Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-04-05
A Stronpc World

The following IL tho cl,siny passage of an
eloquent address that was sreccaty delivered by tho
Hon: A. B. l.)ngstroet, tho President of tho South
Carolina College. to tho Graduating Class:---
You nre embnrkng upon strange world, my
young friends. 1t banishcd Aristdes, pois "a
So crates, murdered Cicero and orncftl thu
Lord OF Glory. Tho spirit Of Them istoclss, of
Mcl,t,r4. ol Anthony and Caiphas is still In The
d--greatly sublucd and Inv bound. to be sure,
but not cxtngnished. You may expect, therefore,
ut times to be depressed by you rivals, condemned
for your patriotism, md tormened for your bene.
nctions; To have your confidence abused your in
tcglity derided and to suffer Il thousand impos-
tons in smaller matcrs-from t.ose from whom
you had right to expect better things. These
are hard things Ia bear, say you. They are ~, my
young friends, nnd You will never bear them as
you should. unless you take The good book for your
guido, AMI l'nk only t., lis author For supplies Of
strength sufficient iur Your trial. Do ths, and all
will ho well M last With thai rhart in your hand
now launch ,auf hnrquc upon the troubled ocean
Of life, and wien he squalls strike you, be ut
least : prudent II the c,innon sailar, and be
found hnrl n the h",m, with your chart before
YOU. n,d ,aur ,>r fixed on Bcthlchem's star.
Tnc ANNE j. nl "n"r pihy AMI forcihle. How
few n, they sta Il up," the thre. hnd OF manhood.
can iol,n adequate hlen { the struggles and
,inl, If the BATH" "a lI"l The few prosper and
nre comparatively h"ppy, t'ut the many cxl ericnce
nll -ots,t si,,~~l,nl'~, and descend to the grave
the change.
ANOTHER SuAiL LE,K ~ TnE TREAsuRY.--It
appears t'nn, statement una e IN tite Washington
National Era. by one evidently acquainted with
the faces, that "a the eve of the nj ournment of
Congress, Senator Johnson. Of Arkansas, succeed
cd in fastening nn amendment upon tho Indian
Appropriation Bill, approprinting $4,000 for the
following purpose. 1t seems that certain emf
grants iom Arkansas to California were attacked
on the way by Indians, and that several heads Of
families we're murdered, hut, By some means,
their children cscuped. These children are now
in Utah. and the Arkansas sennhr moved the
above Appropriation to delray the expenses Of their
removal To the place Of their nativity or residence
in Arknnsas Senator Brodcrick suggested that
the proposition involved profitable job to some
one and was, therefore, opposed to it; but Mr..
johnson, of Arkansas, assured him that there
was nothing sinister lurking beneath the fnce of
tho ostcnsilly benevolent motion. Senators ac-
quiscd, and The amendment appropriating SAC, 600
for the object specified was sngrafted ON the In
dim Appropriation bill.
A few days after the adjournment. tho affair
was brought to the attention of the Secrp ary Of
the Interior, accompanied by the additional inlor-
nation that two persons, one Of them the br0ther-
in-luw Of Senator johnson, and the other . friend
Of the then Superintendent Of Indian Affairs,
Denver, had already been appointed to proceed by
way Of Panama and thence to Utah, for the pur-
pose of restoring these children to their homes in
Arkansas. Tho Secretary ut once declared that
he would annul the appointment, and that the
parties should not proceed on their mission. But
he was told that they had already been paid 81 0O
each, and that they were then on their way to
California, with nearly oue-fourth Of the $4,000
in their pockets The Era adds, that tho indian
agent in Utah, desiring to return to the states nao
offered to bring the children with him at COST 10
the government of about six hundred dollars.