BY DAVID OYER.
LOU BLES AMERICA!
A NATIONAL ANTIIKM, TIT H. SI. EI AH.
G >1 bless the 'and thM give us birth!
No prayer tut It is kno v wo—
V: "1 K ■ the land of all the earth,
The lmppy and the ftee!
A' '■ •hen's the I itnl lilta ours can brave
Tliesplendor of the day,
A...1 fiiiil no son of her's a slavef
thwt b! iss Aiasiici!
God bless the land.
The laud beloved forever and for aye!
Gol bless tiio lard tint gave us birth!
God tie.-; America!
For libojty on* grind sires "trod
Tiie wide r.: d stormy sea;
•../ bought the treasure w th iheir biood.
Their c'liltlrtsi are ali 'free J
Anl Iree uuid ci nh's servile hi rles.
To point the patriot' way,
IV;;; pluuzbmttafes turned in war to swords,
God bios America :
God bless the land, Ac.
TL<r t'esrrt? H ovled. the pilgrims ealo
i'ru v tied oppression's Chain:
'find erts i-lnotJ:' i. ami the Amie
v.! Oeeiium -o>>- again;
At i ■ -re. where hearts <f p-e are !w.,
. !i u ;i me s' >.d tie \r decay,
*>. le babesVangb .ings aud crowns to s-vcrn.
God bless America !
God bless the iand,&c.
An \ from our land, in hour of need.
Avert tbv darkening frown;
Iti.'iu up it! patriot hearts that bleed.
And strike the traitor down!
And shall the s.-rp-nt foe prevail I
Shall foe T friend bet lay !
I'p with tl:■■ St ir llig to the gde!
ViiKl bieSs A Uo-iic.l!
God b!ess the k T d, Ac.
Tire banner of our Union loved,
Si all wave forages on:
11 hile line shall find no stripe removed,
Xo bright s:,ir quenched and gone!
And SKI;-! V, States Co it VUls :(i shall die,
From earth lie ; v opt away;
"White millions >r lll uphold the cry,
lUd bless America!
God hic.-s lite land, Ac.
From the Lutbcren Observer.
EXTRAgTa FROM A SERMON
Preached in HoLidaysbu-g en the
22d ol Navsmber by Rev. L.
Knight, fr im 1 Tim. 1: 2—4,
'•t exhort, there tor.-, ii; „: >: alt, ihat snppli
catron.-, jiraye.,,. micreeasioiis acknowleuging
thank-. oe/.iude for all uieri; tor king*, an t tor
all that are u author, ty.tli.it we mi> lead a
qai"l an t pi' icM'jle tife in all godltticts aud
holies'. . 1 this is good and acceptable ill
tao ig it oi (. -.1 our Saviour, who wilt have
.. . men to tie saved, and to curue uuto ti.e
knowledge ot truth.*'
CHRISTIAN FRIENDS AND FKLLOW-CITI-
Zt.N>: —lii obtdicuce to executorial authori
ty, agwablv to our own inclinations, ami
;a compliance with th wishes of many of our
citizens, we have assembled in the House of
lire Lord to offer prayer and prai.se to the
G'd of heaven, for the numberless blessings
vouchsafed unto us as a nation, as a Btate
and as a community. Whatau interesting
sight i> presented to the heavenly host this
day! 1: anscls rejoice over one pro-,trote
-•inner, how mush m >rc over a initios, bowing
before its Maker ?
The Kings at this time were heathen, ene
mies of the religion of Jesta and persecu
tes of tbo christian church ; yet they were
to be prayed tor, it is necessary for the
public good. a.nl fur the peace and prosper
!ty of the church, that there be civil govern
ment and proper persons intrusted with the
• administration of it. However hopeic?s
■their case- tnay appear, they are to be praved
for ; t cause (rod our Saviour wills the sal
vation of all men. of Kings,
governors, chief magistrates, leztstators,
and all clothed with any kind of civil, judi
cial tor military amborify—who, according
to ,'.V tofcfSTts# which may be drawn from
the toy.tj are geaeril'j among the hardest
and ipost cases in {be country *
In a republic like ours, tho temptation?
•to uisrcp-ct and Lusubordiuatiun arc neces
aar.lv great and peculiar. Our rulers do
not coma upon the stage af >utica elothed
in tha robes of Lcrdiiary boner!, and backed
t? til tiio aad splendor to awe the
jcop'c intoobcciencc. .The people tuen.-
• rives are die sovereigns. yesterday tfce
Tuler himself wi a subject; to-day he is
eb'tiiod with li<e office of State. J'hc po
itieal ii too often corrupt; no matter
■ troci what party the chief executive cornea
tie raj u>; u„. e 0 S f„p ; n to office before he
uk touch l-daubeJ ,witb party scandal,
that to tinny fog t , scares any more an ob
ject of icpc;t. Hence tlie necessity o'
our obey.o3 the injunctions of the text.
* • •
The text implies that the early christians
in danger of losing their religious lib
r'y - thzt they were in daag&r of not lead*
n S a <piiet. pcacoable life in ali goJliucsS
*Ji honesty. • • •
Arc we iu danger of losing our oivii and
religions liberties? Ars re in danger of
n ''t leading qsiet and pcacaalle JircS! We
sua;- ;n ijp from the te*t that there ie <l*n-
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gcr, because this scripture was in ten Jed us
a rule of faith and action for all christians
in future time. * * *
j 1. One source of danger to the ciri' anil
! religious liberties of this country is lattery
| i bis is an enemy to any form of government.
: It has been •ho overthrow of those who wen
proof against the mighty armies of the earth.
Hannibal, the great Carthagenian general,
I crossed the Alps with a hundred thousand
men, at ('anntc the great battle was fought
• and forty thousand Romans were slain.—
j The son of Atnilcar made a bridge of the
i dead bouics, and as a sign of bis victory
j sent three bushels of gold rings to Carthage,
i taken from the fingers of the Roman knight?
I slain in battle. Rome was in bis power.—
i But he retired to Capua, where the Carth
agenian soldiers ronu forgot to compter in
the pleasures of a luxurious city. Ileuce
it has Lecu said, that Capua was a Canute
[to Hannibal. lie did not take the city—but
the city took him and his mightv arruy.—
Luxury was their overthrow. And lururv
afterwards proved the ruin of Rome herself
and other ancient republics. Let us not
flutter ourselves that we are in no danger
j from this insinuating and enchanting fue.—
' I uere is a faise, a Ico fastidious or zquoaw
• sh refinement finding its way into the chur
| cites, and even into the pulpits of tbecouu
; try, and is sappiug the very foundations of
! C hrif t auity. Ft. Puu'i said, 2 Tim. 4, 3, 4:
'-'The time will come when they will not en
j dure sound doctrine, but after tbeir own
| lust.- shall heap to themselves teachers, hav
! ing itching cr.ro,'' &e. AnJ as to extrava
gant indulgences in the pleasures of the ta
ble, and the ixiiorLitarit use of costlv dress
; and equipage; though the crops should fail
and the times grow pincbing Land; tbougb
many cf the rich became poor, aud merchants
: become bankrupt; though fbo pestilence
should walk in darkness and distraction
waste at Doou-day; aud though thousand*
, tall in the East and in the West or in the
: North, one half the survivors would import
| tie must costly silks, cloths, brandies, wines
aud gaugaws—dothe iu fine linou aud fare
sumptuously every day, while the other half
might go in rags and starve. It is .-aid that
ladies in New Turk spend annually millions
of dollars for the single irem of dress alone'
Licentiousness *nd drunkeness are ever the
foul companions of luxury. The just res
tiYnls of the law of marriage, the link
which binds civil society together arc out
raged; the 7th commandment is violated
j with impunity oftenei than any other, and
; the number of illegitimate children boru is
becoming festfully alarming. More than
ten billions of gallons of ruin have been
consumed by the inhabitants of the United
Statis since the signing of the Declaration o'
Independence, costing in dollars alone more
titan five billions. This has sent seven mil
lions of drunkards to eternity. Three
fourths of the pauperism in the Un'tcd
States are caused ly intemperance; to sup
port wbieb it requires ten millions of dol
lars. Three-fourths of the crimes commit
ted are caused d'rectly or indirectly by in
temperance. The depredations, apprehen
sions, imprisonments—the trials and the
punishmeuts cost tbo honest tax-payers of
the country several millions more. This
added to the cost of the liquor, loss of time,
40., would be money sufficient to make 20,-
. UOO miles of canals, build 50,000 mile? of
railroad, support ail the colleges, semina
ries and churches of the country educate all
the children, keep all the poor, and send
the Bible and missionaries to every heathen
nation on the globe. Is it a wonder we
groan under our taxes? Is it a wonder we
have such enormous national and state debts?
Is it not a wonder that we yet exist? And
why is it that this great foe to the country
is permitted to carry on his work of diatruc-
tion without beiug physically restrained?—
Talk of moral suasion. Nonsense! Von
may as well talk of stopping a cannon ball
with a ptvlm-leaf fan, or stop the craters of
aßias and Vesuvius with a bundle of straw
or convert the d evil to Christianity, as
tilk about stopping the traffia in rum by mor
al suasion! If any other foe in the shape
cf fowl or beast, man or devil, had done one
rtentu of the mischief that rum has done our
countrymen would have waded in blood to
their armpits to Lave driven hioi from the
country.
2. Another source of danger to the coun
try is political corruption. This is found
in all ranks of oar office bearers, from the
j chief mag strates down to boron gh consta
bles. And if occasionally an exception is
tourui, one who has the nobleness of soul to
rwsist bribery and stem the desolating tide
of political corruption and .deuwgogueisni,
in vindication bf right, truth and justice, he
is soon forsaken by ali the numberless and
nxutcicss parties of the country, considered
eccentric, aud laughed at for his pains,i
We might mention a few noble spirits, pure !
who are now as vhiujjag lights in
; -ho political world, but we forbear,'
Test we might be charged with dabbling in
party polities, '["he time wa? wlmu ministers
of the gospel were expected to disccurse
freely front the pulpit on Unpolitical condi
tion of the country. As an evidence of this
we have only to consult the published ser
mons of ancient diviues. This was in the
days of Washington, Hamilton, Jay, Jte.
But alas! my countrymen, hew changed tiio
times. .Vote, a minister, of the gospel,
who ought to know ,it least as much us
another humble citize.i, dare scarcely ex
press his opinmu in public or private; if he
have the presumption to exereiso his bumble
privilege at the ballot-box, lie often gives
mortal offence. Ilonce, it is a notorious
fact that many ministers of tiio gospel do uot
vote at aii. They re afraid.
[Conclusion ntxt week.]
ARRIVAL OF THE AAIIUUCA,
Oue W et'k Later from Lurope.
Prospects of" Peace Decreas-
HAM FAX, Jan. 16.—-The steamer Ameri
ca arrived here this evening fiom Liverpool
with dates to Saturday the sth iuet.
The great question of war or peace is
still HudecideJ. Peace prospects are not
brighter, as Russia raises obstacles. The
Czar's reply to the ultimatum of the Wes
tern powers had not boon received, but was
expected by the 18:U iast.
Palmer and Green, Duikers, at luetca
field, England, have failed.
The raies of money wete raising in Eng
land aud bullion was decreasing.
TIIE PEACE PROSPECTS
The peace negotiations are becoming more
complicated than ever. E.sterhazy j resen
ted the proposals backed by Austria .'o the
Czar on the 28th Hit., but Nosaclrode'a cir
cular had previously put an interpretation
on tbc third poim which tue allies eanuot ad
mit, namely, that Russia and Turkey shall
mutually agree on the strength of the fleet
to be kept in ihe Black Sea. The allies,
on the other hand, demand of Russia to
cede the moutb of the Danube, which she
refuses to do, henco the prospect of an
amicable adjustment is very slight.
Nesselroiie has addressed a circular to
the Rej rcacnbitive? of Rtissia at fureigu
Courts, stating that Russia accepts the
third poiut of the uitiiuatuui of the Wea:-
eru Powers, relative to the neutralization
of the black JBea in the following sense;
"That the right of Turkey to close the
Straits bo maintained;—that no skips of
war be admitted into the Black Sea except
Russian and Turkish;— that the number of
ships be mutually arranged by Russia aud
Turkey by special treaty by these two pow
ers alone." The allies, of course, reject
this interpretation.
Kstevhnxy reached Petersburg on the 26th,
and on the next day laid bis propositions
before the Russian cabinet. Court Boul
subsequently communicated to Prince Gort
schakoff, at Vienna, the terms on which the
Western Powers would assent to |eaci
stating those terms were approved by Aus
tria. [These terms have beeu already pub
lished.)
Russia makes known in Ncssoitode's
circular her unwillingness to tr-at for the
neutralization of the Biack Sea, hut it is ex.
pee ted that she will absolutely refuse the
cession of the territory required to keep
open the Danube.
Appearences strongly indicate that Aus
tria will not take the field against Russia
uulcss assured by the active support of the
German Bund.
Tho Weser Gazette states that an ad
ditional article touching the third poiot has
been added to tho treaty of December 2 J
between Austria the obligation to take part
in the war in case Russia refuses t > accept
tho thirJ point as interpreted by Ncssel
rode.
The Prussian Court is displease 1 with
Baron mission to St, Petersburg,
and has sent Baron Mantefeul to Dresden
to demand positively to what extent Bavaria
and Saxony have engaged themselves with
the Western allies.
Advances from Sweden are very warlike.
The military commanders havo received in
structions to Lave their regiments in the
highest state of efficiency before Spriug.—
The indications arc, tha; in accordance with
the secret article of the treaty, Swcedco will
take the held in the spring.
The Danish Government, it is said, con
seuts to the establishment of depots for the
English fleet at Kiel, which will reudexvous
there in April.
Uortschafcoff announces that on the 10th
of December a deutebmeut ofKossaeks de
feated a strong squadron of General Vivian's
cavalry near Kerecb, and that the Eng*
lUh commander was taken prisoner,
Tim latent accounts from the '.'rim-a state
BEDFORD. PA.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 25.1856.
that the Russian troops had been reinforced
by two regiments of hussars—also, that
large bodies of Russians troops were
marching from the Crimea to Bessarabia.
There was no intention, however, of evacua
ting their frmer position as tbiir places will
bo filled from the reserves.
The fleet of gunboats of the allies bad
beeu frozen in at Kinburn.
From Asia intelligence has been
received that Onier Pacha has returned to
Sxckoum Kaieb, renouncing his intention of
making an attack on Kutais.
The Russians took possession of the de_
files of Hassan as soon as Seiiut Pucba re
turned to Erzeroun. The greater portion
of the Russian arr y will winter at Kars.
Manv persons were quitting Krzerourn
under apprehens ion of an attack from the
Russians.
From Sr. Petersburg accounts say that
the Czir lias directed the commandant of
the Finland and liiltio Provinces tore
port the means of their defines to a grand
council.
Contracts are advertised for imuenso
quantities of artillery, stores, 4EC. New rifle
regiments are being cnrolied.
FROM CHINA.
A serious difficulty had oecufrsd at Hong
Kong between the American Consul and
the local authorities in consevacnce of the
American ship Reiudccr refusing to pay a
fine fur an assault ou the carpentar of his
ship. Consul Kceaan protests against the
jurisdiction of the Court as the affa:r took
[dace on board an A ucricoa
Advices from India state that the Ameri
can ship \Yaveriy, with Chinese laborers ou
board, hud put into Manilla to bury the
Captain. Seme trouble having bceured on
boarp. the mate shot two or three, drove
the rent below and fastened theiu down.—
He theu went ashore and when lie returned
he found that 250 of the miserable crea
tures bad died from suffocation! The mate
aud crew wore iiunrisonoi by Cue Spanish
authorities.
The police attempted to imprison the
captain, but the C asul hurried liint abroad
the atojiucr Powhatan where the superin
tendent of police followed, demanding the
prisoner.
Captain MeClunely declared mat he con
fiderej the action of the Cosy t.,illegal, and
would resist by force any attempt of the Brit
ish authorities to exercise jurisdiction over
American citizens J.i American ships.
Ihe Captain of the Reindeer afterwards
paid the fine, but the Consul wa3 committed
for trial on the charge of attempting to res
cue the prisoner.
THE LATEST
A grand Council of War is to be held in
Paris to collect, interchange and consider
all possible information relative to the
Wax.
Execution of Miller.
In compliance with the warrant of the
Governor of the Siate, FriJerick Miller,
convicted of tiio Murder of Dr. J. F. 0. Ila
del anu Henry Graeff, was executed yester
day, in the prcsenocof an iiuaicasc concourse
ot people —of all apes, colors and coudithns,
and of both sexes.
For weeks, past the prisoner has been
regularly visited by the Rev. Mr. Myers, of
tho German Lutheran Church, who labored
.assiduously to impress liiut with a ptope,-
sonse of his duty in liew of bis couteuiplu
ted appearance before the Supreme Judge;
but from what we learn, there was but lit
apparent change in hiiu.
At a few minutes past II o'clock, the
prisoner, dressed iu his shroud was taken
from the jail, and seated in anopeu carriage
ou his ooffiu, and Duputy Sheriff Cullen took
a seat by his side—aud froiu thence was es
corted by the "Alleghany Guards'' and
■'Cumberland Continent als.*' to the place of
execution, on the almshouse property. He
manifested much firmness, or rather indif
ference.
Arrived at tho place of execution, the
prisoner, accompanied by Sheriff Rverett,
bis deputy, the lato Sheriff, Rev. Messrs.
Myers, Driukhouse,Ciomm, Pr. P. A. ilcal
ey, and several others, ascended the seat
fold. The llev. Mr. Clenun addressed the
vast assemblage for a few minutes, in re
marks appropriate to the occasion;the
prisoner standing drring the time. TJic
Rev. Mr. Myers followed in a prayer in be
half of the prisoner. Tho prisoner theu
made an audible prayer; in which he reiter
ated that he was innocent of the murdors.—
He asked forgiveness of the almighty for
his sins, and thanked llirn for the grace He
had vouchsafed to him through life, and that
when he ascended to Heaven, asked that
the Lord would grant him permission to see
Hadel and Graeff, that ho might know of j
them who was their murderer. He also
prayed for the judge, jury, witnesses,
ttc.
At 20 minutes of I o'oioik, the prisoner
! bade the several persons on the scaffold
farewell. He requested Mr. Fulton (of the
Baltimore American, and brother-in-law of
Dr. Iladel,) to tender bis regards to Mrs.
Hsdel aud her little children, and told him
to say to Iter that lie was innocent of the
murder of her husband. To otic of the
gentlemen he said he was prepared to die,
and yxpected to be in Ileaveo in a few min
utes. He shed not a tear.
His arms were then pinioned by tl.e Sher
iff, the noose put around lus neek, and tb°
cap drawn over his face. At 17 minute
-1 o'clock, the sheriff cut the rope and the
trap dropped, the prisoner falling about 3
feet. He struggled for 3or 4 minute-, afid
at 1 o'clock he was pronounced dead, arid
cut down. His body was then placed in a
cofliu.
Thus died Frederick Miiler; and were it
not for the unbroken chain of evidence
against hint, which removes from the reflect
ing mind every shadow of a doubt of his
guilt, some might think he suffered inno
cently. But it is easier to believe that he
died with falshoud on his tongue, trait that
he was innocent of the blood of Hade! and
Graeff.— .lllez'trenuta, Jan. ilk.
A recent murJer at New Haven, of a
strange character, is attracting macb atten
tion from the Eastern press.
A widow named Wakeiuan, aged some
i seventy yearn, professed to be a prophetess,
| claimed power to raise the dead, and said
| -ho had been sent by Heaven as a messen
ger to the wicked in this world. One El
dor Sly 1 ived with Iter, and her house was
resorted to by many who believed in her
miraculous powers; indeed, one of the
doubting had severely tested her preten
sions by u dose of arsenic, so heavy, howev
er. that her stomach ejected it— ihus sa
ving her life, and establishing her claims
! among the ignorant.
Among those who believed her to be what
she claimed, was a suj-efstitkms farmer, one
Justus Matthews—bur she accused him of
being possessed of a devil, who resisted all
her efforts aud was bewitching her, and
would vet sueered in killing tar, if not de
feated. Ou Saturday night, Dec. 224, her
followers met to destroy ibis spirit, but
without effect—but next moruing Matthews
was found in the house, by his son, dead-,
his throat cut from ear to ear, and marks of
a rope on his wrists.
Sly confesses that Matthews was brought
to the bonse, and that while the assem
blage were busy with their ceremonies in
another room, he concluded that the oDly
way to drive the devil out of him was to
kill him: he went in struck him on the head
with a club, and then cut his throat—wind
ing up the tragedy with prayer.
It is surprising that Such superstition
should exist anywhere, but especially in so
enlightened a region as the scene of this
most horrible murder. As there can he
no doubt of the insanity of the jterson who
committed the deed, we presume he will bo
committed to an insane asylum.
VALLEY' OF THE AMAZON.
Lieut. GIBSON'S exploration in the valley
of the Amazon presents to the reader many
interesting feature?. 5Ye clip the following
in relation to bird-hunters :
"There are a few individuals among the
Creoles of Santa Cruz vho understand the
art of collecting and preserving the skins
|of bftds ;ill arsenical soap. They make
j their living hy stuffing birds with cotton, to
be boxed np and exported. The bird col
lector differs from the hark gatherer; he is
fonnd on the plains as iu the woods, bis
| ammunition is god powder in a small tin
| canister, different sized shot, and a small
quantity of quicksilver. Tbc shot are for
ordinary bitds. Uo puts a lew drops of
quieksi.ver in a small piece of paper, and
loads his gan with it iastead of shot. The
quicksilver knocks the humming-bad over,
without tearing the skin or disfiguring the
plumage; it stuns, and before the bird re
covers, the sportsamu has hiui in hand.
After the hunter has collected some live
hundred kinds, ne then becomes difficult to
please, lie wants the beautiful little song
ster who sits at the base of ibo Andes, and
sends fcrth his music before the rising sun.
There are many birds who feed by night,
and sleep ;n daylight, some steal the eggs
front their neighbor, others drive away the
parents, feed and rear their young, or sit
upon the eggs and hatch them for the right,
ful owner. All these birds we see around
us have their regular hours for feeding,
singing, bathing, resting and sleeping.
Wo met a bird-hunter in Ttinididj h<t
had beeu at years coilectiug near
six 1 undred d'ffereat kinds. lie was of
opinion there are over a thousand varieties
of night and day birds to be found iu the
I Madeira Plate, besides snakes, lizards, and
| any quantity of insects. Trinidad was his
headquarters, from wuich he branched off
in all directions during the dry season.
His room was a perfect curiosity shop.
Hie birds were rolled up in paper after
being properly cared, and stowed away in
large wood' n boxes. Every day, at differ
ent hours, lie weut to the fhld; after days
of labor, he would be seen returning with a
single bird, differing from any iu his room.
He procutes poisonous soakes by splitting
:he end of a stick to the furin of a fork,
which i;e places over the neck of the snake,
and holds him until a gcurd or bottle is
fixed over his head, witcu he loosens his fork '
and the snake crawls into the cavity. He
then corks the gourd and puts it into his
pocket. After tuo snake starves to deatb
or is drowned in spirits, his skin is taken off, i
preserved and stuffed, ready for transporting I
to the museums of the civilized world.
During the raiuy season, the bird-hunter
enters a canoe, and repairs to those places
where the various animals are collected
together. He obtains many species there,
which would require a length of time to fol
low up, and fill his cattoe with veaison aud
deer skins."
SINGULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL FACT.
. The transference of vitality which ap
pears to take place when young persons are
j habitually placed in contact with tbe aged,
is not a nursary fiction. It is well attest
|ed by very competent authorities. "A not
j uncommon cause," observes Dr. James
I Copelund, "of depressed vital power, is the
young sleeping with the-aged. This fact,
j however explained, has been long remarked,
and is well known to every unprejudiced
I observer. I have on several occasions met
with the counterpart of the following case:
I was, a few years ago, consulted about a
, sickly, aud thin boy, of about four or five
years of age. He appears to have no spe
cific ailment, but there was a slow and re
markable decline of flesh and strength, and
of tin energy of the functions; what his
mother very an'ly termed a gradual blight,
i After inquiry into the history of the case,
j it came out that he had been a very robust
j and plethoric child, up to bis third year,
when his grand-mother, a very aged person,
j took him to sleep with her, that bo soon
, afterward lost his good looks; and that he
f continued to decline progressively ever
j since, notwithstanding medical treatment.
I I directed him to sleep apart from the aged
parent, end prescribed geatlc tonics, change
lof air, Ac. The recorerv was rapid. But
| it is not in children only that debility is in
; duced by this mode of abstracting vital
power. Young females married to very old
n "ii suffer in a similar manner, although
seldom to so great an extent: and instan
ces have come to tuy knowledge where thev
have suspected the cause of this debilitated
state. These facts arc often well known to
tbe aged themselves, who consider the in
dulgence favorable to longevity, and there
: by illustrate the selfishness which, in some
j persons, increases with their years. Every ;
j medical practitioner is well aware of the .
j fact, and parents arc generally advised not ,
I to allow their infants to sleep with aged
persons."
I
AN EMERALD REGION.
A Washington correspondent of the New
York San says:
It is thought at the War Department that
a certain officer of one of the U. S. ex-1
ploring expedition*, has discovered the rm- j
rrald rejiori known to the Montzuuias, but
utterly lost since the conquest of C >rtCT.—
The Spanish conquerors bad no idea of the
va:uc of the half-polished genii of brilliant ;
green, which pertained exclusively to tbe
use of tbo imperial house of the Axtec*. and
some of tho finest were lost aud scattered, i
but enough remained to astonish the dia- \
tnor.d merchants of Europe* and inquiry 1
was made as to tho. locality from whence i
they were drawn. Like tho 'gold tribute :
sent in quills from a remote province,' and
tha 'golden opal' of Mexico, which is so
rare that it is alraist deemed a fabulous
gem, the existence of the emerald mines of
the Mor.tszumas cotdd never be traced out,
and their existence was almost forgot*
ton.
No one doubt* that Senator Benton's
son-in-law, Fremont, concealed from the
government what he learned of the gold
placers of California, until he had made his
own arraugemenU; and now we have another
officer making his arrangements to get up a
party for a point shout three miles south of
the line of the Gadsden purchase, and very
near where 32 deg. N. L. intersects 113
,deg. 20 mia. W. L. from Grceuwieh. It is*
not a fertile legion, but it !.* sone fertile'
valleys, and is healthy, well, watered, and
has gold placers liko tjalitoniia- Thcral
may bo some wincing and denial, but you
iu*y rely on the ti dure and loaaltty of these
astounding discover;*#.
. t * '* i
YOL. 29, NO 4.
"I The "Immaculate CaDcepJoa" io
France.
J The new dogma of tbc "Immaculate Con
cept. ou )Q the lioniish Church, is creating
j quite a discussion agong tbe faithful io
Fran-e. ••L'Uoivcrs." is tbe organ of tbo
I and ultra Montaine porticos of the
Catholics, and "I* Seicie is tbo organ of
! the Ualican or anti nltra Montane portion
jot tbe Church. It is supposed that tho
i new dogma will lead to a separation of tbo
• two branches of tbe Church. To giro cur
, readers some idea of the character of
' controversy, we give the following, being a
translation of an article in <; Lj Siccle," in
reply to an article in •'L'Uoivcrs:"
I "You are tue uieu who wrote the Code ©f
I tbc Inquisition, tbc greatest crime of human
kind; who shed blood like water in tbc wars
j of tbe Albigenses, of the Waldsases, aud of
, the Hussites; who butcbcicd old men, wo
i men and children; and said whilst treading
; under foot heaps c>f corpses, God will know
j who bled Spain to death, cxter mioated
, tbo Moors, and proscribed tbe Jews,
who waylaid tbe Protestants on St. Bar
tholomew's day, blessed the dagger of
Jacques Clement, let loose upon Europe
tbc thirty year's war, concocted iu secret
tbe gunpowder plot, transformed Flanders,
by the Land of the Duke of Alba, into an
j immense slaughter-house, burnt Gloidaao
Bruno at the Stake, tortured on the rack
the genius of Galileo, extorted from Louis
XIV, the revocation of the edL-t of Nantes,
burnt four huudred villages in tbe Ceven
nes, signed a hundred thousand cachet (war.
rants) against tbe Jauseni-ds, condemned
Galas, executed Labarrc, fhyrd Fro D avole,
| killed, at llomc, General Duphot, shook in
; the 19th century, the law of sacrilege, as a
trial torch of the Inquisition, and finally
irritated France, during th; restoration, to
I such a degree, that after a long resistance,
i Fiance indignantly punished you. I)o you
[ recognize \ourselves in this description of
, your service, and in the long trail of blood
j yoa have left behind you ou the road of the
j past! Do ycu legin to find out what yonr
j family name is? Your uarnc is nut religion,
i for religion is peace to ihe State,
! wherever you set your foot, we find nothing
; but discord. No power, no people, has
: been able to live within the reach of your
| breath, without beiug poisoned and voauft*
' ing you back."
BEHIND THE T1M8&
The Faroe Islands are distant but lhr?0
dvys sail from Scotland, but in point of
tiuie they a-e separate] from hby thres
I centuries. Upon '.he largest of tLosa
• Islands is the little Danish town of Tbor
shavco—a town without streets or hr.es,
composed of rude Luts scattered about
raudom among the rocks. A recent travel
ler tells us that in these Luts he found
women grinding corn with a hand mill—the
; same primitive engine for preparing meal
j which is alluded to in tbe Bible, and is now
shown in antiquarian museums as a tiling
iof past ages. He also found therein active
use, another of the dead antiquities of the
museum. Scottish antiquariaus are ac
quainted with a small stone cup, with a
| carved handle, which is occasionally found
in the earth. They have long been puzzled
! to imagine ihe ancient use of it, but our
j traveller finds the same article in general
I use in Thorsbavcn for carrying lighted
tinder from one house to another. For
j these people are so far from knowing cffric
tion matches that they do not even make
j use of tbe flint aud steel, but keep their
1 fires perpetually burning *. On one of the
: Islands, which is so walled around by high
cliffs that it can only be approached in
i favorable weather—and then ropes are re*
quired to pull any one up from tiic sea—re-
I sides a single family, which on one occasion
allowed their fire to go out; and they una
voidably remained without fire or light for
■ the remainder of the season !
I WONDER,
i W1 icft a toting man is clerk in a storo 1
! and dresses like a prince, smokes "foine ci
f gars," driuks "ooiec brandy," attends the-
I atrcs, balls, and the like, 1 wonder if b
does all upon the avails of his clerkship?
When a young lady sits in the parlor ail
day, with her lily white fingers covered with
rings, I wonder if her mother don't wash
the dishes and do the work in the kitchan?
V hen a deacon of the church sells strong
butter, recommending it as excellent and
sweet, I wonder if he don't rely oa the
! merits of Christ for salvation?
W hen a man goes three times a day to
[ get a dram. I wonder if he will not by and
! hv go four times?
V hen a young lady laces her waist %
third smaller than nature tnade it, I wonder
if bor pretty figure wili not shorten life
j some dozen years or more, besides making
her miserable while she does live.
When a young man is dependent upon
id-, daily toil for his income, and marries a
lady who does not know how to make ft
loaf M bread, or mend a garment, 1 won
i Jer if Leas not lacking some .vherej say to*
wards the top, for instance?
When a luan receives a periodical or
newspaper weekly, and takes great delight
in reading thorn, but neglects to pay feg
them. I wchdtr if kt has a soul <* a a
aard I
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