this, it gives altogether too much power to the government over the system of education; the Jesuits profess to espouse the cause of liberty, but in reality it is only the liberty of ruling by themselves.

Books and pamphlets have been published on the one side and the other. A profound and eloquent discourse by M. Thiers, in the Chamber of Peers, occupies an important place, but I am sorry to say it is mingled with doctrines that tend to absolute despotism, while on the other hand, by this barrier of state despotism it would defend the University from the monopoly of Jesuits and priests. But it is not thus that they are to be conquered.

Quite separate from this question between the Jesuits and the University, another discussion has been aroused in regard to the Jesuits themselves, and their detestable maxims, character and policy, M. Michelet and Quinet have published together a work entitled "Des Jesuits," which besides an edition in octavo, four smaller editions were exhausted in two months. One who reads the work does not wonder at its success, for it is full of fire, and animated by the spirit of liberty. It speaks out, without the least restraint, in tones that thrill the bosom of the nation, awakening an impulse which in the end will work with irresistible power in France in the cause of religious freedom. When such works begin to appear, one might almost say, in spite of all temporary triumphs of the Romish priesthood, there is an end of religious tyranny.

The work consists of lectures given to the students by these two professors, with notes and appendices. What they call "the force of things," that is, I suppose, the current of events, led these two autbors, almost simultaneously, to treat of the same subject in their teachings; at first in entire ignorance of each other's movements. Afterwards in view of the opposition they met with, they agreed to publish their notes in a volume together. Michelet, you are aware, is one of the most celebrated historians of France. It was in the midst of his historical lectures, having encountered the subject of the Jesuits, and treated it with freedom and severity, that he met with those interruptions which caused in the end the publication of the volume. The notes of the first lecture commence thus. "It is God alone who knows the future; but if he means to strike us again, I pray that he may strike us with the sword. The wounds of the sword are clean and frank, which bleed but

heal. But what can a nation do with disgraceful, concealed sores, which grow old and gain upon the system daily?

"From such corruptions the worst to fear is the spirit of police in religion, in the things of God, the spirit of pious intrigue, of holy informers, of sanctified accusations, the spirit of Jesuits. Rather may God lay upon us ten times all forms of tyranny political, military, than suffer such a police to pollute our beloved France! A tyranny has this at least of good in it, that it often rouses the national sentiment, and they break it, or it breaks itself. But if this sentiment, be extinguished, if the gangrene gets into our flesh and bones, how then will you get rid of it?

"An ordinary tyranny contents itself with the outward man, the actions. But this police attacks the thoughts. The habits of thought become gradually changed under it, and the soul is injured in its depths. But a soul, lying and flattering, trembling and vile, which despises even itself, is it still a soul? Death kills only the body, but when the soul thus dies, what remains? Death lets you still live in your children; but here you lose both your children and the future.

"JESUITISM, the spirit of police and of accusation, the base, vile habits of an informer, of a tell-tale scholar, once transported from the college and the convent, into society, and what a hideous spectacle ensues! A whole people living like a house of Jesuits-that is to say from high to low occupied in denouncing one another? Treason at the fire-place, the wife a spy upon the husband, the child upon the mother! No noise, but a melancholy murmur, a low, stifled murmuring of people, who confess others' sins, and secretly and softly gnaw away, undermining one another! This is no imaginary picture. I see a people whom the Jesuits are sinking each day, by degrees, into this hell of filth eternal "

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The author goes on to state the sudden and rapid increase of the Jesuits, and that, by their confessors, they govern the wife, the house, the table, the fire-place, the bed, the child. shows that the clergy of France are under the tyranny of the Jesuits. He declares that any observing person who will study for ten years the history and books of the Jesuits, will find but one description of them," The death of liberty,"

He then describes their mode of operation, especially by means of the Jesuitesses, or sisters of the Sacred Heart, whỏ insinuate themselves into the confidence of mothers, and persuade them to commit their daughters to them to be educated.

Thus at length the Jesuits have under their influence, in the houses of these ladies, the daughters of some of the most influential families of the country. Mothers so educated would. give up their sons, and a single generation would be enough for the purposes of the Jesuits, working thus secretly and skilfully. But their unexpected success in other quarters threw them off their guard. These skilful miners, who went on so well under the soil, thought they might venture to work in open day,— "The mole quitted his burrow, to march in the full sun. Ah! there you are, eh! Now we see you, thanks to you for coming out. But what do you want?"

"We have the daughters; we will have the sons; in the name of liberty, give up your children!"

"Liberty! they love it so well, that they will stifle it in the places of primary instruction! Happy presage of what they would do in the secondary! They have sent their young saints to the college of France to disturb our lectures. But what we can less easily endure, is their attempts under our own eyes to corrupt our scholars."

M. Michelet ascribes the intellectual unproductiveness of which he accuses France at the present time, to the deadly influence of the 'esuits. He analyzes, in some measure, their system and its effects. Ignatius Loyola used religion as a machine of war, morals as a piece of mechanism. His famous exercises are a manual of religious tactics, where the monkish militia drill themselves to certain movements; material procésses are given to produce impulses which other systems leave to the free inspiration of the soul. Admirable mechanism ! where man is but a tool to be played with at will! Mechanism powerful in action, but powerless for production; active and energetic, but incapable of greatness. Not a man has come from the system for three hundred years! What is the nature of the Jesuit? A machine, a simple instrument of action, he has no personal nature, liberty does not exist.

"The Jesuits would persuade the people that political liberty is possible under a religious tyranny. But they will not be believed. The Jesuits belong to history, and when in my course I arrive at them, they accuse me, in their journals, of attacking the clergy, when I have done entirely the contrary. To discover and make known the tyrants of the clergy, which are the Jesuits, is to render the clergy the greatest service; it is to prepare the way for their deliverance. The Jesuits are a formidable machine of war, in the religion of peace.

WRECK OF THE LUCY WALKER.

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NEW ALBANY, Ia., Thursday EVENING, Nov. 14th, 1844.

Rev. and Dear Sir:-I have been requested by Mr. D. Christy whe called here this morning, on his way to St. Louis, to give you the particulars of the late Steamboat disaster, near this place. And in do ing so, I shall avail myself of the statements of those who were eyewitnesses of, and sufferers in, this awful catastrophe.

It is not known, nor will it in all probability, ever be known, until the waters shall give up their dead, how many passengers were on board the ill-fated vessel; and consequently the number of the lost, cannot be ascertained. The boat was but a few miles from port, and had received an accession of eight or ten from this place. Many of the names had not been registered, and if they had, it would not have removed the difficulty, as the records of the boat were entirely destroyed. It is supposed however that there were at least 130 on board, of whom about 30 were saved, some of them in a dreadful. fully mangled condition.

But my principal object is to inform you of the sufferings of those with whom you were acquainted. They were (as you are aware) on their way home, from attending a meeting of the Southern Synod. They came to Louisville and were there detained near two days, waiting for a boat; at length they succeeded in finding one, which they supposed would get down the River. Being disappointed in their accommodations, and in the time of starting, they hailed the Lucy Walker, which sent out a yawl and took them on board. The little company, with the exception of Mr. Wilson and lady, had scarcely seated themselves and begun to congratulate each other on their happy escape from the other boat, when the awful explosion buried them in its ruins. They were sitting at the end of the Social Hall near the door by which the Gentlemen's Cabin is entered, and consequently near the boilers. Mr. Wilson and lady were en the guard, aft of the wheelhouse, looking at the steamboat which had just passed. As soon as he (Mr. W.) recovered from the shock, he exclaimed, "Where are my friends?" Looking around he saw Mr. McCrery struggling in the midst of the ruins, and assisted him in extricating himself. He then turned to look for the rest; but they were not to be seen. By this time the flames began to spread rapidly thro' the wreck, and the thought struck him that he had better save himself and wife: which he did by jumping into the water and making his way by the assistance of the fragments of the boat, to the U. S. snagboat Gopher, which had approached as near as the flames would per

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mit. Mr. McCrery, succeeded in reaching the Gopher, by the same means, as also Messrs Young, Pressly and McCain, after which they were pulled on board by means of ropes and poles. Mr. McCrery was mortally wounded; one of his thighs being literally crushed, and his chest and head considerably injured. He died about five minutes after he was taken on board the Gopher, he appeared to be conscious of his situation, remarked that his thigh was broken, and ex. claimed some seven or eight times, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit," and gave up the ghost. His body was immediately laid out, and buried next day in the citizens burying-ground, in a decent and becoming manner. A stone will be placed on the spot, with a suitable inscription to point out the grave to any friends who may hereafter pay it a visit. The body of Mr. Watt (Elder in Mr. Pressly's church) was recovered the following day, and also decently interred by the side of Mr. McCrery's; it did not appear to be mangled, or but slightly disfigured.

Mr. McCain (Mr. Wilson's Elder) was severely wounded in the head and bruised in one of his hips. The wound in his head was a cut extending in an oblique direction past the lower part of the right ear, severing a small portion of it. The bruise rendered him in a great measure helpless for some days. He was taken from the boat to the Hotel, where he received every attention which kindness and sympathy could command. Mr. Pressly had his hands badly burned and his head slightly scalded on the back part. It is remarkable that while some of the wounded heard the report of the explosion, others did not. Mr. P. says he heard it distinctly. He was able to walk from the river, and was conducted to a private house, where his hands were dressed and every thing done which could render his situation comfortable. He was attended daily by a kind Physician, and christian friends ministered to his wants. His hands were burned chiefly on the backs---the left one most severely; it was thought however that they would not be rendered useless, as the burns were not so deep as to make them stiff or to draw the fingers out of their natural position." His general health was good, and he so far recovered in nine days after the accident, as to start home in company with Messrs. McKain and Wilson. He was liberally supplied with cloth. ing and other things necessary for his comfort, by the council and citizens of this city, as were also all the sufferers who remained here. A letter was received two or three days since, from Mr. McCain stating that they arrived safely at Randolph, from whence they would