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11. S. GOVERNMENT
President —Atronsw JOHNSON,
Pico President -1.. S. IcOaTER,
Secretary of State—WM.
Secretary of Interior—Jas.. 114111.4 N,
Socrotary of Treasury—llyon NIUCULLOCII,
Secretory o f War—Vownr 11. STANSt.N,
gocrotary of Navy--Gtosotr WELLES.
Post Master General—Wm. DENNIsON.
• ttornay tteneral—./AMES S. Spoon.
ChlefJ notice of the II oiled &MOS—SALMON P. Coast
• STATE GOVERNMENT
Uovernor—ANDßEW 0 CL RTIN.
Seererary of State—ELl SLIFER.
Surveyor Gerl , ral—JAMEß . . BARR,
• FMtOP Gen Ora I—.ISTAC Sts.mit ER,
attorney General— Wu. M. MERL:DIM
Adjutant General—A L. 12 oa+•:I.1..
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State Treasurer—ll ENRY D. Monne.
'Chlorin -tle of the Supreme Court—giro IV. WOOO.
"ARE
COUNTY OFFICERS.
President James 11. Graham.
Associate Judges—lion. Michael Corklln. 16 , 0
II ugh Stuart.
District Attornoy—J. W. D.olHelen.
e.-at. ,110 tarY—EM tta I
Clerk an I Reenrder—Ephralts Crouton t.
Register—(lee W. North.
High Sheriff—John Jacobs.
County treasurer—Usury S. Pitts,
Coroner—David Smith
County Cmunalssionors—Henry Karns. Job M
'fly, Slltcholl McClellan,
Superintendent of Poor Houso—lfonry- Snyder
Physician to Jail—Dr. W. W. D a l e
Physician to Poor House—Dr. W. IV Dal•
BOROUOIi OFFICERS
Chief Burgess—John Campbell,
Assistant Burgess— William Comeron,
Town Counell—East Word—J. W. D. fi lielen, An
drew B. Zeigler, Oro. Wetzel. Chas. U. Ito or, Barnet
Hoffman, ((set Ward—A If B heem..lob Hays, 'Oda.
M. !Bark, S. D. Hillman, Clark, Jas. M.. ltsoninunmer
Borough Treasurer, Dash' Common.
High Constable, Emanuel SwAri 7.. %Vont Constables.
East Ward. Al. drew Morriss. West Ward. James WI.I
110 r.
Assessor-11ililain Noakm.
A ulitor— A K. Sh eater.
Tax Collector—Andrew Heir. Ward CO leen., a— F oat
Ward, Jacdh (rnod) col 11. act Ward, Williams,
Street Commission,. Pal rick Madden
leo; of the Pero-1. L. Spdrislor. David Smith.
khrol Ddhuff. 1I lehaol Holcomb.
tamp 11,hter.— Al.,.Meek, Levi .Nisei
CHURCHES
First Presbyterian Church, Northwest angle of Ceti
tee Square. Hey Coo, ay P. Wing Pastor —Service-.
every Sunday Morning at 11 o'clock. A. M.. and 7
o'cloca P. M.
Seem] t Presbyterian l'hurch, et.rnel South Han
over aid Pomfret streets Her. J Ohll (.; BI lxe. l'ast,
:Services commence at 11 o'clock, A. 31., and 7 n'o.ork
l'. 31.
St. John's Church (•prnt Episcopal) Ilorth,ast nnylr
or cent,o oti.tre Ilov p . .1 ,21err, rector Sar vice,.
at 11 o'clock I. , aad l' 31.
Chan h. 110d1,(1, botweeti
11)1 LOU timer mtreetm It or '1 Pastor.
01,•00 at II "'clock A. )1 , I' 31
donut, !Let 4,1.1 , :ttlivr,
r,vor I ritt “ov. a tattel
at II ll'Qlovlt A. \I., and if .•'4•11,1% l' )1.
\I .41..11.4 (fir St. Nillll.
In I r'ltt •tr•et,.. Itnr l'hoili.ts 11. Sht,loc•k t
II I I o'vlor.l, A. \I. at.(l 7 o'clock I' \I.
.I.bc h iset..lll Om, e.) Ifevb• I
119,viti All. ry icosin Emory M b.. c hurrl, u I
\. , lid ,I;( 2 V. M.
Church ot .-ooth West ror. of cat Ft
anti Onapel Alloy. It or. 13 Beck, rust° . lerstai:t.
at II a, In.. and 5n w
t Patrick', Ott th , plic Church Poulfrot near Ea,tot
I too Pasta, eterviceq every et tii.l rnh
I'aap,:ra t 3 P. 11
El=
iunuui Lutheran Church, coruer 1 l'ota!, et and
Bo Ilurd 4trows. Rev C Sort ht, a ,
D'otoch P. N.
IM.Whon ehanget in the 11 1 .'11 are nueessary the
roper porno's are requested to notify us.'
,ICKINSON COLLEGE
Rev Itor oCO M. Johnson, 0. D.. Pres n' and Pro
esspr of tl rtl Science.
Wilson, A. M., Professor of Natural
Science a., Curator n the Museum.
Rev. IVllltuui L Boswell, A
°rook and Gorman Laugu.gec.
Samuel I). Lllllnonn, A. M., I'rofe sor of Mathernat.
John K. Staym in, A. M., Professor of the Latin nod
French Languages.
lion. James ti. Graham, LL Professor of Lan.
Henryltov. C. Cheston, A. 0 . Principal of the
Grammar kichool.
John flood, Assistant in the 111111111211 School
THE MARV INSTITI"FE
CORPORATION :- Tho hector, %Val Jena and Vestrymen
of St. John's Church Carlisle
The lion. F. J. Clem D 0., Hector and Treasurer.
Mrs. John It. Sneed, Principal.
Miss A. E. Donkersley, instructor In Languages.
Mien L. L. Webster, Instructor In Nlathentatlcs and
Vocal Music.
Mrs. M. M. Ege, Teacher of Piano.
Miss E. Graham, Teacher Of 1 caning and Painting.
Rev. S. Philips, Lecturer on Elocution and Psychol
ogy,
BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS
E. Common. President, James damilton, 11. Saxton,
R. C. Woodward, Ilonry A ewahum, C. P. Ilumerich,
Seet'y J. W. Eby, Treasureri-John.Bphiir„ Messenger
Moot on the let Monday of each Month at Fl o'rloek A
M., at Educationlfall. _
CORPORATIONS
OVELL9L6 DEPOYIT BANE.—President, It. 31. Homier.
sou, W. Al. Beetem Cash. J. P. Hassler and C. B. Pfahler
Tellers, W. K. Pfahier. Clerk, Jno. Underviood Mes
senger. Directrirs, It. Al Henderson, President .lt C.
Woodward, Sidles Woodburn, Moses Bricker, Jobs
Zug, W. W. Dale, John D. (largos, Joseph J. Logan,
Jug. Stuart, jr.
FIEIST NATIONAL Samuel Hepburn
Ca-bier. Jos. C. troffer, Teller, Abner C. Brindle, Ales
se.,ger, Jesse Brown. Wm. Ker, John Dunlap, Bleh'd
Woods, John O. Dunlap, .ease Brenneman, John S.
Sterrett, Sam'l. Hepburn, Directors.
IJUDIBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY.—ProRkIent,
Frederick Watts: Secretor and Treasurer, Edward
M. Biddle: Superintendent, 0. N. Lull. Passenge.
trains three times a day. Carlisle Accotnmo atlon,
Eastward, loaves Carlisle 6 55 A. M., arriving at Cur.
Melo 6.20 P. 51. Through trains Eastward, 10.10 A. 01.
and 2.42, P, M. Westward at 9.27, A. M., and 2.55 I'.
INRLIBLE Gas AND IVA I a CoMYANY.— President, Lem
uel Todd; Treasurer, A. L. Spotn.ler ; Superintom en,
George Wise: Directors, F. lVatts, Wm. M. lientemt
E. M. Biddle, Henry Saxton. it. C. Woodward. J. W.
Patton, P. lardoer and D. f 3, Croft.
SOCIETIES
Oumberland Stu Lodgo No, 107, A. M. meets ul
Marion Hall on tho god and 4th Tuesdays of every
month.
St. John's r.odgo N 0.200 A. Y. M. Meets 8d Thurs
day of each month, at Marion Ifall.
OarlislaLodge.No. In 1. ll of 0. F. Moots Monday
evening, at Trodt's
Letort Lodge No. 03, 1. 0. of G. T. Moats every
Thursday evening In Itheem's story.
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FIRE COAIPANIES.
The Union Fire Company waQ organized" In 1780.-
11mi - so inl.outher between Plitund liennver.
Tho Cumberland Fire Compary witainstliuted Feb
t 8: 1800. Ilouae In Bedford, between Main uno Pool
fret. ; '
The . Gond Will Fire Company wee inatitutod in
March, 1865. Holum in Pomfret. near Hanover
Th 9 I.:tapir° limo k and Ladder Company was inatitu
ta is 18511. , Llouee in Pitt. near Main.
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At the request of a large number of our
subscribers, we re-publish Me following let
ter, which appeared in our columns some five
years since. The description of the noted
local characters named in it, cannot fail to
interest all who are familiar with the earlier
history of our town.
Con rn denre of the }tennis,
GRAVESEND COTTAGE,
Nov. 12th, 1860. j
b;dito r ,r the Carlisle Herald.—
DEAR SlR:—your last - number, a copy of
which I have just been reading, revives some
slumbering recollections which demand ex
pression; end if you have no objection, I will
make your columns the medium of their ut
terance:
It SOODIS that the _Herald is tn.,n, in ifs
" sixty-second volume ;"n fact which indi
cates that the paper was started in the year
1798. My acquaintance with it..dates back
to a period considerably later than that.—
AV hen I began to read the Herald, it was
published and owned by GEonos: PHILLIPS,
. sq., a man who was better known to me
at that time, in his military, than in his ed
itorial capacity. For Mr. PH IL LIPS, it must
be known, was a member, and a prominent
one, too, of the redoubtable Carlisle Guards.
Not that he was a high officer ; or even a
very fn•nuidable looking private, but, never
theless, on "Fourth of July's" and "Review
Days," he was always among the most con
spicuous of his company. His temper was
choleric and his spirit plucky, and When a
little excited, he was What might be called a
very ugly customer to handle. On those fes
tive of oasions referred to. he was araphati
calls it " high private."
of Mr. Pintoes, as an Editor, my mem
ory is very indistinct; but the Herald, 1
believe, was in hi; hands, as it always has
!wen, a highly respectable and instructive
paper. To be sure, for the last thirty years
I have seen very little ()I' it, and tun, there
hire, hardly qualified to judge of its late
charactar; but 'ft on) the occasional numbers
that I'llll into my hands, it is hut
,just to ex-
press my belief that it more than ,ustains it
original reputation.
But, dear me I the old town of l': u •lis e,
judging from your columns, ha ve great
ly changed since I knew it. I see cnt have
Uns and ll urlraul Waler : trod fenr ot• live
Deolists, and as niter loiniropo ie Ph ysi
rin os; and that you are actually taking step'
Lo get up a Dlrerlory. W hat a contrast does
this iwpsent to the old times when we learned
rle.,on,by the fervor of a "tallow-dip, —
and slaked our thirst at the Murkk House
Pump; when the Doctors wern.the
Dentists, and the sole remedy for an otl'c•nd-
ing truth. we , : to pluck it out and cast it
from us. When llommopathy was a name
unknown. mid hor. , e•doses were the general
practice; when ealoon 1 andijitlap—senna and
manna—eusom salts and emetic-tartar, were
the chief remedies of the Pharmaccepoia, and
Dr. ARMSTRONG, Dr. NI cCosicur, Dr. G US
TINE, and Dr. Fow.K.E, the only persons
deemed competent to an opinion in the oc
cult seirnee of medicine.
As for a Directory, we had half-a-dozen
living ones at every corner ; who by word “r
mouth could tell you anybody's residence
/Old everybody's business. They were to be
found supporting the posts of the public
square, or propping up the walls of the old
Court house; sitting under the locust trees
at TOMMY CAmrruEns' door, or lolling on
the benches in front of M AVM ItIV ARMOR'S.
Ah ! my dear sir, the md town must have
undergone great changes ! I fancy, if I were
to go back, I should hardly recognize it. I
used to know every Ong-stone in the borough.
(I shouldn't wonder if the town, now, were
paved with brick !) I could walk, on the
darkest night. front the College to "Gun's
tavern, and from 31 ETZGAR'S to the grave
yard, without once tripping or " stumping"
my toes. 1 know all the people of the town
"like a book," and some of thorn a good deal
better for while the moral lessons of "Web
'Aces speller," and " Pike's" Directions for
the Rule of Three, are clean 'gone from my
memory, GEORGE DAGGS •and JINNY ROPE,
—BETSEY GEORGE and OLD HILDEBRAND,
stand there with all the vividness of objects
seen but yesterday.
EllEl=
Poor old BAGS I There ho stands in all
the glory of his dirt and drunkenness; sways,
ing to and fro—unwashed, unkemped,-fm
shaved ; with his slobbering mouth and
idiotic laugh ; his reeking clothes, hanging
unbuttoned from his half covered porson ;
surrounded by a circle of boys just disgorged
from Breckenridge's alley, who insist that
ho shall " strike up," and who will not bo
satisfied until lie commences his well known
but meaningless "Glitty glow 7 -glitty glow."'
And thenlcemes " old Jinny," with liar
man's hat and flaxen hair streaming from
under it; her dingy white frock, and her in
separable bundle in one band and a club in
the other. ,See how furious she looks, with
her big teeth and rage-distorted features, as
_she makes for a pile of stones, and with im
potent curses, hurls them after a Parcel• of
urchins, who scamper before her with loud
cries of -"More ropc more rope to 'hang
Jinny I"
Then. thefo was old Hildebrand, who used
to visit' the borough every two or three
months; no one (of us boys) knowing whence
lie camkor,lihither ho wont. How distinctly
'Tseot isdoer Anil - cockade - 'his - grrizy beard
- and bandittbk, as witli• foaming rage and
fearful' oathli, he lets fly 'the stones 'at the
Wanton yot *store who still' keep hooting,
and lallooi g after him I '
f
As for p or old Betsey' George, none of
the boys,r , ekless and. running over . with
mischiotits "thoy were, had the hardihood to,
Plngua her. Her inalancjt6lir,.hiee, and *Lent ,
*CS; 'liar lowMuttoribiVindo'ffe aliTieeitoill
'fifts6ages froM 11'u well' conned Bible b abil
the quid appeal of her whole manner id 'the
sympathies of bystanders, 'rePressod all redo-,
ness and kept in check the ustiali.Ontlencyto.
jiilienilo ntisehiof, ' ' ' ; '' "'' ' " ' '
ikisidesthese notabilitieS, s .therci 'Were nth-:
ors of a different category, 'WhOse, images are
'still viliid oh my memory's retina. Thei'ir
'was OLD,MATTIIEW MILLER, who i.ised'ib ;
cOrne . iiding'oVer the lguirt i llridge, eiitising
us to wonder how a common'. sized horse:
could enrrY,,..with apparenttmeonseionsUess,;
'such an rineommon sipsdanan.. ) Not that ho
,wits ii:Pdesen , :of s , uch',9.7c.trttordintn.Y, bnik
oitiiiu.' " hut ,corpulenco ,on horse-1;46k hi at
any time a rare sight; and, when 4Er. Miiler,
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VOL. 65.
RHEEM_&, WEAKLEY, Editors & Proprietors
iargliJingems.
used to come to town our attention was.nat
urally arrested.
But there was another whose proportions
were Much more Daniel Lambert-like than
those of Matthew Miller. I allude to a very,
respectable gentleman, who was known in
his time as—. OLD McOLAN, the big-bellied
man." I see the old gentleman (boys have
a way, you know, of calling men " old,"
without reference to their years,) just as he
used to look, sitting at his door panting for
breath on a summer's evening, or basking
at mid-day in the sunshine of spring. And
how I remember how our admiration used
to be equally divided between him, in his
shirt sleeves, fanning himself with his hat=
and a gay plumaged parrot that swung over
his head, gabbling its own vain praises as
" Pretty Poll—Pretty Poll !"
Then there was a wonder of wonders!—the
Carlisle Band' How I wish I could li ten
now with one-tenth the- delight to Leds
worth's or Hassler's, that I then experienced
in hearing the strains of that extraordinry
group ! We drank it in with eyes-and ears.
It was about as much pleasure to watch the
inflated cheeks of DAN FISHER, GEORGE
SMITH, (Gentleman George,) JOE Givirr and
JIM CREVER, as they played on their efar
lands, or the still greater distention of those
of Levi \V II EATON, as lie poured himself out
into his huge brass Serpent, or the white
face, turned red, of SAM ALEXANDER, as he
labored on his Kent Bugle, as it was to listen
to the diversified sounds that proceeded from
their various instruments. Then how grand
old BLACK looked, as he leaned beyond the
perpendicular, and with his head in the air
and his brass drum on his bel'y, pounded
away with an accuracy of time and a grace
of flourish impossible to be 6:celled! Then
there was MeGoNniAL with his bassoon, and
SWARTZ, with his cymbals, and a boy in
" Guards" uniform, who played the triangle.
The pleasure derived from the two latter
came altogether through the medium of the
eye ; auricularly, they were like religion
without faith, nothing but "sounding brass
and tinkling cymbals."
Then not to be forgotten, as alternating
with the band when on the march, were
SAWNEY MITCHELL and SAM EAGLE with
their rattling drum and eatridereingfife.-
1V hu that ever heard the inevitable i-jAWNKY
or the inimitable SAM, can forget the shrill
and ,oul-stirrin; sounds with which th y
were wont to Wilke up the old echoes! As
for the BAND, I hear it now in the cells of
my memory just as it used to sound, at a lit
tle distance, in my boyish ears. And I se
Captain HALBERT, with his tall and manly
form, turning to give the word of command,
and Orderly Sergeant JONES, the indefati
gable Drill Master, seeing to its execution.
Then there were the INFANTRY, a COM
pany 1 never fancied much—chiefly, perhaps,
because they had no band. But they were
generally hold in high repute, and BILL
MORRISON, theit drummer, was fully equal
to SAW X KY.
Then there were the HussAlts, whose chief
attraction was the red-coated Bugler. ANDY
Scorr usually served in that capacity, though
the place was sometimes filled by JOHN
..ONSI.EIt that many-talentqd genius, who
could walk the wire, stew oysters, blow
rocks, keep a sweat•cloth, and do at least a
hundred other things in a style that admit=
ted of no superiority. Doctor FOULKE was
the Captain of that Cavalry company, and
DICKY MILES was one of its members. 1
hardly know how these two men, so little
resembling each other, should stand coupled
in my memory, unless it is, that I saw the
Doctor once handle Richard rather roughly,
because he refused to obey an order.
Then there was a new company, formed
by BILL BRECKENRIDOE 7 (eECtise my irrev
erence—that was the name he was known
by among his cotemporaries)—called the AR
,TILL Kin% This company had a handsome
brass cannon, and its members wore "shovel
plottgb" hats, and, being something of a. nov
elty, was very popular 'with the boys. Ah !
those were halcyon days! • (Though, between
ourselves, Mr. Editor, if I had them to live
over again, I think I could turn them to bet
ter advantage !)
Then there was the Carlisle Bar, of which
our fathers were so proud, whose members
were objects of our juvenile admiration.—
Jour; D. MAnoN was its bright particular
star, young, graceful, eloquent, and with a
,pry irresistible. Equal to him in general
flinty, and superior, perhaps, in legal acu
men, was Mg . cotemporary and rival, SAM
DEL ALEXANDER, Esq. Then there *as the
venerable ANDREW CAROTHERS, and young
FREDERICK WATTS, just admitted in time
to reap the advantages of his father's yepp-_
tation, and create an enduring one of his
own. And GEonog METzuAtt, with his treble
voice and his hand on his side, amusing the
Court and spectatcrs with. his not.oyor deli
catefaccthr. An . there was "BILLY RAM
sEY, with his cue," a man of many clients,
and the Sine .jua non of the
, Demeeratic par
• ' and then, towering above them all. was
" Cninn" TuomPsow,:wbo - uied to fetch us
boys up all standing, -with his-sudden-and
Stentorian demand of "Silence!"
Then ,there was on the, pavement, at, the
door, "Gnextx; Alouniamf,!' with her long,
yellow, flexible melting "sticks" of molasses
candy, Milled, not ifaaptli : ,: l —•filiddininal
intestines 1 • . .
Mr, Editor, I must top,„ IVs
,no use.
Time would fud me to atten.pt a desdription!
of half that occMlrtyme, my mem l
ory, once gets n fillip on'thesG sUbjects, there,
is no end to the images it'is. Sure to Call up'
Pofhaps on comp range occasion, if I should]
have leisure,-and ,you should be willing, E
will trouble yon, further. with my.yondiful:
reminiscences, In, the meantime ; , please
re
gird me,
.'though anonympus'rd•Unreccig-'
nized, an, old friend and tieifin f aintimenc'and!
• • - •
LEBANON:---T4e cedars of .Lqbanon
have diminished from a forestio a sacra
d d• 't to t a
grovokguar e by a pries au ,pro, e
by a superstitiori. !'• The• prophecy Of•lsa.:.
iah, 4tis knee ;Been,- ulBlled;,aad
i'Lebanon turned into a 'friiitful: field,";
the'rest:Of the 'frea.ef Glio, forest are
few ; that ;1), child may.*rite them."
, i rhc;
cedars' of 'Lebanon -scarcely . occupyy i k
'space,eitual.to;tVm'acres gro u nd.' AUti
.Lebanogi is a' truitfill.fiehl; ,the''Mulherry
tree yields its luscious fruit, arkali!s more
useful: leaves, with graceful lufturiance
and • in valleYw.t,he'ddihrvestw wabo
spontaneously ittuimi "
anepusly ut
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Correepondence:of the HERALD.
Polvlobacror, Chailes.oo, Md. .1
July, 2f3,,,1.§65.
Dear Ilerald :—A trip froth mole
to Washington,' Vi o. ,CbesapeAlie Bry n
is perhaps one of the most• 4m.hiltqa4
ting and interesting voyages *Web Oy
one, not an experienced ' tourist; ecOd
take.
,
After a sweltering season of three days
It
in the monumental city, during w lob
period it seemed to me that the calor° of
the continent was concentrated within itB
precincts, I succeeded in securing a
state room and accommodations on .board
the fine side wheel steamer Express, of
the "Potomac Trarispertation Line," with
self and baggage checked throagh to final
<4...q....ti 4 n, Not loos AftAlr. reaching the
vessel the welceme sound ofthe Captain's
"Cast off that bow line,"lndioated•a speedy
_departure, and soon after we swung out
into the stream under full headway adown
the Patapsco. ,
Passing Forts , McHenry and Carroll—
' the latter, one of the finest military works
ever constructed, looking like a veritable
Gibralter, surrounded as it is on all sides
by water—we were not long in entering
the dark green waters of the Bay.
Night, on this vast expanse presents a
truly grand and magnificent sight. With
the shores growing dimnTer and dimmer
as the sombre darkness advances; the sky
effulgent with "[leaven's golden lights;"
and the monotonous laboring of the ves•
sel as she steadily ploughs her way through
the deep rocking waves, it is certainly in
tended to inspire one with awe at the
eyeful splendor of Cod's great handiwork,
and with admiration for man, whose in
genuity holds the troubled water with an
iron grasp, as it were, and enables his fel
low beings to ride with safety o'er its sur-
It was morning when we entered the
Potomac and as the Sun rose the sight of
that beautiful river, radiant and F park
ling, as if offering us a s.niiing welcome
to its placid boson), presented a view nev
er rivalled by artificial or natural scenery.
This noble etre= brought back to the
wind of your correspondent vivid recollec
tions of the:lunforgotten past," 'when foot
sore and weary he crossed and recrossed
its broad expanse ; rode its length on
heavily laden transports ; forded it, and
finally fought. upon its banks. Alas the
Potomac is too truly a historic river, and
for the roster of departed dead along its
either shore during the war, the blue wa
ters will ever beat a sad and mournful re
quiem.
Off Point Lookout we landed in a yawl
a few passengers for that place. The
buildings consists of a number of frame
houses used us hospitals, and guard
houses for confederate prisoners. It has
gained some notoriety during the war.
Piney Point was next passed and then
Matthiases, at which place It will be re
membered a batter of rebel artillery
blockaded the river for a long time. Fre
quently captures of Union vessels were
made off this Point, more especially un
armed schooners—and run off to Nassau.
Leonardtown is quite .a buy little place
but is not noted particularly, except us
the home of the Hon. Benj. G. H AStR,IS
of considerable public notoriety.
t Mary's County along the river shore
is beautiful in the , extreme Its pictur
esque and scenic loveliness was doubtless
the great incentive to Mrs SouTriworru,
and it - is no wonder that' she chose this
locality far "away from the allurements of
fashionable life," to indite her stories of
such worldwide celebrity.
No landings are us yet made on the
Virginia side, but when the regime as it
was before the War, is reestablished,: all
the usual stopping places will be touohed
and the regular mode of travel 'resumed.
Arriving at Glymont, a beautiful spot
in the midst of foliage—solely tilt - pia
for excursion parties front ykehshiii;gtou,,
having u large p‘avilion and suitable build
ings erected therefor,— X:guye 44oweil to
the Express, quite enchanted. with , the
trip experienced upon her.—E' • •"
A GERMAN CUSTOM —The following ,
is from the Springfte.il Republican ;'''" A
gentleman who wastinvelling in:Germany'
madee til *.
qu!ry, an.tnapor place
in whioh he happened to ,bo on Sabbath,
in , which church be. would boi likely to
hear the best mink.' The'qinewer'
•We do tioChaire, any , mudie - in oburnb.';
Sonhewbet etirilided; he asked itne'hynnfir
were , 'sung., The person- itkoniped r 9.1
8 P 0 , 0 9d: 01e.A 1 4F:4144 7 .0) bo , ,. B 9e l Ped ;
,to ; have ; no, idea , that itiwas music
o religious etercise into which music came,
incidentally, Without doubt; but'id rsubh
a'tutberdi unto plade'es hardrytiibe regard=
ed' for. l its `own tiake.."Thle is
i 4P a a ° F;9° I ?O 3 RIPPAI ARON, „ qcsjp ja
nothle ohjeot,,buit
SHUTTING W? A Risnor.--Jarvis, the,
painter, was painting Bishop-4----,--,•at4
the venerable prelate began. , to retncat-
Strate•with hint upon'the dissipated - eourtia
into' Whioh he had fallen': 'Jarvis,
plog,shia,paoell from the forehead of ~hor
portrait to the lower part, of, his ,Taee
said, with .a slight motion to the revirenti
==
" g eWiii 'you be'good'enoligtitii khtit'youi
By pai9q9g that fciaturt3ll3e : c4ttloed
Oi
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`Atigust 11, 1865
THE 'TOOSIN 'PETA.tS OP TEN
YEARS AGO.
True History of The " Flaunting
COPPERHEAD .' PAPERS. PLEASE COPY
A s all the, copperhead journals and ora
tors throughout the country have seen fit
to attach undur importance and a totally
garbled construction to an extrot from a
dertain song which appeared many years
ago in our columns, it may be as well at
this •lioint to place on record a true copy of
that song, and a history of the events out of
which It grew, together with copies of
certain other songs on the same subject,
forming a series of which the muoh•quot
ed lyric wit.; but a part .
The first song of 'the series appeared
in the consulate of Franklin Pierce, and
was called out by the circumstances at
tending the capture and imprisonment of
one Anthony Burns, an alleged fugitive
slave from Virginia. This arrest treat.
ed intense excitement in Boston, inso
much that nearly all busiaess was sus
pended during its pendency. The
people and State authorities of the great
Old Commonwealth were perfectly will
ing to obey the Fugitive Slave law, pro
vided its provisions were properly com
plied with, and the accused given sow
Agee of• proving, if he could, that4 - Ve
was not the character he had been taken
for. This, however, was not the policy
of the then Federal officials, who con
ducted the whole ease with an overbear
ing insolence and disregard of the pope•
lar feelings which seemed to court an
armed' collision.
While the excitement was at its highest,
a I3oston paper announced, with high
cornmdndation, that "two companies of
foreign born soldiers had been stationed
in and around the Court-llouse to keep
back the rabble"—this " rabble," we
may remark, embracing seren•eirhts of
all that was most eminent in the learning.
piety, public confidence and respectibili
ty of the Triniontane City. Taking these
words of the paper for his text, the au
thor of this series wrote and sent to The
Independent the following verses, which
he - called - -
Are I throng the courts, that once were free
With bands of savage soldiery;
Call out the foreign kern I
Beneath the shade of Bunker shaft,
Where earth the blood of freemen quaffed,
A different tale nib. day we learn.
Crush Massachusetts under foot,
Enslave and menace, stab or shoot,
The Northern - mind is bowed ;
No more the Pilgrim banner waves,
Content we see our 'ethers' graves
ily Slavery's groaning cannon plowed
0 Massachusetts I' Mother home I
Thy rocks that dash to whitening foam
Those seas the "Mayflower" pressed ;
Those very melts cry out to-day—
The waves dash high their glittering spray,
To see thy weakness thus confessed I
And shall Virginia's brutal lords,
Backed and anstained by foreign awords
Thy ancient cool !mishit. t
Shall hireling ateol and Sonthorn fraud
Reverse the mandate given by God—
." Done ye would men do to you l"
Oh I never, while to misery's sob
Our eyes o'arflow, our pulses throb,
Can COMO a day so cursed ;
While hope remains, while =lns hre strong
While lives the sense of right OW wrong—
Those fetters he it oursdb burst I
We have been patient, and our pence
Mistaken was, for cowardice—
We try a different tense:
The passive mood bath brought us chains,
The active now nlOllO remains
To bring these tyrants back to sense
Up, Massachusetts I up and arm I
Let every steeple toll the alarm :
.. Rally thy freemen soon!
Old Boston, no you hope to live,
Neer let that frightened fugitive
In fetters quit your barracoonl
Whether our rights we now defend,
Or if the North Must yet descend
lerom depth to lower deeps;
Remember this, nor be you dumb
When the great time to net has come
With us the South no promise keeps
This song, immediately republished in
THE TRIBUNE, achieved a sudden and
immense popularity, being widely copied
in the journals of the day, and largely
quoted from in the adverse speeches of
party orators. It was a veaitable " toc
sin peal," end was answered by an up•
rising of popular opinion, such as is
rarely witnessed.
'While these matters were going on in
Boston a"wretoli, to whose nurne we afford
the charity of - oblivion, committed in one
night a succession of crimes at the bare
recitalof which the imagination shudders.
The scene of the occurrence was in the
vicinity of Flatbush, Long Island. The
monster entered a house in which he had
formerly been employed ago servant, for
tho d'ouble''purpose of robbing bis roaster
:tindbutiaging a young girl who had been
,his,fellpw, servant and had rejected his'.
eddreSses During, the perpetration of
these 'crimes, his. former master and Mis
tress' aronbed,' Whereupon he split their
mbat:ai, and other
wise mangled Optia 010itfully , and then
,atternpted. to hill tbezirl ,helad tried to
-.ravish, after .whioh he set lire to the house
(itilorder ter destroy the lifeless proofs' f
'•' ' '
A horror so aggravated aroused 'ill the
neighboring citizens' to fury:, Iluridreda
organizeil themselves into a seariihing
(Orty! t!•9d l uoted for, the villain thropgh
wki,qh he bad taken refuge.'
; , lie,was..at last found, after two. or ,three
ditys;•search, bidden up' to his 'neck in
mildprind bleeding profusely - some
Won' n' Which be hOperl
tq Oheat . tfie , On, being toatiglit
;he, i‘Vonce,confessed his •erirnes, ,‘and it
Nvas for a 'moment .depated as to whether
he ahould not be lynehed , upon the spot.
:The' sPirit of' law'.and JUStitie prevailed,
ifeW`tiVOr, him"
afair trial
,an , an ppportunity
,er i eentiap
defend•Alim:,
I; he, very' lame paper, that gave partiou
los, of this tragedy •dosotibod - also how ,
4 fith i aiiiViii*i v ,l l;l o ll 4: any., fair
BISI
LINES FOR THE DAY
BEIM
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TERMS:--$2,00 in Advance, or $2,50 within the year
had been ordered back to Slavery on the
mere affidavit of a citizen of Virginia,
claiming to be his owner, and the arbitra
ry decision of a Commissioner, who was
paid an extra $5 by law for deciding a
gainst the black man. All Boston closed
its places of business on the day that the
military procession appeared as an escort
for Anthony Burns from the Court-House
to the wharf. The black man was in the
eater of a square of infantry. Two
sections of artillery, loaded with grape,
were paraded to repress any popular out
burst. Meanwhile appeared on nearly
every house -top the United States flag at
half-mast, while over rancuil. Hall, the
old "Cradle of Liberty," the same flag
was displayed at half-mast and completely
enshrouded in crape.
On these simultaneous events were writ
ten the verses (originally pulished in our
columns) which we now subjoin :
THE CONTRAST.
THESE are two pictures roughly drawn—
Two scenes to meditate upon :
No rainbow tints o'erflood
The breathing figures they reveal—
The pencil was assassin steel,
The palette swam in blood.
LONG-ISLAND
Crouched in the swamp, amid the fern,
What hideous features we discern,
Torn, filthy and aghast—
How brutishly his eyeballs glare!
Vet shrinks he back into his lair,
'Till those who hunt have passed
And there are shouts and thrilling cries
As hunting group to group replies—
Ills covert they have hemmed :
They a monster steeped in crime,
And find him, grovelling in the slime,
Self-wounded, and,ondemmed.
What tongue describe the midnight scene,
When first the mu-derer crept within
That home of peaceful life?
When the run ment-ax amain
Through the crushed bond and spattering brain
Of husband and of wife! ,
No matter—let the law decide;
Though he confesses how they died,
Although-his guilt appears:
Let Judges tilt and counsel plan, ,
And let him an• Neer as he can,
A Jury of his peers.
NEW-ENGLAND.
Our Boston streets are Mute ea-day,
Though tens of thousands throng the way.—
Our flags are hung with crape;
No sound except the death-heirs toll,
The tramp of soldiers and the roll
- Of cannon brimmed with grape.
Lo! as the fettered Idaek appears
Amid he square of serried spears,
.Ilow heaves the mn'titudel
They seek with flowers to strew his track
lint leveled bayonets drive them hack—
le his the oriole of blood?
Worse than all crimes! Matilda Is dark
And Southern fraud has set her n u u•k
Upon Ilia fettered limbs;
Pampered and fed by Federal might,
limn ARK of Liberty and Hight
On slavery's lied-sen strives
Nor does the man-thief even avow
That guilt hoe stained that ebon 'mow—
- .
- The crime is in the skin!
Yet, monster 1 hungering for yet r prey
A whiter heart than ymirs tt tiny
Tin it bosom teats within!
For h:io no trial! never pause I
Rough-ride New-England's honored laws
Make of our tenra yo-r mirth!
Our first-horn Freedom ye haNe lain—
But in the "Cradle" once again
fir swear to rock a nobler birth I
The troubles of Caleb Cushing and
Company were not yet half over, in ref
erence to this poor "colored American
of African descent." On the trial being
made it was found, that no ship or steam
er in Boston could be hired for the pur
pose of carrying this alleged fugitive back
toslavery. The universal cry was: "Give
him a trial. Demand from the Virgin
inn that he shall give as much proof of
ownership as would be requ red to recov
er a stray cur! Comply only with these
requisitions, and we bow as in duty bound
to the supremacy of the laws of the Un-
ion."
Matters having arrived at this pass,
Caleb Cushing and Company had noth
ing for it but the conversion of a nation
al armed vessel into a slave ship ! The
Morris was ordered to Boston for the sole
.purpose of oarrying back to Virginia this
one miserable wreteh—alleded to be a
fugitive from slavery. Picture—those
who know anything of the Old Bay State
—the horror created by this ignominious
desecration of a national ship! The flag
that had waved over slippery and sine
king decks in our early conflicts with
Great Britain—the flag to which our ear
liest and noblest captains had lifted their
eyes for inspiration through the hot hours
of many a bloody sea-fight, for that flag
Caleb Cushing and Company could find
no better business ten years ago than to
cover at the masthead of the Morris this
isolated instance of the slave trade carried
on in an armed vessel of the nation.
Just think of it! Bear in mind' all - the
surroundings of the case; acid then, as
you read the following lines, if your pulse
does not beat quicker, your cheek tingle,
your eye kindle .and your heart throb
with sympathy and approval—be assured
that your natural place is in the syna
gogue of the Copperheads, and that in
the conventicle of "Peace Saints" you
are'entitled.to„a hassock on the highest
steps of the pulpit.
lIAYL TO TiH STARS AND BTRIP.BI .
[TI2O ,U. 8. nutter Morris has been ordered by' .Preal
dent Franklin Plorco to carry. Anthony . Burns from Bos
ton to Virginia, to be there enslaved for over. Boston
Paper.] r. •
, lisn, to the Stars mid Stripes I
The boastful flag and Lail I
' The tyrant trembles 'now
. '''And at the sight grows pale.
The Old:World groans lu pain,
And turns her eye to see,
' Beyond the Wratern Mani,
This emblem of the Free:
Ildil to ilieSiripes, end Stars 1 ,
'• liepe•beame in every ray,
• An Po ci throuh tho dungeon bars
• • inte outt brightr wavy;wa .
,The Old' World sees the ,
light ,
„ That shall' her cella Memo,
• . And, ehrinking back to night,
Oppression reads her doom.
'Bail to the Stars and Stripes I
They float in every sea;
O'er every ocean'sweepe •
The emblem ofthe Free.. •
Beneath the azure sky,
• • Of soft Italia's clime,
sn ; Or. here Aurorae die
Inaelitude .
All hail tbe flaunting Lie I
The Stars grow paid and iim—
The Stripes are,,biOod,y scars,
A lie the flaunting hymn!,
"It'aldolds a'pirate's sleek; '
, r , , It binds a tnatt•in chains,
And round the captive's no*
; Ito folds Pro bloody stains.
rat down tbo daunting Lie! --- -'
': Itilf , Plllld 0 1 ' 0 ,0 6, 0y n,gl . --r . 1 .,
fult'no stinny sky
-••-• • ' • 3'lllthll'attee polluted rag!
, ~, betroy it, yo ,who can! ' . ,
poop, sink it In Op !laves! • •
' ' ." " • It boars' itiellOrronen
' • To groan With followilaree. ' '•'. "2 •''
Awake the burning scorn—
The vengeance long and deep,
That till a better morn
Shall neither tire nor sleep.
Swear once again the wow,
By all we hope or dream,
That what we Buffer now
The future Shall redeem.
Enter' the boasted Lie,
Till Freedom lives again,
With stature grand and purpose high
Among untrammeled men I
Roll up the starry sheen ;,
Conceal its bloody stains ;
For in its folds are seen
The stamp of rusting chains.
Swear, Freemen—all as one—
To spurn the flaunting Lie,
Till Peace, and Truth, and Love
Shall fill the brooding slcy ;
Then, floating in the air,.
O'er hill, and dale, and NOR,
'T will stand forever fair,
The emblem of the Free I
To all of treason, disloyalty, or con
tempt for the national flag that the ene
mies of human freedom can find in the
foregoing verses, we bid them heartily
Welcome. They have never heretofore
publishdd more than a few stanzas, and
even those feW were garbled and twisted
out of their proper sense and connection.
The copy now submitted is from a revise
by the author, with a few merely verbal
corrections ; and as, for good or evil, this
song has passed into the history of our
country and age, we think those who have
mis-quoted extracts from it, should let
the whole of it be seen in its rightful
shape. And now for the last of the
tocsin-peals" rung out in our columns.
On the arrival of tl e Morris in the
South, with her black prisoner duly fet
tered on board, there was tremendous re
joicing through all slavedom—late Jeff
dom. All the orators and bards of the
"Chivalry" made speeches and wrote songs
in honor of their victory over the law
abiding citizens of the old 'Bay State.
Joy bells were rung, bonfires kindled,
windows were illuminated, much whiskey
consumed and the friends of Franklin
fierce thought his renomination certain.
There wa, joy in the IVhite House, bui
mourning iu the best hearts of New-
England. That a fugitive slave truly
proved to be such, should be returned.
was a necessity in which very nearly a I
New-England acquiesced. But that a
Southein master should be quatained,by
the Federal Executive in seizing a man
in the streets of Boston, and hurrying
him away without any substantial proofs
. of identity or
_former servitude—
this cup was a bitter one, but President
Pierce and Caleb Cushing made Massa
chusetts drink of it to the very dregs
On the receipt of Anthony Burns in
the Slave I)ouiinion, he was soleinnly
turned over from the custody of
Union bayonets to thatof the local militia,
an organization with which the North
has since become pretty 'thoroughly ac
quainted at Manassas, Antietam, Mal
vern Hill, the bights of Fredericksburg,
and elswehere. By these military scions
of First Families of the South he was
ostentatiously escorted to the plantation
of his alleged owner; and it was on the
report of these ceremonies, that the fol
lowing verses were struck out and given
to the public in our columns :
TUE CURTAIN FALLS
HARK I how the Joybells of the South
Speak victory with bracen mouth
What tyrant have they slain
What conquered monarch comes to-day
Begirt by all this plumed array
Of fierce and wcaponed men ?
Thos Joybells I Once I heard them ring
When Britain's dull and savage King
Loosed from our throat his grip ;
Then sabers gleamed—then Kingship fells—
And are they pealed once more to tell
This victorygf the whip 9,
Behold him in the center, there?
The fettered imago of despair,
While round him hotly flows,
That "Chivalry" the Bouthrons boast—
And ou the flag that leads the host
The name of 'Freedom" glows!
Ay I lead him where the lilacs bloom
Around Mount Vernon's silent tomb—
Green be those trees and fresh I
And there, with oaths as fierce as deep
Salute the moldering tenant's sleep
With bide for human flesh!
Who cares for Boston 1 though her cry,
Her wail of bitter agony,
Through all the welkin swells
She dared not face our shotted gene—
We drown the murmur of her eons
With shouts and ellangia Lolls
No reapito—no surcease of woo;
And shall it be forever so?
Was this the Pilgrim faith?
Shall Freedom's votaries still despair,
And must the living North yet bear
• • This yoke with moral death?
From the foregoing history,it will be
aeon that the "flaunting-lie" story of the
Copperhead journals and orators is a
• , flaunting lie" indeed. It will also be
seen that, far from being an utterance in
contempt of the flag, it was a cry of sor
rowful indignation at beholding the dese•
oration of that sacred emblem. • This state
ment we have felt due to the truth of his
tory, and now the subject stands dismiss
ed, with only this concl i nding remark:
All four songs were tossed out, we 'believe,
in the, heat and hurry of daily journalism,
and have this eminent value : that, how
ever deficient they may be in literary
nisrit or polish, they giVeli — true, perma
nent, -and—intensified expression to the
cotivietions of the popular mind on a sub
ject which must forever remain of the
highest interest.—N. Y. qrilrune.
A MAN coming home lute one night,
little more than " half-seas over," feeling
thitsty Procured' a glass of 'water am)
drank ft. In doing so he swalloWed a
small ball , of silk that lay in the bottom
of the-tumbler, the end catching his
teeth. Feeling something in his mouth,
and not knowing what' it was, he began
pulliiieat the end; and the little ball un
rolling, he fI , QOEI had several feet in his
hands', and still. no' end,-apparently, Ter
riflodfhe shouted atthe top of his voice,
4i.Wife-1 wife l • l'say I wife come heiel
am uniaveling c•
; •• r
MEI
kV-Nothing is :more tieeoming than.
the blush of modesty upon the,eounte
amine of, a young,man, Xis the index
.of &Imre heart sild !a , :virtuous' ' •
Since the notable surrender of JEFF.
THompsoN and his ragamuffins, we hear
nothing from Arkansas but reports of
the pacification of the State, and the re
suscitatit n of the courts and state and
county offices generally. Acquiescence
in emancipation is universal, and society
ris rapidly conforming to the new basis.
In this respect the contrast is great with
the extreme bitterness of the pro slavery
faction in Missouri.
NO, 32.
No State in the Union was more in
jured by slavery and its consequent wills
of vice, sloth and ruffianism than Arkan
sas. Access to almost all parts was ren
dered easy to immigrants by her fine riv
ers, which also offered easy conveyance
to their products. Yet along the valleys
of these rivers, nine-tenths of the land,
of the best quality for the production of
cotton and of grain crops, far superior to
the average of the lands of the Southern
Suttee, lies waste and unpeopled. There
on virgin soil, unoppressed by the influ
ence of an effete and prejudicial class of
former slaveholders, free labor will have
an opportunity to show its superiority. to
the old system. With all the advantages
of soil and climate, the land ought to
equal in productiveness the most favored
regions of the North, and the rapidity of
their improvement, to be exceeded by no
other part of the country.
HALTER-BREAKING COLTS
Young colts,'when their dams are used
in a harness, are frequently troublesome
about following, especially when travel
ing on the highway, where they are lia
ble to meet other horses. It is common
to see a young colt run directly way from
its dam, when on the road, and becoming
bewildered, no little trouble is required to
bring it back. To avoid all annoyance
from this source, make a soft halter suit
able for the colt's head, and hitch it to a
strong fence, or some other place, where
it can not run around a post and wind the
rope up. It may pull for several hours,
but will soon learn to stand. As soon as
accustomed to the halter, the colt may be
taught to lead, by placing the dam a few
rods distant from where it is hitched, and
leading it toward her. It will be impos
sible to lead a colt away from its dam, un
til it has become well accustomed to the
halter. By spending a little time with a
cult, treating it with the greatest gentle-
Oess, it may be taught to travei by the
side orAts dam, wherever she goes.
Tic the colt's halter to the backband of
the dam's harness, so that it can jusC
'reach her udder. This length of halter
will prevent the colt running forward of
the mare when she is traveling. In a few
clays it will become so gentle, that any
one can put on the-halter and handle it.
When colts are not accustomed to the hal
ter until they are two or more years old,
they are frequently very difficult to man
age. But if taught to lead when quite
young, they can often be changed from
one place to another, with little difficulty,
and will be much more manageable
Amer. Agriculturist.
THE BOSTONIANS - A New Yorker,
who visited the great musical festival in
Boston, writes home thus :
" These Boston people are nothing if
not critical, and their satisfaction at find
ing•something to critici. , e is the chief
pleasure they derive from a musical en
tertainment. When ttey go to Heaven
they will declare that some of the harps
are out of tune, that one of the angels
takes liberties with the composer's text,
and that another, sings flat.' They will
alsO deplore the absence of the Boston
organ."
Be-" Cato, what do you suppose is the
reason that the sun goes towards the
South in the winter ?"
"Well, sah, I don't know, unless he no
stand de 'clemency of de Norf, and so
am 'bliged to go to de Souf, where he
'speriences warmer longitude !'' was the
philosophic reply.
Trinity Church, New-York Its Im-
• Trinity Church, the home of the choral
service in America, may proudly sing a song
of gladness over her vast wealth. With the
exception of her corporation, but few are
aware of the miles of real estate from which
she receives an annual rental. In this tor
rid u eather it would tire the strongest man
to walk over tile street lines which bound
her property. She owns the very heart of
the city, rife with commerce, speculation
and hourly profits. There is no diozese so
wealthy no her parish; no European Bishop
enjoys so rich a See; for, on the first of May
in every year, her treasury is replenished by
hundreds of thousands of greenbacks.
On the last of May, )866, the leases which
Mr. Astor obtained of the corporation of an
immense portion of the property, svi'l have
full control of rent estate in the most prof
itable part of the city, worth, it is estima
ted, over six Millions of dollars. As prop
erty has risen one hundred per cent., since
these leases were made, it is a matter-of
doubt whether renewals of them will- be,
granted at the present rates. The - enbjeet
will doubtless cause an animated session
among the corporation.
.-Th„eAstor lease, it- should be stated, in
cludes -- three. hundred and thirty-six lots,
which were let in the year 1766, at seventy.
five cents par lot for a term of ninety More
years. The lots are, of course, all-occutned
by buildings which
,yield generally 'high
rents. Some idea of the amount drawn
from the rents of those buildings may ben,re
alized when it is known that Mr. Astor'iCia
emir last year, as returned in the Internal
Revenue office of the Sixth district, was over
$1,300,000,
Mr: Astor pays Trinity Chord' $2OO per
'annum for all the lots, being about fieventy
five cents for each.' -If we estimate the ren
tal -from each building on these - lots at the
low average of $5OO, the fortunate leasehold
er- must receive on an invested capital of
$269, an income of $168,000 per annum.
The gold mines and the petrOleuiti'fields, in
the palmy days of their'first discovery, nev
er yielded such immense wealth froth so pet
ty a capital.
'We cannot, at 'present, furnish Ourrread
era with-an:account of the disposition of the
vast sum 'which Trinity Church receives
annually from her real estate; es no one,'
'ekeept Member of the v,estry, is allewed
access to the bboks: „BiatlrOm 'all the re
have; coma to our ktiowledge,
we can stat i c that thaf,the annual income
or should bit - overs3oo,ooo.
In a few yearif all the leases,given by
Trinity to:vbribus•Parties will' expire; and
the,propert* , wll)„ revert back to the corper
mien. ,The, value .of the..whole rcal estate
*lll . thini;i, itf Said, not fall far slt,Qrt ; of
twenty, millions of dollsr4 ^ • ' •
ARKANSAS.
mense Wealth