Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 29, 1878, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY: JULY 2 1878, RELIGIOU Dr. Thomas Preaches on the Value of a Good Life. Laying the Corner-Stene of a Catholic Church at the Car-8hops, And of ‘the Unton Tabernacle on Ashland Avenue. Sermons on the Boul's Immortality, and True and Falso Gods. VALUE OF A GOOD LIFE. THR NEV. DI THOMAS prenched an cloquent and very fntereatlog sce mon yesterday forenoon st Ceutenary M. E, Church on the above subjest $n the presonce of & |arge cungregation, {ncluding many slrangers, Tha text comprised the first thres verses jof the First Psalme, ns follows Diesned {a the man that walkoth not 1n the coun- rci of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sl ners. nor eiticth {iv_the seat of the scornful. Bitt his deligit 18 In the law of the Lord. and 1n 21in law ddoth ho moditate day and night, Amid ho ahall bu 1lko n tree planted by the rivers of water that Dringeth mnfl Bis frail In his scasons his 1eat nleo shall not wither, and wlhatseever ho doctn shall Pprosper. Dr. Thomns salil it might sccm slmost supaer- finous to paure at the entrance unon such a subfcet o8 that to ask what the deflnition of o good life was. And yot ho fourd that the re- sponses comiug back to such an Inquiry were confueed and discordant, The dillerent sects and schools were oven repeating the questi>n that troubled Nathangel of ola: *Cap ooy feod thing come out of Nazareth ™ Men were apt to aesoclate govdness with place, or clnss, or party, or creed. The Romanist wondered how any good thing conld come out ol antism, and the Protestant asked tigw any good thing could come aut of Romanlem; and the Orthodox ques- tloned the guodocss of the Liberal, and the Liberal doubted the zoodness of the Ortho- ‘ox. Some placed goodnees in outward forms, game in falth, soma o works. Meantime, he supposed, God luoked at the licart and tha life, sy read there the inward purpose and the out- ward deed, and regarded not the mero accl- denta ot thie country to which they belunged, or the languuge they sfoke, or the charel lues In whi-li they ebaneed to be bors. Were they to atteupt Lo settle the questinn of moodnese by any soecile Atatutes enjolnlug all partieulur acts that shoulid be done, and for- Dtadinge all ehiat should not be done, they would seareely find room o write them, wuth leas would they find timo to read them. Fmwmanuel Deutsch quoted the Talsud as gaxfue: *Six hundred aud thirleen injunctions wad Moses fustracted fo give tothe peuple. Doavid redoced them oll to eleven in the Iffteenth Poalm: *Lurd, who shall o in ‘Thy taberuacle: who shall dwell o hy boly Lttt Ife that watketh uprightly,’ ete. ‘Tho vrophet Isalah reduced them to six—>ITo that walketh ruznteonsly,’ cte. (xxxilf, 15) The prophet Abfeah reduced them to three—- What doth the Lord requine of thea but to do Justly, und to loye merey, and to walk hiumbly with tny God? (vi, 8). lsalah once more reduced them to two—'Keep yo judgment, and do Justiee,' Amos reduced them to_one—*Seek o Mo and yo shall Nves But lesy mizht bo supposed from this that God coult be fouud fn the “fulfllmeut of 1fls whole taw only, Habbakuk sald: *The Just whall hve by falth,’ '(ik, 4..” ‘The speakor ruld let us aad 1o thess wise snyings the beautl- fal words of our Lord, “Thou suall love the Lord thy Goq with all thy heart, and thy nele- hor as tayself; ou these two haug all the law sud the prophets.” And Paul empltically sotl, *Ho that docth rizhteousncss, tho samg Is vighteous,” Aud sl thoso sgain led to the conclusion reached by our works on moral ‘selenev,—that the moral quolity of our ection resides n the intentlon. And houce, thoy might say n fuucral that gooduess was an Inwerd state of mind, or heart, that was in- wardly puse: that loved the right, aud the pure, aud the good because they were rignt, an pure, and goods and un outward 1ifu of obe- to this Divine huw 1t was beat known sua ptood, The good man “walketh ot in unsel of the ungodly, nor standoth lu the of slanerg nor_sitteth fn the seat of tho nful. Dut bis delight wos (n the law of the I ;;m) fu His law doth he weditate doy antd aigh s.¢L them, then, consider the value of & good e, When they studled the miod of nmf‘ ns revealed (o the Beriptures, §n refereuce to man, und when they noted the fact that the wholu spurit, und purpose, and cllort, wid emphosis tarned upon that ong polut of leading man fo o ool Jife,—when, he sald, they reflected upon thoss thu'(s they were prepured to underseand and. were Jed to cxpeet that in soie way what they ealled good ud evil were related 1o deop underlying priuciples, und, fu the uature of tho cuse, Were related to vist and farreaching results. And upon a clo<er study of man'’s nuture, and the constittion of L, aud thy facta of Ui, they Tqund that to be the tase. Everything, so fur us Lhey knew, had Its foundation, its belug, In sy eatybllshed orde* or constitution, or laws and this law wes the conditlon of its beine, What tney called the good, or the true, or the rizht, might be only avotber name for the unl- versul harmouny, or the proper and pesccful onllowing of events when everything wus fn its proper place, What they tulf:.'d the evll, or the wrong, wight be only suother nane for inharmony, or the disturbanee of the Diving order, from which nust result dlscords, and Jurs, and suffering, Thus, thuse two fdeas of rhzht aud wroug stood os the entrance-ways to two worlds—the world ot llght, and peace, and rest, and reward; und the world of durkticss, aw troudle, und penaley, Al heuce, the Hrst natural result of n good 1fe wus un avoldanee of, or u satvation from, the results of & bad life, And when they studled the fact that wrong was an inbarwony, u betng out of uceord with the whole Divive order ot things, the evila resulting from such 4 coursy were slmply fucaleulable, No o cound estimate the fnalyidual and sovial re sults of wrong~lojng, They sffected every part of thu {udividual, bud{. tis wiud, bis spir- it. They atlceted the soelul order. Bin stnute the buas. Blu perverted the mind and polsoned the hedrt. sin scattered disorder, and rufn, and death In soclety. Drunkenncss, lust, mur- der, werg oll the frulte of i, Sih made this world u Hell, und atl the downwand ways led to o durk workl beyond, Take away slp and our world was Reaven, and all its peaceful paths would leud to u world of Heht beyond, And it there was 1o wore 0 8 good fe than o dellver- shee,—u walvation from the consequet ol wroug,—ihey might well be persunded to full tn with such w life, But thero 3 wmore than uegative value; thers werg positive reaults from a good Wfe. The tirst of those that thicy should conslder was I the Mine of matertal well-doing, 1t was probubly dsserttng too inuch ut 4t eacliong I Our worid were to ot r upon 4 goud e, there would ot Le universal prosperity and happlness; for the resuitaof evil—especially of Jongptambog evile—could not at onee bocounteracted, and the results o gooduess required thoe to bring about thelr rewunds, 1t mizht be saying too suuch to wilirm, even, that the unlvensal good- Nusw OF the whols ruce would at auy tite re- move all hardshiv uud sutlervg; for thusy mwight be, and he supposed were, o part of man’s disclpling; but it was safe to say thar whatever natural and temporal good might be permitted to wan ju this N was to be found wlong the ways of righteousucss, Were thery 110 talschood, 1o njustice, no intempershce, uo cruelty, bo cxeess,—were wll true, wid just, aud kind, uud setl-reguluted,—the evile of the world wonld lurgely Qlauppear, und there would be o more even and gencral prosperity, There could e no doube of thut proposition, Bo then, if one looked to that which wus Uest inan carthly setiney—iu bealth, du vissperity, ju bappluces,— vie would tud f¢ ju 8 good life. Aud that was only statiug the Divise order, the great law uf “sequence, by which righteousnces was rewarded. Nor wus that u jow or unworthy wmotive fu & good Hie. We were made to avold sutferfog. W were made to enjoy the results ol our labors,—were nadu for happiness, Ot cuurae, in u question of otegrity, ws between any present ¢pjoytent or reward” sud o crest principiv of pight, tuey sictld stand for the rlizt ut suy cost, Anuthicr benctt arfsing from a good lify was found fu 1ts Larwony of life-conditions. * Jle shull Le ke atree planted by the rivers of water, Whose beal ulao shall not wither," S The Wgure tuere was thot of the lfe of & trew W a dry laud. stendivg by tbe river's vive, whire Ne routs wepw perpetually refreabied by the Howite wuters. The geoeral fact was, the prexeucs of the beat couditivig tor the tree’s Lfe; and, Ly sualogy, 1o sbow that there wust be o burmony of the preseuce of suitabiv cunditions for wiaw’s life. And by niata Wis weant wore than bls were bodily existence, Alaw’s Bife mcsat the life of the soiud wind the 1l of the heart. Now, when they studicd all thuse, they were, naecd, W the aeaclice ol b great fwct—of u deep wystery. ey huuw, lu u genceal war, how the body frgu tie fruits of the carth, und from Lo wre Biub tbere was that decuer “lids (ro lfe of the mind and of tho heart. What wero thele conditlons of lifel On what fooid dfd they subsist! And when they anked suclh queations as thosu they began to see liow that beaatiful .fignre carrled themn over from material things where the roots of the treos were fed by the rivers of water, and placed them in that finer spirituat realm where nind, trhers thought, where licarty whero goodneas must have thelr canditions of Jife,—must live by the rivers of truth and gooducss, whose 4 bory to them great facta And princinlea, 13 and princfples of Jife, and love, aud Gul, angd [leaven, on which minda and eouls coald tive. Jesus Christ stouwd by the grawing vine and uttered the samo truth and [< d over tha applicaton tu the soul's life in God, when fle sad—=* L wm the vine, nnd voara the branches, and My Father fs the luaband- man*; and when e sah, farther, that iy it abtdeth in Me, the swute brinrett forth much feuft." And In saylog that o announced the great spirftunl law of the soul’s life. 1t could not hive apurt trom ils conditions uny orord that coulil tha tree, ot the bodv of man, Awd there they might aco n littlg of the reasun why there wad 80 inueh stress put upan spiritual cone ditious fn the Bible. Stawbing by that great fact or law, man was warned and entreated to be uprooterd . from fatschond aued sin beeawse they were tho Uarren soll of death, and wos utged to be sown, to be planted, to be engrafted, fo e borit futo the new, the true, the only real conbitions of soul-liie. Out of truth the mind dwarfeds ont of rizhtconsness the heart dwarfed. Without truth, without Gtod, the sou) towded w death With thuso there was unjun with thoe eondittons of con- tited, of aboundivg ife. *fle brjngoth forth Jein his sewson. “le that noldeth in Mo the same briugeth forth much frult,” Wiien ang waa thus iu tod, nnd bad n him the mund of Christ, hio was in the very nature, the yery laty, the very lie of rigiteousness, and he broueht forth inls fiuit In bisscason. He showed the frulls of the spirit, whichs are seen (o all pntll!ucu} and love, snd_gentleness, and usoful- nees In tho world, And mnong the many possl. Ulg resuits of u perslatence (n - ovi hemeg rooted In wrong, (e thought was dally ganing ground that continued Hfe was only in womdness, and. not renching that, “souls would at least sink back to nun-exlatonco—thoe branches not in the vlae should be burned. The docteine of “conditiona) lmmortality,'"—condi- tloved In gooduess—was, he said, rainlng ground. It lmd_not found l:.wplnncu and lodgment {o his own thought, and yet he saw nuch i it that Al wot seen unreasonable, As oue of tha possiblo results of n bad Jife its remotent pussibility should serve us a warnfng to all who longed to have tho years of thelr ex- Istence reach on tnrongh thecountlossazes of thy future. ‘This much certainly was trie,—and was hield by every ehurceh In the world to-lay,—that wvil, AT It 1¢d not to the anoihilation of the soul, woa certainly a condition of sulfering, nnd that oterhal lifo could be found only by eternal poodness, Eternal Ille wus "o quality as well as o quantity, or & duration; and wihen the “soul’ .came Into tho Divino harmony—was u trec Ly the rivora of water, & branct In the truc vine—It entered Inte and took hold of tha Iife. ot teuth, the lifo of love, the life of principies that were them- aclves deathifosas aimd in unfon with thoso was {tself hmmortal,—~hsd not only contined betng, bug life in the senss of consclous, Llisslul ex- fatence. Another valuable result of a pood life was found in the pesce or serenlty of mind and heart that Hlowed from betng in harmony with one's saif, ana all the cuvironwionts of urno's belug, Ilnrmony with one’s aelf Imolled boe- mony between all the parts of ono's own buing or nature. 'Fue body hod its placu and jts use and so hed the mind and the heart. A oo life forbade the sbuse or the neglect of any part of one's belnz, Rellslon made body, mind, and hearg sacred, But thore was not oily harmony with unu's seif; thero must mlmrmunf- with one's cuvlronments: harmony with the will and purposes of God; larmony with all the rela- tlons of lite In labor, and sufering, aud duty to others; barmouy In tue home, {n socloty, and 1o wll the surroundiug conditions of b oy, outsldu of hls harmony there coutd be no full settled, Iasting peace. “The Hlu of the wicked was llke tho troubled sea that costs up mire and dirt, No rest within, A ceascless war with conscionce, and reason, und right. No rust without. A war with God, aud won, and the wholo orderof things, A good Jtfe gave inward serenity. It catme from Inward harony, ~—from the rulo of comsclencs and the rest o faith and tho peace of God. A gaod iife placed one v burmonlous relations to lus fellows, to soclety, to laber, to hardship, and even to siek. ness nud death, * Ohl how blesscd to lve In the pesce and avproval of conscleucs, the peace uf God to ent the oread of hooesty, to looi tuto tho face of all mankind with the swect feoling that ono bas wronged none, that oue wus tho Triend ol all, and, us far as might be, the helper ol all. A good lifo gavo vision of aplritual aud Divino things, ‘When ono was In harmony with oneself and vue's cuviroumeuts and relations, the lines of truth stretched out llku patlis of ligcht before one. It was like standlng by the oxioma of mathematles, or the urlnclslu of mnsie, or the structure of 8 language, ond deeing the privei- vles unfuld In renson, or “'“5’ or literature. When vno took o stand by the side of (ruth, by the sido of love, by tho slde of righitconsncas, by the slde of God, the whole wurld' of moral beauty began to open before one Hke the dawne Iz of a new dny. Our Bavior took up this word * blessed 7 and carrled b further than could the Psaintst. David sald tho mun was blessed who avolded evil, and that he shouid find deltgnt In ditatinge upon the faw ol tho prd,! und - stould ha “11ka a tree by rivers of water,' Jusus Chrlst suld, *Blessed oro the poor lu spleit, bleased aro they that mourn, blessod are the meek, blessed are they that hunger and thirst ufrer rlizhteousness, blessed are the merclful, blessed arg the pure ln heart, blessed sre the pegees makers.” The poor had the Kingdom, ‘The wmourniog were comforted. The meek lnheyit- ed tho curth, The bungry were flled, Tho mereiful obtalned merey, The pure in beart saw Giud. 'T'he pracemakers wero the chlldren of God. Thu pure in hemt saw God. Pluced vy & gould 1lfe fn the widat of al] that Kingdom af blusslugs they roso up in vislons of beauty, that reached ‘on to (lod, Like pure fountalus they fllled aud overflowed the soul. Obh, the Dlessednesy of trust, o prayer, of hope, of commwunion with things Diviue The value of o good Hfe was secn ayuln fn its closing seenes,~Its sunsct views, Ib was ouly us we neaved the clode of Hiv that we could form a true ldea of the things that wero then must to be destred, the thiugs of ondurivg worth. In the suryey of the past, many of the ovents that wo onge ésteomed of grvat nument ~chuuges irom_vue place to unother, luss or guln tu property—would have lost most of thelr interests When tha sun should o Juw and he shadows Jong, of all the busy scencs wough which we should lhave passed the py would Lo furgotten, the tew remenburad. 1 burled Ruchel; there mut was the vatriarch’s review of Hfe. There wo mel, ‘There wo loved. Thure wo parted. There God met us; and thero wo be- camo Jis iu a holv covenunt, Tuese wera the great focts that would etand out before the wind fu the dybng hour. Whuthier the way had been rough or simooth, whetlier we have been poor op Flch witl matter dttle then, But O, of it vriceless value fn thut hour would be the memories of 8 good 1 d the peacs of God snd upprovel of couscienico! Not uniy these, but S Chriay 1o ue the hopa of glory,” Hope camo frum befnje one with oudness—ones with {iod, # Mark the perfect man and bubold the upright, Lor thie ond of that wun b8 poace.* It muat b so. '] have foughs the good flebt, [ have kept the faith, } have Unished ms course,” sald Puul, *and henceforth there fs Jaid up for 1o & cruwh of rightouusness walkch the Lord shatl giye mo ut that dav.” Huyond the sunset viow of this lfo wus the dawn of tha uewr day of staraity, and thyre, wore thuy hers, shall the results of g wood Life sppear, O, how should thosu rejoles who buve eotersd upon the path of Itfe! ~ Were It not for the sin and sorrow that bow others down hls whole iife would b song of gladucss, Surcly overy one should bo persuaded to turn frow the wrong, to dud life, and visfun, and rest in Gud, For it was not o with the wicked, 'Thoy are Hke thu chafl which the wind drivelh away,~thoy sball pot stand in thie juagment nor slnuera {u- the congregation of the righteous, » — J BT, PHILIP'S, TIE LAYING OF THE CORXEA-STONY of 8t. Philiv's Church, o new Cathoile editico which s ln process of construction at the North- wentern Cor-Shops, 100k plave yesterday after- noon at 4 o'clock with appropriste ceremonles, conducted by the Rt Rov, Blshop Foley, ns- alated by Father Riordan, Fatber Morinu, and Fatber Morlschinl, tbrough whose exertious the chureh was butit. ‘There wore many veople present, who apparcutly took great fnterest In the procesdings. Ve edifice itsell Is to be of brick, with stuna foundatious aud capplugs. Its ares ls thisty- five by sixty-six feet, tweuty-bwo-foot cellings, ‘Tho Gothic stylo of apchitecture fs adopted. ‘Ibo seats will be of hard wood, Bulshed with ash apd black waluut. It will scat 300 people, There will Ue a brick bellry, rising sixty-six fuet above the rool, Tl futter will bo covered with slifugles. The windows will be of stafued tlass, dopated by mweibers of the congrezation, Toaide will rlse a double gullery, that fur tho chor Lelug ralied wbove the other. so a3 not to wuterlere with tho seatioy. he con- tiset o tasen by Jo L. Cosburz, wud bs agrees to have the work comploted by the of October, The entirc cost of the structurs Will bo 84,000, It {1 to be placed under the charga of Fatlier Morischini, wio has also chargo of the chureh at Oalk Pack. An improvised acrrick was placed at tho cor- ner, with the partlenlar atonu o readineas for holsting, and ot the appointed hour Bishop Foley namd his éttendants arrivel In a enrrlage from tho city ure, before i roueh wooden cruss, and then the way wat clesreit for the reverend wentiemen, who apnroached the atone, Noreunotier eorvice wos pronuuncal, when tho workien Iy charge ol ner-stone to itaplace, p for 1he benelit of ilon at the Car-Shops, iiferont nrtleles were inseeted. con- Alating o some coln, Lhe names of the Pope, the ffaho). and the atteading clergy, and the President of the Golted States, The way was onee mure cleared. and the clergy und attendants mareied ln provession e ground the entirs strpcture. A platform was hasdly erveted, npon waleh US4UOP rOLRY took his stand and delivered a short ad.dress, In which lre vald Lhe people befura him hud come there to lay tho eorner-stone’ of n chureh, in witjeh they and thelr families mieht worship. It wus not to bo a grand one. n umrumcunt stracttire. yot It wonld ba n houso fn which the spirit ot the Lord would aopear. EHenceforwar that place would be a2t apart. and it belougoed excliasively to o, FL wid true that the earth Wi Lhu Lord's aud the fulloess Lhervof, but 1t hadt been customary to st spack a partiealar place for the worsblp of God. - They had hitherto nad no-regular place in which to wor. ship, and the “need which had been felt wonld render the new church all the utore neeeptable. Tt wauld be n placs for them to coma with theie sius and aglt furgivenes: would be g guod place in which te (o prafs Lord far His many miercied. Tt was clght o set npart suei u pisce, which should be con- sevrnted, to remembar oll the blessiops which Jesus Cliat by His death had obtained for Rellgiun was the fuaudativn of soctety. 2 wees banishod, it would ve inipossivle tu keep socivsy within dounds, I men werg nob eeatramed andgulded Ly the- principles of retfzlon, they would be flke the auclent bar- buelang, with no other power or motire than oree to cause them Lo obaerve tho rules for tae waimtenancs of law and order, and, conse- queatly, provperity. It was only rofizion that could fnfluenze wen and women to oliserve the vroper relutlons bebween cach other that the Almighty demanded. 1t was what wanld mako pareits vhiorve unane relattons fownrd thelr chilldren, 11, then, the most of our happiness and prosperity depended upon religlon, it wus right that that relizion should have a fitiug plave for conseeration, 4 Uicy saw that it wus from religion and the teachings of thy Churcls thet all onr proaperity and happmesa emanated, It was wot onl for ‘our corthly lappluess and worldly ad- vantage, but for the hereafter, The vue Lord (od relgned saprel and unless everytblog wuy done to {lis elurlflcation {t was done In valu. They often saw the earthiy-minded have proaperity, and if they were closely watched it would be soun that 1t was only temporary and short-lived, 1t seemied to be u vart of the All- Wiae plan to ruward on thls earth those who had o few of the clemonty of gooduess withiu them, but had no clalm to lfe everlasting, In that ehiureh & svould be tuught that the kingdom of God waa the tiest thing to be sought, wnd thut they must Lrust that other thiugs ahould be sddedto them. o closed by exhorting tho people thy congreation to 5lruvcncrmmyuuu frecl@loward paying the cbt of the now chureh, wiiel would be made a8 ncxponslve as possible. This closed the ceremouy. UNION TABERNACLE. A NEW cuunon, ‘Tho ceremany ol Iaying the corner-stoue of o wew place of worship, to be kuown as the Unlou Tabernacle, located at tho corner of Ash- land avanue aml Twenticth stroct, took place yesterduy afternoon In the presenco of a large audicnee. Tho Unlou Tabernacle Socety wus Tormed Apri) 33, by the Rev, Aloxander Mon- roo, and Its memborahlp now numbers over sixty, Iits original place of worship was at Heapar Mlsaton, corner of Llncola and Ambrose stroots, but tho Jocation belng out of tho way, and the bulldlug insufficiens to accom- modate sha fncreass of membership, o chunge was inade to s hall, corner of Twuntleth atreot and Bluo Letand svenue, snd this having proved insufleient, and the congrezatlon desiriug & pernmnent homo, thoy resulved on erccting a L’]I:Ll’:}‘l' the foundation of which Is already com- P ‘I'nie ceremouy of laying thio corner-stonc was without osteniation.” A platform had been eructedd on tho Toundation walls, an ormun and preacher's desk bad been secursd, with chairs enoagh to seat ubout 100 perdons, nnd thia was there was In - the way of preparation. The excrclaes wers opened with “singing Al hinll the nower of Jesus’ name, and’ the Rev, Mr. Slmons lollowed with un gppropriate pray 3 Tho pastor, tho Rav. Me. Monroe, then t the derries lowered the co it was bicssed by the Bl 1 tha cougr, cal the constitutton and by-laws, and urticles of faith of the Soclety, sud he was toHowel by Urlel uddressas by the Rev. Mr, Willlams, ot the Fortv-soveith Mtreot Cougregatfonad Churel; the Rav, M. L. Hammond, of tho Firat Conzregationat Churehs the Bev, J. 11 Walker, of the Heunlon Presbyterian Churels; and tho Mr, Nowcomb, * Donatlons wero then solicitod and about 8200 way realized In cash und promis 'Thu exerclses closed with tho placing of a tin box i thy corner-stone, shuply us u tuntter of form, ns the stuny was not really Jald, ‘The box contalned 8 copy of the consfitution amd by 1aws, aud artlcids of fulth and covenant ul the Houtety, u Hat of donors, and tha membership, a copy ol yestoyday's issue of Tig TriBuse gud Topnas wiidd Saturday's Journa!, sud a copy of tie Bible, whicn uppearsd to Vo conslderably older thun the Society, ‘Tne bullding Tronts on Ashland avenue, will bo _of brick, "vnestory und a bascment. In architeetura tt will be hult-gothic, Torty by sixty teut In dimension, und” will cost 32,000, Ic Is tndor contract to by completed fo two montha, and It 18 now expected that It will bo uediented Bept, 94, TRUE AND FALSE GODS, TIE KRV, W. B. WHIGHT prenthod yesterday nornlog in Plymouth Chureh from the followlng tuxu: Thoae ba thy gols, 0 lersel, which brought theo up out of the land of Bgypt, —Ezodas, rrei)., 4. Thuy, suld the apeaker, tho children of lsrasl shoutod wnen they caugt slght ot tha gotden Idul which Agron nad made. Thuse were not Auspun's words, us the reader might lofer, Aoron did net tell them this calf wus the gud they had been worstiplag,’ Na need of thut, They Kuew 16 woas thelr cod. Tasy loved it, rejoleed beforo 18, bowed dowu gladly before It 'The high and holy Ona whom Moses served the peopls had not yet cowe to knaw, Thoy had boon slaves so long that thelr [dea of Tlgaven uad coms ta bo a purely physical vne— thelr Houven the tleah-puts, tusir Ifell hard- shlpsy 'The time bad come, bowever, for ondid thia decan, 'The falu god bad lod them aut of Egypt, but the false god could lead thon no further. Ile must be done uway with. Bo God permitted this golden ealf o bo mads. In Jtthe people saw sume fochle copy of the Egyptiau 1dol,—the bull, Apls. — Azaln the) were permitted to sit at tables and cat fuxar( outaly, und then they broks out with the words s ad § itlon uot widel very U § n & position not widely dilereut from this—the cternal Uod clos ut nund; the soft, sleek cattlo-god near, too, It was ol intlulte fmportance to know which to worship,—~uot which ho might pretond to wor- ship, bot which in bis own sul{-deluslveness ho oven thought he wosbiped, but which bLe really did serye, 1t mlght bu observed {n the firat place that sll men bad been under the Influcnce of & cer- tuln slave-worship, from which not atl hud cacaped, The whole world worshived moneys thelr realsubstuntisl Heaven was making move; aud haviue plenty of money. If (L were aske: how muclh & Cortai ian was worth the suawer would Lo s0 wany dollars. * Nay, look uearcr bomet" exclabmed the speaker. ** What b the thing you most fear, fricud! Probe dvep, sud auswer honcstly, Iv it that tbo 1uuds will not suttlce! 1 it thut you will mske Jittlo money ihis year! 13 your chief t'iought sud uops that you nay muks money{ A yea—~look welll Your fuce b5 not towsrd Blual, Whenco como vour wuxictivel Toe thiuge that Keep you wakeful nights, that wear your Uegh away,—are they fears that you witl not sufticleutly obey Uod that you masy come sbort fu duty; that you nay not be ali God weans you to be; tuat you way not do all Gud wuns you o do? 1€ ibvae are your real feard, 1f duty s your real Huaven, disubedieoce you real Hell—terribly dreaded,too,—your face is toward tfoal.” Ease, escape fromn conflict, what mon ealled happiuces, coutinued the bredcher, was tha deadllest falso gud, Decp-seated was the de- luslon that the great end of thelr Latug was to be havpy, Bome Cbristisng wers secustowed to say that since thoy had been convertod they been huppy. ~ Was this wof Chrlst wusa Mau of sorrows. Paul and Jobn, how with tlhewm? Flghtiogs within aul gzutiugs without! Coutlict everywhere! “Lucre were deacrtsand Awm@onites, und Anokla, aud lorty vesrs of fuotaure juurdeyluge betweed the h Maas was sald Inslle the fnclos- Jeck: 1 onfons and the milk and hone; houue, they weee really scaking, not Arst riches, of happlnaay, or cas Ronest fashlon, then tho ansels wondd appears thiey miznt vever be worth muclt by the money- scales, bu® tliey woulid be worth more than all worlds to Gud. — . THE BOUL'S IMMORTALITY. SERMON DY THE REV, MR. CLARK, The Rev. Mr. Clark, of Boton, preached & sermou in tho First Congregatlonal Church, corner of Ann and Washinzton streots, yester day morning, from the toxt: Our Bavlar, Jesus Christ, wha hath sdolfshod dloath, and natl pronsht He nnd immortality to lignt tnroush the Gospel. —/, Tom., f., 10, Most of the thinkinz men of the olden times had belleved In au lmmortallty, and that there was a horealter for some porilon of tho hu- man conmposition. This heliefl had n placo in the human brosst, from the eir- iiest * history of mankind down to the present time. The romalns of friends were orinerly Lurled, the nshes carefully gathered and placed fu urns for the beuefs of Ehe * some- thinz * that had survived the body that wos fatmortal and would claim the matter that had comppsed the murtal part of tha existence on carth for its vencfit hereafter. The coming of Chrlst Jutd ostabllshed more fully in the minds of the people this betier, nnd His morals had set at rest for all time the dublous misappichen- slonsal theanclouts. Dy It puworlul preachiog, frauzlit whii pramises of u bereafier, the ldea was more firmly estabiished in thy minds of all mon that toe soul wus imniortal. Whon we stouit by thaside of a friend, whose spirit has Just Ned from the body, we were apt to think that thia was an end 10 al) that had antmated the cxiatence of g once atrong and h son, Wu saw fa the Lfeof tho splrit, sell~sazritlelng, and gencroug, url noble, —now these senses wers Iylug dormant and powerless, 1t scened ag thoieh wo had hopur, even ngainet vur reason, that those limbs, so cold and sttlf, might once more be quickenod amil Jean forth i Mfo and spirly, us thes wero wont to da. If our Dbrain was ut a whitish mucous substance, which mlght be subjected to the instruments’ of sargers, why woas it that the sllehtest irregularity of this poctton of oar unatomy would affect our ways and turn the wholo course of our lives? The nurse detected tho soul fu the first bubbles of au infaut in Tosponse to apprals from IS protectors, The supausition that we had o soui distinct trom the body was the vnly reason that we nad for sup- posing that we kuew what was fu our lives [roin momont to mowment. The miod, grand and {u- dependent as it was, often desplsced its sur- roundings, flobert Bruce in bis last o~ ments vepeated the words of the mariner who stood upon the sinking = vessel: fwell, fet the old shlp sink; she i nov mine" It was an accepted and pop- nlar theory that not a particle of matter was eyer st ~‘Lhe phenomes of Nature was con- thwally reminding us of thls, The white- vapped waves, buating against the chalky cliffs, washed nway the rocks, bus the porttons washod awav were 1oy lust, Thov sank into tire sea, verbaps werd horne for miles away, and hulpv.':‘ to form other viffs, or nther compusitions in the ovean. This knowledee that the clements of Nature woes seattered over the eardl, und were collected amd recolleetod, was avidenco to us that there was & hereaftor for us, — The mi- nutest socda that were bluwn by the gales of winds the orphun's tears, which fell upon the cold pavoment, wero registered as o rebuke to the hard-heartes, wicked wanton, who reveled fu fuzuey aud slotous Wi, baviog more than enougn ot this world’s goods, but Iving only for a seliish prescnt, Keory Leltof bad {ts churms. Iven uabelicf fteelf 'was noc cutlrely devold of thum. But who, after listenlni to the words of Chrlst, *Becauso ilve yo simil Jive also,'* coutd doubt tho himnoriality of the soul{ Monday many of his ucarcrs would be anxionsty aud fntereatedly looking at the suu, any, us the pale dise showed forth during the pusatice of the moon over {ta fuce, #o could thy llm mmortal be seen through the durk shadows of death as it passcd beforo it —————— A QUEER ABDUCTION. Mr. Toughton Studles a ¥alr Neighbor for Mours with an Opera-Olass, Thon Makns Love by Lettor, wnd Then Tries Chloros Torm and,n Uarrlage to Drooklya. Neww York Worte', July 30, Uo to the garly part of last May Mr. Thomas Briegs, o gray-headed o!d oo resembling in appearance the venerable Pater Coopor, lved at No. 813 West ‘Thirty-first atreot. His family cousisted of throu grown-up daughters and np sdopted daughtor named [oulss Brabem, In Decewber, 1877, and v January of this year ho. was gremly annoyed by tho attentious pald to this adopled daughter by a middle-aged man, with a blondo comvlexion avd a Hght board, who lyed at No, H37 and secmed to b reapectablo nud weil-to- do. No ong n the Drigzs famlly kaow Llg namo or mado any attempt to flud out his char. actor und ctrewsnatances, Ho uaed to sit for hours at his window looking at Miss Brahem throuch an opern-clags, Thisattention was not nitich noticed at firat elther oy Miss Uralien or tho mumbers of the Brivgs lamifly, The ludy, who 15 i3 yoars old snd gray-haired, fora long timu hail no lilea she was tho oblect of o man's study; but one morning she uncxpectedly ro- ceived o Jetter signed * K. 1L Honehton,* “Tho writee anld he hud for tnunths *ferated his oyes un her divine form,” was *dieply and passe alonately 1o love with her,” and asked if the foellng was reciprocated. Sho showed tho lute 8r 1o her father aud hur sistors, Mr, Brig s was bighly fndiznant, and would bave sought on Intervicw with the writer, but Ufe daughters prevented him, Altorn fow dn{n nnother tuttor was recelved by Miss Brahem, Tt waoa full of fine lunguuge, but did not come up to tho standurd of high-cluss sentiment. Tho writer repeated Lils forier vows, and wald ho was afrald i tivat lettor had fallen fn the handa of tho wroug person. 1 nddress myaclt,! ho wruote, **to the beautiful Iadv in blue, withdark halr streaked with cray, with black eyes and with o sweot oxpresslon.” This socond letter way pruserved. Shorly afterwards another lotter came, “1 hopa you are st tritllng with me,” he wrote. M1 have a strone, pasdonato tattro that wihl not boar tellling. 11y theu implored her ta giva him some word of encourugeinant; his lifo miseratlo when out of her presencue; o watited wonie unc to shure bis Joys aud sorrowe. 1n still another lotter o propusud marriuge to her and a trip to Europy, which Lo suld ** will be for your beneht. ‘Il was lollowed by uthier [otter a fow days attorwards imploring 10 movt him on_u certaln Tharsday ut o cive nour at No. 31 Fulton street, Brooklyn, No, 34 Ih;uun Imuu s oecupled aw o llvery stoble. 1 or. this love & ] his faly in May dast to No, 253 0 “Thirty- e Tho blonde-complexivned man traced Misé Brahein to her new rosidenco, und before she had Leen lougg thero sho received the Lollowlng letter: My Dean Faexos T feol nesured you havo ro- celved iny last latter, and, secoving na reply, cogoludy you Wt rozand miy With “calduness, In- dilluronca, und perhaps contumpl, 1 pray you do not du the e, - But | will uol trouble you fure ther. You hiuve st 1oast not trided with e ur fod meon unlder falou colosv, 1 um grafefil 10 you, You do ot zuaiteo how much 1 yon, think it stranze fnap utter siragor, no- dunbt, to act s but «o it 1, und‘{'uu wuit forliye mo it apnoy'you. tood by. May (lod ices you, an may health, bappiness, aud g long, ueaful iife bo yours, Will you sometines wiva ogo thought to the stranger who loved 100 well for bls own good? Yuura very truly and stucoruly, E, . Hovautox. None ol tho Jetters have any date ur addre: ‘They warg not all in the same handwrity elther, With the lust Jetter Mia Drahemy thought that K. I1. Houghton would ceass his attentlons, Not su, howeyer, On ‘Tuesduy last, at 8 o’clock at night, sho wus sitting dn her reom. ‘The Misses Briggs wore with some fricuds enjoying the cool even- Ing breczo on the root o thy house. 'The boll was suddenly ruug, Miss Bratcw went to the door and opened it, A short distancs from the door & young lad waa standing, who she thought was ber nephuw, 8Lo went out to ses wha had rung the bell. An arm was suddenly throwo urqund hier walst and o pocket hundkerchicl was presssd over ber foce. Thres wen Jaid hold ol er a carrled Ler luto o carriage which wps standipg a short distance from the door, Thers wud oue may In thy carrlage. He resembled the man whow she s0 olten scen Jooking at her throurbh an opera-glass while sho was liviue fu Thirty-first street. When shy was putinto the carriuge stic swovned. Bhie had bean chloroformed. Tug door of the carrlugy wad _cloaed, aud the thres wen disap- peured. Ju a short time she recovered conscious- uess, sud found bersel! alone with Hougbtou, He spoke kiudly to ber at first, but ufteg o whils beeame stery, and slio was Irighitoned. Tho car- riage was driven rapldly away. It erosscd the Fultou Ferry, and was driven Up to a house,— the lady does not kuow on what street. Houzh- ton durivg the dove behaved fnsultingly to~ wards hier, und she realsted w3 well as sho coutd. When they arrived at this buuss sho was taken out of the cerrluge sud led o 3 swmall oo, Huougoton closed the room door und renewed Dis insulta. Miss Brabew was nerved by ber danger, und reprosched Hogushiton bitterly s told L be had gone fur cuoush, aud fapl, biw 4 e was & wan to taka ber home, He lially usscuted upot ber promiss ol seereey. He led Lér to thy carriage, which was sull ig parsociition of ved with n gardon or grveyard, In strect, o store, or but to do (lod's will In Anarched strafeht for waiting, and drove Her back to tha eity, arriving at Mr, Brigga’ residence about 11 o'clock. Miss Nrabhemr wns vory much exhsusted after hoer strange advonture, and lias not yot recovered. Mr. Brizun reported the above "particulars to Capt, Washtmene, of tho Twentieth Precinct, and Detoctive Smith was detalled to work up the case and find Itoughton Il possible. Mr. Briges subsequently, however, calted on Capt. Wastiburne rud requested him to abandon the lnquiry, HAXIMILIAN. Gen, Magrador Tolia the Story of Hiz Deathe Tho followlng 18 an extruct from a paper by tha Cunfederats (on, J. B. Magruder, prioted in the Phlladelphis Weekly Times: # After learning that Franco hod withdrawn her support from his Government, Maximilian reinoved himeell from cvils and difilenltios which he could not overcome by golng to Orlas- tna, which fs within & day’s trip of the const. [ detesmined to vialt him thers and to induce him, If possible, to leave the country. This was fn the autumu of 1806 I found the Emperar without » Cabinct, and with no ona to consult oxuept his privato cha 1aln, Father #lsebor, o Roman Catholie orieat, a devoted friend, and sn honest inan, The Britlah Minlster—Mr. Scarlett~a inan of the highest chaeacter, wns wiso In Urlzaba, but 1 think was not authorrized to juterfere. The Austrjans, enllant fellows, wors willing to dio for Maxtnjllan, but had tvo much respuct for him to approsch htn unbidden. 1§ saw he was fn deed of n felend, procured an fntor- yiow, and told him ot once and frankly that [ enme to serve him as & pers sonal friond, e usked e how, and 1 replieds ** By induclnez your Majesty to leave Lhe countey at ouve, to-dnarrow, au gy ou board the Austrian frigute Iyl ncar Vera Cruz at your orders, and 1o issuo & proclmmation Lo the world, statlog the motives whlch induced you to como 1o Mexieo: to show, by reference Lo your uets, want you have alresdy done toward the advancemens of Mexieo, sud' to put the reaponsfblltty of any faltlure ou Napolcon, wilers it Justly belonds, Your Majeacy, after having secured the safe transit out of the coun- try of the Princess ltusbide, and of the Awerl: can boy, and of your Austrian and Delglan troovs, hud better Jeave to Bazalns tho re- spunsibility of whuteyer rematns to be done, for L can siate, as & military man, that with such means as are or cau be b your service, @t is fmpossivle for you to hold this couuntry; and 1€ you hiad an army composed of Maxicans you would lose your cause by troachery.! * ¢ L came Lo this cowitey from no selfish mo- tives, tho Emperor roplicd. ‘I camo to do . [ was happy at Miramar when there ave rived o Committue of the first men fu Moxico, ealled the ‘Committes of Notables! Tuey wera represented to be tho best edneated, thu wisost and most {nflucntisl men of this country. Thoy forinally asked me to ue- cept the crown of Mexica. I told them that I could wot then decide, but requested them to return ot the egpirstion of & month. During this period overy crowued head in Europs udvised mie to scvept.” The notubles Jid retuen at tho ead of a month, and I then in- formed them that if at the end jof six months thoy could briug i tho proof that I had been elected fairly by the Mexican people thelr Em- peror, [ would necept tha position, At thoe ap- pomted thn Lhey vame awaln with the proof of my election as Emporor, aud even then T would not have nceepted, exeept to please the Ein. preas, and pow T learn to-day that I havo lost her, perhaps forovor.! W iar o woweut toard atacd In Wis eyesy he took o turn oi the portico where ho had ro- colyed me, and recoveriuz hiingelf, satd: s¢¢ (unoral, 1 will take your advico, but [ wish you to be guided by my directons. Capt, (lraves, the Becond Caplaln of the Austelan frizate, 15 now here. 1o witl nct under your or- ders at Vora Cruz. Leavo hera U-morrow morn- 1ngz nt 4 o’etock and hava care ready for mysoll and escort tha nuxt day. Thus 1 wiit Ge on Loard by tha duy aftee to-morrow, Lo tha megutiuie procoed by the French mall steawer to Hayana ond awalt wy arrival thore. 1 shall be with you fu tendays. “1wss delighted "with my success, Capt. Graves and myself arrived at Vera Cruz tuufol- owiug even(ng at 8 a'clock, [ sont tmmedintely for the Supcrintendent of the road, Gen. Ste- phuns, Inte of the Confedorate army, nod by 9 o'clock ull wus urrangod for Mazinilisy and his suita to come down the next day, butat 13 o'clock thol very vlglit 8 guarritla purey burnod o bridee un the raltroad, by mere weckdent, and a8 it required soverd] doys to repale ity I learncd that the Ewporor could naccome nt tho time appointed, hut would be down in few dnys, In the meanthng, I had started In" s French steawnsr for Havaum, uccordin w _the Emperor's directions. Arrived st Ilayana, day ulter day passed without news, At lonzeh 1 boarded & steater Just from Vors Cruz, ond learmed from tho British Awmbvassadur, Mr, Bearlelt, who was on board, that witer T loft the whole plan bad been changed; that Maxinlllan’s fricuds In Mexieo tolographed liin at’ Orlzaba amt begaed him not to leavo tho country untll they coulu send & committes to recolve from him the resignation of bis authority, ‘This way n protext to detaln bim, Ho remaiood, amd when the Committes arrived they appealed o D ws 8 wian of honor hot Lo loave thein, dbut to fight for terms for them I e could not sava tho Empire. 1o wsaented, and thus the burns ‘h;z H{nlmull Uridge cust hlm thls delay und his i, . “1fa returncd to the Clty of Mexico, Moot- oz on the rowd Marshal Bazalne, the lotter re- quested v conferenes. The carringe stopplig s winute, Maxiniiian safd to ths Marshal s ¢ No conferonco is necossary, Your master hina Jeft mo the aiternative of death or dishonor, Of tha two I prefer the furmer, Drive on.’ “{tacing hhmsolf ab tho hoad of his small army and leaving Mun‘ufll to dofomd tho eity bo th mmnf' A Quereiaro they mot. Fighting ugalust hope, Maxhnihan ror(unn-d prodigivs of valor, aud at lungth ell 3 victin to the treachery ol ons of his Mexivan offleers, whoss fortune hu had made, In the dead of nfeit, afeer o burd day’s fizht, while ho waa acoking a_shaort repose fxom tho vares that opprossed bim, th gates wors opened by thia Aruold of the Emblre; the ocuemy was placed I posscssion of ail the steonizholds, and Maximllion swoke to flnd himaelt o prisoner, without & chance of resfataico or hove of eicape, After the movkory of # trind ho was Jed toexecution, suppuried by his faithful General, thecain ol miditury chioftali sud saeredotal Caclquue of thiy Inuiuud, Mehis, awd the young, bundsome, wml herole Mirawon, Afwer having ulstributed gold (i toxcu of forglvencss) smong the soldlers who were to b his executloners, he resumad his rhm with the calim dignity wileh rewalned with b1 19 the Juat, placed hiy haud upon Wls heart aml gave the word—* Fire,” le fell, rh:n-u.l with many bujlets. Hix death was sot uetaniancoas; ho fell, Ina reclunng postury, upon theeruss which sums plous priests had put uear him, uod with hia chook upou this sacrad wmblem—a titing restingplazs for one who bad not oaly heen g sohlier of honor but a taitnful soldicr of shat Cross—this wisu Priwss, this good and goutle man, reccived g stiot tiroisn the ieurt from une of bits exeutioners aud breathed bitg last,” e ——— GRANT’S REMINISCENCES. A IHera'd correspondent ruports at preat Jenigth s recolloctions of varfous conversationy he bas had with Qen, Graut In Luarape, fu the naturg of thy General's rominiscouces of the War, Theso “talks™ have beon ropuulishen In Cux Tisuse. In his parrative of lucldents and actisng the Ueneral ts Mablo to bo mistaken, s hie s romoved from books of refurence, aud his roporter way have comaltted errors. For example, of Gen, Warren the ex-Presldent ayst Warron 18 & good suldier and a good man; trained fnthe wrt of war, But, a4 s Uutwrpl, if you gave bim au order, he would uut act until o Kuow Wist tho 0ilior corbs would do. Tnstexd of vboylis, — sud kuowiog tuat the powsr wislch wai yuidlug bim would guide tho olliers, —lw would beatate, and Inquire, sud want (0 dudate, 1t was thie qual- ity which led to our disaster at the ming-explosion bofore Peterabuta. 1T Wurreu had obeyud ordore, wy would have brokeu Leo's army futwu and tasun Potereburg, lut, when hu shoutd have been In the wourks. he wad worrylug over wlat other corps would du, Su tha chauce wue fost. [ubould bave relleved Werren thon, but [ Jdid not liks to injure au oficer of 80 bixn rank for whai was an ereor of judyment. Hut at Pive Forks I8 woy dif- ferenl. “Thore wiss B0 thwo 1o thiuk of rauk or cravia’ feulluge, qod 1 tid Sherldan 40 roltove y {all fatlod bim. ~Sheruisa did uo, ity more thau § did. Outhis paragraph the New York World com- mente as [ohows ! ‘Tue fallurs of tho attack slter the springing of tho wine &t Petersbary, July 30, 1304, was fully Juvestizated sumo msouthe aubsviuout to the dis- aster, by the Cvmuitivg on tne Couduct of the d a Milluary Courtuf Tuguiry concuncd & \u, under tno Presrdency of Gen. lancock, The 'Commities, which was cliully coucorued sboat the reputstion of Qua, Burusidy uud thu kood charucter of tus colured troops who wery vngaged iu tay ssssult, bold that the Failure was duo waiuly to the fact ibat Burn. sldu’s plun of attack. which coutauwpluted 8 move- ieut by Hancock and Warroa on hls rivht aud luit, was chansed, snd that the neyro Lruobs were nat keptat the lieadof tho asssulilug coluwu. Tle Comwhitee did put ceusute Warren for a fatlure 13 wove, a4 bts vedves cuaditioned W attuck vu Ly weakeniog of tus enowy's liue 1 frout of bua alter tha oxplosion sud thy wssault by Burasas, and lu bits jud 2w Iut thers was uo such Weiuniu L " Miliry Court teld 1hat the falurs was dag ta Buruaidy's wiswguagement ud tue malacncy of reveral of i ordlnate oMcore, The oplalon of that body was, that the At'ack might have succaed- e §f the Ninth Corpa had pashad straight ihrough the crater to Cometery 1111 and the crest havond, an directed by ten, Meade, Nota word of cenars wasdealt oul to fien, Warren. This s notall tien, Cirant himself appeared As n witness hefore tho Committee on the Conduct of the War, “at City Polnt, Doc. 20, 1844, and teatiled in_ regard 1o the disaster st Pe- ternburg, rajsed tien, Meade's order foz the attack, ani satil of tho assaniting column: *+1f they had marched throuih 10 the crest of that ridge, they would have taken averrthing in tho rear. [douos think theee would bave heen any opposition to onr troops at all had that been dons, T'think we would have cut off ontirely iliosc of tha to tha rght, while those o the left would have tried to make the eqcape ACTon the Appomattox,* Un blased Buruside for deelding “‘;:[’Eh division shonid fond by pulilug vtrawss L binmed hin foz allowing the arrangement to Atand after the 1ot fell upon the *¢ pooroat divislon. commarder’ tn the corps; he blamed Burnside for faillng to tiake & proper debouchement for the wnpporting troops to cet througlh bin finea; he btamed him for not geiting 10 the front and driving’ the advance: he blamed (he diviston-commanders for letting the noldivrs go in withont leaders, when a genoral fntent npon carry- 1hg ont his ‘mvlll'u urilers wonld have swept on Cometory 1l and *given us cverything,’ and finally ho biamed tho goneral lossof time. Thets in nat n his evidence & word nboat Uen. Warren, aod it 18 plaln that ke conafdered tho whole aifalr deelded ontalde of the Fifth Coros, Warten's own teetimony before the Court of Inyuley looke mora Tike corsoliueation uf Grant's Iatest view than the testimony of his accaser: for Wa who had nn 1oith tn the attack, rald that ho was in doubt what coarao to take, whether to move to tiwo left or tu the right 1n help Buenslde, and he complained that B0 one with suthorlty was prasent Lo rulo the fubit, ~—thus by laplicatlon eensaring Grant and Meado. —————— COSTLY DBUSINESS. The Expensn of Supporting n Ttoyal Pamily. New York Wwld, July 10, Bir Charles Dilke yesterday mude s pronised wotlon concerning the propusul for a grant to Prince Arthur ou the oxasiun of his betrotbal, 8ir Charles {8 not explolting this subject for the firat thine, as many yeara ago he made & very Intereating If one-stded onslaught ou the cost of the Crown. On that occaston, If we rememn- ber rightly, o was ahout as nlone as Athaus- sius In the minority, utd beaten even more dis- astrously thnn by the overwhelning vote of 330 to 83 which he encountered yestenloy, Tl subject, however, Is an Interesting one, It only on account of tho amount of moncy luvolved, As the Court Cirewlar juat recelved says, “*The total amount paid by the ustion as altowances tu the Queon's children amounta to £181, [ year, SHince theie Ruyal Hizhnesses happlly cume of age the natfon has contributed upwards of £1,500,000 for.their maintenance.” Bewtuniug with the Queen—the late Princo Consort, by thewav, hiad an lncome of £30,000 wyear gravted by England—we find that her Misjesty bas an annual ullowanca ** for the sup- tum ot her household aud the honor and digni- y of the Crown ¥ ol ,000, applicatlon of which allowance {9, however, Hmited inn pre- acrived form, Hixty thousand pounds are pald Into the privy purse, 31,20 are ap- plied _to the. pavment sularles of the Royal houschold, L4210 for retir- fng mllowancea and pensions to servante, £18,200 for * Royal bounty, aling, and speclal services,’ tha unapproprinted surplis of £36,- 8 belng ooplied, i nocessary, In ukl of tho general oxpenditure of the Codrt. In addition to this tho Queen recelves thio ravenues of tho Duchy of Lancaster, which have averaged, afeer all acductions, £35,738 n year for the Inat decade, anjounting now to £13,000 per annum, the suin increasing steadily, Iler’ Majestr'a privata means are very larze, but hier Incotne therefrom 18 not knowan, and 1§t wers would nut Ugurs in this estimuto, The Frivee of Wules has £40.000 ¢ yoar, ex- cluslve of the revenues of the Duacliy of Corn- wall, In (8{0 these averaged about L13,0X o year, but under his father's prudent manago- ment they have fucreased vastly, In 1870 tho Prinee’s ‘neb Income from tils source was £70,378, or rathier more than £15,000 fn nerease of the net revenue for 1347, It is no secret that the holr to the throno Is seriously troubled with debta,—debts, too, which he hus been com- polled to Incur through the duty ol enter- talning devolyed upun tlin_ durlng the Queen’s seclusion. ‘The Prinzeas ot Wules hias an allow- unce of £10,000a year, to ba trebled In tha oveut of hor widowhood. Sfuve he attalned bis najority, In 1804, tho Duke of Edmburgh has had an allowance ot £15,000, n_further allowance nf £10,000 a year belng mado In 1874 ut hls macrlage. Should she. surrive him, the Duchess will huvo an incomae of £8,000. ‘I'nu Duku of Connauht has hugt £16,000 & vear sluce by camo of ke, tn 15715 this allowance it {8 now proposed to In- crease by L10,000. When In due cutirse bo auc- the Luke of Cambridge ns Commandor- ief, un office for which ho 18 in trainiog, ho have o lorgely nugmented income, It o bholds an equal plurality of enen; will espoctall! Cotoneleles, Princes Leopold, wito came ol nze in 1874, has £13,000 o year,—so the * Peorage™ nsserts, though the® Statesraan’s Yeur-Book makes tho charge for hhn upon the Con- solldnted Fund “only £400 w year. ~ Ilis unmareicd sist he frequently-reported-to-boe engugud Princess Ueatriee, has as vet 1o stlow. auce, though o due couras sho will recclvo her marriago portion. The Pelneess. Royal, tho fu. tire Empress of Qerinany, has £8,000 4 Hfe, In uddition Lo thy dower ol Ll0, granted her ut her marriage; the Princess Allco of Hesse, the Princess [eluna (wife of Prince Chirigtian), ond tho Princess Loulso: cachh re- cuived £30,000 dower und an gnnual allowanca of 1,000 tor iife o the oceasion of tuelr es- podanis. Besltes the Quuen's cluldren there are othier membera of the Roval fumily fn recelpt of dirazt allowances from the peuple, ‘The Duko of Cambridge hus an uunuity of £13,000 a vear; }ls muther, the Dowager Dichess, las £0.00 o yuary ang his two atsters, the Privcess Mary of Tuck aud the (rand Ducticss ot Meetlenbur- Mtrelitz, nre utiowed ruspoctively £3,000 and 3,000 u year, Such 15 the enst to England of her Royal fum- iy, exclading the salurca aud ullowaneea to which such of [ts members s hold - positions fn publie survices may be entitled, e — IRISH PACTION-FIGILS, A Yarty Years’ Feud Regurding tho Ago of un Ivish bulleAn lunovatlon In the Mothod of Warfure. Corresvondence New Fork Herald, Dusris, July 10.—Tipperary, with the nelzhboring district of Limerick County, 1 the clasufe land of Irish faction-fghts. For the lust threa-quarters of & ceutury al) sorts of Influunces —splritual, poiltical, cdueational, penal<-lisve boen at work to ¢xorelso the fell apirit. The jate Cathvlle Archbishop of Cuihel (D, Leahy) labored hard ae thlaholy task, and It wos bopud, successtully, But quite Jately thure have been sown savage encounters, which sliow that tho cvil sthil llves, Nor does 1t seom that timo hua improved the mode of fighting, For- merly the shillclah was the Jegitimate weapon, which mlght under stress of clreumatances by supplemented with o stone, But nowadays auy weapon {8 pressed Into servico—scythes, reap- {ug-hoolss, sud pltehforks, A curious patut fn cottection with this faction-fighting 18, that, while it 1s alwaya set down na a pecullarly Irlah P:ulm. fts home por_ excollanca—Tipperary— the Least frish county wn tho tstaud, 40 Gar as rac and oure Celtie blood are concerned, Its foriily Holds found favor two contdrissand u ballugo fu tho eyes of Cromwull's velerans, who settlod down thero by thousands. Frou those Paritau ancestors, however, have sprouy destendants who have given the Enptish Gove ernent inore troubty thuan the peoply of uny other district in the couutry, It was the ofd stury over ugain, of thy suns Of the conyuurors bocoming moro frish thau the Trlsh thensselyes., 1ali the buslness of the Asatzes 10r Tipperary County 13 nlways counocted with the resalty of faction-flehits, snd tho curront Assizes urs no exeuption, 'l‘md g yestenday, and the Very lrat casu triod befors the Prealding Judve was for the KiEng of o man by cruecking his wkul) wigh the traditlonal black-thurn stick, “Thy affalr occursad 1 the Towy of Nenugh, sud sostrong 13 thu fuellug of terror eagendered by tnose foads that seversl persons shuy tholr dours 1u the face of the dying mgn, refuslug to admit bins. Last Sundav evenfug there was a regular pitchied battle berween the Modde aud bbo Cartys, members of thy notoriods tace tlous, tho **Three-yeur olls " wud the * Four- yoar-olds. A week provious thore had been a skirmish, [ which the Cartys bt the worst of {t. During the week sundry sets of reviprocal hostility oceurred, anil ot lust iV was agreed to muet at Uoriavalla, @ place funous fur another fizht dome years sgo, Whero ony of the Madden party was kihied outright. Over 200 03 engaged In the fray, armed with whatever weapons they could wrocure. (uus there wero none. Thy Arms uct scttled that, and the vigilant searches of tho constab- ulary for contraband arms. The confict was condueied on butn shics for several bours with the srreatuest vigor aud determination. Ty faunly of the Cartys, frum whom thelr shide borruws its naie, ure tall, atbletic, power- fully-built wen. They forced their udversarles into a house by the roadsi! Honor furbads thei to puraue the vangulshed o the hodse and %0, after u short breathing-tue, the beatea men Were able (o come vut and rencw Lhe coin- Dat. This ook plate sl or seven thoes, At laat Jobn Maddew bad Lis stomuch ripped open with a knife, ald days of tie shillc his ribs, one of whicl chavs of wounds, file sufered proportionally. wio with pralssworlhy lupartial away Irom the sceno whily actlve progreas, arrivod Jnst wi Thio constagy) mpasatle | by—and fel 1 T1is brother Phtp rocelnd sevecst pite L hesl, and mknifo was braken hetwa. wascat thr otlier alilor Witlhin Girte, nn ol ot arm fractured, his Jaw broken, wid iy His son Thomze 2 fractures of tho akull and n multitie ohY wounds, Thesa wera tho chiefs & (D b byl gy sl k . 'l')mnn\,:; Ity bl romq s - Mg the by ay et the 4 edl combatants Were rebiring In il s b5 tlone,—1, 8.y those of them w. wounded to crawl away. “1he possession of &l tho wounde ofd Curty Is actuslly under nenal servitude for “fifteen o ent g ho Weta pe A constabley 1,7 1A hm;h,', (] eolnz a sany ATS Fur g oy slauchter of tho Mailden uarthan, kijld ;3 former battle ot Gortavalla, thesa fighi origin of this feud belween™ ¢ the Cartya dates ncarly forty vears ha ome one will futiocently | o wpring from puiltical” gt that the parties aro someshat ukin men and Catholles, Nothing of the ki Bntazeyy o Ol 0. 1o 1o A\Immu,..x.; X, iy a vantest arose botiween the Mtereing it seutatives of tho runfleuth‘c familien of llu;’{? whether a certaln bull of local 4 yeara old, lencu the namc respective factious, who have quarrel with a peitin, versu ratlo of tho Impol TEXAS. forocity 1 of FCLUWI Wy, A elven g maintlng] 1 [ s cuuso,h! & The Chicago Tribune~Tha Town of 1, =WHilnmson County—=CUrops and Gey, — Mesquite-Grass — Glinppnral Kexnnu=Mr, John R. Hosxi 4 the Bditar of The I e Kldaar, ribice. TAYLOR, Tex,, July 20—Everywhers |y, traveled within the vast elght bruad State I find my favorlt Cutwado Tmnune) to perise. Osceuln, Ualyeston, Columbls, Housten, Antont, aud, o fuct, hundreds of vthe'), fmportunt towns I nak, *tol TuinUNE berod” ¢ Yes sir.” nows thot assuages my anxlety munthe g e Jourmal (g At Matagyy, S b Tue Cateary And there gy, ANy more, gy hus been my favorfta pewsbaper for elglyy years. I conclde fts funnense clrculatiop duu to the fact that fn this Btato It s regyyy s the ablest-cdited and the mo. trathtul paper circulated 3t finpartia) gy in Texas. |y ueltser derides nor calumnlates, but sty g, forms to truth and facts as th reported. There Is no Journsl North or East that has done 1 Texss than Tur TRIBUNS— 0y exist and 1y published tn g, ese (njustice ty that bas gy truthfully portrayed her charming chmate by beautl ful seenory, und her productive soll, ‘The towts from which these || ated on the lino of the Inter Ines teaye sy, natlonal & G Northiern Rollrosd, leading from Palesn iy Anstin, about thirty miies fron in the southeastern yportion County, the garden of the 8 N o latter, iy of Willlumyy tute of Tery g the great tertilo valley botwean the Brazos uy Colorado Rlvers. This ¢ounty has an arca of 1,300 squara mll or 04,000 State. 1¢ Is nearly all pralrie; abundanto of the best of timbo; tug, und fenetus, aud & f4 abu by beautiful, clear streams of eprings. Principal: atwowg the Trusly and San Gabriel. neres,—tho imost fortlie soll ol but there kg v for fuel, buk udiutly wata water und myr SLegaus arety Whent, corn, oy lmrluuy:l um{l, In fact, any cereal or vesctshletbs 14 froduce goud quality or quantity. fn the Nortl, is hera rabied iy Tlere you Ui great numbers Hiinofs ang Ientucky farmneron extensive furme; und ot o Lie Vast pralde adjacent may be seen thausauds o cattlem shevp,—not the wild ‘Texas Bhare- cattle, bat fa Lorn, and the Marlno sheup. "Fhils 1a ote of the fincst valleys In the worl for grazine, und in no other portion of e world 14 the mesqults-grass found so abunds as here. [t derives (s ama (rom the mewals chapparal,—a kind of bush or shrub sty out u numbaer of jong branches from u comma centre ut the ground, armwed with thorns, ot every brutch producing o number of suilly , 1kowiso thurny. ¥, plunate, wnd di mesyuite-grass abundance here amung this chappural, e swceetest and most nutritlous grasses that the world produc This cnappani’y decldnons, snd, when scrlpged of fts folisy resomblea the peach-tree. It s a leguuie, prs ably of tho sub-order of Mimosas, 1t it sonually a Jarge crop of beans,—the pol foal for wlillos of aniunls. ranging from flve inches to u fuot s length, banglng 1o clusters from e ugh, and resembling very ma the common pea, but, owing to pulp, thuy never beouta dey oe shally. Thy are swect eud nugritioud, an groedlly dovoured Ly hories am {uformed by the furniers that, when ata by thelr cows, they give doubls quuntiticd tlenmilk. Aund bers suffor we Lo wdd tay during the drycst weatlier, tho of beana ts produced. The Tawn of "Tuylor f8 the home of the > Vowser, of tha stall of Geo. Houstou, whoso nume bs cherished and resye 1lere, forty years stu. Lt ouston and ks stulf of froiticranion, Sy i crable Col. v vy every Taxan, nuuiter, camped one mitle nort un historle Fiug Springs, one ol cral wprings 1 tho workl, contalulng plltie mlucral properties of the Congress Springe Baratoga. and which will, ut rome future dit be us noted as 3 waterlng. luvaltds of this spot i rovered in ler the the homea of the advouturces ouy of 800 the future of this great Stute, Huxle, and, in udditlon, nearly adjacent to the town. Wea wan tha Mr. Hoxle, A few more EX. Anclont uud Mode Gatigny A curlous contr Qoruny us to wl rave had slwaves Dusscasud thy percelved colors us wu now distl had ouly u canfused potion of did not” recognlze them ab al fustead of the seven which oxia bow, Thu most lamuous o thuse Which uct on th retina, o and yelows biu a feeblo fmpresafon s wediata vk, Welty produco thelr finest cilosts, t tissues were dyod solely 1o ped and yullow, o kauwledge of gresu daes not Banaerit litersture or Humer, who fu desenbing e verdure of the country wses opithets relil A suvant, M, Oclgen g to other colors, The foliage Is lgs Houchwast, In ae Hau Filtps de Austin, Lageange, Plum Cnek, or 8au Jacfnto, famoua for thelr lattles, ands Kowser, Rusk, and Lamar, and their lierle w- loneers, who lafd tholr plansfr These springd, and 1,035 eres (o which ther are located, were recontty purchased by one ol your own euterprislne townseu, Mr. moro enterorisipg man Intorcated o this State aod perseverance would tu tep years deves) wore of thy lutont wealth In this great vally Hana wholo Stato of Iudlg,cign ————— (' Messenger, lias lately aprunz upls the ove’ (o thy huwas at uresent, und whatlior men at all epa Maguug, at ocuitt, asdcrts that primitive mit clents only saw throo colors fn the pr of-tho Nurthonly speak of threo tn the rawe Indizo, and violet ouly ks tereen occnples an futer- throughout tho resordd of untiquity only the red und vellow, 8o o 81 are apoken of, Accordiyg ta Pk painters only employed thoso (W cologd, with blaec " aud white, W ecoplag {n Lz grows fu mut! of a rlel saccharee d, when ripe and cattly aall sgreator quauti) hoof ths toas, [ the lnest wl- resort for it Ters history as mud anch as Auitly, aha b 1,000 u it no hetter o nen of lis eneref Texans. A8 TuaveLeh sight, sume du! igulsh th tinty, and ciee 1. Thius th o round tne s thy spectram, ra red, oraagh 'ho moat valued exit _either osserts that he has proved thot nefther 18 the poems of the Rig-Veda nor the Areits the Hible, the veeses ol Hamer, the Kordr or the anclont Iltereture Heandinavia, 4 any found. In fuct, tion between blue and green. whoso knowivdas of Greek s wholly uf the dplufun of . Magnus. 0 aeraston Lo sy that thuae views ura strously contested. ———— The Dishop sud tho Lo) ndon fuantlon of bluy uu word (s tu traced (u ntiy of thom 1o doslguate tho color ‘Thierolora soiny eople Miust have utisted f whow verdurs wus tot greou tor the skld Ulue. Even ot this Jay the [ubabltants of bur sk bave wreat diftfeulty fn waklug a distie of* Finlaml o to e, ulml,umi-’. well kuowus We lave by, g Cireufur, Thero are many storles current about the hl_b Biabop Belwyn, oud ajl tond 10 the ssmg e tiou, Here I3 one T s own dips, 1L wis simply Lol of the possibility ot 4 patural heard somo years ayo frnh i (ltustraton Iy heloless w40 oyercomtug the diflicultics of suddenty dadis Dlugell placed f g gy of During ou of bls expeditions along the New Zealund, Dr. sulwt;n bad given passazc b er i Daby just weaued 1 woman who bad with The voyuge was rouet, und sh lutely prustrate with seg-stcki remalned preternuturally what to do with It be o for the ollizvrs and ere Niw uwh care. ‘Lhere Wt at apy whio touk paturally to cluldeen, stalled s under-nurse, childrens aung o ] o becape b css. ‘The bab¥ Ay, wud the qu s e ol Of servils w. Dr. sclwyd the ditliealty by paking the child undet reutlce an board und he was 1o “Thy voysge hshi eleveu days, tho bishop vall, *durhne whi-b thns the wather was wisolly tucapuble of doind auythivg. 1 bad yot wued hic Ll Labv, bug with thu yssistune along splendidly, snd t the eu wue chicl didiculty was (o gl buck to fta wotlier.” what to du with of o we kd d of our Yuvars & by baby oA