Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1877, Page 2

MO? be diMeult to prove the times and places where such pssurances were given, and the parties to the same. WIIAT THE INTRIGUERS PROMISED. ““Our State Central Cominfttec was in pose e=s<ion of some’of Mr. Chandler's guarantces o the samo cffect, which were, I think, deltver- ed 1o David Dudley Field's Commission fn Washington. All Yhese gentlemen and Mr. Chandler wern aware of the fact that some of these very statcemen, together with the princl- pal leaders of tha Republican party, recognized the impossibility of keeping these guarantees, and whether they found out that Mr. Hayes could not be brought to sustain their nssurances or whether the fear of a defeat of the count fn- stigated them, it Is certain that the most bind- Ing guarantees were given by the leaders of the Republfcan party that Mr. Haves would, if in- augurated, restore the South to loeal self-gov- ernment. as indieated In his letterof acceptance, and aidope o poli:y of Justice and conciliation in- stead of mliitary thter vuet rule. URANT'S GUARANTRE ntees were known to every Re- publican r, Kepresentative, and publie man in Washington before the Electoral Court was completed, and they beeamg parties to 1L by Lhei ence and acouiescence. Gen, Grant had wald the sentiment of the country was clearly azainst the (urther nse of troops {n upholding State Governments, and thal, In his apinton, the Nicholls Govérnmont should staml would siand, because ft was aupported by th best elements of the State, and hie authorized me to kny that he winlied his views to be made known, “Grant followed that declaration by an assurance that the troops would be witbdrawn, and informed me that he would ray 5o to Kel- loeg and Darrell, who were then in the next room. He diseuseed with mveclf and otliera the detoils under which he guaranteed no violence, Nicholls was to issue, and did lssue, with Grant's approval, a_prociamation to renssure the coloresl men aud Republicans, That such an order wae not recelved by Gen. Augur can best be answered by Mr, Chandler and the hundreds of Hepublieaus who besieged the White louse and claimed that such action be- fore the nmuguration wonld endunger the Presidency. IAYES KEPT 1S WORD, * No doubt. Mr. Chandier and tany of his nssocfates thought that Hayes would join them in violation of the guarantees which the Repuly- Hean party was eager to give when the Presi- deney was [n perdls but T say, advisedly,that the South did not Tear Haves, as it appears wo had a higher opinfon of his truthfulness, honesty, and patriotism than his former supporters. We «id fear tho remorseless and vindictive power of the Repuhlfcan narty leaders, like Mr, Chandler, whose maligaity s written fn bold jetters in ev- ery campalgn In this State afnce 1870, Loulsiana sought amply to kuow i the leaders would let Haves aloe.” 11 any bargains were made the Republican party leaders, 80 recognized then by the whole country,were the partles tothem. If any bargatns were mado by Mr. Hayus, [ never heard of them. LET THE DEAD REST. ¢ An to tho reopeniniz of the Presidential fs- sue, we consider it closed, The old combina- tlon hetween Senator ConkHog and Demovrntic Eenntors, which offered to Loulslans and the vountry n defeat of the electoral count anda new election under Conkling, may be revived Witha yiew of onening the clectoral questlon, but 1 think 1t impossible.’” INTERVIEW WITIE LIEUT.-GOV, W1 Licut.-tiov. Wiltz, the real representative of the great element of Democracy jn this State, and who, as Chairman of the "Senate, was at this end of the Hue what Burke was in Wash- ingtan, In a conversation on the same subject, enfd: It Haves had made any such promises then Packard should hnve been” smart enough to know it was impoesible to have kept thet, It such n matter as the Returning Board actu- ally counting {u Hayes oceurred, Packard must have known that the Presidenttal title wns weak, and with such a title ho could not afford such a contlict as would have ineyitably taken - place. ‘The peopls here Enew the entire legality of the Nicholls Govern- ment, aud it Packard had been sustained a con- filat would have ensued which would have shalen the foundations of the nation, and caus- cd even the North to Join in. - Perhaps whoever represented Huyes did promiso to sustaln Pack- ard, but seeing the danger he himself ran tn supporting what was notorfonsly rotten, e not only savel himself and the Kepublican party, bt the whole country, from disaster, for if the country bad learned to appreclate the fuet that Hayes Wy no worg entitled to hin place than d there midht huve been no end to the trouble. * Northern Republicans don't appenr to un- derstund this, but they should. - They may, by showing Hayes up,and bis title to have no more subskstence “than 1layes, ratisfy thelr lyllo and wok hifs ruin, but they can never seat Packard, Indeed, I the subject fs nycm'd anew thers will e o one who can see whers the matter will eod.” Ml GIBAON DENIES CHANDLER'S BTATRMENTS, In viving tho vames of the gentlemen who wereto Le purtles to the plan of securing the support of the Adminlstration, Mr, Chandler mentions that of Mr. Randall (Hbson, of Loulatana, * 1t would bosupposed that in setting forth the detatls of the plan there vould bo no mistakes about the persannel of the arrango- ment, but Mr, Glbson sald to-day that It was eeucrally known that ke was not only nota symypathlzer with the alleged combination, but denounced the result. He was a member of the Caucus Cotnmilttes anpointed by the Demo- craticinembers of the Houso to prepara an ad- dress to the country, and simued It In his capavity us member of the Comimittee, The sddress was written by Mr, Frank Hurd, of Ohio, nna ¢l not recoznize Mr. Hayes' title to thie Presidential oflice, It was with surprise, Mr, Gibson sald, that he found his name cutinected with the ugreement, or ‘*‘arrangement,” ns Mr. Chandler calls t.” Mr. Gibson s from New Orleans, and naturally took deop {ntervst in the pacltication of the Southern Btates. Thinking « uver the events, hie remarked that all his fofore wiation was agalnst Mr. Chandler's assumed stutement of facts, On the contrary, the course of Prestdent Grant o February hal made the removal of the troops from New Orleans & necessity, and the language of the letter of Tresident Grant to Mr. Packard proyed this be- ;oml question, Hia order to Uen. Augur con- irmed this view, At any rate, he could em- lflmlmlly say that with ‘nefther Measrs, Mat- haws, Foster, Garfleld, Bierman, nor Seuntors Gordon and Lamar, nor with anybody, had he ever agreed upon anything mnumlnfi the Electoral count or the poliey of layes' Admin- istration. If Mr, Chandler’s other statements ‘were not inors correct than this one, which linked hiis (Mr. Glbson's) name with the cowbination rch-rL d to, the exposition was of very little ac- soun DISAPTOINTED KOREIIBADS, Outslde of Gov, Wiltz, among promipent Deinocrats the opinlon {n that Hayes i M(‘:F persccuted by ‘tbe oflice-holdin rlné an though there Is no outspoken opinfon, the sents- ment 1s that bis policy us & Republican should Le indorscd, many belioving his smartness showed him theru was no other course from the begloning, and that by it the Republican party would be made more wolld In the end {f ‘they recognize the truth in time. Mr, Comloy, Mr, Hayes' personal fricud, wos hero last winter, und, though he came in o offlcial capacity, 1t T afnce been tearned he came to fhid” directly from the people thelr {deas and wishies, whicli, without regard ta politiclans, have been pretty well carried out. THE YEELING AMONG RE| Among Republicans the tcuuses great ¢, hot at Ha; than auvthing eenerally lpl)hrullu for of- however, that they dare not_express thetn- selves openly, Col. W, 11, Hoberts, to whom Chaudler refers as haying fuaugurated what h valls the corruption of Huyes by the Bouthern Demoe denles there wus any corrupt or fm- proper meuns used to bring about what fs now culled the Bouthern policy at the celebrated meethiyr between himself “and President 11 Culumbus, O, Dee. 1, 1870 There was very ot unxiety amung Bouthern men to know Aliat the course of Mr, would be i re- urd to reliel to Louts aud Bouth Carollna, fu case he becae Preswdent, 1L was extremely desirable thut thls ehould be uscertained from bim tn person, It wus with ihis_ object fn wview, and this ulope, that Roberts went to Columbus, His visht was kuown approved of Ly the Jeadivg Louielana and Eouthern men. ‘Lherc was no barvafn nade, nor was any attemvted. Koberts left Columbus convinced that if Hayes becamo Presdent ho would deal justly by Loufslana and Soutl Carp- lios. Ile ptuted this to such Bouthern men s had any right to a3k questions sbuut the mat- ter. e purticularly said so 1o M. ¢, Butler,'of Fouthi Caroliua, who was 1n Washington during the troubled times ot the Electoral count, and Geu Butler received ssaurances that Mr. Rob- erte was correctly infurted from persons Guall- gea to speak. Though b §s known that Mr. Ruberts knows wore of this matter than almost any oue else, he declines to say inory thun the above, which, 1t is belioved, covers !} the un- desstanding ever bad with ksyes by bim for leading the Soutkervers, sud, peravnally, lias done moie ta wake such purtion of the palley as were possible aceeptable lere, BREACH-OF-PROMISE. Special Dispalch 10 The Chicug Tridume. Lavavo, Mich.,, Deco 80.—The jury have awanled Mra. Mulking $3,500 from Mr. Frunk M. Huwe, for bls not fultillivyg the marriage-cou- t'nu.. “The case will be carried to the Bupreme VUKt > PULLICANS. RELIGIOUS. Professor Swing’s Sermon Yes- terday on Christ's Intel- lectual Power. The Relations of Love and the Law Dis- cussed by the Rev, Dr. McCosh, With Bome Comment on the Exaliation of Morality which Produced Unitarianism, The Bev, Mr. Moercer's Review of tha Bless- inga and Reverses of the Year, oand Their Lesson, ,CIIRIST’S INTELLECTUAL POWER, SRRMON DY FROP. SWING, Prof. Bwing preached yesterday morning in the Central Church, taking as his text: They found Him in tho Temple, afiting In the midet of tho dactors, both henrinc them and ask- ing them questions, - Luke, th., 4t Tt has been confersed that In the long lue of fustrious names the name of Jesus awakens most memories of human tenderness, Com- pared with the rude typea of manhond to be found In the Roman, or Sexthlan, or 8axon races, the gentloncss of the Man ot Bethlchym scemn excessive. So extreme and outspoken was this sensibllity that it scems to overshadow other qualities, or render questionatile their existence, and las led the Christlan world to give to Jesus a feminine pleture. Al Inall, the most of per- sons thinking about this lofty character nscriba to Him feminfue quality rather than the sturdier nature which makes a Hereules or s Jupiter, All thesoc moasurcments aro tho dimensions of tho one who incasures rather than of the person upon whomn the lino fs placed. 'The absolute in these epiritunl matters 13 knawn only to God. Man moves about hiera and there, taking, ns lic imagines, the dimen- slons of this und that mind and sonl, and of this and that truth, and lo! he has only been finding how manv times his own mind or heart s con- talned in the abject under review, When you or 1 say that Newton or 8liakspearo was 8 great man, we mean that you or I could go Into that mind a dozen thmes withoul any remainder of us. Subtract us from Shakspenre, and nearly all of Shakspeare would still remafn, Wiien Milton brought his song to the publish- ers, they measured thio hard with thelr line and wonld give little or nothing for the lingling words: and when another mighty one brought hia braln-work to s kroup of editors, they re- turned the manuscript inarked, * Not quite up to our standard.”” Thus soclety goes forward with Its creat work of taking Involee of the world's gowls, and out of the aceidental condls tion of self does It elaborate the price. Wo all atand amud these splritual things as we stooid when ehildren among the spaces of nature, feeling that the sun arose out of our hills, and sct In the ¢vening by the farthest field of onr farm. Mmie. Michelet ™ said that when a child she eried if her father crossed the great meadow, for itdid not sevin to hier that he coulil ever’ lind his way back over such an inii- nity distan With such forme of braln has mankind avproached characters, and has eald, * Here Is effemin; here (8 manliood, here s herofsm.” In thesa dicta littls of the absolute 13 to be found, but only tho footprints of all us children as wo have walked nlong in a solemn play. Our ancestors thought 1t cifeminate to liave a tlre in the meeting-house In midwinter, and vieht along nack to Socrates this 1dea runs, for bie felt it to be most hunorable to o to war with baro feet and poor, coarse food. Unthe op- posite, the old Perstans folned tozother wanhoud and Iuxury, an founded all herolsm upon wine, ond feasting, aud sen- timent. Our _own Middio Ares “drew fromn romance & power which other thnes extracted from hardship of body and soul. The student of these things will thus svon reach tho vonclu- slou that much of thls wolghing of churacter 18 done by putting the mind or soul to ho wefizhed into one plate of the balance while we oursclves {nnocently clamber upou the othur plate, or put on it u plece of our age. ‘The varlutions of these weights,and measures may well lead us todoubtalways cach Judgment rendered yesterday, aud to make new studles from day " to day, " that some better truths uiay be garnered, one by one. All the things of ves- terday need new inquiry, from the Generals who unca led a mulutuds of plumes and bayo- nets; frum the poet who touched his harp In olden times, oven a Homer or o Duvid; from the philosopher who wrote down wisdom in Greece or England, evento the world’s Lord who hua been before the public sight for eight- cen centurles, After all study. over this one fizfire of the numberless throngs of carth, wo shall still be far away from a perfect comore. hension, When men speak or write of the feminine uality of Christ, let us guard lest such words should become for us o kind of Jast nnll{lh, and should terminate our quest. This whole subject of analyzing mental and moral worth ia up to our day so inuch beclowded by thno and p}m‘c, by custom, by chlidhood, that the words skl by the passiny doy must not be Anal words, but only the words ad ewndum, words to be com leted to-morrow. Let us {n our conferunce icre this morning look at the intelivetunl stand- ing of our Master,~but with hunility of chil- dren who, unablo to touch o Kiug's diadem, place thelr offoriuga at his feat. With the emotional power of Christ, al are famillar, Io loved wll s friends tenderly, At the ageof 83, Ho is still clnglug to Ilis mother, e wopt alony with' His slsters when their brother dicd. Javing filled with Tove 1118 own louschold, ilfs ureat passion flow- ed buyond thuse home walls aud washed the la anl roces. But in our dnllzmll shoren” of snd even amazement, over this wealth of affection, we have, perhaps, let pass those intellectual qualitics which are supposed to enter futo all of our world's greatest men. Judged by all known exumplus, Christ was as wonderful when viewed futelicctually as when viewed as to e cinoe tional nature, It you will ask what ure the rea- sons which Induce'men to call each other great, you will find that a certaln mental power to grasp & great principle or law, to sca Its work- ings throush long veriods, and then to stand by that law turough or Ill, bave alwuys been cvidence of mental superiodty, The Indiau finds his ratn to be made a few feet above his head the sky lperhn{u haa holesin it} the thun- der is 8 god. ‘The wind of the white wan finds o sublime law ol raln and thunder, und after to has found that all the stars und plaucts are oo vust group, all held in harmony by one luw, then we forget tha poor ludian sna eall our broader thluker a Galileo, or a Newton, ur a La Place. The power to graap such {mmcnse laws are proofs uf a bralu-power above the common quality of brain, for milliuns of comwmon eyes tind been burued up towurda the sturs for many generations, aud yet bad not secu or dreamed of any of those stur depthe, across which the winged light could gy like an arrow, for u mille fun yesra, ‘Llius, ulso, fo soclety, when a mlnd comes for- ward which can enter thu cloudy reglonsaf equi- ty und all casulstry, and can come forth bring- lug sunlighit, us came Grotlue in the alsteents ceutury, or Blackstone fu the eightcenth, bring- ing o beautiful world of luw out of an old cha- o4, we call tiut mind ereat. That these minds eould discern bietween the right and the wrong, and could fiud a reason fur w wode of rrm:rdum, or of wction, or of judgment, discloses thetr breadth, and hence, &s the world judges, thele greatuces, For mind {a estimated, ke w river or 8 sea, by its extent. A basmi of waterup in the Rocky Mountains inay be a pretry seene, but we do uot call it the ocean. ‘Tha shores must be semoved uuti thoussnds of mlles mtervens; the waters must becowe large cuough to foat merchantien und ships of war; storins must be able to ratse billows; the waturs muat _becowe the grave of thousauds who have sunk in tha awful wlduight; gulf atreams wust low chauging the climaty of 4 contluent; tides muet riss and fall suowlng that the moon and carth aro friends, and ut last ave the ocean. Thus the human fntellect i2lied fu tho balunces. Ho who writes o littlo ballad und sines It under a viuo-vlad window Is ouly & miuno-sluger, Jittle lukelet up lu the muuntalo fastuesses where the fuwn nuay quench its thirs Fur bim there aro uo lautcls of greatness; but wheu the soug ex- punds us under the touch of Sbakspears until the great priuciptes of soclety, the awful right and wroug of bl times snd thie paths sud foy of all ages wro ibercly oll embodied, thea the word *great couics aud crowts the furchesd with it matchless wreath. A few drops of water trickliug from a rock are cool aud swect, but they wmeke no river. The Mississipol is sowmething different. It rlses in tho Jand of suow, it yuns to the land of Gowers. A huudred willions could dwell hapoily o dts valley, Thus, wind & considered greut when it does not trivkic Jike o few drops uor babbie like u brook, but when ft reachics two or thrve Zones aud bag wave deep and strong. g U upon svwe such orinciple ts this mind THE CHICAGO TRIBUN. measurement earricil forward, then no one can study Chriet for an four without confesing that wonderful as are His so-cnlled feminine qualities, s fntellcctual qualities are equally finpresstye. Al that grasp of Lrain-power which has won the fame of each pitlotupher aml statesn Is xeen most planly (o this hum- ble Nazarene. Were mankind accustomed to agreatnesa s quickly in a Chriet as it can find It in n poct or a teneral, it would have long aince have emblazoned forth this Jeaus as heing not ouly a Iriend, a virtuous heing, but as being an intellect of founense outline. For if a Justinian tolling amil Roman rulings and pre- cepta won fame by his code, If Pulfendort and Grotius in (fermany and Hlackstone In Englund revealed greatness of manhkood when they compiled “tho best lessous of * all the courts and atatutes around them, then the same Intelicctual greatness belongs to Him who made the athies of the Herinon on the Mount rize up like & sun out of & mid- night, The mind which vomplled the laws in Matthew’s Gospel did not babblo like a rivalet, but rolled forward like the Amazon, The femi- nine virtues of Christ which burst forth at thnes in tears were only the ove-hall of His nnture, leaving another hemisphere of His soul to be wholly taken ur Ly the laws of life. Compared with this Jesus, Justinian and his companions were only students of prineiples, leaving the Man of Galillee to stand forth the most penetrating law-maker and compller whose name has yet beea placed upon human recond. How Roman confusion fled when Jus- tintan entered npon hls work! Yes, and how Mosnic custom und Iaw dissolved when Christ turned over the paes of the okl Hebrew Serip- turcs! Each lden was east into the new intellect of desuia, aml when t camo out ft was elther romauted to dust or transformed fnto light, Moses had himsell eome In the wisdom of the l-:uy%lnnn, and then In a atil hlgher age,” David had come with hat and psaim and S8olomon with temple, but all this group was far bebind the mental status of Clirist, for out of ths law of Moses and out of the psalm of David Hlo cnst many a bad princl- e, and He destroved the temple by revealinga Gnd present everywhere wherever tho soul were found. Every step of Jesus was toward a great taw. 1le saw all conduct In tho full light of the many years Lo come, Our fathers coitld not do this” They bound up slavery in _our Constlin- tion, not_ knowing the injury it would entall upon agricadture or all industry and morals; they demanded no qualifications” for jurors or electors; they onforced no publle instruction; they left niuch good undone, and aid things de- fective or iujurious; but fn adarker perlod, previous to precedent, the shinnle Son of a ear- peager stepped always toward the highest truth i every field of His'thonght. Ife looked at the marringe relation, and tlosed the many aates of divorces he looked at the foolish obligatlon of vows, and safd that the right is the one all-sufll- cleut obligation; e lovked at resentmont and revenge, and deelared them unworthy; He saw the love of sccts and tribes for each uther, aud sald such & love was not. sufficlently large; He heard tho Pharlscos proying in tho streets, Ho fnvited th to the closct and He shortened their praver; Ho saw men buasting of generosity and He told them not to let the left hand know what the right haud docth, ‘Thus that exact shape of mind which lus In all eras gatherad fomo for counselor, or judge, or legislator, 1s scen In Christ in an unusial full- neas. To have detected and have set torth the principle that resentinent and lke-for-like were unworthy a nobls mind, and that forziveuess and mercy would olways yleld to the one wronged o richar harvest of happiness, 1s a pre- cept second only to the golden rule. Counld wo guther up ull those' now living who in any way sought revenge for a wrong and who perhapa killed or Injured tho offender, bevond doubt ulf over whose deed a few years has passed would a3yt “Oh, that [ had restrained my wrath and had left that cnonmy to his own homo and to his walk of Iife; there was room for both bim and me.” Kedueo our thne to enly one hour and revenge sceims swoct, but let life Lo viewed as ten, ur twenty, or fifty years and orgivencss stands forth In ralment of light, it can tako up more years and bleas them more thun nny other virtue fn the divine catalogue. ‘Thus Ciirlst detected principles that went be- youd the hour and played amid the centuries as .wind among the trees. He saw only the vast and the mperishable. Thoss qunlities in Christ which arc_calted feminine sprang not from sentimontality or cffeininacy, but ratier from simpllclty nod the absence of vaulting ambition. ‘Thers s inuch of popular manhood_which 18 nothing else than personal vanity. There lins been tmany o pbilosonher and statesman, and so-styled areat one, who would not be found fn comipany with Iittls chlidren, nor the Marys amd Marthas; uot, however, becuuss they were too great, but because they were two proud. In order for m Christ to reveal the form of manbkood scen In a Cleern, or o Cuesar, or a Nupoleon, io must have a towerlng vanity, The Ego must riss up nnd bear the man far above women and childron, and make hitn a colossus, But empty of this form of am- bition, Christ mado friends of the Marvs and little chitdren, not from mental humility, hut from tho perfect nlmvllcll‘ul s chingactor. When you ‘come to a Louls XIV., you may look for arilliclal beleht of body, and “for & lordly bearing of arms, and feet, and . head, but when you vome to a divino greatness you may expect 10 hear a simplicity grand as the aky, sweot as tho volco of angel, suylug, *Suffer "little chil- dren to coma utito ne.’” 1t s vot efluminacy; it {s only the absenco of human conceit. Having marked the intellectual power of Clirist, us seen to 1ls grasp of social principles, let us note onc vther mark of such superiority. In this task of estimating mind, it has been dis- covered that mcre Jearning nover eiual great- ncas; that tho terms are wyuonymous, Vuat learning s often found ‘where the intotlectual power 18 all. Often an age of many scholars (s an uge of swall men. Porson and tho Scaligers wera pro- !oundlz learned; they knew most all that wos kuowable of Jauguage, law, science, art, history 3 but thoy had no creative power like that of Ba. con or Newton, They were store-bouses rather thau fertile lelds. ‘Dhiey did not grow a harvest —they oniy beld it. In sceklng mental wortl, the efement of learning may hence often ba oumitted, but not the power to foresew and ereate & 1EW WOl This uttribute may not be left out. It Is essential in the hizhest torin of mind that it bu avlo to look forward and_see 68 muny i’nn 8 the common mind sees hours. Thus eter foresaw lussla, and IHildebrand the Romish Church, aud Orange the Protestant ides, and our fathers the freedom of this con- tinent. A fow souls arvse up fromn among tho counticss milliuns and looked over tho graves of many—even thelr own yraves—und saw afar off a great State, large cities, and Llcssed multitudes. By common consent the world calls great all thess whose vyes can look over dead walls of rock sl see a paradise beyond. Aumid this group, and in tha very front of the «roup, returns our Christ, for It ever a aonl upon varth revealed an Insight into futurity, ile was that soul. In sl bours He saw the ireat futurs issuing continually out of that higher truth, His personsl sorrows were lightened by the human happiness to come. Like the artlsts who pufuted - for the next uge, and the thinkers who wrote for the next age, Christ worked, and taught, und suffered for posterity, Hodld not do this unconsclously, * buildiue better thun he kucw," but consclous with love, aforothought, wnd unfalteriug determination, When He saw the temple He at once wssured the Jows that the day wus coming when they could pot Hmit thelr Jehovah to four walls in Calestino—that flo would pass outward and be sn all-providing spirlt, ‘That God would love other children than thuse of Abratin, Al that should seek im in thelr aplrit would bo ills. Whea the women wept fur Il ot the clusiug scene He turned them away from self and told them tu weep for themselves and their childreg. fle saw the con. tlict of the morrow, the world of many divini- tics engaged with the uew world of one God. 1o saw that contiict iu which o was only the firet victim; He saw the wors, the troublous times, the moon becoming as blood, and told His followers not Lo weep for Him, but_to brace up thelr heurts fur the s tu come, He had told Peter that others would gird him and lead b whither he would not. * In all times this Jusus spoke and acted us though on the coufles of o uew and great future, He did uot leave thiv to the conjecture of future partisan eulogists, but He avowed it and declared that the old elements would melt with fervent heat and the old heavens pass away Nko u scroll when 18 fs being rotled up, Itis belicved that Luther did not tueasure uor sec the Refornation, wod that Wes- lu{.nw not the proportions of iiis toll, but thia cannot be atlirmied of the Christ, for there wus 1o lauguase which seemed to Him powertul enough Lo sct furth rightly the coming woral tu- mult and transformation.” That calnness in the garden, in the judgment hall, upon the cross, wust hava had its foundutin {u o power of mind which saw « happler human race beyond that contemptivle throne of Pilate und th rab- bls throng, Tho uruspect of a civilization whero the poor shiould be respected snd even loved; where servant should becomns ag free ss the naster; where lttle chillren should be tenderly cared for; where enemies b wundered but forziven, bumua grave would be dug a endless Hfe, softened tho § of the vrowd aud the inal sulleriug ou the cross. ‘The puln ;;I‘um Lour was surpassed by the bilss of tho uture. ¢ By all tbe laws of human logic, we aro com- gellhu to uscribe to mjud the bonor of all ful- led propliccies. W heart says zood will cowe, and when to this suying it sdds tolt and tears, and whenthe dreaw ot Tast couies to ass, we are held b‘y the b 1 honor to go back sud suy, “llere, great soul, is the outcome of thy dreaw. It 1s not ours. You planucd i, you toiled, you suffered.” Here, stundlig wher u mizbty rehglou flows at hould not DAY. DECEMBER 31, 1877, et Bt e e e e e B R P our feet, carrying In {t such maxims, fich utrines, such virtuc,, such meamiro- Tees zoo tard, finding that Christ forcsaw all and planned G aqd died for it all, we go back and find In Bethaw, » wheneo flowed such asn,ohe Beart amd mind ment must ro back to tn, 5t aneruing with 1t the untold honor of tuoaiRE Years, ™ tireat was the intellectital graspof this 8on of Man. The calin lasws He unfolded, the in- finity wisdom of them, rcpartes 1im and a simple, Impassioned dovotee. He revealed not passion, but power of fnslght. Hisfuturesprang up from great prineloles, amd not from diplo- macy, nor by the swonl. Christ revealed no fanaticism. Over tho wine question, the Sab- Dath question, tho luple-u question, Ho mani- fested 1o maceticism, but In all cascs seemed catm and broad, full of symopathy with body and soul, natre and religlon, He infd hold of principles with n power which shonld astonish all judees In high court, and acted a life that may never be equaled by the most cultured salnt, His orbit was not thatof ameteor, but of a sun. Before Him lu{ a morniog of infinite churmy, such that the ollve-garden shadow was only the night hasting by and away. “Twas first the night, stern night of etarm and war, Lone night of heavy cloud and velied rkies, Then the falr aparkle of the Morning $tar ‘That bade the saints Awake and day atlae, 8o powerful was this penetration that thls Bon of Man, having acen and loved all the gen- erations of time, flung iiis gaze onward to the fmmortal hlils, * No other sonl of earth ever beheld such o landecue, Nefther Moses, nor Davia, nor Socrates, nor 8cinlu, spoke so boldly of theother land, A sacred army in the middlo ages ones renewed d fearful battle and leaped furward to victory because some leaders had acen a vislon of anelic troops on the mountafn- tops, ami had cried out, ‘o saluts are com- ing to helpus!" Under no deluslon, aud tn no wad enthustasr, Christ lald nold upon all the powers and splendors of futurity, and saw horsemen, Wnd chariots, and banners upon the mountain-tops of all ecnturles, and upun those higher tillls beyond time. In this Son of Man may thus be scen not onlya heart pure and ten- der, but an intellect laden with those qualitivs which have been called “great™ in all those lunda whers deep footprints have been found, LOVE AND THE LAW, SERMON BY PRR$IDENT M'COSH, Tho Rev. De. McCosh, Presldent of Princeton College, preached to a laree congregation in the Sccond Presbyterian Church, coroer of Michigan avenue and ‘Twentleth street, yesters day murninge. His text wos: ‘I'herefore lova 1 the fuldlling of the law.—ZRo- maus, zib., 10. 1£ ye fulfiil the roysl law according to the Reript- ure, thou shait love thy nelghbor as thysell, yo do well.—11, Jumes, i, 10, In these passages, ho sald, thore was a refer- ence to threo things,—to love, to law, and to n King., He saw before him an arch set up on the carth and spanning the heavens, On tho one slde was law, on the other side was love, and the key-stone, binding and crowning the whole, was (o, 11Is themo was the royal law of love, nnd he wauld first contemplate love and law separately, and then fn thelr combina- tion In God. Love might manifest Itself in two forms, which ehould be carcfully distingulshed. It might be and onght to be what we called the love of complacency. We delighted tn tho ob- Jeet or tho peraon beloved, 1t was thus that tho mother clasped her Infant to her bosom— that tho father, showlnglittlo but fecling much, followed the coreer of his son. Tho second form was the love of hengvolence—the love of well-wishing, This was a higher form. In this wo delighted in the contemplation of ‘the per- sons beloved—rwished well tothem—all that was good. We would oblige them If we could, would serve them If {t were In our power, would wish for opportunities of promot- fug thele welfare. This love manifested fteelf in muitiplying happlngss, In spreading hollncss, It was not only law, but the fountain of Jaws, and o law that was In heaven; Ilke the sum, it shono on all around, 1t flowed out in a great number aud varlcty of wafn—ln compasslon, in pity, I tenderncss, {n lung-suilering, fn vauienee, The High Pricst in old thines wore a hreast-plate with tivclve procious stones; but every Christian was n priest, and carried on his breast this more ornamental tablet. Chrlatians in this wourld of sin, and surrow, and suifering had o means of showing love such us was not avallable to augels {n the spotless mansions above. They could and should, like the great Aaster, bear the contradictlon of sinners, and shiould have compassion on the fznoraut nod on those that had guno out of the way, ‘Llicso two foruis of love, while ‘:{ distinct, ought never to be scparated. But, in fact, they had often boen divorced, How often did men ahow the love of complacency without the love of benevolence [—delight In tha socloty of persons whom they did not seck to benefit. ‘Thoy did worse—injured those to whom they wera sttached, as tiie tvy alded to destroy tho tres which uc’l:upod and adorned. ''hey did so by Indulging, by flatterjng, by tempting them. As had ofjun beéen romarked, the worss things wers perveniuuwls:ood things. Abuse of fu- teltectual glits made the dangerous felon. Abuso of scusibllltiea made the accomplished tempter. Abuss of affectious cogendered the keeiieat 'of all miserles, How “terrible thy chuams that bad been rrodnc«l in our world by sinl It bad been disputed by theologians whether God could love or bo . Fathicr to sin- ners o8 yet fu thelr sina. The dis- tinetlon he miado was this: Ilo could not sea how God should look ona sinner with complaconcy. (lod was angr. wilh the wicked. But, ot the other hand, He luyed the sinner with an everlusting love, Weo wero to copy Him who bad sot us uu ex- ample that wo should follow His atup The next polnt was law, which forall sternity, und the instrument of Uod’s good, 1t was inscribed in the nature of muu when ho was created. It was graven by God's own fiuger on tho granite rocks of Sinal. law had been broken, and was still belug Uroken; but it re- taiued all its clalms and ever renewed them. Chrlst caine not tu destroy the law,but to fulill it The Guspel, wherever it went, carried withe in it the law fulfilled fn Christ, It was stills binding on His followcrs, There was a seuse fn which bellovers woro free frow the law, They were free from ita curse, but they were not fres trow the obligation to obey (L. It was fm- lu:r-llvu and determivutive~catcgorical, having ts detinlto requircments which it could not lun»{:u oud would not lower, Gullty or not guillyl This was the alternative. It admitied of nu middle courss or compromise. It accept- cd of no vxcuse, would not listen to any plea of extenuation, Wo hieard mich Iu theso tincs of the laws of nature beiug so tixed and jmmut- able. 'Those who spoke thus were apt to foret that there was another law more unchangeable —the moral law, By theso two—moral the greater luw, natural the lesser law—God ruted the world,—by the one, moral -;{unu; by the other, physlail ageuts, making all combine and consplre towards une good snd grand end, It wus not casy, he confesscd, to embody fn human conceptious, and to express fn humnsu languaye, the relationship of law and love, We knew that tho two wero closely connected. ‘The vouncetion was in God, the source of both, Love was the refreshing wator; thu channel for it to llow tn; the Illllufi Wwua fn the bosom of God, Charlty was the bighest of il the graces that ahode within us, but charity never tricd to set itsell whove law, If it ala It anight work only mischlet, Love was the fultilling of tho law, Ittovk the forn of & commandment. Charity and commandment wera jolued Indise solubly in Beripture. It was love that made us lvuk unto God, whose love was ruhiulnud by eturnal justice. We could not sever love from law, Aftewpting to lift law above love was tho aystem of the present day. But law without love was wmerely a form without lifo,— & chaunel without a stream, Teligion should be made attractive,—as attractive as the character of Jesus; but we should not suppuse wo could )i it up by throwiug aside some of the truth surpuwd o Ls offenslve. The stand- ard of doctriue or duty should never be lower~ ed. Meu had preached a Pharisale morality— law without love—and had driven men awas from tiod, who was luve, aud trom the Gospel, which was easentially o tessage of reconcilia- tion to siatul wen. The tersore of the law had buon uied not as Paul used them, to persuade men, to attempt to drive peovls to re- bellton sud resistance. The truth should be spoken in tho vresent age, which uecded the Comumanduients to oc proclaunced as awfully as they wero at Biual o arrest the corraption of might bo {odividuala, o partics, and of rclugs, We should fnslst upen the restrafots of the law to protect the family, which was the one proper mean of scruring the moral trajofug aud reariog of the rising generation W virtuc—sbould reelst every atlewpt W chaugy the truths of Gud’s Word on the miser- ubla pretense of wskiog thew solter and more flexlvle than (lod bad made thew. ‘There was & teaching inour day which could scarcely ba called & theolozy, No mun could leara from it what it did wean, Lt would let down doctrine aud exalt charity, and thereby mako religion casier mud wmory atiractive, w3 the teachers sup- ,i_ou:d. It was pll over the Protestaut churches. - he rell ligion of huwanily was what it was called ju Awerica. It would free bumanity from vertwn resiraluts “wud eavcrilees with a vlew of exaltingit. Ol errore came up. ‘This wus Liku be attewpt o the last ceutury to do away with doctrine on the pretenso of exalting morality. “If a4 men was s goud wau, thet wes cuough Buch teaching led to IHigh Churchiem fn Englehd, Ultralem fn 8cotland, Ratlonallsm on the Con- tinent, aml Unitarlaniam i this country, and ended in the decay of rellgion and morality. First, doctrine was_discarded, next duty, and next morality. e disclamed any refercncs to VIR W LRRAT VAR 20, DB IR, BEcime forced offensively on all. Notwithstanding all the cfforts to suppress tho secret, awful dis- clousares had been mmle. We raw how love would not restrain—how perilous It had become. It would tamper with the most sscred of carthly fellowship, Tho rlsfue neration needed to know what sort of assembly or so- clety had been forming among us, and of the fentiment which passed enrrent n tho efrcle, Men should not teach who have abandoned the rel Itglun capabile of lenvhlnr morality. 1t might be asked how this auplied to love to God—how could this benevolence bo expected towards ‘God, who s fndependent of us, and needed not our ald? He answered by showing how love to (od and love to inan mixht becoma one. We identified ourselves with God and tried to promote Ills glory and the causes in which He was interested. Tho Gospel nur- rative tempted un to wish that our lot bad been cast fo the days when Jesus was on earth, It we had only seen His holv person, heard His words, we would have fallowed Him whereserhe went, haring His troubles and stunding by Him, even at the risk of belng cruclfled on the sainc crogs; should have followed ITim from the cross to the grave.”” Theea wishes, so far os thoy were truo and genuine, might vet be gratified, We might do kind and gentle officesto the body of Christ, for Chriat had a bedy on carth,—the Church,—which in_its Iater and prostrate condi- tion needed and demanded our services, as did cevery individual member of It. A YEARLY REVIEW, BERMON DY THE REV. L. P. MERCER, ‘The Rev. L. P. Mcrcer dellvered a scrmon yesterday in Hershey Hail on % The Year of Qur Lord 1877, ‘The text was “Lest coming euddenly he find you steeping,’ and tha speaker began by fnquir- Ing how the record of the past year would ap- pear fn the sight of Him from whose birth we account time. Each cycle brought us nearer to the time when the brotherhood of man united in tho lovg of God the Father, None could read the Gospel aright and fail to recognize this fact, But nowhers was there given any Indication that this reconciliation and atonement were to be affected by nny arbitrary exerclse of Divine power. God's providence was as marvelous in its patlieuce a8 In its design, He tworked ever by means, and prepared man for the recep- tfon to-morrow of what ho could not hear to- day, Itls Sm"““ was given, “ If ye continuc fn My word yo shall know the trufh.' Truth beeamne universal, aud revealed itsclf to-day Just in proportion as we received it yestorday, Assuining that tho nnasion of “Christianity was to bring on earth peace and good will to all men, thoy should seek to determine from the record of the past year what progress thesa prinelples had made, {or their progresa was thint of Christianity and the approach of Christ’s Kingdom. 'There were three or four leadin facts prominent [n the history of the year, fore~ most of which came the Russo-Turkish war, Ilowever that conflict might terminate, it had already - demonstrated and brought to fight many startling facts In rolation to tho state of Christian Europe. The war was o war for ag- h'rumllzcmcnt, declared because Rusals hind long esired and prepared for it, and not for an othor motive. Russia bad no design of soread- ing Christianity among the heathen Turks, but wanted revenge for her Crimean defeuta and to obtaln scaports {n the Black 8ea. She had been preparing for o quarter of a century for her re- vengo ou the Powors which erushed her to tho eurth in 1554, aud, when her gathered steength and the changes fn European politics pro- nounced that the time was cowme, ahie went to war. True, Russla went through every forin reilminary to the declaration of hostilitics, but all the tiuio sho knew that war was Inevitable, Thg Cunference of the leading powers woa ut- terly unuble to avert this terrible war, and this powerlessuces of the uations showed that In united Europe there was ne regard for the common good subicient to triumph over the sclfishnesa of national feclings. nother event which lnd attracted scarcely less attentlon than the armed struggle in tlio Eust was the civil conllict in France, 'I'hat wos a contest between tho Church of Romo and the Commune and Secular fsm, France had to work out the oroblem of Republicanlsm under many disad- vantages. The founders of the Amcticau Re- public had na such troubles to face, for the peo- rla posscased the elements of character to fit hem for freedom. In France it wus different} one-half the peoplo wanted the country gove crned by the Vatican3 the other half held tho principles of the First Revolution, Positive re- sults would be obtalned, but only when the French should bave learned what ths Atmericaus Inherited from their fathers: that the Divine must be recognized fn the 1ife of thu natlon. There cowld bo v stable Republic except where men would subordinate themielves to the great rinciples of the love of Gou and of their neigh- T, Humanity had been benefited during tho year by the usual increaso o the tneans of com- munication and of cducation, aud in the devel. opment ot material progress.. But, judged from the eigus of natlonal and Internatiunal affars, Christian Europe had yet to learn that natfons 1ust lvarn to love their neighbors as themselves, or como to judgment., Louuking at home there were grave lessons to learn. ‘Tho begloning of the year found the Republic face to taco with a inost serious con- stitutional question, one for the settlement of which no precedent existed, and they wero called upan to declde, on the strangth of one disputed Electural vote, who should govern the lund for_ the next lour years. That they submitted to tho decision of a Court of Arbitrationy and were willing so to submit, afforded no small evidenco of their sclf-sacrifice, But the strain was one which could not well be reocated, aud the re- sult renched must stand 88 a warning rather than n precedont, It showed that the national consciencs might bo awakeued by an impending d pressiug danger rather thanthat it was cone stantly on the alert. Two other poluts required brief comment: the fiuanclal stringency and the July riots, Men started {n to begin the year on false cconomic principles, Money was shorl and business dull; they proceeded to make tho onu shorter and the other inore dull by cutting down wages and dis- continuing work, " The dulluess of trade, felt first by the retatler, extonded to tha jobber and wholesale merchant, and all sccloty suffered In consequence of an {nsane ~ economy. Men 1nust learn how mutually dependent they were, and that there could be no prosperity when he who had much tried to make it mor, aud he who had little trics to keep that to hun- self. Work underlald all prosperity, and was uot fmposed upon mau in anger, ).l{lud-by. when cold weather came, there would be such distress throughout thy country that In threa short mouths people would givé more in charity than would have kept the hunest labor of the land ciployed throughout the year, 1f, when hard times cate, men, lnstead of looluh\y cute ting off uil itemis of expense, were to give moro dlllucml{, to spend more trecly, but moro wise- 1y, than before, the threatoued danger would be averted,” But t would secth that suclety was not to be brought to beliove this by conslderations of worldly interest. ‘They must learn that love of one’s neighbor was' the n!‘zuen form of eclf-intereat; that what tended to the gencral good advanced the interest of the individual.” For want of this bellet and_ pructice came hard times, conticts between labor and capital, sated luxury on the one hand, sud pouperisin ou the other. 'fhe Jesson to learn was that the time had arrived when the Christian Church sbould cease its squabbles over polnts of doctrine and bellef, and should preach to all the world the brother houd of tau: the subliine truth that to love one another was the highest eud of maokind. Every truth lhad a proper tlme for (ts enuntlation, sod the tine bad come for preasing the crusade aeainst individual, soctal, and na- tlonal relflshness. Were this subject to recelve from all Christian ministers fur the coming year ouly as iauch attention us Puritan divines in days gone by gave to the doctrines of predesti- natlon and election, who could tetl what the ro- sult might bo! Let them consider this wost (m- rtant question, Icet cumiug upon them like 8 bief in tho night, they might be found wanting. 3 MOODY ILL. Provipaxcs, Dec. 8u.—Moody, the evangel- ist, ansounced to preach four thnes to-day, was unable to attend either scrvice becauss of aick- ucss, ——— Bob lugersoll, Clevaland Herald. A sharp sud aggressive Calvinistic clergyman baviog been Introduced to Mr. Ingersol Par- slated In an attomptto draw him ntos religlous controversy, which Mr. L. tried to svold. The clergyman, not to be fuiled, safd: ¥ 3r. Ingor. sull, 'L understand you to have sald that you could chauge to advautago the fundwmncutal laws which govern tho unlverse—which & wise Creator has ordalued for mau.” *Yes,” said Me. lugersoll, ** I bave,”” ** Now, sir,"" suld Lis fuquistior, triumphantly, “will you be good wwough to put your Gnger upon vpe siugle luw of Nature which your puny wisdom could im- rovef’! ¢ With all the pleasura in Ilfe,” zayg gk. logersoll; * 1 would taake health catching, uatcad of discuse.” POLITICAL. Developments in Connection with the Ohio Senatorial Contest, Spirited Three-Cornered Fight Betweon Ewing, Pendleton, and Morgan, Spley Gossip Concerning the Fill- ing of Morton’s Vacant Seat. O1110, LIVELY SKIRMISTIING, Spectal Disuated to The Chiraro Tridune, Corvynus, O., Dee. 80.~Tho skirmishing nlready commencod smong the varfous states- men for a seat in the United States Senato brings to light plots and counterplots looking toward tho advancement of oue and the down- fall of tho others. John G. Thompson ap- pears on the acene, In tho muddle, and 1s sup- posed to be laying the wires for Pendleton. Ho Js warned to keep out. but his ncts are sus- picfous. 13 ls closely watched, Suit has been brought agajust him ULy ‘a citizen of this county In the Common Pleas Court, through his attorney, Charles A, Milcr, for judgment on a mwote given by **Jongee ? for 81,600. Un the 7th of Novow- her a default of judament was rendered for tha plaintlil. Matters remaloed in this way until within 2 day or two, when Thompson's at- tornev, Georgo L. Converse, appearcd, praging for an Injunction restraining the executlon of the judgment. Judge. Bingham granted o temporary fujunction. " Under ordinory circume stauces the suit would hardly be notfeed, but, hit #sitis during a Henatorinl contest, Thompson. is Interested, considerable slgniflcance s attacned to it. Miller, who has been employed an attorney . ogainst Alr. ‘Thompson, 18 owe of a large mumber by that name who are deeply Interested in Gen. Ewing's nomination. Tavmpson dignifies tho action by asserting that tho suit {a brought nt this tinie for the purpose of persocution, On the other hand, the Mlllera state emphatleally that it Is solely n suit Lo recover muney loaned Thompson vears since; that It was understood that ‘Lhompson was making 30,000 ont of tho oftice of Bergeant-nt-Arins of the Lower Houro of Represcntatlves, and that he shoutd now pay Lils bonest dobts, 1t 1s Pruhuhh! that uther auits will be brought, shoulil it be found that Thomp- son has anyehing thatcan be reached. Converse, Thompson's attornoy, is one of the ** dark horses™ In the Ecnatorint fight, but now a supporter of Pendleton. Gen, Ewing says ho knew nothing of the mutter uutil yesterday, aul that Thompson's charge, that the sult wag brought about by his (Ewing’s) fricnds, 18 false, Gen. Ewing s permancntly established hime acit at the United States Hotel, and will remain during the fight. Ho fecls moro confident thun ever before, and counts o thirty votes that will atand by him a3 long as there is any hope of success,” Gen, Morgan may bo sakl to stand about tho sume, lut hia forces are hardly na well disciplined as Ewing's. Pendleton will lead ot tho start, but some of his men are only pledzed for the fwo first ballots, alter which there will Lo a scattering should he not be nominated. i INDIANA. REPUDLICAN STATE CONVENTION, The Repubticuns of Indfana are Invited to mcet in delegato convention in the City of In- Qianapolis,\at the the Grand Opora-Housc, at 10 o'clock on Weduesday, the 5th day of June, 1878, to glve expression to their political falth and purposes, and to nominate candidates for Becretary, Auditor, and Treasurer of State, At- torney-General, and Supcrintendent of Pubtic Instriction, to be chosen on the secoud Tues- day In October, 1878, Upon tho basis ndopted by the State Central Committee, the representation is flxed ut one delegate for cach 200 votes, und one for each fraction over 100 votea cast in tho several countics for Gen. Benjamiu Harrlson, candi- date for Guyernor, at the general clection in ?;t‘?lbor, 1870, Whole number of delegates, "County Committces are requested to ceall Qonnty Conventions on or before Baturday, May 18, for the Burfium of appointing delegates on the nbove bnsly, with o view of having a full representation, y order of tho 8tate Central Uominlttce, Geonran W. FriroLer, Chalrman. D, 8, ALEXANDER, Hecretary. INpIANATOLIS, Dec. 28, 1877, TOW VOOLDEES WAS **CONVERTED,! AND mis NARLOW ESCATE. ey Orleann Times, Dee. 31, ‘Thero 18 somo nstural natonisiment manl- fested at the sudden change cxperienced Ly the Hon. D. W. Voorhees upon the ncial quos- tlon, The explanatiou of this constitutes ono of the most interesting chapters In our recent political history, 1t waa reporied in Indiana, a long time before the death of Senator Morton, that Mr, Vourlices Wwas to receivo tho appointment as his succossor, Whon It was aunounced that Mr, Morton was in articulo ortls, Gov. Williams, of Indiann, was visiting various scetfons of tho country upon a grand public misslon. The Btate-Ilouse ut Indiauapolls I« an uncommonly shabby bufld- ing. Gov. Willlams' pride was touched at this, aud he swore 8 nnpghty oath that Indiana de- sorved as good & Stalc-louso us anybody, 1o theretore rafscd a commnltte of his Tricnus, ap- mntcd btmself Chairman, drew £6,000 out of Btatevontingeut fund tur travelivg vxponses, and started out to study modern architecture ns developed In State-louses, Intending, it ls sup- vosed, ta buy one if he saw anything that plens- ed him, Whilo at Hartlord, Conn., inspecting an un- usually fing oue, and having & nrfll{ J.'uud timo, ho recelved a telegram from Gov, Titden, asking him to come to Nuw York ut once, Rather puz- zled at this, but supposing Mr. Tllden desired to become personally scqualnted with “one of the waat remarkable public men of our time," Gov. Willlams promptly reported at No, 20 Gramercy Park, After sume uniuiportant ‘conversatlon, tho ex-Governor sald that the Hon, Thomas A. Hlendricks was 8 great and good und that when Morton died ho ought ta be Seuator, To this Gov. Willinws, with some emburruseimout, replied that be bad about promised the place to tho Hon, D, W, Voorhees,” Mr, Iliden sald that undoubtedly Mr, Voorhiecs wasagreat man too, but not as big as ilendricks. ~ Mr. Voor- Lices, ho_procecded to observe, had somo unfor- tunate views in rogard to the tluanciul ouestion, and hls appointment to the Scnate would only nrvmitbtn tho peatilent beretics who wanted unlimited greenbacks, What clso was sald our informant did not Icarn, but Uov. Willlams was ipightily torn up in bis mind by the interview, and went to Wash- Ington to copsuit with the It s kuown that Mr. Tild 1y approved b! wanted Houdricks sctiled with, so that ho mlxht uot be in the way fn 1850. bout this thno nows came to Voorhees' friends of what was golug ou. They sdvised blm fn voluminous telegrains to tho effect that “old Williams was about to go back on him." Thuy say the stmosphere on the Wabasn, in Voorhees rlclnn{ wus wulphurous for scveral days. Finally, Wi Iiams concluded that honeaty was the best policy, und guve Voorbces the lace, 38 he had agroed to, but not until Mz 1endricks persoually requested that it bo doue. 1t 18 suthentically stated that before he wade this requost, Mr. Hendricks admonlbibed the young to-bu Senator that he must let b on the Iiflation business, This Ekindly mouitivn bas burne frult fu the slape of resolutlon which Mr, Voorhees futroduced n the Scnate Thuredsy, Dec. 13, declariug that “Jt 18 of the highest jmportance that the uan- clal eredit of the Uovercment be maintained, and, io vrder to do su, tho Guverament itaclr, in all its dopastments, should, in good faith, keepall its contracts oul juto with its own citizena.” My, Voorlwes' conversion 1s perlinps a trilo sudden. But so was thut of Baul of Ture! who ‘‘suddenly saw @ great Jight." In justice to the Tull Sycamore, it must bu sald that be {8 & prudent man, wod not even Btauley Matthews cun equal bim ju the celerity with which be gets ou tho right side of the funce— when be finds whilch §s the righe side, Iu giving this dittle chupter of the insido bis- tory of things, the Zimes i actuated solely bv o laudable deairy to fursisb valuable luformation, and conserve the truth of bistury. Wu ure xlul Mr, Voorhices saw the crror of bis way, although Lo was a long thne tn doluy so. Perhups that flerce light thut beats upon wmen dn biva laces helped bim to see the right, Would that t might reach more of them. OFF FOR LIBERIA, Svectal Dispatch (0 TAs Chicugo Triduna. Nxw Youx, Dec. 80.~Tho Rev, Dr. Orcutt, Becrelary of the American Colonizativn Sodiety, ruports & raplaly growing teadeucy auony the freedmen to emigratetothe Republicof Liberta, Wednesday npext the bark Liberia will loave thls port for Mourovis, capital of Liberla, with sbout soveuty pegrocs, coiposed of families from Misstasivol, North Carollug, Virginia, und - wbligutivus entere Margland, Among them Is Sherwoad Capp, & graduate of Shaw Lnlversity, of Ralelgh, who drafted, it {3 sakl, the petition revently pre- eented o Congress by Gen, Garfleld for Gov- ernmental ald to tha cause of Liberian emigra- tion. The party Js cxpected hers to- mOrrow, The Liberin is chartered by the Amerlcan Colonlzation Sozlety, and will he atored with provisions to lnst the endirrants forsix months. After their arrival the charge to each adult emizrant is £50: children hatf rice. Tho Liverlan Qovernment will give wenty-flve acres of farining land to the head of cach famlily, nnd ten ncres to overy sin- Rlo man, Many Jetters from colonists announce satisfuction with elimate, products, edueational facilities, and government, while pienty of fuod ond work are assured to all. CASUALITES, NIVER DIYSASTERS, 81, Louts, Mo., No. J.—The loss of pronerty on Wentern rivers during the past yenr is sct down at £5,%10,000. This Includes the feo and conl bont disastera on tho Ohlo River, amonnts ing to 84,000,000, The numberoflives lost during the same time was seventy, more than two- thirds by explosions and burning of steawers. SHIPWRECK, PontLAxD, Ore., Dee, 80.—The ehip Nimbus was Jost off Columbia Rivor bar on the 28th in- sant, Ttis not known whether ahe foundered or waa driven ashore. Tho crew {s reported saved. - The Nimbua loaded nt Portland with wheat for Cork, Tho ahij have been fully fnsured. L R R BARCLAY S'TRERT New Youx, Dee. 80,—The body of s girl was taken out of the Barclny strect ruing to-day,and recognized as that of Josephine Shepard, vne of the women who served behind the counter. * Human arms were also recovered, helong fo the body of the boy, a few days ogo, ODD CONJECTURES, Simultnneous Disappenrnnco from Indiane Apolla of n White Lady nnd n Black Mun, Suectat Dispatch o The Chicngo Tribune, INpraNarons, Ind., Dee. 30.—The mysterie ous disappearance of Mres. Jolin A, tiuymon, who has been absent from hotne sinco Wednes- tny Inst, creates cousiderable gossip, and puz- zles reporters. Mrs, Guymon s lady of re- finement and respectability, and esteemed by her friends nsnirua and good woman. Hor husband says that sluce thelr marrisge, soven years ago, sho has been afilicted with physleial dlsorders, which lately beenme so compllcated that, combined with certaln domestic troubles, they would be suflicient to drlve any woman crazy. 8he had been ina good denl of mental distress, occasloned by his discharge ns book- keeper fn tho office of ths Becretary of the aMarlue Mutual Benefit Soclety Inst’ August; that lately, white liviog with Wis mother In Bloomiugton, ho lad requested ber 1o come Lo him several times, but she decllned, prefertlng to rewaln with her mother, Mrs, Rugers, In this city, but Chrlstmas morning she- consentod to gn. Reaching May< wood, a station n few miles nway, however, sho returned to the city, nnd for some reason Is keeplig away from her friends. Mr. Quymon sald Mrs, Rogers bad recclved two letters from lier stating that she could never iive with her Lusband agzalns that site hna eIt bim for good, and was sulely secrated fn the clty, so that search would' bo useless. Guymon beleves her nsanc, and s confident she has dons nothing dishonorable. e Is doubly distressed, beeauss sho has taken a little child away with her. A young mulatto named Charles Brown ta also missing, and reports nro dbundant on the strects Lhat the twalu havo cloped together, but the stories scem too preposterous, und aro noy generally eredited. rupposed to Kummi c;?tnund JUDGE HEATON. 1tls Obsequics nt Dixon, 1)l Yestorday. Kpectal Rfsnatch (0 The CAtcagn Tribune, Dixoy, T, Dee. 80.—The funcral of Juidge Meaton here to-day was held at the Methodlss Episcopal Clureh, but not one-hall of the larga hody of people in attendunce were able to enter the bullding. S8pecial tralns wero run from Freeport and Amboy, on the Iilluols Central, and tho regular tralns of the Northwestern brought delegations of attorneys and others frow all the surroundivg countivs, Prominent osmong thoso prescnt from abroad were Judges Tleasants and Murphy, of the AppeHate Court ; Judges Brown aud Dalloy, of this Clreuity Judges Bradwell and Wilkinson, F, W. B, Brawlcy, P Backett, Charles ‘Murray, and others from. Chlcagos ‘The Bar, to the namber of about 800, beariug the usual badee of mourning, formed [ lino at the Nachusa Housa ug 2:30 o'clock, and, marche ing to the late residenco of tho deceased, es- corted the remnius to the church, and from thunce to tha cemctory, Tho funcral discoarae, an able and eloquent eulogy of the deceased, was pronounced nvvllm Rov. (1. i, Vao Horn. Drs. Ilitcheock, Williamson, and Lathrop, of Chleago, and the Rev. 1. Livcbarger, asslsted {o the ceremonle: s —————— THE WEATHER. urrios or Tum Cuige SioNatn Orricen, ‘Wasuixoros, Dec. 8l—1 g m.~Indleations— For tho Lako region northerly winds, cooler, cloudy weather, and rising baromoter. dpecial Disnatch to Tha'Chicayn Tribune, Jonespono, 1L, Dec. 80.—Strawberries are la bloows ticre, and the weathor is raluy and very' warin for this time of the year, LUCAL VUERRYATIONS, Citoano, Dea. 50, Foubt x {1?1-':-1({:':',('«.:1 i3 huiuth Mar el — OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. New Yogk, Doc. 30.—Arrivod, the steamship Hollund, from London. QueeNstowy, Dec, 80.—Arrived, the Idaho, from New York, Pour Eaps, La., Dee, 80.—Salled, the steam- ships Bolivar, for Liverpool, and the Iues, for Bareeloua. Quezxstown, Dec, 80.—Arrived, the Indiana, froiu I'btladelphia. Quagssrows, Dec, 80.——Arrived, the City of Bruascls, from Now York, Fuyxoutn, Do, BU—Arrived, tho Gellert, from New York, ————— FINANCIAL. Havirax, Dec, 3.—The liabilities of E, O, Duvis, the absconding fusclveat, are about $30,~ 000, E. Albro & Co. will offer thelr creditors 50 cents ou tbe dullar. The Nictaax & Atlautlc Raflway Company s ju difffeulty, Workls sus- vended. Bub-contractors and laborers are potls tloning tho Governwment to pay the Company no woney, Tho Goveraweut will pay the luborers and uthers os far os the subsidy due the Cowe pauy witl go. Wing-8hootlog with » Kifle. Olethorps (G1.) Eckn. . Oue day lart week Judee Blackwell, who wi alwuys & devolee of bls dug aud guu, weot to the couutry, and though uow U1 years of age, decldod to” tako u bunt fur squirrels with h'lfi nfle, o bad vot gouw far when a Llue-wing Lawk that bad been watcking a covey of parte Fulges, darted Ly bim, wben e pulled on the bird, killluz tt instantly, The report flushed by uurv.rmT‘e- avd tley” scattered. Haviug hius futer with bl be bad po trouble in tindiog Lo slnilo Lirds, und us the first vre rose Le decapltated it with tho ball from bis rile. A sccoud parttblge was tlushed, and with an carde-eyed M ke Judge tred 5t it and anothier bird catie to tho grouud with its head aod part of {ta ueck severed trom 18 body, Recapituta- tlun: an old wau, 61 years ol wge, slivt vu the wing with « ruls,