Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-15

dispute with his minister at an elders meeting.
He said some hard things, and almost broke
the minister's heart. Afterwards he went
home and the minister went to his home, too.
The next morning the elder came down, and
his wife said to him-"le e look very sad, Jan,
what is the matter with ye?' "Ah," he
replied, You would look sad too, if you had
such dream as | had. l dreamed | had
been at the elders meeting, and had said
some hard things and grieved the minister
and when he went home | thought he died
wards that | died too, and went to heaven
and when | got to the gates of heaven out
came the minister, and put out his hands TO
take me in, saying. Come along, Jan, there's
nae strife up here II am happy to SEQ ye. "
The elder went to the minister directly to beg
his pardon, and found he was dead. The
elder was so stricken with the blow, that two
weeks after he also departcd-"And l should
not wonder" said he who related the Incident.
IF he did meet at heavens gate and hear him
say, Come along Jan. there's nae strife up
here
All, no, they never quarrel 10 heaven and
when We let our feelings get on fire here, and
use harsh words, and bitterness and malice
cling 70 our hearts, we have not the Gospel
Spirit The spirit that should belong to the
that rules in heaven.-treSbyter.
INTERESTING RELIGIOUS REUNION.-The
London Tmts of June 9th comments on the
participation in the holy communion at Henry
Wis chapel, in Westminster Abbey, BY the
rompany of revisers of the authorized version
of the new Testament, among whom we're sew
era bishops and ministers of the Established
Church, iutermingled without distinction, with
ministers of the Free Church of Scotland, and
of almost every nonconformst church in Eng
Independent, Baptist, Wesleyan. The
Times says -
1t is not to be supposed that each one OF
those present entered with equal agreement
into every part Of the service; but it is surely
not without hopeful significance that neither
On the side of the church nor of nonconformity
was there any "reliQious difficulty" raised as
TO a ioiut participation on such an occasion ln
the most venerable and sacred ordinance of the
Christian religion. The chapel of Henry VII
has witnessed many famous sights, more
august and more strrug-the funerals of kings
and princes. OF mobiles, generals and statesmen;
Il L debates Of the Westminster Assembly and
Of the conversations OF the English Church
the installation Of the Knights Of the Bath,
whose banners wave from the root, and whose
swords we're deposited beneath the altar raissd
on that spot. But it may be doubted whether
it has ever been the scene Of an event so traueht,
if rightly considered with possibilities OF kind
Iy intercourse between iarring factions. and
pacific solution Of warning problems. as that
which happened, silent and unobserved, on the
I'D Of June
a New OPpREssIoN.-They have had
another strike in Massachusetts. 1t was not
On account of the Chinese this time, for the &C
b,t otol Iohp in hp
dim distance of the Berkshire hills, and trou-
bled not Nor was there any complaint of in
sufficient wages but the whole trouble was
caused by the refusal Of the manufacturer to
discharge faithful workman, who had been in
his employ for fifteen years, in compliance with
the demands of the Trades Unions, and for no
other reason than that he did not belong to
their order! 1t is a new phase of tyranny when
the oppressed becomes tho oppressor of his fel-
low-men under the very nose OF Sumner and
Wilson and Wendell Phillips, and in land
which was first settled by those who fled from
oppression, and who have since made freedom
their war-cry.
We ipyie the champions of1ight and justice
to leave their old stalking grounds and to enter
upon the fresh field now open, where new lau-
rels await them. Let those, wherever they
may be, who are always declaiming OF the OPP
plCSslUu VI tuC mOlhiuS Classco duu hCCpiuH w
the foolish and ruinous struggle between capl
tai aDd labor, now take up the cudges in be-
half of the poor workngman who is oppressed
and matrcated by his cows.-R1ch Wing.
ILLEGAL PRIZE. MONEY RETURNED The
Treasury Department has just issued warrants
amounting to $G0N00O to indemnify English
claimants for the illegal capture and sale OF tho
British steamers Labuap and Dashiug Wave,
and the British brigs Nolant and Science and
their cargoes, in 1868. Their cargoes it will be
remembered. were destined to Matamoras,
Mexico. The case came up in the District
Court of New Orleans, aud was carried from that
court to the u. S. Supreme Court, where it
I was decided that the seizures we're illegal; that
: the vessels and caagoes were not legal prizes.
The proceeds Of the sale had been deposited by
the marshal in the First National Bank of New
4 Orleans, but when the owners appeared 10
y claim the money they ascartaned that 10th the
4 bank and Marshal Buliitt had failed There
q fore, in order to carry out the decree OF the
4 court, Congress passed an act, approved July
:, 1870, to pay the claimants, and the warrants
! were turned over to the agent of the English
claimants
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