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TO MART
1W HENRY B. HIRST ) ESQ.•
We are young,
And both are loving—
You love me,
Arid I love you ;
Each, each other's
Faults reproving—
Some in me,
And some in you.
What is best,
For us to do?
Live and love,
Continue loving—
You loving me,
I loving you ;
Each each othet's
Faults reproving—
You reproving me; I you ;
This is best for us to do !
TO HARRY
BY S c SAMUEL, THE SCRIBE," P. B
We want soap,
And both need scrubbing ;
You soap me,
And 1 soap you ;
Each each other's
Rough hides rubbing—
You scrub me, •
And 1 scrub you,
What is .best
For .us' to do 1 •
Live 'and rub,
- Continue rubbiug—
You rubbing me,
I rubbirr , you-; '
Each, each other's
Rough:hides scrubbinb—
You scrub me ; I you 3
This best for us to do !
Postmaster.:General Campbell
[We take from the Wagtington correspon
dence of the North American the following
highly complimentary but eminently- just
reference to the Ho - n. James Campbell, Post
master General. The statements it makes
with'regard to the transportation of the mails
across the isthmus, is only one of a countless
number of like fraud upon the government
which have grown up under the liberal pat
ronage that' Congress has accorded to New
York blustering and bombast.; and it is high
time that Congress should endeavor to aid the
efficient head of the Post Office Department'
in ferreting out and applying a corrective to
these. enormous abuses.. The • correspondent
-of the North American says :1
One of the - results of that discriminating .
and mistaken policy by which the' partiality
of legislation has been heaped upon New York
to the disadvantaue of Philadelphia and other
communities, is now' illUstrated here, in an
other exhibition of the selfishness and grasp
ing disposition* which has, characterized kits,
whole connection with the government. A
brief recital of the most conspicuous facts of
the case will enable the public to understand,
and to appreciate the, extent of the sharp
Practice which has been attempted and has
ternporarily succeeded.
During Mr. Fillmore's administration; Mr.
Hall contracted with - the Panama _Railroad
Company for the transportation of the mails
Across the Isthmus, at, the ; rate _Or 22 cents per
peur.d, without any Condition as to the dura,
tion, and expressly reserving to, the Depart
ment_ the discretion of. closing the, arrange-.
merit. This was continued under Mr. Hub
bard, Mr. Hall's successor, and by the present
Postmaster General, until it became necessary
for the - public interests to adopt. another pol
icy within 'the last year. The attention of
Judge Campbell was'-called to -the - fact that
while the company was charging thergovern
ment 22 cents per..pouncl•for transporting the
mails, it:advertised to carry the' highest class
of freight fir individuals at 10: cents per
pound. - With the promptitude andefficiency
which-have : Pre.-emigently distinotished • his
administration - of this complicated and irk
some department, Judge Campbell at once
called for an explanation of is sin,?alar dis
crimination to the disadvantage of the gov
ernment.. • • •- • • -
- A on 'coriespon . deriee ensued, and Mr.
Aspinwall, the Wesident - rof the Company,
came to Washington to make personal repre
sentations. He stated that express freight
was .charged. 15 cents a pcnind. After full
investigation, ,judge Campbell proposed • to
allow 18 cents a pound for the Mail service—
or three cents a pound more than"the highest
:Trice'-paid for privilege. freight::: Objection
was made by the Company, but the allowance'
'vas regularly received, and it was supposed
the new terms would be established as the
Intsis of a permanent contract.,
This :view seemed to be recognized on all
hands, until the recent difficulties in Nicara
gua, and the summary Stoppage of that line
by Walkeri;-• when: the Panaind Company,
finding they had a monopoly of the' commu-
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nication, which could not be reached or.dis
turbeci;in any : way, prepared,-themselves to
profit by the ; exigency, and to coerce conces
sions which could not previously be, extorted.
, Mr. Aspinwall now reappeared here, and de
manded a difference of back pay, amounting
to eighteen thousand dollars, claiming the
highest price for future transportation, .and
threatening in the event of noncompliance
with these exactions, to throw up the mails
---in a word, to arrest the correspondence be
tween the Atlantic and Pacific States and
Territories.
In this dilemma, and without any means
of insuring a mail-communication, the Post
master General was constrained either. to in
volve innocent individuals and communities
in immense losses, onto submit to .the impo
sition, which a conjuncture of circumstances
permitted. He has therefOre ordered the
payment as demanded, and ,yielded to the
other necessity - . Business men will readily
appreciate how much character the company
has acquired by this,whole proceeding, and
it is to be hoped Congress will discover some
mode of relieving. the Government from
.the
mercy of any corporation or chartered band
of speculators.' Doubtless the Postmaster,
General will present some practical sugges
tions on this subject, which cannot fail to
command proper attention, and which should
be followed by energetic action. The case is
too glaring to be passed over in silence, and
the exposure of such large interests to the
hazards of a selfish combination, ought to en
sure the adoption of a speedy and efficient
remedy.
Judge Campbell is entitled to the thanks of
the public for his conduct in all this matter,
both for restraining the attempted imposition
upon the- Government, and by subsequently
consulting higher considerations than the
natural prompting excited by such unworthy
artifices. It is due to
-him to say, that in my
range of observation and opportunity here,
now dating back some years, no man has ad
ministered the vast, difficult and vexatious
machinery of the Post Office Department
with a more earnest desire to serve the best
interests of the country, with a more compre
hensive grasp of its necessities and obliga
tions, with more good will from the immense
multitude of subordinates scattered over more
than three millions of square miles of terri
tory, or with more admitted practical success.
The office is one wholly, thankless in itself,
for the compensation of nominal honor is by
no means corresponding to the sacrifices in
, curred by one who, like Judge Campbell,
abandons a lucrative profession, and tasks
his - mind and body by an unflagging devotion
tn every public and personal duty. Every
omission and. error of every- one of fits - and .
twenty thousand Postmasters, to say nothing
of the numberless mishaps by railroads, steam
boats and stage coaches, which transport the
mail, is visited upon him, just as if he were
übiquitous-and all-powerful. There are some
political distinctions which do not pay for the
wear and tear which they necessitate, and
this is . the most conspicuous example among
them. -No journeyman wood-sawyer can
afford to exehange places with - a Postmaster
General; and even a drudge like myself, might
well hesitate . about accepting a dignity so
cushioned with thorns.
Dir. Dallas in London
The National Intelligencer has the follow
ing extract of a private letter from an Amer
ican gentleman in London to his friend in
Washing*, dated the 27th .ultimo:
"Mr. Dallas has every reason to be satisfied
with his . reception here., Lord Palmerston
called on him as soon as he arrived, and in
the most friendly way pte.ssed him to dine
with him the next day without : any form;
which he did, and was much pleased with ev
erything that passed. Lord Palmerston has
promised to present him to the Queen as soon
as she arrives in London. Lady Palmerston
also called on Mr. Dallas, with, .1 believe, Lady
Welde.house, wife of Lout Woldehouse,, Un
der Secretary of State. The Earl of Ellistnere,
being in the country, wrote a most kind note
and sent the family admissions to his splendid
gallery of paintings in his town house, and
stated he would make a point
,of calling as
soon as he came to London, and wished to
show them all the civility ie possibly could.
Many others had dune the same. Mr. Oak
ford, formerly of Philadelphia, but now, a
merchant of London, having applied to Mr.
Dallas on the subject of the missing steamer
Pacific, and wishing to prevail on the Admi
ralty to send a steamer in search of her, Mr.
Dallas gave him a letter to .Lord Palmerston.
Mr. Oakford went-on SUpday to Lord Palm
erston?s private residence, and although he
found him very much engaged with two Sec,-
retaries writing.dispatches to Paris, as soon
as he received Mr. Dallas' letter he entered
immediately on the subject and introduced
Mr. Oakford to Admiral Richards`; and it was
agreed, to,send,two men-of-war steamers im
mediately hi search of the packet, and they
promised to do every thing they ceuld,to find
her. Lord Palmerston_ wrote a most kind
note,to Mr, Dallas stating what 11 e'had done."
DON'T KiLL . THE ntrtos:—A 'multitude of
thernhava perished during the winter; give
the 'survivors a chance. We fully concur
with the 'Hartford COurant when it says :
at
On the man or boy who kills robinS
at this season of the year.: ' It is a dastardly,
thing—unsportsmanlike: The youth )who
murders robins in the spring is the same
young man who kills hired horses because
they are hired, cheats his creditors, and abuSeS
his mother. These qualities go in clusters;
and 'where' yeti , find a boy or man mean
enough, to shoat a robin in April . ; you find •a
coward! Pass the boy who kills robins in ,
April on to hiS moral pillory!'
A COLORED WOMAN in Baltimore, who 'was
exhibiting- several of her children the other
day, and among them one with a lighter
skin, said that she could not bear ‘idat
kaze he was of too light a color and showed
de dirt so easy.”
CONFIDENCE mnisr.—The man who thinks
he can help a good-looking servant girl to
"Cord the bedstead" without getting his head
broke by his wife.
HUNTINGDO
The Pall of Jerusalem
One of the most splendid sketches it has
ever been our fortune to peruse, is that by
Cro who in one of his works, thus describes
the fall of Jerusalem:—'
— 'The fall Of our illustrious and happy city,
Was supernatural, The destruction of the
conquered was against the first principles_ of
the Roman policy ; and to thelast hour of
our national existence, Rome held out offers
of peace, and lamented our frantic disposition
to be undone. But the decree had gone forth
from a mightier throne: During the latter
days of the siege, a hostility, to which that
of man was a grain of sand to the tempest
that drives it on, overpowered our strength
and senses. Fearful shapes and voices in the
air; visions startling us from out-short and
troubled sleep . ; lunacy in its hideous forms;
sudden death in the midst of vigor; the fury
of the elements let loose upon unsheltered
heads—we had every terror and evil that
could beset human nature, pestilence, the
most probable of all in a city crowded with
the famishing, the diseased, the wounded and
the. dead. Yet, though the streets were cov
ered with unburied bodies; though every well
and trench was teeming with them; though
six hundred thousand corpses lay flung over
the ramparts and naked to the sun—pestilence
Carrie not, for, if it had come, the enemy would
have been scared away. But " the abomina
tion of desolation," the pagan standard was.
fixed; it was to remain until the plough had
passed over the city of Jerusalem. On this
fatal night, no man laid his head upon his pil
low. Heaven and earth were in conflict.—
Meteors burned above us; the ground shook
under our feet; the volcano blazed ; the wind
burst forth in irresistible blasts, and swept
the living and the dead, iu whirlwinds, far
into the desert. We heard the bellowing of
the distant Mediterranean, as if its waters
were at our side, swelled by the deluge. The
lakes and rivers roared, and inundated the
laud. The fiery sword shot out ten fold fire.
Thunder pealed from every quarter of the
heavens. Lightning, in immense sheets, of
an intensity and duration that turned the
darkness into mere than ea.y, withering eye
and soul; burned from the zenith to the ground,
and marked its track by forests of flame and
shattered the summits of the hills.
Defence was unthought of, for the mortal
enemy had passed from the mind. Our hearts
quaked with fear; but it was to see the pow
ers of heaven shaken. All cast away the
shield and the spear, and crouched before the
descending judgment. We were conscience
smitten. Our cries of remorse, anguish, and
horror, ware heard through the uproar of the
storm. We howled to the caverns to hide us,
we plunged into sepulchres to escape the
wrath that consumed the living; we would
have buried ourselves under the mountains.
I knew the cause, the unspeakable cause,
and knew the last hour of crime was at hand.
A few fugitives, astonished to see one man
among them not sunk into the lowest feeble
ness of fear, came around me, and besought
to lead them to some safety. I openly coun
selled them to die in the hallowed ground of
the temple. They followed, and led through
streets encumbered with every shape of hu
man suffering, to the foot of Mount Moriah.
But beyond that we found advance impossi
ble. Piles- of clouds whose darkness was
palpable, even in the midnight in which we
stood, covered the holy hill. Impatient, and
not to be daunted by anything that man could
overcome, I cheered my disheartened band,
and attempted to lead the way up the ascent.
But I had scarcely entered the cloud, when I
was swept down by a gust that tore the rocks
in a flinty shower around me. And now
came the last and most wonderful sign, that
marked the fate of rejected Israel.
When I lay helpless:, I heard the whirlwind
roar through the cloudy hill, and the vapors
began to revolve. A pale light, like that of
the rising moon, quivered on te edges, and
the clouds lose rapidly, shaping themselves
into forms of battlements and towers. The
sound of voices was heard within, low and
distinct, yet strangely sweet: Still the lustre
brightened, and the airy building rose, tower
on tower, and battlement on battlement. In
awe that held us mute, we knelt and gazed
on this more than mortal architecture, that
continued rising- and spreading, and glowing
with a serener light, still soft and silvery, yet
to which the broadest moonbeam was dim.—
At last it stood forth from earth to heaven, the
colossal image of the first temple ; of the
building raises by the wisest of men, one con
secrated to the visible glory.
All Jerusalem saw the - image, and the shout
that, in the middle of their despair, ascended
from its thousands and tens of thousands,
told what proud remembrances there were.—
But a hymn was heard that might have hush
ed the world beside. Never fell on my ear,
never on human sense, a sound so majestic,
yet so subduing ; so full of .melancholy,' yet
of grandeur, and command." This vast port
al opened,- and from it marched a host, such
as man had never seen before, such as man
shall never see but once again; the guardian
angels of the City of David ! They came
forth gloriously, but with woe in all their
steps; the stars upon their helmets dim;
their robes stained; tears flowing down their
cheeks of celestial beauty. I Let us go hence,'
swelled upon the night, to the uttermost
limits of the land. The procession lingered
long upon - the hill. The thunders pealed,
and they rose at the 'command, diffusing
waves of light over the expanse of heaven.
The chorus was heard, still magnificent and
melancholy, until their splendor was dimin
ished to the brightness of - a star. Then the
thunder roared again. The cloudy temple
was'Seattered on the wind, and darkness, the
omen of the grave, settled upon Jertisalein.
Lu-Fountenelle was asked by a courtier
at Versailles what difference there was be
tween •e' clock anda;Woman. He instantly re
plied:—"A clock serves to poiritout the hours,
a woman to make us forget them."
1:0-Why . is a man making love to a mar
ried woman like a sheriff levying on the
wrong man's goods? Because he's the victim
of a "misplaced attachment."
, MAY I I 1856.
The Methodist " Bishop" Roberts
In after years his diffidence became a sub
dued modesty;, not interfering with his ordi
nary duties, but deterring him from novel or
experimental plans, ho‘vever hopeful, and
leading often to ludicrous mistakes among
those who did not know him. When stop
ping, in his travels among strangers, he usu
ally. assumed no other pretensions than those
of a private Christian ; and frequently it was
not till the family worship declared his spirit
and talents, that his ministerial character
was supposed. Under such circumstances
he has sometimes attended class meeting
with his host, and received warm and point
ed exhortations from zealous class-leaders.—
On returning to the West, after a General
Conference, he once applied at the house of a
Methodist family to which he had been re
commended for entertainment. He was, as
usual, humble in dress, and dusty and weary.
The family taking him to be a rustic traveler,
permitted him to put up and feed his horse,
and take his seat in the 'sitting room. Sup
per was over and no One took the trouble to
inquire if he had taken any on the way. The
preacher of the circuit was stop ling. at the
carne house—he was young, fi ivolous and fop
pish—and spent the evening in gay conversa
tion with the daughters of the family, allu
ding occasionally and contemptuously to the
" old man," who sat silently in the corner.
The good bishop, after sitting a long time,
with no other attention than these allusions,
respectfully iequestecl to be shown to bed.—
The chamber was over the sitting room, and,
while upon his knees, praying with paternal
feeling for the faithless young preacher, he
still heard the gay jest and rude laugh. At
last the family retired without domestic wor
ship. The young preacher slept in the same
room with the bishop. He laid down with
out a prayer.
"Well old man," said he, as he got into bed,
" are you asleep yet ?"
" I am not, sir," replied the bishop. .
uWiieie have you come from?"
" From east of the mountains."
" From east of the mountains, eh 3' what
place V 7
" Baltimore, sir."
" Baltimore, eh=the seat of our General
Conference----:did you hear an d thing about it?
We expect -Bishop Roberts to stop here on his
way borne."
"Yes, sir," replied the bishop Lumbly ; "it
ended before I left."
" Did you ever see Bishop Roberts ?"
"Yes, sir, often ; we left Baltimore to
gether."
"You left Baltimore together I"
" Yes, sir."
s your name, my old friend 1."
" Roberts, sir."
"Roberts ! Roberts ! Excuse me, sir, are
you related to the bishop ?"
"They usually call me Bishop Roberts,
sir."
"Bishop Roberts ! Bishop Roberts ! are you
Bishop Roberts, sir?"' said the young man,
leaping out of bed, and trembling with agita
tion.
Embarrassed and confounded, he implored
the good man's pardon, insisted upon calling
up the-family, and seemed willing to do any
thing to redeem himself. The bishop gave
him an affectionate admonition, which he
promised with tears never to forget; acknowl
edging, at the same time, that he had back
slidden in heart, and deeply lamenting his
folly and spiritual declension. The venerable
and compassionate man knew the frivolity
of youth ;he gave much paternal advice and
prayed with him. He would not allow the
family to be called, though he had eaten noth
ing since breakfast. The next morning, af
ter praying again with the spirit-broken
young preacher, he left before the family had
risen, that he might save them a mortifying
explanation.
The circumstance was a salutary lesson to
the young itinerant ; at the next session of
the - Conference he called upun the bishop
a renewed man ; he wept again as he ack
nowledged his error, and has become a useful
and eminent minister. Bishop Roberts often
alluded to the incident, but through a com
mendable kindness, would never tell the name
of the young preacher.
A Great Man
Geo-Lippard, in his ne.v work called The
Magazine, thus speaks of President JaCkson :
" He.was a man 1 Well I remember the
day I waited upon him. He sat there in his
old arm chair-1 can see that old warrior face,
with its snow white hair even now. We told
him of the public distress—the manufacturers
ruined, the eagles shrouded in crape, which
were borne at the head of twenty thousand
men into Independence Square. He heard
us all. We begged him to leave the deposits
where they were : to uphold the great Bank
in Philadelphia. Still he did not.say a word.
At last one of our members, more fiery than
the rest, intimated that if the bank were
crushed a rebellion might follow; then the
old man arose. I can see him, yet.
" Come I" he shouted in a voice of thunder,
as his clutched hand was raised above his
white hairs—" Come with bayonets in your
hands instead of petitions—surround the
White House with your legions, I am ready
for you all I With the people at my back,
whom your gold can neither buy, nor awe, I
will swing you all up around the Capitol—
each rebel of you—on a gibbet—high as Ha
man's.".
" When I think," says the author; "of that
one man standing at Washington, battling
with all the powers Of Bank arid Panic com
bined, betrayed by those whorn_he trusted,
assailed by all that the snake 'of malice could
hiss• or the fiend of falsehood howl—:when I
think of that one man placing his back against
the rock and folding his arms for the blow,
whilehe uttered his vow : " I will not swerve
an inch from the course I have chosen !"
must confess that the records of Greece and
Rome—nay, the proudest days of Cromwell
or Napoleon cannot furnish an instance of a
wjll like that of And! ew Jackson, when he
placed life and soul and frame on the hazard
of a die for the people's welfare.--Providence
Sentinel.
For Mother's Sake."
A father and son were fishing, near New
York city, a few days since.... The boat was
suddenly capsized, and they were thrown in
to the water. The father, who was an expert
swimmer, while his son could not swim at all
at once commenced to aid the lad. He, see
ing that his father was rapidly becoming ex
hausted, calmly said to hire, "Never mind
me ; save yourself for Mother's sal-e3' God
bless that boy, and God be thankful that both
his father and himself were rescued from the
peril in which they were involved.
"For Mother's sake." There spoke a true
son and true hero. He knew that his tender
years illy fitted him to support
.and sustain
her who bore him—that if his father perish
ed she might be reduced to want as well as
steeped in sorrow—that if the oak fell the
ivy would fade and die. So he bid his son be
quiet amid the troubled waters, amid the ex
citement and apprehensions that such a scene
must engender, and resolved to die for his
mother, unless indeed, sonic hand was stretch
ed forth for his safety and, the safety of his
father. It was all right; because it was done
"for Mother's sake."
Would we say the same thing under the
same circumstances I Would you, boy?'y on,
young man ? you, man of years and sorrows?
While you admire the young hero for his in
trepidity and affection, do you feel that you
would imitate his example if occasion requi
red ? Do you love, do you praise your moth
er ?
He who propounds these questions is moth
erless. Years twain hive passed since the,
wrinkled gray-haired matron, who called him
son, laid off the dusty vestments of earthly
travel and was clothed in the garments of the
saints. He tells you—and his words are wrung
from suffering experience ; that if you : love not
your Mother, and do not praise your Mother
now, you will hereafter. Death opens the
fountains of surviving hearts, and loss shows
us how little we esteemed possession_
It is well to hold up an example like the one
we have quoted to the public gaze, for; by so
doing, some hard heart may be softened,
some vaccillating heart confirmed, some
warm heart made warmer. A man is safe
who inscribes this motto upon his phylactery
—"For Mother's Sake."—Buffalo Express.
The Mulish Preacher.
The Sermon, in our February number, has
recalled to an Alton (Ill) correspondent one
which was preached in Tennesee by a Bap
tist minister. When drawing near the close,
he said. "Brethering ham a hostler, and
must curry these horses before'l leave. Here
is this high-blooded Episcopal:an-horse : see
what a high head he carries, and how black
his coat' is, and soft as silk : but he'll kick if
you touch him on his Litany or Prayers;
Whoa ! sir, Whoa ! Here is an cld sober
Methodist horse :• whoa ! old fellow ! Just
slip away his love feasts and class meetings,
and he'll kick till he falls : Whoa! you old
Shoulder! whoa ! Ah ! here is the horse that •
is ready to kick at all times : don't you go
near his Confessional or Penance : Whoa !
Mr. Pope ! how beautiful his trappings are
—his surplice and mitre ! Vhoa! Sir, whoa!
and so he went on through' the various de
nominatiens. When he was nearly thro'
an old Methodist gentleman, well known in
the place, offered his services to conclude,
which was readily accepted. He said :
"Friends, I have learned this morning how to
dress down horses, and as the brother has
passed two of them, I will take it upon my
self to finish the work : Here is an animal
that is neither one thing nor the other. He
is treacherous and uncertain : you cannot
trust him: he'll kick his best friend for a con,
trovorsy. Whoa! Mule, whoa I See breth
ren, how he kicks : Whoa ! you old Camp
bellite ! whoa ! Here friends, is an animal
that is so stubborn he will not let me in his
stall to eat from his trough : he is so stubborn
that he would not go where a prophet wished
him: he is . so hard-mouthed that Sampson used
his jaw as a weapon of Iva; against the Philis
tines. Whoa ! you Close Communion Bap
tist : whoa! "Do you call me an ass!" ex
claimed the minister jumping up: 'whoa!'
continued his tormentor : "See him kick,
whoa ! 'Hold him friends !—whoa !" and
thus the old gentlemen went on, the minister
ranting meantime until he got out of the
church. The congregation unanimously
agreed that they had never seen an ass so corn
pletely "curried" before !"
One of the sweetest incidents which we
have noticed for many a day—and one which
shows the effect of early training, assisted
by a simple and undefiled imagination, has
just fallen under our observation. It is thus
related : A lady lately visited New York
city, and saw one day on the sidewalk, a rag
ged, cold And hungry little girl, gazing wish
fully at some cake in a shop window. She
stopped, and taking thelittle one by the hand,
led her into the store. Though she was
aware that bread might be better for the child
than cake yet desiring to gratify the shiver
ing and forlorn one, she bought and gave her
the cake she wanted. She then took her to
another place, where she procured her a
shawl and other articles of comfort. The
grateful little creature looked the benevolent
lady up full in the face and with artless sim
plicity, said, "Are you God's wife !" Did the
most eloquent philologist ever employ words
to better advantage?—Utica Observer and
.Demotrat.
ON THE OUTSIDE.-A man, with an enor
mously large sucker, called on a dentist to get
a tooth drawn. After the dentist had prepa
red his instrument, and was about to com
mence operations,
.the mar: began to strain
arid 'to Stretch his mouth till it got to a fright
ful width. -
"Stay, sir," said the dentist, "don't trou
ble yourself to stretch your mouth any wider,
I intend to stand on the outside to draw your
tooth."
flThe Christian Register says: "It is
calculated that the clergy' cost the United
States six millions of dollars annually, the
criminals nineteen, the lawyers thirty-five,
tobacco forty, and rum one hundred millions.
This is quite a curious calculation!
VOL. 1.1, NO. 46.
Church Property Contiscate,d by , The
State of Connecticut
[From the Hartford Times, April 21.]
Since the fact has been •well settled that
the Right Rev. Bishop O'Rielly was on, board
the Pacific, and that he is probably lost, a
question Of much interest concerning the pro
perty of the Roman Catholic Churches in
Connecticut, has arisen. iHe was the Bishop
of the Hartford Diocese, and the Roman Cath
olic Church property in this city, and proba
bly in this State, stood in his individual name.
At the last session of the legislature of this
state, a law was passed , (see pages 71 and
72 of the new pamphlet acts, 1855,) provi
ding that no devise, lease, grant, or convey.,
ante, to or for any person in any ecclesiasti
cal office, shall vest any estate or interest in
his successor ; that no property appropriated
to purposes of religious worship, or for burial,
shall vest in. any person or persons, unless
they be incorporated in aocordance with a
law of this state; that any church property
heretofore devised or conveyed to any indi,
vidual, shall be deemed to be held in trust for
the benefit of ,the society or congregation us
ing the same, and shall, upon, the death of
such individual, vest in the religious corpora
tion formed by such Society, provided such
corporation, organized in accordance with the
laws of this state, is in existence at the time
of the death of such individual. But in case
the property is held• by an individual, and
there be no such corporate body, then it is
enacted :
"SEerroN 4.—in the event of such congre.
gation or society shall not be incorporated' as
aforesaid, then and in that case the title of
such real estate shall vest in the state of Con
necticut, in the same manner and with the
same effect as if the person holding the title
thereto had died intestate, and without heirs
capable of inheriting such real estate."
The next section provides that the treasurer
shall•deeil said property to a corporation of
such congregation, when it shall be formed
in accordance with the laws of Connecticut;
It is now probable that Bishop O'Reilly is
dead. He held several churches and other
real estate, for the use of Roman Catholic
congregations ; they were not organized into
corporate bodies, and this remarkable law
confiscates the entire property,
AN INCH OF R.AIN ON THE ATLANTIC.--
We have been struck with that passage" of
Lieutenant Mao y's "Physical Geography of
the Sea," in which he computes the effect of
a single inch of rain falling upon the Atlantic
Ocean. The Atlantic includes an area of
twenty-five millions of square miles. Sup
pose an inch of rain to fall upon only one
fifth of this vast expanse. " "It would
weigh," says our author, "three hundred and
sixty thousand millions of tons • and . the salt
which as water, it held in solution •in the
sea, and, which, when the water %vas taken up
as vapor, was left behind to disturb equilibri
um weighed sixteen millions more tons, or
nearly twice as much as all the ships in the
world could carry at a cargo each. It might fall
in a day ; but occupy what, time it might in
falling this rain is articulated to exert so
much force--which is inconceivably great---
in disturbing the equilibrium of the ocean.—
If all the waters discharged by the Mississip,
pi during the year were taken up in one might
ty measure, and cast into the ocean in one
effort, it would not make agt eater disturbance
in the equilibrium of the sea than the fall of
rain supposed. And yet so gentle are the
operations of nature, that movements so vast
are unperceived." •
HORRIBLE !-A 'race hard sinner,' aita.
tive of old Emerald Isle, went to confession
the other day, to his parish priest, and so
shocked the clergyman with a recital of his
sins, that he exclaimed—"My son, did you
ever do a good deed in your life! did,'
said Pat; 'I converted a Jew once.' 'How
was that?' inquired the confessor. 'You see,'
said Pat, 'that long-nosed pork-hating murth
ering blagguard fell overboard and I siezed
him by the topnot just as he was going down
the second time, and pulled his head above
the surface, and says I , if I save you will you
be a Christian won't,' says he; and
with that I deposited his head about three
feet unther again; pulled him up once more,
and • put the question anew—will. you be a
Christian? to which he again i eplied 'No,'
gruffly. I gave him another and brought him
up, puffing like a porpoise. Will yon be a
Christian now says I. I Y-e-s,' says he , and
his teeth chattered for all the world like a
monkey that had burned his toes. Well,
says I, you are now con verted, and you'd bet
ter die iu the .faith, and so saying, I held him
unther• until his spirit had departed.'—Dostoik
Post.
THE COURSE OF THE LATE TORNADO.--
The course of the late tentacle is thus follows
ed by the Pittsburg Gazette :
"Commencing on Lake Michigan, its
course was from the Southern - end of that
Lake to Philadelphia, east-south east. It
does not seem to 'have partaken of the nature
of a tornado, until it arrived at about the mid
dle of Ohio, Between Akron and Canton it
swept powerful forest trees as if they had been
rotten saplings. It was about seven hours
in accomplishing one-third of its journey, say
from ten o'clock until five—the other two
thirds of its course was accomplished in five
hours, as it passed from New Jersey into the
ocean about ten o'clock, P. M. From the
time it partook of the character of a tornado,
about five o'clock in the evening, about 125
or 150 miles in a north westerly direction
fiom this point, it traveled at about the rate of
70 miles an hour, and left wild confusion anti
terrible devastation in its track.??
}•ankee lady Pictures a'good man as'
olio who is keeriul of his,,oloths, durP.t,drink
sperits, kin yead the WWI thous spellin' the
worcis,and kin eat a cold dinner en wash-day
—to save the wimmin-folks from cookin.l—
[O - Look upon vicious company as so many
engines planted .against you by the devil,
and accordingly fly from them, as you wnifi
from the mouth of a cannon.