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WEEKLY EXPRESS

TERRE

HATJTE,

TND.

Wednesday Morning, Matfch 27,1872

EX-SENATOR J. P. WALKEB, of Wisconsin, died in Milwaukee last .Friday

{.night. .= c.

MR. 3. S. OLIVER, General Superintendent of the I. B. & W. R. E.,' has resigned.

CLAUDE DEBRULER, of the Cincinnati "Times," is going to make the tour of the Great.West with BEADLE.

THIS "corrupt Radical administration" has decreased the public debt, during the last month, only fifteen and a half million dollars!

A GERMAN named LACRENTZ HANS was killed on the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway by a passenger train going east Saturday evening.

THE summer term of Wabash College commences to-day. Good health prevails in Crawford county and vicinity, and the students may return with safety.

MB. OWEN, in conversation with gentlemen at Pence's Hall, Sunday evening, 'emphatically repudiated the "advanced" doctrines of MTH. WOODHULL, and said .they were no part of Spiritualism.

A WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT says two investigations will probably come to an end the present week—the Seneca stone inquiry, which has proved an utter failure, and the inquiry concerning the affairs of the District..

THE fathers of the "Liberal" movement arrived in St. Louis on Monday The "Democrat" reports that, while approaching the city, on the Illinois side they held a mass meeting of the Liberal Republicans in the upper berth of section D, in fcleeping-car No. 194. There was great enthusiasm.

THE address of ROBERT DALE OWEN, oil Spiritualism, which we print this morning, will attract attention throughout the country. Whatever may be the reader's views respecting the subject of the lecture, the high character of the author, not less than his candid and dispassionate treatment of the questions presented, will insure for him the attention of thoughtful minds.

HAS it ever occurred to those Democrats who howl about "GRANT'S relations," to notice how local Democratic officials manage to keep all tho good things at their disposal, in the family? We could name a Democratic officer of Vigo county who has a son, brother and brother-in-law filling positions under him. We don't charge that he has done wrong, or that these relations are not good enough appointees, but we do say that talk about "GRANT'S nepotism" uomcrf with a very bad grace from a party in which this family fatening is the rule.

Professor Morse.

The death of the distinguished man who invented the electric telegraph is announced from New York, and brings to mind afresh the early struggles which he encountered in introducing his invention to the attention of tho skeptical world, licfore the appropriation of $30,000 voted by C®ngress to build an experimental line from Washington to Baltimore, MORSE'S life had been one of severe toil and application, alternating between hope and disappointment, all the while, however, the inventor being sustained by that sanguine confidence in the success of his wonderful scheme, which carried him throua li every trying ordeal, and finally ended in a dazzling triumph, which gave lo the projector a world-wide fame, and placed his name high among those of ancient and modern times who will be forever remembered as the benefactors of their race.

SA.VlUEIi 1'LNLEY HRKESE MORSE Was born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1871, his father being Rev. JKDEDIAH MORSE, D. I). He graduated at Yale College, after which he went to England with WASHINGTON ALI.STON lo study painting under BENJAMIN WEST. His first attempt at sculpture was a "Dying Hercules," for which he received a gold medal. Returning home he became one of the founders of (he National Academy Of Design, and was its first President he also received oilier honors in connection with art culture. While at Yale, Prof. MORSE had paid special attention to chemistry, and afterward, by his connection with Prof. DANA, who lectured on elcctro-magnetisui in New York, his mind was gradually drawn to the consideration of the subject of utilizing electricity.

The idea of the telegraph was first conceived in MORSE'S mind on a voyage from Havre to this country. On arriving home he began the construction of his experimental apparatus, which was completed in 1S35, and he was enabled to communicate from one extremity of two distant points of half a mile, but not back again and it was not until 1S37 that another instrument was completed, and the plan was successful. The system was exhibited to hundreds at the University of New York, and from the publicity jjiven to it at that time the invention of the telegraph is generally dated.

In the winter ot 1S37-8 Mr. MORSE repaired to Washington, where lie was doomed to disappointment in his request to have an experimental line built from Washington to Baltimore. Again he went to England and France, and there his mission was unsuccessful. Reluming home ho struggled four years longer, with scanty means—not discouraged, but determined. The last night of the session of IS 12-3 MORSE went to bed in Washington with his hope* again blasted, but he awoke in the morning to find, that at the midnight hour the $30,000 to build the experimental- line hsd been voted.

In a year the work was completed, and the experiment at once was demonstrated to be a complete success. From that time to the present, what a change! The telegraph now encircles nearly the' entire globe, and penetrates almost every part of the known world. The honors showered upon Mr. MORSE exceed those ever awarded to any other American. Among them is the decoration of Xishitn Iftichar in diamonds from the Sultan of Turkey and gold medals of scientific merit and orders from all the courts and sovereigns of Europe, to enumerate which would re-

quire more space than we have to give. The sum of 400,000 francs was voted to him by ten Slates of Europe, as an honorary and personal reward but nothing has, we believe, been done by the Gov-, ernment of his own country to recognize his great claim to its gratitude. Mr. MORSE has visited Europe since the success of the telegraph, where he was received with honors scarcely less than those conferred upon .royalty itself.

Submarine telegraphy originated also with Professor MORSE, who laid the first submarine telegraph lines in New York Harbor in the autumn of 1S42, and received at the time from the American Institute a gold medal for that achievement. In a letter from Mr. MOKSE lo the Seeretarv of the United States Treasury, dated AugustlO, 1S4S, it is believed occurs the first suggestion of the project of the Atlantic Telegraph.

"Liberality" in Politics. A good name is a good thing. "Arose by any other name" might "smell aa sweet," but we should riot think so before smelling it. 1fhe name predisposes to favorable or unfavorable opinion, and slight as the prepossession may be, it is more or less an obstacle to just judgment. Very little things produce great effects at the source of opinions, before they have gathered strength and volume enough, to overcome resistances. A pebble may turn the fountain streata of a brook that starts a gigantic river, and an unfragrant name may repel an indifferent or uninformed opinion, as an attractive one may allure it. No man would care to attach himself to a church of "Yahoos," though "Yahoo" might mean nothing, or to a party of "Hunkers," though "Hunker" were as empty a name as YOORHEES. lodiflerence or ignorance are won to favorable attention by a good name. Democracy owes more to the mere word than to all it is or has done. For years it held the whole foreign vote by no other attachment. It holds the irish vote by little else now. Democracy sounds well to one sick of aristocratic influence*, and easily wins adherence till facts show that it is the most deceptive name in thcwholecalendar of hypocrisy. If it were not for the rosy name, few would smell it or mistake its effluvia for fragrance- The "Liberal" Republicans recognize this power in their name. It is a pleasant name. It has a direct action of conciliation—to itsel^and a "back action" of censure on the Republicanism which it leaves to be inferred is not liberal. A "Liberal" Republican is, of course, supposed to be, or suggested to be, above personal feelings, or interested preferences, or any of the weaknesses that allow men to fall under narrow influences. It is a whole speech—full of noble feelings. Like Mr. Pecksniff, it "has a Fortunatus's purse of good sentiments in its inside." But unfortunately, like Mr. PecksnijF, its good sentiments are no indication of good character. Rub off its sweet name, and it is as nasty a word of illiberal, bigotted and unreasonable spile as ever grew in the prolific muck heaps of personal malice or mistaken ambition. Let us look closely and carefully into its composition. What is it made of?

The men who lead the "Liberal" movement declare themselves Republicans, the purest of the pure, with no purpose but the advancement of Republican principles, and the purification of the party from personal defilements. But at the same time they make no claim that the regular Republican organization has abandoned its principles and theirs, or that they fear it may do so. The Constitutional amendments, the rights of freedmen, the equality of civil and political rights among all men, the results of the war, the reconstruction of the rebel States, the preservation of the national faith, the security of the public debt, all that Republicanism means or has achieved, are as safe in the hands of the Administration as in tho?e of its enemies, as "Liberals" do not pretend to deny. The Constitutional amendments are certainly as safe with MORTON, whose measures secured their ratification, as with FENTON, who did no more than vote for them. The public credit is as safe with SHERMAN and BOCTWELL, who have maintained the policy of reducing the public debt, as with Sciiuitz or SUMNER, who have done their best to excite German hostility and croate new collisions, and more debt. There is not a single Republican principle or measure that 'lias not its foremost champions, its most efficient advocates, among the friends of the Administration. There can possibly be, therefore, no point of Republican policy, no affirmation of Republican principle, that needs a separation from the Republican party for its maintenanceThe "Liberal" division is necessarily a division upon some other ground than principle. This conlusion is indisputable and will bear much reflection. It means that the "Liberals" are not acting from principle, that they have no principle that is not maintained by the party they are seeking to destroy. If anybody can make anything better than an unprincipled operation of such a movement we are anxious to see it done. It is the organization of a party to carry out what? Personal dislike just that, nothing else. There is nothing else in it. Body and soul, senliment and action, it is an organization of spite.

Here again it takes a sweet-scented name to disguise the ill odor of its reality. It is an organization "to release the Bepublican party from the domination of office-holders and corrupt men." Verily, the description is fragrant as myrrh, and grateful as frankincense. But what sort of a "dog-violet" is endued with this precious name of purity? The Republican party, like all parties that are meant to accomplish anything, must select its candidates and appoint its means and modes of work by the judgment of a majority. There is no other way, unless we arc to suppose that thirty men out of a hundred have more sense, honesty and firmness than the other seventy. As long as all are, and must be held, equally capable of selecting candidates and determining methods, those candidates and methods in which a majority of equal oapacities and characters concur, must be accepted by all. If they are not, there is an end of parties. If men may separate and resist because they want one man instead of another, or one mode of work instead of another, as they ought lo separate and resist when they want o^ie principle instead of another, a party is a mere heap of loose opinions, as useless as a heap of loose bricks. It is the acquiescence of the minority in the choice of the majority as to all subordinate matters, all points of mode, cauiiidate and means, that puts the loose bricks in regular order and converts them into a wall. No man knows this better, or has inculcated more strenuously, than HORACE GREELEY, who is now stultifying his whole life bv setting up the will of a minority, and of a very trilling minority, against that of an admitted and vast majority of the Republicans.

Now, no "Liberal" pretends that a majority of the party is not for GRANT'S renomination. They all admit it. They must, therefore, claim that they arc better able to choose a candidate than the great bulk of the party that they are wiser and honester than the men sent up from every county and corner of the States that have instructed for GRANT, or they must admit that they are willing to disavow party allegiance, defeat their party and endanger its policy, with a fair chance of putting the government into the hands of the Democracy, to beat a man who is trusted and respected by more Republicans than they can claim, and as good republicans as they ever were. As honorable men as they, and ten times as many of them, do not believe that "the party is governed by office holders, or corruption," do not believe that any purification is necessary, beyond that which every party makes in self-defence, for the maintenance of its own health. As honorable men, and as able men, as GREELEY, or TIRTON or SCIIXEU or SCUUNX befieve as firmly in GRANT'S honesty as they do in bis dishonesty, if they really believe it at all. As honorable and as able men as they believe that the administration has been in the main fAuhfoH*. purely scd

most successfully contacted. And every man khows that the administration has at least done what never was done before, reduced the national debt and the national taxes together. This great, obvious fact is an unimpeachable witness for the general honesty and capacity of the goyernment's officers. 1*0 revehue could be held up tft the mark of Current expenses and a constant payment of debt, if at once reduced and managed by dishonest and incapable men. JOHNSON had bigger taxes by $80,000,000 a year than GRANT has had for a year or more, and yet he paid no part of the debt. GRANT has paid $300,000,000, partly with the same taxes that JOHNSON wasted, abd partly with much less. JOHNSON'S dishonest officers were & proverb. The Democracy was rotten with revenue corruption. What are we to infer, then, when a totally different result is prodncedfrom the same means, or less means, by a succeeding administration? "That it is just as rascally as the other," say the "Liberals." "That it is, in the main, honest," say honest men. And the "Liberals" are organizing, not for a principle, not to make pure an administration that facts prove, and nine Republicans out of tea know, to be in the main pure and faithful, not lo maintain any point of Republican policy, but to beat GRANT. They object to taking the candidate that the great majority of the party insist is honorable and deserving. They are working against a man, just one man, and nothing else. They admit it, when they say that they will vote for any other nominee. They are a party of per aonal enmities, therefore a party, as we said, of organized personal spite. That is the sort of thing called "Liberal." But the name don't sweeten the unutterable nastiness of the thing.

CRUSTACEANS.

A Drama of a Street-Car—"I'll Teach You Manners. Sir!—OIT, Ow. Off! Take Them Off!"

San Francisco Call, March *Uh\ The following dramatic sketch is not from the pen of Colonel Barnes,.nor is it the production of any of the great masters in producing the sensation dramas of the day. It is a simple narration of facts, interesting in themselves, and peculiarly useful as illustrative of phaees in natural history and human nature.

A STREET CAR

was the scene of the drama. To be more explicit, the performance was within car No. 18, of the N. B. & M. railroad line, and the lime was the afternoon of Sunday last. As the car left the station, on Fourth street, two small boys entered the unoccupied car and seated themselves. The "gentlemanly conductor," who sports a superb Los Angeles lemon-colored mustache, noticed that one of the urchins had a handkerchief knotted at the corners, and well filled with some unknown substance. This parcel the boy carefully deposited under the seat, and then the pair of future piece-clubbers, dangling their coppertoed shoes four inches from the straw-strewn floor, indulged in the following

REMARKABLE CONVERSATION First Small Boy. Bully luck, Bill. Second Small Boy. Yoobetyer! Them'll be good biled.

First S. B. No they won't they's too little. Second S. B. Then they'll make nice fritters, anyhow.

Fsrat S. B. Maybe they don't make stunnin' soup oh, no! Yer orter see how my mar fixes 'em. She just biles 'em in milk, and chucks in a gob of butter and some jammed up crackers, and golly, ain't it good though!

Second S. B. Oh, git out! Your mar don't know nothin' about cooking. My mar says she puts sallyraters in her bread and dad says she spiles the jastrick goose.

First S. B. She don't! Second S. B. She does! First S. B. You lie! SecondS B. You lick! First S. B. Say that again and I'll slap yer jaw!

Second S. B. Y' dassent why don't yer slap, hay? I dare you I Conductor. Dry up you little runners, or I'll chuck you in the gutter.

Second S. B. (Soto voce.) Oh, knock me down! The conductor manifested no desire to comply with the request in fact, he did not liejir the remark made by the father to the man but the conversation ceased.

SCENE SECOND.

As the car pursued its horses, sundry pedestrians left, the sidewalk and graced its interior with their presence, until all the seats were filled. At the corner of Geary and Kearny streets the first small boy grabbed his handkerchief parcel and left the car, closely followed by his companion. The vacant seat was immediately filled by a bland face gentleman in a chocolate-colored suit and spectacles one of tho3e amiable, middle-aged persons who wear a chronic smile of satisfaction with themselves, and whose spectacles beam benevolently on all who are not financially indebted to them.

Hardly had the benevolent gentleman seated himself, when a pretty young lady, whosd cheek the balmy zephyrs of eighteen San Francisco summers had caressed, entered the car. The benevolent gentleman, with all the grace possible in a person whose waist measures .sixty-two inches about, gave his seat to the young lady. It was directly over where the small boy's bundle had rested. The benevolent gentleman meditatively looked out the window. Suddenly, THE YOUNG LADY'S FACE TURNED SCAR-

LET.

She rose to her feet and with her ungloved hand dealt such a slap on the benevolent gentleman's cheek as he had never known since he was promoted from pantalettes to pantaloons. "I'll teach you manners," she cried "you old ruffian! I'll teach you you to keep your nasty boots from rubbing against my nice new gaiters."

The benevolent gentleman was both astounded and terrified. He turned quite pale and his eyes blinked wildly behind his spectacles. Just when he had prepared a speech of remonstrance and was about to inflict it upon the young woman, she bounded from her seat, exclaiming, "off! ow! o-o-o-w!"

The benevolent gentleman was aghast all the passengers opened their eyes in astonishment and Judge Stanly, with the word "maniac" on his lips, rapidly vacated the car.

The young woman looked pleadingly at the benevolent gentleman. "Wasn't that you a scratching of my foot?" said she. "Of course not, mum!" indignantly answered the benovolent gentleman and the conductor, advancing to the spot, asked what could be the matter.

Again the young woman squirmed in agony, and again her mouth emitted a screech. She thrust out her foot, and there were discovered

TWO NICE LITTLE SAND-CRABS enjoving themselves. One set on the top button of her gaiter boot, thinking the other displayed his proportions on the white stocking just above, while he was investigating with his forcep-like claws. "ow! TAKE 'EM OFF!" Yelled the young woman, and the polite conductor, kneeling on the straw, removed the unwelcome visitors with impromptu pincers, obtained by reversing his tjeket nippers. He was about to throw them out of the window, when the benevolent gentleman produced an empty match-box frbm his coat tail pocket, and requested that the intruders be placed in his keeping•'These are interesting specimees of the BracJiyara," said the benevolent gentleman, as he smilingly placed the cover on the box "if I mistake not, this spcies is the Oceipoda arcnario. I shall take the specimens to the Academy of Sciences and have them identified by my fellow academician, Dr. Gib—"

The sentence was not completed: the car stopped suddenly the conductor called out "Bush street!" the benevolent gentleman, who had neglected the handstrap in his devotion to science, eat down violently on the sar floor the young woman blusbingly alighted and hurried away.

Whether those crabs which were .retained in the small boy's pocket handkerchief when he left the car, were stewed or turned into soup, it is not necessary to the purpose of this narrative it is sufficient to know that, should any intellectual person desire to fit this draI malic incident to the stage, he will have

FOR A CLOSING TABLEAU,

the interior of the Museum of the Academy of Sciences, with the members in the background, and the benevolent gentleman tragically presenting his match-box full of crabs to the doctornaturalist, exclaiming—"Cun you identify these specimens?" To which the doctor-niturali.Vt-hall replr "Icanca

ADDRESS

To the Spiritualists Awembled at Terra Haute,

dx* IS**-

Fiteadt: Some one has recommended that a man should spend each recurring birth-da? in a review of his past life, and of the progtess he had made up lo the close of its last year. Is it not well so to spend the birth-days of Spiritualism? Or if that term ieem inappropriate since Spiritualism is coevai with man himself —we may at least «ay the days wliicb, in this new Country of Ours, may, the most appropriately, be BO called.

In the eyes of the civilized world, where does Spiritualism stand to-day? Is she despised? Is she respected? Has she won a reputable position among the other phases of religious faith? Letussee.

Twenty-four years ago, this very evening, when the most modern phase of Spiritualism first showed itself in a hamlet near the imall town Of Newark, and for many years thereafter, the popular notion grew to be that a superstitious epidemic, originating in Western New York, overtook millions of weak men and women, first in these United States, then in Europe or other parts of the world creating in them a most unphilosophical belief: Namely, that there had appeared among us a modern dispensation, under which there were occurring marvelous events, without example in the past, and especially vouchsafed by God to this, his favored generation. The assumed theory was, that this new faith was the mania for the time soon to pass away, like a hundred other ephemeral delusions.

But after a season, and particularly during the last few years, thoughtful men have been discarding such a theory plainly perceiving that facts disprove it. Spiritualism has, indeed, seemed, from time to time, to b4crushed to earth but each time it has risen again, like a strong man refreshed from sleep. Now it is only Truth that persistently resists abuse, detraction, ridicule and that rises, all the stronger, for revilings and persecution. Error "dies among her worshipers."

Recently another theory has superseded the first crude notion, not only among the thoughtful and the religious, but among that careless class, the fashionable. A few days since I received the number for March 13th of the (New York) "Home Journal," thechieforgan in this country of the last named class. Its leading editorial of two columns, headed "THE DEBATABLE LAND," gives as fair a view as I have seen, of what the outside world, when it is disposed to be candid, now says of us. Perhaps some one at the close of this address, will be kind enough to read it to you. Other influential journals have taken similar ground. So far as all this goes supplies evidence of a great battle fought and substantially won.

This article, without accepting the ultramundane explanation of spiritual phenomena, assigns to Spiritualism a reputable place as one of the great religious elemects of the day: regarding it, in fact, as a phase of religious faith called forth, in the nineteenth century by a reaction from the Materialism of the eighteenth. It speaks of science as the Materialistic element of the day opposed, in its sceptal tendencies, by Spiritualism which (to use the editor's own words) "has won its successes in our own country where it arose, and in thechief centers of of culture in England, France, Germany and Russia, the strongholds of the scientific movement, and the very focuses of the deepest insight and severest scrutiny."

Such admissions indicate a great victory. If we follow it up with prudence and courage, no man can predict how far we may go.

Let

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cast our eyes now across the

A 1 uutic and take note of what is going on there. Sergeant Cox—to those unfamiliar with English law-titles, I may say here, that the term Sergeant marks, in Great Britain, the highest legal rank under a Judge—Sergeant Edward Cox, author of a small English work in which he admits the phenomena, but ascribes them to an unknown power called by him "Psychic Force," is an eminent London lawyer. The editor of the "Journal" -ays of him and his theory: "His Psychic Force, which he puts forth as a new discovery, is at present exceedingly indefinite, beginning where muscular force ceases, and covering the phenomena of the will and mind in their most individual and personal qualities. Essentially it is but a substitution of a generic term for a specific one. The pass-word of one party is: 'Spirits, are you present?' while that of the other is: 'Psychic Force, will you communicate?' Sergeant Cox, however, is exceedingly careful to assure the public that he is no Spiritualist—even that he rejects their theories as absurd. Nevertheless, we cannot help assigning him a place among the believers,—the unconscious ones at least. His book may be taken as the best representative of the newest phase of the movement, while the older, more sentimental and religous form of development is fully 6et forth in Mr. Robert Dale Owen's volume on the 'Debatable Land.' We cannot but believe that these extremes will both be benefitted by their nearer relations and better acquaintance. The one will lose something of easy credulity and undiscriminating sentimentalisra, while the other will cast off something of the exuvite of materialism which now hold his vision too close to the opaque earth."

I should be very glad to shake hands with Mr. Cox, and to have a long talk with him, and I do not doubt that we shoald both be benefitted. I am quite contcnt that my book should be regarded as "setting forth the older, more sentimental and religious form of development" of the spiritual movement. Nor am I disposed to deny that I may (as the editor alleges,) be too easily credulous, and too indiscriminately sentimental. We all have our idiosyncracies. I am not sensitive about mine.

I have corresponded with Mr. Wm. Crookes, who has taken the lead in English cientific experiments in Spiritualism. Like Mr. Cox, he still ascribes spiritual phenomena to "Psychic Force but he is now experimenting with Kate Fox, one of the best mediums in the world and he has written to me that he will not hesitate to give to the public whatever con elusions future experiments may justify. I believe that he will keep his word, even though, in doing so, he may, for the time, imperil a high scientific reputation.

It is to be admitted, on the other hand, that the great majority of English scientific men still reject the phenomena. The editor of ihe "Home Journal" handles their prejudices without gloves. He says: "Where a Socrates might recognize a divine voice, or a Milton rejoice in the companionship of 'millions oi spiritual creatures that walk the earth uneeen,' the purblind earthworm naturally can find nothing but delusion in others, with an addition of conceit in himself, that he accepts no revelation but that of the hammer, the blow pipe or the scalpel."

Who would have believed, ten or twelve years ago, that sentiments like these would be published to-day in a leading orgar. of "good society," in the city of New York. Am I not justified in saying that, if we act with foresight and courage, we must needs euececd?

With foresight, I repeat. We must look over the whole field. We must seek out, and make clear to ourselves, our _true_ religious position. Weshouldbear in mind, elso, how we reached it-

The chief accessions to our ranks are from what used to be called "infidels and it*was natural, and to be expected, thatthe.se men should bring with them into their new belief, some of their old prejudices- Orthodoxy had claimed for Christ (what he never claimed for himself,) that he was one of the persons of the Godhead. Rejecting this unfounded claim, Materialists have been wont to run into the opposite extreme declaring tha Jesus was "no better than other men scarcely equal, (some of them would say,) to Confucius or to Socrates.

I, myself, was once a skeptic and, though *1 always reverenced the character of Christ, my estimate of that character was less exalted, in my younger days, than it has been since I became a Spiritualist. Formerly I did not believe that he performed the wonderful works ascribed to him but Spiritualism, showing me similar wonders, has convinced me that he did.

Again, though it be true that Spiritualism does not countenance Orthodoxy that the doctrines of vicarious atonement, imputed righteousness, original sin a personal devil, and an eternal hell are'not to be found in its communications yet, so far as my experience goes, there is not one of the grand teachings coming lo us "from Christ himself which is not endorsed in revealings from the oiher hide. And I knew of no other Teacher, snciei.t or modem, »f whom the

same can be said. Socrates, perhaps, came the nearest to it. I

Kgard Christ—1 sAj It with rev* erence—as the freat FotiaoMa otf SP1B uu&litslt. He gave to. the world the highest phenomena. He tanght its world etery one of its ildbllst Iferiofes. Id attestitieih of its Ciost sUbiinie train—the doctrine of immortality—he appeared, after death, to his«lisciples._

Socrates, guided by his Guardian Spirit, was a forerunner. He was as the Morning Star in the Heaven of Spiritulism, preceding, by nearly five centuries, the SON, rising upon the spiritual world.

I speak of the teachings of Christ himself, simple and unalloyed, substantially as we find them in the three synoptical Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the earliest records we have. And if any one think I am saying too much, let him read these three biographies carefully, keeping his mind, the while, free from all obscuring glosses, and all disfiguring adjuncts, whether coming from Paul or from any other sonrce making allowance, also, for more or less of error and inaccuracy in the biographers-.

It is more difficult to do this than you may, perhaps, imagine. Christianity has been so perverted from its original simplicity by dogmatic commentary, so overlaid and shrouded up by misguiding irrelevancies, and we have been so long accustomed to take it supinely at secondhand, instead of free and pure from the lips of its Teacher, that it requires a vigorous effort to shake ourselves loose from the preconceptions that have led us and our neighbors grievously astray.

Our opponehts are wont to say df us that we seek to substitute Spiritualism for Christianity. I do not believe that, except of a small minority, daily diminishing, there is any truth in that.

As a general rule, with exceptions however, Spiritualists are not Orthodox. As a general rule, also with exceptions, Spiritualists are Christians, in the primitive sense of the term. And, as a general rule, too, Spiritualists are Christians, not because of the historical proofs of Christianity, but because of its internal evidences, and because of its accordance with their own highest teachings from the Spiritual sphere.

Historical evidence, many centuries old, sometimes suffices to establish the dale of records. I think we hare sufficient proof that the three earliest Gospels existed, substantially as we still find them in the latter half of the first century. And that is about all that historical proof can do for us in the matter. For the rest we must trust to the spirit of the Record itself, when tested by our own moral sense of uprightness and justice—the highest of earthly tribunals.

We shall do well, also, in this connection, to note one acknowledged fact, of grand outline, familiar to every educated man. It is this:

In what is usually called the civilized world, millions will say, if asked as to their religion, that they are not Catholics, millions more that they are not Protestants but, excepting the five or six million Jews, we ahall not find there one man in a hundred who, if he has any religion at all, will say he is not a Christian.

If the Spiritual Teachings, first heard in Galilee eighteen hundred years ago, (aside from alien creeds) be not the religion of civilization, it has no other. What we may justly call the most enlightened portion of the world clings to these teachings, despite the deadening and retractive influence of alien creeds.

Spiritualists believe, also, that if we seek in a fitting spirit, we may obtain, from a higher phase of being, a supplement to the teachings of Christ. Of course it is very heterodox to say so. Orthodoxy believes in the Book, the whole Book and nothing but the Book. Yet, as happens in regard to many other heterodox things, our belief in this matter is strictly Christian.

If you read the Record dispassionately, you can hardly fail lo become convinced that Christ never intended his system as a finality. He said to his disciples just before he went to death: "I have many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now." Then he added that, after his death, the Spirit of Truth would lead his followers into all truth." Whether this specifically meant that his own teachings would, when the world could bear it, be supplemented by other truths, coming to us from the spirit world, I do not assume positively to Bay, but I think that interpretation of his words is more reasonable than any

On another occasion, Jesus declared that Spiritual »igns should follow those who believed in his words that they should do the works that he did, and greater works also. Orthodoxy restricts the application of all such sayings Christ himself never did: and I prefer, in this, to follow Christ rather than his commentators.

Do not imagine, nowever, that would have Spiritualists subscribe any set creed, heathen or Christian. As a modern Scottish Divine, speaking of the religious belief of the day, has expressed it: "Men thirst not less for Spiritual truth, but they no longer believe in the capacity of system to embrace and contain that truth, as in a reservoir."

I think some of our Spiritualists need a frank word of caution in regard to this matter. There are those who, with the best intentions, are too prone to set up, and trouble themselves about filling, a Spiritual Reservoir. All such attempts must result in evil.

Synods, Presbyteries, Convocations, assemble to prescribe forms of faith to their respective sects. An (Ecumenical Council convenes at Rome to dictate the creed of the world. ye no! like unto them. No General Convention of the Spiritualists of the United States, numbering, perhaps, some two or three hundred—no, nor if it numbered ten times as many thousands—can, by resolving this or that for the millions who are at home, thinking for themselves, do aught but mischief. We neither question their zeal nor impugn their motives but we do deny their a .ihoiity. We want no Spiritual Ruler set over us whether his or her title be High Priest or- Pope, Ecclesiarcli

President. I, for one. recog

nize noii-» such. If eve resolution adopted in such a convention were just the right and prudent thing, still to pass it, in \irtueof authority assumed to be delegated by seven or eight millions of people, does harm instead of good. 1 have taken great pains, in a recent work which has already had a wide circulation, to set forth, in fourteen paragraphs, what I conscientiously believe to be the great leading principles on which intelligent spiritualists unite. But if I were present at such a convention, and if any delegate should- move to adopt these as the true principles of our belief, I should myself speak and vote against the motion,

There is another danger incident to these self constituted conventions. It is that they are sometimes tempted to assume the right to endorse, for all Spiritualists, either in terms or virtually, principles and opinions—both just and important perhaps—which are not essentially connected with Spiritualism. This is an unwise course.

I have my own very decided opinion as to what policy of divorce is the most just and merciful in itself, and the most conducive to public morality. I approve, substantially, as I have elsewhere freely said, the policy touching that matter which has governed, in our State, for the last half century. 1 have carefully observed its practical effects on our own population, and I am satisfied that these are all that could be desired. Yet if, in anv General Spiritual Convention, a delegate should propose to endorse, as sanctioned by Spiritualists, the very laws I thus approve, I should, if present, protest against the proposal.

So again, I firmly believe, as 1 hope many of you do, in woman's right to suffrage, and in the prospect of its speedy recognition. But what would you think of an attempt to obtain a vote pledging the farmers of Indiana to support such a measure, at some meeting of your State Agricultural Society? For everything, in its order, there is fiuing lime and place.

I beg, of you, however, to take note of my exact position in this matter. I trust no one so far misconceives my sentiments as to imagine, for a moment, that 1 object to the free discussion of any eubject connected with human welfare, not in our spiritual newspapers alone, but in any public meeting where Spiritualists may chance to come together. To an enlightened Spiritualist, nothing that pertains to humanity or its suflerings, or its improvement, can be indifferent. But that is not, in any eense, the point at issue it is something quite different. For the Spiritualists ot me United States to elect a set of persons empowered to speak and to act lor ihem, is impracticable even if it wore expedient, acd would be utterly inexpedient and mischievous, e^esit if

were practicable. Bat in the absence of any such election) or any pretense of election, 1 reoogniie neither the right, nor

coarse the propriety, that anv puhlic body—let It iMuifce whet title it will— ehall take upon itself to de'.ermine, as by the atltHdrity

the Spiritualists tif this

country, a single article of belief or to commit the Spiritualists, as a body, to any side issues whatever. We condemn, in the orthodox leaders, their Spiritual usurpation. Let us not ourselves imitate what in others we condemn.

I would have our public lecturers, also, speak on all occasions, boldly Indeed, but modestly and unassumingly also. I would hav6 then], more especially, avoid all bigotry and 411 uncharitable attacks on the honest opinions of others. Let us build up an edifice convenient ana beautiful. Then the old, worn-out tenements will be deserted in its favor. We need not trouble ourselves lo pull them down.

A few words more, in connection with the foregoing remarks, may be useful here. I by no means overlook the important results which may be obtained by concert of action. In union there is strength. There arc useful and legitimate associations of Spiritualists—of which our own State Association is an example—its Trustees incorporated for business purposes, and the Association itself never assuming to dictate beyond its proper sphere. We shall all bid Godspeed such a Society, when ii occupies itself in spreading abroad spiritual tracts, or in encouraging and aiding volunteer lecturers, going forth, as the Seventy did —without purse or scrip, too, sometimes —to preach glad tidings far and wide or when it undertakes other similar dutia?:

The great utility of such an Association, in a different field, has been recently shown. Robert Barnes, a wealthy merchant of Evansville, left, by his will, lo the Trustees of the Indiana State Association of Spiritualists, and their successors in office, for an orphan college, ah estate valued at half a million of dollars. I may add that though, as usually happens in such cases, the heirs contest the will, there is the fairest prospec. that the original intentions of the Testator will be carried out.

In expressing my opinions of what I deem the mischievous results of a General Synod, speaking and acting as by authority of the Spiritualists of the United States, I have been governed by a strict sense of duty. And what I have said has been spoken with regret, because good and true friends of mine, who have done much for the cause, have been aiding in this movement. Yet I think I know them well enough to say that I am confident they will receive my strictures in the same spirit of charity in which I shall always receive any strictures of theirs on my own public conduct.

The general view I lake of the matter may be thus summed up. What may properly be called Spiritual Epiphanism is spreading as fast as its wisest friends desire but it is spreading not as a seci— nor ever, I trust to become such—not as a separate church, with its prescribed creed and its ordained ministers and its formal professors. It spreads silently, through the agency of daily intercourse, in the privacy of the domestic circle. It pervades, in one or another of its phases, the best literature of the day. It invades the churches already established, not as an opponent but as an ally. Its tendency is to modify the creed, and soften the asperities of Protestant and Romanist, of Presbyterian and Episcopalian, ot Baptist and Methodist, of Unitarian and Universalist. Its tendency is to leaven, with invigorating and spiritualizing effect, the religious sentiment of ibe age increasing its vitality, enlivening its convictions. would not, however, be understood as expecting that Spiritualism will effect all this, except in measure as its rich mines are wisely worked nor as asserting, in a general way, that we, of the present generation, are worthy recipients of its revealings. There are millions of men and Women among us who lack the judgment needed to prosecute, with safety and with profit, Spiritual research, just as there are millions more who have not the culture necessary to exercise judiciously the right to vole. In either case there is but one remedy: the millions must be educated up to the occasion.

The time to which I wished to restrict this address i3 exhausted, and perhaps I have said enough toward marking the importance of this phenomenal movement, and assigning to Spiritualism itself definite character and fitting place among the religious beliefs of the day. Though not a seel, it is doubtful whether any sect, exerting peaceful influence only, ever spread with the same rapidity, or made its mark during so brief an existence, on the hearts of so considerable a portion of mankind. It has already asserted its position. Though its truths are disputed still, yet, except by the ignorant or the hopelessly bigoted, they are no longer despised. The idea is gaining ground that its occult agencies may richly repav earnest research. The essential is that'the whole subject should be studied in its broad phase, a^ one of the vital elements of an enlightened Christian faith.

Mrs. O'Lenry's Tax.

in the Chicago Journal.J On Saturday last, Mrs. Catharine O'Leary entered the City Collector's office for the purpose of paying the tax upon the lot where originated the fire that should be spelled with a capital F. The assessment upon the property was SI0, but in consideration of the distiguished greatness thrust upon Chicago by the hind leg of the lady's cow, and, under the operations of the rebate act, a deduction of SI was made. Some facetious clerk in the office of the Commissioner of Taxes had illuminated the lady's rebate paper. He drew the cow with the crumbled heel that shattered the lamp. A life like expression was given to the heel, which. Mrs. O'leary declared, was just such another heel as the poor dead and gone cow herself had. The lady herself was represented like the mother of Priam, when Troy was burning. She ran barefoot up and down, threatening the flames, and wearing a blanket in the alarm of fear caught up. If it hadn't been for Mrs. O'Leary's distinguished animal the Board of Rebate would never have been in existence, and it is thought that they would have done nothing more than a generous action to have rebated the tax altogether.

Accidents.

RICHMOND, IND., March oO.

Last night, a short distance beyond Centerville, on the Indianapolis Railroad, a brakeman named Kelly fell from- a freight train and was run over by twentytwo cars. His mangled rema'ns were brought to this city and forwarded to his mother at Bradford Junction.

About noon to-day a little girl mine Gifford, while playing at the Green Snea Mills, in this citv, was canght by a

Jhafi

and whirled round at a fearful rate for several minutes. As she passed round,her head struck a brace rod and was so badly cut and bruised that it is thought she can not recover.

ANOTHER chance for the howlers! Miss Nellie Grant, tho President's daughter, is going to Europe, in company with Mrs. Borie, wife of the ex-Secretary of the Navy. The question arises whether this can be done under the Constitution and laws of the country—whether a President's daughter may go abroad, and if so, how much? We do not see how Mr. Schurz can do less than make a speech about it, or how the New York "World" and the "Missouri Republican" can fail to write strong appeals to the people on the subject. They can easily demonstrate the danger which besets civil liberty under such a state of affairs. Will our cotemporaries please line out the howl, and will brothers Schurz and Sumner please stat the tune?—St. Louis Democrat.

The Evansville Election. The Republicans, yesterday, swept the city by an average majority of twelve hundred. They came near losing the Council by being too confident. The lesson, we hope, will do them good, and hereafter they will not presume on the apaihy of their opponews. The game was shrewdly played by our adversaries and they came near winning. Their defeat will be all the more deeply felt, because it fell only a little short of a complete triumph.—EmmvilU Journal.

THE Kans is "Magazine"says that State has done, and is doing, more for popular education than any other State of the same capacity- She has $2,046,000 of school buildings, and employs S,000 teachers at an annual cost of $500,000— exclusive of denominational institutes. All this has been accomplised since Ihe fir-t election of Lincoln.

ANOTHER (tKEiT MAN GOME

l)e%th of Professor Morse

Sew

YORK, April 2. -frofSSsor Morse

died at seventeen fflinutes before eight thv evening.

Death of Col. Jamea Morgan Special Dupatck to the Cincinnati Gaxetle.] GREENSBURG, IND., April 1.

Col. James Morgangjf this city, died to-day at 11 o'clock AT%K., after an "illness of several days, of rheumatism. He was one of the most prominent and highly respected citizens, and has at vari« ous tirtes held the position of Senator in our State Legislature and was twice elected Treasurer of our county within the past few years. He was a man of strict integrity, and in all his extensive business relations bore the character of an honest and upright man. For several years past he has carried on the slaughtering bnsines in your city, and is well known among trading men throughout Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. His loss is deeply felt in this community.

CINCINNATI CONVENTION

What the World Thinks of it!

It Aavises Democrats to Go Slow 1

Has No Confidence in the Concern

BUT WISHES IF GREAT SUCCESS!

No ''Second I iddle" for the l'nterrified

NEW YORK, March 30.—The World, to-day, expresses its surprise at the invi* tationof the Commutes of the Cincinnati Convention calling upon, voters, without distinction of party, to unite with them and says that while the Democrats are ready to co operate with the Reformers, yet it is absurd to think they are to disband their own organization by fusing with elements which might absorb them. It does not advise Democrats to give much favor to the Cincinnati movement, because by so doing, the movement might suffer a loss of some of its present Republican strength. While we have ceased, it says, to attach much importance to the Cincinnati movement, we will do nothing to embarrass it. The Democratic National Convention will not be held till some time subsequent to the 1st of May. If the Cincinnati Convention should prove to be an influential body, with strong Republican backing, it is quite" po^ible we may adopt its ticket but we must alsocontem plate the possibility of its being a fiasco, and the Democratic party resolutely refuses to commit its fortunes and prospects to this doubtful experiment. We shall preserve our organization and maintain our party discipline. If we should take up with the Cincinnati candidate, we Bhall do it as a united party, and not as a struggling mass of disorganized voters.

A Destructive Tornado!

Market House Blown DOWH

Several Persons Injured

ST. LOUIS, March "0—A very severe thunder and lightning stortu passed over this city about eight o'clock this morning, accompanied by heavy rain. During the storm a terrific tornado from the southwest struck a large brick market house on Seventh street, between Spruce and Poplar, and leveled the northern half of it to the ground in a twinkling. Most of the roof and several heavy timbers were carried across Seventh street,and striking the building opposite, knocked two great holes in it, exposing the rooms. So far as is now known only five persons were injured. One Henry Wilde, a butcher, was seriously, perhaps mortally injured, a woman, name unknown, had her le^ badly crushed, and a man, also unknown, had both arms broken. All the stalls in the market house were ocbupied, and a large number of persons present making purchases, and it is very wonderful that scores of them were not ki^cd. Aside from the slight damage tr~»n#-or two buildings two or three blocks distant, no other destruction seems to have occurred. It is likely that the tornado struck the ground only at this point, and rose again and passed on in a Northeastern direction. It may be heard from at some point in Illinois to-morrow. Seventh street is blocked with debris, and parts of the market house roof were carried two or three blocks distant.

OFFICER SHOT K¥ A DESPERADO!

GETS A HORSE BY ROBBERY, AND LEAVES!

He Makes a Snccessful Escape!

NASHVILLE, TEN., March 30.—Policeman Starkev attempted to arrest, to-day, Howell Smith, a notorious desperado, for disorderly conduct. Smith resisted, and shot Starkey through the neck,inflicting a mortal wound. Smith then ran, and meeting Jordan McGowan, a colored man, on horseback, demanded his horse. Jordan demurred, but a shot made him dismount. Smith then mounted the horse and rode off, pursued by several policeman. Some miles from the city the horse was abandoned, and the fugitive's flight was continued on foot. Starkey can not survive long.

FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH

AIJRAYE AM) STEADFAST WIFE!

Fatal Besult of Parental Neglect!

BOSTON, March 31.—In a Boston boarding house, Friday, tho wife of Thorns as Williams, a mechanic, whom she had labored lo support, and nursed during a long and incurable illness, died in his presence from an overdose of laudanum, taken to quiet her nerves and procure rest. The husband was unable lo render aid or call~for assistance, and expired himself nextday. Mrs. Williams is paid to have married against the cons-ent of her parents, wealthy residents of Newport, who cast her off but while they both were dying, a letter came, offering ossistance, too long withheld. The bodies were takon to Newport for burial.

A TERRIBLE ACCENT!

Several Persons Injured I

SOME OS" THEM: FATALLY

SCKANTON, PA., April 1.—This afternoon a terrible accident occurred at the Lackawanna Breaker, Carbondale The trestle work of the coal breaker, 100 feet high, broke down, carrying with it a number of men and bovs who were at work on it at the time. The crushed and broken timbers, from some cause, almost immediately caught fire, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the breaker was saved from destruction. Two men, named John Clark and Dwight Mercer, and a boy named Palmer, arc fatally injurcd It i* believed, but not known,

that

several boys perished in the flames. The breaking of the trestle was caused by a furious gale. A miner named Rosaer

was

almost instantly killed in the mine, at the same place, by the fall of the trestle.

i,AFA\'KTTK.

KA1LUOAD WonK.

LAFAYETTE, IND., April 1.—lo-day the Cincinnati, Chicago & Lafayette Kailroad Company put a large force on the line of their road, ballasting and otherwise putting ihe track in order for active operations. It is expected this route will be opened by the 1st of May. It will be the shortest route between Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolia and Chicago via Lafayette, mnning .west of north, and crossing the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw railroad at Sheldon, and connecting with ihe Chicago, Danville and Vincennes road at St. Anns, to Chicago.

PUBLIC I?EBT STATEMENT.

Decreaso Daring April $I

5,4S1j969.

WASBIHGTOX, April 1, 1872.

Tb« following it a recapitulation of the Public Debt statement for the menth onding Marth 31: Six pdr cent, bonds II.404.398,550 Five per cent, bonds 4T4 567,.'00 Total coin bonds l.ilS.JCVi.KiO Lawful money debt— 30.198.000 Matured debt 2«.68«,6S2 Legal tender notes 357.59II,906 Fractional currency ... 48.i83.S99 Coin certificates 29 283,400

Total without interest 429,1*7,705 Total debt 2,305.008,207 Tctal interest —... 35,957,230

AMOtfXT

IK TBIASCBT.

Coin 41,206,300,610 Currency 10.131

Total in Treasury 130.631.909 Debt less cub in Treasury 2,710.331,529 Becrease during month I3,tSl,96S Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Company, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding 64,823,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 969,3*2 Interest paid by United States... 14,631,870 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, Jtc— 3,521,037 Balance of interest paid by United States 11,110,782.

•IDIANAPOLIS.

8t*i

AMENDMENT CELEBRATION. INDIANAFOLIS, April 1.—The colored peole celebrated to-day with & grand street parade, composed of the different benevolent associatiens, churches and sabbath school societies, with bands of music, closing with an address by Hon. John W. Gordon at Masonic Hall.

THE FINALE.

INDIANATOLIS, April 1.—A very large and enthusiastic meeting of the colored people was held at Masonic Hall to*night,at which addresses were made by Hon. GodloveS. Orth, candidate for Congress at-large, Gen. Ben. Spoiner, and others, The following resolution was adopted:

Whereas to the untiring and persistent efforts of Hon. O. P- Morton, we owe the successful ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, therefore be it

Resolved, That we, as a people, will evr hold in grateful remembrance the name of O. P. Morton, the true and tried friend of the colored man.

OHIO.

LOCAL ELECTIONS.

CINCINNATI, April 2—The following is the result of the election at some of the principal points iu Ohio as far as heard from:

In Dayton the Republican Mayor was elected and the new Council will stand lo Republicans to 7 Democrats.

In Springlield the Democrats have a majority in the City Council for the first time in many years.

In Urbanna the Republican Mayor is elected by a small majority. In Chilicothe all the Councilmen elected are Republicans. The township will probably go Republican by a large majority.

In Newark the Republicans elected a Mayor by a majority of 104, the lirst Republican Mayor in seventeen years.

In Tippccanoe the Democrats elected Mayor Dennis, also have a majority in the Council.

Ripley is Democratic by a large majority. In Lectonia the Democrats elected the whole township ticket.

In Portsmouth almost the entire Rer publican ticket is elected. In Yotingstown the Republican Mayor is elected by a small majority.

In Lima the Republans elected the entire township ticket except Assesosr and Constable.

In Monroe the entire Democratic township ticket is elected. Woster and Canton are nearly equally divided, part of both tickets being elected.

In Xenia the Republicans elected the entire ticket. In Bucyrus the Democrats elected the whole ticket with the exception of Marshal.

In Alliance and Cadiz the Republic can ticket is elected. In Coshocton the Democrats elected all but Mayor and one Councilman.

In Middletown the Republican ticket is elected except Treasurer. At many places local issues were before the people and politics had very little to do with the result.

TOLEDO, April 2.—At Napoleon, Ohio, yesterday the Republicans elected their municipal ticket except Mayor, by an average majority o' fifty-five. The event of the (lay was the casting of a vote bv Mrs. Dr. Saur, probably the first instance of a woman voting in Ohio- Considerable excitement was created and other women attempted to vote but were refused.

WISCONSIN.

ELECTIONS.

MADISON, WIS, April'-.—At the charter election in this city to-day, Jas L. ifill (Republican) wa3 elected Mayor by 214. Chas. S. Mayers, (Republican) Treasurer by 295 majority, the Common Council standing a tie. Judge A. B. Brady was elected Police Justice, Judge Alva Stewart was elected Judge of the Circuit Court without opposition. This is considered by Republicans as a glorious victory. The city is generally Democratic by 200 majority.

CIXONNATB.

POLITICAL.

CINCINNATI, April 2 —The Volksblatt, German Republican paper, says of the elections yesterday: "It was taken into consideration by a great part of the German Republicans that the extreme temperance element has shown itself possessed of so great an influence that the amitemperence element desired to call it to a halt. The decrease of the Republican majorities over the Rhine is an answer to the renomination of Judge Welch and the action of the Legislature."

MKADVIIXK.'':'

POLITICAL.

MEADVII.LB, PA., April 2.—The report that Judge Pettis, of this city, is connected with the Cincinnati Convention is not true. Mr. Pettis is for the nominee of the Philadelphia Convention.

MKM r«.

NK\\ VOKK MAKK!:r. l'«le«.-»t l.i •«»!. April 2. COXI'ON—More nctive sales 5,000 bales opened at2S%.

FLOUR—Dull but unchanged receipt! 7,000 barrels: Kyc Soar scarccly »o firm !(n 5 OX

CORN MEAL—Unchanged. GK AIN—Wheat, dull: receipts, 4.0C0 bufhcls: White State. 1 07H*1 "2 V\ inter red western, 1 7iJal "2: Michigan amber. 1 ltye. dull at 8R. Bi-loy, unchanged Malt quiet: Stato 10.1. Corn is in moderate requeit. receipts 51.000 bushels: western mixed offered at"la72 in store, 70. Oats dull: weetern f3a&f>!4: Ohio 55a50. 11 AY— Unchanged.

PROVISIONS— Eggs, quiet -lait. Coffee, quiet 17'!4a2U. Sugar, prime: fair to good refining, #J4a8% Luba. Mulanes, prime Muscovado. 35. Kice, dull: Pork, quiet: new uiess, 12 89andl2 87%: prime. 10 75: uisfs to May, 13 to June .13 10 to July 13,25. Beef and cut meats unchanged. Lard, less active No. IS, prime steam SKaSIi: Kottle, V/t- Butter, quiet western, 11a2i. Checso, null lSaU^.

I' E N TIN E Quiet «6%, WHISKY—Firmer 85,

CINCINNATI JIAKKEr.

By Telegraph.] OISCIKS »TI. jril COTTON—Foreign newB regarded favorable middliiis -~24.

FLOUR— Unchanged. GR *1X—U nehanged. PROVISIONS—Butter, dull, prices declined: prime to choice *253t. Pork in speculative demand, and price higher salej at 11

WULSKY-Steady and demand moderate at 83.

«. HIE AGO MARKET.

By Telegraph. CHICAGO, April FLOUIt—Qoiet and unchanged.. GltAIN—Wheat, dull and prices droopinp So. 2 spring Chicago, 1 Uorn, in

.jy. wean: no -, 1 PROVISIONS—Opened quiet, but closed I dull and weak Mess pork, 11 20. Lard. S loati 17%. Balk meats, loose, quotable shoulders. clear rib sides, 5%a5% clear, Ca'Mi. Uams in pickle, 7/iaO.

HIU UW1NKS—Dull at 83 I10GS—Slow and unchanged,

N E W O It O N E A Ii E By Telegraph.) N«w XOB*. April 2. GOLD—Dull at S »al0.

CLKAP.INOS—30.1W0.M». GuVKKNMENTs—Quiet and firm. STOCKS—Opened strong, but declined, owing to astringency ia money. In the afterBoon the market was active and buoyant at the eloie declined from 1 to 2 per cent.

MONEY MARKET—Was verv aatire loans as high as per eent. interest. STATE BONDS—Ddll an quiet.

cash, bat held new «t 12. Lard,

dallbut unchanged, salta of steain at 8'^ kettle held at 8V£. Meats unchanged. HOGS—lull and prices drooping, 4 25a4 0.

fi'ICUT.

THE ELECTION.

NEW HAVE*, April 2.—Scott, Republican, is elected Sheriff of New Htven county. Harrison. Republican, is elected one of the Bepresentatires from this city. Jewell is elected Governor by about seven hundred majority.

PHILADELPHIA,

SAD AKFAIH.

PHILADELPHIA, April 2.—Jos."Whittle was badly torn by iions this afternoon, while performing at CBrien'« Circns, on Oxford and Main street*, in Frankfort. He is not expected to live.

ST.loiIS.

POLITICAL.

ST. LOUIS, April 2.- In the election today for 12 Aldermen and

School Dir

ectors, the Democrats made a pretty clean sweep, electing 9 aldermen Republican* one, and two lndepenents. Of the School Directors, there are probably 5 Democratf. In the 8th ward W. II. Brook* (colored) received 279 Tolea. The Council will stand 17 Democrats, 4 Hepublicans, 3 independents.

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