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Special Agent Pennsylvania Railroad Co.'s Exhibit. World's Columbian Exposition.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MOTIVE POWER, PHILADELPHIA, December 18th, 1893.
Mr. G. P. Emswiler :
DEAR SIR- You will find herewith a catalogue of the exhibit made by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany at the World's Columbian Exposition. Refer- ences to the contribution made by you, for which this company is greatly indebted, will be found on pages 112 and 113. You will be interested to learn that one of the seven medals awarded the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, by the judges in the section of Transporta- tion, was for the Historical Collection of Relics, Models, Charts, etc., of which your contribution formed an important part.
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Advantage has been taken of the exceptional oppor- tunity following the success of the Exposition just closed, to establish in Chicago the " Columbian Museum of Chicago." Large sums of money and many impor- tant exhibits have been contributed to the establishment of this institution. After careful investigation, and at the earnest request of the Directors of the new musetti11, it has been decided, as will be seen by the accompany- ing circular of the President, to deposit the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company's exhibit in the museum, under certain conditions, one of which is that the exhibit shall be installed, as a whole, in a separate hall which has been assigned for the purpose.
I am directed to advise you of these facts, and, on behalf of this company, to ask your assistance in pre- serving the historical value of the exhibit by donating to the " Pennsylvania Railroad Transportation Exhibit," in the Columbian Museum, the objects you kindly con- tributed to the Pennsylvania Railroad Exhibit at the World's Fair, and that you return my receipt endorsed to that effect. It is hoped that you will respond favor- ably to this request, in which case a label will be attached to your contribution, containing the statement that it was donated by you, and due acknowledgement will be made in a formal receipt, which will be forwarded to you later. Very respectfully,
Approved :
J. E. WATKINS.
THEO. N. ELY, Chief of Motive Power.
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COLUMBIAN MUSEUM OF CHICAGO, MAR. 23, 1894.
DEAR SIR - The notice of your contribution of you exhibit to the Pennsylvania Railroad collection, in the Columbian Museum, has been received in this office.
I assure you of our hearty appreciation of your kindness in this matter, and convey to you our earnest thanks for this addition to the collection.
Yours very truly, E. W. PEABODY, In charge P. R. R. Exhibit.
GEO. P. EMSWILER, ESQ., Richmond, Ind.
EARLY RAILROADING.
MEN, LOCOMOTIVES AND CARS, BETWEEN ANDERSON AND RICHMOND.
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Anderson Bulletin.
Whilst other enterprises have made rapid strides, and the hand of progress can be seen on every turn, the railroads have not been asleep in the last forty years. There is as wide a difference between the railroad equipments and the mode of railroad management now,
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1 forty years ago, as there is between the fine coach tuwn on the streets of to-day, and the old wooden axle arriage of that day. The comparison of one is only a comparison of the other. To illustrate : The Pan Handle railroad was constructed from Richmond to Hagerstown in 1853, extended to New Castle in 1854, and reached Anderson about 1855. The equip- ments of the road at that time would be a curiosity to the present generation. The first engine that ever ran on the road was called the "Swinett." It was a very small affair, not very much larger than one of the large traction engines in use now for the purpose of running threshing machines. It had no pilot or cow-catcher in front, like the engines of to-day. No coal was used in firing an engine in those days, but wood was used entirely. The smoke-stack on the Swinett was a very large affair, spreading out at the top, with a large sieve covering it, to let the sparks and ashes escape. The smoke stack was nearly as large as the engine.
The Swinett, coming down the road, presented much the same appearance of a country boy at a county fair, with his pap's plug hat on. At night, when she was steamed and her fire box stuffed full of dry wood, as she sailed along through the darkness, she left a string of fire coals streaming over her back like the tail of a comet, often setting fire to straw stacks, barns and fences, clearing everything in her way. She had painted, on the side of her " tender," the picture of a
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man with a pig under his arm, the tail in his mouth, and he picking on the pig like a banjo. Thus it took its name, "Swinett."
The Swinett had a twin sister that came on the road about the same time, named the "Julia Dean." She was rather smaller than the Swinett, but much hand- somer, from the fact that her smoke stack was painted red. As she came sailing along she looked like a sugar trough with a stove pipe stuck up in the center of it. She, like the Swinett, had no pilot or cow-catcher in front. If either of these engines ever struck a cow, it was simply a question of which went into the ditch, the cow or the engine.
The people of those days called a locomotive a " Bulljine." It was a great treat for the youngsters to go to town on Saturday and see the " Bulljine " come in. After these rude, ill-shaped engines had served their day, and the road had reached further into the fields of prosperity, new and more modern engines were placed in service. Whilst they were considered, in their day, the finest in the land, they would suffer by comparison with the monsters of to-day.
Every town on the line of the road, of any impor- tance, was anxious to have an engine namned for it. The officials, of course, in order to please their patrons, named an engine after the county-seats through which the road passed. There was the New Castle, the Logansport, the Anderson, and the Chicago, all hand-
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some pieces of machinery for their day. Then there was the S. Fosdick, the largest engine of its day, named in honor of some distinguished man; but of all the locomotives that ever skipped along the rails of the Pan Handle railroad, from the time the road was first begun, up to date, the " Old Hoosier " took the cake. She was the favorite of all engineers who ever traveled the road. Mark Smith was the engineer who handled her throttle. He was as much a favorite as was his engine. Every woman, man and child on the road knew Mark Smith, and loved him. The Hoosier had a whistle on it that out-whistled all others. People used to say that the whistle of the Hoosier, when she was thrown wide open, would shake the beech-nuts off the trees along the road.
John Smock was the first engineer who ever ran an engine on the road. He came to the road with the Swinett, and stayed with it as long as the engine was in use, and for some time afterward. Smock was a terrible swearer. It is said that he could curse the old Swinett until it would begin to move, without fire, water or steam in it. It was his delight to see a team of horses skip out over a corn-field, along the road, when scared at the cars. He often blew the whistle when there was no earthly need of it, just to scare somebody's horses and see them run.
Among the early engineers on the road was a man named Skinner. He, for many years, ran the " Old
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Chicago." She was a monster for that day, built for a passenger run. Extra large drive wheels, with the gearing or side rods inside of the drivers.
Skinner was an awful man to swear. He made the air blue when anything went wrong. A man by the name of Grimes was also an early engineer. He was an old friend of Jack Daniel's, and visited him a short time ago.
Tom Clark was the first conductor on the road. He was a whole team by himself. He knew everybody on the road, and everybody knew him. He swore, chewed tobacco, smoked, drank good liquor, and had a good time generally. He retired many years ago, and lived on a farm near Richmond, where, it is said, he died some years ago. There was only one train each way, from Anderson to Richmond, then. It was a mixed train of freight and passenger cars. Tom Clark was the only conductor, and run the whole business. After- ward separate trains, made up exclusively of passenger coaches and more conductors, were needed.
Then came Charley Lincoln and Elijah Holland, of New Castle. "Lige " always wore a blue cloth spike- tail coat, with brass buttons, with a beautiful growth of red whiskers, to match. He was a "Dick." Then there were John C. Huddleston, Thomas, Plimpton, Muchmore, Billy Patterson, Bogart, and others whose names are now forgotten. Bogart was a little New York dandy ; looked like he had just come out of a
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band-box. He was unused to Hoosier customs. The boys along the road used to have lots of fun at his expense. They kided him in many ways.
John C. Huddleston is still living a retired life ill New Castle, and is one of the largest land owners in Henry county. He has acres and acres of Blue river bottom land that one can see as they near New Castle on the Pan Handle train. It looks like the Garden of Eden. He had his foot cut off at Knightstown, in 1860, by the cars running over it. It is said he was there on some political business, and did not want it known, but the accident brought it out.
There was no telegraph line on the road then, and a conductor had to be "up to snuff " to run a train. It was no boy's play, in those days, to be a conductor.
The engine "Anderson," named in honor of this city, done service for several years on the road, and was a general favorite among railroaders, as well as the public. She finally ended her existence by suicide, about the year 1860, exploding her boiler while stand- ing on the track, in the town after which she was named, while her engineer was eating a lunch in a small restaurant or lunch room kept by Buff Dehority, situated near where Wellington's flouring mills now stand, opposite the Pan Handle depot. She was blown into fragments. The boiler was completely demolished, and thrown in all directions. H. J. Daniels, the present
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postmaster of Anderson, kept a grain house near there, and was a witness to the explosion. No one was hurt, but everybody, for a great distance around, was badly scared and shaken up.
MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS.
CANAL-BOAT TRAINS.
NOVEL PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD ONCE IN OPERATION.
CARS RUNNING ON LAND AND WATER BETWEEN PHILADELPHIA AND PITTSBURG.
Editor the Telegram:
In your issue of Saturday you mentioned a project, once had in view by the people of Richmond, to build a railroad from this city to Connersville, which, you state, was to have an "equipment different from anything ever before or since carried into effect," which is described as a car with "bed" shaped as a canal-boat. As no date is given, I cannot say such project had previously been successfully tried, but about twenty years before the war - while I was attending school in Chester county, Pennsylvania - it was a daily occur- rence to see trains on the Columbia railroad which had the appearance of a half-dozen canal-boats on wheels, running along at a speed of twenty miles per hour.
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The boats were divided in the center, two cars repre- senting one boat. These were loaded in Philadelphia, taken by rail to Columbia -situated on the Susque- hanna river, about twenty miles below Harrisburg - where they were launched into the Pennsylvania canal, the two sections coupled together, and from thence towed to Holidaysburg, where trucks were again placed under them and they were hauled over what was known as the Portage railroad to Johnstown, where the queer craft again took to the water and went by canal to Pittsburg, at which point the freight was transferred to boats for all points, from Fort Snelling 011 the north to New Orleans on the south, thus making but one handling of the freight between Phila- delphia and all towns on the Mississippi river and its tributaries. These canals and railroads were owned by the State of Pennsylvania, and when, in 1846, applica- tion was made to the Legislature for a charter for the Pennsylvania railroad to extend from Harrisburg to Pittsburg, it was vigorously opposed as a possible competitor of the State works. The latter, before many years, were purchased by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from the State, and the queer- looking boat-cars ceased to be used.
W. F. SPENCER.
NOTE .- The statement here made by Mr. Spencer the author can fully verify, as he has witnessed the same thing, when a boy, at Marietta. Harrisburg and Columbia, Pennsylvania, hundreds of times.
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OUR NAVY DURING THE WAR.
ONE OF THE MARVELS OF THE AGE .- MONEY VALUE OF ITS CAPTURES.
[ Admiral Porter's Book, 1861 to 1865.]
The growth of our navy was one of the marvels of the age. It cost the government, in round numbers, $480,000,000, or $120,000,000 for each year of the war, $10,000,000 per month, or nearly a third of a million dollars for every day of the war.
It employed over 600 vessels of war and over 50,000 men, which force greatly exceeded that of any other nation in the world.
It guarded over 7,000 miles of coast, including bays, rivers, etc., effectually preventing the importa- tion of arms and munitions of war, and so compelling the earlier exhaustion of the Confederate forces.
It captured the immense number of 1, 165 blockade- runners, many of which were fine steamers-a ratio of nearly 300 captures per annum, or alınost one each day during the entire war. The money value of its captures was at least $60,000,000, or $15,000,000 worth for each year of the war, and $1,250,000 i11 value for each month of the war, from first to last.
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It co-operated with the army wherever there was water enough to float a gun-boat, while on the high seas our navy covered itself with glory. The river work of the navy on the Potomac, the York, the James and the Mississippi, with its branches ; the coast-line work, from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi, and its work on the high seas, totally eclipse, in martial valor and brilliant successes, all other naval achievements of the world. While history records the names of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Island No. 10, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Fort Jackson, Fort St. Philip, Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor, Mobile bay, Hatteras inlet, New Orleans, Port Royal and Fort Fisher, and a score more of such famous names, the American navy will be universally honored ; while such deeds as the sinking of the Alabama, in square naval battle, will ever be named among the most brilliant victories of the age.
It opened the harbors by the perilous work of removing obstructions, torpedoes, etc., and by utterly destroying the hostile batteries which commanded them. It held in check the hostile elements of many a city and rural section while a dreaded gun-boat quietly lay before it ; in short, it displayed heroism of the noblest type, and made our reputation on the seas equal that of any nation.
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WAR PRICES IN THE NORTH.
SOME PRICES CURRENT DURING THE LATE WAR.
This list was issued by H. B. Claflin & Co., corner of Worth, Church and West Broadway, New York, August 27, 1864. "For this hour only, 11 o'clock A. M."
These were net wholesale prices, by the case.
PRINTS.
Cocheco $0 50
Merrimac 50
Sprague 46
Sprague, Pink and Pur-
ple Frock . 46
Sprague, Indigo Blue . 474
Sprague, German Style 46
Sprague, Turkey Red . 46
Sprague, Solid Colors . 47
Sprague, Buff and Green
Fancy 46
Sprague, Shirting . 46
Sprague, 4-4 Purple 60
American 45
Pacific 46
Dunnell 432
Lowell, Dark . 39
Lowell, Light .
31
P. Allen, Shirting 41}
Duchess B
38
Wamsutta 39
Arnold . 384
PRINTS.
Windham Co. $0 36
Amoskeag Pink . 43
Amoskeag Purple . 42 Amoskeag Shirting 41
Amoskeag Ruby 42
Mallory Purple 42
Rhode Island . 38
Suffolk .
41
Richardson, Freeman & Co. 39
Gamer Swiss . 42
Eagle and Neptune . 32
Cohoes Falls, Etc. 25
York and Amoskeag
Mourning 403
London and Atlantic
Mourning
43
GINGHAMS.
Roanoke 40
Hampden 40
Lancaster 48%
Everett.
47₺
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DELAINES.
High Colors $0 60
Armures
57}
All Dark . 55
All Wool
72, 75 to 85
APRON CHECKS.
Hamilton
45
Whittenden
523
Star, 4-2
55 and 60
Star, 2-2 .
521
Washington
523
STRIPE SHIRTINGS.
Pittsfield . 35
Hudson River
36
Thorndike
41
Anchor
421
Franklin, A. C. A.
42]
Uncasville, Light and
Dark
. 572 and 583
FURNITURE CHECKS.
Park Mills, Heavy . . $0 573
Columbia Mills
45
Star Mills
55
Star Mills, Red .
65
Kirkland Mills
40
Hancock Mills
523
Washington, No. 80 .
55
Wamsutta
50
Lanark Brown, No. 3 .
45
Lanark Brown, No. 2 .
424
Marlboro Stripes
373
Hartford Co.
37}
TICKS.
Pemberton Red Awn-
ing. 723
Pemberton X Blue
Awning
$0 75
Franklin, A. C. A.
62}
Merrimac
62}
Hampden
39
Pittsfield .
35
Hudson River
36
Massachusetts
423
CANTON FLANNEL.
Hamilton, X F. Brown 75
Roanoke, A. A. Brown
44
Naumkeag, A. A. Brown
77}
Naumkeag, Bleached .
80
Portland, Bleached . .
72}
COLORED CORSET JEANS.
Pepperell .
$0 60
Lewiston .
45
Androscoggin
433
Indian Orcharde
433
Newmarket.
43}
DENIMS.
Hudson River Brown .
40
Madison Brown
462
Warren Brown .
55
Oxford Brown
523
New Creek Blue
421
Idaho Blue .
463
Franklin, A. C. A., Blue 48
Massachusetts Blue . .
50
Merrimac Blue .
60
Naumkeag Blue
60
Haymaker Blue
70
BROWN SHIRTINGS.
Boot H, 7-8
473
Boot 0, 4-4
54
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Boot S, 9-8 . $0 60
Nashua D, 4-4 60
Pacific E, 7-8 .
573
Pacific L, 4-4 .
62
Atlantic E, 7-8 .
571
Atlantic L, 4-4
62
James, 7-8 .
523
Dwight A, 4-4
55
Newmarket A, 4-4
571
Great Falls S, 7-8 .
523
Great Falls M, 4-4
55
Pepperell 0, 7-8
56
Pepperell R, 4-4 60
Salisbury R, 4-4 . .
60
Hamilton A A, 4-4
473
BROWN SHEETINGS
All Standards, 4-4 723
Rittsfield, 3-4 . 45
Atlantic R, 4-4 .
63
Atlantic R, 4-4 .
673
Ethan Allen C, 4-4 . 523
Canestogo No. 1, 7-S . . 50
Burlington X, 4-4 . 523
Little Falls D .
55
Nashua A.
70
LINSEYS.
Park No. 65 874
Park No. 45. 65
Park No. 35.
60
All Wool Filling
75
Rob Roy. 671
Wamsutta 673
Jefferson .
573
Royal Oak
53
White Rock .
7-8 BLEACHED COTTONS.
Portsmouth F $0 42}
Pawnee A A
50
Canagua River H
383
Arctic A
40
Waltham X 55
55
Nipunic 38.
38
Edward Harris
50
Blackwater
45
Boote O
523
Langdon
55
BLEACHED CORSET JEANS.
Pepperell
$0 60
Amoskeag
523
Androscoggin
45
Lewiston
45
Bates .
45
4-4 BLEACHED COTTONS.
New York Mills . $0 773
Masonville 70
Androscoggin
71
Wauregan Water Twist
74
Langdon
63
White Rock 74
Black Rock .
65
Arkwright Water Twist 721
Dwight, D. . 68
Hill's Semper Idem 65
Bartlett .
65
Durham 623
Hope .. 61
Kensington .
50
Commonwealth, U. . 48
Wauregan, Extra, XX 583
Wauregan, F.
55
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Eldon. . $0 45
Plainfield, A. 44
Seneca Mills 50
Wanhoo, A. 49
Narraganset 483
Chattanooga, A 50
Reynolds, A.
50
Chaumont .
433
Newburyport .
60
COLORED CAMBRIC, ETC.
Colored Cambric, 263, 273, 30
Paper Cambric, 25, 31 and 323
Victory Silisias . 45
Lonsdale Silisias 433
SHIRTING AND PILLOW CASE,
BLEACHED.
10-4 Pepperell . $1 60
9-4 Pepperell 1 50
8-4 Pepperell . $1 32}
6-4 Pepperell 1 00
10-4 Waltham 1 55
9-4 Waltham 1 45
8-4 Waltham 1 30
6-4 Waltham 97 3
9-8 Waltham
65
5-4 Langdon .
721
5-4 Androscoggin 78
9-4 Monadnock .
1 35
10-4 Monadnock, Brown 1 37
SPOOL COTTON, ETC.
Coates' Spool Cotton,
(5 off) $2 00
Willimantic (5 off ) . . 1 50
Worsted Braid, No. 53, ( 5 off ) 1 87%
Dry goods, wool shawls, dress goods, blankets, cloths, cassimeres, satinetts, cloakings, cloaks and mantillas, Ken- tucky jeans, notions, white goods, hosiery, lace goods, boots and shoes, all as low as circumstances and the times will allow.
Goods are still advancing in price. Your orders-for which I shall be obliged -will receive prompt attention.
B. BARR.
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WAR PRICES IN THE SOUTH,
3
WITH A DEPRECIATED CURRENCY.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, in her Memoirs, gives the following extract from the diary of Col. Miller Owens, of the Washington Artillery, during the last war. Made on a trip from Richmond, Virginia, to Augusta, Georgia, in March and April, 1865.
1865.
PRICE.
March 11 To meal on the road
20 00
March 17 To cigars and bitters 60 00
March 20 To hair-cutting and shave 10 00
March 20 To one pair eye glasses
135 00
March 20 To candles 50 00
March 23 To coat, vest and pants 2,700 00
March 27
To one gallon whiskey 400 00
March 30
To one pair pants 700 00
March 30 To one pair cavalry boots 450 00
April 12 To six yards linen
1,200 00
April 14 To one ounce sul. quinine
1,700 00
April 14 To two weeks' board
70 00
April 14 Bought $60 gold
6,000 00
April 24 To one doz. Catawba wine 900 00
April 24 To shade and sundries 75 00
April 24 To matches
25 00
April 24 To one pen knife . 125 00
April 24 To one package brown Windsor soap 50 00
In July, 1862, the farmers of the South were selling eggs (which now bring but ten or twelve cents per dozen) for a dollar; potatoes for $6 per bushel; chickens, 57 cents to $1
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apiece ; butter, 75 cents to $1 per pound; cabbage, 50 cents to 75 cents per head. By November they were getting $15 a barrel for their corn, and $4.50 per bushel for their wheat. In February, 1863, prices had risen to a figure that, as one writer puts it, "must fairly make the modern farmer's mouth water:" chickens were $12 a pair, and bacon $8-not a barrel, but a pound! But in 1864, "wealth beyond the dreams of avarice was," the same writer continues, "pouring in on the farmer." Flour then brought $300 per barrel; a turkey would fetch $60; white beans sold for $75 per bushel, and milk $4 a quart. By 1865 the amount of money that a farmer could obtain for his products was almost incalculable. He could name his own price, and the supply of money was inexhaustible. Never before had the farmers of this or any other country so much money in their pockets; in fact, their pockets were not large enough to hold it, and it was said that people took their money to market in their baskets, and brought home their purchases in their pockets.
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COTTON MATHER AND THE "FRIENDS."
We are often reminded of the good old times, when men were better than they are now, but we seldom get a glimpse of those better times that we do not rejoice to have escaped them and had our lot cast in the degenerate days of the present. We do not believe that the world was ever better than at present. In government and religion, we think there has been, all the time, a steady advance toward the higher and better, and that the whole people occupy a much higher plane, in morals and virtue, than ever before. Governments are more observant of the rights of the citizen, and the churches more tolerant and more ill harmony with the teachings of their great founder than they were ever before known to be. We are led to this moralizing by the recent publication, for the first time, of the following letter, written by Cotton Mather, two hundred years ago. The letter is as follows :
SEPTEMBER, 1682.
To ye Aged and Beloved John Higginson :
There be now at sea a shippe (for our friend Elias Hold- craft, of London, did advise me by the last packet that it would sail some time in August) called "Ye Welcome" (R. Green was master), which has aboard a hundred or more
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of ye heretics and malignants called Quakers, with W. Penn, who is ye scamp at ye head of them. Ye General Court has accordingly given secret orders to Master Malachi Huxett, of ye brig " Porpoise," to waylay ve said " Welcome," as near ye coast of Codd as may be, and make captives of ve Penn and his ungodly crew, so that ye Lord may be glorified, and not mocked on ye soil of this new country with ye heathen worships of these people. Much spoil can be made by selling ve whole lot to Barbadoes, where slaves fetch good prices in rumme and sugar, and we shall not only do ve Lord great service by punishing ye wicked, but shall make gaine for his ministers and people.
Yours, in ye bowels of Christ, COTTON MATHER.
Had this scheme, which was so earnestly approved by the good and reverend Mr. Mather, been successful, and William Penn and his colony of Quakers been captured and traded to the Barbadoes for slaves - taking rum and sugar in return - we scarcely believe the generation of to-day would approve it as glorifying the Lord or as a credit to the church.
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THE OPTIMIST.
If " crime " is the most terrible word which has ever been coined by the lips of man, "ennui " is the most pathetic.
When we read in Gibbon that " neither business nor pleasure nor flattery could defend Caracalla from the stings of a guilty conscience ; and he confessed, in the anguish of a tortured mind, that his disordered fancy often beheld the angry forms of his father and his brother rising into life to threaten and upbraid him," a shudder runs through our hearts.
When we read what Septimus Severus (who rose ' from an humble station to the imperial throne) said, " Omnia ful et nihil expedit," " I have been all things, and all was of little value," a tear dims our eyes.
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