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TYRE.
BS BAYARD TATLOR
The wild and windy morning is lit with lurid
fire;
Thu thundering serf of ocean- beats on the
rocks of Tyre—
Beata on: the fallen column; and round the
headland roars,
And hurls its foamy volume along the hollow
shores,
And calls with hungry clamor, that speaks its
long desire :
-
•'{Vhero are the ships of Tarshish, the mighty
• shipi of Tyre l"
IVithin her entitling harbor, choked with in
vading sand,
No galleys brim , their freightage, the spills of
every laud,
And like It prostrate forest, when auttninn's
gales have blown,
iler colonnades of granite lay thattertd_and
earl hrow n ;
And front the reef of the pharos no longer
flings its fire
To beacon home the Tarshish and lordly ships
of Tyre.
Where is thy rod of empire, once mighty on
the waves—
Thou that thyself exalted, till kings became
thy slaves I -
Than that didst s peak to nations, and saw thy
will obeyed—
Whose favor made them joyful, whose anger
sore afraid—
Who laid'st thy deep (emlations, and thought
them strong and sure,
And boasted midst the waters : shall I not aye
endure I
Where is the wealth of ages, that heaped thy
princely mart 7
The pomp of purple trappings; the gems of
Syrian art;
The silken goats of Kedur; Saha'sne spicy store;
Th.; tributes of the islands thy squadrons
homeward bore,
Who in thy gates triumphant they elite. red
front the sea,
•With sounds of horn and sackbut, of harp and
psaltery 1
Howl, howl, ye AO of Tarshish ! thy glor3-
is laid waste :
There is no habitation; the mansioas are 'de-
•
factal ;
No tuariners of Sidon unfurl your inigley sails;
N ‘vorkinen fell the tie-trees that prow i
Shenir's
And Bashan's oaks that boasted a thousand
years of suit, -
Or hinv the masts of cedar on frosty Lebanon.
Rise, thou forgotten harlot! take up thy harp .
mid sing;
Cull the rebellious islands to own their ancient
king :
B to the spray thy bosom, and with thy
hair unbound,
Sit on the piles of ruin, thou throneless and
discrowued !
There 1.111% thy voice of wailing with the thun
bens of the sea,
And sing thy song of sorrow, that thou re
membered be !
Thonoli silent and forgotten, yet Nature still
laments
The pomp and power departed, ,the lost mtg.-
nifieehce:
The hills were proud to see thee, anti they are
sadder now;
The sea was proud to bear thee, God wears a
troubled brook;
And evermore the' surges clMunt forth their
coin desire :
# Where are the ships of larshish, the mighty
ships of Tyre
Theodore Parker on the Nebraska
Question.
Theodore Parker made a powerful speech
on the Nebraska Question. The Cincinnati
Gazette makes the following extract:
Now if the South carries the Ne
braska bill, will that be the end of it ?
Not at all. A little while ago we were
told that the Union was in danger, and
men cried, Save the Union." 1 thought
that it would not be long, as that game
turned out, before the Union would
again be in danger, and we should have
other volunteers to save it. I did not
think it would come before 1955. 1 was,
however, a little mistaken in this calcu
lation, as it carne in 1851. Now sup
pose.the Nebraska bi 4. is carried; the
-next step, I think, will be •for Congress
to pass a law providing that a slave
'owner can take his slave into any free
Beate, and keep him there six months, or
' perhaps a year, or perhaps seven years.
.rhe next thing will be to provide that
be can-take his slave 'and keep him there
as long as he likes. Will the North say
No!- lam not sure of that, gentlemen.
The past does not warrant me in being
care that the North will say " No" any
more than it did in 1788, 1192, 1803,
1845. 1847, 1848, and Ibso. lam by
no means sure of it. Now suppose that
point is gained, the next thing will, be to
repeal - the ordinance of 'B7. It will be
declared inoperative. Then the South
•will insist upon California being a Slave
State. •
They sill then want new territory,
and Mexico, Cuba, Hayti, Porto Rico,
and the British West Indies, will be
slave States. Do the • North see it ? I
am not sure of that.. The next point
will be - to restore the slave trade. I
, • .
DEVOTED TO THE IquNDipLEs OF DEMOCRACY, AND THE DISSEMINATION OF MOR)ALITY. LITERATURE, AND NEWS.
know exactly that the argument which
will be given, if the Democratic party is
in power, and the Administration favors
the measure, is that free trade will re
quire the slave trade. Then I know the
arguments.which Reverend Clergymen
will advance. They manufacture argu
ments ; I do not mean to say ministers
of Christ. God forbid, for they do no
such thing. I mean to say ministers of
commerce %via do it; and we shall hear ,
the cry raised from the pulpits—l will
import my mother; father, or brother; to
save the Union. The like has been
already said from our pulpits and by
professors in our colleges. Will the
North say. " No, we will not abolish the
slave trade 1" If the Whig party are in
.power, it will be necessary to restore'the
slave trade-in order to protect our manu
factures and compete with 'foreign na
tains. . I do not know of any depth 'of
wickedness too low or too deep for
Northern politicians to dive into and stay
under—not one. [Laughter and ap
plause.] lam very sorry to say these
things, for I am a Massachusetts man
myself. lam a Northern man, and I
am' proud of her past history before the
Revolution. I take pride and pleasure
:n her glorious churches, which once
rang with the glorious liberties of the
children of God. I felt ashamed the
first time that I ever spoke in Faneuil
Hall, and said : Who am I, 0 Lord, that
I should have the privilege of standing
in this hall, which has rung with the
echo of-the voices of- great and noble
men [Cheers.]
I say, Let us resist this - NebraSka
measure with all our might, not merely
by passing resolutions, but by carrying
out the proposition. lam not a political
man, but I suggest that a town
,meeting
shall be solemnly called in 'every town
of the Commonwealth ; then a district
meeting shall be called -in every Con
gressional district in the Commonwealth,
and all men asked to kcome together,
without distinction of-arty ; and then
that a great mass meeting be held here—
no, not here in Boston, but held in the
town of Worcester—in the heart of the
Comtnonwealth—held in a city that has
never kidnapped a man—[applause]--
held in a town, the court-house of which
has never been girded with chains, and
the State Judges crawling under them.
[Loud cheers.] Hold the meeting in
ihe town of Worcester, and discuss the .
question, and if the bill pass, call a con
verrion of all the free persons in the
Free States, and pledge ourselves to
repeal the Nebraska measure; next to
abolish slavery in the district of Colum
bia ; next to abolish it in Utah and New•
Mexico, and wherever it exists under the'
federal jurisdiction; next to repeal the
Fugitive Slave Law and all the so-called
Compromise of Slavery, and lastly, go (
to work and -tear' that hated leaf out of
the Constitution of the United States.
[Loud cheers.]
Gentlemen, lam no madman. lam
! a cool, calm man, who has studied the
facts of our nation's history, and know
them well. I have studied the ideas
which were the programme-of principles
, in the Revolution, and which were the
! programme of pttrpose in the - formation
of the Constitution, and it is to these
great truths, there embodied - and written
by God in the hearty of men, that I call
your attention, and I ask you to swear
I allegiance to your wives and your chil
dren, by the bones of your mothers that
are under ground, and by the soul of the
Almighty God whose higher law rules
earth. and sea, and sky, and time and
eternity. [Loud cheers.] Well, if we
are beaten on the Nebraska question,
and on the•other measures, let us retreat
with our face to the foe, never flinching,
losing everything but our honor. Let
us fight the battle from line to line, from
State to Sate, until we are ,driven back
to old .Massachusetts. Then let us fight
it from town to town until at last we,are
driven back to the old rock of Plymouth,
and there with the soul of our fathers
still in us, taught by the experience of a
hundred years, and rich with the prom
ise of all eternity in our bosoms, let us
gather together the last shreds of the
sacred Mayflower, build our ship, take
on board what is, left of Puritan integ
rity and republican virtue, launch our
bark upon the 'waves,—go to Greenland,
or to Africa, found institutions, and se
cure the glorious liberty of the children
of God. [Loud cheers.]!
AN INTERESTING VIEW OF THE Irlsva
acoTtox x CIIINA.—An European cor
respondent of the National Era has
communicated to us the following intelli
gent, and, we doubt not, truthful descrip
tion of the aspect of afFairs in China.
The eyes of the world are turned_toward
that interesting -country,, and great and
gratifying results are almost universally
anticipated from the events now 'trans
p:ring there: CrEa.
Recent information from the Celestial
Empire, derived from a quarter
,Of great
and peculiar interest, tan hardly - fail, to
be of interest to American readers ; nor
the less so, because it has not - been
communicated•to the people elsewhere,
COVIDERSPORT; POTTER . -COUNTY, PA., MARCH 24, 1854.
through any of the organs of general.
intelligence.
Our informant has resided many years
in, and enjoyed, the most favorable op=
periunities for making himself acquainted
with the true state of the country.
He writes„ that he entertains ho doubt
of the speedy advance of the insurgents
to Pekin, and the overthrow of the Tartar
dynasty. It is pretty well known and
understood at Canton, that the accom—
plislunent of this event will be the signal
for a revolution in the grand emporium
of trade; and then there will be at least
four separate rebellions in the field, viz. :
at Pekin, Amoy, Shanghai, and Canton.
The new view of the case presented to
us is, that all these are ' , separate " and
distinct organizations, not only not con
nected with one another, but absolutely
hostile. Thus, while there is a common'
Chinese object, everything tends toliring
about the crisis; and when destruction
has had its sweep, construction will pro
duce another elemental war. Elsewhere,
it would rightly be predicted of
_such a
struggle, that anarchy and ruin must be
the result ; but China differs from all the
rest of the world, and, though it is im
possible to prevent confusion to a great
extent, the non-belligerent and pre-emi
nently mercantile character of the peo
ple offer a different solution to the
important question. The population of
Tokien, the Province of which Amoy
is the principal port, are the best soldiers
in the country, and, as they have had
the hardest fight, are likely to keep their
own.. The main body, ',tasters of Pekin
and Nankin, are not likely to lose sight
of their one object, and may 'therefore
be preiumed as
. likely to establish a
permanent Government.. The same may
be expected from the numerous peop!e
and vast wealth and trade of Canton,
more aqtiatic than Holland used to be
represented in travels and tales. What
is expected, therefore, is, that this im
mense tertitory, and millions upon mil
lions of inhabitants, will, in the end, be
resolved into several States or Kingdoms,
or whatever the succes.-,ful leaders of the
various revolts choose to style them, and
that the partition of [he Empire will
more resemble that which followed the
death of .the Macedonian conqueror than
any other historical record. At all events,
this strange division of the earth must
be thrown open to the rest of mankind ;
and, whether the new powers fight
. or
agree, the introduction of so immense a
change will have an effect almost beyond
imagination to conceive, on the universal
bearings of the civilized' world. At any
rate, it is curious to learn, as part of the
datd on which the future is to hin4c,
that instead of one insurrection in China,
as we have supposed, it is a hydra, and
the heads are as bitter enemies to each
other-e9s if they were long exasperated
foreign foes.
From the N. Y. Ermthig Yost.
The Cheat of Non-Intervention.
The pretense that the bill which has
just passed the United States Senate,
allows the inhabitants of the new tern'-'
tories to govern themselves, is utterly.
groundless. It is, in fact, simply a false
hoop
A" people which governs itself chooses
and frames its own form of government.
In the present case it is Congress which
dictates the form of government under
which the inhabitants of Nebraska are
to live. It is Congress which imposes
the constitution upon them, and whether
they are pleased with it or not; they
cannot change it; the federal govern
ment does not permit them to do so. If
the state of New York were obliged.to
receive its constitution from the federal
government without the power to alter it
at pleasure, we should hardly admit that
we enjoyed the privilege of governing
ourselves.
A community in the exercise of self
government elects its own Governor...—
In the case of Nebraska the Governor is
to be appointed by the President of the
United States. The people of the ter
ritory may make certain ordinances, but
they cannot execute them. The presi
dent sends them a man.to execute them—
a man vested with the appointment of all
the subordinate executive agents. if
thatman does not choose to carry into
effect the ordinance made by the territo
rial legislature, the people of the territo
ry cannot compel him,cannot punish him,
cannot remove him ; he is not responsi
ble only - to the federal government.
A people which. governs itself...ap
points, either directly or indirectly, the
judges who sit in its courts and admin
ister its laws. Its judges are not sent
to it from without. 13ut in' the present
case, Dir. Douglas's bill provides that the
judges shall be appointed by the Presi
dent of the United States and confirmed
by the Senate. Whateirer ordinances
are passed by the territorial legislature
will be expounded and applied by judg
es who are the creatures Of‘the 'federal:
government: If the territorial legisla
ture should pass any law prejudicial. to
- slavery,.the judges, who will represent
the administration at Washington, • may
annul it as contrary to 'the ;constitution.
'Those who govern thqinielv6,.create
their own legislature. The Nebraska
bill assigns a part of the legislative
power to an agent of the President—to
the Governor whom he shall appoint. It
gives the Governor a right to send back
to the territorial legislature, with his veto,
any bill passed by the. majority, which
can then only become klaw by a vote of
two thirds of both houses., The course
of legislation is thus obstructed by the
agency of a power without the territory.
Again, no . people can be said to
govern itself which has not the-power to
prescribe who shall exercise the right of
suffrage. - .I.n‘ the territories the practice
has hitherto been to allow all the inhabi
tants to vote as soon as they have fixed
themselves in the country, without re
quiring the* process of naturalization.
In that way, Michigan, loWa . and Wis •
cousin were settled. Every man,Whether
from Ireland; England, Germany, Nor
way or France, was allowed a voice in
the territoral elections. This was a
reasonable arrangement in .a country
where the inhabitants were few, and
where in many neighborhoods the sole
inhabitants were recently from Europe.
Douglai's bill disfranchises all this class
of men, and puts them on a level, so far
as their political rights are concerned,
with the slaves exported from Arkansas
and Missouri. There will, in all proba
bility, be settlements in Nebraska,
with two or three planters from those
states, and a considerable population of
recent emigrants from Europe, who have
not been long enough in the country= to
become naturalized citizens of the United
States. Two or three planters will elect
members to the legislature, and this class
will control the legislation of the state.
In th's respect, the bill before 'Congress
allows the inhabitants a far lesg share in
the government of the territories than
was permitted by the former laws.
What did Mr. Cass 'mean when he
said that the passage of this bill was the
triumph of squatter . sovereignty ? It
puts the squatter of foreign birth—the
Celt, the Tuton—on a level with the Af
riran. Its effect vill, of course, be to
exclude the white emigrant, and to
Africanize Nebraska. With what face
can these' men talk of non-interventton
by the federal government, whew, the
federal government appoints the Execu
tive, appoints the Judiciary, and appoints
an agent to interfere with the legislative
power . ?. Dishoneit pretenses are fre
quent •in these days among 'Politt
cinns. but the assertion that the Nebraska
bill leaves the people of the territoris
at liberty to govern themselves and fram'o
their own -institutions, is a hoax of the
grossest and most shameless character.
A WONDERFUL CLOCK.—There is nosy
in the possession of, and manufactured
by Mr. Collings, silversmith, of Gloucei
tershire, England, a most ingenious piece
of mechanism—an eight-day clock, with
dead-beat escapement maintaining power
—which chimes the quarters; plays six!
teen tunes, plays three time in twelve
hours, or will play at any tithe required.
The hands go round as follows : One,,
once a minute ; one, once an hour; one,
once a week ; one, once a month ; one',
once a year. It shows the moon's age',
the time of rising and setting of the sun;
the time of high and low water, half-ebb
and half-flood; and by a beautiful con
trivance, there is a part which represents
the water, which rises,- and lifting the
ships at high-water tide as if it were in
motion, and as it recedes leaves these
little automaton ships dry on the sands,
It shows the . hour of the day, day of th 4
week, day of the month, month of the
year. In the day of the month there is
a provision made for the long , and short
months. It shows the twelve signs o r
the zodiac ;
,it strikes or not, chimes as
you wish it ; it has the equation table t
showing the difference of clock and su
every day in the year. Every portio
of the clock is of beautiful workmansnipi
and performs most accurately the many
different objects which are called intc
action by the ingenious proprietor, who
is most willing to describe, all its various
achievements to any one who may feel
pleasure in paying him a visit. .
.The New York Senators.
lt,gives us pleasure to perform a aim
ple act of justice towards men to whose
course, on many political questions, w ,
are utterly opposed. Among the faith
ful few who resisted, at every step, an
to the last, the Nebraska iniquity, wer
Senators g,eward and Fish, of this State.'
The ode by a powerful speech—evincl
ing, A moral courage which we should
have been glad to see
,imitated . by some
of his democratic associates—as welt as
by his votes ; the other by his votes •
'never wanting when called for—our Seni
ators have , faithfully and fearlessly per
; i
formed their duty. On the field-wher
so many fainted and fled, no brave ma
who provedtrue shall fail to receive th
praise he merits at our hands. , WithOu
regard to their party affinities, we fee
proud 'of the course pursued, on' thiS
question, by the Senators,. from
,Diet 4
York. We only.wish that every free-
State`hatl been as ably • and - faithfullY
represented:—Eve.'Post. • ' ' ' ,
lEMII
, - ' Front the San Francisco Herald.
i
Discoveries of Ruined Cities in the
Great'Dasin.
.. , .
The'Grent Basin in the middle of our
territory, bounded on the north by the
WahsstO mountains and the settlements
of the Mormons in Utah, on the east by
the Rochy mountains, skirting the right
bank of the Rio Grande, on the south by
the Gila; and the west by the Sierra Ne
vada, is l'a region still almost unknown.
f rrappas and mountaintiers hive passed
all around the inner rim, but none have ;
ever crossed it, with the exception of
Mr. Beale, who traversed, on his recent
trip, the northern slope, and Captain
Joe Walker, the famous mountaineer,
who passed nearly through its centre in
the winter of 1850. But .little, there-
fore, is known regarding it, but that lit-
tle is exCeedinglS , ' interesting, and fills
the mind.with eagerness to know more.'
From Captain Walker we have gained
many particulars respecting this cele-
biated trip, and the character of this
mysterious land, which have‘never be- ,
fore been brought to light. There is no ;
lack of streams within it; the Rio Colo
rado, Chi quito, or little Red River runs i
entirely across it, about one hundred ;
miles to the bard' of the Gila, and al
most parkallel to it and empties into the'
Colorado. About 120 miles still further
to the North, the San Jnan follows, ex-;
actly the same course as the little Red,
arid ;empties into. Grand River, the most,
important branch of the Colorado.---1
Grand _River itself pursues a course a'
little south of west- across the northern '
part of the Basin, while the Avonkaree,
a large; river discovered by i l ,lr. Bale.
Green River, mid ithe Rio Virgin, are
all large streams, which drain the north
ern
Motintain rim and ran in a souther
ly direction into the Colorado.
, The Great Basin between the Coburn-'
do and the Rio Grande, is - an immense
table of land, broken towards the Gila
and the Rio Grande by detached Sierras.
Almost ill the streams run through can
ons. The country - is barren and des°•
late. anal entirely uninhabited even by
the lowest order of Indians. But, though
nnw so bleak and forbidding, strewn all
around. May be seen the evidence that it
was once peopled by a civilized and
I thickly settled population, They have
long since disappeared, but their handi
work remains td - attest their former
greatness. Capt. IWalker assures us
i that the; country from the Colorado to
the Rio Grande, between the Gila and
the Saa.Juan, is full of ruined habita
-1 Lions .and cities, most of which are on
the table land. Although
; he had fre
tquently Met, with crumbling masses of
masonry; and numberless specimens of
; antique pottery, such as have been no
,
tired in the immigrant trail south of the
Gila, it was not until his last trip acrop,
that he ever saw a structure standing.
'On that; occasion he had penetrated
about midway from the Colorado into
I the wilderness, and had encamped near
1 the Little Red River, with the Sierra
Blanche looming up to the south, when
h= noticed' at a little distance an object.
that induced him to examine further.
1 As he . ,approached, he found it to be a
I kind of ,citadel, around which lay the
ruins or a city more than a mile in
length. It ivzs located on a gentle de
) clivity that sloped towards Red River,
and the lines of the streets could be dis
tinctly traced running at right angles
with each other. The holises had all
been built with stone, - but nil had - been
reduced to ruins by the action of some
great heat, which had evidently passed
over the whole country. 'lt was no or
dinary conflagration, but must have been
some fierce, furnace-ltke blast of fire,
similar to that issuing from a volcano,
as the stones were all burnt, some of
i them almost cindered, others glazed as
if meltect r This appearance was visible
in every ; ruin he met with. A storm of
fire seemed 'to have swept over the
whole country, and the inhabitants must
have falieri before it. In the center of
the city ive refer to, rose abruptly a rock
twenty or thirty feet high, upon the top
of which t stood a portion of the walls of
what had once been an immense build
ing. The outlines of the building were
still distinct, although only the northern
angle, with walls fifteen or eighteen feet
long, and ten feet high, was standing.
These walls were constructed of stone,
well quarried and wellbuilt. All the
south end of the building seemed to
haye melted to cinders and have.sunk
to ,a mere heap of rubbish. Even the
rock upon which, it was built, seems to
have been partially fused by the heat.
• :Capt. Walker spent some time in ex
amining this interesting spot—he traced
many of the streets and the outlines of
the hobses, but could find no other, wall
standing-; as often as he had seen ruins
of this character, he had never urilil
this occasion, discovered any.of the im
plements, of the ancient people. ' Here
helound a number of band mills, Simi.
lar to those still used by the Pueblos and,
the IVliiiicans for grinding theii 'Corn.,
They were "made of light porous brick,
,and consisted.. of two peices about two
feetionond leo. iriche3 wide, the one
hollowed- ,out; and . the other pa,lile con
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vex like a . roller.. to fit the concavity.
They were the only articles that had
resisted the heat: . - No, metals of any -
kind were found. Strewn all around,
might, be seen numerous fragments of
crockery, Sometimes beautifutly carved,
at others, painted: This, however, was
not peculiar to the spot, as he_had seen
antique pottery in every part, of.-the
country, from San Juan to the Gila
Capt. Walker' continued his journey,
and . noticed several more rains on a lit
tle of his route,• next day but be could
not stop to examine them. On this.side
of the Colorado, he has never yet seen
any remains, except Abe present races.
The Indians have no traditions relative
to the ancientpeople that once so thickly
settled this •region. They look with
wondei upon these .remains; but know
nothing of their origin. Capt. Walker,
who, we may remark, is a most intelli
gent and close observer, far Superior to
the generality of old trappers, and with
a wonde l rfullyt retentive memory, is of
opinion that this "Basin, now so - barren,
was once a charming country, sustain
ing millions of people, and that its pres
ent desolation'has been wrought by the
action of volcanic fires. The mill dis
covered proves that the ancient race
once farmed ; the country as it now op
rUrs never could be titled, hence it is
inferred, that it must have been differ
ent in early days. • They must haie .
had sheep, too, for the representation of
that useful animal was found carved up
o n Piece of pottery. " •
Lieut. Beale states that,pn his- first
trip across the continent, hekdiscovered
in the midst of the- wilderness north of
the Gila, what appeared to be a strong
full, the' wall of great- thickness,
bu :It of
stone. He traversed it, and found it
contained forty-two rooms. - In the vi
cinity were met with numerous ,balls of
the hard clay, fro.n the size of a bullet,
that of a grape shot. What was sin
gular about them was the fact, that fre
quently ten or twenty of them were
stuck together, like a number of bullets
run out of a half-a dozen connecting
Imoulds, or like a whole bakin'g of rolls.
It is difficult to say what these were ih
tended for. They were so hard, how
ever, that the smaller ones could ba dis
charged from a gitn. And now it re
mains for the antiquarian to explore this
interesting region in the very hetart of
our country, and to say who were the
people that inhabited it. They may
have been the ancestors of the Aztecs,
wham Cortez found in Mexico. for they
were known to have come from the
n•arth. -
Tradition relates that they sailed out
from their northern homes, directed by
their prophets not to case their march
till they came acicss an eagle sitting up
on a cactus, with a serpent in its claws.
'Fills they found where the city of Mex
ico now stands, and here they established
their dominion. This legend is still
preserved in the device upon the Mex
ican dollar. Some remnants of the Az
tecs still remained within a few years
past at the ruin. d city of Gran Quivero
or Pecos, in the wilderness of New Mex
ico. -.1-lere in deep caverns they kept
alive,with reverential care, the Sacred
Fire, which was always to burn till the
return of Montezuma. It only went
out about ten years ago, when the last
Indian of the the tribe expired. It
might be that the Pimos. south of the
Gila, are an offshoot of the great Aztec
nation, left behind in their march to the
south. The Pimos, it is knowh, are
far superior to the Indians of New
Mexico. They raise fine ccaton, and
from it manufacture all their clothing.
Would that some Stephens or Layard
would arise to explore the wonders that
lie concealed within this Great Basin,
and. to bring 'to light the history of the
strange people who inhabited it.
A rROPER DISTINCTIOti.—Our Indiaa
incidents are fruitful. This is not the
worst we have had : . "Are you a Christ
ian Indian ?". sailta person to.an adhe
rent of Red Jacket; at the settlement
near Cattaraugus. "No," said the star
dy savage, n 1 Whisky - lodian." . lie.
could see that Whisky drinking and
LChristianity had little in common, and
was honest enough to classify himself
i according to his habits. - Not. a -few of
' our civilized "Whisky Indians" lack
I I the honesty or discriMination . of the sar
i arr o
e.'lluffulo Express. — • . .
CICERO said of a than.who had plough
ed up.the grcund in 'which his father
was buried, " This is really cultivating
ode's father's memory."
the'N. Y. independent
we find the following from a . mother:
f. But did I tell you what a time I bad
with my little Joe ?"
..No, what was it ?"
Why, L-wasr showing•him a picture
of Ihe,martyrs throw:110 the lions, and
vas t talking very solemnly tO, trying
to Make' him feel what c. terrible thing it
was'. a Ma !" said he all at once, Oh
.ma I just look at that poor little lion way
.beltind.there, he .won't , get any."
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