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THE NEWS.
The Impeachment news were given in last
week's issue, up till Saturday, at which time
the trial rested at another important stage in
its progress. The Managers concluded the
presentation of their testimony in chief, with
the exception of some points noted, and the
defence were given three days, to prepare
their case. In making application for this
further delsy, Mr. Curtis, on behalf of the
President's counsel, stated that they would
have but little oral testimony to offer, but.
: thai they intended to present a large mass of
documentary evidence which had not yet been
arranged. The manner in which the applica
tion was made conveyed an implied promise
that there was no intention to delay the pro
gress of the trial, and that tbe time occupied
by the President's defence would be briefer
than has been anticipated. The evidence in
troduced by the House Managers was confined
chiefly to examination of reporters in relation
to the extraordinary and indecent speech de
livered at St. Louis by the President. Some
further documentary evidence was also filed,
and General Butler exhibited one of Mr.
Johnson's tergiversations by placing on file a
letter from him to Mr. McCullocb, announc
ing that Mr. Stanton was suspended in virtue
of the provisions of civil Tenure Act, whilst
in his answer to the Articles of Impeachment
he asserts that the suspension was in exercise
of his constitutional powers as President and
without reference to that act.
The term for which Governor Pierpoint
was elected Governor of Virginia having ex
pired, General Schofield has appointed Gen
eral Henry Wells, of Alexandria, as Gov
ernor. Gen. Wells was originally from
Michigan, but has been residing in Virginia
for several years. He served in the Union
army during the rebellion and was brevetted
Brigadier General.
Tbe Legislature of Arkansas organized on
Saturday and by this time has probably passed
the Constitutional Amendment. The next
work in the reconstruction of the State will
be tbe election of United States Senators and
an application to Congress for re-admission
into tbe Union.
Connecticut cn Monday, again elected a
Democratic Governor. We are not disap
pointed at the result, although we would have
been gratified had it beeu otherwise. The
Democracy, since their defeat in New Hamp
shire and Rhode Island, have put forth the :
most extraordinary exertions to carry the
''Nutmeg State," and have been aided, if re
port be correct, by men and money in abun
dance from New York. In addition. Grey W1
a very popular gentleman, a War Democrat,
James B. English, as their standard bearer,
a man who as a member of Congress support
ed the war policy of tbe Government on all
occasions, who cannot be classed with tbe
Copperhead wing ol the Democracy, and who,
in addition to his personal popularity, had the
Federal and State patronage athisgommand.
The success is but a barren victory, however,
as the Republicans lose nothing since last
year, holding their ground since that time.
The Legislature is Republican, which secures
the election of a Republican United States
Senator for six years as the successor of
Senator Dixon, whose time expires on the
fourth of March, 1869. We are confide.it that
in November Connecticut will cast her vote
for Grant for I'resideut, the election at that
time occuring in all the States on the; same
day. having the effect of preventing the Demo
crats of the former from "colonizing" in the j
latter, as has been the case when elections !
occurred in the two States on different days.
English's majority last year was 987, and the
latest returns from New Haven show a de
crease in the majority this year, and an in
crease in the Republican vote. In Michigan
upon the vote ratifying the Constitution re
cently framed, the article allowing colored
citizens to vote was rejected. An article in j
favor of a prohibitory liquor law was probably j
adopted. *
After some discussion among the House '
Maaegers of the Impieachment, the remaining
twospeeches forthe proscution in theimpeach
ment case have been conceded to Messrs.
Boutwell and Bingham, both of whom are
already at work on their arguments. Mr.
Stevens was at first inclined to make an
argument in support of his urticle, but the ;
state of his health compelled him to abandon 1
tbe idea.
The "Kuk-Klux Klan," and similar or- j
garnzations of murderers, is to receive the at- I
Uulian nf tire military ontlirtriria? in the j
South. General Meade returned to Atlanta:
on Sunday from an official tour in Southern j
Georgia, and at once promulgated an irapor- |
tant order referring to the late Ashburn
assassination at Columbus. Other acts of
1 atrocity simultaneous with the piublication of
incendiary articles, and the sending of threat- j
! ening letters, indicate concert of action to
affect tbe result of the election by intimida- ;
| tion and violence, and emanating from a se
i cret organization. All are warned against
, participation in the acts of this organization,
and the law abiding are assured of protection,
i The General forbids the publication of any
thing counseling intimidation or tending to
bloodshed. Newspapers containing such
. articles are warned that the Genera! will stop
: their publication and try the offenders by
military commission. Public writers and
speakers are admonished to refrain from in
: flammatory appeals. Military commanders ;
! are authorized, when in their judgment it
may seem necessary, to organize forces from
among tbe law-abiding citizens to preserve
j order; the expenses attending pay and main
: tenance of such forces to be borne by tbe
i counties or municipalities where required,
i The Commanding General enjoins all good
citizens to aid in the arrest and punishment
of violators of this o-der and of law, and ad
| monishes them that unless acts of intimida
tion aad violence are checked and punished,
bloody retaliation may be provoked, society
endangered, and innocent bloodshed.
The Impeachment Trial will be resumed on
Thursday at noon. The opening speech 1
A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITIQB, EI >1 'CAT'I ON, LITERATURE! AND MORALS-
for the defence will be made by Mr. Curtis, I
who expects to occupy the whole of the ses- |
sion in its delivery. It is reported that the j
President's counsel will begiu with a motion
to quash the Articles of Impeachment on the
ground of insufficient evidence. This, how- '
ever, must be considered doubtful, as a rejec- !
tion of the motion by a two-third majority
would be in effect a verdict of conviction.
Judge Curtis, one of the President's counsel, is
reported to have expressed the opinion that
the trial would not last longer than two
weeks. Tbe impeachment Managers have in
reserve a butch of testimony to substantiate
a second alleged charge of violation of the
Tenure of-Office bill by the President, which,
in case of necessity, may form the basis of an
■ additional charge against him.
An intense excitement has beqjn occasioned
in Canada by the assassination of D'Arcy
McGee, a somewhat noted politician and
member of tho Canadian Parliament. lie
was shot dead upon his own door step, in
Ottawa city, at two o'clock in the morning,
having but a short time previous left the Par
liament House. The assassin came up be
hind him, and placed the pistol close to his
head, inflicting a wound that caused instant
death. Tbe assassination has produced a
great public ferment in the Canadian cities.
McGee, though himself an Irishman, was a
bitter opponent of Fenianism, and bis mur
der is attributed to that organization, accom
plished through a party specially sant to do
the work. Ottawa had been placed in some
thing like a state of siege in order to secure
the arrest of the murderer, and threats of re
taliation against prominent Fenians were
openly made.
The news from Georgia of the operations
of the secret organized gang of Rebel despe
radoes known as tbe Ku klux Klan is of a
startling character. The reports of the cold
blooded murder of Dr. Ashburn, one of the
original, steadfast and most prominent of the
Southern loyalists are fully confirmed by tbe
official advices received at General Grant's
headquarters, with the addition that two oth
er prominent Union men, members of the
late Convention, are missing, and are suppos
ed to have shared a like fate. The Union
people in Muscogee county, where this trage
dy occurred, are in a state of horrible sus
pense, as they feel they are all marked by I
these villians, and they are appealing to the
military authorities (or aid. The gang who
murdered Dr. Ashburn were about thirty in
number, and were disguised as ghosts. They
affected all manner of spectral devices, with
the idea of striking terror into the minds ol
the freedmen, who are naturally snperstitions
in such matters. Many of the Rebel
papers of Georgia and Alabama have not
hesitated to openly encourage these or
ganizations. Witness the following from the
Calnmbuo Sim tt.. J-? n- ACHK.ren
was murdered:
Startling developments are occurring daily.
The Ku-Klnxes have astonished the natives.
The whole tenor of the Radical speeches is
denunciatory of the brigade of wandering
braves who are gathering from their graves to
wreak vengeance on traitors. Respectable
people, white or black, have nothing to fear.
A colored man, Friday, went home, found his
door locked and his wife and children fled to
a neighbor's for fear of the Ku-Klux. We re
peat, sue!} as are faithful to their country
need fear nothing. A spirit passes by an
honest soul. Let those, however, be they
great or small, who plot their country's ruin,
beware. A heavy doom awaits them, Be
ware! They make brave speeches, but tbey
tremble. Spirits are floating in the air that
feared not shot and shell, and will not now.
As the scalawags read from the Sun and
Times yesterday, we hope they'll continue to
do so.
The Impeachment trial was resumed again
on Thursday Judge Curtis opening the case
!on the part of President Johnson. Some
three hundred clerks have been engaged in
the Treasury Department for days past in
looking np evidence to controvert that of the
prosecution. Whilst the President's counsel
and other friends profess great confidence in
his acquittal, the manifest great uneasiness
in the pains taken to make his case. A
special despatch from Washington says that
i Republicans there express entire confidence
; in the sufficiency of the evidence presented
] by tbe Honse of Representative on Wednes
day a Democratic member, taking advantage
of the slim attendance on the part of the
Republicans, offered a resolution withdraw
ing the articles of impeachment and repudia
ting tbe action of tbe Managers, but the House
adjour.ied without a vote being taken upon
I his proDOsition.
General Grant has a very quiet and most
effective way of transacting business, and of
j getting rid of obnoxious individuals. The
private soldiers at Carlisle Barracks, passed
' a series of resolutions expressive of their
: .a ooiHrers, cr.neeraing meiui r^K
i ment trial, endorsing Mr. Johnson's course,
; and pledging him their support as the consti
[ tutional commander in-chief, etc., all of
which, as soldiers, they bad no business in
doing, and which their superior officers
should not have permitted—the act being
alike an insult to the President. Congress,
and to General Grant, who has not expressed
any opinions upon the subject. Yesterday
Genera! Grant, in bis usual quiet way, issued
an order assigning the commander of the
post, General Grier, to duty with bis regi
ment of cavalry in Missouri, and ordering
; General Hatch to his place for two years. A
subsequent order notifies tbe new commander
to prepaid detachments of recruits, from time
to time, and forward them to Fort Leaven
worth, Kansas, where they will be assigned
ito duty. The Indians, instead of Impeach
ment, will therefore occupy the attention of
| the recruits at Carlisle. General Grant has
also ordered the commanders of military dis
tricts to take immediate and summary rata
i sures for breaking up and preventing the or
ganization and spread of the secret Rebel
order known to outsiders as tbe Ku-Klux
Klan.
It is again announced from Washington
that the trial of Jefferson Davis will be begun
at the next term of the United States Circuit
Court in Virginia, which commences in May.
i Chief Justice Chase will proceed to Richmond
for that purpose as soon as the impeachment
trial of the President is finished.
Several arrests have been made at Ottawa,
Canada, of parties supposed to be implicated
! in the murder of D' Arcy McGee. j
BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. APRIL 17. 1808.
fodnt?
A LEAP YEAR LAMENT.
Bother! 'tis leap year, boys,
Awful to think of it;
Ruin is yawning, boys.
We're on tbe brink of it;
Yictims to woman's schemes,
Each of as, c-ll of ns,
Sure as we are living boys,
They'll be '.he fall of us.
Fall of us, all of us,
Bachelors, young and old ;
Maidens are planning, boys,
Nothing '.heir tongues can hold,
Planning all sorts of things—
Awful to think of it!
Ruin approaches, beys,
We're ou the brink of it.
Confound the girls, Ifay,
Tyrants the whole >1 them. — .
Binding us wretches, ioys,
To the control of thsin:
Shy of the witches, bya,
For we are weak, ym know,
Worst of it they knowit—
Shame I must speaf it so!
Popping the question, boys,
That's what they'll lo to us,
If we but give the plagues
Half a side view of is;
Red lips and sparsling eyes,
Well let me think of it;
Heigh! sweet ruin boys,
I like to think of it
A CONVERTED MOSQUE:
The Cathedral of Cordova.
The wonder ofCorduva is also one of the
wonders of the worlf. Its Cathedral has
been a Mosque of the Moors. Too sec it
once is an adequate reward for all one has
endured in travelling thus far through the
most comfortless country in Europe. Tosee
it often, and study it m the minute details
of its extraordinary plan and finish, is to lay
up a store of imagery for dreams of memory
through the rest of a life time. At least so
it seems to me now, when but a few weeks
have passed since entering its magnificent
Gate of Pardon, and suddenly standing in
the midst of a thousand varinusly colored
columns—marble, jesper, porphyry, granite
—all surmounted by Corinthian capitals,
a forest in a temple, a petrified grove of
trunks of majestic trees, enclosed in walls.
Perhaps the memory of it will fade, so that
a year or tw> hence the impressions of won
der, of sublimity, of vastness, will not be so
strong as they arc now. But at the moment
when the interior first broke upon my sight,
it was as strange to me that the art of men
CiiuLl instruct KUcV an a-.qjoe, as that tire
great Architect should bun mc wails uer
which the Niagara Cataractrushcs forever.
But you are waiting to htar what there
is about it so wonderful afte? all. Stepping
out of the street through cigate in a solid
wall, we are in the midst <f a court-yard
some 400 feet long; an orat|c grove, vener
able trees that have been baring fruit, as
now, a centurv or more, anJ three fountains
send up jets of waters tha fall back into
large marble basins filled with gold fish
which groups of children at feeding. Near
the gate, on benches, eldefy men are sit
ting, smoking, of course, utid enj'oying the
genial sunshine. The eldet sat in the gate
in the Scripture limes, anddonow in East
ern towns, and here also, where Oriental
manners still obtain. In fotner years this
court became a great resort for the people
who made a mart, or as in all ages
men have been tempted topiake the hou>e
of prayer a market place, aid so it often be
comes a den of thieves. Jow, this Court
of.Oranges, as it is called, B the resort of
'old men and children, wh(enjoy the warmth
and shade and waters of me holy precincts.
Passing through this court we come to the
sacred edifice itself. lis history is as event
ful as that of Spain. It was built by the
Moors as a Mosque, andwhen the Christians
conquered Cordova, tloy converted the
Mosque into a church, though they could
not convert the Moors iito Christians. And
this now called Cathedml is the one that
Abdurhaman began to luild A. D. TsO, and
bis son completed in 7fc, pushing on the
work with such tremendous energy that in
ten years he constructed one of the most
remarkable edifices in the world. His
father's idea was to surpass every temple on
earth in extent and strength and splendor.
It was to he the Mecca in Europe ; and
when the Western world was subdued to
Islam, as he and all the believers believed
it would be, tbe holy plice to which pil
grimages from all these lands would be
made was Cordova. It is, therefore, the
finest example that Spaii possesses of that
peculiar style of architecture and ornamen
tation which the Moots introduced, and
which have been gradually disappearing
with the lapse of centuries. It doubtless
ha? aavnrhohsni behind its material form?
and the student of anna religious thought
will read in the plan auda thousand details,
a meaning that does not meet the unanoint
ed eye ofthe simple traveller. But we will
see it as it is, and leave the unseen to those
who can see throngb. a stone wall and read
what to us is invisible.
The Gate of Pardon is so called because,
under the Roman Cathdic dispensation, in
dulgences were granted to those who entered
by it into the temple. There is one gate of
the same name in each of the cathedrals that
I have visited in this ctuntry. The bronze
ornaments upon the doers are very curious,
the royal aruis aredisplayed, and while the
Christian inscription, in Gothic letters, of
the word DETS, proclaims the true God, the
Arabic letters also testify that the Mahom
etans worshipped him, for they write, "The
Empire belongs to God."
Within the temple there is at first a sense
of gloom, almost of oppresssion, arising from
the vastness of the area and the want of
height. The roof cannot be more than 40
or 50 feet high, while the floor stretches
away 640 feet in length and 460 feet in
breadth. A thousand columns in long lines,
like trees planted in tbe garden of the Lord,
are each of one singlt SIODC —the spoils of
templesin the East and the West, andsome
of them Imperial gifq. and hence a variety
of colors and size, slowing all sorts of mar
bles, the green and rf jasper, black, white
and rose, emerald and porphyry. Crossing
each other, at right angles, these rows of
pillars from nineteen naves one way and
twenty nine the other; long-drawn aisles,
over which the horse shoe-shaped arches,
standing one upon the other and supporting
the roof, produce a marvellous effect.
The Hoiy of Holies jn the Mosque was
the Mihrab, and it has been preserved in the
converted temple, with religious carc, as at
once a curiosity and a memorial that tbe
Mahometan has ceased to defilo these courts.
It is a recess in the wall of the temple, in
which the Koran was kept, and where the
h.a!it came to say his prayers, looking out
of a littjc window toward Mecca. It is a
small six-sided room, abont twelve feet
acro-s, the floor one piece of marble, and
tne roof in the shape of a shell is also, we
were_ assured, of a single block, and up
the six sides rise marble pilasters, the whole
adorned with strange Arabic art and myste
rious inscriptions. When liakeui was Ca
liph of Cordova, he sent messengers into tbe
East to a>k for skillful artificers in painting
glass and giving this strange effect to tracery
in metals and stone ; for there is in mosaic
work, when well done, something superior
to the softest painting, and-quite incompre
hensible. The workers in mosaic came, and
their skill now shines in this miracle of
oriental art, which has been here since 905,
and is as fresh and beautiful as when it
shone at the feast of theKhamadhan. in the
light oi a thousand lamps. In the marble
floor ! worn a deep groove, by the knees of
devout Mussulmans who have thus gone
around it while at their devotions.
On the sides of the Cathedral are many
chapels, each with its altar, its pictures, its
relics and its history. By one of them, onee
a Moorish sanctuary paved with silver, is a
rude painting ola crucifixion, and an in
scription in Spanish which tells us that—
"AY liile the Mahometans celebrated their
orgies in this temple, a Christian captive
uttered the name of Christ, whom be held
in his heart, and he engraved this image
with his nails on the hard stone of this pil
lar, for which his death has purchased this
aureole."
I cite it from memory, and have not the
exact words. But on the stone column is
sketched a crucifixion which .tradition says
the prisoner scratched in with his finger
nails. The stone is very hard, and the story
harder.
Come again and again, and this strange
pile, with its thousand columns and its thou
sand years of history, grows on you with
every visit. We come from a land where
all is fresh and new, and these old temples
fill us with awe. But if we are impressed
with a ruin as in Rome, where Paganism
built its temples to become the sites of
Christian churches, which themselves have
been buried and again dug up to be the won
der of the present age. how much more im
pressive is a building still fresh and unbroken
by the inarch of centuries, where the pomp
and ceremony of a religion, corrupt indeed,
yet recognizing God the Father as the only
true God, are perpetuated year after year
-still their number becomes a thousand years.
— IRENJEUS in J\ T ew York Observer.
TIIE TRUE WOMAN.
YY'ho shall limn for us the picture of a true
good woman —the pride and the paragon of
her own sex, and the admiration of the oth
er; of the woman young, beautiful, health
ful —well informed, but not pedantic; who
can talk well, listen well, sing well, play
well, and dress well; who is neither flirt nor
pride; who knows neither too little; whose
lips are innocent of slang, and whose heart
I- —j l "—T'oli. lied
In manners, and affectionate in disposing,
beloved of the old. the darling of the voung:
shy, modest, retiring; and commanding all
the world's homage, without demanding the
homage, of anybody ?
It must not be considered that the youth
fulness of such a woman is absolutely nec
essary to her loveliness. Youth is a great
blessing and a great charm? but, age is also
a blessing—do we not all wish to grow old ?
and a great adornment if it be combined
with goodness. The beauty of the mind
grows with tbe revolving years, and makes
a woman of seventy, with mind and man
ners and innate gentleness, more beautiful
than sweet seventeen can be, if the mind
and the manners are wantiDg, and the ten
derness that should be in every womanly
heart is displaced by a masculine tone of
thought, behavior, or conversation.
Though all the women are not such as
every man, at the poetical period of life, has
pictured in bis imagination, there are thou
sands in every country who resemble the
ideal, if not in accomplishment? and edu
cation —for these arc not within the reach of
every one —yet by outward grace of person,
and inward purity of soul. All the flowers
that bloom in the lair garden of humanity
are not of equal delicacy and brilliancy; for
nature, that has room for the magnolia, the
lilv, has room also for the violet, the blue
bell, and the daisy, and loves her humblest
children as well as her pioudest.
Nothing in the would—at least to the
male eye —equal in pleasantness the face and
form of a bashful and virtuous woman, look
ing up to a man for support and guidance,
and giving him her true affection in return.
Nothing, on the other hand, is more disa
greeable than tbe bold virago, womanly in
form, but not in spirit, who would storm
the citidel of your politeness to extort your
homage tT ft arm is, and glance of her eyes,
even if she do not utter a syllable, betrays
that she puffed up with conceit and selfish
ness, and is too ignorant to distinguish be
tween a churl and a gentleman, or to accept
the place that properly belongs to her in the
social system.
JuX says that if a man feels much like
getting married, yei liuas? i.„
to the bc.-t remedy he knows is to help one
of his hcighbors to move a house full of
furniture —borrow about nine of his children
and hear them cry. If that, fails, build up
a fire of damp wood and when the smoke in
the room is thickest, hire a woman to scold
him about four hours. If he can. stand all
these, ho had better get married tbe next
day—give his wife the pants and be tbe "si
lent partner" in the great firm of matri
mony. The remedy is severe, but as every
man is liable to these things after he yokes
himself, it would do no harm to try it before.
THE REASON. —At a certain college, the
senior class was under examination for de
grees. The professor of natural philosophy
was badgering in optics. The point under
illustration was that, strictly and scientifi
cally speaking, we see no objects bat their
images depicted on the retina. —The worthy
professor, in order to make the matter
plainer, said to the wag of the class. 31 r.
Jackson, did you ever actually see your
father?" Bill replied promptly, "No, sir."
"Please explain to the committee why yon
never saw your father." "Because," re
plied Mr. Jackson, very gravely, "he died
before I was born, sir.'.'
SOME people suppose that every learned
mania an educated man. No such thing.
The man is educated who knows himself,
and takes accurate common sense views of
men and things around him. Some very
learned men are the greatest fools in the
world; the reason is that they are not edu
cated men. Learning is only the means,
not the end. Its value consists in giving
the means of acquiring the useofthat which
properly managed, enlightens the mind.
YOLI MK tl: 50. 16.
WANTED; YOUNG HEN.
It is -aid that the market is overstocked
with men seeking 'employment, and yet
there is aiways a demand for intelligent, re
liable, and energetic men to fill places of
trust and position. But they must be
members not only of the genus "Aomo," but
of the species for such there are al
ways open places waiting to be filled, lien
ry Ward Beecher thus describes the sort
which are wanted:
Who are the men that are needed in this
world? Young men that shall bear bur
dens. We have enough mullen stalks, we
want oak trees ! We have enough mush
rooms, wo want timber! We hive enough
men that are willing to do anything for the
sake of getting along, but what are they
worth ? They arc bridges for men to walk
over. • They are tools. Men use them like
sand-paper, to scour with, and then throw
them down and trample them under foot.
A young man that does not know how to
say "No:" a young man that has not power
to resist tfcc cup when it is presented to
him —what is he but a poor miserable wash
cloth, but T rag. dishonored, and put to th'j
vilest uses? Who cares for him, or mourns
over him. but some Christian mother or
Christian minister ? But a young man that
knows how to say "No:" that knows how
to resist evil; that knows how to give buffet
for temptation—is not he hardening him
self? Is not he making his bones tough—
particularly his backbones? He is becom
ing columnar. And it is such as he that
are sought after in business. A man says,
"Here is a difficult department in my es
tablishment, and I would pay almost any
price if I could find a man that I could
trust." Says the man whom he addresses.
"I know an impracticable sort of a fellow I
think might suit you. He will stick towhat
he thinks is right at ail hazards. You can
not turn him from it by any power on
earth." Says the other man, "I want a
iignumvitaeman: send him tome." Let it
once be known that a mar. cannot be cajol
ed; that he will not lie even for himself; that
he will not steal, and has a prejudice against
stealing; let it be known that he has been
tried and that there is inward principle in
him, and let us put him up at auction, and
I will get a million bid on him! Men are
the thincs that are most needed in New
York. Why, there is no timber in the
market that is gathered up so greedily as
tbev are. There is nothing so much needed
in business, in all departments of it, as
moral principle. And yet merchants will
teach young men to lie: and, for the sake of
monetary profit cajole customers. And
when, by-and-by, these young men grow up,
they become on their own account, filcber3,
stealers, and liars. You think that the
young men of this generation are corrupt
and worthless. They arc; but the blame
rests on your shoulders. You were their
schoolmasters. You taught them to lie and
cheat in your interest; and now they do it
in their own. Now your own chickens
come home to roost. Merchants North and
South have been raising by the wholesale,
damnable young men without principle.
And a young mau if he would save himself
from destruction, must cling to that "an
chor of the soul, both sure and steadfast,
which entereth into that within the veil."
corning else can insure nun safety.
JOHN G. WHITTIER.
An erect, spare, venerable looking
man, not far from sixty, with striking
features, and thin, iron-gray hair, seat
ed at the long table that runs through
the room, and intently occupied in
the examination of some of the many recent
books and newspapers with which the table
is loaded. His modest nectie, aod plain
brown coat, with its stiff, upright collar,
proclaim him a Quaker, and a glaDce at his
thoughtful face, and expansive forehead,
shows that he is no other than the most dis
tinguished of living Quakers, John G.
Whittier.
Mr. Whittier has been before the public
as an author for fully forty years, but,
though he is one of the most correct and
graceful of prose writers, it is principally by
his poetry that he has won distinction.
Every one is familiar with his verses, but
scarcely any but well-read persons are
acquainted with his prose, or areeven aware
that he has written some of the most char
ming sketches and stories that have emna
ted from the prosewriters of the past half
century. With a volume of these sketches
entitled Legends oj New England, he made
at the age of twenty-three, bis first appear
ance as an author, and it was this volume
that first won him celebrity. It was founded
on the Indian superstitions of Massachusetts
and it displays that intimate knowledge of
early New England history which is so
observable in Mr. Wbittier's poetry.
Whittier's chief works are so well known
to our readers that we need not mention
their titles here. Next to LoDgfellow his
works have a larger circulation than any of
our poets. He is emphatically a self-made
writer. His early life was passed on a farm
in severe manual labor, and until he was
eighteen he had no educational advantages,
save such as could be derived from a few
winters' attendance on the public schools of
his native district. At the age of twenty,
however, he had managed to secure two
years, tuition at a town academy, but then
he left school to work his way in the world,
uu Ot t.ljv*. 1- - 1 1 1 1 * q- *>-
ed from contact with actual life, or by soli
tary study in his own library. To this lack
of classical culture may doubtless be attribu
ted the charming simplicity of his style, and
the peculiar American characters of all his
writings.
Mr. Whittier was, we believe, never mar
ried, but till within a year, he has been
blessed with the most devoted of sisters,
who has been his constant companion, min
istering to his domestic needs, and sharing
his studies. She was a woman of fine
literary taste, and herself wrote some poems
that were quite equal to any of her brother s
productions. She died about a year ago,
greatly lamented by Mr. bittier, who bas
since lived a secluded life in bis quiet home
in Amcsfcury.
. ■ m
FRESH SHAD.—Shad are being caught in
tolerable abundance by the gill net fisher
men. About five thousand were brought to
Washington during the few warm days of
last week. They were sold to first hands at
from $25 to S3O per hundred. Our mar
kets have been well supplied with these
superb fish from rivers farther south. In a
few days, if the warm weather prevails, we
may welcome our own Delaware shad, which,
as every housekeeper knows, are vastly su
perior to those from the South. The season
for a large supply will be much delayed, this
spring, in consequence of the coldness of the
water caused by the immense quantity of
snow still to be found in the mountains near
the head waters of the Delaware. A few
were caught last week and soldat from $1.50
to $ 1.75 each. — Philadelphia Evening Star'
TRUE goodness is like the glow-worm; it
shines most when no eyes, except those of
heaven, are upon it.
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ML'SIC OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.
The disentombing of Assyrian sculptures
and the deciphering of Assyrian and Egyp
, inscriptions have opened new fields of
investigation in almost every department of
knowledge. Among the branches of science
which have shared in these discoveries, that
of music has been benefitted largely. The
accounts of ancient musical instruments
were vauge, and our ideas, especially of He
brew music, were confused, till recently
sculptures and paintings have been brought
to light which delineate the musical instru
ments of the early oriential nations, and in
a number of cases veritable specimens have
been disentombed. Such, for example, is
an Egyptian harp found in Thebes, with its
strings yet perfect enough to vibrate again,
after a silence of three thousand years.
The more recent investigations prove that
the parent of all musical science was Assy
ria. From the Assyrians, the Hebrews and
the Egyptians, and, indeed, all Eastern na
tkraß, derived their knowledge- uf music.
Ihe unveiled monuments show that in the
time of Senacherip music was a highly cul
tured art, and must have existed through
generations. This polished nation used a
harp of twenty-one strings, the frame of
which was four feet high, which accom
fanied minstrelssongsor was borne in dance.
he lyre of tortoise-shell, the double pipe,
the trumpet, drum, and bell were common.
Even of the bag-pipe representations have
beeen discovered, though none of the string
ed instruments, like the violin, played with
the bow.
In all delineations of social or worshipping
assemblies, musical instruments very like
our modern ones have a prominent place
The Hebrew music, at the time of the Ex
odus, was purely Egyptian; but it was much
modified subsequently by association with
Asiatic nations. In the temple of Jerusa
lem, according to the Talmud, stood a pow
erful organ, consisting of a wood-chest with
ten holes, containing ten pipes, and each
Cipe capable of emitting ten different sounds
y means of finger-holes, so that a hundred
sounds could hie produced by it. It was
provided with two pairs of bellows and ten
keys, so that it could be played with the
fingers. According to the rabbis, it could
be heard a great distance from the temple.
War WE SHAKE HANDS AND KISS.—A
learned Theban gives us the solution of this
frequently conjectured problem. In the first
place it is a very old-fashioned way of indicat
ing friendship. Jehu said to Jehonadad:
"Is thine heart right as my heart is with
thine heart? if it be, give me thine band. : '
It is not merely ao old-fashioned custom; it
is a strictly natural one. and as usual in
such cases, we may find a physiological rea
son if we only take pains to search for it.
The animals cultivate friendship by the sense
of touch as well as by the sense of hearing
and sight; and for this purpose they employ
the most sensitive parts of their bodies.
They rub their noses together or liek one
another with their tongues. Now, the hand
is a part of the human bodv in which the
sense of touch is highly developed; and after
the manner of animals, we not only like to
see and hear our friend, we also like to
touch him, and promote the kindly feelings
loy nonfinf
sensitive hands. Observe, too, how this
principle is illustrated by another of our
modes of greeting. When we wish to de
termine whether a substance be perfectly
smooth, and are not quite satisfied with the
information conveyed by the fingers, we ap
ply it to the mouth.
NEWSPAPER LAWS. —Postmasters are
required to give notice by letter, when a
subscriber does not take his paper from the
office and give the reasons for its not being
taken. Neglecting to do so makes the post
master responsible to the publisher for the
payment
Anv person who takes a paper regularly
from the post office, whether he has sub
scribed or not, is responsible for the sub
scription.
A person ordering bis paper to be discon
tinued must pay all arrearages, or the pub
lisher may continue to send it until payment
is made, and collect the whole amount
whether it is taken out of the office or not.
The courts have decided that refusing to
take newspapers and periodicals from the
post office, or removing and leaving them
uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of in
tentional fraud.
DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON was much attach
ed to a young man—an intelligent Italian.
As the Doctor lay upon the couch froia
which he uever rose up, he called his young
friend to him and tenderly and solemnly
said; "There is no one who has shown mo
more attention than you have done; and_ it
is now right you should claim attention
from me. You are a young man, and are
to struggle through life; you are in a profes
sion that I dare say you will exercise with
freat fidelity and innocence; but let me ex
ortvou always to think of my situation
which must one day be yours—always re
member that life is short, and that cteraity
never ends."
ORR EXAMPLE. —One thing impressed
my own mind most peculiarly, when the
Lord was first opening my eyes—l never
was not one act in all Christ's life, done to
serve or to please himself. An unbroken
stream of blessed, perfect, unfailing love
flowed from him, no matter what the con
tradiction of sinners, one amazing and un
wavering testimony of love, and sympathy,
and help; but it was ever others, and not
himself, that were comforted, and nothing
could weaiy it, nothing turn it aside. Now
the world's whole principle is self—doing
well for itself.— Witness.
AN EDITOR TIGHT. —We believe it is
rare that editors indulge in a drop, but when
they do, their readers are sure to find them
out. A cotemporary was called upon to re
cord a "melancholy event" at a time when
his head was rather heavy, and did it up
after tbe following manner:
"Yesterday morning, at 4 o'clock, P. M.,
a man with a heel on the hole of his stock
ing, committed arsenic by swallowing adoso
of suicide. The inquest of the verdict, re
turned a jury that the deceased came to the
facts in accordance with his death. He
leaves a child and six small wives to lament
the end of his untimely loss. In death we
are in the midst of life."
SOMEBODY says editors are poor, where
upon an exchange remarks: "Humbug.
Here are we, editor of a country paper,
fairly rolling in wealth. We bare a good
office, a double barreled rifle, seven suits of
clothes, three kittens, a Newfoundland pup,
two gold watches, thirteen day and two
night shirts, carpets on our floors, a pretty
wife, own one corner lot, have ninety three
cent 3 in cash, are out of debt and have no
rich relatives. If we arc not wealthy it is a
pity,"