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THE PALLADIUM.
PUBLISHED XVXBY
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IMA APOUS DIVISION II A V 31, 1874.
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"BE JUST AND FEAR NOT! LET ALL THE ENDS THOU ALWST AT, BE THY GOD'S, THY COUNTRY'S AND TRUTH'S!
VOL. XLTV.
RICHMOND, WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, AUG. 5, 1874.
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AVXT HAIIAHU ADVICE.
And so yon have quarreled with David?
And, hide it as well as you can,
I know at this moment you're thinking
That he Is a horrible man.
He has no regard for your feelings,
He loosens his hold on your heart;
And each has confessed to the other .
Thai both were much better apart. ' - '
You think of the day of your courtship.
When David waa thoughtful and kind,
In all your vexations so hopeful.
To all your follies so blind;
And now, o'er the gateway of Eden
: The sword of the angel Is crossed.
And yon misa all the sweetness and sun--s
shine, '., i,
"The Joy of a paradise lost. "
You think you have done all your duty
- Have prayed and have labored in vain, -And
feel, as a husband, that David
Has really no right to complain.
But let us sit down In the twilight
And talk O'er the subject awhile; ' '
BefQcvyou take leave of fhm meadow
: 'TIS well that yon pause on the stile.
Tin likely that David is fretful, " .
And careless at times, it in true;
His business absobs him too closely,
But is he not working for you?
So when lie comes home in the evening,
Quite silent and thoughtful and queer.
Just let your heart keep up its singing,
And pretend you don't notiee, my dear. ,
For Just as a scratch on the finger .
Win heal If yon let it alone, 1 -
80 many a trouble or grievance
That David or yon may have known,
Would soon have been gone or forgotten
And left not a sear on the heart,
Had either been fond and forgiviug, - ,
Had never supposed you could part.
Tie your dnty to yield, and you know it;
You will if you're true to your trust;
Your God and your honor demand it,
And David is gentle and Just;
Don't keep any bones ol contention
Dont hold to this terrible strife;
Bat make blm a much better husband
By being a much better wife.
LECTURE-ROOM .TALK.
BY HENRY WABD BEECH EB.
Vol 10 leave Rlchmonddailv.except Bun-
day, and IiOgansport forChlcagodaily. No.
2 leaves daily, exceptSaturday and Sunday.
No 1 leaves Chicago dally, except Saturday.
All other trains run daily, except Sunday.
i Little 91 1 a mi Division.
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;i 1 AMtkw Oatrage tn Texas.
A gross outrage was recently com
mitted Upon the person or a inetno
diit, clergyman, the Rev. George W
Honev. at Belton in the state 01 1 ex
by a band 01 masked men. ; 1 he
A Perusal Ketroogtect.
Friday Evening, July 3, 1874.
It is one of the infelicities of our
prosperity that we have no privacy;
and it is impossible for me, as a pas
tor, to indulge in confidential commu
nications in my church. I might as
well stand in Broadway, and snout
down theBtreetconfidential communi
cations to my friends. That which is
entirely proper for the private ear does
not always sound so well on the house
top, and that that which is proper in
a lamuy meeting, a caurcn meeting,
may not sound quite so well in the
morning papers. . Nevertheless, thU
is the last prayer-meeting that I shall
be with you tor now a period 01 three
months. It is a period, too, of the
summer, in which sickness and acute
diseases abound, to which I am as li
able as you are; and as the last week
has drawn on, I have had impressed
upon me, as 1 nave always uau irom
f ear to year, not sadly hut very strong
y, the feeling that I may never meet
my people again, lhis may he the
last prayer-meeting, and next Sunday
may be the last Sunday, that I shall
ever be with you. I know there is
such a thing as repeating these last
words until they are hackneyed, and
have lost all force; yet a seasonable
indulgence 11 them may be irohtable;
and indeed we have a justification of
it in the example of the Apostle Paul,
who looked back on his ministry, and
recounted his own motives and exper
iences. And now, I mean, to-night,
as your servant, and as a servant of
the Lord Jesus Christ, to say a few
words in respect to my history and
ministration.
I was called toward the Christian
ministry from as early a period as I
can remember. There was no defin
ite reasoning about it. 1 grew up
finding that everybody expected that
I would be a minister my father, my
mother, my sisters, everybody. I did
not know the point ot transition.
"My father was eminent in ins daj;
he was a warior; and through him my
young imagination was , very mach
kindled. When I had finished my
have never been without a sense of the
pleasantness of the favor of men who
were to be respected; but, as God is
my witness, this has never been the
motive of my action. 1 have never
sought influence nor praise, as the in
spiring motive of my ministration.
I have worked from three consider
ations the love that I have for God,
the love that I have for my fellow-
r 11. L I
men, and because x couia not neip
myself. It was in me, and it had to
1 was made to be a preacn-
uauv vmw- a waaw w r-w I 1 . .
er, and I have preached just as foun- manxum ot tne sympathy, tne com pas
4; Tho A n-n.l auA "Wn sion and the everlasting power of God.
is me if 1 preach not the Gospel:" and I tad such a sympathy for mankind, I
ea .
Rev. Mr. Honey is the presiding elder 1 preparatory studies, and was called to
of the Waco District, West Texas go into the field, my father stood fore-
nnionnM M ot hnd is. Kriisnnnnl most, nrobablv at any rate, to us
Nna. 1. 2. 8 and 7 run Dally to and from
Cincinnati. All other Trains Daily.except
Sunday. W. L. O'BRIEN,
Genl Passenger and Ticket Agent.
C.En. Waye Railroad
GOINO NORTH.
(JOINO BOOTH.
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Portland ac....4KX) pm
Mail Til
Portland ao... 90 am
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ae Table.
GOING NORTH Including all places sup.
piled Irom the Chicago R. 11., and the Ft.
Wayne R. BL, close at 9:30 a. in.
GOING SOUTH 1. Inoludlng Cincinnati
ana all points oeyona.cioses ais:au a. in.
2. Including all places supplied from the
Cincinnati uaiiroaa, o w p. m.
children his name was a very great
name; and yet, the idea ot measuring
myself or my ministry by him never
entered my head. The temptation .
naturally would befall a man, under
such circumstances, to say to himself.
"Will you go out and try to be as great
a man as your father?" but I can al-
most say that 1 never had the tnougnt
cross my mind. My love for my father
was such that I would have been -ashamed
to be as great as he was, even
if I could; and I would have been
ashamed to think that I could be as
great as he was.
As soon as 1 lett iane seminary, at
the invitation of some one whose name
I do not now remember I crossed the
Ohio river to Covington, opposite Cin
cinnati, and went into a hall where an
GOING EAST Including all places sup
- plied Irom the Columbus It. R., and :
' Dayton and jXenia Railroad, and all
Eastern and Central Htatea, closes at
10:00 a. m.
GOING WEST 1. In-ludlng Indianapolis
and all point beyond, clones 60 a. ni.;
2. same as above, closes 100 a in.; 8. In
cluding all poinU supplied by the Indi
anapolis Railroad; altto, Chicago and all
points west and northwest, closes 8:00
p. m. r ; ' 1 - f ,
To Webster, Wllliamsbnrg and Bloomings
port, on Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day, al 20 p. m.
To Cox's Mills, White Water.Bethel and A r
ba, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
at 12:00 m.
To Abington, Clifton and Liberty, on Mou-
. ' day and Friday, at 70 a. m.
To Boston, Beechymire, Goodwin's Cornel,
and College Corner, on Tuesday ami
Friday, at 12:30 m.
MAILS ARE OPEN
At 70 a.m. from Indianapolis and Cincin
nati and beyond.
At 100 a. m. Irom East via Dayton and
Xenia Railroad.
At 110 a. m. from West and Mouth, way and
through mails.
At 40 p. m. from East via Colnmbus Rail
road. -
At 70 p. m. irom North, via Chicago Rail
road and Fort Wayne Railroad.
At 8.-00 p. m. from Indianapolis and beyond.
Office open from 70 a. m. to 7:30 p: m.
On Sunday, from 90 to 100 a. m.
July! 1S74. . W. DAVIS. P. M.
Church. The district comprises both
white and colored churches, and Mr
Honey was at Belton for the purpose
of holding a quarterly conference with
a colored church. On his return from
ervice in the evening, he was attack
ed by ten masked men, dragged a half
a mile to the verge of the town, and
thrown into a creek. The scoundrels
undertook to rob him, but were pre
vented by his vigorous resistance.
The crime charged, and the reason
given, for the outrage was "preaching
to negroes, une ot the gang said ;
'We'll teach you not lo come to Belton
to preach to niggers ; it you come
again we 11 kill you!
The caBe is similar to the outrage
we recently recorded, committed upon
. lhiAiipA fmilv noftr Spirniii I Tsa
m vun-ugv n V I ' . . , ii'.
Washburn was dragged to the woous i ai.iemm.was nemg nauc i
and whinned because he tauehta dav New-bcbool Presbyterian church. I
school for negroes. Young Gesner preached there every Sunday, not
was violently attacked and threatened knowing what would, become ot my
with death, because he taught Sunday work, and caring more to fulfill my
school for colored children. Both duty than anything else. My first and
these men were warned to leave tne oniy ieeiiug ,
State, and lefttosave their lives. Now
the Rev. Mr. Honey is thrown into a
ereek and threatened with death be
cause he expounds the faith of his
church to negroes. The inference
from these repeated outrages is that
the whites are determined to prohibit
education among negroes. Ignorance
was the corner tttone of the institution
of slavery It was only those colored
men and women that managed to ac
quire a Bmattering of education who
fled from the horrors of slavery to the
iorth, and so made the 'fugitive slave
aw a necessity to the perpetuation ot
the peculiar institution. Education
the foe of slavery, and, by conse-
Uan-
ifications of my views, the enlarging
of the horizon, the change from thd
sterner features ot the old Puritan
theology to those views which bring;
into more glorious light the power oi
Uod tor salvation through Jesus
Christ. As I find in the Pnritan sys
tem, or rather in the Calvinistie view,
a constant attempt to augment the
glofy of God, and fill the whole uni
verse with him, my mind, by a natural
reaction, went in the other direction
namely, toward an interpretation to
It is said that ; Vice-President
Wilson desires the repeal of what
is called the "press gag law." We
want no gag laws for the press, but .
we - do want ' laws which Beverly
punish slanderers, whether they
are members of the press or not
The American press is doing more
oi late years, to earn the reputation
which Dickens gave it, than it did
when he wrote his scathing rebukes.
The impunity with which reputa
tions are assailed have a tendency
to make people reckless in mantin
ing their good names. When the
most honored and trusted men are
continually defamed, when religion
is scoffed at and piety denounced
as hypocrisy, evill doers quiet their
conscience with the excuse that,
they are only following the ways of
the world. This matter should be
reformed before the scandal mon
ger succeeds in utterly demoraliz
ing the nation. Rushvillo Republican.
DoftUs of Umm. Ueorge If. Baaklrk.
The Hon. George H. Buskirk. e'
Bloomington, died of an attack of
apoplexy at his residence at that
place Thursday morning. The
deceased was well known through
out the State, having acted as Steto
Agent from 1867 to 1869, to which
omce tie waa elected by the Legia
lature. He also served in the Let
islature as a Representative from
Monroe county. Since his retire
ment from politics Mr. Buskirk has
been acting as President of the
first JMutional bank at Blooming! on
is
auence. ignorance its sure ally.
ish education Irom among the negroes
of the south, and. although the title
slave may not be used, the fact, slav
ery, will exist. If the South consents
in good faith to the citizenship of ne
groes it must logically consent to their
education: for as a rule good citizen
ship depends upon intelligence, it
the whites of the South conspire to
prevent the education of the negroes,
Buch conspiracy is the confession of a
nurnose to force them into virtual
avery. It the Uemocratic authori
ties of Texas permit these repeated
outrages, perpetrated on the educa
tors ot negroes, to go unpupisbed,
they stand confessed as guilty of the
criminal intent to nullify tha Consti
tution and laws
The Rev. Mr. Honey has appealed to
Gov. Coke to "take cognizance" ot the
outrage committed against him. to the
end that the protection of the State
may be guaranteed to all citizens in
the nursuit of honorable callings, and
that "punishment may be visited upon
all such transgressor of law." Will
Gov. Coke respond? Will the Demo
cratic rartv ot the nation nut its heel
upou these new Kluklux Klaus which
its ill-judged expressions ot sjmpathy
with the old rebellion have warmed
into lile, or compel the Republican
party ouce more to invoke the aid of
general government to put them down
with ! ederat troops ; 1 lie Democrat
tie party boasts that it is on the eve
of a return to the control of nationa
affairs; but it is a fatal delusion to
suppose that it cannot mount to power
over the dead bodies of negroes mur
dered by tho new order of Kuklux
Klans. The negro must be protected
in all his civil rights, and he must be
educated, lhese arc cardinal doc
trines of the reconstructed Union
Woe be to the political party or frac
tion which dares openly to antagonize
them, or secretly conspire against their
full and perfect realization in every
southern state
Mr. Dickens told a story of a young
lady who, being intensely loved by
five young men, was advised to jump
overboard, ana marry the man who
jumped in after her. Accordingly,
the next morning, the hve lovers be
ing on deck, and looking very devoted
ly at the young lady, she plunged into
the sea bead foremost. t our of the
lovers immediately lumped in afta
her. When the young lady and four
lovers were out again, she said to the
captain: "What am I to do with them
now, they are so wet?" "Take the
dry one." And the young lady did,
and married him.
Here is a place that
certainly needs work, and I can work."
After preaching there three or four
Sundajs, I was called, by Martha
Sawyer, a Yaukee woman, to go to
Lawrenceburg and preach. There
was a church in that place composed
of about twenty members, of which
bhe was the factotum. She collected
the money, she was the treasurer, she
was the manager, she was the trustee,
she was the everything, ot that church.
Lawrenceburg was not a very proud
metropolis then, nor has it attained to
such a stature now. it was iwenty
tv miles below Cincinnati, on the
Ohio river. I went there to work
simolv because there was a vacant
church there, which was small, aud
peeded a laborer. 1 n that spirit I en
tered that field, and worked for two
years, when I was called, without any
agency of my own, to go to the capital
ot the state, to take charge ot trie
New-School Presbyterian church
which had recently broken oft from
the Old-School Presbyterian church.
There, in Indianapolis, I labored eight
years; and then I came to Brooklyn.
When 1 came here, 1 came here
ithout any expectations, and without
any ambitions. 1 had no thought of
the future. I had scarcely any care
about it. I remember distinctly say-
ng, on coming here, I am determin
ed to know nothing but t Itrist and
him crucified; I am determined to
preach the Gospel as a power, and not
as a doctrine; l am aeiermmea to
preach the Gospel of Christ as a
means of comforting and edifying and
enriching men, and not as a means of
establishing one creed or sect, as com
pared with another." That was the
feeling that I had very strongly when
I came here; and 1 recollect writing
to Mr. David Hale, that if he expect
ed me to come to lirooklyn to build
rp Congregationalism, as an ism, he
was very much mistaken, because I
would never do any such thing.
I need not tell you that since then,
when we shall have come together
once more, 1 shall have been with
you twenty-seven years, so that my
ministry or ministerial life has extend
ed over nearly forty years.
I went into the ministry with two
living truths. The first was the spir
itual helplessness of men the univer
sally low estate of men, and their need
ol divine help; and the (second wae a
sense that God, as revealed in Jesus
Christ, was a God of infinite resources
ol compassion and patience and help
fulness. I have aforetime told you
how I came to that experience. Tha
consciousness of the spiritual help
lessness of men and the spiritual help
fulness of God was my etock in preach
ing. AH the rest that I had was con
ventional, legendary. I had been
taught it, and I preached it because I
supposed it to be the right thing to
preach. I never discussed either of
those two topics that I was not con
scious that there was touched in me a
spring, a certain vital element, which
transcended anything that IJ'elt on
any other subject.
In all my early ministry, then, and
in all my intermediate ministry down
to this day, t think I can say, first,
that I have never preached Irom am
bition that I have never sought a
great name nor an eminent place. I
have not been displeased with praise
when I thought it was deserved; I
suppose my experience may come
somewhat within the scope of his
meaning. I was held back from do
ing anything else. From the begin
ning ot my ministry I think 1 was
graciously led to accept as my breth
ren all who named the name ot Jesus
Christ, and whosti faces were set as
though thev would go to Jerusalem
This was a good deal: because I was
born into a litigious country, and in a
litigious age. My tather was arraign
ed before the Presbytery and the
Synod for heresy; and distinctions in
theology were made subjects lor strife
and contention. All that controversy
which is so fascinating to the young
imagination was going on; and I went
into the field iust after the division
took place between the Old and the
New School Presbyterians; and the
Catuobellites were active, each sect
struggling for a livelihood: and t"et it
pleased God, from the beginning of
my ministry, to breathe upon me the
spirit of sympathy and love for the
whole brotherhood of Christians. And
though llid by iuy pen, as I recollect,
before I began to preach, write some
articles against the Roman Catholics
(which, by the way, will never come
to light; for they were printed in a lit
tle evening daily, in Cincinnati), I be
lieve these were my only utterances
against any other sect or any church
of another denomination. I have aim
ed to treat all sects and churches with
a manly frankness, criticising them as
1 would the churches ot my own dc
nomination; but I do not think I ever
preached a sermon in my whole life
that was aimed to put down any Lhns
tian sect.
1 look back upon that with a great
deal of pleasure; for, as I thought all
secy, in various degrees, were near to
the truth, some being nearer to it than
others, 1 interpreted i aul s declara
tion as applying to them all:
"What, then? notwithstanding, cv
ery way, whether in pretense or in
truth, Christ is preached: and I there
in do reioice. and 1 will rejoice
He rejoiced, when he was in bonds,
that some preached Christ ot sonten
tion. honing to add affliction to his
bonds; and that others preached
Christ of love, knowing that he was
set for the delense of the 'Gospel
Either way he was glad that Christ
was preached. And I had a feeling
that the preciousness ot - Christian
truth was such that if you broke it in
to fragments, and any denomination
had a fragment of it, the savor of the
love of Christ in a fragmentary condi
tion in any sect was such that I ought
to rejoice in it; and in the main I have
done so
Early in my ministry I was called
to consider tho question of slavery;
and this appealed in my nature to the
tendency of universal fellowship with
all men a feeling which I had long
before the philosophy of it had framed
itselt in my mind. 1 could not help
it. I never, from my bo3-hood from
the time that I was eight years old
heard the question of liberty and in
dependence spoken of, without having
a feeling of enthusiasm awakened in
me. It was the subject of my dreams
and of my waking thoughts. And
when the question of American Slav
ery came up, 1 could not helpk though
I made no choice, leing put on the
side of the weak and mute and help
less and that at a time when young
men just emerging into public life
found that all the heads of the church,
and all the dignitaries in other depart
ments of lile, were running the other
way, and were greeted by them with
the warning, "You must'coine with
us, or be unpopular." It never cost
me a thought. made no sacrifice.
I could not make any. I did not cal
culate nor reason about it. I was of
necessity on the side of freedom, heart
and soul. The only considers! ion that
ever came into my mind, as I remem
ber it, was, how lo effect the greatest
good, and was not for a moment on
which side I should act.
In that movement, by which I was
called to study largely the political
economy aud history ot liberty in ouj
country, and the effect of slavery in
the different States, my mind insensi
bly gjew more and more patriotic; and
I loved this whole land. I loved New
England, because I was of it, and be
cause all my early associations and
education were connected with it; but
I learned to love every part of this
country, until my love for it became
an enthusiasm; and no man, only
God, knows how much my pride has
suffered to think that I lived in a
great land into more than half of whose
states 1 could not enter tor tear of the
halter. Nobody can tell the intensity
ol the sorrowful indignation with
which I contemplated the fact that in
more than half of this land the press
could not speak, the pulpit could not
speak, and I could not travel. It was
not bitterness it was something in
concievably higher that I felt. 1 had
a pride for my country. I had a love
for it which was akin to the love of a
mother for her child, or of the lover
for his mistress.
So that sentiment of religion, accord
ing to the working of God's provi
dence, in my nature, became so associ
ated with my whole country, that I
could not separs.e one from the other;
and I could no'i analyze them.
Well, the grjat war passed, and lib
erty came; and from that moment I
laid down all controversial discussion,
and studied for the things that should
repair, build up, restore, cement and
conciliate; because I loved my whole
country; because I loved every State
in it, aud every part of it; and because
1 bore its soirows in my soul
Since that day, more and more my
mind has been working towards larger
and larger views of the nature of the
Divine soul especially of the sympa
thetic nature of the Divine soul of
God's great love as made manifest in
Jesus Christ, and the destiny of the
whole race.
I have nothing to say as to the strug
gles that 1 have gone through (many
and very deep) further than I speak
from Sunday to Sunday as to the mod-
saw them born so noorlv. I saw them
reared so ignorantly, 1 saw them to be
so feeble in conception and so helpless
in all spiritual things, that it seemed
to me that if I should lift up over and
above them the idea of a stern and
dictatorial God, such as I had been
instructed in, it would crush them.
,V&ti mankind needed, it seemed to
me, was the breast, and not the hand
in chastisement a mother-God.
So 1 have been led (and I think by
the divine spirit) to enlarge the hori
zon, and augment the power and the
beauty, ol love. 1 have been seized,
at times, with an inconceivable ardor,
an unutterable longing, so to describe
the character ot God that men should
not be willing to let it die; that it
might stand above the horizon in the
memory and imagination of men, and
draw little children, and maidens, and
grown-up women, under burdens and
trouble, out ot their afflictions toward
this great Source of light and joy.
In doing so, I have had your sym-
tathy, and that of thousands; and that
las been remunerating to me; but if I
had had none ot it, so great has been
the sweetness of the work itself that I
should have felt that I had my reward
A REAL GHOST.
more and more as 1 went along.
I have passed through various ex-
a m
periencer, such as belong to ail men
that take an active part in public lite;
but not one to many; not one that,
when 1 come to 6ee it from the other
side, in the light of God's countenance,
1 shall feel that 1 could have lett out.
I do not complain of any burdens or
any crosses. .Between my soul and my
Saviour I have a most ierfect path.
My trust is in Christ Jesus with an
implicitness and an utter and absolute
rest for which there are no words. I
see, in such a sense, the mediatorial
work of Christ; I see such a power in
the revelation of God's nature as over
against the infirmities, and weaknesses,
and sinfulness of my own nature, that
l seem to be caught up in tne great
flood of God's love, and to float on it
as a ship floats on the Atlantic Ocean;
and the storms that trouble at the
same time propel, and sweep the bark
sooner across the sea. So that, come
what may, life or death, or whatever
else, my hold upon God is incontesta
ble, my comfort in God is unquestion
able, my joy in God is continual.
These experiences are not unchecked.
There is to every day a night; there is
to every summer its appropriate
storms, which are afterward its bless
ings; and to my life there have been
its proper disciplines: but God is just,
and measures all things right; and of
oue thing I am certaiu my crown, my
joy. And be sure that when I stand
in the presence of the revealed God,
and you come up thither, we shall
clasp hands in the eternal blessedness
of heaven together. I shall be by the
tide of Him .who loved me and gave
himself for mo; and you, if you con
tinue in the faith, shall Btand there
likewise; and the memory of earthly
trouble shall be like the memory of
last year's storms.
This is, in very, brief, a recapitula
tion of the very interior of my minist
ry; and I can sum it all up, and say,
conscious of great weakness, consciouf
of having treated with infinite defect
the great themes that transcend hu
man handling, that I have given to
my work among men the very best
strength and the very best thoughts
that 1 had. I have not worked from
smster motives nor trom sclush ones.
I have wrought with imperfect mo
tives, to be sure; nevertheless the im
perfection has been of the- higher
range; and I have worked in the spirit
of love and sympathy; and I have
worked for the work's sake no man
shall take from me this boast; and 1
have worked for the whole Israel ol
God for black, for white, for my own
country, for every land, for the hon
or of the name of God; and I have
been a thousand times remunerated;
and in the long ministry that now
stretches out behind me, when I look
back upon it, though 1 ha ye nothing
for which I would praise myself, I can
say, in the face of my Saviour, and far
His honor, that He has strengthened
me to pursue a course which be
lieve He thinks to be manly, not for
the good of a party or a Feet, but for
the good of universal man, and for the
glory of the universal God.
What is for the future I know not;
and I care not that is. in this sense
I care not: it is in the hands of Him
who is wiser and better than any ot
us. I commit everything to the hands
of God. Living or dying I am the
Lord's that I know; and. living or
dying, are not ye the Lord's?
Lile is speeding fast. The spool is
almost unwoun 1 for many. One and
another will drop off during this va
cation. We shall see their faces here
no more. But that is no trouble.
When to step out mean3 to step up,
when to die means to live; when to go
means to be glorified what is the
trouble under such circumstances?
Let us, brethren, gird up our loins,
and take a clearer iook, and swear the
love-oath anew, and go forward until
we meet and rejoice together in the
kingdom of our Father, and ol his
Son, our dear Saviour Jesus Christ.
BeppMvMe ( Katie ailac the
laMlon Ukiot,lBi America. HtraBCW
ScMces 1st Philadelphia. ,
Our readers will recollect that Dr.
Wallace Wood, Prof. Crookes, F. R.
s., and a married daughter ot Captain
Marryat all testified to the actuality
of the appearance of the ghost which
called itself " Katie King, and which
had the appearance of a beautiful
foungwoman, dressed in white mus
in. This ghost appeared in connec
tion with a medium named Florence
Cook, and the manifestations took
place in Professor Crooke's own house
under circumstances which seemed
to preclude all attempts at fraud. To
ward the latter end of May last, "Katie
King" announced that she could ap
pear no more, as she was about to move
to " higher spheres." It is somewhat
flattering to our national vanity that
the said "higher spheres' turn out to
be America; as Katie King" has re
cently appeared in Philadelphia, with
Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, two spiritual
ists, who have long been known as
mediums. A correspondent of the
New York Times, writing from Phila
delphia, gives the following account
of his experiences at one of these
seances :
"The house is an old-fashioned,
. three story brick, occupied, a to its
first floor, by a music store, and as to
the rest ot it by the Holmes family
and the spirits. The seances are held
in the second story front room, an or-
diuary apartment, pernaps eignteen
feet wide by sixteen feet deep, with
two windows looking out on Ninth St.,
and with nothing un jancv about it
except the "cabinet," which is made
by stretching a dark partition across
one corner, thus cutting eff a triangu
lar space. The partition reaches to
the ceiling, and contains a small door
with a threshold about six inches high.
Over the door and about seven feet
from the floor is a small, pentagonal
opening, while another of similar
shape, but larger size, is about a foot
lower on the riirht. This is the aper
ture at which Katie usually appears.
It is about a foot in greatest width
and height. The cabinet is hung with
loose, dark curtains, and a door at one
side leading lo a back room, is board
ed over in a manner apparently se
cure. The audience sit in semi circles
facing the cabinet, the inner circle be
ing composed, of the most faithful
Spiritualists. . On one end of this
row sits the principle medium, Mrs.
Holmes, her husband sometimes tak
ing a chair at the other end. some
times entering the cabinet and going
into a " mesmeric sleep.',' When your
correspondent was present both taedi-
. .11- i" . 1 i;
urns remained in iuii view oi me auui-
ence during the entire periormance.
Thev did not go into a trance, but sat
fanning themselves, and laughed and
ioked like ordinary mortals. One
window was closed and darkened, and
the other remained open. - The door
was locked and the room dimly illumi
nated by a coal-oil lamp with a red
shade, which threw upon the scene
that roseate tinge so much affected in
the spectacular drama. The company
being seated, without joining hands,
the spirits were invoked through the
disappear with the door open to-night?
" I'll try," said Katie ; and presently
she came again, and while the door
stood wide open she gradually faded
away, seeming to retire slowly into the
depths of a space only large enough to
hold her at the first. The bouquets,
and all other material substances
about her disappeared at the same
time, and when nothing was left but
the hem of her white dress shimmer
ing on the floor, she came again, seem
ing to gather herself from thin air.
and to grow, like a forming cloud.
more and more distinct, until she
again stood in mortal guise before a
delighted audience.
Nk Jtotleea.
The Rev. Geo. Harding thus de
scribes the new temperance almanac.
As a book reviewer , he has no peer.
The many citizens who have received
copies of the work will attest its
merit:. - ., , ;;
The "Temperance Almanac" was
issued gratuitously, Wednesday, on
the corner of Washington and Meri
dian streets. It is handsomely print
ed on rose-tinted paper, and bound to
attract attention. On the first page is
the picture of the Temperate family.
The central figure is the father, a
sleek, shiny looking man with side
whiskers, reading aloud to his family.
His wile, an ex- i ankee school ma am,
is suckling a meaty looking baby; at
her side stands the eldest son, a fat
faced, bullet-headed booby ot . about
fifteen; in the foreground are two dis
agreeable children and a mashed cat.
Turning to the second page-we are
greeted by an accurate representation
ot a shaving mug supposed to contain
Walkers Vinegar .Bitters, labeled
Eureka," and surrounded by tho
halo which usually encircles the heads
of the Holy Family. On tho ninth
i is a fine picture of "Come Home
-'at her." The saloon as here portray
ed seems to be very nice sort of
place, and "Father" has on his head
what appears to be a developed pine ,
apple. The literary contents are per '
tect gems, about disordered livers,
tape worms, and poetical remarks
abont women. Page 15 contains a ,
portrait of Dr. Joseph Walker, in
which he looks like a horse thief. '
Page 14, a lovely poem, asking "What
are we going to do, Sweet friends," to
the hend that he may not still
drive the sister wild, and poison the
coming child. A humane adviser
would suggest that "Sweet Friends"
make him drive the sister tame, or
else not drive 1 er at all, aud confine
his poison to the coming woman, or,
it he refuse to do that, earnestly advice
the child not to come. The last
age is filled with the Intemperate
'amily. Father is here an amiable
looking man, with an eccentric coat,
the tail of which is trimmed in fine
fringe. He is gaily flourishing a stool
over the head of his skinny daughter.
His wife, who is ugly enough to justi
fy intemperance in any man, is kneel
ing on the floor, looking squint-eyed
at him, and some gallant gentleman
. ' 1 i-l I 1 . 0
acquaintance is nastily ngnung out oi
the back door.
A year or so ago, an Englishman,
residing in Hindostan, created a sen
sation by turning Mohammedan, and
immediately marrying a native wife.
His English spouse complained of the
f:ict, and he was tried lor bigamy.
His acquittal on the ground of relig
ion led to an effort to change the Eng
lish law in order to cover such suspi
cious cases of conversion. A woman
JS'a? now done the same thing. Mrs.
Lennon, of Bombay, became a Mo
hammedan, and a few minutes there
after became Mrs. Meer Ahmed Khan.
Her English spouse complained, and
Bhe is now in jail awaiting her trial.
It is gratifying to note the progress of
the woman rights cause in tar on In
dia.
There is a wonderful amount of
truth in the assertion that loafers
never throw up the sponge.
agency ot a email music -oox ; ana
when this did not seem to "fetch 'em
the audience sang some familiar mcl
ody. After a short overture conduct
ed in this way. Katie appears at the
little window above mentioned. She
usually begins by thrusting a white
and shapely arm. speedily followed by
a pretty lace, framed in a mass of
black ringlets and set off by a jaunty
Spanish veil, which lies lightly on her
neaa. mere is proiouna siience uuui
she sars in a ghostly whisper, good
eyning. The salutation is courteously
returned, and then ensues a brisk dia
logue of the smallest kind of- small
talk, interrupted by frequent disap
pearances on the part of the young
lady. The tenor of this important
communication from the land ot the
tereatter is about as follows :
Good evening, Katie.
Good evening." ; .
Are vou alone this evening?''
No. Father is here, and General
Rawlins; but they can't materialize to
nieht." " "... s -. ' :
Katie, Mr. Owen (Kobert Dale
Owen) is here. ; Dou t you want to
sneak to him?"
" Why, of course, stupid. Good
evening Father Owen."
Mr. Owen bows, and says, vv ill
vou have this bouquet. Katie?"
Ot course 1 will, says rvatie, and
leaches her hand for it. It is given her
and she disappears with it, but pres
ently returns and gives it to somebody
to bold for her.
"Katie, can you come out for us to
night I
ill try. but its very warm and
verv hard to materialize
i ..... .
Katie accordingly disappears, and
the singing is resumed. Presently the
door ot the cabinet opens slowly. J
sat directly op osite the opening, but
could eee nothing until it was well
aiar: theu a white figure seemed to
trrow out of the darkness within, and
Katie stepped forward gracelully, took
two or three Btens into the room, and
retired, closing the door after her by
lifting her hand to the latch, she
was dressed in a somewhat theatrical
costume of pure white, which flowed
to her teet and seemed to be ol a hne
kind of muslin. The sleeves were
loose and flowing, and as she wived
her hands in the stereotyped style of
the stage sylph, tho sleeves lell away 1
to the shoulder, displaying a pair ol
perfect arms which might well arouse
the envy ot any earthly belle. Her
figure was full and round, and her face
was beaut ilul in outline and expres
sion, with a complexion so clear and
transparent that it either seemed to,
or actually did, shine with a mild radi
ance. In her hand she held a fresh
bouquet, and a dagger-fan given her
at some former seance was stuck in
her girdle, while on her neck sparkled
a silver cross, also a present, suspend
ed from what was said to be a neck
lace of diamonds. She came au J went
several times, touching with her hand
a number of the audience, among them
your correspondent. It was the soft,
gentle, magnetic touch of a woman :
but the hand that gave it was cool and
dry, notwithstanding the furnace-like
heat of that closed cabinet. She re
claimed her bouquet, kissed a young
lady who was. one of her dearest fol
lowers, and one occasion seated her
self, with much apparent difficulty,
aud remained for Bome time in full
view of the audience. But the most
wonderful part ; was . yet to come.
"Katie," said Mrs. Holmes, "can you
It is only fair to admit that the ear
piercing practice was not the invention
of a woman. The Mohammedan tra
dition of its origin is that Abraham
began it. Sarah, in one of her fits of
jealousy regarding Hagar, vowed that
she would not rest until she had dip
ped her hands in Hagar's blood. In
order to quiet Sarah and at the same
time allow her to fulfill her vow.
Abraham pierced Hagar's ears while
she slept, anointing Sarah's hands
with the blood, and then in memory
of it placed rings in Hagar's ears.
The Kokomo Tribune thus indorses
Hon. James L. Evans, Republican
nominee for Congress in the Eleventh
District : He resides at Noblcsville.
He is a strawberry' blonde in other
words, his hair is red. He is not a
lawyer. His weight is about one hun
dred, and ninety. He is squarely
built. He is fine looking. He is a
thorough-bred. He is one ot the best
business men in the State. He is
honest. ' He don't even use tobacco
or whisky. He don't even drink: n
glass of beer. He says he has no need
of anything of the kind, because ho is
always well.' He works hard six days'
ot each week, lie has freckles on the
back of bis hand, and horns on the
side. If the people want a working
man in office. Evans ought to be their
choice." '
Local Xtlea eeaita per Uae.
Sereaade f Ha. J. T. Wllaaa.
Hon. J.- M. Wilson and family re
turned on Tuesday of last week from
the White Mountains, where they had
been since the adjournment of Con
gress. On the evening of the same
day a large number of citizens, accom
panied by the Connersville Band,
repaired to Mr. Wilson's residence
for the purpose of welcoming him
home. : After some appropriate music
i by the band, Mayor Forrey, on the
behalf of the citizens, welcomed J udge
Wilson home as follows :
Hon. Jeremiah M. Wilson-:
SlR On behalf of the citizens of the
City of Connersville I welcome you
home with the assurance that this
word of welcome finds a hearty re
sponse in the heart?, .of all present, . i
both young an old. - r or the past year
the reople of favette county, and I
may add the people of the whole Union
have viewed with pride the noble and
patriotic enorts you have made in un-
earthing fraud, corruption and crime
wherever perpetrated, unchanged and
unbiased by any political preferences,
as the Representative of this district,
in Congress. And now. sir. permit
me to say that, regardless of political
opinions, not only the citizens of Con
nersville, but the people of the whole
country, join in the acclamation, Well
done, good and faithful . servant.'
Again, in behalf of the citizens, I ex
tend to you a hearty welcome, with the
hope that your life among us may be
one only of pleasant associations and
pleasant memories, and that your fu
ture life, as in the past, may merit the
unqualified approval of your fellow
citizens :
The Slayer's remarks were greeted
with applause, after which Judge Wil
son responded as follows : .. :
Mr. Mayor, Friends and Neighbors:
For this most unexpected and gen
erous welcome I have no words at
command to express my gratitude. I
have read , that the man who wrote
"Home, Sweet Home" thatsongwhich
touches tho : hearts of men and wo
men of every , nationality, in every
clime within t he bonds of Christendom,
never knew himself what it was to
have a home, but was all his life long
a wayfarer and a wanderer in the wide
world. I feel to-night that home is
not alone the walls of wood or brick,
oretone, the roof that covers them,
the grass, flowers and trees that grow
without, and even added thereto the
household gods that dwell within, but
that there is yet another element es
sential to its completeness the friends
that we are so fortunate as to gather
about us. ;
To see again the green hills and
fields that lie about our little city, to
be beneath the shadow of these trees,
. 1 . 1 1 , -m , . ..."
tne grow in oi wnicn i nave watcned,
to bo away from the turbulence inci
dent to public life, and back again un
der the roof which for bo many years
has sheltered me and mine, is a de
light indeed, but its edge is made the
keener by the familiar faces of those
who - have been kind friends in the
fiast, and whose friendship I hope
ong to retain ; among whom I expect
to make my future home, and where I
hope to die. ...
Observation ha6 taught me that in a
country like ours, where political pre
ferment is, as it always should be,
open alike to all, tho tenure of politi
cal lile in any one man must generally
be uncertain. Ceaselessly men are
striving to reach the hdder and climb
it ceaselessly they strive to push off
those who are above them, only to be
in their turn pushed off and forgotten.
It is not only possible but probable
that with the 4th of March next will
tonic the end of my public career. For
fourteen years, as most of you know,
I have been engaged almost withont
interruption in the discharge of pub
lic duties. I look back to-night over
that period and see with regret the
many errors of judgment into which I
have fallen. No one regrets them
more than 1; but the words that have
been spoken on this occasion embold
en me to say in this presence that I
lcel a consciousness that 1 have al
ways striven to see my duty, and to
discharge it to the best of my ability.
i need hardly say that 1 most hear
tily thank you for . this manifestation
of your good will, and will only add
an invitation to come within, extend
ing to you the warmest welcome.
.. Judge Wilson's sjeech was greeted
with applause, and three hearty cheers.
The Republican Press of this Dis
triet endorse heartily the nomination
of B. F. Claypool, as will be seen by
extracts from several of them. The
Journal joins hands with the press
and the people, and will do its level
best to make Mr. Claypool our next
Congressman. He has the abilityand
energy to make a successful campaign
against that prince of all demagogues,
Judge Holman, and that he will re
ceive at least 1,500 majority we have
no doubt at all.-Winchester Journal
The Democrats favor the repeal of
the " Baxter Bill," "and the enact
ment of such a license law as shall
protect society, produce a large' in
crease of the school fund." The school
fund isn't suffering, and we want no
law, that, while it is educating the
children of the Slate, will also tuako
drunkards out of them. If drunken
ness is an evil it is wrong to license
the traffic in liquor. Spiceland Re
porter. " ;
A few days ago the Cincinnati En
quire published the following para
graph: "At the East Indiana Democratic
State Convention the Wall street in
fluence was at hand. It had its nlat.
Ibrin already dratted. It had its men
picked out to put it through. Mr.
Keer was there with thousands of
copies f a Wall street document
ready for circulation among the dele-gates."-
The ludianapolis Sentinel announ
ces with great gusto that Hon. M. C.
Keer. Gov. Hendricks. Hon. D. W. '
Voorbees, Hon. Geo. W. Julian, and
other leading Democratic politicians
will stump the State in behalf of the
Democratic State ticket against the
Baxter , law. Wonder what George
will have to say in behalf of the "slimy '
snake-eyed Copperheads" he used to
abuse so roundly. Winchester Jour
nal.;' V -: .. ; . .
Milwaukee styles Chicago her "con
flagrationary suburb."
A general out-break of the anti-negro
feeling is observabb in some of
tho Southern States. A recent exam
ple is furnished in the action of a mob
in one of the interior towns of Texas.
Two young men from Illioois,who had
settled there with their mother and
sister, made themselves obnoxious to
the ex-rebels around there by organ
izing a negro Sunday School. Of
course such a feeling in the Southern
mind could only find expression in
violence, and accordingly the house
was attacked by a mob, who forced an
entrance and siezed the two young
men with the avowed intention of
hanging them. But the inmates of
the house made a bravo resistance,
and before they were overcome the
mob was frightened away by the ap
proach of a band of negroes from the
neighboring village; not, however, un
til they had beaten one ot the young
men nearly to death, with the butts ot
their pistols, and administered a hun
dred lashes with a heavy wagon-whip
on tne oare pacx oi tne other. The
unfortunate family being informed by
me ouenu mat ne was utterly power
less to protect them, hurried away to
a place of gaiety, and finally made
food their escape from the State,
here is a great deal of this feeling
prevalent in the South, and it breaks
out precisely in proportion as the Dem
ocratic party acquires power, or feels
confident of soon acquiring power. A
general Democratic victory would be
followed by an increased crop of mch1
i: .i
vintages, cuuiug prouauiy in tne ex
pulsion ol negroes and Northern men
from the South. .
Tho last Texas legislature Daised
an act granting all survivors of, the
j war which achieved the. independence
oi iciaa irum juexico, a pension Ol
H50 per annum from the first of July
, 1874. Those who have been
nently disabled are to receive tlRn . a.
ditional per annum. It is said that
the survivors of the Texas revolution
oi joi are scattered all nn, h
Uuion.