Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1859-01-06
NO. 50.

CHRISTMAS Hon Edward Everctts Sc
cond Mount Vernon paper in the New York
Ledger is about Christmas. We give the
opening passage: ~ t55i
"We have reached the season of the year
when-wth little variation as to the pre-
else day, growing out of the difference be.
tween the old and new style-Christians of
almost every name commemorate the holi-
day of their common Master. On Christ
mas day. beginning at Jerusalem in the
church Of the sepulchre of our Lord, the
Christmas anthem has travelled with the star
that stood above his cradle, from region to
region, from communion to communion, aud
from tongue to tongue, till it has compassed
the land and the sea, and returned to melt
away upon the lofty sides of Mount Zion.
BY the feeble remnants of the ancient Syrian
and Armenian churches creeping to their
furtive mathis amidst the unbelieving hosts
of Islam, in the mountains of Kurdistan and
Erzeroum; within the venerable cloisters
which have braved the storms of harbarism
and war for fifteen centuries, OH the rever-
end peaks of Mount Sinai in the gorgeous
cathedrals of Moscow and Vienna, of Madrid
and Paris, and still imperial Rome; at the
simpler affairs of the Protestant church in
western Europe and America; in the remote.
missions of our own continent, of the Pacific
islands, and of the farthest East, on Satur-,
day last, for the Catholic and Protestant,
churches, the song Of the angels which hail.
! ed the birth of our Lord {. was repeated by
the myriads of his followers all round the
globe" no Il
Description OF OUR SAVIOUR Bos-
ton Journal says that the following epistle
was taken by Napoleon from the public re-
cords Of Rome, when he deprived that city
of so many valuable manuscripts. It was
said to have been written at the time when
Jesus Christ commenced his ministry, by
Publius Lutulus, the Governor of Judah, to
the Senate of Rome, Caesar Emperor It
was the custom in those days for the Cover
nor to write home any event of importance
which transpired while he held office; I..a
"Conscrtpt Futhers: There appears in
these days man named Jesus Christ, who
Il znT0ng Us, and of the Gentiles
is accepted as a great truth: but his own
disciples call him the son of God. He hath
raised the dead, cured all manner of disease.
He is man of stature somewhat tall and
comely, with very ruddy countenance, such
as the beholder may both love and fear
His hair is the color of the fiIbert when full
| ly ripe, plain to his ears, whence downward
it is more orient of color, curling and waving
about his shoulders; in the middle of the
forehead is seam Or partition of long hair,
after the manner of the Nazarites. His
forehead is plain and delicate, his face with
out spot or wrinkle, beautiful with come
ly red: his mouth and nose are exactly form
ed; his beared is Of the color of his hair, and
thick, not of any great length, but forked.
In reproving he is terrible, in admonishing,
courteous; in speaking very modest and wise;
in proportion Of body, well shaped. None
have seen him laugh, but many have seen
him weep. A man for. his surprising beau
ty, excelling the children of men.'' zl1-2