Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1890 — Page 3

TALMAGE IN PARIS.

The Celebrated Brooklyn Clergyman on His Homeward Way. The Extermination ofßighteousness is an Impossibility —When Han is Good He is Apt to be Very Good and Vice Versa. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage preached in Paris last Sunday. He is making his way home, which he expects to reach in the early part of February. Dr, Talmage's text was: “Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the eon of 'Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him from his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. And he was with her hid in the bouse Of tbe Lord six years.”—ll Kings, xi, 2, 8. He said: Graddmothers are more lenient with their children’s children than they were with their own. At forty years of age if discipline be necessary, chastisement is used, but at seventy, the grandmother, looking upon the misbehavior of the grandchild, is apologetic and disposed to subs dtute confectionery for whip. There is nothing more beautiful than this mellowing of old age toward childhood. Grandmother takes out her pocket handkerchief and Wipes her spectacles and puts them * on, and looks down into the faee of her mischievous and rebellious descendant, and says: ‘T don’t think be meant to do it; let him off this time; I’ll be responsible for his behavor in the . future.” My mother, with the second generation around her—a boisterous crew—said one day: “1 suppose they ought to be disciplined, but I can’t do it. Grandmothers are not. fit to bring up, grandchildren.” But here, in my text, we "have a grandmother of a. different hue. I have within a few days been at Jerusalem. where the occurrence of the text took place, and the whole scene came vividly before me while I was going over the site of the ancient temple andclimbing the towers of the king's palace. Here in the text it is old Athliah, tfie queenly murderess. She ought to have been honorable. Her father was a king. Her husband was a king. Her son was a king. And yet we find her plotting for the extermination Of the entire royal family, including her own grandchildren. The executioners’ Knives are sharpened. The palace is red with the blood of princes and princesses. On all sides are shrieks, and hands thrown up, and Struggle, and death groan. No mercy! Kill! Kill! Hut while the ivory floors of the palace run with carnage, and the whole land is under the shadow of a great horror, a fleet looted woman, a clergyman’s wife, Jehosheba by name, stealthily approaches the imperial nursery, seizes upon the grandchild that had somehow as yet escaped massacre, wraps it up tenderly but in haste, - snuggles it against her, flies down the palace stairs, her heart in her throat lest she be discovered in this Christian abduction. Get her out of the way as quick as you can, for she carries a precious burden, even a you ng king. With this youthful prize she presses into the room of the ancient temple, the church of olden time, unwraps the young king and puts him down, sound asleep as he is, and unconscious of the peril that has been threatened; and there for six years ho is secreted in that church apartment. Meantime old Athaliah smacks her lips with satisfaction, and thinks that all the royal family are dead. But the s x years expire, and it is now time for young Joash to come forth and take the throne, and to push hack into disgrace and death old Athaliah. Tho arrangements are all made for political revolution. The military come and take possession of the temple, swear loyalty to the boy Joash and stand around for his defense. See the sharpened swords and the burnished shields! Everything is reudy. armed trauip of his defenders, scared at the vociferation of his admirers, is brought forth in full regalia. The scroll of authority is put iu his hands, the coropet of government is pat on his brow, and the people clapped, and waved, and huzzaed, and trumpeted. “..hat. is that?” said Athaliah. '“What is that sound over in the temple?” And she flies to see, and on her way they meet her and say: ‘‘Why, haven't you heard? You thought you had slain all the royal family, but Joash has come to °®lighk” Then the queenly murderess, frantic with rage, grabbed her mantle and tore it to tatters, and cried until she foamed at tho month: ‘‘You • 'have 'iio right, vp fern wu my graMBOiE rsir have no right to take the government from my shouldiera. Treason! Treason!” While she stood there crying that, the military started for her arrest, and she took a short cut turough a back door of temple, and ran through the royal stables; but the battle axes of the military fell on her in the barn yard, and for many a day, when the horses were being unloosed from the chariot, after drawing out young Joash, the fiery steeds would snort and rear passing the place, as they smelt the place of the carnage. The lirst thought 1 hand you from this subject is that the extermination of righteousness is an impossibility. When a woman is good, she is apt to be very good, and when she is bad, she is apt to be very bad, and this Athaliah was one of the latter sort, the would exterminate the last scion of the house of David, through whom Jesus was to come. There was plenty of w-ork for embalmers and undertakers. She would clear the land of all God fearing anil God loving people. She would put an end to everything that could in anywise interfere with her imperial criminality. She folds her hands and says: "The work is done; it is completely done ” Is it? In the swaddling clothes of that church uparlment are wrapped the cause of God, and the cause of good government. That is the scion of the house of David; it is Joash, the Christian reformer; it is Joash. the friend of God; it is Joash, tho demolisher of Haalitish idolatry. Rock him tenderly; nurse him gently. Athaliah,*you may kill allthe other children, but you cannot kill him. Eternal defenses are thrown all around him, and this clergyman’s . wife, Johosbeba, will snatch him up from the palace nursery, and will run up and down with him into tho house of the Lord, and there she will hide him for six yoars, and at the end of that time he will come forth for your dethronement and obliteration. Y ell, my friends, just as poor a botch does the world always make of extinguishing righteousness Superstition rises up and says; ‘Twill just put an end to pure religion.” Domition slew forty thousand Christians, Dio letiau slew eight hundred and forty four thousand Christiana And the scythe of persecution has been swung through all the ages, and the flames hissed, and the guillotine ehopiied, and the Hastile groaned; butdid the foes of Christianity exterminate it? Did they exterminate Aloan, the first British sacrifice; or Z.iinglius, the Swiss reformer; or John Oldcastle, the Christian nouleman; or Abdallah, tho Arabian m rtv f; or Annie Askew.or Sanders, or Cranmer? threat work of extermination they made or it Just at the time when they thought they had slain all the royal family of Jesus, some Joash would spring up and out, and take the throne of power, and wield a very scepter of Christian dominion.

Infidelity says: “I’ll Just exterminate the Bible,” and the Scriptures were thrown it to the street for the mob to trample on. and they were piled up in the public squares and set on fire, and mountain* of indignant contempt were hurled on -them, and learned universities decreed the Bible out of existence. Thomas Paine said: “In my ‘Age cf Reason’ I have annihilated the Scriptures. Your Washington is a pusillanimous Christian, but I am the foe of Bibles and of churches.” O, how many assaults upon that Word! All the hostilities that have ever been created on earth are not to be compared with the hostilities against that one book. Said one man, in his infidel desperation, to his wife; “You must not he reading that Bible,” and he snatched it away from her. And though in that Bible was a lock of hair of the dead child—the only child that God had ever given them—he pitched the book with its contents into the fire, and stirred it with the tongs, and spat on it, and cursed it, and said: “Susan, never have any more of that -damnable stuff here!” 1 How many individual and organized attempts have been made to exterminate that Bible 1 Have they done it? Have they exterminated the American Bible society? Have they exterminated the British and Foreign Bible society? Have they exterminated the thousands of Christian institutions, whose only object it is to multiply copies of the Scriptures, and throw them broadcast around the world? They have exterminated until instead of one or two copies of the Bible in our houses we have eight or ten, and we pile them up in the corners of our Sabbath school rooms, and send great boxes of them everywhere. If they get on as well as they are now on in the work of extermination, I do not know but that our children may live to see the millennium! Yea, if there should come a time of persecution in which all the known Bibles of the earth should be destroyed, all these lamps of light that blaze in our pulpits and in our families extinguished—in the very day that infidelity and sin should be holding a jubilee over the universal extinction, there would be in some closet of a backwoods church a secreted copy of the Bible, and this Joash of eternal literature would come out and come up and take the throne, and the Athaliah of infidelity and persecution would fly out the back door of the palace, and drop her miserable carcass under the hoofs of. the horses of the king’s stables. You cannot exterminate Christianity! You cannot killSJoaah! The second thought I hand you from my subject is, that there are opportunities in which we may save royal life. You know that profane history is replete with stories of strangled monarchs and of young princes who have been put out of the way. Here is the story of a young king saved. How Jehosheba, the clergyman’s wife, must have trembled as she rushed into the imperial nursery and snatched up Joash. How she hushed him, lest by his cry he hinder the escape. Fly with him! Jehosheba, you hold in your arms the cause of God and good government. Fail, and he is sluin. Succeed, and you turn the tide of the world’s history in the right direction. It seems as if between that young king and his assassin there is nothing but the frail arm of a woman. But why should we spend our time in praising this bravery of expedition when God asks the some thing of you and me? All around us are the imperiled children of a great King. They are born of Almighty parentage, and will come to a throne or a crown, if permitted. But sin, the old Athaliah, goes forth to the massacre. Murderous temptations are out for the assassination. Valens, tue emperor, was told that there was somebody in his realm who would usurp his throne, and that the name of the man who should be the usurper would begin with the letters T. H. E. O. D., and the edict went forth from tho emperor’s throne: “Kill everybody .whose name begins with T. H. E. O. D.” And hundreds and thousands were slain, hoping by that massacre to put an end to that one usurper. But sin is more terrific iu its denunciation, it matters not how you spell your name, you come under its knife, under its sworfl, under its doom, unless there he some omnipotent relief brought to the rescue. But, blessed be God, there is such a thing as delivering a royal soul. Who will snatch away Joash! This afternoon in your Sabbath school class, there will be a Prince of God—some one who may yet reign as king forever before the throne; there will he some one in your class who has a corrupt physical inheritance; there will be some one in your class who has a father and mother who do not know how to pray; there will be some one in your class who is destined to command in church or state—some Cromwell to dissolve a parliament, some Beethoven to touch the world’s harp strings, some John Howard to pour fresh air into the lazaretto, some Florence Nightingale to bandage the battle wounds, some Ajiss Dix to soothe the crazed braiu, some John Frederick Oberlin to educate the besotted, some David Brainard to change the Indian’s war whoop to a Sabbath song, some John Wesley to marshal three-fourths of Christendom, some John Knox to make queens turn pale, some Joash to demolish idolatry and strike for the kingdom of heaven. There are sleeping in your cradles by night, there are playing in your nurseries hy day, imperial souls waiting for dominion, and whichever side the cradle they get out will decide the destiny of empires. For each one of those children sin and holiness contend—Athaliah on the one side and Jehosheba on theother. But I hear people say: ‘‘What’s tho use of bothering children with religious instruction? Let them grow up and choose for themselves. Don’t interfere with their volition.” Suppose some onh had said to Jehosheba: “Don’t interfere with that .\oung Joash. Let him grow up and decide whether he likes the palace or not, whether he wants to be king or not. Don’t disturb his volition.” Jehosheba know right well that unless that dav the young king was rescued, he would never be rescued at all. 1 tell you, my friends, the reason we don’t reclaim ail our children from worldliness is because they begin too late. Parents wait until their children lie before they teach them the value of truth. They wait uutil their children swear before they teach them the importance of righteous conversation. They wait until their children are all wrapped up in this world before they tell them of a better world. Tod late with your prayers. Too late, with your discipline. Too late with your benediction. You put all care upon •your children between , twelve and eighteen. »by do you not put the chief care between four and nine? It is too late to repair a vessel when it has got out of the dry docks. It is too late to save Joash after the executioners have broken in May God arm us all for this work of snatching royal souls from death to coronation. Gan you imagine any subiimer work than this soul saving! That was wliat flushed Paul’s i heck with enthusiasm; that was what led Munson to risk his life amid uornesian cannibals; that was what sent Dr. A heel to preach under the consuming skies of China; that was what gave courage to Phocus in the Third century. \\ hen the military officers came to put him to death for Christ’s sake,he nut them to bed that they.might rest

while he himself went out, and in his own garden dug his grave, and then came back and said: “I am ready;” bat they were shocked at the idea of taking the life of their host. He said: “It is the will of God that I should die," and he Stood on the margin of his own grave and they beheaded hint You say it is a mania, a foolhardiness, a fanaticism. Rather would I call it a glorious self abnegation, the thrill of eternal satisfaction, the plucking of Joash from death, and raising him to coronation. The third thought I hand to you from my text is that the church of God is a good hiding place. When Jehosheba rushes into the nursery of the king and picked up Joash, what shall she do with him? Shall she take him to some room in the palace: No; for the official desperadoes will hunt through every nook and corner of that building. Shall she take him to the residence of some wealthy citizen? No; - that citizen would not dare to harbor the fugitive. But she has to take him somewhere. She hears the cry of the mob in the streets; she hears the shriek of the dying nobility; so she rushes with Joash unto the room of the temple, into the house of God, and then she puts him down. She knows that Athaliah and her wicked assassins will not bother the temple a great deal; they are not apt to go very much to church, and so she sets down Joash in the temple. There he will be hearing the songs of the worshipers year after year; there he will breathe the odor of the golden censers; in that secreted spot he will tarry, secreted until the six years have passed, and he comes to enthronement Would God that we were as wise as Jehosheba, and knew that the church of God is the Pest hid ing place. Perhaps our parents took us there in early days; they snatched us away from tlie world and hid us behind the baptismal fonts and amid the Bibles and the psalm, books. O, glorious in closure! We have been breathing the breath of the golden censers all the time, and we have seen the lamb on the altar and we have handled the phials which are the prayers of all saints, and we have dwelt under the wings of the . cherubim. Glorious inclosure! When my father and mother died, and the property was settled up, there was hardly anything left; but they endowed us with a property worth more than any earthly possession, because they hid us in the temple. And when days of temptation have come upon my soul 1 have gone there for shelter : and when assaulted of sorrows, I have gone there for comfort, and there I mean to live. I want, like Joash, to stay there until coronation. I mean to he buried out of the house of God. O men of the world outside there, be-, trayed, caricatured and clieated of the world, why do you come in through the broad, wide open door of Christian communion? I wish I could act the part of Jehosheba to-day, and steal you away from your perils and hide you in the temple. How few of us appreciate the fact that the ehureh of God is a hiding place. There are many people who put the church at so low a mark that they begrad je it everything, even the few dollars they give toward it. They make no sacrifices. They dole a little out of their surplusage. They pay their butcher’s bill, and they pay their doctor’s bill, and they pay their landlord, and they pay everybody but the Lord, and they come in at the last to pay the Lord in his church, and frown as they say: “There Lord, it is; if you will have it, take it—now take it, take it; send me a receipt in full, and don’t bother me soon again!” I tell you there is not more than one man out of a thousand that appreciates what the ehureh is. Where are the souls that put aside one-tenth for Christian institutions —one tenth of their income? Where are those who, having put aside that onetenth, draw upon it cheerfully? Why, it i 3 pull, and drag, and hold on, and grab, and clutch: and giving is an affliction to most people when it ought to be an exhilaration and a rapture. Oh, that God would remodel our souls on this subject, and that weYnight appreciate the house of God asthe great refuge. If your children are to come up to lives of virtue and happiness, they will come up under the shadow of the church. If the church does not get them \h,e world wilL Ah, when you pass away—and it will not be long before you do—when you pass away it will be a satisfaction to see your children in Christian society. You want to have them sitting at the holy sacraments. You want them mingling in -Christian associations. You would like to have them die in the sacred precincts. When you are od your dying bed, and your little ones come up to take your last word, and you look into their bewildered faces, you will want to leave them under the church’s benediction. I don’t care how hard you are, that is so. I said to a man of the world: * Your son and daughter are going to join our chnrch next Sunday. Have you any objections?” “Bless you,” he said, “objections? I wish all my children belonged to the church.! I don’t attend to those matters myself I know I am very wicked —but I am very glad they are going, and I shall be there to see them. lam very glad, sir; lam very glad. I want them there." And so, though you may have been wanderers from God, and though you may have sometimes caricatured the church of Jesus, it is your great desire that your sons and daughters should be standing all their lives within this sacred inclosure. More than that, you yourself will want the church for a hiding place when the mortgage is foreclosed; when your daughter, just blooming into womanhood, suddenly clasps her hands in a slumber that knows no waking; when gaunt trouble walks through the parlor, and the sitting room,, and the dining hall, and the nursery, you will want some shelter from the tempest. Ah, some of yon have been run upon by misfortune and trial ; why do you not come into the shelter? 1 said to a widowed mother after ; she had buried her only son—months after 1 said to her: “How do you get along nowadays!” “Oh,” she replied, “I get along tolerably well except when the sun shines.” I I said: “U hat do you mean by that?”when she said: “I can’t bear to see the sun shine, my heart is so dark that all the brightness of the natural world seems a mockery Ito me." O, darkened soul, O, broken ' hearted man, broken hearted woman, why do you not come into the shelter? 1 swing the door wide open I swing it from wall |to walL Come in! Come in! You want a place where your troubles shhll be unstrap- ! peu, where your tears shall be Wiped away. I Church of God, be a hiding place to all these people. Give them a seat where they : can rest their weary sonls. Flash some light | from your chandeliers upon their darkness., i With some soothing hymn hush their griefs. ! O, Church of God, gate of heaven, let ! me go through it! Ail other institutions are going to fail; but the Cnurch of God its foundation is the “Rock of Ages,” its charter is for everlasting years, its keys are held by the universal progrietor, its dividend is heaven, its president is God. Sure as thy truth shall last. To Zion shall lac given The brightest glories earth can yield, And brigbter bliss of heaven. God grant that all this audience, the youngest, the eldest, the worst, the best, may find their safe and glorious hiding place where Joash found it-dn the temple. English cutlers whp used to pay $3,000 a ton for Ivory have recently had to pay as high as fiIO.OOO. |

NATIONS CONGRESS.

Congress reassembled Monday. The Senate received numerous petitions. A resolution calling for information on postal telegraph was adopted. The bill to in crease the pay of census appraisers was passed, as was that to increase to #7B per month the pensions of soldiers and sailors who are totally helpless, j In the Honse the Speaker was authorized to administer the oath of office to Mr. Ran j dall at his residence. A resolution was f offered directing the Superintendent of. j Census to ascertain the number of ! farm mortgages in the United States. ! Several bills were introduced. 3 : I In the House, Monlay, Mr. Bynum, of ! Indiana, introduced a resolution for the j appointment of a special committee td investigate the course of the United States j District Attorney at Indianapolis, eapei daily with reference to the Dudley case. In the Senate, Tuesday, Mr. Voorhees introduced his resolution to investigate District Attorney Chambers—calling on the Attorney General for information regarding instructions issued to Chambers as to the conduct of the cases against Dudley. Mr. Harris introduced, for Mr. Beck, a bill to suspend the operations of the sinking fund act until further orders of Congress. Mr. Morgan spoke on Mr. Butler’s bill to provide for the emigration of colored people, and after an executive session the Senate adjourned. The House ordered two additional members each on the committees on rules and commerce. Then a squabble followed on the subject of rules, and, after a shert consideration of the district bill, adjourned. The Senate consumed Wednesday In de bating the resolution to investigate the Dudley matter. Voorhees delivered a long address condemnatory of Dudley and the administration, and Edmunds defended the position of his party in the premises. The House spent most of the day in consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill, which was passed. The Speaker laid before the House, for reference, a letter from the Secretary of War, inclosing a petition from certain non commissioned officers, praying for an in crease of pay; also,alette r from "the-Sec-retary of the Treasury recommending that the estimated appropriation pf $450,000 for the public building at San Francisco be made in a deficiency bill. In the Senate Thursday Vest reported back the bill for a bridge over Staten Island sound ; the resolution appropriating $250,000 to clear the Missouri below Kansas City passed. Mr. Davis spoke in favor of Minnesota river and harbor improvements. Mr. Call made a speech showing that no fraudulent land entries had been made in Florida, and the Senate adjourned to Monday. The House was not iu session. The Senate committee has agreed upon bills for the admission of Idaho and Wyoming as States. — t~~

WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.

Judge David J. Brewer was sworn in as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Unitea States at noon, Monday, and immediately took his seat upon the bench. The ceremony was performed in the coart room in the presence of a large audience, immediately after the assembling of the Court at noon. John Jay Knox, ex-Comptroller of the TVaasii rer T now a New. York banker, has prepared a bill for the use of silver bullion as a currency basis. It will he introduced in » few days, This bill provides that national banks may issue circulating notes not exceeding in amounts 75 per cent, of their capital stock; that not less than 70 per cent, of the circulating notes shall be secured by U. S. bonds, at the rate of 100 per cent, upon the par valued such bonds, provided that at the option of each bank one-half of such circulation of 70 per cent. : may be secured by gold coin or bullion, or silver bullion, at the current market priee. Whenever the market value of bullion is reduced below the amount of circulation the comptroller of the currency may demand and receive the amount of such depreciation in other bullion or in gold or silver coin, as long as such depreciation shall continue; or the amount of the circulating notes of such bank may be reduced by charging the excess of cir culation to the redemption fund. The bill further provides for a “national bankruptcy fund,” to be opened by reducing j the United States notes outstanding sl,500,000, and the national bank redemption fund a like amount. To this fund is to be added the duty of ]4 per cent, each six months on national bank circulation. Mr. Knox estimates that at the end of the next twenty years, or at the date of the payment of the 4 per cent, bonds in 1907, a safety fund would have accumulated of at least $25,000,000, so that from that t ime onward a sufficient amount of national bank circulation would remain permanently in existence, well secured by gold or silver bullion and sufficiently profitable to make the circulation large enough in connection with the present amount of United States notes to respond to the demand of the country. It would also give the banks in the West as well as the East, who have confidence in the future value of silver an opportunity to invest in that metal. He believes that such investments would be made for the next three years equal at least to $20,000,000 annually, and thus relieve the treasury from excessive purchase, First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson has verified the rumor that he hr about to resign. He says that be accepted the office only under strong importunities, and with (he understanding that he would not hold it more than a year. Furthermore his purpose in accepting was to rid his party of Democratic postmasters as far as possible. Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, was re-elected Tuesday.

Hontana's S[?]nators.

1 Thirty-seven Senate and House Democrats assembled in joint convention at Helena, Montana, Thursday and cast their votes for Clark and McGinnii, Democratic, caucus candidates for Senators. GovernOi Toole, it is said, signed the certificate" ol their election, but Secretary of State Rotwill refuse official authentication and with hohi the State seal. i

THE DUDLEY AFFAIR.

A lively Boat Between M . Veorheoe ud Mr. Edmunds—Hr, Miller Quickly Responds.; V~“*' . '■ • Senator Voorhees’s remarks in his speech of Wednesday, regarding Senator ‘Quay’s visit to Indiana during the Presidential election, provoked the Pennsylvanian to reply that it was untrue that he conferred with political managers, or in regard to Dudley’s case. The IndianA Senator said he could not be blamed if he drew the inference that Mr. Quay wanted the prosecution of Dudley stopped. Mr. Voorhees arraigned Judge Woods, whose course, he said, had been particularly shameful. The action of Chambers called for summary dismissal.

No better opportunity, he said, could present itself to the President than was now presented to define his connection with Dudley, and with Dudley's crime. Benjamin Harrison was President of the United States, and, as such, was called upon to spurn the disgraceful example. In conclusion, Mr. Voorhees declared that bribe-givers, bribe-takers, and all the indorsers of bribery should be regarded as pirates and enemies of the human race. Mr. Edmunds offered an amendment for the preamble and resolution so as to strike out the preamble and make it read: “That the Attorney General be, and hereby is instructed to inform the Senate what instructions, if any, the Department of Justice has given to S. N. Chambers, District Attorney for the district of Indiana, on the subject of the arrest of W. W. Dudley, or his exemption from arrest, and by what authority of law any such instructions have been given, and that copies of all such correspondence be transmitted to the Senate.” He expressed, sarcastically, his admiration of and concurrence in the beautiful tribute of the Senator from Indiana, to the value of political morality He also gave his adhesion to Mr. Voorhees’ denunciation of political immorality. If Mr. Dudley had done the thing imputed to him, he had certainly committed, if not a crime against the United States, a crime against that class of public morality which the Senator had so beautifully cescribed, and which, as he said, was so essential to the safety and perpetuity of Republican institutions. Still, it was possible that the so-called Dudley letter had been forged, or so altered as to make an innocent—a morally inno-cent-political letter appear to be a guilty one. There were instances of such political forgeries about the time of presidential elections—such as the Morey letteF. But he was glad that the leaders of the Democratic party had apparently reformed [laughter in the galleries], and that now, at least, on the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, there was some evidence of allegiance to the principles of the only real Democrat he had ever heard of—General Jackson. [Laughter.] Mr. Voorhees —If the Dudley letter is a forgery, why is it that he has not brought his libel suits against the New York pa pers to a trial, and why is it that he has skulked and cowed, and hid himself in exile for the past twelve months or more. Mr. Edmunds—l domot know that Mr. .Dudley is skulking or hiding anywhere, and Ido not believe it. Ido not know that he has any libel suits pending in New York. If he has, I suppose he knows how to take care of them, .. ZII Mr.Woorhees—l say here, in the hearing of the New York press and itsjagents, that every possible effort has been made to get Dudley, in his own person, in the State of New York, to prosecute his own libel suits; that all such efforts have failed, and that Judge Lawrence, the other day, denied the motion of Dudley’s lawyers because Dudley (he said.) kept himself outside of the limits of the State. Mr. Edmunds—Judge Lawrence may be right or he may be wrong. Ido not know. But if Dudley has an suits and does not prosecute them, the defendants are entitled to have them dismissed. This letter, assuming it to be genuine, was an offense, i take it, against the laws of Indiana, which provide, undoubtedly, against attempts to bribe voters, and if this letter of Mr. Dudley’s, who is a citizen of Indiana, was used, or attempted to be need, to corrupt voters, where is the majesty of the law in the noble State? Where are the Democratic District Attorneys, and why all this long delay in bringing a citizen of of that State to book for this crime against his own native land ? In this connection Mr. Edmunds commented on the failure of the Democratic United States District Attorney, before the change of administration, to bring the matter to the attention of the Grand Jury. Mr. Voorhees asked whether he was referring to Mr. Sellers. Mr. Edmunds did not know the ame but would assume that the name was Sellers—a very good name in the drama, he believed. [Laughter ] That Democratic official, he said, having apparently done his wljftle duty in sifting and preparing the evidence, saw such a flood of light, or darkness, as the case might be, that he did not care to have any more hand in the business ami resigned. He intimated that the Dudley letter might have been sent out by a Mr. Whitaker, of Martinsville, Ind., chairman of a Democratic County Committee, oa the 7th of Septemoer, 1888, and which was recently published in an editorial of the Terre Haute Express, a paper published, he believed, in the town of the Senator’s residence. The Dudley letter seemed to be a child or the twin sister of this Wnitager letter, which be sent to tho clerk's desk to be read. Mr. Edmunds made reference to the Coy affair, and showed familiarty with Indiana political matters. In his retort Mr. Voorhees charged the Attorney General had coached the Vermont Senator. He said that there had been no Whitaker letter; that Coy’s conviction had been in the most infamous partisan court since Jeffrey’s, and that the President had been obliged to pardon him. At the close of the discussion Mr. Ed~ munds’s amendment was agreed to by a party vote—3l to 24—and the resolution thus amended was adopted, Mr. Voorhees remarking that he would find some way to ascertain the judgment of the Law Department on the action of its subordinate.

MR. MILLER REPLIES

The Vice President laid before the Seaate Thursday morning a communication: from Attorney General Miller in response to tiie resolution adopted by the Senate Wednesday. The Attorney General state* that no instructions oral'or written have been given to District Attorney S. N. Chambers on the subject of the arrest of W. Dudley. No communication, says the Attorney General, has been sent by the Department of Justice to the District; Attorney of Indiana, nor has any been received from him directly or indirectly with reference to the subject.

FOURTEEN LIVES LOST.

Workmen ta a Caisson at Louisville Suddenly Es(« fed by Rushing Water. An appalling accident occurred between Louisville and Jeffersonville st 6 o’clock, Thursday evening. A caisson in which eighteen men were employed was suddenly engulfed by a rush of water, and four-i teen of the number were drowned. As the? workmen of the pumping station were looking for the men in the caisson to put off in their boats, leaving work for the night, they suddenly saw the low, dark structure disappear in dashing white waves, and heard, before they could realize what had happened, the roar of the furious maelstrom. A runner was dispatched to the lif£ saving station, and three skiffs were manned and pulled to the scene of the wreck. Word was sent to the police station, and a squad was at once ordered to the ground to aid in the work of recovery. John Knox, the gang boss, took charge of the work Monday. The negroes who escaped say he had them dig too deep before letting the caisson settle, and the digging was too close to the shoe of the caisson. Just before the accident Knox gave some order to Robert Baldwin, the keeper in charge of the upper door to the exit. Baldwin then opened this door, and the compressed air which kept out the river rushed out letting in the stream. The men say they were working in ugly quicksand at the time. The caisson was about forty feet by twenty, and built of timber twelve inches square. It was protected by a coffer dam, but the river is very high, and the pressure of the water very great.

One of the survivors tells the following storj of the accident, and the horrible fight for life of the panic-stricken workmen, imprisoned in the air chamber beneath the bed of the river: “The men were at work in the soft bottom of the river. They made such rapid progress, in the muddy surface that the excavation went down faster than the caisson, whose great weight was expected to carry it grad ually down, keeping pace with the work of excavating to a rock foundation. Thursday afternoon an unusual quantity of water began to trickle from under the caisson’s edges, but the pumps were at work taking it out and no apprehension was felt. Gradually the incoming tide increased until suddenly from under the edge of the caisson on every side a flood gushed in. The men too late realized their deadly peril and all rushed for the exitinto the escape pipe. Immediately around the little trap door which admitted to liberty and life the frantic unfortunates fought like demons, all knowing that but a few of 1 them could pass through the inner trap before the air chamber was completely, filled by the inrusMng tide. Only one! could go through at atime, and as one man gaiped a pre-eminence he was snatched by his frenzied companions and drawn back into the struggling crowd. Meanwhile the flood rose swiftly and relentlessly. The caisson roof was scarcely higher than the mens’ heads, and to be left behind waa thought to be certain death.” , Abe Taylor says he was the last of the survivors to escape into the outer lock. As he escaped from the clutches of a dozen hands and leaped through the trap into the outer lock, he heard Knox the foreman* shout: '‘For God’s sake hurry, boys; ft's getting over my head. Let the shortest men go first” The trap fell back behind Taylor and shut his doomed comrades from view. It is supposed that before any of the others could escape that they were all drowsed.

HON. WM. D. KELLEY DEAD.

~ William Darrah Kelley, the well-known Pennsylvania Congressman mid "Father of the Honse,” died Thursday evening. Judge Kelley was born in Philadelphia, April 12, 1814. His grandfather, John Kelley, served as an officer in the Revolutionary war. Having tost his father at an early age, he learned the printer’s trade, and later served an apprenticeship to a jeweler in Boston. In 1840 he returned to Philadelphia and began the study of law, and a year later was admitted to the bar, and while practicing his profession devoted much time to literary pursuits. He was elected Attorney-General of Pennsylvania in 1845, and in 1846 was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia. In 1860 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention, and in the same year was elected to Congress, where he served continuously ever since. He has been a member of numerous Committees of the House, and Chairman of some of the most important, notably the Committee on Ways and Means. He has served In the Lower House longer than any other member, ud for this reason is oftea called the "Father of the House.” He has for many years been known as “Pig Iron Kelley.” He was at one time a free trader, but later became a protectionist, and wrote several works in opposition to the free trade theory. Among hie works are "Reasons for Abandoning the Theory of Free Trade and Adopting the Principles of Protection to American Industry,” “Letters on Industrial and Financial Questions,” and “The New South.”

The resignation of Mr. Trotter, the colored recorder of deeds for the District, has been receivod at the White House upon s request made by the President It is supposed a new appointment will be made shortly. An inquiry made by Senator Ingalls has developed the fact that the office has paid $46,000 in fees during Mr. Trotter’s incumbency of two years and ten months. A bill is pending in Congress .to the position s salaried one.