The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 16, 1872, Page 2

MBER 16. Amusements To-Day. Beothls Theatre The Lily of France, mewery Theatre Mary pa. Canterbury Variety Theatre. i: Bleecker and Howton, Pomeroy. One of the most phenomenal men in the United 2 Senate isthe Hon. 8, C. PomE- roy. He isa Senator from Kansas, and his reputation for virtue is already extensive, It will doubtless be increased by the letter written by him, probably some time in 1862, of which we publish a facsimile in another part of this paper, This fac-simile Will give the public an exact idea of Powr- roy's handwriting, while the contents of the letter will afford an equally faithful view of Pomenoy's moral nature, ‘This letter contains a proposition made by Pomeroy to one W. W. Ross, a citizen of the came State with himself, and who at the time when this remarkable piece of composition was produced was an agent for the Potawottamie Indians in Kansas, For these Indians Pomeroy proposes to furnish a trader who shall have an exclu- sive right to sell goods tothem. This rightis to be established by a license to be procured by Pomexoy from the Indian Bureau in the Department of the Interior, Of this bureau, at the time of PomERoy's writing, the Fon, W. P. DoLe was the head; and Pomenoy offers to employ with Dove his intluence as a Senator of the United States, In order to obtain the necessary license, bn condition that the person to whom it is fiven will first execute a contract by which one quarter of the profits on the business Which Pomrnoy is thus to get for bim shall be paid to Powrroy. We commend this letter to the consid- eration of such Senators as may be dis- posed to meditate on Pomenoy's method of employing the authority of his great office. We are informed that Mr. Ross, t whom the letter was written, is Bow in Wuashingtou, Very probably he may be able to furnish other similar letters from his friend Pomeroy, as well as a great deal of kindred information which would prove unusually valuable uf spread before the people in the ample oolumns of the Congressiena! Globe. Many interesting facts in regard to Mr. Down, as well as his official chief, the Hon. and Rev. James HARLAN, have already found their way to the public knowledge; but we dare say there are a great many others, of equal if not greater importance, which have not yet seen the light of day, and which Mr. Ross might oblige the Senate by revealing if he should be duly invited to do so. Af the Senate should regard any study of this subject as not consonant with its dignity, perbaps the Hon, James Beek of Kentucky, Who appears from bis speeches in the Hyuso of Rep- fesentatives (o have devoted a great deal of useful attention lo Incian affairs, might profitably spend a little time in pondering Pomexoy’s letter, Mr, Beck bas already, in a general way, made some charges aguinst Senators of the United States who are especially connect- ed wiib the Indian business, In discussing the Indian Appropriation bill the oth day he mentioned the fact that the bill provisied for an appropriation of €3,000 for aschool for the Crow Indians; and at the perious ne time he quoted from the report of of the Commission Indian show that there w only two little I dian boys attending that school, A Ter torial delegate at that moment interjected the remark, “and they had to be caught with @ lasso and dragged there.” Mr. Beck also mentioned several other cases where money has been given for schools, blacksmiths, and wagon makers for t Judians, when the official reports show that the tribes tor which this money was destined live by hunting, aud have no use either for learning or for the mechanic arts, He went further, and stated that these appropriations made merely for the commodation of the favorites of certain Benators, and that the Indians did not re- culve the slightest benefit from the money Affairs to appropriated for these pretended objects. More than this, he said that the treaties in accordance with which the Houre was asked to appropriate this money were made by Commissioners authorize: by the Senate to perform entirely diff ent business, and that they are not treaties in a legal sense, and are accordingly not binding on the Government. Perhaps, abo, while Mr, Becw is looking into the relationship and bearing of Pom- ERoY's letter and of these other peculiar arrangements of Senators connected with Hidian affairs, be may deem it advisable to examine in some detail the records of the Interior Department, in order to see if many interesting facts are not hidden there which might advantageously be brought to the knowledge of the tax- payers. 3 i The Presidont—His Term and His Pay, It is to be hoped there is no illusion in the matter or the manner of the several propositions pending in Congress relative & the change in the mode of election and in the official term of the President and We increase of his salary, but it must be confessed there is something of that Mook about them, There are three propositions to amend the Constitation, and one resolution in- ereasing the President’s salary, Mr, Hin- baup of New Hampshire offers an amend- mont authorizing Congress to fix a uniform Gay for hokling State tions, the object of which is to bring the Presidential, Con- gremional, and State elections on the same @ay, and the effect of which would be to do away with those State elections of Au- ust, Bey and October in the Presi- dential year which now virtually decide the national contest, Mr, Lynou of Maine offers an amendment providing for a di- sect vote of the people for President and Vioe-resident without the intervention af @lectors, a» under (he present system, Me, Banks offers an amendment making the official term of the President and Vice- President six years, and providing that the President shall not be eligible for revleo- Mon. With this proposed amendment Mr. Baska sutroduoes a bill for a public act in- Anne he salary of the President wo had dem Manin fromm the 4th of March, ‘Tao Diet two of these propositions will probably lie over in the hands of the com- mittee, and not be acted upon at this eee sion; but it is understood that the two pro positions of Mr. Banks, to amend the Com stitution so as to make the Presidential term six years and the President ineligible for re'lection, and to double bis salary, fre to be taken together; at least that is the way In which it is given out. With this understanding Mr. Banks has been heard by the House Judiciary Committee, and that committee is believed to have agreed to report in favor of—what? The int proposition—one term of #ix years and double the salary? By no means. The committee will report in favor of doubling the salary, but not of amending the Constitution, Is this a dodge of the committee to tn- crease the President's salary without limit- ing hiin to a single term? If so, it will not answer. The people are very ready, in the light of recent events, to extend the Presi- dential term if the single-term provision can be carried with it. They are not ro ready to double the salary, since no man has yet declined to be President at the ex- isting rate of compensation, and also since every President hitherto has saved some- thing handsome out of his pay. But it seems that the six years single term can be procured only by amending the Constitution, which requires @ two-thirds vote of both Houses of Con- gress, and ratification by the Legisla- tures of three-fourths of the States; while the President's salary oan be increased by a simple bill for a public act anda majority vote of the two Houses, We submit that the order in which these propositions come 1 not natural or safe. If the increase of salary is necessary in order to carry through the provision of ineligibility, it is manifest that the constitu- tional amendment to that effect should be adopted first. Let us have the one-term dment secure before we raise the President's pay. Otherwise we but in- ase the inducements for another re- n campaign. Besides, it is Just pos sible that the offer of an increased salary— in other words, the payment by the nation of $100,000 bonus—to the President would induce him to withhold opposition to the amendment, But we venture to say that if the increased salary bill should pass be- fore the adoption of the amendment, all the power of the Administration would be brought against the latter, and it would be impossible to get it to the first stage of adoption, And we have no doubt that the increased salary would be openly advanced asan argument for Grant's retection in 1876 on the ground that in that way only can he make good what he ought to have had during his first teri. We do not strenuously oppose the in- orease of the President's salary. Lf any- thing can be done to put him and his fam- ily above want, we are in favor of it. But we do oppose the order in which these pro- positions come, as covering a deception and calculated to tempt a conspiracy for a third term. It is well enough to remember, too, that the gentleman whose salary is | proposed to be doubled received less votes inl than he didin 186, Shall his salary be increased as his Vote decreases’ — of the Lite Insurance War, The Trustees of the Mutual Life Insur- ance Company have abandoued their pur- pose to reduce ie rates of premium. | From their explanation of reasons pub- | lished elsewhere, it will be seen that while | they still maintain the feasibility of carry- ing out their project with entire safety to their policy holders, they have deferred to | the remonstrances of those who entertain | a different opinion, and will adhere to the old rates. This action of theirs will, we presume, put an end to the war between the friends and enemies of the proposed reduction which has been waged in such a lively manner in the newspapers for the past fortuight, and let the business of life insurance flow on in its former serene and tranquil manner. As to the merits of the contr difficult for an unprofessional per form an opinion, Where men emiuent for their knowlege of the life insurance Dusiness and their mathematical skill are | found to disagree, ordinary people may well hesitate in making up their minds, It is plain, however, that under its old sys- tem the Mutual Company has done well and prospered, and nobody pretends that it will lose by not making any change. The assaults it has provoked have called | attention to its magnificent resources and the absolute safety it affords to insurers, sothatitcan but gain by the commotion it has excited, To this extent it isa winner | of the fight, On the other hand, the old policy holders, who feared a diminution of their security by the admission of new ine surers at lower rates than they have been paying, and the great competing compa- which anticipated injury from the titling of their business, have also cars ried their point, Both partios, therefore, have reason to be content, cose caluiatiimersers As the Twig is Bent the clined. The English journals for the past few weeks have been discussing the aystem of | discipline maintained in the public sehools, and especially the wide discretion given to certain of the lar boys in flogging their juniors, The agitation began In con, sequence of the publication of an instance of brutality in Winchester College, where &@ prefect, who is described by Dr. Rrpprxe, the Head Master of that institution, as * a good and gentle boy,” fell upon one of the smaller puplis for (ie offence of not being sufficiently profifuat in the deleot- able slang of the school, and be- labored him in the wost savage manner with ground ashes, using up several of these instruments of torture in the opera- tion, A ground ash is described as a thick, tough sapling thr four feet loug, and when skilfully wielded it will not only cut the clothing of its object in strips but will also lay open deep gushes iu the flesh, ‘Tree's Ine The father of the boy who was flogge Winchester, indiguant at such a tyrannical abuse of delegated authority, availed him- selfof the universal remedy of all indige Hoglishmen and wrote a letter to the at Times, This brought outa tlood of com- muuleations and leading articles in nearly all the public prints of England, in some of which the writers sympa- thized with =the ngarieved parent, while many others stoutly maintained | ter charged as libellous is true, aud was | Philadelphia | knives soon hacked out sixte | Miteen feet hud t that the thrashing which the little boy re- ceived at the hands of the big one, whethur deserved or undeserved, was undoubtedly an excellent thing for him; and that, how- ever unpleasant sueb a flagellation might he at the time, it would be of great benefit to him in the future, Incidentally the sub- ject of fageing was also introdnced into tha disoussion, which finally involved the whole of the relations havitually existing between the older beys and their juniors im the Dritialt public schools, It would strike moet Americans as cu- Hous to witness the zeal with which a host of mature Englishmen rush into print in defence of the tyrannical customs of their public schools, The practice of making the small and consequently the weak boys perform menial offices for those who are larger and stronger is praised to the skies; while the kickings and cuffings inflicted upon the helpless juniors are extolled as the best possible means of producing @ harmonious development of character. ‘There is a great deal of nonsense, it is A gued, in most lads, which requires to be knocked out of them; and it is a great ad- vantage to a boy to undergo the rough discipline of a public school, and to learn to take a thrashing pleasantly. There are some Who go #o far as to insist that the discipline boys have to undergo in their school days goes further than anything else in shaping the character of the typi- cal Englishman. However that may be, it would be difficult to imagine anything more likely to breed an offensive, bullying, overbearing disposition than the experi- ence an English school boy goes through, first as the unresisting object of the most degrading tyranny, and later as the bully and tyrant in his turt. The Law of Libel in Pennsy) Probably most persons suppose that the maxim “the greater the truth the greater the libel,” which once brought so much reproach, contempt, and ridicule upon the common law, hasno application in modern jurisprudence, The supposition, however, neorreet. In the State of Pennsylvania a man may be thrown into the penitentiary simply because he has publicly proclaimed the truth concerning a fellow citizen. In nearly all the other States, the truth, if published with good motives and for justifiable ends, is, when established,a com- plete defence to an action for libel. The THE SON, MONDAY. DECEMBER MR, BEECHER YESTERDAY. THE REMNANTS OF HUMAN SOCIETY CARED FOR BY GOD. —— Men who Pail im this World—Aiming Too jay Young 16, 1872. miserably inefficient, How many sought the law whom the Ia ited forth, Some that would do well in the shade must. STICK THEMSELVES ON THE STRRPLE. Men 4 themselves where they be- long. It was just as though a man put aw win front of an express train to run It, or motive in the garden to clean away the a) |, OF put a yoke of oxen to rock @ cradle. 18 class climed too high, and came down with ‘® crash, and there was an end of Jere were remnants, too, marked from overtaxed men, men adapted to the work, but not to the endurance which cir- Plymouth Church was jammed as usual yesterday morning. The 10 o'clock boat from New York took over a crowd who eagerly passed up Fulton street and Hicks street on thelr way to the church. Three elegant carriages from New York likewise bore thelr occupants to the one intter were like men on alow they were thrown out they could ith a little trouble, Oth ay, and they were beyond recovery. ‘The m: favored sanctuary. The pair of horves that howsten broke Gewn tureash, seore drew one of these carriages suffered torture nagement of themselves. Muttitudes from a check rein, which was buckled up s0 tightly that {t almost ripped open the horses’ mouths and wrenched their jaws off. But the horses held up their heads nobly, and pranced up to the sacred edifice to the admiration of pedestrian worshippers, At ten minutes past 10 orant how to take oare of themselves, ‘The evil began in youth. The vit which enterprise and success dope: norantly squandered. He who ine’ food, sleep, and mak al ayatorn waa a wi YOUNG MEN BEGAN LIFE IMPROPERLY. two lovely bouquets were placed on the plat- | it vas not wrestling running, billiard plaring. form, At twenty-five minutes past the organ | that dew thom ; the wasting of the ne poured forth its sweet chords, and at half past | substance by pleasures which draw out and ex- haust th itality, , be Precieely Mr. Beecher entered. He thrust bie | PAust.the very vitality, Thousands of men. he: hat into the usual place, and sat down in his cloak, Mr. Halliday went up and had a long talk with him. ‘Then Mr. Beecher pulled out @ roll of manuscript and put it upon the table, The choir rose and sang an Advent anthem, begin- themselves for this world, if not for the next. The preacher had received hundreds of letters from young men tn every part of the country ing thelr youthful folly, and asking for ninsel. Woe, w rig men who were cretly wasting thi tain, out of which orn! 004 hereafter. ning, “When Jordan hushed his waters still, wigcay teone ich th knew as much This ended, Mr. Beecher made a short pray about diet as a child team engine, And ral consideratior had much to do with man's stomach. Men were not taught in the school, the home, or the higher college how to eat, drink, and sleep, and that was why many broke down, They frittered the vital force, just as though # man put 000 in his pockets, and walked along empty- and gave out ahymn, Then he read part of the Afteenth chapter of First Corinthians, commenc: Jog with "He not deceived; evil communica. tions corrupt good manners.” MH. HEECHER'S PRAYER. ‘Then followed the prayer, full of beauty and by he says by, athos. God did not need our prayers, Mr, | (VAIN ONN By and by b Reecher said, It was not our voice that opened | Bow, ts this my money gone?" Many FH ee eee een eee oe oi eing tame the | dont economize the vital power, but waate it will. As men. lying awake inthe morning sco | Without keeping up a supply by proper food. the eun long looking in at the window and in- CRIMINAL, Viting them to rise, ao we beheld God's aym ‘This remnant of svciety, too. Mr. Beecher eal thy and love shining in upon us and inviting us | was supplied by men who broke the laws, and to ask, that our joy might be full. As we went | were detected, convicted, branded. The laws toward the sun we knew it was bright, but we | ofsociety were likea fort. When aman was in- ouldn’'t comprehend the sources of Ita light ; 40 | side it would protect him against all comers, we approached God we could not understand | futaseoonas he was outaide, the guns would His inunity, but we knew He was full of tender- | be turned upon him. Human soclety was so ness and compassion. God's love was greater | unchristian thal if a man slipped it was hard to than our sin, His merey outran allourcrimes. | get up again. And yet many carried a 0 We were powerless against the evils around us, | science under a prison jacket, ‘There were con- but God's was all-suMcient. Mr. Beecher | yicted criminals in Sing Sing tn whose cells prayed with. feeling for the hereaved and the | angel fived. There were many who had died Constitutions of eighteen of the States con- tain express provisions to that effect, and | in most of the others the same end | tained by statutory enactments, But in | Pennsylvania, the truth of an alleged libel affords no ground of defence ina criminal | prosecution for its publication, except where it refers to the official conduct of | officers or men in public eapacity. | A convention for the revision of the Con- stitution of that State is now in session at Philadelphia. Amoug the propositions before it is one to amend that portion of the organic law which relates to. prosec - | tions for libel so as to make the truth @ defence in all cases, The section relating to the subject in the Constitution of the State of New York is as good a form as can be adopted: “In all criminal prosecu- tions or indictments for Ibels, the truth | may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the mat. | published with good motives and for justi flable ends, the party shall be acquitted." Of the one huudred and fifty-three mem- rs of the Constitutional Convention at | nearly hondred are be one lawyers. They kuow that the law of libel as it exists in Penpsylyauia to- day is a disgrace to the legislation of the State. Let them change it so as to conform to the dictates of common jus- tic There can be no such thing as free om of the press, in the highest and true sense, Where its conductors are coutinually menaced by the present shadow of penal servitude as a reward for truth, — In Missourt recent discoveries of iron and | lead are attracting a good deal of attention, and are likely to lead toa more thorough dexelop- ment of the mineral resourees of the State, The mineral lands of Missouri are constantly Increas- Ing in price, while other descriptions of land have lately been declining, and new mineral ter- Hitory located within the past year is already compandiug large prices. Stories of valuable discovertes of lead are comman Io the Missourt newspapers, and some of them are quite ioterest- ing. It is said that a few weeks ago, while some boys were playing under the bluffs of he Pomme de Terre river, at Hermitage, they accidentally discovered some mineral protruding from the earth, and golng to work with their pocket pounds of lead, The next day two men, with pick and spade, took out MO pounds of pure galepa, ‘The lead inines at Joplin are rapidly assuming Import. ance. Last February they produced abeut 4,000 pounds per month; in October thelr product was nearly 2,000,000 pounds. The owners are now sinking deeper shafts, and, they report, reaching heayier and richer Jeadg. About four miles west of Joplin, a few weeks ago, @ farmer named STRYRNS Was induced to sink a shaft on his land, surface mineral {ndications baving at- tracted the attention of some practical miners, Ata depth of four feet a very encouraging quan- | tity of lead was unearthed, and whey a depth of n reached, Mr. STEVENS had upward of 6,000 pounds of the finest block mineral (o show for bis work, with every pros- pect of an inexhaustible deporit before him ey New discovertes of tron in Seott and Hollinger counties are also reported, and it is claimed | that the « und In the former county is equal | in quality to that of Lron Mountain. — Mormonism is not tourishing in Great Britain at pre at, Tn ISS) there were ab Mormon places of worship in the British Isles, with an attendance of some id within the circle of the London Conference there were forty branches, with a ¢ stutal of 2450 adhe rents, There are now only 10% members within the circle of the London Conferenog, and during the last year only seyenty-f Versions were reported within the same Units. The Mormons undertake to explain the decrease ip thelr num bers by attributing it to the eagerness of thy saints to gather into Zion ; but the force ef thi explanation is weakened by the fact that only seven of them emigrated from the London dis- trict during the last twelye manths, Buiquam is apparently making a spectal effort to cultivate this missionary fleld Just pow, as a general con erence of English and Welsh Mormons, held in ndon afew weeks ago, Was notlevable for the presence of an exceptional number of saints et from Utab « whom were no leas than three of the “twelve apostles,” all of whou bore earnest testiinony to the superiority of Salt Lake City abiding place over the wicked Babylon called London, ——— We ure glad to observe in the Republi- can party a more humane and judicious tone of feeling toward Quba and the patriots struggling for independence and freedom. Byen the Jour hals which support the Admintstration through thick aud thin, and which bave looked on with scorn at the endeavor of others to awaken pub- lic opinion to the merits of the Cuban revolu- tion, now modify thelr expression and condemn the erueities committed there, the hloodhounds and the murdors, with something like the se- verity which such things deserve, If President Gant should some day take the notion to de. clare bimself tn favor of Cuba, the whole crowd of Adininistration Journals would take up the ery, and speak a language more worthy of Amer- icans than that to which they have hitherto habituated tholr readers, Well, we shail not complain, Hf they will only ald Cuba to become free they may have all the oredit of the good work. an —— A very clevor volume fs Mrs, HAwaier Baeon: ER Browe’s Library of Famous Fiction, just publ ed by Foap & Co, Tt contayns the Migrim’s Progress, oar of Wakeneld, ‘nl iu aaditoa Korrowful. Mizht- thelr troubles be as wi [Eide mister, had whore tiental was ecreaded bring then to the harbor of safety, and 101 as | only bythe grave digger, who would stand in the gales (o. drive thom to shipwreck and ruin. Mr. | other fite pitied of Ged, loved by Jeaus.end saved Heechor interceded for by the Holy Spirit. (Sonsation.] God judged THE WANDERING AND RACKSETDING, with the Justice of love. God had a pecullar Ape Compassion for this remnant, He wee oot in a nd fer ttioee Bo Teed Jefe trate aes lore: hurry,but he sate on the cirele of the baavens and prayed pathettoally for the was bringing them by & way they knew not into He u.Litudes who were See eee ee eet eit | that other sphore where would be no wore fall- and vi and thas might they Sil the church Bo Ore DTSERIngS Cowe. Ret at ry With reseued sons on the hie vulgar, wayward, criminal, debauched. had a mother at home, whose love he bad road to glory. | i fy crucified, and whose life Might those who taught the young. especial had wasted. Still the young who had none to teach them at home, ¢ lest, Might all the churches unite Ip seek: ee aE Te ren ct oe rei | ing to reform the morals of the times, Might Rie 80 Tow Saat BS one very bottom, yet she loved him still, What mother was to her child, we koew; and the word of God by in every house, and the Gos)e! of mtelligen: be diffused. Mr. Beecher prayed for the forelgners who came to our | Should we say there was thores, and for the ‘colored population miuht NO MOTHEK-GOD they have amply provided for them Ge ieans : stakes o they have amply provided fur hem he means | Jooking down on the faults and mistakes of men, pitying the suffering remnant, and waiting for their retura? (Mr. Beecher was so deeply affected that the tears streamed down his cheeks, Sobs were heard through the congre- gation, and many eyes were suffused.) Lf men ee and cast them out, God cared for em. Many things, Mr. Deecher said, might be done fn the decline of Ife. They migut have lost Arivalry among men in power to Institute wise and just laws, and might there be a pubite senti- ment to enforce those laws. ‘The prayer lasted nearly twenty minutes, and during it a solemn stillness rested tpon the assembly. PLYMOUTH CHURCH'S GOOD Wonk. Mr Beecher then gave out the eh hymn. Refore it was sung, he announced a collection r the Werkingwomen's Ciion Home, The | Property. pogton. influence, But they coe er Le teat, Hs sacahoe po gag oe WT | pines died last winter, he let a vine grow up tt, Dee ee ocd at good kercremoda: | Until it was shrouded in beautiful green which tlon abd food ata reasonable rate, and th | fo. purume became a deep eximson, | EF pre tection which they required. A Home had by Lat low | half so beautiful before as thon. ; id that would bes ny established at 80 Willoughby street for this | ukify 5 more th uence. “Lat those. who Sent nn ed et oe eerie, | lived in beautiful homes qimong books and pic: to atart a Holly Tree Coffee House in Brooklyn, | ture think of thelr brothers In poverty. Fa | thers, mothers, brothers, sisters, friends, should where men could go and get good tea and cottes and food at reasonable rates, without the temp- tation of liquor. Me thought tt was time they had a ooffee reformation. Ie had heen all over the country, and with very few exceptions the coffee that Was sold in hotels was a swindle and A cheat, “(Lauter and approval) Tt would be Dir. Beecher Last Evening. a great thing to have evenvone place in Hrovklya | Plymouth Church was again crowded where people cylld taste real coffee. | They | inthe evening. Mr. Beecher was in fue spirits Would get good bread, ton, and butter jer and not case. The baskets then went | aNd preached an eloquent sermon from Pro- Fonud fur the Workingwomnen s Home, and re- | yerbs, 14th ebapter and 12h Thore ts « turped te the platform brinful of green Acks | way that seometh right unt y, but the end sa geectan’s CLAMON thereof are the ways of death, The hymn haviu, Heecher gave | MF: Beecher bogan by drawing a contrast be- | out bis inat, Leak verses 2), 21, | tween the lower creation nd man. All Hat ee eee Ing away of | men were trought into the world alike, so that it was worthy o! i in the , (AF @8 helplessness wes concerned, but not ages sulted his coms to men, When | in other respects, The babite and vices of # men were rude and up led by antal passions red forth, Wi In. a nutider Rog Mr. i nd apt to ul’ thieatenings were n were olvilized and was proclaim, costors were transmitted to the children, ro far as to give the offspring » tendency and pre- clivity tp the same direction. Why should there remnant, her sald, was of very | be a path that seemed right, and yet was wrong ’ Wide use. Te meant not ® few or the Inst, but | There were some things whose es were hot lauded bows, When one cut apiece of cloth, | disclosed at once, At the beginning they were harmless. By and by, as they disclosed them selves, they were found to be dangerous and fatal A tiger's was a pretty winsome plaything for a child. full of eport and Innocence; but af” | ter awhile when it begam to grow and develop its nature it became A ORUEL ASD DEADLY COMPADION. th re were tl elvages, and the side scraps, and the little bite pat couldn't be used, and the tail piece —these were the remnants, In a carpen- ters shop the Umber never came out as ft w lu. There were also odd aorana of ne @ecount. Tn the household, after the children and ser- vaute had been fed, the bones and the gristles and the scraps, apd bits of potatoes and frau: rete stlonery, load. They were It was the same with the ways of life. Men eal to thera oust . om *¥ ae the m Pees t re apt totake all right because it didn't poverty. These were the reninants. Inthe har- seem Wrong at the outect, or ause it was right in some degre Ib Was hard to convince ‘D that pleasure was commensurate with vest Geld there were straws of wheat that stuck in the side bushes or dropped by the way. and Inv ibere unused’ Soin afl soclety—intbearmy, | danger. The < us plant was not the navy, the household, in business—a rempant | rout, th wag, she. Satie sare was alWays cast out, & part always le(t as of no | Opatt WikMe I veneral thing, and if there was Was. OF eya0UBE ho other nature than the animal to gratify, in- THE REMNANTS OF SOCIETY, Did they ever think, Mr. Beecher went on. of the remnant of soelety the dlvintegration continually going on? When a large army went dulgence would be right, But there was some- thing ‘higher to struggle for, and, there was | pothing ao fatal to the rue ends of Life aa living for, pes present only Much evil, said Beecher, ran through an through a country on an urgent march every | few miles some stepped out of the ranks | incubation. You visited the ‘sick room, aud through weakness or lameness. Every seeds of disease were taken into the system. Jt | ereased the number of straggiers or skulkers, | was days, perhaps, before the geriis began to Human soctety was a vaster urmy tn which one | hatch, Bvil, as 4 general rule, dido ¢ strike like anw incessantly the breaking down and drop- | a viper; it took @ ‘Simall omg perfod to develop. iy bing aut of men. They thought only of the guile hatched quickly. Great evils took time men who succeeded. Who took account of the | Planta lettuce and it would be up in & week weak that dropped behind, or that stumbled | Plant # hundred fruit trees and you would have | and were run ove tude? Who gh to think by the tread of the mult: » they whose hearts were large these—sifting, sifting, sink= to wait five or ten years before you knew what sort of fruit they ware going to bear, THD WUMAN SPIDER. inking, toward the bottam? What hag at YP aome one i 4 | Meu were busy to begulle thelr fellows, M for years, He either died or went West.” ally stirring Up everything In Gs. It was i ; t nge that God, Who made the world, should Where ts Mr. D.? another asked, H i a t rign eat each other, But tt was so through Fe TL ee eye eee stnait | bature. ‘The grub lived on the plant. ‘There fand food, lors of vigor, b it of rals | Was no animal without ® parasite. Human so- lat eget breaking, a tearing of the | clety was not au exception, Men traded in be- Of these of the. useless, of those becoming #9 ay,” sald Mr. Heecher, 1 have watchod hourly? ¢ Lid *y thought of the good ider With exquisite skill Bing its web from and prosperous us good | hirub te at with the morning glory, sis cied tes Sas ad spark dew. Allthe blended lines THEY THOUGHT OF THK KUSING YOUNG MES. | fu “Pon Gontee. fair as & gossamer ot ith healihy | heaven, and there ‘the Old” monster for the | th yin. the web, walling till the inant’ Nw» | qaday Insect was entrapped, and th 1 iti. ‘The | The kreedy creature has seemed so bateful to Padld was when | me anu have thought, “The spider has as reiful, Roclety 1A hiuch right to bis dies as f have tomy ohickens, ‘outlike an tn wheel | Jt is vnly the divine constitution which the 1 needed to be tenderly dealt with, | epider is carrying out, He has spun the beaut- Hien mud they ushed s web with the skill d gave him to get hand w umsier | food, He has got a stom, and he knows tri nure ® Bo I don't feel, though, when when te ls empty.” T look on the human spider that has fixed bis web for beauty and youth and ign pence, and 5 rs his ned, 1 ¥ cher hou art kinder than our poor ho: me die but never let_me go to & workhouse. | his viotims to get wold, dev them Let me dle-=but Jet me go to a hospital,” | own may. Those who live only to seduce the Society, Mr. I vontinied: wed | unwary linger in all our cittes. They are feed- to such poor advantage as when it tried to do @ | ing the wants of thousands only to bring ther divine work. Who then eared for the remnant? God did, and the preacher was sent to comforg such and make known God's meroy to them. A part of this remn were broken in health, They had been turned aside from what the: sought by disonte, rorvequipmient had Urokes down suddenly A MAN GOT THE MPASKLS. to destruction. They exciting the passions, wine Into thelr own where mircreante souls of men.” MR, BRECHER ON TURKFYS. In the West, said Mr, Beecher, (ey turkeys by throwing down the nd enti y re Oring (he imagination, only to squeeze the bloody ‘There is not acity 0 not lurk to seek the | of ft the whites were frenzied, and determined He came out half deaf, half blind. and life be- | them along a trench within the enclosure, Wh fore lini was a wilderness womany quit | the turkey was feeding he kept his head down, school and college, only to drop out of sight alto on as he was done he carried it aloft, and ther-imen with the elemenws of success ib soe the treneh he came by, T' them, gong down and down, yptil wave swallowed them re all the den of hope was spread out way in which ht when feeding not lower the head, and were slaughe he great he gar They went right upto the gate; they snuffed the delicious frae grance, but a serpent stung thein. And now | lows got they must stand stil Lill God takes them, All | It was ¢ . that many of them can do Is to live on, smitten | good fellowship, Bad liqu ‘evidences of 4 mother's love, or a sinter’s ten | they knew that, But this was good derneas, or a wife's devotion. "This matter was | pitied the poor vulwar drunkards morrow full of pity and sorrow, Some sank, like the | they would visit there again. It was the most ship goes down at sea from a sudden leak. | blissful hour of the day. So weeks, months, Happy it was for them, A few bubbles and ali | would fly away, By and by a taint in the blood was over, But others were run ashore, to be | was developed tn & spark t beaten by the storms, and scorched by the sun, | brain of another; another grow ca until big cracks yawned here and there, and by her became lazy. In twenty years where was nd by they went to pieces, How sitwas | No.l? He went to sea and died, No.2? He W'see'e hin ship lying ashore, to be slowly didn't do well In business, and went to the MAWINAND AMD COMM INTO PRAGMERTS plains, and was Inst heard’ of in the mining tains. No. 3? Ho was alive, mou but every- or to soe a splendid locomotive on the aide | body who knows him wishoshe was dead, No.4? track a wreck and ruin, How many men were | Hels'the only one that escaped. tle broke Ike the bly ship that sailed gayly forth; but she | gway” got religion. and. became @ Methodist only made ashort trip, She was found faulty and hastened back to port to lle and rot. How Many men were there wh day's work "how many remnanta on the ‘of iil health alone. Many of these Mr. Beooher sald, were the result of lcatiou of power, If men went into life hey would succeed better, They should ing that lay next. Let them begin low ry ied by their opening Every one ried ty do jt take the high- minister, [Laughter.) No.5’ In Greenwood, In twenty years the preacher had known hun- dreds of young men, educated, with falr pros- pects, and every rational hope of doing well, who bad gone the ways of death, because they thought it safe at the outset to indulge in in- toxioating liquors, MH, BEBCHER'S FIAT DRINK, mber once when a boy I saw my fat! drink, He was ailing, and T saw him drink it, I tobi 2 alass of rum and be nothin ‘here ‘were tens awe Ron PS > i it burned my awl Le Che thought, Mr. Bosoher said, it Jet HBarRol s gentioman to smoke and drink ih, that te be ntieman might not mean to sting of rum and tobaceo. All our young men etan! fu uth felt eer et until he got the smelt je tobacco uoon him. These habits t of other vices not to be named—vices that gave young men & new ear, a new eye, a new touch—vices full of promise, but leading down to death, MR, BEECHER PLAYING TENPIN®. “It would be safe for mi “to roll tenpins in ap alley. It wo for a young man to do so with a br Hilliarda were well they bes ean je saloon, Do among the was as much as to evils. If you asked the pauper whose vices have brought him with rotting bones to the hospital “ Did you set out for thi in a husky voice hi would answer," All the prospect was pleasant when I began,” If you ask the bloated, spurned drunkard," When you began did you alm at this?” he would Kf “No; I never expected to be adrunkard. I wish I'd ‘known then what I know now.” ‘The last ways of wrong doing led to unutterable sorrow and regret. In conclu- sion Mr. Beocher exhorted all 80 to live as to be willing every day to spread their thoughts and thelr decd in the presence of God. Tho vast eeemly, listened to the eloquent preacher with profound attention, and many were visibly affected. A targe number of young men were {n the audience. ——$—— THE PATTENBURG MASSACRE. A Brief Hineory tchery— Se f the Rioters Indic for M der—The Trial to Bein To-day— Imp: Frieminoton, N.J., Dec. 4.—The read- ers of Tak Sun have been furnished with do- tailed accounts of the Pattenburg riot and the horrible butchery of negroes on Sunday morn- ing, Sept. 2. The facts of the riots and mur- dors may be briefly stated as follows: At the time of the riot about five hundred workmen were constructing the Easton and Amboy Railroad, and in tunnelling the Musconet- cong Mountain, at a point near Pattenburg, Hunterton county, New Jersey, These mon were at work on the east side of the moun- tain. About two hundred of them were V ginia negroes, and from two to three hundred were Irish laborers. Part of them were quar- tered in shanties at the base of the mountain, near the mouth of the tunnel—a out on the rail- road alone dividing the negro from the Irish shanties, About a mile east of the tunnel the rest of the negroes were quartered in shanties, on a farm beionging to a Mrs. Car- ter. The remainder of the Irish boarded at shanties and farm /iouses in the immediate neighborhood. Up to this time these two classes of laborers had worked togetber with no ap- parent ili-feeling or disturbance, but the ne- groes now say that the Irish had re; al warned them to leave, or there bs nv pad trouble. TNE PRELIMINARY Flatr. On Friday, Sept, 20, all the men were paid o turday they quit work st an early hour, unt, after pay day, all the men prepared for a holiday, Karly inthe evening a party of ne- groes left the shantion at the tunnel, and started out serenading. Returning about 1} o'clock they met a lot of men, who had been drinking id carousing at alow in Pattenburg. Hoth parties were undoubtedly drunk, and when they met a fight ensued, in which the whites were put to fight, they retreating toward the tunnel, and. eathéring reinforcements, re- turned, and again att od the negroes, and Were repulsed @ second me. | The negroes then regained thelr quarters, and all was quiet. until about 2 o'clock In the morning. Kroes were aroused. and found the Irish had again attacked thom, and suantios were on fire. This tine ener, wore thoroughly frightened, and leaving everything behind them the terror- stricken negroes fled in dismay toward Patten- burg, and went to the pegro cabins on the Car- ter fara, The Irish did hot pursue them, but romaine: @ shanties, pillagiug everything of auy Value the negroes had left, THE Massacie. About this time, by the gare of the burning shanties, the dead body of Thomas Coll, an Irishman, was found lying near tie negro ai ters, terribly mutitated and mangled. At slcht ‘Then the ne- to have revenge upon the black organized for an attack, and di sengers in every directlon, ay Sunday morning they had rattied about 380 men at (he base of the mountain, armed with guns, pistols, picks, and other weapons. ‘They then marched down the railroad to the negro shan- ties on the Carter farm, The negroes, howerer, rere on the watch, and seeing them approach- jug, fled in wbody toward the Carter bulldings, their assailants following close upon them. A number of them who were in the rear, on being refused admittance to the house by Mrs. Carter, took refuge ju the outbuildings, and two of them crawled under the stoop of the house, THREK NEGRORS KILLED. 0 found one of thea and drag. wat his brains out and rid! His pame was Ben Desh man wn in the neighb: 6 other negro, Cole. He Is bere as a They at once patched mes- ‘daybreak on ounty jail. Itis | id he’ recognizes one of the prisoners as the rderer of Ben.” The crowd falling ad any of the other negroes, started back On thelr way to the Carter farm they had shot a negro gam a Donsie owes a58 left him by the ro . Y AUD) jead. On their re- yr et coaled himself In the gress near by. He bered lteously for his fe, but bis ings were un- jeeded, and the fends beat him with clubs into ashapeless tnass. They then went to the negro shanties, and found an old negro very sick, who had hoped to conceal bimsedf. Ou their ap- prosch be sprang from nis bed and fied naked to the we His pursuers overtook bim as be was climbing a nce Inte the road, aud beat bim with clubs, and as he fell, shot him through the heart. THR RIOTERS INDICTED FOR MURDEK The rioters then disbanded, and the citizens, fearful of their own lives and property, failed tify the authorities unti ¢ afternoon of tl The Sherif, however, succeeded in a number, and lodged them in the oounty Jail, After dious examination of sev- eral weeks, the m strate before whom the in- vestigation was held committed seven of the prisoners to snpeer at the next Court of Oyer Terminer, be Grand Jury, aft eorsion days, found bills of lndictinent against the whole nuinber for murder. Chief Justice Hoasley has set down the trial of the murderers for Monday, Dec 16. About one hundred wit- nesses have already been subpoenaed, and able counsel are employed on both sides. It is said that Johe Grahaw of New York will conduct the defense. IMPORTANT WITNPSORS. ‘The District Attorney has been indefatigable ln his efforts Diain witnesses, and unas » before the Magistrate was ervioes of Willian: D. Allen, a tehed him to Vir- in nearch are tmpor- witnesses, number of negroes, among them John Homes, who was concealed In one of Mrs. Carter's o Dulldings, and plainly saw the rioters, a number of whom be knew, A few days ago he returned th “Stape Hyde,” & mulatto, who was by the side of Dennis Powell when ho was shot, and fell over bis prostrate body. There are other Important witnesses confined Jn the Jail, and the prosecutor feels assured that he has some of the Hngloaders in custody, ‘The trial will na doubt decupy the court several days, and !s the all-aby~ sorbing topic of conversation in this hitherto quiet community, wetting 9 — The Failure of Bowles Brothers & Oo, A few years since a new American bank- ing house was started in Paris, London, and New York by three brothers named BowLrs, who were originally from one of the suburbs of Boston, What purported to be the main was located In the Rue de ta Paix tn Paris, with hes at 440 Strand, London, tn State street, din William street tn this city, The London house, however, tn appearance was al ways the central one. The brothers were sharp, active men, gifted with that imperturbable coolnens characteristic of the Ideal Sam Stren, It was generally bo- Heved for several years that their only capital was their shrewdness, until t t that a young gentleman of socal position and large une in Boston, Mr, NATHAN APPLETON, had entered the firm gave the public # degree of confidence In the stability of the house whlch otherwise would never have been reposed, A brother-in-law named SEETSON, & spruce young fellow of pleasing address, made up the quin- tet, CHARMES Bowtys was the presiding genius of the London branch, and he was always to be found im the roading room ready to wol- come Americans arriving from home or the Continent, with particular inquiries as to the state of their health and all thelr movements, past and future, The new-comer was the duoted to the next story, where, painted on the concave velling was the world’s map, which they asserted was typical of the extent of the business of the Orm of Bow.rs Baotnans & Co. The offices and reading room in the Rue do le Pala were handsomely Stted up; aud here Mr. Wrt.14M Bowes and Mr. Natnaw TON reigned supreme. io Year after year the business incronsed. The public, timorous at first, thought that the Sm had been tested by some years of probation, and that the shekels poured into their coffers quar. anteed their solvency. Then, too, they were not proud, and would do anything to accommodate thelr customers provided they were pald in ads vance. An entertainment given at Geneva by Mp. Ropent BowLes to several hundred guests te celel rate the conclusion of the Alabama com. tilt was the glittering forerunner of thele On the 9th of November the firm stopped pa: ment. Mr, Rowant BowLms was arrested im London at the {natance of Measrs. v'Aqiorr, Pere er Fits, bankers of Naplis, on a charge ot having fraudulently converted to his own and his partners’ use two hundred debentures of the Lombardo-Venetian Railway Conpany, worth about $11,000. He was committed to prison, but was afterward reloased on giving ball for £8,000, ‘Tho London T¥mes gives in detail the examinae tion into the affairs of the firm at the Mansion House on the 2th November. A Mr. Youna, &n accountant, in whose hands the books of the firm had been placed, tostified that “it suse pended payment either on the 9th of November or on the previous eveni The liabilities of the firm amounted to about £83,00, irreapeotive of shares held in the Joint National Agency, and the assets to about £3,500. The defendant was a partner in the firm, as were also his brothers, WILLIAM and CHARLES BowLes, Mr. ArPLeron of Boston, and Mr. Sretson, who resided ia Paris. There were five partners tn all, Witnes wave instances in which the securities of custome ers had been pledged without any advances being made A widow named Mre. GATES testified that she had left with Messrs, BowLes Bnorurns United States bonds and vther securities to the Amount of several thousand dollars, which it Appears they pledged in order to raise money for their own use. A few days after this examination a meeting of the creditors of the firm was held !n London, al which au Evglish solicitor stated that "ac« cording to the information which the commit- tee had recoived, Mr. ArrLeron had rendered Limself liable for the whole debts of the cone cern, and if that were the case every shilling of the creditors’ money would be paid. If the case proved otherwise they would be able ag examine the partners and ask them what they had done with £35,000 in two years,’ ‘The question as to whether Mr. AprLeron la Aspecial partner or « general partner is a very important one to the defrauded dupes of the house. We are informed that he hae come menced an action against his partners, and that at his instance Gen, H. E. DAvins, Jr., has been appointed receiver, and is now in possession of the assets and effects of the bankrupt @rm ia New York. There are severa! cases of pecultar hardship by this failure, aa that of several ys ‘s (teachers) who had deposited their savings with the fr, and were ts ling on the Continent for the beneft of thete health or the further prosecution of theiretudiess ‘The fruit of their toll has vanished, and they are left almost desolate. atk = Se ‘Tellivg the Trath. From the Brooklyn Bagle. ‘Tux Sun is a paper which tells the truth 60 plentifulty and plainly that placid folk thing it cannot be the truth. —— We have been furnished the following publication: ux More st Live Insc RANE COMPANY | ft OF New Youn, 1M and 146 BRoabway. New Youk, Dec. 14, U7. Ata meeting of the Trustese of this Company, held on the above date, the President presented a memorial from sundry policy holders, proteste Ing against the proposed reduction of premium rates, together with the following corresponds ence: New York, Doe. 12, 18:2, P. 8. Wisston, Esq. President Mutual Life Ina. Oo. : Dean Sin: We have noticed the action of your Company looking to a reduction of ite pre- mium rates, Without presuming to advise you asto the management of your business, you must be aware that many of the holders of Pok icles in your Company also hold policies in Com panies represented by us, and that any action af feoting the interests of life tinsurance generally cannot fat! to affect all to a certain degree. Whatever may be your views as to the ability of your Company to carry out successfully the proposed reduction, we cannot but believe, from the causes stated above, that agreat injury to insurance would result from a ohange of the kind proposed. Other reasons of weight might, in our opinion, be advanced to tnduce you to reconsider your proposed action ; but we abstain from entering upon them, and with the reason given content ourselves by respectfully requesting you, in what we consider the best interests of inguty ance, to reconsider your action, Very respectfully, Hesry B. Hype, Wa. H. Brens, N. D, Monaan, Joun BE. De Wrrr, Fxecutive Committee representing the follows ing Companies: w York Life Insurance Co, ited States Life Insurance Co. ‘The Bquitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S ‘The Security Life Insurance and Annuity Coy ‘The Continental Lite Insurance Co, ‘The Manhattan Life Insurance Co. The Koickerbooker Life Lnsurance Co. The Guardian Life Insurance Co. ‘The Merchants’ Lite Insurance Co, ‘The Germania Life Insurance Co, ‘The Eclectic Life Insurance Co. The Commonwealth Life Insurance Co Tho World Mutual Life Insurance Co. ‘The Excetstor Life Insurance Co. ‘The National Life Lnsurance Co. The Brooklyn Life Insurance Co. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. The John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Cos The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co, ‘Yhe Boonomical Life Insurance Co. Tho Government Security Life Insurance Co. The North America Life Insurance Co Lie MoTCAt Lire Instance Co. or New You, Mt and 140 Broadway NEw Youk, December 13, 1978, (Bigned) ur Moners, } HB. Myoe, | Brecuttve Committes repre: W. H. Bees, menting twenty-two svoct- N.D. Monga, | ted Life Insurance Compare Joun B DeWrrr,) tea, GeyTLeMen: Lhave received your communl+ cation of this date, While T have dou of our ability to carry out our proposed action with entire safety to the Interests of the policy holders of thts company, nevertheless, Inaemuch you aver that this proposed action will be In» furious, and In deference to your 0} and without regard to the reserved r you say exist, but of which Tam tg prosent your request to the meeting of our be to be bold on Saturday nextand recommend Welt fayorable action upon It Very respectfully, S, Wines P wien te Whereupon, a diseuasion, the following minute and resoiution were adopted he board, after careful consideration of Wit aforesald memorial and correspondence, 64 hereby resolve ottha Resolved, That while the past experter company demonstrates its ability to re ,w the the plan of reduced preminms wed mothod recently adopted, without fnjury toMy policy holder in this company, but with beneet to all, yet In compliance with the request of He memorfalista above mentioned and (he very T spectable body of insurance companies abeva represented, they direct that the propred r= duction of rate be not carried Into effet vata the further action of the board, Extract from the minutes, Attest: Rion ann A, MeCunpy, Vice-President and ex-officio Secretary of the Hoard The Mutual Benefit Savinus Hank tp thg Or Dullding odure many edvasieger We depot ofthe Ie —