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ULAINR—CLAY.
From Ihti Allwny Arirnn.
Blaine is being called "the Henry
C'luy of the Kcpiiblicun party." This
pleases the Conkling ami Sherman
organs, inasmuch as Henry Clay nev
er became President. But it is a proof
of the facile flippancy of journalism,
and of the grave injustice it docs to
character. No man was ever horn
who thought Henry Clay a dishonor
able man. There is no man living
who thinks lllaine an honorable man.
Eulogy is exhausted as to him when
he is called a brilliant rascal. The
strictly disreputable and for-sale-ole
ine ts of politics exclusively praise
him. Henry Clay's legislative acts
shaped party politics for forty years.
There is no law on the books of which
Blaine is the author. There is no pol
icy of which Bluine is the originator
in American affairs. Clay was chosen
speaker at once, because of the emi
nence he won before entering Con
gress. Blaine was an unknown before
he entered Congress, and had to job,
barrow and bargain for years before
fie got to be s|>eaker. Clay left the
House to go to the Senate by promo
tion. Blaine went to the Senate to
avoid expulsion from the House, be
cause of flagrant ami ferocious corrup
tion in his office. Clay had the faults
of gaming, drinking, dueling and gal
lantry. Blaine has the crimes that
made him market his rulings for mon
ey, pack committees for pay, and sell
his soul to the devil and Tom Scott
for stock and railroads. Clay was
the soul of honor, lie entered Con
gress poor. He left it poorer. Blaine
entered Congress joor, and in Congress 1
he has become rich by money he nei- j
ther married, earned nor inherited, j
Clay saved the Union from civil war
three times by his statesmanship.
Blaine has never professed nor disclos
ed one act of patriotism or statesman
ship. There was no public trust that j
would not have welcomed Clay to its j
side. There is no business dejiendeut i
on qualities that inspire confidence
ihat would let Blaine come near it. '
Clay led his party in the Senate, j
Blaine is despised by Edmunds, scorn-1
cd by Conkling, and ignored by the
whole Senate in any other role than
that of a common villificr. To liken j
James O. Blaine to Henry Clay is
worse than absurd, it is outrageous.
The one was eloquent, the other is
tonguey. The one was accomplished
ami learned, the other glib and ignor
ant. The one honored his State aud
country, the other devoted himself to
infamous enrichment. The one was a
glorious statesman, the other a glitter- j
ing demngogne. The one was repeat
edly made the candidate of a great
party, the other was pitchforked out
;of the only convention iu which he j
I ever sought a nomination, 011 the ex- !
pressed gronnd that his career was such i
a negation of public virtue that his
party would be at war with the mor- 1
ality of the age if it named him. In
the work of saving his country nnd
composing the feuds of the people and
nations, Clav came to his liest. In the >■
work of fouling the judiciary o' mid
nights, to decree the theft of a l'rcsi- j
dency or a State, all the qualities of
Blaine come to their greatest eminence j
of shame. Likening him to Henry
Clay forsooth! If the shade of the;
great Commoner should revisit the
place where he so long and so well
served his country nnd the world, it
would, with its unspeakable contempt
for dishonor, strike such terror into
the soul of Blaine that the very appa
rition would sear his eye-balls, and
either he would fall dumb to death, or
make fast and furious confessions of
his crimes against liberty and integri
ty, to a world which would find that
such a confession comported with his
whole conscienceless career.
PITTSBURG and HICKORY JACK HON
FIUOI Iho Washington Capital.
It is not generally known that Pitts
burg and Western Pennsylvania was
extensively the cause of the salvaliou
of General Jackson and his men at
New Orleans. The month of Decem
ber, 1814, was the most critical month
in the entire history of the war of
1812. The British had swept the
coasts, captured our City of Washing
ton, penetrated the lakes, held Balti
more almost in the hollow of their
hands, and were menacing the great
port of the south, New Orleans. They
anticipated the capture of that city,
and if it fell they knew that the juve
nile republic would be pretty thor
oughly strangled. These anticipations
were natural, inasmuch as Jackson
was out of ammunition, and it seemed
almost impossible to obtain any; quite
a jportion of the country wherein was
the wealth, the Northern Htates, were
very neutral, if not positively opposed
to the war, and would lend no helping
hand ; there was little means of ob
tain powder or lead in the Houlh, and,
as is usual under such circumstances,
the prices increased to an extortionate
value.
It was then that Pittsburg came to
the front, and with the steamboat.
Enterprise, the third that ever sailed
in Western waters, sent relief to Jack
son and saved New Orleans. One of
its most'prominent men, old Mr. Fos*
tcr, swore no ICHS emphatically than
Old Hickory thnt the little army
should be saved. He was warmly aid
ed by the other people of western
Pennsylvania, and men, women and
children entered briskly into the work
of supplying nna is for munitions of
war. Powder was purchased aud made,
bullets moulded, cartouche boxes were
manufactured and muskets supplied
with a vim and energy peculiar to
this day to the live people of that
section.
The Enterprise was loaded on the
l. r )th of December, nnd though it was
twilight, and the ice was thick upon
the river, Captain Shreve, its comman
der, cast off and sped down the river
with the God-speed from the peoph
on the hank aud the cry of "Dou'i
lose any time."
"I'll get there ahead of the British
or sink the boat," was the laconic pa
triotic reply.
The munitions on board this boat
were complete. Foster sent everything
precisely that Jackson didn't have
and wanted. From wearing apparel
to gun-wipers the outfit was perfect.
The trip was dangerous and most trou
blous. There were no wood-yards
nlong the Ohio or Mississippi in those
days, ami the crew were necessitated
to chop wood and cord it as they trav
ersed down the route. Brave hearts
head off obstacles however, aud the
Enterprise kept its word. It arrived
just in the nick of time. I/caving
Pittsburg on the 15th of Decern her, it
reached New Orleans on the loth of
January, just three days before the at
tack of the British. There, then, did
it pan out its wealth of warlike im
plements of death, and the use that
the American troops put them to is a
matter of history written in the blood
of the invader.
NAPOLEON AND MARIE LOI ISK.
R-t jew <if tlis* Mrtteiuich M*rn<lra
Metternich retired from the French
mission in 1809 to become the Austrian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, a posi
tion which he held from that time
down to IH4S, nnd when lie at last re
tired in IH4B he had the satisfaction,
he says, to see his own system "fire
proof" against the conflagration of
184H and IHI9. There is considera
ble matter in one of the volumes con
cerning the marriage of Najsdeon
with Marie I/uise. The subject was
first broached, it seems, to Metter
nidi's wife. She had received "a very
pressing invitation" to a masked hall ;
in Paris, and while there was ap
proached by a jM.'rsn whom she recog
nized as Napoleon, and who "took
hold of her arm and led her into a
private room-at the end of a suite of
apartments:
"After some unimportant jnko, Na
jHileou aked if she thought the Arch
duchess Marie Louise would, accept
his hand, and whether or not the Em
|iornr Francis would agree to this alli
ance. My wife, much surprised bv
this question, a-sured him of her ina
bility to answer it. Upon that Najsv
Icon further asked her if she, in the
place of the Archduchess, would lie
stow her hand upon him? My wife
replied that she would certainly refuse
him. 'You are cruel!' exclaimed the
Emperor, 'write to your husband and
ask him what lie thinks of the mat
ter.' My wife declined to do this,
■stinting out that Prince Bchwarz.cn
berg was the organ through which he
should approach the Imperial Court ;
nor did she delay to imforni our'Am
lißssndor, who was present at the ball,
of what had passed between her and
the Emperor. * * As soon as the
courier brought me this news, 1 re-
[ mired to the Emperor nnd said to
dm, 'Your Majesty is here placed in
a situation in which the Ruler, and
Father ran alone sny yes or no. One
or the other must be spoken by you,
for a doubting or hesitating answer is
not (Kissible.' The Emperor collected
himself and thcu asked me what I
should do in his place (Mettertiich's
reply was to the effect that iu such a
case, nobody but the Emperor, as sov
ereign ami |>arcnt. could assume the
responsibility of a decision.) 'I shall
leave it in mv daughter's hands,' ex
claimed the Emperor, warmlv, 'for I
will never constrain her; and I desire,
before consulting my duty as a mon
arch, to know what is her wish in the
matter. Find the Archduchess, and
let me know what she says to you. I
will not myself sjieak to her on the
subject, lest it should seem as though
I wished to influence her decision.' "
When Metternich saw the Arch
duchess, she answered as follows: "I
wish only what it is my duty to wish
where the interest of the Empire is
concerned, that interest must be con
sulted, not my will. Ask my father
to consult his duty as a ruler, and to
subordinate to that any interests con
nected with my person." This reply
being reported to the Emperor, lie ac
cepted Napoleon's offer with an ex
press reservation that on neither side
should any condition be attached U>
the alliance, and added that there
were "sacrifices which must not be
contaminated by anything approach
ing to a bargain." "This," continued
Metternich, "is the truth respecting
the marriage of Napoleon with the
Archduchess Marie Louise."
A ruT crow belonging to a lady in
Savannah, Ga,, recently died of old
age. The owner mourns for the lost
caws.
THE school-boy who swallowed his
slate pencil has since thrown up the
sponge.
Sanguinary Duel Between Two tilrls
in Virginia.
IIOTIf ENAMORED OP ONE MAN WHO WAS IN
DOUBT AS TO WHICH HE 1.1 KKD BEST—
ONE TAKES A CLUB AND THE OTIiEK
A I'lTcarOMK.
Onanoock, Va., Feb. 10. —A san
guinary duel was fought here between
t wo women lust Saturday, which ended
in the probable fatal wounding of both.
Miss Louisa Wise and Miss Margaret
Downing had for some time excited
much comment in the little village be
cause of their jealous cjuarrels over the
attentions of a young man named
Benjamin Young. On one or two oc
casions they had come to blows in his
presence, and were only restrained
from seriously injuring each other by
the efforts of Young. This ycung
man seems to have been in doubt s
to which of the maidens possessed bis
heart, and renli/ing'tbe force of the
axiom :
How tin|*|y I oonld L* with Hthnr,
Wert) t'other tlr churuier away,
temporized-with them and bad little
difficulty in convincing each that she
was the object of bis admiration. At
length on Friday evening he went to
a party with Miss Wise, and while
dancing with her the assemblage was
thrown into intense excitement by the
sudden appearance of Miss Downing, !
who, in a tragic manner, stalked up j
to the couple and forbade her lover to !
dance with her rival. As she stood
facing the couple, with her eyes in
fhitued with passion, it was not thought
that violence would be the next act in
the drama. Suddenly, however, with j
a piercing shriek, she sank to the floor 1
in a swoon, frothing at the mouth as
though suffering from an epileptic fit.
She was removed by her friends, and
Young and Miss Wise withdrew.
The following day Miss Wise re
ceived a note from Miss Downing, re
questing her to call upon her, as she
wished to see her about au important
matter Miss Wise went to her rival's
house, as requested. She entered the
yard, walked around to the kitchen
entrance, pushed open the door, and,
stepping inside,saw her rival setting bv
the stove, with her head resting roood
ily upon her band. When Miss
Downing caught sight of Miss Wise,
she sprang to her feet, and seizing a
stout club, rushed at her, shrieking
with rage. Miss Wise ran into the
yard, and, seeing the other following,
she picked up a pitchfork, and facing
her enraged rival, warned her to stand
off. Miss Downing exclaimed :
"All right; we will fight now. You
have a weapon, so have 1."
Both being strong, healthy,country
girls, they found no difficulty in wield
ing their weapons. As Miss Downing
rushed at the other, she was met hv
the three-tioed fork, which was driven
into her breast. The next instant she
struck Miss Wise a stunning blow on
the head which staggered her, and fol
lowing it up bv a second blow which
felled her to tfie ground. Miss Wise
soon regained her feet, and assuming
the offensive, impaled Miss Downing'a
hands ou the prongs of the fork.
Agniu she received a blow on the head
from the club which felled her to the
grnutwl. While in this position she
thrust the pitchfork into Miss Do wir
ing's face making three tcrribie
wounds. By this time both were
weakened by the loss of blood and
drop[KNl to the ground insensible. In
this ]>osition they were found by some
neighbors, who gave the alarm. Dr.
Drummond was summoned and was
soon in attendance. Both girls were
terribly ftijured. Miss Downing hav
ing been wounded fourteen times by
the pitchfork, and Miss Wise shock
ingly bruised and beaten aIMWt the
head. They are now suffering from a
high fever, and the physician has lit
tle hopes of their recovery. In lucid
intervals they gave the particulars of
the fight, and at the same time each
begged pitcously to see Mr. Young.
The latter, evidently not relishing the
notoriety into which he was brought
by the strange infatuation of the two
girls, has left the town, nnd no trace
of him can be discovered. The affair
has rausi-d the most intense excitement
here, at d the usually quiet little town
has been in a turmoil since the par
ticulars of the fight were made public.
SKATINIJ FOK LIFE.
That skating has been in certain
circumstances something inore than
mere elegant accomplishment is well
illustrated by two anecdotes, told by
the author of some entertaining "Rem
iniscences of (Quebec," of two settlers
in the far West, who saved their lives
by the aid of their skates. In one
case the backwoodsman had been
captured hy Indians, who intended
soon nfter to torture him to death.
Among his haggngc their happened to
lie a pair of skates, nnd the Indian's
curiosity was so excited that their
captive was told to explain their use.
Ho led his captors to the edge of n
widelnke, where the smooth ice stretch
ed away as far as the eye could see,
and put on the skates. Exciting the
laughter of the Indians hy tumbling
about in a clumsy manner, he grad
ually increased his distance from the
shore till he at length contrived to get
a hundred yards from them without
arousing their suspicion, when he
skated away as fast as he could, and
finally escaped. The other settler is
said to have been skating alone one
moonlight night, and, while contem
plating the reflection of the firmament
in the clear ice, and the vast dark
mass of forest surrounding the lake
and stretching away in the back-
ground, he suddenly discovered, to his
horror, that the adjacent bank was
lined with a pack of wolves. He at
once "made tracks" forborne, followed
hy these animals ; but the skater kept
ahead, and one hy one the pack tailed
off; two or three of the foremost, how
ever, kept up the chase, but when they
attempted to close with the skater, by
adroitly turning aside, he allowed
them to pass him. And after a few
unsuccessful and vicious attempts on
the part of the wolves, he succeeded in
reaching his log hut in safety.
HI X DOWN AT THE IIEEI.S.
A man clad in the habiliments of
the tramp knocked briskly on the
hack door of a Cincinnati residence on
New Year's day, and bowing low to
the girl who made her appearanc \
said :
"The compliments of the season, fair
maid, ami may each recurring New-
Year—"
"Oh, go 'long !" said the girl, inter
rupting him.
"I am not the only man who has
run down at the heel.
"No, there were seven ahead of you
this morning."
".Seeing you keep open house, I i
presume thev were admitted at the i
front door. But the back door is I
good < nougli for me. lam not proud. |
You will observe I did not come in a
carriage ; but no matter. I am hun
gry. I would like to get a bite to
eat."
"We haven't anything for you."
"Don't be to sure of that until you
know who I am. You probably never
heard of people entertaining angels
unawares."
"Yes I have ; hut I don't believe it."
"Homer was a beggar."
"He never got anything here, toy
good man."
"Cervantes died of hunger."
"He ought to have gone to work." j
"Diflenhacker had nineteen trades,
and starved to death with all of them.
However, that is neither here nor
there."
"Try the boarding house over the
way."
"Spencer died in want."
"I know it. He depended on this .
shebang for his victuals."
"Tasso, 1 taly's celebrated poet —"
"Oh, I suppose he was shot."
"He was not; but he was often hard
pushed for a nickle. I mention these
facts to prepare you for what is com
ing. I am the. individual who first
mentioned Grant for a third term."
"We arc all solid for John Bherman,"
said the girl.
The man walked slowly to the gate,
paused, scratched his head, and turn
ing once more to the female, said :
"Wouldn't you give a future cab
inet officer a cold jwtato?"
"Couldn't think of it."
"What if the next Minister to the
Court ofSt. .Jamesshould ask for one ?"
"He couldn't get it."
"Yerv well. I will not withdraw
my good wishes for the new year. I
presume you are acting according to
instructions. A man who is just en
tering upon the primrose paths of
politics can afford to he magnanimous."
And, kissing his hand to the hard
hearted housemaid, he took his leave.
AX ELOtJI ENT I'AHSAUE.
The following is from the pen of the
late George I>. Prentice: It can not be
that earth is man's only abiding place.
It cannot he that our life is a mere
bubble cast up by eternitv to float a
moment on its waves and then sink
into nothingness. Klse why is it that
the glorious aspirations which leap
like angels from the temples of our
hearts, are forever wandering unsatis
fied ? Why is it that the "tars that
hold their festival around the mid
night throne are set above the grasp of
our limited faculties, forever mocking
us with their inapproachable glory?
And, finally, whv is it that bright
forms of human beauty presented to
our view arc taken from us, leaving
the thousand streams of our affections
to flow hack in Alpine torrents upon
our hearts? There is a realm where
the rainbow never fades; where tha
j stars will be spread out before us like
the islands that slumber ill the occau ;
and where the beautiful beings which
pass before us like shadows will stay
in our presence forever.
TWO KINDS OF REITBLICANB!
From Tmncrl|f, (R+p) February 16.
By the aid of the evidence lor the
first time procurable from the enemy,
this board of West Point officers unan
imously found and reported that, so
far from betraying General Pop! and
his army, General Porter, in fact
saved him and his command from ut
ter defeat and possible annihilation.
80 far from deserving the brand of
traitor, which General Porter has worn
for the best part of his life, he should
have been acclaimed the savior of the
national army. It Is monstrous that
a man who has suffered as Fits John
Porter has done should again he made
the victim of party passion. Yet it is
evident that his wrong is to he used as
the foot-hall for the opening of the
¥ime of partisan politics in Congress.
he head kickers are getting readv,
according to the Washington despatch
es, for the rough-aud-turahle
which has been so long delayed, and'
which is absolutely necessary for the
warming up of politics for the year's
campaign. The unfortunate Porter
finds even the Democrat*, in whose
name he ban been made to Buffer so
long, disposed to shirk the proponed
righting of his position lest the jms
sioim of war-time be reawakened by
the indiscreet speeches that can no
doulit be wrung from the Southerners
by the challenging oratory ready to lie
opened on the occasion. " Hut it will
be, all the same, a lasting disgrace to
Congress and to the country if, with
the undisputed truth as to Porter's
patriotic services now before the world
as it will stund in history, the bill for
his relief from stigma and restoration
to rank and rights should not pass.
As for General Porter himself, it mat
ters far less. He has already received
his real vindication and nothing can
take if from him.
Mow a Yankee Itoy Iteeanie a Russian
fount.
A correspondent of the Merrimac
(Me.) Journal relates the following
interesting history, showing how a
brave Yankee hoy attained raok ami
fortune over half a century ago. In
1730, Kev. Himons Finley Williams,
a graduate of Harvard, and a son of
a distinguished clergyman of that day
in Massachusetts, received a call aud
was settled by the. town of Meredith
as their pastor. He lived in what is
now known as the Williams house.
The letter of acceptance written by
Mr. Williams is now found in the
records of the town of Meredith. He
preached for quite a number of years
in the town, and afterward became a
chaplain in the United Htates navv,
aud died, 1 think, in the service.
In the old parsonage was born a
son, who was bound out to service to a
prominent business man of Meredith
Bridge, now Laeonia, when seventeen
years of age. He went out one evening,
it is said, to interveiw some fair girl
of the js riod, and upon his return
was soundly thrashed by his employer.
The following night he took a longer
j pilgrimage, taking with him S3OO
from his master's desk. He reached
the town of Ossipee, aud there hired a
young man who was at work as a car
|*,*nter, afterward a well-known mer
i chant of Meredith, Samuel Bran, Ksq.,
to carry him to the city of Portland,
where he shipped on board a Russian
! merchantman, a short time before a
J party arrived in pursuit of him.
| On the way to Russia the vessel
| was attacked by pirates. The captain
seeing no hope of escape, was about to
surrender, but young Williams told
him that if he would order two men to
assist him he would take care of the
pirates. Having found an old swivel
on board he loaded it with scraj* of
iron and such other ammunition as lie
could obtain, and sank two boatloads
ot buccaneers, and reached St. Peters
burg in safety. The tidings having
reached the Fmperor he sent for the
captain, who corroborated the Rtorv
and gave the bov due credit for his
valor. Young Williams was ordered
to the palace and places! in the navv,
and became admiral-iu-chief of the
Russian navy, and was created a no
bleman, his title being Count Zinclicr
schoff.
He came to this country about the
year I*3o, and drove from Boston to
I>acouia in a coach, called to see his
former employer, and paid him iu
gold, principal and interest, saying be
should return to Russia an houest
man. He visited his father* old par
id!, and stopped over night with
Dearborn Wadleigh, father of John
Wadleigh, Adjutant-General of New
Hampshire, who from his recollection
of the admiral, pronounced him to be
a fine-looking and intelligent man.
He soon after returned to Russia, hav
ing made his first, and, as far as is
known, his lad visit to his native
country.
Cooking a lobster.
" Rridget, what did mistress say she
would have for dinucr?"
"Hroil the lobster."
"Broil the lobster? Are you sure,
Bridget ?"
"Kntirely. (et the gridiron."
Mary got the gridiron and placed
the live lobster on the gridiron.
.Intermission of five minutes, after
which the dialogue was resumed as
follows:
"Did vou broil the Idfister, Mary?"
"Divil a broil. The more I poked
the fire, the more he walked off. The
haste's haunted. I'll try nomore. No
good will oome from cooking a strad
dle-bug like that."
"And where is the lobster."
"Divil a bit 1 know. The last I
saw of him he was walking out of the
Imck door with his tail at half-mast,
like a wild maniac, as he was." Brid
get started in pursuit of the wild "man
iac," and was still after it when our
informant left.
It is on record that Meyer Anselm,
the founder of the house of Rothschild,
entered Hanover, iu 1763, barefooted,
and with a bundle of rag* on his
back. The present capital of the dif
ferent Rothenilds is said to be at least
$<">00,000,000, and they can control as
much more. The reticence of the
Rothschilds as regards their business,
except in open transactions, is invaria
bly profound. One of them is reputed
to have said to them, "One great rea
son of our success is that we know
how to hold our tongues."
"A Won AS After All" is the title
of a lwok Iwfore us. That . it. That
is the thing they are usually after, aud
they get it, too.