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He will not woo again.
No other love may light her path,
No other move his heart;
Yet changing seasons come and go,
And find them still apart.
Her once bright cheek is paler now,
Tlis bears a traco of pain;
Their days are weary, saa—and vet
He will not woo again.
They meet as strangers, calm and cold
As calmly, coldly, part,
And none may guess that tranquil mien
•Conceals a wounded heart.
To him the world has lost its light,
For her all joys aro vain;
lor hope, nor memory brings relief,
Ho will not woo again.
Oh! weep thou not for those that die,
For them all tears aro vain;
But weep o’er living hearts grown cold
Who ne'er can lovo again.
Ulisttllaittous.
TOR THE INDEPENDENT PRESS.
Thomas vs. Didymus, alias J****n,
a Preacher.
ONE WORD TO THE EDITOR.
In my remark, “you will of course
allow me the right of reply,” I did not
intend to express doubt, for you h-»ve
hitherto treated me as a gentleman
and Christian.
A PEW remarks in regard to the
PERSONALITIES OF BROTHER DIDY
MUS.
His first complaint is my charge of
his assailing me, anti he inquires if I
know the meaning of the word. I
reply that if I did not, help is at hand.
Bro. D. could have taught me; though
unfortunately for him, he would have
taught me too much, as lie has done.
He has given me Mr. Webster’s defini
tion, with the addition, on his own re
sponsibility, of “make,” and “ with a
view to injure.” Mr. W.’s third defi
nition of the verb “to assail,” is, “to
* attack with arguments, censure, abuse,
or criticism.” Not a word of “ with a
view to injure." And now I ask bro.
D. and our readers candidly, did he
not attack me, with some attempt at
argument? Did he not censure me?
To censure, is “ to find fault with, and
condemn as wrong.” Has he not found
fault with, and condemned me and my
doctrine as wrong ? Did he not criticise
me? Then his complaint of “injus
tice ” goes by the board, and his tender
of pardon is gratuitous, as I am not
convicted of guiit; for Didymus is
theologian enough (being “a preach
er'’ too,) to know that pardon always
implies guilt.
His second complaint is, that I
'charge him with an attempt “to cast
odium upon the doctrines of grace,
and contempt upon the baptist denom
ination,” and inquires what I mean by
the “ doctrines of grace.” I answer—
-Ist. God’s “predestination” of those
** whom he foreknew,” not to be sav
ed “ without reference to their charac
ter or conduct,” but to be “ conformed
to the image of his Son.” 2nd. God’s
“election.” or “choice” of persons,
»©t tLlngo, “in OJ»ri»t Jacub,” “ before
the world began,” “to salvation,” not
without any “reference to theireharae
ler or conduct,” or, as you charge in
your rejoinder, “without any refer
ence to repentance, faith, or obedience,
as a condition,” thus shifting your
ground; but that they should be u holy,
and without blame, before him in love,"
not that they were so, “ being children
of wrath, even as others,” but “ that
they should be,” and therefore, uncon
ditional. 3rd, Tiie atonement of Je
sus Christ, a sacrifice of infinite value,
and therefore of infinite merit, and
perfectly adapted to its great design of
salvation. 4th. Redemption, that is,
them/of “buyingoil)” or the act of
“delivering” God’s people, “ whom he
foreknew,” by virtue of the atonement.
sth. .Salvation “by grace,” “not of
works, ” through the medium of faith,
and it “thegift of God,” yet without
. which there is and can be no salvation,
therefore it becomes, in an impor
tant sense, a condition of salvation.
These, bro. D., were the doctrines of
the sermon you assailed without a
hearing, and which I meant by “the
doctrines of grace.” Now do you be
lieve them? Your attack and rejoin
der unite in the answer. NO. Did you
have any design at all in assailing
them ? Gould that design be favora
ble to doctrines you repudiate, and
mi reference to which you exclaim,
“ mirabile dictu!”; or to their advo
cates, whom you have denounced as
heretics in your rejoinder? And yet,
when you sec in what attitude you
have placed yourself, you erv out
“ wholly untrue,” “injustice,” kc., &e.
The truth is, bro. 1)., the manner of
the attack, its spirit, style and design,
connected with your rejoinder,
different in style and spirit to the at
tack, yet all evince clearly, not only
that you dislike, (rnenujjig of odium,)
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these doctrines, but that you hate them,
and would bring them and their advo-
into contempt if you could, that
is, into “shame and disgrace,” the
meaning of contempt.
Bro. D.’s third complaint is, that I
charge him with misrepresenting me,
my people and their sentiments. And
after quoting and acknowledging the
very words I attribute to him, round
ly denies this, and seeks to escape from
the dilemma in which he has placed
himself, by saying he “did not attrib
ute them to me, that they were bis
own words,” “and the true definition
of unconditional election, as held and
defined by the most eminent Oalvinis
tic writers and then after this posi
tive denial, admits in the very next
sence that he did attribute them to me
and my people. Here is his own lan
guage : “It is clear then, that I have
not; misrepresented Mr. Wilkes, by
attributing those words to him, nor
his people; unless they have deviated
from the ancient Calvinistic faith.” —
Mirabile dictu! Butlet me ask why
did he use such language, though “ his
own,” and why quote Calvinistic wri
ters in connection with his attack of
my sermon, if he did not intend to
palm it all oft’ ou me and my people,
as our sentiments; and thus try to
make it upper, as he has insinuated and
charged, that I “shrink from coming
out the bold champion of my Calvin
istic faith,” and from making a full
declaration of my own faith, or of my
church, on that occasion? And still
bro. D. you writhe under and complain
of iny charges, as being grievous and
unjust, and labor very hard to relieve
yourself of them. But, bro. IX, the
more you write, explain and deny, the
deeper you involve yourself, and so
will all unprejudiced and impartial
readers deci c.
I knew when I first saw the attack
you were unfortunate, and would
shrink from the picture, when drawn
from the very verbiage of the assault,
its spirit and design.
LET US NOW EXAMINE MY “ ENGLISH ”
A LITTLE.
“ Tautology and a contradiction in
terms.” Tautology is found, bro. D.,
in the phrase, “died to atone.” The
act of Christ’s death on the cross, was
the act of atonement; and the atone
ment was the Savior’s allusion, when
he exclaimed on the cross as he died)
11 it is finished.” lienee if the phrase
“ he died to die,” is tautology, “he died
to atone ”is likewise. And it requires
no argument to satisfy even yourself,
that the idea of “Christ’s dying to
atone for all men,” implying design,
“but did not die to redeem all men,”
is a contradiction in terms; and which
you charge upon me, notwithstanding
you deny misrepresenting me.
In your great anxiety to make cor
rection, by the addition of the usual
quotatation marks to the words “ false
insinuations, contemptuous and impi
ous allusions,” you would fain have
the public believe that all the evils and
responsibility of this controversy de
volve upon me, as though I was the
aggressor, evincing “ill temper” using
“harsh and unjust epithets” and stan
ding greatly in need of “a lesson on
good morals.'' Such artifice and in
trigue might be expected of politicians,
of one abstractly seeking the “maste
ry;” or of bro. D., (a twin,) shooting
at me under covert, while I am stand
ing out in bold and open relief, and at
tacking doctrines presented, mainly, in
the very phraseology of inspiration.
And thus attacking one of its unwor
thy ministers, and its doctrines, you
assail the denomination, and will be
so regarded, though you bad not even
named it once in your assault.
Bro. I)., is there no “ insinunation,”
or “harsh epithet” in the charge of
“inconsistency,” “incongruity,” “ab
surdity',” and the bold allegation against
the Baptist system, of “ subtleties which
impose upon its advocates such a de
gree of reserve and caution, in the ad
justment of its various and conflicting
elements, as necessarily lead to error
and obscurity ?” Let inc remind you
that if you possessed a little more pru
dence and “caution,” you would not
depart from the principles of Armln
ianism, your acknowledged system, as
you do in some instances, nor adven
ture yourself against Paul ism, and thus
come in direct conflict with the word
of God, as in others you do.
Before I take up the doctrines in
volved in this discussion, I wish to
present a few very remarkable facts
connected with your communication.
One is, you have denied sonic things,
and made assertion of others, without
reason, argument, and especially with
out one word of Scripture for their
support. In fact, “mirabile dictu!”
you have written 7 or 8 columns iu
the Independent Press, upon religious
subjects, involving the most profound,
subjects in theology, and have made
only two (or three at most,) quotations
| from the Bible, and they principally
| in favor of my doctrine, which you
! were laboring tp explode, as I. will
i shew you when I reach the point. This
however, is not very remarkable iiftlic
advocate of a system based mainly ou
I human reason and human policy,
Let us now notice your reasons for
still withholding your proper name.
You state that “the arguments of a
writer will always gain consideration
in proportion as the author may be in
repute, or otherwise with the public. 1
And then refer me to the inimitable
essays of the Spectator, to Steele, Addi
son," and the Bridgewater Treatises.
&c., as being anonymous. Now, from
this, I am left, to infer, cither that you
doubt your reputation with the public,
and therefore withhold it; or presume
to attempt an imitation of the “ inimi
table ” essays of the Spectator, the
Bridgewater Treatises, Addison, and
Steele. Allow me to inform you
that there is a marked difference be
tween an essay—that is, a composition
intended to prove or illustrate a par
ticular subject; a treatise —that is, a
tractor a written, composition on a par
ticular subject, in which its principles
are discussed or explained—and a
bold, public, and personal attack upon
an humble minister, in the perform-
ance of his ministerial functions, in
volving insinuations, and misrepresen
tations, and all, too, without hearing
the sermon assailed. Will von claim
that the cases are analogous, yourself?
I perceive much more analogy in the
case of an enemy hurling his darts at
the object of his dislike and envy, in
ambush or under covert, from coward
ice or fear. And when I hear you
talking about “studiously guarding
against ill temper, and harsh epithets”
kc., but still thrusting away at me
and my people, I am reminded of a
ease in the Bible, of some “.coming
into the house of Ishbosheth” “as
though they would have fetched wheat
and smote him under the fifth rib.’'
And farther, that your withholding
your name is an act of injustice to
your innocent brethren. You know
somebody will be suspicioned, as they
have been. Some of your best mem
bers and best citizens of this place
being suspicioned, or supposing they
might be, have thought proper to dis
avow its authorship and any knowl
edge of it. Is it right or just to per
form an act we are ashamed to acknowl
edge. and thus leave others, (by suspi
cion,) to bear the responsibility of it?
With this course, and subsequent to
such an attack as you have made, the
assumption of “delicacy” for with
holding your true name, comes with
an ill grace, and the insiduous insinua-
tion upon me of “vanity, which de
sires to be seen in print,” for defend imr
myself under my own proper name,
against a notoriously public and per
sonal attack, is without puliation, espe
cially in a minister of the gospel.
Allow me-to call your attention to
another remarkable feature in your
communication. You evince unusu
al anxiety to become the exponent of
the Baptist faith, by the assistance of
ancient divines, councils, &c. Be ye
advised, bro. D., that independence is
one of the. leading features in the Bap
tist organization. A Baptist “calls no
man on earth master.” No council of
men, synod,* or assembly of Bishops
and divines dictate for a Baptist, or a
Baptist Church. We prize intelligence,
venerate age and experience, and ex
amine the systems of wise and pious
bodies even of uninspired and there
fore fallible men; but will bring all
to the test of tlie “thus saith the Lord.”
In the practical application of this
principle, no applicant for membership
in a regular Baptist Church is drawn
up and examined upon the particular
creed of said church. If lie satisfies
us that he is a true believer in Jesus
Christ, and will submit to the ordi
nance of baptism, as taught in the New
Testament, he can become and remain
a member, so long as he concedes to
others the rights awarded him ; though
he may differ with some of his breth
ren in the construction of the creed.
If he becomes a schismatic, then the
Apostle directs the church in the dis
position of the ease. But this is not
to be marveled at in one connected
with fin organisation the reverse of
independence; one directed and con
trolled by councils and conferences of
uninspired men.
Again, you seem to regard me as
almost an Arminian, (with yourself,)
because some of my views accord with
James Arminius. Why my dear
brother, your Arminian system would
be a bad one indeed, if it had no truth
in it. My motto, is, “prove all things,
and hold fast that which is good,” no
matter from whence it comes. Al
though you agree with John Calvin
in some things, and even with the bap
ists in some, yet I never thought of
claiming you cither as a Calvinist, or
baptist. But because I agree with
James Arminius in some things, and
resist fatal extremes into wlych hyper
Calvinists, and Christiles have run, I
am “deviating from ancient Calvin
ism,” “turning from my heresy,” or oc
cupying an undefined, and unJefilia
ble,'"arid mysterious position; so that
“you know not where to find, or how
to classify me,” f .
* I nso the term synod, #c., boeausa Wo. D, quo
ted from tho Synod of Dort, ic.Jns though ho
j thought tho Baptists wore bound by its dominions,
j wltlioift ny dor.igu of rolhvtkm,
You seepi very anxious to receive
“light” upon the doctrines involved in
this discussion. But I have despaired
of relieving you of the “sorrow” you
possess in not being enabled to “con
gratulate” yourself with its reception ;
arid am not now writing with the hope
of sucli results to you. And my rea
son, is, you have so little to do with
God’s word “the cnterancc of which
gi vein light.” You have found very
little use for it in support of your own
views, and have not even condescend
ed to take a passing notice of the va
rious quotations I have made in favot
of mine. And while you ratper sneer
ing] y allude to my “affection for Paul -
ism,” but “deny me the privilege of
being a good Paulite, until I became
a better interpreter of his writings,' 1
still you pass on, without quoting a
word, explaining a word, or even in
timating any definite false interpieta
tion I have made of said writings.
Having now availed my sell of my
right of replying to your attack, and
the personalities of your rejoinder, 1
shall proceed to the points of doctrine
involved, in the fear of God, suppos
ing them all by the word of the Loi and,
which “liveth, and abideth forever,”
and which will appear in the next is
sue of the Independent Press. Hav
ing had to visit Newton, McDonough,
Forsyth, Macon, Milledgevillc, and
Hancock, is the cause of delay.
T. U. Wilkes.
moil THE SOUTHERN EATT IST MESSENGER.
The Doctrine Stated.
Shiloh, Holmes Go., M iss., (
October 16, 1854. j
Brother Beebe,— Dear Sir: —In-
closed please find a communication
that I wish inserted in your valuable
paper, and also in the “ Signs oj the
Tunes." It is written by a gentleman
belonging to no church, but who in
clines" to the faith ouce delivered tQ
the saints.
G. VY. MCDONALD.
Mr. A. B.— Sir: —You desire me to
explain to you the difference between
God’s Decrees and his Foreknowledge
as regards the final destiny of his fee
ble creature, man, and in connection
with the assumption of God’s Omnis
cience. This 1 cannot do; 1 will,
however, submit the following for your
edification and future reflection.
First, God is not capable of a
SUCCESSION OF IDEAS.
If God is incapable of a succession
of ideas, He must be either fixed and
limited in liis appreciation of ideas,
or he must be infinitely perfect m His
appreciation of ideas, whether m rela
tion to the past, the present, or the
future. But the mind of God is not
limited in its appreciation of ideas,
“all things being to him one eternal
now.” Therefore, all ideas that are
embraced in tho Divine Mind, or that
ever can be embraced in it, were era
brae.cl mit from all eternity. If so,
then God is Omniscient.
Now, if the Divine Mind be incapa
ble of a succession of ideas, and Om
niscient, it loilows necessarily that all
ideas and events, past, present, and to
come, are continually embraced in it.
But if all ideas and events be continu
ally embraced in the Divine Mind, it
follows fatally necessary that inasmuch
as the nature and trails} iration of past
events cannot be changed, neither, in
deed, can the nature and transpiration
of future events be changed; for both
are equally embraced m the Divine
Mind, and contribute, the one with
the other, to make up the sum total of
Infinite Wisdom. Therefore, if any
future event be known to Deity, (or
embraced in the Divine Mind,) it must
inevitably transpire. But the final
destiny of A. B. in hell is a future
event. All future events are embrac
ed in the Divine Mind. All events
embraced iu the Divine Mind must in
evitably transpire. Therefore, the fi
nal destiny of A. B. in hell must in
evitably transpire, (else the Divine
Mind would embrace a lie, which is
absurd, impossible.)
And again, if the fact or event of
A. B.’s going to hell, or to heaven, can
be embraced in the Divine Mind at
any time, it must be embraced in it at
all times. Therefore, A B.’s final des
tinv, either in hell or in heaven, was
embraced in the Divine Mind anterior
to the creation of all worlds, and must
inevitably transpire, (as above.)
W. X. Y.
Os Yazoo County , Miss.
Bibliographical. —A late gener
al catalogue of English and American
books in all departments issued by the
Appleton’s, shows the followingg re
sults :
Number of authors, 4,773, of whom 1,-
503 are American ; female aut hors 294,
including 146 American ; number of
works, 8,241; of volumes in taking one
copy of each work 1V,301, whose esti
mated value is $40,301 ; number of dis
tinct subjects of works, 1555;
The most saleable English authors,
are Shakspeare, Byron and Moore, in
the order as here named ; of American
authors, Irving, Bancroft and Bryant.
The greatest variety of editions belongs
to Shakspeare.
Surgical Operation—An inter
esting case of excision of a portion of
the lower jaw-bone was performed a
few days since, by Dr, Fred. Geddings,
before the students of the Medical Coil
ledge. The patient was a negro girl
about .1.4 years old. After dissecting
tho-ilap of the cheek, lie divided the
bone in two places, removing a section
of about two inches in length. No
chloroform was administered, yet the
patieii.. continued calm and qujpt dur
ing the whole operation, which lias ev
er been regarded one ol the most pain
j ful in surgery. It lasted about live
! minutes, and was performed in a man
j ner highly creditable to the opera
! tor. — -Oh, Mercury.
'Valor and VrudenceS-but most
ly Prudnce. —Yesterday afternoon,
we were attracted to a front window
of our sanctum by loud words below-
They were discovered t.o proceed from
a young countryman —along, lank fel
low, not yet out of the downy state —
who was loudly and most emphatically
denouncing the Hebrew salesman un
derneath our office.
“Oh ! jist come out to 4 me ! Jist
come out here ; Trn in my store now,
vou ugly, hook-nosed, cheating, denied
—lrishman /”
The son of Abraham said nothing,
but privately despatched ajuvenile an
tibaconito for an officer.
“ Yes ! walk out; and 111 whip you
intodod-etcrnally*cvcWaslm’ chips, you
lyin’, no-account son of a—lrish
man /”
Israel replied not; but Pineywoods
reared worse than ever! 1|
“ The wav you cheated Jemmy !
oh, you,” (shaking his fists at him,)
“ wliifilin,’ lyin’, cneatin,’ blaok-h’ared
—lrish nian ! ’
A few Hebrews had, by this time, walk
ed up, but “theoriginal” stood impas
sive, while Piney woods declaimed:
“If I only had you out here”—grin
ding his teeth—“ I’d ehaw you up, you
dod-rotted Irishman ! you dog of an
Irishman! you 1 yin,’ thievin,’ chea
tin’ Irishman ! If this here nation wan
ted to, they could jist—-jist—jist —-put
you in prison, you whelp of an Irish
man !”
At this juncture, one of the young
man’s country friends approached hirn,
and after a little whispering, the twain
walked briskly to one of the many ox
carts on the square, when he who was
so anxious to engage a Jew-Irishman,
lightly leaped into the vehicle, laid
himself down, drew several bundles of
fodder over himself, and as the officer
hove in sight, we.saw 11 the friend” dri
ving “ peartly” round the corner into
Market street. It was as clever a re
| treat as ever we witnessed, for though
we could plainly discover its every
movement from a second-story wi ndow,
the crowd of wagons on the square pro
tected the retreating party from the ob
servation of those on a level with
them, —Mo I > too me ry Mo < l,
Charles Lever was coming over
to the United States in the Arctic, the
trip that she was lost, and was persua
ded by his wife to defer his visit on ac
count of a very remarkable presenti
ment that she had against it.
Money and tiie Magpie. —An old
woman in Wales, who was kown to
be possessed of money, died and left
only two pence halfpenny to be found
in the house. This occasioned great
suspicion of a poor girl who lived with
her, and who solemnly declared she
knew nothing of her mistress' affairs. —
While the relations were examining
her, a magpie which the old woman
kept, repeatedly cried, “ 1 11 hide more
y C t —I’ll hide more yet” —striking his
bill against the floor in one place so of*
Urn, that he attracted notice and a car
penter was sent for to take up tue plan ic.
It was fastened with a well concealed
spring, and more than £9OO was found
under it
Byron alias McDonald, who clai
med to be a natural son of Lord By
ron, and who was recently convicted
of throwing the cars off the track of
Michigan Southern and Indiana Rail-
Road,"with the intention of robbing
the mail, and who was for this offence
sentenced to the Michigan Penitentia
ry for life has, since his imprisonment,
made disclosures and confessions that he
and Napier,his companion in crime, rob
bed the mail on the Michigan Southern
Rail Road at the collision with the
Michigan Central Road, some fifteen
months since, at the intersecting point
of the two roads. He stated that in or
der to reach the mails, he crawled over
the dead and wounded. Napier has es
caped and fled to England.
No Good Deed Lost.—Philoso
phers tel! us that since the creation of
the world not one single particle has
ever been lost. It may have passed
into new shapes —it may have, floated
away in smoke or vapor —but it is not
lost. It will come back again m tho
dewdrop or the rain—it will spring up
in tire fibre of the plant, or paint itself
on the rose leaf. Through all its for
mations, Providence watches over and
directs ,it still. Even so it is with
every holy thought or heavenly desire,
or humble aspiration, or generous and
self-denying effort. It may gseape our
observation —we may be unable to
follow it, but it is an clement of the
moral world, and it is not lost.
Somebody, in the Boston Transcript,
| writing from a place called Jerusalem,
|in Virginia, tells the following good
j story, illustrating at once the impor
tance ot the letter “D,” and the bad
ordor of Abolitionism in the old Domi
nion :
Theodore D. Parker, Esq,, a mer
chant in Boston, happene t a few weeks
since to be a guest for one night at
Knapp’s Hotel, in this place. After
tea, as he was enjoying the coolness
of the evening in the piazza, he noticed
a gentleman in the oflice who was ex
amining the book of arrivals, and who
afterwards walked up and down the
piazza, scanning him (Mr. P.) very
closely. Some ten or fifteen minutes
passed in this way, when the strang
er broke the silence by addressing
him:
“Is your name Parker, sir?”
“ Yes sir.”
“Theodore Parker?”
“Yes sir.”
“Do you come from Boston, sir?”
“ Yes sir.”
“ Then sir,” (with the look as if the
identity of the individual were fairly
established,) “I suppose that you are
the man who goes about in New Eng
land, vilifying I,lie institutions of the,
South!”
“0 no, nod” answered the astonish
ed Mr. Parker, before whose eyes a
bag of feathers and a kettle of tar
danced a momentary de deux; “ I
am Theodore D. Parker—l am a mer-
PMIA-zb- ■, 'MBW IS . .
chant in Boston—Tam not the minis
ter whom you speak ir”
“Ah ! that alters the ease, then,
responded the cldva’fic Virginaan, in
a milder tone. “ B<r .allow me to give
you one piece of addee, and that is,
that if you are gbmr.to travel round
these diggins, youhjd better in future,
when you sign yourfname, be particu
lar and put that D. (1 —and plain
It is said that on; of the questions
asked of a eanditaj*jfor initiation into
the society of Kndw-Nothings, is as
follows: \ |
“ Will you do your utmost on all
occasions to renew ind* perpetuate the
potato rot, in order to keep the Irish
out of the country ?’’
The candidate if id milted must res
pond “I will.”
The Tide Blowing Back.- The
King’s County •hrurhal (an Irish paper
we presume) observes that several
emigrants, influenced by the accounts
of an improved state of affairs in Ire
land, have returned from America, to
settle in their native land, considera
blv bettered in their circumstances.
J t is probable that this counter cur
rent of Irish migration will be quick
ened and strengthened by the Know
Nothing or habitations of the United
States. It will not be strange if the
inluospitality which foreign immigrants
are now encountering in so many por
tions of our country shall tend to pro- j
vent their friends from following in ,
their footsteps thitherward, while ma
ny, not finding America that “asylum
for the oppressed of all nations,” which !
their imaginations had painted her,
will return to the land of their fathers.
“The wild dove hath her nest, tlio fox hia cave,
Mankind their country —Erin but the gravo."’
Plucking a llat. —Irish girls are
always pretty smart., but once in a
while they commit blunders and are
generally so ludicrous and funny that
it is impossible to get angry at them.
At one of the houses in litis city lives
one who has • been over ’ but a few
weeks. Lively as a cricket, industri
ous.as a bee, and honest and willing to
do, she oi course is well liked by
i those with whom she has taken up her
i ■»..-»
i aooue.
A few days ago, one of the men,
who is s imething of a practical joker,
happened to kill a large rat. lie hand
ed it to Kelly, and told her he wanted
it cooked for his dinner. Kelly, with
a curtsey, took the animal and procee
ded to the kitchen. A short time af
ter the lady of the house had occasion
to go to the kitchen, where she found
Nelly trying to pull the fur from the
rat, which she was occasionally dipping
into a kettle of scalding water.
‘ Why, Nelly ! what are you about ?’
asked the astonished lady.
‘ Sure an’ its thrying to pluck the
feathers off this thing 1 am;’ said she,
‘for Mr. towld me to cook it for
dinner. 1
The lady soon put a stop to the per
formance, and told Nelly with all the
gravity she con id command, that the
man had been playing a joke upon her.
‘Troth an’ a joke it is, sure enough,’
said she, ‘ for I never seen sich feathers
to stick in all me life.’
| We arc informed, says the Washing
ton Star, that a son of James Gordon
Bennett, the noted conductor of the
New York Herald, through the favor
of the French Emperor, is being edu
cated at the French military Academy.
Also, that Mrs. Bennett spends most
of her time in Paris. This will account
for Bennett’s desire to obtain the French
mission, and his silence, about “Napo
leon the Little.” Bennett, while a for
eigner by birth and in feeling, attempts
with his satanie sheet to control Amer
ican politics, maligning the leading
men of the country and villifying our
President and his advisers. It is such
creatures as this who prejudice natives
against foreigners.
Mr. Slow on Sympathy. —The
Boston Post reproduces the following
moral reflection of Mr Slow :
“Bimelcch,” said Mr. Slow, solemn
ly extending his arm like a pump han
dle, “you are. now old enough to under
stand the words of wisdom, being elev
en and a half-—in other words half past
eleven, and 1 wish to advise you never
to interfere with nodody, nor to interfere
with nothing that don’t belong to you.
Shut yourself up, like a gold eagle in
your pocket book, anb don’t get spent
in too much concern for others. If
people is inclined to goto ruin, let’em
go it they’re.a mind to —what business
is it of your’n ? Let’em fight it out. —
Why should you risk your precious
head in trying to save theirs ? When
you trade, allers look to your side of
the bargain, and leave the one you are
trading with to look after his. * If he
gets bit,’taint your fault. Take keer
of number one is Scripture, the rael
golden rule. He that acts unto it can
never die poor. Never have anything
to do with sympathy. Sympathy
doesn’t pay. Taint worth One per cent.
But if you must be sympathetic be
cause it’s popular, be sure before you
begin, that itaint agoin’ to cost you
anything, and then perhaps ’twill do
to invest in it. Nobob v never lost
anything by not being generous, so lay
by for yourself what lolks expect you
to give poor people and other vaga
bonds, and when you are old it will not
depart from you. You will have some
thing to count on to make you happy.
Pay your doctor's bills, confound a
hospital, and buy a grave stone full
of exalted virtues. Be careful, ’Biinc
lecli, allers look after the main chance,
and beware of sympathy,”
COUNTKUFEIT CHAMPAGNE. —A tri
al in Now York has brought out some
singular facts touching the manufac
ture of Newark oider into the choi
cest brands of Champagne. Empty
champagne bottles are bougt at the
hotels and other places, the labels are
ingeniously imitated, and the whole
finishing and packing are in exact re
semblance to the genuine article. The
efibiwescenoe is-given to the cider by
forcing air into the bottles. The spu
rious champagne is sold in great q uini
ties to the hotels and to dealers, and
the quantity of it drank, it is said,
greatly exceeds 1 hat. of the genuine im
poiiation.
JL.ITFR FROM
ARUIV.vt OF TUK
'MLJ MT M <KX» M • 4
N e w Y ork, December 9.
The U. S. Mail steam ship Union,
Captain Kichard Adams, has arrived
at this port from Havre via Southamp.
ton, with advices to the 22d ult.
The Pacific arrived at Liverpool on
the 22d ult., and the Niagara on the
19th ult. The Washington touched at
Cowes on the 19th ult. *
The Cunard steamships New-York
and Arabia had been taken to convey
troops to the Crimea. The Boston
line will be the only British line kept
up during the winter. Tile Collins
steam ships will sail from Liverpool
hereafter on Saturdays.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE;
The Liverpool Cotton Market.
—Cotton since the departure of the
Africa on the 18th ult. had declined an
eighth of a penny, and the market
closed dull. The sales during the
three days, comprised 10,000 bales,
including 4000 to speculators and ex
porters.
The Liverpool Breadstuffs
Markets. — Flour was quiet at prices
favoring buyers, and Baltimore was
quoted at 445. | er bbJ. of 196 lbs.—
Wheat was lower, and white wuh worth'
12s. 6d. per 70 lbs. Corn had declin
ed Is. per quarter, and failed comman
ded 445., yellow 455. and white 46a. pe r
4SO lbs.
State of Trade.—Business at Man
chester had declined.
The London Money market was un
changed. Consols'elosed at 91 o-L
G enkral intelligence.
The bombardment of Sebastopol
I continues, and reinforcements foi the
Allies were arriving rapidly. Every
j thing was prepared for an assault,
| which was deferred until the arrival of
i additional troops, which were coming
in .at the rate of a thousand per day.
Large Russian reinforcements wore,
also, in motion.
The English Government had call
i ed out the Militia Volunteers, which
| indicated a winter campaign.
The details of the battle of the sth
1 ult. show an English loss of tour gen
i erals and thirty-eight officers killed,
j ninety-six officers wounded, and 2350
| privates killed, wounded or missing.—
j The Duke of Cambridge and tiie Rus
sian General Liprandi were wounded.
Advices from Sebastopol to the 14th
| ult, state that both armies had com
j plcted the third parallel,
i A Russian dispatch says that the
I allies had made a demonstration.
I against their left flank, when the Rum-
I sians retired.
Lord Raglan had been made a field
Marshal.
Prince Napoleon had left the camp
in consequence of ill-health.
Prince Gortschakoff had intimated
to the Austrian Cabinet, the willing
ness of .Ru sia to negotiate a peace on
the basis of the four guaranteed condi
tions.
Lord Palmerston was holding daily
interviews with the French Emperor.
Lo r d Dudley Stuart, the celebrated
patron and advocate of the Polish
Refugees in England, is dead.
Advices from Stockholm, dated the
17th ult., state that fourteen Russian
war steamers made a veconnoisancc as
far as Dageet without encountering
any of the Allied fleet.
The Know Nothings.
It seems that an influence is arising
in the Know Nothing camp at the
North, strongly favoring the idea of
discarding the secret element in the
new creed, and carrying on the party
operations, like other parties, by day*
fight. Such a project has been dis
tinctly urged by no less a
than lion. John M. Clayton, in one ot
his recent speeches. The suggestion
has been warmly seconded by other
parties high in the favor and confi
dence of the organization, and it is by
no means improbable that before the
Presidential canvass of 1856 is fairly
under way the Know Nothings will
have taken the field as a distinct and
open political party. It strikes us that
when the Know Nothings once throw
aside their seeresy and inscribe their
real principles on their standards, thus
opening their measures and objects to
the free investigation and discussion of
the people, their triumphs will be at.
an end. Doubtless much of their
strength and most of their recent vic
tories are owing mainly to the secret
element of the order —the unity and
compactness of their political move
ments arising from the absence ot tne
direct and eileetivc opposition which
entire publicity would have incurred—
the novelty, and fascination for the
mob held out by the idea of a secret
organization, and the moral obligation
which the initiatory oath may be sup
posed to impose upon each individual
member of the order to follow in the
exact line of its dictation. To throw
aside the veil of seeresy would be to
surrender the great source of its
strength. The principles it aims to es
tablish cannot stand tiic ordeal of free
discussion, or the originators of the
order never would have so carefully
endeavored to throw around them the
cioak of secrecy. They have more
than once in other forms been condemn
ed by the intelligent and enlightened
public sentiment of the country. The
mere suspicion of entertaining similar
sentiments overwhelmed Gen. Scott
with the most disastrous defeat that ever
fell upon an aspirant for presidential
honors, and should the Know Nothings
bring out a presidential candidate open
ly on this platform of principles he will
meet with a more humiliating defeat
than that of the hero of Y*ra Cruz.
L I«« nta Intelligencer.
Beautiful is the love, and sweet the
kiss of a sister ; butityou havn’t a sis
ter handy, try your cousin, it isn’t much
worse. N. B.—ls you havn’t a cousin
of your own, try somebody else’s ; there
is ‘no difference*