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From die N. V. Journal of Commerce.
ARRIVAL OF THE HIBBRNIA.
SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUR9PE.
The British mail-steamer Hibcrnia
arrived at Uostonat 12 o'clock on Sat
urday night, with 103 passengers and
the mails. She left Liverpool October
19th at 2 20 p. m., arrived at Halifax
on the 1st inst.,at 9 5 a. ni., sailed from
do. at 2 30 p. in., and arrived at Boston
on the 3d at midnight, performing the
passage in fourteen days and six hours.
The King of tho French had return
ed to his dominions. Previously, the
order of the garter was conferred upon
his Majesty at Windsor Ostle, amidst
great pomp and magnificence. On the
14th ult., accompanied by the Queen
and Prince Albert, he. proceeded to
Portsmouth, with the view of embark
ing at that port on his return to T re
port. Such, however, was the threat
ening aspect of the weather, that he
thought it prudent not to risk the dan
gers of the passage; and finally deter
mined to cross the channel from Dover
to Calais. Leaving his royal hosts at
Portsmouth, he returned to London,
and proceeded to the terminus of the
Dover railway. Here he found the
station envelloped in flames a des
tructive fire having broken out previous
to his arrival. The catastrophe detain
ed him but for a short time. lie was
soon accommodated with a special
train, and hastened of' to Dover.
Our minister, air. Everett, had re
turned to London from a visit to the
continent.
Mr. Clemson, our newly appointed
charge d'affairs at Belgium, has arrived
at Brussels.
Mr. Daniel O'Connell has addressed
a lo-ng epistle from his retreat at Dcrry
nane, to the repeal association, in
which he dwells emphatically upon the
federal project, and hints his partiali
ty for it in contradistinction to repeal.
An abstract of tho public accounts
of the free church of Scotland, from
May JO, 1813, to March, 10-1-4, just
published, shows that the amounts col
lected were, from the pustcritation fund,
-02,401 2s 3d; building fund, 227,
?36 19s lOid; congregational funds,
41,540 lis 102d; accommodation ol
the assembly, 2.893 Is 5d; parish
schools, 52000; total, .018.719 Ms
3d. This is a wonderful proof of the
voluntary principle in Scotland.
Incendiarism is n ll.e increase in Suf
folk. During one week lour or five
destructive lires occurred.
It is generally rumored in Ireland,
that Lord lleylesbory, in conse
quence of the death of his lady, has
determined to resign the high office
to which he was so recently appoint
ed. London mo.vev market, October 18.
--There is no new feature in the trans
actions in public securities. Consols
have been clone at 1001 and i reduced
their three per cents at99i; new three
and a quarter per cents 1 024 ; bank
Ktock 20CJ; India 2285 ; exchequer bills
73 7o, and India bonds 93' 95 in.
Commercial. The demand for cot
ton (says Wilmcr's European Times)
throughout the week has been consider
abl?, and the quantity offering is large.
The committee of brokers have redue
rd the quotation of fair Uplrnd to 44;
fair Mobile to4id, and fair Orleans to
4fd. These prices are within Id of the
lowest prices of last year for the same,
quality. Some holders are waiting fur
ther accounts, and others are pushing
their stocks on the market, rather than
await the isue of another crop. The
sales yesterday were between 4,000
and 5,000 bags. In the course of the
week 1,200 American and 200 Surats
have been taken on speculation; and
4U0 American, 800 Surat, and 100 Per
narns, for export.
The grain markets are dull: On for
eign barley the import duty has ad
vanced to 4s, and that on rye has rece
ded to Cs Cd the only changes effected
in the averages up to Thursday last.
A little business has Leen doing in for
eign wheat, but 0 thcr descriptions were
extremely dull. English and Irish flour
although taken sparingly, maintain quo
tations. Canadian stale flour meets
attention; a moderate quantity chang
ing hands. United States' flour has
been in fair request, at the previous
rates.
In the manufacturing districts busi
ness has been brisk this week. In Old
ham the spinners of several large cot
ton mills have obtained an advance 01
wages to the amount of a penny a thou
sand hanks. At Staleybridge and oth
er places the employers have agreed
to advance wages live per cent a suf
ficient proof that trade is not only brisk
but flourishing. In Yorkshire the
cloth-halls have been doing more busi
ness. The accounts from Leicester
state that so-dull an October has not
been known for years.
The money market continues buoy
ant, and the rage for new' railway in
vestments is as strong as ever. The
recent excellent harvest gives token of
prosperity for another year at least,
and there is nothing in the political or
social horizon, at home or abroad, to
cause misgivings or despondency. The
probability is, that, with a superabun
danceof money w hich cannot find prof
itable investment, the rage of specula
te n w ill continue.
. The great demand for Belgian wol-
lens by the American trade, for trans
shipment for China, has fixed the atten
tion of the Netherland manufacturers
upon the subject, in order to see wheth
er, by shipping wollcns themselves and
and getting tea in return for them,
which they can sell in England, they
may not do better.
There has been an entire absence of
demand, says the European Times, for
any description of United States secu
curities since of oui last publication.
No one sale lias transpired, but at the
same time we must remark that there
has been little stock offering in the
market.
SPAIN.
At one o'clock, on the 10th ult., the
Cortes were opened by her majesty in
person. Her Majesty having ascend
ed the throne, Marshal Narvaez stand
ing on her right, and M. Martinez de
h Rosa on her left, read a speech, from
w hich we make the following extracts:
Events weie so complicated as to
cause a war between the Moorish em
pire and Franc?, (a war terminated so
speedily and with so much glory for
the latter power,) and the Biitisli gov
ernment continued to interpose, with
the greatest efficacy, its powerful influ
ence to regulate our difficulties with
Morocco. A result was happily ob
tained. .Already are settled the basis
of a treaty, in virtue of which Spain
will obtain the just satisfaction which
is due. My Secretaries of State will
present to you a trcatv, which will be
ratified in the regular torm.
They will likewise present, early in
the session, a project of constitutional
reform, a most essential subject, which
my government announced immediate
ly on your convocation, and of which
the gravity cannot be underrated by
your intelligence and patriotism.
1 have tho greatest satisfation in an
nouncing that the army, after a civil
war of seven years, and the political
vicissitudes which relax the ties of obe
dience, is at present in the highest state
of discipline.
In the hope of alleviating the budget
of expenses, wc have made all the re
duction compatible with the safety of
the state, and with the well-being of
those who have shed their blood in de
fence of the throne and laws.
The fundamental reform of justice
also requires time. This reform should
also be cemented by new codes, which
are drawn up at this moment, and the
preparation of which is much advanc
ed. In the mean time, my govern
ment will adopt some useful measures
to clear the way for so desired a re
form. The ceremony having terminated,
the Queen retired, amidst most enthu
siastic cries from the assembly of "long
live the Queen !" "Long live the Queen
Mother!" "Lons live the constitution
The Gazette publishes a decree for the
reorganization of the national guard,
under the title ot the civic guard.
POLAND.
The Si'.csian Gazette states, from Po
land, Oct. 1, thai about twenty students
had recently been arrested at Warsaw
on a charge of being members of a se
cret society. The younger of them,
who were only from thirteen to four
teen years old, were, it is ad led, sent
into the interior of Russia, but the oth
ers were sent to the army of Circassia
as common soldiers.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 19.
Provisions, (American.) There has
again been a fair business doing in beef;
prices, since 3d instant, have not vari
ed; line qualities most wanted; inferi
or has been more inquired fur Pork.
The sales of pork exceed the import;
ihe stock consequently reduces, and
the market i firm. Cheese has met a
ready sale at full prices, and the mar
ket is again bare of stock; the consump
tion promises to be large, owing to the
advance in butter. Lard Without im
ports of lard, the market lias become
very bare of stock; hence a farthei ad
vance has been realized; with moderate
supplies, the present rates will be main
tained. Tallow, although not brisk,
has met a fair demand. Larger imports
may now be looked for; of fine, there
will Le a ready sale. Irish butter has
advanced 10 to 12; a considerable in
quiry for Canadian; and some small
parcels have been sold at the quota
tions; the fall arrivals will come to a
good market.
From the New York Sun.
TEXAS AND MEXICO VIRTUAL ABAN
DONME.NT OF THE WAR.
The last news from Mexico is of
more importance in relation to the se
curity of Texas and to the question of
annexation, than any that has been re
ceived since the adjournment of Con
gress. The retirement of Santa Anna
to his farm, and the appointment ol
Canalizo as President ot Mexico ad in
terim, may be considered as an aban
donment of the invasion of Texas alto
gether. Jt may be supposed by many
that there was no serious intention at
anv time ot marching upon Texas, and
that the threat, as well as the prepara
tions, meant nothing more than the u
suaj vainglorious boasting of that gov
ernment. We think differently on this
subject, and believe that the uniform
determination of Santa Anna to recover
Texas as indispensable to his future
ambitious views, was greatly strength
ened by the urgent solicitations of En
gland, and the assurance of every rea-
I sonable co-operation in securing the re
conquest of the republic. The British
cabinet had a deep interest in prevent
ing annexation. This country in the
estimation of Great Britain, is already
too extensive in territory and popula
tion; and as long as Texas was either
independent, or in possesssion of Mex
ico, its commercial position and inter
ests could be made available for any
object growing out of future aspects;
and while a northern influence could
be brought to bear upon us at any time,
it was desirable that a similar position
should be maintained on our southern
borders, and Mexico was therefore urg
ed to push on the war, while British a
gents in Texas were not idle in secur
ing the election of anti-annexation can
didate for the presidency.
The rejection of the treaty, by near
ly both parties in our Senate, and mak
ing it a party question in the election of
a President, promised a satisfactory is
sue to the views of the British, without
any further or pressing influence on
their part. Accordingly Santa Anna,
who was most anxious for the invasion,
and had every confidence in its suc
cess, finding a counter influence in the
Mexican Congress operating agamst it,
with some fresh troubles from France
growing out of theTobasco massacre,
and the election of Dr. Jones as the
anti-annexation candidate for the presi
dency of Texas retired from the con
test, appointing tiie commander-in-chief
of the invading army (Canalizo) as pro
visional president, and the invasion
will be abandoned, probably never to
be again renewed, by recalling the
troops alreary assembled at St. Louis
Potosi, As far as the safety and pros
perity of Texas is involved, we rejoice
in the abandonment of the project of
invasion; while, on the other hand, we
deeply regret that the intrigues of Great
Britain in cutting us off from the peace
able possession ol an important territo
ry, should have been so successful.
" The North, the most strenuous in op
posing annexation, has most to lose by
the result. A commercial treaty be
tween Great Britain and Texas will
inundate that section of the country
with the manufactures at a small ad
valorem duty, while at least three of
what are called slave States would
"have adopted the system of free labor,
and sent their slaves to Texas.
From the U. S. Saturday Tost.
MILLERISM.
We several times proposed to make the subject
of "Millerism," as it is termed, the subject of an
article for the Post, during its foimer paroxysms,
hut forbore, partly Irom a disinclination to meddle
with the faith of any man, or set of men, and
partly because the delusion would, we thought,
work its own cure, by the falsification of the pro
phecy, in the poing by of the time at which its
consummation was placed. And, as that period
passed, and "the world and all that it inherits"
still remained firm and undestroyed, we looked to
see the matter completely at an end, and people
returning to their accustomed occupations, and to
their sober seiiscs.
But, to our great astonishment, we now find
the delusion resuming its sway with, if not more
general extent, more extravagance than ever.
We learn not only in this city, but at other and
distant points, the zeal of pseudo-prophets has
again blown up the excitement. Wc find the
believers carried into the most strange conduct,
and the most pitiable perversion of all the rules of
duty, and of all the obligations, both of religion
and ol prudence. We hear of women arrayed in
"ascension robes," deserting the care of their
households, and sitting down in upper rooms,
some even iu unfinished garrets, to be as near to
heaven as possible, and there awaiting the "second
advent." We hear of such crowds besetting the
places of evening meetings of the believers, that
the arm of the civil power is compelled to interpose
and close the places of meeting, to save the peace.
We find the disciples of Mr. Miller and his
followers closing their stores, giving away their
goods, and pasting notices on their shutters that
their shops are closed to wait "the coming of the
King of Kings."
Painfully absurd as is such conduct, we have no
disposition to make it the subject of ridicule,
although the temptation to do so is strong; and
although, perhaps, exposure of the absurdity of
such conduct is the best argument against it. But
we have collected to-day, a list of a few of the
most prominent delusions of this nature in the
history of the world, and present them as but a
part of the experience of the past, in order to show
the disappointed in their expectations, that they
are not the first in order of time, nor the only
ones, by many thousands, who have been carried
away by such fancies.
Without referring to the delusions of the Jews,
who looked for a temporal reign of Christ as an
earthly potentate, or the mistaken among the early
Christians who confidently predicted the second
advent of the Saviour as to occur at the end of
the Roman Pagan empire, giving him also an
earthly kingdom; or to the manner in which the
end of the crusades, and the victory ol the Chris
tian over the Moslem would establish that king
dom, we will look to the later manifestations of
the consequences ol mistaking the promises of the
gospel, and confounding things, spiritual and tem
poral. It is sufficient to say that the later delu
sions are but a perpetuation' of the error of those
who in early times rose, and saying, 'I am Christ,'
deceived many.
It the year 1812, it was predicted that the Med
iterranean sea should be dried up, that believers
should pass to Jerusalem on foot, there to build up
the new city. After what we have een in our
own time, it will readily be credited that Italy was
filled with pilgrims waiting the drying up of the
sea, to commence their journey; and the misery
which these persons iuflered, and which they
Inflicted upon their friend and dependents by (
their infatuation, will be easily imagined.
In 1524, John Stoflerus, a mathematician and
astrologer of Sumbia, predicted a great deluge,
and he was so far believed, that those who owned
ands near the (ea, sold out at great loss. Book
were published giving direcliona how to escape
the inundation; and urveyor actually consulted
the atari and pointed out what place would be
least exposed to the water. Boat were built and
placed on the tops of high pillar, in which the
believer sat with their families, waiting for the
water to come up and float them off. Many arch
e were contrived with breathing hole in the top,
in which men might live, with the water around
them until the danger had passed away. The time
fixed for the inundation proved a very dry eason,
and the water proof contrivance were ruined by
a contiued drought And notwithstanding the
failure of thi prediction, we find that Stofleru
did not lose hi faith; for he then set the final
destruction of the world for the year 1586, and
died prophesying it
Meanwhile, Martin Stifelius predicted the end
of the woild to take place in 1534, giving the day
and the hour. He was in his pulpit, preaching on
the subject, when the time arrived, and his audi
ence was waiting the consummation of all things,
when a violent storm arose, and for a short time
he and his people were full in the belief that all
was over. The storm passed away the sky was
serene the day was delightful and the preacher
was dragged from his desk and almost beaten to
death.
William Hackett, in 1590, predicted the destruc
tion of England, and had not a few followers
He claimed himself to be monarch of all F.urope,
and his followers proclaimed him. He was hang
ed for sedition an argument which i not now
used against error.
Walter Gostello, in 1658, foretold the restora
tion of Charles II, and the destruction of London.
The first part of his prophecy being fulfilled, gave
him some credit as a prophet The second part
it is hardly necessary to ay, i as yet unaccom
plished. Thomas Venner, who flourished about
the same lime, declared that earthly kings were
impostors; aud attempting with a crowd of his
followers to take actual possession of the earth in
the name of the Lord, they were opposed by the
soldiery. They fought like tigers, believing
themselves invulnerable, but were overpowered
by numbers, and Venner, with twelve others, was
hanged.
There were several such prophets in France, in
the 17th century; but one of the most remark
able of the seers of that era, was John Mason, a
minister of Water Stratford, near Buckingham,
England. ' Mason believed himself Elias, and
announced that Christ was shoitly to appear on
earth and fix his throne at Stratford. An immense
concourse met at the time appointed, and with
fiddles and other musical instruments, with danc
ing and other tumultuous signs of rejoicing,
awaited the coronation. Poor Mason died in
1(97, a full believer iu the delusion that he had
frequent conversations with the Saviour, and that
his divine mission was confirmed.
Whiston, the mathematician, was a believer in
the immediate approach of the minium, and
lived to see the failure of two predictions. Lord
Napier, the inventor of the logarithms, also pro
phesied the end of the world; and outlived its
term as he had set it. Dr. Lloyd, Bishop of
Worcester, at ninety years of age, went to Queen
Anne, and prophesied that at the end of four years
the King of France would turn protestant, there
would be a war of religion, and the papacy would
be destroyed.
To come down to a later time 1761 two
learned men arrived at Cologne, who conversed
with the Jesuits nf that city in Latin, Greek,
Hebrew, and Cbaldaic. They gave out that they
came from Damascus, and were seven hundred
years old; and prophesied that Constantinople
would be destroyed in 1763, that the whole world
would be shaken by an earthquake in 1770, that
the sun, moon and stars would fall in 1771. that the
world would be burnt in 1772, and the general
judgment take place in 1778.
In the year 1582, a hermit frightened the inhab
itants of Trieste into the belief that the destruc
tion of that city was immediately to take place;
and so general was the faith in which his predic
tion wa3 received, that the city was absolutely
deserted to escape the destruction. But the day
passed over without any calamity to any one ex
cept the unlucky prophet; for when his disciples
returned to resume their business, they found the
predictor of destruction had realized it in his own
person. He was hanged by the proper authorities.
Towards (he close of the seventeenth century,
the whole court of France was thrown into terror,
and people who had never prayed before began
'hen, in the belief that the immediate destruction
of the world was at hand.
As the event did not verify their fears, and the
world continued to stand; they made up for tem
porary self denial by plunging anew into the
worst excesses. The reaction made them infinite
ly greater, sinners than the y were before.
We have quoted these facts few, indeed,
among very many which might be adduced to
remind the reader that this is "no new thing under
the sun." We are inclined to think that, with
the failure of this last as fail it must, for people'
expectations can not be kept up forever delusions
of thi particular description will cease, and men
will no longer strive to be wise above what is writ
ten. Whether the end of the world occurs aooner
or later, is of little individual consequence to any
one of us; for death must happen at some time,
and is as likely to occur toon as late; and death
is an end of the world so far as he or the is con
cerned. We do not think ol preparing for that by
waiting in idleness nor should any think to pre
pare for the end of all things in any other way
than by a continuance of 'the performance of our
duties to our Maker, to our fellows and to our
selves. Since we wrote the preceding, the following
eloquent passage from Mosheim, relative to the
state of the Christian world in the tenth century
a period previous to those in which the instan
ces we have quoted above occurred has fallen un
der our eye:
"Among the opinions which took possession of
the minds of men, none occasioned such universal
panic, nor such dreadful impression of terror and
dismay, a a notion that now prevailed of the im
mediate approach of the day of judgment. This
notion, which took its rise from a remarkable pas
sage in the revelation of St. John, and had been
entertained by some teachers in the preceding cen
tury, was advanced publicly by many at that time,
and spreading itself with amazing rapipity through
the European provinces, it threw them into con
sternation and anguish. They imagined that St.
John had clearly foretold, that after a thousand
years after the birth of CKrist, Satan was to be let
loose from his prison, anti-Christ to come, and the
the distruction and conflagration of the world to
follow those great nd terrible event. Hence
prodigious number (of people abandoned all the
civil connection and their paternal relation; and,
giving over to the -churche and monasteries all
their lands, treasures, and worldly effect, repaired
with the utmost precipitation to Palestine, where
they imagined that Christ would descend from
heaven to judge the worlds ,
"Other devoted themselves by a solemn and
voluntary oath to the eervice of the churches,
convents, and priesthood, whose slaves they be
came'in the most rigorous sense of the word, per
forming daily heavy tasks, and all this from a
notion that the supreme judge would diminish
their sentence, and look upon them with a more
favorable and propitious eye on account of their
having made themselves the slaves of his minis
ters When an eclipse of the sun or moon hap
pened to be visible, the cities were deserted, and
their miserable inhabitants fled for refuge to cav
erns and hid themselves among the craggy rocks,
and under the bending summits of Keep moun
tains. The rich attempted to bribe the Deity, by
rich donations conferred on the sacerdotal and
monastic orders, who were looked upon as the
immediate vicegerent of-heaven. In many
places temples, palaces and noble edifices, both
public and private, were left to decay; they were
deliberately pulled down from a notion that they
were no longer of any use, since the final dissolu
tion of all thing was at hand.
"In a word, no language is sufficient to express
the confusion and despair that tormented the mind
of these miserable mortal on thi occasion. The
general delusion was indeed opposed and combat
ted by the discerning few, who endeavored to
dispel their groundless fears, and to efface the
notions from which they arose in the minds of the
people. But their attempts were ineffectual; nor
could the apprehension of the superstitious mul
titude be effectually removed before the end of
this century. Then, when, they saw that the so
much dreaded period had passed without the
arrival of any great calamity, they began to under
stand that St. John had not foretold what they so
much feared."
From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
Noah's Lecture on the restoration of the Jew,
delivered at the Tabernacle on Monday, evening,
drew together quite an audience for a stormy night.
A lecture by the educated jew, familiar with chris
tians and christian institutions a lecture deliver
ed before a promiscuous assembly of Jews and
Christians was quite a novelty, and calculated to
excite curiosity. A vindication of Christianity or
an admission of its opinions, was not to be expect
ed; but we think the christian portion of the au
dience must have been satisfied to quite as great
an extent as they expected to be.
Major Noah ran over the history of the Hebrew
nation and described their condition at the time of
Christ's appearance. He made no intimation that
Jesus of Nazareth was an importer, but seemed to
adopt the history of the evangelists, and give an in
terpretation to the declarations of Jesus concerning
himself, similar to that given by Unitarians. He
said Jesus preached with an eloquence so remark
able, and so enveighed against the abuses of the
Jewish Ecclesiastics with so much boldness and
force, 'hat they were alarmed, and under that feel
ing, mingled with political considerations, con
demned him to death.
The whole proceeding, Mr. Noah said, he be
lieved was carried through in mistake. The sev
enty of the Sanhedrim did nor act, he thought,
from hatred to the character and mission of Christ,
as is generally supposed by Christians. It was not
therefore, for the tremendous sin of crucifying the
Son of God with a christian apprehension of his
character, Mr. Noah said that the Jews were now
and had been for eighteen hundred years, suffering
all the sorrows of their dispersion. The present
condition of the Jews was vividly described, and
some things were stated greatly to the credit; and
among the rest, the honorable fact, that in all the
haunts of infamy in our city, not a jewess is to be
found. Mr. Noah believed that the personal feel
ing and position of the Jews were favorable to a
return to the land of their fathers. He believed
that before the great melleniul blessings were to
be enjoyed by Jews and Gentiles, this return must
be accomplished, and that the Jews must return
as Jews, and not as Christians. If such enact
ments were to be obtained from the powers having
jurisdiction of the country, as that the Jews would
be secure in the possession of land, he thought they
would rapii'ly make purchases and settlements
What he desired was, that our own free govern
ment, should lead the way in obtaining for the
Jews this favor; and he recommended that those
societies who desire to benefit the Jews, should
turn their attention and their efforts to the accom
plishment of this important result.
From the BaltimoreSun.
POLITICAL COURTSHIP.
The following little story which belongs to the
New York Mercury, is decidedly one of the best
things produced during the late campaign; and, in
asmuch as all the States hereabout have concluded
their labor with the presidential contest, we think
we shall run no risk of oversetting the constitution
or treading upon the most lastidiou toe in the uni
verse, by affording our reader a chance for the
same hearty laugh into which we were betrayed,
spite ot the multitude of units, ten, and thousands,
which the election return are constantly whirling
through our inner man. Here's the anecdote:
Jonathan walk's in, take a seat, and looks at Su
key Sukey rakes up the fire, blow out the can
dle, and don't look at Jonathan. Jonathan bitch
es and wriggle about in hi chair, and Sukey sits
perfectly (till. At length, Jonathan musters cou
rage and speaketh:
Sewkey!
Well, Jonathan? .
I love you like pizen and sweatmeats.
Dew tell,
It' a fact, and no mistake. Wi will now
will you have me Sukey?
Jonathan Higgina, what am your politic?
I'm for Polk, straight.
Wall, sir, you can walk right draight hum, cor
I won't have nobody that aint for Clay that' flat
- Three cheer for the "mill-boy of the dashes,"
sung out Jonathan.
Thar ' your ort, ay Sukey. When shall we
be married Jonathan?
Soon' Clay' elected.
Ahem , a-a-hem.
What' the matter, Sukey?
Sposin' he aint elected?
Jonathan did'l go away till next morning; but
whether he answered the last question, this depo
bet knoweth not.
Thanksgiving in N.York, Thursday, Dec. 5.
THE SPIItlT OF DEMOCRACY.
EDITED BY J. K. MORRIS. .
WOODSF1KL1), O.,
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1844-
"DARK. MONROE." H
Wonder if the whigs, and especially
the editor of the Cadiz Whig Standard,
dont begin to think there are some oth
er dork spots in the Inited States, be
side Monroe county.
Monroe county, Pennsylvania, is the
"Banner" county of that State; and as
we claim 4o be the "Banner"' county
of Ohio, wo would like to scrape an
acquaintance. What say you, gentle
men of the Monroe Democrat?
Monroe county, Pa. gives Polk 1405
of a majority. Monroe county, Ohio,
1335, being a larger democratic ma
jority in proportion to the number of
votes polled, than is given in any other
county in this State.
Who commands the whig craft from
this place to Salt River? We suppose
the name of the boat is '-Roorback."
Give us the proper information,' gen
tlemen, and we will duly announce
.your departure.
OMEN.
The vvhigs are great believers in 0
mens. They may have this one for
what it is worth:
On the d ty of the Presidential elec
tion, the whigs raised their banner on
the ash pole in this place. When they
undertook to t:.ke it down, it was nogo.
Down it wouldn't come. They got it
about half-mast, where it has ever since
remained. It hanijs there "all tattered
and torn,' a most doleful looking thing
indeed. The ome nous Tetters O. K.
Oil, KI.AY, are still plainly visible.
TI1U MINISTRY.
We C"py the following article from
the Ohio Statesman. It speaks for it
self. Let every subscriber read1 it at
tentively; and while reading it, let
it be. borne in mind, that every man
has the undoubted right to cast his vote
for whomsoever he pieases. But in ex
ercising this p ivilege care should be
taken that wc do not ou'rage every
principle, for which we have ever con
tended. "It is human to err" but
there are certain guides laid (town for
the government of the moral world,
which are plain and, very easily under
stood. If a minister of the gospel
should cast his vola for a man who had
been "guilty tit almost every ciime e
niimerated in the decalogue," could he
lay his head upon Ins pillow -at night
and say with a clear conscience, tint
he had done his duty to his God and to
his country, Or, could he say, asdid
a church member notfar from this place,
'that he was doing God service, by
voting for Henry Clay." If he could,
our ideas of what constitutes the duty
of a christian and his, differ. What
progress would St. Paul have made in
the conversion of sinners, hacl he been
found certifying to the moral cl. abac
tor or supporting such a man as Herod?
Had he done so, would he have receiv
ed the approbation of his Divine Mas
ter? These questions are easily an
swered. What confidence can be placed in
ministers when they will use, before the
election, such an expression, for in
stance, as this: "Sir, if there is truth in
me, Henry Clay will be elected Presi
dent?'' Some will say there is nolhing
wrong in that expression. It may ap
pear so at first blush;; but when we
look at it carefully, we will find that it
asserts for a fact, that which no man,
at the time could know. It leaves no
gelling out place. Such expressions
are made only for effect.
We were once asked by a minister
of the Gospel, "Why it was, that. the
ministry, generally, supported Henry
Clay?" This was rather a hard ques
tion for us to answer; but after studying
awhile we replied in this manner:
History tells us that the ministry in a
government was almost always the first
body to oppress the poor, and to favor
those measures which would benefit tho
wealthy few and as the ministry gen
erally derive their support fro:n the
rich, and the rich being the supporters
of Henry Clay, they (the ministry) are
desirous of upholding and supporting
I those who uphold and support them.