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FTE., Cornerlati, O.w.ij w« are■s.can weoverbially r a sky ass introduc-ike. Howinterestinglecure the of manu-will soon ;iness, and sidenoe.ir a Chri*-lildren, is ih can beeneebe-■ectively y of so-y m fullempt isy which; nationsiao that otimate*•amplingay. Nota Worthyi, and it been ob-theirSabbath■et, which» find thelestroy all ;ious obli-which itneed, and less thanlay being wish Sab-le attempt the one totendency,to this is aonnds onnrselves, , actuallywritten e great Sincemmit tee32, thisf nhysi-ver sally Proud-observanoe[, that Sab-claimed, Aws merely, ant we find*iods of neetingan mg offrequent ntly dehat Godseventhd, hallo iced, set apart revelationan, and re-as the re-g and truesame great father mana he seventh, id into the i above themd embod-;ual obliga-i Chrintiani to all thef bis nature,r the super-sand years, tinctly and clared thatnd thoughirohibitionsthe pluck-hur.ger, to of His ownith the defer religiousvance of thenlt;nt was aThework by a competent and candid observer, the following picture of a German Sabbath:“The lower orders even less restrained by thelitate the demoralizing example or me r«. »nd the more so. because the Lordincreases their gains. Tobacconistsmusicians' rum sellers, rope dancers, and allwhoseinister to the pleasure of men, respectively depend on Sunday as the beet day for tne exercise of their craft. Ac- ____ every kind of business proceedsthis day as on any other, until suspended so thattb6 060pl6 mflv n«pfi/*in«tA n thft THlbliC IHUS6its. Tments. xne warehouses and stores are everywhere open, and the multitude of customers givesmelancholy evidence that the tradesmen in opening their shops, do but accommodate themselvesto the spirit of the times. The noise of the work shop, the rattling of machinery, the rumblingof mills, and the strokes of the steam enginedav.everywhere disturb the stillness of the sacred Here is the blacksmith at his forge; and there, a gang of laborers upon the scaffold. In onedirec-are busy in preparing their carnagesparty of pleasure; in another ith his weary beast toiling aeverytheir_ the post coaches passing esgerly on destined routes. At the sound of drum, the people are running together at the corner of a street, to a bear dance; the mendicant minstrel is wailing forth his mueic with his hand organ, tn the courts and lanes; and multitudes of criers are calling out at the top of their voices to draw the greedy crowd to come and taste of their dainties.more, are equally Samuel, of ligiousday, Those whoed te leave one day in or to have children at the Hindoois wisdom.vance was f rom workshi v of the i, and the i proper de-tly recogni-It is styleds are com-tt ercncc the'rsal preva-1 is thus de-iah: “fepm sh come to These and from its ac-uch among a Peligiour, dal worship rferes with. Over andmuscles, it a be a grate -inging men mnion withgious obser • j, and at the ire state o1eot, the rea-It is not enough thatfmilitary parades and public reviews of whole regiments engross a great part of the day; that the sound of the Sabbath bell mingles with the clang of martial music and theroar of cannon; but the din ot business, and thepursuit of pleasure so disturb the rest and desecrate the sacredness of this holy day, that what God ordained to be a blessing to man, he has converted“Towards the close of the day, parties of pleasure, on foot, in carriages and on horseback, areiat a life ^every where sees, confusedly hasting away in ursuit of pleasure. There is an eager rush to jouses of public amusement, which are every where open, and in which with games at card? and nine-pins, with circular railways, with carousing and dancing, and sports of every description, the Lord’s Day is commemorated. But we cannet even allude to the nnmberless forms of riotous mirth to wbioh mulitudes resign themselves. A hundred places are open, where, by change of scene, fr-.m hour to hour, they may diversify their amusements, and indulge in the most unrestrained and shameless excesses. The common people who, in total neglect of the public worship of God, spend the day in toil, when their work is done, as if ineager baste to redeem the pastime which they lost, preas awav to their beer stands, cofl’ee hi and dsancing halls. The day closes with the exhibitions of the opera house, the circus, and the theater.”Is it desirable to have such a Sabbath in themeasures whichUnited States, or to inaugurate l contemplate and would finally secure the general desecration of the day ? With this picture compare the order, quiet, and decency of the Sabbath in England, Scotland, and America, and remember that in the latter the masses of the people can be relied on for self-government, while on the continent there is too little depth of character and moral seriousness in the people to enable them to throw off despotic yoke. If we choose to violate the great law of the Sabbath, and give the day up to desecration, we can doubtless do so, but it will be well to count the cost, and to bear in mind that the quiet and the elevating influences of the Christian Sabbath, in any country, once lost,are not easily regained.It is easy to s ty that the Sabbath can take care ■of itself. The same might be said of female purity, and yet the seducer and adulterer are punished, In both cases alike the welfare and security of the community are supposed to be involved-The laws protect the Sabbath, because its respectful observance is a vital want of society, without which it would readily sink into immorality and vice. The outward observance of tbe Saboatb, which is all the laws require, is not religion, andcan never be mad-.- such, and therefore the words which are spent in showing that religion is voluntary and needs no aid from the laws, are wasted. It, is not a question so much in respect to religion, as respects the existence and preservation of so ciety, and the protection of its highest and dearest interests. As such it needs to be deeply pondered by every good citizen, and the influences which would give it up to destruction to be carefully watched and firmly resisted.Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad.Opening Ceremonies on the Fourth.lommg, we left theAt half past five on Fridwv i Depot on Sixth street, to attend the celebration of the opening of the Cincinnati and Chicago Rail-But few leftroad to Logansport, on Saturday.Cincinnati, but our numbers increased at every' wpoint, till on entering Logansport at half past four in the afternoon, we filled two trains, containing some 500 passengers.HISTORY OF THE ROAD.This road is properly a continuation of the Eaton A Hamilton Road. It was finished from Richmond to New Castle, 28 miles, about three years ago, and was opened from New Castle to Anderson, 22 miles, about two years ago. At the other end, from Logansport to Kokomo, 36 miles, it has been running a year or more; but between Anderson and Kokomo, 30 miles, was unfinished, being only partly graded when the Company failed. At this stage of its history, Judge J. W. Wright, of Logansport, who had a great interest in its completion, formed a company and leased the wholemad, and immediately took iffective measures to finish it, which he has accomplished, having in nine months built 30 miles of road and connectedthe finished portions, making a good working road108 miles long, from Richmond to Logansport.THE COUNTRY IT RUN’8 THROUGH.From Richmond to Anderson it passes through ihe counties of Wayne, Henry and Madison, em-bracingsome of the richest anu best cultivated txr-tioDs of Indiana. It has been long settled, and the natural richness of the soil has been retained and increased bv good cultivation. Richmond is avery flourishing place of eight thousand inhabitants, and contains many fine residences. Thereare several manufactories here, especially of agricultural implements. It appears to be monopolizing the business,^ that section. The principal places between Richmond and Anderson are Washington, Hagerstown, Newcastle and Middletown. Newcastle is a beautiful place, and contains about 1,500 inhabitants. Hagerstown was formerly the termination of the White Water canal, but lately boats have run no farther than Cambridge, and Hagerstown is not increasing.Between Anderson and IioganjKirt the road runs mostly through the Indian Reserve, from which the Indians have been removed only 12 or 15 years, consequently the settlements are all new. The country the whole distance is heavily timla-r-ed. the principle varieties being white oak, poplar.ash, Stoat, and walnut. Sawmills are now erecting all along the road, and an immense amount of lumber will soon be seeking a market from these regions. Much of it will find its way by thii and the Wabash Valley road to the prairies of Illinois. It is the nearest lumber region to the prairie tor ritory. The towns on this portion of the road are all small, Kkomo.,the largest, having some fiveor six hundred inhabitants. Logansport is apleasant place of five thousand inhabitants situa% ik. a* ■ I. a iia • , a _ *•’ ^ -ted at the junction of the Eel ami Wabash rivers, on the Wabash canal, with plenty or water powlt;*rand several large mills. It has mi increased for the ligt few years.THE TRACK, CCRVE8, JkSD GRADES.The road is remarkably straight, th^re being no short curves: and of the 108 miles, 103 are without curves. Two or three miles beyond Anderson, the road runs for fifty miles in a straight line, withthe exception ot a slight curve at Kokumo. This whole fifty miles is nearly level, requiring onlv slight grading. The steei*est grade is 45 feet, and that only in one place, and for a very short distance. In but few places does the grade exceed 15 feet to the mile. The road is consenneutlvhad gained us a name among tbe nations of theearth, but we had not received true national respect till the late war with Mexico. This had won us regard with all nations except Great Britain... e migbt yet have to teach that people to treat us with due national reciprocity. He justified, at some length, further acquisitions of territory^ as not onl v safe but a m ans of safety. He defenaed the doctrine of non-interference of European nations with American affairs, thought that if any of tbe American nations lacked that intelligence necessary for the guidance of their own affairs, andoutside interference becomes necessary, theUnited States alone had the right to thus intermeddle with American affairs. It might be her duty to soon thus interfere with Mexican affairs, as she now is in those of Utah. He thought the only speck of danger to our National Union was the slavery question, and exhorted all to adhere to the compromises of the Constitution.The exercises were interspersed with music from the Eaton, Anderson, and Delphi bands, and byseveralthe Glee Club.THE DINNERAfter tbe close of the exercises, the procession again formed and proceeded to a dense shade south of the Wabash, where 1,000 persons sat down to a fine dinner, provided by the lessees of the road for their guests and others. Four long tables each three or four hundred feet long were ranged side by side in a primeval grove of tall forest trees so densely branched and leaved thatnot a ray of the bright sun found its wav to the tables. Judge Wnght presided. After the sub-■ • « a*. _ _ a e iv _ ___ 1.1..._ a L fdisposedJuly toasts were proposed. To a volunteer loast from Judge Wright to “The City of Cincinnati,”Ige Spooner responded, eloquently adver he great advantages to both LogansportCincinnati from the opening of this direct routebetween them.The whole affair was well managed, and a more quiet, orderly time we never saw in so large a crowd. Much of this was due to the strict temperance principles on which the whole affair was conducted. The presence of the several bands and the glee club much enlivened the occasion.THE RETURN.At A o’clock precisely, the first train left for Cincinnati, and proceeded safely without any accident or detention, except the tender got oft the track once, causing a few minutes delay; and we reached this city a little after 2 o’clock on Sunday morning.Thus another avenue, 176 miles long, is opened to Cincinnati trade and manufactures. As to its influence on our prosperity, the new commerce it opens, and its general effects on the development of the resources of the oountry, are they not all written in the books of the future1/Laying of the Corner-StoneOF TUKCLAY MONUMENTATLexington, Ky., July 4, 1857.Special Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.!Lbxinoton, Ky., evening, July 4,1857.Another anniversary has passed of the day that Americans commemorate as the jubilee-day ofFreedom.With its influences upon the hearts and character of men has passed another review-day of old-time pictures, scenes of patriotic memory; again at our hearthstones and in public places have been rekindled the embers of patriotism, that like thenust be attended withfires of the vestal virgins, i unceasing vigil.Another occasion has passed when the American mind has been called to look in upon itself,to look without at the lofty dimensions and clear ontline of one of her leading men, whoso name and fame are a proud legacy to our common country. On the soil of Kentucky, in the city where he dwelt, with so much praise, around the green grave where Clay wished his remains to be deposited, in the cemetery of Lexington, has been assembled great masses on Freedom’s Birthday Anniversary, to deposit evidences authenticating the day and time, iu the corner-stone of a monument designed to be erected, not to perpetuate his name or fame, but to mark his people’s gratitude, to convey to distant generations a memorial that his life and character had received the heartily approving judgment of his cotemporaries.On the arrival of the remains of Henry Clay at Lexmgton in 1852, at the ceremonies of inurning his ashes, it was the spontaneous sentiment of his friends and*neighbors, as also that of strangers in atteDdauee, that at an early day a suitable monument, honorable to them, and worthy of him, Bhould be reared in the consecrated cemetery where be wished to be entombed by the side of his mother, Elizabeth Watkin Clay, where he had inscribed on her tomb, “Thi3 monument, a tribute to her many dom',slic virtues, has been prompted by the filial affectionand veneration of one of her grateful sons.—-H. Clay.”The Clav Monument Association was thenI mformed, and on the Fourth of July 1857, the corner stone was laid with ceremonies of unusual interest.Kentucky has doubly commemorated tbe day in associating with this anniversary, the commencement of Ibe work of the architecture, and tho delivery of his eulogv by Mr. Breckenridge.These interesting ceremonies were performed in the presence of young and old of both sexes, representatives of ancient families of renown of the State of Kentucky, and of pilgrim visitors from many portions of the confederacy. There were assembled together the families of Thomas II. and James B. Clay, and grouped around them were descendants of the Early Pioneers of Kentucky. the Boones, tho Bullets, the Floyds, the McAfees, the Hardens, the llarrods, the Hen-den-ons, the Harts, the Clarks, the Slielbys, the Wicliffs, the Warfields, tho Johnsons, Anderson?, Scotts, Muters, the Sebastian?, tbe Wallaces, theRobertsons, the Underwoods, the Nicholases, theBoyles, the Owsleys, the Millers, the Barrvs, the Trimbles, the Da ridges, the Bibbs, the Buckners, the Todds, the Ganos, the Dudleys, the Grays, the Hickmans, tbe Bledsoes, the Rices,the Lythes, the Moores, the Peers, the Povthress, the Lilian!?, the Blackburn?, the Bl vtlie?, the Runnel Is, tbe Rankins, the Wilsons, ihe Campbells, the Dudleys and ihe Breckenridges.In the procession, and the only one admitted into the cemetjry grounds, was the carriage, still in good keeping, that was presented to the Hon. Henry Clay bv the city of Newark, New Jersey, Nov. 231,1833. It was ornamented by four waving while funeral plumes at the corners, and in the rear seat was placed a bust of Clay; also the engraving of Clay’s leave-taking from theSenate of the United States. Within sat the oldcoachman of Mr Clay, a venerable, but hale-look-ing gray haired negro, “Aaron Dupee,” who had lxvn bred and born at tho “Slashes,” in Old Hanover, Va. lie traveled with him, he said, when there were no turnpikes inPoitugal or in England. Ha commenced service with him when Jefferson was goingout of the Presidency, and has been his faithful servant until the decease of his much-beloved master.The jiride and beauty, tbe physical and mentalstrength of the State, were willing witnesses of the occasion.Without respect to narty or creed„all came to attest their estimate of Henry Clay as a man,an American and Kentuckian.The scene was impressive, the interest was intense; the audience gave character to the occasion, and took bick the reflex influence of the dav, and the high-toned purpose of its assemblage.A few aged men were present, who had known the sage as the young Ha.rry of Ashland, who heard him in person donounc the intorfercnce of Government in personal liberty, and that of the press, an early as the alien and sedition laws; some had heard his bold advocacy of the war of 1812, of internal improvements and of the American system—his commencement and close of life aa a Statesman.Political followers and antagonists, now disarmed, were here to testify to the sincerity, abilityand purity of Mr. Clay; men who knew bv ex-lerience, and youth who had read and heard ofhi? gallant deeds, trooped into the Fa vette county seat, andwi the early hours of tbfc Fourth, Lexington was tilled with people from all the adjacent countiea.Capt. Buford, the personation of a soldier andcitizen, bestrode his white steed caparisoned in all the accoutrements of a Field Officer in command,and bv his tact an 1 indust.y brought order fiWithe disorder of mingled companies of military, citizens, masons, and firemen; aril n**ar the hour of nine, as per order, the line of march was commenced from headquarters in procession for the cemetery—•TheUttv of the Dead.rneot, theTheatoiand the pgiven.A stant tance, on photografgroupingsof greaU and in 1 Grounds, eulogy on Timewscene fon stand, wh were seat of the K the centr St. Louis The Knijmountedblue and with dea and Assit ed, awaitwas emiClat. Rev. Irepresentstepped hours, th jecture at tor had b witnesses written li ing eloqispeaking‘ dyouthfu I was agsolid seri tracings who had Clay, anlt; himself like an lt;a calm, v personal guished and the i knew.It wasglowing er, of hishis abiliearnest,« and deep the huml Hanover faithfullyhis robes tal.The piartist, Bt of vigor i trihution traits. 1 faithtol i bv its ba tist hascanvass, of the giwork of to paint time. His streme n and in diventure I placed ii will pror monies 1 the namlt;With Iview by“itOne liwill ex]countryticipate but far ( Therelandscaj which t(the scar trv schoto pen a cial andthe meetfined anlt;ed Kenti scripior genuinethe Kera vard t contestskn iw thhandson position the gav ; I would da ing,iand givi lens, anheartedIndiana; and are 1den spot Tbe ithe grouand pub man, wl spent so grand naff dr tomarshal! ble for g day and not offen ing—the her nobl otic, filia nobler ccorresjance oiappro;been hI haiof the ation,compoi may oidelirerto infoi and tinyour hThethe meThe j lavs.By ?formerGuardigreat bgu°sts The brass 1Vice I vited ied a f hour. Hupeta weOvearo'flxexhibicreate*WhtnilitaheardprecisCAmiWonn’gNationdmng MiTin: iThe Of]anceFia?iExenthe ftlOll-elderA mo City*’ th:have seeagreeabl1 holiday I childrenmiI__Atmorning “ Fourth
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