Earlier text: CHRISTIANITY VS. INFIDELITY.—The coming winter is likely to be a very hard season in England in many ways. The revenue in the last quarter has fallen off in certain items which show that poverty is pinching large numbers of the working classes. Well it may, for not only are there 30,000 men without work or hope of work in East London, but the ship-yards of the Tyne and Clyde are silent. What with suspensions of work and strikes there must be 100,000 workers idle, and this means ten times that number pinched and suffering. —A dispatch from San Francisco states that the king of the Feejee islands has ceded to the United States three small islands in a group, one of which possesses a fine harbor, capable of being converted into a naval station. There have recently been troubles in these islands between the natives and American residents, and the United States steamship, Tuscarora, has been cruising in these regions to investigate the troubles. Whether the cession of three islands was intended as an atonement for any wrong done to Americans, or whether it was made in consequence of direct solicitation from Washington, is not stated. The king even offered the protectorate of all his dominions to the United States, but Capt. Stanly declined accepting it, believing that he did not possess sufficient authority. Whether he did accept the cession of the three islands, the dispatch does not say. The Feejee Islands are a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of the New Hebrides. The entire group comprises altogether 154 islands, of which 65 are inhabited. The total population is estimated at 133,000. The people are ruled by chiefs, to whom great deference is paid, and who in turn, appear to acknowledge the supremacy of the Chief of Ambow, who has assumed the title of the king of the Feejeeans. Vegetation is exceedingly rapid, and the climate is agreeable and healthy. The inhabitants were formerly a barbarous and savage race, but of late Wesleyan missionaries have made great progress among them. Impeachment.—The Sub Committee of the Judiciary met to-day, and made preparation to take evidence concerning Maryland affairs. Nothing was done at the session to-day, other than to discuss the general question of impeachment and the bearing of the late elections upon it. Those members who have been for impeachment are firm in their convictions that the case against the President is a very strong one, and that the movement will not be regarded in any sense as a partisan movement when the facts are made known. They think that the whole history of impeachment trials in foreign countries and our own will not show another as clear a criminal as this. In addition to the evidence ready to present to the House on the last day of the summer session, the committee now have in their possession original official papers which it is confidently asserted, bring the President clearly within the strictest construction of the constitutional phrase, “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The evidence is all printed and locked up in a burglar proof safe at the Government Printing Office, and the superintendent is now printing the various documents and extracts from the reports and evidence of the other committees, which will be presented with this case. Sunday Laws at the Polls.—It is said that the German population in California went en masse for the Democratic ticket, with the understanding that the new Legislature will repeal the Sunday laws. It is also said, that in New York the Germans have proclaimed that they will ignore politics, and vote for no candidate who does not pledge himself to oppose the Sunday laws. Referring to the latter fact, the New York Observer says: “This will bring the question directly to an issue before the people. It suggests the duty to all political parties to put up only good men for office, on whom all the friends of the Sabbath may unite. It will cost a great struggle to maintain the rights of the community to their day of rest, but the end is worth the struggle. When a German holiday takes the place of the Christian Sabbath in New York, the work of demoralization will go on much more rapidly than even now. But it shall not, until a battle has been fought, compared with which all former moral contests in this country have been child's play.”—Sabbath Recorder. It is the height of folly to suppose that the President does not meditate, under certain circumstances, a violent solution of the present situation. We have already endeavored to alarm our readers. Better a false alarm than a fatal apathy or a smiling incredulity. We have also endeavored elsewhere in these columns to show that the question of violence depends very much upon the result of the elections of the autumn. If, from any indifference of feeling, the Republican party declines to poll its full strength, and the Democratic party regains power, the President will undoubtedly forcibly resist a process of impeachment, should Congress think fit to proceed with it. Nor is it wise to regard such a warning as a mere electioneering trick. The Democratic papers, whose interest it is to lull public apprehension, may loudly say this, but no man who has watched the President, and who understands the force of human passions, will think so. Nor is it of any importance to demonstrate that violence upon the President’s part would be hopeless and utterly futile. Men in his position do not reason. They do not clearly calculate chances. A desperate and ignorant and passionate man strikes indeed blindly and wildly, but he strikes. Does the country realize this? Do the people perceive that the peril is vital and imminent? Do they see that it is not enough to wait for impeachment by Congress, because a Democratic success at the polls would be interpreted by the President as a popular verdict against Congress? Do they feel that the peace of the country depends upon the elections of this autumn as much as its safety hung upon that of 1864? If Ohio and Pennsylvania and New York fully understand this we have no fear of the result. If they do not, every man and woman in the country ought to fear the worst. We commend to our friends in those States the following extract which we have just received from Washington, written by a perfectly calm and capable observer, who served through the late war: “Do people up North appreciate that we are on the eve of great events? Straws show which way the wind blows, and from little things I am enabled to see in military circles it is evident that they think it not at all unlikely that their swords may have to fly out at any moment; and they keep them well-sharpened and loose in the scabbards, ready for the contingency.”—Harper’s Weekly.310 —According to the returns of the internal revenue bureau, more than one hundred and fifty-one thousand “double-thread,” and eighteen thousand “single-thread” sewing-machines were made in this country the last year ending in June. Yet there are few people old enough to use them but remember when they were a great novelty, and a luxury, instead of a necessity of life. This number of machines will do as much work as could be accomplished by the labor of every man, woman, and child, in the city of New York; and all the inhabitants of Detroit could not accomplish as much, working twenty-four hours a day for four years, as these machines will in one year, working on the eight-hour principle; or, in other words, every man, woman and child in this city, working eight hours a day, would be twelve years in sewing as many miles of seams, as these machines will do in one year, The Epidemic in New Orleans.
The first death by yellow fever this season, of which we have any information, occurred at the Charity Hospital, on June 29. The victim was a coal-wheeler, who, it is supposed, wheeled coal into the hold of some steamer, from which the disease was communicated to him. Others assert, and apparently with some authority, that the fever was brought to our city by the bark Florence Peters, from Havana. Her captain, Melville Hooper, the captain's wife, and several others connected with the bark, died of the fever, and from that time on to the present writing, the terrible scourge has made desolate the homes of this beautiful city. Not less than ten thousand persons have been down with the disease at one time, and not less than three thousand have fallen victims to it. Whole families have been swept away, and in one instance, of a family of seven, not one remains to mourn the death of the other six; all are in the grave—father, mother, and five children. Nor has the destroyer been partial to any sex, age, or condition in life. Hitherto, woman has been nearly exempt, but this time the fever has destroyed her. In other seasons of epidemic disease, childhood has escaped, but this season has proved fatal to children. The common opinion is, that the poor and filthy are the first to fall; but the obituaries of this summer prove that the rich and refined have died first. Generally, the malady gave monitions of its attack in a slight chill or headache, but, in very many instances, it seized its victims in an instant, on the street, in the counting-house, in a funeral procession, and in less than thirty-six hours the strong man was dead. There is much suffering in New Orleans. Through the long summer, business was dull, and the laboring classes earned but little, and now, when all income from labor is cut off, they are in want. But the distress is not confined to the poor. Those in more comfortable circumstances suffer from lack of good nursing. Five dollars per day for a good nurse is more than most persons can afford to pay, and hence must depend upon voluntary nurses. This state of affairs has developed a commendable spirit. The Howard Association, composed of our best citizens, is a most effective organization. At one time it had twenty-two hundred patients under its care Adulterations in Tea, Coffee, &c.
Tea and coffee have long been the prey of the adulterator. Some people imagine that the green color is given by drying the tea upon copper plates; this is a vulgar error. The Chinese themselves, knowing the demand there is in England for moderately-priced green tea, paint black teas to imitate it in a very ingenious manner. They take a mixture of Prussian blue and gypsum, in the proportion of three parts of the former to one of the latter. This coloring matter is thrown among the teas whilst they are roasting, the workman turning the leaves about until his hands are quite blue. Some people cannot understand how it is that “green tea” keeps them awake. Perhaps they will now see the reason. The Chinese never drink this colored tea themselves; they only prepare it to suit the tastes of the “outer barbarians,” and surely they have some warrant for so naming us. The gunpowder is manufactured both in England and China to mix with other teas. It often has but little tea in it, being compounded of sand, tea-dust, dirt and broken-down portions of leaves, worked together with gum into grains. When it is intended to mix it with “scented caper,” this stuff is “faced” with black lead; when with gunpowder, turmeric, Prussian blue and chalk are used. Some tea is quite as objectionable and injurious as adulterated spirits—a fact which has never been turned against the teetotallers. Assam tea is generally pure. Coffee is permitted to be adulterated by the government with chicory, but then the fact must be so stated upon the paper or canister. This mixing opens the door to shameful adulteration, as the chicory is much cheaper than the coffee, and the grocer too often takes care to put more of the former into the mixture than the latter. But chicory is not the worst adulteration that coffee is liable to: mangold-wurzel, roasted wheat flour, red earth, roasted horse-chestnuts, and we are even told that in some neighbourhoods baked horse’s and bullock’s blood are used for this purpose. Our authority for this last statement is a work by Mr. P. G. Simmonds, entitled, “Coffee as it is, and as it ought to be,” in which he says, “In various parts of the metropolis, but more especially in the east, are to be found ‘liver bakers.’ These men take the livers of oxen and horses, bake them and grind them into powder, which they sell to the low-priced coffee-shop-keepers at from fourpence to sixpence per pound, horse’s liver coffee being the highest priced. It may be known by allowing the coffee to stand until cold, when a thick pellicle of skin will be found on the top.” He adds, “It goes further than coffee, and is generally mixed with chicory and other vegetable imitations of coffee.” The analytic commissioner of the Lancet, Dr. Hassal, actually has tested this horrible stuff, which we will believe without his assurance to possess “a very disagreeable animal smell.” The puzzle is how people can be found to drink such horrible decoctions even in the poorest coffee houses. The milk is always adulterated largely with water, which, at sixpence a quart, is rather too bad. The bright green color to be observed in pickles bought at the shops is produced by boiling a slip of copper with them. Thus copper is often present in poisonous quantities. Avoid, therefore, good reader, very green pickles, with the greatest care. The presence of this adulteration may be very simply detected. A bright knitting-needle allowed to stand in the jar for a few hours comes out with a coating of the metal upon it, provided the adulteration exists. But copper is not only to be found in our pickles, it always exists in the green ornaments of sweetmeats, in preserved, bottled fruit that should appear green; or where the preserve is red, logwood, or infusion of beetroot, gives the deep, rich color that the housewife envies so, and, luckily for herself and household, fails to produce in her home-made preserves. It is not pleasant to find that we may be partaking of the acetate of copper in our pickles and tarts. We are told that much of the cheap preserves is sweetened with glucose, a substitute for sugar, but very much cheaper, and possessed of far less sweetening power. The adulteration with the poisonous pigments of the sweets poor little children innocently suck is a most diabolical crime; but we are glad to see that the use of green colors is much less frequently employed than it used to be, even in the third-rate sweetshops. Still, occasionally, high-colored sugar ornaments are to be seen, the color being metallic instead of vegetable, as it should be. Among these colors there are at least three highly poisonous—yellow, made of chromate of lead; green, arsenite of copper; and red, oxide of lead. The most delicate and delicious essence of jargonel pear-drops and essence of pine-apple are made from a preparation of ether and rancid cheese and butter. When we see how liable we are to be slowly poisoned in our food, it is not wonderful that people living in civilized countries should suffer in their health.—From Cassell’s Magazine. Publication Department.
By Editor
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, immortality 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, $2.00 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 the311 Christian 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. The 50c. package contains Sabbath Tracts Nos. 1, 2, and 3, End of Wicked, Mark of Beast, Sin of Witchcraft, Objections to Second Advent, answered, Death and Burial, Positive Institutions, Much in Little, Truth, Preach the Word, Law by Wesley, and Miscellany. The $1.00 package contains The Three Messages, Which, Mortal or Immortal? Prophecy of Daniel, Saints Inheritance, Signs of Times, Seven Trumpets, Celestial R. R., Perpetuity of Spiritual Gifts, Scripture References, Wicked Dead, Sabbath by Elihu, Infidelity and Spiritualism, War and Sealing, Who Changed Sabbath, Seven Reasons for Sunday-keeping Examined, Institution of Sabbath, Thoughts for the Candid, Appeal to Men of Reason, Personality of God, Seven Seals, and Time Lost. Those who order these packages, save their postage. We cannot too strongly urge upon all the circulation of our publications, books and papers. 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The various rumors, of a political and personal description, which have kept Paris so long in state of doubt and dread, came to a culmination on Wednesday last, and threw the city into such a state of confusion as it has not seen or felt for many a day. Men ran up and down the streets with elongated countenances, each consulting the faces of all others he met, hoping to find either confirmation or denial of the terrible rumors that were flying, like flocks of canards, over Paris. At the Bourse, which was the center where all the terrible stories concentrated, there was great fright. Rentes went down sixty-five centimes, and all other government securities fell in proportion, and a general desire for a stampede seemed to seize upon the sellers. The stories in circulation, and to which thousands of people gave their firm belief, were of the most horrible description. The Emperor had suddenly become raving, stark mad, and was obliged to be straight-jacketed and kept a close prisoner in the Villa Eugenie at Biarritz. He had received an apoplectic stroke, and was speechless and dying. At the same time, General Fleury, after an interview with Bismark, at Berlin, had quitted him in anger. The French fleet was all ready to sail from Toulon for Civita Vecchia, and the Romans were on the point of rising. The consternation which pervaded Paris during Wednesday, resulting from the circulation of these stories, was only a sample on a very small scale of what will be witnessed when the time comes—as, in the order of nature, it must come sooner or later—when the Emperor’s “golden bow!” shall be broken; and, instead of its being a malevolent rumor for stock jobbing purposes, the truth shall be told in the streets of Paris, that “the Emperor is dead.” It is surprising that the hopes of thirty-six millions of people should thus hang on the life of one man, but so it is. Nobody has the slightest faith that, in case of his death, the succession of his dynasty would proceed in regular order. Everybody knows that sooner or later there must be a revolution, and that for a time at least all would be turmoil and confusion. It might not come immediately. All the precautions have long since been taken to prevent it and to oppose it if it occur, and blood would run like water in the streets in carrying into effect the latter. The facilities for this are much greater now than they have ever been before. The little, narrow, crooked streets in the very heart of the city, which the revolutionists of former times could barricade in a few minutes by knocking over an omnibus and tearing up a few paving stones, no longer exist, but have given place to broad and beautiful avenues, which could be swept and kept clear with no difficulty by means of artillery. Soldiers need no longer be shot at in their passage through the streets by citizen revolutionists from their windows. The splendid system of sewerage, which has been perfected under the reign of the present Emperor, is something more than a system of sewerage—one by means of which troops can be rapidly transported from one part of Paris to another, unseen and unexposed. Now, of course the primary object of these immense subterranean canals and railways, which extend beneath all Paris, is drainage. But it will be readily seen what facilities they afford for the transportation of troops, and it is said that the whole “garde de Paris” is exercised in small squads in descending and mounting, in embarking in the boats and disembarking to the cars. So that in case of their being transported in this manner, they would be somewhat familiarized with it in advance. One of the outlets, one of the principle “stations” for this network of subterranean railway lines extending over Paris, is in the court yard of the Tuileries, into which five thousand men could be thus made to rise out of the ground in half an hour after the orders had been sent for them by telegraph.—Paris Cor. N. Y. Herald. Watch your life jealously.