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Crescent City Springs
WINTER ESTABLISHMENT.

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having provided two Of those splendid
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INTERESTING protracted meetings
are in progress at Wesley Chapel and
Centenary NJ E. Churches in New
Albany. At both those churches
services have been held every eve-
ming during the present week except
Saturday.
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THE Western Christain Advocate
has been enlarged, and otherwise i'm
proved at the beginning of the new
year. Ii is now more popular than
ever as a UNCONVENTIONAL paper.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31
RELIGION OF THE PURH-
TANS.

A writer in the Christian Witness,
reviewing the different religious socie-
ties of the world, gives the following
vigorous picture of the religious creed
and practices of the sect of Puritans;
"rne Puritans who left England and
settled at Plymouth, and founded New
England, professed to have fled from
persecution, and to seek place to wor-
ship God according to the dictates and
rights Of conscience, and to christian
ize the Indians. They were not settled
before they robbed the Indians, en-
shaved their women and children, sold
them into foreign bondage, and visited
the most inhuman and self-degrading
cruelties upon all classes with whom
they came in contact. They plunder-
ed the towns of the natives. They en-
ployed and paid assassins. Brides
were paid for the assassination Of chiefs.
They burnt hundreds of the natives a
live. They roasted at the stake wo-
men and children, and burnt them in
heaps. Their ablest and favorite di-
vines declared that the burning OF
four hundred Indians at once, mostly
women and children, seemed sweet
SAVIOR to God, while they admitted that
it was awful to see their blood running
and quenching the violence of the bur
ming wood, and to smell the stencil -
Mather himself boasted that they had
that day sent four hundred souls To
hell.
"They turned upon the QuaRers.-
They imposed heavy fines for hearing
them speak. They passed laws against
all other seots, They Aogged inhu'
manly women and children They
put them in prison and whipped them
daily. They cut Off their ears They
bored their tongues with red hot irons,
They hanged men, women and child
rem as witches, and continued it for fif.
ty years. The colonies of New Eng,
land were threatened with absolute
determination by their fanaticism. -
They exiled Baptists and Catholics. =
They drove women and helpless chill
dren, under seyerest penalties, to seek
protection among the sayages where
they were all murdered, because they
differed with them on metaphysical
divinity, Mather, the entire clergy,
the Governors and Legislatures all
combined and visd with each other in
radical fury and hate. As late as l7i0,
they enacted the most barbaroua laws
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31
Bonn PIatt on ReCoDstruc-
lion

Dom Piatt, in his latest letter to
the Commercial, IN speaking of the
so called reconstruetion act, by
which Georeia, as he says, was "ro-
constructed for the sixteenth time
each time Il was promised was to
be a final reconstruction,"-s
"Thcre is toy, common among
children, that consists of groLes-
que little figure, with lead in its
seat that will keep 1T IN n certain
position. You tumble IL over you
put It's head down, and in few sec
onis, as If after some reflection, the
absurd thing bounces up in the Inn
bcrest manner. This illustrates ro.
construction. So long as we sit on
the figure, or load II down with
muskctH and common, IL remains
PROSTATE. But the moment VIC ro
move the burden, the figure assumes
its upright position, with the head
and sont in their presidestiLed po'
sition."
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31
5flisttllancous.
From the Phila, Post, Dec, IS.
Miserable Death of "a wealthy
Old Lady.

Mrs. Ann Kelly, n miserable fe-
male Of eighly-fyo yours died sud-
denly yesterday morning in ono of
those miserable rookeries that mako
the name Of Bakor street distastc~
rul. Her abode was No. 6l9, n frame
building but single story high,
looking MS Ma strong brooze would
demuish IL in q twinkle. Here this
aged pieco of humanity had livod
alone tor half century or moro a
single room was all that the house
contained, and an almost paneleSs
window cast n glimmer Of light
over tho picture of wretchedness
aud apparent waEt. Tho deceased
was clad in old tattered garments,
scarcely sufficient TO hide her max.
edncss. She lay upon cGrpotlcss
floor. An old bed, worn ont stove,
dilapldated chair and q lcaflcss
table composed all that the room
contained, may We except an omac-
lated dog who stood guard over the
remains Of his departed mistress.-
The poor animal was faithful to the
last. Whom Coroner Taylor entor.
cd the wTetchcd habItation the ca
nino snarled, and ns he approached
the body the animal few at him,
and had TO bo driven from the
room.
Mrs. Kolly's death resulted from
debility. Tho only witness IN the
case was young man whose checks
were pouchod ou. with ruin. lie
mumbled out, IN answer to ques-
ton by the Coroner, that the de-
ceased had been supplying him
with funds TO purchase liquor
"Only yesterday morning" he said,
'she gave me II ten cent Tote, and
while away getting il changed she
died. The deceased had wasted n
way TO mere skeleton, her liieless
form weighing less than forty
pounds.
Tho Coroner, after summoning Il
jury, and uscertaining the cause OF
her death, was preparing for her
burial at the expense OF tho city,
believing That she was poverty
stricken, and that her death had
been hurried on by want, when II
gentleman made his appearance
and announced himself as the agent
of the deceased. 1t was then that
her history was made known. She
Was not poor, yet sho had lived II
wretched life in that ihiqultous To-
cRlity, and had by some means A.
massed httlo fortune, She had
from time 10 timo invested her mo-
noy in rea! estate in tho ncighbor-
hood. the income from which was
sufficient to support her alone.
the body OF the old lady was ta-
ken in charge by the agent, ard
subsequently an undertaken drove
up and carried the remains away
with instructions TO give them dc
cent burial.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31
WIZ the state Of Georgia Ac-
cept the Terms

Our Washington correspondent
states that Georgia will quietly sue.
Gumb to the atrocious outrage
which has boon perpctrOtcd upon
her by Congress, and will appar q
entity give her consent to tho cuudi-
ton imposed While we would not
assume to critic'so our friends IN
that State, we can say with truth
that public sentimen; among the
friends of the Constitution in the
North coltnscls them to maintain n
passive submission, but to do noth-
ing OF positive character that
would commit them to this revolu-
tIonary violence. II tho ratlfica>
ton cf the fifteenth Amendment Is
required, lot 1t be done by negroes
and carpet bNggers alone the peo-
pie should have no hand in it. An
active compliance with the condi.
tions will not propitiate, as some
may weakly imagine, the Jacobin
dynasty, Tho more that ls yielded
the more will bo required. One &c
mand is the basis of another, just as
their partisan necessities may seem
to require. What is really ncccssa-
ry is the exercise Of little pa
uenco and endurance 10y the pcrso-
cuted South. This et0to Of things
can not exist long, and will soou
we trust. be swept away but II
can not be fastened by any oblu,
tion in the pool Of humiliation and
political dIsgrnce.-[Cin. Eng.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31
How TO be a spIrIluaIIst.

Many persons are inquiring for
some explanations of the wonderful
spiritual phenomena which they
have witnessed, and Of which we
have heard so much during the last
tow years. The following item may
assist thom little in tins work
A contribution TO the literature
Of spirltualism is made in publish
cd letter from MIR. Faulkner, philo-
sopbical instrument maker, No. 40,
Endell street, London. Mr.. Faulk-
ner writes that for many years he
has had u large sale for spirit rap
ping magnets and batteries express
ly made for concealment under the
floor, in cupboards, under tables,
und even for tho interior Of the cen
tor support for large round tables
aud boxes that he has supplied to
tho same parties quantities OF pre-"
pared wire, to be placed under the
carpets and oilcloth, or undOr the
wainscoL and gilt beading around
ceilings and rooms in fact, for ev-
cry conceivable place that all these
obviously wero used for spirit rap
ping, and the connection TO each
rapper and battery was to be made
by means of small button, like
those used for Geographic, boil ring
ing purposes, or by means OF brass
headed or other nail undcr the car.
pet at particular patterns known To
the pilitualst. He describes these
rappers as calculated TO misload
tho most wary" and addsthut there
are spirit rnpping magnets and bat
teries constructed expressly for the
pocket, which will rap nj any part
of ihe room. Ho has also made
drums and bells which will beat
and ring at command but these
two latter are not so frequently
used as tho magnets are, because
they nre too oaslly detected.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31

WHEN n good deal Of muscle and
great deal ofGommon sense are ON
bodied in one person, it often results
in good provided, always, that 1t
~ judiciously expended--tho former
10 bo used in repelIing invasion, tho
latter 20 be brought to boar in a
voiding danger hence, the good
ci;iz5n. But on Saturday morning
last, boxes lay in profnsion over
our streets, and signs were purlOin
oI from their original abode TO a.
dorm the business houae Of some en-
lei uprising man, whose business was
altogether foreign 10 the inscription
thereon. The inference is, that
muscle" was entirely in vogue, to
the exclusion of good, common
seuse, and wanton disregard OI
MEN and BUSINESS. Young mon who
weekly get their faces scrapcd by
the barber and pride themselves on
their manhood should be above
such transgrossions and, If they
think thoy are men, let thom show
II By being gentle~men.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31

against secretaries and enforced the
Saybrook platform.
"And this was all done after the &C.
muses. above named had written -
Chaucer had three centuries before
written tho Canterbury Tales. Spen-
Ger had given the world the Fairy
Queen and drawn the character Of Ar
thur. A man whose calling was to
please the world in an age of almost
universal corruption, had made Portia
to plead like an angel, had drawn the
characters Of Duncan. Miranda, and
Antonio Messenger had written and
Milton had sung the sublimest epic in
the world Bacon had written Novem
Orgonon Essex. Russell, Raleigh, and
Algernon Sidney had blcd on the scaf-
fold or in the tower. Magma Charta
had been law over four hundred
years The Petition Of Right had been
obtained fifty years before, and Locke
had written on federation in exile"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31
advice 10 Unmarried Lndies.

Tho following advice to ladies re-
naming iE Il state Of single bless
cdness, is extracted from the manu-
script Of an uld dowager
II you have blue eyes, languish.
II black eyes, affect spirit.
If you have pretty icG, wear
short pctticoatS.
II you are the least doubtful as TO
that point, wear thom long.
While you arO young, sit with
your face to ,be hight.
When you ard q little advanced
in age, sit with your back TO the
window.
II you have a bad voicd, always
speak IN e low Tore.
IfyUu dance well. dance seldomS
If you dance III, never dance at
all.
1fyou sing well, make no puorllc
excuses.
If YOU would preserve beauty,
rise enrly in the morning.
lfyou would preserve esteem, be
gcntlo.
If you would obtain power, be
condcsconding.
II you arc disposed to be pottish
or insolcnt. il is bottcr to exercise
your i'll humor on your dog or cat,
or your servant, than your friond.
II it is always ~ your power 20
make n friend by smiles, what folly
to make an enemy by frowns.
1t you are envious of another wo.
man, never show it by allowing hOr
every quality aud perfection except
tho good she really possesses.
If you wish to let tho world know
you are in love with particular
man, treat him with formality, and
every ono else with case and free
dom.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31

The GAINESVILLE Sigral says that n
gentleman went from that city to tho
city of Pittsburgh (easily done) and
inquired OF policeman to show him
to n hotel, very clover), which he
did afterwards conducted the yer.
dant Zanesvil.lian to a house Of III.
reputc, Gall very kind, whero he
remnined just long enough TO lose
nearly all ofhis money. Certainly,
there's tho place to find cyeNtooth~
cutters and money extrRctors from.
yOur-Iocket,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31

On Christmas Eve, a handsome
somebody presented very pretty
somebody with bunch of scrap TIN
Rs a token of his affection -
This gin was suspended and dam
gled at the end of a rioce Of "print-
er's twIne." If economy was the
object, wo suggest that the donor be
ferreted out and a tin hat conferred
upon him for his generosity, SO that
IN the end he may be enabled to lay
up a Sufficient amount of "nickles'
TO present somebody with o bl ock
Of matches! 1t reminded us of q pla-
GARD we once seen, attached to the
back of an urchin, placed there by
the economical promptings of a Qua.
kor, as was evident from tho lam
guago, which was as follows -
Thee will please give this boy no
candy or nuts-he is destined for
--, Illinois. Fare thee we'll,
my littlv friend"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31
Death OF Hon. e. NJ. stanton

The telegraph flashed tho an
nouncement over the country, on
last Friday morning, that Hon. E.
NJ Stanton, Secretary OF War, dur
ing the greater part of Liucoln's
administration, and until ousted by
Andrew Johnson IN 1868 and re-
Gently appointed To the Supreme
Bench of the United States by the
present administration, had sujdcnN
ly died. He was buried on Mon.
day. Tho death of Mr.. Stanton re.
minds us pf n toast gwen by the
Hon. Benjamin Tappan, at Demo.
crulic festival, in Columbus, some
years since
"Thc Bank OF the United States -
We will not speak evil Of tho dead,
nor rail ut the damned"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31
what the Radical Organ at
washington says OF Judge
Thurman.

The Washington Chronicle, tho
Radical organ IN that city-one Of
Colonel Forncy's "two papers, both
daily"--in speaking of tho debate
IN the United States Senate, has
this notice of Judge Thurman
"THE COMING DEMocRATIc LEAD.
ER.-Judge Thurman, of Ohio, who
succeeded to the scat lately vacated
by Mr.. Wade, has given indications
by his Numerous and ready utter
ances Of the past two days, that the
Democracy has nj last found its
Coming Man. That diminutive body
10 the Senate has suffered q serious
LOSS by the defeat of Mr.. Hendricks,
and It's leadership has hitherto been
uncertain. That doubt has now
been dispelled, and Judge Thurman
stands forth as the most authorita-
tive exponent of Democracy in our
highest legislative body. HIS spec
chos yesterday indicated Icmarka-
bic acutcness az a debater, and also
showed the x.Chlef Justice OF OHIO
TO bo an accomplished parliament
AIRY tactlcian. His unfailing court
esy toward his opponents, his great
frankness and fairness in concoding
every Legitimate inference from
their f,cts, will undoubtedly give
him great personal popularity oven
with the Senatorial majority, who
recognize him as fooman worthy
of their steel"
Coming from the source the above
does. !. is n high compliment, and
all who know Judge Thurman will
join IN saying that it is well de-
served.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31

THE young ladies o. Upton rcS
Gently met in council aud pissed
the following resolutions
"WHEREAs, We mean busiGcss
therefore b. i!
"Rosolved, That We will not ac-
company any young man to church
or other places Of amusement who
uses tobacco in any manner; and
"Resolved, That We discard all
young mon who play billiards, cu-
chre or poker, and
"Rcsolvod, that young men who
indulge IN proiano language need
not apply, and
"Resol, Cd, That we will not, by
'hools, look or crook, notice any
young man who INDUCES in lager
beer or whisky, and
"Rvsolved, That We will not har.
Dor young men known to keep late
hours"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31
WE wero dellghtsd and ngreeabl

WE were delighted and agreeably
disappointed, upon visiting the Uni.
versalist Church, on Christman Eve,
TO find there "Lhristmas Trco,"
skillfully and nrtistically arranged
and arrayed, grooming under the
weight ola "thousand and one pre-
sonts, pre.destinatod, as the dlstri-
button revealed, for Sabbath School
Sch GLARS, Members Of the Church,
md not few Outsiders. Aftor Ia
king seat, We cast about TO SOC
something to attract orr attention
for q short season. Remembering
that we were in sacred place, and
upon witnessing such n vast con
course OF the little ones, the follow
ing passage Of Divine History mad
vertantly crossed our mmd -
"sufrs- little children TO como unto me, and
forbid them not, for OF such is the Kingdom
OF Heaven"
They sat peacefully, silently, and
hopefully; and wo are plcasod TO
Ray that not many, ifnny, wore dis
appointed. A few minutes elapsed
when n preliminary exercise was in.
dulged IN by tho entire assomblage
repeating few passages from
Scripture, and also saying over Il
prayer aftcr Mr.. Tresize. At tho
conclusion Of which, 1t was nnnoun-
cod that the distribution would
commence, and commcuUe il did
, A. eRch article was announced, by
Mr.. NAT. SHEPARD, who acted IN the
cppauty Of "tellor," IT was affecting
TO soc the little hand stretched forth,
or distant bockoning in the crowd,
90 indicate the owner Of precious
"IN MEMORY" from parent, brother,
sister, or relative. Or course, the
older ones received thor gifts, on
tertulniug, perhaps, u mental grate-
fulness for the glver. In partcu-
lar, We would say that our manly
little acquaintance, Mr.. CLARENCE
STREET, was tho happy recipient OF
very handsome and comfortable
suit Of clothes, and WILL add that
it was not unworthily bestowed --
few boys arc as prompt in the dis
charge Of their duties, nor as obe-
dicnt to their parent. In fact, with
bat few exceptions, the gifts were
OF commondnbIo kind, and amour.
ted TO several hundred dollars -
We hope that the recipients thereof
are enjoying :he iullness Of ronow,
cd friendship and entertain peace
and good will toward one another
TO those little ones throughout oui
town, who, from some unforeseen
cause, were so unfortunate as not tc
receive gift, wo would say, be pa,
ucnt, for Christmas will come again
we mover Laow one 20 fai!
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31

FROM n recent trial before one of
the Washington City Courts, some
idea Of the enterprise and expense
Of modern journalism may be had.
The case was ono in which the New
York Tribune was sued for two hum
Gred dollars, claimed rs q balance
due to n party who had furnished
that journal with an advance copy
of Grants testimony before tho I'M.
parchment Committee, surroptl.
tiOusly obtained. The Clerk of the
Committee sworo that he was offer
cd 81 900 for the document by u
correspondent whom he did not
name, and that he thought he could
have got evon higher figure, if ho
had been willing 10 compromise
himself by selling 1t, "Mack," of
the Enquirer, was ono of the wit
nesses. He was asked by the laws
yers how important documents were
usually obtained in advance and in
violation of tho orders of the De-
partments, and he replied that it
was done by the liberal use of mo-
ney and that all the great news
papers were generally willing to
pay literally for such things, and
that when a report of any kind was
really worth an effort it was always
obtained. Other witnesses corrob-
GRATED this statement, and the testi-
mony was, on the whole, very cred.
table to the enterprise Of the Am
erican press, though, perhaps, deto
trimental to the morals Of some of
the Government officials.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-12-31
THE GENESIS.

Professor Agasslz denies that he,
as has been publicly charged, r"-
Gently openod lecture with the
statement that he wanted no one TO
listen to hIs lectures who believed
in the first chapter Of "Genosis,'-
This charge bears on its face the
evidence of It's falsity, yet Professor
Agassiz deems 1t worthy of notice.
He says ia letter to n friend
~ am little in the habit ofnotic-
ing thinss of this kind, being con.
vinced that often it is useless, and
having become from long habit
somewhat callous TO mlsreprusenta-
tion. Something IN the toEo of
your letter makes me answer, and
unwilling to leave it Unanswered, l
write 10 say that tho statement YOU
sent mo is talse, In some opening
remarks OF a course on geology,
which | am now delivering in the
University, ! said that tho "theo>
lcgical Interpretation Of the Book of
Genesis, giving six thousand years
as the age of the world, was hin.
drance to tho understanding of geo.
logical evidence, and no one who
started with this ldea, and allo wed
his researches to be influenced by
1t, could be geologist. i do not
remember my exact words, tho Ice
ture being extemporaneous, but
this is tho substance, and know
lhat did not say what your news
paper extract reports.