ANTONY,AIIID 0410PATRA.
MMEEI3
The following poem has been pronounced to
be unequalled, lo its furcullur style, in,lhe Eng
ish language:
I am dying, Egypt, dying . ;
Ebbs the erhason life-tide fast;
And the dark, Plistonlan shadows
(lather on the arguing bliut ;
Let thine Arms, 0, Queen, enfold we!
Hush thy sob* and bow thine ear;
Listen to the great beart.searete
Tithe, and thou akine most bear.
Though my marred and veteran legions
Dear their eagles high nu mute,
And my wrecked and scattered galleys
Strew dark Actium's fetal shore— •
Though no glittering guards surround me
Prompt to do their mss ter's will.
I must perish like a 110111.—
Die the great Triomeir still!
Let not Clover'. rerrile nluione
Mark the - Hon thus mid low;
'Twalg no fiteman':rann that felled him,
'Torso hie own that struck the blow
-114, oho, Hilluwml on thy bosato,
Turned Algid° from glorre ray
Mr, who, drunk wlth thy noires,
!Cully throws world away
Shouhl the bare, plebeian rabble
Dare ualil nty name nt Renee,
Where the ‘Globle ,pouira, Ortaria.
,Weepa within her widowed hetet,
Seek her; ray the gotle.hcar
Altarg augur., circling wine—
,' That her blood, with mine rommlnglett
Yet Atoll mount the thrdne of kings.
'Anil he thee eter.et nit Egyptian!
Murkiest coroner. of the Nile!
Light the posh to Stygien hortom
Willi the nplerolorn o. thy nitrite .
ire the emsar crowns and art hen,
Let bin brow the laurel twine.
I ran moth the Senate's triumphs,
Triumphing in lore like thine!
I am dying. Egypt, dying—
Hark! th' insulting foemen'e cry
They are taming' quick, my falelitan—
Let me front them ere I din'
Ah. do mare maid the battle
Shall my heart exulting, await;
lain and 0 guard thee;
Cleopatra, Rome, farewell'
,POLITIONL PREACHING--ABLE LET
. TER FROKHON J, S. BLACK.
To the Rio Alfred Non., 1 ) P.
Mr Ds at, Sill —Your letter addressed to
me through the l'hilndelphio Evening Bulfe
tin disappoints, me; because I did not ex
pect it to come in that *ay, mu because it
doe. not corer the setqect Mimeo Between
us. Hui if lam intent your friends will say
with some show of reason, that you hove
•indleated “Poillitni Preaching" sotrinmph
ant ly that all opposition Is confounded I
must therefore speak freely in reply In
doing so, I menu to say nothing inconsin
tent with my grout respect for your high
character in the church and in the world
The admirable style and temper of your own
communication deserve§ tolls. impated.
i fully concede the right you claim for
clergy melt to select their own themes and
handle them as they plea.; loti soy . tt my
that nett her lnwyer+ nor physicians nor any
other order of men hose the Innnt aniltorityt
to control you tit these particulars But
you will not deny that this is n tuivilege
which may be abused you expressly admit
that some clergymen•hurr alm.eil it "and by
doing so did no, than any other dory of own
to commence and (011allile (he tole reheliorti "
- While, therefore, we can as - aert no power to
dictate your conduct, much leo./ to force
you, we are surelrnot wrong when we en
treat you to impose upon nooses/eel 111040 re
/therm to be neaesit try for the good of the
church and the tette'' , of civil society
I acknowledge that your (10111{121.11)R is to
very broad one. You must.wleclare the whole
counsel of God,' to the end that stoners
may be convinced and converts both up in
their most holy faith Truth, jostice, tem
perance, humility, mercy. p toe, brotherTy
kindoess, charity—the whole circle of the
ebristian virtues—must be , assiduously
taught to your hearers ; and if any of them
be inclined to the opposite vices. you are to
denounce them without, fear, by pirate ad
monition, by open rebuke, ur by a general
delivery of the loci which crndenins them.
You are not bound to pause in the perfor
mance of this duty bananse tt limy offend a
powerful ruler or n strong political prriy.—
Nor should you shrink from it when bail
men, fur their own purposes, approve whet
you do fle•ale the mural eliaractet, en
lighten the darkness, and polity the 110011,1
of those who are under your spiritual charge,
at nil 130000310 ; for this is the woe k which
your greet Taskmaster has given poet,' do;
be will admit no excuse for neglecting it
But Ihie is precinely what the political
preolier is nut in the habit of doing lie
directs the attention of his hearers away
from their own sins to Ilse rills, real or im
puted, of oils, people By teaching his
congregation that they are bolter than other'
men he fills their hearts with self conceit,
bigotry, spiritual prole, envy, hatred,
and all oneharitableness Instead of
this which they need, to tithe
thelicarn out of their own eye he incites
them to clack 1110 mote from their broth
er's fie Joee not tell them what they shall
do to be saved, but he instructs them very
carefully how they shellac( fur the dent rue
lion of others lie rouses and encourages
to the utmost of his ability, those brutal
passions which result to riot, bloodshed,
spoliation. civil war and general corrup
tion of morale
You commit a grievous error in outscoring
that polities and religion are eu mingled to
gether that you cannot preach ono without
ihtroducing the other Christ and 'utilities
Iles kept them pe. frctly separate They an
nounced the great foots of the liospel to each
indi•idual whom they addressed When
these were accepted the believer was told
to repent and be baptised for the remission
of hie sins, and afterwards to regulate his
own life by the ruler of a pure rind perfect
trality„ They expressed no preference
for one form of government over another,
they provoked no political revolutions, and
they proposed no legit reforms If they
bad done no they would have flatly contra
dicted the dealer itioat that Chi tars King
dom was not of this world, and ChriStianity
itself would have died out in halt a emitury.
But they recopied the relations whiels were
created by human 'law and exhorted their
disciples to discharge fritlifidly the duttee
which arose out of them Though the laws
which defined the authosithy of husbands,
parents, moors mad magistrates wore as
bad as hum-ib perversity could white them,
yet the early chrituitinr contented them
soiree with teaching moderation in the el
erciee of legal power, and uniformly incul
cated the virtues of obedience and fidelity
upon wires, children, slaves and subjects.
They joined In no clamors for or against
any administration, but simply testified
against sin before the only tribunal which
Christ ever erected on earth ; that is to say
the octiselence of the Mutter himself. The
vice of political preaching was wholly un
known to the primitive church.'
It is true that Paul counselled obedience
to the government of Nero ; and I am aware
that modern clergyman Interpret his words'
as a justification of the doetrloo that support
of an existing administration is "part of
their allegiance to God." Several Synods
and other ecclesiastical bodies have eolemn
resolved something to that effect. But they
forget that what Paul advised was staple
submission, not act fie assistance, to Nero
The Christies of that day did not endorse
his atrocities merely because be was "the
o, he . ri,,rtutittAtir -I(,[4l.thit,ian,,
VOL. XI
administration duly' placed in power"
They did not go with him to the theatre,
applaud his acting, or pities him in the
churches when he kidnagped their h,'eth
ren, se , lire to a city. or desolat id a pro,
him, Nur dot they assist at his apotheosis
after his death, or pritimince funeral ser
mons to show !hit lie was greater than
Scipio, more •irtuous,than Cato, and more
eloquent 011,1 Cicero, Political preachers
would litre done thm. , lnat Paul and Peter
did no such thing
There is nothing in the Scriptures to jun
lift' the Church in apply tog' its iliempline
to any member far offences purely political
much less for his mere opinions or feelings
on public affairs. The clergy ere without
1111111orliy, an they are often without fitness,
to decide for their congregations what is
right or what is wrong in the legislation of .
the country' They are not called orsient to
pregnant° any kind of political doctrine
The Church and the Stale are entirely sepa
rate and distinct in their origin, their oh
antlbei-pliCre of their action; into-
Much that the organism of one eon never be
used for any purpose of the oilier without
injury to both
Do I therefore say t hot the Christian re
ligion is to have no influence on the politi
cal dePtiny , of rtinn ? Far from it Not
witneintitling the unfoithfultiess orniany
professors, it has already changed the Noe
of human society ; and it will ,yet meson,
its mission. by spreading peace, inde
pendence, truth, justice, and liberty regu
lated by law, "from the sea [tithe uttermost
ends of the earth " But this will be totem
plished only by reform-legend elevating the
individuals of whom society is composed ;
not by exasperating commonitten alpinist
each oilier; not by an alliance with the
governments of the world; not by any vul
gar partnership witt polviciana to kill and
plunder their enemies
Eve'' , time you reform n bail man and
lit tag hie character up to the standard of a
Christ ion nun/1111y, you ullske all
[venter or less, to !hal righteousness which
extilieth a nation, and nobtract on equalsom
from the sin which to a reproach to any
people Sometimes a single conversion is
extlemely important ill its Oillnediate effect
Upon the public interest of a wholp nation
No climb' the nceephince of iheitrilieby Di
ony.us the Aretip.ightilmd lI{b'RTMI do-in
moulding the sub...went laws and CUSIOIIIo
.4 Athens The,cott•ersion or Constalitilie
was foll Owed fay tho instant abrogation of
all Liles which fettered the conscience In
the reign of Toemlosins the people of Thee -
saloni.,i rose against the amain garri,on
its-
''uttoSle - kJ... this_ , •
rebellion the Emperor ereed against them
the curse of all indigo ',Monte war in which
the gittlir and the innocent were confound
ed together 10 elle gener.sl slaughter II is
spirituel .•guide, philosopher, and friend"
at the tune was A mbrose, the Archbishop
of Milan, who boldly oltMouticedidll cruelty.
refused 10 glen bins the liaeriment, or oven
to administer it in his presence, compelled
him to take Ms seat among the penitent.
on the portico of the church and induced
him to humble his dt stout in the dust for
eight months in sitecesston The conscience
of 010 K nporor WAS thoroughly aw Ikened ;
his tintitequent reign won distingilished by
justice ouch mercy, the Integrity of the ern- ,
pure w is preserve I in Peale, and the - great
Theodosian code, the pro luot of that bitter
repetstatme is still read and quoted for its
admirable union of humanity and policy
Ambrose redeemd these consequences by
acting in the !roe cap ictiy of is Christian
for he rewrote! the emininil by
a duvet appeal to 1111 own p 0 II ti
oil pl richer in lii name circumstances
went! bane Inn I used the sanguinary passions
of the laUltal eh by extiggerating the treason
of the The.,oto.i.os and ootinselling the
military execution ot all who presumed to
sympathize in their sufferings
You will see, I think, the dielinclion I
would make. A gospel preacher addresifee
the conscience of hie heaters for the honest
purpose ul couvertiog there front the error
of their ways, a p dil ie tl preacher speaks
LO 000 community, ono p u iy or one soot,and
1114 11101110 is the wiokoduess of 1111111 her
The latter ulfects•no religious purpose what
ever, but tire °helices are muely•uine in a
hundred that he coolies the bed passions of
those who are present, while he slanders
the absent and undefended. 110th elasses
of preachers frequently speak upon the same
or intuit.tr object+, hut they du no with dif
ferent objects and ruins
I Will links my amanit; owe clear by
taking yam 6w/a nitavrelion.. You believe
in the first day of the week as a Sabbath,
sod so believing your duty undoubtedly is
to exhort nil persons under your charge to
observe it uric. ly ; but you hero no right
to pre mil a crusade against the Jow• and
dove tilt day Ilagusts, to get intolerant
laws enacted against tltem her keeping Sat
urday as as day of rest If drunkenness bo
• sin whiolt tinily betels yourcongregation
you may worts them against it. and inns
.11011 as abtatuenue is always easier than
oncateration, you should ethnic them to feel.
not, touch nut, belle sot, but your posi
tion gives you no authority to provoke vio
lent hostilities arsine' tavern keeperi,liquor
dealers or distillers. If any of your hear
ers be ignorant or minas 'enough .to desire
more wires than one • piece, you should
certainly teach them that polygamy is the
worst feature of Asiatic manners, Inconsis
tent. with Christianity am! dangerous to do
Melilla happiness; but you cannot. lawfully
urge them to carry fire and sword into the
territory of the Mormons merely banns°_
some of fhe Mormons are in this respect less
holy than you. jf the holdmg of slaves
or bond servants be • prsotionl question
among tho members of your churolt I know
of no ting whion forbids you to ten9 h what
ever you conscientiously believe to be true
on that subj.:mt. But in a oommuulty where
slavery is not only unknown but impossible,
why should any preacher make It the sub
ject of his weekly vituperation ? Yon do
not Improve the religion of.the skive-holder
by traducing his character our mend the
spiritual condition of your own people by
making them thirst for the blood of their
feblow men 1,
If any persop,lo whom the service of an
other irdne giy the laws of the Slate in
Which he lives, shall need your intent:till
to regulate hie perpsnal conduct towards
the Attie, lon are bound in the brat pbtoe
to tell him, that se long as that relation ex
ists, he should behave with the utmost hu
manity and kindness ; foe thia^you have
the clear wlitriflittifthe'Apostollo example
EMI
and precept. In dealing with such a per;
son you may go as much further as 'your
Own consejfillous interpretation of the Bi
ble will owl , you. If you are euro that
Mid divine low, does, undir all eirnumstan.
ego, noshes the mere exinience of sucb are
tattoo sinful on the part of the 11110 , 4 t, 11, 1 1 t,
5110011 induce him to diesolve it by the
iMmed isle emancipation of his elavea ; for
that is truth to you which you believe to be
true. But where ix the authoritY lot
preaching hatred of atm., who underetand
the scripture differently ? What privilege
can you chow for exciting servile insurrec
liobl Wbo,gnve you the right to say that
John Biown was better than any other thief
or 'murderer, merely because his erimes
were. oconniiiied against pro elniery men ?
I think the mMiater, in his pulpit
die
courses, is forbidden to 100511 51 ell upon
tfft clans of subjects which ere purely pi,
Brien': such for instance an the honking
low, tang, rail reed charter., Mate right e,
the iffiltirifinuf ion basis and negro suffrage
These are gowning of mere political expe
diency: religion takes no cognisatice of
tnem ; they come within the sole jorisdic
lion or the etnlesnmn ; oedstho choreh lion
no more right to take sides upon them thou
the civil government has to one its legisla
tive, pohcial or executive power fur the
purpose of enforcing principles wholly re
ligious
In short, if I am not entirely mistaken, a.
cbristtan minister 111111 no authority 10
preach upon any 'objects except those 111
which divine revelation has given him an
infallible rule of faith and practice ; nail,
even upon thetir;' he mom speak always for
the edifient ion of hie own hearers, •'rightly
dividing the word of truth': so as to lead
them in the way of all righteousness ii lj„gri
he does more than this he goes beyond his
cool m issiori; he becomes n starry' Milli mina
and hie influence to altogether pernicious
The use of the clerical office for the pun
pose of propagating political doctrines un
der arty cirenmellhices. or with nay excuse,
is in myjudgment not only without author
ity, hut it in the highest crime that can he
copimitie4 against , the government of fl oil
Ariumn Perhapill ought not to make this
brood aenertiou without giving some addl.
clonal reasons' for it
In the first place it is grossly dishonest
1 effitiloy you as a minister, Ay you Bolsi
ry and build you a church because I
confidence in your theological docirit,
Hut, you may be at the same Colic wholly
unfit fur my political lender. Now you ore
guilty of a base fraud upon toe, if,, instead
of preaching religion, you lake advamtige
heiseeissen I 'ixasz.puilk_WM , e
your erode and ignorant notions on State
affairs I have asked for bread and you
give me a stone, invited of the fedi I bar.
gained for, you put into my hand n serpent
llmt sting. cud poisons Inc
It destroys the unity °Me cluirch There
is no room for rational dispute about the
great truths of Christ molly but nieu will
never agree upon political subjects, fo'i hu.
man g vernment is at bent but a compro
mise of selfish interests and cool:liming pns
sions. When you mix the two together you'
break the church into fragements. and in
steed of "one Lord, one faith and one bap
you crento a lb niksffililittirring sects,
and substitute the proverbial bitterness of
horodeom ilootogienm fur the ••charity which
thinkelli no evil '•
No one will deny that a unsolpf church
and •late is always the cause of bad gov
ernment, perverted religion mid corrupt
murals. I do not menu merely that legal
union which exists in European countries.
That is bad enough but you have lees
common sense than I give you credit for, if
you do not see that this adulterous con
nexion assumes its most polluting form
when the church is voluntarily prostituted
by her own 011111.10. ion political party in
a motor government
The evil influence of such connexiona
upon Chereivod State in easily accounted
for. Huth of them in combination will do
what either would recoil from if mantling
alone. A politic an backed lay the clergy
to ',ordain him can safely defy honesty and
trample upon law, for do what he may, lie
is assured of clerical anoport here awl of
heaven hereafter. The clergy on the other
hand and those who are under their influ
ince easily empire the habit of praising
indiscriminately whatever in dune by their
'public men Acting and reacting on one
another they go down together in the direc
tion of the pit that is bottomless ; and both
are found to have '•a strange alacrity at
liking
No matt Cart serve two masters faithfully
EMS
r he must hate one if he lover the other
minister who admires and follow. tomb
men as those who have lately ruled and
ruined this country must necessarily ‘l,-
tiptoe the character of Christ If he glori
fies the cruelty, rapacity soil falsehood of
hie party leaders he is compelled by an in
flexible law of human nature to 'idecy the
Lord who bought bids."
The experience of Miami centuries proves
that political preachers are the great nurse
of the world. More than half the bloody
wars which at ditte4nt periods have desola
ted Christendom, mete produced by their
threat instigation ; and wherever they have
thrust themselves into a content commenced
by others, they 'always envenomed the strife
and made It more cruel, savage and uncom
promising. Vie religious wars, so.ealled,
had nothing religious about them ,except
that they were biased up by the ellergi.—
Look back and see if this be not true
The Arian controversy (the first great
schism) w‘ta followed by wars in which mil
lions of lives were lost—Do you suppose
the reel quarrel was for the insertion or
omission offitioque in that part of the creed
which deseilbes the procession of the Holy
Ghost t Did a Aorsooevion slaughter hie
brother because he win a liontolouvianf No,
It was not the difference of a dipthong, but
the plunder of an empire that they fought
for. It was the_polplos of the thatch, not
bar religion, that infuriated the pestles and
and converted men into demons,
The Thirty Years War Tu Germany is of
ten supposed to have been • fair stand up
fight between the two leading forme of
Christianity. It was not so. The religious
difference was a false pretence of the poli
tical preachers for the promotion of their
own schemei. There we. not a sane
man on all that continent who would have
telt himself impelled by motives merely re
ligious to . murder his neighbor for believ
ing or disbelieving in transubstantiation.
If proof of Ihie were wanting, it might be
Frrmwmmyr , -,immrw7-mig
BELLEFONTE, PA.; .FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1866
found in the fact, that long before the Wm
ended, the seolaritin cries w, re abandoned.
and Catholics, Ts well ao Pr , ite•lsiolit. were
fighting on both sides.
It it ntitlty iniptionible to believe that the!
clergy of England nn4 Sem Into!. 11 l
got berm Ttnittician•.,ynnhl hove thought of
waging bloody wore th nettle questions of
election and reprobation, bite. fore Lloilef
'edge free will, nod oilier point, of tii&g
',hymen! lheolog) Nor avoid they; apart.
from their politics, have tumult -aged rind
committed the other !torrid mum, of which
they were gulf!) , in the name orleligion
Can you think that the Irish were men
ded; and congteretl. tad oppressed, and
murdered, and robbed for centuries, merely
because the English loved and believed in
the Protestant religion I I suppose you
know tom idlest' brutal- ap . nett ter were car
bled on for the purpose offoring to political
preocherif in England pos•es•ton• of the
churches, cathedrals, glebe lands and lythes
which - belonged to the Irish entholicit The'
'soldier won also rewarded by ebllll4ellilol.
and plunder The church and the Mate
bugled in couples. anillrelattil wps the prey
which they ran down together is
Coming toour two roma.y you find \lns,
no•chuset Is nod 1 . 01111(.01,0 in , 0 1 0 .1.1
times tilde. the role domination of political
preachers 'their tt cachet our wn rt 4 open
the Indians fir purposes wholly mercenary.
their mail to log of white pi teens, no well 118
red OHM., and ncllwg them abritil, or
"snapping them for blackantoors I heir
whipping. Imprisoning and killing Quaker,
and Item ,ts. for their eatiociristilitio
npm
umn;/111t1 their tome treatment tit such men
an Roger IV illmnis /11111 Inn Imo la, will
mark iherr germ notent through all time as
one of She cruelest and acmes, I lint et er
;slated
prenchei El have tint behaved any
belies •ince the revolution than before
Ahem the cotanteliCeinent of ilte present
count - ) they were boxy vile voes-
I WO all over New rog:ritiki nod cuulutucd it
for many yevi it The wdlld and deliberate
shuttle. altered I s lam Ine pulpit
ogiiinnt Jefferson, Madinon, nod the ft tends
who suppot led them, w' le a disgrace IO
hu
man illy tire The immediate effect oiling
was Ilie Yankee plot lo secede from the
Peden, followed by corrupt combinations
with a loretgli +amity to betray the liberties
of the mutant y. Its remoter consequences
are seen in the stealthsn mnpncuy and
ter maligoiny even al this moment,
are howling for the property sod blood of
nil unarmed and defenceless people
You, i ud I both remember the political
pteirliing wI.IA ushered in end xuppo, toil
iiirrterrinVlVlCrriler4eHrivigai-alifeuvi-Thlly
and Plug liglies; when }liana Munk was a
Saint and 5 tie Barker wan Mayor of Pitts
burg when pulpits remanded every Sun
day with the most it jurious falsehoods
against Catholics; when the publics mind
wee' debauched by tbeinkmication of It) pee
rimy and deception ; when minutiars met
their political allies in sworn xecretty to
plot figailleil the rights of Him!: fellow cifi
aeon IoU cannel (Inge! ;lint conic of this
—Ito!, murder. cliercli-burning, lan less
violence all over the land, and the sitlipign
Von of I.everat great states to the political
role au party deitimic alike of silt/mple
and capacity
I could easily prove flint those clerical
politicians, who tied their churchee to the
tail of ihe Aboblion,pril ly, are cnmuml on
it grander scale titan nay of their predeces•
'torsi But 1 forbear, partly berm., hare
no t nor, anti partly because it may, for
aught I know, be it sole subject with you
I mould not excite your wrath, but rathet
, provoke you to good works
Apart from the general -. stance( there are
leo or three special itlea!fespsesiss,l in your
letter from which I venting to dime
Yon think that, ilsoligh%ii mount ti may'
+peak front the pulpit a politics ire &tight
not to indicate what pity he heltnign to
It strikes me, that ifbe has a party, and
wants t'o give rt cede-natal aol or com
fort, he should Cadly ui uo litnivell to he
what he is, so that all men may know hint.
Sincerity in the first of VlllllO4 It I. hail
to ben wolf, but a wolf in sheep's'clothing
is urbanely worse
Volt rep, °Neal Ilie church as an IllinalBl,-
ell etrucitoe :nil the Shire as lines,,trtriallig
I think the chnich canoe pet feet from the
bond of lie ASV Atchttect—built upon a
rock. esisbli.heil, finished. complete—and
every one who conies into it by be right
door will find n t 1 1 ,131.1011 prepared for bite.
It startle - no Fen!Fold Its foonder,efused
till connieciton with hotline governments for
pooffolding or soy oilier pui pose
You any (in tothstancy) that, without
sometimes inking politieni subject.. a min
ister IN to danger of falling tutu is 4 rogue.
lindehnite and non committal style' which
will do no good and bring hint no reaped
The gospel is not vogue, indefinite or non
eomnitital upon the subjects of which it
takes jori-diction, and upon them you may
preach ad loudly as you please But I out
let:taint in tintes ofgreat public exeiteutent
—nn Important election or a eiv‘l war—men
listen impatiently to tire to:101.4:4 of faith
and repentance. A sermon which tells them
to do jusitoe, love mercy and walk humbly
be Gud e isnot an entertainment to which
they willingly invite thenfselves. At such
time a clergyman can vastly increase bin
personal consequence. and win golden opin
ions from his audience, by pampering their
passions with n highly seasoned dlscourse
on polities. The leMPilliloll I. gratify them
often become, too strong for the virtue of
the preacher I fear than you yourself aro
yielding to it. Asa mere layman I littie no
right to advise a Doodtr of Dirtnity, bur I
hope I am not over presumptuous when I
warn you against this specious allurement
of Satan. All thoughts of putting the Gos
pel aside because it does not snit the de
praved tastes of the tiny, and making poli
tical harangues to win popularity to • had
world, should be sternly trampled, down as
the suggestions of that Evil Otte; who was
• liar and • murderer from the beginning."
Faithfully yours, .40 ,
J.p.j. BLACK.
York, July 25, 1866.
Suit roa DAV/WU —Ms. Williams, n
member of the Tennessee Legislature, who
was arrested because he refused to appear
.In hie seat, so as to form a quorum, has
brought suit for $50,00 damages against the
parties concerned in his limier —Atrehange.
—A tough old gentleman of 13;sIlder
land. N. Y., aged ninety-nine pant, re
cently hoed alx hundred and Sly hills of
corn in six hours.
SOLILOQUY ,OF THE POOR FARMER
I=
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OM
•• Let tin ' MIT here and rent tinder the
shade of this nee for the old Lorne to tired
I•n't this a beautiful Louse—just in the
edge Of the coy The grounds ore clean,
and the grew to kept eropt hke the lace of
A new shaven man And look you, \leggy.
Low thrifty the Iree• are And how ninny
flowers there are all about the vnrd. I.et
us staid up in the wagon—lbe horse at
start for he to to poor and tiled to
run Look n: the roses, and the verbenas,
and the evergreens, and debit., end the
fruit trees. and the stainary, and the nicely
gracile., walk., and the broad steps, and
the doublehltn.ls, and the matting before
the door, and the fancy stained glass by
the side, and die silver bell-pull, and the
roiewood di,or And, olt, look what in fine
leant Aim? .what a bright, pretty carriage
And bow sleek the bor.. look And liar
gay the driver in. with lite unifortn•on I
tell you, !doggy, that man in rich
Alt, he. e Le Collies, 11110 n IWO seat
of the wagon, )doggy, It's 011 old rent—eo•.
ered with an obi blanket —bUl it wall hold
you I anti see down here Ile conie s OM
of the house !Jere conies his wife Atm
they dressed nice' An.l heir comes their
soil a, d daughter 011 horseltackl. They. are
going out for o tide Al.! they have stnr
led.. See bow the hornet. dunes down the
dray to the rood—end see holy quick that
little boy runs to open the gate
• /rin+ . s are yr a atimy fur,"
Nesse sir We were looking, owl tiatin t
know bill you would like to buy collie blit
her, egg•. •egetnblee, choke.% berries,
Hower• or 'tillitsbing of Ones sort
otel '
.XII Su down Nlaggy
go.uo 10 tun, Let IVe con t nell flop lung
except Al mmo.o, 100 100000u0
not n would Iske ell we Lave in buy
CPI.e. We would gel 111.1 re C/10) 101/d of
our Foil., In pedals it nut. but
05a11,01 Ille low, .0 we II .0 II I'm what 11111,0
x ill give un who 111lVe a Ile 10 sell
• Why ix du i•
Alt 3/oggy, I Jon? know. I wish I ob./
!Thew! how the dash trice in my vytto.
31r Bond. for null In his mane. 41,k9p4 by
will, lute happy Lustily 1 spore naftlarnac
we're poop You Loots, kluggy, I went to
war live yen, ago.. 'Ellen owned filly acres
of land t a the creek and there wasn't a
dollar to pay On Il 1 went to rrri•'the
l'ottro llr Bond paid toe two I /red
annals to I tke hits place, and goito war I
I.4www,t, 13-se wasa4.--wlama
I went—but, like a brave won/en that you
are, you dried your tears, filled my pockets
wills pine. need leg and airead—my eye!.
wills teals-my mouth with kisses so I could
not speak and told me to go and earn the
two bundled dollais, end keep Out-of temp
tenon, and come brick---And then • klaggy,
you no mto our little bed-room where
Johnny and little Nlaggy were horn, and
hid yourself, end cried, no that I could not
see,. when we all went marching by
' '•/hn'l talk '"
But, Muggy, I was thinking And you
know I had two Food arum And I u4ed to
hold you in them, Muggy —to hold you to
my honest heart, and say, shod bless you
darling! And you used to vleep in them
happy and contented
I went to war. I was in a battle It
woe a terrthle ball le Ily general blonder
oil an usual flow any tote in et• cline out
alive mole but God knows I lett an arm
there M brought the sore stomp
Lome to you • And what did I find r tar
11,Julinny
w as deed Little .Muggy wan
dead Illy poor brut het, whose leg one
nhot tiff wlide wider to dos cOnfinenting
roll for lan genet ill, was 0 • sick, lielplea
niod you litre suppetting hum because lie
wan toy tougher.
It woe,/ end day, 11 iggy, when I e tins
home I Came back poor I found Mr
Baud had grown rich Ile had emit acts
Ills brother was tit CuitgieAs Ills uncle
reuk9,ll friend of Liticolti'm Ile le war
speechen—filled nitwits, gave lionnt ley. and
With LI. Clay at-heine neighbors cored big
bounties and escaped all Ike c ills and the
dra Its They gate lawn bonito These
bOnan ran Ole in debt. for they were loort
gwv:ti on our little hum They n %%%%% tinted
to five hundrad dollars. Three hundred
mote 1111111 I find bounty couldn't help
it, for while I woe in Ihe artily it W 39 easy
Ileope who did not go, to otorigage toy
Gil ni in dint way
I lost nu arm I earned less than I would
at home I returned—l Ant now working
%way, to pay nlyselfifor going to win., for
losing my arto,to keep Mr. Ilion' home so
that lie could play with his wife nod bebtee,
Opeelllntc arid get n political influence while
I was fighting—not to restore the Union,
but to enrich biro.
It is pretty hard, Mnggy I don't care
no much MI me, o ftir I am growing old, and
it s little account a poor man is dead or
alive But you Muggy—you arc as dear to
me aseNlirs Bowl is to him Your lips are
as sweet to toe, your bosom to as sacred,
your eyes are as deep, your *Mee is an
good to me, your touch is an thrilling a. it
rests on sty tired body, your kiss in as wel
come to ITO as Mrs Bond's kiss is to him
I know we can't wear btoadeloth—nor silks
—nor have a clean pair of undarned stock
ings every day —nor clean white under
clothes every day Nor can we have such
soft carpels—nor such costly dishes—nor
such fine horses—nor such A fine house as
Mr Bond bus. We listen to the robin—
limy to the canary bird. They ride out
with their Mill .ren—we walk out to the
grave where ours sleep We drink water
they drink wine
And Muggy, your hand. arel:hard with
toil, but your heart is warmer, and dearer,
than. I think, Mrs. Bond's heart is; for you
never flirt your skirts in the faces of those
who are still poorer than are we, and stick
up your nose In disdain of poverty as Mrs.
bonif . does
I didn't enlist to get in ati office when the
war was over. Twould have done ma so
good if I hind, for of course when I was
away I lost the run of publio affairs, and
was not fit when I came hack—and I had no
money to win my election, if I bad been 6t.
And so I must work, You - and I must
work. We must sell our early garden pro
duce—our fresh butter—early ohiokeus—
fresh eggs. Ac. Ac , for these The must be
paid. The tax gatherer data not stop at
Mr. Bond's. He owns nothing but
potted
States Bonds They are green bills with
red figures on them—like the green field,.
with the blond I Ion: front toy arm opener
eil threreon lie has a hundred
thous-tint dollars worth of theme bon.), llle
bought I hem with the money he ntittle out
of the woe %nil 'theye are no lanes to he
paid on t hem YOU nnJ I. Al .ggy with our
little eartitnem and riiiminga-,w ill. our old
horse nod wagon—hy working •early and
inee--by ceiling the best and using the
poorest, pny all the tones We pay the in
terest r.n the town bomb.-- athl we moat pay
the prittelpitl when tho lime comes.
We Must build the roads
We :-..ust build i he pill*
We must build the bridges.
We must erect school-houses
M===2
Mr Bond the Mond Holder. pays noth
ing The Go•ernmCnt protects him—but
it rant protect Hie poor, one-armed former;
who fought to .A re the Unarm
It can't protect the poor men of the land,
as it did in Den.ocrotic do),
The 'Bowl Holder rake, his race 11e
pity" nn flies. for Congress says he need
rug. Irio he gore to the bank and swaps/a
hut coop°ns for greenbseks, and the govern
memo pop. the honk book for what it rob'
tort, Ind paye it for the trouble It's better
to be a Ittlnil Holder Ilion a soldier It s
better to be a dog thou a poor min—that is a
poor white man The poor block folk, ate fed,
and it is you and I. Nltiggy, who feed them
—not the Bond Holder As if the poor
white men of America were not of more
consequence than the 'Jiggers who were
freed that the white men might be slaves
How I wish' the wood" old Deno.crotie times
would conic again —La Crone Demor•of
CONOR/IPPIOXIL Joan --Over burthened
S. the people ere with taxatim2. ii may be
interesting to them to kunw fulje the money
wide) ) in wrung from them has been .111.1
dared by the Rump Comments, which has
just ndjourned Of course there are multi
tudes of timg„ll jobs. of which no trace Coll
be hod. wL tch would amount In ninny and
Ilene 'll the aggregate But some few of
the greater swindles which have been per
petrated or attempted to Le put through,
fOOl up ns follows •
Free Itnen'v Ito 1 job . $ 7.000.800
National bank interett job.. 70 ,0 00 . 0 06
t.mk.,d- 1.,* job 10.000.000
Inerenved yet mot) Job . .... 8,000,000
Floddleg debt .nd goldrelllng job... 10.000.004
Education Dureeu job 5.000.000
Mexican loon jolt ..... 30.000,000
Montane job (vetoed) 70.000,000
Miosisolosippi J oh
Northern Poofic Itatiro.ol Joh
Total Juba to Um le Saw's nod, $250,000,000
For thus bottliening every laboring man
in irennlinnTiTti;jlite 11 - 101 ttrertinTantenet
to vote litotttoot,op $5,000 each for the pant
reeaion, and to make that the annual salary
of 'Congressmen hereafter. How long do
the In n-payers of the country intend to
bend their hack. in quirt submission to the
but-theue which titter radical martyrs nee
fit to impose upon (bent • le it not high
time that there was a wide and sweeping
change Exchange,
TAX-PA VltnnAK ktl.-1 . 01 FrAnCillJOntlntl,
located et WatthingtOn,acting en Stet; Agent
upon a salary of $3,000,we learn from good
authority, has Nat Jame a day's stork in that
eapaatty ranee the Ist of June. The ditties of
the office, however, are not neglected, en
Col Joutes Gilliland. his assistant, does lire
business The rgason of dam direliction of
duty upon the part of Col Jordan arisen
frosn the fact ol his b•utg detaßied to oho
Slate by the Si eretti Gerry men As t he
chairman of *hi., SUMP Central Committee
We find no fault with the Colonel far en'
erci,jug 1\ II•1\ 110111 g the polio lent
interests of his polincrl ft lend., but do find
foo.t wuh his &meaty pay for labor that oh
other.loirlorata Wl,llO to the service or the
SlaVell4 Ge try men, why not tentgn the punt
of Suite Agent • 'As it stood% he abstract..
from the Treasitry of the United States
$.1,0110 which juntly h..longn in Merl 1010
rennitti and toil eirly and Iris to, make op
ht• portion of lobo, To C-payers or Penh'
.yi Vaal I. )011r money We would like to
know why Frank Jordan is pint $3,000 a
year for doing notions • In not our anon
heavy enough to pay what must neeetts.irily
be paid WII kola nuoantlering money in this
stylet—i:atton gentled.
—The New York Ireekly Nnyenne pub
Itched by the “American News Company."
in the lent number, July 7, makes this most
astounding statement .
* It has been diecoveted that the men re
cently employed by the Government to dis
inter the belies pf one dead soldters on the
battle fields near Ittclimand, after haring
searthed the bodies fur money and jewelry
r un.* open mouths of the corpses,
punched out the teeth, examined if they
were plugged, Atod if they were, cracked
the teeth to pieces for the sake of the gold
fillings. No insult that the rebels have of
fered to the loyal dead con approach in
atrocity this most incredible desecration."
—From every amnion of the country
aver which the recent storm extended come
reports of damage by lightning, end deaths
from the sa:ne'oause are Dot unfrequent.—
Many. too, are the strange freaks, reported
of the electric lluiJ, ono of which, occurring
in South Dover, worthy of notice. A
person woe sittupg lin an open shop doiir,
wtiLlopparentlY, t wo . lbishes met directly
over his henul,Nuid imsting? down Ins body
nearly stripped him of hie clothes, and
threw his shoes some feet in the air.—
Strange to say he was not killed, but; only
received slight damage.—Er.
..--Ptiliett Portland was lamed by the
Brutish iu 1775, an infagt but • few weeks
old was removed from • house on Fore
street, and taken out of town for safety.—
The honge was burned down. During the
oundagration on Fourth, that same infant
was removed from a house erected on the
spot where stood the one burned by Mo
wattrfrom which, ninety years ago, she had
been removed, and she was once more taken
to a piaci lII' safety. It was the venerable
Miss Henna Thorn.
—Gen Steadman has been appointed
Superintendent of DubDo Printing vice De.
free, removed.
-13 0011-bye t •• Repube " Your °aunty
ticket will be beaten out of eight, cod you
know it!
--Prentice says the Deed Duck presents
• broitl bil) as Secretary of the Senate.
THE REALMS^ OF LONG AGO!
Thu day nab it• trantlala llopre.ltodew.'
111. pulsed through the et ebing's glide
lutlett.
And aclo star In the rboulletta blue
Fl*e rising moon in t t lnnee Watt.:
Whde twin& that eigh.to the languid luint
A 1111120. y breathe 'Ott 11.1014.1 Bowers
The lalher nod to Ate round of the rlresdn
net ',WI. •loog with • lulling flow,
And either +wake 4tr half In a dream,
I pored threugh the 114111011 111 leiug Ago
White feerA peer. with Lenny tint le
===ll
There are plyswinl rurphine, sorrows .41 tears,
That rhe, k the path of lire's April hours,
And a longing wish fur the corning leers
The bout ever wreathes with the f
dower,
There are friendships guileless—lure as bright,
And pure tui the stars in the hall of night.
There are when metnetzier hitter !lain,
And buried holra and w b,l te n z
And an sirbtag heart by the matter. gnat n.
And lhe eon breeze fanning a pallid WOW
And a wanderer on a abell lined 'bore
Listening for votees that opeek w mare
There an passion, strong end atillotioue wild,
And the fierce desire to otand in the ran
Of the battle of life—and the heart of the eh fitl
fa rruatied in the limit or the rtruiriglinkr,
man.
IMrtrhort tjle regrPi's an I fevr are - ttre tears
That 611 St the tomb n the • nnl.hed Jenr•
There's quiet end Pew r, and do meld I. e,
And pt . ,* among from faith and truth,
And • love iinqueclicined. far chose
,
The pa Late dreaming,. oh ant lent salt •
!,
And kionec iif children o n l i p an d O m a r ,
And the parent's blice which no tongue ran
speak.
There are loved oneo loot, there ore little gr..
In th e dn... snenth Praterllnlt
Where the strentnlet winds and the I sole' trot.,
And'the greew• ow.) , to the slatting hr...
And we wawa for the ifreronre of tender hp,
hod the Ititht of 0). darkened a anarth'e
And thus. as the glow Of the daylight Ines
And the night's eat Intik to the vain a hart,
I gale 'nesth (kitten heautdol amnia skit.
As the 'Diktatss that hang on the hall of the
past,
Oh. Pittston and joy t hunt s mingled lay
When to memory. addle Iwe wander away
—E., Amos,
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
--The thentometer at tielreston. Tem, on
the 111th , mtrhe.l 120 in the shade.
—No matter buw long you have been mar
'led never neglect to court your wife.
—A combustible stone, said to burn like
timber, has been disetorcred la Wisconsin.
—Farawall s tionry ' Another gnickersrille
awaits yin' Itun! run' or you'll be ratOurad '
-,-1111 61111 that the Arabs relieve sunetreke
by pouting •eft water lute the ears 01 the sur
fewer.
.511.000.U0U
60,000,900
—The different eastern tnouranee eatorantps
lose about tt,000,000 by the late terrible Bre in
Portland, Ale.
laae Allen, late Attorney Gener
al of lowa, has roan sent
to ilia Te~ian`a'ujfuiri
for treatment.
—Pres. lent Johns , . sent over SOU changes
among the pospuasters nr the country, to the
Senate on the
—The Were has appeared among the
(mops at lialvestun, Texas It was tarried
there from Wand
--There was no quorum present when the
Hemp amendment wes ratified by the so called
legislature of Tennessee.
—There are now fire persons in jail at York
charged with the murder of the Squibb rawly,
near that place, in June last. e
—Sevent)-five victims of military commis-
MOSe were released from prime the other day
by order of the tiovernment.
—A brewer of Philadelphia, has a horse
that has ignored water and taken to porter.—
Ills ration is a pail-full at •annit.
----A wan treqlblladelpl4!bllemptod td Tbe
dint* In a quarrel between a wan and w , [4, and
bad biltread ephl open for bp. 'ulna
—California is getting famous for earth
quakes Quite a serer. abock w•s felt t Sac
rao , ento and Stockton ..o the night of t e 11th
—A prominent Radical poliiman was k
ed drunk in Chicago, and W. about being
committed for vagrancy when miscued by
friends.
C Ingersoll, the roiliest Congression
•l defamer of President Johneon hue been re
nominated by the Rumpsre of the Fifth Illinois
duitrict.
-A conventson of prechicnts of five Mill -
rancoVnintsuelimet at New York, on the 19th,
end .oted to raise the rates of ineurence to ten
per cent
--Let every returned soldier :keep his dm
charge. The '•republicene" are trying to du
franchise tl *oldie.. mho eanonot produce hon
erable discharges
—Another of the English royal families
has been married—the princess Helena to the
prole. of Aug•tenberg, on the sth lord hands
awro died the sense day
—Canada propoac to annex the States of
Mame, ildinnesgota, kifichigtn, Oregon, and all
the Northwest coast, in return for HAW* offer
to tackle Canada to this country.
—About misty fire persons were discharg
ed at Washiegton on the 2 . oth...wider an order
from the it'ar Department, dir.oting the retrain
of prisoner. convicted by military tribunals.
—Heavy frauds are being &mirrored among
the •`loyal" Indian Agents, and a report uuw
being prepared by a congressional committee.
is likely to bring some of th• thieves to grief.
—A dispatch receiied from Apalachicola
elates that yellow fever is causing considerable
alarm along the coasts, over one hundred sad
tiOenty victims dying this mouth at various
points The beat is very intense throughout.
—The liarrieburg TelevrapA rs abusing
thineral Steedusan because he exposed the
frauds and corruptions of the Negro Bureau
agents. So It treats every brave solder who
will not mint at the crimes of Its political
friends.
—The "bread and butter brigade," eo•eal.
led, are "trembling in their booty." Those who
have not already made their titles clear by en
domong "my polio'," look the tlite they feel.
Poor fellows; they have halted to long between
two opinions, and have at laid beheld the last
day of grace go by.
—Th. tilting hasp is, attar all, no aorelty
In 1T55 the see was reprowshed for waking
°Their peUicoate short, tbat • Tamp eight
yards wide
/light decently show him their garters were
tied."
That might bars duos fur 1765. but curium
Lord bleu you, th. show dou not stop thou,
A RIAIIOII FOR Waaatae B —A short
time aims, a gantlmoon and 6L daughter, were
rutritling, and in dm 0011 n• of conversation
the Bullion eicteariagtede came up:, The
old gentleman, teemed lialited to denonico the
titbit, as bolt TB of mote and orimileli. His
daughter, who, no doubt had foil mi in love with
mate anchored sad onaliorn Othelo, knocked
the tall , oat of him, by edit ' a. a mow ler
A. habit. that clearly all the einem mere
beam* and ;sea mut be is the fashloa. •
RADICAL CAIIIDINITE fAR. °OGRESS
The radical papers of this dliThit an
nounce themselves in favor of the nomina
tion of Mr. Stephen F. Wilson, the present
member, for re election t• Congress. Pal
med' ones swore he would tun give a reason
under eompuleton even thottgli they were
as thick as blackbirds'. Bet our rat:Peal
eotemporaries are more accommodating—
they are most amiably willing to nominee*
Wilson for the ecompretrensive reason that
they dare 001 do anything else: Wil•od
will run whether be is Dominated or not,
end except for convenience he would gout
the noininnoton in th;fecee of the radienla
of Clinton Centre and Lyeounieg He fig
uratively 'pat In their floes two years ago,
gnat when the/ notnitteted Armstrong first
ontf Benson afterwards he moat insollingly
threw down hie gallnhl war glove to tits
clintitpione, , defied their friend., and an
t ~,,, need himself a candnlnte : The radical
macho proved dung-hilis,lowered their (mutt
ers with every mark of moat abject cowar
dice and their hackers ea-ingloriously sub-
Milted to the iMperiiitut dictation allot
blurb bird from the sell& of Tiogitlit Some
-64.13 once concluded that —discretion was
I jut teller part ofvalor " In obedience to,
this sublime maxim Olin radical leaders now
surrender to Wllson in ailvateCe of his chat.
lenge to battle and otter him a nominal:on
he would treu with contempt if they dared
to give it to somebody else !
lei Congress WllnOtt has proved theilack
' e - st of the block and the most extravagant of
the extravagent in voting reehless and vil
la moils appropriation., N. Negro sehente
f emaglity or superiority non ton string a
dose for hint, and x smile from a ar....y
kinky headed Diueb . ninlltlntes comnlnntied
the volumes of his •bolition soul far in prof
,rence tritbe learn of the lone widow or the
wailing cry or.he nohlter'n orphan ; oyes or
lie Interests of any of the while chinned
:h.ogl,:ere of eve. No appropriation was
either too extravitgant, uncalled for. out
rneolis or villainous to he sure of Wilson's
rate So far •e his role% ilohonle his pur
pose, he seems to hove bail no objects in
Congress but to advance the Negro to an
equnltty with the Whites, to pile higher and
higher the National debt, and to Inc ~,, e by
every expedient the upp tyninstion of
the White people. Suck a candidate. we
natult. in it fair and proper exponeei of the
iodation! priiimples and put poses of the Its
dicala, and is a most elegant eubjeet to be
defented at the election.
..eoe
We say Its the Democracy BE FIRM NOW,
it. EVER: If you here not the nerve end
courage to stand by your principles against
condidate who so fairly represents your
polioctil opponents le• IV lino.,
then you are not fit nullifier!! for manhom•
great battle If tiny fear mid tremble, we
NO. 31
advise them to appe .1 to the apron etritigs
of their wives soul there recruit their coots•
•ge. There is neither time, occasion or en
yule for timidity now The rotrits of the
enemy are open—let us Ch tree with ell our
energy and power, end victory will proudly
perch upon our standard. our country will
be freed from Negromanis, eetrsragnuce
will bb crushed, mention will be brought
down to the lowest poseible point, and true
patriotism will resume her sway. Let then
be no backing ou• —Chalon DrtnarroL
CHILD-WHIPPING IN THE NORTH
..22.1.susrillUsiOnl.nlittUinktLby,lb•Lusple of,
Litultley, at IdsclithlrNow York, last meta
Whopped his little son, two years of age, to
death, because the infant would or could
not say km prayers We wall vesture the
remark that he was one of the fellows who
was for hanging everybody who opposed
thewar.—Coluesiut Crum.
We have taken a little . painx, to find out
the politics of this reverend murderer, and
con emirs our ootemporary that all it imag
ines is perfectly true. Liodsley is an aus
tere, opinionated and bigoted religionist,
who does not think it possible for any one
to differ from bin. and be honest lie has
been one of the loudest yelpers in his asit
tion about whipping negroeis down South
and never could find language sufficiently
strong to express his denunciations of
••slavebolders." When the war broke out
he become one of the most blood thirsty of
the "Bloodhounds of Zion" and hurled
ever'''. epithet he *mild command upon the
4•Copperbeas" and all who opposed Lan
coin's tmoonotitutinotti eels, stt of which he
heartily approved.
We have the above foots from a reliable
source, and they are in perfect 0012110121101ie
with the crime of whipping his own child
to death. A mind that becomes wrapped
up in a deluettin is well fitted tar any bra
talltr erbluti tin perverted imagined= !m
-alts tiro it ilia), To Well people the worst
of nova sometimes appear to be thine,.
broiler abolition clergymen Will, no
doubt, bold up their bands in holy horror
at Linden; for whippmg his child to death.
But they are all just no auur.ally godly of
murder us he to. The Atialittautvis have
murdered not lees that. a Miler of a
. rul
hoe it negro children Mood ills -wet. 'tom
inclined ! Just think of that. It is este.;
ted by good judges that atikalloin of Degrees
have perished by Abolition cruelty, one
fourth u( these at least must have been chil
dren, and if there are a ' quarter of a Mallon
of Abolition clergymen th the Notth, then
there is one ebild to sash olergymst We
beg, then, these utevi to congratulate them
selves over their brother Liaddey. Let
them assume no airs of being huller than
he. The blood of tens of thousands of negro
children iv orying from the ground against
them, and sooner or later a just God will
call them to ammunt for their sin in de
stroying the creatures lie has wade:—ley
Book.
THE EMPTY CRADLE
There ia a whole volume of poetry in the
following little eketah, sahib we god in Use
last number at ALlOliar's Weekly. ,
We inericsits oelke sari's. Re arse tar
rying so old orsdls to be stowed *way
among whet he termed “plunder." in the
lutubor room. One rocker was gone, and
the wicker work of Ake aide broken: it we,
en old willowytifisir, but we could not re
frain from casting a wad look into its empty
depths.
-Gone ! " we said dreamily. gone I "
Whet golden beads were once pillowed ben,
heads on whit* the curl, grew moist In
slumber, and the cheeks and lids duetted to
the hue of rose lessee. When sleep broke.
the ellken binged lips opened heavily from
the shandoroos eyes; smiles fitted Uk.
sunbeams over the fate ; the white did was
thrust late the moods, wheat snamem lilted
the muslin mid peeped to see if batty was
sleeping, cooing and drawing wore heard.
The little ran begun to kick. out of pure de•
tight, and kicked on mail both ot the they
red shoes were lauded at the foot albs cm.
die. Where are those , hedsnowt Om,
that were embrowited.bs vigorous' manhoed
are sleePiss ..o• bombe tilde, some ate
bleached with time mid cams; and the feet
have grown sore and wow on be rough
paths of life.
Perhaps some little. one, onse twelbedy
rocked berg. is sleeping in the ass.
Over it grows hearts ease, and vigorous
hex, end - white candy tuft, and he Merry
jessamius. Tinidue tad lettere toi bright
wings through .the willow Omagh; end tie
cool summer wind*. whisper to themes%
leaves and puss blades on the grave: Wier
of? Perhaps Imintretailty. Intrepen, dues t
dreamless one.