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ARTHITII . B HOME MAGAZINE, FOR JANUARY.
—Contents : Aidden Pearls ; Seeing Too
Much ; 'Watching and Waiting ; Kings and
queens of England ; Mary ; Violations of
Truth; and sundry other articles,
This number of the Homo Magazine, is em
bellished with a beautiful Steel Engraving—
Christmas Eve. Popular es thl9 periodical
has been with the lovers of light reading, if
the Publishers carry out their plans for the
future, it will possess stronger claims to their
confidence. During 1864, it will contain
three original serial stories, by Miss Virginia
F. Townsend, T. S. Arthur, and Mrs. M. A.
Denison. We heartily oommend it to the
public, and hope many of our young readers
will embrace an early opportunity to subscribe
for it.
BLACKWOOD FOR DECEMBER.—Contents :--
Th• Boatman ; Tony Butler—part 241; Tyn
dal on Heat; The Navies of England and
France from a Frenbh point of view ;' Chron
icles of Carlingford; The Perpetual Curate—
part 7th; Personal Identities ; . The Wigtown
Martyrs; The Invitation; Books on the
American War—
A glance at the above will indicate the char.
toter of the present number. It is a difficult
matter to Lake up Blackwood, without neg
lecting some call of duty. There is such a
variety in its pages, that the mind seldom
grows weary; and when the last page is
turned, one feels a regret that the end has
been reached. This cannot be said of every
periodical that finds its way to the table of a
man of literary taste. We can hardly see
bow professional men, who are so constantly
harassed with busines cares, can do without so
valuable a periodical. Many a thought culled
from its
_pages, would infuse new vigor iuto
the sluggish intellect, and arouse it to more
energetic action.
LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW VCR OCTOBER
—Contents : Ist, Progress of Engineering
Balance; 2d, Life and Writings of Thomas
Mood; Bd, Antiquity of Man ; 4th, Cooper=
•titre Societies; sth, Japan ; 6th, Atiti Papal
Movement in Italy ; 7th, Frnode's Queen
Elizabeth; Bth, The Church of England and
her Bishops.
This Quarterly was late coming to hand,
yet it has been upon our table several weeks..
The merry Christmas times, however, were so
full of joy and pleasure, that we could find no
time to devote to Quarterlies. We never take
up the foreign Quarterlies, but that we feel
we are in the presence of the noblest writers
In the world. A single paper contains more
of solid worth, than can be found in a dozen
01 the ordinary volumes thrown from the
press. If a man wishes to understand the
operations of the first intellects of the age,
he must read the Quarterlies. In the present
number, the article, reviewing the Works of
Thomas Hood," presents the great Humorist
in a light that few would expect, tram what
they have seen of his character, in his wri
tinge. It is worth more than the price of the
whole volume.
NOLTE( RHITISII REVIEW, FOR NOVMDER.—
Contents : On the Ancient Glaciers and Ice
bergs of Scotland; The Leatorth Papers;
Recent Geographical Discovery and Research ;
Pet Marjorie ; Clerical Subscription in the
Church of England; A voyage to Alexandria,
and a Glimpse of Egypt; The Scotch Univer
sities' Commission ; Harold Hardrada and
Magnus the Good ; England and Europe.
It is difficult to lavish too much pmise, on
some of the , papers mentioned above. They
make a strong appeal to the reader's common
sense. Those who wish to increase their
knowledge, expand their intellectual powers,
and sweep away the cobwebs from their brain,
will not be disappointed by a perusal of the
North British.
Tux ATLANTIC MonTHLY FOR JANUARY.—
Contents : Governor Jahn Winthrop in Old
England; The Planting of the Apple Tree;
Bay; House and Home Papers—No. 1 ; Three
Cantos of Dante's " Paradiso ;" External Ap
pearance of Glaciers ; Stephen Yarrow—A
Christmas Story . ; Memorim Positum ; My
Book ; The Minister Plenipotentiary; The
Beginsiag of the End ; and Reviews and Lit-
Atrarry Notices.
The Publishers of the Atlantic have hell
out strong inducements to the public to sub
scribe for the Atlantic; for 1864. Taking the
January Number as a specimen, we think
they have thus far redeemed their promise
Every page sparkles with gems of rarest hue.
One would suppose that they could hardly in
vest a periodical with so much genuine beauty,
as appears upon the face of the Atlantic.—
But, as the reader presses forward, turning
ever page after page, they seem to bo stand
log before him, casting pearls at his feet.—
• '33ryaut's " Apple-Tree" has been. going the
Sound of the Weekly Press, religious and se
cular, eines it made its appearance. " The
2411tileter Plenipotentiary" is highly ,z\i'3ulogis
4ic of nerdy Ward Beecher, but not more so
than hie commanding talents merit. the
- ii - BouseCand - Hoine paiers" show the beauti.
ful and graceful touches Of Harriet Beecher
Slowe'e pen ; but one of the richest features
of the present number, is the marked shinty
displayed in the "Reviews and Literary Noti-
When the Press' le 'throwing off daily so
moth, that weakens the mental powers, and
stuttitles the moral sensibilities, it is gratify.
Ing•totknow that the public have a high ap
preclatlon of our better class literature. The
Allanticti..so free from the objections which
litragaitiell•much of the trash that is eagerly
devoired•byr.hundreds, not to say thousands,
ought to be upon the centre table of every
fatally, embraciug young persons within its
oirr3o: •
THE RETRCiGAESSIVE PARTY
OF THE COUNTIM
Do our. people recognize, says the• Bald
more American, the fact that there is a re
trogressive party in the country—one which,
blind and deaf to the mighty,march of events
which has set the nation a century forward
in its career, would drag it back, retard it,
insist upon ideas which three short years
have, as it were, already stamped with an
tiquity, demonstrated to be behind the age?
Whilst we of Maryland are even now busy
devising ways and means to get rid of Sla
very, are our people aware that right north
of us—in the great Free'State of Pennsylva
nia—are men claiming a high degree of in
telligence—men claiming to be patriotic, to
be statesmen; who stand up ns the conser
vators and champions of ideas we seek to
discard, and who, could they obtain official
station, might remand the country to its old
evils—to those frightful dogmas which have
deluged the country in blood ? And yet this
is so. A knot at demagogues there, in af
filiation with others elsewhere, have not
learnt wisdom from all that has happened
in the past three years of civil war; they
are where the outbreak found them ; they
will never keep up with the great events of
the hour; and, worst of all, they make a
merit of this, and claim the public confi
dence on the strength of it. They are the
retrogressive party of the country we repeat.
But let us see more definitely who these
men are.
The other day a little squad of disaffect
ed politicians met in Philadelphia, and for
mally nominated George B. McClellan for
President, and William B. Campbell, of
Tennessee, for Vice President of the United
States. The nomination was so noiseless,
so utterly void of all enthusiasm, so plainly
a failure, that it hardly gained circulation
as an item of current news, to say nothing
of any more signal heralding - of it to the
nation ; and yet this endorsement of a re
cently prominent man by some of the worst
Capperheads of the day, made defiantly, for
mally, appears to be all that could be want
ing to ruin his chances for the prominent
place to which he aspires, as such a step,
by such men, won,ld destroy the - chances of
any man whatever, as an aspirant in these
times for the Presidency.
But it is not so much with the principal
candidate thus brought forward we have to
do, as with the men who affect to bo the re•
presentatives of a certain policy in their at
tempts to get the control of the Government.
But to find out what this retrogressive party
aim at, we must find out the sentiments of
the men they put forward as its representa
tives and chaMpions,
In the first place, then, the party in Penn
sylvania confided the detente of its princi
ples to Judge Woodward, in the lath guber
natorial canvass in that State p and at what
was considered a critical moment in the po
litical struggle, the new Presidential aspirant
—General AlcClellan—endeavored to gain
for hint an advantage over Governor Curtin
by writing a letter in his favor. The attempt
was anything but advantageous to the Cop
perhead candidate, since he was handsomely
beaten ; but to know precisely where the lat
ter stands, and by consequence where Gen.
McClellan himself stands, let us find out
what are the sentiments of Judge Woodward
as declared by himplf. Let us, in short,
se• what, constitutes retrogression in these
times. Here it is from Judge Woodward
himself, as declared in a speech made at
Independence Square, Philadelphia:
" We must arouse ourselves and reassert
the rights cf the staveholder, and add such
guaranties to our Constitution as will pro
tect his property fron the spoliation of re•
ligious bigotry and persecution, or else we
must give up our Constitution and Union.
Events are placing the alternative plainly
before us—constitutional Union and liberty
according to American law; or else extinc
tion of Slave property, negro freedom, disso•
lotion of the Union, and anarchy and ,con
fasion."
We repeat it, whilst we of Maryland are
endeavoring to get rid of the fragments of
that "institution," which the politicians of
the South have broken to pieces, here is a
man, representing a groat party in Penn
sylvania, doing his bent to gather up the frag•
ments in question, avowing himself a peril
san of the revolted slaveholders, and ready—
if he could do it—to remand us to old troub
les, to old horrors ; and, above all, hero As
General McClellan endorsing him, to be en
dorsed in turn by his followers and friends,
thus making their positions identical in their
bid for the support of a loyal people. And
this is the retrogression party of the United
States—this is the faction the loyal of the
land are called upon to put their faith in, to
confide the destinies of the country to in the
night of storm and bloodshed we are called
upon to pass through because of the crimes of
Slavery.'
Now, let us ask, %hat is the secret of this
supreme folly ? Is it not the case that these
men, these demagogues, cannot get rid of the
conviction that Slavery, as it exemplified its
power in the past, is still a power in the land
—an agency to control nominations and eleo
tions to the Presidency, as in- the olden time?.
Are they not in this plainly the Niatioas to old
ideas—victims to old. modes of doing things
in the political world.; And- with the substance
of their policy gone, are they not sacrificing
themselves to the shadosys of the past ?
Whilst wor here itt• Maryland• are /tempting in•
suitable facts and recognising Slavery as gone
—whilst even the Richmond Whig confesses
that Slavery has "stabbed. itself "to death"
—is it not marvellous that itt•States like Penn.
Sylvania, and New Yqrk and Ohio, prominent
men can be found standing by it, in effect/
nursing it, trying to set it upon its feet after
it has received mortal hurl% hosing some
thing„from its aid again in the future, relying
upon its influence to give them 11401E1my/or
lost to them forever 2.
To watt:ballot* demonstrailons as these .we
have noted, does it not eeem atif there twaf3.ll
large class of men in the country who can
learn nothing (littler from observation or AZ.
perienee ? and will the people in any 011230
trust these - mieerable,,short-sighted mortals
with anything they value ? Have they-not
had atpple opportunity, like others,,,to lenrp
something.; to know - that not retrogression
but advancement ie the order of the day I,
The simplest tyro In statesmanship, with his
eyes opett.to what is:occurring, -ies safer
guide for the future thin the most promi
noneof stud; men ; and when the latter, al
though eager for power, are found wrecking
their hopes and chances . by folly the most
complete,. will they be trusted with greater
interests--the interests of millions—in Limes
of trial like tho present?
Retrogression must go to the wall—it can
stand no chance whatever with the people at
this stage of affairs„ We must have men of
enlarged ideas; progressive men ; the reverse
of fossils and dreamers over the poet: Day'
by day such are coming to the front, pushing
further and further their ambitions, though
,short-sighted, neighbors into hte back ground.
There let them stay. Yet some day they will
awaken to their folly ; they will awaken to
find the Republic has left them far behind in
its march of greatness.
Pen and Ink Sketches of the United
States Senators
A Washington correspondent of the Cincin
nati Commercial, writing an account of the
recent debate on Mr. Sumner's resolution re
quiring an oath of loyalty from Senator and
officers of the Senate before entering ou their
duties, givos the following sketches of a few
Senators who were present or prominent on
that occasion :
Siur.snurtr.—Mr. Saulsbury is a man
of very fine personal appearance, about forty
years of age. Hu is above the. medium height
rather stoutly bui t. His hair is jet black,
his eyes keen, piercing, and well adapted to
flashing anger in the face of an opponent.—
His face is large, and may be termed hand
some. He wears neither whiskers nor mous
tache. He dresses neatly, in fine broad cloth.
He is a good speaker, uses choice language.
and enunciates distinctly. Ho is not alto
gether free from the imputation of vanity, I
should say, from the number of times ho looks
at the galleries, with an air of How do you
like it ? Would'nt my opponent be better off
if he hadn t said anything ?"
MR. lIAYARD.—Mr. Bayard is about twenty
years older than his colleague, a very pretty
figure, rather juolisiod to corpulency. His
hair is quite gray, and what little there is of
it is parted in the middle. Time has fur
rowed his face quite deeply. lie speaks with
very little animation, and at time there is
considerable whine in his utterance. He was
recently re-elected to the Senate, and it now
devolves on him to take the recently pre
scribed oath, cr be expelled from that body.
He will take the oath, though not with much
relish.
Ma. SUMNER. —Mr. Sumner's personal ap
pearance has been PO often described that. I
will not make one of my poor attempts to con
vey to the reader an idea of how this emi
nent statesman and scholar looks on the floor
of the Senate. It would not require a very
good judge of human nature to point him out
as he sits at his desk, whether reading wri
ting or listening to the remarks of another
Senator, as " the noblest Roman of them all."
There is something about him that cannot Intl
to impress any man of ordinary intelligence
with the fact that be is no tricky politician,
no pseudo statesman, no mere socialist. But
when he riser to 'tin Impromptu speeCh, lie
disenchants you, and you count: t help asking
yourself or somebody near, " Is that Sum.
ner ? Certainly it aliquot be he who is inalt'•
ing such ti:poor a. tempt on a trivial subject?"
But it is even Charles Sumner, the profound
scholar, the great thinker,.and one of ,ho poor •
est off-band speakers in the Senate. ft is be
cause ho is such a profound student, and,
perhaps, too, that one is apt to expect so
much from him, that he impresses you so un
favorably when a question is suddenly sprung
upon him, for which he has bad no time for
thought or research.
NIL EI.:BOWMEN is ono of the keenest de
baters in the Senate—always prepared, no
matter what subject Is brought up ; always
to give sound, logical views, no matter what
the topic under discussion is. The most dif.
ficult antagonist to overcome, and the safest
guide to follow.
Mu. McDottny.t, hails from California ;
was e?lected as a Onion man, but has taken to
Peace Democracy and bad whiskey ; is very
eccentric, and usually very drunk; comes
into the Senate chamber booted and spurred
for a horse race or cavalry raid.
Ma. SuentseN —The young Senator from
Ohio, the rising marrof the Senate, has a high
appreciation of the value of time, and never
attempts to argue a point when he knows he
cannot hope to change a vote by so doing
Makes but few speeches and good ones. Is
energetic and ,zealous in the diticharge of
every duty assigned to him
BF.N WAnn—Rough, unpolished, but hon
est and capable. Talks strongly when he
does talk, which is seldom. is said to be
somewhat of au anti slavery man.
POWELL—Evidently intended for a
Curtner, and not for a Senator. Is very fond
of quibbling, and has a word to say against
everything proposed by the dminietration
party. His remarks would be more accepts
ble if more grammatical.
JIM LANE —Very quiet and unobtrusive for
a jayhawker. Is not very often heard from,
yet was heard from once too ofieu when he
attempted to make a reformation in IVall
street.
111 R. SPRAGUE will not make a very pro
found itnpression'as a statesman or an orator
Ile has more wealth than genius, and am no
compliab more with the former than the tat
ter.
LANE, of Indiana—Honest and faith
ful. Not. very ambitious, and not very desi
rous of public applause. A good worker, tut
not an extraordinary speaker.
MIL. HENDRICKS-A peaceable member of
the Peace party. Says little but always votes
wrong.
A Bishop Basted
Somebody has written a brief and capital
satire upon Bishop Hopkins' Letter defending
slavery upon Bible grounds. By substituting
the word Polygamy for Slavery, the exact
value of the Bishop'S argument is exposed
For if slavery bo a good thing because Jewish
patriarchs had slaves, polygamy is evally
lovely because they had harems. And tf sla
very be tolerable because Christ did not ver
bally condemn it, polygamy must be desire.-
ble because lie did not even allude to it all
In fact, what is called the Bible argument
deserves only such treatment as the ridicule,
the contempt, and the sarcasm which are so
delicately dealt it by this little squib. If we
are to eakouse our sins by those of the Jewish
patriarchs, and if the whole spirit and ten
dency of Christ's teaching are to go for naught
because he did not chance to specify some of
fence, then( is no absurdity that may not be
defended, and no ()rime that may not be jvsti•
fwd.
The slavery party treats the Bible exactly as
it does the Constitution. The whole meaning
and scope aro ignored, in order to make a
fight upon a doubtful word or•phrase. ,Does
Bishop Hipkins seriously. wish to see in the
United States the policy and civilization of
the ancient tribes in Judea ? Does ho pro
pose,-since he-gives-his-right - hond - to - Caihoun,
to ,insist upon Brigham Young's inking his
left,? .Solomon wastealled 'he wisest of men ;
Does the Bishop think it logically follows
that a man grows in wisdom as ho increases
his harem, and that perfect wisdom ,requires
a mina to .have, like Solomen, seven &mired
wives and three hundred concubines?
It is just as logical to say that As to say that
a man may rightfully buy and sell human
beings, and ',oar Athildren from, arents, and
wives from husbands, and scourge thorn .to
work without wages, and deny them all men •
tat light, and doom tm to abjeet4 submission
to a despotio will, beoaueo the old Jews held
slaves. Nor can we see the force of the argu
ment which commends slavery to a Christian
because Abraham had slaves, when Christ
had none. To say that be did not forbid it is
to tictibble, because verbally he condemned
very few stns. Did he condemn burning a
neighbor's barn ? No.;; 'no more than he Oon
demned enslaving him. But litt,bade us love
our neighbor - a' as ourselves; and ho told us
that all - then were our neighbors. ,
The Bishop of Vermont announces a book in
which he promos to establisfi the right of
slavery front the Bible. Let 'him be entrea
ted to obstain. Ho is Judging in advance. The
Eastern eritnnal did not know until he moved
that his headlad been sliced off, so smoothly
had the shai.p sword cut it. Does the good
Bishop not know that he has been taken upon
a toasting fork and scorched at the fire of com
mon sense?—Harper'a Weekly.
AN AWVUL DISASTER IN
Conflagration of the' Church of the Jesuits in
Santiago,—Nearly Two Thousand Persons
Burned to Death.—Full and Terrible Particu
Lars.—Noble Conduct of (he United Stales
Minister and Other Citizens of the United
States.—Excitement Among the People of
Santiago.—Demolition of the Church De
manded by the People and Decreed by the
Government.—Correspondence Between the
United Slates Minister and the Government of
Chili.
From Tho 'Vnlparnixo Mercury, Dec. 17.
A catastrtitthe gigantic, horrible, unexam.
pled in the annals ot our country and perhaps
of the world, has absorbed every one's mind
for many days past.
We will use.the utmost brevity in relating
the calamity to our foreign readers.
Ever since. he newly-invented mystery of
thelmmaculate Conception of M.,try was de
clared at Borne, in 1857, the church of the
Company, formerly belonging to the Jesuits,
htib become the focus ot devotion of a vast
Sisterhood Detail the Daughters of Mary, In
which, on payment of so much a year, almost
all the women of our capital were enrolled.
Every year from the B.lt of November to the
Bth of December, the day of the Immaculate
Conception, lasted a splendid festival, in whiek s
orchestral music, singing, and astonishing
prodigality of incense, of lights of oil, liquid
gas, wax, and every luminous combustible in
the world, glittered and darned in every part,
in the cornices, in the ceiling, and pillion
lady on the high altar. Every night the
churehed blazed with a sea of flame, and flut
tered with clouds of muslin and gauze drape
ries. It could only be lighted up in time by
beginning in the middle of the afternoon, and
the work of extinguishing was only ended
when the night was far advanced. In 1858
they thought of adopting hydrogen gee, but
the engineer's plan, though convenient and
safe, wits rejected.
A priest named Ugarte, whose mind mar
iolatry had marked for its own, headed that.
Sisterhood from the beginning, and worked
his way down to such a depth of superstition,
that one of his least extravageneo was the
invention of a Celestial post (Alice trick by
which the Daughters of Mary might corres
pond with the Virgin in writing. At the en
trance of the temple the some of a robust faith
deposited in sealed letters their wishes and
their prayers. Every Wednesday that letter
box for eternity was placed betore the high
altar, and Ugarte, who acted as postman be
tween the Mother of God and her daughters,
exhibited to the divinity those offerings—of
course keeping that singular correspondence
to himself.
This same mountebank got up a religious .
raffle for the favor of the Virgin in a recent
instance two prizes tieing - drawn by it skeli—
tical Minister of State soda woioan whose
character was not dubious The old times of
pagan indolatry had resuseitsted in the cen
ter of exaggerated Catholicism.
The church of "the Company," built in the
latter patty of the seventeenth century pos
sensed
a spacious nave, but a roof that dated
only fifteen years ago, of painted limber. The
only door of easy access I, r the congregation
was the principal one iu the center, the &wan
doors leading into the aisles, being opened
only holf-way and obstructed by screens.—
Near the high altar there was a little door
eotrununioattng with the sacristy.
A.lew minutes_ before 7 in the evening of
Tuesday, the Bill of December more than 3,-
000 women and a few hundred men knelt iii
that church crammed to overflowing. How
ever that did not prevent a compact mass of
fanatics from attempting to fight their way in
from the atep,s,-.14m- viao4l. was the itist night
of the Month of Miry, and no ono could hear
to lose the closing sermon of the priest, Ugarte,
who always succeeded by his exciting decla
mations in drowning iu tears that place so
soon to be a sea of fire. Then Eizaguirro,
the Apostolio Nuncio and favorite of Pius 11,
the fonder of the American college at Rome,
was to preach also. It is said that. Ugarte,
wounded in his feelings as chaplain of the
'•llaughters of Mercy," because Lizaguirre
had told him that the illuminiations ot his
church could not ho compared with what he
had seen in Rome, exclaimed with enthusiasm:
1 will give him, when he eeilleB to preach,
such an illumination as the world has never
seen." Nobody can deny that Ugarte has
kept his word !
Indeed, the lighting of all the lamps and
candles had hardly finished when the liquid
gas in a transparency on the high altar, set
on fire its woodwork and wrapped in It into a
kind of tabernacle wholly composed of can
vas, pasteboard and wood. In less than two
minutes the altar, about 23 yards high and 10
broad, was an inextinguishable bundle.
The advance of the fire was perhaps even
more rapid than the panic of the audience
When the fire had flown front the altar to the
roof, the whole flock ot devotees rushed to the
principal door. Those near the lateral do.irs,
were able to escape at the first alarm ; others
and particularly the men, gained the little
door of the sacristy, and lastly, those near
the chief outlet forced their ,way through tho
throng, even still struggling to get in, and
indeed part of which did got in, even in the
face of the fire, stimulated by the desire of
getting a good place, which on this occasion
meant a good plain) to die in. Then, the
demos having crept along the whole roof. and
consequently released the lamps ot oil and li
quid gas from the cornices to which they were
strung, a ruin of liquid, blue fire poured down
upon the entangled throngs below.
A new and more horrible conflagration
broke out then in that dense living mass, up
palling the affrighted gaze with pictures ten
fold more awful than those wherein the Cath
olic imagination has labored to give an idea
of alb tortures of the damned. In less than
a quarter of an hour two thousand human
beings had perished—it:mini-hog many child
ren, but very few men.
Although many heroic men performed prod
igies of daring and strength in tearing some
!rem the'deuth grasp of the phalanx of death
that choked the door—in some eases literally
tearing off their arms, without being able to
extricate them—the number• of the saved by
this means falls short (.)t fifty.. More than
five hundred persons, of oar highest society
have perished—greriter part young girls of
fit teen to twenty years. One mother has per•
killed with her five daughters. Two•thirds of
the victims were servants, and there are many
houses in which not pits has escaped. Several
houses have been noted by the police as emp
~ty, because all their inhabitants have per
ished.
Vie people think cf ,nothing but the Yie ,
,Geos and their obsequies. All with one voice
demand the demolition of the ruinous walls
of tholatal temple - tidal life offering of a mon
ument to the Oar raemori of the martyrs.—
The municipal body solicited this by the me•
dium of a oomtuissiott on the 12th, and the
Government is resolVed on compliance. Re
sistance is threatened oti-tlie part.of the cler
gy; but such exasperating mid indecorous fol
ly would infallibly call le.rth a general rising
of the people.
The past fortnight has produced no other
occurrences worth chronicling, andif it had,
,they would flontoely seem deserving of loca
tion in this night of heavy anguish.
During the last week tho tribunals and the
Government itself have suspended their la
bors.
Tho people only wee", .mid their
,publio
writers could only offer tears to tho notion's
mourning. .
EittN:rmao, Deo. 14, /SO.
Before 3 o'elook in. the afternoon, the hour
app,ointed‘to.peiitieiatfie rroehlent of the Ito.
putliorforthe demolition of the walls of the
church of " the Company," a numerous and
select meeting of all the social classes had
collected in the open space in front of the
ruins. .The decree of demolition having boon
signed by his Excellency, Don Guillermo
Matta ascended to the upper story of the Con
gress House, and thence addressed the people
rending the deoroe promulgated a few hours
before, and calling for a viva for his Exec Ha
ney, which was enthusiastically givon by the
immense assembly that fill:(d the square.
The orator proceeded then to protest, in
the name of religion and h. manity, against
those who attempted to qualify no sacriligious
the people's longing for the demolition.—
"To wreak its revenge on us," ho added,
"superstition tries to lash and goad the ig
norant passions of the rabble into violence:
but its feeble efforts are in vain, because we
have never strayed from the great principles
of pure religion. Fanaticism spreads its
murky nets against the happiness and pence
of society. Let us quench its firebrands with
the sincerity and nobleness of our intentions.'
TILE OFFERING UP OF THE EVENING SACRI-
UIMI
A dreadful visitation has fallen upon us.
Truly this is n day of trouble and rebuke and
blasphemy. The voice of lamentation is
heard all over the land, the bitter weeping
of fathers, husbands and lovers, for those
who were the joy and brightness of their
life, that refuse to be comforted because they
are not.
Hundreds of young girls—only yesterday
radiant and beautiful in the luxuriant bloom
of the fresh hopeful Spring of li(e—to-day
calcined, hideous corpses - , horrible,lOathsome,
to the sight, impossible to be recognized.
The Bth of Decetn her was a great triumph
for the clergy of the Chgrch of (he Jesuits
in Santiago. Au enthusiastic audience filled
- every nook. There were hardly any men
there, but :1,000 women, comprising the
flower of the beauty and fashion of the cap
ital, were at. the foot of the ecclesiastics, very
many against the will of lath( rs and hus
bands: but that, of course, only showed forth
the power and might of the Gospel,
Never had such pyrotechny been seen be
fore-20,000 lights, mostly camphene, iu
long festoons of colored globes, blazed the
church into a hall of Firs.
But the periOrmance had not yet begun
when the cresent of fire at the foot of the gi
gantic image of the Virgin over the high
altar, overflowed and climbing up the mus
lin draperies und pasteboard devices to the
wooden roof, rolled a torrent of flame.
The suddenness of the tire was awful. •'
The dense mass of women frightened out
of their senses—numbers tainting and all
entangled by thosr long swelling dresses;
rushed as those who knew that death Was at
their heels to the one door which soon be
came choked up. lire was everywhere.—
Streaming along the woollen ceiling, it flung
the par,dfine lamps hung in rows there
among the struggling women. In it moment
the gorgeous church wits a sea of tiame.—
'Michael A igelo's fearful picture of Hell was
there, but exceeded.
Help was al! I) t impossilde. A Hercules
might have strained his strength in vain to
pull one from the serried mans of Irenzied
‘reteints kylio, plied iinct.A.l.l.).u4te another ad
they climbed over tm reach the air, wildly
fastened time gripe of death upon ally one
escapiug,•in miler that they 'night In: drag-
Ina with them.' Those who knotted It.)
save them were doOnipil to hear the most
harrowing sight that ever search human eye
10;04. •
To see mothers, bisters, tender and liiuid
ling that dreadful death that ap
tbtt stoutest heart of tuen , within uric
yard of salvation, NYlthill ono yard til wen
who would have given their lives over and
over again It r thren—is was maddening—
the screaming an.l wringing of hands for
help as the-rentorsfiTess iFumes come 011, rind
then, save when some already dead with
flight, were tentit iu leisily indifterence,
their li , irrible agony, sonic to prayer, some
leering their hair an I battering their faces.
Women seised in the iltnbrace of the
flames'wrru stun fu undergo a transforma
tion as though by au optie.i.l delusion, first
dazzlingly bright, then ho.ribly lean and
shrunk up, then black statues, rigidly fixed
in a writhing attitude.
The fire, imprisoned by the immense
thickness of the walls, hail dio - ured every
thing combustible by 10 o'clock- Thep,
clet)ing the sickening stench, people Caine
to look for their lost ones.
l)h, what a sight the fair placid moon
down upon! Close packed crowds
of calMned, distorted forms, wearing the
tearful expression or the last pang, whose
smile was (nice a Heaven, the ghastly pha
lanx of black statues twisted in every vari
ety of agony, stretching out their arms as
imploring mercy, and Ultima the heap that
had choked up the dour, multitudes with the
lower parts perfectly untouched, and some
all a shat Bless mass, but with one arm or
foot unscathed.
The silence, after those piercing, screams
were hushed in death, was horrible, It was
the silence of the grave unbroken but by the
bitter wail or tainting cry.
Two thousand souls had passed through
that ordeal ut lire to the judgment seat of
God.
Heroic acts of sublime daring have not
been wanting. Enduring gratitude has been
excited in every (Milian heart by the gallant
effort , , of Mr. Nelsen, the Minister of the
United States, his countryman Mr. Meiggs,
and several other foreigners. There were
gruel ous men who defied the fury of the
flames to save lives, and some of these died
martyrs to their noble haarts An English
man or American, it is unknown which, was
seen to rush through the flames, to seise in
his powerful arms a lady, stride with her a
little way, and then, his hair in a blaze and
choked with smoke, tell back into the volca
no never to rise again. A young lady named
Orella, having in vain implored• some by
standers on her knees to save tier mother,
rushed in, and shortly afterward miraculous
ly issued forth bearing har glorious load.
A young lady of the name of Solar, just
before the smoke suffocated her, had the
p r e se nc e of mind to knot her handkerchief
round her leg, so that her corpse might be
recognized.
be population of Santiago so supine and
so priestridden is fired with indescribable in
dignation at the monstrous conduct of the
priests. The public conscience holds thtai
guilty of the death of all these victims—and
particularly the mountebank Ugarte, the in
vention of the Virgi s Pust-obrice imposture
(vide ./i/Onighlly Review), because by col
lecting together all the material most likely
to produce a tire—a countless number of
lights, pasteboard scenery and muslin hang
ings, admitting a vast crowd—and covering
the one door .open with a screen, then took
every pains to bring about this tragedy.—
When the lire broke out and
° people were
es_c_aping by.. tile sacristy, .they -blocked up
this door to devote themselves the more on
disturbed ly to saving their g inn -cracks. The
list of things saved makes one's blood run
cold. What the priests saved, what they
have put 'away in cigar-shops and the houses
in front are—a gilt image, some woodon
saints, a sacred sopha or two, some books,
chalices, silver candlesticks, and a great
deal of sacred matting and carpet !
_ Alter saving their trash, those specimens
of the good sheperds that give their life for
their sheep klew away in company with the
owls and bats that infested the ancient walls,
except that one priest favored the agonizing
victims with his absolution, and Ugarte re
quested them to die happy, because they
went direct to Mary. ' They then forsook
the scene, and in that awful night, when
fainting women and desperate men strewed
the streets and Writhing forms that p few
hours ago were graceful and boastful maid
ens, moaned and died in chemists' shops,
not a priest was to be seen to whisper a
word of Christ's comfort to the dying ear, or
hold the precious crucifix before the glazing
eye.
No, not so, for the priest of Nature was
there, a ministering angel in the dark hour
tended and soothed as usual, ono young
lady, God bless her I tore up all her under
clothing to make bandagesii and bound up
the wounds as only woman can. All this
awful night the only thing that reminded of
the clergy was the incessant tolling of bells,
about the only thing they could do to in
crease the horrors of the scene.
This being the third time that this church
Hied our homes with weeping, all with one
voice demand that. it should never be rebuilt,
but the priests foolishly defiant and despotic
as ever, threaten to let off their miserable
mediaeval pop-guns, at those they term the
sacrilegious alienators of holy ground.
Their audacity has even led them to at
tempt an appeal to violence.
On the 11th they appeared on the scene
to take po , session of the blackened ruins
and insult public opinion, by dronin g - masses
for the souls whose bodies they had de
stroyed, but the sentinels drove them off
with the butt ends of their muskets,
The Government has show!, no energy,
and one minister is unhappily a creature of
the clergy; but the people in whose hearts,
as having wives and daughters, there dwells
an idea of right—something from God, that
priests have not yet succeeded in prisoning,
have been in earnest, and the Government
has dad to follow and yield to the pressure.
The decree has gone forth, and not one
stone of that accursed church shall be left
on another.
The contempt and horror of these priests
Increase with their insolence and inhurnani-
Titey preach that the irreparable loss of
so many of the fairest and roost virtuous of
Chili's virgins and matrons is a special mer
cy and miracle of Mary who wished to take
them at once, without delay, to her bosom.
One monster exults cpenly at that which
has sti.mped eternal grief and horror on our
hearts, "Because Chili wanted a supply of
saints and Martyrs."
O. as we write our eyes fill with tears—
nothing can console us in this affliction—we
cite think of nothing else but our loss of
those who will never come back to us, but
still there will have ensued some good. if
the dark degrading dominion of the priests
have melted awry in the smoke of that
awful hum ut sacrifice, which, laden with the
dying breath of 2,000 victims, rolled up to
accuse Ugarte and his accomplices of nmr
der before the throne of Bod.
uo IotEsVONDENI'E BETwrcEx THE MTSTER OF
THE UNETED SPATES AND THE MINISTER
UV VoREIGN AFFAIR 9 131 , rum?.
SANT(AGo, Chili, Dec. 11, HO.
To ins Ex...ellency the Seeclary fh• Foreign
.bales the Republic of Chili.
: I have the honor to address myself
to your Excellency, to express, on behalf
of 4he American citizens resident in Chili,
and on my own, our profound and earnest
s)mpathy in the terrible misfortune which,
npon - Tuosday last, liefell - thiscifY; bringing
desolation and grief into so !natty families,
and mourning into the hearts of the entire
community,
"I'h, Government and people whom I rep
resent will be stricken widi the deepest sor
row, when the sad intelligence reaches them.
A calamity so appalling and horrible has
no parallel in the world's history. May he
who -tempers the wind to the shorn lamb"
in mercy consul the bereaved and afflicted,
and may this awful dispensation of llis pro
vidence ever remind us of the uncertainty of
mile, and the necessity ot constant prepara•
lion to obey His sun/moos. .
I have the honor to renew to your Excel
lency the assurance of the high estimation
awl respect, \stilt which I remain, your Ex
cellency'3 obedient servant,
TIIOMAS 11. NELSON
SANTIAOO, Dee, 12, 1,863
tint: I hare the. honor to receive the note
which your Excellency was pleased to ad
dress me yesterday, to signify to me the pro
found regret caused in the mind of Your
Excellency and in that of your fellow citi
z-Cos residing in Chita for Che — ferrible mis
fortune occurring in this city on Tuesday,
the Nth inst., which has carried grief into
the midst of many families, and has covered
the entire community with mourning.
Y , nr Excellency likewise informs me that
the Government and people represented by
Your Excellency will feel the deepest sorrow
upon receiving the hews or this catastrophe;
and Your Excellency concludes, expressing
to me your trust that the Lord may grant
consolation to the afflicted arid unprotected,
and cause us all, in view of the uncertainty
of life, to be ever prepared to obey the de
crees of Providence.
My Government 1134 learned the forego
ing with lively gratitude, and has discover
ed, in your Excellency's cominimication an
alleviation or the grief' with which it has
been afflicted by this public calamity, as
well as a new evidence of the fraternal sen
timents which animate your Excellency and
your worthy fellow-citizens, in favor of our
Republic. The generous and active efforts
which your Excellency and they displayed
on Tuesday, to save the interesting victims
from the frightrul fire, had already won the
gratitude or my Government, which has been
revi,ed by the present manifestation.
In communicating the foregoing to your
Excellency, 1 comply with a special charge
of his Excellency the President of the Re
public, to assure the honorable representa
tive and the citizens of the United States
who have taken part in our public mourning,
that the noble conduct observed by them
upon this said occasion will be ever grate
fully remembered by the Chilian people and
Government.
Will your Excellency be pleased to ac
cept the sentiment of my most distinguished
consideration and regard, with which Z am
your Excellency's most obedient servrnt,
MANUEL A. TocouNxi..
To the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the United States,
SECOND ARMY CO3PS,, -
HEADquAuTEus RECRUITRU,} SEIWIUE,
Second Corps,
Uarrisburg, Pa., Jan. 15, 1851.
Authority having been given me to re
cruit the 2d Corps to fifty thousand (50,000)
men for such special service, under my
command, as may be designated by-the War
Department, 1 appeal to the citizens of
Pennsylvania to aid me in filling up the
regiments and batteries of my command
which owe their origin to the State. They
are as follows:
81st, 140th, 116th, (battalion,) 148th, 53d,
145th, 71st, 72d, 60th and 106th Regiments
of--Infuntry, - and - Batteries P add 11, Tat
Penn'a Artillery, and C and F, Independent
Perin's. Artillery.
Until the Ist of March next, the following
bounties will be paid by the General Gov
ernment :
For Veterans, $402 ; for others, $302.
All volunteers enlisted for this organiza
tion will be accredited to the city, county,
town, township or ward which they may elect
as the place to which they desire the credit
given. • -
When no such election is made the en•
listing officer will give credit to the place of
enlistment.
Each locality is therefore interested in
increasing the number of enlistments to the
extent of its'quota in the` draft, and' any
stimulus . given by.local bounties or other
efforts' Will have the effect of preventing
those who desire to volunteer, from leaving
the places of their residence and enlisting
elsewhere, where the inducements offered
may be greater.
The satne regulations that have hitherto
governed enlistments in this State, as to the
persons empowered to enlist the rules for
mustering and for furnishing transportation
and supplies, will apply in‘this case.
Any one desiring to enlist in either of
these organizations may do so in any part
of the State by making application to the
District Provost Marshal, or any recruiting
officer from the 2d Corps, no matter to
which regiment said officers may belong.
1 have come among you as a' Pennsyl
vanian, for the purpose of endeavoring to
aid you in stimulating enlistments.
As this is a matter of interest to all citi
zens of this State—its quota being still
nearly 30,000 deficient, I earnestly call upon
you all to assist, by exerting all the influence in
your power in this important matter. To
adequately reinforce our armies in the field
is to insure that the war will not reach your'
homes, and will be the means of bringing iv
to a speedy ar:d happy conclusion, and of
saving the lives of many of our brave sol--
diers who would otherwise be lost by thw
prolongation of the war awl in indecisive
battles.
It is only necessary to destroy.tbe rebel
armies now in the field to insure a speedy
an I permanent peace ;'let us all act with
that fact in view ; let it not be said that,
Pennsylvania which has already given so,
many of her citizens to this righteous cause r
shall now, nt the eleventh hoar, be behind.
her sister States in furnishing her quota of
the men clpetned necessary to ei,d the rebel
lion. Some States have filled their quotas;
otherst‘ill do so; a little exertion on our
part will soon fill all the decimated regi•
merits of the State and obviate the necessity
of a draft.
Let it cot be that those organizations
which have won for themselves and their
State so 1111101 honor, shall pass out of ex
istence for the' want of patriotism in the
people. Unless these regiments are filled
to the minimum strength they will soon
cease to exist. It will , be necessary to act
quickly to insure success. Other States by
having' ti ed greater exertions, and by the
inducements of local bounties draw away
your youni , ices. By giving bounties at
home, and stimulating the State pride you
will secure to your regiments that portion
of the male populathin whose circumstances
readily permit them to take the field.
WlNte'D S HANCOCK,
_Maj. Gen. U S. Vole.
Tho Representatives_ of the Pee'Pia
THE PRESII.II',ITIAL-IkENTION.
PENNSVINANIA IN FAVOR
=OE
Re-Election of Abraham Lincoln
The following circular letter signed ht'
all the Union men in the Pennsylvania Legis
lature; will In , read will satisfaction by all
the truly loyal-Union - rain in the witioa
To Exert/47/(7i, AMt itt.ust LISCOLN,
Proqdcgt cf the, United Slates
Ur: ue Sin :--The uthlersigned. Members of
the Legislature of Pennsylvania, thus early
in the session of that body, hasten to con
gratulate you on the success of the policy
of the national Admiarforation, and the aus
picious eireinnstances melee which the sec
ond Congress of your term has bPCIII organ
ized. When it is fairly considered that the
policy of your Admistration was made the
issue in the late elections—when it is known
that in the contest for the
, most important
State, as well :is tdie most insignificant mu-
Meipal olliee, the issue involved all the es
sential principles of the policy of your Ad
miuistration, the result notit be the more
highly appreciated by the friends of freedom
aline 1, and ehtitiring to the defenders of
freedom the Union itno the constitution at
home. We would be unmindful of the duty
we owe our country, if we hesitated to ac
knowledge the force of that policy in the
elections which placed us in our present
legislative positions. When fearlessly ad-.
vocated and set before the people, it won us
victory ill .t.lte_ face of-4ho most -peristentr
and hitter opposition from the foes of freo
government. You need not be reminded of
the effect which the late election in Pennsyl
vania had oti the destiny of the nation. The
triumph at the ballot-box aroused the ardor
and stieme,l to breathe fresh valor into the
hearts of our soldiers, for the achievement
of victory on the battle held. And if the
voice of Pentisylvattia became thus poten
tial in endorsing the policy or your Admin
istration, we consider that, as the represen
tatives of those who have so completely en
dorsed your official course, we are only re
sponding to their demands when we thus
publicly announce our unshaken preference
for your re-election to the Presidency in
Thu hope and the life of the American
people are now cen is red in the purpose and
the effort of the Government to crush rebel-.
lion. In more than two years of struggle
we have discovered that the rebellion is con
tinued for au object more important titan
that of redressing even a real wrong. It is
waged for the establishment of a d.pgma
and the recognitiOn of a barbarism, It is
carried on against the Government for its
absolute destruction. In such a struggle
there can be no compromise devised to offer
or considered fur aceeptaace. One or no
other of the contending parties must tri.
umph. Justice must be vindicated by the
full recognition and operation of thd Gov
ernment in all the States—or the claims of
the traitors will be inlintained, this magnifi
cent structure of our Government destroyed,
and the.yights of men forever ignored. To
make a change in the Administration, until
its authority has been fully re established in
the revolted States, would be to give the en
emies of the Government abroad the pre•
text for asserting that the Government had
failed at home. To change the policy now
in operation, to crush rebellion and restore
the land to peace, would be to afford the
traitors in arms time to gather new strength
if not for itnmediato victory, at least fur ul
timate success in their efforts permanently
to dissolve the Union. Having a firm taith
in the logic and the reason of these positions
we are frank in our endeavors thus to urge
on you the acceptance of a re-election to the
Presidency. We believe that the policy oc
your Administrnticn rendered us victorious_
at the last election, and we now insist quit
that policy, if represented by yourself
the States, would give the victory to the
Government in November, and thus forever
put an end to all hope of the success of trea
son.
We do not make this comninnicUtion at
this time to elicit from you any expressions
of opinion on this subject. .Having confi
dence in your patriotism, we believe that
you Will abide the decision of the friends of
the Union, and yield a consent to any hon
orable use which they may deem proper to
make of your name, in order to secure tho
greatest good to the country, and the speed
iest success to our arms. Pennsylvania has
always wielded a potent influence in thepol
itics of'the country. Her preferences have
always been tantamount to the success :of
the statesman to wham she attaches, herself
her voice has flavor fails d to give the
victory to the right. And while we, the rep-.
resentativos of the great majority of the
Commonwealth, thus avow our 'confidence
and reliance in your official action and ca
pacity, we feel that we are responding to the
clearly expressed preferences of those mass
es, and that Pznnsylvania would hail your
re-election ns the omen of complete-victory'
td the Government. Expressing what WO
feel to bo Pio language not only of our own
constituents, but also of the people of All