, 1876-08-28

~icw If lila subject, Nt0 Cat1HrA rpnrs 1f laMHh-
ter at tho rather gfotes4ns t!easc. @ ~ drew % 81
81 tse ecssrr'e'i s'i troush is discourse 4! s',cec:,in
II Il mt dIgniflod, manner, The Ehler said tue
hhIrih o. The. nation dated Dacl! 10 ycare: jn
m n9 asrca nD5 a ii D Fin; IN nj 7 II ho 's snnppe ii.
yoai'sc ait atro,l.stTEs. Thls youthful Jona-
i than Ind oatgrown Ills trcnllc.hei,, IIc hatl
fsjlsu desperately IN lore with Miss 1llTrty, A
si,nr,nlpE young lady WIZ size, ana Jonatllnt uc-
irr,ni1lc to mnrry lirr, nnt1 SGT p house keeping
''v themselves fila mother forbid the bans, as
/; usual In such cases. a pretty state Of exs!tc-
ment m followed. She pursued her waywardtoy
~ catch him in Pennsylvania, drove like '1cllu
halt round Virginia. Putting on new courage,
lie chazcd him to the Enrol''lns, aud, after sever.
years effort. sle saw 4 was q lIopeless task
10 convinced l!c was Of age, and could take
es1o ~, Of himself, sho let lim 90. 4 matrimonial
alliance Was duly celebrated, ind Brother Jona-
than aud ss Liberty were ae ono; II t9
fua, ffsrcd InuteiY Tie haud Of God IN tho gradual
srTelopncnt Of those principles. which brought
aiot Tic alliance, and finally conducted thohcarer
1IU lOg.day 1s Wien ha left them for other tongues
=. sbolt the families they had raised, tic wealth
they lad accumulated, the, power they lad
saiacd, tho knowledge they had attained, and
'Ae'f '''0'' 4Mr siza or MS FARM.
"The Increase q pspqla!,!!fon During the Cen
tury" By the Key; 8; II. L. Wiley, q H. MRoclsfGra,
vas omitted. ewing to tne y Insss o. Thy spsnker'
y Dr. h p D. paper, ,'S Ealargement of Tsrrtorv to
tell snout tho Eowtth H. gi, 9t Tho Young ,a,r!sd
couples farm. Tins he d!d IN most eloquent
statlstIcnl knowledge that shows tho Doctor to
ho Icop reader and mcthoIical thinker.
MECHANICAL Ants, ETC, ~
7,1neos hs ioe q Se eehanea of Arts % n tSs paper
sir. Budlong set forth the early difficulties
experienced In furthering labor tho scanty
SUPPLY OF tools, ETC.. He took the ground
M liberty bn9gS y srts eonSn
sion, he showed that with the agency Of steam
nnl other mechanical Power We have a power
enual to 400, OK, 900 mrn in the United States,
bit with all our machinery we s werc re- actually ;;lly
iht iohhea was one Of considerable power and force.
AMERICAN LITERATURE
s s sFfa o Raskfos5 aSS5s'f H. II Tat ' hs & e
people read not only determined what their fll-
turc character would be, but was ftsclf an index
ot what their present character was. AT the
birth Of the Republic H. T. could M l!artl!y be aaa e
"Nho rcads n American book?" has ceased.
America had now a literature VI her own. The
speaker then traced the history OF our literature
and slinwesl the various Influences 1t bad had
upon American thought. toulme4etng With ths
thcoloeaR Edwards, he spoke Of Franklin mud
nthcr writer's OF Revolutionary tme, and
finally wound up. with -, graceful
allusfon to Bryant and Longfeilow., The speak,
wealth anl case Increased, and with them the
au,enitics OF culture n1l1 the revival Of letters
still America had never been prolific soil for
that literature Which is dcsignea simply 70 grail,
n,ure generally takcn tho ruggelcr typo Of cul-
tuye Of the Intellect and SOUL designed to profit
rather than to plcase,-to strengthen thought
rather thun TO tickle fancy. .-.
Tho improvement In books for youth the past
fifty years had been one Of tile most marked
characteristics Of this age Of books. Such writ
ers IS Goodrich, with his Peter parley, hayo
opened rich velu Of literary labor giving the
ySutl, something better thnn Mother Goose,
ind something more attractive than tho Eorcd
OK or the pelted boy Of Webstcr's spelling
book.
journalism was almost creation OF the past
century. Newspapers wcro printed long before
than any other agency we're made aIcnue by
which pltriots rouscd the hearts OF their couti-
trymet'. To-day iournaltsm Is distinct pro.
fesson, and the successful 1ournnltst waa
In 1770 there we're only u. newspapers pub.
llslel In America. In 1870, there Were zoo, but
IN 1870 tho number had Increased to 5,s7l, ol
which ~ 'gerc daily papcrs, In England, N
newspaper Of any kind to every 110,00 of the
inhabitants. To-day III our land the daily
press alone supplied a pal'et TO every % OF our
inhabitants, and that bcstdcs the 2297 wccllY
i and monthly papers that flooded our country. :"
Five thousand eight hundred and seycnty-nne
newspapers with an annual tssue OF 1,t08,b0
0o0 copies gong 70 oo9 readers was
gigantic intclleetua! A. 9nd moral asgnsy, *hoss e.
were rankcd as political papers, with various
shades Of Intellectual and 1noral chanee he was
glad to find TINT 407 Of then wero dlstinetivel,
=, Religious, With circulation Of nearly s 600 0N
!. copies Issued under tho control OF the Church
willie the secular papers reproduced Gospel ser
:. mons and Other religious matter.
An examination Of tho subject would be I'm
perfect tliat ignored the vast lntlucnco upon ou
:. speaker referred tu the .ant!s!ascry REFORM
calling out such orators ~ Summer and Phillips
aud such poets as Whittier. Tho power. 0
o1ssoEy Was then ~ the eahker ahs saS
canpupt, and, closing, found cause for svat!tMtl
that our national literature was so early in!ll
:. euced by religious thought and hatl hcen pre-
te1ssd 50 rs M Mr ss sufess Mas
cloquence that but few orators IN this state ca
boast Of. VIM. Aug. Smith ia one of I'll
strongest men in this Methodist Church o
Northwestern Illinois.
OTHER ADDRESSES.
The Rev Thomas @. Easton, Of Bclrtdcre
adaptation Of our. American Republic 70 til
wants and lopca OF mankinl rs revealed III tn
arst centuryh Tho Rey. Mr.::Eastou 3 yer
small man, and ono would have thought thu
such vcry large title and such All .imncna
roll Of manuscript as he unfolded before nearl
5000 persons would have mads him lcsitat
aud faltcr. But ho turned UP his sleeves all
wRaed through with yigor which completed
took by storm the crowd, and he safcly laude
On the llst page In one hour and thirty 1ntnutr
nEYxLorMENT or 0oyEMMENr.
Judge Smith, from Woodstock, ILL.,, gas
sons very strange ideas on the Development .
about bloolshed, tyranny, aud all that sort
thing But having once relieved his mind
tattitpg the dry bones Of Alexander, Nupoleo
Co., 10 becalne quite sensible, expressed ll!,l
sell well.sattsAed with our Government, an
wondered howfeop,e could talk so dlsrespcc
fully Of tlle United States Government, M
sol! the good .Mclhodists not to believe on
hAlf Of what the newspapers Democratic new
papers and "ReforM" organs) suld Ia FelAttu
10 our Government.
0ne Of the most able addresses OF the IL
VA de!!yerc4 To largc audience last night |
Elder w. G. Dandy, D. d., late Of the Chicae
District nt1,H NJ Ein{p nj "A fhprl nrn mn.