Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1878, Page 2

THE CHICAGO by rational processes: The fruth of earth is cumulative, nana if {t can be heaped nup, mew and bright for govern- ment, and for meehanies, and sstronomy, and 1aw, and agrlenitare, &0, it can be gathered {n new and aweet for the Temple of God. To Jor e ol "acinition of Gol and Hel atand untonclied Is ae abaird a8 to leave untouched the old sdefinition of plow, or king, or besuty. The word plow once alznifled a crooked stick, with a sharp end ecratehiog In the earth, To thresh onee fmplied to pound n rheal with & club; to grind in a mill implied woinea pound- ing wheat with a stone; the word king sct forth & despot who could kill une, or a thonsand, or a million at pleasure. Ilut, 2s society has moved forward, all these terms have come up for new endowment, and vlowing, and threshing, and ruling wve not what they were when the words first vassed the 1“ Ho the word God stod once for dragon, of ram, ur Jupiter, and then Jehovah, and as rapidly a8 the regate of hmmun power and learn- dnz has fnere term has becn re- onenet and The word of God does mot siguily now what s sigmfied when David praved for curecs unon his cncmies, or when Carsar mrentic hat nume in his war journals in hix bloody car Aa the beautiful'in civils i€ not modeled alter the beautiful of jee, but.atter thelr own decper and purer Wcals, g0 tie thiologleal forme of new azes may hot e lavish putterns of old outlines, but must e the forma of the last and best re- fleetton. The new and bold words spoken in the past year by many Scotch Preavyterhing and res echbed at Jast by Mr, Beeeher, and by an Ei frlish clevzyman of eminent learning and plety, are a part of those inevitable words which must come when raciely Is gropinig along towsrd bet- ter portraitures of Gud, and heaven, and hell, and of self. A former cra wnr so unfortunate na to picture fte Heavenly Father us being a person who owned a hottomless Iake of ire, uud as beine a person who for Il own gomd plensure, regardicss of sin aforescen, f ordalned millions to spend - endless years fu that lake of fire, It &0 much a wonder that the Scoteh Calvinists und all Calyinsta are rising up szainst siuch un fdea of God as that the [dea ever conld have livedl tor a week or for a moment a the human Deart. But whoever looks back far will be d ut the facility withwhich cyen good men eave ther cordial belief to the most repugnnnt or frghtit opintons, More thousands ot ladies wid men woulld onee asseinble to sce eladiators fight or to see heretles burned than would have nasciabled then for obseeving the beautiful, A 1050, 1 hird-somiz, o hill, u river was not haif so rweet aan dyinz strugale. The dreadful has always been 6 rival of the beautiful, and where- s modern saint pietures heaven ns a place where Lie can hear and ace andexperience things Tovely, un uarly saint drew oxultant delight from the thought that ho could look down from Parndise and see the lost in their end- luss torment. Out of this awful chaem of the horribie sorang up Dante's Joem--4 song which no modern poet could compose by any possible means; spraug up the outlines and detafls of tuw theolozieal poriition, aml out of the same soil snturted with blowd and beated oy eternal tires sprang up e former deilnition of God. Tt was “put” to- gether by men swho had had evtel enemies and who fonged to see them weil punlshed, and who N been reaved i nschool where the lorrible Waa the triig, the heantitulyund the qood. Muny Tinse men who composed the ereeds of the ast b wadfered fn eelf amd o (helr fumiiles untold tortares, ‘Thetr Jnnds dripped - blood 1he year around. Jlencs Gud moved before them 0 tivo qualitivs of Savior of His own aud the noat feartid uvenger of His enildren’s coemies. The Catholic unl the Protestany creeds both sprang up where the power to arrest and torment and crueh an enemy wns a luxury, which no roul _conld forezo. ‘The paluters 1oved to onlnt aufferings the preachers loved to ket 1t forth fn words; Dunte and Milton both Toved to set bitter euraes to the vhytiun of thelr veese, It fk Jittlo to be wondered nt that out of 1 wronged, and sufferlug, and v ful past there showld luve sprang up o definitlon of God from walch was omitted every element of merey or justiee, Bofn thuk out of the publle erelty, the defi- nition of Giod must needs soow enjoy the modi- tying nflucnce of a deeper pulnle education and of growine justico and Kindness, Avnrin. 1anism, Unitariziism, Quakeriam, Universallsu, JMethadism were some of tho fornis assumed by the sottened thoneht amt feelincol the sevane teenth ce walle Jn the Ronmn Catholie Chureh, sehoul of Fenelon, — came nlong showing a parallel wdtigutlon of the nature ‘ot bell and of tho hiherto mensureless maliee of - Gl Tlg recent uttersnces of several Scoteh P erlans, and b on Fatenr, und of M, v mie the ) latest aml boldest words in n diseent Which huy Jeen u mnttering thunder for o half-hundeed Years, Tiose last Words aro only tho shirp thunder showing that the story fms come, that it i overboad, tiat our howses und sickds will roon recelve the good or 1T of the enruged ele niente. % What ot the ulcht, watchmant No evort words ever colne to its from tie future, but from ull nppeazins it seetm3 Ural the storm will nat Be st ull tervide and that the old deilnftion of the Heuvenly Father wiil coen be fully dead and we shiall eee il Christinng Joln fnthe fegret that, they should bave encvlshed so long o pieture su empty of divine features, The ol theolozy ds dyiog peacefully and Wil evidently roon ceass (o exiat, and ws when o King dies they combine thy rhouts, *The Kinge 14 dead, loug vethe King 1" eodn the deatlchumber of the old thealogy, the Clirbstlan world will mingle ntemory and Tinoe in one sentenee—>The ereed Is dead, long hve the eroed 19X new fuith will huve disen- tangled ftseif from the old, aml a grander re-. digton wilt sit down upon a throne whicli hina i uiuhoclng domutn and subjeces for elghtoen urler, e ubjection one might nake to the violent Tunguaze, even the sulemn oatha, of Mr Beech- «r, 18 that way did or ow could ho hecome so nroused over an blen of God whleh is alrewly so Nopelessly cmpty of pructical power, Suchi in- temse feeling were vmnhlyu! L hour when whe hiberty of a Stute or ol & race were o perll, Terbups on the othor houd thers aro Corlstlans set living whoau hold to the old letter and “upon whose beavy cars only the crashing and poundifiz ut Plymouth desk could make any fmpression, 1 such worsldpers of a re- vengefut God atill rematn here amd there I the Church, then jet the 'l‘lfumulh cloquence and nuathicmas roll on, for ‘4t 1s high time that the Kind Fatler who wnude 1uan, und wino loves man, were worshuped nat #$ 1 monater, hut us o Iricnd. Somctimes harsh Tangaage Is demanded 1o wuke up the slumber- ne Tuntellect or the intellect wedded to certuln words, sud make it reallze that u new morning the stupor of the eat often, that only [ sharp arrows 1n 1 vlehitee I “France, or in the ninetecuth In - Amerfen, can quicken Chrlstian theologlans 1o o new Inteftectual dite, Hut Jet us observe more metho plgns of the night und the morine. churacter aseribod to God fi the old Evaugelfval Cunfesstons deseended from its primal foun- taln to threo preat i\anlrulun: 1) an awful hiell tudty quality ; (2) an awful holl in its duru- tion; (3) av awiul hell us to quaniity and " quality of those who were driven into it. God being Himself térritie, perdition was territle. It wus n lake of motten e mto whiclh en, women, sull chlldren wor to wercam fo ever, after they liad once ot posaession of 1i To bo Lorn was, hence, the most awlul mist tune. Often whien soite of thesa old preachers “discottrsed‘about. hell, women fulnted, and chil dien erled and pressed up closer ugatngt thelr purents (i thelr destra for shelter trom such & udgment. Valn destre! for to separate Infaut Trom parent forever was ono of the cusy pusat- Vllitles of early Romaoism and Protestunutism v, ‘The seeoud varticular was that thess souly should experience no end, or hope of end, to thielr torments, Tweuty mitlions of yeurs hav- fng pussed, they would stlll be begelne each other for u drop of water, Adaa having caten ot sume furbilden frult, countiess illions were born the heirs ol perditlon, and oer- ditlon wis to s u scrcaming among molten lron and sulplur, aud that seréaming waa tu be con- tlnued foru thousatd million years, for the frst act. Oyer this place of screaina the words were itten, * God ts Love." “Ihe tuind particulae in this cruelty was, that ull heathien, ull mere woralists, ail'unorthulox Iu’ Christisn lauds, were to apend in- aturles i this flery lake. There luy Focrates, Plato, Aurelius, Servetus, Pean, Foxjy ull sl luen ws Everett, and Lincoln, aud Sumt ner,—uen whu iy bave lived lives more Chilat- NKe thun that ol most Chriatiuns, but wio lack- e that tehitwal rehizion whicheould repead the Listoey oty Adam's fall, and could explain the complications vl a lsbyrivthian metaphysies. “This the primal conception of tivd Tevealed tself In three dreadiul gdetalla; the sreg seat up three brsuches trow [ts rooty—namcly, a literal Hire, an cternud fre, u tre fur all, 1o, who were puly weral or ouly lznoraut. And us by fulse waaumption sbuut God, these three shapes grew, 20, Bow &3 the picturs v God becotes sweeten- ed, theso three detulls fu His Klogdow are be- coming wodltied. The change cowiug fu the buman eitiuate of the diviue character is com- jug also to the human bellef about thuse tlree shaves of the Divive wrath, It Is con- feased that the punlebiucut for sin {8 not cor- poral, savage, brutal, tbat it I3 not luth \X\)luu thuse who bave attempted to do their whols duty, and It Is i wari debate wiether the punisiuent of the wiched is to be endless. Uyou this last fnquiry, much of the thought ot to-duy s dwelllug, Heasou cannot sfirm wuch for ot kuowing what ay be the vature of Jutury yurtabiticul, i counol sttirw bow loug iv ject, for the eternity to come fs a duration in TRIBUNE: MONDAY. JANUARY 7, 1878, shenld in Justice continue. Man Is said tobe a | miscrable end it acems; but they carry us little lower than the angels here. lie {8 for | over on the Exadus side to tho beglunita of roma cause away from nerfect happiness, And | the end, nnd how elorious the end we fiml not ot should God declare earth to be an endless | till after the long development of the ages we, Eome.n world of everlasting tears and amfles | reach the consummation in the glowing Imagery intermingled, we shondd not call ITim a cruel | of the Apocaivpve. In closing, n comparison tlod. Henee the cruelty of injustice of the | was drawn beiween the divections of Jacoh piace nanied hell witl depend upon what kind of | (Gen., xiix., 2033 concorning his banes, and alanditis. Those in it may abways bo-a little | those of Joseph. Jacob savs, ™ Bury me not in Jower than the saints, ns here we are a little | Egyot, but carry e back to, Canaan, to the Jower than the angels. Henco reason cannot | grave of my fathers!” It was natural fn the ret limits to that lower existence beeanse ft | old man, ns'all his holiest feclingswere with the cannot see that exfstence clearly eoough to af- | Cannau of the past. Csnuan to him wns o firiu of its Author any croelty, memory and a grave. But Juseph’s Canaan was The Bible argument wlong remains, and {4 18 | the Cannan of the future—a hope and a home, 0 ohscure that if the Englieh Canon Farrar is | and so he !u'vl, * Keep my bonea In Egrpt. You positive that the terma forever and eternalara | shll carry them Indeed to Canaan, but not Inw only popular terma shenifying vast perivds, one | mere funeral-procession—in telumph, not In sail- cannot question hls judginent or his piety. Tm- neas, shall they o} notaston rnh:llllu'lfl‘, hut mortality and eternal death mny, indeed, b | as to the brond and beautiful Landof Promise.” ly the largest ferms which the i can use. | Eachorder was beautifully in ita time. When rnity riscs up beforc us without any sig- | Jacob died, all was bright, Witness the gor- nil xeept. that of negation, so It may be E‘m“! funcral and the muuruhn‘ among the that the endlessness of the future means only | Ex the vastness of God and the fecbleneas of man, Tere I van apenk only for mysell, and must epeak less from biblical eriticism than from simple feelings, and thus speaking, I would cling to the worids *ever ' and “lorever! In thele old sense, and feel that man's next lifa will be endless, be e worthy of the lizhest paradise or only of a world where there comes at times such sorrows as bend us here. 1 woukd hold to the word “ eternal,’” but would save the Trauty and whole character of God by siapposing the lost. worlil to be one not which rolls in bil- lows of fire where agony scremios above the roaringt of flumes, but & world whero beinis Tower than the sulnta are lving along willingly thelr unpumbered years, The Frenchmun Flguler threw ont_the thought ten years nzo that In the far off ages the salnuts would die agaln, but the second time awectly, and perhaps nf!lll to wake In some higher state. Words these which reason can neither neeept nor re- zx(pumu. When Joseph died, all was getting dark; yeara had elapsed, the night of elavery was scitling down. No_notice seems taken n Egynt of thedenth of theold, almast forgotten Joseph. Bo the lesson of each i3 approprinte. When the world Is at. the hrightest, foreet not the grave. Buct s tho Iesson of Jacub's dying ‘charge. \When the world Is the durkest, foriret not the home. Such ia_the lTesson which the dying Joseph teaches, On the farthest verie of (fenesis we sce two floitres disappearing from our vicw; the one withhls eve on the paat, thu otlicr with his eyo onthe future. What is there in the tleld of visioni On the , memory of ntedt, the prospeet of & grave mn the vther, Giod and His word, life, heaven, eternity, Com- pare tho fecting. and the euduring. Abralinn’s wenlth 18 gone, Jacob's sorrows ure overy Joseph's greatness i8 forgotten. ‘The word of (iod nlone cnduratti, * Lond, to wlow shall we gof Thou hast the wonils of eternal life. DEDICATED. THE JEPFERSON PARK PHESHTTERIAN CHURCH. About eleven years ago n soelety, calling jtecit the Jefferson Park Presbyterian Church, was organlzed: It lived and fourished, and one year ago commenced the erection of a new, more commodious, and more beautiful editice upon the corner of Weost Adams and Throop streots, frouting the park from which its name is derived-—ouo of the handsoniest locations in al) the city, Yesterday that edifice was dedi- cated with three scrvices—morniug, noon, aml nfght. The service contatning the rito of dedi- catfon wns approprintely reserved as the last otie, that the Church Soclety might, when the -church and its future was consigned to the care of the Almighty, tender to llim a church notonly beautiful and promising, but paid for complete- ly, The morning service was led by Mr. Kim- ball, whosa reputation ss a church-debt raiser las bounda co-cxtensive with the limits of the Christian Church in tho United States, His offorts to 1ift the $25,000 debt under which'the cnurch wos placed for the new structura were but partially sucvessful In the morning, ns $17,- 000 was then subseribed, The rgmaluder was ralsed ot tho evening service, ‘Ihie afteruoon excrclses were “* unfon ! in their character; that is, the peopls of tha deffer- son Park Presbyterlan Church belng desirous that mf who felt so Inctined shouli, deapite their relfzious creeds, Join with them and share 10 thelr joy over the possession of such a trens- ure as the editice Is to thein, sent’onut invitations to represcutative churchies and pastors of the various evangelical denominations, and the re- sult was 8 house crowded full and the atiend- ance of a Inrge number of clergy, The reverend gentlemen each made congratulatory remarks i‘ml finmncll most harmonjous (colings of fel- oyahip, . . The Rer. W. C, Young, of the Fullerto d- | Avenue Presbyterian Chureh; the Rev. E, P, of | Goodwin, of the First Congregational Chi | the lev. 8, McChesnoy, of the Park Avenue AMethodist Church; the Rev, Blshup Cheney, of Chrlst Chureh (Reformed Episcopal), and the Rev. Arthur Swazey,—nll spoke extemling tte right hand of fellowship on behalfl of thelr re- spectivo churches. During Mr Young's ve- marka hae paid a compliment to the members of the church who had in these days of so much financial diftieulty subscribed gencrously for the editice, making eelf-sucritices for which the pomy of months would not reimburse the mivers. tle spoke of tho church as u place for iwhieh God muy have plans too great not ouly for human faith hut even for its conjecture. Evidently, the meaning of eudléssnuss lics beyond the rasp of us all, and baviog found a Guod and a Savior who will recelve futo heaven a1} who strive tu serve God, 8o tar as they know ilis will, aod who will excludo from that para- dise all whose sfus nsk for a scparate existence anid punishment, with such outlines of tod's will, must we be content. Men havecuine to us with specillcations us to the willenuium: as to the Mystical Babylon; as to the resurrection of tha bodys s to the nuture of Christ; as to the meaning of inspiration; as to saviug doctrines and saving riles; as to the call to the minis- try: aa to the meantng of all propheey and all oetry; 08 to the Bible geology and Bible as- ronoty and hilstorvs but thev have come with errors for wimost 2,000 years, and 1f, ot last, some one growlng “weary of sich flekle forms of learnlug, and ure wvlanting thelr minds and sonls upon a few gen- eral truths that pass through nil the nges and change not, let us confess their wisdom, and piteh our tents with taem. These weneral truths run all through the Seripturcs, and are seen I the dife of each salut, from the Master tu the last disciple, who died ?'nslcrdla or shall dlc to-morruw. They shine fn tis_ Uiblo bfs- er’ andl prophecy, nod poetry; shine in the xalina, the Gospels, the anocalypse. Sume icathent sow them: some delsts ece them aud luve thew, To oll Tollowine _thess conte the merits, the [nterceaslon of Christ, and the abundant merey of God. ‘Fhe most evangelieal churches are rislne up to this higher ground. When, a fow days 2o, a candidate came beforo an urthodox Cougregational councll to recelve instatlation, he atllrined the broadest possible views regarding future punishiment and the heathen world, and yet, when e had uttered his calmest and most advauced thought, hls brathers, without s dlssonting vote, established Nhin fu the mintstry of our Lord, It was the ot heautiful religlous picture in the year that hns Just passed away. Tuedying year, that set- ting sun, flung back a ray of Uzht upon the fu- tures Wil this overturning of the old bellef re Ing future tormeuts affect badly the futu | orof public morals! We are not [he majority of Chirlitians ave not for i ball century reatized that there were mify sich hell as that platured by.the Church. The words have been repeated a3 of nld Lo sume degree, but, with Cathulle md Protestant, the old sleniticance has fallen away, and has 1eft hehlnd anly the general truth ¢ God will punish sly and reward virtue, The Cathiolle now admits that the Protestaut will reach heaven us soon us hlnsclfy and o ull lours the uiuitittdes i all the sects ure lving In the kbt of genernl truths, and uso oldwords | common worship, and alluded gracelully to the only from babit, snd bevause new ones bave | fecling of good-fellowship which had prompted ot lieen woven In time's slow loom, If, | the bullders of the church to ask their ¢ have not been half i earncst In | fedlow Christians in to rejoico with them. His of old terms, it will uot affect | closing thought wasthat the churen fs not o virtie badly should the | dress-uarade ground, but a workshop for car- Cliurch openly confess that tie old words no | nest, hearty, Christian work. Tonger expreas fte thought. It I8 upon generat Tiio Rev, B P Goodwin spoke Imnlrll{ of the trutus iwsen prastieally feed white living, and in | fecllng of brotherhood which existed betwween 11 men e, Al else {8 fuvidental, Hence, | the Evangelieal churches, and pald o glowlne Troi this debate which now shukes old doe | tribute to ‘the Rev, Rubert Patterson (now In teines no harin can cone, for thu ldeas which | Californla), the furuier pastor of the Jullerson muost Intlien, Wuman mind ave moyine on. | Park Church, 1le apoke in fuvor of one Guapel ward without change, Think us the Eplscopat [ uud une creed for ull veo) le, the Guspel of Bible- Canon may, o ns the Scoteh Calviniats may fn | teaching, und suld that the rellgion of lhuwur};} thefr bold reform, or as My, Beocher moy aa to | was fast becoming more and ore Giod und condenmation, thers remains to cach | eral in fts. nature, In this he ree of theso leaders und thetr followers that ease Joleed, — and - thought that It would tial Gospel which s pictured us a rock among Traternfze nud Christianize wankind, The Rev. waves. e il not pretend that the Gospel 1s o | 8. McChesney, the next speaker, malitafned that fidelity to denoininationul interests was most ronduielve to o liberal Christinuity, As the transplanted twlg grew bearlng blossoms and flowers of 1Ls own species, su s denominu- tiunul church grows und as the flowers of thy twlg wero Joved for the beauty and fragrance of their own particulor variety, 50 were the besucy and fragrance of u denominntional eitreh loved for thelr individushities, ‘Epo evening, servive contained the formal dofleation und ‘s sermon by the Rey. Froucis L. Pattou, the pastorof the church, The services durlng thg day were all largely attended. THE WEEK OF PRAYER. TROGKASIME OF TIH YOUNG MEN'S CHHISTIAN ABSOCIATION, ‘This belng the world's week of prayer, the Young Men's Cliristlan Assoclation have adopt- ed the subjects of the Evangelical Alliance, which aroas fullows with loaders for cacli days Monday, Jdan. 7, the Rev. It 3. Iatfold— Prayer and praive; 'remembrance of b rulative mercles; prayer for the divine pust privileges, and for a humble and perfeet pleture of eternlty, 1t [s not o welzht and measure of tho intinite amd the cternal, o unfolding of the iniinito to the flnite, but it a rovk In the sea pon which we shipwrecked vnes may clinb, urto wlneh eiiug untli this carthly night shafl huve paseed by, aud the morning of the now Heht ahall have cone, wizh haoas and hearts of love reaching vut to us from the peacefnl shore, GENESIS AND EXODUS, THE CONNELTING LINK DETWEEN THRM, A very Interesting lecture on Old Testument history was delivered yesterday afternoon by tho Rev. J. Munro Gluson, pastor of the Second Preabyterian Churche tlis theme was thoe link between Genests and Exodus, which ho stated o be Joseplt's boites, of which mentlon (s made nG 25-20, und Ex,, x(il., 10, There was much aliznifleunce 1o this 1ink, but to get the best lh:hn. of view It wus neccesary to conslder firsl the retatiun of Geuesis to the entire sequel of the Blole. The Book of ticnesls coversd tnore than hall ol the time cibraced In the canon of Scripture. Apart from all doubtful | speh . clironolugy, it wus certaln that miore than 2,000 ‘Tuwaday, the Nev, W. ., Evarts—Prayer for yers cinpsed from Adam to Joseph, and le the Churchof Christ n all lunds; for s deliver- than 2,000 from Mosea tothelustof the Aposties, | Anco feou aeeor: for Ity Increaso In fulth and holt Thiore was o cortaln complotoness in (sencats, | Bnk and 18 puwer ada witnces fur the Lord Jastis only, however, as Gonicals, as the book oL Christ, for tho grace and guldsnce of thu Holy wloners, un the germ of all subsoquent revetns | “Wotinesday, the itov. J. M. Worrall—Prayer for e Thero was nothiug of lmportance In ol | Cheiwtian fawliics, for sick and afhicted memberas : nfin. ( the Bible that hud not lts roots | for children sl ul, and for all youth 1 our cols - Ueneste, Tho ULible, us u wholo, was | legus and semivaries of learni for young luen vapable of @ threefold divislon: begin- cultrlng upon tho aclive busi of lifo, and for Migs dn_ (Geuesis, dovelopment from | those abroads for our wons wnd duughters ovenly conlesting Christ, Phuraday, the Rev, O, IV, ‘Everest—FPrayers for natione, forrulers, mugiatrates, and statessien, foi to Christ, consummation (n the Apocs- Iy ‘Fhy sneaker hore vatled attention to the tuterest fn compuelng the beginuing with the end, Uenesis with Rovelutlon, the beavens and the carth) with the new licavens and new earth, tho Eden parsdise with the paradise und City of U, the marrlage in Eden with the marrlsze supper of the Lamb, the dispersion of the na. tiona with the fiunl gathering of the great mule titwde that noman cen number of every nation and tongue, and the muny symbols, sucl as the openlng of doors Whingl 3 nesy aud peace, Friday, the Rev. Jamos Powell—Prayer for Chelatian_misstons to tho Jews sad tlentilos; for nila; 0ols, and fur the diviuo blessing un all Curlot{su efforts {10 spread the glud tidings of the 2 2 e of Litas and tho,raiubow, Whieh reappoare | G0t O ssoRIon T Thompsou—Sundey- wd b the Apocalypse with a world of ailded | achool losson, meaniiiz, Again, sturtiug frous Abrahsin, i — whergthe conneeted hlstory of redemption be- CHORAT, tine, there were four great crus,—the era of UNION PARK CONGHEGATIONAL CIIUKCH. ‘The untiring ¢orts of Mr, Blackmuu, leader ol thecholr of fhe Unton Park Cougreational Cuurch, having met with well-merited success, 1t Ls understood that the musical organtzatlon of that cougregation us at present coustituted will ve retained during the preseut year, with Prof, Louls Folk us oreanist, ond Mrs. Louls Falk as principal soprano siuzer. M. Blackmau has been furnished with s fund sull chent to purchase a wide varlety of sacred muslc n addition 1o that airvady at ~his dispgsal, and this fuct, with the faituful’ co-operation so com- mendably mantfested by the numerous hody of siugers under his dircction, prowlses muck for e cowlug year. MISOELLANEOUS, THN REY. 6ANUSL LONGFELLOW, Spaciul Dispatch fo Ths Uhicora Tribune. PuiLapsLPuis, Pa., Jan, 8.—The Rey. Bam- uel Lougtellow, a brother of the poet Longfel- low, was this mornfug welcomed to the pulpit of the Unitariav Church'of the 8avior, In Ger- mantown, Until the latter part of October ths Rev, Cliarles G, Ames beld the minlstry, buc seeepted a call to the editorship of the ChAristian Iteylter, o Boaton. The lust few years of Mr, Longfellow’s Jife bave been spent ur Cume bridice, where bic guve inatruction to his broth- er's auufhtuu. aud ut Portland, {n ke old Lungietiow homesteal. ‘Thers wers no furinal fustaliution scrvices, except prayer by the ven- erable Ur. Furness. Mr. Lonxlzlluw expressed bis eratitication that be should be unfettered— that he could go futo the Eulyh aud say what he thought was rizht, whether ft was Orthodoxy, Presvyteriantsty, or Catholicisim, PROFEACTED MRETINGS, Spectal Dopaich by 1he tinciss Trisens, BrooxiseroN, 1L, sun. th—The First Metho- prowlsy (putriurehunl thues), of Lypo (Mosale tiincs), of reality (tho times (ollowing tho first Addvent), oud of consuuumation (the imes fol- luwlng the secoud Advent). ‘The felation be- tween the putrlarchal times and the Mosale sge might be described as that between promise and potency, to uadopt & bhrase which ‘Tyndall has mads famillar, In Uenests there was ouly the promise, Tliere was no ful- thment of any Kind, nor was there fulthliment i the strlet senss of the term il the tulltess of thy tines when the lonu-expected Savior came. Lut meantims in theinterval thers was a typleal tultlment, e g, in deliveranco from Eigypt in the earlier thues, and (rom Babylon fn the later ties, so that bere thers Is soinctbing more than promise: there is potency, ‘The Lord nut ouly suys but shows that e 'ts able and williug to eave. This was illustrated fn detail, und then attention was called to thy fact that not unly were the promises unfilled to the patriarchs (Acts, 1L, 83 Heb,, xi., 18) bat at tho close of lhe}urh)d there was no sign of tultiilinent. As for the land, there was not even u tent ir it now, It wus cutirely abandoned to the aborleinal Cansauites. Joseph, the lust of the putriarchs and the sole stay of 'the people wur dead, und us for the lveopln ‘thewm- Belves they were fast sinking into hopeless sluvery, Sliscrablo ending of ull the sucrifices und the hopes of tus Fatherof thedulthiul! Miserable wrock of the Gospel In Genests! Of all thst bas dnterested us in Genesls, nothing now remalus but Josepl's boues. But with these bones s linked o word a1 God, on the fuith of which the dylug Joseph Lad spoken these words of calm srsurmncd: “God stiall surely vislt you and ye shall carry up my bones fram’ hence," Weure looklug fito the varrow l;r:ve of Genesls, but as we look we see it opea- ng into the wide portal of Exodus. It [s, with this old tomb of doscoh, as it §s with the new tomb ol lm of Arimathea: it secins the grave ot Chirlstluuity ! it 1a the gate of all s glory. Mory Jabua vitav; per tehcbras, luuitva. T yivea detivitely the liuk Letween Geueols uud | dist Episcopal Church ot Bloomingtou bezsn Exodus. JoseplW’s bones bridge the dark | prodracted cetivgy by meeting wlter regular chasn we thew. They are wu the | service to . The eetings” will contivue Geavals side toy eud of the begluning, wud o | ludetiolicly 82 long ws futeivat b walataiucd, = WASHINGTON. Rumors Again Thick that Schurz Will Re- sign. His Unoquivocal Denial Seem- ingly Insufficient to . Bilence Them, Voluminous Report of the Schurz Investiga- tion. Severe Comment upon the Ad- mintstration’ of Conumnis- sioner Smith. The President and Cabinet Like= lysto Soon Recognize Diaz. Revival of the Proposition to Seat Cabinet Ollicers in the House, 5 Disappearance of the Ante-Ad- « journment Bravado of the Machine. INTERIOR DEPARTEMNT, WILL BECRETARY BCHURZ LEAVE 1T/ Swectal Dispatch to The Chicagn Tridune. WaBHINGTON, I, C., Jan, 6.—The wild rumor ia again startol that Bccretary Schurz conten- plates retiring from the Cabfuct and taking the Derlin mission. Congressmen who have just returned from theie districts declars this to be fact, and that prominent men from Michigan snd Ohjo are candidates for. Bchurz's place ns Becretary of the Interfor, The story has as Jit- tle foundation as most of the svnsational ru- mors which returning Congressmen will bring to Washington during the next few days. It can be stated upon the best autLority that Schurz bas no intentlon of resigniug; that he conslders thut he has work to perform [n the Interior Department which has only begun; that the President has NO DESIRE TO REMOVE MM, or intentions of doing so; that, It Secrctary Behurz was to retire from the Interlor Depart- mont, bo would be opposed to accepting the Berlin mibsion for pogsonal and volitical reasons. Schurz, recently, in donversatlon with a gentic- man occupylng a diplomatic position, is repre- mented to have stated that, i he had ever had an opportunity to o abroad, there could be only two misstons which ho could conskder. Those were London aud Parls, and both theso inisstons aro now permancntly flled for tho life of this Administration. AS YOI BERLIN, the King azatnst whom Curl Schurz was a rebel and n revolutionist is still on the throne, and Mr, Schurz says that hia appreciation of that fact, and, above all, the unpleasant attitude in which tho circumstance might pince both him and the country he would reproaent, would de- ter him from decepting the Berlin' mission if that should ever be tendered him. THE INDIAN INVESTIGATION. The report of the Schurz-Indian (uvestizating Comumittee is fnlshed. The Board hua been fn- vestiguting nearly cignt months, and has taken some 20,000 pages of munuscrint testhneny, ‘The Investigation hus embraced every branch of tha service In Washington and throughout the country, This report s very ‘severs upon the adminfstration of Tudian-Commissloner Smith, and reflects upon Chief Clerk tialpin, Numer- ous instances of maladministration ars clted. Among them ure cuses in nearly every Indian Superintendency. It 1s_sahl thal tho agents of the Investigation havo been dogzed at every step, and in wouy Instances witncsses havs been rruvcnu:(l from testifylug. Ono baud in Knnsas s suld to uve been brokea up in consequence of thia Investigntion. ‘Chere Ia SCARCELY A BRANCH b¥ TUN SERVICH in which some irreguluritics huve not been dls- covered, There are mo charges tade ugainst with tho Government, n numerous intimations mako an uxposure of members In both brunches of Congress, and that the ramfrications of the Indlan Riug would bo tracked fnto hign pluces, In conscquence of this investigativn, Sceretury Schurz, on Satur- duy, addressed a letter to 8, A, Galpln, late Clilef Clork of the fndian Burosy, Informing Liin thav his services are no lonver needed. IN THIS LETTRI Becretary Bchurz suys thut theeloard of Inquiry uppaintéd Jung 7 Jast to investigate the charges mndo agalnst Gulpin by Wollf aud othcrs, has subuntted §ts report, aid has falled to lind most { Lo choriges uwalnat Gulpin sustoined, but the charge of unjust amd liuproper treate t ol a subordinate ls wustained, Becretary Behurz, moreover, chargos Galptn with derelle- tion of duty, In that he neglected to Inform the Secretary ut the Interior of frregularities ot the Pawnes Agency, In this conucetion, Boeretary Behurz sugs: Dishonest practices In the Indian Service fare among the greatest nud most dunycrous evils wo have to contend with, Tne most vigiant snd re lentleas provecutionof corrnpt men connected with tho service elther nu Agents und cantracturs s one of the very trat und imperative dutics of this De- partment, and that only in rure Inetances 18 it pogs sible to trace such pructices to the guilty partios, THR BECRETANY ASSEHTS that, as spon as the knowledio ot those papers camu to the Dopartment, un tudictment of the rrllen implicated could without ditliculty have een provured. The Sccrotary: declures that Galpln's only excuse was that o lucked them fn Lis desk’ sud forgot them. Mr Galpin's answer to this charge Is that delay in ncting on the papers touching the frregularitics at the Pawupee Agency wua caused by the bellef that secreey was essential to any proper action upon them, snd that they were cruwded out of signt by the pressure of current work of the aflice. Mr. Galpin further denles that he had sy futer- est, at ony thne, Inony of thess niatters, or uny desire to shicld wny zullty parties. Mr. tinlotn slso states that most of the trregularitios con. plained of oveurred bufore ho becaine connegted with the 1ndian Department, Tho report of the nvestization does not coutuin the defenss mads by Mr, Gulpln before the Comumission as to the Fawnee [ndisn watter UALPIN'S 8TORY, which s very atrujgutforward, s to the eflect that these chinrzes wero received at a tiwe when the bida for the Indisn supplies wers coming fu,und ali contructs had to be made, The Com- mlssioner was {1} or sbsent, and double duty de- votved upon Galpin. ‘Thinking the papers did not roquire {mmediato attentlon, or, at least, they were not 0 hnportant as peuding dutles, - both -~ of the Commissioners and chief clerk, tney were placed In m desk, 80 that they inight not be nade public and the prosecution be defeated by ublicity, until the matter vould be resched. fcauwhilo the grest work conneeted with tho annual coutracts for supplies wentou, Ina few days aficr that TUE UNBUSTAINED WOLPF CHAROES were made, upon which Galpin was suspended aud his desk, in which the Fawneacharges were, was Jocked und taken fn custody by the Depart- ment. Galpin uever thought of the papers un. til threa or four weoks afterwards, wheu he went, sccured, and delivered them to the Com- wlssioner. This s the other side of the story, which does not sppear in the letter of dis- missal. —_— REPUDIATIVE TAXATION. A VEKT IMPORTANT CASE BEPOKE THE SUPRENE COUNT. , Wasuinartoy, D. ¢, Jao. 8.—The United States Bupreme Court will resume its seasion to-morruw, pursuant to the holiday adjourn. ment, ‘The Credit fobiller casp will bo argued beforu the full Bench st somo early dute. The Court, tn view of the great fmportauce of the Charleston City tax cases, and tho fact that the Bench was not full when they were argued about & month sgu, bas ordered them to bo re- argucd early next month. The question brougnt before the Court by these cases is whether a city ur other munleipal corporation, uuder a Btate Jaw, van {pods » 14X upon its own oblige- tious fu the handsof uon-sesidents. The City of Charleston levied # tax of 3 pes cent upon its 8 per cent stock, and directed it Treasurer Lo withbivld Wy wwount of the bax frow fulesvat due. Mensrs., Murray and Jenkins, one a reaf- dent of Germany and the other of Maryland, Brought suit in the State Courts to reenver the amounts thus withheld from thewm, and & ma- Jority of TIK AOUTI CAROLINA SUTREME COURT sustalned the valldity of the clt; etlon. This decision was appealed to the Suprems Court, on the ground that the law imposing such taxation was an act fpairing theobllgationof acontract, and, therefore, a violatlon of tho Federal Con- stituti The cases sttract great attention in financial circles, as it 18 porcelved that an ac- kuowledgiment by the Supreme Court of the power thus elaimed to treat municipal debta e to non-residents as property liable to loeal taxation may lead fn many listances to thelr belng taxed out of extstence, or, in other words, 1o repudiation under thedform of tazation. Tnn somewhat similar case, nninely, that of the Cleveland & Ashtabula Ratiroud Company 8. the 8tata of Pennsylvanis, tive of nine nem- bers of the Supreme Court held that the State vould not tax non-resident holders of rallrond Bonds, hut the result of the pending cases {s cousidered extremely doubtful. NOTES AND NEWS. DIAZ Snectal Disvateh to The Chicago Tridune, WasiNatoy, D. C,, Jan. 6.~The Impression n chplomatic cireles s that ‘the President and Iia Cabinet wilt soon, possibly this week, decide the question of the reconition of the Dinz Goy- crmnent, and that the decision will be favorable 1o Diaz. TIOUSE RULES, Speaker Randall has called o meetlng of the House Committce on Rules, of which he fs Chuirinan, for Wednesday next. It Is expected that the Committco will make o radical change in the preseut rules, which aro considered much tou elaburate and cumbersome. AN INNOVATION. 1t {s stated that there is a dlsposition in some quarters to revive the proposition, liest made by ticorge I, Pendleton whena member of Cou- gress, to glve Cabinot oflicers a sest an the floor of the flouse, and allow them to participate in dcbates, The slatement Is tnado to-day that tho President favors the Idea, but this s proba- bly not so. When r. Pendleton Introdied his bill, {t was In the widdle of the War, and tha bill was rejected Ly the Republicans without conslderation of its wmnerits. “The opposition then was Ubnsed on: the assumption that. {1 the Cabiuet officers then had places upon the floor, they would be compelled to face many embarrassing questions about the conduct of the war. Severul members of both Houses aro of the opiniun that such an innovation Is not adavted to our form of government, and {s only nidmissible In countries where thers 8 a respou- sible Ministry, LIBERTY DF SIEECH. The Tresiucnt certainly haa reformed the Civil Servico to the extent that he allows the rotention of clerks in office who opposo both him and his policy. There are so many em- ployes of the different departinenta who pub- ‘lclv denounce the Prestdent and his Bouthern poliey, and suppiement their talk with profane denunciation of tho Southern people, as to ex- clto considerablo attention. CUANDLEN'S LETTER, Al newspaper offives have recelved IAIIEFU of Mr. Chamller's letter in pamphlct form, Ten thousand coples have been printed os o first cdition. Of theee, 1,000 have been sent to Lhe newspapers of the cuumr(y as a work of ready referonce. ‘Uhero s no tftle page, but on tho cover is printed, * Can Such Th‘ngu Ba and Overcome Us Like a Summer Clond Without Our Bpecelgl Wonder1” and an the firat page is an extract from Evarts' pleaforthe Republicans of Lousiana before tho Elcctoral Commission. MINISTER TO VENZZUKLA. The Venczuela Government huving retracted Its request thut the on, Thomas Russcli, Min- Ister-reaident of the United States ot Cnraceas, be recalled, tho President bas dirccted him to return to his post. 1le will leave, sccompanied by his daughter, on or about the 20th inst., vin Bavannah, Nassau, and Havana, 1t s very rratifying to Judire Russcll’s numerous friends ereafiouts that he has not been mado the vie- titn of the Indiscrect publication of s portlon of one of hisofllcial dispatclies, A slmilar bluny der was made by tho Department of Stale a years ago, it will be remembered, by tlie_pubtication of & confidential pogo of & d{spnwh of Grorge P'. Marsh, Minister to Italy, but that also was mmmcznrlly oxplained, GEN, SUERMAN has returned frow his hollday trip to St, Louls, He §s sald to npprove of the reduction of the Stafl and Burcau officers of the aruy. GOV, BWAN has purchased the Van Ness House, southwest of tho White liouse, with the surrounding five acres of Tand, for a depot for the Haltlmore & Oblo Ratlroad, fu the place of that near the Capitol. TI® PARIS KXPOSITION. It I8 certaln that a great many people will be disappoluted at the srrangenments made for the Turis Exposition. The Commissioner-Ucneral has decided to make uo allotments of space un- til after all opplications for space have been flled, Already there are twlco—somo eay three times—us many applications as there ls space., Af the Commissioner of Agriculture Is allowed: 00,000 of the appropriation, ho intends to have the lending ‘products of this country represented n overy atagy of their growth and mapufacture. Cotton will e exhibited in tho sced and in every process un- il it 18 haled. Tobacco, Ukewise, will bo traced from the sced into all forms of manutacture. Tho samo will ba true of corn and wheat. The Cubinet will probably determine esrly uoxt week huw much monuy shall be allotted to ng- gricultural purposes, Tl ‘glll )!AICHINI. 1zed 1 iore are no signs of any organized o al- tion to the “Administration among Roy nnmnn Heuatars, Thefuw whohuvereturned disclalmany such Intention, and the only sign of a contlu- ance of the embittered fght s i the netivity of the promoters of the Chundler letter, Scnator Cuugllns: does not intlinate what his course will be, sud, in referrhnz to tha Mexican investl- wating Commuitive, 18 very guarded in hisex- Dressions. . EADI of Bt, Louls, wlll arrivo i'cm to-morrow o re- celve his second #500,000, the report of the en- wineer ofticers sent tu the Becretary of War be- fug tavorable to his work, ———— THE WEATHER. Orrics or Tum Ciusr Hiaxan Orriosg, Wasuinaton, I, 0., Jan. 71 a. m.—For Ten- uesseo and the Ohlo Valley and lake regions colder nortiwest back to slightly warner south- weat winds, clear or partly cloudy weather, ris- 1ug, fotlowed by stationary or fuilng, barometer, LOUAL OBIEKYATIONN. Cuioago, Jan, 6. Vel,) AR, Neather TDar, Thr lw; WPind W, c a7 a10 12 | i 1| 0 2% N “:'l‘;l i 1 ju.023] 8 3 AT = . Cuioaag, J Fialions,__(Bur, Ar, Peuibina, sinmare 1o brockis . AT :luqu-lu - scun Midateht, Kuin Weaiher, *Below zero. SUDDEN DEATH. Bpecial Disputch o The Chicago Tridune. BrRINGrIELD, JI1., Jau. 6.—Jacob Ball, an old citizeu of this county, died to-day ot couvul- slons while fn custdy for contempt of court. He had been somewhat deranged for some months, snd, while arraizued before & Magls- trate fur yonte mnbsdewcauar Baturday, 80 cOu~ ducted bimyelf that the Justice, nyt swaro of the vulprit’s couditign, committed biw for con- tempt. . 87, Louts, Jun. 8.—A man nug,nwd to have becu Bamuel P, Reyuolds, of Plausylily, bid., {rom letters found ou hus person, died very sud- denly at the Relay depot in_Fast 8t. Louls yes- teraay. fle had been to Wuyno County, Mis- to]:.rl, louking st land, aud cowplained of being ek NEW MINES. BaX Fuancisco, Jau. &—Advices from the Cariboo minlug distriét in British Columbia con- tioue of the n:ost favorable pature. New quarty lodus are being dally struck, sud the rock s of siogularly umlorm character. Buildivg In Vie- torls bas been Prujmcd aug slready commoneed oD ao upusual Jurze scale. A mumber of wmiu- fug companles have beew lucorcoruted o this Gy Lo wperaty i Casibuve RAILROAD! Interesting Sketch of the First Railway Built in lil- inois. The Old *“Strap Rall” Detween Springficld and Mere- . dosin. An Important Movement in Connec* tion with the Chesapeake & Ohio. A Sensible Arrangement ‘on the Philadelphia & Reading. ILLINOTS! FIRST NOAD Correspondence Quincy WWhtg, Mzreposia, 11, Dec, 20.~Tho (irst rativond bufit m Illinols was not what people would now catl “a big thing: but in thoss days ft was something “not to be sucezed ab.’! It was shullt from this place to Springficld about forty yellra ago, nnd, as the men who took part in that enterprise aro nearly all wone, I avail my- sclt of the opportunity to record some of the recollectfons of two old cltizens nf this place, Mr! David Waldo and Mr. E. Lusk, who lad a hand fu Its construction. p EARLY HAILROADS OF THR COUNTRT. 1t 13 not enouch to say that this lttlo bit of rond was the first over bullt in Ilinols; 1t was the flest built in the Mississippt Valley. The first rond dn the United Btates had been bullt about twelys years bofore, from Albany to Scheneetaty, in tho Btate of New York, and at the time of which I now writs one was in opera- tlon from Baltlmore ta Weshington, and probably one or two more short pleces of road clsewhere, They were merc_sugeestions, how- ever, of the great svstems of roads of to-da; aml it {8 an cusy matter {or the curlous reader, to flwd their location and the date of thelr cans struction by refercoce to any standard cyclo- pedla. ‘The first charter granted for the construction of arallroad in Hiinols was granted to Gov. Joseph Duncan and hls assoclates in 1833 or 1834, Duncan seems to have thought that, as he was n member of Congress, he could com- mand influence snd capital to help on his proj- ccty but when Eastern capltalists were ap- proached on the subject they laughed at tho 1den of bullding a ‘raflrond in a reglon which thoy regurded then ns little better than a wilderness. Thus the enthusioem of the first step was checked, and the broject lagged until the winter of 1845-'0. Ducnan had theu been elected Gov- ernor of the Stale, notwithstunding his disafec- tion towanl Jackson and the Democrats; and in his tirst micssuge he referred in the most glow- ing language to the triumph of the canal-boat and the Jocomotive in **nlmost annihilatin: time, burden, and space® I othicr quarters of the wuuu_}' und wanted to know if the patriot- Losotns of 1Hliuols did not beat high to emulate such eanmples of internal jmprovement, That year the Internal Improvement bill was passed, and tho carlier project ot Duncan's road was abandoned. Under the Improvement bill roads were laia out for every quarter of the State. The map was checkered with them. The blll provided fo. for n Board of Commissloners, and at the first meetlug of that Board 1L was decided to com- mencethe flrst operations in Morgun County, on the ling lnkd out as the Northern Crosa Raitrond, —practieally the lino on which tha Wabash Rond 18 now built,—for tu tho Internsl Iinprovement bill the pointa named for this road were Quincy, Mount -~ Bterling, Meredosla, Jacksonville, Bpringileld, Deceatur, Dauvilie, and thoeuwe to the State line. ‘I'be contract for buflding that part of tho road from Meredosia to Springlicld was et to Thomas T. Janusry, James Dunlap, Miron Leslie, Charles Collins, Tt was surveyed by James Bucklin, nssisted by George W, Plany aind John Van Horn, 'Tho profilo of the work was drawn by a Pole named Edward Melio- melowakl, o noble by birth, who had left Poland- on account of some of the rebellions or per- setutions there, - Jlo was a mag of fina attain- ments and high character, Afttr this survov and loeation, the division of the romd begluning at the Illinofs River at this place and exteuding to Van Uundy's, the flrst station eust of here,— sbout a milo esst of whers Blult City now stands,~was_sub-contracted to’ J. C, & 8, P. Thompson, D. & J. E. Waldo, and Harvey Duncan. = When everything was ready to begin work, it naturally oppearcd thut so fmoortunt an cuter- prise should be inaugurated with somu formal ceremony, ‘The day for beginning arrived lato {n the autumn of 1637, and’the sub-contractors took their wen, accompanied by a large number of cltizens, to the point whence the road was to start, on the bank of the river. .There Mr. J. K, Walde, now living in Now Orleaus, and Dr. Owen M. Long, now Consul st Panati, were chosen speakers for the occasion. The tonst- master of the duy was Bamuul Talmage, a notell charucter of thav perlod. Tho day was given up 1o apeech-making, Jollification, and hilurity; and it would be very Interesting at this distunce if one could report somo of the wonderful orations delivered. Ouo of tho tonsts is dis- tinetly recatled thus: “Our friend, T. T. January—a man with a cold name, but a warm heart.” Mr, January 18 still-living, and Is 0 wholesulo trader In 8t. Louls, Mr. D, Waldo, now the Pustmaster hore, being then the oldest man _as well as tho oldest citizen of the place, 'was deslguated to diy the first spadeful of dirt, ‘e labor he performed was all the work donu on the road that duy. ‘The work of grading weut on all winter, and was finjshed in April, ‘The track waa lnld by putting down a plece of syuare timber called mudsitl, on the topof which eross-ties wero laid. On these o wooden rall was lad and flat burs were spiked on top ot the rail. The burs wero two sl one-half inches wido and one fnch thick, It {s not now distinetly remembercd whether his fron was of forciznor domesticmanufactire, but it was brought by way of New Orlean: 8t. Louls, and thore dulivered from the steamer Vandalis to the steamer Quiney, then run by J. H, snd E, Lusk, between 8t Louls sud this plisee. ‘Uhie first locomotive that ever turned a wheel In the Missiasippl Yalley wus brought here In ploces nnd set_up to operate this carliest 1ll- nols raflroad, It waawmade by Rogers, Grosvenor & Kegehum, of Newark, N. J., aud wus laoded here from the steamer Quiuicy o the uutumn of soon after the fron had been laid an’tho rond. It wasa curious lttle contrivance, and, as compared with the more modern coustrue- tion of locomotives, was a cousummate plece of clumsiness, The driving-wheels were about two and o half feet in dismeter, A misu by the name of Ficlds camo out with the cugine to_ set It up, aud, on the asy he got it ou ite feet, the jollillcation ran so high that he ot ot his, aud had to bu carrledto the hotel for repairs, On tho way hue protested that they wors heaping undeserved - bonor upoa him, and begged to be laid down aond treated as o wan of uo distinction or emine o was the lirst engineer on tho road, and he ran the little engine—which was valled the Rogers— for ubout a month. Afterwards w man by the vams of Higeine run It; but bo meited out sotie of the ttuss, and at Jast got discharged for diseiputiou. Finally, two $ouug men by the nanie of (iregory were put fu charge of {t, an after awhile they succeedod in rutinfug the rine off the track between New Berlln sud turmuflehl. o They secin to have been unable to replace v on the track, for It Jay vut ou the prairie for u car, or 4 year and a bulf, oud was then sold to ien. Samble, who practically bunkrupted hi selt Ju various futile efforts 1o recousiruct it b to sowe sort of road engine fur haullug froight across the country from Alton to Spring- field in compotition with the rallroad. ‘There was aucthier evgine put on the road, but it wcver sct the river on fire. A clil- zen pow liviug st Jacksonville tells how he started from Springtield one day with his horses aud wagon just sa tho thing they calied Wthe train " started, and Le determived to run s race with ft to Jucksonville, e kept abead readily, and whew, about s wmile, from bis destination, it scemed to be aluiug on him, e whipped up a littleand wonthorace. This atory, ol course, 1s to be taken cum yrano sulia for thy Havor uf the Juke. 4 At last inules wera substituted forthe engios, and were used till the rond pussed out of the bauds of the State for the considerution of $100,000 1u-state indebteducss, its origlnal cost tu the State haviug been $1,000000. “Thus the Stato Jearucd, 8t & cost of WO, that it lacked somewhere fn the mutter of capacity for the succeselui conduct of railroad euterprise, The charter of the road was anended fu 1553, aud it then took the nawe of the Lireat Weat- ern. It went into new bands. ‘Trails were lu- troduced, and everytbing relating to the tirst suilroad 1v Ilifuols “Was sirept away by the tide of moderu railruad Improvewents. IMPORTANT lh\lLl!i)Au CONNEC~ TION. Au importsnt rallroad conuection for the Ceutral West and Soutbwest i3 i course of cou- ' e ———— struction toafford an opening to the sea for tha Cliesapenke & Ollo Ratlrond. This new con. nectfon leaves thut road at Hanover Junctlon, twenty-clehit miles west of Richmond, Va., ang strikea the deep water of the York River forty. five miles distant at West Point. The Company Intercated In thia road have constructsd exten. sive wharyes and freight depota ot Wess Point, and have already establistied and had running sinte last summer a lino of iron steamery through the Chesapeako Hay to Raltimore, aiv. Ing direet water communieation for freight with il Enstern porta. A bill is now pending in Congress, which will undonbtedly pass, making West Point aport of entry. 1L s one day'y nearer sail to all foreigu ports than Baltimore, and the iwater approachies +to it are even better, The Yark River carries sufficteny water the year round to mccommodate large «¢lass ocean vesscls, and in that respect Its situa. tion Is moat deafruble. Tt avoida tite difficultics of the James River near and below Richmond, and Is, indeed, equal to a terminus dircctly upon Hampton Itonds. In ano sense it s better for Western frelzht, siuco - ratirond transportadion ends and the cheaper water charzes begla seventy miles from the Capes, which {s the dis. tance from West Point to the outslde sca. The openinz of this road will. bring Cincinnatl, 8t Louts, and Loulsviile n hundred miies nearer the sea than by way of Daltimore. The enter. prisc of openinz this road, and of providing all the facilities for the transfer of treight betweea the East pnd the Central West and Southwest, and also for the loading and forwardin of hine ported goode, is In the hauds of enorietlc men, amd the work in all fts parta is to be vizorously pushed forward, A BENSIBLE ARRANGEMENT. The Railway Age is informed that tho cone ductors of tho I'liladelplila & Reading Raflroad recaive, in addition to thelr regular ealary, 23 cents o day In the stock of the Company for the first yenr's service, 50 cents for the' second, aml % cents for the third and subsequent years. 'This stoclts pald them nt Its quoted value, and there have been fustances of conductors who realized from 83,000 to §5,000 from atock thus acquired, on severing thelr conncction with -the road. The Idea of thus identifying employes with the intcrests of tlie Company is, it _seccms to ws, n most excollent oue, No man, however honest and faithful, works with the real heartincsa and hope—where he Is n(mgly carniog a dally atipend which fs llable to bo' atopped at any time—that aufmate him when he knows that ha {8 to shure directly in the success of the busi. ness—in other words, {8 o partner, and thus Wvorking for himaclf.? \Wa betleve that the cfllelency” of our rallway service would bo greatly promoted by o moregeneral adoption of this co-operntive system. Unfortunately the stock of too many of our companies is ‘not a valuable commodity, but those wiose pay have o market value, no inatter, how low a point it has reached at present, cah’ give thelr deserving men a great incentive Ly paying them a cortain bonus perday or per month stock at tho then ruling rave. ITEMS. The Rallieay Age, published In this city, has had a genuine success, and, although but two years olily may ;falrly be regarded, in point of clreulation as well aa ability, with tho oldestand Lost papers of this class lu the country, The vacancy in the Presidency of the Xalway Aqs Company, created by the death of Mr, Georga 8. Bangs, has just been flled by the election of Mr. E. 1L Tulnott as Prestdent and maunger. It continues to be edited by those veteran Journal- ists, Messra. E. IL Talbott and IL. R. Hobart, to ‘whose indefatigable energy aud ability the Age awes most of {ts success and pro: rl&{. The new management signalizes its advent witha greatly fmproved and “enlarged paper, which must add Immengely tothe popularity it alrendy cenjoys nntony the raflroud nien_In this country, here bnve of late beem geyeral rumors put in cireulation and published fn the papers clreulat- ing In New AlbnnI and along the line of the Tioutsville, New Albany & Chicago Rallway, in reference to o chango In the oflice of Supcrin- tendent, and also that the offlces are to bo re. moved to Lafayette, and the rond abandoned south of Bloomington. From a gentleman who lins been at Lafayetto and mado inquiry juto the matter, the Loulsville Commerciat learns that there will be no change in the oflce of Buoerine tendont of the road unless Mr, Day desires to rgsign, and that tlle offices will rematn as at present. New iron lias been received at Juliot, Hatem water tank, aud other polnts along tle ruad which do not look like this end of tho ruad, s to be abandoned, The Southern Divislon was never fn n belter condition thau it is ot present, New qtiarries of stono have been opened at Bedford aud Bloomington, and come tflulu. made up of l'hlludeth!n. ew York, “hicago, and 8t. Louls capltallats, have been or- finnlzull to operato them, Recently somo very ne monumenial stous was shipped from the Bloomington quarry to Massnchusutts and_Chi- cago. “The bullding-stone slong the Hne of this rood {8 equul toany found in the United States, and tho linmenso conl, lumber, and other busi- ness that can bo controlled mokes the Southern Divislon a very Important lue to operate, The passenger earnings of the St. Louls, Tron Mouutain & Southern for last month wero larger than during aoy previous month in the lstory of tho road, stind showed an Inerease of 47 per ceut over the snino perlud of 1876, They were 28 follow: Deeomber, 1877.. Decenber, 1870 Incrense..... ... . vo sve soy 25,700 ; The report recently clreulated that Charles Btir, General " Buperintendent of tho Great Westertn Railivay, was to vocate his position s authoritively pronounced a blir stiff. BANKRUPTCY. To the Editor of The Tribune, Citcano, Jan. b.—In the artielo in this morn- ing's Lrivung on * Bankrupteyld Lam dono 8 great Injustice us well us injury, In speaking of those estates that oceasionally pan out from B0 to 75 ver cent, it says fu theso cpave it 18 generally found that the Insolvent has endeave ored to beat the creditors by forelng upon them o settlement ot 8 small per ceut, and cltes ono H, 8, Frceman, 8 boot aud shoo dealer, us belonglug to this class of 1nsolvents, and says [ endeavored to make o settlement with my o ftora for 25 cents, and that the offer wus judi uantly refused, aud that,scared at my temerity, 1 doublod my bid, which offer was afso refused. ‘Iuere fs o wisstatement here, My offer was 83 cents, sand (lually 60 cents, ‘The offer of 85 cents was mads agafuet wy own convictious and feelings, and fn consequence of the advive of my luwyer, Mr. D, B, Lyman. I opposed all the time mak- ing au offer of less than 50 centd, because thought 1 could do that and get through, but uy lawyer argued that with the gloomny out lovk of business for the comivg year, and wy having a long leaso ot ahigh figureon iy lmnlol thiat ho did not think I could get through {f offercd moro than 25 or 80 cents. [ at last ylelded sud consented (o hava the offer made at 55 cents, and when I made the second provosts tiun of 60 conts 1pulyacted on my first coue victions, My tntedtion ull the tlne was to pay i1 full ut the earlivst dute possiblo after making asettleent, aud this wus one great ressou that mudu e tinally consent to mako the oller of 85 cents, us 1 thought §t would put me 0 shupe sv [ could almost be{am.\ peradventuro work the business succesafully, and thereby cu: able wo enoner and more surely o pay (o Qull, 1 could havoulfocted a suttlement at 0 cents bad 1t uot Loen tor one of wy creditors who wished 1o get my sture and buslivss of ten years' stuud- fug in_onder that bo mizht vpen & retall atore there bimself, for 1 bad the consent of nearly all my creditors to such @ scttlement, but was balked by thls ony, who managed fo buy up envughottheclalngwhich, togsther withhisown gave him cuntrol in the matter. 1 mentiou this merely to show that wy creditors bellevea inme and did_noet think 1 was cudeavoring to beat them. The party who balked me in my sctile ment did open In my old stund, and hus slue falled. 1 regrot to take up so wuch of yuur spuce, but I'ean bardly sct the matter in the rfl:m light tu fewer words, To me my character {s worth more than all the money f could make by a premeditated faflure. 1 can bear the loss of my secumulations of ten years, but to hare my character dtrehed 10 the way it is in that urtlcle, s the ubkindest cut of ‘all. Hespets tully, 8. FREEMAN. MORTUARY, Joicial Dispaich (o The CAon20 Tridyna, East 83aiNAw, Mich., Jau, 6.—Willlam Bud- dlngton, one of the plonecrs of Tascols Counts and for many years proprietorol the hotel b Vatsouvilly, was burled yesterday. Decessed was well known ju thls section of the State. He ‘was 40 yeurs of age. —————— COTTON. NoxroLx, Va., Jan. 6.—Four vessels cleared to-day for Livervool loaded with cotton amount fug to 25,000 bales, valued at §1,500,000, 190 largest shipment ever made in oue day from auy Soutbiern port. The ship Baring Brotbetk Capt. Thorudyke, takea out 7,800 bulcs, b4 Jurgees canzy ever shipped from this pori ue 33/ otlier Soutiern Yurk