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A GRAND OLD POEM.
Who shall judge a man from manners?
Who shall know him by his dress?
Paupers may be fit. for princes,
Princes fit for something less.
Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket,
May beclothe the golden ore
Of the deepest thoughts and feeling—
Satin vests could do no more.
There arc springs of crystal nectar
Ever welling out of stone,
There arc purple buds and golden
Hidden, crushed, and overgrown ;
God who counts by souls not dresses,
Loves and prospers you and me,
While he values thrones the highest,
But as pebbles iu the sea.
| Man, upraised above his fellows,
Oft forgets his fellows then ;
Masters, rulers, lords, remember
That your meanest hinds are men ;
Mon by labor, men by feeling,
Men by thought, men by fame,
Claiming equal rights to sunshine,
In a man’s ennobling name.
There are foam-embroidered oceans
There arc little weed-clad rills ;
There are feeble, inch-high saplings,
There are cedars on the hills
God, who counts by souls, not stations,
Loves and prospers you and me ;
For, to Him, all vain distinctions
Are as pebbles in the sea.
Toiling hands alone arc builders
Of a nation’s wealth or fame ;
Titled laziness is pensioned,
Fed and fattened on the same; ■
By the sweat of others’ forheads,
Living only to rejoice,
While the poor man's outraged freedom
Vainly lifted up its voice.
Truth and justice are eternal,
Born with loveliness and light,
Secret wrongs shall never prosper
While there is a sunny right;
God, whose world-heard voice is singing
Boundless love to you and me,
Sinks oppression with its titles,
As the pebbles iu the sea.
THE CONDITION OF EUROPE.
The following just and able view ofEuro
peon affairs—we takefroma late number of
the Hamilton C. W. Spectator—it is of
unusual interest, being from an interested
stand-point:
Europe is at this moment trembling up
on the brink ot a destructive war, which
if once commenced will not only occasion a
terrible amount of individual suffering but
will also effect a mighty change among the
dynasties of that continent before it is
brought to a conclusion. Great Britain,
France and Russia arc labouring, the for
mer assiduously, to bring about an Inter
national Conference, and the “Scotia”
brings the intelligence that all the inter
ested parties have consented to participate
therein. Still there is great fear that the
conference will fail to achieve any good
results, that hostilites will only be deferred
for a few days, and that no peaceful solu
tion exists for the numerous intricate ques
tions which for some time past have been
agitating the nations of Europe, to a greater
or less degree, and now seem to have all
come up*for settlement at one and the same
time. In Europe to day
“Loan look’d prophets whisper fearful change,
lvich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap,
The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,
The other to enjoy by rage and war.”
Still there is much to be hoped from the
strong disposition of a large portion of the
people of Europe for peace. Prussia, ag
gressive and determined for war as she ap
pears, is in reality favourable to peace.
M. Bismarkand the 7v ing together perhaps
with a portion of the army would like to
sec war, partly because they hope by aggres
sive measures to carry out their ambitious
designs upon Austria, and also because
they are desirous of turning the minds ol
! the Prussian people from their own down
1 trodden condition. The people of Prussia
| themselves are for the most part opposed
to war, though probably like other nations
if they found themselves once engaged in
active hostilities, they would do all they
could to bring it to a successful issue
: National pride would no doubt induce then
! to do so. The Austrian government and
; people on the other hand do not scruple
I to admit that they are anxious to preserve
! peace if possible, and to avoid war in every
honorable way. It Austria goes to war i
will be solely with a view of defending he
own soil from invasion. Italy is in reality
the only nation which is practically unani
mously in favor of war, yet it is question
able whether the government itself woiih
;f not be glad to withdraw from the positioi
■which it has assumed, if it dared. The
people however are more than ever bent
on striking a blow for Venctia, and it will
be a difficult matter to hold the Italian
Volunteers in hand even during the sitting
of the Congress. Several thousand of
them have already passed to the frontier.
Great Britain is of course desirous of pre
serving peace Russia is not likely to de
rive any advantage from a war which would
in all probability afford an opportunity for
all the revolutionary elements upon the
Continent to awaken to renewed life. Nor
is the present position of Napoleon so abun
dantly secure as to enable him to view with
equanimity the breaking out of such a
convulsive war as a general European
struggle would now necessarily be. He
knows that if these millions of armed men
who arc now standing front to 'front, onee
meet in hostile combat, thrones will be
overturned, and the map of Europe remo
deled in a manner which it is impossible
to foresee. The Magyar and the Pole
would not be the only revolutionists who
would seize upon the golden opportunity.
The Orleanists and the Red Republican
would also be upon the qui vivc and ready
to strike a blow if occasion offered.
We rejoice to see the government and
the people of Great Britain—while ready
to intervene as far as possible to bring
about a peaceful solution of existing diffi
culties—are determined to avoid all inter
meddling in the war, should .it come.
The position of Great Britain is now very
different to what it was at the commence
ment of the century. She has shaken her
self free from German complications; and
with the exception of Gibraltar, Malta and
Heligoland, has no stake in Europe save
such as her commercial relations with the
continent create. She is in fact more con
cerned in the affairs of the East, in the
keeping open of the road between her
Eastern and Western Empires than in the
affairs of Austria or of Prussia. It makes
no difference to her whether Francis Jo
seph or Victor Emmanuel rule over Vene
tia, so long as the highroad to India is kept
open and her maritime power enables her
to keep up communication with British
America and the other out-lying portions
of her immense Empire. Especially at
the present time, when the people of the
United States are exhibiting so much lies
tility to us, we rejoice that Great Britain is
, . . i _~ll
UtJlci HI1I1UU tu inuiu ao iui uo
intermeddling in the continental war
should it come.
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Farliculiirs of the First Engagement.
Hamburg Cor. London News, June 19.]
The first blood has been shed in this
unrighteous and unnatural civil war. On
Sunday evening a corps of eight hundred
Prussians were embarked at Ilarburg on
board the iron-clad frigate Arminics and
one of the river passenger steamers, and
arrived off Brunshauscn at 3 o’clock yes
terday morning, where they immediately
landed, and after spiking the thirteen guns
found in the fort, and destroying the
earthworks forming the approaches, march
ed along the dykes to Stade, formerly a
fortress of considerable importance, but
nowin a very dilapidated condition. The
greater part of the heavy guns and other
material of the artillery had been withdrawn
and sent into the interior of the country,
so that there remained but a small garrison
of only three hundred men, who were cer
tainly not in a position to resist a siege or
offer much opposition to a superior force.
Still they showed fight, and prepared tc
defend themselves when summoned to sur
render ; but the Prussians immediately fired
a volley into them, killing and wounding
a few Hanoverians, when the commandant,
perceiving the uselessness of further oppos
ition, capitulated, and the Prussians took
possession of the garrison, who, liowevor
after being disarmed, were allowed to pro
ceed to their respective homes, previously
being obliged to give their parole not t(
fight against the Prussians during the rest
of this unhappy war. Prussian accounts
of this transaction exult at the quantity o
military stores that have thus fallen int(
their hands, which is, however, denied by
the Hanoverians.
_What is the difference between accept
ed and rejected lovers? The accepted kiss thi
misses, and the rejected miss the kisses,
t _If one pine tree can make pitch, hov
many wiilmake a pitcher? If one twinge o
pain make an aehe, how many will make as
" acre? jLnd if it take four men two days t
I eat a ham, how long will it take them to eat :
1 ham-er?
The Minister who Whipped his
Child to Death.
We gave the other day a short account
of a child being whipped to death by its
father, in New York State. The Roches
ter Union of the 22d inst gives some addi
tional particulars of the horriblo affair
It says:
“The account of the whipping to death
of a child three years old by its father, a
clergyman, because it would not say its
prayers, near Medina, published yesterday,
awakened the greatest indignation of our
citizens against the inhuman father. The
report was hardly credited, so unnatural
and monstrous was the crime committed.
We blush to say it, but the most sickening
and dreadful part of unparalleled horror
was not published. Lindley’s (that’s the
minister’s name) statement before the cor
oner’s jury, given yesterday, was corrobo
rated by other witnesses before the jury.
The body of the child told more plainly
and pathetically than words of the terrible
punishment it had undergone. Several
fingers were broken and blood had oozed
from every pore. To conceal the crime
the father had tied the little one’s hands
behind its back and placed it in its coffin.
While the physicians were making a post
mortem examination of the body, he sat
by, cooly looking at the proceedings. Af
ter a while ho spoke and asked if they had
not carried ‘this thing about far enough.’
The physicians discovered no disease about
the child- —it died solely from excessive and
cruel punishment. The little one would
have been three years old next August—
whipped to death because it would not say
its prayers. We are told that Lindsley
justified his work. He thinks it was his
duty to punish the child until his will was
broken, and he obeyed. Lindsley was ar
rested yesterday and committed to jail in
Albion. It was with the utmost difficulty
that the officers who had him in charge
could keep the citizens of Medina aud
neighborhood from lynching the murderer
on the spot. Lindsley is a man about five
feet eight inches in hight, well proportion
ed, has black whiskers and dark complex
ion. He has the appearance of a man of
violent temper. The murder is the all
absorbing topic of Orleans county —[Av
alanche.
A Western Editor’s Experience.
Never will we forget the time we met
our sweet Kitty in the center of a vast
wilderness of briars in the old Duekeyc
State. Her eyes were as black as the
berries in her basket, and as brilliant as
those of the cat-bird chattering over her
head; her lips were ruby red, her cheeks
lily white, except a broad streak of purple
fruit stain, reaching from ear to ear.
Heavens! didn’t she look lovely ? Our
own basket was full and we volunteered
our assistance to fill that carried by her.
Often, while plucking the melting fruit
from some glorious cluster, her curls—Kit
ty had curls glossy and golden—-"her curls
brushed our cheeks, we thought, very of
ten, but it seemed somehow accidental.
Somehow, too, we were always at work
upon the same clusters, and Kitty’s lips
were very close to ours when she turned
to speak. At last Kitty's lips pouted, Kit
ty’s eyes flashed and she almost succeeded
in coaxing into her smooth white brow one
or two indignant wrinkles.
“Don’t you think,” said she, “that the
other day when I was out here all alone,
just as we arc, with Ned Jones, the naugh
ty fellow up and kissed me!” We didn’t
like Ned, and we were very ready to say
that he was naughty. ‘ He just caught
me this way,” and her lips almost touched
ours, and we felt a violent thumping in the
region of our heart, but she didn’t quite
do it, and the peril was soon over.
We felt all over that we were on the
verge of being just as naughty as Ned, yet
our bashfulness saved us. Still pouting,
and we thought worse than ever, she
placed both her hands on our slioulder,
and turning her sweet face towards ours
• said :
“You are a dear good boy; you ain’t
. going to be naughty, like Ned was!"’
Heavens! how our heart fluttered. We
seemed losing our breath ; and a moment
after ATitty was saying:
“You are a very, very naughty boy !”
_Love is as necessary to woman’s heart
f as a fashionable bonnet to her head. Indeed,
i we think rather more so, for nothing less than
, ] a largo measure of love' will content her;
i ‘ whereas, the recent fashion has shown that
| the can be satisfied with a very little bonnet.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
-A horticulturist advertised that ho
would supply all sorts of fruittrees and plants,
especially pie-plants of all kinds. A gentle
man thereupon sent him an order for one
package of custard-pie seed, and a dozen
mince-pic plants. The gentleman promptly
filled the order by sending him four goose eggs
and a small dog.
—-E. A. Pollard writes that he finished
the last sheet of “The Lost Cause” on the
night of June 30. He says; “Within twelve
months I have written more than threo thou
sand pages of manuscript, examined aij aver
age of at least two hundred references in dif
ferent. portions of the narrative, and analyzed!
and annotated some four or fivo hundred let
ters from Confederate Generals and politicians.
1 believe that I hare composed a work that
will live and be a possession forever for my
countrymen.”
-Prof Benjamin S. Ewell writes a com
munication to an Augusta, Georgia, paper de
nying a charge in Dr. Craven’s book against
Joe Johnston. He says: “The only approach
to an order for General Johnston to attack
General Grant’s besieging army at Vicksburg,
was given in a telegram from the Secrotary of
War, and this was modified, and virtually re
voked, by a second telegraphic communica
tion, received the same day. The gentleman
who was at the time Secretary of War of the
Confederate StateB had too much wisdom and
practical senso to give a positive order to Gen
eral Johnston to attack with his army of about
23,000.
Who is Old —A wise man will never rust
out. As long as he can move aud breathe, he
will do something for himself, for his neigh
bor or for his posterity. Almost to the last
hour of his life, Wellington was at work. So
were Newton, Bacon, Milton, and Franklin.
The vigor of their lives never decayed. No'
rust marred their spirits. It is a frolish idea
to suppose that we must lie down because wo
are old. Who isold? Not the man of energy ;
not the day-laborer ii» science, art or benovo
lence; but he only who suffers his energies to
waste time, and the spring of life to become
motionless, on whose hands tho hours drag
heavily.
A Rational Vkiiuict.—A genius out West,
conceiving that a little powder thrown upon,
some green wood would facilitate its burning,
directed a small stream from a keg upon the
pile. Not possessing a hand sufficiently quick
to cut of at a desirable moment , he was blown
into a million pieces. The coronor reasoned
out this verdict: “It can’t be called suicide,
because he didn’t mean to kill himself; ft
wasn’t ‘visitation of God,’ because he wasn’t
struck by lightning; he didn't dio for want of
Kvnof li far tin litlfln’I iltivlliiruv laft tn KwnaitiA
with. It’s plain he didn’t know what he was
about; so 1 shall bring in, ‘Died for want of
common sense.’ ”
“Who Made You?”—One of the ladies con
nected with the Methodist Five Points Mis
sion, who has under her charge some thirty
little boys, called them together on the morn
ing of Christmas to perfect them in the an
swers to questions she intended to put tothem
before the visitors in the afternoon. After
arranging them properly, the first boy on the
right, in answer to the question, “Who made
you?” was to say, “God.” The nest, “Of
what were you made?” to reply, “The dust of
the earth.” and so on through the catechism.
The all-important moment having arrived, tho
little “shavers” were told to stand up. Tho
little head boy, it seems >ras missing, but tho
fact being unnoticed by the teacher, she pro
ceeded with the question, “Who made you’”
which elicited the following laughable answer:
“I was made of the dust of the ’ert, but the
little fellow what God made has got the belly
ache and gone home.”
A Human Fiend.—Isaac Chans, a negro
from Ohio, endeavored to csoape from the
Libby prison, Richmond, on Monday, but was
fortunately frustrated. The Times thus gives
his history:
This negro is from Ohio. During the year
1808 ho enlisted in Sherman’s army and was
with him in his march from Atlanta to Colum
bia, South Carolina, where he says he found
one hundred thousand dollars. After the
burning of Columbia he was transferred to
East Tennossoe, and was with Gen, Burbridge
in his attack on the Virginia Salt Works. .
Here he was captured by the Confederate for
ces and carried to Lynchburg, where he was
sold to a farmer named Giles, living in Rock
bridge county, and lived there until the 6th of
October, 1865. On that day Mr. Giles said
something to the negro which so enraged him
that he struck Mr. G. on the head with a stave,
killing him instantly. The negro next went
to the house, took all the valuables he could
find, and then set fire to it, burning up the
wife of Mr, Giles, who was in an upper room
asleep. He was arrested a few days after,
tried before a military commission and sen
tenced to be hung on the 5th of Moy. He was
brought to this city and confined in the Libby, .
and every preparation made for his execution,
but, he being a “ward of the nation,” a re
prieve was granted him. He is still in close
confinement, and we hope soon to have the
pleasure of recording a hanging in which he
will be deeply interested. He admits having
killed the man, but denies firing the house, or
in any way being concerned in the death of
the lady.
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