Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 7, 1879, Page 6

‘4 THE. PULPIT. Prof. Swing Has His Say Regard- Ning Bob Ingersoll. ‘ -{ho. Good and the Bad to Be Found in That Individual's Ad- dresses. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Pente- ). ' eost---A Word to Woak " Christians. A Talk on Mormonism and Ita Evils, by the Rev. Mr, MoMillan, INGERSOLL. TRE GOOD AND THA BAD IN 111g ADDRESSES. Prof, Bwing preached yesterday morning at the Central Church, taking as his text: I, will rofine. them as oliver Ja refined, —Zech, alt. 0, “ The public addressees of Mr. Ingersoll Lava been one of the religious events of the winter just gone. It {8 a siugular colncidence tnt two great champfons should now bu visible in the religious fold, similar in thelr mental and phy- sical powers, sitnilar in their styles, alikeurdent and solf-adequate, and rash, aud witty, and in- tolerant, and entertaining, and powerful, and yet dissimilar in thelr whole purpose, the one rushing along to sustain all the cardinal ideas of Christianity, the other hurrying along with equal momentum to overthrow the whole Chris- tan and Deisticfalth of mankind. Whether the one man caljed forth tro other, whether the ad- dresses of Mr. Cook aroused the slumbering genius of Mr, Ingersoll, or whether each of these knights camo upon the fleid without any challenge from the other, but only tu try. lance with any ono of the indeflnite Ist, aro forms of wonderment which have no good an- swer annoxed, It ts certain that both these free-lances are in tho areua, and there has been much applause from the thousands who favor one or the other of theae rival plumes. . ‘Tho presenco and immenee popularity of these mighty word-hurling engines show what an in- * ‘terest our age takes in all these qucations which relate to the origin, and duty, nud destiny of man. The arguments for réelicion, and the arguments against religicn attract moro readers to-day from men and womon In middle life than do the orutions of the Senators or the nares of the novelist. It would seem ag though all the public were fully determined in/ these days to find out all about Muses and blo- plasm, heayen and creation,: hell, inspiration und splrituatiam, and the hundred other forms of mysterious things. The absence of other themes of study, the absence of political bust- ness, such as the founding of a Republic, or de- fending a Union, or setting free slayes, may ex- plain this presence of such n lively interest in the problems of the soul. Be the case what it may, it fs truc ibat the fontsof type in the Drinter’s shop are now supplicd with extra ‘brackets in whitcl the compositors can set up the “applause” which garnishes the sentences of these platform oratore, ‘The public {s all alive to the debate about ‘Moses or Satan, or blo- plaam or the Deity. It is my deaign to spenk ‘to-day of the good im Mr, Ingersoll's addreares, and to speak next Sunday upon the defective and bad qualities which thoso addresses sect to mo to possess, But why should such oratory for or acainst religion in the Icast surprise “us? Do wo not know that the whole prouresa of man, his ad- Vance intellectual, his advance scientitic, his ad- Vance iu art, hls ndvanee in medicine, bas been only by means of onc unbroken debate? Birds flv, and deer run, and serpents crawl, but socic- ty talks. itself forward. Men talk a hundred years, and then, by a rovolution, ars war, er a teformation, they mark how far they have zot- ten; and, this mark having been made, they at ones reopen the Inflnite conversation, Theso two speakers, to whom I have alluded, are the high tide of talkin our century. They are ver- gunnery in its best known form, No sooner did sny shape of cood ever make ; its aypenrance in the carly world, than men * began to refine that good, und aift it, and win- now it by means of thy comparison of {ta two sides. It is o8 thouch ove party had gaid, * Now wo shalk say sll the good we can about this creature before us,—this republicantem, this ring-craft, this medicine, this pleture, this ro- Ugion, and then you may say oll the bad you can, and then wo or our children will draw a conclusion.” ‘Thus the intellectual duel has raged all over the world, . In such a world, where all questions not mathematical havo two aldes, have sprung up the maxiins, (It {s right to be taught by an enemy;” “Hear the otheralde:' “ Addlatterain rem; and ha who can most patiently hear th alues is the most just of men. It showla bo expected, aud even desired, tit. some one should come forward, now and then, to present tho * other aldo" of that largo religious bellef, which has always occupied ‘the human foind, and which, when not well whi- nowed by debate, has been wont te gather up tatich childish stuff and fnjurious superstition, and to carry these along as thourh a part of the Spirlt’s faith. 1t was the fact that thought had ‘but one alde to it which mado the blrutry and j degradation of the miadlc and durk ages, No one dared to riso up to suggest an amendment. Instead of Henrius patlenly: “the other alde,”? those cruel periods hastened to hang or burn or torture the other side;’? und fnetead of har- boring the idea that one might be taught by an onemy, they bustencd to put a suppused enemy beyond the’ power to teach anybody or anything, To cut out atonguo whieh did not speak the one Fide, was the pecullar custom of the Church. for years, ‘Thus all religious thought, haying been denfed the advantage of a refining process, went onward accumulating og much folly as wisdom, sending forth lke ‘no uncultivated Geld as much of weed ond ‘Uror'us of sweet flower or of sweet crass. Freedom of speech, aud thought, aud action aro valuable becauaw they winuow the harvest of opinion and sentiment, and help mankind to separate the groin from the chaff, In all high courte the witnesses upon both ales inust be patiently heard; there must be the direct exam- ination, and the crose-exatmination, and, sitting amid ail these inlugiing words, the just Jude can come near at least to finding a dociston that shall bo fy harmony with law or equity, Justles is blindfolded that it may see nither party, ut heles may the better hear both, ‘The moat yaluable servico which tho last two centurles have performed for Christianity must bo found in the Mberty of thought and speech wiich they ushered in, fur under the inlluence of a full und frew de- bate religious doctrine rapidly punfed itself and bundles of error fell from the buck of the Christian pilgrim sho had log been fournayliye with fourful uliticulty all atony his licavy road. Hut this purltying thought und speech eannot all conie trom the friends of a politica, or o aclence, or a salvation, Much of it must coma {roin enemles, Monarchy cannot be taught by itsolf, | It must receive ite hottest und trucat re- Dukes from Republicanisin, Au tacnly can ace faults which are overlooked by frlendehip. ‘The Whi muat pofnt out the defects of the Demo- erat; the abolitionlat muat pose out the de- fective {dens of the slave-holder. By analopy the Christian world must expect and acrept of an fuvasion by infldcle nud freu-thinkers, for such acute enemies will polot out blunders and follica which would for hundreds of yeurs va- capu the contented, und hoppy, aud dozing eyes of 8 pure partinlity. ‘The ‘tld for reform by means of iriendelip ts tmmensdly Invwe indeed, but there {8 another branch of re- form which hos been set apart by nature tu ho conducted by an tutellectual hos- tility, ‘The errors which partleanyip over: looks, the Weakticsses of which it{s wholly un- couscous, aru large enough und numerous enough to render {t a wise vrovision of nature thar a criticiem shal} always come sooner or Tater that with wot vu bilnded by uny favorable prebesscesiouss Of the hopelessness of reform y means of partisanship only, the Roman Chupeh’stuuds before us aso stein, exaniple, For bundreda of yeata it beurd afinost con: tauously come gentle voico of complaint or cor- yecllou—volces teaching from Dante to Savuu- arolu, aud froin Suvonarola to Fenton and Pus- cal: but while thesu plesding ones exerted great Juluvnce they needed —adaitional support, Daute sang powerfully, but the cuso was par- ttly beyond the reach of song, and Bavou- arola plead sloquentty, but there were cham bors in the Vapal sunt which bls voice evald uot reach, und wen camo Fenelon, ringing a reproof of love. and came Pas- cal, brtuging an acute wit and waking up o hun Gred-year laugh over Roman absurdities, but ua all these pawerfyt ones stood within the Church, thelr upposition Was so softened by fricudabip that (t did nothing more than slightly modify 6 Qeepettin which “demanded au overthrow by Jers kind intellects, ‘Ta the quod which thees cbildvea of the Church achleved must bu added, Mierefure, the harder blows struck by Voltutre a hatt ceutury later... Reared armoug the Jeaults, hy ultery dbunduned thete tulth, uu as a Delet ho assailed wll the weak places in the Ronen Breument, und made the wit and laughter, which had begua Under Paseal, ray ta euch a - helght, that the subject of the wit und laughter Hover recovered, OF dvenrallicd. ‘fhe arguineus THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE teh had moved atone gently but under the lead of Dantg anid Pascal, nrosa in awful power under Voltaire, nnd Diderot, and Hume, and Volney. ‘The breezs turned Into a hurrtcaue on the fildol const. “That myaterious power which wo call tho Providence of God has invariably In ite dealings with snaukind followed that philosophy taucht ns in the fable when wo wero all young, Nature has always tricd firat kind meouny of teaching or punishing, She throws tufts of urass at first, butit these are laughed at she tlrows stones with avongeance. When the young man drinks to oxevas for the first tue Nature deals with him kindly, A headacho comes. But if the young man laughs at these reproofs und ocs onward In his vice, then this once kind master reaches out ared right arm and the tnan’s for- fune fades, tis nani Is blasted, his friends dis- own him, his house falls to ruln, his eye glares like that of a ilid boost, lis body trembles, fe dles, Ate” well-Atter Ruest. ‘There is one Jaw for an Indl. vidual, or o State, or a churel, For kenerations a paticut Providence uses gantle meaue nud if the Btate or the Church docs not roforin {itself this just God rlaes in wrath and, hurls armies nt the atubborn offenders, or com- tnauds the inhdels tu rush {4 and wake up the pricste stupid with a jong carousnl, or in the composite of ignorancs anid conceit. Thus Nature flung the infidels against the French re- ligion and the Communists against the awful Wespolism of the French throne. Must one justify, therefore, the tufidel or the Commuu- ist! iy no means in full, bat in part we must forgiva men whose extreme yews have been created by extrema wrongs, whose derisive Inughter has been largely created by the almost endless absurdity of the institution over which the Inugh sounds, And furthermore we aro not to seck uhways the virtue of the actor, but sume: tines we may seek the virtue of results, * Whon one thus looks over the outspread Ifo of humanity und marke what good reeults have come from the debute of different minds, marks that without this free, purltstng, process there has been no gvo! progress in uny form of thought, one cannot but fee) that the addresses of such an tconolast us Mr. Ingersoll are not by any means an unmixed evil. If any man could so speak thut the publle would belloyve ull be should say, then the barm from such public ora- tons would be very great; but fo our day no speaker possceses any great authority, amd, 23 0 Sout, the public follows him with its winnowing- fan just as he follows the speaking past, and in the final outcome the public will doubtiess be found holdiyg Mr. ngersoll’ truth, without holding his 61 bse errors or Injurious active Ulsbellef. As hu sifts the past the present silts him, * % You may wonder what can bo meant by Mr. Ingersoll’s truth. Well, the reat fact {s that he hans set forth in his address many valuable ideas. It is true they are olf found tn the Christian re- gion, but they have not been made suMciently trominent by the church itself, In thé very midat of the intidel’s laughter (here may often be scev.a doctrine of Christianity sev torth tn wonderful uistinetness, for there is vothing so distinct as ridicule. In his lecture called “Man’e Words About God's Words” “he ridicules the Idea of being saved without haying any personal merit, and then savas that if he were ju Heaven playin upon his harp, and should see in the company a gentleman whom he bad cheated down on earth, bls hand would abate ffs muste for o little while.”! flere ls where the panera insert the word “applause,” but the truth 1s this remurk differs froma frequent pulpit utterance only by the use of the word “gentleman.” The true religion of Jesus makes no provistun for placing golden harps in tha hand of cheats, It says, Blessed the pure, blessed the righteous; it says, fle thit calls his brother a foot shall go where there ts no harp-tnusic. It foes beyond Mr. Ingersoll aud forbids a tan irom hoplng for any good worship even on carth #€ hig brother hus aught againet him, I euysif you have come even to the altar suid there remeniber that some “gen tleman’ hath aught against thee, co thy way and first be reconciled to that “gentleman,” and then vou can take up youreharp with de- Nght, and if you should seo that “ yontleman,?” your hand avill play all the more joyfully be- cause you ave amended the wrong. Thus our “jnfldel,”” Instead of setting up a better word than God’s Word, has only so expressed the ideas of relicion that they shine forth out of the lawyer's wit ina Hcht which the pulpit Is not eo free tocail its ald. Now. tt so hapneus that. therearcand bayabeen theologians who hayenot set forth plainly enough the valus of personal character und personal goo works, They have carried their substitutional {dens to such ‘an ex- cess that it hag not been felt py the average Christian that ba need be anything or do ony- things he must devend wholly upon a subatt- tute. Upon the burdened crust of such a the- ology no blows but those of a pltileas ridicule could make any impression, Thosa relizionists who send to perdition men of staintess integ- rity, Baylyz over their righteous graves that mere morality is most damnuble, those teachers who will then send a bloody murderer and Ife- long swindler to Heaven by a fluol baptism or five minutes of falth, inva Jong been beyond the reach of ordionry language and logic. ‘hey have long needed the hot shafts and” deep de- rision of this plaln-spoken lawyer. The tufts of grass which we tender clergymen threw at such triflers were ridiculous efforts; they needed good, big rocks, Do you not all know that the Chareh has al- ways been carrylng along those little tuman in- firmitics which necu to be well ridiculed mud wall laughed at? And this ridicule and Taugl - ter oro just ns much # part of the provress of a true Christianity as the solemn manner of a Luther or a W Hoy area part of a procress, ‘The Voltaire laugh did not injure the Roman Church, but it greatly improved {t by makin its povies and priests sev und climinate many absurd or pucrile uceidents, Ridicule is one of the most powerful enemios of a bat couse. It cannot hurt n truth, for truth pure md simple cannot bo made ridiculous,” A wit can ridicule the thunder, and Hehtning, wud storm of the theatre, madeup byshect-iron and red lighta, but he cannot raise w laugh over the real thunder- storm in the sultry dane, Where weakuees (s thera the Iaugh comes in. Two conturles ago the selentlate, In accounting for the fact that a dlufd will rise In on exhausted tube, sald it dovs so because Nature nbhors a vacuum, But Faseal, taking a tube to the tonof aA TQUe tain, found that the mercury did not rise so high there fn the vacancy as it rose down tn tha valley, sud he killed dead forever the theory tat Nature ablioré a yacuum by askhie the savante Whether ahe hated a vacuum more ut the bottom of a mountain than she did at the top? ‘The old theory never breathed once after that luughed had passed around. ‘Thus have there been times when the public tenets of ro- Maton have needed that. purification that comes: through irony. Puscal’s kind wit enveloped the Roman Church fora coneration, and dld for it what had not been done by the heavy lute of elther Roman or Protestant intellects, Many of the Bluo Laws and many of the cus- toms of the Puritans were overthrown by ridi- cule, Same of the Blue Laws have not yet been repealed by legislation beeausa they were re- pealud by the public suifles and saliles of wit, Prot, Tyler, of Michigan University, has recent- ly pobllshon & history of American Hterature, wid du his Jong “rusearches ampne old books wnd manuscripts he has unearthed som strange {deas and quutites iu the faith and practice of our father. He finds one of the trast Governors of the Virginia settle ments praylyg that no printing-presses or schnol-houses might come fromthe Ul World, for where education goes he gays thera will go revolt ngzatust good government, and there will come spiritual unrest. ‘The {mportation of printing-olllccs waa therefore for a long thio forbidden, Uv in thy New Kuglind settlement the faithful are warned avainst the dreadtul doctring of religious toleration as bebye- most abyurd, wud are urged to make short Work of all thuae Who do not adhere to the trug Gospel, Jn this Now Enghund iterature ho finds an air of awful majeaty nnd sulemulty, Uno crave patrlot und pilgrim, hearing aome ef the young peorle In hia mansion laughing ws though they were happy, left hia cloast of Iturary unl aalnt> ly endeuvor, and, opentiys he parlor door ju an impresslvu manner, ho gafd, affectionately but endly, “My dear cousins, I do nut see low you can bo BU merry unless you ure sure of your Goal salvation.” Now, in putting an end to all such ideus nnd prectivss, pothhyg lias been mure poteut than the comblnost Juughter of mankind. It was nut necessary for ayy church court tu mest and decide tint cousins might luugh; for there avo departments of ree form whlch may well be lett to the courts of wit und satire, And naturally thoao who Jed in this wit and {rouy nual hove stuud outside of the religion to be faughed at; for we do pot laugh at oure selves until long after others shall love led in the unpleasant business. We never husten to call our own face homely, Alter others loss partish have biuted at the unwelvome face for jucty yours, then we, too, foro the Wolring alas, and accept cheerfully of the situation, Thua the Church bus long seen with great complacency ite own features, It Was iucesuary that gotie ontd Ot so prepus- scesed with our theological chutins, should bein to Jet drop the conyietion that the Church was, aly as sin, Inildels ouly cun set forth such o cruel truth. Ut te true that the weale period of religion, as Mt Woo In tie tines of Voltaire, and tlie settle. incnt of Aterica, tas panacd by, but thers vet Tematog much tu the prevatling Christian faith to bo uswailed by the epigrams, und butuer, and paraphrace of the enemy, "You have all abe served, no doubt, that the Evangelical pulpit und writers and Jecturers have for years been In adeepe nandary, over these things which Mr, Ingersoll eulis “Tho Mistakes of Mas They have feared to speak out, Dr. Ryder comes oud just now with big theory of the Uld ‘Testa- migul, und that theory tudeed overthraws ail and Uell receives sad convicted be: the prenlacs and conclusions of Mr. Inqersol j but thot theory should baya been promulgated by the orthodox Mitty years ago nnd thas have cut off the demand for the wit of the infidels But the Evangeltea! party did not fully kvoww tts own mind, aud was partly afrald of itself and of results. E wns myself one of this hesitating and neglectful party. | We would not spieitusjize the Old Testament. so would nut be poe: We Would havo a Mteral “rib, and a literal “ap- ple,” anda literal “urk,” or wo would not have onything, And whenof Inte years the orthodox party lost heart a littly over ‘thelr Htoral inter- pretation, they sti) did not dare be manly nnd Bpeak out; but they have for a long season been asking some colored preachers ti Georgia or South Carolina, to expresasiudirectly their real sentiments about the wohderful stories of the early Hebrew period. There has beon neonstant publication of these Colored ser- mons about the “serpent” and “Samson und the Foxes,” and the orthodox clergy have, {n the main, hung with delight over reduetios ad absurdum which they did not feel quite willing to make In their own desks. ‘They believe fully ‘that. two alo bears cane down tit tore two anit forty bail boys,” but sliould an Africau preacher expfain-how, when tho bears wore tearing the first two boya, the ather forty boys walted thera for their tnin to come, those Iteralisty would experience a strange delight, and would bo willing to ham over to their uelghbor such a vindleatlon of history. 'I'heso Htorallats bellove thut Samson tled by the tail together three hun- dred foxes, having first caught the three hun- dred, but, when the convenlont colored persun clucidatos wud learns that there was oncy a race of foxes which had tails thut were twenty fect Jong, these samy ndyocates of Iteralisu draws strange delight for thls support rendered them by the brother in Georgla. ‘They want sume one else to start the emile, It was this long hesitation, this timidity about the effecta, that left. the modern theology so open to invasion by tha bolder mind of unbe- Hef. We wero like the Catholic Church before Paseal,—the laughter had to come: and come it has, and instead of beiug injured hy the “ap- viause,” ina hundred towns and chive Chris- tianity and even the Old Testament will issuc from this decade better than ever, beenttse di- Veateil of so much that was impeding its useful uesa{n the modern world. Coristhinity ought hot to have been burdened any longer with the task of making history out of poetry. It hus a great Work to perforin, and it has a most per- fect supply of diving and sweet truths for the accomplishinent of its sublimoend; nnd the clergy ought not ask it to exhaust its holy strength in an argument to show the world how the 8m once —_astoud still, und how a serpent conversed with Evo in a beautiful garden. Indeed, wo should all feel rather ashamed that for so many years, we guardians of the Lord's viue- yard, so lett the fenees down and tle gates all Open that all the passing fnfldel creatures, hun- gery and wild, could wall fu at will, and tratnple down ot ucreat rate, mingled vine and thorn, weed and rose, Intidel wit and argument and trony comlug from any source, will not be in vain, if they shull compel all Christtang to find the powerful side of thelr faith, and shall wake up all us clergymen to more thought, and more reason, and More courage. Herofe men should Jova somewhnt nn Intellectual storm, for not only dues {t waken the mind that moyes forth amid such an elemental strife, but {t leaves te subsequent alr so pure, and so sweet, und the sky so blue, that in thls cuchanted secne there 4s more than compensation for the long days of thunder and tornado and cloud. GOD OR TIE WORLD. SERMON DY MN, PENTECOST. ‘Mr. Pentecost preached a sermon tn Graco Methodiat Chureh, corner of North LaSalle and White atreets, yesterday morning, at the usual hour, to s large congregation, After the usual prelininaries, Mr, Stebbins saug n selection, roe Mr. Pentecost announced that the plan of his serviecs was never to interrupt the regular ser- vices of the churches Sunday morning, He was shnply the gucst of the pastors that morning. ‘There remained but two weoks of the Union services, and he carnestly hoped that the people would not allow any soctal engagements to keep them from attending, Me Invited the attention of his audience to two or threv verses found In the third chapter of the Eplstle of John, re- ferrin to Christ boing the Hon uf God. fla sald there were threo points contained In that chancer,—frat, the fact; second, the hope; and, third, the consequence.’ We were pro: dessors of religton. ‘The world recognized our professions just so far as our Ives aid actions were conalstunt with our protession, If there was 8 consistency displayed, then our rellelon Was set down os a fact. “The text sald wo were called the children of Gody and we were the children ot Gud. tt was ono thing to be a child of God, nd It was another to be called a chikt of God. It was one thing fora child to sit at the table ina family aud enjoy all the priyi- lewes of a child, and ft was another thine to be a lawful child. Now, we were actually children of God. In Englund, there were noblemen by birth, aud thers Wero also a good many gentlemon by vatent,—thoso whe had worked up to high positfons, cuuloy lug all the privileges of nobility, Under ths head came the Duke of Wellington, Earl Beaconsfleld, and others, upon whom the ky ME or Queen had put the patent of nobility for distingulshed military or political services, ‘The old biue-blood aristd- crate, who dated tlivir nobility from the duys of the Normans, frequently turned up their: poses ut the potent nobility in the Parliament and {un the Important walks of life, und satd the Queen could easily inake a patent nobleman of any ple- betan, but that was nob wobility. Now, wa were really the blood-clifldren of God; there was wothings patent about us. It might be asked: How do we know that wo ara the children of Godt This answer came trom aur own convictions, We felt in our hearts a relationship which we never telt until we wero born the second time. ‘The speaker remem- bered his own expurienco, und it fustiiled the usgertton thutaman may be borti twlee. Hu once dit nob know what it was to ery Abba Father,—he could say thy words, but hu did vot know the signification of the words. ‘The Cheistian felt after hls conversfon Hke an alien and a stranger jn the world where once he was anative. His home was now in Heaven. We had seen glimpses of forms who walked on earth among us, Laviyg all the pow- erg that we posavgsed, yot being moved by tho splrit—iving, moving, and belag among us, vet not of us, nor of the world,” We hid seen gitupaes of the glories of the future, but the {ull mensuru of that glory wo never had com pretended, nor ever would comprehcnd until Wwe were trausformed Into that pew and beautl- ful Mife. David had said that the day would dawn when all things would: be changed; when the relitcous should receive thelr reward, and the wicked thelr just puntzimont according to. their deaurts, Let ws look back over the pages of history; Jook ut Enoch, It was not because uve wis oo milllonaire that he wus cous sidered great, but tliat ho walked with God. It was not things that made us ites: but deeds, It wae not haying thinus, but doin things. It was not Abrahaii's flocks and herds that made hho reat; it was the things whieh he dild, the reeults which bo accomplished, Low had great wealth, He said to bbaself, I will neglect the Lord for a ttle thne, and devote soule attention to the world. In doing this, Lotlost both, and was snatched us a brant from the tae It wos not what Washing. ton or Lincoln hud that made them ereat, it was the thlups that they did. A. 'T, Stowart died with the reputation of bom a rent millonatre, but left nots slugiy thing belind itn whereby he might be remembered by the world {n uratituue, flu died, the thieves stole hla body, and that was the end of bln, ‘There were two dlatingt classes of people in this world, aud another class that partook of thi nature of hoth, One class was of Gad and the other of the world. There was u difference between Abratum and Low The former hud bis heart Med with God, and We other, a child of God, had ils heart tiled with the thiigeuf thia earth, The speaker coneluded by dayitys that he tonged after tho weak children of God, those who hud jJuat enough religion to make them aniseruule, ‘They trivd to enjoy the things of the world, but could not, becuilsu thelr consciences troupled them, ‘These he exhorted to give thelr curts ontirely to Christ, and serve Hin alone, UTAIL THE WIV. D. WIULLAN, 6 home missionary whose fleld of labor ts among the Mormons st Mount Pleasant, Utah, delivered w “talk " lost uight at the Secoud Freabyterian Chureh, cornor of Michigan avenue and Twentieth street, about the people among whom it has becu hls Jot to liye fur the past flye veurs, Owlug to iu threatening aspect of tho weather, thy attendance was nut large. Jy commoncing bls discourse, Sr. MeMilan reviewed the blstory of Mormonism from it propagation fifty yeurs ago to Lue present; ‘re-® counted the causes attending the Mormons? re- woval frum Ohia to Jackson County, Mo, thence to Nauvoo, IH.) und from there to thelr present abldin-place, where 100,000 souls wero pulted iu the pecullar sect whose belles, prac Vice, and depradatian were a curse upon the Aterlean nation, Speaking of thelr beilefa wnd teachings, the speaker sald thut they rue parded Adan os ou person created long fore tw bertnnlng uf the world, und aa their God. ‘They recognized w Suprema Boing, a Supreme Zeus, Who Kusw end “pared nothing abont the things hye earth, Jesus Christ they thought differed from the'rest of humanity only tn that Ito was) thu finmediate Son of God by the Virgin Mary, wherens the rest of mankind traced thelr parentage, through ages, back to Adam. ‘The “Holy Ghost they were Linght to recard as a workor, an ngltator Cor the common causo; and the Holy Spirit, not ns nn fnidividual distinct boing, but ne a condition consequent upon the worl of the Holy Ghost. As for the atonoment through Jeaus, they belicve thut Jesus wasn verfert example. All who falthtully imitated Him would bo saved, ‘Their atonement. by blood was more literal than thatof the evanzelical Chriatian Chireh, "1 hey taught thnt they should cut the throats of afl persous who departed from the teachings of the faith anil withdrew from the folds of the Church. Without this shedding of blood — there could be no remission of sinss: They dtd not cut deserters’ throats. = because they Wanted revyanye, Sbut becanke they destred|ty save the souls of thoro descrtors. It was prob. ably this destre, the speaker said, that actuated the Mountain Meadow massacre, when 139 eml- its Just thefr lives, hey thought that everything of the earth be- longed to them, ‘They were the sworn enemles ofatl mankind who dit not come witht the pale of the Mormon Church, ‘Clcy believed in an probationary state after death, and thut per- fous were released from that state by baptism. Those {u the next world of course could not bo baptized ;therefore thetr living friends uaderwent the formality for them, ‘Chey lad threa sucrar ments,—-Baptism, the Lord's Supper, and Mar- rlage. ‘There were three*ktnds of baptistn: for conversion, for the remission of sins, and. for the dead, — No matter what a man’s crime, bap- tisin cloansed lien from all sin, ‘The sacrament of the Lord's Supper wns administered without remarks commemorative of the ovent revered oy Christians, und water was used tne stend of wine. The marritge sacraments wero three fu nuntber—tor the ordinary marriage, the spiritual marriage, and for polygamy. Amman mtght marry his friond's wife spleitually, that, is, for the next world. Polygamy was regarded as casentlul tv salvation, ‘though the Book of Mormon denounced ft. It was regarded a3 the most fmpartant and stringent doctrine of the kecl anil though the women cried out agalnst it, they submitted to it aa their only hops of salvat(on. A woman und, with them, no future Itfo unless married in polyeamy. When persons entered ‘the Endowment Houso they were given now natnes by whieh they wore known on tho Endowment-House records, which God Himself opened nt the Inst day. A man was forbidden to tell ‘his new name to any- body, for by It he was to'be called at the rese urrectlon. and, if he told, some Uentile might Get into Heaven on tt. ‘The woman was obliged to toll her new name to her husband, tor the husbands were to call thelr wives at the last fay, Men who contnitted crimes under their earthly namies escaped future: punishment therefor, beefae God did not know them by any but ro- corded nunes. A woman was divorced at her i ns pleasure. ‘The husband had but to bay the Chureh S10, and the decreo was granted, Trelting the disgusting barbarous features of Mormonisni, the speaker said tit ho knew of an dustance where o man was imorried ton young woman, to the young woman's mother, and to the aiother’s mother, —threv generations of ong family. ‘The speaker dwelt at length upon tho cruelty, {dlenuss, ive norance, and view In which the chfldren of the Mormons were being ,reared, the revolting Practices upheld and prescribed by the faith, the work of the missfoudrics among the per- verted people, the dangers attending that work, the thriiling accounts of attempts upon the Hives of the inisstonaries., Hu closed with a ro- utest for substantial pecuniary ald toward bulldiny a achool-nouse’ hnd chapel. A collec lion was taken up, THE LONSDALES. London's Latest Scandal. Correspondence Rattimore Sun, ‘The 5 o'ctock tea-partiys ara yery much ngi- tated over the sale of Lord Lonadale’s great collection, This Earl snd peer of the realm, the head of the house of Lowther, set high so° clety iuto spasm Inat year by creating the inat- rimonfal tallt of the season, He then macricd Vat tal}, nearly alx-foot hich, and dark Jewess type beauty, Lady Gladys Herbert. In her tn- medlate elrelo she {gs knglwn by the pet name of ‘In Gltana,” or Gipsy. Sho fs the daughter of the well-known and, esteemed Sydnoy Her- vert, of Crimean fame; and sister of the Marl of Pembroke. Some fowyenra ago Lady Her- bert, the mother of * ta/itana,’” and another daughter joined the yGathone Chureh, The tall” und handsome Gitana did not follaw their example, but .Jashed into the World of Uaiice, song, gad horsemunship, and met Lord Lonadalo, whois her seulor by eight years—she being 23 years of age. Voth loved the world too well, aid not wisely, before and after marriage. ‘The Sushionable bail-rouma of London, Parls, und Vienna, the race-couravs of isurope, the aching apd bunting excursions of the nightand day, the, season and sunshine of Uf found these. attractive two if not the lead- cra at least the chfut features. ‘The art-world was ransacked for Lady Lonsdale, and an In- come of $800,000 per annum brought to her mansion many a costly gen of the paluter aud Jewoler, Her diamond bill in seven months was 000,000, ant her upholstery sud brie-a-brac fuVoices wera double that sum. ‘To this menu the noble Earl addedsundry and divers items, such ns twonty-two blooded ravohorses, various improverments ou the three countrys estates, and. lot—the deyourer oft ull fortunes—a large steam-sacht, the Northumbria. ‘There are some people su very pecullarly con- stituted, either mentally or morally, that helther xn inimense nancial revenue, a quarter ofadozen of country’ estates, o maguillcent town mansion, and tho'luxuries of art, avlence, nud pleasure combined, nor indeed, that ominous and varied circle called * the fashlon- ubie world,” can make up the sum of bapplness. ‘The beautiful Lady Lonsdalo, and the dashing, handsome carl, the head of the house of Lowther, were not happy, ‘There was a akeluton in the costly muustoy's cupboard, and 1 only allude to this caso ag a tyoe uf mony others, and os truly portraying the life of the most modern Brilish aristagrucy. Wher at Palermo lust fall L heard and saw something of the xa chit “ Northunibria,” ond, later on, when near’d Theard and saw something of my Lady Loni dale leaning ou the arin of that notorious youn rake, Sir Jolin Lester, Kayo, u Yorkshire Bar- onet, slightly taller than “la Gitana,”? und of that drab or’ pale-ale yleage Har to. those who think * the bost of all ways for to lengthen. thelr days {s to steal a few hours from night.” Both are in the spring of fife, aud noth ara of that epeed dawn hill which may bo termoad rapid, Ilis mother, with lynx wye, looks ot, on, and over the palr, while Lord Lonsdale ja on the Northumbria, off thy coust of Aluerla, wheru romor says he has, made’ some well-known efforts not to lenethen hig days or nights oltter, When a Yorkshire, Haronet of youre wud worldly waya bocomas avkeleton im the cup. beard of any mansiop, you way be sure the furs miture, pictures, brigu-brac. nid even the pers sonal gems of lustrous brilliancy, bevome very soon under the sway of the aucloucer’s ham mer, And thus has {t come tu pags, fa period of Nttle more than, elght months of hongy- moon,” that our fasblouable 5 o'elock tea is in aw troubled sca of excitement over the head aud front of offending of the chief af the Lowthers’ sady, A Dendly Point of Pronunclation, Sun Franetsco Tost, At a wedding in South Carolina last month an Incident oveurred aptly Muatrating soclal Ife in the United states. ‘Tho bridegroom, who Ue- longed to the “irst Southern familics," took Huon to the phragcolozy of the oMleiating clergyman, ant remarked, * You shoulin's say Vibose une whom the Lord hath fined Lugether, but them uns,” ‘The preacher, whe prided him- self upon the “bigi-toned " quality of his Ione wuage, quletiy dropped hls hand tute the pocket: of bits surplico and interpolated: “You jlet paddle FOUr own einog, young feller, or your trouble! begin aune enn, Pin rannitiys this tea-party, 1 am,—ue lvald afore, my_ beloved hearers, —thosu und as the Lord "——, Just then tur bridegroom made a notion towird bis hip, but before tis coutd draw the inintster fired from his pocket nnd the youu man fell dead nt hits feet, Inatantly the whole oburch was tlled with blaziug platols, In lesa’ thu five seconty the only person loft allve was the bride, who had ucked behind the pulple: early in the action, ‘Tue hall-murcied tomate gazod niusingly wround wid remarked o8 she started for homes Theso well-cocking revolyers’:da plaving the milschicl round hero, and that’s s facti” ss Tho Orlgluad Brother Jouathan, Pyadeivhta Prove, Goy, Jonathau ‘Trumbull, of Comiecticut, Was the original * Brower Jonathan.” tte wus always so addressed ‘by Gen, Wushingtog, and ‘natly the whole Yankeo nation, wil cepectally New England, becuine sobriquetted, character ized, mint tdgutitied in the persou of ' Brother Jonathan”. ‘Trumbull, a plutu, unassuming, bonvst, contnon-sense man, who resided in Leo anon. When fn sult dress, * Breather Jonathan”? ‘Trumbull looked very much as he ts now repro- wouted in what ta geuerully supposed to be a caricature, Hu was of a tall, gauut form, and, Wore a ewallow-tall home-apun cout, mauufse tured th hte fatntiy out of wool roived on hisown farm, aud colored with maple-bark procured fram his own wood-piie, the dye betny set with fron dings outaiucd from the, Dlackamith-shop iu the neighborhood. His genteel Gebt-ttting trowserg, reaching ox {actives short of his anktes, were muds of striped Jinsey-woulsvy, prepared and spun in bla own fauilly., MONDAY, .APRIL 7, 1879-TWELVE PAGES. CITY AFFAIR ie The Organization of the Council ---Damocratic Plans, tae How to Make Up the Committoes-.- Peoplé Wao Want Ohair- mahships, Nothing Definite Yet In Regard to Mr. Harrison’s Appointecs. ‘Thero Js beginning to be much oxeltement In Aldermanic circles over the make-up of the Com- milttves for the coming year. Last year, anit two years ngo, the respectable membors of thu Coun- cil, as distinguished from the bunmers, held cauctises and put through their slates, which mot with goneral approyal outsite, of course, of the Atdermante bummer-cirete, Thls yoar, how- ever, $t {a understood the case will bo difforent, proyidiig two or three of the Gouncll members can bo cocreed. Lt ts proposed by the Democrats (hat they shall, take the formation of the Com- mittecs Into their own hands os a party meas- ure, Whether they will allow tho Republicans tu select members for cach Committee, 18 uscd to be the old fashion, fs not known, there boing a variance of opinion onthe subject. But in order to carry through any such programme there has to ba CONSIDERADLY FINE WORK DONE. It fs ueccssnry to havo the votes of all the Dom- ocrats und of Cullerton, and cven thon thera ts but half the Council yoting for the schedule, so that the Mayor's casting Yote would havo to ba called in to put the thing through. Citllerton, St 1s understood, can bo held tn allogianea by ety- Ing hin the Chairmanship of the Committee on Gas, Ho would preter thaton Finance, and ho will doubtless be given also u position on that Conunittee, but not its Chairmanship, os that will probably be given to a respectable member who will be expected to act asa mere figuro- head. The Committes on Public Butldings, which Mr. Cullerton would like to bave the su- pervision of, 18 too Important a ono to bo given away to o rather uncertain ad- herent. There orc nolso fears cntertalned in strict Detnocrattc circles about the fealty of Ald. Phelps, who has no aympathy with bummerism, and who waa lected by Ree publican votes froma heavy Republican ward. It is beloved, however, by the Vemocrata that he will bo whipped Into the traces, and that they will succeed fn carrying torough thelr imvasure, ‘There wos A PRIVATE CONFERENCE held Saturday, {t is understoud, the matter. was ¢alked over. There wore Present both some members of the Coun- eff und some of the leaders of the Democracy, ‘That which the Inttor are seeking to ayold fs the cvaralnuelig of the respectable clement in the Council by the bummera, who are inn majority fa a Democratic caucus there, ‘The Councilmen fre naturally distuelined to Hsten to any dictus tlon on this subject, but the Jeaders, feoling how much future success dependa upon the uso which =the Democrats make of thelr temporary victory, aro exceadingly urgent in thelr oiforts to force on the naw City Gov- ernmont the preservation of the appearance, at Tenet, of economy and respectability, It was de- etded at this meoting, waere the Aldermanic ispute in the Sixth Ward was also tulked over, aunt whero the opinion was genurally exoreased Unt Curran ought to be got, in some way or other, to adjourn until tho middle of this weelt, when some furtheraction will probably be taken, ‘The feeling among some of the Alderman is that Mr. Tuley should bo ra-elected to his posl- tion as relies ofllcor, for which they consider him woll fitted, owing to hia exportence und his ability to declde w polut according to the exi- woucics of the cua. THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMITTED for the cuaulng year {fs perhaps that on Public Bulldings. Ald: Phelps is at present the sec: ond mambor on st, und some are In favor of putting lin at tts head, while others profer that he should bs put. on the Finance Committeo, in order to give that 2 color of roaportability. ‘the first-named Committoy will haye to be com- posed almost entirely of new men, since of the present. mem4ere Ballard, Republican, 13 the only one re-elected, Ald. Mevaffrey, who served on tho Publle Bulldings Committee of the County Board, aud bas had much experi: enco fu Courtellouso matters, too much pet haps, [8 auxlous to got the Chairmanabip, aud hagu strong backing for that position, One suggestion was that the Committee on Finance should be mada up of Phelps, Sanders, and McCormick, with sono member to bo alluwed the == Republicans = und. ona to the Soclalists, possibly Ald, Stauber. The Committco on Publie Butldings it was proposed to makeup of MeCaffros. Jonas, and Cullerton, with two places to bu iilled by the opposition. They have, in a rough way, bareeled out among themavlves. TUE CHAINMANSIUPS of the other Committees a3 totlows: Judictary, Tuley; Pottce, Lawler; Markets, Peevey; Elec ons, ‘Tuley, with two other trustivortiiv mem- bers upon it; Bridewell, McNurney; Schoute, McCorinick; Licenses, Elszner; Fire and \Wa- ter, McCuffroy; Wharvea and Public Grounds, Narrett: Kaflroads, Sanders; Local Asscsa- ments, Purcell. It {s the ain to shove Soff the Republicans and the Socialists upon the unim- portant committcos, giving them, If need be, o majority on Health und County Relations, Streets nnd Alicys, und Local Asessmonts} but thy really Important oncs—Bulldings, Finance, Raflroada, Fire and Water, Police, und Gas— are to be kent in the hands of the Democracy. THB 'UNLICAN MEMIERS have not os yet discussod the subject, thinking its ttle premature, for {t 1s not likely that the new Council will got {oto running order befora May 1, und it may tako a week, perhups a ttle more, before the machinery of the Connell con bo fully organized. ° ‘here are fears entertained by the Republicuna thut, in caso the Democrate are unable to influence some of thelr mombors hke Flips and) MeCoruick, they will cutica some weak Ropublican brother to thelr ald by the promise of thu Chuirmanship of a Coins mittee, und thus suecoed in carrylug thelr polut through. ‘They ara beuiunlng, therafore, to stiffen up the back-bones of those whoin ‘they consider weak in the falth, and to exhurt then: not to yield to any promises from the onemy, “TNE MAYON-ELECY stilt keeps his own counsel as to the persons whom he proposes to appoint to ofices, and, white thero ara hundred of conjectures as to the lucky fellows, tt fe absolutely impossible to nay which of thein ars correct. 3t ts only certalin that be will try to get as good men as ho pot bly can to M1 the two ofllces with whit the most futimate personal relations! poration Counsel and Comptroller. ‘The names of yurious ‘promincat Democrats have been Mentioned th connection with the frat-named alilve, but. the miajarity of them seem disin- ellued to aveept a place which lusts for so short ‘atime, sud the acceptance of which would bu juterfere with theit regular busiogss, Among those more recently named for COMPTROLLER is C, It, Wallor,: of the North Side, a real- estate agont, Who has just beoa recommended by the dudes to the Governor for the position of Justice of the Peave, In view of the fact that thls otlice Inate: four years und pays bettor than the Comptrotiership, it {a very “unlikely at which “that there fs uy teuth a the suggestion of his nume, Musare. W. J. Onahan and John For- sythe hove also been mentioned, but tt is safe to way that neither of them will be sppointed. In fact, it is pretty easy to say, us regards n° num. ber of the offices, who will not be appointed, but very difticult to pick out the mon who will autuall¥ go Ty, * ‘Thera ts tall now about passing an ordinanco roviving the pluce of CITY MARSHAL, which was abolished back in 1876, after it had been occunled by Mr, Dunlap andi, E, Goodell, ‘The only dittleulty about it is that the Appro- briution bill hug pasaud, and there can bu no up- proprtutlon inade for salary during the present year, [tis claimed, however, thatit fs impor. tant to have a trusted partivan ut the bead of ‘Me. police Force, iit can be doue without inter- fering with uny of thy pledges mude to the presuut: Buperintondent, and. that the diflleulty could all be gotten around by recreating the ollice of Marshall und putting in Frank Agnew, ls salary for the current’ year—only wrebt jnontha are felt of It—to be inade up. MF sub scriptions by the futthful. As regards the tuiuor ollie, It te quite certaio now thut noth. Ing will bd'done concerning them until the mid- dle of nest month, ns ,. Halo of Valuable Palntings, Nay Youu Aprit 83—Seventy-one palotings werv'sold iu this city to-night for over $83,000, “the lot embraced” the private collection of Mr, Alpurt Spencer, of thig city, Scldom fa pict- ure gallery te there tuund such a choles average pressed to auch yorivties of excellence, ‘Ve t paluters ot Frauce, Spaly, vud Belgium ra represcuted. ‘Ihe Jute Narelssc Diuz had te examples of bis wurk suld. Jacque was seen fn four svecimaus; Schreyer In three Jaro and Important ones} the mngteal Holdini, ia five of ily sunny caprices, Madraze $1 four ox- amples, Plassan fu four, and Van Marcko in three. Thera wero palitins by Millet, Dau- Wiuny, Troyon, Fromenttit, Corot, — Pastil, Goroaic, Cabanel, Coutura, Molssonter, Lefebre, aud waits. ‘The higheat-priced picture was Geromo's “Keeper of the Houngs.” Tn this the forme of 6 brace of tawny African gray-hounda aro befora a laughing native, dressed fu rich Oriuntat coa- tume, It brought 66,000, Ruimonde do Madrazo's: “Entrance to 9 Spanish Church " sol/l for 85,850, ‘Ie picture fs one of this Spantiri's best cfforts, and is almost beyond pralwo/ und is certainly a inaster- ieee, “ B Hoth of these pletures wore purchased by T, R. Butler, Presidont of the Sixth Avenue Mall- road Company, dain gala e's Winter Travel in Rusala 80! or 84,50). N. Diaz's “Btindman's'Bulk " brought $4,000, A water-color, “The 'Republican Sentinel,” brought $2,100, Had It been an ofl-pninting tt would have suld for may more thousands, for tho artist, Meissonter, his written an its back, “Thla is’ the first timo T algn a palnting with which Tom absolutely satisiiedt.? Another water-color by the same artist sold for $2,000, Vasini's "Mosque of St. Sophia” brourht $2, as ld Adam Shrever's * Arabs Resting.* "6 ‘the Shepherdnss of Barbizon,” by J.T. Miller, aold for 23,500; one of Boldini's exquisite vieturca for $2,100. A Mouruereau brought 81,100. Ono_by Corot fetched 31,0765 a Vibert, $1,500. “Once tpon oa ‘Time, by Hughes Merle, sold for $2200; Nilsson na “Ophelta,’” by Cabanel, §1,100; nnd go on through the entire lot. Vefore the snlo commenced, Gouptl, the colo- brated art dealer, totd me that he sold the Geroma to Mr. Spencer. I usked what it was worth. Ho said tt ought to ‘bring between $4,000 anc! $5,000, ‘The prices realized aro far in excess of whut ‘Was anticipated. OBITUARY, Prof, Dantol Vaughan, Cinornnati, April 6.—Prof. Dantol Vauehan, well known throughout the United States and Europe as un astronoiner, Nngalst, and arithima- tictan, died tn the hospital to-day, In this etty, sged $2, Prof. Vaughan was born in Ireland, hut chine to thls country when quite young, and for the past twonty-llve yoars had been a real- dent of this city. ‘Ur. Charies Jowett. Correanandence New Yark Times, Nonwicn, Conn., April3.—Dr, Charles Jewett, one of the oldest and imost effective workers In the tomaperance cause In the United States, died here to-day in the 72d year of his aye. Ho was a native of Lisbon, near this place. Thouxh his name fa vot sv widely known as that of John B. Gough, or of Neat Dow, he has un- queattonably accomplished far moro than elther of them !n working out tenperance reforin, and §s looked upon in New Enulund as one of the plonecr nposties in this movement, He was a mun of enthusiasm, diainterestedncks, benevo- Tonce, and croat tact, These qualities and bis marvelous story-telling faculty gave him an un- paralleled influence with all classes of suclety. Illa smooth-shaven, strong Yankee face, with tty keen blua eye and a cordial smiic, was fainiliar to thousands of men from Nova Scutla to the Mississippl River. Dr. Jewett’s first interest ia the tempuranco cause dates from bls 10th year. He was stitdy- ing medicine w bis father’s office when the tum- berance movement of 1820 started fn the New Englund States. Young Jowett's father suc- gested to him that he preparo w protest agalist the further sale of liquor in their own town of Lisbon, and addresa the samo to the Selectmen, Reflection und observation iduced In tie preparation of this, vrotest led to the con yictions thut thereatter directed his whole life. ‘Tho protest to the Sclectmen was written in 4 verse, One hundred coples were sceretly printed at night at tha father's expense, und’ publicly posted on houso and tree, and stealtully slipped under people's doors aruwnd the vil- Inge green. In 1827 o local temperance so- clety was formed, of which young Jewett and his) father were members. Beafnuing the practice of his profession at Enst Greon- wich, RT, da 188, he immediately devoted bimeelt to the new cause in o quiet way among his persoual acquaintances, is second public elfort was an address de- lvered June 8, 1832, in Everett, 2.1, supporting Levi Meek, a Baptist elder, in the assertion that moderate drinicra exercised n mora perniclous Influence on society. than .dryglcards.:;For, fovs: eral years Dr. Jewett's labors were contlued to Rhode Istand, is place of residence bulny changed to Contreville, In the Town of Warwick, in 1635, nud to Providence in 1840, In 1837 be was appointed agent for the State ‘Temperance Soclety of Rhode Island, and abandoned the Paactice of medicine, but the Hnanefal crash of that year left so many persons his debtors, and iis own flnaneva were so atlected thereby, that hw resumed practice in Providence, During all tits purlod ke traveled from town to town de- livering addresses to local socletics, Ife recelved nd compensations for his Inour, however, al- though bis expenses were paid for him. Aside from his addresses, he did much good by writing vorses lu n jingling, popular style, full of keen satire on the rum-seller and run-ariuker. Two incidents of Interest tn this pertod of lis Mfe were his conversion from un vecastonal drink- ertoan abstainer, and his thoughtless purticl- pation in the Hquor traffic bimaulf. In 1335 one Ben Johnson, a hurd drinker, excused hls own. Indulgenca in gin sud water after n day's work by eltiny Dr, dowett’a rare but mnconcealed uso of a glasa of wiue aftor along and fatleuing ride, ‘The hatf-tauntiag’ comparison led Dr. Jowett to sce the neccusity for entirely discos. tiuulng the pse of even Ighter Hauors. On bis removal to Centreville he brought with hin w barre] of cider more than he needed for vinegar, and sold it toa man of whose bablta he knew nothing, Tlie purchaser soon became shocking ly-intoricated with the cider. As the townspeo- plo had Jony tuken especial effort to prevent the Poor fellow obtaining Hquor, the incident cree ated a decided sensation, ‘The Masuachugetts Temperance Unton now secured hia services asa lecturer at a salary of $1,200 n yeur. ‘Two years previous to this there had been a widespread temperanes oxeltement. in that State, which culminated in the passage of a Probibitory Jaw, but thia was repealed In 180 through the efforts of the wholesale daalera, und tho mutter uf conse waa thus loft optional with the County Comnuaslonera, Commencing at Dedham, worklug syateratically all over the Btate, und securing the co-operation of other reformers, Dr, Jewett succocded in persuading the Com- inissioners of one county after another to stop ‘tho gale, until every ong of them had yl lded hotore 1810. Meautime Dr, Jewett did much to orgupize aud develop plaus for beainottie the work by securing revenue from local gocletics to be dovoted to disseminating temperance truths, An oflicial’ paper of the Union, the Zemperance Journal, wis regularly publiahed, to. whieh avery mombar of u society was expected to Bub. scrite, Thus the paper secured a circulation of 25,000 fu two years, and the almanac und tract 70,000 nore, “But the rlyntry of the Washingtun movement now began to be felt, and by takin away many of the rosourees of the Mussn- ehurctta Cnion, crippled ite warlt seriously. ‘The sallent feutures of that inoyement were tha demand made oo the clergy that they mako temperance a church movement, take tile cause {nto thelr own hands, and oxcludo all but totul abatainers trom church = members sip. = This was recorded = by) Dre Jewett as ao grave mistake, as {t really ro- pellud muny nunistors who would otherwisu have been ‘valuable helpers. Mo also disap- Proved of the adoption ot a ritual und the forma- Uon of sccret socictles called Sons of ‘Temper- once, which was the outgrowth of the Baltimore wovoment, Ho believed i open meetings, ‘The Jace Goy, Bucklugham, of Connecticut, wind Neal Dow, among the earlier chawptons of tem- Peranco Iu Now England, avreed with Dr, Jew- ott herein in theuryand practice. The Wasbing- tonlan plan also pledged signers to abstain from datilled Liquors only. ‘This, too, Dr, Jewett reprehended strongly. To 1315, the revenues of the Magsachusctts Unlon bevoming duipabad by the allenation of mony of its auxiiuriea, Dr, Jowett resigned hls poultion, and fu 1817 accept- ed a call ta the ageney of tho Nuw Hampshire Btate Temperance Soctaty, At thuttime there wero no oxteuslye or aygtemntic oporations iu the Btato, | Ho remained there elzhteon mouths, and then resignod, owing to the criticism of an Indiscroet membor of the Executive Board, Bubsequently be-Isbored fn Comecticut u few months, and then retired from tamparanco work, intending to reeuine the practice of medicine, Dut a small farnewas presonted hii in Millbury, Mass., by tho.teototalers of that State, When Neal. Dow sveured the paseuze of the Maluo taw tu 1841, Jewett went to that State and alded that Rephibitlontat with Iecturea, Hu also delivered adugesicy in the cause since then tn Vermont, Ny Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Lo Canada, New York, New forsey, Penusylvuota, Maryland, lowa, fllnots, ‘Tennessee, Miehleau, ail Minugsota, . {le resided in each of the sev- eral Western States for a few years, subsequent- ds in New York City, und in 1872 camo wack to Norwkh, Conn, a jew mites from bis old hon, to spend hia declining yeure. During atl thls Uimg he has been engaged chiedy in unretnuner: allyg temperance work, and during bis iiness of the past few months has suffered, from ta- digence, A movewent was bezun receutly in Boston to collgut.tuUusey fur his roliuf His matady waa heart diseaso, nnd ho ling been ken Joan tpright sltting position for many weeks,’ Cheator WH, Mull, New York Tribune, Anvil 4, § Cheater H. Hull, whose death in 8an Franeiy, co, March 31, ‘was announced in Tucsilay’s 73 > ne, was the author of the original platform ¢ the Kearncy Workingmuan's party fa Califor Gnd olgo of the caritor speeches of the aang Jot” orator. Hull was a Bohemian Journal of rather intemperate habits, but with bripht and ready wit. Ho was oxtramely tond o hoaxes, and waa the orlginatur of the Cardiq Uiant Imposition. He confessed to having hay a hand in burying the lant in Onelda Couny ‘Then he wroto up its history. A gentlemay ving in San Francisco at the timo gives the fo. lowly history of Hull’s connection with Kea. noy? . When the Kuarney movement was fing started, and before Meatuey's fate was know, Veyond the club of whieh lu was a tember AW was a weltor on the San Franelsco Chron, tee. By the adyico of some other Journalists, who had been offered and. who had de clined the work, he was) employed tg write the Kearney platform, tho - burde, of which was ‘The Chineso must 0," anf tho emblem of which was a rono with a noose fy it. Mull undertook: the taak, which he regardey as a quod jeat, and ho fueerted severat provi. fons {n the platform which nullified each other, Ho alao filled the original apcech of Kearne with ridiculous hyperbulee nud extravagant p. riods, which the orator dolivured with sayagy serlousnesa. The term in which Kearnoy aj. dreseed Butlor ag “the white-plumed Navarg of the rostrum? was taket by Hull from Q well-Kiown specch of tho Hon. ‘Thomy Fiteh, called on the Paelfle const “the ait ver-tongucil orator.” When Kearnoy was ay. rested in San Franciseo, nnd tried before the City Criminal Court for his incendiary speeches, Hult became greatly mlarmed lest his know connection with Kearney’s moat Incendiary yy, terances should involve him in the puntshinent which then threatenod nia agitator. After Keurney’s escape from the hands of the law, was not known whether or not Hull continual to write for him; but ho was so thoroughly frightoned ut the storm he liad helped to ral thut it is thourbt to be hardly Mkely. MISSISSIPPI. Vor Laborers Lonving by the Thoumnt, Her Young Mon Ignorant, Rude, and Law leas—Tho Pinnting Intorost In Distress, Corresponitence Sew York Tribune, Wasmrnaron, D. C., March 28,—A gontlemin who owns property fn Mississippl, aud hus spent the Inst year in thut State, ins recently artlyel in this clty. LHe says that the condition uf af fairs in that State ts deplorable. Bankers tei fuse to lend any more moncy ov real state a curity, Merchants find ft impossibte tu make advances to plauters, taking - crops a sccurity.fain effect, he says, the entire credit system of thu State hus heen destroyed. ‘There {a little ready money, nud distress and ruin stare all classes in the faco, The political dts turbvanees have driven away the investments of Northern cnpital and enterprise, and the pest) lence Inst summer has finished the work that tho bulldozers began four years ago. A retura of the yellow foyer the coming summer fs gen erally expected, Io saya, that in Vicksburg there have been sporadic cases of the fover all winters that nothing whatever has been done to improyo the sanitary condition of that clty, and Uhut already people are ucginning to take the alurin und to make preparations. to fleo from the place. ‘ Speaking of the report that large numbers of the negrocs ore leaving tliat State for the North, he says that the movement fs fast assuming the proportions of np hegira, and is caustug general alarm among the planters througout the State, From the’ river counties of Misstesippi below Vicksburg alono indre thin 2,000 colored per sous have removed ‘to ‘the Northern States since the ist of January Inat, must of them bound for Kansas, but inany aetiing in ilinols and Tudiana, fle says that the negrocs who thus remove take almost as many precautions to Ret away os they formerly did to escape slavery. Part of a family will board a boat at one Jauding and part at another, to avoid ex- citing suspicion, ‘fhe local press of the Stato, he says, fs ‘filled with denunciations of Yaukes ogonts, who aro sald to be enticlnys the colored Jaborera to leave the State, und they are threatoned with al) sorts of punishment ifcausht. Ie thinks that, if an employer were to bo found in Mississippt lirlng negroes to go to a Northern State to Works He sould a tikoly to. Fenala the same Kind of atent tint jras meted out to snr itorentae presi Mat caugiit in the State durlng the days of slavery. To says tho ex- eltement ot the planters on this subject fs so grent that they have been trying to \nduce Gov, Stone to convene tho Levista- ture and secure the enaetmant of somo leiisla: tlon to prevent the exodus of thelr Inborers, but the Governor bas thus far declined to do us they desire. ‘Tho planters, too, are beginning to xeo tht fn order to keep thelr laburees they Must allow them to think and yote as they choose, ant he remarks that ome of them al- ready berlin to say openly that the most im portant matter to them Js to have labor to cultl vate thelr Junds, wid thut politics must zive way to thia; the negrues must ve allowed to yoru and to nave their votes fairly counted. Ho sais that the cliof interest of thé State—vlanting—is begioning already to sulfer from the natural re= actlon from the bulldozing, To show huw “home rule! works in prac tlee, the zontluman referred to relates an incl dont. Not lonz ago ono of the Domocratle “clubs? in Wilkinson County, Mise, becoming red of inuction, masked themselves ono night, motnted thelr horses and rode about the couu- ty, telng off thelr guns as they halted at the plantations to frightan the negrocs, but vom- mitting no acta of ylulonce, ‘The next day the flghtencd colored people began ‘to appear in crowds xt the county-seat, und refused to return, to the pluntations. ‘The planters, ta who every, dy nt this season fs valuable, wero justly fudignant, and had several of the leadora of the midnight ald arrested and lodged in juil. News of thelr Incarceration went abroad ‘and rencli-. ed West Feliclaua Pariah, on the oppet site wide of the Miasisalppl, fu Lou- fsiana, A company of the — White Leagus from that parish at once inyaded +Mississippl, marched to the town where thelr comrades were contlned fn fail, und demanded their toimedinte relvase, saying that the men had committed no off » had only been on o “lark tu Inaplre the “niggers” ‘with whole- sume fear, wid concluded thelr demand with tho threat that unless It was compiled with they would burn the towns ‘Fhe privoners were re- leased, and the White Leaguers returned to their Loulstuun homes, ‘The plinters, fearkiyy that there Will oe other “Jarks” of the samu sort, and fluding that the authorities aro powor+ lege to arrest und punish the guilty, ara organs fzing for self-protection and arming their lubor- ers. Ono of the Yeading negroes ou each plane tatlun ts uppolnted Captain of this Improvised home-yuard, td bis employes enlist as privates in tha company, ‘This looks a8 thong under ber boasted humo-rule Misslastppt has madu # long stride toward wnarchy, ‘The gentleman who glyes this information reproaents tit the youn men of te State gen- erally have grown up from boynvod alace the War, without education (thers are now-few pubic schools in the State worthy of the name) or reapeet for law ind order, Thous saute of thems have bevome familar, as members of the Waite Leagoe, with argon and intrders and they aro generally indolent, ahiftivas, wud poor, forming a dangerous wnt powerful elument o! nocioty wiiteh ts already dreaded by thu cous servatlve property-ownera, who are in the ininority.. Ue thinks the Stutu ts surely, and hot slowly, drifting iute a condition of anarchy. aL. W, ——— Drondfut Golllery Disnster in New Zoalauds ‘The Auckland ventuy Star of Fob. 23 gly an account of a terrible explosion of fire-damo which uvcurred wt the Kattungata cos! ming, Dunedin, Now Zealand, on the 2ist of February. ‘There were thirty-five mien nnd one boy in die milue, all of whom were killed, the boy belts blown a dlatanee of fifty yards, Over 100 ehil- drou wore rendered fatheriess by tha aceldeut. ' An cyo-witnesa soya nearly avery one in the township was at the rmlue’s, mouth, and the alr was tilled with the lamentations of women wud enildre dt was o sud sight to seu tho deud men brought out ony by one and latd ou stretchers, und then mt fn the train which took tem to the Bridge Iotel.. “All thu faces excepting two looked 2a if in sleep, and the two young fellows who had the horges were battered about the head, having been blown some distunee, The Bisht of éticka nnd stones at the tine of the explo- ston Was tremendous, und o tufes green smoke hung like o pull over the tunnel's mouth for ubout ten minutes, ‘The ining ts entered by a. main drive or tunnel, Thy workings rlav a3. they penctrate the hill, and the fall “which as slat the drainage causes foul alr tu accumulate ju the upver cud of the mine, ‘The yeutilution bas to trayel all around the ming and cone back to thu alr-shaft, which $s about 150 yards frum ihe mouth of the tunnel. ‘the workinga ex- tend about 50) yards from the entrance ‘The Greatest purt.ui the men appeared to have eavaped the first effect of the fire-damp, aud. Werg tnakiny for the mouth of the mine, when they were ovorpowered by the “after damp.” Some of then inust have gone from ene to two hundred yards ucfore Urey fell. At ony place thirteen budive were found fn a Leap.