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EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY
From the Little Pilgrim.
Paulo.
BY LOCISE E. VICKBOY.
Out on the icy pavement,
One blessed Christmas day,
Paulo, the poor Italian boy,
With his organ came to play -Old
tunes, that unto childhood's ear
Are fresh and sweet alway.
And children, all adown the street,
Lingered in crowds to hear
The strains that on the winter air
Rang out so soft and clear;
But scarce a penny was given him,
His lonely heart to cheer.
Paulo a moment paused, then played
A wailing requiem,
That reached the hearts of George and Rose
While mother read to them
The story from the Holy Book
Of the Babe of Bethlehem.
Then out flew George and gentle Rose,
And 'twas most sweet to see
How lovingly they led him in
How 'neath our Christmas-tree
They seated him, to tell to us
His young life's history.
He pictured twice six summers,
Of light and melody,
He lived in beautiful Naples ;
How, crossing o'er the sea,
His loving parents died, and how
His orphaned years were three.
Crossing himself, with upward glance,
He told of the Virgin's care,
Then showed a little crucifix,
Hung by a tress of hair
Ilis mother's hair, that on hi3 neck
She clasped, with kiss and prayer.
He tarried till the morrow's dawn,
But would no longer stay ;
And up and down, from town to town,
With his organ, day by day
He journeys on; God prosper him,
And speed him on his way I
Johnstown, Pa.
THE CATACOMBS.
So peculiar, so striking were the Cata
combs of i'aris, that although upwards of
a quarter of a century has passed away
since I visited them, 1 still find them viv
idly reflected on the mirror of my memo
ry ; and as they have now been shut up
fur the last twenty years, and will proba
bly never again be thrown open, a short
sketch of my visit to them may, perhaps,
be not wholly uninteresting. As I have
already said, it was some thirty years since
one tine morning, we drove forth to see
the catacombs.
Shortly after passing the barrier, ur
carriage came to a halt, and we all alight
ed. Within a few yards of the road we
found the entrance to the catacombs.
Here we were met by a guide, who dis
tributed tw ) or three unlit tapers amongst
the gentlemen of the party. This was a
mere precautionary measure ; but more
than one rose faded ffnm a fair cheek, as
this hint of a possibility of danger was
communicated to the party.
We now mado a tedious descent down
a corkscrew flight of steps, about ODe hun
dred and twenty or one hundred and
thirty in number, our only light being the
lighted torch carried by our cicerone.
The tail of the party (for we could only
go down two abreast) were left in the
dark. On ordinary occasions tuch a cir
cumstance would have dieted fun and
frolic ; but at the present moment not a
titter was heard nor a joke was uttered.
The rear kept as close as they could to
the leading persons, apparently awed at
the idea of thus approaching the most
exten.-ive place of human sepulture exist
ing in the known world.
In five minutes we had all descended
and as we gathered into a circle at the
foot of the stairs, the guide held his
torch on high, and waived it to and
fro, the better to display the scene around
us.
We were in a chamber (or rather cellar)
hewed out of solid rock, which was some
what elaborately arched over our heads.
The height in the centre might have been
about ten feet ; the walls from which the
rock spruug not more than six. The
whole of this portion was covered iu by
human bones ; white skulls formed a sort
of border cornice, and every here and
there were so arranged as to produce an
ornamental pattern. At the first glance
even some of the gentlemen suddered, not
from a feeling of fear but from an in
stinctive horror they could not repress.
Indeed, that man must have been wholly
divested of feeling, who could thus fiud
himself in an undisguised charnel house,
some eighty feet beneath the surface of
ihe earth, without a eensatif of disgust
and awe two closely, yet strangely ming
ling throbs.
"Look up," cried the guide: "look at
the black line in the centre of the roof ;
should any accident befall you, and you
have the misfortune to get separated, fol
low it till you arrive at this spot, and then
rir.g youder bell ; it will bring you succor.
There is a much thinner bar in another
branch, which three British officers fol
lowed by mistake, when the British army
were here, and got so entangled that their
bodies were not found for three weeks.
They expired under one of the wells which
led to the surface ; they probably perceived
daylight, and died shouting for assistance,
but no one heard them."
This was not a pleasing prologue to our
day's entertainment, and the ladies did not
hesitate to express their fears, at which
the guides laughed heartily ; but there was
no responsive echo on our part.
We followed our leader through several
branches extending nearly a quarter of a
mile, and at leugth came to a circular
opening, where there was an altar entirely
formed of deformed spinal bones; and we
then went on between two rows of grinning
skulls, till we arrived at a c hamber, in the
center of which was a basin of live fish
that seemed to live in health and happi
ness in this strange spot; above us was one
of the wells Epoken of by our guide.
"What is the supposed origin of these
catacombs?" asked Miss M .
"Oh," replied our cicerone, without
hesitation, "they are the great quarries
from which the stone was taken by King
Clovis to build l'aris ; they extend iu three
different branches, nine miles, and one
passage leads under the river almost to
Montmatre."
"But how came they to be so well fin
ished V demanded B .
"Oh, they were arched and ornamented
by the monks who first lived in them, and
only left them when the brigands and se
cret societies cleared them away, and took
up their quarters in them."
Little Mary Smith, who is always ask
ing foolish questions, naively demanded :
"Did they bring all these bones V
"Xot all, Madamoiselle, not all ; they
were turned out, or rather hunted out,
about three or four centuries ago, and the
king who then reigned had all these bones
collected and brought here. It took fifteen
years to arrange them."
"And whose bones are they ?"
"That's the question ; no one can tell ;
some say the bones of the Innocents bro't
over here ; some say they are those of the
Protestants who were killed in the St.
Bartholomew affairs ; others declare that
they were taken out of every churchj-ard;
while ithers believe them to be the skel
etons of those who perished in the Great
Blague."
Th:8 was the mo.-t unpleasant suggestion
of all. We now began to fancy that the
close smell which annoyed our olfactory
nerves might be infectious ; we might
catch the plague; we might fall victims to
some abominable contagion; already did
we wish ourselves out of those ghastly
cellars.
We now proceeded on through a con
tinuation of galleries, so similar in appear
ance that there was little to remark. Our
curiosity had been satisfied, and we now
felt satiety and disgust.
All of a sudden our guide with his
torch disappeared. The ladies set up a
general shriek, and the gentlemen for a
moment or two, vainly endeavored to dis
pel their fears; but, alas ! they had but
little cheering information to give them.
In less than a minute the man re-appeared
with his torch, laughing heartily at the
fright he had given us. He had dodged
behind a screen of bones, and thus alarm
ed us; he now rejoined us, much amused
at the fun ; but his hilarity was of short
duration, for a young Irish cousin of mine
instantly knocked him down, and, as he
lay sprawling, the light rolled from his
hands, and had 1 riot lortunately snatcneu
it up, we might all have been lost in the
dark and puzzling mazes of these fearful
subterranean labyrinths.
The guide was raised and soothed; a
five-franc piece restored his good humor,
and in a few minutes we reached the as
cent which led to the free air of heaven.
I was glad I had seen those strange exca
vations. They are now shut up, probably
for ever and aye; but were they again open
it would require a rich bribe to tempt me
to revisit them.
Dependency. The race of mankind
would perish, did they cease to aid each
other. From the time the mother binds
the child's head till the moment that some
kind assistance wipes the death damp
from the brow of the dying, we cannot
exist without mutual help. All, there
fore, that need aid, have a right to ask of
their fellow-mortals. Xoonc who has the
power of granting it can refuse it without
cuilt.
Tlic Whip Among tlic Romans, j
The whip played a very conspicuous
part, iu both the public and private life of
the Romans. The lictors, always attend
ing the consuls, woie their bunches of rods
not merely for state show, although it was
not permitted to beat Roman citizens ex-
cept in the case of their being thieves; but
slaves were beaten with smooth leather
straps, called ferulae ; more painful were
the retiva;, made of several st rips of parch
ment twisted together; and the superlative
was the oxhide, called flagellum, often
right terrible. 3Iost terrible of all was an
instrument imported from abroad: the
Spanish whip, but which was used only
by severe masters.
They had not only the right of whipping
slaves at pleasure, but even of killing
them. Some masters, not satisfied with
the plain Spanish whip, made it more ter
rible by fastening small nails or bones, and
little leaden balls to it. Slaves were
stripped, their hands tied to a tree or po.-t,
and their feet hindered from kicking by a
clog of a hundred pounds weight. The
most trifliutr faults were punished in this
manner, and a poor fellow might be flogged
for the amusement of his master's guests.
It was no rare occurrence that a slave died
under the whip, and there was no more
regret than for the loss of a pan or other
piece of household property.
The ladies were particularly cruel to
their slaves. The poor girls in attendance,
scratched and bleeding from wounds made
with the long pins the ladies wore as orna
ments, sometimes filled the whole house
with their cries.
The cruelty toward the slaves increased
so much that the emperors made some ef
fort to cheek it. Laws were made, pursu
ant to which, such masters as would for
sake their slaves in sickness forfeited their
rights to them after their recovery; and a
Roman who would intentionally kill his
slave was to be banished from Rome. Any
lady who would whip, or order the wlrpping
of a slave, to such a degree that death en
sued before the third day, was to be ex
communicated for from five up to seven
years.
The young Roman libertines often
chose the disguise of a slave's dress for
their love adventures. Rich people kept
so great a crowd of slaves tha they did
not know them personalty, and thus the
introduction into houses was made easy.
Sometimes, however, the master if the
house got a hint, pet haps from the shrewd
ludy herself, and the intruder was flogged
as a runaway slave or spy. Such an oc
currence gave particular delight to the
real slaves. It was a misfortune that
happened to the historian, Sallust, who
courted Faustina, daughter of Tulla, p.nd
wife to Milo. After having received a
severe flogging, Sallust was released upon
paying a considerable sum.
Caligula used the whip with his own
hand, and on the spot ; even upon people
who, by talking too loudly at che theatre,
spoiled his enjoyment of the players, lie
did not much care who the offender was.
Even the vestals were not exempt from
this punishment. The vestal lTrlina was
whipped by a priest, and led in procession
through the streets. Other vestals, we
are told, hal been whipped for the same
offence. The guilty one, covered with a
thin vail, was whipped by a priest in a
dark room. Fven Empresses were not
always spared, at least in the Christian
time, and in Constantinople, where the
mother of Justiana II. was so admonished.
To be whipped, however, was, in the eyes
of a Roman, the lowest disgrace, and for
this reason Judges ordered Christians to
be whipped at their first examination.
Once a Week.
Bsa, A straDger riding along the road,
observed that all the milestones were
turned in a particular way, not facing the
road, but rather averted from it. He
called to a countryman and inquired the
reason. "God bless you, sir," replied the
man, "the wind is so strong sometimes in
these parts, that if we were to turn the
backs of the milestones to it, the figures
would be blown off them clean and clear."
Bf, It is wittily, but sometimes ungal
lantly, said that a woman is the very re
verse of hermirror the one reflects with
out talking, the other talks without
flectinjr.
re-
eS?A fellow has been collecting mon
ey of the verdant in Michigan by preten
ding to be the son of first Napoleon. He
gratefully raised one of the men whom
he duped to the dignity of archduke.
EtGood men have the fewest fears.
He has but one who fears to do wrong.
He has a thousand who has overcome
that one.
J 3f Subscribe for Tue Allechama.n.
17, 18(51.
TIe Crisis Tlie Iroscait Aspect.
It is curious to observe how rapid the
recovery is from the late panic, and how
unaffected the public mind is to-day by
events which yesterday would have thrown
it into a paroxysm. Men have become
tired of being frightened, and now laugh
at the feats which a little while before
made them turn pale and tremble. The
upward teudency of the stock market has
been steady for more than a week past,
and nothing shakes the renewed confidence
which is spreading through commercial
circles. The Secretary of State resigns,
showing a serious disagreement in the
Cabinet at Washington ; still stocks go up
notwithstanding they are pressed upon the
market at tiie reception ot the news.
Senator Wade makes a war speech, and
Wall street cheerfully responds with hi
larity at the Board of Brokers. A state
solemnly announces that it is no longer a
member of the Federal Union ; yet while
everybody's first impression is that every
body else is going to be alarmed, and to
sell out immediately everybody neverthe
less finds out before noon of the day that
nobody is panic-struck, and that stocks
command one or two per cent, more than
they did the day before. Is there really
any reason for this state of things ' Is
there any positive change iu the aspect
of affairs to account for it ' Not the
least.
On the contnrv, the commercial fact
that the South cannot pay its debts i--more
evident now than it was six weeks
ago; and the political cveut which then
was only threatened and apprehended,
has now actually came to pass. More
than five millions of gold, it is true, pour
ed into our bank vaults last week, but
the increased ease which this gave to an
already easy money market is not enough
to account for the remarkable change
which the last two weeks has witnessed.
The simple truth is that the commercial
world has recovered its equauimity, has
considered the real and fancied causes of
panic, has looked the political difficulty
in the face, has examined its origin and
calculated its results, and has found there
is nothing to be seriously alarmed at.
Stocks rise as a natural and inevitable
consequence ; the great staples of trade
command a higher price ; confidence is
restored ; the recuperative energy of the
country asserts itself ; everything gets in
to gear, and the wondrous machine begins
to work again slowly, with something ot
its wonted certaiuty of stroke and gi
gantic power. It is not improper for us
to say that this is precisely what we ex-
j
pected and predicted. Acic
l:udtnt.
1
one JMW-
R E V. I lo VL AN Dili i.L. M a ny nm using
anecdotes of the eccentric but piuus and
useful Rowland Hill have been told, but
the following, narrated to us by one of his
parishioners, is decidedly rich :
It was Mr. Hill's habit to ride to church
in an old family carriage, a practice too
aristocratic, in the judgment of one of his
flock, who determined to rebuke it.
It was customary in his chapel for notes
to be sent to the pulpit requesting prayers
for various objects. One Sabbath, Mr.
Hill was proceeding with the reading of
these requests as usual, when he found
himself in the midst of one of the follow
ing purport :
"Prayers are requested for Rev. Mr.
Hill, that he may be made more humble
and like his Bivine Master, who, instead
of riding in a carriage, was content to be
borne on an ass."
Having read the notice, he lifted his
spectacles to his forehead, and looking
around the house, observed, that it was
true he had been guilty of the lault al
leged ; but if the writer would step around
to the vestry door after service, saddled
and bridled, he would have no objection
to ride home, after his Master's example,
on the back of an ass.
Certainty of Science. A remarkable
instance of the practical value of scientific
knowledge, iu the science, too, which is
least settled and certain of all, was given
lately by lit. Maury. He sailed from this
country seven days after the sailing of the
l'rince of Wales, and arrived at England
several days before him. The British
Admiralty asked his opinion of the fate of
the missing vessels, lie replied, in wri
ting, what kind of weather the royal
squadron had experienced; on what part
of the ocean it had proved most adverse ;
what course the ships had taken, and wheu
they might be expected in port. Their
arrival verified this opinion in every par
ticular, Knowing the prevailing winds
and the natural course of the storm, Lt.
Maury was able to predict the course of
the ships with perfect accuracy, demon
strating that suc h knowledge must be of
the highest value to captains and com
mercial men.
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NUMBER 22.
Dissolvin? tlic I niou.
The Knickerbocker Magazine of a :e
ccnt date has the following right readable
article on dissolving the Union :
During the exciting campaigu of 1S5-,
in Illinois, a prominent politician made a
disunion speech attuincy. After h was
tin ough, and before the crowd had dis
persed, a man who was styled "the afore
said M. 1) ," was called' for. He was
lifted upon the platform, so "elevated"
that he couldn't stand without holding oa
to something. He said :
'icntleiin-n and ladies, you're talkin
of di.-.-.olviu' the Union; yim can't io it!
Thar's that flag a waving up thar, called
the star spangled banner ; how are ye goin'
to divide that, ha I Are ve
the stars to the Xorf and the stripes to the
Soul'? Xo-sir-ee ; the thing can't be did.
Cheers.
"And the good old tune that the band
is a playing out thar, called Yankee Doo
dle ; how are ye goin' tcr divide that, oh?
An- ye a-going ter give the Yankee to the.
Xorf and the Doodle to the Souf ? I sav
boldly, the thing can't be did Cheers.
"And thar is that stream of water a
running down thar, called the 'Father of
Waters ;' how are yer a goin' ter divide
that ? Are ye a goin' ter dam it up with
Mason & Dixon's line ? I say you can't
do that thing ! Wal, you can't! Cheers.
"And thar is the railroad layin' out
thar; how aie yea goin' to divide that,
eh? Are you a goin' tj tie it up with
Mason it Dixon's line? You can't do it
Cheers.
"And thar's all the fast bosses standin
round here; how are 3-ou goin' to divide
them ? old bosses ! Are "ye a goin' to
ruu 'em North, and run 'em South, and
run 'em East, and run 'em Wet v
Cheers.
"And thar's all the handsome wimmin
round here ; how are ye a goin' to divide
them ? Are you goin' to give the old ones
to the Xorf, and the youuir ones t j the
Soul ? Waal you don't ! If you ro to
thunder you can't do it ! Immense
cheering.
"And thar's all the feathered tribe and
other birds a flyin' about here, and the
chickens and egg nests, and the yaller
legs and the black legs; how arc vegoin'
to divide them, eh? Aie ye a coin' to
give the pullets to the Xorf, and the cocks
to the Souf?" Tremendous cheering.
Our reporter could hear no more for the
roar ot laughter which ensued, as the
"Doctor'' caved in and fell from the plat-
lorm.
Fall and Winter Advertising.
Pardon Brownlcw says: Advertising i.-j
in its place at all times, but the fall and
winter are the best seasons. The duller
the times the more important to advertise,
for what little is doing will go into the
hands of the man who advertises. Ad
vertising is the very life of business, and
those who neglect it lose by that neglect
more than they are aware of. Tapers cir
culate more extensive now than in former
years, and more people read them than
heretofore. We have long since discov
ered that a man can't make auvthin" out
of th is world unless he lets people know
he is in it !
To Gardeners A Hint. A late in
vention is an instrument to prevent poul
try from scratching up the gardens. lt is
something like a long spur, attac hed to the
hind part of a rooster's leg. The instru
ment is so arranged that wheu the fowl
is about to scratch the earth, the spur
eat:hes in the ground before the fnt has
fairly descended, and obliges it to bring
its foot down quietly and harmlely in
front of the place where it aimed at. The
fowl therc-upou tries the other foot with a
like result. It keeps on trying, and, be
fore it is aware of it, the machine ha
walked the rooster out of the garden!
KHV-When Mr. Wilberforce was a can
didate for Hull, his sister, an amiable ami
witty yeuug lady, offered the compliment
of a new gown to each of the wives of
those freemen who voted for her brother,
on which bhe was saluted with a cry of
"Miss Wilberforce for ever !" When sh
pleasantly observed, "I thank you, gentle
men, but 1 cannot agree with you, for I
really do not wish to I'e Miss Wilberforce
for ever !"
Vr A supernumerary was once intru-
ted to deliver the following message to
Lord Randolph in the play: "My lord,
the banquet waits." But having lost the
run of the sentence, he called out,
amid the roars of the- audience, "Mr.
Ranuolph, your supper lias been ready
for some time."
r.-y Bend not books alone, but men;
lid, chiefly, be careful to real thyself.
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