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Wi.— 25 heets 15 4 ct. ad val. haaty 1° Bot Saga — 10% mee tcc ee, ‘SEWING-MACHINES, may be purchased at the \ AAU) SAMPSON LOW, SON & CO., London, jons for paper. Che Gudependent. TWO SERMONS A WEEK. BY REV. THEODORE L., CUYLER, No two pastors can spend a few hours together without “ comparing notes” in regard to their hab- its of study, methods of preparation for the pulpit, and kindred professional topics. And sometimes the columns of a newspaper become like a com- mon fireside, around which brethren meet, and chat together with types instead of tongues. One of The Independent circle has lately ‘raised the qpestion—Can a faithful pastor write two careful sermons every week? He is not the first man whe has run foul of this question very early in his ministry. To this question we have found two véry satisfactory answers. I. In the first place, he does not need to write two sermons every week. Even supposing that he has never had charge of another church, and #0 hes accumulated no stock of sermons in “ the barrel,” he will not find it-necessary to elaborate two discourses between each Sabbath. On some Sabbaths he is not in his own pulpit; he is ex- changing with some neighboring pastor whom his own flock like to hear. A very good practice, (if not overdone,) for it keeps up pleasant feeling between different and sometimes rival churches ; and often the truth presented by new lips has an especial effectiveness. When a pastor exchanges pulpits, he gains one new sermon forthe following Sabbath. Again; a pastor often finds it expedi- ent to open his pulpit.to some earnest brother who is spending the Sabbath within his parish—or to the representative of some benevolent enterprise. This too saves some fuel to his engine. *Butif he does not see fit to exchange pulpits, or to invite occasional aid from others very often, there is another method by which he may save himself the confining labor of writing two fresh discourses every week. A well-built, Bible-built sermon will bear to be presented more than once, especially if it dis- cusses ably and thoroughly some point of every- day duty. A minister who has prepared, with much thought and prayer, an effective discourse to backsliders—or to penitents on the right meth- ods of coming to Christ—or to the afflicted on the benefits of God’s discipline—or to all Christians on the harmony that ought to exist between their prayers and their practices—such a man may repeat such a discourse, after a year or two, with happy effect. When he first delivered it, some of his flock were “ out of town” or else ‘sorely afflict- ed with “ Sunday sickness.” They cannot afford to lose the sermon; give them another chance to hear it. Those who never heard the discourse ought te have it, and those who were profited once by it will likely be profited again. A sapital rermon gt ke @ capital book, will tagecond visit. & ive Ponti evdi a discourse may be improved ; and we once heard an eminent layman say, “I had infinitely rather hear a few admirable sermons than a great many hasty, ill- constructéd ones.” He was a wise man; for a rich, thorough, Bible-inspired discourse, well steeped in prayer, is food not only for the coming week, but for a lifetime. I-am well persuaded that we often err in making more of the quantity than the quality of our pulpit preparations. Let us never be afraid to try again (after a proper interval) the spiritual artillery that left its mark on the first discharge. Remember also that gold is always current. Here are three methods by which every consci- entious pastor may relieve himself of the inpos- sible task of elaborating upon paper two complete discourses every week. There is still a fourth, better than any we have named. Let him resolve —cost what it will—to e,r/emporize a portion of his discourses. Every man can do this, if he tries. No matter if he fails distressingly on the first attempt. Robert Hall did. So did Dr. Tyng ; and when he came down from his pulpit, covered all over with perspiration, (and mortification too,) a friend said to him,“ You had better give up speak- ing off-hand.” “I won’t give it up,” sharply replied the young Boanerges, “if I die in the attempt.” And he did not give it up either, or else he never would have become the prince of extemporaneous American preachers. The power which this gift of speaking without reading gives to a preacher makes it worth all the toil and early mortification which it may cost. Let no young minister fail to acquire it, at the very outset of his career. It is easier learned the first year than the fifth or the tenth year of one’s ministerial life. It will be of infinite service to you, my young brother. It will give you self-posses- sion, and the tact to avail yourself of the events and the exigencies of the moment. It will save you from becoming the mere essay-reader instead of the preacher. It will relieve you too of those Saturday shivers, which many a poor minister feels when he has no fully-written sermon ready for the next morning. It will give variety to your pulpit; and the masses all love free, off-hand utterances on every topic. It will add too, im- mensely, to the spiritual power of your ministry. Dr. Payson used to say, “ When I accomplish the most good from the pulpit, it is commonly my extempore words that do it.” A manuscript letter of the seraphic Summerfield lies before me this morning, in which he says, “‘ My custom is to plan my discourse in my_mind, and trust for the lan- guage to be given me inthe pulpit. I find that the best words are those which come to me in the heat of the moment.” It is seldom that the very highest efforts of eloquence are reached in the silent quietudes of a study. Those effects are oftenest gained when a full head and a full heart pour themselves forth in unpremeditated language into the open ears and hearts before them. Sys- tematic study and self-possession, with the aids which earnest prayer brings, will fit any man of ordinary powers to preach acceptably without elaborate written preparation ; the presumptuous rattler who dispenses with the first and-the last of these three requisites will soon sink the extempore into the extrumpery, Il. We have now briefly presented four methods of relief from the impossible task of committing entirely ta paper two well-digested discourses in every week of the year. We say “impossible ;” for no man who undertakes it will live out half his days. Our veteran theological teacher—the sagacious elder Alexander—used to caution, most earnestly, all his pupils against attempting the impracticable absurdity. For it has been well said in The Independent lately that @ minister’s eall is to become a “ fisher of men.” A success- ‘fal fisherman will not only cast his Gospel-net from the pulpit, but in every house. Two written sermons each week must be fatal to pastoral vis- Mation; and where is the congregation that: is | ready to exchange the last for the first ? VOLUME XV. Every year but convinces us the more fully that good pastoral work is as telling and effective as good preaching. Neither one should supersede the other. They are both attainable. Look a moment at the advantages which a pastor has over a mere Sunday speaker. He is brought face to face with those whom he is to win-to Christ. He becomes acquainted with their -wants. An hour with a living man is better than an hour with any dead man embalmed in a book. Next to the Bible, a wise minister will study the human heart. This he can only do by throwing himself in contact with his people in their everyday dress. The best sermons are often gathered at the fireside, and in the sick-room and the house of sorrow. The very walks from door to door impart health- ful exercise. Every one, too, likes personal atien- tions. A sociable pastor wins his people’s hearts ; and when their hearts are won they will bear any truth, however repulsive or unpopular, from one they love. A good woman said to her pastor, the other day, “I am always glad to have a call; your sermons do me the more good after I have seen your face in my house, and had a shake of your hand.” Here we are at the end of our prescribed sheet, without having more than tapped a prolific sub- ject. But perhaps even these few hints may pre- vent some young debutant into Christ’s ministry from attempting the enslaving, life-exhausting folly of writing two elaborate discourses every week. THE (NO) GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOB. BY JOSEPH WARNE, Tuer current number of 7’he New Hngiander has an article on the Book f-Job, which presents an interest- ing and valuable view of that, the most ancient and most sublime of books :—all too lit{le studied. There are more than popular errors rega ding the Book of Job, and its uses. Even ministers, of whom it would be both uncourteous and unchar able to say they were not fitted for their work, may be heard to quote, or even to preach, from the words of Zophar or Bildad, as if they were inspired. It is parsing strange, that while thousands of men of taste and scholarship, age after age, delight in emending and discoursing upon the remains of ancient classical literature, there are yet few who, like the writer of the article in The New Englander, have given years of careful study to the Book of Job, either in the original or as translated— though, undoubtedly, the estimate of the beauty and value of the volume would bé raised through every year of study. s > The article quotes freely from “ Professor Noyes’s elegant and generally accurate translation”’—which is unknown to the English reader; while the writer would not seem to be aware of the version of Dr. Mason Goop, so remarkable for iis beauty, spirit, and accuracy. This book was published fifty years since, and is now searce. Dr. Good was a rarely endowed and very accomplished person; a physician. His “Study of Medicine” was highly esteemed by the medical profession, and still holds its place. His translation of Lucretius waa aimired by men of juste, us also that of “Yh Wig af Songs" Bis “Book of Nature,” 8 vols., an@ lectures, presented almost a perfect snmmary and exposition of human knowledge through a wide range of subjects. Beside its great merits, Good’s “ Book of Job” is a remarkable example of what great things can be done by men who might fairly be accounted to have no time fpr other than their professional duties. Dr. Good did his spirited translation of Lucretius, a few lines at a time, in his long walks, as he went from one patient to another, in London. The Book of Job he translated in various unconnected hours and half-hours, stolen occasionally from the mornings and evenings of the returning Sunday. A habitual fondness for Biblical criticism and Oriental literature impelled him to persevere in the work, which he accounted an allowable recreation. It cannot be doubted that an edition of this volume, with the notes revised and abridged, as the author himself designed to do, would be welcomed by thousands in the United States, where liberty and law and literature and truth and righteousness have place, and works of peace fol- low. At least, the Boston Tratt Society could give the Introduction and translation, though not the entire volume as presented by the author. The poem has an Introductory Dissertation of pp. 92, describing its scene, scope, language, author, and object. It is a fine prelude to the grand harmonies which follow. Nearly 500 octavo pages of Notes illustrate the trans- lation. These notes inspire both wonder and respect. Immense reading, a strong memory, fine taste, a cor- rect judgment, reverence for the book and for truth, are among their characteristics. The insight and intuitions of the poet appear combined with the keen critical faculties of the scholar and linguist. The contributor to The New Englander would do good service to the readers of that excellent review, if he were to give, in three or four articles, the result of a study of Good. It is not said here at all to disparage the translation of Prof. Noyes, which is so freely quoted and commended in 7’he New Englander, but a comparison of some of the passages cited with the same as rendered by Good, leaves the impression that the first are somewhat dilated, and, where differ- ing, as not bearing the test of the critical Notes by which Good explains and sustains his renderings. It was not, however, intended to expatiate on the tempting theme of the Book of Job, but only to cite two or three passages, in which the Gospel of Job, or rather, in which, after emerging out of the lowest depths of his surprise and despair, he declares his faith in a future existence, in a final judgment, and retribution. Thus, chap. xiv. 10-15: There is, indeed, hope tor the plant, When it is cut down that it will sprout And that its tender branches will not Though its root have grown old in the earth, And its trunk become dead over the soil, Through the fragrancy of water it may révive, And put forth young shoots, as when planted. But man dieth and moldereth :— But the mortal expireth—and where is he ? As the billows pass away with — tides, And the floods are exhausted dried up, So man lieth down, and riseth not : TILL THE REAVENS BE DISSOLVED, they will not awake ; No—they will not rouse up from their sleep.— 0! that thou wouldst hide me in the grave, Wouldst conceal me,—tILL THY WRATH BE PAST ; Taat THOU WOULDST APPOINT MB A FIXT TIME, AND REMEM- BER ME! , But if a man die—shall he, indeed, live again? All the days of my appointment will I wait— Till my RENOVATION come.— Thou shalt call, and I WILL ANSWER THEE ; Thou shalt yearn for the work of thy hands, The sublime and much criticised passage, chap. xix. 28-29, is thus rendered by Dr. Good: 0! that my words were now written down ; ©! that they were engraven upon ; With a pen of iron upon lead a — That they were sculptured in a rock for ever ! For ‘‘ I know that my REDEEMER liveth, And will ascend at last upon the earth ae — — ee bi at, in my flesh, I shall see God: And my own ayes shal beh, and not another nd my own eyes s) » and hot Thoug my reins be consumed within me.” . Then shall ye say, ‘“‘ How did we persecute him '” When the root of the matter is disclosed in me. O tremble for yourselves before the sword ; Therefore beware of its judgment. Dr. Good’s notes on this noble passage, testifying the faith of the Patriarch, extend to twelve pages, In respect to the common version, he shows that in the original there is nothing whatever that can an- swer to the words day, though, worms, or body ; and that the bald word stand does not express the idea of the Hebrew word so rendered, which is “ will ascend”—namely, his tribunal or seat of judg nent. It is in view of this tribunal and awful Judge that in the close of the sentence Job exclaims—“ O tremble ain, , for yourselves” before the sword of judgment. Dr. ‘Bat an we were allowed of God to be ‘ut in Trost with the Gospel, even so we Gocd demonstrates the fitness of the werd Redeemer ‘in its general sense, as implying a restorer or recoverer : there is, he says, no word I am acquainted with that forms a more direct synonym with the Hebrew term than Redeemer does. He rejects the term Vindicator, which Prof. Noyes: takes, following Schulters, Geddes, and Stock. But these critics themselves, in most other places, render the same word, not by Vindicator, but Redeemer, in the same manner as the common version. The close of the arguments of Job, chap. xxxi., are very finely rendered. A few lines are given here, partly to compare with the rendering quoted from Prof. Noyes, from which it materially differs : O that He would ze hear me! Here is my signature ; let the Almigty answer me, Apa let my Adversary write down his charge. ly I would wear it upon my shouller ; I would bind it upon me as a crown. —Noyes. Thus closely rendered by Good: Who will consent to summon me? There is my pledge—let the Almighty take not'ce of me ; And let my Adversary write down the charge, Surely I would wear it on my shoulder ; I would wind it round me as a turban. I would disclose to him the whole of my steps, I would meet him altogether as a witness. If my own Jand cry out against me, And its furrows bewail together ;— If I have eaten ofits strength without wages, Or have exhausted the breath of its managers ;— Let the thistle grow up instead of wheat, And the nightshade instead of barley. The argument of Job closed. The force and beauty of the last six lines will be keenly appreciated by the American reader who knows of exhausted furrows, and of husbandmen without wages—of masters neither kind nor indulgent, at once exhausting the soil and treading down the laborer. In this connction it may be permitted to quote a previous passage, chap. xxiv., in which the Patriarch describes the doings of evil men and the miseries of mankind, and demands— Wherefore are not doomsdays kept by the Almighty So that his offenders may eye his periods ? * aa * * * + * * They steal the fatherless from the breast, And take in pledge the garment of the needy ; They make the naked go without clothing, And the hungry carry the sheaf: Between the walls they make them toil at noonday ; They make them tread their wine-vats, yet suffer thirst. It is not intended here to offer any criticism on the interesting article which has prompted these remarks ; but one inference of the writer of it invites an obser- vation. He assumes that this wondrous poem is the work of “some one entirely unfamiliar with God’s written Word.” May it be suggested, that there are indications that both pocrrings and historical facts of the written Word appear to be known to the author of this great work ; the doctrines of a future, and of propitiation by sacrifice ; the facts of the sin of Adam, of the apostasy of the Old World, and the destruction of the Cities of the Plain. And, what anif the author was he who was honored to give the first portions of the written Word? What if he “‘who first taught the chosen seed how in the beginning the heavens and the earth rose out of chaos”—what an if that shep- herd, nursed to greatness in the seclusion and com- parative solitude of the wilderness, for forty years, wrote this poem, defore he could enrich it with those solemn and signal manifestations of Almighty power, which preceded and followed the Exodus, then in the future ? Mases, with combined simplicity and sublimity, writes—“ And God said, Be light! and light was.” The author of the Book of Job writes : Behold! he saith to the snow, Br! On the earth eth it— Bethe aan et — Examples of this idegtity of manner, of modes of viewing subjects, and of strong individuality, might be multiplied. If, to take one example, the author of the 90th Psalm and of the 14th chapter of the Book of Job, were not one, then there are two original and nearly contemporaneous writers, having a closer resemblance to each other in great powers and pecu- liarities, in modes of thought and of expression, which can scarcely be paralleled in the history of literature, and which might be accounted more won- derful than the theory of the writer of Genesis and of the Book of Job being one. Dr. Good was not the less qualified for this work in that he had emerged out of the somewhat skeptical region of Unitarianism, and taken the ground of an intelligent and devout orthodoxy with firm and assured footsteps. His mind would be in sympathy with the questionings and doubts and the convulsive agitations of the Patriarch. And, while concentrating the nebu- lous evangelical twilight of the Book into a focus, and remarking upon the different grounds of argument for ‘a future state assumed in Job, and by the philoso- phers of Greece and Rome, he rejoiced in the dispen- sation which has “brought Lire and Immorratiry to light”—which assures the resurrection of the body and reveals the real nature of the soul—which has reconciled discrepancies—which, exhibits a kinsman Redeemer, dying, but not to be holden of death, and proclaiming in and by his resurrection eternal life in himself, and for His: Because I live ye shall live also. ‘ The religious character of Dr. Mason Good was of the highest order. His last illness was of a painful character. Dr. Olinthus Gregory, his friend and biographer, as of Robert Hall, writing to near friends and members of the family, said, Had you been in the dying chamber, you would have joined with his family in adopting the language of Rev. John Scott on a similar occasion, when he says, We have had a grand and most edifying Christian spectacle proposed tous. As well as suffering greatly in his closing hours, Dr. Good’s hearing became affected. Mr. Russell, a friend and clergyman, called to him in a loud voice, “ Jesus Christ the Savior :” he wns not insensible to that sound. His friend then repeated in an elevated tone, Behold the Lamb of God; this roused him, and with energy, the energy of a dying believer, he completed the sentence, “which taketh away the sins of the world.” These were his last words ; shortly after, on the 2d of January, 1827, the departing spirit was committed to the hands of the Redeemer—the Loving One. OxvorD, Eng., Dec. 20. THE STUDY OF WORDS. A TENACIOUS_memory is often associated with a weak judgment, and the mind that readily treas- ures up facts, dates, and names, is supposed to be ineapable of understanding principles. It is undoubtedly true that, when any power of the mind is disproportionate to the others, or cul- tivated in excess, the remaining faculties will be dwarfed. Genius is, etymologically, that which is born in a man. It usually indicates superior- ity in some department of intellectual labor. It is often synonymous with the “ natural bent” of the mind. It is therefore anomalous. ‘The poet “of imagination all compact,” when most in- spired, is nearest to insanity. “ Great wits to madness nearly are allied.” The memory may become so active as to absorb the native energy of all the other powers ; but where there is a Harmonious development of all the faculties, a good memory is as essential to in- tellectual greatness as a good judgment, Cicero: regards it as a sine gua non in the successful ora- tor. He also mentions the fact that Hortensius, one of the most illustrious of Roman orators, could sit all day at an auction, and at night men- tion accurately every article sold, with its price. A tradesman might do the same thing where he was personally interested, and yet be very defi- cient in mental strength. A scholar is cften admired for his retentive memory or for his facility in the acquisition of a foreign language, but such ability is no true measure of the mind. Languages are studied as NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUAR rat - r -. — )) 1863. a mental discipline, as instruments of thought, or for the treasufes they contain. A foreign language is rarely learned so as to be- come as familiar as our native tongue. Some linguists have learned a second lan- guage for daily use so thoroughly as to lose the ready use of the first. As one occupies the thoughts, the other retires. No man can think readily in more than one language. The Romans employed Greek nurses for their children, so that both Greek and Latin might be simultaneously acquired. For the same reason, Russian nobles employ English nurses ; but in both cases, the results have proved unfa- vorable to a correct knowledge of either tongue. An English scholar, Mr. Stewart Rose, resided many years im Italy. The Italian became so familiar to him that he lost in part his native English. The classical scholar wlio can read Herodotus or Tacitus at sight, or the German who can read Hume or Macaulay in the same way, may be said, respectively, to know the languages in which those authors wrote; yet they may not be able to speak or write them with facility. Some very superior linguists might be able to do it. “The admirable Crichton” challenged the world to debate with him in twelve different lan- guages. His knowledge of the inability of his antagonists, probably, made him bold. Mithri- dates, it is said, understood twenty-two different languages. He could converse in the tongues of all the nations over whom he ruled. When it is remembered that ignorant people never use more than three or four hundred words; this story may seem true. The greatest linguist of modern times ‘was the Cardinal Mezzofanti. He spoke forty or fifty different tongues. Baren Zach, the Hungarian astronomer, says of him: “He accosted me in Hungarian, afterwards spoke to me in German, at first in good Saxon, then in the Austrian and Swabian dialects, with a correctness of accent that amazed me to the last degree. He spoke English to Capt. Smith, Russian and Polish to Prince Volkonski.” These were but a portion of the tongues he spoke at the same interview. There can be no,doubt that he was the greatest prodigy in language that ever lived, yet he was no philologist. He understood nothing beyond the meaning, prohunciation, and grammar of the languages he spoke so fluently. He did nothing for comparative philology ; and the most plodding German, guided by his hand-books and word- books, is a better scholar and philosopher than Mezzofanti. E. D. 8. MR. DAVIS'S LAST MESSAGE. BY HORACE GREELEY. MEN are unconscious exponents and representa- tives of the ideas, the systems, which have made them what they are. The slaver, the corsair, the bandit, may stalk through the halls of Royalty or glitter in the drawing-rooms of Beauty in all the panoply of Chivalry, the grace of knightly breed- ing; but let some startling incident surprise him into terror tr wi and his fiendish nature stands at = @. flie cantlencss was at best but skin-deep ; a pin-prick may rend the showy cheat and unmask the devil crouched behind it. Whoever shall truly write the history of our tremendous Civil War, will not fail to note the uniform and earnest efforts of President Lincoln to soften its atrocities and cireumscribe its hor- rors. No document issuing from his hand can be quoted as either intended or calculated to inflame the mutual hates or aggravate the ferocity of the belligerents. Surrounded from the outset of his administration by defiant rebels again his au- thority, many of them spies in the interest of Treason, he has treated them with a uniform lenity which does credit to his humanity, if not to his statesmanship. Baltimore butchered the volun- teers hurrying io his defense, burned the bridges behind them, cut the telegraph wires whereby alone could authentic advices of his peril be trans- mitted to the loyal States, and elected a delegation of Secessionisis to take the State out of the Union and hand her over to the Confederacy ; yet, when in due time the Federal authority was quietly re-established there by overwhelming force, no single person was punished, save by an easy and temporary confinement, for these crimes against the National integrity and the lives of its defenders. In no Message, Proclamation, or Order which has emanated from President Lincoln, has one word appeared calculated to incite to the needless shed- ding of one drop of human: blood. On the other hand, the chief of the Confederates has missed no opportunity to render the contest more sanguinary and ferocious. Loyal citizens of the*United States, resident in any State which he claims as adhering to his Confederacy, have been uniformly treated by him as traitors worthy of death, and entitled to no privilege of exchange, no mitigation of penalty. To be faithful to the oath which he ostentatiously violates, is in his eyes the blackest and most inexpiable of crimes. At length he has crowned the infamies of his ca- reer by proclaiming that every commissioned offi- cer in the Union armies who may be captured by his forces within the States and Districts in which the Presidént of the United States has proclaimed the freedom of the slaves, shall be handed over to the State authorities, “ that they may be dealt with in accordance with the laws of those States provid- ing for the punishment of criminals engaged in inciting servile insurrection.” In other words, every Union officer whom the fortunes of War may throw into Confederate hands—wounded, perhaps, and crippled irrecoverably—is to be put to death after the fashion of Old John Brown! I have not patience to deal with the monstrous assertions and more monstrous sophistry whereby he seeks to palliate this murderous ferocity. His “ detestation” of the Proclamation of Freedom, he says, “is tempered by profound contempt for the impotent rage it discloses.” Are belligerents apt to evince contempt for an impotent measure by ordering the wholesale murder of prisoners of war? And when this man appeals against said measure to the instincts of that common humanity “ which a beneficent Creator has implanted in the breasts of our fellow-men of all countries,” he does it with full knowledge that the intelligence and humanity of Europe have long urged Presi- dent Lincoln, through the utterances of Garibaldi, Victor Hugo, John Bright, etc., etc., to take this very step ; and his hesitation to do it has excited ‘wonder and perplexity in all Military as well as Liberal circles. In fact, this Message betrays in every part the perfect consciousness of its author that Europe more and more clearly comprehends hat ours is a struggle between Freedom and Slavery, and consequently gravitates to the side of the former. Column after column of peevish complaint that the action of the Great Powers with regard to Blockade, to Privateering, to Con- traband, ete., has been steadily favorable to the epend speak, Mot 01 pleasing Men but God, which trieth our Hearts.” ent. NUMBER 738. Union and hostile to his Confederacy, betrays his knowledge that the judgment of the civilized world has finally and irrevocably settled down in opposition to his criminal enterprise. Europe would like to humble and to cripple the United States, but not at the cost of making itself respon- sible for the creation of a new Power avowedly based on the perpetual enslavement and degrada- tion, oppression and robbery, of Four Millions of innocent human beings. A contempt for the understandings of those whom alone he still hopes to influence is glaringly betrayed in his logic. The Chicago Convention unanimously resolved that the Federal Govern- ment had no power over the domestic institutions of any State. President Lincoln in his Inaugural repeated and indorsed this truism. Nobody imagined, no one cag have pretended, that this statement referred to States in flagrant rebellion, or was intended to cripple in any manner the power to put down such rebellion. Yet Davis quotes the statement with an air of triumph as falsified by the Proclamation, and tells his dupes that it proves that the Republicans meant to abol- ish Slavery anyhow—that they came into power with that purpose! Yet he might, with precisely as great plausibility, cite the undoubted fact that many Rebels have been killed by Unionists in the battles of this War, and thereupon assert that the Republicans came into power resolved to butcher every Southron—that their professions of amity and gogd-will are all proved hypocritical by the carnage of Shiloh, of Bull Run, and of Antietam. But the fundamental position of Mr. Davis is the right of any State to secede from the Union at pleasure, without the least regard to the security, the interests, the wishes, of all the rest. He as- sumes as a self-evident truth that Florida, after we had bought it of Spain, spent millions on mil- lions in clearing it of savages, constructed costly forts to protect it and a navy yard on its coast, had simply to declare off at any moment, pass an ordi- nance of Secession, and the Union would at once become an intruder and an alien in its own forts, liable as such to be shelled out of its own navy yard, and a trespasser should it venture there- after to cut a stick from its own live-oak forests. Does any sane man Jelicve this the house wherein we have so long rested in fancied security? Did any one imagine, in 1832-3, that South Carolina had only to pass an Ordinance of Secession in order to render that of Nullification perfectly legal, and entitle her, under the Federal Constitution, to call on Gen. Jackson to remove Gen. Scott and his garrison as trespassers from the forts in Charles- ton harbor ? Let us bring this monstrous pretension to a common-sense test: Arkansas, (like other new * States,) before she was admitted into the Union, was required to renounce formally and irrevocably all claim of right to the Public Lands within her boundaries. When she pretended te secede from the Union, sheewent through the motions of for- mally revoking this irrevocable ¢ompact. Could she give any validity to this glaring perfidy? If nvt +e this, how revoke her furrestedhesion to the Union itself? Mr. Davis himself has repeatedly taken the solemn oath of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States, and has held positions of emi- nent honor and trust thereupon. He did this, knowing full well that the Federal Constitution (Art. VI.) is by its terms “ the supreme law of the land, * * * anything in the constitution or laws of any Stale to the contrary noiwithstanding.” Can he have believed or understood that an act of his State could relieve him of the obligation of his oath aforesaid—nay, compel him to set it at defiance and engage in bloody hostilities against those who still held themselves bound to obey and uphold “the supreme law of the land?” No, he did not; he could not. Let us hear what he has to say in the premises : “Four of the States now members of the Confederacy were recognized by name as independent sovereignties ina treaty of peace concluded in the year 1783 with one of the two great maritime powers of Western Europe, and had been a to that period allics in war of the other. In the year 778, they formed a union with nine other States under Arti- cles of Confederation. Dissatisfied with that Union, three of them—Virginia, Carolina, and Georgia—together with eight of the States now members of the United States, seceded from it in 1789, and these eleven seceding States formed a second Union, although by the terms of the Articles of Confedera- tion express provision was made that the first Union should be perpetual. Their right to secede, notwithstanding this provision, was never contested by the States from which they separated, nor made the subject of discussion with any third power.” — Did the States, in 1789, in “ adopting the Fed- eral Constitution,” secede from the union formerly existing between them under the Articles of Con- federation? Let us appeal to the call, by the Con- gress of the old Confederation, of the Convention of ’87, which framed our present Constitution : Whereas, There are provisions in the Articles of Confedera- tion and Perpetual Union for making alterations therein, by the assent of a Congress of the United States, and of the Legis- latures of the several States ; and whereas, experience hath evinced that there are defects in the present Confederation, as @ means to remedy which several of the States, and par- ticularly the State of New York, by express instructions to their delegates in Congress, have su ted a Convention for the purposes expressed in the following resolution ; and such a Convention appearing to be the most probable means of establishing in these States a firm National Government ; Resolved, Th , in the opinion of Congress, it is expedient that, on the second coy S May next, a Convention of delegates who shall have appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express pur- se of revising the Articles bf Confederation, and reporting o Congress and the several Legislatures such alterations an provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the Federal Constitution ade- ar to the exigencies of Government and the preservationof the nion. . —Was that secession? Did the States which adopted the Federal Constitution thereby secede from the old Confederation? They met in con- vention—expressly to make alterations in their framework of government—to “form a more per- fect Union,” not to secede from the imperfect Union previously existing. The new Union was evolved from the old Confederation as the butter- fly from the grub, as the man from the child. The eleven States which adopted the Federal Constitution in 1786, simply preceded the other two in accepting and ratifying the work of ihe delegates from all. —But it were idle to heap proof on proof, dem- onstration on demonstration, that the framers and ratifiers of the Federal Constitution never dreamed that “the supreme law of the land” was the foot- ball of any casual majority in any State of the Union. Alexander Hamilton, on behalf of New York, wrote to James Madison when the ratifica- tion by our State was vehemently contested and doubtful, soliciting for New York the privilege of ratifying it for a limited term, and was answered that this could not be—the: ratification must be unconditional or it was nothing. How the mighty dead would have stared had any one then sug- gested—“ You need not make all this ado about ratifying or rejecting the Constitution—you can ratify it this year and secede from it nabitone shall not like its operation.” Such trifling was not understood by the fathers—its condemmation is written in blood on the hearthstones of their grandchildren. May the lesson prove effectual and final! Tnx colored people of New York held a second celebration over the Emancipation Proclamation at ° 3 00 " “after six months. Delivered in New York or Brooklyn by carrier, 50c. additional. TO ADVERTISERS. Thirty cents a line for each insertion. a line for Special Forty cents Business Notices ae llowing Sncrans fas Morel Wop cea” and over; 1 will : 10 per cent. on per cent. on $100 and over; 20 per cent, on $200 and over ; 25 per cent. on $500 and over. Rel 4. $500 and over RD No. 5 Beekman st., ‘New York. a attractions. The speakers were Mr. Petersen, Rev. J. R. W. Sloane, Theodore Tilton, Oliver Johnson, Rev. T. Morris Chester, and Rev. H. H. Garnet. It will be long before the colored people are done say ing, “ God bless Abraham Lincoln !” OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE. Wasurnoron, Jan. 19, 1863. To tux Eprrors or Tur INDEPENDENT : Though the week that has closed contained some of the darkest hours of the Republic since the day when Sumter was attacked, yet I have noticed that one class of people in this city were in good spirits— the colored people. Perhaps for the very reason that they did not fully understand the political, financial, and military situation, they had the stronger faith in God and in principles. Whatever the cause may be, the colored people in the District have not abated one jot of their eathusiasm and hope. They believe, now that the President has proclaimed liberty to the slave, that God will not desert him and the cause of justice and human freedom. Feeling thus, they propose a public demonstration in view of the Proclamation. A few nights ago, a large number of them came together to make the necessary ar- rangements. A few white rowdies were outside show their superiority over the colored race they sent an occasional shower of missiles against the outer walls of the edifice. A colored preacher present, noticing signs of fear in his audience, advised them to prepare to fight the mob, adding, “ Any man who will not had better make his peace with God and go.to heaven!” Since the Proclamation the colored people increase in their manhood. They begin to talk of fighting, of refusing to submit to outrages enforced upon them by brutal and ignorant white men. At the meeting referred to one of the speakers said, “ He would do all he could to enforce the Proclamation. When God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt he did not give them posses- sion of Canaan until they had conqueredit! He be- lieved Dixie was the Canaan for the colored race, but they must conquer it!” This is sound doctrine, and the only doctrine that will save the country, even if it be taught at “negro meetings.” In fact, these are the very places it should be taught in, or else how is Mr. Lincoln to get his negro army that Congress will provide for him in a few days? I have given one picture of the condition of. the colored people here. I will give another. Slavery is nominally extinct in this District, but many cruel slave-laws remain. The Republican majorities in Congress have never repealed the infamous Fugitive- Slave law—and let no man tell me that it is an ob- solete law, for it is not in this city. A few days ago I saw a black man chased as if he were a runaway thief down the broad Pennsylvania avenue, jostling honorable members of Congress as he ran, with a hideous Maryland slave-catcher close at his heels. At last he was caught, and the man-catcher began to shake his victim, as if to remind him that he was not a man but a beast, a thing—and this was at noonday on the principal street of the capital, and in sight of the flag upon thé Capitol building, as well as in full view of the Presidential mansion. A white citizen of a free state, unable longer to bear the sight of such cruelty, stepped up and demanded to know of the negro-catcher if he had a warrant for the arrest. He had not, bat the Northerner was arrested himself by a tity policeman for interference with an ofr! Go long a8 such scenes are possible in the capital of the nation, we are not a free people, and the Republican majorities in Congress have not performed their entire duty. The condition of the colored people of the District, in their relations with the white race here, is upon the whole very pleasant. If there was no slave-catch- ing from Maryland, and it were not for a few low and drunken white miscreants, they would have no complaints whatever to make. Whites and blacks get along together in this city with comfort to both. There is very little prejudice against the colored man. I have often been astonished to see the famil- iarity with which white and black workmen get along together. Some time since, a piece of work, requiring the services of a tinner, needed to be done in my house. Two young men were sent by their employer, one white and the other black, and both were neat and smart workmen, as well as neat in their dress and appearance. They were on terms of perfect familiarity, and when the job was done they passed out together, talking as pleasantly as if both were white, or both black. They were accustomed to this, and the vile anti-negro prejudice was not aroused. It was forgotten. So will it be over the South when the black race is acknowledged to be free by the whites. Whenever the two races have occasion to work side by side, the prejudices will subside. The white man will possess, for a time at least, the supe- rior intellect, and he is the natural protector and guide of the black man. I have dwelt longer, per- haps, than I should upon this subject, because it so nearly concerns, as we all firmly believe, the great future. The discussions in Congress grow interesting. One of the happiest events for the great cause was the bold announcement of the views of the so-called Peace Democracy by Mr. Vallandigham. It has alarmed many of his political friends. It was answered (the speech of the Ohio member) by a Democrat on the very day it was made. A life-long Democrat, who heard the speech. said with great indignation, “If these are Democratic principles, I am no longer 2 Democrat!” A personal friend of Vallandigham remarked, “ He has at last revealed to the country his true position. He is a rebel, gnd I will henceforth treat him as such!” This is the feeling among a portion of the Democracy, and it will save us from the perdition which Vallandigham, ’ Brooks, and their fellows had prepared for the nation. In the debate on the condition of the country, Wright (Democrat of Pennsylvania) and Bingham (Republican from Ohio) covered themselves with honor. Wright surprised everybody by his eloquence, and Vallandigham was nervous under it. The discussions of the financial question, upon the bills now before the House, have called forth speeches in abundance ; and it is amusing to see how widely different are the views of men who perfectly agree on the great questions of the day. For instance, Amasa Walker made a strong speech in favor of a sound currency, against the further issue of “legal tenders,” but he would pay the interest in currency— not in coin. Gurley of Cincinnati advocated the immediate issue of five hundred millions of legal tender notes! Thaddeus Stevens wants a universal universal paper currency—no coin to be recognized in any shape by the Government. Roscoe Conkling of i the issue of demand notes, on the has an up-hill fight of it. Tos President is in good health, and still expects to win suecesses in the field, notwithstanding past blunders. His letter to Gen. McClellan last spring, now just published, is regarded here as greatly to credit. It shows that he was cow and fai ful—that even at that early day he did not hesitate to ashington ment of the President. e general 8a: 60,000 troops in defense of the capital, that 20,000 were pampeay = e the tims ve people will believe tha the building in which the meeting was held, and to , of the

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Henry Ward Beecher.* « anp after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power ; and the earth was light- ened.with his glory, And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is the habitation of devils, and the hold of every ‘oul spirit, and a cage of every ubclean and hatefu' bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornicati sa, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication wit, her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I'sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall sec no sor- row. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.”— Rey. xvili. 1-6. * : The Book of Revelation is not to be studied as we study a star in the system of astronomy, with exact and mathematical calculation; but as we gazo upon a light or beacon set to teach us the general direction in which we are to lay our course. It is an illumination which God has lit up in the later days of the world to fill us in times of despondency with courage and cheer and hope. The term Babylon, borrowed from a real city, is employed here, as in other places, often, figura- tively. And without straining a point at all, it may be said that it is the kingdom of despotism, the@ingdom of oppression, on earth, that is meant by the term Babylon. It is more specific than the term kingdom of darkness ; for it seems to refer to a specialty of despotism. The violation of the eternal principles of justice for the injury and de- struction of men—this seems to be that which is grouped and included under that term Babylon. Nay, it is even more full and specific than that. It ia the violation of human rights by the despotic selfishness of commerce that is included in and intended by the term Babylon. For although it | was not the genius of the Hebrew mind to gener- alize philosophically as we do, and to state a general truth in generic terms; and so, though there is no specific statement to this amount, yet if you take the particulars that go to make up the declaration here respecting Babylon, you shall find that it is that. A great community, banded, fed, prospered, and made rich, through commerce, by unlawful means, involving the waste and the destruction of the rights, the purity, and the lives of the poor and of the needy—such a community is a Babylon. ; If you ask, then, “ What is this Babylon ?” it is the symbol of the injustice and the oppression practiced by the commerce of the world. The apirit of modern times is commercial. Commerce is a great divine instrumentality in civilizing and Christianizing the world. Comprehensively re- garded, it may be said to be a Christian agency- As a general tendency, it is doing more good to: the world than we can calculate or imagine. And yet those that are conducting the commerce of the world are, to a very great extent, in their private and special operations respecting it, op- pressors. For the first contact of the commercial spirit is apt to produce oppression. The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong; and usually it operates against the weak. And there is no Christianity yet that can restrain large num- bers of men under such circumstances. Thd strength that intelligence gives, the very power which Christianity has wrought, the facility of practical life, and the fertility of thought and feel- ing that has been bred in us by many generations, have made us keen, potent, victorious, in the con- flicts of commerce throughout the world, Without at the same time making us so humane as to feel that we are burdened with the responsibility of all those whom our commerce regards. And the world is full of this spirit. Commerce is a gigantic power. And the selfishness of com- merce is a very fortress of sin. Itis wrought into all nations. The conflict of the Gospel with the spirit of selfishness in commerce is to constitute a solemn part of the history of the coming times of the world. ' If you ask, further, “‘ Where is Babylon?” I reply, “In no one place, in no one age; but in every age, and in every land where the energies and industries of nations are aroused to inerease wealth regardless of the welfare of mankind— there is Babylon.” The kingdom of God—where is that? In no one place ; for the kingdomof God is a term thai signifies the movement of a moral force. And wherever there is progressive good- ness; wherever there is rectitude and justice, there is the kingdom of God. And wherever there is injustice; wherever there is the spirit of traffic aud of gain; wherever there is the power and the ropose, ‘first TSabbath outrages among themselves and upon themselves, and yet susceptible of civilization and of an emi- nent future. It is the fashion of many persons to deride and to despise the African people as a stock incapable of civilization. I have no min- ner of doubt that there are some elements of civil- ization that are more eminent in one nationality than in another, but I count it as little less than blasphemous to say of a whole continent of poo- ple that God has made, that they are unsuscepti- ble of that development and civilization which is the common property and lot of the whole humin family. lI regard the African race as destined to a future—if not such a one as belongs to Euro- pean races, yet one that shall be signal for its own light and its own glory. Some efforts aro making for this benighted con- tinent. ‘Travelers are exploring its territory ; and every year they are bringing us more and more accurate and extended information concern- ing it. Missions have lit tapers, at last, along the coust. Colonies there are, one or two; and although they are green spots on the great conti- nent, they are just such green spots as in this winter night you shall find gf mistletoe in tho boughs of old oak-irees. There is one little hand- ful of mistletoe to a whole great barren tree; and as that hangs in the bough of the treo, so these one or two colonies hang in the boughs of that vast continent. Commerce is hovering around about it, like a sea-gull, off and on, seeking food. Yet, withal, thero is but little that is yet accom- plished ; and we may say that darkness still broods where for ages darkness has not been irradiated. Africa, and its countless millions, may be said to be yet buried in a midnight for which there seems to be no preparation of a morn- ing. But a morning shall come, though its star has not yet dawned. God, that holds the stars in his right hand, will in his own time roll them above the horizon; and there shal! ke a bright and morning star for Africa. II. Look at Asia. ‘the prevalent condition of its population is one of low living and of oppres- sion. The unnumbered millions of people that dwell in Asia are low, debased, oppressed, wast- ing and wasted. India and China have been appropriated by the commerce of Eurppe, and chiefly of Great Britain. For more than a hund- red and fifty years, the commerce of England has fed on the people of Asia. England has fed on the spoils of commercial oppression. All her Christianity is not, to-day, strong enough to roll an opium pill into the sea! All her love of liberty and Christianity combined is not, to-day, strong enough to break a thread of cotton! And of all the nations of time, of all the kingdoms on the earth, there is not one that stands so centrally the very Babylon of Babylons, made rich and strong by — people and eating them up, as Eng- and, And yet, there are some signs of movement even in Asia: there are some in India, some in China, and some in Japan. There are there some pre- parations for a growth of civilization ; but it be- longs to another generation. There are to be great revolutions and great changes in prosperous empires before the latter-day glory is to come, if grcat moral truths and equities are to be illustrated in latter-day glory. There is but little of promise in Asia. III. Let us turn, then, to Europe. What is its condition with reference to the enfranchisement of its millions of common people? I note with pleasure and joy the signs of revived national life in the group of Mediterranean nations. Spain is showing signs of renewed lifo. Italy has elec- irified the world by springing from “her dust and standing up again clothed and in her right mind. Greece is also beginning to assert her national life. And Turkey hersel4, though a sick and fable and perishing nation in her political forms, has under her political forms a stock es noble, I belive, as there is en the face of the earth. For although every Turk that has touched public life has found in it about the same effect which it has wrought in Oceidental nations, and has been corrupted by it, if you go outside of state and government em- ployment, you shail find that the common people of Turkey. ure a noble common people. And there is hope forthe. In regard to all this group of nations along the Mediterranean, it is 2 popular and commercial regeneration that is taking place, and not a governmental regeneration. . The peo- ple of all these kingdoms have asserted their rights; and in so far as they have been gained, they have been gained 6y them, and not for them. It is an initiative and prophetic, rather than a seitled ar.d accomplished thing. Southern Europe looks toward a brighter future. ‘There is hopo for her common people. And as for Middle Europe, including Austria, Germany, Denmark, and Scandinavia, it may be said that there is a reactionary and conservative state of government in this long line of nations; but that there is a slow amelioration of the com- mon people, which is important rather for what it promises than for what it yetis. It seems to me that the progress of the Germanic race mzy more practice of increasing one’s own strength at the expense of the welfare of others, there is the other | kingdom, or that part of the kingdom of darkness | which is called in the Revelation “Babylon.” It | is, then, the symbol of a moral movement. } This is the great form of wickedness in our day. Once the world was warlike, and the populations of the earth were destroyed by war and its attend- | ant evils, by famine, by pestilence, and by the executioner’s ax; but like numbers of men are now destroyed by coal-mines, by factories, by overtaxed and overtasked labors in cities and on plantations. And all the wastes and destriictions of men that aforetime have been through govern- ments, are now through firms and companies, in the main; for Babylon is the modern dynasty of the devil. Against this, the whole spirit and tendency of Christianity utters its solomn protest. Man is sacred: not fabrics, not metals, not buildings, not cities; but mankind. This is to become the fanatitism, or at least the enthusiasm, of modera civilization—the sacredness of mankind; and those who are the weakest are to become tlie special objects of divine care ; and we are to accept that. Whilé hitherto, in the earlier periods of this world’s struggle, the strong have had the advantage in life, as that struggle progresses, and God is bringing moral things to their victorious periods, wo shall begin to see that he takes care of the weakest and the lowest. We are beginning to see it already. ; . rr A judgment is decreed against this special wick- edness ; and it is so determined that God does not leave it even to his own voluntary government of providence, but infixes it into the course of nature, and establishes it by natural law. It has beon made apparent, and it becomes more and more apparent, that any course which builds up national wealth and national power at the expense of the poor and the needy, works in an element of decline, of weakness, and of death itself, as well. The whole future progress of Christianity requires the overthrow of such a wrong. The essence of Christianity is good-will to the poor and to the needy. It must destroy, therefore, every Fb whose essence is the neglect, the misuse, © degradation, and the destruction of the poor and the needy. However long delayed, however much soever seemingly overthrown, God has de- termined that there yet shall be victory of Christi- anity over this form of Satan. Hence the solemnity and the full meaning of our text in its exhortation to every one to come out from such wickedness, “I heard another voice from heaven, s2ying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not par- takers of her sins, and that ye rebéees not he Prony _ Every man that means to stand safely, every man that means to be recognized and owned of God, is summoned carefully to separate himself from all courses and tendencies and parties and * Preached at Plymouth Brooklyn, Sunday even- ib. 208. & 10%, for The Independent by T. J. to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by Entered J. H. Richards, in the Clerk’s Office of the United States for the Southern District of New York. fitly be compared to the motion of its glaciers on the Tyrol mountains than to the growth of the har- vests of our populous plains and valleys, where the seed is sown, and comes up, and grows, and ripens, and is ready for the sickle, in one year. The German mind is like a frozen rivor lying aslent ; upon the mountains, which moves, but which ‘ moves so slowly that men disputed for a whole generation as to whether it did move or not—a question which could be settled only by driving stakes and taking observations from month to month. Butit moves. And as the glaciers are making channels in the sides of the mountains, and abrading the rocks, and melting the ice, and flowing down, and making soil in the valleys below ; so the Germanic and central nations of Europe are moving and preparing for a glorious future. Russia presents the most noble attitude of any nation in Europe. The whole national life is undergoing a change in the direction of restoring rights to ‘the common’ pedple. If we had been called to single out that nation which would most . Signally illustrate the spirit of Christian democ- racy, the last one that we should have meutioned would have been Russia. And yet, she is the frst in this thing. “The last shall be first.” - This is not the work of the people; it is not the work of commerce. The most remarkable feature in this movement of the vast Russian empire, of the enfranchisement of its serfs, is that it is the work of the Government; and that it is the work of that Government which is the most concentrated and autocratic that has been known in the history of the world. And the Czar of Russia stands, beyond all question, the emancipa- tor of the XIXth century. Crown the head, then, of this Cesar. Pluck leaves from the tree of life and immortal blossoms, and put a wreath around about his head, who, standing ina place that has made men before him hard and eruol and selfish, has been moved by the Spirit of God to take his position in. the forefront of modern progress, and emancipate the myriad slaves of his vast empire. The whole resources of that kingdom are now embarked in this gigantic reformation. It is the only instance of the kind in Europe. There is not another movement like it there. Every other king in Europe of which we know anything is fearing and dreading a popular enfranchisement. All the other governments of Europe m2y now be said to be resisting the encroachments of the com- mon people, and secking io build new dykes and lovees and dams to keep the people within soma bounds. And Russia only stands, by her Goy- ernment, and through her autocrat, her Czar, giv. ing liberty to her slaves. __ Not in Italy, that old land of republics and of early civilization ; not in Germany, that land of Reformation—the seed-ground and granary of modern liberty ; not in France, for an age inocu. lating the world with the virus of which never takes at home ; not in England, the land of the Puritan, and the sturdy defender of rights, but in Russia, a synonym for all t is despotic, is now going trious act of modern 's drama of eman- ' If we look to Western Europe, France and Eng- land are both of them retrograding : not in wealth democracy, on the most illus- | Justice is the God af battles: 7 and so many ships, or making so many im prove- ments. In both commerce is the instramont that | is strongest, and is most influen yernmoat, and the intermediate classes wrod oh governa- ment and the lowest class. Andthe spirit of com- merce in England and France is not only selfish, but tending to be despotic, and to violate the natural. rights of man. The war of France to-day in M>x- ico is @ most signal illustration of the comm2rce of France; and that seeks to violgte,every right of an empire for no other. reason than a commer-, cial reason. I shall not speak of Enzland and her position, for the simple reason that there is bad blood enoush—and thete has been reason enous! for bad blood! My convictions are such, and they are so fixed in my very nature, that if I speak at all I shall speak strongly ; and I do not wish to deepen and strengthen any impressions, which are already deep enough and strong enough, between our kindred on the other side of the water and ourselves here. God will judge her, and history will judge her. From Europe turn we to the other continent that is left—America. Unmentioned in our inven- tory of. American states is one which has in it, perhaps, as bright a promise as any other on the continent—Canada. The umbilical cord which connects this unweaned child with her unfertiliz- ing mother ought to be cut! Itis high tims that it was cut! And, witha territory second to none ; with climates as favorable as our own; with two oceans as much as we; and with the beginning of a population than which no nation could desire to have a better, [know not why Canad is not yet to take her place among the great nations of time and the world. In so far as herpresent 1s con- cerned, it may be torpid in spots, and inert; but in all its activities it is forward, and healthful, and Christian. God bless Canada, and give her a glorious and illustrious future. And as she bers her meteor flag westward, it shall be her glory, above any nation that dwells upon this hemisphere, to carry a banner that, in her hands, has never been held over the head of aslave. And, when her cities shall be built, and her ports shall bo epened on the Pacific coasi, and her commerce shall extend from ocean to ocean clear across this hemisphere, she shall, be the free nation of the North, and the mother of freedom. Again, Gol bless Canada! Ra Before I speak of our own affairs, let me dismiss the residue of the carth, by saying that South America seems to me like an hour-glass that has just so many sands in it, which run from this orb down into that, and then, by revolution, is turned upside down, when the same sands ran back ogain. She has been shifting about once in ten years ever since I was born; and I do not know how long the same process had been going on when Iwas born. I suppose from the beginning of the world. As she was, she is still ; and I know not but that she will be se to the end of time. The signs of her future are not many ; hor are they very encouraging. In looking upon our own country, the external appearance is sad. Civil war is always a specta- ele of sadness. The conflict of brethren; the horrible loss of life; and the attendant sufferings that hover around about the movements of armies, and that belong to caimpaigns—if you look upon these outward things, you shall mourn, and say, “Tt is a time of darkness, of thick darkness, when there is no light even upon the mountains ;” but if you look at the condition of the country, not externally, but from within, I declare that is noble. For there is just now a conflict for the government of this continent by two giant forces —ihe spirit of Christian liberty and democracy, and the spirit of aristocratic oppression. And the spectacle which is before God, and /agels, and faith-seeing men, is this spectacle of the last great battle of the Lord God Almighty on this continent between these two great forces: the one bearing, in its heart, in its principles, and in its inevitable victories, the welfare of the common people to the very bottom ; and the other bearing in its heart, in its principles, and in its intent, the subjugation of the common people; the one, by every single element that belongs to it, by its whole Chris- tianity, by all its antecedents, by every single one of the institutions that it has established, living for the education and the siren the ignorant and the poor, and for the s of t wreak}; Ul tie Otner, DY every eal element o its existence, and by its avowed aud dgctared pur- poses, taking the poor and the weak and ‘the ig- norant, as the vintner takes the cluster, to crush it, that he may drink the wine that rans from it. These two great opposing forces are now in con- flict on this continent. We love to read, in Miiton, of the fight of angels, |. good and bad. We love, in poetic descant, to imagine God a-blowing his great trumpet, and summoning all the good and all the evil in con- flict ; but there never was portrayed in Milton, or in any fiction, 2 conflict so sublime as that which is taking place in our land and in ourtime. You and I, and your children and mine, are witnessing the illustrious parts of the eonflict between the great cause of God in modern civilization and the cause of the devil. The present stage of this conflict, I think, is the sublimestthatit has yet attained. If the very con ception is sublime, thus far the outworking of it has been. At last the Government of the United States stands straight again. In our Western forests, where mighty tempes- tuous winds rend and é@ast down trees one upon another, now and then, in its fall during a storm some great tree overlays the stem of another trea, and holds it down, and it learns to grow crooked ; until another storm comes and shakes off the entangling load, when the bent tree is left to sock its original straightness, which, little by little, and year by year, it at last recovers, so that the crook is all gone and it once more holds out its branches to the free heaven alike on every side. Just so, at last, the Government of these United States has righted itself. Slavery, that bent it and held it down so long, has rolled off, and left it to extend every leaf and every branch alike North, and South, and East, and West, to the spirit of lib- erty. The President of these United States—to be accused, certainly of no haste ; te be charged with no rashness in judgment; led by no yain confi- dence in his own intuitions ; after long and pain- ful deliberation, and an anxious seeking for some other way—has been constrained te issue his Proclamation for the Emancipation of the slaves of the states that are in rebellion against this Gov- ernment. And I consider that to be the event of this century in the West. There are two great facts in this world, and there are but two. All other facts besides these are as dust. They are, first, the Autocrat of Russia standing in the far Eastern hemisphere, and against hi#mobles, em- ploying the whole military resources wealth of that great empire for the enfranchisément of his serfs ; and second, the President of this Occiden- tal republic standing in the midst @@ war and darkness, and sending forth the light of that Proc- lamation by which he declares the liberty of three millions of slaves on this continent. These two events are like two mountains of Calvary lifted up. All the rest that is doing in the world istow and dim in the eomparison. . The moral recognition which the President was pleased to give im the issuing of this military order is one that is most becoming. It seems to me that it could not have been omitted in his Proclamation. After so many ages of Christianity in the world, after such a career in this nation, if the President of the United States had not based his action, at least in part, on considerations of justice and rectitude, he would have violated the very spirit of the age in which he lives. AndI thank God, in his behalf, that he was lod to take that step ; and that, though he took it as the Com- mander-in-chief of our armies, he yet took it ‘because it was just, as well as necoessary- For I tell you, you are not fit to be free, nor to be the conservators of the freodom of other men, until the able to say, in the And since we have conformed to the decrees of eternal justice, may THE LNDEPENDENT. —they were never so rich ; not in material civil- , we no’ believe that now he that leads the armies | igation—they were'never buildingso many 10213 | ow 8 of the heaven and.of Se Se will give us vie- tory ?-- I belieye that,he will. . ere may not be to-day nor to-mor- pation a considerable number of slaves ; u@ freedom of those in bondage is something that is yet to be caraed, we have emancipated a goed deal. Though wo may not have set free one slave, we have set this Gov- ernment free, and we have set ihis great nation free ; and that is a greatdeal. You and I havo no longer the responsibility of the slavery of three millions of men by our relations to a Gov- ernment which indorses their servitudo. We have been bending under our own indorsements like merchants who have lont their name to paper enough to sweep their whole property ; and now we are like those same merchants when at last that paper is all gathered up, and their namo is canceled, and there is not the scratch of a pon against them. This nation is getting in its paper very fast! There is one feature in the Proclamation to which I desire to call your attention, and that is the declaration of the Commander-in-Chief of the armies of these United States that the slaves set free should be employed in the military service of the Government. I thank God for that. It is a most potent step. The moment a man is de- clared to be free, that moment he becomes a citi- zen: not with all the political rights and duties known to a citizen; but he becomes a citizen. A man may be a citizen, and yet not be like every other one. A woman is a citizen; but she does not vote nor bear office under the Government. A child is a citizon; and still a child has no part in forming public policy. And a slave is a citizen, if he is born in this couatry, and if he is declared to be free. He may not bea citizen empowered to vote, or entitled to office; but he is a citizen entitled to his life, to his lib- erty, and to the pursuit of happiness. He is a citizen, entitled to self-defense, and to the privi- lege of fighting for his own country. When the President, recognizing the liberty of these oppressed people, declares that they shall be protected and receivod into the army, and al- lowed to hold forts and perform other military service, he has taken a second great step over and above the declaration of their freedom ; for it pre- vents the motives for an irregular and savage warfare on their part, should they be provoked to any such folly. It provides a way in which whatever resistance they may pleage to make against their oppressors may be under the direc- tion of the military authorities of this nation. Nobody can predict the future except in a very general way; but I anticipate now a conflict more terrific than anything that we have yet had. I have never been one that supposed such a pro- clamation would alarm Southern men. The day for doing things with moral effect was allowed to pass by. God had a plan in it; and since that has come to pass which I saw coming to pass ; since our mistakes have been overruled, as they have been, for the furtherance of the great cause of God in liberty, I am not disposed to complain, as at times I didcomplain. It is very evident that the whole period of popular enthusiasm, and the whole time for striking down the rebellion when in the gristle, was wasted. The councils that for a long time prevailed and controlled the move- ments of our armies, were counsels which subse- quent events have proved to have been foolish, and which it has been found necessary to cut up by the roots and cast away. And diplomacy is now occupied in unsaying what diplomacy was twelve months ago occupied in saying. But that is all past; that has gone by. What the future is to be I cannot tell; but I-suppose that this Proclamation will be met by a counter proclama- tion by the President of the so-called Confederate States. We cannot but acknowledge that, what- ever may be their fanlts, the South have not found themselves wanting in fidelity to their own ideas, in manliness in the defense of their territory, nor in a head to guide them skillfully and bravely. And if this Proclamation is not met with a pro- Mr. Davis, it will be the first time that he h been found stumbling in this conflict. - And then, when it is proclamation against proc- lamation, government against government, and people against people, there will be no such thing as compromise, there will be no chance for ami- Cabie settiem ent—as for a long time thefe has not been. And you must lic down and let them walk over your necks, or they must lie down and you must walk over: their necks. We may just as well look at it as it is. We may just as well understand the literal truth, and prepare ourselves for the one thing or the other. I believe that there are many honest men who think that this matter might yet be compromised. There are many honest men who are overturing backwards and forwards, and trying to bring about a friendly adjustment of the case. But it strikes me that overturing the Southern Government is just about such a piece of wisdom as it would be in Van Amburg’s menagerie for a Sunday-school child to sit by the cage of a boa-constrictor and try to make him recite the ten commandments ! May all that they have accomplished by their mediations do them good. I give them the crodit of being honest men; but they are very simple, to say the least. The South do not mean compro- mise. They have taken their ear of corn and husked it, and there is no husk to it. They have shelled it, and there is no cob to it. Their chuse is clear kernel and meal, nothing else. And we may as well husk our ear now, and see everything in the grit and grain, and put our absoluteness against their absoluteness, and go forward with the old war-qry, God and Justice, and let that revail which God pleases to make triumphant. t am willing to take the risk. I am willing to have one more battle-field, illustrious above every other; because never, since the sun shone, never since governments were ordained, has there been an issue so absolute, so perpendicular, so crystal- line, so devoid of all side-issues, as this issue between absolute liberty and absolute slavery ; between aristocracy and democracy ; between the spirit of Christianity and the infidelity of oppres- sion. Never before was there an issue so clear on both sides; and let it be settled. Let no man stand between these combatants; for the war must be fought out. You “have gone to the ex- pense; you have heaped up your treasure ;. you have sent forth your sons; you have mustered your armies, and you can never do it again so cheaply and with so little bloodshed as now. Therefore, in the name of God, in the name of Christ, in the name of the Holy Ghest, for the sake of humanity, and for the love of mankind, let this conflict go on till victory is declared on one side or the other. But, whatever we may say or do, brethren, I believe that we are going on the Gulf Stream of a divine decree. I believe that we, as a nation, are being swept down a course that has been appointed from the foundation of the world, and that the counsels of eternity are guiding that movement by which we are dancing like bubbles on: the waves ofthe sea. Therefore itis ratherto urge you to joyfal consent, than because I think you can withdraw yourselves from this movement, that I For it has been wisely said that in times of revolution single meu are gothing at all ; that great principles and causos take their course, and no man can hinder or resist them. If a man were being swept down the Niagara River, it would mako very little difference, in so far as his rescue was concerned, what his straggics or his thoughts were. Once in the stream, he must go over the precipice, and take his chances. And we must go down the cataract of war. It is not in the power of any limber-backed, shallow-pated fool to stop the career of God’s decrees. — - What, then, are our duties at this time, as a Christian people? It seems to me that our first duty consists in such a preparation of heart and mind that we can walk with God, and look at the events that are taking place, nét from the low stand-point of the passions, or of self-interest, but from the stand-point of truth and righteousness. We ought to stand on the high a plain on which God stands, and from thence behold the course of divine Providenee. : "And then, next, we should be chastened, a Gok clamation that more than matches it on the part of his own, and range them around about his bright throne in heaven. . ’ Yon have sent your children in honor bofore you, but you have notlost one of thom. And, of the young and fair that went forth from the col- lege, from the academy, from the law-office, from their many vocations, and grasped the sword and -musket, and entered into the service of their dearly beloved country, methinks I see one and another, in their bright ascension, standing to look on the bodies dripping on fields of gore and to chide the grief that sees the outside, and not, through that, the reality and glory of their heavenlystate. You mourn not as those that have no hope, for the fallen. : We ought also to understand that, in the victory of our Government, which we may hope impends, there is to be laid upon the church a very solomn responsibility for the care of these millions of poor and helpless creatures. It is going to be a very serious thing for a man to be a philanthropist and a Christian from this time forward ; and we ought not to spend our enthusiasm merely in patriotic descant: we ought to begin to pray, and to ask God what is our duty toward those that are about to be rolled as a xesponsibility upon the eon- science and the hearf-of the church. We must think betimes of these things, and prepare our- selves for them beforehand. Moreover, it is the duty of all—and I solemaly enjoin it upon every young man and maiden—to stand up now, at home and abroad, in season and cut of season, and with a holy and chastened enthusiasm, for those great principles of Christian liberty which have been imporiled, and whith lie at the root of this mortal struggle. There is one thing that commands my admira- tion, whether it be in man, or bird, or beast; and that is, fidelity to an avowed object, and a readi- ness to suffer for it, ‘It befell me, when I lived in the West, to be dis- quieted by the screeching of blue-jays around my house ; and I determined that I would make way with the nuisance. Accordingly, day by day, I took my gun, and dropped them, one after another. And I noticed, from time to time, how tenacious they were of life, and how violently every one of them fought when wounded. One day I picked up a bird that I had shot, and I was forcibly im- pressed with the heroism that he displayed. He would notdie. Hewould not giveup. He fought me with claw and bill, and gleamed upon me with his bright kingly eye. And the thought came over me of his pluck, and courage, and unflinch- ing spirit; and I said to him, “ Yeu deserve to live, and for your sake I will never shoot another of your kind ”—and J never did. I admired the temper of that unvanguished bird. And—let me confess the weakness—I admire, even in a bad cause, the heroic spirit, the indom- itable courage, that we behold in Southern women, in Southern men, and in Southern boys. They are on the wrong side ; but they put us to shame by their utter enthusiism for the most accursed cause that ever the sun was permitted to shine on. They have embraced it, and have given their heart and life to it, and they are willing to suffer for it. And now, shall we, for the sake of that cause which is the hope.of nations, for the sake of that cause which was ¢radled in the bosom of ages, for the sake of that cause which bears prophecies of good-will to all the world; shall we, for the sake of all that unites earth to heaven, and makes man godlike, for thesake of God and justice, and for the sake of sweetand ever-blooming liberty, have no enthusiasm and no courage? I command every young man in my presence to let no man daunt him; to let no man deter him from an out- spoken and enthusiastic love of liberty and right. And I command every maiden to crown with her smiles, and to give preference to only those men who are enough men to avow their enthusiasm for liberty. Since to our hands is committed this priceless boon, on us rests the responsibility of vindicating the natural rights of men, of showing courage and enthusiasm for them, and of rebuking with the utmost scorn and indignation that a Christian heart may feel, those miserable man- lings, those wretched homunculi, that stand in the midst of the blessings of liberty to be ashamed of liberty, and to call it a sentimentalism and a philanthropism. Let these isms, and all the mani- kins that belong to them, go; and do you stand enthusiasts and glorious triumphers for God in human rights. Meanwhile. shall draw aside the vail? Shall I point out what is coming? Shall! I open up the future? I will read, rather, the words of the sublime prophecy. Listen to the doom that is to be theirs, who, for pelf and selfish commerce, are determined to.oppress the poor and the needy. It is the Word of God; “ And the kings of the earth, who have com- mitted fornication, and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her ”—they are doing it already; they want a mediation ; they are very anxious to have peace—“ when they shall see the smoke of her burning, standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. And the mer- chants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine-wood, and all manner vessels of ivory,and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, and cinnamon, and odors, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.” That is the commerce of the South. “And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. The mer- chanis of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off, for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, and saying, Alas, alas, that great city that wag clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every ship- master, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, and cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! And they east dust on their heads, and cried, /weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, whefein were made rich all that had ships in the sea, by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy aposties and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. And a mighty ange! took up a stone like a great millstone, and east it into the sea, saying, Thus thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.” So may slavery perish, and those that uphold +f it! SS \ THE SIOUX INDIANS: THEIR DRESSES, CEREMONIES, DANCES, EITC. Yanxtox, Daxora Texnirory, 1862. To rue Eprtors or Tae Ixperenpent : While we all watch with feverish eagerness every itcm from the great war, perhaps some of your read- ers may feel a little interest in that people whose bow is bent upon this whole frontier. The Sioux are peculiarly aggressive and warlike. They have always beech at war with their Indian neighbors, and very hard has it been with them to _live at peace with the whites. Indeed, the peace that has existed since the unpunished, or rather rewarded, Spirit Lake massacre, has becn but a con- stant series of unredressed es. I say unre- dressed ; for though agents and traders may have stolen ten dollars for one, and hence have generally been opposed to such punishment as will disturb trade, yet the farmers of Northwest lowa and of Dekoia have annually lost a heavy per cent. of their property, and often have been forced to abandon even their homes. The Sioux is nothing uuless a warrior or marauder. No belle of Madison square can turn up her nose more haughiily at a purseless aspirant for her hand, than will the Dakota maiden at him who has never taken a horse or a scalp. Every cer- emony, every dance, every precept, is diroctly aim- ed to foster the passion for war and robbery. Early in the summer was performed at the Yank- | has not proved a failure. with violence shall that great city Babylon be |} (JAN. 22, 1863, images of the fox, with petitions for suocessiy hunts, and only resting 2 minute ‘st a time as the priest sees their strength utterly failing. Thoy wer then seized by attendants of the priest, forcibly throw, upon their backs, two deep slits about two inches apartcut in €ach breast, and a stick like a butcher, gambril thrust at each end through under the and under the stick and around the protruding flesh cords were tightly bound, leaving it held firm to the body by two strips of living skin aud flesh. A rope was then fastened to the stick and to a stake a few yards cistant, and the young Hiawathas jump up ang renew the dance. The end is only reached by teariay the stick through the skin, and in this instance it wag another twenty-four hours before it was dono. Ofteg the devotee faints before succeeding in freeing him self from the stake, and is aided by others in tearing loose. At the close, a piece of flesh was ont from the shoulder of some young female friend of the dancers, and is offered up in thanks for the suceoss. ful exploit. “These ceremonies, with others of a more or less barbarous character, are practiced not only by the Teton Sioux beyond the Missouri, but by those for whom tréaties havé long since provided funds for their civilization. Is there anything in the self-tor- ture of the Hindoo to exceed this? r Our settlers are looking with deep concern to the coming spring. ‘The refugee [sontis from Minnesota are now with the Upper Sioux above Fort Pierre, and all accounts agree that, with their friends, they will be down upon us in the spring, perhaps bofore.. Fort Pierre is an abandoned U.S. fort, about 160 miles above Fort Randall, and now occupied by traders. The great body of the Dakotas are west of the Missouri, occupying the vast country from the Niobrara and Upper Platte on the south to the Missouri and Yellowstone on the north, and running out to the South Pass and through the Black Hills to the head- waters of the Yellowstone. East of the Missouri are the Yanktons, under treaty, and now peacefully ocew pying their Reservation, and the Upper and Lower Yarktonnais, extending from the Upper Big Sioux to the Miesouri. It is the largest and most warlike nation upoa the continent, and only needs consolida- tion to become a very dangerous enemy.. They are now divided, but unless the peace party are vigorous- ly sustained, they will all be swept into the war. If so, God save us and them! Maj. Patter of Fort Randall has gone to Fort Pierre with one company of cavalry and one of infantry. He met thirteen Minnesota captives—five half-breeds and two white women and six children, and is in pursuit of others. The story of the womea is a terrible one, and Blood, blood, is upon every lip! The two adult females represent themselves as survivors of a party of eleven women who were compelled to drive ox-teams for their Indian masters to ride, and otherwise to serve them at their will. After reaching the Missouri, nino were set up as targets for Indian marksmen. One of the survivors was taken to wife by a chief, and the other turnod over to indiscriminate abuse. Other captives, they say, are yet left. ‘Tho soldiers under Major Patier, consisting of Co. A, Dakota cavalry, and a company of Jowa infantry, contributed $250 on the spot to relieve their destitution; and the little grumbling they had indulged at a winter campaigu—and such a campaign in a wilderness prairie in the latitude of Montreal is no child’s play—was changed to an im- patience to be led forward. May God protect the brave fellows! We have grumbled at their idleness during the summer, but they are nobly atoning for it now. Gen. Cook of Illinois has arrived at Sioux City to take command of forces to operate in Dakota. In the spring the war should be carried into the Indiana country, and promptly brought toaciose. The Teton tribes must be compelled to deliver up Little Crow and White Lodge and their followers, as well as the murderers of their friendly chiefs, aud these who attacked the boats descending the Missouri, or share their fate. Prompt and severe punishment is mercy to the Indian, and life te us. Without vigorous measures, this whole country must be abandoned. I could fill sheets with truthful stories of settlements abandoned, homes destroyed, and families impover- ished, of which the public have heard nothing. With péace upon our border, our population and improve- ment would have been fourfold. We have as finea country upon the Missouri and Big Sioux as the con- tinent produces ; but what will it avail us with the shrieks of Minnesota ringing in our ears, and when every thicket may conceal a lurking savage? Our present trouble is all the result of the indifierence of the then administration to the Spirit Lake murders. Traders and agents counseled forbearance, for they were fattening in peace, and presents—blood bounty —were: actually made to Impaduta and his band, with their v4 ¥s yet. wet vith the bloo: of our women and ciifldren! ‘The savage respects and fears power, nothing else, and a failure to punish is with him evidence of weakness. The obligation upon the Government at once to teach the Sioux to respect as well as trust to our justice, is imperative. It is time to consider whether our Indign policy To occupy the continent, to wean the Indian from his wandering life, and to so govern him as to civilize and enlighten, offers a problem that sorely tries our wisdem as well as justice. One solution, long adopted by conquerors, though but recently avowed, is that inferior races should be enslaved in order to be civilized. Another is the system we have adopied in. our Indian rela- tions. The former is unjust, and therefore cannot be successful; the latter, though just, has generally failed. But is it the only just system? We should remember that, with all his native capacity for im- provement—and no one conversant with him can doubt that capacity—the Indian is a child, and must be directed; he is a wild beast, and must be re- strained. In civilized society—the family and the school, the farm and the work-shop—the great edu- catore—are absolute monarchies. The first lesson of a New Englander is to learn to obey. The hadit of obedience to just authority alone makes him fit for self-government. With the Indian there is no such habit. There is no family worthy the name, no school, no industry. There never will be until gene- rations shal] grow up under the compulsion that every sane white man deems essential to save his own children from vagabondism. Our Indian treaties provide for the education of the children in the arts of industry and in elementary science. How can these treaties be observed but by enforcing Jabor and school attendance? Are Indian children, with every example and incitement to idlenegs, 80 superior to white, that they will voluntarily do what firm authority, with opposite example and incite- ment, is essential to obtain from our own? We complain that Indians do not become eivilized while we do not give them the Aebits of civilization. The habits of children, red, black, or white, must be bred into them by authority. The orgies of the gin-shop, brothel, or prize-fight must be suppressed, or the child kept from them. But where is the effort, worthy the name, to change the influences and over- come the habits that make the Indian but the sinner or the tiger? Go into an Indian encampment, see the inales baskizg in the sum or lounging around the fire kept up by the women. Perhaps a few will come to meet you, strutting like turkey-cocks, in their paint and tinsel, or perhaps vou will see them gormandiz ing the food of days, with the certainty of destitution before them. Some “ Big Indian” may 4 loping a half-starved pony up and down. the” wire, perhaps to show his feathers, whether his harem are From the former the bulk of the tribe are excluded, aud the latter is at once the church and the lecture, the fair anc the levee. From it the young and old receive their lessons in history, politics, and morals; toit they ‘are indebted for every pattiotie and social impression. There the brave recounts his doeds of rapine and blood, and the zeal of all is excited to emulate the successful assassin or thief. To the bloody rites of some of thése dances I have alluded. No sentiment of mercy, no idea of justice, except in its lowest form of revi ; no love for woman, ex- ; no em in industry or stimu lant to exertion, except: im deeds of the devil; 10 worship of Deity, except as the patron of crime ; n0 conception of the manlinens of truth, or the mean [ ness of deceit, finds any access to the savage mind, f only as planted in our common nature. Who cao > wonder that children reared in such an atmosphere are savages? How would it be with ours ¢ These dances are encouraged by contact with the | JAN. 22, 1863. OP I fhat the small sum required to pur strument is hardly worth considerin eur readers, who giadly spend mon ‘attractive, and at the same time fu and instruction to the family, are ne amell outlay of two dollars, to open afford themes for thought and discu: im any other single fieki of inquiry ment. ‘ THE WORKING-MEN OF k THEIR ADDRESS TO PRESIDEN’ Te does not properly belong to elasses of the community to maint eharacter of the British nation tt world. But there is no class whic! do so when others make default. working-classes of our great towns ing in a particular direction, to the entire country. To them has fall to no other cless, the task of asse this American struggle, England's the principles of freedom, and its sppression in every form. So our have willed it, and so itis. It wa whether they could sincerely hol age of Englishmen and to take Exe acéounted themselves unw¢ the work is not the less done. Two years ago, when the hear} BtGe tried, the charity which b would have said unhesitatingly th eountry was as sound as ever on t Now, whatever wo might wi got permitted to believe so. Onc and diecuises of decency have he firet sympathy with the slave oliga tawny lion, pawing to cet free his | the beast has “bruke from bon: ~ phokes bis brinded mane.” The tude with which the slavcholdin; the grandest iniquity of the modern haye dazzled men whosc princip vatermiued and sentiments cor Tke brutal mob may admire the me,” but we are not fascinated | played in defense of causes v mcrally bad. At first the admi thought it politic to declare their triun. ph of their friends would | slavery. We forget whether it we afterwaids that this declaration drawn, Since then a vague and of slavery, accompanied with ut slaveholders and energetic vitupe ists, hag been held to satisfy t cpinjmm: Even this i@rmality is uenecessary or uscleSs, and th which our betters deign to gas; Yeai’s gift to the world is, “ We just now for the oppressed or the Such being the conspicuous | leisured and refined classes have it was the turn of the common Tabor, to speak ; and at Manches: a good beginning. Perhaps no 8; eloquent than the patience with shire operatives have borne a ca to the American war, notwithsta fhat have been made to stir t action against the Government o But os a part of the nation, th The sympathizers with the slav find’ much to please them in wha was applauded. For their talk end inalienable rights of every hur *ecmmon brotherhood of manki: the hopes of the many, but an off to the privileged few. The caus ing classes delight to honor in th public appearances, and in soc: organize on the American contir slavery as its basis, is one fy1 their strong detestation. They | bounded acmiration of their sup peculiar to conquerors. And alt strongly counseled not to meet North in attempting to “ subju; were not to be made the dupes « the absurdity of pretending thai anion of seli-governing and equ: of subjugation. The subjugatio most vividly to their minds and ration was something real. Wh shixe laberers sympathize witt Southern states? Why shoul economists, argue that the slay part of the complex labor syste end wish itto goon? Why no indifference of the upper class» the great etruggle ? Simply b whose’ hearts guard their and it is also because, possessing ecmmon humanity, they prize distinctions of class or color. ever others think is to be said f their eyes his offense is the | eon mit against man, the sum ¢ lainies. it does not matter und old associated with freedom, re the slaveholding caste organiz is fixed by the fact that it hole bondage, denying to them ed family, and the rewards of lab at Richmond that whatever | gerehy have found in England understand their cause. The fiict«d on honorable industry, b to the laborers in their system, that will never be forgiven. The Manchester workmen dwell in abstractions, but de their “ profound sympathy w Government of the United & Vpion in its integrity,” and ab to President Lincoln. We pri tercay for the information of print it again to-day for the ho the instruction of all whom it! Beribes who have labored to p ment of the nation read it. I made soirées ior Mrs. Stowe, ' a philanthropist involved no re veice is not now heard except holder, read it. Let the ep folly to distress himself abou read it. And let all who have slave power, the most monst modern world, read it, and s their efforts to cerrupt the classes, and how wide a gulf and the grcat body of the peo “To ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PREF STATES. “ As citizens of Manchester twade Hall, we beg to express ¢ toward you and your countr greatness, as an outgrowth ol and language you share, w freedom you have applied to 1 a region immeasurably great honor your {ree states, as a for the working millions, whe * One thing alone has, in the pathy with your country and we mean the ascendency | merely n aintained negro sla tend and root it more firm! cerned, however, that the vic _. fhe war which has so sorely | afflicted you will strike off t ou have attracted our warm We joyfully honor you, as the with you, for many dec y exemplifying your belli at founders, ‘ All men are a have procured the libera district around Washington, center of your federation ° enforced the laws against th up your feet against it, ev wanted for service in your t nobly deeided to receive emb Fepeblica of Hayti and Liberi ing that unworthy prejudice of humanity to men and wor eler,: In order more effec trade, you bave made wil which your Senate has re mutual search. Your Cong: as the law for evor in the ae territories “7 : gislative power. It io all states which will er and has forbidden your ge elaves who seek their prote: the slave-masters to accep and after long and patient elf gt of the emmy, h st of January, 1863, as ae for nee of 1 we omer you a humene and righteous cour eannot now stop short of paren, It would not bec tails, there are broad which must guide you. If some states be deferred, mined day, still, in the inte mot be counted chattels... \y ebastity and of maternity, p masters the liberty of manu »..... for the black, no less than : tion of law—that his voi °° Wor must any such abomin:

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22, 1863. etitions for si nute “at a time as the rly failing. Thoy were © priest, forcibly throw slits about two tngheg a stick like a butcherts . through under the nd the protruding fled. ving it held firm to‘the” kin and flesh. A ck and to a stake a Yew Hiawathas jump up ang only reached by tearing din this instance it wag fore it was done. Often eeding in freeing hime. led by others in tearing ce of flesh was ont ing female friead of the thanks for the suceess- s, With Others of a more re practiced not only by . . Missouri, but by those ince provided funds for enything in the self-tor- this? ih deep concera to the Isontis from Minnesots above Fort Pierre, and. their friends, they will t, perhaps bofore.. Fort 3. fort, about 160 miles ccupied by traders. The ) west of the Missour: from the Niobrara an to the Missouri and nd running out to the Black Hills to the head- East of tho Missouri are nd now peacefully ocey the Upper and Lower the Upper Big Siow to gest and most warlike d only needs consolida- ous enemy.. They are ence party are vigorous- swept into the war. If dall has gone to Fort »f cavalry and one of linnesota captives—five yomen and six chi The story of the womea lood, is upon every lip! present themselves ag ren women who were or their Indian masters rve them at their will, nino were set up as One of the survivors and the other turned Other captives, they ‘'s under Major Patter, cavalry, and a company 1 $250 on the spot to d the little grumbling campaigu—and such @ irie in the latitude of vas Changed to an im- May God protect the mbled at their idleness are nobly atoning for it rived at Sioux City te yperate in Dakota. Im carried into the Indiana ttoaciose. The Teton deliver up Little Crow jllowers, as well as the chiefs, aud these who z the Missouri, or share ro punishment is merey us. Without vigorous must be abandoned. I stories of settlements and families impover- e heard nothing. With opulation and improve- id. We have as fine a i Big Sioux as the con- ill it avail us with the in Our ears, and when . lurking savage? Our lt of the indifference af 2 Spirit Lake murders. | forbearance, for they presonts—blood bouht ipaduta and his ban with the bloof! of our vage respects and fears lure to punish is with he obligation upon the ‘h the Sioux to respect , is imperative. ther our Indian policy | occupy the continent, wandering life, and to e and enlighten, offers a ur wisdem as well as adopted by conquerors, , is that inferior races » be civilized. Another ‘ed in. our Indian rela- and therefore cannot be gh just, has generally t system’? We should native capacity for im- iversant with him can an is a child, and must * shakes his brinded mane.” east, and must be re- y—the family and the ‘k-shop—the great edu- hies. The first lesson nm to obey. The habdit ty alone makes him fit he Indian there is no ly worthy the name, no ever will be until gene- r the compulsion that is essential to save his ondism. Our Indian ition of the children in in elementary science. served but by enforcing _ Are Indian children, itement to idlenegs, so will voluntarily do what e example and incite- 1 from our own? We not hecome eivilized e habits of civilization. |, black, or white, must ty. The orgies of the it must be suppressed, But where is the effort, he influences and over- Indian but the sinner an encampment, see the ounging aroand the fire aps a few will come to ey-cocks, in their paint 1 see them gormandiz- ceriginty of destitution ian” may be s and down. the’ vide, rs, or perhaps to see ging in the corn-field.' council and the dames he tribe arc excluded, vurch and the lect i it the young and ‘, politics, and morals ; ry patriotie and social recounts bis deeds of ul of all is excited to sin or thief. To thé dances I have alluded, a of justice, except in 10 love for woman, @%- n in industry or stimu- eods of the devil; m0 e patron of crime ; no of truth, or the mean- ss to the savage mind, 10n nature. Who ¢an in such an atmosphere © With ours ? dd by contact with the sement, and we reflect strong cord that binds hey rise, they must Bé though the severance must, by authority, and p their devilish orgies hat by treaty we are must be compelled at time to labor and let- s should be ~~ ~ every Sabbajh, od to attend. And tue nanent hands. Indi ile they most heartily > permitted to real “fathers” of beyond the limits of @ e, in thie pee aye oo eee f one is no excuse for . Briss. — ‘e have examined this and not hesitate te. eee » JAN.22, 1868.1 fhat the small sum required to purchase sach an in- strument is hardly worth considering. Thousands of eur readers, who- gladly spend money to make home ‘attractive, and at the same time furnish amusement and instruction to the family, are now enabled, by the ameall outlay of two dollars, to oncn 2 new world, and afford themes for thought and discussion unsurpass im any other single field of inquiry. See advertise- THE WORKING-MEN OF MANCHESTER. THEIR ADDRESS TO PRESIDENT LINOOLN. Tz does not properly belong to any one or two elasses of the community to maintain the honor and eharacter of the British nation in the eyes of the world, But there is no class which may not aspire to do so when others make default. is duty the working-classes of our towns are now perform- ing in a particular direction, to the advantage of the entire coun fo them has fallen, as it has fallen te no oiher class, the task of asserting, in respect of this American struggle, England’s old attachment to the principles of freedom, and its undying hatred to sppression in every form. So our governing classes have willed it, and so itis. It was for them to jndge whether they could sincerely hold the ancient lan- age of ishmen and to take their part. They pa accounted themselves unworthy to do so; but the work is not the less done. Two years ago, when the hearjs of men were but Mile tried, the charity which believeth all things would have said unhesitatingly that the heart of the eountry was as sound as ever on the subject of slav- . Now, whatever we might wish to think, we are not permitted to believe so. One by one the reserves and diecuises of decency have been thrown off. At fixet sympathy with the slave oligarohy was like “ the tawny lion, pawing to cet free his hinder parts ;” now the beast has “broke from bounds, and, rampant, 1 The courage aad forti- tude with which the slavcholding caste has upheld the grandest iniquity of the modera worki could never haye dazzled men whose principles had not been mmiued and sentiments corrupted previoasly. Tke brutal mob may admire the pirate who “ dies me,” but we are not fascinated by matcrial virtues played in defense of causes which we detest as mcrally bad. At first the admirers of the South thought it politic to declare their conviction that the triun.ph of their friends would prove the death of slavery. We forget whether it was two or three days afterwards that this declaration was formatty with- drawn, Since then a vague and general repudiation ef slavery, accompanied with unbounded eulogy of slaveholders and energetic vituperation of abolition ists, hag been.held to satisfy the requirements of cpinjm. Kven this Rerenliey iS now laid aside as ugnecessary or useless, and the latest profession which our betters deign to gasp out as their New Yeai’s gift to the world is, “ Weare not enthusiastic just now for the oppressed or the negro.” Such being the conspicuous result to which the Ieisured and refined classes have worked their way, it was the turn of the common people, the sons of labor, to speak ; and at Manchester they have mide a good beginning. Perhaps.no speech could be more elcquent than the patience with which the Lanca- shire operatives have borne a calamity directly due t the American war, notwithstanding the at:empts that have been made to stir them up to demand aciion against the Government of the United States. But as a part of the nation, they would be heard. The sympathizers with the slave cligarchy will not find'much to please them in what was said or what was applauded. For their talk was of the “sacred and inalienable rights of every human being,” and of the *eommon brotherhood of mankind”—words big with the hopes of the many, but an offense and foolishness to the privileged few. The cause which our govern- ing classes delight to honor in their literature, in their public appearances, and in society, the attempt to organize on the American continent a nation having slavery as its basis, is one fyr which they express their strong detestation. They do not share the un- bounded acmiration of their superiors for the virtues peculiar to conquerors. And although they had been strongly counseled not to meet and encourage the North in attempting to “subjugate” the South, they were not to be made the dupes of words. They saw the absurdity of pretending that a war to restore a anion of seli-governing and equal states was a war of subjugation. The subjugation which came home most vividly to their minds and aroused their indig- ration was something real. Why should the Lanca- shixe laberers sympathize with the laborers in the Southern states? Why should they not, like the eeonomists, argue that the slavery of Alabama is a part of the complex labor system by which they live, end wish it to goon? Why not assume the languid indifference of the upper classes, as to the result of the great struggle? Simply because they are men whose’ hearts guard their understandings. Perhaps it is also because, possessing little more than our ecmmon humanity, they prize that above artificial distinctions of class or color. At all events, what- ever others think is to be said for the slave-owner, in their eyes his offense is the greatest that man can eon: mit against man, the sum and parent of all vil- lainies. It does not matter under whot fine namos, of old associated with freedom, republic or democracy, the slaveholding caste organizes itself, its character is fixed by the fact that it holds millions of men in bondage, denying to them education, the rights of family, and the rewards of labor. Let it be kaown at Richmond that whatever favor the Southern oli- gerehy have found in England, our working-classes understand their cause. The “chivalry” have in- flictcd on honorable industry, by the position assigned to the laborers in their system, a stigma and an insult that will never be forgiven. The Manchester workmen were not content to dwell in abstractions, but declared in a resolution their “ profound sympathy with the efforts of the Government of the United States to maintain the Vnion in its integrity,” and also adopied an address to President Lincoln. We priuted this address yes- tercay for the information of our readers, and we print it again to-day for the honor of Old England and the instruction of a!l whom it may concern. Let the Scribes who have labored to pervert the moral seati- ment of the nation read it. t the Pharisees who made soirées ior Mrs. Stowe, when the reputation of a philanthropist involved no responsibility, and whose veice is not now heard except in favor of the slave- holder, read it. Let the epicurean, who decms it folly to distress himself about the wrongs of othe’s, read it. And let all who have labored to glorify the slave power, the most monstrous outgrowth of the mcdcrn world, read it, and see how vain have been their efforts to cerrupt the minds of the working- classes, and how wide a guif is fixed between them and the grcat body of the people. “TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE STATES. “ As citizens of Manchester, assembled at the Free- wade Hall, we beg to express our fraternal sentiments toward you and yourcountry. We rejoice in your greatness, as an outgrowth of Kngland, whose blood and language you share, whose orderly and legal freedom you have applied to new circumstances, over @ region immeasurably greater than our own. We honor your {ree states, as a singularly happy abode for the working millions, where indastry is honored. * One thing alone has, in the past, lessened our sym- pathy with your country and our eonfidence in it— we mean the ascendency of politic who not merely n aintained negro slavery, but desired to ex- tend and root it more firmly. Since we have dis- cerned, however, that the victory of the free North in _ fhe war which has so sorely distressed us as well as afflicted you will strike off the fetters of the slave, ‘ou have attracted our warm and earnest sympathy. 'e joyfully honor you, as the President, and the Con- —, you, for many decisive steps toward prac- exemplifying your belief in the words of your at founders, ‘ All men are created free and equa.’ ‘ou have procured the liberation of the slaves in the district around Washingion, and thereby made the center of your federation visibly free. You have enforced the laws against the slave-trade, and kept up your fleet st it, even while every ship was wanted for service in your terrible war. You have nobly deeided to receive embassadors from the neg:o republics of Hayti and Liberia, thus for ever renounc- ing that unworthy prejudice which refuses the rights of humanity to men and women on account of their eclor, In order more effectually to stop the slave- trade, you have made with our Queen a treaty, which your Senate has ratified, for the right of mutual search. Your Congress has decreed freedom as the law for ever in the vast unoecupied or haif- eetiled territories which are directly subject to its legislative power. It has offered pecuniary aid to all states which will enact emancipation locally, and has forbidden your generals to restore fugitive elaves who seek their protection. You have entreatod the slave-masters to accept these moderate offers ; and aiter long and patient waiting you, as Comman- der-in-Chief of the army, have appointed to-morrow, the Ist of Janvary, 1863, as the day of unconditional freedom for the slaves of the rebel states. Heartily do we tulate you and your country on this humane and righteous course. © We assume that you eannot now stop short of a complete uprooting of slavery. It would not become us to dictate any de- tails, but there are broad principles of humanity which must guide you. If complete emancipation in . Some states be de though only to a predeter- mined day, still, in the interval, human beings should mot be counted chattels. Women must have rights of chastity and of maternity, men the rights of husbands, masters the liberty of manumission. Justice demands for the black, no less than for the white, the protec- tion of law—that his voice be heard in your courts. Wor must any such abomination be tolerated as slave- UNITED breeding states and aslave-market—if you are ta earn the high reward of all your sacrifices, in the approval of the universal brotherhood and of the Drvmeg Fatzsr. It is for your free country to decide whether anything but immediate and total emancipatien can secure the most indispensable rights of humanity against the inveterate wickedness of local laws and local executives. We implore you, for your owa honor and welfare, not to faint in your providential mission. While your enthusiasm fs aflame, and the tide of events runs high, let the work be finished effectually. Leave no root of bitterness to spring up and work fresh misery to your children. It is a pm task, indeed, to reorganize the industry not only of 4,000,000 of the colored race, but of 5,999,900 of whites. Nevertheless, the vast progress you have made in the short space of twenty months, fills us with hope that every stain on your freedom will shortly be removed, and that the erasure of that foul blot upon civilization and Ohristianity—chattel slavery—during your Presidency will cause the nime of Abraham Lincoln to be honored and revered hy posterity. We are certain that such a glorious con- summation will cement Great Britain to the United States in close and enduring regards. Our interests, morcover, are identified with yours. We are truly one people, though locally separate. And if you have any ill-wishers here, be assured they are ae | those whe oppose at‘home, and that they wi be powerless to stir up quarrels between us, from the very day in which your country becomes, undeniably and without exception, the home of the free. Aceept our high admiration of your ered in pemeg, bacey — of — n Daily News, Religions Antelligence. CONGREGATIONAL. Ontnopex Covereaationatiers.— The Congrega- tional Quarterly for January, 1863, gives statistics of the denomination in the United States, Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Jamaica, which foot up as follows: churches, 2884, ministers, 2,643, (of whom 904 are pastors, 861 stated supplics, 215 not specified, and 663 not in service,) church-members, 261,474, of whom 83,585 are abeent, (increase, 2,353.) Sabbath-school scholars, 255.247. -+ - MASSACHUSETTS—Anpovrr Turo.ogicar Srui- Naky.—This Seminary now has 103 students :— Resi¢ents, 11; Senior Class, 41; Middle Class, 40; Junior Class. 16. It has five Professors, Dr. Schaff being engaged to lecture on Ecclesiastical History. NoartHamrron.—Rev. Horace C. Hovey of Gold- water, Mich., has received a unanimous call to the Florence church in Northampton, Mass., and enters upon his labors there at once. This is a branch of the First Congregational chtreh in that place, (Dr. Eddy’s,) and was organized fourteen months ago. On the day of its organization it dedicated a tasteful house of worship, which had already been built and paid for. To Mr. Hovey, its jorsé pastor, is offered a salary of $1,000, and likewise a handsome subscription has besn raised for a parsonage, which is to be built forthwith. RrvivaL.—A revival of religion of much power is said to be in progress in Phillips Academy, Andover. Christians have been quickened, and many persons hopefully converted. CONNECTICUT—G.asrexnuny.—The revival in the Congregational church of South Glastenbury, Conn., Rev. Thomas Easton, pastor, which we noticed in our columns a few wecks ago, yet progresses. Nine persons united with the church on Sxbdath, Jan. 4. Meetings have been held every night, and the Holy Spirtt is drawing many to the cross of our Redeemer. PRESBYTERIAN. PreenyTery 1n Lonpon.—Our Presbyterian friends of the North are rapidly making progress. Already they have taken possession of several commanding positions around the metropolis, from which they may efficiently operate on important and influential classes of society. There is Dr. Macfarlane in Clapham, a man of might, and character, and large experience, who has just opened a noble church-edifice, and already col- lected a large assembly. In the west there is Dr. King, who earned for him- self in Glasgow, by tongue and pen, distinguished laurels, when his health failed and he withdrew. It has, nevertheless, happily improved, and cnabled him to make a permanent lodgment for his principles at the Wesj End, where he was recognized last week as the pastor of a new church. From Dr. King’s labors great things may be expected. The distinguished community with which he was connected in Scotland could not have sent a man of @ brighter intellect or a nobler heart. ; An improved position has also been acquired by the Presbyterian church in Wells street, once presided over by the celebrated Dr. Waugh. The lease of that now most unsuitable edifice having expired, Mr. Red- path and his friends have procured Albany chapel, Regent’s Park, where they will be in a far better po- sition. That event, however, implies no loas to Inde- pendency, for the church now worshiping in Albany strect are rearing a new and splendid edifice for thom- selves. In Hampstead only a forinight back, a new church- edifice wus opened for the Presbyicrion body by Dr. Guthrie. The building is spacious and grand, and finely situated. We now come to Islington, where Dr. Edmond has been laboring for two years past. Of that gentlemin’s history, character, and prospects we have alroaty spcken, and we have now the great satisfaction of announcing, that yesterday his new church-hoase was opened fn a manner worthy of the cause ant of the pastor. A full report of the proceedings will be found elsewhere. We need hardly say how much we rejoice in Dre Edmond’s success, and how cordially we bid hin God-speed. Finally, looking at Woolwich, we see from the papers that the Independent meeting-house, onze efliciently occupied by Rev. Thomas James, has now passed from the Independent body to the Presbytori- aus, where a minister of that community has b>en settled. This is an event in whichrwe do not rejoice, forasmuch as the chapel ought not to have changed hands. There was abundant room for its continued use, notwithstanding the erection of the beautifal church-edifice of Rev. William Gill. It is proper to say, indeed, that, but for Mr. Gill and the devoted riencs who originated the movernent, Independeney would have become extinct in the vast community of Woolwich. This is only one of a number of chap- els which, within a few years, have passed from the hands of the Independenis. This matter ought to be better lookedat. While there isso much reason to rejoice in the noble labors of the Metropolitan Chapel- Building Society, that joy must be miligated if exist- ing edifices, reasonably commodious and well situ- ated, are suffered to pass to other denominations.— British Standard. Secession Intoterancy.— The Presbyterian of Phil- adelphia publishes the following narrative, and veuches for its truth. It is commended to the con- templation of both English and Northern sympathi- zers, in contrast with the protection enjoyed and the frecdom of safe exit allowed by the Union authori- ties to Dr. Stiles, late pastor of The Journal of Com- merce at New Haven, Dr. W. J. Hoge of the Old Brick church, Dr. Leyburn, late editor of The Presdy- «rian iiself, Dr. J. Leighton Wilson of the Board of Missions, Secretary McNeil of the Bible Society, etc., who were permitted to go Bouth and cast in their lot with the secessionists, without let or hindrance : “ Some years since a young man, born in Pennsylvania, and a Yoate of one of our tole es, took up his thode ia the South, at first in Alabama, and then in Geer a. He be- came a minister of the Gospel and a teacher of youth. He was induetrious, prudent, and genial, and cammanded gen- eral confidence for his integrity, purity, and religious con- sistency. His labors were abundant, and his influence extended, He married an estimable and intelligent lady. He accumulated some property, a dwelling, a garden, a library, with other means of comfortable subsistence. Five sweet children blessed his happy home. Then came the brewing, true tothe principles of his birth, training, and son- win ec tothe es of his tr and con- science he was openl and strongly a Union man, When secession was ecotenpliohed he became prudently silent, but steadfastly refused to offer public prayer for the Lonfe derate President and Congress. This was his only shadow of offense ; but for this he was set upon in the streets by a mob —stoned, kicked, dragged by the hair, and beaten. Bowle- knives and pistols were fiourished around him and at him, and it was even proposed to him to a tree in the pub- e court-house door. Some of his parish- — - — his —* door, s family. Meanw! ne oO his children sickened and died. One. had died eviousty. Another, a son, was seized with typhoid ore and for poe advice of his best friends, he made Srrangumeene opi beg Ri coud for two months more. aba . he contrived to get away, bearingin his arms his sick boy, and ed by his wile and two babes, his ee ek oe a faithful nurse. He ae to Knoxville, to chmond, after Philadelphia.” > sir tigate Waal * Cnuren Lisrratiry.—Rev. Dr. Riddle preached his farewell sermon as pastor of the First church, Jersey 80, when he was presented with a purse The members of Dr. Demarest’s tion, Hudson, N. Y., ted their , on New Year’s Day, . A few members of the same econ tion have within the week past subscribed to their services in promoting the peceventy, of the om st a sense of se f THE,.INDEPENDENT. | mexth (September) we celebrated the Lord’s Supper with contributions for other objects, $1,080 given within the past six weeks. Tus Hewxiserc Catecnisu.—Rev. Dr. Berg of the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., has just completed the translation of Van Alpen’s very able work on the History and Literature of the Heidel- Catechiem, and its Introduction into the Netaer- lands. It will be put into book form for general use. We understand, also, that Dr. Berg intends to de- liver a scries of lectures on the Catechism, to the theological classes under his care. This labor, adjed to the increasing attention whith Rev. Dr. Wood- bridge is exacting from the students in his depart- ment to the history of the Reiormed Church, eannot fail to have the most wholesome and lasting effect upon the character of our rising ministry, and upon the future of the Church. Ard as it is now the growing purpose of pastors, consistories, and churches to exercise a proper super- visicn over the religious education of the many chil- dren in our Sabbath-schools, (a work and duty hither:o sacly neglected.) we take pleasure in adding that the Board oi Publication is able to supply all our $2dba‘h- echools with Question-Books of a better grade thay those commonly used.— Christian Intelligencer. EPISOOPAL. Dr. Wituians’s “ Rerracration.”—The following letter appears in The Spectator: “In your last number you say, in reference to Dr. Lashing- ten’s judgment on Dr. Rowland Williams: ‘ He (Mr. Stephen) acded, to the surprise of the court, that Dr. Williams was pre- fared to retract the passages impugned by Dr. Lashington’s jadgment.’ What I sald was, thet Dr. Wikiams weeps ali to withdraw the passages in which the court had helithathe hed identified himself with Beron Bunsen., As Dr Wilitan:; cid rot adopt Baron Bunsen’s opinions, an had not intea lei to edvence them ag his own, as it was the province of the cout toray what was the legal effect of his wor is, andas the court had eeid that the legal effect of hie words was to adopt those opinions I strongly advised him te take this course ; but he never did retract. or authorize me to retract ina his neme, ny opinion which he had advanced as his own, an! one of the passages condemned by Dr Lushin had no refcrerce to Baron Bunsen. He refused explicitly to retract that passage.—I am, your obedient servant, J. F. Sreenss.”” Diecrs’s anp Benerices in Ex@.anp +~> WaLrs — The following is a list of the archbicnops and bishops in Engiand and Waics, wits wwe number of benefices in each diocese : ARcHEIsnops (2.) i | es eee 535 COIRETIIED a0. 0:0:2 -- cpcces MERE EABGOUR, 2.0 cnc cdevacietoscs 793 arene Mikes: iketes see yg 215 Bi.Hors (26.) Manchester .............. 350 DE nak avkas a0 apse EL. nike dwaeme sess 910 GEE. docs ccs os sécsocee be eee 584 Se ore 523 | Peterborough ............ 683 MEO os ocn cs vedee- cccecvs a... eee . 430 Bath end Wells.......... 462 | Rochester.........000..0. 558 ees . i eee 471 PE abbths scccee cosans SOG 1 BE. ROBB .....cccccgecccee lis ee OOO BR EOE DEIN, occ s ancesae 42 RY ARR ee 529 | Worcester................ 417 Ds cre bene dans anne coe 677 | Sodor ani Man........... 20 Gloucester and Bristol... 443 TY RI 858 11,513 ‘The toial number of beneiices in England and Wales is 11,728. Missionary Errorts amoxe Ooorrgs iy Trinipap.— The Anglican Bishop of Barbadoes, of whose dioe:.e the great island of Trinidad forms a part, has issued an eurnest appeal to the clergy and others of the Church of Engiand, on behalf of the great number of coclies and other heathen immigrants brought to that islard since the Emancipation. ‘Trinidad was touad with a scanty population, and the nds mostly in the khancs of large proprietors, with strong English pre}- udices in favor of such a social condition as tha: sert of proprietorship produces. The present popub:- tion of the island is about 90,000, with about 25,'10) coolies, who lately evince litile inclination t) lea7e the island ai the end of their stipulated term of ser /- ice. These are purely heathen, but some Christian efiorts have been commenced, particul irly an or han heme with 63 coolie orphans, and an infant sthool or coclie children, with a cateehist from India. Thoerc have been 19% coolies baptized in the Church, of whem 49 were adults. The Bishop ignores the labo:s of other Christians. He asks £1,000 a year to sup- port teachers and catechists. He says: “ Addressing Christians, copocteiy Christians of the Church of England resident in Trinidad, or having property there, or otherwise connecied with the island or interested in its welfare, I may at once assume that as Christians, they must desire to have the immigrant heathen made pertakers of the blessings of the Gospel, and made disciples with them of the Son of God, that so they may become not only an aidition (otherwise perhaps a dangerous addition) to the labor of the country, but an accession also to the Church of Gol. Even demand some such return at our hands, w preservation calls for it as a precaution: how much more still chould we be influenced by the recollection that Iniians and Chinese are, together with ourselves, objects of re leem- ing love—that for them as for us dii Christ die, and that they no less than the people of Europe or of Englani, are inclu ied within that great and gracious commission: ‘Go make disci- ples of ali nations.’” Tue Late Arcusisuor oy Canrsrevry.—Dr. Sum- ner was in Hatchard’s, and said to a clergyman whon he met there, “I have a note here to wait upon the Duke of Wellingion. Tell me where he lives.” He went, was back in about ten minutes, and the clergy- man was still there. ‘ You have soon got your busi- ness over.” “Yes; and im so short a time I am promoted to the See of Chester. I was shown into a room; in came the Duke: Are you Dr. Sumner? I am commanded to offer you the bishopric of Chester. De you accept it or not? Yes. Then put your name down here. Good morning. And he left me.” ROMAN CATHOLIC. Tur Jesorts.—The Jesuits throughout the work number 7,144. In fourteen years the increase has been 2,892. More than one thousand of the number ae on foreign missions, under the authority of the Propaganda. The Jesuits have in France 4 colleges, 21 bearding-schools, 16 seminarics, 55 dwellings, and 81 stations or missions. 4 Troy University.—The building and grounds here- tofore known as the Troy University, in the city of Troy, hitherto belonging to the Mcthodist denomina- tion, have been sold, and Bishop Hughes, throagh the agency of Father Havermans, has become the pur- chaser. His intention is that the new place shail be the central, ifnot the only theological seminary in the ecclesiastical province of New York. He says: “Our intention is to invite the venerable priests of St. Sulpice, in Paris, to take charge of it, when it shal! be fitted up suitably for their reception. “This socicty of Sulpitians 1s known especially in Franza, but, in point of fact, over the whole globe, as the best edu- cators and trainers, if we can so empioy the term of aspirants to the holy ministry, during their prey for priesthoot. For many generations they have educated not merely the cee Nae even the bishops, of that noble country to which i ong. oe ** We are confident that no privilege hitherto ntel by the legislature of the state of New York, ia favorol those who have hitherto conducied what is called the Troy Univer- sity, will be denied to, withdrawn from, or refuzed to us. We shall not be beggars at their doors for pecuniary aid ; but in all other respects we shall look to the legislature for pro- tection and encouragement. “+ Joun, Archbishop of New York.” Tre Prissts in Mexico.—It is stated that there is a disposition on the part of the Mexican priests to favor the objects of the French expedition to Mexico. A ccrrespondent of The New York.Tribune says : “ A Catholic ciergyman is said to have in his possession a letter from Vera Cruz, informing him that five Mexican pre- jates— Archbishops of Guanaxuato, Merida, San Luis, Gnada- lejaar, and Mexico—had writien a letter of welcome to Gen. Forey, offering him the support of the whole Mexican clergy against Juarez. This letter also says that the priests, who exercise a controlling influence upon the great mass of the natives, had beeninstructed to prepare them for the reception of the French, and that they were at work fulfilling their task with zeal and devotion,” MISCELLANEOUS. Practica, Rexieiovs Movements 1x Lonpov.—An evangelistic movement for the social, moral, and spiritual benefit of the London eabmen, is bearing ample fruits a . An anniversary meeting was held a few days ago of the friends and founders of cabmen’s clubs, under the presidency of the Hon. A. Kinnaird, member of Parliament. e facts stated in the report were of the most cheering character. The Lendon City Mission had previously, and for years, employed “ missionaries to the cabmen,” and no doubt thus prepared the way for the present and prospective state of matters. God’s Spirit has been at work. One Welsh gentleman, Mr. Owen, (an official of the Poor-Law Board.) has devoted himself to the good of cabmen, and has been the instrument of founding these “ clubs,” which have their Bible- class rooms for the Sabbath afternoons, and refresh- ments for cabmen and their wives. This is the fruit of real revival. This awaken extends to many different classes, including the highest and the lowest. A host of laborers, zealous to a degree quite un- wonted, have been raised up. Fifty thousand dollars have been received this year, without solicitation, by Mrs. Ranyard, (the L. N. R. who is the author of “The Missing Link,”) for the glorious Bible-women movement in and around London. This is $6,595 more than any former year. The poor have bought from the Bible-women (who number 175) 8,508 Bibles, at a cost of $4,705. Their payments for clothing, bedding, blankets, etc., are $25,350, an excess of $4,165 over lasi year. They have purchased, in their poverty, during five years, 38,000 Bibles and Testa- ments, and have paid for clothing, etc., $75,300.— Correspondence of The Presbyterian. Spanish Awenioa.— The Christian World says Rev. Frederick Hicks, whe is making the noble experiment of carrying the truth into Spanish America by his own self-sustaining efforts, wriles from Panama: “Th ¢ «6 from San Salvador receut act of the Government, that state 1s to Eomoch pe to all religions, and of course the Bible can be circu- lated. If there was any one to work here, I d goup oat aE oe can no! - by the ve epmtnins 4 doxy, for the first time. Besides myself and wife, there were two communicants, an American and Ger- wan. “English ladies were detained by the rain. It was a season of deep interest to us. My pwpese now is to observe this sacrament, after the ist of January, once in every two months, as Mr. Trumbull’s church in Valparaiso does.”—Christion Wesid. Re.ierox my Forr Purasnr.— The Christian Adoo- cate and Journal has a letter from Rev. Dr. Strick- jJand, chaplain in Fort Pulaski, Ge., dated Nov. 24: “Berel shut up ina f thank God, not shut out Se eg as ischa inne duty lowe to my God strength Tur Saxpwicn Istanps.—The Friend, published at Honolalu, and edited by Rev. 8. OC. Damon, the excel- lent chaplain to seamen at that port, reviews a late work published in London by Manly Hopkins, Hawaiian — —t takes occasion ef some dis- ging remar the Englishman to bear the fol- wing testimony to the American missionaries and the efects os their labors among the Hawaiian people : ‘We are not going to rebut Mr. Hopkins’s assertions by stz ti: ties, or extracts from missionary reports, but 1s aa offset to his aseertions, we concliie our remarks with some asser- tiens of ourown. Mr. Hopkins has never visited the islaa Is, and we have lived among the Hawalian preple for twanty years, we have visited every inhabite1 is of the group except Nilhau,— we have visite missionary station oa the islands, and some of them r »—We are personally acquainted with every micdony his family —we have rpent meny Sabbaths at the out-stations,—we have traveisl with end am®ng Hawaiians on sea ani lami, - we have slept in the ir houces,—we are personally acquainted with hun ire ‘s and thonsancs of them,--we have wors jin chos, —we have get ep~with them a onni the ‘ Table of the Lor}, —now this Is the honest conclusion to which we have com> as the result of our observation, that, in propertion to the pop ulation of the islands, there are upon an average ag many trie Christians emong them as there are amoag people of America or Europe,—we will not except New 1, Saot lend, or Engiend, or any other particularly favored portion of those couniries ” FOREIGN RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. ’ PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR THES INDEPENDENT. SWITZERLAND. THE STATE GHUROH SYSTBM IN THE EUROPEAN REPUS- LIC&——GREAT CHANGES IN THE CHURCH CONSTITUTION OF THE IROTESTANT CANTONS OP SWITZERLAND. The great majority of the American people regard the supericrity of the Free-Church system over 8:at3- (hurchism as so evident, thaf they are justly sur- prised atthe tenacity with which the European states continue to cling to the latter. Progress in the right direction is made everywhere, an‘ in several states all the inhabitants are at least equal beiore the law, withcut regard to their religious creed ; but, if in no other way, the state-church system has main- taincd itself in the support of churches and min- isters by the state government. Even the freest land of Kurcpe, the little confederated republics of Switz- |. erlard, have not yet emancipated themselves fally from a system which has brought so much misery upon Europe. The leaven of the Ameri:an idea of a full separation between church and state is, however, at work; evcrywhere opposition to the oll forms is springing up; experiments of liberalizing ihe relation between church and state are being tried; and, on the whele, there are many signs of considerable proz- recs. The struggle of Switzerland for readjusting the relation between state and church has for us this perticular interest, that it reflects, more thin can be the case in any other European country, the opinions of the mass of the people. ; In the canton of St. Gall, the Reformed State Church kas of late received a purely democratic constitution. The Synod is chosen by a direct vote of the con egations. The ministers, as such, are reprcsented neither in the Synod nor ia the Chu-ch ecuncil, but the congregations take their delegates from the clergy or the laity, just as they sec ‘it. In the same manner the Synod elects the Church coun- eil from among iis members, without any regari to their clerical or lay character. It will be seen that, under the working of this new constitution, the churches of St. Gall would become an association of indepencent congregations, if the last chain that binds them to the state, the support by the state, were severed, and if they had any profession of faith. As it is, the opposition between the extremest kind of Raticnalism, which does not even include in its faith the belief in a personal God and in the immor- tality of the soul, and the several shades of Ortho- condition of the Church of St. Gall very unsafe, and liable to violent convulsions. The editor of the chief organ of Swiss Rationalism, (the Zeitstimmen,) which, with considerable tilent, advo- cates the most recent phase of the Rationalistic school, is a pastor of the State Church of St. Gall. In the canton of Vaud, which is nearly entirely Protestant—having, in 1860, a population of 199,452 Protestants and only 12,790 Catholics—the new state constitution has proclaimed full freedom of religious worship for all religious and ceclesiasiisal comm«uni- tics, reserving the inner organization of the Estab- lished Church for future legislation. Until the adopticn of this constitution, the canton of Vaud was cne of the mest intolerant states of Europe, and the interference of the state authorities with the prayer- meetings of members of the National Church, led to ihe secession of a number of awakened Christians from the State Church, and to the establishment of a Free Evangelical Church, which, though siill small ia the number of members, belongs among the most flourishing representatives of free evangelical Prot- estantisin on the continent of Europe. At present, the Grand Council (legislature) of the canton is maturing a new ecclesiastical law, and it is announced that the Natienal Church will obtain a position affording to her a greater amouni of liberty and inde- pendence, without, however, severing the tie between cbharch and state. The clergy, more than the politi- cians, demand the organization of a national synod, to consist not only of clerical but also of lay deputies. Many friends of the Siate Church hope, and the friends of the Free-Church system fear, that a reorganization of the National Church may induce 3 portion of the membership of the Free Church to rejoin the National Church. The salaries paid by the state are unforiu- nately a powerful bribe, which, in the canton of Vaud no less than elscwhere, would hardly fail to have some effect. In the canton of Aargau, which has a population of 104,167 Protestants, and 88,424 Catholics, the Protl- cstant clergy likewise demand that the new state constitution which is in course of preparation provide for the organization of a national synod, to consist of the clergy and of the elders of the eongregatious. Hitherto only the clergy and the members of the Church council constituted the synod. In the little half-canton of Basel Country (with 41,C065 Protestants and 9,751 Catholics) the people are so zealous of the principles of a pure democracy —es they understand them—that they refuse the clergy the right of forming a synod or any kind of organiza- ticn. There is no church council of any kind, but the paster is chosen by the congregation, and subject at any time to the decisions of the congregation and of the state authorities, (legislative and executive.) Many of the clergy would like to have some kind of association between the congregations, but the people look upon this as the formation of another state within the state, and forbidit. The legislature of the little canton looks upon the clergy as the chosen offi- cers of the several communities, subject, as every other class of public officers, to all its regulations. These are sometimes very strange. Thus, for instance, some years ago, Biblical passages in public formulas of prayer were objected to, because God was called in them “our Mighty King.” The good republicans of Basel Oountry took offense at the royal character attributed to the Deity, wishing only to regard him as the “ President” of the Universe. In the canton of Geneva, according to the new constitution, the government of the Protestant State Church lies exclusively in the hands of the Oonsis- tory, which is chosen by a direet vote of all the citizens belonging to the Established Church, and con- sists of 25 lay and 6 clerical members. The Com- td des Pasteurs acts only as an advisory board. e have referred in a former article in The Inde- pendent to the fact that, in consequence of the immi- grations from France and Italy, the majority of canton are at present Catholics. In the canton of Zurich (with 253,798 Protestants and 11,256 Catholics) the government of the Ohurch is divided between the Synod of the Clergy and the Grand Council. eprccment of both is required to make ecclesiastical laws obligatory. The Committee of the Grand Council which has ch of the eccle- siastical department, has been recently reconstituted by appointing men representing all shades of theo- logical opinion. ~ eal progress has been made in Switzerland in recognizing to a larger extent than before the rights of the individual co nm. But the geet error still adhered to consists in making no distinction be- tween the live fn the Church and the al connection with Church by birth. It is not, in fact, the real members of the over toward the Peace —There seems to be a settled plan among the Democrats to carry their political purposes by abso- lute violence whenever necessary. Gangs of rowdies have already beset the two state legislatures in Penn- sylvania and New York, and very plain threats of persoral violence were made in both cases. —The Pennsylvania legislature was in session to elect a senator, Messrs. Cameron being the Repub- lican and Buckalew the Democratic candidate. On Monday, Jan. 12, a whole train of cars, with about 1,000 roughs, came in from Philadelphia, and amid their threats, uproar, and brutal violence, Buckalew was chosen United States Senator for six years, by 67 to 66. A competent eye-witness has informed us of the fright into which many of the representatives were thrown, and of the disorderly and violent demeanor of the bullies who controlled the election. There was a plan to seize the arsenal and its arms and ammunition by a Democratic mob, which was thwarted by the promptness of Gen. Andrew Porter in garrisoning the premises. —A similar attack by the New York and Albany roughs under the lead of Fernando Wood and Horatio Seymour has been made upon the New York lezisla- ture, to drive it into permitting a Democratic organi- zation. The parties in the House stand 68 to 63, and the voting has been uselessly repeated on this basis for two weeks, until on Friday, the 16th, the Union men nominated Mr. Callicott of Kings county, a War Democrat. It was evident that they could elect him, and upon this there ensued a scene of uproar, threats, .and maneuvers to prevent a vote. At last the minor- ity made a promise that the vote should be quietly taken next morning; when that came, they broko their premise, and began a series of violent threats, yells, hisses, noises of all kinds, which they kept up until 2 p.w., when the Unionists adjourned the. As. -cembly until Wednesday, the 21st. The indications Nye that the Unionists were intimidated, and that they ili submit to withdraw Callicott, # not to give up entirely to this lawless crew. —W. A. Richardson. Peace Democrat, was chosen U. 8. Senator from Illinois on the 12th, by 63 votes to 87 for Gov. Yates. He will succeed M:. Wright, War Derocrat. —. 8. Cox, Member of Congress from Ohio, m17%c a speech at New York, on Tuesday evening, Jan. 13, befere the Demorratic Union Association, which consisted of an elaborate attack upon New Engianl and its principles, an aitempt to charge the war over to them, and to show the justice and expediency of recorstructicn without that section of the Union. New England can stand this if Vox can. —Hen. Mr. Morriil of Maine was re-electeQyy. S. fcrator from that etate, on the 18th, by 95 to V4 in the Hicuse and 25 to 1 in the Senate. —dJamcs W. Wall, a Breckinridge Democrat, and a gracuate of Fort Lafayette for disloyalty, was elected U. 8S. Senator from New Jersey on the 14th, by 30 votcs to 25 for all others. —Mr. Hendricks for the long term, and Mr. Turpie for the short. were elected to the U. 8. Senate from Indiana cn the 14th. They are “ Copperheada,” ¢. ¢., Peace Democrats. —Mr. Sumner was re-elected U.S. Senator from essa husetis, for his third term, on the 15th, by 227 votcs, to 43 for one Abbott, 2 for C. F. Adams, and 2 for Caleb Cushing. —Cov. Alex. Ramsay was elected U. 9. Senator frcm Mir ncesota on the 11th; he is a thorough Union- ist and War man. ‘ —The remains of the brave Gen. Mitchel were eolcmnly deposited in Greenwood Cemetery on Jan. 16, without public or military display. —It is believed in Indiana that ihe secessionizing D« mocra‘s, or “ Knights of the Golden Circle,” have an crganization ready to rise in arms, assassinate Gov. Morton, and seize the administration of the siate. —The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has decided that the President cannot suspend a writ of habeas co: pus issued in favor of persons arrested for resist- ing the draft. —One Hershey, aa old farmer, died in Lancaster co., Pa., 2 ‘ew days ago; when on search after his death, abcut $64,000 in gold and silver was found stored in bags, match-boxes, an old blanket, etc.; besides sun- dry bends and mortgages. —Gov. Buckingham of Conn. bas spent $18,000 of his cwn money for the soldiers of Counecticut duriag the war. —Mrs. Fremont’s only ‘sister, the wife of Col. Jaccb of the 9th-Ky. Cavalry, is dead. —dJesse D, Bright wanted a U.S. Senatorship from Indiana, but could not get it. —There was quite a destructive fire at Aspinwall on Dec. 26, which burnt some $309,000 worth of property. FOREIGN. Tue European news is to Jan. 4, only two days later than our advices of last week. —'lhe people of the Ionian Islands have been under a despotic and oppressive English “ Protectorate” since 1815, made an insurrection in 1848, and in 1857 declared by their legislature in favor of annexation to Greece. ‘ihe English Government, cither ashamed or tired of its mean conduct toward these few helpless Grecks, has now declared itself willing to cede them to Greece, provided Greece remains a kingdom. —Among the reports always floating about Europe are these: That the ex-Queen of Naples retired toa convent in consequence of an intrigue whis, ended ina murder. That the Hungarian nobles have pro- pesed a sort of ultimatum to the obstinate Austrian cmrerer, to refuse which will place Hungary ia some kind of ermity to Austria. And that the Saltan of Turkcy is so subject to occasional attacks of derange- mcnt, as to render him unable to govern. —Reports jrom Parts about Mexico say that the Mexicans are so fond of the French that the latter do not have to garrison the cities they take; and are proceeding to finish up their conquest very much at their case. —Receptions of various public officers were held on January 1, by the Emperor of France, the King of Italy, and the Pope. Louis Napoleon, who receivel the diplomatic corps, legislature, etc., said nothing, apparently, except a sentence or two to the effect that he desired peace. Victor Emanuel, who ro- ccived his Parliament, made quite a speech; saying that the wishes of the nation during the past ycar had not been fulfilled (as to Rome) ; and that as soon as the couthern part of Italy could be pavified, the new nation would be triumphant. As for the Pope, he received the Frenh army oflicers, and babbled to them about repentant Piedmont falling at the fect of the chair of St. Peter! —The provinee of Buenos Ayres is quiet, indastri- ous, and flourishing. Immigration is encourage! ; a railroad is building; the price of land is rising; cot- ton is beginning tw be cultivated ; and trade is grow- ing active. —During ten years ending with 1860, more than nine thousand lives were lost in the English eoal- mines. ‘Ihe regular number now lost in the same mines is a thousand lives a year; about twenty every week. This is a tremendous excess of casualtics over that usual in America. But human life (of “ ecmmon people”) is not of much account in Eng- land. —News from Japan to Oct. 22, asserts that a quiet revolution in the Government has taken placc, stripping the Tycoon of most of his power, and dis- tributing it among the higher princes or landed no- bility. is is a change unfriendly to foreigners. —Cardinal Morlot, Archbishop of Paris, is dead. Editors’ Book Gable. Scrrpyer has in press a new work by C. L. Brace on Ethnclogy—a condensed aceount of the human races of Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceanica. It is designed as a guide to the study of history, by giving the latest results of travel and scientific study, as to the different varieties of the Human Family. The classification is based on language. The work is divided into three parte—the first treating of the earliest historical races in Asia and Europe; the second of the races of the middle ages; the third of modern races. An extended account of the African and Oceanican races is embraced in it. The con- cluding chapters discuss the much-vexed questions of Human Antiquity, and Unity or Diversity of Origin. The subject of Egyptian chronology is also briefly pro- sented aud discussed. x. folks and country readers, In the interest of poor —s eter Mercantile Library, and in about the sale of secon1- eet aed ott can book-clubs, and Pecblications after they have “out. lived their usefulness” in the Mercantile Library, at the prices charged in its duplicate department, when the usual fall retail price would be beyond their means. Or at any rate this offer largely increases the literary efficiency of a given sum. This trade has already reached the dimensions of several huad- e 3 x red dollars a year. On application to G. Grant, Esq., the Librarian, he will send to any ad- dress a list of books thus for sale, with their prices. Tue Gotpen Treasury of the best Songs and Lyri- cal Poems in the English Language = Selected and arranged with notes by Francis Turner Palgrave a Sever and Francis 1863 16mo. pp. 406. Mr. Burton, in his “ Book-Hunter,” describes Dr. Wynne’s book on “The Private Libraries of New York,” as equal in typographic excellence to the best efforts of the English book-clubs. This was New York printing, and was really first-class work. It appeared, however, as an exceptional “édition ds luxe,” issued to subscribers (of whom we hope the rest were more fairly dealt with in the article of paper than were we ourselves) and not as a specimen of @ usual style. It was reserved for the Riverside Press of Mr. Houghton, and the University Press of Welch, Bigelow & Oo., both at Cambridge, Mass., to introduce a new style of elegant publications ; and their work has constituted a well-marked and most creditable era in the history of American publishing. Among all the books of this new era of el two have been on the whole distinctly the most beautiful, namely, De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, and the present “Golden Treasury.” Both ‘have the imprint of Sever & Francis, Cambridge ; and both are printed by Welch, Bigelow & Oo. \ And both are better manufactured books than England can show; for although it is true that the materials for both were in part imported, yet the deft touch of American fingers, the keen sight and judgment and “ faculty” of American eye and brain, impart a finish and an altogether (this is much better than to steal “tout ensemble” from the Wicked Emperor) which John Bull's big thumby fingers can in no wise attain unto. We recommend attention to the singularly clear and elegant cut of the type, more particularly in the exquisite nonpareil of the notes; the perfect clearness and evenness of the press-work ; the work- manlike finish and tasteful design of the Bidding, entirely simple yet ornamental in the best sense; and the sharp delicacy in design and impression of the engraved tail-pieces and head-pieces, The harmony of this almost perfect book is marred by the singular anachronism, already repeatedly re- proved in these columns, of omitting the punctuation of title-page, running-titles, titles, and authors’ names; a sorrowful blemish ; and dy the use of the old-fashioned, dislocated, and ungraceful numerals in the paging, tailing up and down beyond the even range of the figures, in a manner unpleasantly incon- sistent with the precision of the lines of type. The literary materials of Mr. Palgrave’s collection are worthy of their apparel. . Very few are the “ best English lyrics” which we do not find here; and while for our own part we regret the exclusion of living quthors from the collection, and while we note a very few poor selections, we are thankful for the good judgment so successfully exercised in choosing from the works of the dead. Trinty-ninta Annuat ReeisTsx of the Renssclacr Polytechnic Institute, Troy,N. Y., for the acatemic year 1862-68. Novémber, 1862. Young & Beason, Troy, N. Y. 8vo. pp. 88. The Rensselaer Polytecinic Institute was, we be- lieve, the first American school of applied science outside of West Point. Its fame was adopted in acknowledgment of a small endowment from Patroon Stephen Van Rensselaer, though its expenses have been met from that source in small part only. It is at present substantially a school of civil engineering, for the sufficient/reason that graduates in ‘that art are chiefly called for by American industrial interests ; but it is prepared to instruct in mining, agriculture, and other applied sciences, whenever scientific kuowl- edge of them is demanded. Schools, like shops, can- not furnish goods not wanted by any customer. The long list of its graduates now in places of trust and importance as engineers, superintendents on rail- roads, in mechanical establishments, ships, mines, and other public and private works, proves the prac- tical value of the instruction it gives. The recent great fire at Troy swept away the building of the Institute; but the Trustees, undis- couraged, announce that the courses of instruction will continue as usual, and are actively moving for the erection of a better house than the old one. For terms, etc., see the advertisement in another colomn. Tue Graver Troucnrs of a Country Parson. By (Rev. A. K. Hf. Boyd] the author of “The Recrea- tions of a Country Parson,” etc. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1868. 12mo. pp. 307. In this pleasant book are contained sixteen short sermons by the genial and sensible Country Parson, who prefixes an extremely graceful and pleasant in- troductioh. These sermons contain much good, practical sense, well put; their style being so very plain by reason of directness and shortness of sentence, as to induce an impression that they were with some little effort adapted to no very learned folk. But they are none the worse for that. Tue Instirv7es or MepIcine. A.M., M.D., LL.D., etc. Seventh Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1862. 8vo. pp. 1130. This seventh edition of Dr. Paine’s work is intend- ed by him to be the standard edition. It is his own well-known and thoroughly digested and systematized body of medical instruction, proved and corrected by his official instructions in the University of the City of New York. It ig allopathic, thoroughly; “ hero- ically ;” and will be valued or not, of course, aceord- ingly. It has a full index, of about two hundred pages. Lire or ANDREW Jackson, condensed from the author’s “Life of Andrew Jackson,” in three vol- umes. By James Parton. New York: Mason Brothers. 1868. 12mo. pp. 479. This is a judicious compendium, containing ali the more pictorial, anecdotic, and interesting matter of the life of the brave old soldier, and within the means of many who cannot afford the three stately volumes of the original biography. There is a keenly painful interest in reading of the stern and indomit- able will, the heroic fearlessness, prompt decision, atid iron persevering energy of this splendid old hero, from its constant contrast with the quiddling uncer- tainty, paltering, and indecision, which have to-day brought the nation to the very verge of disruption. Mr. Parton is a graphic, entertaining, and entirely faithful biographer, and his memoir is one of high and standard value. By Martyn Paine, PAMPHLETS, Letrers or Instruction 1n Pronocrarisp Pronoa- rarHy; by D. P. Lindsley, (Harwinton, Oonn.) Hartford: Steam press of E. Geer. 1862. 12mo, pp. 32. Mr. Lindsley has made use of Pitman’s principle of lines for consonants and dots or short strokes for vowels; but has varied the arrangement of these marks, for instance, by making B and P perpendicu- lar instead of slanting, and D and T horizontal in- stead of perpendicular; a change for which we see no reason. He also denotes his vowel by shape of mark alone instead of shape and position together ; and is thus able to develop his chief improvement, of writing the whole word in one mark; because his vowel can be run in between two consonants. Our impression is that Mr. Lindsley’s system might do very well in the “ corresponding style,” but we doubt about its value for reporting. But as we already knew Pitman’s system, and cannot afford to master a new one for comparison, it is fair to say that this judgment is based upon & brief inspection, and a few experiments on ambiguities and motions, whieh Mr. Lindsley might perhaps explain satisfactorily. Hisroricat Sxerca or Tus Boarp “ Surgrvisors of ty of New York; -.-. »« New York: W. T'S, Harrison. 1862. 8vo. pp. 89. This is a careful, aseful, and cenvenient manual of the’Tacts and names connected with the Board of Supervisors, from their first organization in 1786. It has also their code of parliamentary law, and Judge Bronson’s opinion, given Feb. 26,1862, defining the power of the Board to levy taxes. Tus CommaxpEr-1n-Ouizs ; a Dofense upon Legal Grounds of the Proclemation of Emancipation ; and an answer to Ex-Judge Curtis’ pamphlet entitled “ Executive Power.” Second edition, with addition- alnotes. By Grosvenor P. . New York: G. P. Putnam. 1863. 12mo. pp. 34. This is a clear and forcible outline of the distinc- tion between military and civil necessities, obll- gations, duties, and offenses ; and a detection of the evil-minded fallacies of the peace men, who refuse in arms the nation is a citizen ha consti- tutional Mr. of his eon- clusions will be found in column, and is worth reading and

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SECESSION AT HOME. We have occasion to thank those Demo- cratic speakers in the West and in New York who openly avow their determination to reconstruct this Union and to leave New England out. We are not anxious to expend any needless pity on New England. She hasserved an apprenticeship in suffering hard- ships. Her history began in being excluded from Old England. She had a cold time of it when she was left out on the first landing of her Pilgrims on our coasts. She has, ever since Jefferson’s days, been left out of any influential connection with the National Government. Tho Yankee has not. thriven in any state of the Union by favors and pop- ular concessions. He has no one to thank for his thrift but himself. Southern educa- tion has always included the two accom- plishments—of cursing the Yankees and of boasting of the Southron. For New England we have no fears nor occasions of sympathy. But the early avowal of this worst form of secession will do much to open the eyes of hundreds who, last fall, voted with the so- called Democratic party, without imagining the career they were to run. For two years the South have convulsed this continent with a needless, wanton, and guilty war, in defense of the right, in the states of this Union, of secession. It is true that Slavery was the real reason why the South desired to se- cede. But the issue was made and the war was begun, not upon the slavery question, but on the right of secession. On this subject there can be but two sides. Our Government, and the loyal portion of the North, deny the right of any state to secede from the Union, by itsown mere will. If any go out, it must be by the permission of the other states, legally given in a Constitational Convention. The South, on the other hand, and its sym- pathizers in the North, believe that each state retains the right to secede as a part of its sovereignty. There is no middle ground. One or other of these doctrines is to be estab- lished by this War. That there were scatter- ed through the North many men who sympa- thized in Southern views was well known. But we doubt whether it was dreamed that a party existed in the North that held a doc- trine of secession so far beyond the Southern as to leave that pale and poor by contrast. But it is so. The concurrent utterances of orators East‘and West, and of newspapers not a few, show that the so-called Democratic party now seeking as- cendency, believe in forcing states to secede, and by the Southern methods. They threaten to excise, exclude, and banish five states against their will. It is not alleged that they have broken the laws, violated the Constitu- tion, departed from the faith of the founders of our Government. They have only exer- cised the great rights, held from their fathers, and guaranteed by the Constitution, in a manner displeasing to these despotic excision- ists. And for no crime but the exercise of their own rights, it is propesed to drive them from the Union! We wish all men who voted with this new and revolutionary party to consider the course that they are likely to run, and the fate which awaits our nation should these disorganizers and radicals of anarchy gain a full control of affairs. The South is to renounce its mild doctrine of secession in favor of a far stronger and more effective form of the same heresy. Here- after, it is to be a part of the so-called Demo- cratic theory of governmentthatstates have the right to eject states. Under the newfangled name of reconstruction, the West and South may exclude the East ; or the North and Mid- dle states may exscind the South ; or the great midland states may cast off the oceanic states on both sides. In short, National Unity is ended. The Union isa knot that may be tied and untied at the will of politicians, and the future opens to view as a stene of wran- glings and mutual repulsions or attractions among states, as their interests or their pas- sions may dictate. — This purpose has not come to the light an hour too soon. Cautious and prudent men may have been alarmed at the radicalism of abolitionism. But what will they think of this revolutionary radicalism of the super- servicable sympathizers of the South? Are these the men into whose hands it is safe to place all the great interests of this Govern- ment ?—and all the vital interests of human- ity that are bound up in the welfare of this nation ? These mottal doctrines would be enough dangerous were they advocated and defended by the usual methods of political propagand- ism. But, it is to be noticed that the party bearing their destruction into our midst is borrowing Southern methods of pro- cedure. The recent election of a Sen- ator in Pennsylvania was in the pres- ence and under intimidation of armed ruffians brought to the capital on purpose to everawe the Legislature. The scenes that have transpired at Albany the past week are even more extraordinary. The House has been prevented from organization for two wecks. The lobbies have been filled bullies from this city, to intimidate the mem- -" bers and coerce their conduct. The moat open and murderous threats were made by Democratic membere of the House, should a / Speaker be elected not in accordance with their wishes. in slavery ; that avows its sympathy with the South ; that. outruns the South, even, in an exaggerated doctrine of enforced secession ; that seeks to overawe Legislatures by the presence of armed men and bloody bullies ; that scarcely vails its threats of riots in our cities, and of violence to the persons and property of obnoxious citizens—is this the party to which the Sober North is about to commit the destinies of this nation? The time has come for men who love their country to be on their feet, and to be prepared to meet at home an enemy more deadly and un- principled than any that is waging battle against the Union in the South !

APOLLOS. We have an instructive history of the way in which this useful man began his public religious life. He was an earnest and diligent preacher, while as yet he knew nothing of Christ. A Jew of Alexandria, eloquent of speech and “ mighty in “the Scriptures,” he had begun to comprehend the ways of God. It is said that he knew only the baptism of John. He had learned—if he had not personally heard—the teachings of that stern herald of the Messiah ; and believed that the dis- pensation which he proclaimed—the kingdom of heaven—was at hand ; although he seems not to have known that the King himself had actually come. But even this imperfect knowledge ¢ fthe truth was bearing fruit. What he had learned was too precious to be kept to himself. And with all his native eloquence, and with all his research into the Word of God, he was proclaiming dili- gently and earnestly the truth to which he had attained. Coming to Ephesus, and speaking in the syna- gogue, he was heard by those two steadfast dis- ciples, Aquila and Priscilla. The method which they employed in dealing with him is worthy of notice. They did not denounce him as a heretic, nor regard him as an enemy of Christianity, be- cause he had never leamed some of its most essential facts. They did not stand aloof from him, as if he belonged to a different and hostile sect, nor did they seek to prejudice the people against him because he followed not with them. Neither did they insist that he was unfit to be a teacher of men on account of his imperfect knowl- edge, nor tell him that he could have no fellow- ship withthem. ‘'Bhey saw that there was in him too much of real worth to be discouraged or con- temptuously set aside. His impulses and inten- tions were evidently right; he was earnest and “mighty in the utterance of such truth as he knew ; ‘he was doing what he could ; and their Christian common sense told them it would be folly to dis- courage and throw away a helper so useful in the cause of truth and righteousness. Good men— with hearts open to the truth, and seeking for it— were too rare in those days for any of them to be repelled from the brotherhood and sympathies of the friends of Christ. This Christian household, therefore, addressed themselves not to discourage the earnest heart of Apollos, but to increase his usefulness ; to make him better acquainted with the truth; to show him that the Messiah, whose advent John proclaimed, had really come in the person of Jesus. “They took him unto them, and “expounded unto him the way of God more per- “feetly.” And the wisdom of the course they pursued was demonstrated by the result. Apollos ‘was soon found bearing abroad his better knowl- edge, helping and comforting, through his ac- quaintance with the Scriptures, the weak and uninstructed believers in the Gospel, and by his eloquence mightily convincing the Jews that Jesus was the Christ; and, after Paul, no Chris- tian missionary of the Apostolic age was a more abundant or a more successful workman for Christ than he. May not Christians of our day learn wisdom from this history ? In every Christian community some of its best and purest members are out of fellowship with the church—repelled from it by various causes, natural timidity, self-distrust, imperfect knowledge of Christian doctrines as they are held in the church, a misunderstanding of the terms required for admission to Christian fellowship, and, sometimes, an unwise and mis- placed strictness in those terms themselves. From these causes it happens that the line of division between the church and the world is, to a considerable extent, an unreal one; the church fails to gather to itself—as it should—all that is truly honest and spiritual in purpose, all that is benevolent, pure, and lovely in life; and it loses the labors and influence of many who might— like Apollos—give much aid to them that believe, and mightily convince the careless and the hostile that Jesus is the Christ. Are there not many cases in which we need to imitate the charity and the common sense of Aquila and Priscilla; and instead of shutting out from our fellowship, or discouraging from a Christian profession and Christian works, those who do not conform in all respects to our standard of knowledge and expe- rience—to take them unto us, antl expound unto them the way of God more perfectly ? That the church of Christ should succeed in excluding from itself all that is false and evil, is not to be expected; it never has been done—not even when Christ himself was on earth—and, apparently, it never will be in this world. That the church of Christ should be continually attracting to itself, and bringing lovely, and of good report—every man and woman who loves the right and hates the wrong—all in whom there is an earnest desire and effort after a better life, even though their faith and knowledge be as imperfect as Apollos himself—this is surely not an unreasonable expectation. And the ques- tion, How shall this be done, and what changes in our church customs and modes of thought may be necessary in order to effect it? is worthy of much earnest thought and candid discussion. The early church wisely saved Apollos to itself. Are not we, through some lack of wisdom, losing from the church in our day many whose labors and influence might be—at least in the aggregate —as valuable as his ?

THE KINGS ENGLISH. \ LaTELY, in our leisure readings, we found a piece of eloquent English, which we here copy : “These communities, (the thirteen colonies,) by their representatives in old Independence Hall, said to the world of men: ‘ We held thous wruthe de be self-evident, that all men are bern equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ” This was their majestic interpretation of the economy of the universe. This was their lefty, and wise, and noble under- standing of the justice of the Creator to his crea- tures. Yes, gentlemen, ¢o all his creatures, to the whole great family of man. In their enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the divine image and likeness was sent into the world éo be trodden on, and and imbruted by its fellows. They not.only the race of men then living, but they reached forward, and seized upon the fur- thest posterity. They created a beacon to guide their children, and their children’s en, and the countless myri who should in- habit the earth in er ages. Wise states-

ae A party that dees not disguise its interest | within its fellowship, all that is honest, pure, |

in the distant future, some man, some faction, some snterest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, or none but Anglo-Sazon- white men, were entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, their pos- terity might look up again to the Declaration of In- d dence, and take courage TO RENEW THE BATTLE which their fathers began; so that TauTH and Justice and Mercy, and all the HUMANE AND CHRISTIAN VIRTUES, might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would hereafter DARE TO LIMIT AND CIRCUMSCRIBE the great principles on which the Temple of Liberty was being built.” These words were spoken by a man who was born in poverty; whose youth was denied the helpful privilege of education ; whose early man- hood was spent in the severe task of clearing new land ; who by the sweat of his brow gave to labor its honorable crown; and who, having neither riches, nor learning, nor position, but having simply the qualities of a noble Man,—learned thus to value men for their simple manhood ; to believe in equality, because, standing low himself, it was a doctrine that lifted him to a rightful level with the high ; to believe in liberty, because he felt within his own breast that this was God’s law for the progress of mankind. The same pen, at a later day, wrote a shorter passage of equal eloquence, and which will never die out of the English tongue, or out of the his- tory of the world. It stands as follows: “T do order and declare that ALL PERSONS HELD AS SLAVES within said designated ‘States and parts of states, ARE, AND HENCEFORWARD SHALL Ba, FREE! = * . * “And, upon this act, sincerely believed to be ‘an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.” The first passage which we quoted was from an argument in which ApraHwAM LINCOLN some years ago vanquished Stephen A. Douglas; the second (need we mention its source ?) is from that last great argument with which he is finally to conquer the Slaveholders’ Rebellion.

THE TWO POPEDOMS. “Tr moves for all that!” was the immortal aside of Galileo more than two centuries ago, when the Inquisition forced him publicly to recant his heresy that the earth moves round the sun. As the Pope and the Inquisition could not stay the revolution of the earth about its central star, so neither he nor the Holy Office, nor yet King or Kaiser, nor even President and Congress, have sufficed to stay the eternal flux and efflux of ideas which are for ever changing, for the better or the worse, the human institutions upon its surface. The experiment has been fairly enough tried, and long enough, but it has always failed. The Pope himself is, at this moment, an example of the insufficiency of infallibility itself to maintain good old abuses in their wholesome integrity. The number of Za Nation, of January the first, states that authentic information has been received in Paris from Rome, that the Pope has agreed to the reforms suggested by the Commission appointed for that purpose, by reason of the sig- nificant advice of France. These reforms provide, Ist, for a new code, civil and criminal, and the suppression of the Canon Law as the single rule of justice ; 2d, the reorganization of the courts of justice ; and 3d, the separation of the functions of the administrative and judicial departments, the former to be reorganized on the basis of the self- government of the provinces ,and the municipal- ities, and the admission of laymen to the les fonctions subalternes—the inferior offiters. The Commission also advises a systenpof representa- tion of all classes of society, to have deliberative powers as to financial matters, but advisory ones only as to other affairs. It goes on to say that the Pope, to avoid the opposition sure to be met with in the College of Cardinals, has instituted a Consulta ad hoc, or Special Commission, charged with the preparation of the project of national representation. These reformations may not seem to us, in this country, as of a very radical character ; but all who know the abuses inseparable from the priestly government of Rome and the Legations, will see how great a step in the right direction they imply. They are not yet completed, and we cannot feel much confidence in the heartiness of ‘His Holiness in this new work. But it is a proof that ideas have advanced far enough in that part of Italy to make some kind of concessions inevit- able as the price of continued quiet. The weight of the eldest son of the Church—a prodigal son, though the eldest—not being sufficient to prevent all danger of explosion, he has intimated to the Holy Father that he must provide some additional safety-valves to let off the accumulating steam, and here they are. Perhaps they will be suffi- cient for his day, and perhaps not. Yea,—if he will suffer these new powers in his state to smooth over the way to Italian Unity, toward which the tide of opinion and passion in the Peninsula is setting so strongly. Nay,—if he thinks that the proud waves of that tide will be stayed by any such weak impediments thrown across its advanc- ing flood. For his world moves, too, and that with subterranean mutterings, prophetic of earth- quake and volcano, felt even as far as the Tuiler- ies, “ with fear of change perplexing monarchs” everywhere, and demanding some vent for the internal fires—if such can be devised—to hinder or delay at least the dreaded eruption. The everlasting movement in human affairs, which is but the external manifestation of revolu- tion in the kingdom that is within us, proceeds more swiftly, if not more surely, in this New World than in the Old. We need not look back many months to feel how immense is the change in our national position which a little time has produced. Thirty-six moons ago and slavery seemed to be enthroned for ever on our necks. Eventwenty-four months have not passed since it could have had every concession it could ask for, or even think of, if it would vouchsafe to continue to reign over us. It needs not that we should point out the mighty changes which have come over the minds of men since then, and how altered is the face of affairs. We will not dwell on how much better that face of affairs might have looked now had the blows lately dealt to slavery been delivered when domestic treason cowered under- the armed heel of the nation, and when there would have been no covert resistance to the most thorough action. But even treason, let it do its Worst, cannot put back the shadow on the dial+ plate of history, and put our affairs ip the condi- tion they were in before the war. Not even if New York should emulate the example of Phila- delphia, and send up an armed body ef ruffians to Albany to order our legislature to make Fernando Wood our Conseript Father. “The, Union as it Was” may bé a good Cry, but it is one empty of power to fulfill itself. Itis unhappy that the work of crushing the rebellion, in the only effectual way, had not been done before the pro-slavery reaction had had time to begin and to organize itself against the life of the nation. But the education of the last two years has not been in vain. Such agitations of human natures sel Uias te are never barren of results, and here our traitors, we : : opine, reckon without their masters, the rebels. Those astute met Know that

they were, they knew the tendency | of prosperity to breed tyrants ; and so they estab- | | lished these great self-evident truths, that when,

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the progress of opinion can never be stopped. They knew it when the state of Georgia offered $5,000, thirty years ago, for the body of Garrison, dead or alive, by law still on her statute-book ; and they knew it when they conceived and when they brought forth this iniquity of rebellion. We do not believe they will listen to the voice of the Democratic charmers, charm they ever so wisely. They may be conquered, but they cannot be cajoled. Ifthey could be, and Wood and Seymour could have carte Llanche for the terms of our sur- render, it would only make the anti-slavery reaction, sure to follow in its due time, the more overwhelming. And the slaveholders know it. Slavery is as besotted and fanatical as ever Popery was in its worst days, but it is also as wise in its generation ; and it knows that the only chance it has of stopping the motion of the world is in keeping itself separate from the heretics whom it cannot extirpate.

CHARLES SUMNER. We congratulate Massachusetts upon the re- election of Charles Sumner. This is the third time he enters upon the office which he so nobly fills. Honored by the state, he honors the state. No man in Congress is more laborious in the dis- charge of his various duties, more assiduous and thorough in his preparation of the public business in Committee, more punctual in his attendance in the Senate Chamber, and more eloquent, irresisti- ble, and convincing in debate. Neither the Senate, nor Massachusetts, nor the country, could afford to lose Charles Sumner from that civs‘r in which he has sat (with one memor- able period ‘of retirement) for twelve honorable years, and which is now voted to him for still another term. Mr. Sumner’s first election to the Senate was after a long-protracted struggle in the legislature of Massachusetts—a struggle in which he bore himself with so noble a carriage that his defeat would have been hardly less an honor than his election. His re-election, which followed after his personal sufferings in the cause of freedom, was said by many, though not said truly, to have been secured through the appeal of his wounds to the sympathies of a generous commonwealth. But what will be said of this third election, and the vote by which it was accomplished? That vote was as follows. We quote from The Boston Transcript, January 15: “In the Senate, this forenoon, the special as- signment, the election of a U. S. Senator for six years, commencing on the fourth day of March next, was tak,en up. “ Phe roll was called, each member answering to his name, and pronouncing the name of the candidate voted for. “ The vote was as follows :

Charles Sumner of Boston............. (ietaaletis Chica 33 Josiah G. Abbott of Boston........................ 5 Chas. Francis Adams of Quincy.................... 1 “The member not voting was Mr. Crane of Worcester county. “Mr. Whitney, Republican, of Hampden, voted for Mr. Adams. “When the announcement of the vote was made there were slight expressions of applause. “Tn the House the voting commenced at the same hour, and proceeded in the same manner. The*result was.as follows : I, cnn chen. o> 0bpsidneaneamemanee 194 eT A RA MS FRETS 38 Caleb Cushing....... Be hap a A en IEE I ees Charles Francis Adams...................++- +++ 1 “ There were slight manifestations of applause when the-result was announced, but they were promptly checked by the Speaker.” When we reflect that Charles Sumner is a man who has stood in the forefront of the battle of freedom—who has not only given but taken the heaviest blows of the struggle—who has been maligned from one end of the land to the other by all men who hate liberty—whose defeat has been sought again and again by corrupt party leaders— the unanimity of this late re-election exalts his success, both in a moral and a political point of view, into one of the most signal events in the history of American politics. May his life be spared to see the end of the great struggle which for a whole generation has shaken the nation, until Liberty and Peace shall reign throughout the land! THE LANCASHIRE COTTON INTEREST. Mr. Cosgpen, M. P., made a speech, Dec. 16, at Midhurst, in Sussex, in the southeast of England, more than 200 miles distant from Lancashire, the meeting being called with reference to the dis- tressed operatives. Referring to his experience, as a native of the adjoining county of Hampshire, and the small degree of intercourse and acquasnt- ance between the South and the North even in England, he wishes that some Dr. Livingstone might come and explore West Sussex, and tell it to the people of the North ; and that some Layard would write to those of the South a true account of the state of society in Lancashire. He therefore describes in detail the rise and growth and condi- tion of the cotton interest, with a variety of im- portant statistics. He says that the cotton indus- try of England, besides supplying the wants of the population of the country, supplies one-third of the amount of exports to foreign countries, so that, for every three ships that come laden with luxuries and comforts from other lands, one will be paid for by the produce of the cotton manufac- tories. The population of Lancashire has increas- ed in sixty years from 673,000 in 1801 to 2,428,000

‘in 186], at the pretty uniform ratio of 20 per cent. for every ten years. And capital has in- creased in a corresponding ratio, as shown by the low amount of the poor-rate in the county. The vastjwealth accumulated in Lancashire has a legit- imate basis, in that it is the product of invention and industry, and supplies the greatest abundance of clothing at the cheapest rate that was ever known. The manufacturers are mostly men who have risen from the ranks, who generally continue to live in the same style of simplicity and frugality, hardly any ever spending the half of their income. There is no other great industry in which the fixed capital, the mills and machinery attached to the freehold, bears so large a proportion to the floating capital employed, being on the average as three to one. The fixed capital is forty to fifty mil- lions sterling. The mill-owners give more time and attention and close application to business than any other class of capitalists. He tells a story in illustration : “When I was down in Lancashire the other day, I visited a mill in company with some other gentlemen, and that mill belonged to a gentleman whose real name I will not mention, but for the present I will call Mr. Smith. There could not have been less than 3,000 or 4,000 pessons engaged in this mill when it was at work, and there were 700 power- looms under one roof. They were all silent and idle, and I went to see the place because I thought it would be an en- couragement to see the efforts that were being made to em- ploy the time and amuse and instruct the werking people in the absence of all regular employment. As we were coming away, one of the friends who accompanied me patted the owner of the mill on the shoulder, and with that frank and wife was earning 9s. 6d. a week as a weaver at the power- loom when she married me.’ ” There is no monopoly there. The business is -always liable to fiuctuations, and is only modes ately profitable, but had been very prosperous for three or four years, until “two years ago, when “the election of the present President of America “threw that country in a position which led to “the present iamentable civil war.” [We quote this guarded statement of Mr. Cobden to show exectly how he explains the difficulty.} The excessive speculation. He denies that there was China markets, beciuse any excess would have been absorbed by new markets. Even the bank- distreased the operatives, but for the entire failure of cotton. The effect is to render the fixed capital of Lancashire of no value, while it is still taxed as before, only at a higher rate for the poor. We should be glad to comment on the very inad- equate and very English view which Mr. Cobden takes of the causes of the cotton famine—charging it, not upon the great and causeless rebellion, but upon the war—which Englishmen generally hold the U. S. Government responsible for—and especi- ally upon the blockade, which is certainly the act of our Government. And he argues that the block- ade itself would not have been tolerated by Europe but for the persistency of other nations in coun- tenancing that “ system of warfare.” We also feel inclined to supply the other great lack of Mr. Cobden’s speech, the outlook of the future, by pointing to the only real remedy for the great bulk of distress in Lancashire, which, as we have often-‘mentioned, is only emigration to the United States, where they can be sure of bread, where there will be cotton to spin long be- fore there will be in England, where indeed the mills for both cotton and woolen are even now at work on full time and many at over-hours, where manufacturing capital is unimpaired, and, above all, where they can get land for nothing, under a free Government, for themselves and their chil- dren.

A GREEN SPOT IN THE SEA. Lyine on our table is a little photograph of a bamboo meeting-house, standing on piles, with strange-looking ‘trees about it, betokening a for- eign climate. It is an African mission-chapel, planned and built by the hands of ihe good mis- sionary who preaches in it, and may God bless his labors ! . The station is Corisco Island, and the mission- ary is Rev. Cornelius de Heer. Corisco is a crumb broken off from the West Coast of Africa, lying a few miles from the Equator, and a few miles from the mainland; round as a cart-wheel, and about three miles across; hilly and picturesque, but lifting no points higher than eighty feet from the water- level ; freshened, amid the salt sea, by two little lakes and a running brook; monotonous in cli- mate, having rain three-quarters of the year, and unvarying sunrise and sunset at six o’clock morn and night; yielding from its soil bananas, limes, sweet-potatoes, and the common tropical fruits ; populated by 1,200 copper-faced negroes; and planted with a mission station of three mission- aries, sustained by the Old-School Presbyterian Board. , The natives are a well-built race, tall, graceful, and often handsome; cheerful, affectionate, and social; loving music, and singing songs at their daily labor; and speaking arich-sounding language, that renders oratory and eloquence common in their public assemblies. They practice (except the little company who, through conversion to Christianity, have learned “ a more excellent way”) the ancient heathenish fetichism, or the religion of charms; cireumcision, though they had never heard of the Jews till told by the missionaries ; and polygamy, buying and selling their wives, and compelling them to the labors of the field. They have no institution of government except the varying de- crees of the populace expressed in mass-meeting. This singular community, isolated by the sea, a little world by themselves, are, one by one, ac- cepting Christianity and the civilization which everywhere follows it. Three earnest men preach to the people every Sabbath-day ; 87 na- tives are written upon the roll of church-mem- bership; the Sunday-schools gather 160 chil- dren; and a day-school, in which English is taught, and the English Bible is a text-book, numbers 80 students. We have seen some letters written by these young islanders, in which, from the handwriting, from the good spelling, and from the felicitous style, one would suppose that the authors were graduates from a Yankee high-school. The chief object of this school is to raise up a native ministry, not for the island alone, but for the wide coasts of the continent near at hand. Mr. de Heer, a Hollander by birth, but an American by long residence and labor in this country, went to Corsico about seven years ago; and that little green spot, ever since, has been growing greener under his hand. He and his co- workers, encountering the obstacle of an unwritten language, immediately set themselves, with pen and ink, to the brave task of reseuing it from the lips of its musical speakers, in order that the Bible might be translated even for so little a handful of God’s needy children. A considerable portion of this translation having already been made, Mr. de Heer has brought the manuscript to this country to be printed, together with some little books of primary instruction, and expects, as soon as these are issued from the press, to return with them to his people. ..Zhe isles shall wait for Thy law, said the prophet. So waits now the Isle of Corsico. May fair winds speed the ship that shall bear thither the glad tidings of great joy!

A NOTE ON ART. Art, in the middle-ages, was part of Religion : it is now part of Fashion. In this city, not only are oil-pictures growing into unusual favor, but the regular exhibitions known as Artists’ Recep- tions gather the most brilliant assemblies which one is likely to see during a whole winter. The

| first reception for the present season was held on Friday evening last, at the Dodworth Building— that new-built rookery of artists’ studios. The exhibition-hall was hung with fresh pictures, and the up-stairs studios were lighted and thrown open to visitors. who were allowed to wander at will through those pleasant haunts, looking at unfinished works on easels, studies on the walls, bits of landscapes, ideal heads and forms, horns of stags, anatomies im plaster, and all the various furniture, serious or grotesque, with which an artist makes his room look unlike any other work-shop in the world. Among the throng of invited guests were clergymen, lawyers, authors, editors, and, of course, ladies—making altogether a solid convention of critics, whose opinions were as freely expressed as the crowded rooms would permit. These exhibitions derive special interest from the fact that the pictures are always the latest works of American art: thus, what was seen on Friday evening, was the early-winter’s work from the outdoor studies of last summer and fall. At each reception the walls are Sulletin-boards, giving the latest news of the progress of art. We noticed with special pleasure the works of Gifford, Coleman, Gignoux, Shattuck, Eastman Johnson, Huntington, M’Entee, Hennessey, Ben- son, Hall, Carpenter, E. W. Nichols, Wenzler, Suydam, and others. Not to slight any of these well-known names, we may say that two little works of Henry Peters Gray elicited the chief comment of the evening. One of these represented the Goddess of Liberty breaking the chains of a Negro Slave, and offering him asword. The other was the same Goddess, clad in an investiture of Stars and Stripes, and communicating with an Eagle in the background ;

the whole named somewhat vaguely the Genius effect was a very great expansion of business, and | ein their faultless drawing and their indescribabj, any glut of production, except for the India and | ruptcy of a few manufacturers would not have |

charm of color, was beyond criticism. Nor dig thoughtful observers withhold the credit due the courageous moral purpose of the first of these pictures, wherein the artist honorably employed his art to the humane end of lifting up the lowly, We design, at some future time, to give in these columns 8 critical analysis of the present prevail. ing phase of allegorical painting, (of which thes, pictures are representative,) and to show what we believe to be well-founded objections azgaingt its use; but we are content to say here that, though this style of art is not to our taste, Mr, Gray has shown by these works that he appreci- ates the true object of art, which, in its high reaches, and in the hands of men capable of put. ting it to its best uses, is to illustrate moral ideas, to dignify humanity, and to be a teacher of the world. Mr. Gray has deliberately put upon canvas ¢ Negro who, in every lineament of his face, show; that he is a true man. No generous observer, looking at that picture, could help saying to him. self, “Such a being was never meant to wear “chains!” This is a service for which the painter has won our sincerest thanks. We have heretofore complained that too many of our artists were using their art only as a beautiful toy for elegant trifling, rather than for any more worthy end; and certainly the last exhibition by the National Academy, in the general lack which it showed of any high moral aim, justified us in this criticism. We are glad that a better sentiment is now pre- vailing among artists. Not that Mr. Gray’s exam- ple is an absolute novelty. Eastman Johnson long ago painted negroes as men; and John Rogers, choosing, at the risk of starvation, to make his entrance into art through the gate of his own Yankee love of liberty, gave us in plaster the spectacle of a Slave-Auction which, though it was an exquisite piece of workmanship, no print- seller in Broadway for a long time had the courage to put into his window for exhibition. But we are grateful to Mr. Gray for compelling a fashionable audienee, fresh from tk» , rlors of Fifth avenue, fresh from the most ‘conservative circles of the most fastidious society, to look upon the face of a chained negro, and to say, “ Yes, “he is a man; set him free.” Ten years ago no favorite artist in New York would have risked his reputation by such an attempt as this to assert the rightful freedom of an oppressed race. The President’s Proclamation (which seems to have suggested one of these pictures) is break- ing other chains than the slave’s ; for we could not help thinking, in looking at this canvas, that while the artist was emancipating that negro, that negro, in return, was emancipating the artist! HEALTH OF OUR ARMIES. A REMARKABLY interesting “ Preliminary Re- “ port” on the mortality and sickness of the Volun- teer Army down to May, 1862, has been made to the Sanitary Commission by its actuary, E. B. Elliott. Many df the conclusions reached by Mr. Elliott are startling. The deaths in our volunteer army (down to the date of the report) have averaged fifty-three a year to each thousand men. Forty-four, of each fifty-three were from disease and accident; only nine (i. e., about eighteen per cent.) from wounds inaction. These causes vary remarkably between officers and enlisted men. In battle, it is safer to be a private than an officer, by one-third ; so many more of the officers die of wounds. But except in battle, it is safer by one-half to be an officer, so much better are the latter guarded against disease and accident; and this latter exemption is so much the most important, that on the whole, only about two-thirds as many officers die in a hundred, as men in a hundred. The excess of deaths from sickness and accident —two-thirds of all those among the officers, five- sixths among the men—is astonishing. Yet in the Crimean war, seven-eighths of the Brifish deaths, and during January, 1855, 97-100ths of them, were from disease alone, not including accidents. In the summer the deaths in our army were 21 to the 1,000; in the fall, 36; in the winter, 70; although defective returns are thought to account in part for the smallness of the summer numbers. Where 36 New England men died to the 1,000, 30 died from as many Middle State men, (includ- ing Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia,) and 95 from as many Western men ; and the rate of sick- ness is in a like degree greater at the West, being as a rule 16] to the 1,000, against 76 in the Eastern armies. This difference is due to the greater exertions of the Western forces in marching and fighting, to their frequent difficulty in securing good camp-ground, water, provisions, and hospital care, and to their greater carelessness about com- fort and cleanliness. On an average, the Eastern regiments were 864 strong each, and the Western 892; a number which has since been largely and sadly reduced. Of these, 66 of each Eastern regiment, and 144 of each Western, are on an average sick. The computation up to May, 1862, shows that so far each 1,000 men needed recruits, to keep the nwnber full, at the rate of 54 a year to make up for deaths, 100 for discharges from service, 14 for men missing in action and unaccounted for, 50 for desertions, and 11 more; in all, 229 new recruits a year. In the whole army, 104 out of every thousand are expected to be sick. Thus, to keep 500,000 effective men in the field, the army must consist of 558,300 men to begin with, and must receive 123,000 new recruits a year, ora little more than 10,000 g month. We have no knowledge of any provision by the United States Government to maintain such a recruiting service as this. On comparing the rate of deaths in our volun- teer army (53 to 1,000 men) with other expe: riences, the risk of dying appears to be about double that of the regular U. S. army in peace ; about six times that of citizens generally in Eng- land and America; less than half that of our troops in the Mexican war; less than one-third that of Wellington’s army in Spain ; four and one- third times less than that of the British army during all the Crimean war ; and one-twenty-fourth of that of the same army during January, 1855. During that month, the English soldiers died so fast that at that rate their whole army would have been gone in ten months and one week. On the whole, therefore, the health of our army has been much better than is usual among

_armies in active service. This report is under the circumstances a quite comfortable and encouraging document. It fur- nishes the precise figures of arithmetic instead of the indistinct and terrible ones conjured up by our fears about our friends; and it shows that the dangers of war are not great enough to frighten much of a patriot. At the same time, Mr. Elliott’s calculations suggest two or three very significant remarks. It is right, for instance, that officers should be better accommodated than men. Their duties require it, and allow it. But it is not right that the men should die faster than the officers. They are citizens at least full as valuable to their country, and equally entitled to health and life. bong essen be kept as well ; end heap ane 9 © should eB , be charged on the officers, Again : these sickness returns instantly recall

to the mind the innumerable complaints about

< JAN, 22, 18¢ pone omnes clothing, food, pay, exposur and subsistence maiters gen servers of the course of th enough of these complaints — justify the conclusion that \ killing the enemy are comple practicable limit of scien means for preserving and re health of our own men are s present state of knowledge. ( inery is scientific ; our philant barbarian. And this notwith precise points of transportati icine, our army during the p been better organized and ca in the field ever was. NT ART IN B Be To rue Ep1tons or Tue Inver! Lord Chesterfield, at the b letters, uses the following | reign the most secure and | reign in the hearts of their p is a better guard than their a of their subjects a better pl: than their fears.” He appli persons, and speaks of the g lows this practice of acting up By common consent, under th art-loving masses of this comr the scepter of the king that s\ of George Inness. Do you remember what Em on Culture, about the questi Read it, (of course you must ident,) and see how naturally our cherished artist. Have you seen the “ Sign ¢ Do you know Inness ? Having asked these ques’ propose to give them, as n¢ limit, my opinion of the pictu It is thoroughly the result « to the most fastidious observ of the painter. It marks a passage in Am before attained, and places plane that holds Church’s “ voke no comparison betwec will suffer by the contact; f of delight to all who see! blessings from the pencils o This Sign of Promise co of earnest labor, through a the highest requirements of A few steps, and I stand other most faithful and pain: to introduce Albert F. Bello Excellent pictures, my r of them! “Thrice over the River,” ive title of the series, and the story of a woman's li charming bit of color, holds a wee white blossom in i Oh, the sweet vision of ha family group! Over the ri over the River of Life, to middle picture,) to the tim surrounded by a joyful part and is preparing for her se The last of the series sh¢ funeral procession with al Over the river—for the tt waiting grave. “Then shall the dust : was: and the spirit shall r “.” There is something in picture, especially so tot agony of these journeys reminded of George Beug! finish of this painting, wh insignificant praise. Hunt, Heade, Gay, Grig Ball, Rogers, and Dexter, by works on exhibition « Drummer Boy,” a spirite half undressed, and with It has been photographed, rapidly. Mr. Heade shov scapes, very tender, and : possibly be. There is works of Mr. Heade. I) scientious than he in his lic. His pictures are gen by a figure-piece, “ Pomo ture that has ever left h Dr. Homans has just bee excellent qualities. Loc gallery, you that are in i don’t fail to find it when graving in the window \ brings me to the pleasai about Mr. Marshall, and name. I allude to his “ portrait (with the sin; original) that the count placed himself where awhile, for his reputatio At the Studio Build Ames, Bradford, Gerry Williams, and others. Mr. Rowse is constan in crayon. A correct, \ W. Curtis has just left to me) that has ever be Darley is hard at work heard it most enthusia be certain it is perfect, | perfect things. Mr. Am traits lately. I do nots from his greatness of fo Mr. Ordway is about lishment in the building. for he is a man of great Mr. Young, at the } street, is increasing h lately some of the bes that were ever done | and he will rank with | Mr. Cole, landscape | studies abroad, gives ¢ But I must end my readers will be drawt I have not mentioned ¢ several other picture-g thing about Ball’s W progressing, or of the a Yours,

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on of these works, ; ‘ nd their ind on nd criticism. Nor dig uhold the credit due to ose of the first of those ‘t honorably employed of lifting up the lowly, re time, to give in these of the present prevail. inting, (of which thege e,) and to show what ided objections againgt lent to say here » | not to our taste, Mr, works that he appreej. t, which, in its high f men capable of put. ) illustrate moral ideas, > be a teacher of the ly put upon canvas ¢ ment of his face, shows No generous observer, ild help saying to him. never meant to wear ervice for which the est thanks. We have at too many of our rt only as a beautiful her than for any more - the last exhibition by the general lack which oral aim, justified ug ‘ sentiment is now pre- t that Mr. Gray’s exam- y- Eastman Johnson men; and John Rogers, farvation, to make his the gate of his own ave us in plaster the n which, though it wag rkmanship, no print- a long time had the yrindow for exhibition. Gray for compelling a i from ths .arlors of he most ‘conservative dious society, to look egro, and to say, “ Yes, .’ Ten years ago no - would have risked hig ipt as this to assert the oppressed race. The . (which seems to ese pictures) is break- slave’s ; for we could g at this canvas, that pating that negro, that ‘ipating the artist! JR ARMIES. ng “ Preliminary Re- sickness of the Volun- 862, has been made to oy its actuary, E. B. sions reached by Mr.

nteer army (down to averaged fifty-three a . Forty-four of each se and accident; only er cent.) from wounds y remarkably between In battle, it is safer to by one-third ; so many wounds. But except alf to be an officer, so larded against disease tter exemption is so at on the wliole, only cers die in a hundred, sickness and accident ong the officers, five- Onishing. Yetin the of the Brifish deaths, 100ths of them, were ding accidents. in our army were 21 5; in the winter, 70; e thought to account he summer numbers. en died to the 1,000, e State men, (includ-

nd Virginia,) and 95 and the rate of sick- or at the West, being inst 76 in the Eastern due to the greater ses in marching and ifficulty in securing ovisions, and hospital elessness about com- 1 regiments were 864 ern 892; a number y and sadly reduced. regiment, and 144 of ‘age sick. ay, 1862, shows that recruits, to keep the t a year to make up from service, 14 for accounted for, 50 for all, 229 new recruits | of every thousand us, to keep 500,000 army must consist th, and must receive or a little more than » knowledge of any utes Government to rvice as this. saths in our volun- } with other expe- pears to be about S. army in peace ; is generally in Eng- ) half that of our less than one-third pain ; four and one- | the British army nd one-twenty-fourth ring January, 1855. lish soldiers died so whole army would ‘hs and one week. ealth of our army n is usual among rcumstances a quite \ document. It fur- rithmetic instead of } conjured up by our | it shows that the enough to frighten lliott’s calculations ‘ificant remarks. t officers should be en. Their duties it is not right that the officers. They valuable to their to health and life. and if they are not, on the officers, and ns instantly recall complaints about

«JAN, 22,1863.) THE, INDE PENDENT. - Clothing, food, pay, exposure, hospitals, sanitary and subsistence matters generally. Careful ob- wervers of the course of the war believe that enough of these complaints are well founded to justify the conclusion that while our means for killing the enemy are complete up to the extreme practicable limit of scientific perfection, our means for preserving and restoring the life and health of our own men are shamefully behind the present state of knowledge. Our destructive mach- inery is scientific ; our philanthropic, comparatively barbarian. And this notwithstanding that in these precise points of transportation, supply, and med- icine, our army during the present war has in fact been better organized and cared for than any army in the field ever was. TS ART IN BOSTON. Boston, Jan. 20, 1863. To Tne Ep1r0Ks. or THe INDEPENDENT : Lord Chesterfield, at the beginning of one of his letters, uses the following maxim: “Those kings reign the most secure and the most absolute who reign in the hearts of their people. Their popularity is a better guard than their army, and the affections of their subjects a better pledge of their obedience than their fears.” He applies the rule to private persons, and speaks of the great advantage that fol- lows this practice of acting upon the hearts of people. By common consent, under the foregoing maxim, the art-loving masses of this commercial city have placed the scepter of the king that sways them in the hands of George Inness. Do you remember what Emerson says, in his paper on Culture, about the question of Life in Boston? Read it, (of course you must consider yourself a res- ident,) and see how naturally your thoughts will go to our cherished artist. Have you seen the “ Sign of Promise ?” Do you know Inness ? Having asked these questions of your readers, I propose to give them, as near as I can in so small limit, my opinion of the picture. It is thoroughly the result of inspiration, and proves to the most fastidious observer the complete mastery of the painter. It marks a passage in American Art rarely if ever before attained, and places itself firmly on the same plane that holds Church’s “ Niagara.” Let me pro- voke no comparison between the pictures; neither will suffer by the contact ; for they are both chambers of delight to all who seek them, both beneficent blessings from the pencils of men of genius. This Sign of Promise comes to us after a lifetime of earnest labor, through a deep sense of knowing the highest requirements of Art. A few steps, and I stand before the work of an- other most faithful and painstaking artist. I am giad to introduce Albert F. Bellows of New York. Excellent pictures, my respected friend, every one of them! “Thrice over the River,” I am told, is the suggest- ive title of the series, and we have three scenes in the story of a woman’s life. The first painting, a charming bit of color, holds me completely, for there’s a wee white blossom in it, going to be christened. Oh, the sweet vision of happiness that comes to that family group! Over the river the baby safely went ; over the River of Life, too, (as you may see by the middle picture,) to the time of her wedding. She is surrounded by a joyful party of friends and relatives, and is preparing for her second trip over the river. The last of the series shows a frozen stream, and a funeral procession with all its gloomy paraphernalia. Over the river—for the third and last time—to the waiting grave. “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.” There is something indescribably touching in the picture, especially so to those who have known the agony of these journeys of sorrow. I am forcibly reminded of George Beughton as I study the exquisite finish of this painting, which fact I consider to be no insignificant praise. Hunt, Heade, Gay, Griggs, Wight, Cole, (painters,) Ball, Rogers, and Dexter, (sculptors,) are represented by works on exhibition here. Mr. Hunt by his «Drummer Boy,” a spirited drawing of a ‘‘ war-hero,” half undressed, and with a battle-cry upon his lips. It has been photographed, and the copies ¢re 7 rapidly. Mr. Heade shows one of his charming land- scapes, very tender, and as true to nature as it can possibly be. There is always great purity im the works of Mr. Heade. I know of no artist more con- scientious than he in his endeavor to please the pub- lic. His picturesare gems. Mr. Wight is represented by a figure-piece,“‘ Pomona,” decidedly the best pic- ture that has ever left his easel. A fine portrait of Dr. Homans has just been finished by Mr. W., full of excellent qualities. Look into Williams & Everett's gallery, you that are in Boston ; and you that are out, don’t fail to find it when you come here. A line en- graving in the window of Ticknor & Fields’s store brings me to the pleasant task of saying somewhat about Mr. Marshall, and the engraving that bears his name. I allude to his “ Washington,” by far the best portrait (with the single exception of the great original) that the country knows. Mr. Marshall has placed himself where he can well afford to rest awhile, for his reputation is made. At the Studio Building we meet Rowse, Darley, Ames, Bradford, Gerry, Bbricher, Hodgdon, Ordway, Williams, and others. Mr. Rowse is constantly employed making portraits in crayon. A correct, very masterly head of George W. Curtis has just left his studio, the best (it seems to me) that has ever been made of the author. Mr. Darley is hard at work upon a battle-piece. I have heard it most enthusiastically spoken of. You may be certain it is perfect, for Darley has a way of doing perfect things. Mr. Ames has painted some fine por- traits lately. I do not sce that he falls off in the least from his greatness of former years. Mr. Ordway is about opening a photograph estab- lishment in the building. Itis certain to be a success, for he is a man of great experience as a painter. Mr. Young, at the Mercantile Building, Summer street, is increasing his reputation. I have seen lately some of the best portraits in the way of color that were ever done in Boston. 3B. LIGHTHILL, M.D., New York. 4 2. LIGHTHILL, M.D., Boston. ADDITIONAL TESTIMONIALS. A DEAF MUTE RESTORED TO HEARING. My son, now 12 years of age, has been deaf ani dumb, and a pupil of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum in this city for the past twoyears. Dr. Lighthill has succeeded in restoring his hear- ing to such a degree thathe is now able to learn to speak with facility. The success which the Doctor has had in this case has scarcely a parallel, and deserves to be extensively known by the public. Gasaret LowENnstTEIN, No. 175 Spring st. New York, Aug. 15, 1862. METROPOLITAN Hore, Nzw Yors, Aug. 20, 1862. Dr. Lighthill has succeeded in restoring my hearing, which was considerably impaired, and has also removed the noises in my head, which had incessantly annoyed me. As Iam a resident of New Orleans, and a stranger in the city, intending to stay but a short time longer, I make refer- ence to Messrs. Sturges, Bennet & Co., No. 125 Front street, and to Mr, J. E. Fisher, No, 29 Park row, to whom I am well known, and who are familiar with the circumstances of my case. G. Dg Castzo. CATARRH CURED. From Rev. P. 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I hereby certify that I have suffered during many years from trouble in hearing ; one ear at last became entirely deaf, and the’other so bad as to render conversation very difficult. I applied to Dr. Lighthill of No. 34 St. Mark’s place, who ina short time and without pain restored to me the use of my ears, so that I can now hear perfectly well. J. Bisco, No. 158 East Twenty-third street. P, R. RussELu.

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= * 6 i % , - WOT . DEAD." BY MARY OLEMMER AMBS, ‘Rees art not'dead, yet when I go to seek thee, } find thee not where thou wert wont to be, Aad, listening, hear the eadenced melody -_@f thy low voice, so marvelous to me, No more, no more } ent character from those which he actually per- | formed. We find that, in order to prove his divine ] authority, hie fed, on different occasions, some thousands of hungry men, women, and children with a few loaves and fishes; but it would have been just as convincing @ proof of his superhuman power, if, instead of this, he had, by a word, blasted the fruits and harvests of the land, as he on one solitary occasion, for most instructive purpose, superhuman power by miracles of a very differ- hall I, too, call thee dead? | Shall I, too, cry Threugh the void silence as I moan for thee ? Bell me, wy Beautiful, why didst thou die ? Why rise to regions where we cannot see, Who love thee—why ? ‘When next I stand in the familiar room, And, half expectant by the vacant chair, hay back the curtains in their purple gloom, To touch the golden shadow of thy hair, Thou wilt be there. Yet blind me not with thy seraphie face, Nor seeking-fingers thrill with spirit touch 5 Fer I am mortal, and thine angel grace, In its beatitude, would be too much To.see, and live. Show me thy mortal face—the sweet, sweet face, That I must love for ever—strong to bless, Drawing all souls toward thee with the power Of its unfathomable tenderness— Those eyes, those eyes ! Qb, when Murillo painted Mary's faee, Through her mysterious, Madonna eyes Bear life outflowed in the transfiguring grace @f love, that in the soul of woman lies : *Twas thee he saw. The earth {is fair, oh, lovelier, fairer far To-all-divining sight like thine, unsealed Wo spiritual meanings. Yonder star, Yon blade of grass, its mystcry hath revealed To thee, to thee! Thy soul was one with Nature's. Every vein, That fed the pulses of her mighty heart, Flowed back to thine, with thrill of blies or pain ; Her ehanging moods made smiles or tears to start In thy dark eyes. : Bew when the days fade, when the mornings dawn ; When the young Springs their tender robes shall make, 4&ad murmurots waves moan of 2 dear votes gone, A sweeter meaning for thy gentle sake, a The world will take. . Gh, now I mind me of 4 buried June, . When we, above the sad, sonorous sea, Bat side by side, and thy dap gaze drank in A deeper life from ite infinity; It spake with thee. You murmured, gazing on the crowning woods, “ Tn such an air, 2nd under such a sky, Balled by the rhythm of eternal floods, *Ewould be so hoty and s0 sweet to die, To die, and live.” Feaw the Juminous lifting of your eyes, And trembled, lest upon the scented sward, Waiting to bear away my precious prize, Rtecd the invisible angel of the Lord, All vailed to me. Mew, ae I wander from my native North, Thow to full liberty of life hath paseed ; The Emencipating Hand hath led thee forth ; Eafranchised spirit, thon art free, at last, No longer bound ! Pheu art not dead! Why should I go to seek thee, A Presence, and a Power, I feel thee nigh; Half unaware I turn as if to greet thee, I know thee near. * To the memory of Almina Cary Swift, who, Dec. 1, 1842, entered into the Fullness of Lite, THE MIRACLES OF CHRIST IN THEIR MORAL CHARACTER. BY REV. J. F. OHL, RECTOR OF THB EPISCOPAL GHURCH AT BROWNSVILLE, PA. We rightly regard the Christian miracles as attesting the superhuman power of Him by whom they were wrought. The“ signs and wonders” of which we read in. the Gospels, were wrought by eur Savior in order to substantiate his claims to the Messiahship. They proved that he was a “teacher come from God,” sinco it was evident that they could have been wrought by no one upon whom the power of God did not rest. But our Savior’s miracles were doubtless de- signed as something beyond, and perhaps more Important than, a manifestation of power. They pessese a moral character, failing to note which, ‘we deprive ourselves of some of the most comfort- img assurances, anywhero affordod, of God’s good- will toward us. The learned Dean Trench tells us, in the intro- duetion to his “ Notes on the Miracles,” of a ro- markable religious romance of the earliest Chris- tian times, in which Peter is represented as draw- ing “a contrast betwoen the miracles of Christ and those alleged by the followers of Simon Ma- gus to have been wrought by him.” “ What Profit, what significance,” he (Peter) asks, “ was there in his dogs, of brass or stone, that barked, his talking statues, his flights through the air, his transformations of himself, now into a serpent, mow into a goat, his putting on of two facos, his rolling of himself unhurt upon burning coals, aad the like? which, even if he had done, the works pessessed no meaning; they stood in relation to nething ; they were not, what each truc miracle is atways, more or less, redemptive acts; in othor ‘words, works not merely of power but of grace, each one an index and a prophecy of the inner work of man’s deliverance, which it accompanies: and helps forward.” As with the pretended miraclos of Simon Magus, go it is with most of those attributed to other so- ealled “ wonder-workers” that have, from time te time, appeared ; we fail to discern in them any- @hing like a moral character ; had they been actu- ally wrought, they weuld have been insignificant, mtterly without meaning, execpt as evidences of extraordinary power. But not so with the mira- @les wrought by Christ. @ur Lord came into the world as a Savior from the pewer and condomnatien of sin. So we are texght in his own words ; so we are taught no less Piainly by the miracles which he wrought. Let ws note this fact. 1. The traditions of almost all nations point back to a “ golden age” in the world’s history ; an age of happiness, in which but few, if any, of the iis which constitute the burden of our humaa life were known. The Bible gives the only veritable account of this golden age, in its deseription of the Seappy primeval condition of the parents of our yace, We aro plainly taught that famine, poverty, the painfulness of manual labor, were introduced ‘into the world by sin; and therefore it is that in ‘he miracles of feeding the five thousand with five leaves and two fishes we see Jesus imi himself the victor over sin. All Na gt _Vimg was introduced into the world by sin; there- fore, the cleansing of the leper, the restoring of ‘the sick, the giving sight to the blind—anl those proclaim the Savior’s power over sin. The death ‘ef the body, we are taught, is one of the effects of the transgression of our first parents ; theroforo, "by. raising. the son of the widow of Nain, and by a ‘Lazarus from the grave, Jesus declarod ’ ‘more emphatically than by words, the - Vanquisher of the power of death, that is, of sin. %. Again, our Lord might have manifested his tnd commonest of-our daily duties, we may have, ~He, too, was a believer. blasted the barren fig-tree. To show that the winds and waves were under his control, he once, by his “ Peace, be still,” quelled the tempest on the Sea of Galilee ; but he could as well have shown his power over tho forces of nature, by causing storms and destructive tempests to arise. He farther manifested his power by healing the sick ; but the manifestation of power would have been equally striking had he, instead, instantly smitten down his enemies with fever or palsy. He raised the ruler’s daughter, and the widow’s son, and Lazarus from the dead, when he might have equally shown that the issues of life and death were in his hands, by smiting down blasphemous Seribes and Pharisees, by a mere whispered word, into the grave. Our Savior’s miracles are in themselves a revelation of the character of God— of his disposition toward us, his children. We learn from the words of Jesus that God is a being of goodness and mercy. We learn the samo great truth more strikingly, if possible, from his works. When we see our divine Lord going out among the poor, and afilicted, and sorrowing, healing the sick, binding up the broken hearts, we need no ether assurance, we can have none stronger, that “God is Love ” And that “beginning of miracles,” the turning the water into wine, has surely a moral character, and ought to teach us something beyond the mo¢é power of Jesus. If,as we are told, the walls of an ancient heathen theater resounded with ap- plause when one uttered the sentiment, “I am a mean; and therefore am indifferent to nothing which concerns the welfare 6f man,” how ouzht our hearts te thrill within us when we learn from thie miracle at Cana in Galilee that the Lord of heaven and earth, in his sinless humanity, was not indifferent to the common events of this human life of ours! With what a new and sanstified characterdoes this fact clothe the common course of earthly joys and sorrows! It teaches us that not.only in acts of worship, but in the humblest if we will but seek it, our Savior’s watchful, ever- present sympathy. THE HEAVY CROSS. . I was a gay, dissolute young man. I had four eompanions, apprentices like myself, who roomed with me st my boarding-house. They were jolly, worldly-minded fellows, of corrupted tastes and irregular habits. A revival was progressing in one of the church- es of the town. I attended the meetings, and embraced religion. One night, as I was returning from the evening meeting, contemplating God’s goodness and rejoic- ing in his love, I was suddenly impressed that I must pray with my boarding-house companions. No religious requirement could have been more unwelcome. I was greatly distressed in mind. On reacaing my boarding-place, my sense of duty became more imperative. I resolved again and again to yield, but the fear of ridicule as often unsettled my resolution. I retired without prayer. I eould not sleep. A feeling of utter desertion seized me; my conscience tortured me like a flame, and the reflection how intolerable such misery would be throughout eternity appalled me. Morning came, ushering in a serene October dey. >I went to my employment, realizing the sentiment of Newton: 4 “ Bow tedious and tasteless the hours, When Jesus no longer I see.” I attended conference-meeting in the evening, and there, after a great struggle, resolved to yield to my conviction of duty. I returned to my board- ing-place with.a light heart, enjoying a sweet sense of nearness to God. I found my companions gayly chatting over a social game. I greeted them cordially, and said: “ God, for Jesus Christ’s sake, has forgiven my sins, and I feel it my duty to pray with you to- night.” They sat in silent astonishment for a few mo- ments, when cne replied derisively, “ Pray on, brother.” I knelt, my heart throbbing violently and my eyes wet with tears. My petition at first was broken and discursive, but I soon enjoyed graat spiritual freedom—the love of God filled my soul, and language came freely. My companions fre- quently uttered mock “ amens” and “ hallelujahs.” I arose, filled with a deep, settled, perfect peace. My apprenticeship ended, and I parted from my companions, whose dissolute course was wn- changed. Years passed, and I lost all trace of them. I became a clergyman, and traveled much, preaching to destitutechurches. I had an appoint- ment to preach to a newly orginized church, which, I learned, had been gathered by a very active and humble Christian. I was invited to his house. He was one of my fellow-apprentices. His first words, as we became known to each other, were— “ The prayer that you made in our boarding- house chamber that night has been the means of saving me from ruin, here and hereafter. The conviction I then received never left me.” I learned from: him the residence of another of my companions. I shortly after made him a visit. After speaking of his religious comforts, he reverted to my prayer at our boarding-house, and said, “ To that, under the blessing of God, am I in- debted for the conversion of my soul.” I now earnestly desired to find my third com- parion, about whom I could learn nothing. I expected to hear from him a like joyful testimony. Not long since I stopped at a dilapidated cottage, and was received by a ragged, filthy man, whose health and intellect had evidently been impaired by the bowl. I gave him my name—he started. ae through its supreme military authority. ifth, The ownership of slaves is to be distin- ished from the right to own slaves. Sixth, e former was not one of the constitutional re- lations which bound this people, and therefore, to the ownership of slaves will not render @ restoration of the Union, under the Constitution as it is, impossible, any more than the destruction of the ownership of horses will have that effect. Seventh, The military power, acting through emancipation, does not pretend to destroy the legal right to own slaves, and is not, therefore, obnox- ious to the charge of annulling or repealing: state laws. Eighth, It is not against the laws of war to do a necessary act, even though it is possible, or in extreme cases of necessity even probable, that some unhappy consequences may come to inno- cent persons. Ninth, It is by no means a neces- sary consequence of freeing slaves that harm shall come to non-combatants and innocents ; and such accidental result, should it ensue, will be charge- able solely upon the enemy who might have averted it. Tenth, In short, the right to free all ersons held as slaves in rebellious states, on the st of January, 1863, is a valid war power; itis one necessary to be exercised ; and its exercise is not forbidden by the Constitution or the laws of war. MY CONTRABAND. I nave a new contraband in the kitchen ; afresh result of the Emancipation Act. It was a rainy day when our Harry piloted Jenny down. I shall not soon forget her appearance as I saw her all dripping wet, with one bag of clothes on her tur- baned head, and another undey her arm, walking fast, directly behind Harry. She came reund to the kitchen door, and I teldher to dome in an warm her feet, and put on a pair of dry shoos. She hung back and said, “Hav’n’t you got any kitchen ?” I replied, “ This is the kitchen.” “ Haint you got no quarters ?” she asked. She was filled with amazement at all she saw ia the kitchen: a coal fire and the process of pumping water at the sink. That she could pour water in the sink and have it run out of itself, fairly bewildered her. She stooped down and examined the arrangement with the greatest in- terest. She had been in camp but one night, and scemod like an adult just born into the world. She laughed continually, and said she “ felt like a bird just let out of its cage.” I asked her how sho came away. She said three Union soldiers came after them on the Ist of January, and told the slaves they were free, and not to work for their master any more. Her master, she said, owned over a hundred slaves, and a while ago he sent all but seventeen down South. She is from near Fredericksburg. “ Did they try to keep you, or did they go after you, the morning you came away ?” “T didn’t look back to see,” she replied, “ but ran as fast as I could. Oh! they will sfarve down there! All the crops are in de field, and they will have nobody to harvest them, and de soldiers are husking de corn, and helping them- selves to everything.” “ How do the white folks get along with it ?” I asked. “They can’t do nothin’,” she replied. “ They just goes into de house and shuts themselves in. Why, the Union soldiers lets us blacks go any- where we please, and won’t let de whites go no- where without passes. What is calico a yard up here?” she asked. “Down South it’s a dollar and a half a yard, and de white ladies are wear- in’ loom cloth, and some of de white folk’s chil- len have to go barefoot. Chillen’s shocs are nine and ten dollars a pair! Do you have any salt up here? Down there they can’t get none short of $100 asack.” (i think she rather enlarges upon the facts.) She looked out the window and exéfaimed, “ Why, what a big place this is! I don’t believe but what it’s as big as Richmond! How can you sleep nights with such a noise ?” In the evening she called for an “ A B C book,” and learned to spell cat before she went to bed. She said “ she didn’t know no more dan any fool.” When I weut to prepare her bed, she said she*had brought a tick with her and two spreads, but I told her I would furnish her with a bed, and with some more bedclothos, as the spreads turned out to be thin cotton ones, without any lining or wadding whatever—just patchwork run together, though she said it was as much as she ever had on her bed in the coldest weather. - I handed her some sheets. “T don’t know nothing about them things,” she said, and I had to force them upon her, and told her I was going to make her civilized. In the morning I asked her if she slept well. ““Oh, I never slept so nice in my life,” sho re- lied. ' Jenny is twenty-three years of ago, and she says her master valued her at $1,500. Washington is filling up with contrabands; they are coming at the rate of 400a weck. But there need be no fear of the “ North being over- run with them.” Jenny complains that the eli- mate even here in Washington “seems cold to her ;” she says they all want to go back when the war is over, and live in their old homes, and have their little gardens. Hovsewire. Wasnrineton Crry. N A FRENCHMAN'S PRAYERS. Wuitz loitering among the book-stands of Paris two or three years ago, I espied a beautiful edition of Le Paradis de ? Ame Chrétienne, and bought a copy. The following universal prayer—* Oraison uniwerselle pour tout ce gui concerne le salut "—is so replete with doctrinal wisdom, devotional ex- cellence, and artistic beauty, that I have ventured to offer your readers a translation of it. Only the clause concerning self-atonement, and perhaps another, [@ mériter le salut,] which I have rea- dered, somewhat euphemistically, “ acquire a title to salvation,” could offend the sternost Protestant. M. A. M, ANDOVER THROLOGIOAL Sextnanr, Jan. 12. O God, I believe in thee, strengthen my faith ; I hope in thee, assure my hope ; I love thee, re- He at once made himself known to me as my old friend. I introduced the subject of religion, aud asked him if he remembered my prayer. “Remember it?” he replied, “yes! yes! It haunted me for years ; and if I had yielded to the impressions it made upon me, I should not have been the poor, miserable drunkard I am now.” —The above sketch—the outlines of which are taken from the experience of a humble pistor— forcibly illustrates the impertance of yielding to the Holy Spirit. The occasions on which Chris- tian effort can be made most successfully are known to him alone who sces the hearts of men. Special direction of the Spirit is ofteh attended by trial, but it ultimately brings to the obedient Christian the richest reward. H. B. THE WAR POWER. . Grosvenor P. Lowrey, Esq., of the New York Ber, has published an able answer to the sophis- tieal pamphlet of Judge Curtis on the War Power. His conclusions are tersely and summarily stated as follows: “First, Abraham Lincoln, as Commander-in- chief in time of war, embodies all the executive war powersof the nation. Second, These powers are extra-constitutional, having their origin in the Hature'ef things, and are i as an estab- hed ode by all civilized nations. Third, cipal among theni, is the right to end war and obtain security for the future, by destroying the petal og sn Fourth, The Proctamation in question is intended to have that effect, and is considered necessary to that end by the nation, double my love; I repent of my sin, deepen my repentance. I adore thee as my first cause, I desire thee as my final end, I give thee thanks as my perpetaal benefactor, and I call upon thee as my sovereign defender. My God, be pleased to rule me by thy wisdom, to restrain me by thy justice, to comfort me by thy mercy, and to protect me by thy power. I dedicate to thee my thoughts, my words, my decds, my sufferings. Lord, I choose that which thou choosest, becausé thou choosest it, as thou choosest it, and as far as thou choosest it. ’ I pray thee to enlighten my understanding, to kindle my will, to purify my body, and to sanctify my soul. Dispose me, O my God, to atone for my offenses, to subdue my temptations, to regulate my passions, and to practice the virtues. Fill my heart with gratitude for thy kindnesses, with hatred for my eins, with fervent regard for my neigMbor, and with contempt for the world. 0 Lord, may I remember to be respectful to my superiors, benevolent to my inferiors, faithful to my friends, and indulgent to my enemies. Aid me to overcome voluptuousness by aus- terity, avarice by almsgiving, anger by mildness, and lukewarmness by devotion. O God, make me Sagacious in my enterprises, courageous amid dangers, patient amid misfor- has ra modest amid successes, y I never become inattentive to intemperate at my meals, or careless maybe. ness. THE! (INDEPENDENT. 4 judgment, escape perdition, and at last .secure Lord, endow me with a good conscience, an in- ward purity, an edifying conversation, and a well- ordered behavior. May I apply myself without ceasing to bring nature into subjection, to co-operate with graco, to discharge every duty, and acquire a title to sal- vation. a Teach me, O my God, how insignificant is earth, how glorious is heaven, how short is time, and how long is eternity. May I prepare for death, stand in awe of thy paradise—through the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Che Children’s Column. SKATING. HINTS FOR YOUNG FOLKS. Frozen up in the bosom of this winter’s ice, there are already a great many secrets concerning the first efforts, of skaters; and in the spring, likely as not, if we could understand the babbling waters as they leap joyously over the stones, after their long winter’s confinement, we would hear them laughing out, “ bumped noses,” “ seraped knuckles,” “ frosted feet,” “ black and biae knees,” and “aching bones.” But whats: that? Who would give up the fun of #kating for such little mishaps as these? »-* | A few time};hints, however, may enable us to prexest-the ice from having so much to babble about in the spring. : In the first place, learn to stand upon your skates, or even to walk about the room with them, before you venture upon the ice; or, better still, obtain, if practicable, a pair of the parlor or roller- skates, and practice with them at least an hour a day. This latter kind are admirable, for three reasons. Firstly, they save time, which, ih our mild winters, is important, sinee one cannot afford to waste the comparatively few chances of skating in learning to do, upon the ice, that which may s0 easily be acquired at home. Secondly, they save jealth; for it is not the expert skaters who catch cold, but the novices, who stand shiv- ering, vainly trying to rest their aching ankles. And, lastly, they save bones; for there is not the slightest danger of accident with the rollers, pro- vided they are carefully used. But to return. I would advise beginners, in selecting ice-skates, to commence with slightly grooved runners, as the smooth kind, though best adapted for proficient zkaters, are somewhat din- gerous at first. They may be readily adopt: after the rudiments are acquired, and any cutler will grind a pair of grooved runners into flat ones for 12% cents. A stout boot should be worn, laced high on the ankle, and furnished with a heel capable of ad- miiting the heel-peg, if required. The sole of the tkate should be of the same length as the shoe, end all superfluous strapping should be avoided, as it prevents circulation, and the benumbed foot may be frozen before the skaterisaware. A light stick or pole held in the hand will be found useful at first, but the sooner it can be dispensed with, the better. Choose ice which has been slightly roughened by skaters, and begin fearlessly but not in a hurry. Deliberation will insure grace, but speed must be aitained by practice. Keep the feet near together; the ankle of the right foot firm, the knee bent, and the body inclined slightly, throwing its weight on the forward foot at starting. In striking out, the left foot should start at an angle of 60° from the center of the right, which, in turn, must strike out from the left at the same angle in an opposite direction. Each stroke should be slightly curved, and as ong as possible, as the great aim in skating is, while moving, to balance the body on one foot at a time. Care must be taken to’strike out evenly and equally with cach foot, or a jerking and awkward motion will bo acquired. The arms should not be swung, but gently raised, alternately with the feet, and even then as imperceptibly as possible. Some of the best skaters keep the arms folded in front of the body. These directions will apply for either “ rollers” or skates. We do not believe that any moro are necessary ; for after the feat of skating at all is accomplished, the best instructors in the world are smooth ice, a good pair of skates, and the at- traction of gravitation. No exercise can be more delightful, or, if sensi- bly indulged in, more healthful than skating, or better calculated to make young America broad- chested and strong-legged, and to turn the girl, phantoms of the day into graceful, rosy, and well- developed women. It is the abuse and not the use of the art which has served to create a preju- dice against it in the minds of many parents and guardians. The Duteh are a solid, practical people, cer- tainly neither given to recklessness nor troubled with national ill health, and «hey, one and all, are skaters. From time immemorial skating has been the universal winter pastime of the Hollanders ; and young and old, rich and poor, grave and gay, alike skim over the frozen eanals which intersoct the country. Children skate to school, peasants to market with their merchandise on their head-, grave business men to their daily pursuits, clergy- men to their churches, and solemn doctors to their expectant patients. Acvording te a modern writer, in Friesland it is not unusual for a person to skate for a long time at the rate of fifteen miles an hour. The same writer-tells us that at a skat- ing race at Groningen in 1901, two young women won the prize, having accomplished a distance of thirty miles in two hours. “In England,” he adds, “ some very skillful and swift skaters have figured. One of the most surprising feats on record is that of a Lincolnshire man who, in the year 1821, for a wager of one hundred guineas, skated one mile in three minutes and two seconds —a rate of speed almost equaling that of a race- horse.” We need not, however, turn to Europe for in- stances of fine skating. We have had our own famous skaters here, both before and since the time when the Boston boys complained to General Howe that his soldiery were ruining their ponds and spoiling their fun. Only last winter a fragile young girl of Boston electrified the skating world by the marvelous feats which she performed in the fullness of her enjoyment, quite unconscious of the wondering eyes which were following her every motion. On the Newark meadows, where thousands of enjoymcnt-seekers assemble during the skating season, a coatless and almost hatless colored boy has for the two past winters carried off the palm of excellence even in the midst of profeesed and distinguished skaters. But—to go back to the “ hints” with which we were occupied when this digression slipped in— before closing, I would like to suggest a few pre- | cautions which are indispensable to a rational enjoyment of the sport. Ist. Be careful not to have your skate-straps too long, for they are apt to slip down, after awhile, and in that case will inevitably get under the runners, and tell the ice one of those seercts of which we were speaking. é; 2d. Dress warmly. Boys’ elothes generally afford ample protection from the cold ; but girls should never go ‘upon the ice without wearing Turkish or gymnasium trowsers. 3d. Never kneel or sit upon the ice, especially when warmed by exereise, without using a cushion or some intervening substance by way of protec- tion. : 4th. Keep your mouth dlosed as much as pos- sible while in motion, breathing through the nose only ” 5th. Do not sit down immediately after skating = es ~- without having an extra garment to throw abo your shoulders. ‘ 6th. If you are to ride home, before startin walk about for a few moments after your skates are off. When the distance is not too great, how- ever, walking is always preferable on such 0c- easions to riding. 7th. Don’t attempt to appear brave, at the cx- pense of common sense, by venturing upon thin ice, or near dangerous or suspicious-looking air- holes. 8th, and lastly. Don’t go skating at all, when- ever by so doing you neglect any home or school duty ; for that is “ penny wise and pound foolish” in the happiness line,as you will one of these days find out to your heart’s content. M. E. D. EXTRAORDINARY CLOCK-WORK. Amonost the most extraordinary pieces of modern clock-work are those at Strasburg and Lyons, which are very eminent for the richness of their furniture and the variety of their motions and figures. In the former, aceek claps his wings and proclaims the hour, whilst an angel opens a docr and salutes the Virgin, and the Holy Spirit descends on her. In the latter, two horsemen en- counter aud beat the hour on each other: 3 door opens, and there appears on the theaier a Virgin, with the child Jesus in her arms; the Magi, marching in order, prosent their gifts—two trum- peters sounding all the time to proclaim the pro- cession. : These, however, were excelled by two which were made by English artists, about a quarter of @ century ago, and sent as a present from the East India Company to the Emperor of China. These clocks were in the form of chariots, in which a lady, in a fine attitude, was placed, leaning her right hand upon a part of the chariot. Under- neath, a clock of curious workmanship, little larger then a shilling, struck, repeated, and went cight days. Upon the lady’s finger sat a bird, finely modeled, and set with diamonds and rubies, with its wings expanded in a flying posture, and which actually fluttered for a considerable time on touch- ing a diamond button below it. The body of the bird (which contained part of the wheels, which, in a manner, geve life to it) was not the size of the sixteenth partof aninch. The lady held in her hand a gold tube, not much thicker than a large pin, on the top of which was a small round box, to which a circular ornament, sect with diamonds, not larger than a sixpence, was fixed, which went round nearly three hours in a constant, regular motion. Over the lady’s head, supported by a small fluted pillar, no bigger than a quill, were two umbrellas. Under the la-ger a2 bell was fixed, at a considerable distance from the clock, and seemed to have no connection with it; but from it a communication was secretly conveyed to a hemmer, which regularly struck the hour, and repeztcd the same at pleasure, by touching a dia- mond button fixed to the clock below. At the feot of the lady was a gold dog, before which, from the pcint of the chariot, were two birds fixed on spiral wings. The wings and feathers were set witli stcnes of various colors, and appeared as if flying away with the chariot, which, from another secret motiop, was contrived to run in a straight, circu- Icr, or any other direction. A boy, that laid hold of the chariot behind, seemed also to push it for- ward. Above the umbrella were flowers and ornemonts of precious stones, and it terminated with a flying dragon, set in the same manner. The whole was of gold, most curiously executed, and embellished with rubies and pearls. ‘ ALL I8 FOR THE BEST. AN EASTERN STORY. Raps: Axiso, compelled by violent persecution to quit his native land, wandered over barren wastes and dreary deserts. His whole equipage consisted of a lamp, which he used to light at night in order to study the law; a cock, which served him instead of a watch, to announce to him the rising dawn; and an ass, on which he rode. The sun was gradually sinking beneath the horizon, night was fast approaching, and the poor wanderer knew not where to shelter his head, or where to rest his weary limbs. Fatigued, and almost exhausted, he came at last near to a vil- lage. He was glad to find it inhabited, thinking where human beings dwelt, there dwelt also humanity and compassion ; but he was mistaken. He asked for a2 night’s lodging; it was refused. Not one of the inhospitable inhabitants would ac- commodate him; he was therefore oblized to seek shelter in a neighboring wood. “It is hard, very hard,” said he, “ not to find a hospitable roof to protect me against the inclem- ency of the weather; but God is just, and what- ever he does is for the best.” He seated himse!f beneath a tree, lighted his lamp, and began to read the law. He had searcely read a chapter, when a violent storm ex- tinguished his light.” “ Wheat!” exclaimed he, “mnst I not be per- mitted even to pursue my favorite study? But God is just, and whatever he does is for the best.” He stretched himself on the bare carth, willing, if possible, to have a few hours’ sleep. He had hardly cloced his eyes, when a fierce wolf came and killed the cock. “What new misfortune is this?” ejaculated the astonished Akibo. “ My companion is gone! Whe, then, will henceforth awaken me to the study of the law? But God is just; he knows besi what is good for us poor mortals.” fearcely had he finished the sentence, when a terrible lion came and devoured the ass. “What is to be done now?” exclaimed tho lonely wanderer. “My lamp and my cock are gone; my poor ase too is gone—allis gone! But, praised be the Lord, whatever ho does is for the best.” He passed a sleepless night, and early in the morning went to the village to see whether ho could procure a horse or any beast of burden to enable him to pursue his joursey; but what was his surprise not to find a single person alive! It appears that a band of robbers had entered the village during the night, murdered its inhab- itants, and plundered their houses. As soon as Akibo had sufficiently recovered from the amaze- ment into which this wonderful occurrence had thrown him, he lifted up his voice, and ex- claimed : “Thou Great God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, now I know by experience that poor mortal men are short-sighted and blind, often con- sidering as evils what is intended for their pre- servation. But thou alone art just and kind and merciful. Had not the hard-hearted people driven me, by their inhospitality, from the vil- lage, I should assuredly have shared their fate. Had not the wind extinguished my lamp, the rob- bers would have been drawn to the spot, and have murdered me. I perceive, also, that it was thy mercy which deprived me of my two com- panions, that they might not, by their noiee, give notice: to the banditti, and tell them where I was teking my rest. Praised be thy name for ever and ever.” A PRAYER BY KOSSUTH. Tre following prayer wag offered by Kossuth while kneeling amid the multitude at the grave of the Magyar heroes who fell in the battle of Ra- noylna, and was originally published in The Op- position, a journal of Pesth : “ Almighty Lord! God of the warriors of Arpad! Look down from thy stately throne upon the im- pioring servant from whose lips the prayer of millions ascends thy heaven, praising the un- searchable power of thine omnipotence. O God, over me shines thy sun, and beneath me repose the relies of my fallen heroie brethren; aboye my head the sky is: blue, and under my feet the earth is dyed red with the holy blood of the chil- dren of our ancestors. Let the animating beams of the sun fall here, that lowers may spring up from the blood, so that these huils of d beings may not molder unadorned. God of our fathers and God of the nations! hear and bless the voice of our Father of our fathers! mighty. over rayripde! earth, and’ the ! fro bones sollanioe ie das Cae ot oa ihlew [FAN. 22, 1863. their dust with thy grace, that the ashes of my fallen heroic brethren may rest in pease! Leave us-not, great God of battles! In the holy name of tht nations, praised be thy omnipotence. Amen,” Selections. PAINTING. Savior, beneath thy yoke My wayward heart doth pine, All unaccustomed to the stroke Of love divine ; Thy chastisements, my God, are hard to bear, Thy cross is heavy for frail flesh to wear. “ Perishing child of clay! Thy sighing I have heard! Long have I marked thine evil way, How thou hast err’d ; Yet fear not—by my own most holy name, I will shed healing through thy sin-sick frame. Praise to thee, gracious Lord ! I fain would be at rest ; Oh, now fulfill thy faithful word, And make me blest : My soul would lay her heavy burden down, And take with joyfulness the promised crown. “ Stay, thou impatient child! There is much first to do; Thy heart, so long by sin defiled, I must renew: Thy will must here be taught to bend to mine, Or the swect peace of heaven can ne’er be thine } Yea, Lord, but thon canst soon Perfect Thy work in me, Till, like the pure calm summer moon, I shine by Thee ; A moment shine, that ali Thy power may trace, Then pass in stillness to my heavenly place! “ Ah, coward soul! confess Thou shrinkest from my cure ; Thou tremblest at the sharp distreas Thou-must endare ; The foes on every hand for war array’d, The thorny path in tribulation laid. “ The process slow or years, The discipline of life, Of outward woes and secret tears, Sickness and strife ; The idols taken from thee, one by one, Till thou canst dare to live with uz alone. “Some gentle souls there are, Who yield unto my love, Whom, ripening fast beneath my care, I scon remove ; Put thou stiffnecked art, and hard to rule, He Thou must stay longer in Atiliction’s school! BARRENNESS OF PALESTINE Dr. Uncer. the well-known naturalist of Vienna, has published an account of the scientific rgsult of two journeys which he undertook in 1353 and 1860 into Greece and the Tonian Islands. He devoted himself entirely to the botany of the country through which he passed, including an inquiry into the fossil Flora of Eubaa. The dis- tinctive characters of the most remarkable new species that he found are delineated by the system of nature-printing which is a good deal used on the Continent. He closes the work with an in- teresting chapter on the question whether, from a hysical point of view, there is in Greece and the Bast a capacity for returning to its ancient pros- perity. By a full comparison of ancient accounts with present facts, he arrives at the conclusion that there has been no essential change in the physical condition of the country. But there is a very scrious accidental change. So far as the mere forces of nature go, there is nothing to hinder Greece, Palestine, and Asia Minor from returning to their old fertility. It has been destroyed by man, and the wholesale destruction of the woods has been the sole cause of the barrenness with which those countries have been smitten. The vast wood-fires, kindled by the hordes of invaders who, in the course of centuries, have followed each other upon that soil, partly by the shepherds, to gain fresh pastures, have gradually deprived the climate of its moisture, and the ground of its fertility. The iastrament by which-+the barren- ness of those regions is perpetuated is still more insignificant than its original cause. It is. the goat. ‘The ordinary operations of nature would, in the course of time, restore the woods that have been destroyed but for the large number of goats the scanty population maintains. These have no pasture to live on in summer, for the arid climate drieg*it up, and they consequently eat off the shoots of trees just springing out of the ground. But if, by the operation of any causes, the woods were ever suffered to grow again, Dr. Unger’s view is that fertility would return, and the old prosperity of the East would be restored. GOLD IN THE FIRE. {We make the following extract from a sermon by Rev. F, G. Clark of New York, published with the abeve title,—Eps, INDEPENDENT.) Let us be patient, friends, death is a good ac- countant. He will visitallinduetime. Weneed not vex ourselves at God’s delays, and say too often, “How long, O Lord?” He puts a spade into the hand of great iniquitics, and makes them dig their own grave. We can afford to wait, and waiting will be easy if only we are in sympathy with God. Let us climb into the cleft of great principles, and we shall be sheltered there until the storm is past. I school myself to patience. I see no sign of a speedy end of our troubles. _ But this only strengthens my confidence that God will not slight his work, since he is slow to finish it. The retributions now falling due are rising like a tide, and running into all the coves and fissures of socicty. Our landis more and more finding out what God means. England may begin to remem- ber by-and-by. She is suffering fearfully already. Alas for her working people, starving by hundreds of thousands! God is jusi. Nations must re- member their sins. We seem very far from the end. Our temper is not chastened enough. Our conscience is only beginning to wake. The tongue of confession is only begioning to speak. And yet the past.year has been one of wonderful prog- ress in the direction of truth. Heretofore we have acted the part of the Spartan boy, who concealed the stolen fox under his cloak, and suffered him to tear out his bowels, rather than disclose the theft. We have begun to open our cloak. Wo are finding out what the war is for. We meant not to see it. It was only a rebellion, without an idea. We begin to believe that Mr. Stephens, and Dr. Thornwell, and Dr. Palmer, and a united South, know what the war is about. They say one thing. They mean nothingelse. The Rich- mond Examiner comprises it all in four lines: “The war originated and is carried on in great part for the defense of the slaveholder in his prop- erty, rights, and the perpetuation of the-institu- tion.” This is light on our darkness, because truth and candor are potent to hasten the dawn of righteousness. It is easy to see the progress of conviction. One body after another, one periodi- eal after another, which would not mention the subject, now fully admit and declare the one idea of this rebellion. They are ready now to say that God is calling us to put away the sin which threatens our extinction. I believe there can be but very few candid persons in our nation. who doubt the statement of Mr. Gilmer, in the State Convention of North Carolina, that “the slavery question is the cause of this war,and that we shall never have peace uatil a gradual emancipation measure is adopted.” : This is true. Buta deepertruth remains. We are on trial at the bar of divine Providence, on the question of duty and kindness to the poor. Some of our free states are proving on their statute- books that they have yet @ great lesson to learn. With all our boasted pity for the African, we are not prepared to deal kindly by him. And it may prove a long and painful journey for us through the wilderness of God’s discipline, before we are willing to deal justly and to love merey. It would be interesting to gather from- current literature the valuable lessons which we are learning from our iroubles. We can glean an olive-leaf of hope from every journal we read. The fire of our tribulation is certainly burning our dross and purifying our gold: We are growing @ more sober and thoughtful . Weare learn- ing the folly of petulance. We are seeing: how little logic there is in calling names. The people are showing their disgust at political ex 7 and pertisanship—and how thankfal they would be for the privilege of electing good rulers without the ministry of parties. The attempt to make JAN, 22, 1863. ee ae freedom odious is failing. To cr is getting to be respectable. We are repudiating what La “blasphemy of supposing that one branch of our human family in the house of bondage.” We ! servative religious papers talkin: tical atheism of idolizing the | sake—making it the object of jpstezd of a divine ordinance an of God’s designs for carrying fo dential’ government.” We d pecing the time when the m shall] bo universally recogniz shall acknowledge God’s gove constitutions—and righteousne:s than expediency. Our Presider tion of merchants, that “ the gr us all is, not, is God on our sid God’s side ? for God is alway: beginning to hear a new com the Christianity of the land ha aloof from politics. By-and-by no imperiinence that religious t ply religion to common life, bot lic. It iganadmirable sentimo Governor elect, that we are bor sacrifice of passion and prejud tion of our country. More of ago would have saved a vast a1 treasure. - We are discoverin rule is in effect a physical law, of strength can safely defy. fearful price for principles whi have had for neihing. When cost, we may prize them m burdens of our new condition a felt,and we are discovering a adapting ourselves to thom. The Atiantic Month/y says that beginning to pay are for fillin; Dismal Swamp, which ongulfec lations, and created plague, hitherto all the vast capabilities that this taxation will make th and habitable, and will draw al I must confess that my own for a lengthened and stormy « great naticnal sins. We will heroic, before we sco the end of have not come in sight of her willing to lose money for a | acting over again the very | Hebrews, who were frightenes liverance—who could not bear season—who to-day would | leader, and to-morrow would for the flesh-pots of Egypt. T We.will not trust God long bead us through the wildernes: ° nes of our personal dis: : ly, if God left us to our own us has nerve enough to compa tion. But we are not in our God for this. He has taken u: has put us into the furnace. till he bid us. But chemists tell us that go the common fire. Whatever survive the flames. As to the shall bo no less happy after ou Let us pray God to do this wo can bear it. May he settle « principles of truth and justie paratively little what becom our prophecies, our personal f ‘wants them as a means of do us be patient. Beiter have th twenty years, than have it ¢ then gold. May God complet we commit, with implicit country. “Our soul waiteth our help and our shicld. | rejoice in him, because we holy name. Let thy mercy, according as we hope in thee MORAL EFFECT (¢ Tur mere animal conscious ness of things seen and heard the exulting, reverent, and it I call theoria. For this, full comprehension and conte tiful as a gift of God, a gift being, but added to, and elev: first of the desire, and, seco) sired. And, as it is necessary t ‘idea of beauty, that tho sen may be its basis, should be ac joy, then with love of the ¢ perception of kindness in a. finally with thankfulness an that Intolligence itself; and all considered as in any wa: until it be made up of thes than we can be said to have which we perceive the perf ing, without understanding intent of it; and as these er resultant from, nor obtaina of the intellect, it is eviden beauty is not sensual on the lectual on the other, but is « right, and open stato of th truth and for its intensity, i1 right ‘after-action of the i beauty so apprehended, | acuteness of the heart-feelir hin. , ANECDOTE OF P! In 1820, Prof. Wilson wa elected Professor of Moral versity of Edinburgh, Scotl petitor no less a person th ton. The election does ni at first, to the liking of the introductory lecture was, triumph over great obstac! described by an eye-witnes “There was a furious against him among the clas: most of his pupils would ce had no prospect of being his first lecture, prepared to J understood wes formod t lecture-room was crowded | collection of hard-browed muttering over their knobst Professor entered with a be silence. Every one expect propitiatory introduction ject, upon which the mas him, reason or no reason ; of thunder, right into the m up unflinchingly and unl pause, a flow of rhetoric s or. Thomas Brown, his pr ered in the same place. mur, escaped his captivated quered audience, and at tl right-down unanimous bur who came to scoff, remaine —— a ee THE HAL Durine a war with Fran place between the French | the Mediterranean. On boa by Captain Haldane, the After a heavy broadside, | desolation and of death. hands from below, the mé deck were so shocked by th to serve. Captain Halda an imprecation. A pious the commander and said answered your prayer jus have been?” The capiai old man’s words laid he calmer moments were the Christ. Soon after ho lef strumental in converting both having a competen selves to the service of originator of a religious 1 the close of the last r sprang the Scotch Indepe: Geneva, and was the i; twelve students at the eo! whom were Nett, and @’Aubigné, the author | Reformation.” Thus Re James Haldane in Gene the “-wisdom and know! true is it in their case, ‘ little causes spring !” A Penstax Lge Seat present he shoul

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to mine, ‘er be thine] r moon, nay trace, place! , treas ny care, » rule, school !” ESTINE alistof Vienna, entific result of k in 1853 and Islands. He botany of the. 1, including an 92a. The dis- :markable new by the system d deal used on rk with an in- hether, from a Greece and the ancient prose cient accounts he conclusion change in the But there is a So far as, the hing to hinder rom returning . destroyed by of the woods rrenness with smitten. The es of invaders ave followed the shepherds, ually deprived ground of its sh-the barren- dis still more se. It is the nature would, oods that have mber of goats These have no 16 arid climate ly eat off the of the ground. isés, the woods 1, Dr. Unger’s ‘n, and the old tored. RE. ermon by Rev. F, abeve title.—Epg, is & good ac- ‘me. Weneed 3, and say too } puts a spade d makes them rd to wait, and ° in sympathy e cleft of great ‘ed there until to patience. I troubles. But e that God will w to finish it. 'e rising like a and fissures of re finding out ozin to remem- rfully already. 1g by hundreds ions must re- far from the enough. Our e. The tongue | speak. And onderful prog- tofore we have who concealed suffered him to | disclose the ir cloak. Wo r. We meant on, without an Stephens, and and a united ut. They say »» The Rich- in four lines: “4 on in great er in his prop- f theinstitu- ness, because n the dawn of 6 progress of r, one periodi- t mention the » the one idea ow to say that he sin which there can be ir nation. who , in the State “the slavery d that we shall emancipation remains. We videnze, on the e poor. Some . their statute- 'sson to learn. frican, we are And it may or us through _ before we are erey. from. current hich we are can glean an rnal we read. ly burning our are growing @

JAN; 22, 1863: ; freedom odious is failing. To crave liberty for all is getting fo be respectable. Wo “ repudiating what Laboulaye calls the “blasphemy of supposing that God has set apart one branch of our human family to dwell for ever in the house of bondage.” We find our most con- servative religious papers talking about “ the prac- tical atheism of idolizing the Union for its own sake—making it the object of patriotic idolatry instead ‘of a divine ordinance and the instrument of God’s designs for carrying forward his provi- dentiat’ government.” We do not despair of seeing the time when the majesty of justice shall be universally recognized—and all men shall acknowledge God’s government as above constitutions—and righteousness be set higher than expediency. Our President said to a deleza- tion of merchants, that “the great question with us al] is, not, is God on our side? but, are woe on God’s side ? for God is always right.” We are beginning to hear a new complaint, to wit, that the Christianity of the land has stood too much aloof from politics. By-and-by it will be deemed no impertinence that religious teachers should ap- ply religion to common life, both private and pub- lic. It iganadmirable sentiment of Mr. Seymour, Governor elect, that we are bound to make every sacrifice of passion and prejudice for the restora- tion of our country. More of this sacrifice long ago would have saved a vast amount of blood and treasure. - We are discovering that the golden rule is in effect a physical law, which no amount of strength can safely defy. We are paying a fearful price for principles which we might once have had for nothing. When we have paid the cost, we may prize them more highly. The burdens of our new condition are beginning to be felt,and we are discovering ‘a strange power of adapting ourselves to thom. A recent writer in The Atlantic Monthly says that the taxes we are beginning to pay are for filling up our national Dismal Swamp, which engulfed armies and popu- lations, and created plague, and neutralized hitherto all the vast capabilities of this continent ; that this taxation will make the land wholesome and habitable, and wili draw all men unto it. I must confess that my own mind is prepared for a lengthened and stormy exodus out of our great national sins. We will be forced to the heroic, before we sco the end of our troubles. We have not come in sight of heroism, until we aro willing to lose money for a principle. We aro acting over again the very weaknesses of the Hebrews, who were frightened at their own de- liverance—who could not bear short rations for a season—who to-day would stone Moses, their leader, and to-morrow would sell their liberties for the fiesh-pots of Egypt. ‘This, alas, is human! We.will not trust God long enough for him to jead us through the wilderness. We falter at the rocesses of our personal discipline ; and proba- bly, if God left us to our own choice, not one of us has nerve enough to compass his own salva- tion. But we are not in our own hands—thank God for this. He has taken us into his hand; he has put us into the furnace. We cannot come out till he bid us. But chemists tell us that gold is unalterable in the common fire. Whatever is pure in us will survive the flames. As to the rest, let it go. We shall bo no less happy after our idols are destroyed. Let us pray God todo this work thoroughly, if we can bear it. May he settle our troubles on the principles of truth and justiee. It matters com- paratively little what becomes of our opinions, our prophecies, our personal fortunes even, if God ‘wants them as a means of doing his work. Let us be patient. Better have the gold in the furnace twenty years, than have it come out aught else than gold. May God complete his work. Tohim we commit, with implicit faith, our bleeding country. “Our soul waiteth for the Lord; he is our, hclp and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee !”

MORAL EFFECT OF BEAUTY. Tur mere animal consciousness of the pleasant- ness of things seen and heard I call esthesis; but the exulting, reverent, and grateful perception of it I call theoria. For this, and this only, is the full comprehension and contemplation of the beau- tiful as a gift of God, a gift not necessary to our being, but added to, and elevating it ; and twofold, first of the desire, and, secondly, of the thing de- sired. And, as it is necessary to the existence of an

‘idea of beauty, that the sensual pleasure which may be its basis, should be accompanied first with joy, then with love of the object, then with the perception of kindness in a superior Intelligence, finally with thankfulness and veneration toward that Intolligence itself; and as no idea can be at all considered as in any way an idea of beauty, until it be made up of these emotions, any more than we can be said to have an idea of a letter of which we perceive the perfume and the face-writ- ing, without understanding the contents of it or intent of it; and as these emotions are in no way resultant from, nor obtainable by, any operation of the intellect, it is evident that the sensation of beauty is not sensual on the one hand, nor intel- lectual on the other, but is dependent on a pure, right, and open state of the heart, both for its truth and for its intensity, insomuch that even the right ‘after-action of the intellect upon facts of beauty so apprehended, is dependent on the acuteness of the heart-feeling about them.—Rus- Ain. ‘ ANECDOTE OF PROF. WILSON. In 1820, Prof. Wilson was, after a hard contest, elected Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Uni- versity of Edinburgh, Scotland, having for a com- petitor no less a person than Sir William Hamil- ton. The election does not appear to have been, at first, to the liking of the students, and Wilson’s intreductory lecture was, in the end, really a triumph over great obstacles. The scene is thus deseribed by an eye-witness : “There was a furious bitterness of feeling against him among the classes of which, probably, most of his pupils would consist; and although I had no prospect of being afong them, I went to his first lecture, prepared to join in a cabal, which I understood was formed to put him down. The lecture-room was crowded to the ceiling. Such a collection of hard-browed, scowling Scotsmen, muttering over their knobsticks, I neversaw. The Professor entered with a bold step, amid profound silence. Every one expected some deprecatory or propitiatory introduction of himself and his sub- ject, upon which the mass was to decide against him, reason or no reason ; but he began in a voice of thunder, right into the matter of his lecture, kept up unflinchingly and unhesitatingly, without a pause, a flow of rhetoric such as Dugald Stewart or Thomas Brown, his predecessors, never deliv- ered in the same place. Nota word, not a mur- mur, escaped his captivated, I ought to say his con- quered audience, and at the end they g@ve him a right-down unanimous burst of applause. Those who came to scoff, remained to praise.”

THE HALDANES, Durine a war with France, an engagement took place between the French and the English fleet in the Mediterranean. On board the ship commanded by Captain Haldane, the carnage was terrible. After a heavy broadside, the deck was a scene of desolation and of death. Having ordered fresh hands from below, the marines on getting to the deck were so shocked by the sight that they refused to serve. Captain Haldane in a rage pronounced an imprecation. A pious old marine walked up to the commander and said, “ Captain, if God had answered your prayer just now, where would we have been yn The captain made no reply, but the old man’s words laid hold of his heart, and in calmer moments were the means of leading him to Christ. Soon after he left the service, and was in- strumental in converting his brother Robert, and both having a competency, they devoted them- selves to the service of God. Robert was the originator of a religious movement in Scotland at the close of the last century, out of which sprang the Scotch Independents. James settled in Geneva, and was the instrument in converting twelve students at the college of Geneva, amongst whom were my? bey ryt and John Merle ¢ author of the “History of the sey rr Thus Robert in Edinburgh, and » Haldane in Geneva, were led to ary wd e “wisdom and knowledge” of God; and how true is it in their case, “ What great events from A Peasuan Faste.—A Persian h had ‘ little causes spring !” , previous to gothg to India, ‘he aon a: pst hol apne nee

a anges 22OF" oe Tr : said the perrot ; “only, when you see my brothers dencing on the rd, tell them how I pine in a little prison.” The merchant journeyed and delivered his message, and a parrot immediately fell dead from 2 »,The merchant returned, and immediately told his parrot, who fell dead frem his perch on hearing the news. Tho mer- chant, with tears, picked up the body and cast it out; when, to his surprise, the parrot revived and flew to a tree, saying, “The Indian parrot taught me to die te be free. One day, master, thou shalt so gain thy freedom !”

OREMUS. We will not raise, O God, the formal prayer Of broken heart and-shattered nerve ; Tkou know’st our griefs, our wants, and whatsoc’er Is best for those who serve. Before Thy feet, in silence and in awe, ° We open lay our cause and need ; As brave men may the patriot sword we draw, But Thine must be the deed. We have no pageantry to please Thy eye, Save marshaled men, who marching come Bereath Thy gaze in armed panoply ; No music save the drum. We have no altar. builded in Thy sight, From which the fragrant offerings sise, Save this wild field oi, hot and bloody fight ; These dead our sacrifice. To this great cause the force of prayer is given, The wordless prayer of righteous will ; Before whose strength the ivory gates of heaven Fail open, and are still, For we believe within our inmost souls That what men do With spirit sad, To Thee in one vast cloud of worship rolls— Rolls up, and makes Thee glad. O God, if reason may presume so far, We say our cause is also Thine: We read its truth in every flashing star ; In every sacred line. By thy commission freedom first was sont To hold the tyrant’s force at bay ; The charm that broke in Egypt was not meant To bind our shining day. Freedom to all! in Thy great name we cry, And lift to heaven Thy bloody sword ; Too long have we been blind in heart and eya To Thy outspoken word. Before the terrors of the battle-call, As flax before the gusty fiame, Down, down the vanquished enemy shall fall, Stricken with endless shame ! Here let division cease, Join hand with hand, Join veice with voice ; a general shout Shall, like a whi:lwind, sweep eur native land, And purge the traitors out ! Fear not or faint not. God, who ruleth men, Marks where his noble martyrs lie ; They shall allrise beneath his sinfle again— His foes alone shall dic. —Geo. H. Boker.

SCRIPTURAL NOVELETTES. THERE arc many indignities to which children are subjected, but we know none at once so fruit- less and laborious as the adaptation of the sublime simplicity of the Bible histories and stories to the level of that studied imbecility and inane multiplication of details which a long tradition of relentless nursery persecutions has established as the standard of what is “interesting” to child- hocd. In the Book of Exodus, the adoption of Moses by Pharaoh’s daughter is told thus: “And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child within; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. And his: sister stood afar off to wit what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river, and her maidens walked along by the river side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to feich it.. And when she had opened it she saw the child, and béhotd the babe wept. And she had compassion on it.” When adapted “to the capacity of young chil- dren”—this singularly simple and poetical narra- tive comes out in a shape too long for extract, filling two pages—but the details of the adaptation are these: first the child is called a baby, a little baby. Then we have a hint from the nursery why the mother could no longer hide him, “for he was bigger and cried louder.” “What can I do ?” she said; “must I put my pretty baby in the river after all?” ¥.—The Seventy-eighth Semi-Annual Ses- sion of this Institution, for thorous rection in eo Note: ral Sciences, and in Civil, Mechanical, and Topographical Engineering, will commence February 18, 1863, when Stu-

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2, 1863. TT, at the ashes of my tin peace! Leave in the holy name of nipotence. Amen,” 5. dl} . evil way, oly name, sin-sick frame. ord | : 1 word, ‘den down, omised crown. ild! lo ; defiled, bend to maine, an ne’er be thine J soon > mmer moon, wér may trace, enly place! S cure ; rp distreas irray’d, et tears, y one, me alone. are, i) ath my care, ird to rule, ion’s school !” PALESTINE 1aturalist of Vienna, e scientific result of ertook in 1353 and nian Islands. He the botany of the. assed, including an ’Eubaa. The dis- st remarkable new sated by the system . good deal used on e work with an in- on whether, from a s in Greece and the to its ancient pros- of ancient accounts ; at the conclusion tial ehange in the ry. Butthere isa e. So far as, the is nothing to hinder nor from returning been destroyed by ection of the woods e barrenness with een smitten. The hordes of invaders es, have followed y by the shepherds, gradually deprived 1 the ground of its which-the barren- uated is still more cause. It is. the ; of nature would, ne woods that have e number of goats is. These have no for the arid vlimate uently eat off the ‘ out of the ground. y causes, the woods again, Dr. Unger’s return, and the old e restored. FIRE. m a sermon by Rev. F, h the abeve title.—Epg, eath is a good ac- dnetime. Weneed lclays, and say too | He puts a spade 's, and makes them 1 afford to wait, and ¢ are in sympathy to the cleft of great i1eltered there until yself to patience. J four troubles. But dence that God will s slow to finish it. ue are rising like a oves and fissures of d more finding out uy begin to remem- g fearfully already. arving by hundreds Nations must re- very far from the ned cnough. -Our )wake. The tongue ng to speak. And of wonderful prog- Hicretofore we have boy, who concealed and suffered him to than disclose the en our cloak. Woe is for. We meant ‘bellion, without an t Mr. Stephens, and mer, and a united ; about. They say gelse. The Rich- all in four lines: sarried on in great sholder in his prop- ion of the‘institu- darkness, because 1asten the dawn of ee the progress of other, one periodi- d not mention the clare the one idea udy now to say that yay the sin which lieve there can be in our nation. who lmer, in the State that “the slavery r,and that we shall diual emancipation ruth remains. We » Providence, on the to the poor. Some 1g on their statute- sat lesson to learn. he African, we are him. And it may ney for us through pline, before we are ve merey. ther from- current ns which we are We can glean an journal we read. rtainly burning our We are growing @ le. Weare learn- ‘e are sreing: how umes. The, people itieal extra 2 ankfal they would good rulers without » attempt to make JAN; 22, 18631, ) freedom odious is failing. To crave liberty for all is getting to be respectable. Wo ~ ropudiating what Laboulaye calls the “blasphemy of supposing that God has set apart one braach of our human family to dwell for ever in the house of bondage.” We find our most con- servative religious papers talking about “ the prac- tical atheism of idolizing the Union for its own sake—making it the object of patriotic idolatry instead ‘of a divine ordinance and the instrument of God’s designs for carrying forward his provi- dential’ government.” We do not despair of secing the time when the majesty of justice shall bo universally recognized—and all men shall acknowledge God’s government as above constitutions—and righteousness be set higher than expediency. Our President said to a deleza- tion of merchants, that “the great question with us all is, not, is God on our side? but, are we on God’s side ? for God is always right.” We are beginning to hear a new complaint, to wit, that the Christianity of the land has stood too much aloof from politics. By-and-by it will be deemed no impertinence that religious teachers should ap- ply religion to common life, both private and pub- lic. It igan admirable sentiment of Mr. Seymour, Governor elect, that we are bound to make every sacrifice of passion and prejudice for the restora- tion of our country. More of this sacrifice long ago would have saved a vast amount of blood and treasure. - We are discovering that the golden rule is in effect a physical law, which no amount of strength can safely defy. We are paying a fearful price for principles which we might once have had for nething. When we have paid the cost; we may prize them more highly. The burdens of our new condition are beginning to be felt,and we are discovering ‘a strange power of adapting ourselves to thom. A recent writer in The Atiantic Monthly says that the taxes we are beginning to pay are for filling up our national Dismal Swamp, which ongulfed armies and popu- lations, and created plague, and neutralized hitherto all the vast capabilities of this continent ; that this taxation will make the land wholesome and habitable, and wili draw all men unto it. I must confess that my own mind is prepared for a lengthened and stormy exodus out of our great naticnal sins. We will be forced to the heroic, before we sco the end of our troubles. We have not come in sight of heroism, until we aro willing to lose money for a principle. We aro acting over again the very weaknesses of the Hebrews, who were frightened at their own de- liverance—who could not bear short rations for a season—who to-day would stone Moses, their leader, and to-morrow would sell their liberties for the flesh-pots of Egypt. ‘This, alas, is human! We.will not trust God long enough for him to Jead us through the wilderness. We falter at the rocesses of our personal discipline ; and proba- ly, if God left us to our own choice, not one of us has nerve enough to compass his own salva- tion. But we are not in our own hands—thank God for this. He has taken us into his hand; he has put us into the furnace. We cannot come out till he bid us. But chemists tell us that gold is unalterable in the common fire. Whatever is pure in us will survive the flames. As to the rest, let it go. We shall be no less happy after our idols are destroyed. Let us pray God todo this work thoroughly, if we can bear it. May he settle our troubles on the principles of truth and justiee. It matters com- paratively little what becomes of our opinions, our prophecies, our personal fortunes even, if God wants them as a means of doing his work. Let us be patient. Better have the gold in the furnace twenty years, than have it come out aught else than gold. May God complete his work. Tohim we commit, with implicit faith, our bleeding country. “Our soul waiteth for the Lord; he is our. hclp and our shicld. For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusied in his holy name. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee !” MORAL EFFECT OF BEAUTY. Tuer mere animal consciousness of the pleasant- ness of things seen and heard I call esthesis ; but the exulting, reverent, and grateful perception of it I call theoria. For this, and this only, is the full comprehension and contemplation of the beau- tiful as a gift of God, a gift not necessary to our being, but added to, and elevating it ; and twofold, first of the desire, and, secondly, of the thing de- sired And, as it is necessary to the existence of an ‘jdea of beauty, that the sensual pleasure which may be its basis, should be accompanied first with joy, then with love of the object, then with the perception of kindness in a superior Intelligence, finally with thankfulness and veneration toward that Intelligence itself; and as no idea can be at all considered as in any way an idea of beauty, until it be made up of these emotions, any more than we can be said to have an idea of a letter of which we perceive the perfume and the face-writ- ing, without understanding the contents of it or intent of it; and as these emotions are in no way resultant from, nor obtainable by, any operation of the intellect, it is evident that the sensation of beauty is not sensual on the one hand, nor intel- lectual on the other, but is dependent on a pure, right, and open state of the heart, both for its truth and for its intensity, insomuch that even the right ‘after-action of the intellect upon facts of beauty so apprehended, is dependent on ithe acuteness of the heart-feeling about them.—Rus- kin. e ANECDOTE OF PROF. WILSON. In 1820, Prof. Wilson was, after a hard contest, elected Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Uni- versity of Edinburgh, Scotland, having for a com- peiitor no less a person than Sir William Hamil- ton. The election does not appear to have been, at first, to the liking of the students, and Wilson’s introductory lecture was, in the end, really a triumph over great obstacles. The scene is thus described by an eye-witness : “There was a furious bitterness of feeling against him among the classes of which, probably, most of his pupils would coysist; and although I had no prospect of being een them, I went to his first lecture, prepared to join in a cabal, which I understood was formod to put him down. The lecture-room was crowded to the ceiling. Sucha collection of hard-browed, scowling Scotsmen, muttering over their knobsticks, I neversaw. The Professor entered with a bold step, amid profound silence. Every one expected some deprecatory or propitiatory introduction of himself and his sub- ject, upon which the mass was to decide against him, reason or no reason ; but he began in a voice of thunder, right into the matter of his lecture, kept up unflinchingly and unhesitatingly, without a pause, a flow of rhetoric such as Dugald Stewart or. Thomas Brown, his predecessors, never deliv- ered in the same place. Nota word, not a mur- mur, escaped his captivated, I ought to say his con- quered audience, and at the end they g¥ve him a right-down unanimous burst of applause. Those who came to scoff, remained to praise.” THE HALDANES, Dunine a war with France, an engagement took place between the French and the English fleet in the Mediterranean. On board the ship commanded by Captain Haldane, the carnage was terrible. After a heavy broadside, the deck was a scene of desolation and of death. Having ordered fresh hands from below, the marines on getting to the deck were so shocked by the sight that they refused to serve. Captain Haldane in a rage pronounced an imprecation. A pious old marine walked up to the commander and said, “ Captain, if God had answered your prayer just now, where would we have been?” The captain made no reply, but the old man’s words laid hold of his heart, and in calmer moments were the means of leading him to Christ. Soon after ho left the service, and was in- strumental in converting his brother Robert, and both having a competency, they devoted them- selves to the service of God. Robert was the originator of a religious movement in Scotland at the elose of the last century, out of which sprang the Scotch Independents. James settled in Geneva, and was the instrument in converting e college of Geneva, amongst rhom ‘were Nett, and Pytt, and John Merle @’Aubigné, the author of the “ History of the Reformation.” Thus Robert in Edinburgh, and James Haldane in Geneva, were led to exem lify the “wisdom and knowledge” of God: and how true is it in their case, “ What great events from little causes spring !” A Peasian Faste.—A Persian had a pet previous to to India, h, Dall» hat present he bring her No prevent,” bosoma—it was her first-born son.” 7 ST said the parrot ; hen you see my brothers dencing on the rd, tell them how I pine in a little prison.” The merchant journeyed and delivered his message, and a parrot immediately fell dead from a ».The merchant returned, and immediately told his patrot, who fell dead from his perch on hearing the news. Tho mer- chant, with tears, picked up the body and cast it out; when, to his surprise, the parrot revived and flew to a tree, saying, “The Indian parrot taught me to die te be free. One day, master, thou shalt so gain thy freedom !” - only, w OREMUS. We will not raise, O God, the formal prayer Of broken heart and-shattered nerve ; Tkou know’st our griefs, our wants, and whatsoc’er Is best for those who serve. Before Thy feet, in silence and in awe, ’ We open lay our cause and need ; As brave men may the patriot sword we draw, But Thine must be the deed. We bave no pégeantry to please Thy eye, Save marshaled men, who marching come Bereath Thy gaze in armed panoply ; No music save the drum. We have no altar. builded in Thy sight, From which the fragrant offerings rise, Save this wild field oi,hot and bloody fight ; These dead our sacrifite. To this great cause the force of prayer is given, The wordless prayer of righteous will ; Before whose strength the ivory gates of heaven Fail open, and are still, For we believe poop og ed inmost souls That what men do With spirit sad, To Thee in one vast cloud of worship rolla— Rolls up, and makes Thee glad. O God, if reason may presume so far, We say our cause is also Thine : We read its truth in every flashing star ; In every sacred line. By thy commission freedom first was sont To hold the tyrant’s force at bay ; The charm that broke in Egypt was not meant To bind our shining day. Freedom to all! in Thy great name we cry, And lift to heaven Thy bloody sword ; Too long have we been blind in heart and eye To Thy outspoken word. Before the terrors of the battle-call, As flax before the gusty flame, Down, down the vanquished enemy shall fall, Stricken with endless shame ! Here let division cease. Join hand with band, Join veice with voice ; a general shout Shall, like a whirlwind, sweep eur native land, And purge the traitors out ! Fear not or faint not. God, who ruleth men, Marks where his noble martyrs lie ; They shall all rise beneath his sinile again— His foes alone shall dic. —Geo. H. Boker. SCRIPTURAL NOVELETTES. Tnere arc many indignities to which children are subjected, but we know none at once so fruit- less and laborious as the adaptation of the sublime simplicity of the Bible histories and stories to the level of that studied imbecility and inane multiplication of details which a long tradition of relentless nursery persecutions has established as the standard of what is “interesting” to child- hocd. In the Book of Exodus, the adoption of Moses by Pharaoh’s daughter is told thus: “And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child within; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. And his: sisier stood afar off to wit what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river, and her maidens walked along by the river side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.. And when she had opened it she saw the child, and béhotd the babe wept. And she had compassion on it.” . When adapted “to the capacity of young chil- dren”—this singularly simple and poetical narra- tive comes out in a shape too long for extract, filling two pages—but the details of the adaptation are these: first the child is called a baby, a little baby. Then we have a hint from the nursery why the mother could no longer hide him, “for he was bigger and cried louder.” “What can I do ?” she said; “must I put my pretty baby in the river after all?” A thought strikes her, a thought that suggests the existence of a Useful Knowledge Society in ancient Egypt. “In the Nile there grows a large rush called papyrus. . . . A kind of paper was made from it—our word paper comes from papyrus.” The mother thought, “I will make a cradle-boat for my baby to lie in when I put him in the river.” ‘Then comes the pathetic adaptation to the ductile sentiment of children. “Can you not fancy how her tears would fall while she was doing it, and how she would pray to God to watch over her darling ?” Then the pitch is put on, and we have another appeal to infantine tenderness: “I dare say the mother filled the inside with something soft, and made it as comfortable as she could.” Then “with many tears and prayers,” when the baby is “asleep,” it is put into the river, and when the discovered baby cries, we are told, “no wonder, for all the faces were strange to him, and it was his mother’s face he wanted to see,” and so forth. And this is “ suited to the capacities of young children.” We confess the Bible edition seems to us much better so. The latter sculptures the scene with that reserve and purity which never distract us by hysterical sobs; there isin it the dignity and nobleness of a tradition that guards the fountain- heads of a nation’s life, and is conscious of a divine purpose far greater than the child’s indi- vidual preservation. It hurries on to its great aim. The “adapted” form sobs, and comments between its tears on the papyrus, and then sobs again, and analyzes “baby’s” feelings, and, in a word, fritiers away the whole stateliness of the scene—as both child and man would feel it—in the circumstantial inventiveness of that same kind of young lady who supposes that “ baby” intuitively understands the tender expressiveness of a species of guttural convulsions accompanied by a chink of keys. Or, again, when young children are to be made to understand the greediness of the Israelites in getting tired of manna, we have an explanatory paraphase. The Book of Numbers reports the complaint thus, “ Who shall give us flesh to eat ? We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely ; the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic: but now our soul is dried away ; there is nothing at all besides this manna before our eyes”—a very simple account of the hankering of coarse appetites after strong savory dishes ; but not, we are sorry to say, “ suited to the capacity” of young children, who will understand better this equivalent, “ We want meat. We remember the fish we did eat in Egypt freely; the refreshing cucumbers, the covlng melons, the pleasant onions. We have nothing but dry food here. We are tired of having only this manna.” Why are “ pleasant onions” more suited to the capacity of young children than “onions?” Is it an attempt to prejudice their imaginations in favor of that un- fragrant herb, and to prevent complaints of its too frequent prevalence in the nursery ? Seriously, however, the only idea discernible in this adapta- tion of Bible stories to young children seems to be the insertion of new and insignificant details of epithet or incident, which simply obliterate me pees impression of the straightforward keen e are told in the “There were then brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them and pray; and the disci- ples rebuked them. But Jesus said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of\heaven. And he laid his hands on them, and departed thenee.” This is elaborated into a romance about mothers and infants and a@ certain little Ruth, by Miss Hadley, the lady who adapts the Seri stories to the “capacity of young children.” A young Hebrew mother observes of our -Lord, He is greater than our father Abraham; how I should like his blessing on my child ;” and she looks enna bythe tee Ae ekioatinny hoe yep wg after a Tong account of “other parental yearnings, ‘the story winds up thus : “Cen not fancy how one of the children sai as che Inia her esd on her pillow that t, ‘Mother, ehall never forget the kind look of that of Nazareth as as llive. Is God as kind ashe? ‘ say, he says he is the 8» re CE or nego mother, all he says must be true,’ said little yes, be calls himself “the Truth,”’ said the mother, thoughtfully. ‘Now, go to sleep, little Ruth, and dream of this wonderful stranger.’ . “Little Ruth went to sleep, and in ber dreams she saw agein the kind face, and heard again the gentle tones whis- = in her exr, ‘ Let the little ones come unto me, ani 1bid them not. for of such is the kinz?om of heaves.’ It seemed to little Ruth as if she was in heaven.” We confess that, instead of adapting the Chris- tian history to the capacities of young children, this sort of embroidery appears to us to spoil it as a divine influence. There is no tendency more marked in children’s minds than that to fasten on the minuter details. A small child te whom the above story had been told would concentrate its atiention on the fabulous little’heroine, wondering what kind of a bed she slept in, and, whether Ruth really dreamed ofthe stranger or not. Sim- plicity appeals to a child’s mind directly, but if you offer it an alternative of two associations, one greatand one small, one infinite and one finite, one eternal and one temporary, it will of course choose the latter. It can love a field or a wood more easily than a rich landscape ; the ripple of a mountain brook more completely than the many voices of the mighty sea. Still it is well for children, as it is for men, that the touch of the eternal world should not thus be sheathed in the soft minutiz of home. It seems to us that there is a great purpose in the rugged and naif sim- plieity of Scripture. It takes us out of ourselves and our little flutters of emotion to the majesty of a divine act. Could we feel the greatness of Mount Blanc if the flower and fhe fir and the chalét dotted and clothed it up to the highest peak? So even in the child’s mind there is something which answers to the craving for the Absolute, 2nd which would be hurt by all this foreground of petty incident, even if the incident were true. Gazing back up the troubled story of the ages, that flood of everlasting light which falls upon Nazareth and Calvary should not be dimmed by these clouds of insect fancies. A child’s eye needs to be accustomed early to the naked infinitude of that piercing light which rests upon the Son of God and the Son of man.—Lon- don Spectator. “A Morro ror tHe Year.”—Tho late Dr. James W. Alexander was accustomed, at the com- mencement of every new year, to select as his moito for the year some brief and striking text of Scripture, which, through all its days and duties, its joys and sorrows, might be a choice topic to occupy his thoughts, and a maxim to guide his conduct. He took the idea, doubtless, from the Moravians, who annually adopt a “ year-word” or text for the year. And the text that he took, while a pastor in New York, he preached on to P his congregation on the first Sabbath of every year, thus endeavoring to give them the benefit of the motto he had chosen for himself. _ NEW PUBLICATIONS. es READING AT THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY. THE ANNUAL BULLETIN of the Association is_now ready for gratuitous distribution to members and others applying at the Library or Down- Town Office. Nearly 3,000 Volumes have been added dur- ing the year, and the Library numbers now SIXTY THOU- SAND VOLUMES, to which additions are constantly making. THE READING-ROOM is regularly supplied with over 250 Magazines and Newspa- pers, the subscriptions alone to which amount to $1,200 a year. A list of these is in the Bulletin. 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‘of Gen. Rufus Saxton, Military Governor of South ‘an eloquent address. THE WAR. ehief announcemen: its of the week are, f Src iesaewne at Arkansas Post, a few miles above the mouth of that river. The message of Jeff Davis to his Congress. Capture of a rebel Major Sanders and his = es, with important revelations about things “, ;},. South. — ene of Mevements {11 Considerable force in North and on the Rappatiannock. ‘Meanwhile, the Democratic effort to break down wae war is proceeding With great energy, and as is claimed, with a prospect of success, though there are some signs of a reaction against the villainy of such Democratic leaders as Vallandigham in Congress and Wood jin New York, by men too patriotic and intelli- rey to desert their country or turn against her in r distress. : THE DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF. caus As soon as Gen. Butler was gone, the secessio instantly began to try Gen. Banks, to ascertain oe far they could go with him; a disposition not od discouraged by the rather weak talk of his proclama- tion. Treasonable language and newspaper writing, and various secessionist schemes and people, lifted their heads. The old usurer Jacob Barker’s paper, Advocate, became so rebellious that it was sum- marily silenced; but none of the other evil-doers have thus far been hit, and many whom Gen. Butler had imprisoned have ao Rice ne It is certain that Gen. Banks errs in tredting these savages like civilized gentlemen. They understand nothing but brute force, and ought to have it. BELLEVUE AGAIN. ears that in speaking of Bellevue Hospital last oat we pvt the social standing of the patients in terms somewhat too sweeping. There are, it seems, many very decent poor people there. But we were entirely right as toits being an improper place to send soldiers to. - THE SURPRISE AT GALVESTON. Fuller information does not at all diminish the miserable character of this wholly unnecessary loss. The land and naval forces both, and all the approaches to the city, could not have been better adjusted to be surrendered if the rebels had fixed them on purpose. MILITARY GOVERNORS. These gentlemen have not yet done much good, and some of them have done much harm. Shepley of Louisiana seems net to have done anything at all. Pheipe of Arkansas has been sick, but he is an un- compromising pro-slavery man. Andy Johnson seems to be about as much so, to the sad pe ee of many of his friends, for it is generally admitted that he was the means of the exemption of Tennessee, a state full of the bitterest rebels, from the proclama- tion of freedom. The most serious charges have repeatedly been brought against Stanly of North Carolina for collusion with rebels, slave-hunting, and oppression of Union men; and these of late grow more and more vehement. Gen. Saxton of South Carotina is the only military governor of them all who seems either to wish to do much for the Union and freedom, or to know how to set about it. JUBILEE AT PORT ROYAL. On January 1, 1863, according to the Proclamation Carolina, the colored people of the neighborhood of Port Royal assembled at the camp-ground. There the Emancipation Proclamation was read to them by Judge Brisbane of Wisconsin, a South Carolinian by birth, who freed his slaves on principle 25 years ago ; Gov. Saxton’s Proclamation was read; an ode was sung; and a magnificent silk flag, given by Dr. Cheever’s church, was presented to the 1st Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers by Rev. Mr. French, in Then the regiment sang America ; Col. Higginson made a reply for his regi- ment; and then intrusting the colors to Sergeant Prince Rivers and Corporal Sutton, he called on them too to respond, which they did with great success and applause. More addresses and singing followed, and then a hearty feast on ten oxen barbecued for the occasion. As Mrs. Gage well intimates, in the letter to The N. Y. Tribune from which we con- dense this account, this is a glorious response to Toombs’ threat that he would call the roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill. JEFF DAVIS’S MESSAGE. This document is published from the Richmond - Its chief points are: That the North is being rapidly reduced to the necessity of making peace ; states have a right to secede ; Europe has abused the rebels in not admitting privateers to its ports, and has unjustly acted in a manner and with the inten- tion to help destroy the Confederacy ; “ every atroc- ity” has been committed by the Union forces; the Emancipation Proclamation is to be left “to the in- stincts of that common humanity which a beneficent Creator has implanted in the breasts of our fellow- men of all countries,” because it “dooms to extermi- nation” the slaves it frees, and encourages them to assassinate their masters ; “ criminals who attempt its execution” are to be left to the state laws for punishment. And there is an outline in very rose- colored style of the campaign and the future. WILMINGTON ATTACKED. Or some other place ; for we know that the rebels have long been fortifying Charleston, the first and most poisonous rat-hole of rebellion, against an expected assault. But—alithough the details have been judiciously and successfully kept secret—it may be almost with certainty believed that a very large army under Gen. Foster is moving against Wilming- ton by sea and by land. THE VICTORY IN ARKANSAS, The army repulsed at Vicksburg under Gen. Sher- man was shipped off on transports by Gen. Mc- Clernand ; who went up the Mississippi, turned into the Arkansas River apparently without having said much to anybody about his errand, ascended that stream some 50: miles or more to Arkansas Post, or “the Post of Arkansas,” the site of one of the ancient French forts, and made a sudden and violent attack on the strong rebel fortifications there. The gun- boat fleet, under Admiral Porter, silenced the lower batteries on Friday, January 9; and next morning attacked again, and dismounted every remaining one of. the eleven guns; the army in the meanwhile carrying some of the works on the land side by storm. Saturday's fighting was only for three hours, at the end of which time Col. Dunnington, the commander, a ' deserter from the U.S. Navy, asked to be allowed to surrender to the Navy, and it was granted him. The three iron-clads, Louisville, Lexington, and Cincin- nati, did the heavy work of silencing the batteries at close quarters, and did it splendidly. The main works appear not to have surrendered until Sunday and Monday. The loss of the fleet was 31 killed and ‘wounded ; of the army unknown. The prize was of magnitude ; ftom 7,000 to 10,000 men, and a Krge. quantity of military stores and munitions and an , including almost all the ammunition which the rebels had a few days before taken on the Blue Wing. Two Texas regiments came ignorantly in after the surrender to re-enforce the garrison, and ‘were caught whole. RETALIATION AT LAST. The very brilliant affair at Arkansas Post gives the Government the means of retaliating if the rebels execute their threat of hanging all officers hereafter taken by them. And Mr. Lincoln will have to retali- ate whether he will or no; for as an exchange well observes, if he should not, he could not keep his army ther a fortnight. It would not be in man to sub- ¢ to such infamy and be unrevenged. GEN. ROSECRASS. In consequence of having been beaten, Gen. B has been superseded by Longstreet. It is repo that the rebels before Rosecrans have been largely re-enforced, and intend to attack him; also, that he has been largely re-enforced, and is ready for them. The Cumberland is now full, and he is receiving sup- plies by water, which will much facilitate his move- ments ; it is earnestly to be hoped that he will quickly be able to advance, instead of waiting for the rebels. A REGIMENT OF TRAITORS. A large share of the 109th Ill. Regiment has de- serted to the rebels. It is that every man of this ent, colonel and was a Knight of the Golden Circle. MAJOR SANDERS’ DISPATCHES. A few days our blockaders off Charleston caught a vessel having on board one Major Sanders and quite a quantity of and private, from the rebels to their European friends, done up in a tin box, leaded, ready for sinking. It : however, that there was not time to throw them away. Among these docum janvn to Slidell, figuring up 350,000 men lost by the nion armies ; one from sels, pretending that the U. the agreement with Denmark to place on the Danish West Indies Africans rescued from ‘slavers; one | sages; intimations that Mason found himself treated Earl for a scheme to raise money on cotton to be farnis xed

CONGRESS. . INVESTIGATIONS. - The Senate on the 14th directed an inquiry into facts about the alleze4 conveyance of disloyal persons back and forth between loyal and rebel territory in vessels under the War t; and about alleged carrying slaves off to rebel territory in the same way. aan be remembered that there have been in- Me.3. about arms purchased by Gen. Fremont, about which a Mr. Simon Stevens was concerned. It appears that Mr. Stevens refused to answer @ question about some labor contracts in New York ; and on the 14th he was ordered to he brought before the House for contempt in so refusing. He was 80 brought, answered the question, and was let off on paying costs. Adiaaniee —The Senate on the 15th called . bere wv Welles for the facts about the break po Aya steamer Ossipee, whose engines are proved quite worthless. 5 PAYING THE ARMY. eee ia The House on the 14th passed a bi provide means for immediately paying up the army and navy, by issuing $100,000,000 le tender notes. The bill assed the Senate next day, Powell and Saulsbury voting alone against it. ATTACK ON WEST POINT. The West Point Appropriation bill cameé up in the Senate on the 15th. Senators Wade, Lane, and Trumbull attacked the Military Academy, calling it a nest of treason, and claiming that it was a mere school of engineering; and disqualified rather than aided its graduates for campaign generalship. Mr. Wilson, in reply, said that while 620 West Point graduates had remained loyal and in the army, 138 of them being from slave states and 52 from those actually seceded, only 178 from the Southern states had resigned, and 19 from the Northern ones. The bill finally passed the Senate by 29 votes to 10. THE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS. Abreast of the lawless violence and mob regime which the Democrats are using to carry the telions at the North, the series of demonstrations in aid of the rebels goes on in Congress. Such was the quite elaborate speech of Vallan- digham on the 14th, in which, while he differed from Cox and others in claiming to be in favor of keeping the Union undiminished, he applied all his strength to prove that we could not conquer the rebels, and that the way was to stop fighting, acknowledge the rebel slave republic, repent and discontinue the Northern disapproval of slavery, and coax the South to come back after a while with all the pro-slavery “com- promises” restored. In short, it was a speech for unlimited backing out and surrendering. Bingham, also from Ohio, replied in a clear exposition of the truths that the South began the war, and there was not a shadow of claim that they would accept the proposed terms of reunion. Mr. Wright of Pa. also answered, in a speech full of patriotic resolution ; and the questions which both these respondents, and Mr. Dawes of Mass., put to Vallandigham, extorted from him some very lame explanations, that he believed the South would, some time, somehow, accept the terms of peace which they have been already so long and so boldly refusing. —Senator Powell on the 19th undertook to answer a speech by Mr. Wright of the day before, and drew down upon himself a tremendous rejoinder from Wright, who stingingly exposed the treason of North- ern sympathizers. THE FINANCES. The House on the 15th and succeeding days de- bated in Committee of the Whole the bill for raising more money. Various arguments on complex and ill-comprehended points of practical finance were made, but no conclusion was reached. EMANCIPATION. Senator Henderson of Mo. made a clear and telling speech on the 16th, on the bill to aid Missouri in emancipation. He showed that Missouri was ready to emancipate; and with broad and dispassionate statements showed how that measure would be best for the Union, the state, the owner, and all parties concerned. « —A bill to give Maryland $10,000,000 to aid in emancipation was referred to the House Select Com- mittee on Emancipation on the 19th. —The Commissioners on Emancipation in the Dis- trict of Columbia have pee v9 They have awarded compensation for 2,989 out Of 8,100 slaves claimed, in 968 petitions. They have valued the slaves, it is understood, at not far from $300 apiece. GEN. MEIGS STIRRED UP. In reply to sundry plain-spoken references to him by name of late in the Senate, Quartermaster-general Meigs wrote a letter in a rather irritated style, which was partly read by Senator Wilson on the 16th, but was cut short by objections from Senator Trumbull and others, indisposed to be “ lectured.” FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Senator McDougall of California on the 19th intro- duced joint resolutions strongly disapproving the French invasion of Mexico as a violation of interna- tional law and of the whole policy and interests of the United States, and asserting that it is our duty to aid Mexico in repelling foreign intervention on this continent. The rea] meaning of the resolutions is, to get the country into a quarrel with Louis Napoleon and thus help the rebels, with whom McDougall sympathizes. —In reply to a call made a few days ago, the Pres- ident sent in a message to the House, about our diplomatic relations with New Granada, to the effect that they had remained in their present uncertain state because the present government is a provisional and military one, and had sent no proper successor to Gen. Herran. SOME ANCIENT CLAIMS. Senator Sumner has caused the French Spoliation claims to be once more referred to a committee. There is perhaps a possibility, now that “ chivalrous” practices are in abeyance, -that honest ones may prevail to remove this ancient shame of our country, and the committee on the 20th reported a bill to pay these claims. The bill substantially in its present form has had a singular legislative history, having been favorably reported on about forty different times, unfavorably only three times, and twice vetoed by the pro-slavery Presidents, Polk and Pierce. Mean- while this wicked delay by our Government has kept many respectable people in poverty and suffering all their last days, and the claims are now held either by speculators or by the children and grandchildren of those whose money has thus been withheld after being actually received and spent by the U. S. Gov- ernment. —The Rhode Island legislature also sent in through Senator Arnold a resolution instructing their senators to aid the petition of J. T. Carey, for the payment of some unpaid claims of Col. Carey's regiment for Revolutionary services. THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER PAP. At the last session of Congress, it may be recol- lected that a by and persevering effort was made to obtain about $35,000 to help The National Intelli- gencer, by buying a certain lot of books with public money. Accusations were made that members of the House had been approached with offers of money if they would help the job. These were angrily denied, and an investigating committee raised, which has now reported tha: t no “members” seem to have been approached, but — offered money if they ft Well, the . very metropolitan organ can get but ere, 4 LITTLE LECTURE BY THE PRESIDEN} Mr. Lincoln on the 19th signed the bill to provide for paying the arrears due the army and navy; and we are happy to state that these arrears are being no up, it is said at the rate of more than a million ollarsaday. Ha : ving signed the bill, the President in the kindness of his ban sent in Me manenne 1 tell the House so, and to say why, and to explain else he thought best for them to do about Banewy The House laughed and the Senate was irritated, and | the President seems to have made a mistake. ” RAILROAD OPPRESSIONS. There has long been infinite complaint of the unac- commodating conduct of the companies bée- tween New York and Washington, who have refused to change their single track, to improve their 9 tain connections, or to remove constant ho "ss i val. A. Sax. ee A. F. B. Merino— % er’no—

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BY REV, D. D. WHEDON, D.D., | DIST QUART

Tue doctrines of Methe those of other orthodox Pro: <in regard to the ‘Seripture, the Tr?aity. and t They differ trom some of Arminian views ot the Dix the doctrines of the entire sanctificatio To t ence we confine our stateime inspiratic wiine We differ from Calvinism freedom of the human wil choices. not merely in the choice, especially of a che and limited to a particular \ sical cause is fixed and limi Freedom is an exemption fatalisin fixing the choice, a sole choice solely possible from all such power of m¢ tion, law of invariable se hat freedom, w possess tion—as confines the will in solely possible volition. sity, law of sequenec, fata predestination, does, im ot from a tree agent to a spirit chine, destroy al! moral r all just reward and penalty ous, divine moral governn To the responsibility of ev power of a different choice is amenable for a. choice w! cumstances and case, he cor is requirable to give forit causation or predestinatior power. Power underlies r Henee we reject the di This dist That is, where th Divine Sovereicntry. \ Sovereign Ruler rather th By the former view God the agent a modicum of po in his will—which he ean tion in either of several agent ie thus an originator ing power of responsible a ference with that free acti« God withholds his hand. of free subjects and not 2 rama of living automator mastery of mechanism, b eignty. PREDESTINATION AND | hold to the divine forekn acts, but reject their predes tion. The difference ts antecedently fixes the ac freedom ; foreknowledge ¢ tion is an act of divine 1 conforms the thing predest Knowledge simply accepts as it arises and presents former case, the act is shi tion; in the latter, the fore the free act. The act w freely as if there were n God to foreknow it; and ¢ it as it is, free and untram In view of what he fore: God does predetermine wh: his eternal predeterminat indeed so far contingent tioned upon the finite acts can be withheld, yet as_ absolutely accurate, there plans will be defeated or divine system which the: ). A predetermined basis frame-work as theater for system of free acts of res system of conditionally pr divine Sovereign, taking agenis, and bringing out good. And these three ¢: Sin anv Hoxtness. necessity of will or of responsible. Holiness, by holiness; but not merit automatically excellent a ethical rewardableness in demon or mortal evil by creation, birth, predestin: sequence or inevitable ca and justly unpunishable. by some necessity holy, is Such evil and such holis tively recognized in a pro! Man’s Faut ann Derr Adam was condemned t eternal death. By the la terity would naturistical! moral type and destiny. were mortality and depr through eternity would }: Of that depravity the ele) the way of life and a m regeneration. Pronounc: ally, the origina! senienc been literally and immed person, éxcluding the ex execution of the senten have been just like their : suffered in him. But fo was under no obligatio reason to suppose that i propagated. By the Rt gracious in its character, ditionally, we thereby re poral life, with the gift o from our moral incapacit ment for sin; conditiona fication, regeneration, an of all this new eystem is ing grave of God throng