The Beaver Argus. 1. Vrfil'AND.'Estrron Asa ?soya slos 'B eav er, Pa., Nov. 15t1i, 18716 THE report of the Commissioner of Agriculture says the reiurns Indicate a larger production than was expect- ed in October, and nronilses folly to ' make good the moderate expectations of July and Atigust. There have been no killing frosts, and the guall ty is good in all sections. The ,yield per acre, as indicated by county esti mates, 13 largest in Arkansas• SECRETARY ROBESON 'has issued an order expelling six more cadets from the Naval Academy at Aanna'• polls, for "hazing . ," and says : "Let; "it be distinctly understood that the "Academy will be purified of this! "disgraceful practice, and the defiant "spirit which now invokes its action, "by the dismissal—if' necessary—of !cadets to the very last who reftise -"the fullit obedience to the ngula " lions on this subject." Tat: Grand Duke- Alexis,-of Rus sia, about whcse safety fears were en tertained for sometime past, arrived in'Netv York on last Sabbath morn ing. • He was dresscal in the simple uniform of a Lieutenant, and is rep resented cg; tall, strongly built, and has the . air of a perfect • gentleman. Re OCillileabtless be lionized to his heart's iontent while a visitor in the United States. • -4.- THE Secretary of the National Ite- Tubliftn Committee has issued a IA I for a. Meeting of the Committee in Washington (in the 11th of . January next. At this session it will be deci ded where the next National Con- vention shall,be held to nominate a candidate for. the Presidency. -4.11 infortnal canvass of the preference of the members of the Cotntuittei seems to indicate - that New York city will he chosen. The choice lies between that city and Cincinnati. Tim amount of aid to Chicago from foreign countries is much greater than could have Win anticipated. Indeed, almost every part of the civilized work Seems to be anxious to do its share for the relief of the devastated city. Montreal has sent $102,000 in gold, and the rest ofCanada probably as much more. From Havana comes a contribution of dyer $lO ,0i)0 in gold. The contributions in - Great Britain must have exceeded one hundred thousand pounds ora half million dollars in gold. Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, France and other coun tries hive all contributed according to their means, and it may be fairly estimated that the whole amount given by foreigners will reach a million of dollars. This is a hand sotne return for all that America has done for foreign countries that have suffered' from tire, war, pestilence and famine. Tim New Brighton Press reiter ates its charge that we did the memo ry of the late Dr. Stanton injustice while referring to the causes which produced his death. It also insinu ates now that we were unfriendly to him during the latter part of his li!e 1 and what we said touching his Oa death was instigated by malice,i Ae - we do not choose to rest undimpu- cations of so unworthy a i eharacter, we are necessarily obliged to refer to this unpleasant inat3 r eiigain. What we did say at the Julie of Dr. Stan ton's death was ! this: that he had in jected a larpr, 'quantity of morphia into his arorthan his reduced system was ablg:fo bear. We said this,then; we so — it now. Others may think ditrerently: They are entitled to their Jiello4, and we ate entitled to ours. ~• We based our conviction' on what we heard the morning succeeding his death, and ,on the fact that after tak ing, the drug he fell into a sleep from which he never awoke. If more than this were needed we can quote the testimony of his physicians who state that he fell "a victim to his pro fessional devotion, and to the remedy (morphia) he had so often succe&iful- ly wed to relieve the sufferings of his felloW-men:" No person's abuse!' therefore will cause us to lay aside this conviction ; nor will theutterances of those who think as we do, but talk differently induce us to follow their exatople. If, then, we have shown by Dr. Stanton's physicians that he " fell a victim" to morphia, it follows as a Matter of course that he injected more of the drug into lus.arin than " his reduded system was able to bear." Whether he did this "care lessly," or whether be did It ignor antly, we leave the Press to deter mine. It'can take which horn of the diletmtia , -it chooses. It occurs to us, howev.er, that if .Dr. Stanton could rise Erorti,bis grave, his first excla mation would be: "Save me from my otheious friends! As to there being any ill-feeling on our part toward Dr, Stanton previ ous to his death, we have only to say that it is false from beginning to end . No mart everheard us say an unkind word of itr. Stanton; or speak in any • buttho must respectful tern's of him. The I-Was has therefore been either' grtsasly imposed upon, or "some body'sitnagination" has been heavily. tamed for the idea. Su much for the Press' last article ; a word or two now in regard to its first attack. This Was`made in its issue of Novem ber 10th. On the Monday following • the editor of the Press put in an ap pearance at the , Anntis office and apologized . in every conceivable man ner for the attaeli . upon us in his pa per. He even went so far .as to say that he Was not the writer of the ar ticle himself. alttimagh it did appear as an , editorial; that he did not see it in proof; that it was not the kind of an article at all he ; supposed it was; that the whole thing was uncalled for, out of place, .find he hoped we Howl d not be angry with-Altai for, its publication in his paper, &c., he. . After making an apology so hu miliating as the above. we fancy it was. quite brave for the editor of the. Press, afterwards, to say that his first article was to us "a `just re buke. wholly deServed and properly administered." The man who , am. perform a feat like that is clearly not a "grannVe Re must be the very embodiment of chivalry and exalted journalism ANOWIEB prominent candidate for high nolitieal honors is Alexander H. Stephens; late Vice k'resident of the defunct Con itileracy. lie Is nth " er thin .and somewhat wrinkled, but a liyely and interesting coipse withal. We suggest that the Democraci se- hint for their candidates in the ap proaching Presidential CfunP.alt n e Stephens and Blair, or Blair .. and Stephens. It would be a mere goes lion of expediency with them wheth er tie representative of the stars or tfie repreentative of the . bara occu tiled •the higher . place . tip t heir ticket, and it would be immaterial to us. these. distinguished- candidate; should be selected becnu.se they rep resent thebrains and purposes of the . 66reteracy North and South. They would latxw earnestly to overthrow / 41'the. Republican legislation , of the . past 'ten years, including the 13th, 14th, awl 15th amendments and Would, if *possitde, speedily reduce tie black man to Ints ante-helium con 4etiou of slavery. They-. would, o urse, repudiate the- National del?t, ind destroy the National credit. male AND TUERE'3, —A contemporary = records that a nice girl atGreen . 'Bay, Wis., war be ihg courted by a nice young man. itte was generous, and _made ber presents of hair oil, which he pur chased from the father'nf hisadored.' After giving her some twenty bot tles of the oleaginous fluid he discov ered he was working in a circle—as teat as he presented them she return (id them to the store, tins dutifully making trade for her father. - There is not any room for dhubt ing that the coming, winter is to be awfully cold. The prophets all say so, turd the man is insane who dls- Putes the prophets. They have found the moss growing thick on the trees, frogs standing on their heads, pee flowers pointing toward the North role, grape vines running around polls instead of up them, and there are a thousand other signs to show that every human being will be frozen as stiff as a chip before Febru ary. —A. funny paragraph is on its trav els about a ,girl in Vermont who, having sued her lover for breach of promise, laid her damages as follows: ►ne shillings per week for '•setting hp," with cost of lights and fuel ad ded in. 'We may laugh as much as ive please at, this, but the girl is a sensible damsel, and we hope that she got a verdict. Bringing actions for damage to the feelings and in- }dry to the heart and for the - ,value of pangs and delicate disappoint ments, is a great deal more mercer,- ary than asking for remuneration for loss of time and even of fires and lights. A sharp girl has a , perfmt right to say t hat, but for the wiek%l conduct of the dishonest swain,,sfie might ha r ve married somebody ;else ; and lawyers, when they g0.,40 the jury for theswindled plaint ff. should put the case in that way. might spoil ; their eloquent pathos; hut, af ter all, that sort of th i ihg haS become hackneyed and uniMpressive. Busi ness-is businesscarid most women in this kind of litigation mean business and nothing'i - lse. • —That dea" r old Garret Davis will Ibe theldeath of us yet.' Looking all over-The country to find a Presiden iia% candidate ameptable to himself lind likely to be elected, who, in the Itame of all the gods at once, should he pitch upon but Mr. Millard Fil , more! It isn't that' Mr. Filmore himself is ridiculous, except so far as DavisN patronage makes him - so ; but -probably there Isn't in the whole country a single man who has a smaller chance of being nominated for or of being elected to the °thee; Nobody thinks of him for the place except G. Davis—lie doesn't even think of himself for it, except in sad presentiinent that this ungarded et- pression of Mr. Davis's views may rekindle the smouldering fires of ambition in Mr. Filmore's bosomi, and thus disturb the philosophical serenity of his retirement. —Another sad story of dese• rtion and this time from Philadel•: ph la. ()skins, the murderer, former ly a kind husband and respectable citizen, took to drinking, and his wife finding her home intolerable in consequence, left it. He followed her the other day, and, in a delirium from liquor and despair, .killed her. Of course, the sympathies of the pub lic are all with the dead wife. But, after all, is there nothing to be said on the other side? That a man 'or woman drinks, or is an unpleasant companion, is hardly do excuse for desertion on either side, -if -marriage vows realty mean anything. Or do they dbly marry ."during good be havior," or until ilquor doth them part? In manyinstances drunkenness is u disease ; in others a habit, induced by misconduct or ill-temper. The whole matter reduces itself not to sentiment but to the baldest logic —Many querulous things have bee Said or written against the wearing of the beard, but'now for the first time, we believe, haS . it been de nounced by judicial authority. ills Honor Judge Kent,•at a recent term of his court at Belfast, Me., spoke of " theabom inable practice of wearing hair on the upper lip." Judges, it may be presumed, are men Of knowl. edge, and therefore,if it iced so pleased him, doubtless Judge Kent could have told the bar, jurors and 'specta tators what nature meant by causing hair to the upper lip. Eith er the Judge or the venerable dame is wrong—one or the other indubit ably. This judicial dictum might have been of more importance when beards were just struggling against prodigious odds of prejudice, into general use ; but now it Is not of so much consequence, when every other man at his pleasure carries himself like unto a pard about the e la n _th e Inconsistent consematistn which would abolish the elder ornament of the manly frame to the contrary notwithstanding. —A ,chartning place must Chris tiana Village, Del.,,be, -for there on a. recent Sunday, i. e., the Lord's Day, did Stephen Castner, he 'being a Jus-' tice of the Peace, inebriLte anu thus exalted he had a mild mis-. understanding with • Charles E. Woolsey, a 'Teacher of Youth, and by way of enforcing his arguments, he the said Justice did shoot time afore said pedagogue so that We call special attention-to the degree of social culture and security existing in Deleware Which the particulars of this event imply. We do not know, if a schoolmaster Is to be shot, that he *olddfind it a, mitigating Or. . ctuns64'ze to be alict by a Justice of the Peace ;' probably some poor vie -rim might eateetri it matter un aggro; 3foreever,theJ: dig - nitary empoWered to send - hts erring fellow-citizens to the pillory and the whipping post.; he must often have seen these fine world 'structures! and yet, regardless of their warning, he induiges in the repreheisibleand un ivholesome delimey of murder. 'Tis very queer: • —lt ought to be ,mentioned as a most astonishing Circumstance, that Suffolk county. Mass. (Boston), elect ed as Sheriff, the other day, Mr. John M. Clark. Never was there a more popular man, • It was some thing that in this age of office-seek= ing nobody ran as a candidate against him, but it was still more singular that in a large poll not one human being voted against 'him. He liter, ally had all the votes. The very peo ple who had sit fefed under his action veal(' for him all the same. We do not remember wheth er'he has hanged anybody, but if he has, the reittlies of the deceased were perfectly'satislled aid' the way in which he did it, and bore him no grudges. It Isn't every candidate who can afford to hold "Scattering" in perfect Contempt, Scattering vo ted, as to the others, miscella.neously in Boston, but when it came to Mr. Clark,Scattering yielded in an atnia- We spasm of unanim4. I= TOE UEVENT%LE The &form in the East—Serious I&zil road Accident—Several Persons In jured—Remarkably High Tides--A Vast amount of . Property Destroy'd. The gale of last week blew down and de s troyed a large amount of pro perty lo;prew York, and the unpre cedented high.ltzle--overflowing the wharves—filled _the ceJlars 3n all the lower portions of the eltir. Much damage was also sustained by the shippingin the harbor. The eltets of the sturin elsewhere may be gath ered fmrn the following telegrams: ROIFLAND, Me., Nov. 16.—The severest gale known here for years commenced on Tuesday •night and still continues. , The sea ran higher in our harbor than has been kpiiwn sims2 '1855. Both the stepuboat wharves are badly damagi.ll. The other wharves and the siilpping in port also .sustained sothodatnage. The steamers City of Bt - titnnond and liantandin arrived :Oily from Ban gor, and anchored ig.'-the harbor. PORTLAND, Nov. - 16.—The schooner W. B v P., from Elizabeth port for Saco, with coal, while lying at Wood 'shad last night,. dragged her anchor,ajid went ashore on Stake Island. 3y :Boma. :`,:ov. 16.—A fireman on the 12:1,5 Pullman train for Portland, was klled, yesterday, on Rowley Mn;rShes by a section of rail giving woy—from the flood—anal throwing ptiging from the track. The train vas feeling its way slowly, the road being submerged. The raid has suf fered badly by the storm. PORTSMOUTH, N. H.—The storm continues, but the tide is not so high us yesterday. The beeches and roads ut the sea shore at Rye and Hamp ton are seriously injured. No trains over the Eastern roads have arrived here since the storm commenced. In this harbor the U. S. Steamer Speed well assisted the schooners W. 11. Wellington, Rio and Nile, off Clark's Island where they had run agroandi anti assisted to strip the schooner Namashong, from Rockland for Bos ton. She lay on the rocks, her cargo of lime having ignited and totally destroyed, the vessel. 'KINCARDINE. Ontario, Nov. 10.— A fishing boat was found on theshoro of the Lake this morning belong to McCanty & Smith, of Southampton. The !newer° supposed to have been lost in the storm. The wind VIA blowing a gale all day yesterday. OwEs SOUND, Nov. IG.—The Tug San Lpuis went ashore during the storm at Cape Crocker, and is sup posed to be wrecked and her cargo lost. The gunboat Prince Albert ar rived here to-day with water in her hold. She went to secure the sell!. (iota Hunter which was ashore, and got her off, but had to cut her adrift off Cattot's Head. Theitiptain, mate and four men were aboard the schoo ner when the gunboat cut loose to save itself. When the weather per mits she will go it search of the ves ,. sel and crew. Ni AGAKA, NOV. l6,—The schooner George Foote, of Detroit for Ogdens rt burg ith lumber, went ashore at the m of .the river, yesterday, crew al sit Val. SOUTII BAY, Nov, 16.—The pro peller Enterprise. and schrs. Cathe rine, Ocean \Faye, and four others are here, Wind•bound. The wind is north-east with heavy sea, and rain ing. The EntArprise went aground this morning. RocuEsTYnt, Nov. W.—The schr. O'Gorman went ashore last night in Lake Ontario, one mile west of the Genesee river, in a snowstorm. An other schooner is reported ashore fur ther west. Both are light, and will probably be taken ofi by the tugs. ERIE, Pa., Nov. 16.—Theschooner Monkslm went ashore early yester day morning, two miles east of Gi rard. Pa. A heavy sea was running , at the time, which prevented the les- • cue of the crew until 7 o'clock this . morning, when ten persons were ta ken off. No particulars are given as to her cargo and destination. —A Port Rowan (Ontario,) tele gram of the 17th says: Vessels were driven ashore on 'Long Point on Wednesday. The barge P. C. Sher man rolled over on the end of the Point. The crew left the vessel in a boat and were driven out into the lake. ',They are all supposed to have been, lost. The vessel will probably be a total loss. The schooner A. C. King went ashore two miles west of the light, with 22,000 bushels of corn. The crew were saved, and probably . the cargo will be. The propeller Evergreen City went ashore eight miles west of thelight with no cargo. The crew were saved, but the vessel is supposed to-be a total loss. The brig Resolute went' ashore at the light-house, and will prove a total foss: Two of the crew, one man aria one woman, were frozen to death. The trahmee of the crew were saved, having come ashore on pieces of the wreck. The schooner Saxon was driven ashore last night and cannot be got off. The crew of the barque P. C. Sher man, lost off Long Point, Ontario, arrived at Buffalo on the 18th inst. They -.drifted acres the lake in an open 'boat, and were for twenty hours exposed to the col and heavy The stewardess die' on the terrible passage from exposure. 1=112:a A !Miniature 'Village. A correspondent of the San Fran cisco Bulletin, who has traveled "up country" in California, writes thus : "Fifteen miles from the summit of the Klamath mountains, down the Salmon river, is the small mining town of Sawyer's Bar. It is the lit tlest mite of a place, projected on the smallest scale, and tuts things arran ged in the snuggest fashion I have seen in an American village for a great while. It is as tight and as trim 'as any Swiss or German hamlet. There is scarcely two rods width of bottom land, bordered by a steep hill, and the town is only a few rods in length; yet in Thai extremely small place are enough people ° packed to gether to furnish a school of forty scholars, a church, stores, hotels, 4c., besides countless little -patches of cabbages, terraces of flowers or fruit, wee bite of garden, Ali the merchandise bold in Sawyer's Bar is brought over from Arcata, on the coast, a distance of one :hundred miles, on pack males, at a ,eost of abOut five cents per pound freight age." EMEESE 111=1 DIVOUC '- IN VTAU. Women Have More .Rights TAan Men—The Latter Treated Harsh ty. Mum torreepoudence San Francisco Chronic:All And when it is known that a man or woman may procure such au arti cle for the modest stein of ten dollars in gieenbackk it *ill' be 'seen that Utak must be a sort , o," Mecca for un happy_ '' ilenedicks and wronged spouses. No such thing. though. A 'man can only get, a divorce from his wife On the ground of adultery. She may be uncongenial, the ,"spiritual affinity" of spiritualists may be sad ly wanting may yob, old and' cold, and indetd she ma e tile very devil, but still the husband has to cling to her if she has not like that fair sinner whom Jesus is reputed to haveconsoiedandpardoned. On the other - hand, the wife may apply for a divorce'° from her husband and allege seven grounds as a muse of ac- tion. Among them, may. be men tioned adultery, desertion, drunken ness, violent family quarrels; failure to support, etc., in procurring a divorce no publicity is given, Brig ' hain 'managing thowliole matter. .ite cording to his own will. He patienf ly . listens Ao the complaints of Wo en; ina if satisfied that the (nudes are sufficient, grants the diveirce. The saintesses who have to afOly to him are treated With alfectiouate r garb, and even iri eases •ofitdultery on the part of the womak.ilor public opinion, nor the in Of the Prophet condems her to hell upon earth. She is counseled and advised, and then sent to same distautpart of the Ter ritory,,Where she . May do pennanee for het sins. " With men who seek divorces Brighgtil does not seem to have much pobenee: His doctrine is that if a ,nian does right by his wife thereon never be any trouble and that' itt•nine cases -out. -of ten where a Wife errs, the ;husband =i6 at fault. lie does not believe with the French philosophers of the seven teeniii century, that woman errs he wn* variety is the law of nature. `: Liability for a Wille•s Bills.. An action was decided in Philti delphia,on'Wedin.%day last by Judge Thayer, fAror of a husband who had been sued by a dry goods Bar: - fur obit! run up by his wife. Defense set up that the husband furnished his wife with an ample supply of neces saries. In the course of his charge the. Judge said: 'itit is a 'false and foolish notion for tradespeople to en tertain that a husband is bound to Day all bills contracted by his wife. No such monstrous doctrine is allow ed in the law. Tradesmen must as e6rtaiu the facts and the true rela tions of man and wife before allow ing the latter to contract bills which he is expected to pay:" Comment ing upon this exposition of the law, which ought to be more familiarly known than it is, the Philadelphia Record thinks that when tradespeo ple thoroughly understand it, a very sensible step will have been taken toward reform in the wanton ex travaganceand ruinous folly whiCh —wider the meretricious impulse of the desp.ol ea lied •fashion'—sor wastes the substance, mars de: , forms the persons, deg,races the mor als and wrecks the happiness of 'myr iad households and individuals, not only in this community but through out the c•ountr.y.n WONDERFUL GOLD STRIKE Rock Vteldinz $63,140 to the Ton. (From the Calavenas C hrutarni,N ovvniber SUL.' Developments have recently been made at the (iwin mine lti Lower Rich Gulch unparalleled in the his tory of quartz operations in this State. A strata of rock has been discovered in.the main shaft at the depth of 400 feet that, for richness eclipses tiny thing of which weever heard or read. The strangest feature in the develop ment is, however, that the rock re titacovorcd. cityirrA7 acvoua bias the slate of which the walls of the lead are composed it has hereto fore been taken out and thrown away with other debris from the mine. The strata mentioned lies next to the foot wall and is about a foot in width and thickness. In color and forma tion it so nearly resembles state that it. equire; a close examination to dit , - tinguish the two from, each other. The inclination o the "streak" dif fers slightly from that of the shaft. Commencing at a point near the sur face, it crosses the latter diagonally, leaving the shaft at the CAM foot level. Oy "drifting" a short distance on the lead, however, from the 000 foot 100, the strata will undoubtedly be struck again. TUF. ISFAWST MIXI.DIVNT In the world it was discovered that this singular deposit, instead of being slate, was simply a mass of sulphur ets, carrying free gold in abundance. A portion of the rock was brought to this town and critically 'ft. , -Isayeti by Dr. James Hepburn. Two and one half ounces yielded one hundred and sixty-six grains of gold; or, le other words, at the rate $53,140 per ton! The rock assayed was not a selected I . ."specimen" It was broken from a l chunk at least a foot square and is considered a fair test of the irichness of the whole strata. The proprietors of the mine are sanguine that they will take .$200.000 out of the recently discovered "streak," between the WO loot level and the, surface. In fact, Should this strata prove to be one of the permanent component parts of the had, as it undoubtedly will, there is no calculating the amount of gold that will he taken from it. If ore of equal richness has ever before been found, there is no record of it. The Gwin mine must now certainly be classed as the most valuable in the State, and further than that, in less shan a year it will boast more extensive machinery than any other lead upon the coast. We shall await further developments in reference to the newly diseoveiled ,strata with impatience. I= —A Louisville telegram says : It is now known that all the negroes hung for the Park murder made confession, corroborating Johnson's first story. Taylor acknowledged be 'did the killing while David held the light and Johnson watched the front of ,the houso. There were:only thirty three at the jail, but one hundred were lir the woods where the hanging was done. A box containing some of Park's clothing, bed( clothes, and sewing machine had beeu shipped to Taylor's son-in-law in Chicago. Da vis was sixty-five, Taylor sixty-six, and Johnson near forty. ;During the investigation, the fact 'had ,beee ex posed by Taylor's son John, that he murdered a crippled negro named Jack, in Charleston, about two years ago, shooting him at night through his Window. ' Taylor also confessed that, he knew his Son committed this mariler. In Taylor's house a ccipsid erable quantity of irbalen goods were found, including much tine clothitrg. 11=:I —Au Indianapolis telegram has the following additional confirmation in regard to the lynchingof the Park family "The vtgllanee coMmittee tit Charleston numbered about seven ty. They cube to the jail about'one o'clock, a, ri4and demanded the keys of the Jailor and Sher/if, which were refused. They then toOkblacksmith's tools and tore open the jail door, and placed ropes around the necks of the pasimers, and took them one and a half miles from, the town ' Mid huog them." , —Henry Aloncaster; an employe of Dr. Jones, of lbws&eld t Ohio, while bringing a load of wood from , the doctor's farm, Thursday evening last, was killed by hi 3 twat' running away. Ho was thrown . from the wagon and his legs became entang led between the spokes of one of the . wheels * Causing hishead to strike the ground with each, revolution of the wheel. His head and shoulders were badly mangled; and he died in about half an hour after 4 the accident. * ,- 1 . ! . ,: - *or nu:llene: areas. i Flionoqi anw.olF 100411 1 r. Elul , , - 311a-iiii, :., Homo ; ii3(lita re sptitiSetOrnyrtion,4eerna much atibeted with my!-" manifestant' de+, tfitimble ' lierioratiee, of ecclesiastietit historyr - yet hi the sequel of his re 1 marks lie appears to doubt whether.l beehimktittbribute my 'statement:llB4i • %toren& Or Autilibity: - Ittilightfter-, tort. hy applying_to him the adage "Evil to'him who-evil litft will' 'content thyself by reSeltidilig him that seurrilouSprionalities con stitute no part-of t ai of Chris tian ethics. In enter tesproyg ,, Ay" deplore*, ignorance" ofehurelfhistery, Mum builds "ii man of spew," and then— like the redoubtable knight of 14, ;Menthe—he: ' s -:, of etatinis, the phantom 9( -,. 'l,wit creation and de mashes k , s4litstilYi , ''-i• --1-'; ' In my 4' tement concerningtne evidence of history I refer exclusive ,ly to the doctrine of the materiality of theeoul,;,Ar Its extinction : when • thodetith of the body:teeth - 4 as avow'. ed by 'Rom' andbiir fraternity; ' and I qualified the statemeut-bythe etti theill!..!chiefly" and `,`„teealit-ni timek ;Vainly indicating, , . thereby,Jor the mastpart, arid embracing a period extending •at least =to the sixteenth century, orthe ebin n ielleetnentnf the 'Refornatitioa. - • ' -' • ' ' ' Again, my statement mokes no al !mien !whatever to .the state of the soul between death and the resurrec-. - tion r or any denial of the resurrection, I Where, then, is_the relevancy of Ho sno'S ettracte'from Justin Mart-Yr; dc.? Do they affirm the extinction of the smut at death? Do they as- Sign to it .usaterielistie . qualities, or speak ot its Organiadetiendence. Nelt.i a syllable escapes their pensan those subjects., ~Buk.what real or supposed errors do ! they_ repudiate?' Justio Martyr, ,sin3ply exhorts Trypho not to Cellist thoseamong Christians who: *hied the resurrection, and believed the doctrine that instantly after death the souls of the righteous sire received up into heaven. Bishoy Taylor,-Tyn dell, an&tieisether authorities Cited by Roma— except Bishop LaW,' Whately and . Courtenay—reiterate substantially, , the views of Justin Martyr; all referring to the state ofl the sihicntliodia soul; but not a Word about its inakis - afi/y-Or organic on .gin.. -ftiiihoß Law„ Dr, ,Whately and CourienaYbelongtericent times, add in nowise affect the verity of any 'ref- . erence to history. . , What would you, Mr. Editor, think of a-man who attempted to disprove, the doctrine of the .Trinity, and for this purpose. -should quote opinions. in favor of the Darwinian theory of, species' Would you conclude he wio: competent-to decide important quee-', Lions in theology, or intellectually ) quallitied to sustain the charge of! "departure from the ancient faith Isfti the Church?" And, is it notevident that the authorities produced by Ho-'; trio have unworn .relation to my'hie.-! tonic reference than the • vagaries of Darwin have to the Trinity? . •, ! From the iltiurish of staring capV tals which Idenno parades so tiatint ingly, I Mier be views his performi; anee with 'great consplateucy; doubts' less he conceives it to be ecompletel demonstration-of my adeplerable igs norauce of ecclesiastical history," and au irresistible evidence of his. Logical skill, . . I have taken some pains to exam ine the records.of Church history, , from the time of Clement,- the first. apostolic Church Father, down taro' ' the, suwessive writings of the Greek and Boman Fathers- to the twelfth century, and I. find that however meet) they may have differed in re gard to the disposition , of the soul afs ter death, yet not a syllable occurs, fairly interpreted, expressive of their belief of the materiality of the soul. Concerning the materialistic opinions of Hermogenes and the Arabians, 1. shall say more in the sequel? We find, also, that subsequent Christian writers down to thesixtdeuth centu rtherexpresslY or impliedly avow - t r bell-P-f_rothei immortality of the sou. The sect which . originated from Faustus Sacinui, who died in 1604, was the first professedly Christian Church which made the materiality of the soul a' constituent part of its creed in association with the denial of the deity of Christ and the doctrine of vicarious atonement. Early in the eighteenth century Dr. Coward, a medical and metaphysical writer, propagated similar Uoctrrnesin'what he allied his "tirand .Essay." This' was followed by DodwelPs "Episto. lary Discourse;" in which he at tempts to prove from the Scriptures and the first Fathers that the soul is naturally uicirtal, but capable of be ing iniortalized at the pleasure of God. Afterwards Dr.. Bartley, in his " Essay on Mini," discussed the same subject and referred ail our sen tient faculties to the laws of animal organization, lielvetios, who died in 1771,—whose book Voltaire, the infidel eulogizes. and mills its :au thor a true philosopher,—and La Methe rie, avow more decidedly, but yet like their predecessors with wore or less caution, their disbelief in the im mortality of the soul. Dr. Priestly, who died in 1804, followed In the wake of Dr. Hartley and W. Law, and by the adoption of their senti ments identified himself, in, the esti mation of his c ontemporaries, with those who inculcate infidel and even atheistic sentiments. Thu foregoing names and a few men of minor note, all included in recent times, make the sum total of professedly Christian writers who have denied the immor tality of the soul, and based upon the denial their exegesis of the sacred Scriptures ; and it may be claimed That the uniform exegesis, of the Chifrch Fathers is all inconsistent with the inevitable inferences which flow from the theory of materialism, among which is the doctrine of Phi losophical NeCell3l as Odymited by Hohb, Collins, livaue, Leibnitz, Krilins. Belsham, Priestly and oth ers. The ne c essarians, otherwise ma terialists, enrol that our actions are the neces. , :ary result of uncontrollable cause and effect, and that our most indifferent actions are as necessary as the most important. Who does not see that thelendency of materialism is to charge GO as the author of sin? That freedom -ofthe will is a farce ! That sin, morality, virtue and ac countability, have no significant* I— "Who are the infidels?" Those five hundred names of which Homo boasts woud, doubtless, be available to prove the doctrine of Purgatory, if human authority suffi ced; or to show that diversity of °pin len prevailed as to the disposition of the soul after death, like his Citations from Justin Martyr and others; but cannot, without flagrant injustice to the be claimed as advocates of materialism. • This dearth of advocacy of his .''pet theory" he unwittingly acknowl edges when he says : "fhe Fathers uniformly speak as if they had no philosophy stoat the elementaryam atitnents of the human constitution." What a failing off' is here ! What I not:one of your Ave huntired-author itke have any philosophy concerning tho' intrinsic constitution of the ge tina'Homci !if Well, at least they will Serve youi purpose in demolish ing,your "man of straw," and dem onstrate', your rare attainments in Chlinah'HUtory. • , -'' .'i .- ' . s Homem has ' notdenied ' that the rejectors of Revelation are, for the Most part, in sympathy With him in hiasienill of the immortality of the seta, 1 heed not ' inn the names of those wlib are thns'ia*BliailOttwith tini, bit proceed to prove more ape- SifteeljAfist his "pet theory" hadits ',•..,wigin t ieflyln. recent' times, being rntEi Ptli ted'by those' pseudo prates sore of ti riiitlapity *hoer? raticinells tieteitehlngsaro diametrically oppo sed to thetimplieity, condor, and for the most part, -evangelical integrity of, the (lurch Pat bers. . `z'ourl Ole annals of the Church we ,cannot.l4rn; that the question of the ,inaterialty of the soul held any pro ininent ,place la the discussions o ' Church questions ' Prior - to the ski . *nth century, except the controver- = . , ktOtbettreert Tertunion oral Ilertne tee in the second tentuor, and Or n and ' a seetof initiotOoltileseph ' bs•the third oestury. Berm:ire flee. epain t ter by profession, not only Aeniedv-thfrataportality .of the soul, but also the received Scriptural doe itine of the origin of the world. . The • ntiveneekof this man and a few cond i top leaked" . now ,tro uble in the I Church; hilt. a lter hit Sortulboo, thlaseet ottroetv4 Nit iii. 7 tle notoriety.. • . The Arabiani:=so-dttlecilrom their eountryr—were.the desciples of ark Voituret- so unlit:Moil .to lamb that his name hasnot been.transmitted to , posterity ; we learn, however, that Orlgen was called from Egypt to con tend in full council with this,riolni sect; mid that, in consequence of his overwhelming logic and successful appeal to the Scriptureu, the Arabi tins abandoned their errors and re turned to. the received 'doctrines o t t` the Church.. But, ultliough the discussions , con cerning the materiality of the soul ;occupy but little sintee in the centre- Versies of the Fathers, yet wedo learn 'that three thenties, each of which re 'Cognizes the SOlilliti t separate entity in connection with the body, did oc ;Cupy a prominent place in Church : Controversy. I re fer to the propaga lion or origination of the human soul. The theories which were advocated Ptheir retive adrents re-existence Creationis m and Tripwere, duclanistn. The theory of Pre-exist ence was maintained by Philo and Origin, and in wore recent times by :Kant, Julius Muller and Scheiliag; its latest ddender is Dr. Ed. Beecher. Another form of the same controver sy asserts that all souls were created at the beginning and await the hour ,of coneeptaon to unite with an or tante tenement. Immediate Creationism affirms a direct creation' of the soul by God; a special creation for a special organ ,Advoun.es of this view refer us. oJer. Isa. ivii. 16; `Lath. Aets x,vll. 26; Ps. ci ix. 73; Job ;X.•1200-xxXiii; 22 Num. xvi. .do xxviulti; Lte xli. 9; 241 Macca bees vii, a Jerome declares that this was the belief of . the Church. CleMence s, Our soulS are sent fromAlexandrinus heavensay " ." This was the view of Lanetantioaanda number of the Fathers. The theory of Traducianism is, that the parents are the mediateßaukt of both body and soul of their off spring, referringes to Gen. v. 3; Acts xvii. 24-2 U. This view is defended by many.of the Fathers ; especially 'rertullian. Athenasius and Gregory of Nissen. The soul, then; Its a separate and distinct entity, was an ackpowledgcsi and undonbted part of the faith of the Church before the disorganizing r , e tremor of modern rationalistic phi losophy attempted to vitiate the:Am ple teachingS of the word of God.-- The question which then claimed at tention was-not the chimera of the materialism of thesoul, but the man ner or its propagation; concerning which, as we have seen, several the ories existed. Home, again, Shows his want of discrimination by confounding the . HypnologistS with the views of the materialistsi or ilationists• ; the former did not deny the immortality of the soul. They admitted the es sential distinction between body and soul, but supposed that. their separa tion in death rendered the soul inca pable of exercising Its functions. This suspension of its active -powers, they called the sleep of the soul. Calvin, therefore, in his attack on' the Soul- Sleepers, had no reference to the ma terialists, such as Ilomo, who coo 'alders the sleep of the soul an absur dity, inasmuch as his Creed auk now l edges no 'soul to deli). I was not, therefore, prepared to hear that Cal vin's.amuments were .'weak and so , phlstiol" when directed against a position denied by Homo himself.— Moreover, Homo affirms that, "from Calvin's time the doctrine of the no- mortgilliLpf the soul and its depen- Vines. d.,...bAuw 15....slatallaz &un l it le Y into the several Protestant n etsions."This declaration strong ly intimates, yea, implies that the doctrine of. the immortality of the soul formed no part of Christian ta le . ology' prior to the time of Calvin.— This is an unwarranted assumption In disguised phraseology, requiring no refutation from the intelligent reader; but I may observe that the very fact that Calvin's efforts were directed against the soul-sleepers and not against the materialists, proves that the soul's immortality was not denied by the Church in general, and not denied by those against whom he wrote—hence. Calvin s influence was not necessary to establish a doctrine almost everywhere recognized. The sleep of the soul is one thing— its extinction in death is quite anoth er thing. What do you think of the logic which declares that the same argument which is supposed to be "feeble and sophistical." when ap plied to disprove the sleep of the soul (the existence of which is implied) has also it logical reference and ap plicability to the aim-existence of the soul? Such a mode of reasoning is equivalent to saying that, bemuse the soul does sleep after death, therefore the soul does not exist. Here we have another ''man of straw," or an air castle, if you please, which the prolific though evidently disordered imagination of Homo has conjured up. In one place he identities Hyp noiogists with materialists—in an other, ho confounds the denial of the immortality of the soul with the de nial of the instantaneous translation of the soul into the immortal pres ence of God. And, in, another place, he represents Sir Thomas More as censuring Luther with the danger ous consequences resulting- from his belief in the immortality of the soul; but almost with the same breath he claims Luther as an advocate of ma terialism and as denouncing Pope Leo X on account of his advocacy of the immortality of the soul. All this is evinced in the professed citations from ecclesiastical history ; and yet his obtuse mind fails to perceive the obvious discrepencies. Is there not a decided monomaniac tendency in all he has written on his "pet subject? and do not his mental manifestations call for compassion rather than cen sure? I now appeal to the sober common sense - of the reader whether Homo, in his attempted exegesis of Scrip ture, has not done violence to every plain principle of interpretation ?- -Are not his conclusions in plain con flict with the analogy of faith ? By Homo's mode of interpretation one Can prove either nothing or anyt hing at all. The Bible, in such hands, is like a magician's sack, out of which he brings ally _thing—however mon strous, trivial : or absurd. 1, i - Livittg, at length- discovered the morbid. idiosyncracies of nomo's mental Constitution, I would do vio lence to thy : own convictions of pro priety, and stultify Myself in the es timation of community by continu ing this controversy. J. B. BRECKENRIDGE. Geo. Sheraton's Visit to Europe. • The New York World gives the folliowing as General Sherman's statement concerning the European tour be is about entering Upon: "I go abroad, in no official capacity, but quite the, contrary. I take no pay -whatever, and shalt performe no service for that:smutty at all. I shall be accompanied by only one officer of my staff, Colonel Audenried, and it is distinctly understood that if it is necessary the Secretary of War can 'summon by telegraph, in which ease, I shall, of course, return home immediately. 'Lieut. Grant has, as you know, but recently grad uated at West Point, and the Presi dent considered my going abroad a good.oppdhunity_to send his son in my enroYany to EuroPe.for the first time. 1 have never been to Europe my*if, Which is a sufficient reason for the-trip. Admiral Alden 'is to take cetninand of the European squadron on his arrliral, and I , go simply as his guest, as does Lieut. Grant, who, w-~~:~~,-~~ -~b~:::~:.~ ri=rte: ~.~. Its well as myself, pays hts own way. tiniest, my presence , be eta required before, • I shalt leave- the Wabash about April, Probably: Old go home leisurely through Europe to England, and thence to New York by one of the ordinary steam packets. The Wabash will not vary her course at all in consequence of our being on board, as we go only as private pass engers, and Admrlal Alden will se lect his route e according to his emigre eTddies as Admiral - of the' regular European sgttadttm' Tile Wabash wilt probably cruise about the Med iterranean most of the winter, and we shall be enabled, under very, fa vorabie circumstances to see such places on the coast as 'ltia.deira, Lis bon, Olberaltar. Naples, the Suez Canal, and Constantinople, while during the time the vessel lies in port anywhere for coaling or other purposes, we mu make excursions as we choose into the interior; so that including our return journey across the continent and through-England, we shall have a very good opportu nity of seeing Europe to our heart's content. A novel marriage ceremony took place in Pittsburgh a few days since, It being no less than the solemniza tion of a marriage by proxy bet Ween a Spanish nobleman named Fernan dez De Paminez and a youeg lady of that city, named Ledia Addison, daughter of Dr. Addison. The proxy In the ease was the brother of the bride, Mr, William Addison. The document -conferring the powers of acting as "proxy"' for Mr. D. Oami nez- was qUite a balky one, propeily attested, and ornamented with the proper seals and signatures. A re porter of the Post interviewed the bishop who performed - the ceremo ny, from whom he obtained a state ment of the ecclesiastical law bearing on this novel and altogether un-Am erican way of "uniting two wilting hearts." The reporter asked the bishop if marriage according to the Catholic church did not involve the necessity of both parties being pres ent. to which that functionary' re plied : "Not ata 11. Mtirriage in the Catho church is both a civil contract and a sacrament. 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