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VOL. 111.
GENERAu JOIIX B. GOUDOV.
A Brief of General John B. Gordon’s
Address Delivered at Bartlesville, on
the 31st ultimo.
Ladies and My Fellow-Countrymen:
I greet you with unusual pleasure. Iu the
adjoining county, my eyes first beheld the
light of day. I was born in old Upson. It
has been long since my feet first made tracks
upon her sands of time. The recollections
of those days are green and fresh in my
heart and memory. I am here to-day to
renew the recollections of my youth; to
mingle with you. and to gather inspiration
of long by-gone days. lam here to counsel
with freemen and fathers, to know the truth
and pursue it, to counsel with you, to delib
erate as freemen and arrive at conclusions
which will serve to place us on the basis
of good local government and civil liberty.
In the history of polities I know nothing
more seemingly absurd than to attempt to
re-establish the government of our fathers
by the means employed here to-day. The
proposition to establish a Democratic idea
of government by electing a long life enemy,
is absurd. But it is the only plain, practi
cable and common sense idea of re -establish
ing this Government. To vote for Horace
Greeley is not agreeable, but patriotism de
mands that you vote for him. Every im
pulse is against Horace Greeley. I want to
say as I did in Atlanta —that if a physician
should diagnose my political system and
ask me how I felt, I would reply in the
common way—that I was feeling as well as
could be expected under the circumstances.
If guided by impulse and laid reason aside,
I would say as the Straights: not vote at all
or fur a Democrat. But duty as freemen
and patriots must direct us in rescuing from
Ihc tyrants hand the reins of government
and civil liberty hv following an}' possible
means of rescue. Horace Greeley is a Re
publican, as he says.
1 don’t desire to enthuse the Southern
heart, but to awake the latent energies
against the Radical Despotism now crushing
us. Any politics to beat out Radicalism.—
If we can’t batter down its ramparts by the
batteringram of Democracy, I am willing to
undermine and throw it to the wings of
heaven. lam not here to defend Mr. Gree
ley, but to tell what his enemies, the Rad
icals, say of him. I consider this a revolt
in the Radical camps, and I appeal to you to
unite against this despotism which has
crushed this country for five .years. Not to
vote for Horace Greeley, you vote for Grant!
I give my experience to satisfy my Straight
out friends. The Liberal Republicans in
Georgia do not satisfy conscience. They
have been too liberal. Liberal with money,
with State credit and I want light ahead on
some other line. I love Georgia as well as
any one. I love her red hills, her ripling
streams, her pine forests, her oak groves,
the home of my infancy and the place of my
ancestors. As T love her, T desire to rescue
her. You don’t love Democracy because it
is Democracy. You love her as the means
of securing good for your country. You
love her as the soldier loves his gun; not
bccouse it is a rifle or columbiad, but because
it shoots to the mark and secures you victory.
So with Democracy. As patriots and reason
ing men, we must use it as a means only to
secure good government. We must vote
for Horace Greeley and Gratz Brown. We
must do it cheerfully because of the end to
be accomplished. I will set out with a
proposition that no one can dispute, viz:—
That Horace Greeley or U. 8. Grant will be
our President for the next four years. Is it
true or not? If we to-day unite, men, wo
men and children, and all cast a vote for a
third candidate, lie could not be elected.
It is inevitable. You must admit it. Carry
it with you. If you conclude you will be
no better under one than the other, don’t
vote —don’t vote! Stay away Straight; you
are right. Cling to it as truth. If your
reason carries you to Horace Greeley, be
manly and go. If, so far as you can gather
facta, you can see no difference, vote for
Greeley, because South Carolina, Louisiana,
Texas and Arkansas asks you to do it.
If for no other reason, vote because
these sisters ask it. Let reason influ
ence you. If there was no difference I
would be willing to let your heart carry
you. For one my conscience approves the
act. At the election then, let us seal the
fortune of our countrymen. It will be a
Consolation to say to my wife and children:
I polled a vote for the deliverance of South
Carolina, whose men arc suffering in North
ern prisons. Great God! defend us from
calling these little things! If this be no
argument, nothing will prevail.
I have given you simple arguments. I
have not come to principles. Ask your wife
and she will tell you to vote for these op
pressed peoples deliverance.
Another reason why you should vote for
Cffeeley is, that the advisers about him will
be different. Do you know who these ad
visers arc to be ? His enemies say he is
honest. He was sincere in signing Presi
dent Davis’ bond. When asked if he would
consider the Democratic claims its his ap
pointments, he said it was not usual to help
a man build a house and then kick him out
of it. If the Democrats elect you, who will
you appoint as your Cabinet, and to teason
with you? He answered that he did not
want his answer to get in the newspapers.
Said don't think a man should turn his back
on seven-tenths of the men who put him in
position. I prefer these advisers to Grant’s,
BouVwell, Morton and others.
When Bullock applied to Gen Grant to
l iaV c the test oath administered in Georgia,
General Farnsworth appealed to Grant, and
said it was in violation of law. Grant said
Air. Morton put that in. Speaker theft re
ferred to some other advisers.
Another reason. 1 like the surroundings
of Greeley better than those of Grant. Wlnit
were the scenes in the Baltimore Convention
’ that nominated Greeley, and in the Phila
delphia Convention that nominated Grant.
At Baltimore, the Democracy of the
country assembled as the patriotic defenders
of good government and true representation
under the motto of “Peace and Good Will
to Men.” They had music. After a nomi
THOMASTON. GA.. SATURDAY AIORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1872.
nation a plain civilian, representing Horace
Greeley, was placed on the steps of the
Capitol. This was an emblem that he has
in his mind the supremacy of civil over
military rule. ’*■
At Philadelphia, were the murderers of
your fathers, tramplers on the rights of the
States, the Radical host of negroes, the car
pet-baggers, with their carpet-bags full.—
They presented the nominee on horseback,
and the panoplied soldier, emblems of war.
Fit emblems of civil law, but fitter emblems
of tyranny, not for the past four years only,
but for the four to come; more than that,
they had music too. Was it a “mixtre” from
the horn, the drum, and the flute? They
sung the music of John Brown's sole is roll
ing on. Can you imagine anything more
diabolical? Which picture do you like best?
Are you willing directly or indirectly, by
staying away from the polls, to let these
things come before you and see your coun
try, your liberty, and your all go to ruin?
If any man can answer I stop to hear him.
There is none. Palsied be the hand that
has violated our Constitution, crippled our
States, and crushed our liberties. I might
stop now. There is not an honest, candid
man here who would say he will not vote
for Greeley.
There was a Gen. Burnside in the Feder
al army. Some of these soldiers saw some
of his family—where—soldier answers—
Frcdericsburg. He called a meeting at !
Pittsburg, rallying the Federal soldiers to
the support of Grant, to appeal to his war
record, and by stirring up hatred and mal- j
ice to elect Grant. Some other Generals
were quite as successful as Burnside; they :
call for Southern soldiers and ask all to lock
shields, to secure the cost of liberty.
Grant has a preacher; that preacher said i
in one of his sermons, that we don’t want a j
President who knows much about farming; !
we want a President who knows how to
fight “7: ’ebx.” Grant is opposed to plough- j
shares and pruning hooks, and wants swords |
to administer and control governments. —
Horace Greeley said he wanted to shake j
hands across the bloody chasm. If he j
means to meet on grounds of mutual rc- !
speet; if he means tribute of honor to gal- 1
lant soldiery, we will willingly meet him; if
he means what Air. Boutwejl says, lam ‘
not willing. He says he wants to fill the
chasm until we get sorry and take back.
We must say we love to take Grant like !
the stranger to the mountain boy. The
mountain boy had asked a stranger to take
dinner with nim. When they sit down at
the table, the boy said stranger I have but
one kind of meat on the table and that is dog.
Shall I help you to some ol ihe dog? Yes,
but I tell you now, I “aint er hankerin artcr
it.” Now so it is with us as to taking Grant.
If we must take him, we want it understood
that we are not “hankerin arter him.”
You remember the anecdote of the soldier
and his sweetheart. When a man wanted
to marry, it was a custom with General Lee,
to grant him a furlough. Soon the privi
lege began to be abused. There was too
many wanting to go home to get married.
In order 1o know that the application was
made for the purpose of getting married some
evidence was required by General Lee. An
application was made attended by the follow
ing letter:
Dear Bill: —You have been cr writin
an er writin to me that you wanted to git
married. Now if you does want to git mar
ried why don’t you come erlong home and
less marry. The old folks are willin. Come
on. lam ready willin and er watin. Now
we must be ready, willin and er waitin to
take Grant. (Here the speaker went on to
show the evils of Grant’s administration, by
reference to the sufferings of South Carolina,
the habeas corpus act, and the inroads on the
local self-governments). Talk about your
platforms. AVe want the right man to ad
minister them. Platforms are like bonds.
If a man does not comply with them we can
shake our fist in his face and tell him of his
violation. Ido not defend all of Horace
Greeleys platform. I can’t sfimd on all of
it, never intend to. Only stand on that part
which will bring our people, victory and
local government. AVe are asked what
about that plank which refers to the soldiers.
AA'c don’t care about their complimenting the
federal soldiers. All iioncsi, gallant soldiers
who spill tlicir blood as heroes, should be
complimented, and was willing to it. Horace
Greeley’s enemies say he was honest. This
platform then binds him to an honest admin
istration. Jefferson said the whole order ot
government consisted in being lioncst.
Here the speakers mind by honesty Mas di
rect'd to our State administration. AVe
regret that we cannot give his tribute to
Governor Smith, verbatim. Inihe most
glowing and eloquent manner,he sakl we had
honesty in Georgia, that Governor Smith
was the right man in the right place and ap
pealed to the masses to keep him there.—
However much you differ between Greeley
and Grant, don’t divide on Smith. Said he
made no appeal for Smith. His character,
course and services speak for him. His ap
peal was for his own loved Georgia. The
speaker read from Greeley’s speech in Ahtine
and showed that as far as the issues involved
in this contest were concerned, all that pcr s
tained to our rights, in Greeley’s platform
was much the same as the Jeffersonian Dem
ocracy claimed. The speaker did not pre
sent Greeley, or Brown, but the grand
movement, of which Greeley was an instru
ment, to drive out Grant’s Radical despot
ism.
Grant’s platform, as he says, will he the
same in the future that it has been in the
past. AVhich one do you prefer ? South
Carolina groans and appeals to you, and
says rs she is not relieved that the liberties
of the people must go down with her.
Horace Greeley is abused in the North
for going over to the Rebels. They say his
heart was never in this effort to overcome
the South; when the war was over, his
voice was shouting general amnesty. He
is blistered on both sides. They say he sold
out to Baltimore. The South says he has
been a life-long enemy to Demoraey.—
AA’hatever is said about his present or bis
past, the fact is inevitable that he is opposed
to Grant, and that is enough for me. The
speaker then appealed in the most eloquent
manner to the “Straights,” to lay aside all
prejudices, all past differences, not divide,
but strike together,and make victor}’ sure. He
pleaded with ministerial fervency that they
come and go with their friends; said he was
in the condition of tbe fellow r at the camp
mecting; when the preaching had carried
most every one to the altar, an indifferent
fellow sit whittling. The preacher ap
proached him and begged him to go too.
The fellow looked up and saw the ladles all
around the altar, and he said to the preach
er: “AA’liere are they going” “To glory.”
“All them gals going to glory V* “Yes.”
“Well I reckon I’ll have to go to glory too.”
Now, said ho, my “Strai ’ht” friends, all
Georgians are got? cj. Vo Ore. ley; come and
go with us. Are we going to establish Rad
icalism? AA'c arc going to break it down, if
not one way, we will another. Let not the
sun go down on your determination not to
hoist the flag under which we are to obtain
victory, lie referred to Napoleon’s great
marshal, and to Generals Lee and Jackson,
as worthy examples of imitation at this im
portant crisis. If you can’t get your coun
trymen to go with you, go with them; don’t
low’er your flag; don’t lower your princi
ples; say I believe my principles are right;
say I believe I am fighting under the right
banner, but my country believes different,
and I will go with her. Here the speaker,
in the grandest and most eloquent manner,
closed with a most vehement and enthusias
tic appeal to the “Straights”, to go with
the masses of tlicir countrymen and rescue
the beautiful goddess of liberty, who stood j
clamped in the foul embraces of the fiend
fraud, and the usurping dragon of Radical
tyranny.
HON. ROBERT TKIPPB.
A Brief of Hon. Robert Trippe’s Speerli,
Delivered at Barnesvllle, on the 31*1
ultimo.
My Friends:—l trust I shall not detain
you long. I talked to most of you some
time ago in the position I now occupy. Of
tentimes my own client and attorney, speak
ing for myself, I don’t come in that capaci
ty to-day. I do r.ol come for myselt only,
but for my common country; there will be
nothing partisan in what I have to say. I
appear in the humble advocacy of some
thing greater than self or party. Ido not
come as an advocate for Ctesar, but for
Rome; I come pleading for a down-trodden
country. There is nothing for Israel to do
but to rise and go before you; you may see
a Pharaoh; you may see a Grant, with his
money bags, but go on. This is the first
indication, singe the fall of our country, in
directing this move. A w’ord or two to
those W'lio are not inclined to go forward,
but to halt and look back at party record. I
sympathise with you; I admire your devo
tion to principle and your adherence to right.
But do respect your countrymen; don’t go
too far; don’t say that your love of liberty
is so strong, and your devotion to principle
so ardent, that you vuon’t have it at all un
less you can have it your way. This is too
straight, too much. A'ou are like the good
brother in the House of Representatives of
the Confederacy, who had a dogmatic spir
it; he loves to have everything his own
way. In an earnest petition, he humbly
begged the good Lord to give him peace,
liberty, independence and victory, over our
enemies in good time, but let us have it,
good Lord, inour own way. Now this is rath
er too much, my straight friends, we should
be willing to take it from the Grant dynasty
in any way that Providence may direct.—
AVe are a subjugated people. Isn’t South
Carolina subjugated in the lowest and most
humiliating form? Fifteen years ago she
was the most gallant State in the Union,
and now she is subjected to the most infa
mous tyranny. So it is with Arkansas,
Mississippi, and even our own Georgia.
AVho are you and what can you do in the
way of helping yourselves? If, as General
Gordon said, every man, woman and child,
could vote, you could do nothing for your
selves. AA'hile your country is in this con
dition, will you set back and say you believe
in the old principles, you believe in the
Jeffersonian Democracy, and if you can’t
have it your way you won’t have it at all?
I admire your regard for principle, but I
cannot have respect for your straight discre
tion. Is there any prospect of relief? Not
wishing to be charged with the braggart,
this move was the only one for relief, that
occurred to my miqd before the Baltimore
and Cincinnati Conventions. God, through
this war, has brought about anew state of
tilings. New political institutions Lave
been fixed upon us by the war. Tyranny
is enthroned in power and moves on horse
back through your country. Thus far your
ctMttlfy jV ruined, death is offered, and as
far as your power to rescue it is eoucerned,
you are helpless. AVith this revolution
came the overthrow of all our liberties and
our Republican institutions.
AA'e are subjugated victims of tyrany. It
can only be met and relief be brought about
by a counter resolution, by a more on the
part of the people. This crises—for such it
must he termed—this situation—this grant
political status is a state of ruin and over
throw of government that can never be aver
ted by any other power on earth. Old par
ties and (he!r principles can never accomplish
it. It requires something higher than party
platforms. Nothing short of a revolution is
sufficient. England freed herselffrom jaco
binism, by what ? Not by parties, The old
AA'liig and Tories could not rescue her
Whig anti Tory combined would not have
done it. She was compelled to seek it in oth
er ways. She went abroad and got a dutch
man, who brought about a counter revolu
tion. England took a Dutchman, and now
wc can’t take a yankec. Horace Greeley
has a big heart. Our country needs deliver
eranee. She has been upturned from tbe
foundation of her liberties. It matters not
from whence these liberties come. AA'hen
they do come, let them come with the old
“white hat,” or any body else audit will be
as grand a result as England achieved. The
task is too great a one to lie accomplished)}'
any parly. Ah , a thought Iras just struck
me. lam not a believer in superstition, but
it seems strange that the thought should
first occur to me just here. The same figures
are in 1868 that arc in 1668. Here the speak
er compared the clause in the platform of
Seymour and Blair, in regard to the amend
ments, and showed that the now Jeffersoni
an democrats, voted without a word for Sey
mour and Blair and now they were making
it an issue against Horace Greeley. No
point in his speech, while there were sever
al very strong ones, was of more force than
this one, in this argument to prove that
something more powerful than a mere party
was necessary to rescue liberty in America.
He showed that Georgia went for Seymour
and Blair, yet they had been so far.
that they had been hardly heard of since.
Now with this stern lesson before you; with
all the aid the North could render you once,
how can you dare ask them to repeat it and
he worse beat than ever. You say give me
a straight out Democrat and I will do all I
can for him. But you cannot elect him.—
Had you not rather triumph with Greeley
and this move than for the South to die on a
“straight platform?”
Look at the position of your Northern
friends who say they will not help you. —
They done all they could for us in 1868, arc
you going to ask them to ruin you and
themselves too, again? They have an in- 1
terestof one per cent where you have ninety t
nine. Are you not willing to stive ninety- I
nine and let them save one, than remain i
straight and lose all ? They aided once and ;
died in the effort. Do not demand it of
them again. You ask where is relief. His- i
I
tory answers. Here the speaker refered to j
the “reign of terror” in France. In the i
most eloquent and glowing manner and j
with the sledge of reason drew the blood
stained guillotine and the red axe with the
mutilated victims, covering the ground. He
showed the dominant and tyranical spirit
that held the shroud of dead liberty over
France where Robespiere’sname would take
any man, woman or clflld to the guillotine.
France under the oppressions of the Conven
tion of 700, powerless, trembling with fear
and afraid to utter one word in behalf of
liberty, against this small assembly, where
did her deliverer come from ? A feeling was
aroused in the hearts of the masses, which
grew up and, strengthened till the heads ol
the tyrants were in the baskets and France
was free. France has a republic now. It
had its birth then. The reign of terror did
it. It did not come from a “straight out.” |
The speaker appealed to all to look through j
history and said he loved to read Macaulay’s
history of the revolution of 1688, when the
long, lean, lank, cadaverous dutchman,
brought deliverance to England. No deliv
erance was ever brought about by any pa rty.
Aloses as great as he was, could never have
delivered Israel unless he had leaned on the
strong arm of his God. A'ou may call it sup
erstition or what you please I have investi
gated with all the powers, that Heaven lias I
given me and I don’t believe that deliverance \
can ever be brought about by any effort of
our own. A'ou know what you have suffer
ed. A'ou know what you have been threat
ened with. If you could have looked on
what you have seen, felt and suffered for the
past two, or four years. A'ou would not
have hesitated to have given your consent ;
for the ocean to have swept over your coun- j
try. Grant asked Congress hist session to ■
give him the power to suspend the habeas 1
corpus act whenever,he Choscs. Did you i
ever consider where you are ? A'our liberty ;
is in a tyrants hands.
Habeas corpus is a writ by which you
can be removed from prison, by writing a !
few lines. General Grant meant by it to j
carry the election. It has been exercised in
Alabama, in South Carolina, and he wants ■
to use it in Georgia. He wants to use it to j
put some cross-eyed baby, who did not look i
straight, or some fifteenth amendment 'in i
prison. Greeley has done wrong, and he is
a fcol that does not know it,- and a bar who
denies it. Greeley was in favor of the re- I
construction measures, the source of all our
woes. But soon as the Suites were re
constructed, and Grant’s party used them
for partisan purposes and to advance the
Radical party. Greeley vehemently de
nounced the execution of them, lie was
fearce in his denunciations of the carpet- :
bag governments as any man in Georgia, !
long before his name was thought of for Presi ■
dent. Here the speaker read from Oliver
P. Morton, the fugleman and mouth piece ■
of Grant, and sustained tire points made,
that Greeley now opposes the enforcement
of the reconstruction acts and the Ku-Klux
fffeftsufeA in the most enthusiastic man
ner, the speaker appealed to his straight
friends, to read the Tribune and learn some
thing about Greeley, and let their be some
merit in their opposition. He desired a
candidate that all coirkt have cheerfully
voted for and been satisfied. If he could
not get the candidate of his heart, he would
not be “straight,” but would be down with
the devil to beat out Grant and Radical des
potism. Greeley is just as far from RacK
cal ism as we are Democrats. AW arc going
to have the best Democrat out of Horace
Greeley. He. will be as straight as the
straightest of our Straights. If you give
me a man who filed oft’ from his prrty when
it was in power; if give me a man who
started war with his party, with five mil
lions their hands, and when he was of
fered the highest position in the gift of the
party, and joined you ami me with three
millions, if we don’t make a go<xl Domo
ocrat out of him, I shall say we are the
poorest preachers and the poorest church in
the world. If we don’t do if, we ought to
have missionaries sent amongst us. AA’hen
Horace Greeley was nominated and said
that he was no less a Republican, ir? my
judgement, this is the first lie I have ever
caught him in; this is certainly one of his
white lies. It made him less of a Radical
and have a better feeling for the Democracy
and toward the Southern people, than he
has had for the Radical party in three years,
lie shows the right spirit in leaving his par
ty, and we should meet him. This move
ment should gather up all the elements into
concord, peace, harmony, and fraternity,
and more on to victory. Hero the speaker
stated if he had time he would spenk of the
future, the effects of the amendments, and
the inheritance of posterity, lie believed
this question would be solved only by
blood. History taught that no such meas
ure was ever settled only by revolution.—
Here he read the plank in the platform,
complimenting the Federal soldiers, and al
luded to the question, asked the delegates
as they returned hy Manassas, where the
blood of Southern soldiers and the bones of
our tellow comrades had enriched the soil,
and showed its political purpose.
After delivering an address that will go
in its good influences to the last generation,
he most graphically drew the how of prom
ise. with oue end resting on the North and
the other on the South, under which Liber
al Republicans .ud Democrats can lie down
unmolested.
A Rain of Ronrc*..\ Strin;rPbrnommoii.
If the statement of some of the residents
of Lousiana are to be credited, Dame Nat ure
has recently been playing strange pranks in
that part of the country.
A writer to the New York Journal of
Commerce, whose veracity and good stand
ing is vouched for by the editor of that pa
per, gives the following particulars of a
strange phenomenon that occured in Carroll
Parish last month:
He says that a heavy storm visited that
Parish some days previous to the date of
writing, the 21st, and during the storm fish
lames fell to the ground hy the million.—
These lnines seemed to come from an ex
ceedingly large black cloud that was passing
at the time. The shower of booths was at
tended by a heavy fall of rain.
Tne correspondent says that the bones
rattled on the roof of his house like hail
stones. This strange phenomenon extended
over a belt of country ten miles in width by
many miles in length. Accompanying the
letter were seven ofthe bones, varying from
one inch to two inches and one-sixteenth in
length, from seven to sixteenths of an inch
to twelve and a half sixteenths of an inch in
breadth; from one iuch to one inch and nine
sixteenths in length, and from one and half
to three-sixteenths of an inch in thickness.
They are of an irregular diamond shapes.—
One side of the bone is nearly flat, having
on the under side, which is worn smooth
three small apertures, as if veins or tendons
had passed through them. These specimens
have been shown to experienced coast fish
ermen, and also to learned ichthyologists, !
hut they are not able to ascertain to what j
particular kind of fish the bones belonged.
They all agree, however, in the opinion
that they are veritable fish bones.
Several theories have been advanced in
explanation of this strange phenomenon. It
is generally conceded, however, that the ;
bones must have passed through the air for
hundreds, and perhaps thousands of miles. ,
The inhabitants of the parish believe that
that they were brought by a water spout or
a whirlwind from the Western coast of Mex
ico or Lower California, across the continent,
as the wind was blowing at the time virulent
ly from the South east.
We have heard of its raining cats and
dogs, but fish bone showers are something
altogether unprecedented.
Lake Yellowstone. —The mood of the
lake is ever changing; the character of its
shore? is ever varying. At one moment it is
placid and glassy as a calm summer’s sea;
at the next, “it breaks into dimples, and
laughs in the sun.” Half an hour later,
beneath a stormy sky, its waters may l>e
broken and lashed into an angry and dan
gerous sea, like the short, choppy wares
which rise in storms on liake Erie and
Lake Michigan. Whcfc first saw it, it
had a glittering beach of gray and rock
crystal sand, but as we continued around if/
we found reeky ami muddy shores, gravel
beaches—on which several varieties of chal
cedony were profusely scattered—and hot
springs in abundance Near the southeast
end of the lake is the highest peak tr*
vicinity. It is steep and barren, and from
the lake shore appears to taper to a point.—*
On the south side is a precipice nearly 1,000
feet high. Two of the i«irty ascended it
It fob!; tnem all of one day to make'the trip
and return. About two-thirds of the way
up they were obliged to leave their horses
and continue the ascent on foot. The alti
tude of the mountain, as obtained by obser
vations with the barometer and thermome
ter, was 11,163 feet. Much snow was found
before reaching the rannmft. A fine view
of the surrounding country', ami a good idea
of the shape of the lake obtained. Im
mense steam jets were seen to the south;
but as our time was becoming somewhat
limited, wc dkl not remain to visit them.—
Several barometrical calculations were made
and we determined the height of the lake
to be 8,300 feet .—Ordrland Monthly.
No Home —No home! What a misfor
tune! How sad the thought! There are
thousands who know nothing of the blessed
influence of a comfortable home; merely
lx'causc of a want of thrift, or dissipated
habit" Youth spent in frivolous amuse
ments, and demoralizing associations, leav
ing them at middle age, when the physical
and intcHrctual man should be hr its great
est vigor, enervated and without one laudi
ble ambition. Friends long since lost, con
fidence gone, and nothing to look to in old
age, but a mere vdcTatiorr lr? the cmnmuni
ty yvhere they should be ornaments. No
home to fly to when wearied with the strug
gles incident to life; no wife to cheer them
in their despondency; no virtuous house
hold to give zest to the joys of fife. All is
blank, and there is no hope or succor except
that which is given out by the hands of pri
vate or public characters. Whe» the fami
ly of the industrious and sober citizen gath
ers around the cheerful fire of a wintry day,
the homeless man is seeking a shelter in the
cells of a station house, oT begging fora
night’s rest in the out buildings of one who
started in life at the same time, with no
greater advantages; honesty and industry
built up that home, while dissipation dc
stroyed the other.
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