Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1849 : Weekly), 1853-09-27

              VOLUME XLIV. COLUMBUS, OHIO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1853. NUMBER 5 lllcckhi Oljia State Journal IB PUBLISHED AT OOMJMBUS ITKRT TUMDAY HOMING, Br SCOTT BASCOH, JODKKAL ItrtLDIHOO, BtQ8 Ut WU IT1UTK IRTUHCB OR Bit rFRflrS fiiMnaHyf adrattar In Columbus, t2.00.7Mr by mall, 1 W ; elub, of four tod upward!, 91.22 i of ten and upward, PI IKI. TIIK DAILY JOimNAI.il fUnrMud 10 city lutcribfrnit 00, 4Dd Ity mull at rV.ltO a yrar. TUB Tlll-WKKIUY JOURNAL U (3.00 Jr. KATFS OF ADVERTISING IN Tim WFUKLf JOURNAL liqua, !il I I I ' tf M CQ So i He 8e ! I So o 1 761 00 1 25 1 76 3 203 W 4 00 6 006 G08 00 U qilATM, il 001 604 60 6 00 0 608 0011. 76 1 26 1 763 35 3 604 006 00 6 00 8 00 13. 1 36 3 26 3 60 4 00 6 00 8 00.8 0010. 14. (l soutrt, ehBrnrwrtil monthly, '20 yeu ; weekly . . vx column, l etirioKfUin qunrwny Mj column, cliaDitmhIt qi.M-terly Qoolumn, I cbaDgwbU iiuirtrljr 10 lines of this HliHtype 11 wkoned sn,nirs. AdrertlMmeoU M-derml nil the lipids sxdusivfly, doubts tlia above rat. All UtvJtxl notlcrti ohwgwd doubts, and nuuured w if oUd. IttisccUcmn. Prom tho Cincinnati Timet. THE DRUNKARD'S HOME THE DRUNKARD'S D00H. BT INVISIBLE OHKKN, HQ. " Gu with me," said a policeman to mo, in the watch house, one nitiht lait winter, "and 1 will show you the ah ode of misery tho hnuntof intern pern nee." Though nnithT fond uf horrid lights, nor anxious, to look upon antlering humanity, l (fit inclined in occom pany this officer, whom I knew to ben kind-hearted man. and, what is seldom nmong policemen in these corrupt dny, an officer whose integrity wai indisputa ble. It win cold night, a strong nor-wester, Irt-ight- ed with Frost, roared through the strobts, creaking the signt, rattling windows, slamming shutters, tearing nw-niugs, and whirling light substance" through tho air, Its touch wa piercing, and even its ronriug Rounds madu one Mhuddor, as ho listened to it. " It's too cold to out, to-night," I replied, " and I would not venture to brave those piercing winds, unless it whs to see something extraordinary. " You ought to thiink Heaven that you are not nbli-god to so," imid ho, " lor there are hundreds, yen thou sands in this city to-night, who have no protection from those chilly blast. I meet them often in my weary rounds at night, and God only knows what suffering they endure. While warming my feet here, I thought of three little children, one bright boy, anil two sweet little girls, who, 1 know, aro suturing with thin so vero weather. Time and again have I relioved ihein, and it is to their homo il homo it cun bo called I propose inking yon to night. Come with mo. You may have the autUfnctinii of aiding mo in doing good, though you may sutler somewhat with the cold." I could not resist the uppeul.su cnrof'ully wrapping myself up in a heavy cloak, I told the watchman 1 was prepared to go with him, and oil' we started. Though early yet, but few people were in the streets; and those few. hurried rapidly along. We, too, wnlked fnst, for at first the wind seemed lo pierce through our bodies. Alter we hud walked some squares in silence, tho policeman took my ti'in, and drawing me closely to Ins sid said he would tell me a tmrrntivo, which would explain (he sad scene he knew it would be sad I was about In witness. " I am going lu lake you," he proceeded, " to Gas Alley, a loonliiy where misery dwells, if it Iihi a place mi earth. The house would have you particularly visit, Is the hovel occupied by Pat. Donnelly. Poor fat : I know him when he first arrived in the country, live years ago, a stout hearty young man, with an industrious, cheerful wile, and two pnilling babes. But alas! ho brought with him from his iniivo home, a h;.bit which I fear has ruined him ami his family, I mean the In bit of drinking whisky. At our first acquaintance I warned him of the practice, but he laughed at the idea of his ever becoming a drunkard. By degrees, however, his appetite for rum has increased, till from society. Ho makes but little money, aud that little goes tor rum." " How does bis wife st:ind this misfortune" I asked." His wife I Ah, there' the bitter part of the story. She too drinks, and is as had , il not worse than Pat worao than him who sat the bitter cup before her, and persuaded her to accompany him step by step in the depths of minery. That couple, once so hippy and so 1 comfortable, with such bright prospects before them i are now ruined," I " What has become of their children ? " I inquired. "They aro with lliem, but would bnvelied long since, hud not some tend neighbors occasionally sought them nut and taken oare of them. Hut neighbors are sometimes driven from kindness, and so it was in this case. When drunk, Pat and his wife always nhuse those who have time and again saved their children from starvation, nnd hnvo seven! times committed personal injury upon them. I ought to have arrested them long ago, but fearing that a commitment would seal iheir rum, I have endeavored to persuade them to reformation. I fear I have umlertukmi a hopeless task, if they persist in their ruinous course, I must mum arrest them. They are becoming too low to be allow ml to run at large," While he thus spoke, tears rolled from his eyes, and I saw that his words came from his heart. "I saw Pat today," he c uiiinued, "in lame Jim's gruggery, and I know that if he had any money, lame Jim got it lor whisky t and ns I am confident he has neither fuel or covering in his house, I fear for the safely of his family to night. Those poor neglected children will certainly freeze to death unless some kind person has given them shelter. Helio! what's this ? Ite exclaimed, as we turned into (las alley, "a man, I declare, lying upon the pavement, and almost frozen, too. 1 wonder he is not quite dead, laying here this cold night. By gracious! it is I'nt," ho continued, us be leaned over the body and sen n tied its features. " This is just what I expected. He has got drunk at tamo Jim's, been put out of the bouse, and wns too far gone to make his way home. Lucky lor him, indeed, that we have found him. II you will help me, we will carry him to hit house. It is only a low slepi from here " Wo lilted him from thn ground aud carried him home. Home! No not home; for that word expresses welcome luces, curd in I greetings, the bright hearth, he smiling family, comfort, cheerfulness and joy. Hut here was no cheerfulness no comfort no joy. All was dark nnd dreary, and cold as the frosts of wiuter ootiiu make it. To get at the door, we were obliged to take two steps balow the street, and after we hail opened it, another step downwnrds brought us to the lloor. The unfortunate tnau, itilV with cold, ami only saved from death by thn Urge quantity of whwky hn nnd drank, was entirely inseusihle. Wo Inid him on the Moor, aud then my oompsuton started to a neighbor's to obtain si light. I shall Dover forget iny feeliugs that evening, while standing in that little room hem-nth the ground, over that miserable human being. All was silent as death Indeed 1 felt that the (irent Destroyer was nih, waiting impatiently wiih his scytho to strike nn immortal mil from its earthly iiodr. 1 wondered why men capable of grott action, and possessed of strong mental faculties, could In-come m beasily as ho who lay before mo how thoy could sacrifice all pence, contentment and joy, to thedeaitily pleasure of inebriation. 1 stood in a drunkard's li mho the drunkard lying inenihle at nir ret, anil th winter s winds bowling through the open doorway, flow cold, how cheerless, how like tUe vaulted death, thought i, is tins placet Boon (ho hjI iceman returned, with a candle and matches, and closing the door to koepoutthe winds, struck a light. Horrible as tho place was in the dark, i it was worse in tho dim light of the candle. There lay the father nnd huiband near the doorway, covered with tattered garmeuls. Opposite him, stretched upon the lloor, lay tho wife and mother ! She wns still' and benumbed with the cold, and nigh uuto the gates of department of ihe county jail, I was hailed by one of iuu prisoners, wuo bhiu " Good mornin'. sir! an' would ve be afther eivtn' a poor woman a dime, sir, to buy a cup o' cotlee wid, sir!" Does the jailor not sive vou coffeo to drink?" 1 aked. " Not a bit of it, please yo, sir," she replied. "Whyt" " Faith, sir, an' I enn't bo afther tellin' ve's. Ho gives mo notliin' hut water, sir, an' it makes me head ache, it does indnde, sir." " Hut why do ihr v ntimsh von so T What have you been doing thnt makes them treat you so cruelly V i was rjoitr nnimn at an, nt an, sir." " What you tell de cemmna flat lie for. flal V said a largo black woman, who was sitting tion the floor in one corner of the room, smoking a pipe, "what you tell de gernman dat lie for, when you ttuow all de time ilut yo i get drunk and play dedehbel 'lore (ley fotchod you here?" Ihe poor woman hid her bloated lace with nor Hands, as il conscious she had told a lie, " What is your name f " I aoked-" Ann Donnelly," she replied. " Ann Donnelly ! why, you aro not tho woman who some months since rolled upon your child, while nitox- lcaieu, and nmeu it T ' " Och, the divil take yo, an' how did yo know that, sirl" ihe replied, chritiRintf the tono of her voice en tiroly; " ye'ro a lur, an' btd luck to ye, tou, if yo suy I kilt the baby. It died, it did, shnre." " It did die, truly," I replied. " But how come ynu neror I hoard that yon had reformed, and quit drink-ine altogether." " Fuit' an' I did, but bud luck to me always, sir, I met wid temptation an' couldn't wid stand it. I wns workiu' at a good place, sir, an' wid a Good woman. too, bnt ns the divil would have it, I found shu had a tmrrei o' brandy in the cellar. " And yoa drunk of it T" " How could I help it, shore, whin my dress rubbed it every time I wint down stairs?" " Very easily. If you choose. But I suppose ynu cot drunk, was dismissed from your place, and then returned to your old habits." " Kait' an' if yo we're a preast, yo could n t toll it ueiiner. " How long have you been in jail?" " Ten days, the last time." ' Why, have you been here before?" " Nearly all tho time, shore, for the last six months. Uivil ol a bit do I get out, or lake n drop o liquor, than thn ugly watchmen take mo right to iho watch-house."H Where aro your two children. Ann ?" " Oh, they are well to do in the I'oor Homo, shnre," " Have you seen them lately 7 ' " Not for five mouths, bless ye'ro hoart, sir. " Would you not like to see them T" "Oh, limy aro well to dn bntther widout their mother, sir. " I ll.inlr i,lnn,l U,,t u ,a.l tin. of ... husbriml, IV?" " He's here, too, poor fellow, working har-nd an the chain-gang. They said he robbed Lame Jimmy's money till one uiht, an' tho court put him up for four monuis, it did, sir." I wished to hoar no more. I had seen the Drunk ards Home, Mid now wai witness to the Drunkard') Doom THE ANNUAL SERMON DKUVKftRD DMOUK T1IR General Convention of Univcrsalisls FOR THE UNITED STATES, AT ITS SKSSIOIV IN COLUMBUS, OHIO, SEPTEMBER 21at, 1853 HV JtUV. I. IPWIU IAMHON, D.l. Of I.oiiitvitle, A'y. Rppnuie Iho finds el tho KinsjH of flyrfs holp them, therefore win i acrtiicn unit) idpio, insi luey rasy aeip me. n Uhkon. Tlemcti he sliy me, yet will 1 trait In him Jon xlll. 15. Thefimtof ihee itasaaes is tho lunnunHo of Aliuz kiug of Israel, wlm, m ihe hour of danger, lorsonk bis una ana caueii upon me hiois ot me noathen. The second is the utterance of steadfast Job, who, in the day of hi calamity, trusted in God and held fust his integrity. One is a man ol policy, who, having n fixed rules of action, is ever ready to adopt any oxpe' dient that promises temporary safety or advantage. Tho other is ihe man of principle, who knows that ox- pt-dients are false ami irencherous, and nt nil hazards now worthless and unreliable, he is an out oust, inainlHin his ten Ity to truth and duly. The two tn Ki ii'T aro Beivnu-u an nn nppruprniia mono io n all' cotirne, whose object it is to treat ol religion ns a mat ter of principle, and of Universalm as that form of Christianity, which, in an especial manner, repudiates the schnmiiigs of policy aud ihe truces of expediency, and builds, theoretically and practically upon those immutable principles, winch aro the same yesiorduy, to day and forever. If we mistake not, it is one of the peculiar Chirac teristirs of our relicion, that it contemplates tho gov eminent of God, at walking by rules that know no abatement, and appeals to principle, as tho motive and the boundary of human conduct. The Gods of other systems are tickle, and fruitful of expedients and schemes ol policy, adopted to meet contingencies un for seen or not provided for, and changing their conn' HelHoltentnmeetea.h new emergency as it arises, But our God is a being whose government swoops the whoio circle ni i no past, present and lutore, ind is recul nied by rules lint meet all possible circtinstati- cesand runthron"h all 'Iheshaposof swiltcontingence" from Din birth of time, to the endless cycles i.f eternt ! ty. Other systems make the prartico of religion u master stroke of policy a grand expedient, by which to cheat justice of its dues to escape hell and gain heaven ; but Christianity appeals to principle and aks men to serve God for tho love of him, and practice, virtue for its own sake. Hence we say that Univer nlim, which is to us tho highest form of Christianity, is eminently the rolegion of principle, and It is the high privilogeoliis advocator, to stand before tho world as Christ's freemen, demonstrating ihe truth, tint men can bo loyal to the truth and contrience, without the terrors ol the slave or the nierconary groed of tho hireling, who, with equal readiness, serves him that pays the best. To illustrate the position here assumed, and exhibit the contrast between a religion of principle nuil the systems of the world, is the work before us; and we proceed as follows: 1st. Chritiniiy, in its theory, represents tho government of God as a government of principle. it nai is a principle i Aiis, In a gnnerel seme, It is the source, cause or origin of any thing. In physics, it is an element, a constituent purt. n primuidial snhs'sncn. In science, it is a truth, admitted or proved a general truth. 1 1 logo, it is that which supportsnn assertion or an arim men). In morals, it is a settled law, a fixed rule of action, which regards the distinction between tlieriehi and the wrong. This hut Is the sense in which we use the term prin ciple, as predicated uf the government of God. When wo say that the government ol heaven is a govern ment uf principle, we would he understood as nib ruling that there are certain settled laws, certain fixed nnd immutable rules, by which every movement of that government is regulated that these rules sacredly regard thn right, and that by these God walks nnd has .tr walked, without a hair'a breadth of deviation.It is nocoisnry carefully to distinguish between the principles and the facts of Divine government. A fact is any thing that comes to pass, or that exists, or is said to exist. Iu science, fact may be assumed as a principle or rule of investigation. But It is not so in morals. There are indeed facts to which principles may benpplied, but the I sets nnd the principles are not one and the same thing. Thus, it is a fact that our country lias asserted and maintained its independence, aud is now one of the family of nations. Hut that lact is not a rule that determines the moral character uf ihe nets of our government. It ouly places us in position to net, but does not fix the rule of our action. Again, it is a fort thnt "all men are bnrn equal" so far as their natural rights are concerned. But this fact is not a principle in morals. From it, however, flows tho conclusion that the good of nn man, or class ol men, can be arbitrarily saeri lined to the good of another man, or elms of men; aud henco tho real principle, that the good of all the governed is the legitimate oh joct to be sou-ht by every government; and whoever departs from'lhat rule invades a sacred principle. 1 his disillusion between n tact and a principle seems death. In one corner, iu n p.le of rags, lay the two j neenssary, because it is precisely here that the religion eldest children, sweetly locked in each other's arms, of the world makes its most fntal mistake. It nredi- At lint wn thought they were dead; but, afier ennsid- cates certain facts of God and mau, which are well orah-t ilVirt, wn aroused iliein from a sleep which ' enough as facts, but terribly subversive of truth nnd cnuie near being their Inst mm. Poor children t lhiy am. ii witu tii.i ( .lit, iimI cr:ed lo tin in ken to tome place where they could got warm. We wrapped our cloaks arouutl them, and bmko up a table, the only furniture in the room, tn make a fire that they nikdit get warm. How they huddled around ihoflumvs, and ' patiently bore the pains the welcome fire produced ! " I do not see the baby," said the watchman, "some of the neighbors must have taken it." I looked through the room, like him, In vain, for tho infant i and we thought thnt soma kind heart ha I saved it from participating in the misery of that niuht, The eldest boy, however, whoso eyes were sharper man ours, dispelled our hopes by exclaiming, " There's sissy, lying under mother." He spoko the truth. That drunken mother hid rolled upon her babe, and crushed it to death 1 My heart sickened nt the sight, and I fell that I could en- dure no morn. The watchman ho who wns familiar withcritne nnd misery was overcomo with tho shocking sight. It wns indeed distressing. The neighbors Ween rnlled on. tb flornsnnf llmehild attended to, nnd its living brother and sister made comfortable. The Uiher, nearly dead, with the nn conscious murderer of her child, was removed lo ihe watch hnuso, that they mixht not freee to death in their miserable hovel, ft was neir daylight when I separated from the watchman. He hud spoken but Utile to me for several hours, so absorbed was the ter rible events or the night; hut when he shook my hand, as I was about leavimr. hn naked mournfully. " Have I not shown you the abode of misery, tho na'im oi nurra pomace i - i ruty be naa justice when exalted lo the office and the dignity uf frinctiles. i et ihis is the constant error ol Ihe then ooy to which we have alluded. There are a large number of sects tn the christian world, divided upon minor points of doctrine, or church government, or forms and ceremonies i but there are, niter all, nut three essentially ditterent views of the government uf God, to far as its general princi ples are concerned. 1 hese are : 1. Thr DmroTio View. It contemplates the soy. ernmenl of God as an absolute despotism, and assumes the divine sovereignty as a cardinal principle. "God is a sovereign, nil has therefore a right to do as he pleases,' is the ultimate rule by which it decides al questions that risn in regard to the moral aspect of any act of his government. He is a sovereign, who bye divine right rules with unbounded away, and who never does any thing because It is right but every th ug he does it right because he does it, is the grand principle ol this system. If he makes his own glory the sole object of his reign, and immolaira upon its altar the temporal and eternal interests of his creatures if he requires uf man a sinless obedience to a hard and ungracious law which ho knows man cannot obey because of Im utter and total depravity, and visits up n turn tortures such as devils could not invent as thn penalty of disobedi ence if he capriciously, and "out of his mere good iilensure, and without the least forcsiuht of faith, Rood works, or any conditions to be performed by the creature, elects some men and nniels to be redenmed I and everlastingly aaved by Jesus Christ, and passes by the remainder, and ontaina mem tn uisnonor ana operate upon the hearts of the elect, by tho power of his irresistible grace, converts them in spite of themselves, aud saves them, whether they will or not, and interposes an eternal decree us a wall ot adamant to render the salvation of tho mm elect hopelessly impas sible, the objector is silenced by tho ploa, " God is n sovereign and h is a right to do as he plense. Who art thou that replyest against God 1" And this is the priuciplo aud the rule the oil of cousecratiou, that sanctili -i ovcry deed and settles tho question ol the moral quality uf every act of God's government. It it, in faut, the universal solveut that harmonizes all the discrepancies, explains all the mysteries and justifies all the enormities of the system. Just here it is, that ibo sad and latai mistutte is lotuid; for in all truth, this doctrino of the divine sovereignty, which is nssiimod as a central rule or principle of God's government, is nn principle at all. It is a mere tact; n (thing more, nothing less, mat nod .a a sovereign is most surety a fact; harmless nnd even important it may be as a fuct ; but I submit that it is no more than a fact; and capitally does that man err, who mistakes it for a principle, or rule of mural action, by which to justily deeds, that ignore Ihe right and toe wrong. It is a fact, that' Nero reigned as sovereign, but it were an awful perversion of truth lo assume, that tact, as a moral principle, and by it attempt to justify the toul nbomitnttums or that blood gtu ty tyrant. It is a fuct, that Nicholas, of Uustia, is a soveroifjn, who reigns with despotic sway over the down trodtluu millions, whose every bono aud muscle moves nt his will. But what then? Shall we mis'nke tho fact of his sovereignty, for an eternal priucipln of moral go-vernmont, and by it justily tho deed, if he chooses to trend down Europe with the iron heel of his power, nnd tramplo the nations as dust under his feet ? t3ln.ll we insist that, because ho in a sovereign, he mayjustly let loose his myriad Cossacks, and new down the heroic Magyars, as grass before the sythe of the mower, and thus quench in blood the last ray of light that Dickers upon the altar of constitutional law nnd liberty, iu that ill starred, ill fa'ed portion of God's beautiful earth? Shall wo insist that, being n sovereign, he may. therefore, lift his ponderous sword yet red with the blood ot ihe martyrs ot freedom; and smite the turbaned Turk, who opened the dour of his tent, to receive and feed tho hunted deer, and savo him from the blood hounds ihat pursued him? Niv. Fact though it may be, that ihe Car of all tho Hussias is a sovereign, admitted to be such, through alt his realm, it is not theretoru a priuciplo, that can justily deeds ot tyranny and oppression. And the time cometh, whoti the proud Autourut shall learn, that there are principle that cannot be disregarded with impunity, be cause they are moro perm inntit tlmn his throne, more powerful than his si.m-1 girt legions of war i ami mon arch and slave am nliko bound by the eternal rotes ol justice, and must bow down together at tho oltar ot truth and duty. And so in the case before us. It is a fact, thnt God is tho sovoregu niter of heaven and earth, who rotgns without a rival or compeiit'r, through tho ttnmeiixiiy of his works, and considered simply us f;u:t, it is ono over which men aud angels may well rcj ico. Hut when we attempt to elevate that fact, to the dignity of a fundamental principle of God's moral government, we depart from th-jtruih; wo suspend the desiimes of tho universe upon nothing and prepare the way lo uapiisn uiu Ion test tyranny iu tho name ot minute and j almighty goodness, ' Wo cannot characterize a government, which thus rests upon a mere fact, as a government of principle; nnd therefore we h ivo called this tho despotic view of the Divine government. It has, indeed, ns niott governments have, one grand principle on which it proceeds, and that is the sauio that characterizes nit despotisms, to wit : The principlo of supreme and unmitigated st'lfinhnesn, whkh seeks the glory and stability of tho throne, at ell eveiiN, and maintains it at all hnzirds. The flat of its ruler is, ' I will do nil things for my own glory, and my throno shall be sustained though il cost the sacrifice of tho eternal interests of all my subjects," and from this rule it novur swerves by the breadth of a single hair. 2. The next view of the Divine Government to be unfed we will call, Tnr. I'i.tiia Democratic Vikw. We use this term for want of a bettor, to designate that view of religious truth which preserves tho Sovereignty of God iu theory, hut In practice leaves man the elector of his own course, ihe lubricator of hii uwu character, and the arbiter of his own detsiny. A Democracy is Ibo government of all over each: but Ihis goes beyond Democracy, in the fact that it contemplates the government of each man over himself; the power nbove him idT irditig him only counsel and advice, leaving htm always to hit own election, whether he will heed it or not. Hence wo designate this the Ultra Democratic view of G id's Government. It falls into tho samo error as the Despotic view, iu substituting a (set for a principlo. It commences however at the other end of the line. The one predicates of Gnd that He is a Sovereign, and makes this the end of His government; the other nsserts of man that he it a free agent, and makes that the principlo of Hii reign. If Ho abandons man to himself, unit leaves him effectually without government to pursue his own way, and work out his own salvation, or perish forever if He chooses tn peril the immortal interests of our entire raco, upon the " hazard of a die" so uncertain ns the volitions of man, and permit them all to work iheir own ruin if He exposes thorn to temptations that are too mighty for Ihein, and places them iu jeopardy of a fat that nature shudders to contemplate aud if the final result should exh bit a Henveti with a fragment saved, and a Hell where countless millions mourn that magic wort, "Iru Agency, solves the whoto mystery; and nil tho nets of omission nnd commission on the part of God are justified by ttie p'ea that it is nil man's fault; God made him a free agent, and ho might have been saved if he had so willed. Tho bUiuo is upon hi own hend, and God could do no more, unless He made man a macbino, aud tint He would not do. Thus it is easy in sen, that this idea of free agency itcctipie the same position iu this view as that of Divine Sovereignty in the other; namely: that of a con trnl principle, a settled rule, that must bo observrd; a rule that limi's even the exercise of tho power of God. determines His line of action, gives character to all His acts, aud justifies all the menus by which its ends are consummated. And now, what we wish to say of this assumed principle of Goda government, is precisely what we said of the oilier: It is no principle nt all. It is a mere fact, which may or may not be trim of man ; but can never approach within hailing distance nt a prin ciplo of tho Government of Almighty God. We must not thus attempt lo bound the inliuite by the fluite. It may be a lad, that man is a free agent, and what then ? Musi God abandon ihe Throne ol the Universe in his favor, nnd leavo the world to oit tn ruin in its own wny? Must God himself tike that lact ns a moral principle, and by it justily deeds that would disgrace a despot? No matter what man is; mi agent bond or free. Whaiever bo Ii, enn amount to no more than a fact, to which the principles of God's government may be ap plied ; but the principles themselves nre as high above that fact, ns the heaven are nbove the earth. Wo cannot allow that a government which thus reals upon a mere fact, as it regard man, is a government ol prin cipio. Kathnr, as a whole, it is a government of expediency. It presents thn whole plan of human salvation as an afterthought of 1he Divinity, a schemn of policy formed to meet circumstances mat nmsp; an expedleur, ml-.p-1 ted on the occurrence of an emergency not contnm-p luted in thn original plun, and of course, not provided for in any fixed and eternal principles of government. ' The only pervading principle ihat we can perceive as running through Hie system, is what wn might properly term the principle f non-intervention. Tint is to sny, God hat made man a free agent, and it is a sacred principle with Him not to interfere with that ngency. I to linn pitted man in a battle for life or death with Sat nn, and He intends to let him fiht it out ; not to aavu the soul He love wdl He interfere between the two, except in the way of admonition and advice; tor He has determined innt man snnu he iron, at alt hazards. That is iioii-itderveution j nnd if on iis altar tho eternal interest of h'df our raco shall bo immolated, the justification is, Man wm a freo ngtnt, nnd Gnd stood fast to the principlo of permitting him to go his own wny, even it he went to " eldest imu." Ho sat upon the throne, and snw hi infatuated nnd misguided children, rushing on, to irretrievable ruin ; but no effort of his power did he choose to employ to avert them in their mad career ho raw (hem fall, but no arm bad he to put forth and pluck them as brands from thn burning, and preserve them as the trophies of hi all conquering nnd victorious grace and all this because ol tne tact, mat, mnn is a tree ngeni, and (tuu, bns determined that, he will not violate ilmt agency, 3. Thn next and only remaining view of ihe divine government that we shall notice, i the Patiiinat. vikw. It contemplate God as llin sovrelu ruler of ihe Universe, whose government is absolute indeed, but whose characters that of a Father, aud all whose Laws are founded upon the principle of paternal love. He ti good fan, the only good, and from the pro- lonndest depts of hi being come the eternal principle of doing good, and only good- It contemplates the Tact of Ins sovreignty, not as tho ruleot his government, hut as the high and exalted position from which infi nite love can display itself, in all possible form of goodness. it see tne august aovreign upon m throne, in tne heaven of heavens, bondii s with sympathetic interest over his frail children on enrth ; and saying, a It were in uunseii, i am uod, and beside me there l none else, 1 have all thins and need not h inn my story is neriec.t ami cannot On diminished, lo me nothiug can be given; from me not hi nil can be ta ken away. This, and thi only, shall bo the ruin of my reign, "1 will do all possible good to the Universe and lothevastfamily that I have made,11 Then friends, i a principle, and it is the central principle ol the A Tew day nuce, while going through the female I wrath for the praise of hii vindictive justice " if he reign of God. It pervades every department if his vast government, and to it all else is u users lent. It pene trate and consecrates every Law, and every act of God to ua ward, and in all Ihe boundless universe that depends upon him, and live from hi life, the indexi ble principle of doing good, hn oot been forgotten in the ieii potunie instance or degree. , The principles of mercy and Justice, are all good, and aa applied to the ever changing circumstances of human lile, and alt possible varieties ei character, and shades of virtue or vice, they are but manifestations of this one pervading principle of doing good. Hence U Uod punishes man, it is to uo mm good, it no leaves him to mourn in sadness and tears, for a season, it is best that he should be so left. If storms arise, and tempests astail, it is boxt that they should blow or beat; and in all the intricate windings of that laby rinth of divine providence through which wo must pass there is not an evil that ntllictg, nor a sorrow that assails as, that is not intended for good. Dowu h're, upou the surface of this dim orb, tho skies may be overcast with clouds, in which no bow of promise appoars, but away up in the clear blue beav ens, where the stars make their dwelling, and God himself resides, Merit shines the sun of eternal love, as bright and brilliant as if no cloud rested upou the earth. Then is bod, ne moves tits tnignty arm only that he may do good, he lifts the finger of his power only in that work. This is the Universalis view of the government of God, and for this reason we have said, it is emphatically the religion uf principle. He that embraces it, stands upon a rock that cannot be moved. He leans upon n principle, that runs aubro-ken from tho highest heaven to the lowest earth. He sees in God.nn infinite Fattier, whose government is no series ot expedients, resorted to a occasion may require ; but a great plan founded upon and guided by principles at immutable as God, and pursuing, with stonily aim and uudvia'ing purpose, the work of doing good. Evils may come, u nemerous host difficulties may rise, full and impassable before him, and dangor prose nt themselves, from which no avenue of escape may appear; but not like Ahaz, when the Philistines were upon him, will he forsake his God, and flee for refuge, to some temporary expedient; but rather as Job, in the timo of troublo, he will hold fast to principlehe wilt see it us a star of hope, gleaming upon the darkest night of his donpoudeucy, nnd standing upon a stendfitt nek, with heavenward eye and holy trust, ho will my, " Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him." This is our idea of a religion of principle, 2d. Our second general remark is; Christianity teaches that all human virtue is Ihe result of adherenco to priuciplo, in practice. It i no misrepresentation of the Thelogical systems of the day to s ty that, as a geueral rule, ihey represent the practice uf religion, as a more expedient, or stroke of policy, designed to secure heaven and escape hull; and that, the highest objeot of its teacher is gained, when, by an appeal to all possible hopes and fears, thoy hnvo succeeded in persuadiug men to adopt thn proposed expedient. How generally and how widely ihis vew ot ronton ha prevailed, and bow little of principle enters into the ideas of the professed followers of Christ, may be in lor red from the fact that low can imagiiio wh tt possible motive to a religious life would remain, if the fear of hell were removed. They can undoi stand well enough the expediency of virtue itnu mo inexpediency oi vice, it tuo one can gaiu them heaven aud tho other bring them hell; but the lofty and confiding trui' in principle, put into the mouth of tho child of the forest, when ho savs, ' Met- amoro cannot lie," is n hmght of virtue, that the christian pulpit hat not yet attained. Hence, a popular and eloquont divine remarked In our hearing, iu the desk, that ho iornittil to In honest and plain to tell his hearer the whole truth, nnd warn them laitlduily o their danger, and the renson given was, not because he lovnl honesty and truth nor yet because he had any special objections to lying, in itself considered, but it wai a matter of expediency he expected to give un a'-coilii' for which he said, in the day of judgement, and therefore he would for that oncn, nt least bo kind and true. But tins is not Universalism- On thn contrary, il appeal is to principle, rather than policy. It rejects tho terrors of the lash, and tho wng' S of the hireling, ns motives to a religious life, and appeals to men every wnoro, ami always io love goon tor his own sake, nnd serve IU m lor the love ot him. it insists, that the high est and most authoritative law, tint can bind the hu man soul is iho law nt rightthat il mm were alone with God in the universe, and heaven and hell were nor; still he should bow down iu love, nnd serve and adore him ; nnd well does it know, thnt, thoiirh hell were blotted out, and Satan destroyed, and every " hangman's whip " that holds the world in awe, were utterly annihilated ; in nil God's utmeria, there would not bo lelt n Hung lens to Iovh nuil ndro n charm n virtue would not be hut a principle of God's gov ernment taken nwny, or a pure and legitimate motive reraovod, thnt shoidd hind the hitmnn soul to tho lovo and practice of religion. God help the world, when it come to that, the btreliug'tt wuges aud tho- master's cottrge nre stihsiiiuted for principle, and held ns tho only or too elil'd indonninnols tn Mitt service of God It is this constant appeal to principle this eitort to movo iijan by nobler and more substantial, better and more permanent iiiliuences, lint distinguishes Urnv r salinn, from tho systems of iho world, and mak-s it, in this respect, emphatically what we hnv" oilled it, the religion of principle, and It is precisely Ihis that will give it the victory nt last. At present, and for the timo being, it in ty bo one of the causes of its alow mid toilsotno progress, and of the stern conflicts through which it must puss, in order to win its way to public regard and assert its sway over tne nearis nnu lives m men. So short it the vision of mnn, so liable is he to be deceived, and trust tn sight rather th in walk by laid) so prone is he to imagine present mlvantagcs in evil, nnd to net in reference to policy rather than principle so long tins mnn neeu moved as beast are moved, by impulses and fears, that it is no ciuy matter to dispel the-o phantoms, and show him, in tho realities of the univoise, that tmu solid landmark of principle is more permanent, and more to be trusted, than all tho iant$ fiitni of policy thnt have danced over bug and fun. and leu men on, in iuii cuan m expedients irom mo nay 1 thnt Ahaz forsook his God to tho present moment Yet, so it is, and good old Job, in ntlliclion, hurled headlong from alllueuco to poverty his children dead around htm, mini o solitary being, tint a drop of Ins blood rati in tho vein of mortal mau hit body smitten with boils, from the crown of his head to Ihe sole of his foot aye, Job sitting there in sack-cloth and ashes, tho tears falling like rain-drops from hit eyes, and yet, looking hopefully upward, unfaltering in his adherence to principle, and saying, "(hough he slay me, yet will I trust in him Ac i a stronger and safer, as he i a better man, than Ahnx ou fits tluoiie, limit ing in difficulty, and soeking rolief in tho wretched expedient of abandoning the rock of his salvation, and sQcrilicing to tho gods of the heathen. Knougli has been said to justily our position, that Universnlisin is a ri ligiou of principle. Its mission is to assert tho supremacy uf the right, to exalt mnn from the condition of a slave to that of a free man, nnd cause him to render unto God the liliat obedience ol the child, rnthor than the cringing servility uf a vassal, or the mercenury service of the hireling. Two things more wn would snv bo fore we close. The first is, that there is no difference of opinion union g the advocates of ibis doctrino iu regard to it great principle, we may diiu-r in regard to the lact of the Divine government, or wo may differ in reference to the mode and manner of applying principles lo the affairs of men 1 but not a man of u doubts thnt the principles aro them ie Ives real nsGod, and stable ns his throne. We mny differ as lo the time when the good ihall prevnil over all that wears the form of evil. and wo may discus the question of the mean thnt God employ to tins nnu, nut let not too enemy tn iimph, or imagine for a moment ihat we aro a divided people. IfO tHM BUM imriU MM Hni ! tun. ), truth that lies at the foundation of our faith, that th first principle ol the government of God is to do all possible gonci, stmit soon Know wnuiner or not we nre divided. tioBhuii nun mat not a man ot us has tattered in our fealty to ihis great truth. So long, then, ns wo are united in principle, wo can all'ord to differ, as nil men must dilfer, upon questions of fuel, or policy, and no harm will ooitiu of it, so that wo do not exalt our facts into principles, or our expedients into mutters l conscience. Once more, we have to say, that what we want most of all, as a denomination, is a firmer reliance upon the omnipotence or priuciple) ami a holier trust iu the power of our religion. Alms wns in trouble. The enemy had come out to war against him. Ajalon ami tho adjacent citie had fallen, and the safely of his kingdom was menaced by the sword of the conqueror. His confidence in that (tod, whose nnu had been Israel's delete through the ages of the past, was destroyed. Hn thought tho Gods of the kings of Hyrin helped them nml he determined to appeal to them to help him. Hut "it wn the ruin of him nnd nil Israel." So, my brethren, it i too often with us. We enter the iiiiuisiry d reconciliation, relying much unon hu man agoncy for our success. We have littleconhdeuco iu the power of truth, or Iho reliability uf principle. Wo toil on, lor a season, nnu perceive at length that the visible results of our labors nre not eniirtl to our expectations our contldence m truth lads us, mid wi seek expedients to remeuy mo evil, i iu bullion nl the world Ihe pipings of vain philosophy tho power o wialih tho terrors of the lash, are ni ghty engines, nnd we aro ready to say, them hnvo helped others, anil wo will pander to ihein, mm tney mny help us. Thnt we adopt, first, one expedient and then another, and. failing in alt, wo abandon tho work aud seek a ubsisienre nt iho altar of mammon. Or there are found a company of believers profetted believers, at least in a given place, and iheir attention being called to the subject by a missionary of the crosa. a eotisultn. tlon is held, and, on mature deliberation upon the "pro" and "cons." nnd the chance of success, tlmv determine to fry the experiment of a Socioty, nnd thus test iueiioow qntutoH, wnetuer me irutu ol (jod can live in that particular locality. Tlmy engnge in the work, with much doubt, leav-inn nlwnvi an open space, to bent a decent retreat in case of failure. If a church edifice is to be erected, it must be on the cheapest plan, and so constructed, that it can easily botmnslered into a temple of mammon in cnte the " experiment " should fail, aud it no longer be neeoeu as a lompieoi For a Utile senson it works well. The novelty of the thing, and the eloquence of tho preacher, call out a good congregation, nnu an it warm. Uutsnon the interest nbaies, and the question arises, as to the cause of thn difficulty, and the means lor it remedy. Unfortunately, the Inquiry 1 not often, first, wheth er duty ha been done, in a ted fast reliance unon principle, and iu loyalty to the truth ol God ; but the sourch is, for an expedient that shall give temporary success, A fashionable miuister, who can preach much aud say little, and who can so disguise the principles of truth, that ihey will pats in the crowd, for the or thodoxy, of the day, ha helped others, and they are qui lb uuuouani iu u sucn a one migm noip ineui. i uey adopt the expedient the old soldier of tho cross is lurnea aiinit, nnd a new order ol things instituted and IhuB it goes on, from one expedient to another, and the end is thnt of Ali iz, ruin to the whole concern. What we wuut is a fuller appreciation uf the fact, that our religion is of God, and i all divine, a knowledge of the truth, that it rests upon the everlasting found a lion of principle, against which the gates of hell cannot provail. We wuut to know, that principles are always safe, and expedients false, that truth can live ony where, and though the soil be sterile, and the seed must be sown insaduess and tears; yet the time cometh, when the reaper shall return with joy, bearing their sheaves with them. We want a faith to assure us that truth live by its own inherent and selfperpetuaiing immortality, and will live when the stars shall fade, and the Sun itself, pale and flicker like an expiring lamp ; so that do movement in her behalf is an experiment, no sacra (ice upon her altar is lost; but every word fitly spokeu, io her behalf shall echo through the ages of the future; and every blow struck for her sake, shall tell upon generations yet unborn. We want to understand that in all the vocabulary of principle there is no such word as failure It is a cowardly interpolation, nnd should be blotted out. The man who engages in tho ministry of tho reconciliation should know that a life lab ir is before him. He should have sufficient confidence in the cause ho espouses, to enable him to lay himself at full length upon its altar. He should know the "Caitain of his salvatioti" well enough to enlist in his army, under the stipulation that there shall be no discharge from th service, and with the settled conviction that be is iuviucible. These are the men we want in our ministry aye, men; not painted manikins got up for show; nor parade-dress Boldiers in buckram, to flourish a gilded sword in kid glove, and sport a feather and epaulette on gala day; but men, stout-hearted soldiers with the mail upon thera, who know that they shall come off conquerors nnd more than conquerors; nnd who, bred by tho inspirations of an un faltering faith, will wield the sword of tho spirit with a strong hand, and meet the shock of bittle with steady nerve ; and if noed bo leave their bniie to bleach upon the field whre ihey fought, for principle, for God, nnd humanity. And then, all abroad among our people wo need a feci-of confidence in Universal ism, as a religion of principlo, mm can uo trusted in any aim every emergency, do-cnuso it is no ephemeral Htl'iir, resting upon temporary mcia, mm cnning lwr tone serving o poo in am j uui miner a permanent reality, whoso foundation is laid upon the eternal principles of the government of Ood, in whoso service nothing is lost, Let this conviction prevail, mrougn our great iraternity trnm ovcry village and Ham let, and from every mountain and valley, where n believer in ii io mnn ot Aoranam uweiis, let uio voico no nvani. Go to, let ns work," nml build upon the foundation of God that cannot bo moved, nnd "though he slay us yet win wo mini in nun ; " men snail aioh arise trnm ner sad ness, and in the might of & now lil'o, go forth to renewed and more glnrintiu conouests. It is this conlidenco in tho power and invincibility of principle tint centriliiitos more lti;in any tiling else to tlio success of niiy good ciiiiho, When Luther and his com peers iminucrnu iti tuo rciorinntion, tuey nam not, " Lotus mlopt an expedient, or try nn experiment for a time, that wo may see how it will work." But thoy said, " Here is a great principlo, that has been invaded, nnd upon that wo will take ourHtand." The battle came. The arm of power was uplifted to smite them down. Persecution raised her sword, planted hnr Btakes nnd kindled her lires; and tho winiU played witli tho nnhc9 of her victims. And yet iiiero moou mo posuon ni iiemrm. incir luces wcro nut pale their knees trembled not, nor did their arms hit ter. And why f Simply because they woro planted upon tho solid basis of principle, and knew they should succeed. This it was, that sustained tlicm iu the perilous contlict, and secured their success. So tho independence of our country was achieved by this samo devotion to principle. Our fathers sain not, Lot us try an experiment for a month or a year ; " hut the word tli.it thrilled through every artery, nnu vibrated upon every norve, was, " Here is a principle, linn as Atlas ; im-nregnnhlo nn Gibraltar : on this we will stand fur weal or for wo, for life or for death to it wo pledge our lives, our lortuncH, and our sacred honor j and sink or swim, live or me, survive or ncnsii, wn go tnr tlio pwmple ; l.od hell the right, nnd tiintigh wo fall, vet will wo trust in him.' Who that Ins read tho history of that contlict, does not know, that it was this loyalty to principle, this burning conviction of its power, that 'made the humble peasant a uero, anu mo iintiu yuuiu a martyr, anu gavo tnemuiovictory. So of tho Father of our Denomination. Nn temporary expedient was that in which they engaged. They saw the truth thoy knew it was mighty and would prevnil, and tliev cnliMted in lis wnrttirc I'nr lite. "Oriat out soldier who towered above his compcors, " tho noblest Unman among them all." whose absouee from our councils we mourn to-day, With what singleness of heart did ho dedicate his long life- to this service! Witli what steady aim did lie devote his energies to this one object of msiue; rsover laiiermg, never doubting, mat principle was permanent nnd would succeed. Thus ho lived, and with tho frosts of four score winters unnn his head, death found him with his harness on, and hn full at last, with the rainbow of hope bright in the tear drop that trembled in ms eye, occause ne must leave mo item uo inveu so well. We say again, these aro the men wo want, and these the attachments to principle and duty that wo need. Let Ahaz ndopt his experiments nml forsake his God, that ho tiny secure the aid of tlio Idols of the heathen. Let those who are like him, bo fruitful of expedients, nnd sncritico principlo to policy let them, if they must pander tn the follies and fanlnons of the world, nnd make Christianity an accommodating thing, that can with equal facility mingle with tho etlierial gas of post mortem inhV dehty. in tho shape of n rctined transcendental aentimcn- tiLiisin, or tun cold, mudily waters ol a hoartlcts, but popular orthodoxy, or meet both halfway ; but in God's name ici it on in us a matter ot principle. i,et us Know now nnd ever, that no departures from truth and duty no compromises of principlo with policy can add an arrow to our o,uivor, or nn item of strength tn our bow. But let ns fix our eyo with steadfast gaze upon the star of principle that stead t'mt polar star which shines through all darkness, and gleams n beacon of hnpo in every night; by it let our course bo shaped, for it alouo is permanent, and can guide us to tho haven wo seek. CENTRAL OHIO RAILROAD. We are ludebted to D. W. Dishler, Esq., (bra copy of the report of the Director of this importait road. We find in an exchange a summary of the leading facts which we copy. We have regretted that difficulty and hard feeling should have sprung up among a small portion of the stockholders, and that charge! should be made against Mr. Sullivasi, of a character to in jure his usefulness in the great work in whi:h he is tmgs.gr d. We do nut pretend to kuow all ihe fact connected with the subject, but, in common with other, we have Been much to admire in the open, manly bearing of the mau, and in hit great intelligence, busi ness babiia and courteous demeanor, we think there Is that which admirably qualifies him for the post of President of such a road. There mi possibly be ground for charges against him, but we have oot yet sees them and until we do lee them, we shall continue to think thut the road i fortunate if it can still commaud hit service. With these general remark we append the itate- ment of the expenditure, and the present condition of the road. The report commeuce by alatins that "on the 18th lay of January last the track of tho road was exten ded to Columbus; since which timo our trains between that city and Zanesville have been run with great regularity, not a single trip having beon lost, although in some instances delay was cuused by unavoidableoccurrences. With the addition of the covering of three bridge, a small amount of work on sections 52 and 5(1 ihe til ling up of some trestle work which is being supplan ted by masonry; some ten thousand dollars worth of masonry nuil about twelve thousand yard ol ballasting, the western division of the road will he complete. We may then safely place it in the front rank of first clnss roads ( every thing being built in so substantial a manner a to admit of the heaviest train and the highest rates of speed admiisable upon any road economically nnd saloly nunaged. As evidence of this, our express trains are now run, between stops, at as high speed as is made upon any road in the west: whilst we have much pleasure in saying that out of more than sixty thousand passengers since the 18th of January last, not n single passenger, save one, and ne nut slight ly, and that by nis own imprudence, have been injured upon our road. The cost of the western division, up to the present time, ns seen by the Treasurer'! exhibit, it l,172,51- 71 equal lo $1!) 873 per mile, 1 lie expenditure upon the Eastern Utviiun have been $783,98171. The expenditures for Machinery, &c. common to both Divisions, have been -.'ti3,7li,50. These different sums make the otfgroente expendi tures &l9.77u,,J0, which, deducted Irom $i,8:J!,. the gross resources of the Company, shown balnnce of resources on hand, available towards the completion of iho road,nf$(il!,8f2 34. In this amount, however, there is the sum ol f 3u,o.m rl on the treasurer's books, lining a balance of unsettled accounts, tho larger portion of which will probably be absorbed by unadjusted clnimi for work done, materials furnished, and for right of wny cases. I'redicateil upon the estimates ot a former uniet Rnetoeer of our road, it was assumed that the resources on hand named would have been sufficient to complete both divisions; but the work between Newark aud Columbus, although managed with a rigorous economy, has proved to hn much more expensive than wns esii mated. This has been partly owing to iho peculiar character ot the country traversed uy the road, aud partly to the odvanco in the price of labor and mate- iats. But notwithstanding all this, we believe it is below tho average coit of rnilrnmuls in Ohio. A change, loo, In the local ion of about 33 mil- of Ihe most expensive portion of the mnd, made by Mr. Med- bery, lute Chief Engineer, under the sanction uf the Hourd, whilst it has doubtless made many improve-moms upon the first location in the saving of distance, and ihe relief of curvature and grades will utiques tionably add to the expense of it c mstruciiii To this must be added an order of Ibo Board, authorizing all' the Inntiela (of whioh there will bo four or five, ranging from 80 to 201) feet iu length) nnd the masonry of the bridges to he enlarged to toe requisitions of a double track, together with the great advance that has tnken place in the price of labor and materials, and especially in the cost of rail and machinery. All these things coming together, compel nn enlargement of our estimates of tho cost of the rond, and indicate the ne-rosi ity of an nddition to our available menus. For this purpose, Ihe board, whilst uuxiou fo restrain stock issues lo the smallest possible amount, hnvo felt the importance nt making a better hatis for a now loan thnn would exist without an addition to the stork list. They have accordingly authorized a sale of 1200.000 of additional stock, and ihe Uiue of not exceeding $800,001) of bonds; which bonds it is pro posed lo secure by a mortgage covering mo wnoie iineot the mad irom uoiumous to wneeung. mis amount will be amply sufficient to complete and fully equip the road for a larger traffic. The contract for the bridge across the Muskingum river required itscumnletiouby Decemberof last year. It is yet unfinished, although now rapidly tending to completion. The risk of fire, in consequence of thn site of Iho bridge being in such close proximity to the mills upon the canal mid tne present upper bridge over the Muskingum, we deemed too imminent to justify a wooden struciure; and on deciding up n iron, neither tlio contractors nor ourselves appeared to be; aware of the time which would be lot in the prepa ration of the plans aud pattern of a form ol bridge new to the Mississippi Valley. Much annoyance and present loas has resulted to die C -npviy from the delay in its construction, but when finished, we think it will ret lee t credit upon tun contractors, wnust us permanency nnd beauty will give reputation Iu the road. COURT OF BISHOPS THE CONCLUSION. PORK, AND ITS PROSPECTIVE VALUE. Thn Louisville Courier learns that in the Great Wabash Valley, and particularly in the vicinity of Terra H auto and Lafayette, lings are mure abundant than ever known in that region before, and the farmers are offering to contract for packing at to 3 ceut net. Tho corn crops are also represented as in a nourishing condition and largn crop? are anticipated. wo aiso gienn tact irom me utnciunati rnce uur- reut, winch leave the inference that pork is generally moro plenty than the last year, and price will rule largely lower. That paper says: In lligginsport, Ohio, the present stock of hogs is one -four tit over that of last year. About Beardstown, Illinois, tun tmgs are tower thnn last year, but ol better quiitity, f eoiier say pork will range irom f J to :iru per cwt. I here will be a large crop in llicine, Wis- conoin. Fifty per emit will be added tn last year' product Tor Knox Co., nnd nearly that tor adjoining counties. 3 to 4 enntt for pork it spoken of next fall Around Economy, Indiana, there are about one-fifth moro hogs than last season, but not in nt good order. There nro morn hog in the vicinity of Gratis, Preble county, Ohio, thnn Inst Benson, the quality not quite so good, in lioyionndthoadjacentcountiesol Kentucky, tho number fattened will bo large. Six or eight couu- ties about Lagrange will raise a third more, and the hogs will be Inrge and well fattened. The State of Wisconsin Is full uf them, nml nork will hrinrr il. Hogs about Graysvilla, Illinois, will exceed the crop of last season oite-tniirih or one-third; 0,500 will be packed there next season, and will be 8 or 10 per cent heavier. In Wnvorly, Ohio, hogs number about ihe same, but are held 3(1 per ceut less in weight. The crop about Duhtique, lows, is J3 per cent larger ihan last yoar's. Hock port, Illinois, will turn off one-fourth more, or 8110 to 1(1110 more." Speaking on the same subject, tho Brownsiovvu (In-dinnn) Democrat say: "Hogs appear to be plenty all over the country and price low. S'ook hog nre held at $3 grot. Home of our fnnnr havi been trying to engage iheir pork , out, so mr, navo received no bills ; and not one pound ' ol pork Ii is been engaged in thn country this tossoti, so inr nn wo can loam. r;ttorls nave been made a' all me packing points to engage, but uo bids woie offered." Western papers cenerally speak of the prospective supply of hogs, nnd denier mny count upon $:i toff I as tuo opening u not the ruling iigures. Death or a Fkrnch Vxthusj. Gen. Monthoton famous for his intimacy with Napoleon I, has died since my Inst, at the age of 70. He commenced bis military career, when a child of ton yenrs old. He went through the campaigns of Italy, Germnny, Poland, nnd Spain; ho wu at Austerlitx, Wngmtn. Jens, and Friedlnnd, mid was live limns wounded. In 1H(I!, he entered ihe household of the Emperor, as Grand Cham berlain. During ttie Hundred Days, he was Bid-do. camp; ho wna present at Waterloo, nnd followed Napoleon to St- Helenn. He whs m tdn ihe first execu tor of his will, and bis papers nnd vibing were plucrd in hi bnnil. On Iho eve ol Louis INnpoieon esoeiil lion to Boulogne, he promised to folio v him, without knowing where ho wns going. He was a member of thn latn National Assembly. His funeral will be Imposing In view of his Nnpnleonio antecedent. -Parii Corrttpontlcnt Commercial A-lwrliirr. " Watchman, spare that jug. Touch not a ingln drop. It served me tunny a tug and I will be its prop, Twbb my lore fa (tier's hand llint placed it in Ins cot. There 'watchman' lot it stand thy club will harm it not. The old familiar jug, whose credit, nnd renown, are known tn manv a muir. and wouluit thou smash it dowtiT Watchman, inrhenr my blow, urm not nn earth-brown clay t nor make the liquor flow, but let that old jug stay." I ho wn chninn cou d not Blsmi so poweriui nn ap peal, nnd nftor leaving a pamphlet of die Maine liquor law, nsed next day for shaving papers, ho look his de- parturo, Thi Poor Hav lUn Rmuuh or It. While tho City Marshal of Hanger, Ma., was engaged in destroying a quantity of liquor that had been seized, ome one in the crowd impiired, "Why was not this old for thrait hum I red luitice and oivon to the Door I " A voice from a dlstnnce replied, "The poor have had enough ot it; let it got The Court of Biihopt mnt agaiu yesterday morning, in Camden, pursuant to adjournment on Tuesday. Prayer was ottered by tinnop ureen. On Tuesday the Court apiminioil a commit ten of seven Bishops, to cou for with ihe Presenting and Responding Bishops, to ascertain whether they could not agree upon some plan lor dismissing ine presentment. Tim following paper was submitted to the Court by the Presenting Bishops! The Presenting Bithops having been Informed by a committee of the Conn, that a proposal is now under consideration to dismiss the presentment, upon Hip several grounds ttated in n report of the said commit. tee, the chief of which is, a certain acknowledgment nn the part of Ihe respondent, do represent to the Court that the exclusive right of withdrawing the presentment is with the Presenting Bishops; that the only legal mode of disposing of these charge by thn Court, is to try them by the evidence; thnt the Presenters stand ready with their evidence to enter on th trial, which they feel themselves bound to ask; and that the Court wilt call on the respondent to pi end guilty ur not guilty to the presentment. With ibi statement of the legal petition of the Presenter at representing the Executive of the Church in thi case, tho undersigned are prepared tn abide by such action as the Court may take iu the premises, Signed Wn. Mrahr, Chas. P. McIlvaihi, Gkorqi Hunoxsa. A Tier reading thn fbrcgnfng paper, the curnmiUrH l seven submitted the following report aud resolutions as a basis ot settlement : Tim committee appointed to confer with the IV tenting Bishops and Respondent, tn ascertain whedi they cannot come to some understanding which shall be mutually satistacmry, and niso lolly answer itu purpose of justice, beg leave lo report that upon con iiilt.iiion with the Presenting Bishops, they found lint no understanding could be come to of ihe sort contem plated iu the order of th i Court, the Presenting Bishops feeling themselves tumble to withdraw their presentment under any such acknowledgment of error ns ih respondent would be wilting to make, llieromnui tee ItuM) coufeneil wilt) the Respondent, who ex pressed himself quite ready to acknowledge, at he had already done to "imw extent, in open Court, turh error us his cnncience ,;"curd him of, the fisiilt til which conference wns the paper embodied in the pre amble aud orders now submitted as the basis ol n tri tlemnut of this vexed and painful question. . T.U Brownell, Ntephnn Elliott, .las. H. Otny, G. W Froeinui, Loonidas Polk, Jno, Williams, Jonathan M. Wainwright. W heron, Very serious embarrassments haw been thrown in the way of ihe action id' this Court, first bv ihe postponement of the t. lal of the original I' resent iiioiit, nnd afterwards by the decree and orders of ttie Court of Bishops which assembled nt Camden in Oeto-b"r, IS VJ, and continued its so-slon by adjournment a Burlington, to wit: Whereupon, it wa decreed thnt, whereas previous to the mnktiig of the Presentment now before this Court, the Couveiitioiiof New Jersey had investigated most of ttie in alters contained therein, and had deter mined that there wns no ground for Presentment ( the reforo, "Ordered, Tint ns fo iho matters llm acted upon uy said Convention, Urn Uourt it not called upon I proceed limber. Which decree end orders have been pleaded in bur to ttie dial of ttie present Presentment. And whereas, the Convention of the Dioeete of N w Jersey has, through a committee nl it mosl inll ientisl ntid honorable lay men, satisfied Itself that, whatever' mny have been the imprudetii ie in won! nnd net of the resKndetit, there was no intention of crime or immorality on hi part. And whereat, the Diocese of the respondent is now encaged in railing 135,000 lor Ihe rnleato of all em bnrrnssment of St. Msry'i Hall, Burlington College nnd Ktver Side, die surplus Income of which property. when Unit released, is io be annually applied to the liquidation of Ihe remaining debts of the respondent. And whereas, the respondent comes into Court nrd ayt: Thn undersigned, in prosecution; his plan of Chris tlan education, in connection with St. Mnrv'i Hall iitul Burlington College, found that the expense of the en terprise greatly exceeded hi calculations, while tba assistance on which be bad confidently relied, perbapa too Banguinely, fell altogether short of what he deemed his rent ona ble expectations. In thit condition of things, being entirely left alone, and without advices, every step which be advanced involved him more and more deeply in pecuniary embarrassments; he admit that he made representations which, at the time, he believed to be correct, but many nf which turned out, in the event, to be erroneous. Ho was also led, by hi too eonfident reliance un anticipated aid, to make promises, which he fully expected to perform; but which experience ha taught him were far too strongly expressed. He was also induced, for the sake of obtaining money to meet his necessities, to resort to methods by the payment of exorbitant interest ou loans, which he did not suppose was in contravention of ihe law, atid which common usage seemed to him to justify. He also, in entire confidence in his ability to replace them, made use ot cerium trust funds in a way which he deeply regrets; and although they hnvo long been perfectly secured, does not now justify. The embarrassments hero referred to were followed by a long and well nigh fatal illuesBt which, with drawing him entirely from the business, which he had carried on alone, was mainly instrumental in the eniiro allure in his pecuniary affairs, ihe perplexity arittng from this failure, with the protracted infirmity which followed his tick nest, mude him liable to many error and mistake which might eaiily bear the appearance of intentional misrepresentations. Iu connection widi the assignment of hi property, ho et his name aud onth to an inventory i f his good, and also to a list of nn debts, which he believed to be correct; au act, which hn grieves to find has given rise to an impression in the mindi of some thai lie exhibited an insensi bility to fbe awful sanctions of thn oath of a Christian man, but while he laments the impression, he declare that this act was only done under legal advice, and in firm conviction of its correct nest. Some time after hi recovery from the illness above nlladed to, but while he wan in the midst of his per plexities, smarting under Ins heavy disappointments, nnd wounded by the imputations to which, in some quarters, he was subjected, the letter of the three Bishops came to him. He has no dUpotition to ascribe to them any other than just and proper motives iu thus addressing him. But at the limo when he received the communication he viewed it otherwise ; and under the strong excitement of the moment penned a pamphlet, part of which ho does not now justify, and expressions iu which, in regard to those brethren, he deeply regrets. In reference to hi' indebtedness, be now renews tho declaration of intention, which ho tin constantly mndo, and has acted on to the utmost of his ability thus fir, to devote his menus, efforts nnd influence, in dependence upon God's blessing, to the payment, principal and interest, of every just demand against him; au expectation which there is reasonable hnpo of having fulfilled, since a committee nf the trustees-nnd friend of Burlington College, by whom both institutions are now carried on, have niulertaknn an enterprise which is nearly completed, to discharge the whole nf the mortgage debt, and thus secure the property at Riverside and St. Mary's Hall, with that of Burlington College, to the church forever, for ihe purposes of Christ- ' inn education. And ihis, done, the trustee have further agreed to nppropriato during his life iho surplus income of both insiitutions to the liquidation uf all his other debts, in currying on the said insiitutions. That In the cour" of all these transactions human infirmity may have ledhm into many errors, he deeply feels. He does not wish to justify or excuse them. If scandal lo the Church and injury to the cause of Christ have nrisen from them, they are occasion to him. of mortification and regret. For these things, in all humility and sorrow, before God nnd man, he has always fett himself liable to, and willing to receive, the friendly reproofs of bit brethren in Christ Jesus, and especially tlio Bishops of tho Church. G. W. DoANR, Bithop of New Jertey. Thernfore, ordered, That ttie presentment before this court bo dismissed, and the r spondeiit be disonarged without day. Tho committee likowise recommend tho adopt ion of the following order. First. That no order or decree of the court in October, 18.V2, or of this court, shall be taken to admit tho right of any diocese lo come between a Court of Bishops and the respondent Bishop, after Canonical presentment first made by three Bishop. Second. That Ihis court believe the Presenter to have scled in gond'lsiih, nnd io n desire and determination to carry out thn laws nfthe church, in such case made and provided, in the painful duty in which they felt themselves called upon lo perform. The court deliberated upon tho motion in dismiss until 4 o'nJriolf, when a vols was taken, ami the presentment was nmnimously dismissed. The Court then adjourned liaa die. The long mooted question of ' who struck Hilly Patterson " hat been lost in the fog, and tlio only disputed question is, who uio Dr.Or.ns' frank to send off copies of Ihe Cincinnati S'lnpuriel, which attack and abuse ihe Miami tribo? The Zanesville Aurora Tint gave the alarm ami ttnught ihe Dr. was in smart business, attacking and abusing ihe administration, &e. Dr. Ocns taw the paragraph, and wrote a Jesuitical reply, tating ihat he knew nothing of the matter, and that he never furnished his frnnk far any iuc purpose The. Scioto Oazefte gives n history of the cuse rather graph ically, as follows: v A Sarpriied "OalphiQ." The Onio Statftmitn of the 34 inst , contains a letter lo itie editors, from Dr. Edsoii B, Old. Every body knows who Dr. GUIs is, nnd how he used to hateshio--plast"rs, nil thn while he issued idem liimselfund how he us- d to lute mercenary politicians', and the white that ho was himself hcit.g bnufv ami sold ; and how lie used to Im pronounce by C d- Medury to have ' died for w-uit of honest pt.nciph," but was, nevertheless, assbted by ihe doughty Colonel tu get into Congress; and how ho spluttered, in Congrn, about G.dphiuism," ami had a commit le of Id party friends raided, who virtually branded htm ataltU-Uer, in their report. Every body, we say, know all this, bnt thi letter in the Statetnvm brings up no matter. The Doctor sets out by quoting a paragraph from the Zinnsville Aurata, a loco paper, in which the editor of 'hn Aurora states that he has been inform-d that several copies of the Cincinnati Nonparitl have been mailed to the Zinnsville P. O , addressed to various people " under the fran ; nf Hon. B. B. Olds." and coutaining a history of the "Miami Tribe." The editor expresses lurnrite. nml asks: "What does it mean?" At this ihe virtuous Doctor seems io be ns much surprised as th Zanesville editor. He denies having seen the arti- le in the Nonpareil, or taken any interest in the Miami Tribe, and tnvs: " 1 hive given my frank to no one, for th" purpose above indicated. " He concludes by Joining iu the inquiry, " uai does ii mean i ' It gives ns gmnt pntu to find our old Iriend so sorely surprised ntid puz.l d. And we think weean suggmt a sotmion of the mystery. It is but a short time since wn snw a statement in the publ'ui press, lo th effect that the I) oet r had been tiuuidiing a q nan lit y uf franks to somebody, to bn used about a private transaction, and in violation of tho pist office law. We never saw any denial of the charg.t, and suppose that It was true. Such hing the case, it is, we think, a fair presumption that lie Ins been furnishing many of his Iriend with franss, to be used ad IthitHm, ami nmong tho rest, furnished those which wont lu Zannt-tUttt. Aflnr MirnlstiMior ilm lo ) imsH at pleasure, he could very easily ay lint hn did not furnish lb em for the special nn tn which they were nfrorward applied. (J.iile nn " artful dodge," Dimtor. And how natural it is tor a " Gilphtn ' to be awfully surprised when lie i ought. Hurrah for the Cirrleville Congressman 1 The SWnma, nftor publishing the D. ctor' letter, fommeiilt upon it ns follows ; The question th n is, who does use tho franks f Wo rereived, a few days snirn, a copy of the Nonpareil rontnitiing Mr. D iy's article, which hnd been sent to a geiilleinnii in l.uhopoln, Ohio, under Dr. Olds' frank, post-marked C 'tuuibiis, l);iio. We have heard of still mom instunce. mid Ii ivn no doubt but that large num. h"rs have been sent abroad, in tho sinin wny. We. know of elm instance, nlsn, in winch the nmn paper und'T the sim-t fca"k n Bent tn Portsmouth. We have b eii nked lo explain what it invaii. Dr. Olds tits denied through our columns, having lent his frank lor iipv such purpose, nnd he, too, asks, " What dons it ni'viiir'' 8 i inks everybody, who does not know already, Thi movement has ere i ted surprise among ihe Democracy the Nl-tte, nnd should Ite investigated thoroughly. If Dr. OKIs Is not responsible for this abuse nf his franking privilege, if Mr. Day is not responsible, Ihe question is, who is responsible T It won t take mure that) a reasonable guess lo solve this ennro queaiion. Allowing the truth of the Doctor' atsertiott, that he is not u pirty In the lending abroad of the Ranmrtil, wo nnie to Ihn conclusion thnt he litis furnished his fiietols wiih hi frank for the purpose of enabling them t transact their private bushiest, and ihus to cheat ('tide Sam out of three cents en each letter, and one cent on ench pnpnr, lo nn indefinite ntnoiiiit. It is n very niceGnlphht operation. An Irishman went fishing, nml nmong other thing lie Inuled in n large sized turtle. To enjoy th surprise of iho fcrvant girl, he placed it in In-r bed room. Next morning the first that bounced into ihn hrcnkl'ntt tnh'e wna Biddy, with the exclamation of Bejihera. I've got the devil!' What dvil?" inquired the master. 1 Why, the bull bed bug, that has been eating the children I t the past two mouths. The "dueler" wns sitting at ihe table wiih his friend, when he nslcrd him it he would please pats him ' a piece ol that vtnrr " "tW, wh:t iu thunder is that?' Inquired hi friend in sorption. " Utra i. bread, my denr tir, Is not bmnd the stafat life ? " We say it nntdidly, wo run 1 " Mother," aid a Spartan boy, going to halite, " my word i Iihi short," "Add a ttep to it," wai the reply uf the hero'a mother.