Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 8, 1878, Page 2

2 WHE CHICAGO 'LRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL '8, 1878, Chrlat painted the dark colors of Hell Ha at tho same tims painted characters fully worthy of ruch a dark abode, There is an swfulness in- deed in gomo of the sentences of Chrlst, but it is not of the awful threata of the middle ages but the judgment passed by nlm{.\lc cquity. Next to Christ's equity and :nfldness in” phil- osophy comes His gentleness In deeds and bear- ing. When bad feglinga aroso in & erowd, Lio withdrew to soma lonely place, that reflection might disptace the bad parsions of the populace. When Liis disciples begged permission to draw much that did not acconl with our orthodox yiows, bug thia was “ zeal without knowledge.'? Truth had nothing to conceal, and all it asked waa fair play, e could not shut his eyes, how- evor, to tho fact that a portion of tha abeulor press acemed {n aympathy with Infidellty, o8 opposed not to sectarianfam, but to Chirlatinnity {tself. It our forefathers were well-meaning but mistaken men, and If they want pragoer ex- cluded from our National Legislatures, let such papers aay 805 but. it was not falr for them to go out of thelr way for sclectlons and cxtracts words gentle, snd gentad, and gentleness, possess- €d once a significance now quico lost. Amid tbess thoughts ut words, you may see the Christ rising up, revealing tho beanty of equity or perfect reaconablencss, or the beauty of that old word gentleness, inade out of the hroad difference betieen A Roman home and thecave ol an old robber, or the wigwam of an Indian. This gentlences of Christianityis seen In ity doctrines and in its facts; that 18, It Ia betrayed in §ts first philosophy and Its first decas, All RELIGIOUS. Sermon by Prof. Swing on “The Mildest Re= ligion." tl‘l‘ln 8, l" lhmhy( pnuc\l"l‘ntn ln‘ls :xf.wllfe, ln?uc;' th’-;-':wonlhlln ;ccmeq\ to slnlu.]lv; t‘hle rhlnlg‘ n“n;vtn h?ntlllt;l lto L"hrmlnnuy w}\llo Clgnf-‘lfntl?t ed thelr babit ey entere osale | with a smile. In an agewhichhad soueht all ita r patrons recommize Cbristian The Meokness and the Gontleness B e Blocli ends by force, this On% maved along asking the & it 4 t a8 a divine religion, and the corner-stone of otr national prosperity. Of tho Bunday newapyper hie had but little to sny at present, more than that fts publication was a direct violatlon of tha fourth commandment. But in this the demand created the supply, and, if reform was sought, wo wonld have to hegin at the ciccam/erence. If he ' went for *! the Snnday papers, ho would, 1deas, Greck {deas, Roman idcas, Indlan idens, parted at once with a natt of thelr aspetity. As 4 north wind, rushing down from the Arctle ro- glons or from tho upper air, turns at first all things fnto fce, hut at last hecomes itsell tem- cred as ft journeys southward and finds in Florida the ‘numan heart longing for it and urlnk!mz in Its Intoxivating voalness and life, so peace of solitude or tho wotda of affection to win victories which had once been expected only from the fleld of blood. Of the thirty-threa miracles which Christ performed, thirty-two of them were power with love in it; only one of them expressed punishment, and fn that one caso the punishiment fell not npon a soul, hut of the Teachings of Christ. Dr. Hunter’s Opinion of the Charac- the o!d thoughts, from Moses to Saul of Tarsae, | upon a fig-trec. Its leaves withered, Al the | therefore, lave to “go for” those who pur- " d f from Bolonon 10 Lycurgus. moved cold and [ other great wonders wera perforned ta camfort { chased anid read them, and it all the Corlstian ter and Ton enoy 0! the harsh {ato Christianity, but they melted as thoy { the human heart. Tho pagan religions came o | people in the city who never read a Sunday pae adyvanced. Bome poet once described, In simile, | lieap up sorrows, Christ’s to diminish thom; | pershould gather around tho officns of Tun Press, an lceberg floating toward the summer seas. Ho RIDUNE nnd Z¥mes, and each one throw a theso n{ulcms came with tho horrible, s with the lovely. The Hobrew —Satbath woull mnot bend. The man who gath- ercd sticks upon that day was pot to death; but Christ's Ioly Day saw the disciples ulm\llm: through a Wwheat-fleld and catlng tho new, eoft wheat, and hearlng the words that the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Babhbath. Buch was the genina of this (Gospel that to its recorded eyents have the philanthroplat, and pnlnterinml voet, aud orator come, he face tells how It was smitton at last by the warm sun and warm winds above, and by the warm waters beneath, until at last what was 2 mount- ain of {ce, all dissolved and faded in summer waves, Thus, he sakl, love melts the heart, Into the surmmer sca of Christianity many a rude thought ot antiquity drifted, and thera meited nway under the gentle sir and lung sun- shine of the new diapensation. The very term salvation Itsclf underwent an enlargement. Ita offer grow more gencrous. {t passed from the stone, he did not bellieve that many panes of glnss would be broken. Ho did not know whether the Snunday paners were printed boforg 120'clock or not Naturday nlght, but hodid know that there was no_8Sunday for tho nowa- Doy, and to him this wasthe saducest [eatarein the picture, In thelr interest he would appenl tothe managers to cease printing Sunday papers, It was not a work of nceessity, nelther was it ono of merey, and he wanted the boys to have a chance to. become mon, o would not, howv- A QGénerally Favorable Verdiot, Ixcept as to tho Sunday rapors. Dr. Ryder’s Analysis and Estimate K twolva tribes over to ‘*whosoover will,” Fa- | of one Mary pasecd onward into the Madonna | ever, abuse the proprictors of such papers, for of Cook and lnger- voritiem gave way to equity. lleaven camo a | ofart. It wasso full of spiritual heauty that | they were but scrvants of the publie, and, if the soll little nearer Lo the muliitude. artists sat down azound It to study fts detalls.’| publle will have Sunany papers, the demand Even whero Christ appears to have surpassed the Mosalc age in strictness, it will be found that In that new atringency there was the more of kinancss. If tho aivorce law of Clrist was more rigld than that of Moscs, It was moro kind. Its kindncss went out toward woman, whercas woman was always a secondary matter in all anclent law, Christ's law was only a re- doubled gentleness towvard woman. e taught that man should be denfed the right to exila the one who bad been wedded in her youth, tomake home last only whils tho beauty of the faco should last, or white the masculine mind might he only passfug from one caprice to another, Christ” knew that a baso love only ia tran- alent, while 2 true fricndsbio {s perpetual, and Thence while Moses wrote o law which tolorated caprice, along came tho Diviner leart to lead mankind toward a form of fricndship that shiould last forevor, Instead of being o sover- {ty, Christ’s law was a plea for )ife-loug homes; it wns the ond of cruel banishment: it took womsan's home and children snd hor grave away from tho caro of passion and ficklencs: and gave them to tho cars of all her youthfu! ussociations and youthful rights, Christ's di- vorce Jaw Is tho juining of the marriage altar and tho grave by one chain of affection, that the 1ova which placed fluwers ugon the former msy be near to shed tears over the latter. This tenderness, as scen toward the wife, reappears aguin when you glance at the rela- tion of Christianity toward cinldhood. It Lias always been ditlicuit for the human raco to bo tender and Just toward helpless infuncy. No high valuation was placed upon the life or hap- pincss of the little ones. The Pagaos hava atways freely slaughtered infauts. Merod did’ not hesitale to order & gen- cral slaughter of flonocents, \When cities were captured {n war, [nfants wore killed almost ns an amusement. The Romons exposcd to death many littlc onea. Thg tribes which have been kind to chlldren havo been located in fm- agfuary regions whers no teaveler could visit the delizhtful land. 1t has been said of certaln ‘Tartars, who live Ininaccessible mountains, that they love deeply all thelr children; but as for Anotlier Mary moyed forth under the name of Magdalen, Her face wears tho smile of sins oll crased, and of n new hfe within, The widow slio gave tvo mites, tho Woman with the nlabaster box, tee Jerlcho rond, the peacoful jov of old Simeon, the ainful woman forgiven In concluslon, the speaker aatd he had no and redeemed, the last supper, the resting of | fault to find wlith the Chicago press. If the John’s head on the bosom of his Dirine friend, | ninistry had a good thought, the oress wasever o1l these persons and sccues sprang up out u} ready to send It broadeast. [t eald to them, that wonderful life, and streained out over | Now, you walk correctly, elao I will publish the world llke a moruing sunshiue. Enough of | you to tho world,” and tho offect was good, and thought and of sccncry came out of the llfe | ihe press was reudering rich servive, Tho fear of Christ to change the spirit of lterature and ['of publicity scttlcd many lawsnits by arbitra- tion, hushed many church quarrcls, suppressed and adjusted many domestie Inmlchlz- nd ar- rested mnny crimes. It was sometlines nunoy- iug that ono could not tura around without "a reporicr at the clbow, yet the cffoct was salu- tary, ‘Tne fact was, we were nll editors, and all faaned dnily pupers, and our nelghbors and the world were our readers. Our inuer lifa, how. ever, no onc could know nor read, but tho Judgmont would reveal It, sud this was an aw- ful thoucht, and nothing but God's mercy would save us from the fear of pubilelty in tho last ¢reat day. — COOK AND INGERSOLL. ARRMON DY THE TIRY. DIl NYDER. Tha Kev. Dr. Rydor, of 8t. Paul's Universalist Church, dolivered bis estimnto last avening of the philotophieal, philological, psychatogical Cook, and tho slap-lash, iconoclaatic Inzersoll, taking as his toxt Matthew, xil, 80t ‘ Hoathat 1s not with Mo Is agninst Ms, and hethat gather- cth not with Me scattereth sbroad.' It would Lo bard to name, ho sald, two men beforo tho public at this timo whe wero more widely asun- der {n thelr principles aud their teachings than Cook and Ingersoll. The former upheld tae Christian system, betleving In Uod, Immortality, the resurrection of Christ, and the general or- thodox system, and defending in his distine guished woy tho position he held. Tho othor will continue to create thie supply. The whole matter rested with the Christian publie, who, he belleved, constituted a majority of the read- ingand advertising class, or at logst held tho balance of pawer. Prastdont Anderson on Higher Education and the Uni- versity of Chieaga. Prof. Soymour's Deolination of the Bishope tio ‘of tho Diocese of Bpring- 13, T, art, And, now, 1f we are indeod roligions beings, then Is {t not certaln that no trucr or gentler syatem of warship or falth can ever cume to us, cither down from the sky or up from human meditation? Isit not certain that no spiritunl leader can ever appear who mni-. in _any wan- ner, surpass this Christ? Tlia religion {3 n fi{mna!hy, the broadest and deepest possible. 1% deals in tovitations rather than decrees, It entreats liko a mother, it persuades like n silver-tongued orator, It advises ke a friend. 1t Is fitted particularly for somo future civiliza- tion which shall cxchange despotism for brotherhood, which shall “place persuasion abovo force, and which shall prefer kind words ta all tho hanghty sentences of human vanity. Him whom n Darbarous age crucified, the earth’s highest centuries will hasten to crown, Weary of old regloct or old cruelty, and old vartiallam, woman in her mildaess, childhood in 1ts dependence, manhood in its highest culture, will come and lny offerings down before the gentloness of Christ. NEWSPAPERS, BERMON DY TR REV. W. J, NUNTER, The Rov. Dr. W.J. Ruoter preached to o larga congrogation at St. Paul’s Reformed Epls- copal Church Iast evening, Ills subject was **Newspaners,” and his toxt as follows: O that my wwords wors naw written; O that thoy wera printed inw Lookl That they were graven THE MILDEST RELIGION. BERMON DY FROF. 8WING, TProf, Bwing preached yesterday morning at the Central Church, taking as his text: Now [ Paul mysolf besecch yon by the meeke mess snd gentlencas of Chrlst,—ZL Lor., Z., 1. Ascyery man has o disposition, o temper-. ament, which shapes his lifc, so every phile osophy, be t political or reiligious, has ita own central, spiritual quality, The Eari of Leltrim, who has just been sssassinated by some of his own barbarlan whito slaves, is sketched as hav- ing on fron will and & harsh mauncr toward the tenants on his lands, If 8 man, oragirl, or o widow falled to come up to tho desk on rent day, the Earl nssumed tho form of s Draco, his heart became stono and his norvea fron, and wan, or mirl, or widow was ejccted from tho hovel ‘which was sacred with tho associations of home. Thus dashing along at early morning to put out 1nto thonighway the goods of n poverty-stricken widow, the bullets of some assassins ggmoved Lim from this Wife. s harsh nature did not cxcuse the murder, but it scrves to remind us what o fact a nature or o disposition may be, Ylow the issues of 1ifo may be in it more thao in with an lron _pen and lead in the rock forever.— d v hot tho natlous which have not lived away from his- “ugte. Wwos an Avowa athelst, denying all Jearulog, or taleats, or property! As tho soul g lob, xle.,'23-24, | 8 o nan i the active princlpla which doter- t‘;‘:’" ;:::xrl‘:'t n:",':gf' o ";fi‘ ;:;f“:';“g‘&’,:l‘ The reverond gentleman sald ft was apity [ bub the h’““““"’“r“‘l princloles. 44 mor mines the motious and keops up tne hife of the ndced, about. earth's * [ittle wnes,” bat those | that when a man had a kreat thought ta ubter als which tho former asserted. " And yet Joseph Cook to-day was furnishing inger- it should dle ou his llps. Job had felt it 2,000 l,u\lr, o the disposition s the 1ifo of the soul. few words wero full of mesning. The 14| Iushapes and colors the action by day and tho | [F¥ SOF LR For 0 t0 o 11 with the most effectivo arzumonts that tho o phy, but theelo- | years befors tho .art of printing was | soll With g & :;fgr&;co(a‘glngl;xi:au:[:‘nkcgn“ Eol‘x‘::'elx:.};&m.a quenco of affection, Warda full of pathosand | Giscovered when he had I; ln;‘llmnny Intter employed agalnst the Christlan relizion. his tenants by the sccptro of friendship had his | SXFupathy aro wingeds they will iy all over tho | o™iy aug o trath to propound. [ Cooky I reply to tho clalma of Uni- ind been made In that mold, but his soul was [ Forid—words with tears In them—thicr will bo | | T o | versalism, bad emd that ovil was in e tha Mkcencas of what fa called nuthority, | Gloquent when the utterances of simpla loclc are | **For 1 know thatmy Rodvemer livoth,” cte, o 1; death d sl hero} caat initie 't | forwotten. Virgil Letrays tho anclent fecling | wantod printad, and his wish hod been gratifled, | the world; death and sin wars hero; wower, and lie preferred force to fricudship, ::m: of Baine) Lover's sketchies, Father Phil governed is large Irlsh parlsh by love, and wlt, und good humor. No nccr(ro of tyrant ever ruled a crowd as Father Phil ruled ‘his great churchful, No assassiugtion could occur fu his ttle kingdom, There was danger of dylng of Taughter, but noue from s bullet or kiifs. The people Hstened, and lJoughed, and loved, und obeyed, What destiny is st red away in the word uisposition! An ngo yposscsses {ta temn- perament. The times of Calyiu wers made sul Dy reljjous persecutions. Tho times of Queon Fizabeth were furned toward fasnlon aud amusement, and somewhat toward learning, whon ho places In the vestibule of Hell the spirfts of Infanta: Infantumquo anime flentea in limine primo, *Immediately,” ho says, * yolees were heard, and immense moarlngs, and in tho very en- trance of Hell wero the crying souls of infants whom some unhappy day bad removed from thely mnothers’ bovom and committed to cruel death.,” Now it {s tho misslon and only work vossiblo of the poct to gather up into beautiful form the scotiments of his are. Asa South Ben lalander weaves soft Lark Into garments, and thus shows what bis {slaud can grow and Its mind (nurlmxu‘ and as the Laplander in his they came by the permission of God; present evil abounded; why wight {t not always sbound And he bad added, that be had reason ta belleve it always would abound, Ho had goue on to domonstrato the perpotulty of sin, ana Inger- g0l hind retorted that ho was right; that, ae- cording to Cook’s own showing, It was not truo that God was no respectar of persons, and that 1ie was just and good. In thls, Dr. Ryder.re- gretted to say, Ingersull Lad tho bost of the ar- gument, Where, then, was the difliculty? In tio first place, Cook had to rlfln ta employ tho alnst Universal The words were printed fn God's book, and translated In cvery tongue, But the text con- templated three kinds of writing or printlug— Ina book, an plates of lead, and cuitlng In- seriptions on rocks and mountalns, Dr, Clarke eatd the first book printed was a psalter tn 1457, and the flrst Bible wilh a dato fu 1460, Intho Qays of manuscript hooks literature was sold by the measure, aud an order for replonishing a nobleman's library read: “Twant six fect of theology, the same quantity of metaphysics, aud nc‘nxxr’n yard of nhlll clvil law, o (o||o,"h)fluw' 13 am,—against the The Frenel! mind in tho cighteonth century | actlcles of travel—his sledze, and reindeer, and | maay pulpits could Il such an ordor] Bluce | SEEMHEN . \‘.'::; skeptical. v doubted, Eml mocked, oud | wrappings—shows to the world what his land | those dfl]"l" howeyer, had come tho press, and §‘,‘;‘,‘,§‘,}‘°,,‘}§.1‘ u? ,,‘3,'.‘.'3,'5{.'{"’1'5‘&3‘:0‘3?3‘.1.2"‘3}’,:‘5 denfed. "Thug man, apd natfons, and eras, and #ystems of thourht have cach a soul witbin which ives ctinracter to the ons belugg lu which that soul dwells, Into this group of differcnt claracters, Christianlty descended from the skies to pursus Lier shape of thought and con- duct. Lot us mark her disposition, Following closely the Mosaic time, and apring- Ing from the Mosale race, it micht have beew of suuws can possces and enjoy, so tho poct comes to ue showing what {deas were his envi- ronment, e adorns them by fancy and rhythm, and sends them to the grent exposition of the next age. In Virgll, thcrefore, you perceive that tho anclonts” felt that an”infant was a begun but not a real finlshed goul} that bad they lived they wonld have beon now the newspaper was the [mpulur cducator., ‘The' pulpit only had its pre-cmivcuce Uaod was o God of mercy, wnun{ therutore, b in the fact that truth was its ataple, did usc an oidel argument against Universal- {st, it wna because nono other would avall his But there were secular and religious pulplts, 2 1 ust as there wers secular and rulfirlu\u papers, I:,“‘,"L“,:f,' ",:‘ru?n::“_‘ulwh'fi, '{;'::Pvz,:: ‘:‘,',l,l"'f,‘! 'rom somne puipits scrinons were preached with v ‘! not enouggh Gospel {n them to show an auzious :;;}{f;‘“g?,"(';‘gm‘,';; I‘;}"’l‘f,dw“llf, 'S'rf'i?;!fn‘,.':‘;":‘;‘f noul the way to salvatlon, and for these to ) clajm pro-¢ininenco over the press would bo o | lom the Rev. Joseph Cooke could ben better human belugs, but that, dying (n childhood, surmised_that the child would rcsemble the | they were fil‘m froit "bitten by frost in burlesuue on Paul, Luther, Knox, and Spurgaon, 3,',‘,:"',”:‘;,,",‘:[,“?,‘”:{:;?3’J,‘,".%,"J‘.:fifi{,’;i,’,‘,‘i“3{"{‘&: ruran 'Tho parent bad been rather erucl, It | intho bud. Thoy must Moat the threshold of | Travellng through tho country, sud looking at New Testament as they presonted themaelves . anatlier life, On tuo opposite, in the religion ol Jesus, the infant fs a complote soul, 1tis not a bud, but a oerfect mind, and honce, whila the relizions of men, pagan and semi-Christlan, have 1mmmlly coinmittod tae Il or to nothing- ness the dying children, Olrlst's r:ll‘lrlon has rovealed its pecullar tenderness by taking them to leaven, It first sasy tho perfcct noul, the dlvine, immortal part in the bosom of a child. Iustead of damniog infants, Ho fa perhapa the only anciont Teacher who saves them. What gentienesa this relizion showed toward waoman and toward childhiood, it repeats agaln in jis dealings with sdult man, * In tbis scheme, Heaven I8 not mulds hopefuss or ditlicult, but easy of nacccss, What Ileaven tho Hebrows thiwught of was far thelr trives. The Rourau aud Qreek Heaven was for afew heroes, but Chrlst's caven ewne down to tho multitude. Oh what o tendernesstherois inthe word “uli/™ % All moy como? are the words l‘lfnil which Republics are founded, In tho old despotisiam, the word “ull" played no part. The wealth, the bonors, tha valaces, the juxuriea, the plessures were for a few. War, poverty, taxation, ienoranco, all hardships wero for the many, Each crown of gold atood for a mllllon beggurs, It waa thisexaltation of o few, and this opprussion of tho mavy, that drew the teara of stutesmen at last, and_which kindled the eloguence which founded Democracy, ‘Tho developmnent and final coronation of the word “ all ¥ [s ona of the most_Improssive acenos ju the late conturies, But Cbrist rau boforo the atatemnun, and fong before thiey dlscovered hat tho carth was for all the people He announced s ITeaven for all, Nono too young, none too okd, none too rich or 100 pour, Honu too high or too low in rank, to be admitted Into that tmmenie domaln, All that tender love which we sco lna nation which confessca buman cquality and dignity, which taxes allke und protects allke, we behold In the doutrines of Chrlst, who, In His delineation ot Ilcaven. went before tho best humsa dreams of 8 Ropublic, Not that tho Lord tanzbt unlyersal salvation, As Republic does not make uniyersal liberty or compel fudustry and education and succesd, but only Lhrows down Lpfure mcmi tho uni- versal permission and extends the wlde invita- sa Chrlst docs not carry all souls into ad driven to and fro amongz the common peo- the farms and orchards, onacould tell whero the lnc in a great show of power and ncvnrux-.‘ lu ol newspaper was takon and whero it was not, Ita {g u‘m’;;’;&_‘md '1': ”"\fi':l l'{finl:mc:rl;:lm;w advantages, hioweyer, warg not conflned ta the wae here It hod always Dbeen liere. fact that It prescnted a minlature plcture of the 1t wnuh:! be hero for many and w'«rld‘ bullu nln:r:i.-nud soclotr, tho chureh, the many a year to come. 1t did not como stnply school, 1lo had purchased o book of eer- |y ro0oi Adaim's trangressio, for wo were not mons 8 fow dnueu:n, and each sermon cost hiltn responsible for that. 1t cawo throngh volun- LN efNLe: oo af pur dully DObers | gory violation of Goda law on the af of ful- Dl'_"kfi au ?g“ averaze II‘M‘! sermons 8 | yliuals who bad lived In the world, and it was weely o e tanT o 878 | in tho world to-dny, nat bicause Adam and Eve living witaout a daily yinper n order to save 813 | (1 odyced b, but Becauso we ouraelyes had fu- B year \ras al;rxmr.\m of tho laws ofeconamy, and | 40 1ced gt in our unfaithfu) Hves. ‘Thero waa i trated a grlovous wrong acalnat his family, | %oy or argument for infldelity than thls same 1u kuow of 1o cluss of men,unless £ waswntula- | 70000 0% 11 Adams sin was transmitted. fers whoweeaan pourly “’m“““,‘l““":, 'i" A00ls | Phyaical tainta might bo transmitted, but that o abor g apaper et or Who Worked 80 1 1yt gullt could bu transialtted, he_ could not Il speaker then proceeded ta speak of the helieve. The diflculty was that Christianity responsiblility of newspapers. ‘They cut bLoth wos made to uppear whkn it Iwu not. Onu wavs, and o powerful for good ot evil, Tho faek must nok by overlodels:that yircua, and responaibility of editors could not be overest- (vzlcu wel'f"llfll wfi. to “"i";lfifll,'“ o; athmcv. ¢ ud, In His providencs and e, hud some- "",‘"“;' lTh°m{.(“m.1f‘: “?'.’l“m‘i{-g’" ""’"Ill‘ll 3{" thiik toany on this questlon, and Lo was on the Ll ebipisg c,rt“ iy, and the world wos | Shie of yirtue, holiucss, uod teuth, | 1£ it was all cues crory subject ovory duy, and the world was | yoymed In ty death, how could the merey of (ol bo cstabllshed? Thy Mothodist brethren were pleading for freo whil, but whot they. noeded to do waa to plead for it in both worldy, 1o was as inuch o Mcthodist as any of them, as fur as that was concerned, and o great deal more of a Methodlst than all of them,— except, perhiaps, Dr. Thomas,—for bae pleaded for wan's free will not ouly for timn but for atervity., Cook at firat scem to draw cin subsoll-plow through tho crystallzed ideas of New Eneland, but, after Moody wont to Boston, ho ne lunger malntaln- ed his former indupendeut position, but became the sdvocata of & aystem, A man of rare gifts, Dr, Ryder wus sorry that he was bound h{ theo- lux:lcu‘ trammels and that s noble Lraln was not put to o better uss. Thero was a differesice between oftlefal snd unotficial declarations, ‘The Methodists of Clicago had lately daclured thelr oflicinl belict {a the endless punlshuont of the wicked, but ho would venturo to ssy that this wau not the unoflicial deciaration of & good many who yoted for the resolutlon, and that the doctrine of cudless punlshment was not be. Tluved by the mn‘orlty ot Methodlsts, Freaby- torians, Eplscopalians, umpl.m.:i and Cougrega- had rushed forth and had exterminated - adjolu- ing tribes, not sulering an animal even Lo sur- vive. It bad gloried tn switing the enemy hip and thigh; and, amid his own l“blcc*li the Mosalc ago had been fearfully scvere. Mauy offenses, oven of the most trivial character, were punishable with death. DPenalties were not cquot for slavo and master, If 3 sfave atter o beatiug lived o day, lis death was then sup- poscd to have coms from discasc, and the mos- ter went free, It must boa very sudden death ‘which tho law could blamo npun’a rich master, Indoed, many of tho Hebrow laws, like thoso of Draco, wero Wwritten u blood, But out of this Iand and time of blood arose Chrlstianity, with fcatares uniike those of her mother. ‘Iho groat_clussical States bad preceded the Qospcls, and thoy had moved nloug §n u rude- ness of temperament. Not mauy of the world's great, either in power or in |earulng, scemed Dermitted to die o natural death, All public mnen looked upon asaassination asa common cause of mortality, To dla of disease was alwsys so wonderful a way of gettiug out of iho world, that the chrouleles of the classic {imea aiways made specinl mentfon of such an ending of Mfe, What a countless cataloguo should wo have bad some onc made record of the Kioea sud politiclans, Senators and law- yers, and pmlmurhcu and military leaders Who were assassinated in the strects” of Homo ond (reece! Demosthenes, Bocrutes, Cleero, Cato, Beneca, Ciesar, were lurried by violence out of & cruel world, It Sctns amazine that ulmost the cutirentunber of the Apostics should have been put to deathi but, uvon o wile survey of the time, we find that they slnpl followed the customn o©f the dark u:runl‘: which custom was to put to deat man who curried u uew idea fu amnind or suy mighty impulse in his hoart. [n our day, thoso who are in power fear thoss who ure out; but in tho olden time, those who were fn power killed thoso who were out, as belug the Lest way of making the tenure of ollice Tonger und moro peaceful, Those clussic Btutes, whosu languagus, sud art, and learoing Chris- tlanity was compelled to borrow, did not lm- press” their bloody dlsposition upon their Ju- thelr sudlence, and as tho speaker reflected on tholr marvolous power lie: was op- pat ut the magnitude of their respousibllity, aud thought that, xs they wat down o write, they should UMt thelr hearts to Heaven for wisdom aud dircction. Tho minfs- tere' words wero not always cauglit up sud printed, and, It mistaken, pussed . away a4 a tale told; but thu editor’s words were writ- ten ** with an fron pen ang lcad §u the rock for ever," to be translated, quuded, and presceved, Valtalrs was tead, but his tntldel writiuge sur- vived bim sud wers traveling sround the world, and what a harvest of damuation such writers toust rvn&ln cterultyl] The converss was also true. Illstory did not glve us the author of “*Now | lay e down to sleep,” but that child's prayer would livo forever. Nothlng Lut the trum pet of tho archaugelcould arrest a thought flung from the pen fu tho traln of (ts in- fucnees into the heart of huwmanlty, and pevor untll cditors of nowspaners came to realizo thelr rcsponsibllity to iman and accountability to God ‘would we have o purs aud purifying press; and the speaker wanted it understood fust hera that the great law of suclety—the law ol lupsly and demand—deter- Uy any . e Vi ¢ c clty today, It wus tiean child, Chrigtianity was nursed in alt thea | blessodness, but Ha offers Heaven to all just na | wined tho character aud regulated the condyet | Homalists - fn this arioh by turns, but she 414 not wear thelr feat: | our freo Stato oflors all ita tughty bénefits., [ of the press of overy country, f'wd thlus b"iu"“"“m'l! ,;',:“ thag, but ures, frumu tad slaughitered on the battle-Geld | But as thore aro tnen who will make a were A high-tonad pross could only result from a | 14~ Wad L ounce _ what was found in cvery aystemm of doetrine contrary to the splrit of the New Testamont, As for Inizersoll, hiv was doing harn to a certaln class of minds, but he would find his level in & short time If ho did not change. There was little to fear from a man who assailed Chrlstiang ruthlessly snd cocklessly. Josoph Cook had douae and was dolnz goud in his way, and yot he was lod?.‘m the thiuking part of the com- 0 nmlition men lu the very sge of the sdvent, und yet in came L‘nmllnul:(,'w-lkmu Into u group of violent Kins, and despots, and Uen. eruls, In bier own character oud garb of eatle- ness, As cuch mon, sud cach Biate, und each uge cowes In a peculiar shaps of eplrit, 10 o pecullar sbape came Christianity, Ot ull re- llmuul known to humanity, Clufatianity came Faul had bimself pirate's dou out of the gitt of & Republle, who will out ot frcedom curve the destlny of a druukord or a crimiual, s, In & world where Christ _has flung open wide the gzates of cternal }fo, thero will be muuy who will follow the path tous leads away from all such hiessod- ness, But the tenderness of Christ stands all infinite and wore touching than the inyitation of any Kepublie to all the good of lberty, Ligh-toned vublic scutiment, hence the subject coucorned all, and was worthy of tho sucred hourand place, The spivitual law was that df- vius grace began in the heart and worked ou upon the life and conduct, but the reverse was true In the body politic, Wo lad political pa- fiuu,—dl papery, oven the religlous, found dif- culty In concealing thelr Ljas, Two partles In the most of gentleness, were neccssary to thy security of the natlon harn than Iugersoll, bo- Leen no_ grest example of a humane method, Murk the genticness of tho uscent o { and they created tho papers. 1f we read | Munity, doiug moro y for be Lud “breathd out threatenings and | Christ's Ileaven. Even the [ounzesy and the | thess party papers und balloved them, | SiUso "’"“‘d "““’{"”:"::“Ilm‘l‘b:""; “’"’I‘l“,'h"uf e slaughter "5 Lut fn the leader of thanew re- | oldest, the lame and the blind, can move | we could nou = but boleve that ail ":}‘ ""r“ h‘“’ Goborghonge fivap e ne bl Jow S pot B2 | e o 25, T B Mhei i | O, Bl B P, e Tt | S R LI Ll the meekpess au cutlencas erfection [falls, & ul evotion i vultentiary, Wualso i mereenary News- o of Curte X Leuder secures adonttance, Uvable to uo‘%y paper, the Yeccod of witich was. - Mants chiaf | 8dv by wlde with Jesus Christ and recoucllo them, ouo with ayother. He was not troubled with the differcuces in the conditions of human $ife,—the unequal distribution of proaperity sud saversiey, health and sickuess, Joy sud sorrow, —Ulecausn a ditficulty luu“ ouly for three- score years aud ten I very littlo to do with man's existence. 1t was scarcely the cradle, compared with the comineucement of that which would never terininate, Everything depended on the poiat of observation. fo tho worplog, the glass winduws [ the chureh wero hrllfllfl{(u thelr many colors, with the sun's ruys streaming through them. In the cyening, they were beautiful ouly fromn the outside. eouts looked toward the livlt, thev saw Its cauty. i thiey Jooked toward the darkuess, they unders! notblng of the lzht. 1t the attemptod tosxplain thy universs of God wit tnelr bucks toward tho light, all was confused aud nothing plsiu, bat, if they lovked towards the light, und towards God's boly truth as Iy shoue (o the face of the Redeciner, the ifzht was plain. Christ was the true light, aud when & uiau nad that light witula b, sod compre. bended {2, aud looked toward it, bolleving sud trusting in Him, it was like looking through the bright wisdow all aglow. HIGIIER EDUCATION. S¥HMON DY THB RBYV. GALUSHA ANDEBSOX, The Roy. Gatusba’ Anderson, receutly elected President of Chicago University, presched yes- terday evening in tbe First Baptist Church on #Higher Education and the Clalms of the Uni. Iu the Greek lavpuage which Paul bers used, ¢ meaning is much better thun the oue con- yeyed by our translation. Paul cutrested men Ly the lenity and reasovableness of Christ. ‘The Greck word trouslated *‘eenticuess’ (s the ona used 10 express wuch ldeas as *“equity,” “falr- ness,” M cleneney.” Whe a judge did not In- €ist upon the letter of the law, but found the equity of thecase, be was pafd to posscis thia virtue. Our word gentlences dovs bot quite trauslute the jden over from the Greeks to us, but rutber it leaves u largu part of the idea be- biud, snd makea Christ a genlle character with- out fisulyine that that geutieness involves the wost. wonderful power aud thought and the wrandeet rusults, Ald that fearful cruelty of the soclent world was 8 thost Eruss tnjustice., 1t was vold of equity. It was thu result of mad poasslona. It wus the turmoil of Larbarism. It was man aod brute mivgled iu onoacul, It was the grandest eucoiniuin Paul could pay his Mas. ter to say that He possested lenity and season- ableuess, for thas was whetiniuukind did most sorely need. But thia ls true, thut oucc our words geutle, snd gentleness, aud geuteel, posacased i (mfl- er depth of fmport than they BOW carry, When the Bowan world was bounded on the gorth py fearful s3voges, & e who belonged to g Ro- wan family, u yens, wus s perfect and beautiful Jumuu belhg compared with the Northmen, who seemed only plrates and sseassivs. Yo be- Tungs to & yens wis to sustaiu the relation to the 1 uturum that a good Buston fumily sustaius towad & Slour ludin croups wud “thus the luwan perfection, wankind ay pass in by the commeudation of frienuship, Each heart which will empty feselt of ull -will and will 1ill ftsal( with love, can pass the uates, As whena King visitas an hisretinue ot Princes, wnd Priucesses, and gua) and servants, all pass the tates be- couss they belong to the Kinz, aud aro thus co. compassed by his greatuess, 80 when **the cvers lustiug doors age Mited up that the King of Qlory inay como in,'" with 1llmy passes in the nuwberless throng whica have loved Hiw snd served Him here, Thoy are Inthe retluue of o King. in what terrific ideas vf Hell the Church has entertatued In most of fte history Christ nas reatly taken but Jstlo part, Whils it 18 perfeet. Iy trie that e used Oriental figures to de- suribo tho fate of ein, yet that Yunuhmenh was to foll oply upon ibe actually wicked, tboss whowm buman laws condemn, su whout eyen buman justico hates, “Thery cau be wu lenlency towsrd eln. A gentle- pess which would torgive all theft, and murder, und fraud would be itecit » crime. 'This would not bo tenderness but pustllaufinity, Dut W consigu wultitudes to perdition for lack of fu- forwstion, or for au juformullty of creed, or ) or for the sin of another, this was rross yy und forthese Christ did nou Eh'luru uhy of the torweuts b paluted. But when (o the Gospels you ud this “geutle. One” pouring out walédictious or wasn! us&u, it you will uruw pear the crowd you will find Him addressing a ©eoup of bypocrites, or lars, or of persons who were robbing widows and orpbans, 5o far as end {a money,” and it was only a step trom the old Jesuitical praverd, “ The end justities the " Buck rwuu bad no conviction of ed culllny, and entirely Just aight of te fact that sows medsuro ol plilantbrople l{\ml was u prerequlsite to Journalistic success. Wheu jthls philanthropy was wantiog in o juurnal is becano tmpure ss well as mercenary, aud {ts columps were sold just as prostitutes sold thelr souls and bodies to whoever would buy. The lsw protected our Lomes from the lewd, licentious, and grossly hmmoral titera- ture by making it contraband; but thero wasa lurge ciass perniclous iy itd tendency uot reached by iho law, yet wo could cautro) this by exduding it frow “our homes sud cautivn- ing our children agatnst it But ot tho newspaper uives In detail the proceedings ol the divorca court, the cased of seduction, uud abortion, sud crime, which 18 must necessarily record, the remedy 14 not so casy, for the children will [uquire why they sbould not ruad ho paper when tbelr parents read It Thero was sumcthing [o the argumeat that such pub- leutions tended to arrest crime; but the ques- tion was, whether the supposed advantage was not wore thau counterbalsuced by the thoughits sugeested by reuding these sceounts. Would not a slinply stateweot of the crime and its pen- aliy sutlice! Tho cditor or reporter, hike o preacher, should usu the cowmion luogusge of tho people, and call thivge by thelr right vanes, Auuther viass of newspapers was the fnfidel press. It wus casy euourd to fiud foult with th *“Lberty of the press” becauis (L printed vorsily of Chicago.!? lowing toxt: That ont sona may be aa plants grown np in theie yonth; that onr daughtera may ba as corner«slones polished after the similitude of & palace. Our Idens of ancient tlmcs, the apeakor sald, wwero derived from the writings of the men famous in those ages. Long after doeds word forgotten, the names of men remained in mem- ory.” Whenever wo thought of Greeco and Rome, our minda instiictively roverted to tho geent scholare and writers of thosc nations, not to the extent of territory acquired by conquest or to the growth and powor of thelr cities. Por- sonality was cverything In history, This shawed how cssentlal a matter was edu- catfon, St was a part of overy man's duty 10 hestow upon his children all the facilities for acquiring kuowledge that could be obtained. Much had beon written and sald In favor of muscular Christlanity, and, while tho speaker acknowled the Importance of attending to tho physleal training, he could not ngree with those enthusiasts whe woyld make that preferablo to intelicctual tralning, Ho could not but think that it had been eatrled t0o far sometimes. Yot a 'vounl man might better employ him- acl! in, that way than ° o the varlous modes ol dissipation unhapplly so cotnmon nowadaye, such as smoking, drinking, late suppees, and frivolous amuscinents, Ali cdncation should, of conrse, be religious. Re- ligions and scientificInatitutions shauld be cared for by Christian men. [t was unfortunately too often the case that in housohiolds the great aim of parcnts waa to set thelr boys up fu “business where thoy might bring in an {ncome, and to muarry off thelr girls so as to get them out of theirbonds. It'was the duty of parcnts to watch over thelr children and 'to give them a thorough Ntting for the world.—to make them caltured men and women, “The time when the culture could be sceured was during youth, when the mind was open to development. If the mind were not disclblined pefore the ago of twenty years, it would never Lo wakencd at all. Between 3 and 12 years tho child learned mora than at any periodof lifg, for 14 not only learned to distingulsh all tho vor mon things of life, but it thoronghly compre- bended one language. Moust. children were capable of higher and hetter things Lhan Lhey got In the common schools. 1t was olten urged Iy parents that children should drilled “ouly n the studics which were nceessary for thefr occupation, that a minister should study Ureek in order to read the Testament, that a lawyer should study Latin In order to understand tno Latin phrascs in law, und thatn child destined for business ursuita shodld attend solely to mathematios. Thut waa n mistakn {des, Our sons aud uatizh- ters were given us to mako men and women ontof them, not to teach them only a onc- slded view of llfe, They ahould have a general cducntion, and thus boit to go forth nud suc- ceed in any buslucas or prolessfon. Mr. Anderson declared that his principal fdea in coming bofore the ncople of the First Baptlst Chwreh was tourge the claims of the Unlversity, an fustitution of which, no doubt, they had often hieand before, and capeciatly to advocate the prozressive cround of opening the doors of the Univeraity to both sexes. He thought 1t ‘was not necessary to send away their sous and daughters for from home Influcnees to be cdu- cated when they had the opportunitics of higher culture oy their own doors, 1fo wished to cor. rect another popular fallacy, The Untvorsity was not founded solely for the purpose of educating ynunmxfn fur tho minisiry, The Universlty was establlshed to makoeducated mon, cducateil merchants, educated mechanies, educated peo- Pla fnall {he walks of lifo. At prosent the inatitution was fult of embarsssment. It owed a singlo insurance company in_February $174,- 000, and that company throw off 321,000 that sum voluntarily, * Then there were floutin, debts amountiig to $93,000. If the Intter conl Lo paid, he thought 1t would ba eusy Lo get along aud - pay the greater sum, lio talked Wwith o mpiunber of promi- nent cltizens, nud bad recclved many en- couraging words. Occasionally he met men who aald that they did not careto contribute to it, aa it was o Baptlst Inatitution. 'To thom ho could anly sy that the vharter of Mr. Douglas atipulsted that the majority of the Trustces should big Baptiata, but the rest couid baol nny denomination, Theru could not bo any objec- tfons to helping it, therofore, on the score that it was a denominationnl university. Ite affairs wera in the hunds of 8 compotent Commilttee, and there was cvery proapect that thoy wouls Yring them to a prosperons condition, MISCELLANEOUS, DR, SETMOUR REFUSES TO DECOME A DISHOP. Fpectal Dispatch io Taz Trivune, SrriNorteLp, I, Avrll 7.—Tho declination of Prof. George F. Beymour,of Now York, of the Bishiopric of the Springfeld Dioceso reached hiero officially to-day, and Is greatly regretted by the Rev, Dean Greeg and others who were active In bis Intercst and onthustastically sup- vorted his clection, The very simall winority who concurred In his clection because thero was no possible chauco befora the Convention for auy othor nominatfon, vegard os confirmed & belist then entertaincd by thein that Dr. Soymonr did not at all dealre tlig Bishooric, but was not uversa to tho vindi- catlon which his confirmation by tho Standing Commitices and Bishops lrnuh{ 2ive him, thus antircly setting ashle the znr«]lut rendered against him by the Genernl Conventlon when ha was rejected for the Bishaprle of Illinols, No other eandidato is wenerally mentioned In conneetlon with the vacancy os yet, but some of tho friends of the KRev, Doan (ircgg speak of n possibility of preseuting his ngme, THE HOUSE OF RO*{SCHILD. Tho Paris Branch of the Family=ifoney Kings af the WurldwA Fortune Too Large to o Computed. Turts Qirresynndence Baltimore American, ‘The traditlon as to tho origin of the houso of Rothesehnld s well koown, Ono Mayer de Rothschild, of Frankfort-ou-the-Maln, reccived an immenso sum of money on deposit from Princo Willlam of tlesse when dispossessed of his dominions by Napolcon. Thia imoney fructl- fied In his hands. It was one of those chances which groat men turn to good account, and which fuferior men suffer tocacape thom, When Furope trenbled to Its base, Mayer Rothschild remafned unmoved by ite convulafpus, In 1810 le wos ono of tho world's great bankers. Ilo had negotiated wro loans for Denaiark, cousidered enormous in thoso days, cach of nbout $4,000,000, Al thiugs in those times of chanue and ruin turned to profit in lis handa, In 1812, feeling himsel? ahout ta dle, lio sent forhisfive sons, * Promlse wme,” ho sald, *to remaln true to cach other,” Nathan, Bolomon, Ausclin, Charles. Mayer, and James gave him tlcle promlise, snd alter his death the five brothers divided Europe between them, and went forth to acek thelr fortuncs, Ono established himself fo_Parls, suothcr want to London, one staved fn Frankfort, the other twa lctup‘luuklnu—homn inNoplesand Vienna. In this arranzemont oach Hothschild contribu- ted to the wuneral prosperity of il the other Rothsehlids, though each Indopendently man- aued his own uffatrs. There ia no chief louse,— there are no branch houses, Thers are five diiferent banking biouses, which on occasion act asone, I wish to maka this ciear, bocauss the position of the Rothschilds tn this respoct has not buen generally uuderstood. ‘Uho Ewmperor of Austria bestowed arns and rank upon the Rothechilds, According to Austejan law, all members of 8 house imoblea taky the title of Baron. ‘Lheir urmesare tive ‘(uldun arrows, In J855, Nathan, Solumou, and Cliarles all died, The ‘ruhnu was greatly dlsuplmlnml when it found that no light was'to be’ thrown Ly thelr wills or {0 the setilement of thelr husiness unon their affulrs, Theso Rothachilds had been atbered to their fatbcrs, but others becamo K1ngs, 'l'fm English Rothsehild bad been Nathan, who had forescen the overthrow of Napoleon in 1815. e followed the English sriny 1o Brus the night after Waterloo started cxpress for Lundon, Ha roached it before the nows, which, fndeed, wheu it did arrive, was so ndelinite w3l to requiro contirmatlon. = Tle bought largely luto Euzitah consoly, then below var, Next day the reat victory was proclaiwed nod consuls rose. Nathan do Ruthschild at oncs reslized, Such operations requiro o quick oye, ecif-contldeuce, g trm will, aud great resources, Money ju the hands of o great financler 1a ke troops In tho haods of & great General wassed upou somo polnt previously dechled ou—it gaioa {ts victery, *Tne Rotbschilds were tha wonetary Napolcons of the perivd, They understood the agre fu which their 1oy was cast, and {naugurated the modern svstem ol doing bustness—ssy fu 1814. Old ways of acquirlux fortune were at an cad. In the world of wune cavllal wisumed the {wpurtance vnce enjuye by individuals. Inold times a man was @ pro- ducer or & merchaut—a borrower ora buyer, A great comuerclul Louse i3 nowadays all these at one tine. The Kothschilds wre iarpely futer- ested in utlliziug tho products of tho coal wines of Belglum aud the quicksliver miucs in Spajn. They are “common curriers’ through their fu- ferest in rlirosds. To-morrow they may bo the grestest buycrs fo Europe; v {hey are fm wroatest sellers. [t Iy sald that whea God sirikes & e Batan puts bhis Ho spoke from the tol- brand npon the other side, Tho nbyerse satan. Isras of legitimate speculation were the wilil overations of the Stock Exchange. With theso tho Rothechilds never hatd nnllhlnu todo, Rut tha result of the new atato of things was that money censed to owwvn n natfonality, and that prosperity almoat renotinced any nolftical con- nections,” After the fall of Napoleon mone becama cosmopolitan, Belalum and Holland, in thelr civil strife, both borrowed from the Rothachilds; Austrin and Italy didd the samo: Russia and Frances Cavour and Antonclily Though Emlecs crshed In the clnsh of arms, the Rothschilds atood Immoynble, hay patd for thosinews of warj they patd for the bless- Ings of gence. From thom the yictor gbtained cash £0 buy hig ncedlo guna; to thom the con- quored applled to raisc money for the indemnity cxacted by tho cangueror, Once only dlil fwo Rothschlld houses scem likely to coma Into collision. The Roihachilds of Paria were acting contrary to the intereats of the Rothschilds of Soutnern Italy, Baron Adolpho closed his bankinghouss at Naples, and demanded hls shara of the eapital of the great liouse, viz.t $15,000,000. The vutside warld promised {tself, for once, & peep into the allairs of the groat banking (nmn{. but tho aut- #ido world was dlsappolnted. Al was amieably arranged. Tho afairs of the Rothschilds con- tinuod ta go on with the regularity of clack- work. No ono saw the wotlon of tho wheels. When steam and telegraphy madag thefr ent into general uso the old mudes of dofng busi- ness changed, but the Rothachilds stood ready toadopt and turn to fiood acconnt the very Yuwurl that threatened them. Haron Jamos o Rothschild, of Paris, became the leading capi- talist in French rallroads, and fs sala to hayo wept for joy when he sent his first telegram to Ban Franclsco. Baron James was also greatly liked fn Parislan society,—~that gay moneyed soclety of the Chausce” d'Antln, ‘eatabllshed after the revolution that placed Laonfs Philippe onthe throne, Ho might have been called King of Fuanca in France were it not for o superstition that no royalty In thag country has now o lease for more thau elghtecn yoars, 1u 1848 the throne of Loals Philipne fcll. The house of Rotluchild acemed about to perlish in its ruins. Rallroad stocks went down; a short crop brought exasperation and disaster in fts trafn, ‘The beautiful cnuulrg house of Daron James nt Surcancs was burhi by nn exelted mob, but ho tnado gallant head agatosl the storm that threatened Lim. The houss never otmTcfl paymeut. The revolution of 1848 com- municsted teclf to every Caplial in Europe, but all the Rothschilds rode out the gale, though each cammanded a ditTerent vescel. Then came the Empire with fts new financial plan_of bor- rowine directly from llbq people. Tho na- tional loan was ralsed Gy nattopal subserd tlon, Baron Janes had ennlnlu: fn tho Cabinet. Ile stood sitent but firm. I{ohad astonfshingly cloar views into the future—insights thatap- peared like Inspiration, but ho kept them for his wwn use, and was o inan of romarkably few words, In 1847 ho had a prestntiment bis death was near, . He then appeared more willlng to comunicato his viows. The business world over which he had long presided was, os ho percelvead, uring (ndustry. 1t has mincral wealth on 1. &uper or of iron anid copper in |nrxlm:nl(fl,‘§: abundance. Therofs no other region in this country or any other country that, | am nw": of, that Is so well watered. And tho water | ererywhere clear aud pire, Tt a'n Tagd of TCAL rivers, ol eHluc] flxflm!. 8y of pt akes, and sparkling ) this may sound enthualastic, bn word is calmiy frritton, ana. ia jutined by L] {acts; and It [n striculy within the facte. 1t {pg advantages of this region wers only arlequatel, made known, there would surely Lo g great, flm; of labor from the citics and mnfel where |t 1y not wanted, Into a realon like this, where ever variety of labor I8 needed and whers ¢ fs enr! ullr: to mlclel 'i'tm‘ln rlch n:]wunl. would_ afford me plcasure to sa more, but F am alrald to trespasa lnrthévr T“Ch your attentlon at present, and will simply sal. ecribo myecll as yours ruj-cctrullv. + E3A1AS WARRRy, TILE FRAUDS OF WAR. The Dark Pages of Philadelphin‘'s and New York's Patriotie Record. €ot, JTenrw 8. Olealt tn PMIadelva TWeekty Timey, While Phtladulphis set & bright cxample oy patriotfa dovotfon during the War, and poured out her resanrces In unstinted measura for the country’s salvation, yetitis truo that vast frauds wero perpetrated in that clty, Theso cxtended to tents and other canvas zoods, clothine, shoes, and storca of various kinds. In the two years preceding my Inpcctlon of tho Schuyikill An senal the disbursements of tho Quartermaster had exceeded $200,000,000, and st that time werg tunning on at the tate_of from $70,000,000 to ,000,000 annually. - To 1aqalre (nto &0 vast s business I was abllzed to take it up by divisions; 80, ng neprly as practicable, Itook Lestimony an, inspected, sorig(im, canvns goods ({ncluding tonts, pauling, wagan-covars, knapsacks ap haversacks), leather and maufactureaof leatlor, cloth and clothiug, amd miscellantous articies, The same ald results c¢naucd; Inepectors, enpe tractore, manunfacturor: nd middlemen wera arrested, commissioncd officers disolaced, trialy werd followed byconvietiong, fines, nnd assessed damages; naw Insnectars wera appotnted, new standards established and abuges were reformed, ‘Tho closo of the war found me wilh this work oniy half completed, aud a0 some great culprits, military and civiltans, cscaped tho just punishe ment af their oflenses, to figuro as nofsy palitl. clans, and be looked up aa to successinl men of affairs] The m.-hlqnq of the War Department have many an ufir pecred smothered in fty plrcon-liotes, and, Ieaven knowal it will not be myself who will disturb thems: thero Is stench enougli [n the alr without this carrlon. ‘Things were bad enough at New York, bat, it anything, worse at Philadelphia, Discovery was brought about by an honcst dealer named Barstow sending totlio Navy Departmnent for ex- aminatlou four cases of l.h(nkmnnuuce gheath » ing copner that he had bought In zood faith of 4 responsivle firm, but whic 18 of the kind fast ppssing sway. Mo was onc licard o remark: “We laughed ot | Folcd at the Waskingten Nayy-Fard. The cop tho man who said that any uvestmont thiatpald | o6, W88, CoslY tenced bnek to one lars, ouse, and a of bad repute st the time, o was nnmeg‘ ;; Gen, Cadwnllnder, for account_of the Secre of fhe Navs, and tadged In Fart Miflig, § Yfl“"c'l strikernatned Anthony Hale,—* Topy» moro than 8 per cent was unsafe, but maybe he was right—right nlter all.”” And onco lie was known to say emphatically, with that Gorman aceent which he never lost In speaking French, and which seemed to add asort of welght to b 1alo,—cmplayed as a_boss carter in tho yan), his rare words: My house bns stood Ovm | \oqnert arrestcd, aud than ong thi b through the Tnn. vresent, and future.? 1t was | op'another until, befors I was thrlogghflmfihf an ochio of the proud words of tho ancient Jutura effuglae (thoy have escaped the futura). Tlo died In 1807, bequeathing his seeret, If ha" had one, to his sons, Lut most probably the only apell with which he won success was in the watchword 'of bhis_louso—*" Unfon, Prudence, - and Discretion,”” No ono kuew botier than ha hat prudenca is the aafcguard of streupth, and rashness tho resource of consclous weakuess, ‘The houso of Rothschild, it fs sald in France, will hiava no rival in its wealth until the capital of every other banking-house |s consolidated to make ane, Baron James left o fortuns that caupot be eatimated, 1o also left thres sons awnd two grandsous, all of whom are partners,— Alphonsc, Gustave, Edmund, Jamnes, and Ar- thur, Each bas a nobla resklenco In Paris, and each (with the excoptiou of Arthur, who a stlll & bachelor) {s eald to be tha master of n reflned aud happy home. Tho Fronch Rotuschilds aro true Fredehinen. Somo aro men of loaroing,—some havo distinguished thpm- rcivees as R‘ubllu writers,—all have been citfzen suldlers. The Dowager Baroncss has alway teen distingulshied far ber charities, as fndee ‘havo all the other amiable and ]ovcl{; women of ler family, The present heads of the flrm uro Industrious men of buslnuss. Each moraing finds them st thoir work, 'Fhelr clerks como carly to thelr homes to recelvo orders, ahd soon after all nasemblo at the baoking house in tho Hue Laflitte, Once only;hava tho Rothsch(lda swerved (rom tho traditional prudenco of their house. In 1870 they risked their wealth for France. Later they stood securlty for the 200,- 000,000 of franca ($40,000,000) which ransomcd Parls from the German soldiery, snd they ad- vanced the two last loans ot -.wh .000 (two milliards) made duripg tha Presidency of M., Thicrs. Tbe grutitude that France owes to such mlo&wfl cltizens can never be forgotton, Thero i3 a popular fdes that the Rathachilds dreatn of (ct restoring the Temple and the City of Jernsalem, If so, events may even now bo working to mect thelr viaws, They aro all carnest in the faith of their futhers, and proved their Jewish convictiona by breaking oft all ro- lations with the Roman Uovernment altee tho abduction of the little Mortara, In all coun- trics n which thoy live they are personally pop- ular, ‘Thero was great rogard mnm!cllc‘rlur thiem by the lower orders in Parls on the occa. slon of the recent marriago of tho dauchter of Baren Alphouse, Waa it because the populace felt gratefal to bath men and wouien of thc louae for their never-failing kindness and large charity? And vet the misforluncs of the wealthy aro accepted afways by the poor ns o specla of compensation for thelr own sufferings, Is this bocause a distorted sensc of retributive Justice is alwayd prescnt with thoss enduring paverty? Ales! 1 ts oltenin Mfe as it was in the old Roman amohitheatre—the worst pluces aro thoso In the foil blazs of the sun. Happi- ness most cumu from within, and not from without. Tho trus glory of tha Rothschills cansists not {n thefr wealth, but (n their bunest and laborious llves, their generosity, and tholr falthfulnces to ali thetr obligations, Tu the Jews' quarter of the great Cemetory of Yero La Chalso stauds the mooument of Baron James de Rothschild, An 1, in ulfin rellef, Stands for Ws name. The luclosure 3 covared with pebblen, Yvery Jew who visits the spot Ieaves behind him a stone, e et— . A PEEP AT MINNESOTA, 2w the Editor of Thi Tribuns. Wisoxa, Mlun,, April 4—For tho first time in yeare I flnd myscl? outsido the walls of Chi- cago, and the chango I8 a most striking one, ‘The growth and rapld developnent of this State 1s ons of the marvels of finodern times, In the year 18523 tue writer of this frat visitod 8t, Puul, asinall town then of about 3,000 jo. babitants, 1t has now 40,000t The eotire Territory of Minuesola (which lncluded Lhe present Btate aud the presgat 'ferritory ol TNakots) did not at that time number more than 15,000 Inhabitants, The Biate slone las now & populstion of nearly, i not quita 700,000, Then we wers all speculators, ‘There were no farincra in tho country. 'ho Territory dila not raise grain enough for jta own cousumplion, Wheat and all other prodice wus much bigher In St. Paul than 1# Chleago, Wa wore ail deplors In fown lots, and thought i aur foolishness that the cultivation of thie s0ll was s slow way of gotting rich, Hut opla- fons chauge ss we get_older, and the circle ol expericnecs widens. Bpeculation nexrty ruined Miuncsota, or sccmed to do so. Iy certaluly ruined the speculators, and brought all thelr golden plans to erief. Then evesybody went to work, and slowly but surely recupcratfon went ou, The patignt has now fully recovered, and {8 ot presont ju most’ ealthy “aud - vigor- ous condition, 'Thero 18 oung Stato which to the cmi- graut offcrs such substantial tnducemepts as this. And thoy are fast finding it out, The thte o’ ewigration s setting powerfully in thls direction, and Is cvery duy gatherlug “volumeo and force. It is notural that this should be so. Tho fame of last year's crop lisa gons abroad, and the present movemeut s the logical regult. Thiuk of a Biste barely twenty years old productug n one season a crop of 40,0&!.111! buabels of 88" puro wheat as was ever ralsed. Grasp that fact, and then call upon your fmag- {uation to aid you in predictivg the destiny of such g State—a Btate gbout twice the size of Now York—with mijlions of actes of furille land never yeb vexed with a plow, aud posscaslog o climate uumr&ulm in salubnty. No wonder the poople here wear such amillog countenauces, They are full of hope. I have et to Bee thy first despalriug or gloomy face. lelancholy belongs Lo the overcrowded cities, aud there {3 plenty ot it in Chlcsgo. 1a it vot astonlshing that so many able-bodled meu sbould haug about our large cities dolug uothlog, because they can find nothlog Lo ds and nearly starving to death, when these bro: and fertile pralried are calllog upon them to S:ulu Tfid release the treasures which tie within 0 §0) ‘Tho resources of tbls Btate are lumensa, It lias cvery variety of wealth, agd every facility for proftuble exchange. There is no more pro- ductive sull in the world, Then the Blate has ay ubundance of pine timber. It hasa vest amouyt of avallable water-power, sud offars eyery facility’ 1d cncourazewest to manufic- ong priscners wero n milltary custody, Ths arrests wera offected by Mr. Benjamin Frankily, Cblef of Delective Pollce,.whase ervices (he May rplaced ot my disposal. A nore untlring and lulthfal officer I nover enceuntered than Mr., Franklin, Besides the man Harrls, tho prisuncrs wera tho Nuyal Conatructor, first ase alatant cnelacer, - thnberinspactar, inaster. plumber, calker, {omnr, blackemlth, Iaborer, and paluter, the clerk of the yurd, his chiel clerk and check clerk, three clerks of the store- keeper, the master-calker's clerk, o quarter man h\mm‘. o quarterman jofuer, ‘.wnqlmw. mon plnmbers, four recelvors of stolen vroper. ty, six contractors, and ono dpuraer‘l sleward, ‘I\“&‘l"y lot of patriots and’ Republicans, in. Hee . A fow days of confinement In & military prison Lrought on a contagion of repentance, conles slon, and suppllcation. My tinio wns taken up in hoearlng rovalations of thelr rascalitles from tho cowardly culprits, whuso frionds, Ignorant of what was goiniz on, wero besfeging my ofifces with petitlons for thelr roleaso, and making my feclings chicerful with threats of personal vio- lenco cou\'c{ml by anouymous letters, Tue press overran with scusatlonal articles, whteh T was too busy to read, and Concrestmen became ln- terested to a degrce in tho alfairs of my come miseslon. But it is ouly falr to say that not one apaper thundered ngalnst Lhe *arblizary ar- rests” of tha UGovernment; all united fn ex- Er siog_tho hopo that olfenders might be rought to punishment. Nor did the Congress amn futerfore or throw any imredients fn my 87« Large recoverles of atolen coppor, piteh, resin, and other public property were made, Boma 1,500 barrels of naval stores had been cartedout of the yard by Hale In broad daylizht, and, to say nothing of copper bath-tubs, brass-fiilngs, aud other smalice things, the thieves had ro maved & steam-cagltie bodlly aad sold ft(os junk-dealer. Somo $030,000 and odd in money and pmpgn{ wees placed fu my haads as rostle tutions, and by mo turoed over to tho come mandsut of the yard. Aa usunl, there were trials, convictions, and pardous, and tlie saveral cases presented fewturcs of comedr, tragedy, or Isrce, as It happencd, There lies before me now, in a fllo of old docuwments, tho cartificd memornudum of proporiy given un by a poor young clerk who had been ruined by tho rickiest of tho New York gong of contractors —ono Charles W, Scofleld. " This young msa had a wife lying danzcrously {l1; she needed delieacles whichvhis poverty deuled her, when the contractar came, na tho victlm said to me, Hlike an angel out of Huavon,” and rrmmq Itm with 850 asnnact of “puro friendship.! No fuvors wero asked at the time except thut hs would look after the contractor’s goods aud sce that thoy were duly inspected, But svun after- word somothing wus asked—that short duliverics of guods might not bu notlced nor tov close a tuspection of theip mude, In ratura lur which scrvice (which ho was assurcd was rendered st overy other yard) the clerk should receivo hall the contractar’s profits on the overcharges. The alck wite's necds aettled the matter, and the clork turned up at tast in prison, His contd tion helny sfucere, the Beeretary permitted hia to mpke restitution and be released trom i~ fluemunt, fle gave into my keepluy nead) $4,000 in United 8tates bouds, and was rel on his parole. 1 found employment for hime aud at_Inst accounis ho was Ifving an honest lite. Beofleld was tried by court-martial, ot~ victed, and sontencod to bé luprlsoned and pay atiucof § PEKIN TOWNSHIP ELECTION, 70 fhe Kditor of T™ Tribuse. . PaEw, 1), April 6.—~At tho township cles tion hore 1sst Tucaday, three tickets werela the flold,~Democratic, Republican, 8nd Natlonal Greenback. Tha towuship ts usually Democratio by & smali majority; but, as the Greenbackors h had o papep here siuce Decerber Iast that has beon Joud-mouthed In sdvocacy of tho most cxtreme and ridiculous Communistlo and ojlier modern revolutionasy notions, aud as our popalation fs largely cow- posed of coal«niners und mechpuics, it was e peeted that they would carry tha election uvers whulmlnfily. , Tho +* Nationals, as they call themaelves, i tended to sun the whals election busiucss, &0 not ouly tnake thelr uwn nominations, bubaitd dictatathose of both the other partics, Tuelt Ku-Klux Sodety, {u secret conciave 08 Friday ovenlng, made up s tlckes from thalr © “aworn'' members who had pre vwwll¥ acled With both tho Democrstie Republicon partios,—taking §t ff seuntod that they could so nmmsulnlu tho wires that Loth thoss parties would indorso euch tickat with alacrity, But their littlo game didn's work, The old partjes wouldn't be man: ipulated by any sugh attenuated Brucm. lf{ would thoy be cither bulldozed or bamboutl: Taeir Democatic selections becamo niarmed & the progpects, and balted) sud ou Mondsy, 18 thcir l.xm:mlly, the places of the bolunic;: filled with the nawes of candidutes upon lu‘ Republican ticket, Lthus formisg 8 luihml thetr forces with the Revublicans agalust Democrats. There were seven candidstes 10K for at the electioy,—fonr of whom wers nlu\h‘ by the Democrats, dud threo by the iepub ® aiis, with tho hiclp of the few * Nutlonals @ ¥%3 remalned undisgusted with the Imbvcllllr“ their party mauagement up to tho llmflm voilog. However dangerous to goud K°f|:,‘ ment, and the peaco sud Lariuouy of s “15 the Communisile theories may be, thero ': = fear of thelr over being enforced to sut Bur extent 48 Lo be froublesome, with such l¢ -l;lfl;a tho disciples of those doctrives Live CrTusske s e ————— THE ASSAULT ON MR, GORE. To the Edior &7 The Tribusis Cmteaco, Aprdl 7.—We observs (8 T?‘ Taisuxa of thls worning that the ssasult the Garritys upon Mr, Gore Ly attributed 0 U.- Thla doos us the grossest injustive. We lflm wholesale liquor bouse, and us such aro Fival to Cbapln & Gore, but the Qarritys were nflu'l;" {n our houst, and we have not the reatotest A nection with them, directly or Iud!n;cuz. ol fu 0O mauner kuow of the assault, ofautho! it, of were connceted with it fu the reo mauner. Lawzexcs & Mg