Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1876, Page 7

BEECHER AND MRS. MOULTON. The Mutual Council ¢ IXnockeod Iigher than a IKite.” y Jullge Van Cott's Final Letter, and tho Report of the Plymouth Church | g Committee, 4 < Beecher’s Speech, In which Storrs and Budington Are Refericd {o as #Lvery Scoundrel fa tho Reighborhood”® ° Tho Brooklyn Pastor Asgorts that Mrs, Moulton “Porjured Herself Over Hor Head! * @e Declares that Ho Told tho Truth in Court, that His Sermons “Are as tho Bread af Lifo to Thousands,” and that ** God Is with Rim." KNew York Werld, Jan, 13. After tho prayer-mesiing at the Plymonth Jectura-room last ovening, the raom boing Jsmmed, Mr. Doecher aonouncod that the Mu- tua) Couneil had follen throngb, the othor side having declined. He hiad never bad any fies, be said, that tuey wanted a Mutual Councll; that they had aply meked for s 3Mutual Council on \heir way to an ox-parto Council, where they toutd call all tho membern thomsolven and atato their own csse in thelr own way. Tho Churah would now go on to {eaun lettors misaive for sn Advisory Councd, which would bo eo large, com- posed of such unquestionazblo fntegrity and moral worth tLat thero rhould bo no doubt of $he welglt of tho admonition which they might pive. If Lio hind conwulted his own faolinga he shon)d bave desirad to hiave Plymoutt Church Qeglare hersslf indepondont bf all Church or- genizations, bocauso ho didn't want auy sect to be responsiblo for his orrors or for lim, Dut o felt thnt tho interosts of Plymouth Church and of the Church Universal would be botter sorved ¥ bor remalving i the feltowalip, x "The business mooting was then convoned with Drathor Edgerton in tho cliair, and Mr. Rleas. soau read tho report of tho Commutteo on Mutusl Caungil. . BEIORT OF THE PLYMOUTI CHURCH COMMITTIE, . Ths Committee roported that they had Loen informed by Ar. Van Colt that be bad been re- talned professionally to represaut Mra. Moulton, Qnoof tholr number mst Mr. Vao Colt and ar- ranged ovoryihing, cxcopt where to hold thae Coancil and tho names of the ministors who woro to compriso it. It wae tobiave two delegas from cach of twenty churches, and ten ministers boeidea. The Committeo informed Mr. Van Cott that thoy could uot consent to hold tha Cauncil snywhors oxceft in soma baildiog of Plymouth Ohurch, to which Mr. Van Cott consented under protest. Oun tha 3d iust., Mr. Van Cott and the Commilteo named tho ministora. The fitab Cburch mamed by Mr. Von Cott belog tho Drosdwey Tabernacle in New York, Tho Conmittes zald” they would mob uame &ny Cbutch in New York or Brookiyn, Prelim inary notes were addregasd by Mr. Shear~ man, on lelalf of Tlymouth Chusch, and by 3Ir. Van Cott, on.bebalf of Mrs, kouiton, to the minfetors solected, axking If the minsters would atiend on the 46k jnat. On Frhiay ovening, ) %th {nst., tha Comtmittea and Alr. Van Colé mot szn'n, whon the Comiities objected to two uf thie churches on Mr. YVao Cutt's list (Dr, Siorrs sod Dr, Budivgton's), un the gronud that the pastors of thosa chirches wore not impartial, buz uad alrealy comultcad thomaslives to the side of Mis. Moulton, and that Mrs, Lloullon was & regular attendant of one of the churolice. Tho objection was not a formal_protest, but was 10 the nature of a proteat.,” Br, Van Cott ob- Jected to tuis protest as being mada too late, to which the Cammitteo rephed that that was the firat oppoitunity thoy had Lad to make ¢ after cansultation, On the 10tb inst. Messrs. Bheac- wan aud Raymond, on bebalf of the Commiiteo, met Mr, Van Cott st his own liouse, ‘when he hiandod thom a roquest in miting to withdraw their protest. and, 1f they would not withdraw 1t, o would make a counters) againet adwitting the pastors of the Oranyo Val- lnfi' Cnurch, New Jcravy ; of Lbo Berkeiv Sireet Churel, Bostan and of the Fuist Choich, Stam- foid, Conn., on the ground that their pas:urs bad cuinmitted themaoives to iuo suls of liym- outh (‘hureli, Also, tho pastor of the Asylum 11l Church, of Iartford, was likel; to Le biasea in favor of Piymonth, becausa rolatives of Alr, Leocker arp membois of that cbu Moenrs, Blhearman and ltaymound, bhaving roported back to the Committee, that Lody immediatoely drow up a letiar, dated tho same day (10th inst.), to 3lr, Van Cute, in wai:h they quoted sutboritios that o Mutual Council should be compuscd of impariisl wembors, Tho_fusl result of the confarouce was Mr. Van Cott's detler, givou belos, protesting against the puo- teat, and, in 3Mrs, Moulton's nams declining the Mutual Coancil. 'Tho Commitios insict that thoy bavo earucutlyebught the Counoil by evory procer mesns, and rogret tiat Mr, Van Cott jm- ated imy.ropr motivea to theny, They sy that EB neosecuiod Mr, Moutton for 1ho Proctor litel, sud (s & mewaver of Dr, Btorrs’ Church. and that thoy nd n1ight to suppceo his wouldn't name bis ann Chnr3d, and bis sslection took thom un- awares. Tiov waited till acsured tnhat that Chareh {nteaded accenti:g, aud then thoy took the neocersiry stop, Thsy differ with Mr, Vau Cott agto ths Mutual Council. Accordiog to nm, Lus eldo mig 1t hisva ssirctod tan churches pleduod to disown ¥iymouth Church aud tho Committos ten pledged to condemn Mis, Moultou, 'The Commnit.ce'v idoa of w fair Council iwons no mem- Ler of whicl is comuitted to either rlde in snch mann i aa to make it difilcuit to decido the cass upon the oyidenco and siguinenta, ‘Thoy do uot Tofuss t7 go on with Ltho two hioat:lo churches, but slmply declare that they avo uuflt judges of the, -cayo, They offered to reduco tha numbor of churches on both sidos 8o that tha Councll need oot fall through for lack of churches, or to keop tho protest private so that none bu: tho pastois of tue tiro chuiches, conneel and the Commitiep should know of it. ‘Iho offers wers dechnod, The precedent of Jonzthan Edwardn, eited by Mr, Van Cott, the Committos doemed unfoitu- nate for Lis caso. ‘The divastrond tesulls of that Councit wors, thoy cl ssholly dua to the loleratton af tho tule Alrs, doulton dosiros to talablish. It was bocauas chinrobes alfectod by tocal feelng wero uvited—becauso n majority 2 of tho miniaters called foto the Council by the sdversarios of Iidwards had pre- Judged, hije cass—tbar thoy wero able to jectite & baro majarity upon tho final vote. ‘The Commities couclude: * We shall not at- tempt to follow Mir. Van Colt in the uke of epi- theta, or in arguments which might be useful sleowhers wete they not accompauied with a ro- fueal to argue beforo s proper tribuoal. Wo doubt the prof riety of Inmeriing in correspoud- dence epeeonea intended fora Council that (s not to bacalled. Dut it ia porhapa approprinto that & cane which was always dosigned for newspapsr offect should terminato agaio in A nawspaper trial." In conclusion, the Commlties. recuin- mond **that the Advieory Council to ba eallod by this Church bo requested to examino into the oourde of tha Church and Comnittoe in the ne- gotiations for & Matusl Couucil, and to sdvirs this Clhiurch whothar any erzor has boon commig- ted on our pari tu thoss mattors.” AR, VAN OOTT'S FINAL LETTER, 1, Mz, Tiluoy interrupted ths 1eading to rosd Mr, 'an Cott'a finsl communiention. * Judge Yan Catt rruuuu agalust the protest eotered by the Plymouth Ouurch Committes sgaiust tbe invitation of the Clintoh Avevue ‘burch and the Cburch of the Pilgrims by Ms. Rloulton, alibough the Cbureh offers ta elgy the lotter-mituive without withdraming the protest. Aftor detaillug bia interviows with the Com- mittes snd eaying that the Charoh had in form agtood to a Council, and {n fact mssonted to his sslection of churches (which included Dr, Btorre', Dr, Budivgton's and Dr, Scuddoer’s only of local churcliea aud seven from outside the nmfibborhyod). bie aya; ! Without sorutiny and without criticism, Alra, Monlton had scqulesced in your sclectiod of all the churches and minis~ lars named by Plymoulh Church. Plymouth Church, by » aubtle evasion of Lar right of equat choige, bas_practically overruled Lior selection, und thus excluded from the proposed Council Iwo of the most promloent and welghty churches of their donominetion and smoug the very old- eet and miost represeutative of the Cougregas livnal Chutches out of New England, Plymouth Coureh, to ba sure, offers & formal con- tent t0 thelr comlog to tho Counall, but louplea with the consent & prolest that nul- ey, 1t, snd precludes the coming of aelf- Joapeating churchos, with the. certaiu addjtions) 'rotest ! THI CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY. JAN e e e e ‘| to yeu, 30u kao effect of exusing the refumal of othor churches named by lier to como to a Council from whicti leading Jocal churches iavo thus besn ox- cluded, The cralty cootrivance of a protest which thuy practinaliy oxcludes two leading churchies sy ho indalinitely extondrd to tha ex- clusion of overy great Cuhoreh and of every minisler most ommont for chisracter and wisdot in tha denominstion. 1t palpably violates tho right of fras aml equal choice whicl rests upan obyioun principles of juatico xnd au eatablinliad, uniform, aud voneralle usage of tha Church. 1f sanctioned It puts an oo | t8 Mutval Conuoile, tho oue strong bond of unity of tho collectiva Congrogetional communlon, and Mrs, Moult: will not by hior acquiescanco raiso much ao abusn into a dangerons precedont. Lesides, 8 conteat Lotwest n featlo woman and a powerful Chirel 18 unoqual ouough withiout piving to that Churel the power to mclect one-lslf of s Uouncll, and alsothe power to exoludo fiom tho other hal? any churchiesaud sll mininsora swhom 1L1a ploascd by its protest to denounce a3 inimical and par tish, As tha fao's sliow, sich a double po-ver of selection and axclaaion has bsan praziically and effectivuly aserted by Plymouth Chareh o ths caso, Contont haw not disarmod tug protest, but tho protest Lias nullifiod and 1ondered valuelers the connent. 'luus denisd her right, and pro- ventnd by a ehtend davice from having an equal and just rapresontation 1 s Mutual Councal, Yis. Moulton dochinewto coutinue her abortive effore o cunvene tuzh Council, The Listory of the Congregational Chureh furnishies an instinclive tostance and illnstration of what may bs dnuve by tho expedicnt of exclunion. Lo nzmoof L'resi- dant Edwards is one of the greatest for intellact and piety in our anuals, Ile bad becomo obpox- 10ua 10 & class of clinrches and poople who wirh- ot to dismins him from tho puipit of the old cliurch at Northampton, 1te domended a Mutu- al Counail, which wua cancoded on coudition vf the exolusion of nearly all ehurches outside of ihio county. The oxciusion produced its intend- ed offect. The old church loat it3 {amous minis- tor, aud the Stoexbridge Indians gained a mis- mlonary § the Conkregalionsl Cuurch loat ils reatest name, aud Vroabsterianiam gainad Frenidont for ita collogo at Leinaatod. 14 tust & wato road for Cungrogsilinal churches to travel #* Blr. Vanu Cott then onneidars Mra. Moniton's right to & dlutual Council on tho facts, aceord- ing to Congregatioual polity, argues that, if it ware {rregular to dro; ‘ilton for allaged slander, it ts mate irregulaf to drop her for swearlng to hat Lilton hinted, aud rastated lier caso at much length. In conviusion Le eays: I sm Inutracted by Mya. Sloulion to say tuat shio 10- aflirns thocharges mada i Lier writton protest befois Plvmuouth Church, tho sincerity, and in- tonnity of bier belief in thoir trulh and hor rondimess to produce ample ovidenas tn Justdy her balief and lier conduct, Bho fs wiling to bo judged by tuo pubiic opinion of the watld, which iu usnally right at laat, and by that finad judgment in which tharo will be uo admixiure of human ervor." 1%, BEFRCIER'S BPRECI, Mr. 8. V. Wiato tnoved to sceept the raport, end after speoches upon this motion by Itoss Raymond and Dr, Ddward Beccner, Mr, Beeuhior atdre aud was received with tremondous ap- plause. Ioead: T wish, whalover romarks mvy drop from sny of us, ta Lear testimony. on the whale, with ru.fisty, to {he gentiemen whose names snd ehiircirs Isve bien monjlonod hicrato night. I do not think it ia right to say thui the Chureh of tho Pl grima or tba Cumteh of Ciintan avenus liave don * 5o snd xo, becanso £ do nat thipk tho volces of tho cLurches Lisve ever buen tiken —nol from 1841 down to this tine, The firat ietter which was seut {0 us was prejiared by shout a ffileth part of those churches, Tuis smail portion had ses. stons through d ‘wecks, and they eoncocted tbia Orst documout wiich led to the Council of 187 peared, which s on Listario ev amended. ‘Tuen atterwarle, when {t was sout to us, there was & com- mittes of mixteen, compored of clght from excn church, and tuere wan no general knowiedga in eitler of thess cuurches that suy such documont existed or tuat any such mewsures wers fo Lo tiken : and st the common Uriday.nlght mecting, the atlend. suce being about ity in eich ohurch, tue notice wan given by tho pastor that thers would bo & Ohurch meetlng, A, a8 Church tectitigs aro not thlug {niereatiug there, of the fifty there we: souie twenly who remalucd, sud efglt of co Wko Lizd ben peltivg up I W thess worea Coumi letter without the knowledge of the Ciu then Atated tu this bundfut tesliunnr of & sinall praye meeling that somo irreqularitles had takeu place in Plymouh Clure, aud 3t was proposed by the pastor aud sowa few of {le Lretiven to send s kiud leiter to tisom to Inquire Intn the nature of theio Liregulirities and 10 sdviso with them 3 & Chifalian spini, Acd a Comtiftico of eight were at ouce sppoinicd, nnd they wont into tho jastor's study, and they siged that letter, sud about 10 o'clock this'next piorufug 1t was m the Lands of the Clerk of Tlymouth Chur.b. ‘This s calld * the latier of the Clinton Aveuus Ohurci and the ledter of the Church of Pilgrims,” tnat was got up 1n the dark and prepared st uecting of thich na uotco was glven by the pul- pit, sad wan adopted by “the Landful who retiained, snd voted wituout a_ dream that thiat leiter bad Leen already writien, ‘Tha Commiltcs were there with the leltes all ready in thair pocket, tnd siyued it and aent It to Plymonthy. Church this next mong, ] iled Congiogationslism. [Laughter.] The samo procecdings were taken Su ot of (Lo cliurches, and tuere never, from ficet 1o fast In this care, has been 8 meeting cilled as wo call meeliugs, uamely, by o statement trom the pulpit tnat ty to thers wis o Lba mes! on thia subject (b : aul re [ 435 tuat 14 fa 10k falr L0 way tiat tue Ciiur:ls of the Kilgrima or the Ciiufon Avenua Cuurch i3 op- vord totis, 1 liava Yexson to knaw it thera ees 8:ares and acores of famiiies In tlo Chuceh of tife pilgrins wuo lament that any procecdiuga havo been taken, aud wno sympathize witn us, 20d 1 know thero ara muliiuces of fomiflos fu the Church of Clinton Avenue who aro v syipathy with ns and o afiection toue, Lutto siy that thens rmovemeuts were tio mavements of the whols of theso chitrelics, or of any large mmujority, in tu say that which bever lan bech_proved, and whicd 1 don't Ledtcve will Yo, 1 you say thatthe mistagenicut uf theea churchen have Leld mich and such’ views, you sro rigat, N/ <rd to thelr pustora, tuey aré both men der the old Beotcis device tiat 1t s nocos- sary fcr Scolchman 10 Lewurs how Lio makes up b 1112d, fur wheu s bas made it up Lo will nover cuay st Hoth men bylung In that category. Aw wen go il avminfaters ge, Tthink 1hey mexsuza amply. { wiil not say Low much or how 1litle tuey Liave Lad to strive auaimst ia tholr own owes. 1Lt [ supposo both of thoss men Lave always soted with fleir own con- scleucen, 1 beliavo Laey bave, T beliovo they bave an muclt as Baul did wheu b went to Dumas.us breath- ing out alaughter aud blood, I doa't wish tn convey the Smpreesion that thess meu bavo doxixnudly dons wrong, but that they huce duue wrouz Lam asawso a8 13 tlat {here i & priuciple of hoaor and of f:1- Jowshipand of nefgnuorbood, Dub tust they ever thioughit themativos to bo daing wroay, that L dun't undertska 10 ey, Laupposs, idlss any gantiemon, that they thouglit” that tuey were right, bug theterid not makothum riyut, Every man helioveih biw own cause just undll his DeizLbor coueth and wearcloth biin 0l NoW, +8 W tuo fuuat 84 10 whiether they are cammitied or uncommitted, 1a thero suy 1nan that can Ue made 10 ohevs that thuse men toatbad thia lons coutrova.ay wilh thin Church fu 1874, snd then a cou- willh the opporiuu. i ing ever siucs fur an_opgortunity of geiting us into #uch a condition a8 wouid 1aake it posaivls for them to procoed gainst us under tho declsfons of that Gouncil—{s st Loisible 1o make any man balleve that thise goutlernen, Whosa church.s hava been n refuge for all the discontented momlers of our Ohurch ¢ thess gentlemen, whose doors Lave never Leen shul—tlut Uz, Blorrs, who, on New-Year's Diy Tozaived calis from Frauk Moulion sud from Tucodors litn, they feelug that tuey were weicome to sit at ihe fablowis {hure any 1nsu to tell us that liey Lolt {nds tolaliy unadvlsed to givoa declston on thie With autuority the agls svys the pustor of the Cilnton Aveuus Cliurch never saw Alrs, Moulten on the subject of caling this Connct), Lut with ft be ssid that be did pot soo Frank Moulton b nd thiat bo sald 80 to A, ouduct Ia t0at, 1o asy that ncu Las been lisd with the partios Lazaua it liaw uob Leen bad with the special party vamod? 1 Jsold thiat thitre i3 no fuct mora abwolutely ausceptille of conrletion fu the mind of every fulr-minded tan than tlls ; 1hat tLoss genttomen, 1a€aning to o right, b takon steps for the last fhree years that buve mad thom boutlls to Plymouth Caurch aud uutitio sit in imparuat Judgmeut upon ber acts, Now, sball thise s the men ihat slail come fnto ‘that Coancil ta fireus sdjudicution It fe ae1f s comulziummi comes nto Court iret a8 an advocato and makes hla wiate- ¢ aud argunient, sad then goss ugpon the bench, in tite Jud t, aud givea out the law, and from the benehs siops dow fnto the jury-Lox and delivers thie voidict un bis owa law, [Applause and Ligliter,] Ons of theso men sald {o Lia Cuurch wsotiug, ata later yeriod, preceding the Councll, that thers wers mysterions 'thinge 3Lout sae, namely, that 1 bad beon faiullfar snd intrinste in the family of Dr, Storra, but that after a tiras I Lnd absolutely Withdrawa, sy 1 biad pot crossed the Dostor's threshold for oy Well, aud Le did uot kuow wast tomscoaf it, .- two years Dr. Blorrs was in Eurore witll bis ud the ouse was rented, [Liughier.) And et tLig §s one of thi fi'"u""" ‘who wauts to go juto ® Mutual Council, It Las Lecn sald that the nicat ar- dont latters Liave bsen written to me, sud that L have pover inads auy suawer, and a3 a lebier writton Ly D, Btorrs Las bad 5o much U)dn with this matter, I thiuk ilread i, (Applau e, Ui t atter tbe publication af wens 1 b Nov, 2, 1672, (14 was | the WoodLull matter,] ¥ Dzan DEr: fram different quarters that scoudaloussnno lications hiave beaa made svout you. If h as would trouble you, if & can atany tinie Lo of service f course, fo“ have ouly to Intiusta it 10 La sure thie bielp £ cans give on auy vcca- sion and in evesy way, Yours efectivnntoly, litciranp Srox! ‘There {3 that letter about s subje ¢t of whish motling, 1f §t eyer tioubled ine, I was tolell bim, aud thad s all rigat ; but I did ot want suything of Lifm 8t that Uus, aad so1 dld not tall biiw, sud 1 tblak, n the gkt of sutasjueut everts, Iw.s Tight, [Applauss,) ‘Clste s & postacript which'ls ot of tia- ortance, but which 1 wiil sls0 raid, 80 that the wiols stier may be Lefore you. . Bl bive todsy ot Mary aud the ghls nto our awn houso sgain after sliuost two sears of absencs, Tuey desire ma to add_thelr adeciionata roweimbrancos to you and to Mrs, Beecler,” ~ Now Ihls was an "eutlrdy proper_iotter, aud 1t cawa (o ms when thero wera #owme two or threo eminent atlezien who calted to £ respects and to advise with me, ‘T'his {a one of the thlugs you ought mot ta lat 14 be smolberad o the mud from which 1t came,” Gpsaking of the Weodbull eandy, aud act; Ing on thedr advics, T naver wrote s letter o the sub. juct, nor okl Tapesk to any pirmon, nok oven to my owd fam’ly, nor tu any one, wilh (ko oxcoption of thoss lnumml{ concerned by tha tronylay, Me, ol tun and 5T Tilton and 1pelr” families, 1 'matntaiued en ira silence, aud I determined that 1 wonid not be s party to do that wiiel I Lelieved would Le injuriona 10 moryis an it was falas ta (he truth, DBut thare way Arsachery oo the othier aide, and they dfd not want 1t Rept mifelit, and there was vorcuess end ontbreak fol. lowinyg each other coutluvally, ¥or mynelf, whils (€ I am Lafpra any tribnnsl of 1y connteyy 1 will tod tha Gten “questioned, T whi not fn any wiy Fuelon of {hat which canpmot but 1 1 50 1 am taunted in tho bews- papers with |{ dow't yon carry your disgusting prozd 7 Lavs Leen bombarded—eeversiy Lt yon ere my wiincs that I have not Lewn at atfired in the iniee, Now Mr, Van Cott aprct Lo thin Autual Conneil: ¢ We liave an @ 1 our civil coarts, Wa think & great dea) of ths jury of the vicinags Leczure,” b eass, '« bare Acler goua for & grealdteal,” 1 lave bad a jury of the vicinags, Iatend inthe wiidel of 50,000 poople that havo koot o for yesre, I atand fir the uost simall- abia yosition of any mian on dirth, Iamuotn mem= Ler of 8 pardy that s dofendiny me. I tm not con- nected with tuat is [utor-ated in difeodiug me, I am alinost alous. 0 that baa been irni- etod up and dowis fho land a8 en Alolitioulet, o be o ALo.dlionint 1o be ripruached, stood, with projudicu eud read of Lestluy fu” upon o, kiuwn iny leo- naked entirsly, tod Melty: sud, for tha o uvuder a prossura unjre on by the woue sud thelr e W aramours, hunted {braugh the civil couris, huntad 7 nowspipeca that Lave uotling e#o 19 do butte miko tommon vewerd of themseives for tuis slander, [Ureat ajpisaee,) Now, Iput the queation 1o svery toneat su s HMow can a man staud unler such cir- cumnauccs if o {n that gality wretch that thcy aay heje? {Appluuse 14 fa sdmitiod that wy ser- smons leava nowing Lebind 1n sgdvitualily, Itiead- mitted taat Locy ate &a 1l Lread of ife {0 hundrils aud to thousinus, wnd huty can & men not supioriad ty, DOt suppurfed by sectw, and only by the itn (st liave been around him for years, and, with that oz septfon, the wotld mmost agalunt bim— Liow 14 It Jio §a able 1o atand uuder this auoruous prow- wure if 1L Le not sbat Goil s with him and thst Lo is FigLL? (Great eppluuie] Zow, s to tho “ Jury of 1ha vicluags,' Ttsud in the centre of my owu vicin- age, aud 1 have veen aupporied by that on ths ground of character, which 1s 1d to weigh piuch. Lias ean wy salvation, ot Lesn for Lliat T sbould bave buen dstroyid louz ago, and, Ly toe Lelp of God, I Lave yona ou with 1wy wor beve 'mok fliuch-d from wua Suftasy or’ from ous duty, I nave gooe on wih my epirual work amidst my people, amd yet my cutmes, day by dzg, have poured fresd mud Upon mo, anid my Very sifuico bas Lesu tads resson for frenli svspicion and fiesh nitack, aud now It is sed when the Mutusl Guuneil lacalled 1t ought to bo called Ly the naiguvoring churches, Waen a_inau Is o bo uled in tue olvil courts, do tuey notmako a(o'ection In the Jury which {8 10 try hin ; do_they select every seiun- drei that 33 1u the negaborhcolto #il on the sury whenhe i3 o batried? Nuw, with all Lonor to llig tearuing, and with Louor to tua genoral futegrlly of 4 wiils all toatinony to {he unuonziouse ich tuey Lave duns wrong, I esy they aco not it tn the Conndl that Las auything to do with Piymonth Clurch, rad the ouly ressun thet we kave nut o Mutual Coutierl {u thit—ihat a dtutuzl Gounell made ups of men outaide, tint Lad no prediiections in favor of elther party, would Lave mentally decided fn our favor, oid the ouly way was for twom mot (o heve thoe men in it that Ind been for he four yeurs pael fulmical to the lutercata of this Church, Wuen they got fn Lr, Bterrs and Dr. Budington, they were wililug to Biave tup Counctl, thd when wesald” wa thought they oukht uot 10 be choren, (hey gave it up, Ak wny? 1 wiil tell you why, If they cama {0 tuat Council they qid not wish tu ait flers a8 dump.des, sud they kuew thst if hey said auything the morel etect of whst {bey sadd would Liave been deatroyed by the fact that we Liad ataied Leforeliaud thut tioy were projudiced. I bave vord or two {0 say now on tois ples of ir, V-1 Colt, and 1 2 going 1o say a word or two about the woman, Iam goug to stats this, whilo I always duatr 10 speak fudividually and collectively of women, o2 s chlvairlc man sbouid ever wpeak, cnd as I bave awaya shoken, vel whila [ aay this bo thie Bouor of that rox, I ami ouliged in tlta particulat nstanca 2 ray that My, Moulton, in bér teaimouy before the clvil Court, perjured icrself over Lor head, and ihat my suawers Lefore tue Colrt were true sanswers, ss dod sha:l judgs mo n the Julgmeut diy. [Ureat applanss.] uked o o futo” her clambir Witu great free- dom dvring that perivd 1n wulch she kays zhe knew 1o to bo gty of rdultery, Ler Lebavior toward mo wan Jize that of 2 sister oF & child, My conversation wita her w.a an deficate za I could make, and i€ sho liad ever had tho brazen faceto talk (o me shout “adultery,” rolidog it ovyr end over upon lier tonguc, a8 +1:0 ban beon muds t0 do In the uxuseous lctters that hava berne bier uamie, 1 shouid bave blusked to talk to ber o suy eu-h laiguage oa that, [Applause.) 1f over liniFcomes whou suy considerable numbir of tbia church cousiio,a we'to Lo wrong, don't walt; let me know, The aun ehiall not go dowii on the day willeh commmiunicaics ths fact, and finds mapastar of this church, Lt so long as you staud 1am strong. [Ureat app.ause.} Tie report was aecepted snd adnpted unznimously, and on niotion of 5. V, Whits tha Commiites of epven previoualy epuointed wag fustractzd to call on Ade vigory Coun 3l et tho earllert poxsile day, and were glva the power to iuciude snicng the qudstions {La vuo £ o the conestuers of (he Courch’s posidon i rogasd to tha expioded Mutual Coancit. SEARCIING THE PAST, Lectuare by [Profs Gunuing at tho “IHird Ustinrian Ohurch. Trof. W. D. Guuningdeliverod yesterday oven- ing the second of kis series of eix goological loctures o the Dime Courso, gotten up by ths Phird Unstarian Church, corner of Laflm aul Bonros etresto. Lillowing is on abstiactof bla futeresting discourso ¢ 1t was & saying 8 Tmerson that no acienco fe sublime uotil it touches man. Geology coni- mands our attentlon whery the thread of eavth. listory begins to Llend with the watp of human history, Tho question of maun's amiquity aod Lis childbood nase and thouzlts had coma futo goology by the door of bistory and Jangusgo. Five thonsand soven Lundred yoars sgo Menes mounted the throus of the Pharoals. Iive thoueana seven Lnndred years ago Eeypt was out In the morning light of hietory, alraady au empiro, aud an empiro airoady dotted over with monuments of doad dynasties. Ilis- tory alous will take wua \back more than 5,000 years. Doyond the horizon line, whero bistory me'ts into fablo, the studv of langnage wilitaka us, Beyond Lhe hoizou line, whore fable 1Aelis into night, toastl oustoms and modas of thouzlit will lake us. Far boyoud, iato the niglt, geolony will tako us, Htona ymplomnuts found in the Nila-md ahiow that Egvpt, baok of Egyptian Zation, was \haroarikon,’ Wo put oucsolved uudur the guid- suce of tho Abba Remusat and thraad our way tack throupl Chineso bistory 4,300 years, aud find notbing beyond, To tae istorlan, * darik- nees thers and nothing more.” T'o tho man of seianco, somsthing moro. China i fozylsm an. ifest in the floxl. 'T'ue school-bouks written by n conlemporary of, Dguiel the prophst are usol it bior public schiools to-day, Tits Chivese mind 18 fousil, ond, doaling witl [t a8 w.th any other tonsil, wo ara able to rustoro and pieturs to tne mind tho Ab Hin Wit 145 Suns potrial with tha Bins, and Mces, sud Foas of the day, Tas Onl- neso Lwpira comprisos about one-ihird of the human fumily, u}u.l for ol thess millious of wen there avo only afowsuruames. Those surnamen were onca teits nawy Now, muour the Chi- uese maryiage Is intordicied betiwveon persona of the samo name. Chung Fu canuot marcy Su Tu, In Cnlifornia, At Hin loved Bes 8in, sud Ab Liltod bimself becauss Lo coutd not marry Sze, Lecanso o couldu't taita another Bin, Lecauso Lo cou'dn’c doubloe hua Biu, and muftiply Lis Sins and 8so himslf tu listlo. Hins, Ab, Binl why did he do that? It is common ANON{; BaVAZO LTibce, 1L Was commoa among In- diau tribey, to forbid inter-marriage withia the samo tribe, The 1uron must take his wife from the Scuecas; tha Boueca fiom ths Hurons, Ro- membering Clius's conservatism, and romonm- baring thas what BUroamew uow wero ftribe names ooco, the interdiction of marriage bo. and Fu and Hin and Bin shoas thae back of Chlneso civilization way a state of say- sfory in which inen of ona triba weie oapturing thielr wives from suother tiibe. Woile the Chinese wers paaslng from tribs- dom into a liugdum, our aucestars were it Weutorn Asia, Wuut wero they? e can ra store the linoanients of any poople fram whon fow words, or cuatos, or superstitions bave survived, e aro children of s loug past. Iu our customs, fu our coscumes, in our supersti- tons, we are weighted witls tho wicdom and the foliy of all tho agow, Tho sun_uever eois that Lis lances of light do not afinol up along tho wealern vault aud gild the ovouing aky, Anage novor winke bolow Luo hoiizon whosa supersti- tion does not lingor sbove aud slain the intele feotual beavons, Tho dark mgos lLave sos, but last year fitteen booke aud pamphicts wero Ennud In Lurops to prove Ly tao Moric 0.ke that the earth is fat, and last Year & councll was hold in America to prove by tho Weatminator eatechisia thiat a cortain branc! ©of the chuich ia flat. Quitiefagas, of thoe I'rench Academy, Lna placod in the musoum these sur- vivals from sa sgo of darkvoss, and tho Chicago Academy shouid place 1n its srchives the rocords of au eccledinstical bady which gave its anathe ‘rll:":t:nliwlng snd kopt its banediction for Glen- Wo ars outgrowths of the paat, aud wo inLerit from all the generations beforous, Somothing of the cave-dwaller hugers io our bat. ‘The epeaker snowed by chni« delineations how tho {des of tho modern Lat bad been devaloped, and bLow (he wodern coat had been developsd. 'Che p:nlmr.ka £ 14 u the form of rudimeuts or sur- Vivale, A thing of use (o an early sge bacomen o sym- bol in & Ialer nze, The symbol will jead us back to tho reality. When wa fiad the [rish in Irelsnd goiog throuzh the mook perfoimance of capbuslug & wife sud draggiog Ler away from o pateival hut, we must uaderstaud that what la_pley uew once was real work, and taat thls, UARY 17, 1876. erformance io a survival from s timo whon ths ish mern wile-catobing Larbarianw. Whon wo find the Hindwich lalatdsrs performing a mosic marriago between & brothar and aister, wo can- not underaiand it unlesy wo tako i na & enrvival fiom somo long sgo when smong thena tsland peoplu incot waa law. \Whrn vwo find al! Indians of buth Amoricas applying tho pama hamo to & fatier and his Lrotho~, we tnust fufer that whou their dislects wero just form- iny, the fact answorodts tha nawne, aud the relationalup of uncla waa not discrimicatad. becanse {t did not exit, minco brotama had their wisen In comwmon. © Whau wo open tie psgen of the Mible oud read the woods of Abraliam to Abimelech, tha vatrarch, saying that e had married Haralh becanse, nlthourh they wera brotner aud eister, it was throngn thn” sama fatner not the sama mather, wa can- not underatand tho father of the fithful, un- lees we amsume that among his fathors brothers had ~thelr wives in commou ana_relationship bLad to count through the mathor, And when wa find bn slio dead rprech of our Aryan fathers the same nama anpliod ta o father unid & fatuer's brotlor, wo aro to As- sunie that their ancostors had atosd at the srmo lovel ey the Awmnerican Indiaw, when Lo owued not a wiole wife but only o uhare 1n & wife, We aro gotting back very far in time and dosn very low un the scale. Loreila in Lua dress, orin the apecch, or in thamind, will take us back no taither. Can wo ponatralo no dooper tho m.at whi hrouds the primeval ages of man? A cry of ‘desparr bias como to us from {he other nida of the ovean, **\Wa mustpivell up™ sayu alearned hiatoran, “that dunb past. Leat Is forever lost, goua ia gone forever.” But the geologist claima that remoater past au Liis own, and mis tod ia restoring 1. Go where we will, we ara waliing over the gravea of dead races. Tbo Indian rotreated Lofore us, An clder race retreated before the Indisn, The Mound-Builder fringed theslores of Lnke Michi- gon @ith his villsges of hots and ntlocks, He belonga s much to tus geologic rovord as tha mastodon ftaeif. In form of beud and face ha was mors negro than Indian, An older record thao tue mound ia prererved inyiver gravels, Tue speaker showed how n piver writos {ts listory aud tho history of whal bas lived on its Lanks, B3lan, ho mantained. Lrom the testimony of old rivoi-banks, was living [u Traues a tha closo of the last lacial epoch, Il showcd naxt how cavos writa thsle history. Within the tropica the sta'sgmits: form4 on tho eavo's floor I yearly Lands, ‘Chio speaker took bis audionce by a seiles of drawiogs down tarough a Braziiian cave,—dowu through 21,000 leaves of stalagmils to a foor on which Ilde- fonso found flins tools dropped by men. Man bad hved In s Drazilian eave 21,000 yonrd ago! Bat fa tho unwritten sunals of the race 21,050 yearn g a3 a walch in the wight. For wix yeara meu of sclance have been oxploring tho Vicioris Cave n Yorkshiro, I'ho speaker orow o ylan of this cavo. Over tho enrsuce was o jatting Clff. Undor thin clf wo pas down throngh 2 feot of talus. Lolow this talus wo fluid impls- ments. dropped oy the Rowmaus wearly 1,500 years ago. Underlylng this 2 feet of tolus wo find & feat of - older talus, coutainiug stouo implemonts dropped by pre- historic men. If tho ovechangiug cliff decayed through earlior times at the mame rato as through tho last 1,700, thie § fort of taluswonll rogigier 4.000 years. Deolow thisstone nze regin- tar wo pass thiougl 19 faet of srill oldcr tafus, tho clippiugs of tuna trum the ovetbangiuy clify, Ninetecn feot, if tho rate of decay wore tao rame jong ngo as now, would register 15200 years. ‘liie talns nould take us back about 20,000 yoara. Under thieso rulna from the overhauging citr e pass juto the glacial drifc—towlders, 120~ borue aud jco-seratched, the record of an ags of ice. Tho grizzly bear took refuge now and then in the caye, and loft its bones minglod nith the glacial diifi. e go still deeper, and enter the cavo itaelt, Underthednft isa bad of cave-sartn containing the romains of the horss, the pig, the reludy and the 1emsing of man, Under tina Is a 8tiil older bod of cave-earth aud sialngmite, coutzining tho remnna of the Lyens, {ha rhic naceros, the lippotamus, the manimoth, and toe remains of mau, Tbat cave nas the zbolo of wan ages befors tle ago of ice. No fact is more plainly registered fn the bistory of the glube than b~ sabinergence of larzo areas of the eaith's aurfaco at the closs of the Ice Age. Man liws lived throagh & doulle dslyre of 1ce and ozean. All over the earth, and {u every form of relizion, he his cartiod down tarough L pigrimazo legonds of tha waler deluge—a fav-traveled ‘ray of twuth, Tho epili- est man known to mclonce was 3 nakod fhni-arracd watrior. Io lus hratt already wore hopes of nnmortality. ‘“he primoval mau lonied around on tue lood of 1es and apanned with an fifs of hops tho grest flood of watots and the dark valley of death, * K “I'io speaker, m elosicy, drow a cavo found in Southorn Mrance, and shiowed that it bad bosn used aa o funeral vault in times of the reindeer ad shaggy elo,hant. 1le sliowed, by certan nozlementa foand tn the hands of the dead, that the mon who bad porforaed the funcral tites saw in tho dead mao eometting uot dead. With fu tho jaws of that prmal tomb wo light our torch of liope sud taite encer. Trof. Guunicy speaks nozt Sunday ovening on ** Creative Slethods, Darwimat, o (b lighs of lato diszoverina,” e RECORD OF FALLURES, Cacts nad Kigures for the Mercantile Commuutty==Sugreations for the Kus turee Nete Fork [erald, Jan. 13, 2 A circalar of fadlures auwiing the yoar just closed. WIth COIMPATIEONN Of HTeYIOUS YoAra' 1ail nroe, bas just been issuod from MMonsie. Dun, Darlow & Co.'s Mercautifo Agency. From thix conpllation, which contrins utatisiics of intereat 40 busivers man throughout the country, somo extiacte will be found Leiow. The following table shiawa the nowbor of tailures in the diffor- ent Htates and Territories, together with the swount of lHzbilities, during tho years 1574-64 FAILULES AND LIATILITIES. ¥ FIE Teih, [ [l B amomst ! €1 smouns BraTEY, B of g o ¢ | raviitionfl § |ziaulites. § : 45 11000 '3 Lea,uw ] o 49 2NLON PR {anuas, Kenlucky,, . Louistana,. .30 Maig Manyland Lo Maeinchuse t Misalsaipy Misaouri, A w Yo Norths Caralin Vo, Urogun, Peunayl Rbodo falaud, Bouth Caroliua, “funoe Territories 18,2478 6,241,443 2,181,018 1141,8.) Wahiugtn Tar Witsconain, . %,83)18155, 24 Daring tha year 167 tho total uumaber of failx ures waw 6,183, with hatulities to ths amonnt of §234,409,000; in 1874 the failures number:d 4,069, with total labilitios smounting to §131,- 36,000, and fu 1871 thsie wero 2,910, with tatal Mavilities roacbing $35208.000. ‘Fheso figures eho\r Al Ingroase iu the uumber of failares cach year siuce 1370, but n dacreass in the sversge amount of iabilities for exch failura since thou. ‘I'ne following MNgures exnibit (he uvumber of fallures snd the svorsge amount of Liabilities for the pust five vearsin tha United Btates and fu Now Yoik Gity: Uuliad Btates, 1875, number of failures, 7,740; averags labifitiey, , 6490 ; 6,430, avorage liabillties, &96,027; 1873, 14,035 1572, 4,009, 229,990; 187, 2,015, 45, How York City, 1876, numbor of fail- & ures, Y51; avorage labiliies, £51,709; 1874, Gi5 failures; 830,510° aversgs habilitios ; 1673, 644, average lisbilitics, 914J,843 ; 1872, 835, $53,724; 1871, Y24, £60.010. The following tablo abowa the rolative loza- tlon ot fallnres: 1874, 1875, No, of Am't of Liabiiities, Am't of Lialititics, ur 20 ns,w.wml 7 1,325 140,013,184 2,0855| 87,030,000 2,30} 53,42 A 4 N.m&.mh 2,83¢| 26,47 Boutbern Btates] 1,12 20,600,0001] 1,53 | 34,37 1t is claimed tuat though Increased prossure is lndicated by those fizarea It has not been a3 apecislly dinwtrous {u anv distinctiva Lo of trado, und, atloming for the conttnued depros- #ion in trade ganoially, tha proporlon of fail- ures ia not conmidercd oxceasive, Tue number of porsona nox vopnrted in businoas in tha United Ststea fa 630,010, Of, this numver 7,740 hrve failed duriug tho year. indicating & pro- portion of one iu evaiy miabty-svo. Yue figuros an tho tebis * from Cabfornis, whare businass (s dona on A gold baniy, fndieate thas one tradar In every fovtz-bvo lue failel; whnlo in Canads, witt a tow tariff. & moat adml- rabla bank ng matam 20 ookl foandatios, snd & light taznlion, tha liwares ure e:en mors sug- potive, the uamuIr of fsiiures baving Leen ous n ovary Lwrantyeiuhi. Somo 1ntoresting concl1sions may ho drawn from the amouut of labiltiea to ba charzed 4y profit and Ings, and the effect upon those that remain in trada, Tho liabitition of tha 7,710 who failed 10 1875 are i round nuaoses $490, 007,000, From tbla smoont should bs dalactad 10 per ceut for ndvance on oriziaal cast of poods sold 10 theso narties, leaving Ao apparoot lozk £180.200,00), Lstimating the averaze yinl fallod aatatew to bo H114 per cens (nuder tno ope- ratinns of tio uew Haukrunt law 1t will fai far shore of that), tho actual loen to capital ace unt Ly thn failuces of the yoar will etwod at abiat £120,000,08:. ‘I'nfa amonnt in oquavatent to the valua of one-ha!f of tha catton erop, and fu more by 3u per cout thau tho outira viold of all the gold and pijver mines of tha countey. This 120,001,000 of loss represoats a praiit al 10 per ceut an $1,2%,030.007°of bumoee+. 2 M PROMISE NESTEM, In thls coanectinn it ia remsrked that tho mys- tem of comp omisicy {udentcducss 13 open to givat abuse, Toe trade of the fouth has boon dewmnoralized by setuementa Wil parties uo- worthy of confidance, who, whila able £ laigoso ontbetrereditors, ur dersoll tha honest merchants who giva dollar fur dullsr. An advantage to tho whala busingss commusity, it Is belioved, woula Lo the nesding ot of thess wnworthy traders, The compilors ol this circnlar ray taey tind 14 difficult to eritomizo the coudition of trada at tue clone uf the year. \Whlle deprowsion aud dack of confidenca ara noticed in the Faat as woli a3 4 purtion of the Houth, the Want Lias ex- bibited aucroascd activity and made larger pur- chases, 1n tliews Jntter sections it {s cstimated that 2250,000,600 bave been realizol for cotton, grain, pork, s sumaiating lozal rotal And bettar still, much moro rematns to bo realized on tho etaresof tho past aatumn, Aside from wectional mprovement, bowever, It in aaid thas in general values thers would Lo found a vlifokags on an estimato being made. It has been foung, bowover, that duriug the year just clogasd tho active eurplus or capital “omployed 1m the morcantilo trado of the countrv’ bhas bLeen showa t» 1 larger propostion to the exteut «f businens douo, and tu the smount of existing habili- ties, than at any tims in our previous history, and I possibly in oxcess of that of any other country in tha world hasiog & proportionate ex- teut of iolernil trade. After resiemiag tho causo of past disastard, & glancs {8 taken toward the future, Tlo circular goes on ta say: *’Lha imapiriting no‘tonal ovent of the centonnial year t 14 velicved, fura timo infuse cousiderabln ten eomo localitios. A great fuflux of sors from abroad, and the necersary eircula. tion of moner which I8 fnpited in the movement of largo nambora of our own population, can Laidly ta1l 1o vitalizo somo droopiug interes:s. This teraporary {mpulso may bo taken advantzza of intho progress tosard prosperity, but the hopes of o faturs sound Lasiness Kaperstructura must rest on tho basis of Lovest thrift and ocous omy, lesn fixed aund more flaat.ng earital, azd o closor adjustment of values 1o a reducod cost of product an. Prudenco 1 extant of trade, reduc- tion of living aud busiuess cxpenacs, Icsrencd indcltedness, snd cless ecraiiny of credits, cio tho elements tha: will most hely to restorn confid2nce and paget a retsra to 3 candi- tion of buineey fn which mouet czn b3 mada, tho res2urces of tho couairy developel, aad suc- cess neiored.” DISS.\TIS;IED llPlPUfiC.\NS. Flaw Senntor Morton Manipuiatced tho Exccutivo Committce—~Augry Come manty o the Action [ix REL &5 the Lince of 1ho Colveutions Lhapatch tothe Sew York Trioune, Wasminozon, D, C., Jan 1.—Thoie iy a rosd deal vl angry comment bote awong Pennsyiva- niavs and othera who are opposed to Cinsiana'i an thy eity in which t3 Lold ruo Ropubtic:n Na- tigual Convention, regarding tha inan: which it inaliceed Mr. Moitcn and his friends manipulated the Execniivo Commitice. These pereans mav that Mr, Mortoa no: enly acted in- dalicatetv, beiug himseif 5 candidate; in servine on the Commiizas at all, bat it was unfair in lum (0 hecomn the advosats of a placo su:-fosed to bo favorable 1o his amuition. £028 82 {ar a4 to eav Lo racked tho Committean his own interest, Six of Mr. Morton's eollcacuca sore preeent, either 6 FIIaCicals or substitutes, zelively workine i Lis fotercst, usmely, Measr Clayion, of Arkanma; Inpalls, of lavras; MitoLetl, of Oregzou; Epencer, of A'abima: Conover, of Florida: avd Paticrson, of Sonth Caroling ; and, in xddition, United States ‘Lr teer Naw, of Indians, served 8 prosy for V. owiug, and anodier friend as prozy {or Color do. According to membrrs of the Committes, e hiad everv earpet-bag vote exceot that of Marsaal Yackard, of Lo, f favor of Pliredeiphis, becan=o hio thaught that mas a gocd placa for tha * thard-icra "' plany to take root. ‘The number of votes before Mr, Morton's vic- tory was deolared ehowedd tha: tho fizLt was lon g aud bitiar, and Itis claimod tuat Liad not the Ind.sva Scuator been present in person he would have Jost, lir. Spenceris an acinasledged and open thnd-termer, sad it was hia d¥aira to jolu tio third term hiost for Gen. Giant and Plitizdsl- pbian; but Mr. Mortonisthe Chairmsn of tha Cowmlttea on Privilezes and Elec.ious, snd that Committoo 18 charged with the juvestigation of themannor 1 whieh Mr. Spencer bacatue s 5:us- tar. Gov, Clatlin, of iaseachusetts, voiodateadily with Mr. Morton, t3 tho sirpziso of some of Lis friends. It is thousht that Philade’pb!a would have had a Iarger Yot than Chicazo on tha next bal- lut, wnd would ultimatolv have been chossp, had it no¢ boon for Willinm . Kemolr, the Ponnsy vania uembar of tho Conunities, who, 1t charged by ihe Philade’phiany, dossrtad his frienda at the tequast of Alr. Cameron, wao rard ta the Plalade]ulisus that Lo did not waut to an. tazomizo Mr. Mortan, TOE REPUKLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, St Pand (nn) 1 recn, ‘Tho twenty-two ombers of tne Nepubliean Natonal Committes whu votod yenierday to locato thoir Presidential Convention at Cineine wati on the 14th of Juno uest, nced oniy ta pomt to tuat volo to acquit themaclves of any accusation of complicity with tho Cin. cinnati Convention of 1872, If thay liad beon presont on that occusion thoy nevar would have voted gs they did gestorday, “'Chers is no promi- newt city in the countrv uo ill-adapted for hold. ing & Nationet Couvention, Wo speak nat frum heursay, but from personal exper.oace. Thereis but ono thret-claws Lotel tu the town, end that 18 dark, dingy, aud gloomv, and witas) very mod. erato Iu size. o necond-class hostlerios may, sosstbly, manage pretuy well with the ordivary izht travoel which Cincinnati enjoys, Lot a5 the tiwo of & crow:l, thotr accommaditions aro s limited, aud their ideas of the coofort desirsd by guosts a0 contracted, that thoe very idoa of aiteading a Natwnal Couvertion in Cluclnnatl 1a repulsive. Ths Expomtion lullding, whera (ho Cunvention will doubtless bs helid, is quito re- nnte fiom the hotels whon compared with that v o, aud has nothivg Hko the capaciy of bildiug. caun of Clociunati must have been a combination of the rricads of More Huyes, and Dristow, who hoped to loal piessura’ to bear upou to advance tho [u- Otlier. ton, bring 8 tho Couvention teventa of thoir respective favorites, wise tho Jlaims of Ch.o130, 80 well pressnted by the Ion, Joseph Medill, of 'nk Cuicaoo Thtus UNE, would Lave carrled the Comwittso unanis wmously, Chicago bLotei-aciommodations are aplendid and smple. Now York is tho onty city in the country (bat equals them fn extent, and Cutloago ontrivals evan New York fn hotel- elogance, 'I'na Lxpostion-Nailding in Chicago i not ouly immouss fu Its capacity for such 3 gatheriny, but its location ou the Lakae-Yront, within fivo ninutes’ walk of ovary prominent botel in the oity, makos (¢ bettar adapted for tho purposes of & National Coavontion than any city 1u tho countrz, not oxcapting Now Yori, It was wiso to locate the Convention wostward, bi {t was suoremely faolish to mako Cineinnats the objectlya point,” I'io Committos would do viell ¢o rocansidor their action, sud moko tLe clauge to Chicago, oven now. If they do wvat, the manipulators for Cincinnati may be loisted by their own potard, for tha (Il accommcdations which wilt be aftorded the delegates may make them repudinto both Hayes and Briatow, o8 buke to tho precolvnt of fosating & Cooy tu erder to {nlueuce a nomination. Accessions to Califarnio, San Franifeo Alla, During the year 1875 the 1ail brought ua 74.773 pareous, aud took assy 29,833, leavtuy s gain of 44007, ‘Lhe ses broughs 33,827; vk anay 19,692, leaving 21,235;" a total gain of 69172 One bundred apd sighty thousand five hundred and niusty-nine arivaly in one year indicato cor- tainly & growiug interest in tho Pacific Ntates d '[I‘emtmlu particalarly {u_Califoraia, for sho rotana tho most of thein. Tho not gain to our popalation, by excess of arrivala aver do- e ¢ Commeiit oven | f, artures, has been. during the past siz yoars, 212,702 peraous. Bhiould we sver have an e maration of our pojulation—waich has nev yet beon dano, each census having been vory im« potfoai—the Hiats will probably show o grester number of inhsbitants than has geserally bann supsosed, The Olneas imungration has been, during the past yoar. 19.144, and during tne thictesw yoars lnk past, 119,087, OF theso, 4,436 nero fomales. —_——— ANCIENT ATHELETIC GAMES, Aports of Grockaand ltomnns=\¥reste 0z ay Practicad Amouy the klcrocs ol Autiquity. New York Times, The prominence given 10 nrestliog and kindred athietic Bports fu this city of Iate 1 uunisualiy preaz. ‘Lho particular kind of mucoular sxeicise whish ses.ns ta be most poputar s Greco-Roman wrestling, It wo ealisd” bocausa of ita baing almost identical with the wrestling indalzad in L7 tha aucionts Joug bafars tao birth of Ciivis® Of th. thindlanty thare is no roam fur doubt, Pruns, mado many buodred yeara ago, axo aull Ia oxintonce, nhowing the wrostiors of ancisut tiraecs b vardous attitudes, offonsive and e fonmive. Uuping of thase prints are i this aity, Une of theia represents two atulesea clagpiug each othor's sriste, propaiatory to securuny firmsr Lold, Tho two muu are reprssontod in tno sams atitade s that assumoa by Carisiol Mitler on tha oceasion of their feat oxhi- biifon m tine city, Clasgical bistory conbaus many reforouces t3 tho names and deo1n of sumo of the most famous of these wrestie.s, and ! yainters sod posts weve employed in celsbrat- | dug their proween, Dat it isto Fiudar that the wortd 13 judebted for the beat descriptions of tho four groat fesuvals of tho Groeis, 1o his odes, Pindar uct ouly celebratod tue placa where tha victory was wop, but fotroduced beautilul epis wodos, deser.bing the greatuess al Lils horoey, the ' diznity of thew characiers, aad tha glory of tho saver.] Nepubl.ca whor.s tuoy tlonrisuod, Of all tue Giecian fesiivala. tbe Olvmpisn | ganies woro the most prominewt; with ¢ho to- | wana tha samo credic s given the Circonsian gawes, ostablisned Ly Itorulus, atthe tane of tug Sebines, ‘Lha firs: were origioally obaerved | B, C. 1484, but wera soon after neglected, and wera not reuewed ot fathe year B C, 834, AMUSEMENTS. 3 ADELPHI THEATRE, The front rank of ropular amusement. A dous variety biil, Every night this week and g:::’: day ani Gaturday matinecs, Everything new, aparke tiug, ad wifly. An elegant Oret part by acompany of beautifal lad; mninntrels, Hofined, elegant, lllpl::uvg supern, Lizals Kalsey, Liszie Warren, Fanny Grin nolt, Georste May, Edna Lautent, La Pelila Florence, anla quartett larry ‘Talbot, tamborine ; Ohrries O, \White, intsriocutor ; ‘Walter Deay, Lones: sach ap- mlmngllu .ucmd acth bald;l.‘ . jslebanty and Cam. mings, in sungs, dancex, and ake ‘Toe Rousselly ' DBrothers, ihe unrivaled acrobats, i lhe twusical wonder, Oharles D l, rong and . danos arlist, Tha great Ieopolda in the triplo pen terrs, The giftedl Grinncll Children, The musical sketeh crije.s. Hymilion Blalars, Lizaie Kelsey, 1a clarm!i acrlo-comiv eongs. Lizzia Warren In elegant sang an, dince, The Leautlfn] Georgle May and the charmtng Fdoa Ianrent in pleasiog acts. Tilie Acionio, the fin. isbed daneeuse, i & nsw bailet, assisted by fourteem handtoma corypheor, Remember, all this great tripls cu;‘ndp:l':xy “I:.:ljh ?nurhlnfl';;lh s 8 quiar led’ wght, wursday, " night, Treslay, 7es Bflal ladie ;n- Ev(:e‘ -' ways the chaipest, o uot forgat Iba Court of Deauty thix wesk fa At the Adelphi, % Grand Greceo-Roman Wrestling Mateh lor$1,000 . RIOAL AND OARTERON, Champlon Wrestlers, will appaar on Butitday evening, Jan, 23, at McCORMICK MUSIO LALL. Donrs opan at 7. Commences at 8 o'clock. Admis= wlon, 31, Reserved ssats, $1.10, Sals of 10ierved seats will upen oa Monday, st the all Box-oMce. HOOLEY'S THEATRE. THIRD AND LAYT WEEK OF THE KELLOGG GRAND ENGLISH OPERA, ME, C, U, HESS, Director, On MONDAY EVENING, Jan, 17, will b givan tha only performance of Bir Jullis Jonedict's eharming romant/e onura, founded upon tue story of the COL-. LEEN BAWY, catitied B THE LILY OF KTLLARNEY, The representative American Prima Donna, MISS OLARA ILOUISE KBLLOGG, Perioncting tho luterosting role of ETLY 0'CONNOR, Mith, SEG! 133 SIONTAGUE, essrs, CARLE- TON, VEAKES, MAMILTON, ALLEN, »nd’ JOSEPIT AAY,all fu the cast. Tuesdsy—MARITANA (Van Wednesiiy—MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (el u ‘ois revival forms a cclovraled epuch In i Urozian history, andis the begwning of tho Olympi: ‘Ahus the Olympian games served tho Ureoka just as the Ustbiau garyes rerved A Ao epoch tho " peoplo of Delphi. tho Nemean games to the Argives and Arcadiaus, and Lho lathmisn games to ths Cor- iutbians and to theinlialatints of the Pelojon- uemian isthious. ‘Fue two lust wers, bowever, Lus offshooty, 80 to speais, of the pareut atom. ‘l‘nr fifty Olympiads only one poison superin: tended the gamen; aftcr that two wers appoint. od, In the 104d Uiympiad tho number waw in- creased 0 toalve, Li 28 nuuul}mnny reducail to ten. 'Lhess susenutenlewts were ubliged solemuly to swear that they would act nupartal- o Iy, end wot taks BLY bLipes 1rom tho uthloter, In tho games wers e3- Libited wieailing, bosing, - ruaning, leaptog. and tho throwing of tho yunit, Bzeides theso thare were horze aud chariut racss, and alsacon- tests in poetry, oloquance, paiuting, and scalp- wure. Ilor long tuue women were not pormit- ted to appear at the games, but tu later yeara tiis faw was repes ed, sud Lho crown ot victocy was cften sanided by one of the gentie gex. tho preparations for theathletic exercises neie great. No persan naa parmitted to enier tho lLats i bo had oot regulariy exercsed Buusell teu months Lefoie 1u tne publie givmna- sunm, No untair deslinzs wero allowed, tig, whoever aitempted o ary In order to gain s fall, was subject ¢o & severa fiue, Tho only ronard waich | the'victor obtainod wis a crown of uhive orof | pivs. This smalt snd trifling roward stmulated | oaurage, andurance, aignity, and virlue, and was | more bighly prized thai wiuid bavo besn great | treasures, Tho contestants fu wrestling and iv buxing wero cutirely nude until & woman. dis- cuwised 10 wmale zpparel, was diecovoied to © prowent, ‘This was Caliijatirs, wife of Callinax, o great athlete, who 1n dusguiss zczompnnied ~Ler son Lisidorus to tle Olympic games. \hen Pisidorus twas daclared victor slio diccovered ber wox through excess ol joy, and was atrestsd. ‘Tho peoatty was deall, Lus tha victory of Ler goa obtained her reloaco, anda law was'Losied compolling wrestlerd aod hoxern to dresa themsclves frum tue watet dow.. These games, which nore abserved every fith | year, wero sutroduced tuto Italy in the yasr B. C. 238 by the first Homan Ambassadors sent to Athens and Connth. ‘The Pvtuian gamee nere orlgiually colebrated onco in cvery nite years, buv afterwards on tho secoud ~ year ol every Ulywpiad, It is wanl that the pols themseives nero atnong tho first combatants ; ! Luinccoraiug to aust wiiters tho fral puzes of- orcd nera won by 'Welamon, arm-besrer to | Hercules, in wrestilug; Pollax, tu bosiog: { Castor, Lus twin bratber, (o horse-recing ; aud Ca'ais, enother oue’of the Argonnutd, 10 run- unieg, 1o the Nemesn games the contests, both ashistic and equestriau, wero of 8 similar xind. ‘they wero celeviattod 1u tho fiset and third year 2y A raday~EUNANL (Van Zandl), Friday— BESEFIT OF M8 KELLOGG—MIGNOY, ~ KBL- LOGU MATINEE UN SATURDAY, DBy deaite of (he luudreds who were uuabls th cutain seats on Fuidsy lasf, JARTHA will o ziven for the Matines, Saturday Night BOMEMIAN GIRL (Van Zanat). Gl DMIKSION, ONE DOLLAR, Reserv , $3407 Gallery, 35 renla, " STAR LECTURE COURSE. GRAND ORATION, GDLFAX. HABRAHAM LINCOLNS? 1 Organ Ovcrture.” PROF, LOUJS FALK, uatsman's Song. " QUAKE ** How they saved St Alichas REAXBVED 82478 naly 3., Janso, JcClurg & Co.'s. T PARWELL HALL LARESIDE ENTERTAINMENT, NO. 6, TULSDAY LVENING, JAN, 18 LAST AND IEST. GRAND COSTUME CONCERT DY THE UAROLINE RIOHINGE-BERNARD CONCERT COMFANY. Adminton, 81, including rasrved eeat, Tickels for sale at tus Hall on Sfonday and Tuesday, M'VICKER'S THEATRE, st WWoeels Liast WW ool Of the Gorgeous Shaksperean Bpectacls, HENRY V. Esery night this week and Baturday BMallues at halfe past 1. Priday—~Benefit of GEORGE RIGNOLD, Rext Week—Tho youthul and charming aciress iiny MINNIE PALMER, 1 sn exziting sud romantio drams, LAUGIIING EYES, " 00L, W00T'S MUSEUM. Po-c‘“fifi-’i:c‘?fi-ms AN Ozncdox_tho Casliglhtl, THE CH1CAGO TRIBUNE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE FOR 1876. A grest Presidentlal Campaign will s0on eommencs ‘That struggle will determine whether the Government of tho United Statea sliall coutinue to be adnilnistered by thio party which preseived it from dismeinberment ot every Qiympiad, and worved as an cra to” the Archives sod inbstiaits of tuo surround- ing country. 1t I8 notuworihy that it was nesr wooro thesy pames weaio coloorated that Uercules lalied tho Nomweau lion, ‘Tho Campus i Martius—so called becauso dedicatod to Alare— waa the plaos whsre the Romaua cujoved thom- selves 1n athletio srorty, Tuls wes £ large pluin at Jtome, wukiout the walle of the city, whers 1be yoang wen vo.formed their exorcises, and learned to wrestle, to Lox, to th:ow ths centus, ) batl tho javelin, rids a horec. drive a cliariot, ele, It nuas ndormed with etatues, columas, { ercbes, snd porticey, and on mccount of its | pleasant eltuation was froquoutsd by furgo | bumbe:n of tho ciuzesn ‘hn gemes fn toe | e:reus vicra equally celsbrazed for leanmy, wrestling, throwing the quoit and javelin, taces ot fout a8 well &8 10 ctarite, aud Loxing. 'Ly latter celouration cont.uued Liva daye, buginning on tba 15k af September, Ouo of tho grostest wrostling cautesls aver raporied waa tho one tetweeu Ulysses aund Ajax. ‘Pho poet IHomer ge-cr.bes tho event in Lis llind. siruzglo continsed for some time, and was witnessod by mavy thousands of gpectators, Inciuwing the army which bed beseiged oy, Fimaily Achillea, who was achug ay referco, Lalo thomy ceasp tuoir efforts, and both wers cruwned as victors, Androgous, son of Miiuos and 1'asiphac, was famous for hiv wiill in weesding, 10 overcame overy antagou- 1=t sl Athens, and becamo such s javorste witk tha peosla that the Kiog grew jealous, mad cautud Lun to bo put to death, The wrestloss tather daclarod war againgt the Kig to revenge tho deatls of his son, and reazo wasat loogib establlsbed on condition thai ssven boysand geven pirls should Le sent yearly from Atheas to Crato to be devoured hl’ the Min- otaur. It was Theseus who dulivered s conutry from this shamotul L.ibute by killiag thoe moislor. ‘Fuesous, Who wis himsoif wkitled in sil tho nthletio gawmas, subsequoutly satablished ruloa for tho governmont of wrustiors, and which are comparatively thio same a8 Lhoso now in use. Another gieat wrestles was Agles, wiio was born dumb, Of Lim J¢ 18 enld that, sccing soms foul wrestling 1n o contest, he broke the sirivg which held bis topgus through the desiro of 1eduling tha offender, nnd ever alier spoke Iith case, Tho name of Autacus is perlaps more tsmilisr. Ho the son of Nepinuo or Ly the mea who curdsavored to deatcoy or refused ta Lielp save {t, i order thet Hlavery might bo maig. taod, Tue elections of 1574, while inQlcting temporary de. feat on the Republican purty, did much good fu sweep- fug nway aide feauieq and crusbing out thoss baieful and corrupting fnGiences which wero polsoning tha channcls of public life, Puried a8 by fire of ths evid thinge which had anfested its germenta, tho Bopublie. an party, In Lo olectlons of 1833, recovered mowk of 118 Joct ground, and will enter with lively prospecta of viztory upon the great aud declsive struggts thas will thispe tho policy of the nation when it euters upon the second ceutary of iia exfatence, Those who desiro tha flepublican party to remaln tu "power cannot maro eMicienly contributa 10 {hat end thau by insresiug the airculation of Tur Cuicaoa TAwUNE in thelr nelghborhoods, Among the lading Rejublican newspapers nose takes a Ligher rank or wiil wisld 3 mora potontial ngiaence i hs uest Preai« deutial Campatgu. Every intelligent citizen wilj and 1t Indiapensable for tho facts aud arguments it wibl coutain, THE TRINUNE'S PLATFORM. On (he leading measures Detors the pablio, Tor CisicAG THINUKE holds tho following viows, bellsving them to be right a8 well an Nopublican: 1, A Reform of the Qurrecy, makiog it as stable and good as gold aud sllver, without {njury to the detiur classe of direct Blate, and {ndirect Matiopal 2, Reducta Taxulion, %, Loosiomy and Retrenchment {n Publlo Expendy tures ; no Bouwtic of Bubsiiica of Publio Munaya for Private Schemes, or l'ayment of Relel Losscs Qut of tho Nutioual Tressury, 4. Au houest malitznance of Publle Credlt, snd Condemuation of iepudintion in any form or ahspe, 5. Btate Coutrol aud Bupervision over Gomiaon Can riers and Corporate Mouopoiied, 50b to oppruss them, Dbut 10 protect the people. 6. Vaposure and unishment of all OMeial Corrup ‘Tauds on the Hevonve, * Let no gudly mazx tHot & sacare, %, Loues and Fit Mo for all Oficen—giving good Unionfets preference over formee Secessfonlsta, d, Soverelguty of the Uuion ia all Natvual Mab v Blato Lighte and Independeuce in all Local Mate clctlon of Prestient Uy dirsat vole of the Peo. i, rchont o luay aud duseraus futerveiion ot icetutal Colleges, which way some dsy causo e Cirll War, :ll;. A Couatitutions] Amendment probitdting e die sad Lerrs, and was of immenss size. }orcules wrest!ed with bim, but La jeseivod now atrencth oach timp be touclied his mosbor th, ‘Lhe god then lifted nim in air sud squoezad bim to doath in lin srme. Lisgoras, &u aiblete of Ruodes, 4€0 yoars before tie conywmosucewunt of the Chr.stian cra, waw his thion sons wore crawuod op the samo day at Olympis, and died throuzu excess of joy, l'mndar “celebrated the fatber's werits in o besutitul odo, it exta: which wai wrtton in lettois of cold fu a templ of Aineiva, Then thera was Caicvon, a Kiog of Llanuir, and said by some writers to ha & sou of Nep:uuo. ani by oilers of Vulean, Ho oblig- od all strsugors to wrestls witl bim, and, 2s Lo was skllled in all the scicnoo of the spart, thoy. wera ipvariably conquered and put to doatn, e chal'snged Thewous, who bas alrcady beon maonttoned, by whom he was {fairly thrown, and was put t2 dasth, Bomatimos jtno fsame person gained prizes st all tbaun feslivals. Anstidod, an Atheniar, was thus successfu, be it might be coutinued, but epungh hay becn witien to show biow fwportany thesa games werd cousid- ered by the Uietks and Romant. Ttepostu of tho euthiusiasm which these Ormeo. Romun games aye croating ju $bin country Lave reachod LFrance, whero tho inost celebrated weestlers of modzrn tnuesroside, b fastated oo what aeoms to bo goad autnority that several of tho great of Ireoch wrestlors aro lrnuclnfl to visit tho United States and exhiblt tholr ski before au American public, EDUCATIONAL, Peansylvacla Military Academy, Chester, Pa, Peopens Jau, 6, Tuorough fgatructioy ia Civil and Aiuleg Engineering, tho Clussicasud English Brauckes, For eirculste apply to T, A, COSGRUVE, No. 44 Cinrks Chicago, or t0 Col, THEU, UYATY, ¥real: dout I 4l AL WINTER, RESORTS, FLORIDA THE WINDSOR HOTEL, on S, James Fark, Jack- sonviile, Florlda, now opeu for guests, is naw, cowe lym', snd first-class Lo arery e & MOORE, _ viuon of tho Fublic-Schiool Funds of suy biate for Bectarian Purposes, Tle Politicul Department {2 but oue of the nany ex- cellent features of TUk TRILUKE, ou which is based ile clatwy a8 & superior FAMILY AND HOXE PAFER. Asn newspaper it Lus fow oquals in ths United Btates, Il loweand Forelgn Corrsspondence, Lit- erary and Aliscellancous Deparsin ricl, inatructive, and entertainiug, snd the Agricalta. ral Department, amlinently practical, coutalus msitar always seasonable, sud sulted (o direct application te tue activo operations of the Farmer, In tha Doparte ment ¥lold and Stabls s given valusbls Information 8 {0 the dissases sud cara of live stock, this contrib- uted by a Veterinary Surgeon of akill and experience ¢ ‘who will answer all questiona ssked by correspondsata, Tux WzkxLy TRinvE s vot dated {n advance of 1ta publication, but contalus the dispatchea snd paws up to Weduesday moruing, the of Lssus, Pefors subscriting for any other paper send fo3 spechinen copy of TUE WEEXLY 1813VXE (sen) [res), sud examine it, Terms w f SBubacriptlon. o b o e beEeor, i Suheal uhunmmnu un-dnfi' aud postage. fanda Editlou, double o WY satnaid, 1 yeal PO e oAy iy ke Addresa THE TRIBUNE QOMPANY, . 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