Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1878, Page 12

CHICAGO TRIBUNE SATURDAY, J DOUBTED DOGMAS. / Dr. Thomas, of Centenary Church, Repudiates the Hell of the Fathers. He Also Denounces the Doctrines of Elcction and Repro- batfon, The Absolnte Infallibility of the Bible Not Demanded by the Book Itgelf. Views of Heveral Correspondents-es Prof. Bwing Taken to Task. Wonderful Silence of the Old Testament on Endless Punishment. Future Penalties, Eternal Death, and Everlasting Misory. DOUBT AND DOGMA. Last Bunday ovening the Rev. ur. Thoinas, Yastor of the Centenary M. E. Church, preached toalarge congregation, taking for his theme, ¢ Modera Doubt nnd Religious Dogmntism," The scrmon was based on the following passaga lrom James, |2 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Fathier {a this: To viell the fatherless and the sidows in thelr aietion, and to kuop himecll an- rpotted from tho world. The reverend speaker began his discourse by remarkingthat it was a matter of great dififculty to thoroughly realizo the great facts in Listory orsclence. 1t is one thing to simply go over the words in which these tacts aro told, and it is_quite another to grasp the licas so as to give a full meaning to tho force of the wonls, It {8 1n the study of Bible truths that this great AiN- culty is always manifest. This may be duo to the fact that the first religious fmpreselons are + recefved in childhood, which nssoelates with :hem n degree of the marvelous, amd ft is in this \ght that we continuc to read thein as we grow alder, . ‘Fhe critieal seneo Is now beainniog to read ihe crossing of the Red Sca, tha destruction of 1odom, and the rasing of the dead in the same way as It does tho statements In Josephus, Rol'In, or Macaulay. This critical scnso asks, What is total depravity, what {s atoncment, what fs meant by the infallibility of the Biblel (s there a hiell filled-with burning fire and brim- stonel Are the sinners to bo punished eter- lly! There 18 no power that can stay these nquiries, Onco tbe Church could deter, but -bint duy is past, 11 {8 uscless to fanore the fact that tho age is ookine rquarely in the face the whole question of relizion: and it 1s alao uscless Lo deny that cre 18 o wlleapread doubt ns to the authority wnd reliabitity of reliions teachings, Dr. Thomas nest reviewed bt detm) the varl- ua doubts and unrests which are agitating the blle mind. On those touching the questions of eternal punishment and the fiteral truth of the Bible, hie spuke as follows: A dreamy age, o an ago of crucl despotism, might teeept such o dogma, even in its inowt horridle ‘oimn. Bt ours i an oge or realization, Men Awgh thelr worda—fix a meaning {o them, The wwiul pietires of hell in the past azes rise up bo- e the propuetiegenlization of minds in our da; 1 thoy ece tuls meantni,—the terrible fact net orth, —and they are not afeafd to ask If suchn 1 an be truv, Before the Reformnation, even ul way from Orleen, thero was same latituds alloned i thinking of this fearful subject, Dut the docteine of a gurgalnr.v had been abused I)fl Romanism: this abusa must bo stopoed; and wit e terriile blow Proteatantism stenek down all pravers for the dead, and nll possibility and hove or uny help or meeey’ ever reaching A koul boyond shis fife. The Wistory of human thonght records nat another step 80 bold and fare-reaching, It would o fn the heatl of a geeat controversy, and moench daya misat boo accepted; but | any pitto-oplwr or stident of huwan thought might casily foresce that thore must cume « reietion, U take nnother doctrine: the doctrine ot clection sud_reprobatian, tnat merellessly con. w1z yunembered millons of huuian belngd to s} e pring of etesnnl hell without anwpossibllity of ercape. Thle, too, wus_ born out of controversy, 10 each times mizht b zceopted; but thers nust come un afterthought—a reaction. Men will arenpunlask 1f the Lible. teaches such things Andif toll that ft does, v el ihingadn tue Disle, [ tuld that Gud but «eia there, thoy will ask, Who {8 Qul, that he honlu do or way suchawful thinge? And resscil, hey will deny both God and the lhll{:'. The seliztons sentitent {s very tender and deep in the auman mice, ond Itwlll ‘ro a great way with the truthe that scem to lead along the puths of relizion: hat thero s snch a thing ax asking mit nad lieart to gotoo far; and then they 1 rebel, Men must not bu asked 1 the nang of 50 holy a sentiment as roligion to give up runson, nud good senee, ond cvery feoling of Sus- ave,and 13 itx down ang b -{vu spon nndlrxm}vlcd in the dirt. They won't do if, and I am clad of Ir, “itheuot stranga that wmany of the hest minds i Europe nnd Anterica are protesting, and protost- ing in tho name of all that Is sacred hud dearin tue thoatht of God and retigion, against suchovers statemente, Men are ready 1o confess that God 1y, 1ndl siould be, soverelens but they must not bo skud Lo believe tuat He fs an unfecling tyrant, and still toid to love 1iin and culi Uin God. They won't dolt. They cun’tdlo it They ought not to tey to du it. Meu are ready to belleve tn puniahment for #in here and hereafier, ey feel it, they know it, ~bat they aru not wililng to believe in all the tore tible fdeas of Danto and Milton: ideas that wero suselnle only 1n o rold, darc age, und that rob the aniverse of God and all senso of Justive or right. And I'am glad of that, tou; they wonld ba woree, ind not better, for viog sich things, Ur, tako auother subject: "take the Hible Men want to believo In the Mible, Tts nssuclutions are wacred. 1t4 themes are ennobling. 1ts truths do hem good, Ihey luve tt. Liut when they are s»ked 10 belleve afl that has been tauzht sbout the Jiblo,—that uvery word, just as we heur it, spired direetly rom the Lord, and that aords arc absolutely Infalliole, —thele critleal sense tinca up and eaye, We can't do 1L They are willing s g 1 tho W Ry, cau easlly belleve ws our look of Die- sipline vays, that the Ilnl{ Beriptul ontain the Mord of God, Lot Protestantism needed an Infa)- ihte itible 1o put agalnet an dnfallivle Pope, Gre: avarca had crept Inio the Churel througi the eing 11on of traditlon, uud the reforinurs alin well to o. alt the Lilbic a4 the ono rulo of murality aud faith; nnd we do well to hole it 1n that saered dlace; but, then, that de enough, and wo wehoutd not attomit o ciaim for ‘the Bible what it doos not clafra for flself. Therw fs such o thing ud overdoing in rellgions mattere, a8 weli as unders doing. There 1s such a thing as asking men to believe too much as well ne too lttle, And thero are thuee who do believe too niuch, just as surely nu there are thure w ho do 5ot bellove onoun, Now. It 4 not the parposs of this discourse-I fluk 1 aim modest coungh to confens myself i +apable of such a task—10 show Just whers the v aet truth of 3l these mattees in” donbt und contro- versy fs 10 by Jouus lem wpsuking of thom os facte of vur thnes; aud wish to pultt out what +eOIng 10 ik tu Lo our cuty, or the best thing for ihe churehes soda, It fe useleys, as I have sald, wiry to conc epread und prowlng unbeliel of our times. Wo cannot, aud if wo could we ouzhit not, sttempt (o reprees dnquiry, Truin be strong b tteclf, and atrongest whan bronght futo the clearest Hght; ann whatever needs lus sheller audg clusk of larkuves sud lgnorance Js unworthy the name of religion, sud - must fal Lefore the fu- clligence of the uiuetecnth century, Nor # abytling catoed by catling men wnddels, or any ther hard uames. Siuch words have long siuce teased o bu o terror; noone {a scared by then, What tuInk wo should do i ‘this: We should Just uak what {6 Lhe naturo und extent of ull thls uoubting, sud bow fur 1t sfccts tho real apirit and Nfeol u pure rellgion. Nui Low It a duwmna of this or that church, but how i chatacter aud 2 true relizlone dife. Pure religton, e revn {1 our Loxt and s (auzht vy Jesud Cirt i tue twenty-fifh of Mutibew und “the 8flecnth of dotn, s u hle, = Umul::l a diviow within, coming vut In Jove sud ulueas Lo our lrnuw-nemf such a hifs Tets upon u very Tew and shinple belicls, or truthe; und these wmankind are generaliy quite ready o aceapt witlie wut baving thew forced “dowu ey throats, ‘Ihe vauvaen ure reudy 1o believe 1 God, unid fu Chels tinn lands t Lelleve indetis Chriat, sud to inlicve 0 the Bible, snd isa good life, aud that Justics ol ha guns o all hercatier, Eot tus rches not beew content tavse eunplo balefs that Jle at the Lot tom of a good life. 1tis not cnvugh to belleve in ud,nud that He (s 8 rowarder of all that seok Himg 4 thoussnd Luuge ore bruuzul furward abous God, and siany of tuewd not uul( unintellizible but un. :casunable, aud wu are cafled upou to belleve all theae. . Jtta not envuith 1o pelicve Jeaus Chrlat, Lutatboueand thinge are brougbt forwurd wbout cets Clrist, Muduwbat (06 sloucu.cnt, aud many o! theae 1hings sre nut ouly vagus and’ conllictiug Lt o waey loinds mml‘v repuguant bo taeir bigh. Lot veune of juetice und rlgbt, and we are svked” to belleve all these. It is uut wnouzh tu believe fn ke Bible, Lot here uloo you aro asked W Lolieve 3any things avout the Hible, ouy wany of thess sotical wad caunut accept. It 1a not enough l belove 1w future sufering for wm: you aiast beliove all tlat ls gut whout bell; very wuch uf whick I Lo wost winds wholly unthink- <ule. Now, wby nut fet wil wen . cowe fo iod, BuG L2 Jesis Chrnt, sud to 1he Bible, sud o b wuch iruth as they cag, and get such belp Lo i wod Life as (ucy cun, sud Lot ilder thew witly 2 by Wansa alout Lod sudChrist sud the Bible, Jithey reat i tiese great fucts end roach a yood 1w fa uubluis cuougal § yersly bellore 0f Laif it wpathy and liap- have the preachers in the Jand were to leave thelr pul- pita and go to wotk for the American Bible Foclety thero would be far Jess infldelity in tventy years than there will bo an things are now going, ~ But yonsay: \What will then became of our churches, onr sccta? Our chiorches! Ah! there's tho rub. Not Jeana Christ, but owr charch, aml our pet creed, Toor thing. What a pity if It should diel Save your creed, whether yon rave sinners or not. Ineiat on & thousand definitions ahont Ged, and serns Christ, and the Trinity, and the Bible, and futare punishment; save theen definftionn: save yonr creed, —hring it ont of the cold wind likea rhivering little lnmb In March, and wrap it op ten- derly In a warm blanket, and pour down a little warin milz—save these things if yon drive the wholo sensiblo world to infidelity in doing It Now I sa; that the nnbellef of onr time e not half so mnc! ngainst the great traths of religion as azalnet the man-made dogmas about !cllzh‘w And what the churchea ahonld do s to exalt religlon ftaclf, and call the people to Ite Joy. and heauty, and work, —call them nwu{ from #in to rignteonsness, What difference doea It make whether a man elieves In an_cndlesa hell or not, If hie bo a good man? If he love the Bermon on the Monnt, and whi live by it; Af ho bellcve the liwelfth chapter of itomans or the thirteenth of Corinthiau, and livo by them; 'Il‘)- pose he don't bolicve that the world was made in alx days or that Jonali was swatiowed by tho whale! What of 1t? What hins that todo witha goul life? Let htm helicve what he can, —that In, wwhat he fhinks true. Bo long as mankind aro drawn to the life and experiences of retlelon, wo necd not worey ahout thelr bellefas butif they fail of these, ali ‘their ine-spun arthodoxy will bo of very llitlc valne tothemselves or to others, Anather thing. 1 think the churches shonld hasten to confess that we arc all finite—just begin- ning—and that all these questiong thai relate to ll:zfnml the future are too great for onr full com- prehensions that, In fact, after all our huasted knowledge, we r(‘n“{ know very iitle abont them ., Let us confesn that it ia not necesenry for the pur- poses of o good 1ife that we should” know every- lhlnx. ‘Then let as have vur achiools of theology, and our creeds and definitions If we choosn, and onr churches, ana anr apecnlations aboit al) these points: but let us get over the folly of qunrreling about them, and refusing (o fellowship with those who differ (rom us, Lot us he done with the lllll( andeven wickedncss of makinz aduoriway out of afl onr delinitions and dogmas through which souls musLpass to reach the ever-present Lord God. Let 1A put away one narrowness and prejudice and bo Dbrothers n a common love and_a comnion cause, Let thero bo a broader peraonal liberty of opfuion. Let It not bo thonght a crime for & man to hold and cxpress un honest conviction. Let there be a frank, open honesty in the puiplt, Lot all unite in the active dutles of doing goud. Let us think more of coniluct and less of creed, — and there ara few no skeptical as 0 oven question the truttand beswty of such a rellgivn, Lyverlly balicve that thousands in this ciry would gladl come nto the churches could they como with thelr honest convictions, and not ba arked to belleve what they cannot beliove, nor ba blamed for doe el llerlug what they honestly think ia true, thelr honest doubts are not in the way of beartand 5 good lite. iteliglon Is an apl the raul to God, and an_outguiug of the heart in deeds of kindness to men: And a bellef in hell or in some enccial erced or theory of Inspiration ia not cesential ta anch a Iife, 1t I8 wicked to any longerstand up and teach that the only way to Heaven ia by a Romish maes, or a Haptist immer- siun, or o Methodist class-mocting, or the Preaby- terlan Qvo points, They have all done good in their way, Men mu{bfinwd in all of them, or may get to Ticaven wishout any of them. The loro f God In broader than the narrowness of men, and the 1ioly Bplrit finds tho open dour of all willing and wailing souls. The pure In_ heart, of what. ever name ur natlon, shall see Gad. FUTURE DIUNISHIMENT. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cnicago. Jan. 10.—~I have been an Interested reader of the varlous articles lately published In your paper {u regard to the existence or nou- existence of Hell, nnd, although I differ from the views ns set forth, vet 1 thank God for the commotion that {s started in the minds of many relative to the punishment due to sin. When s building s being razed, I order to ereet anoth- ery there I8 necessarily a great deal of dust, nnd thoso cugaged {n the work, or living in prostmnl- 1y to it. find much that Is unpleasant, but when the rubbleh 1s cleared away and o new and stately edifize oceuples the ground, no one re- rets the departure of tho old unsightly butld- ing. The doctrine ot “Eternal Torture,” which has for #o long o time maligned the character of u merclful and just God, und hidden from view the pricelcss gift of His love, I8 cvidently be- ginnlug to tetter, and many are beglnnlng to *'sco men ns trees walking,” Well, betterthat® than not tosco at all. Sowe of us can remember when the most cultivated of the clergy used to Klve full sway tothelr fertilo linaginations inde- scriblag theagounles of tho lost ; but forsome time past achango hes been wrought, and we find tho majority of them occupsing practically the positlon of a superfine minlsterin England,who, after o polished discourse, expressed the hope thint his hearers “would rive carnest leed to tho words tie had spoken, test oeradventuro they might find themeelves at laat in that place too awful to mentfon {u this respeetable assembly,’? Uut who was reproved by o plaln, unleltered, but round-minded Welah prencher, who thought ** that 1f they wore not too respectable to go there they wero nat too rospectablo too know whero thoy were golag." It scems to me, however, that there ia a tendency on the part of those who now deny **eternal misery " as the puntshment of sin ta co to tho othor extromo and Ignore futare pon- iwhwment altogether, Now, we innet uot foriot that teatn, 1ike tho equator. lics 1n the maldio; and becnuse wo have discovered wo nuve been at ane exirome, let us bewaro leat we be found oecupying the other. James W. Dariow, M X College, Dubiin, in his work * and Etemal Death, " romarka: **In nsser #trong and copfous evldgice for eternal puni nent threo totally diltersat fileas aro systematically cons founded tozether. Thess theee are the ldens of Futore Parishwent, Eternal Death, and Eternal shoent™ (by which hn means eternal auffer- and then goes on to 9ay: '+ Wo suo, theres 0, that {n discassini the Scriptural eyidenco for eternal punisfiment, it 1x w matter of vital hnlmr- tanca 10 discriminuto rteadily hetween theeo threa iieaw, and to te perpetually on our gusrd never to alloy o pasvuge whicti speaks only of tho futura pini<hnient of the wicked, or only of tielr evers asting destruction, 10 bw pressed wean argument for thotr etornal punishment (miscry), Tarougl neglect of thin cuution the Impugners of the Jast dogma have allowe:d themeelved to be placed in ap- parent untaguntem witt the pla. teacbios of the tible, Lhun givinz Its defondurs an Incalculable nd- vankies to which, in truth, they have not the alichtest title, Tlhic first sej uenslly taken on the ide of the defenwe I to chargo the asailant with holdiug the doctrine of a Universat Restorstion, ‘Fhis charia bolng once adinitted, the uriillory of Scriptore {0 brought Into play with tremende ouw effect; aud av long an ia supremo authority '1a admitted, © the cuiamplon of “the “comuonly receved doctrine can canly drive ils wssniiant discomited from tho fleld, For tho scrintural ovidosice, not ouly for future panlsh- ment but ulso for eloryal death, (s fudeed co- plous aud pumirtakable. "Vhe believer do_the e #ptration uf tho Bible, who denles oither of Liuse, wuat therefure bo prepared to meet s forinidablo urray of texiv, aud to adopt such principles of i teruretation as wonld exteact all meanuns from the Word of ¢od Andl not only s he In dircet opposi- 1lun to ltevelation, but the dictates of the wors) fuculty give him 1o supnurt, **Eternal death, nlike eternal punishment (mis- ery), dors not whock the couselence, No etlifeal u bio diaturbed by the proposition that Ile lite may, at Uis own good will ant 0, Fevoko bld gIE L L L S Phgwens *ihou shalt nurcly dle," may, T grant, mean ernaly but to e Cdedth’ anid S endiess i torm=nt * are iwa distinet conceptions; und 1cannot wdmit the grdertion of the one, a1 the doom of the whiner, 10 by equivalent (o the asser- tan of the othur.’* Agalu, the Jate’ Archbisbop Whately, in hils **Lectures on the Fature State, speaking of the destiny of tho the muzodly, vaye: *4 What that dvom will be,—whether the terms in whlch it I+ commonty wpoken af In Scrlptare, deatl,” tdestraction.’ ¢ perishing, ete., are to be understood, Bucatively, s denoting immortal Jifu fu & atate Of misery, or, wore Iy notiay 4 tnal extinction of exlstunce, & diiferent ou, It is certain that *life,” *eted e, 'humuvullt].' ol als ways'appiled 10 tia condition of thodo, aga of thise ouly, wha shull ut (ko lust day be approved os ‘good and faitbful scrvants,’ who are (o enter fnto the joy of thelr Lord™ In referring o the oft” made remurk that life lpilueas, while Joatl fipltee n implies sama of itaelf 11 wo, indeed, it vprak of *n happy and a contradiction to speak of & *miserable ife, which we know is not th caee, sceordiug to $lu ussgo of any language, In o\t nges and coun- tries * life,* and the words snawerlug o it In uther innganges, have always been applied, in ordinary distourse, 1o 8 wretched $ifu 1o fev properiy than ton hapuy onu.s' God veant thal tbe day may soon duwn when JHe children, throuxh fulth in Christ Jeuus, tiay hurl buck the hie of the durll, ** thoy stialt not surely die,” sud proclaim Jesas, (Lo riet, tho Bou of the Iviuz (lul, : viver of everiastiug Lifo * 1o all who ueli Ay Zos. PROF, S8WING'S SERMON, To tha Editor of The Tridbuna. Repxer, Iud,, Jau, 0.—~1 bave very carclully read Vrof, Swing's sermon us reported lu Tux TRIBUNE of the Tth fost. - And 1 must say that £ was yery much surprised at s kind of theole ozy, 1t seems to we thut he, like & great many otler cmiuent wen in our day, are resdy and willlog to take up snd grasp and preach those pew-faugled aud unscriptural doctrines, just Jke those who opposed Clirlst when Ho was in bumun lorm upon carth. Christ wie opposed In i11s teaching, ot so much by the Jower class us foe was by the most learued. Niodewus, @ fearted man of the Jewlsh rubbl, could not cymprebend the doctre. Fulix wrembled wt Paul's presching. Kiog Agnpps was alwost persusded. Yot we bave To acconnt that these learned men belleved on Christ's simple teaching. Sowe find men in ourday who are ever searching to find eomo new dogma or perverted priaciple to suit thoir own fancy. But let us sce for a moment about this * Old Theologlcal Mountaln,” or ** An Eter- nity of Torment Incompatible with the Love of Uod.” The Professor sars in his sermon, ** Wo .o mot pretend that the Gospol is a per- fect pleture of aternlty.” Acain - he sava, " As cternity rlses up befors us without any signiticance except thmt of abtnegaton, I may be that endlessness of the fu- ture means only the vAstness of (iod and the fea. biences of man,' ‘This hypothesis n alr-castle &r wooden bridge built without any rolid founda- on. All Seriptura {s givenby ln!r!nllxm and Ie profit- able for ductring, fof reprooh, and. instruction in Tighteounucas, lience we mnst look at this ques- tlon nnblased, elearini our intellect from prejindice And rectarinuiam fn order to como to correct cone cinslons. Jesia sald, **And lheg rhall go away fo everlasting punishinent.” Webster paya evor- rting ta defined as continuing without end, Again, we have ** Promise of eternal inheritance. ' Axain Webster nays, *‘ctornsl, having no end.* Awain we have, *‘Be punished with everlnating destruction.” { eannobses any redemntion from all tinie {0 come In those guofations from the Di- vine rolume, Nelther have our ablest men in the lart elghteen centuties ziven any other definiton than its literal meaning as interpreted by our Ore thodox churches, I Ihis_ymegatory has but A lmited time, as wreachied by Beecher, Furrar, aml 8wing, why not vo us common-sense proof from Inapiration? sternal and_everlasting are bat the same terma ured hy the Savior to glve its complete definition nnmistakable, It ineaid that we shall havo false teachiers, We certainly havo them in all depart. nients of 1ife, Mcn have peculinr fancies of their own which they wish to inculeate, rometimen for notoriety, like Beecher, sometimes far new doc. Teinon which they may honcaly beteve, bt ae doe uded, rometiniew ta be feaders of men. Tlob Ingersoll ia but walking in the footateps of Tom Paine. Some of our brightest Intellecta are but followers of either some leading men or fancy fa- natleal doctrine. ‘Whas thero any wavering in the life of Paal after he had his cyes uflrnr‘d! Wne thero any misgiving 1in Peter after e denfed his master twice? Did noy all of the Apostics teacy Chirlst and Him ceucified, and avold this evetiasting and cternal banishmen and punishment, or cast **into everlasting fire and uniehed with everlasting destrnctlon from the prescnco of the Lord and frum the clory of 1lia power,” and *‘rererved In everlanting chalns of arkness 1. Tlut 1 have qnoted enough to prove the point that there e an everlasting punishmient for the wicked, and the vreaching of any other doctrinoe is to ex- punge everlasting and “eternal from onr vocab. nlary, and regard the transiators of the Divine voluine #s belny tncompetent or deficient In this particular translatton, Now, | have thus written these thonghte, not particulatly for a controvorsy, or seeking a ilia- cusalon, but that It may sct the peoplo 10 think- 1ng, and not depart (rom the] fondamental truths s taught by prophcts aud Aposiles, who could sec and know about eternity much better than modern satellites, Da. J. A, HExxiNG. THE MISSING MANAGER. When and Where Fryer Disappeared—ITis- tory of His Conncction with the Adnms- Pappenhelm Troape. Loulsrille Courler Journal, Jan. 10, The sudden disappesrance of Mr. J. C. Fryer, the opera mauager, atil} remains shroud- el in mystery, and, as yct, thefe are no develop- ments by which any clew can be galned to the actual whereabouts of the missing man. 1t Is acarcely possitle that he could have been murdered, haviog had no money with him at the time of his dissppearance. The most plausivle conclusion Is that he has succeeded, ot fa purposely conccaling himaelf, it being o sort of mania with him, some say, when drink- ing, which occurs only at rare lutervals, to hide away for o time, for no other apparent purpose than that of mystifylng his friends. 1lo wos known to do a thing of this kind several years ago, when act- ing as the ndvance agent of Strakosch, o the time that gentleman brought out Miss Nilsson, ‘This occurred, it is stated, fn 8t, Paul, Alton., and after being absent fourtcen days he again turned up, well and in good vondition. Taklng this fact into consideration, it s reasonablo to s1pposc that ho has again gone Into retirement, and will in his own good thuo reappear, Friduy morning he left the Loulsville Hotel and went to Rufer’s, whero he breakfosted, In company with Messrs, Rufer and Franosch.” While thers o hinted at having met with heavy losses dur- Ing'tho past few months, and dwelt with par- ticulnr emphasis upon the great expense nnd troubla actendant upon so laro a corbination. There was aothing unusual fu bis maonver, however. and ho ate heartilv, and with ap- parcnt relish. In conversation with o friend carller in the dny, he oxpressed his opinion that there was trouble brewing and tho probabliity of the company disoanding nt St. uls, his befng urable to pay their salarles, in consee quence of which thiere had already been some troublo in Nashville. There was nothing In the nature of Mr, Fryer, or in lils financinl tronblcs, thiat would maka sulcido probuble, 1le was not personally responaiblo for the debts of the com- pang, belng only upon salary, the real propric- torehip and financtal responsibility resting in othicr partles. After leaviug Rufer’s Friday at noon, he Ia lost slcht of, and eau _bo traced to no other catablislunent, His baggage s still at the Loutsville Iotel, and his bill rematns unsettied. 1lis fricuds here und clacwhere are very anxlous about him, and dispatehes are arriving thick =i fost requesting to know anything of him, The Fryer Opera Troupe was under the man- agement of the tenor, Charles Adams, Madanio Tappenhetm }\vuh Ahrens, her husband), and dJ. C. ¥ryer. It Is certatn that the tour was dfs. ustrous from tho start, and that Fryer lust all hehad. Fryer had golued some reputotion In his munagement of the Wagner festivale in New York and Boston, and his natne must have been reckoned os worth somcthing, und tis mnn- agerial ability deemed wood When thoe troupe was formed, Ie recelved s percentage of proflta (or was ta do s0), but did not haudle the f\-nural fund, This was left to the Treasurer, lo scemed to have n certain gencral thanyze- ment, and presented the clalme of the Wagner music and the troupe to tho newspapers.” Ils was extravagant In his managemont. Tne w&l}y exncnses woula genvrally fout up over 84,000, e pald rallroad’ farcs for more thun alxty peovle. Tho orchestrn wumbered sixteen high-priced men, and he supplemented {t bere on special nights with fourteen more, Salaries remalued for weeks In great part unpald, and 1t 1 fair to presume that Adums and Madame Pape ruu!mlm diu not lay claim to thelr own solarics, or it is certaln that they alonu. kept the come puny together, It was i;cmvmlly uccessary for the advance agent to Jorwand enough money «from the salu of future scats to enable the com. pany tomove, Fryer Limself mado the verbal contract for transportation lcrs with the O, & M. foad on Thureday, but sdfaapueared Fri- d ‘! noow, and Abreas was compelted to toke the matter I hand. Fryer was without moncy here, fle hud thd right of selllng the lbrotios, and made o smull sum Inthat way, At the thne of his disappesrance be did not even have bis waten with him. He had been badgerod a littte about bills ot the hotel i1e was seen by [rfends intoxieated n & #uloon on ‘Thursday night, was taken churge of, and placed I the hotel, Mo hud been 7' bigh hope of retrieying the fortuncs of the compauy tu sowe extent at this point, but the four per- formances did not average more than $G) aplece, the bighest belng tho opening (** Lohen- grin "i night, when the receipts ran up to about 8000, “In Memphis and Nashville tho houscs were small, and the (reatment by the newspa- pers dad, The eritles d a palpable Ignor. auce of musie, and werad rathier plratical fu thelr gosslp. ‘Fhe “acens® out of which 20 much wus inade, converning Madume Pap- ponbeim's refusal to sing, §s evidently fucor. rectly given, Sho gmenu-d a certlfeate of illness from a reputable physiclan, sud that fs sutticient, 8he sang Liere to losing houaes, aug that oftener than prime donne usually do dur- Ing au cugagement. Fryer himscl? stated that the nisih 0bject of the tour was to estubllsh the Wagner musle and his atas o favor, Thy peity miserics of the tour were undoubtedly arassing, aud a strike smong tho orchestra and thoruy \vu‘puvcnwd here by 8 protise Lo pay lult of the salory or “amount due on Baturday. ‘The mémbers of the (roupe wers - without money individuslly when they reached this polnt, some “of the priucipal slugers befug peunlless. - Fraoosch, e chlef, whio fractured bis leg, und §s now tn tho clty, Is to be_ tendured B coteert to cuuble him to rejolu the trouve, His salary wes at- tached biere by wmeans of a ball writ in the bauds Ol Sherifl, ud his would havobeen taken from the winge of thy stage during the performance bad ot Abrens gone bis leuulw—u 18 suld giv. iuz up his own watch aud obislulog money from Dbis bauk fu New York by telegraph next morn- fug. It secms frum these dreumstances that Fryer bad exbauated his funds, the cunpuny as the polut of dissolution, snd bo at the end of hiy roos. ‘Lho comvany left the city witlout loay- iug adoliar uupsbd, A wuuiber of digpatchics directed to Fryer remalu at the botel, A TUE BICUINOS-BERXAED TKOUPE DISORGANIZED, Sals Lake Tribune, Jon. 4, And pow the Caroline Richings-Beruard com- bination Is fu s desl of trouble. The perforue suce ut the Nutloual Guard Hall, Virgiuia Cit; advertived for Jast Wedneaday night, did not comu off, because the wandrobe uf the comnpuny Liad been sttuched sud removed from tho ball 10 tho Juatice’s Court, ut e fustance of Harry Gnlcul the sccond tenor of tha troupe. Mr. Uates’ clalm amounted to £400, but ho remitted $100, becanse that was tho largest amount which could be brought {n the Juatice's Court, 1t appears that with the orzanization of the troupe @ “‘commonwenlth ' was Instituted,— a sort of co-operative concern,—that s, all the recelpts were to go to a_common puree, and after expenses the remainder was to e divided by percentages among themembers, the hizhest ahare going, of'course, to Mme. Richings and husbaml, Yernard, ' Tho lnst-named was treasurer ond manipulated the affairs of tho commonwealth, as Prutrclm‘, much a8 he pleased, and to the alleged defrauding of the lesner lighta of the lmll‘)c. During their over- land trip, on which, It wiil be remetnbered; they +visited Sntt Lake City, the rank and file of tho company saw & gowd deal of the country, re- celving ‘a Targe number of promiscs, but got very littlo money, Ocenslonally a strike would oveur among them, when Hernard's purse. strings would be unlooseneid to the extent of about a week's salary apieco out ot about thres or four months’ arrcarages. They fared poorly; thev never coukd get a settleinent, sithough money scemeid Lo be rolling in wtpon them on every hand. They all beeame tived of the con- ditlon of things, ns thero were no less than elghteen or twenty opera alngers to whom Car- oline Richinga aud Plerre Bernard are {ndehted in sums r:mfdn;r from 8350 upwards. In consc- quence of this unpleasantness, the troupe has been disorganized and lezal proceedings In a Virginia conrt, ahout to conmence last” Thurs- day, will develop to what extent * Prorector Bernanl lins victimized his companv., It was thought that, considering the situation of tho Iadles and gentlemen of the troupe, it would be neeeseary to give theny a helping band by way of a benefit performance. ‘BLANCHARD'S ENGINE. 1To Peralsts that tho Thing Wilt Go. [The cditor of Tue TrisUNE having addressed a private note to Mr. Blanchard, polnting out some objections to the proposed or nllegvd new &ystem of gencrating steam, he replied to them ns follows:) To the Fditor nf The Tridune, Caro, 1., Jau. 8.—Your favor of the 83 ro- celved and contents carefully constdered, IHad Ibeen in the least doubtful’ of the successful resulta of my plan of construction of an fm- proved'stearn-engine, using comparatively buy & #mall amount of fucl and water, I would not huve given iny truciame at the buttom of the artfele publisfied, but under some nom ae plume; would lave awalted tho eriticism of experts, ete. The unly kimd of doubt that had welght with me was that I might err {u somo of the detalls with regard to best purition of the cylinder, location of steam aud alr valves, slze and shape of tho same, ete, cte. Your objectlons’ and presumed. obstacles 1 be- Meved myaself not so very long sluce, but they disappeared beforo me, as the philosophical law of reaction declared its capability of a revolu. tlon of small dfameter, belne equal in power, it correspondingly conflued, to any larzer dinen- slons 1if the ratlos of spacetusize’was preserved, In other words, a cuble fuch of watcr ns steam In a confined space a8 powerful N3 o barrel of watcr Insteam inalarge space, Yourobjections, I am confident, can be explalned and digsipate In statlonary cngines, steamboats und steas ships, there need be but one main steam cylin- der, set at an angle of, say, 23 degreea;” the woight of tha plston and {ts leverage, with weight of attached mnchlner{. oven If my oscli- Inting welght is uot used, Is sutticient for the reacting power to return tho piston again to lte contact with fts impetus or resting point. The subject, if riphtly viewed, fsof the great- cst fimportance to tho whole world, so 1ar as cconomical inotive power can affect commerco or geoeral Intercourse and exchange, to say nothing of its olfect on local production or {me proved tillnge of lands, 1nllls, mines, or manu- factures. 1 was ot"pains in a former fetter to exolain or show the power of compression was attained without requiring advance power of pressure or machinery to secure it. A cuble fnch of water assteam will not return to water when com- pressed,—the heat forbids ft, There |Is a cheinlenl contradiction, so to speak. ‘Thera 18 a contrary effcet; na the pressure cons fines the cxpansion and reduces it, there s reat feiction aud more lLeat genersted or atent heat mado ncting to resist furthér pres. sure, oryas coudensatlon increascs, power of reslstance {ncrensca—otherwiss resction would not be the eame, I cannot afford to bulld a Fcr{uct cngine at this time, and may nover live 0 sce one builded or fo operatlon, but I am as confldent they will be on the theory advanced a8 that the sun shines. As 1 have previously written, the beauty of thia discovery 1s In tho power produced by slm- ply fnjecting water Intoa conilned apace, with sufllcient heat to convert it into superhentod steam. Now, I do not propose to pross this ateam back to its orlginal spuce or less, but let It hiave its expunslon on the face of the plston, and pursue It with us many more cubic fuches of water as is required to move tho piston the deslrod distance, or length_of stroke. The of- foct Is tho same us though Idid have sutlicdent pm{" to comapress It below its original spaco na water,' The cfllnder head 18 made of greaterstrengeh. To do this Is casy, ns the convex inward pro- Jectian of the cyliuder head, by its formation, doubles the strength, and If maide of succossive plates of boller fron, with crosé-stiaps of tho suma botw wking three plutes of about three inclics in thickness, including tho straps and spaces between for alr, wo wonld have o cylinder-heud which, ° by* statlstical rules, would bo capable “at heut of realtlng m pressuro of over 1,000 nounds to the square {nch of surface, What need ts there for anything strongert 1L great- cr strevgth s required, it 1a casy to multiply the luyers of fro, the conflned air between the plutes expands with the fron and assists to pre- serve {ta power of reslstlug pressure from - within, s also to prescrve the power or tenslun of the particies of lron, Read heat {8 sutlicient to not only evaporate the water, but to convert 1t to superheated stemn, As the concave end of the plston 1 but Jittle below red heat, water fulringing on it Is lnstautly converted to steam, that on the fire-plate belug superheated, (mes vinges on the faco of the platon, throwing the cooler steam buack on the fre-plate. "Fhese opers atlons proceed Hke lllzhlnhus. befors ono can apenk, and the platou is moved, tho plpe is cun- tinuully Injecting more water i o thin sheet of Kreat 'm:uuru uiid volocity on to the flro?)llla. renewing power overy instant. The hoat has a furward imovement from the fire, whicl, fed by & lively blast, keeps tho lire-plato at s red nea Ihie surlace in u fifteen-lnch cyllnder—dlameter beite sutliclont to cvaporate n quart of water alinoat Instantly, as both the cylluder face and the convex fire-plato are st & temperature to couvert water instuntly fnto steaws, The ex- plosion I referrod to near Contralls may have oveurred before the time mentioucd, as I'am not sure ubout Ius behg tour, five, or slx_years ngo, Liave 1o pressut momorandum of “the thue. However, muny of the particulars [ recollect, There 18 no dileulty fn the wuy of * puckduge?” The pistun la not too hot at ts unexposud part, aud ashustos stauds heat, even Wire. “Thie lubrication of the actual path of the platon s uunh{ provided for, and no lubrleation Is wanted at the fire end, us, In_mny drawings, the outsido of tho plston fa beveled back nearly a8 far ua tho concavity extends on or {n its facy, to provide botn for greater surface and room for pregacd ale. By my plan all the vacaut ¢ {n the eylinder s flled with comprossed ule, leuving virtually no spavo ut all for elther water or ateamn, buf, as ulr {s so clustie, it ylelds ta tho Introduction of both steam and water {n the mauner descrived, The effcets, 83 you Yy, can be produced by gunpowder, but it Is too expensive, too daugerous, and diflicult to con- trol, ¢ Water Is chcap, and steam power- ful. ‘The use of steswm, £ thnk, will continue to the end of time, I do not dispute your pusl- tlous, only that you assume that there is an an- tagoulsm between iny theory and the known actlon of physical laws, as explalned fu correla- tive forces. "I think uot, ‘Tners aro two theo- rics with regurd to water, which somewhat con- it One that wat@r is composed ot two elaatic h’nfl:l of unequal proportions, Both compressi- le. Phllosuphy says, thero 1s no end lo the divislon of watter, and likewlso Ly the same reasonlng there s no eud to compresslbllity of matter, us a still greater power would compress @ little nose than the Jast. ~ Anotuer theory of Water that it hay 1o solid matter of 1ts 0w, but is always bolding somo in_solution, no matter i distilled in a vacuum as perfect us’ man could tnake, tho atoms wyuld be thicre, 80 very miluute, Ecrhalu. us not to be discernible, and it is pown that wa cannot forus o perfect vacuum, ‘The globulos of water when broken by stewn are capable of occupying o luss space than be- fure, un tho samu priucipls that o basket of eges brokeu up requirc less spacs than when whole, H, 8, BLANcuakp, . 8.—[ neglected Lo say at the proper vlace that lo Lue plan for Lwprovewent of the steans- enelno It is but necessary tho evaporating-cham- ber should be In the cyliuder; it mmay be focated between the end of th eylindor und the fur- Buce; tue etfoct would bu the sume. My desire b3 suaply that the vower should be wied and utilized in the manuer. B. - REMOH, Since 1 have knawn now, Sweat, thy loving care, Througl sun and swrm, hu"'ny’: mv“\m 's0 iight; Binco ] have loved thy gentls tendernes. Wiitch leuds 1o ever T e path of stk Btuco | have llved lu Love's dear, sheiterlng arm, Where worlidly carvs can ud uo colesioy place, 1 know, desr Heart, "tle ke what Heaveu wust be— Fur Usaveu bs sur, and shinsth in wbm.u. OLACUER, COUNTRY ROADS. A Matter of Profound Importance Just Now. Not Only to tho'Fnrmor, but to the City Morchant. Interview with K. K. Jones, Who Knows All About Roads. How 1lo Improved the Twellth Sireet Rond Into Quincy. Me Covered IL with Creek Gravel, and It Is Now tho Best Rond In the State, About threo wecks ago Tits TRIDUNE pub- lished o communieation from Hr. K. K. Jones, of Ellington Township, Adams County, Iil., in relation to country voads. Mr, Jones {8 strong- lyin tavor of the use of gravel, and clalms that plonty of that materfal can bo found in nearly all tho rivcr connties of the State. A correspondent signing himself *“ P joined issuo with Mr. Jones, both ns to the value of gravel roads and the practicability of thelr con- striction, and a represontative ot T TRIBUNE waa detalied to visit Quincy and inspect tho roads In that vicinity, tneluding the gravel road constructed by Mr. Jones, Tiia s about four milos in length and fs known as TIH TWELFTIL STREET ROAD, extending from Main street, within tho city limits, north towaris Locnst Grove. A drive over this road In a buggy demonstrated that, although not exactly as smooth as a billlard. table, the road was pracileable for teams, and an extenslon of the drlve over tha ordinary dirt ronds in tho nelghborbood proved that thoy could scurcely be so consldercd, Ten days ago the frost struck Quincy, and the embargo which the mud had lald upon trafic was partly re- moved. DBut though the mud was gone, the fmmenac ruts in tho roads, which reacmbled plowed flelds, showed that previous to the ad- vent of tho frost no team could have passed with a load. INQUIRY OF PARMERS fully boro out this fact, and even within the town, on ail but a fow macadamized roads, teams wero doubled and loads divided. Tn short, tho ronds, like ncarly ol ropds fn fili- nols, were as bad as the mind of man could well concoive, The reporter drove along the gravel road to the residence of Mr. Jones, which {s known as Wergelands, and Is situated about a mile from the city-limits, and questioned that gentloman in regard to roads in gonural, and that pleco of teack in particular. s statement was as fol- ows: o WIAT MR, JONES BAID. “In the winter of 1807-'68 I mado up my mind tiue we had been stuck In the mud alout long enough. It was impossible to get.to town with nun‘my. fet slone a wagon, and when I teied to ride In, and my horse got stuck so that 1bad to watk, 1ot nad. 1 raised o subscription, got the townsnip to voto » amall surs, and thio city togivon littie, and started in 1o ke a rond, Yarmera who had no money lent thofr teams and nd hauled the gravel from the creek below. Krading was donc; we jost gumped tho mud-lioles -and et we _could afford was track wido epongh for a single wagon, and tho gravol was put on about six inclies deep, When the ruts bogaa to moke, an- other Joad of gravol was thrown on and raked over, The conscquence was tuat farmers were nblo to gut to town wish their produco.' COST OF GRAVELING. ‘What was tho cost of the jmprovement!” sald thoreportar. ** Probably the five miles of road—for tha city raveled some fnslde tho city Minits—hay ‘cost 000 during the past cignt yonra, Tho work was not done all at once, unta fittle at & time, ac- cording as monoy could ba ralsed or teams pra- cured, Tho gravel cost nothing, boing taken from the creck. A man could take a contract to gravol six miles of road, threa miles cach woy froin the creek, and coula hanl four loads a day to tho furthest point. As ho got nearer his base of sup- ilen, ho could haul more+ Making the track fivo Punl wide, and spreading the genvo n;lool- thick, & cnbic yarl of gravul would be used {o cach fivo und a half lincal fret. A yory passablo road for farm toams could ba mado by layine on the gravel ten inches dogv in tha centre, and five inchos at IL\; g:lwl. ‘This need not cost moro than $2 per rod.! OBJECTIONS OVERRULED, 1'Objection has boen mado to your plan Jones, that cravel cannot be obtatucd in aufl quantlty, and near envugh to tho bad runas, " **Ibelleva that there i plenty of gravelal along bath sldes of the MinsissippiIn tho beds of tho creeks. In this county thero are haif a dozen creoks whore 1 know thore fa plenty of it, Thore hus been no. trouble hero In getting all that was wanted. and thore is plenty left. 1have scon gravol all along tlie Rock, ¥ox, and 1llinals Hivers, und the littio stream which rin into them arc ful of it. Tn my opinlon, it iu washed cut of the rock by the streams. . Probably some of it hus been thars since Moaca' time. 1 don't think that thore # any along the Sangataon oe Big Muddy, Thero is no bunk gravol in Adamas County, or anywhero south of Gnlosbury, Hut ali through Adams, Honcuck, Pike, llendoreon, Warren, Jtock Island, and all tho countics uear the river bludls, the water washes dowan the gravel roady for use. 1t contuins a good dual of saud, but that (s an improvement rathor Ahng n"dummnl, for it makes tho stuf pack to- gother, PERFECTLY BATISFIED. **You arc satistied, then, as to tha merits of creok gravel for road-ninking?" . **Yes, 50 far as it goes, What Is wanted {s soma improvemont on the proscnt systom, or want of svelemn, Parmers fi“ on from vear to year rulning their horees and breaking down tueir wagons, when =& few days' work by each ~man would make a ducont rond to town. When a tud-hole makes so that thoy can't got by, thoy duwp anothor load of wud of clay luto 1, 'whila the material for making a good ruad Ie to ba found in tho bed of every ereok, ‘Tlcra aro hars of gravel contalning thousands of loads all aloug tho creoks, " VECAUSE WiiT] ' Cannot tho farmers bo stirred up Lo do some- thingy If your ruad has been much a suceess, why “x‘n'x'l"z they pltch 4n and make some moro lke ‘*Ilecause thoy aro slow. Thoy ara terlibly afrald of wpending money, and o farmer would rathor give two weuka' work with a team than $10 in woney, 1In the winter they won't do un‘yihlnx. nud in tho sumwmer théy are 160 busy, Bo 1t goos ou from year Lo yuar, all tho time gettin What little patchingup s done ls withoul They unght to benn right now, for v 10 do, aud I have proved by r that creok fr ut on a ruzen tuud roud anewers very well. 1f they wet to wumxudmg. the new grade tukus 8 long tnto to setile, and the prooess Is expensive, By makiug n wiugletrack, proper drainage can be got without auy trouble, aud a4 heavy “loads aro ‘valy bauled oue way, that ls, to the rajlrond, s single irack 1s enough.’ Fur weoks past the farmers have been unable to take a single wagun-load of corn oran kind of produce Juta town excopt ovor tho ’hfl-ulfi atreet rosd. ‘Phero have beon pleaty of would-be buyers, Lut no way of gettiog the stull to the sallroad, ' TUB COST AGAIN, 4 \What would 128 catimato the cost por mile of & sufticlent gravol road aty” *+Well, if you talk to the farmers sbout a voad to cost 8300 per ntle, thoy got scared. € have had all sorts of trouble tu get together the necesary funds for making thie bit of road (T'welfth street), The clty dnally voted for itashare of the road, which [superintendod, and for which I advanced tho moncy. Peuplo say that § am full or theorics about rualls;.crazy on thu subject. oo of the farmers grumnble becsuse thels unshod horses can. nol vel over the gravel ruads, but they forgot that but for those roade they could mover roach townatall, ‘The gravel containg a lotof larye stonvs, and they don't like to travel over it ot Or, but it is put on In the wintar Mhey wust (ake for the dirt roads are fmpassablo, My plan s 10 make all tho rouds you can when they ure bad, and then the farmers must go on them. Hight hero comes in THY QUESTION OF BROAD TIRES for farm wagons, 1f, fnstead of the narrow tircs now uscd, which are ali very well on macadamized tuads or wodden pavements, broad tires wero osed, every lasded wagon would act os g ralier, and would held maku the road fnvtead of cuttlog It to pleces, Lut vroad tiros wou't help the wigon to market untess the horees have somedhing clve than wud to pull va, aod thls somsthing is furnlshed by uslug gravel, Thero 1 o vaiter road in the world than coo mado over the ordinary praitlo soll when it de dn order. Dut when it gets worn down to the cannot do anyining - wits i, o sand jn the gravel twill ubsorb wearly its own bulk of water, snd 1t gets solid aud packs tlogeihior, naking a sort uf concrele, After o thaw (his sand crumbics dowa Inta the rats, eud Klle thew op, but clay will uotdo thls, It 1s 3 good thing te put threo of four inches of black prairie soll on top uf tho gravel. 'thl oaly real ubjection to tbe uss of creck gravel 16 that when it thaws out it bacomve soft snd makea suts, Thess swon Bl up, but whon the thaw strikes tho clay roade travel has 1o bo suspended, A suwiner saln ouly helps & gravel road. " TR KOAD LAW. +*Thero bas beon suwe tulk sbout the fnaaf- Ocleucy of tho road laws; what do you think whont 1y *+Tlho road law ls well coough., The laat gen- cral law put un end to the sYstem Of Liruers work. 10 out thetr tax, ‘Uhat was 4 food tuinz, for v dun’t work ou Lhe rouds liko tbey do ou thelr own furmd, They bave plenty of “enterprisy fnside Mr. lelent thelr own fances, but what is overghody’s bustness 13 nobody'a husinese, ana they don't care anything abont the roads. What wo want i= cheap ronils adapted Lo the needs of 4 farming communlty, Wo can't have macadamized roads or wooden pave- meata, but wocan have gnod roads enongh by naing tha material which lica right at_our doors, and "~ ean bad for the ~ hauling. My the way, tno farmers ean by vote in town-meating revert to the okl svetem And can work ont thelr taxes, Tho nosition of Road-Inapector 18 & thankless one, and noboity wanta to tako It. Thora I8 no ealary, and a pood deal of tronbla abunt it, and cverybody grambles at tho ofMcers, ' PREMIUMA FOR G0OD ROADS, ** Yon wald something 1n one of your commant. cations to Trx Tununa abont & premium offered by the State Hoard of Agricnitute for the best rond; 1s that a0 ** No: wan mistaken when [ ratd that 1 had in- duced thom to do so. They reforred my resoln. tion to a committee, ‘which was tha Jaxt of it. nmgfllcd that they shonld offcr a preminm of 8500 fo the country town making the hest gravel road, not lesn than twa miles in length, and like pre. mium for a direct road of not lces than four miles. 1In 1572, ar thereabouts, some ono had a road ma- china to oxhibit, faduced the Board to offer the rtupendons prize of $100, but the indncement was not atrong enonch to bear competition, Peo- ple can ¥ay what they like about tho respectivo merits of dirt roads and grave! ronds, but the fact remains that [ hava built'at an almost nominal ex- enne five miles of creok-gravel road, which dur. ng the Into *big muddy ' wan tho only free road in the Etnte over which heavy loads conld be hanled, Inolder countries thoy had A GOOD SYATEM OF HIOHWAYS beforo railroads were Invented. Buathere the rall- ronds wero earrled across the virgin prairie, and everybody thought niore of bulldsmg now rnllrands than of providing tho means to reach thom by, Now, cven the rallroad companics are Intereated in the ex. tenelonand improvement of roads, Thoy don't want their cnra 10 atand empty Lalf the yenr and ail the business coming in a rush, Abottt” all the money this county owen Ia on account of railroads, and the farmera kick like mulns when they aro asked for a few handroda or thousands to maxe highways, Tielfth atreot Ia the only drive out of town that ran he used in bad wenthor, or after heavy rains, nnd there great deal uf ‘heavy traflic over i ' 1'in good shape, “although 1t was s |tstionld have boon for want of the necessary funds, As for tlic other roads, they ara tha eams here an they are everywhera thronghont the Btate; slmply fmpaasable in hoavy weathor, THB BURJECT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST IM- FOUTANCE to tho rural communlty, and deserves fmmediato attention, Boma propla object that thera s not geavel enongh to go round, but let thom go ahead and use what they have got. Theru 1a creek gravel enough, in llfiler‘ of iho State at lenst, to makg soveral hundred milos of rond, and whore gravol cannut bo obtatned let them iry mome other plan. ‘Where there ia gravel let tho farmers beyin work at once, and they won't hiave tho troubls in tha fall and winter of 1578 that thoy had in 1877," ——— CURRENT OPINION. In somo things Prosident Hayes hns, like the exccutlve ofiicer of a ehip who ylolates the rules of navigation, placed himself whero anccess alone will redeem tho wisdom of the risk,—Frovi- dence Journal (Rep.). Wo do not believe that any Democratio Benator, however popular and worthy of confl- dence, will be abla ta Justlfy himeolf to hfs con- stitnents for witholding o reasonablc and jnst support to the President's nominations,—Halli- more Gazelte (Dem. ). It is oxtremely doubtful whether the plan favored by soma Republican lenders of organizing a eolld North can succoed; L e,y whether it can command a maJority tn tho Electoral College drawn oxclusively from tho North. 1t jvould be a dangurous victory it it were possible.~Lartford Lost (Lep. ). 1t the Republican pnrly follows Chandler's lead, And takes the courae marked out for it now, 1t will be ovorwhelmed in disaster, The sentiment of the country Ia not to ba mistakea. 1t is in favor of burying the old lssues, heallng the sectionat differonces, and uniting the country.—Zoston Qlove (Ind Rep. ). ‘The meaning of Chandler's raid is, that the leading Ropublican machinists aro secking to un- derbld cach other for tha earpot-bagger and col- ored vote In the next Natlfonal Republican Conven- tlon, and thoy arc secking to stiv tho ashes of the old Southiern fi 10 ralsc at loast a smoke xf sectionnl hatreds, It {s 3 mlscrabie business, and the probablilty is it will not pay,—0incinnati Com- merclal (Ind. Itep. ). The conviction comes back to the peoplo that layea Is working qulotly and conecientlously for the gond of (ha countty, and that his cnemies ore working nolther for thuls country nor their parly, huulmrly for tholr own porsonal advance- ment, dov, Kico bocomos the mouthpiocs of this sontiment, and, in aulot and inoffonalve but still unwista e language, he glves volca to the pop- '(’};lr dgnlrc for peace,— IForceater (Masa,) (azelte . ) Tho country soes, if the Dutlors and Chandlors do not, that it was Impossible to hopo for nrmd and honest guyornment at the South, }x;r public peace or vrder, for accurity to Iifo or prop- crty, as long us tho war of races was maintalned: and that it was tho bighest stateamanship to withe draw thap mllllll’fl utervention of the Federal Uovernment, by which tho blacks wero arrayed in o solld h‘""fl against the whitos and tho whites aguinst tho blacks, and 1o leave political partiva to gradually reorgauizo thomselves upon uther isaues than tho'mischlevous onio of race ascendancy. In this way only can the fatnre of the blacks be maila sccuro and tiieir onamiea bo converted Into thelr ailles, detonders, ond friends,—St. Laul (Mina,) Lroncer-Press (Ind, Rep.). Awmid a mass of other sophistrios, Mr. Il on last Snuday morning, eald 8 greaw denl about malntaining the public credit, ~improving the pub- lle credit,—dolng nulhlnfi fo fmpair the public eredit, Whon a man fultl(le fn this world tne lot- teraml -le of his contract, Lo docs not impair his crodit, When ho zocs boyond tho terms at hin cuntract, In a freak of folly and gonorosity, and dues tnore than ho Is legally or morally bound to do, he invariably, in tho estimation of scosibla mon, tmpairs his ‘eredit, This Is juet what Mr. 01l wants tue Government to do In the caso of tha bondholder, * Ho wants It to break faith with tha puonle who austain 11, for the purpuse of glving 1o unvelfiah, solf-sacriieing bondholder more thun his contract ealls for, e \vnulxlfi"u only gold ta tho bondholdur {n the tooth of his contract,—d(- lanta (Ga.) Constitution (Dem. ), If the :ilva? tido shall sweop away all obstacles in {ts tlow general prospority and ‘contl- dence will retnrn. lteretofore tho pouple have been treatod to a rising tide of high raies of Inters eat, morcantilo fallured, bank foilures, hign pricos, depreclated real eatato, mortaaga forcclosures, ba doots, dead-beats, tlourlaling bankrupt courts, Luyy Sherlifs and thelr doputies, rotton Mfe-insur- ance companics, small profits, Idle workingmon willing to work for bread aloue, but no work to be hud, vsuperlen and its paneful fncreaso of ®, furgurd, perjurers, bankeunt rallroads, taxayion, wyudlcates; sud yet Bocrotary says the peopla ought to be happy because silver {s demonotlzed, und the " Guvern- ment eredit fs ' unquestionably good awmoug foreign bankers and bondholders. The ‘peaplo are not to bo bumboovzled by the Secrotary of tha "Treasury or any one clde. oy know that tho domonctizatlon of silver was a frighttul crime Ixrnml'ht about b’ mtorested par- tiesthrough the manipiiations of ouw Ernest Séyd, They know demouvtization to be un nu«mrl. ta drive vut of circulation mare than ono-half of the monoy of the world, leading to a frightfal reduc- tlon of property, wiges, and sl kinds of coum. modati 'hoy have felt ita effect in this country for the past fore yoars. Knowiyg this glgantic wrou? 1:ul upon them by lntervsted” Congrossinen, they tntend to push un the agitation of the silyer question until It becomes such an overwhelming tido of popular scnthinent that no may shall dare to stand up agalnst it. 'Fae tlde will sweep them out of existence, and with its risy will como the depreclution of gold, low rates of interest, the decreass of baukruptcies, sppreciation of real es. tate, and all klude of merchan ricaltus: roducts, and manufacturcs, Hour: "mllmdl‘ ncreased population, snd goneral wealth, —Omaha Republican \lep.). - The {ssue which the mofivy-chapgers of three'Eastern citles have ralsed fnvolves a more momentous quvstion than any suowlitied to the rconlu of thiy country sincu the Daclaration of ndependen: 1t fuvolves on the part of theso money-chan; —the lineal descendants of the wrutches whom Christ kicked and scourged from the Temple—the assmuption of the right Or power to dictata tho legtalation of Congress, 3ad rule or rulo all the inuuetrive of- the country. 7Thuy, who produce notbiug, bat are wero fuugl, clalm * tho right to prey without rustriction upon tho eubelance of others, and, If ytholr m s not allowed, threaten Congroes at they will destruy the credlt of the Qovern- ment, block sll commerclal uperations, and by their exorvitant usary extingulsh tho laat vestigo of productive tndustry, ‘Thuso menaces mud du- nuncistions are dircciud mainty axainet the West wnd tho South, Thuso are the (wo ereat pruduciog Tugious of the country~which create vu-sixthy of tha values, which ccustituty tho preatuess of the Itepublic, Bf theso great dlateicta with thelr nulis lonw of people dare to uove for thelr uwn pred- ervation, or do not suomit patiently as lambe 10 ba ficeced and devourcd 'by thess wolve, they are threatoned with ‘bankruptcy and Full. As wo hove wmore Lban onte suggested, the remcdy s obvious and simp “I'be luplewent theao gready wreiches employ 18 sapplisd to them by the law of Cougress, = ‘I we power can Wreat 3t from thew. 1t I8 gold thoy use, which, us the mngle legal curiency, thoy ionopollse aud pe L trom 1Ld orlginal Interest luto o carse, Ine stead of o cuerency for the sccunimodatiun_ of fn- dustry und tradv, in tuele Lands §Lis un odstruc- tion (v sl tratlo snd su vngive of destruction, It da clearly tho dictate of rigat and justice, that tho law-makiog power shall wreet this implement from the bauds which s0 wickedly abuso 1. In doing this 18 will Dot ineroly rodress s wrung,. but can re- vivaall tho productive industrivs of the cquuiry, zender them prosperyus, and ;huxr{rmpnh pvete waneut, —dchmond (Va.y Walg (Constreative, 'fho experienco of the ¥eu will have Len cbeaply bougut it buih Mr. ilayes and the reform- era Liy it 1o buart during the threo years of isterin which rewsin. Tuluge caunol cununue o they are. Itepublicans wust ciroose betwecn Mr. auch as ho bs, and his opjiuaonts in tue part, 2athey arv, aud the purty must proguse sumetbig In the patnre of & programme. What tho present arty leaders, tho Conklings, Dotlers, Blalnes, handters, and Edmunducs, | pronose\ s con. fess wo'do not know—nlthough wo have read carcfully all they have reéently ralg and _written—heyond ~ keepin, tho ~ oMces for Tepublicans, and milowing tho Sena. tora and Represchiativen of tho party to distribnte them, If anybody will examine what they pay about tha Sonth ho will find that It consista wiolly of somawhat vituperative reminincence, and con. talne no trace of s polley whatever, They ro. proach nyes for what hio has done, bt they de not propose that he should nndo it, —that, for Iy stance, ha abould go down with tronps’ (o ses. Packard and Chamberlain: nor do they point ong in what way tiayes conid have kept Chamberiain and Packard neated, supposing thelt np. pononts to havo 'continned - {heir rearr: ance mnntil = Congress met, aa lhn{ ane auredly would have done. 80 that the ltepuh. tlean opposition to Tlagen on thia score appears to be absalutoly abjecticrs, to have no aim or end fn view whatever, And thercforo to conslat of mers rcolling, Nor does thele professed regard for the negro lake any practical turn. Kvonif lll{r- hag followed thele programmo in Sonth Carolina and Loulalana, thin would have done nothing for the negroes of Georgta, Alabama. Mirsiasippt, Arkan: s, North Carolinn, Tennessce. and Virginia, Iy all of which they are virtually excluded from palje tles, #0 that aato the rights of the great botk of the negro population they hava nothing to sugiest, nll‘. wo wonld ask all good Republicans tho sober, honest, intellizent men who founded the plfl{ and have kept it alive, whether they really Lellove that they can face mnothee Preaidentlal election with the smalleat prospeet of ruccess under lhn[fluldnntn of men in whoee politf. cal aincerity and Integrity thero is wo little confl. dence aa in Blaine, Conkling, Chandler, and the likey Thero never was n party yet which could hope for eo little under the lead of charlatans and trickstors an the Republican party, and If It cannot rrnvldn itaoif with leadorahlu which will have some iold on the conselence of the cnnmrl before 1850, 1t will awsuredly go into opposition fo All thls, of courso, anounts to saymng that an, hopo of salvation through ** harmony ' at present In ridiculonn, — *'liatmony, " on tha contrary, would be fatal, —New York Natton (Ind.). ——————— A WHITE BEAN OR DEATH. The Rtory of tho Melr Massacro In the Texan Struggle for Indcpendence. Joustan (Tex.) Telegram, The events recorded below took place at 8a. Indo, Mexlco, March 28, 1843, when seventeen Texans of the Meir cxpedition wero shot by order of the Mexlcan authorities, The story 18 told by a correspondent who signs himself R, P, 11, of Blanco, Tex., ‘o brotlier of one who drew o whito bean: One hundred pna fifty-nine white beans wera placed in the bottom of the mug, and soventeen black ones placed upon the topof them. The Vioans were not stirred. Buch was thelr anxlety to exccute Capt. Cameron, and porhaps ‘thy balance of tho officers, that first Cameron and afterwards tho other oflicers were mado to draw a bean each from the mugin this couditlon, Camerpo, In the act o drawlng first, anid with s usual coolness, *Well, boys, wo have to draw; let's be at it." 8o saging, he thrust his hand into the mug and diew out a whito beay, Next camo Col. Willlan F. Wilson, who was chalned to him; then Capt, William Ryan, and then Judge F. M. Gibion, all of whom drew white beans. Next came Capt. Eastland, who drew & black one, and then came the balance of fhe men. They gl drow thelr beans with that man. ly dignity snd Srmncss which showod them sy. perior to their condition. Bomo of lighter tem. per Jested over the bloody tragedy., Ono sald, * Boys, this beats railling all to pleces.” The knocking olf tho frons from the unfortunats told who they were. Foor Robert Beard, who lay upon the ground sick, sald, * Brofher, if vou draw o black’ bean I'll tako your place,” The brother sald, *'No, Iam stronger and better ablo to die than yo Heveral of the Mexlean ollicors who ofllciated In this cruel vlolation of thelr country’s falth expressed great dissatisfac tion thereat, aud some wept bitterly, Soon af- ter the fated wero plncfllfln o scparate courte guru, when about “dark they wera cxecuted. uveral of our mien were permitted to visit the unfortunate previously to the execation, to re celva thele dylug requests. Poor Maj. Cocke sald, ** Boys, I toll you I never falled to draw s prizo;" aul then ho said to Judeo Glbaon, ‘Bay to my friends that I died in grace. Judge Gibson was 50 much affected nt tiis lrl,:l “The rting that he showed it from his tears Malor sald, * They only rob me of forty y and then sat down nid wroto o scusiblo dignifled Totter to Gen, Waddy Thompson, the United Btates Minfster in Moxleo, and knowing that his remains would be robbed of Lifs clothes alter his death, drew off his pauts and hauded them to his surviving comrades, and dicd In his underclothes, Poor Honry Whaliug, ono of Caumeron’s best fizhiters, sald, ** Wall, thoy don' make much off mo pnyhow, for I know 1 have killed twonty-tive of tho yollow-bollies,” ~Then, dnmlmdllllfi 1s dinner {u'n firm tooe, snying that Thoy shall not clicat me out of it," atoficartlly, smoked o cigur, aud in twenty minutes was launnchd Into etornity, Our Interpreter, who waa permlitted to remaln with them to thutlast, says that **fifteen times they wounded that iron-nerved soul, Heury Whallng, aud ft would scem that I'rovidence had o special cara {n prolonging his existeuce, that e might demonstrato to his enemies the natlonal character thofi had to contend with; for he gritted his teeth ot and defled ‘them o terms of withering roproach, until titoy placed s gun to his head and Blew his bralns agnlnst the wull, Huch was the offect of this horrible massacre upon ‘thelr own soldiers, who were standing ns a guard upon tha wall above, that ono of them falnted aud came near falling over, put was caught by his comrades. Pour Terry, quite o youth, but in spirit & glant, sald that “he was perfectly willing to meat his fate; that for bia country ho had fought ahd for her glory ho was williug to die”; and turnlug to the ofllcers sald: “ After the battle of San Jauinto my family taok one of your prisoner youtts, ralsed and educated bim, and this {8 our roquital.” Edward Esto spoke of his foto with cooluess, Cash sald: “Well, thoy murdered my brother with Col. Fanafs, and they are about to murder me.” "4 Tell the ofllcer to look upon men who are not afrald to dis for thelr country.” Capt. Eastiand behared with tho most patriotie zeal. o desired thit lis country should nover. lay down her urni uutll tho nost umple reparation and her free dom wus obtulned. Mu), Robert Dunbam ssid lic *was propared to die, and would to (ol that he bad a chanes to do the samo thing orer againg that ho gloriod n the "demonstration they had made which showed Texans withuub arms to_bo more than enual to Mexicans wih them.” James Oeden, with his usual equanimity of temper, amiled at his fate, and suld, “1am Prepnmd.' Young lobert W. Harrls behaved h tho most untinching mauner and called upos his companious to avenge the murder, while thelr flowing tcars and bursting Learts, {nvok- ing heaven for thoir wituess, rospouded to the call, I have tho utmost confldence that this pledge, 8o solemnly plighted, will bo redecined They' ane and all moved thelr country to do Luth thew and hersclf justice. Just provious to tho iiriug they were bound together with cords, sud thelr oves belng bind: red, they were set upon 4 log ncar tho wally with thelr backs to thelr executloners, Ther all becged the otlicers to shoot them in froot und at short distance, that *‘they were not afrald to look death In the face.”"” This thef refused to do, fired at several paces, and cor tinued the firlog frow ten to twelve minute inangling these beroes in n manuer too horrible for description. Can our Government and peoplo forgzet thess criinesi Huayen forbld, The names of the murdered men were: L. Cusly, J. D), Cucke, Rtobort Dugbam, VY. & Eastland, Captain;_Edward Esto, Robers Haris Thotnas L, unu_ly‘l Patrick Mahan, James Onlen Charles Roberts, Williain Rowan, J., L. Shepherl, J. M. Thompeon, James Torrey, James Tur: bull,fHeury Whaling, M, C. Wing. fidppmelenlol o THE DIFFERENCE, My king—the king I loved but yesterday—Is doudl Or dead tome! Ho lunl.-d me not; but the king that ralgnsin B stea . ;lo warehlps me. To him, no other woman nnder the sun 8 Bolf u luonchml to 0 sweet, 1y klug of yeaterday; this other 03¢ uw et wy feok Aud 1 think bow much wiser'tis o be loved, fostetd OF fovin ' I worsbiped uy king of yesterdsy that's dead— b l&’olou’du{ y i Enxde e ——— % MIDSUMMER, Stirlesn snd shadowlcss the radlant noons No whir of wing, no chlrping cricket’s cil No pasiu: fuot doll cracklo fn tno grasvi The river slecps, sud dreams ite rlso and fall. Bolow the cliT are oars that quict dip, And far sway aro bolls that echo low; The yuung moon, like boat, saily overhesd, Clsaving the clond-waves with a sliver bo¥. Lyzu ML Wo . e ——e An Aatldote for Strychulue. Accordiug to some recent exerlments of Df Lellt, detaifed tu the Laucel, strodg coffve m:i o successfully usea Lo counteruct puisonlog steychulue. The experboents were juade U rabblts, and wero triod (. conscquetce of 8 '; po{l.cd instanco of fatlury fu un_ attemwpt 4 {»o son a farnily where strychinioe had bed roduced mto the coflec-pot.