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there is no death.
Tiifje is no death f The stars go down
To rUc upon some fairer shore;
Vrtd bright in Heaven’s jeweled crown
' They shine forever more.
There Is no death! The dost we tread
shall change beneath the summer showers,
The golden grain or mellow fruit,
Or rainbow-tinted flowers;
The CTanlte rocks disorganize
r 0 feed the hungry mess they bear;
The fairest flowers drink daily life
From out the viewless sir.
There is no death ! The leaves may fall,
The flowers may fade and pass away—
Ther only wait through wintry hours,
The coning of the May.
There Is no death! An anrcl form
Walks o'er the earth with silent tread,
He wears our best loved things away,
And then we call them “dead.”
\
He leaves onr hearts ail desolate-
lie plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers;
Transplasted into bliss, they now
Adorn immortal bowers.
The Urd-like voice, whose Joyous tones
Made glad this scene of sin and strife,
Sings now in everlasting song
Amid the tree ol life.
And where be sees a smile too bright.
Or hearts too pure for taint and vice,
lie breaks it to that world of light
To dwell in Paradise.
Borne np to that undying life,
They leave us but to come sgaln;
With joy we welcome them—^the same,
Except in sin and pain.
COLVIBVS ITEMS.
In that city there is a tax of ten dollars
fiun each boat for every twenty-four hours
it remains at the wharf. An effort was re
cently made in the City Council to have this
tax removed; but it proved a failure.
In Council, on motion of Alderman Salis
bury, it was resolved that each itinerant trad-
r or peddler be required to pay a license tax
i f $20, and 2 1-3 per cent on all sales. Any
itinerant trader or peddler selling without
obtaining a license, ns required, shall be fined
sum not less thnn $20 or more than
DEBATE ON THE ABOLITON OF THE
PENITENTIARY.
Senate, Wednesday Jan. 24.
Milton.—Hall tun speaking of Milton in
his blindness, uses the following elegant lan
guage: “Then the dark and gloomy path,
like the moon emerging from the clouds—
rgia, which Then it was that the Muse were truly his:
in one year for the punishment of their con- All I have to savin reply is, it it is the pen tut
victs alter sentence, in one county, not to say of our people to steal. I am lor hanging as
what the other 131 counties will pay for the long as we can find hemps; for the sooner
_ . . . . . punishment of all their convicts. I, therefore, we get rid of such a race the better i_or us.
Hie special order of the day was the report {. ome to tl)e conc i us i on that Penitentiary I believe there is a law in G<
of the Committee on the Penitentiary, to mode of punishment is cheapest
whom was referred the bill to abolish the me. The Penitentiary lias been madu , . - , „ ... - . ,
Penitentiary and to aell and disnoae of its as- sustaining, and what has been done can bo ami, put tlic convicts to laboring upon oui . funorv comin_ u ith fragrants ot ancient
rennenuaiy, ana to sen anu dispose oi its .is ^ y n public high-ways, which are now notoriously melodies, the voice of Euripides and Homer
set#, debris, etc.” The Committee reported Mr. President, I am now ready, after hear- bad? Il this way, the tax upon the peopfc and Tasso; sounds that lie had loved in
that the bill do put Upon the reception of j n g the argument.-- of Senators, for and against would be saved by the protection that good | youth.and treasured up for the solace of hi
the report a long and animated discussion i it, to abide the decision of the Senate, and go roads afford to vehicles in the item of wear
arosc j before my constituents and countrymen, and and team
defend myself for this vote, as best I can
known to permits the working of criminals upon public not only as she poured her creative inspiro-
mude self- works of anv sort. Why not, if work is the ! tions into his mind, but as the Daughther of
A SUNDAY MORNING’S MEDITATION.
But, 3Ir. President, aside from what has
already been said, there has been turned
loose upon us four millions ot people whom
we hate to treat as fellow citizens. They
know nothing of the yen its* of >ur govern
ment, and mean white men. caring nothing
" ; for the right* of society, will act as accom-
Col. Redding, Chairman of the Committee j 8PEBCH 0F mr. turner.
opened the debate and said: | p ntident ._j had tbo honor of intro _
col. Redding’s srEECii. ducing that bill, which the committee have
Mr. President:—I am always embarrassed j recommended “do pass.” In endeavoring to
and excited when I attempt to address a dc- j sustain the bill and the recommendation of the
liberate body; but knowing as I do, tlic rela-; committee, I am aware that I come in con-1 .. - „„„„„
tion I bear to this question! I feel it to be mv flict with inany of the good men of Georgia, i P ltcc3 , tUe “ “ “J SrJtv Tf
duty to meet it and do the best I may. Your - a—^li I queuce will be, there will be no security of
committee could not or did not agree, and I
found myself in minority. My own Judg
ment and feelings arc against tlic report. It
was agreed by the committee that no elabo
rate report should be presented—that every
member of the committee would say what he
had to say in the Senate on the presentation
of the report. So much for the relation I
stand in to the Senate.
When I first came to Milledgeville, I was
among tliqm niy honored and respected old j qoencc will be,
friend, who has preceded me, who knows j prope^y* .
much of the practical workings of the insti- j . «i. l. li-tlesecnritv
tution; and not lea* among the opponents pl e ®sa nt Clt - V > 1 .. .- , h J
of my suggestions is o»r worthy Governor—
only way we have to protect society, is to
a man for whom I have entertained the high
est respect, and to whose opinions I have
looked with great confidence in reference to jr 9 *®, 11
Ant* Atril on/1 Y\n1itin.vI intnroctc \ni! n*nro if IviCLU#
make a severe code and have it rightly cn-
our civil and political interests. And were it
not that I have many of the worthies of
_ Georgia and other States on my side, I should
then fully satisfied, as I am now, that a ma-j shrink from and distrust my own opinions
jority of the people 1 have the honor to rep- and inclinations. *
resent, are opposed to the Peniten- j _ The expense of rebuilding and refitting the 1 S° P 03 * says:
The discussion was further carried on by
speakers on both sides.
Pork and Piett in ChiCAGO.—The Cliica-
tiary, and in favor of its abolition. I then : Penitentiary is an item that should be well
thought, and for some time concluded that j considered in this question; especially in the
I would submit to it, and give it no opposi
tion—that I would let it be abolished, be-
t lieving as I did, that the people would be
j clamorous for its re-cstablishmcnt in a few
years at most—that they would do os they
j had done in 1829—return to it in one
year. But, sir, the more I looked into it, in
all its relations, the more I was satisfied that
it ought not to be abolished, and I brought
myself to the conclusion that it was my duty
to sustain it—notwithstanding my constitu
ents—and ns I believed and admitted, a ma
jority of the whole people was opposed to it.
Mr. President, there is not a Senator in this
Hall or a Representative in the House who
more readily admits the right of constituents
to instruct and direct their agent; and there is
not one who more deeply regrets to differ
with them; but, sir, I do not hold that there
is a higher obligation than to submit to their
discretion in all eases, and such I regard the
present. If my constituents—if the people of
Georgia, stood where I stand, and viewed
this whole question front the same stand-point
that I do, they would do as I shall do, I ver
ily believe, and vote to sustain the Peniten
tiary, nnd against the report of the Commit
tee.
But, Mr. President, what are tlic leading or
principal objections to the Penitentiair as a
system—as a mode of punishment for crime ?
There arc two chief objections; the one is, “its
want of efficacy in preventing crimeand
the other is, “it is an expensive mode of pun
ishment.”
To the first objection I admit, it is not as
The proper committee was instructed, if
they could without prejudice to the city, to
construct a small-pox hospital in common
with the county, and arrange with the Jus
tices of the Interior Court for the government
of said hospital.
Council has hired eight negro men to do
the stTeet work—cost $18 per month, negroes
to famish themselves food, clothes and med
ical attention.
The militaiy authorities have cecome tired
of seeing idle negroes loafing around our
streets, and yesterday began the work of forc
ing them to make contracts. Darkys can no
longer loaf around a sunny corner the whole
day long, depending upon thieving at night
tor a tiring, while there exista a constant de
mand and good wages for his services.'—CW.
Sts,
Good news! We wish the same wonld be
done in Macon, and all the other cities of
Georgia, as it would prove a benefit, not only
to the negroes, but to their employes to the
State and to the country at large.
•V telegram says that a Major Graham
has just arrived at BrowTiaville from the Mexi
can capita), who gives intelligence that Maxi-
milian has recently unreservedly expressed
himself ready to make his exit from Mexico
whenever the United States shall demand it.
^ hy will respectable newspapers admit to
their columns, such unmitigated falsehood as
is cvinently contained in the aipvc para
graph !
f resent embarrassed state of our finances.—
rom the Governor’s message wc learn it
will take $800,830 for carrying on the civil
government for the present year. From the
report of the Superintendent of the State
Road, there has been purchased nearly four
hundred thousand dollnra’ worth. of rolling
stock and other implements for said road—
and there is much more necessary’ for other
repairs, amounting to little, if any, short of
$600,000. Then, sir, there comes in another
'item of expense for which we must provide
—the feeding and otherwise supporting
the poor and distitute, the widow and or
phan, the maimed nnd disabled soldiers, who
fought so nobly, gallantly, and chivalrously
for Southern rights, who ought and must be
J irovided for if any one' is—amounting to at
east $700,000—a fact which I have ascer
tained from those who have made the calcu
lation. There was laid on the desk this
morning also, a resolution which asserts “that
the quota of tax due the general Government
is $500,000.” Thus, you perceive, there must
be raised, necessarily, more than two and a
half millions of dollars for the successful
operations of our State government, taxes,
etc. Add to all this, the expense of rebuild
ing this institution, and you will increase the
expenditures to near three millions—especi
ally if you adopt the recommendation of the
Governor—retain the present institution for
the confinement of negroes, and establish a
branch penitentiary elsewhere for white men.
Another strong argument in favor of my
position is, the testimony of those connected
efficient in the prevention of crime as was ; with the institution. In conversing with one
expected, or ns is desirable. But, does it °f the managers this morning, he urged mo
follow, sir, that the system is at fault ? I be- i to press the matter upon the Legislature. He
lievc no .system of laws or penal code can he 1 said many of the convicts would steal and
better conceived, or more propcrlv divided '-convey to some of the guard who would act
and arrayed, than ours. Mr. President, did in complicity with them, nnd by that means
it ever occur to you that this defect has its : much was stolen to the great detriment of
origin in our fundamental organism, that it is j the State. Moreover, instead of being rc-
to be traced back to, and is a result of slave- formatory in its influence, it is a perfect
ry. Now, sir, I propose to examine it, and I school for thieves. Here the less guilty are
thus apply it, and see if we cannot perceive thrown in contact with those more steeped
its origin. There is n man who commits nnd dyed in crime—those who are such corn-
grand larceny, bank robbery, horse stealing, j plete adepts in theft and burglaty as to de-
or in a moment of passion, shoots some man, : serve diplomas in their art—and, of course
without provocation. . • | they arc made much worse, and become more
It may be, he surrenders himself to the an- capable of carrying into execution wliat they
thorities, or he is arrested, committed, gives i have learned when released from prison. The
bail, and at the first term of the Superior j warmest friends of the system arc compelled
Court there is a true bill found against liim, to admit thnt it has failed in what they have
and the trial is put off till the next term of the | claimed for it on the score of reformation,
court comes ; and it is put off again and ' Again, publicity, an essential ingredient of
again, it is put off and put off, untill finally,' punishment, is destroyed. The criminal after
the Judge finds that 2,4 or 0 years have trans- : conviction, is hurried away from public sight,
pired since thia crime was committed, he and the influence upon others, in deterring
says, gentlemen, (addressing the Bar) this , them from the commission of similar offenses,
case must come to trial. The States Attorney ' is lost. Whereas, if you were to bring them
and others look blank, and one says “what I up to the whipping post, the stocks, the pil-
has been done with the bill of indictment? j lory and the gallows, you overawe the be-
The clerk says you took it out of the office.”—I holder completely, and he is unwilling to
Well, “it has been lost, or mislaid, your lion- commit a crime tliat would subject him to
or.” and the case cannot proceed, but wo such severe and condign punishment,
will try and get the papers together by the its friends triumphantly and cxultingly as-
next term and bo ready.” After a scold front sert that when it was abolished before, that
bis honor the case is put over; by the next in the short space of twelve months, wc had
term, the prosecutor has removed—a witness to return to it again.
is dead, the bondsmen arc gone announced, 1 The champions of the penitentiary seem
and the culprit urges for trial the moment to forget, that our social system has been
he sees no witness to convict him, and thus completely overturned by the four years of
escapes conviction. 1 zanguinary warfare, through which wc have
Now sir, I assert that it is not the seterity just passed. Thfn there was no great upheav-
of punishment that prerents crime ; but the cer- ing revolution, changing the relations, so
tainty of punishment anda speedy trial. Now completely, of society. The machinery of
sir apply this lardy, uncertainty of trial, and our social polity was then complete :* But
conviction before our courts, and is it any there has been a radical change in our rela-
wonder that bad men are not deterred from tions recently, why not in the crimiual code
the commission of crime ? Will lie not, who of the State ? Thousands of freedmen, too
We are assured that the following abstract
of a conversation, “on ’Change” yester
day, or the day before, is not all there was
of it.
Prime Mess—Ah, brother Gunnybags, I did
not see you at the prayer meeting this morn
ing. It was a most feeling, and I may say a
most profitable occasion.
Gunnybags—I was detained by having to
look after that oats transaction. Had privately
advices of a decline, and sold out at half a
cent advance before the news got wind. Were
there many on the repentance seat
Prime Mess—Ah !—you were lucky—they
say oats are fully three-quarters below’ yester
day. Yes, there is reason to believe that
several were touched with the spirit of
grace.
Gunnybags—Pork is tip. It is certainly a
great consolation to feci thnt the work of
grace is beginning. You’ll make a good
thing on that five hundred barrels.
Prime Mess—If sinners can only be brought
under its influence the harvest of righteous
ness will be great. I am offered an advance
of 25, but think it safe to hold on a day or
two.
Gunnybags—Brother Hartficld forewarns
us against a coming crisis. The gold market
is certainly quite feverish. If sinners could
only be made to see the awful danger in
which they stand—
Prime 3Icss—Do you think pork will go
down ? Twenty-five on five hundred, after
all, isn t so bad for a quick operation. Wliat
a touching prayer was that of brother .
age. They, who, though not enduring the
calamity of Milton, have known what it is,
when alar irom books, in solitude or in trav
elling, or in the interval of worldly cares to
teed on poetical recollections, to murmur ov
er the beautiful lines whose cadence has long
delighted their ear, to recall the sentiments
and jniagincs they retain by association,
the charm that early years once gave them,
they will feel the inestimable value of com
mitting to the memory, in the prime of its
power, what it will easily receive and indeli
bly retain.” He adds, I know not indeed
whether an education that deals much with
poetry, such as is still usual in England, has
any more solid argument among many in its
favor, than that it lays the foundation of in
tellectual pleasures at tlic other extreme of
life.” .
BY A BUSINESS MAN.
Welcome to my heart, most precious day
of rest! Life here below is wearisome.' It is
like a wilderness where the hills are very steep
and the ways arc very rough. It is like a noisy,
bustling market, where incessant turmoil tells
upon tlic nerves; nnd endless excitements and
disappointments weary the soul. I liailtlicc,
precious day of rest, for I long to sit down
for a few moments—alone with my God and
myself—to breathe, and gather fresh strength
for the rest of my journey.
Will that journey be a long one ?
Tlimi alone knowest, Lord, in whose hands
mv breath is, and whose are all mv
•i*' I® Florida, tlic new State officers arc
<keu<l as foliows : Governor, David S Wnlk-
u- opposition; Lieutenant Governor,
, '* J Kelley ; Secretary of State, B F Al-
■*n; Attorney General, J B Galbrenth; , .. „ ,
comptroller LG Pyles • Treasurer C H Aus-1 19 * “ad man take the risk, and continue iu lazy to work, having no one to compell them
i. n t— i;_ i I crime while there is so little nrobabilitv of his to labor, suffering for food and raiment,
crime for the purpose of
• where they would be fed,
cared for
from our social system. Ever since we were they can care for themselves ; and the only
children wc have had n negro to do all for us punishment they would suffer would be soli-
tbat possibly could be done; doing nothing tary confinement,
tor ourselves thnt could be done for us, and
thus wc have become habited to it,and ever put
off for to-morrow—next month—another year,
hoping that some liow. or some how else,
something will happen and we shall escape
A woman in Harrisburg died from fright
, '* ln ” told in joke that her husband had
wen accidentally killed.
A joker in the Washington Republican
“jshe would bo perfectly willing to share
toe fortunes of war with tlic noble army of
contractors.
. Governor Humphreys of Mississippi,
j«ued on the 8th inst., in accordance with
loe requirements of an act of the Legislature
cl that State passed in 1801, a proclamation
A nn ? blockakc of the ports of
i Confederate States has l>ecn removed,”
ar l<l that therefore all persons to whomadvan-
on cotton were made by the State while
ac blockade continued are required to deliv
er the number of bales on which the said ad
vances were received by them.
E9* Gen. Joe Johnson employs about 500
t v Confederate soldiers in tlic repair
? the Orange and Alexandria railroad. As
.'Wy became familiar with the pick and spade
‘h the rebel entrenchments, they work with
knowledge, and are glad to obtain a living in
*w« way. Some of them formerly belonged
*° the first families in Virginia.
General Sherman will be at Washing
ton to-day. He waa summoned hero from St.
Louis by General Grant for consultation upon
the new army bill.
A special to the Times, from Washington,
-■•th, says: Gen. Sheridan's official report
y* there is considerable excitement at
ftownaville, but no danger of anv serious
• i Gen. Wriglit has been ordered to
he border to restore order.
• A condemned murderer, in Prussia,
in i 119 h®nds heavily ironed, lately moulded
id-crumbs a beautiful gcblet, with dcl-
mouldings of fruit and aowc r.-,.
Again, there arc only eleven convicts now
in the Penitentiary, two of them very old;
and there lias been a bill introduced for the
pardon of one of them—one unfortunate fe
male and eight others, whose times of con-
doing what we ought to do to-day—this very “* 3,c an “ , , , ,.
hour! Look into other countries and see finemcat expire m from tT^ehc to eighteen
months. So you perceive it will not he very
long until they are released by the expiration
of the time for which they were confined.
Public sentiment demands the abolition of
tlic institution. Senators may disclaim as
much as they will against public sentiment,
hot we are nil. or ought to be at least, influ
enced largely in our deliberations by it. Our
what success this institution has, where that
cause does not prevail, and I think you will
be satisfied of its correctness.
This difficulty applies to all systems, as
well as to the Penitentiary and will with equal
force apply to the more sanguinary system
of our forefathers, if substituted for it *
But sir, I answer the second objection, to wit: , , _ , , _
’ . . „ m, constituents make demands apoci us, and we
“It is an expensive mode. The question of , * .. . . . ™ , . ,,
t i . ,, • ,, -,j ,i „ ought, as good stewards, to do what they tell
expense I do not think should enter into the ° T . . • ,, „
v * us. I am not willing to yield all discretion,
argumen , . - but on matters of this sort the will of the
I might, with equal propriety say, and dc- . , ., . ,. , ,, ^ I
niand —
penses, _ _ .
r!ri;!VnShtVl!!inrth!u‘!hev3t't!! pava that the friends of solitary confinement shot .Id | ,,, , ti , i(111 tll0 t)l;lt
tuition -utlicient to defray expenses. Frank- I t,lc Lnperialists are preparing for a vigorous
lin
printed
A Recruit from the Grave.
The war has produced many strange stories,
bnt few more singular than the following one,
related by Colonel Ellis, late of the First
Missouri Cavalry, in a St. Louis paper:
A few days after a fiercely contested battle,
a party of soldiers belonging to the 1st Mis
souri took a jaunt over the battle field, and
came up to a spot where the rebel dead were
buried. In one place the hair of a man’s
head was seen sticking out of the ground like
a tuft; of grass, and near by a hand was seen
protruding upward, which evidently belong
ed to the corpse that owned the head of hair.
One of the cavalrymen remarked to his com
panions, in a spirit of levity. “Sec, there’s
a dead reb reaching out for something; let’s
see what he wants.” In the same spirit
o f wanton mischief, almost reck
lessness, the cavalrymen took hold of
the man’s hand, and hauled the body out of
the grave, the loose dirt falling back into the
shallow hole. Soon after the man began to
stir and manifest signs of life, to the utter as
tonishment and horrors of the resurrectionists
The man was taken by his rescuers to their
tent, and was rubbed down, washed off, and
in a few days became as “good as new.” He
said that in the battle he was stunned by the
passage of a shell, which knocked him sense
less. He was picked up among the dead and
buried like the rest. ’Not a a scratch was
found on his body. He said that he had
joined the rebel army and fought Federals
long and well, bnt as this was his second ap
pearance ou earth, he would now join the
Federals and fight for them. He according
ly enlisted in the First Missouri, did a great
deal of tough marching and hard fighting,
and last September was mustered out of
service and paid off ot Benton Barracks.
Parts Fashions tor January.—Paletots
trimmed with fur over the scams and round
the edges are particularly fashionable, and
are the most striking feature of the winter
modes, although they do not exclude the
wear of shawls, or rich black velvet mantles
ornamented with passementerie.
Bonnets tend to increase in size and to ad
vance slightly in front. This advancement
is counterbalanced by the application behind
(in the place of the ordinary bavolet) of a
small white veil of the description called a
loup, as worn hitherto in front of the chapeau.
Light blue velvet bonnets trimmed with
swan-down arc very elegant and meet with
high patronage.
Some of out young elegantes who effect a
desire to imitate certain points of the mili
tary costume have lately appeared in the
Champs Elysees and on other public prome
nades with a red merino pantalon, fitting
closely round the ankle and fastened by a
black cloth gaiter of unexceptionable cut.—
This pantnlon was the almost necessary con
sequence of the three cornered hat, which i3
still seen occasionally in the Bois do Bou
logne, where it is donned by some of the
youthful carringo-folk.—London Cosmopolitan.
Mexican News.—New York, Jan. 20.—
The Commercial’3 "Washington special says:
K Franklin C«)lIege siioula ^av £ People should he consulted. ! Senor Romero, the Minis^Frem 1 the rcpLiC:
uses, and with more justfee. for as tEe fcth- consti uents have saul “do away with it, ’ and | lic of Mcxico< refuse3 t0 credit reports J tho
of most of the students is supposed to be ! withdrawal of the French troops from Mcxi-
Rufus Choate, the <
^•"gtiishnl lawyer ofthi
posto
I only son of the late
. <>! Mi it name, died near
' »n the * . y ° r two «“«*• Hu had served
*nny &> a Lieut aant, hut was coinpel-
He on aeeoant of broken health.—
“ thirty years ot a-e.
should be made the of Penit entiary.
I have taken the trouble to ascertain the
amount of money that has been appropriated
to build first, and rebuild twice since the
commencement. In 181.'. appropriations com
menced, and up to the year 1858. inclusive,
$lu'UMM) \\;is appropriated for all purposes.
In 1817 tile first convict was received, and
from this period to 1858 is41 vears. therefore,
$430,000, divided hy 41, gives $10,433. say
even $11,000 per annum. But sir, this in
cludes the amount paid for building three
times. Now take away the amount paid for
uilding, and you will have less than $200,-
000 as money actually paid for keeping and
maintaining \hc convicts 41 years which is
$4,878 per annum, say $5,000 per annum.
.Mr. President, I think it can easily be
made to appear that the counties of Fulton,
Richmond, Bibb, or Muscogee, will pay more
fore.
Some ask, “wliat will you substitute for
this mode of punishment ?” I answer, sir,
the South Carolina Code largely. To the
great credit of that commonwealth it can l>e
said, that there is less crime committed with
in her limits than any other State in or out of
the Union, in proportion to population. Men
are afraid to engage in the commission of
misdemeanors within her borders, hut will
slip over the line into Georgia and steal, con
soling themselves with the thought, if they are
caught they ma y go to the Penitentiary for a
short while, and then they come forth to per
petrate similar crimes again.
Tlic very humane suggest, that it is contra-
rv to thepotttu of our people to resort to the
barbarities of the whipping post, the pillory,
nnd the gallows—and as our worthy Govern-
er says, “burning infamv into human flesh.”
States and Mexico. The reports of the with
drawal of the French are based upon a semi
official statement in the newspapers, circula
ted. he alleges, for the purpose of misleading
public opinion in this country. Romero as
serts that Louis Napoleon is intent upon a
scheme of territorial aggrandizement; that
lie lias calculated tlic cost, and will only with
draw when compelled by force, or effects the
entire submission of Mexico to his agent,
Maximilian.
J-t?” There is a girl iu Troy whose lips are
so sweet that they stick together, every morn
ing, by the honey they distil, and she cannot
open her mouth until she has parted her lips
with a silver knife. She will be a treasure to her
husband, not only on account of her sweet
ness, hut because she can occasioniy keep her
mouth shut.
A Start jn TnE World.—Many a parent
works hard and lives sparingly all his life for
the purpose of laying up enough to give liis
children “a start in the world.” This kind of
worldly wisdom is great folly, especially
where it leads to tho neglect of their mental
education. Nay, it is oltcn followed by the
most ruinous results. Setting a youn^ man
afloat with money which lie never aided in
earning, is like tying bladders under the arms
of one who never learned to swim. Ten
chances to one he will lose his bladders and
sink to the bottom. The true policy is to
learn him to swim and then he will not need
the bladders. The parent who gives his child
a good education, who trains him to industri
ous habits and bases his principles firmly upon
the great laws of trutli and duty, leaves hint
an inheritance more valuable than the Indies.
This sort of start insures a successful career.
Other kinds of ‘start’ make ‘fast young men,’
who not only ‘stick fast’ by the way, but be
come utterly worthless to themselves and oth
ers,
“ Something Else to Think On.”—The
phrase originated with Dr. Chalmers, and
thus illustrated by Henry Rodgers:
You remember the coachman who said to
the gentleman on the box, “Do you see that
off-leader there, sir?” * •
“Yes; what of him ?”
“He always shies when he comes to that’ere
gate. I must give him something else to think
on.” No sooner said than up went the whirl
ing thong, and came down full upon the skit
tish leader’s haunches. He had something
else to think on, no time for panic, or affect
ed panic, and flew past the gate like light
ning. If we can but give youth, in time
“something else to think on,” we may keep
out of their minds, by pre-occupation, more
evil than wc can ever directly expel. One of
the essential properties of matter may be said
to be also one of the essential properties of
mind, impenetrability. It is as impossible
that two thoughts can co-exist in the same
mind at the same time, as that two particles
of matter can occupy the same space.
Think of It.—Little things go a great way
to make life what it is. We ought to study
them more. If a kind word that costs noth
ing, will give pleasure especially to those who
have but little, why is it not well to have a
kind word always ready to be given ? It is an
act of friendship that makes a sad heart light
for on hour ; why not be ready, when it is so
easy, to scatter pleasure in the path of life ?
This is called a “vale of tears,” and so it is.
for sin has blighted flowers and planted
thorns; but tho vale would be brighter, and
there would be fewer tears, if those who have
it in their power to make others happy, with
out depriving themselves of a single joy,
would try to shed blessings about them os
thej. journey to heaven.
Willie’s Musical Adventures.—“Meet
me by moonlight alone,” as Willie the gar-
roter warbled to the old gent with a gold
watch and five hundred dollars. “Come, oli,
come with me,” sang the officer, taking him
to the station-house. “Welcome, welcome
home,” responded the turnkey, on locking
hint up. “Go where glory waits tliee,” sang
the judge, as he sentenced William to six
months on the island. “Wait for the wagon,
and we’ll all taken ride,” hummed the officer,
whilst attending the arrival of Black Maria,
the prison van. “Wc meet to part no more,”
warbled the keeper, warmly grasping Willie
by the handcuffs. “Home, sweet home,” sighed
Willie, as he put on the zebra BuiL
Admiration of President Johnson.—
Europeans are loud in their praises of our
President. The Independence, a paper pub
lislicd in Belgium, in the French language,
prints the following eulogium, from its Paris
corresponnent, which may be regarded as tlic
French opinion:—“How' greatly, indeed,
have the opinions of our governmental spheres
changed with regard to President Johnson !
Estimates the most unfavorable have been
altered to the most admiring anticipations.
Indeed, he is a great politician, whose wise
and profound judgment in the management
of affairs will leave its shining mark in the
annals of the United States.”
Conjugation of tiii: Verb “to see."’—
S-a-w, did see. Sordid C—, whom Esau
went to sea to see, says lie saw saucy Cfesar
saw Esau’s see-saw for fire wood to cook up
an a-mal-gum for the poor old see-saw that
he saw suffering ‘from toothache contracted
while cutting through the equinoctial line
during a biting gnaw-wester. Had, you see,
Sawney Been iu much trouble in cutting his
eye-teeth, this is the eyc-dentical “old saw"
lie would have used to cut ’em with. Had
Uncle Jonathan an “old hoss“ to match ?
fST* One of liis old acquaintances went
one day to see Fontenclle at liis country house,
and said lie had come to eat a bit of dinner.
“What shall we have l Do you like ’spara-
gus ?” said Fontenelle. “II you please, but
with oil.” “Oil! I prefer them with sauce.”
••But sauce disagrees with me,” replied the
guest. “Well, well, we shall cat them with
oil.” Fontenclle then went out to give liis
orders; but on his return found his poor ac
quaintance dead of nu apoplexy. Runningto
the head of the stairs, he called out. “Cook,
dress the Yparagus with sauce !"
A Dutchman's Experience with a Rowdy.
—“Te tarn rowdy combed in, aiul axed me
to sell him sum peer. I told him he had more
as would do ’im good. lie called me a tarn
Tucli liar, and pegun to proke two tumplers.
My vife she called for de vatch 'ouse. ’Fore
de vatch ’©use got dar, de turn rowdy kicked
llans Srigglc behind his back, kissed my
taugliter Pctsy before her face; proke all de
tumplers, ’cept de old stone pitcher, and spilt
my vife all toder peer parrels town iu te cel-
ler.”
An agent of the theatrical affairs at Vienna,
has permission from tin- Austrian Govern
ment to erect a theatre, t\ hich is to be con
structed entirely of iron, on the American
system. The works will begin next spring
Perhaps this is the last Lord's day which is
allotted to me to spend on earth. It is true,
I ant not old vet. I am still in what is called
the prime of my life. But what is life’s
strength? It is Thy will nnd pleasure alone,
O my God! When thou sayest, “Return, yc
children of men,” even the strongest disap
pear like a vapor. How many a one is per
haps now resting in his grave, who this day
week was buoyant with health and vigor.—
How little, perhaps, did they then think that
tlic}’ were spending their last Sabbath on
earth ! Perhaps many of them desecrated the
day in calculating the profits of the enter
prises, or in anticipating the pleasures of
the dissipations, which the new week was
to bring them. And. now they are buried,
with all their enterprises and pleasures, ill the
deep dark pit ot death ? And so, perhaps,
not many days hence, my wife, my children,
and my friends, miiy walk to the fresh grave
in which I shall be sleeping my long sleep till
the great day dawns.
Suppose it should be so. Is that a reason
for depression of mind ? Oh, I remember the
time when tlic mere thought of it would
have made me perfectly miserable. It was
when I did not know Tliee, Jesus my Lord,
Son of tlic living God ! It is true I had heard
of Tliee from my childhood, nnd I could tell
Thy life’s wonderful story, and I bore Thy
name, Yet I knew Thee not. Thou wert a
stranger to my heart, which was full of this
world's pleasures, hopes and prospects. Oh,
I could not then bear even .so much as the
thought of death, because life—alns! this
poor, short, perishable life—way my all and
all, my heaven and my God. But stranger as
Thou wert to me, yet I was no stranger to
Thee. Thou knewest me, though I knew
Thee not, neither cared to know Thee. Thou
knewest me in my folly, in my blindness, in
the foolhardiness with which I could dance
on the brink of an abyss, and sleep, like Jonah,
in the sight of the approaching judgment.—
Thou knewest me. and Thou hadst compas
sion on me. So Thou touched me with the
finger of thy grace,- and awoke me
out of my lethargy, and Thou opened
my eyes to fiiake me see that what I called
life was death, and that Thou, and Thou
alone, art Life, Since then I have learnt to
think of death without trembling, for through
the grave’s dismal shade I behold thy glori
ous form, Jesus, Resurrection !
O Thou First-born of the Dead, this day is
Thy ever-returning, never-waning birthday.
All creation, radiant with wonder and deligh t,
proclaims “The Lord is risen indeed! He was
dead, and, lo, he liveth 1” Save for that,
reation would' be one immense frightful
grave! Whatever doctrine may have been
doubted or contested, the doctrine of death
never was. Take away Christ, and the hu
man eye cannot discover one thing in the
universe which does not end in death and
destruction. Replace Christ, and that same
human eye now armed with faith’s wonderful
glass, beholds nothing which does not speak
of the new heavens "and the new earth;
which is not symbolic of Him who maketli
all things new; which is not prophetic of
the glorious resurrection with which the crea
ture one day is to rise out of the bondage of
corruption.
Oh, how can man be so blind as not to see
that glorious Day-spring from on high which
bath visited us in the darkness of the night!
Nay, how can lie be so stubborn as to refuse
to see it, while he is fostered by its warmth,
and nourished by the fruits which it makes
to grow! Oh, ye blind philosophers, who
deny Christ while enjoying the blessings of
Christianity, ye who now boast of your knowl
edge and civilization, wherein would you dif-
ter from the heathen, but for Christ and his
church ? Have you never put to yourself the
question, how is it that the Church, sprung
up from a dozen poor ignorant fishermen, has
exercised such wonderful regenerating power
upon the life of mankind—a power of which
your knowledge and civilization arc only faint
results? Do you not see that the Church
would be powerless and hopeless, were she
not tho bearer of Life from the Dead ? And
wliat was it which enriched her with this all-
quickening, all-conquering power ? Her faitli.
She has seen Him who was ‘crucified
and died, was buried again. She lias
seen Him ascend into heaven, and she now
sees Him seated there upon liis throne, crown
ed with honor and glory. You cannot see it,
because you do not believe it But the
Church of God believes it, and this faitli of
here is the answer to your question, liow is it
that she can conquer the world. She is the
fullness, the body the brideofHim that filletli
all in all. He liveth in her. He speaketli
through her, and it is by her that He has
strewn over the world those jewels of wisdom,
knowledge, and civilization with which you
boastfully adorn yourself, being- ignorant that
they arc only refuse, when compared with
that exceeding and eternal weight of glory
which he has prepared for his people, anil
which you despise.
Cut let me not ask how man can be so
Mind, for I was once as blind myself, and if
' sec now, it is through the grace of God.
Next to tlic nnfathomed depth of the riches
both ot the wisdom and knowledge of God,
man’s natural aversion to Christ is the grea
test mystery. Can we conceive any object so
loveable as Christ ? And yet is there
any- object' which man in his hatural
tate hates so much 1 Oh. I remember
how thorougly I disliked Him! Not only
his church and chapel, his hymns, liis organs,
his sermons, liis Bible, but Himself! To go
into my clo<et, to lock the door, to kneel
down in the dust at his feet, to speak to Him
self face to face ns if there were not a being
in the universe besides Iliui and me, to open
my life's book, to disclose my heart's inner
most chambers, and to discuss the question
what He was to me, and what I had lieen to
Him—Oh, I remember how I use
from.the mere idea of this! The slight
allusion to it would make mv spirit misera
ble.
M hat was the reason of this ? An instinct
ive feeling told me that my first step in a new
course would he a death-blow to everything
had hitherto called life. I perceived that
my own lite and Christ's could never go to
gether; that each absolutely excluded the
tlu-r. My life's principle was to make my-
if tiie beginning and the end of everything.
In opposition to this Christ cried, “lam the
Alpha and Omega!’’ than which nothing i--
more unbearable to human nature, in it.- fal-
tate. When through sin we cut the vital
and trying to make every being dependent
upon us. And ever since then the term “hu
man nanure,” has obtained a meaning oppo
site to what it had originally. When God
created man in liis own image, after his like
ness, and breathed into liis nostrils the breath
of life, human nature and divine nature were
two different degress ot one and the same life,
so that the one could not help being tho im
age of the other, so far as the finite can re
semble infinite. After the fall, on the contra
ry, human nautre and divine nature became
two opposite lives, one having disconnected
its vital principle from the other, to live a
life of its own. This is our innato pride,
which, since no life can liv» apart ftom God,
must necessarily end in destruction. The
only vrayof escape isti- return to Gi/d, to the
ways I— J Rock from which we were hewn, the Hoot
front which wc sprang. Yes we must—but
with shame on our faces, with the confusion
ofsliatne on our lips, with thefeelingof shame
on in our hearts, saying, “Lord, wc had a
name to live, but were dead! We were dead
in tresspasses and sins, loathsome in Thy
sight because of the leprosy of our form; yet
we walked about as if wc were kings, deck
ing ourselves with ornaments, and swelling
our breast with pride.”
Hero lies the true cause of our natural aver
sion to Christ. His appearance amongst us
opened up the only possible way through
which we can return to God, but it is a way
of the deepest humiliation, because a wnv of
truth—humiliation, not of the body, neither
of the garment, but of tho heart. To con
fess that we have been wrong—how difficult
is it to human nature! But to confess not
only that we have been wrong, but foolish,
wicked, faithless, and godless—how impossi
ble is it to human nature, except through the
grace of God ! Yet to come to Thee, O cru
cified Son of man, what is it but such a con
fession ? Why should we go to Thee at all,
if it were not for salvation from sin and gilt,
from everlasting death and destruction ! Gold
and silver Thou givest not. Thou wert poor
when on earth; even the beasts of the field,
and the birds of the air, were richer than
Thou wert. Fame or name Tlioit givest not,
for Thou wert despised and rejected of men.
and didst breathe Thy last on a tree of
shame, between two malefactors, as if Thou
wert the worst of all. But what
Thou givest is a body broken for
sin, and blood shed for iniquity.—
When then, if we go to Thee, are we doing
but just acknowledging that wo need that
body because wc are sinners; that we. need
that blood because our iniquities arc gone
over heads ? Oh, how I perceived the deep
humiliation implied in that acknowledgment!
It was. to my mind, like pronouncing a ver
dict of total bankruptcy upon my whole life,
upon all I had been and thought and done 1
It was to me like dying, for my liie's garden
was such a bright, bloomy Paradise in my
eyes!
And yet an inward voice whispered in nty
bosom that there was not one flower iu that
garden, however bright-looking, that could
stand the close inspection of the eye of God
For virtuous and irreproachable as nty life
might appear in the sight of men, nay, noble
and highly moral as it appeared in the esti
mation of those who knew me well, yet I
felt that, if probed to the very core, all truc-
and really good principle would be lacking.
I could not have analysed even the best of my
actions, without finding thnt selfishness had
been its leading motive. To honour myself,
to benefit myself, to please myself, was front
my earliest childhood the object of all my
thinking, doing, and striving. To this end I
had loved my friends, helped my neighbors,
and even performed my religious duties.—
How different, Lord! was Thy life! Thou,
too, didst perforin Thy duties as a mp.n :
didst love Thy friends, didst help Thy neigh
bor, didst attend the temple and the syna
gogue, but it was to honor God Thy Fa
ther, to please Him. to promote the glory of
His name,to have His will done on earth ns it
was in heaven. Thou didst nots seek Thine
own honor. Thou didst not seek Thine own
life, but wert prepared to lose it by tbs most
shameful of all deaths, if only Thy Father’s
will would be fulfilled. Oh, what remained
of all my highly praised virtue and righteous
ness, when I compared them with Thine! I
covered iny face with my hands. All my life's
flowers drooped, its if blighted and withered.
Idolator was ray true name. I had spent all
my life in worshiping my own miserable self,
as if it were God and the centre of the uni
verse.
Hadst Thou been like me, Tbou couldst
never have risen from the dead. Selfishness
cannot rise again; its only prospect is to die
and be buried. It never can find a place in
tlic region of light and life, however bright
the glory it adorns itself with. It must go
down to the realm of darkness and death,
because it is hell-born. But Thou. Emmanue!
wert love; therefore Tliou wert life. It was
impossible that Thou shouldst be lioldcn of
death. Thou must come out of the dark
prison of hell again, because Thou wert heav
en-born. Thy resurrection lias declared Tliee
with power to be the Son ot God. Oil, the
grave is God's great crucible for testing
tlic spirit. liow was it that not one of the
great geniuses who set the world wondering
after them ever rose from the grave t They
all loved their own selves. How was it that
He in whom we “saw no beauty that we
should desire Him,” burst the bands of death
and rose ? He loved God; He loved men;
He loved when none else loved, nnd all round
was hatred and contempt.
How can man believe all this with his heart,
and at the same time continue to live his own
life? A Being who has done all this for
me, cannot bat take possession ot my whole
heart, and become the root of a completely
new life, which will henceforth live and move
only from love towards Him. Such a faith,
is not merely tho knowledge of a doctrine,
bnt the experience of the power of unspeak
able facts. Through that faith I look upon
the history of Jesus as upon my own history.
In Bethlehem I see Hir.i born with whom my
true life was tc take its beginning. On the
cross I see Him die with whom my old life
was crucified, killed, and for ever buried. In
Joseph’s garden I see Him rise as the First
born of that wonderful family of which I
shall appear as a later-born member. This is
my biography. I have none of my own; 1
have only one in Christ. For what I have
besides is not biography but nekro-grapliv—
a record of death.
Oh, Jesus—Savior! when will Thy nature's
holy heavenly instinct act so immediately
within me, that at each moment Thy will and
to flee work shall be done long before my own old
nature has time to reflectIt is not Thy fault,
that so often Thy will if left undone, and so
many a work spoiled. It is my fault, because
I am slothful in keeping my members which
are on earth subdued in mortification.—
Through faith and love, Thou art born and
formed in me; bnt, alas! that form cannot
yet come to its full growth, from its being
hedged in by the thorns of mv moral nature.
Sin has not my heart. Thou hast it, as Thou
knowest. But sin lias (.[ten still my thoughts,
my habits, my passions. lleljJ me, oh Thou
quickening Spirit, to expel it entirely. Take
Thy scourge of cords, and thoroughly purify
Tliv temple ! I cannot rest as long as there- is
one fibre within me which does not thrill
rterv which connected us with the heart or
, we set ourselves up as independent foun- j with joy at the beckoning of Thy finger.-
ain-heads of life. AVo became like gods,! For withih me. ns everywhere else, Jesus, Jc-
living in ourselves, tor ourselves, desiring to vovali, my Saviour, my all, Tliou most i
be dependent upon no being bnt ourselves. King of kings, and Lord of lords!