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James Wilson. who has been tried for the mur-
der of Warden willard of the Connecticut State Prs
on ustiiies the deed by declaring that Mr. Willard
brutally treated the prisoners. giving them only
putrd meat and fish to eat and threatening those
who complained of this diet with solitary conine-
ment. There rawberry festival in the prison
last June and Wilson says that at the very time the
prisoners were literally starving and would have
given all their berries for piece of soap with which
to wash themselves. These are accusations coming.
il is true. from suspicious source; the provocation
does not of course justify the homicide: but at the
same time, it is the duty of the State Government to
institute an inquiry into this alleged mismanage-
ment, and, if possible to get at the truth, making
the wrong right at once, if wrong should be dis
covered.
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Republicans will not be thrown off their
guard by the proclamation of Mayor Hall that
there is to bo no registration to-day. This
very unusual sacrifice of Tammany purposes
at the public demand may prove, after all, a
ruse of the Ring, at once to mislead and deter
Republicans Let the Republican Supervisors
and Inspectors be promptly at their places,
and the Republican voters do their duty and
register promptly to-day if they find the regis
| tration places Open.
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Peace rumors are again abroad-very IN
definite, yet promising 1t is said that Favre
is anxious to confer with Bismarck on the basis
of the cesson of Alsace and Lorraine--a very
sensible conclusion, since to that or one still
more humiliatng and costly France must come
at last. But meantime it is not unlikely that
German demands have grown greater. Ii is
also said that Russia, Austria, and England
have offered to mediate. brt this good news
has grown stale from frequent rcitcration. and
New-York tribune., 1870-10-19

Modern Generals do not preciptate battles
because the day happens to be one of glorious
memory. Other and more important consider
ations affect these bloody issues Hence, the
anticipations of those who looked for battles
ste,day-the anniversary of tho Battle OF
the Nations-at Paris and F6rte st. Aubln
are just as likely as not to be disappointed
We have no news of any movements at Paris,
though it would seem that serious engose-
ment is pending south of Orleans.
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Can the City Controller by any possibility
be persuaded to tell us what the actual debt
of the city is7 There is "A widespread feeling
among the taxpayers that some classes of
city bonds are becoming about as abundant as
those of Erie. What is the debt of the city ?
And how long are we to be kept from any
actual examination into our financial concerns 2
At present we are compelled to trust abso-
lutely to the tender mercies of the Tammany
Ring
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we find il difficult TO convince ourselves ''N''
it is not too good to be true

Gen. rleasonton in the Courts, ana the hev-
onno As.ossors in the field, continue war upon
,ho ,i,;Sl dstlors in the Fifth Ward of Brook
,ru ,ro Arr Arrests were attempted yesterday and
two of the Illicit distillers were sno'. uou.
p,o,snnton yID has instituted proceedings against
the owners of the real estate on wmcn ii,'ol.
stills were found by him in his raids OF ias'
summer. This may at least have the good ei-
feet of making property owners timid about
renting to the rascally trafiickers.
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Tho Prison Reform Congress, of whose pro-
ccedings full reports have appeared iii The
TRIBUNE, adjourned yesterday. The late ses-
sion has been the most important IN which
these reformers have united; and we trust
that the work which they have begun Is not
10 rest until the present frightful prison prac-
tees and punishments are modified and I'M
proved, not alone for the security of the pub
lie, but for the moral welfare Of the prisoners
as well
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The Indianapolis Sentinel claims the election Of
the Democratic State ticket in Indiana by
some $500 majority, with good working
majority in each branch of the Legislature.
The Journal, while conceding the State ticket
bv a very small majority, insists that the Re-
publicans have two or three majority in the
senate, and that the balance of power in the
House will be in the hands of Reform Repub-
Jcans, elected mainly by Democratic votes.
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REPUBLICAN NOMINATION AtTHN~U ~
RONDOUT, n. Y, Oct 17.-"s' iifan'.,'r
Congressional Convention Of me NJ H. DEic. . .
State Greene and Ulster) met 80 Ctts b.. oi % i..
inst. and nominated James G. Linds ~ . R'r', =
Ulster County. for Congress. Ne a''ti'' b. al =
man OF unquestionable intogri.g .l ..c.-t ~.
unites the whole Republican part. th. ~ r'- II
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SOITH CAROINA.

An election takes place ia Srt.h ~ oli' 3 ;--
day for a Governor, LieureuantGoy" 10 rr me- -
OF tho XLIId Congress, member. Of to lrS .trr -
county officers The opposing cand dsts fH- teN:".
and Lieutenant Governor are IA iolloVJ.
R>pvlh'a- Tsl. ''.el..
GOrernOr ....... Robert X. St.tt .s.FeI
LIEUT. -GOreTpOrA. :. RausieT. g. y. fil..-.
lively campaign has been l. Pre- -Tess '- se 49,,
weeks past and each party Is "onhd 1t - '.'".y.
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PENNSYLVANIA.

TIE REPUBLICAN LOSSES IL CONGREssMrN.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-Judge Kelley arrived
here this evening He says the losses OF the epubi-
cans In Congressmen in Pcnnsyyana WAS In no WY
connected with Revenue Reform Tariff. Ho thinks
Cessna Morre and Armstrong will contest The to'ai
of te majoroo against these amounts to only ~
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The severe gale of yesterday extended, it
seems, 10 all the Eastern States and the Lakes,
where great damage was done and loss Of life
and property inflicted. The present season
has been marked with unusually severe storms,
accompanied by foods and the extent of the
damage to growing and harvested crops cannot
yet be estimated, although the most of them
must now be out of danger.
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A young man hardly 20 years of age was recently
sentenced in the Superior Court in Boston to three
years in the State Prison for burglary. This preco-
cious hero his lawyer urged should have light
sentence on account of his tender wears but the
Distrct-Attomey showed from the record that since
thed was years old he had been arrested twice for
malicious mischief twice for violation of city ordi-
nances twice for larceny. suspicion Of break
ing and entering once for disturbing public school,
three times for dsorderly conduct. three times for
burglary, three times for assault and battery thlee
times for minor Oienses; and that he had been
sent back to his native Ireland but would Mt stay
there. most remarkable youth.
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THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE will be ready this
morning at o'clock in wrappers for mailing Price
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Mr.. Thomas Hughes is Ia sail for Liverpool on
Saturday, and his last evening in America viii be
devoted to lecture under the auspices of the
Mercantile Library Association, the announcement
of which will be found in advertising columns.
Ii Is new lecture written expressly for this
occasion, and we have no doubt that as many of Mr..
ughess friends IA the hall possibly be made to
hold will be present not only to hear what he has to
say. but To bid hIm hearty good-by
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At the Republican rally in Boston, and in
Faneuil Hall. on Saturday evening. Gen.
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POLITICAL.
REPUBLICAN, STATE TICKET.

KEPTBTITAN NTATE TITKET.
Governor. .............s sTHwART L.. w0ODPOHD. EAsS
Lt>"t- -Govapor .sigismund Kaufman, King
w. Palmer, Dv,cbesk
CaaaI COM CPsl Term .Absalom Nelson, Er.
Canal CON- (sbort TnsLAlex. BarkIey, washisgoa
Stak Frtsos Ipsppctor. John Psrkhurrt. Clinton.
Election Tuesday, Nov. n.
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pnsineso Noilee5.

BENEDICT's TINE.
u, ,rrtrys CHAINS DIAMONDS. STERLING SILyERwARB.
BENEDICT BROTHERS,
Keapes Of tie City Time,
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Reliance on God.

There may be some who are using every
endeavor to secure subsistence and an hon
orable position for themselves and those de-
pendent on them; and yet all their efforts
are unsuccessful Slowly the tide of COM
fort, and even of the means of existence, is
ebbing; and the dark reef, which threaten
utter shipwreck, lift their head. If some
change does not quickly come they feel that
temporal ruin is on them. 1t is time not
to relax effort, but to look out more intently
for deliverance from God, and to have the
heart resting on it.
Or there may be some one who has the
presence of a constant difficulty in the spr-
tual ife-perhaps the want of that sense of
religious comfor. which is felt to be so de-
sirable, or the cbtrusion of some painful
doubt about doctrine or duty, through which
no present light can be seen. To cast the
thing aside and become Indifferent to it,
would be against the promptings of the whole
spiritual nature; and yet to reconcile it with
other convictions is meanwhile impossible.
There are many such cases of painful want
of harmony in our time. A period occurs
in every genuine life when the simple faith
of childhood has to pass over into the intel
ligent faith of manhood, and such periods
occur also i'll the history of the world
Many things then seem shaken when they
are only about to be established on new and
higher ground If there are some who are
involved in such struggle, and if all thought
has failed to open a path through it, it
is time also for this more entire reliance
upon God. No exertiOn to reach light is to
be neglected, but there may be more i'm
picit confidence in Him who is the Father
of ights,-holding steadfaStly to what is
felt to be true, and waiting for illumination
on what is doubtful-"ca casting out the anchor
and wishing for the day."
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For THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
CALVIN ON THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.

Those who know the great theOlogian only
by name would hardly expect to find in his
Institutes some of the most tender and en-
couraging advice to Christians that is any
where to be met with The heartiest enjoy
ment of religion belongs logically to such as
are penetrated with the views of the divine
sovereignty which are here unfolded- the
views that Calvin received from Paul. "Out
of the strong cometh forth sweetness" The
purest streams of Christian consolation flow
through the green pastures, from the distant
mountains of doctrine that are seen only in
their dim outlines, and lose their SUBMITS in
the clouds
Nothing in uninspired literature is more
edifyiug than the humility and resignation
of those who have laid down the pride of in
tellect, as we'll as the burden of sin, at the
cross-receiying with unquestioning faith
the deepest mysteries of godliness because
they are found, with all their apparent con-
tradictions unexplained, and unexplainable
by man, in the sacred Scriptures, and bear
the royel signet of the King of kings. To
such it is given to rejoice where the unsub-
dued heart would murmur and repine, and
the faithless mind would wear out its powers
in vain speculations, dying at last in misery
and dark despair.
The submission of the understanding to
the high mysteries of the Word of God is
closely allied to the submission of the heart
to the dispensations of His providence; and
the one with the other belongs to the right
eousness whose ''work is peace, whose effect
is "quietness and assurance forever" We
may apply to the intellectual part of our
nature, as well as to our feelings and de-
sires, the following remarks of Calvin
Self denial, as it relates to God, habituates
us to equanimity and patience. First, there
fore in seeking the convenience or tranquil
ity of the present life, the Scripture calls
us to this point; that resigning ourselves
and all that we have to the will of God, We
should surrender to him the affections of the
heart, to be conquered and reduced to sub
lection. No man has rightly renounced
himself, but he who has wholly resigned him.
self to the Lord, so as to leave all the parts
Of his life to be governed by His will. He
whose mind is thus composed, whatever may
befall him, will neither think himself miser-
cradle, nor insidiously complain against God
on account of his lot" How far removed
from the gloom and austerity which many
iguorantly ascribe to the doctrines called
Calvinistic are these cheerful rules for the
attainment of happiness in this world. In
this field of dry truths, rigid logic, and abSO,
lutte faith, we find not the dreary and sterile
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and exhortation are parts of one and the
same discourse, and he that delivers one
must deliver the other, or he fails in prac
tical and lasting effect. We might as vel
load a gun with powder only, and expect ii
to do execution, as to expect lasting benefit
to the Church from mere exhorters; noise
and excitement are about the only result
We do not mean to reflect upon those that
have been designated to this novel position.
All we mean to affirm is that they must not
only exhort but instruct, or they can accom-
plish nothing, and if they do this they have
evidently assumed the duties of the ministry
without having been duly and Scriptu:ally
inducted into that responsible Office.
Now it may be objected that exhOrtation
is permitted in almost all religious assem-
bies, and that by almost any person who
may feel inclined. This is too generally
true. Yet it is to be remembered, first, that
the public are at liberty to take these i'm
promptu addresses for what they are worth,
for the parties who deliver them speak with
out authority. Those, however, that this
plan proposes to send forth, go with the
commendation and approval of the church
courts that appoint them; and they speak
in this function with the authority of the
Presbytery. And iu reply to this objection, it
should be remembered in addition, that these
religious exhortations to promiscuous assem-
bies by irresponsible persons are produc-
tive undoubtedly of a great deal of evil
inexperienced and unqualified exhorters are
the promoters of religious error and fauati-
cism. And though it is to be hoped that no
such persons will be designated by our Pres
byteries, yet there is no preparation de-
manded, no trials prescribed, no precaution-
ary measures adopted to guard against men
without the proper selfcontrol and caution
in the exercise of their gifts, obtaining these
appointments. And certainly it will be re-
markable if such a scheme is generally
adopted, should we not be sufferers at some
future time.
In our opinion, in place of encouraging
such custom, we as Church should exer-
else our bOasted conservative influence in
guarding our churches from the evil influence
of public exhorters. The eldership in
churches that have no pastor, have the over
sight of the religious interest of the congre-
cation. They may assemble congregations
for prayer, reading the Scriptures, and the
sermons of such approved divines as they
may select This is kind of religious SER
vice from which we may hope for more per-
manent good, than that to which we propose
to resort. God has certainly given us abun-
dant proof that the life and success of the
Church is not to be attained by the adoption
of novel and untried experiments; but by
abiding true to those means which he author.
ises, and relying upon his Spirit and grace
to give them efficiency.
We most earnestly hope, therefore, that
the Assembly will review and reverse its ac-
ton on this subject. NJ.
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Crude Notions of Self-Denial.

Many persons say, 81 ought to deny my
SELF" They are going along in life very
happily, and do not perceive any particular
reason for changing their course, but they
have read that man must deny himself,
and they say to themselves, "What shall |
deny myselfin? I wish 1 knew how 1 could
deny myself" And they go to work and
invent modes of self.denal. One person
says, 81 will not eat any butter" So he
denies himself. Another person says, ~
enjoy good coat as well as anybody else;
but, being Christian, my duty is to deny
myself; so l will get linsey-woolsey and let
the broad-cloth CO." That is his self-denial
Men have no idea what self-denial is. They
are doundering after something, they do not
know what. They are searching after an
opportunity for self-denial, not understand
ing that to deny ones self is simply to put
down lower feeling, in order to give
higher feeling ascendency. You have an
opportunity for self-denial every time you
see man. If you see man that you dis
like, put down that hateful enmity of soul.
That will be self-deniaI. Every time you
see person in misery, and you shrink from
relieving him, then relieve him. That will
be self-denial Do not say, 81 am so busy
cannot stop to see that little curmudgeon
in the street" but stop. God says, "You
are all brethren, and, ragged and dirty as
that child is, it is related to you in the larger
relationship of the eternal world; and you
must not be so busy as not to have time to
care for him. If your sel6shness says, 81
cannot stop: / do not want to be plagued
with these little ruffians of the street, and
a diviner element of the soul says, "Stop!
neither business nor pleasure has any right
here: religion, humanity and duty must rule
here;' and if you obey the dictates of that
divine element, then you deny yourself.
"In honor preferring one another" This
injunction suggests an ample field for self
denial. You that invent sack-cloth and hair
mittens to rub yourself with, so as to get up
self.denial and suffering; when you sit and
hear you brother in the law, of the Office
next to yours, praised, what is it that makes
you hold your breath? "Ohp' you say,
that is envy. ought not to feel so."-
There is blessed struggle What is born
out of it? If you rise superior to that COM
parison between yourself and him, and say,
81 thank God that he is esteemed more than
| am; | love and honor him, and l am glad
to see his name grow up, and it does not
hurt me to have his name go above mine"
then there is a glorious self denial What
are the elements of it? Why, putting down
your own sel6shness, and putting up the
brotherhood feeling.
No man, then, need hunt among hair
Shirts no man need seek for blankets too
short at the bottom and too short at the top;
no man need resort to iron seats and cush.
ionleSs chairs; no man need shut himself up
in grim cells; no man need stand on the top
of towers or columns, in order to deny him.
self There are abundant opportunities for
self-denial. If man is going to place the
higher part of his nature uppermost, he will
have business enough on hand.
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Spasmodic Piety.

. A quaint writer compares certain class
of professors Of religion to "sheet iron
stoves heated by shavings." When there is
little reviving in the church, they all at
once come up and become exceedingly warm
and jealous. They are ready to chide the
pastor and elders for their coldness and
want of activity. But, alas the shavings
are soon burned out, and then the heat goes
down as it went up. They are never seen
in the prayer room, or more spiritual meet
ings of the church again, until there is an
other excitement. If such people had not
souls of their own to be saved, they would
not be worth taking into the church. They
cucumber it, though they may themselves
receive benefit from a connection with it,
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THANKFULNEss.-If one should give me
a dish of sand and tell me there were parti.
cles of iron in it, might look for them with
my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy
fingers, and be unable to detect them; but
let me take a magnet and sweep through it,
and it would draw to itself the most inevita-
BILE particles, by mere power of attraction.
The unthankful heart, like my finger in the
sand, discovers no mercies but let the thank
full heart sweep through the day, and, as the
magnet finds the iron, so it will fnd in every
hour, some heavenly blessings, only the iron
in Gods sand is gold
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STREAMS IN THE DESERT,

A living, loving, lasting word,
Ny listening ear believing heard,
While bending down in prayer,
Like sweet breeze that none can stay,
1t passed my soul upon its way,
And left blessing there.
Then joyful thoughts, that come and go
By paths the holy angels know,
Eneamped around my soul;
AS in dream of blest repose,
Mid withered reeds a river rose,
And through the desert stole.
| lifted up my eyes to see
The wilderness was glad for me,
Its thorns were bright with bloom:
And onward travellers still in sight,
Marked out path of shining light,
And shade unmixed with gloom.
Oh sweet the strains of those before,
'The weary knees are weak no more,
The faithful heart is strong; "
But sweeter, nearer, from above,
That word of everlasting love,
The promise and the song.
Anaa Lstitia Waring.
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things. My wife and myself often visited
him in his last sickness. We stood by his
bedside when he breathed his last. My own
hand closed his eyes. [ spoke at his funeral,
and we accompanied his remains to their
last resting place. His memory will ever
awaken tender reflections in our bosoms. \
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IT is not required that man shall always
be perfect, in order to be true Christian.
But it is required that he should be sincere
seeker after perfection. 1t is required that
he should be moving toward, and advancing
up the straight and narrow way of life.
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He who cannot find time to consult his
Bible will one day find that he has time to
be sick; he who has no time to pray must
find time to die; he who can find no time to
reflect is most likely to find time to sin; he
who cannot find time for repentance will find
an eternity, in which repentance will be of
no avail; he who cannot find time to work
for others, may find an eternity in which to
suffer for himself II. More.
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ATHEIsM.-Within the short period of ten
wears not less than three millions of human
beings are supposed to have perished in
France by the influence of Atheism..--Dr.
Dwiqht.
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Why, 0 man. should thy life be full of
sorrows, when, by coming at once to God,
thou wilt come to an end of them all?
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BLESS GoD for what you have, and trust
him for what you want.
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COP gives birds their food, butthey must
fly for it,
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EXPORTERS.

Fox rHE CESrRAL PREsBrrEsrAN.