Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1876, Page 12

\ 1 ] 1 { 1 ' i i FHE CHICAGO “TRIDUNE! SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5, 1876—tWRIVE PAGES. . RELIGIOUS. the Bunday-School Lesson ' fof TosNbrrow. v ‘76fi§{dthion of the History of David and Saul, bonnection Between Infldelity " afid the Relgn of ‘Heffol. The Ohaldéan Account of the Crea- tion of the World, Reslitt 6r Ieeent Assyricn fe- . searches. HACL AND DAY = . 1, kam., zai. lo zxo.—After taking an affec- tonate leave of his friends, David went to Nob. » rurdl distelet dud, & viilago of prieats. Ifo sarnestly wished tobe boyond old Sanl's reach ind (nfinence, . Nob ws a city in the land of the Philiatines, who sympathized with David, and sonaldersd Saul & common fos. Thoy had be- tomé véty hungry. David called for the purposd »t obtaliilng food, and (elt compelled to décolva fho old pricat, aegood A menss he was, and fo lecelva him, too, on ths ground that a lis would 1avo his life. Afier dulv consuitlng this draclé; %hlnmlécn gas0 bim and his men gotn, Bhew- SUNDAY-SCHOOL l’.ESSbN. D. road, which had beén proserved for tho pricats 6. A A = lora ro-1ded Ahimelech, the High-Priest, who caivod tho sors of Jeaso very k{udly, aud gave Uim thono mnnrke, of reapoct ‘that bis rank and teuown dumshded, 1o, however, was very sus- B(cluus that sowe misclnel was browing, becauao u'l«l and Lis men bad been lurking sbout Nob tor deveral dave,—bad hid tlieranlvea fu caves, ncpareutly for the pngflm‘: of eluding purntit. It #o happenod thst Doeg, Saul's chiol whei- Lerd, wos detaluod at tho tabsrnscle. and whaa David saw Lim ho was alaramed. and made wli haato to ledve Nob, and, lot Doeg slonld at- tack bun, arreat him, and lead bim to the old King, bo asked Ahiolech for s sword by whick ho could defend pimwal. So the _ kind i ave lim (e vory sword Dayid ad_tsken from OQoliath, It bid béco #rerediy kopt in tho teberoaclo ovor mince the famons exploit of David with tbo giant, e wna ovorjoed when. hu agsin waw this weapon, by whicli ho Lied obtanad 80 much fame and giory, s? boswd: **Qiveit me, for thare Is pone like{t. It1sa plous momosiat of vletury over that prond blasphemer, shoss life I took by a hittle stono I picked from the Lrook In, that delightful sud memorable Valloy of Lieis iah” David_felt that it was & plodge of Divipe faver: that God was 1o b and woutd dofend him gdinat all bin cuemics, e, probabl -, bdd not geou ILeineo he had it deposited by the High-Priost v the taberoacie, soou after ho wun that fair daugliter of the King of Israel and saved hiy throua and his people. 9 David girded 1t on, took grateful leavh of Atiitnelesls, st bnstomed with ali wpoed to Gub. The peoplo knew hiw. Thoy had woL forgotten thet he was the wstripling who Jalied their chsinpton, and whom the wouien in thérr sougs of gratitule md rejoiciug praisod. Andthen ho foarod Aok » Kiug of Gath, Su he pretondad to Lo inaeno, ind icved ho was mo, sud or- en away, aud pot sitowed 0 insult himeeif by coanng “iuty Lis proasnce. Diavid, right glad fo get away from Doeg and the peo;.0 he vuce rouled, haaianed to the caves of Adaliau, situated 1 tho Lestitory of his own tribe of Judab. ‘Chesw caves are veiy lareo, nnd lodated st thu baso of the Juues Moane tand, vu tho borde:s uf the Philwiue plaive, 6 miles sorllinest from Joradatom. o - Old daul bad jutendod to punirh Jeshe's tam- By, Lnt David sent for them, leet the Kicy in uis malice and rage should swite them., Thoy woou reaclied theso bidimug viaces. David, hows ever, did nob frel safe oven bore, Bo L wuonly went ta hizoeh, or the Fort of Moxb, . Jlere he, 14 men, sudbne fam.ly were insly 1occived. 1he Muabitos bated Saul, avd feit proud to re- ceve w0 illuktrious a man s« David. DBesides, titir Knig was & uot d.einat_rolative of i trum whoin slso doeso descendod. DN Gud, through tho piuphet Gad, commanded David lu teturn to oo land of Judal, to leave tho fort und go Lo tho furest of Havoty, so that Lo might appeat pubicly ainoug his uwn tubo, ai if Lo r‘un covs:lung of lun.conce, aud biad ontire trunt I 1lie protoctivn of Jehotub, : y Saul was Lv.sg ubder 4 grove on 4 hill, ad Uneutal Princes nowadays sit slth their coart nnder some shady cauopy. ifers he addresspd the men of Lia tike, the Loujsmindes, sng gdid ¢+ * Cin David do'vou any good 7 Why eon- ypte apainst wo? Wby have yon nct tald wo that my o 18 10 loague with the Fon of Jegao?” Mo even tinted cbut David bad ovil ded.goa Lo warus thom. Lasiu's roturn to Judah with 100 wen roused tho o.d King's Jealousy, .and some otber circumsrancen wmads him Lohoyo 1hat Jouidthou was piivy to a cunspiracy azainat the crown. Then Doog rol.lled: *1"saw David al Nob at the liome of Ahimelech, who inquired of the Lord for Damd, and then gave bim fond,— ovan ballowed bread, and gave bun the sword of Golinth, for 1o had o uword wiih which to de- fend himiolf or Litw ton,” Thon Saul went for Abimoléch atd tils fatnily, and for all tho pricets twellivigin Nob. They afl cxme to the King, wbo Inquired of the High-Prient : * Why did vou 1ve (o tho son of Jeese bread and a sword ? by did'st thou inguire of God for him 2" ‘Iho prest replied: * Davig, thy von-inlaw, g fditbfu), and obedlent, and tonotablo, T waanot aware of this troubls In your fsmily. Do not impute any evil intent to mo or 16 mo.” The old King roplied firecely and kaid 3 ** Ahimelech, you treacherous old mfin Priest, you and your family shiall warely dle. Budy-guards, massacro those priosts, who navo sympathized with David and would not g0 to my Intorcats.” But old Baul's Lody-guards would not oboy this cruol and maliclons order. Then tho old King Iii s rage and passion or- dered Docg to slay thom, ud he did elay thoui, pighty-fivo pricste, who bad nover lujured tho turoné, Then tho cjd tyrant ordbred thus City of Nob, ahd ail its meui women, cbildren, wucklinge, oxeii, adsos, and sheop, to ba destrov- 8, Abiathar, son of Animolecl, slono ea- saped, and ho fled, to David and jold him ghat Baul had destroyed Nob, sed all \‘l:o priostd, mou, women, and ohildren, sud all e cattle, avses, dud uhcuP. David replied, I know. when Isaw Doog i the taboruacls and sbacryed what Abimelech wis doing for me aud iy meis, that ho would toll the old King. 8o Ism guilty of thia disistor to your family and. to the tity of Nob. But, Abiathar, stay with me. Foar oot ; Haul sooks my life 0o [sed thian yours ; ktay nh? me, and you will bo safo, You imay.bs stio Ihiat Yoo ls an Ambitibus, juttigulng, walieldus, sud obsoquious dog." A Divid heard that tho Philfatinos had robbed the tlireshiug floors in Kailab, ‘Thesa thresbiug flooks wofa in tha flelds, open (o tho wiudy, so he quired through Gad, who was theh 1h David'a camp, iflc was Liis auty toattack s public saemy without baviog Divine suthority. Gad told him to rout tho mgwiessora, By o siguol victory, ha delivered the peonlo of Neilsh from forther wiolostation, Haul soon heard that Davia was in Koilab, snd folt sure that he could now secure his, sou-ju-law. He .evou aftirnied that God had delivered bim into his biands—that the city bad gatod dud bars, 1o had forjsotted, howsver, that David had ovér found a way of escaping from s snares. Haul sesomnbled his men-of-war to beseigo Daxid xnd tho city. David kue: hat plaus were Iald to arrest him. Ho was anxious to Xknow tho result, s0 Lo juquired of the Lord if Baul . would come, mud if the people of Keilal would dehiver bi snd bis men into Saul's haudw, The Lotd repiled. ** Tuny will come and take thes unless you do duty. Licso rosponsed were yuwelcome, Btill David hiad a will, sud Lo soen found & way, He aud his 60U meu started st onca and caucesled thomselves where tlie sould. Dayid feund » hidiug-place fa the wil. fernoss of Ziph, & mooulsiuous and sequesiered regiou, £ mites frow ilebrou, formerly dousely tovored with a rich foliago of forest trecs, whoso leaves wore as thick as those ol Vallombrosa, 1n some way—perbaps God fupressed hiv mind —Jousiban diccovered bis friand's retrentin a .tave, whose eutrance was anud the thick follago Hsveil, sud strongthened Lis tiuat in God. " Fear not," sald the King's wou. ** My futhor eaunos fiud you. God A nighty bléss snd keep you. You sbiall bo the sccoud "Kivg of feruor, #ud I stiall bo next uuto thee. ‘This my fatler, the King. kouws rigut well.” Jons nav rewinds wis friend of their mutua coveuant, and of the ).)ans 8.4 promises of tho Great Jehovsh, Now and Lere Jonathau's pu:eq 850 uoly love manifeuted fis depibin. He wought Al weesview fu s requesicied witlh. Guit's beauty and - suulinul voble nettiueuts tegarding the Diviue will, Lavid, bo wus uweotly bouud by goluen throads W ©of 1.5 and by holv (lrflnlb'l- Forgotling him: erlf and hix childran, by londs David and e fanlly with sl the honosa, eaolimants, aul splondora of the C.ourt of aract, The whole world admires 80 tino and no dee~ n lova, Junathan weni bomo—Ensid remalned ab his cave anid the boaatiful foreat shades of Hareth, -— INFIDELITY AND THE “REICN OF TER- ROR" 5 WETE THEY CONNECTED ? Ta the Eiditor of 77 Chicum 13tbune: o Kroxus, T, Feb. 2.~Thore 1 ho todtate of Lho prescot age more remarkablo than ¢ spread of what {a called ** uabeliof." Al over the Cootinent of Enrope, aud throughout overy part of the roading hud thinking portions of this country, wo flud {his samo * uabolier.” 1u as- sumes svery sliape, from wmodaiu diseent to nitra ekbpticiam. In overy f.rm, howaver, it ia braud- ed s ** mtdelity * by thodo avleast who ipdorss tho accopted theology. . Now, 1 tha ** Tluigh of Touor™ in the Fronch Ruvolution swas, tho fomitimnze and mevitrbio oidasng ol * uifidell- v, thewfdality whiel provails, and i rapdly apreaulog fu America. may have a very Impor- taas Loariug upon the fuaiie of qar clvil hisitn. tious. It is tha daty of oveiy erazen, ihereioro, to Gud out s well @8 ho cau the naturs of this inlidelity sopelied, aud its uecessary rowulie Forif itcanbe pioved o bo ueccssimly du- birnctive 43 hiberty, sud life, aud propor}y. to Lo ausrehusal In spirit aud purgose, tho dusi of cons troiliug it LY Iaw, it poisible, il be ¢ ea ‘The oxtetonco of w adical skapconm amonest mon of lotlors. aclentiald, aud politicians, a8 el a8 among tho Mies of tho pooblo in P'aris bofuro tha Froneh levotunon, 1o 010 willYjhes. tion.. Tus Jiouts of this wrdicle will nos, permit o, o attempt any uotiil of tho growtliuf thid uiapticiam., But ib aiose, na pisepiiciam i atie: fug tw-aay, through tho emancijativiy of tio fu- twilaot ¢ through the aclivits of muu.zutillhmugh relellion Bgatat spiritual ArFogauco; ub mwo enpocixlly -lrough scieniiic physical lovestiga. bond. Tust two widé-spresd skopiicism fn Frapco bad notung shataver to do e th tho Fropch Jiovoiution ot the **Relpy of Torror,” it is k0t our purposo to deny. 1t W04 Ao amonges iRaUY. CAUSDS which wore 1o opeiation ot toac epoch. But how much, or wlint parscuisr fuatiLte, of thit great anoshs, 10 dua to skepticam alone it W lmfiuunlb\p to tall, i n great wocint couyuleton like thit, the wmov. ing furces a1e 80 compites:ad, 8o blouded, nnd w0 varions, that the scauent diserimiuation is pocded tosoparato thode forces and doalzuato thoir logilimato activn., ‘3 Tho feiga of Lerior,"! aays tho Bucyoopedia, Anaricaus,, * shiows & moro geucral (ronzy thsu any othor pertod of Iystary,- Onp of the walo causes of this gigauife madioess must Lo _woypht for 1o the disvigsuization of political society n sll _its braucbes, ~which | begid with Louis XIV,, sud frghttully xn,:r-mm] dur- ing tho reigua of his Buccessord. . {un nsoribiug of the misuhief to, the wrings of the philoso- pliors, no-catlea (o wiidolity}, shows un lznor. aoco of the vaturs .of man aud of wocie.y. Well tina tuus wricer dosiguated this foirful uuts arabof human passion & ** genoral fronzy dud a ** gigaotic maauces.” It waa this, aud gothing less. Noitho: oge, nor BOX, Nof rauk p.nlin sjared. Priewws, nuns, mouks, ndbiluy, rick, poor, old, aud youug, were uwaps alike Gofors the stoin of demou-liko passtous, Peu cannil doscribe the scones. . P S But to traco tus flery utbnrat of ¢ s dark ned fend-hio ju, homeo oatufe—tuis girantie politicsl maduess—to mers E.w- auvoljel, mero laak of fash 10 God, aud Chriat sud tmulortaiizy, the Coucch aud rovelation, is nexcusnbla ignoranco of tha relatioy of causcd dud cffects, Lf tue biatory of society, however, Bad slways rovouled o us she tonguocy of sheptiemul to cun inw not sud bloodsbed, we mignt be wwrsntea pothaps in cowlug to tho couclusion Lust . this _icign of terrar wag tho Jeatinife | frmt of unlehof. Lut wo have no such evidence, from tha gou- wral hiatory,of vociety cithor i Envops ot Auer: ica. Wo bave no such evidencs in tho lives of leadiug ekeplices, phiivsoplical or scienttle, in the p:ast Ot t13 prosent. Wo havo 1o Bucy evi- doucs iu the ctbics (if any) to bs deduced fiom Miiojtivism. Tie avidonca 1s ta tha contrury of this. 5 - But wo have svidence, both historical and dox- matie (s0-called), that urgevized religion wi indesctiouble &itvditios, has crusbed out two great civiizations, 010 30 tho Last and tho uther 11 tho Wost,—une iv Spain and snothor in dMoal- co #nd Partt,—and that 10 dong this o extol- winsted more than 15,000,000 htan boingy, se- cord:ng to Bisbop Chiapa, . Wa have endeuca that an Iuquusitivn was systow- aticaily orgsnized, . aod thse .from 1341 to Lwd puotdloss than 310,000 hajdines por- wons hed bean ptwshed, aud 34000 of those Lurnt alive, nills, all the clroutautaiwen and fu- ventions of apparout maligoicy and bato and atrecious oruolty, aud sl thia for wo o'hsr ctime than—opiunion, We bave oiadence that o.uanized roliglon butcbered and crusved the A'bizenses sud Waldeuses 5 that it hos lad its St Lartholomews; ite #yulomatic j.oroecutions the Jows; 1te gigantié Armadas; its fosrful (8 10 the Netieriands; its ' Thiity Yoars War" o Uovauany, Aod w0 bave ovideics, too,~tho cicarest,—thac all this camo legitimatoly fzow the doctrines be'iovad. It wan u0 **trenzy,” uo ** glgantic maduese.” It wes all dutiberato, systematic, épringiog (rom » #up. 0 of daty, 1t nas zoal for suuls, devotion to truth aud rizhtovusaoss aod the Church. And wo have avidoeuce too in abusdauce, s furnishied by Leckey, aud Buckle, aod Draper, and others, that [a:ionatism or Bropticlsm Lias beon oue of 1ho wost potent social aud iatellectanl fozces in the worid to modiry and ultimataly to destroy this orgauized roliglous intolerauce, thias woist of all cursew and ouemies of the buman race. Buppote, thon, it should be adwittod that in- fidouty was responsiblo fur the **Iteign of Ter- vor," wonld tha argument be conclusive, from tins singlo Iuatance, that it was ncceasarily tho onomy of ojdor aud good governmeot, of *'lify, liberty. and the pursuit of happmnesaz" Whas, then, I ask, must be tha forcoof the argumont against organized religion? Ita doads of blood and hotror covor wholo ocontinente and strerch torough wholo conturics. It defonded theso deeds of blood, too, by Beripture and logicat reasoning frown kl,ducl.mm. Whether infidelity, so-called, ba true or false, is another question, with no relovancy to the presont point. am oonsidering it a8 8 past of our social organism. The ques- tion is, whother infidelity 18 daugerous, Has it inherent clomeuts ot disorder, destruction, and bloodshed ? Dooa history prove it to be an onemy to civilization sod good morala? Cor- tain clasacs of thinkers, especially olergymen, answer iu the allrmacive, and point in triumph to the Iteign of Terror. My presout purposo 18 not to show, 8a we can, that infldolity was not tho_prime ‘moving causo of that * gigantio madnoss,” but thpt this sword, used against unbelisf, {8 two-edged, sud can be mads a thousand-fold more fatal to Christianity than infldelicy, X sbould suppose that any. wan of ordinary clear perception ,would ace this, and would blush (o use an argument agsiust auoth- or's plitlcaophy which ia {ufinitely more deatruc- tivo to his own, R. IlassaLr. gy GENESIS. A CHALDEAN ACCOUNT OF TRE CHEATION, The Interest in the late Egyptian dlscoverios awakened by Bayard Taylor's lecture lase Bun- ddy may woll be supplemeuted by tho following story of tho early ages of tho world, taken from lately deciphored Assyrisn tablets, Tho foltowliig condensation of the haok of the trans- Iations is taken from tho Bt, Louis Globe- Demo- crat: When tha French savann who accompanted Napoleon Bonsparts ou bis Egypllan expedition stood tn tho ¥hadow of tha ghant ulelisgues, and looked up ot the fnseriptious with wblch they wero covered, they sald ¢ C. docfl:bu thicse, wo would prove the Lible a elr day thia meaniog of many of (hoso fuscriptions g beeu defniwely waceriained, aud in- stedd of ahakipg nieu’s falth tn the besutiful legends ment, they furnish mauy minue and ul\il fow ‘woluts of corroborativu ta thelr teuth, Lul though tho obscurity of many parts of the WLl Fequires evidenca from without tu arder tu make clear $he levagns 1t wonld convey, very litsle of that outelde testimoyy has come frons Pgypt, That land of mysti- clam Lta Turnivhed muoh food for thought aud dis- cussfon, but ouly s_amall portiou of ita remains huve alied avy light on the Listory of the Bible. Far dlffercnt lias beei the Lestimony, brought tram Assyriau sources, In thor earider LiMtory tho Asey fany, Babylunians, and Jows wers mearly connocls aud, pa wight bo espectod, considerable stmila; exivta hetween (ha legenda of all three nations, Her totore the Wiblical loge cloacly allieid o thosu of Awsyria aud Babylon, have beei allowed to ulaud upou shelr owu erediBiiity, wilhout tho saistanco of exirancons testhiocuy, In latter years the discovery of jmportant lilerary remntus in hp rulus of Nineveh, Babyion, and other cities bl tho #atie diatrict of country, has eaured cousideratlo ute tentlon to bo directed to tho information thees records, i deciphiered, miglt Yo slio o render as tu Ui parly p2es o1 thio world, Howe time g0 (ho Lou- dolt Leiegray h uent Georyo Binsth, of tho Dijth 3u- ae 1, tu (s Eoal, Lo nzKe a colloction of the tablels (heas reconds wera dnscrived, e did 10, carclul eacavalinn, becured many thousands, let hilirsry of ancleul lore., The cav tablete s hie pablishad 1 a vol- e Cuahd B Account of Geneals,” £y 1 tie Avelaun were kept by imures- sicna on that cuntntaee, clay. Tho alngular cueiform Iitere Wore impressed on (kin plates o rugnd yhudas of Ly, these wore thes Gd Lo the su to dry, end Lus 1§ b ked fo un oven 0 ba them, 1 one fonsed a volume, und was divided inte ¢aluiuus and Jegulr hines. AB, of rour-e, WAty subje.ts custd o ob U edlia ed u onw volume, thero Yera e endil 1 several of the sawie work: In one case fragwents of su bundred volunes wore found, .- viorke bad Tegular Utles, the whola sarles takiug 118 narib from (ho Dfét foor worda of the fAirat volitme, Al the enid of tach AL b & worles excent the L, & catehword wan aed (b thé spirs of Whiat ottt mizut not be Lroken, ‘Thouph doubitioss these Libieta © had be nareanged ot regalatly snd ayston d-ally in tha Hbrary of the Assyriau Kings, yet, waen fo.nd, very few of them rem 1ned entira, oF evén In mecen of any coufdorsbin aiza, Though ine larg:at tablets ‘rare scatcely mora than & fow inches squate, many of them had been broken fu Ofty o aixty picces, aud had 10 be arranged and fitfad together with the utmost ber Interpretition wis poesiblo: - . Many eanece hid coniributed Tho mound of Rouyiiniik, where they wore di coters (ho ruins of (& Royal Adsyrlan palace, wh {ho lbrary was kept. Tho palace.was buruod ages ayo. and 11 14 Aipiosed that the upper etaricy veia uf wood, and that thn Mbrary was contained in sonie of 1ho upper roome, Upon th deetruction of tha palcs by fire, this part fell in and unarly all tho tablets were anatlorsd to fragmonts by the con~ussion, Ience Aifferaut plevea of tlie svine tadiet are ofien found In chudilérk which have o connection whitover with ench,athes, Afier the fire,. thp aatih and delitia wero Turnéd over ret catedly by pers ms In abared of" valua. Ulew, a4 the racord-tabiets and cylinder botame still more broken sl scattazed, AL {0 adit i tho eine arrssament of thoso who wished ty de lpber theie fiyseriptions, the ciy pistid wive firthee dnjured by ihe Achon of v.ater Foaking through the ot Loporing Impreanated Witk miuarais, £ v yrystals oves nd aronm.l b crarka of the tablzes,this \eh tening Tne intaraices and teidering thn labor uf K-ntifym ¢4 | pirticulac scrap exceediugly uucertoin of ang denuite resulty Notitibatanling afl tho dmcoursgoriénts whieh Dewet his path §0 the endeavor to aacei Lun tha mewn- tog of tle inveriptions ou thovo tavlets, Mr, Suita eroover , aud. after many maaths of inesyiant (ol 1 nreaughti fome 0,000 fragments, b fnly wue- ceadel an decipbering enoaghs of iberr cnutrnta to Tound & rossonabl. conjectre v tn tho “Tue in o riptiona pireads transdit sl aliow th: besn ou fuite o vailety of enbjurts, Thero wers mytholo sical t\blets, Inchudlog lists of the go.ta anil Minle ruiifesta'fous wnd ditles, Tiiere wero gram- ‘matizal works, liets of words aud stplamatione, in fict, completa_dictionaries, mathom.tieal, works, calculas tionw, tables, cuboaud sguire roots and sets, and rilvs Of iewstires, Astronoms w s uot neglectol, nos %sq watrolopy ndr omons, Legends and short historical fu. tons fouud 3 promiuent nlice. abd historical ind+ra, from tho auperior siyly of ther workwap. appaared 1o bo cousidervd of cansidersble fin- partanes, Thesn tablets werd by 10. maans Nl of the kams dats, On tho eontriry, from tue baat in fizastons tinat vun Do gathered, they repreent tun whofo blatory of the 11na and eonsumtostion of Assyrion litoratare, snd erabrace & period of muro {han U0 yeors, 1454 thongut thak thov begin their cocords atoiit 2,033 years 1. 0., and coallaue tham untilsonia time beiweon the Tourieentt and fiftoantls cantury bafuea Carlat. Tats, apeakiug ronghly, vytichropizes wills the pertod fro.n Abrahani to, Moses, according to the ordinary cbro- nulogy of out Bivlew, and the Asryrian legends of this timo ate Ininor: Mt b alawlug LA Thars exlated, at a of Lo Wurld, duTeraut mets of legen cerning Lho ceexid 1. hom of whlsh hore ng siaall re- semblaiic to thoss of tue Jews, ™ 1t fn w grost piry that tho tablea rontiaing thess legends have loen sa mutilat.d: but taere sce ioaos Luat fubiire Inveatige- tion may roveal un! riken seis of tablets and eslidders, from winich the perfect legands m8y vo copled. The tubject mattor of the bistarl o-dexen tab. Istn 18 very varicd, .8mith sys L1t an esaminiton Ao suows that they contain all tin substanzy of tho Qpmt Fow chiaplors of Gaiseaie, and w grow,dsal mory, Anlav g ho could do.fplir thom, they consiuted ot o i Youg arcount of e origin of tha worid, ths creatloy Gt nnimals st ma, (ko fall of fen from a &i0lenk itate, nad u conttict Leotweld the gds dnd the powers of oviL,” Thera were, noparently, saveral editions of tho work, clucld-tiog tha creation, sinse the rame wmatter was fonnd i difersut—sized plates and cytin- dern, Bywldgs his craation lejead, thora wern logan.is f tho seven cvil aplzdin; o vy of llmn!a«‘eni of thy @:dilena Tahibur into Tadek and her retnru, N & lis Hond of the zad 4u, who inaulted Ein, tho fatlier of tho gods. Culientlons of tabieth uiving tho explaits uf Lubars, the god of pioatd‘enco, wers fouud, an, Alag, were thoso con‘alniug tho legaird of . tho god Saturda, who burnod a0to » bird, the siory of tho wiss muan who pak forth & nddia 10 the gods, a Brh of Oroutil i, file fegend of tho good mau Ataep), ind the wikelnses of tho world, a legeud of tho' toer of Babolind the disporsion, dnd’a vast number and varlety of fables, 1n 91t of the wonderfol antiquily claimad for thiesa warks, and hudy sbtedly powssiel by thun, Smita asserts that but Hitlo donbt oaiaty that tha imajorlty aro copliy fraa ducuments seill oldsz andl thy orfginain F which bava Do doult Tong Hne Leen lost, Tais is NG mere confa-tire on bis jats, éluco, in savdrai cas-y, tho Asavian texts thémidelye) atate thit fiey wors topted from Babiyloutan reconds whleh wePo aven luen purtly lileglolo tironglh ags. Lu one case thers {s most pautiva proot of ths autiqully of s towt, on. Asyrian {r untoripbal which way jruclated and pustisusd, sl not fon tlec's Ballinian copy gf tib eims lext Wad dis-ovared, the lattar tabl t elag dhode 1,0°0 yeirs gider fuan taat foond n yris, Though wo much wat mervly r0j i8d, thoro dre esidencos that the Ad- dyrians wrs 0ot nearly 80 wed advanced in overa do- Jiartimonts of act and dctenco 38 waro 0o Babyi ‘o lirta of pitmane, pd Lo pabied o bind flaucey 1accls, plents atqnez, sl oLyt artl] ok, 28 alio wera tho &) and this a3y, acedn, gran! " vor® all coptad mmatd;al torms, the doclana wonu of nnuns, conjugatiods of verhs, examplea of syntax, mnd sipnfiur excrelses tn grammae, . Tho Usis of da'tles f0.1ud continn taa already con. ceived id 1A that mythology way 10 sl in iin orizig, Tus inkabitants of, one city or Jorality worshiped s local diyipaty, but it they ciiansdd to bo s coa Juering Pade mL ihey extondal th fr dominlon over the'r né:gh- boa, and thos reididy li'(‘lll{;‘(‘ the ldes that thdr gole wepd stringor than thoe of others, Trices of this 1d2a wero #sen even mnonz tho Jewi and .thelr naighbars, whan thh Titor concelyed the gods of th Altko be ptronger thn tinse of tho plain., . 1n soms Temye nge thera som Lo Liavg ben throy great cit.cs i Adsyria : Ereell, Eridu, and ‘Nipar, aud tnerr gods, Aui, o3, 3nd Jel, wore constileroyl the groat g3d3 of tho vouatry.. , Althiugh thess cities sabicqasutly - clin d, yet tha gode ret.nel tha aupremioy thoy had galned,” They <150 formel & portion af 3 diving etrc which was supyg 10 govern the wor.l and all tui "Anu wis kihof ngalk and wpirits, 16k of the elty of Erecti, .1 woa lord of the »5r1d Liibior of tha gads, At lord of thocity of Nipur, Uis was maker of Tate, lord of tho deép. god of wisdom and know.c.lgy, and lord of the city vl £irldu. 8ln was lord of croway, I Xer of Grightners, and lord of the city of Ur; wullo Marodach was lord of birth and Jord of the city of Babylon; and Vi, tho stroug. lord_of cameln and stmoaybaro, waa lord of the eity of Mufu, .8ua- mutis, the Judgo of beaven and earih, was lord of tuo cltih Litnanud Lippara, aud Nergyl, glent king of sear, w3 Tord of tho ity of Otina. - Tues, of coursa, were bub' the Impersouations of ditferent abstract nciples, as wero the goda of other nstlons. To go uta datail and sminutely describa. the otlice and atiri- butes of oagh, would be to enter tbio, & long disquisi- tract subject, about which few people are Interested. Among the fableth wak found a set which gave a vory partlenisr account of the croation and tho early hintary of the world; nad the correxpandeuco of this narrative, 80 fa7 oa rocovered, with tho Dibllcal s count i most remarkable. Fho roken fabrica of tho tableta, indlcato many things that can Lo easlly sup- aud, with this mental, filling-out, the history of is ba _read almost withont & bredk, por- ek, that apnears o chronfclo 1hb crea- tlon of the plars, yups thus Tt wan delightful all that was 0xed Uy the great God, Blars, their snpear~ in. fDgures of suimals Me arranged. To 8x the yoor, tluough the observatlon of their conslellations, welve months of stars in three rows He srranged; from tho duy. when tho Tar commauce tha cluso, 1la marked tho position of the wanderiug atars to shioe in thetr courses, that they may not do fnjury, and may not tronbls dny oue. And Heopened tho groat gaten {n tho darkness shrowaed; the fasteninge ‘werp sirong oo the left and right, In the lower chaos THe made a bojling, sgd cawred Ltho moon to zlse out, o fix it, alao, for the tight of the night, untll the shining of tha day; that the . month migut not be broken, aud In fta amonnt bo rogalar,” “Tho erestion of man next follgws, and n the frag- mentary inscriptions tho sccount ix cortainly very afin- ilar to ihat of Genesly, cven the name Adami belug givei. Tho account of . the Fall Is dotallad, & dragon Suswering tho Asayriana for s serpent, Thie Gsrdon of Eden had ita Aruyrian counlerjart, a dld also tho expulslon of Adwm and Eve from ita Loundsris. In miny Aussyrisn legends the treo of knotyledgo of good aud evil (s mentioned, and it s represented also on Balylonisn gem engravings, cylinders Meution ts frequontly inade of ko bolled, nnd who were cast down from Heaven. A very closs ressrnblance lv noticesble belween the Biblical and thio Assyrisn narralivea of the flood and the ark, i1 wotne cases tho language belug whmost sxactly the same. Tho Incideuts mentioned in Noah sending forth hirde, by tho return of which he knew that the water still prevallod oa the carih, are alao detailed of a. god mamed .in (ho 1ablef aud o corfous differencs s that Noal's' bird brought lack an, ollve brinch, by which the subsidonce of gl.nl watcr whs known, whily {ho Asayrian bird camg back with her feed inuddy, sououncing the same fact. The resting-place of the ark is tha samo in both ratives, and the sacrifico mentioned Ju the Bibl performed by Noah 13 also binied at in the tabiet-record, Loth narrals the tuci- dents of the Towar of Bapel, $us disperelon of tho human race, and to coufusion of thelr spovch, Theso eoincidonts caunot Lo mere sccideuts, Luf, a3 Afr, Finith suggests, must havo & deeper origli, 1t will not bo at all surpristusg, and, fdeed, it now scems almoat certain, that fulure discoveries will maka an indiaput- ALl fact of the suspicion that has long prevailed, that Jewlah, Assyrisn, and Dabylonisn legends sl hud & Ccommon orlgin, sud in viow of the uarly history of tho Jows' great’ succstor Abrabain, it soems highly probatily {hat he obialncd his knowledge of, tho cres- Aion of the world from a Babylonian wource, and it tiay te from tho 1981 of these very tablos whowo shittered fragueufs are now proving so eloquent sfter autlency of nearly forty centurea, QUATRAINS. o AFENDTURIFT. Th fiult's not mine, you understand ; God shaped my paim s 1 can hold But litlle water in my hand, - And not much gold, YAME. Burh kings of sbreds hisva wooed aud won her, Bucl crafly knaves hor Lurel owne t 34 lias becowse alwost an honor * " Not to te rrowned. .. * Erics A¥D LYRICS, It votietimes chauves thiat thié stancheal boat Goen down 1n mcas wherson s leaf might foat, What Fonderous epics have bean wrecked by Tims Biuca Herrick lauuched bis cockle-shells of thywel A culLL's onave, A littla mound with ebipped hind-stone, The grass—sh 104 I—uucut above the sward, Sumracr by wuwtner loit alore, With ous white lily kueping watcll and ward, 70 ANY POET, Qut of the tioutanl veruea yoi hase writ 10"Bim ppare uone, you will uot care at all§ 1f Tuire 1pavo ouo, you will nat koow of 1 : Nox thassu ~or fine cat scale & church-yard wall, —1. 8. darwh \n Harper's Magasine Jor Feoruary, “pmong b THE BRITISH PEERAGE. « Mr. Dlsraell’s Nétv Ureatlons aind Promotiong, Ambitlon o Etiglishiitn to Becoiis Ene nobiedeesThe Prizo _Gonerally Giahited Thivongh Party- Worl Lonton Uirrevobndenti of the Satfon, Tho Parliament of the Unliéd Ringdom of Great Britaln and Irolaud in composed of four coustituont oioments : The King or Queon, and tho threo Eataton of tho Reala, viz.: the Lords Spititunl, tn Lords Tetmpordl, and the Com- mans, Theao dovéral powais collsctivoly make iha laws tnat ato Liddidg tpon tha subjocth of thé Untisti Empite. Tnb Lordd Bpiritudl and “femporal cohiitituto the Haso of Lotal,—the tormet codlating “of the Archbietiof's of Can- torbury dna Yor's ahd txonts-four Bishopd of thi Cliuren of Englaid ; thio Jattor conhaliug of— 1 Th Prince of Wale, 4 13 1kes of the Bisod-Rogal, 2 Dket, . Marqutaes, 103 Farme 1 Vieeoiints, 245 irons, M 11 iteprsentative Pecrs of Seothand, 48 Bepranentative Peor of Ireland, or 464 1n all. Thoro arealso sevén ladios who aro Pearegsos in their own tight. Tho Iouse of Commous eondiats of 653 membors, viz,: 493 returnod by Enclish and Wetéh, 80 by Scotoh, and 105 by Irieb constituoncies. Tho memburs of the [ousa of Commons, thongh thoy varied in thé: past, havd remalned atationary ut tha ‘mgatical mambor of 653 sinco the tmioh sith Tre- lanid at the cioso of tho last contury ; and e statiouarinens hins survived notwithstanding tho numocous, and nlndat Mindamental al- torationa which hevo been made th the dist tritfon of tha olectoral frinchise by tho deveral fteform adta which bavo béen passed duclug the dootury. Therb {8 o reason whi 658 shonld bé solected rather thrii any dther, fancy number. Thirty or forty more of thirty or fdrry téwer tembers of Parliament would not maks any per- oepliblo difference elfber in tho quality or quan- tity of thd legislative or deliborativo acls per- {ormod by thin body, But tho wholo distribation of political powdr ia thia cauntry 1a full of cnri- oiitics aud anomatics, sro.sa out of tradition or compromise, aud foutered by the cobservativa nstinets of a wlowly-movivg population. Prob- ably 003 14 s good @a any other faucy numbor, nu:l does ita wori with a sort 6t clivmay method that suits tho goulds of the padple, The num- bers 0T the Houso of Lords ko ot reblricted. Yoernzos become dormant from tima Lo ting, or {1 ous, but tho gaps made by theo nawnral pro- ceyson aro movo than filled up by new creations oud promotions from B loser to a higher rault, Dunng tho 18ign of Quobh VietoHa, no fower {han 146 ereatious or promotions in tho [ouss of Lords hava been made. Each Prime Miniscer soems to fool, bound to tap tho foinimm of howor {3 favor of his ehpoortech AL tlis beginhing, in the mid- dle, ur at tho end af bis tonuro of offize. When Lord Melvourne was Prime Minlstor, at tho coms nencomont of the Quorws 10170, R couple of doiz0u Pcornges wera nuthorized. Sir -Robort Peiol, betwat 1834 and 1916, vah dalished with four. Lo:d Ruusoll, batwoon 1317 and 1851, and sas in 1866, croated tweoty; Lovd Yolinaraton, tontten; Lord Derby, teu, Slr. Gludatons, foelluf; the WelikkAest of bia nnrt( tn thé Usper [fvase, a1vised tho créatisn of no leda thao forty peora in alx_ years ; aud Mr. Dinrsell, ot to be ouidouc, hag, 1 thie briof pariods of his two ro.gn, in 14i8 aud 18715, creatal sevontoen, And mithin thé lusl fon days be bas pramoted throe of s dupportrra dud eiavated four more,— giviog him a round total of fonr-and-twénty it throo vea:s, o an averaze of eight a year, Dt 8 {our-aud-twonty thara ars no less than ibred Dakes, And no Prime Mmister excopt Mr. Dinraoll bah over whnagod maca thaa tvo, Faw, indred, have ventured 10 asviro apove s plurahit ol Yiacounts. - New creationa are intelligible enough to soy Bu.itisu-born subject. lu w ¢ountry o which pa:dtion o bociats |a 90 kughly valnod 43 1t Is jo il country, entransh nto knfl sccaotance by Mia 03 hoteditary nodility of Ghost B.iicin hro ‘obivious objbels of Ambittan, What men desics, d otill more what womon doaita, witan thoy nsva acquired tha necessitios and comforty of life, 18 consideration from snd power over oth- ors, A utlo, oven thu howbioat kind of title, say Kvighthood, is a steuping-stone towsrda tho ro- nlization of thoir domrrs. But » Kmighthood ls apcor thing after all, It conférs tho utle of “ Lady " upon your wifa or widow, but it doea not helg your cht'dron. As soan, 'lhm':larq‘ 88 & man i3 madoa Kolsht, ho aspired, if ba hina g L.inily, to become a Baranol ; aud then the title deaconds to bus oldest 8on, anl ‘4o on through tho gonerations which succesd bim. Buu thin, though & loreditary titlo, dods 1ot brjig lim wtlun tho horoditary Porrage. A Buronotey does not give A& man & déat 1n Parlidmont, and {t doos verv little for his young children, It mives them’a sort of bhadowy precedence at a dlnter- table bmong n lol of commoners, and talk shadowy precadonce tha doas and daughtors of Barodein are not atow to exact. Bnt 1t doos not give them cither power or considoration, A Darony i8 s very difforent thlnf. A Burou 18 sn angust boing. ile is an Loreditary Peer of tho Roalm, whoso blood iv ennobled, aud whose diguttios can be lost obly by attaindor or taken away by ace of Parlinmont. e canuot sit in the tHovgo of Commons, but ho iaa » seat in tho Housa of Lords, which doacends to his oldest son,. Ho has precadouce over all commanors, and Baronots, sud Knights, and Privy-Counoilors who are not ennobled. Ilo is, in Virtue of bis digolty, ona of the King's Councilors, and an hereditary mowbor of tho highest judicial bady in the country. Hia wifo Bharos hia titles lug honors with him, and (hoir sonh an doughtora aro dintlngulshed from' thh boid whom thor paronta lIave et bthind by courteay-titios of ‘¢ Honorable * added to thoir namen, Thoir ndants, how- oyor, do nok remain in the ranks of tho nebility, ag thoy do burdad, Thoy fall tack into tlie gregarious commonus. and become the simplo W Atr." nnd * Altss" of domestic life, To bo thus rasoed above your follows_into what most peoplo consider s lugher spheta of nocial existonce 18, if not laudable, atlesst an intolligible, desire, What I8 ot quite so tutal- ligible is tho deslro for promotior in this highor sphare. Promotion in the army, or tha navy, or the civil Borvics, means higher pay, and more iutershting and important and roapon- wible work, Promatton in the “Poorage, if it moans anvihing st. all, Pmeans tho revorss of this, \Why, forinstnce, should tho resont Lord President of the Uonuml, the uke of Hichimond, dosire toadd a now barron Uukedom to_his name ? Hois Duke of Rich mond iu the Peerage of England, Duke of Len- nox in the Poorsge of Hcotiand, aud. Due d'Aubigny in _tho Pecrsge of Irance, Io ia Earl of & wood many places, Baron of man; more. lut his tasta for titles is insatiable, ani Tant week Lo was gazolted Dutg of Gordon, Ifo may woar his woight of Dokedami 1ike s Qoiver but lio canuol it foar rows of strawberrs-laaves into bLia coronot ; aud, if he Aid, ha and his coro- not would Jook sppromely ridigulous. Malignant rumor says he has pemugded the Primo Ministor | 1o sdvlio the Crown to mako him Duko of Gordon 10 order to suub the . youog Marquls of Hluntly, who, sa tho lineal descendant of tho old Dukes of Gordon, naturally aaplred to. woo tho digoity ryovived ‘for him. Unfortunately, however, for his chsnces with tho present Tory Government, Lord Huntly 18 Lioeral—nslmost Radical—iu politics, sudactively hostile to the present Administistion. This {8 thie only explanstion hithorto vouchuafod of the Duke of Ricbniond's procesdings, The motive is contemptible, if it be tho trna one. But Lord Huutly may consolo himself, if ho cares to do &0, by comparing bls_pedigroe with that of the cuckoo Duke who hias eatored into hiw neys. For, whito his ancestry 1s loat ip the sloudw of sutigmty which obscura the thaes auvterior to Malcolm Oanmore. the cuckoo Duke descends from one of Clarles the Becoud's bastards, who was born two trumpery conturios axo. Why, again, vhould tho Earl of Absrgayenby—the du- svendant of the Nevlites, nue of England's olgest familica—ask s Jaw Prime Minister to enablo hiwy to muk the Earldom which hsw boen for goneratious in his family, aud the Harony which L sucestors have iel\i ‘siuce 1450, in & brpod-new Marquisate. of 18767 1t 18 pavy suough to #oe why the Jew Prime Ministor granted hik requast,, o oue has done moro work behjnd the wcqnes, of a kiud that Voers do uot goperally do, for tho party uow in ollice, ‘ory Hloodhonud,” as the paewunit reproaentative of tio Nevillos [s catled awon I":I friends. Dut even the wlanchest blovahiound Jooks for foudhug aud tor supper when bis work |s done. Accordingly, Le Las aot Lis promotion, o s ontitled to be sddreysed by the Crown as *aus sight trusty and eutirelv baloved cousiu™; to hear bis eldest son called Viacaunt," and the zews of his sous ci *Lorde”; sng to take precedence over all the Earls. Ile witl probably restsud be thaokful @ hias o 5 4 noti, 41 1oASd tlib bbienrtt, Fatel ot picky ta6- tis b tlid Kitimblor Brdais Jb thie Tots Pedrddo, ‘Tho thitat foF Aucll prombiiong 11t thd PAdrasd fa difficult to nnaeratand by thtae who Aro not of tt. liut. fur many of that dlut\ugulgh}d body, all futarost in polilics and tha political lite | ptopsrty rinde tazable by the preceding we-tio, it In conconirated fn that potton of the officlal | ahall Lathe duly of eAch merchant or deaitr fn thin akotto #whick narrates the ok promotions, Th Hinlo nuechuning gonds from fnmmml-l Lrayaiora, by osplangtion. térhaps, may bh found in the pHti- | Otder, ssuiple, oF othorwise, tu lie! A8 gooda fapir ciplo A} thd atps of the BociAl Iaddae Arh in~ [ chased, st thocast pres o *,,,,m-;,,m',‘g:,‘,““_m__‘, 11bitd I8 nnmiber, and stoly Bhglidhmdt lshes | pracred or purehised durlng the préceding yoar, in ta fix his fot spoh thd ono Imihdiktely Abovd | the ukthe of Hiin ammorclat Hvelor as “agwnt of hi, Wall, it 4 an ihuotent: it ot N noble, | uch owner. It.ahall be tho duty .\( the Gounty ambition, 1t doea not Joad to crind Yko the do. | Audltor to carry the total smount sold by any cne sire for wenith, and it docs not lead to uviversal | 3R¢ht for ik wholiddla e b e S dwid fir axation, a4 otbor Tty ho wholéele mor- migar rlllm_llllmtdulrn for glorv, | aak, aro theso | chauteor owners, bn Snineiof e Agent 0F cominets . Aud foe w lg'«!"m“& ol m'M‘ 8k, aro theso | cig trageter; which suuk ahall bo goveriat, to all ro much-coveted honots granted? For ao answer | gpecid, dh othier [ireondl meogerty o far thxaiion, 1 muat refer you to Mr. Diaracll, Speaking of | See.3, 1tehall be unlawlul fur suy whoicasls mer. i Dtt's PeaiAkas, he saga: * 1o creatod a ploi slan fi‘"k““‘"“'"“ /2018, war:s, aud mercuan:lise, aa specle ‘ aristoctAey. Ho hisde Lobra of socoud-rats | fedinSec, L of thianct, ta rell, by tilmenil, kannt, o @juiros knd M4t graziers, e chught thiath)In tha | Ouer nerson, aa thekeisl apccified, wilhin Oria Aiate, nt Move of Lomuatd atrest, and clutohsd - tusm in | AUy bine from and nfterany lax. 18vied a8 hereln 1 ro- “‘h:m?u“a‘;. "mm: 2"' do‘mnilcl Hy i mfn o | Yided 4nall have become deliuquent uhiii the wame h serlption I8 but partly true. [u the old timg, when wo \'xnu A milltAty ristion, Peeriges waro 1661ed bipoia Al propiily. hold by bdar, samiple, or Otbiee rAramEtiat IEvbsliing. asatein, by ‘s holerals Afsbe chirnia non-restdont of tus State and whae goo earay, and dercligiates, 8o soll, tre wot heptin St . 2. Taf ordee 18 fix ai eslimath ths vatuo of mich pald; aRd aby piteon do acliing or atirnpting to sell, in violaisn hivsof, abial) bo dewmed 4 peadl 1 witlout 2 licenso. and hall 'to guilty of 3 mhuien 1 gradted lor kreAt ersicés to tho Statd. Pug | Wion conviction ahidll s facd inanemi p { conqueror of Bichlioith wAR not & aceshd-rhtd £100, or be jmprisoned ju tha County Inil riot squiro nor a fat geazior, and noither Wellington | tirly dase, nor Nelson bailod from Lombad streot or Coru- Ldlf, 101853, » oisn from one of the dlmgt Hébridod wan 1bAda Lord Clvda for distinguishSd tiow do Clicago metchants liko that? Hut tlis ahxicty ot this Benator for taxation Lias bver- #ervica In tho Crinaw And in Lidra ; Aud, even an JAte ah 1863, Gon. Naplor,took Lia fitlo trom tha reachod i*8elt, and probably the dudiciary Com- mittop, to whom tha bill waa rofarred, Wil 89 in farm him, 1o is a iawyer of considerable rauk Abyssinihn campatpn, fMarAry acryicos have | 10 bhis own batliwick, and ought 10 knuw that Tront tinie to titnn Dobn hod.red by a patént of | tha echame lio proposen, the United Bslea Su- nobility, and ovary Mintstortakes at leadt ono | promo Coure s recently decided, cannot hie Poor out ol tha ranks of the legal rrofes- sion. * Becond-rate aquires and fub grazters,” no doubt, sro raised to tue I’eerago luoro fre- carriod out, In the last section ho pr poses Lo oa.racise the ravoling man, and braud bim as n peddior without a hicenso, Now, tho auther of quently 1han mon of Aoy other dlass when Mr. this bill was symein. er of Lho last ecsnion. when Disraol's frionda hold ptice. But thay generaily tlo sume party work butora thoy esrn theircleva- tion; u\ul it vannol bo drmml tha: devoron to b tio fuw reqiiring peddlers selling goodi nt wholernld or bv sampia was ropeaiod. A ALRCHANT **0USTED" UY PERSUASIVE CRICAGO ona of thio twa partied in thy Stath Is tho toad DRUMERS. 3 titae (enda most cebtdinly and moAt oaslly to tho | Porhaps Senator lord, when e drow. Peerage. Given wealth onongh to sapport the | Mll to oxterminata iraveling men,” or matcan- {itle, and a reasousbly oid pediireo, aud somo- | tile drumwmors, had 1w his miod tho case of 4 evon without tho lalter, & mun can huy bis | &'méichant fu Carroll who rocently * buste.l,” way into thn [otiko of Lords. Hub he muac ho- | Thore Imml{ an apparent * cronkednaes 1 the @i oarly. 80 ho maAt snond profascly, dnd ho | mansce af hig ** bust,” nis creditors called him Tuust do it wisels, t0 promoé the truto intorostd | to straighion it outy whoreupar ho sud that, of tho iy of bis choico. It ho doos tiis lang through the persua-iveness of Chicago travaling enough, and has tha oducation and culilvation [ ugents, Lo overloaded, sold thie goods ou cradit, ossential to tho digeity of the pasition, e will hate bnd tuck 1f he doch not die ennoblod ; and to thix proud object ot amuition thore aro uo. a aud *buded” $5,000 sbock, Le coldu t atand the Llundishménts of the arummor, nnd fo+ Lnglish gontiomen and laties who witt do- vote thoir lives. bouglit of 11 that cwmo alang. ALDDEN DEATH, A fow.days »mco, William Kelso, of Howard Town:hip, Wayne County, ioturned freta o nowghborine town, eal down in & clalr, oed chattad with is wife, in apparent good heals 1lis wifo went to tho kitebon to propare Liv siy- or, aud, relurning In a foy moments, found him doad, Wy hond rechning on (hn nack of the cligir. Ho was ono of thy lirat seslicra in Wa o Coiinty, and bighly houored und respecicd as an upriglit, Chiristian man, EMOLUMENTS OF AN OFFICK. A reformatory Senaior, the other day, concely- «d tho idea that Clerk olwes, of thu Bupremo Cuust, was gowtmg vapidly ek from the emuls- wients of his oftico, which conststed of & pet diom aod fuea, o eallod for a 1opock frim s Clerk of tho per diemn roccived for 1875. The Clerk reportad that ha had roceived €14 ad par dium for sttcbdanco at Court, und pad_an ex- ieuses for susch attondimen, 3184, Lhe Seuat.r subidod aiuid Beuatorial sanlon EMIGRANTS. Annunl Report of the New York Comi- ¥ imlsdioncrd ot Enilgration. New York ribune, Feb, 1, The Commiax{otiers of Emigration have téaun- mitted to tho Legislaturo thete twontv-muth an- onal report for tho yoar cudimg Dec. Bi, 1875, n part 1t 18 ad fallons: . Asantieipated an tho lat roport, the pret yoar i been maiked throughout by tho greatly less- uned number of alien emigrauls arnving nb thin yort, ny ol 8 [n othor portiond of the Umitad Yrates, Portnnately the geaerills imyraved oun- Qitton und Loalh of tho Gminrauts were such s 10 Yaosau thd bitrdon which vthorwido would have fwilen on the vory luntted maaus of (ho Come- wion. Tue entiro utinbur ot passengors who ar rived from foveign conarries A thia part duting thé yoar was 135,015, of whoun 31.55 woro alioas, and 5,480 wers citizans or persuns who bad be- fora lauded at tue purt of New York. ‘'l'o stiow auio [ozeibly the dechinae of Numigraton duriug the pass 10w yodis, tho following Lanlo i et fortl, whiels ombracos tho stasstics of auvn ur- Tivala ut chid pors Lr Len Yoars ¢ 1I0WA, fRepreaentative Apportionment w St- Pro no Jndges—Ncctariomidm iu_ tho vublic Schools<A Kl Against Chi- cnlzo Druinieks. Snecidl Corveapondence of The Chicaon Tribune, Des JMoixgs, Ia,, Feb. 2.—The bl ing tho State intu Reprosentativo di follova: g Dist, Cotitty. v 2. Den Yoiics 9, Appant 1 1 ), Montgomer) s Adurand Kb Crw Carroll, Tda, sud Ba Calhoun und Ciree! ] ‘Lho fallowing tebla shosws tha nationality of o wholo nuawber, of wious nho huve avrived during bira yours 1874 sud 1875 3 b1, Grundy ... 82, Black Hawk, 1kt 1 o e 83 4 PO 5 B3 1 83 o 4k b Bt 3 e e 13 6305 1974, 1673, .84, Winneahic! 63, Chickosasw, 5 and Wright, 2. Warth and Corro Uords 4. Winnobago, Hancock, sud KOMuih, ..o ees T e bl 3. Dickinaon, Giay, Emauok, and Faio Alo.... 8, Woodbury, 7, Plymouth and Cheroke 78. Sloux, Lyun, Usceola, an Bl cnabnbcussisms s s The busia of apportionmont fu for ‘oach 14,410 in each district. 1y this bill the Houso is in- croaod two mombers, wud the districts are in- cren6d fivo. It s in tho handaof tho Commit- teo, and may posaibly shire the fato of tho Ap- portionment bill at the last session, which was ‘ovarlooked until about ton minuten bofora the closo of the measion, and the Jegialative clocks wero stopped to get the Bill through both Housos which cut off tho laws of the previous seailon, ceeen HOOIL 84,500 Of tho aliops, 87,527 wers male adults, 28,9006 fomale. adulta,. aud 18,1s8 cinldien under 12 years of age of both soxos. As tho Landiug De~ Pot 00,903 eteersge or third-class pa 18 wero [anded aurlug the year of 1875, T'oy ro- portod their fntonded destinstion as follows: 48,201 to tho Muddle Bintes, 8,475 to tho Eustern Htstos, 96,871 to the Westeru States, 1877 to the xfinnmm States, and 2,480 to the Territores, ‘Iho Domimion of Canuda wus the destingtion of 1,851, British Columbia of 19, Austiahaof 11, West Indies of 28, Mexico ol 18, and Bouth Americs of 10, THE HUPRENE JUDARS. Gay. Rirkwood has two Biate offices to fill by appointiiiont, and possibly thres : Aktate Bupor- intondent of Public Instruction, a Jndgo of the Boprems Donch to snccoed Judgo Colo, and a new Judge provided for inthe bill to wdd ono maro Judge to the Bench, meking the numbar five. Tuo now Judgois to bo appointed im- mediately oo the jiasesgo of the bill, and to Lold s appointmont wmtil tha gensral election in 1876, whon the pgo%lo ara to eloct 8 Jndpo to morvo until the firat Monday in Jannary, 18’7’1], al which thno the regular term of the additiooal Judge begitis, sud runs alx yoars. This cork- screw kind of logislation ts ‘necessary to bar- monize the terma of all the Judyes, As (o who the appointées will be, mohady ¥mowe. The Governor waya hosnall mako bo appolntments dntil tha faté of the bill iy decid- ‘ed, Judgen W, II. 8oavors and W. E. Millor aro promineutly montioned. TUE PRRADENT-GRANT AMENDIENT. 'The joiut rosolution presented by Sonhtor Murphy, to amend the Constitation by prohibit- ing tho use of yuhgn fands_for -n{ scliool ot establuishod by tho Btatd, and providl lm‘ Also bhat neither sectarian, atheism, nor infidelity shall bLe tanght io any public schiool, bids fair to pa Although introduced in the Heuste by Mr, Mur- Ly, of 8cott, a loading Démocrat sud a Ostho- ie, ¢ Iu probable that thie Republican Houkd ‘will ho amend it as_to cat off the Domocratio votea. The House Committee to whom it wau voferred rotirued It, Laving stricken aut tho , wthelam, or infidelity,” cotarianiem mor croed - PARSON KELLY, 014 Parion Kelly' falr young wife Lrepe Ditd wheu but throo 1ovntnb wed,, Add no uew love has ever:como between 118 truo heart and tho dead, . ‘Though now Yor sty years Ule rram Lus grown Upan ber grave, and oi it alniple stune Ihe moss Aud yellow lichens creep Lur namo acroas, Oufalio ibs door, fn the ivarm sinuner-alr, “Fho old man alia for Lours, £ The idle wind that atirs bis sllyer neic 1s aweet with Juuc’s fipat Gowors; 1sut dull bis miod, and clouded with tho haze OF e’ xst weary gray Noveiber daya ud Aim . The past and present look alfke 16 biin, The suuny soens sround, confused and binrred, Thio twilter of thie hirds, Dlend tn bia misd with, voicea long sluce hesrd— Glad chlidhood's carcless words; 0ld biymua and Beripture texta: while jodlstinet, Vet strong, ona thought with all fair things W Haked— The bride Of Lis Joat youth {u ever by his side, Dy ta areet watg of suowy vlossomas bowed, “Ihio rose-tres branch hangs lav, And i thie swiishine, liXe & Boscy clond, Bways alowly to snd fro. ©#0h}isit you?!” the old nyan asks, * Irane It And smlles, aud fancies that bier face ha's soctn Heueath - l, ‘‘no Mr, Qibbone, of Loe, & Democrat and Catbolle, protoated againat the chaoge made by the Committea. He wanted tho bill cut off from tho schools, and every formn of seclarian The opening roses of & bridal wreath! teaching. It Ia understood tha Democ: will | A I e . nat vote for m-l lunl'uufln a8 amend- Dt;r-‘vlummh«‘hh'nn:mao‘fi‘lh"'flfl“flfl‘. 0 aaubing on gl Fua <Cattolles’ o 2. Hoott. . Sty R, Tl cotsto where e dreamr at, worios of resolations agkifst Any changa in tho Constitation whatovor, and intimaung that thoy did not propods to pay publio-school taxes, The Henate rospecttuily reforrad it to a Committes ; the House uncerenionlaualy laid 1t on the table, and voted niot to yefor it or Murphy took occanion to denounce the rexolutiony aud pro- test in plain laugubge. and eaid Ly Wwes olected on the very issus of opposition to the seatiments of them. aud he was in favor of public funds for public scbools. aod othivg slas. , , | . A ILL YO CIICAGO DRUNNERS. Bena'tor McCard should recerye tha xpacm at- tention of the Chicage Drummars' Associbtion for the wpecial attoution he has showa them 1o on it i bringes llq’uldm mZm from sume 1oDg-varished day, A Tl we el e, Wy il o s ! Be.t 8 votcs the bird loo¥a up s misit O constant lisart | ‘Whosa faiting thoy, g b, o thenahia elny (s 811l secing, tirned 10 thins, K3 1 ths prat, e oo of pertect p Heg sath volco hpariug in the soulh wind's breath, Drss onl_Love pure s ihlue shall outtive desth, And whe P e unfold, het eyde meet thinb again | Magazine, ~=Muran Doupiaa v Slacwmitia; —_———— Population of London, hie bill Doy before, the anumunt pravidiog for *the assessment and tazation ol wroberty eold for non-residont morchauts by arde ple. or other cammercial traveling system. followiog are the provisious of the bitls oK b Pest kuscted by the Gerarai daenibly of ale of loys, 3 3, 8 BAS. B4 B 13 Droperty b aihe S el Hals, SRR It in_estimatod by the Rogietrar General of Great Britain that, by the m‘mmu of thix yesr, the papulation of Lonaon, as himted o the metropolitan and ity polica districth, will ex- ocod 1,250,000 Lait year 00,000 persdns wero p‘)glp_d $0 the permaneut romdonts of the British metropolis from outaide places ! : n.:_x‘i);vflAf"s Kflgfipgés.“_: R B R !'Raflway’sfléa_flyflqliar CURES THE WORST PAINS Tn o Ot to Twenty Wi, NOT CNE HOUR After reading this ert(wmnni nead any o shiffer with pain, Radway's Ready Relief 18 A CURE FCR EVERY PAEL It ;vas the first and i the Only Pain Remedy That tastantiy stons tha moss erern o mnatione, AN e conusatont whor o fy liowels, or atner giauds oc v orgeay, In ft'om Oné to Twanty Minutes, o matter how vislent ¢ h«-mmue. ol viddnn, Tntiean, (4 lv{‘l!lv .‘§:,.L'J: " ¥algic, or jirvateated with diseasnnaz Kaffor, RO Radway’s Ready Reliet WILL AFFORD INSTANT EASE, Inflamimation of the Kidnsys, In of the Hinddor, Inflatnination ur'{fi'é‘fié‘\'v‘f‘ ol:\L Mumps, Oongention of the uhfi" Bora 'hroat, Diffioult, routhig, Ealpitation 4 of _tho Ifonrt, ¥ Hysterios, Croup, Biphtherin, Oc~ v nraleia, aumatisi Cold 'Ohills, Ario Chills. e Tha apilioatio of the Ready Rt o tho p: BartLamacsy, b0 pain or dikiculty orlts will witasd o " wanty d\tp1 In_balf,a fnmblar of wat i anta Cramus, Sorains, e 5&2}:“:!4‘"}&:'.’: B Howels, anf mufi»l'?-'-m’-f";“"; x"“:"""' rrelamyationil alwase sany & bittln o W HEADY RELIRI Wit them A fon drop 14 wates v peesontsicknous i yaine ot chano of el - 4l hottor thian Fronett Brandy or Bittars 144 slimiiaat. FEVER AND AGUE. and Acuo oured for fifty cants, ponadis] SEost 4 world Fat il pace ferte ooty uud 3l 8thar atartous, billsus, serelst, typhold, yellar, 3, othie favere (uid o by 15y il Yo adteicas admays Rends 1 Mty Couts pae buttlo: HEALTH! BEAUTY! Btrosz and ouro riol bloed: faceaked of lisih 1ad CIEar Vel knd beantiulconpresion backrod o s DR. RADWAY'S SARIAPARILIAN RESOLVEND Ths wads th> yost aitonbhlak curon, Sa quleiw Topid, ia et changor 0k ady nadabess Y lander iho tnilieaos of thie traly waite doctul medislun, that Every Day an Increase In Flesh and Weight iy Beald dad, Feit, THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER. Eders qiop of (ha sareaparitilas Besolvint cbanaak €4¥e3 (s Uz 4 00yl .y ks, uring, B3 utur day i 140" aytam, tho vigos ot L3, Uit 2y 01 t0a Lod; wilh Bely pulle, 0 nsumpLivs, S, y loar SUIIO.8, Uod.d 10 €30 Gdaads 434 iyaten, ' 0cu “ayu0y sleusiiorpus dige .l thy W K forme, of akis dii o oo i o worma (i the T, Gauaors sl wrakoning and 1xGliarges, Lght Snes 7, 1033 0 wastes uf 134 llta prnclplo. &8 +itnin the cuiativs ra: ol th{a won ter of wodaca chemiairy, 4nd, & (ow daya Will' 0eovo to mav person using it for cithae digosse prtent vownr to oura tmn. 0 . 1"t paticnt, dafly Licoming reducad by tho wes and deconipaaliion thav 1a coutlnually progrosshag, ¥ cesds in arcostine the with neiw materixl mada fr Ha'eapartitian will and dees sooary, en I sortalay for wilen once this romedy, cominanas) ite wotk of purd: catfon, and sncoreds {n dinfnishing the loss af wasge 1ta ropaira'will barap'd, and overy dav the natlont lh‘l‘ {0 Bimyelf growing’ bolter zoul strongor, tho food die ::gmn;m.-, sppotits improring, and ilesh and wolral ‘Nt saiy doss ts Sarsaparfllisn Tosolvent oxesl all Xrown romedial agAnta i taocurs uf Uhronte, Sarofals, Conetitattonal, and Skin dlsoxsas, bus it is the only pods tivo eure for Kidnoy and Bladdor Complaints, ony wo Urlnary and Womb Diseazes, Uraval, . Dinbiotas, Deopry stoppage of water, incoatinence of wrlse, Sright's di- gaser pibyminucla, hnd fn al eaied whore (Hors aro bricke dustdovosits, or tho wator 1a thick, "cloudy, intxed wi: aubatancas i it of a1 o ‘thraads Jik whilh HIk, or thre B dapasits, and burning senestion whon paing of tho back and aloug tho Jotus. Tumor of Twolve Vears!, Growth Cured by LRadivay’s Resolvoot. Mas., Jaiy I8, 10, ot l A critis BEyIaL) Dn, RavaraY: Thave iad ora aud bowsls, All tha docton e llliu?l"nlhlfls’ll}ltwn commandod, ing Holpod me, I aaw jour Resolvent, and wonld Gy it: but had no’ falth (8 it, bocsuso 1 had sul fored for twolvoyoars. T tonk s bottlos ot the itatoiron rul uno boa uf Itadway's Pills_aud two' bottlos of your {aady Ttallof, ant thora 1s nut s sign of, timur to be &3 or folf, and I'oul botter, smaster, and happler thaal Vo worst {umor was o tholath Bitls ol tha Dontila, avor the Erotn. 1 write this o you for the Urnent of othore. You can gabtuR Lt Qu"..fi, Prics, 81 per Loltle. { m AN IMPORTANT LETTER. Froma promtaent geatlGmnn and vesldont of Olnelasath o tor the hast turty yuar wall koown to tho uowspapdt publishors thromguout tho Unitod statos, Suw Youu, Obt. 1, W50, D, I4pwAY-DEAL Sin: Thfs 1A4060 Uy s Sona of duty 1o 1o sufforing o wake a be tatomont of tke [218iie af youe wisdising ou wya F savgral oars Tint bea affeoted with womta ‘teunblo f the' biaddor o Which acmio tirelva noutlis ag) aujmlgat uly ancarjng disdave, which tha phymicisas npm-um: striotu, Lo Vireihs, aealeaiss flamwation of the kidneys and bladdar, and gave it &8 Misirupinlon tBAL. Py Rxe—T3 etting radically aurs id had taken & 1o auut homet ; e tad ity i, gt it [BAEER R 1 biued days L was grost N AFH, Clabidaat, O DR. RADWAY'S Regulating Pills Prses, wiclos, oleagill cusbod b miat ‘“:'Kll ulate, pu,ly, ¢ dl»tn ;(‘ o lhtlb‘l!ud;.a‘ o Vikbey (et qurdugy bt W Tovas. owein Kk Mo Nespids tin o ks a R st Bl T Szl 3 3 ouie, . L'l s Eu"!;l‘u. COMALDIo RO warcury, mnerals, of deiatorisid i bacrvy the. follawiug syoPioms resulting from Drati {r“?'fi‘:?;l:u‘fl'flf' aisat iho m‘z.‘:mn D patipatis R e e NE e, Lari s Dt ‘of Food, bl of Wslyht fa 1be_ Nlowdcn, Bous | SERIRTE InI:::(:Illlln c]n‘f-‘m fob b st t tamual 14 ;. tho Lot v Pt miing of e Moad, Harrisd and Difucult Bruath ng, Flu I!rlll-lll‘ llrn.uhonnuwunnmu jug heosation wlies 1y & Ljug Pasiugo, ullnaul % Vi 05, clors pe slghts Fuat a Dult Fels cy of . Perspiration, yt : a7 of Jenpisation, vt d o o I WAYT RICES Wil tre 8 lmAm.lTI‘ihl abore-named disorders. "Pn'uu coats pel boz, Bo'd by druggls. o e : Read *False and True,” st e e Yt o TARTAY (A0l will be sant you.