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TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1869.
ligr" REPUBLICAN COUNTY
coNvzsTior4.
The Republican voters of Allegheny coun
ty are requested to meet at the agent places for
loldingeiections in the several wards, boroughs
and township's, on
SATURDAY. NAY 2.9th.18611 1,
And erect delegates from each election distrlctto
each of the three following Conventions, viz:
Two delegates from each to the COUNTY CON
VENTION, for the purpose of nominating'candt
date's for Sheriff. Recorder, Register'. Treasurer,
Clerk of the Court of quarter bestims, Clerk of
the Orphans' Court and Commissioner.
Two other delegates from each to the LEGIS
LATIVE CONVENTION, for the purpose of
nominating oriandidate for State Senator , for
one. year, to the unexpired term of Russell '
Errett, resigned, and six candidates for Assem
bly. And
Two other delegates from each to the JUDI
CIAL CONVENTION. to 'nominate one Calle
ate fem Judge of the District Cotirt, and one can-
MC ate for Judge of the 'Court"( Common Pleas,
and elect eight delegatesto represent the county
In the Republican StateConvontlem.
These Conventions will severally meet, in the
city of Pittsburgh, en
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TUESDAY, JUNE 1,1569,
At lA-o'clock at the following places:
The COUNTY CONVENTION will meet at the.
COURT iiiIOUSE..
The LEGISLATIVE CONVENTION will meet
at CITY HALL, on Market street. And
The' JUDICIAL CONVENTION will meet
In MASONIC HALL, on rush avenue, between
Wood and Smithgeldstreets.
The election of delegates will be held - between
the boars of 4 and If o'clook at., and w 111 be
held, as fir as practicable, by the Republican
members of the election boards in the several
districts; and In those districts where the Repub.
Roan election officers are a minority-of the regu
lar electloreboards, the said officers are author
ised to appoint !noire' edditional ou.c-rs to com
plete the board. _
The voting In the elides and boroughs shall, in
alleases, be by ballot, and In. the townships by
marking. •
-The President of each Convention will appoint
a Committee of three, the three Committees thus
appointed lo meet together, as soon as practice
- lsle after the adjournment of-the Conventions,
and appoint a County Committee for the -ensuing
By order of the County Committee.
`, 'B.II3BELL ERRETT. Chairman
JOHN H. \Eitswill.T. Secretary.
Wit PRUIT on the ingida pages of
this morning's Generre--Ekcand page :
- Poetry "Gay Little Dandelion," Pennspi
tania, Ohio and West yirginia State
Items, .314ealanst. Third arlSixth.pages:
Commerciai, .21nancial, Mercantile, River
Nees, Markets, and Imports. Seventh
page: Farm, Garden and Household,
Amusements, ,
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Finneran:in at Antwerp, 47/f.
• GOLD closed in New York yesterday at
138i@i381.
TEE remains of the Hon. THOMPSON
Caxessaa., of San Francisco, California,
whose death we noticed• some time ago,
arrived this city last evening by rail,
being seven days on the way. His re
mans w ill be interred at Glade Mills,
Butler county, Penn's.
FOR , plaacueres to the Republican
State Convention, we hear the following
list of miznes discussed with a very gen
eral approval: .
A. Y. Br&wn. Russell Bereft,
James L. orabam, T. M. Baena.
V.Vel4"emle. J. E. IticKel
M. &layer. Jr.. B. 7. Lucas.
Other hames'are also mentioned on the
streets, and will be presented to the Judi
al Convention. , Only, eight are to be
selected.
Tnz Pittsburgh Commercial would like
to tretdc the force of its fall, by confessing
its offense, against the honest reputation
of I, dtizen ivho is too well-known to be
neonatally maligned by that nnscrupn
f lona print Its abject disavowal now is
marked upon its face, with all the em
blems of fiction which are chakacteristic
of the Commencial, its only sincerity—and
that in the most distateftd act of simple
justice of which our neighbor has ever
had experience—being manifested in its
.cringing ettloginm, upon a citizen whom
it has once more discovered to b e a b ove
its malignant reach.
STATE, POLITICS.
The Lucerne Republicans instrnetui r
delegates for KJITCEIAM for - Governe q;
Lycobling, Latyrence, Union, Mitpin and
the Blair Senatorial district are for Unsay;
Carbon' is for Lnu; Elsurnsrmr is
rapidlfgaining strength throughout the
Statei. Northampton Is for Summon;
Cominum, l ot Lebanon, seems to be ont of
the field.
THE CONVENTIONS TO-DAY.
The County Convention will meet at
tie Court House, and will be called to
Ceder. by Joan a idinwanT, Esq., the
lieezetszy of_the County Committee, who
will preside until the regular President
stall be elected.
The Judicial Convention will meet= at
Masonic Hall at the same hour, and will
be called to , order by the Chairman of the
County Committee, who will also preside
until the Convention shall be organized.
The Legislative Convention will meet
at Olty Hall, at the same hour, and, by
ftezequattof the chairman of the County
exaidtt.
Jommittee, Dr. A.. H. GRoss will pre
side, as before stated.
The practice has heretofdre been ter
the general Convention to be called to
order by the Chairman of the Commit
tee. The above changes are made neces-
Eery by the present subdivision. of the
Conventions.
EEL
PTO praetors,
ASIA isi SING,
N. P. REND.
TO-DAVPS RESPONSIBILITIES.
The Republicans of Allegheny have
committed the most responsible of trusts
to their delegates who meet in to-day's
Conventions. Nearly six hundred and
fifty of the moat active and influential Re
-publicans of this county will assemble
with instructions to nominate suitable
candidates, for the ticket to be sppported
at the October polls by twenty-five thou
sand of out citizens, who are of one po
litical faith.
FrOm every precinct of thesekro chines,
of the boroughs and of the ' suburban
townships of a populous and wealthy
county, come the leaders of our Republi
can organization to counsel together
touching the public interest, and to take
such wise action as shall redound to their
political advantage, and to the pUblic
good. These delegates stand especially
charged with great responsibilities in-the
premises, since their action, to-day, is to
be decisive as to all the public concerns
common to the entire people, of a county
which habitually entrusts the con
duct .of its general control to the
Republican organization. Those respon
sibilities are none the less marked
since - the clamors of a portion of the coun
ty press have equally inspired public
opinion with a fall confidence in the past
fidelity of our public servants to the in
terests entrusted to their care, and with
an inflexible determination to exact an
unimpaired official fidelity in the future.
The delegates will be held by their con
stituents responsible for the selection of
such a ticket, this day, as shall merit and
receive the cordial support of an intelli
gent and upright Republicanism. The
• responsibilities of the occasion, such
"as they are, rest upon the shoulders of
the delegates; and not upon oars. They,
of we, are to select the nominees. They
and we, and all of us, the leaders, rank
and file of our Republican 'Army, are
pledged to maintain the wise results of
their to-day's deliberations. Every Re
publican in this county, whose political
faith is bred into him more than skin
deep, reposes the fullest confidence
in the judgment of the represen
tatives, whom we have •to-day em
powered - to bind us faithfully to
the conclusions which they shall reach.
He who, in advance, impeaches the in
tegrity of their motives, arraigns the wis
dom of their councils, and repudiates
their authorized decisions, is neither
a sound Republican nor even a fair-mind
. $.
ed citizen.
We implore the representatives of our
party so to discharge their- responsible
trusts to-day z in each and every particu
lar, as to strengthen rather than to dimin
ish every sincere Republican attachment,
to protect and promote the material inter
ests of all our people, and to maintain the
high repute of this great county. We
exhort our friends in the Conventions
to remember that principles are first and
that individuals should come last, in their
decisive regards, and that they may so
express themselves, in the choice of the
ticket, and in any declalations of opinion,
as to repress all possible dissensions in
our own ranks, and to win the sincere
respect of all our fellow-citizens: In separ
ating then, they will return to their con
stituents-with a record which shall be the
brighter under all, assaults, and which
shall merit an old-fashioned vote from
the Republicans of Allegheny.
The people of Spain are encountering 4
the severest of strains upon their patriot
ism and patience. It is now announced
that the Cortes have postponed any de
cision, upon the question of succession to
the vacant throne, until November next,
when the rivalries of candidates are to
be submitted to the award of a popular
vote. In the meantime, a complete
change in the Provisional Ministry is
conceded to the public jealousies.
In the patient rettence with which
Spain has borne an already long protract
ed interregnum in her Constitutional
government, that people have wholly dis
appointed the concurrent apprehensions
of Christendom. Her annals, since thethe
glorious days of Ferdinand the Catholic,
present no such splendid example of a
National' of character and stabili
ty of purpose, as this which has been
exhibited in the self-restraint of her peo
ple, through all the critical months which
have elapsed since the expulsion of her
despotic and dishonored Queen.
It is indeed wonderful that a nation,
whose sole experience of governmental
PelitYithrough all the centaries of the
later ablution, has been . one of arbi
trary despon d and of the most hopeless
submission ti, that yoke of authority
which was alwini of iron to the masses
of her poptilationi should! thus, with one
long, calm, steadYl trifieiible step, plaee
herself in the front ran\ of Europ e an ad ,
vancement, maintainini there agrave
repose which astonishes lin almost incre
dulous world.
Let us sincerely trust ! in tthe highest
interests of a Cluptlan hnmanity- and of
an enlightened polity Of democratic self
grolernment, that the Spanish nation may
patiently continue to abide the ultimate
issue of their problem, and that this issue
shall iindleate their absolute Maas for a
loftier place among the Buiopealipeopies,
MIIN
THE SPANISH REG EN ER ITION.
iiriUttrl,Gll GAZ
%Ilan they ever yet filled, evert in the
I I
palmiest days of their ancient renown.
The.experiment now in protess grows
daily in critical interest, and wakens a
constantly increasing solicitu. e through
out the civilized world.
THE ALABAMA—LIGHT AHEAD.
Minister MOTLEY arrives in England
at a moment most opportune, since •he
meets there the first ripple of the reacting
tide•of Engliah opinion upon a question
of qrave international concern. The
outburst of general indignation, with
which that people received the rejeOtion
of the Alabama treaty by the Senate, as
this official act was interpreted to theme
through the accompanying manifesto of
Senator SERSNER, has already begun to
yield place to tnore agreeable, evidences,
that the loftier ,E , nlish sense •of justice
has been effectually touched, with_ a
swelling conviction that an inexcusable
wrong upon a friendly power -demands
an ample reparation, in the interests of
English honor, as well as of international
right. There can be no doubt' enter
tained, by any careful observert l / 4 of the
current tendencies of :British sentiment,
that the reaction now setting in—which
is due in paft, to the unreasonable vio
lence of four weeks since in the contrary
direction, and in part to the intrinsic
merits of thel question in controversy as
viewed by American eyes—is highly
favorable to a speedier and more equita
ble; adjustment of the issue than had
previously been hoped for on either
side of the Atlantic. Whatever other
questions may be vamped up by England,
by way of set-off.for the clear claims of
• the Republic to the fullest satisfaction for
the injuries inflicted by l Anglo-rebel
cruisers, it becomes plainly manifest that
the latter issue is already very close to a
final adjudication in ourifavor, under the
consenting verdict of popular English
opinion. They cannot shut their eyes to
the decisive preponderance of the law
and the facts against them—end they
evince a rapidly increasing disposition to
concede the absolute merits of our case.
Our new Minister is fortunate in his
appearance at this moment at the English
Court. He will, we believe, know how
to receive, in:the most graceful way,those
popular tokens of welcome which nothing
but his own fine sense of official and per
sonal dignity will repress, and he will be
ready to acknowledge the early overtures
of that Government for a re• entry upon
fresh negotiations, upon a bads' which
shall accord faithfully with the just de
mands of one nation and the equally just
perceptions of the other. -
THE NEXT ISSUE.
When, by reason or the Rebellion and
the prosecution of the war for its sup
pression, it became manifest that a vast
and unprecedented public debt Would be
contracted, all persons' who were skilled
in public affairs foresaw that as soon as
the conflict should be.over, and the States
restored to their normal relations with
each other and the Union, questions of
Revenue, Expenditure and Currency
would assume positions of the first impor
tance. What was then anticipated, is
now actually
_happening. The matters
which are now uppermost in the minds
of official personages as well as of private
citizens, relate to the national finances.
Of necessity, no system of governmental
income has been or will be devised which
has stood or can stand disconnected from
die question of Protection of Domestic
Industry. National revenue, except un
der moat extraordinary circumstances,
must be derived from the current earn
ings of the population. Whatever con
tributes, therefore, to the general pros
perity, adds to the certainty and ease
with which the exactions •of the public
treasury will be supplied.
That there are radical differences of opin
ion among intelligent and patriotic citizens
as to both the intrinsic and relative advan
tages of the systems of Free Trade and of
Protection, is abundantly manifest. Cer
tain classes of spegulative philosopheis and
humanitarians unconsciously sinking out
of sight some of *the essential elements of
the problem, have unhesitatingly declared
in favor of Free Trade; but the govern
ment of no civilized or evensemi-civilized
country has.ever been willing to reduce
the theory of these classes to practice.
Approximations hays been - made towards
unrestricted commercial intercourse; that
is, some nations which have moat com
pletely perfected their machinery, which
have moat largely accumulated capital,
and which are embarrassed by redundant
population, thus making labor cheap, have
reduced, in particular instances largely,
the number of dutiable commodities.
Not one, however, clamorous for Free
Trade in the abstract, or for adoption by
other nations, has' seen proper to set an
example of doing what it thus com
mends.
In the United States the Condition of
the national linanCes forbids a: resat to
Free Trade, :even if a majority of the
people were strongly inclined thereto.
The Treasury has but one choice,- .and
that is to derive from goods imported into
the country the largest practicable amount
of revenue. Judgments may differ as to
what scale of , imposts on particular arti
cles will yield the greater revenues; but
all must acquiesce in the conclusion that
Whatever income can be obtained at the
custom houses is•' essential in order to
meet the public obligations. That lower
rates of impost on some articles, as wines
and spirits, would produce lArger cash
returns, is claimed, and with a good de: ,
gree of probability. But, as a whole, the
present tariff b yielding a greater saloon%
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TUESDAII. JUNE 1, 1869.
of external revenue than waf4 ever before
collected, or than would fo l low a general
lessening of the duties. 'lt would seem,
therefore, to be the pat of wisdom to let
the present arra - Agement remain at, least
until such period as the strain upon the
Treasury sf.all be diminished by the pay.
ment and cancellation of a considerable
portion of the national indebtedness, or
the refunding thereof at a mpch lower
rate of. intereat than that now /stipulated.
But this is not to be, except as the result
Lre
of a most ani ated and exhausting debate.
Men who engaged in a particular
calling are a t 7 to infer that the reil pros- .
perity of the whole country can be meas
ured most accurately by the advantages
and affluence which they and their pur
suit happen to enjoy. This species of
natural egotism is shared more fully by
the men who are concerned l in foreign
commerce than by any.other class of their
fellow -citizens. Hence they think it de
cidedly well for them to amass immense
fortunes, but most injurious and unjust
for manufacturers to attain to opulence.
They instinctively point to fortunes made
by production as evidences of extortion,
while they complacently regard yet am
. er fortunes; realized through traffic, as
entirely legitimate.
It would be to take an inadequate and
misleading view of the matter to jump to
the conclusion that all large dealers in
foreign goods are necessarily advocates
of Free Trade. When Mr. A. T. STEW
ART was made Secretary of the Treasury,
it was peremptorily inferred from his
vocation that he was opposed to Protec
tion. This inference proved to be en
tirely erroneous. Dealers in mechandise
care comparatively little where particular
articles are fabricated. The case stands
differently with individuals who are en
gaged in the transportation of wares.
That the advocates of Free Trade are
deeply in earnest, and mean, to press for
such a reduction of imposts as will in
crease the bulk and value of foreign mer
chandise brought into the country, while
diminishing the production of corres
ponding articles here, is not a matter of
conjecture, but. of certainty. There are
indications that a considerable portion of
the agricultural population, through mis
apprehensions of their real interests, are
inclined to take the same direction.
While thesatendencdes are observable by
r l a
all perions who do not w ilfully shut
their eyes, certain classes of nr citizens,
who are most deeply inte steel in the
maintenance of Protection, take courses
calculated to bring that policy into dis
repute. , Take the anthracite coal mi
ners and some of the proprietors of those
mines as examples. Unexampled profits
were made by these people for a consid
erable series of years. All through the
war the condition of the country operated
powerfully to their advantage, and gains
out of proportion to those in other depart,
meats of business were realized. These
excessive profits produced the natural
effect of drawing capital from other pur
suits to engage in developing the coal
fields. The supply ultimately outran
the demand, and prices went down.
Consumers obtained legitimate compensa
tion for the excessive rates they had pre
viously been forced to pay. At this point
the workmen, and at least a portion of the
~
owners, combined to suspend operation
altogether, so as to create a fictitious
scarcity, and thus force up prices unnat
turally. Extreme violence is threatened
against all workmen who prefer to go on
at current rates; and past experience
shows that such threats are not idle, but
serious and will certainty be executed.
The result of these movements is man
ifest. The supply of coal will be brought
level with or below the demand for it,
and prices will op \ nsequently advance. It
is not our purpose to inquire whether the
increased war athat may be obtained in
this way by the miners will compensate
for the time lost and outlay incurred.
What we mean is to call attention to the
effect of this factitious coarse upon the
general system of Protection.
Ono of the most cogent arguments in
favor of Protection has
_been, and must
ever be; that while foreign competition is
wholly or measurably excluded by dis
criminating impost duties, 'domestic com
petition will speedily bring down the cost
of home produced commodities to the
lowest practicable point. It is clear,
therefore, thtit whenever foreign pompe
tition shall be excluded by the tariff, and
home competition crushed out by combine
tioris, either among workmen, or proprie
tors, or both, that this argument fails.
The mass of consumers will not patiently
submit to be exploitered after that fashion.
They will insist if domestic competition
shall be excluded, that foreign competition
shall come in. These obiwrvations are
just as applicable to all other branches of
industry, as to the mining and marketing
of anthraCite coal.
Believing the policy of Protection to
be of the highest national importance, we
are Most solicitous that Its' professed
friends should not bring it into disrepute.
This country possesses very - remarkable
natural resources. The success and gran.
deur of the republic can be fullisecured
only by the development of all the' latent
means of wealth and enjoyment within
its control. All the practical as well as
esthetic arts of the highest civilization
ought here to take root and receive their
highest exemplification. Natio4 like
individuals, are of value and impOrtance
in proportion as they are skilled in the
higher employments, while the descent to
barbarism is in exact ratio as Skilled in:
dustries die out. '
This question of domestic industry is
destined to name presently. s conspick
ity not hithertol, awarded to it. Quite
Possibly it will occasion'a new organiza
tion of the political elements. In view
of these probabilities the friends of Pro
tection should be careful and not play in
to the hands of their opponents.
ON THE D$ATi OF MATTIE U. IeCOON.
Like the rose that is smitten in its
beauty and blo4n, ,"Little Hattie" has
fallen. Just in the spring time, when the
flowers are blooming, and the birds are
singing, and nature is happy, God, whom
she loved with all her heart, has seen fit
to take her away, a lovely flower, to
bloom in that better land, that realm of
light beyond the skies. The little friend
of every one, endeared to all, the' idol of
her home, the dirlingof her fond parents,
the favorite of her school, the delight of
her teacher; alWays happy, with a mind
as brilliant as her form was beautiful, and
a soul as pure as the flowers that were
strown in her! grave. She has gone
through the valley, and over the river,
to
the land of the igood, to the home of the
blest.
Her sorrnws are ended, and her joys are com
pi te, • •
While we weep tbi-her loss, let ne live so we'll
meet;
For we know the is blest with her Saviour above.
Where we'U see her again, it we trust Him. end
love. U. t, G.
CCorrespondetice Of the Pittsburgh Eiszettc)
- NEW BRIGHTON, May 31, 1869.
The members of the Grand Army of the
Republic, withtthe citizens of New Brigh
ton generally, met in front of their Hall
on Broadway{ last Saturday, at one
o'clock P. M., where they formed a pro
cession, headed by the New Brighton
brass band, and under the command of
the Post officeis, marched to the Ceme
tery, and with becoming ceremonies,
decorated the graves of their fallen com
rades with flowers and evergreens, after
which the procession halted in front of a
large tablet , inscribed to the memory of
the brave men whose bodies were left on
the fields of conflict and death. After
decorating that'itablet, suitable songs were
sung, addresses were delivered and
prayers oferedto the great God who has
given us victory over our enemies, and
peace throughout our borders.
The widows,iorphans, and other rela
tives of our fallen heroes were not for
gotten.
We owe them a great debt. Let us do
right by them. C.
Sudden Death by Lightning.
(Correspondence Of the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
May 31, 1869.
Last night allittle after eight o'clock,
during quite al violent thunder shower,
which passed over this place, a house on
the river bankl, occupied by a family by
the name of Gibb, was struck by light
ning. It passed, down the chimney to the
second floor, Where it took an oblique
course passing; through the hearth and
first ceiling, and then struck Mrs. Gibb on
the chin, passing down her breast, killing
her almost instrtly. She - was standing
near the stove. Others sitting near her
were severely shocked but not injured.
It seems Mrs. Gibb's body received the
entire charge, as there were no further
traces of it to tie seen. The building was
very slightly injured. C.
- They Good Country.
Edna - Dean proctor, writing in the In
pendent, of her arrival at thh Hudson
'ver Railraaddepot, in this city, at an
arly morning 1 hour, says:
Among the throng waiting the depar
ture of the train was a group of emigrants;
and in it two children crying bitterly, ap
parently from! sheer sleeplessness and
fatigue.
"Poor little things," I said, "how tired
they seem." i
"Yes," an4wered the mother, who
stood by, trying to comfort them—a mean
ly•clad, worn-looking woman, but with
soft dark eyes and abundant chestnut hair
coiled under her torn hood. "Yes, they
are tired out. !We landed yesterday from,
England, aftei, five long- weeks at sea.
But thank God! I don't mind it now.
We' re got to the good country."
A fingouLan liirsner AND NOVEL
OPERATION.--JWhilst in Dr. C. C. Field's
office, a, few days since, we were shown
a queer spednien of a biped, in the shape
of a chicken with four legs, nicely pre
served in spirits. Upon inquiring as to
how he came in possession of so queer a
specie en of the chicken tribe, we were
informed that he took it from the throat
of a young Judy. on Friday last. She
came to the office on that day, and com
plained of having something in he; throat,
when the Dr: inserted the forceps and
much to the astonishment of himself as
well as the young lady, drew forth the
"difficulty."
It appears that the young lady in quell
tion—whose name we will not mention—
prides 'herself considerably upon her
vocal powers 4 and-for the purpose of
"clearing her voice" occasionally indulges
in raw eggs. She says that on.the even
ing previous to . the day she called on the .
Dr., she was at the farm and took an egg
from a chicken's nest, broke open an end
sad "sucked if," at which time she , must
have gulped dOwn the chick.—Sentinel.
Ix Derby, Connecticut, a society has
been started under the'name of the Order
of the Eagle, for the object, as set forth
in the preamble and constitution, of di
minishing political corruption, and of in
stilling into the young men and boys of
America a high spirit of honor, a
respect for their country and a love for
its flag. The 'members take an oath that
they will support the Constitution of the
'United States,; vote for the best man ir
respective of party, and, if elected to $l
- will never accept a bribe. Branches
of the order are to be established in every
city and town' throughout the Union, and
it is proposedito keep up the interest in it
by having in connection with it tree read
ing rooms, gymnasiums, fencing or box
ing schools, Military companies and base•
ball clubs.
IT , is underitood In Wall street that
Marshall 0. Roberts and other heaVy
capitalists have signed contracts for the
construction of the Tehuantepec Railway,
and will begin. work immediately. The
Panama Railway stock has declined
heavily in consequence.
Junou BLicx, who had his arm crash,
ed a few Boys ago by a railroad accident
near Letdsville, is reported to be In
danger of lolling' his ' arm.; He is at
Lenbvine l ander the Pie of Dr: YandalL
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NEW I_3III6IHTON.
Decorition Ceremonies.
BEA* FALLS, PA.
LAT REPRESENTATION.
Tae Other Side—Opposition Meeting
Address of J. W. F. White. tesq.
The questton of lay :representation
he all•absorbing theme of discuesL
among, the members. of the Method
Episcopal ChurCh at the present time.l
We reported at some length ameeti i n
held last week, at which Bishops Situp-!
BOIL and Kingsley delivered ad
dressei favorable to the measure_
Since then its opponents have been quite
active, and as result they assembled
last evening in the Smithfield M. E.
Church tq discuss and consider the other
side of the question. The attendance
was quitejarge, though not as crowded
as on the former,occaslon.
Mr. W. W. Brickel was called upon to ,
preside, din a few brief remarks stated
the object f the meeting.
Deyotio al exercises followed, con
ducted by 'Rey. R. L. Miller, pastor of
Centenary, church. ' I
The Chairman then introduced J. W. k
F. White, Esq., who spokefor more than
an hour upon the question. He contend.
ed that the introduction of lay rep repre- ,
sentation in the church was revolution
ary, as it changed the organic law of
the church, which provided for he
such change ; that it would create \
an expense which would not be met, as
contemplated and argued, by a tax of
about one-half cent on each member, but
which would practically have to be inot
in the same manner as the ministerial
delegation is now provided for—out of
the proceeds of the Book Concern—thus
diminishing the Church revenue; that it
would practically destroy the itinerant
system and consequently strike at the
very foundations of Methodist discipline;
that it would place in the hands of a
small minority—the lay delegates—the
balance of power, so great that they in
reality would be the controlling' agency
of the Church; and, finally that It inter
fered with and unquestionably cireum
'scribed the functions of the Ministry
chosen by Divine and human authority,
andlbest calculated by study,and other fa
vorable circumstances to govern the
Church"
In reference to the arguments ad.;
vanced in its favor, that it would make
the church more in accord with the
American mind; that it would prevent
hasty legislation; that the laity, should
have a voice in church councils; that by
it they- would be made to feel more inter
est in church affairs by reason of greater
responsibility, he contended that the
wonderful progress of the church
in the past was • a sufficient ar
gument in answer to all of them. The
speaker dwelt with force and eloquence
upon the several points named, and we
regret our space will not admit of more
than this brief synopsis. The address
was enthusiastically received, , the ,audi
ence at one time breaking the bounds of•
church propriety, and heartily applaud
ing.
At the conclusion it was unanimously
requested for pubUcation. The Doxe!oa7
was then sung, and the audience dismis
sed with the BenedictioU by Rev. Miller.
Slight Accident.
Between four and five o'clock yestei
day a slight accident occurred on Dia
mond street, near Smithfield, by which
a boy , working in T. D. Grove's carpenter
shop, was slightly but not seriously in
jured. The parts which support the
front wall of the shop, owing to the heavy
r tin, gave way, letting the front wall fall
out on the sidewalk, and the boy who
was working on the second flow was
covered in the rubbish, He was imme
diately extricated, when on examination.
his inturea proved to be bnt alight.
A. RESPECTABLE Protestant young wo
man wants a permanent situation as seam
stress; is a good dressmaker, can cnt and
fit and operate, and would make herself
useful; no objections to the country.
Nam but first•class ladies need apply.—
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body. These are not remediable by the usual
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main
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