THE _DANBURY REPORTER;
VOLUME IV.
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TIIE SOUTHERN SOLDIER BOY.
BY FATIIKR RYAN.
Young as the youngest who donned the gray,
True as the truest that wore It—^
Brave as the bravest, he marched away,
(Hot tears on the checks of his mother lay,)
Triumphant waved our flag one day,
He fell in the front before It.
Firm as the firmest, where duty led.
He hurried without a falter;
Bold as the boldest, he fought and bled,
And the day was won—but the field was red,
And the blood of his fresh young hea.t
Was shed on his country's hallowed altar.
On the trampled breast of the battle plain,
Wrere the foremost ranks had wrcs tied,
On his pale, pure face, not n mark of pain,
(His mother dreams they will meet again),
The fairest form, amid all tho slain,
Like a child asleep—he nestled,
In the solemn shades of the woods that swept
The fields where bis comrades found him,
They buried him there—and hot tears crept
Into strong men's eyes that had seldom wept,
(His mother— pity her—smiled and slept,
Dreaming her eyes were around him).
A grave in the woods with the grass o'ergrown,
A grave ia the heart of his mother—
His clay in the one lies lifeless and lone ;
There is not a name, (here is not a stone—
And only the voice of the wind maketh moan
O'er the grave where never a flower is strown,
But his memory lives in the other.
An ex-Major of St. Louis asked his
wife to aigo a conveyance of some prop
erty that he desired to sell, and she
surprised and euraged Liiu by refusing
He swore that, unless she complied, he
would never speak to her again, and
she was still obdurate. That was sixteen
years ago, and although tbey had been a
loyiug couple, aud have since lived iu
the same house, they have neyer ex
changed a word directly. They roomed
upart, but sat at the same table, and
were never guilty of any disrespect
toward each other, save that of silenoe.
When circumstances made communica
tion between tbem absolutely necessary,
they respectively addressed their daugh
ter, and she spoke for both. Their
questions, so put, were always framed in
the third person. The daughter died a
few days ago, bat tho parents are said to*
still deoline to become reconciled.
The Chinese in California may now
learn that, should they find living under
the new Constitution disagreeable, tbey
will receive a weloome in the Frenoh
colonics in Asia and Polynesia The
Preuob Governor of Saigon has written
to the Governor of New Caledonia to
the following effect: "The Chinese
have been and are still of great service
to us ; tbey are abstemious, strong, intel
ligent, and laborious. We find them as
a rule good workmon and mechanics,
while as traders thoy are active and skil
ful." In the Phillipine Islands, which
are uuder the domioion of Spain, the
Chinese, on the oontrary, are detested,
and the harshest and most proscriptive
measures have been used to remove
tbem.
JAY GOULD'S GENEROSITY.—The rav
ages of the yellow fever continue to an
alarming extent, and an earnest appeal
for aid has been made. Jay Gould, of
New York telegraphs to J. W Smith,
aoting President of the Howard Associa
tion, Memphis, as follows : "I send you
by telegraph five thousand dollars to aid
the Howard Association. lam certain
the generous people throughout the coun
try will contribute liberally to aid your
stricken oity. At any rate keep on at
your noble work till I tell you to stop,
and I will foot tho bill. What are your
daily expenses ? Answor."
SOMETHING WOBTH KNOWING.—Every
liltle while we read of someone who has
stuok a rusty nail in his foot or some
other part of hit person ; and lockjaw
has resulted therefrom. All suoh wounds
ean be healed without auy fatal conse
quences following tbem. The remedy is
simple. It is only necessary to smoke
such wounds, or any wound or bruise
that Ii inflamed, with burning wool or
woolen cloth. Twenty minutes in the
smoke will take the pain out of the worst
oase of inflammation arising from any
wound we ever saw.
The only oare for indolenoo is work ;
the only care for selfishness is saorifice;
tho only cure for unbelief is to shake off
the ague of doubt by doing Christ's bid
dings ; the only oure for timidity is to
plunge into some dreaded duty before
the onill comes on.
The bod of tho river along tho front
of New Orleans is being covered with
thiok mats of oane, strongly wired togeth
er, and weighted with bags of sand.
The object is to protect the shore from
being washed out by varying currents.
HOLY LAND MEMORIES.
THE CLIMATE OP THE REGION ONCE
STYLED CAN AN A, PALESTINE AND JUDAH.
The oostumes of the Orientals resom
hie the fashions oi the most distant times.
Customs of dress are as settled there as ;
tho eteruol hills—tbey nevor ohange.
The girdle of Juduh and of Paul, the
sandals of the Gibeonites and of the
Apostles, the mantle of Elijah and of
Johu, the turban of Daniel, the oloak of
St. Paul, the seamless robe of Jesus,
may all bo seen in an hour'B observation,
any day, in the stroot3 of Jerusalem and
Damascus, and these are BO many wit
nesses of tho unparulleled accuracy of
the Holy Writings.
The climate of the region once styled
Canaan, Pulestine and J udah, sufficiently
confirms the allusion of Holy Writ-
When the Sooth wind blows there is
heat; when tho clouds arise there is
rain. The year is divided into seasons
by the early and latter rain, and any
marked deficiency in the rainfalls, ac
companied with famine, sickness and
death.
The diseases that afflict tho Orientals
are of the same type as those that exis
ted in Bible days, and they, too, bear
witness of the astonishing exactness of
the text. Around the sea of Galilee
fever abounds, ruch as proved fatal to
the littlo daughter of Jarius, and
threatened the life of the mother-in-law
of Peter.
At Bethany sudden and fatal diseases
are experienced like that which brought
mourning to the family "that Jesus
loved." Sunstroke is common in the
plain where Shunem is situated, as when
the son of the Shueemmite woman was
prostrated by its influence. Leprosy, in
its isolated loathsomeness, prevails at J( p
pa, Jerusalem and Nablous, as when
Moses made it a type of moral sin, and
Jesus oured it as an evidence of his
omnipotence. Blindness is fearfully trfe
quent, and the blind still sit by tfc#
wayside begging, clamoring for aid, as
in the pitable ory of blind Bartimeus,
that touched the pitying heart of our
Lord.
The domestic life of the inhabitants
of Palestine, BO vividly piotured on the
stored pages, has remained substantially
Ihe same for oenturios, and so bears its
part in Bible tostimony. In the sultry
hours, the people still sit under their
vine and fig tree, and sleep at night in
booths upon the housetops. Tho bread
of the people is that "daily bread," for
which Jesus taught us to pray It is
seen in the thin, small loaves, five mak
ing a modest meal, baked daily and
eaten fresh. New wino is poured into
new bottles (of leather), so that both
can be preserved Guests at a feast re
cline at the table while eating, as at the
last Supper. The sound of the grind
ing is still heard at the early dawn in
every dwelling; the mill stones are
small, and handled only by women, as in
olden time. The salt used is of that
sort (fossil salt) which early loses its
savor, aud is thenceforth "fit for nothing
but to be cast out and trodden under
the foot of men." The virgins still go
forth with lighted lamps, to meet the
bridegroom, singing the same epithala
miutn that was sung when Sarah was
espoused by Abraham ; and the dead at
the funeral is still carried upon a bier
withoiit a coffin, amid the death song of
the bearers and the Bhrieks of the
mourning women.
The husbandmen of Palestine wield
the tools of their oalling, and practioe
the primitive forms of agriculture to
which so many references are made in
the Soriptures. Traveling there, you
shall see Cain a tillor of the soil, and
Elisha plowing with oxen. When the
ravages of war are intermitted, and
poaoe changes the sword into the plow
share, the ground is made to yield in
historic abuodanoe. Then the moun
tains drop down their sweet wine, as in
the poetical figure of Joel, and the hills
flow with milk. The olive tree "sucks
its oil from flinty rocks." and the honoy
bee stores her lucioue treasures in the
hollow rock. Then the glowing words
of Josephuß are literally fulGllod ; (hen j
the descriptions of Mo9es are verified,
where he describes the Promisod Land
as a "land of wheat and barley and
viues and fig trees, pouiograooH'fl, » land
ot olivo oil and honey, a Uod in which
the inhabitants cat bread without scarce-
ness," for there is no laok of anything
ib it. The sower going forth to sow,
still scatters a portion of his seed among
the thorns, a portion among the rooks,
and a portion by the way-side, where
the fowls of the air gather it up; and
stll that which falls in good ground
brings forth some thirty, some sixty,
some an hundred fold.
Tho geography of the Holy Land is
a solemn witness that He who created
the oonntry created the book. The trav
eler will feel that he is standing upon
"the old ways," even tho ways of God
>Tho sacred places are there just where
must be to conform tho verity of
holy narration. There is Bethle
hem, you ean almost fancy you follow
the Star from the East that lead to it,
the birthplace of Jrsus There art
Bethany and Bethel, Jerioo and Jorusa'
lem, Shiloh and Thechcm and Samaria,
Nain and Nazareth, Tiberius aud Caper
naum. Looking more critically we see
Gethiemane, where Jesus was betrayed (
and Akoldcma, which was bought with
the waies of that betrayal, and the
fountains of Siloam and Gihoa. All
memorable localities are reoognizable,
and they affeot the traveler's mind like
the well-remembered features upon the
oountenance of a beloved one. The
fountains are there that once slaked the
thirst of prophets, priests and kings:
that of Elisha near Jerioo, that of David
near Hebron, that of Joab near Gibeah,
and the wells, near Bethlehem and
many others of which the traveler re
joices to drink and goes away blessing
God. The mountains, sterile and awful
in their sublimity, rise up as mountains
of God's power. Nebo, when* Moses
gathered his last view before asoending
the oelestial bills; Ilermon, glittering
with her diadem of unmelted snows;
Carmel, lying westward over the broad,
blue sea ; Tabor, Gilboa, Ebel, Gerizem
—glorious summits that afforded proph
| eta their best images of God's majesty—
. all are there, faithful to their trust,
| sp«*kiog witnesses to Bible truth, as
} they will be to the end of time.
. Aoting President of United States.
At the present writing William K.
1 Rogers is de facto President of the
' United States. He occupies the White
House, the mansion occupied by Presi
dents from Adams down to Grant, and
conducts tho executive business necessa
ry to the administration of the affairs of
nearly fifty million peop'e.
The Fraudulent Administration has
dispersed itself to the four oorners of
the continent. Mr. Hayes, accompanied
by Mr. Devens, is in Ohio. Mr. Evarts
is, or was at last accounts, in the British
Provinces, astonishing the Lornes with
the exuberance of his rhetorio. Schurz's
wanderings have taken bim into the far
Northwest, and his exact whereabouts
are unknown, except, perhaps, to some
hostile Indian chief who holds him cap
tive in the delusivo hope of obtaiaing a
ransom from the Republican party. Mr
Richard W. Thompson is in Indiana,
whence ho writes that that State is safe
to go Republican in 1830. Mr. Key is
inspecting post offices. McCrary's last
utterances came from the bowlca of the
earth in the Schuylkill coal regions of
Pennsylvania. The only member of
Mr. Hayes' Cabinet now in Washington
is John Sherman, who is too busy with
affairs that closely coocern himself to
give muoh attention to the publio
business.
Under these oircumstanoes William
K. Rogers beoomes a person of national
importanoe. He is an ex-clergyman, and
was at one time the,partner of Le Duo
in the commission business—a business
whioh resulted disastrously to the credi
tors of the ooneorn. As a publio man
be is best known by the oelebrated letter
which he addressed to tbo aotress, Miss
Boyle, accompanying a basket of out
lowers from the greenhouse for whioh
lie taxpayors of the United States pay
nany thousand dollars every year.
1 The remarkable thing about William
K. Rogors in his new and responsible
positUn is, that his title to occupy the
j Executive Mansion aud act as President
j of the lluited States is quite as good in
, evory rfepoct as Rutherford B. Hayes's.
— M. KSun.
Ihe eou Qr wro t oj 'Womeu's Wills,'
but the fc new better, and
put it' Woman's » Poor follow 1 I
ho bad been the viotiin oi v,,.), e3
Westorn North Carolina-The Switz
erland of Amerioa.
The points of beauty are almost num
ber!' SB. One might spend a dozen sum
mers exploriug the country, aud still in
tho thirteenth find new and beautiful
views, superior in some respeots and in
ferior in others to thoso whioh he had
seen before. Every lofty hill top affords
a view of the Roan chain and different
modifications of the interior mountains
arid the Blue Ridgo. Every branch
affords picturesque scenery. When
there are only a few views they can
be exhausted ij> a few summers, but
when the vieWß aro unlimited in number
tfcc visitor ii tempted to return again and
again. No lover of grand scenery pro
, bably leaves Western North Carolina
without a determination to return and
see the places of which he has heard,
but which ho has not seeo.
There is again a much greater varioty
than is customary iu our Apalachian
chain. The tops of the mountains yield
the best tobacoo, and the first crop will
more than pay for the land, the fences
aud the tobacco barns ; BO that the uni
versal woods are cleared away in spots
and the summits are diversified. The
geological formation is old aud uniform,
but there is, nevertheless, more variety
of shapes than elsewhere. Our Ameri
can mountains haye too frequently the
long, level tops of tho Sootoh moors, the
ohief difference being that while tbey
are oovered with marshes, ours are cov
ered with low woods. In North Caro
lina the growth is larger ond bolder.
A third recommendation is tho hospi- 1
tality of tho people, and their willingness
to inoommode themselves for the sake of
their visitors, and to aooept a reasonable
recompense for their trouble * * *
Tho "Land of the Sky" is muoh indebted
to "Christian lleid" (Miss Fisher, of
Salisbury, N. C.,) for bringing it into
notice. Her story is the best guide
book. Its charm consists in its truthful
ness. The houses where her party lodged,
the guides whom and the
spots which they visited, oan all be easily
identified from tha descriptions and pic
tures in her book.
* * * *
The eastern gate of the ''Lands of the
Sky," through which Christian Reid's
party entered the country, is the Swan
nanoa Gap. Now a railroad is completed
to the summit of the Blue Bidge, and
soon it will reach Asheville. The ascent
of the mountain will interest nil railroad
travellers. Tho old stage road was three
miles long, but the railroad takes eight
and three quarter miles to reach the
same spot, climbing in the distance
eleveu hundred feet. It follows the side
of several mountains, doubling and re
doubling in many a wind. In many
places the track is visible in four places,
and it would be possible to cast a bisouit
from the track above to the same traok
immediately below. Five short tunnels
cut through as many spurs, and the out
tings, the fillings and the trestle works
were uncounted. A "mud cut" adds to
the interest of this railroad curiosity
The whole hillside seems to be a van
spring, and BB fast as the mud is removed
it flows back, raising tbo track, and af
fording constant employment to a g;>ng
of convicts.— Louisville (hy ) Christian
Observer.
SEEKING BURIKD TRKASUKB.—Tradi
tion has it that in days long since gone
by, when buccaneers and pirates swept
the Atlantic of vemels richly freighted
with treasures from the Indies and the
Spanish Main, when Black Beard, Cap
tain Kyd and other historic out throats
and adventurers swooped down upon de
fenceless merchantmen, and made captive
sailors and luckless passengers "walk tho
plank," these freebooters had their try
sting plaoo in arid about the mouth of
the Capo Fear River. Handed down
from father to son, the story that oount
less treasures of gold and jewels Uy
buried somewhere in the swamps or sands
below this city, time and again efforts
have been made to fiud the mythical de
posit. Even now the work goes on, and
travolers over tbo county roads in that
direotion often see mysterious exoava
tions by tho roadside, and at night catch
glimpses of wiord looking groups furtively
plying the piok and the spado, by tho
light of a toroh, in quest of the hidden
treasuro. The mysterious seekers for
theso hoards of tho freebooters are gen
erally colored people, whose oupidity and
superstitious fancies are worked upon by
so-callod diviners of their own color
No oue has ever heard of their being re
wsrded for their toil and trouble, and in
all probability no oue evur will.— WtZ
! mi>it/ton Star.
NUMBER 16.
The Month of September.
The anniversaries of September are ,3
quite in baruiony with the stormy sen
son of the equinox, being for the most
part of a very warlike oharaoter. The
lat witnessed General Sherman's ocou
pttion of Atlanta The 3d was a promi-
Dent day in the life of Oliver Cromwell,
as that of his birth, of his two great
victories at Worcester and Dunbar, and,
finally, of his death. The 6th witnessed
the capture by Lord Peterborough, in
1705, with a handful of men, of the
strong Spanish fortress of Monjuich, till
then bcKeved irapregnablß the *
Bth, the capture of the Mal&koff Tower
by the French sealed the fate of Sevas
topol, within a few days of the anniver
sary of their first landing the year be
fore. The same day, by a curious co
incidence, decided the fate of Moscow,
in 1812, by Marshal KutuzofTs retreat
after the battle of Borodino, which was
fought on the 7ih. Frederick the
Great's capture of Dresden, in 1756, oo
ourred on the 10th. The 20th has had
the two-fold renown of the battle of
Valmy, in 1792—which ohanged the
history of Europe by checking the Aus
tro-Prussian invasion of Franoe—and
i that of the Alma, in 1854. The 23d is
memorable for Paul Jones' capture of
the British ship Serapis, io-1779, after
' one of the hardest fights on record. The
i 28th witnessed the investment of York
town by the Americans, in 1781, which
• brought about the surrender of Lord
Cornwallis in the ensuing month. In
addition to all these, this warlike month
can reckon on its list the British defeat
i at Stillwater (1777) and at Eutaw
Springs, (1781,) the memorable "Sep
tember massacres" of the Frenoh Revo
lution, several of Wellington's hardest
battles in the Pyrenees, (1813,) Marshal
Ney's defeat at Dennewitz in the same
1 year, the battles of Antietam, Chicka
i mauga and Winchester, together with
■ Napoleon 111.'a capture at Sedan, and
i the consequent fall of the Second Empire.
8 -
j Poor Qlrls.
Unlike many foolish Christians, the
Jews teach thoir children, girls as well
) as boys, some occupation by whioh they
s may earn a living. An exchange incul
cates a similar practice upon all parents.
I The poorest girls in the world are those
i who have never been taught to work.
There are thousands of them. Rioh pa
rents have petted them ; they have been
taught to det-pisc labor, and depend upon
others for a living, and are perfeotly help
less. If misfortune comeß upon their
friends, as it often does, their oaae is
hopeless.
The most forlorn and miserable wo
men upon earth belong to this class. It
belongs to parents to protect their daugh
ters from this deplorable condition. They
do them a great wrong if they neglect
it. Every daughter ought to be taught
to earn her own living. The rich as well
as the poor require training. The wheel
of fortune rolls swiftly round ; the rioh
are very likely to beoome poor, and tho
poor rich. Skilled to labor is no disad
vantage to the rich, and is indispensable
to the poor. Wcll-to do parents must
educate their children to work. No re
form is more imperative than this — Ex.
Thomas Wilson, the Baltimore mil
lionaire who died recently, was of the
opinion that large fortunes should be
cut into small slices and passed around.
Ilis estate is estimated to be worth be
tween two million and three million
dollars. By his will, just admitted to
probate, a few dozen nieoes, nephews and
other relatives are enriobed in sums that
run from $5,000 up to $50,000, not be
yond. Besides the personal bequests
there are cbaritabla bequests—one of
$200,000 to tho Thomas Wilson loan
fund of the oity of Baltimoro, for tba
benefit of struggling young men arm
poor widnws, another of $500,000 to the
Thomas Wilson sanitarium for the chil
dren of Baltimore, and smaller sumt to
fivo or six asylums and homes.
I am past sixty years old, and every
now and then I meet a relick who knu
uie forty-five years ago, and remembers
some deviltry I was guilty of then.
Aiu't it strauge how tenacious the mem
ory is ov these things, and how weak it
is ov ennything good a feller may have
aooideutally done?— Josh Billings.
Find out what men laugh at and you
know exactly how refined and intelligent
they are.