jutting= Sr , Journal. GEO. SkNDERSON, EDITOR; Lancaster, November 29,1853. Important Foreign News. The long threatened war between Russia and Turkey has at length commenced, as will be seen by the European news published in another col umn. So far, the Russians appear to have been worsted in every battle that has been fought; judg ing from which, it would seem as though the Em peror Nicholas has been mistaken in his calcula tions with regard to the strength and bravery of the Turks. Instead of proving the easy prey which he anticipated, they have shown themselves a match for their antagonists, and the probability slow It!, that the Russian invasion of the Moslem dominions will terminate in a series of disastrous and humiliating defeats, which will be anything but agreeable to the haughty and imperious Czar.— Added to this, the sympathies of nearly all the civ ilized nations of the world are with the Sultan in this quarrel, who has been grivously wronged by the exactions made upon him, and the bullying tone of mingled menace and contempt assumed towards him. The neat. arrival from Europe will doubtless be still more interesting and important, as both the belligerents are putting forth all their efforts, and something decisive will soon take place. GLEASON'S Prcxonter..—On the first of January next, "Gleason's Pictorial" will commence its sixth volute e and will appear vastly improved in all re spects, with a superb new heading, new type and dress throughout, and will be printed upon the fi nest paper. AS the proprietor of the "Pictorial', ass purchased the entire good will of Barnum's N . York "Illustrated News," and has merged that jour nal in the "Pictorial," the public will reap tne ad yantage of this concentration of the strength of the two papers upon on both in the artistic and liter ary departments. The same brilliant host of con tributors and artists will be engaged on "Gleason's Pictorial" as heretofore, and a large addition is also made to the corps, both in talent and number. The most liberal arrangements have been completed ; and such as will enable'the proprietor to produce by.far the finest illustrated journal yet published, and much superior to the present issue of the paper. The columns of the "Pictorial" will constantly be beautified by all that can please and instruct in art and nature, and its literary department will fully sustain-the high reputation it has so long enjoyed. The pages of "Gleason's Pictorial" will contain views of every populous in in the known world, of all buildings of note in the eastern or western hemisphere, of allothe principal ships and steamers of the navy and merchant service, with fine and ac curate portraits of every noted character in the world, both male and female. Sketches of beauti ful scenery, taken from life, will also be given,with numerous specimens from the animal kingdom, the birds - of the air, and the fish of the sea, and will preserit in its mechanical execution an elegant spec imen of art. It will contain fifteen hundred and sixty-four square inches, giving a great amount of reading matter and illustrations—and forming a mammoth, weekly paper of sixteen octavo pages. Mists :—Three dollars per annum. Published every Saturday, by F. GLEASON, Corner of Tremont and Bromfield Streets, Boston, Mass. NEW MASONIC HALL—The Corner Stone of the new Masonie Hall, on the site of the old one in Chesnut street, below Bth, Philadelphia, was laid on Monday, the 21st inst., with ceremonies of a most imposing character, which were witnessed by an immense concourse of Masons and citizens. The new Hall about to be erected, will be it is stated, not only the largest Masonic temple in the world, but it is believed will be the most capacious ever reared. It will cover the entire area from Chesnut street to Lodge alley, giving it a depth of 170 feet, and a width of 101 feet 7 inches. The design will be a beautiful specimen of the Gothic order of architecture, and the entire front will be composed of brown stone, richly wrought. In the centre of the front there will be a Gothic turret, which will be flanked with finials towering to a height of 112 feet above the pavement. The first floor will be divided into four stores, which will extend to Lodge alley. The entrance to the Lodge Rooms'will be through a wide door way in the centre of the front. The corner stone of the late hall will be placed in a conspicuous „po sition inside the new building. „ - The new Masonic Hall, will, when completed, be one of the most magnificent and imposing struc tures in the city, and a monument of the taste and liberality of the Order. The building, when com pared to some of its more humble predecessors, will afford a fair type of the advance in wealth and influence of the society to which it belongs. Tna %STILT IN Haw Yonx.—The Herald fig ures up the result of the election for Secretary of State as follows: Whig vote, Hard Shell, do. Soft " do, Maj. of Hards over Sot ts, 2,468—0 f Hards and Soils combined over Whigs, 35,802. The other Hard Shell candidates have smaller majorities than the above over the Soils, and one of them, Cooley, runs considerably behind his Soft Shell competitor. It was a close run between the' two factions. In the Senate, the Whigs will have 22 members, Hards 8, and Softs 2. In the House, the Whigs have 80, Herds 24, Softs 20, and Free Democutts 4. Err DArrrsa. L. SHERWOOD, Esq., of Tioga county, is named by a correspondent of the Demo, critic Union, as a candidate for the nomination of Canal Commissioner. n 7 Capitalists are directed to the sale of a val uable tavern property, in the Borough of Shippens burg, Cumberland county, advertised in another column. It is one of the most desi,rakle stands for a public house iu that Borough, arld is well worthy the attention of purchasers. \( 11G — A prospectus of the Saturday Evening Post will be found in another column, to which we in- vite the attention of those of our readers who are desirous of subscribing for a literary paper. , El - Banxnaar A. SHAEFFER ; Esq., has been elect ed S6licitor of the Lancaster County Bank, in place of John L. Thompson, Esq., resigned. An excellent selection. Mr. S. will make both a competent and obliging Solicitor. LEHIGH :VALLE/ TIMEs.—We have received the first number of a paper, with the above title, just started at Bethlehem, Northampton county, Pa., by EDWARD H. Baum, formerly connected with the Independent Whig Offioe, in this City. It is a neat specimen of what a newspaper should be. We have no doubt, but that the people of Northampton county will liberally sustain friend Rum; in his undertaking. He has all the energy and qualifica tions necessary, for the publication of a first-rate family newspaper. From Mrroontsx Comdr.—This building was re-opened on Sunday last. Preaching in the morn ing, afternoon and at night, by Bishop SCOTT, Pro fessor WINTWORTH and Rev. Mr. BArarrra. Over $BOO were collected during the: day, to aid in de fraying the expenses of re-modeling and furnishing the building. CLERK or TAR Houss.—The Harrisburg Union says that Col. William Jack will again be a can didate for Clerk of the House of Representatives, and so far as we have learned without any opposi sition. Col. Jack, has held this position for several years; has given universal satisfaction to the mem bers of the Legislature, and all having business with hie office; and there cannot be a doubt of his re-election. Er Taalorscavrzio DAT was very generally observed in this City. Russian and Turkish War—pain=• paigns of 1828-'9 Since the overthrow of Napoleon, at the decisive battle of Waterloo, in 1815, and the termination of his wonderful career, Europe kas enjoyed, in gen eral, a state of peace; which, for the length of its du ration, is almost unprecedented in its history.. We know of but one instance with which it can be compared, viz: that which. followed the peace of Utrecht, in 1713. After that no great war broke out until what is called the seven years struggle of Frederick the Great, of Prussia, against most of the great powers of Europe, commencing in 1755 and ending in 1762. The state of peaceful quietude which has prevailed on that continent since Wa terloo, has only been broken by the Grecian war of independence; the glorious, though unSuccessful stand for freedom made by the Polei in 183'0; the revolutionary convulsions of 1848 in France, Italy and Germany; and last though not least, the des perate struggle of the Hungarians against their op pressors, at the close of that memorable year. Among the exceptions may also be properly in cluded the brief war that ensued between Russia and Turkey in 1828—'9, in which the Russians penetrated farther into that country than they had ever been before—advancing even to Adrianople, the second capital of the Moslem Empire. All these wars, however, were somewhat local in their char acter—fought between single belligerants—not in- . vol7ing the continent in the clash,of arms. There is now a prospect, - unless all political signs are deceptive, of a war on the greatest scale, which will be participated in by a considerable por tion of the civilized world—which will call forth the political passions, appeal to the national and religious prejudices of men—put in motion vast ar mies and powerful fleets—in which, singularly enough, the friends of democracy and the adherents of the Koran of Mahomet will be found upon one side, while the banner of the Cross will wave above the enemies of civil and religious freedom, who wil iuvoke the name of our Divine Redeemer to aid them in the commission of the most gigantic na tional crimes, and in the prosecution of objects a war with every principle of right and justice. What a strange and singular anomaly is that when the Turk has the sympathies of the best par of the Christian world, of every advocate of man's political and religious rights, ,against his enemy , who emblazons the Cross Upon his standard, and professes to wage war in its name. At present generous and noble persons, whose impulses are all on the side of humanity, justice and freedom, are leaving every clime and country to enlist under the banner of Ismael, where the right of the iii - pending war is to be found, as well as the hopes of a political regeneration of the oppressed and down-trodden nations of Europe, who see in the triumph of, the Cossack hordes of Nicholas the most dreadful blow to all such anticipations. Should the Russian flag be carried to Constantinople, the influence of that gigantic despotism, already too great in political matters, would acquire such a preponderance that it, would bid defiance to the rest of the world that iegoverned by more liberal principles, and the sun which many think they can now descry in its earliest beams of light, the her ald of a more auspicious day to the masses of Eu rope, would again go below the -horizon, leaving that continent more hopelessly enveloped than ever in dark political gloom. From the Moslems who centuries ago threatened the civilized world with subjugation—who with the scimeter in one hand mid the Koran in the other, emerged from the deserts of Africa and Asia in myriad swarms—whose fierce fanaticism and reli gious enthusiasm seemed likely for a time to build up under the auspices hf the Caliphs,an empire as extensive as that which existed under the Roman Emperors—no danger is apprehended, as they long since ceased to be formidable to the Christian world But it is far otherwise with Russia, a power whose steady encroachments for the last two hundred years upoo all her surrounding neighbors—whose govern. ment from the immense, and indeed,unlimited pow er that is vested in a single despot, whose will is implicitly obeyed by one-half of Europe, and one third of Asia—whose political position places him at the head of the enemies of free institutions every where, as well as clothes him with the power of a religious sovereign Pontiff of a great and important Church—the triumph of such a monstrous despot ism is indeed to be deplored, and sufficiently ac counts for the fact that the moral influence of man kind is thrown into the scale of the Sultan in the present contest. In the last war between Russia and Turkey, in 1829, this was not the case, as the old hatred of the Musselmen which had animated christendom, had then been temporarily revived by an event grow tng out of the Grecian struggle for independence.— We allude to the horrid atrocity perpetrated by the Turks in massacreiog, without distinction of age or sex, the Christian population of the island of Scio, and laying it waste by fire and sword after the man ner of demons rather than beings clothed With the form of humanity. The blood of the murdered victims seemed to cry aloud to Heaven for vengeanc and when the sad story of the few survivors of Scio was told, it sent a thrill of 'horror all over Christian Europe and America. Public opinion in the United States, England and France, and indeed throughout the world, was universally exerted against the Turks and in favor of the Greeks, and when the fleet of the former was destroyed in the Bay of Navarino—and a terrible blow was thus struck against its nationality, it was done by Rus sia united with France and England, and it had the approbation of the people in this country. Before the indignation against the Turks had abated in the least Russia commenced a war upon that power, and when her troops advanced to Adri anople they marched with and not against the mor al sentiment of the World. But this was not all the disadvantages the Turks labored under at that time, a summary of which we find well presented in the Boston Times, which in an article upon the subject Says: [Cincinnati Enquirer.] The events of the warin Greece had contributed largely to the demoralization of Turkey in various ways. The Turkish Government had little money and few men, at that time. The Turkish army was composed of irregulars and new men in the proportion of two to one of veterans, and its officers in most cases, were men without experience in war Most of the Turkish people were thoroughly dis ccintented with the Government, partly .because of the want of success which it had met with' in its contests with 'rebels' and foreigners, and partly be cayse of Sultan Mahmoud's 'reforms,' as they were called, which had offended the social and religious and 'political feelings of the great mass of his sub jects. On the other hand, the condition of Russian affairs was in all respects good. The Russian army on the line of the Danube alone consisted of 150,- 000 men, beside the Imperial Guard; which was 20,00 strong. The artillery attached to this force wrs abundant and effective, and the' cavalry, num bered 16,000, beside 8,000 Cossacks, the latter gen erally supposed to be the best light cavalry in the world. The Russian commanders were veteran soldiers, who had served with distinction in the great European wars that had occurred in Napo 'eon's time. Witgenstien's name being imper ishably connected with the Beiesina, and Lutzen, and Bautzen; while Diebistch was prominent in the Grand Army of the Allies that t paptured Paris in 1814, and was one of the very men at whose in stigation the march upon Paris was resolved on when Napoleon had thrown himself into the rear of the invaders. The wat was popular with the Russian people and the Russian people and the Russian soldiery. Yet in spite of all these advan tages on the side of Russia; and the depressed con, dition of Turkey, ,the first campaign was produc tive of no great results to Russia. The capture of Varna was effected after a Beige of some weeks, whereas forty years earlier Suwaroff would have carried it by assault in less than half the same num ber of hours. Thousands upon thousands of the Russians died from sickness or want of food, 'or lack of proper medical attendance. Had the Turks been tolerably well commanded, the Russians would have been completely defeated. As it was they had nothing to boast of, and made no advance*on* the Turkish territory. The second campaign was marked by better fortune to the Russians.• The fall of Silistria was effected by treachery ; and Diebistch, knowing the discontent that prevailed in Turke_s, and that ':tthe Russian navy had command of the Black:Sea, ;passed the Balkans, having first inflicted a great de - teat on the Turks, in Jcuie, 1829. The .passage•of the Balkans was compared, at the time,'to the pas sage of .the Alps by Napoleon, in 1800, though as a physical act it was next to nothing. In a moral point-of view it was more impOrtant. The Rus sians advanced to Adrianople, which is, we think, about 150 miles from Constantinople: - Even this they would not have ventured to do had they not been sure of support on the side of the sea. The army which Diebitsch had under his command at the old capital of European Turkey did not exceed 30,000 effectives, and if-this fact had been known at Constantinople the war would have been con tinued and the Russians compelled to reheat. It was by the advice of the French and English am bassadors that Sultan Mahmoud made peace, much against his own will. That advice was giv en under the tall belief that the Russian force at Adrianople was 60,000 strong. The Prussian am bassador, who knew the real strength of that army joined with the French and the English ministers in recommending peace as the only means of pre venting the fall of the Turkish capital. And so peace was made, and at the very moment, too, when the Turks were beginning to show spirit,and when victory must have attended any forward Movement they might have. seen fit to undertake. If such are the facts of the war of 1828—'9, why should we not hope that the present war between the same two countries may prove still more fa vorable in its details and results WTurkeyt There has been a great change in Turkey since 1830. The men who were of mature years at that time are now old or dead, and their places are occupied 'by men of a very different kind. The present Sul tan is popular; his father was unpopular. That spirit of fanaticism which was directed against the father is one of the chief supports of the son. The Turkish army is in far better condition than it was inlB2B. The Turkish naval force is respectable. The public opinion of Europe, of Christendom, is against Russia, and with Turkey; in 1828 it was against Turkey and with Russia—the latter coun try benefitting much from the hatred that had been excited against the Turks as the oppressors of Greece. People could not reason against the bal ance of power when thinking of the massacre of Scio. The statesmen of Europe, the governments of her principal nations, must do something to pre vent the advance of Russia, should the Czar prove an overmatch for the Sultan. The naval force of France and England, even if they should do nomore than remain at Constantinople, would be quite suf ficient to prevent the fall of the capital by a coup de main. All things considered, we see no great rea son for believing that the cross of the Greek Church is to take the place of the old crescent of Byzanti um. The Sunday Law. We make the following extract from the able charge of Judge LONG, of this City, to the Grand Jury of the County, at the opening of the Quarter Sessions last weekT After the opinion of the Supreme Court had been made known, we were pleased to learn that many inn-keepers in the city and county, influenced by that law-abiding spirit which has always so pre eminently distinguished the citizens of this county, closed their bars on Sunday, and we had hoped that the rest would have followed this praiseworthy ex ample; but in this reasonable expectation we have been disappointed. We therefore think it proper to state that if any one shall hereafter violate the pro visions of the law before referred to, and such vio lation shall be shown to the court by satisfactory evidence, we shall consider it our duty to withhold from such person a renewal of his license. The sth Section of the Act of 11th of March, 1834, provides "that no court shall licence an inn or tavern unless from the petition and certificate, or from their own knowledge, or from evidence sought for and obtained, they shall be satisfied of the fitness of the person applying." We have there fore concluded that one who wilfully and persever ingly violates a law ought not to receive a license; that his unlawful acts ought not to receive our coun tenance whose duty it is to sustain the law; and in coming to this determination the applicant will have no right to complain. As well might the far mer or mechanic, or any other person, complain that they were not allowed to carry on with im punity their ordinary business on Sunday. The law does not invest inn-keepers with any superior privileges. It respects no one in its operation. All are bound to obey its mandates. Several grand juries have heretofore represented to the court the evils resulting from the large num ber of Lager or Bayerish Beer houses existing in this county. While the court sympathize to a cer tain extent with these jurors in the opinion express ed by them in their reports, we would state that those houses are not within our control.; If the Acts of 1705, aad 1794, do not afford sufficient rem edies to cure the evils complained of, and which appears to be inherent in these establishments, and additional remedies are required, those remedies must be sought for from the Legislature. It is for them to say what further shall be done (it any thing) in regard to them. By the Act of 1705, all constables are required to search public houses suspected to entertain tipplers on Sunday; and the keepers of ale houses, taverns, or other public houses, or places that shall counte nance or tolerate any such practice, being convicted thereof, by the view of a single magistrate, hie own confession, or the proof of one or more cred,ble wit nesses, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay ten shillings. Col. John W. Forney. ' This gentleman appears to be just now the tar get, at whom all the shafts of envy and malevo lence, that can be conjured up in the invention of the brain of unprincipled politicians of every hue and cast, are hurled. Foremost in the work of de famation and abuse is the New York Herald, a pa per as notorious for its dieregatd of the decencies and proprieties of life as for its inconsistencies in politics. The Washington Evening Star gives the secret of Bennett's hostility to Forney in the fol lowing article : As the New York Herald looses no opportunity to abuse Col. Forney . personally, the public may like to know something of the greviance which has set so hard on Bennett's stomach for two years past. Forney made a speech about two years ago in New York, in whien he had occasion to go into a crushing explanation of the circumetonces which forced Daniel O'Connell to fasten upon B. the most degrading insult that ever was accorded to the "Napoleon of the Press." It will be recollected that at a repeal meeting in Dublin, thousands of the first men in Ireland being present, Bennett mounted the platform to be formally introduced to O'Connell, the eyes of the vast throng being fixed on the scene. O'C. as Bennett advanced with prof fered hand, turned his back on him i exclaiming in a tone sufficiently Ipud to be heard by all the audi ence, that he could not admit B. to his acquaint ance, because he was notoriously a man without character. Forney in his famous speech indellibly fixed this occurrence in the minds of the people of New York city. Hence, Bennett's undying hos tility to F. Bishop Hughes some years ago, in accounting for Bennett's similar hostility to himself, took oc casion to describe O'Connell's explanasion of the reasons impelling him to treat Bennett in this man ner. We quote from the Bishop's remarks, which we fortunately have at hand, the following inter esting passage : Tour years ago I was introduced to Daniel O'Connell, in London. This was at my own request, for I wished, having the opportunity, to see a man of whom there was more of good and of evil said than of any other in the world. A few minutes af ter I sat down and while the conversation was on mere common place topics, a silence ensued on his part sufficiently long to make me think that I ought to retire. I observed his eyes swimming in tears. This astonished me still more, and I was about to withdraw, when he addressed me, as nearly as I can remember, in the following words--but in a voice which though almost stifled with grief, yet sounded as the softest and tenderest that ever struck upon my ear: 'Dr. Hughes, I have been forty a pub. lic man, I b,ave.been engaged in political strife with men of every party and of every creed, I am by all'odds the best abused man in the world, but through all this time neither tones nor whigs, nor even Orangemen themselves, ever made an attack on the mother of my children. She was mild and gentle, she was meek and charitable, she was loved and respected by friend and foe. My bitterest en emies would have spared me if they could not reach me without hurting the lamb of my bosom. The only attack that was ever made on Mrs. O'Connell came from your side of the water and from your city, in a paper called the New York Morning Her ald. Some mistaken friend, I suppose, thought to do m a service by sending me the paper. It reach ed e just after Mrs. O'Connell's death; of course, thegoisoned arrow missed the gentle heart for which it was intended, but it reached and reated in -; - mine.' " .._ ... Another circumstance inclines Bennett to hate Forney. That is, because F. has been connected with the Pennsylvanian, from which establishment B. is said to have been expelled in 1837 under a charge of endeavoring to sell the colnmns of that journal for the purposes of the Bank of the United States, withbut the knowledge and consent of its proprietpss. Gen. Dia on Finance. Ara late meeting of the Democracy in Tatiana ny Hall, Gen. Dix addreised his political brethiSn Tis the course of his reiiiiiks, , ,.-ite-dfolrped for the consideration of his hearers afiibmbe.'r of 'pertinent suggestions, and the probability is that they Will prove faithful in due time. T!iefollowing extract, touching the commercial oberationsor the ?A . Treasury, and the financial condition and prospects of the country, are eminently practical. The views and opinions expressed by Gen. Dix will find a re sponse in the experience and observation. of moat of our readers; and as they are in no wise offen sively, or ostentatiously pat forth, we cheerfully' transfer them to our columns, and commend them to general Ittention and consideration We " maybe said to have a clear surplus of twen ty-five millions of dollars. The Secretary - of the Treasury, as I think, with an enlightened and praise worthy regard to the interests of the country, has been purchasing the public debts at very long lib eral rates; giving for the large stocks, redeemable in 1867 and 1868, a premium of 21 per cent. for the privilege of paying them ofriourteen years be fore they are due. Whets comment is thison thesuc cessfut working of our institutions! While the goy ernmenti of the old world are literally staggering under the burden of their pecuniary obligations, and their subjects are drained of their hard earnings by taxation to support armies and uphold useless establishments, ours is not only deriving from a comparatively moderate system of taxation the means necessary for all its wants, but has actually accumulated a surplus exceeding one half of our entire public debt, and is now offering more than one-fifth of the whole principal, in the shape of pre miums, for the privilege, of paying it before it is due. • • • • * • Nothing can exemplify more clearly and forci bly the salutary operations of the system recom mended to Congress in .1837, and finally adopted in 1846, of collecting and disbursing the public reve nue in specie, and keeping it during the intervening time in the hands of public officers, than the con dition of this city during the last six months in re spect to its pecuniary affairs. On the 17th ol May last, when I took possess-on of the Assistant Treas urer's office, in this city, I receipted for $6,781,885, 50. This amount ran up-pretty steadily, subject to occasional inconsiderable fluctuations, and par ticularly about the lst of July, when the five per cent. loan of 1842 was redeemed, to $10,202,516,- 70, on the 234 01 September.. To-day it is only $6,457,311 88. From May to September, there was a prevalent bias to overaction in almost all business, legitimate and illegitimate—in trade, bank ing, stock-jobbing, and land speculation. Under the impulse given to commercial enter prise, the Treasury balance in this city, as I have stated, ran up from less than seven millions to more than ten millions (an increase of three millions and a half of dollars) in about lour months. This rapid accumulation of coin, and the enormous sum of ten millions thus withdrawn, from the reach of opera tors, checked in a very salutary manner the gener al tendency to overaction. Speculators could not command the money they required to carry on and extend their transactions. Merchants were com pelled to limit their, orders for foreign goods.— Debtor banks, pressed tor balances, were obliged to contract their discounts; and as the flood of specie poured in to the Sub Treasury, the channels from which it were drawn were nearly exhausted, and some of the bolder adventurers were lett high and dry by the receding tide. This was the first good influence of the sub-treas ury system gradually drawing specie into its own vaults as the banks extended their operations, and stimulated the spirit of enterprise and speculation, and checking the tendency to excess by a law as certain as those whieb govern the material world. The second good influence of the system was as salutary as the first, and was the result of the same infallible law. The accumulation of ten millions of coin in the Sub Treasury here made . money scarce and valuable, most stocks fell in price, and the interest paid for the use of money rose rapidly and to enormous rates. In all such cases holders of stocks which maintain their price are tempted to sell for the purpose of realizing the higher pro fits of other investments. This was the case with the stocks of the United States. The Government had offered a high premium lor these. The holders surrendered them, and took the surplus coin in the Treasury in exchange. By this operation, then, three millions, seven hun dred thousand dollars were drawn out of the Sub Treasury in six weeks, and thrown into Wall street to relieve the pressure caused by preceding excesses in speculation, and commercial adventure. It is indeed the only relief Wall street has had—the only relief it possibly could have had, and it has saved us from•a re-action, which, without-it, would have been scarcely less severe than that of 1837. If the ten millions of coin accumulated in the sub-treasu ry had been in the vaults of the bank, they would have constituted a basis for discounts to five or six times that amount, and the re-action would have produced a shock, which would have involved spec tators and legitimate dealers in a common ruin. - This, then, has been the two-fold beneficial action of the sub-treasury system, to draw specie to itself, as speculation has been inordinately extended; and to pour it back again into the channels' of com merce when it was indispensable to sustain the re aclion. The ebb and flow of the tide of specie has been alike salutary--it was a saving influence with out which the enterprise of the country must have sustained a severe, if not fatal shock. No human agency could have regulated its operation so wise ly and surely as it has been regulated by the law of commerce. Our community was thrown into a state of the utmost amazement, last week, by the discove ry that Jonathan S. Beckley, a man who lied al ways borne the reSpect; and enjoyed the utmost confidence of all our citizens, had disappeared from amongst us. Rumor soon gave way to certainty that he had decamped, with the money of dozens of our citizens, obtained in some instances on the faith of the good name he always bore, and in oth ers by means of a deep' laid scheme of villainy, which it is supposed he was practising and perfect ing for years. He was engaged in the. Flouring business for five or six years yast, in North Leba non, where he was part owner of the Steam Flour Mill there situated, and was apparently making money. About a year ago he disposed of his inter est in the Mill, and since has taught school, under pretence that the settling up of his affairs did not require the whole of his time, and that he abhorred being idle. To further hoodwink the public he professed religion, attended Sunday School, prayed in public, and had been preparing himself for the Ministry. It seems while professing to serve God, he was secretly in league with the devil. Several of our citizens are in pursuit of him, but we fear he has been too successful in making good his es cape. Previous to his absquatulation he borrowed all the money he could possibly lay his hands up on, in sums of from $lO to 81.000, so that it is sup posed his liabilities in all amount to $30,000. Ma. ny accounts of his proceedings are afloat, some of which are no doubt false, and others exaggerated, but sufficient is known to justify the assertion that he was the most successful rogue that ever prac tised upon our community. He left his wife and two children in our midst—Lebanon Advertiser. lERONAUTICS.—Prof. JOHN WISE; of this city, has an order from Mr. J. C. Crampton, in Canton, China, to make him a balloon; 25 feet in diameter, and of the finest fabric, It-will cost $750. It is to be splendidly embellished with ornamental work, with , a representation of Dmclulus and' Icarus from Crete. He has also another for San Francisco. V" The Carlisle Herald elates that the Reser voir of the Water Works of that place will be completed the coming winter. The darn is framed and the hands are now engaged- in putting it in.— All the pipe necessary to reach from the creek to the Reservoir, has been delivered. Nothing will will be done on the Gas Works till spring. Tess New TWENTY-Frvit Csirr Prxcaa—lt is stated in a New York paper that the new Alseri can, twenty-five cent pieces have,been extensively counterfeited, and large numbers of them are in circulation. When not much worn they are a good imitation, with one exception, the milling on the outer edge is badly done. They are run in moulds and the creases are not clear, and show, on partic lar examination, that they are not made in the manner of the genuine. After use , they become dark, almost as copper, but a large 'number of them are in circulation that look well, and all new quarters should be examined closely. On motion of Geo. Ford, ER., George F. Bren neman, Esq., was admitted to practice Law in the several Courts of this county. We learn that he passed a highly creditable examination. CITY AND COUNTY ITEMS. - [1:7"-A new township, to be called Middle Creek, has been formed out of a portion of Elizabeth twp. ' , ;;SiLZII. 07 Svocit.--Fiftylfiliares M Diameter . County sold at $4O per share, dividend on.- . Four *hues of Litiz Turnpike at;s2s perihanidiv . idend on.. • - .4._NILW CaliMr.—Mr. Samuel Hensler, No. 6 East Bing - street, ban just manufactured a new' kind of Candy, which is invaluable for the relief of-coughs and colds. It is very pleasant to the taste, and is highly recommended by all who have tested the article. We advise our readers to call it - hie Confectionary store, and procure II? A man named John Black,' an inmate of the Alms House, was frozen to death, on Friday morning last, near the Conestoga Bridge, caused by intemperance and exposure. - Lawcarraa Basrw.—The following gentlemen were elected Directors of this Institution on Mon day week,-to serve for the ensuing year:—D, Long enecker, Agustus, Boyd, J. F. Shroder, Mark Con nell, A. E. Roberta, Patrick Kelly, Marie Hoopes, J. F. Long, A. S. Hackman, John Musselman, Pat rick McEvoy, A. Herr Smith, Dr. J.. 8. Freeland. Eammatis Bair:: —C. Hager, David Herr Fred erick Saner, Solomon Diller, Amos S. Henderson, Jacob B. Tshudy, Jacob Bauaman, Slater Brown, John Rohrer, Nathl Ellmaker, Michael Malope, Hiram F. Witmer, William K. Mehaßy. Laac►alma Coosvrt Baas.—John Landes, Benj. B. Herr, James Smith, Jacob Kauffman, (tanner,) Henry Snavely, John Miller, Jacob liachman, Geo. Bear,'Abm. Bauman, Chris. B. Heir, Email. Swope Sam'l Ranck, John Bushong. WILLOW STIIEWD TUMULI ROAD Co.—The following persons were elected Officers and Mana gers for the ensuing year.—President, John McCart ney,—Treasurer, Frederick Cooper,--Managers, Christian Hess, (Pequa,) Chas. Hess, Levi Hoover, Andrew Mehaffy, G. M. Zahm. ED — We learn that arrangements have been made between the Lebanon Valley, and the North Lebanon Railroad Companies, by the terms of .which, the Valley Company discontinued work on • the branch road. Thus, there will be but one road the 'North Lebanon,' between Cornwall and Leba non. IatICASITEII COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY.—This So ciety met in the English Lutheran Church, in Co- lumbia, on Thursday last, and elected the following officers for the ensuing year, viz : President—Rev. N. A. Keyes. V. Pre'sidents—Hon. E. Schaeffer. Dr. John Mil ler. Treasurer and Librarian—i. W. Hubley. Secretary—Robert D. Carson. Managers—Revs. H. A. Shultz, J. H. Aldey, G. U. Hato, H. Harbaugh, Wm. Bishop, A. Snyder, J. A. Baldwin, Alfred Nevin, G. F. Krotel, J. S. Crumhangb, B. Schmauk ; Messrs. C. Gast, C. M'Cleary, James Black, Wm. Hubert, Chas. Bough ter, John Shindle, John o. Gable, B. D. Gill, H. Rathvon, John F. Shroder, George Spurrier, Hugh Andrews, Gen. Geo. Ford. The proceedings were interesting, and a large number of persons were in attendance. The re port shows that-427 copies of the Bible end 1493 Testaments vv,s e •old and given gratuitously during the yFra To , al amount of sales $d44,29. Dona tions and subscriptions received, $37596. Balance on hand $200,73. tEr The new Locomotive Manufactory in the north eastern section of this city, is rapidly, ap proaching completion, and will be under way in the course of a few weeks. When this establish ment gets into operation, it will give employment to several hundred operatives, and must necessarily give a fresh impetus to business and add considera• bly to the population of the place, inasmuch as a large number of the employees must be brought here from a distance. Much praise is due to the several gentlemen composing the Company who have embarked in this undertaking, for the energy and zeal displayed in pushing it lbrward. They deserve success in the enterprise,' and we hope their most sanguine expectations may be abundantly realized. Perhaps there is no other town of the same size in the Union—certainly none in the State—that shows more signs of decided improvement and prosperity, than the city of Lancaster. If the same state of things continues until the next census, we have no doubt it will then show a population of at least 20,000. SALES OP REAL ESTATE--The property of the late widow Herr, deceased, in W. Lampeter town ship, consisting of 20 acres of land with improve ments, sold at /6,000. Mr. Burkholder purchaser The farm of Daniel Landis on the Horse-shoe road in Leacock township, consisting of 100 acres, was sold at $l5O per acre. Tobias Krider pur• chaser. The farm of Thomas Patterson, in Bart twp., containing 50 acres with improvements sold for $33 per acre. Wm. Kinnard purchaser. The Hotel of Wm. Wright, in South Queen et., known as the Fountain Inn, was sold at private sale for $ll,OOO. Christain Shenk purchaser. The property of Isabella Kirk, dec'd., in the Vil lage of Soudersburg, consisting of a lot of ground; with a two story weather boarded house and other improvements, sold at public sale for $570. B. B. Herr purchaser. The property of Jacob Sherer, dec'd., on the west side of North Queen street, consisting of a lot of ground with a two-story brick house, one story frame still house and other improvements sold for $5,725. E. Shober purchaser. The Hotel of Jacob Swope in East King street, known as the Pennsylvania Farmer, was sold at private sale for $9,000. Anthony Lechler of Lem on Place purchaser. TRIBUTE TO THE MIXORT OP THE LATE CAPT. JONA Susx.r.a.—At a stated meeting -of Lodge No. 51 of Ancient York Masons, held at their Philadelphia, on Thursday, the 24th inst., Brother Past Master James Gowen announced, with much feeling, the death of Past Master John Steele, and pronounced a well deserved eulogy and tribute to the memory of his departed friend and brother.— Whereupon, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously passed in a solemn and impos ing manner: Whereas, It has pleased the Great Dispenser of human events, with whom are the issues of life and death, to have removed from this transitory scene of care and trial, to the repose and recompense of the just, our well beloved and venerated brother, Capt. John Steele, who departed this life at Har mony, in Lancaster county, on the 27th day of Oc tober, 1853, after a long and painful illness, which he bore with pious resignation. And, whereas, it becomes us; as citizens of Philadelphia, the place of his residence from youth to declining age, to hold in grateful remembrance his voluntary and patri otic services as Captain of a company in the war of 1812—his -fidelity and integrity while for a series of years he discharged the duties of a high and re sponsible station in the Customs of this Port—his zeal and efficiency as a Director and Controller of our Public Schools—in short, to refer to him as one who, while honored by public confidence, reflected honor on the stations be held by his probity and private worth. But more especially does it behoove us, as members of Lodge No. 51, to record, cherish and hold in remembrance, the graces and virtues that for more than thirty-lour years distinguished him in the capacity of Secretary, Treasurer, War den, and Master of this Lodge, together with the honor he acquiaed, and the services he dispensed, while filling exalted places in the Grand Lodge, in cluding the chair of the Right Worshipful Grand Master. Yet these honors, most appropriately con ferred, and most worthily worn, did not compare to the lustre of that innate benevolence, active char ity, and unbounded philanthropy, that blended so gracefully in him as a sentiment, a principle of his existence, which constituted-him a beneficent mem ber of the universal lodge, comprising, the whole human family. Resolved, As citizens of Philadelphia, we hold it to be a duty to the living, to commemorate the vir tues of the departed who did credit to the comma- nity; and, therefore, we recognise the claims ol Capt. John Steele to a grateful regard, and present his character as worthy of imitation, to all who value the testimony of "Well Done," and desire to fill an honored grave. Resolved, That the death of our venerated Bro ther, and eldest Past Master; Capt. John Steele— though it awakens in us that regret which the mem ory of the past and the lait solemn farewell natur ally calls forth—yet it cannot be made the occas ion of unavailing grief, as from the protracted ill ness he was made to bear, death was to him a glo , rious change from a state of eufleringto a blissful immortality! But it is our privilege and pride as Masons, to recognize the zeal, fidelity and ddvotion with which he discharged the duties es Member, Secretary, Treasurer, Warden and Master of this Lodge, and to appropriate, as due to the fraternity, his good name and irreproachable life, to be record ed in the archives of our Temple, there to be held as worthy of emulation, and in perpetual venera tion by the brethren of csige No. 51. Resolved, That the regalia of the Lodge be put in moerning for the space of six months, and that these proceedings be published, and that a commit tee of Past Masters be appointed to present a copy of the same to the family of our deceased brother; whereupon Past Masters Jas. Gowen, Too. Thonap• son and Philip R. Howard were appointed said Committee. Columbiaiand Odorant Rail Read. REPORT OE:- S. WAIPEFLIN, ENGINEER . To -the ,Commissionan of the Columbia and Odo rota Rail Road - -."-kinarrratins lutin the honor of submit ting to your consideration the result of my sur veys , through Lancaster and Chester counties, ed .for Ro determining tholeatxoute for your propos ad. The somewhat indefinite limits set forth in your charter, at first embarrassed our plan of *rations ; but a careful examination of the ground seemed to limit the choice to two main rontes,--One passing eastwirdly by New Proviz deuce and Quarryville, and leading to a connec tion with West Chester and Phadelphia, the other running southward by Martic Forge, tine Grove Iron Works, and Oxford, to the Delaware State Line, and thence by a direct line to New Castle on Deleware Bay. Substantially, these two routes are the same as far as the dividing ridge between Conestoga and Peqnea Creek, a distance of thirteen miles ; since the charter calls for the vicinity of Safe Harbor, no better line than the ' line can be obtained. From the summit of the dividing ridge afore said, the eastern route crosses the Pequea at Hess's mill, and thence by M.articvillelind Hu ber's woolen factory, passing about half a mile south of John Strohm's to New Providence; thence by the valley of Beaver to Quarryville, a distance of twelve miles. The bridge of Pe quer), would be ninety-six feet in height. The balance of this route is on very favorable ground,the grades and courses being moderate From Quarryville the line must pass along the great valley over a heavy grade of sixty feet per mile for two miles, to Eckman's sum mit, and thence by the valley of Stauffer's mill to west Octorara at McClelland's factory, a dis tance of three miles. This part of the route would be very expen sive; the ruling•grade fifty feet per mile, and the curvatures very abrupt and numerous., From McClelland's factory to the mainiAnch of Octorara creek, a distance a six miles, the country is traversed by numerous ridges, and the grading must consist of series of deep cuts and embankments throughout the whole extent. As this route contemplates a junction with the Baltimore Central road at a short distance east of Octorara creek, some uncertainty must prevail as to the proper point to cross the stream until that road is permanently located. The limits of probability are from Steelville on the north and Andrew's bridge on the south, and in any case will require a high bridge, and a very deep rock cut on the eastern side of the stream. The length of this line, from Columbia to the limestone road on the east side of Octorara, would be thirty-eight miles ; and the distance from that road by the Baltimore Central to its connection with the West Chester and Philadel phia, twenty-five miles, making the whole dis tance to Philadelphia eighty-three miles. As a road for local purposes and for articles of sufficient value to pay the cost of transpor tation over a ruling grade of fifty feet per mile, there can be no objection to this route. The cost of constructing a single track from Columbia to the Baltimore Central intersection has been estimated at $798.000, and there can be little doubt that if connected through to Philadelphia it would pay &fair annual divi dend on the investment. The principal objections to adopting this route are as follows : The nncertainty of the construction of the Baltimore Central road on the northern route, with which this connection must be made. The too great proximity to the State road, and the total unfitness of such a road for car rying coal from the Susquehanna, except in limited quantities and for local purposes. The Coal trade of the Susquehanna has been estimated at two millionsper annum. The Sha mokin region alone will furnish half that amount whenever a certain and cheap outlet to the ocean is obtained, and the other coal re gions of the Susquehanna will make up the balance. By means of the Susquehanna Railroad, the York and Cumberland Railroad,and the Wrights ville and Conewago Railroad, an uninterrupted series of descending grades will be furnished from the Shamokin coal depot to Columbiaj and this will be still further extended by the con struction of your road to Safe Harbor along the east bank of the river. But from this point some modification of this series must take place. Experience has shown that coal cannot be transported over heavy as cending grades for any great distance, and hence the line by Quarryville and West Chester to Philadelphia, with its heavy adverse ruling grade of fifty feet per mile, may be considered incapable of furnishing the desired outlet for the Susquehanna Coal. The case is different, however, in regard to the Southern route, by Martic and Oxford.— Although some sections of adverse grade may be required, the nature of the ground will admit of these grades being thrown together, and thus they may be overoome by assisting power without delaying the progress of full trains on the remainder of the route. This route may be more particularly de scribed as follows : From Columbia to the east bank of the Con estoga at Safe Harbor, 11 miles ;—grade a dead level and curvatures not less than 1000 feet radius. The first seven miles are on very favorable ground; the cost of graduation and masonry for a single track will not exceed five thousand dollars per mile. The next four miles, along Turkey Hill, are very rough, especially the ninth mile, which' consists of a series of short tunnels connected by retaining walls of con siderable height. The cost of this mile, for single track, will amount to $15,700; the eighth, tenth and eleventh miles to $B,lOO each; and the Bridge over Conestoga $30,000; making a total for grading, masonry and bridg ing, $105,000. Between the Conestoga'and the Octorara the line must pass over the South Valley ridge, the lowest point in which, as far as our surveys enable us to determine, is at W. W. Watson's ore bank, about 21 miles west of Quarryville, and having an elevation of 320 feet above our proposed bridge at Conestoga. This elevation we propose to overcome by a continuous grade of forty feet per mile for eight miles, the proper ground for which will be found by following the south branch of Hess' run to its source; and thence along the south side of the public road by Benjamin Good and John Gardner's to the Pequea at Martic Forge. The Pequea will be crossed above the Forge by a bridge five hundred feet long, one hundred feet high ; and the line will then continue along the south side of the ridge of a mile to the head of the meadow, when it crosses to the opposite ridge, and thence by the north side of the ridge to the valley of Byers' run • up Byers' run to the Sinithshop on the Bawlinsville road; and thence by a gap to the eastward into the valley of Furnace run, which heads on the eastern slope of the Martic Hill, three miles from Watson's, and on a level with it, with no higher ground intervening. A deep cut and tunnel through the ridge between the Cones toga and Pequea, and the bridge over Pequea, are the only items of heavy expenditure on thiS part of the line. There are two other bridges of considerable height, but they will not exceed one span each and the abutments will stand very high up on the banks. The cost of grad ing these eight miles will be $142,500. From Watson's ore bank to the Octorara, the line will follow the dividing ridge between the west branch of Octorma and Conowingo creeks, passing near Hopkins' Furnace. Its course is generally clear of streams; and with the ex ception of a few deep cuts and fills, the gradua tion will not be of a very expensive character. The grade will be a continuous descent of twenty-five feet per mile for twelve miles. The cost of graduation, - $72,000 At Octoraraoccurs the heaviest bridge on the line, being 125 ft. above the surface of the water and eleven hundred feet long. The cost of this bridge will be $77,000. From the Octorara, q through Oxford and New London to the State line, a distance of fourteen miles, the ground presents no unusu al impediments. Elk creek must be crossed by a bridge of similar height and dimensions to that of Peps. The balance of the line con sists of cuts and fills of moderate depths. The grade will be generally descending, at the rate of twenty-five feet per mile, with intervals of dead ldvel. .The cost, of grading: and bridging, $114,000. That part of the line which lies in the State of Delaware has not been surveyed. It consists of a continuous descent along the valley of White Clay creek to the flats of Delaware, thence by a straight line to New Castle. The'divldirig *fridge; lietween Elk river and White Clay creek: is at 'New London, twenty miles from Noir Castle, and 400 feet above tide, requiring a continuous descent of 25 feet per mile Air sixteen miles along White Clay Creek, for which the banks of the strewn afford ground every way suitable. - If we take tile cost of this part of the line to be equal to the average cost of the pert surveyed, and it cannot possibly exceed that amount, we shall have a total cost for grading the sixty miles between Columbia and New Castle of $600,000, or $lO,OOO per mile. I have thus been particular in describing the different . section of grades, because noon these depend the superiority of this route over the more pastern one by. Quarryville. - It isnow well ascertained, by years of ex perience, that. a twenty ton engine cannot transport more than four hundred tons of mer chandise over a level road, and that to trans port the same load over ascending grades requires one additional engine for every twenty feet per mile of ascent. At this rate of de :crease, the power of an engine on the eastern route, with its undulating grades of fifty feet per mile, would not be more than one hundred tons. On the southern route, on the contrary, trains of four hundred tons btuthen may be . drawn by a single engine without difficulty from Columbia to Safe Harbour. On the suc ceeding eight miles,two auxiliary engines acting in the rear of the train - would be required to enableit to reach the summit at Watson's ore bank. From this point, the grades being gen-- I:zany descending or level, little assistance if any would be required to enable full trains to -reach New Castle with a single engirg?. I say but little assistance.would be required, because it pisossible that CIA a more careful survey of the line between Pine Grove and Oxford the diffe rence of cost between an ascending and-a level grade may justify the employment of a single as sistant engine oil the four miles between these two places. The cost of transporting coal on a railway constructed on the above principle has been va 'riously estimated at from one-third to three-fourths of a cent per ton per mile, If we take the high est of these rates, and suppose the charge to be one cent per ton per mile, (from Shamokin to New Castle,) the cost of transportation, would be $1,50 per ton. Coal can now be obtained at Shamokin at 31.50 per ton, so that its value at New Castle would be only $3; considerably below the present value at Philadelphia, and leaving no doubt of the ability of this ioute to compete with those leading to Philadelphia. 11 we suppose that one half of the two millions of tons of coal mentioned in the early part of this report would be required for local and way con sumption, and that the other half alone would seek an outlet to the ocean; and suppose further that the company desired a profit of* of a cent per ton per mile, or 15 cents for sixty miles transportation, we shall have a revenue of $150,000 from Coal alone. There is, contiguous to this route and nearer to it than either the State road or the Susquehanna Canal, an area of 300 square miles, or 180 thous. and acres. The annual surplus product of this region liable to be carried over the road, is estimated as follows Grain, 900,000 bushels, 3c nett, - $27,000 other agricultural products, 5,000 tons, 5,000 Iron, - 19,000 " 113,000 In descending the. valley of White Clay Creek the line passes through the town of Newark, and will there connect with the Delawere Railroad, which is intended to connect the steam route from Norfolk to the head of navigation on the Nanticoke river to Seaford, with the Northern rail roads. By this connection, the whole stream of sum mer travel from the Southern Atlantic States to Niagara and the Lakes will be turned upon our.. road either going or returning, because of Newark being forty miles from Philadelphia, and only fifty miles from Columbia. This route to the North is nearer by nearly the •whole length of the Columbia Rail-road, and yet nearer than any other route fur ther east, besides the great advantage of avoiding the troublesome and expensive transit through the large cities. We may safely count upon two pas senger trains daily, of five cars' each, during the early summer, and the same number returning at `' the close of the season, equal to 90,000 passengers at 75 cents each; nett profit $67,500. In only one particular does the Southern route compare disadvantageously with the Eastern, and that is in regard to the Lime trade of Quarryville, which' will form a very important branch of reve nue. If, upon further surveys, a lower gap than that at Watson's in the South Valley Ridge can be found which will carry the fine nearer Quarryville with out throwiug it among the Ridges of the Octorara, it may be advisable to adopt it. But if this should not be the case, a branch of 2} miles in length will furnish a cheap connection with the Lime-Kilos.— The lime consuming region tributary to your road may be considered as extending horn Quarryville to New Castle, five miles wide on each side of the line, embracing an area of 360 square miles, or two hundred thousand acres. At the usual rate of liming, there will be required for the annual con sumption of this region not less than 200,000 bush els, with an average haul of twenty mile's. At New ark, a large quantity will be drawn off by the Del aware Road for the supply of the Peninsula, a re gien more than four times the extent of the former 0 5 ane this amount will pass 25 Iles over the Octo rara Road. Taking these tw demands together, we may safely assume 4,00 OO bushels, with an average transportation of 20 miles, as the usual Lime trade of this road, which allowing the com pany the moderate profit of one cent per bushel, will give a revenue of $lO,OOO from lime alone.— We sum up, then, the.costs and revenue as follows: Cost of Grading and Bridging, $600,000 Cost of Superstructure, 800,000 Twelve freight engines for coal alone, 96,000 Four " to " Miecellane- ous traffic,32,ooo Four passenger " 32,000 Eight hundred Coal Cars, - , 240,000 One hundred Freight Cars, - 60,000 Twenty-five passenger “, 50,000 Depots, machine shops, water stations, 150,000 Total for cost of building and stock, $1,860,000 Revenue—Coal, Iron and country produce, Passengers, Lime Total Revenue, $275,500 , or nearly 15 per cent on the whole cost. But the advantages do not stop here. A trade ex ceeding three millions of dollars per annum cannot be poured into a town so well situated as New Castle, without creating in ti short time a return trade equal in value to the down trade. So that in. stead of fifteen it would be safer. to count upon twenty-five per cent for the certain revenue of the road within the ten first years of its existence. There is another view of this subject which may not be uninteresting to present. The Coal mines of the Susquehanna are to a great extent locked up for the want of a suitable out let. They cannot compete with the eastern mines, and must as yet depend on the local demand A foreign market for one million of tons will not only be supplied, but actually created, by the Octo rara Road; and this amount at the usual mining privilege of 25 cents per ton, will give an increas ed value to the Susquehanna coal fields of 250,000 dollars yearly ;—a sum snificient to reimburse the whole cost of the road in eight years. Surely, a road which offers so brilliant a return for the investment required, cannot be presented to: the capitalists of Pennsylvania without receiving that prompt attention which it so richly deserves. VIOLATION OF THE SANBATEL—TheNeW York Observer, a religious paper, iu recording a recent frightful collision on the Hudson River Railroad, and wonderlul escape of the passengers, makes the following comments: . "In making a record of this occurrence, we can-. not forbear to allude to the circumstance, that since this Company departed from their original deter mination to keep the Sabbath, and have been run ning trains upon that day, these occurrences have greatly increased. The same was true of the New Haven and other roads. The former enjoyed a' re markable exemption from disasters, while it con tinued to respect the Sabbath, but the change was marked by a series of occurrences, the moat re naarkable of which was the dreadful Norwalk tra gedy. We believe this road has now discontinued its Sunday trains. "We do not regard this world as the place of retribution, nor do we look upon every calamity in the light of a judgment; but the command to Re member the Sabbath-day to keep it holy,' has too manyterriblesenctions connected with it to escape the special notice of those who are accustomed to regard the hand of God in connection with human affairs. It has long been observed that those who systematically break this command seldom enjoy continued prosperity in this world. Nothing is gained by appropriating to secular gain, the time which God claims as his own. He frowns upon those who thusviolate his holy day. "We would in this connection reprobated the enstom which we. are informed is very common upon out Railroads, even those on which there are no Sunday trains, of taking this day for' making repairs, especially where such repairs would inter iere' with; the ordinary business of the Roads. We do not believe that any of these violations 01 the Sabbathby which men are compelled to work sev en days in the week, will in the end be found to be profitable; even in a temporal point of view." wr BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZIAZ, for November contains the following table of contents, viz . Haydon's Autobiography, Brute Life in the Alpine Regions, the Romans in Scotland, Athens in DM, University Reform, Onr Commission in Paris, The Narcotics de Indulgoia, Poems by H. G. K., and A Few Facts cm/coming the Turkish Question. $150,000 48,000 67,500 10,000
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