Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1876, Page 11

r THE CHICAGO RELIGIOUS, '[o-I!lorrow’n Sunday-School Lesson. Continuation of the History of David and Saul. New Light on the Exodus of {he Children of Israels Tho Obscervance of Sunday Ins stead of SBaturday, SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON. HAUL AND }IB SONS KILLED, The Zipkitescamo to 8aul at Gibeahand advised bim that David was conconled in tha forouts in thelr ternitory. It shall bo our pleasant duly to arrest and dellvor nlm into your handa." Baul roplied: *God bless you, for you have pity oume. Find out oxactly whera his haunt is; glvamo the names of thoso porsons who bave koou him in or near bis place of concoal- mont. I bavo been told that hs fa & vory shrowd, cunning, and sltppery fellow. Match him in bis artful dovicos, ¥ind out all hiy Jurk- Jng-places, and thpa lot mo know what you have discoverod, and I will go with you, snd wo sure~ Jy wiil catch tho canniug fox thia time.” David in his wonted way obtained some idon of what wau transpiring {n the XKivg's camp, and g0 suddonly aud privatoly startod for tho wilder~ nous of Maon, As it happened David was ono sido ofMouunt Maon whilst Saul wos oo thoother side. Thisrango of highlands and Wnestoug ndges contnined many caves, David mado all Lasto to ot awsy from his unrolenting foo, who was making aff pousiblo offorts to surronud and eateh him. Old Saut conld not forgat the polleo pt Ramali,~he had loat all confidence in hug ofiicors,—80 hio hind resolved to bo the leader of uls warrlors, and ho had aworn by his own migut $at David sliould no fonger slip from lls grasp, %0 ho and bis men woro oucircling David more and moro, closor and closer, whon a mersonger camo in Lot hasto and erled out, “Tho P'hilistines hnve invaded our land,—thoy * aro plllagiog our flolds and sbusing our people.” Blnr ordered bis men to ‘‘right sbout face, double quick, march, for our homes, our wivoe, and our childron.” David soon was rdvized of what n change in tho dirootion of affairs had occarred fn tho royal army,—was ovorjoyed to imitato hls illustrions and kind-learted father, and soon issucd hia command to bis bedy-guarde, soldiors: * Attone tion! o uow go ot rapid strides to Inged),— tho srrings whero the will mountain-gosts quaf? the clear, pure, aweot mountain waters,— whoro aro also uumerons caved, which for un- known conturics havo been the rends ouly of wild gouts, but also of outl brigandn.” David and his gnards hasted and soou reached the famoun caves, which even now, at the proa- ent time, form safe rotreats for goals sud bane dittl, It la uow, as it wan thon, a rough mouu- tatnous district, full of crags and deop precipices. Homo time passed away. Baul routed the Phil- istines, and was soou informed that Duvid was in the wilderness of Maon, 8o ho with 3,000 muen started after tho slippery son of Jesse, In duo time Haul, wearlod With traveling up and down this rough rogion, reached this same cave in which wero David and frionds. ‘Who glaring light of the noontide sun had lessenod his pupils ‘80 much that ho could sce his Lest fricnd just ae woll ns his worst onemy., Uavid and hLis body-guard bad been inthe cave 80 many days that their oniarged pupils en- wbied them to seo tho King entor the cave aud Iny himeelf down (o roet. o, no doubt, wna much fatigued and wosry, sod foll fast asloep. Tonasibly he bad dravk somsthing to quouch his thiret that aoted as & #oporitlo; at any rate David und his meu_bLad a long talk nbout bim, sud did not arouse him from lus slumber. David ap- proached him and out off & picco of his roto, that he might domoustruto to thio Kivg, by-and- by, $bist ho bnd been in bie power, David was not rescntful. Mo proferred to evercoma evil with gaod, and heap coals of firo Aupon Ssal's hend, e rogratted that ho bad takon even a smali pieca of bis robe. 1do had yery littlo rogard or rospect personsily, Lut he felt that the officers of uny (ovornmcnt onght 0 bo rospectod as sucl. Ho David forbade s won to do the King suy burm. and Jot the old man have a quict rud relresbing sleop. . Baul awoko nud nas pormitted to loave tho cave, Lor David could not forget that Baul wus iho * anointod King of Iaraol,” that tho King of Kings had peen fit to lothiu _remmn for tho preacut 3 that it was tho dniy of sho people to _obey UGcd nud honor the King. ‘Ifio cliffs in that rogion were so near each otber, and Liad so deep chasms betweou them, and tho alr was go clear, that 8 man standing on one cliff conld hear anotiber man apasking from tho opposite cliff, aud neithor could Larm tho othor. Naul weut his way without Bumpecting what had occurred, or fu whint poril ho had boen, David soou left his cavo nud cried sfter Lim, sn:l Baid, *\Why do you bolieve that I wirh to barm you? Hee, tho ekirt ,of your robe Iv in my lana. Bucely I “had no oyl intent. I might bavo killed yon. During your sound aleep in the cavn my Iuen sayw you, aod watchod you, sud wrged mo to Bojze my unrelontiog fos. Truly you have Lunt- od me, you have laid suares for wy llo, B4 if you constderod me a wiid boast of thio forest. 1 will not barin a hair of your head, I am but a fles on 8 doad dog, I aw weak, and dopend en- tirely on Jeliovah. Lot tho Lord judge between me ond thee.” * Mhesa words of tendernces and niercy dis- armed tho old King of all rovenye or wmalice, £0 that bio roplied, ** Aro you, after all my soudeav- o18 to Lill you, still willing to call me your father? Arsyou stillmyrou Duvid 2" Haul wopt, aud said, * You arc & much boiter man than 1 am, You have bocn continnally dolng me good. You delivored me and my peoplo trow that great binsphetuar, you have tepoatedly routed the eno- 1nles of our paonle, you have addod gront lustre and glory to my throne, but I biave for years boon tryiug to do vou evil. I now sco that” you #ro 10 be Lho second Kiog: of Ieracl, Bwear that you will protees my funnly.” David dud g0, and roturned ¢o hin cave, We rogrol that want of spsce compels us to Pasa o many dooply interestiog avents in a our- gory way,—na tho history of Nobal and hiy wife Abignil, David's saving Baul's lifo o second time, and hua firm regolva not to harm the anointed, David goos to Oath, and bogs King Acbish to grant hym and hlg friends gome land for & howe, Achish pgives lum Ziklag, in which David forms s settioment. David malos » predatory jucursion awoug sowo gwall aud wenk trbos aud destroys men, childron, oxen, asaes, and comely, Ilo, then, ollers to King Acluzh_the martial survicos of bimeolf eud wen, Bamuol dios at Lis homo 1 Ramub, wheio bio had toited Jopg aud well fn dischargiog tho dutios of Judge uud Priost, i giving rohglouy Inetruction to young men, who aro always mure susceptibto to ruligious influcnces than men of muddle Jife or of old ugo, 'Fho younfi are twigs, saslly bout, and have a thin, smooth skin ; the old are gusrled oaks, Laviug we many moral ux- orescencos that it is no o34y task to rub them oft aud in womo way reach the Loart, All tho people loved Hamuel, 1o was honorable, just, aund religious, Even tho wicked raverenced him. The vory wight of his veuernblo facn way an tospiration, All tho people shed tears on his gravo. Vioo pays homago to virtuo, ‘ho mouruing for one of thu best of men assed, the ovonts of tho age.tako thelr coursn, ul visite the witch of 1udor, 'The Phllistinos colloot their furcea st Appek and tho Isruelites st Jozroal. Tho Lbiliktine Princes are augry, because David snd bis mow, whom Achlsh had seen fit Lo receive ana part of Liuarmy, warch as If they wero bionorod with au eacort. ~'They wish anl and Lis men to bo sent home to Ziklag, They sy to Achisb, ** Do uot lot David go_with us, be may turn traitor. Js not thia tho Davil whose praisoy tho wosou of Isrsolsung 2 *Banl has slain bia thousands, Lut David has slain bis ten thousauds.'" Achish eaid to David, “I find no fault with yoa ; you kave beon wpright and honorable, Lut my lsaders do not wish you to go with them. Now, David, plesso go hoino, and thus gratify my lords,” David roplled, * What have I done that your Prnces should be 80 unwilling to have me take part in the coming onflick 7™ * You bavo douo nothing wrong or ehonoiable,” soplied Aclish, ** but my Princes aflinn slrougly tbnt you shall nat go. Now, Lny good friond David, to-morrow at early ght, you sud your men must start for your homes et Ziklag.” David led tlem home, but their homes wore found deserted. The Amalekites Lad csptured the town sud carriod away the wives, wons, @eughitors, oxon, ssses, and cawcls. David and Lls wen wept - until thele streogth failed and fluy could weop uo more, and woro gresily dis- David trasted in the Lord, and askea through Ablathar, the priost, If he ehould pursue his foes. The Tord roplied, '* Pursua them, ovor- tako thom, and yon shall recover ail.” Ho David linatod and avertook an Egsptinn, who had beon 11l, and was foft bohfod (he mlnudlnsfl party. David gave him drink aud food, aud be graw rapidly almminr B0 that hiecould talk, and in. formod David that he bafonged to o party ot Amalokites who Loen on plllnglnry oxcureion and hnd burned Zikiag, ' Very well,” roplied David, * can you lead us to this party 7" And tho man said, I will land you to tho camp of the marauders 1f yoa will solemnly promiss e that you wifl not dolivor me o my master.” Ho ko led David to tho pillagars,whom b fonnd eating, drinking, dancing, earousiog, and bonst ing of thelr rocout succesaen. David killed ovory aoul of thom, excopting 400 young men, who fled on camels, and recoverad “all that Lhe Amalekites hoad takon away,—t{hoir wivos, sons, daughters, and goods; also took Lho herds of eattlo and flocka of nhoep of the marauders, Home 200 of David's mou could not endura the fa- tigno of £o long n journey, sud theroforo atoppeid at the brook ewor. Qn the retura homowards tho unjuat men of tho party eatd, ** Wo will nat divtde our apoil among those men who 1eatad on tha way." vid raplied, * Uur spolls uliall bo divtded equally amongst all of ua who statted in puruit of theso Amaickites,” Bomo years pasgod away, during which David'a iniluonce and power were coustantly increasing. 116 nos ocoupied a ftrong _town o tho frontior noar the landa of Judal, Ile was now no longor driven from point to point, as & wanderor, bub bad & fixed home, and hiad becomo a Prineo, ablo to commnaud the nwords snd strengih of vallant mon, who could sce in bim tho gorms of future groatuoss. ‘Thoir Lopos wore growiug rapldiy siropgar, Meu of intelloctunl strongth and land. nblo ambition, dienffected with the” guvernmout of Haual, woro anxions to asaociate thomselves with a now and & botter order of affairs and will- Ingly riaked cverything to advance tho causo of the ‘coming man. David had acccssions from variona quarters, military men of ronown, snlelity mon and captaius of thousands, ‘Tho Phllistines now resolved to make an_onict upon tho Jeraclitos, who really had grester numerieal strength, but_yet woro forced Lo yiold to tho advantago tho FPhillatines poreessed in boing ablo to aunoy tho armies of Baul by lotting fly their arrows at them, bofare the two partics could come lu close contact, and thus forced them futo disorder, sud urged on a disastrous panic. T'ho leadors of Tsracl found it difiicult to bring their soldiers into proper order. Baul and hia sona used their wonted way of resloring military discipling, put all in valn. Panic-stricken sol- diera require & Bherldan to inepiro thom with freali ardor and ronewed strougth. No Bheridau was thoro, ‘Tho Ibilistines, incited by pros- pectivo kuccess, directed Lheir wain forca to the Kpot, wheto woio the King and bis threo sous,, who bravely fonght and urged thoir men to bat- tlo, ‘Ihoy maintained thoir ground for soma thue, bmt were at last compelied to ylald to uocorsity. Sanl's high ‘staturo oxposed it to tho archers, who were incesgantly forcing arrows into hia person. The sous woro kitled, and the King, full of sorrow and of ssduess, ox- hinuatod by loes of blood, gave up in despair, Pogsibly Do may bnvo sald In hisgoul s *“1lad [ not left Qod, the King of Kings, the Groat Com- mander of the armics of Isracl, Io would not Llave forsaken mo.” ‘Drending to fall alive inlo the hands of a cruel enomy, ho orderod Lis armor-bearer, Doeg, to deypateh him at ouce. **Do not lot thoyo un. citenmeised foos massacro me, and insolontly and abneively treat me. 3y sony bava fallen in baltle. My God has forsakon twe. Dosg, dou- patel mo at ouce.” Poor Docg. #o ready to mgssaero Lo cighty-five priests of Nob, now haa no courage to reliove Lis royal frioud, to whom lie bad been ro obsequious in the timo of his prospority. 'Tho bhard-honrted, 1ving, murderous, God-fotsakan ald man, #o worthy of tho proatest nmonnt of suffering man or God could impoee, committed snicice, and roshod at auce tnto the presonce of his Makor. Doog, seolog his royal master explre, relzed his sword, that bad been so often soilod with the fresh blood of pious priests, traa men of God, who had dove no hiaria to inan, and bind bonored thotr Malier by religions faith snd honesy livos, and pinuged it througb bLis own person, and hinstei:d to go arm in arm with his royal meater, Banl, to that placo from whoae bourno not ayen Kings retorn. The Philistinos would pasa in their triumphal march homo tbrough tho Valley of Jezocel, that sproads so lovingly between tho Hormon and Gilbos ranges, snd cxtonds down juto the Valley of tue Jordan. Al along this delightful routo, tho peeple had overy roason to fear that their old enemy, drunk with succoes, would not lesitato to piliago thoir Louscs and their flelds, nnd sbuse their wives nud thelr children, and then mako them sisves and 0xpogo them to ln- suits worso than deailr. Eo they rosoived 1o lonve their ploasant Lowes, whora so muny Joys Lad crownod Leir livea, ‘Thio next morning's sun sbod 18 eweet snd gevinl rays upon the pleasant hills of tho Glibos range, and npon tho delightful Valloy of Jozreol, and exposed to marial oyes the doad bodies of tho nlnruo. and the Dhilistiuen, aftor a nlght of joy and rovelry, camo to atrip them of their cJothing and armor, They found mmoung thoso who wore In thelr long and’ Inst slaop the bodies of Saul, lils two sons, aud that ono son,.Joun- thap, who had mided go much Justro and noble~ ness to humanity,—the faithful and coustant triend fu alt sdversities,~whoeo pure, deap lovo will always command the ndmiration of earth and beaven, In self-forgetfulness, in sincority of purjose, in consistency of conduct, in mage nammity of soul, Jonasthan must forever stan notsecond to David, but to Hhim whoso comin g waa foretold by prophata, grooted by shephords ot tho galden_ hills of Bothlehom, by tho stary singIn, h;ymllr ny they shone, by angels, who madv all boaven ring wilh " Penco on earth and woad will ta men.” ‘I'he bodios of tho father and the sons wore resorved for special msult. Tho oficinls of the victarlous avuy cut off tho heeds of Saul aud Dbis sons, stnpped off their armor, and sent tham hotne, na curiositios to tho people, aud as proofs af sheir wonderful succoss in erma,—and there thelr armor way devoutly depoaited in tha tem- plo of Akbtaroth, thelr heads woro fastoned ig- yominjously to the temple of Dagon, and their bodtes fixed upon tho wall of tue city of Dath- shan. The Joadg men of Jabesh, in Giload, whon thoy heard what uso hed boeu mado of tho wmorlnl remains of Saul and lug sony, woro very much euraged. Thoy had uot forgotton tho tumoly oud effoctivo’ aid Saul had rendered thew; they wera rerolvod mot to gufler #uch outrageons indignitics to bo fnfiletod on the romalug of the royal family. A fow strong, athlotie, and bold men wers commiesionod to ro- cover thew. lothshan was 10 miles, or more, frot Jabesl, and approsched by narrow moun= tafu pathe, mud Lhe man, with stroog arms and a stronger will, must havo travelod all mght, in order tn be ut Botlshian suficioutly oarly 4o on- toe tha oity, take down tho bodiew, and, uuobe sorvod, paxg tha city gates, and thon by uarrow pasgces, bomaward bound, roach their homes bo- tore tbo mowuing dmwned. 'Their atrong arms and stout hoarts eusbled thown to biing to o grateful people the romains of faithlul frieuds, #0 they ehould uever agaln bo expowed ta the vultures of thoe air, or to the hyenas of tho faveuts, Ho thay burnt them and dopomted thelr nshes nnder a troo st danesh, and fasted seven davs, Sanl died and walked through the «dork Valloy of Death withouta rod or a slafl, or avena javelin to comfort to kim, plabmsiei b g THE EXQDUS FROM ECYPT. BULAGSCH BEX'S LECTURE, A rocent number of tho Jewish Messenger ting an abutract of o loctura delivored in London laut year by the colebrated Lgyptologist, Dr. Houry Brugsch on the Exodus of tho fseaolitos from Egypt. Agcording to Drugach, the Teraclites startod from tho City of Taineos, also called Zoan aud ‘I'amis, vituatod B1 dogrees north latitude and 29 degroes 3 minutes wost longituda Groenwich, snd took their journey in a northoasterly direc~ tion towaryy the Mediterranean, and reached the sumo at the westorn eldoof Lnko Birbonla, "They then wonl ulong the narrow touguo of 1and soparating this inlaud lake from the Medi. {erranean, further ot to the Mount Kusios, sud thence thoy turusd sonth through tho wilderuess posr sho pitter lukes (dara) 1o the north poiut of thio Gulf of Buez, aud thouen Into tlie Poulns sula of Bial, whete Brugsch for thoe prosont hag lett them, ‘Tho startivg polut of bis cesay i his dikcovery that the city, callod by the snciouts Horsclo- opolia parys, noar Mapdoluia, besrs the name of Titom on the Egyptian monumenty, with tho ad. dition ** iu the district of Buc d that the place is L'aubs or Zosn, 'Tlis Tauls 18 alo called Ti-llamses, i. e, the City of Hamses, Pitom aud Hamsas, however, sre the two cition whera the lsraclites were forcod to build the trews- uyios or wtoroliousca of their onpressors. Uf urse these uames could he of more frequout oecuzrenco, and thero conld still bo doubt ue re~ gards tho identity of tlie placos hiero montioued with the liblicdl'ones Lesting dho wauic nawme. Hue she addition, *In tho distict of Bucot, yemoves sliost all doubt; s Bucol iy de~ seribed on the Snncflfiuon sa & foroigu word, and §s undoubiedly Lebrow, meauiug hnts or touty, & siguiticatlon for w plnog, often mot with io Egypt. But, iu addition ro this, thofirst ata- tion of. tno Turaelltes mentioned lu the Bible iu Buccothe, sud the wout local pawes ju (L reglon, just as tho word *aucob " itsulf, cau ovly be derived from the Hobrew. 1n sddition o thess traces, from which it {s plun that in theae vory rogicas the habltations of tho TIaraclitos, the land of Cospn, must ho sought for, Dr. 1. gives us the following Intor- osting faotn : Tho nsmo Pltom demanatos City o(rstna god) Tom. Tom, howover, adds the In. seription, 18 alao called Ankh, and bas tho mur- namo ''tho grast god." Inveatigation shows that Ankh means *' tho living one,” and 18 noth- ing olss but the Egyptian traosiation of the Hebrow Joliova or Jalive, As & symbol of this divinity » serpont waa worshiped in Pitom, which reminda us of tiia brass sorpent of doncs and of its worship, which waa only abolished by King Hozokiali, Another surname of Pitomn was Pn Ankh, 1. o, Olty of Ankb, and the wholo dis- trict naa called Punt-pa-ankl, I, 6., the district of Pitom, Moteover, Za donotes Govornor, and thus Zspunt pa-ankh mosns tho Qovernor of I'tom. ‘The word, liowaver, explains at once the myatorionn and mucb-dispatad word Zaphe nat panoachi, & title which Pharaol gave to Jo- 8opl whien ho took him into sorvica ; that In, ho simply mado blin Governor of Pitom, and faro Joseph located bis relatives, It also explaing the strauge words (Iixod. xlvs 8), whero Jusepl enyat ' Cod has made me the father of Pharaoh,” for Drugach says that uh-en prao on the hxucrlrtlnn moana the higlieat hounehold of- ficerg of Pharaob, Brugsch further oxplaina the word kartumln by khar-tot, i e,, wnritors, & cortain class of pricsta [n Itamaes, Ilighly futorestiug is also & lotter whicl ho gives a:(l royal conrt officor on a }mpyrll!l of the Iritish Mugouw, which reads as vllovis : On the oth day of he %1 month, towards evenlog, T tett tho rosal place Lo puraue the two wiaves, 1 'ore ived on (Db 10th st Bucot, snd learut thatthe fugitivos hiad turned to the south. On the1tl T was io Klietam, where I was told tuat the Lorse-drivers who bad come from tho reed-fens (ile fens of tho Ruf) bad reporied thiat the fuyitives Lad crosned the bouudary Line north of Aigdol In Lha country of the wall, In this lottar wo find Khotam and Migdol fol- lowing aftor Bucot, just as Etham aud Migdol aro thonest stationa of tho Israclitea after their starl from Buchoth. Tho palaca officors pursus tho fugitive riaves on lhe vory same road ns Pharaob did the fupitive Israclites. Even the country at the wall occurs m the Bible, fora wall in the Bemitic languages Ia callod shur, snd 1t wan to the wildortoss of Snur that Boses led tha chiddran of laraol—(Exod., Xv. 22.) Ag regards the place of the Egyptian catas- tropho, tha Bible (Lixod., xiv., U) reports that Dhareol had overiakon tha culldrou of Isracl, ‘whab encamping by tho soa '“in the Valloy of Hiroth before Baal: Zaplon.” +The Valloy HIi- roth " In the Habraw Is called Dika-Kniroth, Ll ally meauing, tho ** entrauce nf tho abyse. very samo namo is given by Diodorus to the marshy plaing aronnd Lako Birhonla: snd, after o complete description of the ]{:ACC, ho ramarks ¢ *Thus theeo places received thoir namo justly.” Thero can therefore be no doubt whatever thnt Piba-Khuroth, tho eotrance of tho abyss, signi- flos tho narrow nock of land botween tho wost- ern cogof Lake Lirbonis and the Mediterranean, Tho second place fn the abovo pasaage, called Daol-Zophon, 18 found in tho ingcription ns asli-Zapouns, which Is but another mamo for the God Amon, more frequontly called the Lord of Fens. A cclobratod templeof this god, whom tho Grooks called Zous Knaios, was found naar tho sonconst, about tle enst ond of liake Sir- finl:' aud with this Dasl-Zophou is easily iden- ified. “Thua wo #0e that the scono of tho dostruction of Plaraok and hts hosts s tho narrow nock of Iand dividing the Raditerranean from tho Lake Birbonis, Ioro n suddon flood from the Medit- orranoan Beizod tho pursuors, whilo tho Israel. ites had loft this daogorous place Just in time. ‘The wonder, of course, ccases ta bg one, but n{”fl?‘l thae' tho haud ot T'rovidenco ‘is clearly vieibla, Quitesimilar avents have taken plnce at a later period, *Whon I waa at Alexandrin.” Strabo narrates, ¢‘a groat flood aroso in Lhs neighbor- 1iood of Pofusium nod wosr $ho mount, Knajos, ‘fhs mount bocame on jaland, and_ships could #ail upon the highroad leading to Palosting,”— And Diodorus toifs us that Arisxerxes, on his wny to Pelusium, had lost & part of his army lu the Rarattra, f, e, tho marshes. Thus this is oot tho Iled Ses, buta reedy lake, and cau anly bo considered aa o name for s coast-lagoon or mATah, covered by papyrus sod other marshy piauts. - Only nfter tho destruction of Pharaoh, Moscs and hia pool;le left the enstorly direction, and turned south towards tho north point of tha Qalf of Buez, Ou this merch thay firat camo into the wilderness of Bhur (tho country of the wall) mentioned before. FYor threa daya thoy Liad found no wator, and when they at last found somo st Barah, it waa bitter, wherefors thoy called the place Afara, * bitter,” a foot well known to us from tho bitter lako of the Buoz Canal, Aluo the noxt station, Llim, north of Suvz, may bo shown by the City of the Filskos, As lug, montioned In tho juscription. —— SATURDAY VS, SUNDAY, ¥ APOSTOLIC TEACHINGSH. o the Edutor of The Chicaco Tribuna : Mustraox, Mich., Fob. 10.—It has ropeatedly boou sasertod that the Church hos failed to vin- dicato itu Babbath, I ow led to belleve that the Tiov. Mr. Balley jumps to this concluslon slmply becauso Mcacs” has failed to present an ac- ceptable thoory. Br. Bailoy's conclusion is in. correct. The Church Las vindicated its Sab- bath, Mr. B. poid others of his school will Jond mo {Loir attontion Lut a fow momonts, I il attompt to mhow how easily it is done, [ will sbow that our Babbath {s woll authenticated by the Word of Qod, 1ngroe with Mr. Dailoy that Llo Fourth Com- maudmoot is mors! law, and also that the uoral Iaw I8 porpotual. But tha wholo law in the form in which it was givon to Moses docs not apply toun. Wu woro not brought out of the Iand of Egypt, noither are wo to_remain loug in the laud of Canasu, as tho Fifth Commandment promfecs, That s part of the Fourth Commnnnd- maut is coremonial is clear from Colossians ii, s 16, whore Paul clossos the obscrvance of tho Babbath with that of tho uso of meat, ete,, which observanco was & shadaw only of the things to como, and was anoulled when tho body, Chriat, camo, whoreforo Paul @ays: *“Let uo man judgo you in meat, or iu driuk, or in rospect of au hotv day, or of tho new moon, or of the Habbath daye” Now it it wors moral Iaw to keop o cortain day, for fostauce Haturday, it would bo suro to deviate from i, and {¢ would bo tho duty of fhe other mewbars wf the Church to ** judga ™ it ¥o and ponish the Babbnth-bresker, To the Romany Paul writes in tho fourteenth chaptor: ‘*One man estoem- oth ono day more than anothor; anathier ostoetn- oth avery day alikp. Lot every man bo fully persunded in Nifp own mind, Ife that regardoth tho day, regardeth it unto the Lord, and ho that rogardeth not the doy, to the Lord bo doth not rogard it," Iow could Paul writh thus, if it waa sin auninat the Fourth Commandment to ob- #ervo any but the sovouth day? And again, Paul chagtisos the Galatiana (Qalatisns, Iv,: 3-11) for obsorving_ days, terming it n voturn to “the woal and boggarly olements,”” How could thin bo so, If it was thoir duty to obscrvo a par- ticular doy of the week? Theso paseagas, I thiuk, prove conclusively that thio obecrvance of a ceriain day of tho week by cossation fram Iabor waa puroly cercrnonial, and this, as well as all other coromonlal laws, Is auvuiled, ‘Iho question thon nuflgnau teeff: What is meant by the Habbatl day in the Fourth Com- muudment, and why do we keop Bunday? Iy Fabliath day is not meant oue day out of saven, an yome would hovoit, but ovéry day of our Iite, whith eliould bo a spiritual Test in Christ Josus, Bince Christ touk upou Ilim our curge, we are ensbled through faith to enfoy rest and colelrate the victory over our encmiew, This Sabbath or reat- day we should keep Loly. To du this we must eludy tho word of God snd attond divine wor- ehip, We must not forsake tho assombling of aureelvey togothor, Lorthia purpose a day 18 ot apart that all things may be done decenily and 1n ordor. The tirst Christians mot every day, later thoy conflned themsslvos to two days in t.lno weok, Bunday having tho preferonce. Ht. John might well call it the Lord’s Day, as it commomorates the grout eventa of Kagtor and Vontecost, Authentio Listory Informs us that, until Constantino the Great mads tho duy leyal, tho Habbath was not observed ns a day of roat frow Isbor, Br. H. omita this, for it is anothor strong proof that cossa- tlon from iabor on the Ssbhath was a Jowlsh ob- sarvance aud not bluding on Chritisng, When Bunday became by n royal decreo established us & Habboth, it was Boncofurtl a moral {sw to ob- aerve tho firat day of the woek in virtue of the Fifth Commandment and tho lustraction of Po- tar (1 Potertl. 1 u; ¢ " Bubunit yourselves o every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake." What Mr, I, gived sy Listory fu lass Suodsy’s Tursuxe must ve_something ‘manutsotured for the ocoasion, for it comen In eonflict with the New Tastament and the' Cuurch fathers, who ought to bo authority ou this subject. Mr. B usjustly clintges tho descoration of tho Babbath to the Church observing Sunday, I dare say it Satarday was our Ssbbath it would e uo bottor. I would rather say, the ever-gaiu- iug wickedness makes more and woro convinomg the truth: “When the won of wman cometh, shail ho find faith on tho esrth P ABEL ANDENSON, e —— A Ileforin that Falled, Tho temperance folk of Montroal catabiished & hot cotfce van o viait tho cab stauds at mid- night and supply tuo hackmen with that Laver- nge, Which wirmne Lut uob jvebriates ; bug the unrogeuerato hackmen drank up the cofiee, aud when pssmont was demauded clubbed the at- tendant, declaring that Lie’ was siriving (o make money under the guiso of bonevolense, 0 that tho enterprise has been abandoned. A BUDGET OF BLUNDERS. Hlips of tho Tongue and Mishaps to the Mcmory. Incidents and Accidents on the Awk- ward Bidoe of Life. Avpictona® Journal. There are certain phenomona In pablie Yite which surprise ua by their svenneen snd the regularity of their movoments. \When thera regular ovents aro broken io npon, nud aro dis- turbed, wo aro quick to notlce the {mpelling caume, but wo fall to bo lmpressod with tha vide flold there in for more interruptions. We sra quick enough to pi judgment upon railway officials whenevor sccldents occur, but the great wonder is, with our immensa country and our traveling publio, that bridges da not break, and locomotives ruu away, nnd stoamboats oxplode, more froquoently than they do. And this is just as true of public and of social life, 1t is » marvel that thera aro not more mistaken madein the presence of a miscolianeouanudienco, whon onco we reslizs how oasy & matter It s to #poil a lecturs, concert, or service by tho {rreles vant {nfroduction of some fudicrous elowmeut, 1t 14 & groat woundor, too, when wo remember thelr power, that littla chilldron when tu compauy do not creato more awkwnrd ucenus by the lugs glng in of contraband subjects of convenation. A story is told of a “celobrated American preacher who waa reproved by a friend becaura hol mt“ off g0 tnany funvy things from tho ulpit. o "lnnufly, now, my desr hrotuer,” said the friend, ‘I canno$ como to hicar yon suy more uotil yon promisc mo not Lo joke ko 1" ““Woll, mr dear friond,” replied tho preacher, it youo onfy knew how many such things came up to tho surfaco which I didn't got off, you mig!d pivo me ciodit for the fow which do hiip out#” 11, 08 it has boon aaid, thera in somothivg sad 0 the sfght of s largs audtence, thero are thnes when it {mpresscs tho spoaker rather with a senso of tho ludicroun, T'sople in listenlug to s speskor {ry to put on their clevorest look, as if they understood it oil, and whea the speaner bimself has lost lis snbject, nominative and verb, and fools that ho ia talking noneenso for tho moment, tho unabashod attontion and wiso looks of.his hoarers aro food for aside traiu of amusfng rofiecticus. **What did you think of my sormon?" nsked a clergyman of an intimate friond, *“Did you notico anything curious about it when I was about balf-way turongh yestordav aftornoon " Ho had 108t 'all idoa of his third poiut In an ox{emporancous addross, sud was floundorivy about like Milton's Batan iu the claotic bog, trying to Fut on solid ground again, “Well” anewerod the frieud, I thonght aomothin% was wrong, but, ns Iwas oure you could not loso yourself, I conchided I muat have {allen naloep for a rnomont, und thus have lost tha thread of the discourso,” Tho subject of *Profossionsl Blunders" camo up at a clorical dinuor-company somo timo ago, nud tho question went round to each as follows : “Vero you over ro placed in publie in tho per- formsnco of o service as to losn all senso of the solemuity of the occasion and bo cam[mllml to 1augh in apito of your more serious aelf 2" The following are some of tha auswers, ns re- vealing the hidden but unforgotton experinnces of ministorial accidents. Case number one way a8 follows: **1 waa holding a prayer-mecting in & Wostern tosn ju tho carly daye of my ministry, aod, ag thoro was no ono to raise tho tune, Ltriod myself todolt. Fhe bymn began— With Liysnop purge thy sorvant, Lord Nud'so T clent ngaid b, e, Ay first attempt woa a failuro; wheu 1 tried tiino nuwber two I found it was o long motro: tuse number three was avotber long metre. and a8 I lisd como to the end of my stock, I slood utill for a fow moments lookiug at tho page. Thereupon an old wowan stood up by the duor oud epoka out into whrill, piping voica: ‘You don’t seem to got on very well with hyssop, sup- nosa you try somo other yarb!® What conld I do buy buret out with tho all-conquering Iaugh, or dip if I suppressed it?" Ilero was case pumber Lwo: . * I was conducting the funoral of & parishioner, nod, supposing that the clioir was prevent, cuve out the hymu, No respouse came. As there was no one to ralse tho tune, I holdly esssyed to do jt, Dut, to my horror, 1 found it was too hort for tho warda; no ove conld follaw mo in .my longthouing process, so I bod it all my own way, oud ssng 1 nss 8olo, When I camo to verdo number two, I thought for a lang time, and then, feoling sure that [ was right this time, pitchod the tune, but it was #o bighi1 could not pretend to folow it, and Jeft it for two or threo volunteer ladies to carry on a8 best thoy could. But, to my dismay, I found that even this would not do; 1t was a long-metre tuns to & common- motre hymn, aod it camo to an ignaminions closs ot tho eud of the second line. Tho words wore solsmn, tho occasion was solemn, I felt for tho mournors, I felt for myaclf, but, wanting to be brave aund provall over the difticultr, I ktood » moment and then struck up again. Thia time I was dotwn in the vory depths in my effort not to pitch it too.high, snd again I was on s long motro, which I could not make ehort enongh for the bymn., Do nhat I would I could not tuck It in, and tho hymn— Hear what tho volce from heaven declaros ; 1s forover ruined for me. No wonder that tamily uover wanted to have Dr, —— at tho fuucrul of nuy of tholr friends.” Caso No. 8 was that of u very solomn clorgy- man and his oasistant, who wore disturbed in their chancel Ly & miscrablo loaking wireot eat, whichlind come In by some unkuown way aud was rubbing up sgainst their logs, me-owing piteounly. The Hoctor buckoned to tho assistant to put the cat out, which ba did, but in a fow mowmonts sho was back again. Upon this tho very zolemn Ttector pluced tho poor ereatura under one of tho heavy box-utools fo tho chancel, aud, placing his foot o this {mpoverished kennuf, gavo ont the hymu beginnlug— A clarge to keep I have, Tho fourth casa moutioned was that of n Woetern mmllunlr{ who was holdiog a servico for tho first timo lo & frontier town. A lurgo cougregstion bhad gatliorod {n tho primitive court-room, nnd the youny itinerdut way just sbout to snnonuce his toxt, when n tall man, who bad bodn playing the molodoon for tho ex- tomporized cholr, pitclied back bis chair on ita hiud logs on the clork’s sland, immedintoly 1 front of tho Judge's bouch, avd, putting hig Laods In his pockets, foll backward sud wont complotoly over, As Lo wns directly in trout of tho preacher, his long lege, in poivg over, knocked down the enshion which had beon l)lncul on the proacter's stand, and seattored tho looss notes in overy ditcction. The cooproga- tion bLroke out in one rowr of [sughter, minglod with whinstles sad oat-calls, aud crivs of Qo it, Willlam 1" ** Heigh-ho, tumble-bug!"” « Tamblar- pigean (" #Het them up sgainl” **Daable- scorol" and athor such terms navor bofore Lieard fu a bouso of worship, The hiouse got into ono of thuse convulsive spasms of laughter which nro romittont in their oature, and colne v agsin ut succeusiva Intervale, Every fow woments the thouglt of tho performance would come back again, and there would be a new vuthurst. All this timo the disconcerted voung winistor stood with Lus back to the audience, lookiug out of & window, and, like the dyiuy dolplun, turning all shades of color, sud goiug through an assort. ment of experiencos—ashamed, provolied, amused, and disgusted, each in turn, Iuatly, bo said, ““Now we have all had our laugh out, lot us ping a Liymp, snd then go ou with the sormon,’”" and tho crowd, liks & tired child, sloopy and ready for u lullaby, wus at Jast quint ouce wore. A vaunerable Profassor who was presont at this ** oxparience mouting "’ rolated his oideal of humor ss follawa ; **Lhe Rev, Dy, — was fuvited to preach baloro the young in tho central meets mg-houso of the town. Two of the youug ladics' boarding kchools mud the Loys of tho wcademy wers proseut. It was an sudience ready for suyiliing to amuso them, “Jusk ma tho proacher snnounced Lis text s fluttoring was heard in tho window, and in walkea o large biack hen, With that peculiar hou-lika walk, in which tho atretched-out head and usck koep time to the movement of the fsot, sho sdvanced to the sde of the minister, snd, unwindful of the audience, pxered avor tha opon pulpit-platform dawn on to the pswa below, Un. abashed by thut sos of faces, sho soomed to bo luuluur( about for yomo place iu whioh to lay an ng;i; ‘The preachor lookw! st Ler: the boya and gltls dying to sewxs tho opportuuity, aud wske o scona ‘io church, cust thor oyes ubon her long- lngly. The eatire churoh was wtill whon the Rev. Dy, —— aid to mo, 53 I was aitting {n the {'mfig pow, ‘Prof, I'——wilt you romove that rd 2! b If behad asked mo Lo storm a battery, I would hiavo beou s willing as { waa then Lo risk the failure of catching that hen. Mut, with » solemn faco and u stately stop, as if [ was about to give out the slms-boxes, I walked up to tho ‘pird,’ and {u an justaut of silonce, the like of whiclh I never experionced bofore, [ caught tha hou snd disappesied tuto the vostry-room. But to tais day I sak myselt the question of the other side of thotsaue; 'Bn{woea you baa failed 0 catch tbat bon, what wonld you have qone 2™ Tho last experionce montionod was that of a 11 ciergyman at his lirst baptism of infants, Ife WA tlon Vary young in {Mrn. and had never be- fure huld & baby tiat he coald remember of, much loes held » baby and & book in the presence of a ehurch full of peopln, The fist lafant frivan 1nto Liln aring waa a 1ag, aquirming boy of 13 monthm, who hamediataly bosau to corkscraw bis way through cluthes and wrappings, winfstor helid on bravaly, but 1n & fow momenta tuo chuld’s fuco disnppcarsd in the wraps, and his dangling logs beneath wers worming thelr way ta tho floor, * Eeizod with tho horriblo im. pression that tho child was tanneling his way llmm{;u hin clotlies, and wonld woon bn on tho fioot in & atate of ualure, heclutched the clothes violeutly by the sash-Land, and, straddling the clnid upon tho clancel-ral, naid to tho mothor, ** 1t yon don't hoid thot baby Lo will certainly ve through his clotbes, aud I ehall have nothing left bug the dross to baptize.” There aro many cannes for thesa professinnal bluuders, though somatimes thiey 20ma out of an apparontly clear eky. Absent-mindednoes is one of thens caunes, A lady in s certain church not long ago de- atroyed the devotion of a portion of thoe cougre. gation by sitting iu & front pew in suminer time with & child's doli stufed in her sairts in thn placo of the conventinnal bustle. Thers waro tha bead and arms apponling to tho congroga- tion for deliverance, nnd tle lady, all the while, w an kinging hke an unconscions angol. Au insianco of clerical abseni-mindednens which wa know t bo truo is s followa: An Irish minister was invited o baptize a friend’s child, wlhich bo did, omitlivg sltogether, howaver, to but auy water upou ite head, 'Che pareut took tho Lowl and presouted 1t to tha wminiter, but hie declined it, ‘Therenpon the father took the water a second time, nn.{ ingigted npon hus taking it. 'The bewildored clergyman beld tho bowl for 8 momont, and then waid: 1 Lad o glass of water before I cana into chtreh, but so long as you insist on my drinking this, I willdo it, though 1 usnuro you T am not av ail thicety,” And he ;colulnlly disuk the water from tho baptismal wl. Ignoranco of tha trno kituation is anothor cauze of professionnl mistakes. It is n aufe rulo iu traveling to expoct overybody to do as othor people do, sud to take nothing “for granted until tirat wo tiud oy detinitely tho slmpie facts of the cauo for vnrsolves. And there are good rules in othinr malters. Bomo time ago, it s largo Roman Catlsolic church, a funeral was Bppointed to ba hold at 1 o'clock, It was s grave-digger and assistunt sexton, who hud fallen into drinking Lubite, who wos to Lo buried. 'The priest who was to conduct this particular funeral wans bLalf an hour late, and, on artiving ot tho church and sceing the funeral procession walting for lim, went ou with tho scrvico. As thero woro sip- pased tobe many of the oldgrave-digger's frieuds Pprescut, tho priest thougnt It a good oppor- tunity to apeak kindly of tho deconsed, and point o moral fiow this sad endiog. So he bogan s follows : *T'his man, my friends, whom wo arc about to bury, though addicted to u great aod common ¥ice, was in fvory rospect a truo man." * Father Melaylco,” whmycmd en Irighman, ‘et me spake a word to yoz," *No," replad tho priest, I will not bo in- terrupted, 1 know this poor wan's faults bofore :ne, but he waa o true wan in spite of his fail- ng.” * O Fatber Melaglee," groaned out twa of the Ml-bearera, ‘‘just Limieu to ud; plecse, Fatber elayles, only n word, your riverouce!” ' No,” eatd” tho iudignant ynnnl, I will not yield for one moment. As 1 was saying, this Ppoor mav before o was 8——"" ** Father Melaylao,” cried out the irreprossible mouruer, *the tother priest kaa bLurled the gravo-digger Lialf au hour sgo; this oue's s woman wo're burving, sure, and it's ‘Uim Lapa- gun's wife we'vo gos hore!™ "TOUGH YARYS, Alleged Remarkublo Discoverles §n Clorids aud Kentueltys > Pulatka (Fla.) Merald, We learn that the Indisn mound on Murphy's Inland was cponed, or rather cutered, by a patty o few days ago, This mound is one of thelargost ou tho river, nnd hine excited more thau ordinsry interost among our sclouific visitors. But Cul. Hart, proprictor of the island upou which tho tmound stands, beretofore porsixtod in liis refusal to have this relic of past agos disturbed, On Wodponsday, howorer, it wag resolved to inspoct thoruughly this monument of prehistoric age, A party from tho Putnam, with cthers, took s Mteamer for tho island, whero they atrived iu -ood tine, It was agroed to opou the mound at ito bano. Aftor makiug o broach of 85 feot, they dikcoverod o hard wail made of cocquins, or * shell-rock. This wall wns comeuted, and wos ornameuted with varlous figares of warriors, with Lowsand arrows, and various reptiles, Aftor much difiicolty o breach was madeiu the wall, aud by tho higbtof s torch sovernl of the party entercd; wuch surprised, they fouud thomwclves within o vault 8 feet high, with room 12 by 15 feet long, with armed warriors incased in niches, all in 8 stato of pet- Tification. ‘Y'his is certainly a most wouderful diecovery, and hins produced a profound scnsa- tion. In view of this important discovery, Cof. Hart bas stationeda a guard to prevent parties making awny with tneso wanderful abjects. Murpby's Isiand_ will, no doubt, becomo tha Mecen of the Kt, John's River, Correnroriienice Louwsowtle Couricr-Journal, CoLuuiy, Ky, Jsu. 80.—About the middlo of tho past week two young mien named White, while iy wandering in a large track of wild, douss forest, in tho southenstorn part of our county, discovered what they supposcd to bo o sink-lole or fox-dou, and with that ides pro- ceeded to explore it. After s Mttle trouble in makinys thoir way through the entrauce, the cave (for mach it proved to bo) bocaina iarge ouongh toadmit of thoir walking upright. They bad proceaded thus in this pasdags probabiy 170 yords, wlen they emerged into a large aud picts uresquo gallery, the besuty aud grandeur of whicts will rival that of the old Mammoth iteolf. Lbe roow, usccording fo tluir calculations, is about 150 by 100 =~ fect, and asbouuds in uit tho ‘varietice of tho stulnotites and stalogmites., In the nottheast cornor of the first gallerv (for there are five, of which I will herenticr spenk), about feat from the ground, they noticed nome etrango «characters or hieroglyphicd noatly earved in the wall, which, upun closo examivation, proved to bo the hoad-rack of s vauit. A fow miuutes® prizing served Lo loovon this, and to disclogs to viow thu iterior of an inclosure in the solid rock of about 5 by 10 foot, which contsined tho rensing of throo skelotons, which moauure i foet 73y inchen, 8 fool b inchen, aud 8 foel 457 inchea 1u lepgth respectively, ‘Lha lioads were Iymg toward the east, asch body parallol to tho other, Beside them lay threo buge—what 1ooked to be—ewords, but ‘they woro uo decaved that upon bolng touched they crumbled to dust. After examnning tlio romains” closely, but find. ing nothiug that would ssrye to throw any Light on the iuostion aa to who and from whence they are, they closed the vsult, but, in doing #o, knocked their toreh out, which they 1ad contrived before outering, loaving them lu snything but a plessant predicamont. After sesrehing somo timo for thoir lovt Lreasure, thoy concluded Lo try to eseupo by feeling their way out, bot in this they nado the tnatlor warse, Puey wtated thet after loaviog the first lsrgs room they struck a good-sized branch, and con- tinnea followng jt until forced to turn into an- othior pavsago,—tho stioam disappeanng wudden- IY in w luge purpendicular guleh,—which led thow juto another wpucious’ ball, tho sizo of whichs they bolieve to be quitc as largo ss the first, Oug of this vecond opening, and through what thev concoive to o thrve othors eimilar at Ieast 1 wize, their way seowcd to gradually as- vond, until their hearts were mado gind by the diseovory of hight abiead, snd finally emergod from theie ugly contincmeut through = hole sbout midway the chif or Hussel('s Creek, havivg been ooufined in tueir subterrancan discovery over thirty-vight hours, Tho Wife of the Byuamite Flend, New Vork Herald, Feb, 0. Yeuterday afternoon the steamer Wieland was reportod i the oiing, and whon sho hud steamed nprthe bay aod Love to oppoaito Quarantiva a Lvrald roporter boarded her nud soughit aonyg the pasrongera o the cabiu & lady who has been brought “iuto uwupleasant prominouce on the uther side of the wator, aud whose coming hote wan dictated by a desire to escaps sconcs and au- eociations which Lave been wado excosdingly paisful to ber, Tlue was Mrg, Thowas or Thowmasson, the wifu of Willimn K. "Thomes, whose dynamito plot resulted so fatally both to the victima of the explosion and the sutbor of st. She had eailod trom Hlamburg, rogisteting an assutaed Date, and the roporier's salutation wud tho first sukling sbo Lad of her identity bolug knowi, When tho ferald twsn reachied thte dock of the Winland bo was diectod o the -?mud cabiy, whiere Mru, Thomas was then sup- ving, A (Jl:x eutering it Lo discoverd a lady scatod at & table, with & bovy of bright-taced litcle chll- dren gathorod aronud Lor. Sbo bad au steracts 1ve face, deop hilack vyos, and wis clad iv a plaiu dark dross. Hhe was eugaged in tslking (o the children 1 a kiud, motherly way whea the re- mlxu:r pproached ber aud statod the objeot of u visi With & look of wurpriso, not unmized with paiu, sho swul ) “1bad hoped that wy asswming & alrange naws would ludo wo frous uotoriety Lam auz- ous to escape. ‘I'bis mativr, as you know, isone which has very mellnmu‘:f cistions for wa, and it is oue whish I would gladly bave taken from my ind. Ihayetold my story sgsin aud again, and, however willing I may ba to impart information likely to be of intorest to your read- erw, I abaink from w recital which causes mn no much pain, At snother time I will ropest what- evor I know, but the prosenco of my olnldron, who bave beon kept in ignorance of all that hna occurrad, would be sutficient to prevent my say- oy anything at present.” Mea. Thomas then told the reporter that while in Furope sho had Leen sabjected to A great deal of annoyanca by earious peo&l,e, and that slis had coms to America hoping scek in tha roliromont of hor homo that privacy which the Isuinful prominence into which Ler fawmily was Itted hod 8o suddenly inysded. Tho reportor than departed, leaviog thia lady, whose foelinga haveTiéen 60 eorely tricd, enraged aa ho found ber, with tho four littlo cluldren, from whom sho hal »o eedulously guarded a knowledge that tuight tend to darkon their young lives.” YICTOR HUGO. His Address to the filectors of the Com| e I'ats, Jan, 20.—Vicsor Hngo publisbes in tho z'nrin Lapd the following ohsractorisile ad- reea : o+ Electors of the Communes, Loro is what Paris ‘expects of yout, Hbo baa suifered much, th noble city. Hue had, however, acaompliahed fior duty, Lho Empize, in December, 1401, took Nor by “forco, and, after dolug avorything to yanquish lier, did everyilung to eorrupt ber, Lo corrupt 14 the roal viclory of despoty,—tn de- grado consciences, effeminate hoarts, dwarf souls. A good way of reiguingl Crims bo- comen vice, and [:asse8 into the blood of nations. In » given tima Cewarism ends by making of the supremo city s Koma which makes Tacitus indignant. Violenca degene- rales into corruption. No yoke moro fatall Tuat yoka Paris eudurod tweuty years. 'The polson had time onough to succeed. Ona day, fivo ;nm ago, deoming tho mooint favorable, thinking that thoe 2d of Decomber must have comploted it work of abasement, onowies vio- tated enwnared Krance, and, after brostbing on the Empire which disappeared, rushied on Paris, They expected to fiud Bodom ; tho’ fonnd Bpacta. What Bparta 2 A Sparta of 2,000,000 men, 8 prodl;fly somothing history had vever tieen, Babylou having tho horoiem of Baragossa. A wavago investment, bowmbardment, overy van- dal brutahty, Paris—that Commune which is #poakiug Lo you at this moment, O Comumnne of Yranco—Pariy underwont sfl these ; 2.000,000 men showed to what » degrao the Iatherland is n voul, for thoy had one hoart. Five months of & Polar winter, which those peoploa of tho north #cemed to havo bronght with them, passed over the resistance of the Pariaiana without exbLanst- ing it. Thoro waa cold, there was bunger ; poople were glad to feel that they were maving tho honor of France, aud that tho Pans of 1871 was continuing tho Paria of 1792, and tho day when weak unlitary chiefs mado Paris capitnlato every other city would have raised n cry of joy. Parls utterad a cry of griof. Illow was this city ro- warded? My every ivsult., No tnariyrdom was spared tha aublime city. She alono baz houce- forth a right to the Aro do Iriomphia, It was by tho Arode Triompbe that Franco, repressnted by 1ts Assembly, stiould have desired to enter Taris barcheaded, Franco shonld have wiehod 10 houor itself by honoring Paris. ‘Tha contrary was dope, Iam not judging, Iam atating (acts, The future will pronounce its verdict. IHow. evor this way be, and without fosicting on it, Yarin was mitjudged. Paris, sad to eay, had enemies olsewhero than abroad. Calumnies wore boaped on this incomparable clty, which liad confronted disaster, which had ar. rosted and - disconcertod Germany; and whict, atded by tho iotrepid and powerful asuistanco of the Tours Goverament, would have cunuficd invagiou 1uto rout had ths resistauce lasted much longer, Ou this I'arls, which de- rerved overy reverence, every affront was cast, The ameunt of insult lavishod was measured by tho amount of roapect due. What matters it, liowever? Dy robbiug of ber disdom the capital of Frauce, ber enemies unveiled the brow of the capital of tho world. That broad forehesd of Yariais entirely visible, the more radiant bo- canso uncrowied. Ileocoforth the nationy uneuimously rocognize 'aris s tho motropolia of the human race, Elootors of ihe Communes, o groat bour is now stnking! The people are called on to speak : aud, aftor 50 many combats, sutferings, fnjustices, tortures, the hLeroie city ot this moment still struck by ostracism, comes to you. What does shoask you? Nothing for hereclf, everstung for the country, Bho asks you to place the futuro beyvond ques- uon. Bbe ssks you to found pohitical truth, Bocial verity; to found Democ- racy,to found Franes, Sha ssks you to pro- duce from the eolemnity of tho voto tho satiue faction of intorest sud couscionces, induatry bouored and frecd, taxation dunimsbed in tho whole and vroportioned 1n the detail, social roy- entio extricated from parasitisis, univorsal sulfrags comploted, right for all, Eloctora of the Communes! Paris, the bighest Commune, nuka vou by your vote to doercu. by the slgmfi- cance of your choico; tho end of abusos by the advent of truths; the end of wouarchy by the federation of vations; the end of forwign war by arbilration; the end of civil war by amuesty ; the sud of poverty by :ho end of “ignorance. Pariv asks of you (bo closing of wounds, At tlin hour, when so many Lostilo forces aro still eroct and meoscing, it asks you to give coufi- denco to progrees. to atlirm right beforo foree, to adirm force bofore Germanism, to aftirm Paris Leforo Rlome, to aftirin Jight beforo darkocss. You will do it. Une word mote, Let us dispel illuslons, dispel them without anger, with tho calmnees of certamty. Tiose who dream of logally sbolishing the lte- ublio at auy time whstuver aro decoived. ‘The tepublic pro-exists. 1t §s of natural righs, I'eo- ple do not vote for or agawst the air they reatho. ‘The law-of growth of the liuman tace s not put to tho vote, Monarchies, liko leading strings, may liave a reason tor oxisteuce s long 08 the nagion i Jittlo, Atrived at p cortain stat- ure, the natiou feels iteelf pirong enough to run lope and walk, A Hepublic {s anatin which doclares ttaelf of age. ‘The Yrench Rovolution is emancipated civitization. Thetraths aro aim- pls, Growthis s deliverance, That deliverance depends on 110004y, not even on yon. Do you put to tho vote thu hour when you aro 21 yoars of sge? 'T'ho French nation 1s of age. 1o mod- 1fy 1ts Conatitution s possible, toalter itango not. ‘T'o intrust it toa Monarchy would be to put it baek inta leading strings, It 18 30 big for that, Lot us accept manbood, Blantiood is tho lNe- public, Let us aceopt 1t for vurselves and de- Bive it for othors, 1.t us wikh other peoples tho full possession of thomsolvos. Let us offer them that unsLiakablo basis of poaco—fuderalion, Yrauce doeply loves tho uations, teeling Licrself thoir clder mster, Bhe is struck, treated ko an snvil, but elis sparkles under hatred. ''o those who would wonnd her, slie sendu a tlash of light it is her wav of rotaliating ; to yoako ono fumn- ily of the Coutivent. Yo relesso commorco hawmpered by froutiors, industry paralyzed by protibitions, Iabor crippled by parasitisms, propi= erty Joadud with taxos, " thought gaggud Ly "despotisg, covscience garoittod by dogtus; puch is tho aim of France, Will eho succeed ? Yoo, What France §s now foundiug 18 the Liberty of ustions. Tho work {8 moro than natlonal— it is coutinontal. Yurops froe will bo Europe immeusa, Bhe will ave no ather toil whau Lor own prosperity, will attain the Lighest stature which human civilization cau reach, \We arv ac- ousad of weditating revengo. 1tisso, Wo are meditating a rovenge,—profound rovenge. live years ago Europs seomed to bave but ono ides, —t0 abaso France. France now roplies, aud stio also has but ono idea,—to make Europe grost. ‘The Republic iy nothing but a great dissrou- wient, to which thero s but oue coudition,~ro- ciprocal respuct of right, WLt Frauco wills oug word is enough to dlrlfifl!.*—fl sublimo word, —Poace, From peaco will issue arbitration, aml frow arbitration the veccssary aud [egitimato Tostitutions. Wo dv not toubt it. France willi pesce in cousclonces, in intorests, amoug na- tious : poace in consciences by justico, in fue terests by progress, Alnunf uations by feator- uity, This will of Francais yours. Completa the foundailon of tho Hopublic, Make uich g clioico for the Sonato of France that tho poace of the world will result frou it. Yo conquet is sometlung, to pacify is everything. In the presonce of civilization coutemplstisy 50U take 8 desirable Republic, a Republic without the tate of sicmo, without the gag without exilos, without political galleys, without o military oke, without a clenicsl yoke. A lupublio of {mm aud liberty, Turn towards oulighitencd men; send thoui o the Seuate. They koow what Frauco uoedd, Order 18 made out of light ¢ Jroace 18 hight. Tho hour of violences is uast, /‘lpkers wio mora useful than soldiep. Fooplo aro diseiplined by tho sword, but eivilizod by the jdoa. bocrates 8 groater tuau Thcwistaclod, Virg than Cwsar, Vultaire than Nspoleon!®” — ————— A Black Barou. New Urians Ficayune, T'lero fa &1 jutoresting case uow in the bands of the Civil Shurifl. ‘The facts are ws follows: “Tha Kistorw of the nfl{ Cross brought recuutly » suit agaiust o colored mun, nsmed fenry Wii- sou, wlina Cross, ‘I'ue latter, who hes Loon a ward politician, has had great {ufiueuco over a large nuwmber of negroed, 1t is statad that Gov, Warmoth gave ima paper eutitling him to 40 acres aud s wuie whorover ho could fnd them. Wilsou selected & pisco of ground in the rear of the Third District, sbout fuur syuares, near Do- Bire aud Goulus wtroets, upou which be focated. iie dug a canal around Lo place, pub up s wwall house, tod orauge troos aud vegelablos, Through fear of wyaxion be construc W= bridge across tho diteh around his place and raised it at night. After eujoving tha for a nimber of years, the Hinters of !E‘; Holy Crosn dincovered that Wilson had taken pomses- sion of their land, aod instituied procecdings ainat him, Judament waa rendered in favor of tho Bistora, and tha Bhorift natlfied Wilso to vacate, The latter has anawarad thas ha would not leave, and has summonad ali the nagroes in tho noighborhood to bid doflanas to the laws. THE VALLEY OF THE ARKANSAS. A stream flows winding through the W Erom Colmpad's tanyas aay e Wort, Whence, apringing from her mountalo-crest, Tlo waters wild 1a toreenta Joap, % b To quench tha thirat of burning || ‘Then glow snon ‘mid verdiot lands, ‘Thia Plalnsmat, with his weary teain, ~ Lamg day hna journeyed, parched with thirsy; Then, glearntug far along the plan, ‘Tlirse wished-for waters chicering bareh On hix glad vislon, glitkering high, Likn molten silvee, ‘gslast the aky ! raperty All treelenn lle, on elther sido, The shorea for many a trackless leagus; Nor landmark mom:ib the way to gmide, Bave youder fer-off mountain.peak, ‘Whiera hagze with apiny cactus grows, And bough oo ul ahadow throws, Brown herds of lordly buffalo, Far a8 the eye aurvoys the soens, And surging like the ocean's flow, Grazu O'er tho baundless prairie green,— Then, starting up in wild sdright, Wake'farring thunders in their fight. Thenr doadly enomy sppears, Whose near apurosch that ruse bogulled 3 No muntang troop the bison fears,— . 1t ycenta the huntsman of the wild, iy mane and nock almost concealsd, ABd crest scarce over the steod rovealed, Thom, Srmiy grasping bow and apear, Aloy ils ctistger's Deck inclined, * Tho muvage pecds {n mad eareer, it seuiplock awresming n tis wind{— s iapless victhn aingled out Frum "moug tho panic-atricken rout, Urged from the Lnrdern of hia troop, “Tho bisots vainiy strives ta fleo s . Theu, Yoering with the vulture's swoop, TlTD! ,D: pursuns relcutlonsly,— 1, e puulotodn ey, with Horns 8 Cuargiog in valh 146 aglle foe. - o Still closa Leside, the huntsmen ride s kloarws beilowingm peak thio Lison's pain g ory #hle,— Thuir lonthered shaft are la his mane; iy Thio lance b porcod w vital part— A hoavy r'all—a dyiug snort, Loug loagnas aro pasecd—far othier scens Lists (o ttuy Lig Arkausas’ song; The coyote's huwl tella what Lisa tieen, And white boues strew the plain along; ‘The red t0an secks & far domaln, Nor wigwata dots the valley plaw, Toward Missiatppl's sunny clime Bue pweepa duwns from her wountains wild, Telijng ler hiatyry sublime, Through many’ a forost denas hegullad; Thorse watern, onzo the bosver's hotme, Bpresd where huy'e alligstora rosm. ‘Where that wild siream through Esneas glides, Lright cities gem thoe cheertul An‘t broad plautatioms deck Ler sides, Whore fiolds of verdure bask serens; Exullingly sbu smnilas slong, ‘Aud musicsl Les varying soiig. Though mild, benlgm nt waters sleop Detricon thone bankt when Aubtnn blooms, A'mad tids, raging vast and docp, Iu sarly pringtime svaring comea; Tuen woe to daning seisler should 1w sock to bravo that tareatening flood | The Winescach and Chisbuolm gleam Through swaying boughs an.J Sowery bauka; The plum and wild grape shade the siroaw, And n1od above In fruttfal ranks ; Here floats wild duck with water-ben, And marwmot burrows {n tha fen. 31 thin plad valley, richly fair, “Two siwier rivers Iughlig meet, rateful aliure nd tlaw'rols aweot; And Wichila's tall spires are secn, Which Bouthiwest proudly calls her Queent TReclaimed from wildrst Naturo's boms, A woudrous marve) of the sge, Bha rears luzurious Hplendor « dome Where lately schoed vavage ragu, And, ling 'rivg not for I3yso of yeais, Wesitl, Beauly, Fesldou, Art, appears| Bright gom within an emerald shrtne, Tue beautoous city jroudly siia} Arouud the grausy Uillowe shiae, 0'ar Which the Uark-grcon siadow filta} ringing s by Rochantment's wand, "Iha walls, with Wirrets crowned, expund | "Tin sweet tha charming scens fo view When browse Le Lorda ‘nesth twillshit skig Whiere, waving 'gaivet the Lackground blus, Dark foliage 1o the breoze repiiss, And where the frultftt gerdon ‘Adorsed with fragrant wild flowers far. And hero tha ruby censitive plact, 1iy youny winds fed withs silver dew, Blrinks from the touch of Lutaan Land, Lika taiden coy beneath the viaw Iier own unconscioys besuty ciatiued,— 4 1y ardent adwiratiuu abawied, ‘The settlor, woarfed with his toil Lxulting scauned his falr doman ; Dreamed of the Leryeat, when rich spotly VI ghant fruite sud golden grain Bloul3 wwell the garners plontecis slorcd Whan Boress turough the valley roared ; Droumed o'ex fmprovements for tha laud Late wrosted frow rude Nature's hotd,— Of wew ickovutes ¢ Fotuey platied A dymicite which should anfoli 11a babes with greater comfori~—then Hia eye survoyed tho flolda agatn | Lika Egypt's devastating cloud Catis: 0w thie Woetists—Nyugry host : That moru, greelt waved plantsttons proud; "That eve, their verdurs all wos lost Wherever vegotation grow, “The bopo-destroyluginyrids flew t Thelr fithia eclipas the nyn with gray, And untoid leygous ride the galo: . Down comes tho scourge, sud stil thoy slay, With faoiine threateniug sl) the vale | “Tisougb blighted Lojes and abject feats, Urind Lusolation's faca sppears | But 1201 was now Lumans to man, ‘And from the oation’s garners plled & The pi lanthropic curreat ran Wikl ety fur tho settler's ebildg And (e wucceeding year reatorod . Ten-fulil what fed that jnpect-horde, > A thrifty marchant Drirfes was, Whio roarad 1l Tudian tradiung-post When Civilization guva o Lawe Heeuriug H OF trossuro lost,— ‘Whien lawless wien, with entne'1n view, Fatablishid hen tielr reudesvous, Then traveler through thia reglon drear, With weapon clsicoud and watebful sye, Reckd not when outlaws should appoar, Crouchod weath that cluwp Le pusses’by, Alert 1o suleo tha stardled tesm, Aud plunge his budy b the stream § Ob ! could that river, nmrmuring low, Tell of dark dowls sbio wituoserd thure, Her boaom dyed tu crinson glow Froum siat cald wbiape bur walurs bovr, Yeul Tearn, from bier duw, yeNow bauk “I'hat forn was fluag whichh wulien sank | Tut emigration’s ocaseloss flow on overawes thoas sous of crime, And pettlers’ ¥igorons actions show Qi Hetribution Lides Ler time, Till gallows-tree, by woonlight dim, 1 Lbeurs borse-thie! wrung trown overy limb | The desperado’s desds no moro struinte of civil law dofy ; ho daya of Lodford'a Jeaguio ary o'sr, And violones beleld him dle Diold bandit | nunbers round him stand. Whurs bo falls Aghting hund 40 band § A wtrangely-miogled group was there, As then tha tufant city lay,— inde burderorw, with uashorn latr, Who 1 the chissy great akill diaplay,~ Adveuturers of ovory grade, Withy enterprising sous of trade, No gleswming doma of palace grand Iu duzeliug grandous grosts tho eye, ‘Where unpiretentious dwellings atasnd Yo would not visw sdioiriugly; Mo wpan ‘bove ibe Arkansas sioad Whero waves tha slivery cottonwood, That froutiec's luzuries waro fow, “Though Fastilon introduoed lict arh, ¥ur Beauly here Lad wanderod, oo, ‘Fo win and fatne tlie ruder beart, Whero oftutines & dveper shado Tiuged tho brown chiecks of native mald, ©Ob § many s smirthful re Aud vigorou 8 Whirkad te ay Caico Ll migh, o gona iut it rude vrsbestes WAbS e'er 11 bplendor's rescou] sppear 4 iauunou F, Pasan A Freuch Divorce Sult, A curivus supar case has joat boen brought before the Parisian courts. Gen, ! Dousy, who cowmands an ‘mdy corps, has ace’ cusoed iy wifo of dosortion, saod of Laving rone* dered life in commou quite knposmble. Mime, Douay afirms that sho Gouoral mtuunlnnd ber fortune, buat bor, aod took awsy ler cllld. Iu-| stoad of draggiog tho v:fisl“u matter before tha court, counsel on adopted the novel ox| totnunfluulnmdrm:um»nu‘., which recuived two large packets, ~the ono frolg’ Maitro Nicholet, the ocher fram Alsitrs Lacaud, 2 hromised 1o examine shaoi, ad said Judgment, should Lo dalivered in a woe! &