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10 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1876—TWELVE PAGES, mothers. Boforo loaving Davit, wo onght to aay thatho deoply ronented of all his sing and wasnt Inet reccived on deep ponitence by his Makor. Davia's conduct shows bow vory bad a man moy bo and atill be forgiven by Him who not only forgives our sins but closneos us from all uorighteousnose, and that it ts nevor too lato to repent and lead a batter lifo, for whilst the light holds ont to burn the vilost elnoer_ may return, Life te the time to serve the Lord. Denth-bed repentance docs not amount to much, What Abeatom thought about the futuro lifo we do not know. But ho muat have realized what a miscrablo creatures Le wae when mon forsook Lim, aud oven lis mulo woe ashamed of hia company, Wo donot wish to Lint that we may sin aod then charge tho sin ta our onocstors, Wo have vo right to chargo oven tho Devil with our own faulty and eins. Ho las cnough of his own, Wo must nt Inst avaumo the responsibility of our own evil sayings and ovil doings, Was Joab right in disregarding tho oxprossed denire of tho King, ‘Treat tenderly tho young man, Absalom, for my sake"? David oot say for humanity's sake, or for rightoouanose’ anko, or for our country's sake. David soemed to prefer bis own porsonol bappinose to that of a million of people. Bball tho lifo of a consnm- mato rascal bo an sxulvelent for tho sufferings of thousands? Shall ho who atolo tho Learts of a Inrgs pooplo and eajoted the young mov bo allowed to livo, whilo 20,000 men are left doad upon the battle-fiald? Joab was right. Ile lad ® proper regard to tho poace aud welfara of David's Kingdom. Davtd, hed tho young man roturned, would havo given him not what his crimes demanded, butan affdctionato wolcomo home. He would not have eout Absalom to the Ponitentiary of Tarnet—s placo 20 admirably fitted to his reckless charactor. iio richly morited death. (Dout., xxi, 18,) Ho; was an avowed enemy to the RELIGIOUS, — The Sunday-School Lesson for To-Morrow. Review of the Ohnracter of David-~- Joab's Conduct Justified. Why the Bible Should Be Read in the Schools. Three Eminent English Divines. SUNDAY:SCHOOL LESSON. {THE CHAWACTED OF ADSALOM, JOAB, AND DAVID. We wish to roview tho stndica of tho last three months, #0 far ag thoy relato to Absalom, Joab, and David. Absnlom was tho son of David by bis wifo, Maacah, Ho killed Amnon, and thon fiéd to his grandfathor's at Goshen, and with bim rosided three yoars. On his re- turn David refused B00 bim for tio yoars Jongor, but waa at ast reconciled to him, Absalom bad beon freo to go about tho city but s short timo, whon his pent-up foolings towarda Ine rosal father bogan to show thom- solves in a mild, woy at first—bot soon ‘i . Ho was incorrigible, avd would un- ho did mot oeitato to int that the | Sonutodly worsen vory rapidly, ‘To gorms of old King hed treated him vory cruslly | sin usd dovoloped during his childhood, whilat that in xilling Amnon bo did no | with big mothor nud his grandfathor, go that thoy could be chocked in uo better way than by oradicating them, For thie business no better umo could ocour than in battlo—no botter op- portunity than whilst the scamp was sus- ponded from tho branchoa of «treo, it might provent anothor robellion, more auccosi- fol than tho first and Isst. Jonb was right. Io had aclear {deo of his official duties. Ho was convineed that he ought to distogard the ro- qtiost of tho King, and to dispodo of the rebot son in a summary way, othorwiso the King would havo no gafoty, and tho people no security from constant civil turmoils. ‘Mhoy could expect no Ponce, bo doipestic joys, wo long ay the wily sou, of a foreign woman was living. And then Joab, who had sorved David with undevisting fidelity for many years, not only in military onterprises, but in the entangled rola- dona of the King’s domestic life, felt that bis mind wos in a morbid state and neoded aomo rolfef from the responetbilitios of his station. So this military chioftsin assumed the responsibility of ecndiag the young man to the shades of the fotare. He could eco no rogson why Absalom should be deprived of the ploasuro of accom- panying bis mmany friends, who had faifen in battle, to that land from whose bourne not cvon sajots return. Joab may have thought very naturally and logically, that David had " soften~ ing of the brain"—hs fong had had softoning of tho heart—snd that roliof from exbausting tolis and weighty responsibilities only could savo tho lifo of his royal friond, and that _evon this relief miglt not do it, unloss the King'a future life was better than tho past. So Joab followed the conviction of his own mind. David novor con(d forgot uor forgive so high an offense,—ond yet all mon may have sald then agnow, "All ig well.” — «THE BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS, To the Hdtlor of The Chicaga Tribune: Circaco, March 24.—The recent elaborate presentation of the law on this subject by Br. Bonney leads him to tho conclusion, first, that “in contemplation of Iaw no injury is pouai- blo as the result of reading tho Biblo in tho public uchool,” and, aecond, that “to excludo it ig an indignity to sovorcign authority, and ao violation of tha compact of 1787." ‘ Now, although I am in favor of tho Bible by ing read fo our public schools, yot I confess that Ido not very mach valuo tho law on the subject furthor than as it is o faithful exhibition of the will of tho people. And again, it escoma that Judge Taft holds an opposite opinion sbout tho Jaw,—that it would be no indignity, no violation, ote, fo have no Diblo-reading jn the sald Schools, Ourown Govornmont uw the offsping of rovolution, and it will not do for us to apponl to old lows unless thoy arom hermony with the will of the peoplo oxprogacd coustitutionally in our own timo, ‘ Both the friends and enemies of tho schools Appoal to cho nnunciple of our Government ex- pressed in auch words ay * Equal justics to all clauses," At tho satne time this’ principlo in- cludeg anotLer equally vital to our nation, viz: ‘That the minority shall enbmit to the majority. Wo admit, howevor, that the subjoct is sur- roundod with practical difficulties; and thoso to Toust mest and surmount, or thoy may ovor- whelm uot coly our schools, but our whole national system avd characteristics, Let us then tirst Jook at tho facts aa thoy exist. No doubt the public schools have bad the Bible used in them from tho time of thoir flret establish- mont, To putitoutisto makoacbangs. This change may be only locally desired, nod, thore- tore, only tho desiro of the minority of the poo- Bley Now this is the question which arleos hero. is this «minority acting constitutionally in attempting to change tho public school instead of carrying out in tts own private schools its views? Vor sesuredly no law pro- vents the Solng. this. ° In the very front ranks of thin war against the Bible being read in school stand the Ultramon- tano Catholica, aud all, in fact, who regard the Pops as iufallible, whose first daty, therefore, isallogiance tohim. That thole Church ought to rulo tho Btate ia tho faith of avery auch Catholic. Iho priests are ever ready to under- mine or overthrow tho public school, and to sub- utitnto their own, in which may be taught their own dormas, but at the sume time they loudly claim thair share of tho public taxes to eaupport thom. ‘The differsnce in this caes is, that euch schools would thus be virtually the Stato support of Ktomsnism, And this is o principfe against which tho genius of our whole system rebels, Imay have some other considerations on this polut bofore I cloue, Tho next class opposed to tho Bible in the public wchool jn composed of such os havo ween and disapproved of established churchoa fn Enrope, and who foar that the Biblo in tho school ix tho germ of this uyatem. ‘Theso lond strength to the Catholic in his present cruaade, and commit In this way a grand plundor agninst their orn principles. Another class consists of those who, although they would profer the Bible read m the school, yot shrink from any conteut necessary to keop it ‘here, and on the plea of being lovers of peace, weakly acquieces in its oxpuluion, The Jow dis- approves the New ‘Tostament, and the skeptlo is Riad to lend his aid to eject the whola Book by ‘Sny aod overy mosus in his powor. Again thera 8r¢ alway large numbors who float along with the sctive currout, or whose oars are ever open for plausidiestatomonts withoot giving them- solves any trouble to reflect on ultimate oonse- juences, Of Who see whore Principles have thoir Huew drawn. Discussion bas thta bocome duty, and the patriot and the Christian are es- cially called on to gird on their armor for the light in thia war of opinion in dofense of this time-honored national wage, Lot a8 now 860 who are ranged on the other side. Evory American, native or naturalized, who regi + tho school with its Bible as the vory foundation of this country's liberty and safety, every Puritan whose fathers bravoly faced the tlood and forest to win for themsalyon and children the right to read aud obey thoir ible ay conscionco dictated. In this way our country and ifs ineti{ntfons were born, Tyo Bible In the poolle school, tho obsarvanes of the Sabbath, the oathe in courts aud of public servants of the Btate,—all testify to tho original force of the elomente which formed one country aud made it worthy of the patriotio regard af her wong, Lot mo here any a fow words on bor dis. tiugulshing principle, “*No State Churoh,” and freodom for all religions, in contrast to the na- tions in Europe, whero various State churchisme sro universal. Our fathers had a regard for tha lawe of Heaven stranger than their regard for thone of any Government on eurth. Ohcist waid * My Kingdom ia not of this world.” ‘The Blace 1s entiroly of this world, ‘Cho Church fs, and should be, governed cntiroly by its ownlawa 88 givop in Soripture, aud the Beate by ite tawaai recordod in the statute book. All religion hag frecdom of worship within her bounds, but the Bato, aw auch, has an oxistouce independent of any of them, She aesks the peace and aataty of all ber pooplo and tuatitutions, To this ond she hse founded publio schools, jn which bor fature estizens may Jearn to real and thereby under- Stand ber laws, Sut sho tostructs not intellect alone; sho re izes the worehip of Delty ag tho moat Power incentive of morality in man, Sod wauctlons the setting apart of oue-seventh of tie, whou buvinows way be so susponded that contracts, etc., made on that day vhall bo void, Itis vot the right of tho Btateto teach tho tovets or doctrines of Christianity, or of an: other faith, but it rust be coucoded that the Bi- blew the book almost univerually honored in the fon a8 containing tho Divino Will, and Leuee brs uso, os already named, for Kabbath, for moro that what ho was fully justified in doing, as bie grandfather, Talmat, hod often anid ; that tho King was dooply cugrossod in family affairs, and nogiectod bie official dutios ; and that it wag very plato thathe did notintond that ho, bis oldest surviving son, should bo his successor on tho throno of Israol, but that Solomon should supersede him, From tle timo the son of Diaacah waa dotermined to sacurc his legal rights. Te, thoreforo, resoivad to court popu- Inrity in various ways, and succeeded in obtain-. ing tho good will and oven the love of vory many influential mon. He then formod a con- spiracy for tho purpose of ousting his father from the throne, and placing the crown upon hia own hond, In duo timo, whan bia frionds announced that tho hearts of the peaplo were for Absalom, hia caused it to bo proclaimed “that Absalom was King, and bold bis Court at Hebron." Io drove David and his frisnde from Jorusslom to Mahanaim. Ho then wished to make a snddon attack upon his father and mon whilst they wore weak ond unablo to rosiat him. But Hushsi, tho confidential and trustworthy counselor of David, then nt tho Court of Ab- salom, adviaod the young King not to take so disnatrous @ courses, but to poxtpone the onset until he could collect a military forco suiliciontly Iargo to destroy David aud nis mon at ono blow. ‘This advico Absatom was induced to follow. In . shore time he was anointed third iing of int) Tic then led his forces across tho Jor- dan, and propsared to attack his fatbor, who had bad time onough to collect and drill a largo atmy that at once arched for tho woods of Ephraim in Giload and totally dofeated tho rebels. David charged his oficers and men aa thoy foft Mahauaim, to “trost tonderiy tho young man at Satom for my sake.” Runuore to- ‘ward# night returned to the city walls and cried. out, Allis well.” The anxious King inquired for his sou, Cnuhi said, ‘The onemies of my Lord, tho King, and all that would hurt thoo, be as that young man is,” The King uaderatood, thon, that bis sou was dead. He rotired to hia chamberand wopt bittorly. Cushi'a reply was Vors oxpressive. It moant that your sop, Absa- Jom, bas boen your cuemy, and he, with your other encmics, Lave boon slain, Now, wo wish to inquire what were tho causes of David's oxcessive grief? David wos a mau of very strong emotions. Hig command of ox- prossive language was wonderful, Thoso who briove deoply at firut aro goon relicved, Tears ‘Wash away sorrows, or Froatly losson thom, We had many yoars ago a dear trend, who loat by death two beautifal daughtors in ono week. Ho shed uot a tonr, but with trembling tongue said, ‘Not my will, O God, but Thino be donb.” Tho gricf wae so ucop und the submission a0 compluto, that five years passed away beforo teara could flow, Deep griof raroly shows ituelf by tears. It dries up thoao fouutsins that low wo freely iu ordinary — sdrrows, impulsive griof soon expends itself, David bad been an enormous sinucr, Was bo cangciony that ho himeelt was tho caueo of his son's rech- lows and wicked course of hte? What did David do that could baye any bearing upon the charac ter of tho son? What was David's charactor after he became rich? ‘Tho charactor of a tres is known by ite fruit, Son man's charactor is known by bis doinga and uot by hla soyings. Now, what did David do? Ho disregarded every one of God's written Inws. Ho was seemingly Anxious not to observo them iu any particular. Ne did vot break thom tgoorantly, David was Notas fool, He know tho laws of his Maker. If he did not, it wos bis own faut, David, so far as wo kuow, did not hear of the maanor of hia son's doath, Certawly Cushi would not have told hitn that Junb thrust throo darts through bis heart, oud thon allowod ton young men to torment and tall bim. David had taavy elements of worcow, but tho cruelty prac- ticod upon his son was not ono of them. Was it Abealom, in whom tho fathor could uot seo. 0n0 elnglo ray of hope? No, It way tho conecions noan that ho bimeclt was the primo cause of tho evil that befell hin, Conscience did ite oltice. _ We cannot sympathize with David, Tho death of the sou-wasa matter of proat foy to all David's friends, Why symputhizo with a man who has taken cora to break all God's tawa? Wo may pity him, o4 wa would any old_sinnor, but no more as king than as snbjoct. Ia had a copy of the written {awa of God, and ho had Leon commanded by God “to read thom all tho days of nis fe." Ltey were not arbitrary and unreasonable. Thoy wera based on infinite swiedom, and tadorsed by the common sense and matured oxporienca of mankind, Observing them thon asnow—oven in this lifo—sccured o mE David really mona th id Dayid really moan that he wished to die in the pluco of his sou? No;howos aman of itrong emotions, and oxpressed them {mpulsivo- ly. He had & wonderful power of tangungo. If he was afilicted, ho mantfestod it as a fow do Dowadayy, of whom wo are apt to say “Let thom cry it out.” Possibly ho may lave foit tat hie sou Was moro worthy of pity thau of ceusuro ; that he was not to blame for having an. irrelig- lous mother; that hig conduct developed genus which bo did not plant, Woe cannot but consider David's griof entiroly based on hig own conscious vin ip marrying Maacau, a wild girl of the mountains, devoid of moral prinoiplo, uacultl- vatod and rude, bold in her manifestations and unscruptlous in her conduct. David could uot plead ignoranco, for wo road (18) that tha King shall copy tho law-book kept by tho priest, and bo shall read thorolo all bia days, that ho may ‘fear tho Lord aud keep sty law and statutes.” = at may be sald that David bad no time, that the toils and caroy of ovory day was ao groat that he bocaroe too woary by night to read tho law. But God had direotly forbiddon him to multiply wives. Ho had nearly twonty, or thoir oquiva- Jents, A mon who tourders when drunk can nat rob the ropo of its privilege of encircling hia neck on the ground that ho did not know what bo was doing when ho committed the bloody doed. Aud wo, if David was fool enough totavo undor bis special care ten or twouty wives, ho rightly suffered the ponalty—aud bo did suffer richly for neglocting toresd and keop God's law and statutes, David broke auother Jaw (Dout., vil., 3), that “an Israshte shall not marry toto «» Pagan family.” God ovidently wished to keep Hix po culiar pooplo frow boing polluted by the Pagan tribes who lived around them, beliovod “in blood"—i. o., he designed that certsin traits of — character, Phywleal, moral, and ntelloctaa!, should 0 hereditary, We cannot tool that David, in bia grief for his #on, bed sny regard to tho future, wo far ay his son was concerned, for bis conduct doss not in- duoa a4 to believe that ho. roatized the existence of a futuro fife. 1 was David's conscience that snuoyed hin, It may bo said that David was saobuissive, and #0 is the wildost mariner yory bumble, very unfortunate, very prayertul, whou the waa opens ita wide mouth to swallow bim, David could hardly grieve in bis coofer hours, whon be considered that his won, Absalom, would no more be seen at the palace. He had been wa living trouble, and hia death = must have been #8 — felief. {t may be said, as anexcuge for David, that tha fulers of tho Pagan tribes bad thoir harcmy, Was David a Pogen? Ho worshiped tho only ‘ving God and was under the greateat obliga Mons to obey Him. We come back to our viow of David's charac- tor, with tha ronewed impression that his griot waa tho result of his having duaboyed God in arrying & wild, reckloas girl, He must have known that like produces ike; that traits of or are hereditary,—toro or less; that thistles do not bear grapes; that tho wild goaty of the mountains uever produce owe tambel; thet strong meu, physically, morally. aud retig- tously, are the eons of etronpuinded and pious onthe, for schools, Oursis a Christlan, not s Mohamodan, or Pagan, country. 680 long, thon, as the majority in our land are Christiau, thoir religion must raigu, but not to work injustice to others. Allaro freo, but the will of tho majority must obtain supromacy fo far a8 to provide for its own porfoos exorcise, and that without repressing auy other, ‘fo pre- servo tholr own rights tho minority find It necos- sary to submit to this groat jaw, It obtains in evety political question, and in tho nature of things majority tust rite in this matter also, Tho Amorican ‘citizen has no ether principle of Governmont on which he can glory over all the other nations on tho faco of the globo. Deprive him of thie, and ho would feol himself undor despotic powor, for what fe despotium ff not tie power of a minority over tho national will, whothor that iniuority consiat of one man, or an oligarchy, whethor it bo political or polomizal— an Emperor or a Pope. This principle oy our system boing so tofvorsally admitted, thoro lise beon no discussion necessary to maintain it; but oversccurity has invited an insidious foo who has already mado sorlous inroads in diffor- ont localities within our extensive bounds. ‘Teros haye boou sown; whon will they be hia vested? Shall wo slocp again and lot tho cnomy continue to sow ? The dificulty of prosenting dofnitely and cloarly tho lino which soparstos tho dutios of Churebh snd Stato eo a4 tu exhibit oach ontiroly indopundent of the othor, causos tha dangor which is daily progented in somo part of this conntry,—of having this principle violatod by Stato granta of lands, lenses, or monoy, to some church, eect, college, or charitable aistors orsocictics. The truc American canaot bo too watch{nl, for the wrotchod condition of our Politica makoas possible the most outrasoous violations even of common honesty; ond over such croaturos, tho desire to proserve a sound political principle ench a8 our treating has no poror because it bas no sordid value. As woll may you ask 4 deaf man If he boars the charma of music, or « blind man to admire tho Isudscapo, os sak such tnen to uphold & principio for its own gako, And ogsin some aro Barnume, eo Utopian a8 to imagino thet they can makes happy family ont of tho dincordant coments I bavo named, and that thoy can be broaght into harmonious unison by aub- atituting extracts of s moral charactor tustend of the Bible: thus blind to tho fact that thoroby thoy eliminate from tho schooi tho very foundation {doa on which tho whole stracture of our socioty roste, viz. tho reaponsbllity of man to Deity, and freodom of conscionce, Tu a THREE ENCLISH DIVINES. Harper's Monthly. CANON LIDDON. Osnon Liddon, if iuforlor to tho Bishop of Peterborough as au orstor, has beon prononncod by Dean Stanley, a most competent fudge, “tho groatest pronchorof tho age.” His sor- mons arosoldom lesa than an hour lonk, and oftentimes exceod an hour in thoir delivery, An eminent Nonconformist preacher writes that on one occasion ho listoned to Dr, Liddon * with un- abated fotorest for an hour and twenty minutes." ‘His sermons aro not meroly hotatory, though ho iso splendid declairor, but aro marvols of com- Pression snd condensstion, notwithstanding their length, and they aro 60 attractive that ho invarin- bly draws immengo audioncos. ‘The annownco- mont that ho ia to proach anywhero in tho King- dom is one that always widoly axcites curiosity and fntercet, and long beforo the hour of servico commonces tho cathodral or church ig sure to bo doneely packed, In inatances, whore the admis- sion has been by ticket, tha tickots have been din- posed of days before, and hardly any amount of fntercat {a sufficient to obtainone. Oanon Lid- don's audioncea oro usually largely made up of clergymen, including tho mostominent of thoctor- &y and profates. Thoy also attract mon who ara eminent in polities, literature, science, and art, while tho peopleare always presont in thousands, ‘Waen about to proach, ho makes bia way with a guist, rapid troad to the pulpit, while an in- leNnablo thrill of emotion—a contagion botong- ing to the hour and the sceno—is felt by tho vast. audience. With a natural, oarnoat gesture, ho at ouce buries his faco in bis hoods to pray. Whon he faces you, you aro impresecd with hia atriking: and somewhat monastic sppearauco, and by his romerkable likenvgs to St, Augustine {n Ary Kebeffer's colebrated picture of Augustine and Monica. Yho impression aecponr, if you ever have boen a student of Augnstino, aa you follow tho chain of hiv discourse. You might fancy thore wos a monk bofore you, aud tho im- prosaion is helped by the rapid end almost 1o- poreopsible act of adoration with which Dr. iddon sccompanics ovory mention of The Namo, [tia stated oo high snthority that this groat preacher bas spont years in studymg preaching as it is practiced ou tho Continent, aud has formed himself on the best models in France and Italy, with tho greatest of which ho neod not slimuk from comparison. Ife repro- ducas what is beat in the must colobratod Cath- olic orators, diuregardivg more oxtorpals, and appealing to tua docpost souse of humanity— tho passion, the tragedy, tho will, aud the emo- tions of mon, Alinost ia his first santonoc you woo tho eszontial character of bis oratory. Ills manuscript is by hia sido, but ho is Iberated from its chaing; ho almost knows it by boart, ond be doclaimy it in a way that ia os grand as it 4s peculiar, DEAN BIANLEY. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westmin- ater, is one of the groatest living mastors.of the English tonguo, and tho Pontosor of variod and oxtcnuivo attniuments, Uo is ominent as 8 pact, scholar, critic, traveler, and cuntrovorsialist, but itis chiotly to bis qualifications as a proscbor that we would now direct attention. His sermons bove a divtinctive charactor, They have a large infusicn of the leading article, and frequontly sddresa themeclves to. the prevailing thought ortho great evonta of tho day, This tondoncy is illustrated by an avocdote that istald of a digaitary of the Churoh, who went one Sun- day morning to service at Wostminator Abbey, it having heou_snnonnced that the Dean would proach. ‘How did you hike the ‘sormon?” asked the lady with whom he was staying, Ob," was the roply, “it was vory good ; thera was nothing to object to; but it wos not what I wont to hear; I wont to bear about tho way to Heaven, and I only board about Palos- ting,” Ho nooks to make fils sermons vivid and intoreating by briuging anocdotes and ict- tors and history andor contribution ; and in the effort bis imagery 1 often colored by local al- jusions, aud evan bis wubject is suggested by local ciroumstances, ‘hus at Venice Lo preachod on tho text, How shall we sing tho Lord's wong in a etrange fand?” aot Nome, on the sub- oct of ‘St. Paul at Nome ;” at the Conyont of ft, Catherine, from tho appropriate text, “This Agar is Mount Kinolin Arabia; at Jerusalem tho aubject was * Christ on carth and Christ In heaven.” His sormons aro romarkable for thelr brovity, aeldom oxcouding ton or fifteen minutes {fo the delivery, Hoe hae no action, aud his voice ig monotonous aud thin aud weak. His phy- sique ie not fuporing. Frequently, when he hex preachod in the Abbey or in St. Paul’y On thodral, ho could herdly bo heard boyond the immediate circle thet eurrounded him. He ratoly preschog tha same sermon twico, fs vor ready to sdvocato from tho palpit any cause which recoivos his approval, and although he oertaluly lacks tho highest qualitios @f an orator, tho eloquence of bis iauguago {a vory ornate and wiuning. To listen. to his sormone is highly enjoyable. They con- tein olany e volo ofsliterary and hiatorical al- luston ag rich asany in Macaulay, Occaston- allyhs introduces in a translation a suggcativo wentonce from * Greok or Latio author, or from. some forsiga modern classic, Now ho wilt givo an extract from a play of Sophocles, now from 5 dialogue of Plato, aud axain from the Confos- sions of St, Augustine, Ifie versatility, his im- agination, snd his pictorial power are amazing and fascinating. a ULsgOR WILDERYORCE, Bamuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Wincheater, was ono of the mout remarkable characters of mod- ern times, aud oxbibited s versatility and a fer- tility of rowources that have been soldom equalod. ino bis sctive and crowded oarear sey- eral distinc, careers were virtually comprised, Jo the management of tivo important dioceses Ko exhibited an administrative ability eod ao Onerky of character that have been rurely parals doled, In tho Louse of Lords he gave a0 atten- ton to politiva—using the word iu its highest aud bedt wonuo—which waa excooded by fow horeditary lovnslators, and by not maoy who Wor traiuol snd ‘votoran atateemon, In literature bis active aud versatile pon wos pontianiiy chatlenging public attontlon aud fuliuencing public thought: " In society, a8 ono 19 Most Promiuent and rofined of ite mom- bore, he was @ powor, whether on the publia platform or in the private drawing-room of its most Intluontial ruler. He published; be proachod; he governod a3 @ Bishop; he bated Aud logiwated in Parliament; his prosonce was contiuually fo)é and recognized to all tho mnlti- piles dopartmonts of current public life. sNow ko was eposking at grost public ontortainmente, such ag the dinnors of tho Litorary Fund or of tho Noval Acadomy, ‘Thou, as @ rural equire, ho was pleasantly haranguing the rustica on the groon or in thatoat, Now he would addross, cn @ week-day, crowds of laborors iu a church or undor arailway shod; aud presently bo was away of iu tho north conyecrating nome gorgoous fane, Again, ho was down in Kont, prosching twmico On & HBunday gt ‘the opening of some buble district church; and still again, ho was huey, with snperbumao energy, in bia diocese, studying the dharac- ter and apiindos of every clorgyman, loarnin tho details of ovory parish, doviaing practical plans for the physical, or intallectual, or spirits ual wolfare of bis poople, entortaining his clorgy with open hospitality at his own mansion, or meating them in confercnoo at Oxford or olsc- whore. He was tirolees. He was tho Ion of the great donor party; be waa the leading sponker at publio mootings; ho waa tho ruling mombor of 8 Church Congrees; he was tho miost aotive figure of the Convocation, Now ho was holding s confirmation in Varia, now cone crating @ church in {rusacle; and, again, wo moet him perpetually inthe principal newspa- ars, in the roports of learnad, or Iltorary, or bonevolont sociotios, in Sarteapandace, in pemplicts, in contomporar: istory, Tia comprokiensivo mind eeemo: eanally famil- jar with the groatost principles and tho mluntost dotalls, At ono timo ho was ald. fog in tho attempt to uphold or dostroy a minis- try, or atamping tho improsa of bia character on tho dobates and logislation of his counter at shotbor, ho was objurgating dall-hoadod church. wardons or domolivhing & libolous Alderman, Ilia corrospéndence was immonso; ail finda of People wrote to him, aud to every one ho gave a full and coroful answor ; he woold dictate aoven lotsora ata timo tos many difforont amonuon- soa. Fow mon evor lived moro fn ¢ho opon air, spoaking motanhoricaily. Ilo wes osgontlally a publié man, Whorovor Chrietian work was mont animated and f{utengo, wherover tho conflict of opinions waa koonost, whorever debate waa most exelted, wheravor bold and barning spoooh and Prompt action woro moat neadad, thore tho form of this brilliant prolate was evor most promi. nontly deecriod, RUSSIAN ATTEMPTS AT RESUMPTION, By Enormous Contraction, Large SpeciouRoserves, and the Assixtnncoe { of the Banks, Mosumptio: Was Achieved for a ‘Times To the Eduor of The Chicago Triduna: Teaunot but think that our dlecussion of the biatorical pracedont of Rugsia, in hor resumption of specio paymonte in tho yours 1840-3 to 1857 (1854), tuna introduced to tho public a moet intor- eating aud important example tn Quance, but Uttlo known or studied hitherto amoug American statesmen. 1 till propose to waive tho parallo) cago of Austria until that of Ruseia is placed in ita true light and atanda undiyputed. Let us frat summarize the pointe on which wo aro agreed, as indicated by she articlos thus far publishod. It ia agrood that, from the closo of tho wars Of the Alliod Powors with Napoloon (1815) to 1640, Rusala was laboring undor 9 papor curron- oy worth only from 24 to 83 por cont of ita faco. It {a ngrood that, oltuer in 1840 or 1843, or by movoments oxtending ayer both dates, Russia retired her doprociated currency and put forth a new ona jolatiy guaranteed by the Governmont and tho banke,—issuing her now in oxcbango for tho old st about tho samo ralativo valuos as gold ituolf would ayo oxcbapgod for tho old sasig- nats at tho timo, say one of the now to four of tho old. Itiaagroed that tho Government al- lowed private debts botween individuals, sud debts due from individuals vo tho Governmont, which wero incurred in the old curronoy, to bo paid in thoold; and, if pald in tho new, thon allowed one-fourth tho nominal amount of the debt to suffice for its paymont, thus avoiding any incroase of tha bardeu to the dabtor olags, ag an inoldent of roaumption. It is also agrocd thst this measure lea- soned the currency debt of Itussia by about three-fourths for the time being, without any depletion of the Troasury or injary to any clasa of the people; and that, from that date to tho Oritaoan war, aud, in fact, until 1857, the papar- money of Russia continued much nearor par. You say it advanced to within 10 or 16 por cont of par with gold ; ana I say it advanced to literal par, and was Interchangostle with gold an some torma of all tho banks of Russia for about four- toon years, You say the now papor-monoy was nok lasnod by the Govornmont, but was lasucd by the bangs and indorsed by tno Govornment. Leay it was issaod by the Stato; that it was the promise uf Nugsio, guarantcod by the banks, aud redeemed in certain quantities at cach bank in the Empire ondemand {If tho Nationyl Banks of the United States would rodcom tho greenbnoka for tho Goyorament in coin, there would be rouumption undoabtodly ; but that is a horse of & very diferent color from the one Mr. Denelow first trattod ont samo wooks ago, when ho doclarod that {t way tho Itnexian Government which malntainod spocle-pay:nonts on its notes. {cow 1siv to 1854.—Ep,}, though only to an uulimited extent aud in any quantity at the Baik of St, Vetorshurg. Even supposing the revolution In the volume and value of the paper currency to have beun no areater than you admit, viz.: A leuseuing ta ite nominal volums of thres-fourths, aud an ad yanco in ity gold value froin ouo of 2t per cant to ono of 85 per cent, tho preacdont would atitl have marit. A poly which caudod au advance of Ot por cont in Russian currency might porhapa vo relicd Gu to raise our awn 13 por cuut, to par, Toro safely than could the rose-colored retiauoa of Sonstor Sherman on an act of Congross, or tho sanguine confluence of Gen, Garlloid ia a Republican majority. Tn one reply to my firet article, you were dis- ofod to admit that this meaguro brought tho Russian currency to par, bat ta charge that it waa bocanse its volume was eo insiznifcaut,— & moro Dagatello of $25,000,000 to #60,000,000, {Wo did not say anything of the sort. ‘Wo novor stated the Russian currency at Jews than 900,000,000 of roublos.—Ep.) In my reply, by an error in copying, I wtated tho amount ia 185% at 511,000,000 roubles, when I atould bara statod it nt $11,000,000 roubles, Boing satisfied that tho quantity wad no mero bazatelle of $25,- 000,000 to 250,000,000 [This is a roitcration of an error,—Ep.}, you retura to the charge, tortl- flod as you concolya, by aclausa In tha British BStatesman's Yoor Book, which, describlag the operation of the pisa I have ceforred to, saya: By thes and other means, particularly the eatablieh. meul of a Stato bank above mentioned, the nomlual yalus of the paper monoy callod billy of credit wna conrldorably rained, son to stand only st from 10 to 15 per cent discount, > To this I replied that the verb “stand,” being in tho prosout tong, may be appliod to the date of the Yoar-Look, 1875, and nob to tho date of tho ovont, 1810-3 to 1457, If it can not bo so applicd, then tho statmoont is au error. [Mr, Donslow is ovidentiy frowlng rusty on Lindloy Murray. Tho infinitive yer “to stand” is not in the prosont tenso in tho sentence by any Miannor of moana. ‘Tho tonye of tho sentence ig found in tho words, ‘twas .conuiderably raleed." Was raised is not prosout tense, n0- cording to grammar or osr.—Ip.) A quoted also from tho Parla Afoniteur (in 1854), the jgenoyetonedls, Britannica (1859), Eckbardt's “Modora Rtusaia,” Kolloy's “Ituasta," and the Lon- don Economist, various oxtracts showing that the paper curronoy was, during this period, 1843.'57, at par with gold, and tnat its redomption was #a- cured by srosorye of tho procious motais in tho Govornmont fortress of Bt. Peterabura, amount- ing to 149,000,000 roubles, or abont 120,000,000 ingold. (It doos not appear from any authorit; yet ailduced that the Ruaslan Government pal Out this reserve for ita uctes on demand, or, if 80, how it fillod up the roscrve aa faut aa drawn down in rodomption, Tho rasorve seems only ta vo becn uscd to etrengtien public confidence, while tho bardon of redemption of the Govarn- mont greonbacks foil on tho banks. Such a sya~ on could not be matte to workin this country.— ED. | You assert, without producing any authority to Sustain you, that the Guvyerument never lad a tithe of this sum iu gold, and base your asser- tion on the moro fact that ita income excooded its oxponditures! Asif a apendthrift, whethor an individual or a nation, conld not keop bla pockets full of cash, whilo hie dobtg woro increasing! [Jt might be by such an incronao of his debte that be would keap bis pookats fall of ossh, Tnatead of with- drawing your ausdyised aggertion that my de- scription of Russian finances was a * tissue of fictions,” you o! Oo mo with rummaging old magazides for my facta, Pormit mo to rummage" ovo more old mags- ino, via.: Le Reous des dicux Aondes, tho load. ing rovlow of Franoo, whioh, in its issucw of Janary ood Biarob, 1864, published two elaho- rato articles on the finances of Rusals by A, L, Wolowski, Momber of tho Inatitute, whicn, with ¢wo other chapters on tha samo subject, wero published in ‘a yolumo of 256 pages octavo, entitled '* Lea Finauoe do Lea Russie," which bes boou kindly losued mo by Prof, Thompson from the library of the Uni- versity of Ponusylvauia, the fullest on subjects of Polltical Economy {in thiw country. ey thie volume Emako the following extracts, which detail quite fully tho story of Tue Tosamp- tion of specia payments in Stussia, showlag ita Tuoaus,and tté suoceds, until inthe years 1854 and 1867, new fsauos of paper monoy quadrupling ite former voluine, brought itton discount of 10 percent ormore, As you questioned my former suthoritics bocange, you waid, they failod to whow where the gold and silver came trom for redemption, I cito now an authority which is. ample on this point. I also affirms dceldadly that silver became the tho sole loga)-tender currency of tho Empire ag oarly ax 1840, ag In 1839 (other authorities make thig to Lave ocourrod on Jan. 1, 1810) a deoree waa tesuod, requiriag wil traosactions thereafter entered into to ba based on tho standard of the ailver rouble, ‘Thin waa proliminary to the tsaue of notes rodoomnblo in ailver, and had two of. fonts; firet, to aubatitute sitvor for gold as tho atandard coin of tho Empires and, secondly, to substitute the sliver rauble for tho Paper rouble as logal-tondor iu paymont of future obligations, Tho only point to which I may seom to have boon in error, fan my estimate (not statomont) of the quantity of irredeomablo pavor asalguata withdrawn, aod of assignate acdoomable in silver issued in thoir atoad. But, having givon this ag An estlinate moroly, and not se au affirmation, and having affirmed onty the propositions which the tvo have to each othor, viz. ga four of tho old {rraleemabls papor to one of the now, and this proportion boing correct, £ loavo you to oxtract what victory you may from any difercnco, howover wido, botwoon my osti- mate and tho fact. following is Wolowski'a Listory of the short poriod,” ae ho calls ft, of “tho financiat splendor of Russia.” [Tho Rus- alan procedont first required onormous contrac- tion. Tho wholo value of curroncy was about ag Jarge as ours, say $750,000,000, and it was con. tractod by purchago, oxchango, and funding to about 220,000,000 ;' thon 120,000,000 1n silver Was doposited in na fortross, with grent floiriel of trumpote, a4 rosorvo ; aud, lastly, tho Natio A\ banka of the Empiro woro commandet, by the donpotio Govornment of tho Ozar, to redeom his notos far him. Such appears to bo the prepon- terous scheme which Mr. Denslow proposes for Amorican admiration aud-adoption,—Ep.] Botween 1704 and 1817 the bulk of ths paper money had more than quadrupled, lowering the real value of tho “ronbie ssnignat to one-fourth, aud even less, of the nominal value, Nevertheless, {n' 1810, fu ordor to To-establieh the equilibrium which had been diaturbed hy an Inconaiderate taue Of paper, & manifesto, the 27th of May, bad announced an internal Joa Sho sale of portion of the Blate domains, The Em- Presa Catherine had siready thought of sucha plan, It ‘Was not until 1817 that these projecta were partly rasl- {zed. A loan was contracted at 833; per cent, In bouds carrying 6 percent. It was effected in paper money, tous funding by moanw of s dobt beating in- portion of the nan-intarost-bearing is operation = wax renewed «= in 1818 at 85 per cent, In 1820, a now forelan 5 per cont loan waa obtained in apecio, at tho ratoof 72 por cont, which gavo to the Gavernmont barely 29,000,000 {ncoin for honds of 40,000,000, Other simlsr loans followed at 77 snd 7734 ;aud s part of the sums thus obe tained was handed aver tothe Commivsion appointed for clearing off tho dobt. with Instructions to wilbdraw this meansa certain smount of paper monoy, ane STON: of paper wos reduced in 18:12 to $98,776,- roubles, . Count Cabcrin, at this period, directed the Mnances He refused resolutely to chanye n debt without inter eat into one inyolving sunusl oxpengos to the Treasury, He preferred continuing se for 83 was posslblo, tho circulation of paper monoy until such timo am it could be raeded by colu without running the risk of purchasing, by a pormanent sacrifice, tho prospect of froah crodit issues aud fresh changes in thotr value, He continued frm tu bla rosalution, aud cus constanoy of Pulrposaymiiclt enabled the 595,775,800 * paper roubles” to be upheld until 1899 without any increase, ts all the more credita- blo tothe Minister, a1 tho Anancis! altuation liad boon oxposed to other shocks by the campalgus of Turkoy anil Porvia, and by the Polls war. During tlds period, a singular phenomonon, and ono aieutt of ozplanation, presouted itaclt, Wallet the pabllo banks (caiesce) wero accepting the paper Toublo at the nominal rate, the silver rouble at 3 “roubles nanignats” and 60 kopocks, and the gold demi-imporial st 18 roubles and 35 kopecks, anothee valuation wea matntainod by busttiosa men and the publio genorally, viz, 3 the paper rouble, } rouble 27 kopockss that of sllver, 4 roubica 40 or 40 kopecks; and the halt-tmperial at 23 roubtes, ‘Those vartations, which aected ‘violently tho ox- conges, snd of which the country fisolf complained loudly, denouncing them aa tho result of stock-Jobbing, were only looked pon an speculations of the monoy- changere., Governmont resolved to end, Uy s deoisiva measure, this lamentablo atate of things, A manifesto of July 1, 1639, declared that the silver roublo should in future bo tlie solo aud invariable money of the Em- pire; and that the assignats, rocallod to their original purpoca of acting on ‘surillary money, should be ac- cepted, without power of alteration, at tho standard of 33g roubles for ono of sllver. engagements between individuals and with the ‘Treasury were to be made and fulfilled upon this atandard of tho allver roublo, It was strictly forbid~ den to attribute Ia any cage ta the aseignate any differ- ent value to that proscribed by the manifesto, and ait transactions were ordered ¢o O4 reskoned tn ativer. This measure was soon followod by the withdrawal of the asaiguata; theao wero replaced by freah State notes of crodit, which ware to eatablisn dedautely the syatem of apecie payments {motal currency], These sine notes ‘cleculating tn Rusais, bat te original purity Of tho idea has bon sadly doparted fram. The wilh- are uti Grawal of the assignats was ordained by the manifesto of June 1, 1643, “in order to atmplify tho mosns of circulation, ond to resize in = general way unity of ¢ value between paper and coin, Instead = of 605,776,000 papar roubles, only 170,221,714 ellver roubles (j. ¢., paper roubles ros dcemavls in silvor) wero to by circulated, at tho Fate of 3 roublog 60 kopocks in (old) svelgnats for ono ullvor rouble, .- Tuo Hlste noter rocolved tha guarantes of the pute Moz but, tu ordor to inaintaln o regular ciroalatlon, ft Waa necessary to asufy auother much moro eilicacious: condition, by insuring the constant exchange of the notes agarnal the metat currency. By an Imperialor- der in Docember, 1644, thoy conveyod to the citadel of St. Potersburg, under the control of twenty-four mein- bers of the delogation of tbe Bourse, # coin {und of 70,464,245 roithlca 99 kopocks—-partly in ailver, part in. gold nud othar moneys. This deposit was nubmilted for ‘Yorilication to. deyutation from tho commercial firms of Bt, Vetorsburg. It wos augmented, Joly 14, 1815, Y 13,180,000 rounlos of yold and silver. Dy tty raethod it was supponed that 6 yulllcient guarantes tad been furnishod forthe regular exchange fur tho 170,- 000,000 of roubles in notes, the reservo fund being about ono-half of the paper money then in cirunlgtion, Itin from this epoch that dates the short perfou of the financial splendor of Hussain. In ordor to ostab- lish more firmly the prestige of Me power, the Em. deror Nicholas ingue iuvestmeuts in the foreign fands to the amount of 100,000,000, Wo may romember the sonsation produced by the purchase in 1917 of 50,000,- 0) worth of our French 6 per conte, at the rate of llSfr 15c, which purchane enablod the Bank of France to face ttle demands created by the atstrioution of cereal produce. ‘Tho ovents of 1648 and the cam- vaign of Hungary were not long fn modifying the eltustlon; tew faatics of paper reopaned the down. ward which Count Caucrin belisved he bad fo over closed, Tho State notes were treated in the nai manner as had been tho aselgnate of Catherine snd Alex. andor, with this difference; That tho expansion of (be paper currency became alill more rapid. From tho year 1819 tho amount of notes oxcooded 300,000,000 of roubles, [About $310,000,000.] ‘Tha Fustorn war droughts regular avalancte of papur money, At the commencement a cortain moderation ‘was observa in the use of this perilous resource, Tho Governmont almod at retaining in their possession an smount of coln corresponding to that of the credit notes thrown {unto ctroulation, the month of March, 1854, tho guaranteo fund placed in the fortress amounted to 169,913,000 silver roubles; in the month tombor, the same year, ‘it waa still 140,863,000,—represonting, mora than 47 per cent of tho total amount of notes, which then equaled 518,927,- 900 routes. This Inttor atin wes not Jong in acy ment. ing, whilst the reserve of metal decreased. Tn 1854, It Tose Co 351,000,000; in 1855, to 609,000,000; in 1856, to 689,000,000; in 1857, to the prodigious total of 735,000,- 000 roubles, or nearly threo mlllisrda of france; and their exchangs against specia was suspended, The bauke could not longer stsnd the rapid expansion, and rafused to redeom in coln, The causes which had bas toned the decling of tho asaignats commenced to man. itest themselves, and we aro to-day menaced by simi- Isr disasters following aiintlar errors, A mass of paper which becomes more than doubled in theapsoe of four yoars Je a most alarming plicnome- non, Whatever Interpretations, mors or leas ingenious, of tho fact inay be offered, roprosenting Russie an a world apart, whore nothing happens as it docs olae- wheres, a country wach has throo milllards of franca of frredeomabte paper money, whilst the united notes of all the banks of England, Scotland, and Ireland, do not oxceou ons iilliard, and ars exchangeable against specie; and whilet thocredit circulation of tho Bank of Franco, resting on the same gusranteo, has always been lose than 900,000,000 of franca,—such # country, we nay, is exposed toserious danger, Any one who not blinded ay sophisms will know what to predict Soncerning a situation soabnormal, With an amount of wealth notequal to one-third thatof France or Kogland, and an unusually reatrictod systom of ex- ‘chango, how can wo look upon har masa of three mill. tarda of notes, barely covered by a rosorve of motal not equaling one-touth of tho credit circulation? ‘Wo know that want of confidence prevents any opera. Mons on 8 largo scats being made on crodit in Busala; those who koow the ead condition of the State Bauk cannot doubt thie fact; but even transactions fora cash bests have nocd of other Sear, than that oneren by por of changeable value, y depres tod and in ooutinual dangor of a@ greator’ decline. To fact, nothing ry tho natural caurso of oventa; at tho same rate that notes sre multiplied, the paper drives Away tho coinage, the exportation of precions metala increases, aud exchange falls, whilat the nominal price of meratiaudise Increases, Goll and allror ‘would hardly foil, during an oxtravagant issue of po- per, to rite to a premium of 10 per cent, We must remark that,aven before the American War, the exchange of notes for epoclo wes not unlimit- od, ‘The thirteenth chapter of the declan of Juno 4, 1853, ran thus: ‘In order to insure the exchange of paper-money for smal} sums, the Stato bevks wil! psy on presentation all uotes to the amount of 100 roubles in coin,” ‘The Bank of Ht, Poteraburg slong reimbursed, without any reserve, notes presented by tha same person, and the Bank of Now cow pald them ¢9 the sinount of 9,000 roubles, Not withstanding this, the elrculation of paper was majn~ fasea until exceasive isaues were i end it depres A curious puenomenon then took placa; the depos. ita in tho old trust ostablishmunte of tho Empire in- crossed, not hocause of w greater confidence on the part of individuals; but because of the @uperalun« dsuce of paper sud the abasnce of other usa for it, ‘Tno apirit of enterprise, industrial moyement, opera- ons domanalng tue to produce veaults, alk of which in tho Wast open eafe and legitimate channels for the formation of capital, ali are wanting in Rusia, or exist batt yw limita, Inatoad ee Keeping alive by their concurrence the Hving forces capitalists — bayve of _ clyilization, always io (his country bed » propensity to nuras their invaiida, a8 Jacques Lafitte used to say of funds employed tu rents. Tha “ fycultatif change with silver being suppreased, it became noces- sary to find another outlet for the oxuberant mass of ex: Paper money, ‘(he notes of crodit, ‘uo iatoroat, Brodited by “dowlug tuto the beaks, Ly the fealllties Offered them tor exchange with certificates of deposit, tranumissible from one to another, and producing a Tevenus,—in fact, veritable bank-notes, bearing in- terest, and always convertible inta the eredit uotes of the Empire, siuce the amount of tho deposit could at any time be reclaimod, ‘The Governmout had the dis bie funds of the banks placed in ita fanas, suymenting them at the same time by fresh = uasuea Of ena clroultously Reaching & — Alagul loan, effected under (be moat porilous forin, In fact, all these di oy consiituted a debt peyable oo domand; whilst the portion emptoyed elaowhore than ‘In the requirements of the Trosaury waa loaned on long time to laniod proprietors, ‘There lattor could only find in the fitate danke what they needed, aince the laws relating to Personal crodit, and the diMaulty of abtsining Justi dried up the aourco of loane between Individuals, an tleaw from M, de Tengoliorskl this melancholy avowals “Tn Runais the dobtot paya when he chooses, what choosas, and how he chooses,” Tho withdrawal by Government of aur pros. 8nt greondack outronay, In oxchange, at actiinl valuos, for 8 new currency of Government notos redeomable on demand sn gold, would loanon the volume of our ourroncy dobt 12 percent, or 846,000,000, by the consent and act of the hold- era of that debt. This gain at the ontaot would indomnity the Govornment pro tauto for any loss it iulnut bo atin maintaining redemption, It would cortainly be easjor to maintain redomption on 8 ourranoy iasuiod at par, than to force ona that is worth only 87 conts on the dollar upto par, and then maintain rodomption on tt, Tho experiment could be tried as an exporiment, hy issuing notos redeemable in gold only to tho amount of tho gold actually in tho T'roasury, way at pronont 837,000,000, As it would cost ovory broker dealriny name to got gold oxactly tha im in groenbacksto buy thoso ‘gold notes” that it would to buy tho gold itself, it doea not scom to mo that the gold- notes would bo purchased at all by tho clasa which profertod tho gold to tha notes, but that they wonld pags oxcluaively into tho hands of thoclasu that proforred tho notes to the gold, [How about the importors?—Ep.} Io théir bands, thoy would not ba oxtansively presonted for redemption. [Tho importers ro- quiro about $220,000,000 of gold per annum _ for dutics, and exportation topay balances, ‘hoy, of courao, would take the groonbaoks to tho ‘Lroasury for coin to that amount, and soon strip it of tho lastdollar in tta vaulte, thereby forcing ausnsosion ED. It is true that, if they should joad tom run on tho Govornment for gold, thoro would bo no modo of redeeming thom but tougs the gold in tho Troasury so long as it would laat, and then sell bonds for moro gold, or suspoud. But thie is trao under apy system of redemption, whother undor- taken by Govornmont or by the banks, ‘Tho banka bayo no aasate, and never will have, which thoy can honoatly or profitably apply ta tho benovolent task of redceming in gold » oure rency fssucd at a» ‘discount af 12 por cent. Nor can the banks isauo a currency of notes ro- doomable in gold untit_the community call for thom. Nor could tho Government do so under tho systom I bavo proposed. But the Govorn- mont is a tinit; tho banke are an organized mob, a8 much so as individuals, with roference to stich an act as tho substitution of: notes re~ doomable in gold for tho presont notes, To leave it to tho banks {s to leavo it undone, Bo- sides, tho Govornmont is tho agonoy that got the country into this sorapo, snd canbot shirk tho duty of gatting the country ant of it. {Afi the Govornmont nas to do is to fund its notes by offering the holders the right of olnng- ing them for bonds, Thon liboralizo the law in ralation to banks tesutag golit-notes. and tho probiem of resumption is solyed. The banke alone oan rostime, ro-lgsuc their notes, aud malntein coin-redomption on demand, Soonor or lator wo elinll Lavo to come to this plan.— Ep.) If the dopreciation had boon cansod by the banks, thoy would control the forcca requisite to its curo, But, as thoy bad naught to do with causing it, it is idle and cowardly to look to themn to onre it. Whon the Govornment has,.by the mothed pursned by Russia in 1840 to 1867, or any similar mothod, accustomed the banks to redoom tholr notes in 2» Gov- ernment noto which ia itsolf redcemable in gold, the banks will then bo Petetleaiiy redcoming their own notes in gold, and tho with~ drawal of the Government cote will thon be easy, as tho banka will supply its pleco with thoirown. But to look to tho banks now to bring about resumption implisa a unity of conne ols and of interests in thatdirection whioh they do not posrosa. “ V.D, Denstow. (Ar. D. omita to state that, in 1862, tha Rua- alan Goveramout undertook to resume. ‘The Ozer first sold ponds, aud borrowed about $75,000,000 for redsmption purposos. Ho opaned hie vaults, and offered to pay coin on bis paper roubles. They camo in eo fast that, in ® fow wooks, he ignominiously closed tho doors of Lis safos, shut down on tho public, and since thon has nover attompted the big Jobaf re- pamntOB Bo muoh for the Russian oxample.— Dy. TREATMENT OF TREES, * To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune? Cuivauo, March 20.—Treos, whetber fralt or shade, have their enemica ond ailments, and, Ike animals, roquire at timos a sort of modioal oaro ond troatmont, It was only the other day, while passing sioug Walnut atreet, that I noticad man cngaged in the commondablo task of doc- toring a gick troo,—o maplo upon whose body tho poraeltio worm had left so many sores that the poor trea was about to dic, ‘The troa-doctor had provided himsolf with o malict and ono or tivo chisols of difforeut sizes, which ho skillfully used in cutting away tho diseased sud wormy portiona of the bari and wood, tho cotire operation romiuding me of a atirgeon ongaged in removing 8 tumor from the human frame, or a dontist oxcavating 9 tooth propara- tory to filling. As the sharp, ponctrating chisel rovealod whole neate of parasitic worms, 1 no longer thought 1% atrange that tho shado-troea ning the streota of Chiosga are dying so fast; 8nd it is to aave what romain that thiy articlo is written, Tho drought of Inet eummer drove many in» sects to lay thoir egga and burrow in tho hark of troes, where they may now bo found in astou- ishing numbers, roady for tho destructive Lar- veat of the coming spring and aummor, whon thousands of trees will bo onten ap ond dostroy- od, unlesa tho procaution, which [ hore recow- mend, of cutting out the boror, is at onco adopted, boforo ho bogins Is deprodatione. Our troe-~doctor recommends tho outting away of every particle of decayed and wormy bark and wood, and tho covering of this oxposad portion with wax, or some Sroparation capable of ro- Bieting the action of the woather. Any fruit- book will give tho ingredionts of that composi- tion, The now bark, having no doad wood or hiddon parasites to impodte its growth, boateus to caver up the scar upon its aurfaca, which can be effectually dono tho first or second soason. In England, says my informant, who gained bis experience there, this mothod of preserving tho hoatth of fruit, Bhado, and ornamental woos is fargoly and generally practiced, and there, as a consequence of this care and culture, diseaued fraf{t-tros are the excoption rather than, agin thie cowatry, almost tho rule. And ho oxpressed his surprigo at the vast quantities of . dofactive and wormy fruit which is gathered from our new orchards, to say nothing of old troes, whose produot is eofdom good. The provailing ignor- anco and indiffercnca of Americans to tholr trees explains why eo many orcharda aro dyin; out, The onconragoment of birds is woll and (ca. a8 far ag.tho romedy goes; but, unices the ark of tho troo is carafally oxamiood aud sur- gically treated, » complote extermination of tree- dastroying inaccts neod not bo expected. Now fa Sunt the time, during these mild ‘days, bofore the sap atarts and the buds ewoll, to doc- tor digcasod trees. Ono thing is cortain: that, onless tho owners of + shado- troes in Chicago do something noon to Btop the ravagea of insecta and yruba now lodgod in sho oark of the maple, atc., It sill not be long bofora mout of tholr trece are withored and dead, and must be roplaced. Tf ownors of orchards throughont the country would only improve tho sud leisure days of wintor in inspectlog and hoaling thelr trecs,— outting away diseased portions, eto.,—thay would Anaure themuelyce an incrasuod crop of fruit, of a quality which would commend a greatly-au- iced price in the market. While on this topfo, I would suggest that thiy is a vory appropriate yoar for tho planting of Centennial trees”; and, if any fudividusl own{ng tho requisite area of real ox- tate doalrea to pospetnate his monwory {tn nature, he can hardly do wo more happily than in plant- tog a fruit or shade treo; to which hole at lib- 'y sto attach a Isbel bearing soma patriotic ‘ond, or at least tho name (‘ith dato) of the bonovolent planter. If tho man who adds bnt a blade of graas to the common stock of national woalth be a bonafactor, how much maro the indi- vidual who dedicatos to public uso @ friit-boare log or suade-giving too. Anson, GEODES. 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