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n| - ... - f) oettj). : 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,) ========*== 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*