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Year: 1868

IT'S cad, yet sweet to listen


To the soft winds gentle swell,
And think we hear the Music


Our childhood kney so well
To gaze out on the even,


And the boundIess fields of air,
And feel again our boyhood's wishl
To roam like angels there!
There are many dreams of Gladness
That cling around the past
And from the tomb of feeling


Old thoughts came thronging fast;
The forms we love so dearly


In the happy days now gone,
The beautiful and lovely,
So fair to look upon.
Those bright and gentle maidens


Who seemed so formed for bliss,
Too glorious and too heavily


For such a world as this;
Whose soft dark eye seemed swimmin!
In sea of liquid light,
And whose locks of gold were streaming
Ger brows SO sunny bright.
Whose smiles were like the sunshine,
In the spring-time of the year
Like the changeful CLEANS of April,
They followed every tear d!
They have passed-like hopes-away,
And their loveliness has fed
Oh, many heart is mourning


That they are with the dead.
Like the brightest buds of Summer,
They have fallen with the stem;
Yet, oh, it is lovely death


To fade from earth like them
And yet the thought is saddening
To muse on such as they,
And feel that all the beautiful ;
Are passing fast away?
That the fair ones whom we love
Grow to each loving breast
Like the tendriI ofthe clinging vine,
Then perish where they rest.
And we can but think of these,
In the soft and gentle Spring
When the trees are waving DER us,
And the flowers are blossoming;
And we know that winters coming
While his cold and stormy sky,
And the glorious beauty round Us
Is budding hut to diel
Year: 1868

" Did it ever occur to you, how hHle


you can do without shGdo,C in making ;


picture-in fact, that it would be nc


picture at all, without shadow?


q doubt if the world itself would fare


better without its shadows, too; and


although it would be a poor satisfaction


with regard to the nature Of God, to be


told that, regarding the world as a pic
ture, He allows evil for artistic purposes.


But if you think Of His art as expended.


not upon the making of history or dra-


ma, but upon the making Of an indi-


yidual, being, a character, then l think
a great part Of the difficulty concerning
the existence of evil would vanish.


$50 long as a creature has not sinned,
sin is possible to him. Does it seem con
sistent with the character of God that
in order that sin should become inlpossj-
JLe He should allow sin to come that
in order that His creatures should choose
the good and refuse the evil, in order
that they might become such as, with
their whole nature infinitely enlarged,
to turn from sin with a perfect repug-
nance of the iCiU He should allow them
to fall that, in order that, from being
sweet childish children they should be-
come noble, chid-kke men and women
He should let them try to walk alone2
Why should lie not allow the possible
in order that 1t should become impossi-
Bile? for possible it would ever have
been, even In the midst Of all the
blessedness, until it had been
thus destroyed. Thus sin is slain, up
rooted, and the war must ever be, it
seems to me, where there is creation still
going on. How could | be content to
guard my children so that they should
never have temptation, knowing that in
all probability they would fail if at any
moment it should cross their path?
Would the deepest communion Of father
and child ever be possible between us (?
Evil would ever seem to be in the child, /
so long as it was possible it should there
be developed. And if this nbe said for
the existence of moral evil, the existence /
of all other evil becomes a comparative /
triAe; nay, a positive good, for by this
the other is combated


People talk about special proyiden-
ces, 1 believe in the providences, but
not in the special l do not believe that
God lets the thread of my affairs go for
SIX days and on the seventh takes it up
for a moment. The so-called special
providences are not exceptions to a
are common to all men at all
But it is a fact undoubt-
edly that Gods care is more eUi-
tent in some instances of it than in
,thers, to the dim and often bewildered
,ision of Humanity. Upon such instan-
,es men seize and call them providences.
It is well that they do but it would be
yloriously better if they could believe
hat the whole matter is one grand
providence" CLEANER.


From Seabord Parish"
Year: 1868

The torture of the bcdstead is re-


sorted to in order TO extOrt money. The


victim is put on wooden rack-hat on


his back-and his neck, wrists and an


kles are fastened down by boards having


curves made large enough for the pur-
pose. These instruments are pressed


down on the parts of the body to which
they are fitted, and are then tied under
/ the bedstead Besides all this, some


times pole is fastened at right angles


to a bar of wood placed across his an


kles-the pole extending to his chin and


pressing against it, so that his head will


be thrown backward and upward. In


this position he is made to pass the


night, unless the jailors relent or he
comes to their terms. No one is willing
to sleep the second night on such a bed
stead, if he can arrange matters with his
keepers.


The tortures of the frame of the
fiowery eyebrow require the aid of the
pencil for an Ineligible description
One mode is to tie up the victim by one
wrist and one ankle-his head turned
upward another is to tie both wrists
and both ankles, with the head down.
ward BY either method the weight of
the body is brought to bear upon these
delicate portions of the human frame.
This punishment occasions intense
agony.


The torture called the monkey grasp
ing a peach, is employed by mandarins
to compel prisoner to confess his guilt.
The weight Of the body is wholly sus-
tanned by one arm, which is placed over
a slender horizontal pole several feet !
from the earth while the other arm,
and this are passed under the legs and |
tied together by the thumbs below the
knees. No part of the body is permit
ted to touch the ground. Let the reader
suffer his thumbs to be tied in this way.
even with his feet on the floor, and he |
will soon realize the terrors of this
frightful torture.


The torture of the cage is caused by
compelling the culprit to stand on tiptoe
with his head prOtruding through the
top of it. The hole is Just large enough
for his neck, and if he attempts to rest
himself by drawing up his legs, the
weight Of his body is brought to bear
on his neck. During the latter part of
the reign of the Emperor who died in
1850, noted robber was compelled to
stand in public in such a cage. in the
suburbs Of Fuchau, until he died in
agony.


The torture of the tube is caused by
putting a large tube of bamboo, or a
small tub or pail, turned bottom side up,
upon the head of the ulprit; incense is
then lighted and so placed that the smoke
shall ascend into the prisoners wooden
head-cover. As the smoke cannot escape
through the top, the victim endures in
describable agony, or is suffocated un-
less the instrument is removed.


Another mode of torture is to compel
the prisoner to kneel on chains or bits of
orockery. His arms are Outstretched,
md he is severely whipped if he dares
to lower them. Again, he may be made
10 kneel on these sharp and uneven sub
stances with his hands tied behind his
back. The Chinese say that in the case
Of stubborn criminals it happens quite
often that several hundred blows, in
Year: 1868

ficted with a rattan thong, are laid OIL


the prisoner while he is in this painful


position.


A fendish mode of torture occasional


ly used upon State prisoners is called


the hot water snake. Hollow pewter


tubes, made in the form of snakes, are


so constructed that they can be wound


round the arms of the prisoner. An
other, and the third coil, is sometimes
wound round the body. Boiling hot
water is then poured into the mouth of
these snakes; and as it runs through the
hollow tubes it burns into the unhappy
victims flesh, and occasions the most ex-
quisite torment This deyilish con-
trivance is still occasionally used at the
capital on State prisoners.


The torture Of the shirt of iron wire
is even more diabolical than the
boiling snakes A shirt-like garment,
made of very fine iron wire, with inter
stices something like those of fishing
net, is put on the prisoner, the clothing
from the upper part of his body having
DCCu ACulONGu II GDlu 10 ddJdCiCu W IL,
in such way that when pulled the shirt
will press down closely on the body, and
The skin and flesh will protrude, more
1r less, through the interstices. A
lnife-like instrument is then passed over
he wires on the outside, cutting or rasp-
ng off the protruding skin and flesh.
The operation is repeated at the option
# the dispenser of justice.


The torture of the whip of hooks is
10 less inhuman. A large number of
cry fine hooks are securely fastened to


handful of the fbres of hemp. The
7hole is then used as whip with which
0 beat the prisoner in order to elicit
onfession When blow is given with
his whip, many of the hooks will stick
D the body of the victim, and unless a
ltisfactory confession is forthcoming,
he whip is pulled or jerked back by
lain force, and another blow given. The
peration is repeated according to the
ictatiOn of the presiding officer.
Year: 1868

have not gone unrewarded already thel
!. see the work bringing forth good fruit
: and have the satisfaction of hearing


well done from the lips of their spir


itual head in the Diocese.


The rent of the house now occupied


by the Home is fifty dollars per month


and is paid in equal proportions by the


four City Parishes, one lady being ap-
pointed in each to collect the amount
from the Parishioners.


The Home is regarded as the starting
point of the work Of the Church Char
ity Foundation, and is intended to be a
permanent institution Ten acres of
land have been donated to the Founda-
tiOn, and the Board of Managers hope
soon to be able to erect buildings on it.
If our Church people, and others who
may feel interested in providing for the
necessities of the poor, will only give
their hearty support to the work, and
contribute money and material as God
has given them ability, we may hope to
! see an institution grow up from this
small beginning that will say more for
the Christianity of our people than any
other work that could be undertaken
This is emphatically Church work
| Christian wOrk-and should be done by
the Church, and carried on under the
supervision of the officers of the Church,
and it will be seen that the more of this
kind of work the Church is enabled to
do, the greater will be her influence for
good upon the people of the land
Faith without works is dead" and if
the Church and Church people do not
give evidence of their faith by works Of |
piety and charity, the presumption will 1
be, that there is little faith in them. /
Let, then, our people come forward and /
put their hands to the pillow, and support /
and carry out this work, to the very best
Of their ability let those who are able
to do so, emulate the example of those
generous hearted daughters of the
Church who have donated the ten acres
Of land let those who cannot give much
do their diligence to give what they can;
and let those who have nothing else to
give, contribute their time, labor and in
fuence, as much as may be; and the
blessing Of God will certainly be upon
their work, and we shall see life and
spirit springing up in the Church which
has hitherto been sadly wanting, or only
confined to few individual instances. 4
Contributions of provisions, clothing, ]
etc will be gladly received at the S
Home, No. GA Shelby street, and cash {
subscriptions may be handed to any of t
the Board Of Associate Managers, of G
whom there are FIVE in each Parish. '
" Blessed be the man that provideth a
for the sick and needy; the Lord shall
deliver him in the time Oe trouble"


ChrTPCHNTAN I
Year: 1868

waiting In sorrow. and mourning


Waiting through gloomiest night;
Clad in the robe of the cypress


Craving for beauty and light.
Centuries lifted the nations,


And hurled wrong pinnacles down;
Yet still holy Ireland is waiting,


And wearing the Rosemary Crown.
Obi the fulnsss of joy in the hoping,


The rich light which fancy had dreamed
Whence once for the lapse of moment


The sunlight of liberty streamed.
How we planted the flag on our towers,


And waved it DER mountain and town
But, alas still the cypress was blooming


Alas for the Rosemary Crown.
And lonely, and lonely, and lonely,


A watcher still sat by the sea,
With face as the while marble palid,


And eyes gazing mournfnlly
With hands lifted up in appealing,


What God would His mercy send down,
And the leaves of the laurel be shining


Where rested the Rosemare Crown.
We gave her the song of the poet,


We gave her the work of the brain,
Cast the glory or Heaven around her;


Yet all our work was insane.
{ She is dead" said the scoff of the stranger,
A laugh for the cynical clown.
All little he knew the wild passion


Long hid in the Rosemary Crown.
Now, the love and the hope of a world,


Dear Mother thy children have brought
The hard-handed strength of the soldier,


The blade of the mind full of thought;
The earnestness martyrs have taught Us,


The strength of their glorious renown--
To the graves of the dead shall be borne


The leaves of the Rosemary Grown.
Weep not I tits the hour of the dawning


Weep not we are ready to save
Nor reck of q newer heart broken,


Nor reck of another fresh grave.
Ger the graves we have marched in the past


time,


Der the graves of the dead still are bound,
Till the deaVes of the bay shine as fairly
Aa darkley the Rosemary Crown.
Year: 1868

The practical suppression of Fl eedom
OF voting In several States, the en-.
fr2nchisement of hundreds Of thou
sands of Ignorant negroes and the
disfranchisement of large proportion
Of the people of the South, the pos
session by the Radicals of the execu-
tive power, and the control of the
polling booths in most of the States,
and their notorious readiness to abuse
that power, compelled the Democrat
ic party to fight the battle of constitu-
tional government and reunion at q
terrible disadvantage. In the mod
Grafton, good sense, and principle of
the new President, and in the formid-
able strength of his opponents-which
he will not forget merely because 1t is
uurepresented at Washington-lies
the only hope for the restoration of
The unhappy South and for the even


tual safety OF the Union. The more
complete the victory of the Radicals
the worse is likely to be their use Of
it, the only check upon their exeesses
lies in the power which such a mod
orator as General Grant must derive
from the knowledge that on any
question on which ne may differ with
Congress he will probably have a ma
jority Of the people on his side. 1t
was the absence Of that silent but
strong support that rendered nugStOry
the Well-meant EFFORTS Of Mr. johnson (;
his successor is at once q stronger man
and holds a stronger position.
Year: 1868

behold smiling vineyards, the waving
golden grain, and orchards of rare and
luscious fruits. The cities Of this State,
as well as the towns, have, since the war,
changed their fronts, and are looking
northward for an outlet and market for
the product OF the farm, the orchard and
garden. The cities along the gulf-shore


will in the future look to the sources of
wealth in the isles of the sea for their
harvest, and those in the interior to the
rich cotton belt in their rear for theirs.
If the farmers in this latter portion OF
the South would only be aroused from
their versions of wealth in broad acres
and numerous laborers, and learn in time
that il is not the number of fields culti-
waited that produces wealth, but the yield
per acre. What we most need are agri-
cultural colleges, where the sons of the
farmers may be taught, not theoretical
agriculture, but practical farming and
horticulture. Has not the education OF
the greater portion of the youth of our
country been useless and Improbable
Have we not attempted to make learned
and great men of ell our boys and
spoiled most of them2 Is it not more
important that the farmer should know
how to care sick horse or COW than to
be able to render Sophocles into misera-
BILE English, or explain the mysteries OF
Parabola2 Is it not better that he should
be able to graft well, and to tell the mum.
Der of acres in his orchard or field than
to dance gracefully or play on the
pianof As soon as the farmers are
fully aroused to the fact that they will
have to change their mode of culture to
suit changes in the system of labor, then
this fair sunny land will again TEEN with
plenty, and we will enter upon an era G'f
prosperity before uuknewn in the South
The labor Of the South l believe to be the
best in the United STATES, or in the world, /,
and when properly controlled and di-
rected by brains and learning, will be
more remunerstive than under the old
system. The time has come when agri-
culture is entitled to rank with the
sciences. The farmer who cleaves to-
aut;quated notions, regardless Of that
progressive spirit which has In our day
taken hold of all the pursuits of life, will
Gbd himself to the rear of his competitors
in the race for wealth. He may attempt
to throw the blame for his scsnt harvest
on that great scspe-gost of poor farmers,
the seasons. But he will learn by and
by that he is to blame for the want Of
skill in the use of those means which a
bountiful Providence has placed at his
command. He who is SO blind as to per-
sist in tha old method of tillage will either
be starved out, or leave the country and
seek some virgin soil that he msy ruin it
by his ignorant use of the plan.


Respectfully, SNAP.
Year: 1868




Mr.. Forsyth is very anxious to have
somebody kill a few of his personal enc
mies.- Gri6in's Nationalist


Mr.. Griffin aatters himself when be
places himself in the category of our
personal enemy" He is personal
to US in nothing. We know him not per
sonally-hardly by sight. We have
made ii point to know neither carpet
bsgger nor scsllawsg personally. We
regard the first as the minious and pimps
Of our Radical tyrants, and the latter as
traitors bought with lucrs by our enemies.
Aud we have been mortified and sur
prised to see that all Southern men have
not refused to countenance or associate
with them in any manner. Mr.. Griffin
is our personal enemy" just in the
degree that a poisonous reptile or mad
dog is-he is the enemy of our country
and people, because he is the tool and
executioner of the despotic malice of our
oppressors But he may sleep is peace,
for we shall not hurt him so long as be
keeps out of our personal way. We
shall wait in hope that some Patron Saint
of ireland, like the good ST. Patrick, will
arise some day to relieve the land of the
whole brood. Mobile Register.
Year: 1868




A Louisville boy, who for the first time
in his life visited a negro church few
days since, writes the following descrip-
ton of what be saw and heard there. II
was not written in spirit of ridicule,
but only as a truthful picture Of the man.
ner in which the black race worship in
their own churches, and as exhibiting
some of their peculisrities:


Ii was on a dark, eheerless night that
| started to visit one of our negro
churches. sdt so happened that / arrived
there late. The minister was praying,
ard about twenty FIVE or thirty men and
women were outside in the hall waiting
until he would be through, that they
might 20 in; the men on one side OF the
hall and the womes on another. There
happened to be some negro girls also, and
of course they were laug Ching and talking
among themselves; but this was soon
checked by an aged negro woman, who
said, in solemn voice:


seals, what yoa doin' thar2 You
ought to be 'shamed yoasef, latin sc"


They stopped Immediately. About
this time tho prayer had ended, and we
walked into long, wide room, with q
low ceiling. We had no sooner opened
the door than a most noxious odor sa-
luted our olfactories, as of trowsers in
the last stages of decay. As this was
only meeting on week day, the men
did not trouble themselves to change
their clothing, hence the odor.


As soon as we were seated, there arose
fearful howl as of thousand beasts in
burning building. This was told was
singing. As soon as this was done, the
preacher arose and spoke: Dear
brethren, / would like to see some con-
verts tonight. Young men, come for
ward. Young ladies, come forward and
stand up for Jesus"


Upon this there arose about ton wo-
men and three men, who came forward
to the mourner's bench and sat down.
Most Of the women commenced crying
aud jumping and calling out, "Halelpjah
to God;" also there rose three women,
who ran up and down the aisle, swing
ing their arms wildly sad screaming
loudly, GLORY Glory Save my soul J
Save my soul One of them was very
small and fat, and Of course could not
jump very high, but she made up for IT
by screaming at the top of her voice, roll
ing her eyes and boating her breast.
1t appeared to nae that the woman who
wanted to shout must have told two per-
SONS beforehand, so that they could hold
her, one ct each arm. She then would
get up, and her assistants would com
mence working her as person would
pump, she keeping time, hopping up
and dewn until she perspired. Then she
sank back exhausted and helpless, and
was famed by her friends.


In prayer each seems to pray for her
self or himself, putting in little for the
minister. The responses were loud and
clear. In a negro church you do not
hear any mumbling responses. Unfor-
tunately one of the male mourners was
drunk, SO that the minister only counted
two male penitents. Once at prayer he
had to call to order hardened old sin
ner who sat on the back of seat. He
did so in this way: "Young man, sim
ner, why sit there in sin? Bow down,
my friend, to Cod; which he did not
do. The preacher then said to the con-
gregation he would have to leave that
sinner to the devil, and in little while
dismissed them.
Year: 1868

The Cincinnati Enquirer puts the
case OF the bondholder as follows:


As we have previously intimated,
there is no doubt of the payment Of the
bondholder Of every dollar which be lent
to the Government, provided he only in
sists upon such paymeut-no more aud
no less. IT, in his grcediuess, for gain,
be attempts to defraud the people, and
to obtain from them, by corrupting their
agents in Congress, two or three times
as much as he lent them, the chances are
he will get nothing. Daniel Webster
well said at CAfron Springs, Virginia,
that q bargain broken upon one aide is
bargain broken upon both sides.


"The only 'safety to bondholder is
literal adherence to the letter of his bond.
The bond does not promise him gold. II
was not intended be should be so paid.
BE himself did not expect it when he
took the bond. His latter ideas on the
subject have been put in his head by pol
iticians TO accomplish their selfish pur-
poses. He would de we'll to get them out
Of his brain as soon as possible. Half OF
the debt. in any event, was theft upon
the Government, the money going iato
the pockets of the contractors and faith
less government agents. To have to pay
the debt itself is bad enough. To pay it
three or four times over, as the bond
holders desire, isintolerable. We dislike
the idea of reputation. but rather than
have the bondholders rob the people Of a
thousand million of dollsrs-yes, verify,
rob them, for in this connection we use
our words most carefully, and with a
close regard to their literal meaning--we
would infinitely prefer they should
never receive single cent, and that their
attempt to steal should be punished, as
it deserves, by the loss of whatever honest
obligation they may have against the
Government"


Ia the language of greater man than
Daniel Webster Thomas Williams), we
say take what you paid for your bonds,
and settle with the people promptly, or
you will run great risk in getting any
thing. 1t is the people who toll ard pay
taxes of their hard earnings, who are
called upon to pay this mountain of debt
held by those who pay no taxes. The
government holds no bonds and pays no
money, except what the people give it
you mechanics and farmers, and labor
ing men must pay all, and if these Shy
locks have their way, your children's
children, whilst they will have paid the
principal of the debt twice over in inte-
rest, will be as oppressed as ever. There
is uo space between compromise and re-
pudiation. Pittsburg Post