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A REMARKABLE PROPHECY,
The following. which is known as "Mother
Shipton's Prophecy," was first published In 1488,
and republished iu 1641. All the events predic
ted in It, except that mentioned in the last two
lines—which is still I the future—have already
come to pass :
Carriages without horses shall go,
And =Menu till the world with woe,
Around the world thoughts shall fly
In the twinkling of nn eye.
Water shall yet more wonders do
Now strange, yet shall be true.
The aiirld upside down shall be
And gold be found at root ut tree,
Through hills man shall ride,
And no horse or ass be at his aide.
Under water men shall walk,
Shall ride. sn ill sleep, shall talk.
In the sir turn shall be seen,
In white, in black. in green.
Iron in the water shall float,
As east• as 3 wooden boat.
Gold shall he found, and fund
In ais nd that 1114 Low known.
Fire and water ehutll wonders do,
England shall at last admit a Jew.
The amid y an cod shall come,
Ia eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
THE LITTLE FROCK
Faded and worn in places
rad i A and worn oil,
My tears on It leave Well' truces,
As 1 511100Lli It out old upon fold;
For it bent et a Magic pi",
The lowa or my two, to unlock
When I think of the happy hour
I thehioned Lind httle nook.
My darling on beside me,
W h his beauttlul eyes agleam,
And theitiy that was erst Oenied me
beeinett tutu my heart to beam,
As 1 thought ol the wondrous mercy,
01 the gooduras and the lave,
That prompted "Our Father" to send me
buch uu angel down tram above.
My needle flew faster and faster,
My thought took wing us It tlew,
To the courts of the blessed Master,
From whose gates tii,) baby caste through
And I wonder it all God's angels
Looked ao pore and trail as
If among the shining arcnangels
There was any more Mir to see.
But there same a pale, sad stranger
Unto my house one day ,
My heart stood still, as tl danger
Aud darkness about [veiny.
I besought him that he would leave me
For his touch was chili and str.inze,
And he held tits hand on my Ita“y,
W Ito Straightway seethed change.
His pale little iiheeka errs
Hts Lrigot blue eyes grew dun,
His clasp in my finger grew lighter,
The victory was to him—
TO tLe pale and icy outaarch,
Ito rules with relentless sway.
Who came to my home in triumph
And bore my treasure away.
But a greater than he rem.rineth,
Who bath hr,floof the ooft,i, of the tomb—
Who bath i o King Death of Ott terrors
And lighted the pathway of gloom;
Who lutth promised US sweet etnotoilfloa,
It we patently how bene.oth his rod,
And I know he ells taken my darling
To bloom in the garden to lied.
Tko dloroes or the American Rev-
The theme of an Oration delivered by the Rev. I
E. enashire. D D., at Brooklya. auoi , Co , Po.,
Friday, July 4th. 1873, being the tan atyaeventh
birthday of onr National ladepcadanca.
[Published by unanimous request ]
Ma. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW-CITIZENS:
We have ass •mbled to i celebratu the nine
s-vents birthday of mil- National Inde
pendence—tr., render thanks to Almighty
God who crowned with success the ever
memorable struggle of our ancestors for
Freedom and Liherty—and to kindle anew
our love of independence by contempla
ting the virtue. the wisdom,and the hero
ic deeds of the patriotic men of
The Fourth of July, ninety-seven years
ago, was the day of the year which an
nounced to mankind the err at fact of
American Independence. The return of
this day, so fresh and brilliant, blesses our
vision with another beholding of the birth
day of this nation. We are permitted to
look oa our nation, comparatively young,
now among the most opulent and influ.
ential of the nations c!aiining hoary an
tiquity,and spreading over this continent
from the blue waters of the Atlantic to
those of the Pacific.
The ?nom/ grandeur of the event we
celebrate surpa-ses that of any other re
corded in history. God has not dealt so
with any other people. It was the first
public declaration, by a nation, of the
true principles of government, and its
influence will, doubtless, be coextensive
with the world. France, Greece, Ireland,
Poland, Mexico, and South America, have
through seas of blood, attempted to fol
low the glorious example of America.
The anniversary of our Independence is
commemorated,not by the sons and daugh
ters of America alone, but by the friends
of Freedom in every clime, even to the
distant isles of the Pacific.
The return of this anniversary animates
and gladdens, and cements all American
hearts. To-day, we all feel alike. On
other days of the year we are party men,
—Republicans, Democrats, or Liberal Re
publicans,—the special advocates of re
stricted or non-restricted measures to gov
ern commerce; on other days we enter
tain peculiar views regarding the value
and adaptibility of the circulating medi
um; whether it is wise, or best, to re
deem government borlds with gold, or pa
per currency; we have our personal likes
ancrilislikes ; arid many of us may main
tain our political differences, often with
earnest, and, sometimes, with vehement
feelings. But, to-day. "WE ARE AIIERI
CANS ALL, AND ALL NOTHING RUT AMERI
CANS!"
=I
Ninety-seven years have rolled away
sine the nation's birth-day, and, though
she has passed through a baptism of fire
and blood,—and traitors have aimed &
mortal blow at her existenee,—she still
survives, and our hearts swell with grati•
tude to Almighty God that He has been
graciously pleased to preserve us, and to
re-establish us on a stronger foundation
,than ever, Tile great inheritance is still
our own dear and undivided country -
%BELT, GLORIOUS, AND FREE I" We are
Setter prepared to transmit to future gen
erations, our whole country, regenerated
Poetry.
Oration
olution
"TRUTH AND RIGHT :
MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1873.
and hallowed with love, and worthier the
profoundest admiration of the nations of
earth.
The day we celebrate commemorates
an event of no ordinary kind. It was a
day that marked a new era in the history
a
of the world—opened new page to th©
students of_political science—fledged the
pinions of Freedom—planted the tree of
Liberty to a fruitful soil, where its roots
might strike deep, its branches spread far
and wide, and its leaves put forth, its
bud blossom, and its fruits be. Lorne in
russet luxuriance—it was a day which
gave birth to a nation &Brined to be the
stfongest and most opulent on the face of
the globe.
It is brit a few years since we closed an
extraordinary and mighty conflietonight
ier than many centuries revea'ed. Out
of it has grown the regeneration and sal
vation of our country. God's purposes
have been accomplished. We have thrown
off the fearful incubus of slavery. It can
never again urge any claim as a right.—
Like a felon, it has no rights. We have
neither time or dispositionan this address
to show you the grand providential de
signs of God in the late war. He had
many to accomplish. But the cardinal
one was to destroy slavery. In this work
H has strangely mingled gootlress and
righteousness. Coming !rout the crucible
11 , hiss made us a stronger and homge
aeons people, And now we are prepared
to offer an asylum for . t he oppressed of all
nations, under one natbinal flag, one Con
statiti.m, and one administrative rule.—
United, we are better able to fu:flil our
mission. We have commenced a new
epoch in our history. We have felt the
barible throes of the nation passing
through its second birth. We have en
tered upon a renovated life of growth, of
expansion, and of prosperity, such as the
world has never before seen !
As a people we possess priceless bless-
insrl—hut we posses them as a pat rinmny
trout our forefathers. To Seettre them,
they toiled. and fought, and died. These
mei. were true patriots. They have lel!
to their cduorry a monument more en
during than Yuman marble. They freely
shed [Heir blood in the struggle fur IN
IJEYEN L ' Ilow then shad we ap
pr,,,tate lee aucie x',leb w, re welll
the edge cif the sword, the point it the
bayonet. and the ca•tomi l S mouth? We
reply. by cherishing' mama love for the
nn-mor, sc.' those ohm who thus strug
gled that we Might be free
Wr ropose to address you. briefly, on
ere p
TIIE AMERICAN REV
OLUTION."
By the term /o•roh here we do not mean
those nu-rely whose. names have been
written, as with a sunbeam, on every
column of our national editfce, tool evert'
page of tent' Rational history, and every
heart of or,r natiotml people. Recall up
the name of W.,sliii,gti/11, whose MeliturV
:s first and most sacred in our love, and
whose name we are prima to rjaealate.
We evoke from their shimberS the names
of Henry. Lafayette, Ilancock, Adarev,
Platiaiii, Stark, R. ad, Pomeroy, Warren,
and Green, who fonght to see their
country's Independent . - established, aut.
geni:rals. But we cannot for
get that the term heroe , is equally up
phi:able to the thousands of ett z •ns—
I rim r'' riots spontaneously par
tly:tinted in the struggle for fieedum,
cml many of whom yielded up their Burs
a free offering on their country's
a l ' ar lelure their names were
known to the world. Trenton and
Monmouth, Yorktown and Camden, Ben
nington and Valley Forge, tell us of their
patriotism, and how truly they loved their
country. the light of Liberty, they
saw arise the light of Peace, like
"Another morn,
Riscn on mid-noon;
and the sky on which they closed their
eyes was clOndh•s:. Let us, 1, look at the
motives be which they were actuated ;
2, The sufferings they endured; and, 3.
The results they attained iu accomplish
ing our national freedom. -
I. The motives which urged these pat
riot. to take op arms in this unequal con
test.—War is the birthplace of what men
cull glory. Yet It must not be forgotten
that fat the most part human conquerors
are murderers upon a grand scale—
mighty butchers of human kind.
"One murder makes a villain,
Millions a licro."
The prowess of Roman arms has gilded
ninny a page, and breathed music into
many a poetic strain, but when we ccme
to look at the motive by which Rome was
moved, the gilding becomes as rust, and
the music is as discord. The Roman
bounded the world to himself; but it was
to extend oppression and slavery over the
population of the entire globe. The
mighty conquests of Napoleon have 111-
tOrliqhed 112 as we have looked at them, by
their brilliancy and their magnificence;
but when we read the history of his am
bitious desire to make himself the Em
peror of the world, all is again dimmed,
and the wailings of widowed and orphan
ed hearts drown the notes of victory. The
Corsican warrior's fame is despoiled of
glory when'we watched him in his lonely
exile on the island of SL Helena.
Look at the conquests of Cortez and
Pizarro on the golden plains of Mexico
and Peru. Their hearts were fired with
unholy ambition to secure golden treas.
tires ; their armies descend like an au ay.
alanche upon an innocent people,and they
melt away before the invincible tread of
the Spill-1i invaders. Two great empires
were cursed with war to satisfy the inva
ders' indomitable thirst fur gold; doub
loons to them were of more value than
freedom ; millions of men were slain ;
millions more became slaves, and were
doomed to work their own mines to satis
fy the cravings of foreigners. The peo
ple were the helpless victims of oppression
and elmelty. The Spanish sceptre, was ex
tended over the vast territories of the
mightiest kingdoms in the western world.
Here was active enteiprise. Here the
power of arms was manifested. Here was
a bold and daring effort in pursuit of a
single object, which was to secure gold.—
Cortez and Pizarro were free-hooters on a
gigantic scale. To gratify their avarice
—at the expense of millions of lives and
streams of human blood—they invaded
these countries. Who ever approved or
GOD AND OUR COUNTRY."
admired the deeds of Cortez or Pizarro ?
In the midst of their most brilliant
achievements they were l•d along by the
basest motives, those of tyranr y—of ' am
bition—of self-aggrandizement.
But were the Heroes of the American
Revolution actuated by such molives as
these ? Did they with to break their chains
and fetters that their limbs might be free
to forge other and stronger chains with ,
which to manacle their fellow men ? Did
they wish to break the yoke from their
own necks that they might crowd it on
the necks of others? Were oppression
and tyranny the motives by w'sich they
were moved ? Did gold fire their hearts
with sordid ambition ? No. They would
burst the bonds that bound them, that
they might have freedom of limbs to lib
erate others; they would have their own
necks unyoked from oppression that they
might assist others to shake off despotism,
and raise every one who was crushed by
the iron heel of tyranny. Or, were they
moved by ambition? Did they desire to
snatch the crown from the head
of Britannic royalty to place it up
on their own brow? Did they wish to
drag England's pusillanimous monarch
from his royal throne that they might
usurp his place—or to wrest his golden
sceptic from his tenacious grasp that they
might wield it themselves? lid thee wish
to throw off allegiance to His Majesty,
George the Third, that they might be free
to demand from others what they were
unwilling to yield Nu! Never! ThOr
would nut have acCe,pted a crown if it hr,d
been offered—and if \ti sceptre hail been
proffered, they would) have sptirued the
gift. No unhallowed ambition tired their
hearts or urged them on. Did tney then
seek gold ? Was avartge the invjAse of
I heir actions? Nay. verily —on the con
trary, their fortunes—us well as their Ines
and their sacred honor--were pledged to
defray the expenses of the struggle ; and
for Once, m.:11 went a wet lam at their
own charges." Oh, how do Cesar and
Alexander. Nero an I Nap le n Pizarro
and Cortez, sink into insigniticai,ce,witen
compared with the Heroes of the Amen
canl Revolution ! Their motives were high
and holy motives. They said, hIVe hid
these u a i bs to he solitnahmt that all mem
tr , 2 it they are tqldolVt.
by their 1:t-toor 110 certain nualienab;e
rights. that among them are life, liberty.
aid the par , iiit of happiness." The/
fought for freedom t.) enable them to
tny. They asked for liberty
which would enable them to use their
powers as God intended they should, with
neither king or priest to interfere in the
civil or religious actions of their I:ves.
They sought to esta:,•;:th a gJvernment
which should acknow:edge the opal ty
of tndn, at:,l thrive its pie r iron the
tots tnit of the governed. lien: was a mo
tive wortLy of the men who cher' , ted it,
and eomportihg with the spirit of fre-dorn
and libt2rtv. :Such a consecrated --pi
gLA I rde patriotism has been the admi
ration of all trim men and e , lllgbletled
Christian tiationi. They could hate sung
in their day. as we do in Our day, in the
g l o wi ng language of the national an
them,--
"Then conquer we must,
Fur our vain, it is ji..>t,
I.ct this be our motto,
'ln ,u.r trust
And the star spangled banner in triumph shall
wave
O'er thy, lan•l of the free, and the home of die
brave "
We piss to uctice, IL The sufferings
endured.—Tbe object which
the Heroes of the American Revolution
wished to attain, was not to be secured
without a struggle. Tyranny and depot
ism do not readily and willingly relin
quish their prey—the victim of oppres
sion must be forced from the grasp of the
oppressor,and even then it is yielded with
reluctuance. So our sires found, wheu
they wished to be free! They asked for
their privileges and they were denied
them. bey petitioned, repeatedly, and
were peremptorily refused all they solici
ted. Finally, they demanded their Lib
erty, their birth-right, but, oh, how acute
were their sufferings, before they obtained
the priceless boon. Living, as we do, at a
distance of nearly one hundred years from
the period when these noble spirits began
their conflicts, we do riot think as we
ought, or appreciate as we should, the
sufferings they endured. We forget the
great cost of the civil and religious free
dom which we possess. The privations to
which these Heroes of our National Inde
pendence were subjected, and the stiffer
pigs assocutted with that poverty, are not
easily told. They were necessary attend.
ants nn their resistance to oppression.
Shall we call tip an American camp of
Revolutionary times! What do we behold?
Do we see splendid equipments, gorgeous
plumage. luxurious food? Nothing of the
kind. We look on farmers, mechanics,
and artisans scantily and poorly dressed,
with scarcely the necessaries of life on
which to subsist. True, there were splen
did encampments, and scarlet-dressed
soldiers. and plumed officers, gorgeously
attired in purple and crimson, and luxu
rious revelry on American soil, during
these "times which tried men's souls,"
but, then, these superb displays were in
the encampments of the oppressor, the
foreigner, and the tyrant! But in the
camps of our national heroes, want was
endured, privation suffered, and sorrows
multiplied. The British soldiery rioted
in good living. The American soldiery
were half-starved. And, now, follow the
true-hearted and patriotic men who
fought to secure our National Independ
ence. bee them retreating before a super
ior force at Trenton, and making good
theirescape under cover of the tight.—,
Behold foot-prints in the snow, and these
stained with blood—not blood oozing
from wounds received in battle,but drawn
forth by the bitter cold from the feet of
freemen on the march—who were com
pelted to walk on the frozen ground with
out shoes, that we, their successors, might
tread this soil in the enjoyment of that
liberty which cost them privations, blood,
and death I Is it. a wonder, that one of
the most daring of tile British officers,
who had been an observer of their depri
vations. remarked to his superior com
mander, "Sir, it is useless for us to fight
with men who are half naked, and liveon
roots, to maintain the liberty of their
country."
There were, also, mental agony and do
mestic sorrows endured by these Heroes.
Desolate, forsaken, and alone, they were
left to struggle on and to contend against
overwhelming numbers, without sympa
thy from those whose smiles woul have
cheered, and whose help would h ve
llani
mated them. In the Revolution ry ware,
there were no christian or sanitary com
mis -dons, whose representatives contribu
ted so much to alleviate the, sufferings of
the brave men in our recent struggle to
overturn slavery. It is hard to struggle,
but it is much harder to be forsaken and
left to struggle alone. Let me say to you,
my friends. that the endurance,suffermga,
and- heroism 01 the Revolutionary patri
ots, helped to rekindle the l'rumethean
fire which was latent in the hearts of
brave men during our recent struggle to
secure regenerative freedom. Who of us
can tell —even though many who hear me
probably fought and bled in fierce battles
to secure our recent Freedmn—what dis
tressing fears, what dark forebodings,what
corroding enxieties, distracted the minds
of those noble Heroes, during their long
and severe struggle to he free ? Who can
paint the desperate conflicts between hope
and despair, between faith and doubt, be
tween encouragement and thspondency,
which marked the period of the Rrvolu•
tionary war. Theirs was suffering, more
intense, than any we endured in our
recent struggle to purchase Freedom.
While, to-day, we enjoy our in
allienable priiileges, and are per
mitted to sit under the broad foliage of
the tree of Liberty, and eat its luscious
fruits, let us never forget the sufferings
~f those noble Revolutionary patriots,
whose toils and successes paved the way
to secure the blessings we are now so
richly enjoying.
And now let us, very briefly, look at,
111, The Results they allamed—These
I have nor as vet been fully developed; for,
as the histories of our great country and
of the world are unfolded, we are led to
see, more and more fully, the effects of
the libel ties then secured. These men
i were"Triadc to be the unconscious al
moners of Freedom to the world. In
',real.' og their own ishackles,they loosened
01,4. in itch Wand others. In expressing
their determination to be free, they
strengthened the feeling in the hearts
of their successors. As in the time of
stir Lord, a hen ilia enemies dragged
John to prison, the Messiah continued
Hie great work, so the race of true
ra:a hat rs cannot be destroyed. Individual
members of the ministry may be slain.
i but the Divine priesthood is immortal.
1 And it.,, in reference to our country's
i weal, the slaying . of FREEDOM is but the
I ilepo-sting of a prolific seed in a fruitful
soil ; and the martydum of every firm
and faithful man, the harbinger of an
increased harvest of trial laborers. The
sepulchre of the patriot is the womb of
Noon 'r h.• e.e.,m,stery of f.,lhm herettn ;‘,
the cradle of Faith. The blood-pools of
persecution are the stimulants of Love.
i We would as soon believe that an insect
can unseat the King of day as that ho
t man malignity can successfully impede
i the prog,res of the principles of truth on
I on ate earth. . .
In resultsmur national heroes were sue
reefPl, 1. In attaining happines for them
e vice...s.—ln the announcement of" that
i peace which terminated our Revolution
r' ary struggle, there was a joy which pene-
Gated even
- heart, and awakened :nto
life the gratitude of every soul that
I claimed a birth-place and a home upon
American soil. They then felt that they
were made free from unjust and oppress
ive laws, and were entitled to worship
God according to the dictates of their
own consciences, and the rights of private
I judgment.
"Amidst the storm they sang,
And the stars heard, and the seas, '
And the sounding aisles of the dint woods rang
To the anthem of the free r
These were happy auspices of a happy
future! In the language of the immor
tal slatesinau, "Who would wish forother
emblazoning of his country's heraldry,
or other ornainetits of her genealogy,
than to be able to say, that her first ex
istence was with intelligence; her first
breath, the inspiration of liberty; her,
first principal, the truth of Divine reli
gion ?"
2. Another result was the establishment
of a notional government such as never
before existed—freedom such as never be
fore had been enjoyed—equality such as
had never before been witnessed. No titled
nubility, or courtly influence here arro.
gaudy lifts its head above the common
people, or plants its iron heel upon their
necks to crnsh them. Each man is a
king. Each citizen is his equal. The
president and artisan are compatriots.—
What the rich man has acquired, the
poor man may aspire to emulate. The
poorest boy in the commonwealth may
wk his way to the gubernatorial chair.
The humblest citizen of our country is
not cut off from presidential honors.—
The avenue to princely wealth, the most
extensive knowledge, and the highest
stations of honor, are alike open and tree
to all. Our institutions are not Utopian
but practical, and fustl,„r all alike who de
sire their aid. The triumph of American
genius, at the late Paris Exposition. was
owing to these qualities in us. What will
he achieved at Vienna remains to be seen.
We are a free people ; we govern ourselves;
we maintain peace and order by mutual
consent. Our interest are "one and in
separable." Our nation was borne in a
day. Just such a birth can never be re
peated: Not a hundred "years have pass
ed since we were paling is our cradle.—
To-day, we are a great and glorious tree
of liberty. We may resemble a beacon.
on the summit of the mountain ; to its
ghwing light the nations of the earth
may look, and learn how we shine by the
light we have given to ourselves, and
equally, to the millions of other peoples
who have come to the republic to enjoy
its enlivening beams!
Again, our Revolutionary Heroes in se
curing their Independence, 3. Struck a
blow for the liberty of the world.—They gave
utterance to a principle which is an uni
versal as it is true, namely, "Man is of
right free—all men are created equal."—
The masses in Europe and Asia aro hear
mg it, and the response is, "Man io of
rightlree—all men aro equal!", Lot a
Terms 1 121l6ret1"1: ADVANA.
single illustration suffice. Years ago, a
spark from the fires of Freedom. „ ti
led on the shores by the heroes o
American Revolution,—was wafted
Hungarian shores, and there it was fan... *
ed into a flame. The noble band of mar
tyrs choose rather to die. than to submit
to Austrian oppression. Thus, the fruit of
the tree of Liberty, the seedsof which were
planted in our soil, was replanted among
the oppressed and-trodden of the sons of
Europe. The results of that replanting
cannot be recounted or unduly magnified.
The world has seen the results. They
continue to elicit the profoundest admira
tion. The highest need of jubilant praise
and the deepest feelings of patriotic de
votion, continue to arise from grateful
hearts for the priceless blessings our fore
fathers hare thus conferred.
From an insignificent origin, we have
grown to be a mighty nation. Our influ
ence stretches across oceans, scales moun
tains, traverses continents. When an ad
venturer, fifty years ago, removed to the
West, he was understood to settle in the
rallies of Western New York, Pennsylva
nia, or Ohio. The axe had then but just
begun its work. Where row stand the
populous cities of Utica, Syracuse, Roch
ester, Buffalo, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St-
Louis, Chicago, and Omaha, ninety-seven
years ago, stood primeval forestal The In
dian was then the sole denizen of our
western country. Now, the feet of of r
children are on the shores of the Pacific.
A populous State,—inhebited by on ener
getic and enterprising people,—looks out
from the "Golden Gate" upon the aston
ished East. Cities continue to spring up
with such rapidity, that last year's geog
raphy knows nothing of them. What a
wonderful country ours is yet to be. Ly
ing within the temperate zoue,but stretch
ing from the tropic of Cancer away to
wards the artic circle. Traversed by a
single river from the frozen regions of the
north to the southern gulf; and by a
great railway from the Atlantic to the
shores of the Pacific. Embracing the ad
vantages of almost every clime ; its soil
capable of producing dearly every product
of earth. Filled with mines of coal, min
erals, and all the precious metals. Fur
nishing facilities for the manufacture of
every article needed by man. Offering an
asylum for the oppressed of all nations.—
Affording a field for the employment of
every kind of industry. Inhabited by
such a mixture of nationalities, and yet.,
emphatically, a homogeneous people. Liv
ing under one flag, one constitution, and
one federal government. United togeth
rt. to fulfil one high and sacred mission.
Possesssing schools, academies, and col
leges of learning. Holding the Bible te
the Word of God, divine in its origin,
precious in its truths, and saving in its
doctrines. Enduring the severest test in
the recent civil war, but rising, phtenix
like, from its own ashes, to assume its
present greatness and glory. What a mag
olfllx-as, thank God for.
What a glorious future opens to the view
of onr children. The agony we have suf
fered, to purchase this inestimable inheri;
Lance, is over, and now that is over, we
cannot fii,d it in out hearts to regret the
agony. The cost has been immeuu. The
possessions are incalculably more precious.
The fruition of our hopes may not be en
joyed in this generation ; but with the ful
lest confidence in reference to the future,
and with entire satisfaction in reference
to the present, we will "stand in our lot,"
that our children may peaceably enjoy this
matchless inheritance:
The greatest glory of a free-born people,
LT to transmit that freedom W their children."
Let us be faithful to our trust. and the
rich blessings we, to-day, enjoy, will be
preserved; and the HEROES Or THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION WILL BE KNOViii
AND HONORED, AS LONG AS TIME SliA4
LAST, OR EARTH SHALL STAND!
Friends.
—4)—
There must be the same vitiated taste
in the choice of friends as of food. Many
who like their game to be high and rank,
seem to choose their associates for the
same recommendation; not objecting to
those whose reputations me of the worst
odor. Others lay the foundation of fu•
ture quarrels by forming inconsiderate
and incongruous attachments--u union,
as Cowper wittily, but ungrammatically
observes--
••Like tmnd•ln•bend Ins - mace plates,
Which u.savoldably creates
The thoughts of conflagration.“
A fashionable friend is one who will
dine with you, game with you, walk or
ride out with you, borrow money of you,
escort yonr wife to public places—if she
be handsome, stand by and see you fairly
shot, if you happen to be engaged in a
duel, and slink away and sea you
fairly clapped into prison, if you experi
ence a reverse of fortune. Such a man is
like the shadow of a sun dial, which ap
pears is fine weather, and Vanishes when
there comes a rainy day. People are al
ways pleased with those who partake
pleasure with him ; and hence there is a
maudlin sympathy between brother to
pen, but this is fellowship, not friendship.
Never was the term more thoroughly des
ecrated than by the heartless Horace Wal
pole, who, in one of his letters, says: "If
one of my friends happens to die, I drive
down to saint James's coffee house, and
bring home a new one."
THE funniest breach of promise case
iu modern times has just been tried in
England. The hero, finding his ardor
cooling. into breaking the engagement.
told her that he was greatly distressed by
palpitation of the tha heart. She did
not seem inclined to believe him. so be
went to a doctor for a medical certificate
of bud health. What ne received die not
snit hint, and he applitd to another
physiebtn. who. was more open to the in
finance he brought to bear. Armed with
this certificate he visited his lady adored,
and, as lie supposed. presented it to her,
bat inifortimately he gave her the wrong
certificate, and it was read at the trial.
The doctor declaired that the heart
trouble was not serious, that at the age
of the application he might hope to re
cover from it, and that matnmony would
likely do him good. Damages, .1,500.
Moarano for labor, evening for repose.
NUMBER 29.
Religious Natal.
——o—
A METUODIST cliutch in Linea has the
pars and stripes painted on itB steeple.
THEIIE are three organization's of 'col
ored Methodist in this country.-
THE last census of Palestine shows
total Jewish population of 15,293 souls.
. .
A NEW Otmr.Awa chnrch had a baby
show to raise money to pay the pastor.,
THE n umber of converts m'the Prete&
ant nUesions of the world• is computedat
,334,963.
.;
A nETIIIMIST preacher furnished the
gospel to the two towns of • Sandown and
Hempstead, N. IL, last year for 5360.
Joirx If. HENRY, of Springville, Texas,
has given to the 3fethodist University, of
that State I,ooo' acres of valuable 1am:1;
ACCORDING to the last census there are
43,874 clergymen in the United States.
Of this number 3,572 reside in Ohio.'
Writs visa in - church constitner a
breach of the peace at Murfreesboro,
Tenn., and as such is punished by a fine
of 820 and costs,
THE city missionaries of New York,
with other volunteer laborers,conduct ev
ery week in that city more than one
thousand prayer meetings among the ne
glected classes.
THE Baltimore Preachers' Meeting late
ly discussed the question, "Are large-Sala
ries, splendid churches,and so-called great
men elements of power or weakness in
churches ?"
UxrrantiNtsm, it is said, is nei,as
strong in New York as it was tweetkfiver
years ago. Mr. Frothingham's fine brown
stone-front church edifice has been sold,
and he now preaches in a hall.
IN Champagne new-born babes are
washed in Champagne wine, and. after
baptism the first thing the little stranger
taster, as it enters home on return from
church, is a glass of the oldest Champagne
wine the family can procure.
A YOUNG English clergyman in a coun
try parish thus reveals some of the
tie
creis of the clerical prison house: "Oh,
there are four ot us whose churches are
neighborioz, and we have a whist party
every week, and the looser writes the Sun
day sermons for the party.
TIEREE ladies of the Plymouth church,
Minneapolis, Minn., have been elected
deaconesses. The term of office is three
years, and the duties are "to look after the
spiritual interests of the girls, young la
dies and female members of the congre
gation."
A BOSTON correspondent, in noting the
great desire of Ministers to obtain parish
es in and about that city, says that Para
dise has b.en ascertained to lie within ten
miles of Boston. and all he outly ing ter
riimar-.-...cei only WI iiinetiurr Doutta for
this blissful centre.
Varieties.
ALL the New York ladies aro wearing
red-ingott.s.
Vannosrr has three female stage dri
ver&
Tith anthoritiee at West Point hare in
terdicted the cadets loaning their sashes
or other military adoruments to their
young lady friends.
REAL estate has risen in Virginia. A
negro there who bad atsl.s cabiodestroy
ed during the war has presented a 'claim
tor $21,000.
FAST young men declare that the beat
ty of an ocean voyage is "that , you - eau
get as tight as you please, and peouleirili
think you ar ouly sea-sick."
CHICAGO street car drivers have ben
receiving as wages one faie in six, - bat
they have recently been cut down to one
fare in seven, and many of tbem are dis
satisfied.
GENERAL N. B. FonnEsr - appeared 99
a witness in the casein which Mrs. Brin
kley is prosecuting a suit for divorce from
Mr. Brinkley, a wealthy gentleman of
Memphis, Tenn,before Judge Van' Brunt
of New York, on Saturday, tuid , in an
swer to counsel as to how be rot his title,
said "I got my title in the Confederate
army,and was the last man to surrender;
I am now the president of a railway com
pany, and am here on business."
ADA LBERT, Prince of Prussia, who died
recently in Bohemia, married Mlle, The
rese Ellsler, sister of the noted danseuse,
-Fanny Ender, in 1851. Therese was a
woman of magnificent proportions and
great strength, and used to support her
sister in her most difficult poses.. She
was a thorough artiste herself, and was
the instructor of Miss Fanny - in much
of the art in which she attained such dis
tinction. She Miff ennobled by the King
of Prussia, who conferred upon her the
title of Baronels Von BarniM.
alluding_to the:speed ,railroad
trains, the "Alanufacturer'' says come of '
the fastest runs for !4 di - stance - have. been
26 miles in 30 miniitek'frorn 'SPringfleld '
to• Ilartford ; 18 miles in 20• mintites,,
from Merden•to New Haven; 54. Milo in
a minutes, or. the Boston and Albany;
road. This, then, may be taken as n. fair,
test of American railway speed at its-best.'
The average on the largest roads in EngS t
land is 43 miles an hour. • The speed' or
the trains on the Great Western road is
the greatest of any in the- kingdom, and
is 51 miles an hour.
In' a recent case in Indiana, brought
against it railroad company, to recover
damages for carrying . a passenger eight
miles beyond her place of destination,that
the train should have been.atopped a snf.
ficiont length of time to allow the pal.
aengera a reasonable opportunity: to get
In order to show that 'the 'Nissen.
gera were impeded in getting off the train
the court permitted that evidonee to
prove that the people .occupied • the back
seat of a car, the back door of which was
locked, and that the platform of the-place
of destination was blocked up Olk , one
aide by . a stationary freight train on aside
track, an on the other tade.by,a steep em
bankment.