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Year: 1867

Senator FEssESDES was annoyed the other
day into long defence Of himself against
what he characterized as q squib in news
paper" which was launched at him from the
Senate gallery by one Of the correspondents.
He said he had not got to that pass when
such things disturb his equanimity."
He declared that he avoided such attacks by
not reading the newspapers This is good
advice to the people. He remarked: livery
seldom look at them" Now, the fact is, the
speech shows that the Senator does read the
papers, and carefully, too, and that his
"equanimity was most seriously disturbed,
and to such an extent that, although he is
the gravest in the body, and its distinguished
leader, he was actually forced to step aside
from the legitimate and highly important
concerns Of the country to impose his griev.
ances about a newspaper squib upon the
Senate and the people.
Year: 1867

We have on previous occasions alluded to
the fact that an article published some days
since by city cotemporary, favoring armed
resistance to Congress, had been extensively
published and credited to the REPUBLICAN, in
different sections Of the North, accompanied
by the announcement that it was authorized
and sanctioned by THE President. We an
nounce again, on our own account that no
such article ever appeared in the REPUBLICAN,
and we have the highest authority for assert
ing that the statement alluded to was not
authorized or sanctioned by The President
to appear in any other journal at any time
The paper in which the sensational article
was printed never assumed to be The PREsr
DENTS organ, and never asserted that such
article was inspired by The President. The
mischief was done by telegraphic correspond
ents
Year: 1867

GEN. BuTLER's Surrs.-A few days age
motions we're made by the counsel for Gen
B. F. Butler to transfer five suits now pend
ing against him in the Supreme Court Of the
District Of New York to the United States
Circuit Court. The motions were argued at
considerable length, the counsel for the re,
spective plaintiffs opposing the removal ol
the actions from the State to the Federal
courts; first, for the reason that there was no
law for such proceeding; and, secondly, that
there was not as good prospect Of speedy
and exact justice for the plaintiffs in the
Federal as in the State courts-especially so
as Gen. Butler was party defendant. On
Thursday Justice Barnard rendered his de.
cision granting the motions and transferring
the actions to the United States Court for
trial
Year: 1867

The Peak and Berger Families attracted
another crowd at Metzerott Hall last night,
and more delighted audience we never
saw. The silvery sounds of the bells and
the sweet music, vocal and instrumental, Of
the bellies Of the troupe are worth ten times
the price Of ticket The entertainment Is
exceedingly varied. We regret that the
Bell Ringers are to remain in Washington
but a few evenings longer. On Saturday
afternoon a grand matinee will be given,
when the young folks will be admitted for
half price.
Year: 1867

The Chicago Tribune, the great Radical
thunderer Of the Northwest, is out in an
elaborate and fOrcible article against the i'm
peachment Of THE President.


About the only Radical paper in the
country having any considerable circulation
that now faVorS impeachment is the New
York Herald, and that journal has already
begun to ridicnle its own position.
Year: 1867

Receiving the grace of God in vain."-2
Cor. vi: l.


Creation may be termed the power of
God, Providence his wisdom, heaven his
holiness, and hell his justice; even so
most aptly and beautifully, the Gospel is
his grace. The fountains of grace were
sealed up in the counsels of eternity un-
til man fell and redemption dawned up
on the guilty world.


1t is much for us to have received this
precious grace of God. The angels who
fell received it not; to them it was never
offered. Large portions of mankind have
not received it; they live in heathen
darkness. The olden Jews received only
dim and distant glimpses of it. But to
us God has given to enjoy its full revela-
ton. We have received it-not in stint
ed measure, doled out by priestly craft,
mixed up with human traditions-but In
IT'S pureness and fulness, as delivered by
Chf1Sr, prvaUtvd- by APOSTLES, witnessed
by martyrs, and demonstrated with power
by the Holy Ghost. How high and sol
emn our trust and responsibility? The
question is-how have we received it?


First, are we of those who receive the
Gospel of grace in name and not in real
ity; who profess and do not possess
who say they have faith and love, and
vet have them not who have the out
ward baptism of water, but not the in
ward baptism of the Spirit, and are uni
ted to the visible body of Christ, but
have no spiritual and vital unionto Christ
himself? Is such our case-having a
name to live and are dead? Then we
have received the grace of God in vain.


Or second, do We receive it with the
head, and not with the heart also in
mere knowledge and rational conviction,
without the feeling and the power! Ii
so, it is in vain. For what can it avail
to know that Christ died to save us, il
we do not love and trust and take him as
our Saviour? May we not know all tha
the damned know, and yet become as
hopeless as they? True, the grace O
God must first be known; it must ente
in at the door of the mind in order tt
Year: 1867

reach the heart. But if it stop there; if
it lodge in the brain and get no further; !;
if it do not go down into the heart, and
lnfuse it's vitalizing power into the soul
and the life-what can it signify? 1t
were indeed far better never to have known
the grace of God than to receive it thus
in vain; for although light and convic-
tions cannot save us, they may make our
hell more dreadful.


Again, it will be in vain for us to re-
ceive in part and not in ~hOle. The
Gospel is totality-an indivisible uni
ty-and must be so received. You can
not divide the one living and glorious
body of Christ. You cannot receive him
for Justification and not also for saOctif-
cation; for pardon, and not for holiness !;
for the hopes, joys and comforts of his
religion, and not also for its duties, cross
es, and self. denials. Y wv many
think to accept the &C. lGlain
ant'-eas,. sl.i,rssss9 =
hard and mysterious u re
anxious to enjoy religion, are little
to practise it, and to adorn the doctrine
of God their Saviour. Now this is all
wrong. If we truly receive Christ, We
take him just as he is, for better and for
worse; we give up all and are willing to
become all things or nothing for him.


But lastly, we receive the grace of God
in vain, if we are not saved by it. This
at least is plain. The Gospel is designed
to save US, and if not saved, it matters
not what our hopes, professions and ex-
perences may bet is failure as re-
CARDS us. We have received it in vain.
1t will be no failure as regards God and
the vindication of his righteousness in
our destruction but for us it will and
must be so, and far worse; for shall not
the having received this wondrous grace
in vain add wrath to wrath, and be as
fuel to the fire of our remorse? "We
then, as workers together with him, be
seech you also, that ye receive not the
grace of God in vain" j. F. B.
Year: 1867

A little way know 1t is not far
To that dear home where my beloved are;
And yet my faith grows weaker as | stand
A poor lone pilgrim in a dreary land,
Where present pain the future bliss obscures.
And still my heart sits, like bird, upon
The empty nest, and mourns its treasures gone


Plumed for their flight,


And vanished quite.
All me! where is the comfort though say
They have but journeyed on a little way!
A little way-at times they seem so near,
Their voices ever murmur at my ear;
To all my duties loving presence lend,
And with sweet ministry my steps attend,
And bring my soul the sweet luxury of tears.
Twas here we met and parted company;
Why should their gain be such a grief to me?


This sense of loss!


This heavy cross
Dear Saviour, take the burden off. pray,
And show me heaven is but-a little way.
These sOmbre robes, these saddeOed faces, all
The bitterness, the pain of death recall;
--~------- - ---tace- q Shers,erI may, a~
see the traces of a sure decay;
And parting takes the marrow out of life.
Secure in bliss, we hold the golden chain
Which death, with scarce a warning, snaps in
twain;


And never more


Shall time restore
The broken links; twas only yesterday
They vanished from our sight-a little way
A little way this sentence repeat,
Hoping and longing to extract some sweet
To mingle with the bitter; from Thy hand
take the cup can not understand,
And in my weakness give myself to Thee
Although it seems so very, very far
To that dear home where my beloved are,


/ know, l krow


1t is not so
o, give me faith to feel it when / say
That they are gone-gone but little way


Hours at Home.
Year: 1867

going to hear such pfeaohing as that
No one seems for a miment toreaect that
he had any motipe fer going to church,
different from that which carries him to
lecture or to the opaa- It is but too
common to look upoa the church as a
place of entertainment instead Of a place
of wOrship. Without fully discussing
just here the object Of meeting together,
is it not sufficient plesfor panctual and
prompt attendance, to say that all paHs
of the service, from the LauocatieS of
Gods blessing to the Benediction, are
worthy of the earnest attention of all Eho
come to the house of God? s


A COUNTRY PASTOR.
Year: 1867



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Year: 1867

A HORSE in Logan, Ohio, few days ago
seole boy four years old and carried him
seven miles into the country. A country
man found him crying bitterly and unable
to give any account of himself. The own
er OF the horse was as delighted as the
father of the little urchin at the safe return
of the oddly-matched vagrants.
Year: 1867

The Legislative Report ON the Now York


Ferries.


The report Of the committee appointed BY
the Legislature to investigate the condition Of
The different ferries between New York, Brook
lyn and New Jersey presents very unsatis-
factory stale of things, rs tar a. the safety and
comfort Of those who travel by them are oon-
cerned While there Is apparently desire -
deal very leniently with the Union Ferry Com
pany's lines to Brooklyn, still all the serious
causes of complaint which have been urged
against them are admitted. They may b
briefly summed up:-The boats were found BY
the committee deficient in the means Of saving
life In case Of accident; that assistance from
other boats in such emergencies, occurring In
foggy weather, is out of the question, and thai
the irregularity in starting the boats, and
sometimes Withdrawing them altogether, ID .
matter Of such inconvenience to the public
that the committee are forced to condemn Il
With regard to the other ferries the report is
less delicate. The Hoboken ferry ID pro.
nounced in shocking condition, with hardly
a spark Of saving grace about it The Wee.
hawken establishment Is declared disgrsoefhl
in point Of cleanliness and the comfort Of pas.
sengers. The lines to Williamsburg are 70
ported to be conducted with entire disregard
to the convenience Of the public. Altogether
the report lays heavy hands upon the general
management Of all the New York ferries, and
bears out In . great measure the numerous
complaints which have been made against
them, although 1t does not appear that during
their Investigations people took much trouble
TO furnish them with evidence, while at Tie
same time IL Ii known that the Union Ferry
Company took especial care of the comforts
Of the committee, and treated them with par
ticular distinction during their short sojourn in
Brooklyn. 1t is said that they were we'll sup
piled with information from the company's
standpoint, and equally well supplied with the
good things Of this life from the compsny's
plethoric larder.


The committee say that they are not pre-
pared TO introduce bill which will bs
sufficient in its provisions to regulate the
ferries; but they recommend q measure BY
which these monopolies should be placed under
the control Of the Metropolitan Police and .
ferry superintendent This may be an In
provement upon no control OF all, provided
that the Police Board has not as much to DO
already o. they can well attend to.
Year: 1867

A committee Of the Commo.: Council are to
hold meeting at .ae ...e City Hall on Friday nexs
70 hear any objections that may be urged


against the location Of the Post Office at the


lower end Of The Park. The objections against
this Holman scheme are plain enough to be
seen without any unnecessary committee
meetings. Any person who stands on the
Astor House steps during the day and wit
nesses the crowdlng and jamming Of vehicles
of every description below Ann street, and
the confusion, danger, delay and Interruption
Of business consequent thereon, will need
nothing but the evidence Of his own eyes and
his own common sense to convince him Of the
absurd and mischievous character Of Mayor
Hoffman's proposition. Business now suffers
80 materially from the present impassable con-
dition of Broadway. below the Park, that the
value Of down town property is seriously
affected. With the Post ONCE obstruction added
10 those that already exist It would be almoss
impossible to continue business below Fulton
street Mayor Hoffman's singular opposition
to the opening Of Ann street to the river,
which would have divided the stream Of travel
and afforded substantial relief to Broadway,
was bad enough, but his equally strange al.
tempt TO locate the Post Ofice at the end or
the Park would be yet more destructive 10
the business OF the lower part Of the city.
The members Of tbe Common Council
committee know all these facts wcli
enough. and should aot on the resolution
70 reconsider the proposed sale OF the
Year: 1867




The correspondence transmitted to the Senate
by the President relative to the claims to mill
tary service asserted by the French and Prus-
sian governments Of returned subjects Of those
countries who had been naturalized by the
United States, evinces . marked disposition
on the part Of the latter government to relax
its pretensions In this regard. Count Bismarck
thinks the matter could be adjusted by treaty,
and the language of Count Walewski, though
more guarded, does not forbid q similar con.
clusion. Al regards France, the matter is not
Of 30 much importance; for Of all classes Of
foreign residents the French are least inclined
to renounce their nationality. Seeing how
largo . proportion Of our adopted citizens we
derive from Germany, and what an immense
addition is likely to be made to their number
within the present year, we would impress
upon government the necessity of at once
taking steps to carry out Count Bismarck's
ideas on the subject. Practically the European
governments have shown great leniency in
their mode Of dealing with the question, but IL
viii not do to leave 1t in its present underlined
and unsatisfactory condition. II is while we
are on friendly relations with these Powers
that We can best obtain from them the guar
antecs that we require. If the proper energy
b put to It. We think that with the Prusslap, II
Year: 1867

and had found it TO be practically the re-
verse! And should we have been able to
blame him, judging the present in the light Of
the past, for so concludingY


Words of wisdom are not lost upon the wise.
We write as unto wise men. We ask them to
judge. Our institutions have done great things
for us. They have brought US greatness,
wealth, honor, fame. With separate his
tory which covers little more than three
fourths Of century they have placed US in the
very front rank of the nations. To the native
population and to the many thousands of for
eigner who have sought and found home on
these shores they have secured an amount OF
prosperity and comfort unknown to the indus
trial classes Of older communities. Contrary
to almost universal expectation they have
brought us triumphantly through great civil
war-a civil war compared with which the
most gigantic civil wars Of former times sink
into insigni6cance. It is not, therefore, for US
to treat them with indifference. Our duty II to
prize and preserve them with . grateful affec-
ton, to guard them with jealous care and to
hold them up, not to universal and unqualified
vvAsSAAky UUs ~ sAAO ASoROVs 0AAO A0tAOu Va
the world. We shall best prove our respect
for our institutions and our desire to preserve
them by having regard to the character Of the
public men In whom we place our confidence
and whom we elect to fn the honorable and
responsible position Of the nations representa-
tives Let the appointed guardians of our in
stitutions be selected from among men Of
sterling private character and approved pub
lie worth Let the opposite course be fol-
lowed-let it 60 forth to the world that place
in the halls Of the national Legislature Is less
likely to be won by treading the narrow path
way Of honor and dignity than by treading the


broad and beaten pathway Of the swindler and


the rowdy-let premium thus be put on vice
or villany, or call it what you may, and not
even the most far-seeing shall be able to pre-
dict the disastrous consequences which must
inevitably follow The tide of decentralization
has set in with powerful current It threat
ems ruin and desolation. 1t is not, however,
too late to check it. Let resistance be applieIa
promptly and with the combined energies Of


the nation, and immediate success is certain
Meanwhile let it not be forgotten that national
decay follows national corruption as certainly
as consequence follows cause.
Year: 1867

The East Side Of the City-A Movement for


ITS Improvement.


The residents Of the upper part of the city,
on the east side, have formed themselves into
an association for the purpose Of more effec-
tually laboring to promote number of pro-
jected improvements and to secure the removal
Of certain nuisances in that locality. They
desire, among other things, that the Harlem
Railroad Company shall be prohibited from
using steam above Forty-second street, ON
Fourth avenue, and that the railroad cut on
Fourth avenue, between Seventy-ninth and
Ninety-seventh streets, shall be arched and
covered.


The dangerous condition Of Fourth avenue
al the railroad cut is . matter that should
receive the immediate attention of the city
authorities. One of our contemporaries seeks
to lay the blame for the existing distractions
upon the Corporation Counsel. but this is all
balderdash. Mr.. O'Gorman has already
brought an action against the railroad COM
pany for iDcumbering the avenue, with view
of compelling that corporation to fill up the
dangerous openings left by their blasting
operations, to confne their wall within the
space allotted to them, and to properly pro-
tect the public highway. This suit has been
decided against the city in the Justices court
by Judge Quinn, but is appealed to the Court
of Common Pleas by the Corporation Counsel,
who Is determined that the necessary work
pressing legal decision to test whether the
railroad corporation is not the party properly
responsible for the expense. In the case Of
Mr.. D. Morrison, who sued the city to
recover damages for alleged injuries received
through an accident at the railroad cut, the
Corporation Counsel, in the simple discharge Of
his duty, defended the suit, in order that the
courts might decide whether the city or the
railroad company should be held respons. BILE
for the unsafe condition Of the road.


But while this matter is In dispute the public
should not be LEFT without protection. The
Common Council should pass . resolution
directing the Street Department to proceed at
once with the work Of filing the holes or gaps
in the road and rendering travel safe, and the
cost should be recovered from the railroad
corporation, II II 10 found to be legally re-
sponsible. The other improvements demanded
by the East Side Association are no doubt de-
sirable enough and likely TO tend to the rapid
settlement Of that portion Of the city. The
spirit displayed by the residents Of the locality
should inspire those citizens interested in
business down town to form similar associa-
tons for the purpose Of securing the opening
Of avenues where they are most needed and
preventing the additional distractions threat
ened by the projected location Of the Post
once in the most inconvenient and undesirable
place that could be selected In the whole oity.
Year: 1867

with knewu cheats


To play upon The square s TO be undone.


The Washington correspondent Of the
Chicago Times, usually well-informed,
writes this from therookery at Washing
ton:


THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT BILL.


I observe that several OF the northern
papers are urging the southern people to
90 to work and reconstruct their states
under the military government bill, so
that they can be admitted under It's pro-
visions. / presume the southern people
will Judge for themselves what IS best Tor
them to do. But I am in position to
say, and do say, no southern state will
be admitted to congress-, or into the
union, under the military government
bill or its supplement; nor will represen-
tatives of any southern state ever be adj
mlttPd to congress under any circum-
stances by the fOrtieth congress-. The
object of these bills" and the object or
the radicals who formed them, is to per-
manently dissolve the union, and to
keen the southern states excluded and IN
a conquered and subjugated attitude.
These bills are not the last measures
which the radicals have in view. Wait
until after the recess wait until the for
tieth congress gets fairly to work and
then you will see whether the men who
control the fortieth congress intend these
measures TO be q finality or not.


We note, also, that it is already dis
covered that the supplemental bill does
not distranehise people enough in Vir-
ginia; and that there is no way, when
State has once been admitted into the
Union, of enforcing specific performance
of stipulations entered into before its
admission, even if these are contained
in its Constitution. Congress is consid-
erably exercised by these two snags in
the muddy stream Of its legislation.