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Show THEY ffliCHT GET HORSE-WHIPPtD. HORSE-WHIPPtD. Mr. Shearman, who, it will be remembered, wits Mr. Beecher's law yer, and win claims to be Mr. . Beecher's "bosom friend," has been making a speech in London, in the course of which ho explained the "American kissing customs," and showed that it "was the common practice in the United States for gentlemen gen-tlemen and clergymen to kiss the wives of their intimate friends." Il Mr. Shearman hud confined himsell to the statement that this practice was "common" in his own family, or among the osculating sentimentalists of Plymouth church, we should have nothing to say, since he is a competent compe-tent witness as to tho manners, customs cus-toms and usages of both. But when he says that this silly and debasing familiarity ia the "common practice" in the United States, he is a "com mon falsifier." We can assure Mr. Shearman that outside of Plymouth church, and perhaps of his own domestic do-mestic circle, thn wivpa of Amorimn gentlemen do not permit their most intimate male frieudB, who are not near relatives not even when they are clergymen to kiss them; and, moreover, if such as he or Mr. Beecher should attempt it outside of their spo-cial spo-cial cjientelage, they would speedily be mado intimate friends with serviceable service-able horsewhips by indignant husbands, hus-bands, laid on bo heartily that they would not soon be in a condition to repeat the insulting familiarity. Christian Intelligencer, |