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OurPana correspondence, ofdafeßlat,
say* s "An official dispatcbvippated op on
ihe Bourse to-day, confirms the newp of .the
Crimea eipedilion on t&e Itth
*' this intelligence ,waa sent 0n ihe I6lh by
(he Austrian Internuncio pt Constantinople to
Gen. Cbronmi at Bucharest." i
A number of transports hadf returned to
Varna for the French reserve of 14,000 men.
Some of the allied ships are .lying off the
Fortress,of Kinbutn and Island of Tendra,
hear Odessa, with the object of intercepting
any Russian reinforcements intended for.ihe
Crimea. ,
It is positively stated that while a portion
of the British fleet was at Baltschik embar
king troops, the Russians succeeded in sen
ding a strong reenforcemenl by sep from
Odessa to Sevastopol. 1 They crept out of
port by night and the troops being conveyed
Jo : the Inge shajlow lighters and floats used
for loading corn on, the Danube, were lowed
elope along shore, and thus escaped the allied
cruisdrs. Nay, more, a Russian steamer
came to thoenterance of Baltschik Bay, while
the. fleets were there, and sent in two bonis to
rcconnoiter.
On the 7th a Russian steamer landed a de
tachment of Cossacks at Galatz, who destroy
ed the magazines of the (Austrian) Danubian
Steamship Company, and shipped the coals.
Since August 24 Prince MencfjikofT has been
in incessant activity between"Perekop and
Sevastopol, organizing a levy en matte.
Odessa letters of the 6th state that, all the
troops in the Crimea have been-marched to
Sevastopol, and reenforcements were hurrying
from Nikolajeff and Alcschki toward Pere
kop. Prince MenchikofT has exausted every
means of defence in order to render Sevasto
pol impregnable, as well from the land as
from the seaside.' Between Sevastopol and
Balaklava there are five strong detached forts,
sufficiently garrisoned.
The road from Balaklava to Yalta is ren
dered impassible and partly ruined.' There
are three forts at Gupataria, one on the north,
a second on the east, a third on the west, and
the place is garrisoned'by 16,000 men. The
hights in the rear of Sevastopol are encircled
by redoubts and trenches; are armed with
with eighteen batteries and defended by 20,
000 men. The garrison of Sevastopol itself
is only 10,000 strong. [lt is said that reen
forcements have been since thrown in from
Odessa.]
There are 15,000 sailors on board the fleet
in harbor. Trince MenchikofT issued a proc
tarnation on the 2d, in which he prepared the
citizens for a resistance to the last extremity.
In this proclamation he enumerates all the
victories gained by the Russians arms during
the present century, and calls on his soldiers
to show themselves equal to their predecess
ors in bravery and power of endurance. If
the enemy, (he says,) owing to Use inscruta
ble will of heaven, should obtain a victory,
then let the whole store of powder go with
him into the air! The proclamation con
cludes “ Rather let us die than surrender 1”
On (he other band, the Vienna Loydt states
that the Russians line of defense is too exten
ded to be successfuly maintained, and that,
from the nature of the soil, the entrenched
works just constructed by the Russians on the
land side of Sevastopol cannot be very form
idable.
A private letter from Russia describes Gen
era) Gortchakoff as a higly educated man,
well read in the literature of all countries, but
at the same time an elderly, used-up man,
without a spark of military fire, a General fit
only for parade. Paskiewich it irreverently
speaks of as 11 an antiquated souvmir." Af
ter lamenting the lack of able Generals in the
Russian army, the writer stales the best Gen
eral the Russians have is Nicholas himself,
and the second-best his son Constantine.
-• From Vienna, morning of the 20th, it is
telegraphed that the main body of the allied
fleet bad reapeared before Sevastopol, and the
Russian fleet had again run into port. There
is a rumor that the English have captured a
Russian express steamer off Sevastopol, with
imi>''rlnnt dispatches.
Nine thousand men continued to work in
cessantly el the fortifications of Cracow,
which place it is intended to make one of the
strongholds of the Russibn Empire. It will
be some years ere the works are completed.
The advanced works extend nearly five Eng
lish miles beyond the city.
Women.
Theodore Parker, in a recent “ sermon,”
Uttered the following, touching women :
Thera are three classes of women—
Fire), domestic drudges, who are wholly
taken up in the material details of their
housekeeping and childkeeping. Theirlhouse
keeping is a trade and no more ; and after
they have dona that, there is no more which
they can do. In New England it is a small
«lasa, gelling less every year.
Next there are domestic dolls, wholy taken
np with the vain show which delights the eye
and ear. They are ornaments of estaie.
Similar toys, I suppose, will one day be more
cheaply manufactured at Paris, Nuremberg,
at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and other toyshops
jo Buropt, out of wax or papier mache,
and sold ig Boston at the haberdasher's by
lha tjoxen. These ask nothing beyond their
functions a* do|ls,and hate all attempts to ele
vate kind.
But therp are domestic woman, whe order
a hnisa apd are not mete drudge*, adorn it.
fnd ara ast Viera dolls, but woman. Some
great many of them—conjoin
lha useful of. Ihe drudge and the beautiful of
|h« doll into one womanhood, and have a
mat deal left besides. They are wholly ta.
ken up with their function aa housekeeper,
wife, and mother.
Pouncisna ,* 1 nnwa-dnys" are all get
ting squint-eyed., You can’t tell which way
they an looking,-
mate tbepeople.pat : .upoo = frandawTtre»ebeiy.
JDoubte.deadingit; not
otfcftbepedpfe They iborwjust how much such
men are
nrt. ’BttUnpifig the county can’t stye a man dowt*.’
it can’t, unless be starts rigtt.
the Nebraska question had to ; ao ( with/the
diction oT State officers." TBo Nebraska .hill had
nothing w dojailhJUnv and he had nothin*-to do
with it. The result shows what the people think
shout the nutter. It is not the fint lime .lhat'the
servant has been made to feel that tbe poople some
times bare the audacity to think /orlhemseivee.
Men who carry water on both should*?* during*
scramble for office, generally gel a cold hath. 1
ANTI-NEBRASKA TRIUMPHANT! TIOGA
GIVES POLLOCK 950 MAJORITY!!!
FOR PROHIBITION,. 4*51 M
BALDWIN’S MAJORITY—99SI
BAILEY’S—B63I WELLS’S—«49I .
By reference to the official re turns, it will bo seen
(ha) the whole anli-Nebreska ticket in this county'
is elected by a sweeping majority. Grow is return
ed without.opposition. Bigler and Ryon ireno
where. ~TheState Baa gone for Pollock/by up
warde- of 25,000 majority. Mott ia thought to be
electod by 100,000. Black is probablv'&cted'Siu
preme Judge. '
F. S. Younkin is thought not lo be elected.
Glorious Newii-Doailas repudia-
ted fa the West!
Tbs Administration is hunted down like a fugi
tive from justice, in the North. The mark of Cain
is on it, and the avenger is on its track. Ohio haa
jost spoken at the ballot-box, and 50,000 voices say
•• NO I"—to its infamous acts. Edson B. Olds, the
upholder snd echo of Arnold Douglas, is defeated by
1800 majority. The telegraph reports only two
Nebraska M. elected in the whole State.
Indiana goes anti-Nebraska with a clean sweep.
This throws a dark shadow across Douglas's path.
He will he able to estimate his chances for the next
Presidency when the entire North has denounced
him.
The misaion of New Thiugi.
Some quaint writer, (we cannot jost now recall
his name,) terms Nature u The most perfect calcu
lator in Croatian.” This is probably true, though
oddly enough expressed, for however much short,
siglitedness may be apparent in Homan economy
there is none discoverable in the Divine. Nature is
kept in balance by antagonistic forces. There are
no exceptions to the laws of gravitation, attraction
and repulsion. Everything in her domain is subject
to fixed laws, working harmoniously and uninter
ruptedly. The nice adaptation of means to ends is
everywhere perceivable, and the recognition of this
adaptedness is what inspires men to wait hopefully
fur the u good time coming.”
The law of Moses was peculiarly adapted to the
wants of the people to whom it wee given. Hu
manity, as defined by modern philanthropists, was
not a leading characteristic of the Mosaic code.
A retaliatory spirit, rather than a spirit of Love,
seems to vitalize it It did not aim at the reforms,
tion of the offender through the instrumentality of
Love, hot through Fear. So with their religious sys
tem ; As a people, the Jews were spiritually unde
veloped snd incapable of other than a sensuous
recognition of Deity, Their religion was a cum
brous mass of superstitions, faintly shadowing the
sublime troths of the Actual
As Mind learned to tread in advance of prescribed
rales, the Jewish forms and ceremonies became un
satisfactory. As the spiritual became more devel
oped, it found no adequate support iu types and
shadows, hence, it leaned toward the grosser form of
Materialism, for it had no guide to point the way up
to a better faith.
At this crisis, the New Dispensation dawned on a
groping world. Jesus of Nazareth came to lift the
great heart of Israel from the degradation of form
worship into which it bad fallen. The simplicity of
his teachings awoke a purer ambition in the hearts
of men, and railed back the lido of a false Materia),
ism that was stealing in upon the domain of Mind.
There was an age when Europe was drunk with
the wine of Rome and weighed down with the hor
rid abuses practiced and encouraged under the false
name of Christianity, Luther arose, and battled no
bly and successfully for Troth. He, with his help
ers, lifted the curtain which had so long shut out
the sunlight of Truth from Man, and he became
disgusted with the monstrous deformity into which
Christianity had been tortured.
So, it has ever been. It is no idle proverb, “It is
aliaay* the dart:eel betore day.” It is true. When
extremes meet there is always a compromise, and
the immediate result is a stale of affairs compound
ed of both.
If we look at the course pursued by political par
ties in this country for the past ten years, their pres
ent disorganized condition will not appear so much
a matter of surprise. Whot were once vast aggre
gated majorities, carrying everything before them
by the force of numerical strength rather than by
the force of principle, are now fast dwindling into
minorities held together, not by any great devotion
to any distinct feature of policy, hut by namea. A
new parly lias sprung up, silently, swiftly and cloth
ed with the energies of a young giant If it is a
dangerous parly, Whigs and Democrats have but to
thank themselves for its existence. Through the ve
nal ambition of party leaders the ballot-box has be
come a chattel, pul up and sold at the political auc
tion-block for a consideration. That consideration
ia no more or Icie than the euffrogn of naturalized
eilizene.
Those who reside in the neighborhood of our pub.
lie works, hsvo seen with indignation tbie shameful
prostitution of the ballut-boz connived at by men
reckless of all except their selfish interests. The
distribution of offices of honor and profit by the
present national Administration, with an especial
view to propitiate foreign voters, his helped to arouse
the indignation of tbs whole country. It was the
last drop in a eup whose overflowing is deluging the
strongholds of political corruption. -
Both great parties have been guilty of fishing fbr
the foreign vote, but the Democratic party hi* si.
ways taken the lead, snd has been the most success.
fnL It has had the magic of a name to assist it
In this way the balance of power has fkllen into tbs
hands of foreigners, who, unfortunately, bold it to
the use of demagogues, who deceive ibam into sub.
'mission. We have teen the practical working of
this coilttoipllble scheming in the smallest placet—
candidates for the petty office of constable, bowing,
smirking and shaking hands with Irish and German
citizens whom they heartily despised, all for the few
votes such a course might attract from that quarter.
We have known candidates to refuse to arrest riot,
oua persons when those persons were foreigners, and
to such, and many other like misdemeanors the
Know-Nothings owe thsir existence.
iHj tio
» ■ day i i ■ wg ■ ■ ; •sgw, ~; 1 11 »j*4 '""
1 Iw'lUt are Wfk few men So pray, iw
•eefaf rtwn"flot,jjpß dawnfiJlof m “ Him otßin"
—IMP cooUibnli®f|el Himi to HteamietibipiM
doffidofat, whao||gopoaed it
fidgfpSn ereryerud to get the Catbalio vote". Tlie
toward*
building op the new party; and timid combined in*
jjpjtba
ko«TO s^tW^Jlrij^ ,yc*V2
and the “ Catholic ycte?" Hid men eel io Work-to
nuke an " Ameriedii ; ''yiite t *V tW ysCddwJWb
inga woold-nerar -have- eriMD -to demoUth party
omnhntjont as Buy'ban done, and) aft: doitigj
1 >wddoVotfMlevo inlhe nil-'
.fippea ,|t(di;.but, idwcking the-
pf all; religions, .rebuking. iheurro-
•,
formlsnto-think by. And iC ; wiychnrch’ seeks to
makeiiself, felt airo. ciureh, sobscribiog
to, and, working to)promalgale. it*, selfisli dogma*
therehy,woh'old’ to'pab«ribing it ui}tilit “b»pk»
down.” And whether it be Methodist, Baptist,
Calhblie.or whatriol,il' makes no' difference with
us; ftr il is tfaa'pHneipts rather than the Churis,
that we wonhfproacribo. There is no safety, for re.
publican institutions under the patronage of any ec
elekiasUeu'toaodtaUoD.
Wanted InWellsboro.
/Thi* ;, caplipn majr be said io embrace a pretty
large number of objects;' bat we shall not attempt
to discuss the merits of theta alt in tbis short arli.
ole. The more important wants should receive the
the first attention. ;
Perhaps there’is no better mode of imparting in
struction, thin tbit of public lectures. This iathe
most popular mode also, and that is a great help.
It is the cheapest mode, and that is another argu
ment in its favor. It places a branch of knowledge
heretofore only accessible to the few whose means
enable them to avail themselves of the advantages
afforded in our high schools and colleges, within the
reach of ail—the day laborer, as well as the.idle
gentleman. There ere hundreds who look with a
sort of contempt upon u book-learning,” who can
not be reached in any other way.
It would be difficult to find s village of any size
in either Connecticut or Massachusetts,’ without its
library of choice and instructive books, free to ail
upon the annual payment of a nominahsam to be
applied to the defraying of unavoidable expenses.
And however admirable the Common School sys.
terns of those States may be, there can be no doubt |
but that the general intelligence of their inhabitants
is no less the beneficent result of the free Library
system, than of the free School system. Ideas are
best impressed upon the mind through the medium
of the ear, rather than the eye, nevertheless. ',. ...
Wellsborongh can afford, and at a pecuniary prof
it, too, a course of Lectures from such memai Ward 1
Beecher, Bethune, Potter, Greeley, Parker, Saxe,
Bayard Taylor, Chapin and other celebrated and
popular lecturers, this coming winter. Yet most of
these men receive from 940 to 950 per night We
are aware that this will look like a great outlay, to
many; but it must be remembered that either of
the abovenamed gentlemen would attract an andi
ence of 300 people, under proper management, at
the lowest estimate. These, at 35 cents each, (and
few will find fault with the price} would bring in sn |
income of 975—which would leave a fair margin of
profit, after paying all needinl expenses.
Lest some feel disposed to think us too sanguine,,
it may not be out of place to state, that we have
seen the thing tried, within a year, and with the.
happiest result*. Even the most sanguine looked
for a loss the first season, and made up a purse la
meet it. A charter was procured, late in the fall,
too, and several of the abovenamed lecturers were,
engaged to lecture during the season. When the
course was ended, the Society found that instead of
a deficit, there was a liberal surplus iu the treasury;
and this, too, after meeting extra expenses. Now,
the Society has made arrangements for s Qill Course
of lectures daring this coming winter, from some of
the most brilliant minds of the age; and wo proph
esy that its next annual report will exhibit a sur
plus of several hundreds of dollars, which will be
applied to the purchasing of one of the best assort
ed libraries in the State.
We hive not written this article intending to drop
the subject here, or, indeed, within the neit three
months. We do not expect to work alone, either.
There ore men here who ought to go about and talk
the matter orer with their neighbors, while we talk
it over with them on paper. It will be strange if
this community does n’t awake to the importance of
multiplying the channels through which informa
tion can flow down to all classes, grades and condi
tions of men.
A Chance for Anti - Slavery Men
The Virginia colonizalionists notice the fact that
the heirs of a gentleman of Virginian, lately deceas
ed, wish, in compliance with the wishes of their tes
tator, to send 48 negroes to Liberia in November.
These people will not be freed except money for
their transportation can be raised from private do
nations. They are appraised at 835.000. Here is
a rare chance for philanthropists.— Exchange,
Oh, indeed! such a rare chance for the exercise
of philanthropy—such an astonishing chance to em
balm $25,000 worth of immortal souls in the milk
and-water of human kindness! 835,000 worth of
souls and bodies—put up like so many working
oxen! Shade of Howard 1
What is the argument? Ob, wo enslaved their
grandfathers and grandmothers, after kidnapping
and forcing them away from their native shores.
We bought, sold and flogged their fathers and moth
ers, gave them in marriage one to another, separa
ted them—wife from husband—parents from chil
dren—brolliera from sisters, forever! And now,
here is a rare chance for philanthropists to crown,
the wrong by contributing to expatriate these 48 hu
man beings from their native laud! Merciful rea
sonsr, you scatter the good deeds of a Howard like
sere leaves before an autumn tempest!
What! is philanthropy so doubtful a virtue ns to
be made to own such brutality as a part of its teach
ings 7 No; its teachings no more resemble such
sentiments than the glare of mid-day does a alar,
less, moonless midnight. Those 48 men, women
and children, are Americans by birth and asssocia
lion. They were trained up in a school peculiarly
American—in which the doctrine that “ All men
are created free and equal,” is taught, and buying,
selling and flogging men and women, is practiced.
And the expatriation of these 48 untbrtunates4s
asked lor in the name of charity I Why did that
testator forget that in emancipating them be only
restored to them what he had unlawfully deprived
them of? end why did’nt be will that they should
be fkirjy remunerated for the labor they had per
formed 7 It would only have been an aet qf simple
justice, .
We have ri?> patience with then who uphold the'
Sooth Itt its disreputable business, and abuse and.-
slavery men because they refute to engage in such
.doubtful acts of charity at the expatriation of their
fellow.men. If these pro-slavery men who Worship
Colonization Societio* would only contribute a little
something substantial now and then, men would be
lieve they were in earnest; but this cutting out
work for othere who repndiite the principle which
colonisation is conducted upon, is contemptibly
mean and hypocritleal.
' E, B>>rl< * |
inMetaVn bla&yriojaln the largepities
dnrwm^belweenCathofcea and Protestants
mob quit Menu to bo fearfbily in the ascendant »t
prontotor. iliia Wpe® npr- i
wredOß
- ~'lt ~ ind ispotable - that tbs Mother .
<}litnjch ; hj» ; np« ,bMn io,. the employ
taenlof means t«i gain unirern-
proKriplioa imwlbeing meted' qut‘&
bpr by profcptauUsmj ', j’ f I}
'Whether Protestantism will em be driven to em-
ttf tiUhdla atahtßtoK wilt Bold
fbUy appear when <H ’shall' htveepjoyed supreme;
poorer over i kiDgs,presidenu' and’ princes’ for i’ few i
oenlnrres,and’ been deprived'OP it- Protestantism,
jnat now,ia veryboey incattingita .own throat—'
that U, io persecuting itself, aa ahownin the sente*
leaa quarrels existing between ita onmerona branch-,
ea. Rome.’h'ar little cause to fearProtestanUsm so*
long as it wsstesita strength' by strangling, iU own
offspring.'; The butcher-knlfe; of Bigotry muptbe
butiedbeyond the.reach of.sectusl ambition,before,
chnrch-form Protestantism qan .be eery formidable
to its antagonist; • - „ j .
Coercion, jutho abapo of, brickbats, clubs and
revolverv,'ia a miserable and unprofitable way .to ad
vance apiritual intercsta. It never hpabeeo, audit
never .con be permanently sncoeaafal.. It may give
an ephemeral sopremsdy.; it , tnayadd to the materi
al wealth of an ecclesiastical body j bnt it never es
tablished one dogma, or one idea, or benefited true
Christianity one jot- There U but one way to chtia
tianize the world —it ia plain, simple and natural:
When the body ia diseased, remove all obstruction!
in the way of the' right working ot ita fimctions,
and the state called 11 health," ensues. So with the
world: Error li the disease; it obstruct!, or pre
venUthe diffusion of Truth; remove it, and the
Christian principle wilt restore the intelligent uni
verse to health, for it ia of itself spiritual health.
may be <if hot-boose growth—Chriali
anity can never be. It withers in the human heart
the moment force ia attempted. It withers, became
it is non-resistant in principle, and not retaliatory.
“ Bat I say onto yon, if a man smite thee npon
the one cheek, tarn to him the other also.”
Who will advocate force, after reading that?
Prohibition. —Tile Litchfield (CL) Republican,
in a report of the Agricultural Fair lately held in
that village, has the following:
“One feature of the Exhibition was morally
grand —and that is, not an instance of intoxication
was observable—all were sober, cheerful and appa
rently happy."
There is a grand and comprehensive sermon con
tained in that little paragraph—and so happy an il
lustration of the beneficence of Prohibition, des
troys the arguments of its apposers root and branch.
We once or twice, but a few years ago, attended the
Exhibitions of the Litchfield county Agricultural
Society. Then, License dispensed the red curse of
the Liquor Traffic in the (speaking ironically) land
of steady habits. What a scene was presented then
to the eyes of the beholder I Pot-gut presided over
the destinies of the day; creatures in the image of
the Creator, reeled and staggered, and grovelled an
the green lawn in drunken helplessness. Here and
there little squads gathered and rent the air with
maudlin oaths, and filthy abase of the bystanders,
or fought with one another like wild beasts—giving
the term, Cattle Skate, a painfully significant mean
ing. | Worn an—glorious in her proper sphere, an an
gel in the right fulfilment of her mission, but oh,
bow pitilhl to to look upon in her degradation—we
saw her, too, trampling her womanly garments in
the dost and helping to swell the drunken disorder!
We prayed for the deliverance of Connecticut from
the bonds of the spoiler, then, and now she is free,
not by a miracle, but by the untiling vigilance of
her children. May we be soon able to say as much
for Pennsylvania.
Agricultural Fair at Tioga.
The first Agricultural Fair in this county
was held at Tioga on the 4ih and sth insl.,
and, was said, by persons boobed up in such
matters, to compare well with similar exhi
bitions in older districts, and where Agricul
tural Societies have been long, in operation.
Independent of all comparisons, there was a
fine display of Fruits, Domestic Manufac
tures, Fancy Articles, Cattle, Horses, &c.,
&c., well calculated to surprise the natives.
People of both sexes, from all parts of the
county, were in attendance on both days,
crowding the hall, and never lired with feast
ing their eyes on the beauty of the various
articles there exhibited.
On the forenoon of (he 6th, a plowing
match took place between Simon Prutzman
and Isaac Aspinwall, of Tioga township,
with horse teams, and aomebody else with
an ox team.' The ox team, for some reason,
was soon withdrawn, and the strife proceeded
between the other parties, until each had
plowed his allotted ground. The time and
quality of each performance were so nearly
equal in merit that it was difficult to decide
between them, though the first prize was
awarded to Mr. Prutzman.
On the afternoon of the 6th the people as
sembled in the Methodist Church and heard
an excellent address from the Rev. David
Mukdock, D. D., of Elmira. The speaker
presented in a very clear light, the impor
tance of Scientific Agriculture, both as a
means of material thrift, and na intellectual
stimulus to the farmer; calculated to ele
vate his profession and him, to that grade
of respectability and in influence, which nat
urally belong to them —a remedy for that
disgust of rural life, which drives so many
farmer’s bods and daughters into other ranks
of society.
I believe the whole proceedings went
smoothly on to the end, without any notable
excitement or dissatisfaction. The deport
ment of the company on bath days, was uni
formly such as to remind the Old Settler of
the vast change produced by temperance
influence. One person at least was there
during the greater part of bath days without
observing a single case of drunkenness, 1
do not soy that there was no drunkenness,
but there must have been a small amount of
it, if any—and in ibis respect at least I
challenge all other Agricultural Fairs to beat
ours, if they can.
I would send you a more detailed account,
did I not understand that a detailed Official
report will aoon appear. Yours,
One who was th ebx.
The question is often asked, what is the
proper age at which to be married T Adam
took Eve to his bosom before he was a year
old, end old Parr married at the age of one
hundjed and twenty ; we conclude, therefore
that anywhere between those two points will
answer.
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W. C., Bkothkw and Sumtßs: —I now!
WdirWolofTtii^
to myiolf in 4
adequate to the.: task, as ißere an many
other* here mofe' capablo lhifi"tfly*&HV I
Will, this evoDiirgi Speak
are ,surrounded on every aide. They-an
eklla/'wbichUbbi orator, and ttte deep and;
jover-wrought touctes offhe pewaland the,
S\,hiye idweltj eJnwal in faij» v jD.Jtoelr
:riptiQOj -tha weaUh of language has been j
( fntned intq! pepury. The .pip-!
,phaUo l|iiDgusgß of Holy Writ la ajrhort jm
.puFnant I when employed in patntiDg.|he r aw-'
./ut ,horrors and destruction of both sout and;
body . which follow in the train iof drunkenness.
Infidelity apd Intemperance cohand-in-hand,’
they bid the ipintof.youth bow down leap
unholy shrine, and ihe sweetest, afifctiohjs,
the. dearest hopes, and, the fondest visions pf,
earth are up.as incense to the roysld-<
rious divinity of unbelief... The wide world'
is full of the evictions that are surrendered ;
up like clouds aropnd the pathway of (he;
drunkard and (tie blasphemer. The red
wine glitters alluringly in the goblets, and
our youDg men.are induced to partake of it,
thus drawn step by step by the allurements
of the barroom, and by vicious associates
from the path of virtue. And is it not the
object of this little band to throw around
such an arm of restraint, end by gentle ad
monitions to stop them ere their habits should
be confirmed. How does the monster allure
him ? By siren song to her embrace and
steep his soul in letbean wave. to forget past
innocence, before be is aware of his danger.
He approaches amid the admonitions of
friepds the tbreatenings of God end his own
knowledge ol danger. He daily sees exam
ples of men falling unhonored into a premature
grave; sees the bright and gay hopes of
youth blighted, and the comforts of old age
destroyed, by him. He sees the honor due
gray hairs denied the hoary drunkard.—
There are but few of us but have seen many
a fond parent’s heart bleed overtha wayward
course of a son, or a companion who, when)
young, was persuaded to lase of the glittering
wine, brought to (heir homes by a father.
And they thus gain an appetite for it, which,
as they grow older, becomes so fixed that it
requires much exertion and self-denial to
quit it. How many ther£ are that gam an
appetite for strong drink by indulging in
fashionable drinking at evening soirees, which
was the practice until the present day in our
villages.
Brothers and Sisters, may it ever be our
aim to watch over a wayward brother, and
by gentle force wean him poisonous
cup that turns a man into a demon. Let us
not'confine ourselves to simply warning our
fellow-citizens against the dangerous habit of
drinking liquor, and the evils of intempe
rance, but let us go still farther, may we de
clare that there is no safety but in entire ab
stinence from all that will intoxicate.
Tbe Primitive Jba>
I hold it morally impossible for God to
have created, in the beginning, such men and
women as we find (he human race, in their
physical condition, now to be. Examine the
book of Genesis, which contains the earliest
annals of the human family. As is com
monly supposed, it comprises the first 2,369
years of human history. With a child-like
simplicity, this book describes the infancy of
mankind. Unlike modern histories, it de
tails the minutest circumstances of social and
individual life. Indeed it is rather a series
of biographies than a history. The false
delicacy of modern times did not forbid the
mention of whatever was done or suffered.
And‘yet, over all that expanse of time—for
more than one-third part of the duration of
the human race—not a single instance is re
corded of a child born blind, or deaf, or
dumb, or idiotic, or malformed in any way I
During the whole period, not a single case of
of natural death in infancy, or childhood, is
to be found. Not one man or woman died
of disease. The simple record is “ and he
died,” or, he died “ in a good old age, and
full of years,” or, he was “old and full of
days.” No epidemic, nor even endemic dis
ease prevailed, showing that they died the
natural death of healthy men, and not the
unnatural death of distempered ones. Thro’
all this lime (except in the single case of Job
in his age, and then only for a day or two
before his death) it does not appear that any
man was t ill, or that any old lady or young
lady ever fainted. Bodily pain from disease
is nowhere mentioned. No cholera infantum,
scarlatina, measles, small pox—not even a
toothache I So extraordinary a thing was it
for a son to die before his father, that an in
stance of it is deemed worthy of special no
tice; and this first case of the reversal of na
ture’s law was 200 years after the creation
of Adam, See how this reversal of nature’s
law has for us become the law j for how rare
is it now for all the children of a family to
survive the parents. Rachel died at the
birth of Benjamin ; but this is the only case
of puerperal death mentioned in the first
2,400 years oi the sacred history ; and even
this happened during the fatigues of a patri
archal journey, when passengers were not
wafted along in the saloons of railcar or
steamboat. Had Adam, think you, lurberctt
loua lungs ? Was eve flat-chested, or - did
she cultivate the i.serpentine line of grace in
a ctirved spine? Did Nimrod get up iu the
mn/ning with a furred tongue, or was he tor
mented with the dyspepsia ? Hud Esau the
gout nr hepatitis ? Imagine how the tough
old Patriarchs would have looked at being
asked to subscribe for a lying-in hospital, or
an asylum for lunatics, or an eve and ear
infirmary, or a school for idiots or deaf
mutes. What would their eagle vision and
swifl-footedness 'have said to the project of a
blind asylum or an orthopedic establishment I
Did they suffer any of thfe revenges of na
ture against civilization I No I Man cathe
from the band of God so perfect in his hot li
ly organs, so defiant of cold tmd. heat, of
drought and humidity, so surcharged with
vital force, that it look more than two thou
sand years of the combined abominations of
appetite and ignorance; it took successive
ages of outrageous excess and debauchery,
to drain off his electric energies and make'
htyesis# acecaaibleJo dfrs«ais;and tbenTt
tytfk’agw- mow tobreed allihesavtle disteo.
rjera which nownestle, like v«r^,meverv
"SnrSg SK.tewSv'tWCitat ciu^
were at
exhaniledibe^^and-aboonaiDgTigor
tsissmMffi&t
gen. weta w along the or.
der of (be day- Eved'Abrehantroanitd U*
b
enei<f"&&CsXl'Se. v Whola peo.
pie, like tM A»onte§, were in -
direct fruit ofcombinoddronkonneas and in.
cest between father and daughter*. The
highest" jileasuree anS;'ft£ei» pf J the races
gradually narrowed down lo and
coniinenee. Allengtb,iu history became
almost too shocking to be referred to. If iu
greatest mbit? itswispst men; jls God favored
men, like Dayld,Vchuld; bejguiltyof murder
for the sake of adultery, or, like Solomon,
could keep a seraglio of a thousand wire*
and concubines, what blackness; can be black
enough to the paint the portraUs of the peo
ple they ruled, and the children they begat)
After the Exodus, excesses rapidly derel.
oped into diseases. First came’ cutaneous
distempers—leprosy, boils, elephantiasis, &c.
—the,common effort of nature to throw vir
■ceral impurities tolhe surfafee. As early as
King Asa, that royal malady, the* gout, bad
been invented. Then came consumptions
and the burning ague, and - disorders of tbs
visceral organs, and pestilences, or, os the
Bible expresses if, " great plagues and of
long continuance;)’ .until, in the (time of
Christ, we see how diseases of all kinds had
become the common lot of mankind, by
the crowds that flocked to Ijiro to bo healed.
And so frightfully, so disgracefully numerous
have diseases now become,- that if we were
to write down their names,'in the smallest
legible hand, on the smallest bit of paper,
there would not be room enough on the bu.
man body to paste the labels,
Horace Mark.
From Kama*.
Kansas Aug. 28, 1654.
To. the Editor of the National Era i
Those who intend to come, and feel an
interest in the success of freedom in Kansas,
cannot come too soon. They should be here
before the choosing ofjhe first Legislative
Council, as upon that Council much will de
pend ; for, if it bo Pro-Slavery, it will pass
a law permitting Slavery in the Territory—
and once established, it will be hard to erad
icate.
My main object now is to warn emigrants
against the impositions of Slavery propagan
dists, who are in the practice of telling per
sons from-the free State all manner of lying
stories about Kansas, to deter them from
coming here. As an instance I may men
tion that a gentleman came here a few days
ago from Pennsylvania, aud falling in with a
prominent slaveholder, be was told that it
was of no use to go further, for- the country
was all claimed, and the emigrants were
fighting over it ; that the country was very
sickly, so that the people could scarcely live,
with other stories of a like character, all of
which be knew to be false.
But a small part of the country _is,ye( oc-,
cupied, and it is now eight years since 1 first
came hero, since which I have spent thrte
years here, and it is my honest opinion that
Kansas is one of the West.l The land is
very high and rolling, and ihpe is the least
standing of stagnant water that I have seen
in any country. There are many beautiful
streams of running water and springs of
good water are very common.
I would say to emigrants, believe no bad
stories that you may hear by the way, but
push on ; and those who come by the way of
Independence, or Kansas in Missouri, may
inquire for the Friends’ Mission, and (hey
will be correctly informed about the country,
and sent on their way rejoicing. As ever for
Freedom,
Oriealeit Steamer In the 'World.
The immense screw and paddle steamer
building,by Scott Russell, at Miliwall, Eng
land, for the Eastern Steam Navigation com
pany, is to be completed in twelve months.
Her keel has been laid down, and several of
her'bulkheads or compartments are raised,
and the works are proceeding with energy
and expedition. A railroad has been laid
down the entire length of her way, to facili
tate (he conveyance of the materials from the
factory to the different parts of the vessel.
The exact dimension's of tbe ship are as
follows: Tunnage, builder’s" measurment,
23,000 tuna ; lunoage burthen, 10,000 tuns ;
extreme length, 680 feel ; extreme breadth,
83 feet); extreme depth, 58 feet; power of
engines, (screw and paddle,) 2600 horse.
Her engines are in the course of construction,
and will be-fitted iie-the vessel before she is
floated off. The hull will be entirely of iron,
and of more than usual strength, the magni
tude of her size etfabling Mr. Brunei!, the
architect to introduce many precautionary
measures conducive to support and security.
Prom her keel up to six feet above the water*
line she is double, of a cellular construction.
The upper deck will also be strengthened on
the same principle, and will form a complete
beam, similar to the beam of the Britlania
bridge, so that any external injury will not
affect the lightness or safely of the ship.—
She is divided into ten separate water-tight
compartments, each being sixty feet in length,
enabling her to take out sufficient fuel for a
voyage to Australia and back to England
without stopping. ■
A Short sebman.— The more you are
templed the more it is your duty to resist
if Suian culls, either in shnpe of handsome
calico, mint juleps, brandy-smashes, cherry*
cdblers. old-rye eye openers, pin uight-cnps,
(ate suppers or fashion seeing, just inform
him you are not at home, but at least a couple
hundred miles in the country. If old father
Adam had 11 done so”' Eva would’nt have
made anything out of him. But he meildd,
caved in, and we all suffer 11 fall” by it*
Resist tempiaijpn if you don’t lay up a cent.
“ I would advise you to put your head in
a dye tub ; it is rather red,” said a joker to
a sandy haired girl. “ I would advise you
to put yours in an oven: it is rather soft,”
said Nancy.
.'*%?fTt.' '-y V,
Richard Mendenhall.