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GEE AHFIELD; WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24, 185::
VOL. 2.A'0. 13.-TOTAL;.'65:
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- A DOLLAR OR TWO. ' J '.
TTIili cautions steps n we tread our way thrcuh
This Intricate world as o'her folks do. t
May we atiH oa our journey, be able to Tiew -
Tlse benevolent face of a dollar or two; ' ' '
For an exeelleat tuiEj ' ' : ' r i
Is a dollar or twe; ' ' ' ' t "
' 1 - friend iotrn ' ' - i-
.: Asa doilar orUo;. . ' : '
Through country or town . ., . . j t
As we paas up or down -;;;; ..: '
, Xo passport so good ., . - , .
As a dollar or two.
"Would you read yourself out ff the bachelor's crew.
And the Land of a gentiedivinity sae
You must always be ready the handsome to do
Although it would Cost you adollar'or two.- -
Love's arrows aro tipped ' ' '
With a dollwortwo; .- : .
And affection la gamed ,
l!v a dollar o two;
The best tiil von can fhect.
In ad vancing vout suit, -' . '
Is the elcnent chink. ' ' ' -' ' '
, Jt a dollar or two. ' ' ' '
Wonldyou wish your existence with froth to iicbili?,
And enroll in the rankac-f the sanctified few, - ' ''
To enjoy a good num and a well cushioned pew, :
You most freely come down with adollaror two.
- . ii.-Tio gospel i preached ,.- . . . . ;
; Tor a dollar or two, .
And salvation is reached . . ..t.
, By a dollar or two; . , r
".'' You may sin at sometimes, ' ',
Dut the worst of nil crimesi '" ! '
' ' '- Is to fnd yocrielf short
. Of a dollar or two." ; . s.: '- i-
' ' From the Christian1 Union: J .' ...
POPERY AND PRAVITT. '
In oiir .Jiily number, We'gave a brief article
oa popery, and. Pauperism, which attracted
some attention, and was transferred to the col
umns of ionic of the prints bollv secular and
religious. The subject is a. sore one. for tht?
Jesuitical cauists of Home. When compell
ed to admit the too palpable fact of the pover
ty of Fapist as compared with Protestant pop
ulations, they ..gloss it ovorr by paying with
anctiraonioiis airs.tliat '-the Gospo ia preach
ed to the poor, and among them .finds-its sin
cerest and moat exemplary disciples." i This
Is tru3. But it is not to their piir'pos'.'uniess
they'c'an show that it is the intent and lea'doti
cyof the Gospt-I to make men poar, keepthem
poor, and render them poorer and poorer to
thjj .Very, brink of starvation. So far from this,
It, can be morally, demonstrated, that true re
ITion, as an enlightner of the mind and a re-
llner of the heart, promotes intejlienee.' vir-
tue, industry, and health; and therefore Las a
natural and necessary tendency towards tem
poral comfort and prosperity.
I-'ioiance is neither the mother of devotion
iivr f thrift. ' As to devotion', the '.'ignorant
.oship thy know not what; and as to thrift, it
Is truly said by Solomon, "JIuch food is in the
tillage of the jotHf f-buV Uu re. is that which is
destroyed for want of judgment.? Not igno
rance, but the knowledge of the true God and
of his revialed wilijis the parent of piety But
Konu'.i devotion is the direct source (f popu
lir .ign ;raiice, lyiultinj n much sq-.alid and
beggarly pauperism, and in general pi aval ion
of tmr.i!s- Iivin herelofvr briefly discuss
ed the former of thesj re.-ulti, we goo:i to tlie
consideration of.,the lattt-r. , '
The Mt aad . iasolyable" difficulty .10 tl
wjv of tbe Popish causist isr fut the povf y
which'- prevails "araid " his co-religionists ' and
ijvI!a 'most where Ids Church is moit preva
lent, is. tic, a virtue". jyv:rlyt , tf.e p.r.voriy
which is often made honerable aud .venerable
by exalted piety 'and 1 the rich treasures of
grace divine. .'. Oa the c-ntraryVit Is "that style
of poverty which js made sordid by 1 iziness,
by uathnft, and br dirt ; and . is allied to- bru
tish sensuality, to viceand moral pi o.1gcy.
Let us De understood.' .iWeay not th it'there
are no upright ricb men ameng Uomauists; nor
do ire say that there' are no virtuous poor
among them
. ' We ftsj! v"conce3e that there are
ual . pases, of. Uie .ono c.asa or the
many indicidu.
othsr. But what W! say is,that,nscomparea witir
TrotesttTit ppubtions, there is a vast prepon-
dcrauce of low'.vice Wl 'critt2c.:-or every grade;
chargeable to the whole, body of HominUtsC; ;
In pursuing our remarks, we sha'd fii-r,t Ktate-
the fads in the case, and then trace this state
of facta to its origin and cause in Popery itself '
83 a system of retigionand morals."
As to Iheacs, we shuil abide' by a rule ear
ly learned and long practised by us, namely, ,
to be iurt of tiem.!;They will b-j drawn from
responsible ail J reliable documents. ' " 1 ' ,u
The .mpst conclusive mode of treating this
branch of -the subject would be, t6 institute'a
rivs of comparisons; as,-for. i ostance,b:t ween
the republics of! Southerh America and the
United States of North America ;r or between
the Papal cantons of Switzerland and the Pro
testant cantons, all being under the same civil
government or between Popish Ireland and'.
Protestant Scotland, both of these also being ;
under the same civil government; or even be
tween those counties of .Ireland .itself ; where
the Papacy- prevails,; and those in winch theJ
Reformed religion predominates;' or the com
parison might be made , between1 r Popish Aus
tria and Protestant Prussia, lying side by .side;
or between -Romish Belgium ami Protestant
Holland, also next door neighbors., , But this
would require a view so extensive as to take
up a tolnme in its diseription,'and is altogeth
er too wide a' scop for the space we pan spare.
Whoso wishes to survey all. this ground will
find It laid fully open to him in a most valua
ble work by Ret.' Nspoleon Romssel, of Paris
entitled. "CathoHc J and Protestant Nations
Compared in, their Three-fold, Relations' to
"Wealth; Kaoweldre, and Morality; w translated
into'.'EngHah,, rimd recently re-vrirtted in -this
perfe:t.iCJaKtr'on his iil j.'Ct. We would
also tvTyr (o'Pr.'.Diirs 'Tre.l iml's Miseries)
ajid to Mr. JVylie's treatise on i-Thc Papacy."..
- But her we mtust pd a shorter wiy to ww,'
contenting ourselves 'with a bri f bnta conclu
sive array of fac's .bearing upon the" question.
IuEngl ind the . Popidativn is twenty--ine niill
ions: Of th'ese',les than a quarter of a million
were Romanists when ?Le 1 ist census was t.ikon .'
By Parliamentary "returns obtained and print
ed by .the, zealous PopelHig Lucas in his Tb
let," ths wholj numlr i.f prisoners in the
jails of England on the 2jth of September,
.1332," was 22,822.". As to G62 of 'these,' the 're-1
ligjous beiief was not known. Of the rest. 2,-.30-wero
wh;;t are Cilled Roman Catholics.
That ?s to'jujy the i Utter,' ' thoV bnt one eighty
fourlii part of the. 'opuhUjoa,' .furnished a sev
enth -part of 'the .criminals,: r tirtlce times as
many as they would have done; hid the morals
of the i.Romafiis't part of the popul ition been as
as'goid as thosi of .'the Protestant; part." In
Ireland, in tnj year It 21. in the six Protestant
counties of the North"' Antrim,1 Down, Lon
donderry, Tyrone, rVrrn'ahah, . and Annah,
with :a jiojxid.ition of 1,700.000, the -number
convicted of crimes was 2u38;.or 8G lets than
were convicted in the' single and thoroughly
Popish county of Tipperary. ' with a popula
tion less, than onerfourth as numerous. ; ,. ,
: By the last census of the United States,.the
whole population was returned at almost twen:
millions, (19,981.317.) Of" these, 2 .210.823'
were foreign-born, -The number of.cr min Js
in confinement at that time whs about 27,lOO,
of whom more than half, or 11,00.1. were for
eigners.'. Tlenci, the l itter furnished about .'cm
timet as many ; criminala as, they -would have
done, if the "standard of morality hal lwn as
bigli among them as it was aniiing the n itivi-s.
By, the. prison statistics of the four cities of N.
Yorkj Albany, Buffalo, and Brooklyn, in 1833
if was found,' that ont of 5.2"6 criminals.' 4005
were. foreigners, and of these last 2,000 were of
Irish birth. A very striking case is afforded
by the returns made 1-sst year by the city Mar
shal of Jersey Cjty, who states the whole num
ber who have been committed to the city pri
son from the beginning was 4,100: of whom on
ly szveniy-jice were natives. Of the rest, 3,5 H)
were from Ireland.' the other foreigners being
but i2o. The'Taster of the Almshouse in the
same city reported that last year. 212 were ad
mitted ; of whom but irtlce were Natives. 2
Scotch. .1 German. 4 English'; and 221 Irish ! !
Of nearly 500 families of out door poor reliev
ed, o:!y six were American. Thtjshnt for the
foreign population, the city might almost dis
pense with the almshouse and prison both."
Now the, religions connections of all this
population are not given. But as the whole
numheriof .Romanist in this country, accord
ing to-' their own t-t itemetits, s.y three millions
d-os 'V.ot 'very greatly exceed the number of
fvivigners here,-an 1 as it is known that the
vast iH 'jurity of immigrant who land on our
shores is Popish, especially of thos-i from Irj
lan.l.' the inference '" is irresi -table as to the
vaitly 'inferior uioral.ity, of the Romanists.
; But our labor in this iuquiry is greatly. less
ened by the investig itions of ilieRw, II. S'-y-nionr.
This gentit-m in was a 'clergyman of the
Chui-ch rf Englandl Stumbling into Pi:s.'yim
that croxs-road to Ko:ue," be went over to
that "seat of Satan." Visiting Rome itself
where lie,, in.' his sincerity and ex iltei fVrv'or,'
expected to find the very air fragiu. -lit with
the oder of sanctity, he found the. atmosphere
redolent of fcorrivption,' heavy and dirk f5th
J the foul steiicius of Papal pollution.'; Shock
ed and Tastouished, he reviewed his religious,
convictions, and, as the result, went penitent
ly ba'-k"to the Chrch he had forsaken'; Moved
by. what be ii l 'i;!t of the effect of this, practi
cal argument upon .his own min J, he busied
himself in collecting. -the. ainhuritic criniiii.il
statistics of 'Various E'nropean countries, con
fining himself to "oflencis against the Sixth
and Seventh Comm indmeuts,' or:i 'dlfentes
against life ,and' chafeflty, ;l Fronj. ah able re
view of. this .pamphlet in. the Bulwark," we.
give the following condensed summary :
" 1. As to Mm-der, From fables laid Irefore
Parliameit, and. published by, order of the
House, ia 182, it appears that the total num
Iter of committal for murder ' in England and
Wales,' for the ten years ending 1852, was 718.
vhieb: gives an average of less ' than 72 for
each year not.rotR;to each million of the
popul itionl ; ' ' ' ' 'i ' : ' (:: "
Again, from a return laid on the table of the
House of Commons, it appears that from July,
1836, to April, 1839, the total nu.miter of com
mittals for murder in Ireland was 61-3--being a
yearly ' average tf ,235; or" thirty-three mur
ders' to'cach million! f And it is a remarkable
fact, that. within the lastien years,' juat .since'
the relative proportions of. the, Protestant and
Popish populations of Ireland hafe beg in to
change in favor of the former, Ireland's moral
condition has teen ttiTrg-Tfo-mocft bttter that,
according to another return laidTjefore' Parlia
ment in 1 1851 the annual average of committals
for murder in the previous seven years was on
ly 130, or about rim etem to each million 1 t
AgaiA, from (he last returns laid before the
Kingor Beigim.by thellinister of J ustice,'and
published : in 1852, r it appears that the yearly
average of mn'rders iri that conntry is 8L which
gives eighteen murdci's to the rfnllion,; or four
ami a half, times more t nan in Xingianu, ,-j
'Again, from the 'Complt gentralde Vadmin
I titration tfld 5iccriminU Fr,1851.
pr;sented' hy coinman.l t the Emperor by the-,
Minister of Justice, ami printed . in Jb iJ. ana
also Irom the "Sim'isc.Kt tuor il -le l-i '.Frsuce'"
by LGierry himself a memlH-r of the Chi.rch
of Rome, which has been -approved anl adopt
ed by the Royal Ac idomy of Sciences in' Par
is, we find that the annual avi-rjge of commits
t ds for murder in France is about luS9, which'
gives thirty oxn murders to each million or .
serf ami 'h 'If fines' wo-'e than in lrs;!antIJ' '
Again, the criminal statistic-of .Austria are
most carefuHy kept by an, "Imperial Commis- j
sfon for Statistics." - From the latest of these, f
published I ist year, in two volumes.' and 'cij-' j
titled "D p Scfl'.is ''V d 's Oes eir. i -' is !ie7i Kuis-'
era a i.','! we'find that the; yearly avera.ie . of j
mardorsin Aiistrit. one of the most intensely
Popish countries in 5 Europe,' is 1325 being i
tiiirtv six '.'miirdcrs to'each miilioh, or nine j
times more than in England. i
Farther, the Kovcrniental returns of crimes j
in Etvirii. which are also regularly published!
and the latest of which are entitled i'Beiiruge
zur Stalis'ik dc Koingreichet i tyern, ron Air
nnua, ' Mu'urSm. 1)3," shows that the yearly
avenge of mimlers in . that country is 311,
which, when compired with the amount of the
population, that by the census of 1849 was 4,
520.751. gives about 'sixty-fight murders to
each rn illtoti'! ! of seventeen' times more than
in England. r ,-: ..,- ,.-. :-.'
It appears tl at tlicre are no oflirial orgover
mcn.'al n'tt.rns from Sjnin or Portugal; there
fore Mr. Seymour, whose figures ire drawn ex
clusively from such sources, is obliged to pass
them by. But in orrler to give some proxi
mate id? i of the state of crime in that jKTiin
ula, he quotes! iup issing, a French auihority
who states that inStain the murder and at-,
tempts at -murder amount, on the yearly, aver
age, lu about 250 to' each million of the i pop
ulation!'' " '." ''' '.."."'
And'now as to tha Italian States. ; The first
of these is Sardinia, which is at present sodis
tinguishedx above all the rest for its progress
in fie. institutions. And it appears by the
returns of enma given l'rom tlm police in Al
lien, and cited by him in Mittvi niaier, that in
that kingdom the yearly average of" 'mnrders
is l(!l. So that the "moment we'coUie to a
Popish c iintry in"which the struggles of the
people have Komewhat relaxed the Pupal yoke,
the trprtion of murders instantly drops
d .wn to TWKNTvin the million. Tbe m xt Ital-
i tn priivince is the two Lonr a ili ;s,Wr ere'the j per cent. In other words, in one of the most
Pope is still supreme- and accordingly tlu jiro- j fnpisli capitals iu Europe," we ' see bastardy
portion of crim- instantly arises again; for by steadily increasing for twenty one years, un
file relnrys of M it term iier.- the ve rly aver ige j til more than onk half. f tba births aie ille
of murders i the Lomb irliea' is 225. or about j gitiiuate! ! ! Does the reader exclaim: Can
F'ihty-fivs to each million of ihe population! j tnis have any j.rall,.l iu the civilized world t
Next irTorbr is biqrot m! Tiisaty. in which, xes, it has. a parallel aye, and is tar outdone
accord! n2 t'th'.Kime anthoHty'' the' returns ! in another European capital and that- is tb
of all crimes for the nine years ending 1S38, 1 loly Ci.y ofJiutne. We have, found that'the
sivu 84 murders on the- yearly average, ma- j Pope and his Cardiuals have taken good care
king fifty Mi Rnf-.ns to each'million. or fieelre j fo publish no ciirainal returns of their coun
"nd t half times' morejhan in- England! In j try. But from the Italiati Mati-stics collected
Sicily ngrn, the returns for "several ''years as. by Miltern.aier, 4t-tppeaFs-hat- the yearly
given in Mitt lmaii-r in ,ke the annual. avenge 1 average of tou'udlings exposed iu: the city id
of murders 174. which gives alout ninf.ty to j .Rome is 3160, while the annual average of its
each million, or '"'-, o 'and a 'half V mutt births is '4373 '.f!. This i a "city . containing,
mor than in Ensia'n-L' , "',''..'.'.'..'. -, .' exclusive of priests,. monks, and nuus, r about
; An 1 now to the Papal t.tes. ; jjie Pin- lJ,O0 souls. Aiid it is stated in Dr. Bow
tiflcl arovrnnt.? niturallv onxion to in- ; string's-' Report, that. 73 per, cent of these
shrmid in d irk n ess the dre ulfr.l st ite of the wretc'ae'l, jViutidliiigs die pn, tlie Roman found-C'-nntiy.
hive taken case to publish no 'official ling estaUlislnnvnts. One may well question
returns of Cime. But. happily for our snl j ct. ', ifS'lom and Gomorrah exceeded this. ' And
from the sfaiitical 'nformafion which Pr. Row- yHthis is the Ci y of the : Church, containing
ring procured, some time since. W. orler of a pope, m any. Cardinals. 29 . bishops, 12So
the British'.e'overjnment, for,' commercial pnr-r priests, 2.fe2 monks,: iiuus, besides num
pos?s. and .which hist3h printed by or Ur of "bvrs of ecclesiastical pupils ! ! ' Nearly tiiree
Part'i mnt: the nnnnil aver ig? of mnr Jrs in' .fourths, or aiiour s;;vErv-TUKEK per cent" ot
the Papal States can 1h safely reckom-d tJ 33',?
which, as the population is only ' 2.9 W.11I ,',
gives'. about ox? ni'snSEn and thittteFX .! o legitimate, turtlis is oa!y f.ol'k per cent! ! ! -
each' million of th'f popalition. or tr'y-eir : Mr. Seymour, having" thus contrasted the
limes ni.or' than fn ' Enjri ind!' Bnf 'ft seems moral results of ProtesUiiisui ( ii.ud Popery . iu
tint Po'pry owns a more fearful Acd l im , the great. ca-j,iluis vf,u.r.pe, -proceeds toexhi
thn this." For in the neighboring kingdom of: lt a similar contrast- between Jew ol the prin
ciples, which is, if possible, more' Pojfsh' cipal cities of Protestant England, and as ma
than tlie Papal States' themselves, and in which.' ny ol Popish', Aastria--, and shows lljat in the
in .'1848, the' Pope took refuge when flying , former the average of births out of wedlock' is
front his own snl j-cts, the criminal . calender- six in every' hundred,1 Which is sad enough to
of One? year; 'as givin in'Mitfernitier--and that tell ; while in the latter, it. U for.y-fwo, '.or se
the year 1832. long before file scenes of the veh "times us .bad as in the English towns, tMr.
1 ist revolution contains 't.he.'.'awful number of. Seymour then, institutes similar "comparisons
104 ? murders;, which, as the population was, between oth r countrtes,' with the like disad
then little over 5,000,000, makes oss nixBiFD; vantage-ius results as to' the immorality of the
asi s'Vf sty rora-murders tuthe million; cr' Rounsli religio. lists. ; Bat Wi;aro disposod, to
fnr ri-:hree an t a hal' times more than in her-: shorten ; tUce jat:iful details,: wbieli oiily
et:c England ''While in the whole of ItJktJr, show too plainly how well Rome nas earned
where the Church of Rome' Is snjrrenie, aad her apocalyptic title : ' Babylon dh (-re it? the
where neither, Bible nor hejetic is , tolerated, j Moruica ofuahlots, ., aud atom iuul ions ot'.ihe
we gather tronf the same authorities that the eart , f "r I;:;; - : ; 1-tu- '.,
yearly average xifmurders is 1W8! : We ask : - Having exhausted the space wecan allot t
Dr. Wiseman if he.'cari find any thing'to equal the subject in the present number of this' tuag
t;ds jkmong the! Mohawks, the ; Chiirokees, or . wtwe, .we close our facts as to Popery aud
the Calfres; and this i the land in which there I pravity, omitting a mass of others we had in
are iiwards'of 12(),000 priests' and monks ifnd ( tended to bring in.l Where the' proofs are so'
nuns! 'AmVyel'there' are still ' foutici Popish ', conclusive a needless accumulation of tb.'m is
priests and newspaper-editors who. have the . worse . thaii guperduous. Here, we rest tins
ignorince,-or the audacity, or both,-to raise branch of the subjact reserving for ano.hr
the question of the comparative m' rality 'of occasioh the presentation' of the causes of the
Protestant and Popish conntries ! , . ' ' V, .'. ',', degraded s ate of morals in Popedom,' These
v. in vT.T h : -: (,:.. , ' ;.. ,,3 4 we. think, can be set in a clear light, and dis
WhoVs not striifek, with horror -at this com-- tinctly traced tolhe mural theology of the false
p.ratlVe disregard of hnman iifotol-ds'whicV Church of Rome.';i l-'.'h-t,.i-l:i:i.
are', and ever have been, nnder Popish (each- j 7,y,'y t ; ..i ; ? -i 7 1
ing and control i;-Popery. is as she was in the ; ; .K7""SIy dear,'?;aaid an , affectionate spouse
diys when slie wielded against the Reformers"' td her husband," "ta Ihot-yoQr 'only trei
the potent wcapon8rof the torch and the"8wordJ' 6nre?,,': ! yf' ' l: i- , .,4"-,' ?'",''',!.''
as if they were diseased limbs, for '.which,' no,
n?medy was left but the knife 4nd cautery
her own jwtrtraiture in 'blood, though nw it ia
imMs me niooa or her own h ipless cMI tren
We .proceed with the secon 1 br in h of Mr.
Seymour's investig ition, availing ourselves of
thesinic Condons ition of h,s statements:' t
l2. Auto Jreicheso'' the Serenh Cotnml
vi en?. Mr'.' Sex'moiir tikes fiist a few i f the
great capitals, commencing with Lonlon.;The
Registrar General's returns'to Pailiiment. of
the number of births in Engl tnd and Wales
for 18V2, gives 78 .300 for the London division,
which contains a popnlaticiu of 2 302 ,235. "Of
this numler; 75.097 were )-gitimate, ' and 3303
illegitimate, ' which 'shows, that only four.' per
cent of'the births in that great metroplis of
tl world are illegitimate; and the' returns for
the previous year give the same proportion. (
t 'Now, in Paris, twehfy years ; ago according
to M. Gii'eiTy. in the S.'ct.'s'ique' Morale the
proportion of illegitimate to legitimate ''births
was 1 tol 77-100;' and tlie Prefect's returns for
1850, published by the lhtreiu d.:s tonkin Us
give the tot ii number of birthsin Paris' for
that year as 2'.).62Sof which 19.!2l were le
gitimate 97U7 were iU.gitiniatti. ,: In 'other
words, in the c ipital "of France', twenty yenrs
iigo, 35 per cent, or more than one' third of the
native population werj b'isiarJsf 1 ' '
Turning nxt 'to' Belgium," the constant
bo ast of Popery : The government returns for
1850, give the total number of births in Bars-sfi-'s
at 528? of which 'the legitimate were
3148, and the '.'illegitimate ' 1833,' making ; the
illegitimate ttirths about 33 pef Cent ; or near
ly i i third of the whole ! 'Yet, even this de- J
p!orable state of things is better than the con
dition of Popish Mrsicn, the capitd of Bava
ria. By the r-turns for the year 1851; the to
tal fcumlw-r of births in that city was 3 10 1, and
of t(; ose 17G2 were legitimate, and 17C2 illegit
imate! In other words, forty-eight per cent,
or niear one half "of the population are illegiti
mate ! ' :" ' " ' ; - - ' ' " "-' "
Turning next to Ties if a, we find from the
statistical table prepared by the imperial commission,-and
publiattod therein 1852, that the
total number of births in that city in 1849 was
19 211, of Which 8,881 were legitimate, 'and
10.8d0, or considerably ovkr one half, were
illegitimate: and from the same tables, it ap
jears that the average yearly proportion of
illegitimate to legitimate was, from 1830 to
183. 44 icr cent; and from 180' to T147, 48
percent; and from 1848 to 1851, fifty-use
all the ch. Urea bora iU Rome, are foundUngs,,
while in.l'roteisanL 'Loiidou the. number of .jl-
: fc"Oh yes," was the cool reply, and Jwould
willingly lay it np in heaven." i j: : ) .
V ..Fvthlnl Prvsch-'n. f.;.:,-,
..Rev. W, Hi Milhnrn. t illustrate the pecn
liT , fsithfnlne'ss efssorne of tl-e. early Ken
tucky clergy, mil in a pulpil ; lecture:. i? .
:An incident related by Ewell.White,iurn
sc'f a roan of note, will illnstrate this. It hap
pened at one time th it a meeti.ng.wis apoint
c 1 in. in oil Simon Kenton's county. , A
preacher nimed James Asley, fantiliarly. call
ed "Jemmy Axley, by bus fncnls,. an 1 very
popul ir, v.as expected. , Bnt when be came be
brought .another with him.jWho spoke first.r-.
This disappointed the people, and there, was, a j
gooit de:il 01 noise and confusion, and great
inattention on th part of the audience. It is
customary when two ministers sre present, for
lofh to ad Iress the meeting ; if one drives a .
nail of truth, the. other, ci nches it. - When,
Axley rose, "all was 'still, and everybody was
disposed to listen. -,
'My frie.nds said he, lookin.; round -"with .
a kfpn ibs5rvant. glance, 'it js perhis a pain
ful, but always a necf-ssary duty of your min
ister to reprove sin. whrver. found,.,-and be
assured I shall not shrink from it n t!iis oc
casion.. Now,' said he, 'that sandy headed
man, standing by the door, that w?nt put while
the brother was spak ing. staid as ling as ho
wished.' got. his boots covered with mud, cjme
in and made such a noise cleaning them as to
disturb everybody, and prevent their bearing
scarcely a word; that man think I mean him;
and well he might think 90, f-r P wss a dis
grace to Kentucky to say he wns raised here,
and had no more manners. Now, my friend,
I advise you to go home, and learn bow to lo
bave when you come to the house. of prayer.
Bui I dtin'! rns'-B) him !
; That little' girl about the middle of the
floor, with flowers inside her bonnet! that was
gilling, and laughingand chatting, all the
time tl.c brother was speaking, thinks I mean
her. And she ought. I am sorry for her pa
rents. who have raised a" girl to fifteen, with
out learning to behave modestly and properly,
and they are to be pitied. ' Little? , girl, before
you evmie again. learn to be quiet and ri-verend
in the bonse'of God, and respectful to the min
isters tie has sent. But I do not mean her.
" 'And now that man on the bench, toward
the corner, that's looking up as blight and
wide awake as if be bad never been asleep in
bis life, and never .expected to be, but who
was nodding and bowing all thro' the preach
ing and snoring so as to disturb all around
him, thinks I' mean him. And indced he well
may. My friend, the house of God is not in
tended for a sleeping-room. .' When Von wan!
to take a 11 ip, go home and go to lied and
take it regularly: hnt'yourome here for an
other purpose.. But I don't mean him.'
"And thus he went on. fixing bis d rk pierc
ing eye on each offender, singling him out in
such a manner that be could not be mistaken
till he had nearly gone through with all who
had nude any distnrbanceending each re
proval with, But I don't mean h ml' or -her.
White., meanwhile., was sitting on a b-nch in
front of Axley, enjoying the fun a azinglv
laughing,' rlibbing his hands, chewing more
lustily, and spitting more vigorously; than be
fore,' as each new '.offender was brought, until
the aisle bef. re him was a puddle."
"Now slid Axley, drawing", himself up.
and with a severe look. I calculate you want
to know who I mean'. I mean pointing di
rectly to White, I mean that n isty, dirty,
filthy'. tobiccV.'chewer..y Look; at the filthy
brown puddle before him ; a toad wouldn't
hojrin it., and to think of the1 sisters', dresses
havinir to o through' ''it ' -
' White was thun lerstriick'.1 ITe never ag'ia
was known to chew tobacco in maeting:" r
Woman vs Oxes. A certain clergyanan
once' addressing his audience 'in the s.tutherii
part of New Jersey, had occasion to qnote
Luke XIV1, 10 2 : 1 iJA certain man ui ide
a great supper, ,aud "bade niauy, ond sent bis
servant at supper time,-to say to them that
were hidden. Come, for ail things are now rea
dy. T Audthey all with one cWsynf began to
make excuse. The first said unto him, I have
Inuight a piece 'of ground and must needs go
and see it ; I pray thee have me ex6ued And
another, siil I have bought, five yoke of oxeri
and I go to prove them ; I pray thee h vu me'
excused." And another said; I have married
a wif.' ; and jherefore.l c in.iof come. "Now,
(said the vener iMe- clergym iii,J you .see the
man that bought the, land merely, wished .to
ba i-xcnaed; the man that lmnght the-ftVe
yoke of oxen merely wisln-d ' to' be excused ;
but the man that tnarrled, "the wife said posi
tively ''(ereore (fM-that, reason) cimU
come. , So you see. my hearers that, a woman
can draw a man furtber( from God thanyire
yoke of oxen .'" '" ," . .' .. ,
'Tub Reading B.-.ioks r Basylos Accor
ding to thi Leeds (English1) Idircury, Colonel
Rawlina;n has just discovered among the ru
ins of ancient B tbylon an extensive library
not, indeed, ' printed n paper;- but impressed
on baked bricks-conUining 'to my and volu
minous treatises on astronomy raatheraaiies,
et hno'ogy , and seveFal other roost Important
branches of Rnowledge-"rThese7trealises coa
tain facts and arguments, which, n his, opin
ion Vl(Iluvofni , sniall .effect .0 the study of
th'e sciences to wjiich they, relate-an4 indeed,'
on lmos( every brapeb of iearningand, which
throw great light upon. Bjblical history 'and
trrsfti tfd t Mfrwf T&-?z ,s
:". .7, lMird?rod by Bl-ndar, t ,
-ILW iieiirJtlia.La fi rhUJV-RivlK,
ldy with 1 irge family, of young, jntelligent
and interesting daugbtera- wen-to reside, In
Xeuia, Ohio. r IIt repnt iiion and jth.it: of her
family, veTi cntirely-.witl-.out blen.ish, .wbea -some
cowardly slanderer raised injurious .to,
ort cnceriug them, which, although dL-j
believed by cvatj-4lU minded person, wert
extensiv-iy circulated thnrngh the town. The
poor 1 idy was so overwhelmed by these ' tnai'
lign-ant slanders, as 'Well as ly some incendia-1
ryattenipfs on the premises she occupied, that '
she took sick and died without liodilr ailment,n
a victim .to. ajvjle slan ler,wLieh has, thus
killed, a most amUl.lo and virtuous 1 idy, .aad .
deprived a large and interestingfamily of their j
only" eartldy protector. , Of all despicable .
characters the tlanderer and scandal-mongerj
is the most despicable. The .circulator of 'a
vile ktorj- -abont -defenceless womiin is" no le'ss
guilty than the originator, and neither are bet-1
ter than the cold-blooded murderer for it
no worse to pierce 'this victim to the heart with
a digger,than to stab her reputation,wonnding
the soul iften fatally, as in the instance above
citvd. Thei slanderei " ought to "be despjsed
aad shunned as a, deadh- jestilencc, by every
right minded maa and woman.. Tue slanders,
are hatched by that infamous and common ,
practice of too rainy in ever)' community :of'
prying into and' meddling with' their peigh-(
btrs afiairs, always to the'neglect of their back-,
biting, underhand mode of making themselves
familiar with other's affairs, these if news-
seekers would only go to each person and thos
get their information direct, it wonld save '
themselves much trouble, and the intelligence '
would lie quite as truthful and reliable. Then' -if
they would keep'the infoimaiion" to' them-'
selves and use it only for their own personal "
improvenientwj are quite sure things would
progress as rapidiy and harmoniously a 'they '
do now. Reader profit ' by this suggestion, '
a id while you strictly mind your own business,'
never seek to know anything of your neigh-
lors that ynu tire ashamed to ask him. about '
and which it can do you no good to know. s,-
. i ; THE TRUE WOMAN; -
The trne woman, for whose ambition a hus-
bind's love and her children's adoration aro
sufijeicntwho applies her military instincts
to the decipline of her house-hold, and whose
legislative faculties exercise themselves -In
making laws for her nursery; whose intellect
has S.d enough for her in communion' with
her husband; aud whose heart asks no. Other
honors than bis love and admiration; a woman
who d ie? not think If a weakness to attend to
tier toilet, and who does not disdain to bebeaii-'
ufal; who believes in tlu virtue of glossy hair,
and well fitting gowns, and eschews rents 'and -ravelled
edges, slipshod shoesend audacious
m iKenps; a woman who spcafca low and does
out speak much; who' is - patient and gentle,"
intellect", t! and industrious; who loves mora'
th in she' reasons, and yet doc1 not loVs blind-'
ly; who never scolds, and rarely argues, but'
who adjust with a smile; a Woman who is the
wite we have all dreamed of once in our lives,'
and who is th. mother we still worship in the"
backward distance of tbe past; such a woman' .
as this, docs more for human nature and. more
for woman's c mse than all the captains,. dar;
risters. judges and members of Psrliamentput
together God-gjven aud God-blessed as sh, .
ii'.DiJceks. . , ; t.rn ') ;cv--i-T.:'d
..The Bloom of Aoe. A good woman never
grows oi l- ..Years may pass orer her bead, but
if virtue and benevolence dweil'in her heaTt,-1
sheas cheerful as when' the spring of life 'first
opened to her view When we look trjroiv'a
goo-d wom.in we never think of ber age; ssho'
bulks as charming as when the rose of 'yout&l
first bloomed iqion her cheek." -That rs hai'
mt.dader. yetj it -will n-e- finle. I' In' her
neighbnrhood she is the friend and benefactoK
Wiio does not rsiect and love the woman
who has passed Im days In"aCts of krndncs and
mercy I : We TepeatJ sncli ' ih'an' Visnnot
grovy old. - She will alway$ be fresh-and buoy
;uat in s; ir its and active .- in humble deeds or
.uercjl en l.iVne-o enca. If. the young lady I
desires-to retain the 'beauty .-.and bloom ; of 1
yo:ith. let her not yield to the sway of fasnioa
aud folly, Iff ber love truth and virtue t and tor
tile close of life she will retain those feelings;
which now make life appear a garden of sweets7.
ever fresh and ever new.--.-- : ': '
' Stof that Boy StojTthat boy! r A cigar
is in his meiitha Swagger in' hiS walk impu-
dei.ee in his face, care-for-nothiugness in his
manner. "Judging from his' demeanor lie Is '
older thin his father? wiser than bis teacher,'5
more. honored than the Mayor "of th towB,
i.igher than the President. ,Stop hunjhe js,
going too fast. lie don't see himself as pth- ,
ers see biro.. ITedon know bis speed. ..Stop T
hitn ere tobacco shatters his nerves, ere pride
ruins his cha-acter, ere the loafer masters h3
iU4n ; ere good, ambition and . manly . strength,
give way to low pursuits and brutish .aits
StPf ad iach. boys ! , jTh7-r Jeoo, - tbo,
sham of. theixfamlUestho diraco ; of rtiear .-.
townsi tuesAd-and solemn
Selves :,.'! t r j ol l- "T
(ITjA meronant ot H'Oeriain iMiyvi"""! died r
suddenly i Jefi.in his dek a lHt.,frT4ttej.
ono., of, bis: corrorKBtsc-: lis sgscionji: 1
clerk, asoijof ri, seeing It:90ejarycJ".
eond the letter, wrote it tho bottona-M. y, l.rx:
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