The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-27 00:00:00

RISE OF RELIGIOUS SECTS.

FRAGMENTS FROM A VERY CURIOUS AND SUGGESTIVE
SECTION (§ 26, pp. 108-100) OP "TILE POCKET DATE
BOOK," BY W. L. R. CATES.

AD.
The Arians 320
The Pelagians
• • • • •• •• •• 420
The Nestorians •• .• •• .• •• 430
The Greek Church (separated from the Roman) .. 800
The Albigenses and Waldenses .. 1100
The Flagellants 1260
The Lollards (followers of John Wickliffe) .. 1380
The Hussites (followers of John Husse) .. 1415
The Moravians (or United Brethren) 1457
The Anabaptists •• •• .• •• • • 1520
The Lutherans (followers of Martin Luther) .. 1527
The (Reformed) Church of England • • .. 1530
The Calvinists (followers of John Calvin) 1535
The Antinomians (followers of Agricola) .. 1535
The Presbyterians .. 15.50
The Socinians (followers of Socinus) .. 1550
The Puritans .. • . .. 1560
The Independents (or Congregationalists) .. 1580
The Baptists •• •• •• GS •• 1668
The Quietists (followers of De•Molinos) .. 1640
The Quakers (followers of George Fox) .. .. 1644
The Unitarians (followers of John Biddle) .. .. 1650
The Muggletonians (fols. of Ludovick Muggleton) 1650
The Nonconformists (after the Act of Uniformity) 1662
The Cameronians (followers of Richard Cameron).. 1666
The Pietista (founded by Spener) 1670
The Shakers (or United Society of Believers) .. 1688
The Glassites (followers of John Glass) .. 1730
The Hutchisonians (followers of John Hutchison).. 1730
The Wesleyan Methodists (followers of JohnWe,ley) 1739
The Calvinistic Methodists (fols. of Geo. Whitfield) 1751
The Jumpers 1760
The Lady Huntingdon's Connexion 1765
The Swedenborgians (fols. of Emanuel Swedenborg) 1787
The Southcotiiana (followers of Joanna Southcote).. 1792
The Ranters (followers of Hugh Bourne) .. .. 1810
The Bryanites (followers of William O'Bryan) .. 181.5
The Irvingites (followers of Edward Irving) .. 1830
The Mormons (followers of Joseph Smith) .. 1830
The Morrisonians .. 1840

Manhattan's Last Screech through the War

Trumpet.

LINCOLN'S LITTLE GAME—AGAIN A LOSING ONE!
There has been a battle upon the Rapidan by a
portion of the forces of General Lee. Meade's men
were terribly beaten, and the slaughter was awful.
Some say 1,200 killed, 1,800 wounded, and 1,500
prisoners; yet read how mild and mealy
,is the
Government dispatch
"It appears that one of General Kilpatrick's cavalry
brigades attempted a reconnaissance on the south side of
Robertson's River, when they were met by a large body of
Stuart's rebel cavalry. A fight ensued, continuing an hour,
when our troops fell back upon the infantry reserves. After
another severe contest the infantry were compelled to give
way, and a considerable number of thorn were captured,"
A person might read a week before he discovered
that such a mild description related to a bloody
battle, where our troops were cut to pieces twice,
both cavalry and infantry. It is on a par with a
recent dispatch of Rosencranz, who closes his account
of the bloody battle in which he was defeated near
Chattanooga with " Our loss is severe, but the re-
sult is commensurate," which probably means gram-
matically that the result is also severe.
M'CLELLAN BONNETTED (A LA PEEL) BY MANHATT.A.X.
General M'Clellan has happily ruined himself
politically. The letters relating to the arrest of
the Maryland Legislature have all been published.
A knowing fly, if he were to get it into one of the
ears of the second Emperor Napoleon, could destroy
the French empire ; so a very little cause has upset
the prospects of Napoleon M'Clellan. " Oh, my
Maryland!" Who that loves liberty (I confess that
privately 1 think Liberty an intense humbug) can
read those accounts of arrests without weeping.
Nothing like it ever occurred in the most tyranni-
cal days of English history, A whole Legislature
bagged like a flock of pigeon; and this great feat
was performed by the celebrated General M'Clellan,
after consulting with the Secretary of State. If Mac
had displayed half as much cleverness when he was
absolute commander of 650,000 men—brave, gal-
lent men (400,000 of whom, owing to his cursed
cowardice, ignorance, or something worse, are now
manuring and fertilising Virginian farms), this
war would have been settled long ago. I have said
long ago that this M'Clellan would be ased up po-
litically as he is in a military point of view. Where
is he now ?
" FIFTY YEARS AND EUROPE WILL BE EITHER
REPUBLICAN OR COSSACK," said Napoleon the
Great. Now it seems to be America's tura
(according to Manhattan), and Republicans are
turning Cossacks.
"We are rapidly Russianising. Last night a
grand dinner was given to the Russian admiral and
the rest of the set by our wealthy citizens connected
with commerce. It was got up regardless of ex-
pense. Horace Greely was present, and being par
tiallY intoxicated, gave the toast " Dear Woman,"
but Mayor Opdyke made all right by the following
stupifying toast, " The City of New York. With
her left hand she grasps the harvest of the West,
and with her right she weds the everlasting sea."
These things are harmless, for they pass away,
but not so the names of our children. Since
these Russians arrived in the harbour of New
York over 2,000 innocent children have been born.
Of course, the Russians had nothing to do with the
fact, but twenty years hence what will posterity
think of the morality of 1863 ? These children
are not named Charles, Henry, Robert
James, Joseph, William, Rufus, George, and
such good names, but instead of them, hundreds
are being christened weekly Botokoff Jones,
Ostensacken Smith, Rusio Johnson, Ivan Miller,
Osliba Jackson, Emperor Alexander Taylor, Czar
Wilson, Liscoski King, and Stockel Brady. Then,
again, all the names of articles have changed.
They, too, are Russianised as well as our babies.
We have advertised Cossack pistols, Novgorod
garters, Grand Duke boots, Muscovite shirts, Mos-
cow pantaloons, Kremlin vests, Catherine crinolines,
Gortschukoff writing paper, and Petersburg over-
coats. Then, too, the gunpowder that is wasted in
firing salutes to the Russians ! If placed under
France, it would blow the Emperor a long distance
in the direction of the moon. Even the pavement
in Broadway, called the Russ pavement, is now
claimed as a Russian article, although many in Loa
do❑ know that it was laid down by my old but uow
dead friend Horace P. Russ, who was a Nova Sco-
tian and not a Russian. Last night the inventive
Stetson thought to compliment the Emperor of
Russia, and so had as a principal dish—Charlotte
Rusee.

TWO SKITTISH YOUNG ELEPHANTS.—The
Museum of Natural History in Paris received on Tuesday
last a male and female elephant about a year old, and a male
and female cameleopard, 18 months old, sent as a present to
the Emperor by the Viceroy of Egypt. The cameleopaids
are very tall, and the coat of the female is grayer than that
of the male, which is a bright bay. They are ti
re-
markably tame. The elephants
.are not taller than young
asses, but they are as lively and playful as kittens. They
gallop and strike each other with their trunks, and when
tired they lie down beside each other. The Museum of
Paris now possesses five elephants.
LOOK OUT !—A remarkable American book,
called " Louis Napoleon, the Destined Monarch of
the World," propounds the theory that the personal Anti-
christ is none other than the present Emperor of the
French. The cover of the book is adorned with a
most captivating picture of the seven-headed and ten-hot ned
beast which
Doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus—
h aving one foot on Europe and another on America. Six of
the boast's heads aro of a wolfish type, but the seventh has
hair and moustaches, and those "pale, corpse-like, imper-
turbable features" which we all know. The contents of the
volume are sufficiently mysterious and terrible to fulfil
the promise of its outside. It announces that Louis Napo-
leon will very scon acquire supreme ascendancy over the
whole of Christendom, " and for three. and-a-half years wille
ruthlessly slay nearly every one who will not acknowledge
him to be God." The whole of this tremendous drama ist
to be completed by the year 1870, when its hero is to perish
at the battle of Armageddon ; and therefore it may be ex-
pected that the performance will very soon begin,