Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1856-02-20
Correspondence Of the Smyrna Times.
Letter from Philadelphia.
PHIIAnELpn1A. Feb. la. 1856.

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upon. For one to see the TRADES and articles
of vtuperous character, hurled against the
workers Of the temperance reform, he would
come to the conclusion that the liber
ties We possess are to be destroyed through
their machinations Has there ever been
logical argument uttered by the rum press, OF
a public speaker against the reform, to the tenn
perance menl Has any one shown the evils
resulting from temperance! Has not every
country been blessed with class of men, al
though they may be in the minority, working
against popular abuses! Yet such class are,
and have always been secuted at as FOOLS
When Fulton first demonstrated by practical
apl LEGATION, the use of steam, he was hooted at
and set down craZy-the great Napoleon
offered premium for means to expedite the
transport of troops across the British channel,
during the time Of his contemplated Invasion of
Eng aud; Fulton presented his steam-power,
and thu wise head deemed the application of
steam impracticable. So some of our Legisla-
tors say, the law is a Sunptuary one, and has
been tried in Europe and in some of our own
States, and that it cannot be enforced but it
only needs test for it to become as universal
among nations as the application of steam
Steam has been applied in practical manner;
what are its accomplishments !-every one
knows What will Prohibition produce for
nothing can be said against its principles-it
only wants proper application, and after that
it will be equally,Jf not more beneficial than
anything that ever before enanated from the
human mind.
Wonders never cease-it appears. We have
the proceedings of the Great Irish Convention,
at Batalo-the object of the conveners is to
establish Committees at different Cities in the
United States, to assist their Catholic brethren
IN founding great Colony in Canada, or in the
North W estern part of our country. The fca-
, slbllIty OF the move is doubtful, however much
the Bishops or Priests desire it. Ii the Irish
Catholic population could be induced by any
means whatever, to go on such Il pyrima re,
the church in the United States would hardly
muster a corpOrars guard; the altar fires which
with giant excrtiOns now burn so brightly.
would flicker and die out 1t is fact beyond
D all controversy, that the Catholic church and
the institutions of this country do not unite Sc
well as the welfare of the latter demands. In
: less than half century We have rose from tho
cradle, and now sit in high places giving law.
10 people who appreciate them and know thei
effects. There has come among Us, a elias,
: who do not understand the prime; pies of ouI
TOSRFnmpnt Inn ~ l.. q.
when they as many do, in course of time gc
y thoroughly mbued " it'll its prcceptS, lukcwarm
uess IN the church is the result The Catholi,
= Bishops know, after so many frutless efforts OF
= their part, that as long the people watch tn,
II institutions with jealous eye, nothing can b.
7 accomplished to suit their views. Whethe
the object is to disseminate that peculiar creed
; or is 10 found colony to which Ills holmes
p" Pho Mono can come, in case he is visited will
the same calamity as occurred with him il
p" 1913; or whether it is to save them from be
coming absorbed IN the great vortex of pro
gress which now sweeps resisIlessly through
- this whole continent, remains TO be- seen. Tn
lrlShman who comes here is type of his dc
" caylng race, his children will not be Irish
Not so with the American characler-he is to
progreSsIve-and with these colonists if the
did not succeed in their undertaking, very fe,
j. years would scatter their descendants, for tn
American character partakes Of that bird who's
young speed ac:OsS fields the moment they Sc
g light, or their limbs are untrammelled. Al
" though the Catholic church numbers over tvs
- millions in this country, yet her Bishops sa,
~ she is three millions brhindhand- consl,crlp
" the vast emigration and the natural incrcas
. which should result from so large body y
doubt 1t ls alarming TO the Bishops. BrownsoI
the mOuth-picce of the Catholic church in tn
= country, says the church is intallble, it is I'll
> same to-day as it was a thousand years ago.
- If Mr.. ID. speaks the truth, he shows the caus
~ of the decline; so Mr.. Hughes aud his holy hos
u had better identify the church with the inst
tutiOns OF the country-it will do more goo
than conventions. And another thing, churche
where they have no restrictions imposed upo
them, should not partake of such a polite;
character that free Bible and good free Law
"' would result in their overthrow.
DC The steamship Pacific which left Liverpo
- on the 22d ult, has not yet arrived. 1t
= thought the Canada, now due at Halifax, ma
g. bring some account of her. The Pacific W,
y seen one day out from Liverpool-it might DO
r sibly be tn Il she broke her machinery and D,
back. The ice in the Atlantic at the prese,
=, time is not great enough to cause any apr
:. henSion that she struck floating field al
went down.
:. The Markets, the past week, have been ina
{" tive--the means of lngress and egress to o,
re port being cut off by the ice in consequen,
ef, Of which no transaction of large charact
las has taken place. Standa I'd brands $3.50 D
q, bbl.; fancy brands 80. Rcd wheat brings 81
- 75a$l.7S per bushel. Rye $l.lO per bushc
Gu COrn-Penn. yellow sold for 64aB5 cts; 30,
en- bushels to be delivered in March, sold at 3s
1t Oats 4la4l cts. per bushel, with steady d
so nand .s.....
NeU York, Feb. ls.--Flour dull; pric
ranup frntn A nm In o. a..