STER Ti ~I iJ - • Inni*t Witollasto/V if. • lfr it* , ~,"•-.; /It 1.1411, , '” ; , ••..1;• 4.,4rFPLOTAtior. t. • ,' Thitirt/Cl .' oolltirir In all caspai In advanee. ,- • • • • Tig,.....,6,-'AlvAefust Dear. Lwrsi.Lioxxeme 4164n.,:zevcievngt.Sunday excepted, at 6iFiki4nrrnr23,T co!LNE4 or.grapcs pottrp. IN BOIIOOL-DATN Still Mts the sehool-hone by the road • A ragged beggar sunning: Around it still the bumachs grow . And blackberryrvines are running. Within, thd master's desk Is seen, Deep scarred by raps official, The Ivarylng door, the battered Limb+, Thojaakrillo's carved Initial. The charcoal frescoes on its wall, Its door's worn all, betraying The feet that, creeping slow to school Went storming out to playing. Long years ago, a winter sun •Shone over it at sett ing, Lit up Its western NO rnisanes And lotv cares ley fret Mg. • it touched the tangled golden curls And brown eyes full of grieving, Of one who still her steps delayed. When all the school were leaving. For near her stood the little boy Her childish favor singled : Ifs cap pulled low upon a face Where pride and shame were mingled Pushing with restless feet The snow To right and left ho lingered; As restlessly her tiny hands blue-eheeked apron lingered. He saw her lift her eyes; ho felt The soft hand's light caressing, And heard the trembling of her voice An if a fault confessing. " I'm sorry that I smelt the word; I hate to go above you, Beerunte—the brown Pyre lOwer jell Because, you see, I love you I" Stillanemory ton gray-haired man 'Drat sweet cl3lld-faeo is showing. Dear girl! the grasses on her grave 11:1V(3 forty years been growing' He lives to learll..itt life's hard school How few who Aix above hive Lament their triumph cud his loss, Like her—because they love him. i+liscellantotts. The London Timms on the Year 1869 The Year which is passing away has, both at home and abroad, been marked by the uneasiness which forebodes politi cal change. More than one event of un doubted historical Importance awaits the interpretation which will be on ly supplied by its results. The Irish Church Establishment has been abol ished ; Parliamentary Government has once more been conceded to Prance; the Suez Canal has been opened ; and, after an interval of three centuries, a General Council of the Roman Catholic Church has assembled ill the Vatican. The'Spanish Revolution, which at the beginning of the year had already be gun to disappoint sanguine enthusiasts, has failed to justify itself, either by the reform of ancient abuses or by the con solidation of a regular Government.— The chronic embarrassments of the Ital ian Government, indeed afford another illustration of the difficulty of regener ating a nation. The dread of a great European war, which had since Ma impended over the Continent, has, by lapse of time and through the pressure of domestic questions in France, happi ly in a great measure subsided. The mutual ' relations of the Great Powers have been temporarily or permanently modified by the relaxation of the re spective intimacies of France with Austria and of the North German Con federation with Russia. The risk of col lisions which might have brought the Eastern Question to a crisis has been more than once averted by diplomatic prudence. The Year began with the triumph of the Porte over the petulant hostility of Greece and it has closed with the acceptance by the Khedive of Egypt of the demands of the Sultan. The Plenipotentiaries assembled in Confer ence at Paris, after excluding the Greek Minister on a plausible pretext from their deliberations, consulted the Inter ests of his Government and country by insisting on their abandonment of hos tile demonstrations against Turkey.— The Greek Ministers, while they wan tonly provoked a quarrel, had, in well founded reliance on their Inluropean pro tectors, neglected to make the smallest preparations for war ; and they had ap plied to other purposes the founds which hail been raised by extraordinary fiscal measures. Yet it was not until a new Administration had been formed that the Government formally submitted to the demands of the Congress. The suppression of the Cretan rebellion has, in consequence of the cessation of aid from Greece, proved to be final; and the firmness of the Turkish Government has deterred malcontents from attempt ing elsewhereprovincial insurrections, An unexpected check has interrupted the progress of the ruler of Egypt to formal and substantial independence. Although the Courts which the Khedive hay visited have scrupulously abstained from according him the rank of a Soy- ereign, the Sultan has taken umbrage at his pretensions, and he has regarded with peculiar jealousy his' financial ar rangements and his expenditure. The Khedive has, on more than one occa sion, competed with the Porte for ac commodation in the Money Market, and I a portion of thesums which he leas raised I has been employed in the purchase of vessels of war and of improved weapons for his army. The invitations issued to all the Sovereigns and to other Royal personages by a mere vassal of the Porte formed au additional cause of offince, and, as saon as the celebration was fin ished, the Sultan peremptorily demand ed that the Khedive should henceforth communicate with foreign Govern ments only through the diplomatic agents of the Porte ; that he should abstain from any further increase of his fleet; and, above all, that he should submit his Budgets to the Government of Constantinople and renounce the privilege of contracting loans, except with the consent of the Sultan. There is, perhaps, a secret history of a negoti ation which ended in the unqalified submission of the Khedive. It is dill cult to believe that he intends to accept the position of a provincial governor, distinguished from other Pashas only by a higher title, and by the right 01 hereditary succession ; but the Eng lish Ambassador urgently recommend ed compliance with the demand of the Porte, and the French Gov ernment declined to support the Viceroy in a policy of resistance. Frequent experience has proved that when Eng land and France are in accord no suc cessful encroachment can be made on the authority of the Sultan. Russian politicians are forced to console them selves by the plausible prophecy that at some future time assertion of Egyptian independence will inflict a fatal blow on the Turkish Empire. The Khedive de serves credit for his prudence in listen ing to unpalatable counsels. Premature ambition might have found excuse or encouragement in the splendid hospi tality which he had the opportunity of tendering on a great occasion to the Emperor of Austria, the Prince of Prus sia, the Empress of the French, and the representatives of all the Great European Powers. It is true that, although the Suez Canal traverses Egyptian territory, the honor of the achievement belongs to a Frenchnum. M. de Lesseps has for more then ten years prosecuted the en terprise of joining the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, in spite of natural im pediments to the undertaking, of the gloomy forebodings of professional and non-professional critics, and of the in difference or distaste of the chief mari time nation. Fortunately for the suc cess of the enterprise, Continental hopes were excited by tire apparent jealousy of England, and the financial resources, which had seemed to be more diffi cult of attainment than the mechan ical completion of the work, were always forthcoming,' as they were required, The Viceroy of Egypt was induced to contribute Largely in money , and in the labor of his subjects, and, with the aid of French diplomacy, the frequent objections raised by the Turk ish Government were successfully eva ded or overcome:. The work, although it is not yet complete, has been shown to be practicable, and, even if it proves to be unremunerative, means will be found to finish and to maintain tire un dertaking. There is little reason to fear that amere alteration in the comparative lengths of commercial voyages will en able the countries which border on the Mediterranean to divert onyconsiderable porti6n of 'English trade. The Ruisian and Italian ports have no importantmar bets behind them either for imports or for exports. Trieste and Marseilles may, • .perhapS, find a certain adVan tage in the reductions of freight; but it will be long before they can rival South ampton, Liverpool, and London in steam navigation. During the contin uance of•peace; and under an equal sys tem of ehargee for all nations, the great erpartef the trade of the Canal will be conducted - EngliSh vessels. The Stethern eltlesydilich date - their deollne fien4he.dtscO - vety of the'passage round the Cape of Good . Hope; will' And' that, although the course of trade may once more pass along their coasts, its destine- 4- ' .f) --c C ..''''. r . — i P 1 -- '• , ,i - . 1/ .. '•• .-, -.: — r .;.-,,,- ~. , 0 - ~ ,- f ~, r, ....i - I.'• ',. , • 1...,:t .tr 1 , -- iti .-tezi '.gtf:l 4 .: 5 4 ei tllufitl ...,. 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As the Quaid is actually inade,.thintlar .pa triotism' 44111 have no difficulty recon elll tig ibielf*ith the cosniopolitaniffill tinthroiffiy. For the present, EiigliSh merchants and .manufacturers trouble themselves more with the perversities of Chinese Mandarins madwith the alleged apathy of Indian cotton-growers than with thepossiblerlvalryof Mediterranean traders. In Chinait happensthat all the European and American residents culti vate the most friendly undsrslindlng be tween themselves, under the influence pot of a common enmity, but of habit ual liability to the same kind of vexa tions. The public opinion of the com mercial republic which has organized itself at Shanghai is highly favorable to summary modes of redress for affronts or injuries offered by local functiona ries. In the Island of Formosa and at various points on the mainland Eng lish Vice-Consuls and naval officers have taken towns or forts, or have ex acted pecuniary compensation, in con sequence of wrongs inflicted on their countrymen by Chinese officials or mobs. Lord Clarendon has issued stringent or ders that all complaints shall, in accord ance with the stipulations of the Treaty, be referred directly to the Ambassador at Pekin for presentation to the Imperial Government. There is no doubt that it was proper to check the activity of zealous subordinates ; but Sir Ruther ford Alcock seems to share the distrust felt by the mercantile community of the efficacy of diplomatic remonstrances. It has now become evident that the mission of Mr. Burlingame to Wash ington and to the European Courts was despatched by the Chinese Government for the purpose of procuring a relaxation of its engagements to facilitate inter course with foreigners. Mr. Burlin game himself was probably the dupe of instructions which were drawn up in two different versions for domestic and foreign use. Mr. Ross Browne, lately Minister at Pekin, having been recalled by his Government on account of his disapproval of Mr. Burlingame's Treaty, received an address of unani mous assent to his policy from all the English and American merchants. In his reply, Mr. Ross Browne insisted on the necessity of dealing on the spot with provincial aggression on the rights of foreign traders. It is improbable that eventually any rigid adherence to im practical rules will be allowed to en danger trade with an empire which con tains hundreds of millions of possible customers for Western manufactures. The unfriendly feeling of the United. States is the only disquieting element in the foreign relations of England. Ex cept, indeed, when it becomes necessary to discountenance the opening of some Eastern question, the English Govern ment has lately been but a spectator of Continental proceedings. The warm sympathy which was felt for the Italian cause during the struggle for unity and independence has naturally subsided with the occasion which called it forth. The Government of Gen. Menabrea be came unpopular in consequence of alleged violations of personal liberty, and through the ill success of Count Cum bray Digny in his attempts to restore the finances. It is still found impossible to collect the taxes in the southern por tion of the kingdom, and the influence of the Crown and of the General Officers opposes any further reduction of the Army and the Court. The waning pop ularity of the Royal dynasty has been lately revived by the recovery of the King from an alarming illness, and by the fortunate birth of an heir to the Crown in the city of Naples. If it is true that Victor Emmanuel, when in imminent danger, refused to make po litical concessions which were insolently demanded by the priests, he has estab lished a new and valid title to the con fidence of the country. It is certain that the expectation of his death revived the recollection of his great services to Italy and the sense of the uncertainty which might attend the reign of an un tried successor; yet the Chamber at the commencement of its winter Session declined to continue to the Ministers the confidence which had never been heart ily granted. The election of Signor Lanzo to the office of President of the Chamber was equivalent to a decisive vote against the Ministry, and after long uncertainty General Menabrea and his colleagues have been succeeded by Sig nor Lanza and Signor Sella. If the new Ministers succeed in reducing the ex penditure to the level of the revenue, they will have performed the service of which the country principally stands in need. As the agitation for the acquisi tion of Rome is for the present suspended, no external anxiety ought to divert the attention of the Parliament and the Government from domestic and econo mic improvements. The 'Alps, like the Pyrenees, exempt the Peninsula which they protect from the complications which beset the great Northern Powers. The Austrian Government is still dis turbed by the claims of the different 1 Western Provinces to share the inde pendence which has been accorded to Hungary; and a troublesome insurrec tion on the coast of Dalmatia has lately illustrated the difficulty of governing a heterogeneous Empire by uniform legis lation. The rude inhabitants of the countr.y,which lies between the hills of Montelkgro and the mouths of the Catta ro rose in arms late in the autumn, on the pretext or with the purpose of resisting the Austrian conscription. The high landers of Montenegro, nominally sub jects of the Porte, and habitual clients of Russia, afford secret countenance to the rebellion of their. neighbors, and it has been found impossible to continue the campaign during the inclement sea son. Suspicions of Russian intrigue have of course occurred both to the Austrian Government and to the Turkish author -1 ities ; but, except that it is a part of Rus sian policy to promote disaffection among the Sciavonic subjects of Austria and Turkey, there is no reason to believe that the petty rebellion on the coast of the Adriatic is due to foreign instigation. Russia has given a temporary security for peace in the form of ulterior prepar ations for possible war. The Imperial Government has projected an elaborate scheme of Railways for military pur poses, to connect the Polish frontier, the Crimea, and the Caucasus with the central provinces; and as the works, which are deemed necessary for defence, can only be prosecuted in time of peace, it may be presumed that no aggressive policy is at present contemplated. The financial condition of the Empire is not flourishing, and material prosperity has for the present been checked by the emancipation of the serfs, but great commercial advantages are anticipated from the extension of the Russian do -1 minion in Asia, where the barbarous despots of Khiva and llokhara have only the choice of submission or de thronement. There is reason to hope that the smouldering feud between Austria and Prussia has lost some of its bitterness. The semi-official journals of Berlin and Vienna have, indeed, constantly ex changed irritating language, and the relations between the Austro-Hungarian Chancellor and the Prussian Minister have been for the most part unfriendly; but when Count Beust, in a speech ad dressed to the delegates who represent the Eastern and Western 'sections of the Monarchy, had laid a significant stress on the alliance with France, he after wards found it necessary to explain that his words implied no hostility to North ern Germany. No policy could be more distasteful to Hungary than a renewal of the ancient struggle of Austria for supremacy in Germany, nor are the German States of the Empire disposed to ally themselves with a foreign Power against those who belong to their own race and language. The Emperor him self afterwards Invited the Prince of Prussia to visit Vienna on his way to Egypt; and it is possible that the exchange of Imperial and Royal courtesies may represent or promote a friendly understanding. A cool ness which has arisen between Prussia and Russia may, perhaps, facilitate a reconciliation with Austria. The old Russian party, which is in favor at St. Petersburg, has lately attempted to apply to the German inhabitants of the Baltic Provinces the same Muscovite propagandism which has for five or six years been practised in Poland. The vexatious interference of Russian func tionaries with the religion and language of the Emperor's German subjects has excited the same kind of national sym pathy which was formerly caused by the vexatious proceediags of the Danish Government' in Schle.swig-liolateln.— It was ' probably in consequence of the popular dissidisfaCtlonthat the Prussian IGlovernMent lately refused to renew the treaty of menial extradition which had provided for thiaurrender of political fa gitivei who might cross the Polish fron tier. As no Prusaianimbjeot was likely , . to escapeinto Russia, theoperation of the treaty would have - been wholly one sided if its proyisiona ,bad not been, in deference topublie opinion, habitually negleCtedhY Pnallsia. The formal ter mination of the agreement is equivalent to a notification that. North. Germany has bectime a Power of the &St order, and that its Government disapproves persechtion in-Esthland and Liedand as well as in Poland. 'The change , of Prus sian policy provoked from' the organs of the Russittn Government incessant overtures for that French alliance which hawse often been proposed and foretold. The shifting combinations of the great Continental Monarchies, as they are ar ranged by speculative politicians,seldom possess practical importance, but the alienation of Prussia from Russia, if it prove to be permanent, affords security for the peace of Europe. As foreign complications have become less urgent, Parliamentary opposition is reviving in the Prussian Souse of Deputies, and even in the more democratic and sub servient Parliament of the North Ger man Confederation. The Ministers have been repeatedly outvoted in both Assemblies on questions of finance and administration. The frequent absence of the Primo Minister in consequence of illness has probably encouraged the Opposition to attack his less powerful and popular colleagues. There is no ten dency to assail his external policy, which has lately consisted in simple inaction. The Southern States of Germany still retain their provisional Independence, and time and circumstances have mod ified the warlike intentions of France. At the beginning of the year, although no fresh cause of quarrel had arisen, there was reason to fear that a war with Prussia might be thought at the same time hopeful and expedient. The re organization of the French military system and the new armament of the troops had been completed at the very moment when the Emperor Napoleon might have been especially tempted to divert popular attention from domestic polities. The death of Marshal Niel, who was believed to desire with profes sional eagerness an opportunity of test ing the weapon he had forged, relieved the Emperor from the dangerous influ ence of his most warlik , t counsellor; and when the elections were immedi ately impending, a gratt,;:itous rupture with North Germany waluld have been condemned as a transparent device.— French enthusiasm had been but little stirred by a petty quarrel with Belgium founded on the refusal of the King's Government to sanction a lease of a Belgian Railway to a French Company. The pretext for remonstrance was too frivolous to serve us an excuse for seri ous aggression, and, through the tact of Lord Clarendon, the good offices of the English Government were so used as to enable the Emperor eventually to retire without loss of dignity from a false posi tion. Hisattention was soon absorbed by the General Election. The dissolution of the Legislative Body on the completion of its term of six years had been general ly anticipated as a probable occasion for some further relaxation in the system of personal government. When the ex piring Legislature was first elected the memory of the Italian campaign was still recent, an Austrian Emperor was reigning under French protection in Mexico, and the chronic antagonism of Austria and Prussia apparently secured the permanent division of Germany.— The first interruption of the Emperor's gbod fortune was the compulsory retreat from Mexico, which necessarily ensued on the collapse of the Southern Confed era,cy. Two or three years later the price of con n ivance at the overthrow of Austria was contumeliously withheld by the vic torious Minister of Prussia, and a subse quent project of re-asserting in concert with Austria the Continental supremacy of France was rendered abortive by the sudden explosion of the Spanish Revo lution. The courage of the opponents of the Emperor naturally increased as his political failures accumulated, and the enthusiasm of his adherents waned with the felicity by which it had been attracted. A Parliamentary Opposition had been, for the first time since the establishment of the Empire, formed in the Legislative Body, and partial relax ations in the rules which had almost precluded debate had enabled a small body of orators and debaters to revive the suspended practice of political dis cussion. M. Jules Fevre and M. Emile 011ivier incessantly protested against absolute Government; and M. Thiers proved that time had not impair ed his unequalled powers of vigor ous and livery criticism. To conciliate Liberal opinion, or, as his enemies asserted, in the hope of alarming . the middle classes by the spectacle of vio lence uud excess the Emperor prepared for the elections 'by allowing free discus sion in the press and by removing the existing restrictions on the right of public meeting. The expectation that both concessions would be abused was fully justified. At the meetings which were now for the first time permitted rabid demagogues disclaimed not only against the Government, but against re ligion, property, and marriage. The wildest doctrines were most acceptable to the mass of the population of Paris ; and the respectable classses began to suspect that the Empire was not even a security against anarchy. The lan guage of the Ministers and official journalists left it doubtful whether the toleration of unbounded licence implied conversion to the doctrines of liberty.— On one occasion M. Rouher strenuous ly repudiated, on behalf of himself and his colleagues, any pretension to inde pendence or responsibility. They were all, he said, merely the faithful servants of the Emperor, and the passive instru ments of his will. At the general election which was held in May the whole influence of the Government was, in accordance with established precedent, employed in support of the official candidates. The Ministers of former dynasties, and of the Republic of 1848, had been equally active in their interference, and during the earlierpart of the Second Empire the great majority of members of the Legislative Body had been openly nominated by the Govern ment. In the election of 1869 the exer tionsof the Prefects and Mayors resulted in the attainment of a considerable ma jority ; but the great cities, wherever their votes had not been neutralized by the arbitrary annexation of rural dis tricts, chose representatives hostile either to the existing system of adminis tration or to the Empire itself.— The Orleanists and the supporters of Limited Monarchy were almost every where defeated, and among the mem bers for Paris M. Thiers alone repre sented the Constitutional party. M. Respell, an aged an almost forgotten Jacobin of 1848, was returned by a large constituency ; and at a subsequent elec tion to supply vacancies arising from double returns, M. Rochefort was re warded for a succession of virulent at tacks on the person of the Emperor by the choice of one of the electoral dis tricts of Paris. The excitement caused by the elections was followed by riots in the capital, extending over three or four days ; but the disturbances were repress ed, without the employment of an armed force, by the ordinary police. On the meeting of the Legislative Body in July, the Opposition, numbering 120 members, prepared an interpellation or motion directed against the maintenance of personal Government; and on the eve of the expected debate M. Rouher an nounced, on the part of the Emperor, concessions which were believed to em body the principal elements of a Con stitutional system. It was announced that the Senate would be convoked to consider andpass the principal measures which the Opposition had been prepared to demand. The Budget was to be voted in separate chapters, so that the Legis lative Body would be enable to control the revenue and expenditure: the right of initiating Bills, hitherto reserved to the Government, was to be granted to independent members ; and Ministerial functions were no longer to be incompati ble with the tenure of a seat in the Leg islature. The leaders of the Opposition, although the collective responsibility of the Cabinet was not included in the pro posed change of the Constitution, ac cepted the Emperor's offer as a satis factory answer 'to the proposed inter pellation, and the Legislative Body was immediately prorogued to allow time for the formal application to the Senate. M. Rouher, M. Baroehe, M. de Lava lette, and M. Duruy resigned their places in the Cabinet ; but it was remarked that M. de Forcade La Roquette, who had, as Minister of the Interior, man aged the elections, held the same post In a new Ministry, of which' he Prince de la Tour d'Auvergue Was the nominal head. The obedient Senate unwillingly passed the necessary. Rmlutiens . hut the adoption or announcement of a definite policy was necessarily postpon ed in consequenee of the serious Rinses cr- - V r: I r :T" ' / 7.4. LANCASTER, PA., , WEDNESDAY MOR *, B7O of the Emperor during the months of to : Abe rank of ~is,.statommy. His July and August. At the same time the death . , in the fulnew of years, while , tits revolutionary party abused by extrava- pdwers were still Unimpaired, eardnit be gant violence and loathsome scurrility considered inopportune. The politleid the unbounded licence of publication period to wbieh his tastes and faculties and debate which had been substituted were best adapted had ended with the for the excessive restrictions of thi c , ,z rat. passing of has ,Reform Bill.. lie was, The details of the Emperor ' s alle in- perhaps, the. last of the long series of firmities were habitually expose to the Ministers who have represented ;the ridicule of the rabble by demagogues qualities and defects of the English riris who gloated over every genuine or tocraey. fictitious symptom of danger and decay. While the respectable classes "Miss Evelyn. were disgusted and alarmed by the insolence of the prophets of an- Rain, rain, rain—a hopelcan day, with an easterly wind and a sky of lead., The archy, they were also forced to reflect on the precarious condition of a nation streets were dirty and sloppy, and mud which which depends for its security on the dy and miserable. Women hurried along with draggled skirts; men plung life and health of an absolute ruler. ed through the slippery mud with urn- Partly by its own faults and through brellas and sulkey faces. A dark, the operation of inevitable causes, it is dreary, miserable day ; and all of its certain that the Empire is shaken Wits foundation. Neither the Emperor nor gloom was reflecting in Miss Evelyn's as she stood looking out of her the most sagacious of French politicians face, boudoir window. can know whether it will be impossible boud for him to transform himself from a She was tall and stately, and beauti fully dressed, too, this Alias Evelyn ;and Dictator into a Constitutional Monarch.' After long hesitation the experiment is young—that is to say, twenty-five, so about to be tried, with the aid of a Min she need hardly have worn that weary, istry in which M. Emile 011ivier, the miserable leek, one would think, if the consistent advocate of constitution- weather was bad. Besides one would thought it a fine thing to he Miss Con al liberty, will preside over a Cab inet of his own selection, instead of stance Evelyn, with a fortune of one sharing power, like his predecessors hundred thousand dollars, and such a in office, with colleagues severally de- pretty room to nestle in on wet days. pendent on the Emperor. The change Miss Evelyn dropped the curtains as t of itself constitutes a Parliamentaryhe little ormolu clock struck eleven, system ; and it will be well if the sue- and began walking up and down, up cess of the experiment is facilitated by and down, with the shadow in her face the organization of a moderate majority. deepening and darkening every mo- The more temperate Republicans, inclu- merit. ding some members who had been Presently she stopped before a greet supposed to favor a violent revolution, , mirror that reflected her form from top to toe, and gazed long and fixedly at the have separated themselves from the fa- naticism of M. Raspail, and from the Pale, proud face, black, glossy hair, and revolutionary levity of M. Rochefort; blue eye that gazed back. on but the suppo p rt of resen a party t M. Gla which is cier depenesds "Am I handsome ?" tkought Miss _ Evelyn, or is it only the wretched fiat- pecially devoted to the Emperor. If tery that is poured i nto the ear of every Constitutional Government in France Is rich woman that I know ?. What does intrinsically compatible with the main _ he think, I wonder?" tenance of the Imperial dynasty and Ah ! that little tell-tale pronoun ? The with universal suffrage, it is possible proudest of these proud women are that the edifice of 1852 may finally be humble enough when "he" is in the crowned b) freedom. question. To Englishmen primarily interested " And lam growing old," thought " In the welfare of their own country the Miss Evelyn. I never fancied so un passing year has afforded little satisfac- til last night. The idea of an unmarried Um" Although more than three years woman of five-and-twenty presuming have now elapsed since the great core- to think herself young! I passed him mercial and financial shock of 1866, talking to a young lady—a gush Mg just there has been no healthy revival of out.' I passed, but they did not see trade. The cotton mills are still suffer- me- ' Miss Evelyn handsome! ax ing unde‘ an insufficient and dear sup- claimed Missy, in answer to something ply of raw material and a demand which ho had said, ' Oh, yes, of course, but is stagnant under the influence of high frightfully old, isn't she? Why she prices. All classes of manufactures was going to be married to Mr. Law complain of the impediments which rence ever so long ago, and was engaged are offered to production by the vexa- to a cousin ages before that !' That was tous regulations of Trades' Unions.; quite enough. I walked away, and and, on the other hand, the rep- danced with the first gentleman who rescntatives of the mechanics either asked me, and comprehended that my deny that their organization is driving life was gone and I was an old maid." trade to foreign countries or anticipate She began walking up and down in a cosmopolitan alliance among the again, her thoughts wandering gloomily workmen of all countries the means of into the past. finally reducing employers and con- " And what a useless life it has been ! sinners to common dependence. In What a deceit society is! What a shal some of the northern and midland towns low, vapid, empty mockery! I am obscure local politicians have taken ad- weariness to myself, and a useless thing vantage of the dullness of trade to com- to my fellow-creatures. If we are all menee a feeble agitation for the re-estab- born with a destiny to accomplish, and lishment of Protection under color of a a work to do, it is time I found mine out, demand for Reciprocity; The approach and began it. What is an old maid's of the time at which either party may mission, any way? To talk scandal, give notice to terminate the French Corn- drink tea, and be snubbed? Come in ?" mereial Treaty furnishes a pretext for There had been a modest rap at the demand that English duties shall be door. Mary, the housemaid, appeared. raised unless French duties are lowered. "If you please, miss, Mr. Underhill is As the manufactures which are injured in in the drawing room," the home market by French competition Miss Evelyn started. would, even in the absense of duties, be " Mr. Underhill? Such a morning ! undersold in France, it is obvious Well, go down, Mary, and tell bins I'll that the alleged grievance could only be there in a moment." be redressed by an increase of English She shook out her flowing morning taxation. The great producers of cotton robes, smoothed her glossy braids, and and hardware ask for no protective slowly descended. Mr. Uunderhill, Miss duties ; nor is the maintenance of the Evelyn's lawyer, a sober, elderly man, Treaty endangered, except by political rose up at her entrance. opposition which has lately arisen in 'Good morning, Miss Evelyn ! dreary France against all measures which have day, isn't? You didn't expect a visitor been carried by the exercise of the Im- such weather." perial prerogative. The risk of an coo- " Hardly," Miss Eyelyn answered, 'mode reaction affords a strong argil- languidly. " But you are very welcome, ment in support of the objection which Mr. Underhill." we urged in 1860 against the principle " Thank you, Miss Evelyn. I wish I of Commercial Treaties. One cause of brought more welcome news." the continued commercial depression is For the first time, now, the young to be found in the discredit which has lady noticed the trouble in his face and attached to joint-stock enterprise, since voice. the discovery that liability ou shares of " What is it?" she asked quietly, which only a small part was called " trouble for me P' up might be practically unlimited. The " Yes, Miss Evelyn." ruinous litigation in the process of " About money matters, of course." winding up Companies also exercises a " Yes." • deterring effect; and a series of criminal " You seem rather reluctaut to tell it, prosecution of Directors for alleged mis- Mr. Underhill. I beg you will think representation has necessarily caused I better of me. Whatever it is, I shall be men of commercial oaperience and rep- glad to hear it at once." utatioa to decline a thankless and haz- " I have cause to hesitate in telling ardous office. The recent acquittal of it, dear young lady; for it is very un the Directors of the Limited Company pleasant—very, indeed. You remember of Overend and Gurney on an indict- the conditions of your late guardian's ment for alleged conspiracy and misrep- will?" resentation will probably discourage the I " Perfectly, sir." repetition of similar proceedings, except "Will you have the goodness to re in case of definite fraud. peat them to me, Miss Evelyn!" The policy of decentralization, while " Certainly. His whole fortune—one it has effectually removed former hundred thousand dollars, and this grounds of complaint against the Col- house, as It stands, became mine uncon onial Office, has in one or two instances ditionallv, provided his nephew, sup produced a partial reaction against the posed to be dead in California, never re burdens and responsibilities of rode- appeared. Should he ever re-appear— pendence. The Government of New !something highly improbable—the for- Zealand, which a few years ago insisted tune passed from me to him at once." on the recall of the English troops, has " Precisely, Miss Evelyn. And there lately endeavored in vain to procure my bad news begins." the reversal of a decision in accordance " You mean this nephew is alive, af with its former request. In consequence ter ell?" of the unfavourable progress of the "I do?" chronic war with the Maories of the She drew a fluttering breath—turned Northern Island, the Legislature ap plied to the Home Government for a military force, to be maintained at the expense of the Colony. The effect in New Zealand of the refusal of Lord Granville is not yet known in England, but the final withdrawal of the garrison has naturally given rise to a controversy on the principles of colonial administra tion. The change which has occurred in the relations of the Imperial Govern ment to distant dependencies is still im perfectly understood. Communities,like private men, are slower in acknowledg ing their duties than in appreciating their rights, and some time may elapse before the Colonies fully understand that their exclusive control over their own affairs involves a corresponding obliga tion to provide for internal self-defence. Against civilized enemies the English Government is bound to protect them as long as it retains the management of foreign policy. The remaining bond of union may, perhaps, be found too elas tic for practical use, but a closer tie of command and obedience would inevita- bly have burst it asunder. The warn ing furnished by the bitter hostility of the revolted Colonies of North America to the Mother Country has, happily, not been neglected by English Statesmen. Only two persons of political eminence have died during the year, for an Amer ican ex-President on the completion of his term of office retires not only into private life but into obscurity and ob livion. Lamartine still retains his rep utation as a poet among his countrymen, who are the only competent judges of their own literature. In his brilliant prose writings he confused history with romance ; and during his three months' career as a Statesman his eloquence and showy personal qualities were more than counterbalanced by the weakness of character which speedily precipitated him from power. He might, by sup porting the Regency of the Duchess of Orleans, haveaverted a Revolution which he scarcely approved ; and afterwards, if he had justified the confidence of the great Conservative majority of French- men he might, perhaps have saved the Republic. When he weakly tam pered with Jacobinism, the popularity which he courted burst like a bubble ; and within a few weeks from the cul mination of his apparent greatness he was finally thrust aside and forgotten. The career of an English statesman is not exposed to sudden reverses of fortune. Lord Derby rose to eminence nearly forty years ago, and he died, soon after his formal resignation of power, in the full enjoyment of his fame. He was on the eve of becoming the leader of the Liberty party when he deserted his rank to become, afteran interval, the leader of the Conservatives. In the earlier period, while he was a colleague of Lord Grey, his name was associated with con siderable achievements in legislation. He carried the emancipation of the West Indian slaves ;• he established national education in Ireland ; and, by the abolition or amalgamation of several bishoprics, he dealt the first blow to the Irish Church. In the more congenial character of a Conservative leader, though he was three times Prime _Min ister, he devoted his efforts chiefly to obstruction of change ; but under the impulse of a will more resolute than his own he became the 'lnstrument of the greatest triumph which Democracy has ,yet. attained, in England He was a graceful and 'impetuous orator.; his great position, his madly bear ing, and his playful humor made him one of the first of Parliamen tary loaders; but ho never rose a little pale—that was all. " Is he here—in the city?" " I regret, for your sake, to say he is." There was a pause. She sat very still —pale and cold—her hands folded in her lap . " You have seen him, of course, Mr. Underhill ?" " Yes, Miss Evelyn, Mr. Geo. Thorne came to my office yesterday, and proved his identity beyond the shadow of a doubt. But he has acted very gener ously—very nobly, I must say. I told him the condition of his uncle's will and that I had no doubt you were ready to abide by it. His answer was: ' The young lady shall do as she pleases. If her conscience and her honor tell her to resign it, of course I take it; if not, let her rest assured I shall never disturb her in its possession.' I was surprised ; very few men in his position would say as much, I assure you." " He is very kind," said Miss Evelyn, slowly, and whiter than marble, "and very generous. Tell George Thorne— tell Mr. Thorne, that my conscience and my honor command rne to resign his fortune without a moment's delay. It is his from this hour." " But my dear Miss Evelyn, hear me. There may be a compromise, a half, a quarter, of it may be retained. It is too much for you to resign what has been yours for so long, like this." " Not a Whit too much. There can be no compromise I would not take a dollar of it hardly, to save me from starving. It is his, not mine. Do you think I could accept the charity of a stranger? You ought to know me bet- ter, Mr. Underhill:" Mr. Underhill bowed. He did not understand this sort of• thing himself. It was not in his line. But he did un derstand the Hashing of those blue eyes, the ringing of that proud.voice. He had seen both before, and knew that the laws of Draco were nothing to the fiat of Miss Eveyin. " I shall depart to-day," she said, rising, with a certain queeniiness of bearing that always overawed ordinary mortals. " Mr. Thorne can take pos session of his house and fortune at once. Good day, Mr. Underhill." The smile that accompanied the little white hand was very sweet and gracious, but the lawyer did not dare to question her. She was gone a moment after, and was up in her boudoir once more, look ing out at the slanting rain and gloomy sky, with something altogether new to think about. Miss Constance Evelyn disappeared very suddenly from that brilliant society of which she had been one of the most brilliant stars. It was a nine-day's won der this romantic whirl of fortune; and society was on the qui vive to catch a glimpse of Mr. George Thorne and make a hero of him ; but Mr. Thorne fought shy of society and didn't show. They wondered—her dearlivehundredfriends —what had become of her, poor thing! and went on dressing and dining, and party-giving, and presently forgot she had ever existed. And all the men who had loved her, or told her so, which is the same thing— where were they now? One only, a simple-hearted young millionaire of twenty-one, whom the -world had not yet quite spoiled, and who viewed in fear and trembling the haughty belle, wrote her an offer of his hand and heart. Young Mr. Millionaire got an answer by r Miss-Evelyn wawa very.c g unieturn of post--iv gh , butiged very cold. ii ehl . but bged. to decline. . Miss Evelyn was residing with a widow lady somewhere in Ellensburg. . , .Mbis tielin iidi4tbied for music pupila'ca such reasonable terms that she had got s6me, and in a few weeks bad her hands full, and was kept on the treadmill from morning till night, ,She and that heartless society, with which she had found so much fault, were never likely to trouble each other again. She could'have borne that—she could have bornethefalliug off of "summerfriends" without one pang: but she could not bear that " he 'r should be so utterly heartless. It was Mr. Chillingham, who was handsome and an author, and with whom•she had been in love for the past six months, in spite of herself. She bad not wanted to love him—she had fought like a heroine against it—but, ah I who could resist the seductive eloquence of those deep, dark eyes, the persuasive sweetness of that earnest voice? He was so different from other men—so noble, so gifted, so perfect in his splen did manhood—that she could as soon have stopped the beating of her heart as stopped its beating for him. And 'he had thought that he had loved her—had he not given her every• reason to think so, except the three poor words, "I love you ?" And now, and now. Miss Evelyn never complained—never shirked her duties—fought the battle of life bravely, and wore away to a shadow. No weather kept her in doors, no cold confined her to her bed—she went on and gave her lessons, and drudged and drfidged, week after week, until the good widow's heart ached to see her, " You're killing yourself, that's what you're doing," shesaid to her; " look at your feet, soaking wet—and you with that cold ! why don't you let your pupils wait when the weather's not fit for a stray dog to be out I You'll be In your grave in six months." Miss Evelyn laughed—a mirthless sort of laugh enough. "1 don't know that that would be much loss to the world, Mrs. Norris.— But you really fret yourself about me for nothing. You don't know how strong I am. Nothing hurts mc." It was a week after this that coming to the house of one of her wealthiest patrons, Miss Evelyn found company in the parlor, a gentleman talking to her pupil. The pupil was a pretty young lady of eighteen—the gentleman, Mr. Chillingham. It was another wet morning, and the music , teacher's gar ments were dripping. "Really, Miss Evelyn, I hardly expect ed you in this shower," the young lady said, not overgraciously. "I am engag ell this morning, and don't think I shall take my lessons." "Pray, don't let me prevent you," said Mr Chillingham. "Miss Evelyn and I are old friends, and I am more than happy to meet her again." He extended his hand ; she just touch ed it. Her fingers like ice—her hand cold and still as marble—told no tales. She could almost forgive him his sud den appearance, remembering that Mr. Chillingham remained all through the lesson, sitting in a distant cornerholding a book, and furtively watching the mu sic teacher. It might have touched any heart that cared for her—lthe haggard change in the once beautiful face. But the hook made a shield for Mr. Chilling ham ; and, besides, there was no one theie to see. After that, Miss Evelyn met Mr. Chillingham very often at the house of her pretty pupil. But the old intimacy was not renewed. Miss Evelyn was like flint—colder to him than any stone. She listened, if he would persist in talk ing to her, and answered in monosylla bles. She declined haughtily and per emptorily when he asked permission to see her home ; and three days after wrote a note to the young lady, beg ging to be excused from further attend ance. Two days after, coming home late in the evening, fagged and nearly worn to death with a hard day's work, she found a visitor awaiting her in the little parlor. Going in, she saw to her surprise and anger, Mr. Chillingham. She stood be fore him, more queenly than in the days of old, haughtily questioning with fixed blue eyes. " Pardon me, Miss Evelyn, for this instrusion," he said, coming forward ; " but you shun me so persistently in other places, that I had no alter itive. You have given me no chance t, say what I have been longing to say ever since I found you. That I love you, Constance, that I want you to be my wife!" She stood in pale amaze, looking at him. She had loved him—she did love him dearer than life. She clasped her hands over her fluttering heart, not able to speak. " You are the noblest and bravest woman I ever met," he went on. " I thought so long ago and loved you; but I never knew it so fully, and never loved you so dearly as since your generous re nunciation of fortune. If I waited for a time, Constance, it was not that my love ever faltered, but I wished to see if you could brave adversity. You have, heroically; and now, loving you, I think, better than man ever lover woman, I ask you Constance Evelyn, to be my wife." He held out his arms. With a great sob, she was caught and held to his true heart, happy at last. There was an hour's delicious quiet in the widow's parlor. Then Mr. Chil lingham, holding both her hands, and looking at her earnestly, said, "But I have a revelation to make, and pardon to crave, my queenly Constance. I have deceived you!" "Deceived me!" she cried, turning pale. " Yes, my dear, and many others. My name is not Chillingham She sat looking at him—white and turning cold. _ "I am George Chillinghan Thorne, your guardian's nephew, long since sup posed to be dead in California, and I am the heartless scamp who has robbed you of your fortune." She gave a little gasping cry. Mr. G. C. Thorne laughing in her face, went on : "I did It with malice aforethought. I wanted to try you as they try gold in the crucible. You have come out a thousand fold brighter, and I am re warded. Can you forgive me?" I suppose she did, for she married him and went back into society more regal and uplifted than ever. And as marriage is the ultimatum of womanly hopes and the acme of earthly bliss, I presume I may leave her. Sam Patch The Elmira Gazette has reprinted some extracts from a paper issued in that village 40 years ago, describing the exploits of Sam Patch in jumping at Genesee Falls. A successful leap made Oct. 12, 1828, was thus described: " Sam has made his great jump. The day was lowery and rainy. However, the number of 300 persons assembled on the island to witness the feat, the Cana dian shore was crowded. To view the platform erected for the fearless Patch from the Biddle stairway, did not ap pear so grand, as the platform reached only about two-thirds the height of the bank ; but to descend to the margin of the water, in the gulf beneath, and there look up at the perpendicular ladder, made you imagine that itwould require superhuman power4to accomplish such nn enterprize. Sam ascended the ladder and remained on the top about ten min utes, resting himself and ajustlng himself for the leap, during which he was repeat edly cheered by the spectators. At length he rose—every eye was bent intently on him, he waved his hand and kissed the star spangled banner that floated grace fully over his head, and then precip itated himself like an arrow Into the flood below. 'Twas a matchless and tre mendous leap. He very soon reappeared and swam to the shore with great ease. Then It war that a painful and unpleas ant yet indescribable sensation was driven from esch breast by the flood of joy which succeeded on seeing that he was safe. Then it was that the benumb ing spell which had reigned from the moment he arose on the platform, was broken by the burst of the voices of con gratulation." The Jumping hero rake his last and fatal leap Nov. 13, 189, thus chronicled : " Sam Patch is no more! He made his last leap from a scaffold erected on the bank of the other falls this afternoon. Thee taging was elevated 25 feet. He Sprung fearlessly from it, and descended about one-third of the distance as hand some as he ever did. He then evidently began to droop, his arms extended, and his legs separated ; and in this condi tion he struck the water, and sunk for ever ! It was a fearful leap, and fear fully it was terminated. The prevailing opinion is that he became lifeless ere he reached the water. He had drank fear fully in the morning, but was not ap pareplatinore Overcome than he was on Fridaylast. It waktrrdy a Bolen:an scen e, where so many thothmnds Were Witnesees to an immolation which had its origin only in an effort to:eatisfy the 'craving - . . appetite of human curiosity. SBRl'slasV requeit, I understand, was that the funds collected should be sent to his mother, if hlsadventureabould terminatefatally. Etis body has not yet been found: The height of 01:natio:le 'Falls, from which he jumped, is 100 feet. Thestaging.was3s feet above the Falls. The distance which he descended was therefore 125 feet." Sam Patch was a native of Pawtucket, R. 1., where some of his relatives still reside. A SERMON. Delivered's. the Firat Deformed Els Web, Lancaster, On Sunday Evening. Febru as7 6, VITO, by the Pastor Rev. J.H. Kremer. "'There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after thospint."—Rom. 8: L The felicity and prerogatives, contain ed in this scripture, exceed all human utterance. The holy law of God, de mands from those who violate it, a fear ful penalty : "the soul that sinneth, it shall lie —" cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law, and that to do them." Such is man's relation to the law of God, as a subject of the divine administration. Obey and live; diso bey and die. Said the apostle : " When the commandment came, sin revived and I died." "Oh wretched man that lam ; who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" " I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord."— " There is therefore now no condemna tion to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit." Jesus, God's co-equal and co-eternal son, was made a curse for us, by aBSultriidg man's accursed nature, in personal union with His eternal God head, that by its power He might sustain in his human nature, the burden !of God's wrath, and obtain for the believer righteousness and life.— We will consider: 1. THE CONDEMNATION. 1. It is universal. "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God."— Death passed upon all men, because all have sinned." " There is none right eous, no not oue ; therefore by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified." Let none suppose that the condemnation refers only to avert acts of wickedness, such as profanity, drunkenness, false hood and fraud. Such is the purity of the divine law, that it apprehends mur der in an angry word, and adultery In a wanton look. It is a "discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." No outward bearing, however excellent, will compensate for the moral plague of the human soul. The amiable Nico demus must be born again. The lovely young ruler, must have his heart re newed, and renounce the world, the flesh and the devil, or fail of a treasure in heaven. Garnish and adorn the sep ulchre never so beautifully, it is "within full of dead men's bones, and of all un cleanness." However specious be the adornment of an outward morality, the poison of the " old serpent" is within, diffused through every avenue of the unregener ate soul. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, until born anew by "water and the spirit." This condemnation is the just desert of sin. Sin is the trans gression of God's holy law, and neces sarily exposes to eternal condemnation. No fancied moral rectitude, outside of a living communion with Christ and his Church, will meet the demands of in finite justice. Christ must empty him self of the glory which he had with the Father before the world was, and become " the man of sorrows,"—endure the agony and woo of the garden and the cross, for the new-born infra "con ceived and born in sin," as as for the most aged transgressor. Thi.Nood of Christ alone cleanseth from bin." Human nature, in its moral aspect, admits of no improvement, except in the " washing of regeneration "—in be ing a " new creature In Christ Jesus." Apart from this essential and divine change, all man's moral powers are controlled by the "law ofsin and death," and must, by an irrestible logic, end in an eternal separation from holiness and heaven. 2. The condemnation is very dreadful in its character.—The most appalling metaphors of which the language of mortals will admit, are employed in the inspired scriptures to convey to us the best possible conception of the nature and character of the penalty which the transgression of the divine law involves. It is called " everlasting damnation " "the second death"—"outer darkness," with "wailing and gnashing of teeth"— a "lake of fire, burning with brimstone," "where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched ;" and the most fearful of all : "the wrath of the Lamb !" Cain felt it already in this life as he went forth a "fugitive and a vagabond," stained with fraternal blood. "My pun ishment is greater than I can bear," groaned out the guilty man. If then the blood of a sinful mortal called for such vengeance, and filled with such terror, the soul of the fratricide, what will be the confusion of those who slew the Lord from Heaven? If Felix trem bled, when a worm of the dust remind ed' him of a coming judgment, what terror and dismay will seize those who shall hear from the lips of the once crucified, but now exalted Saviour, the cutting words : " Depart from me, ye accursed, into everlasting fire!" E=ME! 1. It is a present deliverance. " There is therefore now no condemnation." " He that believeth on the Son is not condemned." "Sin shall have no do minion over yon, for ye are not under the law, but under grace." The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made you free from the law of sin and death." Whilst the work of sanctifica tion Is gradual—an increasing purity of heart and life—the sentence of Sinai is set aside at once, in regard to those who have " put on Christ," for they are " justified in His blood." Just as the angel of God's wrath, passed over the dwellings of Israel, stained with the blood of the paschal lagenb, so the sword of divine justice is withheld from those who are sprinkled with the blood of Jesus. They are washed—sanctified— justified. We here see the infinite suf ficiency of Christ. This sufficiency is found in the infinite dignity of his person, as the God-man. The second person, in the ever adorable Trinity, de scended from his middle throne, and " was made flesh, and dwelt among us" and of whom a voice from Heaven said at His baptism: " Thou art my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased."— Hence God's eternal son became the bearer of our fallen humanity, and with It descended into the lowest depths of sorrow and pain, that with this nature he might triumph over the power of Satan's fearful work, with the force of His own imperishable life, he having thus become, as it were, a new life, in the very centre of humanity it self. This life passes over into His peo ple, In their regeneration—when born of the spirit, when engrafted into His person—" members of T-Ils body, of his flesh and of his bones." "Ye in me, and I In you—because I live, ye shall live also.' 2. The deliverance is complete.—'There is now no condemnation. lt is not only a freedom from apart of the law's fearful sentence. All the thunders of Sinai are hushed,tost In the higher notes of Mercy's voice. The flaming sword of divine j ustice guarding the passage to the tree of life, is removed, so that all who will, may come and eat and live. Sins, dark as midnight—sins, that have haunted the soul, and tilled it with anguish un utterable—are all pardoned, for there is "no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." The aged sinner with a whole life of unbroken impenitence and rebellion, if brought to repentance and faith in Christ, receives a full and complete pardon, and a sure title to eternal life—a title that will abide,when the earth shall reel and the heavens flee. Said the blessed Master : " I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall any pluck them out of my hand." Said Paul : " Being con fident of this very thing that he which bath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." "We may lose (says one) the copy of our pardon, and thus lose the comfort of It, but the original pardon is flied in heaven," where no thief can break through and steal the precious docu ment;, for, "If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own San, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not, with him also freely give us all thin e % Who shall lay anything to the e of God's elect? It is God that just' eth ; who is he that coiademneth ? It Is Christ that died ; yea, rather that's risen again; who is ever at the right hand of God_ Who also maketh Intercession' for us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things NUMBER 7. to come, nor height, nor depth, nOr any other creature, shall be able to separate ug from the love of God, which is in Ctiilst Seaus,, our Loth." TTIEGROITND • Or'n-lISDELIVERANCE. I. in C7irisi Jesite.We have here the Idea of a vita/ union - with Christ. Be lievers sustain to Him the same relation as do the members of the human body to the head. This is evident from the images underwhich this union Is pre sented in the Holy Scriptures : " I am , the vine, ye are the branches." ." Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ?" Now ye ate the body of Christ, and members in partic ular." "Your life is hid with Christ, in God." These passages express vastly more than a mutual love and sympathy, or the most exalted friendship. Such a construction would turn the language of scripture into emptiness and folly. The blessed Saviour acknowledges the believer to be a very portion of himself —" of his flesh and of his bones." So that whatever He is, the believer is, and whatever He has, the believer has. This union the apostle calls a great mystery, which it were vain to attempt to explain. Our safest wisdom is our ignorance. We simply believe the sub lime and mysterious words of Jesus: "I am in the Father ; ye in me, and I in you." The pious Flavel, speaks of this union thus: ' Christ and the saints are not one as the oak and the ivy are one ; but as the graft and stock are one : it is not an union by adhesion, but incorpor ation. Husband and wife are not so near,• soul and body are not so near, as Christ and the believing soul are near to each other." The union is or ; for, as we stand organically in the first Adam, in the sphere of nature, we stand organ ically, in the second Adam in the sphere of grace. In the first, we die; in the second, we live. In the first, we are in Adam; in the second, we arc in Christ, and therefore, " when Christ, who is our life shall appear, then shall we also ap pear with Rim in glory." 0 blessed link of life and love! Joined to the Sa viour, thus " all things are yours; for ye are Christ's and Christ is God's." There fore, "the life that the believer lives, in the flesh, he lives by the faith of the Son or God." He lives in Christ. From Him he draws all his strength and vitality, just as each member of the natural body owes its motion and power to the life-springs that lie concealed in the heart. Blessed life! It is the resur rection to life of a soul once dead in trespasses and sins, and destined to a diadem of unfading glory ; to sit with Jesus on the self-same throne, and bask in the self-same radiance of heavenly bliss. That will be joy ineffable A soul, once far away from God, vile and terror stricken, now quiet and at rest, swimming in an ocean of life, liv ing in Christ forever; nay, more, living Christ forever. 2. They "walk not after the flash, but after the sprit."—Believing in Jesus, power is given them to " become the sons of God, and Joint heirs with Christ to an eternal inheritance. They are born of the spirit, hence they "walk after the spirit." Being " created anew in Christ Jesus," they have his mind, his spirit and life, and this life sustains the new creation in Christ, as really as the air they breathe sustains their bod ies. True, they are not "already per fect," but their lives being hid with Christ in God, and ever turning in pen itence and faith to a throne of mercy, all their Infirmities are covered and forgotten, and they are " accepted in the beloved." Walking thus "after the spirit," they are pilgrims to the better land—marching onward, in the " new and living way ' that leadeth "to the general assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in heaven," there to walk, without weariness, the streets of the " new Jerusalem, and In possession of a kingdom which cannot be moved." IN CONCLUSION : " If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die," "tor the fleshly mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither in deed can be." This Is in sad and gloomy contrast with a life in Christ. It offers but poor comfort In the present state, led captive at Satan's will ; the setting sun of Ilfe's brief day, to be followed by a cheerless and eternal night. Shall we thus trifle with our immortal nature,— the price of blood divine? Shall our probation be made the poor outlay for the interests of this world only, and al low the wealth of eternity to escape us? Shall we give our labor for that which cannot satisfy, and our money for that which is not bread? " Why will ye chase the fleeting wind, And famish an immortal mind? While angels with regret look down, To see you spurn a heav'nly crown. • • • • • • • • • • Not so your dying eyes shall view Those objects which you now pursue! Not so shall heaven and hell appear, When the decisive hour in near. White House Sketches. The Philadelphia Press has a Washington correspondent who styles herself (or him self) Olivia. The gentle Olivia regularly attends the levees at the White House, and breaks out in rarest compliment of its distingtahedinmates. Themistress ofthe Mansion is thus described: Mrs. Grant stands a little way from the President—"fair, fat and forty.' She ap pears in grace and manner just as any other sensible woman would, who had been lifted from the ranks of the people to such an exalted position. It is true she shows the people her comely neck and shoulders, and, notwithstanding the wintry weather, makes no attempt to cover her shapely arms; but her gracious condescension is appreciated, and the exhibition is free to all. The daughter of the House comes in for the following notice: Miss Nellie Grant is a prominent feature of the levees and receptions at the White House. She is just exactly at that age when the feathers of her wings are not quite well enough grown to admit of her flying as a woman, and yet they are far enough ad vanced to spoil her attractions as a child. Her costume is of the rarest and costly kind, and she conducts herself as becomes the only daughter of a President. The wife of a cabinet minister is chastely compared to one of the royal demireps of the scandalous court of Louis XIV. An elegant woman is seen standing in the back-ground, slender almost to fragil ity, arrayed in a trailing robe of black vel vet. Her powdered head and Greek profile take you back to the days of Louis XIV.; and you feel that Madam Pompadour or some other beauty of that period has step ped out of her picture-frame and stands in flesh and blood before you. This woman is Mrs. Cresswell, the accomplished wife of the Postmaster General. It is impossible that such delicate flattery should not till its objects with delight. The reduplication of the compliment by its pub lication in the Press and its reappearance in the Court Journal, the Washington Chronicle, must make it peculiarly gratify ing. Such services should not go unre warded.—Patriot. The Lady Bookers of Broad Street King Solomon was of the opinion that there is nothing new under the sun. On general principles, he was, perhaps, right ; but when we come to specialities, details and modifications of old times he was wide of the mark. Something new in this line is turning up every day, and among the latest, the most, interesting, the most sug gestive and the most promising of new things is the female banking firm in Broad street of Woodhull, Clatlin it Co. They have created a new sensation "on 'Change,' not so violent as, but more profound than, the gold corner panic of that awful "black Friday," and these lady financiers, as deal ers in bills, bonds, stocks, ke., appear to be so firmly seated in the saddle and so confi dent and 80 well posted that the notion pre vails among the lame docks and old foxes of Wall street that Vanderbilt, the oldest fox of them all, is at the bottom of the ex periment. No matter. The experiment is one of grett importance. If successful it opens a new and boundless field for em ployment to women—a regular California gold placer, not only in New York, but in every city and town in the United States and in both hemispheres. But If it should fail? Fail I These ladles of the new bank ing firm, they say, are backed by a capital of half a million, and that they cannot fail. At all events, we like the experiment as a new - thing, and we wish it success.—N. Y. Herald. Too Affectionate by Halt. Recently a prepossessing English woman, with three children, arrived at a Western town, having come all the way from "Mer ry England " to join her husband, who had preceded her to America. She expected to have to go to some point on the Fort Wayne road, and by the assistance of an officer she was duly ticketed. While waiting for the train a drunken fellow was seen to approach her, and seating himself by her de, began caressing her in the most afthaoititte man ner. Had these attentions been reciprocat ed, the officer might have concluded the woman's husband met her before she was looking for him, but she became not, only indignant but alarmed at the fellowtalm pertinence, when the officer seized him and chucked him out of the depot. He was subsequently taken to the lock-up for dis orderly conduct. In two or three minutes after he had been ejected the lady's hus band actually appeared, having ppearance come od to meet her. Had fie made aat the timothe Muddled indi his vidual:was Mak ing love to his wife, he would mu doubt have saved the officer the trouble of rerdov lag him. ILIVIT. OF ADVEIITIMILN I -Drumm- Aavaniaaramers, $l2 a year per garVeleAlitirF kle ASCII ea dl • /IQ • n t3 l. fit Ei rAt i l i t T fr /W 47 t i l L ea ji--. InserUou. . GintiCIULL AErfibiTalNGX . Centai ailaefor th e amt and 4 oants for eaph m0609E10 11 . , . ktplat'' . . SPlterAtaCvrec . Is -Inserted in Local; Ooliunns I.l.ottnts per Ana. 13PactAL ~ Nrrryce3 preetotng mnrriwtee end deatho, , lo , canto pee lino for that IneeAtioa, and./5 cents mr evory subsequent lusertlon. _ LECAL AIM OTIS= NOTi,oSS—„ , • • • Eteentors' notices_ • 9 60 ddrninLetrators' notice 2 su Assignees' notices 260 Aud!tare botlces..—.- .. ... 900 , Other" Notioes,". ten lines, or low.. three time5:....::...:_:..._ 160 Emai Details or Hli Arrest—Why It. Wav Not .11 ;Jam .sefore. Scene* at a Political Meeting-7Gwitove nos:arena Declares the Insurrec tion to nave Began. PARIS, February 7.—Everang.—Honri Rochefort, the editor of the Ahtraellaiso, was arroeted at hie realtionce In thq north eastern part of idle city at an early hour this morning. His friends and partisans are assembling. Groat crowds are collected In that quarter, and serious troubles aro ex peeled. PARIS, Feb. 8.-2 s. sr.—Tho troubles at Belleville are serious. The streets are filled with shouting people, and barricading has commenced. A detachment of Imperial Troops arrived in the vicinity at 11 o'clock. 3. A. u.—Barricades have been erected in the Rue du Faubourg du Temple, Rue St. Maur, Run Grange aux Belles, and other streets in the vicinity of Belleville. The scene of the disturbance is near the Northern and Strasbourg Railway Sta tions. At half-past eleven additional attach ments or troops arrived ; hut, to this hour, no tire-arms have been used. The troops in garrison In the vicinity have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's notice. Such are the precautions taken by the po lice and military authorities that it is be- Ilev‘d the riot will not be attended with any serious consequences. Pants, Feb. 8.-7 A. M.—The troubles at Belleville lasted all night, and have ex tended northward to La Villette, the ex treme northeastern arrondissement within the fortifications. The troops have not yet resorted to the use of their firearms. . . The police have boon active and made many arrests. Beyond the excitement naturally Incident to such an occasion, the rest of the city is tranquil. The government still continues Its pro cautionary measures to prevent outbreaks elsewhere. PARIS, Feb. B—Noon.—The following de tails of the disorders in the North-eastern arrondissements are gleaned from the news parolifort was arrested as he was on the o u ir e it. d o e f . i - .l4=i r n e g a n t3 n o n ll i ti n cal g fro m m eeting n i e n vi tte ß. to La Villette. 'Although there was a great crowd of people present, and mainly of his own partisans, he made no resistance and no appeals to the crowd. . As soon as the arrest was made known to the meeting the wildest scenes occurred. Gustavo Flourens, who presided, rose ex citedly, drew a sword fired his revolver, and declared that the insurrection had be gun. The meeting broke up in disorder, and the crowd under the leadership of Flourens, immediately proceeded to bar ricade the streets. This was accomplished without loss of time by tho appropriation of omnibuses and other vehicles from stables in the neighborhood. The commis sary of pollee, who accompanied the guard charged with the duty of arresting Roche fort, was forced along with the crowd and badly maltreated. The district lying between the Rue Fau bourg du Temple and the fortifications at La Villette, a distance of about two miles, was in possession of the rioters. At 11 o'clock a body of pollee charged the barricade in the Rue Faulbourg till Temple and attempted to carry it, but was repulsed. One oi the commissaries was dangerously wounded and one policeman killed. At other pieces barricades had been erected, but they were not defended. The military are now out In force, but thus far have made no use of their fire arms, although the insurgents have. The hitter had pillaged the armories, and In that way obtained their weapons. Several po licemen were wounded with those in the skirmishes in the morning. A great num ber of arrests have been made, and at 8 a. m. over three hundred persons had boon imprisoned in the barracks. Many of these were more boys, all armed, and most of them under the influence of liquor. It is reported that Gustave Flourens, who is looked upon as lender of the rioters, has been arrested, but Wm is not confirmed. lie is said to have announced to his mother, before going from home to the meeting, that if Rochefort was arrested she would probably never see him again. At thia hour all is quiet. Pants, Feb. 8-6 P. M.—lt the Corps Legialatif to-day M. Keratry, one of the Liberal deputies, demanded to know why Rochefort was not arrested before he started for a political meeting where $5,000 persons were assembled. It was not necessary that this meeting should be thus disturbed, and the people who were participating aroused to violence. The act of the government was a provocation to the disturbances which took place. A member of the Ministry explained that the authorities had refrained from arrest ing Rochefort at the Chambers to avoid the scandal to which his arrest at such a place would have given rise. He asserted that the friends of Rochefort were prepared to make the demonstration which they had made, and upon this fact the Ministry could rest the responsibility of what had taken place, and the country would Judge between the Ministry and the rioters. He said there need be no necessity for the people to fear. The government was animated by the best sentiments towards them. The Minister of the Interior followed with the assertion that the friends of Roche fort had determined on a demonstration had he been arrested at the Chambers. M. 011ivier praised the conduct of the police in dealing with the disorders, and said they had acted with prudence and humanity. Feb. 8-10 P. M.—At noon to-day tranquility had boon restored in all the districts where disturbances • arose last night, and up to this hour the city has re mained quiet. Death of the First Hamilton. Washington correspondence Chicago Tribune. Here Is a piece of information seventy years old that is new to me, and may be to you. Did you over know that Alexander - Hamilton lost a son In a duel fought near the spot when) he himself was killed three years afterward by Burr I came upon it by chance in the library to-day, while overhauling the file of the New York Evening Post of November, 180]: " Died this morning, in the 20th year of his age, Philip Hamilton, oldest son of Gen. Hamilton—murdered ' in a duel. " On Friday evening last young Hamilton and young Price, sitting in the same box with Mr. Goo. I. Sacker, began in levity a conversation respecting an oration deliver ed by the latter In July, and made use of sortie expressions respecting It which were overheard by Hacker, who asked Hamilton to step into the lobby (of the theatre). Price followed—hero the expression damned ras cal was used by Far.icer to one of them, and a little scuffle ensued ; but they soon ad journed to a public house. An explanation was then demanded, which of them the offensive expression was meant for; after a little hesitation it was declared to be meant for each. Hacker then Bald, as they parted : 'I expect to hear from you.' They replied 'You shall; and challenges followed. A meeting took place between Dicker and Price, on Sunday morning, which, af ter exchariging four shots each, was finished by the interference of the seconds. Yesterday afternoon the fatal duel was fought between young Hamilton and Eack er. Hamilton received a shot through the body the first discharge, and fell without tiring. Ho was brought across the ferry to his father's house where he languished of his wound till this morning, when he ex pired." I wrote you, some time ago, a long so count of Decatur's duel, and you will re member that Decatur bad received similar warning in the deaths of two members of his family before ho himself tempted fate and fell on the inglorious tiehi of Bladena burg. A Swindle Stopped A very gross swindle In the Internal Revenue Department of the Government, has Just been nipped in the bud. On the 20th of December last, Deputy Commission er Douglass, issued an order requiringdis tillers, wholesale liquor dealers, and recti fiers, to buy, at a cost of $4.50 per copy, a form book In which to keep their accounts. These books were made by an obscure sta tionery firm in New York city who claim ed a copyright monopoly of It. The New York dun throws some light upon this at tempted swindle. It tells us that certain persons have prepared and copyrighted this form book, which costs $1.50 a copy t o make, and for which they charge (11 - 60, The Commissioner, armed with the author ity of the law, undertook to compel every man who is engaged in the liquor business to buy this book, and thus pay a profit of $3 per copy to its publishers—and perhaps, for himself. Is kt. possible to suppose that he was such a fool as to issue this order in ignorance of its practical workings? Per sons who know something of the liquor trade say that at least 750,000 copies of the book would have been sold at a gross pro fit of $2,250,000. It is fortunate for the credit of the Commissioner that the prose cution of this scheme has been suspended, as it would have been hard to convince the public that he did not share In its profits. As it is, he will not escape a very unpleas ant Imputation of gross negligence of linty, or worse, in permitting his subordinatesto trifle with the duties of his position.-00u rier-JournaL TheSsleofCadetships. The sub-co ttee of the House Military Committee, . ged with investigating the sale of cadetships conduct their proceedings Amorally but it has leaked out that they have evidence showing that two Louisiana members in the Fortieth Congress sold their appointments for prices ranging from $llOO to $BOOO-each... • The Pittatiiirepoilee courts eit on Ban day- Coal has been dbeovered in Flouston• Valley, Spyder county.
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