KY <eo. W. BOWaiAIV. NEW SERIES. Select Poctrrf. From the Doylestown Democrat. A I T I JI N A L MUSINGS. •V 3IAKV MORRISON. Nature's scenes are ever changing, As the restless ocean wave ; Now adorning, now deration. Forming beauty for a grave. Man exults in hope, then grieving, Finds his hopes a ruin made ; So beauteous morn ami noonday bright'ning, Soon decline 111 deep'ning shade. Spring is fresh with life and gladness, Fragrant flowers and balmy air; Now fond hope dispelling sadness, Views Earth robed in verdure fair. Summer comes with glowing brightness— Golden harvests—sylvan shades; Confidence in her uprightness— Now iorgets—Earth—beauty fades. Autumn rich in fruits and treasures, Calm in modest homely grace ; Storing goods for winter leisure, Greets humility and peace. Fall has still a vernal feature— Beauteous flowers while leaves are dry; So Hope, o'er weeping nature, Views the rainbow in the sky. Faith di-eerns through winter's sadness, Beauty shining through decay ; Confident she breaThes in gladness— "Night foretells a coming day." Thus to Reason Nature's lesson Taught us by eternal love; l'rnve< all change js bidden blessing, Leading us to God above. Thi* iiotir of Braver. Mv God, is any hour so sweet, - From blush of morn to evening Star, As that which calls rue to thy feet— ' The hour oQiprayfer ! B|et be that tranquil lipim of morn, And Ide-t that solemn hour of eve, When on the wings 01 faith upborne The world 1 leave ! For then a day-spring shines on sap, Brighter than morn's etberild glow ; And richer dews descend ire* Thau earth caw-Sfceviiw ■*— Then is mv strength by thpp renewed ; Then are my sins by thee forgiven ; Then dost thou cheer my solitude With hopes of heaven. Words cannot tell what sweet relief Here lor my every want 1 find, What strength lor warfare, balm for grief, What peace of mind. Himhed is each doubt, gone every fear, .My spirit seems in heaven to stay, And e'en the penitential tear Is wiped away. INTERESTING LITTLE TILE. THE ELEVENTH COBIMA3IEISEKT. T. S. Arthur lulls a good story about a loving couple in New Jersey, u bo belong to the Melh dist church. A new presiding elder, Mr. N., was expected in that district; and as the min isters ail stopped with brother \V. and his wife, every preparation was- made to give him a cor dial reception. The honest couple thought that religion, in part, consisted in making some pa rade, and therefore the parlor was put in order, a nice fire was made, and the kitchen replenish ed with cake, chickens, and every delicacy, preparatory to cooking. While Mr. \V. was out at his wood pile, a plain looking, coarsely dressed, but quiet-like pedestrian came along and inquired the distance to the next town. Tie was told that it was three miles. Being very cold, he asked j**r mission to enter and warm himself. Assent was given very grudgingly, and both went iri !•> the kitchen. The wile looks daggers at this untimely intrusion, the stranger had on cow hide boots, an old hat, and a threadbare, but neatly patched coat. At length she gave him a chair beside the Dutch oven which was bak ing nice cakes lor the presiding elder, who was momentarily expectpd, as he was to preach the next day at the church a mile or two beyond. The stranger,after warming himself, prepar ed to leave, but the weather became more in clement, and as his appetite was roused by the viands about the fire he asked for some little refreshment ere he set out for a cold walk to the town beyond. Mrs. W. was displeased, but on consultation with her husband, some cold ba con and bread were set on an old table, and he was then somewhat gruffly told to eat. It was growing dark, and hints were thrown out that the stranger had better depart, as it was three lonr miles to town. The w ite grew petulent as the new preacher did not arrive, and her husband sat whistling the air of "Auld Lang Syne," while he thought of the words of the hymn—"When I can read my title clear,"and felt as if he could order the stranger oil without any further ado. rhe homely meal was at last concluded—the man thanked him kindly for the hospitality he had received, and opened the door to go. But it was quite dark, and the clouds denoting a storm filled the heavens. "Aou say it is full three miles to D ?" "I do," said Mr. W. coldly ; "I said so when you first stopped, and you ought to have pushed on. like a prudent man. You coulu have reached there before it was quite dark." "But I was cold and hungry, and might have filiated by the way." rr-~ t - --"■ - - - 1 The manner of saying this touched the farm er's feeling a little. "You have warmed and fed me, for which I am thankful. Will you not bestow another act of kindness upon one in a strange place, and, if he goes out in the darkness, may lose himself and perish in the cold ?" The particular form in which this request was made, and the tone in which u was uttered, put it out ot the farmer fo say no. "Go i:i there and sit down," he answered, pointing to the kitchen, "and I will see my wife and hear what she says." And Mr. Vv. went into the parlor where the supper table stood, covered with snow white cloth, and displaying his wife's set of blue sprig ged china, that was only brought out on special occasions. j The tall mould candies were burning there ' on, and on the hearth blazed a cheerful tire. "Hasn't that old fellow gone yet ?" asked Mrs. VV. She heard his voice as he returned • from the door. No, and what do you suppose ? He wants us to let him stay all night?" "Indeed, we'll do no such thing? We can't have the likes of him in the house now. Where could he sleep ?" "Not in the best room, even if Mr. N. should not come." "No, indeed !" "But, really I don't see, Jane, how we can turn him out of doors. He dosn't look like a very strong man, and its dark and cold, and lull three miles to 1) ." "Its too much : he to have gone 011 while he had daylight, and not lingered here,as he did, till it g<>t dark." "We can't turn him out of doors, Jane, and its no use to think of it. He'll have to stay, some how." "But what can we do with him ?" "He seems like a decent man at least: and dosn't look as if he had anything bad about him. We might make him a bed on the lloor some where." "I wish he had been at Guinea before he came here!" said .Mrs. VV. fretfully. The dis appointment, and the conviction that Mr. N. would not arrive, occasioned her to feel, and the 'intrusion of so unwelcome a visiter as thestran ' ger, completely unhinged her. "Oh, well, replied her husband, in a sooth ' ing voice, never mind. We must make the •i sjfst of it. He came to us tin-d and hungry, and jwe warmed and fed him. He now asks sbu l ! ter for the night, and we must not refuse him, nor grant his request irs a complaining or reluc tant spirit. You know what the Bible says about entertaining ang-ls unawares." "Angels! Did you ever see an angel look like him !" ! "Having never seen an angel," said the far er smilinsr, "I am unable to speak as to their appearance." This had the effect to call an answering smile from Mrs. VV. am! a better tee ting at her heart. It was finally agreed between them that the man, as he seemed like a decent kind ol person, should he permitted to occupy the min ister's room, if that individual did not arrive, an event to which they both looked with but little expectancy. If he did come why tile 1 man would have to put up with poor accom modations. When Mr. VV. returned to tin 1 kitchen, where the stranger had seated himse|fb hue the ' fire, he informed him that they had decided to let him stav all night. The man expressed in a few words his grateful senseot their kindness, anrl then became silent and thoughtful. Soon alter the farmer's wife giving up all hope of Mr. Vs arrival, had supper taken up, which consisted of collee, warm short cakes and hroil :ed chickens. After all was on the table, a short conference was held as to whether it would do not to invite the stranger to take supper. It was true they had given him as much bread and bacon as he could eat, hut then, as long as he was going to stav ail night, it looked too inhos -1 pitable to sit down to the table and not ask hint to join them. So, making a virtue of necessity, lie was kindly asked to come to supper—an invitation which he did not decline. Grace was said over the meal by Mr. VV., and the coffee poured out, and the bread helped and the meat carved. There was a fine little boy six years old at the table, who had been brightened up and dress ed in his best in order to grace tbe minister's re ception. Charles was full of talk, and the pa rents felt a mutual pride in showing him oil', even belore their humble guest, who noticed him particularly, though lie had not much to say. "Come, Charley," said Mr. VV., alter the meal was over, and he sat leaning in it is chair, can't you repeat the pretty hymn mamina learn ! Ed you last Sunday ?" Charley started off without any further invi tation, and repeated very accurately two or three verses of a new camp-meeting hymn that was just then very popular. •'Now let us hear you say the command ' ments, Charley," spoke up the mother, well pleased at her child's performance. And Charley repeated them with the aid of a little prompting. "How many commandments are there?" ask ed the father. The child hesitated, and then, looking up at the stranger, Dear whom he sat, said inoocent- Iv— " How many are there ?" The man thought for some moments, and said, as if in doubt, j "Eleven, are there not ?" "Eleven ?" ejaculated Mrs. VV., in unfeign ed surprise. "Eleven ?" said hpr husband, with more re buke than astonishment in his voice. "Is it possible, sir, that you do not know how many commandments there are ? How many are there, Charley ? Come, teil me—you know, of course." "Ten," replied the child. I "Eight, my son," returned Mr. VV., looking with a smile of approval on the child. "Right. There isn't a child of his age in ten miles who can tell you there are ten commandments." "Did you ever read the Bibie, sir?" address ing the stranger. "When I was a little hoy* I used to read it j sometimes. But I am sure I thought there were 1 eleven commandments. Are you not mis about there being only ten ?" Sister W. lifted her hands in unfeigned as- ; tonishment,and exclaimed : < "Could any one believe it? such ignorance yf the Bible?"" Mr. \V. did not reply, but rose, and going to one corner of the room, where the good book lay upon the small stand, he put it on the tahlyll before him, and opened at that portion in whmflN the commandments are recorded. "There he said placing his finger upon fhi proof of the stranger's error. "There! look for ; yourself." yH The man cnine round from his side of the ta- ! ble. and looked over the stranger's shoulder. "There ! ten, d'ye see?" "Yes it does say," replied the man; "ar.d yet it seems to me there are eleven. I'm sure I ! have always thought so." "Doesn't it say ten hero!" inquired Mr. W. i with marked impatience in his voice. "It does, certainly." "Weil, what more do you want?" Can't you believe tile Bible ?" "O yes, I believe the Bible: and vet, it strikes j mo somehow that there must he eleven com- . mandmeuts. Hasn't one been added somewhere j else ?" Now this was too much for brother and sister ! W. to hear. Such ignorance of sacred matters they felt to he unpardonable. A long ledum followed, in which the man was scolded, ai nioiitshed, arid threatened with divine indigna tion. At its close he modestly asked if he might 1 not have the Bible to read for an hour or two before retiring for the nigh!. This request was i granted with more pleasure than any of the pre- j ceding ones. * fj Shortly after supper the man was conducted ! to the little square room, accompanied by the ! Bible. Before leaving him alone, Mr. V\'. felt: it to be his duty to exhort him to spiritual things, and !m did so most earnestly for ten or (ilteen j minutes. Cut he could not see that his words made much impression, ami he finally left bis . guest, lamenting his obduracy and ignorance. j In the morning he came down, and moling j Mr. Vv. asked him if he would be so kind as to ; lend him a razor, that he might remove his ! heard, which did not give his face a very attrac tive appearance. His request was complied with. _ , • "We will iiave inah tp niMHiti* said Ulr. W., as he handed him the razor and shaving box. The man appeared and behaved with due pro priety at family worship. After breakfast he thanked the farmer and his wife fir their hospi tality, and parting, went on his journey. Ten o'clock came, hut Mr. N. had not arriv ed. So Mr. and Mrs. W. started tor the meet ing house, not doubting that they would find him there. Hut they were disappointed. A good ly number of people were inside the meeting house, and a goodly number outside, hut the minister had not yet arrived. "Where is Mr. A?" inquired a d< 7.en voices, as a little crowd gathered around the farmer. He hasn't cnrne vet. Something has detain ed him. Hut I still look for him—indeed, I ful ly expected to find him here." Tiie day was cold, and Mr. W. after becoming thoroughly chilled, concluded to go in and keep a good lookout for the minister from the window near which he usually sat. Others, from the same cause, followed his example, and the little meeting-house was soon filled, and one alter an other came dropping in. The farmer, who turn ed towards the door each time it was opened, was a little surprised to see his guest of the previous night enter, and come slnwlv down the aisle, looking on either side as if searching tor a vacant seat, very lew of which were now left. Still advancing, he finally got within the 11111 •* enclosed altar, and ascending to tin- pulpit, took off his old grey overcoat and sat down. IJy this time Mr. W. was at his side, and had his hand upon l.is arm. '-You mustn't sit here. Come down and I will show you a seat," he said, in an excited tone. "Thank you," replied the n an in a compos ed voice. "It's very comfortable here." And the man remained immovable. Mr. W. feeling embarrassed, went down, intending to get a brother "official" to assist him in making a forcible ejection of the man from the place he was desecrating. Immediately upon his doing so, however, the mail rose, and stand ing up at the desk, opened the hymn beginning: '-Help us to help each other, Lord, Each other'.- cross to hear: - Let each his friendly aid afford, And feel a brother's care." The congregation rose after the stranger read the entire hymn, and had repeated the first two lines for them to sing. Brother W. usually started the tunes. He tried this time, but went off on a long metre tune. Discovering his mis take at the second word, hj balked and tried it again, but now he stumbled on short metre. A musical brother here came to his ait!, and led oil" with a tune that suited the measure in which the hvmn was written. After singing, the congregation kneeled, and the minister, for no one doubted his character, addressed the Throne of Grace with much fer vor and eloquence. The reading of a chapter in the Bible succeeded. Then there was a deep pause throughout the room in anticipation of the text, which the preacher prepared to announce. Brother W. locked pale, and his hands and knees trombled. Sis t er W.'s face looked like crimson, and her heart was beating so loud that she wondered whether the sound was not heard by the sister who sat beside her. There was a breathless silence. The dropping of a pin might Freedom of and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 24, 1854. have been heard. Then, the fine, emphatic tones ofthe preacher filled the crowded room: " And a new commandment I give unto you, fiat ye /ave one another." Brother W. had bent forward to listen, but now be had sunk back in his seat. This was the Eleventh Commandment. The sermon was deep, searching, vet affec tiona'.e and impressive. The preacher uttered nothing that could in the 1-a t wound the broth er and sister, of whose hospitality he had partak en, but he said much that smote upon their hearts, and made them painfully conscious that they had not shown as much kindness to the stranger as he had been entitled to receive on ' the bread principle of humanity. But they suf ( fered most from mortitirati >n of feeling.— !To think that they tteafed the Presiding Elder of the district after such a fashion was deeply humiliating; and the idea of the whole aflair getting abroad, interfered sadly with their de votional (Velings throughout the \\ hole period of service. At last the sermon was over, the ordinance j administered, and tiie benediction pronounced. I Brother W. did not know what it was best for him to do. lie never was more at a loss in his life. Then Mr. X. descended from the pulpit, but he did not step forward to meet him. How could he do that ? Otheis gathered around and shook hands with him, but still he lingered and held back. "Where is brother W. 7 " heat length heard i asked ; it was the voice of the minister, ! "Here he is," said one or two, opening the ; way to wlo-re {be farmer stood. ■ ;he preacher advanced, and catching his hand, l said— "How do von do. brother W. I am glad to see : von- and where is sister W ?" Sister W. wn brought forward, and the i preacher shook hands with tlmm heartily, while j his lace was lit up with smiles. i "1 believe lam to find a home with you," j he said, as if it was settled, j Before the still embarrassed brother and sis ] ter could make reply, some one asked— j "How came you to he detained s> late. Yon j were expected iust night. Aiid where is IrotlA er E.?" : "Brother R. k sick," replied Mr. X. "and I | had to come alone. Five miles from this my , iiorse gave out, and I had to come the rest of lie j way on j ot. But 1 became so cold and \ve u rv I bat 1 found it necessary to ask a farmer not far from here to give rue a night's lodging, which he was kind enough to do. I thought I nas still three" miles off, but it happened that I was very much nearer my journeys end than I sup-: posed." *|| . .J Tfti' rTpta nation wns rrrtofiifffr' w and in due time the congregation dispersed, and ! !lie Presiding Elder went home with brother and ! sister Vv". One thing is certain, however-p-the | sturv never got out tor some wars after the : worthy brother and sister ha-! pass -d from their ! la! rs, and it was then related I v Mr. \. him- I self, who was rafh-r eccentric in his character, and, like numbers of his ministerial brt thn-n, I f-rrri of joke, and given to relating good stories. ,t> : i,D..T aM) S. it A shocking afliiir, by which a man and wife, named Smith, were sent into eternity," occurred .in tire village of .New Windsor, about four miles from X.-whiirg. on Saturday night last.— , The husband had been for some lime in a de pn • sin! state oi mind, and finally wound lip his earthly career bv murdering Ins wife, and then | taking bis own life. The first that was known ■ f the occurrence was on Sunday morning, when some of the neighbors entered the dwell ing and found the wife dead in her bed, and the lifeless form of the husband lying in a pool of blood on the floor, with his throat cut from ear to ear. But the strangest feature in the sad affair is that the body of the woman bore rot the slightest mark oi violence, and appeared as though she had fallen asleep in death : and what acids still more to the mystery is the fact that the neighbors were in the house tiie even ing previous, and found them both in tin ir usu al health. The persons who called upon them s'.a'e that Smith was unusually rude m manner, and very blasphemous, and upon his wife's up braiding him, and telling him that she did not tiunk his conduct a proper [ reparation for 1 lie sabbath, he remarked that she need not worry herself about thai, as neither of thern would ever spend another Sabbath in this world. As it was bis habit to make reckless speeches, noth ing serious was thought of this expression, but ; the' morning's light rewaied a scene that ful ly realized his fearful assertion. Coroner Par menter, of Newburg, was summoned to hold an ! inquest on the bodies on Sunday: hut the result j of tiie investigation had not transpired at the time our informant left Newburg, yesterday I noon. It is supposed, however, that Smith ad ministered to his wife some kind of poison, | which bad ari immediate and deadly efket.— ' Y. Tribune. The Mohtaeity in London. —Another epi- : demic, in addition to the cholera, is said to be fatally prevalent in London. It is called the "Black Death," after the appalling plague j which visited Europe in the fifteenth century, j Whether is is really that awful disease is not j known ; but it i 3 supposed to be (lie same by | many, and the explanation given iri London ofj its prevalence at this time, is that two grave j yards, containing the remains of the victims • of the former plague in Westminster . and Hackney have been dug up to lay the founda tions of a church and baths and wash houses.— The New York Daily Times expresses the opin ion that it is not the plague, as it is rarely found in conjunction with the cholera, but says that it is what is railed bv the Germans and En glish the sweating sickness. An advocate having lately gained a suit for a poor young lady, she remarked, "I have notli ing to pay you with hut my heart." Hand it over to tlw Clerk, if you pease. I wish no ; fee fur myself," replied he. From the Dubuque Miners' Register. HEAD! PAUSE!! REFLECT!!! MOW ITiliira REPIDIITED By a Methodist Clergyman. Wilds of Checaajque, lowa, Oct. 7. 185$. Jtly Very Dear Friend: —Before I left Du buque yourself and several of her gentlemen of various Christian churches requested the publi cation of my sermon delivered on the 4th inst. A long habit of speaking extemporaneously made mt careless of tin- preservation of either sermons or speeches which I am called upon to make from time to time. Therefore, to give you my language or to transfer to paper my al lusions to civil and religious liberty would be impossible. But, with every possible desire to be brief, I shall give my qpinions to youtself in regard to the right of every man worshipping i Cod according to tiie dictates of his own con ! science, ami just as freely express my fears of, and opposition to, every organization either se- I cret or open which looks to the abridgement of this great principle, which is essential to the very existence of republican Government and , the uncorrupted worship of the living God. Yon, sir, are a Catholic: I am a Methodist. Your faith I believe to be the result of a delib | crate judgment formed after a careful investiga- J tion. Your convictions and devotions are con | srientious. Just such are my faith and my de | votions, and the faith and devotion of every true • Christian everywhere. I suppose you could \ not forsake vour religion and remain an honest man: I am equally clear that I could not aban | don my principles and retain for a moment my ; self-respect and enjoy the approving smile of my Holy Maker and Judge, who kindly regards the infirmities of his creatures, and scrupulously abhors pretence or deceit. Then, my dear friend, what are we to do ? On the details of our respec ; live religious creeds we can never agree. Shall | voti, therefore, destroy me? or shall I, with a superior charity and enlightened faith, seek your annihilation, because we differ concerning j matters which none but the wise and eternal God can correctly determine! I? it an injury ■ to either of us that the other, standing upon his ' responsibilities to the Supreme Judge ofthe uni verse,, chooses to consult him alone, and riisre ! gard tf ie,opinions of men, merely relating to things not of this world? It would insult' your good sens" to tarn !v answer these inquiries in : the negative, \ :>u had anticipated them all. There is only one answer which,has been con clusive to every reasonable worshipper of God. "Let every man be fully purstiaded in his own J'PpA" The Constitution of the land, wisely pi • : "ng i >r tie* p ditlcal agreement of a multi farious religious sentiment, has guaranteed to eve; v man a right to worship God according to i the dictates of his own conscience. And, for the v v first time in the history of modern civ ilization, otir national government has not onlv permitted, hut has encouraged, by her liberal 1 legislation, the growth of every sincerely devo ted body of Christians, irrespective of their name or formulas. It is with .regret that I see an attempt mad" in various portions of the coun try t create midnight censorships and star cham bers, for tiie avowed object of disfranchising the Catholic population of tiie country, and waging a war of all others the most fearful and vindic tive—a warfare against religion. In the whole history ofthe world there never has been a time when such, secret organizations as the know nothings were left with so shallow a pretence for their enmbinati: :i as at the present: never a time when so little has been threatened by any organized form of Christianity as now. Jh the first place, there is not a majority of the United States in communion with any church. There is a very clear majority who are not members of nnv religious body, and this majority would resist to the death the least squinting at an encroachment upon their right of opinion. In the second place, the government <loes not, directly or indirectly, support bv gitts or fees anv one denomination of Christieus, and of course can have no preference in her choice among them. Moreover, the numerical strength of the communicants of the several denomina tions is very nearly the sarr.e, and kept in awe by mutual watchfulness. A mutual forbearance, continued since the organization oi our govern ment, has created a Christian fraternity of feel ing among conflicting opinions unknown before in the history of Christianity. The population ofthe United States was in 1 Sf>o, *23,1 9 1,91S and is now about 2(5,000,000; of this number about 1,(500,000 are Methodists of every order, 1,200,000 are Baptists. Who, then, tiiat is not afflicted with a supor stition's monomania, can offer a reasonable pre tence for a formidable organization of religious power it! the United States ? Indeed, sir, if there ever has been a time when infidelity and contempt for all religion had an ascendancy, that time is now. Hut, should a time ever come when religious intolerance threatens the existence of free in stitutions, and resistance to ecclesiastical power becomes necessary, even then know-nothitigism, oranv other secret political organization, ought not to receive the countenance of any lover of free government. Secrecy and hypocrisy are the favorite instruments of kings and desjwts.— No country can long remain free alter its great principles are abandoned, and the government itself becomes the spoils of the tricky, skulking politician. I conceive the know-nothing organ ization of this character, or why the organiza tion at all in a country like ours, where every man has a voice in the legislation ofthe land Where no privileged order is established or countenanced by law, 1 cannot conceive of a single thing affecting those gentlemen as citizens which does not in the same sense affect every other man in the counfry. If their designs are just and patriotic, they are surely sustained by reason: and I think the same reasons which have convinced thern will also convince us of the same things, and there can In* no necessity for secrecy in the prosecution of honorable pur- TERMS, S3 PER YEAR. VOL XXIII, NO. 15. post's. But there are evils resulting from Mich asso ciations which ought not to be overlooked, in a republican government the basis of our se curity is public confidence. Whatever strikes at public, confidence, strikes at When the whig party beats the democratic [w ty upon an issue made public, the defeated par ty gives up the contest a honorably settled.— In turn he openly gains for his own party an equal triumph, and the opposition as quietly ac quiesce in their overthrow. It was done open ly: they saw how it was done, and are satisfied. But in the success o ( secret political societies public confidence is undermined; it gives way: a reign of terror commences; another SECBI:T organization, know-somethings, are organized; and they, too,may triumph, and the dismayed know-nothings may not so tamely submit.— They, in revenge, apply the muni'ions of se cret warfare. Long before the charter was granted to any of these organizations, midnight was deemed an auspicious time lor secret de predations, and no more powerful means than the spark of fire, or the simple modern inven tion appropriately called Incifer matches, would be needed to assist in secret resistance to the su perior trick of the victorious party. No less sacred a citadel than the temple of worship and family altar will be lighted up and illumine the earth with their fires. Aye, sy, already lias this infernal work begun under tlljib auspices of this modern institution of already have Catholic churches been burnetr to the ground or battered down by the hands or the lawless, irresponsible mob, patronized hv those graceless demagogues who would reform the world and maintain the super-excellent character ol Christian gentlemen, whilst they use for rrK st enormous crimes minions heated by mad fanaticism, the worst and basest of the w hole family,of man. Where is the church-burning to end under thp auspices of such an extended, and powerful, and slv, and heartless hand ? All of your churches may lie in ruins upon the earth. Then may your monasteries and nunneries share the same fate. By U.is time church-burning may become fashionable, and the hand long tiained to incendiarism may with the same fa cility try his experiment upon the Methodist churches, which, like Catholic churches, may be devoured by flames. Rot the dwellings cf priests and the houses of Methodist creachers, may endure a similar fate, as they become sub ject to the overruling mandates of King Mob. Indeed, the forebodings to one accustomed to melancholy feeling are truly frightful. To the sober-minded the fearful results of stjch oSgahT- . zalions promise no less than the overthrow of frde government! If was their secret political reformation which preceded the French revo lution, and contributed to the trophies of Marat ami Robespierre. The results are plain and natural, and it requires far more of fortitude than wisdom to foresee a nation of Christian repub licans giving way to vandalism until she is overcome with a pure barbarism, and seeks pro tection and pleads for quarters beneath the hos pitable throne of an absolute despotism. Tt surely requires no vast stretch of imagination to travel hack to the reign of our Catholic and Protestant English Kings and Queens, who have left nothing to posterity hut a loathsome memo ry of their persecutions inflicted upon conscien tious men lor no other crime than the volunta ry worship of the living God. Indeed, sir, the memory of the illustrious Calvin has been soiled hv the reflection of persecutions inflicted upon his dissenting contemporary, Servetus. New- England, both the cradle and the grave of true liberty, destroyed the portrait of her Plymouth landing by interposing the frightful spectacle of hanging Quakers and Baptists for their opin ions: and who that has had absolute power has not thus appropiiated it? and with a generous forget fulness these our mutual wrongs and mu tual sufferings are consigned to oblivion. What high-minded, intelligent Catholic or Protestant would see these scenes re-enacte i upon the continent of America, though th> v were regulated by law ? W ho, in the name oi liberty, would seek their introduction by mob violence, under the sacred garb of n-iigio' , wearing the sacerdotal robes of the temple <d God There may he wrongs in every ecclesi astical organization. If they conflict with the rights of citizens, the law under our constitu tion is abundantly able to correct the evil : U they do not conflict with these rights, it remains a question with man and his Maker without an intervening power. There may be a wrong in our law s which is not sufficiently scrutinizing and severe in the prohibition of the emigration of fnflign pavpers and foreign criminals : if that be so, let those laws be amended, and every honorable foreign er will rejoice in the distinction which is made between virtue and vice. That would he a levelling blow, indeed, which at one fell stroke struck down the good with the evil, the wise with the foolish, indiscriminately. But such is know-nothingisin in its inception. God only knows the end, and may He in mercy forefend us the' worst ! I am your sincere friend and fellow-citizen, hound hy the fiaternal feelings of u liberal ami holy Christianity. HENRY CLAY DEAN. A. P. Gregoire, Esq. The famous Brigham Young, the Governor of Utah,and Grand High Priest of the Mor mons, came near having an inglorious end put to his career, in August last. He went down into his well to recover a lost bucket, when the kerbing tumbled in, and the earth followed, and Brigham Young became, for the nonce, a sub tenant an Saint. But the zeal of his followers would not permit any such finish to the life of this most faithful shepherd. Spades and shovels were brought into requisition; the harem of the buried Governor .assembled in force to aid the saving efforts of the male members ol the flock, and, in about two hours, they had the gratifica tion of pulling him out, like a forked radish.
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