The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-05-16

s0e Ots% uOuSeS III tOWuS Suu tue eACltemeut ran
at fever hent. *'&&. Il - 3D.
Great freshets have occurred in the East.
The Germans and the sunday Lew.
A portion of our German felow-citizens
are resoIting to practices for the evasion of
the new Sunday law, which will prove nei-
ther creditablc nor serviceable to their
cause. Those of them who sell beer object
very strenuously to being curtailcd of That
privilege one day in the week. and have
formed two associations for the purpose OF
contesting the validity Of the law and dis
arming the vigilance Of the police. A meet
ing Of the parties concerned was held at
tic Stadt Theatre on Saturday and was ut.
tended by nearly 40 of these gentlemen.-
A tarffof 80 cents barrel, or thereabouts,
was imposed on the Sunday sales of lager
to be collected on Monday morning, and
expended on lawyers, Courts, &C., and to
protect the confedcratcs in violating the
law. .,..,.. ......'..,.. :.
The proprictors Of the theatrical estab-
lishmcnts have resorted to a still more dis
credtable process. They pretend to have
established new religious sect and under
cover Of the freedom permitted to all kinds
of worship, claim the right to have such
exercises as they sec fit on Sunday. NJ
lindcnmuller, who seems to be the least
scrupulous and most shameless of these
persons, has published programme Of his
purposes in the German papers. lie an
nounces that he has formed new free Ger.
man Church, which has for it's object the
Sanctification of the Sabbath, the instruc-
ton Of the people, and the improvement OF
young criminals in this happy land. He
d Mes that he intends to ridicule religion.
but he claims the right, under our Consti.
tuition, to practice any religion he chooses.
A preacher in church only tells you from
the Bible that if good You will be rewarded,
If evil punished, in this world antlt TIE next.
Any ona that acts upon the principle Of do
ing to others rs he would have them do to
him, does not need this assurance and any
one who does not act upon it will not car
for the warning. No priest can change
him. lie has more fear of the Judge in
Center Street than of the Judge in Heaven.
"1f," says he, 81 give moral representa-
tons on Sunday, decent and instructive,
am preacher, and my actors are orators :;
no church is anything but different kind
of theatre" s1".s i" @.s# d. 81 abr.
H. announces, therefore, the dscourses
which he and his collcagcs will deliver
each being in five parts. Ten cents is to be
paid for admission into the temple; but ad-
mission to the garden-''undcr the eye of
God and the free sky"-is free. .-. =. !
Under this announcement his Shaker
Congregation, as he calls them, assembl ID
on Sunday evening last Towards midnight
after the regular per(ormances-he deliv-
cred his discourse, and was good deal more
frank than he Rad been in his published
programme. .. sd. -. sa..s..#a
II confess" said he in substance, 'that
am an atheist What is an atheist? An
atheist belieres achat he sees. Here the
wealthy classes have seven days Of rest in
a week, instead Of one as we have; and
they want to take from us this one. Tf
these hypocrites would be consistent, they
must stay away from the church on the Sab
bath, for God commanded, as they say, that
they should rest on that day Is not the
bawling of psalms and prayers great la
Dor But all labor is prohibited to them
on the Sabbath. What think ye of the
justice Of God? don't think much of it..
Would just God permit an unfortunate
deaf mute to suffer for the sins of his par
cnts? Pretty justice that Do you believe
in miracles? Do you believe that Moses
led the Israelites through the Red Sra p
; That Christ fed 5000, with so little?
have fed some thousands, but it took more
than five leaves to do it. These cursed
priests say all this merely for gain. Don't
you believe that If they. could get more
money by establishing theatres, they would
Tomorrow change the church into a theatre
and engage play-actors? Most certainly
they would. Nothing but professional en-
w induces them to force the Sunday Law
upon us. Go to the Bible Society, and tell
them you need fifty cents for poor family
verify, you would not get it. We must
multiply more such theatres as mine, so as to
compete with the churches; and then the
preachers will become play actors, and let
us alone"
Nearly a thousand half.drunk Germans
listened to and applaudcd these Athcistic
rawlings in a Sunday Theatre, in the inter
val Of comedies performed in open, avowed
defiance of a law Of the State, passed within
q fortnight!-N. y. Daily Times. -
ENTITLED 70 rn~ Nox'sArros.--Thc
Rochester IN. ~ Union says:
Douglas received a clear majority of a
full conventions; that is, majority of the
regular convention and scccdcrs combined
Except on few ballots, no other candidate
received more than one-seventh Of full
convention; and on no ballot did any othe,
candidate receive onc-quarter of full con
ventiOn.
When Mr. Buchanan received majority
in the Cincinnati convention, Mr.. Douglas
requested his friends to make the nomina
ton unanimous. When he received a ma
jority Of the Charleston convention, Mr.
Buchanan's friends and dependents mani
Tested determination to break up the con
vention and sacrifice the party, rather thar
to permit Douglas to be nominated. Doug
lass friends should now make their organi
cation more perfect than ever. ~"
GEORGE SANDERS. Sanders ha
arrived here, and laughs heartily when h
is informed that Mr. Buchanan is sore an,
abusive because of the large amounts h
has had to pay for the private dispatchc
from Charleston sent by Sanders. Sander