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Year: 1867

You see that both Harvey and his wife
are dead in Bombay. Atheism and Uni
versalism are gaining ground in this coun-
try, especially in our cities. We that
are old may not live to see it, but they
who survive us will witness wonderful
scenes both in Church and State in this
our beloved country. We are evidently
fastening to crisis; and so is the World
But the Lord reigneth. Let the earth
rejoice, for though clouds and darkness
are around about him, justice and Judg-
ment are the habitation of his throne.


Be faithful. Be diligent. BE humble
and persevering. As you stand alone,
great responsibility rests upon you, Ar
kansas may owe much to your faithful and
wise counsels and exertions. Continue to
call aloud for help. But whether it comes
or not, labor with all your might to stem the
torrent and to advance the cause. Be
ware OF declining into lukewarmheSS anu
a secular spirit: Stirup the gift that is
in thee. Give attendance to reading, ex-
hortation and prayer. Continue in them,
and give thyself wholly to these things.
Behold the Judge is at the door.


There are many ways of doing good.
Use them all as far as you can. Circu
late, by loan, good books. Subsidze the
press. Get pious printer to come and
publish a religious paper.


1 shall say nothing of the effect which
this letter produced upon my mind, but
only ask, may not theological professors
of the present day, and ministers of ex
perience, receive hint from the above to
strengthen the hands and cheer the hearts
of their younger brethren, especially
those who stand on the out-posts of
Zion? *.
Year: 1867

How shall this soul of mine
Before Thy holy shrine,
o, thou Immaculate, Divine, appear.
Where angels vail their faces in despair
With what oblations sweet


Before thy merey-seat
Can l Thy presence meet, or dare draw near
All clothed in guilt and shame
Lost both in fact and name
How can hope to find acceptance therel
Ny God l come to thee,
In sad sincerity,
With deep cOntrition and abasement bare;
Grant, Father, unto me,


Thy loving Spirit free,


So shall turn and flee
From every Aeshly lust and sinful snare.
Once more thy temple-gate


My soul shall seek, and wait
To 6nd once more blest acceptance there
Thy ways, not mine, . God
Thy will, not mine Thy rod
In mercy spare, nor let thine anger burn.
Starved with the husks of sin,


Thy peace once mor&to win,


Thy love to enter in,s
NY soul in anguish for its home doth yearn
With weeping, straining eyes,


Now stripped Of every guise,


Fsin would my soul arise
Repentant-aud to thee, o Lord,


TRY PRODIGAL RETURN!
Year: 1867

in a we'll nigh supernatural manner, spir-
itual food which is dimly perceptible to
any but themselves. The concentration
of all these powerful associations upon
hymnology invests the humblest and most
unpublished hymn book with little coro-
net of sanctity; somewhere within its
pages it is certain to contain the key
note to the heart of him who opens it
even at random"
Year: 1867

He is contributing his influence towards
secularizing his community. If his way
was universal, irreligion would be domi-
nant, and the nation would slowly sink
back into an atheistic barbarism
ssh Visitor.
Year: 1867

THE LESSON FROM THE EPIsTLE To
PHILEMoN.-The lesson of all others from
this Epistle is, that we should carry into
the concerns of private life the courtesy
and the Christian spirit here shown by
the Apostle; that we should talk to one
another, argue with one another, write
letters to one another, not as men of the
world, but as disciples of Christ; not as
Piny, but as St. Paul; remembering
whose we are, and whom we serve; and
that our religion is to be a light shining
before men to show forth the glory of
Him who hath redeemed us by Christ.
Year: 1867

IT may not be in your power to excel
many people in riches, honors or abilities ;
but you may excel thousands in goodness
of heart. Hither turn your ambition.
Here is an object worthy of it.
Year: 1867

P1THY, BUT TRuE,-Elder Swan used
to say that if the doctrine of universal
salvation be true, the Bible ought to read:
''Wide is the gate, aad broad is the way
which leads to heaven, and every body
goes there; strait is the gate, and narrow
is the way that leads to hell, and you
can't find it if you try
Year: 1867

bad maxini-'Let the government take
care Of the rich and the rich will take care
of the peOr?g oh, ne; this would be TO
make room for the labor of the landless
poor and for their acquisition of means to
become landholders themselves. Moreover,


there are exceedingly few men in the
South who remain rich. But it will be
said that all this viii cost great deal of
money. The greater the cost, the greater


the proof of our love- But the cost will


be little, compared with the gain that will
come of it. This investment in the South
ern heart win be unspeakably the best in


vestment the nation ever made. Even in
mere pecuniary view, no other will COM


pare with 1.-THE heart union between the
North and South which it will produce,


having more effect than aught else to raise


the credit of our nation with capitalists.
Wereth union Of the North and South


cemented by their mutual love, our gov
eminent could borrow at an interest not
exceeding four ger cent. This problem of
peace between the North and the South -
how difficult it is for our statesmen TO solve
it But how easily could love solve it Let
the North and South love each other, and,


as they then will, forgive and help and


bless each other. This will be peace and


nothing short of it will deserve to be called


peace! Into the enjoyment of this true


peace the nation should have entered more
than two years ago. From the time that


the South surrendered, no man and no wo-
man either in the North or in the South
should any longer have known, in our po-


litical strifes and divisions, a North or a
South Hearts estranged from each other
by the war and its anteoedents should then
have began to flow together in so strong a
love for the nation as would save it forever


after from being broken assunder."


PETERBoRo, June 6, 1861. ~.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be selfreIiant, and shall do what we
nay be able to induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
ducts To this end we win pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves TO encourage the diversih-
cation of Southern industries and the develop
netit Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

ed on any other occasion within the
capitol buildings. The vast rotunda,
as we'll as the spacious galleries and
corridors Of both Houses, were crowded
beyond precedent. 1t was impossible
for the officers of the two Houses at one
time to communicate with each other,
when the Presidents private secretary
lust before l2 o'clock had to deliver to
the House the messages in writing an
nouncing the signing of bills.


The floors of the Senate and the House
were opened on this extraordinary occa-
sion to the ladies, and they filled nearly
all of the members seats and the spaces
without the bar. On the floor of the
House alone thousand ladies and gen
tlemen remained standing for two hours
to witness the proceedings. 1t was not
the Inauguration Of new men as officers
of the House or anything unusual in the
formula of organizing new Congress,
that attracted the assembled thousands,
and added great interest to the occasion,
but it was more in the historical fact of
being able to see one Congress expire
and another Congress Immediately take
its place.
Year: 1867

From the Buffalo Express.


Considerable excitement was created
last evening at the freight house of the
Grand Trunk Railway, by the discovery
of several barrels containing human re-
mains. 1t appears that during Tuesday
night four barrels were placed on the
sidewalk in front of the Office of the
American Express Company, where
they were found yesterday morning.
Nothing was known of their contents,
and each had tackled on the head an en-
velope bearing the address, 81. Smith
g. Co., Druggists, Ann Arbor, Mich"
The Express Company Of course sent
them with other freight to the depot,
and they were in the process of loading
when one of them was unheaded disclos-
ing the dead body of an old man, who
had apparently been dead but n few
days. Another barrel was opened, and
a similar state Of affairs being discover
ed, information was Immediately given
to the police, who removed the bodies to
the dead. house, pending an investiga-
tion by the authorities. In the dead
house the barrels were all opened and
the bodies laid upon boards. The
limbs, though cramped by being COM
pressed into the barrels, were exceed
ingly pliable, and were extended with
out much effort, indicating that the
bodies had not been dead many days,
and Furthermore 10 offensive odor conld
he perceived.


One of the bodies was that of man
seventy or eighty years OF
age; his hair was thin and very gray:
in length he was about five feet ten
inches; one tooth from the upper jaw
only was gone.


The second was that of u man about
forty years of age, standing some five
feet eight inches, with slight chin
whiskers and brown hair.


The third, woman, large of size, be-
ing perhaps five feet seven inches III
height and probably about thirty-fve
years of age. A still born child was al
so in this barrel. The hair Of the wo-
man was long and dark brown. \ med
ical man gave it as his opinion that she
died about a week ago.


The fourth was u small woman about
forty-five years Of age, very much eIna-
ciated: the hair was brown and cut close
to the head The barrel in which this
body was placed contained lot of corn
stalks and grass.


The bodies were all thought to be
those Of persons of American birth.
Coroner Richards will hold an inqucSt
at ~ o'clock to-day.


Until the official investigation has
been made it is hardly proper to express
any opinion IL to the solution OF this
Among those who were aware
of the circumstance there was, however,
little doubt that the bodies had been
sold by persons connected with one of
our public institutions. Should this
prove to he true it will probably result
in the curtailment of this part of the
perquisites Of this place.


IL will be remembered that the Medi-
cal Department of the Michigan Uni
versity is located at Ann Arbor, and
these bodies were doubtless intended
for dissection by the students of the in
Year: 1867

N HIS HOUSE Is KEPT on THE Ell.
i repesn plan; It is within three minutes
ride (by horse czrsl Of the New Haven
Railroad Depot, convenient 70 all the principal
places of Amusement and for summer travellers
will be found the coolest Hotel N the city.
Every room is provided With running water.
Year: 1867

A joint committee Of the two Houses
appointed to-day for that purpose, wait
ed upon the President this afternoon,
and informed him that the Fortieth
Congress had organized, and was ready
to receive any message he might be
pleased to make. The President replied
that he had no communication to send
in. There will not, therefore, be any
regular message, as is usual on conven-
ing q new Congress. The reason is ap-
parent.
Year: 1867


Little Lilly tell me how
This change has come about.
Pritheei stay while now
And say how It fell out.
Say how It was you ever came
In this bad place TO bel
cay why you're staring al your name'
Why you're afraid Of msf
Not Lilly now, but Hose, she said
little change from white to red.
Now tell me who 1t was, poor child,
Ut hardly can be true)
Who from your fathers roof bsguilsd
His only hope, in you.
Oil Lily-lt ia passing sad
To SEQ you in this silken glare,
You used to DO 50 simply clad,
Your linen froek so clean and fair.
'ris but little change, she fAid-
A little change from white to red.
remember, when little one,
Your mother thought you pale
Half in earnest, half In fan,
Said your name should tell the tale.
That kindly mother never thought
Those tiny checks that met her gaze
Would e'er be willingly dlsiort
with such painted blaze.
Again little change, she said
A little change from white to red.
80 she passed me, one of many
Stories, walking TO and fro.
And it's surrey useless any
More of this our tale to know.
Dyand-by thsre'll come another
Change to Lily, as to YOU
Then will Death, a second mother,
Wipe away the guilty hue.
Obi far less pltiful that sight
That little change from red to white.


London Sociel
Year: 1867

shall see MusTASG.


p. S.-Since writing the above the reg
istration is complete adding 90 more to
the white vote. Orders have just come
to visit precincts again to see why aH ne.
groes don't register, and / suppose like
the man that gave the feast, they are to
ago into the hedges and highways and
bring in all the lame and blind of the ne
groes, that the radical camp may be
full | shall refer to this subject again
NJ
Year: 1867

Mo tune, it is said is SO popular,
vet so hard to catch as fortune.


- 1t is less dangerous to have a pru'
dent enemy than an indiscreet friend.


WHY can persons occupied in can
ming fruit stow away more OF it thany any
body else Because they can.


He that cannot endure to strive
against the stream, shall hardly attain the
port which he purposes to recover
Year: 1867

The sun comes up and the sun goes down,


And the day and night are the same Is one;
The year grows green and the year grows brown


And what is it all, when all is dOneT
Grains Of s0mbre or shining sand,
Sliding into and out OF the hand.
And men 20 down in ship. to the seas,


And hundred ships are the same rs one;
And backward and forward blows the breeze,


And what is it all when all is done
tide with never a shore in sight
Setting steadily on TO the night.
The fisherman droppeth his net in the stream,


And hundred of streams are the same as one
And the maiden dreemeth her love-lit dream,


And what is it all, when all is done Z?
The net of the fisherman, the burden breaks,
And after the dreaming the dreamer wakes.
Year: 1867

The month of the falling leaf and the fading
flower; the month in which memory and med
itaton, poetry and fancy love to reveal; the
month consecrated BY SO many beautiful and
hallowed associations is with Us. Werejoice
Year: 1867

RosE Wash cures secret and delicate disorders in all their stages at little expense, little or no change in diet, no inconvenience and no exposure. It is pleasant ill taste and odor, irmediate in it's aciou
Year: 1867

The New Haven Palladium publishes
the following from correspondent who
is on intimate terms with Gen. Grant,
and who had a freeinterview with the
General. In speaking of the severe
structures of the Tribune and other
journals on his silence be said:


Gas to my principles, l have not
meant to leave any one in doubt. 1
would save the country; would save
it in the shortest way under the Con-
stitution. If there be those who would
not save the country unless they would,
at the same time, save their own the
ories."


do not agree with them. Ny wish is
to save the country, and, as soon as
possible, to restore all the States to
their proper relations as such and upon
the principles of even handed Justice.
What 1 do in the premises 1 do because
| believe it helps the country, and what
forbesr, forbear because do believe
it helps to save the country. l shall
do less whenever believe that am do
ing what hurts the cause. shall do
more whenever l shall believe that do
ing more will help the cause. l have
now stated my own sense of personal
and official duty, and l intend no mod
ification of my often repeated personal
wish that all men may be permitted to
think freely and on all suitable occas-
ions to speak out what they think, If by
so doing they can benefit mankind and
help to save the country.
Year: 1867

J have just been watching the liitlr
rills-jnmping and skipping along, and
ii MADE me think of the talk a good
doctor had with some of them - lac
was travelling one day over the Al
4. \
Year: 1867

The London Field says: We have


great pleasure in announcing the ar


rival Of fine, healthy male specimen


of the Tyre bird { Menura saper6o al


the Geological Gardens, Regents
Park. This bird has not hitherto been


imported alive into Europe. 1t is


found only in New South Wales, where
it inhabits the dense scrub and bushes
that are so characteristic of that coun-
try. In consequence of the habits Of
the bird and its extreme shyness, it is
most difficult to shoot, and still more
so to obtain alive. 1t seldom takes to
the wing, but, although as large as a
fair sized fowl, leaps from branch to
branch with extraordinary rapidity,
being capable of springing from the
ground ten feet at spring. Taking
advantage of this habit, it is sometimes
procured by starting it from the
ground by dogs, and shooting iton its
leaping into the branches before it has
had time to make the second bound.


The superb Tyre bird (for there are
two other species is about the size of
fowl; it is of brown color, and
would not be in any way remarkable
were it not for its extraordinary tail.
This mainly consists of two curved
feathers, each about two feet in length
when fully grown; these are SO curved
that they present the exact shape of an
ancient Tyre. Between these curved
feathers are others of filamentous
character, that may be taken, not in
aptly, to represent the strings of the
instrument This tail is carried erect
when the bird is excited; but in fleeing
through the underwood of the brushes
it is allowed to fall horizontally.


The Tyre bird, from its size, was at
FIRST supposed to belong to the rasorial
or gallinaceous group; but more in
innate acquaintance with its structure
and habits proves that it is an insesso-
rial or perching bird. The young are
Matched in a blind and helpless con-
dition, which is not the case in any
poultry birds. The male, moreover,
has, in addition to loud cry, a low
song, which is stated not to be un-
pleasing. The food found in the crops
of those found in Australia consisted
of insects. The bird in the gardens
does not seem fastidious in his tastes
insects, earth-worms, meat, small liz
ards, and other odds and ends of mat
ter appear all acceptable. The tail of
the bird, when in Australia, begins to
grow at the commencement of the
year, and is in full beauty in june.
The specimen in these gardens has the
tail now about half its full length.
Year: 1867

New York has entered in earnest on
the work of Constitutional reform. The
choice OF delegates will take place on the
23 inst, Precautions have been taken
to secure convention OF good men, as
free as possible from control by any
particular interest. In addition to the
thirty.two delegates at large, each Sena~
torial district will elect four delegates for
itself; so that the whole number OF the
delegates to the Convention will be one
hundred and sixty. In regard to the
thirty,two delegates at large, it is pro.
vided that no elector shall vote for more
than Mxteen--thereby insuring an equal
division between the two great PARTIES
sixteen to represent the Republicans and
sixteen the Democrats. ''N = p awe
Year: 1867

EY PRESIDENT FUTILE, OF WABASH COLLEGE


A true manhood cannot be developed
without the discipline of responsibility.
Let the nurse carry the child, instead of
teaching him 70 walk, and he will be-
come an overgrown child, but never a
man. lie is a wise parent who lays a
proper and genuine responsibility on his
child, and incites him to meet it.


1t is no new remark that persons are
transformed by the responsibilities they
have to discharge, a delicate and un,
tried girl suddenly ripens into an ex
traordinary womanhood, through the
agency of sickness or death in the tami-
Iy, laying on her heavy burdens to be
borne.- 1t may be that she is now the
comforter of the sick mother, and as a
mother to the younger children. Hence
the change; little while ago a timid
girl, but now a courageous woman.


In 1862 a young man from Columbus,
Ohio, was commissioned as Lieuten-
ant in regiment then at Camp Chase.
He was small in person and almost ef-
Terminate in appearance; so much so
that it affected me to see him 60, very
much as it would the sight of boy Of iif
teen. lie was with his regiment in sew
eral severe engagements IN Kentucky;
was at Cumberland Gap, retreated under
Morgan to the Ohio, and was afterward
in severe service on the Mississippi. He
! had become Captain, and the remark
was made by those who, were with him
that he had become man--not 30 much
in stature as in mind, word, and act
lie lost his life at Fort Gibson, and his
men kissed his manly face as fondly as
they would child's. 1t was response
bility that wrought the change w.


1t may be an admission of weakness,
and yet / confess high admiration Of a
class of men to whom vast burden OF
responsibility in the matter o! human
lite is constantly entrusted. I refer TO
our railroad engineers. The locomotive





in itself is a marvel Of ingenuity and
power. Compact, periect,ln form and
adaptation, Indispensable to the wants
OF civilization, it is one OF the finest in
straments. The man who controls these
Year: 1867

KAUFMAN has just finished a pict-
ure which represents Abraham Lincoln
earning his first dollar. The incident
is that which was often told by the late
President, of the time when he, ferried
passengers across river and received
a silver dollar for his services. In this
picture he Is seen in his small hatboat


resting upon his oars, and looking
earnestly at the silver coin which he
holds in the palm of his hand. ''. o.
Year: 1867

[The circumstances which induced the
writing Of the following most touching and
thrilling lines are rs follows A young lady
of New York was in the habit Of writing for
the Philadelphia Ledgcr, on the subject OF in
temperance. Her writings were so full Of
pathos, and evinced such deep emotion that she
was accused of bcinga maniac on the sub
jcct ofintcmpcrancejwhcreupon she wrote the
following j
Year: 1867

Go see what have seen


Behold the strong man bowed,
With gnashns teeth lie bathcd in blood,
And cold and liyid brow;
Go catch his withered glance, and see
There mirrored his souls misery.
Year: 1867

The friends of Generals Sheridan and
Sickles have sent them telegraphic dis
patches giving them assurance that they
will be sustained by Congress. The latter
has also been advised to reconsider his de-
termination of giving up his command.
Year: 1867

From the State papers of last week we clip the following:

 The Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad has ar ranged with the Erie Railway and the Pennsylva- mia Coal Company, to endorse it's bonds for seven millions of dollars. This sum, with the three millions granted by the State of Massachusetts, will suffice to complete the unfinished links be- tween Willimantic and Mechanicsville, and between Waterbury and Fishkill.

 Nothing could have we'll happened more opportunely. The Legislature is approach ing the time when vote is to be taken on the bridge question, and just in time to quiet the minds of Litchfeld county mem bers, we are told.that the building of the road from Waterbury to Fishkill is at last an assured thing We had supposed that the Erie railroad had all it could do to pay It's own debts Of the additional security ot the Pennsylvania Coal Go. we know nothing. All we feel certain of is that it IS one of those condolences which are by no means uncommon in the history of leg- islation.
Year: 1867

Ra~ Just as the Clergy were exclaiming against the character of the Rev. Joseph Bellamy Stoker, in Holmes novel now be- ing published in the Atlantic, as libel on their cloth, MT. S. NJ. Merrill Metho- dist minister of considerable repute has gone to work to sustain the vivacious Doc tor by furnishing case in point.

 The first report that found its way into the papers regarding this gentleman stated that he had been barely frustrated in 8 plan for an elopement from wife and nine children, with beautiful young girl of six teen belonging to a congregation of which he was lately the minister. Then came an indignant and entire denial from his friends. Lastly, we are called on to be- lieve that he was accidentally drowned while out fishing with his sons, the day be- fore the expiration of policy of insurance of $6OOO on his life. What makes matters worse, he disappeared in the shadow of a bridge, and his body is not yet found.

 Taken altogether, we should judge that the Rev. s. M. Merrill filled the part of the Rev. Stoker in Holmes programme and something more.