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TIMES & SENTINEL
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
TUE SDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1858,
Alobile and Girard Rail Road*
The reports of the Chief Engioeer and Treasurer, shew
ing the condition of the above enterprise, is on our tab e.—
We learn from the former that about forty lour mi es o
the.road are open, in good order, 1 and well stoc Wl *
locomotives and freight and passenger cars; that wit i 6
present force and the augmentation expecte unng e
summer, the work will be pushed forward to Chunennug
gee Ridge by the first of October next, from that point
to Union Springs the distance is only five and a hall miles,
of which, it is considered that two fifths are already fin
ished, and the remainder comparatively easy of accom*
plishmeut. The location from Union Springs to Blakely,
down the Conecuh valley, a distance of one hundred and
seventy two miles, was completed last May, and the opin
ion of the Engineer, based upon estimates on the first 28
miles, is that the average of work for the whole line doe s
not exceed ten thousand yards to the mile.
From the report of the Treasurer, it appears that the lia
bilities of the company are $34,391,69, while their assets
amount to $34,683.35. These sums, respectively,are chan
ged in the address made by the President to the Stock
holders, in which is taken into account a reduction of lia
bilities, in consequence of payments made thereon since
the date of the Treasurer’s report, and an increase of assets
by an amount in notes and subscription uot in the Treas
urer’s hands. The report, thus amended, would show an
indebtedness of $18,491, and assets amounting to $30,533.
In the same address, the President states, that bonds of this
city to the amount of twenty-four thousand dollars are
still held by the company, and that, at 90 cents in the dol
lar, a sum would be realized therefrom sufficient to pur
chase the iron and spikes to lay the track from the termi
nus to Union Springs.
He calls upon the Stockholders to aid him by taking the
bonds and by raising the sum of thirty thousand dollars to
complete the grading and lay the superstructure between
the two last mentioned points, and as a consideration
therefor, holds out the assured prospect ol a rapid appre
ciation of the stock.
We congratulate the Company upon the prosperous fu
ture of which the past energetic and economical manage
ment of its afiairs justifies the prediction, and, believing
the result, thus confidently anticipated, to be nothing more
than the declaration of a rational faith, we would give om
phasis to the appeal, in behalf of their own interests, to the
Stockholders to come forward promptly with t the required
assistance. With the prosperity of the Road, that of our
city is intimately connected. Indeed they ,are correlative
facts. The road cannot prosper greatly without the city,
and vice versa. In .addition to the interest which she
holds in stock, she must depend for her trade in future,
chiefly upon the country which the road penetrates.
During the season just finished, it has thrown 20,000
bales of cotton into our warehouses. Under the hope of
a vastly increased production lor this year, induced by
present prospects, and with the further advance of the road
to the Ridge, we are not extravagant in the prediction that
more than double that number will be transported over it
the coming season; and when it shall pierce that barrier
and reach onward to the Springs, and impelled by its own
momentum or drawn forward by the strong cords of mate
rial aid (which will then be forthcoming,) it shall traverse
the rich prairies of the South West, laying under contribu
tion the Pike, Covington Montgomery and
Coffee, we may not trust ourselves to estimate in figures
l he magnificence of its results.
Too mbs or Yancey.
The Southern Citizen, edited by the Irish Patriot John
Mitchell, incidentally remarks in a leader intending to
prove that Gov. H. A. Wise is a conscientious slave-hol
der, that were it permitted to point out the “fittest and
ablest man” for the Chief Magistracy of the Nation, it
would “instantly name Toombs or Yancey.”
The selection of either of these gentlemen would be
hailed with joy by us as the true standard bearer of a dem
ocracy. We believe they possess the spirit to rise above
the level of a vulgar policy in the administration of a dem
ocratic government, and would be actuated by other mo
tives than those of the success of party and its ultimate as
cendancy at the sacrifice of our just and equitable rights.
C elebrat 1 on of the Ith of J uly.
The Eighty Second Anniversary of American Independ
ence was celebrated in this city yesterday (July sth) with
appropriate honors.
Seldom have we seen here such a display of military
enthusiasm. Notwithstanding the recent heavy rains and
wet condition of the streets, at an early hour, the military
corps were out of their Armories and marching with flying
banners the different streets. Four Companies constituted
the Battalion. The City Light Guards, Capt. Colquitt,
numbering forty eight muskets, held the position of Ist
Company and occupied the extreme right of the Battalion-
The Columbus Guards, Lieut. Forsyth, bearing forty eight
muskets, was the second Company. The Georgia True
Grays, Capt. Andrews, thirty two muskets third Company.
United Rifles, Capt. Wilkins, twenty eight rifles on the ex
treme left. The Battalion formed under the command of
Capt. Semmesand with Lieut. Hodges, acting as Adjutant,
marched to the Temperance Hall. A large concourse of
the citizens had assembled to participate in the ceremo
nies.
The Band having played “Hail Columbia!” an appro *
priate prayer was offered by the Rev. J. H. Devotie of the
Baptist Church. The Declaration of Independence was
then read by Priv. John Peabody of the Columbus Guards,
prefacing the same with a few appropriate and well-timed
remarks. The orator of the day,Priv. E. W. Moise of the
United Rifles, held the audience in attention for an hour.—
His speech was replete with earnest sentiment and patriotic
fire. He was frequently interrupted in the midst of it, with
burst of applause. Suffice it to say, his speech was well
received and appropriate to the occasion. The Battalion
was formed after the oration in front of the Oglethorpe
House and dismissed in regular order—after which the
companies drilled as independent companies through the
principal streets. Thus passed away the 4th of July in this
city.
Hon. A. Iverson.
It gives us pleasure to chronicle the return of this gen
tleman to his home and friends. We are gratified also to
observe that the stormy and harrassing session of our
national legislature, recently ended, of which the records
show that he was not a passive spectator, has made no in
road upon his health,* nor left a trace upon his genia*
temper.
Savannah News.
Mr. Thompson, the editor of the Savannah News, has
disposed ol his interest in that Journal to Messrs. Theodore
Blois, MaximeDesvergers , and John M. Cooper. Mr. T
will continue in the control of the editorial management o*
the paper.
New Advertisement.
By reference to iour advertising columns, our readers
will learn that Messrs. Allen & Camak have purchased
the interest of B. A. Sorsby in the Alabama Warehouse!
and in connection with J. W. King will continue the Sto
rage and Commission Business under the style of King,
Allen & Camak. The integrity and business capacity of
each of the above named gentlemen are ‘too well known
to require endorsement at our hands.
are requested to state that the annual meeting
of the stockholders of the Mobile and Girard Railroad
will be held at the Depot to morrow morning (7th July,)
. at half alter eight o’clock.
Remains of President Monroe Exhumed.
New York, July 2.— The remains of Ex-President
Monroe were exhumed to-day. The coffin was found to
be in an excellentjstate of preservation.
The remains of President Monroe left here in charge of
the Virginia committee and Seventh Regiment at 3.o’clock
this afternoon amid salutes from all the Forts andsteam
ships.
Nothing of the Telegraph Fleet.
St. Johns, N.B.—Lines to Trinity Bay in excellent
condition, nothing heard of the Cable Ueet. The Por
cupine is waiting outside.
British Outrages in Parliament.
We give a condensed abstract of the latest con
versation in the British House of Lords on this
subject, with the views of three prominent states
men. .
Lord Clarendon believed that it was desirable to
avoid either an extension of the slave trade or a
rupture of political relations with the United States;
that the American government did not desire that
the slave trade should be extended; that vessels
belonging to the United States had carried on the
slave trade, and he did not see how it could be
stopped unless some right of search was given ;
that such a right had been admitted by all mari
time nations; that no British officer would exer
cise the right of searching an American vessel if
he was really convinced that it was bona fide
American; that if any foreign power should inter
pose to prevent the perpetration of nefarious of
fences by a British vessel, England would he
obliged to them for their interference; and he did
not think the American government would differ
from England on that point.
Lord Malmesbury entirely agreed with his noble
friend, that the American flag is constantly prostitu
ted to cover the slave trade and all other illegal
acts; that it is highly desirable that some agree
ment should be made between the two countries,
by which it may be destinctly understood what
proceedings ought to be taken by their officers re
spectively, and which will not be offensive to hon
est traders; and that it is to this point he has di
rected ,the attention of the government of the
United*States, on which there is no great differ
ence of views between him and the American
Minister.
Earl Hardwicke said that the mode of opera
tions of inquiring into the nationality of a vessel
had been clearly laid down, and if there had been
any excess of those instructions, it was against
the direction that no offence was to be given to
any nation in conducting the operations m those
cases.
The Fire of Thursday Night. —We have been
able to obtain the particulars of the bosses by the
Are which occured in; Queen street on Thursday
night, more fully than was possible at the time our
paper went to press yesterday morning.
At the time of the fire there were in the store
house of Messrs. Hay ne & Yates, twelve hundred
bales of hay, three hundred barrels of whisky and
one hundred and fifty-one hhds. and eighty-two
barrals of Molasses. The whisky, with the excep
tion of a few*barrels, was saved, by being lolled
into the street; but nearly all of the*molasses, and
ot course all tne hay, were destroyed and lost.
Messrs. Hayne & Yates were insured for fifteen
thousand dollars, of which five thousand dollars
was on and ten thousand dollars
on the contents of store. Of the insurance, five
thousand dollars is in the Augusta Insurance and
Banking Company, five thousand dollars in the
South Carolina Insurance Company, and five thou
sand dollars in the Agency of the Unity Fire In
surance Company, London. It is thought that the
insurance will nearly or quite cover their loss.
Messrs. Hayne <$- Yates are enterprising young
merchants of our city, and we sincerely sym
pathise with them in this interruption and disar
rangement of their business.
The building occupied as a blacksmith shop,
where the fire originated, and belonging to Mr.
Wm. L. Porter, was insured for twelve hundred
dollars in the Charleston Insurance and Trust
Company.
The stock and tools of Mr. Gruendel, who occu
pied the building, were insured for two thousand
live hundred dollars in the Charleston Insurance
and Trust Company.— Charleston Courier, July 3
Wheat m Illinois.
From the St. Louis Republican, June 22d.
We learn from a gentleman just from Illinois,
who had good opportunities for observation in
Madison, Macoupin, and Sangamon counties, that
the wheat crop never appeared more promising.—
Many fields are ready lor the cradle, and before
the week is out many hundreds of acres will be
harvested. It stands erect, even full headed, and
in some instances only touched by rust or smut.—
We learn from some of the farmers in Madison
who have already cut their wheat, that the yield is
not less than twenty-five bushels to the acre. So
far as we can learn, the number of acres is unusu
ally large, and the market will be most abundantly
supplied.
In the counties named, corn promises little in
comparison with what is needed and what in early
spring was expected. Some farmers were dili
gently engaged last week in planting, with the hope
of making a crop. If the frosts hold off in Septem
ber, their hopes will bo realized ; otherwise, not.—
The army worm has attacked some fields of wheat,
but it is supposed to be beyond the reach of injury.
The grass in many spots looks well, but the worm
has committed sad depredations on some fields.—
The excessive wet weather has not been so favora
ble to grass, as some presumed it would be, and in
portions of Sangamon we are informed the crop
will be less than an average.
Cflors.—We take the following extract from a
private letter of a iriend in Pulaski county :
“The prospect of the crops in this county has
never been in all my knowledge, more flattering
than the present. 1 have heard from all parts of
the county, and all encouraging. I was in company
with a gentleman yesterday, (that is an old citi
zen,) and he says he has never seen a brighter
prospect. Even on the poor pine lands the crops
seem to be astonishingly good. Tha same report
will embrace Houston, Dooly, Laurens, Wilkinson
and Twiggs, and, as far as my knowledge extends,
the rains seem to hold out good with them all.
The health of the above named counties is good,
with but few exceptions.” —Wire Grass Reporter ,
June 30th.
The Washington Hotel Thieves. —lt will be
recollected that several days since we mentioned
that the alleged hotel theives whose successes in
this city last winter set the police on their track,
had been arrested and lodged in jail in Baltimore.—
We learn by the Baltimore Sun of yesterday mor
ning that strong efforts have been made to obtain
their release on bail. These efforts, however,
proved abortive, and those who were engaged in
them managed to get up a difficulty in the court
room which ended in the arrest of a man named
Dorman.— Washington Union.
[gP~|Tlease, sir, I don’t think Mr. Dosim takes
his physic reg’iar,’ said a doctor’s boy to his em
ployer. ‘Why, not?” ‘Cause vy, he’s getting veil
so precious fast!’
An Irish attorney says:—“No printer should
publish a death unless apprised of the fact bv the
party deceased.
A Young Devil*
The Baltimore Republican gives the following as
a few of the exploits of a boy only fifteen years
of age, the son of a very respectable citizen of that
‘"‘Not long ago, a young Newfoundland dog, the
favorite of his father, was securely tied by this
young Nero, who saturated the body with cam
phene or etherial oil, and set fire to the inflamma
ble fluid, which had the effect of roasting poor Tow
ser until life became extinct, after the endurance
of the most intense, agonising suffering which the
human mind can conceive.
“The young demon being well pleased at the re
sult of this grand experiment in cruelty, next en
deavored also to roast alive his little sister, a bright,
intelligent child, about six years of age. Having
playfully bound her legs and arms with a clothes
line, he placed her upon the cooking stove in the
kitchen, heated to an intense degree, in order to
prepare dinner for the family. The shrieks and
yells of the agonised little victim were fortunately
heard by the mother, who rushed down and re
moved the poor child before she was iatally injured.
Toleration of the young villain’s crimes had now
ceased to be a virtue, and the father was engaged
in preparations to effect his removal to the House
of Refuge when the hopeful youth suddenly disap
peared at night from his dwelling, and no tidings
have been heard of him since.”
The Tunica County Levees Broke.
We received last night, says the Memphis Bul
letin of the Ist. by the steamer Kate Frisbee the
following note from our esteemed friend, Judge J.
Hardeman, of Tunica county, Mississippi, which
conveys sad intelligence, of the sudden and unex
pected breaking of the Tunica county levees:
Tunica Cos., Miss., June 30.
To the Editor of the Memphis Bulletin:
The levees of Tunica county, Mississippi, haying
withstood the flood of waters up to Sunday night
last there was an almost simultaneous giving way
at the following points, viz : The levee spanning
the overflow to Beaver Dam Lake, between the
Ridge at Austin and Kerr’s hitherto supposed to be
the most substantial levee in the country, the new
ly repaired levee between Kerr’s and Harbert’s
broke at three points between Mr. Oneal’s and
Major Miller’s. The water passing through the
above crevasses, or the larger portion of them, will
be concentrated through Beaver Dam Lake and
Flower Lake to the Yazoo Pass and to Cold Wa
ter. The crevasse at Dr. Jameson’s, emptying its
water into McKinney lake, may more or less, dam
age the plantations in the vicinity of Commerce. —
These breaks in the levees have inundated almost
entirely, (save a narrow ridge in front,) the Wel
born Highlands, hitherto supposed to be above all
overflow. There are also crevasses reported, one
above Col. Trotter’s, at Willough Slough. The
break in the levees ot this county will prove to be
more disastrous to the plantations in the vicinity,
and the country below, than any crevasses here
tofore reported. The river at Austin rose one and
a half inches in the last twelve hours.
Kansas Affairs, &c,
St. Louis, July 2.—A despatch from Leaven
worth says that Gov. Denver deprecates the remo
val of the troops from Fort Scott, and had visited
Laramie (?) to concert measures to have them re
placed.
The notes of the American Bank of Baltimore
are largely circulated here, and the reported insol
vency of that bank is creating an excitement.
Large Movement of Grain. —The Buffalo Com
mercial Advertiser of the 28th ultimo, has the fol
lowing :
Up to the close of last week the increase of re
ceipts at this port, over the same time last year
amounted to four and a quarter millions of bushels
of grain. And we have just opened the season
Immense quantities are constantly coming forward.
The receipts at upper lake ports continue large,
and it is now becoming highly probable that Buf
falo will have done almost the usual business of
an entire season of navigation, before the harvest
of 1858 shall send new floods of produce upon our
crowded warehouses.
We had the pleasure of witnessing the extraor
dinary manifestation of the Spirit’s power in the
conversion of men and women, a few days last
week in Columbus—and extraordinary it was. We
have never seen nor read of such a phenomenon
in the moral and spiritual world. In looking over
the large and mixed congregation,as with one ac
cord they raised their voice in praise and suppli
cation, one is absolutely won by the moral grand
eur of the scene, until his own spirit, catching the
inspiration, looses itself in the wrapt revery of an
awful yet glorious speculation. In this revival,
there is a spirit of fraternily and true devotion
which does not often characterize such occasions.
The very atmosphere seems to be filled with a mo
ral odor, and all who come into it, feel the over
whelming force of moral obligation and an irresis
tible call to duly.
The young men and women of the city are zea
lous in doing good. They go out among their
friends and compel them to serious thought, iou
can hear the song of praise behind the counter,
and the merchant will stop his measuring of goods
to say some good word to his customer. The
doctor trusts more to his prayers for the sick than
in his skill as physician. The lawyer stands with
his brief in hand and exhorts his client to avoid
litigation and submit to a little wrong rather than
provoke to wratn —and thus it is from morning
until night.
Nearly five hundred have joined the several
churches in the city, and we believe that there are
not fifty men in the city, who have escaped this
strong and almost irresistible appeal to duty. We
hope that this moral power will widen and deepen
until it reach all our cities and towns and cover
the country as if with a smile of peace!
In this gracious visitaiion of mercy we can see
no other influence than the power of God, It finds
no solution in the philosphy of mind or matter,and
really it lies even beyond the probabilities of spec
ulation. In a human sense there is no rationale
of logic or learning or observation belonging to this
most wonderful moral phenomenon. At a distance
and from under its infiueuce, skepticism may at
tribute to this purely spiritual manifestation, a hu
man instrumentality outside the organized means
of the Bible and thereby materialize what is alto
gether spiritual and immaterial; but witli it, and
under its controlling, constraining influence, no
man or system will pretend to reason —they yield
to the conviction that it is of God and unto God.
This revival is as an angel of death to infidelity,
and causes hardened transgression to tremble for
its safety. To express our conviction very briefly
we state, that the quiet, yet radical and all perva
ding spirit of reformation throughout the city fas
tens the fact upon every unprejudiced mind, that it
is all of God.— Auburn Gazette.
Bulwer is separated from his wife, Dickens from
his wife, and Charles Reade (of Peg Woffington
and white Lies notoriety) is living with another
man’s wife. From the days of the poet Job, whose
wife was the original Mrs. Caudle, down to So
crates and Xantippe, and so on down to Byron,
and finally to Dickens, matrimonial unhappiness
has ever attached to literary men.— Exchange pa
per.
In Columbus.
Gotton.
The quantity of raw cotton imported into En
gland from various places is a highly interesting
subject to both the producers and consumers. —
We find the following statement in the London
correspondence of the National Intelligencer :
Imported from —
1843 1857.
The United States, lbs 574,738,529 654,758,048
Brazil 18,675,123 29,910,832
Egypt and Mediterranean coun
ties 9,674,076 24,880,144
British East Indies 65,709,729 250,338,114
British West Indies and Gui
ana ....... 1,260,444 1,443,568
Other countries 3,135,224 7,986,160
Totals 673,193,116 969,318,896
The most striking feature of this statement is
the very great increase in the produce of cotton in
the British possessions in the East Indies.
Judge Campbell.
Before the election of Justice Campbell to the
Supreme Bench, no man in all this broad South
was more violent in his advocacy of our rights and
of the necessity of Southern expansion. He was a
steam-engine on the track of progress. He de
nounced the encroachments of the Federal Govern
ment upon the rights of the sovereign States; he
proclaimed that his allegiance was due alone to
to the sovereign power of Alabama, who was but
a member of a Confederacy, from which she could
secede at any moment. States Rights, Southern
Rights, God and the People, was the cry of plain
Mr. Campbell before he put on the ermine of a
Federal Judge. And since that time —Heaven
help humanity !—no greater advocate of Federal
power and tyranny exists than this whilom friend
of the South and of Southern expansion. The
black mantle now covers as arrant a Federalist as
ever entered the precincts of the Capitol.
We observe that some of the citizens of Mobile
tendered Judge Campbell a public dinner the other
day, which that distinguished enemy of Southern
progress declined to accept. At the bottom of this
eating and drinking testimonial, we think, is a se
cret worth the attention of the thoughtful men of
our sister city. There was, we imagine, something
more in that affair than admiration for the conduct
of the Judge in the recent trial of General Walker
and others, and a desire to poultice the wound in
flicted upon him by the press.— N. O. Daily
Delta.
The Railroad Convention.
Buffalo, July I.—The railroad convention ad
journed sine die at nine o’clock last night, after
passing the following resolution ;
Resolved, That the New York and Erie road be
requested to advance on its passenger rates to the
prices prior to the reduction, which rates shall re
main unchanged till the 15th of July next, and that
a committee of three be appointed by this conven
tion to inquire into the difficulties between the Erie
and Central roads.
Mr. Moran, president of the Erie road, protested
against the action of the convention, declaring that
he would not be bound by it, and that the Erie
road would endeavor to work for its own interest
independent of the action of the convention.
Although the Lake Shore, Cleveland and Tole
do, Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati, and
other roads were represented in the city, their del
egates took no part in the proceedings of the conven
tion, and, consequently, are not bound by its
acts.
New Telegraph Line to Halifax.
Boston, June 30.—The first section of the ex
tension of the Magnetic and Union lines of tele
graph eastward to Halifax was completed to New
buryport this morning, and the lines are now open
for business to that point. The continuation of
the line to Halifax will be pushed forward without
delay, and, upon its completion, the odious mono
poly which has so long existed between this city
and the Provinces will be broken up.
The Dudley Observatory
Albany, July I.—Mrs. Dudley having espous
ed the cause of Dr. Gould, and written a letter re
questing the majority of the trustees of the obser
vatory to resign, the trustees reply, expressing their
determination to adhere to their position, and de
clare that, in the honorable discharge of their du
ties under the charter, they must insist on the re
moval of Dr. Gould. Meantime the scientific
council have addressed letters to the trustees, cal
ling for the charges against Dr. Gould. To this
the trustees reply, refusing to recognize the right
of the council to usurp any such powers of au
thority. _
Horrid Tragedy.— A most appalling tragedy
was enacted in Columbus county, in this State, just
after daylight on the morning of yesterday, the
29th inst., resulting in the death of four persons.
The account, as it has reached us, is, that at the
time already stated, Joshua Rouse killed his father,
his wife, and two of his own small children, cut
ting off their heads with an axe. His eldest son
ran over to the residence of Isaac H. Powell, Esq.,
and told Mr. P. what had happened, who got \V.
G. Smith, Esq., and went on towards Rouse’s.
On their way they met Rouse in pursuit of his son
with an axe. He said he wanted to kill him. On
meeting Messrs. Powell and Smith, he dropped the
axe and held out his hand, when they arrested
him. He is now in jail. Rouse had been for some
time in the insane asylum, but was taken out by
his guardian some three or four weeks ago, since
which time he has been permitted to run at large.
There is every reason to believe that he was in
sane at the time when he committed the terrible
deed for which he was arrested. The occurrence
took place some five miles from Whiteville in the
vicinity of the White Marsh. The little boy who
escaped stated, we believe, that Rouse killed the
old man out in the yard with a stick, and then
chopped off his head. He took the old man’s knife,
and with that he killed his own wife, and cut off
her head. The children he killed with the axe and
chopped off their heads. At Whiteville, when be
ng carried to jail, Rouse, said he killed his wife
because she had tried to cut his throat two years
ago, and his father because he whipped him very
severely when he was a boy. He had been in the
insane asylum for eighteen months preceding the
affair, with the exception of the last three or four
weeks.— -Wilmington (A. C.) Journal*
Discontinued. —The Portsmouth (Va.) Tran
script states that it has been found impossible to
continue the route from that port to Philadelphia
via Seaford Delaware, in consequence of the ob
struction formed by the bar of the Nanticoke river.
The line will be discontinued until the bar can be
removed and a suitable boat for the route either
purchased or built to order.
The following bit of quait humor has about
as much sound philosophy in it as could well be
crowded into so small a space:
Bad luck is a man with his hands in his breech
es pockets and a pipe in his mouth, looking on to
see how it will come. Good luck is a man to meet
difficulties, his sleeves rolled up and working to
make it come out right.
|¥°‘l say Pat, what are you about ?—sweeping
out that room ?’—‘No,’ answered Pat, I am sweep
ing out the dirt, and leaving the room.’
The Agamemnon and Niagara,
WrTH TIIE SUB—MA RINK TELEGRAPH IN MID OCEAN,
(A Song of Nations.)
BY WILLIAM BOSS WALLACE.
Science, Religion and Poetry, are the lovers of the woild
J■ F. Birch.
O, winds of Ocean! well may ye
Your wings io sweetest music wave:
And thou, 0 sun ! look smiling down
Upon the banded brave;
The Red Cross floats—but roses now
Are wreathing round the bloodless fold;
Beside it see the Flag of Stars
In shining myrtles rolled;
And hark! the song of Bethlehem’s glen,
“Peace on earth ! Good will to men!”
No cannon from the port-holes frown;’
No quick, deep, boarding drums are heard;
No wrathful shouts of onset here
Rush through the warrior’s beard;
The brave ones of two mighty lands,
Once met in war, together stride
With words of love and smiles of joy
Above the gladdened tide;
Ring out thy song of Bethlehem’s glen,
“Peace on the Earth ! Good wiil to Men!”
O, more than mortal forms are here
Upon the decks amid the throng,
Who, though unheard by mortal ear,
Join in the heavenly song;
Here walks the seer of Carmel’s crag:
Here glows the bard of Zion’s psalm,
And witn them he of Patmos waves
His consecrated palm—
Singing the song of Bethlehem’s glen,
‘‘Peace on the Earth! Good wiil to Men!
Then, her ocs of the banded ships,
With heaving hearts and eyes a glow,
Down with the instrument of love,
Old Ocean’s heart below;*
By it the continents shall wed;
The flag of war and hell be furled;
One universal rainbow arch
And paradise the world—
In choruswith Judea’s glen,
“Peace on the Earth! Good will to men!”
Yes, winds of Ocean! well may way ye
Your wings in sweetest music wave;
And thou, O Sun! look smiling down
Upon the banded brave:
Do ye not see the nations stand
In breathless joy before the deed?
This is the bridal of the climes
By him of old decreed,
When rose the song of Bethlehem’s glen,
“Peace on the Earth! Good will to Men!”
What Makes a Bushel.— The following table
of the number of pounds of various articles to a
bushel may be of interest to our readers:
Wheat, sixty pounds.
Corn, shelled pounds.
Corn, on the cob, seventy pounds.
Oats, thirty—six pounds.
Rye, fifty-six pounds.
Irish Potatoes, sixty pounds.
Sweet Potatoes, fifty pounds.
Onions, fifty-seven pounds.
Bran, twenty pounds.
Clover Seed, sixty pounds.
Buckwheat, fifty-two pounds.
Timothy Seed, forty-five pounds.
Flax Seed, forty-five pounds.
Hemp Seed, forty-five pounds.
Blue Grass Seed, fourteen pounds.
Beans, sixty pounds.
Dried Peaches, thirty-three pounds.
Laughter. —Laughter is not altogether a fool
ish thing. Sometimes there is even wisdom in it.
Solomon himself admits there is a time to laugh, as
well as a time to mourn. Man only laughs—man,
the highest organized being; and hence the defini
tion that has been proposed of “man, a laughing
animal.” Certainly, it defines him as well as a
“cooking-animal,” a “toil-making animal,” a “mo
ney-making animal,” a “political-animal,” or such
like. Laughter very often shows the bright side
of a man. It brings out his happier nature, and
shows of what sort of stuff he is really made.—
Somehow we feel as if we never thoroughly know
a man until we hear him laugh. We do not feel at
home with him till then. We do not mean a mere
snigger, but a good, round,hearty laugh. The sol
emn, sober visage, like a Sunday’s dress, tells
nothing of the real many. He may be very silly,
or very profound: very cross, or very jolly. Let
us hear him laugh, and we can decipher him at
once, and tell how his heart beats. We are dis
posed to suspect the man who never laughs. At
all events, there is a repulsion about him which lie
cannot get over - Lavater says : “Shun that man
who never laughs, who disliaes music, or the glad
face of a child.” This is what everybody feels, and
none more than children, who are quick at reading
characters; and their strong instinct rarely de
ceives them.— Blackwood.
Dickens.— The London Illustrated News has the
following reference to the case of Mr. Ohas. Dic
kens :
A great author has this week thought it neces
sary to appeal in print to his fellow-authors against
certain scandals —stupid, foul, and lying enough
which nobody of name believed lor a single mo
ment. An appeal from such a quarter should not
be made in vain; we therefore, (unnecessarily) ac
knowledge his appeal, and, knowing his noble na
ture—knowing the facts (better still)—appeal to
him in print to forget the follies of malice and en
vy, and rely as before on the well-assuied aticc
tion of his many friends, who know how in
capable his nature is of aught that is mean
aught that is contrary to truth and to his wri
tings. And the public (the world) is of our opin
ion.
Good Hits.— ln the trial of Jim Lane at Law
rence, Kansas, for the murder of Jenkins, the At
torneys indulged in a good deal of pungen \v
sarcasm. One little pass between the counsel was
so pointed and opportune that it is worthy of no^
Col. Young insisted that m law, the man olai
supposed to be wrongfully slain.
Mr. Cue —That is the law of England, not ot
If there is any book on God’s earth
that contains any other doctrine. I’ll agree to eat it
without greasing! (Laughter.)
Mr. Coe—Then you’ll have more law in your
stomach than you ever had in your head. (Roars
of laughter.)
Deacon Briggs. —Old Deacon Briggs re
markable for his closeness as was Dickins’ man,
Barkis. His name has come to be a proverb in
our region for such an economy as ever makes a
man the subject of ridicule ar.d contempt. One
bitter cold morning a few falls ago, he had the bo}s
drive together all the pigs that were to be fattens
for the market, into the little yard just at the cor
ner of the house- A pig was caught by one of i
youngsters; the Deacon with a pair of pinchers m
one hand, and a sharp*knifein the other,seizing ti,L
unfortunate by the tail, cut it off close up. So on
through the whole herd, leaving not a pig witfi
even the stnmp of a tail. Cort, who worKed or
his grandfather stood by in amazement —Ins hands
in his pockets, his bodv wrapt into a crescen y
the cold, his teeth jawing against the outrage ui. 1
a prodigious clatter. At last he stuttered ou ‘ ..
‘Grandpa! What are you cutting off those tails
for?*
Sober and solemn wasdeacon Briggs as he said:
“You never will be a rich man, for you
know what it is to be savin. \ou ought to know,
my child, that it takes a bushel of corn to Jal
an inch of tail /”