Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-23

of the sun, from five to fifteen years; lamih- aEed fine brownstone from twenty five to fifty years; compact fine brownstone from one to two centuries; Nova Scotia stone will probably last from fifty to hundred years; Ohio sandstone, the best of the sandstone, one hundred years; Caen stone, from thirty five to forty years; coarse dolomite marble, forty ye ars; fine marble, sixty years; pure calcareous marble, from fifty to one hundred years; granite, from seventy-five to two hun dred years, according to variety. Bluestone is as yet untried, but will prove good build ing material. Some of the causes that pro duoe decay in stones are solutions and hydra tions of the stones snd heat of the sun.
 Congressman Blackburn of Kentucky frankly announces what he intends to do in the next House. He will insist upon reform ing the tariff first by putting one-half the ar ticles now subject to duty on the free list and reducing the duties upon others to a revenue basis. In the second place he will insist upon free ships and revision of the navigation laws. Next he is going to get back all the land not earned by the railroad corporations to which it has been granted. His fourth en- deavor will be to abolish the internal revenue bureau entirely and compel the custom house officers to perform it's duties To reduce the number of public officers and the expendi- ture of public money to the lowest praetica ble point xiil be his fifth object In the sixth and seventh place he will insist upon an ap, propriation of $25, 1000 for educational purposes, and 'fulp' appropriations for the Mississippi river. This is large programme and will give Mir. Blackburn enough te do.
 Rev. John Jasper of Richmond, the negro preacher who believes that ''de sun do move, ,, is so popular in Richmond that when a stran- ger inquiries the way to his church the direc- tions are to take car to certain corner and then follow the crowd. Dr. Ludlow describes him as one of very few of the old time col ored preachers left in the South. "As such he is an historical study. But he is of still greater interest in showing the capabilities of the negro mind. If such force full oratory, such power to sway men of his caste be compatible with utter ignorance, what might not Jasper have become had he been educated in the forms of truth and trained in the arts of expression ?' These impressions were given by a sermon on Jasper's favorite belief that "de sun do meve." A neighboring preacher had ridi- culed his arguments on that subject, and the discourse closed with this challenge: 1T dar' de Reberend Wells to link arms wid me, an we'll go up to de judgment seat of de LOT, an say: 'Lor' you jus side 'twix us An IT,. d.. Eo
 you hab made mistake An if dat udder clergyman is wrong. de LOT say to i'm Dick Wells, you 'bominable liar go down thar to var own place."
 Bishop A. Cleveland Coxe heartily praises the English bishops for their votes on the ssDeceased Wife's Sister" bill He says The bishops themselves are politically di- vided the Bishop of Exeter is a Liberal, al- most Radical and says that nothing but careful examination led him to the vote he gave against his former prejudices. The Bishop of Peterborough is second to no man in the House of Lords in public debate. Is the Prince of Wales more snlig gttened and virtuous than they? Would it have been wise to yield their judgment to his I say nothing of the learning of the bishops gen. orally several of them have no equals in Parliament in that qualification. No man in the United States Senate is the superior of the two men have named in any qualifioa- tion for legislative duty. These are the men who, because they agree with three success sive High Chancellors as to the melancholy effects in changing the universal law of Christendom irl this particular, must be sneered at as incompetents. Whether I agree with them or not, I write to claim for them fair play. And I say, deliberately, that never did men act more creditably in such circumstances, if we except the case of the seven bishops who resisted the treachery and despotism of James the Second, and be- came the saviors of constitutional freedom.