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A CHILD'S PRAYER.
'HI A•LICE CARET
Sweeter than the songs of thrushes,
When the winds are low ;
Rrisider than the sprioptime blushes,
Reddening out of snow—
Were the voice and cheek so fair
Of the little child at player.
Like a white lamb of th m ea dow,
ew
Beaming throuah the li
Like a priestess in the shadow ,
t)1 the temple bright—
Seemed she, saying. H , b One,
Thine and not my will be done.
SATURDAY EVENING.
llocr ,weet the evening shadows fall,
Advancing. from the west ;
A. end , the Weary week of toil,
And comes the day of rest.
Bricht o'er the earth the star of eve
Her radiant beauty sheds;
AO ID% riad t<tere calmly weave
rhea light around our heads.
Re. , , man. from labor; rest from sin;
The world'. hard contest dose;
The mile h.mrs with God begin ;
yield them to sweet repose.
11 . ,ht o'er the earth the morning ray
light will eat;
yvrithlem of the glorious day
Inat evermore shall lasi.
THE RICH MAN AND THE BEGGAR
A t , ..ezar , t,cl at a rich man's door—
•I am Ingirle.s and friendless, end faint and poor,'
hecaar boy• as the tear drop rolled
?h,ti check. blanched with want and cold
' r , ‘ , .• me a crust from your board today,
h..rp ihe bezcar boy on his way!"
-No a snit nor a crumb." the rich man said,
ill work for your daily bread."
r rh man went to the parish church—
it • face Brew grave as he trod the porch—
al the thrilnging poor, the untaught mass,
lark to let the rich man pass;
iu service hegsn—the choralihymn
t—tearolgwelled - throtigh the long aisles dim ;
the rich man knelt, and the words he said
(live tii= 'hi, dny our daily bread !"
Rlisttllantous.
II E JAPAN • EXPEDITION.
The follow in..: letter detatting, the proree.lingq ol
- C. S Expedition to Japan, is from an officer of
da•ed horn 'he " C. S Steamer Sus
Cia:4a. Bay ol Jeddo,twen•
!lye miles twin the city of Jeddo," arid is copieil
: :.e 11-lishington.Sentinel:
FRIDAY, July 8, 1853.
• Tis. distance lends enchantment twohe view"
toe are in the harbor of Jeddo, after running
nearl, 30,0(10 miles of various seas and of va-
• • clones—here at anchor tour miles higher up
;:.,i has ever yet anchored ship bearing a
:.,an flag We a elicited at 3 P M., and soon
boats, rowed cheerily with about twenty men,
each siime mandarir.s, or gentlemen, with
neat and well dressed, came swarm
off wt h lull determination to come on board,
'mind the names, the nation, and the intention of
cur craft thus coming boldly in in joy and calm.
Ley were met with a wave °line hand, and " keep
li,no one allowed to come on t (lard save the
'..thest marniarm.': This literally took them all
eirk. bit• they clus'ered together and insisted up
% a.,trit-at,ce.: At last a voice said, in Dutch, Do
11.41andese Soon the commodore's
Postman, was in high confab.
•a* * *
A! er much persuasion on their part, and their in
tt.,ng ih . at one of them was a high mandarin, the
tilltr,,lnre ordered - me to put on illy uniform and
'=" - rdive him and the interpreter.dr,Lboard in the
ruin. and to represent himself, tying that our
¢.5f1011 is a friendly one. We are the bearers of
i , r ter horn the President of die United States to
y ul Japan :-that it was necessary to
board a hilt mandarin to receive this let
a:“.l ihe sooner the belted. Again, I was to in
upon It that boats should not lie by the hundred
r,e,u aril around our ships, thus guarding and watch
"= us, as has been their custorn—(the Columbus
ar,,l 1 tnccrincs having from five hundled to a thou
tttats around them cons.antly, all linked to.
be "e 1 ) That we would not submit to this, but
`c o 4a , ,ve them off. Here you have the basis
c't 17 F in , ructions. Thus armed, I took Mr. Man
and inserpreter, with. my). 'o interpreters
31r It ti,rmv ;n Chinese, and Mr. Postman, in
kich—into the cabin.
.titer belt% seated a moment, Mr. Mandarin
made a saloon/ n la Japanese, and then ex•
ending his hand, we shook hands; then seated
u'lng Mr. Postman as interpreter, as the
tpane,e interpreler spoke Dutch fluently. I thus
eened •• Fell die Lieutenant Governor (fur such
ihe mandarin) that I am the aid at our chief,
Admiral', and am instructed to speak for him
‘ l e have come here on a fribndly mission, with
'madly intention to deliver a letter from the Presi.
°l.' n: the United Stales to your sovereign, the
t pet , t J:ipm ; that the letter is ready for de
'arty by 9 o'clock, to-morrow, , o any mandarin
"" I flc'ently high to receive To this was re
"'rd ''• If Must be referred to higher powers to
( now who can receive the letter." I then asked,
How lung will it take to give us an answer?"—
wy could not tell." I said, " I think the soon
,' lie better, as we are anxious to be oft." The
I NY was," I do not think it will take long;' and
' vat then understood that, in the morning, a man
-kin would be oil to receive the letter.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
I then emphatically said : " Thisship has aboard
the chief—there is his pennant. All messages from
shore must come here by • high mandarin. No
boats most go to the other ships; their commanders
havlyarclers not to permit intercourse; they have
no right to think, and must obey. We insist that
no boats shall hang around our vessels, to watch
them." This was not palatable. They said: "It
is Japanese custom, law, and we most carry them
out " Says I : " Tell him, Sir, that we too, have
our customs, and with men-of-war one of the laws
is that no boat is allowed to come within a certain
range." There was no positive consent given just
then as to what they would do; they evaded it by
asking questions. " Where are you from From
the United States of America ?" " Yes;" "but what
part, Washington, New. York, Boston?" My sur
prom., was so great, that 1 smiled and told him—
" Some from Washington, some from New-York,
all parts; that the President of .the United States
lived in Waiihington." " What is the name of the
ship, how many people, guns, &c.?" "Tell him,
Sir, that we are not traders, we seek no trade, we
are armed skips, and our custom is never to answer
such qdesi ions."
The questions were again repeated in pretty mach
the same way, when I told Mr. P. to make the
same teply, and to add that I have no curiosity to
to know how many men ate either in the Emper
or's army or in hie navy ; and - also that he could
see for himeelt that we had four ships; that we had
others in those waters. "When will the others
come I" " I don't know ; it depends upon the an•
ewer to the letter." " What are the contents of the
letter ?" " Tell him, sir, that the letter is from the
President to the Emperor of Japan, and it wed be
most indelicate in metro inquire into its contents."
This rebuke was received in an apologetic manner,
arid this questioning dropped. I then again allud
ed to the boats which were still clustering around
our ship and the-other ships; told him that it was
absolutely necessar3 that they should be kept off;
that this must be done. "We shall be sorry, with
our kind and friendly feelings to you, to do you any
harm, or to come:),into colhvion with you ; but if
you do not order your boats off, we shalt fire into
them, and drive them off. Our boats are now arm
ed arid ready, and we Cannot allow you more than
fifteen minutes to give your orders, and to keep
them off. At the end of that time you must eat-
Mr. Mandarin went out, told this to the boats,
sent word to the othei boats, and come in. " Now
I must have an answer. What have you decided
about the boats?" " 1 have ordered them offltom
all the ships, and with orJers only to communicate
with this." " Yea, from all the ships; and if any
come around you, send word to the Governor, and
he will punish them." Thus was this Vint, ne•
yer before Yieldid, conceded. Afier a few more
remarks, I bowed Mr. Mandarin off, and away be
went on shore, taking the boats off with him.
My interview with my friend was again renew
ed in the evening, and in rather a different phase,
which does not promise to end so peacefully ; but
to-morrow will tell At present lam too tired,
having been up all day from an early hour—and
here we are, too, our pistols loaded, our swords
ready at hand, armed men and sentinels-patroting
the decks, guns loaded, and trained and cast loose;
for we lie down to sleep to.night in the neighbor
hood of 10000,000 of men, brave, enterprising,
ready, never conquered. It behooves us to be
watchful. So I will to bed and rest.
SUNDAY, July 11, 12 A. !VI —This hallowed day
of quiet has again come around, and finds us lying
quietly at our anchors, enjoying a day of rest; our
broadsides upon the towns and forts on the shores;
our glasses watching the marches and counter
marches of their troops on shore, paraded by their
different mandarins. The spirit of preparation for
resistance and defence is evidently ruling them.—
The sounds of many guns away towards Jeddo
come frequently booming on the ear. Thecountry
is evidently awake from its long slumbers of peace.
What excitement in Jeddo! When before has the
Warlike tiumpet been 'so unded in her walls, "To
foot, to horse, arm !" " Hang out you banners on
the outward wall, the My is still they come !"
Long freedom, overbearing conduct to other nations,
a conviction of their oupetiority, doubtless tend to
make these people proud, sensitive, chivalric, and'
brave; and then, attain, a long peace, and disuse
to war and its horrors, have in a measure eflemina
ted them ; the effects of shot, shell, earnest fight
ing, will doubtless 'shock them ; but yet, I think,
they will resist bravely ; they are organizing with
spirit, showing cautiousness, but no tear. Yet their
downfall was commenced from the Bth ofJuly,lBs3,
Yes, this day the cross waved above our colors, stud
under it we worshipped the Christian's God—the,
Savior. Yes, here within twenty miles of the seat of'
the haughty tyrant who has caused for centuries
that emblem of mercy to be trampled under foot by
his heathen subjects.
Let me renew-my narrative of the events of the
Bth. In about one hour alter the mandarin left I
again received him with directions not to palaver
much. In a long wilily set speech be said that the
Governor did not feel himself justified in receiving
the letter from the President to the Emperorthat
he had not the power—Nagasaki was the place for
the conduct of all foreign affairs—that it was not
Japanese customi—that indeed the Governor was
much bothered to think why four ships should have
come together—that he appreciated the great trou
ble we bad taken to comes* very tar todeliverthe
letter, but that he could not receive it.• To which
I replied : " The distance, to be sure, was very,
long, and we had come a great way—thaime could.
not think of going to Nagasaki—that the letter was
an important one, and that our President had or.
dered us.to deliver it as near the city of Jeddu.as
possible; therefore we were here, and I trusted
that the letter would be received in the morning."
To this be answered—" No one here can receive
it. It would bring harm wen him—Nagasiki is
the only place—that he did not believe if the letter
" REGARDLESS or DE?ItINCLATIOR Flom AST QUARTER."
was received that the Emperor would answer it."
To this I replied, " Does your Governor dare to
take upon himself the responsibility to refuse to
receive a letter written to his sovereign, and to for
ward it to him? It is a very grave responsibility
to refuse to receive a letter sent from one sovereign
to another." He then said, " The Governor may
receive it, but we can't tell when the answer may
come;" but then added, " that he bad not the
power o receive it, and must wait and refer ii."
1 replied that that " this letter was a very impor
tant one—that it would be a great insult to the Pre
sident or the United States not to receive it. That
as to the Emperor's not answering it, that was not
our business now, that would be settled after."—
He said, " This is Japanese custom; you Ameri
cans don't understand Japanese customs," Br.c. I
replied, "We Americans do business decidedly,
promptly." At this point I went out, and referred
this new phase of the discussion to the commodore,
and by his order I broke up the interview, telling
him, " that if the Government did not send off for
the letter in the morning, we would ourselves de
liver it in the town of Orogama He was rather
taken aback by this decision, and requested per
mission to come oft in the morning. To this I as
sented. He-then took his leave. Before going off
he stepped back to our long gun aft, which is all
clear, and showing its massive proportions, and ex
amining it, said, looking interrogatorily, "Paixhan."
II he has an acquaintance with " Paixhan," I trust
it is from reading and not horn practice.
At six o'clock the r.ext morning I was called on
deck to receive the mandarin; so I dressed hur
riedly and went up. There was the same story,
but he proposed to send to Jeddo fot permission.—
We gave him until Thursday, at 12 o'clock, saying,
" if the letter was not received we would regard it
as an insult to the President, and act accordingly."
So it rests. •
JOLT 17 —One week has passed since I have
written a word, and a week of much excitement,
and great events. And here we are, thank heaven,
safe; and in nine days we have effected much—so
much, that the world will be gratified, and our
country feel herself honored. We have landed in
Japan, within twenty-five miles of Jeddo, with
armed cooks and armed men, and delivered our
credentials, and the President's letter to the com
missioners—one a councitlor of the realm, and ap
pointed by his majesty to receive as. But we are
are ahead of events, and must more leisurl) de•
tail the interviews, arrangements, &c , which led to
an issue so happy, so peaceful, so desirable, and
which have reflected much eclat upon the firmness
and w i sdom of Corn. PERRY. He has certainly se
lected a course of conduct which reflects great cred
it upon himself.
I left off by telling you that we had given Text
woe, Governor, highest authority in Crags, or, by
his other title, " the learned scholar who rides,"
tritil Tuesday, at 12 o'cicick, to get an answer from
Jeddo to our propositions; that is, that the copies
of the letters and credentials, with a letter of the
Commodore's inclosed, were to be received by a
high mandarin, accredited by his master to receive
them. On Monday we were to receive information
'rim him of the advancement of matters On that
morning he came ofl quite pleased, and said that
he thought the letters would be received. By the
by, we showed him the letter, which is beautifully
done op in a case, and the seal enclosed in a gold
box, costing 51,000 ; so also with the Commodore's
credentials. Welted talked and palavered over mat
ters, answering many questions, and amongst others
diplomatizing about the propriety of surveying the
harbor, &c., for in the morning, the boats well arm
ed, with the Mississippi to guard them, had preced
ed her up the bay, sounding, and had advanced ten
miles nearer to Jed'lo, finding plenty of water, and
a fine, large, capacious, magnificent harbor: when
it has always been supposed that Uraga was about
as tar as vessels of any size could go, so great is
the mystery that hangs around this lend.
On the advance of the boat., the forts were arm
ed, the dungaree and canvas screens, behind whir)
rested the pikes of the soldiery, fairy flapped with
anger, and armed boats with about 25 men each
started out from every point by the hundreds, look
lag defiance; but onward went our little boats
throwing their leads and making the rounding.
and steadily advanced the Mississippi on her pur
pose. Our steam way up, and all the vessels hove
short to slip and run to their assistance. and thro'w
in Japanese forts, dungaree, cotton, boats and all, a
few paixhan shell. My opinion is that for these
thirty-six hours, (ind more particularly for these
silo the Japanese hesitated whether or not they
should resist, and try with us the fortunes of war.
But so steady wse our determination, both in coun
cil and in a contract, so utterly careless of any ac•
lion on their part, so perfectly confident of cur own
resources and power, and Ito regardless of all . dan•
ger, that they were paralyzed, and prudent and
friendly measures were decided.
It is well to remark here, that they have been
making the most extensive preparations of forts,
&c., lately, as is evident by their new works and
those not yet finished. Doubtless, there are full
1000 boats averaging, with rowers and soldiers, 25
men. In these waters we have seen, and could
have counted 500 ; some on the water, their ban
ners flying, forty and fifty together; others hauled
upon the beach ready to launch out—at first mista
ken for villages. But a new era is marked in their
history; they have been placed on the defensive;
they dare I not begin the game, though I yet believe
that any harsh measures, on our part, of encroach
ment or injuiy, would cause a determined and
bloody resistance, for they are a free, frank, pleas
ing, Sociable, tearless people, and 'would stand
bravely to the-slaughter. These traits may he ex.
pouted in a land where " the wives and mothers are
proverbially vistuois"%—the exception 'being - the
rarity and proving thwrele. Well will it belt we
Can make the people our Mends and our allies.—
Yea, heretofore they have arrogantly dicated to all
others; bet with us the game is changed. We have
said : so you must do—This is out way. These
steamers too, moving without Sails,* agaipst wind
and tide, have struck, if not terror, at leeast wonder
and wisdom into their souls.
But to the interviews—this of Monday •evening
ended. Tuesday morning, about noon, they.again
came oft, and our " learned scholar," evidently
wore a more contented air—bye the bye. Thins
is a gentleman, clever, polished, well informed, a
fine huge man, of most excellent countenance,
takee t his wine freely, and a baon companion- His
age is thirty-four. He told as that the letters would
be received; that the Emperor was going to send
down a high prince, and councillor to take them
" When I" "On day atter to-morrow. We are
pnttjng up new houses to receive you, and it can
not lie ready before then; our will the prince be
down before to-morrow." It was now that we un
derstood that they experced to receive the letter of
the President, and the Commodore's letter of cre
dence, instead of the copies of which it was the in
tention to send first, reserving the last in hopes of
forcing an interview at Jeddo. This was explain
ed to them—when the change that came over.them
was plain—they persisted that they had understood
that the letters were to be received, not the copiei
—the fear of the permission to rip himself up, (the
Hari Kam) was evident in his face—yet the Com
modore presisted in this point, and we sent him off
to give notice to higher powers that such was the
lac t.
In the afternoon he again came, and the Comma-
dore at last agreed to deliver the originals and land
at the place fixed upon.
THIMIDAY, July 14.—Early in the morning we
dropped our steamer down and neat in as possible
The bay is nearly circular, with two small forts on
each point of the entrance. We went off in our
boats. (in all,) officers, landsmen, and marines,
428 strong, armed to the teeth, each man carrying
with him the lives of five Japanese. It was a
beautiful sight as we pulled in. We were in sight
of a hundred armed Japanese boats, with banners
flying, averaging twenty-five men each; then on
the shores ahead were stretched lines of painted
cloths, with various mottoes, for a full mile in length
—armed men, and cavalry and artillery in front
and human figures thick in the rear. On advanced
our boats, and our little band landed : drew up in
line and formed, in all, on shore, 350 men, leaving
80 in the boats.
The Commodore and stafl then landing, we form
ed a close line; and, to the tone of Hail Columbia,
with the American flag proudly waving over us,
we marched up 'to the Conncil-house. There we
halted—our little band drew up, and thus, with 20
feet between ne, face to tam., stood the sons of
America and the troops of Japan. We went into
the Council-house where sat the commissioner
with his coadjutor, Prince of Iwami. Proudly we
walked in, and bowed in our way, which was re.
turned by the commissioner rising and bowing.—
We were then seated. Thus wedelivered thecre.
dentials ; and, after a few words we withdrew,
formed our line, and, to the tune of flail Columbia
and Yankee Doodle returned to our boats We
were accompanied off by Tezemon and other men.
chains, and got underway, and stood up the bay.—
We went seidtin eight miles of Jeddo, carrying
plenty of water, but could sets nothing of the city .
THE DEATH or CHILDREN—The loss of children—
how deplorable is the bereavement !* A depriva
tion of some, of the dearest of human hopes—no
one left of our flesh and bone—no offspring to
cherish our remembrance, to bear up our name
This rupture of the happiest dream of life is follow
ed by days spent without nn aim. They may be
still filled with labor and occupation; but the re
flection is still in the heart, and sometimes on the
tongue—for whatl—for whom? They who first
gave the motive for toil are gone; there is only
vacancy before one, for the images that filled it
are vanished; the air-drawn fl4ures have marshall
ed the way that we All are going; their mission is
ended, and we having nothing to do but to make
up our minds to follow.
Col:mink AND Fssa.—lt has been often observed
that a man will readily face danger and death in
one form, ar•.d be afraid of it in another; and this
remark was strikingly exemplified in Junot, one of
Bonaparte's Generals, who raised himself by cool
ness when Bonaparte was besieging Toulon. Ile
was writing something by order of the latter, when
a bombshell burst near him; he promptly observed
that he wanted sand, and it had come in due time .
Yet I remember to have heard Sir Sidney Smith,
speaking of Junot in the captain's room at ihe ad
miralty, say, that when lie was going on board the
Tiger, Sir Sidney's ship, he was so frightened in
mounting the I rider that it was found necessary to
take him on board through one of the port holes.
DESTINY —The young duke of Burgundy, while
playing with one of his attendants, fell from his
rocking•horse with great violence. He was appa•
rently unhurt, and the gentleman entreated him not
to mention it, thinking there was no danger. From
that time, however, he became ill, and the physi
cians were unable to discover his malady. At
length he died. This prince gave promise of a
noble disposition, great talent and sensibility. Had
he lived, Louis the sixteenth (his younger brother,)
would never have been , king Thus a child's play-
thing, a rocking horse, perhaps, changed the desti
ny of France, and that of all Europe.
Otr- What is man without the hope of future
life'? How feeble, how disconsolate, how unsatis
fied ! Earth, it is true, has a thottrandallaremints,
and opens to on► tastes unnumbered ~aces of
joy; but in the mit:st of them is a certain some.
thing wanting to gratify the soot; if the hope of im•
mortality be absent.
Qtr A yntmginan witboUt money aatearn ,
boat without fuel. He can't go ahead., Among the
ladies he it like the moor"! on a r.leudy night-be
can't aline.
iVrom :he New York Evading Po*t.)
COL. BENTON'S lIISTORY.
Death of II Mama Ploitaey.
.
LANNO MONROE PRZMUENT.)
He died at ‘tiattliii-gton during the session of the
Congress of which he was a member, and ot 'the
supreme court of which he was a praCtitioner. He
fell like the warrior, in the plenitude of his strength,
anti on the field of his (erne—under the double la
bors of the supreme , court and of the Senate, and
under the immense concentration of thought which
he gave to the preparation of his speeches. He
was considerei in his day the first of American
orators, but will hardly keep that place with pos•
terity, because he spoke more to the hearer than
to the reader—to the present than to the absent—
and avoided the careful pnbhcation of his own
speeches. He labored them hard, but it was for
the effect of their delivery, and the triumph of prep•
eat victory. He loved the admiration of the crowd.
ed gallery—the trumpet tongued Lime which went
forth from the forum—the victory which .crowned
the effort; but avoided the publictruni of what was
received with so much applause, gifing as a rea
son that the published speech would not sustain
the renown of the delivered one. His forte as a
speaker lay in his judgment, his logicihis power oh
argument; hut, like many other men of acknow
ledged pre-eminence in some gift of nature, and
who are still ambitions of some inferior gilt, he
oourted hi.; imagination too much, and laid too
much stress up-nn action and delivery—so potent
upon the small circle of actual hearers, but so lost
upon the national audience which the press now
gives to a great speaker In other tespects, Mr.
Piiikney was truly a great orator, rich in his ma•
terial, strong in his argument—clear, 'natural, and
regular in the ex posi , ion of his sul•ject, comprehen
sive in his views, and chaste in his diction. His
speeches, bath senatorial and forensic, were fully
studied and laboriously prepared 7 —all the argnmen-
tative parts carefully digested under appropriate
heads, and the showy passages often hilly written
out and committed to memory. He would not
speak at all except upon preparation; and at sexa•
genarian age—that at which I knew him—tray a
model of study and of labor to all young men. His
last .peecti in the Senate was in reply to Mr Rufus
King, ou the Missouri question, and was ihe mas•
ter effort of his life. The subjoset, the place, the
audience, the antagonist, were all such as to excite
him to the utmost exertion. The subject was a
national controversy, convulsing the Union and
menacing it with dissolution; the place was the
American Senate ; the audience Europe and Amer--
ca; the antagonist was Prenceps Senutus, illustrinns
for thirty years of diplomatic and senatorial service,
and for great dignity of life and charabter. H• had
amide time for preparation, and availed himself of
it. Mr. King had spoken the session belore, and
published the "substance'' of his speeches (for
there were two of them) alter the adjournment of
Congress. They were the signal guns for the Mis
souri controversy. It was to these published speech
es that Mr Pinkney replied, and with the interval
between two sessions M prepare It was a dazzling
and overpowering reply, with the prestige of hav
ing the union and thel armony of the States for its
ob j ect, and crowded with rich material. The most
brilliant part of it was a highly wrought and splen
did amplification (with illustrations from Greek
and Roman history) of that passage in Mr. Burke's
speech upon't Conciliation with the Colonies," in
which, and in looking to the elements of American
resistance to British. power. he looks to the spirit of
the slave.holding colonies as a main ingredient, and
wiributes to the masters of slaves, who are not
themselves slaves, the highest love of liberty, and
the most difficult task of subjection; It was the
most gorgeous speech ever delivered in the Senate,
and the most applauded ; but it was only a magni
cent exhibition, as Mr Pinkney knew, and could
not sustain in the readim, the plaudits it received
in delivery ; and therefore he avoided its publica
tion.
He gave but little attention to the current busi
ness of the S-itate, only appearing in .his when the
if Salamintan galley was to be launched," some
special occasion called him—giving his time _and
labor to the bar, where his pride and
. glory was.—
He had previous!y set veil in House of Representa
times, acid his tirst speech there was attended by
incident illustrative of Mr. Eattilt.lph's talen for
delicate intimation, and his punctilious sense of par
hamentary etiquota.. Mr Piiikney came into the
House wah a national reputation, in the fullness
of hi• lame, and exciting a great elspectivinn
which he was obliged to fulfil. He spoke on the
Lea.) -mak log power—a question of diplomatic and
c : tiistiintimial law ; and he having been minister to
hall the courts of Eu'ope, attorney-general of the
United S rites, and a jtui a by pi ofession, could only
speak uptut it in one way—as a great master of the
subjoei ; arid, conseqesmily. appeared as it instruct
ine the House. Mr Randolph—a veteran of twen
ty year's parliamentaty service—thought a new
member should serve n little apprin•reeship befere
he became an instructor, and wished to signify that
in Mr. Piiikney. He had a gilt, such{ as man nev
er had, at a delicate intima ion whereihe rimed to
give a bunt without offence; end he displayed it no'
this occasion. lie replied to Mr. Putkney, refer
rim: to him by the parliamentary JNsigua iOll 01
It the member from Maryland aid then pausing,
as if riot Certain, added; .4 I believe he is from Ma
ryland " Ti..A implied doubt as to where he came
from, and consequently as to who he 'was, amused
Mr. Pitiktiey, who understood it pet leanly, 'and tak
lug it light, went over to Mr.' RandolPh's seat, in
troduced himself, and' assured him 'that he was
" froth Maryland." They became Close fri&nds
for ever after ;and it Was Mr Ranifolith 'Vibe first
made known his death in the House of Representa
fives, intemipting, for 'that purpose, in angry; - tie.
bate, tberi mine with's beautiful 0.4 i" apt 'quota
:lotion from the quarrel' of Adam ani.l .l Eta it their
!viiitoulaion from Parodist. The' publiiihe'd abates
give 'Woo:aunt of it : '
-r----
Mr. Randolph rose lb announce to the House
an event t tut.la he hoped would put an end, at
least fur this day, to all further jar or collision, here
or elseu here, all ong o the members of this body.—
Yes, for this one clay, at least, let us say, as our
fir •t mother said to oar first father.—
While yet are bee. Pearce one short hour perhaps,
Between us two let there be peace."
" I rise to announce to the House the not unlock
ed for death of a man who filled the first place in
the public estimation, in this or in any other coun
try. We have been talking of General 'Jackerul,
and a greater than he is, not here, but gone forever.
I allude, sir, to the boast of Maryland; and the pride
of the United States—the pride of all of us, but
more particularly tl.e pride and ornament of the
profession of which you, Mr. Speaker (Mr. Philip
P. Barbour,) are a member, and an eminent one."
Mr. Pinkney was kind and affable in his temper,
free from every taint of envy or jealously, consci
ous of his powers, and relying upon them alone
for success. He was a model, as I have already
said, arid it will bear repetition, to all young men
in his habits of study and application, and at more
than sixty years of age was still a severe student.
In politics he classed democratically, and was one
of .he tew of our eminent public men who never
seemed to think of the Presidency. Oratory was
his glory, the law his profession, the bar his thea
tre ; aild service in Congress was only a brief epi
sode. dauhrig each House, for he was a momenta
ry member of each, with a single and splendid
13131 IRTALITY OF MAN.-Why is it that the rain
bow and cloud come over us with a beauty that ie
not of earth, and then pass away and leave us to
muse on their faded loveliness? Why is tl^ that
the stars, which hold their festival around their
midnight throne, are set above the grasp of our
limited faculties, forever mocking us with unap
proachable glory? And why is it that bright forms
of human beauty are presented to our view and
taken from us, leaving the thousands streams of af
fection to flow back in Alpine torrents upon our
heart? We are born for a higher destiny than that
of earth. There is a realm where the rainbow nev-
Pr fades where the stars will set out before us like
islands dist slumber on the ocean, and where the
bearmitil being that now passes before us like the
meteor will stay in our presence forever.—Prrn
.
BAD AND Goor.—Men are not positively but relit
lively bad. Henry VIII. would have been consid
ered "a mild and benevokint monarch" in India or
Morocco, while the most thorough-going relormer
of Great Britain, if removed to America, would be
looked upon as "an siistocrat." Men should be
judged not so much by their acts, as by the circum
stances by which these acts are surrounded. A
tax of twenty-five cents on a yard of sheeting would
create in Ilindostan not even a remonstrance. In
the United States a pitiful tax of three cents on a
pond of tea led to a revolution that robbed the
ca-ket of England of her choicest jewels.
To PREPARE WATER•PROOF PUOTS --BOOM and
shoes may be rendered impervious to water by the
following composition: Take three ounces of sper
maceti, and melt it in a pipkin, or other earthen
vessel, over a slow fire; add thereto six drachms
of India rubber cut into slices, and these will pres
ently dissolve. Then add, serialim, of tallow, eight
ounces; hogs lard, two ounces ; amber varnish,
four ounces. Mix, and it will be tit for use imme
diately. The boots, or other material to be treated,
are to receive two or three coats with a common
blacking brush, and a fine polish is the result.
AN EXCELLENT Lte-Sstv E.—Take an ounce of
myrrh, as much Inflame in fine poe - der, four ounces
of honey, Iwo ounces of beesivax, er:d six ounces
of oil of roses; mix them over a slow fire. Or,
take armenian bole, myrrh, and cerase in fine pow.
der, of each an ounce, mix with a sufficient quan
tity of goose greese into a proper consistence. It
cures chaps in any part of the body.
(*-- It is virtually settled, by a Bowe of ver
dicts, running through the last twenty years, that a
seducer ma) be killed 1 y his swim, or men by
her brother or husband. He is a wild beast, whom
aly one, whom he has specially injurel, may
alarm or stab witlkimpuitcy.
trr in the streets of Leicester, one day, Dean
Swift was accosted by a.drunken weaver who
staggeriog against his reverence, said:
have tMert spinning it ont "
" Yes," said the Dean.' I see you have, and now
you are reelin.it home."
Ton Litt —An Irish lady wrote to her lover,
bt , ggii,g him to send tier some money. She added,
by way of postscript, " I am so ashamed of the re
quest 1 have made in tlits letter that 1 sent alter the
l aso mall to get it bat•k, but the servant could'nt
overtake hem:"
0:!7- The middle aged lady of respectable con
nection, " toteinever minted a tree or Hower," has
gone South, to niarty the btaeimitith by whom the
I. a link waa broken,"
A Western editor says that a "'child was
run user in the streets, by a waggon three years
old, and cross eyed, with pantalets on which never
spode afterwards."
(*-- It is with narrow-souied people as with oar.
.ow-flecked bottles—the less they hare in them,
the niore noise they make in pouring it out.
f A kale boy once said 10 his grandmother.:
" Utadmother I hope you will die film." " Why
PI my child 1" " Because I call stand IFouble bet
ter theu,you can .9
Otyt. A man's receprtoc_deponds upon his coat • ;
his dim:lie-et) o.i the will he shows.
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