Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1878, Page 2

RELIGIOUS. : Prof. Swing’s Picture of the World as a Great ? Ruin, Such as Atheisin Would Bring if It Bhould Ever ¥ro. vail, The Rev. N. F. Ravlin's Reply to Mr. Mueller's Anti-Temperance Sermon. Sketch of Bronson Alcott's Sym- posia with the Boston Ministers. Their Varying Views of the Subject of Spiritual Heredity, AN IMMENSE RUIN. SERMON DY PROF, SWING. Prof. Bwing preached yesterday morning at the Central Church, taking as his text. The fool bath said in hls heart, there is no God,— FURE TN It.would seem that no greater calamity could befald society than would be fnvolved ina sur- repder.of Its general belief in a God, Manlsa creature of Ideas, Ife does not move mechan- feally, like an undevlating machine, nor by instinct,like a bird or a honey-bee, but he moves by fdens. He s the slave of tho surrounding thought. It Is sometimes sald of rich men who are In bondage to gold, that, instead of posscasing fortuncs, thelr fortunes posscss them. This realization of man's poasible and fre- quent subjection is as old as Themistocles, for belng asked whether be would prefer that his daughter should marry & poor goed nan or a rich bad man, he replied that he would rather his daughter should marry a man without any money thau money without auy man, Dut to be the subject of property 18 only one form of man's subjectiur, for he 18 equally at the mercy of all temporary prevalilng Idess. For good or far i1l opinfons, notlons, truths encompass him, ‘They shape his 1ife and his happiness. As the climate of Californis or Florlda surrounds the floral world of each, besctsthe rose-bush, tho orange-tree, the dalsy, and hurries them ‘along by sun and nir, and soll aud raln, so the fdeas of an nge beset the dwellers in the nge and Jead them along kindly or roughly, wisely or badly. Insomsof the old barbarlan tribes, the dea prevalled that the aged (ather or mouther should bo put to death as scon as suf- fering or Inability to work came along to their gray hairs, aud up into this cruel philosophy the sons anil daughters grew, ready at last to y thelr parents, and under this philosophy the pa- rents aceepted of death. A mother in India, who, under the Hindoo system, had put to death lier female infants, after having passed over to Chrlstian truth, mourned sadly for tho Jost ones, and would not be comforted becauso thev were not, Under the ono sct of {deas sho willlogly slew ler {ufants, under tho uther sct of ideas sho wept bitterly. Thus all through the great throng of men and womnen who inhabit our world lleas ruu orderlng, and uffeeting, and vontroliing all the outgolors and the fncuinings of the numberless host. Pagan or Clirtstian, there §a around us the vital alr of oplufon, or the mortal nir of oplulon, and, Dreathinge it, we live sweetly or dic miserably, Men reareil in the Mberty of Eogland or Ameri- cu, how trave and Independent they are com- pared with the vassals ol an old Xcrxes or a Dinammey Kingt Men reared arong books aud the arts, how brivht their facos compared With the gaze of an Indian who has lived only to eat and sleep. ‘This vellection that the human race lfes at tho merey of prevalling notions, toughts, and truths, may mcmrc us 1o confess what a deep fnjury wonld folkow should any shapa of logie or error tome along to crowd out ol tho world the prevatling hetief in God, 3f man Is {ntlu- exeed by the surrounding climate of oplnton, what it cheerlesa zone would be his were o heneeforth lefy without religlous scutiments und prineiplest It 48 not - probavie that uny lerin of oplolon affects the human soul su deeply us religious opinlon. This thape of I(dea hos aflected the most of them and the longest, Art, and politics, and general philosophy reach but few minds, and thore nol puwerfully compared with thoso re- Hgous notlons which arc scen to affect youns amd old, Wigh and fow, and theso more and mure decply ns lif advances, Mauy of the bloody wara'of history have sprung {roin re. lglous disputes, heemiso such diaputes touch the most hearts, and touch them moat decply. ‘Tina shows that whiat has once moved mankind s0 powerlully nlong the dark path of war may move mankind as powerfully along the ways of goodness und " peace, when reilzlon mnoves out from darkuess lnto light, The passion of ambi. tion, or love, or urt has uffected tho few, but re- Tigion the many. But let us speak inoro methodically, and noto some of the shapes of that great rtin which athelsm would bring, But, first, tho ruln would not be immedlate. Soclety would follow good customs a long thne after the reason of the custorns had passed nmy. Let certain of the most remote syns be suddenly extingutshed, they would stll twinkle fn our midaizht sky for a hundred years, for the river of Hht which were flowing between them aod us would de- sand u century in which to roll by our pojst on® the river bank, Soshould athelstn becows at once the belief of mankind, Christian character and action would still flow nlunf for more than one generation, ‘The ruin would cume slowly, ’but it would most surely cuine, and be imnmenss- creat, (1) The lutellect would bs robbed of that ereat fortune called the poetry of nature. One of the nfluential opintons which has always helped mold man's thought and seutiment 18 the assumnption that our external world came from a personnl Being, reat, and wise, and o], aid that hence iU I8 the volce of that Bciugz to all us children. The ocean locs & wart of its sfznificance it It never had a Creator, und I no way cxpresses any Divine breadth and power. Aud 1f the starry sky at midnight is omya o put towether by potentlal nebule and d and 15 ws free from auy lov- fwr or deshgulng God as s clod free from chh or seneibility, then have the silent stura emptied themselves of ymport, und vecd vo lunger be sdmired by the buman rouk Not only they seed not by, but the: could not be ndinired. Man casts bls own mlu& into his own work. His urts, his lterature, aro erand, because they are tho pruducts of his amind and apirit. When we read the poems of Buakspeare, or the prose of Addison, or lrvln’:, or Macaulay, we dsink {n pleasure from the thougnt thut bere lofty minds bave been and left the striking pletures of self, Let ua learn that puems like thuse of Bhukspeare and Lanty cau be made by a aoaching or by chem fstry, und that “you wced bave no geufus dihe the grand Enghsbiman or the Floreutine, and we want no looger thy books. ‘To man there can never be aby lutellectual charm like that of mind, working out its own varfed thoueht. Ruskin pulnted out, inauy years ago, the worthlessness of carving dune by wackinery, aud the value of that work in wood dona by tlie ote mind aind one band of some thinkd saul, When o landsespe can b palit enbnery and o Venus de Milo made by the turn- foe lathe, then we shall not all bave pletures ammd statiary, bt we ahall all decline thews with wh augry dehght,. What we sl lave s ot only the gerjurmdance n nusic or art, but the per- furuier, The luwau race demands not the mere worl, but tle soul of the worker. Heuce, the vancd universe Las moved befure the humany suce by duy sud uight, not made sublime and poctic by g stwple facts, but chiedy by the Dty witkiu the facts, Do away with this Uod, maby the sun and the stars by physical Jaws only, wake the datsy grow by ouly chem! try, and the nightingale st only by evolutio aud we sbail houn” care uothine fur the ubove wor for the carth b compused by mackinery, o unbverss created by chemistry, Mnat dots ot want. It necessity sball cver dnpose such @ beliel upun man, that bellel will be the most cruel Llow eyer dealt to tho bumaw bnazination or b sprle, Tle motivns of tian ou the carth i the hfe of bird and dower all become ou a level with the mnarioncttes, which, without scuse ul, g through the parts of a traicedy or 8 comedy, Jlencelorth the universe might be curious, but it pever aigain could be sublime, “That the siguiticance uf usture has re; larzely h“m l)&l&ul{»liull that it was Luc baudi- work of (Bd, sl literatuie stteats. Go back ever s fur, sud tle storme of which the poets vnte come up from the Delty; the 1y t> I3 cbwrlot; the winds Hix [ the heavens wre s dwelling- His finages the song-birds Hls Covkoatie Wi seduuis Ui wanitold wisdow. b THE CIHIICAGO TRIBUNE: When the old Vedas were written Natura was he Incarnation of Delty; when Homer came lang, he took up the straln and peopled all the ountains and vales with a higher order of mind; when Virgil stood among the flocka and meditated **beneath the wide-spreading beach,” he sang out In delight, * God made for us these pleasures.” Torace referrcd nature to llm!‘l and much of the real greatness of Ulcero an Serieca may be founa In tho passages where they bind nature and God together. Instead of “dim!nishiug, as the world moved on- ward into light, this presence of the Sa. preme Mind has become oniy the mora marked 43 tha agea have become ;fl-nnder. Tho God of Nature in Virgil wasa fceble agancy compared with the creating, central Mind that filled up Km vislon of Coleridge and evenof a Lord yron. ‘This attachment of old and modern literature has not arisen from an accidental sunerstition which we should now do well to avoid, but has come from the more fundamental fact that the external world cannot be great unlesa it is the work of a Master Mind. Poeta and orators and artista will not sing nor sound nor paint the glorics of Nature If there be no God in Nature— 11 it bo on‘l( hemieal ‘bubbling, The meditations over Nature have assumed many forms of religious sentiment Indeed, some writers beholding the supernatural In all those shapes called nymphs, and gods, and roddesses, some as the Hebrews and Christians finding the crestlve cnergy In one Jehovah, others, the panthelsts, inding all things to be “garments of the deity "'} but bencath all this variatioo, the one feeling has reposed that Nature wers the Image, the work of an intelli- gence, tho solemn nnthem or fontasy of somo master musician, Be the fact of Naturs a sun, a moon, a ralnbow, or o bird-song, or a . wild rose, these things havo been mrand or beantifal, by as much as they were cmbodiments of a thinking soul. Reduce the malerial universe to a purely physical basis, and we behold the greatest ruln of postry and sen- timent which conld befall the mind’sestate. If the universe is only self-acting dust and ooze, then It is robbed of beauty and tenderness, Pass now from this rulo of external nature to the spiritaal robbery which man would suffer, Man 1s not only a creature of {deas, of facts, but of ideals as well. An ldeal 18 a notion ad- vanced to perfection, It is the present purified. It 1s the futare which thought and sentiment make for themaelves, In the light of this future, man Ifves far more than In the ljght of the pres- cut. It fs well he docs, for, however dark or sad the evening or night may be, the heart pos- +scsses for its cheer the whitencss of tho mor- row., Thus the apiritual world rests for its sup- port upon tho fdeal, and educates ltself, and checra (tsclf, and rewards (taelf {n that pres- ence. As common tnortals when about to go into the presence of a King array thomselves in thelr best attire, and desire to employ in speech with such majesty their best lauguape and to use thelr most reflned manncrs, 80 man, in presence of tho royal fdeal, the en- throned and crowned to-morrow, stands bedecked tn bis best rament, and with his best fcelings risinz in bis beart, and his best lan- Pmm coming to hislips. The lawycr of high instincts is wolded, not by the lowor defectivo detalls of his profession, but by its possible ex- cellence; the musician looks beyond all present discord toward au eraof sweeter sound; the painter of high Eunlus paints for to-morrow. Thus, all through aund through the mind and heart, the Ideal moves likes Queen in her Empire, It shapes all, it cbeera all, it rewards all. Quid tetlgit, Ornavit, It takeatho world away from deadness and hands it over to life and or- pament. Now, of all sources of this Ideal, the belle tn a God s the chief. From that range of Divino hilla flows this stream, The notlon that there is an Infinite One who, having put all things into motlon, is now leading them for- ward to a dignified and even a sublime destiny, Hes at tho root of all this human march toward excellence, God 15 tha Bupreme [desl. Stand- ing bofore the human multitude, He alono beck- ons it to follow,and it Joylully ascends a maunt- aln which thus has thc Delty on the helght. This Divino_Ideal breaks up into a million fragmeuts. Here it is the impulse of architect~ are, nud makes the spires point to Heaven} thero it is the impulse of $he painter, an makes him a Raphael; it becomes, then, the mo- tive of philosopliy, and laws of conduct and hap- piness aro sought In its name; 1t becomes, than, o religion, and inaugurates a worsidp; It fo- splres the eloguence of the priesthood, it divides ftaell once more and becomes an lminortality. ‘Thus, God, a3 an idea), caters Into the lifo of mankind and becomes the reason and linpulac of many of its grandust forms. Theassumution that the universs came frum a persdual God and is exccuting lifs will, taken with the assump- tion that the will of such a Being must be alto- gether sublime, cxplains the constsnt gaze of man toward au alluring future. ‘Iherelore It vomes to pass that to remove fram the universo this personal Deley, and to Aurrendor its detalls of form and mind to only material forces, would ba to proclalin the ruln and tho utter extinction of thu {deal lu man. ‘fhis wers tho end of all man's preatncss. Chemistry can never offer to the huuian heart an inspiring destiny. The forces of Nature have no novle plansor ends, Thoy can nover go hefore man In the splendor of & Providence. The words, Doep in unfathomable minds Of never fllllnfil s Lie treasures up his bright geslans And works Mle sovereign will, can never be sung of & world whose orlrin (s only fire and dust, Naturo knows nothiug of fdeats. It will Sicg away tho most beautiful fowers when it laws of sap and_light have wrought ju thew for a few honrs. It wiil hand over to the worms tho body of a Beatrico as s00n as tho heart cannot propal a littla blood, und with this body perlshes all her sweet or joy- Iul thought. Asro will In a few moments re- duce a patace to ashes, will destrey Ibraries or paintings as willingly s it will consume a0 much straw or dead brush, g0 noture will deal with man, and, havin made him beautiful as a flower, will as un(c:llnfil'y recall his )its and level iils form once more (o the dust, Natura s fndeed won- derful, but aldo cruel. To it a repuile and a human soul ure both one. It makes a states- man or o poet Just us it formsa serpent or a dovilfish, aud assicus o all these forms ane destiny. With Natura alone for our cause, man would be fouliah if be should cherlsh au aspira- tlon above what mieht be fmagined to fill the brain of the beaver or the ox, ‘o cherlsh an ideal fostieha world would be a profligacy of sentiment, Nu [ view nthelsm as you m:fi. forgtving thosa who have fallen into it or who teach i1, it remafus the most immense ruin thut could come Lo the world of sentiment and thought, ‘That the wind, that the mugination, that the fancy, that tho linmenae drearn, callvd the fdesl, may lve In Lhe exercise of the hizhest powers, it s cssentlal that not an insensato nature stand as the cause of things, but that & rer~ sunal God, hinyine reason, and wisdotn, and life, o belure mankind to make tho years grow greater us they march and to iuske the grave Elve up e dead, It the hurman race bo six or ten thomsand years old bn its almost Hruuul from, theu it re- veals, at last, the influence of the trath, or supposed truth, which has for that loug timo surroundea it, " It has belleved, in the maly, fn a greal Auttor, und, hience, in a gruat destiny, For nFu'n Creator lmphcn a great result. Large In the ** Alpha,” man must be large In the S Qmee: Amid sueh notivus our clvitization has been wrought out. 8o fur back sa Moses, the wiud had lullJ begun to teed wpon the no- tlun of 8 God, and, futo that nmnuel{wmloml streatn of bellef, all souls bavae heen fin- wiersed, and bave lived and died in thosu rich huus, ‘They bave shaped our architocture, our art, our wusle, our eloquence, the public and private lifo of wan, bis worals, his chrity, his IXADYIII('!I Lis chamber of heath. It may, e deed, bie that carth could bave rcached & more perfect civilization than it cajoys to-day, but none of ita defects can be uttributed 1o its uation that it God aud was marching towar for out of this ussumiption nas u nost all the pust grand- eur of mankiud. Thesa two twin botions have vxalted soclety wherever they huve touched the mind sud eoul. Grant 1o athelsma fow cen- turics in which it alone unght feed the public soul aud all the mazaitude of & wental aud spirttual ruin would begin to appear. All over tho oldest lands there are rulns of what once wero bappy and magalllcent Stutes. ‘The murble columus and marble steps staud to tell thess remote generatiuns what gifted and laughiug, happy people ouce bassed alouyg over those steps or atald thoic gracelyl columns, Digglog deeply in the soll o1 old Myceuw, the ratlenluek:rot the lost has found the golden bracelets which the happy Greek eirls once wore, uud the golden flmbluu from which they drank; bas found wold disteims which ouce sdurned the forehiead of King or Queen. Thua carth is full of tho asbes of former joy wnd worth, But what heaped up the ashes over old geofus wud beauty? What chauged the faces aud sinites of the naldens and withdrew them aud thelr joys and jewels from the wuiks of Jifed Ouly this,—the udvent of pumbler Ideus. Vice aud idicness began s great destruc- tiou. Each generution caine fecbler to its task, and, at last, amid new and degraded oploions, vagubonds swanined over the ruius of a city whitre ths olile furws of mashood and woinag- viice dwait. ; 1 1o witbdraw industry and berolsm brought awitt decay upon Mycens and many & no- bLle State or iy fu the pust, what & ruln is awaltiug States grander then old Troy or Dabylou sbould eny form of thougli come 10 divest the world of ita faith in God! What a mighty ruin would this be indecd! Then would staud arble columnus, said which Bu great mortals could be aee, marble sleps no lunger todden by wortby feetj crowns of gold .are like paragraphs of hl worn by the fdealists micht be unecarthed, but with no forehiead worthy of such decoration, Infinitely grander the world as it fs! Let man add to Nature, God. nd, the Mind, pow- erful ani Joving, can make Nature flva up her dead. God enn supply soclety with & futare which can always [nspire a natlon or a single Leart. fle alanc can wipe tcars from off all faces. In this belief alone can the lofty mind find a reason for perpetuat effort, and perpetual virtue, and perpetual happiness. DBRONSON ALCOTT. , IS SYMPOSIA WITIL THE NOACON MINISTERS, Srectal Correspondencs of The Tridune. Boston, March 12.~Mr, Bronson Alcott tells ma that hels nearer 80 than 70 years of ace, but he has all the foy of a woman In betnz reckoned younger than he fs, On the street ho {8 a marked mau, and {n the famons *Old Cor- ner? pookstore, occupled 8o mang years by Ticknor & Ficlils, ha may bo scen almost any Monday at the counter whéra tha newest books are to be found, skipping through tho latest work on philosophy, or reeciving the homace of younger men whom his books or safings have tnstructed. Tls face is notably fresh for his years; his step fa quick, his form erect, and his whole bearing indicates vigorous life; hia silvery hiale Ia worn long, and falls gracefully upon his shoulders, and his conversation, when you can catch him for a moment, always makes you think how Pluto and Socrates must have talked A8 they passcd up and. down the strects aof Atfirm. Mr.” Aleott, like his friend Mr. Emerson, {8 a person of great indl- viduality, and has been the father of more no- tions and theorles, more cloud-land philosophy ana transcendentalism, than any Amcrican of his time. Mr, Emerson may be the * Concord Hagre," hut Mr. Alcote 18 {ts philotopher. Ha fs now printing fn the Rostou Dook- Dutletin some delightful notes upon the /ial, which was the Iiterary organ of tha well-known Brook Farm Community, sod, since the death of Mrs, Alcott, has given ‘conslderable time to holding conversations In (ifferent parts of the country, but principally in diffcrent parts of New En- xlnnX. and nothing delights hlin more than to do ne Socrates used to,—gather a few people around himsei? and have a talk, It Is truo that Mr. Alcott does most of tho talking, and, when f"" ask him questions, it (s the foy of his ffe to answer themn; Dbut the talking is matchless for its kind, In fact, for many _years he has done nothing else. The remarkable success of his xlnmihlcr Louisn as an author nas been nobly utitized, so that Mr, Al- cott s placed bc‘yuml any vare for his nocessl- tles, and his perd faluuc lifa scoms exactly sujted 1o hils genlua. He was in carly lifo an ardent Eplscopallan, and the Influence ‘of that Church upou his own teachings is still manifest. Io talking, thero is o certain wholesome breadth, not Jiberality, not doctrinal statement, but the Vieat parts of both, in his discourse, and yetat s Mr, Alcott still, 1is ujterances at timesare both Orpbic and Delphie. Altogethier he s wonderful man, and stands next to Mr. Emer- 80D A8 & representative American, Ha Is a great admirer of tne Rov, Joscph Cook, and Mr. Cook takes very kindly to tho aged Phllmu her, e ls frequently upon Mr. Cook’s platform at ‘Treinont Temple, and (s greatly delighted with the latter's strong and admirable pleading for the Intultional aa op- poscd ro the experimental philoaophy. Thus it has come about, since Mr, Cook’s marriawe, that Mr. Alcott has been fnvited to meot nf Mr. Cook's rooms In Hotel Bellevue, just opposite the Boston Athenienm, his own and Mr, Cook's friends, and have once a mooth ono of his char- acteristic tulks, He began several meetings with an account of the Art of Conversing. 1lis next tople was ‘Femncraments: his next, Immortal- h‘y; his subject last evening was Heredity, and his subject s mouth hence will bo *The Relation' of ~Nuw.Eugland Literaturo to ‘Theolozy aud Philosophy.” Through Sir, Al- cott's klndness 1 bave been one of the rather select company—some forty or fifty—wlio hayo met at this seml-private " reception, and tho occaslons have been very enjoyable and delight- I Mr. and Mrs, Cook hnva inanaged this l.lmnosium of cultivated aud intellectusl peo- ple—mon and women of the most divergent religious bellefa—with much tuct and skill. It was not an v.-u{ thing to contruvl—a party of radicals and orthiodox—so that the best results should be obtained; but it Is only Lruth to say that thess monthly symposia have ULeon, to those who have attended them, somo-of the most agrecable gathicrines of the scason, Mrs “Alcute slts bebind a table ot the end of the room, sud tho guosts seat themselves so that eacn one cun sco the venerable Muder. Mr. Alcott announces his thetna with asllight movement of his body in his chalr, as 1t hitehing forward, and then ‘goes on {n his fu- terestlug wn‘. Ita sald last evoulng that he should put the naturalist’s part of heredity to one slle, and take what was complemental to the usual discuasions, Theo e went on to give tho transcendental side of the subjeet—our do- scent, from God, or spiritual horedity. A man was born when he could say 7, aud’ every ono had soine capaclty to say that. ‘Then ho marked ol our relations to the brutes. They could not say L, Spirltual heredity was cvident fn tho conselencs ana in the moral nature. Holy peo- leu linparted thelr quality to thelr childron. ou might skip for a “geucration or s ugly crandfather might crop ou but our’ ancestors were coutlpually reap- vearlng in oursclyes for good.' It was a dif- fleult thing for Mr, Alcott to lead up to the per- sonality which atways precedes life and kecp steudfust to tho fden of continual fucurnations af divinity in men, aud not say something which conflicted with the theologleal views of those vresenti but still he succceded in this parposc. He had little to say about the practleal ques- tions which are ralscd by lmrcn!u{. When he had tinished, Dean Uray, of the Eplscopal Theo- lugzical School of Canbrikigo, cted as director, and called up differcut wentlemnen, among othera Ll Ror. Prof, Gould, of the Nuwton Theologie- al lostitute, the Rev. Drs. Cushing, Tarbos, Langworthy, Tucker, Zabriskic, and_Muans, of the Congregational body, the Rev. Dr. Bartol, of tho Unitarisn body, and the Rev. Dr. Dumc(’. who s Theodoro Parker's succes- sor. One of the ladles volunteered some seusiblo remarks. There was ereat amuse- ment and not a lttle fnstructlon in tue free iscussion waich followed Mr, Alcott's conver- satlon, Each ‘im""n‘" had - sowething to say which was pertinent to the occasion, and, whilo there was great dlvergence in op\mo hiere was also substantial ggreement. ‘The keenest of the theologlans plied Mr, Alcatt with (‘llbl- tlous which tuyolyed the tender points of thelr fudividuatl theological “oninions, but he some- Low slid out of everydifflculty, Mr. Cook hap- pily sutnmed up the discussion by nflmg that they had preseuted during the evening three sepirats views ot heredity,—the Transcend- ental, the German, and tho Orthodox, One hiad stood for thy over-soul, one for the separa- tlon of snul aud apirit, oue fur the fmpasition of the Divige lifo torough the Itoly Srit; but there had not been a word of pantheisin, and cvery one had distinctly asserted the fact of the dlvine fmmanence in life. Next to Mr. Alcott, Dr. Barto), who fs, if anything, oven morc ven- crable in appearauce, wis, perhaps, most futer- esting, He slways speaks llke a scei and a man of hunior, I ouca & preat ratfonalist and a great belever, it the paradox can be believed, and hasa mind of wonderful acutcuess snd force, Ouecould tisten for hLours to hls conversation and uot grow weary, o {s the pastor of tho West End Umi- tariai Church, snd one of the few men bhest worth kuowing In Boston. The company hroke ur at 10 o'clock, and, after the interchinge of vleasant words, euch one departed, in a pouriog rain, to thetr several homes, L Mr. Charles Eliot Norton has the'reputation of belng one of tuo flrst Dante scholars {n this country,—better eventhat James Russell Lowell, He writes but littte,—at least very littlo which ets fnto current’literature,—but_ha does uoth- inge which he docs not do well. e divides with Mr. Lonutellow—uuw that Mr., Lowell (3 in Bpalu—tie honor of being ous of tho two liter- ary waguates of Camb) , and {3 Just now delizhting & sclect and cultivated audience— nmul?- ladlcs—with his readings froig Dante's ** Divine Cumedy.” He mukes Irev trauslations of the most intercsting passages as ho gocs on, aud accompanies them with off-hand ™ ex- planations when the text requires thew, His 1enderings are not untike Mr, Louzfellow’s, ouly more tdio ¢y because they are not confined Lo the limits e. Thoroom in which ho reads scals sumo pereons, and (s known as law- thorne Hall, The great rouvncer's portrait is on vueshle of Lhe rooin aud Mr, Longlelluw's Is on the other, Here Mr, Jawea T, Ficlds also reads his lectures ou **Modern Authors' at uoonday. It is just tho place for the limited audlcoces which can bo gatbered for such spoclal purposes in a great city, LIL W TEMPERANCE. SEEMON BY THE KRV, ¥, F. BAVLIN, Testeruay sfternoon at 8:80 o'clock the Rev. N. F. Ravlin preachied fu the Ureen Street Tub- cruscle a serulon on teroperance, {u aaswer to the -Rev. M. Mueller, of Kaunkakeo, who preached the Sunday provious, advisivg the woderate drinking of wine. The atteudsucs was limited, aud tho scrvices were under the ausplces of the West Bide Red-Ribbon Club. Tue revercud geutlomsn took his text from the seventh chapter of Mat- thew, 18th, 10th, aud 20th verses. 1le produced a copy of Mr. Mueller's sermon, in tuc form of & tract, which was beln chiculaled by the saloon-keepers, L thea weut ou to say MONDAY. MARCH 18. 1878, 1n substance that it was a fearful commentary Atpon ove ministors that there was ono man oc- cupying the pulpit who was in fellowship with tha saloon-keepors and liquor-irinkers. 6 drew a picture of fisoo saloon-keepers suddeniy turned tract-neddlers, Fio was not very com- plimentary to them, and his remarks were en- tirely of nsarcastic character, IIcheld that Mr. Muclier's discoursc was such an one as any min- 1ster should be ashamed of, God did not ' make nlcohol, [fo did not put it into the corn Alcoliol was the productlon of rottenness. The advocacy of liqugr-drinking was a perver- slon of the Bible, the speaker held, and quoted from Proverbs to bear him out. 1le held that Mr. Mueller perverted every quotstion of the Bible he (ntroduccd into” his sermon. Tha speaker quoted from the Bibls to prove his nssertions. He alao quoted from Mr, Mueller's sermon to prove his false position, and pro- scevded to answer it in detail, (od never ‘created ono thing from whicn aicobol naturally coulid be produced. o held that thess things were all perverted by man, contrary toGod's fn- tentions. He thon quoted liberally from Gospel to show that wine-drinking is yiolatlanof the nstructionsof the Bible. Heheld that wine-drinkiug led to tdolatry, and viola- tion of all God's teathings, It led to slothful- .ness and ruln. The Rechabites, he sald, drank no wine at all. Tlu:r had temperance principtes which were aporaved by God, and awarded by lim. The Bible did not speak in favor of the Ifquor business, but decidedly against it. It favored and rewarded total abstincuce. Ile be- ‘lieved in temperance beeauss of ita phiysical re- suilts—ol [ts henefit to the system. The mod- te drinkers had causcto tremble. Allardent spirita as o boversge, were an It was like ovium and morphlne. Mr. Mueller knew this when from the teachings of Jesus. He h drunkards {n his church, whom he had to expel for that reason, The circulation of Mr. Mucl- ler's sermon would do no good. It was clrcu- lated because it adylsed men to drink and -helped the lquor business, Ife braunded tho sermon aa a sacrilege—as an abuse of tho Gos- pel. ITe scathed and branded the liquor traffic as the causo of more evil Lo the wworkl than any other business that bas cver oxisted, Ile believed that that sermon would result fn good to the cause of temperance. He would preach 8 more lengthy serinon upon this subject at the West End Opera {louse next Sunday evening, He did not llko to see 50 suiall an audionce, but as he was in the temperauce causs kdart and soul, e would continue the work. ° e I0WA. Appropriations for Stato Institutlons=Polit- Iral Siates. Speelat Correspondencs af Tha Trivuns Des Moixes, Ia, March 15.—If anyhody should bo thankful for the padsage of the Silver bill, It Is the Stato of Jowa. At the recent set- tlement of the Treasurer's quarterly accounts, that functionary could not raise a singls allver dollar, and yet the Leglsiaturo has directed bim to procure o new burglar-proof safe, with chro- nometer attachinent: Thero was on hand, March 4, 875,631.15, of which 87,393 was fn curroncy, and 05 centa in slver and nickels. STATE APFROPRIATIONS, The Ways and Mcans Committea of the Housc has reported the appropriation bills for the various State fnstitutions, as follosws: New Capitol.. +$ 85,000 Penltenttar; 04,324 Penitentiary st Fort Madlson..., « 18,760 Insane Hospltal at Indopendence « 060,000 Insane Hospital at Mt. Ples [ . 11,730 Aeylum for Biind, o Bl State Univeruily 50,000 Deat and Duwmb School, 42,000 School for Feeble-Minde 23,800 Orphans’ Home. 11,825 Teform School I 501 Fisb Comnisalon..... H,400 State Normal Behool... .. i Stato Agricultural College.... . 8,078 Roform Bchool for Girlsaees. 1,000, Tl cenconereasnes sonvasenrorsensssn§302,420 ‘This {s less than half tho amount asked by the institutions, and is not far from what thoy will get. In addition to this reduction, there will al o be o large reduction made in the pav of Stato oflicers, and in support bf lumates of tho venitentiaries, asylums, aud other fustitutions; which wlli gave, the Stato several hundre thousand dollars. The Senate {naugurated a Bpectal Committes on Retrenchment, which has rovised overy office in the Leglslative control, and also_ othicr Hnancial matters. The first bill they brouzht {n was to reduce the p(l] of motn- bers, ofticers, and cmployes of the General As- scmbly. Tho pay of members was reduced from $5,50 to $5.00; nud the 8enata had to repudiate its own hnmlluior stand up to tho rack, It de- chled to knock off the half-hundred, ‘Tho present Legislature has saved to the pcople of thoe Htatc doubla the amount saved by tho memorable Anti-Monopoly body four years ago, whoso whole stock in trade was retrenchinenf ond reform, but who lacked tho brains to com- prehend the situation, or apply the proper means to the end. POLITIOAL SBLATBS, Tt s now very generally conceded that J, A, T, Hull, Sccrotary of the Senatc, will be the next Hecretary of the State: He has no oppost- tion. Elijah Peako, Representativa from Monous County, Is widely mentioned fn connection with the State Land-Ofice. He s o very Intelligent man, of wide {nfluence at home, well versed in uubflc affairs,~having, I beliuve, been ot ono tima a member of the New York Legialature, Htate-Auditor Sherman will put n his oar for re-cleetion, and there appears to bo no nb,lcl:- tlon, Ho has the happy faculty of rleu ng cverybody, EHlis thorvuithly practical mind, sound judgment, and great tnterest {n the finan- ci{y\xl affalrs of the State make bhim a valuable wilicer, ‘The Congresslonal slates aro knocked lnto amithereens {n yiew of the new Congressional maps which are now being constructed. Tho latest combination for the ‘Third District is Wricht, Frankin, Butler, Bremor, Hardln, Grundy, Black Ilawk, Buchanad, Delaware, and Dabuque Countles,—making ten countles, where but seven coustitute the district now, ‘The Fourth District is mapped out of Winne- bago, Worth, Mitchell, Howard, Winneshlck, Allamakee, Hancock, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Chlckasaw, Fayctte, and Clayton Countlcs,—or twelve, lnstead of Aftecn, as now, By this arrangement the political complexion of thedistricts is materially changed, aud de- cidedly iu favor of the Democrats. "I'ne Fourth District, which fn 1873 gave a Republican major- Ityot 8,812, would have given only 4,585 under tho new doal, while the Third District is a fleld of even chance. Carhollo Aeld for Coughs and Catarrh, The London Matical Kecord gives the oxperi. ence ot Dr, Morits In the use of carbollc-acid spray in catarrbab discasc of the resplratory ore gans, Having bad wmuch to do with carbolie acld, and eapeclally the lruy hie noticed that the 'bronehial catarrh with which ho was fre- quently troubled did pot oceur, sud that, 2 1t begun, -}t was soon arrested, A colleatue of hia, Dr. Asscldelfly, made the suino observation. Dr., Morltz used the spray of a4 per cent solu- tion of carholic acid. Ho first (ried .it on two chililren fn whom the commencement of whoop- ing-ough was suspected, After the remedy had been used two da a fow days dlsappearcd. dre with mcasles the cough was diminished, and tho nights were moro quict after the use of earbotic-acid spray. In two surcical pationts alio, whose Jungs were In a auspicious atate, the cougli entirely disappeared durivg the fre- quent useof the spray. The carbolic acld dacs not act ns a cautérant, for ditution produccs bencticial action, aud it Is vot demonstrated that 1t exert uny chemieal action ou the I wmembranes, a8 some have thought, It appe most reasouable thot it acts as a parasiticide, :Icn.ruylmi the proto-organising which coust!- tute the fundamental part of the false me: bran Wd which cxist o the circulatory tem, since the local altcrutions are more than the expresaton of zymotic nfluene e Fifty Years as a Hearse-Driver, ‘Ailadelphia Times. Willinm Boyf; s a wau of probably 70 years of age, but who carrles his ycars well, aud whose hair aud whiskers aro atill dark, 1 bLave been {n the country forty-tive years," sald Mr. Boyle, who is nufpmml to have a penchaot for the ladice, *but I won't tell you my age. Ever sincs I have beeu In this countsy § hayve been driving u heavenly mall wagon, but tho letters L deliver have ouly oue post-olfice,—the graveyard. § drive a hearse, und for thirty-ons years 1 have been in the cmploy of one tirm, dud durlug that time I bave utteuded u funcral at least turee tmes 8 dav. You can Lel) from that how imany bodics I bave hauled to the grave, I amn the oldest hearse-dniver fn Amerd- ca, aod I Lave carried more peonle to the grave than oy lving nan. 1 beld the ribbous wheu Jobn Quincy Adams' body passed through Philadelphiaj 1 did the same over Zachary Tay- lor. I drove the dead-curt at the mock fuoeral of Audrew Jackson fu this clty, and a great time we had. I drove shohiearses when Presidout Lin- colu and Vice-Prestdent Wilson bad their funer- al ceremonles in this city, Thegreatest fuucral was ever counccted with was that of John Price Wetherill, aud that day I headed & pro- cession of 800 ca es. It wis o wnlead!d turn. out. ‘Falk sbout the *Old Bexton' gathering thew (o] [t's me thut's turued thow lu. How old am 1 sud where was I boral My lmoression is that I was never boroat all, but that Foated down the Suiquebanna on alog. Iawmus oid o8 the Lills,” ALABAMA., What '‘Democracy Has Accom- plished for That State. Its Rule Characterized by Everything Odious and Tyrannicale Northern Capitalists Chiseléd Out of $10,000,000, Deep-Rooted atred of tho North Leads to Repudiation. Liboral Demoorats Threatencd with Ostra- cism by the Bourbone, Bpecial Correspondence of The Tribuns. Moxrgouenr, Ala,, March 14,—Tnz TrRinUNR has occasionally referred to the disgraceful scheme of repudiation originated and enforced by the Democratic managors {a this State dur- fug the past three years, As many of the cap- itallsts of the West were suffcrers by this ropu. diation, and, as all tho readers of Tnr TRinuNz" are more or less interested in the general sub- Jecty it may possibly be something of s public duty to exposs the whole Infamous schemo which robbed the capitalists of the Northof more than $10,000,000, . DEMOCRATIO RULN IN ALADAMA, since the close of tha lato War, has been charac- terized by every cxcess and omisslon that was necessary to make It odius and tyrannleal. The first administration of tho State Government after tha closo of the War found every depart: ment In wreck and disorder. Confuslon on eyery iand was so complete that a radical re- organization of tha Governmental machinery waa an absoluto necessity. ‘Lho Btate did not have a cent of current money in its Treasury, and was not able to purchase a sheet of paper, except on time. o ralse funds, therefore, was tho first thing to be donc in this extremity, and .what did the Democratle officials do! They simply Issuzd bonds and put them on the market, ond, although wo had just emerged from a bitter scctional war, the capitalists of TIE GENEROUS NORTR STEPPUD FORWARD and purchascd theso bonds, glving a great deal more for them than thelr Democratic fathers dared h"P“ thoy would command. From July, 1805, untli Auguet, 1868, the Stateof Alabamin was governed exclusively by Democrats,—the pure, unterrified Dewocracy,~and the records show that thelr finaoclal management was a” cownplete fallure. They falled to establisheither order or system fn tha varjous departments of the Government., \Whenthe Ropublican ofllcials maaumed control of the Stato Government, (n Auguat, 1868, they foundan etnpty 1ressury, no records to culde them in referenco to State bonds and other Important matters, and cvery detail of qavcmmem was {n chaotle conluston. Inatead of addressing themselves to the restora- tion of the Uoverniuent in its genural relntions to tho Unlon, the Democratle managers in Ala- pama were busily engaged In bullding up a pub- 1ic sentiment in the Btate g 1QSTILE TO THR FRDERAL AUTHORITT; and, although the various Republican officlals had been elected by overwhslming mninrulu, 80 bitter was the Democratic hatred of every- thing favorablo to the Federat authority that, in some instances, United States Ltroops had to be called (n to enforce respect to the new order of thlugs, Once sottled in autharity, the Repub- lcan ofllelals sel themsclves to work to restorw Alsbuma to her former position as a Btate, A aplend!d system of frce echools was innugu- rated, by which the children of the poor were assured all tho blesalngs of education. Mcans of communication throughout tho Btate were very mcagre, and o magolficent system of in- teruat fimprovements was deviscd, the result of which {s to-day the prido of every citlzen. All tho splendid furnaces that light ud the oxhaust- less mineral roglons of tho State should be credited to the Republican party, Two of the most valuable and fmportant railway lnes {n the Bouth wero encouraged and assisted by tho Republicsu party. 0 UNDER TUE INFLUENCE OF REPUNLICAN BTMPA- TIY AND ABSISTANCE, Alabama, in one ysar, cinerzed from her chaotle and erustiod condition into an enterprisiug and progrossive Comnonwealth, Wiien this splen- did system of Internal fmprovements was first inaugurated, it recelved the support of all the Hberal and progressive citizens of both parties, and tho bonds lssucd by the Ropublican suthor- itiea to ald fn developing our vast resources re- celved the approval of Democrats equally with Republicans. * Ali the raflway authorities, ex- capt {u one instance, were Deinocrats of approve od records, und thore was no dissent from aoy quarter that deserved scrious consideration. ‘The Republican 5‘"" bas becn abused and assailed, North aud South, charged with corrup- tion, and dunounced as unworthy because of its liberal policy In the watter of improvements. Here in Alabama the party has beon overs thrown and anuilillated becaise of its record on rallroads. BUT LET THR TRUTI BY TOLD, For yoara the Kepublicans of Alshama have found deaf ears to uvery appeal thoy have made to the North for justiva. Tho press was closed to them because of tho repeated charges made by theilr oppunents, Thero can ba no sub- siantlal defonse mado to-dny by those who as- sisted in destruying Repuslican government fn theso Btates, and thue, the great restorer, hos served to shiow that the groatest sufforer by thu overthrow of Ropublicanism in the 8outh Is the North, ‘I'ha splrit of aniinosity which the peopls of tho North allowed to erow In thelr uidst to Southern Republivanism has been to a Kreat extent assuaged by the conduct of the Democratio members of Congress,—conduct which dully smacks stronger and stronger of tho old ante-belum regine, ‘The people of the North have observed that there is no relfance to bo placed ia Lhe profes. sfons, of the Boutherojuianagers of the Deutoe- racy. ‘The spirit of repudistion which has been 50 rampant here for tho past four years fs but another evidence that Southern Democracy is sntagonistic now, na ever, to the progressive aud advancing spirit of tho time, THE CURSH OF SLAVERY ACCOUNTS FOR THIs, Oppusition to everything that encouraged and atrengthonod the Federal authority wus a Dem- cratic motto long before Liucolu's proclama- tlon cut the shackles of slavery. One of the foremost purposes of Alabama Repullicanism was Lo strengthen cyery e that bound Aln- bama to the Union. ‘Fhe building of rall- roads aud tho development of the Btate's vast resources bound * the Commouwealth closer and closer to the Unfon, lieuce, when the Democratic leaders hers discovered thut tho apirtt of loyalty was growing throughout the Btate, and’ that the Republican system tended to foster a national apirit aua a national pride, as contra-distinguished from Htate nlle- glance, thay set on foot TUR JCUEME OF REPUDIATION, With that issuo they went beforc the people of the Btate, and cried out that “ Radicalisin was eating up the substance of the peopls in paying intereat on rallroad bonds, from which the peo- ple derived no benetit.” ‘They charged that the ‘'bloated bondbolders of the North wers meu who furnished thu monoy to subjugate the South,” and that the “peoble of Alabama were untder no obligation to pay theso bonds." This schome of repudiation, 11ks the speck in the sky tuat yrows futo a thunder-stor, was made popular beeause tho people were made to belleva that Northern capitalists who held the bonds would to some extent be punished for asslsting tho Federsl Government durlng tho War, It was not charged with any degreo of persisteucs that the Repub- lican party had corruotly made use of any of these bonds. ‘The chlcl veason urged by the Democratlc managers for their repudiation was that Northern capitalists would be 6unnhul tor their patriotivm in upholding the Uunlon cause. ‘The second feature was ths impoverished con- ditfon of the ‘?wgln. Agaly, the truth deserves to bo tuld right here: But for tho hostility of the Damocratic party to TUR ALABAMA & CUATTANOOGA RAILHOAD, the Btate of Alabama would ueyer have bad to pay o dotlar of interest oo the bonds repus diated. Tho capitalists of the North who owned the bonds of the Alabama & Chatta- nooga Rallroad ought to kuow the facts—ibe shameful facts—in reference to the wuole scheme of repudiation, snd these facts can woly be prescuted through the press of " the North. The sclzure ol thy "Als- bama & Chattanvoza Hallroad by the Demo- cratie Governor in 1373, under a statute which provided that, lu caso Qf default of interest on Etato ludorscd bouds, tho Governor should take bossession of the ruad to sccure the Stats, was an act of lpreactcnuluud hostility which suould hava conslgned the promoters to prison¥or life, ‘That scisuro was the tirst step iu tho repudia- ton scheme, “At that puriod Alabawa stood A Lig all the money warkels of thy country. Tae Republicans bad succeeded in restoring the credit of the Btate, sad In veviviug il the great industries sud public works of the Comwmon- wealtb, 81x mopibs after thoy are forcibly suc- ceeded by the Detnocracy TUB CREDIT OF TUB STATE HAD BEEN SUNK LELOW ZERO. Tho Alabama & Cualtuusvgs Rallway, & great trink line, runuing from Chattanooga, Tenn,, through the inexhausiible cnal ard” fron flcids of the Btate, to Meridian, Miss., had just becn completed, and asked a few months to pay fn- tereat. Beeause Northern men wero the owners of the rond, and Northern capitalists heid s bonds, the Democratle managers, by force, selzed _tho rond and wrecked Jt. In dofng this they destroved the credit and reputationof the State. T e{. thereunon, hatched out the yolicy of re- l""l atfon, Having broueht upon the people of he State all the disgrace attendant upon un- wise and impolitlc government, they resort to repudiation, and endeavor to hide their hatred of Northern capitalists whom they robbed by charging Republican government with corrup- tlon and lncomnpetency, When the Kepublican party was driven by the Ku-Klux from power, they left tha Biate Treasury Inn heaithy con- dition, the credit of the Stato first-class, asplen- did system of free achools in operativn, and rail- road finprovements in every quarter of tho State flourishing, The Denocratic manngers had appealed to all TUB PABSIONS, PILEJUDICES, AND RESENTAENTS of tho people, coupled with the exhibition of the most disgracelul demagogucry ever wit- nessed in a civilized land; they mada the peo- [\lc belleve that they were taxed to death, and hat * Radlcal officeholders, instead of un[»\ylm.: the taxes collected hdul purposes of guy- ernment, were stealing fortunes and squander- ing what was not pocketed.” When the Democracy, by the ald of Ku-Klux, drove the Republican t of power, the peur‘n claimed that the taxes inust be rediiced that “retrenche ment and reform,' those twin stars of Dem- ouratic demagoguery, must be introduced, and that all the happy L] l'nKllfYDlflllGd by the Dem- ocratic managers, should they be” placed in power, must at once be given the people. Tho truth was that the ratc of taxation, which was three-tourths of 1 per cent, wns aa low as the Btate could, with justice to its own interests, getalongon. Asa general rate, it was as low os almost any other Btate was taxing. The Democratic managers, however, had sworn to reduce the taxes, and they done it. TUR RESULT WAS that In one year Iln? had completely destroyed tho credit of the Htate even among its uwn people. The tax-ratc was so low that even the ordinary expenses of the Govermment could not be inet. " Defaults on the bonds of the State naturally resuited, and the whole fluancial machinery of the Siate became so demoralized, confused, and distorted that no head or tail could be made of it. The evils that followed are countlcss, but they were nll charged to the wccount gof * Radical corruption.” "Then the monster of repudiation mu{wd bis head out, and showed a conglomeration of glittering colors, all of which fascinated and charmed the Democratic maungers. They caperly embraced the oceasion, o they have buasted among them- selves here, sub-rosn, to punish the * Yankee bloated bondholders who helped to whip tho Houth." TAEZIR CRY YOR NORTMERN EARS, howeyer, was that * Radical corruption” had impoverished the State, and repudlation or bankruptey total and complote was thelr only escape. nd the Northern people belleyed them; believed that Republican offielals had stolen and squandered over $10,000,000 in Ala- bamy, and yet the Demoeratic managers could not put_thelr Gugers on a solltary Hepublican and make good their Infamous charge. They eseaped on *glittering generalities,”—charged the % Radlcal party’ " with tho corruption, laughed in thelr sleeves at Northern credulu{. and repudiated their publle debt—by which only “*Yonkoes " auffered. A campalgn has just been inaugurated here, and the clectlon beeurs in August, State offl- clals and n Leglslature aro to be chosen. By r=ason of tho {ncompetency and want olxrmrrcn on tha part of the present Democratie Adminla- tration, many llberal Detmocrata had exnbibited @ spirit of reslstance to the fossils who control the party and Btate. But the organ of the arty has notlficd all those who proposed to Ick that they will DE DEALT WITI AS ““RADYOAL ENXMIES' and ostracised accordingly, ~Although there is nelther flosh nor hide of Ropublicaniam to bo hoard or seen anywhers on the political hori- zou, the Democratic managers who have o con- stantly asacrtod thelr reconclifation step to the front and uor.ll( every white man who dares oppose the pollcy or “ticket of the sv-called Deinocratic and Conservative party that he will Lo treated a3 a **Radical cnemy,’ his famlly will be ostracised, his buslness will bo broken up, and bo WILL BB LEFT " NAKED AND ALONE," as ft were. without home or friends. Tho ‘‘people ' are called upon to spot every white man who protests agaiost the inismanagement or unpatriotic conduct of Democratic officials, aod treat bim as they treated the *‘ white Rad- fcals In years gona by. The Northern readers of Tna TRIDUNE may not know preclsely what that means, but tlicre are a fow, & very fow, white men fn Alabama who do know, and they would prefer the racks and tortures of the O1d World rather thun experionce such a condition in, Civilization would shudder rnd tremblo with Indignatlon it the King of 8pain wera to In- flict upon any of hia subjects, for slmply oppos- Ing his political policy, such crueltics, Indigni- tiew, and_outrages ns Democratto matsgers in Alabama have infiicted uvon white men who op- posed their policy and repudiation schemes, TUE ‘' SOUTUERN Pn*mx" OF PHRESIDENT HATES B! has not yet reached the Republican white citi- zensof Alabama. Their volces will not bo heard {u the pending campalj There are 8o fow of them that even wera they to spcak pot even o ripple would be created on the cusrent of events here, but they do not Intend to bo crushed and outraged agaln untll the guoulo of the Nuorth aru alivo to the treachery of the Democracy and thelr hipstility to the Federal Government 'is ex- posed g0 plainly that It cannot bo hid away under ony demagoguery, however plausible, truckling, or subservient. The puble debt of Alabama, repudiated by Democratic hatred of Northern capitalists, will yet be the destroying nchl of tho hypocrites wlio fathered the shamo- ful'schemo. . K. —e— THE RIVAL MEDICAL SYSTEMS. To the Ed SY! tor of Tha Tribune, MiLwAURES, Wis., Murch 15.—Tus Cuicaao Triwuxns of March 14 nsks the so-<called Allo- ‘pathic profcasion to come forward and acknowl- cdgo that there fs some good in Ilomeopathy, Dr. E. M, Halo In a late numberof the American Homeopathlst clalms that Homeopathy s in danger of absorption by the old achool, and accuscs tho latter of having accepted the Homo- upatlie doctrine without giving the followers of 1lshnemann credit therofor. I propose {n this paper to show Tas TRinunm that Allopaths have dono snd aro dolog what it asks of them, and to point out to Dr. flale that the process now golng on ls not oneo! absorption, but rather of eudosmosis, both schools moving each day in eachi other's paths, First, for the proof of the Allopathic side. The leading maoual of old school Therapeutics to-day is Hinger, tho toxt-book at Harvard, Phila- delplits, Belleyue, Rush, and the Chlcago Mou- fcal, The suthor is Professor of Therapeutics in the Mcdical Colleze of the University of Londou. llear what lie says about * Similars " in his G{th editlon, published last yosr: Hromides occaslonally produce sn acneform rash, and even , + = . Yot Dr. Chomley reporta some abstinale cscs of acne cured by mod- erata dusus of bromide of potassium, Salts of tron may cause in children even noc- turnal Incontinence of urine, yol iron salte not unfrequently care this troublcsome complaint, oven when not dopendent on worma in the recium or other ireitation. CaatAarides—Tha dlscrepancy respeciing the efccta of cantharidea ariscs perhaps from the dif. ference in dose sdministared by different eb- servers. . , . A drop of the tincture glven ibree or four times a day i particularly useful In casce Whors thery s o frequent dosire to mnake compauled oy qivat pais; . o . b acts as sn frritant Lo the urlnary tract. It causus dificult and lln'ill urination, | (Bartholow, ftog. . efficacions as ipecag ln‘ f’ .8 vomiting .. indrop doses. ' Mercury— lflulnnln how simnilar the phenom- ena produced by wercury sre Lo thowe which ro- walt from eyphilis, ‘The ‘suthor thinks it is fairly shown { the serious secondary tertiary sywptoms 1314 tothe charge of wercury can un- doubtedly bo produced both " by It and by syphilis. Ho tuat thesw salte, if piven too frecly . . Larm by aggravatiog tus dis nded Locure, . Mercury fa pro! bly a truo vital sutidote agalnet the sy, hfllllcvflu, 204 is capabls of brnging about a real cure, Nutrats of Amyl—Ib thicty Lo forty seconds it flusties the facs and Iucreuavs tho hoat and perspl- ration of the bead, face. snd peck. . . It event or greatly lesscu thess flushingy or nd svert the profuss perapiration. s oue-thirticth of 8 minlm will in some oatients counteract the fushlng. Acida—It bs well knowa tuatif too long contlnued the Laprovemont Grsd fullowlog theie ueo | cedsuu, then {resh aymplots arise which, ap parcut straugencss, ard rclieved by the very op- posite treatneut which had previously blnlll-g. + oo Thls excesslve furuientation” of acidsls Itscdf checked by acids, . . . We bave o aclds themselves remedies sble to control and check the acidity of the stomsch, . . . tical men indeed kuow well that the adwinlstration of an acld will remove Lhe symptows srislog from ex- cose of acld in the etomach, . . is lack of uolforanty fu its resuits Lmlnhnnc scid] can bo sccounted for in wany fustances Ly the duse, for aswall medical doso often benefts, whilsl s full one, by {ncreasing the acidity of the cans), may sven tl'fr".h the discase. Sulphideg in exccanivo dosce produce active fn- fammation in the digestive canal with jts sccom. panglg sywpls o o o Yhar reduce e la. b B 2. 15 they flammation and avert the formatlonof pnr, . , Itisdificult to imaging how thess remedies can ;fln:fir:comccum iffercnt and appareutly op- As 1o dose and method of adminlstrat) hiear this Atlopattile Professor: o, Phosphorus doses now coneldered medi; , for Instance, one-thirtleth of a aratn, . :,\"::Ix'a riters ihink one-hundredth of & “grain g ruflicient dose. 1n small tonie-doncs, oncethirtiety to one-Aftieth 'of & grain, it will remove debilijy. 7Tartar Kmetic—Tho best ar to sdminister i1y salt i to diesolye 8 grain of {t in halfa pint af 'r; glve A teaspoonful of the olution m:a wi gnlnle'r of an hour for the first hour; afterma ourly, Alercury—One-hundredih of a gratn given honrly =|r ev'e'ry |’wo hours {sgencrally suflicient {inblvody arrhora). Sulph, of Calelum—The suthor mizes a craly with haif & pint of_swater, and givesa child a ton: fpoonfal bourly, "It I8 sull” moro convenieat to givo tho anlphide In powder, In dosen for an adglt Of ong-tentts to ono-half agraln, miged wiin suzar ?l mil « + A powder is to Be put on the ongue, Bat Prof, Rloger quotes Homcopaths aj 3 Ingly and ns authority, thus: B8 Paew Phosphorus—Dr, Richard Haches (1 Mt Medica In the Seonon Sehao]. o Horee o0 athy] recommends pliosphorns in d_llv:uunr gflg rectam, - nfe—~Dr, Tughes speake highly of smaif doses of armenlc in nenralgls. Dr. Bayes (iate President of the Britiah llomeopathic *Saciet, recommends arsenio o (o awaled feot of ] persons, Aconite—~Dr. Dayes rrcommendancontte In ofiti, LFhosphorus—For many years this substance hag fallen Into disnee, hut owlg to its signal ancereq in nearatgin in the handa of Homeopathic practl. tioners it haa recently been restored to favar, Before I leave Dr. Rioger, I would exhibit an Interesting bit of reading from the Hritish and Foveign Medico-Chirurgical Revlew, which wyi) doubticss be newa to. many s medical man in Chleago? The rapld eale of Dr. Ringer's Treatise on Thenreuuu soeaks well for the rud{ apprecis. tion of the new views of practice by Hritiah orac. titioners when recommended to them on_auflicient authority and with suflicient pteclsion. 1Indeed, o conalderable portion of tha therapentical teachiigs of the book is very much at variance with the pro. valllow dogmas of ‘twenty years since. ‘I'he dod trine of the efleacy of freqnently repeated » dosca is an innovation, and that of the antagon in action of many drign is & development of po: tive aclonce from what wera only crude guesn Pllvlnflll obtained. The trestise has, as hereto. ore, our hearty appraval, For pure, sublime, unadulterated eheek, I an afrald wo will have to go to Engglund herealter, The heathen Yengee 1s ecnliar, And Yankee bravado played ouf, Becondly, Whi the homeopaths dolng (o tireak down the bigotry, And emancipate themualves fro.n tho thraldom of one ideat i, Duadgeon (lecturer in Hahnemann 1lospital, Lon. don, 1853) devotes ono wholo lecture to proving from ancicnt medical writers that homeopathy ig asold as medicine, and did not originate with Tlahnemann, Then he attacks the protuse symp. tomatology of his schoot, Hahnemann's Maieria- Medica snd theories, demnlumnf the followlng: “tho homcopathic njim-nvnuon. 'sora theory of choranic discases, Dynamization of Medicines, High Potencics, Tteory of Cure, and acknowledges only Provings on the health, single medicines, and +>simllar similibua, " which tast, hawever, he nays (page 111) **cxpresses unly the rule for the aelec. tlon of the remedy, the curative process being rather contraria confrarus,* and lr-zn 1L5) **s0 thiat homoovathic’s icinea aftor alloperata on the antipathic principle, But if 1853 s too far back, let us come to 1867, and seewhat Dr. Wyld, Viee-President of the British Homeopathic Socloty, says: Since 1851, howsver, great changes have occarred In this country on both sides of tho medical quen. tion. Many men have risen In the ranks of medi. cine who have renounced all tho heroice of tho past in the treatment of ncute diseases; whils the called liomcopathilsts Liave on their alde alny tirely abandoned the use of globules,and bave sub. stituted doscs in a tangidle furm; their rulo for the doeo being, in cflect, to give & dose muflliclently Jargo to effect its putposs, but not eo large as to discomfit or weaken the gnllcn(. Fuartner, we find that wherons the early homeopatbists denounced all auxiliaries in the treatinent of disease, it is now the practice to makoe frequent uso of all remedics of a slmple kind, sach accasional anodynes, oplates, anxsthetics, tonics, galvan hydropatlly, Turxish baths, and_iineral waters, 1In short, wa define our practice as rational medi. cine, including the operation of the law of cantra. Flew, but pine tho spplication of the law of aimile Torecapitulato: We admit, tirat, that tha vie expressed by Hahnemann are often cxtravagant and {ineorrect; secundly, that Hippocrates was right when ho snid **Some diseano: beat treat- bo dcmonmnred. 1ta uso n ine ractic: E‘v. by & large number in this country, all but aban- on ed, On theso grounds, and malintsining that we ars legally qualificd modical mea and gontlomen, wa clalm the right of admission to your medical sacle- tios, sud to q::l slonal intercourse with tha en. tire medical body,—Lancel, August, 1877, | Dr. Richard Hughos, now the foremost En- lish teachier of homcopatlic therapouties, o the Inst cdition of his manual (London, léfl; age 23), says: **Henco *coutraria contrarus I’. ofton as trus phenomenally as ‘simllia simill- bus,’ and & no less cortain guide to tho right medicino," Dut the most oxtraordinary homeopathlc confesslon {s that of the lNomcopathio Modical Boclety of tha State of Now York, which at Albany, Feb, 13, 1873, adapted the following resolutfon, *alter much discussion® (sco ABp{wru-u Homeopathist for Maren, 1878, page 181): . Revolved, That In common with other exlating assaclations which bave for their ohject investiga- tions and other labors which may contribute tu tho pramotion of madical aclonce, wo bereby declare that, although Grmly belloviag the principle *‘aial- 4ia stmilibus curantur® to conatitute tha best general ulde In the ssiection of remedies, nud fully futend. ing to carry out this principlo to the best of vur ability, this bollef does nat debar uu from recox- nizing'snd making nse of the results of any axpe- rlence, and wo shall exercise and defend tho Invio- Iate right of every vducatod phyaiclan to mako practical uso of any establihed principle fn med. Ieakacience, a of any fherapautital fuets fouied on experisnénts and vorined by exporlenco, f0 far an {n his individus) judymont they shiall tend to promote the welfara of those under bis professional care. | Compare tho above language with that of Hahnemann: “No physician ever effocted & permancot cure of an {nvcierato discase unless some drug ot predominant homeopathic effect bad beon by chauce crabodied in his prescrip tion,'? (Organon, 8ec. 61.) * 8o there remaing no other manuer of applying drugs iu the cure of dlseases bub the houicopathic method.” (Organon, Bec. 24,) *‘Genuine, irentie cures are accomplishicd, 1s ‘wo have scen, only by tha principlo of liomeopathy,” (Organon, Sec. 53.) “1he course pursucd by homeopathy must be the ouly correct one.” (Orzanon, Sec. 54.) The world moves. *“Tempora mulantur, et nos mutamur {n {1l Dooron FiouLus. e —— ' WAIT FOR BETTER TIMES, To (as Editor af The Tribuna, Cnticaao, March 16.—Now thut tho subject of reduction of city expenses fs aiuin the polnt Iu questlon, §t may not boout of place to romind tho cmploves as well as morcantlle estavlish- ments that, even at the comparative pittance of $40 or $60 & month, they may Ly economy live mm(nrtnhl{. ‘There are, 1 know, many ein- *ployers, mysclf amoog the numbor, who would Eo 1ad, tho last twelve months, to have realized asalary or cleag profit beyond business oxjenscs without fntcrest of$860 a month to live on,~and 1have s capital of $3,000 and $4,000 Invested,— and while &5 cent cigars, drinkiug, and chewlng tobacco havo to bo (hupenlcd with, aud the dol- laramusewent renounced, and the 25 cent lecturo or coucert taken wdvantage of to get recreation. Employes wmust remember that thess are piuche {og Umes which they littlo feel, but thosc who have sufficlent fntegrity and too wuch indes Bendenro of character to be classed on tho dead- cat mercantile list can, by lving within theie meang, come out abead, and will be ready to take adyautage of the good time when it comes, and the proigal and spendthrift of private or commercial life is gono. A BUBBCRIBER. Fugltives from Justice In Tezas. Texas Iséucs s curious public document en- titicd “*a st of fugitives from justice.” It contaius 223 pages, and puts the number of fugitlves at 4,403, with forly couuties yet to hear frown, which cover some of the most popu- Jous portions of the Biate. Of these gentlewen and ludles who have wandered away from bome and given the cold shoulder to the guardians of the peace wucuever the latter wade ndvances, 750 are charged with murder. Rewards nnz};fi from $50 ta $1,000—the aggregate belug $iX), —are otfercd for 800 of the lugitives, aud detect- ives out of a job, as well as ugrlculturalisté, might tod this Btate & good one to jmuigrate to. Apropos of which, it 14 estimated that over 100,000 Lorses have been stolen within the last three years. Bome 750 fadicted horse-thleves are fugitives frow justlce in the State, amd the number that bave escaped arrest ia incalculables Au organized gang of several hundred is operat- {og;in Mididle 'Texas, and the loss of farm atock tn somo localitios {s immegso, It s libtlo wonder that, wheu one 1s caught, ho 13 ikely 10 be huwg to tho nearcet tree. —————— A Bower-Gus Explosion, The list of_possille causcs for cxploslons 1 focreased. One dauy last gonth, a nau walking along Feachers strect, Liverpool, after lghtivg & cigar, dropped the blasing match through the cratlog of asewer. Doubtless hio thought it @ neat way of disposing of the match. lub straightway there was an carthg lukd:,wllhmn-‘lj uojse; the pavement opeued, fumes lusuc fortln snd & stone welgblng 30U Eoumh rose iu air. 'I'be sewer-gas continued to buru for wlovk whllo alier the csploslow.