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AL.= PriAtiug .0111ce. . °Gabel . :VA /85141 , - , s. „ .trt LYONB • • . 54 ‘ =sm. idIN HEMOBILM re's a burden oigrlef on the bretxes of apt*, a song of regret tram the bird on ith wing i ere..s a pall on the sunshine and ever the flowers, a shadow of grave' , on these spirita s of ours or a star bath gone out from the night. af our sy. e whose brlghwers we ger: d as the wareloubcoll'd by ) tranquil and steady and clear were Its beacon s That they fen Ilte a vielon of peace on our dream., A heed Oat we knew bad been true to our weal, And a band [bat was steadllygtddi4 , the wheel; A win never tarnished by lalsehoM or wrong, Tot bad dwelt In our hearts liken soul.stlrring song: An ! that pure, noble spirit has gone to its rest, Anehe true baud ilea nerveless and cold on his breast But the Carrie and the memory—them never will die; But grow brighter and dearer as ova go by. Yet the team of the natloa fall over the dead, Such tears as a nation before n.ver shed, • For our cherished one fell by a dastardly band, A martyr to truth and the cause of the land ; And a sorrow has surged, likethe waves to the shore when the breath of the tempest Is sweeping them on; And the heads of the lefty and lowly lave ,howeA As the shaft of the lightning sped out from the Loud. Not gathered like Washington,Oorne to his When the sun of Lis life was fat down In tip West But stricken from earth in ths'lrddst of his Yearn. With the Canaan in view, of its prayers rod ids tears, A t,d the people, whose heart/1u the wilttentess tailed, Sonatimrs, when the stars f theirpromisehad paled, New, stand by his side estate mount of his fame, And yield him their hcota in a grateful auulalln• Set there on the moon , our Lender must die, With the fair land orPromise spread out to Lis eye; Ills work Is aceereollshed, and what ho has done Will stand as a rot And his name, retching under the sun ; down thro' the ages of time, 11111 still thriptfh the years of eternity Like a star, sanug on through the depths of the blue, (In whose beghtness we gaze' every evening anew. Ills whitiient Is pitched on the beautiful plain, • Where t tumult of battle comes never again. • Where smoke of the war•clond ne'er darkens the Nur falls on the spirit a shadow of care. lair, The songs of the ransomed enrapture his car, Atul he Leeds not the dirges that.roll fdr him here ; In the calm of his spirit. so strange and sublime, lie Is lifted far over the discords of time. Then bear him home gently, great son of the West— ' Min her fair blooming prairies lay LINCOLN to rest; From the cation wholovkl him,she takes to her trust, Am! will tenderly garner the consecrate dust. A Mecca his graie to the people ehall be, And a shrine evermore for the hearts of the free. ChfragoJournal LETTER FROM REV. E B. JESSUP. liarenr, March 81st, 1865. Friday afternoon. j My Dear Brother George :—Afler a week of I hard, work I have a few moments of quiet to write a short journal letter to friends at home. I wrote last on the 18th inst.; that; bad been a busy week. The old chapel in Beirut in which service has been held for many years, has been enlarged and I have had charge of making the new seats for the extension. I have had my Bi ble Class, made numerous visits among. the peo ple, and received many calls from. natives and foreigners. My chief time for visiting among the native Protestants is in the evening, as they are all away at their work in the day-time.-- Among the European and American travellers, have been several persons greatly interested in the lliesionary work, and to whom Ihave taken plea-ore in showing our schools and Printing Press, and general Missionary work. On Lord's day, afternoon, March 19th, was the Arabic com rension, and we bad present with na brethren from New York, Rochester, and San•Franeisco. There are now several candidates for church membership in our congregation. After attend ing three Arabic and one 'English seridee I found myself ready to retire earlier thlintsual Might, especially in view of being obliged to rise at three I in the morning to take the first coach or "dili gence" for Damascus. MONDAY, March 20.—Who would havedream ed that in this year, 1865, an Imperial post coach would he dashing over "goodiy Lebanon" and across Cole Syria and then over Anti Lebanon to Damascus, the oldest city in the world? Yet so NI e found it to day. A few days since, Mr. Stuart Dodge invited me to accompany him to Damascus at his expense, and as I had been nine years in Syria without seeing this ancient city, and Mr. Crawford, the American Missionary, there bad written, urging me'to make him a visit us his family is now fluke alone in Damascus, I ..ccepted the kind invitation. The tickets were bought on Saturday, and we were at the Depot at half past three this morning, ready to start. The Deigence is drawn by six horses, and they are changed ten times between Beirut and Da mascus, about - seventy miles. Six ride inside aeLind, three in front, facing the horses and three on the tcp, besides the guard and the driver. The baggage Is piled on the top, under a high cover of white canvas, and the whole af fair is quite imposing- In addition to Mr. Dodge and myself, were Rev. Mr. Ellinwood of Roches ter, teed Mr. Ailing and Bev. Mr. Lacey of San- Francisco. We left at four o'clock, and drove on a gallop across the plain of Beirut, and then more slowly as we ascended the mountain. Al tar reaching the summit we found great banks of snow on every side, and could see snowy Hermon far to the south, while at our feet, as it were, lay thatmagnifloent level plain, the Bukaa covered with verdure and beauty, as if half a dozen Wyoming Valleys had been merged into one, and dropped in between these towering mountains. Every time I see that plain from Lebanon I long to have all my friends enjoy it with me. When I rode over Lebanon last 1 picked my way on the old mule path among the rseke, but it is quite another thing to whirl down the fine curves of thisgrettt highway, over stone culverts and bridges in such a vehicle as this, hardly conscious of weariness and doing in thir teen hours what formerly . required three Lard days' ride- At half past ten we took breakfast at a French Restaurant on the plain, near the point where the King Nebuchadnezzar passed a hen be brought up King Zedekiab from Jeru salem to put out his evee at Riblah, about thirty miles to the north. Morse's telegraph wire ex tends all along the toad to Damascus, and seems strangely out of place in tidaancient land. On we rolled across the plain, over the river Aujar, larger than the Lackawanna river, which gushes out full grown from a single fountain near the road, than on through the valley of Korn, So icelebnited for robbers in times of dis jeord in Syria, thence across a barren, desolated 'plain, an down into the valley of the river Ate l arsa which Nauman thought so much better than the Jordan. This river also has its rise in one • immense fountain atreejer fn Anti Lebanon, and supplies all this water of Damascus. It hardly seemed like Syria to betiding in such a convey ance through such a green, and charming valley. The fruit trees were all in bloom and, the air loaded with sweet perfume, and the broad, white, and smooth road winds' among the trees, fre quently crossing e r ne stream on' fine bridges, while above yon are the green walls of the wa ter courses, carrying the water at a high, level to supply the Mills and gardens of Damaetus. At a quarter pait Eix we galloped over the. bridges into the yard of the Depot. D:11112.9C1* was be fore us. It iota not , that brilliant apple:ounce which I had !anticipated. _ I saw it in DOS front the euramit Of .MonneHermon, thirty miles away, and it appeared whker than now. The walls are all of sun-dried brick and mud, butlfew be ing built of stone, eh that the city looks much like Hums from the outside. The river is the life of the city. Thexardons around are charm ing, and there is running srkling water every where. Cut off the founta' of Fiji and Damas cus 'would literally cease to exist. • Tritoll is a far more beautiful City from the outside, and Udine is better paved inside than Damascus. In winter the streets at DU ni"." are A.Aungm.Lre, and in the summer deep dust, the fiery Paradise of fleas, and a high veins 'drives the dust into every crevice of thd housek . I found Mr. Crawford valthi‘me, so companied him to !,his home. Movie is in 'the Christian quarter, and`wita des yid during the massacre of If 4), with all_tha Other bows; of that quarter, butnow it has lieen.re-tadli, was much surprised ; to, leaps froM_Mr: C. that almost the entire IZihrietiart.q.uartes has been re built, and bet a vet kfew tionsesreinain in ruins. Mr. Dodge spent the night t<t the - hotel 'with the other travelers; buteigimettrOundtebreakfitst with us en Tuesday- twirning,l Onapplying to the clerk forreturnticketatoßeirat Wednes daf wbola ilastrors found that %WNW. a. 2.toril. Z. L. Ligil " Freedom and Right against Slavery and Wrong." MONTROSE, SUSQ. CO., PA., TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1865. Were all taken for ten days in advance by Pesti , as;. and Effendis, and Merchants, with their Dr neems. This did not trouble me greatly, but pu may imagine the disappointment of MeorsAl linwood, tilling, end Lacey, who were to rake the steamer from Beirut on Thursday, and Mr. Dodge,who cannot be long absent from tis in valid hild. Mr. Crawford thought it pril that he could have me to preach for him onrhe nest Lord's day, and had it been necessary I should have rejoiced Whelp him. The thre9geoilemon decided to take horses and push hark to Beirut at once, but I dissuaded Mr. Dodge rind he re mamed vitb me, and we ProvidOidalir found two men who had tickets for Flday and sold them to as. So we had ahunch.nt time to see all the sights of Damascus. Thimo.it interesting person to me was Dr.lieshaka the Martin Lulli .-Jr of Syria, a man of great ehmence and learn ing, who has written nunterma books against the papacy, and whose neon is a terror to all the Jesuits in the land. He is an elderly man Of fine appearance, and of great conversational powers. • On'Thursday evening Dr. Dodge, Mr. C,, and myself were invited to dine at his house. All of the family but Weasel were at the table.— When escaping from his house during the maa sscre, he was struck a blow on the head which so affected the olfactory nerve that be has not been able to bear the odor of meat &Om that time to this, and always eats eta table by 'Mtn selL It is a remarkable case. Two of the sous speak English, so that Mr. Dodge was nut quite alone. The daughter, Selma, is now almost twelve years old and is to be married in about six months. her mother said she was married when she was eleven, and that no girl in Damas cus who gets to be so very old as twenty, hue any hope of being married. Selma can read and write well, however, and there is some hope that she may yet be able to improve herself. Dr. Meshrtka's house was destroyed but he has re-built it in very splendid style. \7e visit ed all the most celebrated houses of Damascus, and saw enough of tinsel and tawdry magnifi cence to satisfy the greatest admirers of the Am binn Nights entertainments. The beau ideal of elegance and beauty to a Damascene, seems to be a room adorned with polished marble, gilt cornices, gaudy colored paints, and fragments of mirror set in the walls in the must singular and grotesque style. In the middle, a marble Count with running water, and luxurious divans all around. There is very little real elegance or good taste in the ornamentation, but a great dis play and mixing of colors and striking contrasts. 1 have not time to speak particularly of the celebtated Bazaars, the Mosques, and the ancient Greek inscription on One of the Mosques which was formerly a Christian church. "Thy kingdom 0 Christ is an everlasting kingdom," 'twirl Tlav dominion endureth throughout generations." Strange inscription this for a Mohammedan Mos que, but there it stands, a living testimony to the falsity of their anti-Christian religion. We call ed with Mr. and Mrs. Crawford on Mrs. Digby, the English titled lady, who has had such a strange experience. After being married to sever al persons in succession in England, Europe, and Greece, she finally came to Damascus and mar ried Betlonin Arab Sheikh, with whom she is , spending ,het- life. Ste has a a magnificent house end garden, with European servants in great style, but with all this is not. happy. She spends her summers at Palmyra and in the des ert with her Shieldh among the Arabs, anti the winters in Damascus. Of late she has seemed quite thoughtful and attends the religious ser vices of the Missionaries, expreqing deep regret at her past fife. WP visited also the street called Straight, and with Mr. Crawford as guide, made a thorough exploration of the city. On Thur. day, March 23d, we saw the Turkish 'soldiers entering from escorting the great caravan of pilgrims toward Mecca. Among the nilieer, were a number of Abysinnians, black as chnny, the men under their command being all whites. On Friday mornmg we rose early and went through the streets, two Lours before sunrise to take the diligence again. Mr. Dodge and I were accompanied by Mr. Crawford's boy who carried our carpet-bags. We had enough to do to tight our way . through the dogs. In a distance of near ly a mite we passed somewhere near fiLy dis tinct colonies of does. These dogs never leave their own camp, fur if they do they are attacked by the dogs of the next street. Each camp num bers from twelve to twenty dogs,besides the grow ing cora. The moment we approached a new street the dogs all awoke and set upon us with howls and yells almost deafening. We icok turns in pelting them with stones, and I gener ally made out to disable one at least and then the rest would retreat. But we had to take each street in turn by storm, and it was a succession of battles all the why to the Depot, where we got out of the enemy's country. I have seen and known Syrian dogs for nine years, but never was obliged to light them by the mile, before. Among the passenger, were Mr. and 'Mrs. Rich, D. Wcod, son and daughter of Arch Street, Phil adelphia, friend., acquaintances of Sarah Walk er, the Copes, Norrises, and Logans. It was very delightful to meet them, and we reached Beirut at sunset without accident. On Sunday, 'March 26, I preached as usual. On Monday ' the 27, I rode to Abeih to attend the Annual Examination, and was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Dodge. On Tuesday morning we went down to the mountain side to see the people working to kill the Zootsia, who are nom coming over the laud in myriads. The whole population is ordered out by the Governor to 'kill them and drive them toward the sea. With horns, bells, copper kettles, and guns, they keep up a terrible din, and build fires to prevent that progress. There is something terrible in the thought of such an =numbered host of destroy ing creatures. They are like immense yellow grasshoppers, and are about laying their eggs Each one lays about 1.500 eggs, and in forty dap: they will hatch out and begin to devour every green thing, and the poor people arc becoming jus,tly alarmed lest there be a famine in the land. After the Examination, Mr. Dodge rode to Sidon and I rode with Mrs. Dodge to the Da mascus road, where a carriage was waiting to take her to Beirut. _ - . - We reached Beirut at five, P. M. On Wednes day L had my Singing School and Bible Class. I telegraphed to Samuel and received a reply in two houss,with regard to his comin g here and Mr. Calhoun's accompanying him to Hums. TIIURSDAY, 31arch_30th—I was overwhelmed with visitors all daplattended the weekly En glish prayer meeting, and in the evening, be sides writing several letters, attended a meeting of the Americans to consult with Mr. Dodge about the Beirut College. FEIthAY-1. am writing this letter. • * • • SATURDAY, April let—Yesterday I made my usual visit to the Girls' School, addressed the pn pile, sang and prayed with them, made several calls, and wrote - letters, and studied Mr my ser mon on Sunday. In the evening I made a visit to a sick young man and had religious exercises ; called at Dr. Dyck's, and then spent the remain ing time at Mrs. Bowen Thompson's with a com pany of Missionaries and other friends as she is about leaving for England. The locusts have come to Beirut. The e.ir is almost darkened with them as they fly over the city, now while I am writing. May the Lord deliver the land from the plague so destructive and fearful 1 Many of the people are nearly ru ined by the fall in cotton, and they tremble at the sight of the locusts. We have rejoiced with you over Charleston and Wilmington. , Very much love to all. Your affectionate brother, • HENRY H. JEssur. ZURIOCH STRATEGT..-A. sergeant in the Uni ted Statessmayorho,with a small partyot sold iers, bad been sent out on a scouting expedition from Fort Defiance, Neil; Mexico, finding him self beset by four hundred Indians, tied, a tin cup; filled with pebbles, confined by a cloth,tbstened over the top, to a doe's tail, wrote a mite and fastened it to the dog a collar end then let him loose. The terrified animal °remise made the quickost possible time to the fort,•the note was obser 4 red'and read; a rescue party was sent out, which 'arrived,j n.ust in time to save the lives of the :sergeant and his me .• tariuwe'toed 'ichaiity (rota Itti world, we, wand be eberiteble oureelves. Correspondence of the Independent Republican. LETTER FROM VIRGINIA. FORT 414311.. NY, Ve.., May 18,1865 Friend Framer: Having a little leisure from my regular routine of duty I send you a few items of interest for publication in your excellent paper. Last Friday, 12th inst., General Meade's advance arrived here and took up quarters on the flat near the river directly in front of Fort Albany, Va. They pitched their tents and re mained over night, but thinking it rather low and unhealthy ground they moved back the next. morning one mile near Fort Craig on a beautiful gravelly knoll where the General now has his headquarters. The troops, together with the ne cessaries of war (in such vast abundance that no person having never seen them (mulct have any conception of the amount,) have been Seeking In and going into tamp ever since, dotting . the country far and wide on both sides of the river with their tents and army wagons. Hundreds of thousands have already arrived on their home ward march. General Sherman's long pontoon train came in last Sunday, each wagon was drawn by six mules, and the men looked as though they had seen bard times; dusty, sun. burnt and careworn. Their quarters here are but temporary, they are all Impatiently awaiting orders. Home and dear friends are uppermost in their minds and they are anxiously inquiring when are we going to be sent home, there is no enemy now to tight and why don't they let us go home? The authorities at Washington are of course rxpediting business as fast as possible and making arrangements to forward the troops to their respective States to be mustered out. It was ancofteed in the city papers this morning that a general review of toe armies would take place next Tuesday and yeticreaday, May 24th and 2fitti, in Washington. To thu ho have teen living at ease and unaccustomed to ' . he sight will be grand and sublime and one long to be remembered, but to those careworn, and tiredout soldier. who have so long been Sc- ustomcd to long weary marches throug-h an en 'tray's country, constantly exposed to Mlle' bul lets, and the no less total malarial miasma, ill be anything else but agreeable; as lor as ave heard an exprescion upon the Subject, the °idlers are universithy oppo4ed to it. Fort Albany where I am now on temporary iity is very pleaeantly located on a high bluff or gravelly knoll about a mile and a ball froth :he tide water of the Old Potomac, directly in trout of the Long Bridge (so e:.lled) extending across the bay one nine and 11 quarto r in length to the city of Washington, it bring a continua tion of Fourteenth street. It however takes the name on this or the Virginia side of the Old Columbia Pike, leading to 'Fairfax Court Bowe, otc. From this standpoint we have it delightful view of the whole length anti breadth of Wasb ingtti and Georgetown and of the great variety water crafts on the river, sue., as niotators, gunboats, steamboats, the cars trom Alex andria es they pass over the Long Bridge into :he city, as also Oreensliorough and the Insane .I.sylum across the bay array to the distance. the face of the country around in the vicinity of this f,rt cannot be cared beautiful or interest- tug aside froin the form, and some few spots mentioned in history. Previ .us to The war a large proportion of the surface, which is very uneven, presenting deep ravines and high emi nences, was covered with a thick growth of oak and chestnut., but since the forts have been built the timber has all been cat down and taken oil ~.r.cept on Arlington Heights. Nature not willing to yield to such kind of treatment has thrown up a spontaneous gmwth of bushes of the ori,:tn al kinds of wood averaging-now some Os reel high. The forts around the city are numerous, only at a short distance trom each other. In some in 'lances there are as many as four in the space o half a mile, s ,, ch is the case a ith Forts Whipple Tilingbast, Woodbury, and Cass. These forti fications are impregnable, and they are 80 nu merous that no enemy trunwins.; their facilities and pna-er of defence would ever undertake to ,übdue them. At a short distance Irma this fort ire some one hundred and tit 'y wood buildings, many of hem of the same pattern, •24 IT 20 feet, one tory and a half high, and a partition running hrough the middle, with conveniences for twit Amines. Same of the buildings are placed in regular order, with a nice wide street between them. Several of them hr. of large size and re• spectively Ladled the Sewing room, the school room, and chapel. All the buildings are beauti fully whitewashed on the in/Ishii., the fences are also whitewashed in regular hospital style there are several small ',arks enclosed, which , T 1 contrast with the whit, ned surfaces, have an air of neil.nocs and elegant:a.. This is called freedmen's village. The buildings tire the prop erty of the Government. There are about a thou. ,Lnd inhabitants row, called freedmen and women. Lich family p.ys $d per month. Their pastor, John Taylor, (colored, of 31.a55.,) is quite a smart intelligent man, an interesting speaker, and pleasant and winning in his con versation and manners. He appears to take a deep interest in the welfare of his race. After listen- Ong to his exhortations, and advice to his people ;ast Sabbath evening (whither I strayed out of ;turiosity) and ia conversation viitti him subse .pientiv I think he is capable of doing much way of instructing, encouraginm ' and advising those who are under his charge. Nov. that the war is over, and slavery is dead, a great many such instructors will he ueederL To-day I hare been visiting the Home of our Honored and Patriotic Dad. They rest in peace in the sacred soil of Virginia, and althounh it is confiscated property it is a most delightful spot of earth, kuuwu in history as Arlington or Arlington Heights. 5,500 sndiers are already ieposited there, and the number is still increas ing at the rate of eight or ten daily. Two hun dred negroes are constantly employed by the Government In digging graves, burying the dead and beautifying and adorning the place. Every grave has a head board, all made to one pattern, beautifully painted white, and all stand- ing in a straight line, just two feet high. On eacb board is painted in plain black letters the name of the soldier, the company and regiment to which he belonged, when and where he died, and tbd number he represents in the libt of the dead. Some few of the occupants of these graves nave been disintet red and taken home by their friends, but it is now well known that the place .4111 ever be held sacred, that no pains or ex- pease will he spared in beautifying and protect ing the grounds, and certainly the spot will never be forgotten till the• last generation of varth shall ball have faded away. Many of your read. err no, doubt remember the history of Arlington. The Mauston on the premises known as the Addington House ass built in 180:1 by George Washington P. Curtis. It stands upon a high pointi of land opposite the city of Washington and In full view of the city and the aurrouding country. The original farm consisted of a thou sand iacrea. At the death of Mr. Curtis, which took Itlace in 1847, the property was Inherited by hits son-in-law, the rebel genereal R. E. Lee. On oe-breaking out of the rebellion in 1861 Lee and his family lett their house and property and took an active part In the attempt to destroy the Government. He Is now reaping the reward of his labors. IL A. TINGLEY. From Dickens's Once a Week. THE TEM VTISHIB. There was once a wise emperor who made a law that to every granger who came to nis court a fried fish should be served. The servants were directed to take - notice if, when the stranger bad eaten , the fish to the bone on ono side, he turned it over and began to cat on the other side. If he did, hewas to to immudiately seized and on the third day thereafter he was to be Tint to death. But, by ra great stretch•of imperial clemency, the culprit was permitted to utter one wish each day, which the emperor pledged him self to grant, provided' it wasnot to spare WS We. Many had already perished in consequence Of thi4 edict, when, one day, a count and his young son presented themselves at .court. The fish was served saliva), and when the count had removed all the fish from one side, ho turned It otter; end was about-to commence the Other, who) be was suddenly seised sod thrum) WO prison, and was told of his approaching doom. Sorrow-stricken, the count's young son besought the emperor to allow him to die in the room of his father; a tavor which the monarch was pleased , to accord him. The count was ac cordingly released from prison and the son was thrown into his cell in his stead. As soon as this had been done, the _young man said ‘to his gaolers: " You know I have the right to make three demands before 1 die; go tell the emperor to sentrme his daughter, and a priest to marry us" The lira demand was not much to the emperor's taste, nevertheless he felt bound to keep his word, and he therefore complied with the request, to which the princess had no kind of objection. This occurred in the times when kings kept their treasures in a cave, or in a tow er set apart for the purpose, and on the second day of his imprisonment, the young man-de manded the emperor's treasures. If his first de mand was a bold one, the second was not less su ; still an emperor's word is sacred, and having made the promise, ho was forced to keep it, and the treasures of geld and silver and jewels were placed at the prisoner's disposal. On getting possession of them he distributed them profusely among the courtiers, and soon he bad made a host of friends by his liberality. The emperor began now to feel exceedingly uncomfortable. Unable to sleep, he rose early on the third morning and went, with fear in his heart, to hear what the third wish was to he. "Now," said ho to the misoner, "tell me what your third demand is, that it may be granted at once, and you may be hung out of hand, for I am tired of your "demands." "Sire," answered his prisoner, " I have but one more favur to request of your majesty, Which, when you have granted, I shall die content. It is merely that you nil! cause the eyes of those who saw my father turn the fish over aim be put " Very good," replied the emperor, "your &mind is but natural, and springs from a good heart. Let the chamberlain be seized," he con tinued, turning to his guards. "I, sire!" cried the chamberlain; see anything—it was the steward." "Let the steward be seized, then," said the emperor. _ . . But the steward protested with tears hi his eyes that he ,had not witnessed anything of 'hat had been reported, and said it Wll3 the butler. The butler declared that he had seen •tothing of the matter, and that it must have teen one of the valets. But they protested 'hat they were utterly ignorant of what had been charged against the count; in short, it turned out that nobody could be found who had seen the count commit the offences, upun which the princess said: "I appeal to you, 'my father, as to another Solomon. If nobody saw the offence com mitted, the count cannot be guilty, and my hus band is innocent." The emperor frowned, and forthwith the et:Millers began to murmur; then be smiled, and immediately their vivigxs became radiant.. "Let it be sh," said his majesty; "let him live, though I have put many a man to death for a lighter offence than his. But if he is not hung, lie is married. Justice has been done." ADAMS FALL. A favorite temperance lecturer down South used to relate the following anecdote to illus trate the influence of a bad example to the Or !nation of babas, ruinous in their effect. Adam, and Mary his wife, who lived in the old States, were very gond members of !the church, good sort of folks anyway, quite luaus. trious and thriving in the world and Mary thought a great deal of a good glass of teddy. Whenever the minister culled to make Mary a visit,which was pretty often,she contrived to have s glass of good toddy made, and the minister nev er refused to imbibe. After a while Adam got to following the example of the minister to such an extent that he became a drunkard—drank up everything he had, and all he could get. Mary And Adam became very poor in consequence of his following the minister's example so closely; but the, good minister continued still to get his .;lass toddy. One day he called in and told Nlary he was going away for a week—should return on Fnday—and handed her a book con- Rifling the catechism, and told her when he re turned he should expect her to answer the ques tions. Mary said yes, and laid away the hook carefully. bat Mary, like a good many others rirvit it until the very Friday that the 'rood minister was to return. "What shall I do?" bah] r.he, "the minister is to be here to day, and I haven't looked in the book he gave me I How can I answer the questions?" " I can tell you," said Adam, "give me a quar ter, and let me go over to smith's and get some nod ram, and you can answer him with a glass of toddy. Mary took the advice, gave Adam a quarter and a jug and off he started. After getting his jug filled, and on his way back, Adam con cluded to taste the rum. One taste followed the other, until he stumbled over a pile of rocks and broke the jug and lost all the ruin. Adam managed to stagger home. Boon as he got into the house Mary asked very anxiously for the jug of runt. Poor Adam managed to stammer out that he stumbled over a pile of rocks, and broke the jug and spilt the rum. Mary was in a fix—Adam drunk—the minis ter coming—time rum gone—and the questions unlearned. But here COMPS the minister ! It won't do for the man of God to see Adam drunk, so she tor want of a better place to bide sent him under the bed. By the time he was fairly under, in came the minister. After sitting a few mo ments, lie asked Mary if She could answer the question, How did Adam tall? Mary turned her head first one way, and then the other, and finally stammered out. "Be fell over a pile of rocks." It was now the minister's turn to look blank, but be ventured another question, " Where did he hide himself after the tall ?" Mary looked at the minister, then at the bed, but finally she spoke out with, " under the bed, sir I There, Adam, you may come out; he knows all about it." The good minister retired—not even waiting for his glass of toddy. BOOTH'S IDEA OF THHORTAI, FAME.—A theat- rical gentleman in Chicago etatea that in the early part of ISO, during an engagement of J. Wilkes Boulh at hieVicher's theater, he made the remark one day, "What a glorious opportu nity there in fors Men to Immortalize himself by killing Lincoln !" ' What good would that do?" he was asked. He then quoted these lines— The ambitious youth who fired the Ephestan dome, Outlives In fame the pious fool who reared It." "Nell, who was that ambitious youth—what was his name ?'t was then asked. " That I don't knoW," replied Booth. "Then where's the fame you speak oft" This nonplussed him. From this it would seem that the esqug.lu hai3 had the commission of this horrid crime in his mind for at least two or three years. • WiterEo.—The following advertisement ap pears in the Jamestown Journal: Wanted—A boy to learn the printer's trade. A boy that "knows a bee from a ball's foot," and is willing to work without owning an interest in the office, and does not require too Much waiting on, can have a chanCe in the Journal office. He will not be expected to take the whole charge of the business at,first. , Vir Two hundred years agit, the freemen of Massachusetts, voting in State' elections used corn and beans its indicative of yeas and nays, the corn being counted as yea and the beans as nay in the baliotting. And when the beans whore in the minority they acknowledged the Wm. , . . . . frlirEmeraen says: "Life is a train of moods, like e. string of.beade." trio the goikt tnaniaith, so say we:. Ulf 40 the good woman faith. 110 It Ma ba HARD ON MT. DAVE TAMIL"' 111,03/ A. AEII3I , P 171311. IThefollowing lines were taken errynAthe body of a dead ,Yankee, on the battle-field of Ream's Station, by a Georgian soldier belonging to Long's brigade.] 6h may that cues, 3eff. Davis, Boat, On open am, in open boat, In Iceland cold without a coat, Glory Hallelujah 1 • Without a compass, mil, or oar, A million miles from nary shore, Where mighty waves like mountains roar, Glory Hallelujah! Ifay the sharks devour him, stem roadster; A whale engulph him down in turn, And the devil get the whole concern, Glory Hallelujah! 0 ! may the cursed traitor dwell In darkest pits of deepm.t. bell, 'And gnash his teeth, and groan and yell, Glory, Hallelujah! 4,.nd 'mid his roars and frantic' cries, Oh make eternal ashes rise, And blow forever in his eves, Glory, Hallelujah! • In burning brimstone may he be, .. While little devila dance In glee, Then lock the door and lose the key, Glory, Hallelujah! A KIND AUT AND ITS REWARD. The Cleveland Pioindeakr sketches an inci dent that lately oconrred on one of the Railroads running through Ohio. The sketch is interest,. Mg, {hough it is impersonal: The train is running at a rapid rate. The car is fil TO with well-dressed aristocratic passengers. The conductor enters and proceeds to collect the accustomed fare. Presently ho comes to a lady i in deep mourning, travelling with three children, and calls for a ticket. The lady quick- ly Telt her hand into her pocket for the same, but it was gone, with the wallet containing all her money, within which the ticket had been placed for safe keeping. The lady is of a mod est retiring, disposition, and in an agitated man ner explains why she cannot pay the fare. The conductor is one of those hard-hearted kind— one of those men without a particle of gentle feeling—and without taking into consideration any of the palliating circumstances of the case, rung the bell, stopped the train, and the lady and her little ones were ordered from the car. The engineer had not been an uninterested spectator of die scene. He left the engine, and advanced to the place where the lady was standing, so dis tressed and helpless. The engineer had a blg warin heart. Putting his hand into his Docket he produced a fifty dollar gold piece, and hand ing it to the lady remarked: madam, take this and get into the car. It is shameful that you should he treated thus." The lady hesitated about receiving it, but was " I did not in a , desperate strait; and after showering number less, thanks upon the noble engineer, she insisted upon receiving his name and address, and then returned to her seat and went on her way. About a month after-this time the - engineer re ceived a note requesting , him to call at the ex press office and take from thence a package ad dressed to him. Be did so. Upon opening the package he found that it contained fifty dollars, and an elegant cold watch, chain, and seals.— Upon the inside was inscribed the golden rote, the substance of which is—"Do unto others as you wish others to do unto you." • iTZTLILCITIrE 130117.STEADS.-11 need not cost much money to adorn the place one lives ; Begin by digging out the briers and thistles of the dour yard. Plant a few trees; then addsev. er4l flowering shrubs. Perhaps that will answer for one year. Next y ear, maim a gravel walk or twO, and set n few flowering plants by their ' sides Your wife and daughter will sow some 1 , flower seeds, if von will only prepare a neat hor- der for them. Look at these few improvements, some bright morning next June, and we gnaran tec you will be glad you made them. And these labors, so rewart'ing, will lead on to others. The fexces and buildings will be kept in repair.— 'rrres will be set out along the roadside ; the houses will have window blinds; the rooms will bei papered and painted; good furniture will be pthvided, and bt.olts and papers will not lie mis sitlg. All these things will be regulated accord ing to one's ability. And, as a general rule, whatever our means, it is better to make improve ments by degrees, from year to year, than to do them all up at once "by the job." Be assured this is the way to find the most happinvis in home adorning. And remember, the influence of midi improvements does not end with the indi vidual family. They tell silently, but with great effect, upon society. Every neighbor and every passer by feels them, and many ere lead by such examples to go and do likewise. MAKE HOKE 101 INSTMTFION OF LEMETCIO.—. Provide books fur the center table, and for the library of the family. See all tbeyounger chil dren attend the best schools and interest your self in their studies. If they have the-taste for thorough cultivation, but not the means to pur sue it, if possible provide for a higher education. Daniel Webster taught. at, theinterials of his college course, to aid en elder brother In the pursuit of a classical education, and a volume of his works is dedicated to the daughters of that brother, who early closed a brilliant career. Fee) that an ignorant brother and sister will be a dis grace to your family, and trust not the preven tion of such reproach to the casual influence of the press, existing institutions, and the kind offi ces of strangers. If the family becomes as it may be, an institution of learning, the whole land will be educated. • Dun, &c., ne run RTE.—When the eye is ir ritated by dust, or intrusive particles of any kind, the sufferer invariably shuts and rubs his eye, and not unfrequently the removal of the irrita ting cause thereby becomes more difficult. The proper practice is to keep the eye open, as if staring; a sort of rotary movement of the ball takes place, the surface becomes covered with water, the particle is gradually impelled to the corner of the eye, and is floated outer can be easi ly removed, without any of the disagreeable con sequences that attend shutting and rubbing. Equally effective is this mode when a fly is an intruder. Re does not wish to remain. where accident has placed him; but you close the pris on door and like the starling, "he can't getout" Keep the eye open and be will be glad to relieve you. RELmr.cr Tint Aumn.—Many en old person has the pain—not bodily, but sharper still—of feel ing himself in the way. Some one wants his place. His very chair in the chimney corner Is grudged blm. He is a burden to his son• or daughter. The very arm that props him is taken away from some productive labor. As he sits at the table, his own guests are too idle or too unkind to make him a sharer in their mirth. They grudge .the trouble of. that raised-voice'' which alone could make him one of them;and when bespeaks, 4 is.enly to be. pnt aside as Ignorant or despised, as old-fashioned and oh. solete. Oh, little do younger persons know their power of giving pain or - pleasure, It is a pain for any man, still in the world, to he made to feel that he. is no longer of it, to bo driven in upon his own little World of conscious isolation and 'burled enjoyment. Bat this is his condi tion; and If any Iretfillness Or `querulousness of temper has aggravated it—if others love him not because he is not amiable—shall we pity that condition less—and shall weripbraid it withtliat fault which is Itself the worse part of it?, - r How. Bin.unson I—lhenlosing sentences of President Lincoln's first inaugural aro slugniarirl impressive, when viewed In the bright bow whieh sparts , nod llitnaines the' dark , receding cloud ;Oily= Jlehr, they Ea:- "We are not , erten:ilea; but friends; we must not be_ enemies, • , Though passion ;may -Intro stralned,ltranst notbreak the bondsoraffection.l, The mystie cords of memory, stretching frernev 7 .l ery batik field and patriot gretreto every living bean ancthearthstone all . over thiS Wed :4*, Will yet 'wen •Uncchointi Of, the again touched; its thffritOly wDi be, by the k to r to angels of our nano." *2.00 per annum, In advance. NUMBER 22. THE NEGRO A MAN Every one of those physical tests bYwhich•the comparative physiologist draws the line between manhood, and that animal life which is less than , : manhood, leaves the negro on the side of hu manity. The ablest and most elaborate Of out recent writers on physiology exprethily iir4oesi that the abnormal peculiarities of negro man hood are due to assignable natural causes: Dr. Pickering has classified eleven distinct rands in' the human family, two of which are white, three brown, four blackish-brown, and two black. One of the white races, one of the brown, and three of the blackish-brown--five earn of the eleven—have hair which is as truly crisped and woolly as that of that black race, which we call the negro. So that, if we turn the negro out of the human family for his hair, we throw out' five other races as well ; while if ,we throat him out for his color, we throw out another race with him, besides introducing, at least in this country, endless questions of modified color, which we should be bound to accept as Indicative of moat- . fled manhood. And if we turn to that, in some respects, most convincing branch of this argu ment of race-dlinity -which language furnishes, we shall dud, lathe words of a recent author in Ibis department„ that there is "nothing to.provo the negro radically different from the other fam ilies ofman, or even mentally inferior to them." One of our intelligent New Englanders (Rev. Lewis Grout) who has labored as a missionary for fifteen years in one of the most degraded per , Untie of Africa, has recently made public the re sult of his investigations, experiences, and judg ments on this subject, indorsing in Ilia fullest manner the previously published opinion Of one of our most accomplished scholars (Rev. Dr. Sethi) to this effect; "The Africau nature pos e e•Elli a latent capacity frilly equal, originally, to that of the Asiatic or the European. Shem and Japhet sprang from the same loins with Ham. rod made of one blood those three great races l.py which he repopulated the globe after the , del age." - . . . . Nor need this be left to be matter of inference merely. Many names on the world's list of illus. 1 it illff men are the names of Africans and neglect'. Terence, who contests w;th Cicero and Caesar the paha of pure Latinity, and whose deep pathos, .olitie wit, and rythmic skill, will make bis m, Filings memorable to the end of time, was as Altana and a slave. Tertullion, who, clothing he most brilliant conceits of a fertile imagina tion, the most caustic satire, and the meet impel noes logic, in lane nane often so uncouth as tot* well-nigh barbarous, has yet been almastequally eminent with those who. have acknowledged him as a master and those who have branded him :IA a heretic, was a Carthaginian. And Angus t:ne, acute, comprehensive, full of life iind vigor, 'lnle heart of fire impressed ineffaceably upon the Christian world his theology of predestine .lL ni and free-will was a Numidiau. 6o Tons- • - r,int L'Ouveroare, the noble patriot of Hayti, Wa+ a thbrotigh negro; yet Wordsworth immor talized his greatness in one of his sweetest sow nets, and Whittier apostrophized him char: •• Everywhere thy name shall be Redeemed from color's infamy; And men shall learn to speak of thee As one of earth's great spirits, born In servitude, and nursed In scorn; C.tstlng aside the weary weight And fetters of its low estate, In that strong majesty of soul Which knows no color, tongue, or clime; Which still have spurned the base control Of tyrants through all time." And who, that knows anything about the liter lture of the present day, does not know that .11e.randre Dorcas, the most fertile, if not the most. popular French writer of the genaratirm--• , ds daily work averaging aim-two printed oc- Aro pages, and his income from the pen reach tog tp2,000 a year—is of the proscribed blMad,, with its strongly-marked physical thafacteria' - tics? Did you ever hear Frederick Douglass make an argument? and, if you /rave, did you not feel that you would be making, .8 remunera *lva bargain if you could exchange your head for his? To be sure ho stands tar above the average of his race or any other, in intellectual' ability; but be is a true, thorough negro EP; ,o that, if turn a man, they are men; if they are rot men, he is not a man. The negro not a maul After the advantages won fur the nation in this struggle by the sr gacity of negro pilots, and the intreped fidelity of negro guides, and the heroic bravery of negro troops, It is an insult even more to our menli nese than theirs, to deny that they are men; humble in culture, in most cases, to,be sure (what ,hould we be if our grandfathers had been bush man in Ethiopia, and we had been through their slave experience?) and it may - be, with a t low average of some manly qualities; but still tire; tis to be trusted'and trained to take care oftherr selves.—Sermon by Bre. IZ lL Darter, press/list April 22d. A French actress, whose youth and-beauty appeared inexhanstible-,on the boards—never would tell her age. Of coarse, the mote the she wouldn't tell it, the re curious people were to know it. A womtuf keep a secret! she kept that. By good In as the multitude thought—she was summone as a witness' on. tritd. The gossips rubbed their hands and chuckled. "Aba, we shall know it now. She must tell,. or go to prison for contempt of court. She won't go to prison; she will, therefore, tell." The court was crowded with open•eared' lis teners. In French courts of justice, the witness does not stand in a box to give evidence, but sits On a stool, in the middle of the floor of the court. in front of the president's desk, and with no barrier or separation between it and himself The lady was ushered in, raised her right hand to heaven, took the oath-to speak the truthoind then seated herself on the witness-stool. "Your name?" asked the president " Angelique Toe jourstleurie.' "Your profession?" "Artiste des matique." "Your age?" You might have, heard a pin drop, or the hair grow on the by-standees' heads. Every eye was henton the lady. She was driven into a corner at last t Foolish Pee risian public to think so! Angelique. simply rose from her seat, walked strafght up to the president's desk, and' whispered the secret in his ear. He nodded, made the'Ontry In his pri vate' rioter, and, smiling, continued the rest of his interrogatory as soon as she had" minuted her place on the sellette. The public retired with feelings of mingled disgust end admiration. The trial had lost all fluther interest;' and the president was known to be 'e men of It onot,and gallantry, who would never let a pretty montasfa cat escape from his presidential bag. • : Lire Wrrnnv Vona 1 31mtns.— e don II"O stinginess, we don't like econ omr, when it tea les down to rags and starvation. I'Ve have no sym pathy with the notion that the prtrattn oold bitch himself to a post and stand still. . while the rest of the world moves ferivard. It is ne times duty to deny himself eveiXtutusement; vivisry recreation, ever] comfort . site may get AXIL. It is no man's duty to make' an leeberS self, to shut his eyes and - ears to the storenoppaof his fellows, and to deny himself the enjqtxtent ' that results from generous actions; merely' that he may hoard wealth for his, heirs to quarrel about, But there Is an economy .whick is slimy man's duty, which Is especially commend able a the man w h o etrnexies with poverty.;—an' wino. my which is consistent. with .happinime t tit i d which must be practiced if the poor mast ivonld secure independence. It ip, !dorsi evory man's privildge, and it becomes bis duty t to lime within ' his mnall9;,lloVer TO, but - within them,. 'Wealth noes not make the man; 'tact ethnic.' and atintiki never, he taken into' =Aunt itt our ind,graentof . men; but ccunpetcncasheuld,elwsjsibe secured, ! When It can be, by, the prantice bficonosay and self-iienial'only to tr . tolerable extent It aheul4 belieenreditiot ao 'ranch for °them JO look tpOri, or to raise %mkt the estimation et. others,-. lc' to secure the conseionsnes of Indeperghianat thelatisfaCtitai which: is deried front, 'its 44. Ofiement an 4 peniatt,-ZA3.1,4 Xatirmat Ofiis lilAkuer* fqoirn_h.lin 5 PocosAnd int° A .„„h lbe ters. dra ttf:ti )1111tdooftwliti F tw oOtiailto two woe rote 1161119 ~.* A WOMAN'S SEORET. 0 Fi
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