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[From the Home Journal.']
FOOTSTEPS ON THE OTHER
SIDE.
Sitting in my humble door-way,
Gazing out into the night,
Listning to the stormy tumult
With a kind of sad deli ght—
Wait I for the loved who comes not,
One whose step I long to hear
One who, though he lingers from me.
Still is dearest of the dear.
Soft he comes—now, heart, be quiet—
Leaping in triumphant pride
Oh it is a stranger footstep
Gone by on the other side
All the night seems filled with weeping,
Winds are wailing mournfully,
And the rain-tears blent together,
Journey to the restless sea.
I can fancy, sea, your murmur,
As they with your waters flow,
Like the griefs of single beings,
Making up a nation's woe
Branches, bid your guests be silent
Hush a moment, fretful rain
Breeze, stop sighing—let me listen,
God grant not again in vain.
In my cheek the blood is rosy,
Like the blushes of a bride,
Joy !—alas a stranger footstep
Goes by on the other side.
Ah how many wait forever
For the steps that do not come
Wait until the pitying angels
Bear them to a peaceful home.
Many, in the still of midnight,
In the street have lain and died,
While the sound of human footsteps
Went by on the other side
Many a wretch has paused a moment,
Glancing round with crazy eyes
Death looks up from dreadful waters,
Death looks down from darkened skies
'Paused,then leaped "ichercl God knows only,
He alone heard "Jesus cried,
While the sound of careless footsteps
Went by on the othr side!
Ears, so oft you have deceived me,
Heart, such false alarms you beat,
I can scarcely dare to trust you,
Yet methinks that up the street
8 ounds a step I know, now nearer
Comes it with a rapid stride
Happy wife that welcome footstep
Passes not the other side.
Godjgrant all who wait, an ending
To their watch as sweet as mine
GoJ se nd out of tears and storm-clouds
Smiles to cheer and stars to shine.
God bid drooping hearts be hepeful,
That long hours have prayed and sighed,
For, perchance, the steps will sometime
Not go by the other side!
A NAME IN THE SAND.
BY HANNAH F. GOULD.
Alone I walk the ocean strand,
A pearly shell was in my band
I stooped and wrote upon the sand
My name—the year—the day.
As onward from the spot I passed,
One lingering look behind I cast
A wave came rolling high and fast,
And washed my name away.
And so, methought, 'twill shortly be
"With every mark on earth from me
A wave of dark oblivion's sea
Will sweep across the place
Where I have trod the sandy shore
Of Time, and been, to be no more
Of me, my frame, the name I bore,
To leave no track or ti*ace.
JANE 0. SWISSHELM, Speak imto the children of Israel that they go forward."—EXODUS,
And yet with Him who counts the sands,
And holds the waters in His hands,
1 know a lasting record stands
Inscribed against my name.
Of all this mortal part has wrought,
Of all this thinking soul has thought,
And from these fleeting moments caught,
For glory or for shame!
From the London Times, Nov. 9.
The Unknown Land.
A marvel lias been disclosed tous,ane\r
wonder has been opened to us. Suddenly,
as if by magic, we have revealed to us a.
new people, with an unknown civihzatioi
and unknown institutions. W have rent
the veil that shrouded the mystery which
has puzzled the world for centuries. A
cess has been gained for the west to a par
adise in the cast. The "brazen wall" of
protection which surrounded Japan has
been thrown down. The gates of an ex
tensive, wealthy and populous kingdom
have been thrown open to the traders of
the world. And all this has been do tie
without force or menace by reason a nd
persuasion and we may add by the re
gress of enlightend opinions amongst the
Japanese themselves. Hitherto Ja'pan
has been a sealed book, but now the seal
is broken. W knew indeed that the
country is about the size of the British Is
lands with nearly the saute population
and climate, and the same insular posi tion
between a great continent and a rent
ocean. W had heard that the State is
governed by two sovereigns, one exei cis
ing the spiritual authority, and the other
conducting the civil and military rule.
History has recorded that Japan was not
always isolated from the rest of the world
or opposed the Christianity.
MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS.
1
Two centuries ago the Portugese mis
sionaries were allowed the fullest latitude
for the promulgation of their doetrin es.—
Not satisfied with this freedom, thei in
terfered in a question of disputed st teces
sion, and brought the aid of the christian
population to the aid of the candidate
they supported. Their intervention was
followed by the most disastrous results, for
the parlJ with which they joined proved I"1^ ^•"wiui«*5!a*ug "u""
,. ^i forty thousand men can be
unsuccessful, and two hundred thousand
the boundary of their prison, or enter the
ej the way to a
assisted other nations to enter by the
he made.
BRITISH TREATY.
The history of Lord Elgin's ta'caty.' is
full of novel adventure and strange sur
prises. While the British Plenipotenti
ary was engaged in bringing his negotia
tions with the Chinese to a conclusion,the
American and Russian ministers proceed
ed in hot haste to Japan. Lord Elgin
soon followed, and on his arrival at Na
gaski he found that the American treaty
had been signed, that the Russiaais were
trying to open negotiatious but that
there were symptoms of re-action on the
part of the Japanese Government.
The Liberal Prime Minister with whom
Mr. Harris had concluded a treaty had
been turned out of office, and a conserva
tive Administration had succeeded to pow
er. Lord Eglin was not discouraged, but
determined to push on to Jeddo, and to
treat withia the capital itself. had
Avith him a steam yacht sent out as a pres
ent to the Emperor, and resolved, if possi
ble, that it should not be delivered over at
any place of secondary importance.
On the 12th of August the British
squadron arrived off Kanawaga, where the
Russians were at anchor. Beyond the
point no foreign ships had ever ventured,
but Captain Sherard expressed an opinion
that deep waters could be found to eddo,
and Lord Eglin gave the order to approach
as near as possible to the sacred city.—
Cautiously threading their way through a
torturous channel, the British ships ad
vanced until they came to anchor under
1
1
town, or the surrounding country. The
American expedition under Commodore
Perry, opened a postern to the empire.— •,
rn J? i.' residences are as neatly kept and as care
I he residence of an American consul at ,. ,, ,.
,, •. fully fenced as in England. A every
Simoda, and the visits of Russian and
i,i vi u- A *i I spot presenting great natural beauties, a
English ships during the late war, prepar- ,. m,
°.i .i temple or tea house
i-s
chamre.th.e
inevitabilitJy
-i ,,
of whieh, iy. is said was"-recognized» th ..J
Japanese themselves,
resident Representative
States, proved
himseltfo
an able, accom-
t)
the forts of the capital. Then came visits curiosity. W are not admitted to
V0L1. ST. CLOUD, STEARNS CO., MINNESOTA, THURSDAY JANUARY 6 1859. NO. 22.
from corteous officials praying that they
would return to Kanawaga, and expiating
on the advantages of that anchorage.—
Lord Eglin was equally corteous, but in
flexible, and when the Japanese found
that he was not to be moved, they wisely
made the best of their situation. They
sent off supplies to the vessels, and pre
pared a residence for the ambassador on
shore. The landing was a striking spec
tacle—an English gunboat steaming along
with a dozen ship's boats, officers in full
uniform, and band playing while the ships
thundered out salutes. As Lord Elgin
made his progress through the city,crowds
rushed to see the procession, and the in
flux from the side streets had to be check
ed by ropes. Finally he was lodged in
one of the temples, where he and his suit
found clean and even luxurious quarters.
The arrival of the English ambassador
brought about another ministerial crisis
the Liberal Premier was restored, and af
ter a residence of eight days Lord Elgin
departed with a treaty containing enlajged
conditions, which the otherjjplenepotenti
aries had not even ventured to ask for.
The happy audacity of the British led to a
most triumphant result.
A MAGNIFICENT CAPITAL.
Our countrymen had no restraint placed
upon their movements, and they quickly
availed themselves of their freedom. They
found that they were located in the Bel
gravia or court end of Jeddo. Around
them were the palaces of the feudal nobles,
mansions of vast extent, each capable of
containing 10,000 retainers who followed
their lord to the capital. As there are
860 of these nobles who are compelled to
reside half the year at Jeddo, the extent
of
1
,i ,.,.
,- rom this place a view of
persons were slaughtered. Mnce tnj t. pe
riod Japan has been hermetically closed,
not in the arrogant spirit which animated
the Chinese, but because the government
dreaded a renewal of interferance,int rigues
and bloodshed. The Dutch alone were al
fpwed commercial intercourse under the
Narrowest and most humiliating restriction.
\$or two hundred years they were confined
ff^a small Island, four hundred yards long
by three hundred broad and until within
a^few years they were not allowed to pass -, ,. ,., -,
i.i MI. I
whileon
evidenceside.
of wealth and luxury
x1
recognize by the T* \7
Mr.
Harriisy
weary- travellerneat-handeds
L-
to be found, he
may alwayg findsof
res and,
the N and reclinin oe mats
,, jr •, 11 received from Phylliset the
ot the tinted ,.
jatel,y
of all
plishedaud indefatigabl pioneer. |Wriptio of all magnificences
two years he labore obtain a commer
cial treaty, and when the news
Japan of the allied operation in the
his efforts were crowned with suecess.—
He did not strive to secure any exclusive I
advantages for his own countrymen, but
tural and artificial beauties
eyes of the visitors, leads
reached ,/ ,,
from the Arabian Nights.
Irehio,
r|M
I most delicately flavoured tea. I he de-
nd the na-
that met the
like a chapter
A WONDERFUL TEOPLE.
And the people are as wonderful as the
country
have
innocence
sess
ities.
surp
an institution, and i3 performed in public
in a manner that recalls to memory the
state of man before the fall. The En
glish did not see a person in the street
Avho was deformed, or any drunkenness
or quarreling, and beggars are unknown.
But although thus primitive in their
habits and manners, the Japanese are
industrious and inventive, and not without
scientific acquirements. When the ad
vanced ships of the British squadron
arrived at Nagaski, they found a Japanese
man-of-war steamer at anchor before.—
They are able to make engines for rail
ways or steamships, and they have a short
line of railway some where in the interior.
The electric telegraph is no mystery to
them, and they are skillful at fabricating
astronomical and philosophical instruments.
TKcir manufacture of glass is nearly equal
to our oAvn. 'I he Dutch language is spo
ken by numbers, and some have even
learned English. Japanese captains ,and
engineers command their Avar vessels, of
which three are steamers. They show
every disposition to seize and adopt the
discoveries made by European Science.
They are represented by their recent
visitors to be not merely a progressive,
but a "go-ahead" people.
A SOCIAL PHENOMENON.
Wha Ave have been told increases
Mr.
CHAP, XIV, VERSE
arena of the government or the institu
tions that have produced so much peace
and plenty, such wealth and comfort for
a whole people. There is a spiritual Em
peror or chief prhist, who takes no part
in governing the country, and who resides
in sanctified retirement at Miaco.
There is a governing Emperor, who has
his seat in the vast castle overtoj ping
Jeddo. There are 800 petty princes or
lords, each exercising sovereign rights on
his own territory, and paying feudal .hom
age to the reigning Emperor. These
nobles are compelled to reside for half a
year in Jeddo, and when they are allowed,
in the other halt, to visit their est ites,
they leave their families as hostages.
There is some ground for supposing that
they act in some way as a governing
council.
W are informed that there are parties,
as among ourselves—one conservati ver
protective, and exclusive the other pro
gressive, eager for improvement, and for
intercourse with European nations. Even
political crisises are not unknown, and
changes of ministers as with ourselves.
I is difficult to discover what their mili
tary system is, if they have any.
a battalion under arms.
of the aristocratic quarter may be imagin- no signs of oppression or strife,
ed. The visitors saw before them a street wealth, no poverty, with simple,
l'orty yards broad, ten miles long, and one
closely packed with houses and tis densely
crowded as from the Hyde Park corner to
Mile-end,
Towering above the vast city is the cas
tle or palace of the temporal sovereign.—
This is surrounded by a moat seventy or
eighty feet wide, round which rises a
grassy mound of the same height. This
is topped by a wall of Cyclopean architec
ture encompassing buildings in which
accomodated.
place a view 'o "th great city
of Jeddo, with its trees and gardens, pic
turesque temples, and densely crowded
streets, extending as far as the eye can
reach toward the interior, a thickly built
suberb, and green fields in the distance,
was obtained." The capital of Japan cov
ers a larger area than London,and contains
a more numerous population. The streets
are well paved, and a perfect cleanliness
rules in-doors and out. There is none of
the dirt and bad smells of a great city,
are
seen every Th country is as in
teresting as the town. Neat cottages
stand within beautiful gardens,and privat
social life
Have we come upon a nation who hare
solved problems that have baffled the
wisdom of Europe 'i Have we fouud a
the vices or diseases, moral and physical,
15.
Undoubtedly have we incurs I
intrusion
a heavy responsibility
into close contact with what we must cf Hi
superior civilization. But the die is eat t,
and a higher power has decreed that no
community shall be* permitted to isols te
itself from the rest of the world. In lie
very future of things it is not possible
that Japan could much longer reuu in
clers will follow in the track of commerce, 3,
Buchanan on
Trade.
iavery
our
the
Let Cuba be admitted into the Union,
however, and let the Administration re
main in such hands as noAV hold it, and
who believes that the trade in human be
ings brought from Africa Avill cease
Our government pretends that it cannot
stop the piratical expeditions against Cuba
and Central America, fitted out in our
own ports, under our own eyes
likely that it Avill be able to prevent the
fitting out of vessels for the slave trade,
Avhich may be done with far less noise
and greater
of slaves in our new possession, while
there was a powerful class of capitalists,
holding the political power of the island,
who wanted to fill up at a cheap rate the
gangs on their plantations
Spain, it is known, has never put down
the slave trade in Cuba, though the whole
naval power of Great Britain has been
associated with her own to break it up.—
Great Britain has been in earnest, but
Spain has not. Is there the least prob
ability that our own government wili be
more in earnestt than S a Certainly .md
of political favor being gained by conmv-,
ing at the traffic.
Our conclusion, therefore, is that the
slave trade at Cuba will be rather eneour-
the interference of Great
trade, andoour Executive will
Spain has been.—Evening Post.
The well constructed fortifications of
Jeddo show some knowledge of the art ofj To the Editorojike X. V. Tribune.
war, but none of the correspondents saw S I In your issue of the 9th inst.
That Imprisoned Colored
Exhorter.
Methodist" refers to the case of the Rev.
There are police, but if we can believe $imue\ Green, a colored exhorter of the I South will be understood to mean,
all that v.c are told, they can have but
little occupation. We are offered a series
of the most perplexing problems. W
have presented to us an old country with
annals extending back, at least two thous
and five hundred years, thickly peopled
without a surplus population, or paupers
or beggars, with a feudal aristocracy and
a
0
a
ot oil societies Hicks circulated no resolution of sympa- tack on their rights of property and as the
As yet, we have not penetrated beyoii
a a
the surface. If the Japanese be reaby iThis Conference of 200 Methodist minis, sessions are drawn in question, is a-utc
what they appear to be, it seems a pity to give so trifling a matter a I and irratable beyond almost any other.
that they should be subjected toLuropea a moments consideration, and blew it aside they established that tyranny over the ex-
*}iey
a
a
Executive clemency and release 31 r. Green
from confinement. It was signed by some
^l 113 ministers, 1 think, and forwarded by
so
hermetically closed. Such mystery
now surrounds that wonderful country, so myself to Gov. Hicks, with a respectful
long self sustained and self supporting, private letter, neither of which tho Gover
will soon be dispelled. Observing In v-
0
has condescended to notice,
to
aud tell us how much of the apparent ters," whom A Methodist" seems to
social virtues of the Japanese is lacquer, blame, it is true that the Black River
how much rests on a substantial substrati im Conference voted to have the petition for
of morals. What is now clouded will be $\Vm Green's liberation presented to the
made clear by the light of investigation, jjjshops present for their signatures and
Meanwhile we may wait patiently, and heu so presented they refused to sign it.
hope that we, at least, will play a Cluis-
t],Cy
tian part toward the people whom we They icere vot natitjicd «.s to the
have constrained to admit us to free [facts aft'yvd. They hot
intercourse.
a/teH afLjid
the Slave
The Washington Union of yesterday Black River Conference, and ready to
eulogises, in a particular manner, that
lni±G
This is for the North a side-argument, I for West Of course the Conference
with which those who want to make an I months for them to be
apology for the annexation of Cuba likely become satisfied of what might have been
to have a plausible sound 111 the latitude ttled, had they desired it i.i two minutes
of the free States, are obligingly supplied
a 0 it
by tho President. They can say: W t] signatures.
are as much against slavery as anybody 1 3
but wc believe the acquisition of Cuba
will be the severest blow that can be an utter Avant of concern for a
struck at slavery. It will put an end to brother in prison, bv Methodist
Bislhops,
the African slave trade, which is carried
on Avith so, much inhumanity, aud which
object iu view Is it likely that our
government Mvould take any serious aud worses a wagon
Avell-plauued"-teps to prevent the landing \"r
bishops and Chief Min-
had what seemed to them a valid
that 31
affidavit, if necessary, to the alleged our biccdinf
,i
on
A POCKKTUOOK THAT AN
without
a a 0
dod a as if
piti-
a
a
ashamed
orotner in prison, by .Met
merely, as it seemed to me, because hi
had a black skin. But 1 leave them with
HADN'T S E E O N A coroner's
in Iowa, recently rendered the followin
verdict, which is on fil in one
death by a visitation
the hands of violence
certainty of concealing body a pocketbook, containing ^SJ, a thought
icck on Fletcher's Bank for $250, and
horses, a wagon, and MHUC butter
ant
feathers.
I jt I county clerk's offices
W find the deceased came to his stern, remarking, 'Mr. Shelley vvas not
of God, and not by I fended he only laughed for you see
jncc. W find upon I did not believe in the devil, and so
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
not with such men as we have at the denounced the Drcd Scott decision' a
head of it while there is the east chance
a
irid
the
Britaien
disposed stop it than the government of
ji(Cakers
-Methodist Episcopal Church in good stand- other things, the right of a Southern citi
in:jj, and now lying in the Maryland State zen to agitate as freely for the extinction
IMson under a ten years sentence,for hav- of that calamitous institution as others are
in in his possession a copy of Uncle Tom's allowed to bluster about retaining it. At
Cabin. The facts alleged are beyond present the Rights of the South are taken
(j aestion. Mr. Green is in prison as rep- to signify only the supremacy of the slave
rasented, with nine long years of confine- holders
merit yet before him, and for no other Meantime wc chronicle the event as one
with great than the one above-named. of a large class of eireuuistinccs making
But A Methodist," who evidently an important change in public opinion.—
sympathises with nis brother in bonds,and The time has been that the discussion
designed to write correctly, is mistaken in this question was perfectly free in all
one or two points. parts of the Union, aud men bore their
1. The only attention paid to the mat- testimony every where against slavery with
people who enjoy ail the advantages, aj 1» Philadelphia Conference wasal-1 as little impediment as they now do against
the material prosperity derivable fror. I hi McCarter for drunkenness. Gradually the slaveholder?,
civilisation without suffering from any
From the Evening Post.
Mr.'Giddingsin St. Louis.
One would suppose that a fat and juicy
young Englishman, caught by a tribe of
cannibals, AVOUM be quite as "safe anion"
them as Joshua iddings would be lectur
ing in the slave State of Missouri. Yet
Mr. Giddings has ventured to lecture on
Man's Inalienable Bight to Freedom in
the very capital of Missouri, and closed
-,. .j .-, address not only unbanned, but amidst
a rf a
„o.n$i1A
TOA«I.I
it is a 0
aged than checked by its annexation to have fettered the free expression ol
the United States \i shall get of
0 on 0IJ
__
a ()f 8
ut-
approbation and is Ten
t,..,- ...
,, years ago^nc would have besn torn
the restraint.
ithgempressubject
are givin«*
wayl.i AftetrU is allowed to discuss-a
no"*'•••-•.
more on of slavery freely, and
public
to attack it with the same liberty
others defend it, in a few of the slave
States, we shall naturally expect that rl:r
compulsory reserve and silence, to which
the encniies*of slavery arc Hudd, will be
greatly relaxed iu the rest of the South,
until at length the name of Abolitionist
will become in"that part of the Union as
I respectable as that of a friend of .slavery.—
a
When that day comes the Rights of the
in it. No committee was ap- instigated by the politicians, came to re-
to consider it no petition to Gov. gard the denunciation of slavery as an at-
even offered.— sensitiveness of capitalists, when their pos-
done some vagarv of a I pression of opinion on this subject which
bringing them dium has now lasted for a quarter of a century,
2. It is hardly correct, however, that and at one time reigned almost absolute
nothing has been done by the Methodist even at the North. The North has now
public. A respectful petition was got up fully emancipated herself, and, if there is
embracing about 200 Methodist ministers, any faith to be placed in omens, the South
entreating Gov Hicks to interpose his is about to follow her example.
anion
It Might Have Been.
**Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
Tbe saddest are these, it might have been."'
So we plain 1) murmur, looking back
ward to the sunshine Ave might have
gathered, or the way-side flowers on which
we rudely trampled, or complainingly ut
ter it, when our cherished hopes are
blighted, or our ambitious schemes laid
low. Wc forget the sorrows that might
have been ours we know not where we
might have strayed, but for the hedge of
declared that! thorns that stayed our wandering feet.—
Green was so im-! We idlv dream of bliss we coveted—tho
prisoned, and for such a cause, thev would joys wn»d» wo longingly aspired, far
sign the petition. It is true, also that the undeserved mercies that are
Rev. 1). Long and the Rev. J. S.Lamc,
both of the Philadelphia Conference, and
recently from Maryland. Mere both at the
still our own.
Away in the quiet church-yard—where
the grass waves over a sleeping form tha.
Ave are sure would never have failed us—
lin heart takes up the plaintive
moan, till in our anguish we almost loose
sight of solace left us. and forget to thank
GoA for the dear one lie has spared.
it might have been. Yes, where
gleams the sunshine might have been
darkness where now blooms the fV.w-'r.
have beeu only the thorn. Alas fur v.s
that in our repining for that, Infinite Wis
dom sees fit to withhold, we *!i houM
t'ush.
The hearts ease at our -c 'i.
IIOAV much Shelley vvas umimrfe
stood may be gleaned from a few "lveol
1'etions" of his residence at Great MarloAv,
in Buckinghamshire, contributed by Mr.
HoAv'tt: 'An old shopkeeper, a grocer, liv
to the j»oet's residi
I that he knew of—on the contrary he AV:
uncommon good to the pour—but thva h»
did not believe in the devil! The gv
cer's wife also bore testimony to Shelley's
want of orthodoxy in this respect, lie
j«Or had christened his boat the 'Vaga,' and
ishe related with much aj parent satisfac
of the tion how a ^"ag had on one occasion added
'the letters 'bond' to the name printed at the
of
he
he
1
there could be nothing Avrong.
{fciT Hurrah
DEMOCRAT,
for St. Cloud, and the