Earlier text: EXPERIENCE IN HEALTH REFORMFrench Expeditionary Corps.—The staff officers of the French Expeditionary Corps have all left Rome. —There is an alarming and increasing hostility to religion in France. The liberal party are about erecting a statue to Voltaire, which gives the greatest indignation to the church. —Savory, Mass., is so healthy a town that the single doctor there can hardly live on his practice, and lately had a $100 donation from the citizens. —The Chicago Advance says: Nine tons of tracts have been sent by Henry Buley, Esq., of London, to the Y. M. C. A. of Chicago. It is said that this gift is the result of a vow made by Mr. Buley when the success of the Atlantic telegraph cable—of which he is a large stockholder—seemed doubtful, that he would devote all his dividends from it to religious uses. —People grumble nowadays at our hydra-headed system of taxation. Well, it is a vexatious evil; every body will rejoice when it is so modified as to be less annoying, and still more when the necessity for so much taxation ceases. But after all we are by no means so badly off as many nations have been. At the commencement of the Christian Era the Roman provinces were cruelly taxed. “These provinces,” remarked a recent lecturer in this city, “were called tributary, since they did little else than contribute to the already plethoric treasury of the luxurious Roman capital. Every thing in a Roman province was taxed. Every article exported paid for the privilege of going out. Every article imported paid for the privilege of coming in. Every article sold paid a tax of one per cent. of the purchase-money; every slave, twice that amount. To manumit him cost the owner five per cent. additional. Every house paid one tax, every door in it another, every column which adorned it a third. Every man of property paid for its peaceable possession a tax ranging sometimes as high as twelve per cent. Every poor man paid for the privilege of living, a tax practically determined by the greed of the gatherer and the poverty of the victim. And finally, every old bachelor paid a special tax for the privilege of his independence.” —Many foolish things are done every day by persons who think themselves wise. Perhaps no follies are more common than these: To think that the more a man eats the fatter and stronger he will become. To believe that the more hours children study the faster they learn. To conclude that if exercise is good the more violent it is the more good is done. To imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained. To act on the presumption that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in. To argue that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better is good for the system, without regard to more ulterior effects. To eat without an appetite, or to continue to eat after it has been satisfied, merely to gratify the taste. To eat a hearty supper for the pleasure experienced during the brief time it is passing down the throat, at the expense of a whole night of disturbed sleep and a weary waking in the morning. —A most terrible and fatal kerosene-lamp explosion recently occurred in St. Paul, Minnesota. It is well that the details of such accidents, which have become fearfully common, be made public as possible as a warning to others. All who use kerosene oil should understand and realize that the first principle of safety is to burn only the pure article—the cheap mixtures which are palmed off upon the public are often exceedingly dangerous. In the second place, every individual who ever has occasion to touch a kerosene lamp, or to use kerosene in any way, should know something of its nature—at least so much as to refrain from blowing down the chimney of the lamp to extinguish it, from filling it or putting it in order in any way when lighted, from setting a can of oil on a hot stove, or near a fire, and from pouring the fluid over wood to hasten the kindling of a fire. Accidents may occur in other ways, but the means above mentioned should never be adopted except when the special object is to blow up the lamp, or to produce an explosion of some kind. The explosion already referred to was caused by a servant attempting to trim a lighted kerosene-lamp. The servant herself and the entire room were almost instantly wrapped in flames, caused by the sudden explosion. Those who attempted to extinguish the fire were severely injured, and the unfortunate servant-girl died soon after from the effects of the burns she received. The shocking nitro-glycerine explosion which took place at Bergen Hill last week, and which caused the death of nine persons, was the result of gross carelessness, ignorance, or fool-hardiness. There was a can of damp glycerine, and the drying process by ordinary means becoming tedious, one of the men thrust a red-hot poker into the explosive material. Poor fellow! he was absolutely blown into fragments in an instant. The building was scattered in all directions, and eight other persons, some in the building, and some without, were killed. Cuba for Sale.—New York, Dec. 14.—A Havana special to the Telegram says: Authentic information has been received from Spain with the important intelligence that the Spanish government has made a formal offer to the American Minister at Madrid, to sell Cuba and Porto Rico to the American government for one hundred and fifty million dollars in gold. The terms of the sales are $50,000,000, to be paid in cash on the signing of the treaty and the formal delivery of the islands to the authorities of the United States; a second $50,000,000 to be paid one year thereafter; the third installment of $50,000,000 to be paid at the end of six years. Great excitement prevails over the news of the extinction of slavery being one of the consequences of the sales. The national pride is disposed to grumble a little over the transfer, but the general feeling, except among the oldest families, is one of satisfaction. It is of course known that the owners of slave property will be fully compensated out of the purchase money. An American company has already purchased an island near Neuvitas, for the purpose of colonizing 30,000 acres. With the sale of Cuba, and the abolishment of human servitude on the island, the slave traders’ last hopes are gone. It is regarded here as a bargain certain to be completed forthwith. Canada.—MONTREAL, Dec. 20. A number of officers belonging to the Canadian volunteer service leave here for Rome to join the Papal army. The Fenians in England.—For the purpose of rescuing one of their number, the Fenians recently mined and blew up a prison where some of them were confined. About twenty houses in the vicinity of the explosion were demolished, and forty persons more or less injured, some fatally. The whole city of London is terribly excited by the fact of this sudden and daring attempt. Everybody feels alarmed, for the serious reason that no one can foretell where the next blow of this description may fall. The government is becoming exceedingly active. Fenianism—or the reaction of two centuries of oppression and national neglect—has assumed a guise, which however unmilitary and ungallant it may be, is terrible and ominous. A national hatred, repressed and disregarded, is coming to the surface, as the disturbances and disorders of nature come to the surface from the crater of Vesuvius, and in the fatal rocking of the earthquake. England has treated this hatred as a deadly crime. It has banished and imprisoned, and its officers were shot down. It has hung, and hundreds and thousands of Irishmen have publicly defied it, and exalted the men on the gallows to a saintly martyrdom, and with powder and match blown up a prison. One of these days England may believe that Fenianism means something. Fenianism.—London, December 20—Evening.—The alarm caused by the recent Fenian outrages here continues. Magistrates are still swearing in special policemen. Guards around prisons have been strengthened, and warehouses in the city are carefully watched during the night. Troops were suddenly ordered to Portsmouth to-day, and left on a special train. In view of the recent outrage committed, or attempted, by Fenians in this country, and to prevent by summary measures their repetition, the cabinet has determined to ask parliament to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in England. Volcanic Eruption in Nicaragua.—Interesting is the news of a volcanic eruption in Nicaragua, which took place on the 14th of this month, and was undoubtedly connected with the series of similar phenomena witnessed all through the West Indies. Rising from the plains on which Leon, the capital, is situated is a long range of volcanoes, stretching from the Lake of Managua to the prominent cone of El Viejo. In the center of that range is the old volcano, Rota (i. e., burst), with two peaks, remains of its long silent crater. Near the base of this volcano the earth suddenly opened in several places on the afternoon of the 14th, with a loud noise, first low and rumbling, then sharp, like violent claps of thunder. The noise frightened the people at Leon, which is only ten miles distant, out of their houses, and was even distinctly heard at the port of Corinto. As soon as night set in a beautiful sight was revealed to the surrounding country. Two immense columns of fire were seen issuing from the plains, in the midst of several little ones. The glare was so strong as to light up the towers of the cathedral in Leon, like the reflex from a fire close by. Lava and ashes were rapidly accumulating around the craters of the new volcanoes, building up some new addition to innumerable volcanoes scattered over the country.—N. Y. Herald. A Sunday Scrimmage in an English Church.—On Sunday, November 24, All Saints Church, Lambeth, was the scene of a great uproar. Immediately the procession of clergy and choristers entered the church, a large number of those present hissed and hooted them, and during the lessons for the day the same noise, accompanied with groans, took place; but when the man appeared with a long taper to light the candles of the altar, the uproar became general, and there were cries of “no popery in our English churches.” Mr. Mackonochie commenced his sermon in the midst of a storm of hisses, and evidently with great nervousness, occupying only six minutes in the delivery. When the Eucharistic service commenced the riot became general, and three cheers were proposed, and responded to by a portion of the audience. A rush was then made to the altar, and one of the crosses broken and kicked about the aisle. The beautiful font within the communion rails was thrown down and broken, the water running down the steps. A general fight then ensued with some who desired to protect the church from injury. Soon after the people retired, shouting “down with ritualism!” “Shame, shame!” “God eaters?” “Traitors?” &c. The Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
As yet I have done scarcely more than note the fact of the eruption of Vesuvius, but so much has it increased since Wednesday last, and so marvellously beautiful is the spectacle, that it merits a more detailed report. Unlike those terrific displays which we have had at times, and which ceased with one great effort, this is a lava eruption increasing ever in force and beauty, and promising a duration of some weeks, if not months. Since December, 1861, it has been almost quiescent, with the exception of one or two sulky and uncertain puffs, and our clear blue atmosphere has ceased to be marked with the spiral columns of smoke. On the very summit has gaped the huge crater, measuring nearly 700 feet in circumference, and around which even children might have played, being careful only to avoid certain sulphurous exhalations which were emitted at intervals. During the last two years a small cone has been formed by the matter gradually ejected from this sulphurous hole; we could scarcely see its head above the walls of the large crater, but within the last week, like some presumptuous stripling, it has shot up above its venerable parent, and this it is which has been fuming and sputtering, and storming with all the arrogant impatience of youth since last Wednesday. It has sent forth an immense quantity of lava, converting the surrounding crater into a lake of fire. At first the high circling walls kept it within bounds, but gradually it has risen and risen until it is now flowing down in several directions where the abrupt and irregular wall admits of a passage. There was no incident to mark until we got to the foot of the cone, when we heard the thunder of the mountain and felt the shocks as of an earthquake at every effort to disgorge the liquid fire. Ascending by the usual road, we were compelled, on approaching the summit, to skirt a little round to the southeast, for two reasons—first, to get on the blind side of the wind which might have brought down upon us an inconvenient shower of stones; and, secondly, to obtain a better view of the main stream, which was fed, not only by the great crater, but by another orifice opened outside, about twenty feet in diameter. From this spot the stream of living fire, full twenty to thirty feet in width, poured down to the bottom of the mountain rapidly where it met with no obstacles, and where it did, struggled energetically until it carried everything before it. To the edge of the crater it was impossible to approach; the heat was scorching; and what would have been the consequences had the lava boiled over and come down upon us? It was difficult, therefore, to form any fair estimate of its size, but one might have supposed that it was not over seventy feet in diameter. It was not a moment, however, for figures, when nature was exhibiting her power in one of its grandest forms. There was a roar and a shock, and then shot forth flames and stones full 1,000 feet in height, at intervals of from one to five seconds, according to the watch of one of the party. These tremendous convulsions were repeated, and then came the descending shower, composed of stones of various sizes, some certainly half a ton in weight, judging by the bulk. We could mark their course by the eye as long as they retained their red heat, but on approaching the earth they blackened, and then the ear alone could tell what was spotting and pitting the earth around. By the same person who had already acted as calculator it was declared that the descent occupied five seconds—much in excess, I should imagine, of the actual time. Precision, of course, was impossible in the excitement of such a scene, and if we say 1,000 feet was the height attained we shall not be wide of the mark. It was a nervous proximity to danger on which to stand, so the whole party soon decamped, and got back to Naples shortly after midnight, awe-struck by a scene which never can be forgotten. —Naples Correspondence (Nov. 20) of the New York Tribune. The Publishing Association.
The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association was incorporated in Battle Creek, Mich., May 3, 1861. Its object is to issue “periodicals, books, tracts, documents, and other publications, calculated to impart instruction on Bible truth, especially the fulfillment of prophecy, the commandments of God, and the teachings of Jesus Christ.” Its capital stock is raised by shares at $10 each; and every shareholder is entitled to one vote in all the deliberations of the Association, for every share that he or she may hold. The Association has now a large and well-furnished Office of publication, established in Battle Creek, Mich., and employs two steam power presses in carrying on its business. A meeting of the stockholders is held each year, at which a board of trustees is elected to manage its business, and editors chosen to conduct its periodicals, till the ensuing meeting. All persons employed in the publishing department, are engaged at stipulated wages, and all profits accruing from the business, are strictly applied by the Association to the carrying out of the object of its formation, and to its charitable uses and purposes. All lovers of truth, who “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,” are still invited to take shares in the Association, and have a voice in all its deliberations. The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
Is a large sixteen-page religious family paper, issued weekly by the S. D. A. Pub. Association, and devoted to an earnest investigation of all Bible questions. It is designed to be an exponent of momentous and solemn truths pertaining to the present time, some of which are set forth by no other periodical in the land. The fulfillment of prophecy, the second personal advent of the Saviour as an event now near at hand, and mortality through Christ alone, a change of heart through the operation of the Holy Spirit, the observance of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, the divinity and mediatorial work of Christ, and the development of a holy character by obedience to the perfect and holy law of God, as embodied in the decalogue, are among its special themes. And while it will endeavor to present impartially both sides of all important questions, it has a definite theory to teach and hence will not devote its space to an indiscriminate and aimless mass of conflicting sentiments and views. Regular price, $3.00 per year, or $1.50 for a volume of 26 numbers. On trial for six months $1.00. No subscriptions taken for less than six months. To the worthy poor—free, by their reporting themselves and requesting its continuance, once in six months. The friends of the Review are invited to earnest and unceasing efforts to extend its circulation. Is a monthly sheet, published as above, and designed to be to the youth and children what the Review and Herald is to those of riper years. You who wish to see your children instructed in the great truths which so interest you, will here find a sheet in which these things are set forth in a plain and interesting manner, free from the popular fables and errors of the age. It should not only visit regularly every youth and child who professes to be a follower of Jesus, but should be taken and read in every Sabbath-keeping family. Don’t forget the children. See that they have the Instructor. Terms, 25 cts. per year in advance. This is the title of a monthly health journal, “devoted to an exposition of the laws of our being, and the application of those laws in the preservation of health and the treatment of disease.” It is an earnest advocate of the true philosophy of life, the only rational method of treating disease, and the best means of preserving health. Practical instructions will be given from month to month relative to water, air, light, food, sleep, rest, recreation, &c. Health, its recovery and preservation, is a subject of world-wide interest, whatever may be a person’s tenets in other respects; and to this the Reformer will be exclusively devoted. Edited by H. S. Lay, M. D., Managing Physician of the Health Reform Institute. Terms $1.00 in advance for a volume of twelve numbers. Address Dr. H. S. Lay, Battle Creek, Mich. Is becoming a theme of wide-spread and absorbing interest. To those who wish to give the subject a thorough investigation, we recommend the History of the Sabbath. As a work setting forth a connected Bible view of the Sabbath question, its history since the31Christian era, and the different steps by which the human institution of the first day of the week has usurped the place of the Bible institution of the seventh day, it is unsurpassed by any publication extant. Between two and three hundred quotations from history are given, to each of which is appended a full reference to the authority from which it is taken. It is replete with facts and arguments which challenge denial or refutation. Other works on this subject, from the penny tract to the largest size pamphlet, will be found noticed in our book list. There is no other Bible subject upon which a more extensive misunderstanding exists, than upon the Sabbath question. Circulate the books, and spread abroad the light on this subject. The works upon this important subject to which we would call especial attention, are, The Prophecy of Daniel, The Sanctuary and 2300 Days, and The Three Messages of Rev. xiv. The first gives an exposition of the plain and thrilling prophecies of Daniel ii, vii, and viii, showing from the course of empire that the God of Heaven is about to set up his kingdom. The Sanctuary question is the great central subject of the plan of salvation, and yet there are but few, comparatively, who have any acquaintance with it. It gives a new interest to a great part of the Bible, leads to an intelligent view of the position and work of Christ as our great High Priest in Heaven, completely explains the past Advent movement, and shows clearly our position in prophecy and the world’s history. The three messages bring to view present duty, and future peril. All should read these books, and ponder well their teaching. Immortality through Christ Alone.
We call the special attention of the reader to the subjects of the nature of man, his condition in death, and the destiny of the wicked. More than ordinary importance attaches to these subjects, at the present time. We would confidently recommend to all a thorough reading of the work by H. H. Dobney entitled, Future Punishment, as advertised in our book list. The reader will find it a work exhaustive in its investigations, and remarkable for its candor, and the strength and clearness of its reasoning. Which? Mortal or Immortal? is a lower-priced and more-condensed work on the same subjects. While “The End of the Wicked,” and the one, two and three cent tracts may be found sufficient to awaken interest with those who would not commence with larger works. For the convenience of those who may wish to purchase books for general circulation, we have put up assorted packages of tracts in two sizes, which we will send post-paid at 50c., and $1.00, respectively. 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The door stood open to all comers, and a sumptuous supper-table was provided for the patrons of the games. It was a most suggestive place to furnish materials for a sermon. The rooms were elegantly furnished—the gentlemen present were fashionably dressed—and the burly prize-fighter, who fitly represents the “democracy” of New York tenement houses, presided quite courteously over the hospitalities of his gambling “hell.” In one brilliantly-lighted room stood a roulette table. In another were piles of ivory cards and dominoes, and a large iron safe, in which have been swallowed up the thousands which moustached fools and reckless husbands have flung down on the adjoining tables. As at Baden-Baden, the gambling was conducted with perfect silence. Each gamester gave his whole attention to the absorbing game. Large piles of greenbacks changed hands rapidly. Men who at home occupy “respectable” positions were to be seen at some of the tables. But behind the groups seemed to leer the satanic arch-gamist, who was luring them on to stake conscience for gold, and knew that he was sure to cheat them out of their souls. Oh! It was an accursed place; and I was glad to escape soon and unobserved. Let those who are advocating the use of cards as an “innocent amusement” look in for a few moments on such a moral slaughter-house as is opened here by a member of our national Congress, and they will see what a hell-fire of passion can be kindled in human breasts by a pack of cards. From the terrible thralldom of the gaming table few victims ever escape. The door to the gambling-room seldom opens but one way. In view of the subtle seductions and fascinations of games of chance, I firmly believe that total abstinence is the only safe principle. New York Ranks Among the World's Great Cities
New York.—The matter has finally been set at rest, and it is now admitted that New York is a great city—one of the great cities of the world, fit to be named in the same breath with London, Paris, Berlin, Dresden, and Pekin. Even a man of so thoroughly an English sentiment and conceit as Mr. Henry Ledley, of the Round Table, in an article of his which has just appeared in the Broadway Magazine, admits that the representative streets of New York and London are so much alike as to leave scarcely any points of divergence to fasten upon. Of course he refers to such thoroughfares as Broadway, Bowery, and the Fifth Avenue, but we doubt if London, or any city in the world, can show the same number of immense and costly buildings in process of construction at the present time as New York. And this is but a foretaste of what is to come; this is but the first bounding of the pulse of a renewed national life since the stupendous civil conflict which almost extinguished the national existence. In putting up these immense and costly structures New York but anticipates by a few years the growth and needs of the city, and the man is now living who will see the Empire City of the United States the queen of all the cities on the earth! Next to the Capitol at Washington, probably the largest building in America is the great Hudson River depot, which Mr. Vanderbilt is fast putting up on St. John's park. The casual visitor to New York would never see these great improvements unless he took the time and opportunity to hunt them up. Most of them stand off the main business street and some of them are a great ways up town, if the Astor house is taken as the starting point. Even the residents of New York themselves have no idea of what is going on in the city outside of Broadway, and some of the avenues through which they pass each day on their way to business. St. John's park was one of those out-of-the-way public squares which twenty-five years ago was the resort of the old Knickerbocker aristocracy. It is now surrounded by boarding houses, billiard saloons, and third-rate hotels. The park contained over three acres, the whole of this has been cleared of its trees, and a great depot is going up which will cover every inch of the ground. The house is being built fireproof, of iron, brick and granite. Three millions of dollars have been set aside with which to build it. The structure will be over 400 feet square, three stories high, with corner stones. No less than twelve railroad tracks run into this depot. Already the wall is up one story high on two sides of the house, and the iron pillars and girders for the second story are being put in place. This depot is intended to anticipate the completion and partially meet the wants of the Pacific Railroad. This is but one of the great houses going up in the city of New York. I will name some of the others—Booth's Theater, the Park Bank, Pike's Opera House, the new Tammany Hall, Stewart's great store, the Jews' Synagogue, the Roman Catholic Cathedral, and Dana's newspaper office.