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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1869.
THE DEATH OF ED WINM. STANTON.
The Announcement this morning of tho mid
den and unexpected doatli of Hon. Edwin M.
Stanton caused a Bhock such as ban not been
felt at the decease of any public man since Abra
ham Lincoln. Secretary Stanton was one of the
great men of the age. The Rebellion brought
him to the surface and proved his noble
qualities, and tho peculiar character of his
services, no less than the remarkable manner in
which he performed them, endeared him more
than almost any of the statesmen of the day to
the hearts of the loyal portion of the American
people. II. Stanton's stern and uncompromis
ing pat riotiHm, his firmness, his courage, and his
unyielding virtue, raised up for him a host of
enemies among the traitors to their country,
the Rebel sympathizers, and a whole army of
political wire-pullers and office-seekers, who
could not use him to advance their schemes.
2?o man of our time has been more abused or
pursued with greater malignity. But the very
qualities that excited the wrath of his oppo
nents are the ones that raised up for him
steadfast and admiring friends who stood by
him under every circumstance, and that se
cured for him the cordial and enthusiastic
Bupport of the substantial and law-abiding
portion of the American people. On our
first page we give a complete sketch of
Mr. Stanton's life and publio services, and it
is unnecessary, therefore, to allude to them
in this place in more than general terms.
To his efficient administration of the War
Department was due, as much as to any other
cause, the total annihilation of the
Rebellion, and it was to him that we in a
great measure owe the discomfiture of the
attempts on the part of traitors to regain
a hold upon the powers of the Government
after the Rebellion had been subdued. His
nomination to the Supreme Bench a few days
ago by the President was recognized as not
only eminently proper in itself, but as a fit
ting recognition of his great services; and his
prompt confirmation by the Senate suffi
ciently indicated the high estimation
entertained for him by that body. His
death is a loss to the nation a loss that the
nation cannot afford. Great statesmen are
not numerous, and one by one those that we
have are passing away from us, and the ques
tion is, Who shall take their places ? In the
death of Edwin M. Stanton the American
people lose a statesman, a jurist, a devoted
patriot, and an honest man, and the sorrow
at the event will be as sincere as profound.
CHRISTMAS.
"Globy to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good-will to men" such words from
angel lips have sanctified to-morrow, of all
the days that make the circling years, to
charity and to peace. Christmas has a lofty
signifioanoe as a religious festival and com
memoration of the 'great joy" vouchsafed to
a suffering world, and the warm heart of
humanity has worthily chosen it for the spe
cial occasion of the recognition of the claims
of the doctrine taught by Christ, and preached
by the trumpet tones of Paul the universal
Lrotherhood !
This year may well and boldly echo the
glad tidings, for it has completed by hard
handed labor the visible bond by which the
nations are united, and the peoples with
linked hands now girdle the whole earth by
the tangible chains by which rails of iron and
new channels of water bind mankind in unity.
In such blessings let the world rejoice, for
the Pacific Railroad and Suez Canal become
the types of the great moral work slowly but
surely to be perfected. This is Christmas in
its broader sense, but it has a simpler mean
ing by which it comes home to every indi
vidual as a duty and a pleasure.
The bonds of kindred, the claims of de
pendants, the needs of the poor, are by
wholesome custom held in paramount con
sideration, and the day is set apart for deeds
of kindliness, benevolence, and generosity.
We have called the custom wholesome; for,
in the hard struggle for daily bread, neoessity
compels an undue regard for self and disre
gard' of others, and it is well that the re
yolving year should bring about, with ever
recurring regularity, a season of "good-will
to men." Family reunions and the inter
change of simple tokens of esteem and re
membrance are the pleasant ceremonials
which belong to the day, and it is to be re
gretted that the general extravagance of the
age has even tainted this good old-fashioned
festival, and that too often the jolly old tur
key dinner is altered into a grand entertain
ment, the Christmas seed-cake into Frenoh
confectionery, and the child's stocking dis
placed by the jewel-box.- -''
This is a sod change, as are all changes
from simple pleasures to laborious ceremonial,
and all those inroads by which fashion alters,
by its exaggerations, wholesome amusement
Into burdensome duty, making a pain of
pleasure. Ostentatious display and lavish ex
penditure, if they are not a crime, are cer
tainly a blunder, for they defeat the very aim
which they are intended to promote. Instead
of producing pleasure, they are the fruitful
source of discontent, envy, and unhappinoss.
It is an over true tale that describes the little
prince turning tearfully from the mechanioal
toys upon which thousands of francs had been
lavished, to weep with envy at the happy
lads making mud pies in the gutter. A child
really enjoys mud pies more than he does an
automaton, and the child is the father of the
man in this respect as well as in many an
other. A capacity for simple enjoyment can be
cultivated, at least it ought not to be wilfully
destroyed. It is from our simpler ploasures
that we draw the purest and most lively joy
in the present, and it is to them that we look
back in after years, when things finer
and grander have faded entirely from re
membrance. There is in every one's memory
the, pleasant recollection of some slight token
of regard, perhaps but a fow words written
or spoken, or a trifling gift which has
cemented a friendship more strongly from
the mere fact that tho present conferred no
obligation except a kindness, and merely
bore the impress of feeling instead of the
more sordid stamp of money.
Let Christmas the good old-fashionod
Christmas return, then, for the delight of
the children and those of larger growth
who are wise enough to appreciate its
blessings.
With a simple, hearty, cheery, old-fashioned,
open hand we extend to each of our readers
the time-honored, true-hearted greeting a,
merry Christmas !
WHAT ARK WE COMING TOt
That is the cry ! We hear it from every lip,
we see it in every journal, but we can find
comfort in the fact that every age has made
the same outcry before us. Addison casti
gated the girl of his period with as hearty
and perhaps better English than the Saturday
Review uses to bethwack her to-day, and
Dante left the stock-brokers of his age hardly
a leg to stand upon. One of the foremost
thinkers of our time has comforted us with
the assurance that "we are not as bad as we
seem," and we want to believe his assertion
partly for the pleasure of it, and partly, it
must le confessed, that we do seem protty
bad ! But may not this most unseemly seem
ing arise in some degree from the way we
talk about it ? I be world is enjoying a per
fect rapture of self-abuse; we are telling the
most dreadful stories about ourselves, and
when the facts are not quite bad enough,
some clever individual touches them up a
little, adding a slight depth of depravity here,
and a litle shading of brutality there, just to
bring out the picture into better relief.
The last sensation ! What a horrible phrase
it is, and what horrors it is certain to include
or portend ! The very words are an abomina
tion as well as the thing. But we do not be
lieve it at all. The talking and writing world
has been smitten with a contagion, a sort of
epidemic, which has broken out in a very
ugly irruption of adjectives. The attack
has been violent, but it has been short; the
recovery is already commencing, and we must
rejoice that the iiiHc-ii.se did not strike in.
Cutaneous complaints are noisome, to be sure,
but they are not dangerous, and are a very
unpleasant but sure way of getting off bad
humors.
This view of the subject cheers us hugely,
and we are expecting a speedy reformation; a
great many naughty words will be allowed to
return to their resting-places in the diction
ary instead of sweeping round on every
breeze, and those things that are of modesty
and good report will regain their fitting pro
minence. THE POPE ON TRIAL.
"Ours," said Guizot, "is an age of essay,
testing, experiment," just before this same
irreverent age put himself and the dynasty
he supported to the test, and ignobly routed
them. He did not go far enough to grasp the
whole truth. If this nineteenth century is
the grimmest, it is one of the jus tent of icono
clasts; if it proves all things, it is no less firm
in holding fast to that which is good, no
matter through what blood or loss. One
fancies, too, that it is not without a certain
cynical humor, from the fact that the false
gods which are to be destroyed are found
usually to voluntarily put themselves on trial,
and so parade and perk themselves as to
show the justice of their downfall. How long
would our own Baal of slavery have stood
intact, had it not been for its vauntings of a
conquered Mexico, Cuba, and reopened slave
trade, which brought it and its claims boldly
before the common sense of the world ?
That, after all, it is the intangible judge
which rules the age. It is to nations what
the terrible Nemesis of conscience is to indi
viduals. It is time for any ancient sham to
tremble when the grave common sense of men
begins to ask, "Of what use is this thing ?
nas it not long ago ceased to serve its
purpose ? Why not bury its dead body '("
Let it prank thereafter in what semblance of
power it may, when the world has fixed its
cool, measuring eyes upon it, it will presently
grasp it in its iron hand, and if it be decayed
or worthless will leave it, like slavery, a dead
and crumbled mass. . .
Only a month or two ago the House of
Lords, with that strange fatuity of judgment
that seems to belong to unsound bodies,
brought suddonly, and without warning, the
aristocratic power of England upon the plat
form for trial at the bar of publio opinion;
but finding, perhaps, jury and judge readier
than they supposed, and tho peril of a verdict
imminent, they drew back as best they could,
and put off the trial to a later day. Change
of venue will serve them little. The worst of
it was that their position in the few days of
suspense was simply ludicrous: it was not
even tragic The people held up their riders,
royalty itself, for a little space, and surveyed
critically the thing they had feared.
"I took his Majesty up" in my hand," said
Gulliver, in Lilliput "(he was just as high as
my thumb), and laughed to see him brand
ish his little sword." But finding his rough
laughter frightened the toy king, he put him
carefully down, and left him for a season.
Whether we be Catholics or Protestants, it
is in vain for us to shut our eyes to the fact
that it is the Papacy whioh is next to stand
on trial, and that Pope Pius himself has
brought it to the bar.
The adheronts of the Roman Church were
the first to see that she had utterly lost herold
position. The world had fulfilled Galileo's
threat to hor, and moved, leaving her be
hind. Robe and chasuble were the same,
and she kept about her the old hazy shim
mer of incense and colored light. But inside
of that ?
Not only has temporal power dropped from
her hand, but since the beginning of this
century she has notably been a puppet in the
hands of France and Austria, moved to suit
their political ends. The wires have been
bare, to be seen of all men.
Three centuries ago, whatever learning or
research was to be found in Christendom be
longed to the Roman Church. Since that,
there is not a science or an art which has
lightened the modern world that has not
forced its way against the feeble, clogging
hindrance of that Church. The great truths
of the ordinary knowledges common to us all
she is forced to slur over in her schools, lest
they confute her history or the spirit which
gives her name and identity. Her colleges
and seminaries, even in this country, are
avowedly simply schools for instruction in
the languages, in manners and accomplish
ments. This antagonism to the live, earnest
progress of humanity the shrewdest of her
disciples have been busied in concealing.
The Pope has dragged it to light
with a vengeance. Finding his sylla
bus (in which he arraigned the science,
culture, and progress of the age as
among the "eighty damnable heresies")
fall dead, he summons the (Ecuinouioal
Council to sustain him in his attack. It is
not Pere Hyacinthe alone who thinks him un
wise in "thus proclaiming a divorce as im
pious as senseless between the Church and
the society of the nineteenth century."
The Pantist brothers, with Hecker at their
head in this country, and the keen-witted
liberal fathers in Germany, would have been
glad if this divorce could have beon hidden
from sight until they had engineered some
unnatural marriage between them. They
were striving hard to perform the operation
of vivisection on the poor old Church: to in
fuse new blood into hor veins, give her the
reputation of German breadth of thought,
Yankee acuteness, and Christian liberality.
They persuaded us that the Church, whose
fundamental doctrine is the denial of the
right of private judgment, now implored
"every man to believe himself created to do
his own thinking." They laughed at the idea
that "any one man, Pope or prelate, had the
power of making his own opinion binding on
others." They told us that the Church for
merly only burned innovators from the kind
wish to conceal from the world its own igno
rance, but that it now desired to lead the van
of liberal teachers. They came very near
success, probably because the world concerned
itself very little about their ancient mother.
But why, meanwhile, did they put no
guard upon the Pope ? now was he allowed
to drag the Church, with her oldest
rags of superstition tight about her,
upon a platform to call upon this prac
tical, newspaper-reading world to kneel
and give her allegiance as in days when
kings were hor servants ? He had not even
sense of the ludicrous enough to see the dif
ference between Innocent, whose mere word
drove John from the throne, and the fidgety
old gentleman who so fears a squabble with a
Scotch clergyman that he makes haste to
answer a letter before it is written.
He cannot blame men busy with the vital
concerns of their age if they use their clearest
glasses to look into the Church which claims
absolute authority over them here and here
after; if they examine her history, and inquire
what she has done for the world, before they
surrender their own freedom of thought, and
accept this well-meaning but weak old gentle
man as he so urgently requests them to do,
as an infallible dictator in thought, the re
presentative of God upon earth.
It would certainly have been better for this
Church if Pope Pius could have been longer
"hushed up among his friends." But for the
cause of truth it is better that the Church
itself, with its prestige of obsolete power and
its amazing assumption of present authority,
should be fairly brought to a final trial and
fully assayed, whether it be good or whether
it be evil.
FIR E AND BURGLAR PROOF 8 AFE
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m Broadway, N. V. 103 Bank St., Cleveland, O.
A number of Seooud-hand Safes of different makes
and nl.tg for sale VERY LOW. 11 80 mwflmrp
SAFES, MACHINERY, etc., moved and hoisted
promptly and carefully, at reasonable rates.
QRYSON & SON,
No. 8 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
Stationers and Printers.
FAJil'Y GOODS, FIXE STATIONERY,
2'ocJict Knives, Leather Goods,
Writing Desks, Folios,
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Holiday Appliances.
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FANCY GROCERIES,
Comprising all the Delicacies known in the trade,
purchased expressly tor the Holidays, is now
offered lor sale, at reduced prices, by
Crippen & Maddook,
(Late W. L. Haddock & Co ),
No. 115 South THIRD St.,
BELOW CHESNUT.
White Almeria Grapes,
In Large Clusters.
Finest Quality Behesa Kaislns, in quarter, half, and
whole boxes.
New, FreBh Nuts, Taper Shell Almonds, Paradise
Nots, English and Grenoble Walnuts, Pecan Nats,
Filberts.
Havana and Florida Oranges, Lemons, New Layer
Figs, Guava Jelly, Marmalade, Ilavaua Preserves of
various kinds.
TEAS GREEN AND BLACK,
Have been selected with great care, directed to their
purity and fragrance. Special care has also been
taken to procure
COFFEE ,
Of the finest mark Imported, such as Liberia, East
India, Mocha, African, Gov. Java, Mara
calbo, etc etc.
MEW MESS MACKEREL,
SHAD AND SALMON.
We call especial attention to oar FRESH AS
SORTMENT OF FRENCH DELICACIES, such as
French Peas, Mushrooms, Trulties, L. Henry; Pates
de Foie Gras, Boneless Sardines, and a great variety
of other brands.
FRESH GOSHEN BUTTER, in small tula, selected
expressly for family use.
Agent for the sale of M. Work & Co.
Golden Sparkling Catawba Wine.
All Goods sold to families In unbroken packages at
wholesale prices and delivered free of charge.
CRIPPEN & MADDOCK,
No. 115 South THIRD Street,
It BELOW CHESNDT, Philadelphia,
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With the finest Clothing ever made ;
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With the moat conaummaU taste displayed,
Gorgeously finished, and neatly laid
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And the prices are oertainly not too high.
For we've put them all down ; just come and try.
And aee how the goods continue to fly
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And the folks both in town and country say
That for all the seasons of Holiday,
Never were suits to be had so gay.
Bo much to please, so little to pay.
Certain to suit you, any way,
Butter than what they find to-day
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For olothea for your own use, and for Christmas pre
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wonderfully reduced prices, from the rapidly vanishing
Winter stock of
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603 and 605 CHESNUT Street.
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NEW YORK
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SHUi, and SATURDAY, 26t of Deoember, good to return
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mcnl of Oantn' heavy Gold Vest Chains, Heal Rinxa,
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