Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 26, 1876, Page 11

RELIGIOUS. Fhe Sunday-School Ncsson for To-Morrow. pavid Removing the Ark of the Covenant to Jeru- * salem. Yo Ordinance of 1787 and the Bibla in the Schools, Junday Observance---Rubinstein’s De- votions-+-Maj. Cole in En. gland. SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON, THE ARK BROUGIT TO MT, ZIOX II. Sam., i, 1 to 15,—A¢ the request of toach- , who wish to use thoso notos, wemark tho cuu, 0 that the toxt can bo onaily found,—or, llowing the toxt, tho notes on each verso can Yo readily found. Tho mora! principlcs lovolved p any vorso or nerleg of verson, will at once sug- Jost thomeolvea to tho considerate toacher, Brig- jeasful toachors adapt fdeas mud words to tho ppacities of their puplle, Tha coronation-dav-of the King had passcd. Fho people wers rosting from their great rojolc- bge. They wore anticipating botter and hap- lor times, Xobron was too remote from Coutral anl for & Capital of all tho tcibos, now 8o hiap- \ly uoited in tho mow Xiog., Davia had ken Zton, that boautiful and sunny spot, that j alter years becamo tho glory of the wholo srth, o soldcted it for his now Capital, Jis fofluonce was sproading not only nmong alt Jho tribes of Israel, but among ali people, Ho tealised his position, o did not forget Baul's ITolly. Ho wishod to conform to the willof God, d to be under His guidancs and constant care. ion was alroady, whon his took it from the na- dves—the Jobusites—a place of groat boauty and trongth. It waa situatod on the edge of a hlqh ghln Iand, and on the suthmit of the bighest hill {hot vicinity,—82 milea from tho ses, 20 from obron, 18 from tho Jordsn. Its olovation and poauty have over boon admired by travolers. Bacred pootry mbounds in allusions to Mount Lion,—the residence of Jehovah. David dwelt pa it and incressed ts boauty and Ra strength. o could penotrata the poil of the future, Io felt sure \bst God had promisod grent things for Liop, and that Ilie promisos nover failed. lio sould see that tho City of David waa to bo an in- Buontial and flnrlmxn contro, and evon the City . of God. Bo lfe was auxions todo all ile could Jo rendor Jorusalom worthy of its uamo and ity uture, : Tho Ark of the Covonant had boen kopt in the houss of Abjundab for somo fifty vears. Tuo Philistinen took it in the timo of Ll (L Sam,, Iv., 37). They sont it away from their territory, becanso its presonce sesmed to Lring upon them many disesses and disasters (I, Sam., v.. 2). Thoy had placed it in tha Temple of Dagon. But thoy found that this god bad fallon down 1n * contequionco af the prescnco of this Ark of tho Covenant (I. Som., v, 1), They ment it to Dotbsliemenh. Herc tho people Lad the nat- nral curfosity to open i ‘Chey bad & etrong ~ demro to find tho causo of its dolng 20 much barin to those who pos- wessed It. 'Thoir curiogity cost thom tha lives of pver 50,000 men (I. 8am., v. 1:19), ‘Tho ren! causo of thoir troubles was disobedincs totha law of Uod, who said, *Tho Ark of tho Covenant must be borne from place to éfinu by priests,” Euy bad moved itona cart diawn by oxen, o Phulistines wers anxious to dispoxs of it, #o they sent mosscngors to Xirjath-Jearim to besooch the men of that city to come aud take it away, The mop of that city went and brought it to the houss of Abinadab, who at onge gavo it #afo_quarters and appoiuted one cf Lis sons, Elazar, to keep it, to protect it from all haim, e ssuctifiod tins sou, who coutinued to watch it for twenty years. David had seon in Saul tho snd results of liv~ fng without God. Bo be resolved that he would serva tbe Lord, Ile wishod to redognize the Great King. His Guvernment was & thoocracy 20 far a8 nd God were coucorned, and yet Jimited monarchy 8o faras Lo aad his people wers affected. David, no doubt, Liad somo re- ad to his own glory, but botter motives for Eh sols oxistod, Our motives are usually com- posito, Thoy aro rarely any botter than wo sup- o#s them to be, David wished to glorify God, ut he did not forgot bis own oxaltation. It 18 worthy of noto that the glory of Jeho- wab, or tho a1k, which was for mlna yonrs totho Iarsclitos s mediator between God and them, was noticod but once for many yoara (I, Sam., xiv, 18). Baut carod very little about this ark, ‘but Datid reeolved to romove it to his own city, and to Linva it brought 1n = statoly and solemu way, Ilo wishedits removal to bo s ustional afsir, So be nssemblod (vi :. 1) the ropressntn- tives of tho peoplo—chossn mon, 30,000 atroug— to go with himtoromove the Ark of the Covenaut, which naa o sacred chest of Acacia wood ontlald and nlaid with gold, Over it wers goldon cherubim. In it was & copy of tho Mosaic laws, ~—na golden flat of manna,—kopt io memory of their hunger in ths wildeiness, the rose of Asion, that was rotained ae proof that Asron and higsons were sppointed &u’lonta by God. The id waa tho mercy soat, and was yoarly aprinkled with blood on tho great day of atousment, wheu the Iigh Priest eutered tho Iloly of Holies, the moat hioly and most inner room of the Taborna- ole. No wonder David and the people wished to recover it. Haul wasnsver guilly of sbowing sy apecial rogard fur religion or religioua ritos, But David bad. And he observea that tho house in which the ark had beon protected for many years had been slznally blost, Bo he coa- sulted his wiso men (I. Chrou,, xilk, 2) In a truly depiocratic way, and anid, **Ia it your wish thug we call our brothren, whorever they are, to aid us io briuging tho Arkof tho Covavaut'to our Toyaleity 7" The people voted uuanimously to doso. (Chron., xiil, 2.) Bo David fssucd his order, that all Tsrael (1, Chron., xlil,, 5) should go with him to Baslah and take the arks of (lod, ** Whose name {8 the Lord of Hoats, that dwolloth botween the chier- ubfm,"—i, 0., in thls way Jehovau reveals liis lory and manifosts llls gracious preseucs, Eim auother ronson appears why David wd the people should " wish to recover \e ark, Poor Baul did npot care nuch about the gracious presonce of God,— for lie foraook it sud wont to 0o th trickish Witch of Eudor, who footed hLim to such an ex. tent that he conversod with & person, dreased aq M old man with & long board covering his Sreest, and woaribg & mattle, who anawercd 3aul's querivs in such & way a4 to mlh' him do- Ipair about the succes of the next day's battle, ‘oor 8aul wont away with a tlen in his ear, that topt buzzing and !ormenung Lim all his way Yowo aud sli the noxt day. ** Consolonce makes wonards of us a ‘'ha assurance of fasluro ocurcd it. It was natural that David should Mave to bring the ark to Zion, aud the peoplo nere equlll{ oarncat L0 obtain possession of it. David (11, smuel, yi., 1) collectod 80,000 mon aud weut to bring the ark of Uod trom Basl of Judsh (If, Bamuel, vi., 8). (8) They brought the ark out of the houso of Abinadab, and placed it upon s uew cart. Uzzsh deovo tho cart, or oxen, sud Ahlo walked be- fors §t. David must have kuown the law, that slated d]nl,lncll¥ “that thoe ark shall ba borue ouly by priests.”” The ark had riogs at each corner, on the sides, through which poles wora assod, 80 that four men could bear thoe ark on el sliouldors, (6) When they camo to Nachon's throshing- floor the oxow stumbled, and shook the ark. zzah lald his hands upon the sacred chest, fe ‘was the son of a priest, but not a pricst, and bad no rigat to tonch it. (1? Jehovah was so’ much dluploased with bin for dofug so, that Jia amote him on the spot. Uzzal's purpose was good, but he broke a specifio command of God. 1fe wished to pro- tack the ark from iojury. The procecsion sud- denly stopped § Lha™ oxulting strains of muosio ceased, All wero awod fnto silouce and solomui- ty as the news apread from rouk to rank, that zzah, the son of & priest, the keoper of the arx for s long time, bad bean suddunly struck dead, without sny known cause. The people wero amazed, and when told shat he broke a iaw of Uod aud sulered for so doiag, they said Uz- zah had always boen a good mau; that whon the ozen stumbled, bio thought the srk was in danger of being broken ; sud that ho had touch- od It that ho might save it from all haim g that be gught to bave been rewnrdad for bis good in- tentious. (8.) David beld the samo viewa. e wasmuch dlspieasod at what Lo considered urjust on the of Lis Maker. Dut a little retloction changed As mind, 1le wished to pay somoe respect to the memory of the sufferor, 50 he called the spot on shich Lo fefl ' Pyroz Uzzab. At firet David may bave thoughb that it dis- flsaned God that o lad attempted Lo mave the mk. Hohe tovk tme for refleotion. lio folt THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2i, 1876—TWELVE PAGES. that It was beat to leava (L for the prasont at the houss of Obed-Edom. (12.) David was greally sucouraged ta try again to briug ths ark Lo his Capltal when he b that the Lord hLad blessed tho house of Obed-Edom, David must have besn conscloua that what ho wished to do was rlgbt. was {n Lar- mony with God's will. but Lhat the way of doing it was wrong, Ozen are nob Lovites. 8o lo ado '.sd tho right and tha lawful way, and auc- ceeded. Earlier inqairy wonld have saved him much anxiety. s succesa and unforeseen popularity bad made him overlook their saurco. 1la was atarting off on ‘his own responsibility, Ho Jehiovat chiecked Uim in the crooked courso ha waa taking. 'The check-rein waa, atfirat, teo taut for his comfort, but it gave him Ume for conalderation and kapt bia head lovel. Il sgain mado ' s national affalr, Ho he ordered” musicians ' and the people to sttend him. On big way home amid shouting and muslo, b offored aacrificen of oxen, It wasaa sosson of great nationsl joy and Lhnnknglvlnq. Joy waa oxcenaive among all the iribes of leraal. Wo almost hoar the spplauss of the people. multl‘; tudos crying out, * Loog livo Kiug Darvid! When the ark was within tho limita of the city, .the moclsmationa of so vast a people must have bean grand snd tnapiring. Tha ancient Lobrows were wont to dance na s memorisl Borvice, or a1 an exprossion of joy and ratitude. Davla danced with all bis' might, . 0., Lo was aa full of ){oy.nnd gladnoes that ho liad 8t Iaat got the ark into the city of hia love, that he found it difficult to express his omotions, Danclog was tho dfational way of oxpresaing grati- tudo, £0 hie adopted it. David tad strong emo- tions and ws oaslly thrown into an exalted stato of mind, Ho was inclined to expross his thoughta and fealings in strong hnguln-nnd rometimes bis pootic condition would load Lim into orror. is daucing was really a re- lizious expression of joy and thankfulosess, The peace offerings and burnt offerings, and then tho shoutings, the foll chorus of men singers and women alngers,—It mlfi Le in sepa- rato banda—ond thon the innumorable companles of musicians must have renderod tho day tho gteat momorinl doy of Inracl, ——— ‘THE ORDINANCE OF 1787, AND THE BIDLE IN THS CUOOLS. To the Fditor of Ths Chicago Tritune: Curcaco, Feb, 25, —If I rightly understand the receutly published opinion of Mr. C. C. Bonuey, tho ordinanco of 1787 desorves vory caroful notlce. Mr. I, 5 tho gontleman to whom I alluded in my communication dated Jan, 20, whon I was explainlng my posltion taken o tho poper bofore tho Presbytorian Minlstorial Asno- ciation. Mr. Boonoy has now amplified that statement which be mado to mo, and hes used it in the form of & lecturo before a Iaw-school {n this city. It fa from thia locturo that we derivo sBome vory important idess. If thesa 1doas ara thor- oughly capable of proof,—aud thoy certainly scem to be mctuslly proven,—then tho ontira question of the Bibie a8 rolnted to our common #choola Is Bot at rest by law., 1. As Iunderstand Mr. Bonnoy, the ordinance of 1787 provides that the Bible, in King James' vorion, bo read in tho schools ** without cote or commont,” 2. 'I'hat this ordinance has not beon and can- not roadtly bo rovoked. It raquirea (s) the con- sont of tho five Northwestorn States and (b) the consont of the arigival thirtoon States {n nddi- tion to thia lacal action beforo1t oan be snnulled or altered. 8, That tho act of Congross datod April 18, 1818, ronfiiyne this ordinance of 1787, and henco (a8 Mr. Lonnoy declares) the provisions of that ordinance aro boyond disturbance eithor by Con- gresa or our Biate Loyislsturs, Much more then must they outrank tho docision of the Bchool ard, 4, Uhat tho school funda themaclves, creatod under this act of 1818, nro constitutioually s part of our State law and thoao funds aro ** held {u & rnrpuluul aud irrevocablo trnst, to taach the ro- igion, morality, and knowledgo intendod by the ordinauce of 1' It will boseon at ooca that this discovery is rovolutionary, aud restores all dinorderly action to confornuty the moment tho poiut fa prossed. That the Otuciunat divisions overlooked the bearing of this ordinance is not spocially crodit= able to the research of their Chmiatian jurists, Aud for us, now that the right s made go plain, xi \n;\ild be the groasest negligence not to oxer- clsa it mAy bo rala that this ordinanco ia a *dead lottor.” Dutit hoa mo singularly sent its lifo down through tho flbres of aur Ktate Conetitu~ tioo thint our form of tenchors' cortiflcate cou- tains (or did recontly contain) a viguetto with the words, *Iiducation snd Clristisnity the Bulwark of Froo Institutiona,” Butif {t was or is o ‘' doad lotter,” it should not Liave prevailod so far as to produce the fol- lowing rule (Bec. b2 ot the Rules of the oard of Lducativn of the Clt{ of Chicago): ‘I'he morn- Ing session of the district, Grammar, and pri- mn; schools shall commence at 9 oclock [wfi reading the Boripturcs without note or comment, and ropoating the Lord'y Prayer, aud with appropriate. singing, ete.,] On the 18th day of Beptewber, 1876, our Bcuool Hoard suddoniy struck out the clause coninined in brackots. 1f Mr. Bonney iu correct thoy bave aciually sccomplished as much oa the Wameaquay of Bouth Africa whon thoy sboot their poisvned arrows at tho clouds to drive the etorm away, lu o word, their_notion is futllo, uuconatitutional, null, aud void. Tha Rev, J, V. Bain, in & sermon resched Qot. 10, 1875, alludes doflnitely to thts ©* famous ordinanco of 1787," aud evon quotes from it, but, being a clorgymen, ho uaturally overlooka its logal bearing. " The Rev. L. T. Chambeslain, in hig sermon of Oct. 31, 1875, doals with the whole quoation on broad genoral principlos—just 8t tho ordinsuce of 17687 did not exist. For mvaalf, I dealt with the topic in much the samo way. Dutif Mr. Bounoy bo right wo have bad a siuglo pawn which wo tould have *quconed” and won our game of chess, The wattor 18 legally scttiod. All"our talk, therefors, about the rights and weongs of man,—about-tolerance or intulorance, —about homeopathio, allopathie, or eclectic Dible prescriptions,—ia At an end. A law-abid- ing citizens we aro to onforce tho laws, and to hive undar thom. ‘Lhe School Bosrd of Chicago are not affectod by any State 1estrictiona ajuco the Conatitution of 1870 waived all control of such issuos, and relegated thom to tho local aulborities in eachi gchool distriot. But possivly tuat Convention excoeded tho bounds of charity in leaving thom tlis opportunity to brosk over law. A geutle- man of the name of liwan did ot intend to be 80 ambiguous luet winter, for Le propused to the Leglulaturo to make it posiuvely uulawful to Liavo tho Biblo jn the achiools at all. I have waited for somo one to proposs to ** mova on tho enemy's works immodiately ™ up- on the line of lsgal authorities indicated by Mr, Dooney's address. Probably I shall not have long to wait when oue adiditional fact fs falily underatood, It inthat onr Romanist friends do not roslly dosiro the Bible in the schools. But when wo pross them they any, ** Yes. koep it there, only divide with us the schiool fund.” "It i to be noticed that our Chicago Itoman Catliolics Lave kopt very still, or bave boen oxceedingly guarded in thoir uttorances. Aund the renson is plain enough, TFor whon the schools have vio- Iatod tho provisions of that charter under which they ara entuled to thelr schoo! funds, and whion this violation Laa continued so long {hat 1t becomes n sottled fact, and whon a toat-case is mado to doprive them af all or of part of their monsy-suppors, the lew is-in favor of the Ro- manist, And I for ono should then say ho was lu\lir elnuflasl ta all the school funds bo could contral. Wao Lave only therofore—after all the disous- sion—juat begun to touch the groat nerve of Inw, Tiuly, 8ics Baxven V. DurneLy; ——— p THE OBSERVANCE OF SUNDAY. ANOTUEN VIEW. To the Bditor of The Chicago Tridune ; Loaaxsront, Ind., Fob, 24,—There have been quite & vumber of communications {n Tue Trig- N with rogard to (ho obsorvauce of the Hab- bath, Bome do not boliove it nocesnsary to koop itatall. One writer bolioves it wrong to lahor on Bunday, but right to use it 23 a holiday, or a day of aniusemont. Auother belioves it should be kopt haly, basing his opiulon on the Fourth Comwandmént. Anothor combats thia opinlon on the ground that tho commandment requires (e observance of Saturday, and that thero is no command to keop Bunday, Answer 18 msde to this objootion, bub not the snewer I should wako. If you will allow me, I would like to con- (ribute something to the discussion. 1 hold thas God madoe certain laws, like the moral law, or Ten Comumandments, nat for the Jewa alous, but for all weu sud for all time, be- causs their observance will prowmate the woll- Loing of soclety, of the whole race. Thero 18 not auo of tho cowsmandments that does not appesl to tho reason of avery intolligont mau, aud most Lis approval, There are other things command- ed, hike tLo ceromounial daw, which applied e: olugively Lo the Jows, and expired by lumnitation. Babbath means rost, ‘U'lie Inw is, * Homejnber the Sabbath-duy,” the reat day, * to keep it ho- " Bix 8 sehalt thon labor,” eta. there to prevent mauy dsy in ¢ bolog msde by common consant the first or the saventh ¥ It ons day pul of the soven iy observed na & reab dey, aud tho othor six are davotod to Iabor, the command ia kept, In sho lotter and the spirit, As God commanded the obsorvance of Babbatical vears, {he offaring of bloody sacrifices for the Jows. oto., 8o Ha doa- ignated “Saturday s8 the dsy of rest for them, It commemorated the complation of the work of creation and their coming out of the house of bondage. The Lord bloused, not Baturday or Bunday, but the Sabbath day, orrest dav.—~L o.: ‘mada it a bieasing. I say then that the Gentiles koep the commandment—the unchanieabls law of God—by kedping Hunday as tha Hanbath, just an truly ss the Chriat says, 'ho Hou Babbath.,” "He smd to s Father sent Mo #o send [ qu." Le conforred upon thera tho gift of the lloly Ghost to guide thom. He E"" them power even to remit mn. I say then that the Apostles had ample power conforrod upon thom by tho Lord of tho Babe bath to changs the day, if any nuthority was nooesasry. Did the Apostles make that chungo ? There i8 sbundant evidence, mava Dr, Behalf, that the Apoatien and early Christlans bogan ime mediatoly to koep Sunday ‘asa day of worship, John xx., 19; Acta xz.,7; I Corinthians xvi,, 23 Miny, Epiotle to Trojan. Tho change was not unlvarsal and immedinte, bacansa the Jawiah converta—as in tho caso of circumcision—want- ed to hold on to Jowish customs. Why was a chiange of the day made? ‘[hore was a mew Church, now rites, a new mode of admission in- to tho Churcly,—by baptism inatead of circum- ciefon,—~and a now day of worshin, The soventh day commomorated the watural ecroation, and st the ssme time tho oxodus of Jeracl from his Lgyptisn bongagu, Kundsy is the fostival of the moral croatiol How should wa keep thoday? 'Tho law r uirlng & Babbatli was of univorsal application. ‘Iho appolutment of the sevouth day, sud the mannor of keaping it, was for tho Jows, Jowish custom aud law invested tho obsorvance of Ltho day with an austerity which Chriat did not sanc- tlon, Tholsw which is for all mon, says, member the Sabbath day to keop it holy,"— sncred unto the Lord. one out of tho scyen dent 1utontion was that itshould bo ueed for worsbip. Jewish worslip was one thing, Chrig- tiah auctbier; tho objoct the same, Ono writer in 'Tue TaisuNE saya it wauld be wrong to work on Bundsy, but thinke that the poor man who worka lard all the waok, aud hasn't Umo for rocroation, mav take it oo Bun. day. Ho doos not think of the poor man who han to work to furnish recreation for rich and poor. Ifitin wrang o work on Suunday, Iam sinning by compelling othors to work, Aro the poor, who kon[: tho Aabbath ss God dirocts, any tho worso off in body or soul, health or pocket? I think o majority of thoso who uso the day for recroation are worus off than thoss who keop it a8 n day of reat, and tho amount of crimo re- sulting frum its non-observanco fncalcutablo, . . P Apostion, ** As My e RUBENSTEIN'S DEVOTIONS. THE MUNDERER IN IS CELL. New York Sun, Feb. 24, “Ruby," as Peeach Rubonsteln is famitiarly called by the inmatea of tho Raymond Biroet Jall, £at on thoe steam-pipe {o his coll yesterday, bound in his straps, intoning his prayors sod readiog his Dible. At 7a. m. ho bound him- solf, wrapping tho thin, narrow leathorn atraps, ono around his right arm, beginnivg at the large muscles nbove tha clbow, and windiog it oround and around his arm unt!l It reachoa Lis flugor uaile, and the other about tho upper part of hisboad. On his forchead aud on the inside of his arm, at tho olbow, aro tirmly fast- oned two small cubes of wood abont 21 fnches thick, with a margin at tha bottom of half an inch, and o covering or casa Stting over tho cubo and resting on tho margin. On cach of thiess cubes are writton in Ilebrew the 'I'en Commandments, The straps are bound 80 firmly a4 to interfere somowhat with tho cir- culation of tho blood, bat the dovoted Hobrow ondures it a8 a duty. Ho saya it 18 nacessary to rid himeolt of a certain amount of antmal forco, and that, the muaclos boiug tho acat of that force, Lio begina to atrap himself at the place of reatest muscular doveiopment, above tho el- Eow. The fingor-nails, bo says, aro * one of tha cescnces of roligion,"” and this vital force leaves tho muscles and ontera thoe atrap at the ond, and travels 1ta entire length, ucwmg through the nails of the tiugers, whore tho other end of tho trap terminates, Ho prosonted & curlous, grotesque appearance with his blooka and atraps on, and bis long biack hair turned under in rolls about his iead.” Iha faco 'ia palo, his neck ox- tromoly small, and bis body emall. ie possessos much cunniug, sud sbows it in hin face, Rubongtein shook bands. mith Col. Btegeman, and scauned with caution tho other visitor, Not recogelzing bim as o reportor, he was contont to allow bim to romain, Ha drives rejortora from hiscoll. He took the Bheriff into his cell, and sat down at the oxtromo ond of it, as far away a4 ho coutd got, and in mufled Gorman sekod bim to uso hig intlueuce with tho Judges and tha District Attorncy to obtain a stay or reprieve for three months,” Ho eaid “be could not get roady to die by tho 24th of March, and urgod the Bherill to get bim thne enough to proparo to die. At timos Lio put Lis lips to tio ShonT's oar, and, looking to seo -whether any ons was listemiuge, wlispered somothing very coulidontial, The Bberill would not say what it was. At times ho smiled and seowsd in good spirits, o saya he will not be Lauged Lecause hois innocent and fo tho hsuds of God, who will mat nilow bim to Lo hanged. On account of his coufldeiico of eeaaping the gallows, the sirictost possible watch I8 kept over Lim. Tne Bible that his fastior sout bim was not given to bim, for foar that tho lcaves are paisaned. ‘Fwelve dollate, sent bim by frlends through the Sun, tras not given to um Tor the sawe reson. The Sheritf took the bank-notos seat, and guve im others in their place. ‘Fho wary Rubenstein hositated eomo timo before accopting the monay. Tho Sheriff, after coneiderablo talk, porsunded lilm that it waa right and eafo to take it, and ox- plaiued thav it was fiom bis frionds to ald b in obiaivlug » now trial, Rubousteln took the mouoy, and signod a receipt, » He luurwndenyed with his faco to the east, rocklng his body to and fro, and smiting bis Lronst, Ile moved his lips in smothered utter- auce, placiog nt times his uostapped band over bis oyes, Then ho read hia Bidle, wituning & ahort prayer beforo bexlnult\g. Attor this was gono through with he unvound his arn and fare~ gnad, kismog repeatedly the ‘fen Oommand- ments on the cubos as ho carefully wound the straps about them and placed thom in 8 bag. Ho asked the Shonft to lot him go to New York to tho synagoguo for two Liours, but his requost was denied. Jolm Cowen land Andrew J. Lyon, the night watchors, sny they feas to leave Rubonatein alous five minutes,” leat ho toar the shoota to Lis bod sud hung bhimself, They took Rubeustein 1o bathie on Monday, and while iu tho water he boesme appareutly dead, 1l bad no pulse, and hin bioart soomed Lo stop hn!lnfi. To all appear~ moces he wan doad, and his keopors said thoy “thought tbat thoy bad Joat bim.” There wass alight pulsation at'the it of tho stomach, Low- aver, aud they imagined ho was plaviug possum, 1o teut hitn Keoper Stiason took nold of lus hair aud asked for mcissors to cut it off. Bleril Btegeman told Rubenstain in German what the kopper intondod to do, and ssked whothor ko wighod 1t done. Rubouatoin thereupon opened bis oyes wido and gave an ominous ahake of the Load, aneworing at tho #amo time, **Ob, no, no." e ate oight oggs on Saturday pight after fanting all day, ile oats heattily at avory meal, He saya that the detoolivos took his boots ol and carrled them (v tho corofleld and Ymgnul them Juto the ground to make tho tracks, and {‘hen beomeared thew with the murdered girl's ood, Rubonstein burns kwo candles every Friday night a8 & part of bis worship, 1io crios, prays, pitiygs, and roado his Bible in turn, and bls tme {unimost wholly speut 1o thiy manoer., g MAJ. COLE IN ENGLAND, DEACRIPTION OF ONE OF It BERVICES, A correspondent of tho Norta Aritlsn Mail, writing from Londou undor date Jan. 23, givea the fallowing description of somo observations on Maj, Colo’s work, coupled with the following doscription of one of his avening aervices at the Princo of Walow Theatre : Who s Ms). Colo? 1 bLasd baon confronted with his nato ou glgantio placards on dosd walls, aud {5 aie nouncengaie made In various papers, T bad beard, bad bean stlanding tweetiuga 1or the Jast fuw daye sud nights iu whicli Ls Lad boen sdvertlaed £0 tako part, aud almost ax mauy bad upun various oc: castous roturned chayrinod at not boiug abls to ub. tain admission. Wuo Is Maj, Cole 7 I therofur, sskod, fret of mysell, and receiving therofrom no u afactory suawer, 1 put tha vame yusstion Lo an otliclal o dour of the I'riuce of Wales Thecstrs on Buuday uiug, * Alal. Coio 19 there W anawer for bimeelf, suswered the olliclal. Threadlug my way thraugh's mysterious side door, which was unlocked from the inside, 1u cumplizuce witls wy guide rapping at 1t with his knucklew, T found wysols 10 tuat so-much covetod of alghts, * iebiud the Beence.” At & little distance, 1n 8 aliady coruer, upon s for, sst & pale-faced, goods foatured, dark, slioriish gentleman, stiired In (e most unclerical of Ulstaru, * Upa biesting whio 1 wax, ho ade vanced and shook we curdially by thebsnd, 7'hw wae Muj.tols ] 1n the course of & couversation very Hmited, from (e fact that it wauted but vary few minttes (o the bour aunounced for the comtencemont of worship, Msj. Cole 1uforiuwd o that be Lsd couducted tive survicos that day; also that o ad sorved in the Iate Awcrican War, and, moreayer, thal he was & sucocasor to Mr, Moody In Cuicago, As I was wendiug iy way towarils the stage, upon which & very large aasetnblags of isdiss ard geutleinen had gatliere. alt & liaud 1aid ou wy ar, It was tho Major's, Lo sald, with » alight American twang, “T don't know, desr friend, whather you are 8 servant of the Lord's, Lut anyhow, tho Lord'e a good friend | ”—an announcement whicl, howerer well-intentionsd on his part, atruck e 88 tes ing_somawhat ill-timed and junnecessars, An oifcisl entesed atone of the alde winge by the proscenium, fored up tnat ovening by tha axngregation, tnea ceme upon the stags and comimency: ductlog fhe = service. ‘Tha Major's volce s very clear, and rings melodjongly throughout tha houss, . 'He reads fmlelligently, sud wilh much’ apparent eumeatnesa; and, morcover, yus- seascn by & certatn familiar aiyleno amall amorint of pawer avor the clash of suditory auch s¢ e addrasred ©on Bunday night, He stopped his hearern duet at tha Conclunion 0f e Bymn. they wern aiDRing by eis cltiming, # Now, my dest friends, lat's alug the iast verse aa though we were Dot afeatd of it~ His dis- course, which sartly afterwarda followed, struck me an bieing ons far more remarkable for ingennity and coupiln togathier taxta Which had manifesily oo refer- otico {0 ach other, than for elter originlity of deptly of thought, He began with, “ I've playad the fool,* the words belog teken from 'Pirst Hamuel, twenly. aixth chapter, and tweoty-frst verss, o desoribed the sscred historls record (which muggested the text) of David saving Baul from death by tho nword of Abiatal, and Saul bvlng, fn aussreling with David, * played the fool * with Lin bast friend. This was, with no swal] smount of fugenulty, twlated Snto the rinnor'a conduct {o rolationaip to Jesu 1lie root aud offspring of David." "dlod was represcnicd sa Abishai—raislog the apesr (o alay the sinuer, and Jeaus an David Snterposin nave the sin- ner, This deduction to some devout tninds mliiht acom true, bub o others must bave Leca looked on a8 alogularly far.felched, not to sy pro- fane, 1In the practical application of hissubject, Baj. Cole Hllustrated how men had * played the fool " in slio various inctdonts related {n the aacod racord. Commenclag with Eve and the serpent: the bulldiug of the * Tower of Dabel," wheu, sald tho Major, 1 men went througn the world unable to epesk to eacti otlier, but muttering to thiemeelves, * Ohl what s fool 1 have beon.' " The scens of $us delugs waa described withi dratnatio energy a0d powsr which was worlliy of Continental Cathiolio diviue, Btanding i front of ihostage, the Aajor acted Lo theilfo the despair of thioes Whio bad refassd {0 enter tho Ark, crying at the top of Dis volco and with s hand learing bis Lair, **1've played the fool 1 o descended, hawsvery ai thines o certain imaginary converaations in smiliar terms, “Tcan fanoy the chlld saying to Lis y, when I sakad you to go fnto tha Ark, ud say the ofd man—Nosh—w: coutrollablo angulshy of the lot the Major flustratcd Ly atamging s foot vio- lently snd shouting loudly, *I've played ils foul.” lfs histrionls ability, ss well as bis ingenuity in twisting the bistoric narrstive (o Lis subject, attained s climax in hia description of Bal- shszzivie Yoaat, whan, by gesturo and_ezprestlon, ke depicted pawertully the consternation of the bewiler~ ol monarch at tha mysterious and swial appearance of tho handwriting on the wall. * Found wanting " repeatod the Msjor, suddenly breaking off from the narrativanto the ‘pplication of the doctrins of aub- stitution, ¢ Found wanting! snd what are you found wanting In? Thers is ouly one thing you want,—the blood of Jesua." Again, in tho same ll{la,— ene | Mone!" cte, #Noto," axclalmed the Msjor, * could understand the words; what wouder? They were God's wos without the spirit of God; sad this apirit, {friends, you will gluan from this book!"” " In his horiation Lo told most touchingly and plalntiv nlmple domestis story of s drunkard's ceclainatia; and it was impossible not to perceive the marked | creasoof intereat which was manifosted in bis s ditory when he dopfoted cortain homo-scenes, and uttercd home words and spoke of home affections, THE DIVINE COMEDY, Tho Marvelous Way in Which a Part of Dante’s Great I"oem Was I2ccove ered. Tospooting the end of thue Divina Commedia (says a writer [n tho Cornhill Maaazine), those thirtoen last cantoa which were not sent to Oan Grande, Boceacelo tella ua a quaint and touching storg, upon the marvelous part of which doubt {8 thrown by later and more mattor-of-fact his- torisns, and in which it la posalble thers may bo onfy such a roflection and reconstruction of the finding of tho original sovon cantos in Madonna Gemma's strong chest s ie not unusual in per- sonal bistory. But such repetitions do doubtlees oceur in fact somotimoea as well a3 in art, and avybow tho postscript socms not an unfitting ono to tho wandering, uncortaln life of the poct, and tho curious fragmoutary snd muohfotermpt- ed composition of bisgreat work, The concluding cautos, according to Bocoacoio, woro missing ot Danute’s death, and aa soon as the shook of that ovent was over, his friends bLegan anxiously to %uul(on his two sons, Pletro and Jacopo, whiom 6 Lind loft bobind Limin Ravenna, about the end of tho great poem. The young mon, how- ovyar, could give no information, and apparently id pot aven know, whsther thelr fatker had finishod the work or not. When, howover, after many searches thoy found nothing, the two lade, botly of them dicitori—ns who should say poot- sstora—bogan to be tompted—moved by their own ambitlon perbaps (for why should not the 8ou be abla to do what the fathor has done—and more ?) or by that long-standing excnae, the de- siro of frionds, ‘‘degli amici pregatl,” eaya Buceacclo—ia rut thor bands to 'the work aud make the conclusion themaolves, n bold undor- taking onough. Tho young Iietro and Jacopo ‘wore, howover, saved fram this exporiment in tho following romarkabls way : ** But a wondorful vision appeared to Jacopo, who way tho moat forvent {u thle ides, not only toleasing bim aud Liy brothor from this foolish presumption, but showiug wheie the shirtoen cautos woro to be folmnd. It is told by & wortby gentloman of Rlivenna, by name Plero, QGiardioo, long a discipio of Danto, a mad of scrious mind and woudv of bollof, that after his master had boen dead for oight wouths, Jacopo di Uauts came to hia_bouse in the mid- dlo of tho night andtold Lim that ou that Bamo night he had scon in o dream his father Dante, clad in vory white rayment, hns face shin- fog with unaccustomed light, whom ko askod it Lo was living, and heard from bim the reply, *Yes; but {u tho truo life, not sou Then ‘it Gecurred to Jacopo to ask it ha had finishod his work beforo ho yamsed totho truo life, and, 1l hio had complated ft, whore the conclusion wes, which they had not beon able to find, To which quostion a simlliar answer waa piven, 'Yes, I completed it’; and then it appoared to Jacopo that hia fathertook him by the nandand led him to tho raom t which he had ltved during his lifetime bhore, and tonching a panel snid, *That which you sesk 15 hero'; and Laving said thess words, Danto disuppoared, and along with him Lis son's sleep, Upon which hio, Dieto Giardino, afiirmed that Jacovo not belog ablo to rest without oum- ing to tell what lie Lad seon, tho two wont to- Rotlier to examine tho placa indloated. whioh tho dreamer had exactly noted, 1 order to sco if it hiad been polnted out by a true apinit or a falso dulusion. ~Audso, though it was atitl nigbt, thoy went togothar to tha Liouse ju which Danto had died, and ealling lim who then lived thero, wera admitted by bim, and going to tha pice found a woodeu panel fitted into the wall. as they had al- ways boen accustomed to soe it; avd removing (Lhis they found {n tha wall s little window, whicl nonn of thom had over seen or kuew that it wag tuere, and in this they found many wrisings, molded by tho damp of the wall, and which would have besn desiroyed altogother had thoy been joft longer there ; and when they had caro- futly cleared thom from the mold they found, in continuous order accordiug to tho numbore, the thirteon miseing cantos. Aud fu_groat joy rds| None can understand thie word of God dear they copied them, and, according to the ouatom of the anthor, firet sent thom to Messer Cane, and then added them to the lnperfect poem ; and In this mannoer the work which bad boen carried on through so many yoars was at Jast finlshod." et oy % THE FRESSED GENTIAN, The wayward traveler 07 pass, Mark thie gray disk of clowded glase § And tte dull bisnkness weeims, perchanes, Fully 10 their wisw ignvrauce, They cannot from their outlook see. o thu warin tropic of my room, As fair os when Deatde ita brook "o bue of bending skies 3t took, 8o, from the trodde Beem some aweet & Audd offer Lo tUa carelen glanca ‘T'ue clouding gray of clroumstance, ‘Tuey blovsom Leat whers Learthi-lires by, To loviug syes alona they turn ‘o Buwers ot fnward grace. tust bide ‘Thelr beauty {rowm tha world outside, But deeper mesnings come to me, Ay halfeuninortal nuwdl" =rmu [LtH al v Tl Eturual Eye that soss thie whole, Alay batter read (he darkoucd soul Aud find, to outward sonse deniad; ‘The flower upon ita inmoat aids | —=John . Whutier va 5t, Nicholua jor Harehy el el it inh Murying & Doy, Reuben ook, of Meridon, Contecdont, thought & great deslof his fanious bLuoting Lound, Old Bport, and whou the dog died, the other day, Lo gave bim & decent burial, A cay- kot way provided appropristely frescoed with bunting scéncs. Your mou weio selecied as palie bearers, After tho box had boeu doposited at tho gravo, one of the mouruera presont read & briof bustory of the dog aud his pedigres, and a of mnlo volces sang & Lymn. Afier grave-slono was wot up bearlng tho dog's nsme and age, sud offesing » rewsrd for the deteltion of the one wie poisoned Lfin. Mr. Cook 1 going (o xet o byouse oaxs of thedog and put it ou Lis grave, TIHE CURRENCY, LEGAL-TENOER, To the Kditor of The Chicaza Tribune ¢ Uaryva, Tl Feb, 2. —In your controvaray with Mr. C. P, Buckingham. I notice that Lis objects to your anuwers lo some of his querien as ova- alve; 20, by your permission, I will try and soe it I can auit bhim any batier, r. B, aaks, ‘' Would not the repeal of the legal-tender clanes bava tho immediats effoct to depreciate the value of erecnbacks ?" To this I anawer, emplstically, No. Valua cannot ne legistated {nto s thing that was before wortn- lean ; nelthier canit bo leglalated outof a thing baviog intrinaic value in itself. Valuo Is in- herent {n tho thiog valued, and i wholly out of tho reach and beyond (he control of munfcipal * Iaw. Valuo, like lifs, Ia product of. natural law, aod man can neithsr create nor actually destroy it. Congress can- Dot {ncreata or lessen tho valuo of the horses in the United Blates by enacting a law that thoy shall hereaftor be mules, end that mules shall be & logsl tender, The valus of a grecnback hzs novar been In the least degrco emblanced or diminished Ly the fact that it haw boen mado & legal-tender.” {We cannot subscribs to that opinion.—En.] " Buppose Congress rhould enact tbat all of the old motes of all tbe dis- chargod baukrupts in the United Htates abould herealter bo a legal-tender—docs Mr. Buckingham suppose ho could purchase s singlo vesl-cutlet with a cart-load of them? Of courno, if the veai-cutlot Liad been purchased on credit befora tho paswage of the law, Con- ess could ouact thal the debt should be paid u the Lankrupta’ notes: but this would only bo a0 indirect way of enacting tha ft should not ba paid at all. 17 tho legal-tendor clause 18 au elo- ment of valuo, a¢ Mr Buckingham contends, then this “olement " was created (nos discov- ored) br Congreas, and, {f Congress can creato one olemont, I cannot gne why it csnuot creats anothior, and anothor, and o finally abollsb the Almighty and run the whale machine itself, [The valuo of tho legal-tender clause consiata In the power it confors on dobtors to compel their creditors to sccept euch paper in full pay- ment of their dobts. This power I8 believed to aad materially to the valuo of such paper. Ro- poal the logal-tendor quality of the greenback, sud we suapect tlat {t would depreciste very tapidly and run down very low.—En,] Deceive ourselves as we may, gold s at last tho roal standard ol value of everything, for it 18 the bload of commerce, and while the Llood is kept purs, the sublect ia strong; when it is al- loyed, tho subject {s weakened ; and, when it (s driven out altogetber, commerco dies; and you may sa woll try to keop » man alive by takinj "his blood from him aod filling his voins mkg ‘water, a5 to undertake to kesp commerca &live Ly removiug gold &3 tho standard of value. Bumwsu Congress should euact that gold ehoald ba valucless, and that greonbacks alone snould bo valuable as monoy,—is there an idiot out of Congress that doea not know that gold would keop right ou boing valuatlo (as tho way said of the moon when the dog barked at it), + aw though notbing had happened ¥ Of course, it Cougrees connot destroy the value existing in old, it cannot creato a value sud perpetuate it u mere worde. - Now, a8 to Tux Tnustxe's plan for redeeming greenbacks, I suspeat Mr. B, is vary nearly cor- xoct in his yiow of it, and that Tus TripunE seca ft; otherwise it would have treated him ib jie ueunl candld epiriv. The only elemont of value thero i in & gresuback is the expectation, more or loss certain, that it will pome day bo paid; for n:rtonhlck is just like the nola of any s vent dobtor, without any Isw to enforce ita col- lection. but with tho hops (supponssd to be well founded) that such a law will soon be suacted. {This aadoubtedly conatitutes part of its valua, but not all of il, Bupposs our correspondent hiad a noto for $1,000 falliug due, ho would give whatever was askod for €1,000 of gresuback providiog it was less than par, because tho di count would bo so much gain. If Lo pald €500 in gold for @1,000 of greenbacks, ho would still make or tave $100 by tho operation in the pay- ment of bis dobt. The debts paid in the United Brates in the courso of a year amonnt to fully twalve times the whols volume of legal-tenders. Lach dallar of grocubacks is employod as often 8 00co & month, on tho average, in dischargivg debts, which otherwine the creditor would Lave the lawful right to exact in coin or its equiva. lent. We think thia evormous daily demaud for thouso of legal-tenders in payment of dobus must necessarily add more or less to their value.—ED,] Tho reason why greenbacks fell immediately aftor the passago of the Iaw of 1875, was bo- cause Congreas did a dishonoat thing by declar- iug indirectly that they should not be redeemed bofore Jan. 1, 1879; whereas tho general beliof Lbad been that they would be paid saaner. |Tbis is nonsenso. The advance in gold was cauncd by nlarge drain to moet forsign obliga- tions, Tho public Lad no expectations that Con- gresa was going to rodeem the legal-tandera sooner than 1870, After ths bill passed, they did not boliove it could or wouid be done then, be- case it wae seon from tho first that tho means provided by tho blil were ntterly inadequate tothe end {o view. The bill roquired tho Scerotary of thae Treasury {o eoll bonds for not less than par in gold; and, as tho only bonds which the law suthorized him to soll were 434 por cont fiftoon= yonr bonds, there is no market for thom at par in gold. The publlo oxpectation baa boon that Congross would either repeal tho act of Jan. 14, 1875, or make adequate provision this mession for caniyiong it into effect ; but thus far nothlog hian bean done pro or con.—En.] But the plan of Tuz Trisuse i evon moro dis- houeut than tho law of 1870, admitting Congrees’ intends 1o do s it has agroed, which is by no monny probable, It Tux Tumuxe'a plan is ndopted, aud 3.65 legal-tonder thirty-year bondas aro isaucd, greoubacks will fnetantly go to tho valuo of theso bouds, for the simple rosgon that such an st would be regarded 38 8D & ative declaration on tho part of tho Goveramont that it Intended to redeem its promises in no other toay (7); snd go, it tho bomla \ ere not worth per in gold. the Governmont wouud cled iy have porpetrated an sct of ropudistion ; and. it the boudy #bould provo to bo of leas valuo than the greenbacks now &re (as in ali humaa probabili- ty they would), then tho whole contrivance would prove n wickod scheme to rob hionest creditors ; and the ouly thing there is 10 the whols matter 18 commend itsel(l to an honest man 18 thoe fact that it will determius stouco juat how much of its ovordue debt the Qovernment intends to re- wudiale, and 80 end all futurs uncertsinty about the matter, [These are wild aseertions, made without facts behiud them, and the geductious therefrom hre wholls unwartanted, *'Tug Tripuxs plau ™ did uob propose tho repealof the act of Jan, 14, 1875, but rather auggosted a method by which it could be carried into offect. It waanot proposed to coerce any man into parting with his green- backs for 3.65-por-cent gold-bonds, The plan swwas aimply to give tho holdera of the notes the apion to tund thominto a thirty-year gold-bond, Learing 8.65 or 4 per cent Interest, and euch bunl 10 be & legal-tender in payment of old dobts. No one would funda dollar of greon~ backs into such a bond if it wero worth loss than the note. Bub ¢ would beyond question be worth more than the pressnt value uf grosn- backs. We bave mno doubt thatsuch a legal- tender bond would be worth 00 from the start, Bupposs two-thirdd or thres-fourths of tha gr baoks should rua into eucl & boud by the volun- tary action of the peopts, the overnment would shon be able to redeew the resldus by taking them o for taxes, and ont of the stock of coin which it can Ly that time bave on hand withous dwturting the money-markota, A legal-lender bond of the kind proposed would be & popular curily, and tho greenbacks would bo quickly exchauged thorefor by the general public.—En,] ‘I've paoplo of the Uniled States aro a solvent copartnership, with p certain paid-up capital aud, besidey thiv, the firtn Lna bocome indobted (0 a part of its iudividual members, and thoso who Liavo loaned the firm nothing, beiog & wa- Jority, propone ta divido the sasets smong the weveral members before paying the debta due to the other mombors, Now, what 1a the uso of & Court of Chaucey if, Laviug jurisdiction of tho subject matter, it should permit such o fraud ¢o beporpetrated? Whatisthe use of protendiug to Liave patlos houasty aud 8 national consclenice unlcss, 88 & paoplo, wa du lu the axgrogsto what wo can be compollud to do as ludividuals ? For the lifo of mo, I cannot woo what botter right & milhion of mou comsvinod Lisve Lo steal over tLbt of a single individual. Whoa Cougross roposled the law allowing yroenbacky to bs fuuded iuto 5-20 bonds, it indirectly atolo tore than & huu- dred ‘Twooeda could possibly Lave doue; modif hio G like & county or city, could be defendant in & court of law, tho repest of tho law would be Leld void, because it waa {ia forco at the time they wero lisued, and 80 bocame a part of the conteact for thelr re- demption. It I8 troo that we eannot get gold snough at onco to redsem the graenbacks, but I3 is not true that wa cannot bafln to redeom a small per cent of them: and, if the whole mattar could be taken from the bands of the politicians, and & definits plan settied upon, from which thereatior there could ba no departuroe, it would bs forfu- nate for all partios concarned. Unfortunato in. dead was it that the Supromo Court evor decided greenbacks s legal-tonder. and ibat decision, likn the Dred Scott case, may yot produce A revo- lution ; for, whils Congress haa tho power to Avert auch a disaster, it seoms uttorly incapablo of oxascising it. H. Biocrow, HOW TO OBTAIN GOLD FOR RESUMPTION,. To the Ed.tor of The Chicago Tribune: Hrpe Pang, Feb, 24.—The finsncial aphorism of Mr. Gresley, that ** The way to resumo ia to reaume,” {n devold of wisdom, If not of wif, The road by which coin-payments may bo reached {a not paved with papar resolutions, but with eolld preparation, Thero are £ Yo siomenta in tha quostion of ro- sumption,—*time™ and *mothod."—and*the ono is conditioned upon the othor; that is to #ay, tuat the tims for resumption is dopendent tipon the measuros of preparation adopted to facilitate {t, If Cobgress shall take prudent action, we may retnrn to a cash banin by or ba- fore 1879, witliout shock or jar, and, indeod, to the great profit of ail intetests, The time and success of rosumption being conditioned upon tho metbod, let us cousidor what that must be lo vost recuro the objoct, Tusre are Lwo elements also in tue question of method. to-wis: First, the amount of coio re- qulred for the purposs; end, second, the most feamblo measuro for' acquirlnic the gold, As to the smouut of coin required for succeas~ ful resumption : this, again, in conditioned, in & measire, upon tho ! of our productive to. dustries and our foreign teade-ba'ances, If our industrial productiveness can be so rovived sa to turow our féreigu exchabges permanently in our favor. wo may mafely at any time, with %200‘.‘000,000 gold in hand, enter upon cash-pay- monta, The most important problem connected with the queation of resumption is that relating to the method of obisiniog the gold reauired. Bhall it be by purchase, or by hoarding ? The firat-named methiod impliea tho incroase of tho volume and valno of our cutrency by the amount. of the gold Lought or borrawed. plus the cur- rent discount on our paper-currency, which will be restored to par-valuo by the process. Tho hosrding process [mplies & contraction of the volume and value of our cur- rency by the smouut of gold hoarded, plus the currant coln-praminm, *rue expansicn would tend to stimulate production, consump- tion, trade, and commerce. Tha contraction would still further ropress trade and commerco by lessening production snd consumption, I as- sume that thero ean bo no question smoug practical businesi-mon about tho approximate truth of theso propositions. Thero aro, however, more serious festures to tho hoarding policy, embodied in ponding moas- tres bafore Cungress thau thiose above roforrod to. I speok ol the provision requiring the Na- tional Banks to nccrue a faud of gold equal to 40 por cent of their cirelulatiou, for purposes of re- demption. They now have in trust with the N tionsl Comptroiler Government bouds of tho current value of 130 for every 8100 of thelr fs- sucs, and the additional 30 per cout will swell tho required socurity to £160 to overy %100 of issup., A roquircmout Ao _oxtraordi- nary and unressousabls will force ev- ery Nationsl Bank in tha _couotry to retiro its bill-issues. Having thus sffectuslly disposed of somo €350,000,000 of our curreucy, the climax of folly is reacbod in the Congress- fonal detormination to destroy tho greenbacks aa fast a8 redeemed. Haviug thua achieved the Bentonian goal of * hard mouey " (aod bLuta little of it), they will now readjust the tariff in a manner to encourage & largo impurtation of the products of labor, with the resultant Increased gold-balanca against us, and a reruiting of tho vast army of our idle workmon ; showing a wild madnesain thelr metbod, if not amethod in their waduoss. [Wo nro not awaro of any proposition of this sort boforo Congress. There i a bill befaro the Waya and Meana Committes to redaco the tanff- taxation on ariicles whero it is excessive, in order to relieve tho consumor, aod to enable the monufacturer to export hia surplus producta abroad. Dutthoreisno bill that we are aware of which proposes to recruit the army of ldle workmen which has been created by the oxplo- eion of inflated credits and thoe oxistence of ox- censivo tariff taxation.—Ep.} If our Congressional 3Marplots wonld but listen to tho practical judginent of tho active business-men of the country, they would lsava tho volume of the currency subsiantially as it now fa, They would carafully avoid the flnm}- ing poiicy, a8 ono of violent contraction and dis- nster, aud likely to result fn a lsrge and rapid iucrease of the gold-premium. ‘They would ad- Just onr cusioms-rates in & mauner to enorgizo our owp productiveness, increass our exporiable comniodities, and compel and maintaiu a favora- Vlo forelgn.axchiange balance,—~tlo truo barome- ter of a uativn'a proapenty. Aud now, whon tho iudustrial and fioancisl condition of the conutry stiould bo elevated toa eound, healthy state,—be that 1fmo nexc year or pext coutury,—the Governmment nhoufil Just elep fato ths marketa of the world, snd buy tho necessary amoant of gold for resnmption,— buy iz with tho best and ouly commodity sho has to sell,—her coupon-bouds, If any mzu queationa tho feasibility of thls method, 1ot bim look 1o ¥rance, aud consider the marvels in fluance wrougit by bher states- mon sinco the Gorman War,—a war that loft her utterly prostrato and impoverished. Boo how gulckly sho paid the German jndommity of 1,000,000,000, apd fundod hor own onormous war-oxponscs. amounting, with the fodvmulty, to fully §8,(:00,000,000. Accnmulative to this, sho leaves {n tho vaults of the Bank of Franco (tiscal agont. of tho State) & doposit of $373,000,- U0V in gold as & baale for bill-redemption. Bho w“nmu this yast sum by slo of bher securities, —thiat is to "fl' slio bought tbo gold with ber bonds,—aud she protcots her possasaion to thls glittering fuud by & skiliful sdjustment of her tanff-ates, which pgivea lur an annuat trado balance of some 400,000,000 francs, This favoring current of oxchango Is tho {nozorablo tenure by which ale holds this coin intact, becauso 1t is {n conforauty with s universal Isw of trade; and, undor ita protec. tlon, Frauce {a now in the act of resumption, with more solld cash In bank than {s hela by all thie banks of the world besldes, with an indus. triat productivonsss of marvelous development, greal aclivity in trade end commerce, sud a satisfactory fioaucial budget, Thease are solid facts, and o ideal ploture, Ileore we have a fixed law of higber force and walidity than actas of Congioss,—a resoript which enforces fta awn provlalous. Our sucovss in re- sumption will bo accurately measured by the measura of our conformity to it. 1n brief, thore thires absalute conditions to be obsarved o all resumptive legiststion : First—Auy conalderable contraction of the presont volume of ourrency must be rigorously avorded. Second—Tha roquired amount of coin for ro- sumption must be procured by purchase, at or near tha time when noeded. Third—Our foreign trade aud exchauge bal- ances muet be coutrolled to run pereistoutly in our favor. o Bupplemental to these fmperative mossures, I assume that the odoral Tressury ought, sa a matter of equity and sound policy, to assumo the rodewmption of the Natlonal-bank fseucs, for the reasous : First (aud primarily)—That it bold secnrittes, ample beyond contingency, intrusted to ber cus- tody by tho banks, for the sole purposs of tha coutingent redsmption of their bill issues ; who shouid not, therolare, Iu squity, be required o pravide a duplicato fund for such purpose. Second—Buoause {L will roquire ® o larger coin reserve toeffect the tedemption by the I'ressury of the whole than of a part of our currency, as tho dewands of commarce and fluauce roquire a specific amount of colt, which amount must ultimatoly flow from thoaub- Trosaury, ‘olther in procoss of redemption of reonbacks, or lu paymont of coupons held in rust for the bauke for this nurpe-n‘ or ulti- mately, if neod roquire, from Llso eale of tho whola 'or & part of the trust bonds thomselves. Third—Becauss, in contralizivg redemption, we ceonomizo the use of @100,000,000 doad coin. capital, which is au importanl faclor in the problom of early coiu-resutnpsion, Fourth—Because thls would unify our whole monotary systom. real aod repressntative, by which slone porfact security, with uniformicy of valuo, can ba reached, Fyth—Bscauso this method wonld socuro por- foct coufidence in the optlousl couvertibility of the National bauk-note into colu, thereby secur- ing both bauks and people againet colu-pauics and runs,-~digastrous and ondivoresble evils of the old system of iudtvidual bauk redemption. Can any well-taken or qaalifying objection bo urged sgalost & messure thus cqutable aud politio 2 8 B, Kixe, IRREDEEMABLE NOTES. To tAe Editor of {'he Chicace Tridune: Ouicaao, Feb, 24.—Theta Is & party from whom ls duo to me some money, for which I hold bis demand-uotes; but he won's psy, ‘X am told that he fs very wpslthy, and ‘that his nptes are, therefors, as good s mo: and, 1o point of fact, are monoy, and will pass currant as auch. Itis true that, betwoen myselt and other creditors of his, wasre corafelled ‘fo "dse his unpald notes to effect our exchanges, as wo havo nothing batterto use, our own real monsy having been all spent a good while 8go. A cone siderable portion of it was advsnced lo our dobtor on bis notes. We have bosu expecting that, sooner o later, he would pay up; and, consequently, rather than stop business alto- gether, we uso his notes to a certain hmited ox- tout for buyiog and selllng amongat oursslyes, Straggers won't-bavo anything to do with thy a3 currency. DBut tho conatant doubt -of tholr avar being id makes ua almost teluctant to buy or sell anvihivg oa such un- certaiir tarms ; ‘at least, It takes off all the edge of our natyral dosira to trade and mako monoy, Wa aro stroogly inclined tobe tinifty and money- making, hut we dazo not ventura upon fearlsas rowunorative buslooss on such a quicksand se thesa notes. ¥ Thia state of mait 2, along with oppressive taxation, which raises tii cost of onr manufsa. tures far abovo what our nelghibora csn produce them for,—thoreby restricting the sale of them almost entiroly to our own seives, aud pravent- e us from selling to sny one olss,—bas, aa might be expected, brought about hiard times amoapst us. Closed faciories and atores and poverty-atrickeo people prove the truth of the universal remasrk of ** Dull times and ncthing duing.” Even prayer to God is pablicly offered 1o ralteve our deptorable condition. Now, n this oxtremity, if our debtor, who. it in claimed, ina vast resources,—so vast anto render good all tho notoa Lie chomss to emit, however numerous they way bo,—would only psy up, or set about in earnest to gat ready to pay, ‘we wou.d very 800D 800 A groat fine provement in our condition. We would have confldonce, ot which we have soarcoly any st prosent. Coufldence, a8 {a well known, is the ifo of trade: aud wabt of confidence must, therefuro, be it death. It has proved so with us. Lut, with reatored confidence. we should liave iu reaction s tremendons revival and ox- tonslon of buslnoss, particularly if, st the snma time, the fettera of * Protection™ were whotly or partislly retnoved. Our debtor, however, has, unfortunately, a fot of bad advisers, who say {hat lus notes, although Iswfully = duo, should nover be pald, They Liold that, altbough irredeumable, yet, being based upou his faith and resources, thoy are, ipso faclo, money (O wonderful tranuforma- tion! O'modern fulfilimont of tho alchemist's dresml); that thoy should bo indofimtely in: croased’; aud that it would injuriousty iuterfere with our stagnsut businoss were they to be pad up in real money, I can't seo, in'tho firet place, that it makess cent'n difforenco whother irredecmable notes are bLssed upon anything or nothing. A beggar's note, which he 18 never bound to pay, seoms tq mo just ns valuable, or just as worthloss, sa s willionnire's note upon the samo terms. 1 don'f 8o hiow cithier could, in suy sonse whataver, be locked upon a8 money, Thore 18 no real counec. tion between them ond mouey at all, but evory. thing tuat is oppozite. An Lonest man'’s noce, payable at tho same time, poor thongh be might be, would be muchk more like mouey, and much more valuable, Bul bow such irredeemable notes conld help and giva us confldenco, is & greator pnzzle still, Dad as our curroucy is just now, an additional uprestricted isaue of such notes would maxo it Infinitely worso,—so much 8o that, in a vory short time, thare would oot one of us caro about. touchiug them with » pair of tongs, in tho way of buaiuess, ‘The crisig will then have come, and bankruptey and ruin will be the lot of most of ns. All morcantile buainoss will, for ths tume, Lo offoctually stopped. By and by, in ag impov- erished eoudition, and 1iko ono slowly recovering from an almost 1mortal diseaso, wo sball make a foeble attempt to resume business ; but it will Lo a yory loug timo before it is worth epeaking of, 1 wm sura that then, howevaer. whatever business {s done will bo done with specle, or specie-interchangeablo monoy ; and that sny ono who should be mo insane as to ssy o word 1n favor of using irredcemable grecnbacks, or other Govornment cotes, ** based on the faith and resources of tho country,” would rug tho nek of being shot on the spot, or confined for life in a luoatic asylum, as & moet dangerous madman. In conclusion, let us have either one or tha other : eithor specio-resumiption, or an unlimited aupply of greenbacks. If wo can't get the first immediately, let us Liave the second, as it will inovitably lead to the first belog soon forcod upon us. It may be, aias! the only way, It will be a terrible’ lesson, but It may benefit the oountry in the long run, by oxtirpating the ““rag-baby" nurees forever. Respocifaily, Tuouss CouBTENAT. MAGDALENA, T would, fost one{ that you wers Iying desd bufore ms now, With fosed wreatbing slr the erimaoa staln wpon your w, " Magdatenn 1 O that the weat, palo stats, with Sagers tremalous and white, & Could resch Tar out and cross the sbadow of your grave to-ight, - Magdlens ! Then God, with tender arma and strong, could take you'to His Lreast, Ueat you back once more Lo puriiy, and beaven, aud rest, Migdalens | Enwa, skl FRNRRSS Wild-Ieast Tameors. London Ielraraph. From Paris the other day came a story, hait grotesquo and half revoltiug, of a cruelly iugo: nious £howman to whom thero bad oceurred the ~ idoa of getting up s Liliputian exhibition o1 vor-taming. Ha procured four .e-fs, whosg bogle Ln painted orange-te.ny, with black atripos oc 24 (o be closcly imitative of the bido of Jelis tigris, aud then' he engaged a litile boy, who, clad w1 tighte aud spangios, was to enact the patt of a Least-tamer, but who, prior to his appearance in pul was shul up in a cage with tho cata and iustruciod to reduce thow to subjaction and to teach them a varioty of tricks by meaus of rigoruus chastisoment, If, however, the poor littlo tiger kiug was pro- vided with » switch, the four Liliputiau tigers bad beon endowed by Naturo with 8 due cota- plemont of claws: and they so worrlod and tore tno unfortunato lad that, bsd ho not been abla to make his caoape from the csgo, fatal results might biave followod. e ranshrieking intu the street, puraued by hLis master ; but the police in- terfered, and thio Correctional Tribunal may pos- sibly have something vory serious to say to tho barbarous promoter of Liiputian tiger-taming coxhibitions, Bearcely, howovor, Las the cotio of thia atfair died away ere we lear of two very plarming sccldents which bave occurred to s pair of wild-beast {amers of some notorioty lu Franco. At Iluvro the lion king Bido! bes had s sutliciontly narrow oscape from s horrible doath, It was this performer’s custam to go 1nto the cage of hiu wild beasts, boariog with him s shioep, which, through the awa {napired by bis presence, was kept safo from mo- lostation ou the part of the ferocious inmates of theden. On arecent oceasion he entered the lions' cage, aud placed tho abeep on Lhe back of the liousss,—a feat which ho had ofton before accomplished with _poifecs aafely., No sooner, however, had he done this thau a huge lion sprang upon tho unfortunate shoop, buryivg his teotl in ita body. There was a goueral commo- tion and pauic among the crowdsd audienco, but the unaaunted Bidoll srepped forward, and with » heavy bludgeon dealt Leo such a tremendous blow over tho Jaws that tho baeast, uttering & flnu of pain, waa complotsly cowed, abandoned ia bleeding viotim, sud crouched humbly at the feat of Lis master, Tue sight and umell of the Llood of tho sheop were, howaver, too muoh for wild boas} naturs to boar, ‘The other denizona of tho cage began to howl in an ominous man. ner, and with singular uvanimity of tseth and claws they attacked Monsleur Bidsl, even as Mr, Wiliam Kya weot at the Heathen Chinee. Ths beast tumer, not & whit terrified, chaued the firat lion into anothor cage, fought hi¥ way back throngh the romainlog brutos, aud, rescuing hus wounded sheep, 1asucd from the den. Yot another sccidout to a lion tamer occurred {o Paris on Mouday night, At the theatre of tlio Folies Berguros, ous Delmonico has gatned great populsrity as a queller of wild bfllllflé but acoidents will iappoo (o the best regulated dehs, and oo Afonday a lughly trainod lloness gother in- structor into & corner aud severely mangled ono of bis hands. Thors was tromendous excito+ ment amoug the audionce, and the cartain waa lot down, A fow mowmentaafterwardsthe report of a wusket was heard, which of course, cauded the agitation of the ublic to giow more iutonse. ‘Tranquillily, how- sver, was restored whon Dihnouico " made bis sppearsnce at the focthfhls apparently nona tuo worse for his oncounler witly the liba- css, Now It {8 quite ptobablo that in tho ace count of both these casualtles there may ro- main something to bo read betweon tho liuos, Wild-boant tamers must necossatily Le mmea of unilinching courage, aud of yuerring prosence of wiud; bus thoy are likewise, aa & Tule, some- thiog elso—they are showmen j ang the muvket~ shot may hava boon a mero coup ds theatre, . In suy caso it fe understood that she Psriw pollco have prohitited auy future porfotmances on the part of Delwonico; nor 8 it unlikoly that thest always dangorous aud Ircquently fata! exuibi tious witl bo dofloltely guppressed Ly thg Isi throughout tho whole of Fiauco.