Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-06-19
VOL. 5-.-NO. PA.
DAILY VIRGINIAN.


Mr.. A. Nicholas Of Wall st, has struck off a
number Of fac simiIo ooins of the Hebrew Holy
Shekel-the pieces Of silver money in which
Judas Iscariot was pnid for his services
Ia beiraying the Saviour. I he present coin
is from drawing procured last year in
Rome The drawing is from piece (which
seys DIR. Raphaelwho furnishes the description.
'musi have been coined during the time the Jews
were sojournng in the Holy Land under their
own kings aud contemporaDeous with the first
Temple, which brings it to period of about 700
B. C." The Hebrew characters upon it ara
much like the style of our own American coin;
Tor whilo the legend upon ours reads. limited
States of America" this. in the same position on
the outer edge, bears the inscription, "Jerusalem
the Holy" While ono side bears the resemblance
to Auron's rod MS mentioned in Numbers xvii, 3
on the other, which has the imprint of the pot Of
incense, il inscribed in the Hebrew characters
the words "Shekel of Israel"
"Judns received thirty of these pieces for the
betrayal Of the Saviour of Man, IN mentioned in
Mathew xvii, Is. As is plainly shown by the
text, they were the largest pieces of silver coin
edand nothing less than thirty of them could have
purchased field in or near Jerusalem. We
learn from Matthew that when Judas began to
Icfoot that he had been the cause OF shedding in
nooont blood, he went baek Ia the High Priest
who Ind given the money and laid il at his feet.
Bu they would not let II 20 into tho treasury of
the sanctuary, aud purchased Potter's Field to
bury strangers Roman soldiers mud others.
"Acoording to Levitious v +, Is, this coin
ono OF tho counts of reckoning aud offering,
where the person had committed Il trespass
through ignorance.
"Of the Censor, with the Incense thereof, full
account is found III Lcviteus K, !, here Nadab
aud Ahihu, with others OF the rebcllious priests.
having presumptuously put strange incense in
their oenscrs, aud went into the Tabernacle to
offer, lin direct contra venson Of the orders of
al, Hit tl,n lt,h lrt fnr
which offence the ground opened and swallowed
them-bring the first dooonnt we have, either in
sacred or prufnne history, of an earthquake.
Two important events thus commcmora-
ted in the history Of the 4raelites by tho devices
engraved on the pieoe--,he destruction of the
rcbelling priests. and the blooming of Aaron's
rod.'-N. y. Ere. Post.
REMAINS OF THE MoAOn the dth of Janua-
ry Mr.. G. II. Moore, of Glenmark, in the North
ern portion of the province, discovered three OF
the finest specimens Of the Mon bird remains
which have yet be-n found in this colony. His
men, in tracing up drain through peat swamp
to the spring ai the foot of the hill in the rear of
his woolshed. came across number of huge
homes IN very high state of preservation. Up
on carefully oxcavntiDg them, in which partly
they wore found, and below which was blue
clay, they discovered in ono place the frames OF
two birds aud n few yards farther back the en-
great size; tho shank bones are upwards oft
feet in length and nine inches across the knuckle
Joints. Tho lower joints Of these two birds np-
pear to be imbedded perpendicularly in tho blue
clay, as If they had sunk beyond their powers OF
cxtrcaiion. aud the upper part Of their frames
were found in the peat, which covered them sn-
trcly over.-The position of the remains leads
10 the dea that these birds had ali sought shelter
from fro under the steep hill at the spring there,
and were ovortakcn by the fro before recovering
from their state of exhaustion. The peat and
vegetable matter which appears to have been
washed down upon them has maintained these
remains in n very high state of preservation. Tho
greatest care is being taken by Mr. Moore TO col.
lect all the parts, and it is proba that the entire
skeletons of nl three birds will be obtained.
These fine specimens will doubtless throw addi-
tonnl light upon the peculiar structure of this re-
maIkable bird, and add to the interest which is at
iached to the total Disappearance OF this extra
ordinary specimen offormcr natural history
New Zedidnd Paper.
TnANsPLANTiNu EvERGREENs.--1 wish to
give your numerous readers my rules for trans
plaptiDp evergrcen. for think them as easily