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"WE OO WHEKK DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES POINT THE WAY ; WUEN THEY CEASK TO LEAD, WE CEASE TO FOLLOW."
BV JOHN G. GIVEN.
EBENS13UUG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1819.
VOL. G. NO. 12.
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IVXISO CLL ANCOUS
EllPEROE'S PRESENT.
One moining in the month of June 1806
the Empress Josphine's jeweller was ush
ered into a little apartment of the Ttiiller
res, in which Napoleon was seated at
breakfast.
"The necklace must be the very best
you can produce," said the Emperor.
I do not care for the price; nevertheless
will have it submitted to a lair valuation.
I warn you of that Not that i doubt
your integrity, but because
in short, because 1 am ?not a lapidary my
self, and therefore not a eompctant judge
of such measures. As soon as it is finish
ed, bring it to me, and take care that you
how it to no one, you understand.
"Yes, sire. Dm I wish your majesty
could allow me a little more time, that 1
may be enabled to select the stones in the
most satisfactory manner. Choice dia
monds are very scarce at present,
and they have risen greatly in price."
- At these words the Emperor turned
sharply to the jeweller, and said.
"What do you mean? Since the cam
paign of Germany the jewel market has
been overstocked. Parbleu! I know itfor
a fact, that our French jewellers have been
purchasing largely from the pretty Princes
"of the Germanic Confederation, who the
King of Prussia, and Emperor of Kussia
have ruined by stirring them up against
me. Go to Bapts, or to Mellerio; they
can let you have as many diamonds as you
may want.
, "Sire, I have alwavs "made it a iule
never to avail myself of the assistance of
other tradesmen, when I have the honor
of working for your Majesty's august
family I have at this moment in my
possession a set of diamonds which I pur
chased from the King of Prussia, who has
commissioned me"
"That is your business, Foncier, not
mine But with regard to the neck
lace, do the best you poasibly can, and
how the peoplo beyond the Rhine that
we surpass them in jewelry as well as in
all e-cher things.
' . On a sign from Napoleon, Foncier made j
his last bow and withdrew. A week after
his interview the Emperor received a neck
lace. It was surpassinjly beautiful.
The jewels, the pattern, the mounting,
even the case in which it was enclosed j
all were unique. Napoleon had it valued
jt'was estimated to be w orth 800,000 j
francs, precisely the price which Foncier j
demanded for it. The Emperor was per- ;
fectly satisfied. j
, A boat this time, (June, 1806,) Prince ;
Louis Bonaparte, one of Napoleon's young- '
er brothers, was raised to the the rank of,
sovereignty, and proclaimed King of IIol- '
.land. " !
, On the day when Napoleon 'was to re-'
jceive the crown of that relm from the '
Kands of the Dutch envoys, and 10 place it ;
on his brother s head, all the court assein i
Jbled at St. Cloud, Louis and llortensc ar-
rived in the morning from St. Leu. The
ceremony, which was attended with great ;
pomp, took place in the Salle du Tront. j
vThe envoys of the defunct Batavian re- j
public were magnificently entertained, and j
it was announced that the new King and j
Queen would set out for their dominions ',
on the following day. In the evening Na- j
poieon sent to iniorm llortense tnatne ue
'sircd to speak with her in his cabinet.
She immediately attended the summons
and when the page threw open the folding
doors to announce her, the title of "Her
Majesty the Queen of Holland" greeted
.her ear for the first time.
"llortense," said the Emperor, "you
have become the Queen of a brave and
ttirtuous people. If you and your husband
act wisely, the house of Orange can never
again return to Holland with itsold preten
tions. However, from my knowledge of
."the Dutch people, I think. I can discern in
; them one remarkable fault; it is, that un
,der the outward appearance of great sim
.plicity, they are tond of luxury and espe
cially of wealth. "With them vanity is
. the strongest feeling next to interest. Now
.it would be bad policy to suffer yourself
in the eyes of your new court tobeeciips
cd by the over dressed wife of some rich
-burgomaster, who has nothing to be proud
,cfbut his money-bags. You must have
ja good assortment of jewels; and here is a
v little omair.et which 1 beg you will ac
. cept. Wear this necklace sometimes in
t remembrance of me. I have purchased
ft myself, out of my own savings." So
.faying Napoleon clasped the glittering cir
clet on the neck of llortense, and emhra-1
rCing her with paternal a flection bade her I
-farewell.
When seated on the throne of Holland,
. Q.ieen llortense rendered full honor to
f-her .u p father's present. On every
tour-day, at the palace of the Hague, m
, eveay tete given in the Maisou de Hois,
the superb nn kl.iT adorn d her swan-like
But soon came those disastrous days
when Napoleon's sun began to set. ilor
tense descended from the throne precisely
as she had ascended it, in willing obedi
ence. On her arrival in Holland her sub
jects had greeted her with cries of "God
bless our lovely Queen." On her depar
ture those cr es were changed to "God bless
our good Queen!" To a heart like that
of llortense, this last greeting was consol
atory, even at a moment when a throne
w as lost. On retiring into private life, she
devoted herself to the education of her
children, and to rendering filial attentions
to her mother, who, like herself, was the
widow of a throne.
The cannon of Waterloo had ceased to
roar, and Napoleon was obliged to quit the
Ely sees, and to take refuge in Malinaison.
the last abode of the Empress Josephine.
One evening when he was alone in the
balon, seated before a table on which lay
scattered the notes from which his second
act of abdication was to be drawn up, a
lady entered. It was llortense.
Sire," said she in a voice trembling
with emotion, "does your Majesty remem
ber the present you made me at St. Cloud
about nine years ago.'"
Napoleon gazed at the daughter of Jose
phine, with a mingled expression of grief
and affection, then taken her hand, he said.
"Well, llortense, what have you to sayjto
"Sire, when I was a queen you gave
me this necklace. It was of great value.
But now 1 am no longer a queen, and
you are unfortunate: therefore I
entreat that von will permit me to return
it."
"That necklace llortense!''' replied Na
poleon, ocldl v. "Win deprive .ouiseit
of it? It is now, probably, the halt oftyour
fortune. And your children.'"
"Sire, it is all I possess in the world.
But as to my children they will never re
proach their mother for having shared with
her benefactor the bounty which he was
pleased to confer on her."
She burst into tears, and Napoleon
struggled to conceal his emotion.
"No llortense," said ho, averting his
head, and gently repelling the hand
which was stretched out to him; "no I can
not" "Take it; Sire; I implore you. There
is no time to be lost- They are coining!"
With these words she thrust the jewel
case into his hand. A few hours after
wards, the necklace was stitched into a sil
ken ceinture, which Napoleon" wore un
der his wias to tt.
Six weeks after this incident, Napoleon
was on the deck of the Bellerophon, pre
paring to embark on borad the Northum
berland. The arms of the persons of his
suite were taken from thenx, their baggage
was inspected, and they were not permit-
ted to take witn tiiem citner money or
jewels. The trunks of the iilustrious'pris-
oner being searched, a box was found con-
taing four' thousand Napoleon d'or. He
wasinformed that the money must be giv-
en up. This sum, together with some
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funds which Napoleon had lodged in the
hands of Laiitte prior to his depa
U of Laiitte prior to his departure from
Paris, was all his fortune.
Whilst the ispection was going on Na
poleon was gently pacing up and down
the quarter-deck with M. Las Cases.
Casting a furtive look around him and
finding that he was not observed, he drew
from beneath his waistcoat the silken
ceinture, and gave it to his companion
saying
".My dear Las Cases, a certain Greek
pilosopher used to say that he carried all
liis fortune about with him, though certain
ly had not a shirt to his back. I don't
know how lie managed; but this I know,
that ever since our departure from Paris,
I have been carrying all my treasure under
my waistcoat. I now begin to weary of
the burden. Will you relieve me of it?"
He unfastened his ceinture, and Las
Cases, without making any reply, took it
from him, and fastened it round his own
waist.
It was net until after his arrival at St.
Helena, that Napoleon informed M. de
Las Cases that the siiken Land which he
had confided to his care on board the Bel
lerophon contained a necklace worth eight
hundred thousand francs. Subsequently
Las Cases expressed a de.ire to restore it
to Napoleon. "Does it not incommode
you?" inquired the Emperor dryly. 'No
sire.' 'Then retain it,' rejoined Napole
on; 'fancy it is a chain or an amulet, it
will not trouble you."
Fifteen months afterwards Las Cases
was bv order of the English Government
unexpectedly separated from Napoleon.
He and his son were removed from Long
wood, and conveyed to Plantation House
where they were kept under strict sur
veillance until they embarked for the
Cape of Good Hope.
.Meanwhile, Las Cases still held pos
sesion of the diamond necklace. I line
m i hv t.-. iuf rmcd that l;c ha-1
only a few days longer to remain at St.
Helena, lie was distressed at the though)
of departing without being able to return
the treasure to its owner. What could
he do? All communication between him
and Longwood was peremptorily inter
dicted. A plan occured to his thoughts,
and he dermined to run the risk of at
tempting its execution. Among the per
sons who had recently arrived at St. Hel
ena, there was an English officer, whose
open countenance and candid manners en
couraged Las Cases to place confiJencejn
him. This officer came to Plantation
House, in the suite of t he Governor. He
spoke French perfectly: and Las Cases
seized an opportunity of whispering a few
words to L i hi unperceived. "I have rea
son to believe that you possess a noble
and generous heart, and will venture to
put it to the proof. You can render me
a must important act of service; and one
that will compromise neither your con- j
science nor your duty. It is an allair
which concerns my honor and that of my '
family. 1 have in my possession some- j
thing of c. iisie. able value, which I a;:i
anxious to return to the Emperor. If j
you will undertake to deliver it to him
mv son will slip it secretly into yenr
pocket."
The officer replied merely by a signif
icant nod of the Lend. Young Las Ca
ses who was with his father, had received
his instructions, and Q'teen llortense's
I necklace was dropped into the officer's
j picket unperceived, though quite within
sight of the Governor's staff.
' But the greatest difficulty yet remain
ed to be accomplished that of conveying
i the treasure to its owner. Two whole
yiars elapsed ere this could be effected.
j It occurred to the Emperor Napoleon
' that he had, for some time, been the object
of more vigilant watchfulness than before.
He could not stir from Longwood without
observing an English ollicer, who kept
' h is eye upon him, lollowing him like a
! shadow. One day, Napoleon remarked
I that the ollicer was watching him more
J closely than usual; and turning round be
! exclaimed angrily, 'What is the meaning
of this? li is very hard that I cannot take
a breath of air w ithout having a spy on
my footsteps!' Then cutting short his
walk, he hurried back in the direction of
Longwood. The Englishman turned i
back also, and coming close up to Napo- j
Icon 'Sire!' said he, in a tone of pro-
found respect. 'Begone, sir!' said Napo- ,
leon sharply 'There can be no
communication between me and vour cm- !
pioyers.
Bi
I
say
Sire,' resumed the officer, with an air
of perfect composure, 'your Majesty is
under a mistake.' He then hurriedly ut
tered the words 'Count Las Cases I
have something of value.'
'Ah!' exclaimed Napoleon, 'tell me
"hat you have to say!'
'I keg that your .Majesty will continue
your walk without seeming to notice me.
I have a packet which 1 have canLd
out with me for two years, seeking an
. " . 1 -
opportunity io nenver it. v m your .Ma-
jesty contrive to let me throw it into your
hall'
Napoleon uncovered, and passed his
hand across his forehead, which was an
habitual action with him when endeavor
ing to recollect anything. By a move
ment as quick as thought, the necklace
was thrown into his hat.
'Now,' said the officer in an undertone,
'I trust your Majesty will pardon my im
portunity. 1 have fulfilled my mission,
and you will see no more of me. May
God bless and preserve your Majesty!'
About the end of April 1821, some days
before his death, Napoleon desired Gen.
Montholon to come to his bedside. 'My
friend,' said he, 'I have under my pillow
a necklace of considerable value belonging
to llortense. I had good reasons for not
allowing any one here to know that I pos
sessed an article of such value. When 1
am gone, take it into your care, and when
you return to France, (should you ever
be so fortunate as to return there;) give it
to llortense. Should sorrow have hurried
her to an early grave, give it to her chil
dren, my nephews.'
Montholon promised to fulfil thetse com
mands. 'Now,' said Napolepn, pressing his
hand, I die Hatislied.'
The malady continued to make rapid
progress; and when General Montholon
was assured that Napoleon had but a few
hours to live, he took his post like a faith
ful sentinel, at the bedside of the invalid.
At length Dr. Aniomarchi pronounced the
fatal words, 'All is over!' and Montholon
gently raising his sovereign's head, drew
from beneath the pillow the treasure con
fided to his care.
After many adventurous journeys in
America and in various parts of Europe
Montholon returned to his native France.
"'.ng performed what he Ml to be his
first act of duty, that of embracing his
ageu moiner, lie set out lor Aremberg, to
restore to the ex-Queen of Holland a neck
lace now doubly consecrated as a memo
rial of happiness and misfortune. For a
long time she preserved it with feelings of
sacred veneration; but in a moment of se
vere pecuniary distress, she found herself
compelled to part with it. The King of
Bavaria offered to purchase it, by settling
on the ex-Queen an annuity of twenty
three thousand francs. Necessity ratified
the bargain, and two years afterwards
llortense was no more.
Kic?dom of .Naples.
The bafiled attempt atrevolutiou in the
kingdom of Naples has materially aggra
vated the political abuses it was intended
to destroy The concessions which were
made by the King have all been cither re
tracted or neutralized by new assumptions.
The constitution still exists in form, but
only as a testimonial of royal perfidy, and
a monument of popular instability. It is
no more the real law of the land than the
Koran. It gave the people a representa
tive Parliament; but that Parliament,afler
many of its principal members had been
arrested, was arbitrarily dissolved, and no
thing but the royal fiat will ever speak
another into existence. The liberty of
conscience, the liberty of speech, and the
liberty ol the press, which the constitution
created, tiie King has annihilated. The
prison not only awaits every man who
gives expression to free sentiments, but
frequently is the doom of him whose only
crime is silence, and for months he lays
without trial or die least observance of the
most ordinary forms of justice. Bibles
are excluded with greater rigor than ever,
and all oihtr books ofliber.il principles.
Foreign journals, exeept those of a high
monarchical tone, are contraband. Of all
the Parisian papers, the Bourbonist Jour
nal dca J) bull and the Legitimist . Issim-
blce Xalioiude, are the only ones that find j
admittance. A severe censorship is exer
cised over all domestic publications, and
in the whole kingdom no liberal press, nor
anything wearing its remotest semblance,
exists. The popular lournals have, all
:
been exterminated, and the three or four '
others are but placards of royal edicts, j
and wretched, garbled compends of for- j
cign news, In not one of them have I '
yet seen an article tending in the least to !
enlighten and ennoble the people. Men !
of high standing are arrested on the wan- i
ton denunciation of any malicious street
vagabond; letters are intercepted at the
postollicc on the slightest .suspicion; dom- !
iciliary visits are constantly made, and the :
closest surveillance is maintained over the j
whole face of society. I had not been in ,
the city a week, before I was kindly cau- j
tioned by our consul, to take heed lest my ,
public correspondence involve me in trou
ble with the civil authorities. A quaran
tine of fourteen days has been established
against every person coming from Koine
by land, and of twenty-one days against
all arriving by water from Malta or Mar
seilles, or from any of the ports of Upper
Italy. Its ostensible object is to guard
against the cholera, but everybody here i
understands that its real design is to shut
out all political infection.
Is it possible that this state of things
will soon be changed? By no means.
King Ferdinand is a man of narrow mind
and contracted views; and the advisers in
whom he most confides are persons who
have lately been recalled, and restored to
all their former privileges. Bigotry, intol
erance, machiav elism, and consummate
selfishness possess both the car and the
heart at the King, and it is idle to pre
sume that he will voluntarily part with his
irresponsible power. But what force can
compel him? The same army which saved
him from the' fate of his kinsman, Louis
Philippe, is as loyal as ever, and ready to
support him in every emergency. It num
bers fifty thousand men,. and is daily in
creasing. Finer troops I have not seen in
Europe, and no popular demonstration
could stand a day against them. But there
is another fact, which decides the question
more conclusively than cither the mon
arch's disposition or the soldier's sword
it is the character of the people themselves.
The populace, as has lately been the case,
may bo seized with a momentary passion,
and by violence attempt to right their
wrongs; but, in the mass, they are so be
niglued as to be lost to every noble senti
ment, and utterly below every truly lofty
enterprise, ami all sustained heroic exer
tion. They are as incapable of self-guidance
as the cattle of the field; they must
either he driven hyr potentates, or led by
demagogues; inconsistent as the wind, to
day, led by hunger, they yell, " Up with
the barricades!" and to-morrow, tickled
with some state pageant, they shout "Long
five the King!"
The higher classes make their ostenta
tion their glory, and pleasure their god.
Their time, iheir fortunes and their talents
are squandered ill frivolity. Their life i.
thoughtless, aimless, useless. Riding in
the afternoon along the Chiaia in princely
carriages, drinking in royal music in the
evening at the Villa Reale, intriguing till
midnight with each other's wives and
daughters at some soiree, and dreaming
on downy pillows till mid-day these are
the segments that make up its daily round.
No city in Europe, externally, is so vir
tuous as Naples. No public women pol
lute its streets, no immoral plays defile its
theatres. Its outward conventional propriety-
borders even on fastidiousness.
The statues in the garden, though as radi
ant with innocence as the sun with glory,
are carefully plastered and patched; the
pictures in the galleries, though as chaste
as the "icicles that hang fromDian's tern- I rc b-v lQ, eamPle of our success and
pie," if i:ndrcperied, are locked up in ! Pr' ? ?' Iet th,0 lie which binds Us
private recesses, and even cverv little an- j be.on.ce broken, and we should soon be
tique Cupid, in the Museum, "no bier i sPllt mto man-v and antagoit sovereign
than the forefinger of an alderman'" in W,U1 liOSliIe interests and jealousies,
made to sport its tiny ficr leaf. Yet, if I i.he rrag'ents thus torn apart would be
may trust high minded men, who are well i Plttcd amsl each other, under the influ
acq'uainted with all grades of Neapolitan j CRCf of ,hI!5;? feelings which have always
society, moral corruption almost univer- ,nadf cml dl5.cortjs the most fearless and
sally prevails. It manifests itself in the unrelenting. Let fanatics and demagogues
nnner classes in nrxmUxin.l r,mMr rm.l in succeed 111 separating the North rjiild
the lower by unparleyintr libertinism. In
short, the people are too ignorant to know
and too pusillanimous to assert their rights;
too superstitious tu understand, and too
'
depraved to perform their duties. Know!
edre and virtue, which are the very life
blood of every free government, exist not.
Every clement of civil and social regener-
ation is wanting. W ho, then, or what, is ;J
to effect a change? Cor. V. V. Courier.
rFAn angry woman in Albany lately
pursued her husband through the streets,
and finally in a fit of desperation, attempt-
cu to saoot
him whh
a si.ovt
i. :,
change.
We have since received the following
particulars in relation to this melancholy
allair. Immediately after this diabolical
attempt, the husband iu a fit of despera
tion loaded himself with one boot and dis
. "
charged it with unerrinji
mm at his 1:.n-
(jerous antagonist. J he wile, receiving
a. . . e .u ii j- i .
the contents of the whole discharge, was
c . 11 i . r .
for a moment compelled to fly for protec-
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o . .
lion oeniuu me oreasiwoit. oi iwu uiy
goods boxes and a molasses hogshead; but
f.rtm-fi nir ltr r 1 1 1 orri n D1 rr tn thO
charge, and, by a skiltul manoeuvre, cap
tured the enemy by the discharge of a fry-
rut .1 1 l
-
l pan. i nev were ooui iai.e:i uome in
i) . ir ii.. r,.
JJoston ctkly -
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a wheel-barrow
stum.
, r . .... i higher glory can be won on earth.
i air 1,1 We trust the press -.and the people
We commend the following story to throughout the Union will speak earnest
such of our contemporaries as cau enjoy a ly and unanimously in condemnaCon of
laugh at their own expense. It is told by that Uin j an j fanat"icai fury which threat
the editor ot the Dayton 7 ranscript, and , cas us We rejoice in believing that the
it is certainly a lair hit at the cloth: , ,real mass of thc peopie Xorth and South,
We have travelled some loOO miles . love anj cherish the Union, and would
within the last few days by land and by , lnoura in bitterness of spirit over its rup
watcr. Thc tavern-keepers, steamer-cap- j lurc T,lis is ou grcat securily Let
tains, &c, &c, nave unitorinly chalked . thh spirit beam fonh in all hg strsnglh
our hat, and indignantly relused to permit , aml appaHjug brightness, and let it awe
us to pay our way. In short, upon the j lhe reckless anj tlic designing who would
raging canawl, upon the expansive ake, lake from us our pal;adiuui ancirth.
in the packets, hotels, and floating palaces . rjlt
of Lake Erie, we have had a great 'free j
blow,' and have uniformly been regarded j
amonsr the 'dead heads. I his you w ill
. i.i -:.-i.-
m.r'iiT -i vitv n rns-in!. :iml certainiv a
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very agreeable and advantageous way of
traveling. But there was one 'free blow'
we received, which came near knocking
us into the middle of next week. The
incident is so comic;1 1 that we will relate
it if the joke is at our own expense,
While on board of one of the splendid
steamers which ply between Bulfalo and
Chicago, thc fuz on our chin grew rather
longer than was agreeable, and we repair
ed to thc barber's shop on board to have
it taken off. Thc fellow did it in first
rate style. After he had combed and oiled
our head, brushed our clothes; and slicked
us up line, we felt gratified, pulled out a
dime and proffered it to him as a reward
for his services, He drew himself up with
considerable pomposity.
'I understand,' said he, 'dat y ou is an
editor?'
Weill what of it?' said wc.
'We ncber charges editors nutlin,' suid
he.
But my friend,' said wc, 'there area
good many editors travelling now-a-day .,
and such liberality on your part will pro c
a ruinous business.
'Oh, ncber mind,' said he,
it all up olf the gemmen!'
We incontinently sloped.
1 wc
makes
i-i'Time is the cradle of hope, but the
grave of delusion. Time is the t.tcrn cor
rector of fools, but the salutary counscller
of the wise- Wisdom walks before it,
Opportunity with it, and Repeutei.ee be
hind it. lie that has made Time his
friend, will have little to fear from his
enemies; but he that has made Time his
enemy, will have little to hope from hi
friend,
Frtm the New York Organ.
Our Cloriocs Colon.
A vast and momentous responsibility
rests upon the Congress whoso fcession
have just commenced. It is but too appa
rent that there is a good deal of bad and
exasperated feeling in reference to the sla
very question, and it is to be feared that
there are fanatical spirits on both side
who regard the continued Union of th
States as of small account compared with
the triumph of their views.
We look upon the Union as the only
reliable pledge for the continuance of oar
republican forms, and the realization of
the high hopes inspired here and in Eu-
i Soulh and ,we s!I fi"d that the rending
I pi-.c-j a.ian t;u uil in pi&CB Ol OU.
i glorious confederacy we have become a
j niultitude of discordant and feeble tribes.
1 . . i . .. .-.. r -j i
cdeu i: e piy oi uesigning ana amomous
: men, and over the sad eclipse cf our na-
"onai G1?' "f, despots oi Europe ana
j tl?. "'orM would hold high and prolonged
We have looked with hope under our
present perilous and menacing prospect
to the return of Mr. Clay and Mr. Cass
to the Senate. Both of these distinguished
men wield great influence, and both ap
preciate, at its just value, the Union of
the States. We doubt not they will throw
the whole weight of their influence in fa
vor of conciliation and forbearance, and
we trust with decisive effect. Indeed we
i have thought that perhaps true patriots cf
i both parties may vet see reasous lor joy
: in the defeat of iIipsp? stifpmrn n onr...
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' ililtPK tnr lhP Hrpsn (!ipv. cincp tlioir n I r
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vation to that high post might have depri-
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' vccl them of their side now so much nced-
i ; ,t , t. u .u . .u
edin the Senate. It may be that thesmo
benignant Providence which has sobften
succored us in
about to
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i im i ii'm fiiiiiiHin ifihii . . till' ii i -j i in.
strumous for preserving the integrity and
permanence of our glorious Union. If it
; shall appear that thev or either of theni
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has been reserved lor this high honor they.
I as well as we, may well be content, for no
Popping thc Question. It is common
ii wucii mcy muii uuuacui iu
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s:iv lik tlipir
lovers, 'Go ask mv father.'
A bachelor recently got acquainted with a
pretty woman, to whom he very soon
popped the question, to w hich she replied,
'Go ask my husband!' lie supposed her
to be a spinster.
.?? Elopement in Contemplation. 'Yhc
Rochester American is responsible for
thc following:
Courting Scene. Miss Canada.
Please sir, will you marry me?
Uncle Sam. 1 cannot disguise my af
fections for so amiable and beautiful a
young lady; but your papa must be con
bulted, and I must procure his consent.
Miss C. O, never mind. Fll ask him
J myself, and if he refuses, we'll get up an
elopement.
A Stubborn Fact. The Brooklyn Ad
vertUer says: Dip thc Adantic Ocean
dry with a teaspoon stop this journal
from going ahead twist. yorr heel into
the toe of your boot make postmasters.
perform their promises, and subscriber
I pay the printer send up fishing hooks
with balloons and fis.ii for star get astride
a gossamer and chase a comet when a
; rain storm is coming down like thc catar-
ct of Niagara remember where you left
I
t vour umbrella choke a mosquito with a
brickbat in .short prove all things hither
to considered impossible, to be possible,
but never attempt io coax a woman to say
she wilt wheu she has made up her mind
to sav she won't.
l.T"ij' to -tranjjers for chsnty. acqiin'i'v
cc for ntUicc, onl rclalip. (": lotliiiij .xr.i
y.H ill nlrty into 'Uj'?'.''