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CLERGYAIEN AT WATERING PLACES cores
pondence from several of the fashionable watering
places, has informed our readers of the rather Gu
rious fact that many of the clergy have, this season.
become possessed OF a mania for visiting these re-
sorts of carnal and ungodly world, and enjoying
their fnvolines and fellies as much as dry goods
clerks, at salaries OF $500 a year, or young misses
just emancipated from three months residence al
one of the fashionable boarding schools and setting
out to astonish the world with their wonderful ac
compllshments.


DIR. Potts, a renowned champion of the highly re-
spectacle Presbyterian Church-Bishop Hughes, the
famous Catholic prelate-Dr. Bethune, very pous
Presbyterian dlvne-Professor Maffit, the celebra-
ted tinerant clergyman Of the Methodist church.
Bishop Brownell Of the Episcopal Church and
others of the wachmen on the walls of Zion, have
all been solourning al Saratoga. mixing and min
Cling in all the vanites and follies oi that miscela
neous place. and daily coming in social contact
with the most wothess and abandoned Of the whole
community. 1t is well known that the most fash
ionabe people at these places-they who give the
most splendid suppers and most recherche wines
who display the finest mousaches and the most inn
posing "imperias," belong to that highly respecta-
BILE fraternity Of bankers called sblacklegs" Side
by side, in cordial and pleasant communion, inter-
changing all the civies of the table and the lounge
on the piazza, you can find those holy men of God
and the blacklegs frem Park Row.


What strange medley what singular as socia
tions How must the poor, humble, industrious
really pious clergy, regard all this conduct on tn,
part OF those who are called their superors Her,
we have divines who enjoy munificent salaries, anc
deliver well turned periods in splendid churches I,
sleepy congregations Of pride and fashion, jauntinl
aboutfrom one gay watering place to another-eatin.
game suppers-drnking the best wines to be got
and silly looking ont of the corners of their piou
eyes on the ailurlng daughters ofloveness and fol
ly that tllt around them. What a sad, sad specta
Gle What contrast to the lives OF Christ and hi.
apostles NO wonder that the pure hearted WORKING
cergy-no wonder that all pious laymen shoulo
feel mortified and indignant, at the countenance
given by many OF the most noted divnes 10 sueh
scenes OF frvollty, folly and vice, as are exhibited
at such places as Saratoga a. very great deal q
discomfort Is beginning to manifest itself relative I,
Bishop Hughes in particular, which is not at al
strange, as his conduct presents singular exception
to the retired industrious and soul devoted manne
in which the Catholic clergy attend to the duties
their sacred calling. In such men as Potts, BE
thune, and others, "drawing room cergymen," sue
adeparmre from propriety Is not so remarkable.