Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-03-16
oUR new YORK LETTER.
MOODY amd Sankey-PoIoaiCal
Moo3Y ASD. gASKEy.


are announced as lectures, and
Monday the streets were placarded
with huge posters in the shape OF
theatre posters, bearing the title OF
the first lecture, ''On the Blood"
No other intimation was given that
IL was not medical discourse. as
every one took IL to be on reading IL
at the first glance. The church mem
be,s who can command their time,
have given up every other pursuit
and attend meetings at all hours,
protesting to find enjoyment In them.
IL il necessary TO give up everything
else to attend, for one must go an
hour beforehand, and there Is no
time left Of half day IL one attends
n meeting. The great doors fanked
by the winged Assyrian figures, that
saw the H.ppodrome put to other
uses, and like the antetypes, survive
all changes, are open at haifpast
eleven for the morning meeting, and
the tl,rong which melts into the ball
half fills il at once. The audience IL
unconcerned, ladies chatting with
their friends, ministers In the gallery
seats close to the speakers railing
are deep In low-toned earnest chat
about the advisory council, the pros
poets Of Oliver Johnson's new paper,
or fhe latest from the inquiry rooms.
and Mr., Moody's last method. The
only thing that would distinguish
the meeting from colsium concert
in Jubilee time in Boston, Ii the
number Of very poor, wretched look
ing people who come, 1t was the
only sign that these meetings were
called In the name OF the Christ who
gathered mnltitudes together, and
had compassion on them because
they were as sheep without shep-
herd. There were such poor, decrepit
old women, In garments barely de-
cent to cover them, past all decency
OF ncatncss, and bopnets barely res
cued from the coal.hole, children
with nnkempt hair, and frowsy gar
merts, brought by bending grand
mothers, or drawn by curiosity into
the free meeting; men evidently out
IF work, filthy, Responding and for
iorn. from the back streets and alleys
pitting down beside ladies In fnrs and
velvcts, and spruce young men with
flowers In their button-holes.
POLITICAL.
The Union League Club, which
represents the unofficial end OF the
Republican party Of this city, has
felt impellod to express Itself. 1t
has resolved that no man should be
nominated who IL not entirely above
suspicion Of dabbllng In speculation,
and who IL not entirely free from
complications that would lead him
ia that direction. This IL somewhat
ambiguous, but there can be no doubt
ne 10 it's meaning. u Is 4 dig ut
Grant aud Mt Roscoe Conklin, and a
protest against the interference OF
custom house and Post office employ.
oes ia politics. 1T IL demand for q
throwing overheard Of the profos-
sionsl politicians, and call for now
men to come TO the front, men not
involved In ontnngling alliances, or
mixed In any way with what is
known rs management Bclknap
has played the dickens with tho reg.
ulnrs. The people are not In tho
humor TO be foole with just now,
aud the action of the Union League
Club IL significant. The members do
not propose to quit the party, but
they do propose 70 clean II. They
will have none but clean men. The
third term idea, which had, at one
timo, some strength here, Is dead as
asmolt. Right or wrong, there IL a
terrible feeling Of distrust OF the old
-iagers, and desire for new mon.
The country will do what IT did In
1851, when Sherman, Colfax, Bur-
llngame, and now old leaders Of the
Republican party came TO tho sur
face. That Congress was made up
almost entirely new men, and so will
the next be. lie will be very clean
tnan who survives the impending
storm. Belknap, Schenck, aud the
other convicted as we'll as the sus-
pected ones, have done the young
nspirants Of the country IN immense
service.
BUSINESS
continues as usual. New York issit.
ting down with folded hands, and Is
eating itself up. There Is no bust
ness whatever-in fact the doing OF
business Is rapidly becoming ono OF
tina Lost arta. The spring- time Ia