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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
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