Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1852-10-06

sprlnkled on our hands, beStOWlng double
portion on a rosary of sandalwood which car
| red. But it was Mahometan rosary brought
| from Mecca, and containing the sacred number
of ninety-nine beads.
have not space here to state all the argu-
ments for and against the localities Of the Holy
Sepulcher. | came to the conclusion that none
| of them were authentic, and am glad to have
the concurrence Of such distinguished authority
as DIR. Robinson. So far as this being matter
OF regret, ], for one, rejoice that those sacred
spots are lost to the world. Christianity does
not need them and they are spared daily pro-
fanation in the name of religion. We know
that Christ has walked on the Mount Of Olives,
and gone down to the Pool of SLOAN, and tar
ried on Bethany-we know that here within the
circuit of our division. He has suffered agony
and death, and that from this little point went
out all the light that has made the world great
er and happier and better in its later than its
earlier days.
FEMALES IN RUssIA.-Owing to the enor-
nous consumption of the army, the female pop.
uatioD of Russia greatly exceeds that of the
males. Women are of little value-the banks
will only advance money upon the male serfs,
counting others as over and above. We are at
a loss for words to describe, without offence,
the demoralizing effect of these things. The
master--not so often the lord as the agent or
overseer, tyranizes over the wretched people
enslaves his own brother, sells his sister, and
often his daughters into a servitude worse than
death. The lash, the universal punishment, or
stimuant, is not spared to woman. A French
gentleman was thrown into prison at Mos
COW, without Il shadow of preteXt. Day after
day the wretched serfs, whose masters sent
them to be fogged by the obligng police, were
brought before the grating of his dungeon, to
which he was drawn by some irresistible atrac-
tion-some spell Of terror. The sights he wit
messed and the sounds he heard, had such an
effect upon his brain that he became nearly d-
otto. One day, two young girls, miliners, scarce
ly twenty years old were sent by the mistress
to be hogged. They were torn with the rod.
"They writhed and shrieked for mercy. At
the sight of the bleeding bodies ofthese unhap-
py girls, whose sinews were laid open with each
stroke, the Frenchman could hardly keep HIM
self from fainting. AT length the fogging
ceased, but not until one of the girls, fell, bath.
ed in blood, and dying to the EARTH" Another
traveller in Russia, hearing one morning the
cries of intense suffering from number of
women who were being flogged, could not re-
strain his tears. The lady of the house, finding
him in this state and not understanding that
the sight Of such torments could so move him
informed him that it was entirely from kindness
and attention to n stranger that she had order
ed eighty of her servants to be flogged for neg
lecting to gather wild strawberries for his break
fast. The last instance we can find space to
give of the utter disregard for the rights of hu-
manity in the treatment of the Russian popu-
lation, is the forcible carrying off of young chill
dren. The Emperor sets the example, and car
ries off the children of the Poles and Jews by
hundreds, in pursuit Of a remorseless policy
directed against the two races.
The mobiles carry off children, not only for
pleasure says M. Michelet, :" but also as a
means of speculation. We will cite as an ex-
ample one who trained up whole troops of dan
GERS, some of whom he exhibited in the theatres
of Moscow, and sold others, at high prices, to
those mobiles who amused themselves with
operate performances in their own mansions"
We need do no more to demonstrate the uni
versal corruption and debasement that pervades
society under the most perfect form of absolute
government