whioh los aiways justly boon ro- garded oy a& most romaikable triumph of akill ood pationce, was Dr, ilowo's achiovenient, aud the fame of it has gone through the world, Iu 1848 he took an active part io founding an oxperimontal achool for tho tralnlng of idiots aod feeblo-minded childron, sud lato in 1451 ostablished s publiv school for that clags, of which Dy, Howe was the Piincips! from ita organiuation, 1ie was for s loog torm & member of tho Htate Boards of liducation and Charitios, and was President of tho latter BDoard, When tho Kree-Boit party was organized he joimed i, and was ons of tho Rleading spirits of the party in Blsssachusolts, In tho timoof tho Yoxas sanexation and Mexican War excitemont, bo was s caudidate for Congross fo orpnfll\mn to Robert C. Winthrop, hut failad of election. In 1831 and 1853 ho odited the Commontealth newspapor, then tho leading orgnn of the Anti- tlavary party. In the organization snd work of tho Nopublican party ho was zoalous aud of- ficlont. 1o was ome of the trustod friends of John Nrown, aud Lnow o much about bLis Harper's Forry campaign ibat, ‘when the Congressional Uommitico undertoox fnvestigation, ho sought n temporary abode in Canadn. Hoe wos . mombor of tho Hanitary Commissfon, of which tuo Itay, Dr, Belloma was Proaident, during the War, and, after, 8 mombor of tha Comuirsion appointod by Becrotary Bian- ton to vimt tho Houth and roport on the condi- tion of the froodmen. In 1871 he was ul:pnlmud by Presidont Grant a momber of the Commis- sion to viuit and oxploro tho Iuland of Han Du- mingo, with roferonco to the proposition of sn- noxation, : RAILWAY-BATTLE, A Disputed Crossing—Erillinnt Chargo oy 200 LAborurs—Zutile fSoturn Uhurge of o Locomotive—Two En= gimea Wrockud. Correspondenss New Yark Tribune, Tumnton, N, J., Jon, 6.—Tho quarrel Lotween the Penuaylvania Railroad Company and the Delaware & Donud Hrook Iailroad Company, noar the viliage of Ilopoweli, about 14 milos from Tronton, whera the latter inmista on crosmog the tick of tha former, calminated ~ o a formidabla wtruggio Detween tho two lust evomag. “Tho Mercor & Homeruet Hailrosd, braach of tho Pounsylvania, in order to proveud the Delawars & Bound Brook fload frowm crusaiug at thia point, hins had, all sunmer and fall, & locomotive standing on the wpot of tho intunded orossing, 50 as L0 pre- vout the frog bowg Iaid and the Deluware & Tound Brook Road from makivg a conuection, ‘Tble eugine, in ordor tn lot the regu. lar train poss, Lad go on tho siding st and after Iv passed would roturn sgain to the dispute od ypok, Last evouing, a8 koon as tho ongine passed on tho siding, about 200 laboters, in tho u‘:})lny of tuo Detaware & Bouud Brook Road, suddenly appesred, aud togo up the siding, aud buils ® semporary siructure, ko a3 t0 suuble thom to go on with (he work, Tho Pouusylvania Lioad otlicialy, being informed of thfs fuct, sont an ongine and broke thiough this temporary steuciure, but in doing so it ran off thetrack, and was knocked down the LIl In the mcantime the frog was put dowu, and & Bound Brook on- #ioe placed on tha frog, and chained duwn fust %0 the Lies with immeuse chainy, and & barricado built sround i men untll they numbered 800, whils thara wera about 600 of tho Bound Brook men, incinding over 100 of tho villagors whoss sympathles wore for the ney road. Balow the arossing woro Lhe trainn in whict the reinforcementa had com, (o unrs of which wero nased by the man for aleoping prpoes, 'Fho Dound Nrook men butlt bonlires n the flolds for tha night, though mauy on bath sides kept puard at tho crosmng. No trouble ocourred, Hmuu\l toward mormng affaira pro- #onted a threatoning aspect, About dayhight Adjt.-Gen, W, B, Btrykor arrived on the sceno from Tranton with Lyve cowmpanios, numbsriug 210 mon, of the Hoventh Reglmont, N, (1, 8, N, Jo, under Col. Angell, aud tmmodiataly put n ‘F‘m nraund the eronzing and the engiues on it The mititary held possosaion of tho apot to-day, thelr eamp-fires being bullt in A neighboring field, nid the rafleoad mon geatterod ovor the country u search of provielons, or gathored n knots around tho firea dinsus:lng the situntion avd awaittog tho decivion of Chancolior tunyon, Atout 5 p, n 1% R, Haylor, Chiet Engineer of the Louud irook Railrand, arrivod from Nowark with tha deoision an favor of ik road, wlich bo road to o crowd of tifty ur sixty, wha received it with ehoaen for tao Bound Brook Iail- rond. Telepiamy ordoring the military to hold possossion wera recoived from Qov. Bedle, and tho troops, camped n tha apon ticlds, are now keeping guard furtho night, About 7:30'p, t, most of tho Ponusylvanis. et woro takon on o tratn to Now York™ nud Jdormey City, thus loaving the ground iu quiot, xhila the Bound Brook mon found slecping-places for the nighs, Chiof Lngineor Savlor oxpocted to put his men to wark at 7 a'clock thia mormng, and placo the frog and crossing {n working order, No trzin passed.through yesterday on the Mereer and Homorsot lrauch, "tho passongera bolng obligaed to walk around tho crossiog and tako aue othier tran, A DETROIT LIERO, Lavxe.—1'ha latost particulars from the ralie rosd troubles iu Hopowell ra that romforce- wmeuta bave boen arsiving frow wil quurierd, Lioth companles hiave forwarded sdditioual meu, aad, with the farmoers in the neighborhoud, the vamber prescus iv sutimated at 1,000 men, Two cogines Are wrecked, Tho Dalaware & Lound Brook Rosd men have torn un & conald- eruble portion of the track, and still bave thoir sugine oo tho frog, aud, up to Gp, m., wore mastora of the situation. Tue Chiol Enginesr, P, I, Baylor, of tho Dalawsre & lsuua Brook Ralirond, thelr counsol, Abralinm Drowuing, and severnl other Jeadiug men, waut up this evening, The buerif of tho connty alsa went up ta pre- Borvo the pascs. The Cowmissioners to con- demu the rosd have made tholr report, and ale lowod the Ponn:ylnn.in Railroad $330. The award was sefused. ‘Lurnton, N, J., Jau. 7.—~The railtoed war at Hopewell, N, J., torminated t¢-vight without a collision beiweon the meu, Last night rein- forcemonts weso reooived by tho Pounsylyauis Ovor One Klundred Lives 3aved by Ono Man. Newe Yerk Tridune, Among the spplications made to tho last Con- gresa for n wedal for sorvices In the saving af Iifo was thnt of John Iorn, of Detroit, who may be junily siyled s homo-bred John lambeit. “I'he chaructor and adventures of John Lambert of SHcotland were vory graphically doseribed bo Charles Rasdo n your ago in the Tribune, uudor tho titlo of a * floro and Mazter.” M Horniga young man livin at Detroit, assisting Lis fathor thera in & smail tavern uear the publis swharves. Doubtless this proximily to tho wator haa glvon lim the opportunitles which bo bas had {u several years for saving what hio calenlatos in the aggeregato at - about ono bondred Luman lives frow duath by drowning. Tho Jlon, Moses W. Field, of the Housoof Representatives, who knew Horn in Dotroit, Lrowglt iis claims to tho attontion of Congross, 1n coliecting uformation in rogard to iforn’s singalar aod thrilling ad7outuros, the followlng Igteer uas obtainod trom tho kiero bimecl?. It 18 & very modest and not detailed roport of what he hns sccomplished, told fo stmple wnd homely language, aud will bo read with pooulisr t- toruat, THY, [IERC'S OWN BTORY. Dernorr, Feb, 22, 1874.~The Hon, Moses W. Field, Ilouse of Representalives—Dran St: 1 havo uever desired o public stalement of tho morvico whiols, undor God, 1 bavo boon ablo to render in #aving bumao life, but a8 you havo onked mo to sond you a ilat of the men, - wotnon, and childron whom £ have rescuod from drowu- Ing, 1 will do uo, so far a8 Tean from momory. 1 Linvo nover kopt o recrd of the nauos, and tho number 19 80 groat thiat you will excuse o it I loave tomo uumontionyd. I think I lisve attogattior saved more than 160 bumnu boings, but { tako no credis ubout thiy matlor, nod I have nover regrotted doing what [ bavodouoin nuy caso, although I hiave had at times to keep ‘my bod for mauy woexs ou ag- count of the exposure iu tho coid weather, It is woll for mo that I bad a good mothor to fako cero of mo s ouch tinoy of alek- nosd. On the 20t of May, 18—, I saved Mr. Maunlu, of Windsor. On tbe Tth of July, 1863, L vaved Mr, Goorgo I'nylor, of New York Stato ; ho wns very near doad when I got him ou tho wharf, Oct. 10, 1865, 1 savod a child of Mr. F. Gorwag, of Adnun; whio was about § years old, oud was near drownod whon I got bor but. Doc. 12, 1503, L saved & sun of &Ir. Yates, who kopt u olothiing store on Joflersou nvenuo. Ll nyht was very cold, & high wind was blowing at the time, and boe was very noar dead whon we reach- od tho wharf, April 11, 1846, waa tho worst night I over had, It will bo over momorablo &8 tho night of tho cat contlagration st the Detroit and Milwan- g0 Itailroad dopot, when sixtesu poor follows wero drowned. I xoscued nino, and thon be. canto no oxbiadtsted that I coufd uut swim, and had to nbundon them to thoir fato. I got n vory bad coldand lay in bou two wooky, but that was nothing iu comparison to tho goodaccomplivhed. July 25,1866, i saved Mir. Josoph Noblo, of Windsor, and [ boliavayou wera thora at tho time, Ho wad once ongineor on the Grent Wostern Itatlrond. You know lhs camo uoar drowning mo by his struggles in tho water, at which timo I recolved sovore injurios. Avrit 7, 1867, I savad the pon of Mr. Myers, who lived in Mullot streot. o was a boy about 12 years old. Juno 14, 1867, I saved the daaghierof AMr, Androw Norse, of Clevelsud. Bho was going on board tho ferry-boet with hor mothier and soma othor ladios, when o foll off ¢he plank. Whon [ got to tho whort she_was “poing out of sight for the Ingt timo, and I plunged in and brougnt her to thao surfaco. Bept, 15, 1867, I maved n colored man, who was a decklhand on the propeller Matoor, Ho kicked me nbout in tho wator ter- ribly, for drowuiug mon nre always orazy. Nov. 4, 1867, X eaved Mr, Dawid Aliffer, the man who drovo & wagon for 1full Bros., storokecpers on Motroo nvonuo. Msy 10, 1868, I saved Mr. Rohert Sinton, known s * Freo Press Dob," You know he used to bo a roporter for tho Freo Press. And In lus haste to got nows ho feli (v, and I got him out. A fow nights altor that I saved Mr, Btoolo, wlo used to keop a stare on Michigan avenue, 1o was on tho forrybont with his wifo; he had a vory spirited Loreo, and was holding him by tho head shen tho boat atruck the wharf, Tho horso juwmped and throw him into tho river, whon tho current ewopt bim undor tho wharf. I jumpedin and got him out all right. Oct. 4, 1808, Luaved o dsughter of Mr, McDonald, of Windsor, May 12, 1869, XIwaved Mr. Naltory, ono of the Flattory Brothors whio kcop a furiiiture store on Wood- ward svonuvo, IIo was aheavy man; when I got hold of him ho was uear ‘gone, and Icamo near losing my own lifein getiing him out. June 21, 1570, I saved & man callod Mr. Ueorgza Drodier, I was eating dinner at the time, when some Dorson osme runniug in after me, say. ing, ‘"There fa & man in the nvor,” I ran out and jumped into the river, and as soon as L &ot near bim ho clutebied me lke a viso andtook mo under tho water twice, When I sama to tha top tho last timo, my fashor handod me a long pole, which 1 caught, sud that ruved me. He wea n powerful man, nud Kicked and strugglod 80 bard that he mado my legs black sud blue for mauy months, My mother gocs to the edge of the wharf with rao vory often, whon I jumpin; but when sho #ocs persons strupglivg in the water and drown. ing, £uo noverjholds me lmcl&. Augs, 21, 1h71, 1 saved the daughter of Mr, A, Wilwon, of Milwankos. March 4, 1672, [ snved & colored mau by tha name of Georigs Wilkas | ho foll off tho wharf while undor the influence of lquor, but I thiok ho ins boon 8 sober man ever ulneo. July 4, 1873, Luaved tho daughior of Mr, T, Barlow, n butcher, who Loops n stall {n tho wnrkot, 3o way golog on board the ferry-boat Detroit with hor mother oand somo other Indies; the crowd waa vory groat, bolog tno Fourth of July, and, " although her ‘mother held Licr by ths hand, the crowd nurged , and sho was crowded off tue plank and fell lutu tho niver. Thero wero abont 500 peaplo on the wharf at tho time, nud they wore all sianng at tha pour glel eksuggliug in che water, nob vne of them dariug o o to her resouo, 1 wssin the house whon souo ones came to {mn tho alaim, and whou Igot out thore I could Just sea hor drens 04 she wag groing out of #lght 4 or § fost Lalow Wb surfaco. I jumped in - aud caught hor, snd whon ROt out on the top of tha wharf with - her the poople gave ma throo cheers. Blarch 0, 1874, I saved 8 young lady called Bltea Louise MoKenzie, ‘I'his was the cloyvst call I over hiad for my hife, 1 was Iu tho wator sbout ssventuen minntey, aud the river being full of Hoating ico ot the simo I was nearer doad thou alive when I got out, TFour mon carried mo uto tho houso, und thoy rubbed me with Lot whissy Ior aver four hours buforo circulatlon Was restored to fts normal condition, ‘Lhis savero oxpusure mude me slok, and it was over throu mouths before Lie right fooling waa iu my hands, You will remewbor thus {ncidont, for you came towe when [ was unwell. I regret very much a6 chis timo I lust {ho beautirol medat presonted me by the citizous, and I thusk you wora ons of the geutlomon counected with i{s proseutatios. I have boen Informed that I would recoivo s wedal frouws the Ihitish Farilament, buc it has ot goiza, 1 dan’s sk any, L savod ‘& poor unfortunste (odividual® last mouth, whon 1 took u severe cold, and a8 I wos lying 10 bod reading fhe proccedings of Cou- #mfl. Luaw romolnlm‘ about an appropriation or medals to persous for saving Jife au tho sca- ehoro, aud I thonght thon that sume xoutloman would be vory ikely to romember aleo thoso who eaved lives on the Nortborn Inkes and rivers. ‘hera are mauy othor oases which 1 dou't mention, aa I have nos gob thelr .named, You muust kuow youreolf of m great masy j a8 ‘uur placa of husinoss and warsheass are neaz Y, and 1 racollect seaing yon novaral times when rescuibg paopln from a watory grsve. Wishlng yon aud your family good health, I remain, vory iy yours, Jonx Honx, Jr. ¢4 LES ETATS-UNIS CONTEMPORAINS,? A Fronch View ol the Unitod Nintos, orrespondenca Lomlon Times, Pansa, Doc, 20.—Whito M. Laboulays, an nn. disguised ndnirer of Auorican institutions, has Lieaded n moveinont for & monuinent of Fronch assistance to tho Unitod Btates, which ho regards 4 the brightcst apot in the history of thoe ancien rogime, s work has Just besn published whiol, by implication at lenst, condomna that [ular- yoution, attributes to the cdlonial od aud ta Englieh orlgin all that {4 commatidablo in American politics, and liolda up tho United Htatos ng & warning rathior than an oxampls, It is entitled ** Los Etata-Unis Clontomporaing,® ood {4 suthor (s M. Claudia Jaouot, of Aix, fn P'rovonco. It is Introducad by a lettoe from 3, Lo Play, the founder of the * Union do la Palx Hocialo,” which, ohils acknowledging the good intentions of Do Tocqueville's weil-known work, doclarcs that muco Ilousaehu's * Contrat Soclal,k 1o book e exorcieed 80 fatal an influence on Trouch destinica, Do Tocquovillo, Lo main- tains, liko Ln Fayatto, ascnbed ta democratio jostitations * tho evidences of prosperity veally due t0 the moral foroo hmkucnthnd by Lho old colonial syatom, and induced the upper classos of Franco to abdicato in favor of tho masyes, fustoad of recovering thcir influonce, lika the English aristocracy, bya roform in wannors and habits, His end wag good ; but, doeming tho oxisting order of things fizotnovably doomed, lie was mistaken in chooas ing tho Jower clasacs as tho agouts of tho moral refarnt bo desired. Whatevor may be thonght of thicea pivictures, A, Jaunot i cettatnly. justi- fied in romarking that alnoo Tocquoville’s visit Anortcan {nstitutions liave boen macorially modiflod, - ‘Tho peparate Blates, he pointa out, liayo becomo L'roviuces, with conslderably poworg of local Government—powers which soem llkely to bo gradually duminishods ila nmnfily condemus this tondenoy to contraliza. tion, but doos not soem to remombor that tha deeling of Provincialism is part of the spirld ot tho age, and that it is oxhibitod in the. Roman Cuurcn, tho udoption of the Romaa Missal by tae Iighop of Ucfeans bofog one of tho Iatoat illus. tratiouaof it. Notouly ie Cougrass eucroaching ou tho functions of Btate Logislaturas, but the Iaster in turn aro curtailing manioipal libortles, ofton nocesssrily—for inatauds, in limiting the taxing powers of local bodios, and in pravonting tho extormination of birde and forasts. It ia ovidontly fmporgibie, morcover, {0 koep up the Proviueial foeliog whon numberk of peopla shifs about'trom Btato to Stato, and when even the Now Engiand fariners are boguining to leave thoir aucostral boldgs. M. Januet dwells at longth ou the lncroayo of officialiam, the pisco- huating maoia, tho pravalonce of corruption, aud tho omnlputence of party Intrigea in overy branch of the Governmont. ilo Las nn unconcealed aversion for uni versal suffrago, and suows that political and re- ligious o:quality are of much moro modern iniro- duction than 1s genorally supposed. Ile doeg not, Lowover, suggost that the sullrago conld 10w bo rostrictod, though ho - montions tho at- tempts boing wado to socure the represontation of imworitics. The predominant trait, hoeayy, of the American Domocracy fs the ovatraclem of tho upper classes and of ominent mon, and he comuionta upon the iutellectual infanority of ro. cont Frovidents, but ho does not soom to bo aware that tho Iatter is largaly dus to the noces- miy of ohooslng men who have not com- mittod themuelvos by ungarded uttorances, and thac the Pajacy presents an analogous phonoms enon, Thore is muoh truth in f\is piosarg of electoral fraudw, tuiuted justico, political job. bory, commorcisl immoraiity, and roligious ex- teavagaace, but tho question i whothor thess are tho oxcoplion or tno rule, Not that badise paragen averythiog in Amorica, for ho applaudt its loeal molf-government, tho observanca of Sunday, tho lve:ty of Lequest, and the insututions founded by private munif. caneo ; but Lis nnnpsm( $0 Frae- masonry and to the Hopublloan party it cortainly oxcensivo, aud ho axaggrerates the influ. ence or tho Gorman immigration, Ho admits, {ndeed, that immigeation 1a not likely to recover tho dimonsionn it assumed until the last fow voars, espaciaily as the tracta ol the Par Wast, ate ho says, mostly incapablo of cultivation, though sbouuding in mineral trosaurcs, and he urgos that a social erisis will arrive whenever the uat. utal richos of the Repubiio aro exhausted. e vory justly adds, hotrover, that tha more the United States become liko thio O1d World the lest thoy will bo ablo to tolorate tho vices of thole inetitutious, M. Jennet's standpolat may bo juaged of from his view thac Oatbolicism, though v will noy horoofsor be 4o rapidly sirengthensd by emigra- tion, sudl will bave to contand with matorlal oo- capstions and tho public-schiool aystom, may.ox. eort o decisive influancs for tho nalyation of the Ameriean Hopublic. The Amerioan- Catholics, ho ntates, almays bolleved In Papal Infallibility, 204 are stanch advacates of the Tomporal Porve or, though firmly atiached to ropublican juatitu- tions. 1f this corroot, thoy wish to subjoct the Papul Btatoes to & ayatem of priostly gavern- mant, supporsed by foreign bayouets, which they would bavo scouted for thomsolves, AL Junnet has shown great persoverance and Iabor in collecting data and in digesting tho in. foumation e rocoived, aud wany of Lis refloc. tions are well doserving of attention; but a forcigner wiio bas not visited tho country b depicts is mavifestly liable to nustako the valus of his authorities, and M. Jaonot bias occx slonally ot loast fallen {ato thiu orrar, £l more than onco appeala to tho Now York Herald sy unimpoachablo testimony on the ryule of th Ropublican party, His statoment that the Chicogo firos ~ aro univeruslly regarded in Amorioa ns tho work® of the International sooms to roquire confirms tion, and ho gravely cites as an exswplo of Aracrican schaols a story of & schoolmayter who allows & girl who misspslle s word to bo kissod by tho boy who questions her,—a punishmenl which bas msado the girla quito forgob thel orthography, while the boys have made remarks- ble progrees. M. Jannet must not taks thy joken of Amerioan editors for gospel. Wore be subjocted to this ordesl, American girls might inflist & Xkins on him for bis own or s printery occasional misspelling of English terms, I an bonud to say, howover, tuat ho commils very fow palpable blunders, and his book desorvet pornsal in France as at least oxhibiting oo view, it to somo extsnt » one-sided view, of Amorican nstitutions, —_——e JUDICIAL DECISION. Spectal Diavateh to The Chicago Tribuns, Laxsino, Mich,, Jan. 9.~The casa of Fordm Lootnts, involvlnf: tha titla to tho laod on whid the city of Ludiogton {s located, Lins been do cided In favor of tho Fore Marquotto Lumbi Oompuuy. —_—— + FINANCIAL. Nzw Yonx, Jan.9.—Qgorge W, Baale & Co, No. 77 Kenda stroot, lsrga woalen doslers, havé suspended. e A Murine Monstore An oxtraordlunry monster waa seen s fos dnys ago ot Fodoin, near Looplioad Lighthoust which is situatod on the most western point ol tho County Claro, in Iroland, I is thus de scribed : Its hoad and ueck resemble a ho zod aro of a roddish hue; 1t has short, ro! ears and uowlnr mano, aodfrom the potl eu tend two branching horns hke thatof a st undoraeatth which wero oyos fiwlug aud pro truding. 1t mado dlroctly for the parrator, whi was ou tho side of the steop rook. e ab onci ran out of reach of tho monster, whose sp brosoh looked avything Lut friondly, It thet roso bigh out of the water and K{unsod witt &uch forco as to cause the water to fly so far so! in such quauntities sato drench tha observer & tho skin, ho standing 40 fest back from tbt water at the $imo. It rumained near thirty o fosty wminutos, uevor dtuppeulnfi s momet! from view, but rearing ita bugo body partly o of the wator, and giving & chenco for furihd obsorvation, It wau observed to have tho tall a porpoiue and two large slos from the showt dors, and on tho bresst were two large faif lumps, which shook with evory motioa of tht boay, It ihen shaped its courss weatwaid, st kooping s Lead aud hack weil elovatad. I Lulk far excesded that of tho largest pospoid @ver acen on the coass, ————— A Bibutous Court, Novada Silver State, At a rocont trial in the Eiko County Courd 62 fricod Blechofl, of the linmboldt Browory, ®4 cnllod a8 a witnoss, Mr. Bishoff {s one 0! *“'golid men"' of Eixo, whero he haa been io bu? ness wince the town was ntarted in the winter d 1838, Upou being swurn, Counselor Rand, 04 of the attorness iu tha cass, who, by the wat ! al50 an ola sesident of Elko, said 5 ¥ Mr, Lishof whoro do vou roaide " *+Whero I reside? Wb for you sak mo anoh fooltsh thinga? Yoa dris! st my place moro a8 » bundrod times.” ~*Th! nothiog to do with the case on trial, U% Bishoff ; 0 to tho jury where you rosds % De sburry! de shurry! ~Ob, py jlminy gentleman” on dis shi liss o string of WA on mina cellar-door juat like & x Honor Lers Intercédod in the coumselops b and in & calm, dienified manner req -ml; 9 [taess £o utato whore bo reaidod. OB 6 cuse me, shudge you drinke st my blew ¥ many fimes pays me notings, I dlaks J* kuow old BishoR yat keopa tho browes7.". :

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