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THE FALLEN NATION.
I»Y M J.
Passed to death, majestic people, slumbering
now in early rest.
Gathered to the grand mausoleum of her
heroes’ mighty brenst,
Life no more with glorious surging heat with
in her grand old soul.
Stifled in that dim forever breathing of the
grave’s dead mould
As the solemn sounds of midnight sweep into
the starry skies,
Like a vast mesmeric musiasoft to the mourn
ful death hymn rise.
Death hymns of a noble people God the Father
made sublime.
Marchingin the dark procession of the spectral
shapes of Time.
Vague t ho echoes of her battles linger yet with
solemn strain,
Echoes of the battle's death shout which the
weeping left retain ;
Like a wild, sweet dreamy sadneis, like a low
an d holy ehaunt,
Comes the soft-voiced remembrance of that
might no foe could daunt,
When the sharing throbbed dccp-Uned, when
the fife and clarion rang,
When the stately souls of warriors marched
on death with out a pang.
When the cry like blasts of trumpets rushed
reverberant line .'o line.
“Strength alone by flod assisted, strength
alone will rule mankind l”
But, alas ! the people heat d not, smothered in
the stagnant fumes,
Caring not for flashing lightnings, playing
round their children's to<.nbs ;
And the victor foe swept dreadful as a blinding
fiery light,
In the broken night of nations, rushing ii.'to
endless night!
Then the moan came sempiternal, “0 the days|
that are no more!” 1
Where arc yc, 0 years transccndaat, sleeping
like forgotten lore ?
Where arc ye, 0 glorious struggles, with the
dark earth for your bier,
Gathered by the sharp bright sickle of fierce
Time, King-regnant here ’
Like a soft. majestic anthem swells the music
of that time.
Softened into deep, rich whispers, floating on
a wondrous rhyme,
Solemn a.i a mass, low rolling through the
p-lonni.
Soundinglike the strange, low weeping of the
women round a tomb,
Vast, magnificent, the melody rises in a wreath
of sound,
Mingling with the wondrous warbling? of the
stars in heatxn around :
Rapt in gorgeous sounds fine masses of that
holy music rush
From the silent, still Necropolis of the Past’s
eternal hush—
None but this—this magic trembling of the
voice when men refer
To that grand, that lofty outburst of a nation’s
noble fear
We too well the triple sisters saw descending
on our laud,
In the dark, low muttering storm-cloud? low
ering o’er the fearless band,
They nor bent, nor bowed in anguish as the
shook rolled dread and vast,
Followed by wild gleaming lightning, striking
down the first and last.
Liken mighty conflagration high th'imperial
banner streamed,
Terrible as a helmed archangel in the tempest
grand it gleamed.
As the hearts beneath it panting stormed tiie
rampart’s frowning bight,
Pushing like a deadly whirlwind fraught with
flame and blending light.
Rut no more, remembrance blackens into
storms of grid ana pain
At the mournful recollection of that nation s
hallowed slain,
Slain and sleeping like majestic starlight on
the summer sea,
With no sound to break their slumber, with
no one to watch but He!
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From the Metropolitan Record.]
CIVIL RIGHTS.
American citizens of African descent
have had their notions of personal conse
quence elevated several degrees by the ef
iorts of Mr. Sumner and other political
nuisances to place them at an advantage
before the law. It is doubtful if they know
i the exact meaning of civil rights, but they
1 talk on the subject as volubly as if they
! bad been educated for the special purpose
! of understanding it. A' correspondent in
Mississippi is responsible for the follow
I >ng
i SYNOPSIS OF A SPEECH, DELIVERED 1YV
AN EMINENT MEMBER OF T1IE l:D. C
(PARK COHERED) DEBATING CHUB,” I?
A FAR SOUTHERN CITY.
For obvious reasons, the names of par
ticular individuals and special localities an
suppressed; but it is no breach of eonfi
dcnce to whisper to the Portfolio that thi
illustrious galaxy of intellect made <;dark
ness visible” almost immediately after tin
passage of the civil rights bill, and th
subjoined blaze of illumination emanate*
from the same lips that spoke whispers of
oracular wisdom iu the “shebang.”
EAVES DllOPPER.
My distinguish feller citizens, that are
dissembled in dis place on dis presen tocea
sion, I now rise up from my seat for de
purpose of redressing you.
De sun has run his reg’lar course, and
de moon has gone on a risin an a settin
sense we las met; but I tell you, my feller
countrymen, de pass few days is brought
tremendious revulsions in dare rear. Dare
has been a up-heaviu an a down settiin,an
toe has ris tode top! Yes, gentlemen and
ladies, de cream is floatin, and all under
neath wouldn't be nothin but skim milk!
(immense applause.) As I was a makinmy
way to dis spot and pursuin dis same train
o' thought with de illustrated gentleman
at iny lef hand, I made use of de ’spression,
“toe has riz to de top!” and I lxe.crd a voice
behind us sayin: "Yes, scum always rises!”
Ef time had of allowed, and it wouldn’t
have been a lowerin of my indignity, I
would of given a reply to de insultin stran
ger. (Groans and strong lharks of indig
nation )
My feller patriots, when we las spoke
face to face wid one another, we didn’t
know whar we stood, nor vrhat wo was a
standin upon ! Wo was a seekiu after our
rights, and not knowin whar to look, nor
what they war a goin to look like when we
got a holt of’em, an onable to tell what to
do wid ’em : but 1 kin tell you all now ; an
I say to you, my friends, dat de day when
dis case was decided, should be took out
of de year and put by itself, and confisti
t-tied- to de memory of de United States
Go vernment. (Clapping of hands, mingled
with “Amen !”
We stans in “de land of de free and de
home of de brave!” and we will continue •
to put our foot down firm upon de laud of
our ancestors and defen it to dc las from
de touch o;‘ confabulation. (Tokens) of in- i
tense feeling.)
We has got “our rights” as fur as I ken j
understand, “civil rights” too, and dat is
do best of all; for it partly means dc right
to make white folks am! do other lower
classes know dcrc place, and stan back and
make win’ for dere betters, and dey say in
de paiiets dat wc has dc right of sniffer in,
too ! and accordin to de talk of our deliv
ery, dat is all we has had dtirin our mortal
lives! (Groans and exclamations.) But
now I spost it's fixed over in some way,
I for it mean) dat we is to vote side by side j
; wid de white man, of we choose to let him j
! git so close, ind walk alongside of us.
j Yes, my falow-citizens, dey say we lias ;
j de vital principle in our eternal organiza- i
; tion, and we’sdto be de head of dc Govern-1
1 , i
j meat, and ue sjtrengthenin of its Gonstitu- j
tion. We kenyote for de nex President
and Vice-President ; and I am told on dis
reputable authority dare names is to be
Fred. Douglass aid Immortal Sumner!
Our friends in Washington city dat dey
calls dc Ridiculs has been a workin and
a strivin to keep <Pse rebel States outside
of do Government nutil dey got it all dis
arranged for dc good of dis glorious dis
syllable Union ! and dey is got dc victory!
(Shouts of hooray! Ind glory!)
Mr„ * I „..L‘ .1 • . _1
j i i v. uv uu » mv/ vui V/ yji 11 j , wuu
deu my fellow-citizeqB, when wo clecks a
mayor of de proper etUor, and has de board
ofselcckmen—half aid half-—(lor we kin
afford to give de whiU man some chance)
—when we gets things settled about de
courts and justices ol'de peace, and lets
’em sec dat de free mar of color is not to
| be excused of such low deeds as pilferin
: and etealin and murdeiin ; when wo has
our proper places in de ciurchcs, and con
! certs, and theatres; when a American cit
: izen of African ’scent is appointed super
I intendence of do public Schools, and we
i sees our blessed offspring r figgeriu away
at do black boards, wid de chalk a whiten
in ofdere fingers, den de ntfious of de erf
kin see without any spectacles do use of
de President’s voter in a Tree country,
whar a man’s above all laws, and every
body has a constitootion of lijs own, and
| kin do what he pleases with it.
My feller-citizens, I stan on dis plat
j form of unequal rights, and before we
i leave dis desecrated place, 1 ask you to jine
. | in de chorus—
, ■ “My country, 'tisoffiiee,
Sweet land of liberty*—
. | Of thee I sing.”
-A sentimental chap intends to petition
Congress for a grant to improve the channel
' of affection, so that henceforth tho course oi
! true love can run smooth.
THE PRlS$U\ IVEEULE-GIIM,
A London correspondent gives the follow
ing description of the destructive weapon
now in use in the Prussian army:
Our civil war lias left Americans not
much to learn about breech-loading small
arms: in fact, in some of the newspaper
disquisitions on the subject, it is suggested
that our weapons are as far superior to the
Prussian rund-nadelgewehr as is that to
the muzzle loaders—the Cochrane patent
(j ust. imported here) and the Spencer seven
shooter being especially mentioned. But
as a matter of. curiosity, you will like to
know what this needle-gun is, and as I had
the chance to inspect a sample in the Studio
of an artist-friend, here is my report: It
is riot half the size, and not a third of the
weight of the Enfield rifle. It has little or
no stock, a small rifled bore, and, altogeth
er looks something like an air-gun, Its
peculiarities arc its breech-loading appar
atus and its needle. The cartridges are
primed in the making and fit tightly to the
chamber, and the needles explodes without
a percussion cap. As a breechloader it
loads rapidly, as a ncedlc-gun it shoots rap
idly, and as a “shooting-iron” pure and
simple, it is light enough to be handled
like a toy by the soldier There never was
a sharper rebuke to official stupidity
throughout Europe than the homicidal
success of this weapon, which has been for
years known to the continent only to bo
reported against by professional “big wigs’1
in England, France aud Russia. The
secret of the invention is, like efficiency in
other matters, a leturn to first principles
—the ignoring of all complication, which
commonly gets out of gear, but is especial
ly beloved by circumlocutional-)' dundcr
heads all the world over. Its Prussian
patron, the Baron Manleuffol, who, about
20 years back, placed it in the hands of his
soldiers, was content that the gun should be
a gun. and nothing else, and did not ask il
to do anything but shoot, and shoot well
Jiascwncrc me Dig wigs wamcu ir. u.
servo as a club or a pike, carrying such a
stock as should fit it for the first or a bay
onet for the second, ignoring the obvious
fact that what it gained in one respect it
lost in the other. It never occurred to
them that, if the needle, gun were so sure,
so light and so rapid as to kill oil'most of the
enemy at the beginning of the battle, there
would be no necessity for “bayonet and
butt’’ practice. And this was just what
occurred iu the late Bohemian battles.
According to Bonedek's orders, the Aus
trians fired and charged; but when they
got within 150 yards of the Prussians they
encountered such a ghastly return volley
as to stretch them in wiurows upon the
ground, like wheat after the passing of
the reaping machine. The Prussians,
confident of their weapon, stood in three
ranks the first kneeling, taking aim, and
firing their iivo or six shots a minute—some
say eight—until uothinghuman couldstnnd
before it. Finally, to dismiss the needle
gun for the tinio being, British offieialty b
greatly moved at these awful accounts of
it, and has ordered 20,000 of tho formida
ble breech-loaders for the English army.
They are to be delivered ‘shortly,’’ and
nrnJviVilv hn fortlienniina- ilist, before it shall
X 1 y 1 ~
be discovered that we have somethin"
infinitely better.
Austrian Gains by the Evacuation ol
the Quadrilateral.
The Paris Steele of July 10 makes the
subjoined estimate of what Austria wil
gain in men and stores by evacuating tht
Quadrilateral: “Mantua will render 20,
000 men disposable and 150 guns; Vero
na, 40,000 and 300; l’eschiera, 10,00(
anil 50; and Legnago, 25,000 and 50.
“Tho entrenched camps, forts, anc
! stock-houses, the garrisons of Malgheta
| Alberoni, St. Andre, St. Pierre, Albano
| and Monteeinc, with the towns of Vicenza
: Treviso, and Rovigo, will also furnish it
rarmy in the field—infantry, cavaliy, wage:
j train, military stores, guns, etc; in all on
j hundred and fifty thousand men. A1
■ those living and material forces will pro
1 cccd toward Olmutz.
“The Emperor Francis Joseph give
i them to Moravia; he sends also the Arch
! duke Albert, who used them on the Min
I cio, to show at Olmutz how they should b
employed.”
-A correspondent writes that, if wedesir
: it, be will send us something to fill up with
That's just wbat we want. Suppose you com
I mence now with a good roasting piece of bco
and o barrel of Hour.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,
-A man oaught iu railroad collision
remarked that presence of mind was good, but
absence of body was better.
-“Mr. Brown, I owe you a grudge, re
member that.”
“I shall not bo frightened then, for I never
knew you to pay anything you owed."
-Why is a young lady just from boarding
school like a building committee?
Because she is prepared toreceive proposals.
-Must it not be very romantic to bo on
your knees before <1 lovely one of Love’s lonely
daughters, heaving ttp ft torrent of sweet words
between horglowing, parted lips, raising roses
on her cheeks by the aero, bringing tears of
humid pleasure to her eyes, at the identical
moment when she is going to swoon away in
your arptB. to hear her anxious mother cry,
“You, Sally, have you fed the pigs."
I -“Honest industry has brought that man
i (0 the scaffold.” said a wag, as he saw a carpen*
i ter at work on a staging
| —-An Indian out west remarked upon
seeing a lady with a dress arranged over an
empress trail. “Ugh, much Wigwatnl”
-The question, docs getting drunk ad
vance one's happiness, would seem to bo put
to rest by the Irshman who went courting
while drunk, and was asked what pleasuroho
found in whiskey. “Oh, N'elly, it's a trate
fhtirely, to seo t wo of yourswate purty faces
instead of one!"
-The friends of a celebrate^ wit express*
ed some surprise that at his age, and with his
fondness ol'the bottle, he should have thought
it nCCessary to marry. “A Wife was necessary’’
he said; “my acquaintances began to say that
L drank too much for a single man."
-A Thoughtful father was promenading a
fashonabic street With a bright little boy by
his side when the little fellow cried out.
■Oli pa, there goes an editor!'
‘Ilusb, liush!' said the father, 'don't make
sport of the poor man—who knows what you
may coma to yot ’
——Go on.—“will you take this woman to
j be your wife?" ' «
“Well, squire,” was the reply, “votl must bo
| a green un to ax me such a question as that,
i Do you think I’d be such a plaguy fool as to go
j to the bar hunt and take tins gal to the quit*
j ting frolic, if I wnrn't censcriptuously sartin
; and determined to have her. Drivo on with
i your business.”
THE OiHI. I> THE TJETINCI SKIKT,
I saw her in the street Car;
j I never saw her moro,
.She didn’t scent to rare a cuss
if I sat oh the floor;
For with one look she lifted tdO—
My place she occupied;
Then spread her skirts o’er two or tbreo
More seats on either aide
Another look—1 passed her faro
And passed her back the change;
She took it from my hand. I swear,
As if I had the mange.
She looked—“Just ring that bell, I say!”
Could 1 that look refuse?
She calmly rose and picked her way
Among tho boots and shoes.
I watched till she the corner turned,
And then, with some chagrin,
Swore to myself, “May 1 be darned
If 1 do that again,”
A hard shell preacher wound up a
flaming sermon with this maguifiiccnt ef
fusion :
“My brethren and sistern ef a man’s full
of religion you can’t hurt him. There woro
■ fhrno Affriean children! Thev .nut them in a
! fiery furnace, heated seven times hotter than
I it could bo hct, and didn't swinge a hair on
j thir heads. And there was John Evanglot^
j they put him—where do you think they put
' him 1 They put him in a caldron of bilin ile,
, and bilod him all night, ana didn’t fazo his
Isbell. And then there was Daniel; they'put
'1 him into a lion’s den—and what, my feiiow
| travelers and respected authorities, do you
t think he was put into a lion’s den for ? For
prayin’ three times a day. Don’t be alarmed,
brethren and sistorn; I don’t think any of
you will ever get into a liou’s don.”
lP3l„The finest thing George D. Prentice
ever wrote is this inimitable passago:
••It cannot be that earth is man's only abi
ding place. It cannot be that our life is a
bubble oast up by the ocean of eternity, to
i float a moment upon its waves, and sink into
r nothingness. Else why is it the high and glo
rious aspirations which leap like angels from
( the temple of our hearts, ure forever wander
ing unsatisfied? Why is it that the rainbow
and the cloud come over us with «, beauty that
is not of earth, and then pass olf and leave us
1 j to muse on their faded loveliness? Why is it
- j that the stars which “bold their festival around
the midnight throne,” are set above the grasp
of our limited faculties; forever mocking us
with thoir unapproachable glory! And fin ally,
why is it that bright forms of human beauty
are presented to our view and taken from us;
- leaving the thousand streams of our affoctions
to flow back in an Alpine torrent upon our
hearts?—We are born for a higher destiny
t than that of earth. There is a realm where the
. rainbow never fades; where the stars will be
- spread out before us like the ocean, and where
f the beautiful beings which pass before u* like
shadows will - lay in nur presence forev«r.