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FALSR FRIENDS AND TRUE.
BT FTKLBr JOHNSON.
'Tis difficult within this world
To find a faithful friend,
On whom, hroughout the scenes of life,
We ever can depend.
And often, often have we thought
This friend at last is got,
'Till trial proves the naouinful truth;
Alas! we have him not
Some there are whose object is
To gain their selfish ends;
Declare and vow. in solemn tones,
Tbey are your steadfast friends.
But w 1 en their wish'd-for ends are gained ;
When serving self is o'er,
Experience will teach to US,
They are our friends no more.
And some there are we daily meet.
Possessing winning grace,
Who by their acts show you that they
Are friendly to your face ;
But when your back to them is turned,
They then expose your name
And strive to cover every act
With slander and with shame.
And then comes those who always Will
Of others tell you mu h;
And 'tis my council unto all,
That they beware of such ;
For they who will of others speak,
And tell you all they know,
The expectation is that they
Will speak the same of you.
Then if within your walks of life
A faithful friend yon find,
Lavish upon him all your love
And treat, 0 ! treat him kind ;
For faithful friends upon this earth
Are fading day by day—
Are fading last from this dark earth
Like moonlit clouds away
A WARNING AGAINST
INFIDELITY IN THE CHURCH
PASTOR AL. LETTER
OF THE
RIoHT REV. BISHOP HOPKINS.
Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont. Prestd*
ing Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States.
To the Right Rev. ALONZO PATTER, of the
Diocese of Pennsylvania, and the Seceding
Clergy of Philadelphia :
1 have seen, with great amazement, a pr<>-
iest against my letter un the 14 Bible View ol
Slavery," signed by you and a long list o!
. ur rlergy, in which you en>lemn it m
- unworthy of any Servant of Jesus Christ,"
as "an effort to sustain on Bible principles,
t e States in rebellion against the Govern
ment in the wicked attempt to establish, by
force of arms, a tyranny in the name of a
Republic, whose corner stones shall be the
perpetual bondage of the African," and as
such yu say that it challenges your '• indig•
nant reprobation•"
Now my Right Revetend bro'her, I am
S-itry to be obliged to charge JOB, not only
with a gross insult against your senior, but
with the more serious offence of a false accu
sation. Mv letter was first published in Jan
uarv, 1861, more than three months before
the war began, at a time when no one could
anticipate the form of Government which
the Southern States should adopt, or the
course which Congress might take in refer
ence to their secession. And when I con
sented to its publication, I did not suppose
that it would be used in the service of any
political party, although I had no right to
complain, if it were so used, because the let
for, once published, became public property
But in its present form there is nothing
wh lever in it which l>ear <>n the question
<f " rebellion," or of the " perp< tual bondage
of the African," of which slavery sh -uld be
the 44 corner sto*ne. M On ihe contrary, 1 re
ferred, n the last page, to tnv lecture pub
lished in Buffs 11 in 1860, and to mv book
called 4 * The American Citizen," publi-hed in
New York in 1857, where " I set forth the
■same views on the subject of slavery, adding,
however, a plan for its gradual abolition.
whenever the S >uth should consent, ani the
! whole strength of the Government could aid
in its accomplishment." " Sooner or later"
I added, 44 1 believe 'hat some measure of
that character must be adopted. But it be
: ongs to the slave States themselves to take
thelead in such a movement. And mean
while their legal rights and their natural feel
ings must be respected, if we would hope for
unity and peace."
With these facts before your eyes, I am to
tally at a loss to imagine how even the ex
travagance ot party zeal could frame against
me so bitter a denunciation. The whole nb
ject of my letter was to prove, from the Bi
biz , that in the relation of master and slave
there was necessarily no sin whatever. The
sin, if there were any, lay in the treatment
of the slave, and not in the relation itself.—
Of course, it was liable to abuse, as all hu
man relations roust be. Bat while it was
certain that thousands of our Christian
brethren who held slaves were treating them
with kindness and justice, according to the
Apostles' role, and earnestly laboring to im
prove the comforts and ameliorate the hard
sh ps of the institution, I held it tj be a cru
el and absurd charge to accuse them as tin
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefferson.
TUiYKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21, 1863.
nert against the UiYine law, when they were
only doing what the Word of G< d allotted,
under the Constitution and established code
ol their Countty.
I do not know whether your band of in
dignaht reprobationists ever saw my book,
published in 1857, but vou read it, because
I sent you a copy, and I have your letter of
acknowledgment, in which, while vou dis
aented from some of my conclusions, you did
it wiih the courtesy of a Christian gentleman
In that letter there is nothing said about my
opinious Leing " unworthy of any servant of
Jesus Christ," and nothing of" indignant
reprobation." But tempora mutantui, et
not mutamer in illit.
Yo ! th* times are indeed sadly changed,
and you have changed accordingly. For ma
ny years you have met in brott.erly council
with these Southern slave holders. You in
vited thetn to the hospnaliiies of your house,
and paid them ijecial deference. I'lie new
light of Eastern Abolitionism hud not yet
risen within our Church, and if you then
thought as you now think. y<>u took excel
lent care that no man araon si your Sou'h
em Mends should know it. Moreover, your
favorite Theological Seminary, only three
years ago, was the Virginia school at Alex
aiidria, raised to great prosperity by Bishop
Meade— a slaveholder —and lam very sure
that nothing at variance with my Bibl view
ol slavery was ever taught in that institution.
Yes! we may well say of you, as of many
others, quantum mutatus ab illo! How
changed is the Bishop of Pennsylvania in
three years from his former course of con
servatisin, peace and Scriptural consistency !
But the Word of God has not changed ;
the doctrine of the Apostle has not changed ;
the Constitution of our country has not
changed ; the great standards of religiou*
truth and real civic loyalty remain just as
they w.re; and I remain along with them,
notwithstanding this hitler and unjust as
sault from you and your clergy. I do not
intend to imitate your late style of vilupera
tion, for I trust that I have learned, even
when lam reviled, not to revile again. I re
spect the good opinion of your clergy, ami I
atu not aware that 1 have done anything to
forfeit it. I respect your office, your talents,
your personal character, and the wisdom and
success with which, for maov yeirs, vour
Episcopate has been conducted. But I do
not respect your departure from the old aud
well settled ruh of the Church, and from the
Af sistolic law of Christian fairness and cour
tesy. Ido not believe in the modern discov
cry of those Eastern philanthropists who de
ny the divinity of our Redeemer and attach
no importance to the Bible except a> it tnav
BUit themselves. Ido not believe that the
venerated founders 01 our American Church
were ignorant ot the Scriptures and blind to
the principles of Gospel morality. I do not
believe that Washington and his compatriots,
who framed our Constitution With such ex
press provisions for the rights of slavehold
ers, were tyrants and despots, sinners against
the law of God and the feplings of humanity.
But 1 do believe in the teaching of the in
spired Apostles, and in the Holy Catholic (or
universal) Church which you and your clergy
also pro ess to believe. I knnvt that the doc
tr.ne of that Courch was clear and unani
tnous on the lawfulness of slavery for eigh
teen centuries together; and on that point 1
regard your " protest" and " indignant rep
robation" as the idle wind that passes by.
I wish you, therefore, to be advertise!
that I shall publish, within a few months, i
a gracious Providence should spare my life
and faculties, a full demonstration of the
truth " wherein I stand." And I shall prove
in that book, by the most unquestionable au
thorities, that slaves and slaveholders were
in the Churc'i from the beginning) that sla
vc*-y was held to be con sis ten* with- Chris
tian principle by lie Father and Councils,
and by all pmtpstant divines and commenta
tators. up to ihe very close of i|,e last centu
ry, an>l tha' this fact was universal among
all Churches and scts throughout the Chris
tian world. I shall contend that our Church,
which maintains the primitive rule of catho
olic consent and abj ires all novelties, is
hound, by her very Constitution, to hold
fast that only safe and enduring role, or
abandon her Apostolic claims, and descend
to the level of those who are " driven about
hy every wind of doctrine." And I shall
print your 44 indignant reprobation." with
its list ot names, in the preface to my book,
so that if I cannot give you fame, I may, at
least, do ray part to give yoa notoriety.
That the nineteenth century is a centurr
of vast improvement and wonderful discove
ry in the arts and sciences I grant as will
ingly as any man. But in religious truth or
reverence for the Bible, the age in which wo
live is prolific in daring and impious in nova
tion. We have seen professedly Chtistian
communities divided tnd subdivided on eve
ry side. We have seen the rise and spread
of Universalism, Mdlerisra. Pantheism, Mor
moism, and Spiritualism. We have seen ev
en oar venerable Mother Church of England
sorely agitated by the contagious fever of
change, on the one hand towards supersti
tion, and on the other toward infidel ration
alism. And we have heard the increasing
clamor against the Bible, sometimes from
the devotees of geological speculation, some
times from the bold deniers of miracles and
prophecy) and, not least upon the list, from
the ioud-tongued apostles of anti-slavery.—
We have marked the orators which cry,
" Down with the Bible, if it maintains the
lawfulness of slavery." We hare marveled
at the senatorial eloquence which proclaimed
that " it was high Mow to have an anti-slave
ry God and an anti-slavery Bible." We
have heard the Constitution of our countn
denounced as "a covenant with death and
hell." We hart heard the boasted detenni
nation that the Union shall never be restor
ed until ita provisions for the protection of
slavery are utterly abolished. And what is
the result of H this philanthropy 7 The
fearful judgment of God has descended to
chastise these multiplied acts of rebellion
against His divine Government, and what
the final catastrophe shall be is ohly known
to Him who seeth the end from the begin
ning.
After forty years 6pent in the ministry, I
more than thirty of which have been passed
in the office of a Bishop, I can look back with
humble thankfulness to the giver of all good
for this, at least, that all my best labors
have been directed to the preservation of the
Church from the inroads of doctrinal inno
vation. At *ny ordination I promised" so to
minister the DOCTRINE and sacraments and
discipline of Christ, as the Lord hath com
maiidi-d, and as this Church has received the
same " —and certain it is that •' thi* Church"
had not received the modern doctrine of ul
tra Abolitionism at that time,as I trust she
never will receive it, because it is contrary
to the Sacred Scripture. I also promised
" with all faithful diligence to banish and
drive away from the Church all erroneous
and strange doctrines contrary to God's
Word," and I made these pronii es in the
tiue sense which the venerable Bishop White
my Ord iiner, attached to them—l believed
then, as he believed, that oar Southern
brethren committed no sin in having s'ave*,
and that they were men of as much piety as
any ministers in our Communion. I believ
ed, as he believed, that the plain precepts
and practice of the Apostles sanctioned the
institution, alihough as a matter of cxpedi'
ency , the time might come when the South
would prefer, as the North had done, to em
ploy free labor. Those promises I have kept
faithfully to this day—and if, when I am
drawing near to the end of my career, I am
to be condemned and villified by you and
yur clergy, because I still maintain them Hi
the utmost of ray slender ability, be assured
my Right Reverend Brother, that I shall re
gret the tact much more on your account
than on my own.
In conclusion, f have only to say that I
(eel n resentment f'r the gronsly insulting
style of your manifesto. The stability and
unity of the Church of God arc the only in
terests which I desire (o securp, and I am
too old in experience to be much moved by
the occasional ex .esses of human infirmity
JOHN H. HOPKINS,
Bishop of the Diocese of Vetmont.
BURLINGTON, Vt. Oct. 5, 18C3.
For the North Branch Democrat.
BELSHAZZAR'# FEAST.
BY NELLIE CLIFTON.
The calm loveliness ot an oriental night had
fallen over the proud capi.ol of Assyria
Babylon's hundred gates of bras* were closed
and the huge battlemented walls were frown
ing grimly in the pale starlight. Without
the city, 'i'ence brooded over " the dim and
pulseless world;" but within all was bright
and joyous.
Merchant princes' sat within the tapestried
chambers of their stately dwellings, every
apartment glittering with all that the luxuri
ous eastern taste could devise, or untold
wealih purchase, and complacently smiled as
they counted on years of prosperity to come.
The priests of Bclua performed their heathen
rites in the magnificent temple that was blaz
ing with its uncounted treasures of gold and
si'ver, and precious stones.
Congregated in the regal banqueting hall
••! King Belshazzar, were a thousand mighty
lords of the Empire, resplendent in vestments
of Bahvlonian b'ue, that glittered with the in
signia of nobility. The tables groaned be
neath the weight of rare eastern exotics, and
the costliest viinds that pampered royalty
could devise, or the resources of a Kingdom
furnish. The brains of the pheasant were
daintily set for(h in vessels of gold, and wine
of the rarest vintage, stained with its ruby
flow, chalices that sparkled with precious
gems. Soft strains of music palpitated on
the voluptuous air, perfumed by a hundred un
seen censer*. Tho dark eyed dancing girls
of Egypt kept time to the lute and the viol,
with a lithe, rythra'cal grace, that was as full
of voiceless music as the motions of the un
tamed gazelle. The King, clad in a robe of
roval Tyrian purple, every fold of which flash
ed with the sheen of precious gems, sat on a
dais, canopied by a tree, tbe emblem of pow
er in Assyria, the branches of which were
loaded with s fruitage of emeralds, amethysts
and flame-red opals.
The gay revelers were flashed with wine
and mirth ; and when one, more bold than
the rest, proposed that they shnn'd bring
forth the sacred vessels of gold and silver,
that Nebnchadnezxsr, had plundered from the
temple at Jerusalem, a shout of approval met
the proposition. The priests of Belus mocked
the Ood of Israel, while they filled the hal
lowed vessels with the heathen's wine and
drank to the praise of their senseless idols >4 of
gold and silver, of brass, of iron, of wood and
of stone." Blasphemous lips had scarcely
drained the sacred goblets ere the hnsb of an
awful fear fell on their revelings.
The profaned vessels fell from hands that
grew palsied in terror; as with blanched
cheeks and starting eyes, they gazed on a
sight that unnerved the stoutest heart. As
Syria's impious monarch trembled in craven
*ear as the flush of excitement faded from his
face and left it ot an ashen paleness. So •
over against the massive candlestick that
lighted the festive hall; there came forth a
man's hand and traced in fire, characters that
none could read. Belshazzar called together
his wise men, the seers and astrologers of
Chaldea, promising honor and power, with
robes of scarlet and fine linen, and chains
gold, to bim who should interpret the mys
terious writing. But all faild until the hum
hie Judean captive, Daniel, was brought be
fore the King and read, in the burning char
acters traced on the palace wall, by an arm
less hand, the downfall of the trembling mon
arch and hi* Kingdom.
" God hath numbered thv K ngdora and fin
ished it. Thou art weighed in the bilance
and found wanting. Thy Kingdom is divid
ed and given to the Medes arid Persians."
The same hour the legions of Cyrus poured
into the city, through the drained bed of the
Euphrates. The s<>ng of revelry was exchang
ed for the shout of the victor and the groans
of the dying. The purplo robes were deeper
dyed in human gore, and the blood of the
slain ran in rivulets on the floor, or stagnated
ID clotted pools, The beseigers filled the
banqueting vessels with red wine from hu
man veins. Belshazzar's boa*ted glory pass
ed away with the fading starlight of tbe morn
ing, for hin dead body lay among those of his
slaughtered nobles.
Thus Babylon with all her royal magnifi
cence, the pride of Asyria, the crown of the
Orient, passed into the the bands of the
Medes and Persians.
INTERESTING PACTS.
The first piece of artillery was invented by
a Gewnar, soon after the invention of gun
powder, and artillery was first U6ed by the
Moors, of Algesiras, in Spain, in the siege ol
1341.
The first banks were established in Italy
in the year 808, by the Lombard Jews, of
whom some settled in Lombard Street, Lon
don, where many bankers have ever since re
sided.
The oldest version of tho Old and New
Testament, belonging to the Christians, is
that in the Vatican, which was written in
the fourth or fifth century, and published in
the year 1587.
Ancient books were originally boards, or
the inner bark of trees j and bark is still
used by some nations, as are also skins, for
which latter parchmeDt was generally sub
stituted.
Stones were first used for bullets, iron
ones are mentioned in 1550. Leaden bullets
were made before the close of the sixteenth
century. Stnno cannon balls are still used
in the East.
The most stupendous canal in the Oorld is
one in China, which passes over two thous
and miles, and to forty one cities; it was
commenced in the tenth century.
Chocolate, the flour of cocoa-nut, was first
introduced in England from Mexico, in 1520,
and soon becatew a favorite beverage in the
London coffee-houses.
Billiards were invented by Henriqne Du
vigne,a French artist, in the reign ol Charles
IX., about the year 1571, and at once be
came a most fashionable and captivating
game.
The largest and oldest chain bridge in the
world is said to be at Kingtung, in China,
where it forms a perfect road from the top of
one lofty mountain to the top of another.
Woman never appeare 1 upon the stage
among ancients. Their prrts were represent
ed by men until as late as 1662, when Charles
H. first encouraged the appearance of Women
before the public.
Armorial bearings became hereditary, in
families, at the close of the twelfth century ;
they took their rise from the knights, paint
tng their banners with different figures, and
were introduced by the crusaders.
The firs* balloon was constructed at Paris,
by M.M M'-ntgolfier, in 1783, in wnich R<>
zier and the Marquis d' Arlandes ascended,
after which numerous ascents followed, ma
ny of which proved fatal.
The well kn wn cotton cloth, calico, is
named from Calicut, a eitv of India, which
was discovered by the Portuguese, in 1498.
Calico was first brought to England by the
East India Company, in 1631.
Diamonds were first brought from the
East, where tbe mine i Sumbulpour, was
the first known, and where the mines of
Golconda were first discovered In the year
1584, those of Brazil in 1782
The diving bell was first used in Europe,
in the year 1509. It was used on the coast
of Mull, in searching for the wreck of a pert
of tbe famous Spanish Armanda, some time
before the year 1669.
Glass bottles were first made in England,
about 1558. The art of making glass bot
tles and drinking glassed were knows to tbe
Romans in the year 79, A D.. as they have
been found in the mine of Pompeii,
ITSRMHi BI.SO PUR ANNUiC
for the North Braaoh Democrat.
THE TOOTHACHE.
BY NELLIE CLIFTON.
Did you ever enjoy the toothache, O, ye
philosopher* of the stoical school ? Mayhap
you have endured " the slin&s and arrows of
outrageous fortune" but that's nothing to the
toothache. Mayhap you have tried to sleep
in a stage coach, under the hallucination that
rough roads bad something to do with " Na
ture's sweet restorer." You fix yonr head
for a nap—bob it goes, over to the other side
with a jerk that nearly dislocates your neck.
You settle yourself again, when the coach
gives another lurch and a fat Irishman comes
plump into your lap. You're grieved, vexed,
disturbed, annoyed, in fact you are mad, be?
do not think you are abused until you hare
had the toothache.
Mayhap )ou hare been smashed in a Rail-
Road collission, or ground to atoms beneath a
falling bridge, or blown into fragments by a
steamboat boiler's bursting, but it is all the
merest play to the toothache.
\ ery likely you have read of the infernal
tortures of the Spanish inquisition—bow peo
ple were stretched on the rack and drawn
out like India rubber, or sawn aaaunder, or
stuck full of red hot needles—but do not
waste too much sympathy on the martyrs ;
just wait until you have the jumping tooth
ache, and then " if you have tears, prepare W
shed them."
Perhaps you have fallen among the Caman
cbe Indians, those red-skine of the South
west, to whom Satan has granted a patent for
ingenious modes of torture; and, mayhap you
have been roasted, head downwards, over a
blazing fire, while the copper-colored fiends
danced around with whoops and yells more
hideous than a jubilee in Pandemonium ; but,
if you have escaped the toothache, you are
fortunate person.
Just imagine that each nerve in your body,
wi h all its exquisite sensibility, is put into"
an old fiddle and somebody saws the strings
with a red hot poker, until each one " roars
nut in furious tunes." Then suppose that
some friend like those Job had, tells you to'
go to a dentist and have your tooth drawn—
"it won't hurt much !" You go, and the
dentist smilingly assures you that he can ex
• ract it very easily, the smooth-lhced hypo
crite ! Of course there are none of them any
better than a red-skin at heart; and they in
wardly chuckle at the thought of nsarly tear-'
ing on : f. head off the body.
You seat yourself in an easy chair. That's
another trap too, as you will find to your
c<>st. It is just to make you believe that fan'
are going to have a good time ; but if you do
not wish yourself in the jaws of an alligator
before you get through, then lam mistaken.
He gives a reassuring grin and commences
cutting around the devoted tooth. Then he
puts on a kind of ahiny looking "infernal ma
chine," called forceps, and " then comes the
tug of war."
A crash, and you feel as if your head had
been twisted off" by a gorrilla and a locomo
tive driven the whole length of you body.—
The ground slides from under ybur feet and
you hang on nothing by an invisible thread.
You get up with the conviction that it ia your
duty to " shuffle off the mortal coil" for that
dentist, who has left a hole in your mouth
large enough f>r your boot to come through.
"It came easy" he says, and you crush
down the desire to show him how easy it
would be to make jelly of him. and, pocketing
the cause of all your woes, leave the office,
thankful that a person can have the toothache
always and live.
OPPOSITE 111 FLU Eft tts OF THE
SEXES.
Why it it that in ninety .nine case* ontof
a hundred those women who have been
brought up ehiefly among men, who have
bad no sisters, who have lost a mother in
early life, (doubtless for many reasons a sad
affliction to a girt,) who have been depend
ent on fathers or brothers for society and
conversation, should turn out the meat fasci
nating and superior of their sex ? Why is
it that, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred,
the boy who is educated solely by his moth
er, becomes a triumphant and successful man 1
in after life ? Perhaps the opposite influ
ence of either sex is beneficial to the other ;
perhaps the girl derives vigorous thoughts,
expanded views, habits of reflection—nay,'
more—charity and forbearance, from her
male associates, as the boy is indebted to
his mother** tuition and his mother's com
panionship for the gentleness and purity of
heart which combine so well with a manly
and generous nature, for the refinement iha
delicacy of feeling which ao adorn true oour.
age, above all, for that exalted standard of
womankind, which shall prove his surest
safeguard from shamt and defeat in the com
ing battle—a shield impervious so long as it
i> bright, brt which, when once soiled, slides
and crumbles front his grasp, leaving him ia'
the press of angry weapon# a naked and de
fenceless man.
JC3TI plows, t sows, I leaps, I mows, t
gets up wood for winter; I digs, T hoes, andf
taters grows, and for what I knows, am in
debted to THC PRINTCR. Ido suppore all
knowledge flows right from the printing
press ; so off I goes, in these 'ers clothes, and
settle up—l guess-
VOL. 3, NO; 11.