The Titusville Gazette gives the following account of an oil well at Rouseville, which is one hundred and ninety-two feet deep. At the opening of the vein the well commenced flowing, since which 1,300 barrels of oil have been saved, and at a low estimate, fifty barrels have been lost on the ground. The well has flowed at regular intervals, four times a day—Sundays excepted. We mean just what we say: That the well flowed once in every six hours for six days of the week, but on the Sabbath, the first day of the week, it did not flow. Our readers may account for these periodical discharges by any law of nature which will satisfy their own minds. We state the facts as we heard them.

In connection with this subject, it is known that a worthy preacher of the Baptist persuasion recently fulminated a sermon, somewhere among the Rip Raps of Virginia, against the too common practice of boring for oil. He based his objection to it on the ground that it was a sinful misappropriation of the fuel laid up by an all-wise Providence against the final conflagration of all things. As such he declared that the practice was a flagrant attempt to circumvent the doctrine of foreordination and the Divine decrees. As the same argument will apply to coal mining, which is largely practiced by the most orthodox Christians of Great Britain, we suggest that our preacher would do well to enlarge the area of his missionary efforts.

As for the Sabbath-keeping well referred to, we think the fact that it is the only instance of the kind on record, together with the cumulative evidence furnished on the other side by rains falling on Sunday, rivers flowing, crops sprouting, sun shining and cattle yielding milk on the sacred day, should convince us that as “one swallow don’t make summer,” so one oil well of piously educated instincts is not enough to establish the fact that all the oil contained beneath the earth’s crust is to be devoted to sacramental purposes. But we drop the unctuous theme.