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Melody by C. M. H. H. Harmonized by J. M. HUBBARD. 
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ROPBANO. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
SIMPLICITY OP SOrENOE. 
Bb not swift to tako ofl'enstj; 
Let it pass 1 
Anger is a foe to sense; 
Let It pass 1 
Brood not darkly o’er a wrong 
Which will disappear ere long ; 
Rather siug this cheery song—- 
Lot it pass! 
Let it pass I 
Strife corrodes the purest mind ; 
Let it pass! 
As the unregarded wind; 
Let. it pass 1 
Any vulgar souls that IIvu 
May condemn w ithout reprieve; 
'Tis the noble who forgive. 
Let It pass I 
Let 11 pass! 
Echo not. an angry word; 
Let it pass! 
Think how often you have erred; 
Let it pass I 
Since our days must pass away 
Liko the dew-drops on Hit? spray, 
Wherefore should our sorrows stay 
Let them pass! 
Let them pass! 
If for good you've taken ill; 
Let it pass! 
Oh I be kind and gentle st ill; 
Lot It pass' 
Time at last makes all things straight; 
Let us not resent but. wait, 
And our triumph shall be great; 
Lot it pass! 
Let It puss 1 
Bid your anger to depart ; 
Let It puss! 
Lay those homely words to heart; 
Let it pass I 
Follow not t.hn giddy throng; 
Bottcr to be. wronged tliau wrong; 
Therefore sing the cheery song— 
Let it pass I 
1 All the Year Round. Let it pass! 
1. 'Who’ll care for me when I am 
2. When I am old, and ros - ea 
ALTO. 
The impression Is abroad in the world that 
science and all subjects connected with it are 
necessarily complex and abstruse. And here is 
one of the greatest barriers to progress in scien¬ 
tific investigation. The. mind must be disabused 
of this Impression and be convinced of the sim¬ 
plicity of science and leant to look at simple 
nature as she is; thou shall wc be able to advance 
stead ily, step by step, in the light of true science, 
from particular foots to the most general con¬ 
clusions. 
Science, in Its most general sense, is knowl¬ 
edge arranged and classified, as opposed to loose 
or fragmentary knowledge. Here we can easily 
see the difference between the man ol science 
and him who is destitute of it. An individual 
who possesses a retentive memory may collect 
and hold in liis mind a large amount of isolated 
facts; but so long ns this knowledge is in confu¬ 
sion and unclassified, he can never be said to be 
scientific. On the other hand, he who possesses 
but little knowledge on any subject, but has it 
reduced to order and system, is really a scientific 
person. Science Is either pure or mixed — or, in 
other words, abst ract or concrete. Pure science, 
fled; When cherished hearts, that lov’d mo well, Are numbered with the dead! 
stay? Who then will list to hear my step, Or miss me when a - way? 
Ah! who will love me when I’m old; When friends of youth are 
When I am old, all! who will choose Near at my side to 
TENOK, 
On whose fond bo -som can 1 lean When I am called to die? 
Who then will care to shed o’er me Af - fee-lions bit -ter tear? 
6. Who, who will cheer me when I m old, Should 1 
6. When I am dead, a - las ! who'll mourn That 
BASK. _ _, _ 
VOICES-WHAT THEY INDICATE 
press on the public mind; and at this time the 
daily suffering for bread, as well ns clothing, 
is intense, among both the white and black 
population. But, aside from our duty as a 
Wiimtms ®ojvics 
There are light, quick, surface voices, that 
involuntarily seem to utter the slang, “It won’t 
do to tie to.” The man’s words assure you of 
his strength of purpose and reliability, yet the 
tone contradicts his speech. 
Then there, are low, deep, strong voices, where 
the words seem ground out, as if the man owed 
humanity a grudge, and meant to pay it some 
day. The man’s opponents may well tremble, 
and his friends may trust his strength of purpose 
aud ability to act. 
There is the coarse, boisterous, dictatorial 
Southern Editorial Correspondence 
WASHINGTON — THE PAST. 
thaj we should encourage and stimulate the 
Southern people at this time, above all others, 
to enable them to pass through the trying tran¬ 
sition state from slave to free labor, that they 
may learn the imperative necessity of educating 
their own white hands to administer to their 
own necessities. The question now is, not what 
would the South be without cotton; but what 
would the commercial and manufacturing pros¬ 
perity of the North bo without the aid ol this 
King of the textiles ? 
Some of us who lived through the war of 1812, 
aud witnessed the scarcity of money and the gen¬ 
eral prostration of trade that immediately fol¬ 
lowed it, were expecting the same collapse of 
trade after the late war; but cotton almostalouc 
saved us from such a consummation. The whole 
South was bare of goods and all northern pro¬ 
ductions; hut they had a very large supply of 
long-hoarded cotton; this textile was then not 
only our great article of export, but it set every 
cotton mill at the North in motion, ami the 
trade of the country increased instead of de¬ 
creasing, as it did after the last war with Eng¬ 
land. JIow necessary it is, then, that Southern 
industry should he sustained and encouraged, 
that the production of her great all-paying sta 
pie may not full, and the best soil and climate In 
the world for the perfect growth of the cotton 
plant become a desert waste. 
I.XXVI. 
Washington ! What peculiar emotions rise 
up in the mind of an American at that name! 
—when applied to the man, the symbol of an 
era in the world’s history, the birth of ft nation; 
when applied to a city , the capital ot a nation 
which is soou to be the second in the list of 
nations upon the globe. I fear the man, the era, 
is little remembered by the millions whose eyes 
turned towards the city wherein cen- 
THE COSMORAMA 
The cosmoraina is very simple in construction, 
and may be formed at very little trouble and 
expense, while it may be varied to infinity. H 
consists merely of a picture seen through a mag¬ 
nifying glass, exactly in the same manner as in 
the common shows exhibited in the streets; the 
difference not being in the construction of the 
apparatus, but in the quality of the pictures 
exhibited. For the common shows, coarsely- 
colored prints are suUleioutly good; in the 
eosmoranni, a moderately good oil painting is 
employed. The contrivance will be readily un¬ 
derstood by the following illustration: 
are now 
ters so much that is affecting their destiny for 
untold years to conic, or of the thousands who 
continually wend their way hitherward, seeking 
lor place or pleasure, or drawn by business lrOui 
the further ends of the Continent. 
The war settled the fate of Washington. Be¬ 
fore tiie war there was a vague feeling that it 
was not permanently established, and that the 
seat of government might follow the great tide 
of population and be located somewhere in the 
Valloy of the Mississippi. But now all thoughts 
of a removal arc abandoned, and its growth is 
rapid beyond all precedent, and henceforward 
will be equally rapid. It has a population now 
January 20th, 1867. 
Mahon, amt Seward, Jeff. Davis, Benton, 
Cass, and Houston were among the men who 
wielded the legislation of the government and 
made history as well as law... I looked into the 
old Senate Chamber the other day lor the first 
time since that visit. It seemed small for the 
United States Court, then in session. But 
what a change! The robed Justices occupied 
the Vice-President’s desk, a lawyer was droning 
out an argument upon some important cause, 
and other lawyers — of note in their several 
localities—were lounging around or whispering 
jokes and idle gossip, where formerly only Sena¬ 
tors walked and talked. 
The created waves of that tide which no human 
power could stay were already then visible, and 
Whoever has scanned well t he 
A TRAVELER’S DREAM 
Arago says, iu his “ Autobiography,” that his 
master in mathematics was n. word or two of ad¬ 
vice which lie found in the binding of one of bis 
text-books. Puzzled and discouraged by the 
difficulties he met with in hi* early studies, he 
was almost ready to give over the pursuit. Borne 
words which he found on the waste leaf used to 
stiffen the cover oi Ida paper-bound text-book 
caught liis eye and interested him. 
“ Impelled,” he says, “ by an indefinable curi¬ 
osity, 1 dampened the cover of the book aud 
slowly across it. Adieu to interior ferries; they 
belong to the dead Past. Soon we shall ride 
from New York to San Francisco without change 
of ears. Around the world by railway with two 
ocean ferries! 
Upon theso closing lines my pen lingers, and 
1 listen for the voice of the future brakesman. 
Day after day on the continental journey he 
opens his door aud shouts to sleepy pasBCtigers 
_“Chicago—Change cars for New Orleans.” 
“ Missouri River— Change cars for Saakaeha- 
wan, Leavenworth, and Galveston.” “Iioeky 
Mountains — Change curs for Santa Fe, El Paso, 
Mft tarn eras and the City of Mexico.” “Salt 
Lake—20 minutes for dinner— Change ears for 
Fort Benton, British Columbia, Pah Rana- 
gat, Panama, Lima and Valparaiso.” “Virginia, 
Nevada— Change cars for Owyhee, Columbia 
River, Puget Sound and Karatsehatka.” “Sail 
Francisco—Passengers for New Zealand, Hono¬ 
lulu, Melbourne, llong Kong and all points 
in Europe, Asia and Africa, will keep their 
seats till landed on the wharf of the daily line 
of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,— Bag¬ 
gage checked through to Pekin, Calcutta, Grand 
Cairo, Constantinople, St. Petersburg, Paris and 
Liverpool! ” 
frame, formed of tour short boards. The frame, 
which is to be painted black, prevents the rays 
of light passing beyond a certain line, according 
to its distance from the eye; the widtli of it 
being such that, upon looking through the lens 
the picture is seen as if through an opening, which 
adds very much to the effect; and, if that end of 
the box, or frame, next the picture have an edge 
a Gothic 
gradually risln 
history of the human race must have learned that 
through all its teachings nothing bus been more 
true than that the two forms of civilization, 
slavery and freedom, could not long exist in the 
same government without coming into collision. 
The “irrepressible con filet” hud already begun, 
and could only be closed by mortal combat. It 
was only a question of time, and no human 
agency could avert it, for none were willing to 
make the sacrifices necessary to free the slaves 
—for universal freedom was the only tiling that 
could give the government stability and the peo¬ 
ple peace. 
One-half ol' the money expended by the North 
in the war of the rebellion would have paid for 
every slave, and forever extinguished slavery on 
this Continent. But the South would not sell, 
and the North would not buy,—so the war came 
aud its cause was blotted out. 
Perhaps it Is well. The busy bee could only 
store its honey in the dead carcass of the lion. 
Henceforth we shall, as a nation, be a homo¬ 
geneous people, and become a power among the 
nations. 
I intended to describe the objects of interest 
that strike a stranger on his visit to this city, 
but I find I have been dreaming of the past, and 
must defer for another letter what 1 might have 
put into this. t. C. i’. 
Washington, 1867. 
to it, representing the outlet of a cave, 
ruin, or a rocky archway, which might be par¬ 
tially lighted by the top of the box being semi¬ 
transparent, the beauty and apparent reality of 
the picture would lie very much enhanced. 
Upou the top of the frame is represented a 
lamp to Illuminate tin: picture; while all extra¬ 
neous light is carefully excluded, by the lamp 
being contained in a box, open in the front and 
at the top .—The I’/ay Mown. 
said Arago, “ was my greatest master in math 
ematics.” Following out the simple words, 
“Go on, sir, go on,” made him the first as 
tronomieal mathematician of liis age. 
A VERY IMPORTANT DISCOVERY 
POOR JACKO 
CURIOUS STATISTICS, 
Some time ago a gentleman, who had been 
very kind to an Italian emigrant, received from 
him the present of a fine monkey. Pleased with 
his present, the gentleman spent much of his 
time teaching Jocko (the monkey) various tricks, 
so that in a little while ho could very success¬ 
fully Imitate his master in most tilings. Desir¬ 
ous of exhibiting the remarkable traits ot his 
favorite, the gentleman resolved to Invite some 
of his male friends to a dinner party; and that 
Jacko might play the gentleman to advantage 
there was but one thing lacking —Jacko as yet 
had not learned to smoko. To remedy this, his 
master oue day lit a cigar, an example which 
Jacko soon followed. But, alas! it fared badly 
with him. Many a wry face did lie show, but, 
encouraged by Ills master, lie continued to puff, 
puff away. At last, overcome by the pernicious 
fumes, his eyes rolled in their sockets, ids limbs 
gave way, and down lie fell as drunk as a toper, 
and all that his master could do was of no avail, 
poor Jacko died! No wonder, for tobacco is a 
poison, and hundreds of men and boys have been 
killed by it. 
A college of physicians lias said that not less 
than 20,000 in our land die every year by the use 
of this poison. 
Three young men formed a smokiug club, and 
they all died within two years of the time they 
formed it. The doctor was asked what they 
died of. lie said “ they were smoked to death-"— 
Temperance Banner. 
Some statistical genius declares that “ more 
money is expended in the United States for ci¬ 
gars, than for all the common schools iu the 
country.” 
A wag, who is undoubtedly a lover of the weed, 
seeing the statement going through the papers, 
gets off’ the following; 
“It has been estimated that the cost of wash¬ 
ing linen that might just as well be worn two 
days longer, amounts to enough in this country | 
to more than defray the expenses of the Ameri¬ 
can Board of Foreign Mission*. 
“The expense of buttons on the backs of our 
coats, where they are of no earthly use, is equal 
to the support of all our orphan asylums. 
“It is estimated that the value of old boots 
tin-own aside, which might have been worn at 
least a day longer, is more than enough to buy a 
tlannel night-gown for every baby hi the land. 
Also, that the cost of every inch on the lull shirt 
collars of our young men, is equal the sum uec- 
essary to put a Bible in the hands of every Pata¬ 
gonian giant.” 
WHAT WILL SHE DO? 
At the college of France, among the lecturers, 
M. Laboulaye, who is lecturing on Comparative 
Political Economy, aud M. Chevalier, known to 
Americans by Ills book on the United States, are 
attracting occasional American listeners. M. 
Laboulaye, in the couree of his reflections, 
sometimes makes flattering and felicitous allu¬ 
sions to America, and tlen the students clap 
lustily. In truth, the French people fancy we 
have arranged some matters as they yet intend 
to do. “ Why,” said Lori Bulwer Lytton, the 
other day in Paris, to a distinguished American, 
“ why is it that you Americ&ns are so friendly with 
the French and so severe upon the English V ” 
“ Because,” replied Mr.-, “ the French peo¬ 
ple have always beeu with ns, and every French 
writer of any distinction advocated our cause 
during our civil war, whil# in England, almost 
without exception, all the men of political 
weight, and almostall yourdisLIngutsbed writers, 
sided with the rebels.” 
“The truth is," replied Lord Lytton, “you 
are going to be powerful; your growth of mil¬ 
lions, in some generation!, will make you fear¬ 
fully powerful to Europe.’ 
“ And in the meantime what will Europe be 
doing—she will not stand still'? ” 
“ That is true, that is true,” replied Lord Lyt¬ 
ton.— Paris Letter. 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
SOUTHERN RELIEF. 
A great and glorious meeting was held at 
Cooper Institute, New York, on Friday evening, 
Jan. 25th, at which the pride and party preju¬ 
dices of the creature gave way to the benevo- 
’Ti* true that some of the 
lcnee of the heart, 
reverend speakers, not being lor the moment 
under t he shadow of their Master’s cross, let 
out a little in glorification of the valiant North; 
but even the worldly-renowned WARD Beecher 
wai so penetrated by the stirring vital interest 
of the occasion that he soon dotted Ids political 
homily to nolily advocate the cause of that holy 
benevolence which so adorned the daily life of 
his great Master, confessing, as he did in spite 
of his carnal nature, that the Christian’s revenge 
was to do good to his enemy, and to feed and 
clothe biui iu the dark hour of ids destitution ? 
From the late well authenticated reports, 
there u no doubt but that the short crops of 
grain at the South have caused a famine in the 
land which all previous accounts failed to im- 
A Fashionable Preacher.— A young lady 
writes from San Francisco her experiences of the 
preaching of one of the fashionable clergymen 
of that city, which are worth reproduction. She 
says; —“ I wont to hear him preach last Sunday 
night. Ho is certainly one of the best elocu¬ 
tionists on this coast. And such gestures! they 
are so graceful. He is said to live finely: keeps 
seven line horses! But who would keep slow 
and poky ones, I should iike to know, if they 
were able to afford better ones?” 
Whose is Wearth? —Wealth is not his who 
gets it, but his who enjoys it. 
Charity can tolerate even intolerance. 
