OS DOLLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA : (tljursbiiß fllormitn, Hlartl) 12. 1837. [From the Annual Gift.] LONGINi} FOR HOME. Our Northern hill.-, are cold and bleak, And chilling is the.nir, But dear to me is every peak— Would now that I were there. Stern Winter crowns with glitterinc geins The mountain's stately height; Majestic look their diadems, Flashing in sunbeams bright. Our forest trees are old and grand, And beauti.id, I ween, When Spring comes forth with fairy hand, And decks their limbs with green. 1 wandered o'er, when but a child, Each bleak hill's rugged brow, And through the forest wild— Would 1 could wander now. Among those hills and vales my home Is nestling 'mid the snow, The Mecca si tine, to which my heart Still turns, where'er I go. Tears have passed, and friends have flown, And 1 have roamed afar ; But one is there to cheer me on, Life's own.#) ight guiding star. My Mother ! youthful love e'er throws A halo rounr. thy brow ; Kind sympathizer in my woes, Would 1 were witl thee, now. I long to come, my mother dear, And r.'st me by thy side, To meet familiar faces, where Love lights the ingleside. This world is very lone and drear, And sadly do 1 roam ; Mother, thy child is weary here — Take me, O take tue home! And mother, fold me to thy heart, Securely as of yore ; And mother, say we ne'er shall part, No ! never, nevermore! if. C. L. 3Jisttllantotts. [ From tac report of a Prussian Engineer.] The Crazy Engineer. My train left Dantzic in the morning gene rally about eight o'clock ; but once a week wc had to wait the arrival of the steamer from Stockholm. It was the morning of the steam ers arrival that I came down from the hotel rial found that my engineer had been so seri ously injured that he could not run. A rail way carriage had run over him and broken one of his legs. 1 went immediately to the engine house to procure another engineer, for i knew there were three or four in reserve there, but I was disappointed. I enquired for Westplial, but was informed that lie had gone to isteegeu to see his mother. Goudolpho had gone to Kouigsberg, on the road. But where was Mayne ? lie had leave of absence for two days, and had gone no one knew whither. Here was a fix. I heard the puffing of the steamer in the Xcufahrwasser, and the passen gers would be 011 hand in fifteen minutes. I ran to the guards and asked them it they knew where there was an engineer, but they did not. 1 then went to the firemen and asked them if any one of them felt competent to run the en gine to Brora berg. X'o one dared to attempt it The distance was nearly one hundred miles What was to be done ? The steamer stopped at the wharf, and those who were going on by rail came flocking up to the station. They had eaten breakfast on hoard the boat, and were all ready for a fresh -tart. The baggage was cheeked and register ed, the tickets bought, the different carriages pointed to the various classes of passengers, and the passengers themselves seated. The train was in readiness in the long station house, and the engine was steaming and pit fling away impatiently in the distant firing house. It was past nine o'clock. "Come, why don't we start?" growled an old fat Swede, who had been watching me narrowly for the last fifteen minutes. And upon this there was a general chorus of anxious inquiry, which soon settled to down right murmuring. At this juncture some one touched me on the elbow. I turned and saw a stranger by my side. I expected that lie was going to remonstrate with me for mv back wardness. In fact, I began to have strong temptations to pull oil' my uniform, for every anxious eye was fixed on the glaring badges which marked me as the chief officer of the train. However, this stranger was a middle-aged man, tall and stout, with a face of great ener gy and intelligence. JI is eye was black and brilliant—so brilliant that 1 could not for the life of me gaze steadily into it ; and his lips which were thin, seemed more like polished nimble than human flesh. Ilis aress was black throughout, and not only set with exact iii• etv, but was scrupulously clean and neat. " Von want an engineer, I understand," lie said, in a low, cautious tone, at the same time gazing quietly about him as though he wanted no one to hear what lie said. "1 do," I replied. "My train is all ready, and we have no engineer within twenty miles of this place." "Well sir, I am going to Bromberg—l must go, and I will run the engine for you." "Ha !" I uttered, "you arc an engineer ? ' 1 ain, sir—one of the oldest in the coun tr.v; and am now on my way to make arrange ments for a great improvement I have invented ''T the application of steam to a locomotive, byname is Martin Kroller. If you wish I will run as far as Bromberg ; and I will show I'ou running that is ruuning." IVa> 1 not fortunate? I determined to ac "pt the man's offer at once, and so I told him. He received my answer with a nod and a smile. ' went with him to the house, where we found 'iic iron horse in the charge of the fireman, :i l all ready for the start. Kroller got upon !;i c platform, and I followed him. I had ncv "' ii a man betray that peculiar aptness amid '< -i'h'ncry, that he dt\l. He let on the THE BRADFORD REPORTER. steam in an instant, and yet with care and judgment, and he backed up to the baggage carriage with the most exact uicety. I had seen enough to assure mi that he was thor oughly acquainted with the business, and 1 felt composed once more. I gave my engine up to the new man, and then hastened away to the office. Word was passed for all the officers to take their seats, and soon lfterward I waved my hand to the engineer, There was a puff— a groaning of the heavy axel trees —a trembling of the building—and the<tr.iiu was in motion. I leaped upon the platform of the guard car riage, and in a few minutes more the statiou honse was far behind us, In less than an hour We reached Dirsham, where we took up the passengers that had come on the Kouigsberg railway. Here I went forward, and asked Kroller how he liked the engine. He replied that he liked it very much. " But," he added, with a strange sparkling of the eye, " wait until T get my improvement, and then you will see travelling. By the soul of the Virgin Mother, sir, I could run an en gine of mv construction to the moon in four and twenty hours !" I smiled at what I thought his faint enthu siasm, and theu went back to my station. As soon as the Kouigsberg passengers were all on board, and their baggage attached, we started again. As soon as all matters had been attended to connected with the new accession of passen gers, I went into the guard cariagc, and sat down. An early train from Kouigsberg had been through two hours before reaching Broni berg and that was at Little Oscue, where we took ou board the western mail. " How we go !*' uttered one of the guard, some fifteen minutes after we had left Dirsh am. " The new engineer is trying the speed," I replied not yet holding any fear. But ere long I began to be fearful that lie was running a little too fast, the carriages be gan to sway to and fro, aud I could hear ex clamation of fear from the passengers " Good heavens !" cried one of the guard coming in at that moment, " what is that fel low doing ? Look sir, aud see how we are go ing." I looked at the window and found that we were dashing along at a speed never before travelled on that road. Posts, fences, rocks and trees, Hew by in one undistinguished mass, and the carriages now swayed fearfully, i started to my l'ect, and met a passenger on the platform. He was one of the chief owners of our road, and was just on his way to Berlin. He was pale aud excited. " Sir," he gasped, " is Martin Kroller on the engine." " Yes," I told him. " Holy Virgin ! didn't you know him ?" "Know?" I repeated somewhat puzzled, " what do you nicuu ? He told me that his name was Kroller, aud that he was an engi neer. We had 110 one to run 011 the engine, and " You took him interrupted the man.— " Good Leavens, sir, he is as crazy as a man can be. lie turned his brain over a new plan for applying steam power I saw him at the station, but did not. recognize him, as I was in a hurrv. Just now one of your passengers told me that your engineers were all gone this morning, and that you found one that was a stranger to you. Then I knew that the man whom 1 had seen was Martin Kroller. He had escaped from the hospital at Stettin.— Von must get him off somehow." The whole fearful truth was now open to me. The speed of the train was increasing every moment, and I knew that a few more miles per hour, would launch 11s all into de struction. I called to the guard, and then made my way forward as quick as possible. I reached the after platform of the after tender, and there stood Kroller upon thetipinc board, his hat and coat off, his long black hair float ing wildly in the wind, his shu t unbuttoned at the throat, his sleeves rolled up, with a pis tol in his teeth, and thus glaring at the fire man, who lay motionless upon the fuel. The furnace was stuffed till the very latch of the door was red hot, and the whole engine was quivering and swaying as though it would shi ver in pieces. " Kroller ! Kroller I" I cried at the top of my voice. The crazy engineer started, and caught the pistol in his hand. Oil ! how those great black eyes glared, and how ghastly and fright ful the face looked. "Ha ! ha! lial" he yelled demoniacally, glaring upon me like ari enraged lion. "They swore that. I could not make it!— But see ! see ! My new power ! See my new engine ! I made it, and they are jealous of me. I made it, and when it was done they stole it of me. But I have found it ! For years 1 have been wandering in search of my great ciigine, aud they swore it was not made. But I have found it ! I knew it this morn ing when I saw it at Dantzic, and I was de termined to have it. And I've got it ! Ho ! ho ! ho !—we're 011 the way to the moon, I say ! By the Virgin Mother, we'll be in the moon in four and twenty hours. Down, down, villain ! If you move I'll shoot you. This was spoken to the poor fireman, who at that moment attempted to rise,and the frigh tened man sank back again. " Here's Little Oscue right at hand !" cried oiu one of the guard. But even as he spoke the buildings were at hand. A sickening sen sation settled upon my heart, for I supposed that wc were gone uow. The houses flew by like lightning. I knew that if the officers here had turned the switch as usual, we should be hurled into eternity in one fearful crash. I saw a flash—it was another engine—l closed iny eyes ; but still we thundered ou. The of ficers had seen our speed, aud knowing that we would not head up in that distance, they had changed the switch so that we went on. But there was death ahead if we did not stop. Only fifteen miles ahead was the town of Schwartz, on the A'istula, and at the rate we were going wc should he there in a few mo ments for each minute carried us over a mile PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " KEARDLBSS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." The shrieks of the passengers now rose above the crash of the rails, and more terriffic than all else arose the demoniac shouts of the mad engineer. " Merciful heavens !" gasped the guardsman, " there's not a moment to lose, Schwartz is close by. But hold, he added, let's shoot him." At that moment a tall, stout Gorman stu dent came over the platform where we stood, and We saw that the mad man had his heavy pistol aimed at. us. He grasped a heavy stick of wood, and, with a steadiness of nerve which I could not have commanded, he hurled it with such force and precision, that he knocked the pistol from the maniac's hand. I saw the movement, and on the moment that the pistol fell, I sprang forward and the German follow ed me. I grasped the man by the arm, but I should have been nothing in his mad power had I been alone. He would have hurled me from the platform, had not the student at that moment struck him on the head with a stick of wood which he caught up as came over the tender. Kroller settled down like a dead man, and on the next instant I shut off the steam and opened the valve. As the freed steam shriek ed and howled in its escape, the speed began to decrease, and in a few moments more the danger was passed. As I settled back, en tirely overcome by the wild emotions that had raged within me, we began to turn the river, and before 1 was fairly recovered the fireman had stopped the train in the station-house at Schwartz. Martin Kroller, still insensible, was *aken from the platform ; and, as we carried him to the guard-room, one of the guard recognised him, and told us that he had l e u there about two weeks before. "He came," said the guard, " and swore that an engine which stood near here was his. lie said it was one which lie had made to go to moon in, and that it had been stolen from him. We sent for more help to arrest him, and he fled." " Well," I replied with a shudder, " I wish that he had approached me in the same way ; but he was more cautions at Dantzic." At Schwartz 1 found an engineer to run the engine to Bromberg : and having taken out the western mail, for the next northern train to take, alorg, we saw that Kroller would be properly attended to, and then started on. The rest of the trip we ran in safety, though T could see that the passengers were not whol ly at ease, and would not be until they were entirely clear of the railway. A heavy purse was made up by them for the German student, and he accepted it with much gratitude, and I was glad of it ; for the current of gratitude to him, might have prevented a far different current, which might hove poured upon my head, for having engaged a madman to run a railroad train. This is not the end ; Martin Kroller remain ed insensible from the effects of that blow up on the head nearly two weeks, and when lie recovered from that he was sound again—his insanity was all gone. I saw him about three weeks afterwards, but he had no recollection of me. He remembered notiiinff of the past year, not even his mad freak ou my engine. But I remembered it, and I remember it still ; anil the people need never fear that I shall be imposed upon again by a crazy cugi ucer. A STREET INCIDENT. — A full-rigged maid of fashion, with hoops all bolily set, movul up the side-walk gaily, observed of nil she met. The walk v;us very wide, but the hooped skirts was much wider, and 'twere useless e'en to think of walking up beside her. Her cheeks were "red as roses," her face was all a-smile; and her tread was as dainty as though earth was all "too vile." It was her hour of triumph, and she didn't seem to know that a coasting sleigh was coming at a speed not very slow. But it came, ami'ere she knew if, her "props" were kroi ked away, and she was going down street with a boy. upon .is sleigh. The wind it blew quite roughly, turned all the hoops back 'and of partly smothered screams there wasn't any lack ; while tlie maiden didn't know what she was or wai.'t about, her person much re sembling an umbrella inside out. The passers stopped and wondered, as the swiftly speeding sleigh devoutly kept onward, rushing past and fast away ; the boy cried " road," and liked it, and safely "shied " his sled, with his own feet pointing backwards ami the maid's thrown out ahead. They gained the level safely, and the maiden, full of wrath, looked back in angered silence upon their traveled path " You gond ii r-nothing scamp," she said, " I've a mind to shake you well." " Your face was covered up raeni, and you know I nevet'll ted," said the coasting lad quite boldly, and in a jo vial mood, he bowed and said, "Good morning mem ; you hold your fed up good — you did."— Spring/icld Republic a. Pooii RICHARD'S VIEWS OF TIME. — If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again: aud what wc call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more wit h less perplex ity. Sloth makes all things difficult,but Indus try all easy ; and he that riscth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy busi ness, let not that drive thee ; and early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. WHAT IIF: WANTED. —" Fellow citizens !" said a stump orator, " we have the best couu try in the world, and the best government. What people on the face of the globe enjoy more privileges than we do ? Here we have liberty to speak, and liberty of the press, with out onerous despotism. What, fellow citizens, is more desirable than this? Do you want anything more, my countryman ?" " Yes sir-ree !'' sang out a red-faccd loafer, " this is d y work. I want a suck out of that flask sticking out of your coat pocket beliiud.'' INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF -TAIS. BUCHAKIN. FEI.I,OW-CITIZENS : I appear before you this day to take the solemn oath that I will faith fully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ab ifijy, preserve, protect and defend the Consti tution of the United States. In entering up on this great office, I must humbly invoke the God of our fathers for wisdom and firmness to execute its high and responsible duties in such a manner as to restore harmony and the an cient friendship among the people of the seve ral States, and to preserve our free institutions throughout many generations. Convinced that I owe my election to the inherent love of the Constitution and the Union, which still ani mates the hearts of the American people, let me earnestly ask their powerful support in sus taining all just measures calculated to perpet uate these, the richest political blessings which Heaven has ever bestowed upon any nation. Having determined not to become a candi date for re-election, I shall have no motive to I influence my conduct in administering the Gov ernment except the desire ably and faithfully to serve my country and to live in the grate ful memory of my countrymen. We have recently passed through a Presi dential contest iu which the passions of our fellow-citizens were excited to the highest de gree by questions of deep and vital importance ; but when the people proclaimed their will, the tempest at once subsided, and all was calm.— The voice of the majority, speaking in the manner prescribed by the Constitution was heard, and instant submission followed. Onr owu country conld alone have exhibited so grand and striking a spectacle of the capacity of man for self government. What a happy conception, then, was it for Congress to apply this simple rule, that the will of the majority shall govern to the settlement of the question of Domestic Slavery in the Territories ! Con- j gross is neither to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it there from ; but to leave the people thereof perfect ly free to form and regulate their domestic in stitutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States as a natural consequence. Congress has also pre scribed that when the Territory of Kansas shall be admitted as a State, it shall be recei ved into the Union with or without Slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission. A different opinion has arisen in regard to the time when the people of a Territory shall decide this question for themselves. This is happily a matter of but little practical importance, and beside it is a judicial question, which legitimately belongs to the Supreme Court of the United States, before whom it is now pending, and will, it is understood, be speedily and finally settled.— To their decision, in common with all good good citizens, I shall cheerfully submit, what ever this may be, though it has been my indi vidual opinion that under the Nebraska Kan sas act, the appropriate period will be when the number of actual residents iu the Tvrrito ries shall justify the formation of a Constitu tion with a view to its admission as a State in to the Union. But, be this as it may, it is the imperative and indispensable duty of the Government of the United States to secure to every resident inhabitant the free and indepen dent expression of his opinion by his vote.— This sacred right of each individual must be preserved. This being accomplished, nothing can be fairer than to leave the people of a ter ritory free from all foreign interference to de cide their own destiny for themselves, subject only to the Constitution of the United States. The whole Territorial question being thus set tled upon the principle of popular sovereignty —a principle as ancient as free Government itself—everything of a practical nature has been decided, and no other question remains for adjustment, because that all agree that un der the Constitution Shivery in the States is beyond the reach of any human power, except that of the respective States themselves where in it exists. May we not then hope that the long agitation on this subject is approaching its end, anil that the geographical parties to which it has given birth, so much dreaded by the Father of his Country, willl speedily be come extinct. Most happy will it be for the country when the public mind shall be divert ed from this question to others of more press ing and practical importance. Throughout the whole progress of this agitation, which has scarcely known any intermission for more than twenty years, while it has been productive of no positive good to any human being, it has been the prolific source of great evils to the master, to the slave and to the whole country ; it has alienated and estranged the people of 1 the sister States, from each other, and has even seriously endangered the very existence of the Union. Nor has the danger A'et entire ly ceased. Under our system there is a rome dy for all mere political evils in the sound sense aud sober judgment of the people.— Time is a great corrective. The political sub jects which but a few years ago exasperated the public mind have passed away and are now nearly forgotten ; but this question of Domes tie Slavery is of far greater importance than any mere political question, because, should the agitation continue ; it may eventually en danger the personal safety of a large portion of our countrymen where the institution ex ists. In that event, no form of Government, however productive of material benefits, eau compensate for the loss of peace and domestic security around the family altar. Let every Union-loving man therefore, exert his best in fluence to suppress this agitation, which, since the recent legislation of Congress, is without any legitimate object. It is an evil of the times that men have undertaken to calculate the mere material value of the Union. Reasoned estimates have been presented of the pecuniary profits and local advantages which would result to different States aud sec tions from its dissolution and of the compara tive injuries which such an event would inflict on other States and sections. Even descend ing to this low and narrow view of the mighty question, all such calculations are at fault.— The bare reference to a single consideration will be conclusive 01 this jioint. We at present enjoy a free trade through out our extensive and expansive country, such as the world never witnessed. This trade is conducted on railroads aud canals, on noble rivers and arms of the sea, which bind togeth er the North and the South, the East anil the West of our noble confederacy. Annihilate this trade, arrest its free progress by the geo grupical lines of jealousy aud hostile States, autl you destroy the prosperity and onward march of the whole and every part, aud in volve the whole in one common ruin. But such considerations important as they are in themselves, sink into insiguificance when we reflect on the terriffic evils which would re sult from disniiion to every portion of the Con federacy—to the North not more than to the South, to the East not more than to the West. These I shall not attempt to portray, because I feel an humble confidence that the "kind Pro vidence which inspired our fathers with wis dom to frame the most perfect form of govern ment and union ever devised by man, will not sutler it to perish until shall have been peace fully instrumental, by its example, in the ex tension of civil and religious liberty through out the world. Next in importance to the raaintaiuence of the Constitution and the Union, is the duty of preserving the Government. Public virtue is the vital spirit of Republics, and history proves that when this has decayed anil the love of money has usurj>ed its place, although the forms of free government may remain for a season, the substance has departed forever. Our present financial condition is without a paralell in history. No nation has ever before been em harassed by too large a surplus in its Treasury. This almost necessarily gives birth to extravagant legislation. It begets wild schemes of expenditures and produces a set of speculators anil jobbers, whose ingenuity is ex erted in contriving and promoting expedients to obtain the public money. The party, thro' its official agents, whether rightfully or wrong fully, is suspected, and the Government suffers iu the estimation of the people. This is iu itself a very great evil. The natural mode of relief from this embarassraent is to appropri ate the surplus fund in the Treasury to great natioual objects for which a clear warrant can be found in the constitution. Among these I might mention the extinguishment of the pub lic debt, a reasonable increase of the Navy, which is at present inadequate to the protec tion of our vast tonnage afloat—now greater than that of any other nation, as well as the defense of our extended sea coast. It is be yond all question the true principle that no more revenue ought to be collected from the people than the amount necessary to defray the expenses of a wise economical and efficient Administration of the Government. To reach this point it was necessary to resort to a mod ification of the tariff, and this has been ac complished in sncli a manner as to do as little injury as may have been practicable to our do mestic manufactures, especially those necessa ry for the defense of the country. Any dis crimination against a particular branch for the purpose of benefiting favored corporations, in dividuals, or interests, would have been unjust to the rest of the community and inconsistent with that spirit of fairness and equality, which ought to govern in the adjustment of a reven ue-tariff—but the squandering of the public money sinks into comparative insignificance, as temptation to corruption, when compared with the squandering of the public lands. No nation in the tide of time has ever been blessed with so rich and noble an inheritance as that we enjoy in the public lunds. In administering this important trust, while it may be wise to grant portions of them for the improvement of the remainder, yet we should never forget that it is our cardinal policy to reserve these lands as much- as may be for ac tual settlers, and this at moderate prices. We shall thus not only best promote the prosperi ty of the new States, by furnishing them a hardy and independent race of honest and in dustrious citizens, but shall secure homes for our children and our children's children, as well as for those exiles from foreign shores who may seek in this country to improve their con dition and to enjoy the blessings of civil and religious liberty. Such emigrants have done much to promote the growth and prosperity of the country. They have proved faithful both in peace and in war. After becoming citizens, they are entitled, under the Constitution and laws, to lie placed oti perfect equality with na tive born citizens, and in this character they should over he kindly recognized. The Federal Constitution is a grant from the States to Congress to certain specific pow ers. ami the question whether this grant shall be liberally or strictly construed, has, more or less, divided political parties from the begin ning. Without entering into the argument, 1 desire to state at the commencement of my administration, that long experience and ob servation have convinced me that a strict con struction of the powers of the Government is the only true as well as the only safe theory of the Constitution. Whenever, in our past history, doubtful powers have been exercised by Congress, they have never failed to produce injurious and unhappy consequences. Many such instances might be adduced if this were the proper occasion. Neither is it necessary for the public service to strain the language of the Constitution, because all the great and use ful powers required for a successful administra tion of the Government, both in peace and in war, have been granted either iu express terms or by the plainest implication. While deeply convinced of these truths, I yet consider it clear that under the war-making power Con gress may appropriate money toward the con struction of a military road when this is abso lutely necessary for'the defense of any State or Territory of the Union against foreign in vasion. Under the Constitution Congress has power to declare war, to raise and support ar mies, to provide and maintain a navy, and to call forth the militia to repel invasion. Thus endowed in an ample manner with the war- VOL. XVII. —NO. 40. making |>ovver, the corresponding doty is re quired that the United States shall protect each of them (the States) against invasion.— llovv is it possible to afford this protection to California and our Pacific possessions except by means of a military road through the terri tory of the United States, over which men and munitions of war may be speedily transported from the Atlantic States to meet and repel tho invader I In case of a war with a naval pow !er much stronger than our own, we should then have no other available access to the Pa cific coast, because such a power would instant ly close the route acoss the Isthmus of Cen tral America. It is impossible to conccivo that while the Constitution has expressly re quired Congress to defend all the States, it should yet deny to tliera by any fair construc tion the only possible means by which one of these States can be defended. Beside, tho Government, ever since its origin, has been la the constant practice of coustructiug military roads. It might also be wise to consider whe ther the love for the Union which now ani mates our fellow-citizens on the Pacific Coast may not be impaired by our neglect or refusal to provide for them, in their remote and isol ated condition, the only means by which tho power of the States ou this side of the Rocky Mountains can reach them in sufficient time to protect them against invasion. I forbear, for the present, from expressing an opinion as to the wisest and most economi cal mode in which the Government can lend its aid in accomplishing this great and neces sary work. I believe that many difficulties in the way, which now appear formidable, will, in a great degree, vanish as soon as the near est and best route shall have beeu satisfactori ly ascertained. It may be right that, on this occasion, I should make some brief remarks as to our rights and duties as a member of the great Family of Nations. In our intercourse with them, there are some plain principles approved by our own experience from which we should never depart. We ought to cultivate peace, commerce and friendship with all nations, aud this not merely as the best means of promot ing our own national interest, but in a spirit or Christian benevolence toward fellowmen, wherever their lot may be cast. Our diploma cy should Ire direct and frank, neither seeking to obtain more nor accepting less than is our due. We ought to cherish a sacred regard for the independence of all nations, and never at tempt to interfere in the domestic concerns of any, unless this shall be imperatively required by the great law of self-preservation. To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washiugton, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. In short, we ought to do justice in a kindly spirit to all nations, and require justice from them in return. It is our glory that while other na tions have extended their dominions by the sword, we have never acquired any territory except by fair purchase, or, as in the case of Texas, by the voluntary determination of a brave kindred, and independent people to blend their destinies with our own. Even our acqui sitions from Mexico form no exception. Un willing to take advantage of the fortune of war against a sister Republic, we purchased these possessions under the treaty of peace for a sum which was considered at the time a fair equivalent. Our past history forbids that wo shall in the future acquire territory unless this be sanctioned by the laws of justice and honor. Acting 0:1 this principle, no nation will have a right to interfere or to complain if in the pro gress of events we shall still further extend our jKJsscssioi.s. Hitherto, in all our acquisi tions, the people under the protection of the American Hag have enjoyed civil and religious liberty, as well as equal and just laws, and have been contented, prosperous and happy.— Their trade with the rest of the world has rapidly increased, and thus every commercial nation has shared largely in their successful progress. I shall now proceed to take the oath j r • cribed by the C ms i ut on, while hnm bly invoking the blessing of Divine I'rovidenco on this great people. JAMES BUCHANAN. A SIN-UUI.AU FASCINATION. —An English pa per relates the following unaccountable occur rence :—" One of th t- most singular instances in connection with material thiugs, exists in tbo case of u young man, who not very long ago visited a large iron manufactory. He stood op posite a large hammer,'and watched with great intercstjits regular strokes. At first it was beat ing immense lumps of crimson metal into thick black sheets ; the supply becoming exhausted, at length it only descended on a polished anvil, still the young man gazed intently on its motion, then he followed its stroke with a corresponding motion of his head ; tlieu his left arm moved to the same tunc ; and finally, he deliberately plac ed his fist übou the anvil, and in a second it was smitten to a jelly. The only explanation ho made, was that he felt an impulse to do it, that that lie knew lie should be disabled, that ho saw all the consequence in a misty kind of man ner, but that lie still felt the power within above sense and reason—a morbid impulse in fact, to which be succumbed, and by which ho lost a good right hand." fitln Memphis, Tennessee, tbo other day, a countryman stood gazing in Mansfield's wiii dows, where two skeletons luing suspended— one being that of a man, the other a boy. A stranger coming up— " Whose skeleton is that ?" asked the coun tryman pointing to the larger. " That is Shakspcare's" said the stranger. " And whose is that ?" continued tho coun tryman, pointing to tho smaller. " That is Shakspcare's, too," answered the wag. " How can It be ?" " Why, that's him when he was a boy !' was tho rejoinder. " Oil ! I never thought of that." And our country friend walked away, won dering how them " queer cusses," the doctors, got the bones out of Shakspcare's body when he was alive !
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