Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 25, 1877, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1877. e e rock and on each nhore, and strike them togather out In mid.ocean, and the Jane hilis sre ?um: 1o foliage and sunlight becnare thers is sl Aronnd them One who doea nothing in anzer, but who roftens all norrows and weaknes nd 8l pltlicss iaws by Ilis loving equity. TEMPERANCE IN POLITICS. ¢limes, what music comea into them fs e e, what light becomes visible In the enconifaesing At- mosphere—all this glory In for all. Natnre's rich entats 14 divided up equally among her children. No primogenitars s hers. The children stand around ber in_equal merit, and she portl ber fiood»in the jnstice of an impartisi love, ‘This law of righteousness, the righteansncss of nnal Joss of $125,000,000, And to this ndd, Test, thnt the atatintics from the varions Stxtes in requr to the paupeiem ocrasioned by Intoxicating drink nthat connection, not leas than 100,000 helplens widows and orptians each year, and from two-thirde to fonr-Afths of the inmates of all our homes for the poor. 1am aware that such compilations aro Incompre- RELIGIOUS. Prof. SWing’s Sermon on a Case in Equity. out L. T. Chamberlain, having read the second chapter of Habakknk, rpoke without msnuscript, substan. tally aa follo A gnestion of public concern has boen brought to our special attention by the Woman's Temperance Unlon of thiscity, From that source his come s petition to the municipal authoritics, requesting them to cloas all saloons on Snnday, It ia arged npon us, 1n concert with the other congrogationn of the eity, to sign the petition and net ourrelves to bat all 1a bound n? inthe fact that he seeka, Doea the band plant the rose and care for 1t? Then will the flower grow and bloom, be the hand that of the mistress covored with fewels or 1hat of the mald browned In the sun? Alf the sub. limest portals of God open to the approsch of ail. Ile hascome to jndgo the torld with vlfihlennm neas, Hence into all these tomples opened by the Almighty, men ponz withont respect to property, or birth, or rank, o¢ race. Into literature did not Homer ‘march though biind and poor! Did not £inop pass in thongh & siavel "And did_not Epie- fetus find tho decpest Jearning rasdy to welcome Unea on Pelion viling monntain npon mountaln, and we say, ** It 1s high, I and Glympns on ing on the Allotments of Religion. : mpartisiliy Is seen wpon ovory liand. ~All the hennible. To our thought they are reatly immeas- e s ..tu hx"m‘?'l:‘n“ a-m:'h‘:enpm:n xl;pun‘u all BRRMON DY TUE RRY, L. T CHAMBERLAIN, m‘:{”io .;'l:'l' &M{nflh&}l firv:c:m: [;r;n;\';::. h:l 5 uality of 4 on- o 13 - : A Human Bar 'ncflpflhle of Pasge ;xl;:n:,nr e qt y eeckor is nol cf At the New Engiand Church, the prator, the Rew, yond all actant meMlmmr’anv Though 1t by lka i eannot atiain unto it: {4 4s vaat, 1 cannol compans 1t," wo shall be tanght that becanse of its very homndlessness the 0yl xninnions ua to oppone ft in both Its existence and j1a spread. When you think of the unthinksble horror to the drunkari and his lnm‘l,li( when yon onlculate the incalculatle fruit- age of crime; and whan you teaco the untraceabla resulta in economic waste; do yom mot own that “,Ei are right who ask ua to be ‘in earnest In our work for temperance? Does not temperance Temperance in Politics-~=Sormon by the Rev. L. T. Cham- berlain. bim, though a bondman, bsught liké an animal | securing It Immediate effectivences, 1n the pett- | translate iteelf into philanthropy, and sesm simost ] The Consumption of Alcohol in the | in 'a et? Has not every nelence wel- | {ion no discrimination i made with regard to the | like religion? You remember that whea Qod (lk comed & Blephenson to ita mystery and 1o | gigerent classes of beverages. No dlstinctions are | Gcalt writh the people of Joseph and the pas u‘vo : United States, and Crimes fame, snd hw not poctry gladiy recolvla Seoten | b b SR B BCTES O ey, Tete | 10 thelr thanght, “tThoy raid ono to snothier, Wa plow:boy of an Eittick shcoherd? Even tho mare Mately doors of siatesmanship and politieal oes- iory Have turned on Gtelr weaey binges whon @ ride frontiersman has read wisdom by nlfihl or hae Telled the tree while pondering upon the rights and ‘wrongs of man, " o In the weakert perlods of roclety caate springy nn." n Indla and China and In the heart of Africa iy be found a repect of perrons mant Figid and oftan moat crael, In barbsrons janis rajer may shoot & slavc an for amusoment. Bol as rapldly as the Inteilect and sonl expand the power of caste dies and the eqnm{ of man Bppears a8 & now truth and a beautifal practice. liut God atand on Lhe height toward which clvillzation polnta, and Jaita ot or any Jong experimont o teach 1iim the trne, beantifol, and g pa are = fhe e, benatifol, and good. All il patha [or all loving, seeking ones, Abandon Petitions to the Coundll and o mont .E:,,-.,mn, ho-e that religon, must ¢ lollow the character o and L at, an : Convert the Drinkers. muat possess within 1t an_ equity perfectly fanite A fess. 'Thiat thia principle of faftneas muat ran all throngh any true Christianity, should be ono of CABE 1IN EQUITY, the most obvions of all propositions. 1le who SEAMON BY PROP. BWING. ves the doors of every profession and pursult i and every science and nrt open to the poorest i Prof, Bwing preached yesterday morning. st the | schoolboy or to the Jonely shopherd, will pursnano Central Church, taking as his text: other plan as to the temple of worshlp, but wiil Let the floods clasn their hands, ot the hiitd be joyfal . togrther before the Lord. for fle cometh ta judce tho are verily guilly concerning our brother, in that we sawy tho anguish of bin €oul when he Lesonght us, and we wouid not bear.” [Let us, my fricnds, take hiced leat any present or fature indiference ahall #dd 10 or gullk concerning the maltitudes of our bretheen alaa in anguish of both budy and sonl. Individuale, families, moclcty, the nation, are in peril, Asin that wondroun group of the Laocoon, whoee transcript in statuette or engraving you havo ro often acen, the serpents tighten thelr colls and the father and sona vainly resist, 20 it some- timen secms 8 i one common life was evermors throttied by intemperance, and that If we frecd onraclves l{mnll be Indeed by supethumMn aid. T toll you this cause needn our thonght, our toll, onr rayers. 1t 18 wellnigis tho most urgent of alf tho auses under the sun, There Is woa to us if we are heedicsa of itecialme; therols destrnction to those who come affer. As friends, aa citizens, ss oatriots, as Christians, wo are calied to bo in earnest, Tiat now comes the question with respect to the remedy; and we mast ask oarsclves aleo, by what methods the remody i 10 be afforded, Asaurediy the remedy, 8o ar ns it ia considored abrolutely I {tnelf, in not doabifal, Forthe nra of Intoxicat- ing drink s & beverace Is, pininly, not & neceealt, Were it fnevitable, Jiko breathing the alr, or mov. ing in the sunlight, then tho faxnc would be one of antidotes, and wa t not know what could pros- sibly avail. If the danger inhercd in *'tho con- stitution of things," then we should bo compelled to scarch for mere safeguards which, at the ‘best, would be bat partial, Dnt. in palnt of facL ‘the ovil {e wholly of man's chaosing. It bogine and continues on{] by man'svolition, It senda oul ro sccret soductions, it exercizes no invisible spells It 1s quiet l\mll by ttaelf, a thing blunt or dead, ontil its victim gives it power an lace, Btrong drink might flow In rivers, It might accumulate itrelf 1n scas. Yet, antonched, untasted, 1t wero harmicas an the fancies of & dream. Tho all-sul- clens remedy, thorefore, is aL once appsrunt. It 12 abatinencel It la *‘Touch not, taste mot, handle not." It s the coming mnot near tho accnrsed thing, It {8 cach one saying, **1will have nought to do with it. = Ssve for mechanical and modicinal ends, I will deal with it no more than I would deal with the placno. T will leave it to its own hoipleasness, Tawill for- ever h!nra it, in tho name of God and as I lovo eimply that throughont Sanday all the saloonn of the city be closed, by force of law, and police, and courts, And we are appealed 10 in the sovercign namo of Temperance. As those who wonld be on the nide of sobriety and order, on the side of mor- d the public welfare, to say nothing of the Interests of & Christlan Sunday, we are asked to Join in the movement. They who are tolling with herolo dovotion look to ua for help. Sisters, and wives, and motuers, whose hearts are flled with regerd for the things which are pare and blessed, call on ns a8 to their friends and fellow-Jaborers! Certalnly it would seem at firat that there conld bo no possible hesitancy; that to name the canso, and to suggest what might appear to anbservo It, wonld e onough to win our enlire co-operation. I own that my impnles fa 0t onco to say **Amen." Iean do but little, but whatever it bothat Icando, 1 pledge it, and plodgo It fo any and every form yon may now or hencoforth desire. For there flashes on me the greatnesa of the evil wa are snmmoned 1o oppose, - As the call is sounded, I wake ancw to the terribleneas of the common foe. There comes afresh tho realization of how monstrous fs tho curse which these brave oncs are recking to re- move. Mind and heart alike are flled and over- whelmed, I ses the encmy coming In, verily, like Resulting, Total Abstinence the Only Remedy for tho Ervils of lntcmp‘emnu\. The Temporance Minority Not Entitled to Logislation Aflooting the Mafority. 5 order {t to welcome all 1o ita altar. In come of its best moments tho Chnreh hasscensome part of this principle and has welcomed afl, The Catholic cathedral, however white jts marble and coatly Tn soclety, that jnstice might h: ‘mnrnd'u nlll;‘ n:‘ |llur nfl‘ f:rgu!m;n“"!hun'mll:e: "g‘z .;I‘nx ;,;m.d and [ m&,,l.l...;]n;:t{l.‘,,,r, .hx.“q.grn“ " up s aystem of law or form e 8l o footaiep X somioc one, 8 standa; o nst him. thicks eatlyepemnu up & pyitem nnu 1ts hymn, and pra; "1 ond eacrament le’el o Jurieprudence called equity, However thoughtfal :rn The naor waman, thinly-clod And weakt | oo ot humanity, snd not only humanity, o met earin; with ighteousmesd nall 1o judge the world,and the people with equity,— 1., zcviil, 8, D. fo . 204 conrclentions law-makers might be, hera | §Fe oo e i Toa litle. foud. ami sloeps | Bas i oimels Sy sicen of Ftace, and & pltying would spring up clrcnmstances not ferescen by | can press down toward the holy emblems nlangside | unguestioning, and decisive ald, legslators, amld wlich unczpected snrroundings | the children of Kings and qnecns. m.;é; 2 not lu&ml'lll'"”.‘\%m%“ Soncarning thin ovil, Traco o 3 3 outilnes. | o simple facta. neldor +i - Shoexact sdminletration of o wrltten law wenld In- | Fenco the Cathollc Church, which ahow,fn this mo- | (ke thinga which aro attestad by observation and ‘volve a hardship, and thus tho courts es! ed {9 |.ment such a divino iden of a-nllce- in the noxt | the records, Give hoed for justa little, to what sccure Justica might often becomo the means of | moment wanders away from the breath of its God | takes place under this sams snn, and In spite of dolng & great wrong. Thua, when In order to com- :vrn: v;ucr:'ld m}‘,',":'qlfl".;','.",',::: 'l'mzn'v‘e?; :,‘,’;‘;;";;‘;fl,‘ ’vrlh{ch ‘um earth xl-nlln an -l:ul "““‘n?.'i“’ nnn.Imln‘ A 'ake, for examplo, uno human being, o pol the payment of taxes tho Slala pormite We | moment and wiitiifaws, leaving ihe arens opan for | family. sad Fellect ‘on whak Ifomporaico mean yayer of delinquent claims scize upon Lhe | yhe ruries and dire enchanters and for tragedy. 116 | when it rests thero s destructive touch. Soe tho .property and holil it as hla own, tho samo Siate | who comens to rale the enrth in rightcousncas, is | man or wonian gradually losing the best of the for- 1 also perceaven the Injustico of a law shich pere 7"3‘{,“;'.:.‘2,.‘." e;r:;:tl:u;ll:l;:nmenk and then fol- :m‘,r u"'t’n“‘o"”hmn wm.:aml n‘e!nxlllemn 'p'anli‘ug 04 b I 3 nto harshness; the accustomned delicacy of feelins ; :‘;:;,’i: ':fm;'::,‘:;‘;g"x‘fl;';’:::,"fl"fi Ronbiees s arinciple of Cquality ta gdunlly | Kiiplraanets e Aectalones delicecy of fealing ! 2 | spreading, and is crowding back many ah unworth) : i n % | mysoul." Bring the world to that and you have " and large sums of money: andfhence the tax, enlb | Soniimens. It le tn each ;{:nnuflnn Whibiag rociory | Ssdened; reason hinpaireds, tho desizea lograded | ELL bt tho world to an sbaolite deliversheo from statoto s everywhere followed by an oquity of re- | Intorpret the Bacrod Word, and 1s casting ite Night | poverty necessitated; - the family mada wretched; | 1ts great fuo, There, then, ie the jde ‘There I Into all our confeanions of falth. That the Heav- enly Father did In_the beginning crents some for cternal death, that such a Father did, on account of the «in of a first man, doom all Ilis moat remote descendants to clernal paln, are Ideas which are slowly fading away, aa the sun of “1“] rights, of richteounuces, rises In tho aky, If self-reapect sutrondered; marriage Yows disho tho philosophy nd theary which in {tself ia sovers o3 parbutal affcction destrayeds. deceucy outragy | lam 'That is the eaching which ie ta bo tanght odi erlme committed: shama and dospalr bmunFt ‘l‘a';hm;’lqrfl:ffl:’lfi— 9% abatinenro. SORY ife on} discaxe of every form Incorred; Idlocy made . 1 know it will bo safd, In partial roply, that thera B T Soirhmesl Fhatt 8 doath € | 1u o moderate use of Intoxicatlug drinis, both dis- bo Neavenly | ghaatly acene. tilled and formonted, which Is not spccially harm. demption, This cquity is a medlator between the original owner of the home and the man who hopes 1o securo the proporty for nought. Man Is sn ani mal dificult to control, and henco, in genoral, low has been hord-hearted nnd must remaln sach; but civilization 18 full of amenity, and the whole do- Faher shonld be supponed fo creata men that ha Tl And which may'sometimes Lo bonengial. T _maln of law facls more and morc, a8 gogeratlons | miht punish thers, and that or Adame sl 11 | 1a oot 15 b Tporaiii o overiorr o ey whe | sbal not disputo ft. 1 Tiave Tiitla Intoreat fn drauw= paan, thia softaning of law-maker and Judgo, | coull torment n nutburless race, fhon wold the Ing the lines of exact dlscrimination, Hut thisIdo know, and in proctalming It I have an Intercst,— that somewhere along the line which departs from total abstinence lls death and hell, to any ono it In their sheltered homes may not ofton Lave seen the reality, They may have turned nervously from even & plimpse of it, " But if they willgo with ‘me I will take thom nt auy hour of the day or night i Equityts In general the statute softened by tho hymn of the Praltnlst be mhfillcvd. and eartlly a3 ever-growing justice and humanity of an age. In eourta willing to find snd do tho right would not dars to look np to Heaven for galdunce, but would i Inw the word “tequity, " thorclore, stands forth 08 [ 1o compolied to read only tho thoughta of the who thinks of the power of hahit, or who tecog- | oneof thanablowordaia that school of thought. It | bertmen. 1¢ In hot fa Do ellovod F0F amomentthat | ‘o rioretho BOTEOF le vasily greator than uuuago 10, Phe infuonca of examplo, 1t boome woll (o i 1 to the conrt-chambor whata mediator Is between | the Dieing who permita Iils sunlight to fall for | no fanciful portrayal. ‘Tho thing Itself, and inall | Walk slong that Mverzlmzl{lnc. -axx;vnfllm himaclt 4 friends who have fallen upon an evll day and have | all, and for all whao plant them Tlid roscs to bloom | jts hideonsness, In tromendonsly , and you | Dy the plea that Le can etill maintain his foothold, ] nsncd the hot wordn of strife. Equity comea $n | #nd Ilis frait ta ripen, ond who has flung opcu the | must consider that it 18 on every #ide of you, You | then his heart la llllmrc‘!ll\lymm'flln, lr‘nhm‘m nie, H Tie benoty snd power of a desp refiction and an fates of honor to the poor plowman or slave, lias | must add instanco to Instance, and fact ‘1o fact, | What If It by truo—ga It anCouBtacsy Ja=thats con- ! impartiallove, uilt tomplo of salvation wnd an abods aftor- | wutil you bavo carned your computation Into thy | #iderable portion of th world's good, and great, ia (s, which aprang up long a¢o in human | mens to which man goes by tho vivlence of an irro- | thousands and scores of thousands, You mnat, a¢ | and useful men ate and have been innderate drink- his own sonl, ors? Isnot the fact that other millluna wha thus began have gone to destruction enongh to make us turn niterly from such o course and to inspite us to plead with all others against it Waald you care to choose the Upas trea for your shade, on tho argament that olll{dev:ry other one of those who ed? the lowest eatimate, make place in your thought for 30, 000 such deaths annually In o8 own caufn. try alono from the direct canse of strong drink! ‘Trace, tov, If possible, therelation of those 30,000 to the hundreds of thousands tmmediately con- nected with them; multiply the orfkinal indlvidual H government, appearcd at i carly perfod in the | aponsible power onteide of The i Luman conception of the cuurt of God, Tndeed, ates of life, ke the gate of wisdom, or culture, or .from the religloun notion that the Almighty coatd [ welth, of fame, must ba accessibla ta all, dnd and would do nothing wrong must have “descended | over It inust alwuyn b ecen the words, ¥+ Come ull tho feeling that all Iaw and'all halle of judyment | ye that labor and arg heavy lalen, must Ond roine gatewny by which they might ea. One of the trueat vlawn of Christ {s that which capo & statuto which should work a \vrong Ly {ts | makes Him follow the old statutc law which was | sgony, by the woe and angulah of the related suf- | slept beseath it d God forbid that I ahould it or by s amiason. " Tho this AT AmIt ey, | &DI6 10 wark onty 0 hardehip. and SIch carried In | facorst nad thae by the frand (ol of the: vactimy | Join fu thelii-conmlored cey that ‘thero s no pos- along comes this sangz of David, monz in a balfs | it a penalty that would analliliate ratherthan save, | and then tell me whether, with suggostions too | #ibé middte ground: that lia who drinka wine or civiilzed age, and aska tho floods to clop thet | follow thelaw, as an equlty, aud thus tensform | frightful, @ have outlined (he picturel Tha truth | beer will doubticss dle u drunkard's death, Snch banas and tho hills to be joyfal because thu Lord | ruin into asccews and peacs, Tholaw, **Thosoul | 1a we don't realiza tho nositive facts. Wacan't | Atatements are falso, and &s baruful as they aro that sinacth 1t ehall dle, " were Indeed s dreadful tute, for all nbove the ycara of Infancy sinned. There In none that daeth good, tone, Tho statute Inw was then au Intolers bty and henco 1o tio partige n U kreat falso, ‘Tho world laugztis at_the nonsense, and in hardoned while it Inoghs. This, the rathor, is our plea: that the fendency la toward excoas: that there In, 8t Jeast, tho porsibllity of evil to 0 that In multitudes of cases tho evll possiblilty becomes & horribla facte For tuat valid reason, wo + cometh to rulo the people with cauity. Ile comuth not to Impore ujow man the prenalty of wome law poased by unwieo lepivlators, logislutors who could not read the wholu right nor whole wrong: Dot 10 impose upon man the penalty of some act realizo them, We may stand on the wild shores of this evil and peer out into the darkne: but the uccarsed billows that roar come from & black mid- ocean which lics beyond all sight. We may paze from tho brink and shudder at the abyss which assed n tho intercat of a royal family whero | cnse of ylorlous cquity cume I the perron of | yawns; but we must needs remember thiai 3 St {'..knqm wan eclipsing mlml:{ll.. but cometh to | Christ. One cannot analyze this creat mediation {hn depths discernible thers is a still lo-..!'f ‘.i“ . | aro to chouse tolal abatinence, l-o:d that moro- ruio in that cquity which folluws along with doop | between the lctter of the law and the humnn wuf- | We may thiok_ _sometimes _that cargh | thon-sufiicient resson wu‘;'ulrnw ;;er‘::ml men, l'lll i wisdom to corzuct cerord, and with decp love toar. | ferers but thls man wmay know: thet lmin‘und 1= falr” and hell e fool; hat tho | $hough we were ambass nn!n ot hc th ant I et a legal hardehip, obeyfng (his Chriet tho perulty of tho law 10 es- | more wo percelvo of what intempornnca ine | icaven, tokoep wholly uloof from ail that intozi. In mans poverument, however much those n cuped. ‘llioro hro thneo who are busy withithe in- | volves, tho less ehall = wo think that thcre | Cates. Asformyscll) laathe whntover in even the power might dealre to rule fn nghteousness, they | quiry about the metliod of this Judument, Onthe | can unywhers be rosults moro nppalling, Aa | slighiest dogree’ tendn towand drunkennces. The would always come short {rom the fact that thelr | one haud je an Edwards: vn anotler 8 Joecph Uin - my work In thls grest clly,—sea what | Sugrostion, the amsociutlon, tha possibllity, 1s {nformation vand their facultics ara imperfect, | Cook: niumubothnmnd eny but smid tho Inbora | it is and -{n Incindes, —11 seams vg'mnlhulum m‘muhwiflmm-mln“l'—lm i el b Mntthew Hale, and Grotiue, and Puffendorf, aud | of ali it Is not probable that any perfect theory of | of all evils, 1t makes my heart ache, notouly It remalns, hnucvelt. i »ul‘mm i al : Blackatono wery oxamples of what parity of pur. | anatonoment il bo avolved, but frum theao and | with sorrow that sucls wos oxiata, but with painat | Jarge — docs * not el 5 e aelnt — 080 1ier may as avy e and pince he found E\uy frum il the hosts of thinkors in thigfleld willevmo- | -tho indierence of those wbo oughtto opposa it as | femedy, . Men do not groally apply the sover- 3 n tho discovary aud spplication of what scem-to | forih the comforting thought that Christ 18 powe | wo s tirs-and deatn S e Sy ‘mm«nm_whl&‘m that ciner. shaald - be . be Just vnucl[l 08, and yol thuy all etend us xsum= [ erful Mediatue botween TR and & Jaw which In i Thero {s an 0ld legond of' tho Eastern world, Bow | propvecd? wonld 83y unhositating], We ples also of tha \rnlh“mat the righteounnens of | naked words would beur upon hin with neverend. | ststated scwsons n moniter frum the ocosn lald | propose fore€ We would have recotirse to law ; ‘ - | i soverity. " T I eutougls to know that those lov. d prohibitory statates, We mainain that so- nnn In often closely allled to montcrucl nja- | i severity, | It lo ctiouuls to kiiow that thows lov- | waate the ertile shotos, and coula auly bo appoased |.and p hat %o~ tice. Hence,should any harplat of tho liobrew race, clety has the richt so to interferc," 5 Un Ly the sacrifice of the falrevt of the natives' sons ety B et be T Iu“m‘h OF of any face, conia to us chantiug tho nstlec of | {1 in the inat aselze. alid ‘daughters, ~Aw we Tave road i, aithongh | ably riie B (e memory of Lhe Sruoliies whlch e popiens | - Thi largo principie of axact Sustice for all comes | fiware kuowsr but-as & Tertac), oo havs forsaih [ meals of thoas who deny it, bub 1 hombly - sabe legislatons and judses of the Eu‘ have unwittingly ulunfinut only to overtifrow thie falallam of somo | tho anguish which the strickon lands must have | mit that thelr ressoning is inconclusive, sam commlited wonld mingle with the aong and fill 1ts | And the {rrcvponsible God of others, but to modify ’ muslc with lonew of *adnoes, Thia chans of David comes to us with nll tnere errors, thesa abating clements, left outs for tho Buing wham ho bobolds coming 1o §ndge thu world cowes neither in fgnoe rance nor In any wickedness, but with inf knowledgo and_infinito goodneas, und _therefure bringing that perfect equity of which man has only up theie posltion, itin this: that wo may right- fully puntsh 8 mun for drunkennesa, because tho lowe of mental and mora} Judgment s dangerooa to the commnity, but thAt thero Is no justice in compeliing une fationai tmn to persoaal” privation leat suother {rrational mun thould abose lils priv- flege. ‘They say you michtas juatly compel -all rehiolars o “forego thelr llut“fllb cCauNY wome [y felt. We have reckoned that it wers woll for fhem 10 have gone out with armies and Lanners, if vo tho destroyer might be vvercome, Hut, my heare ers, thia nation of ours_to-day {a desastated by a destroyer more crnel, Your sons and dsughters iy, fur tho wost purt. have eacaped, but day by day, and woek by weak, and month by manth, and year by yoar, thosa as falrand pracious have been the world's view of Christ's work and to make that redemption which was onco limited to a few stand ‘The atonement, when placed in the been made ,uml 18 tho oucn to all. rchanio of natare, shaws [tsclf to have At oo, uinge ara for all. f slf. He fa no respecle lic starw shine for forall. " Father dreamed, 1, aud for all the #lain, buth for this world and the world to come, students carey thelr studlousness Tuinous ex- * 1nio thin higher court oar srorld *with all f1a | Junc, av for all equally the Cr ‘We wonr for the d]lllr and tho dead of the bat- | cess. E “yaried affatrn 14 thrown. ~ We.should nll rejoice In | lofty helght. 1t Invites all, und there is 0o hypoc- | tlefeld. We fancy tut if the sngel of plty hovors Dut it 1 underatsnd tho elementary principles of i thaught thet tho migty and complicaied wult | Flay i It loly worde. As the child born info the | tearfully anywhorv. it 18 where war has wronght ia | Jnstico nnd civil liberty, soclely has ‘s clear right winoteenth centory may pumne fta early and lato ~courso lowazd all tho honor of itd time or toward all ita dishonor, 8o may each belng start from s eradle and meuk Chrlst's hingdom, or with face overted it may clabn all wick- edness ond |u|1|le:{ ad Ita own, Many, msny are the doctrines which sre being cast out of the world's conrt for want of equity, As, sccording to an English writer, **the eqully of the courts has been gradusily shaping itsell into a ro- flucd sclence,” 80 it will be fonnd that In the shrines of theology and roligion un rquity has been shaping ftaell into s flner philosophy of worbip hovoo. “Our hearts have hardly yot ceascd bleed. ing from the wounds which were made in the days of our own coufllct. And yet it s tho sober truth tuntin tho ton years slnca tho sarrender of Leo intemperance hna stricken a greater numbor, by two fold, than perished in baltle from the fringon | Inalienabio rightsof the individual, and nsunlly Hunter {0 the taking of Richnond, Strony drink | there in no conilict betwoun theso and the rights of hosalready caused us @ soror desolation than did | suclety, An oniarged wiedom will deem that, foe the long sid fearful warl T et pact. "tho penoral welfara 16 Injare then, for ua (0 bo Indiurent and Idlal Arg | whenever the Individual s oppresred, Andyet, |-muxumfl, that the even bn the luY oalllon that the individoal lufl‘nl. wpecial effort, snd that the 1lie general welfaro ia to bo malntalned, We have ruscue are touched wiih multitudes of unquestioned Jaws which involve enact whatover laws aro for the geaeral welfars, Boclety 14 charged with the groatest good of the greatest number, Her right to secars that goud is a parsmount tight. 1t oveu 1ifts itaelt fnto” tho supremacy of an obligation, Of course, thore are which we call the world, uot only will be but now i# In th haude of 1im who came’ and comes and willeomo o rule the people In righteousncse. The eult ls very gront. It involves tho prosent lot and futuro dewtiny of millions Which ioue can numnber. “The parties in the case are the Lieattien world whero Listlo light has ahone, Whore tho npportunity for roodnes hus been amalls tho hesthen world “with ts mlllivns of deaplecd vezrocs in Africs, with ita millione of hardy Northmen, with lts ’.'Hll!l’(ml - pogeants of lionians atid Urcekn, thelr philusaphers Bnd stateamen an, roligions actors and thinkors the heathien world with ita altars and templea an s 10 neod uf who summon s to the noatical zoalt Shall wo deities; the Ilabrow world, reaching from crea. | and salvation, and that yosr after year (lod comus | say with tho careless slugvard, **s little moro | the same principlo as th statutes which prohlblt «tlun down to thin very huur with fte ono and [n. | cluser tothe hflmlfll:'.::.l with Llia reign of righte- | slumber, & littic moro folding’ of the hands Lo | the xale of Intoxicsting drink. For examplo, divisible Jehovah; “the Chtistan world with | ousncss, Tho warl ed from tho Mosalc | slcep™t’ We may any it, but, alas, it's at our nors ; yoit.dofonso 1 an inallenable Fkkit, and the eafry. e "chia ol imphe ot then | gl Sty I ot oo | (AT Do g i o curcliind | Mo soiceaellvisponsor fefanis o s are the partics who nre pleadiog in this supreme and, Ile of the pale horse ridos, a) itive. Tet the Blate calm| e il e, W e Jinading In ths mupretns | o et can hrINE cumrors 10 tho Wicked, - fotoed: 1o o and tha'binad; | quent prragatly tays (liat Hows to the very bridls, Deatn and destruction | whoso s found thon armed shall be ‘deemed o criminat andshall be punished aceordingly, £tate regulates the esle of poisons and of explo~ Lo regulate b thoso who are living to bresk the lawa of man and Sonie sect that they have dared decide il {4 The bonmthen e | Hieaven, no trutl can coma with. more power thin suawer tu cach otuer sa when deep answers unto and have delivered the heuthen world, deep, Tthink itis time that we arose and sought ere made, #nd along with {t the Jewish world, overtoa pun- thata great Jehovah In moviug all over the uni- | deliversucel Or, to approach tho mubject by an- | sives, llut the rig olves tha right Ishment measurelvss In qlmlll( and duruifon, | verse in righteousnces, Tho wilifully sinful hava | otlier access, lool nnupcrlmlrul nulcu’umnn{l the | to forbld. If under certaln clrcumatancos 1 ull‘ny When wo remcember how full the holy writings | everything fo fear from this docirine. When | economic waate. Look at the faflletion which falls { o restrained from freely buylng pulvons, then in aro of lessons to the genprsl and thet condemnn. | Uod‘s wrath la plctured aw having began Ls- | jiterally ou all the comwunity! view of certain other ‘condldorations I may by tion 18 as the opportunity, that the groater the | fore the foundation of the world, and that In the statlsties of the Unlted Bfates Com- revonted from buying atall, fhe Biate {s bonnd 2 light the greater thio guslt of ki whopreferw dark- | e lovas to witncaw His own fury, the mind | misaloner of f£ducation for 1871 1 tho o rendur & reason Tor her restraints, mnst 2 ners, wa cannot but feel that the destiny of tha | 1aughs at tho ‘mlu'."l us bolng ‘8 nightmars | statemont that **from 80 to 00 per cont | ke them subserve the gencral well-boing. Tint heathen does not 1o before us to bo delermined, | f the superstittous, When Catholle or Protestant | of thecrinuinale of the United States connect their | fAus indicating them, she bas the manifeat right it but fu spresd out only beforo Him who sces af) | deacribes hell and exhausts terrible Imagery in the | courves of crime with intemperance.” Of 1o enact thuugtiroughout her bounds, It tha things and commita uo folly and nosin, Whi porteaiture, then, ugaln, the inodern mind may | 14,000 inmates Of the Massachuseits pricons, | Hlate—the mBority—believe it 1o bo for tuo, we recall how salemn and long-continued, | #imiloal and thion resact such worduas being imayun | 121000, or 84 per cent, ara ruporiod to havo been | the pablla good, prnfllblwry laws against llquore reen lnmnfii‘h many centuries, were the Injunctions | of & dixordered braln; but when the calm ductring mleminnu. n Maine Ud percent. Jeportafrom | eelling, or the selling of anything olse, mny be to the llebrows to obey snd worship tho oue | 0f cquity lsannounced and the sonl le called Lo evur{ tate, county, and manlcipal prison by Con- | mado and enforeud. l‘l'tn-y way cov very city i Jrhovali, tho one Lord and one (iod who had | contemplate that moat patlont, mowt wisa but | nectleut siow that more than 00 percent had been | pnd village, evory pslace aud hovel, era 4 brought them up from the land of l-:sl?m mont just bar, it cannos but confuks that between | in habite of drink, Ly thelr own admlssion, Mr, | 1s Do doubt of that, Only, st this point, ¥ sud out of the honks of bondage—that One God | itwelf'wnd the heart that has loved (Jod's law some | Maller, the well-known prisou sgent, says that | tho inquiry arises respecting the . praciical H whose namo they did not dare (o speak sloud, | deepsnd Jasting line shiduld be drawn. = 1t is essy | during's recont year in Pniladelphis, of 31 casea | value amu:‘ leglslation. How near docs 15 como i - whoes One namu checred Abraham and all the | Lo lauchawsy ihe of Danto and -“lllunf and 10 | of murdur each Ono was traceable to Intemperance, | to touching the root of the evil? That it ood i | bieroea of that nation, whose Oue name wae Lhe Tuject us no much rnll{ nany of the conditiuns and | sud that in that same year and city, 121 nurderous | fn a comnunity whero public sentiment st ns i¢ | overthrow of polyuiclom and paganium, we must | conalderations which [n the oplnions of muany con- | wasaults proceeded from tho same cause. Of the | is the verdict of all hlstory, It lends to diminieh be slow to condemh that pecoliar people for not | #un the dylnk to the world of dn-}nlr‘ but wlter | 48, 000 arresta 75 percont were causcd by strong | drunkenncas, and crimo,’ and pauperlem, ‘the i wg[cnmmg|h"1r["||g i {dea at war with their | the minddias dustroyed 8 hundred falachoods snd | drfnk, 1t claration made by Judge Allison, | gecords of tstlcians and the common ubsorva- I old geniue snd with tho solemn volee of binaland | Lae laugled at the detalle of many pictared Ja- | of Pennsylvania, in a wpeech deflvered In 1872 | tlon confirm that, And yet, 1 bolleve the percente ] tho Temple. Wo tnuet check vur Judginent here | Jernvs, ol fore him thero springs | that o the criminal courts of that btate four-tfthu | age of gain is upt to be lss’ than is ordinarily ol- sud leave the Jewlsh world to the equity of Cod, | Hp one other idea yot which will not be | of Ihutrllunuflnmllwdn\"lmlucwd tothe influ- | leged. Thers ls mlways tho pousibla fallacy of All the parties on the hnman side of tlils 'M‘l"{» deatroyed w0 _ oaslly—tho vqult{ of _God, | enceof liquor, Hu adds, ***Tlere s 1ot one caro | thinking {hat what. is driven from sighi fg de- pagan, Jew, and Curietlan, appear not fn tho | Javing cxcaped the judement hall of the | fn iwenty, whereln a man'is trled for lifo, jn which stroyed. They who do not look beneath' the sur- name of property, not ln the nuine of any fnsig. | pocts wud of the theolokisos, st 1ast wo come to | Jiquor fa not tho dircct or indirect cause,” Supt, | faco may thiuk that ull Is well, whon In fact the nificant totereat, but fu the nome of happinse | tbe bar of God. 1lore wo must bow fn silouce snd Kunnud{, of Nuw Yurk City, Is responsiblo for the | aischiel fu all the while haraesing, and ienacing, here sud hereafier. A numberless multitude an | feel that our slne caunot e the sama as virtue. | anirmatiou that of 08,000 arcosta i a singlo year, | and thrcatening the very foundations. 1 auy, the uamo of the highest of wll their inturests, such | Hence 1o the wleked thly bigher form of riuht | pine-tenths were the result of deink, In our | **Clve ne prohibltory laws wheraver thay ropre. 4 fstho phenomenon that spreads out hefyre us, | brings no Lmmunity, bnt, on the contrary, the | Weatern Stal tatistics are not, for the miost | sent the u-l?l of the majority. but count them still 3 snd whicl, by its magnitude, should make us 5“‘( morv ealm and reasonable one makes the justice of lun, -oumrufly complled. Yet [ have no donbt they are worth. Call it that the statuts { tnat nothing of the matter depends upon Ill!judr. God, the more fnevitably dove Itscem ‘to b mpe | {hat'the facts bure are fn kuupl.,{. udgoes on the | gets vindication If 1t lussens the temptations to ment of man but that all goca before God.~ ‘The | proaching the wicked heart. y'ench. Nlato's Altotaeys, the police, thy on- | evil; If It makes 1t comparathvely safe for vue s curth hias ite own fuestions of litlgatiop which so | , 1nthis dociriue may all the virtuous 8ud hoj y of 'the county jail, have told mo the samo | youig men to walk the bidhwaye: if. {nstead of buwilder fle most wiw bar enchee | And here, tuo, inay we cume tu incasure the | story, It le drink, sbove all other causce, which | overy other sircck-doar apenlng to destraction and d referred,und | breadth of the Christian roligion. It must open | makes your lifo and mine insocurs: which peoples | slluring the unwaty, the path of Piin mist needs seversed, and reattirmed, snd t eneration thag | #te churchea fur all, te charity for all, and extend | our llousus of Correctiun, L.“" and Ponitontia- | be sought out befofe {t can be eaterudi If even in entered the suit diea Lefore the endof the litiga- | to the nlflulm 1o the merits of tha Lord. Nub | yics; sud which, after that, leavos soclety In- | sonie cases tho outraged fumily riay havo redress tion, Theinfants iu the cradle when the case way | elug able to fad on exact law that fita vach person | fusted with lawl d crimo, ~ On the crimi+ | and the acller of Intoxicating drinks by obllecd to frat read grow slony, snd passing through sl the nflwlhhnuf A theory that will tell him the destiny | naj side it is Jike a wal oz contaglon, know that his trafilc is under the ban of law as w.,.,,m aud school-years of youlh, hecometho | Of each heathen or ouhl!nfi sonl, he must afirn Add now the economic work. 1 put that last, | woll seof sigbl." I repeal, Iam for prohibltory unch and the bar that #its dowa In moture age or | the genersl truth that God is moving overthe | foritlslcast. And yet, could you realize even wherover thoy oxprusa the will of the pcopla, old age sronnd the final inquiry and declsion, 8ad | vartli {n the Hl! Rarments of Hle own justice,— | that, you would realiss that lutempor fa a | Toften think (hat, eunhlunu perwnade the coun- would be the world If the grest allotments of ro- | something bigher lnd'hnlhr than all “the I surpassing evil, The figares are aluiost too vast | try thereto, 1 would havea canstitutional amend. ligion kiad to come befors auy human bar) Al) § knowntous ‘The coubta which eit """] and bave | tobe cowprebonded. Dear in mind, however, | mont which, fromn the lakes to the gulf and from -1bose mazes of Splritual merls or dewerit, ull that | 234 in tho past, n:nl bave reudered swilt Judgment, | that 1 take them only from the oficial recorls at | ocean fo occan, sbould prohibit, save for madic- dizcrimination Letween Fagan sod Christlan, be- | buve bovn ewbleme of nly rude peeliinioary | Weshington. [¢utands thero that 75,000,000 gal- | fusl and mechsnical and kindred purposcs, tho tween Jew aud Clirintlan, between the doubting ngey st which only frazmeatary evidence lias | lous of aicufiolic u%nnr aro sugually cansatacd in | yory mangfaciuro and importation of intoxicating und the believing, betwetn the moral, raylug been scducad. and over which' poor —lestls | gur country, Aud it to that you add'the wine, and | liquors. Loed It not stirike you a¢ something 8i- heatben and the moral, praying saint of the clvillze m“ll{‘ poor, hssly Judges, have od to an | gle, and veor, you bave an sggregate of 100 o+ | moat absurd thiat the production of such liguors luuds, can Lo solved by ouly oug Uelng. Into iy | 9plolun. Al tho great Lesucs awalt & court boyond. | 000 gatlous, ‘st & cost to tho cousumers of B600,+ | sbould be frecly permitted sud legatized all ‘over Lands lot ua all always coninit the declilon, | Whenone sces the fmperfoction and open cruelty 500, And that 1s ona-seventh of a1l our mari- | the land, #id then soue Stato orcommiynity shagid Dt while there aro oiazca of wpidiual lawand | of carthi seas hery the porseculed Juw, tho out- | ufactures for the year, and mors than onc-fourth | attempt to probibit Ite common usa? L wish thas deatiny which we uust leave 10 the caro of thy In. | 1awed Pagan, thodespised Catholic or Protestant, | that of sll farm ctious, betterments, snd | tho people, by sn act s solemnn aul soverciyn os Gulte Oue, yot there aro ol""" lessuns we oy | beow the Leretic accused of intdelity and of Jead- | stock, It {s cnouglh to buy twu aud a balf | thattn whic b they declared shelr political fado: lvarn from tuo fact that flod rules the people with | 11 souls to hell in the name of the tiospel, one | burrels o four for ecach 1oan, woman, | pendence, would proveat the very cxistonce of equity, It muet be that under this equity th! cannut but rejoice that thero Iv before the human | and child §n our whole broad land, ardent wpirits, save for a cortaln specifad use. ‘ world on which we dwell will open to a1l alike fucu a bar wicre all tuls bltterness of accussiion | Aguhiown by the sworn returns of intecusl reve- and s)i this judgment of man will be thrown futo c:lnll’ before s Juet God. Toward Lhat bar let us advance not with trembling but with Joy, ‘Turning away from this wpusctacle of conflicting doors of success sud happinces. 1f It was § Ualtothehuman couceplion of Justico thi sbonid be piclured and carvad as hiaving a bands, over ihe eyea thast aby mignt ot sse whether o St this [pray you 10 remaember, prohiiitory nue, it ie less xhlulhurulu‘fircuun 10 _way that | laws, though they range from village re- since 1660 ws have destroyed |n drink $10,000,- | striction to constitutional amendment, can’ never 000 more (han four tinics the amouut of tie | tuku the pisco of moral sussfon.® You hav uatlonal deot, and une and & half Hines the whole | not done & work whica 14 complets and abldiny & wuppliant were a begear or & King, much more e it | falth, take this doctrine of divine :justice lo youe | cost of the War of the Rebellion to alt B A caseutlal tEat the rigliconunets (0 Uod have o | beart, und o io b with all tho private weiofs that | {55 country, Wy, tie acetsd valio of Ah tho | [ead bibests 10 kive e or u¢ Joask Commclontions. reapect Lo persons. but that It fall down upon tlie | Ju8Y eucoupads you. utary toall yous ellurle | rual ceiato tn the United Statas tn only $10,000,- | Iy to forewv, bis desire for intoxicsting drl millious of Iils children ax fally His light of Fils you paor? In the face of long stiivin, hisugh the_ reuiraing sy poasibly be. mude, i § docs | 000,000, and the prvonsl propers, 504, 009, 000 1n Lwenty ycurs, then, We deink ourselves ot of the valuo of out wholo contry, real cotate nd peraonsl proporty fncluded ! By tho consus of HTU L wae wtiown thiat the annual liquor bl a acfeat still attend your the hour when you moab scek light does duult cowe! Do beloved one ¢! Do you draw uear your own tomb with life's work Just raln. 'Tuls cxact justice sy be suspected from all weuce arouud us away from the condition of wan. The earth will produce jts frults and dowors for the humblest slave. In our South, whers o1 both expenso sud riek. - But, coolrariwisé, the woment you win one ta temperance of thonghland urpotg, you have mado hita & positive power !'uum"ruu. Notonly uave yo o your- s you releascd yours tbe numble old African motler llvos yet UCBUAY Usther up these sad facts, carry all this | Jinole was 343,000,000, Bach famlly svera; el R from an act nesr her mlatress, the tics of meml-filp Lous-blotted uvidenco, sumnion all theas witnesses, | peryo: :s.lvntlp\eml in driok -uhi rate uf 32 g#::fi-nl:::u:‘- nd. Ihnkc ln":h:‘:filu'flullzl . bsviag grown lo the Jnn of bondage, friendship “l‘.lil lu your early aud middle yoars, sud even your | yesrly for cach fawily. Dr. Hitchcock, President | clearssday. 1 sappose it to be plain common chalng which nced and accept of no ewadcipation, [ 01d age, llndnfiu 1bo large case up Lo thd uquily of | of e Michivan Stato Hoard uf Hewith, cstlmatcs | scuse. Atany rate, it fa the ouly thought which there, at thls cabin door‘“m- ruses bicom ag | tho Infnlte Judge. Out of the chaos trath will | {he nnusl sggreguto lose of productive life, by | can be made conslstent with the !’eumng- of lim sweclly as around the costlicr mansion, and th bird will titlugly leave the vines tralued on 8 coally trellia to chant ity matin or veaper on the branches which ¢p the low roof the oue season of promatare desihs from slcobo), ut 84 great as all the uced of | 3,000,000 years, and that ucarly 100,000 persovs Ao cqustantiy sfck and dlvabled from the sswe cause. But, assumiug the snnual producing ‘whom we here worship, Aa auroly as we puf our- welves, In this matter, under tho banoer of Cbrist, we put oursclvea walnly under the banuer of mors! come, lnto this eguity lct ua caat the world bure and hereafter, ll?l wman, 1t 13 ot to be wondered at that the Pealmlst ask- suasion. For Chrlat's tnought is 8 dlree lowly iu lify and hieart, Thua will yo ed the stralns of music o belp blu speak forth | power of su able-bodivd pusson 1o be even 300, | foward man's free choice. ' Le rezards thosoul Bud Natare 10 be no seapocter of pors sucha wide rulivion. The foods, he waid, ¢ we Lave thed a 80 anunal natioual Joss the dm- | feelf. Through ressun, asd conscieuce, aud the b wery 8bout ber eyed, tLoir bands, sud the hilla arv joyful st such a wenss sum ot $350,000,000. Dr. Mitchcock eatl= | butser nature, e wakes His spproach. ' Ly con. ltke of all. \What ence of the benevolent Mastér. Yes! tho matca tho pumbar of insane, mado so souually ty | viaces. fo perauadea. 1o easreats, Ho couics v toches to bor winus aa they awcep up tivm sumny | resch up thelr whits hands 8yd best Bew gu s u:ink,‘n 10,000, aud of Ldol, 39,000, 8% au i~ mmuogxureuuumw of love. e slows tus way of b!cfllnF‘ 118 deplcte the ways of death. Ha'gathere the individnal and ths community, and, with rn authority born of trnth and of Heaven, ie calle them to turn and live. That, therefore, {9 the univeraal Christian method. It inclndea tom- perance, for tha simple reason that, with certain necessary exceptions, it includes everything. And, hence, the lnrremn duty In this, which tosi on an now, and will rest on n# to the end, In to do- yota oor Influence to the Jmnnuh)n of ‘men, In Mo mse of that method, we are to give neither #leep ta nor eyes nor slumber to our eyellds, antil the better day dawns, Somo of ve bec! different, All of ne have dane too little. renolve that, God bicsslng us, we will be faithfal In the days to come. And what, now, of the petition? As | have sald, it s a petition requesting the city authoritles to closa all enloons on Sunday. It proposes that the resnlt be secared by asing all tho foree which the city commands or the Government confers. And 1t comen into specisl and aimost necessary conald- eration hera to-day, for the reasonthatas & churc] ncnru;'eulllfln of Chriatian wonhl[iern. we Aro Y, d, 1.at ng anket ve it our signatures, shall speak of It brleNy but frankiy, and, m'y view dl-nprolnu the originators, they still will know that I differ from them only tn thie Judgment of what fe best in method, Our end 18 the eamo, 1In 1he frst place, then, I havs a general onwil- lingness to see the chnrches, as church organiza~ tions, made distinctive participants in movements which bear a character 8o large {mnnlclnnlnnd 1o litical. The petition addressca itaclf to the Mavor and Common Couneil. It proposes leginlative and exccutive action affecting the common weal. | wish, theroforo, thatin due form, as well In partial fact, it proceeded from the 'people in their capacity as citizens. It wero preferable, T think, that signatures should be obtained simply by aps peal from fndividnal to individnal, or by Uio aid of ward or mass meetings called for the purpose, I am confident that whoso taker carefal note of the relations and trae {ntercets of Church and Btate will hardly deem this suggestion an Idle one. In the second place, the petition saema to ignore certaln very Important facta of our manicipal con- ditlon, Itmives, for instance, no apvarent heed to ihe fact that those who aro in sympathy with tho mnpnncfl action are in 8 known minority, It Jooks ward nothing which would ho likely to win that adversenajority in whose hands tha decision really reats, On the contrary It tenids quvluhl{ {o make the antagoniem the more scttied, Let [t be unco understood that tho anthorities of tho cily ore tobo specially importuncd to- pass wpecial enactments oo matters in regard to which thers 18 carnest difer- ence of pubile opinion, and thenceforth the city suthorities will bo elected witn referenco to that fact. That{a the instinct and law of majoritics the world over. It i, therefore, unwise to maka this attempt at the tribunai of the Common Connell, First seck Lo change the welght of public oplolon, Swall the ranks of the frienda of temperance {0 & majority, and then actinl and righttnl legisiation in favor ol um‘mnnu may bo accomplished. To do otherwise I likely to poatpone tho deslred reform, Olscrve too, in this smmme conncctlon, that the pe~ tition eets {taelt agalnst the hundred thousand G mans, with thelr lager-beer, just as inexorably as Inst the_ lesser number ‘with thoir gin and whisky, 1t practically cln simply fer- mented beverages with distllled. And, moreover, 1t pays no deferencs to the dorman viaw of Sunday {tscif, It is not content to ask of those who hon- O!ll{ think tuat Sunday sbonld Ls & hollday as well s holy day, that’ tuey sell only lager-beer, ond that they close their saloons during the half of the eacted honrs./ Indood, It makos no request ot our fellow-citizenn a3 ali! It goes past them, to thoss who temporarily - kave tho ower of making laws, &n demands hat they compel the majority of thelr couetituenta to do what those constitdonte are dis- incitned to do. For one, I am not willing ta adopt snchi a conrse. 1 waut to win my German breihren to the total abstinence riow of cven lager beor, snd to the American, Christian view of Sunday itaclf. 1 supposa ouz friends of Lhe Women's Union dosire tbe rame. Let them, then, deviso eftcctive menn- tirca for Infuencing the Getman sontimont and tho Uerman judgment. ~ Let thew bring the nse of lagor beer to the trial of public arzument and public appeal, Let them scck to persunde dovoleen to the freo adoption of a bettsr practice and a hetter faith, 5 1o tha third placs, (hla potition seeminfly forgota the fact thaton & Almilar issno, oud not very long az0, wo saw this great city consigned to one of tho unworthicst administtations swhich have ever aflicted it. Tho temperanco minority forced the wovemont. In roturn, the antl-temperance ele- menta made commnon tause not only with each other, but with all avallable clements; Tho result wad that Intemperance and gambllug and corrup- tion held carnlval until taxpayers despalred and tue well-wishers of the city hung thelr heads in very shamo. The vory evil which was petitioned againat was poured upon us like adeluge, Indeed, tinlesa § am inistaken, the present noble Common Council was secured at lant only by a taclt and, I may almost sy, public sgreement that so-calied Bunday and teniperance legislatlon sliould not ba attempted. Tow, then, I ask, can those who have ween sach things and aduptod such consoquofis actlon, be expeciod to join tha petitioners? 1n tho fourth placo, 1t ta not mucif effect oven of temporary auccesa which 1a likely to enstic from laws not nustained by public sentinent. Lot the Common Cosucll of Chi uuio, as tho city stands to- day, deceeo the closing of Al saloons on Sunday Indeference to the petition. Let the Mayor mako proglamation. Taes any ona think that wauld reslly accomplish tha end in viow? 1 do mot, Why, the auburba of this city aro caslly accosslbla] And thero, If far losa lmlnll.lkluu ovaslons did not saficlently avall, would be witncssed such {ntem- perate excess and auch dosccratious of the Sabbath asare not dreamed of now. You might poasibly urchaso exemption from what offends your sizht, it the evil 1ot would be acarcoly dimintanod: o, mol 18 is not petillons fa the Commen Cotncfl which wo most need, but petitions o tho cople thomnelves, Back of tomperance legislas l’mn and precedent mu.l ‘must be conviction of the ubllc conscionce aud {ha public reason. In our form of Gavernmont, ond according to our religlon ns well, the cholce of the majority I to provall on the statute-book, Surely, thet, #o far s the temperance question I ono which legisla- tlon touchos and which municipalitica decide, it muet come under that roquiremont. 1 sny, therefore, to my sistcrs of the Unlon and to ull the fricnds of emperance, let go thiu petition, and address yourselyes 8 rrofounder work. Enter un the graster undertakini of enlightening ihe popular understanding, and of moving the popular beart, Bhow temyorance In fts personnl 8nd soclal, its moral and cconomle, its aplcitunl snd etornal glory, Show iniemporance dn fis trua crhwinality and wasto and destruction, My apeech and the printed page, by personol appeal and poreonal toil, by public gatuerinigs of all classen of tho eitizons: yen, Ly prayed and the winaing of souls to Chriat, ook your benefeont end, Bo as sure on tho word of the Lord stands, dthe heartfelt hopes of humarity are aot a de- luslon, the day yon long for shall nsbered in. 11 bo the tranacnipt of the divine Iifo ha the d tho thinza which are pore and of good I provail fu country and village and city MISCELLANEOUS. KANKAKEE, ILL. Bpecial Dispach 1o The Tyidune, Kankaxzz, 1L, Jupe 24,—The uew Catholic Church In this city was dedicated to-day by Blshop POIB . Al lesat 1,600 porsons wero prosont, svery avaliable foot of room betng occunled, The sing. Ing wea unusaally fine, and the entire toromony, lasting threo honrs, was Interesting to the largo number of Prn(fltxumh who ware there, Tha Dishe op dellyered 8 fa discoursg in knaitsh, i which huvald & glowing teibute to Bt John, In whoio honor the day was belng commemorated all ovur the land, sud to 8t, Itoso, fu whose name the church dedical ‘The new edidca Is tho wi Jargest and finost In the placo, and has & seating capacity of 1,200, After the curemonics a grand dinuer was sorved In the old church to wha chose to patronize the tables. A Iunflu number of t 1 Catholics from abroad ore here. In the afternoon the Bishop confirined & class of 450 In 6t, itosa's Churcli, and sboat fifly in the Qerman Catholio Church! MABON CITT, ILL. Apecial Iispaich (o The Tribune, Masox Ci7y, I, June 24,—Mr, C. M. Morton edicatad to-day the Unfon Misalon Chapel, ro- cently eroctod undor the suspicos of the Yonag Men'a Clirlstian Amociation. *'The dedlcatory ser: ‘vicos took placw at 4 0'clock p. 1y, and the Chanel whaa crowdad, boldiog at lesst 500 people. . ‘'ha rlnmu of all aur chilrch: ere presont, and par- b cipated In the services, i the _Assaclatlon 1y The collection taken the scrsices amonnted to 500, ing only ahout $200 tndab! At night unlon scrvicvs wera held o the [ and Mr, Morton preachod an escellent sermon, Summing up tho day, It has been one of pleasuro 84 well us prodt, aad witl bo long romembered by our poople. Mr, blorton goea from hero to El Faso, and durlng this week, will vislt Peru and Uaiens, lln\pvnu very fuvorable roport of thio wark of the Young Mon's Chrlstian Association of our State. Bpectal Disgieh 1o s Trivu 13 lspateh (o J Ine, nonrnnfiuns '-"f.‘—’rmdny belog the annlivers sary of 5t Jesn Dnnu-to. tho Canallan patron Baint, was colebrated by & grand _pyrotechnie dis- play this avening with fully 16,000 speciators, There will bo ‘s grand processlon to-mocrow, Amerlcan socletles from Ogdensburg, Lowell, Cohoes, Troy, Fall jilver, cte., are in town, s apecta Diwmiox o Fhe 71t + e pitch do The Tribune, Deruott Hiclh, dins ' 24eeTho Hir, Alfred Owen, of Lafayetle Avonue Baptist Church, ro- signed hie pastorship to-day, the ob it is understoud, to accopt u ‘call ta ! Flace Baptist Church of Chicago. ——e— SOCIAL COMPLIMENTS, Apecial Dispatch ta The Triduns, Brooxtsutoy, 1, Juno 24.—Dr. George 8, Bmith and lady wore surprised last night Ly sa {mmensc sssemblage of tha best peopla uf the city, who dealred to tender to Dr. Smith thelr regard for Lis labors In thy tumperanca causy upan tho occar slon of the twontietl anniversary of his marriago to Mise Mary Maus, of Pekin, Dr_8mith, uus yoar 8go, founded the Washiugtonian Soclety, now cousisting of 1,450 membery, among whoi ¢ Ta ity “Were contrmed drudkarde. “Ahe Wash {ugtonlans, through the ifon. A. B. Csmpbell, scoted with o silver walor-servico, his chils dren o oct of chive, and Mr, wud Mre, Haiges, of 'ckin, & valuablo prescat. OBITUARY, Corvxsus, 0., Juns 24.—Peter Ambas, Prest- dent of the First National Bank of this city, died this wmorniog of parslysis TILDEN, Nsw Yous, June 24, —Tho JForld says It is un- deratood 3rs Tuldea will sl for Ewreve July 18, BUTCHERY. The Blood-Named Town of \Gore, in Ohio, Fugnishes a Horror. ~ Three Porsons Sordidly Chopped to Death for Eleven’ Dollars. The Ied-Handed Monster in Jail, with the Crowd Growing. ITONRIBLE DEEDS. Cixerxnaty, 0., Jane 24,—Tho Commerclal's Logan, O., special aays: ** One of the most atro« clone crimes aver porpetrated in Ohlo was the mnrdor In this connty near the Vilage of Qore, Abunt @cven miles from Logmn, Weldon, his widowod slster, Saoean McClurg, and Miss Nancy iiite, McClueg by a former husband, aro now in Jall. One of them, William Terrell, made a confersion to-day, which of John Mre, throws tbe e¢rime on one Joreph King. King denies any knowledge of the c¢rime. The prevailing opinfon 1s that Terrell did tho most of the hoerible work. The mardered man was a thrifty farmer, and it was generally eupposed had money abont the house. Terrell aays they mee him about one-halt mile from his house, and that King, without any warn- ing, walked upand dellberotely shot him in the bosyels. Then onsued & tosslo, during which King ehot him {n the breast once, and twice {n the neck. The vielim pleked upan old corn.cntter and threw i at King and struck him in the back. King ncized the corn-cut- ter and strack the old man over tho head cleaving the skull, e then finlshed his work with a club, They then went to a amall stream, wnshed their hande, and then te the honee. King took an ax from the porch, went into the house, and smcnlly enme out with the old Indy, They waiked togelhor A moment, when, without warning. hentruck her with the Ax mcross the head, nearly catting it in twain, She fell, and he struck her ncrosa the neck, severing the jugular in. Hethen ran into the h and tho lmmn Indy, seeing the gory and blood- csmenred weapon, ran out tho front door, Tho hrute porsucd and overtook her before she had taken many etepe, and dealt her a blow upon the shoulder, minking tho ax to the handle, This Drought her to the ground, and he strack her on tho back of the head, splitting 1t wide open. Ho apain Titted hia weapon snd struck lier ncross the neck, almost severing her head from the body, Tle then threw the ax down by the victim and’ probably went_fnto tho housa to find the money, ‘hen arreted they had about $11 on eraons. thelr ‘The excitement is iIntense. About 1.!‘-0% people have gathered abont the promiscs, and fears are ontertained that there will bo an attempt to take the prisoners from the Jail and Iynch thom. The militla are under arms, nnd a 1ot of oxtra police have been aworn in, The lateat developoments go far to show that King was not concerned n” this bollish -crime. Tie fs kiown to have been in zan - af o'clock _on {he samo night. Terrall nsys the marder was committed betwean G and 7 p. m, Late this ovening nnmcrons small groups of men are neen qulotly ullun5 on the strects of Logan, lnclnding mon from different partaof the country, Troubla s evidently brewing.™ CoLusnus, O., June 4. —The Mayer of Logan, 0., han mcmri\ed to Gov. Young for anthority to employ a milltary company, and asking formore nsalstanca to gunril thie jail apainat an apprehended ottemnt to secnra and Iynch ‘two murdorers. Tho Qovernor bad loft for Cincinnatl Loforo the meg- sage arrived, and it was repeated to him, MUTPITYSBORO AGAIN. Special Dirvateh 1o Tha Tribune. CANBONDALY, I1l., June 24.—Fall particnlars in regard to the shooting st Murphysbore yeeterday are yet lacking, as only the witnesses know any- thing positive about the matter, and thoy aro en- Jolned from speaking, Judge Cemma, Prosccnting Attorney, went over Inat uight, bat the preliminary oxamindtion was postponed until Taesdsy mom- ing. From him this morning your correspondent learned the following: The affalr occarred In 0'Connor'a salcon, near the Narrow-Qaugo depot, ot abont 3 o'clock Baturday afternoon, The man went In, evidently intent on ralsing a 6ght, and began to abuse O'Connor, finally winding up by cofting O'Connor's teeth loose, smarhing his noso, and rotreating. Agnin entering, he sald ho would clean out the shnnty, Charlos Bullard took his part, but ran auminat & hamnier In the hands of Mra. O'Connor. ’l"im otler man was in the breast. the ball passing sround to and out of the back. T'he man'a name fs aa yet unknown, Uullard fathe maln prosccuting witneas, and i under bonds for ap pearnuce on Tucsday., O'Conmoris onton bail of 1,000, The wounded man {8 in 8 precarious cone flfllnn, but the genural impression Is.that he will ve, — A MURDERER ARRENTED. Darron, 0., June 24,—~Capt. Fotbes, of the In- dlanapolls police, yoeterday left Dayton with tho prisoner’John Copo, arrested In Dayton lest Thurs- day. Copoand anothor man namod \ilson en- goged moan adray in & bar-room In Todispapolis In Beptembor, 1873. Copc struck the bar. keopor on Lho head with & npitcher, kill- ing him fostantly, 1o escaped, bat Wilson was arrosted. A reward of $200 was offered for Copo, who wont to West Virzinis and married thero, Anothor wifa and 8 dnnfihlnr are living near Indl- anapolis, Tie canio to Dayton overa year ngo un« der the name of Charles ’l‘yhomu but‘'was only ro- contly dixcovered by the detectlves hero, Capt. Forbes hail known Cape In Indlanapolis, sud iden- tifled hilin by & brokan fingor of tho left hand, CAIRO, ILL. Bisectal Dispatch to The Tribune, Camno, Til., June 24, —~The man Brown, who was caught stenling night before lust, and so badly beaten, died Jast night, ¥ Abuut noon to-duy 8 nogro barher, calling him- self Covinglon, was arrostud In thls clty on the fn- stance of the Sherlft of Ouceols, Ark., on the eliurge of having commiited s mundor thers abont nine wontha ago, _The negro denfes any knowl- edge ol the crime. Hols in in". and will go South svon. ——— SUICIDE, Sina Bixa, N, Y., Juno 24.—A Mre, ITubbell, of Brooklyn, who recontly arrived here from Sum- tmer, ahot herself and child last night whila tom- poracily insane, 8. Lowis, Mo,, Juno 24.—A southern-bound froight-traln onthe Bt Louls, Iron Monntaln & Fouthern Nallway, which loft the dopot hero shortly after 1 o'clock this morninz, ran overa man lying on the track noar the old arsenal and kiled bim, The man's namo was salwequently arued to be John Dutly, '"‘"‘"E from Galvestun, 110 has relatives I Lynchborg, Va. It was & clear care of suicide, At about 8 o'clock this morning tienry Ioftman, 60 years old, a reaident of thiscily, while under the {nfluenco of dolltiam tremens, throw himaelt train 0a tho same road at o Aan expre e plad and the Agrlonltaral, Biatement showing the cost of, maintalning the Department, of Agricultiro. fiof {tx cstabian ment, July 1, 186, to June 30, 1474, and ti nll o‘lmullnnlnz ita Annual lteporta for t! kL i TUE DEPARTNENT PROPEN, For the year endiug Juno 30, Iad, Iiam not separablo () FEEE i i aral) Forsalariei. Iiciiialty bay of abore nrwnnu{« es aned miscelisheous % Galleeting staaiica and writio “Wfl‘ Por o propasatii; uild around: Futprint Total.... FUBLS 'or the year 1A0) 'or tho year For the 1681 eAT For the year 18, For tha year o & and experimoutal gardots, s, an, ve For the JEAF 1073 | carwd Aun.14, 1670y, For the year 1670 (app'd March 3, 1877).... tor o Department -+ §3,040,080 Orand total (14 years).... Averago per annum ot anim) o Siics which Eadsator e, [F ks aared: the graslopper du| meet 'y, snaciul ll“f 10 nyesty; rt upon the subject (Bundry Civil Approuriation Act, approved March :\ 18770 The thlrd‘{ Lo Depariment sanounced that .ll‘gfl of swine of all ages by the hog-chulers lass year was ln uumbers 4,000, and {n moaey valus Buwards of 2 spas 1By Syeas suruesdion how (s 1 mpaiy 1t by ‘sven s sugkestion Low this 1min loss—altoat wn o be usl—might be obrl pallsted, Dol 1o 48y, Avolded. iz ‘he cost 0f priating the re; of 13 sud wsied. Thgrlflu)lfl U; Ihevlo’wud I‘flllh‘:lh):m": vo years do pot give the cost In del In subays quenl years, ‘This catiniate s 8 HUtUo lews than the £ e w0 L A e 100k asd § Culidrias Orlired 89 Haira cobice of ia reports of 1872 and 1873 hence fhe comparativaly antall expendi- ture for this purpoas for thete two years, 1 Banrly i not quite 3,001,000 copies of thés repopts bavebeen printed (Including that of 1379, now under way). - Canld the cost of folding them (that 1a, pirn- [nsina for maling) and tho cost of transparting themt hrough the miall be macertained, this total wonld b [ncreaed by many . Fostuxs hias en patd upon but & very amall proporticn of thom. FRED DOUGLASS, I1ls Visit to fis Ol Itome, and His Speech There. DArTiyons, Jane10.—A letter fromSt. Michael's, ‘Talbot County, Md., to the Daltimore Sun, gives an Interesting acconnt ot Frederick Doaglass® vislt to that place on Bundsy, ihe first he hee made since he left there forty-ons years ago, Soms time ago, Marshal Donfln- oxpreseed a wish to visit his former mas. ter, Capt. Thomas Auld, on old man now at the e of the geave, infrm in body, but with n clear vigorous inteliect, Capt, Auld expreesed his d desire to meot his 0id servant, snd an willingnes on Sanday Mr, Douglase accompanicd the excare sion of colored peoplo from Ualtimore to Sty s, Michael The interview was vory plesssnt throughout, 7. Danglass atated that 1n his book written scon after his cscape, he had made some statements that lapae of time and reflection had caused him to feel he had better have left nneald, and for sught that he sald that was anjust to his old mastes, or bad wounded hle, foelings, hs begged hla forglyonons. eu&;t. Anld ropiled that ho had naver expected to keep Mr. Douglass in siavery, He knew forty-ono ycars ago ihat the Marshial was looamart (o be 8 ‘siave, and when e sent Wim to Baltimore, after his difienity at Feie- land's, fnstend of selling him Sonth, 1t was with ¢ expectation that hao would achiove his feeedom. cfore returning to Daltimoro, Marshal Douglass called upon Capt. Auld ngain to bid him by, and when they parted both men went. 1n the aftornoon Marshal Douglsas addreesed the colorad peaple and a lorge number of white peo) in n grove near the town. A sommary of hia re- matks Is given below: o began h{ ll*lllg that hio hiad not expected to make & speoch. His presence waa not for the pur- pose of fanning the flames of scctlonil animosity, not to create ill:fecling, nor yet to Trecount tho wrongs frfiicted on hla race for 200 yedrs, nor to o lutd antigaity for matter to stir the blood and rouse the pussions, nor to indulge in & political harangne, nor to exponnd the Coastitution of tho Unitad States. ‘1 come, firstof all,* he sald, **10 ree my old master, from whom 1 bate been ecparated for lnn‘y-un ears, to shaka his hand, to lovk into La kind ofd fa and sce it beaming with 11ght from the otlior warl 1 havo bad great joy in .hnklrr that hand, in looking into that'facc strickch with sgeand discase, but eglow with the light that comes” from an honest he Mr. Douglars then paseed into a enlogy of the whita raco and its achiovements, and told the cole ored renph that thoy wero in contact with the most indomitably, the most enlightened raco fn the warld, and that he wonld bo false 10 his own race if ho did not tell them just where thoey atood —what on Iumense dlstance thoy wers bohind tho white people. Ho dld not belleye the colored DWEI! were fundsmentally and ecternally inferior to the whites, but they aro novertholess practically intarior, **\Ve muat not talk sbout equality nne til wo can do what whllefienple can do,” Lo said, ' As Jong as thoy can bulld veasels and wo cannot, wo are their Inforiora; as long as th( can bulld, railronds and wo cannot, we are their inforiors; as’ long na they can found governments and wo cangot, we are thole {nferiors,” Coming down on the bont on Saturday night he noticed that the 100 colored people aboard mado s much noise ne G0 white penflc wonld have done, and as long aa thoy do theea things they oro inferior to the whites, ‘YL in twenty years from tiow the. colored race, 8s & race, has ot advanced beyond the &olnt where It wsa when “emnncipated, It a doomed race.® he eald. “‘The now ls, Wil tho black man do ns now for his mastor (himsclf) as he used to do” for his old master? Du you, my colored frlends, Kot upas easlly now to work for yonrselves 88 you used o do to work for that atern old Homan, Hame uel Unmbloton?" Mr. Douglass was gnite revers on Prof. John M. angston for mainta(ning that the mulatto is the suporior of the black mon fntellectually. He told the colored poople that they must get monoy and koep it If thoy wished fo elo- vate thomnclves. Ono troublo with them s that thoy alwaya want to bo golng somewhere, and do not stay In one placoor at one thiog long enough 1o accumuiate. A poor people are always o de- spisca peoplo. ‘To be respected they must got money and prop~ erty, Without moncy there is no lelsure; witliout lslsure no Wianght; withont thought no progress, Thelr preachers shounld tell thum mora about what to do and less about what to fecl. They should cultivato thelr bralny moro and their lungs less. Thoy snoull not do- ond nipon elng holped out, Lut sould, do for homa 1o was tirod of Ethiopia holding out her han They should mot depend upon tho Lord for everything, Tho Lord le good and kind, but s of themselyes. No man hina n right to live unless he Tivea honesily, nnd no man lives honeatly who livea npen anothicr, The only political allusion he mado {u his spcoch was in saylng that the Southernors could control tho voto of the negroea In tho South- ern Staton far moro, completely than Notthernery could, Tho colorod man targed instinetively for ndvico and sssistance to thosowho had been ralsed with hlm, ———— . « CIlICAGO HOODLUMS, ... .. Botweon 4and 5 o'clock yestcrday morning, & Rang of roughs, only threo of whom have thus far ‘Luen captured, went aut upon tho north pler with the dcliborato Intention of bully-ragging cyery ono thoy found out thors. One of them, John Ruos- soll. had been out thera” a week ago, and amosed himnalf vastly by selzing small boys and breaking up_their fishing-tackle, 1le”then sclzoda men named Frank Kanake, residing on \West Erlo streot noar Milwaukeo ayenuo, and, bocauso ha wanld not give up htafahlng-tacklo, he thraw him 1nLo the take, whonce ho was with dificulty oxtri- cated. Yueterday morning, this sathe Loodinm fi:@hnnd bis gang, and went out determinod not to drlven away a4 be had been the previous Bunday b‘ those who ‘Wwitnessod his outrazeous conduct. The gang began by - bresking up fshing-rode and maltreating everyone with whoin they camo in contact. Finally’ thoy selzea the Ensworth brothers, sons of ux-Oficer Ensworth, and hecauss ono of thom rescntod thelr outrageous condact, Russell threw him into tho lake, and attempted to prevent his brothera from aidioghim. Tho boy camo within an ace of drowning, and probably would have had It nat been for the Interference of the rest of the crowd on thu pler. Atthisthe Itas- sell ‘unglfluwedfl ht,and {n the melce McQnjro cat George Hitts, of No. 428 West Indlana strest, twice upon tho hend wifl somu gull Inetraments After this (hey doparted. The polico Leard of the occurrence early, and following up the gang, suce cooded In mrresting John Itussell, Thomas Mc- Gulro, and John Gleason. Bevernt of tho ganz escaped by taking bouta acroes the river, whon they heard of coming of tho rnllcu. Of these, 1t (w barely prabablo that any will bo caught, bu ringleaders of the dinbollam sru In ** bock,” should be made to suffer the extrumest of the law, YoungSitis waecut ba sldes of the head, but is” not dangeros ———— THE NEZ PERCES. Waenmaroy, . U., June 24,—~The Chlef of the Ordinance Burcau has given orders for tho jssue of 1,000 stand of anna Lo ihe State of Oregon, 500 to l}lln Territory of Idaho, and 500 to Waakington Ter- ritory, San Prancisco, Cal,, June 24.—A Portland press dispatch saye the following fs just recuived from Lowiston under date of the 2iid, from & llmclll correspondent: No lullhurfllhllnf. Cul, Miller left Lapwal Thursday cvening for Mt. Idaho with 160 men, infantry and_volunteers. Gion, Tloward left Lapwal yasterday (Fridsy) with 25 cal a pottion belng volunteers. Is with Gen, Jlowarl Lient, ya & scont of twenty volantee ut | fternoon to go around the heac Rounde Valley cut oft any Indlans who nay be ‘on_thelr way I» Join Chief Joseph. Col, Perry haa'srnt word by courrier from Mount Tdaho® that the In- dians have yone Esstward. Troops leave In ous hour tor Lapmal, We will leave Lapmal “"“"v‘( morning to foln the furces nuw In tho feld. Wil have wilh us 134 soldiers about’40 volanteers here, Are to go to tha front at once, Kxcitoment subalding in Lewiston. e ——— ST JOHN'S DISTRESS. . Bangon, Me., June 24, —Mayor lamlin, of this city, whoreturned from §t. John Batarday, says the calamity there 1s overwhelming, The needs of the sorely distressod people aro very great. They are not ‘people who patude thelr misfortuncs. Somebody must speak for them. [z igonly neces- sary for the citles of our country t& know thete trae condition. e e— OHIO PENSIONS, Covvanvs, 0., June 24.—Gon, Wikoft, Pension Agcot n this city, has received offictal notification that all penslons for the Biate of Oblo will bo pald at Columbua after the 30th of June, e most use to those who do for ——— PROPELLER ASHORE. CoLLrwawoon, June 24.~The propaller City of New York fs reported ashore at Whiteh Polnty injured in u colllaion with 8 schooner, e ee—— One Bau's Life, Mr. Morgan, an Englishman of 107 years of age, celebratod bis last birthday at the Star sud Gartor, Richmond, surrounded by sixty-scven of his poaterity, which numbers 103 fuall, 3r. Morgan was 5 Juars uld when Burke dulh“crud ats apeech un Conciliation with America." Lo was 17 when Gibbon wus penniug the last page ob “The Declino and Fall?' at Laussuue. Four Kenerationa of statesmen have, durtog his e suceoasively come aud disappeared. o was vears old when Chatham fell falnting st bis ost, 1c was a boy when “The Rivals’! was mncrl off the stuge, aud wes 18 when Bheridan dasbied off from u tavern ta dellver his speethh outhe *Oude Chargze.”? e can remember the tinie when Napoleou was wrvluE under Dugows mier, and he was 24 whon the bloody head o Danton rolled on the sswdust. During & mero cpisode in this long 1ifs Byron blazed out bls urief carecr—Shelley, Keats, Coleridie, Houth- ey, Wonlsworth, Canning, Bltt, Fox, and otherd whose nunes will U fire men's cans llky muss till the round world's race be rup,’’ pass wway,