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CUM CAPITAL PAID IN • SSOO,COL ABSFS AVEA SIMCOL mall rates are --.•- -oskof any good consysny in 1. Rev York, M ewhere edal:111M among t• • - the first for tutiso and Inrri,. • • • 0 co i namlres. Cuanza:slU • `pi s jinggrp Montrose, d• ys .p I X 4 ;k l 11814141-' 1-41. CASH CAPITAL7.OTICMIWON DOLLARS. Aware Ist Aar isfo. $1481.10 11 . 1111211111221, " 48,061.68. Strath. Erec , i. tlima.irardn:Preld ,vice dis. t- . A F.Vllmarth, ,301171,03ee, Afft • • -- • Policies tuned awl Teneied. ty the seadentips 0104. in the Bettion" sovl9 y BILLING S 151110VD,' Amt. S. IL Pettenglll ik Co„ . . .VO. '3? 11.118 ROW, New Tort. sad 6 !tate Street, /N fkratda, ure oar a i neata Tor the s46lflift Demeerwi fat 4bose: citlea, sad aril, authorized to take advertisements *ad i. We aabzerlptioas bane ft,our lowest . . ...tumacorTA.mricrzies , To:Enghind;lreland - ant Scotland. Baßsok tictiseiitsiiumil. itl sitiat of one Jak. ponntlan4 upwwie, iuryable,l6oll the prinaPal . Aims of gailaadartilia ana&coWd.tor eels by COMMA • 9:1-1111i Montrpte.Ps. _ mud r illbSlM 4 1 0 0.1 1 -Artf , ; ,. . •- - . 5 I. P. & L. C. =WM 0111fii1VY, 2,...:9 i 'Matti IMISIONIEL Sad the Autumn made aril. Sethi& Through the forest whsre the trees Tap another yes r Ia dying.. *Ude tear colored leans. Oh. say heart is sad sad lonely. • witch .1 1 !e, Wig - leaf, - • iitti4 taxi ifetaiuni tree* As I bow my bud to grief ; Grief to think that love like nature. Is oftentimes doomed to decay, And the friends we've loved the dearest, Are the first to pass away. Moat of lost some loved one. Cloied their - eyes In death's calm sleep, And muds were pressed above thew., Back our tears we' ebuld not keep. We can weep for friends departed, As we lay themisteatti thew*, • - < , Mid Whet aktiost broken knifed, ' • We can meekly kisa the rod; For we imowshey loved us fondly. While s they etillivere with us hem— They have only gone before us.. their memory UM to na is deu. Yet the leaves that fall around us. VElnehleMe of our lite are they.) , • Will ha renewed it:tall thole beauty. When stern Winter's passed away. We shall meet the trends who toyed us When we pus from earth sway. ( There true friends no more are Parted, those realms ofesullets day. ' Bridge Water, Pa, C. S. W TEE KM OF DAHOBETATZOBIE [Prom,tho fiatardiy laview.] The piominence just given to the King of Dahomey and, his court by the discuss sion that. has taken place in one of the dig nified seances of the British Association, and the controversy which is going on as . to his mental and moral idiosyn,crasies,bid' fair to make the name of that potentate a household word. He has the reputation` of being the chief supporter of the slave trade iu the interior of Africa; he is the bele noire of missionaries; and we heard a year or two ago • such an account of his "customs," and of the hecatomba of hu man victims that are consumed in the eel; ehration of them, .hat Lord Russell was recommended to put. him down as a publiq nuisance. On such occasions it is always advisable to- wais a little. Sad as it is to be obliged to make the confession, philan thropy, when its blood is up, is apt to be as indiscriminate , in its vengeance as a King Of Dahomey himself; and missiona ries are occasionally given to poet:nature alartmi, wild exaggerations,-and the vaga ries of old womanhood in geriertiL We have lately hadapicture of the terrible potentate, drawn from the life by one who has had every opportunity of seeing him as- he is, who writes with a sailor's brevi ty and exactness, and who has presented Parliament with one of the most readable papers that have adorned that species of literature for years. It is considerably more favorable than the sketch which has been subsequently given to the world by M. Jules Gerard. It is more detailed and eircantstancial; it appears to be foun ded on fuller opportunities of observation than those enjoyed by the lion-hunter, and it has, just been confirmed by the inde pendent. and personal testimony of Mr. Craftst Newcastle. The narrative of our gallant countryman may perhaps assist us in correcting to some extent the very ex aggerated and unpleasant impression of the royal character which M. Gerard's ea.' count of his Dahomey experiences is cal culated to produce. In November, 1862, Commodore Wil mot was - cruising on the West African station in H. M. S.Battlesnah4 and learn ed from the Wesleyan Missionary at Why dab that the King of Dahomey was most anxious to see "Somebody of coritidera tion from England; a 'real Englisitman,' with whom be might converse on the af fairs of his.. country." Accordingly, he consulted the Yavogah, ,or Governor of WhYdith, who hold him to return in sev en days,,when he,would 'Vet him know whether the . King would 'see him." He let - timed at: the appointed time,*and-hav ingbeen• meanwhile represented to his N.ajesty as a "good and proper person," with a sort of intimation (which seems by the way to have been an extemporized ad dition on ibe part of .the Yavogab) that be came out as a messenger of the Queen, he received the Mug's invitation to his capital in due form. There ,were two or three: things, however, to -be seriously considered. Our late , attacks on Porto Novo, which belongs to tbe King's broth er, was said to have enraged' his Majesty so much that he had expressed a strong desire to lay npomen English of& Cei;for .'eertati :peisonal and unpleaaant puipOiteiC.l4lail,theiEuropeans at Why daft had spread the Moat alarming re po:4oolo64's hatred of the English, appiiienily in, order to keep. the English and the lingiti.nivOti* as possible, and 'thereby to, bide' their; own -misdeeds from inconvenient 'PObriditi: BaciliCoui)o. dolt; :besides' his unquestionable pluck and Joie of Ittaventnie, possessed 6ertaip) spettial aptitoeafor4te,mission.` Among othbrs, , holiad been. personally acquainted I , with the King ' s taint 1 - and ' _fie carried about etanOt iTeAraPglio7 3l3ll °rllie d d:#; sulOtlitint and veo -nSefal mark of his , re gard. 'liiii;:iiritit-pertipiifofeWinalms, Mi.- sent Mil it( .'ii: OWlC:fit*Pn,liYe oraittei end aecOm ~ : , by4Oit . pto i ,l i incie and D. Haran;lo , - ipii4.04444, . by the Weti.: alit iiii7;up. , , 11t. Whydap„ aret at 1 oa-411442ttorDe '',:iti.ef:':ll4.3rai MONTROSE, PA,, THURSDAY, NOV: . . received -.moat .cordially by the,lCalint. ll ; l and chiefs', :with drums beating,coloistly- . Mg, muskets firing, dancing, and, war songs, and ,was Also treated.to a sight of the manoeuvres of a slave hunt. All along the road the party was treated with great respect. Presents of water,' fowls, , and goats,met, them everyw,here, acconipan with, am o unt of firing, druol miiig, singing, dancing,Ac., and a ,aeries of ominous speeches, signifying, the gener al desire of the speakers to "go' to war and cut off heads-for their Master." A Prince was ordered to attend .them on theirjourney, and tqe King sent three, of Ibis "'sticks . ," by special messengers, to meet them on their way-;--gold stick, 'sil ver stick, and all the-rest of it, of course, just like St, James o 1 the Tuildies—pos sibly a well-meant endeavor to, reassure ,them that, notwithstanding the odd tone of the ",speeches," his majesty was a good Ohristian-like King after all, even' if . Id, did g 9 to ; war " for an idea" now and then, like some of his brethren. On the 10th, the King received 'them in state at Canna, eight miles from his cap ital. They were carried three times round the, square of the palace with much ceremony: 'Then they entered the gates of, the court-yard, and „beheld his sable majesty se4ed with about a h,updred wives around him,'" most Of themyoung and!exceedingly pretty," at the upperend of a'sort'of state avenue of variegated um brellas, under which were congregated his principal - chiefs. All around stood " the Guards," a household brigade consisting, in this instance, of a remarkably fine body .of Amazons, of whose soldierly bearing and accuracy in loading and firing the Commodore everywhere speaks -with ad miration : ~ "The King a'qts reclining on a raised dais, about three feet high, covered with crimson cloth, smoking his pipe. One of his wives held a glass sugar-basin for him' to spit in. He was dressed very- plainly, the upper part of his body being bare, with only a silver chain holding some fe tish charm about his neck, and an unpre tending cloth around his waist." All this, except perhaps the spitting app paratus, is civilized enough, if ono only reads it rightly. The dais might have done duty at the last lord mayor's ball; and " the upper part of the body" of half the ladies in the ball-room might have been described with exactly the same fi delity, if the Court Journal on the occas ion bad chanced to be written . bralylunt commodore, instead of veiling its descrip tions of " low" dress under the conven tional euphemisms. This preliminary in terview, however, was simply one of cer emony. There was the usual inquiries about the Queen's health, the travelers' journey, and our form of government, Eo then fashion ; the Amazons performed their feats very creditably, brandished "gigantic razors," and cut off imaginary heads with them, just like a sham-fight• at a review ; and the audience ended with the indispensable present of bottles of rum all round. Rum is hardly ao appropriate a beverage as champagne on such occas ions, and they have, unfortunately, no Pall Mall in Dahomey, so that this part of the ceremony has to be performed corona pop via, instead of being adjourned, as with us, to the club after the levee is over.— Our own reserve in the matter is, howev er, curiously parodied filthose parts : "No one is permitted to see the King drink ; all turn their faces away, and a large cloth is held up by his wives while the loyal mouth takes in tire liquid." On Sunday morning, the 14th, the king entered his capital, Abomey, in great state, and the strangers were permitted to see the famous " custom" held annual, ly by.him in honor of his "father's spirit." It lasted several days; and the descrip tion of the King drawn round the square by his,ixxly-guard of women, the " occas ional skull at the waist-belt," the scram ble for cowries, cloths, &c., distributed by the King from a platform raised twice as high as his father used to be; and the live fowls, goats, -bull, and lastly, men thrown among the crowd from a tower thirty feet • high, is well mirth reading ; but we can now only speak of the last and best-known part of the custom:" After the romantic tales 'we have heard about the immolation of human victims by the thousand, it is comparatively satisfactory to learn that they only amounted to six one day and eight another. Here also,as in everything else, it is understoitd that , I the present Wdig..doubles that of his fatlh er ; and be trap at .pains to 'explain that I the : victinis were ,criminals==mirderers, thief:es,. dm: the ;commodore dCubts the strict veracity. Wf thiB statement I; but one cannot' renicoikering ) tbat, not very `many years . ago, envoy had : come' tO:Engitinit 'arid, stood in front of 10,wiqe--71.4.9t once a yeai7,'lpAr: once:a hionthhe niiibellavil seen 'a "'custom" gnife as curionalierformed with as much or radio lin'der-t he liresidencY' cf sheriS and chitplaiti,. and' ttl • least:assail gnintny: 31ofcaver, 1 ;tholittlt 45:41:14;nti1' presented '628 oY the victims (aft ter firs tlsc ` fsce '} ad liedanitrettitiordin. ifilt *bite it 'VI& Prcittisect— to thii'6s;aufitidditctiridAbothef f itti t6:betiltartintilliftifind of Ore o42lPitird L agiNilisig . iy: rot * val u e fie ;b6li t io t iov ia g I t iliatoidtaiitit: e t y , ireelefy.rtri:• r !!..,!i:111`17 • ,'t ;‘• I' • Qn one occaaion dining the festivities, certain einissinies, from.,Aghwey, ..",hear7 big that it waa,the Inteation.of , the. King .to 'attack their,- country; came to , give themselves up rather, thou take the'chance ,of being taken, sold, or beheaded." They swore fealty to him,.liisseil-thC dust, cov ered themselves with sand;