Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1879, Page 9

fho Metnodist Ministers Take Up tho Chinese Question, And the RBaptisis Ave Appealed to by the Michigan Avenue Churche of Prosbytery---Troubles in Meoting ¢ the Hollands Church, Aonnal Eleotion of the ¥, M. 0, A~ teroating Btatistics, TIE METHODISTS. The Methodists held their recular weekly meetfug yesterday morning, Presiding Elder Wiltinge I the ehalr, The Rev. Mr, Wheaton wns given leave to resent the caso of the chureh at Muplewood, and atated that M. W, 8, Jolinson, of this city, ot agreed to give them a lot 103 fect front whenever they were ready to put up a bullding yorth $2,000, Thg church membership was yery good, but ths present quurters—nn old school-house—were entirely juadequate (o thelr pceds, nmed what they wanted was financial atd fo the effort to secure the amount required to pit up the bullding. Whlle the preachurs wero discussing the advisability o} loenthig a chureh at Maplewood, ‘nnd severnl regretted that thy ubject could not besufticlently discussed amd at. the samo’time o [nstice to the order of the day, the Rev. Mr. Clendeondng, who was alown for & paper uiving n review of Dr. Bushneil's surk on Vicarious Sacriflee, urose nid explatned That, in s huste to catel the cary ho iind Tots s manueerint ot home. Phe explanation wag receiven withgome merriment, and, on motfan, the pentlemuiy was requested to bring his paper xith htm next Monday morning, "fhe coualderation of the chureh project was agaln taken up, aml, affer the enuncintion_ uf *xar'ous Yiews s to the matter of location, Dr. homas aud _Elder Boring insisthyg that this watter of planting churches wus cone of the wmost Important things a relizious denumination 1ad to eoustder, the whole sublect wus _referred 1o an adyisory conmittee consisting of l’mshllnf: Euder Willing, Elder Borimg, and “the Rav, M. *. Parkhurst, 2 Aleter was read from Otls (ilbaon, of Califor- nlsy lulrmlm'hléc 1, U, Iausbro, advince-ngent for Chan Pak Kwat's lecture on * The Real Chi- nese Question.” The letter stated that Chan wasa Clirfstiun Chinaman,—n dovelopment of {temisston to tLe Cuincse in Colifornin,—and jhat he was desirous of “defending bis people scalust the many falso charges:so persistently mado by antl-Chinese adyocates,” My, Housbro explained that Chan was coming Ao Chicazo to lecture In some of the churches, Hewoulll' be nccompanied by Mr. Gibson, who pad beew rlandered by (he wewsprpers wil varued fo efigy, amd ho'was prepared to present {lie gitestlon with a good deal of ublily from the Chinese standpolnt, A small tee would he chargedd for admission, in order ta puy teaveling expenses, but he desired 1t understood that {8 w43 ho nioney-taking scheme. The Rev, Mr. I'avichurat thousht 1t a erand opportunlty to get at the truth . and sllence the nowspaper slanders of the past fow weeks. Ilo went on to say that the papers wera barping on the eharere that the 8ix Companies brougut over Chinamen fn acondition of fnvoluntary servi- en m'c?' publishier who printed that t knew ff. was false, or ougnit to know fi e was properly Informed on the pubjeet. laving nttered the He, however, they stuck to I, aepending on thelr digoity to sustain them, The Rev. Dr. Edwarda rémarked that Tig Tmnuse ubont a week ago published an inter- atlug futerview between Chan and its Des Sloines correspondent, fn which the former hud @ven what the speaker considered a fafr nud fruthtul statement of the great question wow before the people—a question ea which the politiclons und their newspapers tad been having thele say, without the odier tide, with few exceptlons, helng properly reore- snted, Hewns u tavor of the lectures, wnd tusted that they would be well nttended by ails who desited to be informed on tis question. After sume furtier talk the following Com- mittee was appointed to maoko the necessury wmangements }nr the delivery of Chon's lecturés foeonie of the churclies: South Side, the Rev. Dr. Williamson umd_the Rev, A, W. Pattens West 8ide, the Rev, Mr, Caldwell, the ey, 8, H. Auamay, aud 1he Rev. 15 W, Thomas; Norh Sile, the Rev, M. M, Parkhurat and the Rov. Babiert 1. Sheppard. The meoting then adjourned. TR BAPLISTS, The Baptist minlstera mee yesterdoy morning at No 71. Rundolph street, the Rev. C. E. Hew- fttin the chalr, The Rev. C. 1, Kimball and the Rev. Mr. Tto- bart sketehed the sermons which they had ureached Sunday, The Rey. Dr. [lewitt read a paper on the feachings and charaeter of Christ, He éxplained that the artiele was erlginally prepnred for de- Hvery hefore the Liberal League of Miuneapo- Y. The paper flrat called attention to Christ asthe eon of pour purents, surrounded by poor wd common people: yet He counctated the most perfect and the purest of moral codes. The Gistinguishing eharacteristica of Christ!s teach- fogs were thelr grandeurs and simplicities. Uy words wers fow und shmple, Wt they reached (ho helghts und tounded the depths of morality. His words formed but a small part of the Book. Aside from thie Sermon on the Mount thero was ugth- ing that grsumed the proportfons of u formal Uress, Ho recognized the caoubllities of men Yesund all other tenchers. 11fs teaching was are In every respoct. ‘Fhere was no temporiz- Ing with the stns of the day. His words were pecullarly peneteating und positive, eatting the Hnsof men o8 with o two-edeed sword, Ho sooke with uuthority und reading Hy never 4d tu stop to welish 08 between this or thint pro- Fortlon, but His answer came reudily wid with ibe 1ositivencss of uuthorlty, Ilis favorite ex- tressfon was: + Verdly, verlly, I say unto vot," His words wero not nartow uinl for the existing ¢, but catholle ml for ull time. ‘The Yander of thls was thub it camu from 8 unlearned maon, His - teaching wos It an claboration nor vepetition of the Old Trstament. 16 wos e uew creatlon, reaching @t gver ground not therctafore reached by any Daster, living or deud. 108 [uw wos to the ok 1 gg 0 1vie iman Lo’ a dead ody. What was bind und confused fn the OId was made plain l;nl onlerly "f' this wonderlul teacher. As to e ellect of His tenching, ono need only com- "0 lhe averagza believer (n [lis wawla” teach- ‘8 with the ‘ayerave follower of Budha, Ma- b net, Confucius, umd the other great religlous eechiers of 1he world. The paper then weut on 1o a%0te frem tho Jiibliothua Suera o stiow that thepticiem was decliniig, Thiero had been o Tt changeo fn the feellng In the great Gorman b Formerly the - skeptical lects fll-mmna wero vrowded, nnd tho Ihelous Jeoturcs deserted, Now tho Bherss was true, Another thing showlng “ penetrating power of Christ’s tenchings was b 1act that Ils words had, within a fow years, e translated fnto 120 fanguses wnd diul- l«!l- The tegehines of the New Teatament wero “of o king ta latter the average wan, They I lim thut he was a sioner, nud_ must chango ’ulnmdv of lifo or surely die. Yet in spite of e} devunclations of sln, 1t mado s wav to bot'y heart, whether savoge or civilized, b ratea il Plato, teachiers of their time, had o ieeriea of wars for thelr teachiigs, ‘Thoy Inplk Ot the feot of other tenchers, had yareled extenstvely, aml recetved all the ad- vfl"fia"‘“ of the leumlufi of the day. Chrlst, e Inu other land, had but three years for i 11is doctrifies, and find never beon out s littla country, nor becn tausht by any toucy Witz to o lack of thio the poper us ching Chirist's character was cut short. r. Midner, representing s Committes of the [t {;nu Aveyue Baptist” Church, asked that ynoroiference recommiend that cach churel Yoy it o connmdtten ot ong luymou and the hnurf{ the chureh to confer with the mcine wu'f the Michizan Avenue Church In regard ) ul:- fanclal diflleuitics of thy suelety, Tho AUest way wranted, ail it was arranged that Waunfeeence should bo held Friday afternoon 0 0 v'claclc at the Michigau Avenue Clinreh, s ltev, Q. 15, Davis, of Cincinuntl, was fi- I.m,u““" Ly the Rov. Mr. Howltte e suokio 1 Yol tie work tn that elty, 4‘::‘1}4“”' Mr, Yerren, of the Committee ap. e utaformer meeting, roported the fol- M“D:E‘l{t‘lxxlullulxt, which wero unsuimously oeiversities, W " 'ho oy, J. W, flllllll‘l D. D., has t.E(mh s hispastoral chinpga of the Michizan Avenua \ 8Ld ¢xpects 1o leave our city und Confur- Reanpa S0y duy s rsg o cdr M0t we, hiw infstorial brethren, ex- Beschey SPEreciation of hiy emincat abiittic ns ey ok 208 arduouy snd faftufal luhors for i g uEd the canso of Chrlut wilh us, In Lis ro- Vit @ feal that o lusa o truo [riendy o Goud " iud oug who haw ever taken o deew Jutor- tryun, e proviicrity of the: Confersuce, Our Lugresiid beat wisnes wiil follow him in ihe et We stintl over think of him osone whom W10 luvo uu a servunt of Jusuw Chriat. % “¥aral members spake featingly of tho pleas- 3soviution with Dr, Custls, of bis great 1. } THE CHICAGO RIBUNI: TULSDAY, MARCII 18, 18 WIilLVEL PAGES. trinis in bis carge of the: Michigan Avenuo Chureh, H Dr. Curtis responded, thanking the Confer- enea for the kindly good-wiil expressed, He A not believe i resolutbong, eapecially in h‘l inn his behalf, because he dil nob deserve hem. PRESBYI'ERY. The Chicago resbytery hetd an adjourned meethyg In thelr rooms In MeCornick Bluck yea- terday at 10:80 a. wn, the Rev, W, C. Young in tho chal The Rev. Mchsrs. 0. V. Doddge, of the San Francirco Preshytery, Robert Beard, of Indinna Presbytery, ntud G, H. Folsom, ol.the Wisconsin River Methodist Cunferencs, were, on notion, Invited to uet ne corresponding members, and the Rey, J, MeAllister was dismissed to the Fresbytery of Dubuque. A letter was read by the Seeretary from the Rev. J. G. Vorter, of Dupage, resigning the care of the church at that place on necount of de- climng years aud 11k health, ‘The resignation was aceepteds ‘The auestion of the trouble in phe Holland Chatren was then taken up, und reumrlmblu stoto of aflalrs was hroueht Lo ll2iit, One of the clders in the Hollatd Church rose il heggredd (lse Presbetery to take some acton which shoutd prevent a repetltion of the dis- ful secnies of lust Babbatlr, Lierenpon rose a deacon of the samo flock, and eharged the previous speaker with helng the Teader of the faction whiel caused the dis- turhance. It nleo trunspired thut the forwer clder had threatened to Kill several of his* opponents, und glve themn immediato opportunity to test ~ the Colvanistic doc. iriiea before a court of lnst appeats ‘Phie bel- lgerent ekder then proceeded to tnke posecsston of the Sundny-school, the Buperinteudent of which effccted n hasty exit by the winduw, re- mariing, 08 heaseppeared over the slll, thut } ho wottld rather breal his leg than be killed,” The }mamr hod likawise ealled the minority lars rom the pulpit, In view of this unseemly conduct, the Rev, ra. Worrall sl Blackburn and Elder Walters were appofnted n committee to fnqulre Into the faets of th ¢ and report to the Presbytery at 1ts next meethyg, 'The Rev, J. M. Worrall way n{nmlmull to preside over ihie mectingg of the sessfon of the churel, and the Commitees on Houme Misslons * was instructed to notity the Rev. 8. Rederus, who las been supelying the paloit of, the churel), that the Pn-ab{;wry conld not countenance g further ' preaching untll the troubles wero definltely settled. ‘The ley. J. H. Trowbrldee announredto the mecting the burning of his chureh at liverside Sundny nwrnlne:. le helieved that the Insur- ance wonltl futly cover the loss, e Presbvtery then adfourned until the fleat Monduy of April, IE Y. M. C. A The avnunl election of the Youne Men's Clhirlstian Association was held last evening in the lower hall, In the absence of President Iarvey, Mr, B, G, Kelth was eutled to the chalr, After Uhe rendingof afew verses frum Galatfans, sy and prayer, the Chukr ealled for the report of the Board of Managers, whicti, not being fortn- camlng, was passed over, ‘The Sceretaey, Mr, Hemingway, reported that the recular tickes wag elected for the ensuing yeur, us Jollows: Lrestdent—11', W, Harvey. First Vice-President—0, 8, A Second Vice:Dreslaent. Trensurer— Recording St Correspondlng liolils over, . Managers—] copal Chureh Sprayue, . Forsytho, etary—d. L., High, Bucrotary~A. 1% Hemingway, @, Kelth, of the Reformod Eplas Niam Deering, Methodist; Genrpo K. Culver, Congregationnl; W, 11, reayy Proese byterian; Jolin 11, Dwizat, Eplscopai; W. 1l Hol» den, laptiat, holds over. The following resolutlon was unanimously adopteds . Lerolved, That thia Associntion earncstly and Deartlly npprecintes the valuahle services rendered by e President aua the Toard of Manngers, dnr- the yeur Juet closings that it fa our beltef that at progresa hus been made in all the depart- menta of “tho work of the Assuelation; taat tue fatnre of fhis orzanization appears 10 e very Urlght and promy and that wy hereby pivo our ratefnl acknowledements to these gentlemen, hoping that their services may be continued for ot leaat another year. ‘The Committec on Constitution reparted sov- eral amendments to the fundumental Iny of the Assoclution,—admitting pastors actively en- waged i this clty without payment of member- ship dues; Hmiilnyr the opge of ofllcers to 50 years fostead of 45, as {t is now addlug the ‘Trensurer to the Board of - Manngers; to mako the fiseal year correspoml with the ealendar, years repealing the clanse requirhyg the Trens- uree togivon bhond for 82,0005 und malking dew minor chauges relating to (he tine of hold- ing'meetings, mid the election of ofticers to sue- ceed those wlio may resicu. According to thie rules, the report gaes over for three months. . The Carresponding Sceretary presented a brief statement of the worls ot ‘the Association durlg the past montl, as follow: Total noon meetlngy, 245 total attendance, 10, - 4105 requenty fo1 praver, 1305 evenig_mctings st our ruoms, 85 attendance at aame, 315§ tospel femperance meetiugs, 85 atiendunce ut éame, 8ol personal requests for prayerat sume, Gl Biblo. readings by Dr, Gibgon, 45 aitendasice at same, 4.0C0:froe lectures, 33 attendance it eame, 1,003 Jred coneert, tiendance at vame, 0003 Yoke- Fellows’ meotingy, 43 wverngo aitendanee at snnie, 135; attendancu ot reading-roum, 6, 60U number of lllccllxlll:u Tield for eatirontd men, 0; attendance at s numsher of religiouk convereations beld with '~ cmployes . on - difteront ralrondla, 00; total number - of pagipes and _ca- Huumr mmFl‘-' Wilh tracts und papers, 1073 chli 2 and 8w nses supplied, 710 ronnd-houses whops suppliep, 1 3 depotsand olllces supplivd, 243 uttendance ont rullrond reading-room, Kinzie Hreot branch, 33,4215 aven nher yisitod eacly Eanhath ab Connty ' dutl, 255 vislte by Hospual Commiltcs to County Iospital, 8: averaigo number sty services held at Brdewell, 83 ag- (ave: 005 emplovment funnd for men und boyd by uent Hureau, 1743 totat nimber reached, * 3 total tracte, maguzinos, sl pupers distrll 20 Invitations to pruyer meetinys and lectures afstributed, 0003 bnlle- ting printed and disteibuied, 8, 240; roports and cirenfare, 24603 1otal printed matter, HO, 85, ‘The Chatr sard that the Board of Managers ntended to orgnnize o Bonrd of Counctly for vhich provizlon s mde I the constitution. ‘he meeting then adjourned, et INDIAN-FIGITING. Tho Experinneo of an Iduho Miner with tho, Hostllenwllow the $3oys Want for the Reds ‘Bllni—An Unpleasant Night's Attempt ot u “Barprise Party * “fo the Edlior of The Tribune. Cnicaao, Murch 17,—In your fssue of March & 1 votleed n telegram from Cluelimatl headed A Big Thing," W regard to cortuin mines In Jdaho. 'The orlzinal owner of the mine ta n per- sonal frlend of the wrlter, and gends ocensionally a letter, As mining excitements, Indian tights, ote,, are generally well read, 1 send you u copy of an eplstio, thinking, mavhap, you might give it u place i your columms i you aro vver short of watter, The letrer Is not a model of campo- gltion, as a mun who hns been thirteen years on the conat dous not keep up his studies in regard to correspondence, ete.: but {t has the fac und that 43 of more moment, Yours, truly, LORRT Bowarante Mines, Nean Rocky Ban, Ilahio Ter., Mureh 10.—F1iueNn 1 know you think 1 au one of the poorest correspondents, but vou kuow “how 'tls yourself" fu the mountuins, Fuke mintye and Indiun-bunting both into uc- count aud time flles. T um getting very uncusy geain (ready to stmmpede), nud long Tora trip sumewhere, and at the sawe time 1 know 1t 1s ull foollshuess. by ever tasctile down wnd behave myself it s about timo for me to do ity und o3 for mlnes, I huve coowgl to Keep ino poorif 1 shoutd live u humdred years. Wo uvo doing_well here, und *vn ot (or nearly go) sunie Eastern porties to'put up o working mlx- ftal for machinery, cle, i bub they are terribly slow,—vyou know liow 1t 16 with tliese asteriy ducks,"—{v takes a great dool of tolk Lo worm o itttlu money out of them, und, i they think that there s a dfkelihood of a poor devitof n miner making o centy they will bold out long enotgh to have bl oul up all he gots, Jus think of It; hero L threo years! tine und ont expenscs besldes, ut thero s o whale hiero It we can ouly make some one sed & that fs willhug to put up. There are plenty to put up, bue they want the lon’s share, You muy tako un fnterest in whint we are dolng. Ve 10y huuds full, there being thirty or forty inen to ook atter; bullding thres miles of roud; grad- g for a bl getting out il thabers, ote., #1e., besides working the ning and runnfug a bourding-honse, We will roon have o twenty- statp il runuing, with all medecs fmprovo- wems,, Ourore 38 rich, und we think we nave struck a % pay strealc ' this time, 1 eupnoss you get ull our Indian-war news, Tt fsonly a few ufles from bere where th (et shuoting was done. ‘Yhe Indlans mmediately vrossed Snake Itiver, oF at least the lareest por- tlo ot them Qid, 1 was witl n party ot cluht thut scouted Bag Comoa and theLuva Belds, but Kot nathing but one bucls, thres sauaws, o few paps [paguoses], uiwd one holi-brects We eont toem all futo” the setilemoit, und afterwards et them o ek 10t Ve il iow thy saine durued I 4 Major Jlus, "u‘u cail him) fa trywg (o et bjs biud to take the war- F trafl (probabty Ureausa 1 made leve to une of Ihesgunwe, his sister), W saw resly el i the Lava Hods, but were utiable to follow up, 1 was gone only o week. 111 Lid been foutlooss 1 would have scouted under Direnard, Al the fumles on the *Overlud " il outsldo yane eane fnto the settlement. MMy enl? aud her Tamily stayed at hom althouzh all the nelighbors” fled, * How fq fhat fornpirld 8ha 18 a splendit rider wnd o dead shot, | waa within thirty-tive nlles of thelr place, and at one time thought of golne down vl pruarding the premises unth the reds had left, hut thought I'stood a chance to be lauehed at, 8o went to the Lava Beds fostend, Tspent the giorions Ath/ (lhing ot the Iakea, about clghteen miles from here, and abagreat atti- tude. I stood on snow-hanks and fished fn the Inkes, ~Think of that, you pour devils that nro oastinge and meltlug back Bastt We eould not make the trout bt fost enough, so a few sticks of ghant-powder hefped us outy T wlsh you wero liere Just now, think I could “promire yoir plonty of sport. ‘Thera i A large cougar or mountain lon rrowllu)gnrnmld. Ile hasheen scen once, nid ust night he made a terriblo serceching only o few. roas (rom our cabin, It was so dark tint Tie could not be seeny and T alid_not ddare let iy 1w pups looe for fear he wonld get uway with them. His tracks wera plain (his” morafiye, [ aent nfter nonew wun,—u ventennial pattern Winchester,—~* It_Is chief.* 1 had the ong (Winchester) you senit fn my laat Indiun fiy not otir trip Lo the Lava Beds, for we have b out Lireg times,—sul the Inst e we brought in * har." The Iudians on thelr retreat from Oregon came back through this sectlon, A varty of thirty or more camped wittin elzht miles of our inines, und were seen by two men, who gave the alarm, Filteen of us took the trall wl fol- Jowed for a ways, when five roturned, nd ten ol us ket on, Unelu Snort, (the writer) had th honor of being the advanes scout on the trall, 1 telt you it wns ticklish worls, ns the rrafl led up anarrow canon, where in places two reds could have whipped the wiole outilty, and every few ndles we would come across u plaved-out Cay- sy Lnnny or horse]. ‘They had nduy’s start of us, but I sct apurs to iny old Cayuse terribly deep, wnd made thelr night berore camp at noon, ‘They had camped at o placer-minet’s clalm on, Bouth Bolse, whose eabin they bad completety gutted, nnd_ which made us nore anxlous to punish the devils. The boys agreed to give me my own way If I would Keep on the trall, At 4 o'clack p. m. we struck thelr eamp with fires still buralug. They bad stopped to recrait thelr horses before” starting up a rough canon throuel which the trafl ram, I put it up that they would not think “we were d——d fools eovugh to follow. 8o I distmouuted six men for the advance, the rest following with their horses. Nfulit found us still on the trafl. At obout 8 o'clock p, m. wo camo_to the head of the canon and plump on the Indlan camp, but it hud commenced to drizzle and rabn, uid so they did not gee me, * you bot.” 1 fluttened myscll on my horse and wheeled bim Dack for the boys, who were only a few rods distant, e held o counel) und_contluded 10 eamp with the “eentlewen” 8o we fell back until we were about 500 yords from thelr camp, where wo proposed to stay until nearly davlighe, then eache &mdn} our horses, creep upand take n patient walt until duylight, then turn lovse, think 1 never passud o mors inlserable nicht, It ralned nnd sleeted ull night, shd of courss wo did not dare make n fire. Most of us only bud n saddle-binaket wmpruv.l around us snd fo our ahirt-steeves, tuo, “‘Fhree men were on pleket between s mid the Indinus continually, One of the scouts during the nicht mistook the other for on Indian und fired ut him, but for- tunately it was g0 dark he missed, and s it was showing nud blowlug so_hard we concluded the Tndlung did vut hear nnd 8o stood to ouroriinat plan. At 8 o’eloek 1. . two af the boya reouted towards the Indians and encountered three reds on the same errand. The boys tired, and fixed one of them and wounded nnothicr, *Of courso all was up then, 8o wo took a position on the hilland waited unul daylignt, 10 you ever lieard hiell on earth it was then, Siunws yell- i, bucks giving the warwhooo, ail 1he boys poppig away st everything thnt showed. e brave rode out in an open ghade between us andd the camp, snd calied on bis wen to fol- low,—ut the same time toastiog us. Only a few of his men came out of the hrush, wnd wo centered our breacii-loaders ow hiim, aud the,poor dlevil went under. He was mounted on o whits yuse aud was well known to one of our boys, Wa were forty miles out, no support, no rrab lor llllrl.yvulximura. and ot strone cuough to charge nhd dlsunhiu them; so the majority pro- posed retiving, and, after taking the sealn of the only une we could reuch, wo struck down the canon and made the settlements the middle of he samo nfrht, ‘The same bud of Indiuns eut uerosy 1o Thuber River and corralled o fruin having nine men, aud fought them twodays, Lill- Imzone whits man. 1 think we must have wurmed them up well, aa they were mad, [ used puor Billy up this smmer, und hnd to et another bopse. 10 you have had the patience to read this 1 know you won't want any more of my Indion experlonce. Yours, B, M, ————— THE CHINES The Suhject Discuased from the Standpolnt uf Seif: Pratection nud Established Prinel- ples of Soclul und Fulltient &pecial Correspondence of The Tribune, SANTA Crana, Cat, March 8.—lmnigration lis heretolure been encourared for the renson that {his vast country was fu, great teasure so sparsoly settled that n more numerous populn- tion wns necessory to the convenienee, happi- nuss, ealety, nnd prosperity of Its people. ‘The Luropean fmmigrant came here for the most part with a view to permonent scttlement. e brought with him hls lndustry and his wealth, ond the conditions of bis ecttlement wero prac- tical homogencousness, s wealth added to the capital of tho uation, and his Industry camo in no degree into competition with the interests of the natives of the sofl farther than was com- vensated by his consumption of ihe products of their industry, The surplus profits of his In- dustry sere uged to bufld up and . hnprove this country, or were added to {ts capital, und pided In w multiplicity of uscful enterprises. e be- camo u citlzen whose interests wers Juentienl with our Interests, .1Ie wus consumneras well us n producer, This eluss of Jmmizrants were given o cordlat wéleome beennse 1hey became valuable cltlzens, nml not only strengthencd business interests, bat, havhy? ulu-u ueal interest in our fres Goy- ernment nud the advantuges possessed under it by the magses, they added to the strength of républican institutlons while they wero yeo wenk, Founded upon mutual advantages, our strengih and prosperity line been largely dertved lrlulhll the fmmlgration of this homugencous pop- ulatlon. “Ihe benefits derived from an tnmigration of this ciuss and under these conditions ure well settled and well understood. O the other hand, 1t fs equally well settied that emlgration 18 us rent n loss us lmmigration Is guin whero the conditions of homogenconsness existy wml, 1t the humigrant briugs “no cnpitul and the emls grant takes capital uway, the toss fa proportion- nu.'le‘ greater. ‘I'hen, again, It s well establlshed that every individual will flourish best when all_arownd lifon are in flourisbihyg clrenmstances. When all around Jidu ore poor and miserable, whatever moy be s tricde or professton, his - chunes of prosperdty fs very small. “Therofore, In the fo- tereat of ull it shouhl be the uim of every one to encourdgize nud favor mutual prosperity, aud to antagunizo uvcr{‘mlug which operates nealust this principle, Lvery brunch of human indus. try—ugrieniiurad, anufa.turing, commevelsl, mid_professfonal—dupends on the consumer. Production of apy kind would be an absurd en- terprise withont consumption, The prosperity of every industey flle ends upon the prosperous conditiun of tha individuals who cempose the s of consumerd, It 18 thereforo Tor the best dntereat of ull vich and poor, merchant and farm- cry, capitalist and laborer, thut every person 11 tho lund should bo plaved in tie best possible circumstanees ) viow of soclal hapoliess and as eiving the surest promise of stability winl certainty to business. 1t fs obvious that thy eyual operation of Jaw and _custor, universul caueation, ud thy ceneral ‘use of the sung language are the principal meuus of approach to tho destred result. Now, what wo wish to show in this connece ton fs, thut the Chincse, tn thelr fmmlgration to thist country, violale every one of these tixed und establlshed, peinviples of politfent seonumy which govern uvery nation, rendering tha peoble vrosperuus and happy, or puor and wiserable, fn proportton as they are carrled out ur ueeiecied, The Culneso bring no wealtn, but they do bring iudustry, which would be of equal valus with " the fudustry of other nunlgrants were it pot for the conditions of its use, Coming hera with a view to making their pllo aud then re- turning to their own country, they exerelse a rigld economy, which, however pralseworthy fu fsell, {8 In {is effects diswstrous W our people, ‘Plhiey are thus voubled to work cheap, while by thelr numbers they vverstoek the la- bor market il produce much,~having no fwnilles,—thicy consiume but amero pittanee of the produet: of thiele lahor, and foree o lurge proportion of our own puop\u alzo nto the cons ditfon of non-consumers. And further, as they becomo avquaited with our Lusiness they eet the control of our industrles voo ufior” tho othery to the absolute excluslon of our own eitfze il the dnjury of every trade they touch, The protits ol this procedure, wind thefe surplus carulngs eenerslly, are ubstrueted from this vountry wind lnure to the benelte of Clilng, every Chinaman representing fn hifs own pe ul the fmaig rany who brings oo copitalund the | zrant “vho takes capital away, Thus the - from chofee—haylnr “ulterior ad- 8 in ylew—not only place thenselges Ty, n3 far as we are concerned, fn nf the ponr and inlserable, Lt force i larze proportton of our own people into the samie condition, to the disadyantues: of every In- dustry, and for which there fs no comsensatlon, ab (ke same thna adding nothing to our citizen- ahiy, nnd only weskness to our republican instl- tutfons, Lahur 18 honorable if its conditlons are on the hasia of equality, bat I the conditions are such a3 tonake it pructieally servile and oppreasive, {18 character |18 entirely changed. Chfnese 1abor s ionorable in Chinae” where the conditions are enua), while here 1t becomes dishonurable, be- vause the conditlons arn such o8 10 create an frrenressible confilet in its relatlon to that of oue owh cltizens, ‘The Tmpossibility of wmen, and esveelally men with funilics,—living in any. de- grew dn decordanes with the requiremnents of oar civillzation, mpethys with this clas ple under the cireumstanees we ha to explain must he evident to wind. “This pressure is fast he rable, nud the exodus hoaa al 1, aiul from the places where the Chluese inost do con- greate the Awerfean cittzen with bis fumily and little remnining nll sllently aml andly tukes up bis line of mareh for nore conZenial lovatities, This pagan Influx—which, from ity nature, enunot properly be called an foigration, hut 1s Dutter charneterized as nu fuvaslon from the throngs which come in a Lody, awd the fact that the fndividual restience I femporary—as o growing evil Is the more startling to us when wo congider tho vast populations behing this wmovement; and it should alarm every one hay- I the perimanent prosperity of our conntry at heart, and who Is capuble ot predicting a Iéwti- mate result from the most certaln and positive cagides. 1t fs sald We must defend our civillzation or eventuntly be forced to adopt the clviifzat! the Chinese,” ‘The, etvllizatlon of the Chinese is nnulnlni:, und Amerfean dvilization s quito utiother thinge; but theclyiifzation of the Chinesy livre §s uelthier one nor the other; they come Jiere for a temporary purpoee, herd together In droves, and leave thielr civilization behind them, ‘The cifect of this fnvasion, however, i con- tinued to its promiscd extent, wiil te, fn all probabllity, to eventualiy foree upon us many of the eylis which have crown ub in China, such a8 ihe “siaughter of the nnocents, —the (ir) bubles,—the desceration of woman, and, ina Inrire ieasure, the prorerlption of the family refation, swd numerous other —evils, moral ad physfeal, ‘This Invaslon Includes the intro- duction of the large-footed woman of Chinn, thie clues of the concublne aud horlot, and the tenrdency of this imported comsbination of ckeap tabor uiud chenp women Is towards a resule dinmetrically opposed to that so fondly finadned by those who Jook upon this foflux of Chinese a8 o grand misslonary enterprise,— Christianity und modern civiflzatlon engulfed maflood of *peosive, childilie nnd bland*? heathenlsin nndd deeradation. The tenaelry with which the Chinese adlicre to thefr ond customs, hubits, st moded of lfe, hereas well as in Ching, nud the tomporary effect ot must Chinese conversions to Chrlstianity w! lave cotne under pur observation durlige many years! pesi- dence in Calng and Californin, are convinelng to us thut the Chinese are utterly incapable of responding to the requlrements ol Amerlean civillzation, nnd that any indulgence o sentl- mental hutsanitarfaniam would not be properly appreciated by them, but wounld jnvolve n runous sucrifléc on our part, with no udequato compensation. Our country has hever beforo experienced stich an fnvasfon by the honles of puganisin, and our experience of thirty years here in Call- fornin has taught 1s that the” benefits of Euro- pean {mumligeation are eutirely woautig fn this case, und thut Chivese’ mmlgration {s'n curee instend of a Dlessher, And we fully belleve thut true Numumitarianism rests o the guppost and malntenunce of the well kuown nnd cstabe lished princlples of socfal and politieal cconomy, and our firms and encreetic protection of our- selves aninst uvery nllnmrpt te encroach upon them, 1w the eage of which we have been epeok- o, the tendeney of any oilier comse I8 1o ca~ tubligh uno.her” irrepressible confliet In our Lty to be overcome only by shmllar sanguinary and destructive remedies, 8 A B, ANNA DICKINSON. A Jteply to the Now York Tribunc's Aver- © monts Ab Ier Piny, “Aurelian,” NEW Youx, 83, 11, 1870.—7v the Editor of the Sun—~Sm: Onmy return to the city from n fortnight's work I was agsalled by an army of questiong concerning certaln statements fn a re- umendn- cent elfusion ot the Z'vibune, which 1 am too - norant to answer, As on huimble recker after both knowledge sud trath, may L bese that voy will do e the kindoess to revritt the vexing problem,—sinee it s allied to an ftem thot has appeared n your own widely-read columns,—~to- gether with the queries that fret moe ou account of my inabllity to give them satlsfactory nn- Bwerst As Lo statement: * Miss Annn Dickinsonread lier play, entitled ¢ Aurelian,’ to a large com- pany at the residence of a lterary friend in this city & few uights since. This plece {8 written in prose, nud conslets of a serles of level dimogues, in which all the persons talk ullke, und all talk Nke 1the wilter, It introduces Aurclian, Zenobls, Tucitus, und - a o few - other characters, Its production, should it be produced, mizht, per- baps, serve a goud purpose in direetine atten- tlon to the cioquent, pletorial, flluminative vels of * Aurelmn? und * Zenobla,' by William ce renowned, but now almost forgot- The statement Iately elrglnted that Juhn Miss Dickinson's ten, McCullough had aveepted * Aurellan,’ and woald uet in it, proves to have Deen fncorrect. As to query: Will the writer of the above add to the favor ‘of s dispasslonate eriticism the fnformution as to wlien, where, aml uuder whiat conditions he became fumiltar with the play of W Aurellan 1 The answer tmny bu of some per- souul interest In any further words that may havo to bo spoken upon this matter. Also, will lie deign to caet same Mght wpon the *good nurpose™ that would be served by [ts pro- aaetion *n directing attention to the eloquent, pletordal, Huminative novels of *Aurelian? aud $Zenobln,’ by Willlam Ware, onco renowned but now almost forgotten$ Is he interested, perchance in the relssulng and fresh gale of thege “onee renowned but now almost forzot- ten? books!? Or fa the *rood purpose™ to he served that of the drawlug of a vizerons cone traat hetweon the “level prose conceded to be thut of the writer of the play and the * elo- uent, pletorfal, Hluminative Eoelish of Mr. Ware, or the other contrast that mieht casily bo made—though 1 eee not to what * purnose® oud or fll—between e historfeal charneters of the novels and the (mmrlrmrf charactera of tho play? Iu the fiest, un Aurelian, harsh, sovere, and middle-aured, ehiefly engnaed (n the work of persceutine Chrlstions, u Zo obia, mature und matronly, the mother of five growa-up clnldren, one of whons fg the wile of the Romun Emperor: In the second, an Aureliun of vight-and-thirey, generous, urdent, free, wd madly in love with u Zenobla, who I8 young und unmarrled, and who dies In trylogto save her lover foe. Bx- planatious are in order. Concernlng the final senteneey < The state- ment Intely cireuluted thne John McCullonah had accepted Miss Dickiuson's * Aurellan,' und would uct in it, proves to have been {ncorreet, ! Iwill ask, How **proves”i Thery 15 u taelt understanding in the oftice of overy New York newspaper thut 1 inyaelf um re- sponsible for the paragraph they huve published eiubodylng this same *atatement,” In that of thu Ziribune the understunding (s not taelt, hue ubsolute, Nere nid now, over my uwn name, [ repeat the assertion that the play of # Aurelfan® was written ot thereauest of John MeCullougiy waos written for himy was seeepted by himg wos to-have been produced by himg . aud that, withe out tho reselndigg of that pramiso of praduction, or o word of negatlon from hlin to me of that geeentancee, the play was taken from him by me for sutllclent cpuse, Heartlly snxious to lead no one inte error, I aalc the eritle of the Zribune to add to his mony services the erownlie oue of “ proving™ the truth, on whichever side of this “statoment Ve liis or mine—1t may bo found, Reapectrully, ANNA ¥\ DICKINSON, i Aun Extraordinary Celobrution at Pompelt, Cineinnatl Comterclul. A celebration of a unfyue charueter s to take plucy igompell in November next, ‘The itev, Jo C. Wotchey nus Just received trom Naples Information that the closs of thu elzhteonth century of Pompell's destructlon * (ud vreservation) I3 to be celebrated with ereat circumatance by the literary, sclen- tliic, and artistic goclotios of all ltaly {n the forum of what Shy Walter Beott g0 aporo- priately tenmed the “City of the Dead," “'This extraordinary centennfal will bo In November; ad this will surprise most ronuns who ul- ways read fis the necounts of (he destruction of thu Camunrnfon eitfes that 1t toolk phace fn the fist voar of the relen of “Tlius (70 A DY, on the 2en of August, Mr, Fieteher intorms us that the translation of the leriter of Phiny the Younzer to Tuclivs, miving th uecount of thut tirst revorded cruvtion of Muount Vesuviug, aud which Jetter is usually Linown to us throuzn Melmoth's tranalaion, 18 from u mouuseript that contsins the Ruman equivalent for the 24th of August; but other munugerints of Pliny's ledier buve been tomnd - whieh placé the dote thees mouths later—L ¢, the 24th of Nov, Loy, Biguor PMyrelll, the most learned archieols vgist un Lomogi, tu Lis Gioraale delly Soeuvf dy Poampell, was the firat to call wide attention to the proper date (November), Bestdes, Dion Cassius, one of the eardfest writers alter t) eecond contury, who wrote on the de- atenetion of” - Herenlaneum — nnd - Pom- peil by Veauvius, says distinetly 1t took placo In “ the Jdutumn! My, Flotcher savs that o made a special study of fraita and nuts preserved vy the ashes, which came down In o mud paste after the pumice-stone, at Potnpell, ntul he observed (o nimost every cnso that tifey were tuts and frilts (as chestnute, ete.) which caunot bo preserved from year to year, and which are not [n season untti aiter the middie of September, ‘The day in November noxt I8 to be celehrated by excavations of houses, by addreeses, and by n banguet In the dasttme, mwd ot night by an fumination of the old (ireeo-Roman city, whosg fate was scaled eliehteen buudred years e SPIRITS AND TOBACCO. In Provisions of the Now Iuternal-Rev= ene Acts WasinxaToy, March 12,—~The act approved hy the Lreslient, entitled * An get to amend the laws relating to iInternal revenue,” under the heud of distilled apirits, amemls Bee, 8,246 of the Revised Statutes to read a follows: “Nothing in this chapter shall ho construed to hnpose n speclal tax upon vintners who sell wine of ther own growth or manufacturers who sell wine produced frot grapes erown by others at the pluce where the sane fs mae o at the eencral businese oflice of such viutier or munu- facturer, proviged that no vintner or manus factuser aball have more thau ono office for the sule of Buelt wina that. shatl be excmpt fron speeial tax under this act: nor shall any spectal tax be fmposed upon apothecarics as tu wines or spirtuous liguors walch thiey use exclusively in the preparation or maklye tp of medicines.’ Hee, 3,017 1s unmended os follows: Y“That on or hefore the 10th day of each month every person enwawed In rectifylng or comnpoundhie distilled spirits shall muke 1 such form g wuy be preseribed by the Com- missfoncr of - Internal Bevenne n réturn to the Cullector of districts shiowing the guantisy of epirits received for rectiieation anl from whott reeeived, the quantity duniped for reetiti- catfon, the quantity rectified, the quantity re- moved after rectitieation during the preceding month, and glvinz euch other formation as wnay be required by the Conimissioner of - teriml Revenae, such return to be made in du- pliente nud gworn to by the reetifler, atd the Colleetor gl forward one of such returas to the Commisstoner of Internal Keven Every peraon vvho enzozes in or caeries on the buglness of o vectyler with fntent to Gefral the Uniter States of the tax on the epirts rectitled by hltn or any part thereol, or with Intent to ald, nbet, or y3alst suy person vr persons {n de- frauulng the Unfted States of the tax on auy distitled spirils, or who shall putcbase or re- eeive or recttly uny distilled sptrlis which have heen removed from a distillery ta s place other than the distillery warchouse provided by law, Knowlng or hevilgs rensor oinds to bes Hese that the tax on gald spirits required by law Lins not been vald, shol, for every sheh of- feuse, be flued not less than $1.000nor more than £5,000, s fmprieoned not less than six uonths nor wore than two years," ‘Varjous other verbal aud fmmaterial amend- ments oro made o the law regarding disthled suirits. "The following are theeesential chanzes made with reference 6o tobaceo, That the Re- vised Statutes be smended as follows, namy »That on and after the 1st day of May, 187 there shull be levied nnd coliected upon all snull manulactured ot tobacco or any substitulo f tobaceu, growml, dry, damp, pi or otherwiee, of all deseriptions when prevared fur use, nid upon ull chewling und smol " fine-cul, envendish, nlug or twist, cut or granuluied of every deseription, on tobacco twisted by hand. or reduced nto a condition to be consumed, or {n nny manter other than the or- dipury node of drying and curing, prepared for gule or consumption, even if prepared without the use, of uny moching or inettament, and without heiis prested or sweetened, and onall fine-cut, shiorts, nud retuse scraps, clippinge, cuttings, and sweepings of tobacco, o tax of 10 cents per pound und ine sum of F1L,KU, or £o much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same hereby is aporopriated out of any money i the Treasury ot ounerwise uporopristed for the alteration of dies sl stamps, s such other exoenses as are ncident fn preparing for the collection of the taxes on tobacco and snull 8¢ fhie reauced rates provided In thisact. “That the sixth suhdiviston of See. 3,244 ended to read ns follows: -Dealers fn Jeaf tobaceo, cxcent re- in leaf_toba 08 herelnafter de- flued, shall pay 323, -Eveey person shull be re- earded 18 o dealer in leaf tobacee whose busle ness 1t §s for himself or on vommisslon to “sell or offer for sale or consizn fur sale ou commis- sion Jeat tuhaceo, and payment of & speclul tax 08 dealer {n tobaceo, manufacturer of tobaceo. manufacturer of clzars, or uny other speclal tax, shall not exempt any person dealing In Jeaf tohaceo from the payment of speeful tax 1here- tor hereby required.” But no farmer or planter or the executor or udminfstrator of such plater, nor the guandiun of uny minar, shall be Tequlired to pay nspecial tax as o dealer in lenf tobaceo for selling tolucco produced by anfd furmer or planter or by sald executor, ndiminis- trator, or guardian, or recelved by elther of them #6 Tents from tenants who have produced the same on the lad of sald farmer, planter, or minor, provided that nothing o this scetlon shull bo conelrued to cxempt from n specinl tax any ter of planter who by peddling or otherwise sells leal tobacco at retull directly to consumers, or _who eclls or axsiirne, cousigng, transfors, or disposes of to persons other than tl.oso wha have pald taxes as Jeal dealers or manulueturers of tobaceo, snufl, or clzars, or t0 pessons purchasing leaf tobwceo for export. No Sherfff or other ofiicer seting under order or process of nuy Court or Magls- trate, nor trustee or cther fiduclury, legully ag fug under the powers veated fu him, shall ho Nabte to eaid tux o8 dealer or retul) desler i selling tobacco under such authorlty: nnd no purchaser ut any sale by such Sherifl. offleer, trustee, or fiduciary shuil o held lable to uny ofliey tax or vestriction as to a sale of tobaceo 8o purchased thian he would have been had sueh purcluser been the producer thercof on his own latul, Dealers in deat tobaceo shall sell only to othurdealers who have paid a spectal tax as such snd o munufucturers of tobaeco, snully or cigors, nnd to such pereons ns pre known to e purchasers of leal tobaeco for ex- porty provided it shsll be lawrul for any tieensed manulucturer of clzars 1o purchinse leal tobaceo of auy Neensed dealer or othier Heensed manufacturer e quantities less than the original package for use fn his own manufuctory ex clusively, Y nug Bee, 8,355 be nmended 8o 08 to read: L Evers person before commencing, or if he has nlready eemmenced, before comtinubyy the manulactire of tubaeeo or sunll, shall furnish, Without previous demand theretor, to the Col- Tector of the distriet whero the manufacture §s to bo carrled on wstatement {u duplicate, sube seribed under oath, setting forth the place, and 0 [ weity, the strect aud number of street whete the manufacturs {8 to bie carrled on, th number of cuttiug machines, presses, snul wudils, hatnd-mdils, or other machlues: the nune, kind, und quatity of the artlelo munufactured o proposed to o mauntactured, and wlheo th Bome 18 nnufacturat Ly ol a3 L for uny ather person or 1o be sold and - delivered to uny other person nider a speelal contraet the name, and reefdence, s busfness, or oceipation of the versun for whom uld netfele I3 to be muny- fuctured, or to whom it 18 1o be deliverca; and he shult shall give bond, 10 he aporoved by the Collector of A district, I the sum of not less than §2,000 nor more than £20,000, to be fised by the Colleetor of the dlrtrict, necording to tie quantam ot business proposed to bo done by the manufacturer, with the right of uppeal by the manufactirer to the Comlssloucr of Interal Revenue in respect 1o the amount of sald boud; conditioned (hut he shull not engase e any uttempt by himsell, or by collusfon with uthers, to defrand the Govern- mentof any tex on s munufacturess thut ho shall render truly and_ complotely all the re- turns, statements, und fuventorivs prescribed by Juw sl vepulations; that, whenever he adds to 1he number of_eatting-machined, prosses, snull mlilg, Jund anlls, or oilier mills or muchines us atoresuid, hu shall dmumediatel~give notics thereat to the Colleetor o the district 3 thut ha shall stamp I sccondauce with luw sl tobueeo aod suull manufactured by him before hu re- moves any part thereol ftomy the place of manu- facture; ihat ho shall not knowingly sell, par- chuse, expose, or receive for sale any manufac- tuy tobacco or snwil which has not beon stamped w8 required by Clawy amd that he shatl comply with all the requirements of law relating to the manufucture ot tobaces orsnufl. | Adiitiunal sureties mav be required by the Collector from thne to thne, And cvery munufacturer ehill obtufn o cestlicatu from thy Colleetor of the district, who is hereby diveeted to tsaue tho same, setting forth the "Kind wid number ol machines, presses, sunftmitls, hand- mills, or other tnlls and muchines us afovesald, whien cerstlieate shiull he posted fn a couspieu- oty place within the wanituctory, Anld svery tovaeeo masufseturer who ueeleets or refuses to ubialy such certiticate or o Keep (he same. posted s herenbefore provided, shial! bo flned nut than 8100 wor more thun 8500, Awd cvery person Who manulactures tobueco or sl of uny description without livse aving boud as hereln required shall Lo tined not less thun $3,(00 Lor wore thau 85000 und impris- oned for ot Jess thun one nor more thun five yuurs, *Thut Bee, 8,830 bey unid the sume {3 Lireby, amguded by stoslng out vl of suld sectivy o by Inserting in dleu of words stricken Tollowimg worda: “8ec. BAM, Every dealer In leal tobacco ghall inake datly cetrles in two books kept for that purpose, one book to e furnishied by the Goscrnment, under such reculations us the Com- missloner of Internal Revenue shall preseribe, of the number of Lovsheads, eases, gl pounds of leat tobaceo purchased or recetved by bingon nssignment, consignment, transfer, or other- wise, and of whom ptirchased or received, and the numbier of hogsheads, cases, or ponnids sold hy b, with the name ol residence tu each n- siunce of the person to whom sold, and, if slitpped, to whom shipped und to what district; one of these bouks shall bo kent t his place of buslness, uud shall be kept open at all liours to e inspection of any Internal-revenne oflleer or ngent, and theother shall, at the end of cacl und svery year, und upon the discontinnance of auy leal dealerduring any year, be andedover to thie Colleetor o7 bl distriet tor the use of the Gove ernment, And every dealer in leaf tobaceo who witlfully n ts ur refuses to keep the books herein provided for, awd {n the manner which stall b prescribed by the Commissioner of fne ternal Revenute, or to trunsfer 1o the Collvetor of bis district, aa herelin provided, the dupticate copy containliy his dully tronsactiouns, na nfure- eald, shall he fined not Tess than $109, nor more than ,8’5,000, ond fmprisened not more thun ony year, out the i e WESTON. Hix Walle nnd Fallure In England, Londan News, March . Weston's attempt to cover the unprecedented distance of 2,000 miles tn 1,000 bours has failed, after a wnllant strueele with all the worse ol Iuck throughout in the shape of one of the most trying wlnters known for many years, With il tho Lad roads In the Kingdom to travel over in thelr very worst condition, and with large crowda at every city, town, amd village to don- tend with, Weston has fust Talied by fwenty- two and ove-half miles to completu in the sprcl- fied time an almost unparallcled task n the anngls of - pedestriams, o Wi orrlval b Windsor on Thursday evening he bad slzty-five miles to go, nud twenty hours to do 1t in: but the excitement of hia recention playing upon his hizhly-strung nervous system, completely pros- trated him, und ho fafled Just as the prico ap- pearcd.avithin s grasp, He left the Castle Hotel ot 11:%5, sccompuanled by one of the judges,* in o close conveyanee, wml procecded as far a¢ the twenty- second milestone on the Bath road, when ho dismounted, mind was soon trudaing away on Tuot ut u good pace until the fourtecnth stone, when he turned und came bavk to the twenty- fest, makbn the fitteen mfles at 380 yesterday mouroing, He then reated for fifty minutes the varrluge, This was not suflicient, as he had to repeat s nao directly atterwords. On res swuning, he recled all ‘over the world ltkea drunken mun, und had to be twice eaved from fulling {nto & diteh, and Le ngain lay down sl 7y ut which perfod oll chance ol ruccess had zone. e now went on slowly, ond by 8:50 hud knocked olf 25 miles since midnieht, leaving him 40 to do, and 04 hours todo ftin, e rested w1l 102 for breakfast, when he rtarted and walled out & mites on the Matdenhead road and hack; this he repeated, waking 12 wlles. He then retraced his steps 234 miles and_back, which, with an cxtra haff wile Into Slouel, made 1734 siuce brealifast, While restlng here time— Gi—expired, his 000 hours being 1,0771¢ miles. J order to finksh his distanee, passed throteh Hammersinith. 10 reach the Royal Exel Londan Seirs, March 1, Etoriat, h elsewhere n deseription of the last ton's walk. ‘Uhis attempt to geenm- Phiels the task lie ba assigned himself of walking 2,000 miles in 1,000 hours bas falled. But he cime yery near to suceess. Except for the tech- nical winning or losing of the bet, the few miles mare or few inlles Iess really nattered very Itttle. ‘T'he generous contembt which Mr. Mun- tilint expressed for halfpence may, with some Justice, EO shown to an odd _mile or two when the tora! amounts to 2,000. To all intents and purposes the proposed task may boe sald to have been achieved, and it hos been proved thut a man ean do s sixty miles a dav over roagds, unit certainly vers bad roads sometimes, steadily for comne six weeks, The fact 8 not without futerest, amd du virtue of this interest Weston's performanes may falrly be sald to staml on ndilferent bagls from the exhibitions have often of bren witnessed on platforms on walking tracks in England and § Weston's uronna was the Queen' could take such rest, food, ‘und kleep a3 he thorght proper, aud Lls sttemnt wus in this way 1ot su unrensonnble one. 1L came withio e limfts of ailowable cymnustic cxerclse; thiv is to ray, it bore definite relations to the require- ments which might concetvably be made on the Tuman frane in the actual elreumstances of luman lfe, In war or travel, ¥port or business, cither at homo or abroad. Unfartunotely, however, there was a certain proportion of the usual clement of absurdity mixed up in the watter, nid 1t was this element ol absurdity preci which jeopardized the pe- destriun’s succese. There cin bo no dotbit it 1€ Weston ud talken Nfs walk fu o thoroughly reasonable monuer, dividing his miles by his dnvs, und malking up a short walk one day by u longr one anothier, he woulld bave won his wager Wwith a grent deal of time to #pare, The slight- est planes nt his performance for the lnst tew weeks will show this at once. But vartly, it may be, for the sake of profit, and parlly - also for the sake of introdue- fme the usunl artificlel retinements aud re sirictions on honest uthletle exerclse, a-condi- ton was added. The pedestrion was prvileged or bound to deliver fifty lectures on walking at fifty different places. 'Thls arrangcment. mnde 4 close ndherence to the thne-table necessar and It soon heeame apparent that to it the wulk- ing proper was to be sacritived. A Jong walk i Junuary and February, over enow-heaped and slippery ronds, Is not ‘a iflurnuy which can be carried out with the preclsion of a mail-traln, Under ordinary clreumsrances that would not Tave mattered; but fu order to save the lecture- tixtures [t hecame necessary for Wests part from the plun of simple wilking, tuined leave from s bavker, Sir dohu Astley, to travel when he lked by ratl or by curnarre to his acatinstions, ctteh traveling belne of courss nat counted as part of the 2,000 miles, In this way an {mmense amount of time wos wisted, 1ot towention that the gennine character of the walk was serlonaly dejured, At the dif- ferent towns where the **lectures” wers delivered the poltee _mugt have Lecu seantily grateful to Mr. Weston, lnune much a8 his performances constuntly took pluco at n.very Inte hour, amd consequently cansed not a Hitle commotion, These solemn centries brought whout w wood deal of hustling, due not toony ill-temper, but slmply to the natural pressure of gaplns crowdd, Muore than onee tha result of Uids was actnal bodily dis- comfort and fury to the wilker, nd iWinest have serfously futerfered With bls chunees, At Inst e resorted to the plan of sldie to and out ol towns fn onler to keep his lecturo en- wogements, 1t does not appear thint Weston has anything partlenlar to eav about walking, and_tlivrefore the lecturlng can searcely bo e garded 08 fu any way u foxitimate adidition o the walk, Atauy rate by might (unless the abject were merely to ubtaln profit) inve taken o walking tour thest, aud o loeluring tour atter- warda, As {113, 1t ls searcely womlerfur that more thun one of the judges Who orteinally nes companed him falled to appreclate this curlons- 1y “mixed? fashion of walline, and left the cxpedition to take care of itsell. Thero {s o well-known phrago In which 1hie competitors [n u race arv sajd to bo allowed to Yinake the best of thew wuy ' from ane point Lo auother; and this s, nurhianay the most sppropriste deseng- tion for Weston's method of progression, In Atsolf, the walk which was attempted was one which few lovers of walklnz tours would not ke to huve taken, Weston Ueiun by fours nevig over the moat famons uid bistorieu! road In Englund, thoush his arruncement took bl to Fotkestono nstead of to D From Folkestouo he :l:mmuycd along the whole south cousty from Falkestone to Penzance, At the os- tremfty of Corawall ho turned wnd wallied rtheystwurds, makimg his frst “Jump" of muortance from Tiverton to Bristol by railway, Fhen e went through the Midlads and the Lordering countie to the great manufaciuring| tuwns of Lancashire and Yorkshite, walled uorth almost as for as the Seotel bonder, com- pleted s Jouruoy atong the vostorn const, with a tiual twlst so 08 to take n Oxtord wnd Wind- sor, ‘The expedition was thus cimphatically a senseless tate nind walle' round England, The smuil portlons of © the coaslk on tho Welsh — nnd Beoteh marches which Weston did - not tiaverse are not longer fo extent” than his deflections to the varlous places (1 the - terlor, [umay, therefore, Lo said that u slx weelis ha could, i e had choeen, havo faith- fuHy permmbutsted the English portlon of the fehand, ‘This wulk has been dans at the raty of Mftv-six miles a day, Weston’s eogagoment plodeinge bl not to waik on Bunday, That this achwevement, rematkable us It sounda, {a not i fraeld very astonishing, will provubly he azreed by st people who kuow anything of walking, The Sunday rosts msy huve been re- sulved on for various reasons, among which tho vonvenfonee of 1he wulker protably did pot count. I iz o duy's’ stoppoge rather throws the walker nut of gear than re: exhausting a8 the conttant broken rest of the thousand thousand hours, which was g0 1ne consfdered the_supreme athletic achicrement. \Westan'e - - method of performing his task, on the othey . Tianid, hag necessitated the oceasional walking oy Aomething Itke o hundred anllea I the twenity! four hotrs, and_n constant fnfringament on mutural sud regatar bours of rost. Those whe | measure sthletie achlevements merely by tha worry ond infles In o amount of dlscomfort which {hog eruse, are pers 7 haps likely to think all the moro of it on that acconnt, “Bat those who reflsct that the ramo uchievement, such as It ls, miglht have been per- formed with compnrative lefsura mcn{oy the defiizhttul peenery (lelightful even at thistime of ?'cnr) through which the pedestrian’s walk. Tedt Ry and to note the curlons varlations “of Euglisi landscapu In Ity diiferent . aspects, may ’m“"”f be of o offferent oplulon, - We hava strely had enough of these compound exhib-' ftions of athletics nnd absurdity. ‘Yl next per 2on who undertakes n lonz walk might, If onl I;)r nlclmngc, try the effect of walking, pura ane simple. —— INDICTED JUDGES. A Told Stand for the Negro's Rights =Judge Rives' Charga to the Grand Juiy—Samo of the Testimuny on Which the Virginla County Judges Waro Indlctod. i Corresnondence New York Tribune. DanvinLy, Va, Marell 10.—~The Democratia ptess of the country, but espechally of Virginla, 15 just now filled with witd articles on what ta tenined, In Demoeratle parlance, * Rives! ususpas tiown,” the * Radical Judicial outrage, ete, All iifs Democratie talk las been caused by the . ¢ actlon ot the !on, Alexamler Rives, United” States Distrlct Judze for the Western District! of Virginto, who fustructed the Grand Jury, at the recent term of his Court in this tlace, to indict Btate Judgea for open violation of the’. Jaws of Congress. The Grand Jury, upon the® evidenea betore them (whick was ample), fn- dleted five of thes’ nen for open violation of the Civit Tughts bilL. It Js under the fourth section of this act that the indictments are found. thesn, in a nutshell, is the cause of Dem- ranting, ‘The wmsin volots of Judge charge follow . . * It beeoses iy duty to call your special ate tention toa votable iustance of the way In which the neglect by the State of its own lawys ml ite oblizations to the supreme law—tho Coustitution of the United States—nccessarily leads to conflicts between Federal and State au- thority. T the Iaw ot the State no diserimina- tivn Is made on necount of race or color in the linbllity of its citizens to jurv service, Allmale cltizens 21 years of age wnd not over 60, who ara entitled to vote and hold office under the Con- stitutlon aud taws of this State, shall be 1lab: to serve as jurors. You ure awere thut the legal duty of making out Jury-lists rests with the Jdudices of the County und Carporation Courts. (Sve See. 3, Chap, 167, Code ot Vireinin,) At this polut Cunirees properfy Intersenes” und coustralns these ollicers by penalties to observe their oblizations under the laws and constitu- tions of their States and the amendments. The fourth scctfon of the act of March 1, 1875, Is in these words: * That no citizen posressing all otherquailfications which areormay be orescribed by law shall he disgualified for service og grand or petit juror {n any courc of the Unfted Btates or uf uny State, on aceount of race, color, or previons condition ot servitnde; and any oflis cer or other person eharged with any duty In the " scleetion or summoniug of jurors, who shall ex~ clude or fall to sutnmon any clizen for the canse aforesuid, shull. on conviction thereof, be deein- of o misdemeanor, und be fined not 20,000 Tau offense hus declured I3 the exciusion by these officers from their Jury lsts of gualliied eltizens because ol race, color, or previous condition of servitude. “T'his niotive, Hiie ull other gullty futcuts, may be and ought to be fuferred by you from the acts or declnrations of the party und il the circum- stunees of his conduct. Jf 1t fhould appear ta you thut by a long and systematie course he hae never ndmisted Lo 18 1t whe numes ol colored men duly qualified, you would be compelleld to Infer hlgeuilt and indict him for the offense, am! then et him repel by proof the_ fair pre. sumptlons of tha luw syaiost him. I, on the vantrary, it shall appear thn these officers hava Jisted or offered to summaon, when requested, » Jurles witnout tbls diserimination of ruce, you Would not bu anthorized to imnute this offense to them for the occasional omission, but intght view it as o matter of oversizht or neeldent, au not done fn deflance ot the wet of Conzress, “Y¥ou thus see the clearnesa of the law, aud, I trust, fee your two-fold oblizatious to the Inws of the State and of Cougress, und are acn- #ble of Your duty to tuquire into this offenae, und preseot 1t where found, 1 presumu cvery county appurtenant to this court has {ts reprue sentutive on vour panel, 50 that vou huve peculiar facilities for this m?u(ry. You will not go beyuied these countles sliall successively usk niy other Grand Jurles to proseeuta the sano tnquisition for their countice. 1€t ghall by, ns 1 hope, fafthiully doue thronghout wny wholu disteiet, this sgeney will vend to remove one eround of ltericrence with State: Courls, und wssert the just suoremacy of the Constitution nud laws of the Unlted States, But if this be not done, aud bigh ingiests like yours are turoed uway from thelr vatis und theirduty by shallow disyuisitions ou the constitutionality of these aets ol Congress, you may depend upon it, vou ure fomenting disorders while you do vothingz to retard the reconstractlon poliey, to which your taith as 4 people 15 plizhited fu the most sulemn anner, or thwart the mission of* the Genernl Government 1 oll lts departments to glye the equat protection of the laws to all ta citizens without distinctlon, Restded, you are to take the laws of Congress as they literally stand till tiwey ure deelared unconstitutionul by the Fed- eral courta” ‘Il teathmony before the Grand Jury bolug conclusiyve of thegullt of the County Judges vl five counties, they found true blils azatust them, gud slues then theexeltement among Democratie Tuwyers and unroconstrueted negro-haters gen- vmfiv s been Inteuse, Judgs Berrvinac Gieey, the new Clrenft dudge, hastened to Rich. mond and Jald the matter belore the Governor, ] b, Without this inteeval tio tash would have been equal to forty-elizht miles o day only. Tids §5 ubout eleven hodrs’ walking to o goud pedestriun, and the walker bas thug moro than | Luh the day Tor mealy uud for rest, wwwake sud the Attorney-General, and the Leglslatore, whercunou the law-muklng body of the State passed a rantankerous set of resolutions witn u bunvoinhe preamble, setting forth tho doctrius of State rlehts, amd characterszing the acton of Jucdgo Rives as arbitrary, vutrageous, illegal, amt g usurpation. These vesolutious Jvers offered and engineered throueh the Sennte, where they orizinated, by s Democratic carpets bagezer from Marylud, The Lold aud maoly canduet of Judize Rives hos startied and per- feetly pmozed the bulldezing Democeracy. any one doubts for u moment the justice of thy aels vither of Judgze Rives or of the Grand Jur let bim loak for ab Instant ag some of the test(- mony uvon which thiese fudictments were fuund, ‘Fhier evidenes showed thut fn Franklin Cotinty 8 Hegeo’s tame dus never been upan the Mgt of names frony whieh jurles aro b selected gluco Franklin has beeu s county, ‘The same I3 trug of Patrick and Charlotte Counties, In Dittsyl- vanfa County the testimony 18 thut n vegro Lus never hecn on o jury sluce the present Judge has been fn olfice, wind oy one occasloncertainly, prrlians more, o nixed Jary haa bren usked for by suterested parties wnd denled, The testl- mony In the cuse of the Henry County Judge wus thit ho not only hag denfed eolored men thie vight of bl tried by o jury composed of thels own color, hux had openty given his reason for sueh denjnd: and what was thut resson, pravl Slmuly, !“o nigggrer shotl vver sit on & ury in my Court ) "These l’mllulull Judizes will be tried at the next teem of Judze Rives? Court, to by held here fn November next. Tu the meantine the Attorneg-Genersl of Virgina, o obedlenco to the n:xm{ tond of the Legisiature, will zo belors the Supreme Court of the State, or possibly ‘of the Natfon, for something—in his own lnoguuge he *hurdly knows what," B ———— Two Alligator Yurns. o Vore 1Ferid. Last spring u Jaree ox went futo the waters ot Luke Juckeon, near ‘Fallahassce, to drluk, An allicator fuetened 1o the tore leg of the animal, crushing the bone, The ux struggled to the nhory, drageing Dia antagonist with bim, At this 1l the shore wus bluck with alligutors, atteacted by e smell of blood, und sume crawled upon the bunk, The ox fouxht valiaut- 1y, tossling one of the monsters mcfl dn the wr, fi‘um which fall ho lu{’un the ground stunned s considerablo thie, Bup the wotnded ox seals ot fn the water, and o menugoth allicaier clused on his nose and dragead him cnder. Not lung ago u Florldu paper told u Lory of the chirmligg of an altizator by u rattlesudke. Tho lutter, ubon discovering the Tormer ut- tracted attention by soun, un alarm. “Lhe allizator wrsed his head several titnes, as 1f Lo wunted to get uway, butasoften fuced shoke wgaty, *Toward the end balf an Lour,” suys the napor, *with fised eyes the atll- gater moved slowly toward bis terrlblo encmy, untll within steiking distance, when tho suuko curied bimeell wore compactty and struck tha alifgator, For w moment the “ultizator shook tremondously, umd thew, a8 {0 LY tuzle, made semtelrele backward, and broueht his il down ugon the would-ue ussuasly with fatal resuly” On soveral oceaslons capt uretd allizators and rat- tlesickes huve been put fuan fuclusure to fight for the benetit of spectutors, and o o 10ajorit of cuses the suako has Leen victorious, buving sucteoded fu suriking his faury fute the wlils el B4l open myath, 1 nsleep. Buch a task s mnot mnearly ‘w0’ i