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THE MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT.
PLACER1TLLE, EL DORADO COtNTY, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY" 3, 1863.
Naauere of (lie Whites by the Nr.
grori of St. Domingo.
It was on the morning of the 23d of Au
gust, 17U1, just before day, that a general
alarm ami consternation spread through
out the town of the Cape. The inhabit
ants were called from their beds by per
sons who reported that all the negro slaves
in the several neighboring parishes had
revolted, and were at that moment carry
ing death and desolation over the adjoin
ing large ami beautiful plnin to the North.
The Governor and most of the military
officers on duty assembled together, hut
the reports were so confused and contra
dictory as to gain hut little credit. As
vi (m wk. the sudden anti
successive arrival, with ghastly counte
nances, of persons who had with difficul
ty escaped the massacre, and flown to the
town for protection, brought a dreadful
confirmation of that fatal titling.
“'I' 1 '." vbvKvan tirst broke out on a
plantation called Noe, in the parish of
Acul, nine miles only from the city.—
Twelve or fou: teen of the ringleaders,
about the middle of the night, proceeded
to the refinery or sugar-house, and seized
on a man, the refine's apprentice, dragg
ed him to the front of the dwelling house,
ami then hewed him into pieces, with
their eullasses; his screams brought out
the overseer, whom they instantly shot.
The rebels now found their way to the
apartment of the refiner, and massacred
him in his bed. A young man, lying sick
in a neighboring chamber, was left appa
rently deatl of the wounds indicted by
their cut a-ses. He had strength enough,
however, to crawl to the next plantation,
and relate the horrors he had witnessed,
lie reported that all the whites of the es
tate which he had left, wire murdered,
except only the surgeon, whom the rebels
had compelled to accompany them, on the
idea that they might stand in need of his
profc-sional assistance. Alarmed by this
intelligence, the persons to whom it was
coinmuiiieated, immediately sought their
safety ‘in tlight.
“lb- re volt eis (consisting now of all
the slaves in t!. ,t proceeded to
tti house i.f a Mr. Clement, by whose ne
ar a- tiny wi-re immediately joined, and
' th be ah 1 his reliiier were massacred,
lie hi.t \r,r if Mr. Chineut was bis
iam p stillion. (e aehiiian; a man to
w in 'in I e t,a 1 always shown great kind
he ». I;,'- oih.r white people mi his
cs.ale r.-htrived to make their eseape.
“ At t i- ; i t ip-, the negroes on the
plantation "I M. Twill, a few miles dis
tant, l:k ti-e iii-i- an I murdered five
w bite ;-rr«-fs. -me of n bom (the attorney
for ('• / had a wife and three
dnugl.; ■ i . e utijot tuuate women
wi.ile it! ; lining f • mi-rev ol the savages
on ll.eii hr -i-, li he! I lln.ii- tiiishaud and
■ it ■ r ttiiir-h led ! .-I"*. tin ir faces, l-'or
t ' ;n- lirs, to > u.i • d.vot-d to a more
i.oiM 1 fa»- ! and wt.te carried away cap
to -s In- the r.s--.--it.s.
■'The ap; r a.b "I day light S"fv»d only
to i-cuv •! sighis .if honor. It was now
I', 'iVlII* t.lli Inc log! OCS of ill! tile C.S
t s in the p.uin acted in concert, and a
• tl«.t!i:i-~-i,-te hftbe whites took place
in every quarter. tin s >me few- estates,
indeed, t'..- lives tf the women were
•pai..I, toil t.lev wore reserved nnlv to
gratify iho brnl;.' app. tit. s of the ruf
li't’-s; at.-l it is shocking to relate that
i! . y . f tin-ui .siiti.red violation on the
dead bn-li s of loeir husbands and fa
thers!
no: sr.w;ni.;> nr riin xiautoEs—tiii:it jdv
or a w iiirn infant.
“In the t .vvn its. if, the general belief
f>r sum" time was, that the revolt washy
i, i m. ails in. i \t. i.sie.- h-.n, but a sudden
ai- I partial insurrection only. The larg
est sugar piantation on the plains »»•
that of Mo’s, (iallifet, situated about
eight miles fiom the town, the nrijrotM
belonging to him had always been treated
with such kindness ami liberality, and
p -<se.s-.d s i many advnntag s, that it be
1 ame a pruvclbi il explosion »uier.g,Uie
lowir white people, in speaking of any
Ilian's gn, .1 fottum . to say, he is ns liap
pv as oi.e of Galhfct's negroes. Xfons.
“l.’.ue, the attort ey or *">nt for this
p alliation, was a member of the General
Assembly, and being fully persuaded
that th. negro, s belonging to it would re
main lirni in their obedience, determined
to repair thither to encourage them in
opposing the insurgents, to w hich he de
sited the assistance of a few soldiers from
the town guard which was granted him;
he | rocecded accordingly, but, on ap
proaJiing ibe estate, to bis surprise and
grief, he found all the negroes m arms on
tiie side of the relic's, and (horrid to tell)
their standard was the hodv of a white
infant w lii. li they had recently impaled
on a st;.,vc 1 Muiis. Odduc had advanced
to-, far to retreat undiscovered, and both
he and his friend that accompanied him,
w ere murdered w ithout mercy. Two or
three of the patrol escaped by flight, and
conveyed the dreadful tidings to the in
habitants of the town.
MANSIONS AND CASE FIELDS SET OS FIBE.
lly this time all or most of the white
persons had been found on several planta
tions, being massacred or forced to seek
tlnir safety in flight, the ruffians having
exchanged the sword for the torch. The
buildings and cane fields were everywhere
set on tiie, and the conflagrations which
were visible from the town in a thousand
different quarters, furnished a prospect
more shocking and reflections more dis
mal, than fancy can paint or pen of man
describe.
Consternation and terror now took pos
session of every mind, and the screams of
women ami children, rushing from door
to door, heightened the horrors of (he
scene. All the citizens took up arms, and
the general Assembly vested the Governor
with the command of the National Guatds,
requesting hint to give such orders as the
emergency of the case seemed to demand.
One of the tirst measures was to send the
white women and children on hoard the
ships in the harbor; very serious appre
hensions being entertained cencerning the
domestic negroes within the town, a great
proportion of the ablest men among them
were likewise sunt on ship board and
closely guarded.
There still remained in the city a con
siderable body of freo mulattoes, who had
not taken, or affected to tnke, any part in
the disputes between their brethren of
color and the wliito inhabitants. Their
situation was extremely critical; for the
lower class of whites, considering the mu
lattoes as the immediate authors of the
rebellion, marked them for destruction ;
and the whole nember In the town would
UU(IohK(»cUb Km**
scruple, had not the Governor and ffte (Co
lonial Assembly vigorously interposed,
and taken them under their immediate
protection. Grateful for thin interposition
in their favor, (perhaps not thinking their
lives otherwise secure,) all the able men
among them offered to march immediate
ly against the rebels, snd to lesve their
s’ivcs and children as hostages for their
fidelity. Their offer was accepted, and
they were enrolled in different companies
of the militia.”
a vain attempt to pit down thi negroes.
The assembly continued their deliber
a t i omev( (,;»« night, amidst the
glare of surrounding conflagrations. The
inhabitants, being strengthened by a
number of seamen from the ships, and
brought into some degree of order and
military subordination, were now desir
ous (h*(. w Should' be sent oot
to ntlack the strongest body of the re
volt e-rs. Orders were given accordingly,
and Mons. de Touzard, an officer who
had distinguished himself in the United
States service, took command of a party
of militia and troops of the line. With
these he marched to the plantation of
Mons. Latour, and attacked a body of
about four thousand of the rebel negroes.
Many were destroyed, but to little pur
pose ; for Tnuxard finding the number of
revdlters to “increase to more than a cen
tuple proportion of their losses, was at
length obliged to retreat The Governor,
by the advice of tbe Assembly, now de
termined to act for some time solely on
the defense; and as it was every moment
to he apprehended that the revolters
would pour down upon tbe town, all the
roada and passes leading into it were for
tified. At tbe same time, an embargo
was laid on all the shipping in the har
bor—a measure of indispensible necessi
ty, calculated as well to obtain the assis
tance of the seamen as to secure a retreat
for the inhabitants in the last extremity.
To such of the distant parishes as were
open to communication cither by land or
by sea, notice of the revolt had been
liansmitted within a fen- hours after the
a iviccof it had been received at the
Cape, and the white inhabitants of many
>>f those parishes had therefore found
liiuo to establish camps, and form a
chain of posts which for a short time
seemed to prevent the rebellion from
spreading beyond the Northern provinces.
I wo of these camps, however, were at
tache 1 by the negroes—who were open
ly joined by the mullatoes—and forced
with great slaughter. At Dondon the
whites maintained the contest for seven
hours, hut were overpowered by the in
finite disparity of numbers and compelled
to give way, with the loss of upwards of
one hundred of the body. The survivors
took refuge in the Spanish territory.
These two districts, therefore—the
whole of the rich and extensive plain of
tile Cape—together with the contiguous
mountains, were now wholly abandoned
to the ravages of the enemy, and the cru
elties w hich they exercised on such of 1
tiic miserable w bites as fell into their
hands cannot be remembered without
horror, nor reported in terms sufficiently
strong to convey a proper idea of their
atrocity.
TI1E IRXtnORS INCREASE —WIItTB MEN SAWED
ASUNDER.
They seized Mr. Blen, an officer of the
police, and having naihd him alive to one
of Uuigat.-s of iiis plantation, chopped off
his limbs, one by one, w ith an axe.
A pour man named Robert, a carpenter
•y trade, endeavoring to conceal himself
from the notice of the rebels, was discov
ered in bis hiding place. The savages
declared that he should die in the way of
his occupation. Accordingly the bound
him between two boards, and deliberately
sawed him asunder.
Mons. t'ardincau, a planter of Grand
Itivere, had two natural sons by a black
woman. He had manumitted them in
their infancy, and brought them up with
great tenderness. They both joined ill
the revolt • »»d tluir father attempt- i
rd to divert them from their purpose by
soothing language and pecuniary conside
rations, they took his money and stabbed
him to the heart.
All the whi'.e, and even the mulatto
children whose fathers had not joined in
the w-ere murdered without excep
tion, frequently before the eyes or cling
ing to the bosoms of their mothers. —
Young women of all ranks were first vio
lated by w hole troops of barbarians, and
then generally put to death. Some of
them were reserved for the gratification
of the lust of tile savages, and others had
their eyes scooped out with knives.
DAintfTEHS RAVISHED IN TUB PRESENCE OF
THEIR FATHERS.
In the Parish of Lime, at a place called
the G; cat lUvine, a venerable planter,the
father of tw o beautiful young ladies, was
tied down by the savage ringleader of a
band, who ravished Iiis eldest daughter
in his presence, and delivered over the
other one to bia followers. Their lust
being satisfied, they murdered both the
father and the daughters.
In the frequent skirmishes between the
foraging parties sent out by the negroes
(who, after having burnt down everything
were in want of provisions,) and the
whites, the former seldom stood (heir
ground longer than to receive and return
one single volley, but they
Hut next day ; and though they were at
length driven ou t 0 f their intrenchments,
with .nfinite slaughter, yet their numbers
seemed not to diminish. As soon as one
body was cut ofT another appeared, and
thus they- succeeded in hurrassing and
destroying the whites by perpetual fa
tigue, and reducing the country to a
desert.
TWO THOUSAND PERSONS MASSACRED IN COLD
BLOOD.
To detail the various conflicts, skirm
ishes, massacres and scenes of slaughter,
which this exterminating war produced,
were to offer a disgusting and frightful
picture—a combination of horrors, where
in w© should behold cruelties unexampled
in the annals of mankind ; human blood
poured forth in torrents; the earth black
ened with ashes, and the air tainted with
pestilence. It was computed that, within
two months after the revolt first began,
upwards of two thousand persons, (>f all
conditions, had been massacred; that one
hundred and eighty sugar plantations and
about nine hundred coffee, cotton and in
digo settlements, had been destroyed—
I the buildings thereon being consumed by
tr tgelre hundred Christian fami
ties reducedTrom opulence to epch a state
of misery as to depend altogether for their
clothing aDd sustenance on public and pri
vate charity 1 Of the ittsargenla, upwards
of ten thou tend bad perished by the
sword or by famine, and some hundrods
by the hand of the executioner I.
Are the people of the United States
prepared for auch horrid scene* of devas
tation, atrocities and bloodshed in their
midst? Will they profit from these un
happy experiences, or is the " irrepressi
ble conflict" doctrine to be carried out in
this country in a similar manner ? Will
they follow tin* (eacitiugs of those pbilan
thropical fools—some of them under pay
perhaps from England —who talk without
thinking, and promulgate abstract ideas
of liberty and equality, without calcula
ting their necessary consequences and re
sults if carried out ? Let all true patriots
and friends of humanity, ponder on these
facts !
IIlkiiaii fob Codfish. —When wc see
a young man dressed in the extreme of
fashion promenading the streets, flourish
a delicate walking stick, ogling the ladies,
and turning up his probosis, with an air
of disdain at a neighbor's son or daugh
ter, when we know that his father ac
quired the propel tv w hich his foul of a
son ia-Hvakiiig himscffi iifieulnus nptm, by
collecting grease and ashes, we are tempt
ed to shout in his assinine ears, "Hur
rah for Codfish."
_ When ?re see a young woman whose
highest ambition appears to he to eclipse
her neighbors in dress, and who makes
it her constant boagtthat she never wash
ed a dish nor hemmed a shirt, because
she regards such work as vulgar, we feel
an inclination to whisper in her car—
“ Hurrah for Codfish."
When we aec a young man too proud
to carry a bundle in the street, when wc
know his father was a wood-sawyur, or
when we see a young miss seated in the
parlor, reading a novel, while tier mother
is doing the kitchen drudgery, wc sav to
ourself, " Hurrah for Codfish."
When we hear a lady protest that siie
cannot ride in the ommbu«, because it is
intended for common folks, we cannot
help exclaiming to ourself, " Hurrah for
Codfish.”
When we see a indy nrraved in the
costliest fabrics, treat "with contempt a
schoolmate whose clothing is not of so
rich a texture, especially when wc remem
ber that some of the aforesaid lady’s rela
tives are inmates of the [ioor house, we
feel a strong desire t > thunder io her cars,
“ Hurrah for Codfish."
When wc hear a man boasting of his
ancestry and taking unwonted pains to
display his pretended coat of arms, which
he stole from some old honk of heraldry,
we laugh as wc say to ourself, “ Hurrah
for Codfish.”
W hen wc see an elegant carriage dash
ing through the street with heraldic de
vices emblazoned on its trappings, with a
coachman and footman decked in livery,
especially when wc know that its aristo
cratic proprietor made his money by
vending " purely vegetable pills." which
were nothing hut dried peas, we cXciaim,
“ Hurrah for Codfish.”
In short, when we see people putting
on haughty airs, because it has pleased
Providence to endow them with a liberal
share of the world's goods, or when we
see any one sneering at honest labor, we
feel a strong desire to exclaim in their
ears, “ Hurrah for Codfish."
We are thankful that aristocracy has
always been at a discount in this country,
and we hoye it always will be, andean
only pity the silly man or woman who is
foolish enough to imagine (lint to he a
member of an exclusive class is the height
of human felicity.
Exrmwo Stokt or me Sea.—We are
indebted to Capt. Bissum, recently return
ed to New London from a whaling voyage,
for the following touching narrative:
On the voyage home, that awful scourge,
the ship fever, broke out. The carpen-!
ter of the ship, who liapp. ned to have his
little son on board at the time, was one
of the first victims. Ilis shipmates sadly
inclosed his body in a hammock, and we,
having read over the burial service and
nttachad to his feet a grindstone, for the
purpose of sinking it, committed it to the
deep. The poor little hoy, perfectly over
come at the loss nf his natural protector,
sprnng overboard, and bef >re lie could he
rescued, was beyond the reach of human
aid.
We noticed, on the following dm’, a
large shark in the wake of tile ship. Hav
ing procured a hook and attached a chain
and line, wc cast it overboard, and soon
had the exciting pleasure of hooking the
monster: and with the aid of our wind
lass wo hauled the writhing mass on
board. Wc soon dispatched it As it
lay in its death-struggles, the sailors
heard a very singular rumbling noise that
seemed to proceed from the ca, live.
Taking the ship’s axe, wc cut our way
into the dead fish, and to our astonish
ment we found that it had swnllnwed the
carpenter, the grindstone and the hay!
but the former, who had only fainted had
actually rigged up tbe grindstone in’ the
monster s belly | and with ttio assistance
o{ by* hoy to turn it. was In the act of
grinding his jack-knlfo to cut his way
outf
The Wav to Make an Osei.et.— It is
surprising that a di.-di so easily prepared
and so delicious as omelet has come into
use to so small an extent in this country ;
there are extensive districts where it has
never been heard of, and many house
keepers who meet with it in their travels
that never have it upon their uwn tables,
because their cooks do not know how to
prepare it. Omelet is simply egg beaten
and fried in butter. Break three fresh
eggs into a bowl, add a little pinch of salt
and a teaspoonful of water, and beat the
eggs thoroughly. Then put a tablcspoo'n
ful of good butter into a flat frying pan,
and hold the parr over the fire with the
handle a little elevated so as to incline the
bottom at a small angle. As soon as the
pan is warm pour in the eggs, and as the
mass begins to rook, run a case knife un
der it to keep it from burning to the pan.
As soon as the surface is about dry, fold
one-half of the omelet over the other, and
it is ready to serve. It can be made in
five minutes, and is an exceedingly deli
cate morsel.
Don’t forget to pay the printer,
From llic X. T. Argu*.
Riti We • RtpnbUtm C«njr.t!
Mr. Barnnm's Little Nut, who cciipaca
tho overgrown Tom Thumb in diunuu
tivencssax he does in brooding, will re
main here a few days, stepping on hia
wav to Washington, where h« will exhibit
before Mra Lincoln and the rest of the
Republican Court—[N. Y. Times.
In times not long since gone by, the
public was daily inlurmcd by the press,
that the most indefatigable and wonderful
showman of this age had bad the honor
of presenting Tom Thumb to the several
Courts abroad. ... At that time the an
nouncement produced no inoro excite
ment throughout these United Slates,
perhaps not as much, indeed (to use the
language of a once prominent member of
the existing Cabinet), "as an ordinary
thunder storm" would cause. To be sure,
there was nothing remprkah'c, either in
the presentation-t-fnr such has been the
custom from time immemorial— or m the
r 7v»*}..rc. A- oy-.w? the inhabitants of
the land—for they had come to look witli
ont either respect or fear, upon a pompous
and ceremonious court, the satellites and
splendor of which were sustained, in a
greater or less degree, by heavy drafts
upon the industry, if not upon the liber
ties and lives of the subjects which they
governed. Neither would any predic
tion, jw*d/.«.by ony man,..however honored
by the people for his statesmanship and
sagacity, and pointing to a court of ru
lers in our then highly favored, peaceful
and prosperous land, have excited, in the
minds of tho people at large, even a mo
mentary apprehension ; while the daily
journal that should venture to speak of
it as an establishment already existing,
and persist, not only in stating this, hut
also in daily efforts to make its statement
true, would be frowned upon as an instru
ment, iu tile hands of hud men, used for
the purpose of introducing aristocratic
institutions, a titled nobility, and privi
leged classes.
Are we changed ? Have the people be
come less attached to their institutions,
and tlic simple habits which they impose
upon those whom tlu-y may choose to be
their servants in the administration of
public affairs ?
Are they now prepared, in any degree,
to speak of" Mrs. Lincoln and the- rest of
the Republican Court," or to hear or see
such terms used men nr bv public
journals, in reference to those who may
have to retire from public life at the end
of their limited terms of ofHce—some,
perhaps, with honor ; many, we fear, with
dishonor; and others, to be a “ bye-word
and reproach among men” who ti listed
them only to be deceived ?
Are court manners, court morals, court
equipages, and court clowns, to take tin ir
places in and about the White House? and
is that homely term soon, to he changed
loo?
How fine it will then be to «ay, Royal
palace. Royal Highness, Royal carriage,
Royal barge, Royal body guard, Royal
seal; Prince Robert, and Princess so and
so.
Shall we soon see it specially announced
in the “ loyal" paper from which wc have
quoted, and with all due ceremony, too —
tirst, that “ Her Royal Highness is in an
interesting condition," and then, in'due
course of time, that " Her Royal Highness
lias been safely delivered oI a Piince;*'
and shall we nil, then, like good “ loyal"
citizens, immediately full down and thank
God, not only that lie hath given us a
King to rule over us, but, also, that lie
hath vouchsafed us a Prince, who in due
season may grow up and fie a good King,
ail indifferent King, or, it may be, a tyrant
— but nevertheless our King?
And is tile simple .Mr. .So-and-so, Sec
retary of Slate, to be cliungod as easily?
Are we to have Prime Minister Sj-and so ;
Lord So-ind -so ; J lie Duke of Auburn ;
the Earl of Indiana; Grand Duke of Penn
sylvania ; and still Grander Duke of Ohio,
etc., etc. ?
There is a beginning to all tilings; —
h ondcll Phillips once “Constitutions
arc not mmlo • they growl" He careful,
fellow citizens; Courts are not made;
they grow, and from very small begin
nings, too!
There may be “ nothing in it,"—and
there may be a great deal. Don’t accus
tom yourself to think of “Mrs. Lincoln
and the rest of the Kt-ptihiicnn Court,”
for it means, simply, King Abraham,
Queen So-and-so, Prince Robert and Prin
cess So-and-so, and the editor who per
mits the use of such terms, under the
head of “General City News,” in a jour
nal which ho controls, is educating the
people, or rather preparing them, for
Kings and Queens ami Courts and Clowns;
and not only so, but lie desires that for
which he is preparing them, and, when
that time conies, may he be the Clown.
»« m
Gkneuositv Rfwaiidkd.—Some of the
Paris journals relate thu following extra
ordinary history: “About a dozen
years ago a man, rather shabbily dressed
hut hearing a 1 : air of distinction, entered
a cafe modest appearance in the i'au
bo'jrg St Germain, and asked for a cup
of ecffeo and a roll. This he swallowed
rapidly, as if pressed by extreme hunger,
and then slowly retired, without however
seeming to avoid the demand for pay
ment The waiter, stupilied, hastened to
inform his mistress, a widow burthened
with a family, but n kind-hearted woman
of what hail taken place. The latter,
who had observed tho air ot dejection of
the stranger, immediately replied, ‘It’s
all right, I know the gentleman.’ The
next day the stranger returned, asked for
tnc same thing, and retired in the same
manner without paying. This continued
for about two months, after w liich lie was
seen no more. About a month ago the
widow was invited to call upon a notary
to receive a sum of money which had
been left to ber by will. She could not
believe her good fortune, and thought
there must be some mistake, when the
notary afforded her an explanation by
reading the following extract from a will
which he held in his hand : ‘I bequeath
OO.OOOf. to the IV idow —, , proprietress
of a cafe, (giving the address) to thank
her for her generosity in giving me a
breakfast every day for two months with
out demanding payment, which it was
then impossible for me to make, I was
then in misery; but since, fortune having
smiled on me, it is only ju>t that F should
pay for the sixty breakfasts to which 1
owed uiy life.’ ’’
*—— - 4 — — —
Modesty is the sweetest of virtues.
“G«d Utd tha Soml.”
!■ ' The d?batc !n the House of clerical and
lay delegates of the G'ncru! Convention
of the Episcopal church, says the Netr
York Argus of October 28th, on the sub
ject of a formal expression in regard to
the rebellion and the Recession of the
Southern church, was continued until af
ter we went to press last week. Finally
all amendments to and substitutes for the
report of the committee of nine, were re
jected, and their report a>'d
adopted, by a vote of 18 clergy against 7,
and 11 laity against 4.
The radicals were thus signally defcat
cd, and the Protestant Episcopal church
in the United States has preserved its<
wonted character as a non-partisan body.
The action it has taken is both patriotic
and Christian.
Of strictly vital religious int- lligcnce,
there is none which we can publish with
half flic profit that may he derived from
ihc following beautiful extract from Mar
tin Luther, entitled :
“ OOD AND THE SOIL
being a dialogue on the Lord’s prayer,
written by Luther in 1518, am) translated
for the Lutheran & Missionary.
The Soul. — Our Father who art in the
Heavens, we thy children on earth arc
separated from thee in misery ; how itn
measurable is the distance between thee
and ns. H6w shall we ever come Home
to thee, into our Father’s house t-
God. —A child honors its father and a
servant his master. Am I then your fath
er: where is the honor due me ? Am I
your master : where is the fear and rev
erence you owe me V For my holy name
is by and in you blasphemed and dis
honored.
The Firtt Petition oj the Soul.— Alas!
O F-ither! this is true. We confess our
guilt. But, be thou a gracious Father,
and enter not into judgment with us, but
grant thy grace, that we may so live to
the i-nd that thy holy name may be hal
lowed by us. Grant that we may think,
or speak, or do, or have, or undertake
nothing, unless fur thy praise and thv
honor ; that thus, above ail thing', thy
glory and thy name may be sought in us
ami grant that we may love, fear and hon
or thee, as children love thi-ir father.
God. — llow can my honor be sought
and my name be hallowed in you ? Are
not your hearts and ail your thoughts in
clioed to evil and dead in trespass and in
sin V ‘None can sing my song in a strange
land.’ Psalm 187. 4.
The Second Petition of the Soul.—
Alas! our Father! this is only too true.
H e feel that wc aro totally depraved, and
that the world, the llesli and the devil seek
to govern us, and thus take away from us
thy honor and thy glory. We therefore
pray : help us from this misery. May
‘thy Kingdom come.’ Let sin "be over
come ami grant that wc may become holy
and acceptable in thy sight, serving thee
in thy kingdom in newness of life, in true
obedience, with ad our internal nod ex
ternal powers.
God. —Whom I will help, him do I
make to be naught, and whom l will make
alive, blessed, rich, holy or happy, him 1
must kill, reject, impoverish or destroy.
‘But ye have forgotten my works and the
wonders that I have showed you.’ (Psalm
78, 4.) ‘How then shall 1 help you? —
What more can I do?’ ffsaiah 5.)
The. Third Petition of the Soul. —A Ins!
we regret that we neither understand nor
feel thy salutary counsels. O Father!
grant grace and help, Hint we suffer ‘thv
divine will to lie done in us.’ Yea, tho’
it pain us, even so. Lord, continue, if it
phase thee to punish, to bruise, to wound
and horn us. Do all, as seeiueth good in
thy sight, only let ‘thy will, not out be
done.’ Defend us, dear Father, that we
act not according to our own will and
opinion. For our will and thino are -op
posed to each other. Thine only is good,
though it seem not—ours is evil, though
it gutter much.'
God.— It has ftccurred often, that they
have loved me with their mouths, whilst
their hearts wire far awav from me; and
when 1 smote them, in order to correct
them, they have run back and fallen away
from me in the midst of the works, as
thou rcadcst (Psalm 78, II), ‘they have
turned back in the day of battle.’ Some
who began well, and moved me to deal
mercifully with them, have turned from
me and gone back into sin and my dis
grace.
The Fourth Petition of the Soul. —
Alas! Father! it is true. None can be
strong in his own strength ! And who
could ‘deliver us out of thv hand,’ (Fsainh
43, 18,) unless thou didst strengthen and
comfort us? Therefore, dear Father, so
rule us that ‘.thy will may bo perfected
within us, that we may become thy King
dom, to the honor and praise of thy holv
name. Uu', dear Father, do thou strength
en us in all this with thv sacred word ;
give us our daily broad, form within our
hearts the image of thy dear Son Jesus
Christ, the true bread of heaven, that we,
strengthened through him, may cheerfully
bear and sufl’er the crucifying of our flesh
and will. Yen, give us faithful aril learn
ed priests ami miristers, who will teach
us not the empty husks of vain fables, but
thy holy, precious gospel and Jesus Ch r ist
thy dear Son.’
God. —‘It is not meet to take the chil
dren’s bread, that which is holy, and to
cast it to dogs,’ (Matthew 7, 8 ; 15, 26.)
Ye sin daily, and if my servants preach
to you by day and by night, ye follow
me not, nor hear yc me, hut despise my
word.
The Fifth Petition of the Soul. —Alas,
Father ! have pity, and because of this do
not deny us our daily bread ; for wc arc
heartily sorry on account of our neglect
of thy word, and wc prav thee to have
patience with us poor children, ‘to forgive
us our trespasses, and not to enter into
judgment with us, for in thy sight shall
no man living l>e justified. Ki-memher
thv promise to forgive those who forgive
their debtors; not that thereby wo should
become worthy of thy forgiveness, but
because thou hast truly and graciously
promised forgiveness unto all those who
forgive them that have trespassed against
them.’ Upon this promise we rely.
God.— Very often 1 pardon and redeem
you, and yet ye remain and continue not.
Ye are of little faith. Not a little while
even will yv watch with lue, yc fall away
quickly into temptation!
The Sirth Petition of the Sonl.—H o
weak and sick are we, O Father, and so
grent and manifold is the temptation both
of the flesh and the world, O dear Father,
hold us and lead us not into temptation,
I NUMBER 1.
lest we pin again. Bat grant w grace,
that we may continue faithful to lbs end,
ond ftght tKe gT«t BgtiL For withoaf
thy grace and thy help, O Father, Wren
do nothing. — - —
God. —T am just, amt righteous fit lay
judgment; therefore must I pnnish Mo.
The «iiweq*ier,ces von must bear. That
ye are led into temptation is because of
vodr sins, which compel, me to punish
them and warn against them.
The Sercnth Petition of the Soul.—In
asmuch then as sin leads us into tempta
tion and evil, deliver os from evil, dear
Father, to the end that wo being freed by
thy dittne w ill from oil sin and iniquity,
may praise and laud and magnify tbee ia
thy Kingdom far tew and eve*;" erioaa.
And inasmuch as thou hast thus taught
nnd commanded us to pray, and hast
promised to hear us, we hope and arc as
sured, 0 dearest Father, that thou wilt
verily arid mercifully grant us all these
things.
And lastly, if any one should say, ‘How
if I could not believe that my prayer ia
answered ? , Do as did the father of the
son possessed of nn Evil Spirit (Hark 9),
where Christ saith to him ‘If thou canat
believe, all things sre possible to him that
believeth.’ Then that same father cried
out wiih tears and said, ‘Lord, I believe,
help thou mine unbelief.’
Victor fingtf.
Below we give nn extract from a late
speech of Victor Hugo, delivered at Brus
sels, where lie, t. fugitive from oppression,
is now resiiling. The pertinency of the
remarks should strike President Lincoln
nnd those who assume arbitrary authori
ty in his name nnd by his command, with
some sort of effect. It should lead him
to consider that the compliment applica
ble to Spain, and Germany, and Belgium,
and Italy, and England, cannot, with any
justice, be claimed by the boasted “ land
of the free,” America :
“ Gentlemen, the press Is the light of
the social world, and whenever there it
light there is something of Providence.—
Thought is something more than a right
—it is the very breath of man. He who
fetters thought, strikes at himself. To
speak, to write, to print, to publish, are,
in point of right, identical things. They
are circles constantly enlarging themselves
from intelligence into action. Gentlemen,
with a free press, error is not possible:
there is no vnr illution, no groping about
in the progress of man. In the midst of
social problems, of the dark cross-paths,
the press is the indicating finger. There
is no uncertainty. Advance to the Ideal,
to justice nnd to truth; tor it is not enough
to walk, you must walk forward. How
are you going ? That is the whole ques
tion. To counterfeit movement is not to
accomplish progress. To make a foot
print without advancing mny do for pass
ive obedience—to walk about forever in
the path is hut a mechanical movement,
unworthy of man—let us have an aim
let us know where we are going—let ua
proportion the effort to the result—Het an
idea guide us in each step that we take
let every step be logically connected with
the other—let the solution come after the
idea, and let victory' come after the right.
Never step backwards. Indecision in
movement shows emptiness of the brain.
What is wore wretched than to wish and
not to win f He who hesitates, falls back
and totters, docs not think. Gentlemen,
who arc the auxiliaries of the patriot*—
The PRESS. What is the terror of the
coward and the traitor ? The PRESS.—
I know it, the press is hated, and that »
a great reason for loving it. Every indig
nity, every persecution, every fanaticism,
denounces, insult.-:, and wounds it as far
as it can. Courage to thought; courago
to science ; c m> age to philosophy ; cour
age to the press; courage to ail your wri
ters 1 The hour is drawing nigh when
tnen, delivered at last from this dismat
tunnel of 0,000 years, will suddenly burst
forth in all their dazzling brightness. I
drink to the 1’kkss, to its power, to its
glory, to its efficiency, to its liborty in
Belgium, in Germany, in Switzerland, in
Italy, in Spain, in England, in America,
nnd to its emancipation elsewhere.”
-4 «« « >-- -—
Tun Hriwit—A Fabi.e.—A pious her
mit, who had lived in the sotitude of a
forest, fnv from the noise of men, was once
wandering through the woods in search
of a few wild fruits and some berries, to
make his frugal meal. He heard a moan
ing in the grass, and looking down saw a
fox, both of whose forelegs were broken,
writhing like a snakeon the ground, ami
apparently starving. The good hermit
was about to seek some food for the help
less creature when an eagle appeared,
soaring high overhead, and suddenly let
Ml a fowl from its talons directly at the
feet of the fox. The starvinganimal seised
greedily on the preeious prize, and soon
made a hearty meal of it.
“ Ah 1” exclaimed the pious enthusiast,
“ this is the finger of God. Why did I
distrust Ids providential cure, and wander
over hill and dale to seek my daily food.
He who brought food to the mouth of Ihitt
helpless animal, will surely never forget
his servant. Henceforth I will take no
thought fur my body’s sustenance, but
tru-t to His goodness, and devote-ell my
time to meditation."
True to his resolution he returned to
his cell, and neither plucked the fruits
that hung on the trees around him, nor
went down to the brook to quench his
thirst. Three whole days he lived thus,
and was wasting away to n shadow, in the
vain hope of a direct interference of heav
en.
On the evening of the third day, justas
he sunk .into slumber, thunder rolled
through the cave, lie saw a form of angel
ic beauty, and heard a sweet but solemn
voice that spoke thus :
” Mortal, how feeble is thy understand
ing. Couldst thou thus misinterpret tba
lesson contained in the eagle’s conduct!
Thou art not lame and helpless as was the
lox, but are strong and active Hke the
eagle that gave him food. Him thou
wert to imitate in going about and doing
good to others; for know that idleness,
even if accompanied by prayer, ia odiouo
in the sight of the Almighty.
“How terribly the ship labor* 1" ex
claimed the passengers to the captain, aw
they stood together in the bight of the
binnacle; “whatcargo have you in the
hold *” Petroleum," replied the captain,
turning; his telescope in bis trowser’spock'
et. “Oh I ah 1 .petroleum.” rejoined a
passenger, “ that’s rock oil ; no woods*
she rocks 1"