The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-10-24
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SUNDAY, JUNE Ia. l have exchanged
to-day with Mr.. Damon he taking the
capstan of the Congress, and the pulpit
of the mariners chapel The audience
both morning and evening has been large,
leaving hardly vacant seat. 1t is com-
posed Of foreign residents and sailors in
port. The music, led by seraphine,
would have been creditabe in any place.
could hardly persuade myself that l
was in an Island of the Pacific, where but
few years since the homage of man rose
only in howls to pagan idol.
MONDAY, JUNE Is. There are two
large churches for the natives in Honou.
Ia. The services in these are conducted
in the native language by tn, Rev. Mr..
Armstrong and the Rev. Mr.. Smith, both
intelligent and devoted missionaries.
These men aud all their brethren occupy
difficult position in these islands. 1t
is made so, less by tho 6okloness of the
natives than the interference OF foreigners
The very men who, coming as they do
from civilized and Christian lands, should
be the first to countenance and sustain
them, are those from whom they exper.
iencc the most opposition. 1t seems i'm.
possible to avoid their cavils. IF the
missionaries devote themselves exclusive
ly to their spiritual duties. the complaint
is, that the temporal interests of the COM
munity arc neglected If they interest
themselves in the encouragement of ag-
riculture and the mechanic arts, the cry
is, that they are interfering in secular
matters which do not belong to them. Be.
tween these two rocks no ship can pass
without having her copper raked off on one
side or the other.
The truth is, the missionaries are pur-
suing the only plan which can produce
decisive and satisfactory results. They
are inculcating the precepts and obligation
OF the Bible on all classes, and educating
the young. Their schools embrace hun
dreds of native children, who will them.
selves become teachers. In one Of these
schools, which is under the superinten-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs, Cook, 1 found
the children Of the high chiefs, and
among them the heir.apparent. They
spoke the English Language with entire
freedom, and wrote it with surprising
accuracy. Their requirements, in all the
branches Of useful education, would
have done credit to youth of the same
age in any country, In mental arithmc.
tic, / have never seen them surpassed.
They multiplied five decimals by FIVE,
named at random, and gave the result
with perfect accuracy, in less time than
any one could possibly have reached it'
on slate. We now adjourned with the
scholars to the parlor, where Mrs. Cook
placed one of the misses at the piano,
while another took the guitar. and they
all struck into melody that might have
gratiied more fastidious taste than ours.
Now these are the children of the
chiefs-their sons and their daughters
those whose intelligence and influence
are to shape the destines of these islands.
If this is not beginning at the right end
OF the business, should ike to have
some ono tell US where the right end is
"THE DEMOCRATIC MoRGUE. Our
Democratic contemporaries are still going
among political cemeteries, in search Of
some available candidate for the Presi.
dency. To be very dead is the one
qualification above all others. On dig.
gng up their subject and unscrewing his
coffin, the usual tests, including salts of
ammonia, assaf1tida, burnt feathers, and
the crucol Democratic test-the smell of
the whisky are applied, and if there is
any stir, any consciousness, any know.
ledge of anything transpiring in his age,
the party is screwed up. labeled "to be
tried in $780," and recovered.
Tho devotion to the departed is seen in
some New Jersey resurrectonists, who
have exhumed George b. Mcclellan.
He answers well there is nothing lively;
he preserves dignifed inertia and per-
haps may be sufficiently fragrant in his
memories to satisfy tho demands of his
worshippers.
The late John Il. Hoffman is also ex.
hibited at the democratic morgue. Be.
sides him are tho shillelabs of the anti.
Orange mob and keys Of Tammany, smy.
bos of his sudden taking off, His dis
ease is undisputed, but the Irish arc most
emphatic in their objuration that he is
not only dead, but by this time he also
(see Johns Gospel, chap. xi. v. 80, and
the latter clause.)
Another band, with spade. mattock
and dark lantern and musty odor come
forward with the remains Of the late
Salmon p. Chase. They concede that in
the mans lifetime he was an abolitonist
Lincoln hireing, tho inventor of legal
tenders, the wholesale manufacturer of
bonds to bo paid in coin. the adviser of
the emancipation proclamation, the ad-
vocate of the Thirteenth amendment but
they say all that was when he was alive.
Standing over his bones they triumphant.
ly ask, "Who has heard from his lips for
four years anything at all resembling his
ancient words? Who has known him
through that time say aught to remind
the land Of his bold, brave Lifetime. He
is dead as Juias Caesar" All true, but
the fear is that somehow he might come
to life again, and do strange pushing
among Democratic stools.
Some parade ostentatiously the remains
of Reverdy johnson, who died fromvan |
over dose of English roast beef and plum
pudding. Hic jacet. Reverdy's bones
are not marketable. BY costly casket,
overspread with pail of royal velvet.
stand few kid.gloved watchers beside
the remains of Gentleman George Pend
Teton. He is very gcnteel corpse. 1t
is well embalmed, and is not so offensive
as some others.