that it was a mass, but it was a service, and every one seemed very much wrapped in devotion; no word was uttered, and there was not even music. We took a carriage at two o'clock and drove to the village of Donaustauf, to see the Walhalla. We crossed the Danube and another river which flows into it, and rode some miles through a rather flat country, seeing afar off the Walhalla, or temple of Germanic Glory, a building on the model of the Parthenon, with fifty-two Doric pillars. It is built on a hill, and forms a striking object in the landscape. When we arrived at the village of Donaustauf, we lost sight of the temple, and alighted behind the hill, which we ascended by a winding path through the woods, which path brought us quite abruptly upon the building, which is of pure white marble, set upon a marble underpinning. We approached it in such a way that we first surveyed the back of it, the tympanum being ornamented with figures of Arminians conquering the Roman Varus. It is in bigh relief and superb, (by Schwanthaler.)

but still looked very spirited. There was much | Ratisbon; that is dedicated to St. Peter, and
more frescoing in Ratisbon than in Nuremberg, has two most beautiful towers, though neither
and R. looked old and ruinous, as I had ex- of them is quite finished. The beauty of the
pected to see Nuremberg. The streets are interior consists of its painted windows. I was
filled with beggars, and I did not see one beg-present here at a silent mass; I do not know
gar in Nuremberg. The market for fruits
seemed good; but wood was sold in small quan-
tities, and women were carrying it on their
backs in baskets, suggesting small ménages.
The only thing that looked prosperous in Ratis-
bon was the palace of the Prince of Tour and
Taxis, which was formerly the convent of St.
Emmeran. One part of it was built in the
seventh century, but there is a vast amount of
restoration about it and constructions of later
date. This palace is on the outskirts of the
city, and its gardens are where the ramparts
were formerly. They are open at all hours
every day to the public; and from eleven to
twelve every day the public are admitted to the
gallery of pictures and to the chapel, which is
of beautiful modern construction, containing
eix painted windows, esch of which consists of
three golden or silver gothic spires, within
which stands either a Hebrew prophet or an
apostle. Each of these spires is different, and
the colors of the garments of the figures are of
surprising splendor. A marble Christ, as large
as life, by Danneker, hangs over the altar. In
the middle of the chapel is an opening in the
floor, and one sees below, five or six tombs,
surrounded by beautiful bronze work. As a
great favor, we were allowed to go down; and
we found there another altar, and seats for
those attending funeral service. Everything
looked new and perfect. We were not admit
ted to see more of the house, but went into the
old church of St. Emmeran close by. This is
the oldest looking and most remarkable church
I have visited; the frescoing is very florid. In
the church were two mummies of martyrs,
which had been brought from Rome, most hor-
rible, ghastly images, with jewels of great
splendor in their sockets where eyes should be,
and in the nostrils, on the mouth, in the head-
dress, about the neck, round the wrists, on the
feet and on the dresses, blinding diamonds,
rubies and emeralds. It seemed to me the worst
possible taste, -a skeleton covered with jewels.
Lamps were burning and people were kneeling
before these frightful objects. The whole
church was ornamented in every niche and
corner with statues of saints, angels, Mary
mother, and Christ in every form,-
-a child,
bearing the cross, crucified, and performing
miracles. There were two very large chapels
filled with funereal monuments; in one there
seemed to be monuments to all the Emperors,
including one to Maria Theresa. In the other
chapel was a landscape in wood, with figures of
Jesus Christ and the sleeping disciples on the
Mount of Olives. This is not the Cathedral of

We then walked round to the front, where there is a white marble staircase of two hundred and fifty steps leading from the meadows that border the Danube. It must be perfectly magnificent to view this beautiful temple from the Danube, standing, as it does, on the brow of a nearly perpendicular hill, up which this gigantic staircase leads. On the front tympanum is another sculpture in high relief, representing Germania recovering her liberty at the battle of Leipsic. Our party descended the first flight of steps in order to look up and see this beautiful sculpture of Schwanthaler's. We then went in and found ourselves in a vast hall of marble. The length of the longitudinal walls is broken by two clusters of pillars, whose capitals are balconies at the common height of a lofty room, where a cornice extends all round, on which stand, at intervals, twelve Walkyrias, (the warlike virgins of the Northern Mythology.) There are colossal statues, draped and colored, that hold up the ceiling, which is blue, in squares, in each of which is a white star. Between the Walkyrias, set in gold letters, in beautiful ashes of rose colored marble, are the names of all heroes and other eminent men of Germanic race, including the Anglo Saxon rulers of England who were eminent. Beneath the cornice, and extending round the hall, is a frieze of white marble, in which is sculptured in figures the progress of the Germanic race, from the emigrant wagons and war chariots of the first Germans in Europe, to the development of the

arts and sciences. Beneath this frieze are more than one hundred busts of all the artists, poets, philosophers, heroes, discoverers, &c., of the Germanic race, whose portraits could be obtained, all of pure white marble; and, as it seemed to me, of the best execution. There are already two rows of busts round this vast hall, and each bust is on a marble shelf, held up by a figure of some kind representing labor. The groups of busts are divided by six life-size Victories, by Bauch. The pavement is of white marble, with a mosaic pattern in colored marbles; it is so highly polished that it seemed as if we were walking on a mirror. We were all provided with soft slippers, put on over our shoes, so that instead of soiling we might help to polish this beautiful floor. At the back of the hall was a door which led by marble steps up a winding way to the level of the cornice; and here we found a narrow passage way leading from the front gallery to the balconies in the pillars, and from these, as well as from the gallery open in front, we had fine views of the hall. Both walls of this narrow gallery are of the same rose colored marble that forms most of the walls, and so highly polished that the light which came in by the balconies made it appear as if we were walking through wide spaces; and we were surprised at touching them with our hands. It is a most magnificent structure certainly, and most magnificently filled with master-pieces of art, and is a monument of glory to the king who projected it and carried it out. It cost four millions of dollars, which sum was divided among the greatest architects, artists and most skilful workmen of Germany. Wagner made the white marble frieze of which I spoke. A fire is kept in the cellar all win ter, and the registers are cunningly distributed, so as not to deform the building. The people who take care of it occupy a dwelling in the woods near by. It is open every day, and beautiful stereoscopic and photographic views of the interior and exterior are for sale there; also books of description; but the name of every bust is cut upon it, so that there is no occasion for a catalogue. It is lighted from the top. In the village of Donaustauf we found a country-seat (a large palace and gardens) of the Prince of Tour and Taxis, who seems to be the one great nobleman of Ratisbon. On Wednesday we left for Munich, and arrived here at night. On.Thursday we walked round the city into Promenade Platz, looking at the statnes; also visited our banker, and read disagreeable American news. Our leading politicians, even of the Republican party, with a few exceptions, are not single-minded enough; they think too much of serving their own petty interests when they should think only of the great interests of the Federal Union and of human civilization, When taking the standpoint of European his

tory, one looks upon the advantages that America has at her disposal for solving the problems of humanity; it is about as much as one can bear, to think of the narrow, selfish views, and even of the innocent ignorance of Americans. At how many crises of history have such great chances presented themselves in vain, aud the patriot prophet cried out, in the name of truth and humanity, which are the voice of God, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life!" When shall we learn that we must fasten our car of state to a star? "It is only by celestial observations that the seas of this world can be traversed." E. P. P.

For Friends' Intelligencer.

OBITUARY.

Died, on the 31st of December, at the hour of midnight,
the year of 1867.

Another year has breathed farewell;
And still, o'er hill and valley, swell
Faint echoes of his funeral knell.

His spring-time passed among the flowers;"
There came, to dim those happy hours,
No griefs, beyond soft April showers.
And when the song-birds' merry lays
Proclaimed the sun-bright summer days,
He trod in manhood's sterner ways.
He bravely reaped, with care and pain,
Through noontide's heat and sorrow's rain,
To garner up Life's ripened grain.

Then when the song birds southward soared,
His toil had ceased, his sheaves were stored;
Plenty sat smiling at his board.

But now when rest had come at last,
He often turned a glance to cast
Far back into the happy PAST.

The friends that cheered youth's sunny day-
The flowers that bloomed along life's way—
Were gone. He asked, "Oh! where are they?"
A deep chill crept his spirit o'er,
As from the forest and the shore
Came a sad murmur of "No more."

And when the winter cast its snow
Upon his head,-he joyed to know
The end was near,-and he must go.
So when the midnight shadows wave
Round dreary Winter's icy cave,
Time laid the Oid Year in his grave.
PURCHASE, 1868.

For Friends' Intelligencer.
THE ROSE OF JERICHO.
'Midst the wilderness of sand,
In Arabia's arid land,

And on Syria's plains-
Where no other verdure grows,
Springs this wondrous roving rose,
And a foothold gains.

From the cleft rock see it shoot-
In the trodden path take root-
Clinging to the walls
Where the broken columns say,
Glory all has passed away
From proud Tadmor's halls.

H. L. F.

Growing where no dews distil-
Where no rains the fountains fill,-
God a way has planned,
That the bidden germ may shoot,
And the plant perfect its fruit

In this barren land.

From the earth its roots uptorn,
By the tropic breezes borne

To the far-off main

There the seeds due moisture find;
Soon the sea is left behind

For the desert plain.
There its leaves of vivid green,
Quickly springing forth are seen,
To redeem the waste
From the dreariness that reigns
In these trackless barren plains,
With no beauty graced.
Tiny desert flower, in thee
Tokens of God's love we see,

And his watchful care-
Who can thus dispel the gloom,
Make the lonely desert bloom

As a garden fair.

Where the tropic blossoms glow,
As amid the arctic snow-
Everywhere we trace

Foot-prints of the mighty God,

E'en where man hath seldom trod,

Tokens of his grace.

From the Evening Bulletin

THE NEW POLAR CONTINENT.

A. R. P.

Letters from Capts. Long and Raynor-The
Names Suggested-Supposed Extent of the
Land.

Captain Long, of the bark Nile, who seems to have examined the land most attentively, having cruised along the entire southern coast, has drawn a sketch of its appearance. It is quite elevated, and near the centre has an extinct crater cone, which he estimated to be 2,480 feet high. He named it Wrangell's Land, after the noted Russian explorer. The west point he named Cape Thomas, after the seaman on his ship who discovered it, and the southeast point Cape Hawaii. The names given by Capt. Long are so exceedingly appropriate that we doubt not Geographical Societies of Europe and America will adopt them, and call this land Wrangell's Land. Capt. Long has prepared for us an account of the interesting discovery, which we insert here:

The

HONOLULU, Nov. 5, 1867.-H M. Whitney, Esq.-Sir-During my cruise in the Arctic Ocean this season I saw land not laid down on any chart that I have seen. The land was first seen from the bark Nile on the evening of the 11th of August, and the next day, at 9.30 A. M., the ship was 18 miles distant from the west point of the land. I had good observations this day, and made the west point to be in latitude 70 degrees 46 minutes north, and longitude 178 degrees 30 minutes east. lower part of the land was entirely free from snow and had a green appearance, as if covered with vegetation. There was broken ice between the ship and the land, but as there was no indications of whales, I did not feel justified in endeavoring to work through it and reach the shore, which I think could have been done without much danger. We sailed to the eastward along the land during the 15th and part of the 16th, and in some places approached it as near as fifteen miles.

[From the Honolulu Commercial Advertiser, Nov. 9.] One of the most interesting items that we have learned from the whalemen, who have cruised in the Arctic Ocean the past summer, is the discovery of extensive land in the middle of that ocean, which may yet prove to be a Polar Continent. The existence of this land has long been known, but owing to the impassa- On the 16th the weather was very clear and ble ice barred along its shores, of its extent and pleasant, and we had a good view of the middle character nothing very definite has been known and castern portion of the land. Near the cenuntil this season. Baron Wrangell, the famous tre, or about in longitude 180 deg., there is a Russian explorer, first communicated to the mountain which has the appearance of an exworld the knowledge of its existence, as he tinct volcano. By approximate measurement learned it from the Siberian Indians, and it is I found it to be 2,480 feet high. I had excelsimply marked on most Arctic charts, "exten- lent observations on the 16th, and made the sive highland." It should be stated that the southeastern cape, which I have named Cape past summer has been the mildest and most Hawaii, to be in latitude 70 deg. 40 min. favorable for whaling ever known by our oldest north, and longitude 178 deg. 51 min. west. whalemen. One master says that he did not It is impossible to tell how far this land extends see a piece of ice as large as his hand till he northward, but as far as the eye could reach we reached the Straits, and even beyond that, up could see ranges of mountains until they were to 72 deg., the sea was generally free from float-lost in the distance; and I learn from Capt. ing ice. The weather, for the most part, has Biven, of the ship Nautilus, that he saw land been exceedingly mild, with southerly winds north west of Herald Island as far north as latiprevailing, which has tended to melt the ice or tude 72 deg. drive it northward. As a result of the favorable state of the ocean and weather, the ships have gone farther north this summer than ever before, some having reached as high as latitude 73 deg. 30 min.

The first knowledge of the existence of this land was given to the civilized world by Lieut. Ferdinand Wringell, of the Russian Navy, who, I find, in 1840, was an Admiral in the same service. In his expeditions from Nashne

Korymsk, in the consecutive years from 1820 | extended observations on the subject, which

with high, rugged cliffs and entirely barren. The northeast coast I have not examined to any extent, but it appears to run from the southeast cape in a north westerly direction for about fifteen or twenty miles, and then turns to the north and northeast. I learned from Capt. Biven that he traced it much farther north, and has seen others who have traced it to north of latitude 72 degrees. I think there is no doubt that it extends much farther to the north, and that there is another island to the east of it, say in lougitude 170 degrees west, and to the northwest of Point Barrow, with a passage between it and the land I have just described. My reason for thinking so is this: we always find ice to the south of the known land farther to the south than we do to the eastward of it. The current runs to the northwest, from one to three knots an hour.

In the longitude of 170 degrees west we always find the ice barrier from fifty to eighty miles farther south than we do between that and Herald Island, and there is always a strong current setting to the northwest between these localities, unless prevented by strong northerly gales (for in such shoal water as the Arctic Ocean, the currents are changed easily by the winds), which would indicate that there is a passage in that direction where the waters pass between two bodies of land that hold the ice, the one known, the other unknown.

I would add that the southwest cape of the island described above lies seventy-five miles distant from the Asiatic or Siberian coast. Yours, very truly,

GEO, W. RAYNOR,
Master of ship Reindeer.

POCKET-MONEY FOR FARMERS' BOYS. The Germantown Telegraph says: "How to raise pocket-money is a hard question for a great many farmers' sons to solve. True, some may have but little trouble to get it, providing their parents are wealthy; but to this class I shall not speak. To such boys as like to earn what they spend, and have a desire to become farmers, I will present a plan by which both these ends may be attained to a more or less degree.

"In the first place it will be necessary to have a small piece of ground, on the farm, of course; to those who cannot get that, my plan will not be feasible. After having got your land you are ready to commence operations. All your spare moments may be employed upon it. I suppose most boys would know what to plant; but still a few hints from one who has tried it may not be out of place. If you are near a ready market, I would suggest early vegetables, such as peas, string beans, beets, early potatoes, etc.; and to those that were a

distance from any such market, pop-corn might be raised to advantage, or white bush beans, as they always command a good price if a good article; still a great deal would depend on the nature of the land, and what was most in demand in either case. After planting, do not think that your work is done till harvesting; but keep the ground mellow; hoe your crops as often as you can; do not let a weed be seen, for all that goes to nourish the weed will be taken from your pocket. It will take you but a few moments a day to hoe it over, if you do not have too much ground, which would be worse than having none, for you will find that a little ground well tilled is a great deal better than a good deal left to take care of itself, or only half taken care of.

"Another thing you will find to be of great use to you as well as a pleasant pastime, and that is, to have a blank book, in a part of which you should set down the time of planting, the kind of manures used, and which gave the best satisfaction; how your crops stood the drought or wet weather, as the case might be; and in fact anything which you might think would benefit you to know in a succeeding year. In another part of my book I would keep an account with my land, charging it with the manure, seed and labor, and giving it credit for its produce. In this way you can see at a glance what crops pay the best, and what manure will produce the largest crops. In keeping your books for a few years you will derive much pleasure in looking back at your first beginning to farm for your

self.

"If for the first year or two your pocketmoney does not equal your expectation, you must not be discouraged, but remember that what does not go into your pocket goes into your head in the shape of experience, which will be of great use to you in future years. Let those who can, try this; it will cost them nothing if they are living on farms, for all the work may be done at noons, nights, and early in the morning. It will not only be a source of pleasure to them, but also of profit."

These statements should have appeared last week, in connection with the Monthly Review of the Weather, but were unavoidably crowded out.-EDS.

The following item, recently published, must be particularly gratifying to every citizen of Philadel phia.

"The official report of interments in Philadelphia, for the year 1867, makes the whole number 13,933. This is 2,870 less than the whole number for 1866, and it shows an extraordinary degree of good health. The population of Philadelphia is not less than fore, been just about one in every fifty inhabitants. 700,000. The death-rate during the year has, thereIt is not probable that such a moderate rate of mortality in a year can be found in any large city in the