Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 15, 1876, Page 10

- 10 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE ——— RELIGION AND SCIENCE. At It Againe--1Iodgman Whacks Awny at the Nebular Elypothesis. Was Netter Either Hot or Cold from Eternity; snd, 1f So, Why So? Tho Champlon of Religlon Speaks of {he « Infatnousness ¥ and ¢ Self Stultifleation? of 1lis Opponents, An Apostlo of IMumanity Indulges in Donnybrook-Fairism, Hitting o Head Whorever Ho Sces Ona, “A Bimple, Of-Hand, and Not Scholarly ” Disposition of Hodgman, W Which Mr. H's Ullerances Are Charactere fzed as “Gilly Twaddlo™ and “Shatiow Reasoning.” “KILLING TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE To the Iiditor of The CLiz1o Tribune: 8. Louts, Jeu, %.—I am mors than pleased that, by publisbing Nos. 1 and 2 af fulilo at- tompts to rolvo my problens, you give mo such & tavorable opportunity to 1llustrale the meaning of the common nnd trite enying I havo shosen to put at tho hoad of this article, I bavo mo hostile or murdersus deaign on tho porsons of two such rospecinble sclontists as Ifir. Ot. Hoffman cod Mr. Hor. L. Amold. They may both bo very clover men, good citi- tons, good ueighbors, and sl that ; but it is cer- iala thoy aro now tha gentlemen to volunteer to tho rescuo of I'rof, Proctors falae Sclenco trom o doom of thie oblivioua contempt that awaita 1. To try to save the Nobular Hypothesls Kould ba not lesz infatuons then to try to eavo » senttled and sinkingz ship, If you etay on Honrd, you must sink with it, I was not without the apprebeneion that, #hen T propoacd my pauge-tlat, tho elfect would »¢ similar to that produced by throwing a stono Into a hornesa® nest; I thought thoro might bo 1 buzz; but atill 1 did not auticipate any harm, 10 I knew that anotlier stono would bring down the neat, and thon tho insecta swauld all leavo. 1 rony poseibly bo mistaken in (hiaidea; & nm writing from recollections of tholittlo oxperience [ had when & boy in fighting horpets’ nests. I iestroyed ecvoral nests, and never recoived o ating that I remewmber. iWhen your firat correspondent, Mr. James BcCormick, of 49 Huron stract, looked et my problem, nnd found that ho could not solve it Iairly, logically, sud selontifically, bo bad tho zood meuso to retire, and not to attempt an toewor which ho know mue: bo botb illogical and unsciontific. Tlo must baso seen that my oroblem is foundad in the ctornallaws of Na. ure, admitting of but one answer, one solu- tion,—at least il those eternal lawy cau be put sut of tbo was. Mr. Mcformick lknow very well that I had not mirdtated the theory of Proctor, 1 ouly zave the iteins that composo or sonstitute tho ghasiiy sprenlation : 1. ‘I'hat matter ts cternal 2, That it vua ina glowing: Mato: 8. Fhat there was a point in tho by-gono oter- ity when 13 began to geow cool; 4{ That it has been groming ceol ever since, tbough o thousand mllion ot years, more or lews, have rolled aaay wuce it tegan to cool. But eyen 3 MeCorpatek coold nnderetand that, i€ 1t began to grose cool, thero must havo boun o porfod witen it hegeo thua to cool; and rhat olso coild he infer bus that, as mutter in tternal, it had heen hot duringg il that post sternity beforu it Legan to cool? And 1 think avery render of 'fur Tnwwcse will bo hikely to dcaw tho samo inferenco with 3r. MeCormick, »xcopt, porhags, Messrd, Hoffman snd Arnold, Porhaps, in this esception, 1 shioull omit tho drst namo, givce I don't seo that Mr. Ifoffman tas attenipted to conirovert o nosition which afl must Gea at ouco to be self-evident, Mr. Arunld 4ges coutravert It: Lnt, in doing eo, stultifios himself, as I will sow show, T'o the yuestion, How long was our earth in o hot-gascuun condition bofore it began to cool? ho replies, ** No tima at afi!” BsNow, Mr, Editor, if tina is not & cane of solf- stultification, tloro never wos such a case. Tha proposition 49, thnt our earth wus evolved ont of 8 masa of nebulous mattor that exirted from stermty, Tho queetion iy, whother that nobu. lous mintier was in o hot or & cold stat> froi all .eternity, Prof. Proctor nssumos that 1t woe in o glowing-ho! aud gascous stato during all that past oternity befora the momint that it began ail at once to grow cool. Whou I nslc ugain. how loug that was, Mr. McCoraick cowmes to tho ros- cue, and save, **No tumo at all”! How so? Tlcar bum oxpiain: ** Tho gancous matter which formaod the earth began to cuol the mstent it ag- sumed tho (hoated and) gastous form, and witl undoubtedly continito 10 cool,” ete. Did Alr, Aroold supposo that <he eteinal nehulons mat- ter of which tho earth in mado wes alw, from ctornity, in 8 naturl or cool stal that 1t instantly went iuto or assumed a glowings Lot and goscous condition, sud then, Just nuddonly, bogau to grow cool azaly, or to retnrn to ats former and aturnal condition, aftor having acquited in an natant a degres of heut which it Lins not been ablo ontirel: ta get elear of oven niter a desperato “* strugyling” which hias losted I'Sflr m;ny willions of years, aa F'rof. Proctor bo- oves It matter ia oternal, we ronst beliove that it was cither cold or hot from eternity, If it was ina natursl or cool tato from o past eternity, then I ask why it boeamo wo bot il at onew onlv sbout & thodsand wlllion Years ago? But, if it wao in that heatod-goecons wiats from tna by. gouo eternity, what wade it suddenly Legin to rool only a Little while ago,—for whet s a thou- sand miilion years sy compared with otormty 2 This diliiculty i the way of the Nebular” fy- potbiosinis notan imaginaryvna, Ktis resl, audit canoot be mot. As 1 wsid Lefore, it will hox teath-blow to tho theory, unid ull the bluster nud buzaing in the woild eannot vuve it. I should lilo to have the groat I'rofeseat come out in Lis own dotenda; for I doubs whother lio wili indorsa nll it triouds sy for him, eupecinlly about grauita rock, Does Mr. Arnold kuow whal grauite s composed of 7 It Lo over did kuow, he bas cor- tainly forgatton, B. A. llobauax, -hot and gasoons HITTING DOTH V/AYS, Do tha Editor of The Clicagu Iribune : Cimeago, Jan, 8.—Mr, 5, A, Hodgman 1a mis- takon, pu nvuel, when honeenaes ma of solocting the caption, * Heieuco va, Religion,” for iy erit- Iciem of hia furmer avticlo. I did uot know that it was custotusry for o casanl correspoudent ofa nowdpaper to eeloct any Loadivg for a simpla letter to tho editor. At any rate, I would nover havo eclectod tho hoadiug it roceived, for I am ot coucoited enough to call mywell u sciontist. ilo waa mistaken nlso when he suppoeod that 1 bad tho presumptivn to substituto mysolf for Ir. Proctor, aud answor questions addressod di= roctly to thut gqutleman, 1iworoly binted to Mr, Hodgwan, in a8 aelicelo 8 nianner us possis ble under tho clrcumslances, that ho would do well to study tho natute snd effocts of heat, s exbibited in tho various forms of matter, Un- 1eea we do this, 1t is preposterous for one of us to give the lie to tho scientist, simply because we do not perceivo closrly tho truth of Lis siate- wents, To be & mathematician, You must undeviand sddition; And ueither Mr, Hodgwsn nor sny one clae tan comprebend tho great truths of sclence, Lo ey never so mumply expounded, without climb- ing up the lower grades, Aud tho coluwns of a tiaily papor, though sn oxcellent placo for an tbecure pedant to parade his knowledge, is not the proper placo to Jock for lessons in Naturat Flulosophy. 1o my frieudly dispwte with Mr, Hodyman, T hiave endeavored aiways to keep withiu the bouuds of moderatiou and good-fealing, and to vxclude everyibing spproaching ndiculo snd rtuperstion. This, 1 think, s the vroper spint m which to carey on an arguwent of this kind ; snd eapecislly is (4 sppropnate in oue rryuing on tho side of reason wy Agminst human fesling wd passion. Therefors 1 am astounbed, an wortitied, at the exceedingly vicious aud Chris- Sisu-libe manverin whish some other gentlewan, Vouaries of Beienoe, Liavo outered this controe vorsy, Begfooing with «nvers and Jibow, thoy go on and disseot Mr. Hodgwan aud bia questlons, Siaking great fua the while aa thouch ‘it were & gloriaus thing to b abls to bonst and say, * 0, have killed & Pernvian.” ‘Tiene gentlomen appear (o forget that thera {s nnothor sida to this question,—a ride, too, an which theto 18 a great denl of strong cvidence. Whon ruch intellectunl giants ns Darwin, and Tyndall, and Huxley, and Draper, by reasoniog, and argaing, and_drmovsteating, and proving, eau make but so littlo eadsway with tho Chiris- tinu world, it is not likely thata sueering ariiclo from tho pen of & fowth-rate sctontist will do anything mora than engender bitter feelinga, Even if ho woro ecouvinced, tn wich n galling , then woro Butler's lines peculiarly ndapied to s caso ¢ A tnan conmineed azainat his will Tu of the sanse opluiun suil, Nesldee, rcientists and phitosophors, na well AR the 108t 0 humanity, are linble to err, Tno prent Nowton oxpiained alt tho lawa and phenomena of lght, and could caleulato s e:cets, under all circumatances, with the utmost oxactucsds nnd yot his figures wera busod on o fal-a thoory, Lut, to Hiuetento this more com- pletely, 16t vs drop from tho consideration of thia great genins down to that of onreelves nnd our subject, o answer to Mr. Ilodginan's uestion as to why tha earth, when in o plowang-hot and gazeous state, began to cool, Air. Arnold eays, * Bocauso it was etire rounded by mntter of a lower temperaturo than itself.™ Now, tlis in not accuiato, as lio war- rants it to be. \¥hat mattor surrounded the cartls whan fn this gneeous stato? What mattor gurronnds the earth nasv, which ia not part of the carth 7 Nono but the nniversal cthers and, A tho vibrations of * thua cther ta heat, 1 do not think ttat Mr. Arnold can speak deflvitely as to ita tomperature. A Letter way to answor that question would Le, as § suggested 10 my provions letter, Lo advise Mr. Hodgman to makie himaell acqnaintod with tho naturo of haat, and ita pionorles of condnetion, conneetion, and par- tiowlarly that of radiation. A primars knowl. cdge of the Jatter propaity maked clear tha coal- oy of an isolated wazss of matter, }' agree witl + Hodgman when he eays that Rehgion tnd Science stiould go hand-n-hand ; Dut, when holays down Christianity as s criterion Ds ahich to Judge cither of thon, T objoct. Hiy 1ula for tho judgiug of Beioneo from n Cluistian standpoint Ju the most sdmirably-vonstiucted g bath ways I have ver mot, T prophesy, Mr, Hodgman, that,if yon will only give Neienca a fairatudy with Chnsthnity (souap- pear to liavo timo to do this, Mr. Hlodgman, and, if 80, you st far batler sitnatud thau many auotiier who trics hard enouch),—give it vno- tenth the foothold in the brain that the latter dewauds,—you wili graduatly swing aronnd to the side of Roason, snd usa yeur ibfluence in Uebalf of those who live, not for thomnclyes, but for ell 3 who dare stand up anid demand roa- ronablo proofs for fadles aad traditions that are boing Jorced down their throals; whoara willing to bu hooted nd stoned by s humanity they aro dotormined to benotit; who hesitato not to as- tack and show up the falsebood of Chmstinnity et avery opportunily ; wiho are strangers to that Ditser quality of selfishucgs known a8 patrioi- fom; aud who mecept as their roligion that noblest and most beautiful cruod that ever ema~ uated from o genorous soul, and ox|resved in tho few eimple, Bublitio words of Paine: **Tug world {8 my country; to do zood, wy roligion,” Very respectfutly, Janes Metonitck, 4 Hurow slreot, AH APPEAL TO HODGMAN, . 7o the Bilitor of Lhe Chizago Tribune ; Sircaso, Jan, S.—Hodgman says ¢ ¢ ho- man miud over yot thoroughly studied the evi- denco on which tiie truth of ttiat book [tho Biblo] resty, withous being convinced.” As it is & well- knowo fact that thousaudeof “human reinda” havo # thoraughly studted " such **ovidonce™ aa was within their reash, or could be cited by tho moat eminont Christiaus, 1eithout heiog convincod of its inspiration or infallibility, it necossarily fol- lows that ITodgman has again overstepped the boundary-lito of his lutelhgence, or that ho as (hiscovered Aomo now and important evidencn,— for chanty's sako, let us suppose the latter, Novw, Hodgmao, why loager coufine the won- doctul power of this vew light to tho taak of humiuating the dark roces-ca of your own brain # Thoavands sre dying every day, and among thet. undoubtedly, many of thoas whoso doubts, hko Banquo's ghost, * will notdown,” 1t fa sin- ful, Hodgman,~downright wickedness,—pure cussedness,—wores oven than Thomsssen's erime, Now, Hodgmen, tako the advies of & friend, nnd foraver foruakie vour **Sclouco- Gauge " era sou sre swamped and your uveful- nees impaired, and lose no time 10 gotting this new **ovidenco " boforo the world, and ths gou- eratiovs of eternity will venorale theo, Javw, REPLIES TO HODGMAN'S QUESTIONS, o the Ed.lor of The Cincavo T'ribune : Rocngewr, I, Jan, 7.—L have beforo me a serap cut from Tue Tammusy of the 20th ult., in which 8. A. Hndeman submits & problem, as he callait, to Prof. Proctor, which (judging from the tono in which it ia written), iu tho opivivn of tho writor, will nahibilste all the philoaophy of tue Profossor nud forever utop Lig lecturing to Cuicago or other nudisnces, Brivg a constant reader of Tie TatnuNe, sod rather an enthusisstio ndmiror of the I'rofeusor, 1 have been aoxiously waiting for a reply, from somo oho more competont than mysell, to g this arrogant and rother bombastic commuuication. Haviog boon disappoint. ed, I reluctantly nssumo tao task of, not inatructing your readers in regard fo tho + birth and growth of woilds,” but of aisposing of tho profound (in Lix opinion) questions sub- mitted by tho great Hodgman, in a simple, off- bhand. and vot scholarly manuer, o enyse ‘Tuis Nebulsr Hypothesia fa comparatively new, and 1t 39 never yot boen festod, cud I think it I time it should b2, "I Froposo now u gauge, or tnst, with wpveinl refetonco to tat theory. If Prof, Proctor ahall woive: th problem which { subrult to him, in s tgical and Acientitic wanner, I promiso 1hat I will accept tho tivors, It 1€ he sliall not bo able to do this, it il Lie fect ot onicw that this gatige-test {32 deatheblow to thiat theory, n hi Iato locturs he pedd 3 “"Lalte, ouca for all, innity of space; peaplo it with Infinity of matter; and tho reanlt, unquestionably, {3 ity of evolntio 1£2re thres thngs are anaumed : e oxiatence of sunulte ¥ynaco; Tio storuity of wntler; cud Tnfinits evolution, Now, this {3 certainly becaing or asking for a large eagatal with which to Legin the buliaing of the Nebular Hypottesing < ® Hodgman desires light wpon theso throa im- portant propositions. Admuting with humility oy insbility to provo sativfactonly the truth of tho Professor's slatement, to those unfamiliar with the logic and plnlosophy of the studout of Nuture, how does Hodzman dispose of the simi- Inr yropositivn: **I1 the begtoning, God cre- ated tho hieavons and the earsth™? Inn't this as- wimimg far moro fo vxpluin thoe origin of tho Umiverso ¢ ** Lu the beginning.” Hero is su_assumption that falli to the ground. “fine wanfinlte, with- ut beganiug and withont end. *+God ™ (a parsonal God oy dersribed lo the Eiblu) hero 1a ssanmption No, &, far grestor to oxplain knd impossible to prove. The God of tha Hible, o person, In the *image" of man, exials only in the unagination of those ontirely meompetent to imazion amd grasn even one singloiden of the grnudour of tha Uniyaruo, “Creatud tho heavens und tho earth,” As- aumption No, 3, Al tho scientifle workl of to-day kuow that a croation out of nothing i an alsurdity, and coueequantly thera f¢ not, and novar was, a croation m tho itoral souse, Mattor exnnat be snnihilated, aud ean nover spring luto dxintenco by the mandates or Wit of any power whatuver, "Not an atow ean be created ; ot an atom ¢au bo lost, Wa cau renson, and logiealir, by tho aid of ositive scientiliv kuowledge, wipa out tho useortion of the Ihble thut, **[u the hu- ginning, Uoid croated the heavens and the aarth:" but the usortions of Irof. Practor ura the positive conclusions of all tho scionutic men of the ninatcouth cautury, snd the only logical and comprohensive solutions of tho mighty probs Iens of tho oxistencs of thy Univarse, Space and watler aro iuuite. Spaco hos no limit, no ond, no centre, uo vircuinfercnco, Ad tho contrary wonld bo an imposmiality, wo aro forced to thia couclusion, "o eamo (s true m regard to matter, Mutter ia iminito In quan- No amount that we can masgine; lot it bo BYCY Ho vaRt, can bo Lo awmllionth part of it. ‘There in wore and mora, ntititely wore, thau suy {rail mortal can imsgine, ‘Tl canuot bo ko ecrily camprebonded ; yot, judgiop trom what we do kuow, we wnst como to tho above inevit- ablo concluston, Wero thero an sud to mmtter, wero tho quantity finile or limited, the wholo matenal Universe, the vast myriads of worlds sud systemy, would dwindle down to & mure speck, to msmull waft of dustin ouc corner (oot ‘in o comer, but in tho widdlo; uot i the middle, becauso thero 38 no wmidale, no end to wjace; wverywhero 18 oxacily the widdlo, esactly as near the widdle s myri- ads of 1iles in the opponite direction) of this mighty, exdluss spaco! No matior how vast tho wmultitudes of worlds thet do ezist. 1t there 18 &n end at tbe number, 1813 wfimterimally swall in compatigon to the vacuum that would bo uue oceupioid by even a siugle mvisible particl Lut vour correepandens does not dwoll on the material philosophy in geveral, but eolects the follawing from the lecture. and theu proceeds Lo deal ont the deatb-blow (?!) tothe Professor's argument s Luo period alone ef the earib's cosling bhas besn ' computed by & German ravant at 520,000,000 of yoal amd (s epoch when it wie stiil strugeling with fta gas uan swaa atll mors teem phoso tve donblo hn rtengslod With the gaseoun i.o juat 430,000 yoars § that would give, o1 the entira period since o nobuloy sous,” nustier which forins tho cardh tegin to geaw col, the 4003 years, Now, hera ia Found namuee of 149,60 the probiem to be explait 1, Mr. I, beih Sk about’ 100,000 of yeers mnce that elernal Imatter won n & glowlng-liot and_gaseous atale, and begin fo grow conl, cati o calealats bow lou, ulll;lnxu esteds tho paat eiernity, the vaatter had been fu thnt HerEonA coaditton befhro it bega to grow cool * 3, Can hie, furthier, toll why, 3¢ heat was {he orlginal nnd etornal conditior: of all matter, it began (o depart from that conditior, sn:t to grow cool, after havivg be:n hot from all wiernity 2 4, Again: §f tho body of our glole wasonee fn o stato of fiision,—a melted, lquld mass, us the theaty clains,—lot the Profesaor explain why, in tia process of cooling, the heavier ninterfala, as goll, silver, load, ote., did B0t aettla ta tha bottom, In obedfenco 0 the 1aw of epeciis gravit Why didu’t ties 4olil kink sway down 10,000 falioms below tho granite rock, where the rovetnia eyy of morlal man conld never have discovered {2 7—-and then all this tol and yexation of spirit to obtaln it wigbt have been avoldod forever, In copying theso extracts from [Todgman's communication, andunderstasding their whole mewning, 1 nlmost regret that I have come menced to anever auch eilly twaddlo and sbal- tow reasoning ¢ and it is evident that nll your babitual correnpotrlenta had mora pood wenso thaw L i not noticing & communication of such scientifio protoases, by euch au undcientitio - dividual. Ivis ovident that Ilodrman is not capablo of comorehending even tho plain ianguago of the Professor's lecturo. 1o alda neoms still to cling to the Mossic notion that 1 the * beginuing Godd created the earll, nnd the hoavens, sun, moon, and stara, for this earths that this carth ix about all thiaro ‘18 ; that all was mada for tho greal being, man:that the heaven ls o placo *“*puove.,” wheio tho good go: that *‘below " Is a placa for tho wicked; and thatia about all of the liniverse. It 1e, thercfore, when tho Professor talis of tho carth's eaolinz, av an oxampio Low Naturo worlig in one Instance, and under cortnin pecal- int conditions: when ho talks of the formation of thia earth to illustrato and toach how nebule aro doveloped iuto dire, firo into the beautiful planct, a3 wo sea {¢ nround us to-day, —ikas be nusundoretonds him to fay that all eternal rat- ter, nt ono and the samo timo, somo timo in the past, was fire; that all tho Umverse, in tho “boginoing.” waa in o binze atl at onco; nud that ¢l cooled off nbout tho samo timo, Whila thio Proiessor was talking about o epeck of mat- tor (compared with the Univorso, hko n eand- corn with the earth), simply illusteating tho orl- gin of jorms oml the laws of evolution as dis- plavod upoa this planet. Ifodeman interprots tho Drofessor's meamnit according to his shallow comprahonsion. Whila tho Professor soars in tho sunight of Scicucs, llodgman grovols in tho darkness of ignorance. ‘The Professor does not say that ITeat is the orizinal and etornal condsudon of all matter.” What goplustry, tuen, to sak, * Why it Legau to depart fiom that condition nud Lo grow cacl, after having beea hot from all eternity?" Dees lodgman not Lnow that ** Hell™ id thoe only placa in which matter is sald to be hot trom &l eternity, for evor and ever burning and naver cooling in tho endless future? Truly, Hodgman knotvs all about this comfortable piaco, and the Professor conld notand did not presume tu teach him about that, Matter sud force oxist ono and insoparable, The propertiea of oach atom are the sume in tho past, prosent, and future. JYoims chango etarnally, nud there is mo rest for matter. Alalter oxists, could naver have bad n lm::lnnlu%. and can nover como to an ond. Motion ia inhercut in mater, and it acts and moves by its omn coergy, aed nccording to ita peenliar propertics. As D'llalbach eays : * Matter moves by virtuo of ita ceeence; all tho phenomona of Nature oro ascribable to tho diversified motion of the varioty of matter uho containg, and which, liko tho phenix, i3 contlnuslly rogenerating out of Lior own ealies,” $o, whilo this world, one of tho tinioat of all thoe mighty bodics of the Universe, waa stiug- gling with the flery element that gavo it ita present beautiful form, myriads of olher worlds who, conntless ages beforo perhaps, il gono through tho samo ordeal, were thon the lovely dwolling-places of othar races of men and amma's, farmoro porfoct, physicnl- Iy nud mmentally, than onrselves ; and who knows Lat what tho **1eaven wo droam of, but can nover altain hero, I8 wow enjoyed by conuntlosa nnmbers of creaturss on countless unmbors of othor warlds of which wo can uever have any Positive knowledga ? Natura fs porfect. Thero can bo no law of progression for her. Haviog existed from all cternity, sho must bave Leoo the climax of por- fection, is pow, and woill be, There is nota Delug born to-dny, on thix or aay othur planet, but what a similar creaturo, equally porfect, ox- isted forever beforo in the misty past. Worlds aro born and pass cway, but not an_atom exista bat what is gatherod to riso again in somo othor form equally grend or beautitul, Eteraal aame- nean for the whole, otornal chunges for tho varls ous parts, I8 the immutable lnw of Naturo, As tha babo is born to lead o lifa indepond- ent of ity mother, only to minglo ogain and join hor in the bosom of Mothoer Earth, #o plunats aud worlds are born, follow their wdo~ pendent courgo for tha small period of ton thousand miilions of yeara, then ngaln to bo shivered to atoms, and ouce moro rotura to the groat Whole fiom whonea they camo. In regardto the third (mofoand! ?) question, I can refer your correspoudent to wny smsil nchoolboy “or common texi-book of gool- in which ho cau oblaln puf- lmowiedge of tho different theo- rfes advancod in regord to voleanoon and_their mighty convuisious, which tiad, for myriud of yeard pravious to tho oxistonce of wan, virtually torn tho jusido out of our now quict zlobo, atd produced the strange phonom- oun and effects that so puzzle tho grous [Hodg- wau. In pnawer to his Iast question, X would nsk why the groat (porsunal, intslligent) God ho worships created the gold at nll, aud'thus pro- duced ** olf this avil und vexation of spirit " in poor, mortal nan 2 Vaenly, the laws of Nature nre mighty and dificult of eomprobiension ; but the wayd of tho ** Creator" ato ** mysterious and pust floding vut.! OrT0 VWESTSTEIN, ————— THE SOKG OF 1876, Fatival Pazm_wntlen for the, German Contennial Siners’ Union of New York. Wakeu, volees of {he Land's Devotion | Syinit of Freedon, awaken aill iy, e Auorey, to thi Song of Urean t vy, anawer, stul mountainy, call 1 “T'ie goldet day hiaw comes Let evory touyue ba dumb That saundad Ls welice, or inurmured its foars; Stiu liath won hier wiory § Sk~ wears her glory 3 Wo crawa dier 1lse Land of a Hundred Years] Qut of the darkaess, and toll, nud danger, Iuto tho Light of Vislory's day, Help fo the weak, ond home 10 the atrauger, ‘Fresdum ta sll, sho bath beld her way, Now Europu’s orphans reut Upon lier miothor-hruwt Tho votewn of nwtions are huard in the chcors “I'hat Fhiell cxst upon her New lova and houor, And crown Lior the Quoen of a Handred Yoars ! North and South, wo meet 51 brothers ; Iast and Weat aro wedid.d au oua | RIZLE Of el wliall Beciry OBE MOthut's} Child of vach {8 ber fufthful uont A6 gave thoa hoort sud hotid, lorlous native Land, i 114 thiee, argl time ondesrs § witl writa thy sibry, A 2eep thy glory As pure 24 of oll for & ilundred Yoars] ~Bayard fuylor, iy SR ONE OF THE PARDONED CONVICTS. To the Fditer of Le Chicaso Trivuna : Proua, Il Jan. 11,—Io your iesne of tho 18t Inat,, 1 notice undor thio head of *The Pardon- Mill," soma strictures on the clomoncy of Gov, Beveridge, followed by a list of namea of con- viets sut ab hberty by him, awong which op- peard tho namo of I Beoit, sent from Maron County for taouty-bwo yesrs on a charge of graud larcony, Loasivg Gov, Baoveridge to defend himsolf, but deelring to o0 fairness botween citizeus sod officery, and bewng faumliar with tho facts sud circometances in . Beott's cwso, § bog to stato briotly that, ou a warm afterncon In 1870 (I enn't give datos withont cousultiug Court records), o jg\velar fa Havaus, I, stoppod out, leaving bis front door cpen. By the side of tho door was & window, in front of which buog suwdry watches, left for repsird. Au 1) For batths Wi unkuown man ralsed the window b tho roar of hin storo, aund, hurriedly ad. vaucing fo the front of tho wiore, wrabbod a3 many watches aa be could carry, oud mads olf ; but, haviug boon diacovesed, way botly pureucd and captured ; 8 preliminary cx- amination bad ; gave bis bema us T, or Thomas Seote 3 wos beld 1o bait. 1u default of which ha wax commtted to await the mectiug and action ot the Grand Jury, Whea tho Jars cenvensd, tho cago was 80 [roventcd that tuey returned o bill for ouch watch tuken. Meott bhad counsal, but, for nows causs (uover oiplained to o), sdviesd Lo Ela:dxmlty, wineh be did to osoh 30@ do bill 3 shezeupon the Court (kis Hooor barlos Turoer) proseeded 10 pass sentence fod, and miy (bt it evoa in thvn eternity of matter, 1f 1t I8 SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1876—TWELVE PAGES, I nrun him, stating to tho prisoner that he had P oaded guilty to el the indictments. nnd, aatwo years waa tho shortest term fixed by the statuto for grand larcony, nod cloven of tho watclies Tind been aliown to ba worth £15 oach, he would linve to give twenty-two yoara at liard Iabor in the Penttantiary. In view af the foregolng, and tho furthor fact that all tho proporty was recovornd, I aubmit that, {n cnmrnr(nnn to terms usually given for rimiiar and in nany casos more lieltions crimes, five yoard was o faif punishment, For mysslf, I i o favor of capital puniehmont, and ope posed to the exercise of the pardoning vower, especially in regard to murderers, tubbers, aud thievos, excont in exiromo cases Hko the ono in potut, Personally, I hava not the acquaintance of Gar. Doverldge. DPalitically. I sm. and hava nlways been, opposed to him and bis party. Tiat, having beon Sheriff of Mason County when Scoit was iried, convieterd, and by me convered to Joltet, and knowing all the circumstances, I £l ft my duty to submit the factan this par- ticular easa, B, Purees, 'FHE CURRENCY, Assumpt and Iesamptions To the Kdutor of 1 e Chacana Eribuns: ‘ Cuicaco, Jan, 14.—In atating that, 1 my ro- cont letter to Tre TRIDUNE on resumption, I as- sumed that ** the Government could maintain resumption on the gold-noto currency,” and that S assumption and resumption are vory different things in finance,” youMnadvertently fall into tho error of mintaking a pure induction for an assumption, My citation of the examples of Austrin aud Russia resuming spocie-pagmenta in A cortain mode, when their situation as to cur- rency closely resambled ours, amounts to an ine ductivo argament 1n this form: ** What Auatria and Russia have donn succogsfully undor given etrenmstancos, the Uaited Statey of Amorica can doin like circumstances,” Russia resumod in 1840, after tivonts-five yenra of nuspension dur- ing poace, nod whon hor paper-currency, for n qunrtes of a contury, had been worth only from 44 to 43 per cent ofits par, Austria resnmod at about the sann thna, whoen hor papor.currency, for o liko peciod, had boen worth abont 60 por cent of ita fnca, In both conntrios, the brokors had nead of largo amouats of gold to satisfy tho domand of Intomnationsl oxchavges, Thot which vou regard a8 au inauperable obstacle in the way of onr resumption, existod in their caso, but wad not insuparable. ‘Lo cito examplos hiko thesnis to arguo by induction, 1ti1 not assump- tion. As If conscious, after all, that such praco- dents nro really argumont, you seok to avart their forco by finding pomo unlikeness botwoen their caso and ours, You eny : Tho amount of paper uesia and Auatria had in cirentation at tha tima of this financial expediout wua Anvere bazatedlo $u vomparison with the amount of it irreileemable currency, Again : Vhat they thon did, with n few millious, is ono hing: what they candok do now, with thelr many milliona, ix another, Agnin: * It there were only $23,000,000 ar $30.000,00 of preenbincks n cireniatlon, our Governnont could donvtless ndopt the uzpedient with safety, This indicates & bolief on your part that Rus. ein and Austris Lind ouly about 25,000,000 to 950,000,000 of papor out whau oy tried the ox- periment, and_that the amoauat thev then bad oat vias inglgnificant comparod with their and our prosout issmes. Nothung counld be moroe erro- neons, At tho breaking ont of tho Urimean War, 1lussin had, for fourteen years, maintainod at par with gold & non-intoroat-baaring Govern- ment nota curtency of 611,000,000 roubles. The silver roublo on which tlieso paper notes wero based, and equal in valuo to which they woro maintaived, is worth 334 to 40d_starliug, or, say, 40 cents of our gpecio. Five bundred and cteven millions of paper roubles, thero- fora, moan, for tho Yurponcn of this argumont, 2460,000,000 of Americsn dotars, This wan tho quantity of paper kept rodsomablo at par by Luears from 1840 o 1838, During the Crimean War, aboat £0,000,000 roubles were issued, aod the amount ia_given fu the lest Yoar-Baok ot 667,000,000 only. Tho sum of 511,000,000 ron- bles. on which Russia maintajued redomption, was arrived at by withdrawing & provious fesuo ot deprociatod notos. which, from 1815 te 1810, bad usually sustained & vatua of from 1034d sturling to 14d, or, say, 24 per cent to 43 por cont of thoir faco, and which wera withdrawn at their nctual values in gold, in exchango for the pow jssus of 511,000,000, issned at par with gold. ‘Tho volumo of paper retired, there- fore, was probably from 1,660,000,000 to 1,700, 000,000 of roubloy. IlLiavo not all tho dataat haud for srriviug at this eum at prosont, though T had them bofora mo in tho Astor Library, in Now York, whon engaged in the inyestigation of this subject In 1868-'0, 'Tho flles of Lunt's Mere chants’' Magazine, howaver, will supply any uns with tho amount in use i1n 1854, aud on which rademption wna then belug malntalned, and from which the calculation backward of the provious data is ensy. . Moreover, as Russia usualiy maintaine a gold hoard of 150,000,000 [n coln, it would bo abuurd to supposs that a paltry sum of £23,000,000 in her paper would over have gomo unrodecmod, or would hove fallen to ‘the low value of 24 caots on tho dollar, Al writers on Rueeian and Austriau financon at this period represont them 4 flooded—Inuudatod —with vast isauos of Gov. ormnent paner. Your roplyto my hlstorical precedant, therofory, falls for want of truth in your bistory, But, supposo it were true that tho domand of the brogera for £300,000,000 of gold por annum would bresk any Government that would attompt veanmplion with $450,000,000 of its own ourroncy nfloat, would not the Aamo demand for gold breal any bauks, or, for that matter, any individuals, that shonld attompt redemption of "their obligations in coin 2 It you aniy #o clearly last tall the preposterons im- iracticability of roaumiption on zny buds, what hecomes of all tho flue ecorn with which you assailed tho “rag-money " mov during tho eleo- tions. If the Government cannot withstand the domand of ths brokera for gold, how can tha benks do it after Jan. 1, 18777 Is it pot an * awsumption " to Lold that, though the Govern- mient cannob rosnmo, but must rotire” its whole note-circulation, the banks eaanot retira thieir notes, but muat resume. And, if both tho tHovernmaont aud the banka retira tho £700,000,- 000 of notos now issucd from them, wichout is- suing any uew medicm to take its placo, will wo not b like legisiators who would try to forco tha peonlo to wear volvots aud Asting by denounciug nnd burnivg up their corduroys an M rage "¢ Can thie people be enabled to use gold by simply de- priving them of all othar monoy ? Inn war upon the actunl mouoy of the conntry, and & war upon all propositiona to eubstitute s butler one, which hiave tho wsnotion of prece- dent in tholr favor, any beiter in prioeis plo than Lurning our raliroads or slupa? oty oro tho destruction of our menun of offecting oxclianges,—ouns by du- stroving tha instruments of effecting changos of place for our products ; tho other by deatroying the meaus of effecting changes of ownership, The dostruction of ono is as disastrous as tho burning of the ather, After dovating o Jargs o sbare of your roply 10 pugerting that the * gaki-noie " curroncy nd- vacated in my lotter could not be kept at par, i wag surprised Lo find you closo with o otatemaont of two modes in which alone 1t could ho kont at par. As you mako no other objection to the 1aothiod of resumption indicatod than that tho 10ted to ba lusued undor it cannot bo malutained ut par, wnd as you cicin hy suggeativg two modes in which thoy eonid be so maintatned, and as ouo fu sufticiont, 1 shail nov quarrel mth you over Luat portion of the arguntent, I prefor to roly upou wy firat proposition, which {3 not an avsamvtion, but an induction, strictly after the manner of Bacon and Mull, that, Austna avd Nuneia baving resumad and waintzined rodemp- tion on a larger Qoverument currency than we nosr have afloat, we can do the semo thing 1t we will undertaka 1t {o the samo way, Nor are my precodanty weakencd by tho facts that Massus chugotts nnd Rhode Island nlso rosumiod in this way, and afterward suspended. Their suspeonion, like the subsequent ensponsious of Rusuia aud Austria, vwero caused by new wara and further ssiued. We now antleipsto & loug peace, Of cotrse, an varly wer, or possibly a ioavy demand for gold from Europe, might forco us into wusponsion 1o any event. fut otthier would forco our banks futo euspension if thoy hud snceedefnlly reaumed, &nd uo tioveru- meut notes werostioas, Suchobfectionslieagaingt resumptioa by whatever modo, ‘They ehould not como from Tuk TrisuNe, which but recent- ly bowlsd for resumption so torrifically and Bcoffod al fag-mouey, Youra rosoectfully, V. B, Dexsrow. —_— GREEN GRASS UNDER THE SNOW. ‘The work of thie sun s slow, Lut as sure as Heaven we know § 50 we'll not torget, When the skice aze wet, gre2n grass under tho smow, . # When tho winds of Winter blow, Waling li%e voiics of woe, T here are April showers, And buds sud Howd And grusu grass under (ko suow, Wa'll 8ud that it's ever 5o 10 this kfv'e unoven Bow @ ouly 10 Walt, ca of Fu! For lhlnnr:fl ufin untfl"r be o . —Springfa (see) rpubilan, T SWINBURNE'S NEW POEM. " Ereotheus,” a Oreck Play == Al Athenian * Jephthalh's Daugh- ter,” Btirring Doscription of a Grook Battle. Correapondenca New York Herald. Loxpos, Dec. 25.—* Erecthoua,” which ta the namo of Mr. Swinburne's uew volume, in 8 sort of deamalic poem, wiitton after ths model of & QGreok play, in which the chorus playa an im- portant part, The subject {s ono eminently fitted to form the basis of such o work, aud Mr. Swiubuene has, it will probably be admitted. dona full justico to tt. Frecthens, Kmg of Athons, ia ot war with Eleusis, and hio in at firat presonted to the reader praying to the gods for aud against the fos, who scoms litely to be vic- torious. The snswor of tho goda he tefls Prax- ithies 1n those wards: ¢ Thero shall dio One roul for all this people, From thy womh Came fortls tho seed that bere, ou dry, are gronnd, Death’s land must sow, untimely to bring forth Nor Lisle nar shioot in Aeanon, heing by name T the under gods mada loty, who require ‘ot this laud's Jife her death sud majden blood, ‘T save n maiden city, Prazithen, the wifeof Eroctlicus, makes known to Clithonia, hier daughter, ths will of the godu. Chtbonia roplies, oxproseing hor willingners to Iny down lor lifa to save tho city of her birth: y give this poor girl's blood of mine, Searce yoi sunwarmed with sumnior—this thin lfe, Stll green with flowerlcus growth of secdling daye, To build sgalu my city ; that to drop Fallen of thieso Inbocent velna ou tho cold ground 13ut abialt lielp et tho fointa of her firm walls, ‘To kuear the stoues togethor, aud make sure ‘The baud about their wmden ‘zl rdlested Quco fuslened, and of all men's violont hands Inviolablo forover: theeo to mo Were but such uifls & crave no thanksgiving, 1f with one blow dividiug tho sheer iife 1 mighit make end, aud ono pangg wind up all And seal mino eyea from sorrow 3 for suck end Tho gods give none thoy fove not's but my heart, That l2aps up lightened of nll sloth or fear Tutake the sword'a point, yet with one thanght's load Flags and falls back, broken of wing, that lialts, Majmed tn mid-Rigiit for thy sake, and borne down— Mother, that in the places whero 1 played, At ari's length from thy hiovem and no snoce, Bhialt find mo never, ner thino eye wax jlad To mix with mino lin ee‘(‘nlfihl. and for lovo Laugh without word, fiife with sweet lisut, and speak Divino dnmb things of the tuward spirit and heart, Moved ellently; nor hand or lip agais Touch haud oe flp of efthier ¢ but for mino Hlotl {lino tarct ouly rhadows of awift uis Drun‘:t alld desd thoughts of dead thinge; and the e ‘Thou strawedst, a sterilo place for all time atrewn, For my tloep only with ft4 void xad sbests 8hall vex thee and tho unfrufiful coveriid, For empty doys reprogcli e dead ; that leave No probt of my budy, but am gona As onn not worth being born, to Lesr no need § Apapless stock and brunchlcsa, Yeb thy womb il want not hunor af ma that brought forth For ol this people freedom, and for catth, From the unhorn city, born out of my blood To light the face of all inen evermore, (tlory, Lut Iy thon this to thy great beart: Whote under i tho dark of birth concolved Mino unlit life lay girdled with tho zono That Lonod thy bridal bos ot this thought Agaiunt all edge of ovil na n wword, To Leat back sorrow that for all the world Thou brough'st e farth, a savior who chall save Atuens! for none but I, from nono but thee, Buall take this death for parland, Praxithra's griof finds vent in tho words which folfow: Of gods and men 1 delft unsteetod on ruty, aud the wavo Duskons tny hocd with fmmiuent holght, and hau Darab, flied too fall with thundar that shll leave Theeo ears death deafened when tho tldo finds tongue, Aud tli its wrath bearn on them. Theo, ol chlld, 1 holp not, uor am bel peti, Fain, ab | fain, Moru than was ever mothior born of man. Wera 1 to help thas—fain Leyond all prayer, 3ayond oll thought—Iin to Todeem thoe, torn Bor timoless from mo rorrowing than tho dream ‘That waa thy sleter; 80 shalt thou bo too, Ton but 5 vision, khadaw shaped of kioc, 1ty grief made out of nathing, Naw but oues 1 tauch, but once more hold thea; cas morw kiss Thia fast tine, and nouo othcr cvermaro Lasvo on thy {lye, amd leavo them, Go: thou wast My heart; my beart's blood, lifa blood 6f iny life, 315 child, 1ny nursling : now this browst, oucy thiue, Hliall rear ugalu no children; never now Shall sny mortal Llossom born like thiea, Lio thero, uor ever with amall sflent mowuth Diraw the weet oprings dry for #n hour tiot feeil Tue biind blithe lifo that knows not, Never heod ; Hest Liero to nake hese cold velus warm § nor eye Jaugh jtaelf cpan with the Uips that reach TLovingly towusd a fount more laving. ‘Cheeo Death tuakes s all goud lesser things oow dead, Aud all tho lattor hopoa that flowered from thess, ‘Aad fall, & thosa fell, fruitleas ; 110 jog moro Shall man tako of thy maidenhood, 1o tongne Draisa 1t : 10 good sliall eyca get miore of tice That lightoed for thy love! The consummation of the sacrifloo is thus do- acribed by the choras : Tiigh thinga of strong-soulsd mon that loved their land Ou braws and stono aro written, and their deeds On high daya clianted, but 11ond graven or cung ‘Chat uvor Kot 1meD's oyes oF opieits on firo, Atiienfane, has the sun’s helgut veen, or carth Hoard In lior dopth roverberato ns from heaven, Mure worlh men's praiso and good report of goi Tlsn bere I bring for record 1 your ears 7 For now bolug como to (L altar, whioro, &% pricat, Death minwtering siould meet Lier, oud bls hand Beal her wwoot eyes asleep, tho maltcn st With light [n )i hier faco, 4 of & brida Smiliug, or sh1no of featal ianio by night, Tar tiung from towers of tlumph, and her lips “Irombled with prida in pleasura that no fear silanchod then, nor Death befora his timo deank dry. Tha bload whowo bloow fulflled them; for Lier chcuka Liuhtenod, aud brigltor then o Lridat vell Her hatr enrobed Lice bosom, and enrolied ¥From face to feet tho body’ anolo eoft lengtl, An withs o clond atiu saturnate, hen sho epake WVith maldon tongue words man-tike, but hce oyes Lit mfllly likon malden's: * Countrymen { Witls more £ood will and helght of happicr hoatt 1 glvo 1o ta you than my niother bare, Anid go more gimly this great way to death Thatt young wmen bonnd to battle.” Then, with faco Turned to the badowyest part of all tho shrine, And oyos faat Aot uponi thio further shado : 740k mo, dear £oda 3 and, a8 somo form hind shono ¥rom the decp, hoilow shadow, some god’s tonguo Anawercd : * 1 Ulesu you that your gusntian grace Give ma to guard this countrs, takea my bioad, Your child's by nane, to Leat [t ‘Then tho priest Set to tho flawer swect snow of her soft throat *flio shicer knife's edgo that sovered it, and looaod, ¥rom the fair bondao of to spotleas fesh, Bostrong a spirit ; and all that girt them ronnd, Giaxing; with souls thot hung oh that sad siroks, droancd and Lopt ailenco, After while, & siau Miglit count how far the freah blood eropt and bathed 3 ow deep tho dark rove sod the bright Wiriue’s Lase ed-rounded with a rouning ring that grew e Mora larita and dunklor aa thio walls that fol Were drained of that pura eflluence, But 1ho Queen Groaned not, nar spuke, 1ot wept, bitt av o drea Floats out of oyes awakenivg, s passod forths, Gliostlike, & shadow of eorrow from all sight, To tho Juner court and chambor, wheto sbo sits Dumb, 1l word reach ber of thfs wholo day's end, Cuthonta's doath s followed b two sisters ; for wo are toll that thoy—whathoer wad from griof and kore love for thoir elutor— Or with the vhanto roul stung "I'o vutlivo her dead, or doubt lest thelr lives, too, “The goda require to foal thedc country eafe, Aud Lring the uracular doam to perfect ond— ilavo slain themaclvon aud fullen at tho altar foot, by their own liauds done te death 3 aud frar Shaken all tha city, av wlnde a winteriny troe, Anid wa dead leaves, 1o wen's hearts blown sbout Aud atiruuken with {ll thoughts and floworlees Lopes, Tarehied up with presaao lest the yitsuus Liood, Hhed of tho muidens guiltless, (41l cod 6ix O this land's forvhead Hko n curse that cleaves To thin unclcan noul's fuexylate bunted hred, Whowm hls own orime tracks botlicr than a honnd o life's velled etdl unslecping 3 and his hour Now hlackenx toward the battiu that wnst clusy All gatew 0f*liop &nd fear on all thelr hearls Who trotable towarde ita fasue, knowlng uot yeb 1 bluod may buy ther nuivty, clense, ot soll ‘I'ho Lulpleas hands wen raise and reack no stay, "Tho horress of tho battle which follows are tncroased by the wur of thio oloments. ‘I'hv scono Is descrived through the chorus in language which shows the skill of the suthor i word- painting : For now, not fn word but in deod, ia tho harvest of npears begun, And i3 clunor outbellowa tho thunder, s Bghtnlog ontlighiuings the sun, From the springs of tho morning fi thundera and Mghten crosd and afar To tho wave where the moouset ends and {ho pall of the ast Juw tar g With a tramipdisg of drenched rod hioofs and an earthe Btrop by et tuen thatamel, e tzony war sety haud to the scythe and the furrows take liro from his fect, 3 Earth kroun frow ber reat rent heart and tholollovs of yocks ara atrald, And the mountaias are moved, snd the valleys sro waves {1 & wiorin-wind awayed, From the roots of the hulls tothe plaln's dim verge and the dark Inuy sbor Afr aluydders with sunill spears, croastog and burtlog of tehieels that roar. As the grindtug of teetli in tho jaws of the oo that Tuam ak they guasly Tn the shirick of o asics tlat looen, tho ahock of the yolea that crush, The dunew ruauew darken and glitter, tho mouths of tha jumd steecda chatup, Thelr Leadw sl bilud through the battle, and death’s fout riugs in their tracy For & fonrfold host upun carth and Heaven fa srrayed for the ghit— Olouds risiuys 1 thunder and srioles encountering as clouds lu tho nlsat, Mino ears are swazcd with tho torror of trumpets, with darkntas mine cyes, Atthesound of thoara's host charging that deatens tho roar of tho skles, Wit froouiet 14 dasbed wpon frentlod and borte agaInat haree Tecls, hurled, And tbe gorge of the fulbaof the ‘Battle Is wids for the 400 58 Esados are’ ousbered, wiih ABVFOGE of measdows aze of thartois thal oundes o 1aad, And (hie horeemen are broken with breach a3 of break- ers nod scattered as sanil, “Through the toar and recoll of e elargers that min. i thelr crie and confauid Liko fire ars the cien of fhe trampets that flash irounh the darkncss of ronnd ¢ Asthie winp of the aea, chnrued yellow, that sways with the wind an 18 syells, 1o the [ift and ralapas of 1k wave of the chargers thiat elaah with their bella, Aud the cinng of the atiarp rhrill brass through (ho Inteat of the wave a4 it shocks iuge elear an the elesr wiid's cry through the roar of the surze on the rackn ; And thie heads of the siecds, in thoir headgear of war nul thiefr corslated broasta, Gleam broad a8 (e brows of the billows that brighten thie storin with thelf crerts— Gleam drexd an their bosnma that heava to (he shipe wencking wind aa they rise— Fillod full of the terrors and thunder of wator that alays as it dler, 8o dire (4 the gisre of their forehoaas, 8o fesrful tha fire of thewr breath : And the light of thelr eveballa enkindled so bright with tha lightniuys of death ; And the fosm of tuelr nouths as tho aea when (ho jawa of itn gulf nro As graves ¢ And the rldge of their nack on the rldges of wave And thelr fetiocka afiro dowfall of blaod— the wind.ahaken mane théy rear, drip thick with & As the lips of the roaring Ureaker with froth of the aneslaying tood, that of her’ m: And the whoio plain reels and resounds, aa tho fielda of the sea by night ‘When the stroke of the wind falls darkling, and death 18 the seafarer's light, Bumolpus, tho son of Noptuno, is killad Ly Frecthiens, aud his death js aveaged by Jupiter, who, * for his brother's son'y sako," kitled the King by a sbiaft of lightung, Athons is, how- ever, saved, tho enomy, on tho doath of their leader, talling ** sullon back aud strongihiess.” Praxithoa's grief nt tho loss of her husbaud and childron is assunged by Athena, who thus rro- claims the future fame of tho city which beers Lior namo ; 1, virgin davghtcr of thamost high Gad, @ivo all you charge, and Ly command on nll, The word I Uring be wasted not—for this ‘The godn Liave stablished—and his soul Lath sworn That tmce, nor eartl, nor changing sons of wan, Nor waves of generations, uor he winds Of rygea vieen aud fallen, that ateer their tien Turough gt and dark of birth and lovelior death, From storu toward haven inviolabie, shall sco B great a light beneuth the sun As tho awless eye of Athens. Al fimo $hall be to her fame as o ahiadow §n alecp To this wido noou at waking, Menmost prajeed In lauida most Lappy for thefr chitdron found $tall hald as bigbest of houoid gAven of God “To bo bo likened to the least of thine— Thy loast of nll 10y city ; thing shall ha ‘I'he crown af all songs sung of all deeds donn ¢ “Flene tho full flower for all time, 11 thine h: Suall time bo liko o sceptre, sud thins hesd Wear seorship for a garlami ; vor ono leaf Shull change, or whitcr cant out of thy ¢ rown, Tl all lowera wither in the world, Thine cyos Stall feat 10 man's flaak lightning liberty ; ‘Clay tongua shall firat say freedons, —_— MICHIGAN CANALS, Some of the frojecis of Forty Yenrs Ago. Spectat Correspondence of The Chicaao Tribune, Laugiva, Mich,, Jan, 12,—Tho resurroction of the muely records of numorous eanal-projects of tho Internal-Improvement Commissioners of tho Stato, nearly forty yeara ago, is not as ene couraging a8 striling a paying digging in tho Ulack Iills, TFrom tho ragged appearsnce of the survoy-mnps of the Clinlon & Kalamazoo Canal, it seems to have been tho favorite project of that day. March 26, 1836, wag the firat act rolating to the canal, Mareh 20, 1837, $20,000 wna sppropriatod for tho survey of n canal or for a causl part of the way, andn railrosd tho remsmder of tho route, commoucing st or near Mt. Clomens, on the Clinton River, and tormiuating at or noarthe mouth of the Kalamazoo River; for the survey of a canal-routn to unito the waters of tho Sagi- naw River with the navigablo waters of Maple or Grand River: and for tho survey of tho Et. Joseph, Kalamazoo, aud Grand Rivers, with a view to the improvemont of the same by elack- waier uavigation; aud tho eum of £40,000 was appropriated to be applied to the construc- tion of & canal or csual hnd rallroad on the routo first montioned; also, two branch canals wero projected,—ono to Pontiac, and tho other to Dozter, from tho main ditel, March 31, 1838, tho Legistaturo appropriated §205,000 for the Clinton & Kalamazoo Canal, 247,000 for tho Grand River & Baginaw Caval, £30,000 for the improvement of Grand and Maplo Rivers, and 48,000 for tho Kalamazoo, ‘Tho fioal survey for tho Baginaw & Grand Tivor Canal waa the portags between tho Mapls and Bad Iivers, and about $500 in chop- ping was tho oxtont of that enterpriso; which is singular, for Grand Rivor was navigu. ble for largo river stenmors o Lyons, and the Maple is o doep, sluggish strean, and could have been used for umall boata some distanco boforo a canal would be necessary. Among the other canal grn]eats was a canal from Homer to Doxter, and the Owoaso & Sagi~ naw Navigation Company, to dam the Shiawas- 8es River for slack-water navigation, with locks 76 foet long, aud widonoough for river stonmors, In fact, pll grantivg of mill-privitoges on auy of tho Michigan rivers was conditioned that locks ehould bo coustructed by the mill-ownera on ench dam, and operated by them under pen- alty for noglect ; but this was of no more effect than tho requirement of the construction of tish-~ laddors, or shutes, of tho presont timo, Apiil 23, 1840, nn act was paseed piving the Board authority to leaso tho Clinton & Kafama~ 200 Canal, and use of surplus wator, for a term not excoeding twonty years, upon nich torms as they mizht deem most conducive to tho intoy- ecaté of the Stato,—taking sufficient security for tho robulldivg _aud putting that portion of the eaval oant of Ulica, in Macomb County, Into op- cration 1n ono year; for the rebuilding and put- tine in operation tha romasioder of the canal, caut of Rochestes, In Oakland and Macomb Coun- tios, within two years; aod for keeping the canal asod locks in good repaim, tho reasouable woar oxcopted, and holding the samo nubject to the right of tho Btato at any timo to take posrnesion of or sell tho FAme, upon giving such persron or Peracns o ren- sonablo remuneration for all oxpenditures in- curred by them i the reconetruction and roj of thocanal, to ba determined by appraisal deducting such sum as should be reasonablo for tho uso of tho same: and, if tho canal were leraod to an individual or company, ho should annually repoit to the Legislature, on the first Monday of each year, tho amount of rocoipta upon tho caual, togother with the oxpenditures of the eamo, At Utics It 1u used forn wator- power; but, an the millor neglocled to_send re- ports of receipts, it is imposaiblo to determina tho delinquent spscific tax now due the Siate: An act was parsod May 15, 1t46, autboriziug the Doard of Interoal Improvemont o meko repairs to_ prosarve the work from dilapidation, until such tinmo a8 the work could bo leased agroeably to the existing provisions of law ; rovided that all payments ,should bs mado in and-serip without inierest, uot to oxceed $8.000, It was nearly cotplated from Frederick to Uticn, Macomb County ; and, DMurch 14, 1845, 509,010 acrea of land were appropnsted for tho payment of 27,073.13 duo for lockiug the caual into the Clintaon IUver, The aurvey of tho (rend River & Saginaw fulp Canal, in 1830 und '7, was_commencod by Charles I Smith, at n polnt au Japle Diver, in QGratiot Connty, ealled Black-Anb Swamp, the termination of tho Maple liiver improvemont, extending through the swamp elong the foot of the Piue Iiills, down a brauch of Bad or, 4o tho junction of the Noith Fork of that nivor, the termination of tiio improvemont of that etreum. The dopth of water was taken on the Slet «f August, 1837, which showed low water, but sulfi- cicent to tloat medinm craft, At no pleco was the cutting more than 15 feet ; but it wonld roquize soven locky, —the firat, 20 feot lift; eccond, Y fot; third, 9 feat; fourth, 9 feety fifth, foet ; sixth, B!¢ foet; eoventh, & foot lift. yrreatest cut wason the Dbiulf on Bad River, whero tho canal debouchod Into that stroam. would also roquire two squednects,—one ovor Tiad Rivor, and the other ovor Wapasube Idiver, of 50 feet, ‘Il woil was sand,—tho pgreater portion, eandy loam und clay,—and at no place would the excavation be mado in bed-rock, It boing the shortost routs, aud xu:}ulnnu tho Josut capitat, it would scem she most feasiblo; but, if the Huron can bo mudo navigable frota Doxter by dammivg with Jocks, and the Grand from thia city to Lyons, this route would weciz the moat favorable. A Nirnnge Case. G, 11, Tinselton. of Greonuboro, Vt,, has o lit- tlo girl 4 years old, who foll from (ho'bad whoi about 3 months ofd, striking on t'as vact of her hoad aud nrting hor soverely, Vury soon aficr this bor hesd began to grow “quits rapidiy, aud in threo months had Im:nuw! 9 inchog in cire cumforence. All offorts to arrest the yrowth proved futllo. ‘Ihe hiad now mesnures 263 invhies ono way at U4%] tho other, ‘The expan- sion of the head woctis to be all shovo the eycs. 'I'ha body i ayout tha kize of ctaldron of ‘that axo, aud well formed, but it hos not enough strenytli Lo carry tho head, €o the oliflit has to bo held, or livs 10 itw crib, or plays on tha tloor, Jusy os it wishes, It seems to pouscus jutelli- Y-u:n nd loaros rapldly when put (o the teat, t la quite healthy, snd hus & good appetite. o boad I3 Lard like all heads, and, for the present, does nob grow fadler thau oature would bave it, Radway s Ready R The apolioation of the Ready Relfat to the part or 5.':15;3:‘-'.".’;%""’ 'pn: lur a:mu:;u exista will ‘aora oate 'wenty drops in half a tum] 4 9 i T B bt e il e 10,tha Howels, s a1( Intoraa pain: o7 Otolics Wind It [ .. TADWAY'S REMEDIES, s Sonia ERR.ROER. 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Cold Chills, Ague Chills, i pains, ravninen abould alwa, READY TTLIRN with i -t drop 331‘&‘&1 provant sicknaks o vains from, changa of water. tlar than Vrench Brandy or Bitters aea stimulant. FEVER AND AGUE, Favar and Ague cured far fifty cents, Thers | ramodial ngsit 1n the world that Wil Gure foves et apan and all other inalsrious, billous, scarlat, t ani ‘otbor fovare (nidad by Redways Pl Hadway's Ready Rollat, Hold by Draagtate.. Itis I.Dhnm, ‘ylf‘!knw. Rty Santa per botle,” L0642 HEALTH! BEAUTY! Htrong. n&!l l: zlch blord: focrease of flesh and walghty cloar d beautiful complezion sdonrad to all. DR. RADWAY’S SARSAPARILIAN RESOLVENT Has nmada the most ropld are the ol tonlshing onres.s 5o qulck, 82 0a the body nndergoss undor tho influenos of tuls truly wan- dertnl medicine, that Every Day an Increase in Flesh and Welght It Scen and Kelt, THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER. Erery drop of the Sarsapasillian Resolvent comimuni- cales turvugl the Illom.n-‘;bu.urlne, aud othur Oulds and julces uf tho syatem, the vigor ot Lo, for It ropales tho waates of tno ‘with now and sodud inaterual. Sorofuls, sypuills, consumption, glandular in tug throat, muuth, tumocs, todss o tho Klands utbor parts ot tno erstem,’soro eses, stramaraus dis- QUArgVA 170I 110 ear&, and tho worst forias of akin dis onser, oruptions, fever doros, weald hoad, ringmors, 1alt rhourh, orysipolin, clia, blaok spots, worras ia the o tamors, eancars i tho' womb, and all weakoning 8 vatuinl’ dischargos, uight sweate, loss of sperm 1 wastes of ths lilo priuciplo, are within the curative rangs of tals wonder of inodorm chemistry, aad, & fow days’ s will prots to iy horon Ualng it foraither dlsosse it ptont 14 P pationt, datly”) roduced by the wastas and decomposition tliat Iy progressing, suo epeds kn arresting theso wastes a4 alrs ths it v mrevoriat made froim healthy blood,—snd thls 10e Bawmsapartlllan will nod does sacurc,—a cure (s goctalag for wiion unca (hls remody sommonass lla work of purtd- catlon, an succceds in dimiolsblog, the loss of wastzs ita ropairs will berapid, Aud overy day the patient wil fool Bimeei! yrowing botter and stronger, the food dis foutin bater, appetito mproving, and feah and wolzhy i l:‘;l':?:‘u:’l?dm tho Sacsapaeilin Rosclvens axcol el odial agents fn curo of Uhronle, Sorofulouy, u'.’\‘;mfi:?ow, 0 BKLa disoasos, DUt 1 18 the oaly otk tve core for Kidney and Bladder Complaints, Urinary and Worub Disoassy, Gravel, Diab »ioppags of water, lucontinonce of urlae, ‘and inall cases whoro tiiors are bricke | wosits, or tho water is thiok, cloudy, mized with substanoos Jife tha whita of an o roads Iike white +lk, oF thora I8 u morbid, dark, hite boni 171, dy burning s of the back umsl aloug the lojns. Tumor of Twelve Years’ Growth Curod by Radway’s Itesolvent. BrvenLY, Mass., July 18, 189, Dr. Rapwaz; 1have had avarian tumor fu this ovariee and towels: Al tho dootors said ** there was nu Lolp for 10 1 t1leA ovoryining that was reconimondad, but uoths fux helpudd 1o, 1 saw your Kosolvent, and’ thanght | would try 1t; but hed po’ faith in it, becauso L bhad ot Tored for twolve yeacs, I tonk slx Bottles uf tne Kasoltant it oue bot i ltadway's Pills “and ™ §teady Roliof, and tharo {a nnt & aig ar folt, and Lfacl batter, smarter, ; upler . ‘Lhe worss tamor was in thelefl Sirbrirondionds, e ot i i il ‘tha Leuslit of otbors, ¥ou can Pt A K}GA.I.’I’. Price, $1 pez bottle. | AN IVPORTANT LETTER. 1/10m a praminent gontleman and resident of Olnclonath U4y 107 the Pt 10717 years woll known o Lhe Dowapapsd wublishers throughout the Unitod Klatar, Sxw Yok, Oat. 11, 1610, DA, RADWAT-DEAR B18: 1 auy Inducall by # sens3 of duty o tho suifering > ke 3 brisf, atement of U worfuni of youe medicina un mysilt. “For sevarat, goars Lind beon atleotod with womn teaubiy §n ths bisddorand uricary urgeus wlicl veino Luelva montst ago calmiitnd 1 ruust tertibly atoating disosce, which tha phyejoiasd all waid was u prostatic stricture in the uretiis, aa alw s Damiuation of the kidnoss and hixddor, and xave it41 their opiufon that my age—73 ionl—'vuu)d proveat 1ol evor ketting radically cared. Lad triad & oumnter vl bysiciaus, nd had taken 8 large quanuty of madiein, £h allopatui aud buincopathies but had got no el Dad rosd of astonlshing cures having benn made by yout omedics, and sump four monthy aE0 Fasd & ROMoe 1a b Philladelilia Saturday Eeening 193 of a garo buving bee £floctud U5 & berson who bad fonz baon suKoring sv.1 b weu, 1went right off and got sume af each-your Sarss phsilis, Ieralvaut, Nesdy Rolial, and Regulating Pilli= {pd solamenised tdutan them, I thres case Lwea groswe seliovod, and how fosl s wall as aver, . CF W, JAMES, Olocianath, O fiR. RADWAY'S Regulating Pills ur thg curo of il disuridor ‘wowels, Kidaew, Mladdur, usdaobe, tian,' Coatl ust posals, Billu Eirots, Vil s War talle, sontaluing oiiies, Meantiim, bia e i (B DUt T L ke 1 Huerisd aud bimcslt Sreath i, RuLLORTES ut Lo Uhaking or Suecst o e e . bat. ater ond. Dol Vaia {i8 THeud, obeinnoy ‘of Tolspirating. Yoflawars o shifhiatidinin fae [o o Sl Chith, i Sudden Husoso 5 TRADWAY'S PILLS will tras the s7ibeS A e dosod AL A W et Sl e bag,