Independent Republican. (Montrose, Pa.) 1855-1926, May 23, 1865, Image 1

H. H. FRAZIER, Publisher.
VOLUME 11.
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aurora whin the work Is brought,
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J, State b i the United States. Prodon Vouchers and Pay CM.
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Ds. E. L. RAITDRICK,
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d persiove to tra citizen. of Frissadsville and vicinity., Of.
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if iron, &awn. Ods and Palau. Boma HMI
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gad Deniers In Dry Goode, Groceries, o.
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February I.
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inrOICCOPATEIO, PHYSICIAN, be
..barlotheatly located
KS. Mr:mettle Kora:roe; Pa, where helms pOlesPlii
all ailk Ilte profession with 'thick he may be favored. Offlee
end Iteeldecce West of the (lowa Houma near Beetle,' Atntetie•
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A. 0. WARREN,
a. WORN= AT LAW, BOHN= NAOS PAT and PEN
6ION CLAIM AGINT' . All Penal= Claime careftiljy pro
Office In mom formerly occupied by Tn. pall, Is
bulldlny. below Searle's Howl.
miaow Feb. 1954.- %DPP; 118a8.
S. 8. ROBERTSON,
HAWCIPACTITUS of '130 4 3 . 1 , 13.1k513.0F,5ith.
(hrego !Wed. Houma. Pa.
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LIMB KIRBY & E. BACON,
KU p coettestly on head a hall en=,ly or every mitt, M
GRODEILISS and 001ePECT/ONZGIIM3. By strict attar
too to teudnees and fairnesain noel they hope to merit the Ithem
Au OYSTER and 'MG SALOON rtt=Zo ' M P retery ablic. , where bivalves, In eeaion. are ate , reden.
ary etyle tbat the Ueda of the public demand. Remember ete ?see.
the old Kett Grocery steed. an hate Street, betas , the $o lolDor.
Neutron. Nov. 1 7 ,155.8.—tach17.13 —tt
Da. °ALVIN C. YJALSEY,
teIIEITESOIAD AND ADEGEON, AND EXAMINING SUB.-
GEON for PENSIONEES. Whet over the ewe of J. Lyme
a4= o z Bore al Mr. Etheridget.
D. A. BALDWIN,
ATTOBriCY AT LAW, ana Perustar 4 Batorti, and Back Pal
evor.„ Gnu Bend, 801onebaans County. re.
0111 • 1 hu.t•ost 10, 1000-11
BOYD & viIiMSTER,
rmuseato LP Ira Ware; alack. 51" 111= 1 19 1 & " P TCA,A.'"
Mu* Lab, Pia Latraberand at tads a a
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KOSIM2II. Pt.. Jayary 1. 186L-ty
DR. TORN W. COBB,
I:I4IFITEIMAN oftrItOZON, reapecteully [eaten
2. to tee damn; sniguelianna County. Havtug had &lent a
Mee experience In the United States ,t,iny, se Snrewn especial
attention anti be ahnta MIRO lad.L OPEEtATIONs.
fteddenes on Staple. Street, Ern 013. S. Tarnelra Rotel.
Illcntroee, Soap. County, P., June 73.18G1.-14'
Da, WILLIAM W. SMITH,
SURGEON DENTIST. OEM over the Same=
Ne sse V i tee t r Coog 3.m er C it o. ta. dl ur l Dentai Operation'
varrantea. Remember. office formerly of H. =liar Boa.
lEcostrose. Jermary L 11164.-11
E. J. ROGERS,
ltrlifillT/LOTITIMB of an &eel:Alan ofWAG-
In G&S. oasaukass, 81..F.Rillb, ge... in the
butane ofl7 - erkammhio and of the best masee.ale,
as tka wedl tem: mod of E. R. 801:161113, a re. rode mat
of Searle% Hobe In Ifoosetwe, where be will be ImPll to Ile
team the all. of all who want anything in We line.
Menurege, June 1, 186/441
BALDWIN as ALLEN,
Dr4LIZEir in FLOUR, Sam Pork, Plan. Lard. Onto. Feed
audio, Mora and Timotht Seed. Also (311.00YRIBS,
Cron al lama,ifnolosee r . From Ti and Corea. Went, gide d Polak &Moe, one doo below J. ea
Neuron. January 1. ine&-nt
D& G. W. BEACH,
tODYIDOLLI4 AND SUDGEOR. haelnd permanently located
blintelf it Brooklyn Center. Pa.. tenders ht. pmfemional net ,
It= to the citizen. cd linsdnehama Corm,, as tames commenera
ide glib the ttmea. Occaptn. the dace at the We Dr. B. Dlchard
ma sad boards 4 Yrs. Haehardeon'a
Brooklet Canon. Da.. June C. thl4.-11'.
F. B. WEEKS,
pOILL BOOT Milt BROS MEXXS; alto Drava
Boots, Mom Lathe; and Shoe Fading& Itapahing done
vlth aestnen and Basta. Two down:an Hotel
BantremeNJamtary t, left—tf
JOSEPH RICE,
111121117AORTMER sztd DEALER InCRAIRP, Beds:Ando.
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Et* Elfard, October 1. MIAS
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owes
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the x r Surgical cperAtiona, sad aDEarettel Diseuterstrucu.
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WILL & WM. EL JEBBITP,
Arrorticrrs AT LAW. Montrose, Pa- Practice in Bnagn►
hams. Bradtbrd, Wayne, Wyoming and Lucerne Counties.
=tome. Pa.. January Isi„ VAL
ALBERT CRAMBERLIN,
DistELICT ATToNNYT AND ATTORNEGY AT LAW.—
°Mee orra the Sum rormulir occupied by Past Brzhers,
Ma.ime. ?a-January 1, UN.
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. barinsu Its branches. J. LIONS,
cabrare,:littrnry I. 1804. T. A. LTA/t.
ABEL TURRELL,
JOS. TSEDMINES, CITEMICAIJR.
a. stuffs. Voruisbes. Window Glam
!rockery, Glassware W.ll.Paper, J .
art.:tem Senwiral Instruments. Thug
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filtt'e Htore. All tltda of wort mane
done neatly. Wort done yam gran.
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CHARLES N. STODDARD,
- 10T8 di }SHOES. Leather and Z/ma•
third door below ticarlea Rotel. L.
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° BMX ME TO BLEEP.
Backward, turn backward, 0 Titne, In your flight,
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Make me child again, suet for to-night I
Mother, come back from the echolesa shore,
Take me again to your heart as of yore,
Klss from my tbrehesul the farrows of care.
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair,
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep;
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock: me to sleep I
Backward, flow backward, 0 tide of years !
I am so weary of tolls and. of tears--
Toll without recompense, tears all In Cain —
Take these and give me my childhood again !
I have grown weary of dust and.decay,
Weary of flinging my soul-wealth away,
Weary of sowing for others to reap;
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock' me to steep
Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue.
Mother, 0 mother, my heart calls for you!
Many a summer the grass haa grown green,
Blossomed and faded, our faces between,
Yet with strong yearning and passionate pain,
Long I to.nightfor your presence Vali ) ;
Come from the silence so long and so deep;
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleets!
Over my heart In days that are flown,
No love like motherlove ever watt shown,
No other worship abides and endures,
Faithful, unselfish, and patient; like yours.
None like a mother can charm away pain
From the sick soul and the world-weary brain ;
Slumber's soft calm o'er my heavy lids creep,
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep!
Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with gold,
Pall on your shoulder again, as of old,
Let it fall over my forehead to-night,
Shading my weak eyes away from the light,
For with its sunny-edged shadows once more,
Reply will throng the sweet visidrus of yore,
Lovingly, softly, - Itsbright billows sweep;
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep!
Mother dear mother! the years have been long
Since fleet hushed to your lullaby song:
Since then, and Onto my soot It shall seem
Womanhood's years have beep but as a dream.
Clasped to your arms in a loving embrace,
With your light lashes just sweeping my face,
Never hereafter to wake or to weep;
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep!
REPLY TO 'ROOK ME TO SLEEP.'
My child, my child 1 thou art weary tonight ;
Thy spirit is sad and dim is the light:
Thou would"st call me back tram the silent shore,
To the trials of life, to thy heart as of yore;
Thou longest again for the loving care,
For my kiss on thy lies, my band on thy hair,
But angels around thee their loving watch keep,
And angels, my child, will " rock thee to sleep."
"Backward!" aayonwand, ye swift rollingyears ;
Gird on thy armor! Dry 1215 thy teats!
Count not thy trials, nor efforts; in vain,
They'll bring thee the light of thy childhood again.
Ye should not weary, my chTht:bY the may,
But watch for the light of that brighter day;
Not tired of " sowing.for others to man,"
For angels, my child, will " rock thee to sleep."
Tired, my child, of the "base, the untrue,"
0, I have tasted the cup they give you,
Felt the deep sorrow in the living green
Of a low mossy grave by a silvery stream;
But the dear mother I sought for in vain,
Is an angel presence, and with me again ;
And in the still night from the ellenee so deep,
Coma the bright angels to "reek thee to sleep."
Nearer thee now than in days that are flown,
Purer the levellght encircling thy home,
Far more enduring the watch for tonight,
Than ever earth-worship away from the light;
Soon the dark shadows will linger no more,
Nor come at thy call from the opening door,
But know thou, my child, the angels watch keep,
And soon, very soon, will "rock thee to sleep."
THE MAUMEE OF GEN. GRAPE
It has doubtless occurred to many of our readers
as a singular and what BOMO would call a Providen
tial occurrence, that In this great war of the people
against an aristocracy conspicuously boastful of Its
blood, birth and gentle breeding, the popular tide
has been conducted to a successful issue by leaders
who themselves belong to what Mr. Lincoln called
the "plain people." and what Englishmen writing
shoot us Ignorantly call the "peasant class." We
have no peasant class In the free States ; but Mr.
Lincoln and General Grant are both the sons of
"plain ueople ;" both arose from humble circum
stances; both, In their youth at least, labored with
their hands for bread, and neither had any of those
advantages of birth, or powerful family Influences,
or great estate, which in the South, as in Europe,
served men as a lever for their personal aggrandize
ment.
General Grant, who entered the war as a colonel
of an Illinois regiment, has shoat!, In every position
which he has held,
_genuine guatness of diameter,
as well as extraordinary military genius. He be
came colonel of a regiment which was about to di.-
band because the men could not agree with their
officers; but in less than a month he had made this
regiment the best in point of discipline and char
acter which the State of Dlinots tuts suit out. His
unobtrusive but marked ability caused his promo
tion to the grade ot hrigadier-genetal; and eller
the battle of Belmont, which served. its purpose in
preventing the reinforcement of Price in Southern
Missouri by troops from Columbus, be conceived
the first of those brilliant campaigns of which milita
ry historians will write with delight
The rebels held Columbus on the Mississippi, and
Bowling Green, in Central Kentucky, and from these
points threatened at once at. LOtllB and CincinnatL
Grant quietly and secretly cultured a strong force
near Smithland, and suddenly pounced down first
upon Fort Henry and then upon Fort Donelson.
In these two places he captured a rebel army, with
all its artillery and material—but this was the least
of the fruits of his well-considered strategy, for the
the capture of Fort Condign: produced the precip
itate evacuation of Kentucky and half of Tennessee
by the enemy, who did not stop until he 'reached
Corinth, retreating a distance of over three hundred
miles without another battle.
Next came the great battle of Shiloh. In that
Sherman was Grant's chief Lieutenant, and the two
men tested each other's qualities in the most extreme
trial to which either had been exposed. That bat
tle was one of the "turning points" of the war. It
has been told us that Grant came into the head
quarters tent on the evening of the first day's battle,
when to any trat the most heroic spirits fortune
seemed to have deserted us, and said quietly, "
Gentlemen, It was tough work to-day, but we'll
beat them to-morrow.'
Displaced by Buel, Grant uttered no word of com
plaint; no newspaper correspondent even complain
ed for bhp, tint tie went quietly on In his appointed
place. We may suppose that the slow, timid and
unmilitary policy which marked the tong siege of
Corinth must often have chafed his spirit, yet one
of Lis merits Is to stibmit to his superiors, cheerfully
doing his own work without stopping to qnestion or
rectify the work of Others; and even while ignorance
or malice traducedchis character and belittled his
services, giving tilabest ability to the furtherance of
the plans of the hoar. Fortunately we had i n th e
War Department a man of insight and decisiveness,
who very soon maw the value of Grunt, and put it to
use. The long and almost impracticable campaign
against Vicksburg was submitted to his direction,
and led to as brilliant a Series of operations as the
greatest General of modern days ever conceived or
ted.
Vicksourg was the second of Grant's fraltinl vic
tories. A rebel army, With all its arms, and mate
rials, surrosderedto tarn; but tide material gain was
the least of the fruits able success, for, as the cap
ture of Fort Danelaon expelled the rebel forces,
without another blow, from all Kentucky and the
greater part of Pennewee, from wregion of country
nearly as great as the Island of Great Britain, and a
third-greater than England alone, so the capture of
Vicksburg re-opthicsi coe great Mississippi to nap-.
cation, and drove the enemy froth tile larger part of
the State of Mississippi
Chattanooga Came next. "Hold fast; do not give
op Chatanooga If you starve," he televaphed to
comeral Thomas, upon whose suffering army Bragg
looked down fnim the heights opposite, as his cer
tain prey . A shigie battle again the cam
paign, and relieved Chattanooga, and drove Braga ,
out of East Tetmessee into 'Georgia. ' , Pie did not
thi s time eePtnro the forces of the meaty, owing
partly to the &Meth nature of the pursuit and the
intractable rarranuilns, and partly to the want of
skill in the pursuit exhibited by one or two of his
subordinates. But of the battles fought on Look
out Mountain ateildissiolvtt history records
no parallel for sublimity of aro, vi e e umettu ,
mess of effect, which Were the d ivision of the Con
federacy into tWo parts, were inestimable in their
importance.
At last -Grant was drawn eastward, to command
all the armies of the maim. We have not forgot
the misgivings with which the public beard of this
Labeler to amen cornmehenaive field of duty, and
more =siting trials., he prove adequate to
the enormous labor?* Would be not be spoiled by
promotion, or inined,las so inaby before have been,
by the (=math* of o ierations in Virginia? , AbOte
all, would he not be cad by the bickarings of
the Potomac mends finch were the quffsUone
asked on every ban .• The Llentanant•Gencrsd,
however, heeded themnot, - and went on Ws way as
DT 'Lonelcoa rEscit
" Freedom and Right against Slavery and Wrong."
MONTROSE, SUSQ. CO., PA., TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1865.
taciturn, as silent, as selkoneentrated, as tenacious
and as indomitable as the brigadier and major-gen
eral had been. He made no speeches on had way to
the east; he did not address the treaPs lYl4' in
winter quarters at Culpepper; but he took hold of
his work at once and by the bundle.
Mader his eyes the campaign which began last
May has been uninterruptedly successful. Hts first
blow at f.ee, In those prodigious and terrible battles
of the Wilderness, so crippled the principal army of
the rebels that it could do nothing for eleven months
afterwards bat Ile behind its strong works, nod
maintain the defensive, By this masterly stroke
Sherman and Thomas were furnished with the op
portunity.ol action which they well knew how to
improve, All the while the dear old .krtny•of the
Potomac, which had been «o often battered and
broken, but never overcome, was assign:i to the
disagreeable and seemingly Inglorious function ut
holding Lee still before Petersburg. but he General
in-Chief shared their burden, and left to his distant
lieutenants the more promising and satisfactory task
of active movement and battle. Sherman and Sheri
dan and Thomas were allowed to reap a very har
vest of laurels.
But the moment at length came for which Grant
had waited no many weary nauttlt4, enduring the
taunts of the whole semi-robe) press at tiotne and
abroad, which denounced him us Butcher Grant,
and demonstrated triumphantly that hie zeros was
blocked, and that he was forced to lie idle by the
superior prowess and strategy of Lee. lie sent
forth on the 29th of March the potent command to
move, One mighty week of battle comps lied the
surrender of a third army of the relicts, and with It
the fall of Richmond, the ee.y!tai of the eon rcdowv,
the dispersion of the government, tail the terinhia
tion of the struggle Ai an orgasized and vital eonte,t.
—N. Y. Evening NIL
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MS MISSIONARY AND THE IDOL
The followtnr adventure of a friend of mine
aMongst a people with whom at present we are un
fortunately at war, may prove not uninteresting to
many readers.
John Nicoart settled in the northern Island of
New Zealand about thirty years ago, and was for
many years the only white in.in in that part of the
country in which he lived Sae ea) e:
I bad often heard of the wond..rtnl temple of the
Nooranon god, and longed to i.e.• it mywit. Its
beauty was described to me in the Snort glowing
terms by the natives. who , tiled it to be a cavern
of );neat dimenhious which waa entered fmat the sea
shore, It was said that It could roily b, entered
twice a year, in the mr•stbs of March and o.lobcr:
this being because at nil other ~Na 1 , 0119 Ni as
below too tide.
It was tin a tine avian,' day in October, 110 hav
ing determined to fm out to the head of the hay to
fish, I told my native servant Sian ad. to prepare my
boat. At the time I started, everything hole the
appearance of continued good weather, and I was in
hopes of being aisle to pour. be night with my
bout hilt. We reached the fishing ground, tied hav
ing let down the lines, I oleos met ci tniereelf in the
stern, lit toy pipe, and let Matta I loos alter the thh
tog.
We were very successful, and In about two hours
obtained nearly as much as we wanted. I was just
thinking about returning, when Malawi directed my
attention to a small dark cloud in the northern sky,
which I well knew protetided the sudden and fu-
Timis blast Of the " nor'-easier." I immediately
pulled op the lines, and knowing not a moment was
to to. lost, sprang to an oar commanded the Maori
to do the same. We pulled in -bore as epilekly as
possible, and I was beginning to hope cc Would
reach it before the storm cam 2 on, when our host
quivered as if under the stroke of a giant's sledge
hammer and the blast rustiest over u s. in a 1, % -
fa!COMIS the sea rose fearfully, end owept over the
boat every minute. Seeing we should Inc swamped
if we did not keep her before the sea, I sprang to
the stern, and shoving out the siccing our, kept her
running before the wind; we then rode comparative
ly safe, as our light craft, being au old weaning boat,
was built to stand heavy weather. We were dying
along with the speed of a raredim,e, and were fat
approaching the southern extremity of the bay. I
was now utterly undecided annual to do. It Via mu
ashore and escaped through the tr/ mendous ser f,
we would In all likelihood he killed, perhaps de
voured, by the savage Nooraitoos; and if we kept
out to sea, the boiling billow- wutild ceitaiely en
gulf us.
I remained undecided, mean wh Ile beeping t he boat's
prow directed towards the s.utt. r:: end of the
bay, so that I might follow mther course, as I rat.'
tit. Mane; had lain Conn in the wittora of the host,
quite insensible through terror, so that no advice or
help was to be had from him At tart we were
drawing close to the reeler, and I now ooserved a
little cove In their extreme point which might afford
us shelter, The entrance to It seemed narrow and
shallow, the water rushing In with a fearful surge,
and cram at the distance I then was, which, though
seemingly small, could not be less than three-fourths
of a mile, I could hear the thunder of the surge as it
dashed against the rocks. I had now no Moder left '
as to ay connte, being too far in snore to weather
the point; so commending my 11 lb to Providence, I
guided the boat towards rocks. I stirred up
Ma eel with my font, telling him that unless be ex
erted himself we should both be lost, lie &sparing-
ly assented, and accordingly i gave tile the steering
oar, knowing that his superior skill would be, use
ful In the moment of danger. I took my e mime In
the bow, and guided her coarse by tarm,--the roar
ing of the surf making speech useless. We new
both stood prepared nor our rtruzgle for Ilk, and a
terrible moment It was; borne elba the Cr 41 4-1 a
giant roller, we dashed I , llol l 'e little channel. It
required an arm„of oak and verve or Ir de to guide
no through this Charybdis. I was afraid the wave
might sweep bark before eterrfilLf us thromtb the
chant, l, and dash us to l'ine'rs agsinot Ih^ ei ',now
bottom; and, unfareunate:v, this 1 rued to be the
ease; the bank water dragged as set-in tenon the
an e rter of the c u re, and tore the bottom clean elf
the boat as it dragged the As we '
struggled amongst the fragments 01 our ;mi.- e mit,
another gigantic roller swept us through the pas
sage, and dashed me itleedieg and emote 'reporters
on the rocks. I grasped the seaweed, and crawitag
up the face of the rock, was forinr,de eentiNit to get
out of the surge: but casting, a look du reward, I
saw noor Mann - i's Wee ding body arose the frag
ments of the boat, sweep about 111 the aPI,1I)
I again crawled along the rocks till 1 reached a leve-f
pert, where surer fontlr: was to he had: :titre which
exertion I fell sermeleas with pain and extrti in, 0..-
catdoned by the loss of blood.
When I recovered I found it getting dark, so that
I must Lave lain about four hours In a Lout. The
evening war evidently tar advance d, and the moon
was shining with great brillocy. I was thankful
for this last blearing, no otherwise I could not have
explored the recess of the rooks for a path ref den,
erance. The gale. as i= wmAl with north caster,,
had abated as suddenly as it had aresen, cmd the
night was quite calm and still, the only sound that
teas heard, being the Wien tsidau of the swell as it
swept the rocks below. I immediately began to
look about for means of 4., it from my position,
and Inland that the lode' of rocks. on which I stood
extended backward for Brunedistance. I went hark
a few feet and perceived u hot , : in the rocks shout :t
feet wide and about 6 in Might. The idea et
once struck me that Vkls eras thee cave dediested fey
the vootunoo= to the tiorsLOp of the semoteary, Sap
tunkutho or Mann wirrith y'r he that holds the tee
ter iu his hands). The appearance of the. entrance
agreed with tlie dencipt ion giVe'd Me lee the Maori , —
I being but a few Inch,. above the highest sweep tit
the surf, and the tide being at i's at ebb. 1 abut
remembered that Lisle wee et. , et the time of the
half yearly visits of tit , e 0 eratiorto to the temple
' as it was only access/I& for one day in the half year,
expected every moment to emee the sacred trailer
I sweep round the point and land Its crew of Ivor
' shippers. I was now /12 a fearful position, and saw
no method of escape, fort there was a law amongst
the Maoris, that only tit°, seen apart for the pur
pose of offering the eacritiees of the tribes should
approach this cavern, all others being condemned
to instant death if found there. Irrespective of 111111,
however, the hated Pairelia of the 'I uternuneas was
!tardy doomed to deitructem if foetid by his foes.
I correntle Frarehed every recess of the rocks,
guided by the Ilght of the OIoOD, but could find oo
egress—with precipitous of rocks on three
sides, and a boundless ocean on the fourth. I re
turned in despair to the ten-.le entrance, determined
to return and await . the corning of Ibe Noortunnos.
I did so, and groped atong its rough walls for some
War. I then toot: out my flint and steel, which
carried with me on all occasion", and strikinz a
light no some cotton which bad fortunately remain
ed dry Inside my pocket, I was enabled to see my
way- I found the cavern of considerable length, ex
tending, I should imagine, about one thousand
yards In length, with a breadth of two hundred. I
reached the altar w 1 ere stood the idol, surrounded
by the offerings of its devotees,
on
of various
marine curiosities 'an, other valuables I did not,
however, take much i rote of them, my anxiety re
garding the arrival of tt, e natives being to. great to
-think of soffitjinx car !osity. 1 knew that they
might Dome at any mom, la. and were sure to come
at all events, in the coarse of twenty.four hours.
I looked for a place to co total MY - self and crftP
ing round behind the idc d, Wind that if the priests
did not remove It, I ml c ut nossibly-escape their
eight The Idol was at. tt ',Abated at the extreme
end or the cavern, but only about two hundred
yards teem H 8 entrance, so that behind it there was
cunziderable space, wine a apparently was not much
Intruded upon, an the do ( venous being paid in front
at thealtar. I hoped t hat, as they 14f puld not pass
beyond the idol, I nigh' rposalbly remain concealed,
for I knew that they le Bald have no time tqwriate.•
the returning tide compelling them to quicken their
devotions; but then f reflected that, even should I
escape their notice, a miserable death awaited me,
left as I would be to die of hunger in that lonesome
cavern. Various schemes flitted through my mind,
one of which was to escape their observation on
landing, by hiding behind some corner of rock, and
creeping down to their canoes while they were en
gaged in their devotions, endeavoring to conceal
myself below the skins, Lte., which lie In the bot
tom of their boats, when, If fortunate enough to be
unobserved, I might be left In their canoe on land
ing at their pith, and afterward escape by walking
round the bay to my tribe. On examination, how
ever, I found this plan impracticable, as I conld find
no lit concealment to escape them on landing, I
then made up my mind to risk Instant death, by
taking the following bold advantage of their super
stitions. The idol was about the height of an ordi
nary-sized man, and was made of' wood; the face
painted red with the Juice of a tree which Is com
mon in that part of New Zealand, and the body was
covered with shawls made of dal. No part of the
body was visible except the hands. In his right hand
he held a spear, on which was transfixed a serpent,
and in his left he held the fins of a barracouta. I
afterwards found the meaning of these etahlems.
The god was supposed to have driven alt serpents
and noxious reptiles into the sea, hence the emblem
in his right hand ; while being supposed to protect
the inhahitants of the sea, the food and riches 01 the
Maori, his left arm is represented as defending the
principal fish nn that roast.
The Idea that possessed me was this—to displace
the wooden frame, to dress myself In its garb, to
fling It Into the backmost corner of the cave, and to
ploy the god to the !tiring of my life I acted at
ones on this idea; and placing myself on the stone
pedeetal, whicn was about six feet high, whereon
Ire had stood, waiting ready to play my part on the
first sigus of the approach of the savages To this
end I painted my face red with some of the Juice
which the priests had left for the adornment ol' the
idol. I had scarcely taken my stand, when the wild
chant of the Maoris was borne ou my ears. As the
burden of their song was peace and prosperity, and
not their harsh and terrible war-notes, it echo iii
through the vault with singular beauty. Untaught
though they were in the rules of harmony with
which the European delights his ear, these aecagne
kept time, and modulated their voices in a wonder
ful manner, considering that nature alone was their
teacher. As their wild chant waxed louder and
lender, denoting their approaching footsteps, toy
heart bent violently ; but feeling that life and death
were in the balance, I kept my composure by an al
most supernatural effort, and stretching out my
arms In the attitude of the Idol, kept a grave and
arm expression and an erect form, and waited asi
ant my part. They made their appearance. 'Fore
most strode the chief, Maunivana, the great leader
of the Nooranoos; he was dressed in full Maori state
costume, shawls of flax—in making which the
Maori are so wonderfully expert—hung from his
shoulder, and shining with glass beads Instead of
fringes, swept the ground ; a plume of the feathers of
the kaukau waved over his head, bound round with
strings of beads, and his general aspect wen far from
ignoble, The others were dressed in a humbler
manner; amongst them I noticed one who, from his
ornaments, must hays been a chief; this tilled my
heart with Joy, as I knew there must be two canoes,
as two chiefs never go together in one.
They produced their offerings, and laid them at
m,y feet on the stone. These consisted principally
of fishes, but there were a few yams and oilier Mao.
ria vegetables; these latter were probably offered by
some Inland tribes, as I noticed by their costume,
which differed from the Nooranoos. These offer
ings were to propitiate the god of prosperity and
happiness If they had been sacrificing to scone
giki of war, how awful would have been my posi
tion, as human blood would assuredly flowed at my
feet ! The offertag,a being laid upon the altar, they
retired and recommenced their wild chant. 'l - he
chief seemed to officiate as high-priest, and chanted
petitions to the ditty, which the others chorused
I translate the following:
Chug': "0 great father, 0 mighty father, 0 wise
father, look on thy children—look, look, look !"
Ot/feri.• "Ye, yes, yes!" Chief: "Let thy children
not hanger for want of food; let not their eyes be
like the eyes of a dead fish with hunger." Others:
"Yea, yes, yes"' "0 great power, that
ruieth ail fish, drive them into our shores, that tin:
hearts of our wyenas i wives) and our picannanies
may be glad." Others: to ; and so on,
through a long string of desired favors. I now saw
that I should be safe enough under my disguise, as
though the cavern sins brilliantly lighted with num
ukoo torches, around the altar It was comparatively
dark, owing, 1 suspect, to their superstitious fears.
I knew that as Anon an they bad finished their chant.,
they would to di likelihood depart, as the tide would
compel them to do so; so I waited anxiously till the
song roncladed. Just as the last peal oft heir voices.
had echoed through the place, and they hid sprang
to their feet t) depart, I stretched my arms to their
widest, and, mad with excitement, cried In a voice
of thunder, "Children ! Mannwirrito is pleased with
you be loVe ,, all his children—he loves the Noura
noos best! Maunwirriro will 1111 your bay with fish
es, and make glad the hearts of your women, and the
little hearts of veer plcanoanies. Listen ! Two
canoes bore the 'Nooranoos Item their village; let
them go back in one; let the other be left here for
your great god, that Monnwirriro may go forth to
bring bleesings unto his children. Hear, then, Norm
anoose : let the canoe be ready for Staten wlrriro
when be wishes! Go my children, and obey
I finished, and, dropping my arms., again resumed
my forrnre attitude. The savages had stood terror
stricken during my address, but were too fearful to
fly toy last commands roused them, uttered as they
were in a voice in which despair and excitement
were blended. My yen excitement had saved Ills,
making my voice so shrill and inhuman, that they
really took It ler the voice of then deity.
Raper to obey the welemna commands of n god,
they all rushed from the temple, and shortly alter
I joyfully heard the 1101A0 of their puddles as they
deported. I leaped down from my weary stand, and
!lung mys , lf on my knees in prayer and thanksgiv
ing f, ,r my wonderful deliverance. I hastened to the
entrance with anxious Stella. 1 wan saved! The
Mnoric had faithfully obeyed my commands, and a
large canoe was moored to the rocks, anti floated la
zily on the swell, which swept the calm surface of
the ocean , the moon wee ;list breaking on the east
ern Lorizon, and a mist hung over the sees. PrOVl
deuce seemed to favor me, so I sprang into the boat
and paddled out at sea, where catching a favorable
ore. ze, I soon arrived home—yes, home, for that
mud built ceiling seemed indeed a home, and I felt
tied I was indeed amongst true-hearted friends, as
they embraced me with joy at. my re•appenthrgee,
and affectionately rubbed their noses against mine,
to testify their regard for we, and their happines ,
at again seeing me. I thought it my duty to tell
them my story, at which they were grate thunder
struck. I knew the tale thereby would soon travel
to the Nooranoos, which I desired, as it wOnld Sit
base shown my gratitude to the God, who had so
wondrously delivered me, to allow themeana of that
deliverance to increase the superstitions of these
poor savagea.
THE COLOR OF BIRDS.
The ptarmigan In exactly the color of the stones
In numnmer and of the anus in winter, and change
their color us that of their abiding place is altered.
The Grouse Is as nearly the color of the brown heath
er as it Is possible for a bird to be; his bright and
red comb are the only discoverable points about him
when he la erouched in it The blackbird's usual
!mint is in lower %IV ions, and he delights in the
peat mo4.+, where the ground in nearly as black as
his own plumage. The p..rtridge and quail are exact
ly elapse In color to the dried groan and stubble,
and the quickest eye can seldom see them on the
ground when crouched, and not erect or moving
about to feed. The paeasatt's color very nearly re
sembles time dead Mires of the wood or coppice,
w hi c h ar e its. favorite haunts. The owl site securely
close to the trunk of a forest tree, her mottled brown
plumage being in color very like the color of the
hark where she is perehed. The peregrine falcon,
with her bine•grey feathers, can scarcely be distin
guished from the lichen-adorned crag, where she
sits for hours together as motionless an the rock it
self The eagle sits upright on some cliff of the
same color as nituself, badd,ed up into a shape which
only the experienced eye detects to be that of a bird.
The attitudes and tigrata of the whole tribe of hawks
are very striking and characteristic, and as unlike as
possible to the stuffed caricatures which one tonally
meets with, and in which the natural character of
' the bird is entirely . log.
Tent Wan Goosr...—Tills splendid bird is no mor
mon, or at lesse does not believe In a plurality of
wives for the gander will never have but one mate
at a time, and never forsake its first love unleassep
mated by come muse which he cannot prevent; nor
will he allow his mate to take grain from the same
dish with him until be lens finished his meal, and
then he will allow her to eat hers. Although they
are natives of America, they are not " know
nothings," for if there is notone of their own nation
that they can get, they will mate with one of for
eign birth and other colors, rather than remain sin
gle. Their noise is quite musical and especially so
just before a storm. Though wild it, their nature,
they are easily domestierded, and WC quite ford of
being caressed. The female goose lays about ten
cal, Is a good sitter, and very metal of her young.
Her mate does constant sentinel duty, and fears
nothing while protecting its young. Though not
as large as the African and other forehm birds, they
• are quite an ornament to the poultry yard, besides
. producing a good yield of feathers once In air
weeks.
HOW THE ORIOKITG BROUGHT GOOD FM
TUNE
My friend Jacques went Into a baker's shop one
day to buy a little cake which he had fancied In
putting. He intended It for a child whose appetite
was gone, and who could be coaxed to eat only by
amusing him. He thought that such a pretty loaf
might tempt even the sick While be waited for
his change, a little boy eI.N or eight veers old, la
poor, but perfectly clean clothes, entered the shop.
" Ma'am," said tic to the baker's wife, " melber
sent me for a loaf of bread." The woman climbed
upon the counter (this happened En a country , fowl])
took from the abaif of four pound loaves the b.wt
one she could find, and put It into the arms of the
little boy.
My friend JacOues then first obsereerl the thla
and thoughtful face of the little fellow. It contrast.
ed strongly with the round, open countenance of
the great loaf, of which he was taking the greatest
care.
" Have you any money "' said the baker's wife.
The little boy's eyes grew mid.
" No, ma'am," bald he, huggini: the loaf closer to
Lis thin biou.e.; " but winner told me to say that
she would come and speak to you about It to. th o r .
row."
" Run along," paid the good woman ; " carry
your bread home, child.'
"Thank you ma'am," said the poor little fellow.
Alv friend Jut -lines came forward for Ida ruouoy.
He had put his purchase into his pocket, and was
About to go, when he found the child with the big
loaf, wbom he bad aupposed half way home, stand
lug stock atihi twitiod
What aro y ou doi ng I'ore'/" said the baker's
wife to the child, whom she also had thought to be
fairly off. " Don't you like the bread?"
"0 yes, ma'am I" said the child.
"Well then, carry it to your mother, my little
friend. if you wait any longer, she will think you
acplayingby the way, and you will get a scold-
F."
l'he child did not seem to hear. Something else
absorbed his attention.
The baker's wife went up to him, and gave him a
friendly tap on the shoulder. "What are you think
ing about ?" said elm.
"Ma'am," said the little boy, "what to It that
sings r'
" There is no singing," said Elie
"Yes!" said the tittle fellow. " ]fear It! Queek
(peek, gneek, queek , "
My friend and the woman both listened, hut they
could hmtr nothing, intim It Woe the &Jog of the
crickets.
"It le a little hire," said the dear little fellow, "or
g rleps the bread sings when It hakes, :18 apples
"No, indeed, little noosey said the baker's
wife; " those are eriekets. Tney slug In the buße
houbu because we are lighting the oven, and they
like to see the tire."
"Crickets!" raid the child; "arc they gaily
crizkets ?"
"Yes, to be sure," said she, good-humoredly.
The child's twee lighted up,
"Ma'am," said he, blimhin g; at the boldness or
his request, " I would like it eery mails if you
would give me a cri,ket.'.
"A cricket!" said the baker's wife, smiling,
"what in the world would you do with a ericket,
my little friend ? I would gladly give you all there
are In the house to get rid of them, they run about
so."
"0, ma'am, give me one, only one, if you please,"
said the child, clasping his little thin hands under
the lost 'They nay that crickets bring good luck
Into houses; and perhap II we had one at home,
mother, who has so much trouble, wouldn't cry any
more."
" Why does your poor mamma cry ?" said MY
friend., who could no longer help Joining In the con
versation.
"On account of her bills, ulr,?' said the little fel
low. " FAber is dead, and mother works very
hard, but she cannot pay them all."
My friend took the child, and with him the great
loaf, Into hie arms, and 1 really believe he kissed
them both. Meanwhile, the baker's wile, who did
not dare to touch a cricket herself, hed gone into
the bakehouse. She made her hushadd catch four,
and pat them into a box with holes in the cover,
so that they might breathe. She gave the box to
the child, who went away perfectly happy,
When he had gone, the baker's wife and my
friend gave each other a good squeeze of the hand.
"Poor little fellow," card they, both together.—
Then she took down her account-book, and finding
the page where the mother's charges were written,
made a grve dash all down the page, nod then
wrote at the buttons " Paid "
Meanwhile, my friend, to lose no titne,had put up
in a paper all the money In Lis pockets, where for
tunately he had quite a sum that day, and had
bagged the good wife to send It at once to the
Mother of the little cricket boy, with her bill receipt
ed, and a note, in which he told her she had a son
who would oue day be her joy anti pride.
They gave It to a baker's boy with long legs, and
told him to make haste. The child, with his big
loaf, his lour crickets, and his little short legs, could
not run very last, so that when he reached home,
he found his mother, for the lint time in many
weeks, with her eyes raised from her work, and a
Smile of peace and happiness on her face.
The boy believed that it was the arrival of his
four little black thlngs which had worked this mir
acle, and I do not believe he was mistaken. With
out the crickets, and his good little heart, would
this happy change have taken place in his mother's
fortunes?
17.1 71:(e):(0411V): 1143311
When General Sherman's army occupied Savan
nah, the citizens pleaded starvation and asked to be
fol. Amongst other applications, several ladies
called upon the Provost Marshal of the Western
District and unfolded a horrihle story of suffering
and woe. The gallant General 13-, impressed
with the tale, seated himself to write the order for
supplies. While so engaged some remark was
made about the termination of the war. Where
upon one of the suffering applicants opened upon
the General as follows:
"This war won't be terminated until you kill all
the men, and then, we women will tight you, and if
yon kill all of us it won't be ended then, for we'll
come back as ghosts to haunt you." This sanguin
ary oration, delivered with all the venom of a south
ern beggar, quite appalled the General, who quietly
tom up the order lit wa, writing, saying :
"If such be the case, I think you might as well
die of starvation, as then your ghosts way be too
weak to come back and Moult us." And he coolly
bat politely bowed the lady mendicants Into the
street.
GENERAL GRAZIT aim FAMILY TAKE Cc 7111ILIi
Rusineson IN PHILADELPHIA--It will be gratify ing
for our citizens to know that Lieutenant General
Grant Will henadter be a permanent resident of Phil•
adelphla. Be will vote at our elections, aasoclate
with our citizens, will doubtless take an Interest in
our municipal concerns, and in every sense of the
word, will be a citizen of the city of Philadelphia.
The General and his family removed yesterday
from Burlington, and reached this city in the after
noon They proceeded at once to the mansion pro
vided for them through the liberality of our citizens,
and which Is located in Chestnut street, west of
Twentieth street, and aL once took possession.—
The arrival of tor. General and family sees known
only to a selcet circle of friends and acqusintances,
who congre,;at,ii a , Oh, mammal prior to the arriv , i
of Its future occupant=, and a warm welcome and
hearty greeting was extended them as they entered
the house. Tile parlors were filled with ladies and
gentlemen, and a portion of the afternoon was spent
In friendly conversation, but no formalities of any
kind took place. A crowd congregated in front of
the mansion hut the "sovereigns" did not get an op
portunity of paying their respects to the redoubta
ble General. May the General's future life in this
city be OA happy and peaceful as the past (our years
of his career have been, stormy and tempestuous.—
Phaatirlphia inquirer.
Ram. ELotpagscn.—There are no people in the
world with whoin eloquence is so universal as with
the Irish. When Leign Ritchie was traveling in Ire
land, he passed a man who was a painful spectacle
of pallor, squalor, and raggedness. His heart emote
him as he passed, and he turned back.
" If you are in want," said Ritchie, with a degree
of peevishness, " Why do you not beg ?"
"Bare, It is begging hard 1 am, your honor."
"Yon didn't say a word."
"Of cosine not, your honor; but see how the
skin Is apakin throngtOhe holes in me trowsera,and
the bones cryin out through me skin ! Look at me
sunken cheeks, and the famine that is Edwin me In
the eyes 1 Man alive! isn't it beggla I am with a
thousand tongues?"
YOUNG Max PAT ATTENTION I—Don't be a loafer,
don't call yourself a loafer, don't keep a loaler'e
company, don't hang; about loafing places. Better
work for nothing and board yourself, than to sit
around comers with your hands in your pockets.
Better for your own mind, better for your own re
spect. Bustle about. If you mean to halm anything
to bustle about for. Many a poor physician has ob
tain a real patient by riding hard to attend ro an
Imaginary one. A quire of old paper tied with red
tam carried under a lawyer's arm, may procure
him his first case and mako his fortune. Such is
the World; to him that both Shall be given. Quit
droning and complaining; keep busy and mind
your clumees.
=X
BAOK NEIGHBORHOODS.
On the top 01 the hills, between the greed tiler-
Oughtwa, a little aside from the main wagon Made.,
and where railroads and telegraph lines will novice
go, I soinetimes find neighborhoods which may be
called the lean spots of Connecticut. These are not
the gathering places of enterprise. Enterprise in
this State, like the soil, has decided tendency to
work down into the valleys. Life don't gather in
these dark places ; it radiates from them and goes
to swell the life of those rapidly growing towns
about which we like to brag when in the hearing of
Englishmen. Men live in these out-of-thtsway cor
ners, bat go elsewhere to gut work. These are the
spots where men and women are the staple produc
tion. I have known 0 the grog, cities sending to
these corners to get a brain-worker.•
The reads In these back neighborhoods are like
striped ribbons—three stripes of earth and two of
grass—and they go winding along between the atone
walls, and under the uutedretched arms of wayside
oaks, and among red cedars that once in the year
are all ablaze with the scarlet leaves of the Virginia
creeper. The roads have been mole by the man
who drives a sober horse, harnessed to a plain wagon,
and who jolts along to church with his wife, or to
mill with a bag of corn. With the exception of the
people who live upon them, these roads are not
Lamm travelled except by the men who go Into the
to -places to find hired girls, or purChase young cat
tle and by myself who go there to gel sown of the
things which otherwise go to waste.
In this neighborhood, where I have walked to day,
I 5,.e on all sides stores of old pastures gulag bank
to forest. Nevertheless, the numerous old oaks
and cheistuuts which stand about the fields and along
the roads, have a humanized look, and they make
the place atitri . ;,l.i. as if It had long been inhabited.
The gardens +life grounds around the houses blend
with the encroaching forest of cedars, birches and
oaks, and it is not easy to tell what belongs to the
house end what belongs to the woods
The houses which I have seen to-day, are small
and have no door yards. Still the old neighborhood
is not without some sign of a by-gone enterprise.
Shaded by four maple tries and standing stool from
the road, is an old dreamy, ball-tenanted, unpainted
two-story house. These old houses In back places
are almuys garrulous. I looked at the great house
and got a glimpse of the man who built It, and who
er, expected to gather mach, from his wide mead
ows and pastures, and who once expected to /I Ve In
no small way, Some one, I judge, less seen disap
pointment in that house, for either its builder or his
children left the old place to seine Shiftless brood
and went elsewhere with their large Ideas of living.
Connecticut Is so full of ingenuity and invention,
I like tn walk In the buck neighborhoods to see some I
of the quaint old industries. Within hearing of the
ears, I sometimes Sod the bend loom and the old
sninuing-wheals. I see wooden-teethed harrows
tilted op apticat the walls, Notice men pursuing
some rather iv imitive modes to till their small barns.
La=ving out of the account the Matti staples—the
' men and women—these small barns hint at light
crops.. However, there Is another harvest of WhOt
tletterries, blackberries, chestnuts, sus hickory-nuts,
and poetry. The crop of poetry which I find In the
old fields, is not small. But I don't think much of
it is generally harvested. The 11103 t of it is either
plowed in or suffered to rot down like rower'. I
some[ es harvest a little of It for my own Use. It
woold.be well for every man to gather some of it,
, hut then, T would not have him think he must rush
Into market with It. When I attempt to talk to
i twee I, sometimes notice that they are a little deaf;
I infer from this that nine-tenths of the good things
which ,I g• t, are maven to me expressly for my own
; consumption. When 1 say crop of poetry, I don't
wren verse; verse is what we get when the purple
eln-der IS mashed, and its juice Is sealed up in Wai
-1 form measures with great dimples in their bottoms.
The crops In these retired places, when taken alto
' gethet, are something immense, I think.
1 I like to walk among the simple people In back
, places, where the folks wear their clothes to keen
1 thernsOres warm, arid not to make a show on the
street. These people have none of the town's polite
insolence; they look at me with a sort of brother
hood in their eyes. But Ido not go among men to
prals.ethem all. I have seen the weight of depravi
ty which everywhere weighs upon mini, I sheuld be
a poor, reporter, Indeed, it I did nottcll,:otwe fur WI,
' how well T know that all men stand in need of divine
i help. I meet them on our country roads, who have
been much abroad; they arc covered with morel
travel , stains, and they have the hard finish which
men get In the great towns. When I contrast these
men with our simple farmers, I am ready to shell
1 the city with hoed words.
I observed many deep•ehested women when I
walked in the back places. Today I saw a bare
headed and bare-armed woman eapged In feeding
and counting her turkeys; with one red arm she
held her feeding dish against her stout waist, and
with the other she pointed oat the fowls as slu.
counted. The eight of that woman re asmred me
that the vigor of the race is not much impaired.
TlieSe back neighborhoods arc good places; for in
them you have some chance to escape from the tyr
anny of society, which compels a man to wear a
gold ring on his little finger, and put a carpet on his
floor, pod which makes him Mel a little ashamed if
he can't live like my neighbor Davis. lam engaged
just now In scrutinizing the sumptuary requirements
of society. I have helped take up ono or two car
pets, and It has occurred to me that they were put
down to conceal the fact from me that I had been
living on top of a mass of faith and barbarism, which
my neighbor Hokum would not tolerate an instant
on hi,s barn floor However, I find myself some
what;emaucipated from ordinary society Were it
others-le;, I could draw nliclt to God, uld nourish
myself on the fatness of an old pasture.—Feot .lithe,
Gkeida Cirrear.
NOW AND TEEN.
The Yree York At/a. is a jciarnal zrievously addict
ed to awkward retmuteceners. Our of Ito Litcbt is
the followinz :
_ .
Ou the lath of November last—more than a werk
alter Mr. Lincoln's re-election, and when there was
no excuse for such an outbreak—the Tammany Hall
Committee held a meeting over which Wm. M.
Twet.d presided, and, on motion of George H. Pur
ser,
"Eitel...4, That we condemn and denounce the
administration of Abraham Lincoln as Imbecile, ex
travaant and corrupt, and believe that a persistence
in its Injudicious and partisan conduct of the war,
and it notorious falthfessness to the letter and spint
of the Constitution and laws, will contribute to em
bitter and prolong, the sxlsting struggle, Increase
the sacrifice of human life, and the ruinous burden
of the' public debt, justly Invoke suspicion in the
North, and repel rather than invite returning loyalty
on the part of the rebellious States of the South."
(MGR: 15th day of April, 18i15—not unite live
months afterward—that same Democratle General
ComMittee held another meeting, and this time,
"Kmiec - EL That believing Abraham Lincoln, as
ruler, to time been governed by patriotic motives, hon
esty ( if purpose, and an elevated appreciation of the
grave ritid responsible duties Imposed upon him In
the. greatest crisis of Mir country's history--come
mantling in so great a degree the confidence of the
loyal people of tile nation—and exhibiting in the re
cent events which had terminated in the downfall of
the rebellion, a wise forthearing and magnanimous
statesmanship, the exercise or which gave such hope.
ful protaWe of a speedy and perfect maturation oflithe
national Union in the spirit and on the principles
upon Which It was (Winded, we regard his sad end
and untimely decease a great misfortune to the
whole country."
Taere's progress' If neither of these resolves
means much, it Is certain that the latter, so far as it
mean's anything, is Ur the Crave. Whoever shall
hereafter read that the Democratic General Commit
tee aavely resolves than or so should wait dye
months or so to ascertain how much of it Is earnest
and how much merely "Buncombe."—Tratine.
JEFF. DAVIS'S SILVER PLATE
Recently a coffee or tea yet, formerly used by Jeff.
Davis, and sold at auction, with a quantity of silver
plate, Jnst previous to the evacuation of the city by
the rebels, was presented to President Johnson by
a gentleman of Richmond, who purchased the arti
cle at the auction gale. The coffee or tea set In
question Is a perfect miniature of a fan-simile, of a
railroad locomotive, with tender attached. The lo
coinotive holler receives the coffee or tea, makes
and discharges it through a spiggot, a steam whistle
indicating when the coffee or teals ready.
The boiler of the locomotive is of porcelain, and
the figure of a fireman, of the same material, ap
pear, on the locomotive vigorously ringing the bell,
which, we suppose, means the breakfast, dinner or
supper belL The tender, which is an admixture, of
brass; and other metals, carries sugar in an elegant
sngarealason, with goblets of Cognine, and stunning
small cut glasses. The sides of the tender tun em
bellished with racks for bemire.
The most curious contrivance of all is the secret
music ; box located somewhere In the tender, which
being set, playa eight popular airs, Fuillelent In
length to entertain a supper, dinner or breakfast
table:', The whole establishment, engine and tender,
Bete upon two beautiful enameled waiters. Upon
the aides of the locomotive, In miniature, is ern
blazoned, "President Jefferson Davia"--ehowing
that the testimonial locomotive and tender were
built expressly for his use or pleasure, . Upon the
trontOtud above whore the cow.eateher ought to be t
appears the Coniedendo national huller and battle
flag entwined with the national ensign of France.
WA lady In Chaplin, Ct., forty years range, bas
road the Bible through Colts tlmaa, and Boott's
ratatary 0/103.
09.00 per annum, in advance.
NUMBER 21.
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Pouf CARBON, Scnunkfti COUStr, t.
May Bth, 18a.
Mu. Eorrone—Many of your readers doubtless
bare bad the mournful plensnre of seeing the funer
al procession and the sacred remains °four late be
loved President for themselves; others have read
the well written descriptions In the daily papers bo•
fore this. For the benefit of such as bad neither of
these opportunities, however, (end in as muds as I
was present at the obseqnles of the President, in
Plitheielehici,) I vrildgive you a short description of
the sad. event The ceremonies were an rentahrtaka
ble tribute of affection and devotion to the memory
of a great and good man. There wasuothing strict-.
ly imposing about It; that would imply 'formality
and mere observance of custom and duty. The lin
menne crowd*, the ready teaspettelon of business, the
order and quiet of the city, the patience of the peo
ple. the respectful and affectionate homage Vold to
the corpse as the maguiticaut house passed along
the route, the tongued aeemlegly endlese procession
teat solemnly fedowed It, the mournful strains of
music, the slow tolling of bells, the regular tiring of
the minute *lns, the subdued aspect of the meld
turiethat lined the streets, the heavy mourning, the
tributen of noble women the rare & were that never
ed the costly coffin—tit emblems of the departed
preeidenee °Wu purity of soul and goodness of
heart—all were free spontaneous expressiotet of love
for the people'edeld friend.
Cipou the arrival of the funeral cortege at the de
pot, the head of the procession formed on Broad
street and commenced the line of march. The mili
tary and civil procession were, already formed on
the different streets, ready to fall in at their respect
ive places in the column. The members of the ma
teak lodges carried a banner, in the ender of which
was a large picture of Abr aham Lincoln, 'signing
the Emancipation Proclamation! Thank Hod for
that Proclamation I It was the greatest set ever
performed since the Declaration of Independence,
and it alone would secure the brave signer a glorious
hemonality. As the coffin slowly and solemnly
passed along. drawn by eight beautiful black horses
thousands of tear-dimmed eyes gazed upon It; and
thousands of yearning hearts longed for one more
took at its illustrious Inmate. 'The order of the prb
ccAsion would till several columns. Bells tolled,
minute guns were tired, and mournful music floated
on the ereeee throughout the whole march. At
shout 8 o'clock, P. it., the hearse arrived at the
State House. the lielon League Band was station
ed in the steeple, and performed solemn direee. In
dependence Square was brilliantly illumlnateti. Amid
1 oreathiess silence, and In deep U
gloom,the remains
of the late honored President e the United States
'acre laid to slate in independence Hall. Ti,. scene
in the Hall was magnificent, solemn, and awe-Inapir
itie. One wreath, near the head of the coffin, was a
card containing the words used by the deceased not
long since :
Before any great national event, I have always
hod the same dream. I had it the other night. It
wads a ohip wiling rapidly •'
Truly, he, himself, the representativeof our glee
le an Ship of State, was unconsciously saillug rapidly.
Bat after all his trials and vicissitudes, his conflicts
with treacherous elements, he is safely and peace
fully anchored where traitors cannot come.
At 10 o'clock on Saturday evening, the lid of the
coffin was removed. A large fell length portrait of
the President was placed In front of the State House
and covered with black cloth, to as to represent the
body in the wean. A. motto made of gas Jets was
termed above it, and contained the simple words:
"Hest in peace." How eminently happy and appro
priate it was that the sacred remains of Abrah a m
Liecoln should rest in that humble, enpretendlng,
consecrated temple of freedom, Independence Hall,
during the blessed day in which God, Himself, rest
ed from His inborn. Cold and lifeless lie lay In Ina
' jestte glory by the old bell whose mission he kilned.
The statue of Washington seemed to stelae upon
the calm, benign, and beautiful—became loves:l—
-e-Awes of the martyr et its feet. George Washing
; ton and Abraham Lincoln, Christianity only can
boast a greaser name. It was not mere excitement,
mere curinelty, but a feeling deeper and more pro
found which inspired the. great throng who would
not rest until they bad seen, if but for a moment,
the beloved and enahrined:fiegares of the Illustrious
dead.
All classes and conditions of men, women and
ehildren composed the singing and patiently deter
mined multitnde that were formed In great and con
tinuous streams of humanity, and solemnly passed
through the State Rouse, gazing tearfuliy upon him
who pow Bleeps his last keep. It was the .Ista
hie and spontaneous outpouring of the best feelings
of the great heart of a free - people. This manifesta
tion of grief and sorrow, this earnest desire Once
more to look upon our noble ruler, proves that he
has performed his duty, and that his Integrity and
unwavering faith in God and humanity was well
founded, for it is the mournfully silent but emphatic
utterance of the approval and undying affection of
his people, Probably, there never was a moreaffee
tionare sermon preached than that powerful, though
silent one, In ledendence Hail, , on that ever mem
orable Sabbath. It seems to me there is a terrible
share of the responsibility or this awful deed nesting
~u pqae t lit .i to T t l itt e rable Copperheadis seiinafo be thea d ing inil ot the
mass, for the horning indignation, the smothered
wrath,' and spirit of revenge, instantly punishes the
least expression of sentiment contrary the general
feeling of sorrow and regret. What a proud
reflection it must be to some of the next generation,
to think that daring this , t ig Eag time in the nation's
history their fathers were perheeda, and need their
contemptible Influence st a man whom God
had chosen, and against =marl freedom! The Cop
perheads of the Revolution were saints, compared
with these of our day, who helped their arrogant
southern masters to murder Such a manes d t
Lincoln.
From six o'clock in the morning on Sunday, until
two o'clock on Monday morning, the peopin ti talled
through the State House in two tiles and obtained a
brief glance at the loved features of the dead. All
day Sunday the streets were literally packed with
human beings, anxiously waiting their turn. Never
before, I believe, was such a crowd of people wit
nessed In the city of Philadelphia. The peopleeame
together by thousands from all directions. And Yet
with a few exceptions the best of order and harmo
ny prevailed. The storm of visitors lasted all this
time without a moment's pause, and thoutands
could not gain admis4on at all. It has been estima
ted that about one hundred persons entered the no
every minute. Finally the hoar arrived to prepare
for the journey to New York. The coffin was then
reverently placed upon the hearse, and the escort, to
gether with an immense concourse of mourningpeo.
pie, solemnly followed it to the depot,from whence,
at lour o'clock on Monday morning, as the first rosy
dawn of the bright harbinger of day flushed the must
ern horizon, the train with itsprecions burden,
started on its way. More anon. 0. C. T.
In comparison with the loan of a wife, ail other be
reavements are trifling. The wife, she who Oa so
large, a space in the domestic heaven ! she who heal
tsi herself to unweacledly for the precious ones
around her; bitter, bitter is the tear that When her
cold day. You stand by her coffin and think of the
past. It seems an ambereolored pathway, where
the ann shone upon beautiful flowers, or the stars
hung gilt:R.llra over head. Fain would Me soul
linger there. do thorns are remembered. save those
your hands may unwillingly have planted. Her 110.
He, tender heart lieu open to your Inmost sight.—
You think of tier now uti nil gentleness, all beauty,
all purity. But she is dead! The dear heart tha t
lay npou your bosom, mt. in the still darkness
upon a pillow of clay. The hands that have minis
tered en untiringly are folded, white and cold, be
neath the gloomy portal. The heart whose every
beret measured en eternity of lore lies under your
feet. The flowers she bent over with Optics bend
now above her in tears, shaking their petals, that
thu verdure around her may be kept green and beau-
There is no white arm over your shoulder, no
speaking face to look up Into the eye of love; no
trembling lip to murmur—" Oh, it Is too sad i"
There Is so strange a hush In every room;'nought
footstep pltssin,, ,, around. No smite to greet you at
nightfall. And the old clock ticks and strike'', and
ticks—lt was such mask' when she could hear it!
Now It seems a knell on the hours throngh which
yon watched the shadows of death gathering upon
her sweet face.
Tanzurcasess—dir Wm. Nvier was ono day
taking a long cannery walk near /nabbed, when h
meta little girl about five ywaold; sobbing bitter'ff
over a broken bowl; abo bad dropped and broken ft
In brtnging It back from the field to which she Ind
taken her lather's lunch In it, and she Said the weedd
be beaten on her return horn. Then, with a mud.
den gleam of hope, she Innocently melted up Into
Gas WO and said: •IBut ye can went Call t. ye
Blr W. smilingly =planed that be could not, mewl
the bowl, but the trouble be amid, by the tilft of a
sixpence to buy another. Efowever, on qeminghla
parse It was empty' of silver, sod be DM to snake
amends by promising to meet ids little friend at the
lame 'pet and at the name hour the math day, The
Child, entirely trusting him, went on tiro way cam.
forted, On ills return, he found an invitation await
ing him to dine In Bath the follotting evening, to
meet some one whom be expectally wished to see.
Ue beamed for a time, trying to calculate Ike Dol.
sibilltrof giving the meeting to hla lime blend o f
the broken bowl and of still being 111 time for the
dinner party in Bath; but fi nding th is could not be,
be wrote to decline the talon;lnvienthalp ies enthalpies of*
sa to 4 cannot
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