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. JLfi IXTEBCEPTED DESPATCH , .
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FRENCH MINISTER.
Fiocly translated from ihe original fur
tho Evening Bulletin.
Legation Fhavcaise, )
Washington, Sept. 20, 1849. J
A. M. Louis Xapulcnn Bonaparte,
President lie la Rcpxtblique Franeaise.
J'ai I'honiiptir to wiito to notre grand Presi-
llt-Mlt,
Dut I've stirred up do wrath of dis bete gou-vernmr-nl,
And tli'so villains YnnUcrs, wiz thoir chief
I'liiiinan Zack,
Have asked your rninistrc to Franco to go
bark.
Nut von wurd of warning their premier does
say,
But sends me despatch ilat me." pnss.-ports
sottt prets.
While I, nt New York, do make von grand
: speech,
Before do Art Union Atneiicain whecch,
Dj honour and cheer and give beauooup do
praise,
I'pon la maoiiiilqtie Repitblicitie Franeaise,
And all seems cuncoule den, before I'm
aware,
Conies ilis leltre sunvage, like von coup de
Ah, monsieur le President, dis is too bad;
Dise Yankees will drive votir Ambassador
mad ;
Dis notice so sudden does make me feel
quite
Like Louis Phillippe, disposes for flight.
But, la fJnindt! Nation, if I runaway,
Would bu quite dishonored, and so il faut
stay.
Do cause which has stirred up dis mauvais
fracas,
And brought two republics almost to von war,
Begins with de dirty tubae, which von day,
The soldats Americains did take away
From von sujet de France, M. Fort, in Mexi
qne :
It is true dat do Colonel F.nfansdid tout queek
Give back de tabae but Vhonneur Francais
Was instilled a jamais, by his manner mau
vais. Then comes dat affaire of la barque Eugenie,
Which le Capilaine Charpendier, when at sea,
Dili save from do rocks, mid don wished for
some pay,
Ah, quelle fnhe ! to ask in this age eclairce,
From vou sensible Frenchman, some pay for
von crew,
For saviua some lives as vero nut worth von
sou.
Eh bleu : All my li tters upon dose tttfair,
Have been more dan de President Taylor
would bear,
And so he have sent, by his premier, de note
Which do hint dat I better leave by de lirst
bout,
I sail go, wiz nion valet, by steamer next
week,
And sail hasten to France--la belle France
very queek,
And sail traverse de land from de Ithine to
de Loire,
Pour eveiller de French for von grand bloody
war.
Meantime, it must be, dat you, quick as may
be,
Do prepare for invading Ihese Etas-Unis;
And some bateaux flat-bottomed, at once do
prepare,
Like le grand Empereur, when he took l'An
gleterre. Already de French have invaded dis land,
And de chapeau on head and de glove on de
hand,
And de cane and de boot and de Paris hnbit,
All show dat France rules in dene Etats-Uuis.
Den your corps lilleraire has had victories too,
And your galant Dumas and your brave
Eugene Sue,
And le bean Paul do Kock and 1'aimable
(JoorsH Sand,
Already have cnnqni'ied de most of di land.
D mi, il reste for de President only to sail,
Wiz vou annee in flat bottomed boats as cant
tui
. u . .
To pas up da Lulsnt, or IVUwnre Bay ,
D, be 1 'aucimi Zuck wll for roe
mercy
soon iiruv.
And den you sail land and de French sail re-
call, . .
De names of your glorious victories all,
And de annee Franeaise sail go conquering
on,
Crying'Strasbtiurg!" "Boulogne!" and "Vive
Napoleon '."
(Signed) POl'SSIN, Ministre, kc.
fjistovicol.
WM. VESS Al WM. MEAD.
To the rmToa or riTzonnAu's city
item. Snt Probably the following may
be new, and interesting to some of your
readers. It is a summary of proceedings
had asraiust W.m. Pk.ns and Wi. Mead at
the Old Bailey, London, 1670, for riot,
conspiracy and High Treason. The calm
and dignified beariii of these honest and
utiriht men, standing in the simple inu-
jesty of truth, will contrail strongly with
that of their persecutors the base and un
principled touis oi a oase ana moru malig
nant despotism.
It will be seen what has constituted, or
may constitute such crimes as treason in
England, and display the working ol that
spirit, still in existence, which would sacri
fice Pen.n on its sanguinary altars, or send
Washington to the scaffold. Let the peo
ple doubly priie those institutions, whose
records have never been stained with prtv
ceedinrrg so corrupt and Infamous.
Your ob't serv't
Wm. Shaupe.
The indictment sets forth, "
"That the said William Penn anrJ Wil
liam Mead, with divert other persom, to
the number of three hundred, on the 1 4-th
of August, in the twenty-second year of the
Kin?, did unlawfully and tumultuously as
semble themselves together in Uracechurcn
street, to the disturbance of the peace, and
that the said William Penn, (by agreement
between him and William Mead, and being
abetted by him) did then speak and preach
to th taid William Mfid, and the jrfit to
assembled ; whereby a great concourse and
tumult was made and continued to the great
terror and disturbance of his Majesty' leige
people, and against the peace, &c." '
To what indictment the prisoners re
spectively pleaded not guilty.
Then they were set aside, and the court
proceeded to other business, and the third
of September, they were ordered to be
brought to the bar again, and each one took
off'th 'ir hats as they came into court, but
the court ordered an ollicer to put on their
hats again, and they stood with their hats
on.
The Recorder demanded of the prison
ers, if they did not know it was the King's
court? ami why they did not pull off their
hats, and pay the respect to it they ought ?
Feini answered, he knew it to be court,
and he supposed it to be (lie King's, but he
ditl not think the pulling off a hat showed
any respect; then the court fined them
li'rly marks a piece for their contempt :
whereupon Penn desired it might be ob
served, that they came in with their hais
o(J, and the court ordered them to be put
on, and therefore the bench ought rather
to have been fined than they. The jury
being sworn, then witnesses were called
who deposed that on the 11th of August,
they saw a great crowd of people of Grace
church street, and heard Wm. Penn preach
ing to them, but could not distinguish what
he said, that one endeavored wilh his j
watenmen to pull htm down, but the peo
ple kicked them that Mr. Mead came to
one of the deponents and desired him to
let Mr. Penn go on, and w hen he had done
he would bring him to the deponent that
th ere might lie about four hundred people
assembled there.
71 . HM . . . ,
jMurutr. wnat say you Air. .viea
were you there ?
1tW. It is a maxim in vour law, Ne
mo tenettir seipsutn acctisare ; why dost
thou endeavor to ensnare me? Is this like
a judge who ought to be of counsel for the
prisoner?
Penn. We declare it to all tho world,
we believe it to be our indispensihle duty
to meet incessantly upon so good an ac
count, nor shall all the powers on earth di
vert us from adoring our God who made us.
Court. You are not here for worship
ping God, but for breaking the law.
Penn. I allirm I have broken no law,
and would know upon what law you ground
the indictment ?
Recorder. Upon the common law.
Venn. Win le is (hat common law? if
it were common it should not be hard lo
produce. j
RrrorJcr. Must I run over all the a ',- j
judged cases which we call common law,
to satisfy your curiosity ?
Lord JLiyor. It is called common fo
distinguish it from statute law, you must
understand that such assemblies endanger
the public peace, and therefore the law
deems them unlawful, unless they have a
warrant for their assembling.
Penn. My liberty, which is next to
life, is now concerned ; and I say again,
unless you show me and the people the
law you ground your indictment upon,
your proceedings are arbitrary : the ques
tion is not, whether I am guilty ol this in
dictment but if it be legal.
Recorder. If I should suffer you to as!
questions until to-morrow, you would be
never the wiser.
Penn. That is according as the answers
are) I design no affront to the court, but if
you deny me oyer of that law you suggest
I have broken, you evidence to the whole
world your resolutions to sacrifice the privi
leges of Knglishmen to your sinister and
arbitrary designs.
Lord .Maijur. Take him away turn
him into the bail-dock.
Penn. Must I be taken away, because
I plead for the fundamental laws of Eng
land ? However, I leave it upon the con
sciences of the jury, who are my sole jud
ges, whether those ancient laws that re
late to liberty and property, and are not
limited to particular persuasions in matters
of religion, ought not to be indispen.sihly
inaiiitametl, olli.-rwise who can sav he has
right to the coat upon his back? Our
liberties may be invaded our wivps abus
ed, our children made slaves, our families
ruined, and our estates carried off in Iri
timph by every sturdy beggar and mali
cious informer.
Then h e was carried awav in the bail-
dock.
.Mend. You men of the jury. I stand
here to answer an indictment, which is a
bundle of stud', full of lies and falsehood;
they charge me that I met Vidamus illute
et liimultanous. Time was indeed, when I
had freedom to use a carnal weapon, and
then I thought I feared no man, but now I
tear the living Ood, and dare not make use
thereof or hurt any man ; jior do I know I
demeaned myself as a tumultuous person,
and therefore William Penn, properly de-
maimeu oyer vf me law on vvlncu tne in
dictment is founded.
You men of the jury, though Mr. Re- I
corder will not tell vou what makes a riot.
a rout or an unlawful assembly, Coke tells
us, a riot is, when three or more are met i
together to beat a man, to enter forcibly
into his laud, or to cut down his grass,
wood, pales, &c.
7?fc Or to do any other unlawful act,
but I thank you Mr. Mead for telling me
what the law i (pulling of' hit hat.)
Mead. 'Thou mayest put on thy hat ; I
have never a fee for thee now,
, Ld, .M'tyor. You profess to be a meek
man, but deserve to have your longue c.it
out for affronting.
' The Court. '
Mead. Thou didst promise me I should
be fairly heard : wtiy may I Dot have the
privilege of an Englishman? You may be
ashamed of this dealing. . .
Rec.v You are an enemy to the laws of
England, and do not drierva the privilege
other have.
JIead. The Lord judge between trie and
thee in this matter.
Then he was put into the bail-dock, and
the ' Recorder directed the jury, which,
while he was doing, Penn and Mead cried
out from the bail-dock, that it was illegal
to direct the jury in the absence of the
prisoner, and quottd Coke's second insti
tute on the chapter of Magna charta.
Rec. Why you are present, you do
hear, do you not ?
Then the prisoners cried out they had
several other things to offer, and that they
had been violently thrust into the bail-dock,
and nut still! red to make their defence.
The court ordered the jury lo go togeth
er, and after half an hour, eight of them
came down, and the court sent lor the other
four and demanded if the prisoners were
guilty.
The foreman answered that Penn was
guilty of speaking in Gracechurch street.
Ktc -You had as good say nothing.
Ld. .M.iyar. Was it not an unlawful
assembly? You mean he was speaking to
a tumult of people there.
Forem tn. That is all I have in commis
sion. Pre Go and consider of it again.
After some time the jury returned into
court.
Ctrk. I low say you, is William Penn
guilty in manner and form, as he stands in
dicted J
Then the foreman tendered the follow
ing paper lo the com!, signed by all the
jury.
We, the jurors hereafter named, do find
William Penn to be guiity of speaking or
preaching to an assembly met tog-ther in
Gracechurch street, the l-1'.h of August last,
1070. And that William Mead" is not
guilty of the said indictment.
Some ol the bench were for accepting
this verdict, but the evidence being as full
against Mead, as against Penn, the court re
fused it.
Ld. .Miyor. You have heard that he
preached, that he thereby created atumult,
and that Mead abetted him, and they not
only disobeyed the martial, but the civil
power.
Penn. We did not make the tumult,
but they that interrupted us. We were by
force and arms kept out of our lawful house,
and met together in a peaceable manner as
near to it as the soldiers would give us
leave.
The court swore a'l ofiir.ir to keep the
jury without iv.i-at, drir.k, lire or candle,
and iu'j i;imi-'! tmiil n, xt tiioriiiie' : when
... . 0
the pirv ( m e n;i.i c.irr! .1 j.ii:i.
L:i,rk. i, o r. Ml .:y.
1 ov m-:i. Willhin Poll!! is guilty of
speaking i:i Graced, ;ui h s'r.-: !.
Lord Jf 'tint. To an unlawful nemblv.
Juror. No, my lord, we five no other
verdict than that w e gave la' ni :ht.
Ld. .Mnyor.ou are a luriotis fellow
and a course ought to be taken with vuu.
Ric. I will have a positive verdict, or
you shall starve for it.
Penn. Have they not found William
Mead not guilty ? Is not that a verdict?
AVr. It cannot be a verdictbecau.se you
were indicted of a conspiracy, and one be
ing found not guilty, and not the other, it
cannot be a verdict.
Penn. The consent of the jury is a ver
dict, and if William Mead be not guilty, it
follows that 1 am clear: for I could not
conspire alone.
The court adjourned until next day, and
directed the jury lo be kept as before: but
when they r-turned into court the next
morning, they gave a verdict that the pris
oners were neither of them guilty.
Whereupon the court set a fine of forty
marks upon the head of every one of the
jury, and ordered them to be imprisoned
until paid.
Pi-mi. I demand my liberty, being ac
quitted by the jury.
Ld. .Mayor. No, you are in for your
fines, and contempt ot the court.
Then the jury as well as the prisoners
were commanded to be carried to Newgate,
and the court arose.
Ktsxruvn i.trE of xvirt.
From this forthcoming work, which will
be isNiicd from the press in a short time,
and it looked for with much interest, we
have been permitted to extract the follow
ing letters the first, from Mr. Wrt to a
member of the Virginia bar, and the second,
from John Adams to Mr. Wirt :
TO riiANClS W. GILMER.
Richmond, August 29,1315.
My Dear Fba.ncis :
I received last night your letter of the
1 5th inst., announcing your arrival at Win
chester, and thank you for this early atten
tion to my anxiety for your welfare. We
have you at last fairly pitted on the arre
na, stripped, oiled, your joints all lubri
cated vour muscles braced your nerves
strung; 'and I hope, that ere long we shall
hear you have the victim bull by the horn,
with your left hand,
-,luri)s'tie. redttrta
Libravit dextia media inter enmua cipstus
A,rdtins, erlractoqne illisit in ossa cerebri
Slennlur. t-xaiiimisque tremens procumbit
huuii bos.
I perceive that you are going to work,
pell inell, nec mora, nec requires: that'
your sort give it to them thicker and fast-
Nunc de.vlra ingeminans citus, nunc sinistra,
It is this glow and enthusiasm of enter
prise that is to carry you to the stars. Rut
then bear in mind, that it is a long journey
to the stars, and that they are not to be
reached per solium. "Perseverando Vin
ces," ought to be your motto and you
should write in the first page of every book
in your library. Ours is not a profession
in which a man gets along by a nop, step
and jump. Jt is the ixVady march of a
heavy armed legionary soldier. Tins ar
mor you have yet, in a great measure, to
f sin , to lsrn how to put it on ; to wear it
without fatigue ; to fight in it with ease, and
use every piece of it to the best advantage.
I am against your extending your practice,
therefore, to too many courts, in the begin
ning. I would not wish you to plunge
into an extensive practice at once. It will
break up your reading, and prevent you
from preparing properly for that higher
theatre which you ought always to keep
in your mind's eye.
For two or three years, you must read,
sir read read delve meditate study
and make the whole mine of the law
your own. For two or three years, I had
much rather that your appearance should
be ran? and splendid, than frequently light
and vapid, like those of the young country
practitioner about you.
Let me tise the privilege of my age and
experience to give you a few hints, which,
now that you are beginning the practice,
you may not find useless :
1. Adopt a system oflife, as to business
and exercise: and never deviate from it,
except so far as you may be occasionally
forced by imperious and uncontrollable cir
cumstances. 2. Live in your ofiice, i. p. be always
seen in it except at the hours of eating or
exercise.
3. Answer all letters as soon as they are
received; vou know not how many heart
aches it may save you. Then fold neatly,
endow neatlv, and file awav neatlv, alpha
betically, and by the year, all the letters
so received. Let your letb-rs on business
be short, and keep copies of them.
4. Put every law paper in its place as
soon as received, and let no scrap of paper
be seen lying, for a moment, on your wri
ting chair or tables. This will strike the
eye of everv man of business who enter.
5. Keep regular accounts of every cent
of income and expenditure, and file your
receipts neatly, alphabetically, and by the
month, or at least, by the year.
(i. patient with your foolish clients,
and hear all their tedious circumlocution
and repetitions wilh calm and kind atten
tion : cross examine and sift them, 'till you
know all the strength and weakness of
their cause, and take notes of it at once
whenever you can do so.
7. File your bills in Chancery at the
moment of ordering the suit, and w hile
your client is yet with you to correct your
statement ol his case ; also prepare every
declaration the moment the suit is ordered,
and have it ready to file.
8. Cultivate a simple style of speaking,
si as to be aide to inject the strongest
thought into the weakest capacity. You
wiil never be a good jury lawyer without
this faculty.
Never attempt to be grand and mag
nificent, before common tribunals and the
most you will address are common. The
neglect of this principle of common sense
has ruined with all men of sense.
!0. Keep your Latin and Greek, and
science to yourself, and to that very small
circle which they may suit. The mean
and envious world will never forgive you
your knowledge, if you make it too public.
It will require the most unceasing urbanity
and habitual gentleness of manners, almost
to humility, to make your superior attain
ments tolerable to your associates.
11. Enter with warmth and kindness
into the interesting concerns of others
whether you care much for them or not f
not with the condescension of a superior,
but with the tenderness and simplicity of
an equal. It is this benevolent trait which
mukv- anl such universal favor
ites and more than anything else, has
smoothed my own path of life, and strewed
it with flowers.
1-. He never flurried in speaking, but
learn to assume the exterior of composure
and self-collectedness, whatever riot and
confusion may .be within .: speak slowly,
firmly, distinctly, and mark your periods
with proper pauses, and a steady significant
look: "Trick !" True, but a good trick,
and a sensible trick.
You talk of complimenting your adver
saries. Take care of your munmr of doing
this. Let it be humble and sincere, and
not as if you thought it was in your power
to give them importance by your Ji'it.
Yon see how natural it is lor old men to
preach, and how much easier to preach
than to practice. Yet yon must not slight
my sermons, for I wish you to be much
greater than I ever was or can hope to be.
Our friend Carr will tell you that my max
ims are all sound. Practise them, and I
will warrant your success'. You have more
science and literature than 1 : but I know
a good deal more of the world and of life,
and it will be much cheaper for you to
profit by my experience nd miscarriages
than by your own. No'.hing is so apt to
tincture, the manners of a young man with
hauteur, and with a cold and disdainful in
difference towards others; as conscious su
periority ; and nothing is o fatal to his
progress through life, as such a tincture :
witness . My friend himself, is
not without some ill effect from it, aud,
since you must feel this superiority, I can
not be without f.-ar of its usual effects.
You must not suppose because I give you
precepts cn particular subjects that I have
observed you deficient in Ihese respects;
on the contrary, it Is only by way of pre
vention ; and," whether my precepts are
necessary to you or not, you are too well
assured of my affection, to take them other
wise than in good part. Farewell my
letters shall not all be lectures.
Yours affectionately,
. . " WM. WIRT. .
' JQHX ADAMS TO WM. WIRT.
, ' Qtixct, January 23, 1818.
Sir: I thank you for your kind letter of
the 12th of this month.. A I esteem the
character, of Mr. Henry an honor to our
country, and your volume a masterly de
lineation of it, I gave orders to purchase it
at toon a-1 heard of it ; but war told it wat
not to be had in Boston. I have seen it
only, by great favor, on loan. A copy by
the author would be esteemed worth many
by purchase. It may be sent me by the
mail.
From a perconal acquaintance, perhaps I
might say, a friendship with Mr. Henry,
and from all I have heard or read of him
for more than lorty years, I have always
considered him a gentleman of deep reflec
tion, keen sagacity, clear foresight, daring
enterprise, inflexible intrepidity and un
tainted integrity ; with an ardent zeal for
the liberties, the honor and felicity of his
country and species. All this you (justly,
as 1 believe) represent him to have been.
There are, however, some remarks to be
made upon your work, which, if I had eyes
and hands, I would, in the spirit of friend
ship attempt, lint my hands, eyes and
life are but for a moment.
When Congress had finished their busi
ness, as they thought, in the autumn of
1774, I had, with Mr. Henry, before we
took leave of each other, some familiar con
versation, in which I expressed a full con
viction that all our resolves, declarations of
rights, enumeration of wrongs, petitions
and remonstrances and addresses, associa
tions and non-importation agreements,
though they might be expected by the
people of America, and necessary to ce
ment their union, would be but waste wa
ter in England. He thought they might
be of some use among the people of Eng
land, but would be totally lost upon the go
vernment. 1 had ju.,t received a hasty let
ter, written to nie by Major Joseph Haw
ley, of Northampton, containing "a few
broken hints,"' as he called them, of what
was proper fo be done, and concluding
with these words 'Alter all we must
light."
This letter I read to Mr. Henry, who
listened to it with great attention, and as
soon as I pronounced tho wods "after all
we must tight" he erected his head, and,
with an energy and vehemence that I can
never forget, broke out with "By G
nm v f t ni d mm mind'.'' 1 -put the let
ter into his hand, and when he had read it,
he returned it to me, with an equally so
lemn asseveration, that lie agreed entirely
ill opinion with the writer. I considered
this to be a sacred oath upon a very great
cccaion. T could have sworn it as reli
giously as he did. It was no contradic
tion to what you sny in some part of your
book. that he never took the name of God
in vain.
As 1 know the sentiments with which
Mr. Henry left Congress in 177 1, and knew
the chapter and verse from which he had
borrowed the sublime phrase iwe must
I'ght," I Was not at all surprised at your
history in the 122d page, in the note, and
tome of tin? preceding and following pages.
Mr. Henry only pursued in March, 177."),
the views ind vows of November, 1774.
The other delegates from Virginia re
turned to their State in full confidence that
all our grievances would be redressed.
The last words which R. H. Leo said to
me, when we parted, were "We shall,
infallibly, carry all our poin'.s. You will
be completely relieved. All the offensive
acts will be repealed! The ermy and fleet
will be recalled, and Britain will give up
her foolish project."
Washington, only', was in doubt. He
never spoke in public". In private, he ad
vocated a non-exportation as well as a non
importation agreement. With both, he
thought, we should prevail : without either,
he thought it doubtful. Henry was clear
in one opinion ; Lee in an opposite opin
ion ; and Washington doubted between
them.
Oratory will always command admira
tion. Hut it deserves no great veneration.
It consists in grace of attitude and motion,
intonations of the voice and expressions of
the countenance. Could Demosthenes
comprehend these three things in his
action !''
To speak of American ontors, ancient or
modern would lead me too far, and indeed,
out of my depth. . I mut conclude, with
fresh assurances of ihe high esteem of
Your humble servant,
JOHN ADAMS.
The heroic Bern und the immortal Kossuth
have arrived safely at Adriunoplo, on their
way to England. They will bo warmly
welcomed here. They intend to settle in
the United States.
From the N A Blrvcry StmiJatil 1
KOSSl Til.
A race of nobles may die out,
A rival line may leave no heir:
WisJ Nature sets no guards about
Har pewter plate and wooden ware.
But they fail not, the kinglier breed,
Who eturry diadems attain;
To dungeon, ue, mid stake succeed
Heirs of the old heroic strain
The rea! of Nature tievrr coo!,
Nor is she thwarted of her ends;
When gapped and dulled her cheap r tool,
Theu she a saint and prophet spends.
I and of the Magyars! thourh it be,
Tho tyrant may relink hi chain,
Aheady thine the victory,
As the just future measures gain
Thou kit succeeded, thou least won,
The deathly travail's amplest worth;
A mil ion ' duty thou bast done,
Giving a hoto to our earth.
And he, let come what will of woo,
Has saved the land he sought to save;
No Cossack hordes, no traitor's How,
Can quench the voice shall h-tuut his grave.
'I Kossuth am : 0! Future, thou,
That dear's! the jus! and blot's! the vile,
O'er this small dust In reverence bow, .
.Remembering what l was orew hile. (
"I v-m the chosen trump whore, through,
Our tied sent jWth awakening brwith i
Came chaias! Came death 1 iho strain Ha
biew, - ;
fr4n,ds cn, out hun- chaias tod death."
USSIAS VENGEANCE.
Behind tho chapel was a rack; and on both
sides of the rack wero several rows of gal
lows soino miles in length, and instruments
of torture ready forthe unfortunate victims.
The punishments wero in accordance with
the degree of culpability and station in so
cicly of the rebels. In the fust row of gal
lows tho most gni!ty were executed; after
being subject to the lack they were quar
tered, alive. Tho leaJera had their hand
and less cut off, and afterward impaled on
long spike?, and leu to their horrible fate.
Their groans wero heard for miles, and their
bo.! ie?t foaMed the eyes of the panic stricken
population I,i ihe second row of gallows
they vrer'; only quartered, and their suffer
ings were at least shorter. In the third row
the parties were simply beheaded, In the
fourth row they were merely hanged. In
the fifth they ran the gtiant'et and tho knout.
All ihe ecclesiastics wero burned. There
were sepeiato gallows for woman, married
and maiden. Even children of thirteen
years were subjected to ihe great cruelly.
Married couples were occasionally hanged on
the same gallows, as well as whole families-
During Ihe space of three mouths, 13.000
human beings were executed in presence of
Dolgourouki Sleuku lioshvs nephew and par
ticular friend was quartered. Among the fe
male prisoners was a handsome nun, who
over her female garments had a male attire.
She eunimau.'e.'d a corps of 7.C00 men, gave
I snore !!'.:ri .nee pniol'.i ef extraordinary cour.
ago a;;.: roat -bilily in the field, and in-
tlieted terrible losses on the Russians. When
Mmmuwd lelctt) Dolg-iiiiouki, she pisplayed
a firmness and presence of mind difficult to
describe, and said, il' every one under her
command had dune his duty in such a manr
ner a. s;.c had done, Dolgourouki, instead of
erecting gallows, would have taken to his
heels. As fur a nun in Russia to run away
from a monastery b a capital offence, she lay
down ijtaellv on tiiis funeral pile, and was
burned to a.-h-s. The dangling dead bodies
of so many thousand veterans brought manv
vruws and ravens, which devoured the
corpse. From that time that suburb is call
ed the subeib of iA.The Cossacks of 'the
I tklUiltil.
Tkassi'lamu: Trixs. We find in the
t tiea (! r.ttl? fads showing that it h net ne
cessary to select small trees fur transplant
iii2, in ordei tj ensure their growth. Largo
trvs may Le a successfully planted as small
one. The mode and result of a:i experi
ment, made by Messrs. Pomerot and Dt'T
ton, of L'tiea, are thus given : These gentle
men transplanted trees, comprising maples',
elms, Vcech, &c , some . li'rly feet iu height)
which were transplanted w ithout being sliorri
of any uf their branches. Tho process of re
moval was as fellows: In tHe fal before tHo
frost, a trench was dug around the trees se
lecled, f-nm ten to fifteen feet in diameter,
and the roots severed, lu the winter when
the ground had become solid from freezing,
tho trees were pulled out by the aid of oxen
and levers, with the mass of earth firmly at
tached to the roots. They were then tran
sported ticct ca a st rone; sled, built forthe
purpose, and set out. These trees grew in
ojien laud, a mile and a half from the city.
1 hey put on their foliage last spring as if
wholly unconscious that they were not still
in their native soil, and the enterprising gen
tlemen who undertook this unusual course,
are rewarded with shade trees which by the
old practice it would have required twenty
years lo produce. This plan is not a novel
one. We saw it practised in our boyhood,
an 1 the giau! trees are still waving their
branches as freshly us if never transplanted
from their otiginal location. At the same
lime that l!c trenches a-c dug around the se
lected trees, ihe holes should bo prepared in
the places to which they are to bo removed.
Ma. Pot-ssix, whoso namo in English' is'
young chick, h is I ecuma ihe mark for the
new. -paper w ily to rhoct their paper pellets'
at. They tay thct ihe Gallic Cock is well
represented by a nvnis'.er who crows so loud
ly, but thai ho will not be able, with all his
noise to rerntch tip a fiodit. This presump
tion must be founded upon tho well known
magnanimity cf the bird which represents
our national power, for tho adage in the
American piitner is that
' The LV.'i' futieis little birds lo sing."
A Few Thincs to Avoid. A bottle 6f
wine ot a public dinner. A fhort cut when
you are in a hurry. Walking between two
umbrellas on a rainy day. "Just another
glass before you ao " Going to church with
out a shilling. rL-iug tho mediator of a quar
rel In-tween a man and his wife. And, luslly,
taking a new hat U an evening party.
A Frenchman, who was exhibiting soma
sacred relics and other curiosities, produced,
amor; the olher things, a sword, which ho
assured his visiters was "de sword dat Bal
aam haJ when he would kill de ass." A
spectator remaiked that lialaam had ur
swoid, but only wished for one. "erweH
dis is de one ho w ish for."
The following curious advertisment lately
appeared in a provincial print : "To be sold by
private contract, beautiful monkey, a par
rot, two squirrels, and a tortoise shell ton
cat, the property of a lady just married, Mho
has no further occasion for tho same."
.. r -
Olp 'fob, his ace. An office-seeker out
u-aai commenced a speech wilh "Fellow
citizens', notwithstanding' my youthful ap- c
pearaiw, 1 am the JjiUer ol two cmiarea i
Martll If, -