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eel See HF OLUME 1. MR. OWEN AND MR. CAMPBELL. . [From Flint's Western MonthlyReview, for April.] Public challenged DISPUTE between Rosear Owes, late of New Lanark, Scotland, and last of New Harmony, Indiana, philosopher and cos- mopolite, and Rev. Atexarpex Caxpsztt, of thesect commonly called Free-will Baptists, of Bethimy; \West Virginia; near Wheeling; the for- mer denying the truth-of all- religions-in general-; and the latter affirming the truth of Christian Reli- gion on logical principles. The glove was first thrown down by Mr. Owen, last yoar, in New Orleans. None of the ministers there saw fit to take it up. But it was circulated extengively in the papers, that the ministers were challenged, the world over, to a logo- mackie \tilt with Mr. Owen, on the evi- dences of Chistianity. * Mr. Campbell- rho had gained extensive reputation by Gealing hard and dexterous blows, as a polemic theological disputant at Lexing- ton, Kentucky, in a set disputation with the Rev. Mr. Maccauley, on some points between the Presbyterians and Baptists- took up the glove and publicly advertised, that his courage was up to the point of doing battle in this grand tournament, in the face of all Christians, and more espe- cially before all the gentlemen and ladies, | that might assemble at any given place which should be central and convenient for the said disputation. - Mr. Owen on his way from New Harmony to Europe, took Bethany in his route, called on the Rev. Mr. Campbell, and ascertained sat- isfactorily, not only the extent of his; calling but the keenness of lis moral, his j disposition for fairness of fight, and the; honest zeal for the truth which, he was: compelled to believe, filled the. bosom off this gentleman. Having measured with his eye the proud dimensions, the brawny | intellectual muscle and sinew of lis offer-} ing opponent; having ascertained to his? satisfaction, that there was a happy mix-; ture of Scotch shrewdness with Kentucky hard fight in the premises, he deemed it j not unworthy a Ingomachic fame won ex-| tensively in both hemispheres, to engagel with Mr. Campbell, to do wordy battle in the city of Cincinnati, in the month of April, and the year commonly called that of our Lord 1829. In due time, we learned that the cham- pion of the covenant had been wafted down our stream from the rising sun in burnished panoply, and fraught with abundant syllogistic arguments from the ample magazines of Bethany. The Eu- ropean philosopher had gained saltness on the Atlantic brine; had heard thunder in-the tropical isles of Jamaica and Cuba; liad defied the black vomit of Vera Cruz; and had been perched in the empyrean and meditative heights of the city of Mon-: tezuma. Treasuring materials of power, | as he thus traversed both hemisplmrcs,‘ he came upon us from the west. Thus these conflicting minds came in contact in our city, like two thunder clouds. Fame had already blown her clarion, , and our city thronged with visitants from , two or three hundred miles\ distance.-' Nor was it an incurious spirit that brought | them to hear a question at length put to | est, which had been in controversy for: eighteen hundred years; and on which: books enough had been written to sink a' seventy-four. 2 At a called meeting all decorous and proper arrangements wore made. A cominittee was appointed to provide an} arena for the gladiatorship. After being | refused the first Presbyterian church, they ; finally obtained the Methodist stonechapel. | The champions aud the said committces enacted the rules and courtesies of the | combat with knightly and chivalric pre- | cision. It was ordained, that they should j fight it out, in western phrase, 'turn out,'} thirty minutes each, until one or the; other should ery quarter. Under correc- tion we venture to suggest, that in simi-; lar cases hercafter, victory ought to be adjudged to the party that shall receive the enemy's fire, during his own silence, with the most unwincing countenance, and the most exemplary patience. Travelling back to the ages of philoso- | phy, and remembering the seven wise: masters and the seven sages of Greece” the committee and disputants selected sew ven moderators as an intellectual court ot oyer and terminer, who were conspicu- ously mounted.on a carpeted stage, and in a purer air. Their buisness was not voly to jadge,but to preserve fair play, and interdict all poisoned weapons, and all other trespass of the prescribed rules of honourable combat. April 13,1829, the church and the open area leading to it was a perfect wedge, or as he of the Pandect has it, a ' squeeze.\ All ages, sexes, and conditions were there. Even our fair spinsters, with their shin- ing morning faces, were wating to catch a mouthful of metaphysics, with which to swoop the intellects of their swains at the first convenient period after honey moon. At nine in 'the moming, a fine April san gave us the Tight of his conntenauce- The combat, anparalléfed In the annals ofdispatation, was opened. | On the goun temmte 'of the Immense crowd, mat a cheeffoland selftely ma brighticss of keen §W Bual “xi, by “$21.5er fl) fie {tain in return an ample harvest of vilifi- { ing, in, Virginia; a gentleman, we should vigour of youth, and with the very first with foassertour cofnitral over these urcon 5a most careless adepts in physiognomy, that they had brought'to their task not only a due estimate of their ability, to weigh the great points to be discussed, in uncrring intellectual scales, of a nicety to turn with the weight of an additional hair, but that they felt the responsibility of their case, and were inflexible in purpose to settle these long agitated questions, in justice and judgment, that they might henteforth sleep forever. Imagine the emanating brightness which beamed from the phrenological domain of the aforesaid seven sages, who were purposely appoin- ted to hear and determine touching these momentuous questions. Then we gazed at the two athletw, and imagied the munitions of logomachy, laid always in mysterious and awful order and power in the narrow precinets of © two small heads.\ We silently admired the infinite commensibility of that knowl- edge, which is power more energetic than thunder from all the cannon at Borrodino. Every one has seen the face or the print of the benevolent ' social cosmopo- lite, the Welch philosopher, whose strange taste it is, to wander over the world, be- stowing vast sums in charity, and to ob- cation and abuse. He was dressed in qua- ker plainness; wearing his customary, undaunted, self-possessed, good-natured face, surmounted, as most know, with an intellectual rudder of almogt portentious amfilitade, that might well have been deemed an acquisition in a pilgrimage to the promontory of noses. From each side of this prominent index of mental powers, beamed such an incessant efflux of cheorfulness, as might well shame, in comparison, the sour and tristful visage of many an heir of the hope of immortality. . The chivalrous champion of the cove- nant is a citizen of Bethany, near Wheel- think, between thirty and forty, with a long face, a rather small head, of a spark- ling bright and cheerful countenance, and finely arched forehead; in the carnest mr - \ sprinkling of white on Tus crown. He wore an aspect as of one who had words both ready and inexhaustible, and as pos- sessed of the excellent grace of persever- ance, to a degree, that he would not re- treat an inch in the way of concession, to escape the crack & pudder ofa dissolving world. His venerable grey-headed father, also a. clergy man, and two younger broth- ers, were with him. It was understood, that he is independent in point of proper- ty ; and that he edits a religious paper of extensive circulation. It ought not to be forgotten, that both the father and son perform their clerical duties to the con- gregation at Bethany, gratis, Mr. Owen hid a hind of second, too, in a young German gentleman, who travels with him as an interpreter. A stenographer, also, sat in the enclosure of the alter, to fake notes of the debate. ' When 'the Welch philesopher arose, might have been seen, in their most amusing relief, eyes strained, mouths half open, and heads bent forward. We saw him forthwith mounted on his wonted black hobby, (the social system P It was not long before we discovered that the champion of the covenant, in like manner, sported a magnificant inettled hobby, which our innate reverence for holy things forbiddeth us to name. 'The historian relateth with grief, that during the eight long days of this logical tourna- ment, these two coursers were riding up and down the field of controversy, con- stantly menacing fight, but never coming to close quarters in the actual ing of bat- tle ; for lo! instead of an effectual 'clos- ing in' of quiddities and metaphysical cut and thrusts, which we expected would make 'the lint fly,\ at once, Mr. Owen fought shy,' reserved his fire, en: trenched himself impregnably behind the © twelve divine, fundamental laws of hu- man nature,\ precisely as our soldiers did FREE PRESS IS NORWICH, CHENANGO COUNTY, (N. Y.) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1929. losopher proposeth in their stead. - He came over these laws with a frequency of developement and repetition, which elici- ted a frequent laugh at his expense from all, who perceived not that his sole pur- pose, in his tournament, was to make the reputation of his antagonist a kite, to take up his social system into the full view of the community, and by constant repetition to imprint a few of his leading axioms on the memory of the multitude that could in no other way have been collected to hear. j These positions, which he thus fixed on the memory of his hearers, with an untiring perseverance, were that a chris- tian infant educated in Hindoston would be a Gentoo, in Turkey a Mahomedan, in a cannibal tribe, a cannibal, in a qua- ker family, a quaker ; and so of the rest. He would have nothing to, do with the speculation, and would take nothing but facts. There were no facts, on which to aflirm, or deny, touching the being of God, the origin of the material universe, or man. We knew a few facts, and might form probable conjectures about others. He believed some historical state- ments, when they ran not counter to the twelve laws ; but held all history of a con- trary character wonderful cheap. It may therefore be imagined, how he dis posed of the external and internal evidences, the miracles and prophecies of our religion. His twelve laws constituted a grand be- som with which all religions of all ages and climes, were alike to be brushed away, like chaff before the wind. He described the biped breed under present circumstances as being miserable stock. \ He had never seen,\ he said, \a ra- tional face in his life.\ Their origin seemed to him an ill managed, half-do- zing \ circumstance\ of the legal prosti- tution, called marriage. That matter was now better understood, as it related to the great improvement to the breed of quad- rupeds, which, he hinted, might be car- ried to an infinitely higher and more worthy scale of melioration, when ap- plied to the breed of bipeds. 'The ener- gy of mutual liking, and constantly ac cumulating power of mind, will and mus- cle, promising illimitable advantages to the generations of the future. As it was now, it was a joke, and rank perjury, to swear either in prose or rhyme, on the knees or howsoever \ stirring the stumps in doleful dumps,\ that the parties would love each other, \till death them do part;\ seeing that it was not improbable from the analogy of no small numbér of similar cases that they would prove very tabby-cats, soon after the lapse of the honey moon. Christian society was one web of lie, warp and woof, dissimulation, quarrel, and bloodshed. All the great drama of deceptive acting, all the malovo- lence, poverty and evils of society he th’recwill systems of religion, to the priests, the weekly preaching of ministers, to whom none might reply.- Some of his illustrations had simplicity, and point. Take an example: \ My friends,\\ said he, it is not quite two months since I was in a great square 'in the city of Mexico. I heard a little bell tinkle. A friend said to me, kneel down, Mr. Owen, or you else may be killed.- The host was passing. I took out my pocket handkerchief, laid it on the ground, and kneeled on it. Had you been reared in Mexico, my friends, you would have been as serious in that way, as you now arein your own. And, so far as num- bers can give authority to opinion, they are greatly your supcriours.\ [Concluded aon the last page.] DREADFUL EXPLOSION. The following particulars of this melan- choly accident, are taken from the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer of the 7th inst. Yesterday afternoon, about 3 o'clock, the Steam Frigate Fulton First, at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, blew up, in con- on the glorious eighth, behind the cotton bales below New-Orleans. On the con- trary, our western friend of the covenant showed manful fight on the open field, to the end of the joust. If we could follow and describe all the movements and curvetings of, the -afore- said hobbies, during the momentous con- test, we much fear our readers would not follow us : for they well knew that to feel the zest, such things must be seen.- We shall, therefore, oply glance at the more prominent performances of cach. 'The twelve fundamental. laws,' or twelve pillars of the social system, are predicated on the following asserted doc- trines.' We are the 'effects of our cir- cumstances,' as strickly as inanimate mat- ter obeys its laws. Therefore we are not subjects of responsibility, praise or blame. We can neither think, act, love, hate, marry, . become father, eal, drink, sleep, or die, other. than as we do. These irre- sistible cirenmmstances having plated isin a predicamenif every way nauseous and irrational, it follows, that we ought forth troulable ciregristancess and change thers forthe infinitely better clate hich the pit- sequence of fire, in a manner unknown, 'having communicated with her maga- zine, and she now lies a complete wreck. We heard of the accident a short time af- ter it occured, and immediately hastened to the spot. The following particulars are all we could learn, amid the havoc and confusion of the dreadful scene, for which we are indebted to several officers of the station. The Fulton, for several years, has been moored about 200 yards from the Navy Yard wharf, and used as a receiving ship. The gunner was discharged on Wednes- day, and a new one appointed to fill his place, who, a few moments before the ac- cident, had gone to the magazine, (which contained only three barrels of damaged pow Jer) to procure ammunition to load the evening gun. Ina moment, masts, spars and splinters, were seen by many persons in the neighbourhood, ascending the air, in all directions, enveloped in a thick volume of smoke, which was fol- lowed by a report, not louder than that da 3% poond cannon. By the fime we teached the dreadful scetie, a great fiuim- the city, had gathered around, anl large of wreck were ficatig in the THE PALLADIUM OF OUR Liberties.\ water. The vessel 'is completely shat- tered ; her bows, where the magazin« was situated, is blown to atoms ; and the shock has shattered her from stem to stern. The number of men belonging to the vessel yesterday was 143, part of whom, however, were ashore, on duty; very fortunately, 63 were drafted only the day before, and sent to join the frigate Con- stellation, at Norfolk. At the moment of the accident, the officers, and their guests, whose names are recorded in the list of wounded, were in the ward room seated at dinner; among whom were Licut. Platt, and his son, who had only yesterday reterned from a month's leave of absence. Com. Chauncey had been on board the frigate all the morning on a visit of inspection, who, with Capt. Newton, left the ship only a very few minutes before the explosion.- When we arrived at the scene, among the first we saw upon the wreck was the Commodore, directing the movements of musquetry was dent his men, who were clearing the frigate and searching for the bodies of the dead 'and wounded. In the confusion which naturally at- tends such a dreadful accident, all the particulars cannot be immediately obtain- ed. As fir as we could ascertain, of privates 22 are killed, and 12 wounded; 3 licutenants, 1 sailing master, and 4 mid- shipmen, Mrs. Breckenridgqvund a son of lieut. Platt, also wounded. The dead Breckenridge was buried with similar ceremonies. An immedce crowd bf spec- fators attended the melancholy proces- sions. _ In regard to the wounded, wo are sor- ry to say that lieut. Platt is in a hopeless condition. _ Sailing master Clough is also in a very precarious state; and Mrs,. Breckenridge is by no means out of dan- ger. We understand that several of the men are in a very critical situation. At nine.o'clock last evening, no farther par- ticulars had transpired. This was the latest hour of our communication with the navy yard. e [From the Commercial Advertiset of Friday.] What is a very remarkable circum- stance, although several of the persons at dinner in the ward room escaped with their lives, and some of them uninjured, not a vestige of the table, chairs, or any of the furniture in the room remain.- _ Every thing was blown to atonis: 'The scene, even this morning, at the navy yard, is distressing beyond descrip- tion. Indeed, to attempt a description of such a spectacle, at the very moment when our feelings are harrowed up to a painful degree by the shocking reality, seems too revolting to be undertaken.- We might speak of the wounded living and the mangled dead, and of the frag- ments of bodies blown to pieces, mingled among the the broken relics of the ship were in a most shocking mangled state, and presented a\ spectacle too horrid to look apon-they were placed in coffins, and a coroner's inquest held on them before we left the Navy Yard. The names of all, as far as ascertained, fol- low : Kir1rEp.-Robt. M. Peck, marine; Win. Kemp, seaman; Alexander Came ron, marine; Mrs. Neilson, N. Y. ; James Livingston, seaman; Thomas Walton, do.; Harman YVatel, N. Y.; Wi. Brown a boy ; Mrs. Brown, a yellow woman; Franklin Ely, mariner ; Mrs. Stock well, N. Y.; Henry Logan, corporal of ma- rines ; Peter Gillen, landsman; John Brown, seaman; John Mc Keever, ma- rine ; Jacob Boise, seaman; Charles Williamson, marine ; James D. Burgher, seamen; Otto E. Fergustine, marine; Silvester O'Halloran, do.; Henry Me- graw, do.; John Delos Rayes, barber ; gunner, name unknow n.-23. Wouxoeo.-Licutenants Charles T. Platt, and S. M. Breckenridge, both se: verely ; Alexander M. Mull, slightly. Sailing Master, John Clough, severely. Midshipmen Robert E. Johnson, Da- vid Dougal, Robert P. Welsh, severely ; Mr. Eckford, son of Mr. H. Eckford, thigh broken and otherwise bruised. Mrs. Breckenridge, and a son of lieut. Platt, slightly. Auso wor Kilpatrick, marine, severely ; Thomas Me Cullock, cook, slightly ; Patrick Gilligan, marine, slightly ; Charles Scott, seaman, severe- ly ; Win. Brown, musician, severely ; Jolin Driscoll, marine, slightly ; Z. Rob- ertson, seaman, severely ; Joseph Moore, seaman, - slightly ; Thomas - Newliova, seaman, slightly ; Stephen Decatur, boy, severely ; John - Farrell, marite, se- verely ; Jacob De Hart, marine, sevore- ly. -22. Property, both public and private, has been destroyed, but to what amount it is impossible yet to say. [From the same paper of Saturday.] ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. The account which we gave yesterday of this dreadful accident, proved essen- tially correct. Yesterday morning three dead bodies wore found amongst the wreck, which with the two of the wound- ed who died on Thursday evening, add five more to the list of killed. John Pierce, seaman; Wm. A. Leh- man, landsman, and Thomas Williams, gunner, are among the number of the dead ; and to the list of the wounded, we have to add John Montgomery, serjeant of marines, and Win. Butler, captain's steward, slightly. During the greater part of yesterday, the hands at the navy yard were busily engaged in clearing and removing the wreck, but much remains yet to be ac- complished. From a source to be de- pended on, we learn that six only of the crew are missing now, which proves, as we are happy to state, that a much larg- er number were at work on shore than was at first conjectured. , Yesterday, twenty-three bodies were buried at the Wallabout ; the procession moved from the navy yard at half past one o'clock, headed by a detachment of marines, followed by a band of music, then the clergy ; six carts containing the bodies-two marines between each, and a sailor on either side-then, the officers of the navy and marine corps, including com. Channcey and col. Gamble, of the citizensfroin Brooklyn and New-York. After. the funeral service, a volley of d over the graves f vittiine of this fatal acc -but such particulars may better be left to the reader's imagination. f FCREIGN NEWS. FROM EUROPE. The barque Warren, capt. Snow, ar- rived at New-York on Tuesday morning, from Harve, whence she sailed on the 20th April. The editors of the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer were Indebted to a ' commercial friend for the loan of the Harve Journal du Commerce, from which they translate the following political in- formation : Toraxkey ann» Russia.-Dates from Constantinople of March 26th, states that the Sultan is still at his camp near the capital; that a fleet is ready to sail to en- counter the Prussian squadron, and that Hussien Pacha has concentrated all the troops between Adrianople and Sbhumla. Mr. Gordon, who succeeds Mr. Strat- ford Canning as embassador at Constanti- nople, has been at Paris some days. The Czar was expected at Balin about the begining of June. The second division of tho Russian army, under gen. Witt, consisting of 80,- 000, have entered Bulgaria. It is ru- moured, that 20,000 troops in Wallachia will be sent to re-enforce the Russian Asiatic army. From this we may infer, that there is some truth in the late accounts of Persian excitement. The English and Russian admirals in the Mediterranean, have had some differ- ence about the capture of the two Egyp- tian vessels by the latter, who has insist- ed upon the rights of his sovereign, as a belligerent power. Susricrious.-Tho London Observer of April 21, says, Sir Sidney Smith is about to embark in the steam boat Hylton Soluffe, on a secret expidition. His at- tendants are 50 chosen men. His only cargo is ballast, consisting of brass can- nons. Hehas cleared for Corfu and Mal- ta, but it is expected that he has an uilte- rior destination. The ornaments of his vessel are entirely composed of crescents and turbans. Fraxcr.-It is said that the Duke de Leval, now French ambassador at Vien- na, has been nominated minister of for- cign affairs. Alate N. Y. Commercial Advertiser contains the following, from foreign pa- pers recently received : London, May 4. Portvraar.--We have the strongest reason to believe that the other great powers of Europe-im concert with his majesty's government, have come fo a determination as to the course to be pur- sued towards the usurper of the crown of Portugal They have caused an intima- tion to be made to him, in their names, that he must forthwith withdraw from the exercise of his usurped authority ; nor, after his past conduct, do they consider his renunciation of the crown a sufficient guarantee for the future; thepowers have consequently declared that his presence or that of his mother, cannot be any long- er permitted in Portugal, or any part of the Peninsula; but that, in the event of his retiring quietly, an ample income for both will be guarrantied to them from the revenues of the \Casa . del Infanta- + marines-with a very large number of{of all At six oclock in the afefiicc: m Heat, 341i
