CIUSCE,
Tbcy spake of tbcc to mo: tl»ey eald,
■••Tbis lstbyiriond”; and I, with ect
Mechanic force, as one that met
A challenge, turned; in measured speech
I-spoke of thee. I seemed to reach
.'gome distant region whence to bring
My words, that in a praisefairing
Enebrined thynamo. Mywords wore true,
Tet, while I spake, a creel sense
Hi falsehood on my spirit grew,
Of ptrvertv and vain pretence;
Awohtl wf loosened earth fell through
My words, and then they ceased; > anew
I buried thee beneath my P ra ‘®®i
I hid thee deep, and o’er thee drew
, Themonlds, wine, like a teor that fa llB
Among fee grasses raDk ana mgir
That grow within the graveyard walls,
, And glitters when the dews are diy,
Fell on my soul the thought of days,
'When at thy name a sudden flower
Within my heart would bloom and spread,
And die not till its odor shed,—
Made sweet the moment, sweet the hour
I spoke of thee. O ! these were days,
Metbinke, for loving, not for praise.
1 could not praise thee then; In part
I Baw not, loved not What to mo
Were gifts that ■others prized? A free,
Kind rift, I took thee to my heart,
This heart that did not reasons seeks,
Nor reasons need, for loving thee,
Bo now this praising thin and weak
fleems but a shroud to wrap thee in
A garment never worn in life,
Drawn close unto thy feet ana chin.
Bo endeth love, so endeth strife,—
"Vex not this ghost, O, let it pass,
Hold not before these lips the glass;
The life, the breath, the soul is fled,
Mow draw,the curtain round the dead,
And bring no music here. What care
The dead for praising ? Unto prayer
Let silence gr° w > shut Out the air
From this still chamber; shut the light
From these still brows so calm and white.
Dora Grkeswei.i..
[ From Houna at Home. ]
tHE«IUIIMLV>SCBOOI< MtISE.
Bmg, Bing, Whatshall I sing?
Mother Goose.
This nineteenth century,preeminent among
•the centuries for new inventions, hew dis
coveries, new developments of various sorts,
has also seen new fields of literature opened.
To every new department in the world of
science or of art, there corresponds a new
department in the world of letters—for every
one, innumerable pens. descnptive, expla
natory, eulogistic, are continually busy—for
everyone, are printing-presses ready with
their tireless industry, till the world is lum
bered with volumes and littered with
printed pages—broadsheets, pamphlets,
newspapers and books. “Or making
many books there is no end,” cried the dis
•eouraged preacher of the old world; but if
that were all, we should have reason to be
thankful; there ought to be a revision of the
text for this generation, because now of
making many books there is a positive in
crease an increase so rapid and enormous
that, when one considers of what sort the
books are, and how fearfully and wonder
fully made they often are, it is a matter of
profound and sorrowful astonishment that
the world enduresthem.
This phenomenon has its secular and its
religious phase, after the manner of
'Some newspapers. ,It is not without a
«*.Ttnin terror in our gratitude—of terror
mixed with wonder at the capacity of an
earthly vessel for a freight so heavy—that we
hear of the nine tons of tracts —or was it ten
tons?—sent recently across the Atlantic by
some English benefactor of the Chicago Chris
tian Association. Even if the literature be
religious, there is something appalling in this
cool way of dealing with it by the ton!
Moreover, that must be a very guileless and
inexperienced faith, indeed, which has not
learned that the amount of more or less
worthless matter in nine tons, even in reli
gious literature, must be mournfully large. A
rievout purpose is not the only qualifica
tion necessary to the production of a wor
thy and efficient religious literature, and,
unfortunately, the sole inspiration of some
•writers consists in a devout purpose. Still
more unfortufiately, the devout purpose
itself is sometimes lacking, and its place sup
plied by an odious conceit and egotism, by a
Bmall ambition to appear in type, or by a
greedy wißh to manufacture something that
•will sell. In the first case supposed, the re
sult is twaddle more or less harmless. In the
last, the result is twaddle more or less mis
chievous. The name “religious” does not
always save a thing from worthlessness or
worse. And it ought not, therefore, to save
it from close scrutiny, and from honest, and,
if necessary, severe criticism.
One department of literature under this
general “religious” head is that produced in
the interesta of the great Sunday-school move
ment. Scarcely any of the new phases which
Christian effort has assumed during the
present century is more remarkable than this.
Scarcely any of them has received less care
fill and impartial study. But it needs care
ftil and impartial study to understand the im
portance of this movement, to appreciate its
great usefulness, and to discern the cor
responding abuses to which it iB liable,
ana by which already it has been in part
perverted. Such a general examination
cf the whole Bunday-school movement
does not come within the scope of this
paper. Nor even do we purpose anything
Ehe a criticism of what the Germans would
eall *‘the entire literature” of the subject.
TSven that work would be too vast—for there
Would be every sort of material to be ex
amined, since the Sunday-school movement
has now its newspaper organs, its monthly
magazines, its apparatus of instruction, its
song-books for singing. It would be a useful
and entertaining work, no doubt, tor overhaul
the libraries of our Sunday-schools, and to
marvel at their various contents, from books
.in which no evangelical Christian with the
sharpest nose could find offence, because
they have no savor of any kind whatsoever,
to “the complete sets of Captain Maryatt’s
and Bulwer’s novels,” which a certain pastor
discovered; to hiß horror, in the too long un
inspected collection of his own school.
Perhaps some other critic may take up this
task, or we ourselves at some convenient
season. For the present y?je restrict ourselves
to that narrower field ofsong, in which the
Bunday-school muse disports herself with an
activity most wonderful, and often most
mournful to behold. To view her with a
critic’s eye, nor pass her imperfections by, is
tbeserious task to which we now address our
selves. Only let it be understood that we
apeak u> the interest of Sunday-schools, and
notSn opposition to them—that if our wounds
wre faithful, it is because they are the wounds
-of a friend.
The work isnot an easy one. Mr. Mat
thew Arnold, whose critical ability no one
- - will question,"-dnd’whosp literary authority
upon a matter of this sort it is hard to over
estimate, .haß pointed out one difficulty
which we encounter at the outset. “Scarcely
«ny one of us,” says he, “ever judges our
hymns fairly, because works of this kind
have two sides—their side for religion and
their side for poetry. Everything which has
helped a man in his religious life, every
thing which associates itself in his mind
With die growth ot that life, is beautiful
•nd venerable to him; in this way,
• jproductions of little or no poetieal
value may come to be regarded as
*wy precious.” Mr. Arnold applies this
remark in a way which to many of ub seems
•ohsweeping, and is certainly startling. He
regards tke whole of English and of German
deficient in poetic
Serit German innßtnen and we, .ho
Bovs, “we the great people lor hymns. The
Gennans are very proud of their hymus, and
■we are very proud oi ours; but It is hard to
of the two,' the . German hymn
book or ours, hoB least poetical worth m it
self, or does least to prove genuine poetical
power ih the people producing it. cer
tainly Mr. Arnold’s statement is tbb
sweeping; certainly there are to be found
among our hymns, lyrical poems of real and
permanent worth considered as P OOI ?®>
•and apart from their religious Value; but
certainly there is a vast multitude of hymn 3
which, if they could be carried away as witn
a flood out of our literature, we should never
miss, hut their loss would rather be our very
great and lasting gain. It needs no argument
to prove that a bad hymn ought to be ex
terminated by 1 all possible means known to
civilized and Christian oriticism. It may not
be quite so apparent that an indifferent hymn
is also and positively mischievous.. But it is:
because it stands in'the way of the good ones
and obstructs their usefulness, and the un
discriminating reader and worshiper, embar
rassed by the multitude of hymns, may choose
the . worthless and refuse the good.
We let a new hymn into our books
a great deal too readily. We
ought' to stop it and challenge it, and
try it with varying tests before we giveti c -
trance. Especially we ought to trown in
dignantly upon that popular heresy which
estimates the value of a hymn or tune just in
proportion to its novelty; and, when it has
been sung a little while, and there begins to
grow up some sacredness of clustering mem
ories and associations attached to it, pre
sently rejects it as no longer tolerable by the
itching ears, or suitable to the empty hearts
of modem and progressive worshipers. iNo
one can take up our great, fat books with
their one and' two thousand hymns, and ex
pect to find every hymn in them a gem. it is
■only reasonable to suppose that what mates ■
them bulky is the quantity of chaff which
they contain. So that, after all, when we
consider Mr. Arnold’s, criticism on the
whole, we may find it nearer true than
we supposed. And, at any rate, what he
soys about the necessity of separating
“ the side for religion and the side' for
poetry" in the criticism of our hymns is true
enough.;;
All this applies to the great multitude ot
Sunday-school hymnsr and one-wonders what
Mr. Arnold would say if he had thejm to deal
with. Let ,us criticise some paltry doggerel as
it deserves, as false in thought, so. far as it has
any thought, as crude and watery in senti
ment, as inaccurate in grammar, as ludi
crous in imagery, and we may very likely he
told, in reply, that this veiy hymn was a
source of great enjoyment to some good lit
tle Sunday scholar now in heaven; which re
ply is very apt to silence us, even if it car
ries no significance of conviction whatever.
Even if it only makeß us wonder how babes,
for whose use a very pure and wholesome ar
ticle of milk would seem to be necessary, can
digeßt spiritual food of such exceeding tough
ness, one does not quite like to say so, nor
to hint that their present blessedness may be
in spite of, rather than in consequence of, the
wretched songs they were compelled to sing
on earth. Let us condemn some other effu
sion of the Sunday-school Muse, (we shall
give specimens presently) as a caricature of
Scriptural poetry, as grossly materialistic,
and sensuous in its conceptions, as alto
gether vicious in its taste, and presently there
f 8 hurled at us a dictionary and a concor
dance, with a separate quotation from each
and a separate collation of texts to justify each
one of the offences charged, and to prove
each one—sound from a religions point of
view ! So hard it is to separate the “side for
religion and the side for poetry;” so much
difficulty do some people find in .recognizing
faults of any sort in verses which have been
admitted to be sung in religious places, or for
religious unses, ana have, however^'unwor
thily, aDy religious association attaching to
them. „ ~ . .
Another difficulty in the way of this criti
cism is the fact that the Sunday-school Mu9e
has proved a most fruitful and prolific crea
ture. behave made only, an imperfect col
lection of the singing-books which have been
! issued for the use of Sunday-schools during
the last forty years, but our assortment,
though imperfect, is very large and varied.
Probably the oldest work of the kind is the
little pamphlet of thirty pages prepared and
published in the year 1829 by Lowell Mason.
But this 11 Juvenile Psalmist,” as it was called,
was a very different thing from the multitude
of pamphlets and volumes which have suc
ceeded it. Its purpose was to teach
children to sing church music, and to make
them ready to join intelligently in the
church worship. Therefore the tunes and
hymns,thoughthey were all simple and easy,
were for the mS3t part taken from the tune
books and hymn-books whieh were already
in use in the churches. And as yet there was
no thought of a distinct and separate style of
words and music for children, which should
wholly crowd out of use among them the
mdre devout and unambitious words and
music in which their elders were wont to
worship ; making thus of the Sunday-school
—so far as worship is concerned—not the
“ nursery ” of the church, as we are fond of
calling it, but a separate and even sometimes
an antagonistic establishment; not a kind of
preparatory training department for the little
ones, but a distinct sphere: so that it looks
as if there had come to be in modern society
there well-recognized estates—the church,
the world, and the Sunday-school.
But the publication of the “Jiivenile Psalm
ist,” at the request of the “Boston Sabbath-
Schbol Union,” proved to be like the letting
out of water, and a stream of singing-books,
big and little, has flowed in upon us ever
since, sometimes at the rate of naif a dozen
or more in a single year. Under all names
and titles they have come, sometimes simply
as “Music books,” “Singing books,” “Hymn
books,” “Melodies,” etc.: sometimes im
personated, as “Minstrels,” “Psalmists,”
“Pilgrims," ‘lOrlolas,” “Cherubs;” some
times as “things without life giving
sound,”—and with the old uncertainty a 9 to
“what is piped or harped” rather aggravated
since Connthian days—such as “Gems,” and
“Censers,” and “Harps," and “Lyres,” and
“Choral Harps,” and “Trumpets,” and innu
merable “Bells;” sometimes under titles of a
more doubtful sort, as “Early. Blossoms,” or
“Fresh Laurels,” or even—to our great per
plexity by reason of the mythological associa
tions of the name—as “Golden Showers."
From the very beginning, the defects and
deformities by which this litefature has been
increasingly characterized were foreshadowed;
and the “Cherub,” which is the earliest book
upon our list after the pioneer pamphlet _ al
ready-noticed, isguiltyofsome note worthyim
proprieties which were typical ot the greater
ones to follow. Already, for,example, the
music and the hymns take on theatrical airs;
and we find them making ready—not to
serve as the expression of simple and devout
worship, but to show themeelveß off, at
“Concerts” and “Exhibitions.” Already
there is a large assortment of dialogue songs,
of a more orJess intricate sort, and of a sort
more or less indecorous. There are al
ready solo parts in which a child must per
sonate an angel, or a cherub, or an ancient
prophet, or the Lord JeßUs Christ. There
begin to be the materialistic songs about
heaven, and the sentimental songs about
death, and the self-sufficient songs of the
good hoys who never do anything out of
THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29,1868.
the way, and 'Who brag of their moral
I virtues, and the more or Jess comic ana in- j
/coherent negro soncs, and, though ' not very
distinctly aa yct,theculogistic songs that sing
the praises of the Sunday-scuool. It is in
this early collection that we discover one
specimen of comic opera, which has scarcely
been surpassed by any subsequent production,
and is too choice and entertaining not to he
reproduced, with some more careful notice at
our hands.V 7 , „ , •
It is “Daniel in the lions’ den;” and the
scene is verily the den of lions; and the uVd
mulls personaz are (1) Daniel; (2) the
Angel;. (3) Darius; (4, B) two persons
unknown, presumptively either Babylo- i
nians or Jews, who sing .a descriptive
duet; (0) chorus of Jews; (7) lions, who
do not sing, though they are apparently con
stantly on the point of doing so. Possibly I
they had not “the lion’s part written;’’ or,per- .
haps, it was that “the ladies” might “be ;
afear’d of the lion—for there is not a more |
fearful wild fowl than your lion living;” or, .
perhapß it was thought dangerdus to commit
the lion’s part even to a well-behaved and do
cile Sunday scholar, lest he “should do it too
terribly.” .
The scene opens with a duet, rccitatwo,
gracefully introducing.by a descriptive stanza,
tho prophet in his den. Then the chorus of Jews
strikes in with a suggestion that it is all up
with Daniel,-unless some angel /‘Hastes the
monsterß’ wrath to stay,” and With a general
request for prayer in his behalf. Straight
way the angel—who has been waiting for
his cue behind the scenes —and who seems to
be “a proper man as one shall see in a sum
mer’s day, a most lovely, gentlemanlike
mail,” appears and addresses these “mon
sters” in the following bland and courteous ,
verses:
, “flush ye.; hrah ye, noble.lions!
Monarehs of the desert plain.!.
Cease your roarings, sink w slumber!
From the holt/ man refrain'!"/
and, feeling that he has made a good point of
it, and that the beasts cannot resist such a
gentlemanly and reasonable way of putting
the ease, he repeats, with variation,
“Calmly slumber till the morning!
From the holy man refrain /"
After this, of course, the angel has no more
need to shoot than Mr. Crockett on a similar
occasion, but.the animali: “come down” at
once, and we are readylfor the' next scene,
in which the prophet makes his acknow
ledgments to the angel, i the chorus, of Jews
again states the case concisely and forcibly,
and, at length—it being no# morning—
Darius appears in a state of great anxiety,
hails Daniel in the den, is assured that it is
all right, and the chorus of Jews lifts up its
closing congratulations.
This operatic gem is the most noteworthy
of the “Cherub’s” contribution to Sunday
school .song. No wonder that the author
in his preface, with an instinctive anticipa
tion of poor Artemus Ward’s phraseology,
speaks of “my cherub” as a “cheerful” crea
ture. No more cheerful utterance than the
angel’s address to the lions is to be found
outside the pages in which that great show
man records the annals of his own menagerie.
This substantial contribution to our literature
is the more creditable to the cherub, because,
according to a description which he gives of
himself bn another page, his own habits and
manners of life are of a very vague and un
substantial sort, his time being chiefly occu
pied with “floating" in the sky, or on a cloud,
or in “the sunset glory.”
It is, of course, impossible to examine m
detail the various books which followed in
the “Cherub’s” wake. The aim of many of
them was like that of the “Psalmist;” they
were more or IeBS honest and wise attempts
to instruct children in religious music, and to
fit them to worship God through song, in
school and church. The growth of the Sun
day-school organization as a separate
interest is marked, of course, by the
increasing number of hymns which
extol the value of this institution, instead
of uttering the praise of God and rejoic
ing in the love of Christ; of hymns which
urge attendance on the Sunday-schools as
if it were the first of duties, and forbid tar
diness, for example, as if it were the most
heinous of crimes; of hymns which de
scribe the delights of the school in janguage
only less ambitious than that in which they
describe the delights' ot heaven, to which,
indeed, the first are made to bear a pro
digiously strong resemblance; in a word,
of hymns which, if they are in worship
of anything, are in worship of the Sunday
school, and of which the burden is, “chil
dren cry for them.” More and more, too,
the music seems to be valued for its sen
suous effect, and as a means of mere , im
pression and attraction. “The attractions
of music are strong and alluring,” says one
editor . in bis preface with rhetoric which
is full of enthusiasm, though somewhat
mixed, “and, like the charms of the tempter,
they coil themselves around the young and
wayward, and conduct them to the Elysian
fields of music’s holier clime.” On this theory,
then, the more fascinating the melody, the
better; and; as to the words, they are of so
little consequence that the most pitiable dog
gerel begins to appear; Love-songs a little
altered, drinking-songs made to give up
their music unaltered, or themselves parodied
with a more or less complete disguise, are
now and then to be found. And a danger
ous tendency is manifested not so much to
make the singing good as to make it popu
lar; and if what is popular happens to be
coarse, or silly, or indecorous in ,any way,
so much the worse for the Binging, and for
the Sunday-schools that sing.
About this time, too, appears the first of
the books “especially designed for Sabbath
school concerts” and exhibitions; and from
this time forward we find in almost every
new singing-book a recognition of, and a pro
vision for, this new feature of the Sunday
school work. Hymns in praise not only
of the Sunday-school, but Of the
“Concert,” begin to appear. Apparently,
the evil tendency of such public ex
hibitions,, in which children were to
be made public performers, to play and sing
in a more or less dramatic way before miscel
laneous audiences, began to be suspected
from the first by some slow and old-fogy ene
mies of progress; and it became necessary,
therefore, to write a “hymn” ot remonstrance
with such skeptics, ana of eulogy of the new
system'; from which we cite the following
suggestive quotations:
“Sabbath-schools must have their concert,
When the appointed time comes round;
Surely ’tia a precious mectiner,
For the children there ard found.
“ 'Tisnot saje topassit over,
For the minor for the snow;
Children love their own dear meeting;
Parents, why not let than <jn! * * *
“Oil! then, let them have their concert,
Be the weather foul or fair;
So that when the Saviour calls them,
They may answer, ‘Here we are.’ (!!)
Whether the ‘ ‘parents” who would not
“let them go” wfere wholly in the wrong, we
do not care to, argue. But whefh we see
the extent to which this system of public
Sunday-school Exhibition has been carried;
we feel inclined to respond to the first sen
tence of the hymn which we have quoted, as
Dr. Johnson responded to the vagrant who
pleaded thathe“must live." “Sunday-schools
must have their concert”; perhaps so; but we
are skeptical enough to declare that we see
no necessity for it. Undoubtedly, something
of the sort may have been useful in awa-
kenlng a hind of enthusiasm-in behalfoftb?.
Sunday-school, when, such enthusiasm' was
lacking; undoubtedly there /may 1 be
certs” which do not*,partake of the, spec
tacular and dramatic to which
we object; undoubtedly 'some, schoolsj
mission-schodls in cities, forexamp)^—need,
mere than others, some sensational artifices
by which they may? held, the half-heathen
vagabonds for whom they labor; admit all
tbisfandyettheprinciple—whictt-we-assort
can hardly be gainsaid—that our Sunday
schools-should be for religious training, and
for the religious expression of the children;
and hot for their display; places
where they may learn and where they
may worship, and not where they
■may win the popular applause of an ad
miring audience. -It is hard to conceive of
anything which tends more surely and fatally
to the demoralisation of all that is most beau
tiful in children, than to have them put upon :
a public stage for exhibition. We find no
language too strong for our denunciation of
it when it is done in a theatre. How much
better is it when it is done in a Sunday
School exhibition at a meeting-house, or
public hall, or academy' of music ?
Probably this abuse is much less flagrant
now than it was a few years ago. Pos
sibly such a performance, in a metropolitan
opera house, as one of whioh the programme
is before us as we write, might no longer be
tolerated by the good taste of the community.
And yet this was only three years ago; it wa9
made-up of a bymn to open, and a prayer to
start, and a chorus to conclude, and all sorts
of trios, solos, duets, colloquies, comic songs,
tableaus, whistling solos, “allegorical black
cats,”, etc;, sandwiched in between—the
namea of the performers being given, and the
star actors and favorite singers being heartily
welcomed, no doubt, by thunders of applause.
Such an extreme instance as this probably
does hot often happen; but in one of'the very
: last and boost popular music books issued,
there is a dramatic song of a very striking sort,
apparently intended to be sung on a stage in
the costume and in the character of a drunk
ard 1 Might we be permitted to ask whether
the natural boy is hot sufficiently prone to
this kind of mimicry, of himself, that he must
needs he instructed in it and instigated to it
by his Sunday-school ? And is this sort of
doggerel quite the thing that we like to have
our infants taught to utter, even in the in
terest of the total abstinence cause ? Hear it,
and admire its propriety and good taste; re
member the dnmkard loquAur:
•There temperance fottß do c-owd tie awfully, crowd u»
awfully, crowd tM-owfully— ■ ,
Temperance folks do crowd ua awfully. Tr ou need not
thinklcare. , ... . ,
l*m not theman to Meow liberty, 3oeo my liberty, lone
my liberty,
I baln’t a bit to spare,” etc.
Thus the first stanza—breathing quite cleverly
the spirit of drunken defiance, which in the
second begins to change into a maudlin
melancholy.
“They (tick the pledge, theee blue -teetotaler., blue teet».
taler., blue teetotalew, . ... ,
Btick the pledge, theee blue teetotaler*, beneath eaeh
They taUtol .foe and want and poverty, want and poverty,
-want and poverty: . .
Talk of woe and want and poverty—Tberc’a trnth m
that I c’poee.
My coat 1 know ie rather reedy, and my panta are tat
. tered too. ' ... ... ,
My right foot goea but poorly booted, ana tbc lelt one
wears a ahoe.”
There is a “static direction,” to the effect that
the actor is to point in turn to his boot, his
shoe, his “pants,” etc. And we can imagine
the house “coming down” in applause at the
effective representation. The climax comes,
however, in the third stanza:
"l w i f h these chaps would eetec to pity me, cease to
pity me, eesee to pity me, „.
Wiehtiiesechap* would cease to pity me, I’m not yet
quite bereft. . . . .
Though, come to eekTch my once fat pocket-book, once
* fat pocket-book, once fat pocket-book.
Come to search my once fat pocket-book, there’a nary
tixpencelefu u , .. ...
Thcre’n a wife down town would smile like Venus, if I’d
sign the pledge thia day; . -
Tbere’e a brUnthuired child would jump and caper—you
may pane the pledge tbia wav."
“Once fat pocket-book” is good; and being
four times repeated with the appropriate
mimicry of search, might be made as effective
as a Bong by negro clowns But when, at
last, the solo singer “reaching the line ‘You
may pass the pledge this way,’ should turn
round, take the pledge from the one who is
holding it, and leading off on the chorus
should advance to the front of the stage,
waving it above his head”—we are prepared
for a thundering encore. Only we feel a little
disappointed that there is no provision made
for the appearance of the “Venus” to smile in
person, with real jumping and capering by
the bright-haired child, us, for example,
“‘Venus,’ Miss So-and-so; ‘Bright-haired
child,’ Little Miss Thingummy.”
Already it must begin to appear that the
muses who have been invoked in aid of the
Sunday school cause are not one but many.
There is a group of them. Each one of the
nine appears to have a Bunday-school mimic.
What the dramatic Muse is equal to, will
perhaps sufficiently appear from the quota
tions which have been cited. And that
there is a muse of comedy also who presides,
sometimes recognized, but oftener wholly
unrecognized by the unconscious poets, will
-scarcely be denied. The tragic muse is com
monly a failure, and her achievements sel
dom rise beyond a very milk-and-watery
kind of sentiment. Then there is a muse
of history, by whom the , annals of the
Sunday-school enterprise are recorded in
verses like the following;
“In olden times when boys were wild,
On English soil arose a child.
His name was Kobcrt, trim and mild!
So loving, loving and good.
rim. i iioni s,
“Then away! away! our cause is growing
stronger.
Away! away! to the Sunday-school.
Then away! away! we can’t wait any longer,
Away to the Sunday-school!
"As Robert Raikcs walked out one day,
To see if children were at play.
Some boy 6 were seen on Babbath day,
A playing, playing—ah me!
Then away! away! etc.
“In seventeen hundred and eighty-one,
Across the sea in Glous’ter town, ‘
The glorious Sunday-school begun
Its coming! coming! along.
Then away! away ! etc.
“O, how this little fire has spread,
And warmed to life the carnal dead.
And brought tbcm to onr living Bead,
So loving, loving and good.
Then away! away!' etc."
And so on for seven stanzas! against all
of whioh public indignation is hereby re
spectfully solicited. If “boys were wild”
before they had such doggerel to sing,
What will they be after they have been
a 1 few years exasperated by the muse of
bistbry in Sunday-schools in this aggra
vatingway? We know not whether most
to wonder at the narrative stanzas with their
vapid platitudes,- or at the incoherent and
frantic. : way ini whiqjk the chorus, goaded
apparently by each stanza into a state-of new
frenzy, declares that it can’t wait any longer
and 1 must positively be off. Our-'sympathies
as we read are strongly with the chorus, and
we too cry, “Away! away!”
-First and last, there is a great deal of
‘•Swaying!’ and “hasting” and “awaking be
times,” , and-, resolving “never to be late
at the Sabbath-school.” We have al
ready alluded to the songs in , praise of
the Sunday-school as having begun to ap
-1 pear in some of the earliest books. But it was
not till about the year 1850, that they grew
to be so abundant and so obtrusive in their
t-one as to require distinct and earnest censure..
, There always has been 1 a tendency on the
part of earnest men, especially if they were
narrow in their earnestness, to magnify the
importance of their particular Instrumentality,
and mahe of it not. a means but an end- More
them once, and with most lamentable conse-
Suences, has been trite in the history-or
id church; and zeal for God has come to be
distorted into zeal foy the
worship of God perverted,into worstnpoi.tne
church, and thus what was good as mv
chinery, what was indispensable as orga
nized instrumentallty,becamc mischievous
and tyrannous by being made the object ol
idolatrous regard, To erdst not in God btlt
in the church—to magnify and work for not
the Lord Christ, but the authorities which
claim to rule in his name—;to canonize a host
of saints who shall usurp his offices and his
honors—is not this recognize- as one of the
most perilous and sorrowful phases in Chris
tian history—a phase constantly reappearing
in unlooked-for ways'? Already it has ap
: pcared in the history of the Sunday-school
enterprise, although that is not yet a century
old, and in America hardly hall’a century.
As for the’ songs that sing the pratoe of
Sunday-schools, that describe the delights jof
Sunday-schools, that urge attendance at
Sunday-schools, that deprecate a mo
ment’s tardiness at Sunday-schools, their name
is legion, lor they arc many. Twelve years
ngo the theme was uttered in the hymn
“The Sabbath-school a rofugo,” from which
•we quote as follows, only premising that
the variations which bavo been exocutcd on
this single string have been ingenious and
innumerable:
“Oh! the S»bl>iith-"diool’» a refuse Into which the weary
’Tie thc>li«dow of a towering rock, where the lioefca do
’Tie a* preen epotfn the derert, where the weHioK foun-
Oh! Iradine uT the Sabbath ecliool, why eliouid 1 *tay
away!"
Why, indeed? especially when there's a living
fountain with an angel sitting on the brink,
and trees oi Eden and grapes of Eshcol, and
oranges and pomegranates, “each varying
taste to suit.” Only, when one remembers to
whom and to what the imagery which is here
caricatured was first applied, ttiis application
of it seems like bathos of a very suggestive
and unpleasant sort!
In this general class of songs are to bo num
bered the songs of invitation, in which tho
same theme is treated with a little less direct
ness. Many of these are immensely popular.
One oi the earliest is the universally known
“Sunday-school army,” irreverently called by
some the “Sunday-school jig,’’from its extra
ordinarily lively musie: which is said to have
compelled its disuse among the suscepti
ble Africans in tho Frcedmen’s schools, in
consequence of an uncontrollable disposition
on their part to sing it not only with the
voice, but with the hands and feet, and legs
and elbows, and with saltatory contortions of
body of a quite inadmissable sort. Another
is a parody on the comic song of the spider
and tbe fly, words slightly altered, music un
altered, the spider being personated by a
small child in the Sunday-school, and the fly
by one outside, the Sunday-school itself
being infelicitously pushed into the place
of the cobweb. It must have been diffi
cult, during the popularity of this song,
and when the familiar chorus, “Will you,
•will you, will you, will you,” comc3 in,
to remember the connection and to come out
straight with “join our Sunday-school” in
stead of the accustomed “Walk in Mister
Fly.” Another hymn pronounces this some
what incoherent and mixed benediction:.
“Blewed art thou, (!) Sabbath joys.
Free from toll and care and noise ;
Welt we love in thy courts to stay
Happy day! happy day.”
Another insists,in several verses, with a good
deal of iteration,” that though “Winds may
blow and waves may roll, We will go to
Sundav-school;” and that, in spite of “Hall
or rain, or wind or snow,” or “Summer’s
heator winter’s cold.” Another declares ;
“The Sabbath-school’s a happy place,
I love to have it come.” (!)
Another insists that it to greatly jollier to go
Sunday-school than to spend the hours in
play; and many others are filled with ex- .
donations to “Come, O, come, and haste,
haste away, and don’t delay,” and “Be in ;
time, rain or shine, Order is.divine.” In ;
short, the poetical invitations to Mrs. Jarley’s
wax-work show, with their parodies of
popular melodies, as “Believe me if all
Jarley’s wax-work so rare," and “ Over the
water to Jarley,” furnish the only parallel in
literature to some of.these trivial eulogies of
the {Sunday-school.
Of course no one would object to a mode
rate use of songs of this sort, if they were
needed to promote a hearty esprit du corps,
and to perfect tbe fellowship of teachers and
scholars in the Sunday-school work, and if
they could be prepared in accordance with
ordinary grammatical accuracy and with
common propriety, But the number of them
is out of all proportion to the hymns of
religious worship, and the style of them is
often wretchedly bad. Yet they have been
immensely popular, to the frequent exclusion
from use" of the quieter and devouter songs.
And their popularity is a sign not only of the
bad taste to which our Sunday-school muse
has brought us, but also of the exaggerated
zeal which has come to look upon this insti
tution as an end and not a means.
Taught by these singing-books, indeed, we
come to look on heaven itself as scarcely dif
ferent from an enlarged and glorified Sunday
school, extremely well conducted, to be sure,
and with a great preponderance of the pic
nic; concert, and exhibition element, but
still, as bn the whole, a celestial Sunday
school. Over one little boy, indeed, who has
been cut off untimely, we are expressly in
vited to “rejoice that Willie’s gone to Sab
bath-school in heaVen.” Attached to another
hymn there to a rollicking chorus, iq. which
the kingdom of heaven la taken by violence,
with a regardlessness of expense which is
characteristically Young American:
“Wc are bound to go to heaven,
Let it cost ns what It may;
And we’re studying the Bible,
With a view to learn the way.
And in the closing stanza it is urged that you
are not“too old to prepare to dwell for ever
iii ft city paved with gold.” There are very
xninute descriptions given, in other hymns,
of the climate, inhabitants, habits _and em
ployments of the celestial, city, and or the
smooth and easy way in which we are sail
ing: into it. to some of the hymns
the very words of Father Newman’s sporch
ing satire, which has come to band while
we have been writing these pages, seem ap
plicable; they are ,so “full of floral im
agery, suggesting the idea that the surest
way to Heaven was to cultivate a garden in a
wood, by the side of a rippling stream, and
to sing in it by moonlight. , * * *
It “is represented as a superior sort of Ghis
■Wick orChata worth.” The author “ap
peared to have been there. He evidently
knew'all about it; but it was rather singular
that be never orfcemade the slightest allusion
to God. There was a great deal about the
angels, but much more about men. ana
women.whom they bed known, end the
extreme; gratification of meeting them agai
under "such agreeable w
notion of Heaven seemed to be that it was
sort of eternal pic-nic.” ...
Thepoint we TOakeis this; c *" d
dren are intense ’ realists by tkeuse
artists of a very pre;Raphaelitic *
of imagery in this cpnnecuon does
to be blessedness of hea-
Sb Of# more or less, sensuous sort.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is, we
know, how facile tf descent; and the Fr 1 "
languageoil' will s#?®.
enreleSff batfdlingjnor tolerate much uniorY
“Jerusalem the golden,’wi
mother, dear Jerusalem," “Jerusalem ,
happy home,”,and the other versions of {£
goodly theme-hymns which are not. man
ntit one; and which area legitimateanij beau
tiful growth of song, r#*ote« far back hi the
Christian centuries—these, indeeed, j n
iheir homely beauty, are abundiutly
worth our cherishing, and cauuot ffi#
and ’ ought not to. Blit ' when We
come to remove still farther irom tbe soube
of their inspiration, and are called upon toF,
such an uncommon amount of “soaring” an
“roaming,” and “wandering,” and “basking
—especially “basking," ana that sometimes
in sunshine, which might be easy, and once
at least in “shade,” which is surely impossi
ble; when we are told with great preciseness
concerning “the Eden above,” that there’s
• “No poverty there; no,the saints are alt wealthy,
Nor sickness can reach them—that country is
healthy."
And, by way of confirmation, “Each saint
has a mansion prepare! and all furnished,'
whether with mahogany or black walnut is
not stated; when the changes are rang on
“evergreen hills,” and “evergreen vales, and.
“evergreen glades," and “evergreen shades,”
and ‘‘evergreen shores,” till one wonders
whether the saints themselves will not be
“evergreen"; when “ambroßia,” and “nectar,’'
and all sorts of good things to eat are de
scribed with a toothsome relish, and we are
put upon the most familiar terms with angels
of the moßt attractive personal ap
pearance; when we are furnished
with sensuous pictures of “ban
quets of pleasures,” and “bowers oi
rest,” and with descriptions of the tree or
life, which read like a newspaper corres
pondent’s account of the big trees of Califor
nia, and of the water of life, which read like
a penny-a-liner's description of the Rhine or
the Hudson River; when at last we are
stunned hy the thunders of the “chorus of
fire," aqd are left with a confused impression
that the roof of all things has been taken
off, and thb rafters left naked, and that the
1 eng’nes should be called out immediately;
• we begin to wonder whether this is a Chris
! tian or a Mohammedan paradisewhether
! that descent from tho sublime to something
! very different has not already taken place:
! whether, indeed, the very eacred and awful
; mysteries of which even tho word of insplra
i tion scarcely trusts itself to speak, have not
’ been vulgarly profaned !
It is time mat these criticisms we-c brought
; to a close, though the subject is far from
; being exhausted.! We should be glad t > quote
; from tbe miscellaneous hymns a gem or two;
i such as the narrative poem which records the
history of Moses, and how
; “ ’Mid the flags and tbe bushes in an ark of bul
rushes
They left him to lonely mid mid, (!)
For the ruffians would come If he tarried at home
And murder that infant so dear," ,
and of his subsequent adventures, “by the sea
’ that was Red” and elsewhere. And we must
; put on record one example of suavity and
gentlemanly mildness of manners which
; occurs in an interview between Christian a,»d
: Apollyon. The fiend has met Christian in
bis journey, has inquired bis name, has been
told in reply, “My name it is Bold Pilgrim,”
has introduced himself in return as Apollyon,
and has proposed to put a stop to the pil
; primage. But tbe proposal is courteously
declined:— •
“J fUtaken friend .■ the pilgrim said,
Your offer I disdain.”
“Mistaken friend” is good, and, under tbe cir
cumstances, truly handsome.
It requires a good dead of self-restraint
when one has entered upon researches
into tills field of literature, to refrain from
too copious quotation. If there were room
we would gladly cite specimens of various
classes of songs which seem tons more or
lefs objectionable. As it is, we can only
refer, without quotation, to the large assort
ment of ballads, and verses of a simply senti
mental sort; to the copious angelology of
others, which may be- all very well, but oi
which we ought to be distinctly aware, and
which ought to be distinctly defined and
guarded; so that, if the worship of saints and
angels to to have a place in our Protestant
usage, it may be intelligently appreciated;
and to the more or less sickly goodtohness
and morbid piety of others. So numerous,
indeed, have songs of this la6t sort become,
that tbe publishers of one book have found
it necessary to protest against them, and
have attempted carefully to exclude from their
collection the expressions of peevish discon
tent witklife and premature longing for death,
with which so many of the most popular
books are filled. Once in a while a little girl
does discover that her doll is filled with s&w
-| dust, and therefore longs either for a convent
: or for an eaily grave (with a preference tor
; being “buried m the morning, mother, Be-
I nealb the willaw shade, Where the murmur
i mg winds will mourn, mother, The wreck
! that death has made;")—but happily these
cases are not so frequent as to require a copi
ous literature. To healthy and Christian chil
dren, life is not a hurricane of horror, and the
best thing that, can be done with it to “let the
i hurricane roar, it will the sooner be o'er,”--
and the quicker it can be got rid of, short ol
actual suicide, the better: but an opportunity
for usefulness and happiness and holiness, a
thing to give thanks for and to trust in God
for. \ , , ,
A pleasanter task is to acknowledge cor
dially the good features of this literature. It
is worth while to have been burdened by a
good deal of trash, if we have secured some
really simple unaffectedly devout, and per
fectly pure songs for children which ere
occasionally mixed with it “What is the
chaff to the wheat? 1 ' to be sure; and
yet the chaff may hid the wheat, may
even bury it And- it is needful that
the winds of criticism and . even
of ridicule should blow across the field ot lit
erature, that there may be useful winnowing
done. ■ We are glad to confess that, there are
hymns which have been produced m
tion with the Sunday-school’ work which W*ll
not die. Here is one that has very recently
been published:
“I love to hear the story
Which angel voices wilt
How once tbe King of Glory
Oamedown on earth to dwell:
I am both wevk arid sinful,
But this I surely know,
Tho Lord caoio down to save me,
Because he loved mo so.
Then there are others which have long;
hppn ■ noDiilar, and which well deserve their
nonulKsu’ch as “I think when I read that
sweet story of old;" “Jesus loves me, this I
know”“L° r< VI hearot showers of blessings.
We could point out many good ones if it were
needful, but the good are universally ac
knowledged. Ouvs hag obeen the less agreeam. ..
j,lc, but tbe more necessary work of pointing
out delects and errors, that they may be put
away. ,
Concerning the music of these songs there
to a good deal to be said, if'we had left our
selves space in which to say it. There has been,
a manifest improvement in it within the last
few years. And it is a comfort to know that
we donot now so often hear “Jerusalem, my
i happy home,’’arranged withachorus,“Oheiiv-
sweet heaven,” etc.,and sung to “Lily Dale;”' •
or “Jesus my all to heaven is gone” adapted
• to “Dixie,” or “Rosalie the prairie flower,”
• | or some German drinking song, or some
love-sick serenade fitted to religious ■ words.,
i lint even yet we find a good many infelicities’
• / 7. \
ILL
and young girla lwlio have; b6ea
sacred . ‘things,;, or M \
leaatfi ut: Sunday-school tilings, indoors,
with 4 lively strains of the music to which
theV* D S still ringing in their ears, have
' f O ,JH impossible to refrain from the pruc
the polka step, out of doors, on tneir
w iiome. ‘ The musicdiaanever beeu;want
.iw'in liveliness, .it. haffre
. Jolly erred by excess of liveliness,
/acting interest to itself for its own
«e rather than to the words of which it
Aght to be the vehicle. Perhaps, however,
fben the words have been so paltry, it is to
he regarded in the light of a mercy that any
thing could distract the attention of the
singers from them. Bet, at any rate, it is
certainly true.that, if the tune, is lively, or
plaintive, or effective in any way, it will be
sung and become popular, nomatterwhatnor
how deplorable may be the doggerel which it
. carries. If a good hymn has a commonplace
/ or indifferent tune attached to it, the good
/ hymn is not sung; but if a lively, jig-like
tune is set to words, which Mother Goose,
in her most senile moods, would blush to
own, the lively, jig-like time is, neverthe
less, a universal favorite. The great mul
titude of tramping songs and marching songs,
full of the spirit, if not of military gloty, at
least of militia glory (to use Mr. Hosea Bige
low’s distinction) is partly to be accounted for
by this evil tendency to Bing what will “go”
well, rather than what is edifying or wor
shipful. The popularity of much of Mr.
Bradbury’s music, for example (the sad news
of the death of that composer cornea as we
write), has delivered us from our to
the negro minstrels and to other profane com
posers; but it is a serious question whether
even yet we do not value too highly
the effectiveness of mere music; whether
it does not needi some other qualities than
liveliness and Sensuous attractiveness be
fore ifis oil that it should be; and whether it
should not be made more directly preparatory
to, and assimilated with, the music which is
sung in church and by the great congregation
\ . on the Lord's day, than it now is—that so a
V generation of childrea mav be trained in our
Sunday-schools who, having learned to value
and enjoy the privilege of* worshiping God
through song, may grow up to be “better
than their fathers were,” and rise in righteous
rebellion against the theatrical fashions of the
solo and quartette performers who now tyr
annize in our churches. Some signs of im
provement and promise already appear,
biff, when we begin to. take cou
rage because of them, the Sunday
school Muse is liable to break forth
of a sudden on a rampage of the most violent
and disorderly ’ description, and kick our
new-formed hopes to utter and desperate j
ruin.
What, then, shall be' done with the Sunday
• school Muse ? Flint, gag her. She has done
enough for the present. Pick out the gems
from her productions and let her rest awhile.
She does too much. Producing half-a-dozen
music-books a year, with the words and tunes
warranted new, the chances are tremen
dously against the excellence of any. And,
when the greatest merit of a hymn is reck
oned to be its novelty, we may be sure
that there is something wrong in our
methods of judgment. So then we say,
although this is a tree country, and the Muse
is an unshackled fowl, let her be silenced as
soon as may be. And to that end let ua begin
by putting away the heresy that,when a hymn
or a tune has been sung a few times, and has
grown familiar, it is time to have done with
it and it must be considered spoiled; Good
hymna cannot spoil by use—cannot be sung
too often. Familiarity with them breeds rev
erence, and not contempt And though the
adoption of this principle might be bad forttae
Sunday-school music-book teade,and discour
aging to the poets who are called on for new
hymns continually, it would be good for every
body else.
I And then, as for the Muse, when she be
comes absurd, laugh at her. We have honestly
tried to do it, believing it a most necessary
work. If nothing else can drive out the
multitude of doggerel songs that have been
suffered to come in, let ridicule to do it. Hit
the poets, when they grow Bophomore, or
slovenly, or spooney, or unsound in any way,
“with shafts of gentle satire kin to charity,”
and with something tougher, if need be.
•Clip their wings remorselessly when they
soar too hign; and give them a grammar and
a spelling-book when they fall too low.
But in all soberness we are bound to
acknowledge the tremendous power of the
Sunday-school system, of Sunday-school
literature, of Sunday-school song; and we
■ ought not to be content until that power
is wielded wisely, devoutly, and efficiently for
good. Under any circumstances the influ
ence of song is something hard to measure.
When it is employed among susceptible
children, and put upon their ups and rung
into their ears, it becomes greater than ever,
but when in addition to this it is fraught with
religious associations, or with irreligious, it
becomes well-nigh infinite in its results.
More than once, in the history of the
• church, heresy has been most efficiently
promoted, error most insidiously pro
pagated, by means -of song. And
•every one knows how readily music
lends itself to the abuses of immorality and
vice. 'lt surely is not-difficult to see what
grave peril is upon ris when we admit, un
challenged and unscrutinized, to be sung by
children in religious places,sbngs whibh igno
rant and mercenary writers have thrust upon
•us. Wc do not ask for perfect poems; we do
not expect impossibilities; we are very well
aware that what might be very excellent as a
religious poem might be at the same time ut
terly unfit to be sung in worship. But it
seems not unreasonable to ask that these
songs be true, that they be simple, and
that they be devout. The greatest hymn 3
•in Christian literature are the simplest.
What is more Bimple than the Te Deurh or
the Gloria in Hxcelsis hr the twehty-tbird
Psalm? And yet how far removed is this
sort of simplicity from frivolousness and in
anity. Children are not tools ; perhaps the
fleetest mistake that the Sunday-school
luse has fallen into is in thinkiDg that they
.are. And sooner or later the scholars in our
.Sunday-schools begin to discover this
1 mistake and to resent it as an injury.
From all sides arises a clamor that,
after a few years, the schools can
, not keep the scholars—they grow too
big to come— i -they become deaf to the voice
•of, the musical charmers, charm. yiey never
iso foolishly. Is it any wonder? It is one
thing to be childish; it is quite another thing
to be childlike. ,Tho spirit of worship is al
ways childlike, and the words of worship will
he then most childlike when they are most
most devout, most true. So that, in
■■a word, wliat the. Sunday-school Muse ; most
- is to Be nblonger a fool nbr an crrprisiJ
inor a rowdy, but to be converted and become
, like the little .children for whom she under
takes to act.
Thomas Vs, Stnutoii.
The following is (ho summons in the case of
►General Thomas against Secretary Btanton for
Mse tafirisonmentilayfag ,MmageB.at#lGo,Qo(K
At law, No. l..ibC. in tue Supreme Court of
itbo District of Columbia,' February 20, 18G8.'
Lorenzo Thomas, plaintiff,vs. Edwin M. Stanton,
defendant. The President of the United States
•to (he Marshal of said district,'greeting; Summon
tho defendant in tlie M ahove entitled case to
appear in said Court on or before the
■first special term thereof, • occurring tweiity
days after the service of this writ, to
answer the declaration herewith served,
and warn him that in default of so doing, the
plaintiff may. proceed to Judgment and execution
at ibe trlaftdrm ofsaid Court next: alter said ser
vice. And dp you tctnrii this writ intothe clerk's
otllcc ithmi-diateljr after ebridcb,’. so indorsed as to
show tbe Mariner rind ifme of executing it. And
if you, espnot serve H within six months of the
day/of,itB'i»Siit»fice inclusive, tben return it into
eafif Pfflde for renewal.
Witness 1 ,
. ,U. K. Ca utter,
_ . Wstiod '6i said Court.
R. J. Mfitas, Clerk. ' ■ : ,-
Nnte— That tUe special terras of the Court com
mence on the first- Tuesday of every month ex
cept May, -in - which month they-commence on
the third Monday, and August, In which month
there is no term.of the Coprt, and that the trial
terms of the Court commence oh the first Tues
day of February, third Monday of May and first
Tuesday ol November, When final judgments may
be taken and execution awarded.
The following is tbe indorsement;
“Served the within at V'A o’clock, February
28th, 16(j8.” .
*l.th CONGBEB«r-Bf!COnD SESSION.
CI.OSK. OK IKS'IEI'.DAY H VKOCKKOIKOB.
Somite,
On motion of Mr Cokhbsb. of California, the bill
relating to the Pacific Railroad waa again taken lip
Mr. flowano said the Committee on the Pacific
Railroad, attcr duo investigation, had concluded that
the title to Yerba Buena Island, or Goat Island, waa
in the United. States, and that no private person had
any .egaJ claim upon it.
The bill originally contemplated the cession of a
portion of the island to the company, but the Com
mittee had recommended the present provision in the
form of an amendment, merely permitting the use of
the island as a depot in time of peace, reserving the
portion required by the United States. In time of
war the government could repossess It.
Mr. Cambboh said there waa no reason why other
railroads terminating at Ban Francisco ehonld not be.
allowed equal paivlleges on this island.
OArTtntrcp ASX) ABABDONED' PBOPBBTT.
At the expiration of tbc morning boor the bill was
laid aside, and the unfinished business, the joint
feubJutloutd cover Into the Treasury tbe proceeds of
captured and abandoned property Was taken bp. The
qneatlon was on Ur. .Edmunds’ amendment appro
priating from such proceeds 8100.U00 for the expenses
of collection of the property, and to meet the ex
penscs ef suits brought against the Secretary of the
Treasmy or his agents in connection with such
property. After considerable* dlacueslon the amend
ment was agreed to. Teas 29, nays 13.
Mr. Tbummjh, thought it would be extraordinary,
after what they knew of the cotton casse, If they
passed the resolution in its present form. He said the
gross) receipts from the fond were 830,000,000,
chiefly from cotton; and after the Secretary of the
Treasury’s adjudication upon the claims against It
(a thing he had no right to do) there was left 821,000,-
000. under the law this money should have been
paid into the United States Treasury, when claimants
could apply to the Court of Claims within two years
afiar the rebellion, and upon proper proof of legality
and ownership, coaid recover, deducting expenses.
He presented a 'statement by Mr. Mackay, of the
Frcedmcn’a Bureau, and a brother of the President of
the South Carolina Constitutional Convention, in re
ply to a letter of inqnlnr. The statement alleges that
many of the snccessfnfclalmanta heretofore had be
longed to the Confederate army, and a large portion
of the cotton delivered up had been owned by the
Confederate government. Yet It was proi>osed here
to sanction what had been done, and to appropriate
SIOO,OOO more to be expended In the same direc
tion. He disclaimed being actuated by any hostility to
an individual; ho merely, attacked the system, on evi
dence satisfactory to himself.
Mr. Fk bsjskdbn said the proposition was not to
take 3100,0 m) out of the Treasury, butto pay the whole
Into, and allow It to be drawn oat if necessary. He
said the Senator was in the habit of making just such
violent attacks aa this on the|heads of.depart nehtsjand
others, and then turning ronnd and disclaiming any
unfriendliness to any gentleman, and claiming that he
was just doing his duty. He (Mr Fessenden) denied
that this proposition involved any sanction of what
had been done hitherto. Knowing that he.when Sec
retary of the Treasury, had done what was right, he
did not want) the sanction or fear the disapprobation
of the Senate. He was willing to act on his own re
sponsibility; and. said he, gesticulating with consid
erable warmth, 1 do not fear anything that the Sena
tor from Illinois can eay or do. He (Mr. Fes
senden) did not suppose the Senator really felt any
animosity, bnt when he formed an opinion” he seemed
to feel it a personal affront for any one to differ with
him and would stand upon the ninety-ninth part of
c hair, notwithstanding the contrary view was
proved satisfactorily to every one else.
He (Mr. Fessenden) did not coneiderlt the fair way
ol deciding a question, to go to persons outside, who
had been discharged from the department, for infor
mation, without going near the Treasury Depart
ment. _
Mr. TnmtnuLL said he felt here the same difficulty
that he had met before, and that no comment could
be made on a certain department without the Senator
makings personal matter of it Be repeated that the
legal effect of the amendment was to keep out $lOO,-
(XiO, the same law providing for the paying It in and
taking it out He might have spoken with more clr
cnmlocntion, and stated the point with all the accu
racy and superior knowledge o£ the Senator from
Maine [Mr. Fessenden).
Mr Fessenden said when they appropriated
$150,000,000, according to the Senator, it was then all
our of the Treasury, not a dollar of it in.
Mr. Trumbull said this was a measure to Dut a
particular fund Into the 1 rcasury which was now out
side, and at the same time to place at his discre.ioii
one hundred thousand dollars of It. He had known
many bo'd meD, who went about with chips on their
shoulders. dariDg anybody, to knock them off. But
did anybody ever snppose that they were the only
brave men in the world? He had always hid the
highest opinion of the Senator, hut he (Mr. Fessen
dcD) was continual y going nbout with these chips on
hie shoulder.
Mr. Fessesdek— That’s when bullies arc about.
[Laughter. ]
Mr. TnrMiifLL said the Benator had remarked that
he old not care or fear anything he (Mr. Trumbull,
might s«y or do.
Mr. Fessenden—l did Dot say I did not care: my
anxictv naturally Hows that way.
Mr. Tbemeuu. said he was glad to relieve the Sena
tor from any apprehensions in regard to his inten
tions, nod again repeated that-he felt the highest
respect lor that Senator, and had not intended to ap
ply hts remarks to him personally. He then repeated
the considerations he had advanced against the propo
sition.
Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, followed in defense of
Ms amendment, and
Mr. Stewart spoke in opiioaition.
The bill having passed in Committee of the Whole,
the question was on. the amendment of Mr. Kd
mnnds, which was agreed to by a vote of 25 yeas to l-'J
nays, and alter a verbal amendment the bill was
passed!
SENATOR FROM KENTUCKY:
Mr. Davis, df Kentucky, announced that his col
league, Thomas McCreery. Senator-elect from Ken
tucky, whose credentials he had presented yesterday,
was present-
Mr. McCref.iiy then came forward, the Oath was ad
ministered to him. and he took his seat between
Metere. Thayer and Saulshnry.
MILITARY’ ACADEMY’.
Mr. Morrill, of Maine, called up the bill malting
appropriations for the support of the Military Acad
emy lor the fiscal year ending June 30* 1808, reported
from the Committee on Appropriations with amend
ments, which were concurred in. The question being
on the final paasage v
Mr. Thayer, of Nebraska, palled attention to a
statement in-the- Chicago Trilmne which, if true,
showed that the institntipn was discreditable to the
government and the country. It might be exagger
ated. out enough appeared to attract the attentioa of
Congress. He had not been favorably impressed with
the working of that institution when he remembered
that nearly ail of the officers who organized and led
thd Confederate armies In the late war were educated
Id this institution, and he had. contemplated offering
a bill re create two or three military schoolsto take
its place.
The Clerk read the article from the Chicago Tri
bune, professedly by agraduatc, drawing a melan
choly picture of the .morals at West Point, stating
that there was an entire absence of religious Influ
ences, styling it an Augean stable, and describing the
hazing and fagging to Which younger students were
subjected. tgftt
Mr, Saulsbury, of Delaware, said that any OBe who
had read the story, of Verdant Green, a story of col
lege life in England, was aware that snob practices
were general in all colleges.
Mr. W ii-son, of Massachusetts, did not think the
article emltled to any consideration. lie had In
cloyed a copy of it to the institution, and had re
ceived a iong.letter, accompanied by a supplement by
seme of the cadets denying the truth of the represen
tations. No doubt many things were done by the
students at the best Utcmry institutions, even .at
Cambridge, that could not ho approved. It should
boremCinbcred that many army officers educated at
Wist Point remained true to the country—-many of
them trom the South among the ablest in the army.
Mr. Johnson—General Thomas is one of them. .
Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, had no doubt the
jiational spirit that kept them (rue had be‘e%.iasaircd
there. Ho thought no attention should be paid to such
anonymous communications.
Mr, Grimes, of lowa, said he also had received a
denial of the truth of tbo article from the officers of
the institution, and:i he bellevod .that,‘-hazing'’ was
peremptorily stopped by military rule. . ,
Mr.. Thayer had no doubt that statements were ex
aggerated, but thought sufficient reasons existed ' to
bung it to the attention of Congress., ’He was aware
! that it was dangerous to touch upon ■ any .department
represented here by'# chairman of a committee. \tle
did nol hbld the Cbiurmnn of tbc'MilltSryOomailttOe
responsible for this condition of things, but lie had
received lcttefslrom officers now in the ariny.trnua
tt-ired from the volunteer service, complaining, of
being subjected to social Oetralcsm-at- the 'Hands sir
graduates of West Point, because they had not passed
through that institution, which he regarded** a? soft:
of aristocratic Institution, • This state of things had
eiisted during the late war nntli tt was swallowed up
by the vast preponderance of "
Tho bill was passed.
(CASHIERED OFFICER*.
Mf. Wilson ther. called up the bill declaratory of the
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fHKMII,y KVENISO BULLETIN.—PHILADELPHIA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2!>. 1868.
law in r< eard to officers caahleiodor dismissed Iroin
the wmy by the Beiirence of iiefferal court* mar tat.
Mr. HiNumcis, of-Indiana, - asked’ what she |i'ir
poeoot the bill was. Be knew of- Home officers tint
had tecu dhKbsrged and that ought t« lie restored.
Home In bia own against whom no'truthfal al
icgattoHJpd t’ceu brought; He badm htarmlnd a'ciae
ol a bravo colonel unwarrantably dismissed the ser
vice on a proceeding that did not commend itself to
the intnd of any lawyer. , ,
■ Mr. ffnioit said several persons, after being dis
missed tbe fterv ice by aentcncc of court-martial, had
been restored when they should not have been He
bad no doubt that where persona had been unjustly
treated, if they were renominated and their names
aent to Senate, they would be justly treated The
President sbontd devote bis attention to tbe examina
tion ot such cases! and it bad often been the case that
personal or political influence had ect aside the verdict
of a court-martial; but the decisions of mtlitary tri
bunals ought not to be set aside on tbe partial repre
sentations which would be inevitable in such cases.
Mr. Johnson would not say this hill was Intended
to meet a particular case, but the public had beeu led
to believe it was intended to meet the ease of Fltz
John Porter. As one of bis counsel, he agreed with
most of tbe public press that injustice had been done
that General, who had applied fora re-oxamiuatlon of
bis case, supported by many prominent men. The
principle ground of conviction waa that he had failed
to make an attack at the second battle ot Bull Ran
when there was little force in front of him! General
Longslreet’s report showed that tbe whole ot his col
umn was in front of Porter, who, if he had attacked,
would have been crushed. He merely supposed every
fair-minded man would like to have him vindicated if
he was innocent, and he bad written a letter in favor
of having an examination of his case by competent
officers.
Mr. Chandler was as anxious as any one that justice
should be done with Fltz John Porter. A few days
before the battle of Ball Run, that General was Chief
of Staff to General Patterson, whose army was threat
ening Johnston's army, and bad it remained there
Johnston's army would never have reached the battle
field, bnt by the advise of Fltz John Potter, General
Patterson moved bis army away and left Johnston free
to join Beauregard, who thus conquered on the first
battlefield of the war. It waa not true that Fltz John
Porter was in command at the battleof Malvern Hill.
He merely commanded the right wing. At the sec
ond battle of Ball Bun, when peremptorily ordered to
attack tbe enemy's flank, he said to the man that car
ried the order: “If I make the attack it will bring on
a fight," The reply waa, “Well, are you not here for a
fight?” bnt he retnsed to attack, althongh bad he done
so, Longstreet’s corps would have been destroyed in
one hour. Certainly, Injustice had been done him.
He (Mr. Chandler) thought he should have been shot
on that field of battle, and be had told General Pope
that the only fault he found with him was that he had
permuted Fltz John Porter to leave the field. Had he
obeyed that order, Longstreet would have been de
atroyed on Friday, add Jackson, who had : not then
come up. would have been destroyed on Saturday. If
Porter were brought now before a court martial of the
men who closed the w ar, and these facts were estab
lished from the evidence, including the rebel reports,
he would not be before them complaining of courts
martial. They had been told that Antletam was a
glorious day for him. Fltz John Porter was not
within fiye miles of that battle-field, and he (Mr.
Chandler) was Informed by a General of the army that
had Fltz John Porter obeyed General McClellan’s
order to attack, Antletam wonld have closed the war.
He repeated these facia from bis recollection as a
member of the Committee on the Conduct of the War.
and was not willing that it should go oat that a great
wrong had been done Fitz John Porter. That officer
had doubtless done good flghtlng'at Malvern Hill, in
defending himself when attacked. Aside from that
biß record was very differen'.
Mr. Johnson, of Maryland, safil he had not had the
came experience with the Senator from Michigan
(Mr. Chandler), who he believed was at the first battle
of Bnll Run. [Laughter.]
Mr. Ciiandleb— No, sir.
. Mr. Johnson said the Senator then had, perhaps,
hern in the neighborhood. He, therefore, deferred
to that Senator’s judgment in such matters as farjas he
ressonablyebtddi bat when, ontne other side, most
gallant officers of tne army were arrayed, he could not
help thinking that perhaps the Senator had overrated
his judgment in this matter. Mr. Porter had been vin
dicated before the conrt martial by every officer of hiß
command as an officer whoso skill and gallantry had
never been surpassed.
It was a little hard that sc officer who had been in
fifteen or twenty of the hardest fought battles of the
war, and who, in the midst of danger, had never
evinced aught bnt a desire to maintain the honor of
bis flag and eupport the cause of bis country, should
be ai-sailed in testimony taken by the Committee on
tbe Conduct of the War. Who’ examined the wit
nesses? What counsel had he the e?’ In what rela
tion towards him did the men stand who assailed
him: Questions that would suggest themselves to
the mind of every fair-minded man. Had the con
duct of General Grant been considered by that com-
mittee, men enough would have been found to swear
that he forgot his duty. And yet what man, with a
heart in his bosom, would hesitate to say that sncli an
assault would be the result of treachery ?
Mr. Johnson reiterated that Porter did (command
at Malvern Hill, and because he did was brevettsd as
Major-General by bis General-in-Chief, who spoke
ofitason? of the most extraordinary battles onre
cord. Such assaults as the present were bad enough
In civil life, but for a soldier, who had risked his life
on twenty glorious l>attle-fields, to be told here that
he ought -to be Bhot, was what he (Mr. Johnson;
never expected to hear. The general mind was, per
hapsl. wrapped np in prejudice.
He (Mr. Johnson) had never since the war termi
nated. been able to tell why a battle was lost or won.
Doubtless it was instinctive with that Semtor, be
cause lie was by nature martial—an admirable facultv.
with which be (Mr. Johnson) had never been blessed,
and be had, therefore, to rely upon the judgment of
experienced and gallant officers, which, however, lie
Referred to that of the Senator, whatever might have
>een his experience during the war.
Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, read a letter from
Fitz John Porter, disclaiming any design to seek a
restoration to the Bervicc, and asserting that lie only
desires a re-examination of the facts m htscase, so
that justice may be done him. Mr. Cameron then said
be had employed Porter, then a lieutenant, on severe
service, early in the war, and lookingupon him as one
of the most promising men in the army, had made him
a colonel, lie had teen deeply pained to learn that
Porter was in disgrace. Ho confirmed the statement
of Mr. Chandler, that General Porter hod advised the
retreat of General Patterson. He did not understand
how Porter could have gained the battle of Antietain
when he waa in the reserve.
Sir. Johnson said he was so under orders from
General McClellan
Mr. Chandler declined to be drawn into any con
troversy with the Senator. Ths witnesses at that
court-martial were almost all officers of the army,
some of them the bravest generals of the war, and
they had been examined by thrce-fourthß of the ablest
lawyers ot the United States. Andrew Johnson, was.
perhaps, one of the moat prominent engaged i a the
examination. Kyery prominent general at the battle
of Malvern Hill. Richardson who waa killed at
Antletam, Kearny, killed at the second Bull Run, all
stated that Porter was not in command. General
McClellan was supposed to lie in command, but was
in a gunboat, and Fitz John Porter had never been
credited with that command, to his knowledge, niitil
to-day.
Mr. Cameron could not see how he prevented Lee
from gaining the battle by refusing to take his troops
into it If injustice was done to "Porter by the hasty
action of that court martial they should right him
but that had nothing to do with this bill. The Presi
dent shonld not, he allowed to interfere with the sen
tence of a regular court mattlal.
Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, said that the Com
mittee on Military Affairs had not hid Fitz John
Porter irk mind in bringing in this bill; he believed that
gentleman did not desire to be restored to the army.
He had known him during the war and believed him
to be an accomplished officer, who hadwon tbe Con
fidence andnffection of those under him. In hi?.
opinian;'Portermrtciy desired a review of his case for
the purpose of presenting some new testimony to re
verse the sentence against him and regain the good
opinion of the country.
He supposed that every fair-minded man would like
to have tho gentleman vindicated if he was innocent,
and lie (Wilson) had written a letter in favor of his
having an examination of his case by competent
officers
Mr. Ramsey, of Minnesota, saving that it was evi
dent that no vote wonld be reached to-night,moved to
go into Executive session, which was agreed to, and
at 4:SO the Senate went into Executive aession, and
shortly after adjourned.
Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, from the Commit
tee on Appropriations, reported a bill for the better
regulation of the custody and expenditures of public
moneys*, The first section repeals all laws authorizing
Ihe President or the Secretary of any department to
transfer the moneys appropriated for one branch of a
department to another branch of the same depart
ment. The second section applies to money or Drop
erty obtained from the sale or property of the United
States by the payment of dues or otherwise, and re
quires it to he paid into tho Treasury, and c-rried to
the account of the surplus fund. Tne third section
prescribes penalties for the violation of the act, fine,'
imprisonment and illegibility to hold office under the
government. ' ;
Mr. Cuanler, of New York, suggested the propri
ety of,having the biff referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee... : 1 -pi-W h;V ■; . -.
After an explanation by Mr. Sutler, the bill was
passed- v,. ■ ■ ■ :'
-Mr 1 Garfiei.h,-erf Ohib, who had been absent from
Washington for the lasr ten days, asked leavo to re
cord his.vote affirmatively on theimpeachment resolu
tion . !
The Speaker informed' him that it could not be
done, except on Monday, wider a suspension of the
rales.
' The Speaker presenteda tespliitifin adoptcd by the
Grand Army of ihcKepubtlc, at Philadelphia, January
17th, relative to ignoring soldiers and sailors In the
appointment to government offices, and asking act ion
by Congress. Jitelerred to the Committee ou Military
Affairs.
. Also, a resolution of the Constitutional Convention
Of Mississippi, adopted yesterday, and forwarded ov
-telcgraph, nppvovipe the action otCongreasjn the (ni
pcNchment ot the President ' Referred to.thc Com
mittee on Impeachment. 1 ; ■
Mr: Miller, of Pennsylvania? presented petitions
of soldiers ami widows of soldiers or the war of 18X2
asking for pensions
House of Representatives.
PUBLIC MONEYS.
PETITIONS AND RESOLUTIONS.
API’BOFBIATION fittL.'
The Boobs then, at half-test on* o'clock,’ went Into
Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union,
Mr. Scofield, of Pennsylvania, In the chair, and re
sumed the consideration of the sundry civil , expenses
appropriation bill. , , ,
Mr. lNOEtiaoi.t, of Illinois, having submitted an
amendment. In reference to bridge* across the Poto
mue, quite a discussion sprang op on the subject of
Federal outlay for the benefit of Washington, ia the
course of which _•
Mr. Covode made an incursion into the realms of
ancient history, e/cclfying particularly the extravagant
notions of King Solomon m building the Temple and
otherwise beautifying Jerusalem, so as to make it the
glory of the whole earth, while he went on taxing the
ten tribes for that purpose, until he brought about a
revolt, and he warned the representatives of the peo
ple not to do the same thing in their attempt to make
Washington the glory of the land. - ..(Laughter.] He
had not time, he said, to go through with a review of
profane history, to elucidate the same point. [Laugh
ter.!
Mr. Lawrence, of Ohio, protested against the tax
ation of the whole people for the erection and care of
buildings in Washington that are entirely of a local
character.
At last, Mr. Wasiiisurne had all debate closed on
every paragraph relating to Washington City
Mr. Price, of lowa, moved to reduce the item for
fuel, for the President's house from 310,000 to $5,000.
Be wanted to know how they could manage to
bum six hundred and twentj-flve tons of coal there in
a year. •
Mr. Washburns, of Illinois, said that the item had
appeared very large to the Committee on Appropria
tions, bnt that General Michler, the Superintendent of
Public Buildings, assured the Committee it was not
too much. The White House was a very hot place.
Mr. Van Wyck, of New York—We’ll make it hotter.
[Laughter. ]
Mr. Price—l would undertake to keep the Presi
dent warm lor two years, at half the cost, in a colder
latitnde.
Mr. Covode, of Pennsylvania, in reference to an
Item of sl,toofor the care of tlieclrcle, a public reser
vation, suggested that it shonld be 81,000, and should
read for “swinging round the circle,” so as to pay the
hill still due at the St Charles Hotel In Pittsburgh.
[Laughter.]
Mr, Belye, of New York, wanted to know what the
circle wan, and whether it was the "Golden Circle.”
Mr. Inoebsoll would have to refer the gentleman for
Information on that point to his colleague from the
Fnlton District (Hr. Ross).
On motion of Mr. Pbicb, the item of 310,000 for re
palrs, &c., of Pennsylvania avenue was struck out
Mr. Lawrence, of Ohio, moved an appropriation
of $15,000 for the national arsenal at C'olnmbus,
Ohio.
Mr.INOEBSOLL,of Illinois,suggested, Inretaliaion for
Mr. Lawrence’s efforts against items for Washington,
that the people of Columbus build their own arsenal,
[Laughter.)
Messrs. Garfield, Hunqex, and .Booleston, sus
tained the amendment, and Mr. Wash surxe, of lUln
ols. opposed It.
The amendment was agreed to.
The Committee rose and reported the bill to the
House, which wag then postpened till Wednesday
next.
BEET BUOAB.
Mr. Cullom, of Illinois, presented a communtca
tion from the Commissioners of Agriculture In refer
ence to beet sugar. Referred ~to tne Committee on
Agriculture. • \
: \ INSURANCE.
Mr. Egolest oN,\of Ohio, introduced a bill to pro
tect the rights of Insurance companies, and give them
alien on vessels in certain citle*. Referred to the
Judiciary Committee.
TERRITORIAL OFFICERS.
' Mr. BunLEion, of Dakota, ln'rodnced a bill to fix
the salaries of certain territorial officers. . Referred to
the Committee on Territories.
ALASKA.
Mr. O’Neill, of Pennsylvania, presented "the peti
tion of the American Philosophical Society for the
commencement and execution of a proper examina
tion upon thecoast and within the territory of Alaska,
and of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, for the ex
amination and survey of the month of the Christiana
River, Delaware, ana for improving the same.
DISTRICT JAIL.
Mr. Covode called up- the report of the Committee
on Public Bnl dings and Gronnds, in reference to the
jail of tbe District of Columbia, hot did not insiston
having action on it this evening.
Tbe Si'eakse stated that he was informed that the
Committee on Preparing Articlea of Impeachment
wonld probably report to-morrow morning, after the
reading of the journal.
PAY OF THE ABSTY.
Mr. Schenck. of Ohio, introduced a bill to fix and
equalize the pay of officers and establish the pay of
ejflisted men ot the army, Referred to the Committee
on Military Affairs. •
(PEUIAA nUI lhA-
OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM
PANY.
Philadelphia. February 19th, 1868.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The Annual Election for Directors of this Company will
be held on MONDAY, the 2d Jay of March, 1868, at the
Office of the Company, No. 238 South Third street. The
foils will be open from 10 o'clock. A. M.. until 6 o’clock,
'. M. No share or shares transferred within sixty days
preceding the election will entitle the holder or holders
thereof to vote. EDMUND SMITH,
fel9tmh2 Secretary.
Msg- CONNELLSVILLE AND SOUTHERN PENN
-BYLVANIA RAxLWAY COMPANY.
Phikadlliuha, Feb. 17, 1868.
’ The Annual Meeting of the Stockholder? of tlio Con
nellavile and Southern Pennsylvania 'Railway Company,
will be held at their office, No. 230 S. Third St, Phfla., on
WEDNESDAY. March 4th. 1883, at 12 o’clock, M.,-.vh„n an
election will bo held for President and Twelve Directors
to serve the ensuing year.
fel'.-14t CHARLES WESTON, Jp„ Secretary.
ggy*CONTINENTAL HOTEL COMPANY.
Tho Rsard of Managers of "The Continental Hotel
Co." have declared a semi-annual dividend of Three,Per
CcnL.ireeof State tax, upon the Preferred Stock of tho
Company.payable on and after MON HAY’, March 2d. 1869,
at the Office of the Company, No. Blt ARCH street, Phila.
f, ■>; lut* J. SERGEANT PRICE. Treasurer.
•gy PRESTON COAL AND IMPROVEMENT COM
pauv. No. 205)6 Walnut street
Philadelphia, Feb. 17,1868.
Tbe annual meeting of the stockholder: of this Com
pany will be held on WEI)NEd)AY , Marcii 4tln at 11
o’clock A 51 , at the office of the Company, at which time
an election will bo held for Directors for tbe ensuing year,
fele-t uih4s H. P. RUT TER, Sec'ry.
MW- OFFICE OF THE DELAWARE COAL COM-
W PANY.
Philadelphia, February 13, 1868.
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders ot this Com
pmn, and an Election for Directors, will be held at No.
316 Walnut street on WEDNESDAY’, the lsth day Of
March next at II o’clock A. M.
M3.3uf ,J. it WHITE. President
inSTBUCTION.
QONVF.NT OF THE ROLY CHILD JESUS,
ACADEMY LADIES,
ST. LEONARD’S HOUSE, CHESTNUT STREET.
PHILADELPHIA
Under tho Patrunago of the
RT, REV. DR. ’WOOD,
Bishop of Philadelphia.
The Religious of the Society of the Holy Child Jaiui
intend opening, ou the Ist of February, an Academy lot
Youns Ladies, in the newly-erected building, lately pur
chased by them, at the corner of Thirty-ninth and Chest
uiit streets.
Hoarders as well as Day Scholars will bo received. Foi
£articulars, apply to the Superioress, Sharon, near Darby,
lelnware county, Pa.,or 1136 Spring Garden street Phila
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thohorsesßafe and well trained.
An Aftemoon CIA-’® for Young Ladles. >r
Saddle Horses trained iff tlio beat manner.
Saddle Horses, Horses and Vehicles to hire.
Also, Carriages to Depots, Parties, Weddings, Sho
ping, sc.
jastf ■ THOMAS CRAIGE
COAL AND WOOD.
F BECK'S CELEBRATED CENTRALIA,
HONEY BROOK LEHIGH AND
OTHER FIRST-CLASS COALS;
WEIGHT AND QUALITY GUARANTEED.
SCOTT * CAR RICK, _
fea)-3m 1846 MARKET STREET.
LEHiftH, EAGLE VEIN, AND BEST LOCUST
MOUNTAIN COAL, AT LOWEST RATES.
BAMUHL C. DUBOIS it CO.,
CO-OPERATIVE COAL YARD. .
Office and Yard, 833 North Broad Street above Wood
East Side. Orders by Mali. fe32m
TO MoOARRY & SON,
X • DEALERS IN
CEMENT, SAND,
HAIR, dio..
WEST END OF CHESTNUT STREET BRIDGE.
fc—-2mo ALSO, COAL AND WOOD.
S. MASON BINE*. VOIDS t. SHEAF*
rjIUE UNDERSIGNED INVITE ATTENTION. Tf
X ‘-their stock of
Spring Mountain, Lehigh and Locust Mountain Coal
which, with the preparation given by no, we think cuuo>
be excelled by any other Goat - ■ . „ .
Office. Franklin Institute Building. No. 15 SouthSeyenti
street. BOIES dsSHEAFF.
iaio-tf . Arch street wharf. SchuVlkfll
OOPAHTNEBBIIIPS ,
S [(PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.—WM. D. STROUD. M,
D., and JOHN MAKBTON. Jb., have this day asao
fed themselves togetherunderthensane of* ;-?
STROUD A M ARBTON.
To act as General Agents of the New England Mutual
Life Insurance Company of Boston, Maasaenosettiii in the
States of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and West
Virginia.: ;
Office, 32 North Fifth Street.
This Company has just made a
CUB DIWDESD Of 9-799,860 33 FOB 1867,
which is now in process of payroentto members, felt I'm
fIIIISICIAJ,.
piANO SINGING LE3SONS.--BIGNQH J,
JL NINO, late Musical Director of tho Italian Opera in
New York, has removed to No. 708 Locust street (8. Wash
ington Pquareb where he will continue . tojgivethehest
instruction in Binging and on the Piano. Tgrau reasona
ble. A few classes, limited to four pupils each for the
piano, and to ten for singing, or four for advanced
scholar*, are now being formed. 81gnor Nuno can be seen 1
personally every day, Mondays and Thursdays eg.
eepted. fen UP
AtJCtflOW SAXES, ,„
THOMAS & 80N8, AUOTIONEEM. ;
*bai«bb op btogßj and’read* i
X#S&£
to eacb «alo, ooe thousand catalogues, La pamPnfet form.
deecriptiona of all the property to besofdou
MP^toSdS tuesday.mS alSiorßSißrtato
9W Our Sales are' also advertised la the following
Am*Rioan. Fbjeso, Ledqjcr, Lrolj
iKTKLLionrosßt Inquibeb, Ada, Etehinq Bhujiu.
EVglINd 'J ELKOBAPH, GzgMAK DZMOCRXT, Ac.
Baic> &t 010 Auction sioro EVERY
t3F~ Sales at residences receive especial attention.
««™ BT °CKB, Ac. ■
a> , , ,_ ON TUESDAY. MARCH 3.
At 12 o’clock noon, at the Philadelphia Exchange
-28 eharea Empire Transportation Co.
. M . Kxocutora’ Sale, '
800 shares North-American Insurance Co. .
80 shares Camden and Ambov Railroad Co,
60 shares Frankford and Southwark Pass. RVV. Co.
80 shares Philadelphia and Heading Railroad Co.
8 $lOOO Honda North Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
$ll,OOO Morris Canal Ponds.
For Other Accounts—
-80 shares Swiftauro Transportation Co,
88 shares Camden and Amhoy Railroad Co.
62 chares Pennsylvania Railroad Co..
65 shares Columbus and Indiana Central Railroad
Company.
t lO,OOO Elmira and Williamsport Railroad Co., 5 perct,
10,000 Wei tern Penn's, RaiiroadGo., 6 per cent
1 share Point Breeze Park.
I share Philadelphia Library.
275 0’ ares Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Co.
600 shares Palzell OH Co.
000 shares Mcllhenny Oil Co.
1 share Arch Sticet Theatre.
REAL ESTATJ9 SALE. MARCH 3.
Orphans’Court Sale—Estate of Elizabeth Rivet doo'd.
-TWO-STORY FRAME DWELLING, S. E. comer of
Sixteenth and Lombard streets.
, MODERN THREE-STORY BRICK RESIDENCE,
No. 2122 Spruce street 20 feet front_lo7 feet deep.
Assignees' Peremptory Sale—2 TWO-STORk BRICK
DWELLINGS. Nos. lul2 and 1014 Ward street between
18th and 19th streets, above Washington avenue.
Sale by Order of an Heir—TWO-STORY FRAME
DWELLING, No. 612 Beach street between Green and
Noble stieets.
Trustees' Salo-2 THREE-STORY BRICK DWELL
IN<B Nos.) 814 and 816 Mackinaw streetwest of Eighth
and sonth of Vine street
MODERN THREE-STORY BRICK DWELLING, No.
163 d North Twelfth street, above Jefferson,
COUNTRY SEAT-LARGE and VALUABLE LOT,
434 ACRES, County Line Road, Montgomery county, Pa.
TWO-STORY BRICK STORE AND DWELLING, No.
1422 Shippen street with a Two-story Brick Dwelling in
the rear.
MODERN THREE-STORY BRICK RESIDENCE, No.
686 North Thirteenth street—has the modem conveni
ences. Immediate possession.
2 GROUND RENTS, eacb s3dand $24 a year.
MORTGAGE for $668.
GROUND RENT, i 842 a year.
Lease of Wharf, river Delaware, above Vine street
Executors* Hale on the Premises, 1211 Sprucestreet
HANDSOME RESIDENCE AND FURNITURE.
ON MONDAY MORNING.
March 2, at 10 o’clock, at No. 1211 Spruce street by
order of Executors, ail that' handsome Three-atory Brick
Residence, with two-story Back Bnildings and Lot of
Ground, eituate on the north side of Spruce street No.
1211, containing in front 21 feet and cxienMidg in depth
12Ufeetto a2O feet wide street The house ia in excoUent
repair.
SURPLUS FURNITURE. CHINA, Ac. -
Immediately after the sale of the Residence, the rar*
plus Furniture, including fine Brussels Carpets, Feather
Beds. Spring Matresaee, handsome China Dinner Strvice,
Walnut ana Mahogany Chamber and Dining room Furni
ture, superior Walput Bookcase, Ac.
May be seen early on the morning of sale
Sale at No 301 Bpruce street
VERY SUPERIOR WALNUT FURNITTRE. FINE
BKUSBKLS, INGKAJLN AND VENETIAN CARPETS.
C ’’’ C ‘ ON TUESDAY MORNING.
March 3/ at 10 o'clock, at No. 801 Bpruce street by cata*
logu*, the very superior Walnut Parlor and Dining-room
Furniture. Walnut and Cottage Chamber Furniture,line
Brussels. Ingrain and VenetianJCameta. Matresses. Wal*
net Pideboarrd. fine Linen Shades, Kitchen Utensil*. Ac.
May be examined at 8 o'clock on the morning of sale,.
EXTENSIVE BALE AT KERR’S CHINA HALL,
No. 639 CHESTNUT STREET.
RICHLY
ELEGANT CHINA.
U ANDdOifE~d&NAM£NTS,
ON. WEDNESDAY MORNING.
March 4, at 10 o'clock, at No. 629 Chestnut street by
catalogue, elegant China, £c„ including- Very elegantly
painted and decorated Dinner, Te% Dessert and Break
fast Sets; French China and Gold Band Dinner and'l ea
Sendees; sets of rich and elegantly Cut Glassware: Fruit
Bowls, Stands, Decanters, Flagons, Goblets, Wines,
Tumblers, Ac.: handsomely decorated and painted Orao*
ments, Vases, Urns, Bronzes, Ac.; Wh*tc, French, Eng
lish ar d Iron htone Dinner, Tea-and Dessert hots; fine
French and White Stone China Toilet Sots—in fact
Cb:na of every style, description and shape, suitable for
Hotels. Restaurants' Boarding Houses, Ac.; being the
largest sale of tbe kind ever held »n this city and sold by
the Messrs. Kerr to reduce stock previous to removal to
their new store. No. 1218 Chestnut street
May be examined with catalogues on Tuesday.
Peremptory Salo at the Nottingham Knitting Mill,
Germantown. ">
VALUABLE HOSIEKY MACHINERY, Ac.
ON WEDNESDAY MORNING.-
March 11. at 11 o’clock, at the Nottingham Knitting
Mill, northeastwardly eide of Wakefield street German
town, valuable Hosiery Machinery, including Balmoral
Heads, Warp Machines. Spooling Machines, Shuttle
Looms, Yam Frames, double ribbed; Steam Ptpsh, Sow
ing Machines, let Woolen Yarn. Stocking Boards, Ac.;
Office Furniture. Fireproof Safe. Ac.
May be examined on the morning of sale.
THOMAS BIBCH A SON. AUCTIONEERS AND
1 COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No, Hie CHEBTNUT street.
Roar Entrance 1107 Sansom street
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE OF EVERY DESCRIP
TION RECEIVED ON CONSIGNMENT.
SALES EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
Sales of Furniture at Dwellings attended to on thi
roost reasonable terma.
LARGE SALE OF ELEGANT SHEFFIELD PLATED
WARE. PEAhL AND IVORV HANDLE TABLE
CUTLERY. Ac,
ON TUESDAY MORNING, at 11 o’clock,
and
ON TUESDAY EVENING, at 7% o'clock,
At tho auction store. No. lllu Chestnut street, will bo
sold—
A large assortment of elegant Sheffield Platod Ware,
received direct from the manufacturers, JOSEPH DEA
KIN & SON. bhcflield, England.
CARD.—This Ware is of a superior quality, and equal
to the beet sold in this city.
Salo at No. 1525 Chestnut street.
SUPERIOR WALNUT PARLOR FURNITURE, ROSE
WOOD PIANO FORTE, REPB COVERED LIBRARY
FURNITURE BRUSSELS. INGRAIN AND VENE-
TIAN CARPETS, BEDS, BEDDING, Ac.
ON WEDNESDAY MORNING.
At 10 o'clock, at No. 1525 Chestnut street, will be sold,
the Pailor, Chamber, Dining room and Kitchen Furni
ture of a family declining housekeeping.
The Furniture can be examined after 8 o'clock on the
morning of sale.
TRAVIS a HARVEY. AUCTIONEERS.
J J (Late with M. Thomas A Sons.)
Store No. 421 WALNUT street.
FURNITURE SALES at the Store EVERY TUESDAY
SALES AT RESIDENCES will receive particular
attention.
Sale No. 42t Walnut street.
SUPERIOR FURNITURE. SEWING MACHINE,
FEATHER BEDS, CARPETS, Ac,
ON TUESDAY MORNING,
At 10 o'clock, at the auction store, an assortment of
Superior Furniture, Ladd A Webster Sewing Machine,
Matreeses, Beds, Tapestry, Inerain and Vcnwliau Carpets,
China, Housekeeping Articles, Ac.
Sale No. 1105 Callowhill street.
SUPERIOR FUKMTL RE, ROSEWOOD PIANO. FINE
FRENCH PLATE MIRRORS, HANDSOME TAPES
TRY carpets. ac.
ON WEDNESDAY MORNING,
March 4, at 10 o'clock, by oatalogue, at No. 1105 Callow
hill Btreet, the entire Furniture, Including—Superior
Walnut l’urlor Suic, Oak Hall Set. Walnut Uining-Toom
Furniture, superior Chamber Suits, Rosewood Piano,
largo French Pluto Miro U-1 and Pier Mirrors; Plated Tea
Set, tine Tapestry, Brussels and Venetian Carpets,
Kitchen Utensils, Ac.
BY. HARRIET A ..CCU AUCTIONEERS.
No. 230 MARKET street, corner of BANK street
Cash advanced on consignments without extra charge
LARGE PEREMPTORY SALE OF 1000 LOTS.
ON MONPAY MORNING,
March 2, commencing at 10 o'clock;
COMPKIBING, 350 LOTS OF DRY GOODS,
Bleached and Brown Goode, Domestics, Ac,
Also; BO cases Boots, Shoes, Balmorals, Ac.
50 cases Felt Hats
SO cascoGingbam Umbrellas.
150 lots Table Damask, Tablo Clothe. Towel?, Cambrics,
Bed spreads, Drees Goods, Delaines, Linen Goods, Ac.
Also, stock of Clothing; Fancy and White Shirts, Over-
NOTICE TO CITY AND COUNTRY MERCHANTS.
ON WEDNESDAY MORNING.
March 4, commencing at Jo o'clock, by catalogue, 1200
lots, cases, bales- Ac., or Desirable Stable and Fancy pry
Goods, b otions Ac. .
, Particulars hereafter.
MW™ s - K
Money advanced on Merchandise, generally—Watches.
Jewelry, Diamonds, Gold''and'Silver Plate, ana on al)
Fine Gold Hunting Case. Double Bottom and Open Fact
English. American and. Swiss Patent Lever Watches:
Fine Gold Hunting Case and Open Face Let-ine Watches.
Fine Gold Duplex and other Watches; Fine Silver Hunt
ing Case and Open Face English, American and Swiss
Patent Lover and Leplne Watches: Double Case English
Quartier and other Watches: Ladies' Fancy Watches;
Diamond Breastpins: Finger Rings; Ear lungs;Studs,
Ac.; Fine Gold Chains, Medallions; Bracelets: Scan
Fins; Breastpins; Finger Rings pencil Cases and Jewelry
**fQBIIAVI!L-~A large and valuable Fireproof Cheat
suitable for a Jeweler: coat $660.
AlHQ,ievQrallotalnSouthCamdeu,Fifth^udCh,Mtnui
streets.
By j. m, gummey a sons,
■ AUCTIONEERS,
No, 508 WALNUT street.
HoldßegUlarSales of ' - • 3
KEALES^^TO^DIEOURmEaAT^
#2"H*ndMUjof each property imuod »opnrat«ly.. ,
W* OH., .thousand copio. published ana circulated,
containing full doaeripUtmij ot property to toe boM. aaabw
a panial Tiet of (property contained In oor Beai Haute
Repleter, and offered at privateul*.. ■ .... ..... .
- BT Saie», adverttaed J>Ai(.Y ln aU tbe dailr newt
papera. ‘ *' ~ r 1 ‘ I <> •' »
TKT H THOMPSON * CO.. AUCTIONEERS.
»n;,a»orw«.prginpHyatte>id^l’t<i.
T. u
NOTlCE—lncluded in onrßalootrMONDAY.Marekfc
at lo o’clock, on four mouths' credit, will' be-found'ff
part the following via- -v “
A Special add important OlTcrin* of <
MOUSSELINEDK EAINEB. VEIL WitEOESi
Meatn. HENNEQUIN A CO. • ■
600 Pieces Paris MOUBSEUNE DELAINES, Inal! tk»
- gradceoi their, well known make, in choice
' assorted and. high .colors, ezulina, scoriae
white, black iuidjntMeO, “ ■ •
800 Pieces Paris VEIL BA REOEd. of thelr own manufac
ture, from fine ;io best imported; In greent
brown, azultae aedblack, .... , , ■
SCO Pieces superior BONA MaRIA, for veils, in azullne;
mode, brown and'droen.
300 Pieces all BILK GRENADINES, for veils, to aenlio*
■ brown and green, .... .. .
800 Paris THIBET add MERINOSQUAftfeand. LONCt
KHAWXB. wool friDgea, In blacknUdmodw,
,„ rt „ , from fine to Bdperfine qnalitiM. » <- ‘ • .
ICO Park Printed a oalmettea
aborted colon,. . '
We will add to above aaift— \ -• •• "• •*• •
9 A a. a DHEBB GOODS. >
Fiecea London black and colored Mohair* and Aloacftfcr
do. Baxonr Plaids, Bilk and Wool ,' ''
do. scotch Fancy Drew 3to®*,4Ci
Pieces blk and colored Gro« Grains. Gras du Rhj« t 4fc«u
do. Lyons Taffetas, Prap do Fon 1$ doJaKrf^
iiincn Cambric. Silk audCotton HandkerCWefAßUfc
’ rrora .and Hoop Skirts, Ribbons, Glovee, Bilk TlefJinS
and Cloak Trimmings, Beltings, Braids. BattonsTWuta
Goods, Umbrellas, Sewing SUk, Quilts, iiotiani.,dKk
March 3.
Boots, Shoes, Balmorals, *o„ of .cltr and Eastern iaanv
i actnre. ' —/'
LARGE PEREMPTORY. BALE OP SOGO CASEB BOOTS.
SUOEB. mAVELING BAGS. HATS; CAPSiSaOII
NOTlOlWncludad in onrLarge SUli of. Boot* Shoe*.
Ac.. ON TUESDAY MOVING, -v
March 3, on FOURMONTHS’ CRBDIC at Id q’cfofk,win
be found in pari the foUowlug freah UndAe&able Wort
ment via— ...... mnj|,
Men’s, boys’ and youths* calf, double sola, half weß an*
pump sole dress boots; men’gjhram and youfhF kin «w#
bTO®»W»WI
fine kid, goat, morocco and enameled patent ,eevndßal--
morals and Congeess gaiters; Womens ffib2iiF*lgiS
chiMren’s calf sSd buff leather Balmorals andlaoebpefeg
children** fine kid, sewed, ritwmide lm IiAB-'Mi,
sewed Balmorals .'and. ankle tie*risdlee’fim; Mask «»
colored lasting Cpngreseaod side lace galteni wtmcnAL
misses’ and children's goat and morocco copperioattj
m •“’**"*
One Howe’s CyliadeyilmNC^MAOHlNE.
LARGE POSITIVE BALeToF BRITISH. FRENCH.
„ , ON THURSDAY MORNING.;
March 3, at 10 o’clock, embracing about 1000 Package*
and Lots of Staple and Fancy Articles.
We will include In sale onTHURSUAY, MarehS, tob»
sold for oath, by order or the Sheriff—
-8 pieces of WOOLEN COATING.
IMPORTANT AND SPECIAL SALE OF 80.000 DOZEN
GERMAN COTTON^HOSIERY AND GLOVES,
TRAyELING SHIRTS, UMBRELLAS, GEMIS?
FURNISHING GOODS. As.
March 6, at lOo'clockTonlour months* credit.
„ , 90,000 DOZEN HOSIERS AND GLOVE& ?
Full lines Ladies* WHITE COTTON HOSE, from me
dium to the finest qualities. ■
Full lines ladies* brown, elate, mixed and black COT
TON BOSE, from lowest quality to full regular. - *
Full lines misses* and boys* white, brown- and MIXED*
BOSE, M and % HOSE, full assortment of alaes.atytes
and qualities. o >
Full lines Kents’ white, brown and mixed COTTOBP
HALFHOSE, from the lowest quality to the finest regular
made goods.
—ALSO— • J
GLASSWARE.
Fall lines Udln’, gentlemen’s, misses’ and boys’ Berlins
Lisle, Cotton and Silk mixture GuoVES and G AUNT
LETS, compiising a large and complete assortment ot
tills season's Importation.
—ALSO—
Traveling Shirts. Umbrellas, Hoop Skirts. Silk Tice.
Shirt Fronts, Suspenders, Clothing, Buttons, Trimming,
LARGE POSITIVE BALEOFCARPETCNGB. Ae.
. „ , OH FRIDAY MORNING.
March 6 at 11 o'clock, on FOUR MONTHS’ CREDIT,
about axi pieces Ingrain, Venetian, List, Hemp, Cottage
and Rag Carpetings. . ■ . ‘ -■ ■■■:'•
CD. McCLEES A CO..
. ■ SUCCESSORS TO
McClelland a co„ Auctioneer*. ■
N 0.60« MARKET eSeei_
LARGE SPRING SALE OF 1600 CASES BOOTS,
BHOES, BROGANS, BALMORALS, Ac.
ON MONDAY MORNING.
March 2, commencing at ten o’clock, we will sell by
catalogue, for cash, 1600 cases men's, boys'and youtbs*
Boots, Shoes, Brogans, Balmorals. Ac. ,
Also, a superior asiortment of Women’s, Misses' and
Children’s wear. - . -
To which the early attention of the trade is called. ~; ,
LARGE SPRING SALE OF 1800 CABES BOOTS;
SHOES. BROGANS BALMORALS, Ac, ’
ON THURSDAY MORNINGT
Marco 6, commencing at ton o’clock, we wfR Sell by
catalogue, for cash, 1600 oases Men's, Boys’ ana Youiiuf
Boots, Bhoes, Brogans, Balmorals, Ac.
Also, a superior, assortment or Women’s, Mltses' anA
Children's wear.
Direct from city and Eastern manufacturers.
BY B. SCOTT, Jb.
SCOTT'S ART GALLERY.
No. 1020 Chestnut street Philadelphia.
Sale at the Academy of Me sic.
JAMES S. EARLE A SON'S SIXTH GREAT SALE OF
_ < PAINTINGS
Will take place in the Foyer of the Academy of Music,
on the EVENINGS of FRIPaY, Feb. 88, and SATUI?
PAV, Feb. 29, at7o'clock precisely.
The Collection is now arranged for exhibition In the
Eastern Galleries of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts, and will continue daily, from 8 A. M. untU'lO P.
with catalogues.
Cards of admission willb* required at the
can bo procured without charge, at Earle's Galleries, 816 T
Chestnut street and at the ernce of the Auctioneer 1 ,1039
Chestnut street. *
TAMES A. FREEMAN, AUCTIONEER,
V 422 WALNUT «tr*ot
SALE BY ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT.
Property known os the Ectoh and Perkiomea Copper
Mine. Montgomery county, I'a.
ON TUESDAY. MARCH \ "
At 13 o'clock noon.will be Bold on the premises.in-Lower
Providence township; Montgomery county. Pa., the entire
property of the Ectoh and Perklomen Copper Mine, in*
eluding dwellings* shops, Ac., and over 47 acres of land, -
gat-oslo peremptory—by order of the Supreme Court
860 Q to be paid at the time of sale. ; >■ . >
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