Star And Banner, The (Newspaper) - July 27, 1849, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania u in A. C. H. AND VOL. 1'ICTURKS OF 11 r Among the beautiful pictures That on Memory's Is one of a dim old That the best of for its gnarled oaks with the for tlie violets That sprinkle the vale Not ior thu milkwhite That lean trom the fragrant all day with the And stealing their golden edge Not for the in lliu Where tlie bright red berries Nor the nor the pale sweet It to ihe I once had a little brother Wild eyes that were dark pnd In the of that dim old 1'ores.t, lie in peace asleep Light afe the down of the Kice as tlie winds that AVu the beautiful The summers of ago Hut his feet on the hills grew one of the autumn 1 made for my little brother A bed of lue yellow Sweet his arms folded My neck in a meek As the light of immortal beauty Silently cohered his And when the arrows of Lodged in tUe He in his by the gates of tlie pictures That hang on Memory's That one ol the dim old forest the best of From the National THOUGHTS OF No No weary wasting of the No fearful shrinking the midnight air No dread of summer's bright and ray No hidden No wild and cheerless vision of No vain petition for a No tearful no broken heart are Care has no home Within realm of ceaseless praise nnd song tossing billows break and melt in Far from the mansions of the spirit The storm's black Is never spread athwart celestial skies Ju wailing blends not tlie voice of A 8 some too tender fades and night distils Its dews upon the lender frame moon needed the which fills That land of fiom iU Maker No parted friends O'er mournful recollections have to weep bed of death enduring To watch the coining ol a pulseless No Wasted flower Or withered bud celestial garden knows No scorching or descending Scatters destruction like a ruthless foe No battle word Startles the sacred host with fear and The song of peace Creation's morning Is sung wherever angel tread us If home like this the Look thou stricken thy wounded heart bleed no more at sorrow's stern With frith our White-robed und trace the in Jordan's rolling lind the ocean of Eternal Day OPINION OF A foreign journal lately published a related by Count de the friend of the Emperor know said I tell you that Jesus was not a man The religion of Christ is a mystery which sub- sists own and proceeds from a mind which is not a human We find in it a marked which originated a train of words and actions un- known Jesus borrowed nothing from our He in himself a perfect example of his Jesus is not a for his proofs arc and from the first his pics adored In learning and philosophy are of no use for salvation and Jesus came into the world to reveal the mysteries of and the laws of the and founded empires but on what foundation did we rest the creations of our Jesus Christ alone founded his empire upon love and at this hour millions of men would die for was not a or a that ed the triumph of the Christian religion in the it was a long war a con- test for three centuries begun by the A- then continued by the flood of Christian In this if all the kings and of the earth were on one on the I see no army but a mysterious some men here and there in all parts of the nnd who have no other rallying point than a common faith in the mysteries of the die before my and my body will be given back to the to become food for the Such is the fate of him who has called the What nn abyss between my deep misery nnd eternal kindom of which is loved and and which is extending over the world Call yon this dying I Is not rather The death ot Christ is the death of Napoleon stopped at ihe last words but waking no Em- peror added you do perceive lhal Christ H J did wrong to appoint you should trover to j bv editors they should lor ihe of TWO DOLLARS PER PA. FRIDAY JULY 27, 1849. THE MIDDLE We arc beginning to find out that the dark ages were not so utterly dark as they have been We tain that there was not that universal blight upon the human mind which it has been the practice of historians to contrast with the flourishing condition of their own if we are now to take that measure which those historians we should estimate their own era with as disparaging a comparison with the pre- sent But the inventions of our own days great advance of arts and so far from having a tendency to throw a light upon and acknowledge the value of those of the middle The appreciation is becoming We are old enough to remember the lime when it was thought of Jittle moment to block up with unseemly or mutilate for any those amazing works of mediaeval our Gothic re- ligious We need not refer to the decorations they have misplaced and and lo general of an of our will not rather which were the dark of the builders and or of ihe and It is astonishing that such should ever have been viewed with and still more ing thai disfigurement and desecration should have been yet men thought themselves wise in those and and And so they were but in respect to ihe arls they were dark ihe Puritanism was indeed a blight infecting that darkness and the effects of that blight have not yet passed It may appear strange after a long period of worse than we not only but such is our admiration of works of genius we imitate and study them for a discovery of the cannons of the arl which we think we cannot with impunity set We here speak of those large and conspicuous monuments of the mind of the middle but the increasing ration leads lo discoveries of yet more den The genius that designed the structures was as busily and Iv employed in kind of and with a surprising unity of and as if with one sole object to carry out the new Christian make ant a beauty of holiness in all outward that men might look lo with an awe and The sanctity of thai one religious de- mand that nothing without or within should be left common or but thai in ihe whole and minutest parts this precept should be legible and Do all to ihe glory of All art was cant to religion for which all all science was The workers of days labored with a loving and pious and lifted up their works to an unseen and all-seeing and not lo ihe applause of men for who was there to or even when in some degree they felt the influence of the skill which designed and executed infinite variety of to ihe manifestation of one great We must no longer speak of the middle ages as a period of universal intellectual If it were it would be a miracle contrary lo intention of mira- cles and the thought has in it a kind of blasphemy which would weaken the arm of and imply an unholy We do not believe in the possibility of the human race universally We that there is ways something doing for the future as well as for the something for neither acceptable nor by the present whose sight it ns it ried as seed in the to spring up in its proper and in due We want a of the human sifted from large events which fascinate us to read born as we are to be taking interest in things of a bold thai have really the world but at in the sense in which we have accepted The rise of one the subjugation of another the dominion of arc the themes of Cut in all these historical viewed for their are of little while out the turbulence an un- intended good has the There has been throughout some quiet and served work going on whose influence foil more and moro by degrees has length become showing that stirring events and characters which had figured the scenes and amused were but the and subordinate of a greater or more serious RICH AMD THE HOUSE We supposed we had heard of all sorts of bul find ourselves lo have been A hero in humble life has been known lo us of quite a new This brave by the name of Richard following the occupation of a farmer on the coast of has for many years devoted himself to the saving of mariners from and this without any of the apparatus for succoring ships in Unaided by such and unaccompanied by any living creature but his less has been ihe means of saving many sailors from perishing the Cultivating a small piece of which as it rescued from the and almost cut off from the adjacent try by the badness of ihe this re- remarkable man may be said lo devoie himself to the noble duty of saving human On ihe approach of stormy weather he mounts to an opening in the top of his and pointing his telescope to the watches the proach of vessels lowards the low and dangerous By night or by day he is equally ready to perform his posed A ship is struggling amidst the terrible convulsion of walers no man aid seems lo be at hand all on board give themselves up for when thins is at length seen to leave ihe and lo be making nn effort to reach the Can it be possible 1 A. man on horseback it is Richard to the seated on his old an animal accustomed lo wale excursions Onward faithful beast swims and only turning for an when a wave threatens to en- gulf him in ils There is something grand in the struggle of both horse and spirit of usefulness eagerly ing lo do ils Success usually crowns Ihe exertions of ihe horse and the The ship is mounts two or three mariners en croupe and taking them to dry returns for another Thai a horse could be trained lo these unpleasant and hazardous enterprises may Hut it pears in reality no training is necessary all depends on ihe skill and firmness of the Hoodless declares he could age the most unruly horse in the waler for as soon as ihe animal finds that he has lost his and is obliged to lie becomes as obedient to the bridle as a boat to the The same thing is observed in the sagacious animal when being ed to the deck of a He struggles vehemently at first against his impending but Ihe moment his feet fairly ihe he is calm and as if knowing that resistance would compromise safety in the The plan which our hero adopts when i ing a particular angry serf or to turn his horse's bend and allow ihe wave lo roll over Were the horse to face the larger billows and to pierce the waler would enter his and render him by which he would soon be In ihe year 1833, signalized himself by swimming his horse through a stormy sea to the wreck of the and saving her for which gallant vice he afterwards received a testimonial from the Royal Humane The words of the resolution passed by ihe ciely on may be for they narrate a circumstance worthy of being widely known was resolved unanimously that the noble courage and humanity displayed by Richard for the preservation of the crew of the from when the vessel was wrecked near the Dona on the coast of on tho 31 si of and the worthy manner in which he risked life on that by swimming his horse through a heavy sea to the when il was found impossible to launch the has called forth the lively admiration of ihe which is hereby adjudged to be presented to him at the ensuing anniversary As it imy not generally be understood that a horse can be made to perform the office of a when vessels of that kind could not with safety be the fact performing so many feats in the manner described cannot be too widely On some we arc swims by himself to the wreck but more usually he goes on and is seldom unsuccessful in his About two years ago ho saved the of a vessel and his and ten on the back of his nnd others asked a friend of n young law j or who had been admitted about a how do jou like your now profession Tho reply was briol sigh to tho MOD is much belli nn i ing on by be lying on her end Should a vessel re- quires to exorcise great camion in making his in consequence of the ropes On and rigging in the one decision he much ii ouni he had two leaving the but the horse could not move from the After various ineffectual discovered thai mal was entangled in a rope under What was to be done The sea was in a and to dismount was scarcely he at length picked up the rope with his then instantly pulling a knife from his ward into the cut the sy task in a stormy so got off with All honor to Farmer Richard who in his own ostentatious forms acts of humanity as singular as they are meritorious Only by accident have we become acquainted with his name and deeds of and we could not deny ourselves the pleasure of giving them all the in our A We in one or two made a passing allusion in our columns lo a case of trance occurring lo Mr. a Presbyterian who resided many years ago in New New As the is a kable we have thought that our ers would be interested in a more lar which we give in the ing Being in feeble and entertaining doubts as to his final Mr. nent was conversing one morning with his in on the stale of his when he fainted and died After the usual he was out a according lo ihe common practice of the and the neighborhood were invited lo his funeral on ihe In the evening his who was ly attached to returned from a ride in ihe country and was afflicted beyond ure at ihe news of his He could not be persuaded that it was and on being told thai one of persons who had assisted in laying out the thought thai he had observed a slight tremor of tlie flesh tinder the although the body was cold and lo tain tho He first put his own hand into warm to make it as tive as and then fell under and at the anil affirmed he full an unusual no one else lie had ihe restored to a warm and insisted that the people who been invited to the should not To this the brother ns ihe eyes being the lips and the whole body cold and the doctor finally and all probable means were used lo discover symptoms of returning But the third day and no hopes were entertained of success by the who never left him night nor The people were again and assembled to attend the The doctor still and at lasl confined his request for delay to one then half an when his brother came and insisted with earnestness that the funeral shall At this critical and important the to the great alarm and astonishment of all opened his a dreadful groan and sunk again into apparent This put an end to all thoughts of burying and every effort was again employed in hopes of bringing about a speedy In about an hour the eyes again a heavy groan proceeded from the and again all appearance of tion In another hour life ed lo return with more and a com- plete revival took to the great joy of the family and and to the no small of the very many who had ridiculing ihe idea of restoring life to a dead The writer of these memoirs stales on a favorable occasion he earnestly ed Mr. for a minute account of what his views and apprehensions were while he lay in this extraordinary state of suspended lie discovered great reluctance to enter into nn explanation of his perception and feelings at that hut being importunately urged to do he at length consented and proceeded with a solemnity not to be I was conversing with my on ihe state of my soul and the fears I had entertained for my future I found myself in an instant in another state of under the direction of a who ordered me to follow I was accordingly wafted I knew not till I beheld at a distance an ineffable the impression of which on my mind il is impossible to cate to mortal I immediately ed on my happy and blessed God I am safe at notwithstanding all my I saw nn innumerable happy beings ing the inexpressible in acts of ration nnd joyous worship but I did hot j sec any bodily shape or representation in their r and must return to This ed like a sword through my In an instant I recollect to have seen my brother standing before disputing with the The three days during which I had appeared seemed to be not more than twenty The idea of ing to this world of sorrow and trouble gave me such a shock that 1 fainted re- He was the effect on niy mind of what I had seen and that if it be possible for a human to live entirely above the world and the things of for sometime afterwards I was that The ravishing sound of the songs and hallelujahs that I and the words that were were not out of my ears for at least three All the kingdoms of the earth were in my sight as nothing and vanity and so great were my ideas of heavenly that nothing which did not in some measure re- late to could command my serious at- THE LINNET AND THE Most of our readers are familiar with the story of the maid and the The following wluch are supplied by the correspondent of a are equally though less serious in their consequences For some time past various articles were that had been washed and put on the lawn to No trace of them could be discovered until a few days when something was seen in an arbutus which led to an and a frill was found partly hanging out the nest of a green with a portion gracefully encircling the neck of the little On a further together with the usual materials of which the nest was built moss and grass there were entwined within and as it to the approaching val of the a baby's lace yards of lace and two pairs of and a short distance off on the was picked up the frill for the top of a child's which seemed lo have been too heavy for the little culprits lo carry along with This has led to a further and other ing articles of same too numerous to have been found forming a part of the nest of the Since the nests were taken these novel little thieves have been intercepted ing off Liverpool For long the French papers have omitted all mention of and the question has been what has be- come of him Entirely forgotten amid the turmoil of he yet es in and the men who seem so anxious to establish their own liberty pear to have no thought for him who all to maintain the independence of his of him A cotemporary thus speaks lie is still a prisoner of confined in open and direct contravention of the stipulations made with Gen. to whom he surrendered the terms of which that lie should be conveyed with his family to in order to be en route for under the shade of the he might pass the der of his days in religious In the darkest a direct violation of was considered ful but fora nation pretending to loom as largo and as mighty as and at this enlightened to perpetrate such a fraud as sullied the character of Louis and disgraces the government of Louis is a oner in the castle of The lion of Mount Atlas is in con- like de despondency seems to have taken complete possession of lie who roved the desert and climbed the hills of the tania who with his horde of Arabs kept the soldiers of France at bay for several and who only capitulated on honorable terms is now the broken down in de- pressed in and who only at night walks forth to take the air on the of the The only friends and companions who are near him besides his and whom ho treats with the most delicate are those noble sisters of who visit the castle and who discharge the duties of physicians and The From New York TO AN AUSENT I'm without For twilight's fading And the simile that ever haunts me Is on my heart and How strange that wordt of parting From those we hold most Should fill the with And force the bitter While ever busy Memory Recalls each look and tone Of the loved and Who leave us nil matter where thy My heart is wild ihee And till we meet No joy this void can THE FRENCH The following anecdote of the French who has recently been elected a deputy in the French National is related by a Paris correspondent ol the Boston It well illustrates some fine traits in the character the common people of France The most remarkable member of the new is a common working mason and bricklayer without any pretention to and who defends self from the imputation of having sought the thus gratuitously thrust upon The history of this singular choice is most who is one ol the most honest creatures in walked from the department of the Creuse some few years since with no other gage than his hod and to seek em- ployment in Fortune favored him and found to be a ing i.e was held in high estimation by his His had endeavored lo assist in obtaining a ing by keeping a from which distributed fried potatoes at a small profi to the hungry comrades of her This commerce succeeded better than the handicraft of and it was soon found that she could earn more in one day by her frving than he could do in a week by the most assiduous ame thus opened a small shop on the Place du Pan- which became ihe resort of all the masons and bricklayers in that The of St. Genevieve i was then in and sometimes as many as 300 workmen would assemble in the shop of good mother to eat her and talk over the affairs of when work was During the tempest occasioned by the revolution of the distress among the sons was greater than amongst any other class of Public ment was suspended while vate no longer eager for the fulfillment of their dismissed the greater portion of their workmen and thus thousands were left without without and almost without In this stepped unable to bear the sight of the misery around consent announced his intention of con- to furnish dinner and as whom the hardness of the times had deprived of You can judge with what de- gree of enthusiasm such an announcement My wife has saved said to the assembled If we had not been honest and we should now have been as poor as We will live together upon this money till better times come Those who earn ever so small a pittance bring ii to the Let us help each and all will go Of course this was agreed to on the and it is believed that in no case was it deviated from during the Q troublous certainly never expected any other acknowledgment of his generous conduct than that afforded by the esteem and gratitude of his friends but his who participates with all 113, ed to the seat he was to occupy ensuing It is confidently ed had to the incident would have ed a serious riot in How you manage a discourse slid hit bor on the replied but I shall tent myself with voting lor those who hold the WRITTEN OF Many years ago Dr. a learned and excellent presided over the Presbyterian College at At meeting of a or some other large ecclesiastical body at that a preached a serman against written The President of the College with his wonted courtesy invited a number of his brethren in the ministry to dine with and among the the eloquent youg man to whose had been several were passed on the and illustrations re- ferred which had given One of these was more marked than the The young feeling probably somewhat elated with the strain of and desirous of ing his that he had omitted one that point it having slipped his eared Scotchman caught the desired its The young had no sooner acceded to the of his venerable than he received a piece of which went to the root and left hint less and With that peculiar shrewdness which distinguished marks of and a deep ef northern brogue which only a Scotchman of olden times could fairly uje looked at the young My I advise you next tinie to write it and then you will nut get THE OLDEST gentleman as the case may must be venerable for his and worthy of all confidence for his There has been no time since the sion of tongues on the plain of in which this personage has not tlie last day was the the day the the last hailstones that fell the the lightning the the last thunder the most and so without l he hud ever heard or He coolly affirms now that provisions are dearer than they were ever known to be fact for which JIB accounts from another that there are more dogs about mad than were ever ted to live in any one age since the of his renowned who flourished about a century anterior to the of the children of I am myself ready to testify on if that this old gentleman has every year for near fifty sometimes twice or thrice in a the money ket was never before so tight as at the present moment and he prophesied that money will never be till the ture repeals the usury PUTTING THE the late election a worthy ter of the Methodist order took for his text one the following 1 Who is on the Lord's side After exhorting them with characteristic brought the question home to each in- heart My beloved this is an tant Who is on the side AH those who are on the side will rise in their women in than same ambition and self- To the surprise of the elder no one confidence which make the whole country subject to petticoat entered into a private arrangement with her by which all obligations due to her were to be cancelled by the nomination of her husband to the Most masons who work in Paris come from the Department of the and the affair was soon arranged the popularity of daud among this class being so great that he might have been elected President had a vacancy They say that the far exceeds the delight Emir says he has lost much of his ancient with which he greeted the announcement prestige and influence among his faithful i of distinction of which he had been The prophecies of Mecca have and is merely to I m his is more than sufficient to rend from SCIUS to llis the in eyes of Ins that nc in going to work until Vlie the glorious I heard songs and of with I foli j joy unutterable and full of I then that circlet of glory and which was to have made him invincible and It is shameful to template this immorality of France nor can any nation find a for this base violation of treaty Why not send nnd family to and aid him to reach the which very day of the meeting of the and presented himself at the door in the blouse and cap which he had been to The officer on duty re- fused a i first to admit whereupon with the greatest turned Do as you With Parliamentary propriety he then put the other side of the on the Devil's side No one At last an ad- dressed the we all goes here for The path of vice may pleasant for a but shame and confusion will soon overpower and you will be led in agony to adopt the words of our first in the language of might I In in some glad highest impenetrable To star or spreading their umbrage And brown as Cover yc Vc cedars with innumerable Hide where I may never more lie A gentleman more remarkable for lha excellence of his appetite than the remarked one ing at the breakfast there is a gular sensation in my head my his better you've got an my Til go to work Cm tors pint of nearly Applied to my requested join the happy on which I ho me on the shoulder and he has chosen for his final home I What Whal a now j MMm of can operate this net of only my Fortune may often the speech was overheard j engine of manf of in ho by the nnd presently Il rosy afar fcs onn never lose her cor came ihe jid ltd and
