The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 8, 1865, Page 1

—E 2 r Number 10,419. |The Latest News By Telegraph to the N. ¥. Sun. -_——_——1____—— AIWS FROM SAN FRANCISCO. Another ht Ear Slight Earthquake. NO DAMAGE DONE. PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE. Passage ‘of the Constitutional Amendment. THE OREGON LEGISLATURE. Amentment Adopted by the Senate | . GREAT RAILROAD PROJECT. Anether Railroad Disaster. ONE MAN KILLED--SEVERAL INJURED, Thanksgiving Day Observances. Scenes and Incidents in This City. General Suspension of Business, GOOD FEELING AND GOOD CHEER. Sketches of Sermons Delivered. Feasting at the Institutions, i &e., &e. California. Extensive Railroad Enterprise. San Francisco, Dec. 6.— Articles of Association from San Francisco Bay to « town in San Delgo; thence eastward to the State ling, and there connect with the contemplated road to the Mississippi river, The capital is $30,000,000, Leneth of the road, seven bundred and twenty miles, The Directors are: G. Phelps, Charles N, For, Benjamin Flint ©, J, Aiutchinson, B Lathrop, J. B, Cox, and B, W. Hathaway, Phelps is President, Greenbacks are 65%. Mining stocks are lower. San Fiancisco, Dee, 7.—A ailght shock of earth- POLITICAL INT California. Sacramen‘o, Dec. 6.—ln the Senate to-day Mr. Piercy, of Sonora (Demeecrat), offered resolutions Jendorsing the I’resideat, which were referred to a rm ittee Notice was given of a bill to make State dues pay- edie in currency In the Assembly the Constitutional amendment lution was passed, Oregon. Salem, Oregon, Dec, 6.—The Constitutional amend- out was adopied by the Senate to-day. IGENCE. RAILROAD , DISASTER, One Man Killed—sSeveral Injared, Omrego, N.Y. Dec. 7.—The constrnction train on he Cewero aud Rome Railroad ran over twocows esiorday morning, four miles below Oswego, which rew two of the cais from the track,inetantly killing brakeman named William Sinith and inturing veral workman on the train, two of them seriously, From the South-West, Cotton Items, Cairo, Dec. 6.--The Memphis cotton market is de- atining ; middling, dad strict middling, 44c. ; good, dic; recelpte of the woek, 1,960 bales, Larce shipinents are being made to New Orleans. The | Memphis BecLeTin says that 10.000 bales of cotton ave been etolen along the Mobile and Ohio Rall- |; 4,0 to 5,000 at Colambas, Mise.; 5,000 to 10,000 Macon, and emailer amounts from other pointe, overnment officers are investigating the matier e:ument cotton at Columbus, Macon, aad Brook- iMe is eetimated at 12,000 bales, THANKSGIVING, In Washington Waahinoton, Dec, T.—Thankagiving Day has been heerved by all clastos with the usual relizious ser- foes and social enjoymnents, No business wae trane- vathesings and testivities in the afternoon A whic melting storm las day iad cocial wl evens show revailed all Allard Trip from Havana, The bark Elia Odelle, from Havana, twenty days, * Anovr three inches of now fell at Poughkeep- me N. Y., Wednemlay night. on Turaday, and left for Atlanta the next day, full. are class, were on Tuesday duly signed and issued by the President, era!) Congressmen, that the Tennessee Delegation would be admitted to the House at an early day. Liverpool for Moblie, with cargo of salt and railroad-iron, is ashore on Send Island, off Mobile. the first Cougress met. was delivered by Bishop Simpson. Gen. Meade presided, ani eloquent speeches were made by Daniel Dougherty and Hon. Henry D. Moore, on Washington street, Boston, got into a difficulty on Wednesday night, with some persons, and firel @ pistol at one of them, the ball instantly killing ® young mon named Collins, who was walking with » lady on the opposite side of the street. unteers have gone out of the service since March 11, 1905 : Major-Generals honorably mustered out, 10; resigned, 22; total, 32, honorably mustered out, 78; resigned, 65; died, 4; total, 187, Total number Major and Brigadier died, 169. the President in receiving calle from members of Congress on official business, and it is remarkable that s large portion of thie officia! business, thus far, consiste in presenting applications to the Exec- utive for revision of judgments of courts-rmartial, and especially for the remission of fines imposed have been filed by a Company to build a reiirosd | by these military tribunals. called into the parlor of the bcuse where she boarded, for the purpose of seeing # young woman who had inquired for her. parlor, she recognized a discarded lover in fermin- ine disgulee, and only his awkwardness \n taking his revolver from an unfamiliar pocket gave his intended victim time to escape from the damardly Quake was felt here inst night. No damage was done, | ning, eted by the gener rmunicipal governments, The President and ily attended Bt, Paul's Eoglich | there's utheran Church, Kev. Jobn B, Butler, pastor, who lelivered a discourse “On the He e of the Na one,"' from Hosea, chap. vi, verre 1: “Come, and tus return unto the Lord, for be hath torn and will al us. He hath emitren, and he will bind us op.” Pennsylvania, Philatdphia, Dee, T.—The day wee generally ob- rved here, The places of burineas were closed ne churches were crowe y morning and the lnces of amusement in the on and evening, | herain this mo:ning intestored with the contem- lated military and cadets of temperance display, Massachusetts, Boston, Dee. 7% ihaukesivine was observed here -iay by a total euspension of business, There were | slik one services inthe churches in the forenoon, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, News Items. By Telegraph to the New York Swn,.) Gan. Gnawr and staff arrived at Augusta, Ga, Tu® Richmond papers publish the Message in On the whola their comments upon it favorable, O™® bundred and fifty pardons, all of the $20,000 Tun President recently expressed a hope, to sev- Tox British ship Compeer, from Liverpool for Tur soldiers’ and sailors’ fair re-opened at Phila- lelphia, last evening, as Carpenter's Hall, where Av appropriate prayer Jous GaLtaoner, keeper of @ drinking saloon Gallagher was arrested. Tua following number of general officers of vo)- Brigadier-Generals jenerals honorably mustered out, resigued and Moet of the morning {s now occupied by the A mpcenrty married lady in Cincinnat! was Upon entering the murder which he had planned with eo much cun- General Intelligence. (By Mail to the New York Sun.) A conuesronnant writing from Galveston, Texan, cava: “Cattle are selling, within fifty miles of here, at #1.50 per head."* Tus morocco finishers of Newark, N. J, in view of a proposed reduction of wages from g3 to $2.50 per day, have resolved to sirike. A nrano, of @ bue several shades blacker than charcoal, entered a store ia Hartford, on Baturday last, and inquired for * a penuy's worth of injy ink. I'so gwine to mark my name on mmy arm.” Asoipien recently hunting squirrels, in Pal- mira, Mich., shot atone of these animals with « rifle; missed bis mark, and shot, instead, bis brother, who was # mile distant, injuring him severely. Ir is stated that Patrick Fleming, now lying condemned to death tn yal at Chicazo, bas sold his body for #50 to a surgeon, for dissectivn, in order to enable himself to have a new suit of clothes to be bung in. Tus Richmond Wate says, that while » large class of persons in the Bouth would do honor to General Graut, stil there are many snxious enough to assassinate him, could they find « sale opportunity, Tus colored population of Richmond, Va, {# about seven thousand, two thousand of whom are worth from #200 to $500; two hundred have prop erty estimated at frou $500 to 65,000, i quite es putober are worth from 45,000 to & . A emcoatina dodge upon the Canadian lorder bas just been detected, Au unusual nutter of cotfius have been bre ught across the line of late for jnterment upon the American side, Laat week the United Siates Reve fig the corps," after the coffin wae landed, against the earnest protest of he etricken relatives, In stead of a defunct bedy, the coffin was foun: filled with costly stike. Joux Taytoe writes from Prince George County Virginia, under date of November 2 are places al! over Virs northerners of every trade and ealling, W: \umewd of mocbanics, artisans and tradesprop every kind end description, At this u 1) opening and achauce to make for a market gard: o whee. wright aud @ biack- amith, at thie very place,” empty end reaty for ae Tue Mormons bave just received a» batch of re crus from Deumark, A Salt Lake paper aayr: —'There isu's one of them, apparently, who y Wave been persuaded %) emi- en Jauda where beathenisin pr s a#to this Mormou heritage, provided the same nilsrepreseniations had been nade tothem by tieir | proweyters" The arrival of these fnir-saired trom **Fader!and"’ created consideratle com the *%aithiui."’ A lotot old fog.es, ywixor seven turluri wives, were n@ BewWeotmwers, most likey wits selictiug one in order wo “save hor | girl motion smo! ‘Lune larger portion of the rebe! ram Merrimac successtully raised, and renioved ty the pout Navy Yard. famous wreck Las pow been reece muddy Gepibs to Wich, througn rebel agenes, it wae | cousipned virectly following the evacuanon of Nor | folk. n will nos realize wuch pecuniar'+ frou posse habered remap » bub ue perdvus are doing well through nversion remains iuto keepsakes, in the form of 1% canr® BUChOr® badges aud other like l articles of ether @ usetul or ornameutal charac- | ser, or both, Most of the wreck, itis believed, bas uow Leeu takeu up, rived at this port sae eveulng, sud makes the fol wing report: Been north of Hatteras since Noy, d, with constant heavy gales @nd fearful weather; it and epiteaile, Got enstw ardof the Galf in lat, 30, lon. 68, and was hove to for five days with vthing but a ta:pauling ip mizzen rigging any bales of cotten, aiso wtera of @ vessel appar- ty vot long in that condition, Nov, #9th, eaper- oced a treme us hurricane trom N. B, to ESB, tie |asted t y o; in the fret part of it, teloee reeted top-eail, them laid to under bare eeuntil7 A. M., duth, when it shifted to 8. W., ithen to N. W., blowing fearfully, Dec, 1et, lat. long. 65, sigualized bark R. Murray, Jr., hence aud south, a heavy N. W. gale was blowing at Stime, 4th inst. lat, 99, lon, 70 50, epoke Russian tk Alerte, fifty days from Rio Janeiro, for New wk, Ttb, wind north with heavy rain, and weather Matoning; took steam nine miles east of the Dicky. ’ ed ing or- rofl Gan, P, Soermpan has issued the fk | der: —Upon te representation of the G | the Beste of Lows as tothe presen jbabile | she Mtate to provide for the poor uuhl action can | ve taken in the matter by the Legislature be io | wewsion, and upon bis statemens to the effect thas | wuch suffering aud misery would be cons quent upow the withdrawal of the wesisiauce DoW ing rendered by she General Government until such acuion is taken, itis hereby ordeod that the gra- tuitous issue of rations herotofore mace the Charit- able Institutions and Dus iiutes throughout tbe city and State shall be continued until the first day of January next, Tus workingmen of Treaton, N. J., have opened a co-operative store in that city. The GazeTTs says: ' Bosles the articles usually termed groce- ries, the co-operative store sells butcher's meak seuseges, poultry, doy cedar ware, bollow ware, 16 Officer insisted upon ** see- | There | crockery and glassware, and a great number of other articles, all at very molorate prices, The rule ts to purchese good and pure articles, avd sell them at a moderate profit. They have but one peice for each article, and that Is paid by stock- olders aa well as others, In other woris, a person who is not a stockholder can buy just aa cheaply ase person whois, The business is conducted precisely as in any other well regulated store, altbough the co-operative store, asa rule, intends « | but the Superintendent, C, O'Connor, Eaq., did not to charge «mailer profits than those gevera ly acted by dealers, The stockholiers eno ml vautege im their purchases, but they share the profits among them on settiement.” The Trouble Among the Fenians, At the Philadelphia convocation of representatives of the Fenian Brotherhood, it was apparent that entire harmony did not prevail among the members of that assemblage, and the evidences given that two of three men sought to control the entire body of Fenians tm this eoantry, was eo apparent, that many of the best friends of the cause of Ireland foared that the Brethren would be split wpon the rock of internal dissension. For some time efforts have been made by the moderate mon, on both sides of the matters at iseue, to heal the breach tht seemed imminent, and prevent any public exhibition of their differences. The efforts of theese men have, unfortunately, proven abortive, and in the Bun of yesterday a series of resolutions appeared, signed by the President of tho Fenian Senate and nine members of that bedy, ex- posing an alleged improper issue of the bonds of the new Irish Republic, The repute- tlon = and standing of the gentiemen— who thus warned thelr countrymen againet investing money fF the securities that had been prepared, as they state, “ without authority,” is too woll known in thie community to be disregard ed by the rank and file of the Fenian Brotherhood, The formal pubiic notification that the aforesaid bonds “are invalid and filogal, and that tho issue and sale of such bonds will be dealt with ess fraud,” ie answered this morning by the following card from the President of the Fenian Brotherhood: Heanqvarrens F. B., New Your, Dec. 7, To the Membera of the Fenian Brotharhocd— You will have sern in the Journals of this date the solf-written and self-published condemnation of ten long-timed malcontents, who have met in this cit without legal authority, The existence of so small 8 pumber in eo large a body as ours should create no anxiety, although it may intensify regret. The Broth- orh by acongiees to be held in January next, will show itacapacity to overcome domestic faction, fasbignes by corrupt motives or by British gold, aa it hae demonstrated alr ite power to respect law and farther burman freedom, British prisons are not local factions must give Jonn O' Manoney, Pr . B, LOCAL NEWS. NEW YORK AND THE VICINITY, Thanksgiving. Hew the Day was Observed—Services to the Various (burches -Sermonve— Feasting at the Charitable Ivstitutians. Thankagivipg Day, which has become one of the recognized bolidays of the peuple, was observed ves terday by the citizens of this metropolis with more than the usual manifestations of reverence. In spite of the torrents of rain, which fell during the morning, and washed away « previous fall of snow, thousands of people attended the various churches, where they gave thanks to God for the many mer- cles He bad voucheated to us aga people, After the services in the churches, families gathered together In their respective homes, and at the dinuer hour feaat- edon the good things they were able to provide, given at these places of public amuasement, Even the poor were not forgotten, and hundreds of the humble ones were treaiod to a repast spread for them by the ebaritable hands of benevolent ladies and gen- emen, In short Thaukagiving day was duly observ- od throughout the city, and, barring @ little indiges- tion, all who enjoyed themselves yesterday, will resume their respective occupations to-day, refreshed and invigorated by the rolaxation of Thanksgiving Day, ‘The Institutions. AOLDIERS RELIEF ABGOOTATION, At the Soldiers’ Kelief Association, im Howard stpoct, many ladies were present and waited upon the poor fellows, many of whom had but one arm, and one was deprived of both. HOMF FOU TUN FRIRADLENA, At thie {netitution in 80th s'rcet.religious exercises wore sino held in the chapel, and addresses were delivered by Erastus ©, Benedict and others, Atter- wards, some five hundred children of the industrial schools, belonging to the institution, eat down to dinner, and were attended to by the ladies of the | Home, HOWAMD MIMBION, | Atthe Howard Mission, or Home for little wander- | ere, quite seumptuous repast wae prepared, and par- | taken of by some five handred children, previous to ¥ | which they sung several bymona, and @ prayer by Key, W. C. Van Meter, Superintendent, closed the | religious eervices, When all were satisfied they | wore dismissod with the Benediction, UNION HOME BCLLOOL. Atthe Union Home school, for the education and maintenance of the children of our volunteers, the managers were enabled, through the bounty of the numerous donors !n Fulton aud Washington Markets, | to provide bountiful dinner for the children under | their charge. Mrs, Drake Wills, Mre, Judge Daly, and mort of the managers, were prosentand the litte ' ones looked smiling and harpr. ORPHAN ASTLUMS, FT At the several Orphan Asy!uma, and the Inetitutes j op Kaucallte Island, dinners were aise por ided for the inmates, Extra food was supplied to the patients ‘in Bellevue Hospital, and the ineoe on Biackweil's | feland were also regaled with @ good dinner, Com- | missioners Bell and Brennan viel'ed (he orphans on | Kandall’s Island, The boye went (hroueh their drill on the play ground, and one of sheim dedvered an appropriate address, | tHe 14TH WARD LxDosTRIAL BO mLOO! OF THE GOOD BAM ALT AY joined together and partook of un excellent dinner AND BOHOOL | in the basement of the Firet Bap'iet Church, corner of Broome and Elizabeth streets. Here the lady patronessce and teachers were also barlly engaged ones, one thou- attending to the wants of the send of whom were served, ani stil! He | applicants, The viands, however, ¥¢ loaves and flahes, and could vot hold cut, therefore many outsiders who applic dito goaway without their dinner, to the evident eure! of all concerned, BOUSE OF init ie? At the House of Indusiry over 0 religious exercises were also held, and s vers! addr 6 deliv. ered, There were four large sat.er paralic! bo each other, and stretching tothe {ull exient of the dining. hall, whieh is 19) feet long, and another across, at which the Buperintendent Rev. §. P Halliday pre- sided The ables were lais {or the wommedation hith were more y not like the | 1865 the neighborhood applied, and were not sent away empty handed, REWAROTS LODGING-HOUER, About 150 of the ragged, outcast boys of the city tat down to a good substantial dinner at the tables of this institution, The donations were very meagra, depend upon them, but furnished sufficient and to spare for the boys, who all seemed hapoy and thank. fal for the return of this jorous festival. In ali the Inatitutions, public and private, good and eubetantial Thankagiving dinners were proviied, aud the inmates enjoyed them with considerable relish, FIVR POINTS MISATON. At the Five Pointe Mission religious exercises were held in the Chapel, by the Rev. J. W. Bhaffer, and several addresses were delivered, interspersed with singing by the children, The reading desk was handsomely ornamented with natural flowers. At the close of the exercises, some four hundred child- ren eat down to an excelent dinner, consisting of turkey, hams, roast pics, beef, plea, fruit, &e,, the whole being the gifts of several charitable individ- uals, When the children were all satisfied, the poor people in the neighborhood were attended to, and enough food was given toall who applied to enable them to enjoy agood dinner at home. Among the gifts presented was an immenre twist loaf, which was eentfrom one of the dining saloons ta Chatham street, The Churches, BEY, DR. THOMIMON At the Broadway Tabernacle Dr, Thompson offic a- ted, and there was some splendid singing by the Chott, who sung two anthems from Haydn's Oratorio of the Meas: The reverend gentleman proasshed from the following texts: And they that shall be of thee shall tuild the old waste places; thou shalt raire up the foundations of Many generations; and thon shalt calied, The ft ach, The restorer of pathe to dweil ah, lvill., 12. Go through, through the pare ye the way of people ; cast up, highway ; gather out stones; liftup s standard for the people, Uehold the Lord hath pro- claimed unto the Bay ye tothe ge of the wor daughter of Zion, Behold thy salvation cometh, be- hold his reward is with him and his work before him, And they shall call them, The holy people, The re- deemed of the Lord: apd thou shalt he called, geeaat out, A city not forsaken,—isaiah, ixii, 10, 4 He opened by stating that they bad assembled at the recommendation of the President of the Uuited States, to render thanks to God for the return of peace to our land, The proclamation was tho first oflicial recognition of peace, and while it did not exactly declare poace, atill it recognized tte return, and sinee ue the corpus had been re- pred in loyal States, but the muspen- n had been continued in the States lately im re- belllon. He next alluded to the opening of Congress, without having « single member therein from a rebellions Stato, pot éven trom the President's own Heate. The hindrance, too, of colored people to teatity in a court of jwetice ; and then disfravehisement was touched om. He sald that thie was the anomaly of our itlon at present, for a large number of our people were still considered unfit for self.covernment. We were, therefore, in a transition period, and should first euard againet crude juiemen'sas regard- ed our positon the Northern side, If we placed ourselves in position of our brethren of the South, we should judge what was critical and what was hopeful. Tee picture was much ne hed been civen of the English transition from lopwry to Protestaut- jem under Henry VIII, Speaking of our future be eaid that this winter was peesing away, aad the beautiful apring was about to commence, and ite avert blostome epoke of hope, and joy in the future. The transition from slavery to tree which presented as great difienisies when the F poopie changed from ot their fathers to that of the Reformers, did not come of the free will of the people, but wae spending the remainder of the day and evening ac- bie by the nite Ll es Aah f we é % should recognize the yrent difficulties before us, cording to their several ideas of enjoyment. As | in the improvement of the nation, aad ahould not be usual, Barnum's Museum and the theatres | too precipitate ont ae. pane or A 2 despondent , neke ou the other. e 1 ow time to aet thin attracted throngs of pleamre = scekers, who transition in a proper etate, for nm a wrong had wero entertained by the varied performances | icon legalized ior yeary it was well kno thas Injustice could not be @ wiped out, ° aveter of slavery too had encendered Ip beth roaster siave, vices which it would take years to oradi+ .. Jamaica was pow teaching us feartul loss on, the brutal occurring there were really trace to the dow: ring epirit of thoee whe treated the negro as if he were still asiave, Congres should eee to this, but ne amount lextsiation could eradicate the spirit of alevery trom the heart of the masto and only legislation would but make the Iatwer more tyrannical, Time and the working of economical laws would do mach therefore towards making this tranaiuon pertect, ‘The pianter might tollow the example of the people In Jauwaica and refuse to sell land to the negro, or to make a proper contract with him for wages. But the marter must bave his land attended to, and to do this—ae be bas no negroes to acll—he must morteare his land aod eubdue hie pride, The pianter muss have iabor as well as capital, but he caunot cet good iabor from abroad while be depreciate labor in the home market, Alluding to the Norman Conquest, he said that the Kuglish were even threatened with the loss of their tanguage, and Kobin Hood, and such people, marsuded through the country, but in turn the charmue oft the Saxon maiden secured the heart of the Norman hero, and afier the battie of Hastings the mayna charta was wrung tromatyrant King, The preacher $20 spoke of the downfal: ot Popery in Pugiand, and ite riving again under Mary, until, io the reign of bliga- beth and Faward V1, the Protestant religion becune the moet glorious in the world, ‘Tb contended, could pot easily be pu aro! races, he own, and tine ouly could do it, Slavery hal beeu abolieb- ed in Jamaica by ment, and the pride of race wtill pe im the bears of the waster, ‘The planters refused to give land bo the negro, they retured to glve bim fair wages 3 his labor, and imported Coolest trom China, there as, Lowever, a good deal ot waste laud in and this the negroes cultivated, but still ere retused to b outviders tried to pureh upon (hem were #0 heuy. the produce, aud when we it the duties impored 4 they coula make noth =~ ing by their produce, 1 two gieat perieof the South were, the chronic hostility of two races, aud the danger of Government interfering betore the proper changes could be made, 10 iemeuy these in some Menaure, it was) 6 essary to Make the Degro logeliy the equal of the whie man, as recaided his rivhts, and thus get rid of chronic injuetice, With revard to suffrage it was pot ® Dational sight, but Coula be reguiateu by conditions, aud justice de- clared \hat the color of the skin eiiuld vot be one of those conditions, Le hoped eoou to see the day when soc. eli #6 should Lot be ueeded Lo p.olect the Degio we ruch, me would rather support Obern Codeve, which educates all who caine, without distinetion of tho "should all ve ply considerea tou color, than subcribe to» p | word “slave,” * tleedm: | abolished, sud ibe newio eliould be Fi | apa an Dr, Thompeon (hen 1@ad byatistics Various sta 8, ehOw jue that (hose ciizens w Lime Could Bot Lead OL waite, wele by U Clagr, EVO T 1D LEDMGewee wl poesedy th one in wu wbi'e meu who could i ha WH bie Ws Moded Lhe Leg.ves, ben the pctuie | War leaiiul. We shoud wake a speedy una carvers effort W banied this igmomuce dhe prem C Bu, wuded to the tec, thik the t ithe db om @ slavehowel, had ainer ing bo be miaue tor bie suceéss of the sivration of Lnom and libery, Th others, were good sigue, ana teroukh them wos would be firmly established, gua ail would be well, Lo college, 8T, PAUL uveed, of 475 children, but over five hundred were accom: | delivered Dan dated, and asin the Mission, hundreds of the poor in | Yi At St. Par on Broadway, Key, Dr. Dix delivered an eloguent rermou fraught with appropriate bug- | gestions, After the customary preliminary services, | Dr, Dix ascended the pulpit and announced the fol- lowing next: Then King Darias wrote unto all nations and Iauguages that dwell in all goe earth: Peace be mul- tip ied unto you i make ® decreb, That in every domain of my kindom men tremble and eiore the Ged of Daniel; tor He is the living ¢ 4 sieadfast 4 ever,and His kingdo tbaa't nich ‘all "an be destroyed, and His shali be even unto the end, He delivereth and resenteth sad woadors im heaven an ope Ho worker GEN im earth. who bath Cc Thirty-Third Year. SS = fol from the power of the lions.—Daale 25, 26, 27 The Rov. gentleman then spoke, in substance ce follows: Great and good te God, great ia THis jad, Mmerey, and although the children of ried coruprenend Hot thet goodness in all ite manifold phases, no .9 could fail, on looking back through the past Syeutful year, to recomnize His goodness and me.>. This day, continued the spesker, of all the pews h | ich we are wont to celebrate, calle for one er . TvANnce, is euch @ day ag we ne a nation ‘ad iong hoped to see. It isa day for which we ha: + ‘od, lay for which many have prayed, but did hich thousends had elvea tT prayer had Heaven tor ite trieht 4 wns Time atter time we had been called upon by the Uhief iJ in " Nation to humbie ourselves before Ged. in ompplicns m for the great hens we now ga.er wo acknowledge, Shail biessings euch as there, cor fined the eoeaker, be recelved and Hnrecornized? The veare ot war, of had passed, thanks be to God who victory, and no Christian soul would be eat until we had again assembled to offs Him who had delivered and blease. therefore keep sacred in iene mercies shown us as @ nation duripe the years, After a brief review of the past four yeareof strife, and the mighty results which hinew tipon the glo: ious termination of our recent strugese, the epenker continued. The era upen wh ch we. S nation, have just entered, is no common ora We nee we past four were beginning a new and glorious ¢ r nation's history, After four years of biood y eure culmin in the extention of freedom throug) or i the Jength and breadth of our land, America st oot forth to-day the exponent of two gieat ideu—iie ideas of nationality and freedom. He would con- rider these as historical quesiions: Four years ago. the national idea was opposed throughout @ section rf the country, and the question submitted tw tho arbitramen’ of war, but the broad idea of nationaliy hed provatied and the qnest " forever settled. L ws pleo true es regards (he idea of freedom. ' are historioal tact atic come to ur ag the r of four years ot struggle, And how vast are t advancements! Jontemplating which, who o deny that we are present upon the th: eshold of a ne in our nations! history? There isalsoa dramatic deur tn the result, Four years axo there wae uw ourtain betwoen ae the rest of the world, black with the cmlerms of strife and deah. This year hah seen that curtain lifted. And how changed ihe ecenet slavery banished trom the land, and in ite piece haw bi eared the «ymibel of the om of the people. 1 ie the fixure which now stauds disclosed at chi Iifting of the veil, hie year hae been an eventtu one in ourown history, Iv it great problems have been solved; fn it entirely pew and importa: conditions have been secured, which for the pase eighty yoare have been in slow formation, but which thin year has settled. In contemplating recent evens io se history of our nation, we are reminded af Daniel's vision of the four beasts, (see Danie, vil. 4,3.) for it is from the great sea of trouble that Rativus are cailed forth, Alter trae) the simile for some length, the speaker continued. Wetlonn like individuals, exirt noc for themselves alone. Rach hasn work to doand @ history w be written, He buildeth up the mations, and they exm w five glory to the Lord, Ky their charactore arte and iabors are direcie!, and the «ory of the people deie:mined, Im the midet of ejoicings, however, we cannot deny that there i in the ene of sbe times lo make us four, After the French Kevolution, with Its terribie seencs of biood aud fatricidal strite, men were moved to @ poner of demeanor previously unknown to ler people. Hut the Carnere of our strife, the horrore of southern prison IL ore counties thousands whe have perlebed int all thee things we Lave beheld, sud still we are unmoved; at least, 6 are not moved aswe ought tobe, Young men are ae profiigate, life as corrupt, protantty unchecacd wyer DOloT® Aww It Memy bO remarked, of, ooern times never bad Goa nearer to At present, yet Wo-day heresy s¢ rife in our miaet, mon of learhiy # us continue an intiaelity fi sOr pagan ni must be remedied tt we woulda Of God's biessings bestowed upon our pation, ‘ihese evils cannot be remedied by a resort to foree, There must be a popular spirit of condemnation for him whe respecte wos purity uor truth, What a eee ee high-woed public sentiuoent—a public opinion w will speak forth in ne doubtful terms, Iu short, thee tiush be ® sacred standard what ts decent rivht. When euch is realized, then, and pot ti thon, may we louk for the vew birth of the nations for ouly thiough these sources can sowing evils be uprovied, REY. DR, CHAPIN'R In eplie of the extreme inciemency of the weather this church wae well filled, with an attentive cougre~ gation, The revercod gentioman wok tor bis tox the following verse: “[ do net my bow in the cloud, and it shall be fore token of @ covenant between mo aud the earth.”’~« Genes is, 13, Attor remarking how faithfully God had kept bie covenant with man—that ‘while the earth remain- eth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, aud summer and winter, and day night, shall not cease” —~ ho sald our annual Thankegiving is ® religious service; by it wo propose to thank God for the abundant harvest of the yoar, and for the rich pose sessions which have sprang from the earth and added to our prosperity. In cultivating the soll, we were brought iusto intimate contact with the iset o. our cependence on God: for if the fruits of toe oa:ue fasied, all else would fail, When we reileet how uch we owe VUL FuCeess bo & power We canuol control, to the sunshine; the mysterious vitality of the litle wed; we are brought at ence to perceive the important question of God's covemant with us, No one could recognize any other power that worked All theese wonders of mae bus God, if so,—ih these wonders were pertormed by purely scientiie lawe Of so1c@# Aad joss Of matter, we should havo no gratituae to express to God, aud peuple Leed nos come tochurch tu thank these iawe and jattor, Hut if we recognige iu our bountital harvest the 4 of (0d, hould cvme to church not out af bus tor the pur of giving thanks. Our joretathers had th andesiving at the clo feu ered in, ceremony, but @ privi+ nd that bad fulfilled the cient promise, “ omer aud winter, und dume and harvests should not tail.” 1 trust tule day is not looked upen as au old fashioned observance or to keep up acursom trom which t vitality bee departed, iat us be true, lat us say there ia nothing but the properties contained iu the soil that pertains to the giowth veg or else recogulve the moral and wal sienifesnce in the matter The = paat been o most notable year Inthe anuale wation, During the yearsof our etvil strife ve been cheered with abuudant harvest, [ cannot think this is, because it is overlooked, a com- non piace fact, L easy through all that strugele, th.ouch all the desolajous ot war, there bas ben pnoihing like uine added te our sufferings, As our armies mustered ip the fleld, eo simies of gown grain mustered in our valioye, Without this grain aiiour efforts would baye been in vain—vain would have been our patriviiem, vain would have Leom aiuies, Vain would have beou war ships, had the .os or Khe destroy er GeVastalou our Vegetanon, The .ov, yeotieman thou semarged On the great diliereuce botween the werey of God and of man, Mex, by epecuisson, Minos. deprived the poor laborer tious obtaining the tm apa of getting wis ‘Thageeyiyiag dinuver, tie then spoke wt Kiewt length upou tua piogréesa (be Deon Lad made lowards tecuun, au how tavored it had been by God. We weie not however, yb entirely tree, but were Kia- dumay muching ouward e#tep by BLED, year yous, UuboO that gieat wud, During the Inet y we had advauc nobly. We had torn gown sib bad been struck uead by ie hand © Alabatia, Bud WO Were ofr Or Bation LO-day (Luan Bj) Gar ako, Ol PrOgiees was not Owlle 40 Our OW Oct, LUL WE Welle Kuued elep Ly sey bY An UDecen by wires, that could vot be ie-.st We hud jmet emerkea Mom ® Ki Got Blorm, (he ode sod Oya), and We bebeid the bow of ee peace ie, us hops st le nore del awiew clouds yet remaming, Which pvted a a 6 wey though delvated, are Hot cConvinerd, thet we do uot give ihem just Cause log permanent aiscontent, Let usrlow (iat We are noe overbearing Victore—that vur object is uot to crush of te morbity those / portanc wun, but genervsity and go0d-wiil, to the cone quered, After wuching upon the reconstruction of the Southern states, be said: Over our land to-d cloud, tur ible ie mot @ glad day tor Ing way calle home sons and daughiers trom many Gstaus parts, but there are many who lof their howes pever to returo again, Tuere will ig Sround the testive board; ther be sien vet in many homes to-day. 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