Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 31, 1881, Page 9

VHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY | 3i, 1831—SIXTEEN PAGES. v RELIGIOUS. ¢ Judge Black’s De- of the Christian Faith. a ones and Methods of the Re- figious Tramp and Dead- Beat. ee on Behalf of the » ese cr and Shop- Women. eet: ad Hotes at Home and Abro: Get sonal Mention—Sun- «day: Smiles. view 0 fense gsBBATH MORNING. “Tis Sabbath morn; Acoli shed, and labor's wheel apetnsy hum Is Bute Sear. A calm pervades, sed te the e2 Ey es ts soothing intluence to the coal, . duties of the day. settt fal hour "tis sweet 10 pa * t departed hours emories of bere mind, making sweet music ps, we laid us down to sleep; pees gered day of Fest has come. Poe rejoice to Kaw that we may spend. iterated ‘time in humble prayer. Het ed communion, and In holy prats satra sweet reliot from Anxious care, awnot each returning Sabbath brings! as mero bidthe weary SoU! arise, | ae off tho dust of six days’ toil, Mount asoncagles’ Wings, renewed in strength jy wating 00 the Lord.” no rain thoughts rboor pence is day, and when at eve Jelneer ‘till amid its holy scenes, linger St s¢ go coon the morrow’s light vip the cares of earth again, seal arts burn within ns, winy We feel rh ‘reapo ota tittle further on— ‘Pesbhath nearer home. This precious day, seto man bath sanctified, pee tn lore tof tho rest above. io that glorious resurrection morn, $f ntrom the dust of death we shall arise, arrebe found clothed in a spotless robe—~ Te Savior's ‘Righteousness, and with the That Vesvenly Sabbath spend. No shade can ae! ceaseless ra} H En iheeiemre tes doth reise Js elory, andits Light. ——_ ‘} INGERSOLL AND BLACK. + ~ \ REVIEW OF THE SYMPOSIUM. | othe Editor of Dee mpune, F July 32—When a man so emi- ue nonin the legal profession as Judge Black 4 undertakes a discussion of any proposition “Sccuudum allegata ct probata » the pub- tichas good reason to expect that he will ad- here closely to the points at issue, and meet fairy and honestly every argument pre- santed against him, One is therefore some- what surprised upon reading his reply to Gol, Ingersoll, published in the North ‘American. Review, for the month of Angust, to notice that he is not free from Tigotry, and may reasonably be charged ith dishonesty in the treatment of the sub- ject before him. {situota rather painful spectacleto behold among the leading lights of the American Republic at the present time, a man who woud, if it were in his power, use the civil authority fo prevent the expression of honest opinion, and that fochaman should be no less a personage than the ex-Attorney-General? The state- nent made by Judge Black that his duty is tutof apoliceman, to arrest ‘“‘an offense Rd ts, the con- nemy Of ‘speech, eratleast 50 narrow-minded and bigoted ton the subject, of religion as to regard te ion of opinions the opposit of his ownas “ an offense against public decency.” Tusnot this eminent jurist fallen into the coxmon bigotry of the defenders of an ab- plu system of faith? And ishe not guilty of thesame arrorance with which hecharges Mr Ingersoll, when he says of him “when ke finds all authority human and divine asiinst him, he had better speak in a tone kes arrogant”? — Would “it not be nor becommg in him io . retreat fmm the assumption that ‘tall authority hbuman and divine” is against his op- Yount and proceed to present some of that authority for the benefit of his read- ia Surely alittle modesty would not be a even in so great a man: denmiah S$ Black, 5 ee nee 4 has been no change in the thought {theage but only in the modes of expres- it ys this learned rentleman, ‘* for the a chsses of society have always hated the pre ‘Which ‘threatens. punishment ea th.” Does Judge Black for an in- perlite by such argument as this, to ‘avinee any respectable portion of the ERE clases that People who deny the tee of an eternity of punishment for c vont the one: short life, or the sub- ety the Atonement, are any ‘es lawabiding citizens than those who a devout belief in Retell of civilizatio i i 0 aon find the vast major- Heer best citizens to be men who do rime these doctrines? And.1s it eve th fae majority of ae elteens of ee leares| aris: ed adherents of these iene mre apport of the proposition that “ There wien mal God, the Creator of the material an ptdee Black offers but one argu- oy bine pan "erse must linve 2 preéxisting, self-con- Set peng Beease itcould not have ex- a tet laving been created, and that meget Divine intelligence could plan Cu the ee 2) Stem of worlds. I would ask, ters aes be greater than its crea- a aye i assume that it terse is no greater Fills Power whielt created it, ‘and “it taheelore Jess marvelous ‘that the Fi oe have, existed uncreated, ui » far greater than the etc els and Which created it, always Ss withon Statement that “nothing could tithe created” is contradicted iq Satem ent that there must have been ised self-conscious Being.” And Rinase Mae sonable to suppose that the een all its grandeur, which makes Poems paproachiing nearest Atheism bre pres grat itsmanificenc should & elitby an a Universal Being,— lnepe ust name you will—which miu Nims? unereated “before the Sons to establish the Divine an- Or say: gg gt G0Sbel narrativedtare entitled to the t 7 paler credit than depositions. As a Cepdeg Utdge Black ts fully aware th: Sener Tz such credit, for the best aus ca they Were not wri rit of the east a hundred years after the 5; led_deponents, and were le in the im- x Bhat ee tepestions? hy eeRten es Be athe dee willingly believe ppreteat, the socalled “denies 2 ‘ aS if for no other reese mitt one “that the evidence Wag a re the presence of the wit- ySigned by them,” for the hese documents is at best only Inaeic24 would be clearly in- ory tas the one at bar. atonement, the at eration begs the cucsion ares arist. by, His teachings, His “ iis honest. opinions,— Talin qui cb rblekt Ue preferred actor, n ersoll, will deny: bur: or a HE gee of eer if Te SUE yw an innocent ‘the guilty Wi possibility. Upon the contribution of Judge Black as the argument of a lawyer jnade in an important cause, or asan opinion pronounced from the Bench by one wearing the judicial ermine, it is certainly illogical i all its conclusions, and. its author has _evi- dently fallen into the very common’ error of those who have made similar attempts, for he deals only in “glittering generalities ?~ quite unworthy of alawyer or Judge, and his many assertions, without proof to sustain them, indicate that he is no less, *¢ 0 flamed. with vanity ” and “blind with passion n?? than. Mr. Ingersoll, and is altogether niore “ arro- gant.” The paper is an unsuccessful attempt to “bolster up ” the orthodox theories of the atonement, future punishment, and Biblical inspiration, and as such it utterly fails of its purpose, which leads to the inevitable con- clusion that the cause he advocates is a weak one, for he uses only the weapons of despair. RELIGIOUS TRAMPS. THEIR MODES OF OPERATING—SOME INTER- ESTING INSTANCES OF REFORM. New York Sun. “That is a religious tramp,” said ManagerBunting of the Christian Home for Inteutperate Men. The man had apparently just passed middle life. “ Te can sing fine- ly, pray earnestly, and exhort eloquently. I sh Leould talk as well as he can.”” “Why do you call him a religious tramp?” “will explain. There are religious tramps just the sameas there are tramps who prey upon the general public, aud who are honest enough to make no pretense of re- ligion. These religious tramps are known to every evangelist, clergyman, and philan- thropist. They haunt Gospel temperance meetings, make religious professions in the meetings of the women’s Christian Unions, are present at the mission-rvoms, and when one city fails to afford them further pecuniary relief they start out in the track of 4 temperance orator, or follow up some revival movement, visiting all parts of the country. God is not de- it We are not deceived. Srany, just such men, however, have been saved, and haye Jed useful lives.” “You do not mean to say that the® re- ligious trainps are ever sincerel: ly converted?” Ivis a fact. Because it is so these men are asked to come under Christian influence, 'To be sure, many of them will not reform. They love their miserable, drunken life. I have taken men into this Home, cast their ragged clothes into the ash-box, given them patlis, a uew suit of clothes, and sobered them up. Often they have secured good sit- uations, but, before giving two days’ appli- cation to their duties, they have deliberately gone back to. Chatham and Baxter strect dens and imbibed poison to that extent that mmynext knowledge of them is that they are on Blackwell’s Istand shoveling ashes. Men have been through all this and then re- formed. Jt is a rare exception, however.” “What is the bright side of this religious tramp picture?” E “These men have one ‘common piace of meeting. 1t is generally in the back-room of a grogegery of the lowest description. 1 re- call one particular place in Chatham street where hundreds of then congregate, because T have had oecasion to snatch men from its influence. Jn this place can be founa men who were born tramps. The surroundings of their lives have been such that they could not help following a vicious course, almost from the cradle to the present. Associated with them, linked together by the common tie of misery, are young men whose parents aré honorable, respectable, and wealthy citizens. Drink has led them into errors, into the committal of crime. They have gone down step by step in the social scale, until to-day they subsist almost entirely on liquid poisons, ineresemblancesof humanity. Some of them have been cast off from parental recoxnition; in some instances they draw a specified amount of money from home at regular intervals, I have put just such men on their feet again, and for years past I have been blessed in knowing that they are enfoy- ing the confidence of their families, filling good situations, and leading Christian lives.” One of those men, who has been for some time leading an honest life, has a good situa- tion ina business house, and looks on his past career as a terrible nightmare, was asked: é “What Ied you to put yourself under Christian intluence?”” *« Religion was farfrom my thoughts when I todk the first step to sober up. My sole object was to secure a new suit of clothes in place of the ‘hand-me-downs’ I was then wearing.’ “What do you mean by hand-me-downs?” “Hand-me-downs are obtained in_ this way:-A man in -a. temwnotary.interval of soberness secures a new suit of clothes, say worth about $30. As he has no money to purchase more whisky, he enters a Baxter Street second-hand clothing shop. Possibly he is in a drugged condition. He receivesan old worn suitin place of his new one, and not more than a dollar or two besides. Very likely he fails to remember the places and the recovery of his good suit of clothes, when he comes to his reason, is a matter of im- Well, I had heard that I could go to some evangelist, concoct a good story about desire for repentance, talk and pray, and I would secure my new clothes and a month's board. I tried the plan. Idid not want religion. I did not believe that I could be saved. Ina few tveeks I was in my right mind. Good influences. had begun their work upon me. Iwas ashamed of my de- ceit, Iconfessed my purpose to defraud, ‘The kindness shown me, the conviction that came to me that I could reform, brought with it the determination to do so, and Ican only Jook back at my past course with horror.” ‘Another man, who had once been under Christian teachings, but who refused to be guided by them after he got away from their influence, said, referring to the means of liv- ing in tramp quarters: “We manage it in various ways. We put up a job on some minister or generous Christian, and by the good talking of some one of our number get alittle money or good clothes. These we turn into money. ‘Lhe religious women are easier to beat than any other. We win their sympathies by professions of religion, aud most always get aid. to visit our homes in some far-off locality. ‘Then some of our number work temporarily. ‘They spend their money in treating, thus ong helps the other.”” ‘ But these men deceive no although they think they through and through by those who try to re- form them. The Rev. Dr. Tyng, before his departure for Europe, in the habit on winter mornings of giving a hot breakfast to the outeast, bringing them in from the highways. One morning he fed several hun-, dred on a good, nourishing breakfast. Know- ing that all of them would readily assert that they desired to give up drink, reforin, and come Christian men, he said to them: “There are many of you this morning doubt- less saying in your minds, ‘What a soft thing we have got on Dr. Tyng.. We will all go up and beat him out of a hot breakfast, and he is welcome to keep his religion.’ Now, Lam satisfied that if I can only save one man out of this large number present here this morning, the object of this enter- tainment has been secured.” SAVE TIE GIRLS. AN EARNEST PLEA FOR THOSE EXPOSED TO ‘TEMPTATION. . In an article published in one of our city papers headed ‘Many Magdalens,” I note the following true but startling assertion: “There is not aman of the world, or one ob- servant of the people of a great city, that does not know that the class referred to is alarmingly on the increase, There are thou- sands of women living in comfortable homes with money at their command and time upon their hands. They sigh for a mission, for some field in which women can make them- selves useful, and all the hundreds of aban- doned, friendless, hopeless creatures are passing along to their awful fate, with no hand outstretched to save them.” Would that the words might be engraved as with a pen of fire upon the heart ot every Christian woman in Chicago until her sleepless vigils might induce the heroic resolve to dare todo for the unprotected, self-supporting girls of our city all thatcan be done to save them from the immortal maelstrom, which draws into its hopeless abyss the innocent and un- suspecting maiden with the blush of baby chilahood still upon her cheek. J thankGod for his mercies extended to these unfortu- nates, as the revival now in progress testi- fies, abandoned by society, but not by Jinn, the Holy One, who says, “Though your sins be as scarlet 1 will make them whiter than wool.” Have Christians any right to abandon any one for whom Christ has died? How are we better, save by torce or circumstances and by the mercy of God, than the vilest of the vile. That there should be a distinguish- ing line in society no one doubts; but that it should bea wall to shut out the most help- less of our sisters, and no partition to debar her worst enemy from entering the sacred precincts and destroying other lambs in the fold, is a fearful refigction on the mockery of justice as applied to” modern society. Chris- tian men and women keep aloof from evil for fear of contamination; afraid to mingle one, it is said, are not read with it, for a reformatory purpose, thinkin; they must needs be accounted with the trans gression. Such barriers should be broken lown, and rigit and justice triumph over cowardice. There is a field all Christian people can and ought to Jaborin. That is: fo prevent crime and protect the innocent. That thousands are yearly lapsing from vir- tue is the fault of Christian men and women in part, and in pirt the fault of a city govern- ment which only provides for the punish- ment of crime. Where do these victims come from, and by what causes are they traveling in this high road of sin and shame? First. and foremost comes neglected child- hood: Should the State provide nurseries where the neglected children could be prop- erly fed-and taught, she might have good citizens. In other words, had she expended half she now spends on_bridewells and pris- ons, in properly training the children beg- gars and peddlers now in the city, money might have accrued in her coffers and the World been blessed with better | citizens. Now all reformatory efforts are left to, pri- vate enterprise and philanthropy, ‘The Christian public in various ways tries to adopt these unfortunate children, who come into the world, not by their own consent or wills, but, being once members of this uni- yersal fraternity, they have a right to all its privileges and enjoyments, Secondly, there is another field all lovers of justige can labor in. Chicago transient homes, where the self-supporting and unsuspecting innocent girls can be shielded from @the tempter’s snare while seeking employment and properly warned of the snares and pitfalls which youth. Our large Eastern cities save thou- sands of younggirls yearly from exposure to the subtleties of city life by these beacons of warning and refuge. ‘The Woman’s Chri tian Association is working in this direction, and is solicitous for the sympathies and aid of every Church and Christian who ean either give, Work, or pray. A home where young: girls, ata price adapted to their limited means, can heltered and surrounded by helpful Christian women, with a suitable reading-room and employment bureau, is one of the great safezuards which will pre- yent crime, and should appeal to the hearts, of all Chrisfian womel This Association havea permanent home, where hundreds of young girls have realized its advantages, ‘They have 2 free dispensary where the sick are attended free of charge. The poor in the hospital are visited and temporal as well as Spiritual con- solation given. ‘This much is being done by this one Society to protect innocence and prevent crime: but what is a handful of women compared with the thousands who have time and money to spgnd in efforts to save the innocent and protect Society. When we realize how very hard itis to restore a fallen one to virtue, so much the greater diligence should be used te prevent the first false step. These drops of grace amid scas of wickedness are not satisfactory, and to have the spring pure we must cleanse the source. In doing this, when the day of reckoning comes, as it surely” will, for all these stranded lives, many who now hold themselves irresponsible and innocent will be held guilty in the'sight of God. _Employ- ers must give a fair compensation for a fair equivalent of labor. Girls who are forced to prostitute themselves for lack of physical support, God may hold guiltless, but will surely call to a reckening all unjust stewards. Churches will be held responsible for the poor in their flock that are-not watched and properly guarded. Parents while par- taking of the Sacrament themselves hav- ing abandoned children, who somehow, have slip the reins of control by their Jack of diligence, will have a sad reckoning when the souls of these neglected ones con- front them. Itis to be feared that very many idlers in God’s moral vineyard may desire a covert , wherein to flee from the majesty of a wrath which pronounces the solemn judg- ment: “Inasmnch as ye have not done it unto one of the least ot these ye have not done it unto Me.” TOO UTTERLY UTTER. A BRITISH BURIAL BOARD TAKES ACTION ON INSCRIPTIONS ON TOMBSTONES. London Telegraph. A discussion took place at the Ventnor Burial Board yesterday on the question of the admission into the Protestant portion of the cemetery of an inscription inviting pray- ersfor the dead. At a former mecting of the Board, an application had been received from Mr. T. Baker, bookseller, High street, Ventnor, for permission to erect a tomb- stone over.the grave of his wife, with the following inscription upon it: “Of your charity pray for,the.soul of Enora Baker, who ‘fell~asleep~Dec. 21, 1890. Rs L P.”? This being considered an unusual thing, and as there was a considerable auiount of contention on the subject, it was agreed to refer the matter to the Chancellor of the Diocese, Mr. Charies Sumner, M. A., who was asked, “Is the proposed inscription unlawful?” and “If not unlawful, has there been such use of equivalent language to ren- der such inscriptions conventional?” To the firstof these questions the Chancellor’s an- sweris: “A similar inscription, ‘Pray tor the soul of J. Woolfrey,’ was decided not to be illezal in the case of *Breeks vs. Wool- frey.’” In reply to the second question, he says:. “1am not sure that I understand this question, or that 1am competent to answer it, Untilrecent years such inscriptions as that now under consideration were not com- mon except in Roman Catholic countries. The objection to them is very natural, and eatries with it my sympathy; but I cannot say that a court of law would sustain it.” It was pointed out at the meeting yesterday that in the case of “Breeks vs. Woolfrey” per- inission had been given for the erection of the tombstone in Carisbrooke churchyard, but that, seeing the parishioners afterwards protested against it, the Vicar, Mr. Breeks, commenced an action for its removal, when he was defeated. ‘The Board was now ad- yised by their solicitors that, as Mr. Baker’s tombstone had not yet been erected, the Board had_ power to reject or accept the in- seription, the Chancellor’s opinion and the ease quoted only going so far as to show that, if they allowed the inscription, it would not be contrary to law; while, at the time, it would beequally not illegal to reject it. Jong contention followed the reading of the Chaneellor’s communication, the Rev, A. L. B. Peile, M. A., Viear of Moly Trinity, strongly opposing the acceptance of the in- scription, and the Rey. W. Willan, with equal energy, arguing in favor of its accept- ance, and contending that prayers for the dead were not antagonistic to the teaching of the Churchof England. At length it was decided to reject the inscription, and in future not to allow any tombstone to have inscribed upon it any verse of poetry or any extract other than a complete text from the Scriptures. ‘The matter has given rise toa considerable amount of religious party feel- ig in the neighborhood. t GENERAL NOTES. It is said that a bureau has been established in this city for the purpose of supply clergy- men with sermons. New Hampshire: has a new law to tax church-property worth over $10,000, and the act has been upheld by the Supreme Court of the State. Possibly such a law may have some influence to discourage extravagauce in church-building. The Baptists have pow three summer re- sorts under their control.” The oldest of these is at Martha’s Vineyard, and the next oldest is at Chautauqua Point. ‘The newest resort is Round Jsland Park, Round Island, St. Lawrence River. Three Methodist ministers were recently sentenced by the magistrates at Belfast, [re- Jand, for singing hymns in a qeblic street, ‘An appeal was taken from thedecision of the magistrates, and the result has been a com- plete victory for the ministers. ‘The statistics of Protestaut Sunday-schools in the City of Paris show eighty-nineschools, having 7,396 scholars and_675 teachers. ‘The Protestant population of the city is estimated at from 40,000 to 60,000, or between 2 aud3 per cent of the whole number of souls. Bishop Littlejohn, who is now in Europe, is credited ‘vith the remark that “the Church of England is further than ever from dises- tablishment,” and that it has spent $200,009, 000 during the last thirty years in building and repairing cathedrals and churches, and 1,000,000 in church schools. S - ‘The Fulton Street M. E. Church, situated at the corner, of esian_ avenue, ras been closed the Jast three weeks for repairs and ren- ovation. It hasbeen very tastefully and beau- tifully decorated, and will be reopened to- day with preaching in the inorning by the pastor, the Rey, George Chase, and in the evening by the Rev. Dr. Willing. Not altogether pleased with the Conve fanin Chicazo, the Jewish Tribune say: “Amid different circumstances and “under altered conditions last week wight have been to the Jews in. America fraught with lessons of preat import and wholesome consequence. ‘We say itmight have been! But was it so in reality? Upon us, who had come there asa mere observer, and bad endeavored to judge needs + of men and of their actions and words in the fight of reality, who would not be bribed and persuaded by” high-soundin: bhrases,’ elo- quent outpourings of spread-eagieism, and chaffy catchwords of some would-be orators who, i their own opinions, Hereules-like, carry the world upon their shoulders,—uvon us the conventionsof both rabbis and lay del- egates have made the impression-of shallow- ness, and, if we so may express ourself, of unfathomable emptiness.” ‘Mr. Moody annotinces that in addition to the Rev. Dr. Andrew Bonar he will have the assistance at the Christian Convention for Bible Study, at Northfield, Mass., of the Trev. George F. Pentecost, Maj. D. W. Whip- ple, and of other Bible students. Mr. Sankey, Mr and Mrs. Stebbins, ana Mr. MeGranna- han will have charge of the music. The sessions will begin on Aug, 3, and will con- tinue through the month. ‘At‘therecent Commencement of Harvard an interesting feature was the delivery of two dissertations,—one by, Protestant, on success of Catholicism, which was liberal in tone,—in fact, rather eulogistic of the Catho- ie Church; the other by a Catholic, Mr. John Francis Davis, of California, on Cardi- nal Newman asa preacher. ‘The latter was not inferior to any production of the occa- sion. It was listened to with marked pleas- ure and approval, the authorities of the col- Jege especially seeming to take pride in these ifestaions of the liberal spirit of the in- incidents as these give force to the suggestion so often made, but thus far apparently so little regarded, of the im- holic university in the shall the very: best institutions in’ all that is really y und at the same time turn out young men with sound relizious principles well ag scholarship in science and letters. ‘the Pilot. portance of a C: nited States wh SLANT under the auspices of Ladies’ Soviety, a branch brew Cong regation, for the purpose of funds to build a synagox on the North Side. ‘Lhe Congre- gution Jost its house of worship during the great fire, and has been sirugeling along ever since, shifting about its house of wor- ship from place to place, being unable to aise money enough to buy a lotand build permanent quarters. Early this spring 2 number of the more energetic members called a mecting to devise means, and a sub- scription list was opened aud liberally re- sponded to by those present, ‘Fhe. Congrega- tion pureha the lot, 51x110, northeast ¢or- nerof Rush street und Walton place, and nearly enough funds are on hand to pay for the lot. ‘The fair will take place from Oct. 0 to Oct. 15, at the North Side ‘Turner Hall, and is io accomplish the turnishing of the needed funds to erect a building on the lot. ‘The Committee of Arrangements consists of the following ladies and gentlemen: Adolph Shakman, Chairman; Mrs. Levy, Mrs. Low- enbach, M! Newhouse, Mrs. Schott, Mrs. S. Baer, Mrs. Miinzer, and Mrs. ‘T'reulich, Vice-Presidents; Mr. J. Miinzer, Recording Secretary; Mrs..A. Reinach, Financial Sec- retary; Mrs. L. Newhouse, Assistant Secre- tary; Mr. Samuel Swartchild, Treasurer; Mrs. Weinreb, Mrs. Ettlinger, Messrs, Mi- chael Cohen, Samuel Glickauf, Jake Metzler, Charles Goodman, S. Wolf, and M. Kanter. The Committee is hard at work to make their efforts « success, and they are receiving, a liberal encouragement from both their co- religionists and outsiders from all parts of the city. It is hoped that the public, who will be called upon, will assist the Congrega- tion in their enterprise, so as to enable them to carry out their intentions of erecting a structure that will be a pride to themselves, as well as an ornament to the city. PERSONAL. Bishop E. O. Haven is lying seriously ill at Salem, Ore. He has been visiting the Methodist churches in that State. The prosecutors of the Rev. S. F. Green, the recalcitrant ritualist, refuse to expedite the hearing of his appeal before the House of Lords, Meantime he lies in prison. The Rev. Robert D. Sheppard, of Grace Methodist Church, has reurned from his summer vacation, his family remaining at Martha’s Vineyard till Seprember. ‘The Rey. Dr. Richard Newton, who has been the Rector of the Church of the Epiph- any, Philadelphia, for nineteen years, has resigned his position onaccount of ill health, Mr. P..C. Lawrence, of Charleston, S. C., was ordained a deacon of the ‘Reformed Episcopal Church a fewdays ago. He will engage in missionary Jadors among the col- ored people.” o> oc LseN SS Bos ‘The Lord Mayor of London is a Methodist, and some of the Established Church news- papers don’t like to see the dignitaries of the Church too ready to accept social recognition from a dissenter. The Rey. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, son of Leonard Bacon, D. D., of New Haven, has made a furious attack on the American Bible Society. Le says the best way to distribute its Bibles is to put gunpowder under its building. _it is stated that some time ago the Rev. Mr. Norris, a Baptist clergyman at Guilford, Me., had trouble with his congregation because of his Greenback views, and the Baptist Con- ference sent him to Burmah as a missionary. ‘Shere lately the watives killed and ate him. The Rev. Samuel E. Wishard, of the Fifth Presbyterian Church, this city, isabout pack- ing his satchel for Northfield, Mass., where he hopes, in conference with Brother Moody and other Christian friends, to recover the yim and grip Jost in lifting that church debt. Bishop Talbott, of the Episcopal Church of Indianapolis, has been stricken wit paralysis, alfecting his entire right side and interfering with his powers of speech. He is at his home in Indianapolis, and his con- ation is regarded with considerable solici- ade. The Rey. Dr. Taylor, President of the Uni- versity of Wooster, at Wooster, O., is supply- ing the pulpit of the Rev. Dr. Worrall in the Eighth Presbyterian Church in the absence of the pastor with great acceptance to the congregation. Dr. Taylor is a very eloquent and able preacher. Dr. Pressensé does not think that M. Lit- tré’s conversion to Catholicism on his death- bed was genuine, and says that the Catholic Church has only, triumpked over his corpse. He speaks of M. Littré asaereat soul, up- right, and athirst for righteousness in the midst of much unrighicousness. A party of Presbyterian clerzymen from Scotland will spend this Sabbath in this city. The party_consists of the Rev. Andrew Bonar, the Rev. Henry Montgomery, of Glas- ‘ow; the Rey. Williain Shaw, and the Jevs. Villiams and Irwin. By invitation, the vis- itors will occupy the pulpits named below this morning:’ Dr. Bonar, Second Presbyte- rian Church; the Rev. Ienry Montgomery, First Presbyterian Church ithe Rev. Mr, Will- jams, Englewood Presbyterian Church, The Rev. John Barrows, called to the pas- torate of the First Presbyterian Church in this city, is a brother of the tev. Walter M. Barrows, for many years pastor of the Con- gregational Church in Salt Lake City, whose attendance at the late meeting of the Aimeri- exn Lome Missionary Society in this city so interested and informed all who heard tim, aud who has just been called_to the Secre- taryshipof the above named Society in New York, : These brothers ure not related to the ev. Charles Dana Barrows, called from the Kirk Street Congregational Church at_ Low- e)l, Mass., to the First Congregational Church in San Eraneisco,—the late pastorate of the Rey. A. L. Stone, D. D. SMILES FOR SUNDAY. Tiles decorated with Scriptural quotations are not strictly textile fabrics. Do the'editors of the Jewish newspapersin New York use jube-jube paste? The Boston Transcript calls Bob Ingersoll the sham Paine of freethinkers. A glimpse of the future: Satan to R, G.L — Is it hot enough for you, Robert?” ‘When the Pilgrims first landed they fell on their knees, aftgr which they fell on tie aborigines. ‘ Some geologists have contradicted Moses; but as all geologists have contradicted each other, Moses stands about as well as any- body.—New Orleans Picuyune. : “That's what 1 call a finished sermon,” said a lady to her husband, _as they wended their way from church. ‘“ Yes,” was the re- ply; “ but, do you know, J thought it never would be.” A minister had preached an hour; then he remarked: ‘Another wide field opens from the subject in another direction.” Just then an old colored saint ejaculated: ‘Please, Lord, shut up de bars.’” The Deacons of a certain church were too pious to quarrel or in the slightest degree andy hard words. But they were sorry for the sins of each other, and when Deacon Go- cart got up and fervently prayed that the manifold sins aud wickedness of Deacon Pump might be overlooked: and forgiven, Deacon Pump got upand earnestly petitioned that the Lord would pardon Deacon Gocart for all the inatice, falsehood, and deviltry of which he was guilty. And they both felt that if it wasn’t for the wickedness of the thing they’« clinch.—Boston Post. A minister preaches on the question, “ What is the Sabbath >? - Around erpets Sabbath is the day when you lie in bed longer Lethe a ntornin end fests with your collar- ned is too lal ch. Lowell Citizen. ogo orehakel Young lady—“ £ have called, Mrs. Brown, toask you why your children do“hot attend the Sundity-schiool now, as they used? Do they not like going 2” Mrs. Brown—‘ Oh, yes, miss, they likes goin’ well ’nough; it’s the stayin’ after they gits there as they don’t -like.”"—London Fun, Parson ‘Aninidab Bledsoe, of the Austin Blue Light Colored Tabernacle, hus been otf attending a camp-meeting, and has come back filled with zeal. Yesterday he under- took to reform Jim Webster, who is much #iven to using extravagant language. Par- son Bledsoe said: “ Jeems, hit distressed me to hear you use sich supertluous Janguage.” Gway, parson,” said Jim, “de man who excuses me of dat ar am’ liable to get a kick what will send him so hich dathe would starve to deft before he struck ce yart, eben ef he took ten days’ rations along wid nim.” —Texas Siftings. At New Brighton, Staten Island, are three Eviscopal churches, whose Rectors, it is said, entertain slightly different views as to ritu: A gentleman who happens to be- long to another denomination, one day asked. of his Episeopal neighbor how he classified the three churches, “Well,” replied the ehurehman, At Christ Church they are low and lazy; At St Mary’s they are high and crazy; At the Ascension they are Broad and Hazy. ‘This definition possesses merit. It should be incorporated into the next edition of the church dictionury.—Harper’s Magazine CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPIscoPAr. July 31—Seventh Sunday efter Trinity. Aug. 5—Fast. CATHOLIC. 5 July 31—Eigbth Sunday after Pentecost; St. Ie- natius of Loyola, C. i Aug. dese, Folens Chains; the Machabees, Aug. 2—-St. Alphonsus Liguori, B. C. D. ‘Aug. 3—Pinding of the Body of St. Stephen. Aug. 4-St. Dominic, C. . Aug. 5—Our Lady und Nivea, Aug. 6—Transfiguradoa” of Our Lord: ‘Xystus and Comp., M3f. EARLY CHICAGO. The Duelo in Pioneer Dayn, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Unicaqo, July 26.—There are many incidents ss connected with the history of eurly Chicago’ which ure now only retained in the memory of tho fast-departing pioneers, and which, unless soon placed upon record, will be lost in oblivion. It is my purpose at this time to call attention to one of those incidents,—an uffair of hon not, however, with any {intention of writing it up, because'the parties belligerent are still liv- ing (by which it will be seen that the alfair did not end tragically), and they will undoubtedly give the account in full, 60 that it may be re~ |r; garded as authentic, It would be well, too, to reproduce the then current illustrations of the affair, the original of which probably did not survive the great fire, but I think I could de- scribe itso as to give an artist tho idea with tulerable clearness. ‘The parties referred to are Maj.-Gen. David Hunter and the Hon. John Wentworth. Who would suspect these distinguished,venerabie,and now honorable men of being reformed duelists? As stated, I will not attempt to write up the in- cident, but merely give the outlines, together with conjectures concerning it, so xs to partial- ly refresh the memories of tho gentlemen them- selves in case they should conclude to sive the unurratiye in ful. In those’ days our Indian affuirs were under the control and man- agement of tho War Dopartment, and Chicago, being on the frontier, was, up to 1537, the head- quarters of that branch of the service. Here the tribes were assembled in 1836 to the number of 4,000 or 5,000. In September of that year the Inst Indian payment this side of the Mississippi was made. Fort Dearborn was then garrisoned with troops. With the troops and Indians, and the swarms of Hoosiers from the Wabash with their great wagons, or “ prairie schooners,” a3 they were called, und with the general rush of emigration thither, Chicago was indeed a won- dertul place. Cupt. Hunter was an army officer stationed at Fort Dearborn. 1 thinic he resirned in’d5, or thereabouts, aud went into business, Dut was afterwards reinstated in the army. At any rite, he was interested in, a8 I understood, and, to some extent, had- responsibilities con- cerning, Indian affairs. Mr. Wentworth, or - “ LONG ? JOUN, as bis friends were pleased to call nim, was ed- dtor of the Chicago Democrat, one of the two weekly journals of that day, the other being the American, The Denwerat, by the way, was Democratic sure cnough, and nothing else. The opposing purty at that time was the Whig party, of which Daniel Webster aria Fleury Clay were ‘the great leaders. The Democrat never mentioned the Whig purty or the Whig journal,—the -tmericau,—or any individual Whig, except in terms of bitterness. But there was ’'no love lost. The American always spoke of tho Demucrat as the “loco-foco organ,” and of the editor as “Long” John, or “Johony Raw,” or * he of the Democrat,” or words to that effect. Though | was not full grown at that time, yet what there was of me I was an uncom- promising Whig, and J used to lay the attacks of the Democrut upon the Whig party very much to heart: my unimosity was aroused, and I took a goud deal of satisfaction in seeing Mr. Went- Worth soundly scored. But ajl those animosi- ties are now forgotten, and, with the rest of Mr. Wentworth's friends, I rej him as sound to the core,—in fact, pure gold. But toretura. In 1838 or ag near a3 1 remember, it appears that the Democrat commented: rather severely upon Capt. Hunter’s management or connéection with Indian atfairs. The Captain being a Whix probably prompted the attack. Conceiving that his iategrity, or capability, or honor, or some- thing of that sort, was at stake, he thereupon prompuy gathered up his shooting-irons, and, \ithout waiting for the usual preliminary for- malities of culling in a friend to make arranze- ments, hastened to tho olfice of the Demucrat. presented his pistols to “Long” John, and told him to take his choice. What followed this ten~ der, or how the “alfair” was arranged without bloodshed, I never learned. I only know that “ Coug” John never quailed, nor did his cheek binnch. Tbe most of us would have settied down on our knees before such a visitant, and begged of bimn to put up his artillery, or ut least to take outthe powder. But noc so Mr. Wentworth. ‘That is, 1 suppose be did not quail nor blanch, Because be never said that he did. 1 suspect that he engaged the Captain in g political dis- cussion by denouncing ** Whiggery,” 2s hecailed jt, which neted on the Captain as a counter-irri- tant, and, in rushing to the defense of his party, he forgot his private grievances. But wis is alt conjecture. Now, what we want is a full und {mpartial account, and who s0 cupable of giving jt as the parties themselves: : ‘Lremeinber seeing Lisle Smith begin an attack upon Mr. Wentworth on the subject,—that is, in words,—a few days after, on the sidewalk in frontof the “Lagle.” The Lagle was a sutoon, kept by IKE COOR, on the west side of Dearborn street, near South Water, which saloon was the political, social, convivial, literary and financial centre of Chi- cago at that time. This aloon, though kept by the leader of the Democracy in the State oi Illinois, also called togethor tho Whfgs for ‘political discussion, und hence it was tho political centre. Why it was the con~ yiviat centre is obvious, for, though it wus called a cotfec-house, the ouly solids to be haa there were cloves and grains of coffee.~.Wter, too, yas secures thereis. There were, in one corner of the room, four or five weekly papers on tile, ‘and, as that was the only place in Chicago where there was such an extensive collection of read- ing matter, of course it was the Iiterury centre. There being uo banks in Chicago at that time to speak of, nearly al! the small silyer cola of the little community (no copper ws in use) found its way by some means {nto the till of the Engle, And, as change was scarce, it happened that, Whenever n customer presented a dollar bill toa Eagle (for all were nearly within a stone's throw) to take a drink, soa3 to break the bill. llenee the Eagle was likewise the Hnancial cen- tre. Philo Carpenter kept 4 store away in the suburbs, on South Water street, between La Salle und Wells, and it might have been because he was so remote that Philo never availed him- self of this Auancini convenience. i may add that, as the hard timea of '37 and ‘40 continued in stringency, change became so Scarce that but a few pieces of Spanish coin were left, and they became worn to a film from constant borrowing for paying postage. Let our rampant zoid men ssess their souls in patience till another turn of the wheel depreciates our present illegiti- Sate paper currency, and guld 1s leaving id uotry, and they will glad that “the Zoimage of our silver dollars has gone on, and only sorry that it hud not been tnade fre like that of gold, instead of belng re-, tricted us it 2 ‘Bat to return again; this meeting of the champion of tho Whig party in the person of cle ‘Smith and of the Democracy in that of wong” John must bave reminded Scripture readers—if, there were uny in the crowd—or the meeting of David and Goliath. Mr. Smith, who was a Very Stull man, pranced around bis great antagonist without any signs of fear, while Mr. Wentworth was, as he ever is, a3 bold as a lon. 1 only remember that Mr. Smith repeatedly charged Mr. Wentworth with “publishing 9 palpable lie about bis friend, Capt. Hunter,” End Mr. Wentworth as often replicd that *Con- gress would this winter rip up those Indian af- fairs.” ‘That, together with seeing: the illustra- tion referred to, 1s the most that {know of my own knowledge, as the lawyers say, xbout that atfair of honor. J.M. H. _—_—_ When life is. a drug, and you have lost all hope, then trust in Hop Bitters. |; * + THE FIGHT AT GETTYSBURG. Confederate Assault Cemetery Hill. The on How the Whole Attacking Force Melted Away in Blue Musketry Smoke—The Story Graph- ically Retold by Gen. EP Alexauder. Louisville Courier-Journal, Itmay be sald that the battle of Getrysburg was unpremeditated.. Gen. Lee's aim was to induce Mende to attack him. Orders bad beco given to concentrate at Gettysburg, but positive instructions hud been given not to bring on a Feneral engagement. Gen. Stuart's cavuiry, after crossing the Potomac, hud become de- tached from the muin army; Gen. Lea was de- prived of its valuable services unti! the evening of July 2, and the position of the enemy was not fully known until Gen, Hill came upon them on the evening of July 1 in torce at Gettysburg. He pushed them strongly, and they retired ufter some resistance to Cemetery Hill. It bas always been tbe belief of the offi- cers of Hill's Corps that if they had been free to * push things" on the evening of the Ist of July they could have driven the enemy from his position on the hill and have secured it them- selves. In the battles of the 2d and 3d, thd that been done, tho Confederates would have been on the defensive in a position almost impreznua- ble. It was not considered best to risk u gen- eraf engagement in opposition to positive orders on the evening of the Ist, and the golden oppor- "| wunity was lost. On the nightot the Ist Meade moved his corps up from Pipes Creek, which was his chosen battlefield, and occupied Cemetery- Hillin force. The contest of the 2d of July re- sulted on the whole in favor of the Confcd- erates, though Meade was not dislodged. That the result was not decisive is necounted for in various ways by the members of the different corps, und it fs “ controversy not to be entered on here. It may be suid there was a strange want of codperation be- tween the diferent commanders, which bas never been clearly explained, and the dif- ferent attacks made on the cnemy’s line wero not suiliciently supported. It was the deter- mination of Gen. Lee to make a combined at- tack on the morning of the 3d. E. P. Alexander, Colonel of Artillery; communding a buttulion of six butteries uttucbed to Longstrcet's Corps, was pluced by Gen. Longstreet in commund ot ull his artillery on the field of action, which gave him exceptional opportunities for observation, and attaches unusual interest to bis personal narrative of the battle. Gen. Alexander, now Vice-President of the Louisville & Nushville Railroad, was asked to give the Couricr-Journal an account of the battle of the 3d. “I cannot do better,” said Gen. Alexander, “than repeat in sudstince my answer to somo -inquiries propounded by the Count de Paris rel- ative to tho cause of Leo's defeat at Gettysburs. ‘This paper was written several years ago, when the events were somewhat more fresh in my mind than now, and I wilt give it with very few alterations. “Before daylight on the morning of the 3d I received orders to post the urtillery for un as- snutt on the enemy’s position, end later Learned ft was to be led by Pickett’s division and di- rected on Cemetery Hill Some of the batteries hud gone buck for ammunition and foruge, but thoy were all brought up immediately, and by daylight all then on the fleld were posted. Dear~ ing’s battalion (with Pickett’s division) reported some time during the morning. Tho enemy fired on our movements and positions ocexsion- ally, doing no great damage, and we scarcely returned a shot. The mornmg was consumed to ‘waitinw for Pickett's division and possibly other movements of* infantry. While forming for the attack I borrowed from Gen. Pendleton, Gen, Lee's Chief of Artillery, seven twelve pound howitzers belonging to the Third Corps, under Muj.- Richardson, which I put in reserve onaselected spot, intending them to accompany Pickett’s division in the cbarze, as the men and horses were fresh and the chests of ammunition were full. * About 11 a. m. the skirmishers in A. P. Hill's front got to fighting for a lune in between the lines, and the artillery on both sides gradually, took'part, until the whole of Hill's artillery id position, which I think was sixty-three guns, was heavily engaged with about au equal num- ber ot the enemy’s guns for over half an hour; but not one of the seventy-tive guns which I then had iu line was allowed to fire a shot, as we had-at beat _buca® short supply. of ammunition for the work laid out. “About 12 m. Gen. Longstreet told me when Pickett was ready he himself would give the signal for our guns to open (which signal was to be two guns from the Washington Artillery, ' near the centre of our line), and meanwhile he desired me to select a suitable position for ob- servation, and tu take with me one of Gen. Pickett’s stat, and exercise my judgment in se- lecting the moment for Pickett to advance. selected the advance salient augic ot the wood in which Pickett’s line ws now formed, just’ on the left flank of my ine of ‘seventy-five guns. While occupying this position, and in conversation with Gen. A. oR Wright, commanding a Georgia brigade in A. P. Hill's corps, who had come out there for un abservution of the position, I re- ceived a note from Gen, Lougstreet, which I copy from the original in my possession: Heapquantens, July 3, 1863.—Coton! the urtillery fire docs not buve the eff drive off the enemy or greutly demoralize g0 ts to make our etforts pretty certain, 1 would prefer you should not advise G Pickett to make the charge. I shall rely a great dex! on your guod judgment to determine the matter, ‘and eball expect you tolet Gen. Pickett know ‘when the moment offers, Respectfully, ¢J, Lonastreet. Lieutenant-General.” ‘To Col. E. P. Alexander, Pree “) wroje him a note, which I think I quote ver- batim as follows: **GENERAL: When our artillery fire is doing its best I shail advise Gen. Pickett to advance.” it was ip. a. by my watch whea the signal guns were tired, the ficld at that time being en- tirely silent but for the light picket firmg be- tween the lines, und us suddeuly us un organ strikes up m cbureb the grand roar followed from all the guns of botharmies. The euemy’s fire was heavy and severe, and their accounts represent ours as having been equally so, thou:th our rifle zuus were comparatively few, and bad yery defective ammunition. As au illustration, Lremember that the casualties in my own but- talion (twenty-six guus) were ubout M7 men and 116 horses in the two days’ uction, and about 50 per cent of the wounds were from artillery fire. Gen. A. S. Webb, United States army, who,com- munded # brigade on. Cemetery Hill, told me after the War ta. Federal battery coming into action ou the Hill, lost from our artillery ure twenty-seven out of thirty-six borses in aboutten minutes. Average distances, [ should suppose. were about 1.400 yards. We had some casualties from canister. “1 had Cully intended to give Pickett the or- der to advance as Soon us { saw our guns had their ranges, suy {n ten or fifteen minutes, but the enemy’s tire was so severe that when that time had elapsed I could not make up my wind to order the infantry out into x tire which I did not believe they could face torso long a charge in so hot 4 sun, tired as they already were by the march from ‘Chambersburg. I accordingly waited in hopes our fire would produce sume visible effect. or something turn up to make the situation brighter; but fifteen minutes more pussed without sny change in the situation,— the fire on neither side slackening for a mo- ment. Eventhen | could not bring myscit to |. give a peremptory order to Pickett to udvance, but wrote bint a vote to this effect: “If you are coming at all you must come immediately, or [ cannot give you proper support; but tho enemy’s fire hus not slackened materially, ‘and at least elghteen guns are firing from the cemetery itself.’ ‘This note, which, though given from memory, lcan youch for as nearly ver- Datim, L sent’ off ut 1:30 p. w., consulting my watch, - [afterward heard what followed its re- celpt from members of the staffs of both Gens. Pickett and Longstreet. Pickett, on receiving it, galloped up to Gen. Longstreet, who was not far off, and showed him the note. Gen. Long- street read it and said nothing. Gen, Pickett then said: ‘General, shall [ advance?’ Long- street turned around in bis saddle, and would not answer. Pickett immediately saluted and said: ‘1am poe to lead my division forward, sir, and gulloped off to put it io motion; on which Gen. Longstreet rode out alone to my position. Meanwhile, tive munutes after f sent the note to Pickett, the enemy's fire suddenly sluckened materially, and. tho butteries in the cemetery were limbered up and withdrawn. As the enemy hadsuch abundance of ammunition and so much better ¢uns than ours that they were not compelled'to zeserve their artillery for critical moments (23 we almost always had to do), | knew thut they must have felt the punish- ment a good deal, and I was a good deal eluted by the sight. But to make sure that it wasa withdrawal tor sood,. and not a mere change of position or relieving of the batteries by fresh ones. I waited tive minutes more, closely _ examining the ground with a large glass. At that time I sent my courier to Pickett with a note: ‘For God's sake come quick; the eighteen guns are gone!” and going to the nearest guns 1 sent a Lieuten- antand & Sergennt, one after the other, with messages to the same effect. A few minutes after this, Pickett still not appearing, Gen. Longstreet rode up alane. buving seen Pickett ‘and left bis staff, xs stated. Ishowed him the situation, and suid I only feared I could not give Pickett the help I wanted to, iny ainmunition being low and the seven «uns under Richardson having been taken off. Gen. Longstreet spoke up promptly: *Go and stop Pickett riche where he {s, and replenish your ammunition.” I an- swered that the ordnance trains had been nearly emptied repairing the expenditures of the day before, und not over twenty rounds toagua were left,—-tag little to accomplish mucb,—and that while this was being doce the enemy would recover from the tire which we were now giving: him, His reply was: ‘Ido not want to make this charge. [don't believe It ‘wilt succeed. 1 would stop Pickett now, but that Gen. Lee or- Jered it’ and other remarks showing that even then he could easily have beca induced to order to halt. Pickett to baToment Pickett’s line appeared, “At this sweeping out of the wood, Garnett’s brigade passing over us. I left Gen. Longstreet and rodo 4 short distance with Gen. Garnett, an old-time friend, who was killed on the charge. He bad been sick, but, buttoned up in an old ‘blue oyer- cout, in spite of the heat of the day, wus ridin; in the front of his line, and for the last time. then galloped along my line of guns, ordering those that had over twenty rounds of ammuni- non to limber up and follow Pickett, and those who had less to maintain their fire from where they were. I had advanced several batterics and parts of batterles in this way, whon Pickett’s division appeared on the slope of Cemetery If, andaconsideraple force of the encmy were thrown out, attacking hig unprotected right flank. Meanwhile, too, several batteries which had been withdrawn were run out again, an were firing on bim heavily. We agpned on these troops and batterics as flercety us Wo were xbic, and appeared to ao them considerable damage, buc meanwhile Pickett’s division seemed to meit away inthe blue musketry smoke which now covered the hill. Nothing but stragglers cume back. .As soon a3 it was clear Pickett’s- division was destroyed I ceased. tiring, saving: what little wmmunition was left for rear of an advance by the enemy. About this time Gen. Lee came up to our guns alone, and remained there half an hour or more, speaking to Pick- ett’s men as they came straggling back, and en- couraying them to form again in the first cover they could find, “A little before this Wilcox’s division had been advanced also, but I cannot recall the mo- ment or the place saw them, but only the im- Pression on my mind a3 the mea passed that the charge must surely be some misapprebension of orders, a3 the circumstances ut tho moment made it utterly impossible that it should aecom~ plish anything, and I thougbt what a pity it was so ininy of them were to be sacrificed in vain. It was intended, I believe, that Wilcox should support Pickett’s tight flank, but the distance that had to be traversed In the churge got such an interval between the two that Pickert’s force was spent and his division disintegrated before Wilcox got under close fire. THE GOLDEN CHANCE—MEADE’S TIMIDITY. “ [have always beiieved that the enemy here lost the greatest opportunity they ever had of routing Lee's army by a prompt offensive. Thoy occupied a line shaped somewhat like a hofse- shoe. [suppose che greatest diameter of this horseshoe was not more than one mile, and the #round within was. entirely sheltered from our observation and fire, with communications by siznnls all over it, and thoy could concentrate their whole forco at-any point and ina very Short time without our knowledge. Our line was an enveloping semi-circle. over four miles in development, and communication from finnk to flank even by courier was difficult, the country being well cleared und exposed to the enemy's view and fire, the roads all running at rigt angles to our lines, and, some of them at feast, broad turnpikes where the enemy's suns could rake for two mites. Is it necessary now to add uny statement us to the superiority of the Federal force, or the exhausted and shattered condition of the Confederates for a space of at least a mile in their very centre, to show that a great opportunity wus thrown away? I think Gen. Lee himself was quite apprehen- sive the enemy would riposte. and that it was that apprehension which brought him alone out to my guns, where ne could observe all the in- dications. e “We waited on the ground we had chosen for an attack, but we were not molested. The ene- my about durk sent out a skirmish line, and oc- + cusionally sent 2 random shot in the direction of our batteries, but no effort was made to capt- ure usordrive us away. We were suppurted only by # small body of skirmishers, and prepar- ation fora retreat went on. About 9 o'clock orders were given for us to withdraw, and in & short time all the Confederates had abandoned the ill-fated tleld of Gettysburg; the invasion was atanend. Battle was ofered next day and anxiously expected, but the three days’ contlict around Cemetery Hill seemed to have satistied the appetite for blood, and the Confederates crossed the Potomac without an action be urged by the Federal arm; BISHOP M’MULLEN. Wis Departaro for Hix New See. Bishop McMullen, the newly-created Bishop of Davenport, departed for bis new See yesterday with an escort of clergy and laymen from Chi- cagoand Davenport. The main delegation from tho latter city arrived yesterday morning, aud consisted of the Rev. A. Nierman, the Rev. H. Cosgrove, Thomas Hebert, Horace Bradley, the Rey. PB. J. Burks D. Martin, M. V. Gannon, P. J. Hogarty, A. P. McGuile, Henry ‘Token, N; S. Mitchell, George Kerker, P. L. O’dteara, An- drew Miles, D. N. Richardson, Lucius Ruhl, Dr. A. W. Cantwell, F. C. Clausen, H. B. Pohimaun, John MeSteen, ‘Thomas O'Brien, John Lillis, Ed- ward Russel, J. G. Otten, George H. Ballen, Frederick Melchert, and the Rev. P. Lament, of Muscatine. ‘They were received and welcomed by the advance guard, who arrived the day before, Ald. W.B. Schmidt, G. Rt. Mar- vin, Henry Fischer, A. Woeber, und Chief Matlock — of. Fire Department, and by number of Chicago gentiemen, including Messra. William Wendley, Phil Coa- ley, M. W. Kerwin, Peter Conlan, William De- vine, M. J. Keane, A. M. McKay, Martin O'Brien, and William Fogarty, and escorted to the Grand Pacific Hotel. After breakfasting the purty drove to the pastoral residence of the Cathedral of the Holy Name, where.they were resented to Bishop McMullen, who expressed is gratification at meeting so many represent-- ~ atives of the diocese over which be hud becu chosen to preside. ‘The delegution ex- tended to the Bishop their beurtfelt congratulations, and a briet, informal conversation followed. The party ‘then drove to Archbishop Feehan’s residence, puld their respects to_that distinguisbed prelate, and then visited the Lake-Shore drive, Lincoin Park, and the other attractions on the North Side. At li o'clock they returned to the Bishop's resi- dence, whence, after the farewell words bud been guid to the members of Dr. MeMullen’s late household, the purty drove to the Rock Island Depot, ensconced” themselves in a pri” vate ‘car, and, amid the ‘bys. of the crowd which had gathered about the place, departed fur the Bishop's new dlo- cese. The Chicuso escort consisted of the Revs. Fathers J.P. Roles, D. J. Riordan, P, W. Kior- dan, Edward Dorner, 'T. F. Cashman, P. M. Fian~ ngan, E.J. Dunne, D. D., J. J. McGovern, and P. J, Butler, and the Kev. Maurice FP. Burke, of Joliet, and’ the following laymen: William Weudiey, M. H. Kerwin, Edward McQuaid, Peter Conlan, William Devine, Charles Denachy, M. J. Keane, A. M. McKay, Philip Conley, P. Harkins, ‘M. Burckbardt, M, Schweistbal, Martin O'Brien, P.M. Hennessy, William Fogarty, T. J. Darcey, W. J. Hynes, Thomas Hutchinson, P. J. Towle, ‘O'Donoghue, Thomas Brenan, Michuel i. J. We Sullivan, William McElhern, Frank Conley, J. G. Sharkey, James A. Conlua, and M. J. Cusey. TO THE COMET. For The Chicago Tribune, from the German of the Berlin Kladderadatech. Who art thou, stranger? Forth from the host, of stars Sudden thou steppedst, shining in majesty: Phy head is glowing; und ‘round thy shoulders Spreadest thou a wantle of purple Yuys. ‘Where dost thou come from? None that was ever bora Saw thee before this: no beok of those that died Everaunounced thy approxch .o the world; But thou comest ‘midst flowing ether. flow long. eid thou been coursing? Quce on this globe a Perhaps thou lookeast down from the firmament; Maybe thou shoaest, milliards of yeurs azo, As to the ustonished oye thou shinest to-duy. What didst thou see thea? "Roundin tho realm of stars, In war eternal force coped with force, Matter with matter; the powers of Chaos ‘Were yet in combut one with another. ‘The powers of Chaos? As princes hate to-day, And people oue another, so did the spirits hate, And with the shining god of the Suuny Light Fought for the sceptre the spirit of Night. And what dost sec to-day? Still are che ocean- wives . Storming against the land; still battles Night with Lignt, «And men think themselves gods, and still ‘The people are kneeling to earthly idols. Angry at men thou art? Smiling from lofty throne | & The spree of Man mocks at the course on harth- Wretched folly, which so audaciously Deties the command of eternal order! ‘What iseternal? Firm and uochanzeable, Though, coursing perpetually, yreat suns Small ones: Move through the aniverse, Yet are written {aws for their orbits. And what dost thou attest? War will forever High and low, rich and poor; No wan will ever be able to change that, "Though he sat high on a Chancellor's chair. ‘Where art thou going now? Onward from star to sta 2 > Cy Examining whether all Is in order; yet, As by Inw it was prescribed, I move in the path of eternul progress. When wilt thou come again?. When, long for gotten, = Buried lies what now wakes and lives— ‘The empires, princes, and the men Who once were thinking themselves immortal. What wilt thou sce then? Still will the ocean- waves Storm on against the land, battle still Night with Light, “Ane men think themselves gods, and still, ‘The people will kneel to earthly idols, Caows Pornt, Ind. J. Kort Crinoline. : ALondon correspondent says: “The crinoline at the Queen's ball was appaling. It issaid that Worth. in view of his many rivals, tound it neo essary to make a coup, and selected crinoline ai hig weapon. Tho in why the French: Em-' press brought itinto fashion is likely as not the true cause of its reappearance, for more thag one married belle would, it is whispered, have otherwise had to absent herself from society.” ————— . 3 i Winchester’s Hypophosphites will cure consumption, coughs, weak lungs’ bronchitis, and general debilit tablished twenty-one years. Daa B > ?