Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 July 1898 — Page 3

AS TO SECTARIANISM. — Rev. Dr. Talmage Discusses Its ( rigin, Evils and Benefits. Algotrg Ik* Child of Iimiun sad IotalHWM and a Hindrance to tho Triumph of tho Gospel— Denominational IIIh^t In the following sermon Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage shows whst sectarian- j ism really is, its origin, evil and cure. The t*?tis: Then mid they unto him, Ssy now Shibboleth, nnd he mid Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him and slew him at the passages of Jordan.— lodges a, iL, a Do you notice the difference of pronunciation between shibboleth and eibbolcth? A very small and unim* portant difference, you say. And yet, that difference was the difference between life and death for a great many people. The Lord's people, Gilead and Ephraim, got into a great fight, and Ephraim was worsted, and on the retreat came to the fords of the River Iordan to cross. Order was given that, all Ephraimites coming there be slain. But how could it be found out who were Ephraimites? They were detected by their pronunciation. Shibboleth was a word that stood for river. The Ephraimites had a brogue of their own, and when they tried to say “shibboleth” always left out the sound of the “h.” When it was asked that they say shibboleth they said sibboleth, and were slain. “Then said they unto him, say now shibboleth; and he. said sibboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him aud slew him at the passages of Jordan.” A very small difference, you say, between Gilead and Ephraim, and yet how much intolerance abont that small difference! The Lord's tribes in our time—by which I mean the different denominations of Christians — sometimes magnify a very small difference, and the ynly difference between scores Of denominations to-day is the difference bet ween shibboleth aud sibboleth. The church of God is divided into a jreat number of denominations. Time would fail me to tell of the Calvinists, and the Arminians, and the Sabbatarians. and the Uaxterians, aud the Duttkers, and the Shakers, and the ’.Junkers, and the Methodists, and the Episcopalians, and the Lutherans, aud the Cougregationalists. and the Presbyterians, and the Spiritualists, and a score of other denominations of religionists, some of them founded by

very good men, some of them founded by very egotistic men, some of them founded by very bad men. Hut as I demand for myself liberty of conscience, 1 must give that same librty to every other man, remembering that he no more differs from me than I differ from him. I advocate the largest .liberty in all religious belief and Mru of worship. in art, in politics, in morals and i iu religion, let there be no gag law, no moving of the previous question, no persecution, no intolerance. You know that the air and the water keep pure by constaut circulation, and •1 think there is a tendency in religious discussion to purification and moral health. Between the fourth and the sixteenth centuries the church proposed to make people think aright by prohibiting discussion, and by strong censorship of the press, and rack, and gibbet, and hot lead down the throat, tried to make people orthouax: but it was discovered that you can not change a mau's belief by twisting off his head, uor make a man see differently by putting an awl through his eyes. There is something in a man's conscience which will hurl off the mountain that rou throw upou it, and, unsinged of the tire, out of the dame will make red wings on which the martyr will mount to glory. l^ii that time of which 1 speak, between the fourth and sixteenth centuries. people went from the house of God into the most appalling iniquity, and right along by consecrated altars there were tides of drunkenness and licentiousness such as the world never beard of. and the very sewers of perdition brooke loose and flooded the church. After awhile tl»e printing press w^is frged. and it broke the shackles of the human mind. Then there came a large number of bad books, and where there was oue man hostile to the Christian religion there were 20 men ready to advocate it; so I have not any nervousness in regard t6 this battle going on between truth and | error. The truth, will conquer just as j certainly as that God is stronger thau ! the devil. Let error run if you only : let truth run along with it. Urged on ' by skeptic's shout and transcendental- j ist's spur, let it run. God's angels of ; wrath are in hot pursuit, and quicker 1 thau eagle's beak clutches out a hawk's j heart. God's vengeance will tear it to pieces.

1 propose to speak to you of sectarianism-* its origin, its evils and its cures. There are those who would | make us think that this monster, with j horns and hoofs, is religion. . I shall j ■chase it to its hiding place, and drag it! out of the caverns of darkness, and rip \ off its hide. Uut I want to make a dis-.] tinotiou^between bigotry and the lawful fondness for peculiar religious be-, liefs and forms of worship. 1 have no admiration for a nothingarian. In the world of such tremendous vicissitude and temptation, and with a ! soul thi.t must after awhile stand be- | fore a throne of insufferable bright- ! ness, in a day when the rotking of the mountains and the flaming of the Heavens and the upheaval of the seas shall be among the least of the excitements. to give account for every thought, word, action,- preference and dislike—that man is mad who has no religious preference. But our early education, our physical temperament, onr mental constitution, will very much decide our form of worship A style of psalmody that may please me may displease you. Some would like to have a niaiaur in gown and

. — 'I..* — --— -—— bands and surplice, and others prefer to have a minister in plain citizen’s apparel. Some are most impressed when a little child is presented at the altar and sprinkled of the waters of a holy benediction “in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost,” and others are more impressed when the penitent comes up out of the rirer, his garments dripping with the waters of a baptism which signifies the washing away of sin. Let either hare his own way. One man likes no noise in prayer, not a word, not a whisper. Another man, just as good, prefers by gesticulation and exclamation to express his devotional aspirations One man is just as good as the other. “Every man fully persuaded in his own mind.” George YVhitefield was going over a Quaker rather roughly for some of his religious sentiments, and the Quaker said: “George, 1 am as thou art; I am for bringing all men to the hope of the Gospel; therefore, if thou wilt not quarrel with me about my broad brim, 1 will not quarrel with thee about thy black gown. George, give me thy hand.” In tracing out the religion of sectarianism, or bigotry, 1 find that a great deal of it comes from wrong education in the home circle. There are parents who do not think it wrong to caricature and jeer the peculiar forms of religion ic the world, and denounce other sects and other denominations. It is very often the case that that kind of education acts just opposite to what was expected, and the children grow up, and, after awhile, go and see for themselves; and, looking in those churches, and finding that the people are good there, and they love’Got! and „keep His comraaudments, by natural reaction they go and join those very churches. 1 could mention the names of prominent ministers of the Gospel who spent their whole lives bombarding other denominations and who Hved to see their children preach the Gospel in those very denominations. But it is often the case that bigotry starts in a household, and that the subject of it never recovers. There are tens of thousands of bigots teu years old. , “ 1 think sectarianism and bigotry also rise from too great prominence of any | one denomination iu a community. AH j the other denominations are wrong, and his denomination is right, because j his denomination is the most wealthy, or the most popular, or the most infiu- j ential; and it is “our” church, and “our" religious organization, and “our” choir, aud “our" minister; and the man ! tosses his head, and wants other de- j nominations to know their places. It j is a great deal better in any communi

tv when the great denominations oi Christians are about equal in power, marching side by side for the world's conquest. Mere outside prosperity, mere worldly power, is no evidence that the church is acceptable to H< l. Better a barn with Christ in the manger than a cathedral with magnificent harmonies rolling through the longdrawn aisle, and an angel from Heaven in the pulpit, if there be no Christ in the chancel, and no Christ iu the robes. Bigotry is often the child of ignorance. You seldom find a man with large intellect who is a bigot. It is the man who thinks he knows a great deal, but does got. That man is ahvays a bigot. The whole tendency of education and civilization is to bring a man out of that kind of state of mind and heart. There was in the far east a obelisk, knd one side of the obelisk qras white, /another side of the obelisk was green, another side of the obelisk was blue, and travelers went and looked at that obelisk, but they did not walk around it. One man looked at one side, another at another side and they came home each looking at only one side; and they happened to meet, the story says, and they got into a rank quarrel about the color of that obelisk. One man said 'it was white, another man said it was green, another man said it was blue, and when they were in the very heat of the controversy, a more intelligent traveler came, and said: “Gentlemen, I have seen that obelisk and you are all right, aud you are all wrong. Why didn't you all walk around the obelisk?'* Look out for the man who sees only one side of aryligious truth. Look out for the man who never walks around about these great theories of God ansi etefuity and the dead. He will be a bigot inevitably—the mau who only* sees one side. There is no man more to be pitied than he who has in head just one Idea—no more, no less. More light, less sectarianism. There is nothing that will so soon kill bigotry as sunshine—God's sunshine. So l have set before you what I consider to be the cause of bigotry. 1 have set before you the origin of this great evil. Wkat are some of the baleful effects? First of all, it erippies investigation. You are wrong and 1 am right, and that ends it. No taste for exploration, no spirit of investigation. From the glorious realm of Godjs troth, over which an archangel might fly from

eternity to eternity amt not reach the litn;t, the man shuts himself out and dies, a blind mole under a corn shock. It stops all investigation. While each denomination of Christians is to present all the truths of the Bible, it seems to me that God has given to each denomination an especial mission to give particular emphasis to some one doctrine; and so the Calvin iafcic churches must present .the sovereignty of God, and the Arminian churches must present man's free agency, and the~ Episcopal churches must present the importance of order and solemn ceremony, and the Baptist churches must present the necessity of ordinances, and the Congregational church must present the responsibility of the individual member, and the Methodist church must sheer what holy enthusiasm, hearty congregational singing can accomplish. While each denomination of Christians must set forth all the doctrines of the Bible, 1 feel it is especially incumbent upon each denomination to put particular emphasis on some one doctrine. Another great damage done by the sectarianism aad bigotry of the chureh

—.——-....... la that tt disgusts people with the Christian religion. Now, my friends, the church of God was never intended for a war barrack. People are afraid of a riot. You go down the street and you see an excitement and missiles flying through the air, and you hear the shock of fire-arms. Do you, the peaceful and industrious eitisen, go through that street. Oh, no! you will say, “I’ll go around that block.” Now, men come and look upon this narrow path to Heaven, and sometimes see the ecclesiastical brick-bats flying every whither, and they say: “Well, I guess I’ll take the broad road; there is so much sharpshooting on the narrow road, I guess I’ll try the broad roadr Francis I. so hated the Lutherans that he said that if he thought that there was one drop of Lutheran blood in his veins he would puncture them and let that drop out Just as long as ‘here is so much hostility between denomination and denomination, or between one professed Christian and another, or between one church aud another, so long will men be disgusted with the Christian religion, and say: “If that is religion, I want none of it” Again, bigotry and -sectarianism do great damage in the fact that they hinder the triumph of the Gospel. Oh, now much wasted ammunition! How many men of splendid intellect have giveu their whole life to controversial disputes, when, if they had given their life to something practical, they might have been vastly useful! Suppose, while I speak, there were a common enemy coming up the bay, and all the forts around the harbor began to fire into each other—you would cry out: “National suicide! Why don't those forts blaze away in one direction and that against the common enemy?” Ane vet I sometimes see in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ a strange thing going on.' Church against church, minister against minister, denomination against denomination, tiring away into their own fort, or1 the fort which ought to, be on the same side, instead of concentrating their energy and giving one mighty and everlasting volley against the navies of darkness riding up through the bay! Hut now, my friends, having shown you the origin of bigotry and sectarianism. and having shown you the damage it does, I want briefly to show you how we are to war against this terrible evil, and I think we ought to begin our war by realizing our own weakness and our imperfections. If we make so many mistakes in the common affairs of life, is it not possible that we may make mistakes in regard to our religiousaffairs? Shall we take a man by the throat or by the collar

because he can not see religious truths just as we do? In the light of eternity it will be found out, I think, there was something wrong in all our creeds, and something right in all our creeds, but since we may make mistakes in regard to things of the world, do not let us be so egotistic and so puffed up as to have an idea that we can not make any mistake in regard to religious theories. And then 1 think we will do a great deal to overthrow the sectarianism from our heart, aud the sectarianism from the world, by chiefly enlarging in those things in which we agree, rather those on which we differ. Now, here is a great Gospel platform. A man comes up on this side of the platform and says: “I don't believe id baby sprin kliug.” Shall I shove him off? Here is a man coming up on this side of the platform, and he says: “1 don't believe in the perseverance of the saiuts." Shall I shove him off? No. I will say: “Do you believed in the Lord Jesus as your Saviour? Do you trust Him for time and for eternity?” “Yes.* “Do you take Christ for time and for eternity?” ‘‘Yes.” I say: “Come on, brother; one in time and one in eternity; brother now, brother forever.” blessed be God for a Gospel platform so large ihat all who receive Christ may stand on it! C I think we mav overthrow the severe sectarianism and bigotry in our hearts, and in the church also, by realizing that all the denominations of Christians have yielded noble institutions aud noble men. There is nothing that so stirs my soul as this thought. One denomination yielded a Robert Hall and an Adoniram Judson; another yielded a Latimer and a Melville; another yielded John Wesley and the blessed Summertield, while oar own denomination yielded John Kuox and the Alexanders—men of whom the world was not worthy. Now, I say, if we are honest and fairminded men. when we come up in the presence of such churches and such denominations. although they may be different from our own, we ought to admire them, and we ought to love and honor them. Churches which can produce such men. and such large-hearted charity, and such magnificent martyrdom, ought to win our affections—at any rate, our respect. So come on, ye six hundred thousand Episcopalians

id uns country, ana ye fourteen nunarea thousand Presbyterians and ye four mil] ion Baptists.and ye fire million Method* ists—come on; shoulder to shoulder we will march to the world’s conquest; for all nations to be saved, and God demands that you and I help. Forward, the whole line In the Young Men’s Christian associations, in the Bible so* ciety. in the Tract society, in the missionary society, shoulder to shoulder, all denominations. One army of the 11 vis* God. To HU command we bow; Part of the boat hare crowed tbe flood. And part are crossins now. And 1 expect to see the day when all denominations of Christians shall join hands around the cross of Christ and recite the creed: “I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, and in the communion of saints, and in life everlasting. Amen.*" Chrbtua Woaw. _ Woman had much to do, perhaps as much as man, in the spreading of the Gospel. The story that remains to ns of the first two eenturiss of Christian* Ity is largely a story of nobis women. —Roe. Wa O’Byan, Catholic. Denver, CoL *

THE WAR AND DINGLE YISM. latncttMktlttr of the Protection Theory In International Coo* attentions. It would be an unexpected but perhaps not strange development of the policy of imperialism if it should compel the republican party to abandon its outworn fetich of protection, to which it has clung so hard. Doubtless the struggle will be severe, and, indeed, we find that the contemporary platforms of the party, adopted in Ohio and Vermont the other day, are characterised by even more than the customary partisan fervor of admiration for the supposed triumphs of Dingleyism. But the politicians are always the last to observe tendencies. They follow and do not lead. They have so far failed to understand the lesson of the tremendous increase in our export trade in manufactured articles, which is absolute proof that no protection is needed to enable our goods to compete on even terms with the best of foreign make.

If in addition to the lesson of these conditions there is added the effect of International complications which must follow extensions of territory, the time must come when the protective theory will be found impracticable as well as absurd. Its demonstrable absurdity has not hitherto hampered or impeded politicians of the Dingley type, because most of them are incapable of understanding the argument, and the others regard protection merely as good molasses to catch flies. If, howe\er, protection should be found to stand in the way of extensions of territory, then protection will have to go. - We are accustomed, for instance, at the present time to hear a great deal of vague talk about an alliance with Great Britain, and that alliance, to the extent at least of moral support. Is regarded as a necessary condition to the extension of our territory by the acquisition of outlying islands. It may not be denied that should England join the other European powers in putting a veto on the acquisition of foreign territory by the United States it would be a very serious business. The fact is that England is the only power in the world which we need fear on the sea, France may have a bigger navy, but we need not shrink from the conflict. The fact is that England has the only navy in the world organized for offensive as well as defensive’ purposes. The other navies are well enough, perhaps along their own Coasts, but take them a thousand miles from the home base and they are crippled for want of coal. It will be conceded, therefore, that England’s concurrence and moral support is a condition precedent to the extension of our territory. Now, what is the price of England’s moral support ? Obviously, no matter how much thicker blood may be than water, the red fluid is quite likely to grow thin where the advantages of a bargain are all on one side. If, for instance, we should undertake a protectorate of the Philippine islands, and thereupon should extend the protection system to our new dependency, .such a measure would prove very trying to the new-born affection with which we are regarded by. “our kin beyond the sea.” | In fact, a plain statement of the price : of English support is found in a recent number of the London Outlook, which \ is semiofficial. We quote: "If the United States allies herself with England to enforce in China the policy of an open door. or. that policy failing, will i agree with England to adopt lnall the r.ew I countries they may respectively open some such reciprocal trade rights as are enjoyed | by England and France in the West African settlements under the new Xiger con- ! vention: If agreement for either of these [ purposes be possible. It should be possible ; also to enlarge the free trade area which the genius of Sir WilfredLaurler contrived. Canada. Rhodesia, and now. through her governor, western Australia, all have accepted the brclM principle, according to ' British goods an open door. Other great I colonlea will follow suit, and It will then only need the accession of the United ! States to the arrangement to present to the | world for pattern or reproof an Englishspeaking trade alliance."

An English-speaking trade alliance!” A year ago the republican i leaders would hare shouted “Treason!” had anybody suggested such a measure. Now ihey listen calmly when all sorts of reciprocity treaties with Canada, with Australia, with England and everything that speaks . English. If you add to this the policy of the “open door” in the far east, you will have about as good an imitation of free trade as the most wicked schemer in the Cobden club could desire.—San Francisco Examiner. lunaaee of the Don da. Another peculiarity of the war revenue is that it makes no mention for what purpose the bonds are to be issued. It is not provided that they shall be used to obtain money to prosecute i the war. It authorizes the issuance of the $600,000,000 of bonds, or so much thereof that may be necessary, and the secretary of the treasury is made the sole judge of the necesssity. Mr. Gage has often declared that it is necessary to retire the greenbacks and treasury notes, and it would not be unreasonable to suppose that with such views Mr. Gage would issue the bonds to provide a basis for bank circulation in order that greenbacks might be retired. Mr. Gage is a banker, and has repeatedly declared that national bank circulation is necessary to a sound financial system, and the bonds provided for in the bills would go a long way to meet I that necessity.—East Oregonian. -Chairman Hanna’s circular in favor of the house banking bill is an effort to bring a combined pressure on congress from all parts of the country. It is craftily framed, too. It seeks to convey the impression that j the bill is in the interest of the public and that the bankers may be inclined to oppose it. Still, the circular admita that the “banks have privilegea which ought to overcome any objection that they may have to it."

THE OVERPRODUCTION IDEA. There Is No Saeh This* So Par as tlko Needs of tke Laborta* Masses Are Coaeeraed. Our friends in the gold camp have tuned their fiddles to play almost any tune. They have played the tune of Multibus till it is threadbare, all to prove that the poverty of the great masses is due to the so-called Malthusian law that the ratio of population, tends to outstrip the ratio of production. They have done this to make the voters believe that the conditions of which we complain do not come from any defect in our financial and economic systems. Now they have come to the point where it is necessary for them to explain the stagnation of trade, and the tune is changed for the moment. Here is what a writer in Harper’s Magazine says: « “The powers of production of the civilized world have outstripped its powers of consumption* and congestion is only averted by the continuous opening up of new markets and new fields of enterprise in those portions ef the earth where the resources of nature and the energies of man still lie dormant. Industry, in the widest sense of the term, is to-day the breath of the social organism throughout the civilized world, and the cry for more trade, more markets, is as imperative as the cry of the human organism for more air when threatened with suffocation.” For a straight literary “bull” this is pretty good. According to it the overproduction in one part of the world is to be cured by finding sections of the earth where the energies of nature and the manufacturing i

powerjj of man still lie dormant and stimulating them. Verily, similia similibus curantur. The absurdity of the proposition is obvious. The idea of finding an outlet for our great manufactures among the people that can only afford to live on rice, and that too without any kind of seasoning more than salt, among a people that can afford only one piece of cloth a year for a garment, and whose wages are so low that the owners of the river steamboats find it more profitable to employ a drove of laborers to tread the wheels than to use steam. The truth is that these people will never add anything to the comfort of the world tmtil they have been liberated from their hard conditions and raised to a point where they can each consume 100 times more per capita than at this time. There is no overproduction, so far as needs are concerned. Trade conditions have been created that have made it impossible for hundreds of millions of people to satisfy their wants, and that is all there is to the situation. The average person could easily double the amount of production now consumed. This even in this country. In some foreign lands each person could easily consume 100 times as much as at the present time and still not be oversupplied. Trade and exchange need to be made as free as possible and our directions should all be in the way of making exchanges easy. In this way only can the people be made to increase their consumation. A doubling of the amount of all goods consumed, including luxuries, would give employment at good wages to every person on earth, and would insure against a glut in the markets of the century to come. A financial system that is forever contracting values will make it impossible for trade to move freely. _H. F. TH URSTON. COMMENTS OF THE FRES&

-—The Chicago platform will decide the result of the next presidential election. The next president will be elected on it.—Mississippi Valley Democrat. -Democrats all over the country I are walking with heads high in the air j these days. McKinley’s imperial policy is sending things their way very j fast.-—Kansas City Times. -The first year of the Dingley law I has just £nded. The deficit for the entire year exceeds even the estimates i made by opponents of the bill, and the j difference between the actual receipts and the estimates made by Dingley j and his fellow tariff taxers would almost pay the total expenses of the war I from the date of the declaration of war j to the present time.—Omaha WorldHerald. —-It is somewhat amnsing to ob- j serve leading foreign newspapers dis- j paraging *and ridiculing the American array because of its small numbers | and lack of discipline, at the same time calling upon the “great powers” to “combine against the United States and put an end to the war.” It is to be shrewdly suspected that these papers know more about the real strength of this country than they care to pretend to.—National Bimetallist. -Widely scattered territorial poesessions will work out the problem of free trade. No argument is necessary to prove this premise. Great Britain furnishes all the proof required. What are the protectionists going to do about it? Let us not forget their foolish, but historical, contention that protection is for the laborer and not the capitalist. How are they going to protect the labor of the country from the pauper labor they are now annexing?—St. Lofiis Republic. -Mr. Gage objects to the issue of any of the currency certificates in ad- ! vance of the bonds, because the former, he says, are not so good an investment as the latter, and he fears that they may not be readily taken and the credit of the government suffer in consequence. Of course this one year certificates are not so good an investment as 20-year bonds. Aside from the fact that they have only a year to run, they cannot be u^d as a basis for bank nota circulation. This is the milk In the cocos nut. More bonds must be issued or the national banking system is doomed so far aa the issuance of circulating notes in concerned. What a ! (lad send the war was to the bankal (

The Hero of the Merrim&c Arrives in Washington on Important Business. SECBETARY LOWS HEARTY WELCOME. The Object Of HobMo’1 Visit to CoafM with the Authorities Upon Pleas for the Raising of the Grlstohol Cole* and Adding Her to the American Navy — Rxpedltlon Urged. Most Agreeable Event of the Day. Washington, July 23.—The last and most agreeable event of the day was the arrival at the navy department of Lieut Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac. The officials were not informed of his approaching visit except through the newspapers. Consequently when he reached the railway station here at 1:38 o’clock this afternoon there was no official there to meet him and his reception was truly democratic. lie Succeeded In Escaping observation as he passed through the train shed, ooat and umbrella in hand, and followed by a porter proudly carrying his baggage; but before ha emerged from the station aome one spied him; and in a moment the station resounded with vociferous shouting. The' cry of “Hobson, Hobson," rang out, and the crowd closed about him, shaking his hand and pushing him abou% until he was rescued by the police andnseorted to his carriage. Said AU of the Men of tho Morrlmae were Safe.

He stopped long enough to announce that all ol the men who formed the erew of the Merrimac were safe and in the best of health, and that after he had made his report to the navy department he expected to return to New York. The officer was at once driven to the Army and Nivy clnb, and after brushing himself up he drove over to the navy department. This time he carried with him, under his arm, a large official envelope which bore in the corner the inscription '‘North Atlantic Squadron.’* As he approached the office of the secretary of the navy there ensued another demonstration. A large crowd had gathered about the doorway and the hearty welcome it gave the young officer brought blushes to his cheeks. * Received by Secretary Long. Secretary Long came out of his private office and grasped Hobson with both hands, saying with sincerity: ‘'Lieutenant, I am glad—very glad to see you,'1 then he drew him into his office, where the lieutenant was introduced to Assistant Secretary Allen, and was greeted by Capt. Crowninshield, Capt. Bradford and Pension Commissioners Evans, who happened to drop in. He spent half an hour in conference with the secretary, and then returned to the club to rest^ Did net Bring Admiral Sampson**' Report. Secretary Long stated that Hobson did not bring the long-expected report from Admiral Sampson and his brother officers on the destruction of Cervera’s squadron. The exact purpose of his visit was explained by the following order uuder which Lieut. Hobson had come to the United States: Naval Constructor Hobs&n’s Comm I—Ion. UnitedStatesFlagship Niw York,Final Ra i s, On Santiago os Cuba, July 17.1898.— Sib: You vlll proceed north In the St Paul to New York; thence you wiU proceed to Washington and report to the secretary of the navy and acquaint him with the object of your visit, as set forth In my letter to him of this date, regarding the work upon the Cristobal Colon. Explain to him fully the position and condition of that ship, and receive his instructions regarding it Be as Expeditious as Possible In bringing the matter to a termination, in order that, if it is practicable to do so, this &no ship may be saved to the United States navy. When this duty is completed you Will Ask for Orders From the secretary of the navy. Otherwise you will return to duty on board this ship. Very respectfully, W. T Sampson. Rear-Admiral United States Navy. Command-er-in-Chief United States Naval Forces, North Atlantic Squadron. Assistant Natal Constructor R P. Hobson, United States Navy, United States Ship New York. .*■ .

LANDING TROOPS AT MANILA. Second Expedition of Amartenn Soldiers Being DUembnrked—Monterey Anxiously Expected. Manila, July 19, via Hong1 Ken?. July 23.—The disembarkation of the American troops composing the second expedition is being pushed with the utmost energy. The Colorado regi* meat is already in the field near Parana jo, and other regiments will be transferred without any loss of time frojn the transports to the camp in na* tire boats. The United States cruiser Boston has been detailed to cover the landing parties. She now occupies a position almost within range of the guns of Fort Malato, which is only a short distance from Manila proper. The brigade commanded by Gen. Anderson is still at Cavite, bat his_ troops are ready to move. The arrival here of the United States monitor Monterey is anxiously expected. The Monterey, with the collier Brutus, left San Francisco for Manila on June 6, and left Honolulu June 3®. Oca. Great to Coaaaad a Brigade la It* Porto Rico Array. Washington, July 33.—Brig.-Gen. Fred D. Grant has been assigned by the secretary of war to the commanded the third brigade of Gen. Wilson’s division of the First army corps. Two brigades of this division are already assigned7 for duty with the POrto Rico invasion, Gen. Srnest’s having left Charleston and Gen. Haines? leaving Chiekamauga for Newport Newa Gen. Grant’s command, according to the present assignment, .will include the First and Third Kentucky sad ths Fifth Illinois regiments