Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-12-03

th9 uaiurot ttCe- 4 i've III NEW jersey Dc |
tween Plainneld and Westdeld, In Union, |
Formerly Essex) county. My name am free
to impart-it'is John r. Miller. Thirty-iour
years have passed, but the memory of every
hue and circumstance of those dread ages OF
death is distinct and vivid still. For often,
even now, thoughtless movement of either
crippled limb bring their terrors bodily back,
and once again--thanb Cody it Is but for a
moment--I lie suffocated and pressed be-
meath the mountains remorseless breast.
---
AHASUERUS, TIM SHOEMAKER OF
JERUSALEM
Every one has heard OF the Wandering
Jew, but the particulars of the legend may
not be quite SO well known. There are sever
al versions of it. Matthew Paris, monk of
St. Aibans, reports one which was curreut IN
the East during the thirteenth centary. 1t
runs thus: ssThis year (l229) an Armenian
archbishop came TO England, to visit the rel
les OF saints and venerable places, even as he
had done in other countries. He bore letters
of recommendation from our lord, the Pope,
to the religious and prelates OF this kingdom.
Having repaired to ST. Adams, to offer up
prayers at the shrine OF the English protomar-
tyr, he was received with honor by the abbot
an the convent. In the course OF his sojourn
here, he inquired particularly of his hosts
concerning the rites and usages of England,
and In return he related to them many tradi-
among other things, about that famous Joseph
who has caused so much talk among meu--
tbat Joseph who was present at the Passion of
Christ, and who yet exists as living witness
OF the Christian faith. he was asked il he
ever had seen him, or heard any thing of HIM.
An officer of the archbishop's suite, his inter-
! lfeter, a native OF Antioch, who was known to
Henry Spigurnel, one of the lord abbot's SER
vants-repied in the French language, that
MS master knew this man perfectly, AMI that
lie had even entertained him at his own table
little time previous to his departure for the
| west. The Armenian's story as to whatpass-
| ed between Joseph and our Saviour Ia as fol-
iows' When Jesus was borne along by the
jews from the pr@torium to the place of cru
/ cifixlon, Cartaphilus, one of Pontius Pilates
| doorkeepeis pushed him sharply behind, say
| ing In contemptuous voice, Walk faster,
Jesus why dost thou tarry7' Then answered
the Christ with q severe and sorrowful look i;
walk as It is written, and shall rest ere
long; but thou shalt walk until my coming
AZ the tine of the Passion, Csrtaphilus was
thirty years of age. Whenever he attains
his fittieth year, he falls into kind of ecstacy
from which he awakss restored again to youth.
he was converted to the Christian faith, and
baptized by Anadias, the same who baptized
Paul, receiving in baptism the name of Joseph.
de resides generally In Armenia. His CONVEX
sation is pious and edifying. Tho bishops are
his chief associates. He talks but little, and
! only when his society is sought by high dig
mites OF the church, and by holy persans
} then he gives curious details respecting the
! Passion aud resurrection of Christi &c.
The western tradition Is somewhat different
> from the above, and it is supposed by some tC
/ be more ancient, although we know no. upor
what grounds. This version supposes the Jew
: 10 nave been shoemaker at Jerusalem, nam
4 ed Ahasuerus, and that after his baptism b,
received The name of Buttadsous. Here 4
the veritable legend, as contained In letts
/ written in 1913, by Chrysostomus DudulBus
of Westphalia, to one Of his friends at Revel
. IS In the year 1647, NJ. Paulus Won Ettzen, doc
Tor OF the holy Scriptures, and bishop o
ochleswig, was attending service in a churcl
, at Hamburg one Sunday during winter, whel
, he saw, most miserAbly clad, that old Jew
who has wandered through the world ever
since the Passion of Christ. He appeared
about htty years of old, tall in stature, witt
! long hair hanging over his shoulders. He re
manned during the sermon, and listened there
10 with much devotion. Onleaving the churcl
tho doctor entered into conversation witt
him. The jew informed, him modestly, that h,
was born at Jerusalem, where he exercised
the trade of a shoemaker that his name W a
the crucidxlon of Christ. Afterw ards he talk
ed of the Apostles. Then hc added, tina
] Christ, wishing to rest again tina wall OF hi
4 house, on account of the heavy weight of thu
D cross, he had repulsed him rudely, and bad
/ him go his way whom our Lord made the repl.
G which ID so we'll known. This Jew was yer,
quiet and discreet in his manner. If he hap
4 pened to hear any one blaspheme, he exclsim
$ ed with sigh. and in deep anguish, "Oh
It unhappy man, why dost thou thus abuse tn
| name OF Gods and OF his cruel martyrdom
Y IL thou hadst seen, as did, how heavy an'
: how bitter was the agony of Christ, for thin
v sake and for mine, thou wouldst rather SUITE
/ the greatest evils thou blaspheme. His hol
ma .NET..a ht0N Ia
: never took moro than two shillings and o
that even he gave part to the poor, declaring
/ mt his own wants were ever well supplied b
TOD. he was never known to laugh. Wher
d ever he journeyed, he always spoke tho Ian
$ guage OF the country; thus at this time h
d expressed himself In very good Saxon. Their
arc many people of quality who have seen thi
jew in England, France, Italy, Hungary
k Persia, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Scotland
/. and other countries as also in Germany,
}, RostocS, Weimar, DantEig, and Konigsberl
!, In the year 1878, two ambassadors of H0
d stein, and particularly the secretary, Christie
|! pher krauS, mot him at Madrid, even til
= same in figure, age, manners and costume
i Ia the year 1880 he was at Vienna, and
Ii 1915 ut Luleek. Many persons also sa
- and conversed with him in the year of 1874
In Livenia, atCracow, and at Moscow.
euon IS the legend OF &c Der Ewige Jude.
/ Inc Everlasting Jew. Like the story Of s
/. gin ABOUT the commencement of the fourt
/. century and it must have profoundly imprei
,, sea the heart of the people, since 1t survive
e the Tunes of Luther and Melancthon, and wa
IS even received as an article of belief by th
dissenting communIons. What, indeed, coul
9 AFFECT the imagination more powerfully tina
the thought of this lonely man, lowered wit
Y an immortality of wo, and condemned to war
der from cline to cline through counties
ages, seeking rest and finding none and MOI
= wretched IN the silence of his deep dospa
= than all the thousands of his fellow men VIII
~ have lived since the world began, because
has Ps ,Ssss e die aisp.oyea The heart t. Esys
a. ldnd,' with the &c pressure of Gods infini
soul. His memory stretches far back, dow
ID tho long generations" embracing everythin
of pathos and subAp1ity in the history of crl
cihed Christ, whose last reproachful look sti
d haunts his agonized soul. None can eve
share In his undying grief, and, therefore, b
y must always dwell in a deep solitude of hea
If and soul, which no human sympathies Gu
soothe. The beautiful, tho great, the wis
q the good, pass over into the ts silent land ;
: but still the Everlasting Jew shall pursue Ii
y pilgrimage OF wo," until time itself shall
u no more, and of all earth's cou utless tribes
only shall be left in solitary grandeur, to cha
h the death-song of creation.
I'll "REIGN or TERROR" IN BALTIMORE, Nd.
a The Baltimore Md sun states that on We
5 nesday evening, gang of men went to Il
/ house of colorsd man named Alexand
johnson, who kept sailor boording house,
]. Caroline street, in that city smashed in IL
d door, stole everything they could lay han,
+ on, including eighty two dollars in cash, the
demolished the furniture. The loss is aboI
y hive hundred dollars in all. On Friday evel
d ing, man named Thomas Pierce, while pla
d ing cards at the house of Cstharine Shriye