.. '.. . . . ~..—......—.....—...--........ . .. . , .. B PRES YTEAN . ~ , , . "l i billa ilisa Aliv4A ll V oi llis irj r ak l ith 10 I - "` ONE THING IS NEED.rutat* "ONE THING *HAVE I DE—MED OF THE LORD; " "THIEVONE , MHING,I DO." • WHOLE . OVNOr)- Presbyie DAVID MoKINNEY and JAMES ALLISON, Editors. fERNS.-IN ADVASON. From our London COfrespondent. Charge of the Times Against the French Govern. ment—Sensation and War spirit Awakened— ' Proposal for Dittirnitnitent-- What is its Value ? —lmperial Spider • (Tod the European " Flies " Smith 0' Brien •and Vengeance—John Mitchell Coming, ntyrNot poming to Ireland—The Yoting irstanders and the Priest Party—A London Priat anda Protestant Layman—Treaty of Zu - rich and'italy--Pro-Papat Demonstratione—The Moderate. Irish Romanists—Doctor Kane Cali gating the " Bad Boya "—Doctor Newman Die.. gt4teti-t-The Two Brothers—The Editor and "The 'make "—London Anquities—lrish Revival. a LONDON, Nov. 250,1859. THE RELATIONS between France 'and England, have awakened very earnest and remarkable interest in connexion with a oharge brought against the Emperor and his Government ) by the London Tinies It was quite a "sensation article." The fol• lowing is its opening portion From information derived from .a vast number of independent amines we entertain no doubt that a feeling of hostility more .bitter than.: has existed in France sines the peaoe of 1816 is, at this moment entertained toward this country The Frenoh press, so guarded on aTother sub jects), is on this outspoken, The moderate nod reasonable Journal de* Debate contains attacks upon England suoh as never before, in, moments of the greatest irritation, have appeared in its decorous columns.' The (knife tie /Itasca lacks language to express the bitterness of its detests tion, and the Univers is still mote virulent. The talk 40 the Army Sod Navy is of revenge for vie , toriee forty e're and fifty five ,vears old, and their film belief, as well as their ardeiit is that in a feiv months the signal will be given fel- the invasion of this country. The inhabitan'te of the departments from Brest to Calais experience a revival of the hostility'of fifty years since, and, strange to say, burn with ardor for a war" of *Moil they mist bear the Wont. * * * ' We believe be (the Emperor Napoleon) would tell us that be is our only friend, and that to his in tervention alone we owe it that the two most pow erful States of: the world are.not already involved in' an exterminating conflict. * * * The next question is, how does•, it happen, after a peaoe of forty-five •years„that this should be the feeling of France toward us ? * * * We fear that the fact oan•be.aceounted forin no other way than by the essumption'that these evil passions have re ceived a powerful impulse from the French Gov ernment itself. It is not too much to say that foe , so much of the present irritation of fe.elihras arises from the attacks of the press upon'England the Government. of France is responsible. To oheok them would require no exercise of power. An intimation that they are displeating to the Government would hive stifficett, and that intima tion has never been given. The other wayby which the opinion of Franoe may be simultane ously moved is through the , official hierarchy. The Minister of the Interior in Paris wields a power more tremeraltius 'thaw was ever reeteld in any Minister of any Government. He has but to express a wish and an enormous bureaucracy, whose ramifications extend to the smallest oom- mune in Prude. is immediately set in motion. Their advancement depends on their, diligence; their power penetrates everywhere, and their in fluence reaches every one. The. same is the case in the army. The Minister of War has only to give the word, and thousands of zealous emboss ries are ready to 'propigite it like lightnihg throughthe rehire of six hindred thousand men.! Has this influence been used in the.present in. stance to excite the feelings of citizen and soldier against England 4 We belieie it his. Opinions differ in this country as to the extent of hostile feeling entertained in France against this country. I myself do not Ibeliiste &Wit , it by any meant; maser , eapeoially is it sot so in manufaoturing towns f •whose• 'chief trade is..with -England, and wile-knew that • a war with :her ,would min them. But the worst of it , is, that the French press has 'been allowed to de fame England:; that the French Emperor may sly, like Louis . the , Great, "I am France," and that an army:of half a milli* including marauding Zonaves 'and Twang, would, above all things, like to unite in razzia, rich in its result as to plinder, with tud iiirtiffitairdimm Some portions of our press cried out vie* lently against the Times as guilty of " a plot," to hurry us inevitably into a conflict. But the Times kept " never minding," and at length had the victory to its hearts con. tent Fer lo I out corium a {Circular , from the Frinch s Minister , oflthe Interior, to the Prefects of Departments, inviting them to point-Mitt-to , 'the French .press , the duty of moderation •in reference to a tower with whom the Emperor was• at peace l It may be that the subject had been discussed in a Cabinet Council here, and that the Times, getting an inkling of this, resolved to thun der forth an alarm ! The country was stirred from °hounder epee to centre, and rifle uniforths were 'in urgent demand. Certainly` the voltinteer movement has received a-mighty impulse during the last fortnight, and this was intensified by a flaming speech, delivered by Sir A. Alison (the historian,) at 'a great meeting at Glasgow, yesterday. As its °lose, he •refeired to' the safe outriding, by the Channel fleet, of that terrible storm, in which the Royal Charter was broken to, pieces on the coast of' Wales, and, by which our alines were strewn with the 'debris of ehip*ecks unparalleled in number. And upon this he based his peroration, prophe sying that in like manner, old England would outride and survive all the storms of oppo sition and Invasion •brought against her. Mutual disarmament is now proposed, it is said, by the Frenoh Government. It is also believed that our Cabinet had preyiously conferred on the subject, in consequence of the Emperor having communicated the idea and• proposal to Lord Cowley. The Ambas sador undoubtedly has been in London, 'probably on this business. The Times has hot pronounced to day. The Morning star (Bright's organ,) is in extacy at the •pros- , peat. ' Bat with such a man as the mysteri% one Emperor to deal with, whose web con sists of innumerable threads, all terminating in the one centre, whence he looks out , for flies of all sorts=--East, 'West, North, and South—what trust can there be in the sin cerity of his 'professions or proposals? In' snail a matter,' England is not on equal terms with France She is defenceless, if ail have not fleets ready tor any emergency. It Wetild be treachery to 'herself, and to. the cause of 'liberty ail the world over; were she to put up herships "in ordinary," and dia ; mantle those sea defences which she istoow arming. The people of England would not leer it. We expect peace yet a little, but as long as Napoleon lives,.and as France is without free institutions; as long as her army is unemployed, east and ambitious, and if die banded; capable of being called 'to arms in one week; how can we reduce either our fleet or out land army, the latter, with all poesible addititine from militia volunteers, comparatively 'small. MR. SINITIC O'BituN denotimme the wick- Alliedness of the war with China, (which it is now said, refuses to open the ports agreed upon in the American treaty,) and indicates bin.° traitorous feelings, by indicating the probability that when our troops and ships , are off to China, then will Napoleon invade our shores John Mitchell, also, writes from Paris, weekly, all manner of bitter invective against the Queen and, her Government. He. ridicules the idea of an' agitation for an " amnesty," (Mr proposed,) for himself, Martin, and others, who are now forbidden to live . in , the United Kingdom. • He will not' take anyvdvaneage of Athe Queen's :per; mission to come to Ireland ; 'nil but he expects to be in Ireland notwithstAnding I This man I knew in his youth ; a proud spirit is his; pride in him is patriotism, and patriotism is pride—" deep, interminable pride"—and his ambition is ready to wade through blood to the Preshlency of a Re publican Ireland. Bat as L have often in-. dioated, Popery would fear him more than ten thousand Palmerston and Rum's. It would be the Wolfe Tone regime—the French Republic of 1793, with a little , bit of its skepticism, A friend of mine traveled the other day in a railway carriage, with the chief resi dent ecclesiastic of the Roman Catholic Church in Southwark, London; the two had a good deal of polite sand friendly inter. change and antagonism of opinion. The priest was a man of the world, as well man ecelesiestic ; but speaking from the Beide& standpoint, he declared that he feared Infi delity far more than Protestantism. He also admitted that he . snd his friends, while winning over some of the atistoeraoyoind also making some way among the masses, found the great middle class of England, impraeticable. He pointed to Austria in her alleged °Secessions to the Protestants of her Empire,'as au example to`Erighted (Said ObnOesiiollB being regarded 'by the:parties most interested, as a tyrannical , sham, and Jeading to bold remonstrance, especially in ' Hungary,)lo to what she should .dcin en schools, if not the priests themselves. , THE TREATY OF ZURICH having. been 'signed, Austria has teeeifed the first install• went. of money 'to be paid over to her by Piedmont, in connexion with the cession of Loinbardy to S=ardinia: Garibaldi has re• tired from publio life for the present, and Central ItaliatLiffairs twe , at ardead look till the Congress assembles next month. FRESIL DEMONSTRATIONS continue to be made in t IMitid, in connexion with the "sor rows or that poor old man," Piux IX. The resolntions passed at public meetings are pe culiarly eloquentand fetwidron 'the "!saorile gious character of the attempt to= rob the Holy Father of his temporral supremacy. There is, however, a Moderate and Whig Roman Catholic Pressoilitali ieptelents the views, feelings - and desires of an eolectie and upper class in Ireland. The "'rad oub2 Irish families": never likkid Dan O'Connel though they mere sometimes dragged 'through the mire by'him in the days of the Repeal Agitation. The Dublin Evening Post, the Cork Examiner, and the Newr y Examiner, are. all types of this Moderate minority , . The last , , mentioned replies to the complaints madeagainst, Irish men not being armed u volunteers, by pointing out 'that it' wciuldiet 'Orangeman and Rondmist in antegonism,s'and lead, per haps, to' " another battle of the Boyne," foi the *hut of something else to do. Sir Robert Kane,' the Preeider& of the Cork Queen's College, has snubbed` " ism" severely, in his oper4g - addrees, delivered - recently in 'the presence of the Lord Lieutenant. He shows that the Rcimaii Catheliesyonthifermiturdhlitf of thettidento, and thatlux hundred and Atwenty four have roatriedlited anlie Qiniad'el Colleges. He dielfares that thelle;- 16 'weric founded - for the apeitisl advatitege' dire Roman CattiOlia" middle andAipOor eltwees, etoluded by the - neasSarily eooldeirtetidal Sharader oft the UnivVrAhy of 'Dublin freak ylartioipatfon in ito government, and the posseisors of its liglieet honors add appointnielite." The following is a piece of beliliate yet , withering satire.on'the 'prelates 'Who want to establish a Medieval night in Ireland. The mock respect is 'alltheinore awoontrieted. With-the telling severity - of iheasiimit : It is "wellknown that eminent authorities of the Roman Catholic Mhurbh havn lately,expresseiji a strong opinion against every form of united educe-. tios, and have deniended to have placed undertheir ezolueive control the educationalinstftutione tif the country, in'order that the ltoman Catholic:people of all classes may therein be separately trained; such a system as - thitethey - "demand scarcely en ists In the tnost despotic states, and is apparently . inconsistent with the responsibilities of a consti tutional country. It is certain, however,. that any proposal from such learned, and such venerable personakes shotild be, and has been, received with profound respect by the educated-RomatrOatho lie laity, and if we had not ti deal with the prac tical realities of professional and business life— if we'did not live in comnahnitiee Of 'mixed and often jarring interests—if We merely our -sentiments as religionists, and not our duties as citizens and as fathers to consult—if we had not before us our country torn asunder and paralyzed for centuries brthe iliatited and antagonism of religiontrfends, then it might be our duty to con- Bider how far these nspirations after an ideal mo nastic perfection could be carried into effect in civil life and in a free country. But imperfect as all human institutions necessarily are—limited as public expenditure must be—having to consult, in a mixed community and tinder a constitutional government, the feelings and 'opinions of others beside ourselves, it is incumbent on us, as Ro man Catholics, to make use of and improve ;what is practically at hand, to appropriate the sub stance rather than risk its loss by catching after a shaddisy ideal, a splendid phantom. Such has been, afterleni years.experience, the practi cal, verdict of the Roman Catholic laity of this province. Dr. Newman, • who Ivent to Dublin to found a Roman' Catholic University, 'ac cording to the London Observer, is disgusted with the state of. feeling in Ireland, so far as it seems to sympa thize with French antipathy to England. His better instincts are apparent in the declarations he =has made, and he has still the leanings and predilections of an English gentleman, and a • friend of constitutional freedom His brether, Francis Newman, has a Chair intim London University. He is emphatically a skeptic. I see in-a. window in Paternoster , Row, an answer, bysome writer unknown to me, to a book of 'Francis Newman, full of unbelieving:niguments. The aniwer is styled 44 Inationaliem and Infidelity." It is very melancholy. to-tbink 'of these two brothers Newman, diverging to opposite extremes. May both yet be brought back to the faith taught, them at the knee' of an- English mother 1 • Relyoake's infidel shop, in Fleet Street, Still continues open. But I never see mole than oneperson in it, and generally no one tomer!' at all are there. A London editor, 'witty" Whom I was conversing not long-ago— a Christian, as well as an accomplished man, who in -trobbles had'" tonna religion his comfort' and his , guide "—talking of !oertain parties whoin'ic was obliged bocAsionally to see, remarked that as long as one of them •was present, he "felt as if a snake was in the room !" kis truly marvelous what in numerable slimy disguises the father of lies takes, in these days—but even in the fairest' and most beautifully spotted skin, be is the serpent / still. • ANTICICIA4IAN EXCIAVATIOiIIi A are now being extensively made at a coeistry town,' called Wrotoxeter, under the direction of the Rev. Thomas Wright, who is very eminent as an antiquary. In like manner we have ancient London, the 46 Londinium" of the Romans, (sometimes called " Angusts,") illuminated, so to speak, by Charles Roach Smith, Esq. As to Wrotoxeter, near Shrewsbury, the Duke of Cleveland has given, over four sores into the hands of a Committee of Exitavations. Two acres are new being ex- PUBLICATION OFFICE, GAZETTE BUILDING, FIFTH SET, ABOVE. SMITHFIELD, PIRBBUBAE„- FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATUWAY, DECEMBER 24, 1859! elevated. Large masses of Roman masonry have been revealed, and a great variety of buildings are about to be laid bare, iitolnding a public establishment. of bathe, a market place, private houses and streets. As to Roman London, its area was confined to the city proper, beginning 'ahout the site 'of the Tower to the East, extending round by Bisturpsgate, Aldersgate Street, Ludgate Hall, and thence Eastward along the River Thames. The ruins have not been well preserved, nor 'when discovered have they always'been cherished and cared for It is not like , Pompaii, which stands in a r class by itself, having been potted for us entire :by the,lava flood of Vesuvius. ' Britain was a Roman Province,. and at the. time of-the withdrivrment of the legions of Rome, she possessed more than fifty walled towns, united by roads. There were also the tg bastra" Military stations, • the plans of which have been ,pariially disooV: ered. In some towns, such as Rochester, Colchester, Chester,eand Lincoln, the origi nal Roman plan can be defined so as to in dicate the-entrance and principal ?streets. The., comparative splendor of London may be inferre& from- one otits ornaments, a , statue of bronze;of , the Emperor Adrian, of heroic size. In the reign otNero, 61,) London• was not a colonic& nor a muni. dipinna, no a - plade where a coin was struck, 'briesumording to Ticitus, was even*lhen eminent as a, place of trade. Gradually it obtained 'supremacy, And the mint estab lished -in the time of Constantine -conclu sively proves its superiority to other towns. It 'lntel/ contributed 'to the Itriny of se,nt3r - thonsiknd, who perished _before the Vengeance'' of the insurgent Britons. In A., D. 380 it,was the seat of the, TreasUry of Britain, and Ammeanus Mareellus speaks of it under its new name, as " Valais oppidum, qua Augustan posteritaß ap &lava:" Inscriptions, smilpttires, 'tesselated 'pave ments, have- all been discovered, and also evidence is clearly furnished that here was manufactured beautiful, red-glized pottery. Drawings of all:these are furnished in lMr Smith's Illustratians , of Romeo-London," and also (this part- of my $‘ dry-as-dust "' deiblription - the .ladies among your readers will, I hope, just look at,) the personal ornaments and implements used by the Roman' delves . of ancient London at the toilet, including "tweezers, naitolditners, and mirrors." Fragments of clay, statuettes, terra ,cotta lamps, tiles, and..glass,.have been foind, and among -the ,Roman glass are :several-pieces of wild and semi=transparent (" we'see-through a glass - darkly,") kind; which, seems to have been Used as window glasi. The list of Roman -coins found in London,— and enumerated by Mr. Smith, amounts to upwards .of two thour*lL Yet 'this list only includes a small and chiefly those from. the - . bed of 'the 'Thames.' Vast quantities were found in removing the piers of .old London Bridge. The. Times, -inn revievrof• Mi. 8 'es volumes, deals,a severe rebuke to the London City Pori:Oration, for .its` carelesifiees `as "to the preservation of discoveries made , as well as its doing nothing to, encourage excavations. • ; There is iotutnause for4hie r . Kseeing they inierii; a — Roman municipal site; and Awe btiilt - -and -auStained upon Roman• 'builds 'tidl!" All:these things carry Wilk our "thoughts to the day -when Omar first landed in Britain,and prepared the way for the, ad vent of :the Gospel. They , tell us of • a heroic past, and'of a peOple of indoinitable, iron will, 'Whos'e advance only the Ultima Th u l e of the British Isles .could. arrest , Now London is mightier , far. Seandi. navian, Teutonio,'Nermen,'Celtic; and Fiat elements; 'all related together, as' Well-es colonies, (socii) -from -all nations. Thus combined, it presents a confederated host of two million seven,hundred thousand souls, from `whom Out a wiirld-ivide influence, and'to London, as the representative pity, Anglo Saxons on both sides of the Atlantic, and everywhere, look, as the centre and spring of-all -their marvelous - forces. shall the time come when the heart of mighty modern London shall throb' respon sive to the beheists of the king of Kings, and on its Literature, its Wealth, and Com. therce, its Legislative Halls, as well - as on its solemn farms, shall be inaeribe'd, gg Holiness to the Lord." 0-rest efforts are being made to -infuse into it ane w life. Urgentis the - necessity, although God has a large'nuMber of devoted servants here. THE AWAKENING continues, to spread with power. Oa the 15thof this month, the Irish General Assembly held a_ special day of -thanksgiving -throughout its borders. What " great things " . > done for them bad ministers and people. to re hearse 1 Truly glorious as wellas-marvelous oontinues-the movement,' and with unabated power. Frowthe :Hon. and - Rev. ?Henry Ward,. Rector of Killineh3r, I received this morning a beautiful letter, indicating the ;mighty .work as ,progressing and prosperous, and crammed -.with , richest fruits. Quiet yet deep rolls on the River that.makes glad the land, -and which has begun to lave and irrigate both Sootland and England. J. W. An Address Delivered by requee4 at the Temperance Megan', at Good Land, Totoors County, Choctaw Nation, July 9th, 1859, by Rev C. Ifingelniry. THE CHOCTAWS AS THEY WERE IN 1818, AND AS THEY . ARE IN 1859 The missionaries came to the Choctaws, forty.one years ago. At that time the Chootawianguage had neither been written nor printed. There wasmo'scholl, or school houses, there was' no house for the worship ' of God ;'and no Minister to preach the GoL pel, and no one to teach a School. At,that time there were - no wagon roads in the Choctaw country, - except the one leading directly through it, from Natchez to Nashville, and which was for the use of white people'from the . States. Not a wagon of any kind was owned'hy a Choctaw. The missionaries, in taking their wagon to Yalo Busha, hid to out through 'the cane brakes, and in crossing some of the creeks, poles were pia - bed against the perpendicular bank on one`side of the creek, on which to elide the wagon down, where it 'could - be drawn out by the horses on the opposite side. Drunkenness was common among all the leading men' of the Nation, when they could get whisky. Col. Daniel 'FoISOm said he knew bat one man in the Nation who would not get drunk if he could ` get ' arty thing to make "'the drunk come." But fortunately for the Choctaws, it was not easy at - that time to get what would' intoxicate. They had tUrtravel a long road to find it It was not often brought into the country, but when it'did come, there . was.a big spree till it was gone. At that time it was the lead ing menpthe most respectable pillion of the Nation, that-drank. Young men and boys did not;"Atink in 'Moe days; At' their i Councils the bit men were sure to get drunk • ;A ,07 . , before they went home, if thereguens t irhisky. a t i Capt. Levi . Perry, a man gr Imespeet ed, who spoke good English, ti: Who was one of our eNrly and valued fri ta : lost his life by whisky. 41V. , Take another instance of wh eppened in those days. We had ' been, *riding a taxt Council. at the Chief Ninehula ' g's.' :After the Council broke up we starte . or home in company with eight or ten of At. most itres pectable Choctaws in that part o the Nation. Six of the company were brot ' , and one was a white man who , had , ina ed a sister of these brothers. . And as , w - '' he custom of the times, a jug of whisk '. was taken i along, and .every three or: fd Utiles the company must, Lake a, drink .., ' When they came to the Mission house'pe stopped. They next passed the house' l .di the white it man, where Ile stopped. 'Th 'lest of the company passed on about Or miles fur ther, where all stopped . for the night. There, a finish was made of the whisky. In the course of the, night a,d „ patty arose between the two elder brothe" . 1 . - nd-one of them !Struck the other with a I .', - :ea broke his skull. The next , ~', . Limes" were. sent for to visit the d4IW:A nothing could be done for hi ~,`. 'pro* but once , after. he, was struck dujid7 eorte a kind husband and father, a gsod neigh bor, and.a sincere friend to the beittilitereitif of -his people. His death was atireat imp* his family-and friends, and,f the „Nation - 2 Never shall we forget the lam liktion of , ong as we his t. poor mother, Sussa-ma, (my so Tyi.4,,ann,) - she cried, as I 'Werefittliin hear ing. se'. ; f We Will 'now give anothettinatiancel to show what was the practice of the %Owe ,forty years ago. Boon after iii settled . at 'Elliot, in the old Nation, a y. T, , woman of a good family in the neigh)) , li644l,liiid'of consumption. In those days' en a -person wasted away,and died, it was . pose,d t to be the - - effect of witchcraft'. a' - Bihar was. greatly afflicted by the deat '.e.iiis.darigh. ter. He went to a conjurer, , :Aixed him to tell who had killed his, . :h*. The conjurer was an artful felle .d' pointed out a poor'old woman as the rte . h who had ngot , done- the mischief. He knahin ?old we. man had no strong family relatken.to avenge her death. The, father wit,44 lOct kis daughter immediately deternOkkon taking the life of this poor old w , I , iia -He col lected some of his friendi" 'rid went in pursuit of her. We sal' Mission house about an h, evening? bat knew not thei ~went to,,her cabin, which w from the Mission, where she 'a son and daughter, hero , that part of the country. was cooking in the yard b They_ alighted from their where she was, and she, i style of hospitality, set bef of Tah-fulah. After they: h them arose; caught the ul. 'hair, drew his big knife and a =witch and must die." S. to say, " other folks fella I lieve them," when he Phing into her breast, and poor Ell ered,- bleeding corpse. Herl dilate)) , to,let us, know winti -It -gm we -.r before,, cabin. The murdered woman,,WklyirigTri the middle of it, In the dirt floor. The sorrowful -son lighted some dry cane, and lifting the blanket, showed us the deep add , -ghastly wounds in the breast of his poor mother. It was a horrid sight. We felt assured that we .were, in one of the dark places of the earth, where were the habite dons of cruelty. ' The man "Who had ' this done was not a poor ignorant kabby who had always lived in the woods. He_was one „of the enlightened and respectable men of that day. One other fact thai will serve to shoe , , what the Choctaws did in those days. _Some of them, as the - Apostle Paul says of the heathen in his day, were " withoWetatural affection." They killed their own _infant children. After some of their leading men 'had become acquainted with the Gospel, they made a lavi to prevent the killing of infants. In a Choctaw woman. was con , victed of having her infant by knock. log it on the head with a pine knot. She was Publicly whipped until she fainted ; her husband,- who,inetigated-herto do the deed, suffered similar punishment.. Since that time 'it is believed there have been but few infinte destroyed by their parents. In one part of the Nation- fortyjeare ago, the corn fields of.the Choctaws were without fences. At that_ time : these people had no stock except holism and dogs. The horses they either kept`tied or hobbled at a dis tance from their' fields, while their corn was growing. There were also parts of the Nation where they did not bury their dead. . The no'dies of those that died were put on scaffolds -eight or ten< feet high, mar the house; and in front of it; where , every passer by mould` see .them. We have ; seen the =bodies of' those, that , died with the small pox,placed on scaffolds and near to the house where peOple were living. After the fiesh'on their bodies was mostly constimedilhey wire,de livered to the bone packers. Theseyereoner had enormous finger nails, and their fruiti ness was to pick off the fieshand einews that might remain on the bones, and place them in ahox. These boxes were deposited in 'Whit was - oalled alion,e..house, at which a great cry was held at-certain times, after which if it is believed.these boxe.% of bones were buried. Wehave given these few particulars to show what practices prevailed among the Choctaws forty lyears ago. Those living - in the Nation can easily make the: comparison and see for themselves what .changes have taken place since that-time. Intemperance has been almost entirely baninhedfroxn the better class ofCbootaws. Forty years ago, as before stated, your 'principal men, with almost no exceptions, were drunkards. Now, your Governor, your Ohiefe, ~your Jgdges, your Senators, your Representatives, are most of them sober men. They word d con-. . eider it a disgrace to be seen intoxicated. -This of itself is a will take pattern from this, salutary change. • If they wish to be patriots, and thebenefactOrtof their'people, let them quit the society- of the drunkard. "Ile that walketh with wise Well, shall be wise, but the oompauiuoa of fools shall be destroyed." Not only the lenders are now generally sober men, but there are thousands of the most respectable Choctaws in -every part of the Nation, who never taste liquor. This great and salutary change has been wrought within ,about forty years. And this is but a small part of what we c httie lived to see among the Chootaws, in the way of their improvement. Look at your schools. Forty years ago, as, before stated there was no emit thing as a school in the land. Now they are to be found in every ,part of. 'the NOW- The progress of education and.:civilization is al*ais of slow growth. It• 'takes , time to ciVilize and enlighten a nation: "The ' Hon. Edward Everett, one of America's great orators, said on the floor of Congress, that the progress ,of improvement among the Choctaws and Cherokees, had been , more rapid than among any other people, of whom he bad read, except the Sandwich Islanders. The Choctaws have a good name among the white people, and we hope they will keep it. Wagon roads are now to be,found in every part of the Nation; and - wagons and ox teams more than can be numbered, are now owned by Chootaws. Forty years ago, not a single Choctaw had &wagon of any kind. 'Look at your printed Constitution, your Laws,,yeur Executive Officers, your §enate and' Molise of Representatives, yeur Courts of Justice, yOur 'Judies, your Sheriffs, your Lawyers, your Light-home` Men, and' a trial byzJurysecured to every Choctaw, and say if mighty changes hnve not come over you within the last forty years. Milny of these eliinges are certainly for the better; if - allure not, it is only-what has happened to. .more enlightened Nations. -- The first instanoe.ot4he,prganization of *".0 1 " 31 fP0 1 MAM 991 q , . , . 014 " . 7` in in: OA"; sfl - Oideg bib! in. Ml' uhigirstifthy **riot, in'Septeiii tier of tliat year, ten men were commis sioned *rdgktzhorse then, to. punish offend ert- _ ' ; , Laat • but not ,l4st we ask , yon to look now, at. your ,enurches and houses . for the worship of God. The religion of a people is the true standard of =their advinoement, The tistory ,of, all past -time teaches us, that " those who honor God, he will honor ," . - end fflpi,t,thont who mgleet his .7904, and mime, shall. be lightly esteemed. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wis dom." Where-the worship of the one.liv 7 inguinittrne , God-is int snide, the people never prosper. „ Forty years ago, as before stated, there was not a house of worship, nor an organ -- ined o'hitich; nor a minister of tiii•Gostreli in the 'Nation. he has, he evinces as much , horror ~of getting , into its depths ; ; lie, a man . with the cramp in his „limbedoekpf e ,gettinginto,' deep 'water. 1, In d respect to ; Ats, „ antecedents of Dr. his:Allliitty 4* ,l4s, i , tie has;urider., taken, Dr. Pirkprofessei fake a letigtby view, for-he textends it to upwards of -thirty years; and this is for the„purpose of awakening the prejudices of 'the reader against the work itself. It is sufficient merely to refer to this fast, for it would be difficult to find, even,in the ambitious ver bosityof the reviewer-hiunielfya more con temptible utterance. Butif the antecedents , of, Dr. Breekituidge ,are of so much im port:aim for enahling .tui to judge of his performan9e, surely the - antecedents of the reviewer are of equal importance to enable us to judge-of his. , Put A notto„4l,ll,upon the fact pf the degradation of the Bibliotheca Sacra canoe it s came into his hards, the reader will remember, as enabling him to' form a pro Per estimate of the real causes which 'impelled the reviewer, to make < his unmanlypersonal assault upen.Dr... Brsakin ridge, that Dr. Park is the , successor . of Dr. Woods in the Theological Chair at A ndover,; and that,, like 'his predeeeitior, he-has 'sworn tog support 'the,-doctrines asserted.a in the Saybrook Platform, And:An-the Nestuipietr Shorter Catechism. It ; has not ,yet ,pawed hem memory hew the anxiety and appre hensions of multitudes of the , most learned and' godly men in Nei England were ,arousedz respect to , their ,favorite ,And _beloved n Seminary, when they found „that Dr. Park,with his..Well-hnnwri*witoglnld anteoedents professed without Change of sentithent to take the solemn oath Sunnis tered to the Professors of that Seminary. They could pot t reconcileit with consistency, truth, andecandor ;And it remains to be reconciled with, them. ; _And of everything he has_done,or - written since, nothing has transpired, but whit has served to keep alive and increase these anxieties .and ap prehensions.- To sayuothing orate clumsy crudities and pompons inanities which graced his, attempts at theolegied dihoussion with a `Prineetdd whiliiimay be taken forinything - 'orliothing,'' as -the case, may.be, it might be sufficient. to say that the aforesaid apprehensions were more than justified by his,landatory greeting and . wel come.of the ; . rationalist Davidson to a oo partriensliip`in the - editorial - department of the Bibliotheca Sacra. Nor. could _this keen discerner of -the propriety of, antece dents then ..discover any antecedent impro priety iupluoingu rationalist in the chair of Stuart, as editor, and in keeping him there, if we mistake not, even after his treacherous ' maltreatment of "Home's Critical duction; to theSeriptures.” .But the greund for thspresensalarm. and apprehension in respect to Dr. Park's course, is found like wise in that increasing effort on his . part to locate 'at all -the • strong points about him those ifivoriteitheological , pupils,who most fully sympathize, with him in, hiskuotions of things L ikineyement which, as itsvilices a like cunning with, that of the crafty steward in Lake xvi : 3, would seem. to be based ',ripen a similar apprehension, or at least an apprehension a , struggle in de. fence of the Catechism must come, and a determination to,be preparedfor it so as ,tpcarry his point. Is it to he wort . dered that such a consciousness as must in the very -nature 'of.things lie at the basis of these anticipations, should ,be deemed it reconcilablewith an hilliest Atibsoription to _those Standards? Or that thsrs are,aerions Apprehensions Smenget the friends 'of evan gelical religiod New England that Andover may yet fall into likelliands with those.that hate made. Harvard: what. it is? The work of Dr.. Breckinridge, (along with its ,Anther,) Dr.. Park has so coarsely ; assailed , is recognized by competent judges as the ablest systematic exposition of the doetrines ~csontained, in the ,Catechipm, -'that.has.appearad , in our country. It, has ladenAgra9l4*n nip, has ,been t read very eiitensiyitly h alid has l,s , een hided by thin „ rinds Withgh applanse: 'Now to a man,. ' c lient upon-designi 111E1 By Lai, or at the,olllee, 111.50 per fee, t s zz pas/awns Delivered is the'City, 2,00 " Prof. Park obviously has in view, these thing; presented rather a serious obstacle. The reading of the work extensively in New England must have had a strong tendency to frustrate his hopes, and this must be prevented if possible But how y was the question. It could not be done by a fair review of the work itself, for Dr. Park is quite too cunning to undertake a fair fight. in open field with the author of those volumes; hence it mat be done by a review of the antecedents of the author, and by caricature, and by sardonic grins of contempt, and by all the littleness which cunning and malignity could play off to secure that end. And it is most humiliating to reflect that it was sufficient to provoke this malignity, that the doctrines which Prof. Park lias solemnly sworn to defend are most admirably explained and defended in the vihmes whose author he has thus assailed. Such then, are some of the antecedents of the reviewer and of hie review. If the antecedents of Dr. B are to be brought into the account to enable us to decide upon merits of i 4 theology Objectively and Subjiiiiireli Considered," those of Dr. Park are at - least equally important to enable, us to form a just estimate of the motives which impelled the rade rosault in his•review; and here we leave this matter. 2. The next point brought forward by the reviewer, is the method of the treatise itself. On this subject he refers his readers to the table of contents, and furnishes pretty con clusive evidence, that hie reading has ex tended but little beyond it; and that he has really wade no serious attempt to master or understand the train of thought which guided the author of these volumes in their preparation. It is not surprising, however, that a man should undertake to review a work without reading it, who can pledge liiaiself to sustain'and defend a system of doctrine; which his whole course evinces a .disposition. to ignore and subvert. Nor is even this the most marked feature in his Attempled,orleigiem upon the method of the work. y6r - while Prof. Park freely (and we think justly,) concedes his inability to cow the method of reasoning and illustration' which lus assails, his exorbitant nuity - luthcrously exhibits itself in the at tenigt,to show that because he cannot nn. deratand it, no one else should pretend to 'dro'r and all this in the very face of the wall kndin fact, that by many of the most thoroughly disciplined, intelligent and scholarly, minds in the country, that method understood, appreciated and regarded as highly uatisfaotory. Dr. Park speaks of the science of the ology, and :professes to ohjeot'to the method pursued.by Dr. Breckinridge, on the ground that:lais,not,soientifie; but he should have b adK the can dor admit that with his rational istic tendencies; the term scientific theology conveys 'to himself and sympathisers, an importiar different from that which it con veys to,the receivers of the theology which he,lasenssailed. There is a great deal of this wretched - ihodatriontade on the subject. Men who, like Dr. Park, have no conoep lion of theology as a Divine science, or as a Divine thethrid of teaching objective and subjective truth, are yet perpetually prating about a "scientific theology." A little AV caiatteringAf German, and, a glorification of tier' me Vip models ,__ ... t rougsts- glorification riirVieretiMunithifing-Wif an acquaintance with Gerinan--theologibal-lit erature—is deemed by this class of writers as sufficient to entitle them to play the critic in theology. Having spent a year or two in Germany, they return to us with very high conceptions of the humility they evince in consenting to treat, even with the outward forms of respect, the theology of the land , of their fathers. Nothing is learned, nothing scientific:, save what has painted through the crucible of German met aphysics and philosophy. And hence the wretched empiricism every wheie manifest, ,hen.. this Germanic : element comes into contact with the refiogniied theology of the 'American 'ehurehea; of which this review and the -other lnerubrations of Dr. Park, ands lengthy notice of Dr. Breokinridge's second volume, which appeared in the New York Eoangelist, are marked instances. And airintigst other ludicrous instances which 'wild,' be nettled; of the same twaddling spirit, a single one will be sufficient One of the.oo-editors of :that pretentious sheet, yolept, The American Presbyterian, after picking np sufficient German to enable him to read - some- of the simple sentences of 'Getanine expesition of Isaiah, undertook, most wally for his publishers, an exposition of the same prophet; and even came before the world withithe announcement that the proof , teats , alleged in support of their thee. logy by the older Divines, (amongst ,whom President Edwards was rrtioularly referred to,) were not alleged inteliigently. But to return : It would not be in,place here to go into a thorough exposition of the grounds of the method pursued. by Dr. Breckinridge in his treatise: 'We regard it as the true method, and as a truly-scientific presentation of the subject, immeasurably in advance of any of .the so ended scientific productions of Ger many. We are prepared to sustain this judgment' in 'cameo, but this is not the plane for it. We make the assertion as an offset to the, silly rhapsody of Dr. Park, and then leave tiot i pcin,t4or,the present. It is really amusing, -though the reflect- Wine thereby awakened are painful and hu miliating, that in the originalChargee made against this work by the North Carolina Pastor and endorsed by the." nine editors of the,American Presbyterian," so; reat was the toolignintaeare to destroy the repute 'den of Dr.lßreekinridge's work, under the accusation of plagiarism, that he was charged with taking. the method , of his trea tise (that very, method which pr. Park in his conceited, soiolhun denouncee aid at tempts to '"ridicule,) from Dr. Makbers. This accusation was dropped, however, upon Dr. Breckinridge's declaring -that he had never even had Chalmer's Institutes of Theology in his hands. But as by the, ori ginal attempt: to ,_make out this charge, a similarity of mithodioal arrangement was affirmed by them, and as the reviewer was perfectly well acquainted with the facts and reasons ofthis accus ation ,; ation ;-what is to be thought of `the p osit i on into „he has brought 'himself? If the inethb'ds are alike, then his denunciations , and , abortive attempts at ridicule apply no ,less to the venerable Chalmers than to Dr. Breekin ,ridge, and. while charging Dr. B. with vanity, and what not, he furnishes' a 'Clear insight into hie own immeistirahle'imperti nenoe andieltooneeit; and- the compassion which he has pretended to express for Dr. B..recit.*Wge may be well extended to the smattering rhapsodist,, who, _ with no4lualifi cation hit impertinent' malice, has in :such terms'veneuredio ' assail a 'method said to have: been sanctioned 'and adopted by the 'venerated -and ',truly ,great theologian of Sootland. Bat sif on the contrary , the isle** Are not the „came, then we leave Di Park ' -to Settle with -I "th+, nine editors of the Aneßean'Piesb'yterian" 'and'the pother _ NOLIIDZD ON FOURTH TARIM NO. 878