iO ENTRE . itD.KtrmT* .^.. w ..14it0r. 0 • Centre Hell, Tn., Pec. lfl. 1875. 7 KRMS.—f'iper year, i* mdeence, 2,60 when not paid in ndranee. Adrertieentenfi 'MV per line for three m srrtioas, end for 6 ana 12 montht hy spr at sontracf. . The republican congressional caucus Was held on Saturday evening, and re nominated. Mr. Blaine for the apeaket* ship as well aa the other officers of the last congress. "That means mischief for us." is w hat a prominent Republican t ongreasman said when he heard that Kerr was nomi nated for Speaker, and "mischief forus" means good for the country. The most extraordinary wedding of the age took place at the Tombs. New York, the other day. Charles B eston, colored, who ia to be hung in a few weeks for murder, married Catherine Guy, a white woman. Polan. soon to be hang ed for the murder of Mr. Noe, acted aa groomsman. The bride thought proba bly that this was her last chance. It is not any more, "Where is Charly Row." but, Where is Ross Tweed * The Bo knows, you bet. Grant has not yet been Indicted for j being in complicity with the St Louis eroked whiskey ring. When Babcock s telegraphic despatches were read in evi dence, lightning struck the white house near enough to show tlut there was a powerful conductor of the tluid there. Tor the next fiscal year the total esti mates of the Government amount to $314,612,608, or fully four million and a half dollars more than those of the pre sent year. This is owing to the increas ed appropriations asked for the army, the navy, for public works, aud miscel laneous expenses. Tkey are looking for Tweed iu tana da. We know the Bo ain't in Penns valley—he might be with friends at Belle Fonte. Tweed and Charley Ross can soon set up in the mysterious disappearance busi ness. If any oneasks wheie Tweed is, re ly by asking where Charley Ross is. The difference between two mysteri ous disappearances is, Tweed's SIO,OOO, Charley ROM $20,000 reward. Charley is 10,000 ahead of the Boss, and still he wont come home. The Tyrone Herald make® an attempt at rabid politics—horrible as its iwtutor rooster. A Connecticut paper has a sensation over a minister's son eloping with a far mer's daughter. Well ws just think that a minister's son has just as good a right to elope with a farmer's daughter as any other scn-of-a gun, and Henry Ward Beecher a better right than any body else. That's Reporter logic, on a blus tery day. The U. 8. Grandjury at St. Louis have found an indictment against Babcock for complicity in the whiskey frauds. Bab has given $7,000 bail.for his appearance. If Grant geta the nomination for a third term, Bab ought surely trot along side of him for Vice President. A resolution has been prepared by a prominent Southern Congressman de claring that the Confederate war debt shall never bo recognised or assumed by the United States, and that the national credit must be ever kept uuimpeached. This would be stealing away material which the radicals thought of using in the next presidential election. They thought of using—and have heretofore used it—theory of paying the rebel debt against the democrcts, notwithstanding every southern state already has consti tutional prohibition against paying any rebel debt, the same provision being also contained in the amendments to the federal constitution. They must now cry all the more earnestly that the "common schools are in danger." Babcock, Grant's private secretary and boaom friend, and general director of the western Whiskey ring was handsomely fixed as respects lucrative positions. The Terre Haute Express enumerates as fol lows : Gen. Babcock is moderately well off in offices. He is Major of Engineers, regu lar army ; Military Secretary to Presi dent Grant, Commissioner of Public Buildings and grounds, President of the Columbia Lyingvin Asylum, Engineer in-Chief of the Washington Aqueduct, and Architect of the new State and War Detriment buildings. His engagement as confidential Washington agent of the St. Lonis Whiskey King has ended. The President's message has the old theme of religion and politics dished up—a subject upon which every Centre county—yea every American—school boy is booked on. President Grant has called up the subject in order to help his third-term aspirations, and really cares as little about our religion, whether it be defiled or not, as docs an atheist or a pagan. But when he sticks out that kind of a sign to invite support for a third term, he should, to be consistent, at once issue his proclamation against the Methodist Episcopal Sabbath-School Union, up in New England, which is mixing religion with politics, and is the first body that has got astride the third term horse, and nominated Grant. We suppose that kind of mixing religion with politics will suit the President. The aforesaid religious body excells any thing we know of in stepping out of its sphere and in down-right impudence. A Sabbath-School association, to favor a Sabbath-breaker, horse-racer, nnd dram drinker for the Presidency ! Good Lord, what are we coming too? The action of this body of professed Christians, is thus given in a despatch dated Boston, Dec. , and we give it here without further comment: At a large meeting to-day of the Metho dist Episcopal Sabbath-School Union and ofthe Tract Society, and also week ly preachers, the meeting comprising nearly two hundred ministers, Bishop Haven urged as a measure of safety for the public the renomination of General Grant for President His remarks were adopted by a unanimous vote. Gen. Henderson assistant counsel in prosecuting the members of the whiskey ring at St Louis, and through whose energy and ability, some of the rogues have been brought to speedy justice, and who has found guilty ones right at President Grant's desk, namely Gen. Babcock his private secretary, this faith ful officer for doing his duty, has been removed. The raacality came too near headquarters at Washington, to suit Grant. The excuse for the removal of Henderson is the silly one that he made Improper illusions to the President in one of his speeches court. The following is the order of removal. Washington. December 10, 18Tf. Mriran r or Jwi n i To lhi'i. />, /'. /Vj#r. I'. .itt<>rn>ii. fll Louit, The sworn reirort of Henderson's speech forwarded ly Mr. Katon and re ferred to by Ihith you and Mr. Hender son in your despatches yesterday as a correct report was rend at a full Cabinet meeting to-day, and it was regarded b> every member as an outrage on profes sional propriety thus to relleet without a shadow of reason 1 upon the President by whom his employment by this de part men! was sanctioned in order that no impediment might tie placed in the way or bringing to speedv punishment every deflrauder of revemie in St I ottis ! You w ill advise Hen. Henderson of his I discharge from further service and secure II n his place the aid of the most able and | efficient counsel you can tind without re gard to his politics. [Signed,] Knw van S, Tinkkkivnt. Attornev General. Relow will Ih found some of the allu sions rejHirted to have been made to the President: "What right has the Presi dent to interfere with tViumissioner Douglass in the proper discharge of his duties? Now, why did Douglasbendthe supple hinges of the knees and permit any interference by the President? lie iDouglasl was not bound to listen tv dictation from the President, lUW-ock or any ether officer." So then let all take notice that when an officer traces rascality right into the white-house hegeta his walking paper for his impudence. - ...*♦♦ The radicals are very uneasy there is some possibility that the democratic house of representatives at W aahiugton will do some investigating this winter, and that some of the nasty, hidden things will be unearthed to the gaxe of honest men. Great wrong- have been committed, unheard of rascalities hate been practiced for a long time by the dominant party, which will create a nasty smell whan a committee of honest men raises the lids and opens the abuse- of men in high places to the public eye. It is only by a change, such as we now have in congress that the jobs,thievings, plunder!ngs and systeinatiaed villanv that our public servants have been guilty of. can be exposed. So long as the radi cal party held both houses of congress, no investigation of tlagrant abuses was to be hoped for. The pari)' in power would not expose itself, but rather studied to conceal the plunderiugs carried on. aud white-washed such as were detected in fraud and plunder. R,iss Tweed will be distanced in rascali ty when investigating committees enter into their work at Washington. Ross Grant will be found having around him the worst characters that ever had a hand in the administration of the gov ernment, and who found in the white i house protection and a hiding place. There will be more Rabrocks exposed, and the smell of crooked whiskey will come from the breath of other men in high places and who w ere deep in the confidence of the President. Black Fri day was a flash that flew direct into the executive mansion, and with a demo cratic congress at that memorable day to promptly investigate and search out the guilty parties who caused that disas trous panic which spread desolation over I the country, would have brought out . revelations that would have set Credit Mobilier and Sanborn contracts in the shade, and shown that the presidential mansion was head quarters of the gold speculators. We look for investigation. The peo ' pie have been robbed and plundered in ■ a manner unheard of, and they should know how it was done and who did it. Let the democratic house go to work vigorously. Already there is trembling in certain quarters. There are many guilty radicals who see a felon'sjdoom be fore them if their official crimes are in vestigated. The Pittsburg Leader makes a good point upon the school question in poli tics when it says, "The 'indexible de termination of certain Republican papers to get up an artificial excitement on this subject with a view to furnishing a new 'cause' for the party to replace the worn out'bloody shirt,' is far less admirable, however. Some discretion should be ex ercised. If the animal itself will not make his appearance and snarl a little, it is impolitic to cry'wolf, wolf,' toooften or too long previous to the time when the cry is to be of decisive political value." Here is a characteristic little incident of President C rant's career: When he was General of the Army, immediately aAer the war, he visited Canada. At that time Lord Monck was Governor General, with his residence at Spencer Wood, some three miles distant from Quebec. It was announced to Genera) Grant, at his hotel in Qaebec, that the Governor General would call upon him at a certain hour next day. Lord Monck desired to observe the usual ceremony, and therefore, at the appointed hour, sent two aides-decamp in advance to announce his approach. A few minutes later he entered Grant's room, preceded by two other officers, himself clad in full uniform. At this moment Grant was seated in earnest conversation with a horse-dealer of fume in Quebec. The horse-dealer was entertaining him with a disquisition on the off-hind fetlock of a favorite mare. As the Governor Gen eral approached and saluted him, Grant, just lifting his eyelids, but not rising, put out his right hand and said, "Hoy dy do?" And then he went on talking about the mare. It is plain to be seen, says the Pittsburg Post, by a cursory perusal of the Radical journals that hope has gone out of the Radical bosom with the assembling of Congress. For months the Radical lead ers have been bespattering the Demo cratic members of Congress, especially those who were mentioned in connec tion with the Speakership with mud and trying to create the impression that an nnrestrainable intestine war was raging in the Democratic ranks. The wish was father to the thought. The Radical ras cals who have keen plundering the country for years, hoped to see a con test in the Democratic ranks that would afford them an opportunity to escape exposure and punishment. In thiithey have been sadly mistaken. However much the Democratic nicudicrs may liave differed as[to their choice for Speak er, there was and there is no dissensions in the ranks of the party. Anindcjamd ent difference of opinion is essential to the purity of any party, but it is not to be construed into factious dissensions. The Democrats in Congress are of hut one mind as to the necessity of purify-, ingthe Administration of the govern ment, and dishonest officials in the White House and out of the White House, had as well begin to prepare for the worst, for exposure and punishment are inevitable. Their attempts to create dissensions in the ranks of reform are worse than useless. The Blaine faction in the Republican party have begun an active eanvaHs in his interest for the neat Republican nomination for the Presidency, Hjs • friends say they will not on any account : support Grant if kejshould be nominated r for a third term, but will, on the contra i ry, give all their strength to some Demo . 'rgt, OH 10 OS Tit A MPS. Ohio proposes to tramp out the tramp l . Tramps have got to he u nuisance us well as a burden to the Community among which they trump Tliey are the terror of women alone at home, and frequently commit crime- V I'olumbns des|mlch, dated S inst., says. In answer to a call of the City Council of I.ima. a-tale convention to consider the "tramp" ipiestioti aas held here to day Seventv eight delegates, represent ing alsnit twenty-live cities and towns were present A number of short ad dresses were made, the pith of each be ing that the system of tramping had grown to such an extent a-to make it a que-tiou of great imp ttatuc to the peo ple. llie general Une of the speeches was that the whole system of tramping was contrary t- good morals and -liould bo suppressed; that each county should care for it* own poor and that no able bodied man who would not work should Ihallowed to eat the bread of charily. To this end the plan of establishing workhouses in all cities and towns sutß* ciently large to maintain them is recom mended and additional legislation b> which any district composed of one or more townships may he authorised to erect such houses or to form a chain gang is to be asked for, that magistrates Iv given authority to arrest all vagrauts tint upon conviction, to commit them to these workhouses which may also be used for persons Convicted of petty oflbn- TWKKIt SOT I'Xl'l'SlSJfEll The journals have lately been tills--' with accounts of William M. Tweed's rs cape. Has William M. Tweed escaped? Kscaped from w hat ? From prison. That is true. He has escaped from prison; but not frmn punishment, by any mean*. 1 AH*k at hi* situation five year* ago, and hi* situation to-day. and then answer whether he i* punished or not. Five Vua.s ago be Was aiuong the very few most powerful men in the city or State of New York, writh a bright pros pect of soon becoming one of the leaders iu national affairs. His wealth seemed almost boundless, and homage was paid to hitn on every hand. Ilia time was divided between attention to public affair* and the enjoyment of the pleas ure* and spletidota of Injury. He had grown great rapidly, and he believed he was to grow greater with increasing rapidity. Those five years, how they have told upon him. His fortune reduced; hi* frienda dose.ted . hi* name and reputa tion blighted, so as to be a cu*s to him self, and a burden to those to whom he bequeaths it. Fven honorable exile, a* a mission to a foreign court is sometimes called, is hardly toleratde L>r any considerably length of time to a man of strong hoing attachment*. Then what must involun tary banishment, in dishonor and ignominy, be? A man upward of fifty years of age is separated. ]>ennancnt)y froui all the association* of hi* previous life, driven forth like fain, a v.an.brer on the earth. Talk of his money ! What difference does it make whether he carried little or much with him? Physical comforts and luxuries money may buy for him; but they are few. and avail little. Will any sum of money purchase for him esteem, companionship, self-respect, peace of mind, happiness? These he shall find again, nowhere and never more! Xo, no! !>o not teach the young muu of the country that William M. Tweed has escaped punishment. That is a grave mistake. Imprisonment he has escaped, punishment he has not escaped and can never escape.—Sun. A very extensive land swindle lias m cently been disclosed in Missouri. It is estimated that as much as 12,000,000 acres of western lands have been sold in the eastern states and Europe for which the titles arc worthless, netting f'J.j.OOl),* 000 to the operators. The plan of the villains', engaged in this business has l>eeu to obtain the names of actual own ers of lands from the records at the county seats of wesU-rn sUbia, and exe cute forged deed* for such pro|MKU. Eighty half-sections (820 acres each) of land in one county of Missouri, accord ing to a correspondent of the Pittsburg Commercial, weru put upon the market in that city for which the titles vera ajj forged. The correspondent says; "The names of owners and numbers of the land have been obtained from the coun ty plots and taken to Pittsburg—the deed* forged there in the name of the original owner—and then placed on record. An abstract of title is then pro cured from the clerk of court, and the title on paper looks all right to the buyer The publication of this warning to your people may save many a poor man in Pennsylvania from losing his all, per haps." HORRIBLE SUFFER ISO OF R RE FUGEES OF JIERZEOOI 'ISA. New York, December 2. —A private I letter wa. received from Ragusa, Delma tra, Austria, from a lady who is an eye witness of the sufferings of Herzegovina refugees, contains the following: Very many of the children had only one gar ment tied together, and principally com posed of patches, still one mass of rags, which seemed to make their nakedness more pitiful, and yet of all the refugees those at Ragusa are the most fortunate. The best fed and clothed are there at, present. In the district of Kagca alone there are 12.000 refugees, nearly 'ail women, children and old men. In Montenegro there are .10;000; in Croatia and Servia thousands again, the whole number of fugitives amounting to nearly 120,000. With the means received up to the pres ent time, 10,000 or 18,000 people might£l>c protected to the extent of a blanket a piece from the winter's cold, but the re maining 100,000 or more arc w ithnut food or a roof to cover them, to any nothing of the wounded men brought in frotu bat tle, the tick and dying, toe child-bearing women and the peat-stricken. The lady makes an earnest appeal for help to keep from deathly cold and starvation a whole population, whose sin is that they are Christians, Christian dogs, liayuhs, and I adds : "My husband was on the frontier of Bosnia, where the river Save divides the Turkish territory from the Austrian. He wits entreated by the people of the Austrian village not to cross the river and enter the Turkish town as he would certainly lose his life, but by allowing himself to be introduced as a merchant I from Trieste, he was unmolcated. Me walked through the streets of Kostanitza. The headless bodies of the Christians lay all about the streets. On the river he had S'n boats filled with refugees, •driving for dear life to reach the Aus trian shore. The Turks fired Into them, ami one of the boats was sunk. The I others reached the shore, covered with blood, from the wounds of fugitives. Headless bodies of women were floating on the water. In the streets of the town the swine were fippding on the corjtses of Christian women. TIIK MESSAGE of President Grant, is lengthy, and in the main is a slovenly document. We make the following extracts from it : The Kducntion of the Mnsses. Under such a form of Government, it is of the greatest importance that all should bopoMWied oi eJucation and intelligence enough to oast a vot with n right uJtr> i standing of it* meaning. Largo associa- i tiona nflgnorant men cannot, for any cam | tolerable pot tod opp.no a sucb-ottful ro i iilanco to tyranny or oppression from the | educated fow, ami will inevitably aink in* i to acquiescence to the will of intelligence, i whether d irccteJ by the demagogue or hy priestcraft, Hence the ejucation of the i mass becomes of the flrat necessity, for the presort ati.vn of our institutions They are worth preserving, because they havotc ttr J the gre ite.l good to the greatest pro portion of population of any forut of gov eminent yet devised All other forms et ; government approach it Just In proportion ' to the general ditfulion of e location ana ; independence of thought and action Proposed Constitutional Amendment As the ptiitiary atep, therefore to our advaiu'uttienl that has marked our prog* ress in the past century. I suggest for your earuast consideration, and moat earnestly recommend it, that a constitutional amend* nenl he submitted to the legislature of the several States for ratification, making it the duly of each of the several Slates to establish and lorever Maintain Free Public Schools, Adequate to the education of ail the chil dren in the rudimentary branches within tholr respective Hunts, irrespective of tea, Color, birth place, religion, forbidding the teaching in said schools of religious atheistic or pngn views and prohibiting the giaiitiug of any school funds or school las, orany part thereof, either by legisla tive. m .mcipal or other authorities for the benefit of any other object of any nature or kind whatever. In connection with this important question, I would also call your atteutiou to the imparlance of cor* roving an evil that, if permitted to con tinue, will probably lead to great trouble in our land betoie the close of the nine teenth century— that i*. the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church proper ty. In lboO, 1 believe, the church proper ty of the United States which paid no las —municipal or State—amounted to about SS3 OUO.OOO. In lHtiO the amount had doub led. In 1f75 it is about $1,0)00,01)0.000. By I'JOU, without check, it is safe to say . that litis property w ill roach a sum exceed ing S3,OOO,OUU.UW So vast a sum, seceiv ing all the protection and benefits of tin Government, without bearing its propor tion of the burderit aad expense of the tame, will not he looked upon acquiescent !y by those who have paid taxes In a growing country, where real estate en hanret to rapidly with time, at in th* United Stales, there it scarcely a limit to the weal(h that may be acquired by cor porations, religious or ulberwit*. if al lowed to retain real estate without taxa tion, the contemplation of to vait a prop- erly at here alluded to, without taxation, ] may lead to sequestration, without Consti 1 tutioual authority, and through blood. 1; would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead, and possibly, with proper re strictions, church edifices. Foreign Relations. Qqr relictions with most of the Foreign Powers continue on e satisfactory and friendly footing. Specie Resumption. Too much stress cannot be laid upon this question, ar.d 1 hope Congress may be induced at the earliest day practicable to insure tig cou*!Mii)ll> u n s>f the act of the last Congress, at iu last section, U bring about specie resumption on and after the first day of January, 1879, at the furthest. It would be a great blessing if this could be consummated even at an earlier day. Nothing seems to me more certain than that a full, healthy and permanent reac tion cannot take place in favor of the in dustries and financial welfare of the coun- try until we return to a measure of valur recognized throughout the civilized world. While we use a currency not equivalent to this standard, specie. b r ~ comes a commodity like the products of the •oil, the surplus seeking a market wherev er there is a demand for it. Under our present system we should went none nor would we have any, were it not that tbe customs due must be paid in coin, and be caute of tbe pledge Li py lip jnteiett of our public debt in coin. Tbe yield ol precious metals would flow out forth# pur chase of foreign productions, leave tbe Unitt-d States hewers of wood anj drawers of water, because of wiser legislation on the subject ef finaneo uy In* uali-.pt pith whom we have dealings, I am not pre pared to say jhal[l can suggest th* beet legis lation to secure the end most heartily com mended It will be a source of great gr*l(U£ajio:j to me lo be able to approve any nuatureof (Jong, ess iwjsi.'.f effective ly toward securing resumption. llnlitu-l iled inflation would probably bring about specie payment more speedily than any legislation looking to the redemption of legal tenders in c„;n, but it would be at the cjpenso of honor. *by ish-Pf? a ou'd have no value beyond settling pr*/- ent liabilities. or properly speaking, repu diating them. They would bring nofbing after debts were all settled. There are a few measures which seem to me important in thia connection, and which I commend to your earnest consideration. A repeal of of go fnjifh of the legal lander acta a make these aojfa receivable for debta con* traded after a dale to bo iaed oft ( e act iuelf, ray not later than the Ist of January, 1 187". We should then have quotation at real value, not ficticious ones. Gold would no longer be 8t a premium but the curren cy at a discount. 4 hfilthy re-action' would set in si once, and with it a I to make the currency equal to what it put-' porta hi be. The marchanta, manufactur es and tradesman of evary calling, could do business on a fair margin of profit, the' money received having an unvarying *al-, uo. Laborcri and all clate* who work 1 for stipulated pay or salary, would receive more than their income, because eitra' profits would no longer be charged by the capitalists .to compensate tor the risk of | a downward fluctuating in tho value of the currency. Second, That the Secreta-i of tho Treasury he authorized to redeem, |. say not to exceed f2,0(0,000 monthly of legal tender notes by issuing in their stand long bonds, bearing inteiest nt the rte of 3 23-100 per cent, per annum, of denominations ranging frwm fifty to one thousand dollars each. This would in time reduce the legal lender notes to a volume that could be kept afloat without demanding redemption in largo sums sud denly. Third, That additional power be given to the Secretary of the Treasury to accumulate gold for the final redemption of the cuirency, increasing the revenue, and curtailing the expenses, or both. It is preferable to do both, and I recommend that a reduction of expenditures bo made wherever it can he done without impairing (j jvernment obligations or crippling the due eaecutior) thereof Olio measure for increasing the rovaooe, tpd ftp only one, I think, is of the restoration of the duty fli tea and ccflae. These duties would add probably $ 18,000,000 to Iho present amount received for imports, and would in no way increase the prices paid for these articles by the consumers, These articles are the products oi countries ijlf.cting revenue from exports, and as we, the largasi uu„-i turners, reduce tho duties they proportion ally increase them. With this addition to the revenue, many duties now collected and which give but an insignificant return for the cost of collection might be remitted and to the direct advantage of cotuumurs nt home. I would mention those articles which enter into manufactures of all sorts, all duty paid upon such articles go directly to tho cost cf tho article, when manufactured heie, and must be paid for by consume,y. 'J'lie duties not only come from the consumers at protection to foreign manufacturers ofpu, same completed articles in our own distant markets. I will suggest, or men tion, another subject hearing upon the problem of how to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to accumulate balances. It i< to de . ise some l-otter method of verify ing claims against the (ioverrmiunl than at ' present exists, through the court offlalnir, | especially, those claims growing out of the i late war Nothing is mora certain than that a large percentage of the k amounts passed and paid, are pait or wholly fraud- < ulent, <>r are far in excess of the real losses austalnod. The laige amount of losses, proven on good testimony according to the existing Inwt hy nttldavits of fictitious or unscrupulous peraons, to have been sus tained on small farms and plantations, are not only far beyond the possible yield of those places for any one year, but as every -uie knows who has experience, and who has visited the scenes of those spoliations are in many instances more than the in dividual claimants were ever woith, in cluding their personal and real estate. The report of the Attorney General, which will he submitted to o<>ngiess at an early day, will contain a detailed history of awards made and ef claims pending ol the class here presented. Out Public Domain. The roport of the General Land Office shows that there Were 2.4 M.OOl acres less disposed uf during this year than during the last year. More than olio-half of this decrease was iu lands dis|H>sed < I dependent relatives, MHO were nary pen sioners, of whom 1,838 wero invalids and 1 1,784 widows and dependent relatives:' 21.038 were pensioner* of the war of 1812, i 16,876 of whom were survivors and 6.16 V -. wero widows }l is rstipiatyd that ?■.*.' 6V> ts.O will be required for the payment of pensions for - the next fiscal veer, an amount $965 Oft' hies* then tbe estimate for the present t rear. The Treasurer'# Report. ■ fhc rsport of the of the Treas ury show* the receipt* from cqstoro# fur r the fiscal year eniing June 30th, 1874, to' r have been $103,103,833 60, and for tbe fis ' cal year ending June 80th, 1876, to have jbeen $157.167,712 36, a decrease for the ' last fiscal year of $6,936,111 34 The re fjceipi from Internal jjevynu# for lhoyear ending June 30, 1874. were sicU.*J9 764 'JU, ' and for the year ending on Xhh of June, 1876, wero $110,007,393.68, an increase of $7.697,708.C8, Tbe report also shows a i complete history of the workings ot the Department (ot i#*l year, *"3 contains ' recommendations fur reform* and for leg islation which I concur in, but cannot ■ comment on so fully as I should like tc do > if space would permit. I will confine my self to a few suggestions, which 1 look up on as vipu to mo pest i,.Ura.L cf the ■ whole people, coming within the purview] ' of the Treasury. r• ♦ • i MRS. MOI'LTON AND PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 1 Mr. 6mma fo WouLoc pes * Urns# J a ■ long letter to the members of j?lymouth| : I'hwrch. setting forth the yrong to which j ■ she allegus she hu bepn subjected She] ssys they turn her out now for five year* | absence front the ordinancesoflberhurch,i 'to which no one member or officer asked ' i her during all that time to return except Mr. Beecher, and that was lest her going to another church might have an injurious ' cßect um hi,- r-puUtion. Her absence was caused, she says, by her of Mr. Beecher's guilt from his own confes-j sions to her snd otherwise, and after that' 'absence was well known to him, hit visits' •o her husband anil her for advice and aid . •lo pis were frequent and' full of anguish and copjrilioc on hi* part. It was for hi* sake that she refrained from ' savoring his connection with Plymouth ' Church and |u|n|r.g soma olhar, and now ! he propose* to cut her off at if th* fault 1 were licrs. The church now asks her why ! she did not demand a trial, and the re- I 'plies that a leading man among them knew 1 |of her statements concerning Mr. Beecher long ago, and all knew of her absence.and | j it was their business, not bera, to bring her i \L) She conclude* as followi: "My reason tor my was tlieone 1 j' i have stated—solicitude for one wi.on i t had greatly loved and revered, whom I , luyed still, in spite of his wickedness, be lt cause he seemed to me privately penitent, i yof whose ministry 1 could not continue to s attend widie b/Sfhowed himself to the pub t ( lie as an innocent injured mn, fbojjg'j -,J could not leave it without exposing what] i [ know of him. 1 had a heavy burden to J Cgrry ; and I am sfrjy to say that tbe first i act of (jhr|stiau ttcntion which f have re ,'ceived from tbe church in the five years i past was the notifying me that my name I , was to be dropped from the roll the next i evening fl "My proposal to you in my previous let ter was that you should unite with me in II calling a council of churches, before whicb 'you should state your reasons for your ac i'ori end 1 should state tnino, end which I sliouid between us 1 That proposal t understand pave r accepted. The questions thus coming up; i for decision ought, I should think, to be these : First—Have my convictions in regard to ,i iftp guilty conduct of Mr. Beecher been - justified by U*o pj Mence which 1 have > had ? | I Secondly—lf they have been justinod,! i ought I still to have attended his ministry I and received the sacrament from hishands, > wbilu kept, by the reasons which I have i stated, from withdrawing from the I church? Thirdly—When I had stated to the i church my reasons for being absent from r the services, and had protested agninst b* ing dropped from its roll, ought 1 to have i been thus dropped, without further trial, nnd with noithcr censure nor recommen- I elation y - Fourthly—Jf I was improperly icrooyed i from Plymouth Church, will tlie council f give uie a certificate of thb fact, ttpohj I which 1 can enter another church ? " ' "I am not perhaps well able to judge whether tho six questions u i.ich you pio-l pose to me to have submitted to the Coun- : cil cover the seme ground with these ol mine. Tours uppear to me less distinct, perhaps because 1 do not understand them so well; end mine to take up more direc t l>-the points of Issue between us. I sup pose it is my right to have something to] say about the questions to bo submitted, and accordingly I propose that yours be submitted, at you put them, and that these of mine Ls- added to them. In this way, 1 think, the whole ease between ux will come up, and the questions which I with to have answered will have an equal chance with yours. "When you notify me of youi accept ance of tins proposition, will you please al so to send me the names of ten or twalve churvhvs which you would wish to invite to lha council, with two or three experi enced and wise ministers who are not now in the pastoral otHce, as 1 am informed is customary? Then 1 will add as many mure to the list, of such as may bo known to me to be of good standing iis the denoin- IB! lion and with the Christian public, slid the letters of invitation call at once ho sell! out. Respectfully yours. KUMA V. AIoUI.TO* For the Reporter. CH HINT Til KON LY KOL' N RATION Hy Rev John Tomlinson. "For other f'iindalion can no man lay than that is laid, which Is Jesus Christ. ! Now if any man build upon this founda tion gold, silver, piecious stones, wood, hay. stubble - every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort (t is.* ft any man's work shall be burned he shall suffer lost ; but b himself • ball be saved, yet SO n x by fire." It is pro I i posed to discus* this difficult passage of the' idivme Word under three divisions, viz ] 1 I CtIKIRT TIIKuXLV FIIUXIsATIO* 1. Tux ! MitMtor liiMLMKU oM ruts FnvtiA- Tt< * I HuW THK WOHk SMALL HK Tnian.; Christ the only foundation L Generally Christ is the foundati >n of; tbe whole Church. As the God-man. He; purchased salvation for the Church mid. His spirit appropriates it to the member ship, Hence Jetus Himself said .- Upon this rock 1 will build my Church, and ihegalet of Hell shall not prevail against it Of this foundation the Lord God himself saiJ, Is. 2H.16: tit-hold 1 lay In Zion for a founda tion a spine a tried stone, a precious cor ner stone, a sure foundation, he that be lieveth shall not make haste. See I I'eL 2.6. 2. Particularly, Christ it the foundation of all true doctrine, by which the tinner individually it lead to Chrsl and obtains justification, aanctification and eternal life Christ himself is the truth, upon him thr whole superstructure of tnuud doctrine rests, via Knowledge, repentance, faith, fustificaiton, resurrection, etc. Ist The manner of building upon this foundation 11 is doctrine of salvation in Christ aloar. act* 412 It is not only im portant l<> have a good foundation, but al-j so to build well upon it with good materi a). A bouse*w ith the best kind of a foun dation may be ruined by working into it bad material, into the JF-or, or into the, | roof, etc fio a character w all founded may be almost ruined by working In t-ad material. A little of the luvt of the flesh, a little of the lust of the eyes, or a little of the pride ot life. Notice Ist. The good material—gold, silver, precious atones, . leptesenting true, pure, useful and prec ious doctrine and good practices, good knowledge a good heart and a good life. 2 The bad manorial—the wood, bay and stubble, representing not heresy, but error and tradition, vain, unprofitable and worthless doctrines, e g, the mode of Baptism, the mo le of Christ's presence in the eucharist, lteplisinal regeneration, distinctive sanctifieation—in short almost all controverted points The di>cussiotis | n those topics are largely wood, hay and 'stubble. tiw the work shall bo tried, via : 1. lis the fire of the Holy Ghost, the : Holy Ghost by the lloty scriptures 2 The fire of temptation and persecution. This is fire that will prove teachers, doc trines and characters very effectually. Two observations aro in point here. Ii Jt is a probatory fire that is meant, it is the re of the judgment of Jesus Christ to prove men's character* that is intendod. ! 1 It i| not a puigatery fire that is meant in the text, in which men wi I be purified, from sin efter death. For both the works that shall be burnt and pass away and those tha| shall remain and be rewarded.! • hall ba tried It mui then bp some other fire, and we believe it it the fire of the Ho ly Ghost. Paul speaks of it in th# text, i It is a fire to prove what is truth and what ! error, what is good character and what; is bad—what are good practices and what are bad. Application. 1. The judgment of Jc#u Christ is a great solemnity. Ar# yog, reader, ready For your iwai. 2. The result* of the judgment will be important. 1 Ifn man's work abide, he rha'l re ceive a reward—a gracious reward in pro portion to tbe fruitfulness and usefulness 'of his doctrine, preaching, work, etc, in lha chujch on earth. * If n man's work shall be bussed, be •hall suffer loss. Ifit do not stand the fire or test be shall suffer lose. His work and happiness in the future would not be what they weuld have been bed be not been an] jerrorisL It is no small matter, therefore,' to Vc ar. errurist. His. capacity will be I full, but his capacity is not vhat it would lievc been bad he not been an errorist. This matter may be illustrated by meas ures of different capacity —sonic holding a pir.t and on up to a firkin or barrel, all be full but some hold a great deal more than others. fi>o of the degrees at .happiness in the future world, one will Ihavo biore capariiy than tho other and Ihjvcapatity will of course be full. W ill ; there n< t Ic room for chvv there- then.' ; Npj if each ono enjoys all be is capable of! i enjoying J*aul, Lot tier, thslvlu, White i field and others will enjoy themselves' more, no doubt, than many an ignorant ;and uncultivated and undeveloped indi vidual, no matter hew pious, ho may have j boeu —and for the sol* reason that their is more capacity An errorist will feel the ef fect of his mistake through all eternity. Hence the question is important : What it < trust j 8. Sxwi'sossVY vißa. Tbis expres sion indicates, 4 | 1. Great dakcjkk. An errorist is in ■ danger, in imminent peri), j 2. Grk at nirrtccLTr, The person j will be xaved, soul will be saved, he will! have a lower placo in Heaven, but will be saved lf>* f*!sp views and theories,] wrong opinion! antj oryor; moreover ren . dcr his salvation exceedingly difileulL sjo! much so that it may be aid with proprie ty.- He has been plucked as a brand out! *1 the fira. 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