Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 4, 1878, Page 1

VOLUME XXXI1I. PANTALOONS, MEN'S §5 PANTS € FOR P33.007Y A dark modest pat- tern. No man need be ashamed to wear them. . We could easily whole- sale them for more money. MEN'’S HEAVY BLACK PANTS $B1_501 "A GREAT TRADE) Unlaundried Full- Hade Shirts, 50¢. WILLOUGHBY, HILL & €0, Boston Square Dealing: Houss, CORINER Clark and Madison-sts, Branch, 532 Milwaukee-av,, cor, Rucker-st OPEN EVERY RIGHT UNTIL NINE. TO RENT. FOR EENT. IESIRABLE OFFICES IN THE TRIBUNE BUTLIING TO REINT. Apply to WM. C. DOW, Room 8 Tribune Building, TO RENT. LAZANUS BILVERMAN, Chamberof Commerce, J'L HATHAWAY. COAL. Comer Randolph and Market-sts, FINANUIAL. U. S, 4 PR CT. T0AY. ‘Wa ara recelving subscripiions ‘y the U. 8. 4 per « ntLosnoosame terns as offered by the becret m'rnv:ul sndpaymeut can Lemniade (n cliecks aud ::I!l.lfll! lich we W.lI convert into gold at curriat We slao koe Dply on hand for lmmediate delive Py & by 8 soil ALL tho 880 EBur U, o sllowing the best rates for CALLED IND RESTON, KE. 3 & ¢ KEAN & 00y Taakers FINM CIANGES, b e T DISSOLUTION. Hotica ls hereby given that the coparinership herato- Sreexisifug Letween tho undentitied under tho Nrm Bane o Ledstrozu & Cu., 18 thls d-, dissolved Ly mutual consent, . L. (5 DST RO, "Dated Jaa. 34, 1878, AL gl The business of the late fiem of E. L. Hedstrom & Cy; Wit be goptluued as heretolure, by ihe bodersigued. iated Jan. 24, INTH, E. T —___GHATES AND MANT B S o i e Tiais, Gold_and _ Sickel MA trimaied, sod SLATE MANTELS, F ROBASCO & HUMNKY R LY RTATEND, AUALEDS. FAIRBANKS’ STANDARD SCALES OF ALL KINDE. FAIRBANKS. MORSE & 00, 111 & 113 Lake St., Chlcago. Becarefultobuy only the Geaulne, North Ger_fiLan Lloyd. The steamers of this Company will sall avery Satur. 7 Srom Bremen Pler, foobof Third strust, Tiobokeu. ates of gasage—Froi Now Yurk ki Boitnawpion, ndon, Vavre, and Lreuien, Oret cabln, §100; socun Cabla, Go0. gold; stecrags, 80 curreac e sad passsgo appiy W NATIONAL LINE OF STEAMSHIPS, .1 'York 10 Queenstown and Liverpool, .Haturdsy, Jeo. 19—-3p.m. Baturday,'Jao, W11 8. 1. do a. ik Thuriday, Jao. 240 a. o 'abla. 850 ty 870, currency; stecrage, 830, Dratis tor Tasued at very luw rales. Appiy 10 Rl 2 5 w4 G T L A Great Western Steamship Line, England) direct, condem, Now York to Urisiol (England) direct. wuhb‘:“uu'r. ‘Blainoe s Cabiy passaye, 830 Bicyrage 84 Kelurn Tlek ald i 20, A WAL ¥, TR A L SR oo Llarkar, Mickluan Contenl haitrosd EXCUHSION, UKD EDUCATIONAL EXCUURION TO EUROPE, Ju the summerof 1N7Y, vhfl.lur ‘nlm. Beotlan - laud, Franee, ln-eig;m;‘n ha (thine, Pru Prusela, bwlizer: d, ly s K3 pusition. J1 0B fcllunhsr Icatires (aebicut to kuroseas travel estiraly romoved. Al truvel aud bute sccoruunations Gni-class, Extreinely low, leturu-tickets xuod for bw. Lollcgu Prulasots, Leaclor of Musle aod Lit ATt sildeata beliwol Teuebera 8ad utbiers of like tasle Fleaag adlrcas, fuf Frospoctis, TOULIK Mudu Vall Wnidn, [ of T Jitics TiALL LS, bl ba ¥ s 0. rada diate, s ki Uate. o Lcs, FOREIGN. Austria’s Intense LJneasiness a Conspicuous Object of Interest. Great Depression Felt at Vien- na Regarding the Sitiaa- tion, German Complacency To- ward Russia Viewed with Alarm, i An Austrian Note Forbid- ding Turkish Dis- memberment. Greece Anxiously Trying to Get Her Fat into the Fire. Authientie Text of the S8ix Basecs of the Present Armigtice, Denmark Evidently Looking Out for a General Scrimmage. THE PEACE. SIGNED, [By Cable to The Chicago Tribune,l Loxnox, Feb, 4—6 o, m.—~The prelimina. rios of the peaco nnd armistico woro signed at Adrianople last Thursday, and orders have been sont for a cossation of hostifities, Fol. lowing are the terms: Autonoiny for Bul- garia, indemnity to Russia, of money or ter- ritory, independence of Bervin, Roumania, and Montenegro, with ADDITIONAL TERRITORY FOR M\CIH, Christian Governors for Dosnin aml Ierze. govina, and reforms in their Gove rnments, ovacuntion of the Danubian fortrysses and Erzoroum by the Turks, andan ult erior un. derstanding between tho Czar and. tho Sul- tan rolative to the Dardanelles. With the exception of the last condition, thase torms ara identical with thoso telegraphed to Tux Triounz Jan, 20 as having beem proposed by Russin. That condition woalil ba the samo by substituting for tho Sultan the words Europoan Conforence. The differ- enco is 3 OF THE GREATEST IMPORTANUE, a8 showing that Russia insists upon a pass. sgo for her war-vessels throngh tho Dardan- ollos, and that Turkoy lLas pleilged horsclf not to offer any objection whon ‘the question is discussod in & Conferonce or Cougress of Europesn Powers, Ilow far England will Lo matisfied with theso corditions remains to bo soen, but it is thought that sho will have no supporters In s European Congress, if one be assembled, EXCEPT POSSIDLY AUSTRIA. Tialy will undoubtedly join Russia snd Germany, and if Groeco bo wise sho will take an anti-English viow, owing to tho manner_in whioh the English Government has deceived and cajoled her. A J3ucharest corrospondont telegraphis that Ronnanin witl probably withdraw hor oppositipr: to Ttus- sia’s claim for o retrocession of Bissrabia, but that the claim may meet alrong ob- Jections from Austrin ns likely tio destroy tho balanco of interests in the Danube River. Nothing can be learned as to the probability of o European Congress meet. ing, as neither Russia nor Gemmany has shown any dosire for such o Cougress, TOE CLOSING ACTION OF THE WAR took place on Friday, the Servisus having stormed and taken Vrania Pass with about 1,000 prisoners, and great qnuantities of stores, ? THE WUSSIANS KILLED AND WMOUNDED up to Jan, 80 were nearly 10,000 men. ——— AUSTRIA. SALT THIS BRYORS UHII 0, Pants, Feb, 8.—A apeclal from. Vienna asys that all the Powers have acceptedl Count An- drasay’s proposal "for & coufercizce, which will meet in Vienna, TURKEY DEAR TO AUSERIA, Loxnnon, Feb, 8.—A Constintinople corre- spondcnt says it s reported ‘that Austris Is nbout to present & note refusing: to sanction any condition of peace which would Imperil the ox- istencs of Turkey. AUSTUIAN UNBASIN XSS, , Peatu, Feb, 8.—Tho pspers a nnounce that an Austrian Army Corps has beew mobdillzed sod concentrated at Versth. THOE MINISTRY, Lowpox, Feb, 8.—A spedal from Vienns states: * The Aust Muntstry, which re- cently resigued, will resumo office, the Emperor haviog expressed an earvest personal desire that Hungary should make a concea ifon n the customs dispute.’ AUSTRIA WILL NOT INSIST* on the Conferenco mssembling here, Rusaia suggests Mannheim, Brussels, or Geneva. TUNKN I8 A VERY DESFONDENT FERILING HERE, as it i evident that Germany is fayweiog Rus- st GREECE. PICKWICKIAN, Atusxs, Feb, 8.—The Minlster of Forelgn Affalrs yesterday tnformed the Turkis b Minls- ter tbat Greéce had no intention of éleclaring war sgainst Turkey, but ouly desived. to pro- tect Greek subjects. Tho Turkish JWblster re- plied that bo would refer tho foregoing’ declara- tion to the Porte. Greece has sout a dlolowatic uote to thy Powers explaining the reason for her sction. The army is sdvaaciog 1on Theasaly without encountering suy resistancon The Cablnct are resolved to car 1y out thelr programme In apite of the sigting of the arwmistice. ON TUN MARCIL Aruzxs, Feb, 8.—Ten thousand Greek regu- lars and mavy thousand volunicers sro croasing the fronticr from Lawmls to-dsy in tlres divis- lons. The commanders have orders 100t o attack thie Turklsh troops, the ubject of cuterlvg Tur- key belug (o prevent the massacres of Christiuus consequent on the josiarrection. This detertalostion bas been woduuy.nicated to the CHICAGO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1878, Turkish Minister, who does not seem to consider it sufliclent to warrant the rupture of diplomatic relatiqne, as he s making no preparations for depsrture. The mercantfie fleets trom the Pircus and Slera will anchor at Satamis, where fortifications for their prutee- tion have been hastily erccted. and torpedoes placed outaide the harbor. The Greek Naviga- tion Company's steamers have been chartered by Government for the transport of troops and supplles, — TIECOSTLY TRUCE. OFPICIAL NOTIPICATION, CoNSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 2.—The Porte has re- celyed the following dispatch from Lerucr Pasha: * Apnianorse, Jan. 31,—The peace prelim- inaries and armistice were signed to-day.” THE BIX DASES, CoxsTARTINOFLE, I'ch. 3.—~There Is great satiafaction bere at the scttlement of the peace preliminarics. Foltowing arc the conditions of the protocol : 1. Too erectlon of Bulgsria Into a princl pality. . 2. A war indemnity, or territory {n compensa- tlon. 8. The Independence of Roumanla, Bervla, and Montenegro, with an fucrcase of terrjtory for cach. 4. Reforms In Bosnla and Herzeovina, 5. Au ulterfor understanding between the Sultan and the Czar regarding the Dardancllcs. 6. The evacuation of the Danublan fortresscs and Erzeroum, TIODART PASIIA bias recelyed orders to hold the fleet in readl- ness to sall, It is believed, for the Plrmus. Mchemet All Pasha has been appointed to the comnmand of troups in Crete, and Adassides, s Christian, has Leen appoiuted Governor of tho {eland. 40 aLAD! BT, Prrrnsnuno, Feb, 3, —Thanksglving serv- Ices are belng held in thie cliurches, and salvos of artillery fired, In consequence of the signing of the armistice. The flags are flying all over the city, and preparations arec making for a brilliant illumination to-night. ARMISTICE. Abrtaxorre, Jon. 8i—Evening.—The six bases of peace accepted by the Porte and the terms of an srinlstice have Just been signed by the Grand Duke Nicholos and Leruer and Nomyk Pushas, AN ONDRR SUSPENDING HOSTILITIES will be dispatched forthwith to all corps and detachments, and alfo to the army In Asia Ml nor. EVACUATION, The Turks will evacuste all the Dauublan fortresses and Erzcroum. QEN. ZINMERNAN'S FORORS have advanced within fifteen miles of Varoa, aud cut the Schumla rallway and telegraph lines. WIDDIN, Loxpox, Fob. 3.—The Bucharest correpond- ent telegraps that fn consequence of the armis- tico tha gurrison at Widdin has been ordered from Constantinople to surrender thelr arms, after which they will be quartered {o the neigh- boring villages. IGNATIEFF. BenruaN, Feb, 8.—~The Vouiche Zeltung's Buch- arest correspondent says hie Las had an Inter- vlew with Ignatleff, who foformed bLim that Russla wisied to operr the Dardanelles only to Turkey and hersclf, and jusisted upon the ces- slon of Armenin, as she kuew an endeavor to obtalu amoney Indemuity would he hopuless, A TERRITORIAL TRADE. Loxpox, Feb. 8.—A Berlin correspondent says that Russla has formally acqualnted Sou- maunla of her intention to annex Dessarabla, kiving tho Dobrudscha In exchange. A Vienna correspondent stotes that Roumania s addressed a noto to the Powers clalming the right, us belligersut, to participate inthe Con- ference. MALTA. La Vaverra, Malts, Feb. 3.—Tho fronclad Achilles and o steam-frigate which bave been refitting here nave returned to Hesika Bay, The frouclad Devastation will follow shortly. A TALK WITH MEHEMET ALL Mchemet All recently spoko as follows to a correspoudent of tho Cologne Gazelte: #+Whatever bis bruvery, Osman committed a signal mistake in cllmvllnf to Plevon, 1 gave him timely wurning. Keep & copy of the dispatch 1 sent hiin when holding cominand on the Danube, Iordeced hintinso many words to abandon Plovna directly Loveha fell, and, retreatiog to Oskbante from this tatter place nto a pew and stronger Plevna. But Loveha fell and Osman returned to Plevin, there to {ulfill bis doum. Nexito Bulciman's scnscless attack upon the Shipka Pass, this was the uravest inistake committed by any Turksh General in the war, ¢4 And this Osman_bad onn of the fincst armies in tho world, The troops Shefket took to him from Covstuntinople wure the best we had at our disposal. In wldition, ho had the yoterans who fourht under mo agalust the Mon- tenegring, and the Willu battshons, who' got through thelr u‘}mreuflculllp last year fn the Bervian war. What troops reninin at Sofla and in Thracla are worth nothing. Suleiman talks of raising them to 100,000 men, and I wish him well through his task. However, improbablo thiogs happen so ofcn in Turkey that thero is oo _telllog whether he many not succeed, Bofia i3 ecasy of defense and ditlult to take. Adrlanople, even noro for- midable, s belng strovgly fortitled, I do betleve Djemil Pasha, the cogineer at the head of the works at Adriauople, Lus acconi- plished a perfect chef d'wuvre. Bat, of course, th one thing needed s soldlers, and of theso wo have but few at present.” 7o my inquiry whether the Bashi.Bazouk: could nog bo turned to account, the Mushir re- lied, * My experlence {sthat the Bashi-Bazouks aro the worst ballast & Turkish army can carry along with it. ‘Theirprimary objoct §s plunder; thelr ulterlor afm to lodge their plunder In satety. Atths beginning of my Muntenegrin campaign 6,000 Albaueso irregulars jolned iny forces. A few days later une-hall lad disap- veared, beingz engaged in driving homo stolen cattle; & litle longer and tho rest fullowed sult, baving likewlse helped themaclves to herds and flocks. Ultimately the leaders who bad re- malued In camp asked tor permission to go home, which I was delighted to accbrd. 0+ Do not for & momens belleve that I de- spair of tho future of Turkoy. Despite tho danger surrounding her, 1 belleve she will issus {from thu war more vigarous thun ever. Is she not u young and fisiug State, accordiug to mrnn ideasi Earopean civilixation nowad: culminates hn the possession of largo sud vale orous armies, = But whero is there a larger number of vourageous wen Lo be found than io Turkeyl = Where {s tho nation 80 brave, so “frugal, ond k0 ready to dle? 1f you speak of decay, you should vonflue Lo\u' stricturcs to the Hureaucracy; the nation assouna and strong as van be. Tho outer crust {s 1noldy, but the kernal {s healthy. Ido not believe that tho Turks will be expelicd from Ellmgo, though I cannot but admit that this s possible; but even if this wers to come tolpna* the revival of the ancicut martial mouarchy ol vore would be 8 mere question of tune, 1f the ‘Turk has to shift without tho Christlan element uow worklug for bim; it No ls once forved to work for himself sud torelluquist the seductivo phautom of dominatiun, the Ottowan falcou r‘lll ulfi 'u,um wgain, aud then woo to thee, O BI’AIN. HERRERA. Maprip, Feb. 8, —Senor Herrers has resigned tho Minlstry of the Colonics, becauss of jil- bealth. Tbe Council of Mivisters have nomi- uated Benor Eldusyer as his successor, RUSSIA, 1CB UP XORTU, R104, Feb. 8.~The harbor bere is cloged by DENMARK, arENsE, Lowpo¥, Feb. 8.—A Copenhagen dispatch statca that overy preparation ls belug made to closo the Bound and spproaches to Copenbagen with torpedoes In twenty-four hours ([ ncces- sary. GREAT BRITAIN, RKORTHUMDERLAKD, Losnox, Feb, B.—It s ofifelslly announced that the Duke of Northumberland %ill enter the Cabinet to<lay ns Lord of the Privy deal. ANOTHER ' ' OY IIANDE'S LIES, To the Editor of The Tritune. OrremNa, Ta, Feb, 2—1 sceln your paper that Frank Rande says that he once ent open the Ottumna Jall, letting out sevenor cleht prisuners, smong whom was Clem Miller, one of tho Younter gani kitled in the North- ficld rafd. The facts are these: Onone Friday, about 4 p. m., Rande did escapo from the Ot- tumna Jatl by cutting a Hvet that held the lock, and in opening the deor tnade so tnuch notse that my wilu's atteution was atteacted, and shie ran down stalrs just s Rande passed out, before any other urisuner had thme to eacape, and with her preseace of miud turned the balance of the ?muucn back in the juil, losingg none but Rande. e might have then thought that the balanee Xulluwc.d im, hut lie knew better the foliuwing Monday, when hie was Jocked up ngain in the same fail, findmg his old assoclates all pafe. ‘The mun Clel Mliter (not Clem) made ho effort to escabe, He wanin fail on a chargs of robbiug the bank at Corgdon, In. lle expected 1o and did prove on alib, and was dischareed, He was nutfik"!"‘l at Northfleld, as was at flest reported, S0 you ace that this is anotnes of Rande’s Jes for UUFC notorfety, 1 was Bherlff of the county o i time, and knew Hande (or C. C. Scott) well, 89 knew him to bo one of the bigvest lara S7CF confined fu this fall. _Clel Miller was & soin' the slde of Rande, Reapectfully, 3 B, A, Bwigo®? TIIE INDIANAPOLIS 3 Svectd! Dianateh 1o The c.ll‘:qzln‘?\sljblu]:;.g > 1np1aNAroLLs, T, Feb, 8.—Weaver, Travls, and Daugherty the deapersdoes arrested hors last week and sent to Cincinnatd for trial on the charge of killlng ofiicer Kunkle. Iufye been re- turned to thls city, the evidence there not war- ranting o prosecution on that charge, They will be tried here for the attempted murder of Marshal Manving, Weaver has been recog- nized ns James Ryan, an okl convict and dever- o, who was seut Lo the Bouthern Prison from Wagne County in 1873 for _two-yoar teran, and wha soon, atter his arrival, headéd a rising of the prisoners fn that fustitution, bucking “and macying’? L, 8, Bchell, 8 guard, and only re- traming from killiog bl by ‘2he excrtions of BN Rodifer and two or threo utlier convicts. g e — FIRES. AT CINCINNATI. Cixcinxaty, 0., Feb, 3—The store No. 04 Fourth street, occupied by Bell, Miller & Co., notlons and furnishing goods, was partly burned this moruing. The bulldinz was owned by Willtain Hooper. It was damaged about 81,500, Bell, Miller & Co.'s stock was damaged by fire and water 875, fosurcd, 850,000 m the 4Etna, Lancashire, Hartford, North Brltish, Beottish American, German American, fHowme of New York, aud several local compaules. AT LOUISVILLE, KY, Louvtsvuir, Ky, Feb, 8.—~The Amerlean ‘White-Lead Works were damaged considerably Dby fire to-day, Loss estimated at $25,00; in- surance full,’ No interruption to busivess is occasloned. + CIIICAGO. A still alarm to Engine Company No. 19 at 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon was ensud by n fire in Room 19, Chileago University, Damagoe §25, Causc, coals fatling from n stove to the foor. AT BYRACUSE. Srnacuse, N. Y., et B.—The Dutch Re- Jormed Church burned to-doy. Loss $30,000; Insurance $25,000. -« e e—— OBITUARY, - Bpecial Disnateh (o TAe Chicaga Tribune, LoutaviLLy, (11, Feb. 3.—After a protracted and paluful illness Mr, Jesse A, Pickrell died at his home {n Loulsville this morning, Mr. Plek- rell was truly an * old sottler,” baving resided 10 Bangamon County slnce the spring of 1823, Hecame here from Kentucky, stoppiur near where Mechan{eaburg now stand hero ho was wmarrled, the same year, to s Ellzabeth Churchlll, Hewasa plonecr in breeding flue cattle, horses, aod nogs, and was for mauy yeara onn of the largest farmers and stock rals- crs u this sectlon of the country. \WABIINGTON, Feb. 8.—ten, Charles Thomsa died her to-duy, aged 80. I{e eutered the army fu 1819, and was retired in 1506, New Yonxk, Feb. 8.—Mra. Dutler, wile of Charles Butler, aud sister of the lato William 8. Ocdon, ated last cvening at ber resldence in this clty, Proura, 11, Feb. 8,~Benjamin Chase, for twenty-thres years o resident of Chicago and of Cook County, died in this city at the resldenca of his son, the Rev, Ira J. Chasc, Feb. 2, without previous scrious fliness and writhout a atruggle, Mr, Chaac held responsl- ble positions of trust In Cook County for the people from 1860 to 1870, He llved an honor- ablu life, and died the sweet, peaceful deata of the righieous, aged 70 years 10 months and 2 duys. His remaing will be deposited In the cemctery at Barriugton, lu this vounty, at 1t a. . Tuesday. —————— TEMPERANCE, Apecial Dispaich io Tis Chlcago 1ribune. Dusugue, fa.,, Feh. 3,.—~Tue temperance meet- ing drew to s close this evening. The last weeting was one of tho best that bave been beld slace Capt, Curtlss began his work of re- form, Hundreds wero unable to gain admls- slon. Ouoof the most prominent speakers of the evening was Mr, W, ‘T. Dart, of Des Moines, A large number of new signaturcs were added, and the list will now rcach 3,500 names, A club called The Tribe of Jonathan has been or- panized, aud also the Ladles’ Tewperance Leaguo, Capt, Curtiss leaves the city much to the regret ol the busincss weu, but to tue pleasure of the salvon-keepers, Svectal Dispateh (0 TAetAcagn Tribune. Kuwanxe, 11}, Feb, 3,—Mr, J. C. Bonticon, the celebrated tenperance reformer, clused his great work here this ovening, tle addressed the largest cathering at our City Iall thlseven- ing ever called together on such an occasion. Asa result of his work 1,623 have jolned the White and Red Ribbon Club during the last week, Mayor E, R, Kerr was eclected President of the Red Ribbon Reform Ciub, and work will be immediately commenced. WORKINGMEN, 87. Louss, Feb, 8.—A largely-attended mass. meeting of worklogmen and trades-uniona was held to-lay atthacall of the Knights of St. Crisvin, Speeches wers made cxpressing in- diguation at the action of the shoe manufac- turersof Lyno, Mass., toward thelr cmployes. Resolutions were sdopted to the effect that, “While we recoguize the rignt of manuface turers in all trades and all parts of the country to offer such terms as justicc and s regard for thelr own nterests way require, we also assert aud sball lusist on thu rights of the workingmen ot Lyun, Mass., tobelong toand maiotain auy orgunization which in thetr Judement ls wise sud proper, and suy attempt at’ juterterence with such right s io " direct violation uf the duclaration of vur forefuthers that wo are bound to walutain. This greeting 1s extended to all bonest tollers.” ———————— A Huge Ice Machlne. York Commereral. The lust steamer for New Orleans carried from this city an (e wachine coustructed by tho United States Jco & Refrigerating Com- pauy, having a dally capacity of fty tous. ‘The Eas compresslng pumps with base attachment weigh wearly 50000 pounds; dimenstons, 13 feet 6 Iuches high; 6 fect 6 luchos wide at base; the cyliuder bolug 35 fucbes bore by 33 tnches stroke. Tho gas used for the production of the vold is smmonly, belog liqueied by mechanical cumpression, aud lueyaporuting produces a cold 77 degroes below the frecziug polut. ‘The cvst ol wwnufacturiug the fov fu New Orleans witl uot wuch exceed $1 per tou. Seuator Jooes, of Nevada, Is the owuer of tho machlug. RELIGIOUS. The Rev. Henry Ward Boe- cher at Plymouth ~. Church. An Immense Crowd Gathers to Hear the Calehrated Divine, - Who Preaches One of His Brill- innt and Characteristio Sermons, The Rev. J. Monro Gibson Con- tinues His Bilde-Rendings at Farwell Iall. Address by Prof. 8. H. Carponter, of Madison, Wis., on the Laspira- tion of the Bibla. Boiy Ingersoll Turns Loose His Pungent Oratory Against Any Kind of Hell. IENRY WARD BITECHER. I3 KERMON IN PLYMOUTIC CHURCI, Plvmouth Church presented a scene yester- day morning quite lke to that mitnessed about a year azo when Beecer preaciacd in Moody's Cuurch on the North Blde, only more ro. There was the same attraction,-—the proxpeet of liearing thie great Brookiyn diviw:,—but the dif- ference in the size of the audiunce which gath- cred o these two oceastons wus altogetber fn favor of that which assembled gesterday morn- ing in ana arosud Plymouth Church, The chiurch-golug pobulation was ug» betimes, for us carly a8 9 o'clock those who bl tickets of ud- misslon, including the memburs of the church aud others entitled to that swecial favor, pre- sented themselves at the sear door to the lect- ure-room, while the sidownlk upd strect in front were packed and Jammed, tho forcmost and eachiest comers surzing up ogalost tho great doors, with tho laudable oeslre of rushing In when they were openod, and aceuring the best places left, Long before 10 'clock, the time when the front doors wers throsu open, very nearly all the regular seats in the bodv of the house, together with th extra chalrs, were o cupled, and, as the dowrs swung open, the crowd rushed fn only to find, themselves ot a declded disadyantage, The fow seats remainlug were quickly pre-empted by the lucky ones in the front ranks, but theothera hadto content them- selves with what littls consolstion thera was to be derived jwhile mnhitaloing a stondiog pos- ture from Hearing the sermon and scelog the great preacher, The side and centrs alsles were invaded, and the space In the rear of the room was more than comfortably crowded, A few miuutes after 1014t was o puysical Impos- albility to et fnto thi"house uniess & man hap- pened to be possessed. of the taculty of making himsclf fnpalpable o 1d coming in between the pazked throu or ower their beads, In short, "lymouth Church b ver contaiued anotner such audience as that whic:h touk possession of cvery seat, nook, and cormar yesterday morning to hear and sce the mav whio still malutalns such a sway over the pllb!_tg‘lml’ml. The modest livtlo ulplt desal: was ornamented with au equally meadest bouquet of tes roses, carnation piuks, and sprigs of stinllax, It wus a quarter before 11 wheu " Mr. Beeclier, accom- atied by the pastor, the Rev. Charles Jall verest, und the 1Lsv. Mr.. Mackle, edged thelr way through oue of tue doocs Jeading trom the feeture-roon tnto tho sudlence rooms, pushed through the crowd ubout the pulpit steps, and took ther seats in the pulgdt, Toerc was somo cousiderable commotiun, of course, but it did not break out Into wuything stronger than whispers uud Jooks of uter st comnnngied with the feeling of delight that the arony of waiting wus 0 ‘Ilie cholr, unda * the direetion of Mr. J. V. Fragler, sang the To ] deum, by Mercadante, ‘Ihe Reyv, Mr, I st prug ed, and the choir and congregation Pruists tod, frun whom all blessings tow.” Tho Hev, Mr, Mackie read from *the first chapter of 8t. Paui's Secoud Eplstle to the Corinthluns,~cuntainlng the Apostle's exaltation of the virtue of charity,— after which the choir anci congrezation saza bymn, Mr. Beecher then led i oraver, and the choir foilowed with **!dear My Prayer,” by Bouthard. After the pul pit anunouuceinents by the pastor, a cotlection v/as taken for the Kev. Mr. Muckle's church; during which the cholr ang 'oThiee,0 God," arrauged from * Lohen- ariy, Mr, Beecher was then introduced by the Rev, Mr. Everest, who bespoke a warm welcoms for }I‘m pnll;}r uud guideof bis carly days luthis new lymotith, Tho 5rcn preacher atepped forward tothe desk and aunouniced as bis text: But tho natural wan ranclveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for thay are fuolisnneas unts him; “nelther can he knww them because they are epiritually discernca.—7, Cor.. it., 14, , then, they that are 1o tiw flesh cannot please God, - om., vill,, 8. B These passages have, by & mmnmfin:m(on. beeu stumbling-blovks tn ths way of thousands. From them and certan couguners bave buen de- rived statetnents or_docirilive respecting relig- fon, tespectiug God, raspecting the na- ture ot man, which , have stood In the woy of thousunds, hindering many, hurdeniug many, misicading ull, Out of the book of Romans comes the staple matter of all systomns of theoloyy, and enpecially ot those that aro inore tigorous. T3e threads that have teen spuu have been fiom the material out of this book larguly, 'There are a great insuy, in cousequesce of the {nstrue tlous which they have receivd, who suppose re- ligion Is & thizg not ouly bxzh and difticult, but incomprehensivle; that'is b absolutely incom- prehet 6 to mea who are ot converted; that Christians bave an advanutagy over them ia that, when they are chunged, ke inftistal members i somo confederucy, they have a koowledge admnnistered to them ot interfor thiugs which no nau on the outside «an cver have. And thoy refer to this passage that thu natural an recelveth not tue things of the spint, delther indeed can bo understaud them, because they sreapiritually discerned. ; Now, s it true fu int of Lact that coavertod peuple uoderstaod citer than unconvertud peoplel I aflirm ther {3 pot one utellectual elemeut in religlon which so unconvertad man canoot understaud just as well as botbas s converted, and that it fs not a part of the purposs of this passage to discrimivate betwoen the uoder- standing power of people within the church and people without,~people within the spiritual pale and lfeuplu without the spirittial pale. But what did Paulwnean by s natursl mau! Not what we mean by a state ol uakure, namely: nen moral, upright, in a citizen s¢nse; but wio lave uot experienced an inwarci and spiritual change of beart, When wen are couverted we «calltbem then converted men, solritual mea; but before that, no watter what thetr rank or con- dition in soclety, we call them patural, in mod- eru vhruseology; o the oatural state, o state ol nature. The Apostle bad s very aliferent ides touching both tuls sud the other passsgy, vamely: the coodition of the flealh fn waich men were. The Apostle wdd that mau had two uaturcs; that Le had La the tirst place a bodily uature,—just as we sp¢ak of & man's bodily ‘oreauvization,—and witlun himself he carried sppetites aud passlons, whose functiva was coutioed purely to the wiwbitrations of the body,~huuger wod thirst and delensory powers, and’ull appetites aod passious,—the engrluery by which thie budy takes care of Gaelf. That the Apostlo called the fesh, tho Sech—man, Then tlicre was 8 thioking man, beshles; sn emotive man, & loviug wao, av asplrine wao. Tbat bo called the svirft wan. Or, tu ol.her words, weu wero dlvided tu bls thougit gr phllosopby just a3 we divido them futo the uyusr wen and the under yian: aud thounder map Lo culled the desh wau—the uatural wan—and is.e upper man bo called the spint man. He IwP utbe tret place, u respect Lo kuowledce, thit the under wan would ot secelve the truths which peculiarly belonged to the upper. fle waa not speakl of religion in our sense of that term. fle meal hy this term that combativeness could not derstand poctry; that Inat could not undd stand art, muslc, painting. He meant hy this that reldshness could not understami bunev Jence; that Just had nothing to do with fove; that self-indulgence had nothing to do with dis- content and asplratfons that animalism had nothing to do with genlus, philosophy, knowl- edge. Two men were . Incased within cach other, and his proposition wan rot u proposition as bhetween two clnsses In soclety, but it was a proposition that had respeet to” the double nature tuat was In every nian. And (¢ was not & proposition that men that were unconverted, outside, could not understand religfon, bul that [n every an his luwer part or animal part could not understaud the upper and the higher part. Therc was, biesides this, also anather element of truth tn ]l, namely: that there are certaln treths uot from the .materlal world, war from ideas merely, but certain truthsof theemotions, and those are never 1o be understood erther by one tlass or anotber. Whether @ man be virtuous or viclous, high or luw, there s a style of knowledge which comes ouly throuzh experience, I a wan be uhsolutély deat not only, but with. wut the origingl germ of music [u Bim, he can- not understaml 1uuste, beeause It i3 to be exper- imeutally learned. If a man is blind, or, cquiv- alent to that, if he Is color-blind, It 18 Lnpossi- ble for ilm to understand the truth that lies in color, because It Is to be known experimentally. 11 a man is grossly hard, he eannot understand what 1t is to be exquisitely tender, beeause ten- derness |a o thing 1o be felt first and then un- derstood afterwards, Ifa man Iy geaspinge oll the time, drawing in 18 8 whirlpool sucks in, he caunot enjoy nor understand the fuchies which a great, bounthul heart pours out incestantly, It has to be learued cxperimentally. Su, thei, there are two ways in waich inen cannot under- stand: onc s, that that part of them which s mechanicul and physfeal canuot understand that part of themeeives which fs spiritual and highy and in rezard to ol the hicher facuition ro discriminated one from another in ko- Tite, by the fact refinement corsences cannot understand vivilzatlons bra- tality does not understand the angehic fecling. Pasaion aud appetite, aud everything that ls gross and low, capnot comprehiend the thing that {8 hizb. Bo, thea, if there be on apvear- ance of arroganice in the Beripture, it Is one not I itself, but one that theologlans have pat there, when {t is fusisted thut fhe natural man reeciveth not the things of the 8pirit. “Why," sinan_eaye, 1 never Jolned the church, Tknow, Idon't know as I “bave ever been converted, snd yet I van understand us uch as the deacon or the minister, either, 1 [ caw't, [ pity them (laughter]; | pity my- f. [Laughter,] Tunderstund what it Is to can understand the Trinity as vear an they can, and I can understand decrees; and 3 understand foreordination and etectlon; | can underatand what you mean by the doctrine of depravit can understand precisely what vou mean by a chiange of heart; I see that the nat- ural msu receiveth not the things of the Splirlt; and yet do you teli e that I cannot understand theus! Iu lies on the faceof it that it Is fulre, I ecan underatand them.' And BaF wuy too. 1 suv that every intellectual element can be understood by cverv tntellectual waa, and that If the declaration was that Christ'anity has 8 mfimc interior, fnto which noman comes cxeept by initiation, and that they may learn certain secrets thero that they don't’ know be- fure—I suy if thut was the interpretation to be maven, he tight say Iy respecet to the whole sys- tem of thevlogy that it 1s falae, sua, i1t meanus that, It {s false by ev much, But then, on the other band, If jt mcans simply this, that nen that are hviug fo gross, aulmal, and low condi- tion can have uo conception eliier Inthemselves or in other men of the qualitics that arse from a reflued, obled, -rlrnuullzed experience, then that everybody will adnut to be true. And thut is the meaning of the Apostie fn the pas- sugre. Now we tnen back to the other one in Ro- mana, which is i some respects even more critleals **8o, then, thev that are fn the flesh cannot please (God.” It is held, fn thoe first place, that 1o action Is weceptable to God ex- cept the actlons that arfse from a regeuerated will, ana that Gad is not pleased with anythine that has not in it that quality which comes from a regeuerated heart and will. Bue that {s not the meaning of Seriptare; it {s not the mean. ing of God; It 1s not the ‘trutl, cliher ot rovela. tlon-or of experience. It Is most” vernicloas, both Girectly and todireetiy, ns & thing taught, 8o, then, "m'v’y that are In the flesh cannot . please God. Suppose & nan—a super- stitious wan—all da; long rervinz in some calling which 1e debauching his feltow-men, lut at.night, belng a supemti- tious man, he goes in p.uyer belure God, and prays for fnrur aud for guidaure, and assumes that hols a disciple of God. Why, he s wal- lowing fulust all the tme. Just so fur as his conduct represents the iesh element, the ani- wal element, it does uot please God fu'auy such scnsc as that he can present it to Lim o8 wor- thy. Iuso farasa man s 4 dar and represents lics, be connot oleass Giod v that way, fiod loves tho truth. ledoes not love duplicity. God laves honur, e dues nut luve meanoees., Men that are In dishonor and meanness, in that character aud in those clements canuot please God. Hels not coutent with them, Lo s not & being tbat fs indifTerent to moral « and if wen bring drunkenness, and Hottug, aud lust and gluttony, and all mavner of misrule and brutal couduct, they cannot bring this conduct before (fod, and think He will wink atit; or that God ‘will, by reasou of the fact of taelr being baptized, or of a parent's consecration, or taat they belong to the church, and sing occa- sioually ‘or enter In,—they cannot suppuse that God (s pleased with them, Waen men present thelr tesh nature before God, sud present that 15 a righteous quality or as & quality that God will favor, they cannot please flim., That will lnu, But to uuderstand this oow, and say that nothing pleases God cxcept that which ‘proceeds from a regenerate character, sceinto what It leads you. Do you suppose oue drawu out by love from thbe bearth of Ler youth, one who follows the deepest aud purest inatiucts of ber nature, and s wed- ded 0 one that stands bigh, but, erc long, by vice, Uy drinking, by gambling, overwhelms the liousenold, dispossesscs himself of his position, is dishouored, is impoverished,—gues frum bad to worse; in her arms sbe carries a child that 1 stained congenitally, corrupt, iohernting the futher's sius that go on to the third and the fourth genercation: poor she (s, sick the child is, brutal tho mau is; and shea thinw ot lizby and love, not 8 member of any church, nut kuown &3 oue plous at all; she giving her whole 1fs to that little child—neye and yot unwearoutable; da paticace of love for brutal - hus- band mever gives out; one year, two years, fivo years in this hclf: #lx years, seven ycars she wloisters to hiny, aod Wheu, at last, tha whalo town rejolces that he 1 dead, she lsthe only one that heartily mourns over him as she walts to thetomb; do you teil me that God looks upon that life, and that He doesu't caro forthe sacritices—duvesn't cars for that iife because she bas uever been baru aguln! ‘That is not beautiful at all. 1sn’t it beautiful! A man walks along by the sido of ariver. A strauger crics out, *The ive is breskine, He {8 near tho cataract, The man plunges lu with- out & thought, and, at the peril of lis uwn lte, seizes bim; seeing that he is an enewy, pever- theless ho brings him to the shore snd saves him. God louks on: * Humph! humph! no account, no sccount,” {Laughter] 1 donot belleve any wuch doctrine “ws tlat. Thers is one born fu wretcheduess, born iz the midst of those who wive themseives tu lust,—a white flower on & dungnill, mantain- fng her sauctity, aud, rising with resfstauce on the oue and on the otber band, she comes up to womanbood futact, aud houorable, sud usetul, —do you suppuse that that striving and that strugzie make no difference with liod,—tbat He doesn’t cary sbout those thiugs ! Do vou sup- pose that Hu s 8 beiog that hasa eystem by which nubody is good for anvtuigg uutil e joius the church,—that all quallties are indiffer- eut until theu,—that this {s the orizin end June- tlon of any such declartiont that those that arein ihe fleshs uot please Lol” Is that your conception of Giod aud diving giverus ment sud the moral order of the unversel But you must remember that the Apostie meant by * thew tbat are fo the fesh,” them that aru fn the desh fu the seuse of living abso- lutely under the dowiuiou of the body. So desh has two wesniugs. What we call deah bs woans o aizully the whole body, the wholo orguniza- tlon, but inthe Apostlc's lips it sizuitics that charucter which spri from the bodily passivus and wppetites; aid be declares that men that are liviog fu the indulgence of these cannot please Uod, por can tbey. If you bave s s flven sou who is lazy, wha lics, who shirks, who evéry wavis uuworthy wud uplaithtul, sod you say, * Hecaooot, so long ws be soides ju thoss qualities, pleaso me,” ihat is boooratle to you sod uot dishonorable tu blw; that " fs. it 18 DO Injustwe whatever. But suppose, uuder the cuvumislagees, there cowes iuto the uelgbburtiovd a may that bus & witchiug tofuency upya youth, sud e draws 1oy Jo! rary Han ICE FIVE CENTS. of the Iad some little enterprise, and he ns to ba more methodical in his habits, and kes Into a line of busincss and seemsto havo me ambition kindled; to be sure he is yet ,sel{-lnvlnlnnl‘ I8 oot truthful nor honurable in muny things, but here s a e In which im- proveinent shows: doed the Tather stand and look ot it and say, “I don't refolco fn that; T don't care for that™1 Don't care for it He would care for it Il he was a sensible man; and (£ ho did not he would he nearly as had as tho boy was, for tho want of humanity. the want of proger feellny. * So them that are in the flesh cannot pleass God.” You cannat please tiod by debanched pride; you cunnot plasse Him by “any manner of an- truthfulness, nor by unrightcousncas; but if there be anythiog fn Iyml that fs good He i3 pleased with it; Ifs Is more than pleascd with ft; Ho s rejoiced in [ mora than your father or mother,— more than hrother or sister could possibly be. Bo then those ideas that have been taught of vld, and that have been burdensome to men, namely, that they cannot do anvthing that is ncceptable to God,—thiey have got to weit to sce what an infernal trap has been latd for men to fall n. First, it is held that men are born nto this world without original riehteousnees, Well, that s truc. Strange they didn't inzindo right- cousness when thev Included eversthing else! Men ure born i.to this world without anytoing in them. Men are boru Into the world wichout any knowledge of arithmetle, [Laugbter.| Men are born into this world without tue shizht~ est knuwledeeof the Costitution of the Un ted States. [Renewed langhter,| They don't Know granimar e Luughter.] Toey can- not spell, nor read, nor write. ‘They are ematy of everstbiug. Tley are cmipty of everything. They are born into the worid so thit they don't know how to walk—cannot play the - plano, cannot whistle, cannot doanything, Meu are born into this world empty of uil righteotaness, of ull guodness: sua, they gre empiy of ali—everything. lnughter.] It Includes that nobody comes to anvining except by growth, by ‘education, by untohding. The body ie nothing, 1t s = mero Lk of capacities, o miere germ-form without v and without the fruit ; and to sz 0 te born Into Jite without original eousticss,—that was the method of cres- hat was the way God teant cvershody il eversthing to be born. The start {8 with tho seed-form. Tt s the method of creatfon (o uniold. Sothen It Is trie tuat men were horn fnto hfe without original righteousness; and men go on and eay, **Beluz so born, nu uah wan be acceptable to Gl by onyvthing he can do. Until he in renewed aud regencrated, notuing that ho can do fa sceeptable to God. . Next, that he can- not Lie renewed by any cffort of his own; that he is abrolutely dependent upon divine grace fur renewal; that he cannot e accepted untlt e s renewed: nad that, with bis own rencwal, he s abliged to have simost nothing to do ex- cept to walt as a receptacic of the diviae and saverclzn grace; aid then, next, that that ivine and soverelgu grace I8 to discaunlnate, und will be given to whomsoever (lod pleases, und that to whomsovever He will not, it whi ba withhetd, There Is o prectousucss, jlauzbter And thenmen are expected to put thelr hands togéther and ray, ** Father” What! Can flo be o tather who brings fute Jile men withous moral guolity, and then declares that. they canpod please Him o any way, thouwh they ure constituted as Ile chose to make them, anid put under the laws fe pleased to ordain, and under tue dreumstances which His providenen urranied 3. put them where He wunted to, wihin that which Hlo ulcased to put into them, wnd then turns around aud says of s own work (nen had nothing to dowith i), “1 am nat pleased. | will damn your because I am not, unless you are born uzatn.’ And then e says: *You cunnot be born agaiu of your own will. Nobody but Myself can du it, and I will not do It for tues moat of fulks, Iwhido it fora fuw here and there, but the rest of the race will by damned.” Woat for! Sinl Isit then a sints Le what God made vou to bef Is It o sin tu be where Hu meant you to bel Isit a #in to be surrounded by the foflucrces predes termtned without any knowledge or volition of your own! Is thata ystem thal you have » rgit to eull a system of love, and a syatem o, benevotence? When I oehuld Jesus Clirist cora- Ini juta the world to ropresent Gud, and hear Ht sty and behold Him suifer and bave the {nteepretation mude gnown to e, God 50 luved the worll—so lored ii—that e had rather Hi Son should die than the world should die—] cun say, Qur Father; 1 can noy, Our Reedcomer and Our God, My Lord sud My God, Bus when I am taken u tbrough the tortur- ous way of theology, and am toll God docsn't” care for - ‘men except the few thut come around to cunditious prescribed, auil brings them by Irresiativle grace, ous calling—when thus tauzht, ¢ rest of the world perlsh, and that ¢ few are druwn in, under such cfreum- s 1 should be oblized to sav, **Our tyrant whul-ru u Heaven, not % Our Fatber,” [Laugh- ter, Nouw the miaschief of thls Is, that on onc side it burdeus men—crushes thew; they are sensi- tive, tney belleve; and on the other It disgusts men, ‘Thev rebel from wll relizion, and say they want none of it and when the matter i3 brought home to them as taught in the Biule, it 1s alt the worse for the Bible, they say. Do you suppoic yuu can make a wurk acceptadle to all mankivd unless it is found to be n accordance with the great oripinal principles of honar. of truth, and of Justice! Do you tell 1ae that the pritcples of trath, sud hoour, and Justice, as they are made known to me andto uny may, may not be the sane as thev are (n Godl ‘Ube “diference fs this: that they are wore exquisite in God; in us they are blunted, In us they are narrowed aod hmited, and If cven in us they protest against sn ch {nters pretation which is contrary to resson, aud rizit, and honor, and Justice, how much more do these qualitics protest ugatust ony such loters pretation whers they exlst tn infinite purity and [dinite power In {iod? 1fa man says that our feehnzs are no interpretatiun of ‘Diviue at- tributes, theo we bave no God. The only thing we can understaud of Gud Is by reasou of something we have in us, and if that somethinz is [fulse, and mbsloterprets Uod, tben wa lave none, But the quality of resson in us differs immensely iu scope frow any quality that 1s in God,and the moralscnee [uus Is a3 {t 14 in UGod—fecbler, moving in a narrower sphere, but it Is the same. QOuoe drup of water on my finger's cud tells me what water is us inuch #s the whole Atlantic Ovean, although in grandeur and power it will not compase with the ovean, Andlight, thouch it be of o taper, Interprets the same to iwe, feeble aa it is, compared with the power sod scope of the sun; und reason, and consclence, sod delicacy, and love i me [nterpret God, that 18 the quality of tne Divine nature, and 1 have anzntto reason for mysell from the Divine forbearance scot me fu the teachiogx of our Lord Jesus Christ. * [f ye, being evil, know huw to give good £ifta unto your children, how mucly more shall your Futoer wiuch is in Heaven.” With these explanations, then, we have cleared the way fur certaln inferences. And, {o tbe fret place, religion is not a mvatery, Res hizion, ns it s enjoined upon men, s conduct, 13 disposition, is ctieracter. That Is all. And that which men need (s not to uaderstand the paturs of the universe. [t might be better 1t they could. But & man can usderstand the laws of bis cunditivn wnd the duties buposed upot Lim (n so far as the carriage of his body I cuncerued, i s far a3 the varriace of his soul {4 concerned, In s far as righteonsness is cou- cerned A wan beed Bot be & philosopher. On the contrarye the Apostle appeals to gen: * ¥or ye sce your calling, brethren; bow that not mauy wise men after the feab, not wany mizhity, not many noble, are called.” ‘The Greeks slways wanted to take evervthivg up and * bring it into the system of the uutverse, and the Grecks were the most lwmoral nation that ever lived. Taere wasn't enough moral sense lu the whole Greek patioh to bold the Governwent tusetherany uwe. 4t perished because it wanted this morul seuse. The Uireek always sublimated lie wto theory and phuveopby, "and therefors Paul ju- cessantly taveizhed ugainst thewm. But theolozy smoug us ju wodern tiwes often stauds in tha place of Ureek philosophy, sud wen want to understand what Godis. Tuey wre not coutent o koow that te Is 8 nuhteods Uod—a Gud that s indaite, beaeteent, loug-sutferiog, forziviug a0 fndoicy of trunsyressiun and sl ; the suthor of the laws of nature, ol the 1aws of our budics, sad of the soclul laws. It 13 not euough that they have thw practival updentanding, but they waat tu wunder o iutu iu. fduite vicws of moral guversment. If they vould do it, it would be better for them to un- derstand thess thinge, But they arv high above their reach, 1ud toe fallacy covsists iu suppos- I that the truit of nghteousucss 3 depeudeut upou the kuowledge of the framework of crea- tivn. A wau by a farwer long before chemlatry exlsted” A man may be a vavizato befors the great and aubtls elewmeuts uf meteorology were discovervd. A wan iy te AU €XDEr, 80 ewpirl, without bhavisg 4 sys-~ teatie kuowledsv ol how to be good, and the mysteries in religlon wre sll i the direciion of solvidg the witunate prinaples of tha uak