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For the litmtto
Sing Your Pet Song Dearest•
Fin:; your pet song. dearest, sweeter to we
waiving of bird or horn ming of boo
Th." sol,nd of the broolth is How.
Or tones of the_dulcitner soft nod low.
Than the solemn orgnn's swelling notes
Pow,. Ow grand cathedral tislo that bats
Smile votir pet smile dearest, bend those dear rarer
beep in their blue as the distant skies.
may droop but my heart ens stilt
The 11,re that lights up , hy spirit for me,
I can live thronah ille's darkest sight.
If no shadow elonds their luslroug light
Speak your pot word, dearnst, tl, how my twirl
Thrills to its strand with a Joyru , start.
And my pulses fly Ito n nighteried bird.
To each tender tone of that dearest word,
Itnpture (tI heaven 7 seem to hour.
IVhile its musiral breathinzs 1411 on tut enr.
Blended <onc, and Word and look
I intn rend nn Ton honk.
I ran tray() In curl] lovelit privy
Trulh to last through) oath and age
And only ehltled shall its fervor be,
(n•the innse of ()oath's revlvll•ns FOO.
rarllvle, June 2C, 181'4.
The National Humilation
That is a memorable da in any nian's
, life in Which he gains a new and thril-.
link experience. Experience gives val-
Ue to life. Experience gives form and
' force to character. Experience develops
mind. 1-:...xperience gives wisdom. Even
the experience of a great calamity or a
sore affliction is not, without its value to
a \Sell ordered mind. And though -pain
ful and crushing at the time, the dark
season in which it was endured is after
ward looked h.rek upon with the fct
, that it has left a rich, legoey for tltie
mortal spirit, and hffordcd a valuable
training for the intellect and lioart
What is true of the individual i , true
also of communities and nation. No
national life can he rich or valual,!.•
source of instruction to mankH . d which
is wanting in a wide and varied experi•
CTIQC. No nation .1 character can be fully
formed or maturely developed, which has
not telt the play of all the main hirees
whpli heave and impel the great life-cur
rents of humanity ; and that mitional his
tory is the richest anti r rest, the mos,
interesting and instructive, which leads
the student through the most varied arid
vivid phenomena of human experience
If these trite remaiks be true we may
safely sPy that; the- experiences of this
country during the past four years, and
especially during the past Iwo months,
must be exceedingly rich and valuable
for all the Lists . and interests of the fu
ture Such heights of lofty endeavor,
such vast and far reaching, problems, such
gigantic and portentous petits, it has
rarely been the hit of any people in so
short a space of time, to attempt and to
conquer
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Ind such extremes and alter
nations of hope and fear. of danger and
deliverance, of confidence and desponden
cy, of exultation and grief, it has rarely
been the lot of any people to experience
in such quick and rapid succession. This
varied and shifting experience has been
ours, in greater or less degree. front the
time of the first battle of Bull Hun until
the recent and final decisive triumph of
the national arms. And what an in-
. tense experience was that for the nation
al heart when it was called to plunge
from the giddiest heights of exultation
to the deepest and darkest shades of gloom
and grief; as it realized the monstrous
and almost incredible fact that the na
tion's chosen head was stricken down by
the dastardly hand of an assassin ! The
eagle of the Alleghenies, soaring in ma
jesty and pride on his broad wings just
beneath the clouds, shot at and struck in
the wing by the well directed aim of the
hunter, and obliged to sink and flutter
Away to the escapement on some friendly
rock, there in solitude and silence with
drooping pinion to nurse his wound and
his grief, is but a feeble emblem of the
plunge mad.: by the wounded heart of
the American people front the gilded
cloud laud of joy, to the valley of sad
ness and humiliation. The contrast could
not be greater, or the fluctuations of feel
ing be more violent, if the bridegroom in
his nuptial hour were to fall dead at the
feet of his bride, and the' wedding robe
be exchanged for the weeds of mourning.
The nation seemed to be m the ecstacy
of the marriage hour—illuminations and
rejoicings and the salvos of cannon from
the Atlantic to the Pacific—" all went
merry as a marriage bell," when 10, a
flash of tidings'swept over the land, and ,
men looked into each, other's faces in
blank amazement,—the laborer left his
toil, the student his books, the merchant
his wares,--the heart of the nation stood
still. Such a grief, such a sorrow will
not be ftirgotten by this generation.
Precisely such an experience as this
was perhaps never given to any other
people. The assassination of Will-'am
of Orange was a far more terrible event
for-the Dutch Republic) than the murder
of Abraham lincoln was for us. In
point of severity the blow was car heavi
er. A man of wonderful sagacity, firm
ness and heroic endurance; 'he had con
centrated upon himself in an extraordi
nary manner, the affections and hopes of
that much suffering and enduring peo
ple; and for twenty years ho had been
the guiding spirit•.of their stubborn re,
sistanoe to the gigantic power of Spain.
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SSSJUUtIigiI;B.
HY BEV. JOSEPH CLARK
When he fell by the pistol of Balthasar
Gerard the whole people, like a family of
orphaned children, bowed their heads in
the dust and wept. But between their
experience and ours there was this dif
ference Their blow fell upon them at
a time of general disaster and adversity
Toe armies of Philip had been steadily
Unclenching upon their limited territory.
Several of their strongholds had just sur
rendered, and a general despondency
would have seized the minds of any less
resolute people. But they were inured
to suffering. They were accustomed to
disaster. They seemed to know they
could not be compacted, and though the
fall of the great Stadiholde• added a feel
ing of momentary paralysis, the mind of
the people soon rose above it ; and there
was not that sudden and violent transi
tion from the exultant feelings of joy to
the gloom and sadnus of distress which
we as a nation experienced. Ours was
like a harsh, grating, discord breaking
in upon the magnificent symphonies of
the Oratorio of the Creation ; or like a
dark blotch cast upon the canvass of
Eaphacl or Titian ; or like a grinning
death's head 6ppeariug amid the maze's of
the merry dance.
And this is the event my fellow-citi
zens which has brought us together to
day. ln view of it, we have assembled
at the call of the chief Magistrate, to
humble ourselves before Almighty God,
and to lift up to the throne of the uni
verse the voice of confession and suppli
cation. For the first time in the history
of this Republic has its Chief i‘lagistrate
fallen by the hand of vii ler cc. For the
first time has assascinatiim, in the form
of regicide, raised its bloody hand amid
the temple of our liberties. That foul
and monstrous crime which we sup!. sod
to belong to the past ages of de,cot le op
puisi,on and lawless violence, bvs snd
d, my re-Nip:lied in the middle of this
1!)th century, and in this Republic in
which is being conducted the inagnifi-
cent experiment of self government.—
When we have read of the Great Cfcsar,
who bestrode the world like a Co!opus,
tall ng in his robes by the dagger of Bru
tus in the Roman Capital, or of Henry
of Navarre filling by the hand of an
assassin in the stormy period of French
history, or of William the silent being
shot in his dining room at Delft by the
fanatical emissary of Philip of `pain, we
have been aceu - stemed to- rett-d- of them us
we read of the centaurs and hippogriffa
of mythology ; as things that could not be
reproduced in modern history, and as
things, especially, that were not to he ex
pected away front the shadow of Euro
pean despotisms. That foul crime which
has served the double purpose of being
the 61(0 of the despot, and the desperate
resort of oppressed and maddened peo
ples, has suddenly reappeared in this
country when there can be no despot, and
no oppression save that which the en
forcement, of law visits upon offenders
Flow wonderfully, my friends, have
many of the easy and comfortable delu
sions of these latter years been dispelled
by the hard ordeal of facts ! In the
midst of the syren song of the jorri,, ten
de'iwit's of the present age, in which it
was hoped that arbitration would take
the place of the sword, a congress of na
tions supplant contending armies, the arts
of peace, the interests of commerce, and
the bonds of trade make war impossible,
and //7,rt 11 , "orb-111y be the
motto of all mankind—in the midst o
this syren sung, a civil wiry of unparal•
leled magnitude breaks out among us and
deluges the land in blood. Whilst po
litical cconotnisk were theorizing upon
the economy of production z.nd the hus
banding of the national Wealth, we rush
into a war that expends fabulous :urns on
engines and means of destruction. Whilst
we were congratulating our,elvcs on our
comparative freedom from taxation, and
the unequalled cheapness of our govern.
merit, we are forced into a war which
piles upon us a load of national debt,
which perhaps no other nation could suc
cessfully carry. And now with all our
boasted enlightenment, our Christianity
and our common schools, we are called to
face the fact of a crime as foul and hide
ous as ever blackened the pages of his
tory. Verily, says the wise man, that
which bath been shall be, and there -is
nothing new under the sun !
In view then of this portentous event,
which has come upon us as a nation, with
what feelings and meditations does it be
come. us to assemble together to-day ?
11 - Ow *shall wo present ourselves before the
majesty of Heaven and offer an accepta
ble worship ? It is designated as a (lay of
humiliation. And in this view there is a
propriety in it which cannot be questior.-
ed. It is always proper for such a being
as man, in - seasons of special calamity, or
public distress, or public crime, to hum
ble himself before Almighty God , to con
fess and bewail his sins, and shortcomings,
and the sine of the people, and to suppli
cate the. favor and blessing of God upon
the land, and the rulers and people there
of. Whether great• public distress, or na
tional calamity, 'or public crime, can be
charged upon any particular form of pub
lie sin or not, they are still evidences of
the general, depraved and diserdei:ed con
dition of 'mankind, and as such may pre
perly lead to abasement and contrition be
fore God.— '
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am free to confess that I have no
theory of the Divine Providence, consist
ent with the commonly received opinions
of the purposes and inethOds of the moral
government of the world, which will at
the same time involve such a (Med as that
which laid low in death the fonn of Abra
ham Lincoln on the night of the 14th of
April. It must remain to my mind a
dark and mysterious enigma; so far as
concerns its immediate relation to a per
sonal God. If it were necessary (human
ly speaking) to remove Abraham Lincoln
from the head of this government, how
easy would it have been for God to have
removed him in many ways, without int o
volving the monstrous crime which filled
the brain and nerved the arm of the as
sassin. But this is a question which we
are not competent to discuss, and how
ever dark and mysterious it may be, our
confidence in the Divine character and
the Divine government must remain firm
and unshaken. It is impossible for any
sane Ulllll, in any event, to question either
the Divine wisdom, or the Divine good
ness, or the Divine.power.
But however defective inay be our the
ories, and however imperfect our grasp of
the wide scope and meaning of the Divine
Providence, we have clearly before Our
view the hard and palpable ftri, of this
Providence as developed in history anal
life. We have /To.: which are the great
instructors of mankind; and we can trace
tendencies, we can discover laws, we can
perceive the current of influences, we can
trace the combinations and corelations of
causes which determine events, and here
in we study the foot-steps of' Providence
and may do so inure properly than by
wearyin L r, our: elves with fruitless theories
respecting the Divine. put-poses and inten-
tiOnS We think it cannot be denied that
the net which aimed a fatal Mow at our
lawenred Chi,l INlagli,orate and at the
other Lead , of Government, was the I. gi
timate flower and fruit of the social die
ord. r, tie anarchical violence. aifd the en
venouicd inailnes:, which have been roll
ing the waves of rebellion n! - rainstt th
fabric of our Government fur the pa.
four years. This we think no candiitan
honest man will deny, even though the
leaders in rebellion lie exhonerated of al
direct emnplieity in the plot. The pub
lisped views and opinion; of the chile
criminal, prior to the ac , , clearly prove
that the inspiration of his horrid deed
ITallerivetl fi•omsytnpatliy
and that the climax of the fatal purpose
was VC:U.II6i through desire to avenge
;dril:imi, cause. Secessii,n and rebellion
have culminated in asiis:dnatinti, and
crime against. society and against Govern
went, has re , nltoci in a crime m2ainbt man
kind. no forth int, the fields mid see
what les , ons nuture will tc:tell us. You
stand in the prc, , ence of a Lush, or fruit
tFCC, or giganiie fullest oak. You exam
ine its bark, it. is soft and flexible. You
examine its fibre, it is, hard and compact
Yon examine its roots, they go far down
into the - iattip 'and dark earth. You go
up among the branches, the leai , es give a
pleasant shade, and the airs of heaven
whisper and play among their bowers.
You go farther up, and upon the topmost
twigs, you find a little flower, which will
ripen into a fruit, a seed, a vital germ.
That flower, that fruit, that seed, is the
highest representative of the vital force of
the living organism, its last, expression—
the most consummate product of the semi
nal power of the tree ; small and insigni
ficant as it seems in itself, it required the
highest, vital force for its production, and
beyond it cannot go, so with this great
Southern Rebellion. If we examine it at
various stages of its progress, though we
may find it ribbed and panoplied in steel,
bristling with cannon, and, surrounded
with all the pomp and circumstance of
war, though we may find it assuming the
dignity of Government and putting forth
claims for a position among the nations,
yet its final flower and fruit, its last cx
pression, its dying effort, is found in the
deed which the nation mourns this day !
Like the fabled reptile which thrusts its
deadly sting and dies. The rebellion
smote down the chosen head of the na
tion, and perished itself amid the execra
tions of the civilized world.
Whilst we mourn and humble ousel
-ves before God thig day, it becomes us to
remember,some things with gratitude. Tt
is a ,most wise and merciful provision of
God's moral Government that crime gen
erally defeats its own ends; and often oc•
casions results quite the opposite of what
was intended. We ought to be grateful
that this foul deed was not permitted to
occur until it could do the nation no harm
—but may be an occasion of good. When
we look back over the vicissitudes of the
past four years, and remember how at
times the tide of war seemed to surge a
gainst, us, and heart of the People to quail
in view of the titanic task to which the
nation ma-committed, we can point out
several periods, in which, had such a blow.
fallen upon us, the most disastrous results
might have followed. Had an assassin
taken the life of Abraham Lincoln and
dangerously wounded the Secretary Of
State, just after the retreat from the
Peninsula and the second battle of Bull
Run, or when our - relations with g 4g iand
were•in a critical state, or when the hordes
of Lee...wele pouring into ,Pennsylvania,
no human sagacity oould have foreseen
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CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 18_65.
It appears to be a law of God's natural
and moral world, that no good thing can
be !Yelped and held without /'slur rind
. Hence we see that all the great
interests of human society, all the great
achievements of human progress, all the
priceless benefits of civilization, liberty,
law and religion have been purchased at
the price of human blood and treasure.
The ponderous chariot wheels of human
progress, ever rollingcn through the ages,
slowly but surely as the stars move in
courses, are even found to leave in their
track the crushed bodies and mangled
limbs of thousands of victims. And now
from the swamps of the Peninsula, the
fields of Corinth and Chattanooga, the
hills of Antietam, the cemetery of Get
tysburg and the trenches of Petersburg,
and piled into one cloud-kissing monu
ment like Tamerlane's pyramid of skulls,
it might well bear the inscription "Hal
lowed by devotion to the great idea of
American nationality and human progress.'
And could we go to-day into the stricken,
and sorrowing homes of this land, were
the widow sits in her weeds, and the'
mother mourns her manly son, and the
sister-weeps for the brother who will never
return, we [night read in tl em all the
terrible ransom which this laud has paid
for its national life. And espiecally could
we go to that quiet, far off western town,
and stand by the grave of that incorrup
tible and sagacious statesman who now
lies low in death, we might not only med
itate. there profitably upon the uncertain
ty of human greatness, but we might
read v thers a part of the terrible price,
exacted by destiny, which made him a
martyr to our national unity.
And now, my hearers, iq view of all
this, should we not resolve resolutely to
maintain that which has cost us so much.
Should we not swear by the blood of all
the heroes that have fallen in deadly strife;
by the wasted forms of 'the .thousands
who, in famishing captivity, have endured
a more terrible fate, and by the sacred
sorrow of a natioo, mourning as for a
father slain, that we willorever maintain
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the great cause of our tional unity and
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life, that we will be true and devoted pa
triots, loving our fatherlandmore than
over since its baptism of blood, and serv
ing our country rather than party, or fac
tion, or local interest. When William
of Orange was slain, in the hour of his
country's greatest disaster and danger,
the gloom produced by the event was
tragical. Never in human history before
was a more poignant and universal sorrow
for any individual. The despair was, for
a brief season,, absolute; but it was soon
succeeded by more lofty sentiments. ' it
seemed, after they had laid their. hero in
the tomb as though -his 'spirit still hoV 7 * ,
.ered aboio ,the 'nation' he had: loved- so
well, mad - ivas inspiring it with_ a pertioio
of his own energy and wisdom, Even
the possible extent of the disaster. We
then might have had no Antietam and no
Gettysburg; and the great. results which
have recently culminated in the downfall
of the Rebellion, if achieved at all, might
have been delayed for years, and gained
only at the price of exhausting and ruin
ous expenditure of blood and treasure.
Whilst therefore we may properly and
profoundly humble ourselves before God,
I confess that the severest of his judg
ments are light compared with what our
sins might justly deserve, yet at the same
time we may lift up the voice of grateful
acknowledgment and bless God that in
judgment he has remembered mercy.
Dreadful and monstrous and soul harrow
ing as this assassin's deed is, and deeply
as it has shrouded the land in the
habili
ments of woe, we•cannot see that it im
perils in any way our Tuitional welfare.
The hour for such danger is past. It was
deferred until the Rebellion, tottering to,
its fall, was too. weak to follow up the
blow. And whilst we mourn the honor
ed dead, and regret that his generous and
magnanimous soul was not permitted to
live to share in our triumphs, we may still
iejoice that the cause he loved so well
still lives.
Another feeling which it is eminently
proper for us to cherish to-day, is the feel
ing of resolute determination to maintain
the great idea of our nationality and unity,
for the sake of which so many lives have
been sacrificed, and to which Abraham
Lincoln has fallen as a martyr. Never
perhaps in the history of the world, has
the idea of imt;wm/ity in its broadest,
most, comprehensive most Ethnic Sense,
attained so intense, intelliizent, and so
resolute expression, as in the minds of the
American people And thin great civil
war, now, -we Lope ro happily ended, has
been a war fbr that idea. n intnse
and tremendous protest in the shape of
war, against whatever would disturb or
imperil that idea in its realization. P
has been a. war for unity, nationality and
strength against' disintegration, anarchy
and weakness. And in this view it was
a war for the lire of the Republic. For
the sake of this all the tremendous sac
rifiees of the past four years have been
cheerfully wade, all its vastburdens borne,
and the 7 blood of the nation poured out
like water. No more sublime spectacle
could well be afforded to the muse of
History, than that of the herculean
efforts. put forth by this people, to vindi
cate an idea.
ouhl the mouldering bones be gathered
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on the very day of the murder, the Estates
Holland, then sitting at Delft . , passed a
resolution " to maintain the good cause,
with God's help to the uttermost, without
sparing gold or blood," and this decree
was communicated to all their comman
ders by land and sea, and they and all
civil functionaries and people were be
sought to " bear themselves manfully and
valiantly, without faltering in the least,
on account of the great misfortune which
had occurred; or allowing themselves to
be'heduced by any ono from the union of
the States." 6A noble example for us, my
fellow-citizens, to imitatote in the less
severe and trying crisis in which this
great afflication ha's come upon us.
it remaihsito add but a few words in
honor of the !memory of the man whose
violent death we mourn to-day. I do not
propose to speak of Abraham Lincoln as
a party man. He is not to be thought
of now as a member of this party .or that,
but as a name dear to every true Ameri
can heart. That be possessed large ea-•
pacity, great honesty and singleness of pur-,
pose, a far seeing and sagacious states
manship, and great benevolence and It ind
ness of nature, is now generally, perhaps
universally, conceded. Beneath his gro
tesque exterior lay the jewel of high
and true manhood, and under his appar
ent levity and drollery, lay concealed a
practical wisdom which never failed him.
Even his unsparing satirists' in England,
are now forced to confevs that he was a
"true-born King of men." Butnotruer
indication need be sought'of his genuine
and intrinsic worth, than the honors and
obsequies paid to his remains by the
American people, and the deep and heart-
felt laniantati u n over him by the whole
nation. As when the rebel cannon open
ed on Fort Sumter, ell party lines in
the North were dropped, and the whole
people rose up as one man to vindicate
our imperiled up tionality, so when the
pistol of the assassin-had done its deadly
work, all party lines disappeared, and
the whole people, as one man, bowed the
head in sorrow and mourning for Abra
ham Lincoln ! And what obsequies, what
funeral pageants, what draping of the
land in the habiliments of grief; was there
ever such a progress o! a human body as
that of his from the Capital of the Nation
round though the great cities of the con
tinent, to its last resting place in the dis
tant west. Did ever such an army of
mourners folloW a funeral . train ! The
instincts of mankind are seldom mistak
en, and we may safely assume that the
subject of all these honors war no com-
mon man
And what a monstrous perversion'of a
sentiment or motto, which in a certain
circle may have a noble dignity and mean
ing, was that with which the dastardly
assassin blazoned his own infamy before
the world, " air seniper tyrannis." Thus
be it ever with tyrants ! What ! Abraham
Lincoln a tyrlnt! A man in whose na
ture dwelt not one single element which
makes a tyrant. A man whose name
was a synonym for honesty, and purity,
and magnanimity, and generosity, and
forgiving sympathy even for the most
persistent and malignant of rebels—this
man a tyrant? No! thou foul-mouthed
diisereant—the unanimous voice of civil
ized men hurls back with scorn the base
slander. Had some monster in human
shape, some Nero, some Caligula, some
Borgia, some Philip or Alva, fallen that
night to avenge the outraged liberties of
men there might have been some sense
and meaning in the sentiment, but
not when the victim was one who all men
recognized as a generous and unselfish
patrot.
In conclusion, my hearers, there is but
one other topic which shall detain us a
moment. There are many thoughts still
crowd upon the mind on an occasion like
this, but we will add but one. It does
not become us to cherish feelings of re
sentment, or alienation, or hatred, toward
those who have been in arms against us,
and whose military power is now crush
ed, and who aro beginning to show some
disposition to return to the observance of
law and order. 'Deeply as they have
wronged us, and deeply as they have of
fended against the cause of government
and order, they are our brethren and fel
low citizens still, of the same blood, line
age and language, and we trust that in
the future their children and ours are to
stand shoulder to shoulder in support of
the gorgeous ensign of the Republic.
Now that "wild war's deadly blast is
blown," and the piping times of peace
are, we hope, again returning it becomes
us to assuage the animosities which war
engenders, and prepare the way for the
amicable relations which can alone form
a true basis of peace. I pronounce no
opinion as to the punishment which should
be meted out to great offenders. What
ever duties a true andjndispensibli3 re
gard to the claims Of justice and law de
mand, ought to be fearlessly discharged.
Tho safety of the people is the , highest
law. But I would fain hope these inex
oriable demands may be few and brief.
All leading offenders will find theii own
punishment.' There is a Nemeeis, an
avenging divinity , in history, whose step
is destiny and whose stroke is fate, and
the guilty . ,will fleehim:in vain 1 But with
the masses‘of.thd people, who have been
more sinned against' than sinning, let us
TERMS:--$2,00 in Advance, or $2,50 within the year.
The present Atlantic cable is just twenty
three hundred nautical miles, or in rough
numbers about twenty-six hundred miles
long. The central conductor is composed
of seven tine copper wires, twisted into one
complete strand, which is insulated with
Chatterton's patent compound. Outside this
come four distinct layers of gutta percha,
each also insulated with the same material
that encloses the conductor. Outside the
gutta percha again are wound eleven stout
iron wires, each of which, before being
twisted on, is itself carefully wound round
with strands of hemp, soaked with tar.
Thus, then, there are no less than twenty
five thousand miles of copper wire in the
conductor, about thirty-five thousand miles
of iron wire in the outside covering, and
upwards of four hundred thousand miles of
strands of hemp—more than enough
to go twenty-four times round the world.
The cable has been made on an average, at
the rate of seventy miles per day complete,
and in some days its outside covering of '
hemp and iron has been overlaid at the rate
of one hundred and seventy-three miles a
day, though not a fathom or a foot has been
manufactured without every part being kept
under constant test for "conductivity" and
Lsulation, and to this hour it is as regular
t sted as it was a year ago, when the first
roil was twisted. In strength the cable is
equa to bearing a strain of seven and three
guar er tons, while its specific gravity is so
low hat it can with safety be depended on
to, pport eleven miles of its length in wa
ter. It has been made mile by mile, joined
up in long lengths of seven and eight hun
dred miles, and shipped oh board the Great
Eastern into three enormous tanks.
The first will hold a coil of six hundred
and thirty miles of cable, the second one of
eight hundred and forty, and the third one
of eight hundred and thirty. Five hun
dred miles have still, to be stowed away on
board, and it will take a fortnight to com
plete this work, though the last mile of the
coil will come through the machines of the
telegraph works, at three o'clock on Monday
next. All three tanks are kept filled with
water, and when each is stored with cable as
well, the ends of the wire will be joined up,
and a constant system ofsignals kept through
every part from the moment the expedition
starts till the cable is laid. The mere cable,
however, is but an item in the mass of heavy
weights the Great Eastern will have to carry
on this occasion. Her draught of water
will be rather over than under thirty feet,
and all told, her weights, when starting
from 'Valentin, will come near the stupen
dous mass of eighteen thousand tons. They
are all, however, stowed high, and so, ac;
cording to present arrangements, it is be
lieved that the Great Eastern will start in
the very early part of July, and certainly,
if possible not later than the 10th. With
her will also sail her Majesty's ship Terrible,
and another paddle wheel steam frigate of
great power not yet chosen, but which, like
the Terrible, will give towing aid to the
Great Eastern in case of mishaps to her ma
chinery, either screw or paddle. Every
care has been taken to get these engines ii_to
the highest state of good working order ; but
it cannot be denied that the very possibiliv
of .their breaking down is looked upon with
something like anxiety. They will certainly
hot be overtasked, as it is intended, if pos
sible, not to lot the vessel go beyond a speed
of six knots, a minimum of velocity which
it will be difficult to keep to if steerage way
is Wanted quickly, and which will we . think
be found absolutely impossible to retiimin.a
Seaway.. On this occasion, however, ; the
middle of July is chosen as being thought
even more favorable in point of weather than
the middle 'of June, When the last Aga
memnon cruise was commenced. Captain"
Anderson, we believe, is in favor of starting
towards the early part of July, and his long
experience in command .of the China, has
very properly, induced the directors to give
every weight'to his opinion. In addition
to Captain Anderson; tho officers con
nected With the'ship; with the exception of
the chief engineer, have been chosen from
the Cunard service. With ordinarily fair
Weather,, and steaming at the rate, of "six
Idiots, it is expected that the voyage from
Valentin to the Bay of Heart's Content is
NowfouttAntd will occupy from twelve to
endeavor to prepare the way to dwell to
gether in unity.
I cannot do better than close with that
magnificent peroration of America's great
est orator, now clothed with a double sig
nificance. When my eyes shall be turn
ed to behold for the last time, the sun
on the heaven, may I not see him shining on
the broken and dishonored fragments of a
once glorious Union—on States dissever
ed, discordant, belligerents—on a land
rent with civil feuds, or drenched it may
be in fraternal . blood I Let their last fee
ble and lingering glance rather behold the
gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now
known and honored throughout the earth)
still full high advanced, its arms and tro
phies streaming in all their original lustre,
not a stripe erased or polluted, not a sin
gle star obscured, bearing for its motto
everywhere, spread all over in characters
of liVing light, blazing on all its ample
folds as they float over the sea and over
the land, and in every wind under the
whole heavens, that sentiment dear to
every American heart—Liberty and
Luton, now and forever, one and insepa
rable.
Bryant's "Song of Wooing
Dost thou Idly ask to hear
At what gentle seasons
Nymphs relent, when lovers near
Press the tenderest reasons?
Ah, they give their faith ton oft
To the careless wooer ;
Maidens' hearts are always soft,
Would that men's were truer'
Woo the fair one, when around
Early birds are filming;
When, o'er all the fragrant ground,
Early herbs aro springing;
When the brookfide, bank and grove,
All with blossoms laden,
Shine with beauty, breathe of love,—
Woo the timid maiden.
Woo her, {vhon, with rosy blush,
Summer eve is sinking;
When, on rills that gently gush,
Stars are softly winkihg;
When through boukbs that knit the Bowe
Moonlight gleams are stealing,
Woo her, till the gentle hour
Wakes a gentler feeling.
Woo her, when autumnal dy es
Tinge the woody mountain
When the drorying foliage lies
'.he half-choked 6 untain;
Let the scene, that tells bow fast
Youth Is passing over,
Warn her, ere her bloom•Is past,
To secure her lover.
Woo her, a hen the north winds call
At the lattice nightly;
When, within the eheorful hall,
Blaze the fagots brightly;
iS hue the wit try tempest round
Sweeps the landscape henry,
Sweeter in her ear shall sound
Losses delightful story,.
What the Cable is Made of, and How
and When it will be Laid.
[From the London Times.]
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fourtoen .days t during every., hour ,df,*hich
regular communication willo'kept ti . p', , ith
England. :
A Memphis,papor beads its list of. di
'dome cases , in court,? IVlntrioionial
ship
wi'eoks."'.:. , :
"Now mind joiciu,? whiSpered. a ser
vant girl to her neighbor, , " I don't say
as bow, missus driulcs ; but, between you
and Me, the deettriter don't keep Cull a
day."
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As people usually. sprinkle -the floors
before they sweep, them, says - an'old
bachelor, so sothe - Aadles sprinkle their
husbands with tears in order that they
may sweep the cash out of their pockets.
One of the Western editors speriking
of a large and fat contemporary, remarked
that if all flesh was grass, he must be a
load of hay. "I expect I am," said the
fat man, "from the way the asses are
nibbling at me."
A cute Yankee, in Kansas, sells liquor
by the barrel. Of course the cute Yan
kee's customers are liable to go off half
cocked
The fellow who took the mantilla from
the boudoir of a pretty girl in Fifth Av
enue, justifies himself On the ground that
" it is no harm to steal from a thief;" as
the owner of the mantilla has stolen the
hearts of some forty or fifty old bache
lors.
A favorite magpie, which had been
used to receive its dainty bits from the
mouth of its mistress, the other day
perched, as usual, on her shoulder, and
inserted its beak between her lips, not'
as it proved, to receive, but to give or to
hide, for as one good turn deserves an
other, the bird dropped' alarge, green,
fat caterpillar into the lady's mouth.
Dr. Adani Clark, whp had a strong
aversion to pork, was called upon to say
grace at a dinner, where the principal
dish was a roast pig. Ile is reported to
have said : " 0 Lord, if thou canat bless
under the gospel what thou didst curse
under the Law, bless this pig."
A very happy comment on the anni-.
!illation of time and space by locomotive
travel was made by a little girl who had
ridden fifty miles in a railroad train, and
then took a coach to her uncle's house
some five miles farther. "We came a
little way in the train," said she, "and
hen all the rest of the stay in a carriage "
A. class was recitin:,! a lesson in meta
physics—C , o chapter on moti . ,..es opeia.
Ling on the human will—when a mack
erel vender went by shouting," .I.llacker
el, fine fresh mackerel !" Suddenly, dis
turbed by the noise, the master impired
of the class what motives the man had
for making such a noise No answer be
ing made, he said they must be deaf as
/we/docks and flat as flounders not to
perceive that it was a selt : lish motive.
A friend of ours, who is a clerk iri a
New York mercantile establishment, re
lates a colloquy from which a sprightly
youth in the same store came out sac,
and best. A poor boy came along with
his mnobine, inquiring—
" Any knives or scissors to grind P'
" Don't think we have," replied the
young gentleman facetiously ; " but can't
you sharpen wits ?"
" Yes, if you've got any," was the
prompt response, leaving the interroga
tor lather at a loss to produce the article.
Why, Sambo, how black you are ?"
said a gentleman the other day, to a ne
gro waiter at a hotel, " how in the name
of wonder did you get so black ?"
" Why, look a here, massa, do reason
am dis— de day dis chile was born, dere
was an eclipFe."
Ebony received a shilling for his sat
isfactory, explanation, and after grinning
thanks, continued :
" I tell you what it is, massa, this nig
ger may be brack, but ho ain't green, no
how "
SEA SERPENTS 05' NEW HOLLAND.-
Among the Rosemary Islands, ou the coast
of New Holland, water serpents are found
in great numbers. They are about twenty
feet long, and five or six inches in diame
ter. Sometimes their bodies will be found
distended to the size of a large bucket,
which leads to the belief that the reptile
sucks or bolts its food whole. There is
no particular in which the water snake
differs from the common land snake, ex
cept 'that the tail is furnished with flukes.
Another peculiarity 6f this animal is
the power which it has of contracting the
substance of the body within the skin.
Instances were mentioned to us by our
friend, the waleman, in which boats had
wade fast to these snakes, and after haul
ing thorn over the gunwale, the fleshy
portion of the body would be contracted
and entirely withdrawn from the boat,
leaving nothing to hold on to but the skin.
II ow WITCHES WERE ITUNCI.—They
were rather hard on the Salem witches.
Among-rthe court recardsin that atioiont
town there in preserved ~an order from
the sheriff to his 'deputy, iu which the
latter is commanded to t:lte one of the
poor witches and hang, her by the nook
(I rill she le dead and lniried I" And
the deputy subjoins his testimony that
he luM executed the order! „
OPINION IN KENTIICKY.—Kentucky is
still a slave State, and will probably bo one
of thO last to adopt the constitutional amend
ment. No negro can cross the Ohio River
without a pass. Ono Of the colored-church
es of this city has recently had for its minis
ter a slave, and has boon obliged not only to
rase money for his salary, but to pay his
master three hundred dollars for his time I
The ruling sentiment of this community is
scarcely more than semi-loyal. The minis
ter of the principal Episcopal church: has
been a chaplain in the rebel army, and - is
even.now obliged to report to the military
authorities from time to time; To-day it is
only the firmness of the general ,command
ing this department that secures ,protection
to unconditional Union Thera:tint
ing rebels from Ilood!s',:atid Lee's' ninihis,
though not allowe4 ; to Wear their. uniforins,
receive a Welcome-from. the , sympathizer's
with"the &nth: Prejiaieeii and social ties
outweigh regiSrd for tbe' honor and inter
ests of the Stato,—CorrespoMtence Of Chris
tian '
.11,egieter.
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