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RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY.
It is difficult fully to understand in this
country the autocracy of the Emperor of
Russia that is to say, the absolute power
of a single in.ni over the liberty, prosperity
and lile of (,o many millions of men. It
seems as firmly established as it is mighty, i
let however absolute ibis power, it is sur
rounded with great and iinforseen dangers.
Open the history of .Russia, and you meet
with two or three of those catastrophies,
which are splendid but terrible illustrations
of it. It has been said of the monarchy of
France, before ITS!), that it was an abso
lute monarchy, moderated by sonirs. It
was so to a certain extent ; but with more I
truth can it be said, that the absolute mon
archy of Russia is a monarchy moderated
by assassination. Let one remember the
tragic death of Peter HI. and Paul 1.! An
anecdote will hotter illustrate from what
quarter come the deep-concealed dangers.
Lord Cloncurry relates, in his recently
published Personal Kecollectionss that be
iti at Rome in the last years of the past
century, be g.,t acquainted with many
Russians of iiioh rank, such as Orlofl, the
lavorite of Catharine II., and Potemkin,
son of the celebrated minister. The intro
duction of the Muscovite element, he says,
made a strange mixture in our society;
when sometimes discussions arose that
brought the habitual steady English love
of freedom into a conflict of argument wilh
the fierce barbarian vigor of the Russians ;
and that, too, in presence of the polished
feebleness of some noble su!.-j"Ct of the
church. Oil one occasion, the compara
tive merits of democracy and despotism be
ing under debate, the risk of mischief at
ihe hands of a senseles, ill-conditioned ly.
rant was urged as more than a counterpoise
for Ihe good that could be done bv a be
nevolent and wise autocrat : "Against that
risk exclaimed Count I'alben, who was
present, we have a sife-guard. Here is the
i'onMitution of Russia !" and starting up,
he closed the argument hy drawing a dag
ger from his pocket, and flinging it upon
the table with nn earnestness and energy
that lelt no doubt of his personal willing
ness to put that sharp constitutional remedy
in operation, if necessary for a wrong!
A few years slier, the terrible eaints'-
ness of his words was fully realized ; lor
this same Count Palhen, then military
governor of Si. Petersburg, played the
most prominent part in the assassination of
Paul I.
The government being absolute, the
natural consequenre is, that absolute obedi-
nee becomes the first duty and chief merit
of agents in every station. To obey and
to succeed, whatever Ihe purpose, becomes
the paramount qualification to secure favor
and promotion. Thus the diplomacy.
which represents talent, skill, and Attain
ments of highest order, and the mighty in
terests of the state, has gradually assumed
that character, by which the rutin gspirit
of the government is strongly and faiihlully
reflected.
Talents can be applied in two ways; to
achieve noble things, beneficial to civiliza
tion and mankind or to serve selfish ends,
ambition and usurpation. Both spring
from the principles of the government.
When free, it promotes liberty and the real
welfare of nations; when absolute, it is an
engine of despotism, producing iis natural
effects, ignorance and a slavish spirit. How
admirably are both exemplified in the char-
acter ana policy of the United slates and
Russia !
It follows that Russian diplomacy is led
to use as its lavorite means, intrigue, craft,
and deceitful artifice or, haughtiness, ar
rogance, and domineering, according to
cases. It is conscious that it is the surest
way to please the Master; and it is coa
aciou also that behind it stand the armies,
rdy to support and eiecuta e?ry politi
cal scheme. Personally, the diplomatic
agents may be worthy, talented and refin
ed ; but as agents, a mischievious, intrigu
ing system of policy is forced upon them.
They must comply, or (always a hard sac
rifice !) resign.
Many striking illustrations are found in
history, of the working of this diplomacy.
We will only mention now the partition of
unfortunate Poland in 1772; which was
prepared and accomplished by Russian di
plomacy ; a crime, the parent of other fu
ture crimes, the fatal cause of bloody ca
tasfophies ! Sir James Mackintosh says :
"The two great powrr?, England and
France alike deserters of the rights of na
lionsj and betrayers of the liberties of Eu
rope, saw the crime consummated without
stretching forth an arm to prevent it. Had
there been a .park of spirit, or a Try of
wise policy in the councils of these conn
tries, (liny would have been followed in
their resistance by all the secondary pow
ers, whose very existence depended on the
general reverence for justice."
The first partition cousummaled, (and it
must especially bear upon Catharine II.,
who was, says Mackintosh, the greatest
criminal,) a second was deemed right and
necessary, because useful, (1793) and the
third which dislroved the last shadow of
I -nationality and independence (179S) and
j the two last were attended with such hor
rors of war, such dreadful hecatombs, that
history itself shudders with abhorrence '
"These tremendous scenes," Mackintosh
eloquently says, "closed the resistance of
Poland, and completed the triumph of her
oppressors! Thus lell Ihe Polish people,
alter a w ise and virtuous attempt to estab
lish liberty, and nn tieroic struggle to de
fend it, by the flagitious wickedness of
Russia, by the loul treachery of Prussia, by
the unprincipled accession of Austria, and
by the short-sighted, as well as mean-spirited,
acquiescence of all the other nations of
Europe "'
The Russian ministers at Warsaw, be
fore the last partition, were really the vice
roys of the Czarina. Here is a masterly
sketch ol three, by Mackintosh :
"Keyserling, a crafty and smoolh Ger
man jurist ; Saidern, a desperate adventu
rer, banished from Holsteirt for forgery,
and Reptiin, a haughty and brutal Musco
vite, were selected, perhaps from the va
riety of their character, to suit the fluctua
ting circumstances of the country ; but all
of them spoke in that tone of authority
which has ever since continued to distin
guish Russian diplomacy."
After the partition, Poland was suffered
to enjoy for sixteen years a comparative
tranquility. Hut Russian ministers contin
ued to act their part of viceroys, in pre.
sence of the weak, though accomplished,
King Stanislaus. One ol them at that time
was Count Stackelherg, a man of high
abilities and consummate experience, but
who, conscious of the power of his court,
showed himself proud, haughty, :md .anx
ious to engross homage and profound re
spect from all. He once received a heavy
and well-deserved rebuke. A new foreign
minister arrived at the court. He went to
pay his ilevoiu to the king and present his
credentials. In the recepiion hall, in the
midst of courtiers, generals, nobles and for
eign n.inisters, blazed forth a magnificently
dressed individual, the object of profound
respert. Thinking it was the king, he be
gan the three formal bows, prescribed by
etiquette ; he find got through two of
them, when a slight flutter among the cour
tiers warned him that all was not right-,
and at the same time, a good-natured gen
eral whispered in his ear: "It is not the
king, it is the Russian Ambassador!" It
was indeed he, who, with the most cool
air and the most dignified countenance,
without the slightest warning to a brother
minister of his error, had received the hom
age intended lor another. In a few mo
ments, the king appeared, and the ceremo
ny was performed in a proper way.
In the evening, the new minister was
invited to Ihe king's card-table. Mean
while the morning's adventure had been
extensively circulated, and he was aware
of it. Smarting with the wound, lie de
termined upim revenge. But the rules of
courts prescribe courtesy, the laughers
must be ou his sine, and the ambassador ol
Russia was mighty. After beginning the
play he soon made a slight mistake. Jt
was corrected; but presently he threw
down a knat'f, and exclaimed : "Here is
the king !" "You mistake," said Stanis
laus, "it is a knave." "Ah ! pardon, sir, it
is the second time to-day that I have mis
taken a Jinave fot a king!" The king
s;iiiled imperceptibly; the Ambassador of
Russia looked more dignified than ever,
and tnis time the laughers wete on the side
of the happy retoiter. Alter this, the min
ister played well much better than the
Russian Ambassador.
We have dwelt the longer on this grand
and dismal episode of Poland, because it is
a characteristic of Russian policy in that
age, because the crime is still living and
bleeding in our time, and because it has
been levived by the recent example of
crushing another generous and patriotic
nation. Though the Russian diplomacy of
pur times has somewhat improved and
grown better than the old, yet Russia has
in a great part preserved the former spirit ;
to meddle, to encroach, to domineer inso
lently and as the representative and sup
porter of despotism, she is eager to fight
against, and to rru-h liberty nationality,
which she calls rebellion and anarchy.
Besides its official ministers at the divers
capitals of Europe, the Russian Cabinet has
a large number of other agents, shrewd and
refined people in general, such as travel
lers, counts or princes, women to pry into
certain secrets, journalists to right with the
pen, spies to mix with the humbler classes
and report their spirit. Sometimes, more
over, adventurers, men of ?Iecution, as the
French call them, are intrusted with pecu
liar duties. Acknowledger eoundrli are
... i
paid and employed by the Russian Court.
Mackintosh says, in a note to his account
of the partition of Poland : '
"It was about that time (1782) that Count
de Goertz, then Prussian Ambassador at
Petersburg!), gave an account of the Court
of Russia to the Prince Royal of Prussia,
who was about to visit Petersburgh, of
which the following passage is a curious
specimen : Le Prince Bariafinslci est re
connue scelerat, et mcme, commetd employe
encore de lemps on temps.' "
Young noblemen, too, possessing polish
ed manners, have been intrusted wilh the
delicate mission of having intrigues with
women ol the courts, to obtain slate secrets,
which could in no other way be procured.
Tilled women likewise have a busy and
important part to act, for the official minis
ter cannot reach every secret, and he ac
quainted with the intimate feelings of cer
tain classes or persons. An elegant, refin
ed and apparently wealthy lady, familiar
with ladies of high life, can easily in an
ungarded moment, penetrate into the se
crets of a tamily, of an important person
age, and supply the minister with an avail
able, and sometimes necessary information.
Sometimes young men ol rank are in
trusted wilh the same commission, and if
handsome, ingenious and adroit, so much
the better for attraction and success. One
of these envoys deceived, in the most cun
ning way, Napoleon himself, who was not
easily entrapped. Some months before the
formidable expedition to Russia, 1312, a
Prince CzernichetT, a young man, went to
Paris, as a traveller, to enjoy, as he said,
the thousand refined luxuries of the Me
tropolis of Europe. He had plenty of
money, and he lavished it in the most
splendid manner. He was peculiarly fond
of ladies, and assiduous in his attentions to
the ses. He seemed solely engrossed with
the pleasures of elegant society. Yet he
found time enough to fulfil a very impor
tant mission, that is to say, to obtain offi
cial accounts of the forces and resources
which the Emperor intended to use in the i
expedition. He effected this by bribing a j
clerk of the Department of War. When j
Napoleon got intimation of it, he ordered i
1 rince Czernicheff to be instantly arrest- ,
ed ; but the Prince had already fled, and
was sate beyond the frontier. Ihe clerk
was convicted and shot.
It is said that England likes to boast of
having covered the country with a vast net
of railroads, which secures the most rapid,
constant and highly beneficial communica
tion throughout tlitlerent parts of the king-
(lom. KtlSStan diplomacy IS to Its Country accomplices anu. llie necrei passage, no
of the same efficiency for information and I 'eM 'he." three hundred maidens were sac
power, as the system ol railroads to Eng. rifieed on the alter of vanity and superslilion.
land. It is a complete, admirable, but Several years had been occupied in this
much to be watched organization ! pifil.- slaughter, and no suspicion of Ihe
truth was excited, though the greatest amaze
Thr Religion or Payiso Dr-.nTS.-Oi.e of; ,. , ,,' ' .,.
our religious -exchanges has iho following
strong remarks on this subject. They drive
the 'nail into Ihe head and then clinch it :
"Men may sophisticate as they please,
but (hey can never make it right, and all
the bankrupt laws in the universe cannot
make it right, for them not to pay their
debts There is a sin in this neglect as
clear and a deserving church discipline as
stealing or false swearing. He who violates
his promise to pay, or withholds the pay
ment of a debt when il is ju his power to
merl his engagement , onubt to be made 10
feel that in the sigh) of all honest men he is
a swindler. Religion may be a very corn-
foriable cloak Under which to hide, bntif anj demanded judgment nyainst her. Su
religion does not make n man, "deal justly," grave an accusation, brought against a per
it is not worth having." j Mn llf hjh illlki demanded tho most
l, ' I serious attention, and the Palatine uudeitook
I'AnsoN BaowNLow mokes the following . . ,' . .
. , - .. , I to investigate Ihe Btfair in person. Proceed-
that the parson is so prone to discontent and
so much desires to have things his own way
that he would quarrel with the angels in
Heaven :
1 expect to go to heaven when I die, but
whether I create any 'discord' there or not)
depends upon atftrumtive answers to ihe fol
lowing questions :
Will there be any Senatorial eleclions
there 1 Will the nominations of candidates
luL-tt ... ..w.i.s 1 A ...I iC n .. ;il n...
. ' , i
lac I ion attempt lo cast any more votes Ihan
. . , , . . . . .,,
lt is entitled lo ? In either case 1 will raise a
row. Gut those with whom 1 am at war in
this world, need have no feais of being in-
. , ... , i i
, m , ciij Hirj f,v imi ii i" fc -.
tlol'KKnoi.D Measukks. As ull families
are not provided u it ti scales and weights re
ferring to ingredients in general use by
every housewife, the following may be use
ful :
Wheat flour, one pound is one quart.
Indian meal, one pound two ounces is one
quart.
Butter, when soft, one pound one ounce is
one (piart.
Loaf sugar, broken, one pound is one
quart.
White sugar, powdered, one pound one
ounce is one quart.
Best brown sugar, one pound two ounces
is one quart.
EgL's, average size, ten eggs are one
pound.
Sixteen large table. spoonfuls are half a
pint, eight are one gill, four, half a gill, Lo.
Tut Duke of Richmond's daughter, Lady
Augusta Lennox, married on 27lh of No
vember last to Prince Wilheltn of Saxe
Weiruer, has received from the Great Duke
of Weimar the title of Countess of Dorn
beig. Not being of princely blood, she
could only be marrsj morganaficolfv, or
ia tho left hand, and cannot recsiva th"
title of Princess. - We presume, however,
she tbonght Prince Wilhelm "a good enough
Morgan" for her, without the title. '
THK BATH OF BLOOD. -
From the proof-sheets of "The History of
Hungary" in De Puy's Kossuth and his Gen
erals," now in the press, the Buffalo Com
mercial extracts a most thrilling tale of ro
mantic history :
About the year 1610, Elizabeth Bathori,
sisier to the king of Poland, and wife of a
rich and powerful Hungarian mRgnate, was
the principal actor in the most singular and
horrible tragedy mentioned in history. She
occupied Ihe castle of Csejta, in Transylvania.
Like most other ladies of that period, she
was surrounded by a troop of young girls,
generally the danchters of poor but noble pa
rents, who lived in- honorable servitude; in
return for which, their education was cared
for, and their dowry secured. Eliz-ibeth whs
of a Severe and cruel disposition, And her
hand-maidens led no joyous life. Slitrht
fanlls are said to have been punished by
most merciless torltires.
One day, as the lady of Csejta was ad
miring nt a mirror those charms which that
faithful monilor told her were fast waning,
she gave way to her ungovernable temper,
excited, perhaps, by the mirror's unwelcome
hint, and struck her unoffending maid wilh
such force in the face as to draw blood. As
she washed from her hands the stain, she
fancied the part which the blood had touched
grew whiter, softer, and, as it were, younger.
Imbued with thj credulity of the age, she be
lieved she had discovered what so many
philosophers had wasted years in seeking for.
She supposed that in a virgin's blood she had
found the elixer vita, :he fountain of never fail
ing youth and beauty. Remorseless by nature,
anil now urged on by irrepressible vanity,
the thought no sooner flashed across her
brain than her resolution was taken ; llie. life
of her luckless hatul-tniiideu was not to be
compared with the precious boon her death
promised to secure. Elizabeth, however,
wa warv w"" "' rnel Al ,,ie f"" of
,nro("k on which Csejta stood, was n small
collage, inhabited by ln-o eld women, and
between the cellar of this cottage and the
castle was a subterranean paBsnge, known
only to one or t-.vo persons, and never used
but in times of danger. With the aid of
these old crones and her steward, Elizabeth
led the poor girl through Ihe secret passace
to the cottnrxe, and nfler murdering her, bath
ed in her blood. Not satisfied with the first
essay, nt difiorent intervals, by the aid of
SSIV.SIV si viativai IIIU LUllllll J lit IliU VI 1 3t 'JJCrs I -
ance of so many persons. At last, however,
Elizabeth called into play against her two
passions even stronger than vanity and cun
ning. Love and revenue became interested
in Ihn discovery of the- mystery. Among
the victims of Csejta was a beautiful virgin,
who was beloved by and betrothed lonyoting
man of the nemhboihood. In despair nl the
loss of his mistress, he followed her tiaees
wilh such perseveiauce, I hat, in spile of the
hitherto successful camion of the nmi.leress,
ho penetrated the bloody seciets of the cas
tle, and burning for revenge, Hew to Pres
burgh, boldly ncciised Elizabeth Bathori of
minder, before the Palatine, in open court,
ing immediately to Csejta, before the mur
deress or her accomplices had any idea of
the accusation, he discovered Ihe still warm
body of a young girl, whom they had been
destroying as ihe Palatine approached, and
had not time to dispose of before he appre
hended them. The rank of Elizabeth miti
gated her punishment lo imprisonment for
life, but her assistants wete burned at the
stake.
Legal documents sltll exist to attest the
trulh of this apparently improbable ciictim-
,. .
siHiice. Paget, a disiinguirhed fcaighslj ha
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veiier, wno visneu v.ejia ntioui twenty years
ago, says; "With this tale fresh in uur minds,
i . i ,i... i.... i,;n ..;,,...! , i,..
ivo IISCIIUITVI IDC7 iuiii; mil, L:niiiru ,uc ini-nci,
and wandered over ils descried ruins. The
shades of evening were just spreading over
the valley, the bare, gray walls stood up
against the red sky, the solemn l illness of
evening reigned over the scene, and as two
ravens, which had made their nesis on the
castle's highest towers, came toward it, wing,
ing their heavy flight, and wheeling once
round, each cawing a hoarse welcome to Ihe
olhet, alighted on their favorite turret, I
could have fancied them the spirits of the
two crones, condemned to haunt the scene of
theit former crimes, while their infernal mis
tress was cursed by some more wretched
doom "
Tub "BtAa Waltz." We hear with
pleasure that a new waits, bearing litis liile
is lo be introduced in our ball rooms this
season, the principal feature of which is Ihe
bug. It is already quite ihe ia in small
parties and private reunions, where the hug
has met with such very high favor, that its
production in the ball room has been deci.
ded upon by a very large number of the
votaries of the new waltz. Sf. ,&uii Organ
and Reveille.
"Loot ovt ,p j,,, how you irow bricks
guess ou want lo kill dis nigga" said a lusty
'olack hod carrier the other day whan a large
brick fell from a two aiory scaffold upon bis
head and broke in two without any further
Mamsaje.
.MELTING OF METAL.
The enclosed memorandum, cut from an
exchange, has elicited some discussion, and
the query is, from w hat did Farenheit base
zero or 0 in his scale was it the point al
which alcohol freezes or not 1 An arlicle in
your paper explaining this would be inlet
esling. J. L. C.
The following are temperatures on Faren
hcil's scale, at which some of the most re
markable effects of hea. are produced :
2,786s Cast iron melts.
2,200 Gold melts.
1,986" Copper melts.
1,878 Silver melts.
1,560 Brass melts.
1,141 Heat of a common fire.
980' Red heat.
218 Sulphur melts.
212 Waler boils.
184 Alcohol boils.
98' Blood heat.
36 Olive oil freezes.
31 Water freezes.
20 Wine freezes.
14 Oil of turpentine freezes.
1 Oil of vilriol freezes.
39 Mercury freezes.
45 Nitric acid freezes.
60 Grealesl cold ever observed in the
Arctic regions.
135 Greatest cold yet produced by ar
tificial means.
A mixture of 7 parts of snow and 4 of di
luted nitrio acid, gives a cold ef 30 below
zero.
Three pans of snow and two of diluted
acid reduce the tempeiature to 46 below
zero.
VALUABLE COW.
Isaiah Michner, of Buckingham, commu
nicates to the Bucks County Iiitcftgenccr nn
account of a productive cow of his that
gave, three weeks after calving, during a
period of seven days, an aggtegate of 46
gallons of milk -the cream from which
weighed 39 lbs. ihe butter from which
weighed 21 lbs.
Her feed during the week, was one quart
of cake meal, and three quarts of corn
meal, weighing five and a half pounds,
night and morning, made into a mash wilh
clover heads ; at noon, font quarts of wheat
bran, weighing three lbs., made into slop
with hot water, and given warm, and Ihe
same at night at 9 o'clock ; making seven
teen lbs. of corn meal, cake meal, and bran
united, for each twenty-four hours, or one
hundred and nineteen lbs. nett weight, for
the week, which was worth, at mill price,
$1,28, or 185 cents per day. The hay that
she ate I suppose lo be 150 lbs., (I did not
weigh il) worth 75 cents, making cost of
keeping during the week, 82.03.
The Knickerbocker Magazine ludicrously
illustrates the necessity of a reform in medi
cal nomenclature.' Very much confounded,
he says, was Dr Doane, a few years since,
by a remark of one of his patients. The day
previous, the Doctor had prescribed lliat safe
and palatable remedy, ihe syrup of buck
ihoin, and left his piescription duly written
in the usual cabalistic chaiacters "Syr.
Rham Calh." On inquiring if the palient
had taken the medicine, a thunder-cloud
darkened her face, lightning darted from her
eye, s she roared out "No! 1 can read
your doctor writing, and ain't a-going to take
the syrup of lam-cuts for anybody under
Heaven 1"
Sorrowfvl Occurrence One of the
young ladies at Westlown Boarding School
a daughter of Homer Eachus, of Delaware
county fell ftom one of the third story
windows, on Saturday morning week, and
was seriously injured that she died in a
very few minutes. It is supposed tnat on
being awakened by the six o'clock bell, she
hurried to the window to open the shutters,
and that they being frozen lo the frame, she
applied loo much toice, and when they gave
way, lost her balance uud fell out.
A legal friend of ours the other day was
about entering a haberdasher's shop in
Broadway when a young buck, with a large
moustache and small income, bom like Jaf
tier 'with elegant desires,' drove up a pair
ol spanking bays flittering with their splen
did caparison. 'Ah, G said he, how
de do 1 how de do 1 How d' you like me
ho'ses ! Fine animals, but very costly.
What do you think I gave for the pair ?'
I guess you gave your note,' said G
'Good roawning 1' responded the blood ;
'good mawning !' Knickerbocker.
How to Make Nice Caudles. Candle
wick, if steeped in lime and saltpetre, and
diied in the sun, will give a clearer light
and be less apt to run.
Good candles may be made thus : Melt
together ten ounces of mutton lullow, a
quarter of an ounce of camphor, four unoea
of beeswax, and two ounces of alum ; then
run it into moulds, or dip ihe candles. These
caudles furnish a beautiful light.
Small Pox. Dr. Win. Fields, of Wil
miiigton, Del., says in a letter to the Blue,
Hen's Chicken, that one table spoonful of
good brewer's yeast, mixed wilh two table
spoonful of cold water, and -given from
L-reeto four times a day loan adult, and.
in less quantities to children, is a cer'.aiu
cure for the small pox.
A Largi: Load. In Philadelphia, on
Thursday afternoon, the 2 1st insl., one hun
dred and two passengei were slowed ia the
immense sleigh Kossuth, on the route from
the Exchange to the Girard College. It was
ijrawn by six hoi ses.
ANOTHER KOlTH.
One of the most devoted and successful
Proleslant pastors in Bohemia, at the pre
sent time, is Rev. Frederick William Kos
suth. He is said to be near related to the
Governor of Hungary. In 1846, he under
took to gather a church of Bohemian Pro
teslant at Prague, the scene of the labor of
the Bohemian martyrs, Jerome and John
Huss. Several converts were made from
among the Papists previous to the year
1848. The revolutions of that year gave
religious liberty to the Austrians, and Kos
suth availed himself of the precarious boon.
His preaching place was soon crowded, and
hundreds of Papists became converts ta his
doctrine. In 1849, he commenced a period
lid by the name of The Herald of the Soke
m:an Brethren, which soon attracted that no
tice of ihe Government and was suppressed.
Very severe opposition, of course, haa
been excited on the part of the Papal priest
hood. They have denounced him in terms
the most bitter and uncompromising; setting
him forth as the real Antichrist, and pub
lishing Ihe most absurd calumnies against
him, so as to provoke the insults of the mob
and to ci tit. h hirn as their fathers did the
Bohemian martys. But they could not ar
rest the progress of the truth. His congre.
gation numbered, last July, (as we learn
from a correspondent of Count Valerian
Krasinski, at Prague,) eleven hundred souls,
of whom seven hundred are converts from
Popery, including three priests. At that
time he had purchased an old Hussite
church, (which had been shut up since
the year 1620,) for 2750, of which sum he
had, wilh creat pains, collected and paid
600. The remainder was to be paid in an
nual instalments of 300. It will be re
membered that after the battle on the Weis
senberg, near Prague, in 1620, "the Breth
ren were subjee'ed to all manner of perse
cutions, their ministers banished, their
churches closed, and they themselves, in
1624, expelled the country." Blessings on
the man who labors for Ihe restoration of
those ancient sanctuaries ! Let him be re
membered by all who have learned to
revere the name of Kossuth, and much more
by those w ho glory in the cross of Christ.
N. Y. Evangelic.
A correspondent of the John Bull says ;
"1 happen lo know one of our bishops,
second in worth to none on the bench, who
was thus reproved by a noble Roman lady
l wonder, my lord, you are not ashamed to
have a wife and half a dozen children.' 'I
should be more ashamed,' he answered
very gravely, 'to have the children without
the wife."
A "pem rotN" young gentleman, in turn
ing swiftly ou his heel yesterday, ran his
head against a young lady. He put himself
in a position lo apologise. "Not a word,"
said the quick-witted beauty ; "It isn't hard
enough lo hurt anybody." The coxcomb
frowned and sloped the young lady smiled
and cuurlesied as gracefully as an angel.
The Direct Railroad from West Chester to
Philadelphia was placed under contract, on
Ihe 1 7 1 li insl., Messrs Clark, Malone, and
Gouder, of this State, are the contractors,
and they have agreed to lake $15,000 in the
stock of lha Company. The road will pro
bably be completed in the year 1S53.
Lord Campbell has laid down as a rule,
that every plaintiff or defendant who is lo
called as a witness must be out of court
from the commencement of the case unti
he is put into the box, and that as soon as be
has been examined he must again leave)
the court.
One of the worst things to fat on ia
Envy. In our opinion, it is as difficult for a
grudging man to raise a double-chin, as it ia
for a bankrupt to raise a loan. Plumpness
comes not from roast beef, but from a good
heart and a cheerful disposition. Albany
Dutchman,
A Rabbi in a Legislative. At Albany,
on the 19th insl., the opening prayer in tho
State Senate was made by Rabbi Wise, the
minister of the Jewish Synagogue in Al
bany. Rabbi Wise is a German by birth,
and is ono of the most talented of the He
brew clergy in this country.
An old Soldier of the Imperial Guard,
named Caniillon, of whom the Emperor Na
poleon made mention in his will, has j'jit
died at Rancey. He was accused in 1819
of having fired a pistol shot at the Piuke of
Wellington. The Emperor bequeathed hin
10,000 francs.
Evidence. ' How," ae I a ooontry coart
Judge to a witness, "ho'.v do you know thai
the plainiifl was intoxicated on Ihe eveniug
teferred lo 1" "Because I saw him, a few
minutes after aupper, trying to pull off bis,
trousers wj;tt a boot-jack Verdict to
the defep jaut.
Great numbers of partridges have been
frozen .0 death in New Jersey daring the re
oe,'A severe weather. A Washington paper
eta'.ea that nut less than 600. of these fowla
weie offered fur aale in that market, last
Saturday. Tua writer ia afraid the wholti
race of partridges will become extinct.
As Organ grinder, of Vienna, died latlely
in that cily, leaving a fortuue of about
500.
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Lola Momtei' has diamonds in her paa
lese'Min valued at f 200,000.