The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-19

poor wretch imbrued in the blood Of one of
his fellow-men, who regarded not life, aud
who killed another poor man with no
more compunction than he would have
shot O deer, went out to be executed, and
as be went by the cells he shook hands
with another, and they both said they
would rest in the bosom of their God
And them" said this benevolent teacher
of Christian charity, "think not of the
caricature of this, but of the blasphemy."
Did he forget that the excellent institution of
purgatory, where the sinner of the darkest
crimes may be purged and purified by fire
and then released to better state of exist
ence-did this Mortified divine forget that
here we have a provision which takes away
all the alleged blasphemy of this reported
earthly farewell between Jack Reynolds and
Daniel Mcfarland We fear that Brother
Rockingham is a believer in the eternal
roasting of the offender against his peculiar
faith.
We have no complaint to make of this
preachers denunciations of the gods or god
desses of ''fashion, drink, and debauchery"
as the gods mostly worshipped at this day.
We agree with him that 'many things ought
to be changed" that "drink should not be
allowed to men to make beasts or murderers
of themselves" and that ''the press, if things
were changed, would not be allowed to insult
with their bold calumny of unceasng asper-
sions;' but that ''the sweetness and blessed
ness of the marriage relation should be con-
sidered with view to its better DEVELOPMENT"
is a proposition which, coming from this
reverend gentleman, is open to the suspicion
of free love and free-love leave to the Oneida
community of the Rev. Doctor Moves, where
all things, including husbands and wives, are
held in common.
TQ,,ft tba foo1
extraordinary sermon is this-that while it
has for its text the sublime theme of the
resurrection, it is in reality rambling dis
sertation on the opinions and personal
grievances of the Rev. MIR. rockingham in
reference to the Richardson McF Farland case
His mind is filed with it and his wrath is great.
Hence his allusion to the blasphemy involved
in the farewell between poor Jack Reynolds
and Mcfarland; hence his passing side blow
at the press for its ''insults to people, and
corporations, and everything" and its ''bold
calumny of unceasing aspersions;" J" and hence
his peculiar philosophy on ''the sweetness and
blessedness of the marriage relation" The
friends of this exasperated and thick-headed
free-love parson ought to take charge of him;
for otherwise there is no telling the extremes
to which his strange notions and foolish rage
may carry him. He is not fit, in his present
condition, to preach the gospel.
THE FREE-LOVE LADIES' LETTERS IN
THE MCFARLAND TRIAL.
From the Boston Post.
Next to the clerical scenes which have been
sketched on the sombre background of this
tragedy, the rdgout presented the jury, which
is compounded of the bumptious, conspiring,
moralizing, dramatic, and rebellious letters
from Mr.. Greeley's female literary associates
to the wife of the prisoner, is for its almost
indescribable qualities beyond the reach of
parallel. One hunts his library shelves in
vain to find q proper match for these dia-
bolically devised hand d-grenades for exploding
all domestic peace and social morality There
are the 'Lettres Parisiennes" of Madame de
Girardin; there is Madame de Stael on
Rousseau; there are Madame Sevigne, Lady
Stanhope in memoir, Miss Milford Mrs.
lope, Fanny Wright, Hannah More,
and George Sand-one in letters,
another in memoirs and all in personal
sketches and practical biography. But until
the world beheld the passionate twinkle of
the Calhoun addresses to the mother of Nc
Farland's innocent little boys, adjuring her TO
be constant to her noble womanhood and re-
ligious in her Righteousness, to look to the
stage and to pew No. 80 in the Rev. Mr..
Frothingham's church, to borrow her ''pana-
cea," Richardson, and play the "Queen," if
she can to Edwin Booths 'Hamlet, to be
| duly mindful of her personal attractions in a
beautiful voice, changing color, 'vary-
ing, soulful face" and freshness of nature
until this new illumination dawned in the
world of feminine letters, we have really
had nothing worth speaking of in line of
literary effort, left untouched for want solely
| of true Tribune inspiration.
| ''Such larks, Pip!" Aha, and, indeed,
'such larks, Pip!" Now, who is Pip, and
what are larks? And her purse is wide open
for the yet loyal little wife, when its owner is
studying that impossible art in female econo-
my, doing without a new dress for another
year. And her home is all ready for the
tempted and distracted little mother to flee to
from loving husband, and there be at rest.
And she is going to do some extra literary
work, to the extent of 1915, such as showing
up the utter hollowness and corruption of
home influences and domestic affections, out
of which trophy of brain-labor she will de-
fray the cost of visit, with accompaniments
in keeping with the errand that quickens her
steps And pair of loving arms are all open
and waiting to give the bewildered little
woman such tight-ftting blessings as she can
not hope to pull off with her garments as long
as she lives. Such afriend is not to be caught
for the shaking of every bush. Her
bodily. To carry her off bodily to ''Mr.
Richardson" She has spotted the prize; her
covetous arms are outstretched; her decoy is
the continued call, ''my darling" "my
darling;" her purse is free; her home doors
are open; and ''Mr. Richardson" stands all
ready to find a way into smooth paths" for
her Very smooth are these verdure-clad
paths to the eye of uncorrupted innocence,
and very swift the descent to the precipice