The Portland daily press., 1875-02-04

time. She always toiled and labored as a wife
should. AT the time we entered Plymouth
church We sympathized strongly in our relig--
ious opinions. We were both connected with
the Sunday School and she worked in the cause
of religion and the church..
My wife was of sympathetic and affection
ate nature. think my wife loves everything
good and hates everything bad. do not think
the topic of pride in woman's chastity and
purity ever came up for discussion, and never
heard her opinion on it. She always took great
pride in her sex, but do not think she ever
chose the one subject of chastity to discourse
upon. think she was distressed at hearing of
any habits OF improperly of women towards
men as every lady should be. l have always
thought my memory of dates was below the
average | can remember many things by
pictures. was brought up as a child in the
old church with extreme calvanistic ideas, and
at my 3Oth year my ideas changed to what
may be called Unitarianism though Ibid not be-
long to that body. l did not believe in the
divinity of Christ, or that he was Jehovah. [
would say that my wife and L agreed in our re-
leous views till was 30, and after that we
disagreed This change in my religious views
caused her great unhappiness and she wanted
me to agree with her. but did not. | think
she had abandoned the idea of q hell, follow
ing in this respect the doctrine of Plymouth
church.
There came period in 1870 when my views
changed with regard to clergymen. l would
not cloud the fame of all clergymen for the
sins of one have never spoken on the hatred
of churches L took the ground that the
church favored slavery aud as an aboli zionist l
hated the churches, not in their religion but in
their ecclesiastical government. [ took the
ground that the clergymen were not the leaders
but the followers of public opinion, but there
were some clergymen who were shining eXcep-
lions to this rule and among them was Mr..
Beeeher.
The doctrine of despisng slavery was the
doctrine of Plymouth church, and was taught
there.
tween Beecher and me in 1859 as to whether
some funds of Plymouth church should be used
for society out West who held men in bond
age. There was no political disagreement be-
tween us till after his sermon in 1860 on mill
tary emancipation being impossible. The next
difference was on the Cleveland convention,
which was very broad one. GO ~
Mr.. Evarts here suspended his cross.ex-
animation and the court adjourned for the day.
Trade and Finance. ..
1t is stated that gold will reach 1.20 before it
stops. There are several reasons for this: Flrst
the treasury balances are unusually low;
second, the premiums offered by the German
government with the design to draw the bulk
of the gold of the world to its Golfers, making
it profitable to ship gold to Europe, and the
consequence is that the recent shipments have
been very great. The prt fit in every SlOO,000
is said to be $500 net; third. the merchants are
using large amounts of gold to pay duties on
goods in bond, in anticipation of the Presi-
dents signature to the Little tariff bill;" and
lastly, spectators, taking advantage of these
circnm stances, are buying up cash gold with
view to a corner and the heavy consequent
profits. Yesterdays customs receipts were the
largest of any single day for years. They
amounted to $150,O00. This is in anticipation
of the Presidents signing the Little tariff
BILL" the merchants being anxious to withdraw
their goods now in bond before the increased
duties go into effect.