The New York herald., 1861-12-08

drawal Of the advertisements of that work, tho
Independent editors design to excuse themselves
for not having this week an editorial puff of
the "curious book" upon "city women" They
state, however, that "editors are predsposed to
be favorable towards authors and publishers, as
colaborers in the cause Of literature and tho
education of the people" Now, this 'curioua
book" imparts much information upon subjects
mysterious to the outside world" and there
fore, according to the independents views, is .
'colaborer In the cause Of the education Of the
people" Though the "education" is not of thai
sort which most people Of "the outside world"
prefer, 1t doubtless appears valuable to such ini-
tiated folks as the Independent editors, and we
expect them to have an article upon it next
week, recommending it to their readers. The
versatile pen which dashes off essays upon "the
extent of the atonement" might make clear the
point whether the atonement extends to those
who assist in circulating such a "curious book"
The Rev. Horace Greeley, who writes in .
white coat for the Tribune and a white chokef
for the Independent, has been too busy lately,
with gambling debts bets on the charter cleo
tion, and the delightful and exhilarating
pastime Of "seven up" to "do" his usual
article for the religious abolition organ this
week. There cannot be the slightest
doubt that he endorses the views Of the
"curious book" however, and perhaps his ne
glect to contribute to the Independent this week
was owing to the fact that he had been engaged,
in the solitude of his chamber in perusing those
"mysterious" facts about "city women" for
which the book is famous. But Greeley always
fathers any idea of the Independents, and pa
rades it in the Tribune as bran new invention
of his own. Indeed, it is currently reported
that the Independent and the Tribune are one
concern; that the waste articles ofthe one arc
printed in the other, and that by taking the
combined circulation of the two papers Greeley
managed to arrive within some thousands Of
those large aumbcrs with which he used to be-
wilder his readers, and upon which he bases
the bogus bets he cfers us. 1t is perhaps more
reasonable to suppose, however, that Greeley
has not yet recovered from the brain fever he
caught at Manassas Junction, and really
imagines that the ideas he borrows from the
Independent are his own. And so we leave him
with his "city women"
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher just:6es his
conduct in advertising this 'curious book" by
the assertion, in his sermon, that imam
is not an isolated crcaturc' and perhaps
the reverend divine thinks that the company
of cold mems darlings, ladies of pleasure and
dashing widows" is preferable for young men
and middle aged bachelors to the isolation Of
solitude. An old proycrb says that "a poor ex-
cuse is better than none;' and so we present
Beecher's case in It's very best light. If, in his
case, or in that Of any OF the other personages
Of The Independents stat, there should seem to Rs.
an irreconc:ileablc conflict between their princi.
pies and their practicethe picty they profess
and the prostitution they advertise-we have
only to say that they belong to the new Satanic
abolition school OF morals, and that the Ladepcn-
dent is the organ of that school, 1t occurs to
us, however, that in Difference to a strong op-
posing public opinion, the reverend Independents
clique ought either to give up preaching and
stop their religious newspaper, or else relin-
qush theif agency for this very g curious book"
Tue BIAsrnEMY or THE TRBt NE.-ln long
editorial article in yesterdays Tribune, one o.
the philosophers of that infdel sheet labors to
prove that neither divine nor human law is
obligatory on man, and the writer places the
Holy Gospels and the Pentateuch on the same
level with The religion Of Odin and the faith Of
Mohammed, and the constitution and laws Of
the United States on the same level with the
Puritan laws against witchcraft and the bloody
edicts OF Henry VIII. and Draco. So, because
there have been bad laws. and false religions,
therefore Christianity and the Bible and the
mild and benelcent constitution and laws of the
United States are of no authority, and ought to
be overthrown. in favor of the Satanic
dogma Of "a higher law" the very same princi-
pie on which the arc,, rebel lifted the standard
Of revolt against the Almighty in Heaven. The
reasoning Of Greeley X Co. would lead to
endless confusion. and to robbery, murder and
every crime. If every man may do what seems
right in bis own eyes, there is an end of the So
ciai iapric In rejecting the authority of funda-
mental law, Greeley ignores God himself, tho
grcat lawgiver. and he does so because the
hible, equally in the Old Testament and the
New sanctions the domestic institution Of slave
ry. under the regulation Of moral and religious
principles. As without fixed law tho uni
verse would relapse into chaos, SO il is in the
body polite. Human government, without
law. can only be either cruel despotism or fierce
anarchy; and to one or other of these unhappy
conditions the abolition philosophers are labor
inc hard to prccipitatc a nation which, but for
their dabolcal principles, would be now hap
py. prosperous and at peace with all the world.
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Fine Arts.
GiGSouxs INDIAN SUMNER IN VIRGINIA.
few months since took The opportunity OF noticing
tho large work under The above title whiChM Gignoux
has engaged for the last couple OF years II was
then in incomplete state and could only bear
testimony the promise which il afforded Of surprising
excellence. The finishing touches have recently been
given the picture, and the public have op-
pogtuity Of Judging Of its merits by visiting Schaus'