Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-03-11
Privilege and the People


Privilege and tho People
Bishop Simpson told capital story on
wednesday evening, in ilusuation OF The
aversion OF aristocraey to giveiDg up its
privileges lie was in Norway when the
question was before its parliament OF
a6oshlng the nobility. The champiou of
the exclusive elias described the cullure. the
refinement, the scientific aud literary at |.
tainmens and lofty pride Of the nobility
und declal ed that If their rights vera
wresled from them and they wete reduced
to The level of common people, that thew
would leave the land that had sought 10
humble them. and with them would 20
much OF what Norway could i'll afford to
spare He concluded with "Farvel. you
noble streams, you familiar rocks. you green
bills and lofty mount aius, .farwell'' and took
bis seat, CONSCIOUS Of having made a pro.
found impression. Nothing discencerted
man of The people arose and said. "And
the rocks and the hills aud the mountains
catch up the c'y aud return in responsive
echoes. vel, vel, and it was we'll" Scan.
dInaVIa has not been Injured by its abol
ton of tiiular distinctions. Ga the con
tary, men are placed more on their own
merit. A great drag has been removed
from The car of progress. A new impulse
has been given TO free thought, and more
intense activity to evry department of effort
w nat took place tbere viii happen here -
With the abolition of slavery aud the over
throw Of lmore txclusivc;ari, tocracy han is
found any where in Elrope, new era will
dawn upon the South-on the whole
country, in fact. Men will no more stils
thei" moral convictions because appealed
to in behalf of slaves; they will no longer
explain away the grand doctrine
OF human brolhe hood because it is sought
10 be applied 10 the black man. They will
not degrade labor by the course of man.
owning. They will not chill the aspira.
tions of free thought Of one.half the la.
borers OF the South by the benumbing
limitations of serfdom, and limit the am.
btlon OF anoihe to the ownership of o
negro. The genius of emancipation will
re'create the South, will inspire it's poor
whites, will kindle the dull brain and slum:
bering energies of the colored man. will
liuo its streams with factories aud busy
cities, will dot its hill sides with schools
and churches, will dig out its rich mineral
treasures, aud make lis countless fertile
ucres blossom as a garden, and men from
the South will join their brethern from the
East and the West iu high debate of q
common public utility, not iu augey con.
tentioDs over a conflicting social orgau.zi /.
ton; will concert schemes for making this
land more AID more The asylum Of the Cd
pressed the inspiration aud the example O
the down trodden aud neglected masses o
every cline. We are to become th
heralds Of Popular liberty. the grand exc m
| pla:s of the divine doctrine of human
brotherhood, at once the terror of aris
toeracy, and the hope of men everywhere
aspiring TO be free Washington Chronicle
The SMrrEN Il Ok --R,y &. G. Hunter
al American Missionary in Asia, who has
been making Investigations in the regions
passed over by the Israeltes in their exc
das from Egyp', describes the folwing dis
cov,ry tf a clef rock iu Ihe vicinity Ct Mt
| Horeb:
The direction Of the spring was straight
across the valley from the cam mping ground
After leaving the tents, in abont two min
utes l assembled the ground where We
made be circuit, then passed down sigh
decliyi'y, after which The ground gradual.
rose until l reached the spriug in about tel
minutes, 10y rugged path, over larg
powders OF Sinate granite. Here wa
surprised TO find fue spring Of pure wa
ter issuing from rent ia the rock; the reu
was in an obllque direction, the hghes
part of it on the left, aud sloping dow
toward the right. The lowest part OF th'
fssure was high as mans head from th'
ground. The surrounding rock is the solit
red granite Of Sinai, smooth on its face ant
unbroken by fsSure or seam. The fssur
is about six feet long, about four inche
deep at the bottom, and twelve at tho top
and runs down into the rock, parallel wit
the perpendicular side of the mountain
the water seems 10 issue about two feel
above the bottom of the rent, flowing oyeI
the lowest part of it in stream aboat The
thickness OF a mans finger. The reservoir
is about twelve feet long by f,e feet ia
width, and four feet deep, and was nearly
full when l reached The place. When foil,
the water is let off TO irrigste some twenty
or more fruit trees. As Twas The first (sO
far as am aSare) to observe this singulaI
, rent in the Rock of Horeb, and am IN
able to iud any aHusion 20 it in the books
of Burckbardt R1binson, Stanley. or othe
travellers. | bars thought it my duty to in
, form the publis of the fact, in order tha
= uture trsreisrs may not fail to see it,
: CouId We suppose that Moses had a 70,
u u aboul sir feet long, aud that, raising tb
. . lower end as high has his head, be srrueL
= il obtqnely aginst the gianilc cl d, and
:. lbst wedgeshaped cavity was thus mi
= rGculously formed, this rent would meel
, lthe conditions exactly. 20 ;asaUaq
NOVEL BUT IMPORTANT ENrERPRIsE =
twi;hstanding the failure of the Govern
ment enterprise some years ago of intro
duciDg Arab "ships ol the desertD as
mode Of profitable transit across the West
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