THE DAILT EVENINO TELEGRAPH -PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1871. orxiixT or tzxh rxmsa. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals upon Current Topios Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. THE WIFE OF HAWTHORNE. Frem the S. Y. Tribune. We notioed briefly when it ooonrred tho death of the widow of Nathaniel Hawthorne in England, and there, perhaps, it is best that we should panse. When the gentle, quiet life of a woman such as this ebbs away into the gentler quiet of death, silenoe over her grave has more meaning than any requiem. As a cheerful song, or a happy day in the autumn fields, her memory becomes a pleasant, tender reality with us forever; bnt we cannot, if we would, impart or share it with others. There is a morbid curiosity through the country, however, about Haw thorne and all that surrounded him, arising out of the as yet half-acknowledged feeling that in him America lost her groatest poet; and it is only right that this cariosity should be so far gratified as to do justice to this woman, whom if he had never loved, Haw thorne would in all probability have died un developed and unknown. No biographer of the great romanoer can ever delineate the strange elements of char acter that mixed themselves in him, and were expressed in his figure and fac9; the heredi tary abnormal tendencies towards solitude and gloom; the almost insane dread of contaot with his fellow-men; the oblique and shad owed aspect in which, as he stood apart, the world appeared to him. Friendly hands may give us the outside facts of his life, the cut of his clothes, the attitude and gestures which he used to those about him while trying, out of a keen fear of being ridiculous, to fit him self with their alien habits of thought and speech; but the only glimpses left to us of the real Hawthorne are in his books. The man was of his own blood, alone, in the world of thought, and has left no kinsman. . Between, bim and the outer world came only his wife. There was something at once comical and Eathetio in the dismayed appeal with which e turned to her when the ordinary business of life bewildered and jarred on him, and the alertness and bright gentleness with which she served as his shield and shelter. She be longed to one of those old families in New England who have imbibed culture with the air. She had an intellect of quiok and har monious movement, which found apt and pleasant expression both by her pen and pencil. But there are so many of whom all this may be said ! Now, when woman seeks primarily self-development, there are so many artists and authors! It may do U3 no harm to look for a moment at this one who had no other aim than to be simply a wife. T-iere is a significance to all women in the fact that, while the genius ami idiosynoracies of her husband placed him on an entirely different intellectual level from her own, the infinite love between them made them one, and fitted her, with her keen tact and wholesome sweet ness of temper, to interpret between him and the world. If it had not been for that cheer fulness and sunny temper, which kept day light about him perpetually, the moody " genius of Hawthorne would never have strag gled through its shadows into light. The world owed a great debt to this woman, who was contented to be only a wife. There is a pleasant hill-slope near Concord, fall of shady lanes and dusky with apple- trees, where llawtnorne and his wife were used to walk at evening, cheerfully talking as they went. He bleeps there now alone. We cannot bear to think they will leave the gentle, bright-faced lady to rest in one of the damp churchyards of foggy London. But however that may be, we think that some where, where he waited for her, they must have met ere now. We like to fanoy that the wife's work is not yet all done; that even in the limitless possibilities of the hereafter, the homely love and care which are left be hind us here are needed and waited for; and to believe that through the lives to come this man and his true wife will pass on side by side together. WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE SOUTHERN NEGRO? From the IT. Y. Time. One of the current fallacies at the close of our struggle with the Rebellion waa that emancipation would turn a multitude of paBpers on the country, and that the war and freedom together would nearly put an end to the black race. Any traveller passing through the rebellious States, just after peace was declared, would have heard everywhere that "the negroes would not work," that they were starving in idleness, and that the South, without the introduction of white labor, would go to ruin. If the stranger replied that all the present labor seemed to be performed by the blacks, the Southerner would be sure to reply that that was an acci dent that the season was so oold, and the ' negroes were so much driven by hunger, that they were compelled to work temporarily. "Only wait till summer comes, and a few potatoes are enough for him,, and then you will see how the negro will work!" If our traveler commented on the faot that there were no beggars on the road, as amonc idle populations in Europe, and no almshouses or assistance by poor-rates (except the little aid given by the Freedmen s Bureau), the an swer was that the blacks all lived by stealing and other vicious habits. Hardly any one would believe that the emancipated slaves would ever nettle down to steady labor. The old planters were ready to sell their large estates for a mere soug. Without labor their rich acres were of little value; and, in view of the old aristocraoy, the whole South was on the verge of ruin, as aa effect of emancipation. The housekeepers, too, were in endless diffloulty. They began to experience some of the troubles whioh freedom bad brought on Northern mistresses. Servants were changeable; stayed in the place but a short time; were impudent, and disinolined to any but their ovra branch of work. Few masters, too, could aooustom themselves to pay a laborer or servant a fair day's wages for a fair day's work. They bog gled and haggled, and paid in produce, and often cheated the workmen. Oa effect of this was soon seen in the faot that negroes would not engage themselves, exoept when pay waa sure, and thus many plantations were left un worked. No one, exoept a person who had studied profoundly the effeoU of freedom on human nature, could have expected anything but an utter disorganization of labor as a fruit of emancipation at the South. A race who hi I been forced to toil under the lash for inra tions, would naturally consider Uluuess as the first enjoyment of a free man. Bat liberty creates new wants, and implants a higher self-respect. The actual result has bssn tint the blacks never worked harder or bette under slavery than they do now. The K jutu was never richer or more proKperous tuau at the present moment. Undoubtedly large numbers of the emancipated blaok have labored on their own little homesteads, or at other occupations than cotton-raising; chil dren have been at school instead of in the field; women have attended more to indoor labors than formerly, so that the aggregate number of laborers in cotton-growing must have considerably diminished. Yet with ali this, the blacks of the South are producing this year a crop variously estimated from 3,7fiO,OO0 to 4,000,000 bales equal to the average of the last four years before the war. Another belief in regard to the negro was equally general, that liberty would greatly diminish his numbers, and that the war had cut off a lorge proportion of his race. No doubt, for a time, the civil war wasted the black population fearfully. They were driven from their homes, herded in the cities, or compelled to follow armies, or to take their abode in strange plaoes. Wounds, disease, want of proper food, exposure, and battle carried off great numbers. Then the experience of emancipation here was similar to that in Jamaica, namely, that the blacks had become accustomed to depend on their masters for medical care and attendance, and with freedom they could not easily secure physicians for their children; so that, after peace, many of their children died from want of proper care and medicine. Yet with all these unfavorable circumstances, the re turns of the preliminary census show that the increase of colored population in the last decade in the cotton States is moderately large. There is a decrease of only four per cent, as compared with the growth from 18"0 to 1800 of the general colored population of the South. Fuller returns will enable us to judge more closely whether the increase of the cotton States is due mainly to the emigra tion from the non-cotton States, or to a legi timate growth of population. At all events, the laboring force of the richest part of the South is stronger than it was before the war. and undoubtedly much more intelligent and prosperous. THE GROUND-SWELL IN EUROPE. From the S. Y. Herald. The universal public sentiment of . the hour, not to speak of our specials of Tuesday morning, show, first of all, that trouble is not ended in France by the cessation of hostili ties, and seoondly, that the peaoe of Europe is not secured by the humiliation and defeat of France. Just in proportion as the Ger man pressure is raised from Franee, particu larly so does 1 ranee, or rather Fans, reveal its true character. In the capital city riots have already taken place. It is not, in fact, too niuon to say tnat Jfranoe, now giving evidenoe that she is at war with herself, would have been mightily benefited by a prolonged German occupation. With the single exception of the September revolution, France has behaved well enough during the war. A necessity was laid upon the French people, and the French people, not being well able to help it, yielded to the masterly necessity. Bat the strong hand of the German nas now released its grasp. France breathes or thinks she breathes freely, and, as is not unnatural, the factions and the" individuals resume the fight when the common foe is gone. It was so in our his tory when the oivil war was ended. It was so in Mexico when the French retired. In our case, happily, the strife that followed the war was more individual than factional, and we, in consequence, suffered the less. France, however, promises to be a Mexico, or rather promises to revive the worst memories of the hrst revolution. The new government offers bat little en couragement. M. Thiers was no doubt the best man to fall back upon in the circum stances as the representative of law and order. But M. Thiers, as Chief Magistrate of Franoe, means trouble just as moon as it means peaoe. His position is ill defined. We would not say that we discover in him a reactionist. He belongs to none of the old parties. The accurate and truthful record proves that he has opposed the follies of the Bourbons time and again, and, although his great historical works on "Tho Frenoh Revolution" and "The Consulate and Empire" revealed much admiration for the abilities of the First Na poleon, his later career has shown him upon all occasions to be the opponent of the ex travagances of the Third. Long supposed by superficial observers to be an Orleanist enrage, be is yet remembered as a tnorougu republican in 1848-4t, and of so deoided a complexion tnat no was even tnen mentioned for the Presidency. Since that time his voice h&s been of no party, bat entirely for Franoe, This incontestable fact leads us to nope tnat the peace terms which have been obtained throueh the wisdom of the present Chief Magistrate of France may lead to a satisfac tory and durable peace, lhe prompt recogni tion of the French republic, in its revised and improved form, by Ureal Britain, Russia, Austria, Italy, the United States, and, as de spatches now allege, by the Pope, greatly strengthens the position of France, and ought not to fail to have a sedative effect upon ex cited popular passion. Yet, as Mr. Odo Ras sell some time since hinted to the British Government with regard to Southern Europe, there is, evidently, a deep, widespread and menacing excitement among the masses below the diplomatic surt'aoe, and if France does not cow behave well, Franoe, and tnrougn France Europe, may have some sad experience before her. Among the leading papers that come to us the Journal de 8t, Petersbourg, the AUgemeine Zeitung, the Kreu Zettung, the Vienna Abend-tost, the lndependance Beige, the Brussels Nord, the Florence Italia, the IHritto, the Franoh Const itutionnel, Journal du Havre, and Courrier du IlavreM let their forebodings plainly appear. The Ger man papers are, of course, much more oaa tions than the rest, bat it requires no heavy guessing to make out what they mean when they refer to the depletion and mourning? in Fatherland, the dull prospects of the coming summer, and the "turbulent passions of the multitude." The heavy and as some inink excessive demands of Prussia have aroused the bad passions of the German demoorats. But let any man in his senses endeavor to calculate the loss, in every material-point of view, occasioned to all the laboring masses of Europe by this devastating oonniot. What labor, what seed, what ground is this new year to begin upon, and who are to pay the monstrous exactions or tne case on one side and its requirements to meet those exac tions on the other 1 Simply, there asoendi all over the continent one loud wail of per plexity and dismay from the toiling millions. The flesh and blood of men will not be ignored, and all the gendarmes in the uni verse can no longer neutralize wuat me ae and all its applianoes have been diligently and fervently at work so long tp cement the community of popular interests among: all neighboring nations; in a word, "the solida rity of the peoples." Franoe cannot bleed without Germany, Britain, Scandinavia, Swit Zetland, Spain, Italy bleeding, and vice versa; and vuen mat expenditure or biooa comes to be plainly recognized as a soourge for the benefit of crowns and sceptres, only a eatas tropLe u at nana. There is a logical connection, moreover, in the facts of history. Half a million of living men have net been hurled headlong into the grave within six months, and "the most civil ized" portions of Europe have not trembled during ail tnat time to tne launders or con tinual battle, without the whole system that tolerates or invites such horrors being shaken in every joint and fissure. Some one may weakly natter William, as Count Mole, when Councillor of State, onoe attempted to flatter the First Napoleon. Sire, said the I rench courtier to nls master, "you have killed the revolutionary Fpint irremediably. "Yon are mistaken, Count," replied the Emperor, hastily, "I am but the mark whioh denotes the passage where the Revolution, for a moment, paused. But when I am dead they will turn to the next page and resume their onward march." How wise and true, this rejoinder was all men have seen. - Have the potentates of the hour, flushed as they are with dreams of con quest, the intellectual grasp to perceive the true patn now f If so. taunts and vanntlngs will cease. Rulers will act for the long-suf fering people, and the people will be guided by their rulers. Pomps, pageantries, the glitter of arms, and the stupid clamor of drums will be quickly consigned to the pro perties room of the great European play house. The leading actors will doff their buskins and wash off their war paint. Use ful science, trade, education, religion, and all the blessed agencies of peaoe will reappear actively upon their rightful stage the broad nelds and sparkling seas of Christendom. The lilies and roses will not be laoing in the gar dens oi tne reconciled people, and the olive branch will nourish at their doors. The presumption is that France will fall beck into anarchy; out of the anarchy may grow a monarchy, an empire, or a republic. A republic is just as possible as a monarchy. But tne whole interest of the situation lies in the particular that an upheaving in France may prove contagious in Germany; that Ger many may divide; that German democrats may find their opportunity; that the demo cracy in the south of Europe, in Italy, in Spain, in Portugal, may also awake; and that the hoped-for peace may result in European confusion and revolution. At all events, it must be conoeded that the facts of the hour indicate approaching chaos in France; and no one can refuse to admit that chaos in France has hitherto had a bad meaning for Europe. France, of course, is not the Franoe she onoe was, and it is possible that in this fact lies a dinerence. AMERICAN SYMPATHIES IN THE LATE WAR. From the X. Y. World. una it not been for tne fact tnat we nave a large and estimable population of German immigrants, the whole tide of American favor and gaod wishes would have set strongly in one direction, owing chiefly to tne traditional friendship which this country has always cherished for France. It was to have been expected, as a matter of course, that our Ger man citizens would side with their native country. All true Americans respeot and honor their unhesitating preference, which is all the more noble because it implied an act of silent forgiveness. How many of our most cultivated Germans were driven to these shores by political persecution! How many of them fled hither to escape an ignominious death ! Francis Eieber is a political refugee; Carl Schurz is a political refugee; and so are thousands of others not quite so distinguished who sought in this land of freedom an asylum from the tyranny of their German rulers. Tha revolutionary disturbances ot 1818, that memorable year, brought us a large crop of such refugees; many of them richly endowed men of genius, culture, eloquence, patriotism, who felt "where liberty dwells, there is my country. The German movement of 1818, so fruitful in exiles, was a consequence of the 1 rench revolution of the same year, which overturned the throne of Louis Philippe and inaugurated a republic The exile of Uarl bchurz and so many other noble and gifted men was a penalty for their keen sympathy with Franoe and their emulation of a trench example; ana yet when the late war broke out between France and Prussia, these same men promptly sided with the country from whose tyranny they fled, and against the country whose example they bad emulated. Jlase and ignoble mast be 'the heart that could taunt them with this inconsistency. There is something better than logio Mie honest impulses of unper verted nature. lhe man who defends the mother that bore him, or the wife to whom he has plighted his faith, may be ex cused for his zeal even 11 no other person in the world adopts his estimate of their char acter. Whatever may be their errors and frailties, it is a virtue in him to regard them as "wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best;" and his faithfulness is all the more resplendent if be has no memory for the wrongs they may have done him. Similar to this is the magnanimous warmth with which exiled Germans in this oountry espouse the cause of their Fatherland. It was one of those occasions in which impulse is superior to reason. The noblest qualities of the human heart are instinctive; they wonld be chilled out of existence by cold calculation and strict logical precision. Shame on the man who does not esteem and venerate his grey-haired father beyond any title which could be established to the satis faction of scrutinizing strangers t The stanch adherence of the American Germans to their Fatherland in the late momentous conflict has always had oar admiring ap proval. If our country had not been fall of these Germans, American sympathy would have been wholly given to Franoe, with as much promptness and as little reflection as charac terized the unhesitating preierenoe oi oar German immigrants for Germany, ine spon taneous American impulse was not quite as strong, not quite as noble, it had nothing of the magnanimous and nnoonscious iorgive. ness of the German political exiles; bat it was equally genuine and natural. We can do full justice to the German feeling because it springs from sources which exist in every human heart. But our German fellow-citi zens cannot so readily enter into the Amerioan feeling because it is more the effect of education and tradition than of a universal human instinot. The sentiments of every people are more or less moulled by their history; and every American has been taught from lisping infancy through the whole period of ingenuous, impressionable vonth. to love and venerate France. It is to her co-operation with our brave anoestors that we owe the independence oi our oountry; it was by the assistance or t ranoe mat we were enabled to open this great asylum to the oppressed of all nations Germans among the rest. In our patriotic associations the laurels of Lafayette are Inseparably en twined with those o Washington, and both have always been ennally green in Ame rican, memories. What welcome given by a nation to a benefactor was ever so warm, ao demonstrative, or so affecting as that ex tended by our Government and our whole people to Lafayette when he revisited these I Bbores in inn v ben were the words or our greatest orator ever so burdened with feeling, or so truly pathetic, as in that pas sage of the Bunker Hill oration addressed to Lafayette, who was present on that occasion? There are few Americans who, in reading those words, have not been choked with emo tion like that whioh filled a vast andienoe with sobs when Webster ended his direct ad dress to Lafayette by alluding to the presenoe of the revolutionary soldiers who had fought with him on the tame fields: "ThoBe who survived that day, and whose lives have been prolonged to the present hour, are now around you. Some of them you have known in the trying scenes of war. Behold 1 they now stretch forth their feeble arms to em brace you! Behold! they raise their trem bling voices to invoke the blessing of God on you and yours forever! Ibere has never been a time since our glorious Revolution when France suffered or rejoiced tbat the American people did not Buffer or rejoice with her. The first French revolution kindled all America into a flame. Our people were wild with generous enthu siasm. Chief-Justice Marshall, in his life of Washington, forgot the habitual coldness of his style in alluding to that passionate ex citement. "A great majority of the Ameri can people," he said, "deemed it criminal to remain unooncerned spectators of a coufliot between their ancient enemy and republican trance, 'lhe feeling upon this occasion was almost universal. Men of all parties partook of it. . Civio festivals, and other publio assemblages of the people, at which the ensigns of France were displayed in union with those of America; at which the red cap, as a symbol of French liberty and fraternity, triumphantly passed from head to head; at which toasts were given expressive of a desire to identify the people of Amerioa with those of France," were among the many demonstrations of fervent attachment to France. In 1848 the outpouring was not so exube rant, bnt it was very emphatic Mr. Rush, our Minister at Paris, made haste to recog nize the republic; President Polk sent a special message to Congress; the warmest congratulations were expressed both by the benate and House; and our whole press and people joined their plaudits and acclamations, A remarkable illustration ot American par tiality for France was afforded daring our late civil war. Louis Napoleon, against the wishes of his people, undertook his Mexioan expedi tion, and we patiently bore it; which we would not have done from any other nation He was perpetually urging and spurring Eng land to unite with him and recognize the in dependence of the South; and while our diplo matic correspondence resounded with cries of grievance against England, it had unly words of courtesy for France. So powerful was the influence of national gratitude and ancient historical predilections! Daring the recent stupendous war, intelli gent Germans who knew our history and appreciated the foroe of education, were as indulgent to American sympathies as we were to theirs. JNo word of recrimination would have been uttered had it not been for dema gogues who remembered that the many Ger mans among us are voters, and that the few Frenchmen do not get naturalized. Hence an unseemly attempt was made to traffic in the most sacred feelings of the human heart, by making party capital out of the honest preference of our Germans for their native land. They saw through the ignoble appeal and despised it. The fall elections showed that this discreditable deinagogism bore no harvest. Germans had too much candor and good sense to expect Americans to feel as if they bad been born in Germany, and as if the whole current of their patriotic sentiments bad not been colored by admiration and grati tude for trance. As soon as the elections were over, un perverted foelings resumed their ascendancy, and at this hour the hearts of native Americans, and of all classes among us except the Germans, go out in unfeigned commiseration for stricken, bleeding, pros trate France. This may not be reason, but it is nature; and generous natural promptings are alwaj s respectable. THE BISHOPS AND THEIR SANCTIFI- CATION. From the London Spectator. Tuesday and Wednesday's (Feb. 14 and 15) debates in the Upper House of Convocation can excite but one feeling in the minds of really thinking men, and that feeling is pro found scorn. - We entertain a strong attach ment for the National Church, and have always tried to do justice to the Episcopal form of church government which might have a real meaning if the bishops ha4 any manliness of faith or religious charaoter; but to read such discussions as those reported in the (Juardian of Wednesday and the titan, dard of Thursday simply fills a reasonable mind with despair, nere are a number of men, some of them learned, and all of them with a reputation for learning, in positions of dignity and authority, professing a faith which, if anything could, should teach them manliness and contempt for censure, whining over the enormous difficulty of making np their minds on the simplest matter possible without considerable notice, complaining that they have been hurried into a grave mistake whioh is fatal to their "sanctity," helplessly trying to undo it by a breaon oi laith whioh for mally declares their total incompetence for the simplest practical matter, and some of them interlarding their piteous lamentations over the hardship of their position with unc tuous and Pharisaic assumptions of sanctity and holiness that go near to make any manly member of the English Church utterly ashamed of the Church to whioh he belongs; end all because these mitred old gentlemen, or most of them, with at most four excep tions, are destitute of the honor, the sense, and the courage to stick to the obviously wise resolution deliberately taken last year, to get the assistance of the genuine scholars of all sects in the revision of the new translation of the Bible. The perplexity is this. The resolution was to obtain the services of capable scholars of all nations and religious views in the new trans lation. In oonformity with this resolution a Roman Catholic (Dr. Newman) was asked to assUt, and declined; and a Unitarian (Mr. Vance Smith) was asked to assist, and ac cepted. Then a communion was held in Westminster Abbey a communion known aa "the Westminster Scandal" in which all who bad consented to join in the work of revision were invited, if they chose, to take part; and Mr. Yance Smith, who, though not an adhe rent cf the Nicene theology, believes in the "divinity" of Christ in his own Unitarian sense, joined, attaching his own meaning to the wotds of the sacrament, and not joining in the repetition of the Nioene Creed. Well, this participation by a good and learned Unitarian, on his own individual responsibility, in the Jloly Communion raised a Btorm of indigna tion among various narrow-minded persons, who habitually seem to forget that a rile ubich our Lord himself did not withhold either from Thomas (who certainly at that time did not believe in nis true -Deity), nor from Judas, who, if he did, believed to his own condemnation, it is hardly decent for Christians of our day to withhold from any good man who wishes thereby to declare and strengthen his Christian faith. But the bigoted cry was raised, and it took the form of demanding that Mr. Varne biuith should be expelled from the society of revisers, as a sort of act of superstitious expiation for the desecration which has been done or, as the Bishop of Rochester shamelessly put it, "the injured honor ef the Lord required some reparation." This cry the Bishop of Winchester (Dr. Wilbeiforce) took up, finding it popular in the external Church. Though he had made no effort last July to get Mr. Vance Smith expelled from the body of revisers, be had discovered by this time, through his corres pondence with the American and other Epis copal Churches, tbat it was wicked for the revisers to avail themselves of the learning of a man who "denied the Godhead of our Saviour." Though the Church had availed itself of "uusanotified" learning, it could not go so far as to use learning so nnsanctified as that of a Unitarian; the help of a Jew's learning would have been far less exception able, because though the Tew denies the Godhead of our Saviour, yet well the Bishop did not get much farther than the "yet," pro bably he hardly knew why he preferred the Jew, but we rather think it was because the Jew may be an orthodox bigot and a "sanctified" Pharisee in his own department, while a Socinian is necessarily a black sheep. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol tried to be more fair. He had objected to a Unitarian from the first, on the ground, amongst others, tbat a Unitarian scholar is sure to have a doc trinal bios in relation to the translation of all past-ages bearing on the personality of the Second and Third Persons of the Trinity, a reason which, if it has the least foroe in it. applies equally to all Churches would make the Trinitarians as liable to ex parte prej udioes 8S the Unitarians would render it impossible to work with an Independent in translating passages relating to the Church and the Epis copacy or with a Baptist in translating pas sages touching upon baptism. The simple troth is, that the Bishops show by their cowardly flattering and cackle over this "scandal" of acting with a learned Uni tarian, tbat tbey have no real faith in their own creed or their own work. If they sup poe tfcat Christ can be "dishonored" by frankly asking the opinion of an honorable scholar who does not believe in the Divine essence of Christ, as to the true meaning of Greek or Hebrew words, and giving him single vote in a counoil composed otherwise of pure Trinitarians, on the proper translation of such words, we can only say that to us they seem to dishonor our Lord by their cowardly doubts. They treat the Divine Being as if he were as sensitive and jealous of human opinion ' as an English Bishop. What can God want of us more than honest tiust and faith? Can He not make a Unita rian to honor, and a Trinitarian (even bishop) to dishonor? Is a Unitarian, speaking on bis honor as to the meaning of Greek words and syntax, less likely to assert the truth than a Trinitarian speaking on his honor on the same subject? What the bishops will be believed, and with justice, really to fear is, that the revision should turn purely upon scholarship, and not be biassed by doc trinal considerations. If they do not fear this, they are acting from a worse motive still not the desire for tho best possible re vision of the Bible, but regard to the praise oi bigoted and narrow-minded men. It has unhappily fallen to the lot of the present writer to read many outbursts of un real religious and theological cowardice, to peruse the plaintive waitings of many associa tions of men more anxious a great deal about what the world shall think of their religious tnougnts, than about the real object of those thoughts. But it has never fallen to his lot to read more hopeless and faithless, and he ventures to Bay, in spite of sinoere respeot for some of them, more despicable quaverings of religious panic than are to be found in Tues day s and Wednesday's deliberations of what is pleased to call itself the Upper House of Convocation. The Niceue Creed, indeed! Is it conceivable for a moment that any man who really believes tbat "for ns men and for our salvation" Jesus Christ came down from heaven, and was incarnate in our flesh, should shriek out treason becausa ' a good Greek scholar, who does not believe this, is asked to help towards ascertaining the true meaning of the Greek words in which this great gospel was first told? Did not somebody, commonly sup posed to be more than a bishop, assert that "ai things work together for good to them that love God," and amongst the "all things" would He not certainly have included any true science or scholarship ? No Church can stand which is ruled by such chiokhenearted men as debated together in a sense less panio on Tuesday and Wednes day last. If these men knew what is truly thought of their faithlessness and cowardice by the outward world, they would know tbat what is much more likely to be remembered as the true "Westminster Scan dal" than the admission of a Unitarian to communion last summer, ia the dishonorable display of faithlessness exhibited by them selves in the nine of their Lord and Master in the sitting of this week. The Bishop of Exeter and the Bishop of St. David's are noble exceptions to the character of the Epis copal speeches. Dr. Thirl wall in the Upper House, and Dean Stanley in his truly'admi rable speech in the Lower House, have done something towards redeeming the honor of our Church. WATS AND OAP8. nWABBURTON'S IMPROVED VENTILATED and easy-fitting DRESS HATS (patented), in aU the improved fashions of the aeasoa CHKSNUT gtront. Bftxt door to th Port Offloa. nt WHISKY, WINE, ETQ. QARGTAIRS & McCALL Ho. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite ttf IMPOKTKKJS Of Brandlea, Wine. Gin, Olivi Oil, Eta. WHOLESALE DKALIRS IS PUftC RYE WHISKIES U BOND AJTD TAX FAUX Mtp fUi OAKS CEMETERY OOMPAK) OF PHILADEL HI A, Tela Company is prepared to aell loti, .ear ot aU encumbrances, on reasonable term, Purchasers caj tee plana at tha oiilce of the Company, HO. 618 WALNUT STREET, Or at the Cemetery, where all Information needs will be cheerfully given. By giving notice at the office, carriages will meet peraoua desirous ot purchasing lots at Tioga Station' on the Genuantowa Railroad, and convey the in to the Cemetery and return, free of charge. ALFRED & HARMER, President. MARTIN LANDENBERU ER, Treaa. M1CUAEL NISBET, Beo'y. 10 0 wfm Bin WATOME5, JEWELRY, ETO. Xtwis ladom-us & co; WATIIIKS, IRWKI.HT AFH.VMl Vf Hk v WlTanE3 and JEWELRY REPAIRED. J02 Chestnnt St.. gbUy Would Invite attention to their lantn utock of Ladlce' and Cents' Watches Of American and foreign makers. 1 DIAMONDS In the newest styles of Settlnw. v LADIES' aud OENTS' CHAINS, sets of jaWKLtt or the latest styles, BAND AND CHAIN BRACELETS, Etc. Etc. Onr stock has been largely lncrca3Bd for the ap proaching holidays, ar.tl new goods received dally. Silver W are of the latest deslgus In great variety, for wedding presents. Repairing done In the best manner and guaran teed, o 11 fmw i GOLD MEDA.L REGULATORS. i. w. in Hsm.i,, No. 22 NOllTII SIXTH STREET, Begs to call the a'tTtlon of the trade and custom to the annexed letter: t TRiKBLATION. j Mr ti W hl KKUI.I. nf Thi'uH lrwilu tno ninliinl.J DKH II HHHIIrH III MlllWtlllll't I i 1 M I I noira ITIFan Til ale of ail poods nf my manufacturo. L'e will bd time iu Bin mem ui mo n j rn.r n. "First Manufacturer of Regulators, B 25$ 'Freiburg, Murmany. WILLI A M a WARNB Wholesale Dealers In A GO. WATCHES, JEWKLRi. AND glyl SILVER WARK, First floor of No. era CHEisNUT Street, R ff. corner 8EVENTII and CH 3SNUT Street FOR SAIt. FOR BALE, A NEW AND ELEGANT BROWN STONE RESIDENCE, Eajt Side of Logan Squar Three Doori above Sumner St., Replete wi h all modern convenience WILL BBS fcOLD ON ACCOMMODATING TERM POSSESSION AT ONCE. OiN BE SEEN J ANY HOJR OF THE DAT. 8 11 t ELEGANT STORE FIXTURES, With Jaarble Counters, Large Fire-proof, Des Letter Pres, etc., will be sold cheap for cash good trade. No. 83 CHESNTJT STREET, UNDER THE COT TINENTAL. H IB t FOR SALTC A CHOICE MEDIUM 8I2J iliiHonse, WALNUT Street, above Broad, lap leutoroer. h. hihuston mcuY. i 8 2 lot No. 4'2 WALNUT Streel REAL ESTATE WANTED. vv N S V STORE, On CSiesnut or Eighth S Tree ADDRESS, BTATINQ PRICE, LOCATION, FULL PARTICULARS, F. O. K. tf 16 EVENING TELEQRAP',1 OFFIC WANTED TO I'UUUIIAX Desirable Real Estate, WITHIN ONE MILS OF BROAD AND CHESIf STREETS, Payable tn good and available trade, and parti cash. Address S 4 tf 'Box 1784, Philadelphia Post Offlc TO INSURANCE COMPANIES, CAPI'4 I8T8, AND OTHERS. FOR SALE, BUSINESS PRORERT7, No. 48 T WAL: STREET. Foar-Btory front, five-story doable back build occupied aa offices, and suitable for an lnsurl company, 81 feet 9 Inches front, 124 feet deep. VI 8, KINGSTON McCAV let No. 42 WALN CT Str PATENT. u NITED STATES PATENT OFF 1T k an w AivtW Ti C Tan OI ,1 On the petition of uANl XL S. NlPPkS, of I Merlon Towusnip, renuHjivnuia, aaraiuiscra Albert S. MP pen, deceased, praymg for the e siun ol a patent grauted to the aald Albert S, Ni on the Slat day of April, 186T, ft an lmprovem t rinding 8aa: It la ordered that the testimony In the ca closed on the Slat day cf March next, tin J time for filing argument ana me Bxamnier's r h limited to the 8lstdayof March next, an l said petition be heard on the Gtb day of April n 4 Any person may oppose this extension. 1 SAMUEL A. DUNCAl S 19 80t Acting Commissioner ofPate Ate rujLHnn Dam ' mii In . t JOHN T. OA LEY, H. X. Cor. WATER anf MARKET; KOPB AND TW1NK, BAGS lad B AGO IN Grain, Flour, Bait, fcuper-f hospuate of lime, L&rweand small GUNNY BAGS ronatan a&nd. Also, wool backh. a I.IIAND1H G. OATTBLL A . PRODUCE COMMISSION MK KORAN ko. a ruuiu wuAjtvita AMD BiO. M NORTH W&TKR STREET. PHILADELPHIA. TflUN V1BMTIW Ar CjCi.. flOMMTRHTfiN (I ehuta knd Muitifoairrat OuuMm XUfciJ it. U Va.HVt Ixtwi friUdlma. i
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