Terre Haute Evening Gazette, Volume 6, Number 268, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 April 1876 — Page 2

RELIGIOUS:

International Sunday School Lesson fbr Sunday

April 20th, 1876.

Orthodox Oddities and Calendar.

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Church

Topic f«r Sunday School Les: son: The Lame man Healed.

i. Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man lame frqm" his mother's womb was carried, whom they liid daily at the gate of" the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them hat entered into the temple. 3. Who. seeing Peter and John about t? go into the temple, asked an aim*. 4. And Peter, fastening his eyes upon h'm with John, said, look on us. 5. And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of tnem. 6. Then Peter said, silver and gold have I none, but such as I have I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. 7. And he took him bv the right hand, and lifted him up and immediately his feet and ankle bone received strength. 8. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the mple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. 9. And all the people saw him walking and praising God. 10. And they knew that it was he which sat for alins at the beautilul gate of the temple and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which hid happened unto him. 11. And as the lame man which, was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch which is called Solomon's, greUtly wondering.—Acts iii. 1-11.

Dates of events, now transpiring are not clearlv fixed in their relation to each other. Some writers sat considerable spaoe between the second and third chapters. Others (and among these I may name such illustrious authorities as Poole, and Bagster's Polygot Bible, and Dr. Whitby's critical conclusion from the Greek text) unite the chapters by a conjunctive particle. I hey believe that aft:r the baptism and reception of the three housand, these two disciples withdrew together to enter fhe temple before 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The infant church is assailed at once, Ever since the assault has been maintained at different sides, and with varying success. Chapter three gives the occasion and chapter fonr the direct attack. he healing of the lame man is the occasion,

VERSE 1-3.

Give time, place and persons and conditions. 1. Time: In the beginning (Gen. 1. days were counted trom evening to evening. Later Jews, adopting the Roman division, divided the night intp four watches and the day into twelve hours. Instead of starting with sunrise and evervarying point, they chose' 6 o'cloek and counted through by threes. Nine of our clock was their third twelve, their sixth,

our three their ninth. The apostles each the temple enclosure at 3 o'clock. 2. The plate was outside the eastern face and front of the temple, before the most gorgeous of the several entrances. As we learned last" quarter, there were outside gates and inside gates. Those inside were overlaid with silver and gold. The outside were of wood and iron. This main eastern outside entrance was overlaid with brass, and d, Josephus savs, "much exceed those laid with gold and silver,'' Hence called "Beautilul." 3. These two apostles, unlike in temper and character and past conduct jt&nd in most instinctive association. scripture record. They are anc^xbenent sample of successful mating b^fcoii'trast rather than comparison. The.^u jjtfct of their svmpathv and of our present study was a bom cripple. Poof, friendless,^ and hopeless, he lay at the,- entrance of the temple as beggars djd, and as they -ill do before continental cathedral* and churches, hoping^fo touch the compassions of the ric^ at the moment when entering^rtfie place of religion, thev are supposed to be most tender•linded. 4. The conditions: This cripple was •vv.-ll known/verse 10) by those who frequented ther temple. They knew he was beyond cuie as he was beyond care. As icre is a sren^nl opinion that but a snail part of the miracles, of Jesus, were recorded/in the scriptures,, and those whiclr were recorded were chosen because thev were

notable ^o

x^is believed

that "out of the miracles performed by the apostles after Pentecost, Luka sin-o-lesone" The man was lame from birth Me could not walk,' but must be carried. He had no hope in his heart of healing, he only asked alms.

VERSE 4-5.

Here we have the preparatory steps to the exercise of miraculoSs power, .fhe disciples acted together, not causatively. but instrumentally. Neither had any medicine or advice or alms. But^both were moved with compassion, and together they arrested the man's attention.

The sufferer simply obeys their direc­

tion,

not dreaming of the issue ot healing, but as if the next moment they night toss him a coin. "There is in the hole na-rative a life-like character of authenticity, which can neither be mistaken nor assumed.—(Alexander.) Like God in the Old Testament and Jesus the Ne\y, these apostles do not show histc, but act deccntly and in order.

VERSE 6.

The

solemn summons follows. When

thev were ready, and their subject was readv, it was when Jesus^ had seated the people and Messed and broke the lit tie loaves,) then the power came at their call. In the name of Jesus Christ A

name

of terror to the devils. ot Giidara A name of troublesome import to PUatt wife "A name that is above every name." The apostles acted mstrumentk'iv They evoked by their official voice tKe power that raised .Lazarus. ,lhe lame man begins to obey a* the whose lame hand Jesus heald.

If this verse stood isolated it would be a strong.point on which to rest a ridicule of the reality of this miracle. It might then be said that Peter found the man had ,no power to obey consequently he raised him up. and so imposed upon the people. Bv.t fortunately the verse goes further and shows us the rr

an

walking and leaping and

departing to the place of prayer with the apostles. Here, then, he must either interject a long period- for recovery-and presuppose medical appliances and pro.vide for the strange silence of testimony upon the part of the haters of the apostles :(and when we can do that much we may as well cut out the whole affair as a forgery), or else we must admit that the man did receive as from heaven a thrill'of life 5® that dead limb and begin to rise- at once.

VERSES S-11.

The cure was followed by the completest proofs that could be asked: ». The people who knew what the man's condiction had been, saw what he was after the healing. I 2. They were filled with astonishment and-.came crowH$g. together in one ot the public places (Solomon's porch) to discuss the matter.

They were soon agreeded upon the persecution which follo\y9 in the fourth chapter. Throwing stones, always signifies jealous, fear. Persecution is the weapon of weakness. 4. The man himself shows by giving praise to God, and not to apostle (as doctors), what he considered to be the efficient cause of his recovery,

QI ERRIES OK THE CHURCH. 1. What was Solomon's porch? Perhaps a portion ofthe old temple of Solomoi\ which had not been wholly destroyed by the Babylonians. And the old temple being so much an object of adoration to the Hebrews, they built around this relic one of the spacious extensions of the new temple.

Possibly this conjecture is unfounded in 'act. If so, then Solomon's porch may have been a richly ornamented extension of the new temple," )vhich they named at ter the builder-'of the old. 2. Was the hiiittNnan a Christian, after his healing? Inferentially yes. The bulk of Opinion, as I traced it, believes him to have continued as he commenced, praising God in the temple. 3. Why did the apostles, having cast off Judaism, continue to worship and pray in the temple? Because, it is said, the change from dispensation to dispensation, from the sacrifice to faith, was divinely guided in a-gradual manner. Geologists make much of showing how, in nature, the great periods overlap and interpretrate each other. The Lord Jesus did not come lo destroy, but to fulfill (see Matt.v, 17). Hence the disciples changed gradually. And if this be a general truth, as we believe it is, we shall expect in al! ordinances and practices of apostolic times to see the tinge of the old in the color and life of the new. 4. Did the man first believe in the power of the name of the long-despised Jesus of Nazareth and then get up, or did he get up and then believe in Jesus? It is the old question in another form. Does a sinner need first to believe, first to do what is called "coming to Christ." and then is he delivered from his dead lameness, his sins? Or must he first commence getting up, giving up, turning round, repenting, and then docs.life, start in his dead soul?

This case is a very gotd one to show that the two things are s'd closely joingff that our perceptions cannot maritime between them. One thing is clear the act of obedience was accompanied by the blessing of curc. 5. How do we kno^ppjut t1iis was only like the cases wli§rfe doctors summon persons long lame:to walk, and they do walk

Many instances/ftf this kind are upon reeord and thfc recovery of patients through the operation and command of mind ovqr'mind is well established. They all diffeiffrom this. 1. j^Tney are cases where disease or accideiitfiascaused the illness and the men tal Jpondition of the patient has aggra vated it. In this case it was a congenial lameness. The man was born to. The Jews asked, in view of one of Jesus' miraeles. has it ever been heard that one opened the eyes ofa man who "was born blind!" 2. Doctorsdoing the.se strange cures cannot give %ch account of the operation as satisfies the scientific mind of their possession of any knowledge of the laws of life. They call them quacks, and the quacks cannot explain why they should be so dealt wtth by the profession.!

But the apostles attributed their power to Christ, and disavowed any in themselves.

Orthodox Oddities.

Mr. Adirondack Murray's congregation is for awhile to worship in the Boston Theatre.

The Rev. Dr. Blackie, of Edinburg, says that the modern sermon, "is like toddy made of one-tenth whisky and ninetenths water."

Mr. Beecher had a slim audience in Boston Thursday night. The New London Telegram asserts that the receipts did not pay the expenses.

Mr. Robert Gollycr, in his address at the Shakspeare memorial performance yesterday, said that he had listened to "many a sermon from the lips of actors.

other

A Glasgow preacher hesitated to tell a dying man he woukl £»o straight to heaven, and the brother ofthe patient stabbed the preacher twice in the head.

A Providence minister, speaking of the commencement church service, remarked that "our watches varied about as much as does Christian experience,"

They've got a thing in Michigan called the Swinton scandal," but as the most diligent inquiry has failed to discover any woman at the bottom of it, religious people won't have anything to do with it.— [Brooklyn Argus."

A clergyman having a quarrel with a neighboring gentleman who insulted him, and at last told him, "Doctor, your gown is vour protection," replied, "Though it may be mine, it shall not be yours," and immediately pulled it off and thrashed the aggressor,

Mr. Gladstone in a guarded way expresses the opinion that-the Moody and Sankey meetings could have had no considerable success, "unless sustained with the same en erg}' and pertinacity of wholesale advertising which, until quite recentlv. was better known to the inventors of certain descriptions of blacking and certain kinds of medicine."

THE MKFT'AAtrTE EVENING GAZETTE

Church Calendar.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN .CHURCH— Public worship morning and evening. Alex. Sterrett, pastor.

Services in the Congregational church as usual, Rev. E. F. Howe, pastor. Subject of eveniug sermon, "Thou shalt not steal," postponed from last Sunday.

ASBIRY CHAPEL—Services morning rnd evening at the usual hours. Evening subject, The virtuous woman bath school at 2:3c P.

Sab-

Wm. Graham,

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pastor. TERRE HAUTE MISSION—J. C. Reed will preach at Mont Rose in the morning and at St. Agnes-in the evening. Preaching at St. Agnes in the morning and at Mont Rose in the evening by A. G. Murry. Sabbath school at both places at 2:30 P. M.

Petticoat Pleasantries. Egyptian women are old at twenty five.

The music of the creaking gate hinges, as they swing beneath the burden ot ardent lovers, is again heard in the land.

Rope skipping is an amusement for children, but it is 6aid that during leap year there are a number ot girls not quite so voung who will jump at the first offer.

Dio Lewis says woman is the cause of man's intemperance. And now why don't the Prohibition party work for the abolition of woman?

It is the sagacious remark of a keen observer that you can generally tell a newly married couple at the dinner table by the indignation of the groom when a fly alights on the bride's butter.

Because a man in Portland, Oregon, deemed it necessary for his authority at home to flog his wife, all the women in the vicinity met in council, passed resolutions, and then going to his house, whaled him until he became insensible,

A Chicago girl in New Haven amazed a"Yale theological student by asking him to help lier pull off her boot. Then she told him if he didn't do it she'd kick all the curl out of.his hair and that completely paralyzed him. A.

A gentle meek-eyed Indiana girl at Vassar College writes to her parents:— "This is the most stylish hairpin of a boarding school I ever tumbled to. I can eat four times a day if I want to, and get a fair whack at the hash every time. -A lady had her dress rimmed with bugles before going to a ball. Her little daughter wanted to know if the bugles would blow when see danced. "Oh, no," said the mother, papa will do that when he 6ees the bill."

A subscriber wants to know if anything is more annoying than a love-sick hired girl around the house. Nothing could be worse except to have her poison herself 011 the parlor sofa.

Young men in this city a^egravely considering the question of abandoning the use] of standing shirt cqllars. After 10 o'clock Sunday nighte™mdst girls' cheeks look asif they had*6een punched with a clothes-pin. ,.

VtMinneapolis'^latlies arc permitted to vote for schalaLofficers, and just before an election' there are, probably, more hairj)in^ mixed candies and corset .strings gratuitously distributed in Minneapolis than anywhere else in North

America. There's a woman living in Connecticut Valley who hasn't seen a mau in nearly twenty years. When asked if she wouldn't like to have one around, just for a change, she answered, dolefully: "No its16 so long now, I wouldn't know what to do with him.

A woman in Washington Territory kept her mouth open long enough, upon a certain occasion last month, to swallow a snake. Her husband betrayed a good deal of feeling in relating the little circumstance to his neighbors, and concluded his narrration with the "remark "There ain't nothin' hard-hearted 'bout me, but hanged if I s'posed I could feel any sorror for a snake."

A book agent who has retired from active labor upon the hard-earned accumulation of a life of industrious cheek,says that the great secret of his success was when he went to aliouse where the female head of the family presented herself, he always opened by saying —"I beg your pardon, miss, but it was your mother I wanted to see." That aiways used to get 'em. They not only subscribed for my'Ibooks themselves, but told me where I could find more customers.—[Easton Free Press. tMiM-- -ft •.

FUN WITH THE BABIES—An Augusta,- New York correspondent of an On eiJa County paper tells of the following new and interesting game peculiar to that lo cality: "Quite a baby show- offirst-bornsot both sexes, born within a few days of each other, and aged about three months, came off in this part ofthe town a few days ago on the occation of a social party of the young married parents, whose names are withheld on account of the extreme delicacy of the scarcely initiated mothers.

While the men were out the ladies got up a little scene for the general merriment. They placed the wee ones as near together and in circle as possible, their bodies horizontal, but the tinev feet and limbs elevated and in a close cluster, then convered the faces and clothing effectually from sight. That cluster of wonder fully alike-baby extremities at once began tO'ki:.and gyrate, and mix up in a, beautifully grotesque manner which brought forth screaifis and peals of feminine laughter. The fathers came in and were invited to select their own from what was in view. One came forward and looked until he was sure then seized a pajr in most active motion and drew from the pile, when lo! he had fastened Upon the member of a boy and the right one was a girl! His success brought down the house again and the show ended, but memory of his part of it remains.:'

FISH HOOK S.—Seth Green,by his recent letter asserting that the mosteffactive fish-hook is made from a needle without a barb, has drawn out a sarcastic reply in Forest and Stream, from Mr. Shields, a rival angler, of Bostou, who ridicules Mr. Green's assertion, and says that without a barb it is next to impossible to take lanje fish, as the line is certain at times to become slack and allow the hook to slip from the fish's mouth. Mr. Shields thinks that Mr. Green "instead of giving us an advanced idea of fish-hooks takes us back to our juvenilk- davs. when we drew our supplies from our granJ-motii-er's pincushion." ...

Personal Paragraphs. Gen. Braxton Bragg was appointed City Engineer of Galveston, but the Cbunciimen refused to confirm him.

Vanderbilt, Stewart, and Astor each paid real estate taxes on an assesed valuation of $3,000,000.

Colonel Mike Sheridan, brother of Phil., and a member of his staff, has gone to the Black Hills with a private party.

President Grant has sold his 200 shares intheWestDivisionllorse Railroad in Chicago, to Hon. Russel Jones, at $141 a share.

Garibaldi lives in a handsome twostory structure enclosed by high walls, andrin the midst of a garden embeiished with trees and flowers and conservatories.

Mrs. Betsy Straw, who died at Warner, N. II., lately, at the age of 101, had been married twice, and given birth to seven children, but no descendant' survives her, and no one related to her is known.

Judge Hilton closed both the stores ou1 of respect for the memory of Stewart, and set the clerks to work making an inventory. They mourmed their departed chief in dead earnest.

It is said that a man imprisoned in tl Missouri State Prison, under the name of Graves has confessed that he is Frank James, one of the notorious James brothers, who have been a terror to the State.

St. Petersburg will be very lively this fall. After the return of the Czar from Ems. he will entertain the Duchess of Edinburg, the Kipg and Queen of Den mark, the King and Queen of Greece, and the Emperor of Brazil, and Prince Humbert, and the Prince Margaret, of Italy:

Colonel McCiure, of the Philadelphia Times, thinks that the post of honor is the position of journalism, and declines to accept a nominaiion for Congress. That's the way most of us in this business are beginning to feel. But it the nation would only crawl up abreast ot us perhapS it might be different.

Collin Graves, the milkman hero ofthe last year's dam disaster in Massachusetts, did riot figure in the recent one. An inquiry has brought out the sad fact that he died of grief, poverty and neglect some time ago. It seems that after the Mill river catastrophe, when he rode down the valley and warned the inhabitants that the dam was breaking, people asked themselves what he could have been doing at the reservoir, and then stopped buying his milk. Thc'iiiilk business was ruined, lie had nothing else to do, and not many months after he died in destitute circumstances. Think twice before you allow'yourself to become a hero.— [Chicago Times.

Nursery Nonsenst.

A twentv-four pound baby was born in Pittsburg, and the mother weighed 120 pounds.

Being askod what made him so dirty, a street Arab replied: "I was made, so they tell me, of dust, and I suppose it works out."

A negro preacher stole two horses, a few days ago, at Brenham, Texas, and taking them with him to Lexington, was arrested Sunday at that place, while preaching.

A Chicago hoy who has been sitting up nights reading pirate stories called his father to supper the other day by bawling out, "What ho, there, base craven! Come hither to thy vesperian hash." And when that father and that son came together it sounded as if the butt had slipped off a twenty-foot fly-wheel.

Tho most trying moment in the life of a youth is when he slips, for the first time, into a barber shop to be shaved and meets his father there on the same errand. Somehow it takes the paternal mind some time to become reconciled to the fact of his hopeful's pin-feathers.

girl and boy, between the ages of 11 and 17, were noticed in a long and close conversation in the Atlanta depot. At length the boy began to weep, his loud boo-hoos attracting a crowd. "What's the matter?" asked a sympathizer. "He wants me to marry him, and I won't," replied the girl. The spectators withdrew.

A Danbunp couple have a nice little daughter of some five summers. A lady visitor observed to the mother: "What a pretty child you have. She must be quite a comfort to you." "She is indeed," said the fond mother. "When I'm mad at John I don't have to speak to him. She calls him to his meals, and tells him to get the coal and other things that'I want. She's real handy.

One of the boy reformers in a speech a few evenings since made this remark: "I have these good reasons for keeping the pledge not to use tobacco 1st, because I am to have five dollars at the end of a year 2d, because I have pledged myself not to use it, and 3d.—the strongest ot all —because I'll get a licking if 1 don't keep it!"' It is. unnecessary to say that the speech was applauded.

He is a nice little boy who lives in Erie, Pa. They had a performance at tee Opera Hoase. and he stationed himselt at the head of the staircase and said so sweetly and naturally ."Tickets, please, and thev gave him the tickets, but soon they came to a big, burly man at a door, who wanted tickets, too, and wouldn't let them in because they had none. And the nice little boy went with his lriends to the show, and they couldn't find him there to pay him for being door keeper

Selected Sharps.

Taking a breakfast roll is very good exercise in the morning.

If men would set good examples, they might hatch better habits. The Centennial ox is 011 his way to Philadelphia. He weighs 6,000 pounds.

It has been suggested that everybody should plant something in the spring season, if it's only a cat,

When a man has business that doesn't pay, he usually begins to look around for a partner to share his losses.

Tudge Ilollman, of Jersey City decides that "all bets are void." He evidently forgot the alpha-bet, so e^l give ,the I lollman another chance. Si 1 The K"ing of Burmah has ordered the co.n ts and public offices to be closed for i'or(, (lavs, during which time tnc incnv of boring holes in the euro i.-fthe Princessiwill be performed.

There is an old German proverb to the effect that a great war leaves the country with three armies—an army of cripples, an army of. mourners and army of theives. "Mother," said Ike Partington, "did you know that the 'Iron Horse' has but one ear? "One ear? merciful gracious, child, what do you mean?" "Why the en-gin-eer, of course.

Spain's debt is $3,500,000,000 the interest on this at three percent is $100,000, 000 annually, while the revenue ofthe Kingdom in good years does not reach $90,000,000. Is a national debt a national blessing.

In the Boston custom house, recently, a coin check for one cent was issued. It is directed to the assistant treasurer of the United Siates, and bears the signatures of the collector and deputy collector.

Galva Williams, a colored man, was voted for by the people of Palmer, Massachusetts. as their candidate for justice of the peace. The voting was done as an April fool joke, and the jokers found themselves fooled by the election of their candidate.

Mr. Gladstone, the distinguished English statesman, said in a recent address that hand labor was better paid in England than head labor. Same thing over here, William. A prize fighter will make more money pounding his fellowmen black and blue than a gefat can earn by butting them clean across the street five or six times a day.—[Burlington Hawkeye.

The advantage of having a dress reform woman for a wife—Time, midnight scene, a bed chamber two pairs of pants hanging over a chair enter the bloodyminded burglar sees pants. -"Aha! curse on 'em! One man I would carve two I will not face." Exit burglar in alarm bnrglar deceived only one man' in bed other pants belong to wife. J*?-"

In Chicago they tell ofa furnished room that, although let at the rate of only four dollars a week, earns four dollars a day. The lodger pays that sum in advance, and at night the landlord gets out his cornet and" is accompanied by his daughter on the piano. The lodger moves away in the morning, is at once replaced by another, and so they come and go. I,

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Now doth the little onion' Poke up its little head. And the restless little radish

Stretch in his little bed. The sunfish and the minnow Wag their shiny little tails, While the chipmunks and the robin

Adorn the fence's rails.

The blossom by the hedge side And on the loafer's nose Tells of the coming spring time

A

Perkins* Interpretation PP. Talking of an organ reminds me of an old church near by, whose members, in times past, had conscientious scruples about this instrument, although they had none concerning the use ot a band of music in sacred service. In the conventicb to which I refer, the trombone was played by that famous performer, Mr. Perkins, distinguished for many miles around for his "lung power." -I

On one occasion the conductor was drilling his choir on a piece of music which he fondly hoped would win great eclat for himself and choir on the following Sunday evening. A fine passage marked "pp occured in the piece, which would have produced an exquisite effect if it had been rendered with that delicacy the leader endeavored to suggest and enforce in the usual manner. But instead thereof, the trombone of Perkins blew a blast that would have taken the walls of Jericho clean off their foundation. Consternation and dismay were depicted on the countenance of the horror-stricken conductor. 'Mr. Perkins," said he, in a very stern voice, "you have ruined me What do you mean by playing in that outrageous manner." •Why, sir," replied Mr. Perkins, mcekly, "I played according to the marks in my book." "Let me see your book, sir,'' said the conductor. "There, sir,"' is not this strain marked double "Certainly," said Perkins. rV "And pray, sir, what do you understand by pp r" "As

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understood, and understand it,

in this ease, double means 'put in, Perkins,'—and 1 did it," "You did repeated the conductor, his disgust giving way to the humor of the thing, and he ordered a recess for half an hour.

could not pay You must have known that vou had no money -ram Baron Rothschild! exclaimed the great capitalist, "and there is my card." ., "Never heard of you before,' saiJ tlie driver, "and 1. don't, want to hear of you again. But 1 waiit my fare—and must have it."

The great banker was in haste. 1 have only an order for a million, he said, "(jive me change," and he proffered a coupon for 50,000 francs.

The conductor stared and the passengers set up a horse-laugh. Just then an "Agent dc 'Change" came by, and Baron Rothschild borrowed of him the six sous.

The driver was now seized with a kind of remorseful respect, and turning to the money king, he said "If you want ten francs, sir, I don't mind lending them to vou on my own account."

7 MONEY GRANTS TO THE ROYAL FAM ILY.—Annie Besant, the English radical heroine, has started a petition to Parhalment praying that no further grants^ of manev to or for the royal famil}, or member of it, shal be given under any circumsjandes whatever. Tne

000,

s!£n'1

have run up into the ne.gh^iaood of 80-

and when presented, it vwll be Uie lar^jest j^etitioft. cvftr^ewUo.. tbat.bod*

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WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY MUST BE DESTROYED.

From the New York Sun.

It seems almost impossible to find a sound spot in Grant's Administration. In every department and branch ofthe pub-" lie service rottenness is found wheliever the searching probe of investigation is applied, and yet the discoveries thus far. made are in great measure due to accident and to the reckless habits of officials, who,from power, exposed themselves to direction.

The late Secretary of War is impeached the Secre'ary of'the Navv is likely to to experience thes§ame infliction,, the In-,.-terior Department is honeycombed with.,! jobbery in the Ini in Bureau, the Land Office, the Pension Office, ana the Pat-' ent Office, the I ost Office hcp^rtin^nt' is stuffed with straw bids and conclusive contracts the Treasury under Boutwell and Richardson was a ma: of false entries forced balance, overissues, and deceptive bookkeeping: the Department of Justice, has been a political machine for persecuting opponents of Grantism, swindling the. Treasury, and enriching the wor^t class of scoundrels that ever disgraced UnAmerican name: and the state Department has been used to betray American policy and to furnish enormous fees for the Secretary's son-in-law.

It was quite natural with a President who worships the golden calf, and with Cabinet made u( of subservient clerks, who were glad to register liis edicts, that Rings should have been organized to control the political power of the Administration. The Babcocks, Shephcrbs, Kilbourns, McDonalds, Joyces, and that crew, formed the kitchen Cabinet, surrounded Grant socially and almost captured the Government. They had access to all the secrets, suppressed what they pleased and crushed opposition. In Congress the voice of the. minority \vastifled by Blaine, who as Speaker was a despot. He had two motives to guide him, first his own success, secondly the success of the party. Though the two were combined, he made the ^jcond always subservient to the first. The Senate was governed by a few leuderu, whose rule of action was to give a clean bill of health to every infected pariisian like Pomeroy, and to whitewash every subject of investigation like the sale of arms to France, or the Leet and Stocking monopoly.

Thus the Government has been run as a close corporation in the exclusive interest of office holders, Rings, contractors, and rascals. The greater th-j thief, the more recognized his position. Grant set the example of being a giisst of Boss Shephed and drove through the streets of the capital with McDonald by his side who is now philosophizing, over human vanities of the cell of a penitentiary. Grant knew him to be a thief, for his friend Ford had told him so: but that fact made no difference. As McDonald said, the goose hung altitudlem.

The chiefs who were highest in favor with Grant and his Senate at Washington planned the conspiracy by which the Faeedman's Bank was plundered of nearly all its deposits, and the poor negroes were cheated out of their hurd earnings. Henry D. Cooke, Gen. O. O. Howard, Hallett Kilbourn, John O. Evans, Lewis Clephane, Boss Shepherd, W. S. Huntington, George W. Stickney,J. W. Al- ... vord, and other familiar Ring names, stripped this institution of millions, and. left as "securities" Seneca stone scrip and other trash, in which Grant was a large stockholder without having paid a dime for his shares. The conspiracy to rpb the bank by these knaves, fully illuminated by the Sun years ago, is now plain to every eye, and every one concerned in it ought to be indicted. The books are mutilated, the accounts are purposely confused, and there is every token ofa deliberate plan to steal the money, iji which tW officers and trustees of the bank were implicated. It is wholly im-• possible that,there could have been any honest supervision or any desire to protectthe unfortunate depositors, in presence of the debris which is left as the prpof of organized robbery.

The Government printing office has turned out to be nothing but thesaine eonrmos fraudwhich the sun has exposed repeat edlv during the last three or four years. Fraudulent books, suppressed entries ot

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diversion of public monev and sacking on all sides are but apart ot the systdm which has long made that office a scandal _. and a shame. It has been maintained corruption in congess and would have con tinued undisturbed but for the change in the House of Representatives.

Yet with all these developments and others which are sure to come, the surtace has been barley scratched. 1 he bottom fact cannot possibly be reached .and the whole truth known until this Administration is driven root and branch out of pow­

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A Rich Passenger with no Money. There is si story told: ot" Baron Rothschild, of Paris, the richest man of his class in the world, which shows tliat it is not onlv "monev makes the mare go" (or horses either, for that matter), but "ready monev,'" "unlimited credit" to the contrary notwithstanding. On a very, wet and disagreeable day, the baron took a Parisian omnibus, on his way to the bourse, or exchange, near which the "nabob of finance" alighted and was going away without paying. The driver'stopped him and demanded his fare. Rothschild felt in his pockets, but he had not a "red cent' in change, The driver was very wroth. 'Well, what did you get in for if you,

and the Republican party is crushedinto powder. The two are inseparably connected together in spite any personal ant:.uonism which may exist, or the individual purity of some leaders and many follow ei, Corruption has so spread

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all the departments of Government that unless the country ealls^ a halt to sue proceedings, our Republic must inevitably fail to accomplish the benificent purposes contemplated by its founders. The only way to stop this is ovarwhclminglv defeating Grantism at the polls.

Too READY TO FLARE 1 I\—During a recent performance atfc Paris theater a man and his wife had a quarrel on tie stage—the woman in a rage of jealousx, the man trying to persuade her that she was too suspicious and too passionate.. Both were acting with great spirit, when the wife moved her arm too near a candle and her muslin dress was in flames m„ an instant. Both actors kept their presence of mind, however. I lie husband extinguished the fire, and, proceeding with his part, interpolated: ou see, my dear, was right you are ready to flare up for the least tiling.' iss AT 10 N .—The lilOO.sh 11 Argus says a woman in Washington 1 erritory kept her mouth open long enough upon a certain occasion last month to swallow a snake. Iler husband betrayed a good deal of feeling in relating the little circumstance to his neighbors, and concluded his narration with the remark "There ain't nothin' hard-hearted bout me, but if I s'posed I could ever feel enny sorrer for a snaike."

As OLD KOKAX—A manuscript copy of the Koran, copied by the Caliph Osman the third, after Mohammed is in the irn», peral library at Petersburg. It formed a part ofthe library of Samarcand, is t, 200 years old and bears traces of the blood that spurted 011 its pages when Osman was "while reading it.

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