The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-09-10
Things Wise and Otherwise.

A VAST deal of genial humor. says Mrs.
Stowe, is conscientiously 'strangled In relig-
'ous people which might illuminate and warm
the way Of life. Wit and gaiety answer the
same purpose that FIRE does in a damp horss
dispensing chills and drying up mould, and
making all wholesome and cheerful.
MES who have the highest opinion Of female
virtue and who enjoy the society of refined
lad: :'s most are those who have trifled with
them least; while men who are utterly want
ing IN confidence in woman, and there ara
many such, are generally men who have moss
abused the confidence of woman.
A COMMON thing--a beautiful sunset
but still so gorgeous and beautiful at
TIMES, that they seem more attractive than
ever, What pencil ever caught and put
on canvas the changing hues of a sunset
amid clouds :? and whose the pen that
could do it justice in words?
CHARLES A. LEoosy, of Natchez, Miss,
liberated in Cincinnati, few days since,
four slaves. The Gazette says: "They
are all mulattos, and had evidently, 40
is the case with the majority of the
negroes emancipated here, more Of
the Anglo-Saxon than African blood
in their veins. The kind of benevolenee
which gives these slaves freedom il ne
mystery"
MORE HELp.-The Tamaqua Gasetss,
heretofore neutral, has come out for VII
mot and the Union Ticket A now Pc.
per recently established in the same place,
called the Sentinel, also runs up the VIII
mot flag. There are now about one hun
dred Wilmot papers in the Common
wealth embracing all the political jour-,
nails in the State that are not either Lc-
cofoco outright, or playing into the hands
of Packer by the support of the Halle
nut ticket. - Washington Cvmme.s-
,eealM.
WEIGH mas THE BRsr OF IT ?-One OF oar
female writers declares that though O few
American ladies live in idleness, or worse than
idleness, the majority work themselves into
early graves, giving men an opportunity 10
try two or three in the course of their own
vigorous lives" But the recent census of the
State of New York gives I,7O6, 293 males and
l,7l4,G53 females. The widowers number
35. .396; the widows e5,ls2. Nearly an equal
number of males and females, but so 900 moro
widows than widowers An exchange paper
says: This great disparity proves most con-
clusively and strikingly after the manner Of
the fable, that, whatever amusement marriage
may afford women it is death to the menl'
CAUsTIc, BUT JUsT-The Louisville
Journal says of the election of james B.
Clay in the Ashland District:
"The election of the apostate son who
has taken to his embrace the enemies OF
his father, those who hunted that noble
father through quarter of century with
fend-like malignity, and crushed out hi
great heart with the foulest and black
est calumnies, is the crowning curse Of
that Democratic hatred which prosecuted
Henry Clay living and thus insults ths
memory of Henry Clay dead
The Democracy are exceedingly jubi-
liant over Mr.. CLAY's election. We give
them joy of all such acquisitions.
PoLITIcAL PREAcnINa.-Of all par.
tizan claims, or theological Authorizations,
the idea that the science of Government,
the conduct ofrulers, the political crceds
and practices of men, the administration
of parties and Of nations, the whole do
main in fine, of what is called politics;
is sacred from the application of Gods
word, and stands aloof on ground which
in the very nature of the preachers voea-
tion forbids him to invade, ia the mad
dcst. A greater absurdity could scarce
" be broached, and widely insisted on,
that politics are ont Of the supervision Of
piety, and that religion is out Of ita
sphere in applying to the political doc
trines and practices of people the rules
of Gods righteousness, the light of Gods
word LHecrer.
A SLAvEHoLDIAa PASTOR IN PHIL
ADELpuIA.-The minister chosen to suc-
ceed the Rev Dudley A. Tying as Rector
of the church of Epihany in Philadelphia
is the Rev w. 0. Prentiss from the Col
Teton District, South Carolina. He is
said to be largely interested in the .''pceu-
liar institution" having property in 200
slaves, who will be left to work for him
on the plantation while he goes to preach
cotton gospel to a fashionable and wealthy
congregation in Philadelphia. The Col
Teton District, whence Mr.. Prentiss comes
and where his miserable chattels viii re-
main, contained, according to the last
census, LII slaves, and 7 ,403 whites.
Among the white adxlts are 72S who can
neither read nor write.
Is it not shame that this ordained
man-stealer is to be welcomed as minis
ter of Christ in the city of Penn, as the
successor of one who was excluded from,
the pulpit for preaching against slavery:
What must be the state of'public opinion
in that city when an event so disgraceful
calls forth no remonstrance save from o
handful of persons who are themselves
denounced as fanatics and disturbsrs of
the peace? If the churches of that city
were not devoured of Slavery aud Nam
mon, they would all cry shame upon the
party which thus introduces 10 the evae-
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