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The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-10-08
IT AM GOING TO BE AN ANGEL"

Children have an instructive dread of the
grave, and though heaven may be associa-
ted with delightful thoughts, they shrink
from passage to it through the tomb. The
following beautiful sketch, from one of our
exchanges, teaches that this aversion may
sometimes be overcome !:
Thelast rays ofthe setting sun stole through
the dancing leaves, and shed a golden rad
lance over lovely garden, imparting an
additional beauty to every bud and blossom.
But the fairest flower upon which the SUM-
beam shone, was pale, spiritual child, who
stood inhaling the perfumed air, and sur
veying, with apparent delight, the many
hued flowers As she looked and admired,
her blue eyes sparkled, and faint color
just tinged her fair cheek, as if reflected
from the roses, which, as she passed, scatt-
cred the blushing petals upon her head.
Presently her attention was withdrawn from
the flowers and directed to the western
sky, which the suns departing rays had dyed
with gorgeous hues. The trees upon the
mountains brow seemed as if painted upon
the glowing horizon, and clouds OF silver
white, tinted off with gold and crimson,
hoated above them.
AS the child stood enraptured with the
beauty of the sky, light fingers strayed
through her sunny tresses, fond eyes were
bent upon her, and voice sweet and gentle
said, "Of what are you thinking, Lille !"
The child pointed upward with her slender
finger, saying, 20 mamma, how beautiful !
How should like to be away up there
with the angels p The mother looked up
and answered, eyes, darling, the clouds are
very beautiful tonight" 'But mamma,
do you know what makes them beautiful 7
/ do it is because the angels are in them,
and | was thinking that when | died, may
be / would look right down here, some time,
upon you, mamma. Say, don't you think
/ will ~ The mother made no reply, for
tears were in her eyes, and shadow upon
her head, and tenderly embracing the fra
gile little creature, and kissing her white
brow, she tried to divert her thoughts.
But the child continued, Mamma, want
to be an angel; but l don't want to die, as
little Bessiedid, land putin the cold ground;
You won't let me die and be buried up, VIII
you, mammal" "When the Savior calls
my little lamb, shall have to give her up.
You would be willing to go to Jesus, and
never be sick any more, wouldn't you, dar-
ling p "Yes, mamma, if he would take
me right up to the beautiful sky; but, 0
mamma, don't want to be put in the
ground"
The mother kissed the fearful eyes. and
caressing the trembling form, said, "Don't
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@eferreo Correspondence.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Sept. 80, 1859.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept 80, 1859.
Mr. EDIToR:-We had very fine con-
cert here, given by the st. Vincent Benevo-
lent Association, (colored Catholic for the
purpose of aiding the fund to establish a
free school for colored children. This con-
cert, am glad to say, was largely attend
ed by a very re pectable and intelligent
audience. The Association has already
rented and fitted up a room that was used
some years ago by John f. Cook as a
school-room, on III street, near Fourteenth.
The appointment Of teachers made by the
trustees speaks well Of them as a Board.
They have chosen Mr. David Brown and
Miss Cook, and better selections could not
have been made. Mr.. Brown has been
long and faithfully tried, and found every
way qualified for the position he now holds.
The ladies, who are always foremost in all
good undertakings, have started out with a
subscription paper. Who will subscribe a
dollar a year to educate our down-trodden
racer
We have, in the last two or three DAYS.
welcomed home many of our friends who
have been away all summer to the differ
ent to the different watering places, all
looking very fine
1t will be interesting to all who have
ever visited Washington to know that we
are to have new market-house in the
place of that disgraceful old shed that is
now the first thing to attract the eve of a
stranger We are also to have a new
watch-house in the place Of the old one,
which has been condemned by our city
fathers, who say that it is not a fitting
place even for negroes, who are made to
pay the best part of the expenses of the
police department, as the daily reports,
which read as follows, show:
John Smith, (colored,) out after hours,
hne and cost, So 81.
Ann butler, (negress, } out after hours,
8 6S fine, IS cents cost.
John Dick, (cOlored) nonresident, out
after hours, fine and cost, $12 58.-By
Justice Dunn.
An outrageous occurrence took place in
this city on Monday night, 18th inst A
lew young persons had met together in
me fitteenth-street Presbyterian Church
"r prayer, as is their custom. The meet
ny being over, a gentleman, highly intel
gent and well respected by the whole
Immunity, named John T. johnson, of
~ W Ills services to Miss Rachel Bruce, Ia
ao 5 feSpectable young lady, and one in
= mat any community might be proud
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assassin Hopkins, as his lean, taper finger
assumed the same direction. He hemmed
in the wretch with decentralization of
strong evidence and impregnable argu-
ment, cutting off all hope of escape He
piled up huge bastions of insurmountable
facts. He dug beneath the murderer and
slanderer's feet bitches of dilemmas, such
as no sophistry could overleap, and no
stretch of ingenuity evade; and having
thus, as one might say, impounded his vic
tim and girt him about like a scorpion in a
circle of fire, he stripped himself to the
work of massacre.
Oh then, out it was vision both glo-
rious and terrible to behold the orator.
His actions, before graceful as the wave of
golden willow in the breeze, grew impet-
uous as the motion of an oak in a hurri-
cane.
His voice became trumpet filled with
wild whirlpools, deafening the ear with the
crashes of power, andyet intermingled all
the while with sweet undersong of the
softest cadence. His face was red as a
drunkard's; his forehead glowed like a
heated furnace; his countenance was hag-
gard like that of a maniac; and ever and
anon he flung his long, bony arms on high
as if grasping after thunderbolts.
He drew picture of murder in such ap
palling colors that, in comparison, hell it.
self might be considered beautiful. He
painted the slanderer so black that the sur
seemed dark at midday when shining OF
| L i,
fixed both portraits on the shrinking Hop
kins, and nailed them there forever The
agitation of the audience nearly amounted
to madness
All at once the speaker descended
from the perilous height. His voice walled
out for the murdered dead and tving-
the beautiful Mary, more beautiful every
moment, as her tears flowed faster-til
men wept and sobbed like children.
He closed by strange exhortation tt
the jury, and through them to the bystand
ers. He advised the panel, after they
should bring in their verdict for the plain
tiff, not to offer violence to the defendant
however richly he deserved tin othe
words, mot to lynch the villain, but leave
his punishment to God y This was tn,
most artful trick of all, and best calculated
to insure vengeance.
| The jury rendered verdict Of fit
thousand dollars, and the night afterwari
Hopkins was taken out of his bed by lynch
ers, and beaten almost to death. As TIN
court adjourned, the stranger made known
his name and called the attention of tn,
people with the announcement, John Tay
Tor will preach here this evening, at early
candle-light."
The crowd all turned out, and Taylor
sermon equalled if it did not surpass hi
forensic effort.
This is not exaggeration. l have lis
tened to Clay, Webster, and Calhoun
Dewey, Tying, and Bascom-but neve
heard anything in the form of sublime
words even remotely approximating to thu
eloquence of John Taylor-massive as
mountain, and wildly rushing as a catarac
of fire; and this is the opinion of all VIII
have ever heard this remarkable man.
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yon remember, darling, the little dark root
which you saw me plant right here in the
springn 20 yes, mamma, | remember,
you dug a little hole in the ground and put
it in, and then you covered it all up" "Do
you know what became of that little root,
Lilliel' eyes, mamma, do,' replied the
child with frightening eyes sit came up
with two lovely green leaves, and it grew
into this tall shrub, which has SO many
beautiful flowers on it, "If I had not
planted the root in the cold ground. would
we have had these sweet flowers, which you
love so well, Lille ~ 'No, mamma, we
would not" ''Listen to me, darling; we
mustdie and be buried upinthe cold ground,
that our spirits may rise upas these flow
ers do above the earth-on beauty and pu-
rity to heaven. If we do not die, my child,
we can never 60 to heaven to live with
Christ and the angels" The child looked
for an an instant upon the flowers, then
exclaimed, with her fair face and blue eyes
radiant with hope, 20 mamma, / do not
feel afraid to die and be buried up in the
ground, because shall rise up far more
beautiful than | am now, to live away up
in the blue sky with Christ and the angels
And little Lille never thought again Of
being afraid to die; but when at length she
lay upon her little bed, and could not walk
or be carried out into the garden to look
at the flowers and sunset clouds, she
thought of that beautiful home whittier she
was going, and as her blue eyes closed in
death, she murmured, Mamma, am not
afraid to be put into the ground, for / am
going to be an angel
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THY WILL BE DONE.

II is shor and simple prayer,
But It's the Christians stay
Through every varied scene of care,
Until his dying-day;
As through the wilderness of life
Calmly he wanders on,
Ills prayer in every worldly strife
Is still, Thy will be done"
When, in his happy infant years
He treads midst thornless flowers,
When pass away his smiles and tears,
Like April skies and showers
Then, bending at his mothers knee,
Play-tired, at set of sun
What is the prayer he murmms forth
Father, thy will be done"
When the bright summer sky of time
Is cloudless DER him spread
When loves bright wreath is in its prime,
And not one blossom dead,
While DER his hopes and prospects fair
No mist of woe has gone
Still he repeats his first-taught prayer.
Father thy viii be done"
Ana when his sun no longer beams,
And loves sweet flowers decay,
When all hopes rainbow-color'd dreams
Are sadly swept away;
Az n how'ret bent beneath the storm,
Still fragrantly breathes on,
So, when dark clouds lifes heaven deform
He prays THY will be done"
And when the winter of his age
Sheds DER his locks its SHOWS,
And when his weary pilgrimage
Is drawing to close
Then, as he finds his health decline,
This is his prayer alone,
ITO Thee my spirit resign
Father, thy will be done
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THE APPEAL.

-O.O-
Oh, mother. cease to break my heart,
/ VOW it now, vowed it then,
The kiss he left upon my lips
His lips shall one day taste again!
All, well mind the summers evel
A low scud swept the waning moon;
And DER the ripened clover lea,
Floated the balmy breath of June.
Among the dreamy woodland glooms,
Alone we breathed our parting signs;
Only the silent, watching stars
Looked on us with their holy eyes.
No golden circlet bound our love
No vow at sacred altar given;
Yet, in that hour our married souls
Were registered as one in Heaven.
viii not live guilty thing,
Pillowed upon another's breast,
While every thought / send to him
Shall scare Gods angel from my rest.
Perjured-before a newborn soul!
Of such in holy trust were giyen)
Mother. need a clean, white hand,
To lead little child TO heaven.
Oh, turn away your cruel eyes!
The gold you sell me for is dim;
What need bargain for the world =?
have my full round world in HIM.
Then, mother, cease to break my heart;
vow it now, vowed it then,
The kiss he left upon my lips
His lips shall one day take again.
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0Nurtester 9ailp SPY.

ALI MISTAKE, On THE wife of we'll
TODD German, the other day, gave birth to an
infant whose span of life was brief. 1t wither-
ed in an hour and died. The German did not
need much ceremony in its funeral. So he
called on an undertaken, and requested him to
send coffin. and, putting the corpse in, to re-
move it to Spring Grove Cemetery. The un-
dertaker came and put the body into coffin,
which he closed, and then departed. Present
ly the undertaker's man, an Irishman, came
with a carriage and took box lying on the ia
BILE, which he carried to the cemetery and safe
ly buried. When night came the German
sought his Cremona, which he had left in its
case on the table. But there was no violin to
be seen. He hunted about the house, and
found-not the Cremona, but the babes cot
fni Then the mistake dawned upon him.
He sent the next day to the cemetery ex-
changed collins, left his babe, and brought back
his Cremona. We know the story has an apoc-
ryphal air, but it is. nevertheless, strictly true.
Cincinnati Gazette.
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