Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, January 29, 1869, Image 1
BY ROBERT YOUNG & CO,
VOL. IV..NO. 16
_^POETRY.
"Beauty and Innocence
ny l-A UK D UNJAM IK.
Tho star (hal peins lifo's morning sky
Smiles sweetly o'er theo now ;
And flowers ?round thy pnthwny lie,
And roses crown thy brow
That shed their doliente perfume
M'd ringlets trembling like ti plumo;
"While n deep witchery, soft mid bright,
ls floating in those eyes of light.
Pure and undimmed, thy nngol smilo
Is mirrored on my dreams,
Liko evening's sunset, gtrdo I isles
Upon lier shadowed streams;
And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats,
Liko melody of spring bird notes,
Whoa tho blue halcyon gently leaves,
His plumage in tho flushing waves.
I cannot gaze on aught that wears
Thc beauty of thc skies.
Or aught that in life's Valley boars,
Thc hu?s of paradise ;
I cannot look upon n star,
Or cloud that seems a seraph's ear,
Or any form of purity,
Unininglcd with a dream of thoo.
VARIETY
The Ex-King-Again 1
In out last week's editorial ou thc ex-King
who formerly ruled in America, we cstimutcd
the present orop of cotton ns being rather un
der than over 2,700,000 bales. It will bo
?eeo, from tho following department estimate,
that we were not very far astray in our lig
ures :
? Bales.
North Carolina - - 140,000
South Caroliuu - - 180,000
Georgia . - . 290,000
Florida - - 85,000
Albama - - 285,000
Mississippi - - 400,000
Louisiana ' - - 250,000
Texas . . 200,000
Arkansas - . 205,000
Tennessee - . 200,000
Other States - - 75.000
Total.,.2,3S0,UU0
To the above we may safely add about 2,50,
000 bales, which would give a total of 2,080,?
000 bales.
Tho depart inert estimate for 1806 was 1,
^835,000 bale?; tko actual receipts amounted
io 1,900,000 bales. The department estimate
for 1867 was 2,310,000 bales; the actual re
ceipts amounted to 2,450,000 bales. Thc in
formation wo have received from several load
ing commission houses iu Southern ports fully
confirms uar own view of the probable total
receipts from the crop of 1808-namely, 2,
630,000 bales.
If our estimate bo ns near tho truth, as we
have good reason to /bink it is, thc money val
ue of tba cotton crop will be in excess of that
of 1859, which was the largest crop produced
in the United Stat tis.
This is, unquestionably, n most pleasing
prospect for our Southern friends, us well us
for tho whole country, so fur, at least, ns tho
near future is concerned. M ensured by a gold
dollar it represents a sum of not less than two
hundred million of dollars. What u fabulous
amount ! Looking nt thc starlight figures
'.-8200,000,000-the planters may be ex
cused for thinking that thc great staple is
again enthroned as King. But tho fact re
mains, that all winch wc can afford to export
out this valuable crop, which Great Britain,
with all ber boasted wealth, could not pay in
gold, will not suffico to check thc growth of
cotton in other oountrios, or to control thc cot
ton markets of tho world.
Wo must beware of killing thc goose which
lays suoh goldon eggs. Its lifo oan only bo
preserved in tho vny wo have already pointed
out. Thc prosent price of thc staple, condu
cive as it certainly is to the Immediate inter
im este of all conoerned, must supply a power
ful stimulus to tho production of cotton in
Asia, Africa, tho West India Islands, Aus.
tralia, oto. This can only bc counteracted
by an extension of tho urea of production in
our cotton States, by tho adoption of improved
modos of oui turo, and by the porfoct organ i .
! ?ation of thc free lubor; on which our planters
must now entirely depend." It is useless to re
vert to tho dead issues of tho past,
?bo probloms of tho groot present and tho
immeasurable future uro those which are pres
liing for polution, and wo again oall upon our
frionds in tho South to be up and doing. As
wo said last week, they must bostir themselves
I in oidor to rcgnin tho control of foreign mar
kcts. Thus, and thus only, can tho ex-King
be reerowned. as, wo venturo to prodiot, ho
will be at a comparatively early dato.
Meonwhilo, wp offer our hearty congratu
lations to our friends in the cotton States for
tho activity they havo already displayed in
^Wising so. largo a orop os that whioh is now
courso of transit to tho seaboard. Let thom
persevere io adapting themselves to tho altered
circumstances of to-day, nnd their sunny lands
ft\\\ soon " rojoioo and blossom as the t oso.'
[iVeto York Mercantile Journal.
Jt'i?ilrS got by fraud aro dug out of one's
tm h%rt> and destroy the mini
* - . .?"."
Rays of Promise
Tho people of thc South have, for tho past
th roo years, been thc victims of calamities as
bitter as often falls to tho lot of a subjugated
people. They have experienced nearly all
thc evils known to tuitions-famine, military
tyranny, villification, poverty,'and Buffering
in all varied forms whenever they expressed
discontent, they were charged witli being re
bellious ; whenever they besought their con
querors to rcmovo some of tho evils under
which they suffered, they at oucc awakened a
fresh storm of abuse, and oxpericuccd new
forms of oppression more humiliating and in
sufferable than beforo. They never behoved,
however, that thc Northern people, as a mass,
were the willing instruments of their degrc
dutiou to that extent it finally reached.
Thc motive was apparent even then. The
party in power had a candidate in thc field for
the Presidency. Thc people were becoming
tired of tho party and its leaders and anxious
for u chango of rulers. Thc Republican par
ty must cither go to thc wal), or else maintain
its holds upon tho people by a coup d' etat,
us bold as it was hackneyed by previous cx
umple. Its leaders determined that the par
ty must live if tito country were rent in twui^.
Their press and spokesmen every where raised
tho cry of rebel"-thc horrors of tho Into
war were re hashed and served up again aud
again to tho unthinking. " Rebel prison
pens," ?' slave drivers," " blood hounds,"
"nogro^tfssaoros," Vithall the imaginary
atrotf^Prtliat, the mind could conceive, were
served out day by day to tho multitude, until
it became lilied with fury against the South.
Congress, to keep up thc deception, passed
the negro suffrage reconstruction laws, and
made the military power supremo over the
civil.
Grant was elected, and tho seething of thc
politicul cauldron tit once ceased. Tlic North
ern people begin to think we were not as had
as we were represented to bc. The Congress
has all at Once begun to manifest a course
somewhat resembling conciliation ; thc politi
cians have ceased to defame us, und thc "New
York Tribune" has nguiu made some ap
proaches towards decency and truth. We
alono were the sufferers from this state of af
fairs. Capital failed to seek investment hero
and property became almost worthless in val
ue. There was no money, no credit, no en
terprise, und but little home.
Tho spirit of toleration that has lately
sprung up, and that seems likely to continue
until-tho approach of thc next general elec
tion, is already producing favorable results.
If thc next election wore only far enough off)
WC would entertain .some hopes that the fra
ternization would become complete. Already,
oapilal has begun to How in from abroad,
bringing population and business; and popu
lation and business, in time, will help to swell
the flo v Of capital. The Southerners havo
either ull at once quit that detestable habit of
running down and killing, with blood hounds,
their Northern visitors, as the "Tribune,"
related with so much pathos ; or else thc
"Tribune" ?ind sheets of that ilk were misin
formed about the facts. Anyhow, thc peoplo
of tho North arc beginning to look and travel
Southward, liven Thurlow Weed, who was
not in thc late war, but who did moro than
most others in producing it, baa buckled on
his carpet-bag for a winier among the rebels of
Florida !
Wo cordially wclcomo any and all who may
como-oven Thurlow Weed-if ho will only
behave himself, and bring his dollars with
him. Wc want material prosperity. Wo aro
tired of thu turmoil and trouble of tho past
few years, and would Uko, of all things, to
bo lot alone, nt least until wo eau rostorc a
part of whnt wo havo lost. Our tioighbors
north of us seem to grow moro tolorant ; Con
gress has become tranquil again, and tho im
aginary rebellion that has waged sinoo the
actual ono closed, has somehow or othor, sub
sided.
. In all this, thorc is n sign of protniso to us.
Let us go to work and improvo thc occasion,
if pot regain powor, nt least to mnko bread
and moat for tho country.- Yorkvillc En
quirer.
A BEAUTIFUL HETUOSPKCT.-When thc
Mummer day of youth is slowly wasting away
into tho nightfall of ago, deeper and deeper
as lifo wears to a dose, it it, pleasant lo look
baok through tho vista of timo upon tho joys
and sorrows of oarly .yoars. If wo have a
homo to shelter, or hearts rejoice with us, und
frienda who have been gathering, round our
fircsido, thon tho rough plaocs of our way
faring will be worn and smoothed away in tho
twilight of lifo, while tho bright sunny spots
wo havo passed thorough will grow brightor
and more beautiful. Happy, indeed, are
those whoso interoourso with tho world has not
'.manged tho oourso of thoir holier feeling, or
brokon those musical dionis of tho heart whoso
vibrations aro so melodious, so tender and so
; tenoning in the evening of age.
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[From (ho Atlanta Constitution.]
Money and Matrimony--No Moro Marriages
for Love
Burke, when eloquently mourning the un.
huppj f^*o of Marie Antoinette, said : Tho
agc of ch'valry is gone." If the announcement
was pre nature then, it is not so uow. "Who
has nc heard with overwhelming interest of
thc days of knight errantry so well described
by Scott in his wonderful historical romaneo ?
Thou womau was looked up to and revered
more as a pure and holy being from a higher
world than as a native of this, inheriting any
of thc consequences of thc fall of man. The
men bore themselves gallantly in the tourna
ment for the prize they longed to lay at thc
i feet of her they loved. Dueling originated
in love. That is the only circumstancejA\ai
gives tho barbarous practice any softening
feature. Men fought frr the womau of their
choice; and though it was no credit to bj
reckless cf their lives, it was cvidcuoc of tul
devoted ness of their uttuchmcut.
That ?B all ohauged. This is another agc,
a bettor age on thc whole ; but we cannot but
deploro tito passing away of the high and
chivalrous devotion of thc ifuir sex that pre
vailed iu a barbarous period. With increased
civilization oamo a longing tor wealth. Kv
crything is now sacrificed to tho universal
gold. The noblest fashions, tho finer foclings
domestic and sooial happiness, aro freely lau
on thc altar of mammon. This is apparcn
in every day life. Men or women do not mar
ry for love. They have got ovor that weak
ness. Marriages de convenance ava in vogue
A fashionable mother is blest with daughters
Thoy obtain to the dignity of lon?; dresses am
chignons, and enter society. Whatever hon
orable and natural sentiment developed itsel
in them, soon withers and dies in tho unhcal
thy atmosphere of fashion. They uro trottet
out for inspection, by thoir shrewd, calcub
ting mammas. Their points aro sk|i"-'T|
and dilated upon tis it' they wore IfffWg'-';.?.?
"For sale," is printed in uiiinistakabhrW
guagoon their foreheads. They soon m fl
Stand tho part they must act. Tho cui^l
headed scion of a wealthy shoddy i to is we
coined with nods, and books, and wreathe
smiles, while the young man, depending fe
his fortune on his own strong arm, bis inte
p;ct, his probity, his indomitable resolve t
ounquer ail difficulties, to persevere in spit
of tho world, tho Hedi, and the devil, gets th
cold shoouldor. The qualifications of a but
baud are perfectly understood. Marriage ha
been reduced to an exact scionoo. A browi
stone mansion, carriages, a summer residence
a large bank account, and all that can con
maud, with a fop or a niuuyhuiumor of a ma
thrown in, is all that a young lady cares fe
now. Future happiness is little thought c
in connection with marriage
It is this longing for wealth that has dei
troyod chivalry. A young man cannot huv
a chivalrous feeling for bis lovely partner i
a quadrille, when ho knows she is thinkin
how much he is worth, or how much Liu full
cr will leave him, and what probability thci
is of his father crossing thc t irk river soot
Young men have a wholesome fear of merci
nary minded women. This fear makes man
old bachelors, and a corresponding number t
old maids. Female extravagance is chaine
teristic of the times. But not in thc highc
walks of life alone, for it prevails to a cortni
extent ovcry class, in rich and poor uliko, an
consequently men romuiu single, liko Cowpei
ncvor knowing
"-domestic bliss,
Thc only happiness that survived thc fall."
. Who will not, thcrcforo, mourn that chiv
airy is dead, Cupid's occupation gono ? Thor
ave. of course, and always will bo, many mal
fortune hunters ; but thc vice, for Y?CC it if
has becomo of Into years peculiarly a feminin
weakness.
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Eoonomy in Buying.
In buying articles, make a distinction bc
tween what you need, and what you would lik
to have, and beforo purchasing, bo quito sur
that you havo not something of tho kind 01
hand, that would answer your purposo ncavl
tis -well. As a general rule, unless you huv
plenty of monoy at your disposal, it is bost t
''fool a want boforo you pr?vido against it.'
Of course tlioro aro exooptions to this rulo, a
somo articles of diet aro cheaper when bough
in quantities, and others improve with keep
ing; bowover, in these timos of fluctuatinj
prices, it is usually safer to buy only a mod
erato quantity at once Never buy an irtiol
you do not want, because it is cheap. I one
knew a woman who hud a perfect mania fo
shopping, who was always on tho lookout fo
groat bargains, and who bought ot/orythinj
that she considered low-priced, whether sh
needed it Ot not. Silks, fashionable in he
grandmother's timo, dress trimmings and but
tons of oveiy variety; and all manner of soil
Cd and inferior articles wore eagerly snatohci
up, bcoMise "they wero ohoap." As a mntto
ot courso, sho was often obi ?god to do wi th ou
?oeoMarica ? and noither horsolf nor hQr faro
.niiMi ??! i wiMiii?MTixmmi?i
ily ever looked neut or stylish.
A friend of ours once said, "when I was
young, I thought, if 1 saw anything that wus
remarkably cheap, I must buy it at once, or
j it would bc gone ; but as I grow older, I fiud
? au many good ohanecs to invest as over, and
that there arc always plenty of good bargains
to bc hud for the uioucy, and there is no dan
ger of their all being gouc, for many years to
como." ^^^?to?
Do not buy articles thuujfl | |||y need,
unless you can make them U]WB ;\ -^;c-: ?????^J,,W
a good plau to keep amcmorfflB i |j
tilings us you %?jtht^HBftfc0fo*ra?W'?>
purchase, locket ove^^mrefiilWf ' j}3B - * SS
almost always bc aouiothing tU9j
penscd with. {fflv'/'v. .;.
Low-priced articles arc frequolH % '
making up j but a medium quuloH
Wv bMter than thc very iittfflB
ohWpor, und cut to better adyaj / \ m*
bought Ly the piece. Never buyjg Ti .. t ,<> -
lin for sheets j thc heavier it Mftfgfi S iii m
will wear. Pillow cases mayS
thc cloth should bo linn. The hoav^M
cd Soofeh table linen lasts longer for^H
day wear, than any wo have tried, and whitojfc
very soon ; for toweling, huckaback is far tm
best.
In purchasing dress goods, always select 8
good article A firm, neat calico is preferabh
to a slu/.y, faded silk. The making, trim
ming and lining, often costs as much ns tin
dress itself; therefore it never pays to buy i
poor article. In selecting u ^ilk dress, ohoost
one of a single color. l'lfi^L?illcs may bi
fashionable one season, uu^S || jteWWMMM
able the next; but plain fl
? and will always be lashijjH , s*^^. .
color, green is, I thinkjH
p?M
CVcB 'V/rV,VV -;':o: Sj
dfl
selH '
haW^jB
say. TO|HS
waste, or turnHj
ly worn. ^^HH
in furniture choose tlmt wTnen'P'PWHnui
substantial, avoiding, as fur ns possible, o
sin... s and imitations. A good ingrain carpi
will w.ar longer thuu a three-ply, and Brui
sols will give better servico than cither, if th
floor is uuiootho and oven.
Flour should be bought by thc barrel.
Very light brown sugar is sweeter than whiU
and is quite ns good, for many purpose;
Oolloo is best bought raw, and roasted iu suia
quantities. Juputi ton ie about thc purest nm
sold. Spices should bc bought whole, an
ground ns thoy aro needed. Soap and cat
dies improve with keeping, and will go farthc
than when used fresh.
And finally, when you find by oxporieuc
that you can rely upon tho word of a merchaul
grocer, or any other tradesman that you ma
deal with, better, us a rule, buy of him tba
to go about among strangers in quest of hui
gains, when they kuow tho value of thor good
much better than you do.
Curiosirios of Creation
Tho whole univcrso'is a thought, and tba
thought is thc thought of God. Thefounda
tion of nil things is intelligent force and good
ness ; these aro found neting in every depart
mont of nature, in tho rocks, fluids, gasea
animated bodies, and everything that ba
being. Tho very samo expression exists cv
ovrywhere, and we arc tbcrcforo obliged ti
acknowledge n Lawgiver; a design, hence
a Designer. If wo oxamiuo tho crystal, W'
find it is tho result of force Wo may destro;
its organization, but can novor destroy th>
force that gave it that organization. Tin
world invisible is tho most substantial of all
Wo oan continue to take up plants. Tin
scod always proclaims tho tree and tho fruit
oven tho leaves conform to tho impress of tin
original seed. No seed will transfer its frui
to nnothor kind; each bears fruit after itt
own. Tho pcar-trco docs not grow from tin
sued of tho applo, nor is tho gosling hatchet
from tho crow's ogg.
Tho niioroscopo discovors rnattor until i
dwindles almost to nothing; and wo find util
itv in everything. All this is not tho rcsul
of ohanoo, but shows a beautiful Lawgivor
Koree is tho only substantial thing found it
nature. It lins in its fossil state in tho coal
When coal is put in tho furnace of tho oiiglno
it generates ?team, but it is only tho forco o
tho sunshine which came from heaven main
thousand years ago. Tho samo is tho casi
with gas; it is tho samo light whioh was ab
wc extract und usc it again. Force and mat
ter can never bc destroyed. In force wc find
thc infinito r iwcrof thc goodness of thc Al
mighty.
On thc leaf of thc maple wc find thc buds
arc exactly opposite cacti other, and so in pairs,
ono above thc other, along thc entire stem.
In others they differ j in going round thc
Btem once, we will hud two, three, and so on
up ; which will bo illustrated by numbers. ?
W^c find this same plan in thc solar system,
fer ?nod of planets placed in ibo same
;s on thc trees. Ile who
>cs thc planets to
I
and con tri f
wherc. Thc
odies is im
tidcd by mat
r in a highly ex.
"mes thc spots on
after a whilo reap
breaks iu thc volume
Some of them are 80
fee worlds like ours could pass
t, and yet lea\c 3-1,000 miles to
nco.
Our B?n&liino is caused by thc reflection of
tho heat of tho gas around thc sun. There
is no doubt but that thc sun isa mass of liquid
fire. Thc time will come when it will bum
out, sud then our solar system will also go
out.
Thc fixed stars arc other suns, constantly
in motion, which move through space as we
do.
The crust of the earth was made by liquid
oling; and, strange as it may seem, thc
st mountains arc the newest. Thc lliui
Mouutaius arc good example.
The Art of Conversation,
ooks have been written on what their
s arc pleased to call ' The urt of Convcr
I in t whether it is nu art at all, in
insc of being subject to any rules, orat
io hy any discipline of teaching, is much
doubtful. Iii the same way there
ed to be an art of poetry ; the as
ip bc fitted out with a dictionary
nd another of rhymes, and, by
to turn out exceptional verse,
hat has before DOW been priut
lis creed must have found its
Hut the instances arc probably
uro in which talking has formed a subject of
study, whether such an addition to our social
education would be an improvement or not.
Some of the best talkers, Recording to their
lights, will bo found among tho uneducated
classes, by any ono who will be at thc pains
to draw them out. Thc power Of telling a
story well, with all due embellishment of tone
and gesture-including such a disguise of the
plain prosaio truth ns all good story-tellers
have a lioonso for-belougs to some of this
class in perfection. Shrewd remarks upon
things aud persons, founded very often upon
a nico discrimination of character; satire,
keon if not refined j often very delicate flat
tery (if flattery bo not too harsh a word for
what is much moro tho real good breeding
than thc smiling insincerities of higher lifo;)
and never under any circumstances those cov
ert sneers under the mask of politcno'S, of al}
social impertinences tho most insufferable,
which pass too often unrcbuked, because to
resent them involves nlmost an equal broach
of good manners, and which arc thc exclusive
accomplishments of tho gentler sox. If somo
of thc poor bad their Boswell, what amusing
volumes might take the place of somo of our
tedious modern biographies 1 But these good
talkers iu humble lifo aro fast dying out.-?
Thoy exist ohicfly among thc generation who
road tho book of life much more readily than
their primors, and understood thc world with
in thc limits of their own expericnoe nono thc
worse because they know not which hemis
phere they lived in. Loaming may havo douo
much for tho village young ladies who pass
in Standard V.l., but at least it has not made
them moro pleasant to talk to than thoir grand
mothers. Possibly thoir little knowledge em
barrasses them. Thoy ure conscious that thoir
natural talk will hardly bear strict grammati
cal analysis, and thoy despair, on tho other
hand, of reaching tho exalted style of dia
logue which they find in thc pages of their
favorite penny novelist.' Tho consequence is
an awkward affectation, whioh is anything
but an improvement on tho rough and ready
converso of tho moro illitoruto poor. One
cannot help feeling that thoro is m?cl? truth
in th J quaint protost of a pleasant writor who
has littlo sympathy with modern cultivation
-'if wo hud as many readers ns wc havo books,
what a precious dull lot wc should bo I'
Bo not oloso a lotter without reading it, or
drink water without seeing it.
WHY is a loafer in a newspaper offico like
a shade'tree? Bocauso wo PM fttod when he
The Deathbeds of Rossini and Rothschild.
Rossini was a sceptic in matters of religious
belief, and so lived ; but as death approached,
it would seem that thc drer..! common to all iu
that season, and a desire for religious conso
lation and thc absolution of the church, seized
upon him. A correspondent of the New
York Express writes :
It would seem that, as death approached,
tho sceptic Rossini felt the usual Italian su
perstitious dread, and doairc for religious cou
I solution and absolution. It is true that tho
maestro still believed in his possible recovery
when ho sent for a priest, but bc was terribly
shattered-bad suffered agonies, and, ns ho
could but feel how possible death was, he re
quested that a priest might bc sent for--"that
tall, pleasant-looking one," he had seen ouco
at thc Church of St. Roch, when he, Rossini,
went there to hoar tho music of Vervoitte.
lie did not know the name of tho priest, but
bc remembered that he was tall. It was as
certained that M. P'Abbo Gallct was thc por
son in question, and bc was at once sum
moned to the bedside of thc suffering maes
tro. In addition to having a fine form and
pleasant faco, tho priest had a sweet voice,
and this it was that attracted more particular
ly thc sympathy of Rossini. To Father Gal
let bc niado confession, assuring tho latter
that bc would bo happy to dio a good Catho
lic. Still bc did not then suppose he was 60
near hts end, and but a day or two previous,
Mme. Rossini had turacd away from tho houso
thc Pope's Nuncio, because that worthy indi
vidual having called upon Rossini thought it
proper to warn him of his approaching fate,
and urged him to seek religious consolation.
Thc sick mau suffered horribly. Ile was
tormented by a ceaseless thirst. Ho begged
all thc while for iced drinks to assuage tho
burning heat which scorched him. Ho lost
consciousness some hours before he diod, but
suffered terribly up to the last moment. Tho
last word bc spoko was his wife's name.
* Thc will of thc maestro, it is said, is a
most liberal one. Ile has ordered that but
the sum of 2,000f be devoted to defraying tho
expenses of his funeral, which bc desired
might bc very plain and unassuming. Ho
left it to tho decision of his wife, whore his
body should bc interred. In a given time
nearly thc whole of his personal property will
bo niado over to his native place, where insti
tutions arc to bc founded, such as will add to
thc lustre of his name, were that possible.
During her life, Mme. Rossini has thc inter
est of the money left by the maestro, but, as
I said above, in a given time thc whole of it
will go to founding a conservatory of music.
Rossini, it is said, founds iii Puris an anuual
prize for music, religious or profano, but it is
on condition that thc latter shall in all cases '
bo of the most uudoubtcd morality. To tho
Institute of Frauoc he wills an annual sum of
G,000f, to bc thus divided : To tho author of
a poem, and thc composer, 3,000f each. Tho
Institute is left to decide upon the merits of
thc works competing for tho prize, but Rossi
ni strongly urges that there bc melody in tho
gucccssful works.
Unliko Rossini, Baron Rothschild was Uko
all of his race, a firm believer iu his religion,
thc Hebrew, and his decease was followed by
a strict observance of tho auciout forms. Thc
same correspondent tells of tho closing scenes
j of tho great banker's lifo thus :
Tho Baron died during the night without
pain. He w?s fortuuuic to thc last. With
scarcely a shudder ho passed from this world.
It was throe in tho morning-tho family,
worn out with constant watching, had rotired .
to rest-thoro wcro but two servants near tho
sideman. All at onco tho pcrfcot immobili
ty of thc body attracted tho attontion of tho
sorvauts, and they ascertained that lifo was
extinct. Since then all tho family have not
left thc chamber where tho body Hos. Tho
furniture, carpets and*all, havo been takon
away, and, ncoording to Jewish rites, tho
mourner's sit thc; o on baro floor. Each
morning and evening the friends of tho fami
ly moot to pray in that room. Thoir clothes
aro rent, tho men do not shavo j in this dis
order aro tho outward signs of woo. As the
Huron was a most kind and affectionate falb
er and husband, tho inward sufferings of thouo
bereaved must, of courso, bo great. From
tho Synagoguo tho body will bo taken to Pero
la Chni?o, washed and perfumed thoro, and
then buried according to tho Jowish ceremo
nial.
WOUDS AND WORK.-A gront roany wen
would bo real forces bf goodness in tho world,
if they did not let all thoir prinoiplo and en
thusiasm escapo in words. Thoy.nro liko lo
comotivos which let off so rouohsfceatn through
tho escupo valves that, though thpy fill Ibo
air witb nolso; they have not power enough
left to move the train. If you have got any
tiflnoiplo, any faith, any enthusiasm, any fire
in your soul keep tho toii^ue-Vfilvo ClosQ^iyl