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great temple of Jerusalem, hallowed by
the visible glory of the Deity himself,
are gone. But SOlomon's reservoirs are
as perfect as ever. Of the ancient arch
iteeture of the Holy City, not one stone
is left upon another, but the pool of
Bethsaida commands the pilgrims rev.
erence at the present day. The columns
of Persopolis are crumbling into dust:
but its cisterns and acqueducts remain
to challenge our Admiration. The gold
en- house a mass of ruins; but the Aqua
Claudi still pours into Rome its liquid
stream. The Temple of the Sun OF
Tadmor in the wilderness has fallen,
but its fountain sparkles rs freshly in
its rays as when thousands of worship
ers thronged its lofty cOlonnades. 1t
NAV be that London will share the same
fate as Babylon, and nothing be left to
mark its site save mounds of crumbling
brick work. The Thames will continue
| to flow as it does now. And If any
work of art should rise over the deep
ocean of time, we may well believe that
/ it will be neither palace or temple,
but some vast aqueduct or reservoir, and
if any name should still flash through
the mist of antiquity, it will probably
be that of the man who in his days
sought the happiness of his fellow men
rather than their glory, and linked his
memory to some great work of nation
al utility and benevOlence. This is the
true glory which outlives all others, and
shines with undying lustre from gener-
alton to generation, imparting to works
something of its own immortality, and
in some degree rescuing them from the
ruin which overtakes the ordinary mon,
uments of historical tradition or mere
magnificence.-AnOnynlOus.
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4 Personal Letter.

We make the following extract from
a letter written to the Wheeling Regis
ter, by Hon. Lewis Baker, Speaker Of
the West Virginia Senate:
What a fine looking set Of men the
distinguished Democratic leaders of
Ohio are
Pendleton isnearIy six feet tall, weighs
two hundred pounds, and is as well
proportioned as that much flesh, blood,
hone and muscle could well be. His
age is forty-nine years, yet so well has
he cared for himself he scarcely looks
so old by ten years at least. Highly
educated, of polished manners, brilliant
intellect, he is a great favorite.
Vallandigham was fifty-nine, lacked but
an inch or two of six feet, would bring
down the scales at near the 200 notch,
was well preserved, possessed extraordina-
~ conversational powers, bold, vigorous,
original, educated, terse in expressions,
he never failed to attaet large share of
attention.
McCook is six feet high; will weigh
200 pounds; is well pFOportiOned, a
little portly-courteous, educated, gem
erOus, Open-hearted, and candid, he is
deservedIy popular. He is probably
fifty-fOur years of age.
Ewing is the best proportioned man
I ever saw. He is.an inch or so over
six feet in height, and is finely and
soldierly built, yet is possessed of a more
supple and graceful frame than any one
of those previously described. I sup
pose him to be about foFty-eight years
old, yet his hair is slightly streaked
with gray. There is something in his
open, manly countenance that at once
attracts you to him.s He is an able and
educated man and a fine orator.
Jewett will go about six feet and pro
baby two hundred pounds. He is of
compact build, and is stern and steadfast
in purpose and principle. He has a fine
face, cIeanIy shaven, is a good talker
and deep thinker. He is eminenGy
practical man, and successful in busi-
ness.
Morgan is about five feet ten inches,
weighs one hundred and eighty to one
hundred and ninety, is growing portIy,
has kind face, a generous heart active
mind, useful tongue; is educated, ener-
getic, democratic. He is one of the old
est and most useful men in Congress.
Ranney is about as tall as Morgan,
but will weigh twenty to thirty pounds
more. He is goOd-lOOkfng and has
kindly manners; not aggressive, but firm
and always right. He is regarded bv
many as the ablest lawyer IN Ohio;
and if the United States Supreme Court
is ever restored to its ancient dignity.
Judge Ranney would add additional Ius-
ire to the bright record made by its ear
lier members,
But my letter is growing much
more lengthy than I intended, and I
must close. b
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The MHrsejJLGjse Hymn.

When the PrUssians and Austrfans
marched against France in 1892, to re-
store Louis XIV. to his throne, the Ma
tiOnal Assembly declared that the coun-
try was in danger, and called upon aH
Frenchmen to enlist under the banner
of Liberty, to repel the invaders. Mar
ssillaise furnished a legion of twelve
hundred turbulent spirits, and Lamartine
gives a graphic account of their triumph
ant entry into Paris, on their way to the
frontier. Their bronzed faces, with ewes
Of fire, their uniforms covered with the
dust of their journey, their red WOODEN
caps shaded with green boughs, their
lack of dieipline and their harsh pro-
vincial accent-all struck the imagination
of the Parisians with great force. The
revolutionary idea seemed impersonated
and to be marching to the last assault
of royalty, chanting an air whose notes
seemed to come from the breast with sui
len mutterings of national anger, and
then with the joy ofvictory. Since then
when France has been in danger, the
Marseillaise has never failed to arouse
and animate her sons for "Libertv or
Death"
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+: er and slower, until the engine stopped
at the decaying fire: 1t still blazed
enough to show them the beetling edge
of the black abyss into which the train
and all its passengers would havepiung,
ed, and into a death and destruction too
horrible to think of, had itnOt been for.the
old woman's signal. They did not stop
to thank her first for the deliverance.
The conductor knelt down by the side
of the engine, the engine driver and the
brakesmen came and knelt down by
him; all the passengers came and knelt
down by them; and there, in the eXpir-
ing light of the burning out pile, in the
rain and the wind, they thanked God
for the salvation of their lives. All in a
line the kneelers and prayers sent up in
TO the dark heavens such a midnight
voice Ofthanksgiving as seldom, if ever
ascended from the earth to Him who
seeth i'll darkness as well as in secret
1 Exchange.
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The Higher Panthcjsnt.

The sun, the moon, the stars, thesea, the hills
and the plains
Are not these, @ Soul, the vision Of Him who
reigns:
Is NOT the Vision He though He be not that
which He seemse
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not
live in dreams!
Earth, tnesesoIid starr, this weight Of body and
limb,
Are they not sign and symbol Of thy division
from hime
Dark is the world to thee: thyaelf art the res-
son why;
For is he not all but thou. that has power to
feel u ami -
Glory about thee, without thee: and thou full
hHest thy doom,
Making Him broken CLEANS and a stihed spIen-
dor and gloom.
Speak to Him thou, for He hears, ami spirit
with spirit can Iuee5--
AlD>eE lS llt lilah titetlilAEs anu hfttFA tilaL
hapds and feet.
God is law, say the wise, ., soul, and let us re,
joice,
For if He thunder by law, the thunder is yet
His voice.
Law is God, say some; no Cod at all, says tn,
fool;
For all we have power 10 see is straight stat
bent in a pool;
And the ear Of man cannot hear and the eye 0
man cannot see;
But, if we could see and hear, this vision-wer'
il not He?
Alfred TsnRysOH
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A great man has fallen. His great
ness sprang from an intellect capable of
grasping the mightiest questions, and
unraveling the most intricate webs of
Craftsmanship; theoretical and prac-
tical knowledge Of parliamentary law
unequalled by any man perhaps, in this
country; an individuality of purpose
and action possessed by no one in an
equal degree since the days of Andrew
Jackson; singular audacity that court
ed opposition while it despised the in
trinity Of purpose that always balks the
success Of great enterprises; an integrf-
ty, like that of the sun, that no human
agency could turn from its course; a
lofty and patriotic independence that
laughed at persecution, Drawing death
and torture in a hundred terrible shapes;
together with a powerful, incisive, mag
netic OratOry that iIlumined every object
it shone upon, and spake with the mys-
tic authority of q Hebrew prophet
John r. Ciymer.
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Clippings For The Curious.

Z The inmates of house situated on q
hill known as the Park Pond property,
New Jersey, were, on the morning of
the Sd inst, startled from sleep by a
loud noise, and were alarmed and horri-
fled to see the house surrounded by
flames. There seemed no prospect of
escape, and the alarm was increased by
a sound of falling stones and of burning
bushes.
Imagining that the house was on fire,
preparations were rapidly made to quit
the premises. At this juncture, how
ever, the flame moved off toward wire
fence, and set fire to quilt and blank
ct. In crossing, the fire struck a tree
and blighted it. From the wire fence
it passed along the ground like pillar
of fire, and wreathed itself around an
Oak-tree, stripping off the bark and
splitting the trunk.
The inmates felt a burning sensation
in their thrOats and palpitation of the
heart. Sitting air filled the house,
burning at the throats and nostrils. The
flame and heated air fortunately soon
passed away. The people of the house
attribute their safety to the attraction
of the wire fence which goes round the
building, and doubtless turned off Il
large portion of the electric flame
Where the flame struck the piazza it
passed through, charring the timbers
and tearing up the planks, which were
scattered TO a distance. The fence shows
signs Of having been red hot, and is in
some places completely burned away
N. Y Sun.
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ing, but there were hickory and hazel
rods inside we distinctly remember.
The correspondent Of the Blade says:
Washington is dull because of the ab-
"sence Ofits great men," It must have
been dull for ten years, if the absence
of great men would make it so.
Agriculture is rapidly declining, and
crops failing in Massachusetts. Her
fie4ds4like her females, yield only abor-
tiOns.-DeBlocTdtj Northeast.
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POETRY.
The SeGntstresS.

Harla the rustic Of a dress,
Stin with lavish cOstlinesS:
Here comes one Whose cheek would flush
Rnt 20 have her garments brush
'Gainst the girl whose fingers thin
Wove the weary brOidery in;
And in midnigbt-s chill and murk,
Stitched her life into the work
Bending backward from her toll,
Lest the tears the silk might soil:
Shaping from her bitter thought
Hearts-ease and forget-me-nOt;
Stairizing her despair
With the embIems woven there!
j. p LOCeH-
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YdIIGl3digHGn3.

Poor fellow! he takes a new DEPART
ure indeed. From the fitfuI dream of
the stOrmiest life he passed to where he
may sleep well. Perhaps no man ever
lived who was blessed with bitterer en-
emies or troubled with warmer friends.
Dom Piatt.
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CHICAGO, June 27.-The town of
Frankfort, Perry County, Illinois, is
greatly excited over what its citizens
regard as a clear case of witchcraft, re-
Gently developed in the vicinity of that
town. Two young ladies, daughters of
James Williams, are the victims. 1t
has been known by neighbors for some
time past that something was wrong
with the girls, and a few days since n
physician was called to visit them. He
failed to discover the difficulty. Since
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Politics.

Mr.. Jesse r. Grant, laureate of Gov.
.ington and father of the President, ha.
addressed an admiring ode to Mrs. Vic.
tUria G. Woodruff and her two sisters,
beginning:
Vic, Tennie and Ute
Wit, genius and beauty
All three horn in the Buckeye State.
With your marvellous ambition
You will rise to position,
And vie with Ulysses the great.
G0ITeg f,,e
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The Charleston Is. c. Courier of the
25th ult, says;
"At the Peoples jubilee lately held in
this city, the Hon. NJ. P. O'Connor, in
closing his address said: 'We will
treasure the recollection of this event
and the signal brillianey of its ceIebra-
ton, and carry it in our memories down
the vale of life; but dearer than the
memory of these things is the reflection
that there is still left within US that
mystic 1UGUe of the SOuI-faith, which
surpasseth all these triumphs, and with
a holy tie binds US in pacific, contented
allegiance to the throne of Peter
Immediately there flashed out upon
the walls of the ruined cathedral a Wis
iona colossal figure of Faith-a female
in brilliant robes of white, having her
hands clasped, and her soft eyes raised
and fixed intently upon a large white
cross planted upon rock before her.
The effect upon the crowd which gath
cred aronnd the visionary picture was
electric, and for some time not sound
was heard; all were looking in amaze
ment. The magnificent scene was pro-
duced by means of grand binoptric Ian
terms, in the akillfuI hands of science,
and was a most wonderful and appropri-
ate contribution for the occasion. The
figure of Faith was represented on the
canvas, twenty-One feet in height, with
a form and face truly angelic. The
cross was twenty-three feet, and appear
ed as if frosted with crystals; the illu-
minated disc was fOTJy-eight feet di-
ameter, and produced by the drummond
light. The Professor and his assistant
in charge of the lanterns did not hear
Mr.. O'ConnOr's address, the distance
preventing; and it is very certain the
speaker never anticipated Auch re-
markable and most beautiful illustration
at the close of his address.
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RiddIeS.

came to field and couldn't get though it.
So went TO 81 school and learned how To do il.
Fence.
My first denotes company.
My second ShunSu company,
Ny third calls a company.
My whole amu>e~ a company.
CO-nun-drum.
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Criminal CGreJeSsneSS.

On Saturday the 18th inst. Mr. HaT-
Wy Rice, of this place, while exhibiting
pistol, showing how Vallandigham
shot himself, and not knowing the
weapon was loaded, pulled the trigger,
when it went off, shootinga hole through
the floor near his foot, but fortunately
doing no other damage Manchester
Herald.
A messenger arrived in great haste at
Hamilton on the 29th inst, about I
O'Clock, for medical and surgical! assist
ance, stating that German farm labor
er, whose name our reporter could not
ascertain, had shot himself in the side
with pistol, and that he was in Il dy-
ing condition. He said the accident oc-
Cured at the residence Of Watt Carr,
about three miles east of Hamilton:
that Mr.. Carr Was doing some harvest
ing, and the hands, about noon, were
sitting on the porch at their leisure, just
after dinner. The man who shot him
self had pistol belonging to some one.
and was flOurishing it around in a care
less manner, when one of the boys re-
marked to him to be careful or he would
shoot himself He replied that he
would show them how Vallandigham
shot himself, and Immediately proceed
ed tOiIIustrate the manner in which the
pistol was held, with the hammer raised
and half out Of his pocket. In an iu-
stant the weapon was discharged, the
contents lodging in the bowels Of the
careless demOnstrator. He fell as one
dead. His companions picked him up,
and carried him into the house, the
crimson tide flowing in torrents from
the wound. a courier was Immediate
ly dispatched to Hamilton, who obtain
ed Drs. licNeely and Beauchamp.
When our reporter left Hamilton no
advices had been received concerning
the probable fate of the unfortunate
man. Gin. Eng.
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Wnen you hear Democratic paper
raving, ranting and caUorting about the
'despotism of the Radicals, which at
the same time, sneak-thief like, takes
the new departure, what manner of
Democrat is its editor? Where will we
find Radical despotismi outside of the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
and their result? Swallow the Amend
ments and then rave about Radical des-
potism! Stick your hand in the fire
and swear because youge burned, ell !
Smart chaps! Great philosophers as
Greeley!-Butler County Democrat.
THE Statesman has complimentary
words for carpet-bagger; from which
we infer that the next new departure
proposes to take this infamous crew as
accepted facts into the Democratic par
ty, just when the Republicans every
where denounce them as the greatest
villains out Of States prison.
Speaking of the rumored marriage of
Fred Grant to the Princess Beatrice,
daughter of Queen Victoria, one of the
papers says it Is ''pretty well for high. -
We think lis pretty well for low, also.
1t is complained that there are no
lightning rods on the school houses of
New York. In our school days we think
there was no lightning rod ON the build
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Beecher says: "There are men who
have committed great sins, and who
are like the knight that used to wear
sackclOth in order that the scratching
might remind him of having, perhaps,
murdered his royal master, and who
never wanted to forget that he was a
murderer. But what is the use of re-
membering One's crimes? Some set
apart days to reminI them of sins of
the olden time. They want to keep
them in memory. But what is the use
of keeping ones sins in memory? You
are not the children Of night, that Won
should set up monument of this kind.
1t is not worth a mans while, after he
has once escaped, to ponder the things
of the Olden time. It is not in accord
ance with New Testament truth, or
Gods truth, or Christ's truth. Forget.
forget, forget! God promises that he
will do it; and he commands you to do
it. 4 will never make mention again of
your transgressiOns,' he says to men.
He declares that their sins should be
cast as into the depths of the sea. And
why should a man trouble and vex him
self about his past sins. Do you suppose
you are any better for remembering that
which crushes you and fills you with
pain? Pain is like emery. Ifit scours
anything that wants to be secured it is
it is good. Otherwise it is not good.
He who seeks mere pain is an idolater.
While the strife and conflict of sin is on
you, then look at it and fight it; but
when it is past, then throw it away and
forget it. Never look at yourself or at
the old burnt out craters in life. Never
linger long in the precincts where you
have suffered a great deal. You are
children of light. Look to Jesus"
V.
The tomb of Moses is unknown, but
! the traveller slacks his thirst at the well
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The tomb of Moses is unknown, but
the traveller slacks his thirst at the well
of Jacob. The gorgeous palace of the
wisest and wealthiest Of mOnarchs with
cedar and gold and ivory, and even the
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A3JOgl'0llJS.

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Gus and ingenious anagrams:
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-03-28
The Richmond Enonirer

This ancient expounder of Virginia opinion
has passed under the editorial control of Col.
H. L. Withers and Mr., James G. SoutbalI. =
These gentlemen are well and favorably known
to the people Of Virginia, as gentlemen of
high character and fine talents and attaipments
Under their auspices. the Enquirer is destined
to be one of the ablest and most useful Journals
in the State Both the editors are eminentlv
conservative in their sentiments, and we are
pleased with the principles laid down in their
saiutatory for the conduct of the paper
COL Withers was the nominee of the Con-
sentative party of Virginia for the Office of
Governor, but when it was found expedient to
change the tactics of the party and substitute
Gov Walker as the nominee, Col. Withers
promptly surrendered his claims to the office to
ensure the election of Gov Walker.
Mr.. Southall was nominated bv tho roonIo
OF Augusta in 1866 as one of the renrason.o-
tives of the District, Of which Augusta formed
part, in the Constitutional Convention -
Mainly by the vote of Augusta he was elected
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-03-28
Presidents Message.

On Thursday last, the President sent the fol-
| lowing message to Congress:
To the Senate and House of Representatives.
A condition of affairs now exists in some Of
the States of the Union, rendering life and
property insecure, and the carrying of the
mails and the collection OF the revenue dan
gerous.
The proof that such condition of affairs
exists Ia some localities is now before the Sen
| ate. That the power to correct these evils is
| beyond the control of the State authorities
| do not doubt That the power Of the Execu-
| tive of the United States, acting within the
limits OF existing laws, Is sufficient for present
emergencies, is not clear. 5
Therefore, urgently recommend such legis-
| lation as, iE the Judgment of Congress, shall
effectually secure life, liberty and property, and
the enforcement of law, In all parts of the Uni
| ted States. ,ataa % g5a
| 1t may be expedient to provide that such
law as shall be passed in pursuance of this re-
commendation shall expire at the end of the
| next session Of Congress
There is no other subject on which [ would
| recommend legislation during the present ses-
| slon II Ha e. s. GRANT
Washington, D. c., March 23, 1871.
| In commenting upon this message, the Bal
timore Gazette says: ''We do not know when
We have seen, from any official source, so many
misrepresentation packed into so small a
space, or SO much arrogant assumption. That
| life and property are not insecure, in a general
sense, Ia any Of the Southern States, may be
confidently affirmed On the testimony of all the
Governors Of those States, with the exception
of the recently-convicted and deposed Holden.
| That some outrages have occurred, is not to
be denied. But it is admitted by almost every
witness that was summoned before the Senate
Committee, that these intestine troubles were
limited to few counties, and by all the more
respectable Of those who testified ia regard te
them, that, except in very rare instances, pol
itics had nothing to do with them that they
grew, for the most part, out of the predatory
and incendiary propensities Of evil-advised ne
groes, and that the great bulk of the outrages
occurred from eighteen months to two years
ago.
In one other, and most important point
President Grant is either grossly ignorant Oh
Wifully perverts acknowledged facts. He does
not doubt, he says, with wretched iteration
that the power to correct these evils is be-
yond the control of the State authorities. -
Is this true? The Southern Governors are
them-always excepting the deposed Holden
who has not recently emphatioally declared tina
whatever evils existed in the South, the State
authorities were perfectly competent to dea
| with them