Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 13, 1879, Page 5

Ay % THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY. JANUARY X n different key. It invades the sanctity of my home, and when I get throngh with this part of my subject every falr-minded man and woman who listens wil be indignant at i's atrocity, It las been rtated In private circles, and hinted at in news- papers, (hat, sixteen years ago, I wont sailing on thy Schuslkill Rver with my wifo and her gister, that the boat capsized, and that, having the vpportunity of saving elther my wife or her sster, Tlet my wife drown and saved her sfater, marrsing the latter within sixty daye, Inow propose 70 NAIL TS INFAMOUS LIE ON THR PORE- TIEADS OF 178 AUTIIONS, and herealter will Invoke tho law to punish whoever revives I [Applause,]: lers Mr. ‘Telmage produced s manuscript from which he read In substance as follows: * My sister, farah Talmage Whitenan, and her daughter, came on o visit to me at Philadelphia, In order to make (It pleasant for her, 1 sugeested & triv to Falrmount. There were In the party my wife and our daughter, and my sister and her doughter. At that time I was fgnorant of the topography of the place. When we arrived at he banks of the Scuylkill, I propused torow, and, hirinz a boat, we all got In, NOT KNOWING ADOUT THR DAM, and unwamed by the keeper ot the boat-houre, Ipuiled straicht to the brink, sus- pecting nothing until some one began wildly waving his arms én the shore. 1 looked back and eaw that we were already in the current of the dam, 1 tried to back the boat In vain. No une can ever know the agony of terror 1 suffered. We went over the dam, 1lie boat capsized, and my wile instantly dieap- peared, sucked in by the undaertow. ller Lody wos not brought out untll some days after- ward, T, NOT BRING AULE TO AWIN A STHOKE, wns haoging on to onc side of the boat. My nfece was hanging on ta me, and my sister wns hanging on to the other sfde. A hoat from the ghore reséued us, aond, after an hour of cffort at resuscitation, iy child, who was ninc-tenths dead, breathed again, A cartlage drove up, and, leaving my wife oo the battom of the Schuylkill, wo rode to ouvr deso late home. Since the world was created, & more whastly und agonizing calamity never happened, nnd ft Is of that scene that minlsters gf the Gos- pel anid MEN AND WOMBN WIIO PRETEND TO DB DEOSNT lave mode sport, My prescut wife was not within 100 milesof the place, The two were eotlre strangers, They had nover heard of each other, and not th] nlno suonths afterward did I evon know of the existence of my present wife, 1 was introduced to her by my brother, her pas- tor, tho Rev. Golng Talmoge, now stationed ot Haramus, Nod. My first wifo's nome was Mary R. Avery, and slic was @ member of the Reformed Church of South Harriman street, Brooklyn, My prescnt wife Is Susis Whitte- oro, She was a member of o church at Green Point. Multltudes saw us Iand on the banks of the Schuylkill, and buodreds who Lnew Mary R. Avery COULD TIAVE BLEN POUND AT ANY TR +4n Brookiyn. What do you think, busvands and awives, of alle like that? ¢ have never spoken «of this before, and never will agaln, and 1 give Talr notice that If any two responsible witnesacs will givo mia tho name of any responsiblo person repeating this slanler, I will pay $10 for the fo- formation, and I will put ou the crimioal vaga- bona— * IUB LOATHSOME, ACCCRSED WRETCI WRO UT- TENS 1T— the full force of the law!? [Great spplause.] Mr, Talmoge Jald down his mannseript and safd: “Withmy concregation in sympathy, end with the Llesslng of God upon me, my ten years of minlstry here have been years ot rapture. As to the future, I would nay my Ideas of scrmons have changed, and my theology lias Leen condensed Into one word— “ilelp.’ 1 want to help evervbody~in store and ltehen as well 08 i chureh. 1 want to preach Jermons that will last through the entire week, and mitigato the struggles of dally life as well as relieve the agones of tormented «onsclence,” In conclusion, Mr, Talmage an- mounced that, on next Bunday, before returning to the series of sermons on the moral conditfon of the country, he would answer one more of his critics, nnd his text would be * Nensatlonal- ism versus Btupldity,” Thls snnouncement waos procted with laughter, TIBER SENMON DY IROP. AWING, Prof, 8wing preached yesterday morning at the Coutral Chiurch, taking os bis text: And Jho’ trath sball make you freo.—John, The honor must rest upon Chrlst of haviug made the broadest statement ever made In - re- gard to llberty. That Io made suchan utter- ance In such an carly perlod of the world's thought will point out Ilis high origin. Inall times deep and trice statenents have been made over this buman condition, but these words of wisdom or eulogy lLave been epokon over sume speclal shape of political emancipatlon. Tho herty which has cllelted most remark has been rome release from despotie rulers,—the cscapo of the citizen from oppression or of a slave from bis bongage. Frecdom belnga compara- tive condition, It comes whenever a person hias escaped some form of furcible detalner or when gomie Inw is passed removing soma onpress- ive measure or custon, A Persiun congratulat- «d the Greeks upon tho fact that they vatled no man master, but were free. The word here de- rived Its worth from a slmplo comparlson of Yerslan and Greek fu somv of the relatlons of man to State, When the Soutbern black man hastened North and reachied Canada he fult the uir of Mberty, but 1t was ouly a relative llberty, ~~ay estape from one form of physical and men- tal restrafut, It sbhows how lmperfectly men have grasped the thought and fact of freedomn when wo mark what subdivisions they have made of ft fnto political tiber- 1y, religlous nberty, und {utellcetual Mbeity, Long ago, whilo we Lhink the worla was yet young in tho yuatity anild power of reflection, Christ came and 16t (ail the brosdest and truest possible utterunce over this popular, sl 1most sa wond, *And tho truth shall ke oy free.”” Hero wos o statement which woulu -Include the fugltlve sluve in tus Hight, the Per- slan 1o hils longivg for political equality, the patlosopher Jike Galllco in” bis prayer for free |huuxhi‘ thye worshioer 10 his hope of tolera- tion, woman in her demnand for lewal and morat equity, ‘Trath, {n its wide outreschilugs, would luy fts kind band uton sll furms of ubjust re- stralut, pud would b everywhere the breaklog of chalus and the opening of tvou dours, Such wak the summing up of the whote mutter by the carpenter’s sou, Wheu the Greeks were enjoyingthe llberl‘y on the Puucnmn ol which they were congratulated by the Persfan Cyrus they were atild fu the bond- aice of & falso philosopby, Not enough truth bad dawned upon them Lo enable thein to rear proverly their children, not enough to cnable theim to cousolidate and prescrve thelr State, wuut enoueh Lo prevent them from belng the vie- tims of pleasure aud yice, They wero free only from tho arbitrsry will of & *lng. Bimlisrly lnperfect was Romau freedom, A free Romen symictimes possessed Higy; or a hundred, or a thousand ulaves, thus showing that liberty bhad come to that Emplre 14 a WAL vazug outlive. Thua, all along the highway of natlous, hbierty bas only mplied some miti; lon uf some one 11, and never the Lroad and voble victory over sl talse vonditions and prieiples. Aud’ when religious Jiberty «ame to our Baxou nuccstors ft was a liberty which Knew better how to take rlghts than to Kract thew,—It was the right to ditfer with a Pupe, but not a rizht to differ with & Protest- wut Biskop. It 18 au impressivesceue to bebold Christ moving upon such a chaos aud declaring 1bat when the truth shall make men frev they will then pussess sotcthing worthy of the uame of liberty, Let us, with those words os o base, press fofwand to mark sud weasare this Wity and periect frecdom. What (s this trutn which may ocbieve auch a Juccess for all who may possess it! Truth (s & general tertn for all kuowledge, But 1s best lgolucance—ths one used by tic Bavior—Is the kuowledge of law—law of conduct and belug, Tls Jows around Corist were exolting In tho fact that they must Lo woble fredinen, becouse they had Abrabam for & father, but fn this boaat they were wt ouce rebuked b the words that, relatilia 1o on ancestor coul Lot confer any dignity, that suca digpity Yould always ceme froin s maw's selating to truth, ~iruth of couduct aud ot lotormation Luracter, on of Abrahum wight BubLode Gud to be a sumething made of woud £ brasg, or be might surposy tue curib to Luve been made for the Hebrew race, or he mizht stppose that evil must be repald with evil, an cye for an ese, or, A son of Alrabam might im- aginn workt to e disgraceful, and fdleness an emblem of rank, and thus be the most abject glavs of falec fdeas and ractices, Relatlous to truth are the relations which detcrmine at last the quality and quanty of personal Independ- ence, Innoday or part of his ife can man bear well a falae principle. So far as he holds one he 13 a slave, for we are oll the creatures of our fdeas. When the old medical sclence held to frequont and coplous bleedings, all who Jved fu that period were the slaves of an error. In the nge of Elizaheth, rome student of nature founded an argnment for despotism upon the fact that fn the most fndustriousand swise of a)l colonies—a awarm of bees—the multitude obeyed one queen, She was the_ono will, the single fmpolse. _Therefore, denucracy was against nature, and the Queen held her throne by ndivine right. Thus were the liberties of aume overthrown by abec-hive government,—an crror rising up out of a fanciful resemblance. An error of teansiating o single text, perhaps, ave tho fiest fifteen Christian centurles tho 'apal Emptre, which, most of that long perlod, was co-extensive with the elvilized world. * Upon thee, Peter, I found my Chureh," is the rendering that gave us the lorgest rellgious and political inotarchy of modern history. A slight chinnge of rendering would have given a new colorto all the bast eighteen centuries. The falka notfon that thy -earth was the central star and that all the other stars went around it, held all the astronomers in & palnful bond- age for nnn{ zeucrations. ~ But these errora uro mild In their power to work injury compared with the errors of morals. Who will ever be able to estimate the cvils that came from perscettion and from sins that stood fully justified by good but mistaken men? The world s made ‘sorrowful enought by men who do what they knuw to bo wrong, but what an adaition to this sorrow when good men swell the quantity of calamity by dolng wrong under the stpposition that they are right! Tt {s al- most certaln that Tetrel was sincere when he solil_salvation for & Ifttle money, When the 50,000 Protestants had been slaughtered In a night, the Christians who performed the mur. der rushed to thelr chiurencs to Bless (lod for such a suceess In'Hidding the world of their own and Ifis encinies, Calvin has left behind hlin full evidence that e was most sincere. [leat- tempted to do right, In presence of all these {lls, brought unon mankiud by the good, even bv the best, huw full of reason and application arc the words of Christ, for unless the (ruth comuea to make us free we shall live the lives of degraded slaves. Our {znorance of the relations of life will make us elther staves or Lyrants. ‘With the decper study of truth has come the many-shaped freedom’ of our times. In ue- coutiting for the risc.of civil liberty we always make mention of the meeting of the English nobles, and thelr King, Joln, to frame the May- na Charta. Butwe ilo this' hecause we cansce s group of men better thun we can sce the waves of truth which are sllcntly possing through the bosoms of unknown, :humble wen, And yet we know that the mectiug of Joun ond the noliles was only an overt act of that truth, which had heen "clmooring for genera- tions for & new utlerance. Twonty years be- fore this great charter or Constitution was slgned, Dante tiad, when far nwav, set info his soug the liberty which the Borons afterward ineerted into a parchment, at Ronnymeae, Be- tween this Runngniede and Florence thero lay allferent nations und languoges, and huudreda of niles, tbus shuwing us that the Hmoid water fs not auly to ho A in the lukes and brooke, but 18 to be found In all theearth under our feet, 8o truth doca not orfginate onabat field, nor {n a poet's chamoer, but 1t trick! through alt the foll of the human world, be the prople numbered by millions, and be their Jand a whole cootinent, Tt wus 8X) vears after King John, and Dante, that Luthier discovered some new freedom for religion, and it was 200 years after Luthor that our futhers declared some now Hberty for Amcriea, Thys, while you and I look at battletields and charters, and hear the ring of swords and sce some chiests of tea thrawn overboard aund say, *Thero comes ltberty," our Master lookad deéeper, ond sald that, as rapidly 03 truth ghall come to man, #o rapldly will come, emancipation, The gradual growth'ol truth is tho growth of [ndividual privitege. The tree of kuowledge and the liberty tres grow io oue garden. This truth will more and move declare the real relations of mun aud man, of man white to man black, of mau rich to man pour, of man to woman, of parent to chitd, of tivrals 1o opin- fon, of creed to virtue, of man to Uod, and (lod to man: and out of thcse successive revelntions thero witl came a Hberty, aua an equulity, and o fraternity of which at first none conld dream but a Chirlst. The men whom we sce with thelr liunds full of social bicssings, the reformers fu relizion, the Wilberforces Lringlnw relcase lo slaves, the herues whose plumes are showiug us how the frecdom of the Btate s coming by a bastlefleld, arc only polnta where the iumost trath of our world s becomine vimble. Our eyes are duil ond our imaeination weak, We e the eround best with 1ts trees and follnre and play of sunlight when it 18 Nfted up inton Dill or g inountaing but liad wo not such defect- Ive eyes and such defeetive foncy, we xhould see the world better in these foreats wlich lle so Immense, and n these level flelds whose flow- era and_gross sro unbroken for a thousaml mlles, Egually defeetive is out vielon of splr- jtual things, - We seo frécdom In s hero, or ina proclamation from a President or a Czar, but o not mark that, under these lofty landmarks, there Is a unlversal truth comin along of which cach man, each patriot, I8 only a_detached leafy A hranch trom o rusthing forest, While o patriot may be compasslng a retorm for his country, while a philsutiironist mav ho pleading for tio mannmission of slaves, while some Christ-like noul may be sccking tolerntion In religlon for Jews or the Quakers, beliold, one truth iw spreading throurn all these tongues, and has othier words for which it has not yet found lipa of sufliient wisdom snd eloquenve, “That one revelntion or discovery was the equality ol man, That Is to sy, sfter four, or five, or 8ix thou- sund years ol futelectual actlon, it war dls- covered that man white, and man yellow, sud wan red, and moan , Wiis yet only one man, and that thorefore his rights and jossibilities were one. The Clanese had not so thonght, and do not yeb su tnink, but they view themscives asa celestial racej the Hetirews did not so thiuk, for they put to death nculf' all surround. ing tribes, and thought themselves n peculiar weople, o x{:ubhnflu-c acupor adlsh that has been ever uacd by ono of lower custe, (iradually un- der such a world a new ideaof (lie ouoncss of man began to move like the hidden powers of un carthquake, and all governinents and castes begzan to tremble with the deep convutsion, The Iuens of etean, and electricity, und ruilways, sre wonderful discoveries indeed, but they must all rank sccond to the dlscovery that the wany colors of manhood nade only ong und” the samo man, When the “world began to travel and com thoughts aml works, It foumd that Eplctetus, the Ve, Wos reat fu all theelon worth as the Kmperor, that the slave /b King Cras = 3 nts of humon 1t was found powerful for the throne of that ie 5 1t was wrudually found that Eueypt knew almust a8 much as the flebrewa of morals, ond almost as much as the Ureeks of ore; and thus hus the unfoiding ol o truth run until our era tound that the black L'Ouverture and Frederick Douglees possessed the samo _soul and genius thaturged onwand a ' Weadell Plilllips, oe a Far- Ker, or & Channing, The Northern zoues con- teibuted Linneus,. Jenny Lind, Charles XI1L, whilu the coast of Africa gave a fine ot literary sng rellzious names to tbe record of human nublencss, Colng with llght hair frou the laud of wuow, or with curled bair from the land of sun, it s with one mfud and eoul all these children wove, aud, thus mectiug, they have woven by united bands sll the chuplets of lber- ty. Compared with this treedom coming from Jne spreud of s truth, how unwortby was that Diberty which csme frum relations to Abraham | How bumnble the formulas of old aristocracy, cotnpured with the furmulus from Christ ! Kiugs may emancipate subjects, bLut truth wust Orst set freo the Kine. “L hat & decp study of the truth is breaking the chains of wankind, this tact will bear witness, panely, that all the forins of liberty come ln one roup. ‘The blacks celebrate thie 15t of August Eu-cnmu on that dsy Eugland terminated the bondage of her pariof the Atrican roce; and olbier elaves, elscwhere, celebrate a certain ukuse, or praclawation; but whils thu whiteaud blyck jolitleal slaves sre thus moving out juto freedum, with equul siep the thought- ful Gallleos of scfeuce are muying away from thewr chalusi the communicunt st tho aitar 1s flymg frum the bondage ot the Church tha the thevloguan (s Hying frum his sluvery tu old opinlon; the body is (lrmu froi intew- perauce; women t8 scen Tunning from a l{runl o Und that nobler belng, & trleud. Ihus oll the shipes Of entaucipation come haml ju and. ‘Lhe peopls who repair to the ballut-box, the chowtat wod astrovumer wha ivar ko Pope, the Scrvetus who fears oo (icnevi, the womsn who fears no desvotie lord, the Chrtatlan who fears nu thumb-serew, the theologian whu feirs vo Inquisition, all Join wilth tue black wan i the uyful ruece for liberty, The diffcrence between L6 neero and thu iheolugiun Mes vuly iu this, tuat the theologlau was foremost fu the race. Tue Nosth Star of libercy shown out for all equally, ‘Il citizen started out fur it fo the thirtecntl ceutury, thu theologian and the church-imcmber started fo the sizteenth centuryy and with bim the chennist and astronomer, the slave sct out for his bew world In a later verlod, aud, fu the uiuclecuth century, wowan sdded her furmy sl sindle to the muititude, huumug out ot el gateways to seek relicl from the whip ot the luskmuasicr, Now, the shuultancousnvss of this wany- In India o man of certaln rank will not. shaped flight demonstrates that it was all com- Ing from A& common cause, And that catise muat be found in the formola of our Lord that truth was cuming {nto the warldl, and was mak- fng men free. It was one mental power and one information whizh decided ahout the power of n father over n child, # busband over a wife, a ruler over a rubject, 8 Church over a theolo- glan, a master over a slave. As the word msn expands and includes an Esquimau, snd a Baxon, end sn Africam, so the word freedom npcncc'l {ts arme and cmbraced at once a citizen, and a serf, and a plnlusopher, aud & Christian, 1f, now, God's truth 18 stch that the knowl- eded of {t in always hurryfog nanking nnni toward a better condition, then we need never fear §t, no matter from what quoarier of the sky it tnay Le coming. Trath is enly another hame for the laws of God, and ng the Jaws of steam, of ~mechanics, of agriculiure, nnd of fourd and drink, bring only a greater happiness and success, so the truthii morals and fnn Christianity will only lead men sooner or later to o better condition of soclety. It wil) make men free in the long or short de- velopment of tae plot. Having seen how personal liberty 18 springing unfrom advancing tbought, ard that Churchi and Btate stand trembling amid this rumbling of elements, lot us mark this, that all eervility 18 based upon fear, and cannot well be sustained the ideas of natural cquality and (tiendahip. Fear must have formed a latrge element in alt the old_uuity and peace of the Church and State. The obsequlousness, the fawnine of the subjeet before bis Kiug, and of the humble Christian before his Bishop or his pastor, sprang from the puwer seen in the greater by the less. It liberty and equality hiave vume to uverthrow this reverence, this trembling dread, they have notloft the world without nmull gencroua compensation, for o far aa llberty has destroyed fear it has establishied a naobler tie,—that of admiration aml friendship. Ifnan slave man onco fearea tho State, now aa & citl- zen he can love it; for the feecedom which emptied him of tread, clothed the State with beauty, and while lier vussal was being trans- formed Intoa freeman rho was hereelf belng transformed {nto sotnething that conld be ap- proved of by the highest reason, and loved by the deepest affection. The eame compenzation s coming w the domain of Christlanity, If the modern libarly of opinion and spread of truth ore iaking sad havoe of the trembling dread with which the communicant on one side the altar looked tuvard the minister, arrayed in the robes of tearning, ou the other, they are atoning for Lhis loss by chianging umnienz_vmnn. until he cn‘]uyn o respect and 8 frfendship worth mare, comine from his equals, than the adula- tion of g mlllion slavea, Whut fs lost1n fear {s gained I tha finer gold of friendship, ‘The compinint of many that men do not cher- ish the respect for Chrlstianity which men once revealed, is partly true, but more largely false. Tuis moy be ndmitted, that the multitude is now In & wmigratory condition. They are just passing out of those thucawhen all feared ‘not only 8atan, butalso God on His throne and the servant of God In the desks . What a powerful masage 18 that 1 Richellen where the Cardinal Ermz» thosa abductors to thelr knees bi‘ Lurling at them the curse of Rowe, an emulem, that passage, of the awe In which men stood in presence of overy cathedral, and chapel, and orlest, But neliher Rome nor Protestantism con hurl a curse now, Running from such a de- based nud debasiap rentfment, men will for o time be {n a disturbed oud restless foith full of the memory of past {njuries, justassiaves Il{lng North were homeless, and gimiess,and turiftiess, beenuse they had lett an old liome and Lad not yet found a new cabin with more of ground and sunlight, In this sense it may be that society at large has undergone some ‘chinnee fo its feel- ings toward the many Lrunches of the Protest- ant Church, But this disturbance I8 {ncidental and trouslent. What wos once a weak nnd sugerstitious fear in the hearts of the common peopie will indecd never return, hut fnstend well come o fricndship for the sanctuary and for tho clergyman, In the desk or by the altar, that will reuder dusplealilc the downcast oyo and “hinped " knee of the past. The love of truth which Is transforming the flock i aleo trans- form!ng the shephert: and, whereas ho once cultivated qualities which evoked fear, he will henceforth cultivate the qualitica that will clatm n publle Jove aud respect. Ae we need no arm of authority to tnoke us love the arts, as we cnn ack uo fulmination of power to make us enjoy & *day in June™ or « puge from a true: and” good book, #o It might ensily come to pass that our age or the next will go to the sanctuary not by the authority of any volce ot Church or State, but Ly order o that soul in man which makes him wish to com- muue with otber frecinen fn thinking of those things which belong 8o _solemnly to the olher side of the grave whither he Liastes, It may require a gencration to lead mon to go from o moat free and lw‘m{ hiolee to those steps up which they and all their fathers went by a form of compulsion, but the public heart will make tho ¢hauge avd will Jove the Church the more when It shall bave become a placs in which the bouner of human aud Divine fricudship shall wave In beauty, It now sume fcw forms of trnth, by penetrat- gz rocletyy are Biting up the muititude and are sotting free all, from the humblest elave to the decpest philosopher, what would at last he the destiny of us all and of our children could anly Christ's truthof a future llfo and a future joy, for the good becomo all Inwoven into viie apirits as the truth of equality has become bound up in the niections of the statesman and the peoplo! ‘Truth -bas brought fudeed n mighty emanclpation. - We walk, and_ mm, and play, and work in that sweet oir of peraonal independence, But vet, wo nre slaves! There is a ¢hain upon our handa!l We aro nll afrufdof one ¢alm and marble facel W slirink from graspiuie the one fvy hond, But could the whole truth which Clulst taught and lived outer Into our mina aud deeply color uur sulsit, then, oh whnt a freedom would come! Laving sung sll the natlonal hymuos of this lower valo, having scen the escaplne slave, and the eseaping thinker, we should sct our lips to a higher an- them, and shonld behold ourdelves, the poor sluves of sin ond misfortune, flylug to thu sweeter fields of heaven, . 1t {8 not "in tha leust probablethat Chirlst defined freadom foronlythis ife. As the sunbcams strike the esrth and thon maove beyond to tho other realms, so this utternnce of déeus strikes onr civilization here, and lo! we ace it glancing off and falllng upon the shorca of paradtse. 1ili8 truth, having emancipated here the serf, and the student, and thio bellover, and woian avd tho Nttle child, has fu‘n nubler desting ) It can cuine to ua In the sl bour and say:” ¥ Weep not, oh soull for thou art soon to bo freu!” TI113 CURSE OF DEDT. SEIMON UY TUE REV. RODERT COLLYER, The Rev. Robert Collyer, of Unity Church, preachied to n large congregation yesterday waornlng on “The Curse of Debt,"—a topic the mero enunciation of which contnlns a proposi- tion whoso truth wlil not serlously bo ques- tioned by most people, and particulatly by those who, not to speak It profancly, have been thero themselves, Mr. Collyer choge for his text the following brict but meaning Scriptural admo- nitlon Pay thy dobte,—1/, Kings, fe., 7, Thero were very few things in life, he sald, so full of danger as runnlug Into debt, Looklng st the men of Cllcago, for instance, thero wers wmore of them to-day who hail been damaged by running fnto debt than by deinking strong drink, Debt was like a chaln, bladiog fs vietim, who was too often powerless to remove It through auy ather agency than o Bankruptey Court, Ace cording to s good old divliey the best means to cecapa commission of sin, next to having the krace of God, .was to pay your debts right slong. An avgel from Heaven, ur & man risen from the dead, could not enforcs tho lessun to be drawn from this evil of running joto deb with any greater weight than could the storles of the victims themselves. Youthw, gilted and rroumluu, were overtaken by this ovil,—mot rou whuin the beat tmght bo éxpected. It had been weil 8 of “Pos that ho wus & iniitionaire who pever Lad o shilling fn s pocket, The cxamples of Jeilvrson aud Walter Scott wore particularly {mpressing, the latter wearing himself out in bhis vain endeavor to release bimacl? from the bondaze of debt. At flrst the boad was )ike a thread of golden wire, but strand wlier strund was adaed uutll it becaue & strung cable, bold- g {ts victin fte drm and gulling einbrace. 'Lhe young, who were growing up Lo iniddle syge, had ueed to firmly resolve thut they would puy their nd Lhus avoid having nothibng ut old mgo ‘aud the burden. Poor furtunes should not bo ullowed to run rivt in pleturiug out the wealth of priuces sud de- slrlng it, fur the end thereof was d The men who weig sdvoeating the present tlat money-were, a3 & ruley men who bud borrowed moucy sud couldu’s puy their. dubte, sud who would do, beodorie was mslied 1o do, debase the colu, ‘Tue steru old King, huwever, refused Lo take this course, declariig thut nothing which bore bis linagoe should cyer Jie,—1u which resuect be was quite unlike the modern Fiatists. 'Flns destre fur rupld advanemeut #9s & sowe to tbe youvg. lustead of Begioning marred Hife fu an huwnble way, they wust go tutv good soclety, ive i a m{uslun, and commit ol sorts of extruvagsnces ‘Then shey resorted to specu- Jations of various kinds w retrieye their falling furtuney, and uiteo y mude thelr c3scs ¢ien worse, The fist Cavaer lay fo spending what they ouzht (o spare, sud theu falllng back on the lu‘?lu! that they could ake mare as they speot more. There was vo greuter lessou thau thia: that, §f ooe devoured il the cura fn tae seven plentvous years, ho would ap the expiration of tbat period, lle aronnd the granaries of the prudent and Joug- sighted, unploring them for amslstance. Teu many young peonle hegan domestic tite by living on’ chicken, nnd at 1ast coming down to oatmeal, where thelr parents had started, The Vanderbilts, the Btewarts, the Astors, and most of the wealthy men of the fand had bezun_on oatmeal and let the chivken walt, and they werenot busicd [n carving out a fortune be- fore they had gotten it. The temytation to spend and then speculate was to be shunoed. It nilghit he urred that the carrying out of this sd- vice would beget narrow-mindedness, but In the majorfty of cases this was not true, The young man who hought a Bible when he conldi't af- ford it, nnd ran in debt for it, had better throw it away, for it might do more butm than gosd. People wero wont to {m.r poor Gotdsmith In his voverty, but Mr. Collyer was rather juchined to think the pity waa dus to the milkwoman and the landiady whom he kept it of thelr money for the reasun that he could make £800 by writing & natural history,—~although Johnson lhad" sald it he kbew a horse from a cow, It was al! hie d!d knos, —while tho women must o to prison for deht, 1f any young mau, in the course of his ihle reading, had'any douots that the Seriptures fn- culcated tho duty of bis payig_ his debis and owing No man_ansthing, Mr, Collyer advired him 1o sell his Bible and buy n copy of the life of Benlamin Franklin, There was ho epportu- nity for any vicartous sacrificer for this sin of running {nto debt, no mors than there waa an opportunity for the daughter of one of the ( gow Ilank™ Directors to go to prisun e Iather’s ptead, altbough she becred and b plored that she, and not he, micht tearthe punishment for his crimes. 1f people would only louk to thelr spending, the saving would take caro of Itsclf. He would urge cvery young man to _stand clear frum debt and the day wos close at hand when prosperity should dawn, Ho thanked Giod that there were many soung women left who were willing to marey A poor man and begin with oatmesl, - Boine would say that the seven plenteous years were golng to last farever, and that tbeseven years of famine were ull 8 mere dream. Let no one belleve s word of it. Buddenly the storm of financlal disaster burst, and then the prislent and the forehunded were found prepared for It and provided with their husbanded means, while the venturesome lost property and other worldly porsessions and weut down. A rellgious infiation followed a commercial, and men wanted to et relizion on the same terms as they got money, forgetting that God's cholcest gifts were Lestowed In 1is 0XD way. Io couclusion, Mr. Collyer sald he would be glad to think that some day in the future some of his hearers who nught now be In danger from the evil of which hie had spoler, would sit dowa in thelr own homes ond ray: “Well, my old minlster preached n sermon avout debt. It didn’t seem 1o have any more redigion in it than the Buok of Esther, but it ot futo my heart, and what he sald has stoyed with me from that day to this, and it did me a reat deal more good than if hie had preached what a great many meu reem to enll religion,” PARKAVENUE M, E. CHURCIH, BRMMON BT DR. M'CHESNET. “The Misston of Park Aveuue M. E. Church " was tho subject of a sermon yesterday fore- noon by the pastor, the Rev. Dr. McChesney, who chose for his text tho tifth and sixth verses of the Scventy-elghth Psalin, as follows: “And of Ziou it shall be rufd: this aud that man was born In tier, and tho izhest [Timself shall establish her, ‘The Lord ehall count when He writeth up the people that this man was born there,”” Tic said that ft was highly proba ble that the Psalm was written by one of tne descendants of Rosah, on the return from the Babvlontsts captivity, and was in pralse of Zlon of Jerusalem, called elsewhere the Lity of God, City of the Grent Kinz. The Pralm was pro- phetle, and, forecasting the future of God's Kingdom on the earth, was full of pring of tho Christlan Church. The fnspired Panlmist i not say that no evil should ever be spoken of the Church. There always had been those who bad found pleasurc in soying hard things ogalnat the Church, and that had always been one of the obstacles In the way of ILs success,— onoof tho trinla which the Church has to en- counter; one of the sunoyances which tests the patienco of the Church. Bometimes tbo pro- Sessed ctuldren of God say evil things abput the Church,—say so many Dbitter, unkind, uujust, ond oven false things sbout the Church, that observing men ore ready to wonder whother the children ol the Devil can surpass them fn that particular, But while the Church nlivnys has been subject to that trial, God counterbalouces ail by speak- Ing glorfous things concerning Mis Church, It was not his purpose st that time to preaeh anout Heaven or the condition of the Church in the world to come. The last book in the Beriptures gave them glimpees of her condition there, but they wore not there ycet, though it ‘was probable that some of those who wero incmbors of thut Church would know, before this year of grace ended, what were the experl. ences of the Ssints nbove. Uut ss a church they had a mission before them in tho prescut lifo. Dr. McCliesney then spoke ubout the atability of the Church, sud the presency ot God in alt its work. There wero men who tbonght they could im- prove on Gud's micthod who had a patent process of getting 1o Heaven without salvation, Firat of all, it was the missfon of that chnrch to be truo_to evangelical Chrlstianity. The Jot un which Tark Avewus M. E. Church stood was donuted for that burpoee, and for no other. But how was that church to promote Bible Christlanityl = An answer was already furnished them: *OF Zlon it shall be shid: Thin and that man was born fu her In Old-Testament times, When a mian was converted to the Ile- brew faith, he wus sald to have been born,— horn agaln} and Nicodemua, a Jew, knew what Christ meant when Ho sald: “Except a inan be born ogein, he canuot sce the Kingdom of dod.” The Churcly then, il her misslon wan tulfliled, was the birthplace of suul low ditferent from svime other places which might be mentioned, whero souls periah | There wero hovels und warble-fronts in our ity alike fu this, that tley were Inlleted with the dread coutuglon of ruined souls; the plague of death cternal was within their portals; thero was blood on the door-posts, hitood 1 the secret chambers where souls alrcady loat took thetr deeper plunce in the gulf of separation from tiod and goudness, When liod fevued his tnel search-warrnt for luat sonls, the angel of His s would walk with sword nud sceptre In an atmosphere ladon with the imprecations of the lost, und Jet down hls pluminet fn thot Rulf Into which multitudes bave already disap- veared, Was It siothiug 1o them that a few of the victims vnce simled in thefr homes, glad- dened thelr hearts with the prattle of their childhooa, passed the days of their tunocence in the prescuce of fomily altars, be came familfar with prayers and sonms, touk Coronation uud Ol undrod with them into outer darhuess, haunted by bitter recollections of sacred opportitnitivs gone, und now finpassable barriers prevent their cs- vape from self and slnl Awd that was aeath, All hal), then, to the chirel which planted her batterles of (fospel agency for the ovestirow of The sanctunry wis tho pluco for men to begin to live,—to bia “born by u hew celestiut Lirth s and It was titting to fuquire whether thet object had been accutuplished fn tho histo- ry of that chiurch, ‘Those who tad been longest wesociated with the chui ki L few souls had there, dn the past years, becun to live thelifo of fatth; had there felt Lic frst pulsations of life dviue. 'And some bad utready Jobied the rlorlous company of the rdvemed “In Heay How did the mewbers of Park Avenne M, E, Church expect that thelr ehildren would be con- verted there unlees they brought thelr children there, und heve them ot thelr stde, and while the Word help him he entered upon bl rst things hie notlved was the absend ongregation of many of the chlldren of church-mewbers. For the third year be was seeking upportunitics to cors rect the mistake. 1€ tho church could actus suoceed in saving the voulh of her uwn famities, it would be a great nchitvement. The church could accompilsh tier misslon only by belng true to Methoalim, Standlny, as he did, in an Arminlan pulpit, and stundiog thees of chole, becauss ho bud accepted the doctrines of froe wrace, he could bo truly lberal In scothucnt wod spiric withoat preaching Catvintsus on the one hand or Universallem or Unltarfanism on the ot did not ¢laln that bis vreed was the be ment of Christian truth extant, bug ocly that it wus the ote that be prefurred, wud so long 84 e oceuplcd that pulbit be was oblizated by every privdiple of bouor Lo detend aud promul- gate tbose doctriues, De. McChesney spoke at some length ob the doctrine, practicos, and grawtn of the Methodist Eolscopal Church, aud closed by saying that ail the work they ¢4l and every dollur they contrib- uted was their answer to the question, b Shall e lotercats of Methodism b protected lu this cumuiunity1? An wupeul was mmade by one of the ‘frustees, to the conereration, for coutribotions with which to puy §00, the smouut of futere:t due i the enurc debt,—30,00,—uod_the required s was pearky ralsl, g 1879, TIHE CHEYENNES. Hot Pursuit of the Indians Hot Killed at the Beginning of Their Bally. A Soldier Killed at Noon Yese *® terday by the Flying Savages. Another Wounded in the Shoulder at 4 in the Afternoon, The Indians Now in the Bed of & Oreek and Well Protected. Forr Roninsox, Nebh., Jan. 12.—Fifty Chey- enne eavages are stlll at Jarge, having cscaped from their stronghold rmong the blulls last night where the troons had corraled them. Thejr tral was followed this moming going northwest. The advance guard of the troops were fired upon by a party of savages AT NUON TO-DAY, who were, donhtless, covering the retreat of the main baml, killing Corporal Ure, of Company A, Third Cavalry, The other members of the puard, sceing thelr lender falling dead from his horse, shiot through the heart, charged on the Indians, who swere concealed in A rife-pit near the top of a ridge, 1n'the charge the guard KILLED ONE INDIAN and wounded another. The remaining Indlans ercaped through the heavy timber, At4 this evening the tronps had ot up with the savages, who surprised the troops, ficinz 8 volley futo their m!dat and wonading Private Hunter, of Company C, Third Cavalry, In the right shoul- der. The ravaces were Intrenchied fn the bed of & amall st The troops kept up A CONTINUOUS FIRE fn the direction where the ravages gre enpposed to be until dark, when the tiring was discon- tinued untll wornivg. Two more companies of the Third Cavalry, commanded by Maj. Vroom, left herent cark this cvening for the scena of hoatHities, carrying two twelve-potnd Napoleon guos with them. STATE ATFAIRS. Fpeciat Disvatel 8prixarigLy, 1., Jan. 11, —The Senate met this morning at 10 0. m,, & quorum belug present. A number of Benators who bad voted sgalust adjournment yesterdav until Monday cvening failed to reepond to their names when the Secretary called the roll. There was not much business to traneact. and the regular order was got through with in a few minutes. Arccord of tho absentees was made by the Beuretary, n list of about twenty belug included thercln, Senators Ford, Archer, \White, John- son, and Campbedl wure granted Jeave of ab- sence, ‘The President presented s petition praying for equality fn medical practico from persons who denominate themselves the physico- medlcal school of medicine, aud asking that the (overnor’s appointinenta in the State Board of Health be not contirned until thetr school s represcuted. The petition woa referred to the Committee on State Institutions. New bllis were futroduced, as follows: By Mr. Fuller—Fixing the time of holding the Couuty Court of Buone County In arch, July, and December, 3r. Bash wtroduced a bill upon the subject of real estate, tho vruvisions of which Jtmit the commission of brokers and auctioneers for sell- tng real estato to 23¢ percent of the value In cases whero there 18 no contract, but allowiog the same rate In both pieces of property ln cases of an exchange, Bir. McDowell introduced s bill amending the 8chool law 0 a3 to provide that Township School Treasurers shall hold oflice two years lostead of one, Eeveral attempts were wmade to ndjoorn to meet nealn this afternoon, but without suceess, ‘The order of bills on fest reading bavir been disposed of, and no business being Leforo that budy, tho Senate adjourned to meet at 8 o'clock Mouday afternoon. ¥ ASCECLLANEOUA, @en, 1. C, Bmith, the new State Treasurer, has fied his ofilciat bond with the Be Tetary of State, Itisin tho penal sum of 85,000, the surcties belug Frank W. Tracy, Chories W, Matheuy, Ioward K. Weber, [t‘lumlsm \Wolf, James 1. B, Ealter, Samnel 0, Jones, B, D. Lawrence, Floya K. Whittemore, George M. Brinkerhoff, mna Wilitain McCague, Attached to the bouus are acknowledgments by thess_gontlemen, who swesr thut they are worth, above all Liabilitles, the sums placen apposlte thefe nawes, a8 followa: Frank . Traey, $140,000: C. "W, Mathenv, £50,000; A. R, Weber, 82,0005 C. Wolf, $20,600; J. B, D, Sulter, LOou3 Saruel I, Jon 100,000 itheuna D. Lawrence, §30.0005 I White- mare, $25,000; Georee M. Brinkeraoft, §40,000; Witlsam McCatrue, £33,00. ‘The bond has been approved hy the Goavernor aud by Judges Cruir and Sheldon, of the Su- prome Court. Jumes 1, Slade, Buperlutendent of Pube Instruction, has aleo filed his bemd tn the sum of 8,000, with Marshall W. Welr, Abram Giooding, Charles Gooding, M. °T. Stoukes, Juseph Penn, Chorles Lind, anad W, M, Andor- fon ag suretics, and it has boen approved by Goy, Cullom, ‘The Judgzes of the Supreine Court made thele usual formal call on the (Jovernor ut noon to- day, according to thelr custorn whenever they are in sevston here, and indalged In o friendly smoke and chut with his Excelency, ‘The flual returns from the recent speckal elee- tion fo the Fiitv-ttrst Distriet were received thia afternoon, showing the cloctton of Judw W, V, Eldrudge, the Republican candidate, bv €63 ma- Jority. ‘The vute was finmadiately canvaseed, ond the certificate irsued to latt, thus wiving the Republicans auother vote fu the House, WISCONSIN. Hpeelal Diapasch (0 The Tribume, ManisoN, Wis, Jan, 12.—The ndvent of Rene ator Matt . Carpenter fnto Wisconstn to-mor- row evening, on the traln frum Chleago, s bo- ing urrunged by his mansgers with & view to a fenatorlal effect equal fn its artistle combine- tion to Artemus Ward’s *“dvive (o slow wooste.” - The Ziones correspundent has been called home from lero to sccompany exe Senator Carpenter from Chicago. A earefully- written telegram fs to be sent back from eacts station on the routs after passing tho Htate Jine, the tenor af which will ba that the Bade- ers ary all ecstatic for Carpenter. A lew hoots are to bu mugnitied to tumultuous cheera, A few Irionds standing ou the platiorm stamnp- ingz their feet are to be heralded ua denso mul- titudes blocking up the trains and producing o risu In the thermometer by their hut zeal fur the cleetion of Matthow, llis progress is to be an ovation sixty wiles Jong. The hankering Seu- atur 18 to leak o few tears of erstiude for this uncxpected uprisiog of his triends,who, like the tullors of ‘Vooley street, aro to be, fur the nunce, the peoplo of Wisconsin. All thisisto hedone up I the T.mes with an cxtra prelude of headlius alliteration heraldiug the guest andjcntbuslasm In a horn,—the fuk-horn of the Zimes man, Previous to bis arrival here, & trafn Is to run out from Miiwaukee, A Irce ride, free demi- John und cigars will A1t with a nolsy band of clagucurs, and as this trulo stoj-s st dntermediace stutlous thess festive claqueurs aro to swarn out on the plutforms und sup- ply a llbcral amount of clumorous hwperted cuthuslasm fur the ex-Sevator, ‘This Milwaukeo crowd I8 to recelve him at Madl- sou with ol tho appllavees of counterfeit gust and s; cetacular e Ali this [s to be bruited v the Tima and Milwaukee papers ai proof that Wiscunaln is just solid for Carpeuter. - The sirls to bo filled with shouts of “The Kiug shnil have his own ugain!” and the readers of theee juuruals ars to believe thay Matthew I3 10 be electod with a drunken sud tore ded lisious gust than that which usbered in tho restoration of the good-natured, cusyevirtued Charles thie Bocond. Al tins will nat fool & s~ ¢ls oue of the suild-bealed Bolous of Wisconsiu, s . & K. VinG A, Ricusoxy, Jau. 11.—Tou House to-day, after three dava' discussion, sdopted the Seuato res- olutlon providing fur & confcrence with the Btute creditors. The preamble, huwever, was wmendid to st fortl the buprseticabitiey of in- crensing the rresent rate of taxation In foth ance of any plan of settlement dectierd npon the conferin: s, but espreasnzanxioty ta dn conalstent Wity wht Is belleved ta be the ing § est of the 2tto and her ereditore, onIo. Corumprs, O., Jan. 11.—In the Senate, a bill was fotroduced to make it a felony for banking houses to make uee of private denosits. In tho House, bills were Introduced to repeal the Dog Tax law: giving the Bachelors of Arts nnd Belonces the samic privileges s Masters in vating for College Trustees: and to require s popular vote for all improvements except slde~ walks in villages uf Jess than 5,000 populativn. NEW YORK. Aunaxy, Jan, 11,~Monday evening the Re- publican members of the Legislature will nomi- nate a candidate for Unlied States Senator, FIRES. AT EVANSTON: ILL Boscial Dispateh tn The Trioun Evaxstow, 1L, Jan..12.—A little afteril o'clock Saturday night the restdencoof Prof. Louls Kistier was dlscovered in flamee, and within one hour and a half was almost totally consumed. Tha fire originated frowm a defective flue. There was an insurance of $3,000 on the house, $2,000 on the furniture, and $1.000 on the Professor's books. A good portion of the furniture and Look: saved. A bungling jub or the part of the Fire Department hias created comment, The two rival hose rompanles of the town, In their effort to reach tho scens of the fire fi-at, forgut to sound the alarm from the englue-house to the Water-Works, and, upon attempting to ure thelr lose, after golng the interventng Iuulf-mile to the fire, were un- abic to abtain a flow of water. A inan was im- medlately diseatebed to sound the slarm, but a lung deliy was forced upon the company. recinl Disoatch 1o The Tribune. Evassray, 1L, Jan. Two more louses were destroyed by firo ih Fyantton to-nizht. ‘They were situated on lancoln street just off Rideo avenue, and were the property reapective- v of one_Nick Kowre and a widow, Mary Daupre. The flre was discoverail ahout 8390 in Bowre's kitchen, aud, an hour later, both his house and that of his uctehbor, Mra. Dauore, were burned toashes. The wind that prevailed only allowed the rescuc of n portlon of the fur- niture. There was o (nsurance, Bowre’s loss i3 £3,000. Widow Daupre's {3 $2.000. This fs the fifth fire for Evansion witbto a fow days. AT DAYTON, O, Diyrox, 0., Jan. 12.—The distillery of F. A, Behwill, in thls city, was buroed last night ‘Tho cause of the fire is unknown. -Tue dam- ace to the bulldine will amount to 83,000, and to the alcohol works, which wera totally destroyed, $50.000. Insurcd fu the Buf- fulu, Germania, Merlden, Faneall Ifall, Farmers' ot Cinclnuati, (,ll{ of Richmond, Richmond, Va., Melville of Massachuscits, ~Granite of Richmond, Va., Companics for 81,600 cach. AT NEWARK, N. T. NEwAnK, N. J., Jan. 13.~At 12:30 this morn- ing a fire broke out in Hauck’s Hudson County Brewery, at Eust Newark, The brewery and all the butldings connected with it were totally de- stroyed. Two steamers from this city were prowtly on the ground, but could render no asejstance for want of water, The firc commu- nicated to adjotuing builaings, and ut this hour (1:30) s atill raging. AT BIRMINGIIAM, CONN. Binuiscuay, Conn, Jov. 12.—A fire Tast night destroyed Hull's brick block, the 1esl- denco of Frederick {lull, o bullding owned by Tlenry Sommers, and badly damaged two ad- jolning houses. The lors on buildings and to occupants wos §100.000; [nsurance, 35,000 ilentz & Co., clothing: ¥. 1. Brewster, dry ;zuudl: end Frederick” Hull were the beaviest osers, AT FRANKLIN, O, CINCINNATL Jmn. 12.—A (azeite rncclal says Levt Cralleson's storc-house at Franklin, O., containing 100,000 feet of lumber; Vail's livery stuble, with four horses, severnl wagons, and buuzgtes, and Vail's dwetling sdjoinine, burned lnst uight, Thu joss 18 eatinated ot ¥5,0005 in- surance, £5,04), i S Y THE WEATHER, WasiNaroy, Jao, 1d.—Indications For Ten- nessec und the Ohlo Valley, slightly wanner south-west winds, falilng barometer, cloudy weatlier, possibly Hght rain or suow, For the Upper Mivstssippt and Lower Missour) Valley, southwest veering to cooler northwest whuds, with rising barometer and ¢lcar weather. Yur the Upper Lake Region, falllug fullowed by ristog barouieter, routhwest winds, cloudy vr partly cloudy weather, and occusfonal leht s00W s, For the Lower Lake Region, xouth and weat winds, cloudy weather, possibly oveaslonal snow, stationnry or higher temperature, and talling baromceter. LOCAL O ERYATIONY. _ Eicago, Jaa 1 _ OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. BostoN, Jun, I%—Arrlved, the Bamaris, from Livernool, v Naw Youx, Jan. 12.—Arrived, Batavis, from Liverpoo), and Reludeer, froin Brewon. Hadoung, Jau. 13.—The stcamoer Wieland, from New York, bas srrived, ‘' ENGLISH SERFS; To the Lditor of The Tribuns, Dexven, Jan. 8.—In your |ssus of Thureday last, under the alarwing heuding ** English serfs," Is an orticle caleulated to leave a very fal pression on the wminds of your readers. Will you allow 3 vagrsul Engllshan to answer you aa sliortly as tho usturs of the cass will per- it ‘To your very firit statement 1 must take ex- ception. The present dlstress $n Englaud suwong thy working clusses Is confined to our Ereat centres of waoulacturiug industries, such us Shetlleld, Bolton, and Manchester. Juduing at least frum the reports, tha pusels arriculiurul districts, such as Hampshire and Wiltshire, ure enjoyiog e biessed Immunity from the geversl vrivatiuy, the result ot the universal dupression ol trade. - 1 um iree to admit, however, that your griev- ance ' 50 waaiury one, Thi condition oi the Cuzlish luborer docs leave very much 1o be de- wired, aud bis posttion, so fur frowm improving with the rapid advaues of wealth and civillza. tion which this century has witnessed, trows yearly worse. You endeavor to ind the expla- naton of tebs socal upenomenon Ju phe system. It vevins Lo Ine that YOU nig Wrolg, thal it inay besmore fustly referred to Bhe buprovidence of the class, and wore varticulary.to extrancous cuuscs winch at present julluence the production awd aistrlution of weulth m Englund. A nvstean of peasunt proprictoreliup li hupossts ble in & country iike England, where population 1a £0 dense and acreage sn small; noe nader siich clrcumatances would the soll be nearly as pros ductive ns at. present. cotintry that small farms are eaten up by their expenses, and cannot compete with large farius. | Were all the land in England to he de- clared free tomorrow, or parceled out in equal portions to tho _laboring classes, tho cost of production would increars enormously, the ‘prk-o of provisions would rise accordingly, and would be’ the resnit. You Instance France ta show the beneflelal effects of peassnt proprie- tarship, but you must remember that, in pops Jation and acreage, England and Franco are § inveree ratlo, and you must also consider tt different natore of crops snd climate, Tt tulture of the vine, the olive, and the orane rerlmu an amount of fostering attontion whict only a proprietor can be trusted to Flva‘. it i far different with our asgricuitural products, England Is essentlally a manufacturing, France an agricultural, community; to compare the condiffons of existence of theses two would- be mA reasonable a8 tonp})ly the spme law of na- ture alike to field aud factorg. Laod laws and syatems are powerless to advance the Britist laborer, but he can powerfully work his owe ralvation by Increasad prudence and industry. Tu Norway, Sweden, and, I belleve, Switzerland no peasant {s ellowed to marry unless he cat prove to his pastor that hefsln a position te support a wifeand family, but with us In En. gland the pauper father of ten children s look- ed 1pon as & =subfect for pity and for sympaihy. Then, too, we are_reapioz tha fruits of tie most_{nlquitous syatem of poor laws ever framed, 1f they were directly devised to en- vourace fdlences and destitutton, they were in- deed masteroieces of statesmanship, ‘There are two laborers, A and B. A js prudent and in- «duatrious, and when his working days are past finds that lis eavings are sufficient to sccure Jifm a small annuity, just sufliclent to provide him with the bare necessarics of life. Bis drunkard aud a spendthrift, and finally has to lie supported at the expense of the cammunni. What wooder, then, tuat A conciudes his thrift nnd Industry were & 1nlstake, since in the end they procure bim no erenter comforts than fail 10 the share of his dissolute neighbor Bi Trulv onr poor laws set a premium ubon Idleness and fcprovidence. It seems to me that the poverty- stricken condition of our English laboring clarscs {8 owing to three great enusea: (1) The great fncrease of population. (2) The extonsiva introduction of machinery. (4) The fmmense tuvestments of English capltal abroad. ‘Tlio effect of the trst ca i8 to ralte the prico of food so that unless a proportlodal riso of wages cnsues the labarer grows daily res, ‘The effect of the second cause {s to diminish the demand for lavor, Thavks Lo tha Introduc- tion of machinery, few hawla can now do the former work of muny. This has the eflect of flooding the labor market, and the result is & fall {u the price of ware, Vrobably the third cause operates the more powerfully, For the Just twenly years Eoglish capital hina been flowing out ot the country in an ever-Increasing streaw, India has drained us, Amerfea has had her share, and the Eu- vopean natlonal debts bave gote up from sn uggregate of 4)0 milllon pounds to nearly 5,000 mlllious, andl of this colossal sum by far the greater part has been contributed by Eugland. 1t 1s not to svatems, to constitutions, or forms of government that we inost jook to ameliorato the condition of the workiny clarses; it 18 toa more general diffusion of Intelligence, orudence, ond enterprise, Your obedient servunt, Monctox FEWEN, AMUSEMENTS. Mis# MINNIE HAUK AND TIE CHICAGO FIRE. To the Editor of The Tribune, Your Vienna correspondent, in a letter -dated Nov. 21, 1871, while describlng tho beneflt per- formunce oiganized by Mlis Minple Haouk, wheteby 4,000 florins were realized and sent to the Chieagh Relict Society, used tha follow- Ing tanguage: *If ever the varying fortune of the artists who remembered Chicogo In lier dise tress sfiould bring them to that city, 1 fee! con- fident that tho bread which they cast on the wa- ters of charity will come back to them more than ten fold," etc. Miss Mionlo Hauk, tbe eifted American prima donna, appears to-night fu Y Carmen,” 1 have no doubt but that the large audicnce at Haverly's will bestow on her the beartiest applause, which lier great talonts richly deserve, but the large majority ot our Chi~ cago peaple who cannot be prescntat Haverly's ehouki alsoremember that they owe Miss Haul a debt of eratitude for the spontageous and cu- crgetic Initative takon by her while In Vienna In all of the sufferershiy the Chicago fize. The writer of this was In Vicona at the time when the news of the grest catastrophe renched there, and e can testly that Miss Minnle llauk wos the first Lo coma forward and tako steps towards raising 1unds for the wuilerlog Chicaguans, She had many diflicultics to coutend ogaivst, but, like a true and brave-hearted Ameriean girl, rhe overeame them ell, nod succeeded in reas lizing 4,000 floring by a bonefit performance aiv- en by her and several members of tho Roval Opera-Houso whose oid slie sucereded in enlist- ing. It ls but due er thet we should rewem- her this now, whew she has come (n our midst, and show our gratitude In some such taneible way 08 not only her great talents, but also her great act of charity in time of our need, des serves. Yours, Groea. ITER MAJESTY'S OPERA. New Yons, Jan. 12.—A train of eight ‘spe- «Inl palace cars, under the supervision of Sam- uel Carpenter, General Eastern Passenger Arent of the Pennsylvania Railroud, bearing the Ma. pleson opera comwpany of. nbout 300 persons, started from Boston at 8:80 last night en rooto for Cnicazo, Tho train was transferred from Harlem to Jersey City by tho steamer Mary- Iand, and the pasty Jeft the Iatter place sbout G o'clock this morning, with the cxpectation of muking u remaviably quick run, tus intention Imln;;[m reach Chicaigo at an early hour Monday moralug, Mr. Huverly eocelved a telegram last evening fromn Mr. Mapleson, dated at Altooan, Pu., in which he states that everything Is in lirst-rute onler, and that the traiu s maklng epleadid time. Tho compauy left Thiladelphia at 1L o'click, and reached Altoona at a quarter past % 'Ilie party witl reach Chicaxo this morning at sbout 10 o'clock, Mr, Iaverly has been ot coustderable expanse and poins to render his theatre worthy of the opentuy this evenlug The auditorium hus underzona quite o truns formation {n the last few days in the shape of Ireah enrpetime, upholstering, glidineg, andorber decorations bafittin hlo audleace, psasinhde i e ‘When the lins are dry or scarred, When the teeth aro dark or duil, Wh*n the tougne ix hot and burd, And fll1x tha talnted mouth tow {ull, viook enpulr. Is heford It iiy. BUSINESS NOTICES. Chaw JJankson's Tieat Rwant Nnvy Tohaoeo. T cATAmIL K osterior nital o'at tu ached by actlve rauiment. noatrily” suterlorty resches thi not. be dona in U110 Inauner showa sbove, This nstrumient, ehiering Tho rael-sasal cavity” (rour beitud, 1rows & werful stream furward oul of both nostrils, ain joves wl bice every particle af sacretion. {pon co tiie (roper Beallug reicdios take' tustant Ettect. Lhils trewlincut bus bech mlanied fo hew Yor a4 Naw Engiand, sud IIIWFIWM all_other methods, i iy the Invention of Dr. Williainso, foruerly Chnical Pysician in te Modicai Licparioient of the alversily of hew York y lm;,ul"'llu-anuumu an Nusdl Cao arrh i Catarrhs) eafnest. ™ gtc,, civ. The roport SF e R Yore hubsa eal AF Yailiucs for i Willlativn's. thoroieli elaitslnis " from et AT LA TN ina ¢ %G reatinent coumuced. "This ttvaiinent 18 now fotnsiiced hers for the Brat i [ Kruat Dumber uf cisvs I licafucsa cauwd ¢ thelr et marked luiprosement tou sime. Dir. Wil tlie tuveutor, will bs plsiwd 1o ronue, 143 It wil eradic see tiiasn futeresied u ihe saijece o Eas Madisonat ., dally from e o I fry 1 35 REWARD o v 0 SECHTIONS, FINPLES, BloTel FRECK LES, MOTH o (e fare of U R . uud every LADY oF Gin? NiCUN SUEKEM) \( % Rg\finrl warmicss. 1 Pru Packacg : e rou 33, Sold Uy Drige 1-1a 01 bl by beaih Ol eI WT DRI, B ANk G WG Ve, cucasa e 3 the com ;A ceitalis cure fr ail s, Bl pusidnc’y o thie 1t i proverbfal in our - doubt _nota national famine -