Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1878, Page 7

BEECHER AND HELL. His Reply to Criticism of His View of Endless Pun- ishment. A Told Declaration of Bellef---Orthodox Calvinism Refected ns Loath- gomo and Hideous, His Sectarian Position--Heaven and Hell Bpiritual, Not Material, Conditions, spondence New Tork Rerald, nolmifl-finfls.—flcmy Ward Beecher passed {hrough Boston yesterdsy on hls way home from gisowhegan, Me., whers ho Lias been lecturing. The Herald correspondent obtained from him sn Interview on tho subject of his recent and much-discussed sermon on ¢ Endless Punish- ment.” Mr. Beecher talked cheerfally, and yet with evldent carc and deliberation, well-weigh- {og the effect of his words, In tho course of {be Intersicw he plainly indicated his beliet that Bis now famous utterances agatnst the general- Iy-recelved orthodox dogma of cternal suffering as & penalty for sins marks the opening of a polemic controversy of tha first magnitude. Not less plainly did he speak ns to & possible scrverance of the relations hitherto held by him {oward the Congrezationa! denomination, He spoke of the discussiou as ono of world-wide {nterest, and while he dented that Bohad any intention in the celebrated sermon to enter the Jists a8 & controversialist, avowed his Intentlon, now that hie had been assafled from so mnny quarters, of setting forth at wo yery distant date, o a full and elaborate form, the position which ne has taken up. Asa forcsbadowing of what tuis cxposition of the Plymouth pastor's attitude will Lo THE FOLLOWING INTERVIZY 1a full of Interesting points: Question—Mr. Beacher, have you taken notice of thediscusatorion the subject of endless future suffering originated by your recent sermon? Alr. Decchier—Of courso Ihave. It has been a question of intonso concern with me for many sears, and of a gradual progress toward the lows 1now hold. A man of an enthuatastic pature, somowhat of a poetical temperament, brought np In the regular Calvinistic falth, re- celves Impressions that become almost like his origlusi nature, and 8 change s elther sudden and utter, or, i€ it follows tnvestization and re- flection, It {8 very slow. . To the publication of my brother's (Dr, Eaward Beecher's) articles In Christian Union, about three yeurs ago, on The History of Opininns ou Futire Retribu- tion,” I nttribute the tinal change In my views, Q.—Did you futend your recent sermon asa manlfestol Mr. Becclier--No; not at all. The sermon was not an_exposition of the subject; it was not tntended to nr‘;uu the matter or oven to wee It forth, It did not beain to cover the opund, but was a scrmon that sprung up In the ordinary course of mv pastoral ministra- tions. 1t had fts orfgin in certaln states of mind, whichI found in those under my care and to which 1 was administering. It alniost might be ealled an outery of hope a8 acainst despair in the hearts of thousands for whom [ vis u volee, I do not regard the excitement which has arisun from it as produced by auy speclul force that wos existent in the sermon. The materials existed nlready for tha exeitement, and needed only the spark to kindle them, My sermon has gone through all the pavers of the United States, and has ralsed a deep feellng fu cvery braneh aud section of the Christian Chureh lo this country, 1thank God and take couraze. Q.—0u what grouni do you now stand¢ RIGHT AND WIONG ETERNAL. Mr. Beecher—I bold, fu brief, as strongly as everto the doctrne of retnbution—that right and wrong ure not transient in Lhelr nature: they aie cterual. T hold thal obedienco and dlsobedicnce will forever produce their earre. sponding pleasure or palm I hold that 1f, In the ltfe to tome, men persist In the violation of thelaws of their being, they will unquestion- ably suficr pain and penalty: but there s no evidence whatever that they will, and there uro mauy vresumbtions that they will not. T do not think that it can be shown to be o L‘:rllxluml ductrine that probatlon closes with death. . In anothier Mo 1° can conecive that the expertenco of this Ilfc, which, by reason ot man's physical environments and ‘social influ- ences, has not wrought reformation or virtue, may yet in snother sphiere und under more tuvoratle clrcumatances bring nen to a very much higher olatform_snd standooint of coi- duct and of charavter. We have reason to snp- pore that pain and suflering which, in this world, arc of au educating vature, will have o strouger educating fopee hereafter, and that they will bo eontinued as lonz as thero is lopo of tenefit in them. But on all this nub{m't I woult way, firat, that probation does uot close with deatn; second, that the end and afm of retribution Is, in the firat Instance, the reforma- tlon of the individual und the ealety of sociuty round about Lim. - 13 GOD CHUBLY The continuance ol mlturln;i nfter it {s hope- Tess In respect to the Indlvidual and needless in respect to soclety fs slmply cruelty, sud I can- not coneelve of any man of o dccn[y moral and refieetive nature who would bring himself to be- Neve thut God whil bring Into lile, a8 He hus, myrinds which utml%' outrun all computation, under clreumstanees n which they not only have no help whatsouver to effect moral growth, but whero all thefr sarroundings areadverse and perverse, and allow them to continue under such known conditions, toreproGuce irenerations Inuu- mierable, and then to place them In a great heres alter whereth principol feature Is sufferlng and where suffering has céaned to have nuy moral benetit, and 80 ¢o contluuo them there forever and furever, ‘This is to creata a department of the univi for the purposes, slinply, of suf- fering; but nevdless sufferiug s crunity, and any brluF who Inflicts uecdless lIlflL‘I'¥ll2 is tyraunical, Q. —Lut men say that we are not to philoso- phize un this subject, but to take the statement of Berlpturel NXLL, DAMNATION, AND EVERLASTING ¥OT USED IN THRIR EXACT SCIENTIFIC bENSE, Mr, Beecher—In reply to that 1 would that one of the chiel questions now is, What is the statement of Scripture? I admit that as it stande in our.Eoglish veralon, and read through tbo medium of our own cdu- cation, the Beripture mpparcntly teaches the old doctriue. But wheu the teems **Hel)," * Damnatlon,” and * Everlastiog ' are subject- edto the cruciul test of iodern scholarshipthey donot bear out the old meaning. I doubt Whether in the days of the Old Testament or In the Jewlsh mind at the thne of our Bavlor, the sharp, metaphysically accurate fdes of thne and duratlon exiete bellevo that what they neaut by ¥ eternal '’ was a vaguo and nehulous puriod of time, and that it was not used ina sharp, sclentitlc sense, but In & poetic, or, rather, 1n & generalizing sense; just as we ny “a hun. bt "'!when '.'.’ exl:ly mean "mllnyzl‘ f' a8 wo orever, ‘when we mean alin) on| - rlods of time.’ Py e A OENERAL MODIFICATION OF ORTHODOX Bi- Lixr, And on this sublect there haa been an im- measurable chango Yh the attitude of thiuking len within the past few generations. It Is universally conceded that men do not any longer, even the most orthodox, preach the doctrine of endicss sutlering as it was preached ity or even twenty-five years sgo. To that efféct there has certainly been a great change. Other motives bavo béen employed, snd the emphoals that once was placed ‘ypon fear is transferred now to hope and toa scnse of duty; aud even when men do preach the doctrine it {s taught mopblmll& aud not Berlpturally, Tue'vivid figures of Beripturea are no longer whirled around toe pulplt lke a ball of lfi'e. It s usually an -Bamgezc argument; it 1s an attempt to justity the Divino administra- tlon, and to ‘do this men fall back on the desert of ‘sin, and the necessity of punishment 1or the integrity of the moral universe. It is true that just now tho pulpits on every alde are Beginolng 1o shiow thelr bauds od to preach the doctrine; but it any wan will compare the ser- . touns that are now preachied with those of Jun- atban Edwards or of Hopkins, or lndeed with auy of the fathers of New England, or' of the Presbyterdan divines of Frinceton, e will sce ow great a chanze has come over thuse who still persist in belfeving fn Hteral, eternad, con- sdous suffering. They are us unlike us the sum- ',',‘f.f,_,"‘“’“‘“"‘ dew {s to the toruado in mid- Te CUAXGED IDXAS OF RIGHTS AND GOVERWEXT. DD?’nEr? what do you attribate this change of . Mr. Beecher—In part to tho progress of kuowledgo and in part to the development of bigher moral -mcepfihumu. ‘fhe preparation or this change of view bhas not been any moro % ithin the Church thas outside of it. The civ- llized wurid Las erown in tntelilzence In respect tu the nature of 1wan aud bis rights ws oa fodi- snd a citlzen, bis vecsaltics wud Habili- The wotlon of goverumeut has been vared from burbarvus elements, the concepe Urs, ¢l tlon of justico been purified and clovated. The wholo framawork of society has been, at least In theory, exalted. It may bo said thet, 1o the ancient Jnya, mankind had no rights thal thelr (lovernors “were hound to respect: but in modern times rulers and Presidents have no rights except those which. are conferred upon them by the gov- erned. A complete revolution, therefore, has heen established : the diving right fs not with the King, but with his nul?cru. ‘The Indlrect influence of this upon theofogy has heen Im- mense, as It runs through every department of thought. Men have unconsclontily chaneed thelr standpolnt; thelr method of reazoning— unbeknowi, dpcrhnpx, to themselves—hes cn- tirely changed. Dogmas that once were full of the anap of faith have withered, and hang upon thelr bonebs itke tha last year’s Ieaves wpon the oak and the beech trees. “This does not fnvah- date moral government, but ploces it upon higher ground, Tt does not anninllate the doc- trine of retribution; it spiritualizes It and cn- noblea ft. 1t does not take away the motives of dlssuasion from evil and persuasfon to good: it only renders them far more effectlve, There can be no greater danger to tho religlous world than to have their falths In the form of dried up dogmas, and to have their real and conscious ie uttering a contlunal protest ngainst them PRIMITIVE NELIZPS. Q.—Do not scnolars still insist that the fNew Teatament teaclics the doctring of the endless sufTering of the flually impenitent! Mr, Beecher—No; A very great change lis taken place’in that respect. it has boen shown that during tha first 400 years the three theorles of reatoratfon, of annibilation of the wicked, and of the eiernal punisnment of the wicked, were held fudifferently in the primitive Church, and that no man's orthodoxy was called In question on that ground, Of the first six #chools of theology it lias been thown that four of them taught the final restoration of man- kind, and it has also been shown that thess very achools comprised tho mis- slonary and revival men of that ey s0 that the energetic portion of the primitlve Church, that apread divino truth, wore reato- rationists. That the men who wrote and thought In the Greck lamyege, and wiho lived nearest to the times of tha Aposties, did not conglder the New Testament as teaching the final, vonacious suffering of tha wicked, forma & strong presumption agaiust the aceuracy of the modern interpretatiod of tho New Teatament. The exegesis also of the test gaunz s very much changed, and though the battlo still rares around many Greek plirases, it {a hardly possibla that one shoukl not sea tho dircetion jn which tha conflict s goine. GEKERAL DRIPT OF NEW TESTAMENT TEACHING. Q.—DBut men say It is not so much any single pasaage as it ia the drift and general spirit of . the Now Testament. Mr, Beechier—That the genoral drift of tho New Testament {s thas a sintul ife and charac- ter brings men Into terrible perils fn the futurc no one donies, or should wish to deny. But that thoso perils are preciscly such as mcn have taught, and that they ar¢ endtessin respect to each individual who passed unrepentaut out of lite, cannot be deduced from the zeneral spirit of the New Teatament., I teach that ain s both o shame and a disgraca fn this life, and an ex- ceeding perll in the life to come, and that thero are elements enouch of fear to rouse up the conscienees 0f men who need the course stimu- Iunt of fear to induco any moral reflection or relormation, MATERIAL VB. SPIRITUAT, NIEAVEN AND NELL. 3‘—1)0 you think o plain man, unlettered and reading the Scriptures, would derive from it the ldea of future, eternal, coneclous misery? Mr, Beccher—Yes: just as tho okl Jews nat- urally fuforred from the Old Testament that the Messiah was to bo & temporal Prince rather than a splrituul foree, and yet they wero wrong; Just us the disclples Lelieved that Jesus would come again 'in thelr lifethme, and thot the: should hot see death untll the kingdom of Go had come ina physicol and literul eense, snd yet thoy are wrong; just us many good men stil] befieve in the sccond advent into this world of Christ, and of tho transformation of all ao- cloty relations by the cocreive poweruf His omnlpotence, I short, the universal ten- doucy bus been to materiulize the Scrip- turc; to creato o materfal hell and a material beaven; to briug to bear upon the ineflable themes of spiritunl oxist- ence the aitributes and laws of tlme, and mat- ter, und space. “he kiugdom of heaven," Chirlst sald, **Is within usi" it 1s not a phyajcal stato: it Is u conditlon of the woul. The king- dom of dorkness 1a o splritual copdition, naa heaven and hell aro words which cover the poychologle condition of tho uniferse. Plsin meén naturatly tend to }ternlize and minterializs the figures of the New Testameut; oll the worsc for them, for the Master declared, ** The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, they aro e’ % A DOGTRINE BIOCRINO TO TIL MORAL SENSK, Q.—Do you think there are ugreat many min- lsters who hold to the doctriucs of Univerulism, or restoration, or aunihilation, who dure not express them| - 2 Mr, Beocher—Not uncu(v so. I hold that o great number of most uscful ministors are oc- cupylug themselves with the practical educa- tion of thelr people, and do not bestow a great deal of thought upon technleal theology. Of those who can_profoundly concern themselves there nru two clnsses,—namely, those who pro butlding a syatem, the dynastic thinkers, and thosu who are studying siinply the cducativa in- fluences that humau nature” requires. ‘Those who hold to a rigorous view of eudless punish- ment and declare that t 18 a fundamental dactrive meau thot fu {s fundamental to thelr systom, and around It contres the doctrine of slu, of lta desert, of the necessity of an atone. ment. [think thelr mindsdwelluponit,therefore, In its rclations to a lJogical system, and not In its relation to tho palpitating humay soul. I do not believe that many nen could calmly measure the nature of a single soul, and its sua- ceptibilitics to suffering, and the power of Al- mighty God to create sufferfog In that soul, and a continucd existence only for the purpose of suffering through ilimitablo ages, forever and forever, and then multiply that soul until thore ‘are no materlala loft ou which to tucribe the flzares, until the swarining myriad defy all measurcinent or coneeption of tho imagination; then, overbaneing tho mighty abyss, contem- platy the writhing anwulsb, tho screaming ago- uy, the hideous and loathsomo suffuring, tho brutal indignitics of sulplurvys dewons, the carnival ol avimalisin, aid et bo able to turn and utter tho first words of the Lord's Prayer, * Our Fatber!"” Nelther s the trouble alloviated by soyiug that the penaitiea aro nut moterinl anzuish, but they are tho tor- menta of couscience, of angulsh, “and despalr. Whila we revalt at physieal torment, the refined snd cultured nuture learns to vatimate mental suileriug as even more exqulsite and mare hor- rible than mere bodily torinent; ond to teach an oternity of consclous mental llt!wlnz, alter all chance or hope of reformation s gone, shocks that true moral scuse which lns been created and educated by tho example and the splrit of the Lord Jesus Christ, In short, the vory na- ture of the atoncment; as au ovotution of the interior love naturs of God, condemns sud de- atrovs such a vision of future useless eternal punishment as a pightmare vision of barbarism, A MONSTHOUS THEORY, 1 can concelve, therelore, how a man may be- levo it simply as an {dea. ' In part of asystem it is n mero logical abstraction. But how & man can look Into the face of a dying rhila, the sweot daughter of his hope, cut off without any evidence of change; how ono can look Into so- clety und sce that ul cen out twenty are not in those conditions which hi om of the- ology requires procedent to heaven and sslva- tlon, and yot liva and be lunm, eat, drink, slcep, laughs {eet, drink in the fight of the sun, the gl through sumumer, and conuot concelve. Waen I Jook at the light of palpitatlng human if 1 elleved in this doctrine leaf would watt a aigh, the would tremble with the imugined ory of the spring-time, walk In o rapture A ghullc;l this mullxn"u,ll n human socloty; it would say to every uian who entered upon the marriage state, *Thou art o barbarfan to bring into lte children under such fearful peril and risk!"” I do not belleve tuat the reason, nor the industrics of Nfe, uor tuo sanctitics of the household, nor anything that us and good couid fongs survive s real bellef in these hideous doctrines. EYPECT OF TUB DISCUSSION. Q.—What do I’uu suppose will be the effect of this outbreak of discussloul Mr, Beecher—I think there will be s tomporary rousing up und proaching of the uld-fashioned doctrive by roany clergymen, und a judleious sllence by ‘even mapy more. Hut s must be Loroe In inind that 00 systen of questlons aud letters sent out by roligluus newspapers will cyer 08 _sble to revesl tho secret thoughts of men, Tho changes that aro liulnz on, quietly, but surcly, arv not yut ripe. think that men are falling off from the old doctrines without scelng their way clesrto replaco themwith uew. But that which I regard with peculiar hopeful- ness is the application of the bust resources of sacred learning to & re-examiuation of the Beriptu and t su exawination from the paychologic standpoint of the whole question of slo, of penalty, sud of deatiny, We bave uot yet beard from the thinkers, (f,—-uu you inteud to enter yourself wmore fully into this controversyl Mr. Beecher—I do not Intend to become a controversialist, and yet, fn due time, I intend to give 8 furtber and wore elsborote presontu. tion of the fruits of my thought than 1 have ever yet qoue. T in no basta; the question iy too vast to bu sctiled fuaday, There ls mnore lliht Lo break forth out of the word of Gud tbau wen beheve. " The night (8 fur determined: it ought not to. with ity and I individually hold the body of d trines that belongs churches of the world; ductrine Is fundamental exvent that which is fundamental to the formation of Chirlstlan char- acter. A man may act aside o ductrine that ls fundamental to & aystem, snd T hold that he onght to bave libertyto du ro. doctrincs, as stated llltll]l- thonsands of Calvinistic miniaters roject, an the, I denled the fact of sin or the desert of siny It I denfod the divinity of Christ or the atonement, might regard my fnrther connection with Con- grogationel assoclations rs Inespodlent. But as to the doctrine of sinfulnesa and its desert, the need of rezenerstion and the reality of It, the dvinity of Christ and the cflicacy of the Ghost; 1 am more orthodox than most orthodox men. ‘The habit of my lifa has hoen to put em- and conduct of men, Influence, . cd Btates Bupremo Co .sourco there was uot o CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WED DAY, ¢ day {s at hand,” and the iers can afford to walt plllcnfly for the full fllnrv of the Sun of Righteousncas, which ahall come “with heallng in 1t beams." TRUTII MORN VALUASLE TITAN A AYSTEW. Q.—Do yon regard your position as practicail severing you from the Congregational denoml- natfon} Mr. Beechier—That Is a question which {s not My »vmrlllh{ols 1o the Congregational snd I ciaum that no ‘There are many Calvin, that 1 reject and commanion with yet. ‘they are in otbordox. churches, " 1f orthodox” Calvinlstle L van concelve that men Toty hinsts unon those views which bnd an edocating Porm and an immediate Influence upon the life I am a preachar of life Lo ife, and 1_judge of things Ly thelr cdicating 1" bave nover been s bullder of ab- stract systems; 1 have never been in sympathy with doctrines in their logical relations to o system, although I have heen edu- cated in that w-(y and bave a full epprecla- tlon of it. The ifeforco of truth hns always Leen that which has had influence upon man- kind.” Itisto be hoped that nefther personal feeling nor scetarian and partlsan influence will be alfowed to muddy tho clear stream of dis- cusaton that will sooil begin to flow. The sub- Ject is une of tremendous importance; It ought to hava the best judgment and the best scholar- ship of the bast mon, undisturbed by anger, or hatred, or jenlousy. Therefara already In press books hm. will give to the public great food for reflection and thore are otbers ?rcpnrlnz. I be- Heve, however, that God in His providence 1s ralsing up great moral influences in tho world at large, which will give to another generation a {:‘%(Ml’ standpolnt,a clearer vision, and a sounder elief. BELIRPS CLASSIFIED, Q,~How would yod classify the views on the subject of future destlny that are gencrally Leld} Mr, Beechor—Thero aro_the Annihilationlsts, the Restorationists, tho Universalists, and the two forms of orthedoxy. The Annihilationists belfeve that'men are Ly nature immortal, thae all inen perish except thoss whom Christ glves, through faith in Tim, the pift of oternal life, ‘The Restorationlsts belleve in an indefinite de- gree of disciplinary suffering in the other life, whichi In the end will be bleased to tho restorn- tion of nll souls to purity and Heaven. The Universalista hold " that at death the spiritual conditions which meet the cuu.vnlnfi soul oro such as cntirely to tranaform it ans bring it into a new E’hm’ of life and peace. The orthadox of thuold school believe in the cter- nity of consclous suffering on the part of the finalty impenitent, Then there Is & largo seetfon of orthodox who hold the belief that probation does not cease at death; but that, turther than this, whother it 18 tho annlullation of some and the restoratton of some they do not undertako to gay; It Is a point ou which no positive llght bas been thrown by Scripture. Thev may bo sald to teach that men wiil suffer ns long as they sin, but they do not feet at liberty to say that men will sin forever; they hold that the New ‘Testament teaches, certainly, no such doctrine as that men will continuc to sin forever who go out of this life inpenitent sinners. Q.—Ilave you observed that many pood men havo expressed themselved as shocked at the frreverenico of many passages In your seermon on ** The Background of History” Afr, Beecher—That which s irreverent to one man I8 not frreverent to another. Certalnly my spirit was not {rreverent. ‘The intgpsity of the expressfons was but a falot measare of the in- tensity of my fecligs, and the wholo dritt of tho scrmon, a8 well as the whole drift of m; noture, was to magnify and not to minify moral fufluences; to present to tho hearts of men o morg glorious and not o less Influential view of the divino uature and divine admiulstrations, THE CURRENCY. | ODSOLETE COINAGE, | To the Editor of The Tribune, Caigaao, Jan. 22.—Bome honest people bave sald to me, * What do you mean by saying that Congreas struck out half our coln whon it de- monetized sliver] Did you ever sco nsilver dotiar In circalation? Wera there any In exiat- ence before the Warl When we borrowsd moncy and agreed to pay in coin did nct that imean {c pay v gold ' The anewer Is cnsy. From 1770 to 1834 we had nothing Lut silver. The Secretary of tho Treasury reported fn De- cember, 1823, that thero bad then been lessthan twelve millious of gold minted, and that there was not & gold pleco left in the country. In 1834 Congreas clipped 6 per cent from the gold colus, aud then gold and silver stald ona par for sixtcen years, The Callfornia mines lowered the valuo of gold, aud then sllver disappeared. Cangress did not altor the sllver dollar, which from 1770 to 1873 was the Jegal-tender unit and standard of value, but it fssucd half dollars, withd per cont less sllver In them, and, of course, oll sliver dollars were hoardad, sold, or rominted, 1n 1862, et s¢7,, wo borrowed our war money, 11809 wo agrced to pay the bonds in cofn, meaning the gold and silver legal-tendor .colns, as provionsly provided for by law. If you say that the Governmunt had no right to pay in silver dollars hecause there weroat that time no sitver dollars fu efrculation, you must also say it should only pny fn the actual gold volns which wero at that time in clreulation. Circulation, forscoth! There was neither gold norsilves (ncireulation, and never has been in this country to any consldersblo extent. Al- most the wholo business of tho country has buen doua In paper and bank Lllls, ‘Tho objection logically leads to this result, to-wit: that resumption must bo mode fu the cxact coins that were extant at the tune we bor- rowed the money u 1802, efse7, Now whut were those! You say there werc no silver dol- lurs, What wore theyl - There are no statiatics to show, but the Unit- urt says, {n 14th Wallace, that, at tho time wa & nded spocle payments, Government was using $1,000,000 per day, uml that I all the coln §p tho country hud” been pured {uto the lap of the Treasury frum cvery peciv enough In the country wmonl&hauovammcm forninetyduys. Tl urt thus estimates tho coln then inthe United States at $00,000,000. Your argument leads to the conclusion that the spirit of our agreement is Lo resume apecle paywent fn Januaty, 1870, of & public debt of which mory than $400 bave already matured, and are llmited to the uso of the $00,000,000 {n existonce when weo borrowed the money, ‘The whols question Is utterly bebiticd by the fdea that actual coln in existence fn 1803 was the only wgnl-wndet on resuming; and thero is no good reason for cunsidering the actual bulk, or welght, or presence of elther gold or sllyer—ucitler of them will be uwally baudled in lurgo traussctious, Silver mun ciaim werel tha vight lo handle and use and pay ather coln o ure, Asaumiag that vo fair-minded mau will deny, upon full investigation, that the debtor has & right to pay according ta the letter of lis agree. ment, and’ that every kind of coin authorized by our laws as legal-tender should have been at once minted, in visw of resumnption, I contend that the debasiniz law of 1873 shuyld bo ro- pealed, and the old halves, quarters, and dhues restored to real fractions of the honest atandard dotlar, It is quostionable whother the act uf 53 excludes this honest cownage, for It limits only the small silver colus *issucd In conform- ity with this law" to legal-tonder for 35, I think o falr conatruction of all the laws taken together would permit the Treasurer to reculn sinall silyer of tho full value, and but for the laws of 1873~ they would bea full lezal-tender {or any umount. Absurd (" dodynn sy, “to talk of paviug QGovernmuens bonds in dimest” Extraordinary occusions call for extraordinary remedies. No ona can complaln if thess extraordinary reme- dics are legal. Untll the Ofty-sixth of Geurge 1L sllver 'sas Jegal-tender in Eoglund concur- rently with gold, end oa the 23th of February, 1707, the Bauk of Enyland pald its notea s BILVER BIXPENCES. When England resumed in 1531 dld she ask, What was the opinion of the creditor when he losued the money! Shall we Hmit ourselves to agree to pay only the particular coln which chaaced to be in most gencral use at tho time -we made our dobti The Uritlsh Lion was not cruoulous. He did not even agree to payat first in auy kind ¢f coly. Tho act of February, 1820, provited that resumption should be vom- wenced in bullion, and that letgu-nuderl sbould ba of bullion uutil May 1, 1822, lu qusutitics not le-ladnhuu slxty ounces of gold, aud thercaftor in ol % It scewns to me the narrowcst and most super- flcial kind of **stiking fu the bark' to deny that when wo funded vur debt In 1809 and *701n bonds payuble tu culu, that we tesceved the Fight to In 20y kind of and silver coln ther toforg anthorized, of Tezal welght and finenen and that we had the mame national right that England exercised to pass 2D ex post facto Inw by which for two yeare, until the money was coined, we could pay in bulllon. Repeal the lawn of 13734 demonetizing silver, repeal the law of 1857, and restore foretgn cuins of proper weight and finencss: repeal the law of 1873 clipping subsidlary silver, and resump- tion will b enay, certain, and stalile, In the awful panfc of 1935, when England was shaken to Its foundations by the ruln of thou- sands, the fires of the incenaiary, and the slaughter and egecution of hundreds of her r'luwfl!. the nint colucd 160,000 movreizns per day. Reneal the odious and fraudalent Inws which have tnade us the prey of the money-chancers and atart all_our sninta at ativer, and the Ist of January, 157, will find us ready, able, and willing to resnme specle pagments according to the very letter of our bonds. When wa have the bullion and cofn ready, nobody will call for It, and the convertible paper will azain do the work of this land, as it must of avery civilized commerclal country on tbe globe. D.G. A WARNING. To the Fditar of The Tribune, Orpicn or EMery & CovrroN, PrOPRIETORS MipLaNp ELBVATOR, AND GRAIN DEALENS, Manoa, 11, Jan. 10.—To the best of my knowl- edge, [ would say I have read every aditorial published in your paper slnce you succeeded to the control of Tug TRIBUNE, and slso tnost of thoso contained in three or four other papers. And [ have been capecially pleased with your advocacy of the proposition to remonotizs sil- vor,and am free to confess that I donot Lelieve you have left one stono unturned. I therefore take the ground that ho who has earcfuily read the case as presented in your paper during the timo that the question has Leen agltating the peoplo bas bad all the evidence and argument that can be advanced on the subject,—whether ho has retained it or mot. But I tad to walt for your article, A Talk About Malntaining the Publle Credit,” n your fasue of tha 18th, to get the last point. Trile, 1t has been hinted at before, Lut not until yesterday have I seen anything in vour editorial columns that broadly aud openly pointed to ultimato ropudiation as the only Jugical result of an arbitrarfiy-enforced law “dethroning the only unit or measure of values extsting [n the United States for cighty years. As an humbie, commen man, tiving smongst the humble, common people, 1 write vou to as- suro you of my approval of nll you have said on the subject. And, beln§: ong of the great mass who depend upon their labor for their lylng, let me assure you that in my views I correctly rep- resent the 7,000,000 who are now depending up- on charlty for sustenance; and also that other class, enibracing perhaps 20,000,000 more, who, a8 tmn;iu now go, can sce only bankruptey an ruin in the future. While the innate honesty of the common peo- ple, a8 a whole, caunot’ be questioned, and while the common people, as a whole, have ever been willing to mect oll obligations, buth of a publle and private character, in good falth, they also demand that their creditors ehall take that which it had been agreed should be given. The peovle are yet willing to do this, But, day by day, as the evil effects of silver demonetizu- tion bear mure heavily down upon them, and day by day, as disappears one star after an- other ot hope that Congress, the 8cnate, and the Exccuttve would unitedly sct about undofug the wrongs fraudulently practiced upon a too- confiding people, they begin to foster the only remaining thought of hope of rellel—namely, revolution. This tho people loathe—abhor! They arc bound to our present Governinent by all the ties that could make strong patriotism, loyalty, deyotion. We cherish the memory of ‘our revolutionary fatliers, we glory In the posscssion of our edu- catlonal avd rellizious privilezes. We went for Lincoln s for a father, and the blood tingics in our very oxtremities at alght of our national banner. To change our Government, with all thesa thoughts in memor[v would be a mourn- ful undertaking, It could e dano only as the patient parts with his linbs,—~to save bis life. ‘Wo therefore appeal by tongue and pen, aud in the use of every arguinent, and by appeal to the nobler tmpulsea of thelr botter natures, and as they value stabllity in human fustitutions,— yea, 28 thoy value the shinfne gold and silver due them not only from the Goyernment, but from individuals na well,—~we ask them to pause in thele mad carcer and, beforo it Is cternally 100 Inte, undo the follles of the past. Restore silver to the position of honor en- Joyed by it untll, by frand and stultification, it was dishonored.” Do this, and the pcnPIe will forgive tFi past, aud they will go cheerfully to work to nect thelr obligations, Failing In tlis, the timo §8 near at hand when appcal will bo taken to tho court of lust resort, and ail debta will be wioed out by an edict more pow- erful than any Congrossional enactment. W. J. Coxrron, THE JOURNAL'S MYTIT ANSWERED. To the Editor of The Tribune, 8tenuing, I, Jan, 21.—In Baturday's Jour- nat I find s letter which thoy hold up as an ex- smple from an oxperienced and thoughtful nan, who was once prosperous merchant, who is now numbered among the unfortunates; who during the good old flush timcs mado a fortune, and as late a8 ’09 was making a profit of 875,000 a year; but gettiug {n debt, shrivkave In values of goods, stocks, and real estate brought bin down, Hu says ho made his moncy ou * ntla- tion! and lost it n *‘reaction': has thought the matter all over, and * wants no more Infla- tion in his.” Well, 1 should think he had bad “reactlon enough! DBut I wonder if, when thinking over this matter of *rosction " and how he lost his money, ho recognizes and will adinit the cause of it. Cau he seo that when this single-standard monopcly was inaugurated and foreed upon the people it took 15 or 20 per cent right out of the value of Lis goods und stocks! 1o did his busi- uess on a silver basls, owned his goods, ond his profits wers on & sllver value, and when these shrewd sharpers took 10 per cent out of the value of sllver by thelr grand monopaly of solid stugle basls, they took the samo amouut out of his fortune, which in this case is presumed to be all thiere was over and above his debts, Will ho adinit now that 1f lu 1860, when bo was making $15,000 on “fuflation," or as late ns 1873, he had asked Lo vote to demonotizs silver, that bLu would have consented! Would he not have answered *Nol Nol" Would not his best bus. 1ness instinet safd * No, it will ruin me "'t But now he wants all gold—a solid **single old basis." Well, I venturo to sav that it ho (and tho Journal) could have the unlimited op- ton of calling on the UGoverument for aliver dollars, he would demsnd enough to advance the value of sllver bulllon 1 per cent, and the Journal would demand cuough niore to advance tha silver another 1 per cent. We would take €nough to raise tho value fully two cen then our littlo sllver dollar would be worth 03 cents according to the the Journal's quotutions, which (s invarisbly with g {07 the valug of allver bullion does not ndvance, Now, wo would like to have them give one singlo, solitary reason why ellver bulllon will not advauce in value fmmediately thero is a de- mand for it. (ive one siogle, soiltary reason why there will not be a demand for it sbould silver be remonetized, and put back inits old und natural place os moncy. Give one siugle, mmu{ teason why, wheo sliver is remanetized, ver bullion wll not advance in value un- til our Jittle sliver dollar 1s worth 100 cents, ‘Then what objection can this gentleman Lave ugainst dofng a buslness ou seound silver basis? I thiuk thut if he cannot do a successful busle ness with o silver dollar worth 100 cents, he caus not do it with a gold dollar worth the same. HBIMILAR CIRCUMBTANCES,Y A VOICE IROM MICHIGAN, To tha Editor of The Tribune. DeTroir, Mich., Jan. 21,—Iu handing you in- closed to renew iy subscription, allow mio a word on the stiver question. Bince 1 gave my virgin vote to Abraham Liucoln, in 1800, I have not fult so great an interest fu sny political question as I do fu this. It scems to me to'be an sttempt to establish a moneyed sristocracy in this country, ke that of Eugland to-day, and to place the same gulf sud jwpassable bar- riers between the rich and the poor that have so long oxisted in England, The importaut ques- tou of the hour is, Will the Inteliigence of the uutry permit tha gold sharks to consummate foul an outrage on tho honest laboring masses and debtor classt Knowlu;i the potency of gold, I must say [ am tearful of tho result; but, if defeatud now, I hope such papers as Tus ‘Tuisunn will klu:pl:g the fight, sud, in w ‘wh‘hlfi every hon disintervst jutelll- geot Kopullican or Dewocrat in Michisan will jolu our ranks as eoon as thoy are full fnformed on the subject. The trouble here now is that the people have no means of Qetling correct information on the queation, as vur entire press has wrayed itaelf ou the side of the Bhylocks. Yours truly, &. N, HusLuur, P, 8.—I have fust had a conversation with a gentleman who very receotly bad an juter- view with the President, sud "he thinks ue John Bherman, and that {¢ will JANUARY 23, 1878. (Hayes) will veto the orfeinal Bland bill, bue §f modified in certain particulars he will not. think the upshot of all thia Is, that the hill will not be fixed to conform to the Fet theories of be vetosd, The same gentleman safd the President waa in favor of having the silver dollar restored, but that he wanted it to be an * honest doliar,” or a_full dollar, worth ns much a the gold doftar, 11 ko means by tls that he would add to the amount of allver'in the old dollar, L seems to me’ tn be a refie:tion on his Intelligence or his honeatr, for the only reason [ have vet feen advanced hy the goldites Ir defense of the fufamous sct de- monetizing nilver was, that beiug by the old ratio of sizteen to one worth three cents more than gold, it had alimost * cessed to_clreulate,” ' becone obsolete,! and, In fact, ** practicaliy demonctized [tsc)f,'” Such belnz the case, It would scem more: sensibie, instead of increasing 1t weight, to reduce the ratio to fifteen and rltlnal-hnlr 1o one, conforming to that of the Latin nion, . N, H. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, To the Edltor of TAe Tridunz, Kangaxes, Il Jan. 22.—You deserve the thanks of overy man In the West for swhat you have done and are doing to restore the silver dollar. Tne Tnisyxs has wiclded s potent power In this cause. It has met und vanquished every argument out forth by the money kings in favor of a gold standard. It has stripped off the mask aud exposed this Inlquity fu all its naked aud hideous deformity, and presented the subject to the people so clearly that none can fafl to see the enormity of thls vilsinous acheme. ‘When the country is bleeding at every pore, and fts vitality paralyzed, for those Bhylocks to push this scheme of rohbery by every means thelr lugenuity can devise Is simply damuable, Have these men no souls! They certainly have no patriotiam, notwithetanding thelr nice regard for the credit of the country. They Lave drawn the bLanks Into their con- spiracy, it secms, aud they are addiog thelr in- uence to klll the Bliver 'bill by crying down sllver and refusing to reeeive it on deposlt just now, and 1 don't know but Socretary Sherman’s 4 per cent pold bond Is & movement in the samo directlon. The pcurlc can’t buy gold bonds. Why talk ahout gold bonds; it is for effect upon the Silver bill. Restore the silver dollar and Mr. Bhertnan may lasue his bonds, rocelv- able and vayable In " lawlul money, and the people will buy them like hot cakes. But “the credit of the country s golng to satfer, forsooth, if we don't pa{ the bonds In gold," and 150 (incinding Interest nircady pald) for cvery 50 cents Joaned to the Govern- ment, Who ever beard of 8 man's credit or a natfon's credit suffering that paid their debts promptly and according to the Jetter of their agreement! A maw’s credit or a natfon’s credit is ineasurcd by their willingness and ablilty to pay, and if either are foolish cnough to volun- tarily deprive themaclves of balf of thelr re- sources or means to pay, they are not fit to be trusted. Such arguments arc too thin for honest men to swallow, whatever effect they may have upon COI)K’MIIHL‘H. Continue to champlon vur cause, cod and re- celve the gratitude of an ludignant and suffer- fog people. Yours, G, W. BoHCIARD, CANADA. The Montreal, Portland & Doston Rallway Wrangle—A | lascal In Heul Trouble— Hlanlon—Anoual Convention of the Domin- fon Grange. Soeclai Dispateh to The Chicado Tridune. MonTneaL, Jan. 22.~The American soction of tho Directors ot the Montreal, Portland & Boston Raflway took outu writ of sefzure re- vendication to-day to selze the books in the bands of President Goff. Tne writ was served, but the books have not been handed over. The four men arrested for tearing up the track of the Montreal, Portland & Boston Hailway are Brennan, Preston, O'Nelll, aad Powell, They were remanded at court to-day. Col, Beavers, at one tlinc & member of the Tammony Ring, and connected with severat gi- gantic swindling operations In the United States, haa been arrested hero for debt at the instance of the provrietor of the 8t. Lawrence Hall Hotel. He had given cheeka for large amounts on partics fn Boston, which were dis- honored. Speeial Dirpatch (o The Chicags Tridune. ‘ToROXTO, Jan. 22.—Charles E. Courtney, the American oarsman, left for homa to-day, Tho result of his visit was that an agreement was come to for n match hetween himself and Hou- lon, to take plave next summer on Toronto Bay or Owasco Lake, the details to bo arranged here- after. Hanlon to-day sent a challenge to Evun {Morrie, of Pittsburg, to row a flve-mile raco with one turn for 81,000 8 aide, or larger stakes If desired, and the champlonship of the United States. If the race takes place iu On- tario, Morris Is to be allowed reasonsble cx- cnso; 4 on neutral waters cach man is to pay sown cxpenses. ‘The challenge fs to remain open three weeks, and, {f not accepted, Hanlon will hold the question of the champlonship of this continent scitled. Any one disputing his titie to it will kave torow bim. “The anoual convention of the Dominfon Qrange of Patrons of Husbandry has been in scasion here for the past fewdays, and Is largely attended, all parts of the Domlnlon being rep- resented except Manitobnand British Columbla. Beveral dolegates are also present from the Unlted Btates. The Worthy Master, 8. W. Hill, in his ad- sald thn'Grange in Canada was increasing steadlly und -ubauutlnlly,l s soclal aud futel- lectunl advantares beingiappreciuted by the farmers. The agricultural class belng a” large percentage of the povulation of Canads, be urged unon them the linportance of studying to elevate tholr position by education, temperauce, norality, and religion. He sald thers were now over 00C Subordinate G esy and thelr futluence 18 belug rantdly felt In every locality fn Canada. With tav ravld inercase of the UGrange, he believed it woutd soon he nceessary Lo establish Provinclal Granges, their delegates to compose the Do minfon Grange, He congratulated the uiembers 1tpon the corporation of the organtzation by Parliament Jast sesston, which placed it upon a bettor foundation than ever. A {usurance company under jurisdiction of the Grange had also been catabllshod. The negotiations in re- rard to the rocognition of the Dumlinlon hrungu by the Natlonal Grange of the United Btates had beco concluded.” Tho unlon was now cunsummated, and the last lok fn the fraternal chatn closed. ‘Tho Becretary's report shows a_continual growth and spréad ol the Order, Thero Lave been organized during the year 108 Bubordivate Graneos aud eleven Division um‘m, making 635 Subordinatoand forty-four Division Grauges, with & membership of 25,000 Of the new Grauges, nincty-four have been formed 1n Ou. tarfo, six in Quebec, ono in New Brunswick, four in Nova Scotis, and ane in Mauitoba, Lud! ;, T, Chase, representative of the United States National Girange, and Muster of the New Hutpshire State_Girange, was prescut, sud de- livered un sbly address, and alio Iustalicd the newly-elected oticers, 8. W, Hill betng elected Master for the vmuln};l)mr, A lurge amount of finportant business was transacted, and & number of valuable and in- terestlug papsrs read. It was resolved Lo petition Parllament that a ortion of the aurplus fund of the Vrovinie be oaned to fariners for the purpode of draining their lands, on such tering o! repayment s ratos of (ntercat as they mn{ think conducive to tha furtherance of sodesiruble u profect. 8. W, il was svpoluted Delceate to tho next anuusl oiesting of the Natlonsl Grange. e —— PUBLIC CHARITIES, Speetat Dispaich 1o The Chicago Tribune BeRiNaPIELD, Ik, Jan. 22.—Advanco sheets of tho quarterly report of tho Bccrctary of the State Boord of Public' Charities show the ex- venses of the State institutlons for three mouths prior to Jan. 1to have been: Northern Insuno Hosplta), 835,251.20; Central Jusane Hoepital, $15,225.65; BSquihern Insano [Iospital, $22,- 952.08; Deat and Damb Asylum, $37,510.53; Blind Asylum, 3 Feeble-Minded Asylum, 2 0 Bol- diers' Orphans’ ilome, $13,801.25; Ef.gtbuml Ear Infrmary, 310, 23,1%: Btate Heform-Sc ual, Fotal, $213,774.27, Total number $16,342.21. of llg 3 furulsbed iu all juatitutions, 27,4035 average uuwber of lumates, 24715 BYLrage cost per capita fur the quarter, $01.4. ———— e BISMARCK, Apscial Diapaich to Tha CAlcago Tribune. Bisaarck, D. T., Jag, $1—Advices from Fort Bufurd report ludian rumors numecrous and general of & cougregation of hustlles north of Mllk River. As mauy as nine cainps are report- ed on either side of tho Moe, . Muesthinks thero i3 trouble shead, 1t 18 reported that Gen. Bheridan has approv- od a report for the establishinent of au srsenal on the west aldo of the Missourd at tals polut. e ——— Raliable Belp for weax sud nervous sugerard. Chroule, painful, wnd prosiratisg disascs cured wlthout mediciue. Pulvermachor's Eloctric Uolts tho graud dealderatam. Avoid imitatione. Bouk snd Journal, with particuisrs, malled free. Ad- dreas Pulvermucher Ualvauic Co., Ciaclonaty, Obio. VEXATIOUS SCANDAL. ely to us, and our changs come! o Father which art in _Heaven, Hallowed be Thy name, Thy will be done;’ what clse ¢an wo #sy! The other n %h!. in my sleepless tossings about, which wero growing more and more miserable, these warda, that bricf and prand prayer, cama strangelvInto my smind, with a0 rltogether new emphasis: as if weitten and shining for me in mild. pore splendor, on the black botom of the night thero; when I, as it were, read them wond by word,— with a sudden check to my imperfect wander- Inge, with & sudden softness of compoaure which was much unexpeeted. Not for thirty or furty years had I onee formally repeated that prasers nay, never felt bafore how intensely tho volée of man's soul [t {a; the inmost aspiration of ail that is high and plous in poor human nature: riget worthy o be recoanmended with an * After this manner pray ye.' ' ——— . ELECTION FRAUDS, How the TNallot-Boxes of St. Paul Were Stuffed Ly Stafling the Reglstors. Fpecial Disateh 1o The Chicaan Tridune. BT. PAuL, Mion., Jan. 2.—The Grand Jary created a renestion todlay by reporting to the Judges of the Distriet Court that systematic and enormous frauds were committed in the registration of voters for the last November election, Fictitious names were added to tho poll-bonks used in 1878, and carefully checked as they would have boen ULad they beon voters at that cleotton. These sdditions were made after the fl{mfl-bmh were filed In the City Clerk's office. These books, according to law aml custom, were used in making poll-lists for The Inside History of a Recent Laporte, Ind.,, Sen- sation. A Villainous Attempt to Blackmail an Old and Respected Citizen. Tie Tnimuxe of the 10th inat. contalned a dis- pateh from Laporte, Ind,, fn relation to & sult brought by a Mrs. Netite Goodwin 1n the Cirenit Court of Laporte County to recover cortain house- hold zoods which had been levled upon at the sult of the Hon, J, H. Wintetbotham, of Michiran City. The pareon who fnrnished the report took occaalon fn so doing to wive 3 hustory of certaln sults between the partics, and to revive a acandal which was Grst made public In July last, So far 84 the etory related to Mr. Winterbotham, it was ta the clfect that last summer W. B, McCariney, then editor of the now defunct Reform Journal, of Mickigan City, repared on article for poblication charging Mr. Winterbotham witn the seductlon of the woman Goodwin and aMrs. VenDuzen. A temporary reetraining or- der wss obtained In the Laporte Circult Conrt, hut McCartney printed some sheets before the in- Juctlon was served, and some of the papers were circalated. Out of this action of McCartney's grew a4 rerlea of suite, Bir. Winterbotham clafmed that the whole scheme tvas gotten up for bleckmalling por- ses by the wornn Goodwin, while cCartney | the ~Tast clection, all checked names be- 28:1 M.’n. Kagadalc—the latter being mucm.’| log copled. ~Additions wers thus mads snthor—were intigsted by motives of revenge. { ©f 545 ficutions uames, ranging from McCartney had been in partnersalp with Mr, Wi nong In the Ward and thirteen Fifth terbothasi in the Sixth Ward to 274 fn the Sccond Ward, In the menufacture of carriages in the oprison, = and = Hagedale, who was | the latter being the strougest Democratic Werd B ‘ Campbellite™ or *'Christian ' minlster. | jnthecity. The books were taken from the Incorrectly Imputed his removal from the City Clerk's oftico and kept at pleasare by un- authorized persons, but with the knowledee and consent of tho Clerk, The jurycaonot find that the offanscs committed are Indictable, but sharply censure the negllrent Judees of election and the City-Clerk and his caajstant—M. J. O'Connor ant his son. ‘The Jjury also broughs Chapisincy of the Norther State's Prison 1o the n:cncz of Senstor Winterbotham, The story grested umch excitetnent in Laporie County at the time, an Mr. Winterbotlinm, berides hesng a man of couslderable swealth, held ‘s high soctsl position, and was romewhat bromincnt in politice. In tho dispatch of Jan. 18 thete are several inaccnracies r\r_l dell'n‘:l- Mrmmw ;h?&h the ,mmlnlvmt ltllm \1r. nloe {ndictments cach azainst Ald. J. C. Me an Dusen procurc varce frum hls wite after erbotham en af nrea’s household. e ants. comtraey o (oL focks for tne divarce was | 8£Lion as snch fudgos, McCorthy n & mell- known local pofitiuan of Domocratic falth, pular in his ward; has been a member of the Legislature, Alderman, etc., for tiany years. The two Indicted gave ball iu 81,000 cach. The Jury also charge the County Commissioners with baving drawn 81,700 more than they were legally entitied to last year. ————— e New Year's Day In Paris. Puris Lotter to Yoo York Ttmes. _The Americans {n Paris keep u? tiic custom of New Year's calls,sand yesterday had a round of visits to pay, commencing of course, with Min- fster Noyes. The largest reception was given by Consul-Goneral and Mmo. Torbert, and all the Awnerlcaus in Paris, passed by these at some hour duriog the doy. Mme. Torbert was aldel In ber reception by Mrs. and Miss Bleclow uud the Mlsscs Ketridge. These Jadies presided over a well-lald table, upon which there was egenog, champagne, and real American cakes. Dr. Edward” Warren also had o Jarge reception fu the cvening. There was a number of open hounes, somany, in fact, that the gentlemen were by evening extremely gay, and conslder- ably under the fnduence of milk punc chlalned by Birs. Van Dosen, whose husband de- serted her in Missourl eevernl months hefore sic ever visited Michigan City. The dirorce pro- cordings were unopposed by the husband, and Mrs, Van Dusen obisined a dberee, with coats of $500 allinony, and the custody of her child, Vay Dusen belng In the employ of Mr. Winter- botham, the latter interestod himself to compel the d;nnrs l“ huesband to support his wife pending the trial. Fartbermore, the aliegations that Benator Win- terbotham paid Ragsdale's expenscn to Flurida. and that the jury found a verdict for Mrs. Goodwin in the replovin voit, were incorrect, The claim was {or about £140, and the jury retarned s verdict for £40 worth of the goods, dnding for Mr. Winter- Dotham as to the remainder, The defenne attem) ed to impeach the testimeny of the woman (oo win, and produced u wcore of respectable wi testify that she was a nototlo bad character, ‘TBut under the Indlana law all thia evldence wans ruled oat, for the witnesses' knowiedge came down only fo Aug. 3, 1477, at which time Mrs. Goodwin removed to Chicayo. ‘Tae statute provides that whore it Is sought to lin- each a witness evidence an to character must ba rought up to date, and the Courtvo_ ruled, -8 bill of cxceptiona being takon by the defense, There appears no doubt whatever that the scan- dalous allegations of the womun Goodwin wero made for the purpose of biackmail. Asto herchar- ncter 8 number of reputable citizens of both La. porte and Michigan City expross thomselves in the T THE TABERNACLE. n the State-Prison, haa already test at be 9 had Jillclt relations with the womas an Dusen | The TWO GRAND FAREWELL COXCERTS and only haa deposed that she offered to im FPOPULAR MATINEE by tho eame; and the the fint to make Ragadalo bas nlnad{ **the ecarrilous article fiich out of Mr., Winter! money, " and that **the biti the article was the result of his own apleen and desire fur revenge.” Ho further stated that Mre, Goodwin was regarded 25 & common prostitute, and that be had found her out. This declaration he mnde in a letter pablished aver his own_signa- ture intne Laporte Argus, and within the jast two days he Las offered In writing o expose the whole matter. Inshort, there is noqueation but that the womap got up the scheme tn order to obtaln money, and the plan was only thwarted by the re- fuent of Senntor Winterbotham to eubmit to black- mall. ith, with whom she had been gulltily concerned, was bled to the tuno of $150, and eho hoped for bigher game. Asto the Hagadsle-Mc- Cartnoy puslication, the motive was unquestion- ably rovenge, and that of the meanest and most miserable type, The gentioman agsinst whom foul aflegations were made fs & man of U3 years of age, and during the course of & long and stainless carcer has won the rospect of ail who womnn_ he GILMORE'S 22 BAND, Aulsted by a brilltant srray of solo talent, for which deata are sold &t £0, 50, sud 75 ats,, st [oat & Bons's 138 btate-at. Rescrved sests cuet'no more then BTANDING-ROOM, GEO. B. CARPENTER. Manager. THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CUURCH, Carner West Washington and Carventer-sta. GRAND CONCERT Thursday livening, Jan. 24, VOCALISTS & Batarday Afternoon and Evening, know bim, That he should have been aingied out ! 10 hin old Age a4 & Victim to the rapacity of ' pro- | 3o ANDELGILES e IR ART fesaional bjackmaller and the revengo of unscrapu- | Me G As HNOIHk air, & L GOLDSMITIL lous men, ix & matier which Tnz Tninuse regreta aesnuch as Sonator Winterbotham and his friends «can do. PIANINT, Mrs. EUGRNTF: D ROODE RICE. Benson tickets, 81 for serios of four Qoncerts. Blagle simission R0 conts. To be obtalned at the d 4 ot A. C, Hletl, d. W, AL, and Fraak Bqualr, an duor on evenini of Concert. THE TABERNACLE. fces of the WOMEN'S Under the lnfl'fielfl‘&llA.Nl!l UHI‘UN. CHRISTIAN JOHN B. GOUGH ‘Wil delivar hls NEW LECTURE, “REFORM,” At the Tabernncle, MONDAY, Jan. 25, Admiston, 25 centa) reserved seats, 35 cents extra. Tickets for saio at all bookstares, ~[teserved seats nuw for sale at Jansen, MeCluri & Co.'s, 117 & 119 Hiate-st. HOOLEY’S THEATRE, Prices, 25¢,50¢,73¢, 82 81, Matinee Pricca, 25cand 503, “OUR BACHELORS " MATINEE TIlIS WEDNESDAY at 2p. m. THE GREATEST SUCCESS OF TIIK HEASON, ROBSON annd CRAN In thelr most succesaful of all couiedles. written 3. pressly far them by Josepl Bradford, of Boston, eatitied s I osaeess AT, B t . Bupported b) W, I1. Crae. b perd Dramaiic Compan McVICKER’S THEATRE: Fomr Comedians ——— MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY. Hpectal Dispatch to Ths Chicago Tridune, Axx Auson, Mich., Jan, 22.—The Board of Regents of the University met to-day, A full Board was present, Including George Duflicld and Georga L. Maltz, whose terms commenced Jan, 1. 4. B, Pattingill, Assistant Professor of Greck, was granted leavo of absence to s‘ndy in Europe untll next October. Elisha Jones, author of sevural elementary Greek sud Latin books, was appointed to take his place. Benator Christiancy resigned his position as crunsel on sccount of dutfes at Washington. Rose and Beal made o long statement of the history of the University chancery suit since the rehearing was demanded, and detatled thelr gricvances. Douglass replied fn an equally long statement, and presented an entirely different viow of the cuac, Dr. 8. 1. Douglass commcaced sult this morning In court here againat the Regenta of, the University for 81,800, which ho cluima he lisd advanced to the University when he was Director ot the Laboratory, and which was still withheld, Regent Chimfe offered a resolution to tho effect Lhat the bill in chancery now pending i the case of the Kezents vs. Rose, Douglass, Beal, et al, be dlamissed aa to Rose lnfi his sureties, and that the bill bo smended so 83 to cover & Jull and complete accounting with Dr. 8. }1. Douglass. Dliscussion of the resolution was made the spoclal order for U o'clock to- morrow. Recent Rynd read a letter from 8en- ator Christlancy, giving his views of the casc | J, H. MoVIOKER. at length, He fimfi‘n the Rtegents should have | HARRY PHARBON.| u\l 'hrHtF %\%T. held Douglass, a8 Director, primarily respunsi- “fi:;“‘ '|.“‘:Z.‘.‘x;".‘€‘§:‘a‘;'§ Litaseh. rine-Any 8y, ble. Ho thinks that they have o legitimate | —Srery SIu! HALls ool e clalm sgalnst Douglass for Interest charged by him, As to the question of forgery, upon which the merits of tho case malnly turn, he saye that the direct ovidunice bearlng u‘;x)an tho point fall- ed to make upon his mind the strong linpres- siun which it made upon the ining of the Judze. He says, furthier, that he saw nothing {n the case satlsfylng Lim of Rosc's gullt, but he could well sco that minds usually honest and equally {ntelligent might reach ofnoulln conclusions. A warm debate to-morrow s expocted. THE CROPS, Buecial Dlanalch io The Chicaga Tyidbune, BpriNariELD, I, Jan, 22.—~The rcports of UAVI’:R{.‘Y'S;N:‘EATRE. s Adstphi.) 3.1 HAVERLY.. Frosrietor and Massger. " VORITR, AND EAPRST, OREAT, P SN sATINEE AND NIQUT. DIt T N, CHANFRAD, L T T P S A= raken Hotwe, Man Huntery, Frustrated Shot, Btesmboa j ifa busl, and twency olters. {s, Now BT yeice Deat cheap brice pooular Fatily Theatrs: COLISEUM NOVEII.TLY TUEATRE, DOWLING & BTEPHENS* Great Dorder Drams, THE TEXAN RANGEIL 1 0r, A Life for 3 Look. log, brated Dramatio Dogs, ZIP aud the crop reporters of the several counties to the Et?fi%fi'"fiffi:‘:v“f;fy%mfié aclected from the Btate Department of Agriculture, show tuo | begt tilent tu Alnert wiuter wheat arca for 1874 to be 2,033,843 acros, as compared with 1,790,200 acres in 1877, The corn crop for 1877 was planted on B,&I5 411 ncres, the average yleld per acro was thirty busbels, the whale crup was 208,889,744 busbiels, and the vstimated value was 877,564870. Tho tlwurcs for 1878 compare us follows: Acresge, What Might Have Been Heard. modt apy day during the Centennlal a knot of phy- At e, CEahored aroutd the'eld- nt klaw case, standing 10 the Malu Bulldlag, {o whioh euson's Capclue Vorous Plaster was exblbited, als- aaing s merits and superiority over Olher borous 89187915 crop, 203,112,010 bushels; value, | FENLER B he itivaer mijht bave: heand woris. of 02,002,540 e e e ful trous aalr lipe aa ey spokeof (o -~ lurllll)\lun 1t would Itkely effect in rewmedics for diss 1 cb A4 Theul m, a aud Hair-Dyes. An_Enplish paper publishes the results ob- taned by the an of sonie twenty-one halr- restorers, or halr-dyes, fourteen of which wers found to by practically fdestlcal In thelr nsture, They contained sulphur fu suspensioun, and also Jead In varyiug but al‘oys cousiderable quan- tity, Three of these preparations had Amerlcan he rest Euglish, The delrn‘lllunl varfed cal. Usly one was plainly described on the label us pofsonons if taken intervally, eaternally, su €1 aplosl and’ kidaoy dlseass, aciatics, lum- 4, a0d brufses, and all aclics and painis of & With those ' opiulons tlie Centenuial ju- sodearned physicians, wero in perfecs securd, an: rded tho manufacturcrs of Denson's Capeing Plaster the onlymedal given ta porous plaiters. To'avuld fraud see that the woni Uapeine (a cut (arough each plastor. Yold everywherw, Price, 43 centa waahes without rubblng. A Dow tavention, (otally different from auything aver offered 10 the pub- Ao beturs. s bes spPOV o ol housckeepers tnthe couniry. Pud- tuasmoss practical Bouskeepers [uiha, & whils ineny wero set forth as perfectly barm- | Uvely harmicss H t‘ulu Uf‘wn wre. Price, A o 4 . were luum:rlu coutain bolgh le:ldh.uu sulphur, SEANTHY & JUILNSON, 41 Siatial s New York, but in a ditfercut torm, ‘The sulpliur was pres- i = ent a8 byposuiphite,—all tho prepamlou‘;.’ llgn SUALES, fact, botug capahle of tmftation, substautially, FAIRBANKS® by sddiog byposulphite of soda to s solutlon .uf lead salt, w white precipitate first uppears, ‘Which dissolves tn exvess, and the solution 86 obtained dves not give a precipitate with lodide of putassium. In spother sumple. un American OF ALL KINDS, oue, no free or loveely-cotbined sulpuur was FAIRBANKS, MORSE & GO, found, but only lead, iu conslderable quantity. 113 & 118 Lake St., Chicago, — carefi by oaly the Geauin: Csrlyle ou the Lord's Prayer, B¢ M? !:fl Z s ‘Thomas Cariyle, though an fconoclast, is g8 revercut 8 way as lives. lu o letter wi 1809 to the late Mr. Erskive, Lo sa! 1 ‘wus ayrecsbly surpl by e sizbt of your hapdwritiog arals, so kind, s welcume! “The Jetters urc us v sud hmwnl{ distluct as ever, —tlo wind, too, in spite of Its frail wuviron- uicnts, us clear, plomp up, ealmly expectunt, 2s n thie best duyss right gut so be it wil uy all, 1l we quit this dlw sojourn, uow gruwu so PUTS AND CALLS. 83, .'.'fl.%'{. '5‘@“‘3&':‘1"&‘?&‘..."{.‘;;83 % cry, No. 12 i ] §ieats th Stocks, | Which freauaily n B e o oot of ke bomc” A carriod a8 loug red ou de; - lanatory clreulase suG weekly Toports seat tree