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Mani
Br HENRY J. STAIILE.
39TH YEAR.
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THE CEMETERY.
I love thy dust. oh, hallowod ground !
Whdre nirep. the heart grown cold,
radiaut spirit angels found,
An I lett but sacred would.
lllbt ,ti.,x; or ilomurs gathered o'er
siktet gra%a and hill,
Or tir a.xc—'ti. yet the 'lore
My heart i. with thee still
put brightly soon the thiaurs Khali bloom,
The gri,s grim% given
Aad einerith2 hues ern% ri the gloom
t? the %visite snows reign.
And ,Arth it.ic ritreqt huauty
It , szsi ntin.
O're l is 1y hear: awl deail,
Of hearts ils tt fetil ten pain.
so•qt rth ly stxottttA nhnli ht IL nt 13.1,
iiiter,c.l.4azt4v tot riniu
The 1014 All t ,1 . 111,1%. till . ;liter blaht,
dl t rirtiA in,,rning bring.
In.l wi..ar% hero,
11i4 vsullay ills uuldret,
:uit rin 1 rteru 1,1 whore
The weary are it re, t."
.c..ic.e.l ilii.sso.ciilol,ll.
THE RACE OF THE DEAD MEN.
4 , R B ritpr, the tvymtll of (Muller, eighteen
hnnilred ,t.vul forty-two, on Thill'sday, this.day
vx".t - c•tly fiTteen years u ,, 0, I was in lattuile 70 0
17" N.. and long. 911° 4fi' 45" 1,r., to the
rape Nikolai, on the western
41t 0-e. of It iothia. -i'.•etty high tr%.
icllu,c,;tniung the frozen regions. The went It
erwas rather tigilt.Tor it froze tht thenotn
,eter (liwn to 92.° helaw freezine• point. Bran
dy frozein tuy throat, and it ta.tt , d tike
.vaq \Vilat do you think all these little
ii4ures, and dots, a"i r i dashes mean ? Why.
nothing more nor less than this, flu' (;real
_Norik Ade ." I leant upon it—yes: I leant
anon the air that was frozen i t s stiff as a new
vri-4toorat s stipportor‘ to hi,, coat ('f arm , : , on
Itis ra.rriagy , door. Tirere wai; no mistaking
tine thing: I W:IS there: I had 'rot into that
intore4tiag regiort of sktflo,l frigidity by the
rxtre forer , At . sailinsr, in a !Vaatneket brig.
is Captain Tont7 !loin:z, nail voiman ad
ako 41,- that w- , )rthy vii 'She was
a whaler and No 1r awl I wa4 vv:Armin
inor. as:rona ae", iiiNtariAll, and Neeraio Nkoteh-
t thr r~iac iit.on. C'a ntain Ross Inul. taken
iN4rssiim 141 the inavie.tio lu,le hefore nc. h u t
it LI left ntit krr !2,•,a.rvis:ln or nrovisions in his
r‘iu 7) (1- him :A_ l<uulttn eoutraontorate, his al'ltiove
riont, lia(1to lice un fr417.( , 11
wal
rll'+. r. )17 ,ise. n.u , l wintlehone,
taken IMS of 13 tulirellas.... Yon know, if vuu
know .7,,:r5t)1in0., Vont a ne,isz,l,tv se:t washes this
Tealtu rolarity, erowtle(l, like a
13r,molway on:m . l :us, by :ribbed niowitains of
;Ice, rifling 4,1:14.1 grin , limg...-and surging, over
, caeli (alter, a.”(i trying to get into a41)1 seat,
m.; to lie &WI to gilt ortt at the earliest cams
- venieirce,witlioat the stir.:htest regarti to the
rights or comforts of thiir neighbors, After
Nve had fishy t trounii therr, a tittle s and caught
as much. Captain r,lll 7f-omits maclr up his
'shill" frozen mdind to ste:"; awl go
•Aoit Ise •41,ive' before e errxling 4)reeze,,
fear Lath acrd thnt thou
th-cea like; 4 .- Itoc, liatterio-; of iiiv L
to.i, when ke fought his g'eat tight avinst ll
.earrr man than hinvzelf tin the wheat fieklq
of ate.rtil,L
• •Are you eoll, 'Stirrup': and if Cart are,
use, the hal ee of this liquor, and Pil get
, e..n•vt.her tuml;'.er. S.trway hefore the breeze
VC , •rit, (la V 11:14 11 ' 114 ht. night and day, for it
NV;I.4 alt the .•aIIIQ thing, one as much as the
.ether, and I.,ctli more of.either than anything
4.!lse ; ama3 all the thne I kept wondering, w-Inni
the lituir, r,f krandv NVOLithi welt in my throat,
:and also) when Captain Tone Thorna*, of
Nannieket, would a'rrire tltat fleitri.ll
- and umbrageous pierki of paradise.
—One might, when the aurora borealis was
s',r..adfn„S.is Isroarl have,. and trying, to grip
tlif truths (-;fleaven with hi , long, flamers of
fire.--wheel tire wind was -rattling like the
ket.(--tlruni in 01..3 dead-march of Saul,
at Niblo'st heEtre—wlte,r, Ciptain Tom Thorn
a, was trring to detach a telescope that had
frozen to 'his right eve—when the scene was
a, bright th,daT, ;till the water as free from.
iee as the "iiratrt (if the lady I love free from
.coldness, I saw, will tli..rs , e two beloved and
- valuable p)rhs of mine, it Sight that made me
start with horror awl affright, and up juinpel
nic h , ..Lrt front ins furrel wztist-neat-poriket in
to My throat, and seized thßt lump of h'taiidy
the buttvat, and ?Ak" it down to sUntlier
-regl4#lll
4...alo'xin and d 13-i , ern thl only tern mPn
The rest wPrit I,4•Tr, Unfr,!eziliz
on de •k_
theintiVeS Eti'ing the it:ieles of du'
thrir own breaths had fortno,l
:all around ihe plaee—s. sort of grotto. or An
tioar„s, wiTho t at its warnth anA its littFie lake.
of NratP,r rcitch Eshos fo , ating in its fii-pth.,
ant slimmer air 4low hag through its splinter
e,l pArtals...
It \Vat a, 11111(!1y iligkt, and a sarame on,'
!fere we growl, if the .rind unwratls "our
from aroun , l our borlie, and expo l / 4 es
—users-h-i-v-e-r-i-a-g-ive_poi-tbs—yi'l.l-r-r-P4a-i-i-f-ai-r-4-h-a.-t.
freeze a Itueket of water in two
.Itour+. There the v'ery . - tzv , oente , l (air! dark
1111. A of ire, over. ‘vhl,-ii. in the l,1: tin:,
fla , hs.l it, •rP , I Artillory: -'
w ort , lfrr I h .1v it tn , t• - ,‘ titnict7,l; th
othrr— -Lmr , nrtsr f•rpttod•
the rol of
-
d rrit lifr
1: , 4 17 •r. 7 • r-- it. ,tivl -`locirt:. mir
rt'llY2-1•••1 91 . Ncrappiu;
' - -_•4'/(_,,_ . t.p/ttb/lita/4-,l;ttitti#
Tfq) )1 ;11! IfehAplpee—i)eivia ‘tiO ii)ficlii9eilee, ?Attics, Sze,
From i'(;rtor'a Spirit of the Time.'
:-TIN CP
paper. No earth. except that which lay,
lativon and fathom illimitable, away, (lowa
beneath us ; no pleasant sound of home of
ours' or other people's:no city lights to speak
a starry welcome to tho haven's heaVeti, hut
grim, silent, save the wind and the swashing
billow; silent,lmutterably still ; a void
deathless, but all mysterious and silently
awful : an eternity of nothingness, save again
the wind and the billow, and the phantom
ship that haunted the depth of the deep
owo
fulness of' the scene. My God, what a night
it was, and what a sight I saw !
Believe me or not, as yen plea:se, but there
it was : and even now I have tu. rib my et es
and pinch myself to bring me out of that
dream of a reality, to convince myself that I
did'not (lie that night. and that I am not now
r a frozen corpse, whom the tires of that
great pit prepared for the unrighteous. cannot
even melt.
Two hake iceberg. broke out of a seething
'nisi they themselves hail mode, as they turn
ed in a new current of the tempest, and came
driving madly after us. 1 was standing at
the stern, and wits holdine- the tiller that I
had tied to my waist. One berg on (evil
quitrter. The fires of the borealis lit them
up, and they gleamed in the spangled spectral
tv like phantoms of planets hu.sened from the
-wales, or from Pandemonium. On they cane
with the wind and the waves, eleanfing in the
dark crevices: and now-and theft a—shout
arose filen their high pinnacles that pierced
the air andl sent a shudder to my heart, el
ready quaking with a new and supernatural
terror. The captain, hail, by this time, be
come aware -of their proximity, and had al
ready hurried to the gang-way to call die - Men
up. but beloye he did so, he came to where I.
was standing, and without uttering a word to
(melt other, -we stand and gazed upon the
weird amid awful spectacle.
"Weird *and awful in all the elements of
grandeur and of terror, I saw now, and so did
our hardy and experienced captain, that there
was no danger to the ship, fir those two
phantom masses hf ice kept diverging from
ner sides,- widening the distance between
themselves, and assuring us, that without
some' sudden and not lirobable change of the
wital, they w-iuld not crush us in their mad
career. But it was not the danger that int
pri“eci us now : that idea' was, secondary.
The bergs had not cawyht up with - us. but
they were near us, and we could see the tor
rents from their sides as-they struck headfore
mest into the opposing flood, and wild and
shrill come the cries from their lit tops. and
bind and thunder-like, the bellowing moans
from their dark dales and caverns.
'• 'Jehovah in heaven '2, cried Captain Thom
as, 'what is that on the point of that nearest
•icel,er.zsr
‘• 'Father
. of •Merev,' I exclaimed, 'Cap
tain, look ! look what is that crouching
away up near the top of the other?'
"A shriek at tliis instant. burst from both
pinnacles the sea lashed furiously about
their base, and seemed to lick unwardwith a
greedy furry. Ti r e lielo of the Northern fires
spread white and lurid over the leaden vault,
t , fint seemed a lid to :1 huge coffin, and us
true as I om talking to you now, we -nW di- -
timely two human beings on these 'desolate
mits‘cz:„
"One stood stiff on the highest pinnacle of
the her to our left, and the other. iVith oat
stretched man, crouched beneath a projeeting;
ledge of ice, on the other to the right, -'they
were dead—frozen dead. aind frozen to the
mass that bore them through the sea and the
storm, and they were gueline• their hank
steeds or tempest out from the Niirtheta4pole,
to what goal, Crud only knew..
"Onward t hey went, and we could flistinet
lv see their glazed eyehalls . staring 'into the
distant voids,-while over their hair anil beards
clustered the hear frost of the hurrietnie.
tlieni the appearance of great age. Upon
their Mad chargers, they stood transfixel.
and all through _that night of horror, they
kept us eempany, now and then drawing
nearer to us; and as the one a pproitehed us on
which sat the man. with his arin canstrOtelleil,
the wild night wind blowing over the summit.
seemed to mine front his open mouth, and
warn us from the track. Tlie other stood
with his hands clenched, lint separated. and
lie seemed to he intent upon the contest in
which he w a s engaged ; fiir his fare, by magi
aveldeut, wac turned towards his corpse-eau:-
pa:than as il'he was watching each inovealent
th a t h e an n le, that he 'right benefit by it.
Evening dawned, the bergs had driven out of
sight.
"Oh, Stirrup : whem the dread trumpet
blow s :thing the universe, upal the final day.
will it not he horrible-to - see the wanderers
of the ice rise from their frozen sleep among
the huge. mountains of the Arctic realms, and
stretching themselves, as if' awakenin7 from
their sleep. prepare to follow where the An
,rel hick. Will I not then see those two_ ship
_
wreeked men, who. lost to7ether upon 'the
huge ice island of the Poles—had perished—
and when the tempest rae•ed, their frozen cof
fins had split kit twain, and they were borne
up In that fearful r-J.re, where the time was
not enuated by minutes, as with. feelde
Eclinse, but by eternities. Stirrun, toll the
'Spirit' people what racing I have done."
And I have done so.
The Ilepershini luallt.—Hn a - inetropelitan
criminal conrt, eight years ago, a poor Wl
man. who.o. bov had heels sentete-ed to a long:
term in the Ilenitentiary for some net well
proven offence. said : your hon o r
give him a Shorter term? lie a good' hoy
to ?rte., your honor—he :Always was.
tuide him sonic nice clotheq, your honor,
which tit him hcautiful, and .h" looked. a ,
she 'aid, a‘ otilv a motle.r can look at her
hoy,'; and if von ' , i‘e him a long tint , ' to ‘l'Ly
in the pri.4on the. clothe 4 won't 171 hint Who
e'MleS out, for he' , 4 a growin . bov." Poor
mother ! she had saved much for her) fr urn
her .east earnings to clothe her boy - like the
nci7hhors' children." 'Till , . ‘vat tun much for
her son. Ile thelted—he went—he repented
—for lie for.ri , .en. And he now one of
the tri‘st prominent. and honora
i;l" II :N tll mir cit\
wori thi , tine. and known to 11;2 c to
very ma.nr
in rr•late. tiiat
Coloriel. , T • upon the death of a master of a
h4l -ttusn(leiwlter. a hql - remark(' I.
~It .rai-lio•kr that the ...IT...rub:Aß wire to. , k
him try Itoa.rtql n(ithiit hilt fares and
n ink or he n-outri hare
•)ii the cray."
GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA : MONDAY, FEB. '2, 1857.
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None Exempt.
In her life of George Washington, Mrs,
Kirkland gives us one close view of that state
ly lady, Mrs. Martha Washington :
. `'lf we were to give our private opinion."
says Mrs. Kirkland, "we should say that Mrs.
'Alartha Curtis - Washington, with her largo
fortune, her strong, domestic tastes and affoo
tions,ruld her dutiful (•onnnon sense character,
exereised her full share of influence over the
Commander-in-chief of the Armies of the
United States of America. She had a very
decided way of speaking. and as she never
n ps,liti o d in nuhlic affairs, we can ca , ilv
imagime the General letting her have her -OWII
Way in pretty much every thing else.
"A guest at Mount Vermin happened to
-l eer i n a room adjoining that occupied by the
President and his lady. Late in the evening
when people had retired to their
chambers he heard the lady delivering a very
animated lecture to her lord and master, upon
something which he bad thaw, that she thought
tojt to be done dilforently. To all this he
ikt ei ,e(l in the profoundest silence, and when
s w e t ill , wa s ; s ile n t, l i e openol.his 1111 ":111111
s:l6ok(+, "IloW, l and Ski - 1w to :Nau,nly dear."—
This 'anecdote of the groat nian in 111•4 1111"11t
Val) 1•4 quite characteristic of him. hut it is
celunik so of most birds Hutt Masters. who,
Ave imagin, - i, all reeeive curtain lectnre., a.
Mr. Caudle and 11:itshin;tton did, in prorionol
silence. Experience prnhably, .tcaelies them
that it is the hotter way."
IIM:=I:3
pnited States is overrun,
at this time, with Professors—not Professors
of Colleges—who just help themselves to the
title, and parrole it with great dignity befbre
the Imblie. There is seareely a little Aemle
my in the country NVIIOSO teachers
filemptehos Professors—Music teachers,
masters, even wronants, are Professors.
l'hat title , mien signifying something. is now
synonyinotts with assaranee, pretension anti
lvra,•:. It has become almost as common as
Colonel or Major.
1111.1)'"First vlass in Orientni iihilosophy will
stand np. Thibliets, what . is life?"
"Life consists of 11101Wy, a horse, and a
fashionable wife."
! Next : What is, dcath-?"
"A paymaster who •:ottles everyhodi'' , z
dehti. and giyes them tonabz,tones as receipts in
full of all demands."
"What is poverty?"
•"I'lle reward of merit:Gelling r*enerally re
cei veq from a discriminating public."
"What is reli ,, ion ?"
—l)oing unto others RN VMI please, without
"al I , ”,vi ng them a return of the compliment."
"What is fame?"
1..1 six line puff in 1 newspaner while
and:your fortune to your enemies when
dead.".
On-a recent occa.4ion, one id our friends
was conthig down from ..11ba1v, and it- au
',eared—as ill lurk would have it—that there
cat opposite .to him. in the r Ir. a gentleman
Ivith re , narkably long leg , , whirl, he wie, not
r i wy particular ;Wont digging into onr frieud's
knees. Oar the - arrival of tl.e train at Sing
Sing, the lung egged man observed to his
neighbor: shall get out and stretch 111 . r
legs here a hit. as we wait ten minntes."
"Fur goodness' sake, sir. don't du that:-
snid our friend, "for 1 rm gain: sure they are
ta.) long 1 halt' already."
A- - , t y-Tifere is 14 case POW pending in the
Superior I%;urt, lloston, in which the plain
tiff. Barnalfas I;. Bayley, seeks to reeoVer for
set.: ices :ts a singer ‘vhilc engaged by Ossian
E. Dodge. 'file defendant refuses 04 pay for
these services, hecamie there was an agree
ment Made that if the plaintiff used ardent
spirits he shouhrforieit SlOO for- each drink :
and the defendant alleges that the plaintiff
has use i ardent spirit-line separate titile-1, and
claims as a set-off Ir the plaintiff loses
the ease. lie wuf:l4l !fetter exhibit lii:W44:lf
the man that pail Sluff Paull fur five drinki.
Twilling a Bair justice Of the
fetter, meeting a niiiiioer mounted on a fine
looking horse, pe -,, visilly :oke , l him why lie
(lid riot rile On a (lonkev in imitation
li•p4 berm le 7 4 1aster?— . 1)ne - imtiortatit rea
son is," reform:4 the minister, •ethat at this
time they are searee, haviliff• leten
an all-Wise Providence, into Magis
trates."
J. P. incontinently left.
- -
I 511101111 root
Up hinTriSed ii
unr :';tlSitll get, eh( /kelt home day." •
—Why, my son?"
"Because her beau twisted ids arm around
her neck the 'filler night ; and if 4-11 e had not,
kissed him he would have strangled her : be
sides, mother. he sits by her, and whispers to
her. •uni hug's her."
—Why, Edward, Susan does not suffer this,
doe, slip?"
45,,i7;•/. : She leve , ; it."
liands,rue young maid was observ
ed to he i n retleotikoi on her Nvedding
d a y . (h ie , i f ; I,rj.ll.noids w,kftti thv st11)-
jeer of lier thinking,"
-he replied, ••%vhieli of Inv old heaux I should
marry iu 4. 3 ..40 ,ho o ld lo' anc a widow."
hava heard 4,1"
I,)sor, in imr time. lint we think that
t 4 takes all down I could
he'dyel hito•k," he t., Captain Cattle.
••tin.l mark "ilk', , iave. I r•liottlil
it a eumpliaient ; ar the ha(l'itiCe
,)1' uLL pniperty, I you'd get tran%nligraterl
bo perre,:tly hap
py, I 111.r. 5 !,,,t" Wiffild ,vw,;ging my tail."
y-An' Irishman, wh , , waK giving hill te.-
tini.,ilv in the Monieipal Curt lately,
CouvuL•ed the bar, tickt.dell thejliry, :old rais
ed a ,n ) iio ()ii the honch by the folluwing state-
ID (91 T.
,ee, inav't plaze yec , , that thi4
man vot a stroke and fell (I , ,trii. Everybody
round calleql nut, 'Ow, he's kilt he's hilt!'
and. h - oilied—rTut t.)
er.,wd, 'lf the• man 1 , kill. 'air,- don't yee-
Istaini Fit/ilk. and giVe hirn a little air""
il;tin, i,tlrlanri. rerently, a young
mitt), by wa; rf ajr h ir.r rri a call•kin ir.er
H ;1 4 1 . oar sow , gi , is wh
Acre 1.a...tn2; malting
tiorri , lic The •,verc terribly
f r i , ..„3, t y rw i. OUP t ( 11 , , 1 rte't , lay, after,
and aa,..tht:r
"TRUTH Is MIGIITV, As p wll.l. PREVAIL
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Supposed Discovery of the Tower of
Babel.
A correspondent of the Boston needier,
writing from Beinon, announces that M.
Place, the French Consul in Mosul, has
discovered the ruins of the. Tower _of-Babel.
"Six of its eight stories have fallen and
crumbled into dust ; but the two which re•
main - are so high Mot Ulf?, may be ‘teenforii . l-
ty or sixty miles <trouml. The base of the
rower is quadrangular, and each side about
six hundred feet long. The tower is made of
brinks of the, purest day and of a white
color, which is a little shaded with a yellow
tint.
'Under a clear sun, as it . uhole, this ancient
monument at 1i skill and daring presents
a fine hlending yolors, ‘Nhiell sets the pain
ter:s pallet at defninci , . Before being.: haired,
the brielts had been covered with churaeters
ha l ved with the arrrtrne of thO ' kOill of a
writin . g master. Near the top or the letters,
the straight strokes were adorned with flour
ishes resembling the heads of nails. All was
neat. regular and severe: and. those
who saw these specimens olanrient ealigraphy
affirm that the fathers of the human race
wrote a bettm..hmol than their children.
.Imong tilt' intre4ting froq•ovories - :k!,
PhinT,- \yore certain inserintions tail tills tx of
silver and copper, and also upon 8. 11let:II,
110 W 11!lk:it,W11, 1111(1 ‘v_hiolt has sotne , 4 hat the
appearance or ivory, rt: hay keen l:ulnuittl l
to the experiments of at , i nt motallor
gist, and its (inttlities will , onii be ascerMin
ea. Some very curious photographs, taken
h the expedition, completod their labors, one
of tvhieh was of the ruins of the palaeo of thr
f a mous ()neva Semiramis. This ancient mon
'meat, ~ itnittod on the hoi;dtt of a nionntaln
raised ;Lev tlio luuuls OS 'molt, overlool:s the
awful goll'utles W!'11 . 101 Furriaml L:110:` V:lTl—u
body of wßtep six or
_set on - times larger than
Lake t.;eilova."
The 7',41 , rr Ilith-G—The Boston Atlas
diNPUtes the identity of the recent alleged du—
eovery in Syria with- the Tower of 13ahel. nn
!lumina, of which was published in the 'Lravel
ler. and says:
"The mound :0 Arhela, which M. PLace hns
examined. and which the k awre.spondeffi of the
Traveller itnagiued him to have discovered.
has been long known. thor:gt► we believe it-has
to 'before been explored. In 18.11 it was
described by Fraser, in his work on Messopo
tamia and Assyria, as •n large Artificial mound.
GO or 70 feet high. :100 yards in length by 200
in breadth.'-:—The Abijeliele at Babylon is 150
feet high. and ;he fir Nimrod ne:oly feet
high. or three or four times the height of the
ruin at A rhela.—Througliont AsQyria. and
Messopotamin there are multitudes' of ruins
erlual to, or greater than, tHt. at A rbela. with
quite as good claims io• he considered the
Tower of 1341 tel—that is,- to say, with no
c Wins at all."
Sensible Advice.
The Oregml IVef.kiv l'lC” , ‘ 4 tt trIITV
patriotic article in htipp , rt of the Union with
the inilinvin:4 advice:
.*The love of etittittry, tlw proti!etiun of the
eonstitut Mit, the ohserv.tnee of the late;, aad a
respect - for the rights and. i tit ere;.ts or on the
st.ate4 ;aid Territorie., prin - oiple.; wRWh
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every true patriot should instil into the mini&
of the rising tzetteratiin-The principle of
disunion should he frowned down. nod the
word disunion e ,,nsidereil ft re.
proach to all who lisp it in disrespelt of the
strong bands which hold tog.ether thirty-one
States and seven Tenitoriec. Sectional and
lova] differences have a roper_ tribnilal to
which to refer all differences of sentiment,
tinder the laws ;mil constitution of this conn•
try ; and the man .who refuses to respiwt aucl
honor them is better fitted for some other
country titan this. Ile is hoter adap:ed for
other count and
ajtlnnxiitutte nearer his own illiberal and sel
fish, sordid principles. We advise all croak
ers uo leave a country whose ) 2; ivertiment they
- despise and daily malign, and lind a better, i*/
Meg e(171."
404.1104. - •
Cer ; 0 01 Effi it " lin following ap
pears in the Churchman
"\Vheit I c•to read it title ele-alt,
To mansions itt the skies,
I'll bid farewell to everto'it,t4.
And wipe :ay NVOVping eyPt+. "
The 31,111)%1';S t h e style ()relocation in whieli
the rust lines of Dr. Watt's celebrated hymn
were recently deli‘ere I from the tleoply re
reSHrd i!llariet'l that beautiful the
rector of ‘vhielt some time since so solemnly
announced that the " , ittierin , s the poo-.r • l,
increase Icith the approach of trial-qh,” and
who, from the pulpit, is• in the habit of .ex . -
the wondrous efficacy of the OnB-pi./
for the cri-71, of all the ills of sulfuring hu
manity.
Tho , ame accomplished minister, 111)011 OP
day on Ndtich he delighted, from the
ehaneel, his ravished hearers with the above
puctle Bean, ViCk•trirlo(l them UN" the following
loirst from the pulpit of eloquent and ela3sie
declamation :
••()h, fowl, !
jud , ,r,iitmit, is ne-ah !
Ml . (' is lidt a 7-,1-peth "
Are the'' the 10-lit/18 of love to illeh one
who Inu• taken upon himself the office of a-pub
lic Leitch-oh Leek himself called ? Or in it to
he tolerated year after Fear—the devotiotu ,
of a 4olligregatioll to he (litit rio!,l, the beauti
ful serviros of the church ile and the
momentous truth , of Revelation degraded, bv
their mmeees , :try and 4:eliSliral/IP
withth( . .o and hilllifar vulgar and irreverent
eNhildtiotu,
Soldierx Nl2 ---\l - kilo we :u• 0 gratified
‘l'e that the of l heroes of the war of It;`1
a nnually m e et in convention, to tleli ',crate up
on matters conne.•ted with their intere.ts,
notice that, in the S :nate of NeW York, the
r(onptroller cent in a statement that the
amount of money paid the4o nuliin m en
ring the pact year NV:04..;1:.)0,4•2.i),(,)5. Rut a
very few years longer these old N,,ldierts will
have past to their endle., slcer. !tut
tre - frr
Anil the wind r.dis a wave,
The tear-drop shall brighten
kie turf of th.F.l.iraNe.
11:"Said to its iliev were ta
•L 'hive (pile :
—Wi mt ;;rn r t, :ir o pi n i o n o h It .., , :•1(1e/1 life ?
Think it 1-, , t ?"
••Well, 1 you, flat rr flPp:nric , al
ider lapy% (1-3 - ujoy (I::.ut , cl‘ fit.tr."
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For the Compiler
0)m AGO TWP., Jan. 24th, 1857.
. 11. J. t;TAIILIi, Esq.—hear Sir :—Permit
me to present to you my sincere thanks for
the copy of the Address of lion, J S. Black,
L. L. 1.)., to the Philomathean Society of
Pennsylvania College, delivered September
P2th„ 1556, on "lleligious Librriy," which you
bud the kindness to scud me by Mr. N.
I have read it with much pleasure, and,
with the exception of one faei which he, in
troduces, I fully subseribe to,the notice you
have taken of it in the columns of the
piter, that ho has treated the sulkject, of Re
ligions L ikrly "with great ability, evincing
extenshe rehding and profound tinnight, ex
pressed in latiguoge which is at once ehiquent
and liweible." 1 view it as a proilu e tio n em•
limiting from the mind of a Protestant gentle
man, t gully divested of all religious biL.rotry
and intolerance, and endowed with that spirit
of frankness, liberality and candor which
should distintruish gentlemen. or all parties,
and all creeds, who - respect the religions rig,lits
of their follow citi:lens. I admire in it that
noble and lofty sense ofjugtice which induces
hint to place Calvert on - the proud eminence
of bein g "the author of the first statute that
evor was Ibags4d to ensure entire freedom of
e.poseionce"—which renders hom:ore to the
deep time of p• T ,oinil piety of a St. Vritticis
ier—and ‘Yhich deals out that biting sar
casm to the mali - gners of the patriotism of a.
Chorles Carr.ill, and to the credulity of the
believers in the fooleries of a - Maria Monk—
an honorable tribute of respect t o the memo
ries of these three eminent members 'of the
Olt Ilia! Church.
t iS theret . ore with sineere regret that I
notice the exeepjon stbole alluded to, and
Wlth'll .Consists of a hiNtorik;al error iut6
whia Judge Black, no doubt inadvertently
fell, and which you will find on page 22 of
the printed achlre,,s, and which is in the fol-,
lowing words : "I think no one can read the
writing . of St. Francis Xavier without being
toneliptl by the deep tone of hiS personal
pi(!ty : vet, he was' the wrtbor of that d
enl intention, the Sparii.ll inquisition."
Intro itutieho? the word at, Mot.
A number of years ago thellon. John Q.
AdanP , , ia a spec.th delivered at Cincinnati,
fell into a similar error. in ascribing - the
founding or authorship of the inquisition to
St. Ignatius of Layola.
Now the curt:, appear to he these—St. Igna
tius of Lapsla was Isom in 1.191---:-and
Fram,.is Xat•ier in - 1506. The Inquisition
was founded about the beginning of the 13th
century (1200) during the Pontificate of hmo
emit 111. It was established in "France in
122 G iu tbe reign of St. limis—to which-prob
ably Judg-e Mack alludes in page 21; It was
iu opsration iti Italy in 12'24. It was intro
duced lido ,tinuin 0.1 OW the Midate of the 13th
century (I'2soj—end all this before St. !grin,
tilts nr St — Fritneis Xavier were, born; and
therefore inlooduce , l into
. Spaia about two
centuries and a hall before the birth of- St.
Francis Xavier ; conselieutly - he co u ld not
possibly ImNe been the author of the Spanish
A . llli br ill observe, sir, that I, merely give
the dates, without ;illy further remarks about
the motives or de.tign or nature of that tri
lma], whether political or religious. as that
is h point controverted by Protestant' and
Catholic writers. My object siimply is to wrest
this character St. Francis Xavier from the
odium \vhich might attach to it" in the minds.
of liiwrol tool candid P t t
ril.et+,ll.ll.B un 111•1:011111
of this his suppwred rodlit»whip of the in f i tiir,i•
tion--a character venerated throughout the
Catholie . world on account, of his piety, hiss
, anctitY and him 'heroic devotiop to the serviee
of his lb% hos Master in the reclaiming :Ind
cent ersion of souls. I may add that ho was
disciple or St. ignatirms, and therefore n
Atjt Mill although all manner-of evil things
are said of', and as'eribed to. the society of
.iesus or Jesuitrsi, as they are called, yet it
might perhaps be a difficult matter to show
aanthentieally, that they as a body tir sileiety
had over anything to (In with the
you shonfil dent roper to give thn4corren
t of that orriar a place in your paper you
will oblige ine, and perhaps . many others;
ith the distinct and !lineere expression that
no disrespect to Judge Black whatever is in
tended "by toe. . SENEx.
Lawyers and Editors.
Ma. STABLE t—lt 1110 been frequently re
markcii that some editors, not one hundred
Miles from Gettyshurg, have in turn attacked
every 4'IISS and society of I,ersons existing - in
the vicinity. lam not about to question or
pr ,, re the t ru th o f the observation, nor am I
an xitats to deserve a similar character. Some
few hints, however, which I hl!all venture to
&t.y, will, 1 hope, be under.tood exactly as
they are intended—whether as a 8(21 ire on the
nrc.o4 or the har, I leave to others to determine.
It is the opinion ef !Aussie people th a t it w o uld
Le Letter for the public, if the press were
paid in the s:uue manner as the bar. A law
yer is paid for advovating one ()pinion to-day,
and another toemorrow—n() person thinks of
identilying him with either; the rea)tons in
Loth cases are weighed, awl the character of
the individual who is the organ through which
they tied their way to the public., is rarely
Taken into the account,. Mr.—, for instance,
took a side the other day in the case of
versus —, whieh he will have to oppose
again at the next term in the case of —.
What has this double advitea.c.sy to du with the
grounds of the two' opinions ? It would
in
rlr•ed be very anfortunate fur a litigant, if it
were to he understom; that the advocate. to
whom he commits his cause, must necessarily
Le persuaded himself of the goodness of it,
Whv should not a public writer be allowed
to s.hilt his ground fur pay., as well as a law
yer? There is a squeamishness about the
press which is altogether out r,f character in
en age like this. Would the reasons in a
leading article lirione whit less convincing
because a different set of reasons was broach
ed its a leading article of the preceding day,
any more than the reasons ill it speech of an
Attorney-at-Law, because he advanced argil;
rt►entcin - farir of otherprinuiples - immediaTe - - -
lv before? What is i 6 to the public whether
the writer is sincere or insineere, or whether
ho in p. 1.141 or not paid? Why should the
I, , ,ssoning derive any tire from all , : e:.,,trirs
sie or tbreiga c.lnsideration ?
If public writers _were, as easily beiii '
lawyers ; if they adeoeated in the same cool
manner all sorts of opinions, their readers
w.,01,14,1404,.-be,,,.4 ! sposed-o to- the.„tribu lati on of
perftsin e ; the article: written durixt, the period
Irr,r the Comvilor
- - - -
TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR
when a journal is shifting its ground—when
it is veering froth - one opinion to another.—
Sometimes this mistifying period extends to:
a whole quarter of a year, and it is a sheer
loss both to the writer and reader.
Thus it should be, say some political econe-
Mists, with the editors of newspapers, and it
is to he hoped that the gentlemen of the press
will in time see their Own interests, and learn
to be more venal, and they ♦sill be much more
respected 119 well as richer f :MAGNET.
New Oxford, Jan.lBst),
-41111114111.-
Now and Then.
Before the election the cry was—elect 'Bu
chanan and Kansas will come in as a slave
State; the slave trade will be revived; Thos.
South will domineer over the North; Slave
holders will rule the nation, and the last
spark of freedom will be quenched and our
republieau government be turned into a' des'-
potism. And thousands were actually mado
to - believe all this, and to look upon the Item
occatic party as a sort of a . Car of .. .Tug-gem:int;
whose wheels, if not stopped, would crush out
lianumity and roll user the bun and mangled
flesh of our fellow creatures with creaks of
.savago delight ! But how changed the;tnne
The effort to revive the shire trade 'has been
signally rebuked ; iLepublioans, tell us, that
Kansas will come in ns a free State, and that
Mr. Buchanan will keep nts eye on the inter
eats of the North as well as the South, and en
cleaver "to bring hack the government tomdiat
it was under Washing Gin' and Jefferson!'
flow long (asks the earasie Dem oc. oat )
honest men be duped 'and led astray brae
oiirrupt arid designing.
A Sad Case.---A. pretty, rosy cheeked Irish
\vellum, with an infant about 14 months off, .
has been at the Central Station House
oral days, having applied there for Imlgings.
Accordit* to her story,' she arriVed itr - this
City from Ireland about eleven' year*
and has been living at, ; Buifalo,New Yorkeity,.
Boston, and other places, daring the past
three - years. Iler husband died.at Boston, .
and 'she beingyerr poor, made application' ie.'
the authorities of` that, thy, and when h was
ascertained that he had, arrivedia
phut front Ireland, the Bostonians, could,do,
nothing for her, though she had lived there a
year. —.l-Milirderphia News.
Foolish woman ! Why did not she , paint'
her face black and tell the Bestonians she Was
a runaway slave? Halm had done that, they
would have bowed dovim and worshipped her. -
The Boston folks have always' liked negroesi•
Even as far back as a hundred'yearm agO they
were eo fond:of negroes - that they sent theist'
.
slips to Afriett and brought theM hereby
thotrstut dm. Then they liked them solve!' that'
they stole them freratheiniative country
note they like them mo-well that they .steal
them 'front the masters to whom, they sold
them.— Valley -
fliiV""TIII: BRIBED APOSTATE I .—blot his halo
ful name
From eneh and every scroll of honest fame,
Lot no, man trust him :--mono forbear,to shed
Contempt—and !lee") ilishutior—ou his head
Lot scorn still point her finger and hor jibes,
And stiy--ste• Bohuld ' the conleguence of
Bribes . ' •
Lot guileless ebildron,^4lol he passes by, •.
Shrink from his touch, and shudder at his eye;
L e t lovely women loathe him with disgust,
And shun him,—like the reptile in the dust;
And, whilst he lives, let Infamy, clone.
%Lim the netliED LEfIISLATOIt"-As ER OWN,
he' dies-Lend sinks into thn grave
. r() ritthiln) worms, that feed npost the knate; ,
There,—'initist the storms—let itideous,Furitis
foul.
nightly revel,—nnd in concert howl
Let hissingscrponts make that spot their home,
And be the watchful guardians this tomb." -
- . [ t:',9nwag;
happened route years ago, in sate
of the Northern counties of.l'ertnont. that the
then Slate's Attorney, though.a man of groat
legal ability, was rat hero toe find of the "crit
ter," and with a perversity-A* habit, which we
have often seen in others, was pretty sure to'
drink too deep at the very time when it %VILA
most necessary that he should be sober. On
one occasion, ati important criminal case was
called on by the clerk, but the Nttorner, with
owldike gravity kept his chair, being, in fact,-
not fairly able to stand on his feet.
.
,
"Mr. Attorney, is the State ready_to pro
ceed ?" .aid the .Judge." . .
")'ea—hie--tie, your honor,"stammereithe
lawyer, "the State--bie—is not in a state to
try this case tu-ilay--the State, sour bonor i is
drunk !"
s=:=ms
Bre"A late celebrated judge, who stooped
very much when walking, had a stone throxn
at him one day, which fortunately passed over
him without hitting him. Turning to his
friend, he remarked, "Had I been an upright
judge, that might have caused my death !"
0.13 , -We know a respected gentleman in-
Munroe county, trio many years ago :•awella
coal of wood to pay, in advance, his first year's
subscription fur a newspaper. lie is now, in
his ripe awl vigorous old age, worth Li quarter
of a million of flollars.
VIA- It said that a certain town ,in New
England, in order to get rid of supporting a
elected him to a sent in the legilluture.
10-„, t l"The latest way to pop the que s ti o n ex
to :o.k the Mir lady., "If you shall have tho
plea s ure of seeing her at the minister's."
"I saw• him kiss your cheek." " 'Tis true."
"o,mo,lesty!" ""T was strictly kept ;
Ilo"thoufrht in,• asleep ; at least I kmnr
- thought - 1 -- thloachthc:thoughti. stepL."
t... 7 73— A g•on leman lately heart} a laborer
very gra vol,y t . . , 1 of his comrade , : that
a : 1 ‘, , v4!:1 -lour puil rider is a eannou that,
:,e,al:4 a pound ball ex:Leidy severity-four miles."
Janice.—•J urur on a. murder case
fagt
lieoccr.lonc.4—To tako a .I.llar out, of
one fluckf.:t grid p ut it int) the Other.
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