Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-05-08
Mount Calvary and the Holy Sepul-

their CUSTODY Dy Ine nail oarDarOuS
followers Of Mahmoud. In our city
Jewish synagogues arise in sight of
Christion cathedrals. In most Cath
olic Austria, full blooded Israelite,
Herr Winterstein, has just taken his
seat in the Imperial Cabinet. During
his time, too, most orthodox, and most
thoroughly Irish, Daniel O'Connell
the Sampson of repeal, from first to
last, was an eloquent advocate of JUS
tice to the Israelite race-remember-
ing, perhaps, the Phenician fraternity
of ancient days above alluded to, as
we'll as yielding to the impulses of a
great heart and clear intellect. Need
we, in this connection, recall the name
of Enoland,s greatest. statesman at
the present hour-Benjamln Disraeli ?
But it is to the highest in worldly
position that the secret thoughts, no
doubt, of millions interested in this
matter naturally concrete, and among
them who could so fully command the
question as Napoleon the third, En-
peror of the French Whether he
has or has not Judean elements ascri-
bed to him, he is so peculiarly placed,
that in his hands the problem, hitherto
half mystic, would soon glow with
light of a grand practical modern fact.
With the Mediterranean occupied
with friendly fleets; the Isthmus of
Suez thrown open to commerce; Tur-
key and Egypt both overawed yet
conciliated, why should either Great
Britain or Russia object to Judean
Government in Judea, where they har-
monize with a Turkish control there
to day.
The results to commerce and to
the rapid civilization Of Western Asia
could not fail to be speedily magnif-
cent, since the Jews even possess all
we know of in art and science, litera-
ture, manufacture, construction and
are the very masters in organization
and finance. We shall not be told,
assuredly, that the Muscovite Crossus,
France with 100000 soldiers under
a Napoleon, and Eegland with her
shoals of iron clads, on one side, and
conquered India on the other, would
be afraid of the 100000 Israelites
that in a decade might be gathered
into the fold of yore, or that the in
vasion of the telegraphs, railroads
and widespread cultivation in the
East, would alarm their populations
at home who now look about distract
edly for some sufficient granary at
their doors to swiftly supply them with
cheap and abudant food? We know
! not whether to the restored Jews
themselves ouotI .opIUrLdVI -o,.1d @~~--
come to that, while they could not, in
our time at least, endow their city
with the 100000 pounds of gold
that David left in the temple along
with 3,150,000 pounds of silver, or
make as Solomon did, 3,250.000
pounds in gold by a single voyage to
Ophir, where be found gold so plenti
ful that in was not anything account
ed Of" but we do believe that mag
nihcent Oriental would be hourishing
early enough to realize countless ben
eftS to them and to the common
wealth of nations.
| Here, then, seems to be a chance
for Napoleon III. to retrieve all his
imperrilled glory, if the United State!
be too far from the scene to take The
initiative, and without rhapsody, WI
can readily imagine some head man il
Israel, repeating the words of the en-
thusiastic writer from whom we have
taken a paragraph nearer the hea(
of the article:
people Of Jehovah, raise your
selves from your thousand years
slumber. Rally around leaders, hav'
! the will, a Moses will not be wanting
The rights of nations never grow old
take possession Of the land of you
: fathers build third time the tempt
of Zion, greater and more magnifcen
than ever. Trust in the Lord VIII
has led you safely through the deepe
misery thousands Of years. He also
. will not forsake you In your last con
fiict p !. ...
The first Napoleon, whose menta
grasp of the relations of mankin'
seems almost supernaturally intutivt
= once said, that he who should cor
troll with the hand of enlightened
empire the city of Constantinople
would be the virtual master of tn
Eastern world. Who doubts that in hi
. : very thought of thoughts, he saw be
hind the ramparts of the tempora
= power, the inefable spiritual inhuenc
~ of the Ark Of the Covenant side b
\ side with the Holy Sepulchre, radia
ing from within, from the summit o
Mount Zion over all the races of men
: -Mercaatile Journal. ii
: An English paper says that an oil
= pump near Dorset place having b
come decayed, the handle was. take
o from it. After remaining thus ft
e some time, the authorities conclude
: to repair the pump; and on settiu
l at work not fewer than twenty lette]
Z were found inside, which had bee
: : dropped into the slit from which tt
i handle had been removed, by the i
:. telhgent neighbors, who mistook tt
~ old pump for a letter box
u Father, why don't we ever see an
le faces at the window 2" asked a son (
~ his paternal as they were passing q
e, insane asylum. Because their hea,
'd are all turned was the reply. .aa