Truth once promulgated can never be stopped its course till its mission is accomplished." Large and liberal views these for a self-educated farmer. him either weak or stern. He went quietly on "Oft in life's stillest shade reclining, Friend Joseph, in common with other mortals, has encountered many trials and afflictions. But it is an excellent foundation for a tranquil old age to love labor so much that work is recreation; to take friendly interest in the birds and all of God's little creatures; to be temperate in all things, and habitually frugal, not from love of accumulation, but for the sake of imparting freely to the unfortunate; to find an everpleasant resource in the perusal of good books; and to have a conscience void of offence toward God and man. Time has silvered Joseph's hair, and the aches and pains of years have plowed furrows in his face. But he thinks more of his blessings than of his troubles, and uses what strength he has for the benefit of others. He gathers his grandchildren round him, and writes for them little stories or verses, which always contain some lessons of justice or kindness. Ón his sixty-seventh birth-day he gave a pic-nic party to all the girls and boys for a mile round. Some of them had flaxen hair, and some had black; some had white faces, and some had brown; for this pic-nic was one of his practical sermons on the brotherhood of the human race. He wrote simple verses for the occasion, freighted with hints of profitable truths. The tables were spread in his woods, and abundantly supplied with bread and butter, cakes, melons and apples. Large crates were fastened to the trees with strong ropes, so that the little ones could swing safely at their ease; and there were plenty of hoops and balls. It was a merry time, and Friead Joseph was as happy as any of the young folks. In spirit he was like unto a little child; and "of such are the kingdom of heaven."Independent. In the case of the colored children, Friend Joseph's quiet persistence carried his point. They were allowed to sit with him and his family in their accustomed seats in the meetinghouse, and the teacher of the Orthodox Quaker school received them into her classes. They behaved well, and no disastrous consequences followed this mingling of different complexions. No one could justly bring against Friend Joseph the charge of being a Quixotic philanthropist, who neglected his own business to look after the wrongs of others. He was diligent and frugal, and thus earned for himself a right to indulge in the only luxury he cared forthe luxury of benevolence. His large heart saved him from being penurious, while his orderly and thrifty habits prevented that careless expenditure which too often results in making other people pay for the gratification of our good impulses. Though an old-fashioned Quaker, in dress as well as principles, his course of reading was never sectarian. He was eager to learn from all advocates of justice, freedom, and humanity, and the fruits of it were visible in the enlargement of his mental and moral vision. Years ago, he wrote to me: "There is much said about the decline of the Society of Friends. Some grieve over it, while others rejoice. I am not much affected by it either way; for I firmly believe there is as much genuine Quakerism in the world as there ever was, al- The woodpecker in California is a storer of though it may not always appear under the form acorus. The tree he selects is invariably of the of a straight coat or broad brim. I can fully pine tribe. He bores several holes differing subscribe to a sentiment I once heard thee utter, slightly in size, at the Fall of the year, and then that a very good heart may beat under a fash-flies away, in many instances to a long distance, ionable dress. If every member of the Society of Friends should abandon its principles, it would not affect the truth of that glorious declaration of spiritual independence and individual freedom which its founders proclaimed to the world. In my estimation, it was far superior to the justly celebrated declaration of personal freedom and political independence put forth by the founders of this republic. I believe that genuine Quakerism, instead of declining, is actually reviving and increasing. The spirit is not dead, or dying; it has merely removed from its old, narrow tenement, and taken possession of more spacious and better-lighted apartments. THE WOODPECKER'S FORESIGHT. and returns with an acorn, which he immediately sets about adjusting to one of the holes prepared for its reception, which will hold it tightly in its position. But he does not eat the acorn; for, as a rule, he is not a vegetarian. His object in storing away the acorn exhibits acute foresight, and knowledge of results more akin to reason than to instinct. The succeeding Winter the acorn remains intact, but becoming saturated with rain, is predisposed to decay, when it is attacked by maggots, who seem to delight in this special food; it is then that the woodpecker reaps the harvest his wisdom has provided, at a time when the ground being covered with snow, he would experience a difficulty, otherwise, in obtaining suitable or palatable food. It is a subject of speculation why the red-wood cedar or the sugar-pine is invariably selected; it is not probable that the insect, the most dainty to the woodpecker's taste, frequents only the outside of wet trees; but so it is, that in Calaveras, Mariposa, and other districts of California, trees of this kind may be frequently seen covered all over their trunks with acorns when there is not an oak tree within several miles.—A. B. Barton. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. And now, finally, within the bounds of Christendom-at any rate, within the bounds of that happiest and most blessed portion of it which we occupy-a new and higher sentiment than even that of compassion, through the grace of God and his Son, animates our hearts when we look on the multitudes,-the sentiment of confidence and hope. Fear gave way, in our Saviour's courageous and loving mind, to compassion, when he saw the multitude. Have not the reasons for that compassion-at least within our immediate sphere of life and influencemost sensibly lessened, and almost totally disappeared, under the influence of the Saviour's own ever advancing work? He himself, new as compassion then was, did not fail to add exultation to it in the triumph which humanity, under his guidance, was finally to accomplish over all its degrading conditions. He saw Satan as lightning fall from heaven," when the Greeks came to inquire into his gospel. How literally pierced with lightning is the enemy of souls, when DISTANCE, that scatters men abroad aud makes them faint on the long way, transfixed on the darting thought of the lightning, dies in mid-heaven and falls headlong into the sea! How long is superstition to make it irreligious to recognize the fulfilment of any of cur Lord's promises, the answers to any of his prayers? Is the world's progress never to be confessed; and is a mock humility to drape the very mid day of hope, and cheer, with curtains of despondency, lest it outshine the Christian dawn? The stones would cry out if we were silent, when the very key stone has so evidently been put into the arch of Christ's triumph over the barbarism and want and dispersion of his scattered flock of humanity. Be it said, then, to his eternal honor and God's everlasting glory, that the day has come when we can look upon the multitude with something better than compassion,-even with confidence and joy. And this, if we mistake not, is the great distinction, as it is the glorious conquest of the times and the day, to which the recent triumph of enterprise and art,-the Atlantic Cable, so naturally and properly sung, feted and illumned, is but a tongue and voice. That slender thread of fire explodes a mine of emotion, conviction, and experience that had been slowly but long accumulating in the bosom of our age. That delicate cord moors nations together that were drifting to each other in spite of seas and icebergs. That swift messenger, dark and silent as night, but keener and subtler than light, carries words of brotherhood, long waiting for their vehicle; that syphon, so slender and so patient, empties hearts into each other whose blood had for ages yearned to mingle. God in his providence, by making us the lastborn of the great nations and powers of the earth, and giving us half the world for our home; by emptying the blood of all nations into our national veins; by diversifying us with all climates, without colonial separation, and by the vastness of all the circumstances and conditions of our territory, our origin, our growth and history, as well as by the happy fortune of the splendid age of commerce, liberty, and inventive genius in which our lines have fallen, has prepared us, as no people is prepared, to demand, to expect, to understand, and to enjoy universal ideas,-feelings that embrace the world, schemes that include the race, hopes that outrun place and time, destinies that are perfect and complete. We look upon the multitude-blessed be God's providence and Christ's gospel for our power to do so!-no longer with fear, and not even characteristically, in this land, with compassion, but with sympathy and hope, and almost with reverence. For we see them no longer faint, and no longer scattered abroad; and every day we are, by economic science and motive art, eliminating the unknown or suspended elements in the great equation of human progress. That vast problem is no more a bottomless mystery and a baffling speculation. The obstacles which oppose the advance of the race, immense as they are, are measurable; dense as they are, are penetrable. There is nothing hopeless or desperate in human affairs. Progress is possible, is real, is certain, is inevitable. The relative forces of good and evil, of peace and war, of truth and error, of civilization and barbarity, of brotherly love and selfish antagonism, are weighed, and the balance is favorable for once, and therefore forever, to the kingdom of God in the salvation of our race. The multitude is accordingly to be trusted and respected. We thank God that we are able, and are compelled by the highest convictions of the heart, to trust and respect them. Nay, in this country, we trust and respect them far more than we do those who make them objects of secret suspicion, and who would gladly reproduce the repressive systems of aristocratic governments. The cultivated and refined classes in America understand less of the true spirit of our institutions, and do far less to maintain awakened and inspired portion of the race-has now got beyond this syncope and self oblivion, beyond its dependence on any powers but God's them, we fear, than the body of the people at The great popular instincts of a new era in the life of man are the vast powers, the mighty discoveries, the wonder-workers, of the age. The multitude is doing for Christ the miracles he did for them. They, too, say "Peace" to the sea in his name; they, too, are in and out, where all doors are shut; they, too, repeat the Pentecostal marvel, and bring all tongues together, and make them alike intelligible to all. Like Joshua, they stop the sun, not to fight their battles, but to paint their pictures and perpetuate their friends. "Canst thou send lightnings that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are?" asked the scornful Job; and the multitude now first is able to answer, "We can." -"Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea, or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?" and the multitude now first replies, "We have."-"Who hath laid the measures of the earth, or who hath stretched the line upon it?" and the multitude again answers, "Glory be to God who has first given such power to men, in our own days." nature, aided by all recorded revelations, which, If our hearts swell with pride and gratitude at the contemplation of this truth, let us not conceal, let us not fail to blazon the fact, that it is God's power manifested in man that has brought about this result; let us not forget how entirely it is the Divine wisdom that has planned the great drama of human history, and which is now permitting us to see the beauty and benevolence of the plot, and the bliss of the consummation. Let us not forget that, because it is God who is working in us to will and to do of his good pleasure, it is all the more our bounden and grateful duty to work The great and all-emboldening confidence of with him,-to work indeed with a new kind of our time is, that the multitude-historically and fear and trembling because of the greatness of naturally incapable of estimating human nature the inspiration and the enormous importance as it is, or suspecting their own latent powers, of the task; to work, in short, as the highand therefore absolutely dependent on the de-hearted projector, the original supporters, the scilivering mercy and energy of the providentially entific operators, the officers and sailors, of the Atlantic Telegraph Company worked, when, after repeated failures and terrible difficulties, they at last laid in silence and amid prayers, but with herculean toil and almost deadly anxieties, God's bond between the nations, God's bow under the sea; not dissolving and inconstant like the first which was over it, but a steadfast sign from heaven to our generation, that no deluge of ignorance, barbarism, and despair shall ever again cover the hopes, the interests, and the destiny of a United Globe and an inseparable Human Family. ITEMS. Sixty years ago there was hardly a craft larger than an Indian canoe on the great western lakes. In 1841 the lake trade amounted to $65,000,000; in 1851 to $300,000,000 and in 1864 to $550,000,000, and it bids fair in 1871 to reach the enormous sum of one thousand milion dollars. COMPARATIVE DENSITY OF POPULATION.-Of civilized nations Great Britain is the most densely populated, and the United States the least. The former has 265 inhabitants to the square mile; I'aly, 198; Prussian Germany, 186; France, 179; Austria, 167; Russia, 31; Turkey, 20; and the United States, 19. In 1861 there was in London one inhabitant for every 1,220 square feet covered by the city, while in Paris there was one to every 500 square feet. exchange for United States six per cent bonds held in Europe. The Tariff bill was called up, and after debate, a motion was made to discharge the Committee of the Whole from the further consideration of the subject, and so bring the matter directly before the House. This necessitated a suspension of the rules, which required an affirmative vote of twothirds, and two-thirds not voting in the affirmative, the rules were not suspended. Various motions were made to endeavor to bring the matter before the House in some manner, but all were unsuccessful. Committees of conference were appointed on the compound-interest note bill, on the bankrupt bil, on the transfer of the Indian Bureau, on the Supreme Court allotments, and on the Indian and the legislative appropriation bills. The bill to further an exchange of public documents with foreign governments was passed. The 39th Congress adjourned sine die on the 4th inst., and in less than an hour the Fortieth Congress was organized by the election of Benjamin F. Wade, of Ohio, President of the Senate, and the re-election of Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, Speaker of the House. " THE FREEDMEN.-Gov. Orr recently addressed the freedmen of Charleston, in the African Methodist Church, the meeting being presided over by a colored president and opened with prayer by a colored chaplin. The governor not only promised them protection against lawlessness and outrage, but commended their schools, and predicted that a commonschool system for whites an I blacks would be established by the next legislature. He further said: "I am prepared to stand by the colored man who is able to read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. I am prePared to give the colored man the privilege of going to the ballot-box and vote." The opposition of the Louisiana planters to the education of colored children has generally abated, thinks the New Orleans Tribune; has even been converted into active efforts to organize schools and obtain teachers: CONGRESS.-Among the bills introduced into the Senare the past week, to be acted upon at the next session, was one for the consolidation of the national debt, and providing for its payment. It authorizes the issue of six per cent. bonds for the redemption of securities held in this country, and five per cent. bonds to be exchanged for securities held abroad. A joint resolution was passed providing for the exchange of public documents with other countries. An act was passed authorizing the removal of certsin law cases from State courts to United States courts, when either plaintiff or defendant shall apprehend that adequate justice will not be done him on account of prejudice or local influence. The bill for the redemption of the compound-interest notes was passed, after being amended so as to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to issue temporary-loan certificates at three per cent. interest. The amount of certificates outstanding is not to exceed one hundred million dollars, and they may be used as a reserve by the banks. The Colorado bill was taken up, and, on the question to pass it over the Presi dent's veto, the yeas were twenty-four and the nays nineteen. Two-thirds not voting in the affirmative, the bill fell. A committee of conference was agreed to on the compound-interest note bill. A bill was introduced providing that temporary buildings erectThe Treasurer of Friends' Association for the Aid ed by the United States in the District of Columbia, and now in use by the Freedmen's Bureau, should and Elevation of the Freedmen has received the folbe continued in use of the Bureau during its contin-lowing amounts since last report :— nance. The bill establishing a Department of Edu- From a Friend, West Philadelphia....... Rachel Haines, Fallston, Md... cation was passed without amendinent, and goes to Friends of Makefield Pre. Meeting...... the President. HOUSE. A bill was introduced to establish a National School of Science. The joint resolutions of the Wisconsin Legislature, ratifying the constitutional amendment, were presented. A resolution was offered instructing the Ways and Means Committee to inquire into the expediency of providing for the issue of five per cent. bonds to the amount of five hundred million dollars, principal and interest payable at such places as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, to be disposed of only in "This happy result is due mainly to the firm attitude of the laborers, who, though deprived of education, and, perhaps, because deprived of it, appreciate to its full value the price of acquiring knowledge. They have made the education of their children an absolute condition of their remaining on the plantations. Very few of them would work at So all, this year, on a place where no school for the tuition of their children will be in existence. that this result, at least, has been secured, that the benefit of a common education will be extended to a large number of children of the oppressed race. The Nation. $30.00 10.00 51.00 Concord, Delaware Co........ 20.00 33.70 up, and after Tge the Com Consideration directly be spension c Tote of twe firmative motions ter before unsuccess pointed on e bankrap on the St an and the to further FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER. "TAKE FAST HOLD OF INSTRUCTION; LET HER NOT GO; KEEP HER; FOR SHE IS THY LIFE." VOL. XXIV. PHILADELPHIA, THIRD MONTH 16, 1867. reign get. EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY AN ASSOCIATION No. 2. COMMUNICATIONS MUST BE ADDRESSED AND PAYMENTS MADE TO EMMOR COMLY, AGENT, CONTENTS. Be not Weary in Well Doing...... Letter to "Friends' Social Lyceum". At Publication Office, No. 144 North Seventh Street, Aspirations to be Rich.................................. 20 21 22 23 SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF JOHN concern, though without a certificate; he knew BARCLAY. (Continued from page 3.) 1827, Ninth month 17th.-Left home with certificate granted me by our Monthly Meeting, to visit the meetings in Berkshire, Bedfordshire and Herts, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire. [Extracts from his letters written when on this service are here subjoined.] not why, but wished to leave it with Friends: they fell in with it, and then I named how it had been with me; when it was fully united with. We went; and I trust the work of the Lord prospered by our giving up thereto. I have been favored to get along very simply, without reasonings, forethought, or after reckonings; all is made good to me, and my soul dwells in a calm, easy way, not over careful about any thing. The Lord does all things well in and for me, and I have no lack, though nothing to boast of, yet nothing to complain of, WYCOMBE, 20th of Ninth month, 1827. We reached Reading in time for the Select Meeting, where was T. B. I was favored to blessed be the name of the Lord; and may my unspeakable comfort, to break through the thy soul continue in this acknowledgment, yea we render? load by which I have seemed to be enveloped more and more; for what can for a long season, and had to declare of the Time would fail me to say all I could of his goodness of the Lord, and I trust something of mercy to me, even these few days back; so the simplicity of the gospel, greatly to my that I hope I may humbly say, all is well, and peace of mind; that season appearing like an that I am in the line of duty. My prayer is, earnest of future help and guidance. J. P. that when favored to meet again, we may be was there, and he and I went hand-in-hand, enabled to build one another up in every thing being greatly favored in being so one in our good; and more and more abound therein, to line of labor. The next day I had, in some our mutual comfort, to the animating of others, degree, to take the lead; others confirmed the and to the praise of Him who has done great word to my humbling admiration at the conde- things for us, in helping and sustaining; so scension and wisdom of our Holy Head. On that we have not been utterly consumed, sitting down in the second meeting, a sudden though deserving nothing short of it. Fareexercise came over me about going into the well. women's meeting, which, endeavoring well to sift, I thought it might be passed by, unless some other had a similar feeling; when presently after J. P. rose, and said he had such a To M. B. BERKHAMSTEAD, 25th of Ninth month, 1827. |