Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1876, Page 7

RELIGIOUS. The Bov. Mr. Duffield Restatos His Views. (What Tt Is that Ho Wants to Put Down ‘and Keep Down. AWhy tho Bible Should Be Rotained in the Public Sthools. Yhe Pope’s Address to the Sacred Col- lege on Christmas Day. aul's Enmity to David---The Sundays Bchool Lesson for To- HMorrow. The Sunday-School Contest. PUTTING DOWN AND KEEPING DOWN, JUE BEY. MR, DUFFIELD PIFLAING AXD MAIR- 3 TAINE, fo the Xditor of The Chicano Tribune . Cm1cago, Jan. 20.—There scemn to hava beon 1n unfortunste phraso in my paper on ** Civilt- jation” wirich bas rousod o trifle of wrath, And 10 any person at all acqusinted with my rolig- ioas balief it cextainly appears most irregulaz fhat X shonld Lo made the advocate of an intolor- toes which Is tnchristisn and absurd, The peaning is morely this: That toasnmuch as xivilization was the resultant of Churistianity, it pust be presorved and maiolaived, And, fur- ther, that our own form of goveroment, being tho Mgheat exproesion of such & result, must also bo presorvod. Aud, etiil further, that to “put town sod keop dowa " Romaniem, infdolity, and Judalswm, is morely to do what is already done with every sort of crimo and anarchy. \ 1 soppose a mag may even enjoy with s cor- jain grim honmor & joke at hiaown expense, This, that paper ks proved to be. It was rend Io the Presbytorian ministers' mosting, was thon borrowed by a friond, snd then (uttorly to my rueprise) was priated in Toe Trisvxe. Ionco you can at once percoive that I would most cor- lainly (had I known 1t in time) have guarded tha expreesion from miaconstructions of sll kinds., Dut from its legitimsto statement I do mot in tho lemst rocoil. I popsidered that paper as a mere outline, not by a0y means ‘*exhauative,” and not by any moans papable of doing more toan hinling a line of ar- ment. Therefora, written rapidiy and under Efl reasuro of otber dutics, I rogard it am ox- paodiogly unfortanate that my true merning was pot convaycd by that sootencs. * 1 The argument—or suggestion rather—was de- signod to show {hie natura of civilization. Te- liglons tolerstion in tho first principle of Christ’s system, and on this civilization {8 based. Bat, you will observe, that whiio individuats ara tobo tranted mth all toudernees and kinduess, thoir ereors of faith and practics are ot to be allowed o pravell in any govarnment against tho teach- inga of experlenco, Wby, I ask, should wo allow Josuits to comse into power whea Jesuils have jnvariably mado trouble sod been banlabad for sedition? Why shonld infidelity rulo whan wa bavo the Reign of Torror and such like historical facts Lo warn us sgainat t? Why shonid the Jaw bo preforred shon the Jew does not coin- cido ovon with the accapted day of rest in civi- lized lands ? + To say *“put down and keep down" in soy country Roversed by a King would bo to fovoke the aid of tyrsany sod oppression. To say that hers is to call upon thonghtlul, intotligent, and saqacious minds to study the subject, and to vots it down, ‘And Tnie Taidose is perfectly righs In sayin that if the boot was an tho other foot [t woulfi o a falr fit. For just so surely as Romanism or snsthing of ita nature took tho control we should bave the old atory of persecution and bloodshed over sgain. We—nadvocates of the highest civilization, and not of any creed or soot—have the proof in oor favor that wo bave plways need powor tolorantly, Iiad this not Leen the caso wo: should mot Lave af. tained our present hight. We ovly conteud for what modern solenca correotly styles the * sar- yival of tho flttest.” + 1o ooy auch argument I dealre to be known pot as & soctarian—but as a Christlan, in the usnal political senso, And spoaking from that standpaist, I ropeat that—wich this explanation w=-we must put down and kesp down the elo- ments which sro destructive ta liberty,’ Lt any man ramamber the last few days at Waaniogton, and how the gray camo ‘*‘on deck again,” and he will “seo that firo makes s bad master. In all my personal assoclations with the classes of people I bave pamed, I sm happy to bellove thas wo have es- toemed and respectod each other, But when an {rsue is thruat like thta nron the very core of tho wvital forco of the Hepublic, I loldit to bo the sheorest cowardico to shirk it. Tho moxt Prosi- dontial campaign is certaln (o dovelop thoss faots into their real Importance. Even the Buddhists eay * Thou shalt not sorve & sivner in tha pursuit of his sins,” and wo dare not allow soything bul that which has croated this Gov- ‘ernment to keap the dontrol, A lover of hbarty muat contend to tho death againet liconse. For Ticonts means anarchy and dissolution, I am informed by a gentleman of distinction at _the bar in this city that the ordioance of 1787 under which these fivo Northwestern States wore orqupized i exd;:hcu {0 its provisions cmmumn;i Lo sohool fuud, Ho tolls o that King James' veraion is the recognized logal vorsion, and that, under tbat ordinance, mo such actlon aa tie ono tsken by onr dchool Board can posslbly stend in any logal eenss, Proy do me the favor to put me right upon the rocord. I have po wish to ehnok fiom any loglumnu conclusion to which I may bave came, 1 balieve in the protection of eur republican form of Government, and to this end in the saper.ision of thone inatitutions which oducato or projudica its coming votors, - Lfailto eoo that it is intalorant to do thus muck. Wo spplauded Gon, Dix to the evho ‘when he Issucd hig ordor, **If any man attempts “to haul down tho American flag, shoot him on the apot!” And now, after Beward proclaimed an * irropreaiblo conftict,” aud tlelper spake of it as an "lml’tndi“fi) canflict,” tho battle has ‘been fought and won by Lincolus proclamation of omancipstion. Aa Intho Norve logend, Bigurd bas his fool on the hiead of Falnir, the dragon,—~ and Pafnir must bo *kept down,” sod you, +yourself, my dear alr, would bo intoleraut enongh torefuso 1t m rosuscitation, After all, what is “toleranco ™ and ¢ ia *‘intolersuce”? Georgo MacDonald s that * theonly inox- orablo thiog in the world ls love.” }lenco, lova “must bo extremely intolorant, All correot prin- eipls must bo vory iwtolerant. #1tight and wrong, botl cannot live Death-grappled I Which shall it be 2 Berlke! Only jusire can give Bafety to that which s frea] " Neithor then can we afford to ba **tricked by - the balavcing odds,” This ia tho country in which the majority rules, and should it bhappen tbat the sncceas galoed for this country by its guuu; majority wero overthrown we would all now what to axpoct. 1s Romanism a tolerant religion 7 Is Judalsm quite up to the wanta of to-dny ? Wil Infidelity satisfy tLe looging sonls of meén ? Hardly, I thiuk, it "thelr records are talthfully considercd and they are cousistent wilh tho'pask. Papal infallitilily, the denlal of the Naw :l’a.«umnmf and Jlumoe's srgument from sezperience wanld blot the light from civitization very goon, Weshonld be all turned backward into tho past, there to grovel and die, But you will say that the true point {a the zight of conecibnee. & admit that to & corcalo extent, - bt oonsclence s s vailabls quantity, and tho Iaw would make nhort work with & man whosa oonsclonce bade tim stoal, or justified him in ldulkezr. Liberty, thon, must bo secured as Cast a3 i {8 gaived, and the fatal error (to my mind) 10 your own argument {8 that, s Cutler puts it betier, 0, give us Iaw ju liberty aud dberty ia law!' Toxnll liberty, I foar, means lie 1anse. Icannot tind that you countenance Com« muaism, and yot fu ity niost dangerans form you io counieusnce it, when you pus truth aud error sido by aide, sod give bankrupt Error the same dsteem an lanabolder Truth, Wbas s 18 bub Communiam to silow that which producea Come * munism to fank with that whioh produces Jice pubheanism ? 1, at all evonts, . wise understand Lievei's * Ci:nl “I.‘.?m?tay‘."om“ I sincerely rogret that my conclusions wers stated fo wo terso and sharp 8 way—for the rea« tona slrcady given—and that thoy bave attracted ‘hia sttention. Asa “plalu blunt man,”s * jovor . dmy conntr{vnna my kind,” I have statedan hoo- stoplalon. \While it sounds harsh . s from belog barsh. I have ll;n r‘l:‘h‘;‘?o’gl‘g - Nesand with any polltieal suicide who would de. atroy himeelf and ma If ha was loft freo 10 act ne he choss, And I anticipaia your objection na to thastandard of aanily Ly deciaring it to he that of our Lord Himeelf,” ' By {heir frulta ys shall knaw them.” No man ever gathered grapes of civil liborty off of the Vatican thorm-bush, uor figs of Jearning from the tiistlew of infl- dality, Let them grow inthoirown wildernousos, butif they comeinto our mardens, ahall we ba iutolerant'if wo cut them down? ~ Disrasli and Gladstone sprear to think that wo should do ro. Onco mora let me ho fully nnderstood. Civili- eation requires knowledge iu order to bo per- petual, Rnowladge to bo proxressive requiras the best ald of truth, 'I'ratl, approved by exe periance, invariably links itself with tho teach- iuga of Chriat, For tlie parpose of tha preannt argument, 1 do not cira whather Christ waa divine or huiman, or batts. His words are tho monrco of that toleration which we atylo “charity," and which dsres not strotch itsslf bo- _lvlr:'nd vounds and call truth and error the same ng, 1 have made this explanstion by way of conr- teons ncknowlndgmont for the generaus troat- ment of Tuz Tathunz, Iobsotvothst +Blanclio, Lray, and Sweotheart, little dogs and ail,” aro now unlashed, aud about to Lark thomaelves boares, Thia Is not 6o ploasani for tne, aajt brings n notoriety which I donot cavot, And tha tompiation (s vory strong to go quletly into tho armory of fact for 4 fow stonos, Dut I never found it profitable. T beltave that in the groat wlnnowlug'prnmu of the world Criat's roligion haa showa itaclf to bo tha beat scod-grain, I ask nothing for my faith but & fair comparidon with any othor. lut tho fittes ivel I would notsisud another day in & Christian pulpit uuloss I felt that Jesns ot Nazaroth was to roign * until Ho bath put all enemios undor s feot.,” Io holding such: a ba- liof L am bound to recogmize trnth anywhoro and overywhere,—whether Confuciug bag it,'or Plato bas It, or Buddlis has it. And nmong truthe so sunounced I am bound to taka the boat. It huppens that Christ is the accepted philosophio teachor of Christendom. I concern myecl! in such sn_argument only with the externnl results of Hia religlon. I' find them rood, therolore Irefuse to Confucianise or Budd- bise our common schools, or ta lostt!l principles (}iko Hobben' Iaw of right and wrang) which aré contrary to enlichtened common sonke. Ashort Lime ago & blgoted taan in En‘(hnd lost a heavy wager becauso bo challengad tho proof that the earth was round, aad cliimed tne evidonco of Lis sensca agalust It. Tho whole world mado that man & martyr to ignoranco ; and yot, by tho vory principlo which is brought up dgsinst mo, hia opialon was & mattor of iodifferenca. , 80 It was, - whilo it kept to fteelf. ' But lot it undertake, firat, to rulo ont auy tumhlnf a8 to the form of thio world, and, second. to rula in & teachiog tat tho world was flag, and 18 it .then of no conao- quence whather truth or grror provalls? Weo sbould bo back In Btrabo's day at onco. Lot thoro bo the largest liborty of individnal opinfon. Il & man chooses to curso his break- fast instend of blessiog it, lo may do so in his own housa; but how many of ns would quickly ondure the Invacation of an ansthoma npon tho meal in a lotel dining soom _when it was ropested agatn and sgain? I pat the caso Btrougly, know, ~ Let the parent send his child for meraly sccular instruction, iflio o pleasss, Let him be under no comonl- slon to do otherwise, Bat to say wo must atl go barefoot becauso cortain famities prefer to sxve shoo-leathor is absurd. Tho futolerauce teally i8 in_tho minority demanding a control of tho majoritv. The msajority must not oppress tho minority,~for they have hluman rights,—but for themsolves thoy may eloct thogo lelpsand ben- ofits in sducation which will porpetunte their own predominguce, To got power by tha slaw rnrgmlau of centurics and then throw it anay, 8 the sot of » madman., Wo sball only move formard as wo decline to try sgain doad experimonts, to rovive refuted dogmas, and to ronew an sttempt to barmouizo the ** iy~ reconcllables,” To refuso to pleass everybody 18 not intolerance. Compnisory edncation In nteadily gaining ground. Btandards muat ba sat up, and musk bo conformed to whon Lhoy Lars ouca beon proposod and accepted by the msjor- No oo will call Abrahiam Lincoln B 1{:;;:‘}; malico toward none, in the right as God gives us iy, erant man, but (his was what Lo sald: to soo tha right, lot us atiive on to finish tho work!" Iremain, my dear sir, with great re- spect, vary truly yours, SiyvetLW.DurFIELD. ———— THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1876—TWELVE PAGES. B e e e it in enrtaln parta of the sworl? men st wishing to dethironn Jeaun Christ, and ntew etelatmimyg s ¢ Solus e Aune regnare Ather now” Bt the tina ahal) come whien nicn sall bo atly to sy 2 ¢ Vidf smiim Buper exallatum « o lranaiei et sroa mon eruts! Let nn {11 the meanttma ‘thrn 1o the King of Teata to the eud that, by tha intercession of tuat Virgin whom thia Church "pafittes a3 & Virgn totena,” Te niay prant $0 all of U3 peace of leart, even whlio wa are alri #ling Ambd thn tempeat Teuder ta_ conra out athistes 10 feul fie b Lot us, abava all, pray to the Holy Virgin (hat sie mav alista for uf the 1avor of neeinz (be s of tho bissphemers snd of tin enemios of Jeaus Cirfat'n Chareh struck dimb, Mufi fiantiainn dotoar, Tet the deceitial lipa that cail yood evil and ovll gaolt Lo mute, until fu’ mienco and fu nolltude, Ly the Liziue sesfstatce, tney shall hve fearncd (o peak, 1,30 the mowntime, ralno my hand 10 blern you, atud I ytay God tLiat this bepediction may aivo force and courago to all of us, in such rort that {t Imay render g & buroing ligoh' {owards which the Catholio natfous may turu for tha repane of their eyes and thie tranquilization of their hearts, Hensiicta ety ete, ‘fho mention of the increazed labors of the Cardina!s refers, 1 tako'it, to a public uxh tion recently put forth by the Cardinal Viear, ealltng on tho Syndic and =it others concotned topus sueud to tho working on Bundays and liohidays of tho mon engaged ou the nporations neconatated by tho opening of uew sirsols, Tha rescript in‘queatlon met with no atteution, And **tho romedien which have been proposed " conelat of certain exira and special rorvices in tho churchos, not arranged, 1t should be ob~ nerved, with any ides that tho workers in qties- tion might Le induced to attend thom, inatoad of working, but that othera may, by this do- votlon, appeass tie Divina displeasure. The Nero who, lyre in hand, pretends to blandish whila ho deatroys and burns. is intended, I pre- sume, to symbalizo the King of Bavaria, The othor Nero, with srms in hand, is, of course, the kmperor of Gormany. It doos, jt must bo ownod, scem tatlier & apacimen of bathos, or tho art of einking, when the tloly Patuer drops from tho misdeeds of those potoutales mou- tioned to thoso of poor Cavaliez Hoea at tha Colisoum, though the lsttor are unforsuuately utdeniable, o lns made a stioking and fotid pool whore the cracifix nsed to siand go eug- gontively in tho contro of that swlned sconn. Aud if" the Popo's curdos could induce tho au- thorities to Il it up agaln, Uis tolincss would not have spoken for nothing. — SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON. DAVID AND BAUL. I. Sam., reiii.~Many disastera befsll the Jews for o long sorles of years aftef they on- tered the promised land. Among their enemies wero the Fhilistines, who emigrated from Crete. Intime they becamo numerous, powerful and aggroesive. They ultimately ovorran Palestino, and gave namo ta lt, They wers not a somitio race, but an Aryan people. Thay wera not living in the promised laud in the time of Mones, and weren woak peoplo in the dave of Joshua. After many struggles, they wers finally subdued Ly David, They began eatly to annoy tho chil- dren of Abraham, aud onvied Isaac's prosperity (Qen, xxvi., 14). Joshua did uot rout thom in Baul's sitte. The sdjacent natioos wers con- enrly hifo was & poriod of disciplins. Ko distis guisbed himsolf evea when a boy by vario exploita In tho rural Qistricts of Judal Ho, oarly in " lito, ypreparsd himsell. beautiful valo of Elan gave him great induenca among tho peoplo. rondy todo him bomor. respect and trost wero bestowed upon lim by thaotd King at the outset, oxcept that Saul re- tainod Inm, aud would not aliow him to go Lomo 6 hus father's houso. A wonderfnl lovo Rrow betwoen David and Jonathan, 80 that the soul of David was kuit with the soul of Jona- than, What wastho basis of this affection wo may _nat know, but wo mav surmise that David's heroism and modosty, hia piety and faith, bia bigh gifts and bia nobio bearing, alt aided 1n kindling 8 pure flame of sdmuation and affectiou in the congenial soul of Jonathau, 80 that when Baul detormined that David, tho armor-besrer and barpist of formor days, tho delivoror and savior of His people in moro rocent terma, should be & member of His famuly, these two young men rojoiced groatly, and 1HE POPE, swors oternal fricndship. Thon Jouathan and mA SPEECH, AT CHRISTNAS, TO THE SACRED COL- | David made s covepant—such a ooveuant au LRGE. is often made in tio Emst i. 0, it Correavondence London Standard, Toxe, Dee. 25.—The spoech of the Pops to tho membors of tho Bacred College, on the oc- casion of roceiving their relicitationa at Christ- mas, is 80 remarkabla & documont that I think it worth while to give you & tiansiatlonof the whole: AWith the close of this month the fAizat three-quarters of the nineteenth century como to an end—tnin cen- tury, which oniened with an extraordiuarily surprising and providential evont, You understaud already that Lapeakof e cloctlen of my august predecessor, Pius VIL 1 do not sllude to taia fact with any fntontion of recarding all tho particulars which proceded and ao- companied it, or to relataover again the marvelous ‘manicr in wiiich thonow Popo was chosen 13 succeator tha much-aufforing Jus V1,, oil matters which you know but too we.l, ~ Lut I refor to thiat great event only to recall to the attention of the whole world the truth {hat God has mover sbaudoned s Clurch, and that at every time, In the midst of {ompests and (ho_greatest dangers, Ho has siretched oot 118 omnipotent hand o sustaln snd savo it from ita enemies. J call this to mind in order that amud the present dangers tho good may be comforied and take courage, vl the waverers wilo are avercomo by fext may sugment thelr falth, and with that tholr Dope, Yes, my cear Lrotliers, now also e fud ourvelves L the m‘mmdam’:um- and uppressions, Now also the CEurch Ls butieted by the tompest which tosiod it ears ago and moie, ~ Uut God now also s, comforts ua, 1 it, Bat I know also thut fear ls effect of love towards God, And wonld to God that all feared after thizsart, ‘Thasacrod writings spesk often of this holy fear and cujoin it, Blessod aro tuey who fear, Dot fasr may proceed from {wo sources, The Archangel 8t, Oatrial clearly showod as this in the words which he spoke first to Zachariss and afterwsrd t2 the Immaculate Virgin, 'The high priest fears, and the Archangel ssys to him, * Nols fimers’" The Moly Virgiu tears also, snd ths Archangel simi- lariy says, * N timeos, R comforta ong, snd be comforts the other, ~Yet Zachanas s puulshed Ly s tempotary loas of the pawer of tpcerk, whilo tha Most lln{ Mary {a rewarded, and theuco becomes tho bleased of all nitions, as she herscll confessed aud de- clared iu hor canticle, Kcee cram ex hoe biatam me dicent amnea generationes, This difference proceedod exjrenly from fhe difference in kind of iho fear felt theni, Zicharizs feared, bub with the fear of Mdenco; and thus merited his punishment, Mary feared, but with the fear of humility; and was, thera. fore, glorifed with tho immense greatness hat God worked In her: feait milhi magna quia velens cal. Himilarly in our days, all thore who live by faith, when theg radeoton the gruat social overthrow which causss ua {0 trembls In the midat of such great uncertatntics, fear coriainly. But {heir fexx is not wilhout confidence 10 God, And fn the solitudo of $helr hoarts they fecl repeatéd within them the comforting words, motf timers, Why stould they fear? AU appearances to thio contrary notwitbstanding, they foel sn augmuuta- won of the fatth thoy place i God aud o tho pawer- ful intercission of “the Queen of Heaven. God cannot perialt that wa should isden with a burden * disproportioned 10 cur steength. Te Himeell hoa awsured us of this,saying Db codis pé- tum n facrymia in miswra, “Trustfully, thereforo, ey ropeat wilh (e Dieased Virgla, Fiat miny secun- du oerbum uan—w 1et Thy loly will, 0 my God, Vo compieted in all things,” Othiers again fear with an uncertain oud dlscouraged foar; sna when they look sround and fail ta soe ou any side any frat dawning of dat ray of ligut which shiould accomupuny (hs longed- for daytroak loas faith, and declaro that the ovils havo zeached to auch a poiai 1h4f tiey can ses uo remedy In sy direction, To which Iwill ssy, in the words of the samo urchaugel, Non erit impossib.le apud_Leum oinne verbum, Lut (4l fear may ba generated in some Ly 8 desiro far their own comfort, - No one is iguoraut how much the fear of greater avils may lufluence tim- id miuds, and Low prous such are $0 sacrifico thelr own dignity, sud somotimes even their own con- sclences al¥o, or (ha sake of adapting themseives to Tho coutinela of mow-fabitled poliilcal ‘adviscrs, and of abisluiug temporal advantages by au sdbeaion to couu- acla which are conte.npt nd slwa; it bave. Conrented to abk Tor the. Tarvel £bquatumn val eccquatur), TU%oud ay, then, Lo thesa tmid eness rh fo tho vust number of the £00d, to iake courag vigor from tnele_example. Tura, abaye all, to the Hacred College of Cardinals, who 'remain firm in tho exerciss of {heir dutiew, and 1o the ascrod cangrega- tons multiply their labora in proportion to plorable incresse of soctsl inis sugmentation of ibelr labors bo wondured at, aincotlie disordors themsslves cause tho peopla to Xeep thelr eyes f10d on the Holy Beo, aud, while placing in that their hopes, o sccopt The remedies ilch wa proposed (or g Sure of the evlle that vex {ha social body, and to Atk {of opportuns coussels for Atieir safs direction fn tha path of trutb, And hers, whilowe consider Lo inunenso roapaaibility with Which certain Governments ars loading themucives, Gceupled as they aro In organizing sver new atiackd 2galint $he Ohtirch, by which they 876 more and more overy day caliug down wpou “thele heads tho maledictlons of Gud, we ougbt, on the otber houd, to sdmire tho gonatuncy of the persecutsd, who coursgeously Tusat threats aud insulls, and all the evils that can La invented by, T wil not sy s fapaticlim, but ratber ° by = iho diubolical fury which suimates oerisin Nerow of our days, 1f 1donob docelve mysall, I seem lo s back sgaiu the Emplre of auotuer Neco, who Bimeolf under divers forme. Tu ous plico L aits with & Jyre in bis laud, or with Jylng and ‘docetving words retatids (0 coas, but all the while detosts and reducea Tovtios, 1n oibier places ho preseuts bimael sword 1 bucad; and, If bo Qove ot 81 the streats. with blood, filla the prisou th captives, multiplies evils, pluns dering, ‘sud blaspbosiiug wbtle be ylouders, sad uairiog jutlsdictivn sxsrcised with violouce sid in- ustive, _WIth tba iyre fn bis band ho turows dowa in ho grest Noman sinphitbestre he 4ign of oir fo- dlmlln sud thal arens, once precious with the q made 8ithy with stsguant and tho conaclulices ol abetiors of such an unjust rage 1t aurely soems A reunistances, L order sgainet tho parsecute was ratified 1o tho presenco of witnosses and by woma gifts, tbat tho partica covenantiog witl bs sworn brothoia for lifo—a marrisgo in fact, aond 1ho coatract signed and sealed in due form. 8o Jonathan took off his robe zndgavoitto David, Bestowing any dresy that bad been worn by & Kinzar hia Loeir was cooaderad In tho tast tho highest honor a Frince can confer (Esther, vi., 8). Jonathan also gaveto David the fasdlo, thesword, and the bos whioh he had woro., "These being paris of amikitary dress, may tndicats ttie regard Jooathan bnd for David na a military mau, ilow moch of David's auccess in aiter lifo depended upon this mutusl love we may never know, but that it mado Duvid's elavauon to tho throne of Israel very easy and plcacant ono can hardly doubt, David's prowess and [sith recelved tho admira- tion of il the people, 80 that Saul fols cowpoliea to roward him iu some way, lest the peopla should relleve tho "King of that duty. Even tho womon saog his praiscs. Passing sttango it waa that the King did not, provioua to..tho applaues of tuo women, suepect what wns o 80on toocour, He must Layesesn that the roul of the heir apparent was knit with that of David. Wo are loft 1o doubt hiow sane in mind Saul was at this timo. A cousciousuass of his mauv areat sins may havo blinded bim o that be could not soo very far abead. Sin slways impnits the mind, and especially makes it stupid aud indif- forant with regard to coming events. Siu ime peirs _brmo foice. on which tho functions of tho Lody depend. A moan whose slos plunge bhim 8o deeply into the deonthm thatpot aray of hops cau reach him, cannot be iu a very eane state of mind, aud only ropont. snce and obedionce caa confor avy poacs to lls soul, Probably Jonathan hiad s hint of (he fu- ture, and hie admiration of David's charactor and prospects tipened into doop, nbidiug love. We wuet sot be surprised to flnd in foturs yooxs tbat thia love eulargsd and becamo com- leto devolion, s that JouatLan really loved avid a3 hiis own soul. Even in Saul's estimu- tion, nothing was too_good for him. Howgver wanks aud impaired Saul's mind wes, Le Lad venlized that David bas riskod his own life for Lis and his country's ealvation, and was riohly entitled to tho promised roward, David'a tioad was Tevol, Hoobayed the iiug's orders, and was falthiul in the discharge of every duty. Ha was_considorate, discreot, and shrowd. Il persuaded_Baul that b could ~control mon, snd vocoived the appoiutmont of wcommand over men of war, and treated them go wisely that ho was very populor smoug tho enlire peoplo, They bad not forgotten his exploit of Lolding s lion by tho beard, and of taking a Jamb frou his f““‘ nor did thoy ceaeo to wan- der that e Lilled tbe giaut which o torrificd thom a few woeks boforo, Even Saul's servanta admired his proweas aod his songs. Whau D vid roturaed from tho slauglter of the Philis- tines, sud passed through ths citics of the lera- clitoe, the women cama out to meet Kiog Saul, dsnced and. saog, ‘‘Naul has slan biy thousands, and David Lis teos of thoussnds.” ‘Chin {8 not peculiar to the Oricutal nations. And still this habit i4 more common aud wmore expresaivo iban with us. Op the return of friends loug absont, and ospocially oa Lhe rewurn of a victoiions army, companies of wowmen and chlidren formed a procossion and marchod out of towns aud vllh?eu o celabrata the victory by wusic and songs in haonor of tho leaders, who biad distinguishied thomaolves by their prowess or dariog feats of gallantry, 8o these women of Israsl were bestowiog the usual tokcus of gratitude and prajse to David, as tho deliverer of tholr country from au old and cruol enomy. Thoy were indiscroet in praisug David at \ho expeuss of the old King, who felt the dls- cropancy of applsuss very deaply, and when, too, his mind was not fu a good atate to bear it. It oxcited Lis cnvy and roused bia vindictive feolings. 1lo becamo jealous and susplcious, Ile eyed David invidiously, aud bisrbored » laige amount of nocret and malignant batrod, which, within & few moutlss, he fully developed by seckiog to kil bna, Before David marchod forward to sink the smooth stons fnto the mant’s brain, the psople tramblod with fear; now that he returns victo- tloas, they shed teard ot foy and congratulation, aod shonted his praise. Feéaung and trombling are exchianged for dancing and singlng. Why should Saol be so disturbed wien tho women cougratulated s prominont and popular meimhar of his court and the deeply-loved feiond of hiv son? Hia ulus annoyed bis sout, They rosa bafore him like s0 mauy ovil spirite, Tne sonye of the womon axcited him, threw him off his gusrd, and let theso disturbors or bis pesco of mind take possession. Perbaps ho thought Iis doom was moon to be daveloped, tis decres of heaven moon to be ex- pected. On the niortaw, the evil spirit_from Uod came upon Saul, an/d he soeks to kill David, QGloow aud melancholy took possession of tho miscrable old Ling. A sudden paroxysm of ine sanity seized him.” Ho prophesied, f. 6., ho waa unaer the ivflucoce of & bad or good moint, In this caso the spirit was bad enough. Baul was in & frenzy. David obviously maw tho inental paroxyem coming, and at once tried the fnfla- ence of music, as o former attscke, But it had loat 1ts quisting effoct, Saul held s javolin z o stantly annoying the peculiar people. Darvid conquered them, garrisoned their eitlos. Dasld's His success in driving tho Phlilistioes from the Even Saul aod Abner woro Wodo not know how many, or what tokens of n his band and buvled it at the head of tho young har Had it his him—bad it killed him =all woutd have deomed tha King an insauo persan. For Hanl sald, “I will amito Danid oven to the wall.” Ie repeated the murderous attompt, but lnefactuslly, Now, why did Haul try twisa to kill his best friend, hin deliverer from lis biller encinies, and thio doliverer of Lis peaplo? o loved Dawid ho guve him o high posivion fu bia army, eod =1l iho peonleennd Haul's rorvants adinired him, Jiverytuing went smoothly and pleasantly until the women cama from all tho eities of Isracl, singlng and danciug, to mest King Haal with tabrots, with oy, and with iustruments of music, Theo those women were 85 unviso and indiscrost as to sy aod sing, *Sanl hath slain hia thousands and David bia tens of thousands.” Ifcro waa tho outzet of tho trotibls, Baul was vory wratly aod displeascd. Envy was then born, Sanl pondered over it and said, * Wuat mors can he have but the throno?" Why did Haul's love of David cianga into ato? We cau tud ouly ono reason, which wo shall givo when Lo closes the ovidengo by sulcldo. Baul fears David for uis wonderful smuccesa and popularity, e tharofors espelied him from Court, where the leading man, sud even his own gon and prospective Lisir to tha throne, groatly admired sod loved this pious young warrior. Ile geve him s mihtary comimission, that David might bs away from the g!uple and expored much more than he conld be at Court to Who esanita of his enemies. Iiul tlis purpone was unsuccessfol, for it aided in showing people ki trmo character,—his fitnevs for governiug them. Then ho offei David * bis daughtor Merab for a snare.” Iie had forgotien his furmer promisa, and wislied to exposo the life of David to the risk of attacking 100 mon, and Lringiog homo 100 foreskius, as an judication of tho number of men ho kad killed, — jnst as our Amorican Iudiana bring home realps for the eams purpose. Dut David proforred Michal. ~+ Micial, Haul's daughter, loved Danid.” ' Saul was plessed ~ when hs hoard of this, bocauso he naw it wonld givehtm a fino chanco of executiog hia malicious designs, Ho !when thetricks snd in- trigues of tho apien shawed Baul what David's Hurposea were, e was very glad, and eaid : **Tha ih’n;: does not dosirs any aowry,” It was so grest an bonor to ho father-in-law to 80 valiant aud popular a man 83 David, be neod not pur~ cbmye Michal as his wifo, In fact sho was al- rosdy i, purchased Jby Lis killiug Golish, The old. King ignored his — promise, aud 80 ‘endd 88 David had no moaos of giving a dowry, he would consent to accept gonio gollant deed in the public sorvice. Hsul wa# o fraud, a8 old Laban was many vears be- fore. 1o wan afrald of David, becaans God had loft hicsel? and gave to David, B0 Lo was re- sotved 10 kill bim. 8aul was the mors afiard of him bocouse o behaved very discreotry. Saul did not intend Lo sbould marry Micinl, o Lioped David would fall in battle with the Philis- tines. David loved Michal ro deaply that she was hta al Yot bo was willing to repurctiaso lus own property ratlier than loso bor aud Lave any moroe troubloe with the old, malicious Ring, But when Saul ssw and know tual God was with David. Lo wae tho more afraid of him, and be- camo lis perpetual onemy. God had tiken tho sou of Jesas uuder hin special care, sud defeated tho conspiracy sgaioat bis life. Thus tho main points in this losson are: David, thio gaess of Lue palace, whero even Saal loves him, Davld beccmes » momber of the family ; bo becomea s Prince, forma n covenant of permanent {riendship with Jonatban, threads of anu kuit thow togotbor, Jonathuu gives his rabes and armor to David, who is mads Com- mander-1u-Chief of the armies of Tarael, and be- comes very poptlar, which oxoites Saul's envy to such pn extont that he attompts to kill David. Saul then fears him, becance ho finds that Jehovah is with lum, and bocauss David s very wiso and discreot, and {5 conatantly winning the lovo and contidence of the people: “even the womea sing bis praize. So Sanl degradea bim, aud lays plans for destroviog bim. Johovah protoets hiw, sud he growsin fuvor with God aod msu, - —_— THE MOSAIC LAW. WA8 1T ODLIGATORY ON THX WORLD? To tha Edrtor of The Chicaao Tridune: 0AK PAnk, Jan. 20.—1 come onca moro to solicit another opportunity to eay & little more on the Sabbath quostion. In tho previous ar- ticie I could only outline tha subject or preaent o meroskeloton. In this articlo I wish to sup- plv, 8o far as Icao, what wos wanting fn the other, At present I hiave three pointa to make, audit 1 succeed, as I trust I shall, a multitude of incidental quostions wili ba answered, or will suswor themeolves, or will not bo worth ssking. Theso points are: First, That tue Babosthlaw, 8s a rolo of conduct, did not have ite origin at tho closo of croation, a3 affirmod by 1tlo BSabbath advocates. Second, That tho whols Mosalo codes tho decalogue Included, was givan, as positivo law, to the Jews, and to thom only; sud was not imposed in the form of lawa ou any other people or nation. In sliort, thas the Miosaic law was given to the Jowe, and was not, in o logal nonse, . positive eunctment, binding on aoy Geotile, Third, Tbat the Sgbbath Jaw was ceromonial, not moral, in tha propor sense. 1 ndmit, in common with tho friends of the Sabbath, that God blesacd tho saveoth day and hallowed it. They olaim that this sct of God institutod tho Sabbath, aud that it Las ever sinco beon & faw bloding on mankind, 1 have alroady stated that wbat God did and szia dariog creation, aod st its closo, in rolation to the sevunlh day, was not, so far as we know or have any good roason to_ beliove, made & matter of record for nearly 2.500 yoars rfter ila oceurronce, and henco could not be nioding on the condnot of mon. Thoy conld not be in anv ssose bound by alaw of which they %now nothing, nor could they follow an example of which thoy had never heard. Thaae who as- sert that tho Babbath hias been In belng ever sinca creation as a bindiug inatitution, obligatory on sll mon, must eitber accopt thiu statemont or vaviso their interprotation of tho oridin of the Pontatouch as »_historical reccrd. My impies- elou Is, thoy had boster lot the authorship aod origin of the Pentatenca remain whare they are, and lot thoir Habbath theory go by the boaid, But I have no choice which slde thoy take. Lf the origin of the Pentateuch ramains, their Sab- bath theory comes {0 an untimely ond 5 if thoy abandon the acceptod opinlons about the Ponta- teuch, they are out on a shoreloss ocean of conjecture, and in imminsut poril of shipwreck, ‘But, suppose 1t waro truo that from tho time the ovent ocourred Adam and Lie postenty knew what God did during creation, and what Ho said of thio saventh day, would the mora knowledge of thegs things as matters of fact in the conduct of God make tho Habbath legaliy or morally binding on mankind 2 Who among tho votaries of the Babbath will risk his reputation by sav- ing yea? Docs the mero fuct that God does or says a thing oreato atonce an obligation ou the part of man to imitats it o Hisconduct? To wake such affirmations would be so palpably sbourd that T will waste no tina onit, When God save do thin or refraln from that, then, but not till then, oxcept in matters cesentially moral, does moral obligation commonce. But it 8 enough to say that the reonrd is eilont aa the gnw on the subject, It is pot etated nor even inted at in the most remoto munnoer, either that God fmposed & law of Babbath obssrvance on mankind, or that the world recoguizad or acted on such a law, ‘heraisnot s word, or whispor, or intimation of » Sabbatn law being given to tho world, or observed by the world, till tho timoe of jta institution as recorded in Exodns, sixteonth chapter, In ona respoct 1 biavo, aw: that, too, legitimately, s decided advantsge over my npnnueuu o thie part of the discussion: { bave the silence of the rocord in my favor, and that ltaclf ja a strong presumption that what it doea not atate of “the conduct of God tn rolation o positiva acts toward man, or what {t doss mot afirm a8 laving occurred, did nat occur. In other words, tho eilence {s proper ground for uegative pro- sumptlon, bub it oan mever be prosumed, as o Losis of argucicot, thas what s not statod did oocur or was # fack, Wo mas guess, infor, hn- sgine, conjooturs, and even honestly believe, that auything not stated in tho record is true, but we can nover in the conclusion rice above the premises. If thay be conjsciure or guess. somuat bo the concinsion, and our srgutnent ends just: whero it bogan. Thoso, therelore, who afirm that the Baubath Las existed avor siuco creation must poiot to absolute command or geuoral observanco, or give up tho assertion. They bave o legitimato claim to assume out- sido of the recard. Whou thoy point to n Babe bath Iaw enjoined or ovwerved bofare the time of Moses, I will drop the controvaisy. Bt if they csuuot do thiw, they ara bound by eversy rinciple of fair reasouing to scknowlodge thst bo ides of a Babbath law or Habbath obecrv- suce, beforo tho time of ita institution amovg the Iaraelites in the wilderuoss, is but o figmeut of the imagnation. I shiokit is uafe to atiirm that evon Talmage cou!d not show such » utste of facts to have exiated ; and, if they causot bo sbiown, [ am eutisled to tho conclusion thist, be- fora Boros, no Sabbath was koown or observed. Thus endeth the rirat lotson," Thoe lxe;n’uuszlon inordor 1s, To whom wss tho Mosaio Iaw and tho Sabbath given? To all wankind, or only to the Jews ? Ianswar em- phatically, to tho Jows only, Hore agsin 1 have the ldllntl.qanl tho negative assumotion. Thers Is not s slugle statemons hintiog or intimating that the Babbath law enjoined in Exodus bad the most remote ralation to anv but a Jow, either by Lirth or adoplion, God distinctly sasa to the Teractitea : I havegiven you the Sabbath. How ompty and pnerile auch & declaration If all tho world bad alwaye hisd 1t and obenrved 1t, Again God rays, Exodus, Whirty-Gratchspter, foepaik- ing of tho Sabtatin: ** [t la & elgn forover ho- teeon Meand the childran of Terasl,” not bLe- tweon Him and the world, but betzesn Uim and tho cluldren of [arscl. Now, to mako aezurance double sure, fet us Loar Panl, Itomaas, third and firat, Ho asks What sdvantage thon th the Jow, or what profit ts thore in circum- ou?" and Lo mopwiwers, * Much overv way, chiefly, that unto them wero eommitted the oracles of God.” Not unto the warld, but nnto tham were cammitted the orazles of God, Woat were the oracles of God? Why, the rav. clation of Ilis will, Dut was not Hislaw & part of that rovelation? I guosa so, \Whoaisssnts? Who will elep out in frout of the rauka sud say No? If not great a3areasoner, therals ouething, at lesst, in respect to which I adant vo supenior, I can make n-aettions, and for tho benalit of thione who like to take prodlsms, I will maks one hero, viz: that before Christ, God never im- ‘pored npon the vortd st large any code of posi- tivolawa for Ita obuervance. There in nothing n Seripture, nothiog in history, to warrant the bolief that Ho did : and in the sbienco of any trustvorthy authority on the afirmative side, the negative presamption is in my favor, and I do not believe that any theory or affirmstion that anch a code existed can bo snccossfully enter- tained. Jmay go farther and agscrt that evon Curist did not promnlgate law in the proper meuse, Not ono of IHis precopts bas a Gxed dofinite penalty attachod. to bo enforced by human power. Honever invokes legintative ald, never calls on 8 Luman tribunal, nover socks tho servico of Bheriff or Cobstable: the phyaical pomer of tho nation never forms tho dark and bloody biackground to auy precapt He over utter- ed. Can this be eaid of auylawin the trno senso 2 Is not the whole pawsr of the nation arrayed behind every law to onforco s execus tlon’? Waa not all this truo of tho*Mosaic law? Certatnly ; but i3 it ln 2ny particular trne of the jujunctions of Cbrist? What are called the lsws of Christ are eimply moral aod apiritusl prosepte for voluntary acceptance and ooservance or rejochion. "Chey all havs moral sud spiritual sanotions that follow consequently, but nothiug for Legisia- tures, courts or Lribuuala, or apy clsss or kind of temporal sutbority to enforco or exccute by any compulsory procoss. Curistianity and legal compulsion ata uttorly at variauce, ‘Lhers is not a siogle point of nlouess or harmony between thom, Kvery law that has ovor been passed to enforca 1ha observance of auy Christian precept, instead of addiog strength hasfonly weakeoed. ‘Tho whole idea of wdding to the effective rower aod uscfulness of Christianity by legialativo cn- actment of any kind proccods frotn false zeal, and 8, unwitiingly, o confession of weaknees. Yat many of fta sincero friends clamor for legal a1d and rocognition. 1f the Legisiature doos not reach out ita stroug arw, and Mhield thn Sabbath from desecration, and force the Ltiblo Into the schools, religion snd morality will_vapish from tho earth. ‘The guardian apirit of Christiany is suppoded to sitin tho lobby of every Legislaturo of tho country, woep- ing over tha denlorablo indifference of lecis- Iators to it4 appeais for ald sud comfort, Tho dicta of tho Vatican aro deuounced {n ono hreath a8 unmitigated tyranuy sod blssphemous as- sumptious, and, iu the next, the ssme Identical principle §s advocated on & limited scale. Chnutianity will nover be vigorous and pro- Rroeeive as it bas the ipheroot power to be uil 128 frionds cut complotely looss from all legal suppoit acd recogmtion. Like David, with the wenpons of Baul, it 15 faoblo ; with thouo of its own cheoning it can conquer all the- oppoeition of oarth and hail. My third polut I must dofer to another come munication. 1 shall hope, among other things. to ghow that the Sabbath was not, because em- braced in the decalogue, an eseontislly moral, bui a ceremonial procopt, and henco tha: it may bo or might bo abandoned witbout iu tho least interfering with tho esscotially moral precoptas. 1 hopoe 10 do moro thaa this, but this !h:slt. . UsES. WISCONSIN. ‘The Message of Gov. Ludington Takes Well=IZis Recommendntions for the Xcpeal of the Potter Law Lilkely to DBe Carricd O at—The New Legislature nnd the Stmf 1t Is Composcd of—i Govornor Whno Vetocd Fourteon Bl in Ouc Lny—Lohticnl, Spectal Correspanience of Tie Chizago Tribune, Map1soy, Jan. 20.—1It is one weok ago to-day since Gov. Hatrison Lualngton delivered his Inaugural mesago beforo the two Houses of the Legislaturo {n joint convention. 8o we bave Lad n whole week to discuss ita rocommonda- tions, to critleise its fanits, to prales ita goad points, and to lament its omtssions,—and in & weel's timo tho great Amorican pooplo in this fast ago can do & great deal of praising or growl- ing, or both. As a whole, the message hos givon vory genoral satiufartion 1o the moderate men of all parties, and, 88 the Governor sst tha good ex« ample of sticking exolusivcly to a disenssion of State nflairs, and esohewing natloual palitics, ho bas not aroused the partisan hosulity of moy- body. O course his bold recommondation of the REPEAL OF THE OBYOXIOUS FOTTEN LAW was a surprise to soma few politiciaus of both Barties, bat bo supplomentad that recommenda- tion with aoothar that is quite satislactor ', to~ wit: That tho Legislaturo do paes a bill pro- tecting tha poopla agalnst corporats extortions of overy kind, and granting speedy 1edcess for oll gricvances complained of, but not to deny tho right of railroads to esru a littlo money upon their invostments. As (his queation of rallroad interforence by the Legistatare is rozarded hers 88 tho most important one that is to engags the attention of members at this session, and as it is one that lss conelderably agitated tho Wiszonsin public for the past Lo years, ft {s eaey to meo that the Governor wa3 closely watehed, and his utterances upou the anbject wers regarded with great consideration, Tho Potter law was o piece of unwise legislation that waa coucooted by the politiciana of both parties with tha hops of CATCINING AXD RETAINING THE ORANGER YOTZ, sod was not such a law as tho farmers wanted, It iw true that, sinco its passagoe, somo of the Grangers have approved of it, aspecially that largo class of them who are small farmors, and ralno very littlo to sell or carry upon the roads, and nevor travol themuolves,—and #o the law ot the nams of *Grange legisfation " without (}ene&nng it or the Grapgers being responaible or it It is also true that * Farmer Taylor," who was Goveruor nhien the law was passed, and who mado more fuss than was nacessary in carcying tho Iaw into effect, was made tho candidate of the Grangers, to soms extent, by the indisoreet and undemocratlc action af Col. John Cocarane, wha was Grand Master of the organization dur- log the last State canvass, Cochirane concoived tho idea of making himselt and the Order foit at tho ballot-box, and #o he prepared a saries of questions that he roqueated his subordivato Masters to presens to all candidates far oftice, and requeat answers, o order that the (raugers might ** govorn themselvea accordingly,” which meant defeat it the eaid candidaie rofused to pive his adiesion to the presout railrosd legela'ion, Tueao quostions wore presented to Tuslor, who anawered them all to the entisfactiou of the Graugers, and his answers wero quietly made kaown to sl the lodges. But the gamo of the tiraud Mastor to decide in ai- vaoco and 1n the kecret lodge-room who should be Governor of & groat and populous State dud ot work ss successfully an Lie wizbed, and the man of hischolce was boaten, although all tha ucs on the ** Roform ™ tickos 4 reeult i takon as an ovie weio olocted. denco of TIE Q0OD BENSE OF THE FARMERS 10 pot sllowiug oue of their hoad men sud offi- cery to dictato to them in regaid to thoir polit~ ical action, and it (a also takon a8 an evidenco of returning reason upon tho rallroad gquestion. ‘Tho grievances of tuo ‘moplc of the \West in roforvnce to railrosd bulldiog sud masoagemeut sro mauy and bard to bo borne ; but, afcer two years of teisl with a cast-iron hw eatablishing charges beyond the power of anybady to altor or amend, our poopis are couviuved that it isan nopractibility, and will umte in asiing for ity repesl or ceseutial modification, Aud on thie subject tho new QGovernor eoomy to bu in accord with tho moderate and sensible men of Loth parties, and tho fact that tho prico of stock of Wisconstn rsil- rosds advanced iu New York as woon as tho wes- aage was road in & good owan for our new roads Htato thal b to borrow wmoney, Bowe of the politiciaps and personsl friands of the Govornor, tuwhom he submitted his wessnje be- fora 1ts delivery, advisad bim not to recowatend (Lo nbsoluta repeal of tho Potter law,~tloy b fug tho foar of the Granges bofuro thelr vy¢ but to reccmmend its ‘medyicativn. - * No, d biuff old Jiat, **Lam fu tavor of itu ropeal, sud 1 aia going 10 do 60.” And g0 e did, and THE BESULT OF A WEEK'S OLSERVATION has couvineod all that hisatralghtforward coarse was the best, The CGovernor's position ia both rouponsible and delicate. Ho is the only Re- publican State officer elected. and is the only representative of the pirty that olecied bim, and he munt stand and often ac¢t upon important E!Ihlm questions in o way that nill not al#ays e i accord with tho other Biate offiosts, ho ta resolute and firm, axd bia honesty is nnim- peachable. The snres: may safely bs pradicted. progress during the cl thls Hpring. budy of men, with the excaption of TI0 OR THONEE UNEASY DEMAGOGTER, who knaw no interest oxcepl thete cwn promo- It has eome able and experienced men on both sides, and it §s well offiernd. 1 tho Aesombly, ous i not very favoraly Imprerend with its amlity and oxuerience ns s Iasw-nuiitinr body of mon, The Yyoaker conld not find lawvers coough 4o make vp tion. diciary Committs able minion of Tur TRIBUSE. After tbo modification of tho railrond laws, tho noxt busineas thiat wilt absorb the attontion gislaturo witl be of the Lo; of Lis adminiatintion The Legin'atuts nas dons nest to nothing ex~ cept ot :anize and appoint the atanding commit- tees of the tvo Housen, pow, tbo friction yeiy considarable, and the quite siow at preseut, nlithough the mill will most llkely grind quito fast snough st dayn of tho semvion, everylbanv whn has any brisiness to bring bstore Legialatars to end it ou st once, Bud not delsy the final adjournmeut nntd lats in tha Personalts, tho Senate I8 sn averago ‘The machinery is atl Turning TRY, REDISTRICTING OF THE BTATE into Benate and Assombly Districts. closo as this bas become politically th a struggle on each side to got tbe'ndvantazo in redistricting, and the Governor, gavo tho Logis- Iataro somo verv wholssumo advice iu his mea- rago abont the duty of non-pactisan setion when ‘The rapid eottlemont of the porthern portion of . tho State, 83 shown by the consus taken lust voar wili render eotno great changes necossary in ordeér to keep down_the number of Scuators, which is fixed by tho Coustitution at thirty-three, number 0f Arsemblymen, which ia fixed nt100. Of course it is quite sppareot tbat in 8 Stat itcams to try fta'hand upon this srork. Azgombly 1e 50 nosrly equally divided now that no jujuntice is likely to bo practiced in tho read- Juatment of tho districes, and ths work will be fairly done, although involvieg cousiderablo paiostasiog aud lisrd labor, iiappily for the people of Wieconein, tho curas of TACAL AND BIECIAL LEOfSLATION has beon probibited by s Constitational amend- ment, 80 that a bill for sa act to change the namo of Antono IHopfeosperker to lierman Schleinioger cannot be futrodacsd and passed through all the stages of legislative development at tho oet cost of 81,000 Stato. Iaugasge. of every seaeion, 18 8 if, indeed, Once upon s timo, POLITICAL. Tho recent doba’o in Congrees on the Amoesty bill has baen tho subject of much commout hero among men of il ahades of polisicat belief, and different opinfons are oxpressad, but tho Repub- licans are woll satisfied with the result. rded great credit for the akill, ability, and patniotism that bo displaved on thst occzsion, &nd he hes gono with a bonud to the froot rank, 2 he did pot stand thers b Undoubtsdly, Blaine drow ous of Hill and his other unropontaat oollosgues the trua feolini of tho South towards the North, and ir Bill had spoken befors our last Etato election the Ropnblicans woold have carriad Wisconsio bv 10,000 majority. The simple truth is, wa have nat beon shaiting baods across the bloody chasin with auy sincerity, and tha sooner we under- stand oach other the better. boaten in the Prosidentie! election of 1875 as it was in 1800, they would promptly as they did in -’60 if they bad t #icews of war and resources 8a thoy had then, appoal o ar to the peoplo of tho Dut this does not cure the evil of hasty legielation ; and against that crying sin, also, the sturdy Governor warned bia bearers in emphatic Haviog bad oceasion to look al tho work of the last Legislature, I waa surprised to find that about one-half of tho laws comprisin, the published acts of that session were approve: by tise Governor in ono day, sud they stand uoon tho statute-book pearing oue date. ernor is sunposed A8 the Gov- to rsea an act bofora bo attaches his oficial signstura to it, Farmer Taylor must have nad & very busy timo of it ou the last day of the soasion, the late Gov, Randall sont fourtean veto mes. eazes o tue benatsin one day, aod his excuso was that it was safer and essier to veto a bill than to read and eigo it whona man wasinu great hinrry, and his exampis ia worthy of imita- tion, especially during the last four or fve days If the South i3 the Ju- e, and both riles lack lorder. ship on the ficor to a degres that ta abeolutely painful to an old lsgwsintor to contsmplate. coming {resh from tha people is suy bousilt in thie busincen of legiviation, or in pressrving the fotagrily of rapublican institutions, tnen tho preaent Aseembly wil bo a blessing 1o the Stats, —{or thero sro no old backs among them, sayiog this I do not wish 10 be understood :as underrating their goneral intelligence, bt am roferring molely to thieir munifest deficiency in a legislative nud parliamentsry eonse, senxion shail ovoive xuy goo!l degree of fo- cipient statesmausbip, or il thers i5 wanlfastod any epecial adaptation to ths businnss befora them, then tha survival of the fittest muet be doly and impartisily cbrovicled in the imperish- 1t the na fbe Dlalos afore. NOTI0E. A CAR tho Chicago papors, as follows: WEIGHTMAN & COMPANY, (Formerly Powers & Weightman,) Dl Prruaprnrmu, Jan. 18, 1876, We ara unable to scoount for the appears anceof our nawe in a card introduced into an artiole rocently publishoed in seversl of Manufacturing Chemists, PHILADELPHIA, Now, our business wos established in 1818, by Farr & Kunzi, and ths proscnt mombers of tho firm of Powors & Woightman have boon connected in businoss for thirty-eight years, first with tho late Mr. John F'arr as Jobn Farr & Co., then as Farr, Powers & ‘Welghtman, aud since ths first of Junuary, 1848, as at prosent, Powars & Weightman. No ons of either of our names haa lefu our flrm. Moreover, we have carefally avoided bofng dealers in Alcohol. We use largoquantitios, but are purchasers only. 1t is somo years, too, sinco we bought any of the articlo in Ohicago. What wa general- 1y uso is of Philadelphia make. “Yours, very respectfully, POWERS & WEIGHTMAN. NEW, SUGCESSEU PUBLICATIONS. L IS BOOKS, Gotze's Schoot for Parlor Organ! 1t f8 already In the bands of 50,010 lesrners snd play- s, and deverved this aud groater suc ncluding nearly 30 sgroeable Pleces, a dozen Bongs, sud 23 aliort Volunts ers on Reed Urguos ocess, Coutains 13 taries, $2.50, Qentennial Coll, for Ol Fol Bhining River. Ti E Rraded leasout @' Concerts. New, {0 lio mext book for your Babbath s Hchool, §5¢, Bollak's Analytical Method FOR PIANOFORTE. As the very first instruction book (for the first thres [if) Hisuo), notbi lecoa, nicel inge: an Sronilye wiih. the dryces Aud dradgery of ¥ quarter. 1n Papst, TS0, High Bohool Choir. $1.00. montbs on easy could be better. ., TDoes grade For Ligh Behools, Academics, Seaunarics, Gems of EnEI—ish Song, A largs, elej Pluno or Ree Bheet Musio aize, Orgau_ sacompaniinent, 50 n Boards; nb collection of Cholos Soflgl. with o8, 22 3 400 In NDIE:I “All books malled, post-{res, for retall price, LYON & HEALY, Chicago. OLIVER DITSON & CO,, Boston, 3. B, DITSON & CO., Buccessors to Lee k Walker, ¢, I1, DITSON 11 Lrosdway, Now York, 500007 tucuibly proby : CO., oy rious bankers Phlladelphia. tated to B _AMUSEMENTS. TARWELL HALL. ANOTHER COURSE OF LARESIDE ENTERTATNNENTS FOUR GRAND 'CONOERTS, Richings-Bernard Company, Camilla-Urso Company, Mendelssohn Quintétte, PhiTharmonic Club, iy liited sumber of Gonrea Tickets, admitiing ta Cone-ris, a0 TeA Aents, ONEDOLIAT AND FIPTY DENTS | gall Bawts In {mot row of bieony Three Dollars, ‘To protact the public from ticket apeculators, all sests purchaserl by sy one person mual Eamo nastion, Y b QR Tho talent is of the highet order, and the price W fgures the lowent aver offercd, The namee and the s1.eak for themenlven, Tiekets for vals at Farewell Mall uriiay of tom waek. -OMes hpen st 0 3 me) i B EXPOSITION BUILDING, NATIONAL EXHIBITION oF POULTRY, PIGEONS; RABBITS, ANDCATS. o one ahonld fai 4 Tt Bk 10 sen this unparetielnd tollection OPEN. TO-DAY, From 0a. m. uatil 10 p. m, Admisston this we:k, 35 cents: Children, 10 centa, HOOLEY'S THEATRE, LAST AFPEARANCE OF THE RELLOGR GRAND ENGLISH OPERA 38, Director. LAST GRAND MATINZE TO-DAY. Tast performance of Flotow's . MARTHA. Last appearance of MiS3 KELLOGG, Mrs. Sequia, Begnin, 100 Joreph Maza, “““‘“""iu»‘:‘&ufi“ COMMENCES AT 12:%0, Doors open at 11:63, This evening, commmencing at 8, Dalfe's BOHEMIAN GIRL. Laet appearance of Mme. Van Zsndt. 3tem, Behuln, v, Hamilton, Ar, Seguin, nd Wm., Castio In the cast. ADELPHI THEATRE, EVERY NIGHT AND MATINEES! A Glorious Star Olio And Den Thompson s Josh Whitcomb! # Wo adviee 1adies not to patranize the Adulphi whils 1he present bill remaios unchanged. The play which concludes tho performance is unfit to be given in any dacent thoatre, Policemen sts tha only members of soclety who should hesr it, and they shoold nat heas ‘more than nnce.”—Tribnne, Jan, 20, "5, A CLEVER PIECE OF BATIRE, TRULY! ED™ Come ond see Josh \Whileomb, everybedy. Bpa cial performance Sundsy night. T WVICKER'S THEATRE. LAST TIME. LAST TIMA Matines at half-past1, HENRY V. SATURDAY NIGBT—HENRY V. LAST TIMB. LAST TIMME. Monaay—MINNIE PALMER in LAUGHING EVES 00L. WO00D'S MUSEUM, PO-CA-HON-TAS BONDAY, NEW CHICAGO THEATRE, : DON'T FORGFT THE MATINEE. ST SLOCTNM THIS AFTERNOON. 23and 50 cenln, _Evening as usual, EXPOSITION SKATING PARK, Grand Potatos Race To-Night. Also Eshilition and Burlesque Hikating by Eugene Prait and Fron Crocker, Champion Carnival 8katars, ¥all Band of Musioc Evory Night. Tg‘r;;‘h}ay Ervening, Jan. 33, thers will bs & GBAND NT, Reguiar prices of admission, 23 ceats; chlldron ua« der 13, 18 ceats, WEST SIDE SEATING RINK, Open Afternoon and Evening. This Saturday evening, Mr, G, A. BLOGM, Champlow Comio Bkater of Americs, will appoar 1n his special tes. Don’t fall to es his band-epring. Full Bana of Moste, SUNDAY LECTURE SOCIETY. EOIN. WM. BROSS. *“What I Remember of Early Chicage” McCormick™ Hall, Bunday Afternoon, Jan, 33 Doors open a4 3, closo st 3 Admiaion, 1 conta. Tickels for eals st the door and at Jansan, McClusg & Oolw, Hall bighicd ana warmed., n Side 81 n to and {rom the lecture. TIRM CHANGES. Tho partnersbip Leratofore oxtating under the styls and nams of Michel Cohen & Co., has this éay bosa dissolvst Ly il councat, Micbel Goben peyiog all linbilitics, atd collocting &1l ouleianding debls dus the tato tirm. MICUAEL COHEN & 00, Chicago, Jan. 10, 1876 NOTICE, “The undersigaed will contiaue u the Wholesals Nou tion Dusines sad Agency of the * Uall & Mausio Standard pow Cuitow ™ A full supply of 4ll goods kaps i this line wiil always L found al the old o Retaruiog thanks for pat patrousge, IEN, 124 Sonth Frauklin-at., near Madiaon, PROPOSALS, TROPOSALS FOR MEDICAL SUPPLIES. Propoesls for furnishing Medieal Suppliea for Seven Marine Hospitals Tor one year will bu fecelyed as ths Otfien of tho Buj Burgcon-General of tha Murine-Hoepital Hervice, Wasliugion, D. G, up to 12 o'clock, noon, of Jan, 30, 1870, bobedule of asticles aid estinisted quantitica required will be furalabed on npfllln-tlon ta the above addresa, ¥ diruction of ths Becratary of the 'tnung. NG, M, WOUDWOKRTH, Supervining Surgeon-Ganeral N, B.~The lime up to which Proposals will be re- ceived is heseby extonded to Jun. 2, 1818, by dizrection of the Hecretary of {lie Tressury, JNO., M, WOODWORTH, Bujiervising Surgeon-Oenor: “MACHINERY. cnu:cnemnucgmflng.ngmmwmss. LOW PRESSURE STEAM AND HOT WATER, Dy Wb latest aud most offective methods; Reglaters ot lowest prices, Hadiators, Cols, Fitunge, Fumps, &a ORANE, BREED & CO., 633-115 Weat Eightb-st, Cinalnpati, O i EDUOATIONAL, . .. I ALLEN'S ACADEMY, Nou, 144 a1 140 Twenty-sacond-st., nest Micuigau-av, i t aogant Aud (horoughly equipped boys' Bcliool o Uniied Blates, Vrepares for Harvaid, Yale, Priucelon, or_avy University, or for Bplendid Prizary Department for Ullla Lo term comniences Jan. 34; » good time (0F ta sniet. 18A W, ALLEN LL D, S0ALES, ralnOANKE' STANDARD OF ALL KIND& PAIRBANKS, MORSE & 00, P 114138 LaboSe, Chicagan ; * Becarsfultobuyoaly the Gesrin