Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 16 February 1856 — Page 2
TjHE REVIEW.
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For President in 1856,
JESSE D. BRIGHT,
Subject to the decision of the Democratic Nation nl Convention.
Democratic Nominations.
For Governor,
ASnBEL r. WILLARD, of White. For Lieut. Governor, JunN C. WALKER, of Laporte.
For Secretary of State,
DANIEL McCLURE, of Morgan. Tot Auditor of Stato, JOHN W. DODD, of Grant.
For Treasurer of Stato,
AQUILLA JONES, of Bartholomew, vi For Attorney Gonernl, JOSEPH E. McDONALD, of Montgomery.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction, WILLIAM C. LARRABEE, of Putnam. For Clerk of Supreme Court,
WILLIAM B. BEACII, of Boono. For Reporter of Decisions of Supreme Court. GORDON TANNER, of Jackson.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. OAR1IAM N. FITCII, Senatorial ALVIN P. HOVEY, Elector*. 1st Dist*—WTI.I.IAM F. PARROTT, 2d Dint.— SIMEON K. WOLFE, 8«1 Difit.—SAMTKR. W. SHORT, 4th Dist.—D. ON
KS,
fitb Dist.—EnsiuNn JoiiKfoN, Sth Dist.—MARTIN M. IIAV, 7th Dist.—JAMES M.IIANNA, 8th Dist.—JAMES S. MCCI.EI.LAKD, 9th Dist.—ORRNEUS EV:RTP, 10th Dist.—E. P. RANDALL, 11th Dist.—S. S. MICKLE,
Notice to Tax Payers OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
ALL
those who havo not paid their Taxes for the year 1855, nnd previous years, are respectfully Informed that the third Monday i.n March boin^ tho limit fixed for their settlement, penalty of ten per centum 011 all tuxes due and unpaid at thot time, will be promptly added and collectod.— Every tax payer who has not done so, is requested to come in and settlo without cost, as I will bo compelled to force collections after tlmt date.
LASS.
J. R. COONS, Treasurer.
Crawfordsville, Jan. 80th, 1SS6.—n29w6.
FUSION PLATFORM.
"Abolitionists to rule America." "Lei Uic Union slide!"
Watchword for the Campaign:
BJ3
"Put none bnt NIGGERS on
guard to-night.,,CRDD—FRED.
DOUG
The Lafayette American in connec
tion with the fusion papers of that town, have taken in high dudgeon an article we saw proper to write not long since, in reference to T. L. Breckenridge, a resident itinerant vagabond of Lafayette. The American teems to be terribly exercised about it, and pitches into us even more savagely than Swallow-tail, of the Courier.— We presume when the fawning sycophant of the American is informed that the Democracy of Montgomery county are fully competent to manage their o^n affairs and conduct their own organ as best suits them, he will not henceforth be so swift to administer reproofs or tender unasked for advice. Of course the Democratic party cannot be held responsible for the cringing timidity of an editor. We shall treat all political preachers alike, Breckenridge with his abolition, eegrostealing eccentricities not excepted.
Mr. JAMES-VANARSD ALL, one of the
moat incorrigible old liners in the Democratic party, presented as a few days sinee, with a couplo of papers of fine Turkish •smoking tobacco, together with a dozen of new pipes. Such generosity is deserving of more than a mere pasting notice, and we lake this opportunity of recommending to tho public, particularly to the young ladies, Mr. V., at the prince of good fellows Artless and winning in his manners, he cannot fail to eaptivaU the BOO* obdurate heart.*, eld maids not excepted.
Destruction of (kr Ristine Boise— ladiferenee of Providing against Fires*
This old favorite Hotel that has stood for so many years in our town, was destroyed by fire on Friday night, the 7th inst. The fire when first discovered, at about Sty o'clock, was found to proceed from the kitchen, which spread rapidly to the main building, and in less than an hour the entire establishment was a mass of ruins. Most of the furniture was saved in a damaged eondition. As a matter of course but little could be done to stop the progress of the flames, there being but few buckets and very little water at hand.
The indifference of our citizens to provide against fires it certainly astonishing. The spirit of old fogyism that has rested like a nightmare over the place for the last thirty years, seems to be so fixed that the genial rays of enterprise will never pene trate it. They area good deal like the old negro, that never thatched his roof in dry weather from the fact that it then didn't need it, and in wet weather because it rain ed. They all admit that we ought to have something to extinguish fires, such conclusion! being arrived at about the time some persons dwelling is being burnt down.— Crawfordsville hat now some three thouand inhabitants and the population rapidly increasing, yet she has neither a fire engine or a cistern. The only thing she possesses in the way of fire implements is a few hooks and ladders, the latter of which are so heavy, that at the present fire over fifteen minutes were consumed in getting one of them raised on the building. Wo think the inventor of those ladders designed them to be raised by machinery. One tMfcg is certain, that some steps must be taken, and that too immediately, to provide against the devouring element, or one of these mornings we shall wake up minus a town.
THE TEMPLE OF HONOR. a recent number of our paper, we took occasion to notice an institution of the above name. Our object in so doing was to warn the Democratic party of what we considered one of the many traps set to entangle them into the meshes of fusionism. At the time of writing the article, we had not the slightest conception that its authorship would be attributed to our worthy and much esteemed friend B. W. Hanna, and we will say right here, that the correspondent of the Journal is in error in attributing the article in question to Mr. H., who knew nothing of it until it appeared in the columns of the Review. As a matter of course this gentlemanly correspondent, who has thus lampooned an innocent individual, will not be slow in making such suitable apologies as the case demands. His being a templar and a man of honor, certainly warrants us in the belief of these conjectures. Who this terrible assailant is, we are unable to'divine. But it is a pity that so much withering and excruciating sarcasm should have been wasted and well nigh exhausted on the wrong person. We suggest that the fellow whose incognito is shrouded in so much mystery, re-publish his communication, substituting our name in place of Mr. Hanna's. Then if he is responsible for his assertions, he will have at least sufl&sient manliness and courage to come out under hi* own proper signature. Come Bughum, trot out your new sub-rosa into open daylight, that we may view, with an admiring gaze, the fine proportions of his cerebrum.
In
DAVIS dc GARVIN are now engaged
in making extensive additions to their mammoth cheap store, in order to meet the demands of their fast increasing trade. Next Monday they both start for the east, to make their spring purchases, and they assure us that it is their intention to have on sale, by the middle of March, the very largest stock of dry goods, clothing, fee., ever offered iir Crawfordsville. Davis & Garvin have a wide spread reputation for selling goods cheap, and wo would reeommend such of our friends as wish to buy their goods at low prices and be dealt fairly with, to open accounts with them for the ensuing year. In addition to the business they have heretofore carried on, their increased accommodations will enable them to keep constantly on hand, a large stock of groceiies, which they will at all times be prepared to furnish their customers at the lowest prices.
THE COST or A SPEAKER.—The pay of members of the House of Representatives, for the time spent in balloting for Speaker, amounts, in the aggregate, to a sum of three hundred and ten thousand dollars. If to this we add the pay of Senators who have been kept idle, or all but idle, during the time the House was disorganized, the saleries of clerks, messengers, fcc., and the expenses of publishing an official report of the proceedings, we would havo a sum of not less than half a million dollars to set down against the single act of the season thus far—namely, the election of Speaker. Mr.
BASKS, is the nost costly Speaker which Congress or the country has ever
had.
NEW HOTEL.
Tho subject of building a largo and commodious hotel is at present the all engrossing topic of conversation among our citizens. Many plan* have been proposed and many good offers made in the way of putting in corner lots as stock. There seems to be a general unanimity of opinion as regards the necessity of the town being supplied with a good hotel. All that is now needed is simply for the citizens to arrive at some definite conclusion as to where the proposed building shall be erected. The only obstacle that now presents itself is, not as to how
but we see no reason why ,„ch eons.der.-
V.
1 8
ICS of the town hare expressed themsehes
WARDEN'S OPERA TROUPE.
m.
THE PANORAMA OF NEW YORK CITY. The Centre Church in this place was
a
crowded to overflowing Thursday evening,
ri
apolis paper says, quite as good an idea of the great emporium as he could get by a weeks visit. All the buildings, piers crooked streets thronged with a hurrying crowd—"walking" as somebody once said "as if they had a dinner before them, and the devil behind them'
Nassau, shipping ware houses of Soutf, the
the stock can be raised, but where shall we better pay for reliable information than for build. We are aware that there are many falsehoods. But just for the present, as individual interests at stake in this matter, I Publi5 Pu,se
0W?ype
Jeal°us"|
in accomplishing this work. The meohan-!
ready and willing to contribute not only a" sionary, a new comer in a new country, is portion of their labor, but to supply, to a the least qualified to give reliable informaconsiderable extent, the material necessary 'Ion* for the construction of a hotel, putting them1,
in as stock. Why, then, we ask, under }Dg their fallen fortunes. Men who have such favorable prospects, should this mat-jentirely run down in their own State, men ter be delayed and in the end defeated?—• could not be elected constable in any We answer that there is no reason. Noth-
Tlm celebrated Iroupe from *ew York, |sas
.... and I draw my conclusion from what is ma that the bill advertises to be seen, and
more. You can read the seventy-five thou- here known as the "National Americans," sand letters on the signs of Broadway as and who vote for Mr. Fuller for Speaker, distinctly as you can those over the store "WIII
tumbledown sheds and the miserable pop- ??ts'IT.suPP.°rt
ulation of the Fire Points, the tombs, the candidate who entertains splendid residences of Fifth Avenue and
Union Parke, the great hotels and magnifi-1 cent churches are depicted just as they' would be seen by an actual observer,
performances at Spencer Hall this evening. We have not seen a more delighted audience for a long time than that present on Monday eveuing. On the programme we notice many gems—for instance, "Shell of Ocean," "Star of Home," "Welcome Home," fcc. "The Railroad Gallop and terrifiic explosion" is too funny for description. It cant be beat.
The Louisville Courier thinks that if
the breaking up of the present unequalled cold "spell" comes on with rains, there will be a flood, and greater destruction of property than was ever before known in the West. It exhorts all having property exposed to take care of it.
KANSAS LIES.
The papers political .and religious, teem with the most exaggerated statements and unconscionable lies respecting tho condition of things in Kansas. The liars are not regular and permament citizens of Kansas, but persons who have gone to reside there temporarily, and to accomplish special objects. These persons are of three classes. 1. Correspondents of the New Yoak Tribune, and other papers. They have been hired to go to Kansas for the express purpose of becoming correspondents of the papers. They are paid by the line, and the bigger the lie they can tell the bigger price they can command. This course would not pay well in the long run. A newspaper had
now
b,e*ts
in
r?lation
., Kansas, lying pays much better than truth
s.Missionaries
tions should defeat an enterprise that prom- religious newspapers. These persons may ises so much for the credit and future pros- not intend to lie outright, but they allow perity of our town. We sincerely hope!
ftnd
ies and trifling interest to influence him for truth of what they have heard rumored, a moment from putting his shoulder to the they sit down and write in a high-falutin wheel and assisting with one united effort
of whM lbeJ, affir£.. of mi,
3
,Pol,tlc,ftn *ho
bccn some disorders in
scriptioc. Let the watch word be, on with yet so aggravated as those which the hotel.
will give two grand concerts at this place, fault lies at the door of A. H. Reeder, the on next Monday and Tuesday evenings.— Governor, now the special favorite of these They are pronounced by thc press as being
same
superior to either the Christie's or Camp- d»ntnor the present Governor has any »u1 n, mi i- ,• r. rr 1 thonty to correct these lrre^ularmea. JNo bells. The Indianapolis State Sentinel thus tioubt butthe quiet and permanent people speaks of them: of Kansas have been interfered within their
The Concert of WARDEN'S Opera Troupe rights by outsiders, both from Massachuat Masonic Hall last night, was one of the setts and Missouri. But for all these evils best of the kind ever given in this city. It, there is a legetimate, safe and effectual remis not saying too much to speak thus highly Jedy, and that remedy will in due time be of their performances. Those who admire, applied, unless the country i* hurried into good music, and who delight in fun and civil war, and the union of the States dehumor should attend the concert this evening. There is nothing in the whole performance offensive to the most refined taste, as the hundreds who have attended the concerts can testify. Go everybody, and be delighted.
stroyed by the wild projects of such men as CHASE and GREELT.—State Sentinel. HE GIVES IT UP.
The following extracts aTe taken from the editorial Washington correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette. Col. SCHYLBR writes thus despondingly.
riM 1 As regards the Convention of the Amer-
ican parly which is to 69somblc in
to see this fine work of art. We were one phia on the 22nd of next month, I predict cf the audience at that time and can assure that it will never be able to unite, eiour readers that all is seen on the Tanora-
1 rn 1 plaftorm, with such men as Campbell, Gal-
doors on Commercial Block Crawfords- .1 .• Ioway, bpooner or ord upon the question villo. It exhibits this (Friday) evening, of slavery, and its extension into Kansas or and to-morrow (Saturday) in the afternoon Nebraska. They are as "national*, a3 the at 2 o'clock, and in the evening at 7. Democrats headed by Frank Pierce.
The Cincinnati Columbian says 20,000' Before reaching Washington I entertainpersons risited it in that city-an Indian-
ed
koPe,i".al tt?K,Vf
-the jam of omnibua.es, drays and carta, the North like Mr. Pierce, the banks of Wall street, printing shops of
but'^ C"°
£,uctl,men
me^
can conceive of nothing of greater interest. of lies to those who have never seen the great ci- about Kansas, and the result of its investiof ha to os ha at on is at in he pa a at seen it, than such an exhibition."
the opera on next Monday and Tuesday idox
evenings will bear in mind that they must go'
.1. iTC17 peaceable, very respectable, remarka-
early if they wish to procure good seats, harmless settlers in Kalisas, have been The Lafayette American says. murdered, or tarred and feathered, or tied WARDENS Opera Troupe resume their jjgnd and foot, and placed on rafts, by the "Border Ruffians of Missouri!" We thought "the outrages" had been more numerous than this, but this list "will do."
well-known gentleman of Boston
who has kept an accurate account of the themometer and barometer during the last fifty years, states that the past month of January has averaged four-and-a-half degrees colder than any preceding January ^rJhe last thirty year?.
f°
who correspond with the
to be hoaxed and
•i,-* .v— MI 1 reliable information. They hear rumors
Sul,ed
h7 un"
surmises, and without enquiring into the
Bt7le-in
gnmmtr and worst taste, to
,h\and
the INDEPENDENTS, of
matters concerning which "they Know not
h*Te$one Kan,8M
'or the express and only purpose of restor-
townshiP
tnown, have
.. gone to Kansas with the hope of being
.ng but enry and jealousy can do .t, and into position by some ctanco ware we are slow to believe that such will be the They are ready to exaggerate, misrepresent case. Then let there be no more useless and falsify both facts and fancies, for the discussion about this matter, but let the lo- 'purpose of accomplishing their own objects cation be selected immediately, we care not.of m,lf *®?rand?en?®nV 1 he re is no doubt but that there where it is, and the books opened for sub-
have none have
Kansas, but
happened, unavenged, in Cincinnati and Louisville. No doubt but many of tho
members of the present Legislature of Kan-
werc e]ected by illegR] votes but thc
b''ng agitators. Neither the Presi-
rhiladel-
candidates, UP°N
dai]y lranspirinff in
NEVER
A
".NITE-
PLATFORN?.
Congress. What are
EITHER
UPON
candidates or
,?* "PPf1""11
party would be made, North and South, upon a conservative yet liberal basis. That hope has vanished. The South make no coucessions though they demand many.— They think they are liberal when they cast their votes for such Northern men as Messrs. Fuller and Richardson, and support a
A It
as
D' N-
a
Presiden-
these senti-
KAN*SAS LIES.—The Providence PosthtL* been at some trouble to look up the number
the abolitionists have circulated
least one hundred Methodist ministers, fifty j*lg
twenty quakers, twenty-five to thirty
deacoat and iw0
T.rr r»marln
OWNING UP.—A Fusion paper in Connecticut acknowledges that about two-thirds of the stories about the outrages of the Missourians in Kansas are utterly ridiculous. It says: "The great hue and cry constantly kept up about Kansas affairs, is getting to be reallv ridiculous. We confess that we are heartily sick of it. One day the Republican prints treat us to long accounts headed with big capitals, of the outrages committed upon free state men, and the very next day a modest paragraph informs us that the story, after all, was 'slightly exaggerated,' a telegraph hoax, or some other humbug. The whole thin£ is beginning to smack strongly of political jargon. One is only safe in believing just about one-third of the accounts that reach us through the New York Tribune, and similar prints, from the
Territorv.
THE BRITISH CAMP AND AlflflE LAURIE. 1
We give below the words of "Annie Laurie," now the most popular ballad in the British Camp. It was sung by the second Battallion of the Rifle Brigade, the night prior to the attack on the Great Redan.— A correspondent, who was present on the occasion, writes: "Hundreds of voices, in the most exact time and harmony, sang together: 'And for bonnie Annie Laurie,
I'd lay me donne nnd dec!'"
"The effect was extraordinary at least I felt it so. I never heard any chorus in an oratorio rendered with greater solemnity. The heart of each singer was evidently far over the sea. It was more like psalm than a ballad for at such a time, on the eve of a great battle, a soldier only thinks of his love and his God."
ANNIE L^URrE.
Maxwelton brnes are bonnie, Where early fa'3 thc dew, And it's there that Annie Laurio Gie'd mo her promise truo Gie'd me Her promiso true, Which ne'er forgot will be, And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me douno and dec.
Her brow is like the snow drift— Her throat is like the swan— Her face it in the fairest That e'er the sun shone on— That e'er the sun shone on, And dark and blue is her e'e 's And for bonnie Annie Laurio I'd lay mo doune and dee.
Like dew on thc (rowans lying Is the fa' 0' her fairy feet, Lifc.o thc winds of summer sighing Her voice is* low and sweet. Her voice is low and sweet, And she's a' thc world to me, And forbonnio Annie Laurie I'd lav mo donnc and dee".
But how is it with France and England, the principal allies in the present war?— Within the present century France has acquired extensive dominions in Northern Africa. And Great Britain, holding her seat in an island of moderate size, near the Western coast of Europe, boasts that the sun never sets on her dominions. She has seized a great portion of South-Eastern Asia, Southern Africa, and Islands in the South Pacific, some of which, like Australia, arc of ibc m*go»tud« of Continents.— "But," say her apologists, "she has no wish to conquer more, and is anxious to avoid new responcibilities." Where is the proof of this? Is she not trying to obtain a route to her Eaitern possessions, through the heart of Asia? If she is anxious to avoid responsibilities, why not at onoe renounce her claims to the Bay Islands and the Mosquito Protectorate? Lectures to this country against an aggressive spirit, would come with a better grace from a quarter where they would not be contradicted and neutralized by the example of tho greediest and most aggressive nation of modern times.
(£/"John S. C. Abbott has recently received from the Emperor of France a rich gold medal and a letter, in acknowledgment of the Empeior's appreciation of Mr. Abbott's History of Napoleon, a copy of which the author had transmitted to his Majesty through Hon. Mr. Mason, our Ambassador in Paris.
are
B3T The United States and Rusia the aggressive powers of thc present day, the one in the old world the other in the new. The theory of the Romanoffs is, that tlrey should possess the Black Sea, Constantinople, Asia Minor, Persia and India that their empire should stretch from the Arctic Circle to Ceylon, as it already reaches from Finland to Kamschatka. The Republican theory is, that they should hoist tho stars and stripes on the north pole, and place the the same piece of bunting on the shores of Cape Horn. Universal empire, as far as may be, is at oncc the ambition and the bane of the Autocrat and Democrat.—Toronto Globe.
O'CONXELL describes roligious big
otry in the following nervous language: "She has no head, and cannot thinkno heart, and cannot feel! When she moves, it is in wrath—when she pauses, it
ami(j rujn—herprayers
to seventy-five Baptist ministers, fifteen to is a demon—her communion is death
AFRICAN OPERA. seventy-five Baptist ministers, fifteen to 'is a demon—her communion is death—her Those of our citizens who intend visiting
are curses—God
ortho-j vengeance is eternity her decalogue is
hundred and fifly! written in the blood of victims—and if she
stops for a moment in her infernal flight, it
kindred rock tQ whe, hfir Tulture
fang for a more sanguinary desolation.
JCST FOUR HUNDRED YEARS.—The first book ever printed with a date appeared in political party.
*1
1455, just four centuries this very year.— Nine years after, the Koran began to be publicly read at Constantinople, and at the same time the Bible was sent forth on the wings of the press, to the four quarters of the world, to counteract itsbaneful influence. And from that day to this the civilized world of Europe, and America indebted for that superiority which no second night of ignorance can darken, no new incursion of Vandalism can overthrow, to an enlightened, conscientious, independent press. Those four hundred years have changed the face of the earth.—Philadelphia Sun.
AUKCDOTE OF FRAKKMN.—On the occasion, while Dr. Franklin was in the Legislature of Pennsylvania he was busily engaged in some matter just as the Chaplain was about to pray. The preacher waited for the doctor to cease his attention to the object of his pursuit and attend to him, but finally the preacher spoke and said, "If the Hon. Philosipher will give his attention we will pray." Franklin, without raising his head, replied, "pmy aicuy.''
INCREASE OF CHIME) DECUJfE OF RELIGION, AND
TKfcVlJSE
op, iV-
THERE-
It is undoubtedly true that crime has increased at least two-fid, in nearly all the States, in the last fire years. During the same period, Christianity, in most of the old States, has been at a perfect standstill. In the city of New York, we are reliably informed, there are not so many Christian communicants outside of the Catholic church, as there were even ten years ago and almost everywhere else the same orsimilar results are shown by undoubted statistics, and admitted by the highest authority in the churches.
Something has produeed these results and there can be no harm, we think, "in inquiring what it is. If Christianity really possesses the beauties and virtues that are attributed to it, and vice is really the hideous monster that moralists and poets have painted it—how comes it that Christianity is declining and vice increasing? As citizens, if not Christians, we have a right to ask this question, for the community and the State are alike interested in it. It is our right to answer it, also, if we are willing to submit our answer to the scrutiny and criticism of both the political and tho religious communities.
We say, then, in the exercise of this right that the present deplorable state of things, can be attributed, with perfect justice, to this single fact—that for the last ten years the constant tendency in the moral and religious world has been, to an abandonment of those instrumentalities pointed out in tho
Sacred Scriptures as affording remedies and restraints for the world and a reliance in their stead, upon coercive enactments, to be enforced by severe and sometimes abhorrent penalties. In oiher words, tho tendency has been to abandon tho effective influences of other times, and resort to tho machinery of government to accomplish whatever seemed desirable in the matter of moral improvenaent.
The time was,—for we can recollect it,— when the Christian minister ppoke occasionally of the beauties and steadfast pleasures of Christianity—when he told us that the way of the transgressor was hard, while the way of the believer was pleasant and cheerful-^-when he warned his hearers against the snares and pitfalls of the world, against the sins that most easily beset them, against intolerance and bigotory, against oppressions of the poor, against lying and cheating, and against prid.e and extortion —when he appealed to all men to lead virtuous lives and love viriuous examples —to go out into the highways and byways la search of the down trodden—to preach consolation to the afflicted, repentance to the wrongdoer, and faith to the feeble—to attend to the sick, visit those in prison, feed the.hungry, and clothe the naked—to be kind, gentle and sincere—to persuado men, rather than drive, them, and in all things to remember that all were the children of a common Father. In those times, we had societies for the promotion of temperance and other undoubted virtues and their influence, gentle but powerful, was felt everywhere—in every city and village, in every neighborhood, fn every dwelling. Then, every community, every family,—• nay, the State itself—owed a debt of gratitude to those barriers against vice.
How is it now? The temperance societies nnd nearly all their cotemporary organizations in the work of reform, are dead and their old supporters are weary and worn with a five years crusade against intemperance and its accompanying vices through the p.iliiicitl channels. They havo been trying the machinery of government— thc Maine Law battle-ax—shouting for dungeons, and bolts and bars, learning to hate and curse their enemies—and wondering, sometimes, we suppose, why God did not annihilate everybody andj everything which did not yield peacably to their mandates.
And this new madness has got into tho church. The minister has become a politican, and told us who and what to vote for. In the morning we have had the the Maine law in the afternoon, anti-Ne-braska and the Wilraot Proviso and in the evening Know Nothingiam. This, we admit, has not been true of every church and every minister. Some denominations havo kept themselves,'out of the "whirlpool, and in others there have been many noble inrg? stances of a refusal to exchange religion for, politics. Nevertheless, enough has been witnessed to sicken and disgust the community, and to produce those results to which we have already referred. The precepts of Christianity have been disre-garded-pra ctical Christianity has been voted obsolete.
Who wonders that the crime has increased? Who wonders that vice flourishes? Who wonders that murder follows murder? How far think you, reader, would the fame and influence of Christianity have reached, if its founder had spent his time in Know Nothing lodges, and in exhorting the people to vote for this or that
tknf 1 KA I
geons
r:
Is it reasonable to expect
that the world will grow better so long as the pulpit is a political rostrum, and the reformer a mere advocate of chains and dun-
9—Providence
(R. I.) Post.
PREPARING FOR WAR.—The recent idle rumors set afloat by the Washington correspondents of the New ork papers, of a suspension of friendly intercourse between the United States and Great Britain, havo alarmed the good people of Canada and they are making preprations for war. Wo are informed by a gentleman direct from Toronto that fourteen loads of ammunition are now on the road from Kingston to Toronto. Each load is drawn by four horses. Mink, the stage proprietor, is to receivo 8,200 for the transportation service. This looks war-like—as if th6 people of tho Province were alarmed. The transportation of ammunition by land such along disr tance is unusual, and must cause some excitement among the people along the frontier towns.—Rochester,Union* Feb.
j^*There are fourteen female practicing phvsicians in Boston who arc graduates.