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LAUltlM KR H WMUY
POETRY-
For Hie Republican.
ELSIE CLAIRE.
II V K . V . A . K HI' I. T 7. .
It w Ufa pltiiMint night in J imp,
Ten sunny yeurs ugtt ;
The mellow liglit of yonder moon
Wax gently failiu lnw,
On fragrant flowers nnd forests old,
Anil ft roams that sinking hy
7, ufleetotl from llieir waters clear,
The stars in the Mimmer shy.
I jtooil tlii'n where I'm standing now,
lirneulh th is lilac tree :
Tint pure nnd fair sueet Kl.-ie Clair,
Tl:en stood hi si. of ine ;
And siolu' aliout that Imppy world,
lieyond the starry (luine,
V herein our heavenly father dwills,
And angels are ut home.
I love to think ahout that time,
Those fur-elf misty dnyi
When nhe the brightest stur did shine,
In all life's mystic mar.e,
Who uow lives in thai glorious land
Of puro, resplendent light.
Conversing wilh the sainted ones
Wo talked about that night
Her gravo is in the verdant vale,
Whero modest violets grow.
Hut she is in the Aiden world,
Where sinless spirits go :
And often when the sky is cloar,
At night when the moon does rise,
I see in twinkling twin stars there
The liglil of her angel eyes.
tweet euphony falls on my ear,
From that fur hearenly land :
It is tho sng of Klsio Clair,
Wilh golden harp ui hand.
Her sylph-liko form and happy face
Live in my memory still ;
Her railirnl smile and peerless grace.
Forget I nover will.
Hose Dell, l'u , 157.
Takinar Thinsrs Coolly.
'You're a scoundrel!' said a tierce look-
ing gentleman, l tic ouier nay, cumnif; nj you couiu manage to
withgre.it wrath to n Yankee who was," "What, Susy, dear ? (at-ked Charles, all
standing (juietly on the s'.dwidk; 'you're his tenderness awakened by her manner,)
a scoundrel!' 'what?"
'That's news to me,' returned the Ynn-j "I)rop a liineh of salt on his back, (re-
kee quietly
'News vott scoundr
1! Do you call that ,
news?'
'Entirely so.'
'You need'nt think
to parry it off so j
i ,ii ...
be proved a scoundrel.' ,
o 1 dare you would nt, hut answer nic
imniPiliiitelv did vou. or dill vou not.
easy; 1 say you arc i seounitrei, nun i can nri and nis cogitauons were more earn
prove it?' est; for he did not heed any of Susy'?
'I hez vow will not: 1 sliould'nt like to artfully artless d niees to allure his notice,
I say in the presence of certain ladies of my
I acquaintance, that I was a'
I 'Valff Uh, no sir: the truth is not to be
spoken ut all times.'
'The truth! Djyou mean to call mo a
,; calf?'
M). no sir. J call v no'iiii'.'
It's well you do; for had you presumed
to call me a '
'A man. 1 should have been grossly mis
taken.' 'Do you mean to say that I am not a
man?'
'That depends upon circumstances.'
'What circumstances?'
'If I should bo called us evidence in a
court of justice, I should be bound to
speak the truth.'
'And would you say that I was not a
man hey? ! you see that cow-skin?'
'Yes, and I have seen it with surprise
ever since you came up.'
'What surprise? Whv, do suppose I
was such a coward I dare not undertake to
. e the article whon it was demanded:
Shall I tell you what I thought?"
'Do it, if you dare.'
'I thought to myself, what uso hits a calf
for a ciiw't skin ?'
'You distinctly call me a calf then.'
'Yes.'
'You hear him, gentlemen,' speaking to
the bystanders, 'you hear the insult?
What shall I do with the scoundrel?'
'Dress him ! dress him !' yelled the crowd
with shouts of laughter.
'That I'll do at once-'
Then turning ti the Yankee, he cried
out fiercely :
i 'Come on, step this way, you rascal, and
I'll flog you within an inch of his life.'
; Tvo no occasion.'
i 'You're coward.'
j 'Not on your word.'
J I'm aliar, then, am I?'
f 'Just as you please.'
j 'Do vou hear that, gentlemen?'
was the responso, 'you can't help
; flogging him now.'
'0, heavens, grant mo patience; I'll fly
I out of my skin.'
'It'll be o much tho better for your
,3 pocket calf skins are in good demand.'
, I shall hurst.
'Not here in the street , I beg of you. It
yrould be quite disgusting.'
'Gentlemen oan I any longer help flog-
I
Publishers.
'Not if you urn ablo, ,VIW , ,. lv
at bun.
Tims provoked, thus stirred up ,!
coin-aged, the fierco gentleman went like
lightning at tho Yankee.
But before he could st t ike a blow, l,p
found himself disarmed of hi cow skin
and laying on Ids Lack under tho spout of
a neighboring p,IIlipi wliither tho Yankee
hud earned li i in to eool I is rage; and bo
forc he could recover from hi astonish
ment at such an unexpected landing, lie
was as wet as u drowned rat from the oat
nract of water which his antagonist had
liberally uinped upon him.
His courage hail, hy this time, like that
of the vallient Bob Acres, 'oozed out at
the palms of his hands,' and ho declared,
as he arose and went awav dripping from
the I hi run. that 1 II" Would lini'iii. li-iti. In
appearances lipuin, anl t lit."
old Harry
himself lnjL,,t undertake
to cow hiile a
eool Yankee for all of him.
THE IMPROMPTU MARRIAGE.
''For heaven 'h sake, Susey, do he serious,
if you can, for five minutes. Pray cease
this trilling, which is hut cruelly playing
wilh my feelings, and let us treat this'suh
ject ns it deserves, soherly nnd seriously."
"Well, there then!" cried the laughing
gil l, to whom Charles Westerly spoke.
"There ;s l,nl grave etiouli ? See the cor
ners ol my mouth are rolled up, and 1 am
as soher us a patient who has cau'dit si"lit
of the dentisl'.i iiislruments. J)o 1 suit
you so?"
"You suit tne anyhow, nnd you know it
well, you witch !"' cried Charles, gazing
with a smile, at the pretty lace puckered
up in its nii'ectatioii of demutvness. Hut
he was not to l,e driven from his point,
and he resumed gravely, alter a pause.
"The time has come, Susy, when 1 feel I
have a right to demand an" explicit answer
to my mi it. You have trifled with my
earnest feelings Iona enotiLdi. 1 have
I grown restless under inv fetters."
"Shake them oil' then, Charley," inter
: rupted the snucy girl, with a nrettv delimit
ot llic nead, which plainly said, "J dely erusn jicr, aim i. liarles, m his horror,
you to do it." " ' fancied it was already beginning to turn.
"I cannot Susy, and you know it," re- 1 1 hi dived and clutched at the garment,
plied Charles impatiently. ; hut missed it. Ilo rose panting nnd id-
"'1'hat being the case," said Susy, "lako most exhausted, but scnri'ely waiting to
my advice, wear them gracefully, and don't P(' breath, he again plunged below. This
pull and jerk so ; it only mikes them hurt time his efforts were rewarded with sue
you. ; cess, at least so far 'that ho was able to
The young man turned away, and walk- hring Susy's form to the surface of the wa
ed silently up and down the room, evi- ter ; but she seemed totally lifeless,
den try frothing and fuming internally. Charles was now fo nearly exhausted
Susy, meantime, looked out ot the window that l.e had only MilTicient presence of
and yawned. Charles continued his moo- mind left to clasp Susy convulsively to
dy walk. ; him while he kept himself afloat by hang-
' Oh, what n beautiful bird is on tho li- i'lf-' on to the wheel,
hie tree!" cried iisy, suddenly. "lo; Hut this his last hope of support, seem
como and look at it." " ed also to fail him soon, as he perceived
Charles mechanically approached tho , that it was now beginning to turn slowly
window and looked out. round. By a desperate effort he struck
"hon't you think, Charley, (said Susy, his foot against one of the paddles so to
lavnm her hanit on his arm, and lookintr 1
up eagerly in his face, (don't y
on think
turned the provoking irirl, with an affect a-
tjon of simplicity : (for then you know
you could easily catch it !"
His answer was to turn angry awav.
His walk this time was longer than be-
, . . .
At last he stopped abruptly
before her
and said :
"Susv. for three Ioiil' vear I have been I
'your suitor, without either confession of j
j 'love or promise oi love on your part. Of-1
ten as I have demanded to know your
I sentiment towards me, you have always I
, coquettishly refused me an answer. This
state of things must cease. I love you 1
better than inv life, but I will no IoiiL-er 1
be your plaything. Tomorrow you are!
going awav to a distance, to ho absent for sieamnont, which now rapiuiy moved on.
months, and if you cannot this very day And thus when our hero regained his
throw aside your coquetry, and give ine an j consciousness, he found himself many
honest 'ves' for my "answer, I shall .miles from home. Of course his first nnx
consider that 1 have received a 'no,' nnd ions inquiry was for Susy, and uheninfor
act accordingly," med that she was rapidly recovering, his
"And how would that be. What would happiness seemed complete. He showed
you do?" asked Miss Susy, curiously." , his contentment by turning over, and fal-
"Bein bv tearing your false anil worth- ling into a deep sleep,
less image from my heart !" cried Charles ' About sunset a message came to him
furiously. " ; that Miss 15 desired to see him.
"It would be a curious piece of business ; He found her lying on a sofa in the cap
Clmrley; and you would not succeed ei- tain's state room, which had been given
ther," "said Susy. up to her. She looked very pale, and
I should and would succeed, (said
'Charles.) as you shall see if you wish, cru-
el heartless L-irl !"
"But I don't wish, Charley dear I lovo ; "Charles, (she said without a word of
dearly to have vou love me' said Susy. j thanks,) I want to see a clergyman is there
"Why, then", (cried the foolish youth ' one on board?" "I will go nnd see, (said
quite won over ngain.) whv, then, dearest Charles, moving to the door; but a tho't
Susy, will you not consent?" striking him, he turned exclaiming:) Su-
"Kemomber, I said I liked to bo loved, sy, you do not think that"
(replied Susy.) 1 did not say any thing ' That I am goinfc to die ? (said she, anti
about loving. But pray hoiv long did you cipating him.) No Charles, but I want to
say you had 'been courting me, in that s('e a clergyman."
pretty little speech of yours?" Charles went and soon returned ncconi-
"Tiirec lona years," replied Charles. panied by a minister.
"Neatly and accurately quoted, Char- "1 thank you, sir, for coining to mo,"
lev Rut vou know my cousin I'achel
J . J . e . ,
was only won after five years cotfl tship.
You don't snpposo I am going to rale my
self any chooser than sho did, do you?
Suppose wo drop this tiresome subject for
two years ; perhaps by that time I may bo
able to work myself up to tho falling-in-lovo
point There's no knowing what
wonders time may efl'oct."
"If you are not in love now, you never
will be, (returned Charles sturdily ;) aud
I will have my answer now or never."
"Never, then," laughed Susy. But t-he
had gone a step too far. Her often severe
ly tried lover was now too much in earn
est to bear her trifling any longer.
"Never be it then 1" he cried ; and seiz
ing his hat he strode from the room.
Susy listeneiiod to his receding footsteps
with dismay. Had she, indeed, by her
ncorrigiblo love of coquetry, lost him! It
'KXfTI.MoK.
CLKAIiriKIA), PA. WKDMvSDW JUNK !,
Minute her to thesoid to think so. As she
. " !" "I"'" """Ut Hour, nupelleil
hy h teehng of despair, she raised the win-1
loVFiis, ,,11,1,1, leniimg forward, whimpered:
linr.cy, Charley 1 you will he at ,P
i. -in.., i. mv io urn me goon eye, won t
you? Surely
we lire Mill friends ? "
As she spoke she tore arose from her
bosom and threw it to him. J. lodged on
his arm, 1ml he brushed it awny as though
it had heen poison, and passed on with
out looking up.
Susy .spent the rest of the day in tears.
Knrly next morning (lie hustle 'of depar
ture commenced. Susv w as going to ac
company
icr widowed and. invalid mother
on a trip for her henltl
,
As they reached the wharf and descend
ed from the carriage, Sum's eyes made
themselves busy searching for one wished
fur face hut it was nowhere to he seen.
The steam hoat lay panting mid pulling
seemingly impatient to he let loose. Susy's
mother, niileit ley hy the servant man who
,,, , , , ,
ll ' ' I 1 1 1 1 . : 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 t hem I 1 1 1 I, riiiiJv xiv.uowl
lav hetween the wharf
, , ..
tne gangway winch
and the hoat, ai.d
following, when th
hind her the very
Susy was reluctantly
1 sound of a voice !c
Voice she was longing
to hear startled her. She turned to look
around, and missing her foot she fell into
the water.
Another instant, and Ch:trlcs had lain
oll'liiseoat, and, callinj; out loudly "Tell
ihc i aptain not to all'
mid lower me a lope '.
v the wlu el to stir,
he sprang into the
river. 15.it of hor whom Jie was risking
his life to save he was unable to see any
trace.
.)ulgiii that (he current of the river
might have carried ,,.r n 1 1 1 1 1 o forward. he
swam around the wheel, hut still ho saw
her not, and despair seized his her.rt as he
conjectured f,hc might be under the boat,
lie strained his eyes to see through the
water, and at length discerned, far below
the surlaee, what seemed the end of alloat
ing garment, lodged between tho wheel
and the rounded bottom of tho boat.
If this were indeed the unfortunate L'iri
the least move of tho wheel must inovita-
pusn nimseii as lar iroin mo Hanger as
possble. As he did so something touched
his head, and he grasped a rope, New
life seemed now fin fused into him. He
gathered all his energies, and fasten ad the
ropo round Susy's waist consciousness
then entirely forsook him. In the mean
time, witnesses of tho scene, after giving
Charles' instructions to the captain, had
watched his struggles and exercises with
breathless interest. The friendly rope hud
been thrown to him again, but in the ex
citement of his feelings, and his semi-insensibility,
he had been incapable of avail
ing himself of the offered aid. At last,
perceiving that he was ijuite exhausted.
and must inevitably soon let go his hold,
and then probably sink to rise no more.
the captain judged it best to run tho risk
of moving oil", so that a small boat could
he sent to the resime.
The result of this hazardous experiment
w successful. Susy was raised by means
of a rope, and n boat reached Charles in
time to save him also.
Hoth suffers w-ere taken on board the
somewhat suilenrg, hut sue held out her
hand to him very gratefully while tho
tears stood in her c; es.
(said Susy to the latter, as he entered.) I
I - . , t t 1. - ,.r
nne nsuiinu leqursi iu nuiwu ui yuu,
Would you object sir, in the presence, nnd
with the consent of my mother, to unite
mo with that gentleman ?"
If tho minister was astonished nt this
request, Charles was infinitely more so.
"What did you say, Susy? (said he.) Did I
hoar aright ?"
"I believe so, (said Susy, smiling at his
eager amazement.) Does tho scheme meet
your approval?"
'It was heaven-inspired ! (cried the poor
follow frantic with jcy but a shade com
ing over his radiant face, ho added gravely)
But Husy have you considered ? Remem
ber I want your love, not your gratitude.
I will le satisfied with nothing else."
.'Do not be concerned about that.
Charles," replied Susy, gazing at him very
j tenderly through her tears, "bo assured
Jo,
you have them both, and had tho
first
lonir, long before you h:id tlje 1 it "
"But, Su-v, you said only yesterday--"
I "Never mind what I said vcterd'ay "
' interupted Susv. with home 'of her old
spirit liwiking out. ".In.t miinl win, I I
say lo-d.iy. If 1 was a fool onee. is lh.it
nny reiion I must he one always ! Hut,
indeed, Charles," she added mo'ie softly,
I "' have nhvay meant to he vour wife tho
(Oiily i scruple I li11Ve is that 1 am not half
(good enoiig for j nu."
It - needless to say how this discussion
ended. The reader 'hits already divined
that Ch.ule.'. continued hi ;,i,..,, 1
thus, in tl io milt's:, i nCniio ,.i ..ntr.,1 ..... i...
i ' . u iiiiiii uin . it.'
slaked a lit,., saved a li o, made an" im
promptu marriage, and net out on a mo-t
une.Npected wedding trip.
an.m)1)Kl;s i)s Tin-: "Lust ai:T:
For Tho Ir ss. j
"Ihrre annually things jn heaven nnd
earth which ,. ,,, ,,,,, .1, c; i
i iiiuiii, ui in utu i.
!l " I e , . . . .'
,o.-.. .I,, . i ior lnsianee. we k inn i
we should sav
to nny one, that the active and useful
powciV steam was known to the ancients,
lie would doubtless shrug his: shoulders
and cry, l!,di ! This is an invention of
the moderns. The ancients knew noth
ing of this grout moving force which has
.-hol t. -in d space, brought distant conn
trios comparatively within each other's
embrace, supplanted manual labor, and
giving such a mighty impulse to the pro
ductive energies of the human race. Yet,
let i s halt awhile amid our self-adulation.
Let us take a turn among the ancient re
mains ol 1'alestine, of'Ui'eece, of Babylon,
and J-!gypt, and while gazing on the ruins
of those mighty and stupenduous struc
tures which remain as evidences of an an
cient civilization, a-k ourselves the perti
nent question. "By what motive power
were these immense blocks of granite rais
ed to their position? limy weretheycut?
How moved?" That the ancients did em
ploy other than mere hand force, or sim
ple mechanical contrivenees for this pur
pose, will appear evident from the follow
ing allegory, to bo found in the L'abbinical
writings of the Jews. When King Solo
mon was about to build the temple, he
was anxious to procure a certain worm
which pcssess.es tho extraordinary poworj
of dividing tho largest and heaviest stones. !
But no one knew where ho could obtain ,
this precious insect. Finally, King Solo-'
mon discovered that Asmodeus, tho do-
m. ..u l.n tu A. 1.. I T r. . ... 7.".. I '
,11. Ml, ,'1 ,17 1.1 lllltltJtt 111 111 uini, J,-
mn.tni, was in possession of tho secret.
But how was he to extort it from such a
source? Here was a puzzle. However,
Solomon soon resolved upon a stratagem.
It was this: fishmodai was in the habit of
repairing to a certain well in the desert,
where he used to allay his thirst, which
was indeed excessive. Now, the wise king
had a large pit dug close by the well of
water, which resembled the latter that no
one could tell the d itl'eretice. This he
ft'Jed icitli snrik, and fcnc ! up the other.
When Asmodeus came as usual to allay his
thirst, he drunk the spirits instead of the
water, which so intoxicated him, that Sol
omon at once bound him in iron chain,
and thereby got the secret of tho vnrw
with which ho cut the blocks used for the
Temple. Now, if this allegory bo rightly
interpreted, it will prove to a demonstra
tion that King Solomon retorted to the
pumrr ( 'storm as a direct agent in effecting
the cutting and moving of the immense
granite piles which formed bit h the ground
work nnd the superstructure of the Tem
ple. The word "Esimv lai" is a Hebrew
term, composed of three distinct words,
viz,. ",, .lo, diiifire, wittiT, .vijficient, and
in their connected form, therefore, signify
a sficinin iiJirc and water, which are pre
cisely the elements necessary to produce
steam or the irorm which insinuates it
self with wonderful rapidity into the ma
chinery used by man for various purpo
ses. But, besides this definition of tho mine,
let us look to the whole description given
of the manner in which the secret for cut
ting the stones was obtained, nnd wo shall
have the whole "modus operandi" for gen
orating steam illustrated. There was a
well, says the fable, in the desert, which
Solomon sealed up, but he had a larger
jiit dug close by, which he filled with spir
its. Now, steam is generated by raising
water to a certain (.temperature, but the
boiler must be renltd or closed up; there
must bo no openings in the well or boifer
for the ratified vapor to escape ; but this
stream, or, as the fablo has it, spirit, must
be conveyed from the boiler or generator,
through proper channels, to the machin
ery on which it is intended to net, which
is expressed in the fable in its highly alle
gorical style. Tbat steam may lie called
a spirit none will deny : and that it is held
in bondage in iron chains, subservient to
tho will of mail, is a fact which daily ex
perience fully a 'ests. This was the worm
which Solomon employed to cut the stu
ponduous blocks out of the quarries. This
the demon which gave him the secret.
It was the secret which science knows how
to extract from tho hidden le-ources (if
of neture, but which has very often expos
ed its possessor to the charge of having
dealings with the devil. S. Jacoiis,
Habbi, Crown Street Synagogue.
No Timk To Hr. a ii. The idea about the
want of time is a phantom. Franklin
found time iii tho midst of all his labors to
dive into the hidden recesses ofphiloso
jihy, and to explore the untrodden paths
of science. The great Frederick, with an
empire at his direction, in tho midst of
war, on the eve of battles which were to
decide the fate of his kingdom, found
time to revel in the charms of tihilosonhv
1 u,i4 i ,1 iftllont I1D I t-Ji,D.jl,,A(j llm.nnl.1 a..l.
,, iiir.niv. ..vi..ui uui,ll'lll I, mill
all Europe at his disposal, with kings at
bis nnte-cliamber begging for vacant
thrones, with thousands of men whose
destinies were suspended by the brittle
thread of his arbitrary pleasure, had time
to converse with books. Cirsar, when he
had curbed tho spirit of the Roman peo
111
ple, and wa thronged with visitor from
the remotest kingdoms, found time for
intellect mil conversation. Kvcry manha
time; if he is careful to improve it as well
us he might, he e:in reap a threefold re
ward, bet all make use of the hours nt
llieir disposal, if they want to obtain a
proper influence in society. 'J in v can. it
they please, hold in their hands the do. -tinies
of our Republic.
Tiik Dfaiii l.'w K.-Wi) have recently
been informed of a truly wonderful clock,
which is said to beloug'to a family residing
in Newport, Ky. Wo relate the peculiari
ties of this clock as they were lelated to
us, leaving our leaders to arrive at their
own conclusions as to the mystery. Our
informant is one who can be relied on.
I'ho clock is of simple construction, nnd
belongs to tho family of Mr. 1. V, but
all the efforts of the clock makers have not
been able to make it keep time conse
quently it has been permitted to rest in
silence. A few hours before the death of
Mr. L Y's sister, which took place
some time since, the clock suddenly
struck one altera silenc of several months.
It thus continued to maintain its silenc
until another of tho members of the fami
ly were prostrated with a fatal malady,
when it again struck one, and on the fol
lowing d.iy the child was buried. A year
elapsed, when a second child sickened
and died. The clock was punctual in
sounding one a few hours previous to his
death. A third child, a little hoy, fifteen
months old, was ntllicted with scrofula,
which baffled the skill of his physician,
and on the third day of this month its re
mains were deposited in the grave. The
clock gnve the usual warning and struck
one. Jt never failed sounding a death
knell when any one of tho family in whose
possession it now is, were about to die.
'There are strange things in heaven and
on earth, Horutio, than ar - dreamt of in
our philosophy." Cificituiui !a:ette.
Wiir.HE the Canakv Bums come i kon.
There is an association in J'uiladclphiu,
composed ofaboutjthirty Geiiunns, who aim
at improving tho breed of Canary birds,
and last month they published their thir
teenth annual rejiort. rrom that it ap
pears that the bird sales of J'hiladelphia
me confined to Germans, and amount to
f 10,000 annually, and three quarters of
that sum is derived f.iom the salo of Cana
ries. Tho common, or original Canary, is
of the least value, and sells at about $'2;
the improved kinds bring from 8 to $10
a piece, and are from Central Kurope.
Tho great majority of these bird were ob
tained from Belgium, where they are bred
in houses by the peasants, who raise them
ns a pastime. They are what are culled
"long" and "ahort" breeds. Birds of the
long breed are procured from Brussels,
Antwerp, and Dietz, where they some
times obtain extravagant prices. Their
cost depends upon tho color and shape,
the pure yellow being the most esteemed.
They are only used for the purpose of
breeding, nnd oftentimes Sell for a
pair. The short breed are raised by the
people of the Hart. Mountain. Next to
the BelL'iiiin, the French bird h most pri
zed. BEAiTtrid, Answers. A pupil of the
Abbe Sicord, gave following extraordinary
answers:
'What is gratitude?'
'Gratitude is tho memory of the heart.'
'What is hope?'
'Hope is the blossom of happiness.'
'What is tho difference between hope
and desire?'
'Desire is a tree in leaf; hope is a tree
in flower, andonjoymont is a tree in fruit.'
'What is eternity?'
'A day without yesterday or to-morrow,
a lino that has n end.'
'What is time?'
'A lino which has. two oiul-i ; a path
which begins in the cradle, and ends in
tin tomb.'
'What is God?'
The necpssaiy being, tho sun of o'e: ni
ty. the machinist of nut tire, the eye is Jus
tice, the match maker of the univer-e, the
soul of the world.'
'Does God reason?'
'Man reasons beoauseho doubts h de
liberateshe decides. God is omnicient:
lie never doubts He, therefore, never
reasons.'
A Bfi.t.Er Foktv Yeahs in a Man's Lrxc. i
At the recent scientific convention at I
Baltimore, Dr. H'urtz read an interesting!
paper giving the results of some chemical -t
examination connected with a bullet im-j
bedded for inoro than forty years in a
man's lung. Tho individual whose expe-
rience had exhibited the c licet of metal,
lie lead imbedded in tin? human frame wis
an Irishman named Win. Keily, who had;
received a bullet wound at the seige of
Badajo7, in the Benin Milar War, retired,
upon a pension from the British Govern-1
ment, nnd died recently in the hospital at;
Kingston, Canada. Cpon dissection, tho
bullet was found enclosed in a cyst or b ig !
within the lung, and closely adhering to J
its walls in several places. The ball had'
lost one hundred grains of its original
w eight (three hundred and seventy grains)
by corrosion. A portion of the amount of
lead I bus lost tvns recovered from the lungs
and diaphragm.
7)roi.i. Kr uuf.NT. The late Mr. Thilip
luicknesse, lather ot J.ord Andly, being
in want of money, applied to his son for
assistance. This being denied, he imme
diately hired a Cobbler's stall directly op
posite his lordship's house, put up a sign
board, on which was inscribed, in lage let
tors, "Boots and shoes mended in the
best and cheapest manner, by I'hilip
Thieknesse, father in Lord Audley." The
consequence of this may be readily imag
ined; the board did not remain there
many days.
Iar Truth is stranger than fiction.
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UIGH'l "OFSBAKCII.
'' r ;, iii Ucnenit Cuss, Minister r the Unt
ied .States (,t ',,,;, to Mr. fjuizot, Minister
"t,.-i .h'V.v rtTiueee.
l.l.'.Ai lo T llll! I'NITr.D STATM,
J'm i', February IU, 4K-I2.
Nut: 'I ho recent signature of treiity,
haying for its objebt the suppression of
the African slave trade, by five of the pow
ers of Kurope, and to which France is a
party, is a tad of such general notoriety
that it may be as.-uuied as tho basis of any
diplomatic representations w hich the sub
ject may fairly require.
The I'liited States, being no party to
this treaty, have no right to inquire 'into
the circumstances which have led to it,
nor into the measures it proposes to adopt,
except so far as they have reason to be
lieve that their rights mny be involved in
the course of its execution. Their own de
sire to put a stoji to this traflio is every
where known, ns well as the early and com
tinned efforts they have adopted to prevent
their citizens from prosecuting it. Thoy
have deen invited by the government of
Great Britain to become a party to the
treaty, w hich should regulute the action of
the combined governments upon tho sub
ject. But, forieusons satisfactory tothem
si Ives, and I believe satisfactory to world,
they have declined this united action, and
have chosen to pursue their ow n measures,
and to in t upon their citizens only, with
out subjecting these to any kind of foi"
eign juiisdiction.
In a communication from Lord l'alincr
ston, her Britannic Majesty's principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to
Mr. Stevenson, the American minister at
London, dated "7th August, 18-Jl, Lord
I'almerston claims a right for tho British
cruisers, mid avows the intention of his
government to exercise it, to search
American vessels nt sea in time of peaee(
with a view to ascertain their national
character. He adds that "this cxamina
tion of papers of merchantmen suspected
of being engaged in the slave trate, evcit
thongh they hoist a United States flag, u
a proceeding which is absolutely necessan
thut Hriti-h cruisers employed in tho sup
pression of the slave trade should contiu
lie to practise," &c, Ac.
In a communication from the successo'
of Lord Aberdeen to Mr. Stevenson, dated
October 13, 1811, the views and determi-'
nation announced in the first are confirm-'
ed ; and Lord Aberdeen thus states the
ground upon which rests this pretention,
to search American vessels in timo ot
peace: "But tho undersigned mus observe
that the present happy occurrence of tin:
States of Christendom in this great objeer
(the suppression of the slave trade) no'
merely justifies, but renders it indispensa
Lie, the light now claimed and oxercisei!
by the British government j" that is tr
say, the right of entering and examining
American vessels to it-certain their nation
nlity.
It is not part of my duty to oiler any"
comments upon this pretension, nor upon
tho reasons advanced in support of it.
And if it were, 1 should find the duty far
better performed for me than 1 could per
forin it I'm" myself in the annual message
of the President of thel'l'iiitcd States
to Congress of December i, lN-Jl. In that
document will be lound the vciws of tin
AnierifMii government upon this subject :
and it is taei'e-emphatio.illy declared that,
'however desirous the United States may
be for the suppression of the slave trad,!,
they cannot consent to interpolations into
the maritime code at the meie will and
and pleasure of other government. Wo'
deny tin: l ight of any such interpolation
to any oii'i or all tho nations of the earth,
without our consent. We claim to have a
voice in all amendments or alterations of
that code; nnd when we are given to un
derstand, as in this instance, by a foreign1
government, that its' treaties with other
n iti ons c.'innot be executed without tho
establishment and enforcement of new
principles of maritimep dice, tobonpplieil
without (ear consent, we must employ lan
g l ige neither of equivocd import nor sus
ceptible, of misconstruction.''
You will peceive, sir by these extracts,
that the British government had advanc
ed a pretension which it si;serti to be in
dispensable to the execution of its treaties
for the suppression of the slave trade, nnd
to which the President of the United
States has declared that the American
government will not submit. This claim
of search, it will be observed, arising, as it
is asserted, out of existing obligations, har
relation to the insulated treaties for the
aboli'ion of this traffic w hich were in force
at the date of tho communications of
Lord Paluier.ston and of L rd Aberdeen,
ltji- now known that the combined treaty
upon this subject is more extensive in its
operations and more minute in somo of
the details of its exeeusioii than tho fcopa
r.ite treaties with Franco whi.ih preceded
it, and equally indefinite iu tho duration
of its obligations. Of course, measures
which were not only "justifiable, but in
dispensable" for the execution of tho lat
ter, will hnd equal. pisiiee aim neressuy nv
the obligations of the former. With this
previous declaration made by one of the
parties to this quintuple treaty, coHcern
ing its operation!-, the American govern
ment c.'innot shut their eyes to their true
position. The inoF.il effect which such a
union of five great powers, two of which
are eminently maritime, but three of which
have perhaps never had a vessel engaged
in that trallie, u calculated to produce up
on the United States, and upon other na
tions who, like them, may lie indisposed
to these combined movements, though it
may bo regretted, jet furnishes no just
cause for com plaint. But the subject as
sumes another aspect wheu they' are told
by one of the parties that their vessels n
to be forcibly entered and examiiied Ul