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Cloy - SAHIBS T. MLR
Driontber 15, IRs9.
sttett Votirg.
[Pro n the Lancaster kepi-no
To MrDaughter.
ASo'er the sky, when morning drst awakes the
demon,
Tbo fresh light flashing with a lovely him,
Streams itt;,bright colors across lea and lawn,
_ ftu thumbidute. .
And I have watched the morning star Just peeping
Behind the clouds that veiled the morning light,
And raund my streaming. eyes were filled with
weeping,
At thoughts of you, so boantWul end bright.
And yet to sigh In that iltut solitude or glory,
When morning, tuned to inutile deep and low,
Took up the stride of Tune's Immortal story,
heart.axid soul with a consoling glow,
To feel that Ma r fa irai ono young heart's affection,
Throbbing in echo to the tonal of mine,
Pointed my thoughts and warn Tn on direction,
To altars pure, to shrines exalted sod divine
For thee, my child, I've prayed' Alen, alone for
then
Forgetting All the while my need of prayer'
Prayer for a change of a rough destiny
That 11001E9 to lead 1110 rudely every where,
But to the scenes illumined by th:, smile—
To rue In fancy only known As borne,
Where thy gay presence the dullest hours beguile,
And where, forever, I may never Immo.
W ,slimmer CITY, J una, 18110 W F
aliscdiantons,
LETTER FROM WILLIAM R. WELSH,
CHAIRMAN OT TICK IMMOCRATIC STATIC XX
ECUTIVB COMMITTRX, OF PMNNSTI.VANIA,
TO TIIR ZION. RICHARD VOX, KIACTOM,
Yrtitx, PA., July 16, 1860
Mr DKAR Sue : I have the honor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your letter of the
9th inst., which, however, It was my 'priv
ilege to see in the daily papers, before you
Furnished me with a printed copy. lam
glad you have adopeted this public method
of answering my brief note, as it enables
to lay before the people, in the same man
ner, lily reasons for acting with the masority
of the Democratic State executive Committee
at its last meeting. Had you contented
yourxelf with a simple refusal to accede to
the compromise proposed by the State CoM
tnittee, I would have remained silent , but
the ground you have publicly taken, do.
mends from rue a respectful answer, in jus
tification of myself to those who placed me
In the responsible position I now occupy
towards the Democracy of Pennsylvania.
The public will look in 1/11111 throughout
your letter, Cur any tangible objection to the
proposed compromise, on the score of expe
diency, policy or principle The one and
only point in your communication, is, that
the State Committee acted is ithout any au
thority:" The question of jurisdiction is
thus raised in your own mind ; and 18
promptly decided by yourself, without ar
gument, in yir,ir own faVor.
Now, with all your political knowledge—
and 1 am willing to concede to you the most
enlarged experience, and the highest Integ
rity of purpose —I am afraid you hive tail
ed to ham what really are the ••certain spe
cific duties" which belong to a State Com
mitted. Certainly, I have no wish to extend
the powers of the ono over which I have the
honor to preside ; nor do I desire to shield
any action of my own, under the broad and
generall.erms of the resolution which author
ized its appointment, and for which, I be
lieve, mu cordially voted in the Reading
Convention. But I take it, that a State
Committee is fully "competent" to act upon
all questions which involve the working ma
chinery of the party for whose benefit it
was specially created ; as well as to arrange
and direct all the details of organization,
to propose and effix,tivay carry out all meas
ures which tend to secure successful results
in an impending struggle. Hence it was,
that the National Executiao ettiimittee ap
pointed by the Democratic Convention which
met at the Front Street Theatre, in the city
of Baltimore, do without any other authority
than the implied power contained in the res
olution whicttereated it, assumed the right
to make a nortunatien.. for the Democracy of
the Union, when Benjamin Fitzpatric declin
ed to accept the Vice Preeideucy on the ea ,
et With Stephen A. Douglas—and the adop
tion of the resolution, by the grime Commit
tee, in referenda to the power of its mem
bers over Electoral tickets formed by bodies
entirely separate and distinct from that
which gave it political life, clearly shows
that the gentlemen who ••cpcso that arm
izationr4ve no very narrow or contracted
ideas of the authority and ..speciffedutisti"
of an Execiltive Committee.
You say, in yoiit letter, that the "Read
ing Convention gave n 6 power to its Com•
mittce to comproMisci the integrity of Dem
ocratic principles; the DOmocratic organiza
tion, or Democratic candidates." This is
strictly true. But While your premises are
correct, your conclusions are fallacious. No
torturing of language, no ingenuity of ex
pression,
can (eaten sun an interpretation
upon the compromieg recommended by the
State Committee. Come, let us reason to
gether and see how far the Committee's res
olution bears you out, in the position you
have thus voluntarily assumed.
Ygu, as a candidate fur Elector, are but
the creature of the Beading Convention.—
Equally so Is the State Committee. You ale
both the offspring of the same par ent.
. With
out any assumption of power on the part of
either, it is your conjoined duty to endeavor
mann
EMMEI
BELIEFONTE, CENTRE COUNTY, PENN'Ai, 'I I HURSDAY, JULY 20, 1800,
to hruange the machineify of the State or
ganization,.Bo as to melte it let potent and
efficient against the forces of the common
enemy. Ile who fails in this high duty, is
false to the sacred trust reposed in him by
the Convention. Thoroughly imbued with
this feeling, a majority of the State Commit
tee resolved,-if possible, to propose 'some
plan for united action, which, if accrued,
would enable the Democracy of Pennsylva
nia to assist in the defeat of the Republican
candidates. The head , and front of its of
fending bath this extent, no more
If yon read the resolution of the
Committee you will perceive that it only
"recommends" $ certain course of action to
the Democracy of Pennsylvania-sand then
"authorizes " its Chairman to correspond
whli • Die several Electors 'in regard to the
proposed basis of compromise. Surely an
Executive Committee has this politer, if it
be vested with any tit all -and after an afs
iirinntive or negative response has been re
liy the }:lectors, to the Committee,
through its Chairman, that body, at a sub
sequent meeting, will determine what course
is best to be pursued for the welfare an in
tegrity of the Democratic party. Whether
the Oominittee will undertake to place other
names upon the Electoral ticket, or prefer
to submit the whole matter to the State Con
vention which formed them both, are ques
tions for future consideration and decision
In the meantime, you may withhold your
assent to the line of policy propdsed fur the
defeat of the Republican candidates for
President and Vice President of the United
States and Governor of Pennsylvania ; but
I must emphatically deny your right to
question the jurisdiction of the State Com
mittee, in its earnest and patriotic labors to
unite the fragments of a broken and dissev•
°red party.
But while it cannot be successfully estab
lished that, the Committee exceeded, in the
slightest degree, its legitimate powers on
the 2d instant., l'freely admit that its recom
mendation is entirely new, and is calculated
to awaken the deepest.. intesie and retlec
bon lh the public mind. It is necessarily
novel, because the actual position of the
Democratic party, at the present tune, is to
tally diflerent from its condition in any pre
710W4 portion of its history. Two National
organisations. "like the twin children of ite•
becca, aro struggling for the rights of% the
elder bern." A largo mijority of the Dem
ocratic masses, firmly wedded to their par
ty, regard this chisin wiih unutterable re
gret Those masses are very fir from agree.
tug with you, in 38.91/ming that the only
Democratic candidate for the Presidele y to
gentleuian whom you prefer. Tens of
thousands of them are, to say the le ist,
quite as touch inclined to respect the nom
ination made by "a meetinr, of gentlemen at
tl.e Maryland Institute, in Baltimore," as
they are to support that of " a mimting of
gentlemen," at the Front Street Theatre, in
the same city. Ido not propose to discuss
the relative merits of these noininations in
this letter ; but the fact is patent to every
one that there is, unfortunately, a great di
vers'ity of opinion as to the point. This di
versity of opinion cannot be igndred —the
division clearly exists—and while the re
spective adherents of the several "meetings
of gentlemen" referred to, are divided in
sentiment as to their choice of Presidential
candidates, there is one point, I am happy
to say, in reference to which they do occupy
a common ground. They are closely united,
in desiring a chance to strike a common
blow at the enemies of the Union and Con
stitution. To enable them to do this, the
State Committee offered them a plan, by
which all the sincere opponents of the Re
publican party, in the Democratic ranks,
could unite upon one Electoral ticket. Those
who prefer the success of the Opposition
candidates, will, of course, array themselves
against this fait and and equitable measure
of compromise --while those who honestly
desire the triumph of the Democratic party,
without reference to mere men, will give
their cordial adherence to the action of the
State Committee. I indulge the hope that
more mature reflection will induce you. like
hiarthh of old, to "choose the better part."
If the proposition has hot the color of pre
cedent to recommend it to your favor, it is
well for you to know that those who made
it, learned a life long lesson from you and
your political i sn/rrrer, when you exulting
ly swept "the old landmarks" of the Demo
cratic party from the portals of the heading
convention. In your eloquent address be-
fore that body, when you were inveighing in
forcibie language against " time honored
usages " in the selection of Delegates and
Electors, you frankly said i—" We have no
thing t do witg i the past ; we have nothing
to do whit precedents : we have nothing to
do wl rules ; Iwo are to legislate upon
conditi n of things that hasoirisen since this
room was opened for our reception." To
this earliest appeal the Convention respond
ed, AYndh I—and the pant, with its crowd of
witnesses in behalf of "usage," was ignored,
and the representatives of the people sway
ed lithe popular intpulse, followed the
Glamaliaa of a now and revolutionary faith.
Speaking for yourself and your companions,
wu boldly proclaimed to those who dithered
w ith L yau :--;"11' you 'want our votes, you
must not o;ly preach union, preach harmo
ny, ajid p 'asish conciliation, but you must
mho* the fruits of all this preaching." I
now, *Willingly - , commend the same chat
,
icc to your own lips. I was for .' uniOn, "
" harmony, and " conViation, " then -1
em for union, " " harmony, " and con ,
ciliation " noiv. is enough for me to know
that the Democratic party in divided and
distracted. More antious (or the defeat of
'the Itepublichn candidates, Than for the ad
vancement of qny man's personal ambition
in the Democratic ranks, I saw yi the prop
osition 'adopted hy the State Committee the
only feasible means of aeconiplisliing the
overthrow of the Opposition forces in Penn
sylvania, and securing the election of our
gallant candidate AY Governor, henry
Poster. The issue etas plainly presen lei to
my mind —it was. Itepublican,sm or Detim4-
racy —I, unhesitatlnily, accepted the lat
ter.
I have no fears that the action of the Slide
Committee will not be sustained and upheld
by the calm, good sense of the Democracy
of Pennsylvania. But two or the large num
ber of Electors hilt! already responded to
the rekolurimi, have refused in give it their
assent and approbation. Nor have I been
disappointed in my-espectations of the man
ner in which it 'retold be received by the
true-hearted yeomanry of this Co ninon
wealth They know that its only object is
to preserve, if possitle, the unity of the
Democratic party, and prevent the State of
Pennsylvania from being made the unwilling
instrument in the election of Lincoln, Ham
lin and Curtin, when she has the power
within herself, if properly directed:to ward
off such a dire calamity. Alroady has the
voice of hearty approval gone tip, front all
those who love Rome better than Cirsar --
The Democratic mosses of • the " Old Key
stone " stand, unfluinclibigly, by the union
of their party, far the sake of the Union and
the Constitution of their country. The hopes
and aspirations of millions cltstur around
the old creed, which has alWaya taught
" the equality of the citizen, and the equal.
ity of the States !') The farmer in his field
of trl the mechanic in his busy workshop ;
the artisan by his humble fireside, and the
man of letters in his quiet stinjy, have all
felt its saving influence, and its regenerating
power. Across the blue waves of the At
lantic, in homes made desolate by the des
potic's touch, wheto eyes grow bright as
they tarn to the land opthe setting sun,
prayers wend to 01; for the triumph of
that creed in the Mbar of battle. Spurning
all sectionalism, the Democratic faith has
bravely struggled on through inure trian half
a century, and has stamped its indelible im
press upon the Civil and political institutions
of the freest and happieat people on the
globe. - Those ahu feel arid appreciate the
blessings which follow the inauguration of
Democratic rule, will unceasingly struggle
to encourage union, " " harmony " and
"conciliation" in our ranks ; Incense, with
I out them, they know : oat our columns will
be broken, and become; like reedy shaken in
the wind Let such "union," • 'harmony"
and "conciliation" as are now proposed by
the comprotnise of the State Committee, once
more sit by us in our councils guiding us
calmly with their influence, and driving froth
our midst all local jealousies, and all ungen•
hong personal rivalrles„, and the Democratic
legion will again be able to march against
its united foes in an iron phalanx, and will
still be perpetuated as the true and only
conservator of our NatiOnal Freedorn.
lii conclusion, permit me to reciprocate
the sentiments of personal respect contained
in your letter, and believe me to be air,
Very respectfully, tour ob't serv't,
WILLIAM H. WELSII,
Chairman of the Democratic State Execu
tive Committee.
To the nun nicnAan VAIII, Elector at
Large.
ANBCD(YrIS (1/ , JAMIL% —The following inci
dent in the life of the late G. P. R. James is
relfited on the credit of " one of his oldest
and most intimate literary friends :"
When Mr. James was a young man, his
cousin was about to marry the daughter of
an eminent lawyer of the time, and the title
deeds of this gentleman's entailed property
were, at the request ovum father of the
young lady, submitted to his examination.
The keen lawyer discovered the% tiltl parents
of the gentleman, although moving in the
best society of London, had never been mar
ried. Mr. James was made acquainted
with this avricward fact, and at the same
time informed that lie himself was the heir
at-law. The match was about to be broken
off, and much distress occasioned on every
aide, when Ntr. James, havinfoulttly taken
possession of the property, Pint at once to
the unhappy young man, his relative, and
conveyed to him the whole of the property,
which amounted to a very handsome imle
pow:knee."
An 'exchange knows the owner of a pretty
piece of crinoline who shows decided pluck.
Ile says that when the minister was hugging
and kissingiiis wife, he peeped through the
crack of the door and JIM it all ; and as long
as he has the spirita a man remaining he
will peep on such - Deceitful*. Ho reminds us
of the man, who upon finding a friend of his
in bed with his wife, insisted upon en apel
dgy, and when the apology was giveb, ex
pressed himself fully satyfled.
The heart is a book which we ought not
to tear in our hurry to gut °sally at its coo:
tents.
An Incident in the Cara
On the whole. pleasant" trails and inci
dents are not common in the cars, I think.
This opinion I expressed to my friend Som
mers the other day. In reply to my remark,
lie related a little adventure, which, as it is
appropriate, and moreover. involves a little
love and sentiment, I give without aliology
.tin Own words: it proves that in most
unlikely places love and sentiment inftj be
discovered :
" I was escorting home the lovely Char
lotte D to whom I was at that limp
quite, devoted. We got into one of the
crowded avenue cars, where Charlotte could
scarce find room to spread her volitmitions
flounces. I stood up near her, there being
no vacant scat.
After a few minutes, came in a poor wo
man, who deposited a basket of clothes on
the platform, and held in her, arms a small
child, while ti little girl clung to her skirts
the looked tired and weak, but there wile no
vacant place, re lie Mire, Charlotte might
have condensed her flounces but she did nit
IleAde her, however, sat a very lovely and
elegant young woman, who seemed trying,
by moving down closer to others, to make
spice enough for the stranger between her
self and Miss 0— . At last she succee
ded, and with the sweetest blush I ever Raw
she invited the poor burthened female to In
seated. Charlotte D— drew her dra
pery around her and blushed` too, but it was
not a pretty blush at all, and she looked an
noyed at the proximity of the new comer,
who was, however, clean and decently,
'though thinly clad.
The unknown lady drew the little girl
upon her, and wrapped her velvet mantle
round the small hall clad form, and put
her null(' over the half frozen little blue
hands.
So great was the crowd that I alone seem
ed to observe her. The child shivered the
keen wind from the open door blew upon her
unprotected neck. I saw the young lady
quietly draw from under her cloak a little
crimson woolen shawl, which she siitly put
on the shoulders of the little one, the mother
looking on in confused wonder. After n
short time she rose to leave the cars, and
would have removad the shawl. Thd un
known gently whispered, '' No, keep it for
bee." The woman did not answer—the
conductor hurried her out, but her eyes
swain in tears which no one saw but me. I
noticed her as she hastily descended to the
basement, and I hastily marked the house.
Soon after, my unknown also arose to
start I was in despair, for I wanted to
follow and discover her residence, but could
not leave Miss D—.
How glad, then, was I to see her bowing,
as she passed out, to a mutual acquaintance
ho stood in the door-way. From him, ere
many minutes, I had learned her name and
adoiregni
To shorten rny t , story as mach es possible,
that lady id now my wife. In the small in
cident which introduced her to me, she
showed her real character. A few days el
ter our manage I showed her the blessed
crimson shawl, which I had redeemed from
its owner, and shall always keep as a me
mento.
There are sometimes pleasant things to
be found even M unexpected plitees--cei ,
Lately may be said to have piAted out my
wife in the cars."— !lame Journal,
Crime in England
The judicial statistics of England and
Wales for the yt.ar (859 have just been put
Imbed, and they afford the London journals
a fruitful subject of remark. It appears Out
there are in the kingdom no less than thirty
nine thousand live hundred and thirty profes.
atonal thieves, thirty-seven thousand six
hundred and eighty-eight suspected persons
constantly under the eye of the pollee, and
twenty three thousand three hundred and
(Mx -two vagrants, having no visible %cans
of support—or, in al‘, 104,985 criminsla at
large. These figures make little or no im
pression on the mind. aft they are written on
paper ; but :f the reader will imagine the
whole of them brought together, as ono of
the London journals suggests, he will get an
idea of the number ofdesperadoes at whose
mercy the suluects oft her Britanic majesty
hold their property and lives. Organized in
military fashion, they vould make more than
seventy regiments of the line , --placed to
gether in a row, they would extend over
twenty miles of ground-Ind a good walker
would require four or five hours of steady
walking to inspect . the troop. Their direct
cost to society, supposing each man to con
sume two hundred dollars worth of value a
year, is over ten millions of dollars. But
this is only a part of the expense to vahich
society is put on their account. TIM police
and constabulary forces are suppocted main.
ly to watch d'ver these delinquencies, and
the greater part of• the prison and judicial
expenditures have the same origin. Putting
these togethtir, a estimated that the rogues
cost the United Kingdom about $150,000,000,
or about double the sum spent upon the Roy.
al Navy. ,
'• how is your 'husband, dear 9't asked
one lady of another. Oh, he's in a very
bad state," was the reply. " And pray,
what kind of a state is be in 1 " still persist.
ud the other. "In Stato Prisqu."
[Prom the N. Y Evening Poet
Story of Ilicks, ttairirate
Some weeks since, when this vi e tretch was
first attractirg publicatt,gntion, we publish
ed a statement made on the authority of a
gentleman connected with this office, Who
had seen flicks, Of Johnson, on the pacific
coast, and who had identified him in the
city prison. We alluded to Some of his
Murderous operations in that neighborhood.
Several communications; probably written
by his friends, were sent to the Evening Post.
endeavoring to cast a dopt upon those
statements ; but his confession just publish
ed confirms our assertion then made, as
flicks now admits that "he was for several
years on thie s :tecetern shore of America, be
tween California and Chili.'' There are
somd other transactions in which Ilieles W 4 28
engagccl,,not mentioned in the confession
which it may be
,worth while to relate. One
of them
is as follows A merchant
at Paita, Peru, familiarly known as " Paddy
limes," owned a vessel ceded the tinny,
which was sometimes employed in legitimate
traffic, and at others in smuggling. 'I he
I crew was generally changed on each trip as
many of there " beachcornbers," or ea It-wa
ter loafers, would merely ship to reach some
one of the many ports nlotigrhe coai,t, from
Guayaquil to Talparaiso, at Which the Union
stopped. It need hardly be said that these
men w ere generally of the worst class, for
the most part deserters from the tttglveh unit
American vessels (whalers and others) flint
happened to touch at the coast for fre..sh pro
visions.
At Arica, on one of the smuggling, expo
lotions of Hines' vessel, nearly all the crew
deserted. The captain, in order to complete
his voyage, was forced to engage such ma
terial as presented lltr•lf, and among the
number that applied for a berth was John
son since discovered to be Hicks lie sta
led that tie hail been engaged in an affray at
a •' politer-cc," or low porter-house, in which
he Ad wonnded,if not killed, two "Cholahs,”
or half breeds, and was anxious to get away
Ile was engaged for the voyage to Guayaquil.
At Num, however, where the vessel stopped.
the authorities attempted to arrest him, in
formation having been sent of the murde'r.
flicks ing ited'are other seamen to resist the
officers, and a terrible scene ensued. After
vainly struggling, the would be captors
were driven from the vessel, one of them be
ing thrown overboard and drowned, and the
others having received several dangerous
wounds.
Before the Union reached her destination,
information was gained by the Crew that the
fever was raging in Iluayaquil, and that the
inhabitants were leaving thu town an great
consternatiop. To the appeal to return, the
captain turned a deaf ear. What ocrurre I
further may not be fully known, but in less
than two months afterwards the Union was
found beached at Albemarle, one of the (lab
lipagon islands, deserted, with her decks
covered with blood She was reported by •
New Bedford whaler, and after a while was
returned to her owner. But the ..aptain
never made his appearance. The conclusion
is that he was murdered. It was sonic
time after this lam that Johnston or finks
was seen on the coast, WAS arrested en sus
picion of murder, and sent to the f:overn
ment. mines at Cerro Pasco, to a life-lung
penal servitude. fie escaped, and, as we
have before stated, shipped on the Salado!.
atyalparbassi. Thiele and, other facts `sere
Vnown to a number of Americans residing at
that time in Callao and Lima, as well as on
nearly every Vassci that visited the Peruvian
of Chilian ports. such affairs as these, and
others which we Might relate, would seem
to confirm the atrocities heaped together in
his sanguinary narrative. his name, WC
know, was a terror over the whole coast,
and on one occasion, when he wished to
ship on the United States storeship Supply.
the officers, understanding his character, re
fused to receive him.
. _
tradenrrentAailroad --Sharp Practnce
Wo learn that a few days ego, a negro
boy, a regular loafing, suck egg err. nuis
ance, who had been laying around loose
about the Csdiz Junction, on the Pittsburg,
Numbits and Cincinnati Railroad —was
sunimaily disiOsed of by the undofground
railroad ; theAtizens desired to get rid of
the nuisance, and finally the right plan was
hit upon. He was put under charge of •
stranger, any elrefully concealed in the bag
gage car of the traintding West--end when
arriving at tihricksville, the 'stranger got - oft
the passenger -train and went whisperilig
about for Esquire Collier, a noted abolition
isti but he was' not present.. Soon another
abolitionist got scent of the concealed dar
key, and offered to taltil charge of him. TAe
i
conductor introduced him to thsastr ger as
one " all right, " the strahger's nd was
fraternally pressed, and ass ur, that the
poor fugitive should be in Ca da in a very
short time—he had only to get him over to
Now Philadelphia, and he was safe. A close
Carriage was produced, the negro hurriedly
placed in it, whet' the driver moved off at a
funeral pace until he got behind a rising
piece of ground, and crack went the Whip—
off went the horses d't a full gallop—the m
ph, of Cadiz Junction were rid of a great
nuisance—this worthy abolitionist had a
conacienee well it ease—a darkey that
couldn't Vito care of himself was put on the
road to "Canada, and the railroad boys en
joyed a hearty laugh over the cute dodge.
'Mare: ;1 50in Anyorci.
VOLURE S—NUMBRR 10.
ICarriage is sv 'thing
Loot. nityclitg YOU LsAr.
One of the civil courts idt!,yritts, Prance,
had just been applied t 6 by a Somewhat el.
derly lady, who desires the legal documental
necessary to compel her husband to support
her. The husband Objects to doing anything
of the kind, and between the two thley have
made a story to the Yellowing elect :
It seems that, in Ifil`J, the defendant—.
then quite a yonng men—was desirous of
escaping conscription for the army and, as
marriage watt the only alternative, he re•
solved to . become a husband. doing to a
public ball, he asked the-first girl he thinned
with to get him out of his difficulty by mar
rying him, promising to givp her a thousand
francs on the wedding tly, after which they
"were to separate forever. The maiden
jutnpted at the chance of makings little for•
tune so easily, the bans were published, the
ti• nut were made one, and then they took
leave of each other The !unbend of an
hour cent directly to Englimil, and remain
(id there until the fall of 1858, making
handsome fortune, and entirely forgetting
the girl lie left tN9und him. Contorting all
his property lido cash, he returned to trona.,
set up n handsome establishment, and was
enjoying his atlas ruts tits... in splendid
style, until one day, when his servant in
formed him that a lady of a ".certain age.*
wished to speak with him privately, take •
true Frenchman he gallantly acceded to the
ri (rest hut bitterly did ho repent his
courtesy when he beheld before him the
women he had married forty-eight years be
fore. Nor was she alone. tier lawyer ac
eompanied her and politely informed the
linkband that ho must either allow the lady
eight hundred Iran's per annum for the re ,
minder of her life, of hand over fifteen
thousand fnnrr. nn the spot, kR she was
Crently in need of immediate financial re
lief. The astonished old gentleman yet%
decidedly refused to pay the lady anything,
or receive hires his wife The consequenee
fs. the wife's present appeal to the law:—
and we think it quite likely that the Angli
cised husband of an hour will be compelled
to, make an addition to his household, or a
abbstraction from his bank aciicOnt.
A Good SeiL
Once two ministers of the gospel wore
conversing on extemporanoons preaching.
" Well," said the Ma divine, waxing
warm, " you are ruining yourself by writing
sermons and reading them nit Your con•
gregation cannot become inteviiiited in your
sermons : and if you were called upon to
preach imexpectedly, unless you could get
bold of an old sermon, you would be oonfn
sea "
The young divine used all his ekluened
hut in vain to
convince the old gentleman
that the written sermons expressed hts own
thoughts and feelings. and, if called Upon NS
could preach extemporaneously.
As we are of the same faith," said the
young minister, " suppoae you try me next
Sunday morning (In ascending the pulpit
you can hand me a text from any part of
the Bible, and I will convince you that I can
preach without havinglookce4 at the text
1,. fore I atood up. Likewise, t must be al
lowed the same privilege with you, and sec
% t i n can make the best of it."
The idea seethed to delight the old gentle
limn. and it vriii‘iminediittly agreed upon.
On the following Sabbath, on mounting
the pulpit, his senor brother handed him it
slip of papar, on wliWtit wilt written : "And
tin ins opened his mouth and spike :" front
i hieli he preached a glorious sermon, chart•
log the RU4;41 . 1011 of his delighted hearell ii
.
and chiming his old friend with his ale
,
glienee.
hi the afternoon, the young brother, who
was sitting helm)/ the pulpit, handed his slip.
After rising and opening the lloble the old
man looked sadly around —•' Am I not thine
Ass ?" l'auslng a few minutes, ho ran his
f , lngee.hrough his hair, straightened Ma
collar, blew his nose like the last trumpet s
and feed aloud—" Am tinot thine am I"
Another pause in which ji deadly silence
relvia. After reading I tittrd time—" Ant
I not thine ass T:l 4 -44 !Oka& ov'er the pulpit
nt his•frifind, and in a doleful voice, said:
" I 'ill w rtimi brother !"
New ItratILATICWS AT Title UNtrlld &arse
Altair.—The Spanish and Mexican fractions
of the dollar are no longer teeei,ed at the
United States mint at their nominal value,
The rnainebject of the law_authorizing . these
coins to he received at their nominal value
of twenty-five, twelve and a half, anti six
and a qurter ciyaa, was to retire diem front
circulation, an thus rens,e the coinnineity
of e worn.out and depreciated currency.
which, materially interfered with our excels
lent system of decimal coinage. this objetit
having in a great measure, been attained,
and the amount of Conti - issued being quit*
large, Mr. Snowden, the Dirertot or the
.tint at Philadelphia, renotrunersied that di
law should be passed to repeat so touch of
the former law on the subject as required
these exchanges to ko made. This his ac.
cordingly been donor vdereifter the nevi
cents will only be paid out in eldhange for
gold and silver coins of the United Slates.
and for the copper cents of use lonia lime,
Some persons took only on ttke swig" it
the stream of fire, and see its' bubbles - With'
perhaps here find there a water-lity ; It ituy
would look deeper they might find pearls al
the bottom.
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