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    the Chiilese Government have shown their read
iness to yield to demands upon their treastiry,
and for increased facilities of trade and inter
curse. In 1842. in the ju3tly styled opium war,
the investing of Nankin, thweld capital, though
distant from the present capital nearly 'eight
hundred miles, led them to yield to the dementia
of the English, and the formation of the treaty
of August 29th, 1842, by which their ports were
opened, and they agreed to pay twenty-one mil
lions of indemnity. In 1858 they.had acceded
to the conditions of the revised treaty, after a
comparatively unimportant deinonstration in
taking the Tidal Forte, as they then vitiated.
We are left, as yet, to mere surmise as to what
vas the requirement to which the Chinese OllV
vrnm' ent would not. yield, when it had seen its
boasted defences all carried, and the most formi
dable Western army that ever threatened its
shores encomped within sixty miles of the seat
of the Dragon Court. It appears a Most proba
ble eurtnise that it was .the requirement to an
ltitowledge, that. it. was wrong to resist the attempt
of the Ambassadors of the, Allies to force their
way to Pekin In 18641 to exchange the treaties.
Whatever may have been the demand, which the
Chinese Government determined to risk the nil
'WlC° of the terrible army of the Allies upon the
capital rather than accede to, I have nn hesita
tion in expressing the conviction that when it
comes to be known, the verdict of sober history
will be against it.
The progress of the army thus far has shown
that it was no holiday excursion they have un
dertaken. The distance from Tien-taun to
Pekin is something more than sixty miles. Yet.,
such were the difficulties in securing the means
of transportation and supplies, that on the 21st
of September, or thirteen days after the march
was commenced, they were still eight miles dis
tant, from that, city. On the 18th, they came
upon the entrenched camp of the enemy. The
Tartars showed a force of twenty-five or thirty
thousand, and opened fire upon the Allies.
Their fire was returned, and the Tartar troops
were defeated, with a loss of two thousand killed,
-while not a single man of the Allied forces was
killed, and only some sixteen wounded. The
Tartar troops again appeared, in equal number,
on the 21st, and for a time threatened to sur
round their enemies. But. the terribly destruc
tive artillery and the deadly rifle of Western mili
tary science soon threw them into confusion, and
they retreated again. Every one of right feeling
must admire the bravery that leads these people
to defend the approach to their capitol with such
pertinacity, against such destructive weapons,
and with such disregard of life. Western na
tionsory out against the treachery and cowardice
of the Chinese. But, in the eye of equal justice,
what magnanimity or military prowess is there in
waging war against a foe with such inefficient,
arms I The story that two thousand are killed
on one side, and not a single one killed on the
other, when the number of combatants is some fif
teen thousand to twenty-floe or thirty thousand,
shows that it is but little else than the butchery of
nn unarmed rabble. Impartial history has stigma
tized the war of the Spaniards upon the Mexicans
and Peruvians as a butchery of inoffensive races.
The mine judgment will; no doubt, be pronounc
ed upon the military expeditions in China, of
thou who regard themselves as the representa
tives of a higher civilization.
After the battle of the 18th inst.., the rejoic
ings over the victory were marred in consequence
of Mr. 11, S. Parkes, the captor of the late Can
ton Governor Yeb, nt the taking of that city, in
January, 1858, and Several other civilians, of
Lord Eigin's suite, together with the correspon
dent of the London Times, and one military offi
cer, having been taken prisoners by the Chinese.
In answer to applications for their restoration.
the Chinese offitials had sent Lord Elgin assur
ances of their safety—that they were in Pekin,
and provided for
. according to their rank. Mr.
Parkes had a great desire to get to Pekin. Hie
desire has been gratified, but not in just the way
he would have preferred. The last news from
the army is of the date, 28c1 of September, at
which time the army lay encamped eight miles
from the capital. On that day a flag of truce
had come in with a large supply of provisions
for the Allies, It was stated that commissioners
had been appointed with full powers to accede to
the terms of peace. The Emperor's brother is
stated to be chief commissioner. Further news
is waited, of course, with the mostfeverish anxi
ety. The poeition of the Allies is eminently per
ilous. They are in the midst of a populous
country, eighty Miles from the basis of their ope
rations on the seaboard, dependent upon the
country fdr supplies just at the commencement
of Winter. If the Chinese should let them take
possession of Pekin, what could they do with it.
Had the Chinese a little more knowledge, they
might make this advance on the capital as dims
trous to the Allies as the advance upon Moscow
was to Napoleon. But the general suppoiition
is, that peace will be concluded without any at
tack upon the capital having been made. These.
successive defeats of their boasted Tartar troops
must convince them that they cannot resist their
enemies, and they do not understand the tactics
of wearing them out by delays; neither, indeed,
'does the.oondition of the country admit of their
pursuing that policy at this time. We can only,
wait and see what are the developments of God's
providence. He presides over the destinies of
nations. His plans and purposes are worked
out by men, thqugh they mean it not.
Subsequent to the writing of my last letter, I
found out where the proclamation against Roman
Catholicism, which was published in your iSt3li a of
the 14th of July, and which I said had not Ism
seen in China, came from, and what is its value
as affecting the status of Christianity in the Em
pire. This proclamation was ibeued.by the chief
magistrate of a hien, or Chinese county,lit the
province of Kiangsi, the province which lies next
west of Chikiang province, in which Ningpo is
situated. The -proclamation is composed princi;
pally of the edict which has remained on the
statute book ever since Romanism was banished
from China, in 1726. This is the edict of pro. -
soription, hich was removed by the edict of tol
eration, issued in answer to the memorial of
Keying, of the date, December 28th, 1844. This
proclamation of the former edict by the Magis
trate of a hien, does not in the least affect' the
present regulations, in respect to the toleration,
of Christianity. The question, however, is now
merged in the great question of peace, and the
stability of the Chinese government, OBSERVER.
P. 'ltls by some surmised that the point on
which the Chinese demurred was in regard to
the demand of Si largo part of the indemnity to
he paid at once. It is also said, though not on
official authority; that Kweiiiang asked for a
month's delay, In order to give•tbem time to eon
eider the demands, Neither of these statements
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appear to me to be very...probable.
[ln our foreign news it will be seen that Pekin
is captured.]
VARIETIES.
D. Sprague, in his ' 6 Annals of the Amer
ican Baptist Pulpit," gives the following
as the date of the origin of the Baptist
Church in the several States :—" Rhode
Island, 1636; . Massachusetts, 1663; New-
York, 1669 ; Maine, 1682 ; South Caro
lina, 1683; Pennsylvania, 1684; New-,
Jersey, 1688 ; Delaware, 1703; Connecti
cut, 1705; Virginia, 1714; North Caro
ling, 1727; Maryland, 1742 ; New-Hamp
shire, 1755; Georgia, 1757 ; Vermont,
1768 ; Tennessee, 1780 ; Kentucky, 1781 ;
Ohio, 1790 ; Illinois, 1796 ; District of
Colunibia, 1802 ; Indian a, 1802 ; Missouri,
1804; Mississippi, 1807; Alabama, 1810;
Louisiana, 1812; Miohigan f 1822; lowa,
1886 ; Wisconsin, 1837; Texas, 1840;
Flortda, 1842."
Tha age forty-six.—Thomas Hood died at
the age of forty-six, at the very moment
when he had excited the greatest expecte
tions. There seems to be a fatality at this
period of life for a certain class of intel
lects, nearly as great as that which has
rendered the age of thirty-seven dangerous
to the higher rank of artistic genius—to
Raphael, to Mozart, to Burns, to Byron.
It is the grand climacteric of a soldier's
and the statesman's life. At forty-six Pitt
gave up the ghost, and passsed away in the
piirue of his powers. At forty-six Napo
leon lest the battle of Waterloo, and ended
his career. At forty-six Wellington won
that battle, and may be said almost to have
commenced his civil career. At forty-seven
Nelson's hour had come at Trafalgar. At
the same age the active and brilliant part
of Lord Palmerston's career commenced at
the Foreign Office; Mr. Disraeli exhibited
his peculiarities as a Minister, and Dr.
Arnold, who possed the statesman's type
of intellect wrote in his diary—Fixi. In
literature we 'find that Spenser died at
forty-six, Addison at forty-seven, Gold
smith at forty-six, Hood at forty-six—all
men notable for some peculiarity in. their
way of drawing from "the well of English
undefiled."
The Ludo Times, the &gawky Review,
and other leading British journals, are
discussing the report of the American
Naval Board, appointed to ascertain the
advisability of converting sailing ships into
steamers. The TimeB eongratulates Eng
land that there are other
,countries in the
world in whilici met -df-war have bebn
lowed to rot upon the stooks; and wonders I
why we have not built, or spoken about,
iron-plated vessels. The Saturday Review
is not at all surprised at the cautious con
duct of the United States. Gevernment, in
view of the fact. that although. Britain built
five craft or, the new plan, one of them has
never been put to sea; and they may all
turn out failures.
When the procession in honor to the
Prince of Wales, was passing through the
streets of Boston, just as his carriage
reached the old Cradle of Liberty, Fancuil
Hall, Gov. Banks, whom nature made a
nobleman, and who sat by the side of Eng
land's king expectant, spoke to him, evi
dently directing his attention to the his
toric edifice; the Prince instantly looked
up to it, and raised his chapeau. I suspect
had George 111. been present, he would have
thought Albert Edward deserved to have
his cars boxed.—Cor. Montreal Pilot.
Tourists at the Falls,—lt is estimated that
at least thirty thousand tourists have vis
ited Niagara Falls during the past season.
Spain Coming to America for Ships.—A
Washington letter says that Captain Mar
tinez, one of the most distinguished officers
of the Spanish Navy, and commanding the
Havana squadron, is now in Washington.
He is commissioned by his Government to
contract for the construction of three first
class war frigates in American ship yards.
Captain Martinez will shortly proceed to
visit the navy yards at the North.
Late statistical returns, show that in Bel
gium there arc at present fifty-one lunatic
asylums. The number of lunatics is 41,-.
907, which is one in every nine hundred
and twenty-one of the population.
The total population of Russia is 79,000,-
000. The lower orders, serfs, petty tra
ders and artisans, form a total of 53.500,-
000. The nobles and higher guilds of
traders about 1,000,000. The nobles still
possess 21,000,000 serfs. The population
of Siberia, including the wanderine , tribes
Kamm, Astrakan and Orenburg, is 4,000 ;
000.
'Effect of Smoking on the Intellect, In the
September number of the London Phar
maceutic Journal, for 1860, it is stated
that on dividing' the pupils of the Poly
technic school, in Paris, into smokers, and
non-smokers, it is shown that the smokers
have proved themselvesin the various com
petetive examinations, far inferior to the
others. Not only in the examinvions on
entering the school are the smokers in a
lower rank, but in the various ordeals they
have to pass through in a year, the average
rank of the smokers had constantly fallen,
and not inconsiderably, when the men who
did not smoke enjoyed a cerebal atmos
phere of the clearest kind.
PERSONAL.
Capt. N. F. Maury addressed' a crowded
meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, in
London, on the 28th ult., on the physical geog
raphy of the Ardartic regions. He was greeted
with a very hearty reception, and his address
was received with much attention. At, the close,
Admiral Fitzroy warmly eulogized Capt. Maury's
exertion in promoting a knowledge of the physi
cal geography of the sea. The meeting was
presided over by Lord Ashburton.
Some of the men in the border States
are much more severe in the language they use
toward South Carolina, than most of the North
erners. Hon. John M. Botts, of Virginia; has
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spoken in as strong terms of condemnation of
the course of that State as any public man. He
says: "I wish, sir with all my heart, that
South Carolina could go out and stay out, for she
has acted the part of a disturber of the public
peace for the last thirty years."
Forty-two young Persians, between the
ages of fourteen and thirty, are now pursuing
the regular course of studies in the various col
leges of France. The Shah and many of'the
highest families in Persia are using their influ
ence with great perseverance in inducing their
wealthy countrymen to send their sons to be ed
ucated in France.
Gen. Harney, by the decease of his wife,
recently, in Paris; has come in possession, as the
property of himself and children, of $5,090,000.
He is a little rising fifty years old, and by much
service and much exposure is somewhat broken
in health. He is the fourth in the list of our
army officers—Scott, Wool, and Twiggs coming
before him.
.The ReTival in Scotland is beginning to
encounter considerable opposition from the cler
gy. Rev. George Gilfillan and Rev. Mr. Wilson,
both of Dundee, are engaged in denouncing ex
eitment and lay preaching. Yet the movement
is reported as spreading.
The Remains of the Deceased Bonapartes.—
The French Government is about to bring into
France, for interment, the remains of the Em
press Maria Louisa. The remains of the Duko
of Reichstadt-will then be the only one of the
Imperial family out of France, and will, no
doubt, 'be transported, in their urn, to the Im
perial vaults in Paris.
On a Mango Tree, under which General
Havelock is buried, a rudely cut piece of tin is
nailed, bearing the following words scratched
upon it : "On this spot lies the remains of Gen
eral Havelock. ➢lay he rest in peace." This
is all that marks the grave of the hero of Luck
now.
A Son of Mr. Spencer, American Consul
at Paris, has been serving during the last part of
the campaign, under Garibaldi, as a Captain,
although not yet of age. He hopes to retain his
rank in the Piedrnontese reorganization.
A Lotter from Paris indicates how French
statesmen are paid- M. Walewski is a Senator
—annual value 30,000 f. He is a ,member of the
Council of Regency-100,000f. lie is now a
Minister of State-100,000f.; in all 230,000 f.;
or £9,200.
The late Albert Smith, who has done so
much to popularize trips to the Alps, hat•; not
been forgotten at Chamouni. A tablet to his
memory has recently been erected in the English
church there, bearing the following inscription:
"To the memory of Albert Smith, who died on
the 28d of May, 1860, in the forty-fourth year of
his age; this tablet is erected in the English
church at Chamouni by his affectionate brother,
Arthur Smith."
Garibaldi's Poverty.—A. letter from Capua,
in the Press, says :—Garibaldi, having told his
secretary and two aides-de-camp to hold them
selves in readiness to depart, they felt it indis
pensable to remind him that he was absolutely
without money, and that he must think how to
procure a few hundred francs for his voyage.
The fact is that the man who has given to Pied
mont eight millions of subjects has never taken
a sou of pay or salary for himself.
PRESBYTERIAL NOTICES.
The PRESBYTERY OF SALTSBURG will meet at Wash
ington church on the First Tuesday of January, at 2 o'clock
P. M. Subjectker conference. The Preyer.of Faith."
W. W. WOODEND, Stated Clerk.
The PRESBYTERY OF COSHOCTON will hold a' nefeion
for Conference and Prayer, at Millersburg, on the Second
Tneede.y of January, at 11 o'clock A. M., to which all the
officer' and members of the churches In their bounds are in
vited. WM. E. HUNT, Stated Clerk.
The PRESBYTERY OP BLAIRSVILLI will meet, ac
cording to adjournment, at Centreville. on the Third Tuesday
of January, (the 15th,) at 2 o'clock P. N., and at Armagh
the pay
the
16th, to install the Rev. 0. IL Miller, if
the,way be clear JAMES DAVIS, Stated Clerk.
The IItF:SBYTERT OF ALLEGE:ENT CITY 1611 bold Ita
next meeting at Bridgewater, un nu. 6..cund Tnerday of Jan
uary, 1861, at u. o'clock. WILLIAM
Stated Clerk.
05:61 . 0.41: - ...'..gei.ii5.
Excitement in Pittsburgh,
Our peaceful city was stirred up to somewhat
of a belligerent spirit., by an order from Wash-'.
ington, to the Arsenal here, to ship Southward
one hundred and twenty four cannon, all, or
near all, the large guns on band. Our people
have no, desire to use these guns, and they are
quite unwilling that they should be used by oth
ers, and especially unwilling that they should go
into the hands of threatening belligerents.
A meeting of citizens was held, at the Mayor's
office, on Tuesday afternoon, and a Committee
appointed to confer with the authorities at Wash
, ington on the subject; and also a Cominittee to
I inqtfirk into , facts relative to the quantity of arms
eititived the lag dis menthe, and whither,
PRESBYTERIAN BANNER-SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 180.
and to ascertain the quantity now in the Arsenal,
It is to be hoped that no violence will be used,
to . interfere with the removal of the cannbn. We
trust they will not be needed, either North or
South ; but if, unhappily, there should be need,
we have the materials, the men, and the resolu
tion to obtain a new supply.
Oil
The Vcnango Spectator of November 23d pub
lishes a list of seventy-one wells, on Oil Crock
and Allegheny River. The yield is from two
barrels up to fifty barrels per day—nnostly front
ten to twenty-five. The depth is sixty-seven
feet to five hundred and two—commonly one
hundred to three hundred.
The Electoral Tote.
According to the Constitutional provision, tho
votes to which the several States arc entitled,
was to be cast on the sth instant.. Official re
turns for the choice of Electors; show the vote
to stand thus:
Slates. Votes.
For Lincoln .17 4-7 18b
64 13rockinridge,...11 ' 72
" Bell, " 89
" Douglas, 1 3-7 .. 12
Mr. Lincoln's majority over Dreckinridge . is
108 ; over Dell, 141; over Douglas, 168 ; over
all, 57.
On the second Wednesday in February, Con
gress is required by law to be in session, to open
the returns, count the votes, and declare the re
sult, naming the President and Vice President
elected. Theee take the oath of office, and their
official seats, on the fourth of March ensuing.
The South Carolina Convention
This body was in great hastein declaring the
State absolved from all connexion with the Union,
but, as if alarmed at its own rashness, it is since
studying caution and secresy. It arranged for
the continuance of the Port Collectors and the
Postmasters. This was prudent. Neither re
ceive money enough to pay the expenses of their
department; and by continuing them as United
States officers, their' pay is made up, and the
people enjoy the benefits of the Union, and the
pride of declaring themselves an independent na
tion. The honesty of such a course would not
bear a very close scrutiny.
The Convention also appointed three men to
visit Washington, as representatives of this new
nation, and arrange for a division of the public
property, and especially for the obtaining of the
forts, arsenal, arms, &c. Much of 'the
time of the Convention is being spent in secret
session. The instructions to the Committee sent
to Washington were kept profoundly secret.
Wheeling, Virginia.
George W. Thompson, of this' city, Judge of
the Circuit Court, who voted for Breckinridge at
the late election, has made a masterly address on
the present state of the , country. The general
scope of his argument went to show that we are
a Nationality, and that " Secession is Revolu
tion," and must be preventedot whatever cost.
He closed by stating what we all know of him;
that he had been a leading Democrat in this sec
tion for the last twenty-five years, and that he
had stood with the Deinocratic party shoulder to
shoulder in its support of General Jackson
against Nullification ; that the principles in
volved in the present issue are precisely those
which entered into that controversy. The per
sonal character of Judge Thompson is above re-'
proaoh ; a just and righteous Judge, and such
is his popularity in this section, that his views
will have great weight. His address will create
a great sensation throughout the State, and be
productive of incalculable good. All honor to
the noble hearts who throw themselves in the
breach at this moment of danger. This country
will long remember and honor them.
Washington.
Mr. Wade, of Ohio, presented what is regarded
as the sentiment of the Republicans. It insisted
on the maintenance of the Constitution and the
laws. Secession must be repressed. If seces
sion, to a great extent should' succeed, the North
would make treaties of alliance, trade, and pro
tection, with Mexico, Central America, and
Spain (for Cuban trade,) and would thus hem in
slavery, and obtain all the equitorial productions
needed, and have adequate outlets for provisions
and manufacturea. -
Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, took strong union
grounds. He would put down secession. Mr.
Lane, of Oregon, advocated secession.
In the House a bill has passed, authorizing
railroads to California.
It provides that the road shall start from the
Western border of Missouri and Western border
of lowa, with two conveying lines bearing West
ward, united within two hundred miles of the
Missouri river; thence proceeding by a single
track line by the nearest and best route via'the
vicinity of Salt Lake to San Francisco, or to the
navigable waters of the Sacramento. It also
provides for a road from the Western border of ,
the South•wdstern States, starting from two
points, namely : Fort Smith and the Western
border of Louisiana, with two converging lines
bearing Westward, and uniting with the South
ern Pacific Railroad chartered by Texas.
At the meeting of the Pennsylvania, delega
tion on the 18th, including the two- Senators—
Mr. Stevens alone being absent—the following
resolution was passed unanimously :
Relayed, That in our judgment it is tbe opinion
of the people of Pennsylvania that the-Constitu
tional rights of all sections should be respected,
and secured ; that all the laws should be faith-
I fully and promptly executed, and that the Union
of the States, the Constitution and the laws of
the United States be maintained and be enforced
in all their integrity.
All of the Ohio Delegation, Senator Wade and
Representative Wade excepted, were present at
their confererice to-night. Though no resolution
was passed, the concurrent sentiment was the
maintenance of the Union and the enforcement
of the laws.
The Senate's committee of thirteen manifest a
spirit of industry, but definite results do not
loom up brightly. Senator Crittenden's propo
sition to reenact and extend the Missouri com
promise line to the Pacific, was rejected, by the
following vote :
For the proposition—Messrs. Bigler, Critten
den, Douglas,, nice, and Powell-5.
Against it—Messrs. Davis, Doolittle, Collanter,
Wade, Toombs, Grimes, and Hunter-7.
The report- that the President had ordered
Port Moultrie to be given up, in ease of an attack,
is sternly denied.
Mr. G. Bailey, who has bad charge of the
Trust Fund of the Indian Bureau, has hypothe
cated $830,000 of the bonds. - It is thought that
he has adequate assets in the shape of accept
' antes of the War Department.
CHAULEST6N, Dec. 22.—The convention adopt
ed a Declaration of Independence, which, after
rehearsing the grievances of the South, and
charging fifteen Nortkern States with nullifying
the provision in the Constitution for the rendi
tion of fugitive slaves, concludes as follows :
We, therefore, the people of South Carolina,
by ourdelegates in Convention assembled, appeal
ing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the
rectitude of our intentions, have solemnly de
clared that the Union heretofore existing between
this State and other States of Nprth America
is dissolved, and that the State of South Carolina
has resumed its position among the nations of the
world, as a free, sovereign, and independent
State, with full power to levy war, conclude
peace, - contract alliances, establish commerce,
and do all other acts and things which indepen
dent States may of right do. And for the sup
port of this declaration, with a firm reliance on
the protection of Divine Providence, mutually
pledge each other our lives, our fortunes, and
our sacred honor.
The committee appointed in relation to the re
venue and poet-office laws, reported in favor of
adopting the United States revenue laws, with,
perhaps, a slight modification in the revenue
laws of South Carolina, the collector. to take the
oath of an officer of the State. Postal matters
to remain as at present.
A special Washing,tbn dispatch to the Courier
states that Captain Anderson has been ordered to
surrender the forts to the constituted authorities
of. South Carolina, in case the forts are attacked,
but net fu-surrander tb irrelipdnifiblb :parties:
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Secession.
Foreign Opinions of Secession.
There are indications that the Secession
movement will receive no great favor in France ;
at least not for some time. The English papers
I have taken up the subject with much interest,
and express their opinions freely. We give a
brief extract from a long and able article in the
London Times, of November 26th.
In electing Mr. Lincoln to the office of Presi
dent the Northern United States lave ventured
on a bold experiment. They have determined to
test the courage and sincerity of the South, to
face unappalled the spectre of secession, and
discover whether it be really a terrible spirit po
tent for evil, or only a bug bear, devised by a
clever faction, inflated with the breath of rho
domontading orators, and dressed out :with a
hideous mask by placemen trembling for their
appointments: The next month or two will
show how far those are in the .right 'who have
calculated on the strength of the American
Union and the supremacy of national feeling
over all sectional interests. Should South Caro
lina, Georgia, and the, adjacent States separate
themselves permanently from the Federation,
constituting themselves a new nation, with their
own army, navy, Customs, foreign representa
tion, and all the appanages of independence,
then the whole series of American politicians will
have been in the wrong, and this journal, which
has always declared such an event to be impos
sible, will have been in the wrong with them.
But if, after an outburst of party passion, the
Southerners 'themselves become sensible of the
wickedness and folly of their course ; if they
recognize how far the ilossessors and expectants
of official places are the movers of the agitation,
and if, moreover, they are calmed by the refec
tion that a President, powerful as he is, can do
little to alter the policy of the Republic, and
nothing at all to subvert the domestic institutions
of the several States, then the result will be such
as we anticipate, and the United States will con
tinue to combine in one Federation two commu
nities, with widely different politics and systems
of social life, but forming essentially and, unal
terably, one and the same people. * * *. *
He (the Governor of Georgia) recommends the
enactment of laws authorizing seizure of thenioney
or property of any citizen of an offending lind
faithless State to indemnify the
.losses' of the
citizens of Georgia. Hostile tariffs aye to be es
tablished against the abolitionists. " The•popula
tion is to he called to arms to support its rights,
and money is to be raised to put the State in a
posture of defense. This is a specimen of the
counsels which are now offered to the Southern
ers by their magistrates, and at first sight they
wonld seem to portend the immediate disruption
of the Republic. But through all this violence
we cannot but think that signs of insincerity ap
pear. The Carolinians and Georgians protest
too much. The flame is too violent, too
sudden to hist long. No doubt much 'sedition
will be talked" and many nets committed which
the Federal Sovernment might be justified in
treating as treasonable ; but when.time has been
given for reflection the Southerners will be re
-. conciled to their fate—which after all, is no hard
one—and common sense will show them the ab
surdity of refusing to accept a constitutional
election because - it has gone against them, and
breaking up a great nation • through the
vain fear that a magistrate of limited powers will
do what no despot would-be able to effect.
* * ** * *
A strong-minded President like Jackson, what
ever his own sympathies, would probably not
hesitate to crush the Carolinians by force. It is
evident, indeed, on the smallest reflection, that
the South, even if united could never oppose for
three months the greatly preponderating strength
of the North. A. few hundred thousand slave
owners, trembling nightly with visions of mur
der and pillage, backed by a dissolute population
of "poor whites," are no match for the hardy
and resolute populations of the Free States. The
Northerners have hitherto treated the South like
a petulent child, and giien in to all its ways;
but if ever the day of conflict were to come,
it would be shown that the South is but, a child
in its weakness as well as its frowardness.
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GREAT BRITAIN
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Federal Government, but admits that the South
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There is no political news.
It is reported that the EmpCror Napoleon bad
declared to the• Bishop of Versailles, with much
sarcasm, that the temporal powers of the Pope
must be put down.
M. Persigny, as Minister of the Interior, was
issuing important circulars to the Prefects. In
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to the press.
The EMperor bad granted an. amnesty to the
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The position of Italian affairs is unchanged.
Victor Emmanuel had returned to Naples.
The army of Italy is to consist of three hun
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Southern divisions.
The Sardinians would await the fall of Gaeta
before summoning the citadel of Messina to
surrender. In case of refusal, they would be
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A Vienna letter, in the Times, says it. is morally
certain that in the Spring the Danubian Princi
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the revolutionary party, and it Is strongly sus
pected that a plan has been formed for the dis
memberment of European Turkey as well as of
Austria.. /1 ,--
It is reported that at a Cabinet Council at.
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ting all Hungary under martial law was serious
ly discussed.
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at Milan intended to make an offer of the crown
of ,Hungary to Prince Napoleon.
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THE PULPIT OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION ;
The Political Sermons of the Period of 1776:
With a Historicist Introduction, Notes and I Ilistrations
BY J. WINGATE THORNTON, A.M.-
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This work contains several of the more remarkable politi
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shown in a new light the influence of the pulpit in our early .
history, and suggests important lessons for the present time.
The Romance of Natural History:
DT PHILIP •HENRY GIOSSE.
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