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The New York herald., 1868-04-29

faced Psgans from Barbary, Janushssrted,
TeacheTous Sensasss Wa Looking Esyp
and red fezed Turk nom his darling Stam-
boul; the literal, oliye-cheeked Jew from Palestine,
Nubian and the plundering Hazortite all riding or
walking, chatting and smoking as they went, with
a train OF commissary stores two miles long and q
train OF mules laden with camp equipage i've miles
long, besides motley number OF suffers and natives
carrying tobacco, ghee halieb tnilk) and barley
bread. Including the muleteers, servants. dholy
bearers, pottawa!las, ghorawailas and natives there
were over 900 men and about 1000 animals In 'ias
company Of the scinde horse regiment brought
up the rear, and before many miles were passed tle
task devoyed upon them OF driving 1p 9dp,nt :
hearted on leaving the plateau and descending down
roads that seemed to lead 10 hell, SO steep te 1is
became while another h OF equal neisn. Which
teemed with carnivor0us animals. OncaninSsiinS ~
the steep sides OF the opposite hill numbers y,
the way-sOre- footed HndOO soldiers, VINO eat
nothing but rice homesick Arab mueteers ana Otne1
emaciated wretches who prayed In piteous tones TO
be left alone to die. Several did iau OUT ana never
Up steep hills rough with massive rocks, made
more diiicult by ne screening sun over We r IGn,ng
roosts and the Troglodytes caves, the column wound
its way. Now the brigade the van OF the expedition
passed over gentle rolling country Overgrown with
banbool bushes 1t Strengthened its lines along
a deep ravine, down the dry bed OF mountain tor
rent the precpitous banks OF which were lined with
rocks, trees, copses and tamarinds whose branches
were alive with strange singing BIRDS and where the
cheatah watched for its prey Here blocks OF quartz
and fespar rocks reared themselves above us, on
whose hot surfaces the horned viper or the cerastes
basked, and the 1.-THE lizard glided with quickened
motion at our approach. Gradually ravines widen
into lovely valleys, through which meander murmur
Ing streams in whose waters the lowing cows azily
waggng their tails sake their thirst In these valleys
the valuable Russo tree hOurishes, whose exuditiOn
Is considered specific in cases Of worms malady
to which the natives Of the country subject. This
tree is about twenty feet high, with crooked trunk
and clothed with pncated leaves OF pleasant Opaque
green color. The sycamore tree, which is the true
sycamore, with its evergreen branches adds to the
beauty the scene. Soon we leave the valleys and as
cend tie mountains, higher and higher, until we stand
fully 900 feet above The level Of the sea. Then
descend gradually downward through fields Of how-
ering shrubs aloes which the mountain tops in
full bloom, honey sucke then through natural arbors
caused by the interacng Of branches OF great trees
and still downward to parts covered with wild olives
and thick groves Of the berry-bearing cedar tree,
where the fragrance Of the sweet brier, wild myrtle
and other aromatic shrubs was almost overpowerlng
non md M foIlnr
The New York herald., 1868-04-29
Kiuss Theodore. r..

his PEDIGREE AS TRACED BY HIMSELF.
The following is King Theodore's pedigree, accord.
ing TO his own account given just before the English
invasion:-
PROCLAMATION.
In the name OF the Father, and of the Son ana OF
the Holy Ghost, one Qod -
The King OF Kings, Theodore created by the
Trinity its servant installed by IL and male rrinco
to his children given to him by God ana to az tue
Franks (Europeans) by your God anu the Goa OF
your friend Theodore, who appeared 10 MOSES ON
Mount Sinai and In the Red Sea, who appeared 70
Joshua at Jericho who through his servant Samuel
anointed Saul when he was seeking the asses that
lost, who, when Saul turned rom MS Vreators
commanded Samuel to anoint DAVID. -
Solomon was King after David, according TO the
word OF the prophet AMI OF his father notwithsand-
ing that Adonias (AdonUah against the will OF God,
was proclaimed King by tho people and obtained
favor In their sight Solomon, by the Queen Of
Azyeb lthe southeast), begat Meniek, who became
King of Ethiopia. From Mcnek down TO the dynasty
OF the Gallas all the kings were stagepleyers TAG.
,p6rO who sought from God neither wisdom nor
strength but with His help the means Of raising up
tho empire found when God CLOSE me, His ser.
want TO be King. Ny countrymen sa1, ''The river in
dried up is bed s empty;' and they insuied ine Uo-
cause my mother was poor and called me the n Il
a beggar. But the Turks knew the greatness Of Iny
father, who made them his tributaries as FAR as
the frontiers OF Egypt and 10 the gates
OF their cities. MY father and my inOther
descended from David aud from soomoa anu tlss
The New York herald., 1868-04-29

lands. The latter extends from May to September.
ana, with the exception OF few showers ~ tne oe
ginning OF November little more rain falls during
the year. Bruce gives the rainfall from . reS's1er
kept at GOndar and KOscam as follows ,..,
G0gad0r ITO. K0ScdD 17I1.
The New York herald., 1868-04-29

the London Times remarks thus:-we opened Sir
Samuel Baker,s book with an expectation tnat ~
which, not without anxious misglyings, we are
about to despatch o British expedition. In TINS
respect we have been disappointed, for Sir Samuei
Baker, in following the course oil the ADyssinan
tributaries OF the Nile, did not pass over the noun
tain ranges that wall In the territories OF te Elm
per0r Theodore, and he has told US nothing ABOUT
Abyssinia proper the Switzerland OF the African
continent Except, however, for this our hopes
respecting this work have not been frustrated; ~
q valuable record of discovery and adventure, de.
scribed graphically and In pleasing manner. ~
is hardly necessary to remind our readers OF whas
Sir Samuel Baker has achieved In the matter Oh
exploring In Asca t S HOW ascompan.ea III % TO
find out the sources of the Nile how Drawing peris
and difficulties innumerable they made good thelr
way into the heart OF the continent; aa a unHs nUM
termined by Spoke and Grant, they beheld the neau
Of the mighty stream issue from the gigantic Albert
Nyanza is tale not to be soon forgotten by thou;
journey settled question which had been mystery
since the dawn Of history; II showed conciusivey
that the oEsa orsn @ense ns se szethe oS yctora
and the Albert Nyanza, in the centre OF
Equatorial Africa. Before, however, the whoe
system OF the Nile could be said to have been ex-
plored another question remained Overwhelmingly,
what was the cause Of the extraordinary rise OF the
great river at settled periods and where the loun.
fortune OF Sir Samuel Baker to have put this ques-
ton also to rest, and thus to have completely un'
folded one OF the most remarkable secrets oil geo.
lie made tour with Lady Baker through Nubia and
Egyptian Abyssinia IN order to ascertain the CHAR
acfer OF the auents Of the Nile in those countries
while the Victoria and Albert Nyanzas are the
parent reservoirs OF the Nile It's nundations, with
their fertilzing effects, are caused wholly by us
Abyssinan tributaries The volume before us y q
record OF this interesting and important Journey and
1t has satisfied that Sir Samuel Baker Is correct III
his views on this subject.
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whose capital IL Sokota. and which are ruled over ~
the rebel Gobazye, GOdjan, to the south OF Lake
TZana, and kwara to the west OF the same lake. tho
birthplace OF the Emperor Theodorus.
Inc Two provinces OF Tgr9 and Sh0a have gen.
orally been In state OF rebellion from or acknow-
legged Independence Of the central power at Gondar
Inc geographical position OF Tigre enhances its po-
utcal Importance, for, as the communications DO.
tween Gondar and the sea at Massowah necessarily
iead through Tigre, It follows that that provinces
nolds 80 10 speak, the gate OF the capital The Ian.
guage OF the province OF Tgr6 also differs from that
1i Amhara as IN the former the Gheez and in the
two provinces there have been almost constant
wars.
The province OF Shoa is almost separated from
that OF Amhara by the Wollo Gallas, a Mahomedaa a
tribe Shoa has been for long time virtually inde,
pendent and has been governed by a hereditary line
sent special embassy under Major Harris in ls1l
The New York herald., 1868-04-29
Extreme Extreme
NJ, %. ,asaas4sa Aff9l l1.,1 ann

Harris gives the following as the tempefature oi
AnkObar, the capital OF Sh0a, which Is IN the MIL
connfry & POO feet above the a..
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-01-11
A Cheerful Old Are.

Bishop Morris, senior bishop Of the
Methodist Church, sends to the New Orleans
Adroo0te, from his home in Springfield, O.,
the following interesting autobiograpbical
sketch:
:" was worn in KanawlIa county, Virginia.
April @S, 1894 joined the Methodist Church
IN August, 1913, and received the full spirit
OF adoption on Christmas following. Twas
licensed to preach April, 1914, employed on
circuit by presiding elder in 1915, and
reserved as travelling preacher on trial by
the ONO Conference in 1916 After cam.
pa'9n OF nifty years, was, in January, 1866.
attacked with paralysis and rendered inca.
Papie OF pulpit service. Having now no
sermons to make or conferences to hold T
nave time to think and review the past ON a
smali scale. Great changes have occurred
IN my day both in church and state. When
oegan TO ltinerste We had no graded pixies:
canais aud railroads were not then Thought
t' OF our speed then was four miles an hour
ing contrast between the old system of horse
and saddle-bags, and the present with rail.
!oao ana satcbel, is wonderful; the speed is
increaseo from four miles to twenty i've miles
Per hour, which is great saving of time.
The world moves.
A"e si'es oI our large and hourishinr
towns in the West were then in the wild
wood. Our log cabins are superseded Lv
respectable dwellings of brick, and our loo
meeting houses by respectable church edi.
nces. AS to our numerical strength, the
Methodist Episcopal Church has more than
quadruped in my day, wish financial ability
In proportion. My early contemporaries are
mostly gone. have great grandchildren
ranging from four to eleven years old. Under
these surroundings, it begins to be whispered
around that am an old man. Perhaps it
is so, out don't feel old. 1t is true, have
some physical intirmities, but my spirit is
buoyant. l love life as well as ever did,
and might enjoy it as well if able to be active
IN the ministry. If was forty years younger
l should nope soon to resume my ministry :;
but as 1t Is | have little or ro prospect, and
1t remains for me to cultivate patience and
exercise resignation. Old age, however, is
not what | once supposed it to be. ex.
pected 1t would bring only gloom and de.
preston, but in my seventy-fourth year find
neither. To borrow trouble of the future is
against my creed. do not expect to cross
the river till reach it, and have no wish to
die before my time comes. When it does
come, trust supporting grace will come
with it.
IT'S all my hope and all my pioa,
For me the Saviour died.
Brethren, pray for me-"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-01-11
NOblc's Picture Of John Brown OH
the Wuy TO Execution,
Brethren, pray for me-"

We tind the following allusion to Mobiles
picture of John Brown on his Way to Ex.
ecution," in the Chicago Tribune, whose
editor has recently visited New York and
seen the picture, which is now on exhibition
in Boston:
John Browns body lies moulderipo in
the grave, his soul is marching on Mobiles
great picture of John Brown ON ths vav IA
execution, which is pronounced by CONNIE
tent judges to be the finest work of art ever
produced in this country, has received the
last touches and las gone to Boston to ne
exhibited. The scene is from Wbittier's
well-remembered poem, where the old man
puts his hand ON the head of a ssye.cbild
held up to him by its mother, as he moves
toward the gallows. The benipnity of
Browns countenance is said to be something
sublime. There are fifteen or twenty figures
on the canvas-all of them wonderfully ex
pressive. What is, perhaps, most singular
about 1t, Is the fact that such a picture
should have been painted by an ex-soidier of
the Confederate army.
1T seems to have been reserved to Mr..
Noble to illustrate upon canvas the life the
struggle and the hideous death of American
slavery. Born on Kentucky plantation,
reared among the subjects of his easel, q
pupil OF the great Couture, a soldier of four
years service to the principles into which
he was born, but which he has learned to
abhor, man of deep religious feeling and
singular beauty and purity of private life
his name is already associated with the most
memorable transactions of the age"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-01-11
a ColOred Clergyman on Social
Equality.

Rev. Mr. Butler, colored minister, ad.
dressed the Kentucky Coloted Convention,
at Louisville, few Gays ago, as follows:
The future Of this country depends, not
so much on what party is in power, as it
does on the removal of all disabilities they
weigh down its people. Then, and not
until then, will the country have peace
We don't ask for social equality. / never
saw that white woman yet that looked so
well, in my eyes, as good brown coiored
woman. And if it wasn't SO, we don't need
their social equality, because our friends,
the white folks, have kindly managed it SO
that We have every shade to choose from,
from the deepest jet black to the purest
white. Laughter.l And, as there are no
ladies present, allow me to say that the
practice Of social equality has not been on
our side, but Oh the part of the whites, who,
in their dark and devious ways, were not
always able, let us charilably suppose, to
tell black from white. This social equality
has not been sought by U.S. but they have
run after us; and though we are now eman-
cipated and free, they haven't stopped"
A voice-"Well stop it when We get the
testimony"
"Yes, that's so. They better not come
my way even now. We say TO them, let US
alone we don't want any mixture. If they
had let me alone might have known what
color was but as it is my greatest trouble
is to keep my hair just right. Don't talk
about social equality. If was a white
man in Kentucky would hide my head; /
wouldn't mention it with so many evidences
standing around of my social equality We
don't want any more OF it. Keep ON your
side of the line and we'll keep on our side,
and in the course of time Wen get back
where God left u.s."
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-01-11
RECIPES, sc.
From the GermantoHn Teiecranh.

BRowN RABBIT SoUP.--Cut into Joints.
-four and fry lightly two fullgrown rabbits,
add to them three onions or moderate size.
also fried brown; on these pour gradually
seven pints of boiling water; throw in a
large teaspoon of salt, clear OFF the scum AS
it rises, then put to the soup small bunch
of parsley, four carrots and few pepper
corns boil the whole very softly for tive
hours, add more salt If needed strain off
the soup, let it cool sufficiently for the fat to
be skinned clean from it heat it afresh and
send to the table.
PoTATo PUDpIHe.--With pound and
quarter uf fine mealy potatoes boiled very
dry and mashed perfectly smooth while hot,
mix three ounces of butter, five or six Of
sugar, five eggs, few grains of salt and the
grated rind OF a lemon. Pour the mixture
into well-buttered dish and bake in
moderate oven three quarters of an hour
When done sift some sugar on it.
MONSIEUR WoE's RECEIPT FOR CuRIsa
HAMS take the hams as soon as the hog ia
cold enough to cut up, rub them we'll with
common salt and leave them for three days
tu Grain; throw away the brine, aud for t~ o
hams OF Is or Is pounds each, mix two
ounces of saltpetre, pound Of brown sugar
and pound OF common salt. Rub the hams
with these, lay them in deep picking dish
with the rind downwards, and keen them
for three days well cOrned with the salt and
sugar, then pour over them bottle of good
vinegar and turn them in the brine and haste
daily for month. Then hang then up 10
dry' and after shey are peF!selll dry, srnos,
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-01-11
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY II, 1868.
OLD SERIES, VOL. %, NO. l3.

she has been teaching in the academy, but
thinks she should prefer a situation in some
private family. She is all grace and gentle
digGity-a jewel of a governess."
II am delighted at your success When
Will she come to take charge of my child
rem 2"
"This evening. But haven't told you the
strangest coincidence of all. Who do YOU
suppose that she is 2"
I'm sure | can't imagine.
"IIer name is Agnes Walton sue is the
same whom you took such fancy to in the
days of your boyhood. l can tell YOU she
don't know you were an old beau of hers.
else she would shrink from assuming this
responsible situation in your family"
Nonsense" said Tracy, half laughing.
half embarrassed. But | ain sorry she is
reduced to the wretched life of a governess. "
Nothing more was said on the subject,
and several times that afternoon it required
to Frank Tracy's mind. He wished he could
see her.
The gas had been lighted, however, and
the little girls were safely tucked in bed,
after having said their prayers on ''papa's"
knees, before the governess was announced.
Miss Walton, pray be seated"
He saw at the first glance that the pretty
baby had grown to be an exquisitely lovely
girl of twenty-five, with soft tender eyes
like Madonna, and sad, quivering lips.
Poor Agnes-she has been so much accus-
toned to rebuffs and cold neglect at the
hands of the world, that Dir. Tracy's chival-
ric politeness affected her nearly to tears.
He noticed it; he observed the delicate,
shy refinement, and the timid glances from
beneath her lashes. Frank Tracy WAS
great physiognomist, and drew his own in
ferences from these things. After q few
gentle questions he asked:
But, Miss Walton, why did you leave
the academy Z"
THE principal was harsh and unkind to
me, and the place was noisy. o, sir, if you
knew how have hungered and thirsted for
a quiet homo !"
MY dear Miss Walton" he said, II COM
missioned my friend Howard Leigh, to find
a governess for me, but am in much more
need of wife. / think you would suit me
in that capacity. Will you accept of the
home as permanent engagement, and me
as the encumbrance thereofi"
Agnes looked a moment into his kind
eyes and placed her little hand confdingly
in his, and said, 81 will !"
And thus concluded their extremely brief
courtship. Yet when Frank told her of the
many years he had secretly worshippcd at
the shrine of Mrs. Walton's pretty baby"
she didn't think it so very strange after all.
Thus it was that Frank Tracy married his
beautiful second wife, and the little ones,
instead of a governess got mamma, whom
little Minnie confidently informed her sister,
'she liked deal better than the old NAM
ma, who was always afraid ofhaving her hair
or collar mussed, while new mamma liked
to have her daughters hug and kiss her"
And Howard Leigh was satisfied that his
friend had married the right person at last.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-01-11
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Eruption OF vesuvtus.

A letter from Naples, dated November
20, gives the following particulars of the
eruption of Fesuvius:
During the last two years small cone has
been formed by the matter gradually elected
from this sulphurous hole; we could scarcely
see its head above the walls of the large
crater, but within the last week, like some
presumptuous STRIPPING, it has shot up above
its venerable parent, and this it is which has
been fuming and spluttering and storming
with all the arrogant impotence of youth
since last Wednesday. 1t has sent forth an
immense quantity of lava, converting the
surrounding crater into lake of fire. At
first the high circling walls kept it within
bounds, but gradually it has risen until it is
now flowing in several directions where the
abrupt and irregular wall admits of pass
age.
Ascending by the usual road, we were
compelled, on approaching the summit, to
skirt little round to the southeast. for TWO
reasons-frst, to get on the blind side of the
wind, which might have brought down
upon us an inconvenient shower of stones
| and secondly, TO obtain better view of the
main stseam, which was fed, not only by the
great crater but by another Oriice opened
outside, about twenty feet in diameter. From
this spot the stream of living fire, full twenty
to thirty feet in width, poured down to the
bottom of the mountain rapidly where it met
with NO obstacles, and where it did struggled
energetically until it carried everything be-
fore it. To the edge of the crater it was
impossible to approach; the heat was scorch-
ing; and what would have been the conse-
quences had the lava boiled over and came
down upon us 2 1t was difficult, therefore,
to form any fair estimate of its size, but one
might have supposed that it was not over
seventy feet in diameter. 1t was not mo-
ment, however, for figures, when nature was
exhibiting her power in one of its grandest
forms. There was roar and shCck, and
then shot forth flames and stones full ons
thousand feet in height at intervals of from
one to Eve seconds, according to the watch
of one of the party. These tremendous con
vulsions were repeated, and then came the
descending shower, composed OF stones of
various sizes, some certainly half ton in
weight, judging by the bulk. We could
mark their course by the eye as long as they
retained their red heat. but on approaching
the earth they blackened, and then the ear
alone could tell what was spotting and pit
ting the earth around.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-01-11

When is lover like a tailorl When he
presses his suit.
To THE BESKvoLRkT-Judy knows a
mau SO hard up ths, lie even sleeps on tick
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-01-11
TERMS or ADVERTISING.
ren lipse Of this siasa type lminionl make

SUGAR BEET CULTIVATION "A gentleman, =,
who is vouched for by the San Francisco
papers, says, that he has made partial ar.
rangement with European capitalists to
Introduce the cultivation of sugar bce,s. and
to establish factories for the production of
raw sugar therefrom, in California. Hesays
that these capitalists have agreed to invest
Sl,50O,OOO in the manufacture and TO i'm.
port six or seven hundred skilled laborers.
The California beets, it is said, will yield at
least two per cent. more sugar than those of
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-01-11

KISSING YANKEE TAILoR's WIFE
William the w., late king of England, when
Prince of Wales, and during his service off
the coast Gf Canada, made an excursion into
Upper Canada, and crossed over to the state
of Vermont. He entered a tailor's shop,
and or seeing the tailor's wife, an exceed
ingly beautiful woman, he without cere-
mony ravished kiss from the lady and re-
marked:
"There now, tell your country women that
the son of the king of England has kissed
a Yankee tailor's Wife"
Unhappily for him, at that moment her
husband, the tailor, appeared from the back
room, and being a stout fellow, gave the
scion of royalty tremendous kick and ex-
claimed
There, 60 and tell your country. women,
that Yankee tailor has kicked the son of
the king of England"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-01-11

RI you ssnt good Tin.WsIe, 20 20 SMITH
i GENT AHR'S New Shop dI y
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-01-11

A Mr.. Hibbard, of jackson, ILL.,, made and
won wager last week in the pedestrian line.
He bet that he could walk twenty miles in
four hours, the first five of which he would
accomplish in one hour aud the first ten in
two hours. All this he did with several
minutes to spare in each case.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-01-11

Eight hundred aud fifty buildings, which
cost $9,S43,000, have been put up in Mil
waukee the past year. The street improve
meuts for the same time hsys cost about
hall million dollars.